WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 124: RTDB 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:03.360 This week on a Happy half hour. 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:08.239 Seeing some of those connections to Deontae, seeing Xavier get 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:10.440 up and go get it. You know, stuff like that 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:13.920 is encouraging, but you know that kind of leads into 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:16.360 the thing that I have taken away from the first week. 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:19.000 And Dave Canalis tells you he's going to run the ball. 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:24.200 He is not b s and U touched down, cow h. 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:30.960 It's time for the Happy Half Hour, presented by Southern Star, 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:37.320 an official bourbon of the Carolina Panthers. Here are your hosts, 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:39.800 Darren Kant and Cassidy Hill. 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:46.440 Welcome friends to the Happy half Hour. And the Happy 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.360 Half Hour is presented to you, of course by Southern Star, 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:52.839 an official bourbon partner of the Carolina Panthers. Celebrate the 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:56.880 spirit of the Carolinas, and boy do we have plenty 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:59.960 to celebrate. We are firmly in the middle of training camp. 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.640 It is I have lost all track of time. I 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:05.520 don't know what day of the week it is. I 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.840 don't know if it's morning, noon or night. But I 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:11.400 know I'm inside this building. Football things are happening around 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.080 the clock, and at some point we'll get on airplanes 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.120 and buses and go places and see things, but that 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:21.120 time is not now. This time belongs to you, our listeners. 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:22.960 We may not know what day it is, but luckily 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:24.880 we know what time it is because podcast Matt has 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:29.199 put three new clocks at every Eyeline site in this room, 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:31.759 so I know exactly down to the second what time 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:32.959 it is. Well everywhere. 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.040 I'll lose This one over here in front of my face, 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:36.920 that's got a hard hat on top of it. Used 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:38.920 to be on the wall until I knocked it off, 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.479 So I'm familiar with that one. That one almost killed 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:42.800 a man? 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:43.480 Is that? 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:45.800 Are you responsible for the big crack down the middle? 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:47.480 Yeah? I think that might be me. 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:49.800 You were hitting as hard as they were yesterday once 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:51.160 they put pads on a practice. 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:53.960 It certainly seems like a theme, doesn't it. It's almost 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.480 like I said that on purpose. But put on your helmet, 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:00.760 let's go. I wish we had rights to lice music, 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:03.840 or we would put Olivia Newton John's lick Lets get 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:09.959 Physical underneath this. Yeah, something like that. I'm I don't 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.440 know if I'm surprised, impressed, or in despair that you 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.720 know that song. It is one of the worst songs 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:17.600 ever of my youth. 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.200 But yeah, it's kind of did right after Greece too. 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:25.480 Yeah, straight off, it was a day yesterday, I mean, 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:27.440 and there's always a little bit of build up and 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.000 it's always a little bit funny to me to see 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.920 because having done these, you know, for thirty years, you 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.920 kind of realize that certain things happen at certain points 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.360 in training camp and it's inevitable. And they put on 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.160 pads for the first time, and it was probably the 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.080 warmest practice they've been through during camp because it's been 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.400 unseasonably cool here in Charlotte, North Carolina. 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:47.919 I missed and still not too hot. 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:48.560 Yeah. 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:50.799 Somebody joked that Dave Canal has had to deal with 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:52.840 the weather guiys, And I'm beginning to believe it's true. 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.840 He's just convinced God that his football team does not 0:02:56.000 --> 0:03:01.480 deserve to suffer. So it's enjoy nice things. But yeah, 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.280 it's been delightful to be on the sidelines. But you 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:06.120 could kind of see that when coming yesterday it got 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.200 a little warm, they put on pads for the first time, 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.960 and it's like we're gonna get the first air quotes 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.920 fight of training dam I mean, It's just it happens 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.640 every year, and I've seen big fights, and I've seen 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:21.880 you know, I remember the time Jason Peter pulled Anthony 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.720 Redman's helmet off and hit him with it, and yeah, 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.160 I mean it's just these things happen all the time. 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.359 Actually it was Redmond pulled Peter's helmet off and swung 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.800 it at him, and Redmond still ended up with a 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.520 busted lip because Jason was just that kind of nuts 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.640 sometimes on the field. So good stuff all the way around. 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.200 But yesterday it was just you know, guys coming together, 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.120 guys doing their thing. You know, Jadavian gives Chewba a 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.600 little bit of shoulder on his way by, and you 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.000 know people bow up. Picky's right there in the middle 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.680 of the fray. And you know, Dave Canal has talked 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.120 after practice about wanting to be smart about it, wanting 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.560 to preserve guys. But I don't think anybody terribly mine 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.840 that kind of stuff happening, because there are little things 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:07.600 like defense taking things personally, you know, Ikey stepping up 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.840 for his guys. I mean secretly, that's the kind of 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.800 stuff that nobody really minds, and you kind of encourage 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:14.720 behind the scenes, and. 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.400 Dave Canalis has to, you know, be the head coach 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.880 in that situation and say, you know, we've got to 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.400 be careful, We've got to be smart about these things. 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:24.120 I think he said it was a good teaching moment 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:26.200 to teach guys. You know, if you're in the middle 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.120 of the game and something like this happens, you know, 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.320 don't lose us yards, don't lose us time, right, But 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.240 in training camp, practice, you need a little bit of 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.400 that just to get the juices flowing and to your point, 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:41.080 to kind of have guys create that chemistry. Now, Cuba 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.760 knows that if something happens to him, Ikey's right there 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:45.280 and got it, has his battle. 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:49.039 And so Ikey's jumping up to his guys defense. I 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.159 think that's kind of stuff everybody kind of expects to see, 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.560 wants to see. But we're a weekend to camp. We've 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.520 seen him in pads for the first time, and this 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.920 is kind of the time when trends start emerging. And 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:03.640 you know, I always like to joke and call it, 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:05.800 what have we learned? What have we learned? So after 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.320 a week of training camp, Cassie, what have you taken 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.159 away from this team? Big picture view? 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:14.640 This is gonna sound so cliche, you know, I almost sound. 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:18.040 I feel bad saying at first, but I really really 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.839 like their energy every day. You know, there are some 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.000 days it starts a little slower, but then they get 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:26.360 things going. The one on ones have been The one 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.359 on ones have been good competition, but the one on 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.159 ones have also been a lot of fun to watch 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:34.600 everyone else watch, if that makes sense, you know, watching 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:38.039 j C. Horn when you know Troy Hill might go 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.320 up against uh, you know, Miles Sanders or I don't 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.440 thineling just kind of depending on how the one on 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.920 one draws. That's been a lot of fun just to 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:49.080 kind of see those guys hype each other up. And 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:53.120 the one on ones have been pretty even. I've kept score. 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.080 I try to keep score every day, but I specifically 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.360 kept score yesterday and it was pretty even right down 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:02.640 the middle offense defense who won those. It's been interesting 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.360 because I've never you know, I got here so late 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.120 last year. It's been fun to watch Adam Thling up close. 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.000 You know, there's so many new receivers in this offense 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.360 that are going to do great things, like Deontay Johnson 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.400 and Xavier lo Get, but watching Faling up close, and 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.400 especially the days that he doesn't wear his visor and 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.080 watching him in those one on ones and realize how 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.600 much he uses his eyes even in short distances to 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:28.080 throw a dB off, and it's just like that's textbook. 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.040 That's somebody that's been in the league for years and 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:33.800 knows what they're doing. He might not be as physical 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.680 as Deontay Johnson or you know, as big as Xavier, 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:42.680 but like he's he's textbook in his technique and that's 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:44.360 been a lot of fun to see up close. And 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.159 then of course you've got the guys that you see 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:50.599 that that chemistry getting a little stronger every day between 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.520 Bryce and Deontay Johnson, and you see them starting to 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.560 figure each other out. And that's something that Dave Canalys 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.320 has talked about a lot, is Bryce needing to figure 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:03.280 out how Deontay Johnson moves because he's such a what 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.400 canal is caused a special mover, and figure out, you know, 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:11.119 how his timing is because he's gonna get open ninety 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.560 percent of the time, right, and so it's a matter 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:17.920 of figuring out when he gets open, what his releases 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.480 look like. And then Xavier get he's just big and 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.040 seeing it, especially in one on ones, and then daring 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.000 some is seven and seven, but especially in like the 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:30.440 team past eleven on eleven, he's he's gonna be a 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.200 problem for some dbs in this league. 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:33.920 Yeah, I think that's one of the things. And it's 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:36.520 and it's good for the Carolina Panthers offense. But it's 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:40.960 also good for j. C. Horn because in Deonte, in 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:45.240 Feeling and lege it, he got three completely different right 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.800 kinds of cats. And you know, those are good reps 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.680 for him because if you're constantly going up against a big, 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.720 strong guy, or you're constantly going up a little quick guy, 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.000 or you're constantly going up against the guy who is 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.360 so precise and knows exactly where to be and how 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:04.080 to trick you. Though you can acclimate to any one 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.240 of them if that's all you ever get, but when 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:09.920 you get all three of them randomly in sequence, and 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.720 then mix in a Mingo, mix in an Amir Smith Marsett, 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.480 mix in a Devin Tompkins who is oh shifty, so 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:22.400 quick and little, like five one fifty little, but doesn't 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.559 look out of place and looks sharp and looks quick 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:28.320 in these practices, these first couple since he joined the team, 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:32.520 that's good work for JC exactly and he's you can 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.320 tell he's kind of rising to the occasion because he's 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.079 trying to prove himself this offseason. Everybody knows that he 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:42.719 wants to prove that he can maintain availability and be 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:45.120 the guy everybody knows he already is, which is the 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.040 kind of corner who can cover cats like that. 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.720 You know, usually early on in training camp two, during 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.800 the defense like quote unquote clearly wins the day. Usually 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.599 for the first half of training camp. I don't know 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.360 if i'd say that's the case. I don't want to 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.480 to clear a winner loser, but the offense has stood 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:07.160 out enough for it to be, oh, okay, right, do 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:12.080 you if you're a you're a fan, does that worry 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:13.560 you or do you go back to what we were 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.880 just saying and go, Okay, this is just, you know, 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.280 maybe vice versa of what it would usually be. And 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.000 in the next couple of weeks we'll see Jase Horn, 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.680 will see Daan Jackson, Jordan Fuller, Xavier. Would it start 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.719 to kind of catch up to what it takes to 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:26.599 cover guys like this. 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.120 I think, if I'm on the outside, I'm feeling okay 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:32.520 about this because after last year, when nothing worked on offense. 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.400 The idea that there's a couple of things that are 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.800 working in different ways seems like a good problem to have. 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:41.559 I mean, I just think that's obviously going to be 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:43.520 the priority. I mean, the last two times we saw 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.679 this football team play, they didn't score any points. So 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.120 you know, getting in these situations and seeing some of 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.959 those connections to Deontae, seeing Xavier get up and go 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:56.120 get it, you know, stuff like that is encouraging. But 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:58.959 you know, that kind of leads into the thing that 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.319 I have taken away from the first week. And it's 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.679 weird to say this since they've been in practice exactly pads, 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.599 in practice exactly one time. When Dave Canalis tells you 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.600 he's going to run the ball, he is not BS 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:16.400 and U. That is the intent. That is the theme 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.719 of this camp so far. And I've seen again, you 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:21.679 stand around and watch a lot of training camps and 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.480 they all sort of start to look alike. I've seen 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:30.640 more intention on inside run drills, even in unpadded practices. 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.559 I mean, you can just tell the emphasis they're putting 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:35.720 on it, because when you're out there in pads working 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:40.760 on inside run that's not intuitive. And just seeing the 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.160 way they've worked when they weren't in pads the first 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:47.280 couple of days, and you talk to these guys, it's like, oh, yeah, 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.439 they're serious about this. And we should have known that 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.599 when you spend one hundred and fifty million dollars on 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.560 six hundred and fifty pounds guard, we should have known 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.920 that when you move probably your most reliable offensive line 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:02.800 in Austin Corbett into the middle to be center because 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:07.480 he's merely huge and not gigantic, we should have known 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:12.120 that when Dave Canalis comes from I think people get 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.520 lost in I've heard people say and I've seen comments 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.320 online about, well, the Bucks were one of the worst 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.320 run games in the in the league last year. Did 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:25.080 you watch Seattle Seahawks football for the last fifteen years? 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:29.680 Are you familiar with what Pete Carroll's formula is. It's 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.840 played defense, it's run the ball. Russell Wilson was fine, 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:38.520 but Marshawn Lynch was the reason. You know, Russell developed 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.040 and Russell created these partnerships with guys like DK Metcalf 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:45.480 over time. But when they won a Super Bowl, that 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.760 was a big honkin offensive line. That was Marshawn Lynch, 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:50.959 and that was let's play defense with a bunch of 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:55.680 big personality freaks. And so I think because Dave Canalis 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:59.839 came in with the quote unquote offensive background, people in 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.840 their minds equate that to passing. Dave Canalis wants to run, 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.880 and he has told us so over and over and over, 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.719 and you might not get a clear picture of it 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.600 in a preseason, but I think we should believe him 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:17.240 when he says this over and over and over. 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.880 I think that the teams that play well into the season, 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.080 especially towards the end, are the ones who can run 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.800 the football and who can stop the run. I wish 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:30.520 I had more models to go off of, but I have. Fortunately, 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.640 I have the model in Seattle and then in Tampa. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:37.240 We made sure that we established our mentality, our core 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:39.560 runs that are important to us, and then it gets 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.280 really specific with who our blockers are, who our runners are, 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:44.760 and the way that we can utilize different people in 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.280 the run game. But that commitment, to me is the 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:51.719 formula that I've seen work to make us competitive. So 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:54.520 and it challenges both sides of it. You know, when 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.920 you can as a defense, when you can force the 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.400 team to pass, you can create good opportunities as an 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.040 offense when you can run the ball when you need to, 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.920 especially you know, as a mixer for sure, because it 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:08.560 opens up explosive plays, but finishing games running the ball, 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:09.760 there's nothing better. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.079 When you said they won a Super Bowl by running 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:14.640 the ball, there was a part of me that also 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.520 wanted to think they also lost to Super Bowl by 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.599 not running the ball in one specific situation, right, But 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.280 that was I want to say that was a Brian 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:25.120 Shottenheim recall, not a Dave Canalis call, if I remember. 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.280 Webl but it's, uh yeah, I mean it was. It 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.480 might have been a Russell Wilson, you never know, but 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:34.719 it's it doesn't have to be that hard football, I mean, 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.559 and I think that's the ultimate point of what Dave 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.760 Canalis is trying to do. And it's fascinating to me, 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:45.040 you know, having seen seven first year coaches walk into 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:50.640 this place, Dave is He's not trying to be thematic, 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:55.120 he's not trying to be inspirational or anything like that. 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.800 What are he wants to do is work And it's 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.960 interesting to me. This is one of those little characters 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.679 traits that you notice over time. Dave Canalis comes out 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.439 to practice every day in the same outfit shorts and 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.679 a T shirt. And if it's raining, he doesn't put 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:12.040 on a raincoat, and if it's hotter, he doesn't necessarily 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.240 change the look or anything like that. And these clothes 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:19.240 come in about four colors, black, gray, white, blue, and 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.440 you know, there might be mixing and matching every day 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.280 or whatever, but the outfit remains the same. And he 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.760 said the other day, kind of the point is, if 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.400 it's raining, we don't want to work differently if it's raining, 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.960 that can you stay focused when the external factors are 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:39.200 coming into play. And so it's a very simplified, it's 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.000 a very stripped down but at every turn he keeps 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.400 telling us we're trying to focus on the work here 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:47.840 and getting the stuff done. That's why when they were 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:52.120 scrapping around and jawing at each other yesterday, his point 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:56.280 was cool, but let's not lose fifteen yards, Let's not 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.440 lose five minutes of practice time. Let's keep the focus 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.280 back here where it needs to be and getting the 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.440 ball right. And you know, Cas, you and I have 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.720 heard him say that approximately three million times in the 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.760 last six months at give her take a million. And 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.680 again at a certain point when somebody keeps showing you 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.960 who they are, maybe start to believe them. And this 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.880 is exactly what he's trying to get through the. 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.320 Same outfit thing. That's very Mark Zuckerberg of him, and 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:24.880 so that could both. 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.040 But also, and it's not full Steve Jobs. He does 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.160 mix up the color. You do see him in the 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.680 blue tight shirt and the black tight shirt and the 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:33.320 white tight shirt. 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.400 That's why I went with Zuckerberg instead of Jobs. He'll 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.080 mix up the color of his hoodies, but it's the 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.520 same hoodie every day. I didn't want to make one 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.320 extra point though, on the Tampa Bay being the worst 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:46.480 rushing team in the league last year, and I I 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.280 know Dave Canallos has talked about this at some point, 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:50.880 but pardon me, I can't remember exactly when he talked 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:54.080 about it, but he said, you know, we started off 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.480 the worst rushing team is an average of the whole season. 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:03.040 They started it all really, really, really bad running the ball. 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.160 If you look at the latter half of games, though, 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.520 they really started to get something going and you know, 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.240 got a lather on that workhorse and got their running 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.760 game going more towards the end of the season. And 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.320 so yes, the first half of the season was so 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:20.840 bad that the average still worked out for them to 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.280 be the worst in the league. But the second half 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.480 of that season, they really started to find a groove 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.760 running the ball because they stuck with it, yeah, and 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.400 didn't freak out and give it up and decided to 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:33.520 just chuck the ball all over the field of Mike Evans. 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.600 And it also helps that they had leads occasionally in 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:38.840 the fourth quarter and you're able to find out games 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:42.040 late and that's the that's kind of the goal. That's 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.360 the place he's trying to get to here. And you know, 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.560 I think one of the beneficiaries of it's going to 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:47.920 be one of the guys who was in the middle 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.680 of that little scrap yesterday, which is Chuba Hubbard. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.160 I mean, he's broken off a few already. 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.840 Those of us who remember last year. As bad as 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.120 it was, I still say for two bit a run 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.240 for nine hundreds MyD yards last season is one of 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.640 the most impressive things I've seen. He's a fourth round pick. 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:07.680 You know, they kind of thought he had some home 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:12.200 run speed coming in, but he has turned himself into 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:16.000 this guy. And you know, yes, they drafted Jonathan Brooks 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:17.879 in the second round, and that was a pick designed 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.280 for the future. And you know, I figure we're going 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.879 to see him four or five, six weeks into the 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.479 year before he's really out there on a regular basis, 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.680 because this is gonna be Cuba's deal man, and Miles 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:30.879 Sanders is gonna be mix in and Raheem black Shear's 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.479 got a little pop to him, but this is going 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.480 to be about Cuba. And I think that's okay because 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.399 I keep coming back to some of those off season 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:43.359 workouts when you would see guys together. Who was always 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.160 at the front of the line. It was Derrick Brown 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.240 on his side. It was Cuba Hubbard on his side. 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:51.359 That's instructive, folks. I mean, Cuba has the respect of 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:54.040 everybody on that side of the ball. And when you 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:57.280 invest in Robert Hunt and Damian Lewis and put Austin 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.760 Corbett in the middle and your lead back as Cuba, 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:01.880 Hu who ain't afraid to slam it up in there 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:06.119 and take those dirty runs. That's a statement of personality 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.520 type thing. And I think there's an opportunity here for 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.879 Cuba to create a name for himself and create some 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.640 economic opportunities for himself. At the end of the year, 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:16.280 and just. 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.199 Going back to our Tampa Bay point, Cuba got all 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:22.000 those yards on a team that wasn't running it. 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.320 In the fourth quarter, right, Yeah, they had to lead 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:26.399 for a second, and so. 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:31.120 That is impressive. And I like to your point again, 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.520 the interior part of that line. I like seeing what 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:35.800 they're doing up the middle and they're not having to 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.720 always try to bounce it outside, because if you're bouncing 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:40.560 it outside, you've got to have a lot of speed, 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.639 and there are some running backs in this league that 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.560 have that capability. But if you can run it up 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:48.880 the middle, then you can really get your running game going. 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:52.880 On the point of the interior line, I think we're 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:56.399 seeing this too with a trio of interior guys that 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:00.520 it readily admit themselves they have still not reached what 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:04.000 they feel is the chemistry level they need to before 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:06.480 the season. Robert Hunt takes a lot of that on 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:10.280 himself because he missed a lot of this offseason. That's excused. 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:12.560 He had a he had a baby baby. He needs 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:14.119 to be at home with the baby, and it's. 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:16.560 An adorable baby. I saw the wife and the baby 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:18.240 on the sidelines the other day, so. 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.359 Cute, and he was telling me, I think it was 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:24.200 Monday Sunday. I don't know that the days are all 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:25.399 run together. 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:27.520 Right now, correct, because it's training camp. I have no 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:28.399 idea of what day it is. 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:30.000 He was telling me. He was like, we're not where 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:31.479 we need to be, and he said, and a lot 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:33.320 of that's because of me, because I had to miss 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:35.280 some of the off season with the baby coming. And 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:37.320 he said, but we'll get there. It's just going to 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.400 take more and more reps. So I'm excited to see 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:44.119 how this Running the Ball continues to involve, continues to 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:47.520 evolve as that trio of Robert Hunt, Damian Lewis, and 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:50.800 Austin Corbett really kind of figure themselves out as well. 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:54.320 Yeah. Yeah, speaking of evolving, you and I are going 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:57.600