Speaker 1: You've been added to the group chat with your friends Caroline, can,
Speaker 1: Max Sensen, and Will Brian. You guys were almost about
Speaker 1: to say Happy New Year, you know in March. Isn't
Speaker 1: that what people normally do in marked Happy New Year
Speaker 1: or have a great summer hags? We should tell people hags.
Speaker 1: How many of you wrote that? And did you guys
Speaker 1: write that in any new books? Yes, of course, I've
Speaker 1: never heard haggs. Really, do you know what it's hands for? Well,
Speaker 1: you just said it. I'd never heard that, you know
Speaker 1: what we say on here. I'm shocked you've never never
Speaker 1: heard hags have a great summer. That's everyone used to
Speaker 1: write in the yearbooks. Yeah, wow, I'm shocked that you
Speaker 1: never heard of that. Well, we are going to say that,
Speaker 1: but it's not because of any reason. A great season,
Speaker 1: have a great go back X, Yes, that is we
Speaker 1: That was good Max, good job on that. But we
Speaker 1: are doing this end of the year, end of the
Speaker 1: new well not new the new league year is coming.
Speaker 1: So this is the end of the season officially for
Speaker 1: the NFL. Every March. It bounces around on some dates,
Speaker 1: but every March, a new league year begins, fresh start,
Speaker 1: a clean slate, all the things that you want to
Speaker 1: say with it. But as a new league year begins,
Speaker 1: it's a good time to reflect back on just this
Speaker 1: calendar year, some things that happen for the Panthers, for
Speaker 1: your life, for anything. So that's what we're gonna do
Speaker 1: in this podcast is just look back. I got a
Speaker 1: little nostalgic last last night. I posted on Instagram it
Speaker 1: was this what made me think of doing this? I
Speaker 1: was looking back at photos of the year. It's just
Speaker 1: oh the mims, you know. Yeah, well, I mean obviously
Speaker 1: and especially for you coming to this organization, I guess
Speaker 1: let's start at the beginning. What a kind of your
Speaker 1: What are your What are your first memories? I guess
Speaker 1: the good ones, but feel free to share of like
Speaker 1: when you first got in the door and sort of
Speaker 1: get started to get a feel for what this place
Speaker 1: was like and getting to learn the team and all that.
Speaker 1: What like sticks out to you think, Well, my very
Speaker 1: first memory is I stayed at a hotel right beside
Speaker 1: the stadium when I first moved here for four weeks
Speaker 1: and I would walk to work. It was super close,
Speaker 1: the weather was great. I just remember being so joyful
Speaker 1: walking to work because you would pass the Big Panthers,
Speaker 1: and I had grown up watching this team and now
Speaker 1: I was getting to work for them. It was warm.
Speaker 1: It was just such a great time, and it really
Speaker 1: did feel like a new beginning. And then how nice
Speaker 1: Panther fans were of welcoming me. I didn't feel like
Speaker 1: there was a get to know period with this fan base.
Speaker 1: I feel like maybe that was day one when it
Speaker 1: was posted that I was taking this job, but then
Speaker 1: from from that point on, I was a part of
Speaker 1: the family. Um getting to know the team was really
Speaker 1: cool and interesting. It was an interesting year to get
Speaker 1: to know this team, though. And I tell a lot
Speaker 1: of people that and they're like, oh, like, how's the
Speaker 1: locker room. I'm like, I don't think I got a
Speaker 1: true sense of what a Panther's locker room is like
Speaker 1: because the big players in this past year's locker room
Speaker 1: they were new guys. You didn't have Cam really running
Speaker 1: that locker room like you normally. What if he was starting, uh,
Speaker 1: you know Christian of course, but he's an under the
Speaker 1: radar guy in the locker room. You don't see much
Speaker 1: of him when we are in there. So it was
Speaker 1: good to get to know this roster but I do
Speaker 1: feel like I don't have a true sense of what
Speaker 1: I see. What you're saying a real you know, when
Speaker 1: when this team is rolling, what that locker room is like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean because for so long the locker room was
Speaker 1: run by guys like Thomas Davis, Charles Johnson, Ryan khalil
Speaker 1: Um and those urban legends. Yeah, and I think there were,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously guys like Greg Olsen this past year,
Speaker 1: Christian Luke, they kind of carried the torch, but it
Speaker 1: was different. There were remnants of kind of what that
Speaker 1: everyone I think has looked at this that there's that
Speaker 1: photo from the NFC Championship game of all these captains
Speaker 1: with the trophy, and that I think is what you're saying.
Speaker 1: What you're talking about this this decade of Panthers football
Speaker 1: is kind of defined by that group and like what
Speaker 1: the locker room became with them steering the ship. And
Speaker 1: it's changed a lot. I mean this year, like I said,
Speaker 1: there were pieces of it still and obviously in the
Speaker 1: off season some of those pieces have now left as well,
Speaker 1: with with Olsen now a Seattle Seahawk, which is so
Speaker 1: weird to say, Um and Luke, Keikley retiring, So I
Speaker 1: see what you're saying. It was. It was definitely a
Speaker 1: transition year for just what this locker room and the
Speaker 1: team's identity certainly was. It was different, but it was
Speaker 1: It was fun to get to know another organization and
Speaker 1: it was fun. I think we have a really great
Speaker 1: group of content producers and we're fun. We're fun, dang it,
Speaker 1: We're a fun group. And I thought that was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun of just traveling around and getting to
Speaker 1: know that the staff was fun um and the content
Speaker 1: we were able to put out. I thought it was
Speaker 1: really awesome and I'm super proud out of So it
Speaker 1: was a great year for like personally. I mean, I
Speaker 1: know the football wasn't that great, but I think that's
Speaker 1: what I mean with the locker room. It was. It
Speaker 1: was just weird. It was a weird year for Carolina football.
Speaker 1: And moving on now you have this new, fresh, clean
Speaker 1: slate that's coming and it it truly does feel that
Speaker 1: way because a lot of the pieces have gone. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm sure more changes are coming this offseason of of
Speaker 1: adding pieces and maybe other other pieces leaving. So it
Speaker 1: is it has been a wild year. I tell people
Speaker 1: that I feel like I didn't. I got to know
Speaker 1: Charlotte once this season started to end, because that's when
Speaker 1: you can actually have your weekends and go and explore.
Speaker 1: So it was it was a wild year that for
Speaker 1: me started in May. Yeah. Crazy. How about how about you?
Speaker 1: What do you think back to the beginning of Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean from a personal standpoint, like it was,
Speaker 1: it wasn't nearly as wild as as Carolines, But you know,
Speaker 1: I transition a little bit from more of a kind
Speaker 1: of the pr side too, you know, now joining the
Speaker 1: podcast and then a training camp, you know, working with
Speaker 1: Max too, kind of right Stories, which was kind of
Speaker 1: a new experience for me. Like I was in huddles
Speaker 1: you know, or like interview scrums and everyone was like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, Will's will interviewing people? Well, what's happening
Speaker 1: over here? So that was that was kind of a
Speaker 1: cool exercise and in doing something different for me. And
Speaker 1: I mean, I I still think, you know, the memory
Speaker 1: for me from this year is kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: is London. I think that really it felt like the
Speaker 1: kind of there was that month long period where things
Speaker 1: were really good and Kyle Allen was five and oh
Speaker 1: and and you go to London, and it's like this
Speaker 1: is this is really fun seeing how Panthers fans kind
Speaker 1: of dominated the bucks in the city and then in
Speaker 1: the game, and just really getting to spend time with
Speaker 1: you guys. I mean, I'll remember that that morning with
Speaker 1: with Paul mcgouan and that group chat that was that
Speaker 1: was quite a group chat. Yeah, the London experience almost
Speaker 1: makes it feel like, well, this was a lost season
Speaker 1: in many ways. It was like there was that you know,
Speaker 1: like and I feel like that was like a winning
Speaker 1: that game in the fashion they did this, the fan
Speaker 1: experience and the way it seems that just seemed like
Speaker 1: a really big moment for the organization and a proud
Speaker 1: moment to show for a fan base that that's whatever
Speaker 1: you want to say about small market, it's always seemed
Speaker 1: to be a bit of an underdog and kind of
Speaker 1: relished that feeling that doesn't maybe get the respect it
Speaker 1: deserves to put on a show like it did, and
Speaker 1: you know, we were at the events and to see
Speaker 1: the fan base show up the way they did for
Speaker 1: for that moment, to me, that's what I'll remember from
Speaker 1: was like and I'm glad that I was able to
Speaker 1: be a part of that. It looked. The way the
Speaker 1: season ended was was really really difficult, um. And to
Speaker 1: see so many good people leave in the in the
Speaker 1: that was hard. But that moment in London, I think
Speaker 1: is something that it's cool to be able to have
Speaker 1: that from this twenty nineteen season. And I think fans
Speaker 1: would feel the same way, especially the ones who were
Speaker 1: out there. Oh, I know that was that was a
Speaker 1: memory you'll always keep. Yeah, just you know, being on
Speaker 1: the you know, I was on the commercial flight that
Speaker 1: was packed to the gills with with Panther fans. That
Speaker 1: are you know channing keep pounding at two am the morning.
Speaker 1: I mean a little annoying at the moment when you
Speaker 1: look back at it, I mean it was really very cool, um,
Speaker 1: to to kind of see that outpouring of support in
Speaker 1: a big way. Yeah, and you know the fa whether
Speaker 1: it was getting becoming a captain before and then after
Speaker 1: the game as he's blowing kisses to the fans, I mean,
Speaker 1: that was that was special. It's a shame that that
Speaker 1: didn't catapult this team forward in the way we may
Speaker 1: be hoped, um, But still just as an isolated moment,
Speaker 1: that was that was pretty darn cool. I'm tired just
Speaker 1: thinking of that week. I'd be onto a couple of
Speaker 1: times during those stories because that week was it was
Speaker 1: awesome because you wanted to take every bit of it in.
Speaker 1: So you're you're going all in on the football and
Speaker 1: the work, but then you're going all in on just
Speaker 1: being in London and taking the tube to go, you know,
Speaker 1: forty minutes or however long it was to get downtown.
Speaker 1: It was that feels like it was like two or
Speaker 1: three years, right, it really does. Ever. I was thinking
Speaker 1: about that another memory when I was talking about this
Speaker 1: year and talking of the locker room, I will miss
Speaker 1: the the defensive line row. Who knows what it's going
Speaker 1: to look like, you know next year in that locker room.
Speaker 1: I think there is going to be some retooling and
Speaker 1: you know, new faces and maybe some familiar faces, but
Speaker 1: that whole you know, Gerald McCoy defensive line row was
Speaker 1: absurd last year in the locker room. They were always
Speaker 1: fun and welcoming to the media and you know, talking
Speaker 1: and being very honest and just the energy was unreal
Speaker 1: from that group. And when I when I think about
Speaker 1: this locker room, I didn't get the normal Painthers experience,
Speaker 1: but that defensive line this group was absurd interesting characters,
Speaker 1: Like the whole McCoy recruitment was a big memory and
Speaker 1: landing him, um, such a big personality, and you know
Speaker 1: him in training camp and we you know, all this
Speaker 1: stuff with carrying the guy's helmets and having the ice
Speaker 1: cream truck coming, Like the whole McCoy experience was pretty cool. Um.
Speaker 1: It's a real shame that he and kay K didn't
Speaker 1: get to play together. And I think that that was
Speaker 1: one of a real bummer um. And you just wonder,
Speaker 1: you know, how things maybe would have been different if
Speaker 1: k K didn't get hurt. But you know, Bruce Irvin
Speaker 1: another guy who a unique personality. Bruce is just um
Speaker 1: there everyone said there was there's an edge to him.
Speaker 1: There's also yeah, there's like and there's like a there's
Speaker 1: like a sense of humor. I think he's trying to
Speaker 1: be funny at times there. I don't know, maybe not,
Speaker 1: but Bruce was certainly interesting guy to get a chance
Speaker 1: to know. Um. So yeah, I agree, And even the
Speaker 1: young guys like Burns again another one where it's like,
Speaker 1: what a shame that he got hurt because he was
Speaker 1: off to such a great start, and you wonder how
Speaker 1: his rookie season maybe would have gone differently if not
Speaker 1: for punching the turf in Houston. Um. But uh, but
Speaker 1: I'm I'm really excited about Brian in his future. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that guy showed to everybody that you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's got the juice off the edge and if
Speaker 1: he can just kind of harness things a little bit
Speaker 1: and become a little bit more of a technician, I mean,
Speaker 1: that guy has has the makings of a double digit
Speaker 1: sack pressure in this league, and so it was it
Speaker 1: was cool to get a chance to know him as well.
Speaker 1: So so young, I mean, that's the thing about us, Like,
Speaker 1: isn't it crazy to think that we're all older than
Speaker 1: most guys in the locker room now, Like Brian Burns
Speaker 1: is significantly younger than us. I remember my first year
Speaker 1: in the league, I was my first year, my rookie year.
Speaker 1: That sounded like I was playing, But my first year
Speaker 1: working in the NFL I was. I just turned three,
Speaker 1: So I still felt very twenty two. Coming out of
Speaker 1: college was the very first job, and it did blow
Speaker 1: my mind that even then I was older than the
Speaker 1: rookie that we're coming in of Like this is my
Speaker 1: first job. This is their first job. Wow, the pay differences,
Speaker 1: yeah's mind boggling. Yes, and then now every time, I
Speaker 1: mean we're getting I at least this is my first time.
Speaker 1: I'm twenty seven of when people talk about oh, thirty
Speaker 1: thirty and year old in the NFL, might hold up now,
Speaker 1: yah's not getting crazy. I mean I can't run two
Speaker 1: miles without hurting. But it is that's it is crazy
Speaker 1: to think a lot of these guys in the locker room. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It hit me when Luke retired. Yeah, I mean when
Speaker 1: when you're still when I'm still like trying to like
Speaker 1: find your career path and this guy is that much
Speaker 1: younger than you and he's retired, like what, Well he
Speaker 1: was probably trying to find his career paths. Sure, but
Speaker 1: still it makes you feel better. Yeah, you definitely start
Speaker 1: feeling that's really old in there. Yeah. I remember Quincy
Speaker 1: Wilson was drafted by the Colts at twenty. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think Curtis Samuel came to the team. It's it's just
Speaker 1: and you know, I look, every year goes by, I'm
Speaker 1: finding that I um more and more. Just like I
Speaker 1: don't really know what these guys like. I just feel
Speaker 1: out of touch with you know, because because you know,
Speaker 1: like I started, like you, Caroline, I was. I got
Speaker 1: into the league as an intern with the Broncos when
Speaker 1: I was three, and a lot of changes in seven years,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, it's like, man, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: not cool. That is confirmed. Um, well, Matt is not
Speaker 1: here to defend himself. He's having to miss this because
Speaker 1: he's recovering from the flu. Matt, we miss you. We
Speaker 1: hope you're feeling better. But Matt just went to the
Speaker 1: combine with us, and we mentioned this on the last
Speaker 1: group chat. But it was fun to see his enthusiasm
Speaker 1: for his job because this is a job and it
Speaker 1: does get to the point where you know you're you're
Speaker 1: going through and you've done it before, so you're not
Speaker 1: as in awe of things. And I think that's when
Speaker 1: I look back at my first year of working in
Speaker 1: the NFL, I was just wide eyed and just wow,
Speaker 1: like that all the time. Wow, I see them, And
Speaker 1: now I'm complaining about a late bus leaving the hotel. Right,
Speaker 1: stop it. That's what happens. You have to you have to,
Speaker 1: you know, get out and be thankful for a little bit.
Speaker 1: So sorry if you think I'm complaining out there, but
Speaker 1: that was a that was a fun part of the
Speaker 1: combine was seeing his enthusiasm. So then we can remind ourselves. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think our other memories of and
Speaker 1: even though I not really but this league year before
Speaker 1: this next one starts, is a massive change that happened
Speaker 1: here in Carolina with this coaching staff, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: um defining moment. Yeah, they've yet to really you know,
Speaker 1: get started in earnest with you know, obviously I haven't
Speaker 1: been on the practice field yet, but um, getting themselves
Speaker 1: in the building, this whole new staff and really just
Speaker 1: starting a culture change and and really it's it's it's
Speaker 1: a huge shift in philosophy and just going about their business.
Speaker 1: I don't know we've all I think experienced that. And
Speaker 1: just being in this building is you're you're starting to
Speaker 1: feel it and see it just out and not right
Speaker 1: or wrong. How one guy did it, how the next
Speaker 1: guy does it. It's just different. Um, and that's very
Speaker 1: new to this place. After going through nine years with
Speaker 1: with Round rivera the Matt Rule era beginning, it will
Speaker 1: always I think, you know, be another big memory and
Speaker 1: that press conference and kind of kicking that thing off
Speaker 1: the way it did. And in the atrium domes it's
Speaker 1: another one you were on, you know, your way back
Speaker 1: from from Waco. I mean that that that whole stretch
Speaker 1: of time, I would say it was pretty memorable. It
Speaker 1: was very memorable. I think the funny part about that
Speaker 1: piece of content that we did in his house and
Speaker 1: what we turned her out from there when we go places,
Speaker 1: now you know, oh what you guys did with Matt Rule.
Speaker 1: That really pushed the needle and that was awesome. That
Speaker 1: was great content. And I laughed though, because they have
Speaker 1: no idea who went. And I love that, like they
Speaker 1: know that I went because we did an interview and
Speaker 1: you see my face, but they have no idea how
Speaker 1: any of it happened. And that it really did remind
Speaker 1: me the magic of what we get to do of
Speaker 1: you just go and you turn this content and then
Speaker 1: you come back and you move on to the next thing.
Speaker 1: So it can become a bit of a grind and
Speaker 1: you're just kind of Okay, what's next, What's next. It's
Speaker 1: been fun to hear people respond to that, because it
Speaker 1: does it just makes you sit back and be like, wow,
Speaker 1: you know, and we will take something to do, and
Speaker 1: we recounted the story of that day kind of here,
Speaker 1: you know, on the group chat. But I mean just
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, the excitement of those mornings where it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, what are we gonna do? Go get a suitcase?
Speaker 1: You have forty five minutes. I mean just like literally,
Speaker 1: those those moments that are you know, that is kind
Speaker 1: of the the adrenaline and the lifeblood of this. And
Speaker 1: you know what this is both on our end and
Speaker 1: you know on their end. You know a lot of
Speaker 1: these coaches they picked up and just got here. You know,
Speaker 1: these players they pick up and they get here and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it's they're starting a new life.
Speaker 1: And you know kind of what what that's like is
Speaker 1: very I think unique to too sports in certain ways.
Speaker 1: I would also like to say that our office game
Speaker 1: of pig from the league here if you haven't heard
Speaker 1: out there. I don't even know what week this started,
Speaker 1: but we bought a remember I can go look back
Speaker 1: at my receipts, but it's a it's a little, you know,
Speaker 1: little basketball goal that you hang on the back of
Speaker 1: a door. Only in our office there's no door to
Speaker 1: hang it on. That makes sense because this is still
Speaker 1: a place of work and employment. So we don't want
Speaker 1: to put it on our office door and just be
Speaker 1: banging around all day. So it hangs on a half wall,
Speaker 1: like a partition for um, what you would maybe see
Speaker 1: in an office with cubicles. It hangs on that wall.
Speaker 1: It's maybe three and a half feet off the ground.
Speaker 1: Four it might be four ft off the ground. But
Speaker 1: this game of pig that was supposed to be just
Speaker 1: a way for creatives to get up and you know,
Speaker 1: do something different, maybe shoot the ball while you're thinking
Speaker 1: about some ideas, turned into a full fledged war. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: At its peak, there was a website created with player
Speaker 1: profiles and standing rules. Oh yeah, we have rules. We
Speaker 1: had a commissioner. Yeah, it was. It was intense. It's
Speaker 1: kind of faded. I think it was a little bit
Speaker 1: because no one It was a little bit difficult when
Speaker 1: everything with the coaching, and I think, honestly, I think
Speaker 1: the players just needed a bit of an off season.
Speaker 1: It was well, we were trying to go for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: We set a forty game minimum, which is a lot
Speaker 1: to thank you, which is a lot, okay, And I
Speaker 1: felt like forty game minimum. There are players currently on
Speaker 1: our board that have three hundred games played. There is
Speaker 1: one player that has almost three losses. He will go
Speaker 1: on remain nameless. He knows who he knows we and
Speaker 1: we know. But he also that same player also has
Speaker 1: the most wins, which just means that he just plays
Speaker 1: slightly too much, little too much, but not like too
Speaker 1: much in a great way. You know, we're not hating
Speaker 1: on him. But yes, Pig, this year was we'll go down.
Speaker 1: I don't know if another office could do that. We
Speaker 1: got some people to stop in and play pick. Maybe
Speaker 1: you wouldn't expect appearances. Yes, mcmixon has come by and
Speaker 1: shot a little KK short came in yesterday like just
Speaker 1: just cleaned house. He beat two of us, and then
Speaker 1: I do believe he got beat on. Maybe he was victims.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. He's a much bigger man lengthwise,
Speaker 1: so he really played to his advantage. He was, you know, okay,
Speaker 1: you have to be touching this and make the shot.
Speaker 1: Well to him, he was touching, you know, a knob
Speaker 1: and could just drop the ball in. I was touching
Speaker 1: the knob and having to you know, really stretched the
Speaker 1: final The final shot is actually on TikTok on Panthers.
Speaker 1: TikTok if you would like to go see that and
Speaker 1: you'll understand how I lost because it's a ridiculous shot.
Speaker 1: Um yeah pick. We also David Tepper caught us in
Speaker 1: the middle of a game one time. It was my often,
Speaker 1: our lead photographer. It was stressful. It was the day
Speaker 1: where the broom would stand up on its own. So
Speaker 1: we were playing with the broom, which is every day,
Speaker 1: but you know this day on social media where everyone
Speaker 1: thought it was just that it was a big day
Speaker 1: and we had set the broom up and so every
Speaker 1: the last shot had to do with the broom. That
Speaker 1: was our rule. So it was my last shot and
Speaker 1: he happened to open the door mid I was just
Speaker 1: about to bounce the ball over the broom and both
Speaker 1: of us. Freeze were was like Hi, He's like, what
Speaker 1: is this like, pig you want to play? And he
Speaker 1: was like, no, but go and so he stood there
Speaker 1: and it was so nerve wracking. He didn't actually I
Speaker 1: did not hit the shot, but he stayed and watched
Speaker 1: for a little while until I did end up winning.
Speaker 1: I did end up winning that game, but I didn't
Speaker 1: make that particular shot. But he stood for a little
Speaker 1: while and watched and laughed and said said, this is
Speaker 1: what the this is what we used to do in college.
Speaker 1: That's some flavor. He added a bit more flavor to that,
Speaker 1: but that is what yeah, in a much more Pittsburgh anyway.
Speaker 1: He did say, that's true. Yeah, the two season pig
Speaker 1: will always it will go down and pure. You can't.
Speaker 1: You cannot recreate the organic magic of that pig. You can't.
Speaker 1: We also got an air hockey table. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys remember we I did the gift
Speaker 1: guide at Christmas, which is a great way apparently to
Speaker 1: get free things, because I got a wine tumbler out
Speaker 1: of it and a full size air hockey table. Is
Speaker 1: that why you did it? Because I did it? So
Speaker 1: Originally the air hockey table was supposed to be a
Speaker 1: tabletop air hockey table, but at the time they did
Speaker 1: not have that in stores. Academy they didn't have it,
Speaker 1: and so they just gave us a full size and
Speaker 1: we were like, well, we can't. I don't know what,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what to do with this. No, oh no,
Speaker 1: you don't need to bring it back, like just thanks
Speaker 1: for you know, putting us on this gift guide. So
Speaker 1: we have a full size air hockey table. What you
Speaker 1: actually see in the box if you go look at
Speaker 1: the video that was posted on TikTok of playing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I was gonna say we never moved that act.
Speaker 1: We've never moved it. We've never because that's a bit
Speaker 1: loud for the office. So we've were trying, but there's
Speaker 1: construction going on and so we just haven't put it
Speaker 1: anywhere yet. But yeah, the pig. The pig will go
Speaker 1: down in history anymore memories or or we we can
Speaker 1: move on to the next which will bring I know
Speaker 1: this next one will bring up more memories. So we
Speaker 1: good anything that I'm missing here, all right? So the
Speaker 1: next one is so every league year brings free agents.
Speaker 1: This is the big talk right now. Who's going to
Speaker 1: be a free agent? Where are they going to? Land?
Speaker 1: Of course we're hearing a lot about Tom Brady right now,
Speaker 1: so he I would say he's probably the front runner
Speaker 1: in the free agent talks. Correct, Not for the Panthers.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying in general in the NFL. So we're
Speaker 1: going to go through and give you our front runners
Speaker 1: a free agents from this year, and we will not
Speaker 1: name a single player. So if that's what you're looking
Speaker 1: for in this podcast. Just sorry about that. We're not
Speaker 1: going to do that, but we're just gonna do thanks
Speaker 1: from this year that are still out there lingering maybe
Speaker 1: things we said on the podcast or you know, little
Speaker 1: segments we had that we don't have answers to yet.
Speaker 1: So they're going to be free agents heading into the
Speaker 1: NFL season. Does anyone want to go first? Yes? Okay,
Speaker 1: Southern Mama. Where Southern Mama gonna land? Did she go?
Speaker 1: Where'd she go? She hasn't been mad about things in
Speaker 1: a minute. Normally I hear from her when she's mad,
Speaker 1: But what about when she's really excited about something she
Speaker 1: doesn't really know. She's only she's only she's only after
Speaker 1: the people with the haters. She she had some run
Speaker 1: ins with with some famous people. She did, she did.
Speaker 1: She did come to the combine just briefly. She was yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what did happen to Southern Mama? She might come back.
Speaker 1: I'll call her this week and see if she'd like
Speaker 1: to come back next week. Maybe just to be nice,
Speaker 1: let's not do anything this week to make her mad,
Speaker 1: but let's yeah, I'll call her only Wednesday. There's still
Speaker 1: a couple of days left. There are a couple of
Speaker 1: days left of what we could do to make her mad.
Speaker 1: What do you have, Caroline? I have a couple. So
Speaker 1: the holiday suggestions. Just a couple of weeks ago, we
Speaker 1: came up with holidays that we believe should not exist
Speaker 1: and that should I also went back and was listening
Speaker 1: to some old group chats. On August seven, Will brought
Speaker 1: up we did a segment of things that exists but
Speaker 1: have no rhyme of reason Columbus Day. He brought up
Speaker 1: Columbus Day in August. He was still on the Columbus
Speaker 1: Day train a couple of weeks ago when we did
Speaker 1: holidays where I need answers of? Is Columbus Day just
Speaker 1: gonna always be a thing? That's what I want for everyone?
Speaker 1: I think. I think there's a great case being made
Speaker 1: of we could celebrate other things. Yeah, well, where are
Speaker 1: other answers to that question of things that exists? Um?
Speaker 1: I just call him to say it was the best one.
Speaker 1: I mean it was because the preseason game. Oh, you
Speaker 1: said any any preseason poll doesn't exist, but they do
Speaker 1: not matter? Right? Um? I had I'm not gonna be oh,
Speaker 1: any any food that you eat between two am and
Speaker 1: four am. I think there was like some like that
Speaker 1: food does ad advice you get? Yes, that was one,
Speaker 1: and then I think we tagged on we tagged on
Speaker 1: food to that as well that food. So really nothing
Speaker 1: in between the hours of about you know, two to five,
Speaker 1: they don't it doesn't count really one thirties We're going
Speaker 1: to get real about it. Um. I'm also curious of
Speaker 1: Matt rules fix er Upper. So if you remember a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago, Max gave us the great rundown. I
Speaker 1: just want to know when when is the house gonna
Speaker 1: be done? What are we gonna I also want to
Speaker 1: know our Chip and Joanna Panther fans like they are.
Speaker 1: Are they still on the market? Are they free agents?
Speaker 1: And NFL fandom? We know they're Baylor fans, but I
Speaker 1: wonder what that that signing bonus is going to be
Speaker 1: to get them. Yeah, you have to imagine they're gonna
Speaker 1: they're gonna jump on board, right. They should come and
Speaker 1: do the new facility, ship lap everywhere, Magnolia, Yes, styled
Speaker 1: by get them to come in and do everything. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine? Um? Also a free agent thing. I guess
Speaker 1: this kind of came we we know the answer to this,
Speaker 1: but just in the effort to poke fund in myself more,
Speaker 1: is Curtis Samuel ever going to get for four hundred yards?
Speaker 1: I thought you were four thousands? Yeah, I was like
Speaker 1: four thousand. Mean is he ever going to get you
Speaker 1: fourteen hundred yards? Yeah? I need to know, I need
Speaker 1: I need it. Actually I would like to change that
Speaker 1: next year. I'll go ahead and I would like I
Speaker 1: didn't say Curtis, I said DJ, Well didn't or didn't
Speaker 1: we say total yards? I did say rushing into it?
Speaker 1: So DJ, total fourteen? Is that that's I definitely said Curtis, Okay,
Speaker 1: is he ever going to do it? Prove me right?
Speaker 1: Just one year? Please? That was my free agent. Also
Speaker 1: Will's calves, my calves. I just can't calves, calves, calves.
Speaker 1: Are they on the market? Are they looking for a
Speaker 1: new home? Well, the boots. The boots were a big deal,
Speaker 1: he said, they heard a couple of times. So I
Speaker 1: think it's more of just what else can Will's is
Speaker 1: this is this my first group chat since the ski trip. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we haven't really, Yeah, we haven't had you really reflect
Speaker 1: on that. I think I think the calves survived. The ankles,
Speaker 1: the ankles were we're struggling for a bit. Okay, well
Speaker 1: that's good. We can close that book. Then. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I think the Calves went they went on a visit,
Speaker 1: you know, they went on a visit to West Virginia.
Speaker 1: I think they found out what they wanted to and
Speaker 1: they're going to resign. Okay, are going to resign with
Speaker 1: their original team? Oh, the original team. Yeah, they're not
Speaker 1: going to stay in now. They made a visit though, Okay,
Speaker 1: next year, I feel like it might be the same story.
Speaker 1: This is just a yeah, you just always make a
Speaker 1: one one year. Yeah, I think I've signed a lifelong contract. Right.
Speaker 1: But they're they're they're asking, they're asking for more money. Problem.
Speaker 1: They want to renegotiate and get get a higher base. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll have to take a look at their
Speaker 1: stats and see if they're worth it. I wanted Matt
Speaker 1: Hogan to forget something at the combine. He didn't, but
Speaker 1: I really wanted him to so that we could say
Speaker 1: something about, you know, Matt Hogan's possessions. They're just always
Speaker 1: out there roaming around doing what they want. There was
Speaker 1: a dinner where he was about to leave his credit
Speaker 1: card and he says like he's done that all the time.
Speaker 1: I do believe in saying I believe he did say that.
Speaker 1: He at least admits his Oh yeah, he's very forthcoming
Speaker 1: with almost two for coming. Oh yeah, very very forthcoming.
Speaker 1: Any other free agents we need to be looking for,
Speaker 1: we need answers to. There are certainly players that everyone
Speaker 1: wants to know. There are some players, but unfortunately we
Speaker 1: don't have anything for you. But you can look. What
Speaker 1: are the dates. The dates that are coming up. There's
Speaker 1: a tampering period in the new league year. Tampion period
Speaker 1: starts March sixteen, and then March eighteenth, at four o'clock
Speaker 1: is the start of the official start of the new
Speaker 1: league year free agent frenzy as it's become so yeah, well,
Speaker 1: it's always fascinating and it will certainly be, especially for
Speaker 1: this team with the new direction it's taking to see
Speaker 1: what happens and what doesn't. I think it's a big
Speaker 1: year just in the terms of not so much. You know,
Speaker 1: there's so many questions. Is it the volume that they're
Speaker 1: going for, is it specific players, is it the big
Speaker 1: name players? I mean, this is where I think what
Speaker 1: Matt Roy kind of said at the combine is it
Speaker 1: is there to their advantage that no one knows what
Speaker 1: they're going to do. And I think this is you know,
Speaker 1: we're talking yest on the field stuff and it's off
Speaker 1: the field. You used to have Marty Herney and his staff,
Speaker 1: but you have Matt Rule and his staff who want
Speaker 1: a certain type of player. They want, you know, to
Speaker 1: approach this roster maybe differently than it has been in
Speaker 1: years past. So I'm fascinated on what will happen because
Speaker 1: we hear things. You know, it might be this, might
Speaker 1: be that. But even those things that we hear in
Speaker 1: the building are conflicting. So I'm ready to see how
Speaker 1: it plays out, to see if if you know, is
Speaker 1: it volume, is it big splash players? Is it guys
Speaker 1: we've never heard of? Is it? You know? How is
Speaker 1: this going to play out? And how does Matt Rule want? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, how are they going to start building this thing? Um?
Speaker 1: You know? And free agency is there our first real
Speaker 1: chance to see that plan in action. Obviously you'll have
Speaker 1: the draft coming after that. Everyone will be very curious
Speaker 1: to see what direction they go in that regard picking seventh. Overall,
Speaker 1: they're gonna get a really good player. I think that's
Speaker 1: one thing we came away from the combine. Sure of
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, there there are some high, high level talents. Um,
Speaker 1: they're gonna gonna be on the board. Uh, in that
Speaker 1: top ten, certainly in that top seven. Um. So yeah,
Speaker 1: all the all these things again before this team actually
Speaker 1: get a chance ends to you know, really be on
Speaker 1: the field and we see that plan in action. We
Speaker 1: we get to see kind of how the roster takes
Speaker 1: shape and free agency in the draft and we'll find
Speaker 1: out you know, we just don't know. And I think
Speaker 1: that's part of that, that's part of the fun of it.
Speaker 1: With a brand new kind of feel to this thing
Speaker 1: is whereas before with Ron you kind of maybe knew, um,
Speaker 1: you know, what kind of players they would be looking for,
Speaker 1: and had more of a feel for, you know, how
Speaker 1: things were gonna go, this one feels a lot just
Speaker 1: more open ended, and there's some excitement to that. I mean,
Speaker 1: you always kind of felt like there there would be
Speaker 1: these connections to coach Rivera, to the Panthers or you know,
Speaker 1: to the system and all that kind of stuff, and
Speaker 1: now you know, it feels very wide open, which which
Speaker 1: can be exciting. And I think there's there's a lot
Speaker 1: of still kind of fear, and you know there's some
Speaker 1: you know, kind of sadness for these these names and
Speaker 1: these personalities that we've gotten to know, um kind of
Speaker 1: moving on. But at the same time, you know, there's
Speaker 1: I think it's it's worth celebrating those those times and
Speaker 1: those moments and those memories we had and in you know,
Speaker 1: realizing that the Anthers aren't going anywhere, you know this
Speaker 1: this franchise is going to be here, and you know
Speaker 1: it's building a new now and those are new stories
Speaker 1: that we get to kind of learning new people, we
Speaker 1: get to embrace. Well, look for the dates coming up.
Speaker 1: March sixteen is when that tampering period begins the new
Speaker 1: league year on March. And also we have a very
Speaker 1: very big episode coming up. We don't normally tease upcoming episodes,
Speaker 1: but you need to stick around because we've got some
Speaker 1: big plans, big news, some breaking news on this upcoming podcast.
Speaker 1: So make sure you know what turn on your notifications
Speaker 1: of when they're posted, because this is it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a fun one. We're getting some things together to make
Speaker 1: the next episode a really really big, blown out, fun
Speaker 1: news breaking episode. Is that Is that a good way today?
Speaker 1: Is that a good way to describe what we've got
Speaker 1: coming up? Would you agree? I'd be listening. I would
Speaker 1: be listening. Guys, we hope you enjoyed this week of
Speaker 1: the Group Chat. This one really was for the groupies
Speaker 1: because we pulled a lot of memories from this past
Speaker 1: league year. But thank you so much for listening, and
Speaker 1: we will talk to you next week when the big
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