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Speaker 1: Kristen Balboni, Miles Simmons and Will Brian. That's right, it's
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Speaker 1: it's a good week to wear a Panthers jersey under
Speaker 1: your uniform because the Panthers went out West, longest road
Speaker 1: trip of the season, Gotta win over the Chargers to sixteen.
Speaker 1: Made it interesting there at the end if they could,
Speaker 1: if they were going to hold onto it, but they did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what that that the hook and ladder, hitch
Speaker 1: and pitch, whatever you want to call it. That was
Speaker 1: really close. Yeah. If Eckler keeps his eye on the
Speaker 1: ball instead of probably looking at all that green turf
Speaker 1: in front of him, maybe things would end up differently.
Speaker 1: But that's why I gotta play every single snap every
Speaker 1: single second, you know, And hey, Panthers win alright, Coach Simmons,
Speaker 1: you gotta play every single snap every single second. Well
Speaker 1: that was coach great. I mean you want some more
Speaker 1: coach peak. Sometimes to win in the NFL, you just
Speaker 1: need the ball to bounce your way sometimes just you
Speaker 1: just need a couple of breaks. This is you gotta
Speaker 1: make your own luck. Well, it is a eventiones there.
Speaker 1: Really all just comes down to the last drive of
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Well, it certainly did, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: But there was something different about the way, especially this
Speaker 1: defense played. Uh Russell Douglas said, Hey, it looks like
Speaker 1: we're two different defenses out there. But but from the
Speaker 1: moment um that they stepped on the field, guys were
Speaker 1: flying around, the energy looks good, and really felt like
Speaker 1: they put it all together. Um, and maybe there was
Speaker 1: a reason for it, you know. Matt Rules said, we
Speaker 1: played as a team, and I really felt like something changed,
Speaker 1: and that's going to be the first topic in our
Speaker 1: overheard segment. Overheard, So I mentioned Russell Douglas. He's come
Speaker 1: in and really just made such an impact on this
Speaker 1: team in such a short while. But apparently we heard
Speaker 1: after the game. He called Matt Rule after game two
Speaker 1: and said, hey, look, this is something that's on my heart.
Speaker 1: I want to have a team meeting. I didn't feel
Speaker 1: like we were playing for each other. I remember point
Speaker 1: of game we were down to Temper Bay and I
Speaker 1: looked at everybody and it was just like it was
Speaker 1: whatever type of thing, and I didn't like it. I
Speaker 1: didn't like it. So I had to just tell them
Speaker 1: how I felt about it. And I wanted us to
Speaker 1: play for each other, because it's bigger when you play
Speaker 1: for the team than an individual. Like the stats, individual stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're not we're not track runners, we're not boxers.
Speaker 1: Individual stuff doesn't matter. It's all about the team is
Speaker 1: what can we do together? As it collected me so
Speaker 1: I had I just talked to him basically, just said
Speaker 1: what I felt, and uh, he made some key changes.
Speaker 1: Shack Thompson told me last week I was asking him
Speaker 1: about being a captain and how he chose to lead
Speaker 1: when the team started out oh into and he told me,
Speaker 1: you know, I have my message, I have my way
Speaker 1: of leading. But there are a lot of guys on
Speaker 1: this team who are leaders who don't have that SEA
Speaker 1: on their jersey, and I think Soul is absolutely one
Speaker 1: of them, a guy that does have a C on
Speaker 1: his jersey and is without a doubt a leader of
Speaker 1: this team. Maybe the leader of this team is Teddy Bridgewater.
Speaker 1: We've heard that all throughout the off season, UM, all
Speaker 1: during the regular season. Now as we get into it,
Speaker 1: um and he really owned up to what the offense
Speaker 1: need needs to improve on. You know, they settled for
Speaker 1: five field goals in the red zone on Sunday and
Speaker 1: he said, he said, look, that's that's not okay, and
Speaker 1: and we gotta fix it. We have to have a
Speaker 1: mindset when we get down there that you know we
Speaker 1: can still run the football or you know we can
Speaker 1: still throw the ball, but at the same time, in
Speaker 1: the passing game, we had to understand that windows closed faster,
Speaker 1: the cover is going to be tighter. In the run game,
Speaker 1: we have to understand that, you know, we could get
Speaker 1: favorable boxes. You know, we should be able to run
Speaker 1: the football. So no, we just want to spend some
Speaker 1: time down there, uh and make sure that we get
Speaker 1: better in that area, because if we could, you know,
Speaker 1: capitalize off the turnovers that we had this past weekend,
Speaker 1: and and you look at instead of having eight team
Speaker 1: points that to have, you know, that could have easily
Speaker 1: been thirty points. You know, if we're just executing the
Speaker 1: red zone. So um, you know we're gonna put a
Speaker 1: huge emphasis on that. I just want to say really quickly.
Speaker 1: I love the way he describes it as just spending
Speaker 1: some more time down there, like it's a nice vacation home.
Speaker 1: And it's true, like that's the place that you want
Speaker 1: to spend time on. And they spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time in the red zone in this game. But I
Speaker 1: just love Will the way he was like, I just
Speaker 1: want to spend some more time down there, gets familiar
Speaker 1: with the scenery, you know, that kind of thing. I
Speaker 1: just I really like the way he put it, Well,
Speaker 1: it's it's all of a sudden different without Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: because I mean, think about the red zone the first
Speaker 1: two weeks, christiancaffrey spends all his time down there and
Speaker 1: going right into the end zone. You just give it
Speaker 1: a Christian, you know, and and you don't really have
Speaker 1: to worry about it. And I think it's it's now
Speaker 1: a team effort of pass, of run of screens, of
Speaker 1: short passes, of maybe jump balls, of fades. It's all
Speaker 1: sorts of play calls and execution that you've got to
Speaker 1: figure out down there, rather than hey, we're inside the
Speaker 1: twenty Christian time, you know, like it's you've got to
Speaker 1: kind of figure this out as a team and as
Speaker 1: a team effort um and and really have that sense
Speaker 1: of urgency. I think that there's a lot about the
Speaker 1: red zone of like, word, we're not going to get
Speaker 1: a field goal, we're getting a touchdown. There's a mindset
Speaker 1: to that um and I think he I think he
Speaker 1: was kind of meaning a little bit of that too.
Speaker 1: We're gonna spend some time down there, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: feel going into Sunday of Week four, like we're going
Speaker 1: to score every time we get in the red zone
Speaker 1: because it was something that we spent time on in
Speaker 1: and effort with, and it's with a young team, it's
Speaker 1: kind of you don't necessarily want to hear it. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, the things that they focus on
Speaker 1: throughout the week, like it's almost like that's gonna be
Speaker 1: something they're gonna be pretty good at. And let's just
Speaker 1: hope that the things they didn't focus on they're still
Speaker 1: pretty good with, because you feel like each week's maybe
Speaker 1: here's a different thing. Now it's the red zone we're
Speaker 1: gonna pay attention to. Yeah, Look, I think especially without
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, you gotta look at getting the tight ends
Speaker 1: more involved in the red zone. That's where the matchup
Speaker 1: nightmares start to come into play. And if you look
Speaker 1: at it right now, tight ends on this team only
Speaker 1: have six targets right like for Free and Thomas, two
Speaker 1: for Chris Manners. Now, Manners has caught both of his targets,
Speaker 1: they've resulted in twelve yards. Thomas has caught three of
Speaker 1: his four targets for twenty five yards. But if we
Speaker 1: want to see red zone improvement, especially if Christian mccaffre
Speaker 1: is not going to be out there, and we know
Speaker 1: he's not going to be out there for the next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, then I think that turning to the
Speaker 1: tight ends might be a good option. And Mike Davis
Speaker 1: can certainly catch out of the back field as well.
Speaker 1: And we saw that on after that illegally lining up
Speaker 1: over the center penalty that Jerry Tillery got for the
Speaker 1: l A Chargers. That's where they turned to as well.
Speaker 1: With the screens. Well you just brought that up, but yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to be able to create something down there,
Speaker 1: and I think that might be an opportunity to get
Speaker 1: the tight ends more involved, which I think the Panthers
Speaker 1: want to do as well. I like that and I
Speaker 1: would love to see Chris man hurts so his next
Speaker 1: catch will be a season high catches in his career
Speaker 1: with three. Love to see that come in the red
Speaker 1: zone or in the end zone. That would just be awesome.
Speaker 1: That would be very nice. Are you gonna yell touch down? Martinez?
Speaker 1: I could? Oh god, I'm glad the Monday night football
Speaker 1: booth is different. Man. Oh well, we could spend some
Speaker 1: time on that, but I want to talk about, you know,
Speaker 1: the other big story of the game, which is that
Speaker 1: the two of you watched the game together after handing
Speaker 1: out fines to each other on this very podcast last week.
Speaker 1: So the radio crew which I am a part of
Speaker 1: on Sunday's called the game from Charlotte UM, which was
Speaker 1: a new experience for me. And we were in our booths,
Speaker 1: uh over in on the side of the press box
Speaker 1: in the radio boots. So I saw you guys on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I'd pop out, you know, pregame halftime say hello, UM,
Speaker 1: And I saw you guys before the game, and you're
Speaker 1: already going back and forth a little bit about, um,
Speaker 1: what Miles was doing on Twitter and alerting to games
Speaker 1: and things like that. So we'll let me start with you.
Speaker 1: How did it go this week? I should probably throw
Speaker 1: the flag on myself because all of a sudden I
Speaker 1: probably was a little antsy Miles, would you agree? Um?
Speaker 1: You know, maybe it's funny, well, because I get so
Speaker 1: like in my own head, in my own space that
Speaker 1: I sometimes just don't really pay attention to what's going on.
Speaker 1: Like I can tell you what happened in the game,
Speaker 1: but going with what was going on around me, I
Speaker 1: really don't know that's good. I mean the ability to
Speaker 1: block it out. But then like last week, it was,
Speaker 1: you know, you're very conscious of Will eating doritos under
Speaker 1: his mask, and that was big. But I knew that
Speaker 1: because everybody else was talking about and it kept coming up.
Speaker 1: So but I don't I mean, well, I know one
Speaker 1: thing that Will did. Will was thinking about the pictures
Speaker 1: for the articles before I like in the middle of
Speaker 1: the game, which I just was not doing because I'm
Speaker 1: trying to write. So that was I had good job
Speaker 1: by Will on that. I'll pick the flag back up,
Speaker 1: put it back in my pocket. What were you getting,
Speaker 1: Auntie about just the game? Yeah, I mean it's and
Speaker 1: then when you're when you're doing it in kind of
Speaker 1: a more informal, communal space, you know a lot of times,
Speaker 1: I mean back in it seems like another life back
Speaker 1: and we were in a full press box the before time,
Speaker 1: before time, you know, like you're you're you're used to
Speaker 1: channeling your energy to you know, typing or you know,
Speaker 1: you kind of hold yourself together, like when there's when
Speaker 1: there's just twelve people that you all work with and
Speaker 1: everyone's pulling for the same thing. You you get up
Speaker 1: and you exclaim and you know, I mean I think
Speaker 1: that that entire last drive, I was just walking around
Speaker 1: like I couldn't sit down. I mean it, you know.
Speaker 1: And and Miles, to his credit, Miles is having to
Speaker 1: write an article and may have to rewrite an article
Speaker 1: because he he almost had that thing written the other way. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm I'm just I'm walking around because I
Speaker 1: I can't handle it. Yeah. I sometimes I don't know
Speaker 1: what to do with my hands, Like I I obviously
Speaker 1: this is a podcast that no one could see, but
Speaker 1: they just kind of go up and then they go down,
Speaker 1: and then I get nervous. Um. But I think the
Speaker 1: person that I saw that really had the most pent
Speaker 1: up energy was Kurt Coleman, are analyst in the booth,
Speaker 1: because you know, he's fresh off of playing and he
Speaker 1: cares about this team so much, and it was just
Speaker 1: cool to get to see him right beside me trying
Speaker 1: to rein it in. I mean, and he did on
Speaker 1: the broadcast, but you could see he was I think
Speaker 1: he said on the broadcast, He's like, I'm standing up
Speaker 1: right now. I don't know what to do, which I
Speaker 1: absolutely love. Uh. Well, what's the stat of the week?
Speaker 1: The week ten point seven is my stat of the week.
Speaker 1: That is the opponent passer rating when targeting Dante Jackson.
Speaker 1: In Week three against the Chargers, he had seven targets,
Speaker 1: he allowed just three catches for nineteen yards, plus he
Speaker 1: had a sixty six yard interception in return. That's interesting,
Speaker 1: justin Herbert, don't attack Dante jack and and that was
Speaker 1: only with you know, maybe fifty the snaps. You know,
Speaker 1: he left the game with a toe injury. You know, obviously,
Speaker 1: today's Wednesday, so hopefully we'll find out a little bit
Speaker 1: more about where he is moving forward. But yeah, Dante
Speaker 1: Jackson ten point seven when targeted last week. And here's
Speaker 1: something a bonus stat for you. In the last two games,
Speaker 1: he's had two interceptions. First when he had maybe about
Speaker 1: a yard return, this one sixty six yard return, so
Speaker 1: over a hundred yards of returns on his last two.
Speaker 1: He's had seven interceptions before that total twenty three total
Speaker 1: yards on those seven. So there's something that like, hey, Dante,
Speaker 1: when you get an interception, don't fall down us that speed.
Speaker 1: Just keep going like you are a weapon going the
Speaker 1: other way. Like it's not good enough just to get
Speaker 1: the interception, take it the other way, because no one
Speaker 1: can tackle you, no one can get I mean, he
Speaker 1: ran out of bounds in Tampa and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden he had a chance to before the half
Speaker 1: and he cut it back inside and he got another
Speaker 1: you know, almost scored got another ten twelve yards. So
Speaker 1: you know, it's obvious that he's you know, he's growing
Speaker 1: in different parts of his game too. Yeah, Matt Rule
Speaker 1: said he was proud to see that progression, not only
Speaker 1: the two interceptions, but that the second one he did
Speaker 1: not run out of bounds. He kept going and maybe
Speaker 1: we'll see him find the end zone on uh next
Speaker 1: week if he's if he's doing okay, I'm putting it
Speaker 1: out there, let's hope. So yeah, why not just keep
Speaker 1: that keep the street going. Uh. The Panthers could certainly
Speaker 1: use them as the Cardinals are in town, Kyler Murray,
Speaker 1: that big old arm that he's got, Cliff Kingsbury. They
Speaker 1: will be here um on Sunday. But the thing that
Speaker 1: I'm excited about is that we are going to have
Speaker 1: some fans will seven capacity here, which Miles, as you
Speaker 1: said in the before times, you'd say five six thousand
Speaker 1: fans may not sound like a lot, but to me,
Speaker 1: it just sounds like, oh my gosh, home field advantage.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting because it I don't know what
Speaker 1: it's gonna look like. I don't know what it's gonna
Speaker 1: feel like, but it's gonna be nice that there are
Speaker 1: actually going to be people around it, that there's going
Speaker 1: to be some sort of atmosphere. The Panthers are putting
Speaker 1: in all kinds of security measures, safety measures so that
Speaker 1: people can come into this building and feel safe and
Speaker 1: secure and have a good time. So you know, you
Speaker 1: definitely want to check out Panthers dot com to get
Speaker 1: all the details. Um, but I will say this, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it will probably give the players a little
Speaker 1: bit of a boost to come out there and to
Speaker 1: see fans in the stands. I think it will. It
Speaker 1: was the weirdest thing when they came out of the
Speaker 1: tunnel and it was silent or pretty much silent, like
Speaker 1: in Week one, literally the opening of the season. The
Speaker 1: team's coming out, We're ready to play, and it's just
Speaker 1: like crickets and it's just like what is happening? I mean,
Speaker 1: even even with five thousand, it's going to be different.
Speaker 1: It's gonna feel different, I agree. One of the things
Speaker 1: that was the strangest to me. It just hit me
Speaker 1: in a certain way. During Week one, the readers were
Speaker 1: kicking a field goal and the sideline was doing the
Speaker 1: job that the fans usually. You know, it's just so weird,
Speaker 1: so weird microcosm of of this kind of alternate reality
Speaker 1: that we're living in with with no fans in the stands.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited, and I think the big thing is
Speaker 1: that these players are going to get to have at
Speaker 1: least part of their families. They're right, they'll get at
Speaker 1: least a few tickets. And I'm excited for the rookies
Speaker 1: that are going to get to have their families here
Speaker 1: because think about it, you'll be playing your fourth career
Speaker 1: game and you're family has never gone to see you
Speaker 1: play professionally in person. So I think about someone with
Speaker 1: you know, like Derek Brown, and I don't know for
Speaker 1: sure that his family will be here. I would imagine
Speaker 1: they would if they feel safe, but he's got a
Speaker 1: young son and a fiance, and I just think that
Speaker 1: that's got to be a cool moment, a little delayed
Speaker 1: this year than it normally would be, but um, I'm
Speaker 1: really happy for them too. In a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: I kind of think of this as kind of the
Speaker 1: home opener. You know, it's almost like these first three
Speaker 1: games were kind of they counted there on the record,
Speaker 1: you can't get rid of them. But they do feel
Speaker 1: like that was some preseason that was some us working
Speaker 1: through some things, and that was realizing, Hey, we need
Speaker 1: to do this, We need to come together as a
Speaker 1: team in this way, we need to work on these things.
Speaker 1: And now it's like, okay, let's let's almost kind of
Speaker 1: reset this thing, bring some fans in and and let's
Speaker 1: get going again here in week four. Look, it's the
Speaker 1: quarter pole, right, Yeah. I I always say and I
Speaker 1: don't just say it. Everybody always talks about this with
Speaker 1: the season up into quarters. But I always feel like
Speaker 1: after those first four games, you really start to get
Speaker 1: to know what a team is, what a team can be,
Speaker 1: and you know what the outlook of the season might
Speaker 1: start to look like. And this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: big test for for these Carolina Panthers. Look, they got
Speaker 1: the win on the West Coast against the Chargers team
Speaker 1: that has a really formidable defense. They come home now
Speaker 1: and they've got to face Kyler Murray, who is somebody
Speaker 1: who can run the heck out of the ball, but
Speaker 1: it is also sometimes a little bit reckless with the football.
Speaker 1: You know, he had three interceptions last week. He could
Speaker 1: have easily had four, if not more than that in
Speaker 1: that game against the Detroit Lions. And that's really why
Speaker 1: the Cardinals lost that game was because of all those turnovers.
Speaker 1: So look, if you get a really good performance out
Speaker 1: of the Panthers this week, it can certainly beat the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: And if that happens, then you're two and two and
Speaker 1: you look up and you're like, hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe we're a little bit better than some people
Speaker 1: outside of this building might have thought we were. And
Speaker 1: that belief and momentum really can steam roll sometimes. You know. Um,
Speaker 1: I think that that's so important, and I think that's
Speaker 1: something that the preseason lets you work out. And you're right,
Speaker 1: this quarter pole is is really the first I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's not the preseason will as you said, But
Speaker 1: they've made adjustments. They're starting to believe in themselves a
Speaker 1: little bit more, and it's giving this team time to
Speaker 1: play together and these coaches time to to figure out
Speaker 1: what each other's game day styles are in communications. So
Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm excited for Sunday. I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: fans back in here. Uh and I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: if the Panthers can keep it going. We'll find out soon.
Speaker 1: Right now, though, let's take a quick break. We'll be
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Speaker 1: Morris Jinkins dot com and now welcome to the real debate.
Speaker 1: I'm your moderator, Will Brian the Panthers dot Com. We
Speaker 1: have the real, hard hitting questions and we are going
Speaker 1: to make you actually enjoy this one and you're not
Speaker 1: gonna want to turn your TV off. First question, this
Speaker 1: one toss up between Kristen and Miles. Are the Panthers
Speaker 1: at one and two better than the Oh and three
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. First of all, I just want to say
Speaker 1: we had no idea what these questions are gonna be.
Speaker 1: I like it. I like it, um the honest answer.
Speaker 1: I know this isn't a good debate answer. I do
Speaker 1: not know. I do not know. The Panthers are coming
Speaker 1: back in their game. In those first two games, they
Speaker 1: made furious comebacks in the second half. The Atlanta Falcons
Speaker 1: are are giving games away. They're giving up leads, but
Speaker 1: they've scored a lot of points. They are there's this way.
Speaker 1: I my taking the argument on the other side of
Speaker 1: the point, but I didn't answer side you want. You
Speaker 1: didn't really take a side. Um. Interesting, you are what
Speaker 1: your record says you are in a lot of ways. Right.
Speaker 1: So if the Panthers are one and two this is
Speaker 1: such a cop out answer, and the Falcons are oh
Speaker 1: and three, then yes, the Panthers are better, right. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's a cop out answer, because let me
Speaker 1: just say this, it's we're three weeks in, you know,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna play each other in in two weeks.
Speaker 1: It's not We're not We're not ten weeks in. I
Speaker 1: do not know. I we don't We're the Panthers are
Speaker 1: still figuring it out. Yes, and all things considered, the Panthers,
Speaker 1: if they come out of this weekend at two and two,
Speaker 1: like that's something, you know, it's not nothing considering everything.
Speaker 1: And by everything, I mean you've got a new coach,
Speaker 1: you've got a huge amount of roster turnover. Uh, you
Speaker 1: have a pandemic that you're playing through, you didn't have
Speaker 1: any offseason program, etcetera, etcetera. So, um, I don't know
Speaker 1: if they're better or not. But I think if you're
Speaker 1: you're all you are what your record says you are.
Speaker 1: And right now the Panthers have a better record. And
Speaker 1: for and for what it's worth, the Falcons are playing
Speaker 1: the Packers on Monday Night Football this week, so they
Speaker 1: could very well, that's right, and then so they would
Speaker 1: face the Panthers on a short week, then Monday Night Football,
Speaker 1: and then meeting the Panthers the following Sunday. All right, well,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you hated that answer. We were not trying
Speaker 1: to dodge the question. I just truly do not know
Speaker 1: at this point. So, um, I know this isn't how.
Speaker 1: There's no cheating on the Happy half Hour, no cheating. Look,
Speaker 1: I know this isn't wait wait, I know this isn't
Speaker 1: the way a debate goes, but she's interrupting you. That's
Speaker 1: how since you wrote the question, give us the one
Speaker 1: yes or no? Are the Panthers better than the Falcons? Yes?
Speaker 1: All right? Next question's how it's done. Apparently, have the
Speaker 1: first three weeks of the season justified drafting Derek Brown
Speaker 1: over the Cardinals? Isaiah Simmons, I don't know that. They
Speaker 1: don't even know that for another year and a half.
Speaker 1: That's the question. Answer the question. You don't know the
Speaker 1: answer to that for another year. You can't evaluate a
Speaker 1: draft after three weeks. This is the internet, that's what.
Speaker 1: Uh No, I'm not no, I said, I'm sorry. I
Speaker 1: know we're attacking the moderator, but I don't like that question.
Speaker 1: Because you can't evaluate a draft after three weeks. You
Speaker 1: don't even know really if the scheme here works. I mean,
Speaker 1: Phil Snow said this last week, two weeks ago, right,
Speaker 1: like the plan that they put in place. The processes
Speaker 1: is that this coaching staff put in place in other
Speaker 1: places has worked, but it's worked in college and you
Speaker 1: don't know necessarily if it's gonna work in the pros yet.
Speaker 1: So if I can't evaluate that at that high of
Speaker 1: a level, how can I evaluate the whether Derek Brown
Speaker 1: was a better pick than Isaiah sim I don't know,
Speaker 1: Christen your response, Yeah no, I say, I say yes.
Speaker 1: I think Derek Brown is going to be has the
Speaker 1: potential to be a great player. We've seen flashes um
Speaker 1: where I've just gone, oh my goodness, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: That is a that is a big man who is
Speaker 1: going to be a force. He can move and he's
Speaker 1: had some rocky mistakes, but again those are rocky mistakes.
Speaker 1: He's going to fix all those things. And I think
Speaker 1: the Panthers needed help on D line. And now you
Speaker 1: look at some of the injuries or setbacks they've had
Speaker 1: on D line already this year with with KK Short
Speaker 1: the Torcos Monto has had that concussion, And so I
Speaker 1: can't imagine if if Derek Brown wasn't there. And then
Speaker 1: with Isaiah Simmons, great player and he's very versatile, but
Speaker 1: we have Jeremy Chin, right, So Isaiah Simmons, I believe
Speaker 1: started out at linebacker. They might move him to safety
Speaker 1: of Jerry Chin's doing those things. So I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with a strong yes. Will that's a see that's I
Speaker 1: like what you said about Jeremy Chin. I think does
Speaker 1: change the equation. And it definitely does because Jeremy Chin
Speaker 1: has been arguably the best defensive player that the Panthers have.
Speaker 1: I love watching him play. He's very, very fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Um So yeah, I think that changes the equation a
Speaker 1: little bit more. But again, I'm not I can't evaluate
Speaker 1: a draft after three weeks of a season. I just
Speaker 1: did and I said that, Look, I'm into it. I'm
Speaker 1: into it now. Look I got warmed up on the
Speaker 1: first question. And for for well, I want to know
Speaker 1: what you said. Yeah, Well, for what it's worth, Isaiah
Speaker 1: Simmons hasn't had a lot of chances. He hasn't had
Speaker 1: a lot of snaps in in the uh the equation
Speaker 1: essentially that the Cardinals have. But this week big news
Speaker 1: is that both Cardinals starting safety is Butha Baker and
Speaker 1: Jalen Thompson will not play. So there's there's a good
Speaker 1: chance that you're gonna see Isaiah Simmons starting at safety,
Speaker 1: whereas he's been taking all of the reps at linebackers,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna pretty much have to switch positions this week.
Speaker 1: And learn um learned the cardinal safety position um against
Speaker 1: this Panther's offense. So it'll be really interesting to kind
Speaker 1: of see how he does in this matchup. Is that
Speaker 1: the more questions will hold on. I gotta get my
Speaker 1: next thing going. Final question of tonight's debate. What is
Speaker 1: tonight's debate? Is morning? Okay? Whatever? Tonight's debate? Most people whatever,
Speaker 1: Some people might be listening to it at night, Chris,
Speaker 1: and could be morning, afternoon, night, the middle of the
Speaker 1: middle of the night. We know, we never know what
Speaker 1: is the best seat in the house, in my house,
Speaker 1: in the football house, in the bank. Matt just on, producer,
Speaker 1: Matt almost just lost. I think I must spit out
Speaker 1: some water. As Kristin. As Kristen says in the Bank
Speaker 1: of America, I say in the Bank of America. Sometimes
Speaker 1: just the Bank of America. I've never said that in
Speaker 1: my life. I just don't put the word stadium at
Speaker 1: the end. No way, when has she said it on
Speaker 1: the podcast? Now on the podcast, I'll find it what
Speaker 1: I've never said in the Bank of America. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: we'll just making stuff up, but I'll find it. But
Speaker 1: hold on, though, on what thank you? On some of
Speaker 1: your multi platform appearances. She wants she wants the bring
Speaker 1: out the tape, and then that's the only way we're
Speaker 1: going to settle this. I may have accidentally said, certainly,
Speaker 1: I will see. Now I'm turning into like full on
Speaker 1: going at people as night. This is what enters value.
Speaker 1: Is best seat in the house. Uh, the owner's box?
Speaker 1: Which which side? Because there's been several owners boxes in
Speaker 1: the stadium. Oh, I don't know. You don't frequent the
Speaker 1: owner's box. I don't frequent the owner's box, but I
Speaker 1: assume that's always the best seating behind the end zone.
Speaker 1: Looking at the full field, there is it the fifty
Speaker 1: yard line. Isn't the owner's box like usually on the
Speaker 1: fifty yard line? It used to be behind the end zone?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I didn't know that. I'm gonna go as
Speaker 1: close as you can get to the field, so front row,
Speaker 1: fifty yard line, whatever it is. I just think there's
Speaker 1: something about for me anyway, and maybe that's why I
Speaker 1: do what I do in my career, and I'm a
Speaker 1: sideline reporter. There's something about getting that sense of being
Speaker 1: I'm not on the team but around you know, right
Speaker 1: in it, you can really get to see the sweat,
Speaker 1: you hear the yells, all that kind of stuff. It
Speaker 1: you're almost in it with them, you know. I think
Speaker 1: it's the closest you can get to that feeling. Um
Speaker 1: that's is that's something that you cannot get on TV
Speaker 1: or in a box or anything like that. And I
Speaker 1: just absolutely love it. Although I will say those Monger
Speaker 1: suites are awesome because you could go in, you can
Speaker 1: go out. There's there's food right there. Yeah, what's what's
Speaker 1: the well, you're the vet here. What's the right answer?
Speaker 1: I think I think you have to be high, high
Speaker 1: enough up so higher higher one level where you can
Speaker 1: still kind of feel close to it. But like I've
Speaker 1: I've sat really close, and it's tough not seeing everything.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I mean, even on the sidelines, like
Speaker 1: you you can't see everything that is true. That is
Speaker 1: the one thing about being in row one UM with
Speaker 1: these these new measures this year, and I've mentioned that
Speaker 1: before on this podcast, is that get a good view,
Speaker 1: a better view than if you would be um on
Speaker 1: the sidelines sometime because you get you're a little bit elevated.
Speaker 1: You can see over those tall let's say, for the
Speaker 1: linemens standing up, you know, grouple lineman standing up. There's
Speaker 1: no way I'm going to see on the sidelines. So
Speaker 1: I hear, I hear what you're saying. Is it weird
Speaker 1: that I prefer lower bowl for college football and upper
Speaker 1: deck for professional football? Absolutely, it's very weird. I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I get it. Keep explaining, but I think I get it. Like,
Speaker 1: if I go to an LSU game, I want to
Speaker 1: be with the fans, the kind of rowdy fans, and
Speaker 1: I want to have the energy. In the NFL, I
Speaker 1: care really more about the product on the field, So
Speaker 1: I want to sit up high, probably like fifty yard
Speaker 1: line and just watch and see everything. And I can
Speaker 1: sit down because nobody's standing up in the upper deck
Speaker 1: opposed to college. So I don't know. I think I
Speaker 1: like the upper deck in the pros, but the lower
Speaker 1: bowl alright. Additional bonus question, bonus question. Are you the
Speaker 1: person that's going to tell the person in front of
Speaker 1: you to sit down? Oh? No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1: And if someone ever tells me to do that, I
Speaker 1: get really angry. Yeah, okay, I don't like that. I'm
Speaker 1: at a game. Everybody paid money. If you want to
Speaker 1: stand up, then go for it. Oh man, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: What I will do is if I'm again being short. Um,
Speaker 1: if I am with other people and people are standing
Speaker 1: up in front of me as they are totally allowed
Speaker 1: to do, I will make someone I'm with switch with
Speaker 1: me so that I'm behind the shortest person, because I
Speaker 1: gotta be able to see. But I would never, I
Speaker 1: would never tap someone on the shoulder. And first of all,
Speaker 1: I've never tap someone on the shoulder in COVID now gros.
Speaker 1: But and the before times, I'm not telling someone I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not confronting someone about hey, can you sit down?
Speaker 1: Is that what we're calling the before times? That's how
Speaker 1: I refer to it before times. This is the Happy
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Speaker 1: told me that he loves football and he looks forward
Speaker 1: to this show all week. When you're plumbing, your air
Speaker 1: conditioning is acting up, called Morris Jenkins or visit Morris
Speaker 1: Jenkins dot com. All right, it is time for our
Speaker 1: weird Question of the week, and we're going to do
Speaker 1: this one in honor of Matt Rules starting a new
Speaker 1: tradition with the Panthers. So after the win, he said, look, um,
Speaker 1: I got a new tradition. If it's okay with you, guys,
Speaker 1: we're gonna sing Sweet Caroline. And he had he had
Speaker 1: sang songs with his teams at Baylor and Temple after wins,
Speaker 1: but obviously they were not Sweet Caroline. And that one's
Speaker 1: very fitting for the Panthers being in Carolina. It's just
Speaker 1: a good song to sing with your friends, with your
Speaker 1: buddies at the top of your lung. It's almost like karaoke.
Speaker 1: I felt like, don't, don't, don't. Uh So that got
Speaker 1: me thinking, what is your go to karaoke song? Miles? Um,
Speaker 1: I didn't know you were going to start with me. Um,
Speaker 1: there's though, right, pull out a list of songs that
Speaker 1: you have on your I think if you don't know
Speaker 1: it off the top of your head and you don't
Speaker 1: have a go to you know what's funny. There is
Speaker 1: a list of karaoke songs. And I'm not ORed by
Speaker 1: mood or feel. I am not lying to you right now,
Speaker 1: and I will pull it up right now as I
Speaker 1: vamped for a second here. Uh yeah, karaoke songs? Uh
Speaker 1: Number one Valerie by Amy Winehouse. That's you gotta have
Speaker 1: some pipes to do that. I was made a lover
Speaker 1: Stevie Wonder. It's another good one. Uh Maria Maria by Santana.
Speaker 1: It's also a decent one. Only the Good Die Young,
Speaker 1: Billy Joel, Piano Man Billy Joel, I'm sorry Jackson, Michael
Speaker 1: Jackson and only the Good Die Young out of Bill, Portugal,
Speaker 1: the Man Notion, Kings of Leon, Sex on Fire, Kings
Speaker 1: of Leon when you were young, the Killers, everybody's changing. Keen,
Speaker 1: every little thing she does is magic. The Police, I
Speaker 1: want to know what love is Foreigner also kissed by Prince.
Speaker 1: So those are incredible. I didn't have a note a
Speaker 1: note of karaoke songs. Have you sang all of those
Speaker 1: at karaoke? Or those are just songs you might want
Speaker 1: to try. I'm not saying all of them, but a
Speaker 1: good amount of them I have. How often did you karaoke?
Speaker 1: Not not that oft in the before time and the
Speaker 1: before times to have a list of it. I like singing, bro,
Speaker 1: I can tell you got a lot of range. If
Speaker 1: you're going with you know you're going from kiss to
Speaker 1: just vocal range. If there's only if there's only one
Speaker 1: song that I've got time for kisses, the one I
Speaker 1: usually go for all right, Well, what's yours semi term
Speaker 1: of life? Oh that's such a good one. That's a
Speaker 1: good one. Oh man, that's all. It's a good one.
Speaker 1: Not be in a good mood after you hear that.
Speaker 1: I've done that at mixed House before that song plays
Speaker 1: in his head all days. You need to hear that
Speaker 1: story at some point. Person, what's yours? I don't think
Speaker 1: this is going to surprise anybody, but I mean it's
Speaker 1: got to be want to be by the Spice girls.
Speaker 1: You put that on? I mean, yeah, you put that on.
Speaker 1: It's a party. I got really close to keep. I
Speaker 1: kind of wanted to hear the rest of that. No, No,
Speaker 1: that's how you get Matt. Matt, what's your karaoke song? Bro?
Speaker 1: I've never seen karaoke in my entire That doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that doesn't surprise you were going to sing karaoke? Where
Speaker 1: would you go? Even know? Where sonically would you go?
Speaker 1: Where sonically would you go? Like if you're if you're
Speaker 1: seeing your podcast producer and you don't want to do
Speaker 1: carry I don't like a lot of party music or
Speaker 1: like happy music. I've seen some people do some sag karaoke.
Speaker 1: It's not a good it doesn't look. It's not a
Speaker 1: good look. So I think I would just stay away altogether. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's like that said, he doesn't like happy yours. If
Speaker 1: you're singing a song in the car, or you got
Speaker 1: a song in your head in the shower, what is it?
Speaker 1: Oh man, I couldn't tell you. I don't. I listen
Speaker 1: to a lot of podcasting, believe it or not. Oh
Speaker 1: my god. All right, So next time, next time you're
Speaker 1: out of the bar and it's a karaoke recite, yeah,
Speaker 1: recite some of that Happy Hour. That's right. Well, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: just to recite some of the Happy half Hour podcast
Speaker 1: next time. Company. Yeah, I love it. All right, this
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. We're gonna leave it here,
Speaker 1: but we'll talk to you next week. Thanks for listening
Speaker 1: to the Happy half Hour podcast. Wow.