WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 16: A Fresh Start 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.760 Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkis 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.680 told me to always make it easy for the customer. 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.600 That's you alive person will always be here to answer 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:13.800 the phone. We're here till midnight, seven days a week, 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.080 so you never have to take off work, and it's 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.840 the same prices in the daytime. We're the ones you 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.160 want to call. We're the ones you want to call. 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.520 We're the ones you want to call. You're gonna love 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:39.280 these people. I guaranteetee. Got to Morris Jenkins dot com. 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:43.159 It's time for a Happy half Hour with your friends 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:52.279 Kristen Balboni, Miles Simmons and Will Brian. That's right, it's 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.000 that time of the week. It's the Happy half Hour 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.959 podcast with your friends Kristen, Will and Miles, presented by 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.880 Morris Jenkins and Mr Jenkins tool me Kristen that his 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:04.080 plumbers and a c text secretly were Panthers jerseys under 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:07.520 their uniforms. When you're plumbing or air conditioning is acting up, 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.880 call Morris Jenkins or visit Morris Jenkins dot com. Well, 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.320 it's a good week to wear a Panthers jersey under 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.360 your uniform because the Panthers went out West, longest road 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:20.840 trip of the season, Gotta win over the Chargers to sixteen. 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:24.319 Made it interesting there at the end if they could, 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.959 if they were going to hold onto it, but they did. Yeah, 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.800 you know what that that the hook and ladder, hitch 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:31.480 and pitch, whatever you want to call it. That was 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.160 really close. Yeah. If Eckler keeps his eye on the 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.360 ball instead of probably looking at all that green turf 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.440 in front of him, maybe things would end up differently. 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:42.640 But that's why I gotta play every single snap every 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:46.440 single second, you know, And hey, Panthers win alright, Coach Simmons, 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.480 you gotta play every single snap every single second. Well 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:51.280 that was coach great. I mean you want some more 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.720 coach peak. Sometimes to win in the NFL, you just 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.320 need the ball to bounce your way sometimes just you 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.280 just need a couple of breaks. This is you gotta 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:03.800 make your own luck. Well, it is a eventiones there. 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.240 Really all just comes down to the last drive of 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.800 the fourth quarter. Well, it certainly did, no doubt about it. 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.040 But there was something different about the way, especially this 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.760 defense played. Uh Russell Douglas said, Hey, it looks like 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.079 we're two different defenses out there. But but from the 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.600 moment um that they stepped on the field, guys were 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:25.000 flying around, the energy looks good, and really felt like 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:28.120 they put it all together. Um, and maybe there was 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.480 a reason for it, you know. Matt Rules said, we 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:34.200 played as a team, and I really felt like something changed, 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.680 and that's going to be the first topic in our 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:44.640 overheard segment. Overheard, So I mentioned Russell Douglas. He's come 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.079 in and really just made such an impact on this 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.440 team in such a short while. But apparently we heard 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:54.360 after the game. He called Matt Rule after game two 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:56.799 and said, hey, look, this is something that's on my heart. 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.120 I want to have a team meeting. I didn't feel 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.320 like we were playing for each other. I remember point 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.880 of game we were down to Temper Bay and I 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:05.799 looked at everybody and it was just like it was 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.040 whatever type of thing, and I didn't like it. I 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.480 didn't like it. So I had to just tell them 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.239 how I felt about it. And I wanted us to 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.320 play for each other, because it's bigger when you play 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:18.280 for the team than an individual. Like the stats, individual stuff. 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.040 I mean, we're not we're not track runners, we're not boxers. 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.440 Individual stuff doesn't matter. It's all about the team is 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:25.240 what can we do together? As it collected me so 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:27.120 I had I just talked to him basically, just said 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.440 what I felt, and uh, he made some key changes. 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.760 Shack Thompson told me last week I was asking him 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.840 about being a captain and how he chose to lead 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.600 when the team started out oh into and he told me, 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:41.320 you know, I have my message, I have my way 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:43.120 of leading. But there are a lot of guys on 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.760 this team who are leaders who don't have that SEA 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.960 on their jersey, and I think Soul is absolutely one 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.560 of them, a guy that does have a C on 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.080 his jersey and is without a doubt a leader of 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.920 this team. Maybe the leader of this team is Teddy Bridgewater. 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.600 We've heard that all throughout the off season, UM, all 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.800 during the regular season. Now as we get into it, 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.200 um and he really owned up to what the offense 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.760 need needs to improve on. You know, they settled for 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.840 five field goals in the red zone on Sunday and 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.840 he said, he said, look, that's that's not okay, and 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.599 and we gotta fix it. We have to have a 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.279 mindset when we get down there that you know we 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.680 can still run the football or you know we can 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.080 still throw the ball, but at the same time, in 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.880 the passing game, we had to understand that windows closed faster, 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:30.680 the cover is going to be tighter. In the run game, 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.400 we have to understand that, you know, we could get 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.480 favorable boxes. You know, we should be able to run 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.400 the football. So no, we just want to spend some 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.200 time down there, uh and make sure that we get 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.320 better in that area, because if we could, you know, 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.159 capitalize off the turnovers that we had this past weekend, 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.159 and and you look at instead of having eight team 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.080 points that to have, you know, that could have easily 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.400 been thirty points. You know, if we're just executing the 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:55.480 red zone. So um, you know we're gonna put a 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.000 huge emphasis on that. I just want to say really quickly. 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.760 I love the way he describes it as just spending 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.000 some more time down there, like it's a nice vacation home. 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:04.840 And it's true, like that's the place that you want 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:06.880 to spend time on. And they spent a lot of 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.120 time in the red zone in this game. But I 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.040 just love Will the way he was like, I just 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.080 want to spend some more time down there, gets familiar 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.279 with the scenery, you know, that kind of thing. I 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.400 just I really like the way he put it, Well, 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.599 it's it's all of a sudden different without Christian McCaffrey, 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:22.760 because I mean, think about the red zone the first 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.400 two weeks, christiancaffrey spends all his time down there and 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.520 going right into the end zone. You just give it 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:29.680 a Christian, you know, and and you don't really have 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.520 to worry about it. And I think it's it's now 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:36.520 a team effort of pass, of run of screens, of 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.680 short passes, of maybe jump balls, of fades. It's all 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.600 sorts of play calls and execution that you've got to 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.760 figure out down there, rather than hey, we're inside the 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.960 twenty Christian time, you know, like it's you've got to 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.120 kind of figure this out as a team and as 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.039 a team effort um and and really have that sense 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:58.040 of urgency. I think that there's a lot about the 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:00.920 red zone of like, word, we're not going to get 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:04.000 a field goal, we're getting a touchdown. There's a mindset 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.359 to that um and I think he I think he 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:07.840 was kind of meaning a little bit of that too. 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:09.680 We're gonna spend some time down there, and we're gonna 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:13.440 feel going into Sunday of Week four, like we're going 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:15.360 to score every time we get in the red zone 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.760 because it was something that we spent time on in 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.560 and effort with, and it's with a young team, it's 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:24.279 kind of you don't necessarily want to hear it. But 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.520 at the same time, the things that they focus on 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.000 throughout the week, like it's almost like that's gonna be 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:30.680 something they're gonna be pretty good at. And let's just 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:32.440 hope that the things they didn't focus on they're still 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.400 pretty good with, because you feel like each week's maybe 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.520 here's a different thing. Now it's the red zone we're 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:41.200 gonna pay attention to. Yeah, Look, I think especially without 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.880 Christian McCaffrey, you gotta look at getting the tight ends 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.640 more involved in the red zone. That's where the matchup 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.760 nightmares start to come into play. And if you look 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.880 at it right now, tight ends on this team only 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:56.920 have six targets right like for Free and Thomas, two 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.880 for Chris Manners. Now, Manners has caught both of his targets, 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.760 they've resulted in twelve yards. Thomas has caught three of 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.479 his four targets for twenty five yards. But if we 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:09.320 want to see red zone improvement, especially if Christian mccaffre 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:10.320 is not going to be out there, and we know 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:11.760 he's not going to be out there for the next 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.280 couple of weeks, then I think that turning to the 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.600 tight ends might be a good option. And Mike Davis 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:18.920 can certainly catch out of the back field as well. 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.360 And we saw that on after that illegally lining up 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.200 over the center penalty that Jerry Tillery got for the 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.680 l A Chargers. That's where they turned to as well. 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.320 With the screens. Well you just brought that up, but yeah, 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.880 you have to be able to create something down there, 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.280 and I think that might be an opportunity to get 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.080 the tight ends more involved, which I think the Panthers 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:40.960 want to do as well. I like that and I 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.600 would love to see Chris man hurts so his next 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.440 catch will be a season high catches in his career 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.280 with three. Love to see that come in the red 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.520 zone or in the end zone. That would just be awesome. 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.560 That would be very nice. Are you gonna yell touch down? Martinez? 0:07:54.920 --> 0:08:01.240 I could? Oh god, I'm glad the Monday night football 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.080 booth is different. Man. Oh well, we could spend some 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.080 time on that, but I want to talk about, you know, 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.480 the other big story of the game, which is that 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.920 the two of you watched the game together after handing 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:15.640 out fines to each other on this very podcast last week. 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.400 So the radio crew which I am a part of 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.360 on Sunday's called the game from Charlotte UM, which was 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.400 a new experience for me. And we were in our booths, 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.320 uh over in on the side of the press box 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.040 in the radio boots. So I saw you guys on Sunday. 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:34.160 I'd pop out, you know, pregame halftime say hello, UM, 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:35.920 And I saw you guys before the game, and you're 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.559 already going back and forth a little bit about, um, 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.000 what Miles was doing on Twitter and alerting to games 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:43.760 and things like that. So we'll let me start with you. 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.520 How did it go this week? I should probably throw 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:50.920 the flag on myself because all of a sudden I 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:56.040 probably was a little antsy Miles, would you agree? Um? 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.520 You know, maybe it's funny, well, because I get so 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.080 like in my own head, in my own space that 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.240 I sometimes just don't really pay attention to what's going on. 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.000 Like I can tell you what happened in the game, 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.439 but going with what was going on around me, I 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.880 really don't know that's good. I mean the ability to 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:15.800 block it out. But then like last week, it was, 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.240 you know, you're very conscious of Will eating doritos under 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.839 his mask, and that was big. But I knew that 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.319 because everybody else was talking about and it kept coming up. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:29.440 So but I don't I mean, well, I know one 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.040 thing that Will did. Will was thinking about the pictures 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.000 for the articles before I like in the middle of 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:36.800 the game, which I just was not doing because I'm 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:40.440 trying to write. So that was I had good job 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:42.880 by Will on that. I'll pick the flag back up, 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:44.480 put it back in my pocket. What were you getting, 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.360 Auntie about just the game? Yeah, I mean it's and 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.160 then when you're when you're doing it in kind of 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.200 a more informal, communal space, you know a lot of times, 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.120 I mean back in it seems like another life back 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.600 and we were in a full press box the before time, 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.200 before time, you know, like you're you're you're used to 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:07.640 channeling your energy to you know, typing or you know, 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.600 you kind of hold yourself together, like when there's when 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.120 there's just twelve people that you all work with and 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.360 everyone's pulling for the same thing. You you get up 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.880 and you exclaim and you know, I mean I think 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.920 that that entire last drive, I was just walking around 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.960 like I couldn't sit down. I mean it, you know. 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.520 And and Miles, to his credit, Miles is having to 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.760 write an article and may have to rewrite an article 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.600 because he he almost had that thing written the other way. Um. 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.000 But yeah, I'm I'm just I'm walking around because I 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.240 I can't handle it. Yeah. I sometimes I don't know 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.960 what to do with my hands, Like I I obviously 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:43.520 this is a podcast that no one could see, but 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.360 they just kind of go up and then they go down, 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.840 and then I get nervous. Um. But I think the 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.040 person that I saw that really had the most pent 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.559 up energy was Kurt Coleman, are analyst in the booth, 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.320 because you know, he's fresh off of playing and he 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.760 cares about this team so much, and it was just 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.559 cool to get to see him right beside me trying 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.120 to rein it in. I mean, and he did on 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.079 the broadcast, but you could see he was I think 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:06.839 he said on the broadcast, He's like, I'm standing up 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:08.720 right now. I don't know what to do, which I 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.880 absolutely love. Uh. Well, what's the stat of the week? 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:23.040 The week ten point seven is my stat of the week. 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:27.280 That is the opponent passer rating when targeting Dante Jackson. 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.920 In Week three against the Chargers, he had seven targets, 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:34.560 he allowed just three catches for nineteen yards, plus he 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.920 had a sixty six yard interception in return. That's interesting, 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.960 justin Herbert, don't attack Dante jack and and that was 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.480 only with you know, maybe fifty the snaps. You know, 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.480 he left the game with a toe injury. You know, obviously, 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.920 today's Wednesday, so hopefully we'll find out a little bit 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.880 more about where he is moving forward. But yeah, Dante 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.840 Jackson ten point seven when targeted last week. And here's 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:58.000 something a bonus stat for you. In the last two games, 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.719 he's had two interceptions. First when he had maybe about 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.840 a yard return, this one sixty six yard return, so 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.559 over a hundred yards of returns on his last two. 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:12.600 He's had seven interceptions before that total twenty three total 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:17.120 yards on those seven. So there's something that like, hey, Dante, 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:20.760 when you get an interception, don't fall down us that speed. 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.480 Just keep going like you are a weapon going the 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.720 other way. Like it's not good enough just to get 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.560 the interception, take it the other way, because no one 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.440 can tackle you, no one can get I mean, he 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.319 ran out of bounds in Tampa and then all of 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.640 a sudden he had a chance to before the half 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:37.080 and he cut it back inside and he got another 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.800 you know, almost scored got another ten twelve yards. So 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.360 you know, it's obvious that he's you know, he's growing 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.880 in different parts of his game too. Yeah, Matt Rule 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:46.679 said he was proud to see that progression, not only 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.400 the two interceptions, but that the second one he did 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.560 not run out of bounds. He kept going and maybe 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.280 we'll see him find the end zone on uh next 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.280 week if he's if he's doing okay, I'm putting it 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.800 out there, let's hope. So yeah, why not just keep 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:02.920 that keep the street going. Uh. The Panthers could certainly 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.680 use them as the Cardinals are in town, Kyler Murray, 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.520 that big old arm that he's got, Cliff Kingsbury. They 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:12.000 will be here um on Sunday. But the thing that 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:13.920 I'm excited about is that we are going to have 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:18.880 some fans will seven capacity here, which Miles, as you 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.600 said in the before times, you'd say five six thousand 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:23.760 fans may not sound like a lot, but to me, 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.880 it just sounds like, oh my gosh, home field advantage. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:32.400 It's gonna be interesting because it I don't know what 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:33.960 it's gonna look like. I don't know what it's gonna 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.400 feel like, but it's gonna be nice that there are 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.319 actually going to be people around it, that there's going 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.360 to be some sort of atmosphere. The Panthers are putting 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.960 in all kinds of security measures, safety measures so that 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.320 people can come into this building and feel safe and 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:51.640 secure and have a good time. So you know, you 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:53.600 definitely want to check out Panthers dot com to get 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:58.840 all the details. Um, but I will say this, I mean, 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.080 I think it will probably give the players a little 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:03.880 bit of a boost to come out there and to 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:07.040 see fans in the stands. I think it will. It 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.000 was the weirdest thing when they came out of the 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.680 tunnel and it was silent or pretty much silent, like 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.400 in Week one, literally the opening of the season. The 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.480 team's coming out, We're ready to play, and it's just 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:21.320 like crickets and it's just like what is happening? I mean, 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.920 even even with five thousand, it's going to be different. 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.960 It's gonna feel different, I agree. One of the things 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:28.920 that was the strangest to me. It just hit me 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.800 in a certain way. During Week one, the readers were 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:35.040 kicking a field goal and the sideline was doing the 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.080 job that the fans usually. You know, it's just so weird, 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:42.560 so weird microcosm of of this kind of alternate reality 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:44.720 that we're living in with with no fans in the stands. 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.440 So I'm excited, and I think the big thing is 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.560 that these players are going to get to have at 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.560 least part of their families. They're right, they'll get at 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:54.880 least a few tickets. And I'm excited for the rookies 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:56.360 that are going to get to have their families here 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.560 because think about it, you'll be playing your fourth career 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.680 game and you're family has never gone to see you 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.640 play professionally in person. So I think about someone with 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:06.360 you know, like Derek Brown, and I don't know for 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:08.320 sure that his family will be here. I would imagine 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.040 they would if they feel safe, but he's got a 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.000 young son and a fiance, and I just think that 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.000 that's got to be a cool moment, a little delayed 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.320 this year than it normally would be, but um, I'm 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.200 really happy for them too. In a lot of ways, 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.240 I kind of think of this as kind of the 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.360 home opener. You know, it's almost like these first three 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.440 games were kind of they counted there on the record, 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.320 you can't get rid of them. But they do feel 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.600 like that was some preseason that was some us working 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.080 through some things, and that was realizing, Hey, we need 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:37.920 to do this, We need to come together as a 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:40.160 team in this way, we need to work on these things. 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.120 And now it's like, okay, let's let's almost kind of 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.360 reset this thing, bring some fans in and and let's 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.160 get going again here in week four. Look, it's the 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.600 quarter pole, right, Yeah. I I always say and I 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.800 don't just say it. Everybody always talks about this with 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.760 the season up into quarters. But I always feel like 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.560 after those first four games, you really start to get 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.000 to know what a team is, what a team can be, 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.000 and you know what the outlook of the season might 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.760 start to look like. And this is gonna be a 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:13.120 big test for for these Carolina Panthers. Look, they got 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.920 the win on the West Coast against the Chargers team 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.960 that has a really formidable defense. They come home now 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.400 and they've got to face Kyler Murray, who is somebody 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.240 who can run the heck out of the ball, but 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.800 it is also sometimes a little bit reckless with the football. 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.280 You know, he had three interceptions last week. He could 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.880 have easily had four, if not more than that in 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.440 that game against the Detroit Lions. And that's really why 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.200 the Cardinals lost that game was because of all those turnovers. 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:40.000 So look, if you get a really good performance out 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.880 of the Panthers this week, it can certainly beat the Cardinals. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.600 And if that happens, then you're two and two and 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:47.760 you look up and you're like, hey, you know what, 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:52.240 maybe maybe we're a little bit better than some people 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.880 outside of this building might have thought we were. And 0:16:54.920 --> 0:17:01.240 that belief and momentum really can steam roll sometimes. You know. Um, 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.360 I think that that's so important, and I think that's 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:06.320 something that the preseason lets you work out. And you're right, 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:10.240 this quarter pole is is really the first I mean, 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.800 it's it's not the preseason will as you said, But 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:16.320 they've made adjustments. They're starting to believe in themselves a 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.840 little bit more, and it's giving this team time to 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:23.080 play together and these coaches time to to figure out 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.440 what each other's game day styles are in communications. So 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.600 I'm excited. I'm excited for Sunday. I'm excited to see 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.080 fans back in here. Uh and I'm excited to see 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.400 if the Panthers can keep it going. We'll find out soon. 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:36.399 Right now, though, let's take a quick break. We'll be 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.880 back in just a second. Mr Jenkins told me. Mr 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:43.000 Jenkis told me. Mr Jenkis told me to always make 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:47.119 it easy for the customer. That's you. Alave person will 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.200 always be here to answer the phone. We're here till midnight, 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:53.480 seven days a week, so you never have to take 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:56.480 off work, and it's the same price as in the daytime. 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.280 We're the ones you want to call. We're the ones 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.680 you want to call. We are the ones you want 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:06.120 to You're gonna love these people. I guarantee that gotta. 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:14.560 Morris Jinkins dot com and now welcome to the real debate. 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.439 I'm your moderator, Will Brian the Panthers dot Com. We 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.960 have the real, hard hitting questions and we are going 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.280 to make you actually enjoy this one and you're not 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:28.120 gonna want to turn your TV off. First question, this 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:32.640 one toss up between Kristen and Miles. Are the Panthers 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:35.920 at one and two better than the Oh and three 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.199 Atlanta Falcons. First of all, I just want to say 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:40.399 we had no idea what these questions are gonna be. 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.560 I like it. I like it, um the honest answer. 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:45.399 I know this isn't a good debate answer. I do 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:48.200 not know. I do not know. The Panthers are coming 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.760 back in their game. In those first two games, they 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.719 made furious comebacks in the second half. The Atlanta Falcons 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.800 are are giving games away. They're giving up leads, but 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.760 they've scored a lot of points. They are there's this way. 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:02.159 I my taking the argument on the other side of 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.359 the point, but I didn't answer side you want. You 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:09.760 didn't really take a side. Um. Interesting, you are what 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.400 your record says you are in a lot of ways. Right. 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:14.439 So if the Panthers are one and two this is 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:16.600 such a cop out answer, and the Falcons are oh 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:19.720 and three, then yes, the Panthers are better, right. I 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:21.879 don't think it's a cop out answer, because let me 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:24.879 just say this, it's we're three weeks in, you know, 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:27.160 and they're gonna play each other in in two weeks. 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.200 It's not We're not We're not ten weeks in. I 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:33.720