Speaker 1: It's time for the Happy Half Hour with your friends
Speaker 1: Christin Balboni, Will Bryant, and Darren Gamp. Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Happy half Hour, the official first one of two. We're
Speaker 1: gonna call this the first one of two. It feels
Speaker 1: like it now. Page has been turned and we've since
Speaker 1: retired mcmixon one month on the on the podcast, and
Speaker 1: he just decided that was it. That was enough to
Speaker 1: make him walk away from football in general. Is hanging
Speaker 1: out with us from us? You guys, gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: you kind of jacked me up the other week when
Speaker 1: you referred to something as the two NFL season, and
Speaker 1: I read and I reject that out of hand. I
Speaker 1: am not going to accept that construction, even though the
Speaker 1: league keeps pushing it back, pushing it back, they get
Speaker 1: to the President's Day super Bowl that they so desperately want.
Speaker 1: But even though the last couple of weeks of the
Speaker 1: season in the playoffs happen in twenty two, that was
Speaker 1: the season. That is how I will refer to it.
Speaker 1: I'm still writing one on stuff. I don't know what
Speaker 1: I've messed up in some sort of thing online by
Speaker 1: writing the wrong year on it. But I have not
Speaker 1: been able to do you sent me something I put
Speaker 1: it in an email or something about the season. I
Speaker 1: was like, no, no, no, I'll take that, I'll wear that.
Speaker 1: I would ask you if you wrote it on one
Speaker 1: of your checks, But what's the chance of millennial like
Speaker 1: you writes checks anymore? What is that? Do you own
Speaker 1: a physical checkbook? Uh? Yes, but I don't know where
Speaker 1: it is. I think it's somewhere in my drawer. I
Speaker 1: haven't used it in a long time. Do you balance
Speaker 1: your check book or do you just look online and
Speaker 1: hope the magic money fairies have left you with more
Speaker 1: than you've spent. They're not fairies there, it's it's they're
Speaker 1: little pop up things and they tell you you're doing great.
Speaker 1: I have an app for that. Yes, I have a
Speaker 1: check register that tells me exactly how much. But see,
Speaker 1: if you're not writing checks, balancing a checkbook is it's
Speaker 1: a daily thing. You get up in the morning, you
Speaker 1: make yourself a pot of coffee, you do the wordle,
Speaker 1: you balance a check book, and then you move on
Speaker 1: with your day. I haven't tried to expose you, but
Speaker 1: I've had three straight wordles where I got them online.
Speaker 1: Three and I didn't I didn't. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: just throw you off. Do you have a singular word
Speaker 1: that you always start with on the world, you just
Speaker 1: go with whatever. I read a story I think it
Speaker 1: was on the Ring or the other day, and I
Speaker 1: admire this guy and I hate him because he's funnier
Speaker 1: than I am. But he said his first word on
Speaker 1: word is always farts. And you know it's probably not
Speaker 1: the It's not a bad word because the A, the R,
Speaker 1: the t V S. I mean, it's like we are fortune,
Speaker 1: you get right off the top. But so you get
Speaker 1: most of those right off the bat. But it's probably
Speaker 1: not ever going to bear. But if, but if it ever,
Speaker 1: that's a weird first letter though. Yeah. So I don't
Speaker 1: usually interject, but I have to ask. I don't know
Speaker 1: what the I don't know what word will is. I
Speaker 1: can't find it. Can someone explain it? If you google
Speaker 1: wordle w R d l E, it'll send you to
Speaker 1: the website and it's a daily word puzzle. It's like
Speaker 1: the game Mastermind with the colored pegs and you had
Speaker 1: to you would get credit for right color, wrong spot,
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. And it's and it's that except
Speaker 1: with words. All five letter words and so you get
Speaker 1: credit for right letter, wrong spot green if it's right letter,
Speaker 1: right spot, and then you kind of go down the line.
Speaker 1: You've got six tries to try to get the word
Speaker 1: all right, we'll no longer left out then thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's super fun. Darren reminds me every morning of his
Speaker 1: word al he starts his day with a word'll post
Speaker 1: on Twitter, at least for the last couple of days.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be that guy who does it every day.
Speaker 1: But I did a couple of them and then I
Speaker 1: got one wrong. I didn't get it correct a couple
Speaker 1: of days ago, and it really angered me in the
Speaker 1: old day. Not really, So Darren, let's talk about this
Speaker 1: football team. Yeah, I guess we got uh um at
Speaker 1: least one last time that didn't go right. That was
Speaker 1: not what anybody was looking for out of the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1: And you know, I mean it's we have talked over
Speaker 1: the course of the year about all the things that
Speaker 1: went wrong, and I think there were surprises along the way.
Speaker 1: There were disappointments along the way, but a lot of
Speaker 1: the stuff that went wrong with stuff you could reasonably
Speaker 1: have predicted going into the year. I mean, we knew
Speaker 1: based on what they spent or didn't spend on offensive
Speaker 1: lineman and the fact that they this franchise over the
Speaker 1: last decade hasn't invested in offensive lineman, that offensive lie
Speaker 1: was gonna be a problem. Surprised They gave up fifty
Speaker 1: two sacks, fifth most in the league and played thirteen
Speaker 1: different combination and dudes in seventeen games. That was a
Speaker 1: problem and they're gonna work on that. Um, we thought
Speaker 1: the defense was gonna be pretty good. It was for
Speaker 1: the most part. There are things you don't love about it.
Speaker 1: It was a little light in the seat of the
Speaker 1: pants upfront. People ran on them over the course of
Speaker 1: the year, but that's what happens when you got five
Speaker 1: hundred pounds of pass rusher at your two end spots. Um,
Speaker 1: there weren't particularly deep at you know. Rule talked about
Speaker 1: this a lot. He talked about playing in the n
Speaker 1: FC South, you want to be built to rush the
Speaker 1: passer and defend man to man. So they had a
Speaker 1: bunch of corners and they were good, and that secondary
Speaker 1: was really good until they started ding ding ding getting
Speaker 1: hurt all the way down the line. And then by
Speaker 1: the end of the year you're out there playing with
Speaker 1: Stanley Thomas Oliver and Madre Harper and Keith Taylor and
Speaker 1: wondering why Tom Brady's putting forty one on you. Well,
Speaker 1: that's why because Stefind Gilmore's out with COVID and Dante
Speaker 1: Jackson and J. C. Horn are on I R. And
Speaker 1: so's a J. Boyer. I mean, it's you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff. And it was cascading stuff. So the
Speaker 1: defense was good. Then erosion sort of happened and it
Speaker 1: was less good down the stretch. And I mean, honestly though,
Speaker 1: it was just a defense that got worn out, grying
Speaker 1: the load for the whole year. I mean that offense
Speaker 1: was bad, and it was bad because the offensive line
Speaker 1: wasn't sustainable. It was bad because Christian McCaffrey got hurt again,
Speaker 1: and it was bad because of those first two things.
Speaker 1: None of the quarterbacks, none of the three quarterbacks they
Speaker 1: started this year, and anytime you use that sentence, that's
Speaker 1: a red flag. Uh. None of the three quarterbacks were
Speaker 1: enough to overcome those first two things. And I think
Speaker 1: that once you got into December, you know, there you
Speaker 1: can look at or people may look at this stat
Speaker 1: or that stat over the course of the season or
Speaker 1: this game in December or January. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: once once the playoffs were out, and once it was
Speaker 1: just obvious this offense wasn't going to be able to
Speaker 1: play and score at the level they needed to to
Speaker 1: and to necessarily look at you know, this happened on defense,
Speaker 1: or that happened. I mean, I think at some point
Speaker 1: you're just it's not really relevant, it didn't really matter.
Speaker 1: I mean, looking back on this thing, the season ended
Speaker 1: in Miami. Yeah, the season ended in Miami when you
Speaker 1: got your heads beat in by a Dolphins defense that
Speaker 1: is built on that same Patriots platform that beat your
Speaker 1: head in here and you're five, you know, five and seven.
Speaker 1: All the good feelings from Arizona feel like a hundred
Speaker 1: years ago. You fire a coordinator, and then the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks we're just hanging on for dear life
Speaker 1: and trying to get through it. I mean, there were
Speaker 1: individual things you could take from the last month of
Speaker 1: the season. Oh look, Brandy Christiansen, he looked, okay, um,
Speaker 1: little stuff like that. But you know, for the historical
Speaker 1: scope of this thing, the season ended in Miami, and
Speaker 1: then now it's just onto the next thing and it
Speaker 1: is onto the next thing, right, So as you look
Speaker 1: at that, there's a you know a little bit of
Speaker 1: a timeline that we're going to be a part of here,
Speaker 1: and I think maybe the first chapter of it, the
Speaker 1: first step is, you know, who are they going to hire?
Speaker 1: Offensive coordinator? And then sub sequently these kind of positions,
Speaker 1: offensive line, defensive line, special teams, and I think it's
Speaker 1: all gonna flow from there. But I think the first
Speaker 1: step is the guy doing the hiring, and it's Matt,
Speaker 1: and it's I know a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 1: the people who live online, um and I live to
Speaker 1: be angry online aren't thrilled about it. And a lot
Speaker 1: of fans aren't thrilled about it. We've heard him, uh
Speaker 1: all over town and all over the radio and at
Speaker 1: basketball games and stuff, and Matt rules. Not horribly popular,
Speaker 1: but Matt rules here, and you know that was you know,
Speaker 1: I think I will. We haven't heard from Temper yet.
Speaker 1: I assume that at some point this offseason we will.
Speaker 1: And I think what he's going to say is some
Speaker 1: version of I told you Rome wasn't building a day.
Speaker 1: I told you this was gonna take a minute. I
Speaker 1: told you we were looking at a couple three or
Speaker 1: four or five years to get the organization where we
Speaker 1: wanted to be. And I and I think there is
Speaker 1: you know, in in people who it's like political opinion.
Speaker 1: People made up their mind early on on this and
Speaker 1: they're never gonna change. But I think, you know, there
Speaker 1: is something to be said, whether you like the particular
Speaker 1: parts of it or not, there's something to be said
Speaker 1: for I don't want to be the guy that fires
Speaker 1: coach every two years. Don't want to be the Jacksonville Jaguars,
Speaker 1: don't want to be the New York Giants, don't want
Speaker 1: to be the Jets, don't want to be those teams
Speaker 1: down there in that range of the NFL. And certainly
Speaker 1: it hadn't go on the way anybody anticipated um for
Speaker 1: a lot of reasons, and we could chop it up
Speaker 1: a hundred ways. But you know, I think now it's
Speaker 1: on Matt to find an offensive coordinator. And you've heard
Speaker 1: me joke over the years, will the number one ruling
Speaker 1: coaching searches is if the last guy was fat, the
Speaker 1: next guy I'll be skinny. The last offensive coordinator was
Speaker 1: Joe Brady. The next offensive coordinator is gonna have some
Speaker 1: skins on the wall. He's gonna be an older dude
Speaker 1: who's called plays in the NFL before. And it may
Speaker 1: not be a name that's sexy or you know, whatever
Speaker 1: lights up the phone lines at the sports talk radio station.
Speaker 1: But I think they need to add some degree of
Speaker 1: NFL experiencing credibility to that offense as they begin to build.
Speaker 1: Because we've talked about it over and over. They are
Speaker 1: going to spend money in draft picks on offensive linemen.
Speaker 1: They are going to continue to look for an answer
Speaker 1: at quarterback. Now. I don't know if that answer looks
Speaker 1: like and Andy Dalton or a case Keenum or whatever
Speaker 1: fill in the blank. You're you know, you're faceless NFL
Speaker 1: veteran to come in and lend some stability to this
Speaker 1: thing along with Sam Donald, or it means drafting Kenny
Speaker 1: Picket or whatever it happens to be. But I know
Speaker 1: step one is going to be free agency, where this
Speaker 1: thing's gonna look different, and it's absolutely coming. Brace yourselves
Speaker 1: for it. You know, somebody you love on that defense
Speaker 1: probably and gonna be here again next year. Uh, somebody
Speaker 1: they really need is going to walk in the door
Speaker 1: pretty early in free agency, and and you expect it.
Speaker 1: I expect it to be one of statement of intent signings.
Speaker 1: I think something's coming on March. Whatever the Wednesday is, um,
Speaker 1: look at me, whatever that Wednesday in the middle of
Speaker 1: March is, because I already know what my spring is
Speaker 1: gonna look like football calendar. Somebody's coming and it's gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear about it during the legal tampering period
Speaker 1: because it's going to be that level of signing and
Speaker 1: they're gonna be able to say, see this what we mean,
Speaker 1: We told you we're going to do this, and here
Speaker 1: it is. And I don't know what the particular name
Speaker 1: is gonna be. I got a couple of ideas, but
Speaker 1: it's I think it's reasonable to anticipate they're going to
Speaker 1: prove to you they mean it when they say they're
Speaker 1: going to fix that offensive One does that in line?
Speaker 1: Need it both in free agency and the draft it's
Speaker 1: one or the other. I think it's both. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: if you go out and you know right now they're
Speaker 1: picking six, if you go out in free agency and
Speaker 1: signed a left tackle act Toron Armstead, boom, then you
Speaker 1: take Brady Christiansen and he's your left guard, and now
Speaker 1: what you've got to do is find a right guard
Speaker 1: to go with the right tackle, and Taylor Moten, who
Speaker 1: we already know is pretty good, and then this thing
Speaker 1: looks all right. And then you get to the six
Speaker 1: pick in the draft, and if you have a chance
Speaker 1: to draft and Evan Neal, you draft him anyway, and
Speaker 1: you figure out where people go. Then he goes at
Speaker 1: left guard for a year while Brady plays right guard.
Speaker 1: And you know, you put those pieces together after the fact.
Speaker 1: But I think they gotta consider using them both. Whether
Speaker 1: it's Evan Neil, Charles Cross, ikey I kwanu kid from Charlotte,
Speaker 1: UM NC state guy, any of those tackles I think
Speaker 1: is gonna be in play. We're gonna write about them
Speaker 1: a lot over the next four months. Um, you know.
Speaker 1: And A in those free agents, I mean there are
Speaker 1: big names out there. I mean I just mentioned Armstead,
Speaker 1: Andrew Norwell, the Great White Buffalo is going to be
Speaker 1: a free agent, um, Brandon Shurf. I mean there are
Speaker 1: big ticket guys. I think when people think of splash
Speaker 1: signings in free agency, you think of a big receiver,
Speaker 1: or somebody's gonna score touchdowns or get a bunch of sacks.
Speaker 1: But a guard who can keep the flies off, whatever
Speaker 1: quarterback it is, make you a little bit stouter in
Speaker 1: the run game, fix things around Christian and you know,
Speaker 1: beefing up the running game around him. I think all
Speaker 1: those things have to happen. What do you You're heading
Speaker 1: down to mobile sound? Maybe Mailor's ours are probably gonna
Speaker 1: yell at me for saying it wrong. I think it's
Speaker 1: is it mobile or mobile? Mobile? Mobile? Whichever one I say,
Speaker 1: it's wrong And Taylor always likes to correct me on
Speaker 1: that because it's not mobile, it's mobile. Well, it's mobile.
Speaker 1: It's either mobile or mobile. Uh okay, it's not mobile
Speaker 1: obviously or mobile. But I can't I can't remember if
Speaker 1: it's mobile or mobile. I think it's mobile. Who are you? Uh?
Speaker 1: Have you? You probably haven't gotten there yet. Where it's
Speaker 1: It's it's Thursday. We're still just doing the word. Is there?
Speaker 1: What do you what's the difference from a scouting standpoint,
Speaker 1: from a Scott Fitter stound standpoint, what's the difference between
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl and the Combine? For those that may
Speaker 1: not be all that plugged into, Well, the Senior Bowl
Speaker 1: practices are the key. I mean, the game doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Nobody pays stench to the game. They just games there
Speaker 1: because we've got to have television inventory. Um. The practices
Speaker 1: are the deal. And and you can watch people do football. Um.
Speaker 1: And it's one of those corny things scouts say you
Speaker 1: can feel their size. You can, you know last year
Speaker 1: for instance, last year it's a Senior Bowl. You watch
Speaker 1: Deonte Brown practice all week and it's like, my god,
Speaker 1: this man is massive. Uh. And you've got a sense
Speaker 1: for how he moves as a massive person who you
Speaker 1: knew if you drafted him. You want to be less massive.
Speaker 1: And just seeing the way he moves at that size
Speaker 1: and all the stuff he can do. I think that's
Speaker 1: part of it. I mean, the combine has become like
Speaker 1: a lot of things in the NFL TV inventory. It's
Speaker 1: it's it's the HR department for the NFL. It's the
Speaker 1: place you go and fill out your forms and everybody
Speaker 1: feels out highway forty time, arm length, hand size, love
Speaker 1: hand size. Um. And we're gonna find out a lot
Speaker 1: about hand size. Can he pick it? Does he have
Speaker 1: small hands? Um? You know, we'll do all the measurements
Speaker 1: and and it's just a place to go to collect
Speaker 1: the measurements. I don't think you, you know, fall in
Speaker 1: love with anybody based on the drills. You see. People
Speaker 1: do it to combine and it's just a place where
Speaker 1: you go to get the standardized information. The medical is
Speaker 1: the most important part. The interviews are the next most
Speaker 1: important part. Then you get down to everybody filling out
Speaker 1: the form, you know, your job application with all your
Speaker 1: forty times and bench press reps and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: How how much do you put on some I mean
Speaker 1: every year you get those like one or two stories
Speaker 1: that come out of those interviews where it's just like, ah,
Speaker 1: this guy said this or you know this on this
Speaker 1: you know on the test that he did. He thinks
Speaker 1: he's a cat instead of a dog, you know, or
Speaker 1: doesn't like football, or you know, enjoys playing the wordle
Speaker 1: and Moroy loves playing a quarterback or anything. The good
Speaker 1: news is the league doesn't wonder Lick anymore. And that's
Speaker 1: one of my little pet things because I believe that
Speaker 1: people learn differently, and that intelligence is not a thing
Speaker 1: you can measure in only one way and only one lay.
Speaker 1: And some guys learned differently. Some guys are visual learners,
Speaker 1: special learners, test takers. It's a hundred different ways. And
Speaker 1: the thing we mean by intelligence means a million things
Speaker 1: to a million different people. Um. There are people who
Speaker 1: scored low and wonder licks and got shamed by it,
Speaker 1: who were incredibly smart football players. Um, we've seen that
Speaker 1: here without getting into names, because again I hate it
Speaker 1: because it got used as a scarlet letter on guys
Speaker 1: and in a way to shame people, uh, for reasons
Speaker 1: I don't really understand why people get a kick out
Speaker 1: of doing. Um. So, I mean that's going away. I
Speaker 1: mean all of that, all of that stuff is just
Speaker 1: part of the equation. I mean it's it's one more
Speaker 1: thing and you get all those measurables down. Sorry, I
Speaker 1: got on my wonderly crazy I forgot that. I I
Speaker 1: like it. I didn't really, I mean that's good for me.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that it was gone. So I'm I'm
Speaker 1: glad to hear that. Um. Obviously, we we have a
Speaker 1: lot coming up. There's you know, we're just getting started.
Speaker 1: It's it's just early January, so it is, you know.
Speaker 1: So I'm not going We're not gonna go too far
Speaker 1: into every single day off. Yesterday and it was glorious.
Speaker 1: You should take all day off tomorrow too. You you've
Speaker 1: earned it, and I know we'll see. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I thought about this actively in the middle of the
Speaker 1: day and I was doing some I was doing some
Speaker 1: foot all adjacent stuff yesterday, but I didn't write a
Speaker 1: word for this website about the Carolina Panthers for probably
Speaker 1: the first time since the middle of July. I like
Speaker 1: that it was pretty neat, gonna lie, Yeah, they needed
Speaker 1: a day off. It's I think I'm gonna go home
Speaker 1: today and roast chicken or something. So okay, it's yeah,
Speaker 1: this offseason is good. So I want to end this
Speaker 1: for for this offseason, um or at least today's podcast.
Speaker 1: There's a there's a great little tweet going around that
Speaker 1: a bunch of your friends and are verified friends are
Speaker 1: quote tweeting with your goofiest sports take. This is from Mina,
Speaker 1: your goofiest sports take that you actually kind of believe
Speaker 1: is true. And there's any number of crazy things that
Speaker 1: are out there that are around this, so I was
Speaker 1: curious what may fall into your into your There's a couple.
Speaker 1: I mean, the one thing I believe is true that
Speaker 1: sounds kind of crazy is that Ted Williams Head is
Speaker 1: frozen in some cryogenic bank and an underground lad in
Speaker 1: Florida in hopes of reanimating the greatest hitter who's ever lived.
Speaker 1: You know, I've seen that debunked, but I want to
Speaker 1: believe that that's true, because I want to believe that,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I could do that, that we could
Speaker 1: reanimate tidis Um. The sports thing that I believe in
Speaker 1: my heart is that half court shots and basketball should
Speaker 1: count four points, and that any field goal longer than
Speaker 1: fifty should also count four points, and anything over sixty
Speaker 1: should count five. That's incredible. I think it would be
Speaker 1: super fun, you know, because you've seen coaches try to
Speaker 1: freeze kickers and try to draw in the difference between
Speaker 1: a forty nine and a fifty. If you're confident your
Speaker 1: guy can hit a fifty four yard or and you're
Speaker 1: lined up at fifty four, he take that delay a game,
Speaker 1: back him up five for the extra point. Let's have
Speaker 1: some you know, people think analytics has gone a little overboard.
Speaker 1: Put something like that in and watch Brandon Staley's head
Speaker 1: explode speaking of a game that was going to be
Speaker 1: one of mine. That that someone from somewhere made a
Speaker 1: call down to the sidelines with about fifty seconds left
Speaker 1: and said, all right, guys, enough of this. We've got
Speaker 1: all the ratings. This game needs to end in a win.
Speaker 1: We're not ending this thing in a tie. That would
Speaker 1: imply centralized planning of a scared scooter commodity that never happens.
Speaker 1: What about this? I would have been all for it. Now.
Speaker 1: You know, people were joking online about both teams should
Speaker 1: take knees the entire game, and I mean, as an
Speaker 1: agent of chaos, I would have enjoyed seeing that at
Speaker 1: a personal level. But UM, I understand why it can't happen.
Speaker 1: You have to have integrity of the game because reasons. Um,
Speaker 1: But I do think there was a point and it
Speaker 1: certainly looked like and I kept my miss help up
Speaker 1: way too late the other night in Tampa, stuck watching
Speaker 1: that the end of that thing, because I believe the
Speaker 1: Raiders were content to take that right until Staley called
Speaker 1: the time out. And then it's like, alright, big boy, fine,
Speaker 1: you you want to play it like that, We're gonna
Speaker 1: kick this ball and win this game. But weren't they
Speaker 1: still going to run a play? Yeah, they were still
Speaker 1: going to run a play, But I think they ran
Speaker 1: it differently. They were running that same little goofy you
Speaker 1: know run that you know, it wasn't really designed, and
Speaker 1: then I think kind of got their attention. It's like,
Speaker 1: all right, let's do this, and then they make a
Speaker 1: play and then it's a makeable field goal, so you
Speaker 1: go ahead. But I the Raiders certainly had the posture
Speaker 1: of a team that was content to take that tie
Speaker 1: both of them slide on into the playoffs. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it was incredible, incredible drama. Yeah, unless you're Mike
Speaker 1: Tomlin who slept through it. Who admire because Mike Tomlin
Speaker 1: not only fell asleep on it, but admitted falling asleep.
Speaker 1: It's incredible that man securing his own skin. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. I was also going to say I hate
Speaker 1: the fumble out of the end zone rule, you know
Speaker 1: I I think I think the diving with ball outstretched
Speaker 1: for the pylon is one of the coolest players in football.
Speaker 1: And the idea that we're you know, saying that this
Speaker 1: is a this is a thing we don't want people
Speaker 1: to do because it's you know, you're disincentivized from doing it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I I think if you had to
Speaker 1: create the five most indelible images of the Carolina Panthers
Speaker 1: history over what twenty seven years now and seven? I think, uh,
Speaker 1: Deshaun Foster in Philadelphia in the playoffs in the know
Speaker 1: three season, even though it was um Deshaun Foster breaking
Speaker 1: nineteen tackles and flying to the pylone with the ball
Speaker 1: out like that. That's one of the coolest pessers in
Speaker 1: the world. So yes, I want to see more cool
Speaker 1: stuff like that. And then a week later he did
Speaker 1: it again in the Super Bowl when he kind of
Speaker 1: flew with the ball outstretched. I mean, think of I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think it's one of the coolest players
Speaker 1: in football. And every time that you say, oh, that's
Speaker 1: not what we do, you know, like whatever, it's fun,
Speaker 1: is fun, it's sports ball. Let's have fun. Yeah. Anyway,
Speaker 1: well this has been fun, Darren. Yeah, we'll have fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna keep trying. We're gonna keep going at this thing.
Speaker 1: Here's a thing. And I believe this with all my heart.
Speaker 1: We take what we do here seriously. But this is
Speaker 1: not serious. This is football. And I know there are
Speaker 1: a lot of people angry about the way that this
Speaker 1: thing went down this year and yelled and hollered invented
Speaker 1: on Twitter and online and called radio stations and little
Speaker 1: message boards and all that kind of stuff. But it's ball,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's good that people have a chance
Speaker 1: to come together. I think it's one of the great
Speaker 1: I think it's one of the truly neat things sports
Speaker 1: can do is bring a community together. But it needs
Speaker 1: to be part of your community. You know, you also
Speaker 1: need to be in a bowling league, or go to church,
Speaker 1: or volunteer or take kids to Scout meetings, or adopt
Speaker 1: a dog and petted every now and then before you
Speaker 1: rage tweet at somebody at ten thirty at night. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, do all these those things. This can be
Speaker 1: a part of it. It's a fun part. It needs
Speaker 1: to be a fun part. And that's not to say
Speaker 1: it's always gonna be fun. It's life. It doesn't always
Speaker 1: go your way. You don't always get to win, not
Speaker 1: everybody does. But I do believe that, you know, there's
Speaker 1: a time and a place for yelling and hollering and
Speaker 1: honest accountings of things, And there's time and a place
Speaker 1: to remember all I didn't work. What's next? And that's
Speaker 1: kind of where we are right now. That note thanks
Speaker 1: for listening. Everyone