WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 97: Regular Season Mode 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.160 This week on the Happy half Hour. 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:06.120 I think, really, with a new coaching staff and a 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:09.520 new philosophy and a new quarterback and all this new stuff, 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:13.160 I think there is a feeling of let's experiment with 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:15.360 some of these guys. Let's cast a wide net. Let's 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:17.920 continue to look at the waiver wire, see what's out there, 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:20.720 and see how this thing develops. 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:21.040 Talks. 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:23.720 Do y know? 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:27.560 It's time for the Happy half Hour with your friends. 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.720 Kristin Balboni, Augusta Stone, and Darren Gannon. 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:38.520 Hi, everybody, Welcome to the Happy half Hour. It's still 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.879 August for a couple of minutes, which means we're on 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:43.360 the verge of the regular season. 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:45.320 Hi, Augusta, Hello. 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:48.159 We're close for your weather update. I feel like I 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:49.720 always get on here and talk about the weather. It 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:53.200 feels wonderful outside. It feels like football season. The radio 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:56.880 guys were talking about some acc football this weekend, and. 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:58.960 Then we're here, and then it's our time to shine 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.440 in the NFL. I'm excited. How are you? 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:02.160 I'm all right. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.040 I feel like I'm now obliged to do a traffic update. 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.039 There was a lot of congestion at the corner of 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:13.440 Minton Moorhead early this morning, as there always is, but news, traffic, sports, 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.880 weather on the ones. I feel like we should patent 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:17.600 that or something. 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:18.000 I don't know. 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:22.160 Anyway, it's almost football season, but that means we're at 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:26.600 that weird point where this is like that flurry of activity, 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:30.040 and this weekend is when everybody in the NFL sort 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:33.880 of shuts up for a minute and it inhales and 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.600 gets ready for the long march to come. 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.080 But it came at the end of a hectic week. 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.520 I mean, this is the last time we talked to 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:43.800 you guys, there were about eighty people on the roster. 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:48.080 There have been about thirty five cuts. There have been trades, 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.640 there have been waiver claims, and this is a different 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.720 looking bunch. How do you, Augusta, you know, still being 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.360 kind of new to this process, sort of handle all 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.680 this change and all this new stuff coming your way. 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:02.800 I think it's always one step at a time. 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.480 I saw you had a very apt tweet the other 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.520 day about the weirdest day of practice is when you 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:14.400 go from that nearly ninety to the fifty three before 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:16.640 the practice squad is here, and it is just it 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:22.160 looks bear out there. I will say from a coverage standpoint, 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.000 it gets easier because you know all of the guys 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:29.480 around after the cuts, so there's a familiarity that starts 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.480 that'll last pretty much through this season. So that in 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.680 that way, like that makes it not easier, but it's different, 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:37.840 you know, it's a different kind of groove where you're like, okay, 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.080 I see there's not a ton of you know people 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.400 or brand new people coming in, although, like you mentioned 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.119 with the waiver wire and the trade couple days ago, 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.480 there are new people here, which is exciting, and there's 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.680 a lot cycling through, but like we talked about on 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.160 the last episode, it's still a tough a really tough. 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:53.560 Time of year. 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.080 You see some guys you know passing through, or a 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.680 guy that you saw two days ago is now somewhere 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.080 else or you know, not here, maybe you'll be back 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:02.919 on the practice squad or who knows. It's kind of 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.040 a lot of unknowns, and I think just remembering which 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.840 around the building it's well, it's well done, but just 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.400 remembering the humanity and everything, and you know, these are 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.359 more than just names and numbers of their people. And 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.160 so now we're kind of reaching the point where things 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.359 are starting to it was really shaky couple days ago. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.120 Things are starting to mel out a little bit, but 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:22.560 Frank Krak. 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.160 Told us yesterday he's not done, So yeah, we'll see 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:26.040 what happens the rest. 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:26.160 Of the day. 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:28.560 None of these rosters are ever final. But you're right. 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.359 Tuesday afternoon, when you see. 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.880 Fifty couple people out on the practice field, it's like 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:33.680 the rapture. 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:35.840 Half of them have gone away. 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:40.320 The remnants are back here on Earth. So it is strange, 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.360 it is unusual. But now we're kind of in that 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.840 regular season mode, and it's probably worth kind of going 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:49.080 through some of the top line news that came with 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.480 cuts and came with all the moves this week. And 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.600 I told somebody, and I mentioned this in a piece 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:59.640 on Panthers dot Com in the aftermath of the initial 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.080 fifth one of the things that just kind of jumps 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.440 out at me is this team trust offensive line coach 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:10.920 James Campen implicitly because I think back to the massive 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:15.280 conversion we've seen. I mean, and Jordan and j will 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:18.120 be later this afternoon two you'll get to hear that 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:22.359 on all your favorite podcast avenues. But I think in 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:26.080 terms of offensive linemen, what we've seen happen over the 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:29.240 last couple of years is nothing short of remarkable. I 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.479 mean two years ago, Matt Ruhle stood there in Spartanburg 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.080 and said, yeah, this line's like I eight five. It's 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.880 under construction, and it was full of potholes two years ago. 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.640 And then it got better. And now it got different 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:46.039 because a year ago, going into the regular season, Bradley 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.440 Boseman was still on the bench, and along with Cam 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.680 Irving and Michael Jordan, you had, you know, a whole 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.360 bunch of starts in reserve in addition to what they 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.839 believed to be a pretty good front line. Then obviously 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.839 Bradley goes into the starting lineup and that takes off 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.720 and stays well and is together and performing at a 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:05.400 high level. 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.800 Then the last game in New Orleans. 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:14.040 Brady Christiansen and Austin Corbett get heard. Austin still recovering. 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.880 Things have shuffled a little bit, but it feels like 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.080 they've kind of settled in with Chandler's of Avila a 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:23.400 rookie in that group, but behind him, you've got Ricky Lee, 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.720 You've got Nash Jensen. Their three rookies among the eight 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.320 they kept on the initial fifty three, and then they 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:33.600 put in a claim for Calvin Throckmorton, who is a 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:36.240 former Saint who's got about thirty some starts in the 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.880 league on his on the back of his football card, 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.320 so he brings a little experience to that group. 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.479 But it's still a fairly new group absolutely. 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.359 I mean they're getting into, like you said, like a 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.280 lot of trust teacher camping mode. I'm looking at the 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:50.680 depth chart right now in Panthers dot Com, which I 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.400 work very hard helping on the back end to put together. 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.200 So please check it out and enjoy it and love 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:59.360 it and appreciate it. But Brady Christiansen, I do believe, 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.200 is the second longest tenured line and at least here 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.160 like physically with the Panthers, behind Taylor Moten who's been 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:06.719 here for a while and played in all those games 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:07.159 and stuff. 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.240 But that's he's going into his third year. Is that right? 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.280 Like I just it hit me because you look at 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.960 you mentioned the three rookies. Throck Morton, who's here, who 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:15.680 who we got to give a nickname to We've talked 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:17.520 about because that is a that's a big old name. 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.160 And then you have Bozman, a guy here last year May, 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.599 He's like, I mean, just thinking about even the group itself, Gelling, 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.360 they really are all kind of getting to know each other. 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:27.000 And this is, like you said, a lot of faith 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.360 in camping here to give him this group a lot 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:30.160 of young guys. 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.919 To develop here and be like, Okay, go for it. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.279 And I think another thing that you have mentioned, and 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.120 I think I think you've mentioned in the past article 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.279 at least in conversations, is that they're opting for you know, 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.279 these young guys, maybe the guys like Ricky leean Ashtintz, 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.880 and you can kind of maybe not mold them, but 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.200 take them and see what they have and go up 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:49.920 from here versus some of the guys who. 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.560 Have been around who maybe you know what I mean. 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.039 Like have the starts had the experience, but giving a 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.279 chance to have like fresh blood out there, right, I 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.160 think that's that's the most obvious thing there. But when 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:01.680 looking at it, when you started talking, it was kind 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:03.240 of surprising to me. I was like, dang, in terms 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.359 of just being here in Carolina, there's only two guys 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:08.120 that have been here longer than three. 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.360 The idea of grizzled veteran Brady Christians and kind of 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.800 blows my mind. But that's the kind of transition, and 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.080 it is a little symbolic of what's happened to this 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.720 roster because, yeah, again we talk about cam Irving, Michael Jordan. 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.720 Across this roster, a lot of those guys who were 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.520 on it a week ago in kind of that veteran 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.720 backup role. Those guys are gone. There's no more Dion Jones, 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.520 there's no more Eric Row. Eric's back on the practice squad. 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:35.360 But across the board there are a lot of places 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.120 that are being backed up by extremely young people, and 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:42.160 it's kind of an opportunity. I think really, with a 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.440 new coaching staff and a new philosophy and a new 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.360 quarterback and all this new stuff, I think there is 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:52.080 a feeling of let's experiment with some of these guys. 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.400 Let's cast a wide net, let's continue to look at 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.920 the waiver wire, see what's out there, and see how 0:07:57.960 --> 0:07:58.960 this thing develops. 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:00.840 Because I think. 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:04.440 Realistically, you know, everybody knows this thing still very much 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.840 a work in progress. So if that means there's going 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:09.720 to be a lot of turnover at the bottom five 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:13.440 spots of the fifty three man roster plus the practice squad, 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.320 I think that's just going to be the reality for 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:17.440 the next little bit until they settle into a bit 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:18.600 of a rhythm exactly. 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:20.680 And it goes back to something we've talked about all 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.600 through off season and just getting all these coaches here, 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.200 that this is a this is a teaching coaching staff, right. 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.160 I mean, it's the kind of staff that that has 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:32.640 mentorship opportunities. There's a bevy of experience and great football 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:37.080 minds around here between you know, Jim Caldwell and Dom 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.320 and Frank and Josh is a big teacher. Even though 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.200 he's a little less you know, coaching experience, he has 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.360 a ton of playing experience. We talk about it a lot, 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.000 but this is the kind of coaching staff to nurture 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:48.920 a roster like this, and it's interesting to see it 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:50.800 shake out like this, like you said, where the backups 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.439 are young, because it's kind of the way the coaching 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.240 staff whenever you'd think the conventional wisdom with it being 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.240 put together is that this is a staff of so 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.240 much knowledge to share and now they have an opportunity 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.680 to share it with these young talented people. So I 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.439 think that's also maybe a part of it that I 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.360 didn't even consider until we were talking about it, but 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.240 it all kind of goes together with this if we 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.440 were writting a novel, a big, old overarching storyline about 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.320 all of this, which is you put these coaches, these 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.439 types of coaches, and these experienced coaches in place, and you, 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.400 you know, get them with the people who you know 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:20.880 are going to start. You know, some people who have 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:22.640 a little bit of experience here, some people have more 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.079 than others. And then a lot of young guys that 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.280 they're attaining just to see, you know, what they can 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.200 teach them and what they can make them become versus 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.400 you know, I mean, just giving them an opportunity. 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:31.240 I think that's pretty cool. 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.320 Yeah, it is interesting, and what that means is there's 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:35.880 going to be a lot of getting to know you 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:37.000 for the next little bit. 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.600 So this is kind of your department. 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.720 So tell us everything you know about Emir Smith Marsette, 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:47.280 the new wide receiver who arrived late Monday night in 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:48.520 a trade with the Chiefs. 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.480 Absolutely got to talk with him yesterday in the locker room. 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.959 I will say he was He's one of those people 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.120 when you talk to him for the first time. I 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.640 use a transcription service and you look and usually the 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.080 first couple times you interview a guy, especially one on one, 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.440 they give shorter answers, you know, because they're still warming 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.160 up to you. Maybe toward the end you'll get more. 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:09.200 His answers were already big chunks paragraphs. He liked to 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.480 answer my questions or at least talk, and for someone 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.520 who had been here less than forty eight hours, he 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.680 seemed already fairly comfortable. I think that's helped by the 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.199 fact that he knows Adam Thalin and they seem to 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.280 have like a pretty good relationship back whenever he was 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.600 a rookie I think it was twenty twenty one in Minnesota, 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.199 talking about each other. I talked with Faling about him too. 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.400 But that was something that Frank Craich alluded to when 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.040 Amir got here, was, oh, yeah, we got this big 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.280 vote of confidence from Adam Thalen, who knew him when 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.280 when AMR was a rookie and they were both receivers together. 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:41.280 And I think feeling alluded to him having a big personality, 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.200 and it's true, he's an interesting guy. He has a 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.160 lot of confidence in himself. He looked me in the 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:47.920 eye and said he had that dog in him. So 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:49.760 I know, we talk about that a lot in the podcast. 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:51.679 But that's a quote you can be looking forward to 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:53.520 in an article about him, because he did tell me that. 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:54.720 But nah, I. 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.200 Think he's a good you know, if anything, he's a 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.200 really good fit for the wide receiver room of a 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.839 bunch of personalities between Chark and Feeling and Laviska and 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:08.000 now you have Emir coming in. And I also asked him, 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:10.440 wanted to include this on the podcast. He does have 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.120 a longer name, and I told him this. I said, 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.880 you know, your name is Mere Smith Marsett. I seen 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.480 you know, could you abbreviate it? What would you prefer 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.280 people to call you? And he told me that his 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.320 official nickname. If if anyone wants to pick it up, 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.160 he said, you can call him mir m I double 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.360 r M I R R And that's his preferred nickname. 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.120 So I did ask him that. But no, he's an 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.160 interesting guy. He offers a lot on the field too. 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.080 I mean, he had that really good preseason with the Chiefs. 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.199 I think he caught nine of his ten targets and 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.920 second most receiving yards in the league in the preseason. 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.880 He was a good punt returner in college with Iowa 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:48.920 won the Big Tens return Man Award. He has a 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.520 lot of things going for him. He's a former swimmer 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:53.679 from high school, and I don't know, I think he's 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:54.520 an interesting fellow. 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.160 We'll see what he can actually do here. 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.920 But talking to him, I mean I talked to him 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:00.600 for five minutes and it was a very full five 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.040 minutes where I felt like, Okay, you know, I kind 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.120 of get your vibe. I get your vibe and excited 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:06.760 to see, you know, what he's able to do and 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:08.040 maybe talk to him again. 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.679 He's obviously a big astronomy buff because if you're calling 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.640 yourself Meir, obviously that's a reference to the old Russian 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:15.640 space station. 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:18.319 Right, sure, sure, yes, yes, yes. 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.760 You don't want me making astronomy jokes the rest of 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.600 this podcast that could only go to a dark place. 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.920 But yeah, there is a lot of new and after 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.559 they set that first fifty three, after you know, Mer 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.120 rolls in the door, you know, all of a sudden 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.920 you get three new guys come in and throck Morton 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.760 and Claudon Cheerless, whose name I'm still getting to know 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.880 well and being able to say correctly, And then to 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.480 Seawan Jamison, a little cornerback who's in camp with the 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.080 forty nine ers this summer, and you know, all of 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:52.040 these guys bring a little something different. Again, throck Morton's 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.520 basically the experience back up on that offensive line right now, 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.720 barring any other moves, and there could be some other moves, 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.120 but otherwise these are kind of experimental guys. I mean, 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.839 Cherless is a big athletic, you know, run and hit 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.000 guy who played at Alcorn State last year. 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:08.480 He actually wasn't in. 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.120 Wasn't in the joint practices when the Jets came down 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:16.400 to Spartanburg, but they saw enough of him on preseason 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.440 tape and you know their previous scouting reports, they felt 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:20.520 like he was worth a shot. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.160 And DeShawn Jamison's one that's going to be interesting. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.920 Obviously, an extra cornerback here was something they were looking 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.440 for going into final cuts, and the fact that he's 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:32.760 got some return ability also kind of makes him an 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:36.760 interesting prospect around here because I think that's one of 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:40.760 those roles, whether it's Smith Marsett, whether it's Raheem Blackshear, 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.320 or whether it's DeShawn Jamison, there's an opportunity for somebody 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:46.880 to kind of carve out a niche for themselves as 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.440 a return man, because I think that's an area that's 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:53.320 pretty unsettled going into the regular season among many. 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.840 On special teams. I've said one of the other big. 0:13:55.679 --> 0:14:00.640 Takeaways from those cuts is Taber still got it. Chris Taber, 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.800 the special teams coordinators still got a little bit of 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.400 juice because he's got some of his guys they kept, Yes, 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.280 they kept five tight ends on the initial fifty three, 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.120 but one of them was Jio Ricchi, and I mean, 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.360 you can call him a tight end, but his job 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.200 is to be a core special team or a four 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.920 phase guy under Tabor and g O is you know, 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.960 very good at that. When you think about those guys 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.920 like him, Sam Franklin who are dedicated core special teams players, 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.800 Kamu Gruge Hills another one. They've got a couple of those. 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:31.560 But it's an area that's in a little bit of 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.840 flux because there was a lot of you know, stability, 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:38.560 I guess is a weird way to describe special teams, 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.040 but those guys are kind of used to never knowing 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.320 from one week to the next who's going to be available. 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.600 So they've turned over some of those guys. Some of 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.200 the regulars like Sean Chandler, who was one of last 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.720 year's guys, goes away, and they had a bunch of backups, 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.280 you know, some of those older guys like the Eric Rows, 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:59.480 the Deon Joneses, who weren't necessarily key contributors on special teams. 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.720 So I think that they've gone out and they're looking 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.320 for some guys who can be those kind of guys. 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:08.280 So it's going to be interesting to see when they 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:11.600 get on the field. There's one more practice today after 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.040 we finish recording this podcast, and then they'll take a 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.360 long break before they come back Monday, and then it's 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:20.560 on and as much excitement as there is about all 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.520 the new I think when they roll in Monday after 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:25.520 a weekend off, it's going to kind of hit a 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:26.600 lot of people. 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.640 Of oh, there's a lot of new. 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:32.400 You know, it's good news bad news. So I think 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.240 this team still got a lot of work to do. 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.480 The good news is they're going up against a couple 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.600 of teams in this division in Atlanta and New Orleans 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.400 right out of the shoot, who are faced with a 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.360 lot of the same stuff. New Orleans got a brand 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:50.120 new quarterback and Derek Carr I almost said, David, you know, 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.680 the Falcons are putting this thing together on the fly 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.680 as well, So I think it's kind of a jury 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.880 of your peers for the first couple of weeks of 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:58.520 the preseason. 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.160 But that's what makes this thing fat exactly. 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.560 And yesterday we hadn't talked about this yet, but yesterday 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:05.840 Bryce Young spoke with the media. It was one of 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:09.200 his most interesting press conferences with you know, this isn't 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.360 this is kind of like a game and a half week. 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:13.760 You know, they're doing some preparation, they're finishing up the roster, 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.600 but it's not necessarily as locked in and serious, and 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.160 so got some fun questions for him. He gave his 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:22.120 take on sweet tea as a Californian, but he also 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.520 talked about what he's gonna do for the next three days. 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:25.960 I asked him that, I said, you know, are you 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:28.560 the top that meditates? How do you kind of get 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:30.960 away for the next couple days whenever you're off for 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.000 for Labor Day? And he said that his biggest thing 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:34.960 is kind of you know, almost like stepping away from 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:36.720 the building for him and he getting his mind right 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.160 to be locked in. But you could see how excited 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:42.360 he was for week one, and uh, you know, in 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.600 all the newness and everything we're talking about, this is 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:48.600 going to be the first overall picks first game for real, 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:50.680 and uh, he knows that. 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:52.040 So he's really excited about it. 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:55.040 And yesterday, honestly, like, if y'all haven't watched that press conference, 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.000 I think it's worth watching because Bryce showed a lot 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.240 of his personality when he first got here. 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:00.640 I remember you and I talking about it. 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:02.360 I think we talked about on the podcast a little 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.480 bit too, but you know, wanting to see his personality 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:06.520 show a little bit more. He was a little it 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:08.200 was a little regiment to it, a little guarded when 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.240 he first got here. But he's really started to, you know, 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.480 look more comfortable, crack some jokes, smile and just have 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:15.000 a good time. 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:16.119 And that blast press conference. 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:17.760 I don't know if you got to see it yet, Darren, 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.560 but it was really really good and it was interesting. 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.280 And I don't disagree with his sweet tea take either. 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:24.639 I don't know. 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:26.840 He said that it was a like a birthday cake. 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.000 You know, it's very special, but you don't need it 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.480 every day. I must agree, it's a little sweet for me. 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:32.640 Yeah, I liked it. 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:37.280 I think the idea of not wanting your highly tuned 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.439 professional athletes to be pounding down a bunch of sweet 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.520 tea every day, I think that's a reasonable take. But 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.480 I am a big I mean, my go to when 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.560 I stopped at Bojangles, including this morning, Bojangles a. 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:54.240