Speaker 1: This week on the Happy half Hour.
Speaker 2: I think, really, with a new coaching staff and a
Speaker 2: new philosophy and a new quarterback and all this new stuff,
Speaker 2: I think there is a feeling of let's experiment with
Speaker 2: some of these guys. Let's cast a wide net. Let's
Speaker 2: continue to look at the waiver wire, see what's out there,
Speaker 2: and see how this thing develops.
Speaker 3: Talks.
Speaker 2: Do y know?
Speaker 1: It's time for the Happy half Hour with your friends.
Speaker 1: Kristin Balboni, Augusta Stone, and Darren Gannon.
Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, Welcome to the Happy half Hour. It's still
Speaker 2: August for a couple of minutes, which means we're on
Speaker 2: the verge of the regular season.
Speaker 1: Hi, Augusta, Hello.
Speaker 3: We're close for your weather update. I feel like I
Speaker 3: always get on here and talk about the weather. It
Speaker 3: feels wonderful outside. It feels like football season. The radio
Speaker 3: guys were talking about some acc football this weekend, and.
Speaker 4: Then we're here, and then it's our time to shine
Speaker 4: in the NFL. I'm excited. How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm all right.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm now obliged to do a traffic update.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of congestion at the corner of
Speaker 2: Minton Moorhead early this morning, as there always is, but news, traffic, sports,
Speaker 2: weather on the ones. I feel like we should patent
Speaker 2: that or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Anyway, it's almost football season, but that means we're at
Speaker 2: that weird point where this is like that flurry of activity,
Speaker 2: and this weekend is when everybody in the NFL sort
Speaker 2: of shuts up for a minute and it inhales and
Speaker 2: gets ready for the long march to come.
Speaker 1: But it came at the end of a hectic week.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is the last time we talked to
Speaker 2: you guys, there were about eighty people on the roster.
Speaker 2: There have been about thirty five cuts. There have been trades,
Speaker 2: there have been waiver claims, and this is a different
Speaker 2: looking bunch. How do you, Augusta, you know, still being
Speaker 2: kind of new to this process, sort of handle all
Speaker 2: this change and all this new stuff coming your way.
Speaker 4: I think it's always one step at a time.
Speaker 3: I saw you had a very apt tweet the other
Speaker 3: day about the weirdest day of practice is when you
Speaker 3: go from that nearly ninety to the fifty three before
Speaker 3: the practice squad is here, and it is just it
Speaker 3: looks bear out there. I will say from a coverage standpoint,
Speaker 3: it gets easier because you know all of the guys
Speaker 3: around after the cuts, so there's a familiarity that starts
Speaker 3: that'll last pretty much through this season. So that in
Speaker 3: that way, like that makes it not easier, but it's different,
Speaker 3: you know, it's a different kind of groove where you're like, okay,
Speaker 3: I see there's not a ton of you know people
Speaker 3: or brand new people coming in, although, like you mentioned
Speaker 3: with the waiver wire and the trade couple days ago,
Speaker 3: there are new people here, which is exciting, and there's
Speaker 3: a lot cycling through, but like we talked about on
Speaker 3: the last episode, it's still a tough a really tough.
Speaker 4: Time of year.
Speaker 3: You see some guys you know passing through, or a
Speaker 3: guy that you saw two days ago is now somewhere
Speaker 3: else or you know, not here, maybe you'll be back
Speaker 3: on the practice squad or who knows. It's kind of
Speaker 3: a lot of unknowns, and I think just remembering which
Speaker 3: around the building it's well, it's well done, but just
Speaker 3: remembering the humanity and everything, and you know, these are
Speaker 3: more than just names and numbers of their people. And
Speaker 3: so now we're kind of reaching the point where things
Speaker 3: are starting to it was really shaky couple days ago.
Speaker 4: Things are starting to mel out a little bit, but
Speaker 4: Frank Krak.
Speaker 3: Told us yesterday he's not done, So yeah, we'll see
Speaker 3: what happens the rest.
Speaker 4: Of the day.
Speaker 1: None of these rosters are ever final. But you're right.
Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon, when you see.
Speaker 2: Fifty couple people out on the practice field, it's like
Speaker 2: the rapture.
Speaker 1: Half of them have gone away.
Speaker 2: The remnants are back here on Earth. So it is strange,
Speaker 2: it is unusual. But now we're kind of in that
Speaker 2: regular season mode, and it's probably worth kind of going
Speaker 2: through some of the top line news that came with
Speaker 2: cuts and came with all the moves this week. And
Speaker 2: I told somebody, and I mentioned this in a piece
Speaker 2: on Panthers dot Com in the aftermath of the initial
Speaker 2: fifth one of the things that just kind of jumps
Speaker 2: out at me is this team trust offensive line coach
Speaker 2: James Campen implicitly because I think back to the massive
Speaker 2: conversion we've seen. I mean, and Jordan and j will
Speaker 2: be later this afternoon two you'll get to hear that
Speaker 2: on all your favorite podcast avenues. But I think in
Speaker 2: terms of offensive linemen, what we've seen happen over the
Speaker 2: last couple of years is nothing short of remarkable. I
Speaker 2: mean two years ago, Matt Ruhle stood there in Spartanburg
Speaker 2: and said, yeah, this line's like I eight five. It's
Speaker 2: under construction, and it was full of potholes two years ago.
Speaker 2: And then it got better. And now it got different
Speaker 2: because a year ago, going into the regular season, Bradley
Speaker 2: Boseman was still on the bench, and along with Cam
Speaker 2: Irving and Michael Jordan, you had, you know, a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of starts in reserve in addition to what they
Speaker 2: believed to be a pretty good front line. Then obviously
Speaker 2: Bradley goes into the starting lineup and that takes off
Speaker 2: and stays well and is together and performing at a
Speaker 2: high level.
Speaker 1: Then the last game in New Orleans.
Speaker 2: Brady Christiansen and Austin Corbett get heard. Austin still recovering.
Speaker 2: Things have shuffled a little bit, but it feels like
Speaker 2: they've kind of settled in with Chandler's of Avila a
Speaker 2: rookie in that group, but behind him, you've got Ricky Lee,
Speaker 2: You've got Nash Jensen. Their three rookies among the eight
Speaker 2: they kept on the initial fifty three, and then they
Speaker 2: put in a claim for Calvin Throckmorton, who is a
Speaker 2: former Saint who's got about thirty some starts in the
Speaker 2: league on his on the back of his football card,
Speaker 2: so he brings a little experience to that group.
Speaker 1: But it's still a fairly new group absolutely.
Speaker 3: I mean they're getting into, like you said, like a
Speaker 3: lot of trust teacher camping mode. I'm looking at the
Speaker 3: depth chart right now in Panthers dot Com, which I
Speaker 3: work very hard helping on the back end to put together.
Speaker 3: So please check it out and enjoy it and love
Speaker 3: it and appreciate it. But Brady Christiansen, I do believe,
Speaker 3: is the second longest tenured line and at least here
Speaker 3: like physically with the Panthers, behind Taylor Moten who's been
Speaker 3: here for a while and played in all those games
Speaker 3: and stuff.
Speaker 4: But that's he's going into his third year. Is that right?
Speaker 3: Like I just it hit me because you look at
Speaker 3: you mentioned the three rookies. Throck Morton, who's here, who
Speaker 3: who we got to give a nickname to We've talked
Speaker 3: about because that is a that's a big old name.
Speaker 3: And then you have Bozman, a guy here last year May,
Speaker 3: He's like, I mean, just thinking about even the group itself, Gelling,
Speaker 3: they really are all kind of getting to know each other.
Speaker 3: And this is, like you said, a lot of faith
Speaker 3: in camping here to give him this group a lot
Speaker 3: of young guys.
Speaker 4: To develop here and be like, Okay, go for it.
Speaker 3: And I think another thing that you have mentioned, and
Speaker 3: I think I think you've mentioned in the past article
Speaker 3: at least in conversations, is that they're opting for you know,
Speaker 3: these young guys, maybe the guys like Ricky leean Ashtintz,
Speaker 3: and you can kind of maybe not mold them, but
Speaker 3: take them and see what they have and go up
Speaker 3: from here versus some of the guys who.
Speaker 4: Have been around who maybe you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Like have the starts had the experience, but giving a
Speaker 3: chance to have like fresh blood out there, right, I
Speaker 3: think that's that's the most obvious thing there. But when
Speaker 3: looking at it, when you started talking, it was kind
Speaker 3: of surprising to me. I was like, dang, in terms
Speaker 3: of just being here in Carolina, there's only two guys
Speaker 3: that have been here longer than three.
Speaker 2: The idea of grizzled veteran Brady Christians and kind of
Speaker 2: blows my mind. But that's the kind of transition, and
Speaker 2: it is a little symbolic of what's happened to this
Speaker 2: roster because, yeah, again we talk about cam Irving, Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2: Across this roster, a lot of those guys who were
Speaker 2: on it a week ago in kind of that veteran
Speaker 2: backup role. Those guys are gone. There's no more Dion Jones,
Speaker 2: there's no more Eric Row. Eric's back on the practice squad.
Speaker 2: But across the board there are a lot of places
Speaker 2: that are being backed up by extremely young people, and
Speaker 2: it's kind of an opportunity. I think really, with a
Speaker 2: new coaching staff and a new philosophy and a new
Speaker 2: quarterback and all this new stuff, I think there is
Speaker 2: a feeling of let's experiment with some of these guys.
Speaker 2: Let's cast a wide net, let's continue to look at
Speaker 2: the waiver wire, see what's out there, and see how
Speaker 2: this thing develops.
Speaker 1: Because I think.
Speaker 2: Realistically, you know, everybody knows this thing still very much
Speaker 2: a work in progress. So if that means there's going
Speaker 2: to be a lot of turnover at the bottom five
Speaker 2: spots of the fifty three man roster plus the practice squad,
Speaker 2: I think that's just going to be the reality for
Speaker 2: the next little bit until they settle into a bit
Speaker 2: of a rhythm exactly.
Speaker 3: And it goes back to something we've talked about all
Speaker 3: through off season and just getting all these coaches here,
Speaker 3: that this is a this is a teaching coaching staff, right.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's the kind of staff that that has
Speaker 3: mentorship opportunities. There's a bevy of experience and great football
Speaker 3: minds around here between you know, Jim Caldwell and Dom
Speaker 3: and Frank and Josh is a big teacher. Even though
Speaker 3: he's a little less you know, coaching experience, he has
Speaker 3: a ton of playing experience. We talk about it a lot,
Speaker 3: but this is the kind of coaching staff to nurture
Speaker 3: a roster like this, and it's interesting to see it
Speaker 3: shake out like this, like you said, where the backups
Speaker 3: are young, because it's kind of the way the coaching
Speaker 3: staff whenever you'd think the conventional wisdom with it being
Speaker 3: put together is that this is a staff of so
Speaker 3: much knowledge to share and now they have an opportunity
Speaker 3: to share it with these young talented people. So I
Speaker 3: think that's also maybe a part of it that I
Speaker 3: didn't even consider until we were talking about it, but
Speaker 3: it all kind of goes together with this if we
Speaker 3: were writting a novel, a big, old overarching storyline about
Speaker 3: all of this, which is you put these coaches, these
Speaker 3: types of coaches, and these experienced coaches in place, and you,
Speaker 3: you know, get them with the people who you know
Speaker 3: are going to start. You know, some people who have
Speaker 3: a little bit of experience here, some people have more
Speaker 3: than others. And then a lot of young guys that
Speaker 3: they're attaining just to see, you know, what they can
Speaker 3: teach them and what they can make them become versus
Speaker 3: you know, I mean, just giving them an opportunity.
Speaker 4: I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is interesting, and what that means is there's
Speaker 2: going to be a lot of getting to know you
Speaker 2: for the next little bit.
Speaker 1: So this is kind of your department.
Speaker 2: So tell us everything you know about Emir Smith Marsette,
Speaker 2: the new wide receiver who arrived late Monday night in
Speaker 2: a trade with the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: Absolutely got to talk with him yesterday in the locker room.
Speaker 3: I will say he was He's one of those people
Speaker 3: when you talk to him for the first time. I
Speaker 3: use a transcription service and you look and usually the
Speaker 3: first couple times you interview a guy, especially one on one,
Speaker 3: they give shorter answers, you know, because they're still warming
Speaker 3: up to you. Maybe toward the end you'll get more.
Speaker 3: His answers were already big chunks paragraphs. He liked to
Speaker 3: answer my questions or at least talk, and for someone
Speaker 3: who had been here less than forty eight hours, he
Speaker 3: seemed already fairly comfortable. I think that's helped by the
Speaker 3: fact that he knows Adam Thalin and they seem to
Speaker 3: have like a pretty good relationship back whenever he was
Speaker 3: a rookie I think it was twenty twenty one in Minnesota,
Speaker 3: talking about each other. I talked with Faling about him too.
Speaker 3: But that was something that Frank Craich alluded to when
Speaker 3: Amir got here, was, oh, yeah, we got this big
Speaker 3: vote of confidence from Adam Thalen, who knew him when
Speaker 3: when AMR was a rookie and they were both receivers together.
Speaker 3: And I think feeling alluded to him having a big personality,
Speaker 3: and it's true, he's an interesting guy. He has a
Speaker 3: lot of confidence in himself. He looked me in the
Speaker 3: eye and said he had that dog in him. So
Speaker 3: I know, we talk about that a lot in the podcast.
Speaker 3: But that's a quote you can be looking forward to
Speaker 3: in an article about him, because he did tell me that.
Speaker 4: But nah, I.
Speaker 3: Think he's a good you know, if anything, he's a
Speaker 3: really good fit for the wide receiver room of a
Speaker 3: bunch of personalities between Chark and Feeling and Laviska and
Speaker 3: now you have Emir coming in. And I also asked him,
Speaker 3: wanted to include this on the podcast. He does have
Speaker 3: a longer name, and I told him this. I said,
Speaker 3: you know, your name is Mere Smith Marsett. I seen
Speaker 3: you know, could you abbreviate it? What would you prefer
Speaker 3: people to call you? And he told me that his
Speaker 3: official nickname. If if anyone wants to pick it up,
Speaker 3: he said, you can call him mir m I double
Speaker 3: r M I R R And that's his preferred nickname.
Speaker 3: So I did ask him that. But no, he's an
Speaker 3: interesting guy. He offers a lot on the field too.
Speaker 3: I mean, he had that really good preseason with the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: I think he caught nine of his ten targets and
Speaker 3: second most receiving yards in the league in the preseason.
Speaker 3: He was a good punt returner in college with Iowa
Speaker 3: won the Big Tens return Man Award. He has a
Speaker 3: lot of things going for him. He's a former swimmer
Speaker 3: from high school, and I don't know, I think he's
Speaker 3: an interesting fellow.
Speaker 4: We'll see what he can actually do here.
Speaker 3: But talking to him, I mean I talked to him
Speaker 3: for five minutes and it was a very full five
Speaker 3: minutes where I felt like, Okay, you know, I kind
Speaker 3: of get your vibe. I get your vibe and excited
Speaker 3: to see, you know, what he's able to do and
Speaker 3: maybe talk to him again.
Speaker 2: He's obviously a big astronomy buff because if you're calling
Speaker 2: yourself Meir, obviously that's a reference to the old Russian
Speaker 2: space station.
Speaker 4: Right, sure, sure, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2: You don't want me making astronomy jokes the rest of
Speaker 2: this podcast that could only go to a dark place.
Speaker 2: But yeah, there is a lot of new and after
Speaker 2: they set that first fifty three, after you know, Mer
Speaker 2: rolls in the door, you know, all of a sudden
Speaker 2: you get three new guys come in and throck Morton
Speaker 2: and Claudon Cheerless, whose name I'm still getting to know
Speaker 2: well and being able to say correctly, And then to
Speaker 2: Seawan Jamison, a little cornerback who's in camp with the
Speaker 2: forty nine ers this summer, and you know, all of
Speaker 2: these guys bring a little something different. Again, throck Morton's
Speaker 2: basically the experience back up on that offensive line right now,
Speaker 2: barring any other moves, and there could be some other moves,
Speaker 2: but otherwise these are kind of experimental guys. I mean,
Speaker 2: Cherless is a big athletic, you know, run and hit
Speaker 2: guy who played at Alcorn State last year.
Speaker 1: He actually wasn't in.
Speaker 2: Wasn't in the joint practices when the Jets came down
Speaker 2: to Spartanburg, but they saw enough of him on preseason
Speaker 2: tape and you know their previous scouting reports, they felt
Speaker 2: like he was worth a shot.
Speaker 1: And DeShawn Jamison's one that's going to be interesting.
Speaker 2: Obviously, an extra cornerback here was something they were looking
Speaker 2: for going into final cuts, and the fact that he's
Speaker 2: got some return ability also kind of makes him an
Speaker 2: interesting prospect around here because I think that's one of
Speaker 2: those roles, whether it's Smith Marsett, whether it's Raheem Blackshear,
Speaker 2: or whether it's DeShawn Jamison, there's an opportunity for somebody
Speaker 2: to kind of carve out a niche for themselves as
Speaker 2: a return man, because I think that's an area that's
Speaker 2: pretty unsettled going into the regular season among many.
Speaker 1: On special teams. I've said one of the other big.
Speaker 2: Takeaways from those cuts is Taber still got it. Chris Taber,
Speaker 2: the special teams coordinators still got a little bit of
Speaker 2: juice because he's got some of his guys they kept, Yes,
Speaker 2: they kept five tight ends on the initial fifty three,
Speaker 2: but one of them was Jio Ricchi, and I mean,
Speaker 2: you can call him a tight end, but his job
Speaker 2: is to be a core special team or a four
Speaker 2: phase guy under Tabor and g O is you know,
Speaker 2: very good at that. When you think about those guys
Speaker 2: like him, Sam Franklin who are dedicated core special teams players,
Speaker 2: Kamu Gruge Hills another one. They've got a couple of those.
Speaker 2: But it's an area that's in a little bit of
Speaker 2: flux because there was a lot of you know, stability,
Speaker 2: I guess is a weird way to describe special teams,
Speaker 2: but those guys are kind of used to never knowing
Speaker 2: from one week to the next who's going to be available.
Speaker 2: So they've turned over some of those guys. Some of
Speaker 2: the regulars like Sean Chandler, who was one of last
Speaker 2: year's guys, goes away, and they had a bunch of backups,
Speaker 2: you know, some of those older guys like the Eric Rows,
Speaker 2: the Deon Joneses, who weren't necessarily key contributors on special teams.
Speaker 2: So I think that they've gone out and they're looking
Speaker 2: for some guys who can be those kind of guys.
Speaker 2: So it's going to be interesting to see when they
Speaker 2: get on the field. There's one more practice today after
Speaker 2: we finish recording this podcast, and then they'll take a
Speaker 2: long break before they come back Monday, and then it's
Speaker 2: on and as much excitement as there is about all
Speaker 2: the new I think when they roll in Monday after
Speaker 2: a weekend off, it's going to kind of hit a
Speaker 2: lot of people.
Speaker 1: Of oh, there's a lot of new.
Speaker 2: You know, it's good news bad news. So I think
Speaker 2: this team still got a lot of work to do.
Speaker 2: The good news is they're going up against a couple
Speaker 2: of teams in this division in Atlanta and New Orleans
Speaker 2: right out of the shoot, who are faced with a
Speaker 2: lot of the same stuff. New Orleans got a brand
Speaker 2: new quarterback and Derek Carr I almost said, David, you know,
Speaker 2: the Falcons are putting this thing together on the fly
Speaker 2: as well, So I think it's kind of a jury
Speaker 2: of your peers for the first couple of weeks of
Speaker 2: the preseason.
Speaker 1: But that's what makes this thing fat exactly.
Speaker 3: And yesterday we hadn't talked about this yet, but yesterday
Speaker 3: Bryce Young spoke with the media. It was one of
Speaker 3: his most interesting press conferences with you know, this isn't
Speaker 3: this is kind of like a game and a half week.
Speaker 3: You know, they're doing some preparation, they're finishing up the roster,
Speaker 3: but it's not necessarily as locked in and serious, and
Speaker 3: so got some fun questions for him. He gave his
Speaker 3: take on sweet tea as a Californian, but he also
Speaker 3: talked about what he's gonna do for the next three days.
Speaker 3: I asked him that, I said, you know, are you
Speaker 3: the top that meditates? How do you kind of get
Speaker 3: away for the next couple days whenever you're off for
Speaker 3: for Labor Day? And he said that his biggest thing
Speaker 3: is kind of you know, almost like stepping away from
Speaker 3: the building for him and he getting his mind right
Speaker 3: to be locked in. But you could see how excited
Speaker 3: he was for week one, and uh, you know, in
Speaker 3: all the newness and everything we're talking about, this is
Speaker 3: going to be the first overall picks first game for real,
Speaker 3: and uh, he knows that.
Speaker 4: So he's really excited about it.
Speaker 3: And yesterday, honestly, like, if y'all haven't watched that press conference,
Speaker 3: I think it's worth watching because Bryce showed a lot
Speaker 3: of his personality when he first got here.
Speaker 4: I remember you and I talking about it.
Speaker 3: I think we talked about on the podcast a little
Speaker 3: bit too, but you know, wanting to see his personality
Speaker 3: show a little bit more. He was a little it
Speaker 3: was a little regiment to it, a little guarded when
Speaker 3: he first got here. But he's really started to, you know,
Speaker 3: look more comfortable, crack some jokes, smile and just have
Speaker 3: a good time.
Speaker 4: And that blast press conference.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you got to see it yet, Darren,
Speaker 3: but it was really really good and it was interesting.
Speaker 4: And I don't disagree with his sweet tea take either.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: He said that it was a like a birthday cake.
Speaker 3: You know, it's very special, but you don't need it
Speaker 3: every day. I must agree, it's a little sweet for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I liked it.
Speaker 2: I think the idea of not wanting your highly tuned
Speaker 2: professional athletes to be pounding down a bunch of sweet
Speaker 2: tea every day, I think that's a reasonable take. But
Speaker 2: I am a big I mean, my go to when
Speaker 2: I stopped at Bojangles, including this morning, Bojangles a.
Speaker 1: Proud partner with the Carolina Panthers, it's half and half.
Speaker 2: I can't put that much sugar in me first thing
Speaker 2: in the morning anymore. I am an older person, and
Speaker 2: that will mess me up, so to speak. So's it's
Speaker 2: a little bit much. I'll go half and half first
Speaker 2: thing in the morning. I'll order unsweetened tea every now
Speaker 2: and then. If I need caffeine later in the day
Speaker 2: and it's one hundred degrees, I'm not gonna go full
Speaker 2: JJ Jansen and hot black coffee late in the afternoon
Speaker 2: when it's still August.
Speaker 1: But every now and then, when you need a caffeine
Speaker 1: pop in the afternoon glass of unsweetened tea. There's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with that.
Speaker 4: Exactly exactly.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's something my family's adjusted to overtimes with
Speaker 3: a lot of different things.
Speaker 4: But I was never a sweet tea girl at all,
Speaker 4: and I grew up in Georgia.
Speaker 3: So I feel like I am allowed to have my
Speaker 3: Southern opinion on that. But I was never crazy about
Speaker 3: sweet tea.
Speaker 4: I was a lemonade girl.
Speaker 3: I would I could do an Arnold Palmer because it
Speaker 3: was like a little bit sour enough, but that too sweet.
Speaker 3: Oh So yesterday I kind of kept to myself. I
Speaker 3: didn't want it because there was a lot of a
Speaker 3: lot of chatter like, oh my goodness, Bress you are
Speaker 3: because he also has that partnership with Bojangles. It's like
Speaker 3: you have to you know, sweet tea, Oh my goodness,
Speaker 3: And I was like, I think he gave a very
Speaker 3: diplomatic answer on that because I would have stood up
Speaker 3: there and been like, you know what, I like sweet
Speaker 3: tea and very minimal doses. So I want it to
Speaker 3: almost like help him out there and be like Bryce,
Speaker 3: you know you're you're not alone in that. And plus
Speaker 3: he's he's been in the South longer than when he's
Speaker 3: been here. He went to Alabama. I think that's something
Speaker 3: that we've seen a lot of, like, oh man, California,
Speaker 3: Dude's like he's been in the South for like three
Speaker 3: or four years.
Speaker 4: No, he's knows, he knows what's up? He knows what's up.
Speaker 1: Oh man, it's a different world.
Speaker 2: But no, he also made a very good point, and
Speaker 2: this is one thing I want to touch on as
Speaker 2: we get out of here.
Speaker 1: Uh for the weekend.
Speaker 2: I mean, he did say, you know, he needs to
Speaker 2: kind of recharge, he needs to hit reset a little bit.
Speaker 2: So going into the Long Weekend podcast, Matt, what do
Speaker 2: you got cooking Labor Day weekend?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: I think I work a soccer game.
Speaker 2: So oh no, So I am in that point where
Speaker 2: the two seasons are overlapping.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think you guys have the weekend off.
Speaker 1: You're the hardest working man in the building. Is that
Speaker 1: is such a lie?
Speaker 2: It? Yeah, it's that time of year, I know, and
Speaker 2: I mean Augusta, you and I have talked about it.
Speaker 1: We've each got plans this weekend. Football. You know, I
Speaker 1: sound like Danny Rojas here. Football is life.
Speaker 2: Football becomes your life during the regular season.
Speaker 1: So this is like that last chance we've got.
Speaker 2: And I'm kind of I've been sort of covetous of
Speaker 2: this weekend. It's like the wife and I are going off,
Speaker 2: We're heading out of town for a quick for a
Speaker 2: quick trip. I know, you're going out of town. You've
Speaker 2: just got to reset every now in, don't you.
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 3: And it's funny that you say that, because I know
Speaker 3: football will be consuming our lives. But I actually am
Speaker 3: just chasing down a different kind of football this weekend.
Speaker 4: I am very excited. I think it's going to be awesome.
Speaker 3: The Battle of the Carolina is here at Bank of
Speaker 3: America Stadium for the Duke's Mayo Classic between South Carolina
Speaker 3: North Carolina. I will not be in Charlotte. I'm going
Speaker 3: to see my alma mater play. So I am going
Speaker 3: to Athens because looking at the Panthers schedule, looking at
Speaker 3: the Georgia schedule, there is absolutely no opportunity to go
Speaker 3: to Athens given our week is when I think they're
Speaker 3: at Vanderbilt, So that's not gonna work.
Speaker 4: What high school are you guys playing this weekend?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: We are playing UT Martins right on, gotcha? But no,
Speaker 4: I'm super excited.
Speaker 3: I haven't been back actually to a Georgia game in
Speaker 3: person since the two national championships subtleflex, so we'll see
Speaker 3: three peat time.
Speaker 1: What is a UT Martin anyway?
Speaker 4: A Skyhawk?
Speaker 3: Duh?
Speaker 2: Of course everybody knows that.
Speaker 3: That's where I'll be. But yeah, if you need me,
Speaker 3: I'm actually I'm using my one last football this weekend
Speaker 3: to just find more football.
Speaker 4: So I'm a little ate up with it. I fear.
Speaker 1: That's uh, you know, that is one way to do it.
Speaker 2: I will look forward to next week's full scouting report
Speaker 2: on the UT Martin Skyhawks or whatever they are allegedly.
Speaker 2: We'll find out all about that. We'll find out all
Speaker 2: about a regular season, and when we talk to you
Speaker 2: guys again, it'll be September and it'll be a week
Speaker 2: one of the regular season, and it'll be on.
Speaker 1: And we will remain the happy half hour
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