WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 130: Keep It Moving 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:05.360 This week on a Happy half Hour. I know it 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:08.080 sounds like a cop out or sounds like the easiest 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.440 thing to say, but sometimes the best thing to do 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:12.400 with one that gets off the rails like that one 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:16.000 did is just process tape, go through the talking points 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:19.479 on Monday, learn the lessons everybody except their role in 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:21.120 what went wrong. Keep it moving. 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:27.160 That's the how it. 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:30.760 It's time for the Happy half Hour with your friends. 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:37.680 Darren Ghant and Cassidy Hill. Hello, friends, and welcome to 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.120 the Happy half Hour. And I swear to God it's 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:44.360 going to be happy at some point eventually. But right 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:46.560 it has to be. It's right there in the title. 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:50.600 I think we're contractually obligated. We're also contractually obligated to say. 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.680 The Happy half Hours presented by Southern Star, an official 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:57.240 bourbon partner of the Carolina Panthers, celebrate the spirit of 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.280 the Carolinas. That makes you happy or you know, maybe 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.280 drown your sorrows, whatever works. That was a week. 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:03.680 Huh. 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:05.200 That was something. 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.280 It was Uh, we're both so Southern that we immediately 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:11.000 responded with that was something. 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.640 Uh huh. That was something. Bless it's heart. It was 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.280 a real thing that just happened to us. It was, uh, 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.560 we are not going to spend all that much time 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:23.640 dwelling on that thing. And it's almost like you can't 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.160 even call it by name. But yeah, that started about 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.640 his own which will be named. Yeah. I mean it 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:31.120 started out bad and it kept getting worse and worse, 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:34.520 and it did it in a hurry, and you know, 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:38.120 it's one of those things. It I think because there 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:40.480 was so much new We talked about this in the 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:42.440 mailbag a couple of weeks ago, because there were so 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:45.640 much new new GM, new coach, you know, forty percent 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.480 of the roster, you know, people in jobs they've never 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.480 had before. It's a short step from new to hope. 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.880 And because that had been created by all these fresh 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:58.120 faces and all these new people and all these exciting developments. 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.480 You know, when a fourty seventy ten game lands in 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.400 your lap, and it lands in a hurry, you know, 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.400 it's seventeen nothing after the first quarter, ten nothing after 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:10.679 three minutes, you know, then people are reeling. And I 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.600 think it's because of the expectations and because it was 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.639 so out of line with everything everybody was kind of 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.600 expecting to see from a new and improved offense that 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:21.600 it just kind of rattled a lot of people. 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.880 Yeah, that's a great point, because, I mean, as you said, 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.600 all of a sudden, it was seventeen nothing. They were 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.000 drinking from a fire hose a little bit. And you know, 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.040 you hear coaches say you just got to take it 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:34.480 one play at a time, one play at a time, 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.400 But when you're down seventeen nothing in the blink of 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.840 an eye, you really can't take it one play at 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:41.839 a time. You lose a lot of your run game 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.840 when you get down that quick, that early, and a 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.200 lot of this offense is sort of predicated on the 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.680 run game being able to open things up a little 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:54.240 bit for Bryce, and you know, when you're the defense 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.200 and you get down that early, I mean, they were 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.120 on the field for my goodness. I want to say 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.000 it was not quite double the amount of plays, but 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.840 it was. It was almost a full quarter more than 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.399 the offense was. Defense was on the field for thirty 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.519 six minutes and thirty nine seconds versus offense, which was 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.880 twenty three minutes. Yep. That's almost a full extra quarter 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:15.160 of football field. 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:17.600 And one of the things we've talked about over and 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:20.120 over in this space for the last two or three years, 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.800 it seems like is when it happens like that, usually 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:25.800 it's one side of the ball. The good news about 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.160 this one was it was every side of the all 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.480 the you know, the offense obviously struggled to move. Bryce 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.760 turned it over a couple of times. Jonathan Mingo fumbles. 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.080 Defense gives up one hundred and eighty on the ground 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:39.560 to a team that we didn't think was going to 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.600 be a dominant running team this season. Special teams gets 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.680 a plot block, some big returns. Now Johnny Hecker's on 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:48.720 the injury report, and we'll see how that goes the 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:52.160 rest of the week. But this thing got sideways fast. 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.760 And I like to say once avalanches start going downhill, 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.280 they very seldom stop and turn around and go back up. 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.200 And it just kind of kept going that way the 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.880 whole day, and it was the whole thing. It was systemic. 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.560 It was all three phases, as the football people like 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:06.920 to say. 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.240 Jordan Matthews made I thought an interesting point, which I'll 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:14.400 be honest, if anyone else had made it, I probably 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:17.360 would have scoffed. But Jordan Matthews has been around a 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:19.640 long time and he's a very smart man, so I 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.200 listened when he says stuff, and he said, all three 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.600 phases are walking around here with egg on their face. 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.480 And it almost makes it a little easier to move 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.320 forward because you don't have anybody at all that's walking 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.200 in here with their head held hide and saying, well, 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.520 I did my job where I messed up, because then 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.000 you get a little bit of okay, now this person's 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.000 moving forward to this person's not, and it just creates 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:47.719 at tension. He said, everybody needs to move forward together 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:51.200 because we all showed badly. 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:53.920 Yeahly, I mean. And again we've seen it in the 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:57.520 last couple of years cases where the defense can say, hey, 0:04:57.600 --> 0:04:59.680 we're doing our part. We're trying to hold up our 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:01.560 end when the offense can't move the ball and we 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.440 were out there all day. This stuff's going to happen. 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.159 That's been a thing, whether anybody said it out loud 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:09.800 or not, that is a real thing. And this time 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:13.400 nobody can point fingers at anybody because it was all bad. 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.719 And so one of the things that thinks come through 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:21.000 in the last couple of days. And you know, I 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:25.080 sort of when I'm trying to get big picture perspective 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.120 on things, there's certain people I like to talk to, 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.919 including Jake Gloom and Luke Keigley, because they've been around 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:31.560 and they've seen some things. And I was talking to 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.279 Luke the other day, as you can read on Panthers 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:36.640 dot com, and I said, Luke, what's that plane ride 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:40.960 home like when you take one like that? Because Luke 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.600 was a part of a fifty one thirteen beating at 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.720 San Francisco that was an even worse beating and an 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.000 even longer flight home. And Luke, in his very Luke 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.880 Keighley way, said well, you know, I'd sit there and 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:54.600 I talked to Colin Jones for a little bit, and 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:56.839 me and Khalil would talk, and then I'd wander up 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:58.880 to the front of the plane talk to JJ and 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.720 DA and Greg the boys, and Cam's usually taking a 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.160 nap by that point. So then I would come back 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.120 and I would sit down in my seat, and you know, 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.480 eats my ice cream as. 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.159 One does as one does, and I mean I also 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:12.640 draw my sorrows in ice cream. 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.200 Lukey c Yeah. So Luke, he's just like the rest 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:19.920 of us. But I think his greater point was you 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:24.320 have to recognize that this was a bad one, but 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.400 it was one and especially now that it's one of 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:31.320 seventeen instead of one and sixteen as it was a 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.920 lot of the time when Luke was playing. You kind 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:37.040 of have to compartmentalize the whole thing and turn it off. 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.400 And Luke's point was, you don't freak out about it 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.840 on Sunday night because you can't get ahead. You come 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.200 in Monday, you look at film, you take what you 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.720 can learn from the film, you put it in the 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.240 rear view mirror. You show up to practice on Wednesday. 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.480 You practice that getting the things better that you learned 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:58.520 about on Monday, and then everything's forward. And so I 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.160 know it sounds like cop out or sounds like the 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.960 easiest thing to say, but sometimes the best thing to 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:05.840 do with one that gets off the rails like that 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:09.000 one did is just process the tape, go through the 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:13.240 talking points on Monday, learn the lessons everybody except their 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:14.720 role in what went wrong. 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:16.840 And keep it moving and don't let it beat you 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:17.920 twice yep. 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:23.120 Because that's the thing that's important is you've got a 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.360 serious opponent coming in this weekend. After giving up one 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:30.400 ad on the ground against the Saints. Oh congratulations, here's 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.560 a Jim harball team. Guess what they're going to try 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:32.800 to do. 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.480 Run it straight down off the throat, and. 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.480 That is the way they're built. They've got Bradley Boseman 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:40.480 in the middle of the line, so he's the guy 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.640 people here know well. And they're serious about straight ahead 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.920 running in a way that we have seen before. So 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.480 it's definitely something they've got to get buttoned up in 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.280 a hurry. And oh, by the way, you've got to 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.200 get it buttoned up without Derek Brown. And I think 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:59.000 that's the thing that's probably as problematic as any because 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.120 there can be some emotional carry over there, because as 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:06.480 Dave Canalis said the other day, it's not just replacing 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.800 one guy, it's replacing that guy. 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.480 You look at this game and regardless of the time 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.920 of the score, it's pat or it's field goal, and 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.760 Derek is rushing with full effort the whole time. It's 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:18.360 the spirit of what we want to be about with 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:19.160 the finish. 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.520 And I mean, that's it. Derek is more than just 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.160 a really good football player. He's the guy who's out 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:29.200 there leading all the lines, running sprints before practice and OTAs. 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.160 He's the guy showing up and doing extra He's the 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.880 guy who you know, just got a one hundred million 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.520 dollar contract this offseason, but he doesn't act like it. 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:41.720 He's still Derek. He's still wandering around looking the same 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.000 as he looked before he got the big contract and 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.400 working the same way he worked before he got the contract. 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.640 And honestly, that's why you get contracts like that by 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.400 being that player who works that way. So it's been 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.280 it's been tough at an emotional level for these guys too. 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.920 I think the biggest thing that you have to do there, Darren, 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:05.640 is understand that essentially you can't replace Derek Brown. You're 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:07.880 just going to have to make up for his absence. 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.600 And I think there's a difference in that mindset because 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.679 if you're trying to replace Derek Brown, you're asking people 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.439 to do things that aren't necessarily in their wheelhouse, and 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:22.480 so it's not going to look the same. But Okay, 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.079 how can we make what it is going to look 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:29.960 like work? And that's going to take some stepping up 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:35.400 from Shy Tunnel, from Mashawn Robinson, everybody in that front seven, 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.400 you know, do they play the linebackers closer to the 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.360 line just to kind of help with some of those 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.120 run fits. Those run fits especially, are going to be 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.679 something that they have to be really really sharp on. 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:45.240 This week. 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:49.599 Nick Scott told us yesterday he said, you know, the 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:51.840 thing with the Chargers in their run game is essentially 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.839 they can lull you to sleep, because he said, you know, 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.199 they were averaging two point five yards of pop for 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.199 most of that game, and all of a sudden in 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.560 the fourth quarter they break off two fifty plus yard 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.640 runs and they really start running down their throat from 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.520 that point, he said, So, you know, we're just we've 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:09.720 got to be super super disciplined in our run fits, 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.320 not get bored, and not try to force anything. Don't 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:16.839 try to chase a tackle for loss, you know, because 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.880 then if you're chasing a tackle for loss and they 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.079 get by you, JK. Dobbins is gone. 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.840 Yeah, you know. And one of the things that people 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.440 who say football words like to say is you got 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:29.920 to play run defense with all eleven. You know what, 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.760 as good class to the ball, as good as that 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.800 one guy is, you know, he can be as good 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.080 as he wants to be. But if one other part 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.960 breaks down, that's when you see runs getting gashed down 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:44.559 the field. To your point, cast and so you can 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.280 play sound run defense with people who don't have to 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:51.040 be Derek Brown, but everybody's got to be buttoned up. 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:54.319 It cuts into your margin of era obviously, and you 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.520 know you're taking one of the best run defenders in 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.280 the entire NFL out of the lineup for the next 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.560 seventeen weeks. And now you've got to figure it out. 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.760 And so they brought in Deshaun Williams to the practice 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:09.679 squad this week. Could see him elevated this week, depends 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.080 on how ready to go he is. But they've got 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:14.679 to count on a Shawn. They've got to count on 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.960 Shy Tuttle and Nick Thurman and Lebrin Ray and Jaden 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.640 Peevie because it has to be a collective thing and 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.400 it's not just those front line guys. I mean, the 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:25.280 linebackers are going to play a big role in this, 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:27.720 and I believe that that was one of the biggest 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:31.400 problems last year. But when the run defense struggled, you 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.959 didn't have Shaq Thompson in the middle after Week two, 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.520 and they were trying to turn Frankie Luvu into something 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.240 he was not. They were trying to figure out how 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:43.319 to get defenses called without you know, their longtime captain oldhead, 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:47.720 you know, provider of veteran wisdom, whatever you want to say, Shaq. 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.720 And it was a mess. But now Shaq's back. There's 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.080 a Josie Jewel there. I believe even though Trevin Wallace 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.240 didn't get a defensive snap in last week, we are 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.439 going to see more and more of him as the 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:04.079 season goes along, just because I think you have to 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.839 mix some things up. I think, you know, it's not 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:12.760 alike for like comparison to say he's like Frankie Luvu, 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.240 because very few people are like Frankie Luvu. But I 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.719 think Wileace has the opportunity to be that kind of 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:20.559 wild card type player on defense where you can put 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.160 him in a lot of different spots. And they didn't 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.240 do that last week. But I think his season goes on, 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.040 it's just going to be natural that you start to 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:30.760 see more and more of that guy as they try 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:32.400 to come up with some answers on defense. 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:34.280 A little he plays a little bit with his hair 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.880 on fire too. Yeah, he actually doesn't have much hair 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:38.640 because he keeps his shaved close. But what he does have, 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:42.199 he plays with it on fire. We talked to we 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.199 will talk to Everro today and I'm sure he's not 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.439 going to give away his game plan, but I am 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.599 interested to hear what he has to say about you know, 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.920 could they go a little heavier in that front or 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.920 you know, I can't imagine he would ever play like 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.240 a fifty hunder or anything, but you know, just kind. 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.280 Of look load saying football words. 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:05.199 I've picked up a few things here and there, but like, 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.520 I can't imagine they would do that. But you know, 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.880 do you do you lean that way a little bit 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.360 here and there just because you don't have Derek Brown 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.280 there who could take on double teams, who could who 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.920 could recolle Ligne and maybe just kind of replace him 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:18.959 with more than one body. 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.440 Yeah, it's going to be a challenge, There's no doubt 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.520 about that. And and that's the thing. I mean, it's 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.120 you've got to figure out some answers. And the good 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.960 news is that EJ has proven over the last couple 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:32.240 of years, whether it was his time in Denver his 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:36.160 experience here, if there's anything the guy has proven himself 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.240 capable of doing, it's adjusting. Yeah, I mean, he he 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.920 had a lot of injuries in Denver. You know, they 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:43.719 traded his best pass rush in the middle of the 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:47.960 season a couple of years ago. Things have happened around 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.079 him that's forced him to adjust, and he's done a 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:51.400 pretty good job of adjusting. 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:55.280 So I just secretly love this sort of stuff. I mean, 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.640 you don't not you don't love an injury though, don't 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.280 say that, but you love the challenge of it. 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:04.080 Yeah, I mean they tend to enjoy things that make 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.920 it harder because then it's like, all right, what can 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:08.920 we come up with? What can I scheme up to 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.679 fix this? I mean, you know, if you had a 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.720 dozen Derek Browns, defense would be easy. 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.160 Right, get a flag for having twelve men on the field, 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:18.160 but still. 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:20.480 One of them would be one of them. One of 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.520 them would always be in charge of making sure there's 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:27.000 eleven because there you get Eric's conscientious that way. But yeah, 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.400 it's it's going to be a challenge. It's going to 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:33.320 be a challenge in all phases. But that's both sides 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.000 of the ball. I mean, we talked a little bit 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.880 about the special teams. They're breaking in a lot of 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:41.040 new people this week. You know, Lonnie Johnson, Mike Boone 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.720 get their call ups to the fifty three after being 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.880 practice squaad promotions a week ago. So those two are 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.360 key parts to what Tracy Smith's trying to put together 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:54.880 in the Special team's room. It's it's constant change on 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.320 that side of the ball anyway, especially with the roster 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:00.960 turnover here lately. In talking of all those new people 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:04.680 in new roles, you know, it gets magnified for special 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.920 teams because everything is geared toward putting your best eleven 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.920 on the field offense and defense. Special teams coaches have 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.960 been making soup out of, you know, whatever's left over 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.640 in the fridge for years, and Tracy Smith's jobs even 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:21.760 more ambitious. I don't know if that's the right word 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:25.600 for it. Complicated is probably a better word, because you know, 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.800 they did claim six guys off waivers in week one. 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.760 They are shuffling guys in and out already this season, 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.680 so having guys like Lonnie, having guys like Mike Boone 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.160 can have a stabilizing effect on that. But it's going 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:39.960 to take some time for some of that stuff to 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.960 get settled down. Because they did they allowed some big 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:47.720 returns the other week there. You know, it just wasn't 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:49.720 a tight operation. But I don't know that you can 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:53.960 fairly assume a tight operation, given the circumstances they've got 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:54.360 to work with. 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.120 I'm curious too, how much of those big returns had 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.160 to do with this really being the first time. Know 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.880 greented people on special teams were playing in the preseason, 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.520 but this is the first time you're really seeing teams 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:07.240 pull out what they're going to do with this new 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:12.120 kickoff rule. I'm curious as the season goes on if 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:14.320 we'll see some of that get tightened up, not just 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:15.440 here but around the league. 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:19.800 Yeah, things tend to regress to the mean, so to speak. 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.280 I think that was Archimedes law or Murphy's I don't know. 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.400 That was part of the pre show meeting the show 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.360 within the show here at the happy half hour. 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:31.520 I tried too hard. I philosophy too close to the sign. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.720 Murphy's law is a basic one. I tried to get fancy. 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:38.440 Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna discuss full crumbs on next 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.440 week half a half hour. That's really gonna goose the ratings. 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:44.560 It'll be a bonanza, which philosopher said, give me a 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.080 full Groman, I can move the world. 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:47.640 That was archamedie. Is it really there? 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:48.320 You go? Okay? 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:52.160 So it's uh might have been more of a mathematician 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:56.560 than a philosopher. But anyway, so we uh, we will 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:58.600 have a lot to talk about next week. I mean 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:00.960 that that match up against Chargers is going to be 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:05.399 so curious because there's going to be a lot of expectation. 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.160 I mean, if there was anything good about that game 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.600 last week, it was that it was in another place 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.520 and the home fans didn't have to endure that one. 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:16.200 So I think there's going to be a lot of 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.639 anticipation when people come into Bank of America Stadium on 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.720 Sunday looking at the forecast. Could be a little damp, oh, 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.480 could be a little messy, could be And you know, frankly, 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:29.679 I think that kind of plays into the game because 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.200 you know, a Jim harball team wants to run. You 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.200 know that the Carolina Panthers would prefer to run, and 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:39.280 especially in the aftermath of that game last week, I 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.400 think they're going to want to take some stuff off 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.280 Bryce's plate, make it easier for him, allow him to 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.040 settle in. I mean, have that steady diet. You know, 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:50.399 when the first pass of the game, first play of 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.440 the game gets picked off, you're behind the eight ball immediately, 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:55.480 and it's hard to run with intent. It's hard to 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.680 run stubbornly, as Dave Canalis likes to say, when you're 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.120 down ten oh in the first three minutes of the game. 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.880 So give us some wet conditions, give us two teams 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:06.320 that want to run the ball. Let's play a good 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.240 two hour and forty five minute football game and see 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:08.800 what happens. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.960 If that first past had not been picked off, that 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:16.440 I would have loved that opener, because you come out 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.480 first play of the new season, new head coach, yard 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.800 lay caller. Let's throw it down there, Let's let's light 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.639 a fire. But then, of course it got dast very quickly. 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:27.440 You know, yeap, Hindsight's twenty. 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.920 But as the wise men Luke Keighley and our comedies 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:33.920 tell us, it is one game. Let's eat some mike 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.520 and move on. So anyway, what else we got this 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.160 week and week two? We gotta we have to revisit 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.640 our our newest happy half hour tradition, the happy half 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:48.640 hour jukebox. H I listened to your girl, Taylor Swift there, 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:50.440 what was the name of that song? Right where you left, 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:54.160 right where you left me? Yeah, she's complicated that one. Huh, Right, 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.520 that's a that's a lot. I am not a big 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.760 consumer of the Taylor Swift product, as you may be aware. 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.000 And I listened to that three or four times through 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.640 on a couple of different occasions last week, and Yeah, 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:11.720 she's she's got some issues unpacked there, doesn't she? 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.000 That one. I think that's why I like that one too, 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:16.399 because I mean, she does this in a lot of 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.720 her songs, but that one's a really good example where 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.720 she just like takes a first breath, starts in, and 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:23.560 then doesn't let up until the song is over. 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:25.640