Speaker 1: This week on the group chat, the Emmys are this week.
Speaker 1: You heard that rights the seventy one Emmy. So we're
Speaker 1: turning football into show business and handing out our own
Speaker 1: Emmy nominations. Lead Actor in a Comedy Series I would
Speaker 1: dominate Greg Olson's and then we spark the debate of
Speaker 1: what is an ugly uniform? Number? Nineteen? Was not cool?
Speaker 1: Is being like not cool? Yeah? He he kind of
Speaker 1: made it cool. And then he came to the Panthers
Speaker 1: and all of this and so much more, including previewing
Speaker 1: this week against the Arizona Cardinals. On the group chat,
Speaker 1: You've been added to the group chat with your friends
Speaker 1: Caroline can, Max Sensen, and Will Brian. Guys, I'm taking
Speaker 1: it down a notch today. I won't be in this
Speaker 1: group chat much. I'm gonna kind of lay my phone
Speaker 1: down off to the side and just let you guys
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, do do your thing. No nobody
Speaker 1: wants now, who would want that? Are you putting yourself
Speaker 1: on noor or putting us on ignor I'm just muting
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Speaker 1: Nobody wants to listen to me and will talk for
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Speaker 1: Weekend Reviews Ben Rickman one two three creative name Ben
Speaker 1: try Harder gave me quite the review and I just
Speaker 1: wanted to start this podcast off saying, Ben, this one's
Speaker 1: for you. I'm gonna work hard on this one. I
Speaker 1: did not drink my fourth cup of coffee, which you
Speaker 1: think I apparently drink every day, which would be impressive,
Speaker 1: but I don't um. I've had a bottle of water,
Speaker 1: and I have my piece of paper in front of
Speaker 1: me ready to do this. So Ben, this one's for you, buddy.
Speaker 1: Hope you enjoy it. But what I hope you also
Speaker 1: enjoy is that we there is a third member on
Speaker 1: the po cast. Ben, you gave no shout out to Will. Yeah, Max, congratulations,
Speaker 1: you know your takes your Everyone loves Max. That's just
Speaker 1: what it is. Everyone loves Max. By Ben Rickman one
Speaker 1: two three. He's already annoyed with how excited I got
Speaker 1: about the fact that he didn't know Will is on
Speaker 1: the podcast. Right that was that was too loud for him? Ye? Sorry, Ben,
Speaker 1: are you listening Today's in the morning? Like, are you
Speaker 1: listening to them in the morning? And you're not a
Speaker 1: morning person and so it's hard. I don't know, Ben,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna make you proud on this one. And
Speaker 1: will you have to talk a lot in this one? Okay,
Speaker 1: I can't really talk much. I'm going to take a
Speaker 1: backseat on this one. I thought, I think that's what
Speaker 1: should happen. Max. We need more, we need Cowbell back.
Speaker 1: We always love reading the reviews, so continue to leave them. Although, um,
Speaker 1: we prefer the five stars, so you can write like
Speaker 1: a scathing review, but maybe just give us like five
Speaker 1: stars off the top. Sure, yeah, that seems fair. That's
Speaker 1: really we're just looking. It's like Uber. Okay, it's like uber,
Speaker 1: just get outside five stars, five stars and then we're um,
Speaker 1: so yeah, thank you, Ben Rickman one two, three, creative
Speaker 1: little nickname you got there for yourself, and we'll try
Speaker 1: and make you proud. And this one, but this one
Speaker 1: we're talking about the Emmy's not football. The Emmys, the
Speaker 1: seventy one Emmys are on Sunday of this week, and
Speaker 1: we are going to talk football because we're going to
Speaker 1: nominate Panther players, personnel, staff, anyone that we want to.
Speaker 1: I also went a little bit off the script here
Speaker 1: and I nominated other people around the NFL for some
Speaker 1: of these awards, So get ready, Max, you have to
Speaker 1: go first, because yeah, you have to go first. Wait, wait,
Speaker 1: hold on, do y'all watch the Emmy's Yeah, I'll watch them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like to have them on. I love all awards
Speaker 1: shows just for like the pageantry and the host and
Speaker 1: all of those things. I watch a lot of TV,
Speaker 1: so I I just like I'll have a rooting interest
Speaker 1: and like, I want my shows to win. What are
Speaker 1: the kind of the rankings of award shows like Oscar's, Emmy's, Graham,
Speaker 1: I have any saying I love any music awards show, Like,
Speaker 1: I think those are the best. They're just the most entertaining.
Speaker 1: But yeah, when the TV and movie ones, you know
Speaker 1: the winners beforehand most of the time, Yeah, yeah, I think. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's rarely like, oh my gosh, they want you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of don't like that. Yeah, I like knowing
Speaker 1: in the moment. Do you like it more for like
Speaker 1: the performances in the show or the actual like who's
Speaker 1: going to win something? Definitely, And the speeches sometimes I
Speaker 1: get uncomfortable, So I like seeing the highlights of the speeches.
Speaker 1: So I like to have it on, But I'm not
Speaker 1: one that's like, okay, this this person. It can be
Speaker 1: kind of fun to see this famous person like be
Speaker 1: awkward in on live television. That's kind of like, you know, Oh,
Speaker 1: they're normal, they're just like us. They're rambling or who
Speaker 1: wasn't Jennifer Lawrence tripped? Yeah, those moments are always fun.
Speaker 1: But she did it so gracefully the second time she
Speaker 1: kind of it looks nice and made a couple of pictures. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're always entertaining, they're always fun. But this one is
Speaker 1: Sunday eight o'clock, big rival with the NFL games. I
Speaker 1: don't gonna be catching that one, but what are you
Speaker 1: guys gonna be watching? So we'll be catching the highlights
Speaker 1: of the Emmys. But it gave us a pretty fun
Speaker 1: little way to navigate through this week as the Carolina
Speaker 1: Panthers get ready to go to Arizona to take on
Speaker 1: the O and two Arizona Cardinals too, oh and two teams.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna get to that matchup in just a
Speaker 1: little bit, but first let's go through our nominees as
Speaker 1: what kind of help set us up for what is
Speaker 1: coming later when we preview this game, but Max, you
Speaker 1: have to go first, since Ben likes you the best. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so much pressure. Um. Alright, So here are a couple
Speaker 1: that I have. I'll start off with some of the
Speaker 1: big ones, like lead actor in a comedy series. I
Speaker 1: would dominate Greg Olson. I mean, he's hilarious. I would
Speaker 1: watch that show. I know both of you would watch
Speaker 1: that show. We have watched that there might actually be
Speaker 1: a show that there might actually be a show in
Speaker 1: the works that we don't know about yet that's coming
Speaker 1: one s. I gets done playing football, So that was
Speaker 1: an obvious one for me. Supporting Actor has to do
Speaker 1: with Thursday Night Football. Did you guys see the acting
Speaker 1: job by j J Jansen on that punt? No? I
Speaker 1: missed it. So JJ is running down the field to
Speaker 1: cover the punt, and this was like a pretty big
Speaker 1: return for Tampa Bay. But j J kind of like
Speaker 1: sensing that there wasn't really like a lot of contain
Speaker 1: kind of like backed himself into a buck God drew
Speaker 1: a block in the black. If you watch the replay,
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty like he does a pretty good sell job.
Speaker 1: So for the acting credentials alone, I give JJ nomination
Speaker 1: for the Supporting Actor rule. Because that was impressive. That's awesome. Um, actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to ask about that. Actually he'll probably say like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's completely a block in the black obviously, but that's
Speaker 1: a good actor for you. Um. Some other interesting award categories.
Speaker 1: There were some about like hairstyle, So yeah, like hairstyling
Speaker 1: for a limited series or a movie. Because I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna say hair styling here, best hair on the team
Speaker 1: Ray Ray McLoud and I don't think it's close right
Speaker 1: arms would try and jump into yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: I had some like bleached hair for a little while. Yea, um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, there's no Ray. Ray's hair is outrageous. I
Speaker 1: guess Cam would be upset if we didn't mention his hair.
Speaker 1: But I think there are a lot of split opinions
Speaker 1: on that. What do you think Cam's hair? Duke Will?
Speaker 1: I like it? I don't. I don't know, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I don't get triggered by all this stuff. You know,
Speaker 1: why is why is his hair doing this? And why
Speaker 1: does he have a cams outfits? We can go costume
Speaker 1: design here and obviously, but man, you were telling me
Speaker 1: that the website was going nuts with everyone looking at
Speaker 1: Cam's outfits. I mean, so it became one of those
Speaker 1: things where the analytics from the website this weekend were
Speaker 1: the highest performing gallery with like Cam's training camp outfits
Speaker 1: from two years ago, because people were all googling it.
Speaker 1: You know, there's this Vogue did you say this as
Speaker 1: Vogue article of fending cams to say visions with fashion
Speaker 1: and how people if you know, people being critical of
Speaker 1: it is really an indictment on our society and that
Speaker 1: we should be like giving people freedom to express themselves
Speaker 1: with their style. We've made it to Vogue. I love
Speaker 1: Vogue has some of the my favorite videos on YouTube.
Speaker 1: They do like the seventy three questions, they do all
Speaker 1: the like win Tour. I'm sad I missed this. Please
Speaker 1: we'll have to send. So those are my nominees. Enough
Speaker 1: of me, let's hear what you guys have. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think for Best Musical Composition, I mean Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 1: very We all love that video from from him playing
Speaker 1: the piano. You know, I got choked up a little bit.
Speaker 1: It was such a little thing. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: he's talented. Man, man has talent. It's a It wasn't
Speaker 1: an original, wasn't an original piece, but he made it
Speaker 1: seem like one that didn't he Yes, he did, Yes,
Speaker 1: he did. Um. This isn't technically listed on on this one,
Speaker 1: but you know, the best ensemble. I would bring it
Speaker 1: back just to kind of too special teams. Overall, this
Speaker 1: is not nearly as fun as some of the other
Speaker 1: things we've listed, but like obviously, when Ray Ray catches
Speaker 1: the ball, he does pretty well. I had he had
Speaker 1: a pretty big return in the key point when he
Speaker 1: needs to catch it. Though Joey Slide leads the NFL
Speaker 1: and fifty yard field goals. He's got three already. It
Speaker 1: makes it look easy. I mean, it's incredible. You just
Speaker 1: he you know, he's living right. The ball is just
Speaker 1: bouncing in from the you know, from the upright, bouncing
Speaker 1: through and after I'm missing his first which I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people are like, oh boy, oh gosh,
Speaker 1: he missed the first one, like is this how is
Speaker 1: he gonna handle that? And then he's made his last
Speaker 1: six three three from fifty plus. I'm pretty sure he's
Speaker 1: the team's leading score right now. Yeah, yeah, he is,
Speaker 1: Yes he is. Those are good? You got another one
Speaker 1: for those are two? Well, I was kind of gonna
Speaker 1: mind just wasn't nearly as funny. I was gonna put
Speaker 1: Greg for supporting Actor just because, you know, I just
Speaker 1: I don't think that people were expecting Greg to be
Speaker 1: you know, everyone's kind of like, oh, you got Curtis,
Speaker 1: he got DJ got Christian. Greg goes out here and
Speaker 1: gets a hundred in something yards and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that was my nominee. So I have Greg four supporting
Speaker 1: actor because he is the one that you don't ever
Speaker 1: need this, you know, role in a movie until you
Speaker 1: need him. And that's how Greg Olsen is for this team.
Speaker 1: It's one of it's like the reason you carry cash,
Speaker 1: you like, never really need cash, and too absolutely deep,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So that's Greg Olsen. Okay,
Speaker 1: he has a hundred and forty six yards on ten
Speaker 1: receptions and he's averaging fourteen point six reception. Here shows up,
Speaker 1: run into the open field, Greg catches the vault, looks around.
Speaker 1: He's like, I guess I gotta keep going. I guess
Speaker 1: I gotta run here. But I also also want to
Speaker 1: point out that on the sidelines, when you know this
Speaker 1: team was trying to find a win against Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: obviously not the end and we wanted, but Greg was
Speaker 1: the one making sure everyone was fired up and dialed in.
Speaker 1: You could nominate him for director as well. Yeah, Greg
Speaker 1: does how to direct things. Greg's a hot topic here
Speaker 1: for them. I think we should. We're pretty much giving
Speaker 1: all the awards to all the awards to Greg. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm going on for costume um Don Toner just because
Speaker 1: he has fifty three really like forty or so, but
Speaker 1: fifty three guys on the roster that all have their
Speaker 1: unique style. They want to wear this sleeve, they want
Speaker 1: to wear this wrist band, they want to have these socks.
Speaker 1: They want to do all these things. And Don Toner
Speaker 1: and his staff like they pull it off. And what
Speaker 1: we said earlier about the uniforms not coming in until
Speaker 1: days before they have to go like this is still happening. People,
Speaker 1: So we have to give Don ton Er a huge
Speaker 1: shout out. He would he would win. Okay, he's winning
Speaker 1: the Emmy for Panthers costume for what did you think
Speaker 1: Reality Programming? What did you think of the blue jersey,
Speaker 1: black pants? Look clean? I thought it looked good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it did look like a new uniform, better as to
Speaker 1: last year. You're right, Yeah, it looked good in the
Speaker 1: stadium too, Like I know that's weird, but like it
Speaker 1: looked good the lights and everything. Yeah, it looked really good. Alright.
Speaker 1: I went for the entire NFL on this one. But
Speaker 1: when I was reading through the list of the different
Speaker 1: categories like drama series, I bounced around on this one
Speaker 1: a little bit. I wrote down, I went team here,
Speaker 1: but it's the Browns. The Browns for me are gonna
Speaker 1: win the drama series because there's still so much to
Speaker 1: talk about with that team of what they've done just
Speaker 1: last night. Okay, we're filming this on or we're taping
Speaker 1: this on Tuesday, Monday Night football. There were so many
Speaker 1: storylines for this broadcasters to get through. I got confused,
Speaker 1: Like it was, you know, the the defensive coordinator from
Speaker 1: the Jets and you know, wanted to be the head
Speaker 1: coach and Freddy Kitchens, Now what's going on with this
Speaker 1: play calling? Baker Mayfield feeling dangerous? You got Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: with one handicap. Like, there were so many storylines. I
Speaker 1: thought to myself, what are they going to talk about
Speaker 1: next week? But then you look at their schedule that's
Speaker 1: coming up, and you're like, oh, it's not over for them,
Speaker 1: like they have to continue. It's just who's on their schedule.
Speaker 1: Like in all it's like there's there's no shortage of
Speaker 1: the Yes, I think that's true. They have the Ramps
Speaker 1: thumbs up from he confirms it's the Rams. It's going
Speaker 1: to be like a fascinating and you knew this going in,
Speaker 1: but then like the Raider stole the headlines for a while.
Speaker 1: Although the okay, this one, I might regret saying this
Speaker 1: because well, I feel like people were going to agree
Speaker 1: for comedy guest actor, I'm giving this to Antonio Brown.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say Antonio has to be mentioned. He's
Speaker 1: the guest actor for the Raiders. He was just a guest.
Speaker 1: Now he is on the Patriots and we haven't heard
Speaker 1: a heap out of him. He's just he's not even
Speaker 1: doing after game like availability has some extracurricular activities going
Speaker 1: on right now. He is a little He does have
Speaker 1: some interesting things on the backburner that he needs to
Speaker 1: handle there. But as far as just what he did
Speaker 1: with the Raiders, that's where I'm pulling this from comedy
Speaker 1: guest actor for the Raiders Antonio Brown there, it was
Speaker 1: fascinating it was just every day you thought it was over,
Speaker 1: it's not over, and it's still not for although now
Speaker 1: it's getting more serious. We're getting into real accusations here. Um,
Speaker 1: but we're you know, we're still you talk about like
Speaker 1: a lot of dealing with that. People will say the
Speaker 1: NFL is a soap opera, and it's never been more
Speaker 1: true than with the Antonio Brown situation. I mean, it
Speaker 1: is just absurred. We're looking at a headline right now
Speaker 1: that I'm not going to say on air, but wow,
Speaker 1: if you google Antonio Brown New York Post, there's an
Speaker 1: article from yesterday. It just came up on my Twitter
Speaker 1: this morning. Sure you haven't found this for sure, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, for yourself, we're gonna we're gonna save everyone
Speaker 1: and not say it. But if you choose to go
Speaker 1: and google that on your own, I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: you say like you're welcome or I'm sorry for you,
Speaker 1: but yes, that one I will say. I feel like
Speaker 1: every single year we're like, gosh, that it cannot get
Speaker 1: more crazy than this year. But I think with the
Speaker 1: quarterback injuries that's going around the league, the crazy growth
Speaker 1: of the way that social media is persuading that how
Speaker 1: many players have quested a trade from their team. I
Speaker 1: think it's crazy. What's going on in Miami is crazy.
Speaker 1: I just think the world of social media is completely
Speaker 1: changing the NFL and the voice that these players have,
Speaker 1: and it is making the drama. Yeah. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: the the NFL is in some ways is beginning to
Speaker 1: catch up to the NBA. Say it feels like the
Speaker 1: NBA has influenced this. It's sort of like open NFL
Speaker 1: players eyes and kind of like motivated them to try
Speaker 1: to take on some more power in these situations. And yeah,
Speaker 1: like Jalen Ramsey, Antonio Brown, these guys are like, I'm
Speaker 1: out and while we're sitting here, sorry I interrupted your
Speaker 1: sentences been layoff? Did just cut them off there? But
Speaker 1: this is because breaking news while we're recording this on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: Eli Maning no longer the starting quarterback for the Giant,
Speaker 1: So there's another layer of drama for Daniel Jones Era.
Speaker 1: I mean, shoot, Carson Wentz got hurt during the game
Speaker 1: on Sunday night. Yeah, I mean yeah, Josh McCown out there,
Speaker 1: Josh McCown. It is. It is really a crazy crazy
Speaker 1: We're two weeks in talking like you didn't even mention Andrew. Look,
Speaker 1: I mean, like there's so many quarterbacks and it's not
Speaker 1: it's not good for the league. I mean, look, Caroline
Speaker 1: has got their own quarterback situation right now with with
Speaker 1: Cam Newton. Everyone's trying to figure out what's what's going
Speaker 1: on with Cam? But man, I mean Roethlisberger, Breeze Luck.
Speaker 1: It's it's a quarterback driven league, and where all the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks going? Right? We're looking at Nick Falk? Yeah, right now,
Speaker 1: Luke Fox. Luke Fox. Are you didn't even know his name? Us?
Speaker 1: Luke Falk? What's his name? I think? So? Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I mean that's a fascinat Okay, that's a fascinating part.
Speaker 1: He took practice squad reps going into that game, and
Speaker 1: then on Monday Night football, Yeah, I mean you can
Speaker 1: just watch a little bit of that game. You could
Speaker 1: tell the guys out there he's just like, well, I'm
Speaker 1: not really ready for this up alright, white ady white
Speaker 1: adye hike. And then it's just interesting to see Ryan
Speaker 1: Khalil snapping, I know, the first time I've seen him. Yeah, yeah, five.
Speaker 1: Ryan always said he hated sixty five when he got
Speaker 1: that as a rookie. It's always much better because always
Speaker 1: cracking me up because he would say this, and he
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, they gave me this disgusting number. I
Speaker 1: had to wear sixty five my rookie year, and like
Speaker 1: a mini Sola total had a locker right next to him.
Speaker 1: He wore sixty five, and it was like, you're dogging
Speaker 1: this number the guy right next to you as to
Speaker 1: where it's I thought that was, I don't know, ugly
Speaker 1: and disgusting. Why seven any better? I don't know. He
Speaker 1: liked the seven a lot that anyway. And I was
Speaker 1: wearing fifty five, which I thought was weird. That's a linebacker.
Speaker 1: Now we we We had this discussion yesterday and Caroline
Speaker 1: hop In here like what are good numbers versus what
Speaker 1: are like ugly numbers? I agree, like what what? What's
Speaker 1: an ugly number for you? So my niece right now
Speaker 1: is playing soccer. First, she's four years old, and I
Speaker 1: got a photo of her her uniform. She's seventy What
Speaker 1: what that wasn't my thing? I was like, She's like,
Speaker 1: seventies a fine number, but on a four year old
Speaker 1: playing soccer when there's five people on the team. I
Speaker 1: did not understand the seventies. So I just think as
Speaker 1: long as the number made yeah huge, she would definitely
Speaker 1: choose hands down. But I don't if it fits for
Speaker 1: like your position group is there. I don't think there's
Speaker 1: like a bad number. But I was thirteen. I loved thirteen.
Speaker 1: Some people didn't like thirteen, but I love Yeah. I
Speaker 1: just loved that, so I had. I was ten, I
Speaker 1: was five and then like, but I don't know about
Speaker 1: like ugly. I don't know, like okay, I thought some
Speaker 1: girl on my team she had like, like, we're volleyball team,
Speaker 1: we don't have that many players. I think that's when
Speaker 1: it gets weird when you have like a number that's
Speaker 1: outside the scope of like seventy for a five person
Speaker 1: four year old. I'll give like, I think six is ugly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just don't like six. I just wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: wear it like sex. I don't like not like just
Speaker 1: not a clean number either. I'll take five and seven,
Speaker 1: but don't give me six. Is anyone else out there
Speaker 1: like this? I'm sure some ugly numbers. When I played
Speaker 1: high school, so saying said, yeah, they gave me sixty
Speaker 1: five and that was the only jersey they had left,
Speaker 1: And so I had to. I had to stick with
Speaker 1: sixty five. And I was so excited to share with
Speaker 1: my parents that I had this new number. And I
Speaker 1: went home to look up what football player at the
Speaker 1: time I had sixty five, and none of them did.
Speaker 1: So I'll say this too, Like before Luke Kickley, I
Speaker 1: would have said, like, fifty nine is an ugly number,
Speaker 1: but a person can change the whole trajectory of a number.
Speaker 1: And now I agree. If you're good, you can do anything.
Speaker 1: You can make it cool, you can make anything you want.
Speaker 1: I remember growing up Keyshawn Johnson made night nineteen was
Speaker 1: not cool? Is being like not cool? Yeah? He he
Speaker 1: kind of made it cool. And then he came to
Speaker 1: the Panthers and nineteen. Yeah. I think maybe nineteen might
Speaker 1: be my my ugly number. I'm just not really into
Speaker 1: the nineteen. That's interesting. This is a really fascinating Do
Speaker 1: you think that receivers should be in the eighties or
Speaker 1: the teens? The teens? Yeah, I don't get the eighties
Speaker 1: for receivers. That's like it's a traditionalist. All the eighties
Speaker 1: used to all the receivers used to be in eighties.
Speaker 1: Now all the younger guys, I think it's because so
Speaker 1: it's the body of the person wearing it. So I
Speaker 1: think the reason seventy looks so funny on my four
Speaker 1: year old nieces because she's tiny. So like with receivers,
Speaker 1: it's like in college football when seven number nine, look,
Speaker 1: that looks so funny. So I think it should just
Speaker 1: be you know, centered in a way that still gives
Speaker 1: some space on the side, So like a thirteen or
Speaker 1: something like that. You can fit that on a wide
Speaker 1: receiver and he still has some root. Do you guys
Speaker 1: remember when Michigan's quarterback, like three or four years ago,
Speaker 1: Gardner I think was his last name, he wore number
Speaker 1: and he put quarterback. Yeah, that looked terrible, terrible. It
Speaker 1: looks like someone like it's just not right. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not right. You can't be doing that. Is that even
Speaker 1: allowed in college? Yeah, they allow. There's a lot more
Speaker 1: flexibility with this stuff. But that look at that, it
Speaker 1: looks like a sample jersey that like they let me
Speaker 1: see how because his last name is a little a
Speaker 1: little bit longer. So it's like, let's see how many
Speaker 1: characters we can fit on this jersey. And what are
Speaker 1: your feelings about the double zero? It's not really a
Speaker 1: football thing. I don't know. My thing is like why, yeah, why.
Speaker 1: I think at one point I was when when I
Speaker 1: was really little playing little league soccer, I was a
Speaker 1: goalie with double zero. But I think that was like
Speaker 1: the thing like Polis had zero. Eric Montrose, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I don't understand it and don't know because you have
Speaker 1: to request that, Like that's not something, although I do
Speaker 1: find it funny. The person that wears number one on
Speaker 1: every team is always like an interesting character. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a certain personality trait that comes with that. You have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Pat McAfee with the ski War number one, and I
Speaker 1: thought he was just the perfect number one, just that
Speaker 1: that's that's the type of character. I want to wear
Speaker 1: a number one jersey because it's ridiculous. Cam obviously took
Speaker 1: on number one with a certain swaggers. You cannot walk
Speaker 1: around with a number one on your jersey and not
Speaker 1: be some type of like unique individual. Wills over there googling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's down the double zero round he has deepen there. Well,
Speaker 1: let's preview quickly the Arizona Cardinals that Carolina Panthers. An
Speaker 1: interesting week here for the Carolina Panthers. Normally for away games,
Speaker 1: they will travel on Saturday to the opposing city, but
Speaker 1: this week they're going on Friday. The time difference has
Speaker 1: a big thing to do with it. Go out there.
Speaker 1: They will have a walk through and kind of like
Speaker 1: mock game Saturday in air Zota. Guess what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do with your extra day in Arizona. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try to find some good takas. I mean, we're out
Speaker 1: in Phoenix, supposedly pretty good. The foodie in me is
Speaker 1: going to try to find the best tacas I can
Speaker 1: in Phoenix. So we'll see. I'll report back. I'm actually here. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm staying. So I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna get up
Speaker 1: and go watch this Michigan Wisconsin game and text Max
Speaker 1: to wake him up since it's going to be like
Speaker 1: nine am, kick nine am. I'm just like, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: really sweet. I'm hopevillly gonna find some hiking. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: some hiking around. Um. Lisa Matthews their team reporter for
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. She is really good at hosting the team
Speaker 1: reporters that come in. So I think we're going to go.
Speaker 1: Is it is it like elevation? Is there a lot
Speaker 1: of elevation or is it like flat hiking, Like there's
Speaker 1: like mountains. There's some mountains out there, but they're not
Speaker 1: like I mean, but it's yeah, there are some. It's
Speaker 1: just hot. I was talking to a few of my
Speaker 1: girlfriends that have gone out there. It's just hot hiking.
Speaker 1: So it'll be everyone says it's that dry heat, but
Speaker 1: like that's it's still really hot. You can't get away
Speaker 1: from one thing, all right, But football wise, this is
Speaker 1: an interesting match up between two teams that are O
Speaker 1: in two. Both have allowed a lot of points in
Speaker 1: these first cardinals tied though, right, so they are oh
Speaker 1: one and one, which is the tie? Yeah, oh one
Speaker 1: and one. So an interesting just an interesting week here
Speaker 1: of football. I think there's a lot of question marks
Speaker 1: for both teams, a lot of question marks, so it's
Speaker 1: a little bit hard to preview this of just what
Speaker 1: is going to happen when the teams get out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Panthers are desperate for a win. I mean at O
Speaker 1: in two and losing that game, and we talked about
Speaker 1: it on the last show. You got a short week
Speaker 1: at divisional opponent coming to your place for Thursday night football.
Speaker 1: That was one you kind of felt they gotta have
Speaker 1: they have didn't get it, Uh, and now they're backed
Speaker 1: into a corner. I mean, there's there's really no other
Speaker 1: way to say it. Um, you've put yourself in a
Speaker 1: real hole and the only way to get out of
Speaker 1: it is to play better football. Really, I mean it
Speaker 1: just sounds simple, but they keep they keep making mistakes. Um,
Speaker 1: they moved the ball. Well. I went on this whole
Speaker 1: big rant on the show last week and talked about
Speaker 1: how they need big plays. Where they got the big plays,
Speaker 1: but it does you no good if you get down
Speaker 1: into the fringe red zone area and then take a
Speaker 1: sack and now you're looking at second and seventeen and
Speaker 1: your quarterback is getting hit. It was just it wasn't
Speaker 1: clean enough football again for them to get a win
Speaker 1: in a game that, much like in the opener, was
Speaker 1: there to be had. I mean it was. It was
Speaker 1: there for the taking at home against the Bucks team
Speaker 1: that did just enough in the end. But Carolina right
Speaker 1: now is the frustration is mounting. The fans are upset.
Speaker 1: Everyone gets it. Um, there's no way to change it
Speaker 1: other than to get a win. And it's not gonna
Speaker 1: be easy going on the road to face Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: and this Cardinals team that how has the potential to
Speaker 1: hurt you. I mean, they're they're they're young, and they're
Speaker 1: they're gonna kind of take their lumps as they go
Speaker 1: through this. But Murray can make plays and we're gonna
Speaker 1: find out how the defense can fare against that. And really,
Speaker 1: we all want to know how this Panther's offense is
Speaker 1: gonna fair because that's been the thing where all the
Speaker 1: all the attention is focused on. Right now, what's the
Speaker 1: deal with Cam? What's the deal with this offense? If
Speaker 1: teams are going to do with the Bucks did and
Speaker 1: try to just take away Christian McCaffrey, can this offense
Speaker 1: score points? Yeah, they're gonna try to make the Panthers
Speaker 1: be one dimensional. Every teams on the row, you know,
Speaker 1: then take away the running game. They're gonna dare the
Speaker 1: Panthers to beat them through the year. And it's it's
Speaker 1: starting to feel like it that almost you know that
Speaker 1: the defense got a safety last week, it's almost gonna
Speaker 1: feel that the defense is going to have to score,
Speaker 1: you know, if not, if not actually score, you know,
Speaker 1: at least give the ball in plus territory, you know,
Speaker 1: in scoring territory for this team to be and who knows.
Speaker 1: I mean, Kyler Murray has been been hit, He's been
Speaker 1: sacked a lot. It's been sacked eight times. You know.
Speaker 1: I think they're big play both ways. They can be
Speaker 1: they can kill you with the big play or they
Speaker 1: can give up a big play that can really shift
Speaker 1: momentum to you. So it's a question of can this
Speaker 1: defense ratchet it up yet another level to to be
Speaker 1: a playmaking defense, because it's almost like that's what that's
Speaker 1: what the team needs right now. It's a lot to ask,
Speaker 1: it's a lot to ask. I'm with you, though, I
Speaker 1: think that the piece that I want to see that
Speaker 1: I think this team needs. When we can talk a
Speaker 1: lot about the things on offense, you know, the defense,
Speaker 1: there's they've got some things to work through as well.
Speaker 1: But I think a takeaway from that secondary is so needed. Yes,
Speaker 1: because I mean but also capital. I mean we saw
Speaker 1: that from James Bradberry. He got the takeaway and then
Speaker 1: you give it to the offense and nothing comes of it.
Speaker 1: You go three and out. But I think when you're
Speaker 1: going against Kyler Murray, who he's still learning, when you
Speaker 1: hear you know, Will grew was talking a lot about
Speaker 1: the speed of the game. Well, the same thing is
Speaker 1: happening for Kyler Murray and he's being asked to start
Speaker 1: and and from day one he was the one with
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on him to make sure that
Speaker 1: this offense is going on him and Cliff Kingsbury going
Speaker 1: through that. So I think this is a week for
Speaker 1: the secondary to have a really good game, get some
Speaker 1: takeaways and take it to the house, Like, don't let's
Speaker 1: just skip this whole giving it back to the offense
Speaker 1: and let's just go back. Let's score, because I think
Speaker 1: I want to see the Panthers play from ahead. I
Speaker 1: know everyone does. And yes, that's like every week. You're like, well,
Speaker 1: duck Caroline, like, of course you do. But we haven't
Speaker 1: seen that yet. We haven't seen you know, Cam be
Speaker 1: able to get into his swag a little bit and
Speaker 1: feel good about himself when they have a lead and
Speaker 1: be on go. They've been playing catch up. This entire
Speaker 1: rush freshening thing is they've been in position to take
Speaker 1: early leads. Against the Rams, it was that opening drive
Speaker 1: and then DJ fumbles, and then against the Bucks it's
Speaker 1: fourth and one, and they love the idea of putting
Speaker 1: cam one on one with the dB, and the dB
Speaker 1: makes a great play cuts his legs out from under him.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately a camera angle isn't there to show whether or
Speaker 1: not he actually got the first down. But those were
Speaker 1: the cards they were dealt and they didn't get it.
Speaker 1: So it's it's early in games. They've had opportunities to
Speaker 1: go down there and whether it's kick a field goal,
Speaker 1: just get some points on the board, and they keep
Speaker 1: shooting themselves on the foot. Um and until they stopped
Speaker 1: doing that, this team right now is not playing well
Speaker 1: enough to win. In spite of that. They need they
Speaker 1: can't be making these self inflicted mistakes and expect to
Speaker 1: go out there and get wins. They need to play
Speaker 1: clean football and and and until they do that, I
Speaker 1: think that the struggles will continue. Um. It's just it's
Speaker 1: just a must for this team right now. I think
Speaker 1: something that is the most telling for me from this
Speaker 1: past week was what Trey Boston had to stay in
Speaker 1: the locker room after the game. He was very candid
Speaker 1: about the fact that he didn't think this entire locker
Speaker 1: room was on the same page, and the entire locker
Speaker 1: room was bought into where they were going. I don't
Speaker 1: take that lightly. I mean, this is the team you're
Speaker 1: you're mentioning. The frustrations are building, and they're there, and
Speaker 1: the fans feel it, and we feel it, and the
Speaker 1: team certainly feels it. So now you have an opportunity,
Speaker 1: with ten days between games, to go out there, get
Speaker 1: everyone on the same page, and go against a very
Speaker 1: beautiful Arizona Cardinals team. I think this is one of
Speaker 1: those games that if you leave Arizona in your oh
Speaker 1: and three, yikes, I mean that. I think that's when
Speaker 1: you start sitting in a little bit. Okay, what's realistic
Speaker 1: for this team for this season? I don't think we're
Speaker 1: there yet. I think a lot of the things that
Speaker 1: happened in the first two weeks are very, very self inflicted.
Speaker 1: It's not like they were just man handled by the
Speaker 1: other team. I think they're extremely you know, self inflicted wounds.
Speaker 1: And that's why we're walking at O and two right now.
Speaker 1: But this is a game that you get a little
Speaker 1: worried about if you're going in a halftime and you're
Speaker 1: down to of course, I think, look, we've all hit
Speaker 1: on it. The self inflicted wounds are one this team
Speaker 1: just doesn't look like a confident bunch right now. And
Speaker 1: I think that's something in Trey Boston alluded to. I mean,
Speaker 1: you certainly saw it in the second half of the offense.
Speaker 1: Just every time they took the field, it just wasn't
Speaker 1: it wasn't there. I mean that the belief factor, I
Speaker 1: think was something that the entire stadium felt. Um. But
Speaker 1: I think there are other things that just have to
Speaker 1: get short of the protection. I I don't care who's
Speaker 1: playing quarterback. If they're not able to keep guys off
Speaker 1: the guy who's got to deliver the football, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a long day, along night, whatever it is. And
Speaker 1: that's what we saw against the Buccaneers. Shaquille Barrett with
Speaker 1: eight quarterback pressures. I mean, that guy, he was a
Speaker 1: game wrecker and you just you just can't have can't
Speaker 1: have that happen if we expect to see this offense
Speaker 1: kind of snap out of it. Um. So, the protection
Speaker 1: issues and then defensively, like you said, Caroline and Will,
Speaker 1: you've helped me with that great stat this week for
Speaker 1: that story. When this team wins a turnover battle, the
Speaker 1: last twenty times they've done it, they're eighteen and two.
Speaker 1: You know, if the then if that nothing else, they
Speaker 1: win the turnover battle, that at least puts him in
Speaker 1: a chance to win so and that and that requires,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, taking it away but also protecting it,
Speaker 1: and that's been an issue through two weeks. Well, there
Speaker 1: are certainly a lot of things that could play out
Speaker 1: over the course of this season, but if you look
Speaker 1: around the NFC South, the Panthers are not out of it.
Speaker 1: It is a crazy, crazy league. We talked about some
Speaker 1: of the injuries earlier in this podcast. Drew Brees is
Speaker 1: added to that, making this a really interesting to vision
Speaker 1: and one that even though we're talking about an O
Speaker 1: and two Panthers team still looking for their identity, looking
Speaker 1: for their confidence in this season. They're heading to Arizona
Speaker 1: with a chance to get back really into the race
Speaker 1: of the NFC South. So stay tuned. Is gonna be
Speaker 1: an interesting week here for your Carolina Panthers, and we
Speaker 1: hope to be talking to you next week. With a
Speaker 1: win under the belt of the Carolina Panthers