Speaker 1: This week on the Happy Half Hour. This is a
Speaker 1: thing that's going to be built over the course of years,
Speaker 1: and I think if you want to get to a
Speaker 1: place that's sustainable, if you want to get to a
Speaker 1: place of regular playoff contention and stuff like that, you're
Speaker 1: going to have to go through times like this. That's
Speaker 1: just the way it is. That's out how right, right,
Speaker 1: I know it's time for the Happy half Hour with
Speaker 1: your friends Kristin Balboni, Augusta Stone and Darren Gannon. All right, everybody,
Speaker 1: welcome to the Happy half Hour here on Thursday, September
Speaker 1: twenty First, I don't know that I can promise you happy.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I can even promise you a
Speaker 1: whole half hour. But we're going to talk about football
Speaker 1: and whatever else comes to mind in the next little
Speaker 1: bit before we have to go do the press conferences
Speaker 1: and all the other stuff. Because there's stuff happening. People
Speaker 1: are worried, it's owing two, how's bry? Is it all
Speaker 1: gonna be okay? And I don't have those answers for
Speaker 1: you here today, but I can try to offer a
Speaker 1: little perspective. I was just having a conversation recently with
Speaker 1: a player from another franchise, and we were discussing certain
Speaker 1: things about rookie quarterbacks for a story that'll be coming
Speaker 1: up at some point soon, and I referenced Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: and I said, I mean, people forget that Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: went three and thirteen and through twenty eight picks his
Speaker 1: rookie year, and this guy's like, WHOA twenty eight? Was
Speaker 1: it really that bad? I guess Bryce's start doesn't seem
Speaker 1: so bad, does it? And we sort of laughed. But
Speaker 1: that's kind of where we are. I mean, obviously the
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers are not off to an ideal start to
Speaker 1: this season.
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly well, I mean we talked about it before
Speaker 2: we started. But it's not necessarily about being happy, but
Speaker 2: it's about finding happiness, and what you.
Speaker 3: Can perspective is a good place to start.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, taking a long, longer view is
Speaker 2: never a bad thing. First of all, you know, out
Speaker 2: of your little where you're here, you can't see me
Speaker 2: because we're on audio. But I'm making like a little
Speaker 2: thing with my hands where you can have a narrow view,
Speaker 2: close your eyes, or you can broaden the perspective. And
Speaker 2: I mean, right now, I think with as few answers
Speaker 2: as we have, as you said, and I wonder you
Speaker 2: know when those answers will come and if we won't
Speaker 2: get them until the long trip to Seattle. But like
Speaker 2: you mentioned, you know, it's just it's one of those
Speaker 2: things where there's not much to be had that is
Speaker 2: one answered and too awesome in this small little view.
Speaker 3: So let's expand it out a little bit.
Speaker 1: And I think it's it's probably important at this point
Speaker 1: to kind of remind everybody. I mean, this franchise was
Speaker 1: in a point when they hired the previous coach that
Speaker 1: they acknowledged a rebuild need to happen. That rebuild did
Speaker 1: not work, they change coaches again, and they're kind of
Speaker 1: back at the same spot. I think probably some of
Speaker 1: the angs that's going along with the so and two
Speaker 1: start this season has to do with playing moderately good
Speaker 1: football the second half of last year under interim coach
Speaker 1: Steve Wilks, and it was like it was almost a
Speaker 1: taste of what the other stuff felt like. But whether
Speaker 1: that happened or not, all the stuff that's happening this offseason,
Speaker 1: the go get a quarterback, the bring in an offensive system,
Speaker 1: that stuff needed to happen one way or another. And
Speaker 1: so I think regardless anything that happened three years ago,
Speaker 1: two years ago, or the second half of last year,
Speaker 1: I think a reasonable expectation of what was going to
Speaker 1: happen this year was it was going to take a minute.
Speaker 1: You don't bring in half a dozen coaches from a
Speaker 1: half a dozen different offensive systems, get in the room
Speaker 1: and put together one playbook and expect everybody to be
Speaker 1: cooking from it immediately. And I think you don't expect
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback to walk into that situation and fire
Speaker 1: on every cylinder immediately. So this is going to be
Speaker 1: one of those things. And this is not me making
Speaker 1: excuses or anything like that, but I think you try
Speaker 1: to look at in a situation like this, the things
Speaker 1: that you can pick out, Okay, what's what's happening that's
Speaker 1: good for the Carolina Panthers, not just in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: but in twenty four, twenty six, Because this is a
Speaker 1: thing that's going to be built over the course of years.
Speaker 1: And I think if you want to get to a
Speaker 1: place that's sustainable, if you want to get to a
Speaker 1: place of regular playoff contention and stuff like that, you're
Speaker 1: going to have to go through times like this. That's
Speaker 1: just the way it is.
Speaker 2: Well, it's tough too, because as you mentioned, there's it's
Speaker 2: not all horrifically bad. Now, I say this with a
Speaker 2: caveat because against New Orleans, the defense held its own
Speaker 2: and kept it extremely competitive till I mean, look at
Speaker 2: the final score, but up until you know that second
Speaker 2: New Orleans touchdown, it was it was close. Now there's
Speaker 2: the shadow of the Shack Thompson injury, which was really
Speaker 2: tough for the team just to lose kind of the.
Speaker 3: Heart of that defense. A veteran leader, Frank.
Speaker 2: Craik has talked a lot about how it's more than
Speaker 2: just the production on the field that they lost.
Speaker 3: But at the same.
Speaker 2: Time, you can look at how Kamu Grugey Hills stepped
Speaker 2: up and it's kind of, you know, showing what he
Speaker 2: showed throughout training camp. You know, a lot of time
Speaker 2: training camp performances you don't really see them translate. He
Speaker 2: came up with a really big stack against New Orleans
Speaker 2: and it's looks like he'll be the guy going forward,
Speaker 2: at least you know, as of right now. With what
Speaker 2: Frank Craig told us yesterday.
Speaker 3: So that that's a positive.
Speaker 2: You know, not only did the defense look good and
Speaker 2: they seem like they're really gelling under EGI Everro's new scheme,
Speaker 2: but they have at least enough depth not seem like
Speaker 2: one of the biggest holes that you could possibly create
Speaker 2: with such a such a tough injury to go with
Speaker 2: not be as major as it could have been in
Speaker 2: that circumstance because they weren't expecting to lose him, and
Speaker 2: obviously you played a lot. I mean, Derek Brown is
Speaker 2: having a great season right all the usage that he's getting,
Speaker 2: all of the conditioning he's obviously put in.
Speaker 3: I think that's something that you could think of.
Speaker 2: Obviously that doesn't necessarily translate to wins yet, but seeing
Speaker 2: what they've built there and seeing how, you know, the
Speaker 2: three to four transition and the new coordinator and the
Speaker 2: new pieces, and how it's all really come together in
Speaker 2: a good way.
Speaker 3: I mean, von Bell looked great. Yeah, he came up
Speaker 3: with that pick doing things that he did when he
Speaker 3: was in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: So there are individual parts of this thing. But again
Speaker 1: I don't want to get away from the fact, I
Speaker 1: mean he was in the first two weeks that defense
Speaker 1: has lost j c Horn. Yes, who are Shaq Thompson
Speaker 1: for the entire year. That's a real kick to the
Speaker 1: front of the shorts. All right, there's no getting around that.
Speaker 1: That's that's bad. And you could tell there was almost
Speaker 1: a shell shot quality amongst those guys. When you talk
Speaker 1: to Derek and Dante and Burns after the game Monday night,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, oh God, we're doing this again.
Speaker 1: We just had this conversation last week about jac and
Speaker 1: now we're talking about it again. And then to realize
Speaker 1: that Shaq is out for the year. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: going to be tough to overcome. The good news is,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, they are continuing. They continued throughout the
Speaker 1: second half of that game to hit their car. I
Speaker 1: mean really, the two plays downfield the Saints made were
Speaker 1: about the only times all night he wasn't being pressured
Speaker 1: or wasn't getting hit. So they have shown that they
Speaker 1: can get after quarterbacks. I mean, Burns justin Houston the
Speaker 1: tour made more plays Monday night than we've seen out
Speaker 1: of him in quite some time. So they can get
Speaker 1: consistent pressure. And Frankie's running around with his hair on
Speaker 1: fire like Frankie does. It's just going to be a
Speaker 1: matter of making that stuff last and kind of being
Speaker 1: able to patch work it together until maybe JC gets
Speaker 1: back in a month or so, whenever he's healthy again.
Speaker 1: You know, there's not going to be replacing Shack this year.
Speaker 1: You know, even if Kamuu plays at Pete Kamu levels,
Speaker 1: it's not the same. So they're going to have to adjust.
Speaker 1: But this is the this kind of spot therein. I
Speaker 1: think the other thing, if you were looking for things
Speaker 1: to latch onto at this moment about this football team,
Speaker 1: I think some of the personalities of the people are
Speaker 1: suitable for the task at hand. I mean, if you're
Speaker 1: in a situation where you know you're building, where you
Speaker 1: know you're trying to do something long term rather than
Speaker 1: this week, Frank Craig's kind of guy you want in
Speaker 1: charge of that project, because Frank Reik's not a guy
Speaker 1: who is going to flip out. I know you probably
Speaker 1: weren't born when this game happened augustin but once upon
Speaker 1: a time, Frank Craik's team was down thirty five to
Speaker 1: three at a halftime in the playoffs, and maybe you
Speaker 1: heard about it. The Bills came back and won that game.
Speaker 1: You know, Frank Reich has been in a situation where
Speaker 1: a team's been one in five and it's easy for
Speaker 1: people to freak out and worry and panic and all
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. But Frank always says the only
Speaker 1: thing he said Monday night when he was talking about
Speaker 1: Shagby and heard, he said, all we can really worry
Speaker 1: about is Seattle. And that's the mindset you want in
Speaker 1: a coach in a situation like this, because if the
Speaker 1: coach projects this project is on track, where we're doing
Speaker 1: the right stuff. I see this and this and this.
Speaker 1: I think that calm filters through the entire organization.
Speaker 2: And it's more it's more I guess, definite or he's
Speaker 2: able to pinpoint different things.
Speaker 3: I think too.
Speaker 2: He does have that sort of commanding at it. We
Speaker 2: talked about it when he got hired here. But he
Speaker 2: is one calming, but two also very much so a leader,
Speaker 2: and I think that leadership is going to be paramount
Speaker 2: right now. Like you mentioned, with the experience that he
Speaker 2: has in tougher situations, He's dealt with a lot of
Speaker 2: those things, and he also has a lot of veteran
Speaker 2: leadership still in that locker room, even without Shaq Thompson.
Speaker 2: I mean, you look at the offensive side, all of
Speaker 2: the pieces that they've brought in, a lot of them
Speaker 2: are more mature guys that have seen a lot of ball.
Speaker 2: Adam Feelin for one who gives a lot of perspective.
Speaker 2: When we talked with him in the locker room today
Speaker 2: about all the uncertainty, really solid.
Speaker 3: Head on his shoulders.
Speaker 2: I mean, a guy that's been over a decade in
Speaker 2: the league, so he kind of knows what's going on.
Speaker 3: Same with Hayden Hurst, the guy that's been around for
Speaker 3: a while in his thirties.
Speaker 2: I think just kind of leaning on that you're not
Speaker 2: gonna have a ton of panic when there a lot
Speaker 2: of guys have seen a lot of things and bringing
Speaker 2: them in not only whenever they were they came in
Speaker 2: in free agency and you're like, oh, here's some some
Speaker 2: people with experience on field to pair with, you know,
Speaker 2: a younger, newer staff and all these new pieces, but
Speaker 2: also in times like this, whenever the morale could get
Speaker 2: down to have those those uh, I guess those calm heads,
Speaker 2: cool heads prevail in those situations and be the leaders
Speaker 2: and also the ones kind of talking and setting tones.
Speaker 3: You know, when we ask them questions.
Speaker 2: I think that's pretty pretty big for the at least
Speaker 2: the face of the organization, and Adam Feelin, I think
Speaker 2: is a really solid face for that.
Speaker 3: So he was He's a grab in multiple ways.
Speaker 2: He also is the most productive receiver last week, but
Speaker 2: also kind of the one of the coolest heads you
Speaker 2: can talk about whenever it looks like you know, you
Speaker 2: could see you know, crashing and like you said, but
Speaker 2: he's a really good pair with kind of Frank's mentality.
Speaker 3: You can kind of hear it from him as well.
Speaker 1: Ye, big dad energy, Absolutely, big dad energy, no doubt
Speaker 1: about that. And you need that this week because oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, and this is the not happy part.
Speaker 1: We don't know who the quarterback is going to be
Speaker 1: on Sunday. So the one thing I do want to
Speaker 1: clear up and I'll let this be our little island
Speaker 1: of sanity and a sea of overreaction. Bryce is actually hurt, y'all.
Speaker 1: This is not some phantom injury that's part of an
Speaker 1: elaborate plot. If this was a plot, it would be
Speaker 1: the most elaborately staged. You know. Yes, Bryce is actually injured.
Speaker 1: Bryce is in the training room. I've seen it. Source
Speaker 1: my two eyes point. Yeah, we really are at that point.
Speaker 1: And I've already you know, I have learned, and I
Speaker 1: truly am trying as I get older, to pay less
Speaker 1: and less attention to the comments and spend far fewer
Speaker 1: amounts of time reading the notifications on Twitter and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. I just it's no good for you a
Speaker 1: this situation. I don't think there's a lot to be
Speaker 1: gained from it. I mean, again, Rice is actually hurt.
Speaker 1: He's actually got an ankle issue that's getting treatment. You know,
Speaker 1: these are things that are actually happening gang, So they're
Speaker 1: not just trying to acknowledge a mistake or anything. Come on,
Speaker 1: it's it's an injury. It's football guys come up sore
Speaker 1: after games all the time and realize they need treatment
Speaker 1: for stuff that is an actual thing. And that is
Speaker 1: actually what's happening right now.
Speaker 2: And it kind of goes back to what I was
Speaker 2: talking about with the veterans. I mean, you know, when
Speaker 2: you don't know and you have to assess all options.
Speaker 3: We wrote about it.
Speaker 2: I wrote about it yesterday after the locker room and
Speaker 2: after talking with Frank, But yesterday I walked through It
Speaker 2: was Andy Dalton and he has a ton of experience
Speaker 2: in the league. He knows how to how to lead,
Speaker 2: how to keep you know, calm, calm heads. And you know,
Speaker 2: it's not like they're trying out someone who hasn't been
Speaker 2: here before. He's been here here quite a lot. And uh,
Speaker 2: it's you know, part of the reason. And it was
Speaker 2: another thing that Adam Fieln said, but it part of
Speaker 2: the reason they brought him here wasn't necessarily to send
Speaker 2: him the whole time, you know, it was to train
Speaker 2: up Bryce. But in a worst case scenario, you have
Speaker 2: a guy that knows what to do, and and if
Speaker 2: that's what they need to do, I mean, there's there's
Speaker 2: worse positions to be in for sure, and you know,
Speaker 2: obviously we don't we don't know, and that's part of it.
Speaker 3: But when you don't know, you do have to assess
Speaker 3: all options.
Speaker 2: And that's the that's the other option if if Bryce's
Speaker 2: ankle doesn't he will buy a Sunday at Seattle, which
Speaker 2: is another It's kind of a tough week for this
Speaker 2: to happen because of the quick week, because of the
Speaker 2: longest uh, the furthest trip according to the game preview,
Speaker 2: and uh, just a lot of kind of bad factors
Speaker 2: into that. But when you hear yours says both options,
Speaker 2: he kind of gotta kind of gotta look at it.
Speaker 1: This, listen. This is why they went and got an
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton anyway, m you know, because a you didn't
Speaker 1: know if a rookie quarterback would be ready to do
Speaker 1: this and if he and if he wasn't, he's the
Speaker 1: kind of guy you want in charge for a little bit.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton started one hundred and sixty two games in
Speaker 1: the NFL. He has started a baseball season's worth of
Speaker 1: football games in his career. So and when we were
Speaker 1: I was actually talking to Frank yesterday taping an interview
Speaker 1: for The Huddle TV show, and oh my god, you
Speaker 1: should absolutely tune in for my television debut on The
Speaker 1: Huddle ah this week on all your local channels. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be amazing. I'm sure a television host, I am not.
Speaker 1: But Frank was very kind. But Frank said when I
Speaker 1: mentioned the one sixty two, he kind of sort of
Speaker 1: made that Frank face and he said, I know it
Speaker 1: was a lot, but I didn't know it was that many.
Speaker 1: And it kind of it brings it back to the
Speaker 1: idea that you know, Andy Dalton is not. There's not
Speaker 1: a situation where Andy Dalton's gonna freak out where Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton's going to be like, oh my god, I've never
Speaker 1: seen this. He's seen all of it. And here's here's
Speaker 1: the other thing to remember about Andy Dalton. He was
Speaker 1: actually pretty good last year with the Saints. I mean,
Speaker 1: his numbers were good. You know, he was a ninety
Speaker 1: five point two passer eight quarterback. He you know, one
Speaker 1: of my pet stats with quarterbacks you look at accuracy,
Speaker 1: but I put a lot of stock in yards for
Speaker 1: pass attempt, you know, and are you getting the most
Speaker 1: out of those past attempts? And his was up over
Speaker 1: seven and a half. And Andy Dalton still moving the
Speaker 1: ball down the field? Is he almost thirty six years old?
Speaker 1: He is? Is that still very very young from a
Speaker 1: comparative basis to some people in this room? It is?
Speaker 1: But Andy's a guy. I mean, he's got a career
Speaker 1: winning record. He's three and one all time against the Seahawks.
Speaker 1: If you get in a situation on Sunday where Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton runs out of that tunnel leading the offense, it
Speaker 1: ain't the worst thing to happen in the world, exactly.
Speaker 2: And they're they're preparing us such or they were yesterday
Speaker 2: at walk through. We'll have to see what happens at
Speaker 2: practice today. As we filmed this since Thursday morning, the
Speaker 2: team has one hundred percent rallied around him if it
Speaker 2: needs to be him, or rallied around whoever it's going
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 3: Spoke with Miles Sanders.
Speaker 2: He said that his job doesn't change in that he's
Speaker 2: he's very focused when you talk with him. I talked
Speaker 2: with him after the game and on Wednesday, and you know,
Speaker 2: he's always focused on just finding the best ways to
Speaker 2: protect the guys. And that's kind of the message he
Speaker 2: had about Bryce after the game, like we just got
Speaker 2: to protect Bryce and you know, elevate Bryce. And he
Speaker 2: had the same the same message about Andy. So it's
Speaker 2: not one of those things where again, like if we're
Speaker 2: just taking the temperature check of the locker room, we
Speaker 2: don't wanna don't want to mischaracterize and be like, oh
Speaker 2: my goodness, everyone's so downtrod and everyone's so sad, Like
Speaker 2: it's tough. There's a lot going on, especially after the
Speaker 2: shock injury. And but but they're not they're not panicking.
Speaker 2: As you mentioned, they have the leadership in place to
Speaker 2: not do that, and at the same time, you know
Speaker 2: they they.
Speaker 3: Know that either way, they gotta judge for it. Either way.
Speaker 2: They're flying to Seattle this weekend. Either way, they're gonna
Speaker 2: have a quarterback back there. And if it's Andy, then
Speaker 2: they know what to expect from Andy. If it's Bryce,
Speaker 2: they've played two games with Bryce. There's just there's a
Speaker 2: lot of there's nones in the unknowns. You don't know
Speaker 2: who it is, but you know that it's gonna be somebody.
Speaker 2: They're gonna play the game. And that's just kind of
Speaker 2: how they're moving forward. So nothing you know, catastrophic in
Speaker 2: that room.
Speaker 1: There you go, it's Augustus Stone the Donald Rumsfeld of
Speaker 1: this podcast, Ladies and gentlemen. But wait what Donald Rumsfeld?
Speaker 1: You don't know who that is?
Speaker 3: Should I own?
Speaker 1: He's a historical figure. He was former Secretary of Defense
Speaker 1: during the Iraq War. He talked about the known nomes
Speaker 1: and the unknown nomes. Yeah, at any rate we press
Speaker 1: on people younger than Andy Dalton. At any rate, I
Speaker 1: bet Andy knows who Donald Rumsfeld is. At any rate,
Speaker 1: we should probably talk more about you know what, you
Speaker 1: want to really make this thing depressing. We should talk
Speaker 1: about my fantasy football team. That'll really kill me. For
Speaker 1: the first time in twenty one years, the men's group
Speaker 1: in my church wanted to do a fantasy football league,
Speaker 1: and so I agreed to join up and sort of
Speaker 1: be part of this effort. I have not played fantasy
Speaker 1: football in twenty one years for a reason, and you
Speaker 1: might ask me what is that reason, Darren? Twenty one
Speaker 1: years ago in two thousand and two, I had a
Speaker 1: revolutionary strategy that was going to change the way people
Speaker 1: played fantasy football. Steve Spurrier was in his first year
Speaker 1: as the head coach of the formerly Washington football team,
Speaker 1: and after putting up incredible numbers across the SEC with
Speaker 1: all manners of different quarterbacks, I said, I'm not just
Speaker 1: going to draft one Steve Spurry or quarterback. I'm going
Speaker 1: to draft all of them. So I walked into a
Speaker 1: season and my quarterbacks were Patrick Ramsey, Shane Matthews, and
Speaker 1: Danny Wirfel. And I was convinced I was going to
Speaker 1: finish that league in one of two places, first by
Speaker 1: a mile or last by the same distance. And I
Speaker 1: was right, and that scarred me sufficiently that I was
Speaker 1: willing to take a twenty one year break before doing this,
Speaker 1: and after two weeks of doing this again, I realized
Speaker 1: that might not have been a terrible decision. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: I talk like I know something about football, but the
Speaker 1: numbers do not necessarily bear that out.
Speaker 2: I have played one season of fantasy football entire life,
Speaker 2: and I was actually pretty good at it, but I
Speaker 2: took a very I didn't get into it as much.
Speaker 3: As some people do.
Speaker 2: I have so many friends that love it, and I
Speaker 2: will say it's a really great catalyst for people who
Speaker 2: aren't super into the NFL. I have a darling friend
Speaker 2: who is an opinion writer and she's one of the
Speaker 2: best people I know, and she wanted to get into football,
Speaker 2: and I tried to, you know, show her some games,
Speaker 2: especially during the playoff last year. You know'd invite her
Speaker 2: over to my house. We'd have some snacks and enjoy it.
Speaker 2: She couldn't really get into it. They decided to have
Speaker 2: a fantasy football league within her friend group. I decided
Speaker 2: not to do it because I have more than enough
Speaker 2: on my plate here football related. So I was like,
Speaker 2: you know what, y'all have fun. I can, you know,
Speaker 2: give you some advice if you need you know, just
Speaker 2: like who's a good running back in the league, or
Speaker 2: who's you know what I mean, And bless her heart,
Speaker 2: she is having a ball. But I will say it's
Speaker 2: been two weeks and the panic texts I get from
Speaker 2: her about you know, Patrick Mahomes in the first half,
Speaker 2: or you know, where's Travis Kelcey stuff like that. She
Speaker 2: loves the Chiefs, So I mean, it's very very cute.
Speaker 3: It's very fun.
Speaker 2: And I tell her all the time, I said, this
Speaker 2: is you're going into week three. You gotta do this
Speaker 2: for a lot, and I know this is your first
Speaker 2: go round. But she's so fun and it's very very sweet.
Speaker 2: But yeah, she was very invested in last week's Thursday
Speaker 2: night football game. I was receiving a ton of texts
Speaker 2: about the Eagles defense, so she's she's really getting into it.
Speaker 2: It's it's a pretty cute thing to see. But I
Speaker 2: remember my fantasy year. I think it was twenty twenty one,
Speaker 2: I do believe, and I had Kyler Murray, Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 3: Who else did I have on that team? It was
Speaker 3: a good team.
Speaker 2: I got second out of eight people, so not too bad.
Speaker 2: I didn't make any risky decisions. I wasn't one of
Speaker 2: those people that's always like watching the waiver wire changing
Speaker 2: out my teams. Now I do know people like that,
Speaker 2: and it's a whole full time job. I have someone
Speaker 2: in my life who has five leagues. That's too many,
Speaker 2: that's that's wild. So yeah, but I know a lot
Speaker 2: about it. I do not participate, but I love watching
Speaker 2: it all unfold. It is so it's it's like free
Speaker 2: entertainment for me.
Speaker 1: So if so, if you've got fantasy football question, send
Speaker 1: them to Augusta. Not me.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'm I'm I'm aware of at least seven different teams,
Speaker 2: like very intimately, just because I ask a bunch of questions.
Speaker 2: And I know a lot of people with leagues, so
Speaker 2: I have like at least someone with some sort of
Speaker 2: you know, uh skin in the game in every single
Speaker 2: game just about So.
Speaker 1: That is really something. Yeah, it's now. It's fun and
Speaker 1: it's good. It's good banner between the guys and and
Speaker 1: your friend group and all that kind of stuff. But I, uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is a rather humbling experience for me because I
Speaker 1: I even joked with these guys in this league I'm in.
Speaker 1: I named my team the Alleged Experts because it's uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is not going well.
Speaker 3: Gang oh man oh man. No, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think about all the time, like what it's a
Speaker 2: clever fantasy name. Whenever I had it, I was on
Speaker 2: burrowed time, Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1: That's not bad.
Speaker 3: You're right. I did steal it from Reddit, but I
Speaker 3: thought it was pretty funny.
Speaker 1: I have seen a number of variations of people with
Speaker 1: Adam feeling on their team, you know, more than a feeling,
Speaker 1: more than a feeling.
Speaker 3: I got a.
Speaker 1: Feeling fos on a feeling that kind of stuff. That's
Speaker 1: that's pretty good.
Speaker 3: I wonder which one would be his favorite.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling it. Maybe we should ask him.
Speaker 2: I know, right, what's the best pun with your name
Speaker 2: in it for a fantasy team? I wonder if he
Speaker 2: has a preference.
Speaker 1: Let's see I mean DJ Charks, I mean Chark week
Speaker 1: chart week.
Speaker 2: Oh no, now the listeners are all turning it off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm talking fantasy football and singing children's songs. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's the best place to call this. No, it's and
Speaker 1: it felt like the right note. It felt like what
Speaker 1: we needed is a little DJ sing it with me,
Speaker 1: Matt DJ Chark.
Speaker 2: No, No, I think we'll say, we'll say a no
Speaker 2: for that one this week.
Speaker 1: That's a no for me dog. It's a no for
Speaker 1: me dog. But that's that's a rap on this week's
Speaker 1: happy half hour. There's no more that can be done
Speaker 1: to make you happy than me singing into a microphone.
Speaker 1: We do it for the people. We'll see you next week.
Speaker 2: Firefo