WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 59: The Mixon Hybrid Attack 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:11.760 It's time for the Happy half Hour with your friends 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:22.480 Kristen Balboni, Will Brian and Darren Gamp. Welcome to the 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:26.200 Happy half Hour. It's your host again, Will Brian Panthers 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:31.360 Pats Guy. I'm back. I'm back baby, Kristen Balboni. Speaking 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.839 of babies, she's she's out on special assignment for a 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.720 longer time and she is a new mother. How about 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:41.920 that's awesome. We got John Ashley Harrold now in the world. 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:46.400 Jack Harold Jack born December night to Alex Harold and 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:51.480 Kristen Balboni. Mother and child, healthy and resting well. Dad 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.680 still a little shell shocked, as one is, as one is. 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.160 The it's awesome. The pictures are great. It's a beautiful baby, boy, 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.600 I mean it's and it's a great family. Kristen is 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:04.640 gonna be an awesome mom. And I told her that 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.280 about a year and a half ago, before anybody knew 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.360 she was even thinking about it. But I was like, 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:11.520 whenever you do it, you're gonna be great at it. 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.560 She's just got that, she's just got that vibe about 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.320 her that, uh, Jack's gonna be in a lifetime of 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.759 smiles and happiness. So the Dot com staff around here 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.520 looks everywhere, under every rock, so to speak, for stories 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:25.680 and story ideas and feature ideas. Is it true that 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.640 Kristen declined your offer to have life streaming of her 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.560 delivery on Panthers dot com. It was. It was a 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.920 group decision that we came to. You know, we we 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:38.160 wanted to provide as much coverage as possible, but but 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:40.520 also you know, we we had to talk to a 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:42.400 couple of people in the room, and you know, we 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.760 weren't sure of the technology hook up in there. You know, 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.200 we didn't want it to When I was approached about 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:51.240 doing the play by play a bit, I thought, okay, what, 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:53.960 oh my gosh, I use for this kind of thing. 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:58.200 But anyway, so since pure class man, this is great, fantastic. 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.840 So we're looking forward to having her back here and 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.320 here in a couple of months, and hopefully she gets 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:07.880 some well deserved rest. Maybe maybe we'll see I don't know. 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.120 I hope jackson good. I think Jack's gonna be a 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.720 good boy. Yeah, he's got the look I was going 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.600 for Jake, But Jack works too. Sometimes you can look 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:18.840 at a baby and say that one right there, he's trouble. 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:22.800 He's got that Glinton is not this one. So the 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:26.560 biggest news that we'll start off with on this beautiful Wednesday, 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:31.079 that the greatest three point shooter in NBA history is 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:35.840 from Charlotte Davidson, Wildcat and a Carolina Panther fan. How 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.960 about that? There you go. When I was a kid, 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:43.080 young broadcaster, just starting out in the mid eighties. I 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:44.959 started out before that, but it was the mid eight 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:48.079 it became the mid eighties, and this picture for Virginia 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:52.400 Tech named del Curry. He obviously was had a beautiful 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:56.160 three point stroke, a willowy six five forward swingman, but 0:02:56.320 --> 0:03:00.920 on the baseball diamond, this effortless deliver and then the 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.200 bologists exploded out of his hand. I mean, just an 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:08.120 incredible athlete. And of course Steph Curry is whom you're 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.160 you're speaking of. And Darren, I don't know how this. 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.000 I don't know how he does it. Really, what I'm 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:18.959 speaking of is the without altering his motion he can 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:23.600 he can hold perfect form from thirty five ft. I mean, 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:29.400 just to get the ball, it's just a he just 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.720 flicks it up there. And the thing about it is, 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.519 and I think most people have shot basketballs in the 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.880 driveway and stuff like that. It's hard for most normal 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:42.560 human beings to throw a basketball, you know, I mean 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.240 basketball big and it's not a natural motion to it. 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:47.440 A lot of people will shoot as hard as they can, 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.280 and and he can stand out at half court and 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:53.200 just shoot form jumpers and look like it's something he's 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:57.040 been doing all his life, which you know he has been. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.400 And it has been neat watching him in in this 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.680 business and being at old Hornets games in the old 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:07.480 Coliseum and seeing little staff running around with dad and 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:11.440 being at games and stuff. It You've literally watched this 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.040 kid grow up into the greatest shooter of all time 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.320 in NBA history, and and having his dad around the 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.880 whole time and being part of the Hornets organization. Now, 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.600 I was just sitting there last night watching it, and 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:26.120 I'm just hoping against all hope, and I can't imagine 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.960 it would ever happen other than maybe some playing career cameo. 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:33.679 But I would love one day, one day to see 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.480 this man walk back into that building as a home 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.920 player and as a member of the team his dad 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.920 played for from the expansion days and you know, became 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.480 a fixture in this city. You know, I would just 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.840 look one day, even if he's thirty nine years old. 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.680 I can't run anymore. If you can't play defense, don't cares. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.440 Daddy never played that much defense anyway. Just come home. 0:04:55.520 --> 0:05:00.560 Isn't there a brother or brothers? Yes? He plays for 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:04.480 the Sixers now. Um? And how about this? His sister 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:11.320 Saddel played at Elon with our very own photographer, Chanelle Chanel. Yeah, 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.320 they're they're they're good friends. I did not know that. 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.680 The world shrinks down again? How about that? That's good 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:19.800 until christ and abub Bunny's gonna have a hard time 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:23.360 getting her gig back. Will Brian much more than just 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:27.400 an egghead statman? I don't know about that. I I 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.000 have some more stats, but that's later in the show. 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:34.120 We had some big news at practice today Wednesday practice 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.560 the Panthers. Right before practice, Darren Gant might have sent 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:41.800 out a tweet that the Panthers are designating for return 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:46.919 quarterback Sam Donald. New people on the field, new people, 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.839 new quarterback on the field on the practice field. Yeah, 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.839 and and we'll see what it's all about. I mean, 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.320 he's not on the roster yet, he's not gonna play 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.479 this week or anything like that. But I think after 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.719 the shoulder injury. He's healed up. I mean, I've seen 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:04.760 him out there working out. I mean in the bubble 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.320 during practices. He'll be out there working out and stuff. 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:11.040 And Sam has been itching to get back on the field, 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:12.880 and we'll see I mean he's just out there kind 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:14.919 of doing some light through and now obviously not in 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:19.520 contact or anything like that. But um, yeah, Sam back 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.279 on the field. We'll see what it means. I mean, 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.680 I think because you've got such an investment in him 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.240 for next year, one way or another, you you'd like 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.359 to see what he's got left. You'd like to see, 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.400 you know, in a system where Jeff Nixon's calling plays 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.400 and maybe some things are getting streamlined and simplified a 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:38.480 little bit, can he get back and have a better result? 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:42.640 I mean I I will always be confounded by the 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:46.479 way this season has gone for Sam because you know, 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.280 all off season it was like what are they doing 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.520 training for Sam Donald? And then you see him in minicamp. 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.560 You see him in training camping it looks all right, 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.080 and he's running two minute drills and he's putting teams 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.359 in position for field goals and stuff. And then the 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.520 seasons arts team plays really well. I mean Sam was 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.880 good the first three or four weeks, and even in 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.000 Dallas when they lost, he threw a couple of picks, 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.440 but he played all right. And then just it was 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.720 like when Christian got hurt, the wheels fell off of 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.360 everything all at once, including Sam, Darnald and things. He 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.840 was doing well. He stopped doing well. And he's got 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.440 it in him, and I think that talent that they 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.000 talked about all offseason is still there. It's just a 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.600 matter of how to tap into it and where they can. 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:31.080 I mean, we'll see what happens, but it was definitely 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:34.520 interesting having an extra quarterback out there, for sure. I 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.440 like this a lot on a variety of levels. Level 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:42.000 number one, to Darren's point earlier, he himself, Sam Donald 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:45.160 himself wants to get back out there, so he's itching, 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:49.160 to use Darren's words, that speaks well. He's a prideful athlete. 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.960 He wants another shot. Number two. You need depth of 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:56.080 that position. Number three. When things started to go poorly 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:58.960 after the three and no start, some of what happened 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.440 to Sam Donald was his fault. Someone was not his fault. 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:06.320 The Panthers during this time lad the free world in 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.840 drop passes number four. I think I'm up to number four. 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.520 The things that some of the things that went wrong 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:18.239 are fixable. It should be black letter law. Just don't 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.040 hold the ball, just get rid of it, get it snapped. 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.720 In twenty thousand, one thousand, two thous three, Bengo do 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.880 something either, run, which we've seen he's a nimble runner 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:33.280 of the football. Number two of course throw it so um, 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.680 I don't know. That's that's four things I said that 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.000 that I like it. And you could I mean, you 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:39.760 could put it for sales, sign on it. You could 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:41.520 wash wax at arm or all the tires, park it 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.440 out front of your driveways. See if you know a 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.680 willing buyer comes along. But he's he's our guy for 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.680 he's under contract for another year and it is possible 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:55.199 that he could be a meaningful member of this ups 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.120 and we'll we'll see how it all works out. I 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:02.120 mean I was looking earlier at some numbers, and I 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.560 mean of the three quarterbacks who have played for the 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.199 Carolina Panthers this year, all nely enough, Sam's got the 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.600 highest passer rating of the three of them. I mean, 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:14.600 Cam has come in and played acceptably well at times. Um, 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.160 but he hadn't thrown the ball particularly well, and it's 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:18.960 been a it's been a struggle for him. So I 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.520 don't know, it's weird to see. I mean, Rules said 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.520 earlier in the week he was planning on using Cam 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:27.880 and p J Walker a little bit and having roles 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.320 for both of them, and you know, maybe you do 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.640 some kind of platoon and and I don't know how 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.480 that's all gonna work. And again, I don't believe Sam's 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.200 gonna be out there on the field this week necessarily, 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.319 but he's probably a couple of weeks away, just to 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.280 get him ready and healthy and grease back up again. 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.040 But I'll be curious to see how they do it. 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.599 I mean, do you try to turn it into a 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:53.520 salmon cam platoon? I don't know. We'll see Will the 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:56.280 stat guy, so he would be expert at this. But 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.120 I'm pretty sure that going into last week's game, the 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:02.400 Panthers had thrown more picks fifteen than any other team 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:06.280 in the NFL except for the Jets twenty. It's not 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.800 like Sam Donald is replacing a quarterback right that has 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:14.560 demonstrated great decision making an exceptional ball security. They've all 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.640 made poor decisions. They've all thrown it up for grabs 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.200 and times, and and as you said, a lot of 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.880 that is, you know, if you if you can get 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.600 just another second of protection, if you can get you know, 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:27.440 one side or the other side, not to break down 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.400 if you don't have third and longs because you got 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:30.880 a holding on the first time. I mean, I think 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:32.600 there's a lot of and then obviously the drop balls, 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:34.800 there's a lot of things that go into it. Obviously 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.400 you still need a quarterback that can that can do 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.720 well in tough situations, you know, when when his backs 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.760 against the wall, when it's when there's pressure coming, when 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:45.720 you know the defense knows what to do. He needs 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.760 to be able to handle those situations. But you're right, 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:50.280 it's been a factor of a lot of things, and 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.440 Sam Donald's far been not the worst out there for sure. 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.360 One thing it's irritated me greatly for a good chunk 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:01.200 of my adult life, having grown up in an Atlantic 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:05.800 Coast Conference dominated state. But yet with enough Washington Redskins, 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.440 Baltimore Colts, Atlanta Falcons, and of course I love the 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.760 Chiefs and the Raiders and and the Jets and the 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:16.360 old AFL, is that this notion, this crazy notion that 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.599 if you don't that if you play two quarterbacks is 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:23.559 because you don't have one. That sounds like a sentence 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.040 that has some balance to it, and probably an old, crusty, 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.720 old ball coach said it forty years ago. But in 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:32.160 the modern NFL it should not make sense. And it 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:36.240 does not make sense. What defenses are capable of these twitchy, 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:40.040 angry pass rushers that are snorting and pawing the earth, 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.000 ready to rush in with X marks the spot Darren 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.880 again right here here, here's the pocket. All you gotta 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.120 do is get here. And you've got an immobile quarterback. 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.760 The whole pyramid, a two and a half billion dollar pyramid, 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:54.600 is set on its tip. And if that quarterback gets hurt, 0:11:54.960 --> 0:12:00.920 oh sorry guys, sorry, sponsors, sorry fans, well and especially 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.640 I mean, listen, if you've got the reality is in 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.600 the NFL, most teams, when you're starting quarterback gets hurt. 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:10.440 That team is a lot of bad words, um, but 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.720 most teams are gonna go through that. I mean, just 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.640 because seventeen game season is mix says it is so 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:20.199 physically challenging, and it's getting more physically challenging, and just 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.720 the simple breakdown of a body. Over the course of 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:26.079 a four month plus season, most teams are going to 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.120 go through a couple of these guys or need a 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.080 couple of these guys for sure. And and again, I mean, 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.719 is the situation here ideal for any of these quarterbacks. No, 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:39.199 it's not, not necessarily. But I think everything over the 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.480 last four weeks. You know, they're still gonna be trying 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.400 to game plan it up in scheme and win games, 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:46.600 you know, each and every week, go one and oh 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.199 every week. But the reality is a lot of this 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.880 is geared towards seeing what you got for two with 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.560 the rise to prominence. Two of the shotgun formation, the 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.559 one the two back pistol centers are are good. Now 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.400 it's snapping the ball. Teen years ago I told John 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:05.560 Fox we had a break shooting the TV show. I said, Foxy, 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.800 why not play two quarterbacks? And he said, oh, Mick, 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:10.680 you know you only played two if you don't have one. 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.920 So just hear me out. These quarterbacks that are playing 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:19.480 high school football right now in Texas, Florida, Philadelphia, that 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.560 are the starting point guard on their basketball team, they're 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.480 the starting pitcher on their baseball team, and they can 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:28.760 sling it. But the NFL is too stupid to make 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:32.600 those athletes quarterbacks. It wants to convert. If they don't 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.000 get converted in college, they get converted to dbs and 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:39.920 receivers in the NFL. Ty Murray and Sean Payton has 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.600 done is close to what I told John Fox to 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.120 do in two thousand six or seven, which is played 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:46.960 two quarterbacks in the game and have them both in 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.079 the game at the same time. Now, he hadn't done 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:50.960 it in the way that I've envisioned because with Drew 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.640 Brees you got a more traditional pocket who can make 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.040 place from the pocket, and then Taysom Hill. But imagine 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:59.920 if you had Lamar Jackson and Taysom Hill or Kim 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.120 Newton and p J Walker in the game at the 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.080 same time, both in the shotgun flexed out. Now, those 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.920 d lineman rushing in, they don't know where. They don't 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:09.360 know where to rush in because they don't know if 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.920 the ball is gonna be snapped at this quarterback for 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:16.440 this quarterback in the mixing hybrid attack. And but it 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.800 is the the The NFL doesn't, you know, doesn't want to. 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:21.840 No one wants to be the one that does it. 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.760 And it doesn't work. No one wants to be the 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.640 one that that goes just a little bit too far 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.040 outside of the norm of what NFL teams do until 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.480 everyone kind of does it together. I mean, right, I mean, 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:35.520 isn't that kind of what this league is. It'll be 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:39.520 like that cat at Presbyterian who never punted. Um, you know, 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.560 it's gonna take some renegade to try this, and and 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:45.360 Matt flag the tape when that happens. You know, we 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.760 can go back to the time capsule twenty years ago, 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:52.720 to the Happy half hour on December one and say 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.880 Mick called it um, Alexander Graham Bell they laughed at 0:14:55.920 --> 0:15:00.440 him right over the telephone. Well, we've certainly spoken a 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.640 little bit about Donald today after practice, head coach Matt 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.120 Rule spoke to the media. Um, and we'll hear his 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:10.120 thoughts right now. Yeah, I mean, he can't really practice yet. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.400 He's throwing, he's able, he's clear, but he's not he's 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:14.840 not clear. He's not clear to play. Um, So I'm 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:17.040 not sure when that will be. Um, you'll have to 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:18.880 make sure that he's gonna have to throw move around. 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:20.880 We can't take contact yet, so that'll come down to 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.360 a CT scan probably in the coming weeks, so he's 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:27.680 still the ways. So Donald may not be part of 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.960 the game plan, but Darren Ganton mcmixon certainly are. We 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:34.200 talked about this a little bit last week, but heading 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.840 to Buffalo, New York this weekend, I have on my 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.840 phone the top ten list of coldest games in Panthers history. 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:44.440 This one would have to get down under thirty two 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.120 degrees just to crack that list. I think, Mick, you 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:51.000 talked about that Minnesota game where that one's number three 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:57.359 was the number one Green Bay NT Championship three degrees fahrenheit, 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.040 a kickoff, a whole three, and then I think it 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.720 got much lower after that. It got colder as the 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.880 day went on, and once it got dark, you did 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.280 not want to be outside. It was it was like Hoth. 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.640 It was the frozen ice planet that I never thought 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:15.080 I was gonna escape from. I I don't know that 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.440 I've ever been that cold in my life. I recall 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.880 one camping trip I went on with my father and 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.920 some friends when I was a young scout, and we 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:27.440 had coolers and the eggs inside the coolers froze. It 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.520 was so cold on that trip, and I don't remember 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:32.720 what it was that was before we carried around cell 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.480 phones new to the temperature every minute of every day. 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.760 But that Green Day game was as cold as I've 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.400 ever been in my life. Do you I don't think 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:42.440 we've told it on on this medium before, But the 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.280 Mark Carrier story from that game? Have you told that one? 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.600 Wasn't it? Mark? Which one? I'm trying to remember? I mean, 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.600 there were there were so many, I mean guys were 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.760 just guys were freezing, and guys were trying to There 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.680 were a couple of them who ran out and wanted 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.760 to be tough guys and sleeves and everything, and some 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:00.880 of them just turned right round and went back in 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.480 the locker room, like nope, what was it him that 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.000 put I don't remember the substance, but put it on 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:09.240 his feet and then it didn't take until that is right? 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:11.960 That is right, Mark Carry, or thank you for jogging 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.879 my memory. This happens with age. Mark Carry put chayenne 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:18.000 pepper in his socks. They thought that was gonna help 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.680 keep his toes warm during the game, and it apparently 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.960 didn't fully activate until after the game and when he 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.840 had changed into his dress shoes for the flight home 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.639 to Charlotte, and he was rather uncomfortable for the entire flight. 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:34.280 I could just imagine steward us, Can I get some 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:37.040 bucket of ice back here? Have you boys not had 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:41.000 enough of that already? Um? But yeah, Mark tried putting 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:44.120 Kayenne pepper in his socks and that didn't quite work out. 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:48.120 So we will remembers my material. Better not remember my material. 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:50.960 I remember that paragraph from that story he did. It 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:52.959 was fantastic. I mean, I'm just trying to think of 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.840 what it was, the pepper still in like in between 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.639 his toes, or like he was he wearing the same socks, 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:00.680 or he just didn't watch at all. I guess when 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.080 he I guess when he showered off. You know, I 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.760 wouldn't linger in a shower in a situation like that, 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:08.640 uh so I would be trying to get in and out. 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.600 But apparently it stayed on his skin and became more 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.600 and more uncomfortable as day went on. Something to google up. 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:16.320 We won't do it now, but something to google up 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:21.400 is a scientist named Jane Gustator. She wondered years ago 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.960 why some people sweat, why they perspire when they eat 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.200 spicy foods, and so there's a type of perspiration known 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:33.680 as gustatory sweating that can occur when you eat hot 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.399 peppers and things. Yeah, haven't your wondered about that? I 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:40.439 think it's fascinating. Do you sweat when you eat hot peppers? Back? Well, no, 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:42.720 because I solve that problem by not I don't. I 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:46.240 don't sweat a lot in general. But I'm not cold tolerant. 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.159 I love hot weather, love hot weather, and can I 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:53.359 stand cold with cold weather? Just it just hurts. And 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:57.119 that Minnesota game, so the Ice Bowl was thirteen below 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:01.439 right Green Bay, Dallas. Yeah, I got no interest in it. 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:03.920 I have these cats on the YouTube and all the Facebook. 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:06.600 They throw the boiling water, the kettle of boiling water 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:09.840 up into the air and it just becomes snowflakes. I mean, 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:14.000 it's it's pretty amazing. I there there is something you 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:19.160 know in this very nice, pleasant southern town of Charlotte, 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:22.480 where you know, people think we're too soft for cold 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:25.080 NFL football? Did they have the Iron night? Maybe it's true. 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.880 The little packets, the handwarmer, a little hand warm packet. 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:32.680 They load up on those things and and listen, Donny 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.680 Toner and his guys are gonna have every device, knowing 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.760 the man to keep these guys warm and just glancing 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.119 at the forecast, I think it's going to be cold, 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:46.119 but not necessarily heroically cold, just regular garden variety cold, 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.440 which there's no fun in that, Like, if you can't 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:50.520 set a record, what's the point of being cold? Well, 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:52.400 I mean, I used to you talk about that list 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:55.320 of top ten games. I used to giggle with David Monroe. Uh, 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:58.520 there was a time in this franchise's history where one 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:02.040 of the tin coldest aimes was forty degrees at kickoff. 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:06.800 Years ago working for the Atarhol Sports Network, North Carolina 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:09.360 had a night game at Keenan Stadium and I had 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:10.840 this and it was gonna be cold night, and I 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:12.800 don't like cold weather, and I can't stay warm, and 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:17.360 I'm ectomorphic and not a lot of body fat and 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:20.000 just don't like cold. I got so. I had this 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:22.440 heating pad that my parents got for a wedding present, 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:26.280 and this heating pad got hot. I plugged that thing 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:28.600 in about an hour before kickoff, and I see this 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.360 little lightning bolt and this puff of smoke it's arked 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:34.520 against this aluminum power strip in the press box at 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.280 Keenan Stadium. And then I hear this while I saw that. 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:40.480 I hear this, and the whole bank of lights on 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:43.399 the other side of Keenan Stadium went out and I 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:47.040 created a brown out over half a Chapel Hill plugging 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.800 this heating pad in never told anybody. I'm telling this 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:54.320 now for the first time. I almost had to delay 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:59.080 kickoff trying to get the power back on because she 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:02.120 blew the breaker on Chapel Hill that night. So you're 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:04.919 saying that the Super Bowl with the Niners and the 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.800 Ravens was really because someone got a little chili up 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:09.760 in the press box and the super Dome and plugged 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:15.760 in a eating path could happen. I wish I had 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:18.080 a story that good, because I was in that press 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:22.520