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Speaker 1: Morris Jenkins dot com. It was a great read. Miles,
Speaker 1: thank you say that. You just turned on the extra,
Speaker 1: the extra charm, the extra almost like an announcer voice,
Speaker 1: and I really liked it. Well, you know what, Mr
Speaker 1: Jenkins tells me something I gotta tell the people, you
Speaker 1: absolutely do. Um, I think we should tell the people
Speaker 1: the latest as we know it. I'm sure fans want
Speaker 1: to know, um, what's going on here at the facilities.
Speaker 1: They were shut down, UM to football operations the team
Speaker 1: Monday and Tuesday. It is now Wednesday morning. Miles, you're
Speaker 1: probably the best person to to give us the latest. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what was interesting is that everything was sort of done
Speaker 1: out of an abundance of caution. And when you think
Speaker 1: about Monday in Tuesday as football days, really what they
Speaker 1: are are big days for game planning and for review
Speaker 1: for coaches. So players come in usually on Monday and
Speaker 1: they will go over the film in different things like that.
Speaker 1: But instead everybody was home on Monday. Ah. The Panthers
Speaker 1: did place a player on the COVID nineteen list. It's
Speaker 1: Michael Scofield as the second player in the last week.
Speaker 1: Tyler Larson, backup center, also went on last week. But
Speaker 1: it does not appear that there is some sort of
Speaker 1: outbreak right. There are only two players that have gone
Speaker 1: on it in the last week, and that means that
Speaker 1: the protocols are working. Um so the Panthers were in
Speaker 1: intensive protocol after a player on the Falcons tested positive
Speaker 1: and went on the COVID nineteen list. We all know that.
Speaker 1: So as long as you keep the cases isolated, which
Speaker 1: is what the Panthers are trying to do by implementing
Speaker 1: all of the things that they've done, then we can
Speaker 1: continue to see football on Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays. So
Speaker 1: so far, that's what's happened. As Christ and as you said,
Speaker 1: Panthers are back in the building as of Wednesday. They're
Speaker 1: going to practice Wednesday afternoon and we will go from there.
Speaker 1: But as of right now, everything seems to be running
Speaker 1: as it should, and of course it will keep you
Speaker 1: updated on social media if if anything changes this week. Also,
Speaker 1: you forgot, well you forgot Tuesday's football. We're seeing Tuesdays now.
Speaker 1: I'm ready for Wednesday night football. Well that but I
Speaker 1: said to I mean, I missed Tuesday because that we're
Speaker 1: not supposed to have football on Tuesday. Like as much
Speaker 1: as I loved having Tuesday night football last week, it
Speaker 1: was weird because it was because the you know, we
Speaker 1: had virus everywhere, So I don't know, not to not
Speaker 1: to undermine the situation, but can you just say Tuesday
Speaker 1: one more time? Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday. Can we can we
Speaker 1: have a quick referendum on a double header Monday night football.
Speaker 1: I kind of like it. I enjoyed it. We just
Speaker 1: replaced Thursday night football with a double header on Monday.
Speaker 1: I think that everybody, I think players probably would be
Speaker 1: in favor of everyone would be for their bodies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: or what about well, this is not better, It is
Speaker 1: not better for players. Um schedule wise, I wasn't say,
Speaker 1: what about one less Sunday game, you know, like one
Speaker 1: less Sunday one o'clock game, But then that's not good
Speaker 1: for the players. So now I've long been a proponent
Speaker 1: of changing the schedule to make it a little bit
Speaker 1: more balanced, so that, you know, we don't have all
Speaker 1: these one o'clock Sunday games and then it becomes four
Speaker 1: o'clock and it's the witching hour, and it's great, but
Speaker 1: then you only have two games in the four o'clock window.
Speaker 1: What's that about that was bad? Was that last week
Speaker 1: or it was last week there were only two games.
Speaker 1: There was the to a game where he got in
Speaker 1: for and now he's a starting quarterback because he played
Speaker 1: the Jets. Uh No, I think there's more to it.
Speaker 1: And then there was also Aaron Rodgers getting clawbered by
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, which is an interesting result. There two memorable
Speaker 1: games though, for sure. Well yeah, I mean I think so,
Speaker 1: you know, to starting Aaron Rodgers, we haven't mentioned the
Speaker 1: game that we covered guys at all. You let us
Speaker 1: down this well, come on, now, you let us down
Speaker 1: this road. Yeah, and now you're like, guys, get back
Speaker 1: into shape over here, Like, what are we doing in
Speaker 1: the fact that the Panthers lost six team, I didn't
Speaker 1: think we needed to address it. This is on the
Speaker 1: Panthers podcast network or anything. I frankly don't even remember
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. Yes, the Panthers looked like they
Speaker 1: were in position to make a comeback in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter against the Bears at home on Sunday, but ultimately
Speaker 1: fell short. Um some mistake, some missed opportunities, some self
Speaker 1: inflicted wounds. Um, And uh, I mean, and that's that.
Speaker 1: So I thought instead of doing our typical recap, which
Speaker 1: which we can do, Miles, if you're gonna get I
Speaker 1: don't want to short train. I don't want I don't
Speaker 1: want to mess up anything else. I just you know,
Speaker 1: I just thought we could never mess it up. But
Speaker 1: instead of doing our our typical recap, I want to
Speaker 1: play a game with you guys, because you know, I
Speaker 1: think as three people for people including podcast Matt, that
Speaker 1: are plugged into, um, everything going on with the Panthers
Speaker 1: every day. I mean, and this is something that always happens.
Speaker 1: But you see a shift in the tone of people
Speaker 1: and what they have to say about the team after
Speaker 1: a loss versus after the third straight win. Right, mistakes
Speaker 1: come to the forefront. People are concerned about things, um
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, still the same team that just
Speaker 1: won three straight games. So I have a list of things.
Speaker 1: We're gonna play an over under game over or under.
Speaker 1: That was an overreaction. So I'm gonna give you, um
Speaker 1: a common reaction or narrative after last week's game, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna tell me if you think it's an overreaction,
Speaker 1: an underreaction, or an appropriate reaction, like yeah, like how
Speaker 1: worried are you really about some of these things? Or
Speaker 1: how high are you on some of these things? Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go alright. First one, red zone woes are a
Speaker 1: big issue for this team. Oh An appropriate reaction. Yes, look,
Speaker 1: I mean if you if you can't score in the
Speaker 1: red zone, and let's be honest that that Bears defense
Speaker 1: is really really good. Um, And I think one of
Speaker 1: the things that was the most interesting about the red
Speaker 1: zone offensive woes, if you will, was that Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: constantly had to scramble once the Panthers got down there
Speaker 1: into the red zone, and that was because the coverage
Speaker 1: was so good by the Bears. He really did not
Speaker 1: have many options. And when you're talking about the Bears
Speaker 1: pass rush too, they always can get pressure with four
Speaker 1: so that means you got to kind of step up
Speaker 1: in the pocket and see what you can do. And
Speaker 1: once he starts running, they close really really quickly. I
Speaker 1: thought that the most interesting play was that zone read
Speaker 1: that they tried to run and Kyle Fuller, you know,
Speaker 1: instead of going off to the running back like pretty
Speaker 1: much everybody else on the defense, that he stayed with
Speaker 1: his assignment on the zone read, which was the quarterback,
Speaker 1: and he ends up flipping Teddy Bridgewater over and instead
Speaker 1: of a walk in touchdown, that thing is stopped for
Speaker 1: a one yard game. So look, part of your offensive
Speaker 1: woes in the red zone are your opponent like that
Speaker 1: is probably the best red zone defense that there is
Speaker 1: a league right now, exactly, So at the same time,
Speaker 1: you still have to get better exactly. I think there
Speaker 1: are things on this list, and this is why I
Speaker 1: wanted to do it. I think I think it's fun
Speaker 1: to kind of say, Okay, these are the things that
Speaker 1: are actually, um, worrying going into the rest of the season,
Speaker 1: or things that need to be addressed, and then these
Speaker 1: are just reactions to this game and a very good
Speaker 1: Bears defense. I think in this case, it is something
Speaker 1: that we've seen, um before, you know it, it's been
Speaker 1: an issue before this game, before facing this very good
Speaker 1: Bears red zone defense. So I think it's an appropriate
Speaker 1: reaction to say, oh, yeah, that's a that's something that's
Speaker 1: got to be cleaned up immediately. I also think it's weird,
Speaker 1: not weird, but after each game it feels like the
Speaker 1: guys like, Yep, we're gonna focus on this in practice,
Speaker 1: We're gonna work on this in practice. And out of
Speaker 1: all the things we've kind of heard them say that about,
Speaker 1: over the course of the season, a lot of these
Speaker 1: things kind of get better, and this is kind of
Speaker 1: one that necessarily hasn't really turned the corner yet, despite
Speaker 1: you know, we're really going to focus on this in practice,
Speaker 1: which makes me wonder, you know, how much of this is,
Speaker 1: you know, execution and play calling versus just these guys
Speaker 1: in these very particular situations maybe just aren't up to
Speaker 1: the level of the number one defense just in terms
Speaker 1: of who they are. You know, maybe this quarterback, this
Speaker 1: running back, this group of receivers and tight ends are
Speaker 1: just not good enough to execute against the number one
Speaker 1: red zone defense, even with a perfect play call. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you brought up tight ends, because tight ends in
Speaker 1: the red zone, that's where they're supposed to make their money,
Speaker 1: right you know, you see it with Jimmy Graham. That's
Speaker 1: basically his entire role right there with the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: You look at the Panthers tight ends, they've only received
Speaker 1: sixteen targets. Sixteen targets I'm talking about receptions. They've been
Speaker 1: thrown to sixteen times this year and they have one
Speaker 1: touchdown between them, and that was Ian Thomas on that
Speaker 1: little I don't know, flat route out there to the
Speaker 1: right that Teddy Bridgewater through him a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: So look, they have ten receptions between them. Okay, they
Speaker 1: it's not like, um, I don't know, I I'm trying
Speaker 1: to put this diplomatically at the same time, but it's like,
Speaker 1: you need to get some production out of that area,
Speaker 1: and if there's a way to get it, one would
Speaker 1: think it would be in the red zone. And uh,
Speaker 1: they've somehow got to figure out how to make that work.
Speaker 1: But I think also what Matt Rule says about you
Speaker 1: have to be able to run the ball down in
Speaker 1: the red zone. Yes, that's absolutely true, because if you
Speaker 1: can run the ball, then you know, like that old
Speaker 1: saying goes, there are three things that can happen when
Speaker 1: you passing. Two of them are bad. When you run
Speaker 1: the ball, it's a lot easier for you. So they
Speaker 1: have to be able to start doing that a little
Speaker 1: bit better in the red zone. Well, and maybe if
Speaker 1: that is the approach, you find out right before the
Speaker 1: game that you don't have Curtis Samuel who that's not
Speaker 1: you know all he does or even primarily what he does,
Speaker 1: but he has been an option with Christi McAffrey out. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, of course Christian McAffrey is not there. And
Speaker 1: then even Reggie Bonifan isn't there. So those are if
Speaker 1: you want to run the ball in the red zone,
Speaker 1: you got you got Trent Cannon and you have Mike Davis.
Speaker 1: And Mike Davis I think does an incredible job. But
Speaker 1: but he was I mean, he doesn't ever go down.
Speaker 1: He's always fighting for those extra yards and unfortunately that
Speaker 1: Bears defense just really shut him down as they did,
Speaker 1: they did everyone. You know, they made it incredibly, incredibly
Speaker 1: tough for a hardness player like Mike Davis. So next question, Kristen, Wow,
Speaker 1: just telling me to move on. I thought we're having
Speaker 1: a nice discussion there, all right. Next one in the
Speaker 1: over under reaction game, Um, there is an issue with
Speaker 1: the connection between d J. Moore and Teddy Bridgewater. That's
Speaker 1: something we've heard a lot over the last few days
Speaker 1: over reaction. And again I'm just putting this out there.
Speaker 1: I am not saying that. I'm saying that as a
Speaker 1: statement of something we have heard a lot over reaction.
Speaker 1: Under reaction, appropriate reaction will I think over reaction because
Speaker 1: I think that I think that the there's a regression
Speaker 1: to the mean to an extent, and you're playing a
Speaker 1: really good defense. There's less tard there's less other weapons
Speaker 1: out there, and I just felt like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like those questions came really hard at the end of
Speaker 1: that game, and I was like, where is this coming from?
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, like and maybe because it didn't
Speaker 1: feel like Robbie had a ton of catches on his
Speaker 1: targets either. Um, but all of a sudden it was
Speaker 1: like whoa D J. Moore can't catch? And I think
Speaker 1: sure there was, as coach Roll said, he there is
Speaker 1: a miscommunication on that fourth and two play, and he
Speaker 1: probably it was tough, but he probably should have made
Speaker 1: a better play on that ball in the end zone
Speaker 1: in the first half, you know, and you think about that,
Speaker 1: but everything else. I mean, he has eight targets over
Speaker 1: to the yards. It's harder to to bring down balls
Speaker 1: when you're in double or single coverage. You know, people
Speaker 1: right on you and you're throwing it up down the sideline,
Speaker 1: and he's calmed down with a lot of them, just
Speaker 1: made a lot of one of the plays of a
Speaker 1: lot of tough catches. Um. So I think it's an overreaction.
Speaker 1: I think it's less about the particular game, right. I
Speaker 1: think that the game was more of a microcosm of
Speaker 1: what the connection or lack thereof, has been between DJ
Speaker 1: Moore and Teddy Bridgewater all seasons, so I would it's
Speaker 1: not an overreaction. It's between like an an overaction and
Speaker 1: inappropriate reaction. You know, like you ever have a grade
Speaker 1: when your teacher on a paper would be like a
Speaker 1: minus slash B plus. That's kind of no id, it's
Speaker 1: just you score it out. It's I know, I know,
Speaker 1: and I'm like really hedging right now. But here's here's
Speaker 1: why I say this. Okay, So if you look at
Speaker 1: d J. Moore's career catch percentage, and when we're talking
Speaker 1: about catch percentage, that is the amount of receptions he
Speaker 1: has over the amount of targets he has. Right So
Speaker 1: in his rookie year that was sixty seven percent, Okay,
Speaker 1: his second year, last year that was this year, it's
Speaker 1: fifty al right, So that's a significant decrease. And then
Speaker 1: you look at other players on the Panthers. You've got
Speaker 1: Robby Anderson, He's at seventy eight percent. Mike Davis is
Speaker 1: a running back, that's all that's usually gonna be hired
Speaker 1: because he's gonna get more checked downs. Things that are
Speaker 1: closer to the line of scrimmage percent really nine percent.
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel is at three percent. McCaffrey before he went out,
Speaker 1: he's at seventy eight percent. So the outlier there is
Speaker 1: is d J. Moore. And so that's why I think
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily an overreaction. It's maybe an appropriate reaction,
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's something that's too alarming. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I made a lot of sense there,
Speaker 1: but that's sort of the way I see it. I
Speaker 1: think it's an overreaction. I hear what you're saying, Miles,
Speaker 1: but I think it really just came to the forefront
Speaker 1: with that fourth and two and the facts that you know,
Speaker 1: they were just a few inches off from each other,
Speaker 1: and it was a miscommunication. I get it. I just
Speaker 1: think I do not think Teddy's got targets. You know,
Speaker 1: he's He's got a lot of different options, um. And
Speaker 1: I just think that that is the reason that we're
Speaker 1: talking about it, because nobody was talking about it in
Speaker 1: the Atlanta game. Well at least at least I didn't
Speaker 1: hear it. I mean, you know, Okay, So I'll put
Speaker 1: it this way. I wrote this on Panthers dot Com
Speaker 1: and you can go check that out, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Uh So, I think part of the problem there was
Speaker 1: that they haven't run that route enough. And this is
Speaker 1: where not having an off season program, not having a
Speaker 1: full training camp comes in, because as as Matt Rules
Speaker 1: talking about, they hadn't necessarily run that play, you know,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, a big, big, big amount of times.
Speaker 1: So if you have an off season program where guys
Speaker 1: are working together, they're working through different scenarios in the playbook,
Speaker 1: you might run that a few more times than what
Speaker 1: they had they had to that point, and then you
Speaker 1: will not have those miscommunications where Teddy thinks that the
Speaker 1: receiver's going to be in one place, the receiver thinks
Speaker 1: he should be in another place, um. And so if
Speaker 1: you can correct those things, then you might see that
Speaker 1: catch percentage go up as you would like. I also
Speaker 1: just don't think that Teddy Bridgewater and Joe Brady are
Speaker 1: two people and n d J. Moore for that fact,
Speaker 1: but as as the two guys that the offense runs through,
Speaker 1: and Joe Brady and Teddy Bridgewater, they're not people that
Speaker 1: I have seen that just let things go like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna not worry about um, you know. Some
Speaker 1: miscommunications to our one of our best receivers. You know,
Speaker 1: I just think that that's and so I also think
Speaker 1: it's an over reaction in that sense of all right,
Speaker 1: if if other people have clocked it, they have clocked it,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be a focus. Um, that's definitely
Speaker 1: the impression I get from them. All right, Next up,
Speaker 1: over under reaction game. This defense is really impressive. I
Speaker 1: heard a lot of that after this game, So over reaction,
Speaker 1: appropriate reaction, under reaction. Do you want me to go first,
Speaker 1: I'll go first. You see them a little. I think
Speaker 1: it's I think it's appropriate. I think they they have
Speaker 1: been what they have done, uh, I mean, I thought
Speaker 1: what they did in the Bears game was especially in
Speaker 1: that first half. I thought it looked really good, you know. Um.
Speaker 1: And I've just been so impressed personally by the way
Speaker 1: that guys have continued to step up when there have
Speaker 1: been injuries. And I I know that's part of of
Speaker 1: being an NFL player, but I've just been really really
Speaker 1: impressed by that. This is the only caveat I want
Speaker 1: to make about this, taking nothing away from the defense,
Speaker 1: is that it just was. This is part of the
Speaker 1: reason I want to do this game. It's just funny
Speaker 1: to me that it was like, oh, this this defense,
Speaker 1: you know, really really holding things together, but I'm worried
Speaker 1: about this offense, when at the beginning of the season
Speaker 1: it was exactly the opposite, you know. Uh, it was
Speaker 1: a big focus on the fact that the defense didn't
Speaker 1: have a sack for the first two games, and it
Speaker 1: was like, well, this offense is except for that first
Speaker 1: half against Tampa Bay. But it was like that's this
Speaker 1: is the thing, and then we're all really worried about
Speaker 1: the defense. And I just think, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it's great that the defense is getting some recognition and
Speaker 1: playing the way that they are playing for the most part.
Speaker 1: But I just I just think it's so funny how
Speaker 1: from week to week the strength of your team is
Speaker 1: just viewed differently. Um, I think it's a bit of
Speaker 1: an overreaction to say that defense plan really is really good.
Speaker 1: I didn't say really good, I said really impressive. They
Speaker 1: have impressed me, Well, what's the difference between good. Now
Speaker 1: we're really playing semantics say they've impressed me with the
Speaker 1: way that they've continued to step up. I've been impressed,
Speaker 1: all right, that I have. I been impressed. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: you're the same because it's because I don't think I
Speaker 1: think the sacks are still a problem, right, And you
Speaker 1: know some of that is quarterbacks are gonna get rid
Speaker 1: of the ball really quick. We're going to see that
Speaker 1: this week against Drew Brees. Absolutely for sure. I'm I
Speaker 1: have no doubt about that. That's the way their offense runs. Um.
Speaker 1: But when you only have five sacks, you're not necessarily
Speaker 1: um getting to the quarterback as much as you like.
Speaker 1: They're close on so many of these things too, and
Speaker 1: I think you've got to start turning close into actual takedowns. Um.
Speaker 1: So that to me is one thing. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: somebody I have been really impressed with, and that's Jeremy Chin.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a sequence in that game where he's
Speaker 1: blitzing the quarterback, he then makes up a pass to
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham to force a punt, and then on the
Speaker 1: next play after the sudden change, he makes an interception.
Speaker 1: So I'm impressed with I'm impressed with him, um. But
Speaker 1: I also think that the caliber of quarterback and offense
Speaker 1: that this team has faced over the last few weeks
Speaker 1: has not necessarily been all that great. So I think
Speaker 1: this will be a really big test in the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints to see exactly how much progress this defensive
Speaker 1: made has made. I think it's an overreaction. I you
Speaker 1: look at their fourth to last in the NFL and
Speaker 1: third down, and you've you've got to be able, You've
Speaker 1: got to be able to stop people on third down.
Speaker 1: And you know, they've been able to do it with
Speaker 1: really really big plays at big moments, and I give
Speaker 1: them credit for that. You know, the the interception in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: I mean that that thing was going the wrong way
Speaker 1: real fast and then all of a sudden, boom, one
Speaker 1: big play turns it around. But you look at the
Speaker 1: whole the course of it. They're not stopping people well
Speaker 1: enough on third down. They're not getting off the field.
Speaker 1: It took them until the fourth quarter to really be
Speaker 1: able to come up and make one big play on
Speaker 1: third down to get the ball back to this offense.
Speaker 1: You know, we needed they needed a couple more of
Speaker 1: those earlier on um and you know, and and I
Speaker 1: like the fact that they're in the top ten in
Speaker 1: takeaways right now. But if you're not getting sacks, if
Speaker 1: you're not stopping people on third down, if your middle
Speaker 1: of the pack and run defense. You know, if you're
Speaker 1: middle of the pack in past defense, they don't make excuses.
Speaker 1: You know. They're saying, you know, when the reporters asked them,
Speaker 1: you know, like you guys, you know, for being so young,
Speaker 1: they're like, we're not making excuses or we are who
Speaker 1: we are, you know. So if they're not making excuses,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to make an excuse either. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say they're really impressive for the fact that they're
Speaker 1: really really young, or that they have three starters that
Speaker 1: are out injured reserve. They are, but that's not really
Speaker 1: an excuse. So I think in on the whole, I
Speaker 1: think it's an overreaction. All right. Another big storyline coming
Speaker 1: out of this game is that, uh, you know, worries
Speaker 1: about the offensive line. Um, that's something that that I've
Speaker 1: heard after this game. Um, they definitely had some issues
Speaker 1: against the Bears, but they had also gone the previous
Speaker 1: two games without giving up a sax. So offensive line
Speaker 1: is worrying, over reaction, under reaction, appropriate reaction. I see
Speaker 1: that one. I think actually is an overaction. And I
Speaker 1: say that because the Bears do that to everybody. Um,
Speaker 1: and so I mean, and they've been doing that to
Speaker 1: everybody for years. It's not it's nothing new, it's it's very,
Speaker 1: very difficult to get out of a Bears game unscathed,
Speaker 1: you know. And you know, the last few years, I've
Speaker 1: covered teams that have played the Bears. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: I can go back to when the Rams went to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and they went to the Bears, and
Speaker 1: they went to Chicago to play the Bears on Sunday
Speaker 1: Night football in early December, and it was cold, it
Speaker 1: was frigid, so that might have had something to do
Speaker 1: with it. But those guys, I mean, they hold they
Speaker 1: held the Rams of six points and nobody held the
Speaker 1: Rams of six points that year except for the New
Speaker 1: England Patriots in the Super Bowl. So like, that was
Speaker 1: one thing that was very impressive. Um and then the
Speaker 1: next year, uh, the Raiders last year played at the
Speaker 1: Bears and they did that in London, and the Raiders
Speaker 1: actually were able to have some success. But part of
Speaker 1: the thing that was happening there was the Chase Daniel
Speaker 1: had to come in and play. So when you have
Speaker 1: your backup, that gives the other defense a little bit
Speaker 1: of an advantage. The Raiders were able to force a
Speaker 1: couple of turnovers in that game, and they they were
Speaker 1: able to do what they needed to do to win.
Speaker 1: But like I said, you don't get out of a
Speaker 1: Bears game unscathed, and so that is really what happened,
Speaker 1: and honestly, the self inflicted with it was a nightmare
Speaker 1: start for the Panthers on Sunday. When you get a
Speaker 1: penalty on the kickoff, you know, then you get Mike Davis,
Speaker 1: he's stuffed on the first run, you get Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: sacked on second down, and then third down he throws
Speaker 1: an interception. It was a nightmare start. So when something
Speaker 1: like that happens and you put yourself in a seven
Speaker 1: nothing hole, then yeah, things can start to snowball. But
Speaker 1: I thought that the Panthers did a nice job of
Speaker 1: trying to come back. But then I think that then
Speaker 1: goes to the red zone office. So you've gotta be
Speaker 1: able to finish those drives with scores. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it's an overreaction to worry about the offensive line. I
Speaker 1: don't think you uh perform as solidly as they have
Speaker 1: up until this point, um without you know, and then
Speaker 1: one game I don't think makes a performance or you know,
Speaker 1: some uh judgment on the way that they play, and
Speaker 1: I think moving forward, you know, you you the reaction
Speaker 1: is okay, So now what you know, what's next against
Speaker 1: New Orleans, against Atlanta, against Kansas City. And for the
Speaker 1: most part, that group has pretty good depth and they're
Speaker 1: healthy right now, knock on wood. So you know, I
Speaker 1: I think that that's where you're You're still optimistic, you're
Speaker 1: still feeling good about you know, they're okay. There's no
Speaker 1: reason to think that next week, you know, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be doing the exact same thing or you know, give
Speaker 1: up the same issues. Um, you know, and I think
Speaker 1: I think you see a lot from a guy like
Speaker 1: Russell o'coum in terms of his leadership on that group.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think there's there's a lot of leadership
Speaker 1: on that offensive line despite the fact that everyone wants
Speaker 1: offensive lines to play together with the exact same spots
Speaker 1: for five years in a row, you know, or whatever
Speaker 1: it is. But I think that they've come together really
Speaker 1: really well. All right, two more next up, Robbie Anderson
Speaker 1: having a great season thus far. Near the top of
Speaker 1: this I think he's second in receiving yards. Um. DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins has passed him. He was, he was top and
Speaker 1: now Deander Hopkins has passed him. So the statement is
Speaker 1: Robbie's season so far is a surprise. Over reaction, appropriate reaction,
Speaker 1: under reaction. I think it's an appropriate reaction. Um, And
Speaker 1: I say this because we just had never seen Robbie
Speaker 1: Anderson do something like this before, so it might not.
Speaker 1: You know, this is one of those things where if
Speaker 1: you would ask somebody on the team, are you surprised
Speaker 1: at Robby anderson season, they'd say no, we knew he
Speaker 1: was capable of this, La la la. But from the
Speaker 1: outside perspective, we've never seen Robby Anderson do something like
Speaker 1: this before. He is, He's on pace to have something
Speaker 1: like fifteen hundred, sixteen hundred yards this season. He's never
Speaker 1: had over a thousand in his career before. So from
Speaker 1: that perspective, yes, it is a surprise, but it's a
Speaker 1: pleasant one and I think he's he's really doing a
Speaker 1: good job out there. Absolutely well, surprise, I think that's
Speaker 1: an underreaction. I think it's more than a surprise. I'm
Speaker 1: taking de bait on this one. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: this is for a Panthers wide receiver like this is
Speaker 1: at Christian McCaffrey all time franchise level record breaking. I mean,
Speaker 1: he hasn't been around long enough and he hasn't done
Speaker 1: the things that Steve Smith did, but on paper, for
Speaker 1: one season, for the first half of the season, he
Speaker 1: is in that conversation, which is crazy, like that's more
Speaker 1: than a surprise, that's all time level crazy. Um. So yeah,
Speaker 1: under reaction, yeah, I I think I will go appropriate
Speaker 1: because I see both of both sides of what you're saying.
Speaker 1: On the one hand, you know, I know Robbie would
Speaker 1: say and and Miles he told you that last week.
Speaker 1: He was like, anyone, what do you say, Like anyone
Speaker 1: who knows football knows that if I can run a
Speaker 1: deep round, I can run acrossing round. It's it's way easier.
Speaker 1: And so it just took Matt Rule and Joe Brady
Speaker 1: to say, all right, like let's let's give you those chances,
Speaker 1: let's put you in position to succeed. Um. But then
Speaker 1: on the other hand, you're right Will where it's like
Speaker 1: it's it's great for anyone to do what he is doing,
Speaker 1: and um, he hasn't been able to to showcase that
Speaker 1: so far in his career. So you know, I think
Speaker 1: it's an appropriate reaction, and I think it's awesome. Sometimes
Speaker 1: people just need to be in the right situation. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's what professional football is, isn't it philosophical?
Speaker 1: I like it all right. Last one, this one is
Speaker 1: courtesy of Will. I like this one a lot. Here's
Speaker 1: the statement, Panthers need Christian McCaffrey back immediately. We saw
Speaker 1: a lot of that after this game. Overreaction, under reaction,
Speaker 1: appropriate reaction, under reaction. Excuse me, over reaction if he's
Speaker 1: not healthy, right, if he's not healthy, you don't want
Speaker 1: him out there. High ankle sprain is tough for anybody
Speaker 1: to recover from, especially if you're running back. That's not
Speaker 1: that's not something you want, so over reaction. You want
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey back when he's overaction Because before Sunday, everyone
Speaker 1: was writing their blogs and do people still blog, I
Speaker 1: don't know. They're writing their things on the internet about
Speaker 1: how you should never pay a running back any money,
Speaker 1: because Mike Davis just proved for the last four weeks
Speaker 1: about you know, how you should never give a running
Speaker 1: back a huge contract, and then now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the top paid running back in the league, is the
Speaker 1: most misplayer ever and you need him back now because
Speaker 1: you can't live without him. You know, come on, let's
Speaker 1: let's let's get back to somewhere some sort of rational
Speaker 1: thinking here, which is that, yes, Christian McCaffrey is worth
Speaker 1: the money. Yes the Panthers need him to be successful,
Speaker 1: and yes he needs to be healthy. Do people still
Speaker 1: blog that's really a thing you just said over there? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I like it. I completely agree. It's it's an overreaction
Speaker 1: first and foremost. His health is of Tanta Mount importance,
Speaker 1: and he is going to be back out there as
Speaker 1: soon as he is fully healthy. There's no doubt in
Speaker 1: my mind about that. And also Steams three and three,
Speaker 1: you know, I think they're doing I know they just
Speaker 1: lost this week, but I feel pretty good about about
Speaker 1: where they are and what they've been able to do
Speaker 1: in his absence at this point is not a bad thing,
Speaker 1: absolutely all right. I'm glad that we could, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: set the record straight, calm everyone down a little bit,
Speaker 1: hopefully on the over under reaction game. Here on the
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Speaker 1: visit Morris Jenkins dot com. All Right, is it time
Speaker 1: for Will's stat of the week? The week stat of
Speaker 1: the week? I've already given a lot of stats today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like, uh, this one better measure up. Okay. So,
Speaker 1: at the end of the Chicago game, coach Rules said
Speaker 1: in his postgame pressure that he was looking out in
Speaker 1: the field and seeing a Derrek Brown, seeing Jeremy Chin,
Speaker 1: seeing uh Sam Franklin back there at safety and talking about,
Speaker 1: you know these guys are They're all rookies and they're
Speaker 1: out there doing this stuff. So I looked it up
Speaker 1: and through six weeks, the Panthers have three hundred eighty
Speaker 1: nine combined snaps by rookies on defense. Nine. That's the
Speaker 1: most enfranchise history for rookies through the first six weeks
Speaker 1: of a season. Is it is it the most by far?
Speaker 1: Or did we were you able to see second? Yes?
Speaker 1: Second is just one snap behind it. And that was
Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen when Dave Gettleman drafted Vernon Butler, James Bradberry,
Speaker 1: Darryl Worley and Zack Sanchez in the first four rounds
Speaker 1: or first five rounds. So but in, but for this
Speaker 1: Panthers organization franchise for years, the defense was always veterans
Speaker 1: that you sign and bring in. In the offense was
Speaker 1: the young draft picks like and then this year, obviously
Speaker 1: it's switched. So I I think that speaks to that
Speaker 1: a little bit. And I think it also speaks a
Speaker 1: little bit too, a more league y you know. I
Speaker 1: was thinking, oh my god, you know, franchise record, you know,
Speaker 1: like and obviously it's going to keep going up with
Speaker 1: with Justin Burrs currently on r right now, but it's
Speaker 1: only fifth in the NFL this year. Yeah, so who
Speaker 1: has more? Do you know? I'm sorry, let me let
Speaker 1: me pull it real quick. All right, Well, I'll vamp
Speaker 1: for you for a second here. No, I think that
Speaker 1: it's a good statu It shows that the Panthers drafted
Speaker 1: people that they can trust to put on the field
Speaker 1: at this point, right because if you're gonna draft people,
Speaker 1: you want to be able to develop them and sometimes
Speaker 1: that does take some time. But right now, what they've done,
Speaker 1: and some of this has been by necessity, I think
Speaker 1: Troy pride Jr. Being out there as much as he's
Speaker 1: been has been a little bit by necessity and not
Speaker 1: necessarily by design. But if you can still trust those
Speaker 1: guys to go on the field and do what they're doing,
Speaker 1: then that speaks to the way that they able to
Speaker 1: identify talent that can help. Yeah, one might even call
Speaker 1: it impressive, the way that these young workies on defense
Speaker 1: have stepped up, which is what I said earlier, So
Speaker 1: I have it if you want it, which is which
Speaker 1: is funny because as I've often heard, you know what
Speaker 1: stats lie a liar's figure. I don't know what the phrases.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say that great quote Falcons at four,
Speaker 1: Vikings at three with four hundred, Cowboys at two with
Speaker 1: four ten, which all mean that, hey, the Panthers are young,
Speaker 1: but they're doing better than those guys. But guests, who's
Speaker 1: first with four hundred and seventeen defensive snapstar rookies? Please
Speaker 1: tell us the Bears? Bears? The Bears, Yeah, well they've
Speaker 1: got I mean, when you have veteran anchors, I guess
Speaker 1: that's what you can do. You plug and play. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: let everyone marinate on that for a second while we
Speaker 1: take a quick break. We'll be back in just a second. Hi,
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Speaker 1: welcome back. Let's take a look at Week seven. Panthers
Speaker 1: are going down to New Orleans to take on the
Speaker 1: Saints for the first time this season. I have a
Speaker 1: question for you guys, and I asked Matt Rule this
Speaker 1: as well, because I'm I genuinely I'm curious about this.
Speaker 1: Of course, all the articles written this week, all the
Speaker 1: focus this week is, you know, Teddy Bridgewater going back
Speaker 1: to New Orleans, Joe Brady going back to New Orleans.
Speaker 1: There's a laundry list of of guys that have played
Speaker 1: for New Orleans fairly recently. How much does it actually help.
Speaker 1: If you're the Panthers and you have guys who have
Speaker 1: been there recently in terms of your game plan, well
Speaker 1: as I think, which is would probably say, they know
Speaker 1: you too. That's exactly what Matt. I've been I've been
Speaker 1: covering this league long enough to know the coach break right.
Speaker 1: So but that's the thing, right, So if um, if
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater knows Sean Payton and he knows their defensive coordinator, well,
Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator knows him. If Joe Brady learned a
Speaker 1: lot under Sean Payton, will Sean Payton knows what Joe
Speaker 1: Brady knows. So those guys can sort of and especially
Speaker 1: because they have tape, they can extrapolate what they've seen
Speaker 1: on tape and then say, all right, how would we
Speaker 1: try to attack this? Well, that's probably how they're going
Speaker 1: to try to attack it. So it's this it's a
Speaker 1: very interesting chess match that you have to figure out
Speaker 1: because yeah, like if you know them, they also know you,
Speaker 1: So Miles my question. And they would never admit this obviously,
Speaker 1: but you know, sometimes in the college world you hear
Speaker 1: about these coordinators or coaches that would you know, work
Speaker 1: on the game plan for like a Clemson or for
Speaker 1: an Alabama in July, you know, to prepare for like
Speaker 1: a November game. Does knowing the fact that you maybe
Speaker 1: you need to to do something completely different and knowing
Speaker 1: that this team has won three straight NFC South titles.
Speaker 1: Do you have a New Orleans game plan that you've
Speaker 1: been working on since before yesterday? Interesting? I think you
Speaker 1: always there's a difference between a game plan and a file, right,
Speaker 1: so you have a file probably on all your divisional
Speaker 1: opponents that that you know you're gonna have to face
Speaker 1: twice because the easiest way to win your division is
Speaker 1: win all your division games. Yeah, so there are things
Speaker 1: that you know about your divisional opponents that help you
Speaker 1: start to game plan, But then you also have to
Speaker 1: go by what have they shown on tape from this year.
Speaker 1: And the other thing is this is a new team
Speaker 1: in Carolina. It's not a new team there, so there's
Speaker 1: still probably some things that Joe Brady has not shown
Speaker 1: from an offensive perspective. Defensively, the Panthers are still having
Speaker 1: to adapt because to keep having guys getting hurt, which
Speaker 1: is really unfortunate. So I don't really remember exactly what
Speaker 1: the question was. Do you start game planning in August.
Speaker 1: I don't know that you're game planning, but you know
Speaker 1: you've been studying these teams because you know you have
Speaker 1: to defeat them. So I don't know if it's a
Speaker 1: game plan, but yeah, you have an idea of the
Speaker 1: type of stuff that you you start to want to
Speaker 1: implement long before you actually play your division games. And
Speaker 1: I think a big binder that just says Drew brees
Speaker 1: on it, and you just dust it off and pull
Speaker 1: it off the shelf on Monday. I haven't been in
Speaker 1: the building long enough for it together. Dust all right?
Speaker 1: And then, uh, my second big question not to skip
Speaker 1: over the Saints game, because it is, of course incredibly important.
Speaker 1: But you know, right on the back end of the
Speaker 1: Saints game, you turn around and you have Thursday night
Speaker 1: football with the Falcons here at home. Um, when does
Speaker 1: that start to factor into the way you approach this
Speaker 1: week or does it at all? I have to imagine
Speaker 1: it does. And then I know, you know, this season
Speaker 1: is just so different because last week the Panthers were
Speaker 1: in intensive protocol that certainly changed the way that they
Speaker 1: practice and and deviated from their normal practice schedule or
Speaker 1: how they normally like to practice, But when do you
Speaker 1: start to think, Okay, as soon as that game is over,
Speaker 1: we gotta turn around and play another game on a
Speaker 1: short week, so we have to rest our guys more
Speaker 1: or alternate our schedule a little bit this week. Does
Speaker 1: that come into play this week? I don't necessarily know
Speaker 1: how this staff will approach it, so I will give
Speaker 1: this caveat. But in previous staff that I have covered,
Speaker 1: a lot of that stuff starts from certain assistant coaches
Speaker 1: this week. So maybe on a Friday where like fast
Speaker 1: Friday is a thing that people say, and it's true
Speaker 1: because it's usually the day that you get to leave
Speaker 1: the office a little bit earlier than you normally would.
Speaker 1: You go home, you have dinner with your family, right,
Speaker 1: And that's something that gets a little bit um tacked
Speaker 1: back in a Thursday night in a week where you
Speaker 1: have Thursday at football next because some of the assistants
Speaker 1: are going to start working a little bit further ahead. Now,
Speaker 1: the other thing that happens is immediately after the game,
Speaker 1: and I've seen this in a lot of different places. UH,
Speaker 1: teams will start the recovery process a lot earlier than
Speaker 1: they normally would, So um in the locker room. A
Speaker 1: lot of times you will start seeing guys get massages
Speaker 1: immediately after the game as opposed to going home spending
Speaker 1: time with their family after the game. Whatnot. I mean
Speaker 1: it's different too when you're traveling. Um, So that that's
Speaker 1: something that they have to tackle. And then obviously there
Speaker 1: are a lot of protocols and things like that, but
Speaker 1: the recovery process for players has to start early so
Speaker 1: that you can feel like you're ready to play by
Speaker 1: a Thursday. It is very, very tough for players who
Speaker 1: are creatures of habit to go from playing a game
Speaker 1: on a Sunday to playing a game on a Thursday.
Speaker 1: So it's the recovery process. You know. The coaches a
Speaker 1: lot of times they will spend most of the night
Speaker 1: on Sunday in the building so that they review the
Speaker 1: film and then they are on top of the game
Speaker 1: plan and a lot of times you pair the game
Speaker 1: plan down a little bit too. So yeah, that process
Speaker 1: starts real, real quick. That's fascinating. That's exactly what I
Speaker 1: wanted to know. You know, when does that have to
Speaker 1: become a factor? Um? Now, it's not a home game
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Speaker 1: weird Question of the weekend Weird Question of the Week.
Speaker 1: You're weird. You're weird, guy, it's not weird. You guys
Speaker 1: are definitely better at coming up with like weird questions
Speaker 1: versus me. This is not a weird question, but it's
Speaker 1: not something that would maybe come up naturally on the
Speaker 1: podcast's call us weird man. No, I'm calling you creative. Alright. Alright,
Speaker 1: So Robbie and and tweeted, you know, another gym, as
Speaker 1: he always does. Um yesterday he said, uh, he's fixing
Speaker 1: to grab some McDonald's today because it's been a while.
Speaker 1: So that got me thinking, what's the best fast food restaurant?
Speaker 1: Not like what's your face? Like, what are you gonna
Speaker 1: definitively go to the map for and say this is
Speaker 1: the best fast food restaurant. I do want to say.
Speaker 1: I think in fairness to the other fast food restaurants,
Speaker 1: we gotta take bo j Angles off the table. We
Speaker 1: love boj Angles here the panthers, which wouldn't be fair
Speaker 1: at everybody else, So we're going to take them out
Speaker 1: so we can have a real competition. Sides. What is
Speaker 1: the best, yes, fast food place, in and out, in
Speaker 1: and out, it's it's it's it's in and out. Um,
Speaker 1: give me that double double with onion and chopped chilis.
Speaker 1: Animals not animal style fries. Excuse me, just regular fries
Speaker 1: and uh in the lemonade? Wait? Why did you just
Speaker 1: take off animals? And because it's not that good? Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: what she said. I don't I don't even know why
Speaker 1: I said that. I think it's just because it's something
Speaker 1: that people usually say, but I don't. I don't like
Speaker 1: the animals. It's just it's a little too much, a
Speaker 1: little too much Thousand Island for me. It really is
Speaker 1: it really. Yeah, I lived out west to just I
Speaker 1: just want to catch up, all right, Miles Um, wrong answer,
Speaker 1: but thank you for playing well. Chick fil A. It's
Speaker 1: not even it's it's a rhetorical question. It's not even
Speaker 1: a real question. I mean because I mean, you know
Speaker 1: what rhetorical questions. It doesn't it does have an answer.
Speaker 1: It doesn't need to be answered when when it's said,
Speaker 1: it's just it's understood apparently not by everyone. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll go with it. I mean, when you can have
Speaker 1: a fast food restaurant where the lines are literally out
Speaker 1: on the street every time you go by it, but
Speaker 1: yet you still get through so fast because they're literally
Speaker 1: they already have your order by the time you get
Speaker 1: to the sidewalk. It's their pleasure. It's their pleasure. It's incredible.
Speaker 1: And I tell you this, The top two groups of
Speaker 1: people in the world that are the most pleasant people
Speaker 1: you will ever interact with are people that work for
Speaker 1: Chick fil A and people that work as pole volunteers.
Speaker 1: When you go vote top two most pleas groups of
Speaker 1: people that I have ever been around. What about public's employees, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're nice too, They're up there with I gotta go
Speaker 1: to a public man, I haven't. I haven't been since
Speaker 1: I lived here, but I would also just like deposit
Speaker 1: here that you also basically just described the line in
Speaker 1: and out, so I don't. I mean, you know they
Speaker 1: also take your order on so I mean, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a this is a beef versus
Speaker 1: chicken conversation. Really um that that this has turned to podcast? Matt,
Speaker 1: what is your favorite best food? I can already feel
Speaker 1: the judgment, but it's probably RBS? Is it the curly
Speaker 1: fries for you? Believe it or not? The Mozzarellistics are
Speaker 1: so good they cannot tell you I've never had a
Speaker 1: mozzarella stick from Arby's. That sounds uh. I'm not gonna say. Yeah,
Speaker 1: christ in the show how they assistently my favorite? No?
Speaker 1: But are they my favorite? We got to get out
Speaker 1: of here. This has been I have not said anything
Speaker 1: for a minute. I don't even know how to react
Speaker 1: to that. You know what, Matt, I appreciate you standing
Speaker 1: strong in your opinion no matter what. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I think you're absolutely right. We gotta leave it here, right. Yeah?
Speaker 1: This has been The Happy Half Shower presented by Morris Jenkins.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to close the show because I don't
Speaker 1: I don't want anybody else to say anything else. So
Speaker 1: for podcast, Matt for Will for Christ, and I'm Miles Simmons.
Speaker 1: We'll see you guys next week.