December 24, 2024 • 24 mins
This week on Jordan & Jake, the guys recap the Panthers exciting overtime win over the Arizona Cardinals, swap Christmas stories from their playing days, discuss the importance of finishing the season strong and so much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wow, Jordan and Jake.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I go good, I'm excited, ready to go.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Blome stops.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
He throws at a crossfield. Guess who, George Gross?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Here are you?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Panther Hall of Honor members Jordan Gross and Jake Delon.
Jake Delone. First of all, Merry Christmas, buddy.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Merry Christmas to you, my bud.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Can you believe everyone says it? And it's true? But
as you get older, the years fly by, and I
just can't's blow in my mind that it's already Christmas.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Buddy, and you're a lot younger than me. Oh yeah,
are you?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
What are you now?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I am forty nine knocking on fifty's door?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
See, I'm forty four. I don't think that. I think
we're like in the in the phases of life, we're
the same age. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I disagree?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Okay, why why is that? What is forty nine offer
that forty four does not? Other than knocking on the
door of fifty?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So forty four years old when I was forty four,
I'm gonna be fifty in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Okay, So six years ago I had a sixteen.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Year old right, Well, fast forward six years she's getting
married in a month.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
You know, I have to six. You know, that's a
big difference.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
My eyesight, my to be able to read was a
lot better six years ago than it is now.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
He's starting what happened. Jake started like, I don't need
him yet, but here's what happened to me. Like a
month ago, I'm reading and everything's fine. I'm with my buddy.
We're at a restaurant. He's forty nine. He pulls out
his reading glasses and I was like, oh man, I'm
staying away from those. He's like, just try him. I'm like, fine,
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I try him, and I'm thinking, good lord, this is clear.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It's crazy, man.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I don't need him at Jake, but enough, you know,
by the time your age, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, exactly six years, a lot can happen.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
What else physically, what changes in the body feeling? Do
you feel the same, like knees, joints or what.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I'm very lucky. The only thing right elbow kind of starting. Uh,
but I think that's just more of some arthritic conditions
just from throwing so much.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
You know, the tennise Eerran passes.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So many you know, putting my right shoulder down to
brace because my left tackle couldn't block anybody.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
You know, it is everybody at forty nine, Jake, getting sacked.
Injuries will mount up, Bud, sure will.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I'm not complaining. I feel pretty drn good.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
But I didn't really need to get Yeah, I didn't
mean to get like on this. Uh we're old talk.
But here's the other one. Like I got sick to
day yesterday, and the day before my daughter had it.
She got sick. It was like a fever. She actually
got like a nausea. I had slight nausea, shit heavy,
she threw up it stuff. But I she had like
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a little fever. She rode out on the couch. She
was fine. Me, I get the chills and body aches,
like I'm like something has come over me that I'll
never recover from. And the whole time I'm thinking, is
this just because I'm way older than her, that I'm
getting this in a worse fashion? Jake, do you think
about that? Everything's like, Ah, is this because I'm getting older?
Is this just like how it would be normally?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No, Jardan, I don't think that way. I think, Okay,
I'm gonna get some rest. I'm gonna get over this
quickly and move on. That's how I think about it.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Good other than your eyesight.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Other than my eyesight, I've come to the realization that
looks I'll just put some cheaters on it is.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
What it is?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
So cheat is that you call them? Have you had
to power up the cheaters? Are you still what they
started at? A?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
One? Is that right? A? One? All right? Is it one?
Or one? Two? One two? Five? Whatever it is? No,
I'm at the lowest.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I mean, that's still get me great clarity, all right,
So you probably got like maybe three or four years
on that, and then you have to size that.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Just tend it.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Just keep your old ones and inded to me because
it will probably time up just right.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
That's exactly what I will do, my buddy.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
If you can't tell, I'm in a good mood because
it's Christmas, and also because the Panthers won thirty six
to thirty over the Arizona Cardinals and Jake what was
like it was kind of the game that I was
hoping to have a week prior, but we had it
this week. Close out the regular season at home, or
excuse me, close out the home regular season. The regular
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season finale, the home regular season finale with a good
overtime win. So to find a way to get into
overtime persevered.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
It was awesome. Man.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It was Jordan and I just think, you know, you
go to the Dallas game and.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I just you know, we had the turnover on the
first drive.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I think that would have changed had we, you know,
been able to get something done on the first drive.
But then it just one thing led to another and
we played right in our hands and then I was
anxious to.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
See how we would rebound.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Arizona is a team that was fighting to stay in
playoff contention, and we just came out and we came
out ready to play offensively, defensively, and yeah, we had
some trouble stopping the run, and after halftime it looked
like we kind of, you know, shored that up a
little bit more. But I think the big thing is
just what we did running the football.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
We stuck with it. Bryce his running of the football.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
That's the thing that I don't think it's talked about
enough how great he is in the pocket. He can
really move in the pocket, can escape and get out,
and he's so quick and he does a great job
of really and truly avoiding these massive hits and then
in the second half just watching chew but continue to
kind of go, you know, wear down that offensive line,
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blocking and suba making the play to winning in overtime.
I thought that was fitting, you know, for him, just
had that tough fumble against Tampa a few weeks prior,
and to him to be able to kind of seal
it and walk it off, that was awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
The thing about our team, Jake I was thinking about
this is I was just I love listening to the
comments after the game, Coach Canalis, the players, you know whatever.
I'm so impressed that I've yet to hear any bickering,
finger pointing. Think about back to when they traded Deonte
to the Ravens. It's like the coach Canalist, Dan Morgan,
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They've done an outstanding job of keeping the right kind
of dudes and the right narrative culture whatever you want
to be. All the way through. Man, you just hear like, Hey,
we're just trying to get better. We like what we're
building here. It's a good locker room. It's a good
group of guys. To continue to hear that when you're
three and eleven and then have a team play and win.
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They're like so excited. Man. When Chubas scored the winning touchdown,
Robert Hunt, who I've just become a huge fan of,
He's got his helmet off and he's celebrating like they
just won the Super Bowl. You really believe that the
team likes each other, that they want to win, and
they're doing it with just different dudes every week. Man,
I'm like checking the roster when I watch some of
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these games. There's just they've had. We've had to play
with so much depth, Jake, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, Jordan, you really got to tip your hat to
the coaching staff. It's like, Okay, hey, next man up.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And that's the mentality that I think coach Canalys has
pretty much taken. And listen, Bryce go back to Dallas.
Four turnovers, right, And what was his theme all week long?
When he was pressed by the media, Oh, will Bryce start?
We know he's starting at Arizona. What about the rest
of the year. And he came out and he said, yeah, no,
he's starting.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
The rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Because I like the way he just kept fighting in
the Dallas game, kept going through his reads, didn't panic
with his with his feet and things like that, and
just the general public. Your feet, that's so important when
you're as a quarterback. It's rhythm and timing and everything
is predicated on your footwork. You know, if it's a
three step from the gun or a five step under center,
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whatever it may be, everything's predicated on that. And if
you start getting here to have some turnovers, you start
rushing things, your eyes drop, you start watching the rust rush.
You can get affected by that and it affects the
rest of the offense. And that's something that Bryce didn't do.
Canalis makes reference to that, but I think that's kind
of resonated throughout the staff, is that, hey, we keep
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coaching these guys. And I think the ultimate compliment got
to go to a line coaches one of the US, a.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Couple of them, but coach Gubert and Bunch.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Brady Christiansen didn't know until Sunday morning he was gonna
start at center because Caden made had a sickness that
he just couldn't overcome.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
That swept through the old line rum. I thought that
was just tremendous.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Jake, I would love to know what Brady Christensen's basic
rep count is like during practice, during the week, because
if you're not a starter, you're for sure being a
scout team guy. As soon as you're not one of
the starting five, you're getting scout team reps and maybe
some reps with the ones during the season or during
the week. But Brady absolutely, Brady absolutely is going to
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beget it. Would be getting tackle reps, guard reps, center reps.
To pay attention to all of that stuff, man, and
then to walk in, like he said, they announced it
from everything I'm reading, they announced it officially at eleven
thirty for a one o'clock kickoff, Jake, So he just
was like, I think I'm getting ready. I think I
know what to do. Caiden A's It's not like he
rolled his ankle and was there to kind of help
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him on the sideline. He was sick, had no.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Idea what he was.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
They had no idea he was going to be sick,
even though that virus has been coming through the O
line room. So just a phenomenal, just a phenomenal example
of his value for our team. Man.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
No, I think there's no doubt, and it goes back
to it valuable.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
But the player was prepared, the player did the work
while he's having to wait and he got an opportunity
and then boom, he goes in there. And I don't
know if you watched, it's something that I just kept
watching over and over again when we score on that
last run, and he watched the celebration in that corner
of the end zone.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
But Christiensen like it was.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It was just pure elation, you know, just someone that
thrust into action, had to play all these plays and
then to rush for over one hundred and fifty yards,
over two hundred yards.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
As a team, but then to end it in overtime.
I mean, that's that's what it's about. Man. Those are
those are fun. Man, those those are fun, and you
cherish those moments.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
When the schedule comes out at the beginning of the season.
As a player and a coach, I'm sure you always look,
all right, what's you always know? Thanksgivings on a Thursday,
and so we you and I never played on a
Thanksgiving game. I was a part of one as a
broadcaster for the Panthers, so that was usually not an issue.
But you always looked at winds Christmas. Man, if it
ended on it, if it shut up on a Sunday,
you knew you were working a Saturday, you were gonna
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have meetings and travel, you know, during the week, there's
always some flexibility, but this is awesome that it's a
Wednesday Christmas for our guys that are playing on Sunday.
And Carolina coach Canalis said that the guys had come
in to Tuesday as their normal Wednesday, so that means
they'll get out of there, you know, normal working hours,
get out of there by five o'clock something like that,
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be able to go home and have their Christmas even
then have Christmas Day off, Jake. So that's a huge treasure,
especially coming off home when when you know guys got
a lot of family in Town's a nice stretch of
days for our Panthers.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Man.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, no, there's no doubt, and yeah, you love hearing
that that the players are going to get a couple
of days in and you get Christmas.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
That's special. I know we were so lucky. I know
I was playing wise.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I think one time, Jordan, we left Christmas Day to
hit to Tampa. We played the following day, but we
didn't have to go in until like one, two, three
o'clock later in the afternoon, so you're able to have
the Christmas Eve and certainly the morning with your family,
so that I was very lucky in that regard.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
You always had awesome parties Christmas team parties, Jake. That's
one of the things I remember most about this time
of year as being a Carolina Panther. You foot the
whole bill, catered DJ the whole thing. Man, that was
always a good time.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah, it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Man.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
It's just something about getting together.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
And I think it's more so you know, the wives
and things like that because they sacrifice so much and
the players were always witchy with each other, but be
able to do that that was always fun.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I look forward to those.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Irolin always did a sweet gift exchange based on years
in the league, right, so you would buy if you
didn't know who you're buying for. We had a top
dollar limit. It got pretty got pretty high, to be honest.
There were some pretty nice presents, but you would get
so like if you were the if you were the
lowest drafted rookie, you opened the first present. Then the
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next guy, you know, like to see the secret not
secret sand I don't even know what they call it,
but the next guy could take yours or whatever. But yeah, sure,
that's what we'll call it anyways, so we would do that.
I'll tell you what. I got a number of things
over the years, but two things that I still have
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to this day. I got an amazing I got an
awesome craftsman like socket, like a whole set of sockets
for like all the way up to big ones for
lug nuts down to tiny little ones. Got like four drawers.
I still have that thing. And my most cherished one.
I ended up with a Louis Vaton fancy wallet from
Twuton Reyes that I used when we go on vacation. Jake,
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how about that.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
That's awesome And you just put a smile on my
face saying, Tuton Reyes one of my next teammates with
the Saints and then certainly one of the starting O
linemen in Carolina with us.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Love me some, Tuton man.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
But it's just fun this time of year because you see,
like Rock Purdy, You see he got his O line
Toyota Vehicles. Yeah, I mean he's he hadn't even signed
his next deal yet. He's got to have an end
with that dealership. Is the only thing I could fix, Jake.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
That is big time.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, you never bought me a Toyota.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
No I didn't, Jordan, but I was this.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Complaining about the sacks earlier.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
So the best.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Gift I think that, you know, whatever I was able
to do for and it wasn't just the line. Mean,
I couldn't do it for the starting five. I had
to do it for the tight ends, the full back,
you know, things like that. But we got the gift
car certificates to a Commen's clothing store in Charlotte, and
so guys could go get dressed. And we had a
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couple of guys who, let's just say they struggled with
dressing properly.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
So it was nice to see them get something that
was fairly decent.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That one was awesome. And Steven Davis, after my rookie year,
gave us all gift certificates to a travel agency.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I remember that.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, that was that was quite nice as well. I
should have paired the two of them were my nice
clothes on my vacation. Uh, Jake, We're going to Tampa
this week to play the Buccaneers. Okay, good finishing games.
You know it's gonna be good weather in Tampa Bay.
Then you go to a dome in Atlanta. Familiar opponents.
So we're four and eleven. Now, Jake, how do we
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get to five and eleven?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Well, Jordan, listen, if you think about it as a player,
go through the mindset.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
We played these guys a few weeks ago. We should
have beat him.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
We let we left, we let him bout the hook,
we missed two field goals, we fumbled the ball in overtime.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
So like, all right, let's go play them. Let's go
play over there.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
They come off a tough loss in Dallas Sunday night,
which again you got to give Dallas credit, talented football
team that's had to kind of right their ship.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
They had to go through some.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Injuries and Mike McCarthy's done an unbelievable job of kind
of getting that in the right direction. Tough, physical game
that they had to play on Sunday night. Was able
to watch that game, and so now they're coming back home.
Atlanta in essence is really in first place because they're
own the tiebreaker. So it's a must win for them,
and you know what, we've got nothing to play for.
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And you know what, we had nothing to play for
last week either, and we showed up and we played,
and we sent someone packing and not going to.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
The playoffs as a player.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
If you're not making the playoffs, you want to ruin
ruin it for other teams. So I think the mindset is,
let's go back to work, let's go to Tampa, and
let's go play our tail off, and let's go get
one that we gave to them a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Well, are you going down to call this game?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yes, sir, I'll be down there.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Okay, it's some nice weather and enjoy enjoy the scenery.
So what's at stake now is the draft order. So
we talked about this last week. Last week, excuse me,
we're three and eleven and we were picking fifth. We've
slid down to like eight. I think now, Jake, with
the win, okay, I want you to you I'm going
to play Devil's advocate here and say I'm gonna say
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this might not be what I uh, what I believe,
but I'm gonna say that the draft stock, the draft
pick is more valuable than these last wins. Okay, that's
a stance I'm gonna take, Jake. And the reason is
because we're gonna get a better player. You're gonna have
more leverage if you want to trade the pick, you're
gonna be able to have uh more options available. You
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know whatever, the draft stock is more valuable, Jake. I
want you to tell me why it's more important that
we win these last two games.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
More important that you win the last games, Jordan, because
you build momentum going into next season.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
We're playing a lot of young guys.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
We're playing a lot of guys that have first year
in the system. You develop a certain way, how do
you practice, how you prepare, and when you kind of
go through tough times like this team did, and you
start to see the ship get turned the right way
late October, early November, and it's going the right way
toward the end of the year. You finish with momentum,
and if you finish with winning the last three games,
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it propels you into the off season. It propels you
into the draft, and you know what, it doesn't matter
where you pick. If you don't get the right guy,
it doesn't matter. You could be picking twenty eighth in
the first round, or you could be picking fourteenth, eleventh,
whatever it may be.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
If you don't pick the right guy, then it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
So you got to trust the process of the front
office of Dan and Brant and all the other guys
in there.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
They're gonna pick the right guy wherever it may be.
But let's go in.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
With a three game winning streak, a three game win
streak to end the season, and everybody feels good about
going into the off season. We've got money to spend.
Young players have showed up and played well, and we
know where we can go forward. And now we're just
gonna add more pieces.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Is that good? Is that?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
That was really good? I have no rebuttal You've you've
convinced me, Jake, and I think you said the right thing.
So nicely done, Manu. Hey, there are teams playing on
Christmas Day, the rare Wednesday game. All right, it's it's Steelers.
I'm doing this. I membory Steelers, Chiefs, and it is
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Ravens and somebody else. I'll look it up while we're
talking here what I'm getting at, Jake? I know these
teams played Saturday, right the pre didn't. Didn't these guys
play Saturday the week before? Anyway? Whatever? Yeah, a Wednesday
game is just odd, Jake, is just odd. And I
don't know what I think about it. Are you do
you feel I feel like it's a little forced getting
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these Christmas Day games on a Wednesday, But maybe that's
just me.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Yeah, Jordan, don't like it, buddy, I just don't like
it whatsoever. Understand. You know, people want to I just
I don't know. I don't like it. That's just the
way I am.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
And now, Jordan, if it's a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
maybe I can see it.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
But man, this Wednesday deal, I don't know. That's just me.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Maybe I'm old and crotchety, whatever, but that's just me.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah, the Ravens and the Texans they played opposite the
Chiefs and Steelers last week, so it's the same four
teams on display. That's a lot of primetime solo games
for those teams as well. But yeah, the three games
in eleven days is what it is. Right, you play Saturday,
you play Wednesday, that you play the next Sunday. That's
a hard ass, man, this late year, especially for these
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teams that are all in playoff contention, Chiefs trying to
get the number one seed. Man, it's just that's a
lot of football. I'm with you. It just seems like
too much.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah it does.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
But you know what, it's a but guess I'll be
watching it.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, there's no doubt. I mean, i'll have it all.
I'll watch.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yeah, absolutely, I'm the same way. I'll put it on,
I'll watch it. I mean, it is what it is.
But you know, I'm just very thankful that I never
I was able to not have to.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Play on Christmas. To be quite honest, I'm very thankful
for that.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I did play in a Las Vegas ball on Christmas,
which felt like the least Christmas thing you can do
is be in Las Vegas on Christmas.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Oh that's good, that's good.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, you remember the Blue Gray Game. Maybe I'm showing
my age. The Blue Gray Game used to be played.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
It was a college all star game, way before we
had all the bowls that we had, and it was
always played in Alabama, I believe on Christmas Day.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
That was always one of my dreams.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
We'd always go to my grandmother's and I would watch
it would start that morning fairly early, and I remember
saying to myself, there's one Christmas.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
I don't want to be here. I want to be
playing in that game.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Because, to be quite honest, back then, without all the
bowls where I went to college, ull at the time,
we weren't going to bowls because they didn't have all
the opportunities and so but unfortunately I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
But it is what it is.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Back when you had good visions.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yes, that's exactly right your elbow, when I could read.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Listen, I feel like Vinnie Testa Verity whenever we had
the wristband. We had one hundred and sixty three plays
on the wristband and it was the smallest print in
the world, and I can read it with no problems.
Vinnie Testaverity showed up forty four years old and they
gave it to him.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
He looked at it, he goes, yeah, okay, I can't
use that. I can't see it. I mean, it was
just right down.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
That's when I knew, right, he was forty four. And
I remember him coming into the locker room and I
just sized body and I was like, God, God, he's
so old. That's how Oh that's unbelievable. All right, Jake,
what the Christmas plans? And then I'll let you go.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah, Bud, we did.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
We had a little something on my parents last night
with the immediate family and the grandkids and things like that.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
So Christmas Eve night will be at my in laws.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
We'll go to church this afternoon, then go to my
Carrie's family, and then we'll go to my mom and
dads tomorrow, and then we'll.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Go to a brother in law tomorre night.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
So a lot of unhealthy food, but a lot of
you know, fellowship. I'm sure there'll be some toys and
a lot of kids around.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
But that's what Christmas is for.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Right, what's on your list for? What are you getting?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
What do you have?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I know you don't get you normally don't get anything
to carry. That's what you've done the past.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Listen, We honestly, we're so we've been so focused with
the wedding in a month and things like that. We're
just kind of like, hey, you know, I've got to
carry a few little things that she likes hotel. I
know she's probably gotten me some things. I'll probably have
a pair of shoes or something for me, Jordan, I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Pretty easy nice some shoes, all right. Well, I got
a big night tonight because we do our family bingo.
That's right, how we do Christmas eve if. Yeah, And
it's kind of a white elephant deal. So I got
to get my mind right for competition. But Jake, have
a good trip down to Tampa Bay. You're gonna take
the swim trunks, try to get out on the ocean.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
The weather looks to be a little shaky, like you
could have some rain on Sunday, kind of cloudy and
things like that. So uh, No, Jordan is gonna enjoy
my trip down and hopefully get a big panther win
buddy at Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
It makes me think about the honor I received of
getting to be color for Mick Mixon's final game, and
David Langton, with the best in the business, gave me
the green light to do a little Mick mix and
fair way. Remember how Mick would always do like his
read end to start the broadcast and it was just
so eloquent and painting the picture of the scenario for
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the game. I got to do one of those for mixed.
So that was a highlight of my kind of one
of the highlights of my life, honestly, getting to be
there Nick on his sign off. So that's a random
story for you, Jay, hope you enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I love it though, No, I love it, And that's
that's your one memory of Tampa well, it worked out good, Jordan,
because think about it, we dominated at Tampa Carolina Panthers.
I know in our time, we had a really good
time every time we went down in there.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah, it's a good place to be. Just hopefully they're
not shooting too many cannons off the Pirates ship. That's
a bad deal. When they get that going every touchdown.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
You're never right about that. But luckily we didn't hear
too many of those.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yeah, all right, have a good trip, buddy. I'll talk
to you next week.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Take care of mer Man.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Merry Christmas YouTube
Wow, Jordan and Jake.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I go good, I'm excited, ready to go.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Blome stops.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
He throws at a crossfield. Guess who, George Gross?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Here are you?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Panther Hall of Honor members Jordan Gross and Jake Delon.
Jake Delone. First of all, Merry Christmas, buddy.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Merry Christmas to you, my bud.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Can you believe everyone says it? And it's true? But
as you get older, the years fly by, and I
just can't's blow in my mind that it's already Christmas.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Buddy, and you're a lot younger than me. Oh yeah,
are you?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
What are you now?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I am forty nine knocking on fifty's door?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
See, I'm forty four. I don't think that. I think
we're like in the in the phases of life, we're
the same age. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I disagree?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Okay, why why is that? What is forty nine offer
that forty four does not? Other than knocking on the
door of fifty?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So forty four years old when I was forty four,
I'm gonna be fifty in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Okay, So six years ago I had a sixteen.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Year old right, Well, fast forward six years she's getting
married in a month.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
You know, I have to six. You know, that's a
big difference.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
My eyesight, my to be able to read was a
lot better six years ago than it is now.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
He's starting what happened. Jake started like, I don't need
him yet, but here's what happened to me. Like a
month ago, I'm reading and everything's fine. I'm with my buddy.
We're at a restaurant. He's forty nine. He pulls out
his reading glasses and I was like, oh man, I'm
staying away from those. He's like, just try him. I'm like, fine,
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I try him, and I'm thinking, good lord, this is clear.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It's crazy, man.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I don't need him at Jake, but enough, you know,
by the time your age, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, exactly six years, a lot can happen.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
What else physically, what changes in the body feeling? Do
you feel the same, like knees, joints or what.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I'm very lucky. The only thing right elbow kind of starting. Uh,
but I think that's just more of some arthritic conditions
just from throwing so much.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
You know, the tennise Eerran passes.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So many you know, putting my right shoulder down to
brace because my left tackle couldn't block anybody.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
You know, it is everybody at forty nine, Jake, getting sacked.
Injuries will mount up, Bud, sure will.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I'm not complaining. I feel pretty drn good.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
But I didn't really need to get Yeah, I didn't
mean to get like on this. Uh we're old talk.
But here's the other one. Like I got sick to
day yesterday, and the day before my daughter had it.
She got sick. It was like a fever. She actually
got like a nausea. I had slight nausea, shit heavy,
she threw up it stuff. But I she had like
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a little fever. She rode out on the couch. She
was fine. Me, I get the chills and body aches,
like I'm like something has come over me that I'll
never recover from. And the whole time I'm thinking, is
this just because I'm way older than her, that I'm
getting this in a worse fashion? Jake, do you think
about that? Everything's like, Ah, is this because I'm getting older?
Is this just like how it would be normally?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No, Jardan, I don't think that way. I think, Okay,
I'm gonna get some rest. I'm gonna get over this
quickly and move on. That's how I think about it.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Good other than your eyesight.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Other than my eyesight, I've come to the realization that
looks I'll just put some cheaters on it is.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
What it is?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
So cheat is that you call them? Have you had
to power up the cheaters? Are you still what they
started at? A?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
One? Is that right? A? One? All right? Is it one?
Or one? Two? One two? Five? Whatever it is? No,
I'm at the lowest.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I mean, that's still get me great clarity, all right,
So you probably got like maybe three or four years
on that, and then you have to size that.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Just tend it.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Just keep your old ones and inded to me because
it will probably time up just right.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
That's exactly what I will do, my buddy.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
If you can't tell, I'm in a good mood because
it's Christmas, and also because the Panthers won thirty six
to thirty over the Arizona Cardinals and Jake what was
like it was kind of the game that I was
hoping to have a week prior, but we had it
this week. Close out the regular season at home, or
excuse me, close out the home regular season. The regular
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season finale, the home regular season finale with a good
overtime win. So to find a way to get into
overtime persevered.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
It was awesome. Man.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It was Jordan and I just think, you know, you
go to the Dallas game and.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I just you know, we had the turnover on the
first drive.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I think that would have changed had we, you know,
been able to get something done on the first drive.
But then it just one thing led to another and
we played right in our hands and then I was
anxious to.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
See how we would rebound.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Arizona is a team that was fighting to stay in
playoff contention, and we just came out and we came
out ready to play offensively, defensively, and yeah, we had
some trouble stopping the run, and after halftime it looked
like we kind of, you know, shored that up a
little bit more. But I think the big thing is
just what we did running the football.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
We stuck with it. Bryce his running of the football.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
That's the thing that I don't think it's talked about
enough how great he is in the pocket. He can
really move in the pocket, can escape and get out,
and he's so quick and he does a great job
of really and truly avoiding these massive hits and then
in the second half just watching chew but continue to
kind of go, you know, wear down that offensive line,
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blocking and suba making the play to winning in overtime.
I thought that was fitting, you know, for him, just
had that tough fumble against Tampa a few weeks prior,
and to him to be able to kind of seal
it and walk it off, that was awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
The thing about our team, Jake I was thinking about
this is I was just I love listening to the
comments after the game, Coach Canalis, the players, you know whatever.
I'm so impressed that I've yet to hear any bickering,
finger pointing. Think about back to when they traded Deonte
to the Ravens. It's like the coach Canalist, Dan Morgan,
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They've done an outstanding job of keeping the right kind
of dudes and the right narrative culture whatever you want
to be. All the way through. Man, you just hear like, Hey,
we're just trying to get better. We like what we're
building here. It's a good locker room. It's a good
group of guys. To continue to hear that when you're
three and eleven and then have a team play and win.
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They're like so excited. Man. When Chubas scored the winning touchdown,
Robert Hunt, who I've just become a huge fan of,
He's got his helmet off and he's celebrating like they
just won the Super Bowl. You really believe that the
team likes each other, that they want to win, and
they're doing it with just different dudes every week. Man,
I'm like checking the roster when I watch some of
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these games. There's just they've had. We've had to play
with so much depth, Jake, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, Jordan, you really got to tip your hat to
the coaching staff. It's like, Okay, hey, next man up.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And that's the mentality that I think coach Canalys has
pretty much taken. And listen, Bryce go back to Dallas.
Four turnovers, right, And what was his theme all week long?
When he was pressed by the media, Oh, will Bryce start?
We know he's starting at Arizona. What about the rest
of the year. And he came out and he said, yeah, no,
he's starting.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
The rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Because I like the way he just kept fighting in
the Dallas game, kept going through his reads, didn't panic
with his with his feet and things like that, and
just the general public. Your feet, that's so important when
you're as a quarterback. It's rhythm and timing and everything
is predicated on your footwork. You know, if it's a
three step from the gun or a five step under center,
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whatever it may be, everything's predicated on that. And if
you start getting here to have some turnovers, you start
rushing things, your eyes drop, you start watching the rust rush.
You can get affected by that and it affects the
rest of the offense. And that's something that Bryce didn't do.
Canalis makes reference to that, but I think that's kind
of resonated throughout the staff, is that, hey, we keep
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coaching these guys. And I think the ultimate compliment got
to go to a line coaches one of the US, a.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Couple of them, but coach Gubert and Bunch.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Brady Christiansen didn't know until Sunday morning he was gonna
start at center because Caden made had a sickness that
he just couldn't overcome.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
That swept through the old line rum. I thought that
was just tremendous.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Jake, I would love to know what Brady Christensen's basic
rep count is like during practice, during the week, because
if you're not a starter, you're for sure being a
scout team guy. As soon as you're not one of
the starting five, you're getting scout team reps and maybe
some reps with the ones during the season or during
the week. But Brady absolutely, Brady absolutely is going to
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beget it. Would be getting tackle reps, guard reps, center reps.
To pay attention to all of that stuff, man, and
then to walk in, like he said, they announced it
from everything I'm reading, they announced it officially at eleven
thirty for a one o'clock kickoff, Jake, So he just
was like, I think I'm getting ready. I think I
know what to do. Caiden A's It's not like he
rolled his ankle and was there to kind of help
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him on the sideline. He was sick, had no.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Idea what he was.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
They had no idea he was going to be sick,
even though that virus has been coming through the O
line room. So just a phenomenal, just a phenomenal example
of his value for our team. Man.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
No, I think there's no doubt, and it goes back
to it valuable.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
But the player was prepared, the player did the work
while he's having to wait and he got an opportunity
and then boom, he goes in there. And I don't
know if you watched, it's something that I just kept
watching over and over again when we score on that
last run, and he watched the celebration in that corner
of the end zone.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
But Christiensen like it was.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It was just pure elation, you know, just someone that
thrust into action, had to play all these plays and
then to rush for over one hundred and fifty yards,
over two hundred yards.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
As a team, but then to end it in overtime.
I mean, that's that's what it's about. Man. Those are
those are fun. Man, those those are fun, and you
cherish those moments.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
When the schedule comes out at the beginning of the season.
As a player and a coach, I'm sure you always look,
all right, what's you always know? Thanksgivings on a Thursday,
and so we you and I never played on a
Thanksgiving game. I was a part of one as a
broadcaster for the Panthers, so that was usually not an issue.
But you always looked at winds Christmas. Man, if it
ended on it, if it shut up on a Sunday,
you knew you were working a Saturday, you were gonna
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have meetings and travel, you know, during the week, there's
always some flexibility, but this is awesome that it's a
Wednesday Christmas for our guys that are playing on Sunday.
And Carolina coach Canalis said that the guys had come
in to Tuesday as their normal Wednesday, so that means
they'll get out of there, you know, normal working hours,
get out of there by five o'clock something like that,
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be able to go home and have their Christmas even
then have Christmas Day off, Jake. So that's a huge treasure,
especially coming off home when when you know guys got
a lot of family in Town's a nice stretch of
days for our Panthers.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Man.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, no, there's no doubt, and yeah, you love hearing
that that the players are going to get a couple
of days in and you get Christmas.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
That's special. I know we were so lucky. I know
I was playing wise.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I think one time, Jordan, we left Christmas Day to
hit to Tampa. We played the following day, but we
didn't have to go in until like one, two, three
o'clock later in the afternoon, so you're able to have
the Christmas Eve and certainly the morning with your family,
so that I was very lucky in that regard.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
You always had awesome parties Christmas team parties, Jake. That's
one of the things I remember most about this time
of year as being a Carolina Panther. You foot the
whole bill, catered DJ the whole thing. Man, that was
always a good time.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah, it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Man.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
It's just something about getting together.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
And I think it's more so you know, the wives
and things like that because they sacrifice so much and
the players were always witchy with each other, but be
able to do that that was always fun.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I look forward to those.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Irolin always did a sweet gift exchange based on years
in the league, right, so you would buy if you
didn't know who you're buying for. We had a top
dollar limit. It got pretty got pretty high, to be honest.
There were some pretty nice presents, but you would get
so like if you were the if you were the
lowest drafted rookie, you opened the first present. Then the
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next guy, you know, like to see the secret not
secret sand I don't even know what they call it,
but the next guy could take yours or whatever. But yeah, sure,
that's what we'll call it anyways, so we would do that.
I'll tell you what. I got a number of things
over the years, but two things that I still have
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to this day. I got an amazing I got an
awesome craftsman like socket, like a whole set of sockets
for like all the way up to big ones for
lug nuts down to tiny little ones. Got like four drawers.
I still have that thing. And my most cherished one.
I ended up with a Louis Vaton fancy wallet from
Twuton Reyes that I used when we go on vacation. Jake,
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how about that.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
That's awesome And you just put a smile on my
face saying, Tuton Reyes one of my next teammates with
the Saints and then certainly one of the starting O
linemen in Carolina with us.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Love me some, Tuton man.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
But it's just fun this time of year because you see,
like Rock Purdy, You see he got his O line
Toyota Vehicles. Yeah, I mean he's he hadn't even signed
his next deal yet. He's got to have an end
with that dealership. Is the only thing I could fix, Jake.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
That is big time.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, you never bought me a Toyota.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
No I didn't, Jordan, but I was this.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Complaining about the sacks earlier.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
So the best.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Gift I think that, you know, whatever I was able
to do for and it wasn't just the line. Mean,
I couldn't do it for the starting five. I had
to do it for the tight ends, the full back,
you know, things like that. But we got the gift
car certificates to a Commen's clothing store in Charlotte, and
so guys could go get dressed. And we had a
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couple of guys who, let's just say they struggled with
dressing properly.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
So it was nice to see them get something that
was fairly decent.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That one was awesome. And Steven Davis, after my rookie year,
gave us all gift certificates to a travel agency.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I remember that.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, that was that was quite nice as well. I
should have paired the two of them were my nice
clothes on my vacation. Uh, Jake, We're going to Tampa
this week to play the Buccaneers. Okay, good finishing games.
You know it's gonna be good weather in Tampa Bay.
Then you go to a dome in Atlanta. Familiar opponents.
So we're four and eleven. Now, Jake, how do we
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get to five and eleven?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Well, Jordan, listen, if you think about it as a player,
go through the mindset.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
We played these guys a few weeks ago. We should
have beat him.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
We let we left, we let him bout the hook,
we missed two field goals, we fumbled the ball in overtime.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
So like, all right, let's go play them. Let's go
play over there.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
They come off a tough loss in Dallas Sunday night,
which again you got to give Dallas credit, talented football
team that's had to kind of right their ship.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
They had to go through some.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Injuries and Mike McCarthy's done an unbelievable job of kind
of getting that in the right direction. Tough, physical game
that they had to play on Sunday night. Was able
to watch that game, and so now they're coming back home.
Atlanta in essence is really in first place because they're
own the tiebreaker. So it's a must win for them,
and you know what, we've got nothing to play for.
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And you know what, we had nothing to play for
last week either, and we showed up and we played,
and we sent someone packing and not going to.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
The playoffs as a player.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
If you're not making the playoffs, you want to ruin
ruin it for other teams. So I think the mindset is,
let's go back to work, let's go to Tampa, and
let's go play our tail off, and let's go get
one that we gave to them a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Well, are you going down to call this game?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yes, sir, I'll be down there.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Okay, it's some nice weather and enjoy enjoy the scenery.
So what's at stake now is the draft order. So
we talked about this last week. Last week, excuse me,
we're three and eleven and we were picking fifth. We've
slid down to like eight. I think now, Jake, with
the win, okay, I want you to you I'm going
to play Devil's advocate here and say I'm gonna say
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this might not be what I uh, what I believe,
but I'm gonna say that the draft stock, the draft
pick is more valuable than these last wins. Okay, that's
a stance I'm gonna take, Jake. And the reason is
because we're gonna get a better player. You're gonna have
more leverage if you want to trade the pick, you're
gonna be able to have uh more options available. You
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know whatever, the draft stock is more valuable, Jake. I
want you to tell me why it's more important that
we win these last two games.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
More important that you win the last games, Jordan, because
you build momentum going into next season.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
We're playing a lot of young guys.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
We're playing a lot of guys that have first year
in the system. You develop a certain way, how do
you practice, how you prepare, and when you kind of
go through tough times like this team did, and you
start to see the ship get turned the right way
late October, early November, and it's going the right way
toward the end of the year. You finish with momentum,
and if you finish with winning the last three games,
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it propels you into the off season. It propels you
into the draft, and you know what, it doesn't matter
where you pick. If you don't get the right guy,
it doesn't matter. You could be picking twenty eighth in
the first round, or you could be picking fourteenth, eleventh,
whatever it may be.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
If you don't pick the right guy, then it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
So you got to trust the process of the front
office of Dan and Brant and all the other guys
in there.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
They're gonna pick the right guy wherever it may be.
But let's go in.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
With a three game winning streak, a three game win
streak to end the season, and everybody feels good about
going into the off season. We've got money to spend.
Young players have showed up and played well, and we
know where we can go forward. And now we're just
gonna add more pieces.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Is that good? Is that?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
That was really good? I have no rebuttal You've you've
convinced me, Jake, and I think you said the right thing.
So nicely done, Manu. Hey, there are teams playing on
Christmas Day, the rare Wednesday game. All right, it's it's Steelers.
I'm doing this. I membory Steelers, Chiefs, and it is
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Ravens and somebody else. I'll look it up while we're
talking here what I'm getting at, Jake? I know these
teams played Saturday, right the pre didn't. Didn't these guys
play Saturday the week before? Anyway? Whatever? Yeah, a Wednesday
game is just odd, Jake, is just odd. And I
don't know what I think about it. Are you do
you feel I feel like it's a little forced getting
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these Christmas Day games on a Wednesday, But maybe that's
just me.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Yeah, Jordan, don't like it, buddy, I just don't like
it whatsoever. Understand. You know, people want to I just
I don't know. I don't like it. That's just the
way I am.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
And now, Jordan, if it's a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
maybe I can see it.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
But man, this Wednesday deal, I don't know. That's just me.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Maybe I'm old and crotchety, whatever, but that's just me.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah, the Ravens and the Texans they played opposite the
Chiefs and Steelers last week, so it's the same four
teams on display. That's a lot of primetime solo games
for those teams as well. But yeah, the three games
in eleven days is what it is. Right, you play Saturday,
you play Wednesday, that you play the next Sunday. That's
a hard ass, man, this late year, especially for these
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teams that are all in playoff contention, Chiefs trying to
get the number one seed. Man, it's just that's a
lot of football. I'm with you. It just seems like
too much.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah it does.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
But you know what, it's a but guess I'll be
watching it.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, there's no doubt. I mean, i'll have it all.
I'll watch.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yeah, absolutely, I'm the same way. I'll put it on,
I'll watch it. I mean, it is what it is.
But you know, I'm just very thankful that I never
I was able to not have to.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Play on Christmas. To be quite honest, I'm very thankful
for that.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I did play in a Las Vegas ball on Christmas,
which felt like the least Christmas thing you can do
is be in Las Vegas on Christmas.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Oh that's good, that's good.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, you remember the Blue Gray Game. Maybe I'm showing
my age. The Blue Gray Game used to be played.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
It was a college all star game, way before we
had all the bowls that we had, and it was
always played in Alabama, I believe on Christmas Day.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
That was always one of my dreams.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
We'd always go to my grandmother's and I would watch
it would start that morning fairly early, and I remember
saying to myself, there's one Christmas.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
I don't want to be here. I want to be
playing in that game.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Because, to be quite honest, back then, without all the
bowls where I went to college, ull at the time,
we weren't going to bowls because they didn't have all
the opportunities and so but unfortunately I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
But it is what it is.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Back when you had good visions.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yes, that's exactly right your elbow, when I could read.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Listen, I feel like Vinnie Testa Verity whenever we had
the wristband. We had one hundred and sixty three plays
on the wristband and it was the smallest print in
the world, and I can read it with no problems.
Vinnie Testaverity showed up forty four years old and they
gave it to him.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
He looked at it, he goes, yeah, okay, I can't
use that. I can't see it. I mean, it was
just right down.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
That's when I knew, right, he was forty four. And
I remember him coming into the locker room and I
just sized body and I was like, God, God, he's
so old. That's how Oh that's unbelievable. All right, Jake,
what the Christmas plans? And then I'll let you go.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah, Bud, we did.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
We had a little something on my parents last night
with the immediate family and the grandkids and things like that.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
So Christmas Eve night will be at my in laws.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
We'll go to church this afternoon, then go to my
Carrie's family, and then we'll go to my mom and
dads tomorrow, and then we'll.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Go to a brother in law tomorre night.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
So a lot of unhealthy food, but a lot of
you know, fellowship. I'm sure there'll be some toys and
a lot of kids around.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
But that's what Christmas is for.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Right, what's on your list for? What are you getting?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
What do you have?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I know you don't get you normally don't get anything
to carry. That's what you've done the past.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Listen, We honestly, we're so we've been so focused with
the wedding in a month and things like that. We're
just kind of like, hey, you know, I've got to
carry a few little things that she likes hotel. I
know she's probably gotten me some things. I'll probably have
a pair of shoes or something for me, Jordan, I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Pretty easy nice some shoes, all right. Well, I got
a big night tonight because we do our family bingo.
That's right, how we do Christmas eve if. Yeah, And
it's kind of a white elephant deal. So I got
to get my mind right for competition. But Jake, have
a good trip down to Tampa Bay. You're gonna take
the swim trunks, try to get out on the ocean.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
The weather looks to be a little shaky, like you
could have some rain on Sunday, kind of cloudy and
things like that. So uh, No, Jordan is gonna enjoy
my trip down and hopefully get a big panther win
buddy at Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
It makes me think about the honor I received of
getting to be color for Mick Mixon's final game, and
David Langton, with the best in the business, gave me
the green light to do a little Mick mix and
fair way. Remember how Mick would always do like his
read end to start the broadcast and it was just
so eloquent and painting the picture of the scenario for
(23:43):
the game. I got to do one of those for mixed.
So that was a highlight of my kind of one
of the highlights of my life, honestly, getting to be
there Nick on his sign off. So that's a random
story for you, Jay, hope you enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I love it though, No, I love it, And that's
that's your one memory of Tampa well, it worked out good, Jordan,
because think about it, we dominated at Tampa Carolina Panthers.
I know in our time, we had a really good
time every time we went down in there.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah, it's a good place to be. Just hopefully they're
not shooting too many cannons off the Pirates ship. That's
a bad deal. When they get that going every touchdown.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
You're never right about that. But luckily we didn't hear
too many of those.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yeah, all right, have a good trip, buddy. I'll talk
to you next week.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Take care of mer Man.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Merry Christmas YouTube
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