Two-time Pro Bowl wide receiver Adam Thielen joins the podcast to talk about his interactions with fantasy football fans, the development of Panthers quarterback Bryce Young, and whether there’s a difference between playing for an offensive or defensive-minded head coach. He also shares his experience eating raccoon with teammate Xavier Legette, his favorite NFL stadium to play in, and his thoughts on Severance season 2 (spoiler warning - 17:53 -19:15).
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Everybody, It's Wednesday, April nine, twenty twenty five. Welcome to
the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We just keep pounding to me.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
And your man nam G Marcus graduated by Michael aff
Florio and Laqwan Jones Fellas, we got a fun one
on tap today. You know, we've talked to a few
players before, but this one, I think, I think this
one turned out pretty well.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
If you if you fantasy Darling Man, I'm glad we
got to get a chance to.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Talk to him.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
If you don't know what we're talking about, if you
missed yesterday's show. A few days ago, we had a
chance to sit down with Panthers wide receiver Adam Feln
talked to him about fantasy.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Football, about the development of.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Bryce Young and his experience eating raccoon with teammate e
Xavier Laguete, as well as the second season of sef
SO early spoiler alert if you have not finished season
two of Severance, just know it comes at the end
of the interview.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
You can sort of.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Tune out, you know, ear muffs whatever, and avoid any spoilers.
In case you had not seen what happened with folks
at lumin So here it is are sent down with
Adam Feeling.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Feel excited now to be.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Joined on the show by eleven year NFL VET current
Carolina Panthers wide receiver Adam Feeling.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
How do we appreciate you hanging out with us?
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Man?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
How are you all good?
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Actually going on year thirteen.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
I know the NFL doesn't like to give you that
practice squad years, but going on your thirteen, which is
crazy to.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Think about, but yeah, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, well I was gonna ask you about that.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I mean heading into year thirteen now, I mean you
have you had a long stint in Minnesota. Now you're
coming up on your third season in Carolina at this point,
what keeps you motivated to get out there every year?
Speaker 6 (01:48):
I think the opportunity to get back to the playoffs.
You know, it's been a rough couple of years, and
just that opportunity to really be a part of building
something special was what kind of intrigued me to come
to Carolina in the first place, and didn't really necessarily
go to as playing the last couple of years, but
really excited about, you know, what the possibilities could be here,
(02:09):
and really what keeps me going is that possibility of
getting back to the playoffs, making a run, being competitive,
and then and then.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Shut it down.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Man, listen, you're one hell of a competitor. Man Adam
A huge fan of yours. Man Like, you've been a
fantasy darling for years, Man Like, has any fans ever
reached out to you about their lineups?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I get.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
I get a lot of fantasy football talk pretty much
every day, whether I'm at my kids baseball game or
just going to the dinner with my wife. A lot
of fantasy football. Hey, man, you were on my team.
I appreciate you. I get a lot of the my
One of my favorite lines is, hey, my fantasy football
team was super unique. The name was I got a feeling,
(02:54):
so I always I always play along with it, like,
oh my.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Gosh, I've never heard that before. That's amazing.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
And even though I've heard that five million times, but
I do love it.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I do love it. Do you play? I do not play.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
I played a lot in college, but in will once
I'm done. We're retired, but with all the gambling rules
and all that with the NFL, I just kind of
stay away from it for now.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
But as soon as I'm done playing, I will get
back into it when.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
You're playing someone you might be drafting is Bryce Young
and as fantasy players, and we loved what we saw
in year two out of him and the growth, but
you see it up close and personal. So what was
the biggest change or growth you saw with Bryce Young
from year one to year two?
Speaker 6 (03:36):
That reason, right there is probably the biggest reason why
I'm coming back and playing another year, just to see
that growth, see his attitude, see his influence in the
locker room, and just how things had changed over.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
The last two years. You know, he's always been a
great person and you could see the potential. And he's
a football player, right He's been doing it his whole life,
and that's a lot of what he has done since
he was a young kid is revolved around football. So
you know he's a good football player and you see
a day in day out, but you really want to
see that next step of his leadership and how he
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can kind of carry that team to the next level,
especially at the quarterback position. And you really saw that
the last five six seven weeks and through all the
adversity through year one and then going to year two
and more adversity with being benched and then coming back
and really just saying, hey, you know what, I'm going
to be the best I can be to be a.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Leader, maybe not just necessarily be myself, because I think
him as a person, he's kind of a little bit
more laid back, but I think he realized that I
can really make a difference if I just do what
it takes to help this team win. And he was
able to do that in a big way and really
lead and play at a high level and excited about
year three.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You are the veteran in on what is a fairly
young offense and you had a couple of rookie wide
receivers last year with Jalen Cooker and Save your League
at What did you see from those guys and what
are your expectations for them going forward?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Well, I would say I saw a ton of potential
watching both of those guys through practices, training camp, and
then obviously in games. You just see the potential that's there,
the big plays, the ability to make contested catches, Their
athleticism and their size is really what sticks out to me.
They're both huge dudes. I mean two hundred and thirty
(05:26):
two hundred and twenty five pounds running the way that
they both run. You can't find that on the street.
You're not finding that anywhere. And so their ability to
play big and play big and big moments. Jalen Kocher
had a lot of big plays and big moments. So
again I say all that to say that there's a
ton of potential. I think like any young player, there's
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just fine tuning and not necessarily just their games, but
fine tuning where their attention and detail is in the offseason,
in the way that they watch film, in the way
that they prepare. That's kind of where I try to
make my influence is what does it take to be
a pro and what does that look like? Not just
(06:09):
on Sundays, not just week one through week seventeen, but
what are you doing all year round? And what does
that look like? So I'm excited. I'm excited for their
careers and to watch it unfold because again, they have
great potential and are there great guys.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
The NFL Draft is in sixteen days. What is some
advice you would give like a rookie wide receiver entering
the NFL today, Especially what do you being an undrafted
guy yourself, like, what could you give them?
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Well, if I had to break it down into bullet points,
I would say, I would say it's pretty simple. I
would say focus, I would say preparation, and I would
say have fun. And those are three bullet points that
I'm trying to instill in my boys as they kind
of enter this sports journey right playing baseball and flight
football and doing these other sports.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Basketball.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
It's like, those three things are really really important, and
no one really ever talks about. Everybody talks about, you know,
how many points you score in basketball, you know how
many hits you had in baseball, but but what really
matters is that preparation. What really matters is that focus
and detail, and then and then just having fun and
go and lend it loose and lend it fly, and
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being confident in that preparation. So those are the three
things I'd say, is just really focus on those things
and everything else will take That will take care of
everything else. And that's really what I've tried to implement
into my career and day in and day out.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
And focusing on the moment.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
And and it's played out played out pretty well.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You talk about, you know, your sons and their sports
journey that they're going on right now, and you see
so many kids who are I guess, sort of specializing
in a sport where they'll do that sport all year long.
You talk about your kids playing different sports. I mean,
for you having made it now to the NFL being
a professional athlete, is there a value and sort of diversifying,
(08:02):
especially for kids at a younger age just trying to
figure out what they want to do.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Number One, I wouldn't be where I am today without
playing multiple sports. Played four sports all the way through
high school, and I still swear to this day that
I would not be in the NFL if it wasn't
for all of those sports that I played throughout high
school and the different lessons that I learned in each
of those sports, and the different body movements right, and
body mechanics and movement skills that I learned from basketball.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I applied to football all the time.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
And so I talk to my sons all the time like, hey, like,
you might not love basketball as much as you love
flight football, but when you go out and play basketball
and focus and you work hard at it, you're actually
getting better at football.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
So as much as you maybe would.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
Rather be in playing flight football or rather be playing baseball,
those sports are all helping you be better at the
sport maybe that you gravitate towards. Also, I think at
a really young age, I think you got to play
soccer and and try everything, see what you really fall
in love with. And then once you kind of see
the sports that you really enjoy and maybe are more
(09:10):
natural at and want to spend that time on, that's
when you all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna focus more
on like football and baseball, because now that you have
that love and passion for it, now you want to
actually practice and you want to work hard, and you
want to get better at your sport.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
So that's really what I try to.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Work with my boys, and it's been really fun to
see what they gravitate towards and what they want to
spend time on in the backyard, and I'm here.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
For it all.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Are you the best hooper in the Panthers wide receiver room?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I have no questions.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I'm super confident.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
I'm not not the best dunker because we have a
couple of guys that have insanely high verticals and so
I'm not going to get a dunk contest with those guys.
But basketball was my first love so I think I
can score, I can defend, and I can be a
kind of a better all around basketball player than anyone
(10:06):
in the receiver room.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I love the confidence, and I would have been saying
if you said someone else was better than you. But us,
fantasy guys, we love offense. I mean, there's no surprise there.
We always want offensive minded coaches and stuff. You spent
a lot of time playing under Mike Zimmer, a defensive
minded coach. Now you're under Dave Kanalis, who's an offensive
minded coach. What are the differences between play like play
(10:30):
style under these coaches, And do we make a big
enough deal about like we want offensive coaches or so.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
So I don't know if I'm going to answer this
question perfectly, but but the way my brain goes right
to this this is I think of it this way.
When you have a defensive head coach, you have multiple
offensive coordinators for your career, because either they're going to
be really good offensive coordinators and they're gonna go get
ahead job, or they're going to be averaged to not
very good and they're gonna get fired or replaced. So
(10:59):
there's only two options, and both of those options get
it. It means you're gonna get a new offensive coordinator. So
I say that all to say that when you have
a defense hed coach, you can have multiple offensive coordinators,
are multiple offenses, so it's really hard to maybe necessarily
get into a rhythm and really trust and understand the offenses.
When you have an offensive head coach, you have the
same offense until he's gone, it's it's it's gonna be
(11:23):
his guy, his offense. Whether he's calling the players or
the offensive coordinators calling the players, it's it's gonna be
the same system. And so you can really get into
a rhythm, you can really understand it as an offensive player,
and you know what you expect. So I'll say that
all to say that it's probably for fantasy football reasons,
(11:44):
is probably better to have an offensive head coach. Now
winning and losing games and winning a Super Bowl that's
a whole different topic, and I don't think it matters.
But you're just gonna have two different sides of what
that looks like. Either gonna have a bunch of defensive
coordinators and if defensive systems are gonna have a bunch
of different offensive systems and defense and offensive coordinators. So
That's the way I look at it.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
So you you know, in your career in Minnesota, you
were primarily lining up wide most of the time. This
past year under coach Canalis, you spent a lot of
time in the slot.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
What was that change like for you? How much of
an adjustment was that.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Yeah, the last two years, they've really kind of put
me more in the slot. I think towards the end
of last year, I started to do a little bit
more both, you know, a little bit and a little
bit out. I prefer being outside, but at the end
of the day, when I'm on the field and that
ball's in the air, I'm going to get it. So
it's it is what it is. I love the game
(12:39):
of football. I love I love game plans, I love schemes, plays.
You know, I'm drawing up players for my son's played
football team right now, So I enjoy that part of
the game. But yeah, I would much rather if I
had to, like, Hey, where are you going to play?
You have one one last player your career. Where are
you going to play?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I'm picking outside, I'm playing X and I'm going to work.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Like you talk about, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Drawing up plays and and doing this sort of thing go,
so talk about maybe playing some fantasy football. Have you
mapped out what what is next for Adam Feeling when
the NFL journey is done? Oh?
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Yeah, absolutely, I was almost I was almost done.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
So I had a plan with my off season is
gonna look like this offseason and and uh but yeah, no,
I know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
I really enjoy coaching youth sports, coaching my kids. I
ask them every day to make sure that it's okay
with them that I'm coaching them, and so far it's
been positive that.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
They want me to keep doing it.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
But I really enjoy that and not only necessarily not
really just for my kids sake, but I love coaching
the youth. They you can just you gain so much
ground over the course of the season. It's they just
get so much better and they're more confident, and it's
just so fun to see that and be.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
A part of that. Uh.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
So I'll be I'll be coaching a lot of youth sports,
maybe doing a little bit of media stuff on the side,
and uh, playing a lot.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Of golf and trying to get into some big golf tournaments.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
That's awesome, man, I got ass now last season you
took a bite of that raccoon from Xavier, like from
one to ten.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I mean it was it good.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
It was room temperature too, right.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Yeah, it wasn't the greatest experience of all the time.
And I'm glad I did it because that's my guy
and he swears by it. But but yeah, it was
it was. It was fine. It was It was very average.
Like you said, it was room temperature. It was in
a tough wear that had been sitting out for hours.
So not the greatest experience, but glad I did it.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Anyway, we can uh try to get that in a
Minnesota hot dish, like you see yourself putting that in there.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
That's true.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
You know, it might not be bad in a hot dish,
because I feel like that's the best part of the
hot dish.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Like you got cheese, got potatoes, you got you know,
uh maybe some uh some corn, so like you can
kind of mask the taste of everything and it's all good.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Any way that he could probably get him to taste
some loofist. Has he every explored that.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
That's true? Maybe that's what I should do.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
I think I'm gonna bring out some total Minnesota dishes
and see if you'll try what she probably will.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
While we're on the subject, Look it's not I hope
your answers not raccoon.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
But what's your favorite Carolina food?
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Favorite Carolina food? That's a great question.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
I'm not a big like southern food guy, especially while
I'm still playing because I'm trying to stay fast and
fit in that southern food, you know, a little greasy,
little fried.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
But favorite favorite Carolina food?
Speaker 6 (15:39):
I mean, I think the barbecue is pretty good. I
think the Wings. There's a pretty couple of good Wings
spots that I enjoy. So I'd have to say probably
the Wings.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Favorite place to play in the stadium, city wherever? Where
do you just like going when you're playing?
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Okay, well I got two sides of this, so I
got my favorit replace to play as far as like
going in there and winning is lambeau Field, because there's
nothing greater than like just coming out of there.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
With a W.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Now, there's nothing worse than coming out there with a
with an L because you know, they got a lot
of they got a great fan base that cares a
lot about their team, and they'll let you know that
you that you lost.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
But one of my favorite places to play, though.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
I think just atmosphere wise, I think it's Seattle when
you show up there, just the energy that fan base
they bring it, and so I think there's just there's
just something about that atmosphere that's like, Man, this is
this is why we do it, Like this is the NFL,
and this is what it's supposed to look like and
feel like. And the same thing in Minnesota. I think
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I think it's very similar. You know, I haven't played
there as an opponent, but I would imagine it's very similar.
Just that atmosphere and that kind of that ring and
energy that you feel when you walk in to go
play in that stadium. Uh, there's just there's just nothing
like it, and it makes it just it makes everything,
all the hard work and dedication and sacrifice that you
(17:05):
make in the austity, that makes it all worth it.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
What is it about Green Bay?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Because you are far from the first NFC North player
to be like, I love going to Lambeau and beating
them because it feels like every player who plays in
that division wants to beat up on the Packers.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Yeah. I mean, well, I grew up hating the Packers.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
I grew up a huge Vikings fan, so I think
there's a little bit added extra for me individually. And
then I also think that just the tradition there, right,
They've always they're always good, they've been good for a
long long time, and just the tradition of that that
stadium in particular, there's just there's just something different right
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about the organization. So it just makes it special to
go in there and play a good team and a
good organization and win.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
So Adam, these guys for the past year, they've been
bullying me to go watch the show Severn, So I
gotta know, are you of it? Like, have you been watching?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Heck, yeah, gotta I can't believe you haven't watched it. Yes,
look I have all.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
The streaming services, like I had to convince the wife
to get another one.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
So that's what the hold. That was my bad.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Well, you gotta just you just got to add the
package and then you you grind out, you know, two seasons,
and then you cancel like it only costs you one
month worth of subscription.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
You're good. I cleared it in four days. I am hooked.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Where is season three?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
So so then we got to ask you, dude, Adam,
are you are you seeing any Mark or Audi Mark?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I mean, where do you fall in this thing?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
I did not like the way season two ended. Spoiler
alert Hopefully no one's that's listening hasn't seen the last episode.
But man like I really wanted him to go with
his wife. So that was where I stood on that
and can't wait for season three. But the season two,
I will say season one was much better in my opinion.
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Season two was wild and there was just too much
going on for my add that I couldn't follow along. Thankfully,
one of our strength coaches with the Panthers was spilling
me in with all the with all the all the
side stuff that was going on. Sorry, my daughter is saying, okay,
I'll come out there this second.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Love you.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
My daughter, my youngest daughter.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
She can talk, so she just had to tell me
the whole story about where she's going, going to a
friend's house, doing.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
All amazing, amazing, Adam. Do we appreciate the time, best
of luck this season will certainly be watching. Hopefully we
can reconnect when season three of Severns comes out, but
in the meantime, we appreciate you hanging out with us.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Awesome Thanks guys. I enjoyed my time. We'll do it again.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Thanks again. It's to Adam Feeling for hanging out with
us Florida.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
There are a lot of things he said that I
thought were very entertaining, very informative.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I did love.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Him saying that people come up to him with like
their special fantasy team names, and it's just like I
got a feeling I get it's.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
The hilarious thing is like that his name has been
around for a decade now. He's probably heard it one
hundred times. My personal favorite part was he's still on business.
He said he's the best basketball player in that wide
receiver room. I cannot wait to hear what the other
Panthers wide receiver like that.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
I hope they hear this and they.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Respond appropriately, because I'm sure they all believe they are
the best player in that locker room.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
We should clip that and send it off to Panthers
social media so they can send it around to the rest.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I do hope that he ends up putting the raccoon
in the Minnesota Hot dish Man is he He said
it might taste good.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I'm still curious of what raccoon tastes like, so if
anybody knows a guy, let me know.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Okay, yeah, we should make that part of the show too, Like, look, look,
Kwana eats raccoon like the shrubberry thing.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
You know you can need some on that one.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
But I'll say this, you smother enough, you smother anything
and enough, like butter and cheese, it's probably okay, gonna
be all right. Yeah, but very interesting starts. We appreciate.
Add a feelings stopping by, and who knows, maybe the
outlook for Bryce Young boosts his fantasy draft value coming
into the twenty twenty five season. So again, thanks to
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a feeling for stopping by and hanging out with for
a little bit. But that'll do it for the edition
of the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. Stay happy, safe and healthy,
do good and live well. Enjoy the day, everybody, Talk
to you again tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Wo
Everybody, It's Wednesday, April nine, twenty twenty five. Welcome to
the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We just keep pounding to me.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
And your man nam G Marcus graduated by Michael aff
Florio and Laqwan Jones Fellas, we got a fun one
on tap today. You know, we've talked to a few
players before, but this one, I think, I think this
one turned out pretty well.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
If you if you fantasy Darling Man, I'm glad we
got to get a chance to.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Talk to him.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
If you don't know what we're talking about, if you
missed yesterday's show. A few days ago, we had a
chance to sit down with Panthers wide receiver Adam Feln
talked to him about fantasy.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Football, about the development of.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Bryce Young and his experience eating raccoon with teammate e
Xavier Laguete, as well as the second season of sef
SO early spoiler alert if you have not finished season
two of Severance, just know it comes at the end
of the interview.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
You can sort of.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Tune out, you know, ear muffs whatever, and avoid any spoilers.
In case you had not seen what happened with folks
at lumin So here it is are sent down with
Adam Feeling.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Feel excited now to be.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Joined on the show by eleven year NFL VET current
Carolina Panthers wide receiver Adam Feeling.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
How do we appreciate you hanging out with us?
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Man?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
How are you all good?
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Actually going on year thirteen.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
I know the NFL doesn't like to give you that
practice squad years, but going on your thirteen, which is
crazy to.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Think about, but yeah, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, well I was gonna ask you about that.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I mean heading into year thirteen now, I mean you
have you had a long stint in Minnesota. Now you're
coming up on your third season in Carolina at this point,
what keeps you motivated to get out there every year?
Speaker 6 (01:48):
I think the opportunity to get back to the playoffs.
You know, it's been a rough couple of years, and
just that opportunity to really be a part of building
something special was what kind of intrigued me to come
to Carolina in the first place, and didn't really necessarily
go to as playing the last couple of years, but
really excited about, you know, what the possibilities could be here,
(02:09):
and really what keeps me going is that possibility of
getting back to the playoffs, making a run, being competitive,
and then and then.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Shut it down.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Man, listen, you're one hell of a competitor. Man Adam
A huge fan of yours. Man Like, you've been a
fantasy darling for years, Man Like, has any fans ever
reached out to you about their lineups?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I get.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
I get a lot of fantasy football talk pretty much
every day, whether I'm at my kids baseball game or
just going to the dinner with my wife. A lot
of fantasy football. Hey, man, you were on my team.
I appreciate you. I get a lot of the my
One of my favorite lines is, hey, my fantasy football
team was super unique. The name was I got a feeling,
(02:54):
so I always I always play along with it, like,
oh my.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Gosh, I've never heard that before. That's amazing.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
And even though I've heard that five million times, but
I do love it.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I do love it. Do you play? I do not play.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
I played a lot in college, but in will once
I'm done. We're retired, but with all the gambling rules
and all that with the NFL, I just kind of
stay away from it for now.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
But as soon as I'm done playing, I will get
back into it when.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
You're playing someone you might be drafting is Bryce Young
and as fantasy players, and we loved what we saw
in year two out of him and the growth, but
you see it up close and personal. So what was
the biggest change or growth you saw with Bryce Young
from year one to year two?
Speaker 6 (03:36):
That reason, right there is probably the biggest reason why
I'm coming back and playing another year, just to see
that growth, see his attitude, see his influence in the
locker room, and just how things had changed over.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
The last two years. You know, he's always been a
great person and you could see the potential. And he's
a football player, right He's been doing it his whole life,
and that's a lot of what he has done since
he was a young kid is revolved around football. So
you know he's a good football player and you see
a day in day out, but you really want to
see that next step of his leadership and how he
(04:09):
can kind of carry that team to the next level,
especially at the quarterback position. And you really saw that
the last five six seven weeks and through all the
adversity through year one and then going to year two
and more adversity with being benched and then coming back
and really just saying, hey, you know what, I'm going
to be the best I can be to be a.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Leader, maybe not just necessarily be myself, because I think
him as a person, he's kind of a little bit
more laid back, but I think he realized that I
can really make a difference if I just do what
it takes to help this team win. And he was
able to do that in a big way and really
lead and play at a high level and excited about
year three.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You are the veteran in on what is a fairly
young offense and you had a couple of rookie wide
receivers last year with Jalen Cooker and Save your League
at What did you see from those guys and what
are your expectations for them going forward?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Well, I would say I saw a ton of potential
watching both of those guys through practices, training camp, and
then obviously in games. You just see the potential that's there,
the big plays, the ability to make contested catches, Their
athleticism and their size is really what sticks out to me.
They're both huge dudes. I mean two hundred and thirty
(05:26):
two hundred and twenty five pounds running the way that
they both run. You can't find that on the street.
You're not finding that anywhere. And so their ability to
play big and play big and big moments. Jalen Kocher
had a lot of big plays and big moments. So
again I say all that to say that there's a
ton of potential. I think like any young player, there's
(05:49):
just fine tuning and not necessarily just their games, but
fine tuning where their attention and detail is in the offseason,
in the way that they watch film, in the way
that they prepare. That's kind of where I try to
make my influence is what does it take to be
a pro and what does that look like? Not just
(06:09):
on Sundays, not just week one through week seventeen, but
what are you doing all year round? And what does
that look like? So I'm excited. I'm excited for their
careers and to watch it unfold because again, they have
great potential and are there great guys.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
The NFL Draft is in sixteen days. What is some
advice you would give like a rookie wide receiver entering
the NFL today, Especially what do you being an undrafted
guy yourself, like, what could you give them?
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Well, if I had to break it down into bullet points,
I would say, I would say it's pretty simple. I
would say focus, I would say preparation, and I would
say have fun. And those are three bullet points that
I'm trying to instill in my boys as they kind
of enter this sports journey right playing baseball and flight
football and doing these other sports.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Basketball.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
It's like, those three things are really really important, and
no one really ever talks about. Everybody talks about, you know,
how many points you score in basketball, you know how
many hits you had in baseball, but but what really
matters is that preparation. What really matters is that focus
and detail, and then and then just having fun and
go and lend it loose and lend it fly, and
(07:20):
being confident in that preparation. So those are the three
things I'd say, is just really focus on those things
and everything else will take That will take care of
everything else. And that's really what I've tried to implement
into my career and day in and day out.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
And focusing on the moment.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
And and it's played out played out pretty well.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You talk about, you know, your sons and their sports
journey that they're going on right now, and you see
so many kids who are I guess, sort of specializing
in a sport where they'll do that sport all year long.
You talk about your kids playing different sports. I mean,
for you having made it now to the NFL being
a professional athlete, is there a value and sort of diversifying,
(08:02):
especially for kids at a younger age just trying to
figure out what they want to do.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Number One, I wouldn't be where I am today without
playing multiple sports. Played four sports all the way through
high school, and I still swear to this day that
I would not be in the NFL if it wasn't
for all of those sports that I played throughout high
school and the different lessons that I learned in each
of those sports, and the different body movements right, and
body mechanics and movement skills that I learned from basketball.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I applied to football all the time.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
And so I talk to my sons all the time like, hey, like,
you might not love basketball as much as you love
flight football, but when you go out and play basketball
and focus and you work hard at it, you're actually
getting better at football.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
So as much as you maybe would.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
Rather be in playing flight football or rather be playing baseball,
those sports are all helping you be better at the
sport maybe that you gravitate towards. Also, I think at
a really young age, I think you got to play
soccer and and try everything, see what you really fall
in love with. And then once you kind of see
the sports that you really enjoy and maybe are more
(09:10):
natural at and want to spend that time on, that's
when you all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna focus more
on like football and baseball, because now that you have
that love and passion for it, now you want to
actually practice and you want to work hard, and you
want to get better at your sport.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
So that's really what I try to.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Work with my boys, and it's been really fun to
see what they gravitate towards and what they want to
spend time on in the backyard, and I'm here.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
For it all.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Are you the best hooper in the Panthers wide receiver room?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I have no questions.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I'm super confident.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
I'm not not the best dunker because we have a
couple of guys that have insanely high verticals and so
I'm not going to get a dunk contest with those guys.
But basketball was my first love so I think I
can score, I can defend, and I can be a
kind of a better all around basketball player than anyone
(10:06):
in the receiver room.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I love the confidence, and I would have been saying
if you said someone else was better than you. But us,
fantasy guys, we love offense. I mean, there's no surprise there.
We always want offensive minded coaches and stuff. You spent
a lot of time playing under Mike Zimmer, a defensive
minded coach. Now you're under Dave Kanalis, who's an offensive
minded coach. What are the differences between play like play
(10:30):
style under these coaches, And do we make a big
enough deal about like we want offensive coaches or so.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
So I don't know if I'm going to answer this
question perfectly, but but the way my brain goes right
to this this is I think of it this way.
When you have a defensive head coach, you have multiple
offensive coordinators for your career, because either they're going to
be really good offensive coordinators and they're gonna go get
ahead job, or they're going to be averaged to not
very good and they're gonna get fired or replaced. So
(10:59):
there's only two options, and both of those options get
it. It means you're gonna get a new offensive coordinator. So
I say that all to say that when you have
a defense hed coach, you can have multiple offensive coordinators,
are multiple offenses, so it's really hard to maybe necessarily
get into a rhythm and really trust and understand the offenses.
When you have an offensive head coach, you have the
same offense until he's gone, it's it's it's gonna be
(11:23):
his guy, his offense. Whether he's calling the players or
the offensive coordinators calling the players, it's it's gonna be
the same system. And so you can really get into
a rhythm, you can really understand it as an offensive player,
and you know what you expect. So I'll say that
all to say that it's probably for fantasy football reasons,
(11:44):
is probably better to have an offensive head coach. Now
winning and losing games and winning a Super Bowl that's
a whole different topic, and I don't think it matters.
But you're just gonna have two different sides of what
that looks like. Either gonna have a bunch of defensive
coordinators and if defensive systems are gonna have a bunch
of different offensive systems and defense and offensive coordinators. So
That's the way I look at it.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
So you you know, in your career in Minnesota, you
were primarily lining up wide most of the time. This
past year under coach Canalis, you spent a lot of
time in the slot.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
What was that change like for you? How much of
an adjustment was that.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Yeah, the last two years, they've really kind of put
me more in the slot. I think towards the end
of last year, I started to do a little bit
more both, you know, a little bit and a little
bit out. I prefer being outside, but at the end
of the day, when I'm on the field and that
ball's in the air, I'm going to get it. So
it's it is what it is. I love the game
(12:39):
of football. I love I love game plans, I love schemes, plays.
You know, I'm drawing up players for my son's played
football team right now, So I enjoy that part of
the game. But yeah, I would much rather if I
had to, like, Hey, where are you going to play?
You have one one last player your career. Where are
you going to play?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I'm picking outside, I'm playing X and I'm going to work.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Like you talk about, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Drawing up plays and and doing this sort of thing go,
so talk about maybe playing some fantasy football. Have you
mapped out what what is next for Adam Feeling when
the NFL journey is done? Oh?
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Yeah, absolutely, I was almost I was almost done.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
So I had a plan with my off season is
gonna look like this offseason and and uh but yeah, no,
I know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
I really enjoy coaching youth sports, coaching my kids. I
ask them every day to make sure that it's okay
with them that I'm coaching them, and so far it's
been positive that.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
They want me to keep doing it.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
But I really enjoy that and not only necessarily not
really just for my kids sake, but I love coaching
the youth. They you can just you gain so much
ground over the course of the season. It's they just
get so much better and they're more confident, and it's
just so fun to see that and be.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
A part of that. Uh.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
So I'll be I'll be coaching a lot of youth sports,
maybe doing a little bit of media stuff on the side,
and uh, playing a lot.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Of golf and trying to get into some big golf tournaments.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
That's awesome, man, I got ass now last season you
took a bite of that raccoon from Xavier, like from
one to ten.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I mean it was it good.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
It was room temperature too, right.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Yeah, it wasn't the greatest experience of all the time.
And I'm glad I did it because that's my guy
and he swears by it. But but yeah, it was
it was. It was fine. It was It was very average.
Like you said, it was room temperature. It was in
a tough wear that had been sitting out for hours.
So not the greatest experience, but glad I did it.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Anyway, we can uh try to get that in a
Minnesota hot dish, like you see yourself putting that in there.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
That's true.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
You know, it might not be bad in a hot dish,
because I feel like that's the best part of the
hot dish.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Like you got cheese, got potatoes, you got you know,
uh maybe some uh some corn, so like you can
kind of mask the taste of everything and it's all good.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Any way that he could probably get him to taste
some loofist. Has he every explored that.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
That's true? Maybe that's what I should do.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
I think I'm gonna bring out some total Minnesota dishes
and see if you'll try what she probably will.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
While we're on the subject, Look it's not I hope
your answers not raccoon.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
But what's your favorite Carolina food?
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Favorite Carolina food? That's a great question.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
I'm not a big like southern food guy, especially while
I'm still playing because I'm trying to stay fast and
fit in that southern food, you know, a little greasy,
little fried.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
But favorite favorite Carolina food?
Speaker 6 (15:39):
I mean, I think the barbecue is pretty good. I
think the Wings. There's a pretty couple of good Wings
spots that I enjoy. So I'd have to say probably
the Wings.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Favorite place to play in the stadium, city wherever? Where
do you just like going when you're playing?
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Okay, well I got two sides of this, so I
got my favorit replace to play as far as like
going in there and winning is lambeau Field, because there's
nothing greater than like just coming out of there.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
With a W.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Now, there's nothing worse than coming out there with a
with an L because you know, they got a lot
of they got a great fan base that cares a
lot about their team, and they'll let you know that
you that you lost.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
But one of my favorite places to play, though.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
I think just atmosphere wise, I think it's Seattle when
you show up there, just the energy that fan base
they bring it, and so I think there's just there's
just something about that atmosphere that's like, Man, this is
this is why we do it, Like this is the NFL,
and this is what it's supposed to look like and
feel like. And the same thing in Minnesota. I think
(16:43):
I think it's very similar. You know, I haven't played
there as an opponent, but I would imagine it's very similar.
Just that atmosphere and that kind of that ring and
energy that you feel when you walk in to go
play in that stadium. Uh, there's just there's just nothing
like it, and it makes it just it makes everything,
all the hard work and dedication and sacrifice that you
(17:05):
make in the austity, that makes it all worth it.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
What is it about Green Bay?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Because you are far from the first NFC North player
to be like, I love going to Lambeau and beating
them because it feels like every player who plays in
that division wants to beat up on the Packers.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Yeah. I mean, well, I grew up hating the Packers.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
I grew up a huge Vikings fan, so I think
there's a little bit added extra for me individually. And
then I also think that just the tradition there, right,
They've always they're always good, they've been good for a
long long time, and just the tradition of that that
stadium in particular, there's just there's just something different right
(17:44):
about the organization. So it just makes it special to
go in there and play a good team and a
good organization and win.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
So Adam, these guys for the past year, they've been
bullying me to go watch the show Severn, So I
gotta know, are you of it? Like, have you been watching?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Heck, yeah, gotta I can't believe you haven't watched it. Yes,
look I have all.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
The streaming services, like I had to convince the wife
to get another one.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
So that's what the hold. That was my bad.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Well, you gotta just you just got to add the
package and then you you grind out, you know, two seasons,
and then you cancel like it only costs you one
month worth of subscription.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
You're good. I cleared it in four days. I am hooked.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Where is season three?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
So so then we got to ask you, dude, Adam,
are you are you seeing any Mark or Audi Mark?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I mean, where do you fall in this thing?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
I did not like the way season two ended. Spoiler
alert Hopefully no one's that's listening hasn't seen the last episode.
But man like I really wanted him to go with
his wife. So that was where I stood on that
and can't wait for season three. But the season two,
I will say season one was much better in my opinion.
(19:00):
Season two was wild and there was just too much
going on for my add that I couldn't follow along. Thankfully,
one of our strength coaches with the Panthers was spilling
me in with all the with all the all the
side stuff that was going on. Sorry, my daughter is saying, okay,
I'll come out there this second.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Love you.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
My daughter, my youngest daughter.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
She can talk, so she just had to tell me
the whole story about where she's going, going to a
friend's house, doing.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
All amazing, amazing, Adam. Do we appreciate the time, best
of luck this season will certainly be watching. Hopefully we
can reconnect when season three of Severns comes out, but
in the meantime, we appreciate you hanging out with us.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Awesome Thanks guys. I enjoyed my time. We'll do it again.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Thanks again. It's to Adam Feeling for hanging out with
us Florida.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
There are a lot of things he said that I
thought were very entertaining, very informative.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I did love.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Him saying that people come up to him with like
their special fantasy team names, and it's just like I
got a feeling I get it's.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
The hilarious thing is like that his name has been
around for a decade now. He's probably heard it one
hundred times. My personal favorite part was he's still on business.
He said he's the best basketball player in that wide
receiver room. I cannot wait to hear what the other
Panthers wide receiver like that.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
I hope they hear this and they.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Respond appropriately, because I'm sure they all believe they are
the best player in that locker room.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
We should clip that and send it off to Panthers
social media so they can send it around to the rest.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I do hope that he ends up putting the raccoon
in the Minnesota Hot dish Man is he He said
it might taste good.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I'm still curious of what raccoon tastes like, so if
anybody knows a guy, let me know.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Okay, yeah, we should make that part of the show too, Like, look, look,
Kwana eats raccoon like the shrubberry thing.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
You know you can need some on that one.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
But I'll say this, you smother enough, you smother anything
and enough, like butter and cheese, it's probably okay, gonna
be all right. Yeah, but very interesting starts. We appreciate.
Add a feelings stopping by, and who knows, maybe the
outlook for Bryce Young boosts his fantasy draft value coming
into the twenty twenty five season. So again, thanks to
(21:14):
a feeling for stopping by and hanging out with for
a little bit. But that'll do it for the edition
of the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. Stay happy, safe and healthy,
do good and live well. Enjoy the day, everybody, Talk
to you again tomorrow.
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