October 14, 2025 • 15 mins
Former Panthers QB Jake Delhomme joins the show, as Jake talks about the offense finding an identity, he talks about the comparisons between the current RB duo, to that of Jonathan Stewart and DeAngelo Williams, he tells you where he's seen the most growth from Bryce Young, & more
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He is Jake Delone, legendary Panthers QB Panthers Radio Network. Jake,
what's going on? Man? How you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm great, guys. How are y'all?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Jake?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
We're doing good?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
We're doing a lot better right now than we were
a couple of weeks ago at this time after the
Patriots game. We love what's happened the last two weeks.
What do you think? What do you think about the
way the Panthers have been running this football? And and
do you look at it partly as well it was
against Miami, it was against Dallas, or do you look
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at it and say, this stuff's gonna work against the
hell of a lot of defenses. What do you think?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I understand the Miami Dallas bit because they have struggle minorly, right,
But the only thing I'll tell you is this, I've
seen Dave Canalis's offense for four quarters this year in
three games. Because the other games that we lost there
was you had no idea offensively in the second half
because all we're doing is throwing because we're down twenty plus,
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you know, So that's what we want to do, That's
how we want to be willing to be that way
every week. I doubt it, but that's who we are.
I mean, that's and you're gonna see it develop. The
run game, it takes time, especially man, I'm telling you,
when you can't have all these padded practices anymore, it
is run fits. Offensive linemen have to work together. If
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you look at all the injury from it tasts time.
It's a cohesive. You'll go back to two thousand and
eight with Jonathan and D'Angelo. They were so great running
the football together. But if you look at the season,
I think they both was it eight or nine, they
both rushed for like a thousand apiece. We got better
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after the buye and that was week eight. We just
we weren't. We were doing okay, but it just developed
as the season went on. So hopefully we can stick
to it. But I think we all know the turnovers
kill us, right if we turn over the football and
put ourselves in a byd. We need to stay turnover
free if possible, and just play the way we continue
to play. Just keep it close, keep it height. It's
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starting to show some of our guys, Okay, now it's
time to go win a game, and we're getting we
have some guys that they want to be in that moment.
It seems to me that's what I'm seeing when I'm
watching this play, Jake.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Not that it's a bad problem to have, but with
Shuba on the way back, with how hot Rico has
been the last couple of weeks, how do you properly
deploy and distribute the carries? Is it fifty to fifty?
Do you ride Rico out as the main guy for
a while? What's the what's the way to go about
this issue?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Here? Listen? I laugh when I you know, because you're
hear in the narrative like okay, oh, who's gonna happen?
We have so much football left to play, and there's
so many more hits on these running backs, like it's
gonna work itself out. I even talked to Jonathan Stewart
after the game about it, and I asked him, I said, Hey,
when you and D'Angelo were rolling, like I said, refresh
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my memory because I don't really recall. You know, it
was there series he goes, Jake, We had series he goes.
But I think D'Angelo would stay in and he'd look
at me and he tapus, Hey, come on, go in there,
you know, he said that was that's how we did it.
We didn't care, he said one, because it was taking
hits off of us and we could come in fresh.
He goes in, it would demoralize the defense. And I
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think you're gonna see that way with Rico, you know,
and Tuba. Knowing Tuba and knowing the type of leader
he is and what he does. If you watch postly
any of the celebration speeches in the locker room they
put these little clips out, Tuba of it has the
biggest smile on his face when they're talking about Rico, Like,
Tuba's different, guys. I'm just telling you this guy, he's
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part of the turnarounds. In my opinion, he's one of
the main pieces. So I think it plays itself out.
That's a good problem to have if we consider that
a problem.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Oh, definitely compared to the problems Jake we have been
talking about recent years here as Panther fans, like, I'll
take this one. And by the way, the game, oh
go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
No, no, I mean think about Rico. He's almost cramped
up the last two games. I mean, running that many times.
It's it's hard, right because it's not like he's looking
to run out of bounds and not run into contact,
and he runs through contact and it's a he plays
very physical. So I just I think that's a good
issue for us to have.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I hope I would like, you know, Dave to talk
to Stu about this, You know what I mean, because
Dave said last night on Panther Talk that they had
been kind of looking around the league president passed and seeing, Hey,
which which teams made it work with two running backs?
What you what Stu's saying there could be good information
the game I think of Jake and y'all were amazing
in two thousand and eight down the stretch, like you're saying,
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when you got them both going. But I think of
that Monday night game against tampamp Dude, do you know
Gruden still talks about having nightmares about that game when
those two ran all over a man.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, that was the That was the beginning of and honestly,
you know, it's funny that game is etched in my
mind because one, it was awesome, right, but that was
the beginning of Ryan Khalil realizing, you know what, I'm
the best damn center in the league. He said, something
in that game and Jordan Groves still we still laugh
about it. We're running the ball and from right to
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left and I think it's either late third or early fourth.
I think it's early early fourth and we're just you
just feel it. The crowd's into it and we're we're
man handling them and we get a long run. We're
getting the huddle, and I was I talked a lot,
obviously calling the play. Jordan was the leader, leader of
the old line, but that's kind of how it was.
We really didn't have many other people speaking. To be
(05:29):
quite honest, it was that or Ryan Khalil gets in
the huddle on this long run and he was like,
what love And he said a few choice words, but
he said, we're a certain type of offense and let's
run it, you know. Just he just got after it,
and Jordan and I looked at each other and we
made the whole face like whoa this tough guy? Who's
this tough guy? And Ryan looked at both of us
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in essence he said, both of you getting the huddle.
But like that's where you start to see And I'm
telling you, I think Cade Mays, I think Cave's a
big part of this. You know, this is a guy
that it goes unnoticed some of the things he does.
Ikey Ikwanu is an elite, elite, elite run blocker. He's
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unbelievable blocking on the run. He does well in pass protection.
I think he's gotten better, but he is an elite
run blocker. Him and Damian Lewis and then Brady Christison. Listen,
I just think Tommy trumbles another one when you rewatch
the film from the other day, his effort and finish
on blocking. Mischel Evans is a sick kid, you know,
like it's it. I think we're feeling it, guys right now.
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Are we feeling it enough to make this big run
win the division?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I just think where it's coming. I think you feel
it coming in like okay, young kids are developing, and
I think the panther away. I think you run the football.
I think he got up. That's who we.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Are, Jake, Where do you think this defensive improvement's coming from.
Obviously Derek Brown is a massive part of that. But
what else are you seeing where this defense has taken
major majors from where they were a year ago.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, you hit it on the head. Number ninety five.
He's different. He's just big, strong and different. If he's
one on one, he's throwing the guy out the way
or he's getting tackled and it's a hold on the
play and the double team the other guys of singles
singled up. So I think that's the biggest thing. I
think Trev Morrick number seven, the closer he is to
the line of scrimmers, the better he is. There's a
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physicality and I think you see him bringing it. The
linebacker has been very interesting that the green dot was
shifted from Rose Boom to Trevin the last two games,
and they're both playing faster, and I think one is
just sheer experience with Trevin. I mean the kids missed half,
you know, a decent amount of the season with the
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shoulders injury last year. He's still young, still learning, but
Rose Boom gosh is different the last couple of games.
Just the speed with which he's playing. So you know,
the young draft picks Nick S Gordon, I think the
kid just turned years old. Like I watched him push
Terrence Steele, who's a large man, the right tackle of
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quality right tackle in the league, push him all the
way back, bull rush him into Dak's lap in one
of the red zone players the other day where Dak
had to rushing incomplete and we held him to a
field goal. So you're just seeing flashes. I think Pat Jones,
he's Mason plays ashn solid. Dan's done the right thing now.
I mean he's built both lines two years in a row,
and that gives you a chance. That definitely gives you
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a chance.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I love it. Beating up on teams in the trenches
like they've done last two weeks is so much fun
to watch as a fan. And you mentioned it. Panther
football is running the ball, Jake. You know it better
than anybody when the Panthers have been good. So maybe
I'm nostalgic as a fan, right, But when the Panthers
have been good, they have kicked people's rear ends in
the trenches on both sides of the ball. So I
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like the way Dan is building this thing. This feels
like Panther football.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
It does. And listen, I think that's the way most
teams wins, being the physicality in the run game. You know,
we saw firsthand twice a year Sean Payton and the
New Orleans Saints. Right well, that Super Bowl year yeah,
drew through it a lot, but they ran the ball
with Pierre Thomas and that bunch and the screen game,
I mean, the run game was very prominent and not
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just that's a recipe to be in every game and
to stay in every game, and you do that, and
that's where the second half comes into play. I'll go
back to it. Jacksonville, Arizona, New England couldn't run the
ball in the second half because the game didn't allow
us to. And that's where, you know, that's just that's
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how the game's played. It's those body blows all game along,
you know, until something breaks usually, And that's the interesting thing.
Rico didn't have a breakout run one of these long
runs last week. It was seven, ten, twelve, fifteen, you know,
it was those And I liked what we did with Lagett.
We threw that screen to him. I just I think
he's a Debo esque type of person. I think he's
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one of those type you know that you get those screens,
that big body running and things like that.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Jake, last question before I let you go about your
day here, and we thank you for your kindness and
joining us as always. What's your assessment right now with
Bryce Young. Where are you seeing the improvement in Bryce
and what's the next step and his maturation as an
NFL quarterback.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Well, I think the biggest thing is the turnovers. When
we turn it over early that you know, it gives
us problems, right, And yes, he did have the pick
last week. I'm not so quite sure that was his fault.
We all know it kind of went through t Maax hands.
But I just he's coming through big in big spots
on the third down and some of the fourth down plays,
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you're seeing a different player, Like I think he's getting
very comfortable in the offense. And it's only the second
year with coach Kannalis and you're watching them and he's
you can see during the course of the game if
you watch close. I kind of stayed with my binoculars
a lot during the game. You can see Daves like
talking to him in big downs like hey, this or
this and Bryces you can you can see Bryce is like, no,
(11:04):
I probably prefer this better. This is why. And it's
not an emotional answer because he's not an emotional guy.
It's a thought out answer about the preparation, what this team,
what are we expecting here? So those are the things
that I think you're starting to see a maturation process.
But the turnovers has been the issue whenever we do
turn it over to be able to overcome it. And
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that was huge against Miami. You know, those two turnovers.
We finally overcame them, you know what I'm saying. And
last week we only had the one on that play
and that's I think Dallas scored on that drive. I
think that was the time that. Yeah, So those are
the things that it's just we're coming. I don't think
we're there yet, but you like the way we're going
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about it.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Here's the thing. Can we go on the road? Can
you go to New York? This team is down. It's
a struggle for them right now. They're trying. I mean
they fought last week against Denver. They really truly did
when you want to fit on, they played hard. So
can we go to New York and can we play
good Panther football and try and try to come out,
you know with a win.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
That's the next step. Went on the road and win
a game that I know Vegas came out with the
Jets is like a one and a half point favorite,
but like win a game that you feel like, hey,
we're the best, We're the better team going in right,
like win that game. That would do a lot for
this process. By the way, I got to ask you, Jake,
when you played, you were known for fire, your fire, right,
your emotion, which we loved as fans. Does the broadcasting
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for the Panther Network, Like, do you find yourself getting
fired up in a game like Sunday or is it
just is it different?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
No? No, I do. I I just I want to
see at sixteed right, I bleed Carolina Blue, and my
partner on the side of me, Luke, is the same way,
and we kind of punch each other all game, hit
each other. We just we wanted, we wanted. We just
want that that stadium back like rocking again and loud
and and and fun. I mean, listen, it's been difficult,
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you know, the last five years. So you know what
I'm saying, Like, okay, but I just think you're kind
of starting to see, Okay, this is who we want
to be. This is and and that's a reflection of
how Dan wants to build a team. Like we all
know this. Dan's not gonna get up there and and
want to talk and speak and talk about what he's done.
But he wants football players that want to compete, compete
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and play and be tough and nasty because that's what
he was. That's what the teams that he played on.
And then you go back to the second regime, that
the Cam and Luke regime, that's what that team was.
They were mean, tough, nasty, the special teams with a
That's that's how you win, man, it's you just you
gotta have that edge when you play. And you're starting
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to see it. But this is huge this week. Can
we see it in New York? Can we can we
take it on the road and you know, go and
perform the way we should perform. Do it.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
You got to be fired up.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Got fired up.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Be careful to get hit. That can't be good for you.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
He's fund a few pounds, he's only probably yeah, he's
only two twenty five right now, that's it. But he's
still in good shape. But yeah, when I watch him,
and this is the thing, and I'll and I'll say this,
you know, sitting next to him we're watching the games.
I watched him diagnose an offense so fast, like he
recognizes certain formations and things and he'll make hand gestures
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like he think his screen coming or he thinks is
going here, and you just see the robotic nature of
how he played and what he looked at. And then
the last week against Miami, he took the headsets off
and he said, can Alis knows how to call plays.
I said, what makes me say that? He goes, ah,
he said, you know, Jake, he said, he's keeping me
confused on a couple of things, he said. And it's working,
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he said. And then again last week early on he goes,
he can call plays. And that's one thing I think
we want to see, you know, David so meticulous and
so kind of like there's no pulse, right, I think
he has to stay that way. I go back to Miami.
They threw a flag on interference against team acting and
they picked it up. Well, then why I don't know
if you remember that play. That was a big play
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in the game, that was interference, and then why pick
it up? Well, when the ref told him that, you know,
we're watching the monitors, and Canalys is like, well, why
did you throw it? Whereas I would have been like
all up in that referee, you know, he would the
way the way he said it. And then it's like, Okay,
he had to hurry up and he had to go
call the next play, you know what I mean. Like
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that's the thing where he stays kind of even killed
and him and Bryce's temperament seems like it's kind of
starting to work with Ken.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
We continue to build, man, you get you confuse Luke Keikley,
who could guess every play the other team was gonna run.
You're onto something, all.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Right, Jake.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
That was great, man, Thank you so much. Have fun
calling these games. We appreciate you well.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Thank you, man, I appreciate it's fun to talk about. Man.
Thanks
He is Jake Delone, legendary Panthers QB Panthers Radio Network. Jake,
what's going on? Man? How you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm great, guys. How are y'all?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Jake?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
We're doing good?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
We're doing a lot better right now than we were
a couple of weeks ago at this time after the
Patriots game. We love what's happened the last two weeks.
What do you think? What do you think about the
way the Panthers have been running this football? And and
do you look at it partly as well it was
against Miami, it was against Dallas, or do you look
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at it and say, this stuff's gonna work against the
hell of a lot of defenses. What do you think?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I understand the Miami Dallas bit because they have struggle minorly, right,
But the only thing I'll tell you is this, I've
seen Dave Canalis's offense for four quarters this year in
three games. Because the other games that we lost there
was you had no idea offensively in the second half
because all we're doing is throwing because we're down twenty plus,
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you know, So that's what we want to do, That's
how we want to be willing to be that way
every week. I doubt it, but that's who we are.
I mean, that's and you're gonna see it develop. The
run game, it takes time, especially man, I'm telling you,
when you can't have all these padded practices anymore, it
is run fits. Offensive linemen have to work together. If
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you look at all the injury from it tasts time.
It's a cohesive. You'll go back to two thousand and
eight with Jonathan and D'Angelo. They were so great running
the football together. But if you look at the season,
I think they both was it eight or nine, they
both rushed for like a thousand apiece. We got better
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after the buye and that was week eight. We just
we weren't. We were doing okay, but it just developed
as the season went on. So hopefully we can stick
to it. But I think we all know the turnovers
kill us, right if we turn over the football and
put ourselves in a byd. We need to stay turnover
free if possible, and just play the way we continue
to play. Just keep it close, keep it height. It's
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starting to show some of our guys, Okay, now it's
time to go win a game, and we're getting we
have some guys that they want to be in that moment.
It seems to me that's what I'm seeing when I'm
watching this play, Jake.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Not that it's a bad problem to have, but with
Shuba on the way back, with how hot Rico has
been the last couple of weeks, how do you properly
deploy and distribute the carries? Is it fifty to fifty?
Do you ride Rico out as the main guy for
a while? What's the what's the way to go about
this issue?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Here? Listen? I laugh when I you know, because you're
hear in the narrative like okay, oh, who's gonna happen?
We have so much football left to play, and there's
so many more hits on these running backs, like it's
gonna work itself out. I even talked to Jonathan Stewart
after the game about it, and I asked him, I said, Hey,
when you and D'Angelo were rolling, like I said, refresh
(02:50):
my memory because I don't really recall. You know, it
was there series he goes, Jake, We had series he goes.
But I think D'Angelo would stay in and he'd look
at me and he tapus, Hey, come on, go in there,
you know, he said that was that's how we did it.
We didn't care, he said one, because it was taking
hits off of us and we could come in fresh.
He goes in, it would demoralize the defense. And I
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think you're gonna see that way with Rico, you know,
and Tuba. Knowing Tuba and knowing the type of leader
he is and what he does. If you watch postly
any of the celebration speeches in the locker room they
put these little clips out, Tuba of it has the
biggest smile on his face when they're talking about Rico, Like,
Tuba's different, guys. I'm just telling you this guy, he's
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part of the turnarounds. In my opinion, he's one of
the main pieces. So I think it plays itself out.
That's a good problem to have if we consider that
a problem.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Oh, definitely compared to the problems Jake we have been
talking about recent years here as Panther fans, like, I'll
take this one. And by the way, the game, oh
go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
No, no, I mean think about Rico. He's almost cramped
up the last two games. I mean, running that many times.
It's it's hard, right because it's not like he's looking
to run out of bounds and not run into contact,
and he runs through contact and it's a he plays
very physical. So I just I think that's a good
issue for us to have.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I hope I would like, you know, Dave to talk
to Stu about this, You know what I mean, because
Dave said last night on Panther Talk that they had
been kind of looking around the league president passed and seeing, Hey,
which which teams made it work with two running backs?
What you what Stu's saying there could be good information
the game I think of Jake and y'all were amazing
in two thousand and eight down the stretch, like you're saying,
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when you got them both going. But I think of
that Monday night game against tampamp Dude, do you know
Gruden still talks about having nightmares about that game when
those two ran all over a man.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, that was the That was the beginning of and honestly,
you know, it's funny that game is etched in my
mind because one, it was awesome, right, but that was
the beginning of Ryan Khalil realizing, you know what, I'm
the best damn center in the league. He said, something
in that game and Jordan Groves still we still laugh
about it. We're running the ball and from right to
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left and I think it's either late third or early fourth.
I think it's early early fourth and we're just you
just feel it. The crowd's into it and we're we're
man handling them and we get a long run. We're
getting the huddle, and I was I talked a lot,
obviously calling the play. Jordan was the leader, leader of
the old line, but that's kind of how it was.
We really didn't have many other people speaking. To be
(05:29):
quite honest, it was that or Ryan Khalil gets in
the huddle on this long run and he was like,
what love And he said a few choice words, but
he said, we're a certain type of offense and let's
run it, you know. Just he just got after it,
and Jordan and I looked at each other and we
made the whole face like whoa this tough guy? Who's
this tough guy? And Ryan looked at both of us
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in essence he said, both of you getting the huddle.
But like that's where you start to see And I'm
telling you, I think Cade Mays, I think Cave's a
big part of this. You know, this is a guy
that it goes unnoticed some of the things he does.
Ikey Ikwanu is an elite, elite, elite run blocker. He's
(06:11):
unbelievable blocking on the run. He does well in pass protection.
I think he's gotten better, but he is an elite
run blocker. Him and Damian Lewis and then Brady Christison. Listen,
I just think Tommy trumbles another one when you rewatch
the film from the other day, his effort and finish
on blocking. Mischel Evans is a sick kid, you know,
like it's it. I think we're feeling it, guys right now.
(06:33):
Are we feeling it enough to make this big run
win the division?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I just think where it's coming. I think you feel
it coming in like okay, young kids are developing, and
I think the panther away. I think you run the football.
I think he got up. That's who we.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Are, Jake, Where do you think this defensive improvement's coming from.
Obviously Derek Brown is a massive part of that. But
what else are you seeing where this defense has taken
major majors from where they were a year ago.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, you hit it on the head. Number ninety five.
He's different. He's just big, strong and different. If he's
one on one, he's throwing the guy out the way
or he's getting tackled and it's a hold on the
play and the double team the other guys of singles
singled up. So I think that's the biggest thing. I
think Trev Morrick number seven, the closer he is to
the line of scrimmers, the better he is. There's a
(07:23):
physicality and I think you see him bringing it. The
linebacker has been very interesting that the green dot was
shifted from Rose Boom to Trevin the last two games,
and they're both playing faster, and I think one is
just sheer experience with Trevin. I mean the kids missed half,
you know, a decent amount of the season with the
(07:44):
shoulders injury last year. He's still young, still learning, but
Rose Boom gosh is different the last couple of games.
Just the speed with which he's playing. So you know,
the young draft picks Nick S Gordon, I think the
kid just turned years old. Like I watched him push
Terrence Steele, who's a large man, the right tackle of
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quality right tackle in the league, push him all the
way back, bull rush him into Dak's lap in one
of the red zone players the other day where Dak
had to rushing incomplete and we held him to a
field goal. So you're just seeing flashes. I think Pat Jones,
he's Mason plays ashn solid. Dan's done the right thing now.
I mean he's built both lines two years in a row,
and that gives you a chance. That definitely gives you
(08:28):
a chance.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I love it. Beating up on teams in the trenches
like they've done last two weeks is so much fun
to watch as a fan. And you mentioned it. Panther
football is running the ball, Jake. You know it better
than anybody when the Panthers have been good. So maybe
I'm nostalgic as a fan, right, But when the Panthers
have been good, they have kicked people's rear ends in
the trenches on both sides of the ball. So I
(08:50):
like the way Dan is building this thing. This feels
like Panther football.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
It does. And listen, I think that's the way most
teams wins, being the physicality in the run game. You know,
we saw firsthand twice a year Sean Payton and the
New Orleans Saints. Right well, that Super Bowl year yeah,
drew through it a lot, but they ran the ball
with Pierre Thomas and that bunch and the screen game,
I mean, the run game was very prominent and not
(09:16):
just that's a recipe to be in every game and
to stay in every game, and you do that, and
that's where the second half comes into play. I'll go
back to it. Jacksonville, Arizona, New England couldn't run the
ball in the second half because the game didn't allow
us to. And that's where, you know, that's just that's
(09:37):
how the game's played. It's those body blows all game along,
you know, until something breaks usually, And that's the interesting thing.
Rico didn't have a breakout run one of these long
runs last week. It was seven, ten, twelve, fifteen, you know,
it was those And I liked what we did with Lagett.
We threw that screen to him. I just I think
he's a Debo esque type of person. I think he's
(09:59):
one of those type you know that you get those screens,
that big body running and things like that.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Jake, last question before I let you go about your
day here, and we thank you for your kindness and
joining us as always. What's your assessment right now with
Bryce Young. Where are you seeing the improvement in Bryce
and what's the next step and his maturation as an
NFL quarterback.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Well, I think the biggest thing is the turnovers. When
we turn it over early that you know, it gives
us problems, right, And yes, he did have the pick
last week. I'm not so quite sure that was his fault.
We all know it kind of went through t Maax hands.
But I just he's coming through big in big spots
on the third down and some of the fourth down plays,
(10:43):
you're seeing a different player, Like I think he's getting
very comfortable in the offense. And it's only the second
year with coach Kannalis and you're watching them and he's
you can see during the course of the game if
you watch close. I kind of stayed with my binoculars
a lot during the game. You can see Daves like
talking to him in big downs like hey, this or
this and Bryces you can you can see Bryce is like, no,
(11:04):
I probably prefer this better. This is why. And it's
not an emotional answer because he's not an emotional guy.
It's a thought out answer about the preparation, what this team,
what are we expecting here? So those are the things
that I think you're starting to see a maturation process.
But the turnovers has been the issue whenever we do
turn it over to be able to overcome it. And
(11:25):
that was huge against Miami. You know, those two turnovers.
We finally overcame them, you know what I'm saying. And
last week we only had the one on that play
and that's I think Dallas scored on that drive. I
think that was the time that. Yeah, So those are
the things that it's just we're coming. I don't think
we're there yet, but you like the way we're going
(11:46):
about it.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Here's the thing. Can we go on the road? Can
you go to New York? This team is down. It's
a struggle for them right now. They're trying. I mean
they fought last week against Denver. They really truly did
when you want to fit on, they played hard. So
can we go to New York and can we play
good Panther football and try and try to come out,
you know with a win.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
That's the next step. Went on the road and win
a game that I know Vegas came out with the
Jets is like a one and a half point favorite,
but like win a game that you feel like, hey,
we're the best, We're the better team going in right,
like win that game. That would do a lot for
this process. By the way, I got to ask you, Jake,
when you played, you were known for fire, your fire, right,
your emotion, which we loved as fans. Does the broadcasting
(12:29):
for the Panther Network, Like, do you find yourself getting
fired up in a game like Sunday or is it
just is it different?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
No? No, I do. I I just I want to
see at sixteed right, I bleed Carolina Blue, and my
partner on the side of me, Luke, is the same way,
and we kind of punch each other all game, hit
each other. We just we wanted, we wanted. We just
want that that stadium back like rocking again and loud
and and and fun. I mean, listen, it's been difficult,
(12:57):
you know, the last five years. So you know what
I'm saying, Like, okay, but I just think you're kind
of starting to see, Okay, this is who we want
to be. This is and and that's a reflection of
how Dan wants to build a team. Like we all
know this. Dan's not gonna get up there and and
want to talk and speak and talk about what he's done.
But he wants football players that want to compete, compete
(13:21):
and play and be tough and nasty because that's what
he was. That's what the teams that he played on.
And then you go back to the second regime, that
the Cam and Luke regime, that's what that team was.
They were mean, tough, nasty, the special teams with a
That's that's how you win, man, it's you just you
gotta have that edge when you play. And you're starting
(13:43):
to see it. But this is huge this week. Can
we see it in New York? Can we can we
take it on the road and you know, go and
perform the way we should perform. Do it.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
You got to be fired up.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Got fired up.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Be careful to get hit. That can't be good for you.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
He's fund a few pounds, he's only probably yeah, he's
only two twenty five right now, that's it. But he's
still in good shape. But yeah, when I watch him,
and this is the thing, and I'll and I'll say this,
you know, sitting next to him we're watching the games.
I watched him diagnose an offense so fast, like he
recognizes certain formations and things and he'll make hand gestures
(14:23):
like he think his screen coming or he thinks is
going here, and you just see the robotic nature of
how he played and what he looked at. And then
the last week against Miami, he took the headsets off
and he said, can Alis knows how to call plays.
I said, what makes me say that? He goes, ah,
he said, you know, Jake, he said, he's keeping me
confused on a couple of things, he said. And it's working,
(14:45):
he said. And then again last week early on he goes,
he can call plays. And that's one thing I think
we want to see, you know, David so meticulous and
so kind of like there's no pulse, right, I think
he has to stay that way. I go back to Miami.
They threw a flag on interference against team acting and
they picked it up. Well, then why I don't know
if you remember that play. That was a big play
(15:06):
in the game, that was interference, and then why pick
it up? Well, when the ref told him that, you know,
we're watching the monitors, and Canalys is like, well, why
did you throw it? Whereas I would have been like
all up in that referee, you know, he would the
way the way he said it. And then it's like, Okay,
he had to hurry up and he had to go
call the next play, you know what I mean. Like
(15:28):
that's the thing where he stays kind of even killed
and him and Bryce's temperament seems like it's kind of
starting to work with Ken.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
We continue to build, man, you get you confuse Luke Keikley,
who could guess every play the other team was gonna run.
You're onto something, all.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Right, Jake.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
That was great, man, Thank you so much. Have fun
calling these games. We appreciate you well.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Thank you, man, I appreciate it's fun to talk about. Man.
Thanks
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