October 14, 2025 • 16 mins
Panthers long snapper JJ Jansen joins the show, as JJ talks about back-to-back wins for the team, he talks about the vibes in the facility after three wins in four games, how the team is finding their identity on both sides of the ball, & more
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mac.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Do you think our next guest, mister Janssen, knows how
potentially bad this segment could have been today for me.
I don't think he knows. Somebody knows what happened betray
this overcame that. But we need to explain to him
that my friendship with Greg Olsen, our friendship with Greg
Olsen was in jeopardy because of JJ had a miss
(00:22):
snap on Sunday's game.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yeah, because of your big fat mouth. You almost lost
you must love you probably would.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Have lost both.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I was.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I was nervous that it was over all. Right, let's
bring into man.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
And let's selluse JJ jans with a special in season
snapchats because the team has won three of four, they're
three and zero at home, and the vibes are apparently
high in the locker room, just like they are here.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
What's up, JJ? How you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Man? First of all, don't make it sound like I'd
only come and talk to you because we're winning. I'd
come and talk to you no matter what the circumstances.
Of course, but I like that Mark. I did notice.
So we win three of four and all of a
sudden I get a phone call. So that's a very
encouraging time for me. So I understand how these things work.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
JJ.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I believe in you wholeheartedly. I had a very nervous
game watching experience on Sunday. In conversation that we had
with Greg Olsen on Thursday, I simply pointed out that
you have not missed a snap in forever, and that
Olsen's doing the game. Does he get nervous that he
him broadcasting a game could witness the snap? And he said,
(01:24):
if you had a bad snap, he's waving it on
me and he would never talk to me ever again.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Well, I'll tell you what, because right after the game,
so I asked him, he always has parked in the
player's lot when he does our game. So I tested
him and I said, hey, are you still in the
players lives? Like now they're making us. They're making us
leave with the police escort, because when you're a high
level Fox broadcast, so you get police escorts everywhere. I
sit in traffic on more heads. But nevertheless, I asked
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him if we could meet up, and he said, I'm leaving,
but I just want to let you know that I
a giving you guys all love before that last kick,
because but I didn't want to jinx it. So I
didn't say anything, and I said, I appreciate it. I'm
not a jink Sky. But at the same time, like,
let's not encourage any jinxes.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
So I'm glad.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I'm glad he kept his thoughts to himself, and I'm
glad Ryan banged it through and we could all celebrate.
That's far more exciting than hearing my name on a broadcast.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
There you go, and Bone tried to jinc shit, but
it didn't matter. All right, You're you're unjinksable at this point.
Knock on wood. I'm knocking on wood right now.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You're just killing me.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
What Greg and I can do it?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Tuesday?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Wantch you together. That's all Bone cares about.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Curses over there.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Oh okay, so that you do believe it that you
do in all seriousness. You've won h three and the
last four three and zero at home?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
What is going on?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Like, what is what's happening behind the scenes that we
really can't see, Like we could see what's happening on
the field and the end product and the running game
and the run defense and those sort of things. How's
it coming together behind the scene that is leading to
this right now?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Well, I think the early part of football always is
trying to kind of learn your team's identity. And and
we're a very young team. I think we're like the
third fewest, you know, the third youngest team in terms
of like snap adjusted age across the whole league. We've
got a very young team. And with that comes like
trying to find your own identity. And head coach and
(03:24):
front office can all say, hey, this is who we're
going to be. But I really do believe that the
team has to kind of find out what they're good at,
and coach Canals is kind of pretel like, let's find
out what we're good at. And I would say over
the last month, I think we've really I mean it's
very clear, right we've leaned into the run game, and
off of that comes some of the play action and
(03:45):
some of the opportunities for Bryce to create Layton downs
on third down and stuff like that, where we've been
really good. And so I think as you start to
have some success, now with that comes Okay, we know
what we want to be in critical situations, we know
how we want to establish ourselves as a team, especially
on offense, and at the same time, then on defense,
like so much was made of last year how much
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we struggled on the run side of the ball. We've
added a few guys, we got Derek Brown back, but
if you watch the last two games, and Dallas and
Miami have not been less like great run offenses, but
we've basically made both those teams one dimensional. And so
you know the old adage, you know, run the ball,
stop to run. I think the guys are just kind
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of buying into, like this is how the twenty twenty
five Panthers play. And when you kind of know who
you are, it's a little bit easier to weather the
highs and lows of the game because you feel like
you have a pathway to win. And obviously, two games
at home, you need to win games at home. So
really excited about the fact that you know, we're three
and oh at home, but now you know, looking forward
(04:50):
to New York, like, we gotta go win a game
on the road. That's how you start to kind of
continue to establish confidence and building towards you know, the
second half of the season.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
How's the chemistry with this group, Jay Joe. We've heard
some ping pong in the background of some audio, always
a good sign. That things are vibing, but how how
are the guys getting along? And and really like, how
long can you tell that the group is kind of
unified when it's a new team coming together?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Uh? I think that is a continual process of the
unity of the team, right when you're when you're winning,
the group always gets a little bit stronger. When you're losing,
it's always easier for the team to fracture, not because
it's bad guys, but just you're feeling the tension of
winning and losing. And so, yeah, the group has been
moving together really well. I felt. I think I told
(05:36):
you guys this back in the spring, Like, it's a
very strong group. The guys really like each other. There's
no real clicks like got you know, the guys who
like to play cards, the guys that like to play
ping pong, the guys that like to hang out in
the sauna. There's different sort of groups. But it's not like, oh,
that's where the defensive guys are or that's where the
old lineman only hang out with the old lineman. Like,
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it's a very inter mixed group, which again creates a
lot of bond and unity. And I've always taken a
special pride in like, what does special teams look like,
because that's the one part of the team that really
pulls from everybody. And so we've tried to make a
very important, you know, special effort to play with a
ton of energy, celebrate, get you know, kind of get
the juices of the sideline going, especially in the coverage units,
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especially on kickoff cover in particular. Like we're trying to
add some energy and some camaraderie to the full team
because when the defense can take the field with a
lot of extra energy, then it sort of trickles into hey,
maybe that's a quick three and ol offense gets the
ball back. It affects the play on the field as well.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
JJ, welcome back to snapchats. In the text one, a
six seven eight area code says, I'm pretty sure JJ
is the reason we're only the third youngest team.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I specifically added snap adjusted. I'm not contributing a lot
in any one direction, seeing how I'm only averaging about
six snaps the game. Yes, it is. It is a
very young team. When you add me, Andy and Sam Martin,
we are you know, I don't know that we're adjusting
it too much, but we're the old heads but but
(07:11):
the rest of the guys are pretty young. I think
most of our guys are twenty seven and under, and
that's good for long term health of organization.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I'm not kidding. Five people said the same joke. We
would be we we would be the youngest team in
the league if it wasn't for JJ. So there you got,
stop sugning it. Get your jokes in, y'all. This man
is a damn legend right off.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
You know what everyone's talking about. I've only been here
for a year or two.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Oh man, all right, anyway, let's yeah, that's a ticket.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
That's a ticket.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Let's talk about a man I like to affectionately call Fitzie.
This young rookie kicker is tearing it up and uh,
you had the dirty kicks that I love so much
against the Falcons. He has been really, really good kicking
the ball. And then Sunday he hits the fifty five
yarder to bail y'all out after the whole exit lateral situation,
(08:01):
and then he ends the game with the game winning
field goal. This kid's off to a hell of a start. Man,
what's does it surprise you? What's what's this kid all about?
As a kicker JJ, it does not surprise me.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Our our buddy, Darren Gant wrote an article on Panthers
dot com back during training camp where he had asked me, like,
what are you guys looking for in a kicker? And
I think so much of what the outside world looks
at when you're when you're looking at young kickers is
how many do they make in practice? You know so
much was made about us kicking on skinny posts, right, everybody, well,
(08:37):
what does that mean? It's on a skinny post? Like?
What what I'm looking for when I'm watching young kickers?
And I'm sure what the team is looking for is
what are the qualities that are indicative of a kicker
handling the run of a full season? And obviously you
look them to make kicks, and you want you want
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to get the best possible kicker, But also do they
bounce back from a good game or from a bad game?
Do they add on to a good game? Can they
handle uh the end of at the end of a
regulation game like we have the other night? Can There's
just so many little things and you're looking for confidence,
you're looking for bounce back, You're looking for does this
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guy fit the team to do the guys like him.
It's much easier to send out a kicker that the
team likes than someone that nobody knows, Like, you know,
Jake Moody hit a game winner for Chicago, they didn't
even Kayla Williams, Like, I don't even know who that
guy is. Like that, that is real in the NFL.
But at the same time, like, you want to send
a guy out that everyone's rooting for and cheering for,
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and we've been very fortunate that that's been Eddie for
the last three years. And so when you're looking at
a new guy, you're looking for the moxie, the confidence,
you know, and I always look for quiet confidence and
what I was so impressed with And we didn't talk
about it, but we got we got the two minute warning.
We're running the clock out. We were in a first down,
get down situation. And again shout out to Trevor Etn
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handling that situation as a rookie really well. Easy thing
would have been just run into the end zone as
they were, as the Cowboys were trying to encourage him
to do, and he handled the situation so well. But
at the two minute warning, Fitsy went out there and
just went through his process and checked the wind. It
was an incredibly windy day and in that direction it
was very challenging, and so he just kind of went
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out through his process and kind of handled it like
a veteran would and that was really cool, and he
and Stan worked so well together. Sam's a big part
of that, a veteran punter that has done some kicked
in college, has been a holder for a lot of
big kicks, and they just worked through the process really well.
But it's confidence, it's moxie, it's handling all the situations well,
(10:47):
and he's done that so well since you got here.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
By the way, multiple textures, I don't want you to
think all our Texters do is make age jokes about you, JJ.
Multiple multiple Texters have said, shout out to JJ for
the game winning snap, and if that thing's not back
there the way JJ put it there, the whole thing
can't be possible. We're also getting questions from the Texters.
They are going right back in to ask JJ modebone
(11:10):
from the offseason snapchats. So we have a text that
it says, does what did JJ think when Drake May
said that all the players I rooted for as a
Panther fan growing up in Charlotte are gone except the
long snapper.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Did you hear that? What did you think of that?
Of that?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I did hear it, and I was very proud. I
talked to Drake after the game. I am very I'm
very fortunate. I've had multiple top ten picks in the
NFL draft quarterbacks come up and say the same thing,
Drake May and Daniel Jones. I have not yet got
a jersey for my kids from Drake May. I'll have
to work on that. I do have one from Daniel Jones.
(11:50):
He of course went to Charlotte Latin when my kids
go to school.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Oh and.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
So all of our kids are very big Daniel Jones fans,
except for when we play them. But last year we
handled business quite well. So I end up with these jerseys.
Of these top ten picks. They're the only quarterbacks that
they don't play with that actually know who I am.
But I am taking it as full advantage.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Okay, JJ.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
One thing before you get to your day off, there
there's some rumors around town. Because you know me, I'm
always walking around town getting the rumors that you taught
Tommy Tremble the leap karate kick move.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Is that true? That that that's your doing there?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, So that ping pong table, we jump over it
in the locker room every day, so you have to
run up to it and then you have to yell why,
like you're like hitting the Y button in PlayStation and
they need to jump right on over. So that's an
important gil. I keep that to all the Notre dame guys.
So hopefully, uh, Mitch Mitchell evans here pretty soon we'll
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be doing that one. He'll add that to the game.
So that's really good anyone else that really wants to
know it. But you know, some guys can handle it
and some guys can't.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Your golden domer tight ends look good, Man Tremble looking
good and Mitchell eleven had to big twenty one yard
catch early, and they were both blocking their butts off.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Man, both of them. They deserve love, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
They play, They played great. You know, we've we've we've
got a really strong room there. Kind of I think
that that was sort of a question mark. And then
you know, JT gets hurt and all of a sudden,
you see three or four guys really just blocking their
butts off and then that helps so much in the
run game. On that play you talked about with Tremble
jumping over the guy or drop kicking him or whatever
he ended up doing, like that gets sold out because
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of how hard Tommy blocks, pulls off little play action
boot and all of a sudden, the balls are playing
Tommy's hands and kick some people in the face.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
About how about brown Mamba?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
On the text, Wine gave JJ a ninety nine speed
rating and you're flying down the field.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Now, Oh that's big.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I will take it. I don't think that that's true,
and he probably by not getting any Madden rating certification,
but I'm trying to get as close to ninety nine
as humanly possible.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
JJ, here's the best question. We'll let you go on
this one.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
All right. The Texters are just great today. Man.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
This texter says seven O four number says a theme.
The last two weeks have been guys asking for certain
plays or certain roles and being rewarded and delivering. Is
JJ the next guy to ask for a bigger role?
Maybe you get a package put in for you similar
to Jimmy Horns. So here you go. That's a text.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, I don't have the ninety nine speed. I don't
know that I'll be running any Jet sweeps anytime soon.
One of the media people in training camp asked if
they were going to let me play any quarterback because
I throw to the DBS in practice and Canal has
shut that down pretty fast. So I'm gonna have to
probably look at a different position. Maybe we'll run a
punt fake. We're all run like a go route. I
(14:47):
don't know. We'll figure something out eventually. They all seem
to be working right now. It's either that or nobody
tells you when the player requests the play and it
doesn't work. The media though exactly when they asked for
that for regularly.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
That's a good point.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
By the way, y'all are about do for a fake punt.
I don't give anything away to the Jets, but Canalist
likes a fake punt, y'all are about do for you, y'all.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
We're gonna run one, y'all.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
We're gonna run one punt this week.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Y'all, We're gonna run one in the Miami game. Weren't you?
Or No, we keep those things for ourselves.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
We're not.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I I never talked about this on the air. Looked
like Sam Martin called off the fake. We know I
never brought this up last week, but JJ doesn't want
to go Brian, all right, Hey.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
The rumor, the rumors are Aaron Glenn's listening to this
radio program right now. I head coach for the Jets.
I don't want to get anything away. Everyone knows that
they're big Mac and Bone fans up there in the east.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Clearly, where aren't they? I mean clearly?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I heard Steve Wilkes is listening right now as he
gets ready at his weekly presser to tell the Panthers
to buckle up into Steve wilkes revenge game.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
That's what's going on.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
It'll be good to see. It'll be good to see Wilsee. Hey, Mac,
I'm really excited to see what happened with you guys
in Penn State. That's gonna be a thrill.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
It's going great for us, going great for us. Although
if we get Kirk Signette, it's all fine. But if
we get who you're gonna get, our old friend is
dying to coaches Alma mater, Isn't he? Like you could
just tell from his president who gets he's a pretty
good college coach? Can I convince myself into that or no,
(16:22):
all right, J I'm trying already.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
All right, JJ, you are the man. We love the way.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
This city is just a better city when y'all are
doing what you're doing.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Keep it up.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Good luck against the Jets, man, Thanks for hanging with us.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Absolutely. You know what else makes the city great? Checkers
hockey Friday Night. We're about that time, buddy, there we go.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
There you go, baby, all right, there you go. Get
that promo and go see the Checkers play. After the
run to the title
Mac.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Do you think our next guest, mister Janssen, knows how
potentially bad this segment could have been today for me.
I don't think he knows. Somebody knows what happened betray
this overcame that. But we need to explain to him
that my friendship with Greg Olsen, our friendship with Greg
Olsen was in jeopardy because of JJ had a miss
(00:22):
snap on Sunday's game.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yeah, because of your big fat mouth. You almost lost
you must love you probably would.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Have lost both.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I was.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I was nervous that it was over all. Right, let's
bring into man.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
And let's selluse JJ jans with a special in season
snapchats because the team has won three of four, they're
three and zero at home, and the vibes are apparently
high in the locker room, just like they are here.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
What's up, JJ? How you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Man? First of all, don't make it sound like I'd
only come and talk to you because we're winning. I'd
come and talk to you no matter what the circumstances.
Of course, but I like that Mark. I did notice.
So we win three of four and all of a
sudden I get a phone call. So that's a very
encouraging time for me. So I understand how these things work.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
JJ.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I believe in you wholeheartedly. I had a very nervous
game watching experience on Sunday. In conversation that we had
with Greg Olsen on Thursday, I simply pointed out that
you have not missed a snap in forever, and that
Olsen's doing the game. Does he get nervous that he
him broadcasting a game could witness the snap? And he said,
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if you had a bad snap, he's waving it on
me and he would never talk to me ever again.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Well, I'll tell you what, because right after the game,
so I asked him, he always has parked in the
player's lot when he does our game. So I tested
him and I said, hey, are you still in the
players lives? Like now they're making us. They're making us
leave with the police escort, because when you're a high
level Fox broadcast, so you get police escorts everywhere. I
sit in traffic on more heads. But nevertheless, I asked
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him if we could meet up, and he said, I'm leaving,
but I just want to let you know that I
a giving you guys all love before that last kick,
because but I didn't want to jinx it. So I
didn't say anything, and I said, I appreciate it. I'm
not a jink Sky. But at the same time, like,
let's not encourage any jinxes.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
So I'm glad.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I'm glad he kept his thoughts to himself, and I'm
glad Ryan banged it through and we could all celebrate.
That's far more exciting than hearing my name on a broadcast.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
There you go, and Bone tried to jinc shit, but
it didn't matter. All right, You're you're unjinksable at this point.
Knock on wood. I'm knocking on wood right now.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You're just killing me.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
What Greg and I can do it?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Tuesday?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Wantch you together. That's all Bone cares about.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Curses over there.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Oh okay, so that you do believe it that you
do in all seriousness. You've won h three and the
last four three and zero at home?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
What is going on?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Like, what is what's happening behind the scenes that we
really can't see, Like we could see what's happening on
the field and the end product and the running game
and the run defense and those sort of things. How's
it coming together behind the scene that is leading to
this right now?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Well, I think the early part of football always is
trying to kind of learn your team's identity. And and
we're a very young team. I think we're like the
third fewest, you know, the third youngest team in terms
of like snap adjusted age across the whole league. We've
got a very young team. And with that comes like
trying to find your own identity. And head coach and
(03:24):
front office can all say, hey, this is who we're
going to be. But I really do believe that the
team has to kind of find out what they're good at,
and coach Canals is kind of pretel like, let's find
out what we're good at. And I would say over
the last month, I think we've really I mean it's
very clear, right we've leaned into the run game, and
off of that comes some of the play action and
(03:45):
some of the opportunities for Bryce to create Layton downs
on third down and stuff like that, where we've been
really good. And so I think as you start to
have some success, now with that comes Okay, we know
what we want to be in critical situations, we know
how we want to establish ourselves as a team, especially
on offense, and at the same time, then on defense,
like so much was made of last year how much
(04:08):
we struggled on the run side of the ball. We've
added a few guys, we got Derek Brown back, but
if you watch the last two games, and Dallas and
Miami have not been less like great run offenses, but
we've basically made both those teams one dimensional. And so
you know the old adage, you know, run the ball,
stop to run. I think the guys are just kind
(04:28):
of buying into, like this is how the twenty twenty
five Panthers play. And when you kind of know who
you are, it's a little bit easier to weather the
highs and lows of the game because you feel like
you have a pathway to win. And obviously, two games
at home, you need to win games at home. So
really excited about the fact that you know, we're three
and oh at home, but now you know, looking forward
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to New York, like, we gotta go win a game
on the road. That's how you start to kind of
continue to establish confidence and building towards you know, the
second half of the season.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
How's the chemistry with this group, Jay Joe. We've heard
some ping pong in the background of some audio, always
a good sign. That things are vibing, but how how
are the guys getting along? And and really like, how
long can you tell that the group is kind of
unified when it's a new team coming together?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Uh? I think that is a continual process of the
unity of the team, right when you're when you're winning,
the group always gets a little bit stronger. When you're losing,
it's always easier for the team to fracture, not because
it's bad guys, but just you're feeling the tension of
winning and losing. And so, yeah, the group has been
moving together really well. I felt. I think I told
(05:36):
you guys this back in the spring, Like, it's a
very strong group. The guys really like each other. There's
no real clicks like got you know, the guys who
like to play cards, the guys that like to play
ping pong, the guys that like to hang out in
the sauna. There's different sort of groups. But it's not like, oh,
that's where the defensive guys are or that's where the
old lineman only hang out with the old lineman. Like,
(05:57):
it's a very inter mixed group, which again creates a
lot of bond and unity. And I've always taken a
special pride in like, what does special teams look like,
because that's the one part of the team that really
pulls from everybody. And so we've tried to make a
very important, you know, special effort to play with a
ton of energy, celebrate, get you know, kind of get
the juices of the sideline going, especially in the coverage units,
(06:20):
especially on kickoff cover in particular. Like we're trying to
add some energy and some camaraderie to the full team
because when the defense can take the field with a
lot of extra energy, then it sort of trickles into hey,
maybe that's a quick three and ol offense gets the
ball back. It affects the play on the field as well.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
JJ, welcome back to snapchats. In the text one, a
six seven eight area code says, I'm pretty sure JJ
is the reason we're only the third youngest team.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I specifically added snap adjusted. I'm not contributing a lot
in any one direction, seeing how I'm only averaging about
six snaps the game. Yes, it is. It is a
very young team. When you add me, Andy and Sam Martin,
we are you know, I don't know that we're adjusting
it too much, but we're the old heads but but
(07:11):
the rest of the guys are pretty young. I think
most of our guys are twenty seven and under, and
that's good for long term health of organization.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I'm not kidding. Five people said the same joke. We
would be we we would be the youngest team in
the league if it wasn't for JJ. So there you got,
stop sugning it. Get your jokes in, y'all. This man
is a damn legend right off.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
You know what everyone's talking about. I've only been here
for a year or two.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Oh man, all right, anyway, let's yeah, that's a ticket.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
That's a ticket.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Let's talk about a man I like to affectionately call Fitzie.
This young rookie kicker is tearing it up and uh,
you had the dirty kicks that I love so much
against the Falcons. He has been really, really good kicking
the ball. And then Sunday he hits the fifty five
yarder to bail y'all out after the whole exit lateral situation,
(08:01):
and then he ends the game with the game winning
field goal. This kid's off to a hell of a start. Man,
what's does it surprise you? What's what's this kid all about?
As a kicker JJ, it does not surprise me.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Our our buddy, Darren Gant wrote an article on Panthers
dot com back during training camp where he had asked me, like,
what are you guys looking for in a kicker? And
I think so much of what the outside world looks
at when you're when you're looking at young kickers is
how many do they make in practice? You know so
much was made about us kicking on skinny posts, right, everybody, well,
(08:37):
what does that mean? It's on a skinny post? Like?
What what I'm looking for when I'm watching young kickers?
And I'm sure what the team is looking for is
what are the qualities that are indicative of a kicker
handling the run of a full season? And obviously you
look them to make kicks, and you want you want
(08:58):
to get the best possible kicker, But also do they
bounce back from a good game or from a bad game?
Do they add on to a good game? Can they
handle uh the end of at the end of a
regulation game like we have the other night? Can There's
just so many little things and you're looking for confidence,
you're looking for bounce back, You're looking for does this
(09:19):
guy fit the team to do the guys like him.
It's much easier to send out a kicker that the
team likes than someone that nobody knows, Like, you know,
Jake Moody hit a game winner for Chicago, they didn't
even Kayla Williams, Like, I don't even know who that
guy is. Like that, that is real in the NFL.
But at the same time, like, you want to send
a guy out that everyone's rooting for and cheering for,
(09:41):
and we've been very fortunate that that's been Eddie for
the last three years. And so when you're looking at
a new guy, you're looking for the moxie, the confidence,
you know, and I always look for quiet confidence and
what I was so impressed with And we didn't talk
about it, but we got we got the two minute warning.
We're running the clock out. We were in a first down,
get down situation. And again shout out to Trevor Etn
(10:02):
handling that situation as a rookie really well. Easy thing
would have been just run into the end zone as
they were, as the Cowboys were trying to encourage him
to do, and he handled the situation so well. But
at the two minute warning, Fitsy went out there and
just went through his process and checked the wind. It
was an incredibly windy day and in that direction it
was very challenging, and so he just kind of went
(10:25):
out through his process and kind of handled it like
a veteran would and that was really cool, and he
and Stan worked so well together. Sam's a big part
of that, a veteran punter that has done some kicked
in college, has been a holder for a lot of
big kicks, and they just worked through the process really well.
But it's confidence, it's moxie, it's handling all the situations well,
(10:47):
and he's done that so well since you got here.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
By the way, multiple textures, I don't want you to
think all our Texters do is make age jokes about you, JJ.
Multiple multiple Texters have said, shout out to JJ for
the game winning snap, and if that thing's not back
there the way JJ put it there, the whole thing
can't be possible. We're also getting questions from the Texters.
They are going right back in to ask JJ modebone
(11:10):
from the offseason snapchats. So we have a text that
it says, does what did JJ think when Drake May
said that all the players I rooted for as a
Panther fan growing up in Charlotte are gone except the
long snapper.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Did you hear that? What did you think of that?
Of that?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I did hear it, and I was very proud. I
talked to Drake after the game. I am very I'm
very fortunate. I've had multiple top ten picks in the
NFL draft quarterbacks come up and say the same thing,
Drake May and Daniel Jones. I have not yet got
a jersey for my kids from Drake May. I'll have
to work on that. I do have one from Daniel Jones.
(11:50):
He of course went to Charlotte Latin when my kids
go to school.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Oh and.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
So all of our kids are very big Daniel Jones fans,
except for when we play them. But last year we
handled business quite well. So I end up with these jerseys.
Of these top ten picks. They're the only quarterbacks that
they don't play with that actually know who I am.
But I am taking it as full advantage.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Okay, JJ.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
One thing before you get to your day off, there
there's some rumors around town. Because you know me, I'm
always walking around town getting the rumors that you taught
Tommy Tremble the leap karate kick move.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Is that true? That that that's your doing there?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, So that ping pong table, we jump over it
in the locker room every day, so you have to
run up to it and then you have to yell why,
like you're like hitting the Y button in PlayStation and
they need to jump right on over. So that's an
important gil. I keep that to all the Notre dame guys.
So hopefully, uh, Mitch Mitchell evans here pretty soon we'll
(12:49):
be doing that one. He'll add that to the game.
So that's really good anyone else that really wants to
know it. But you know, some guys can handle it
and some guys can't.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Your golden domer tight ends look good, Man Tremble looking
good and Mitchell eleven had to big twenty one yard
catch early, and they were both blocking their butts off.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Man, both of them. They deserve love, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
They play, They played great. You know, we've we've we've
got a really strong room there. Kind of I think
that that was sort of a question mark. And then
you know, JT gets hurt and all of a sudden,
you see three or four guys really just blocking their
butts off and then that helps so much in the
run game. On that play you talked about with Tremble
jumping over the guy or drop kicking him or whatever
he ended up doing, like that gets sold out because
(13:31):
of how hard Tommy blocks, pulls off little play action
boot and all of a sudden, the balls are playing
Tommy's hands and kick some people in the face.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
About how about brown Mamba?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
On the text, Wine gave JJ a ninety nine speed
rating and you're flying down the field.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Now, Oh that's big.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I will take it. I don't think that that's true,
and he probably by not getting any Madden rating certification,
but I'm trying to get as close to ninety nine
as humanly possible.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
JJ, here's the best question. We'll let you go on
this one.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
All right. The Texters are just great today. Man.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
This texter says seven O four number says a theme.
The last two weeks have been guys asking for certain
plays or certain roles and being rewarded and delivering. Is
JJ the next guy to ask for a bigger role?
Maybe you get a package put in for you similar
to Jimmy Horns. So here you go. That's a text.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, I don't have the ninety nine speed. I don't
know that I'll be running any Jet sweeps anytime soon.
One of the media people in training camp asked if
they were going to let me play any quarterback because
I throw to the DBS in practice and Canal has
shut that down pretty fast. So I'm gonna have to
probably look at a different position. Maybe we'll run a
punt fake. We're all run like a go route. I
(14:47):
don't know. We'll figure something out eventually. They all seem
to be working right now. It's either that or nobody
tells you when the player requests the play and it
doesn't work. The media though exactly when they asked for
that for regularly.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
That's a good point.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
By the way, y'all are about do for a fake punt.
I don't give anything away to the Jets, but Canalist
likes a fake punt, y'all are about do for you, y'all.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
We're gonna run one, y'all.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
We're gonna run one punt this week.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Y'all, We're gonna run one in the Miami game. Weren't you?
Or No, we keep those things for ourselves.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
We're not.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I I never talked about this on the air. Looked
like Sam Martin called off the fake. We know I
never brought this up last week, but JJ doesn't want
to go Brian, all right, Hey.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
The rumor, the rumors are Aaron Glenn's listening to this
radio program right now. I head coach for the Jets.
I don't want to get anything away. Everyone knows that
they're big Mac and Bone fans up there in the east.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Clearly, where aren't they? I mean clearly?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I heard Steve Wilkes is listening right now as he
gets ready at his weekly presser to tell the Panthers
to buckle up into Steve wilkes revenge game.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
That's what's going on.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
It'll be good to see. It'll be good to see Wilsee. Hey, Mac,
I'm really excited to see what happened with you guys
in Penn State. That's gonna be a thrill.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
It's going great for us, going great for us. Although
if we get Kirk Signette, it's all fine. But if
we get who you're gonna get, our old friend is
dying to coaches Alma mater, Isn't he? Like you could
just tell from his president who gets he's a pretty
good college coach? Can I convince myself into that or no,
(16:22):
all right, J I'm trying already.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
All right, JJ, you are the man. We love the way.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
This city is just a better city when y'all are
doing what you're doing.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Keep it up.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Good luck against the Jets, man, Thanks for hanging with us.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Absolutely. You know what else makes the city great? Checkers
hockey Friday Night. We're about that time, buddy, there we go.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
There you go, baby, all right, there you go. Get
that promo and go see the Checkers play. After the
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