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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And if I'm going to do anything, either use an
umbrella tomorrow with practice or suck it up and wear
a raincoat. Our next guest went with the umbrella. Now,
he's a TV guy, And while I dabble in some TV,
mostly on the play by play side, you know I'm
a radio guy at heart. Nick Carboni is a TV man.
He's always buttoned up, the shirt's always tucked in, he's
(00:20):
always camera ready, and I expect TV guys to carry
around an umbrella for that reason. And I saw his
photo today. He was locked and loaded with the umbrella,
ready for practice as the Panthers brave the elements, and
Nick Carboni did too. He's back with us on the
hot lines, Nick Carboni, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Brother? How are you oh for being that prepared?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
My wife happens to have an umbrella in the car,
so yeah, that was all her and I happen to
be driving said car today. Really.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Other than that, yeah, I would have been high and
dry without that. Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
So I left the house earlier this morning with the
intent of coming to practice. It dawned on me as
I drew near the city that this was not slowing
down any time soon, and I realized, I've never purchased
an umbrella in my life. I mean, I can't say
that I've never owned one. I think I might have
stolen one from mom or Dad at one point, but like,
I've never owned one. So Amazon just dropped off my
very first umbrella in my life this afternoon. So I
(01:13):
skipped out on practice. I didn't want to get the
feet wet. But I'm going to go out there and
brave it tomorrow for joint practice. So I need you
to catch the people up today you were out there.
What did they accomplish in the driving rain today at practice?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Uh? I guess just preparing four elements like that. There
were a lot of footballs on the ground. It was
absolutely challenging. I mean we were talking about constant, torrential,
hard driving battle rain drops coming down the entire practice.
The ball, no matter how much they tried to keep
it dry and how many they rotate in and out,
(01:48):
so going to be wet. But I did see several
nighte throws anticipation anticipation throws that you know we've come
accustomed to from Bryce Young. There were some really good
dots from Young today.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
He was intercepted by.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Rookie Lathan Ransom in the end zone.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So you know, that was kind of one for the
defense there, but very challenging day to catch the football,
and you could tell all over.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
The field individual drills, team drills didn't matter what position.
The receivers actually weren't wearing gloves, which we initially thought
maybe a challenge from Dave Canalis, like, hey, go go
and catch it without one, but he told us no,
sometimes when it's raining like that, it's actually harder to
catch the ball with those wet gloves on. So you know,
they got work in the padded practice. Will happen tomorrow
(02:33):
against the Browns.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I don't know if it's going to be quite as
constant with the rain tomorrow as it was today, but
that stood out.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I thought, you know, when it comes to Bryce Young
thought he made some really really nice ros did have
the interception though.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Okay, speaking of catching the football, what do you think
of the camp that Tetoro McMillan is having so far?
I see it being characterized as up and down by
some people. I've seen enough things that I like. He's
also disappeared for stretches. What do you think of the
camp that he's having individually.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I mean, you know, we had a lot of national
media out there today and I don't think it would
have been anything that made their headlines.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Right.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Sometimes it hasn't even made ours. Instead of up and down,
I would kind of go down and then up and
up and you know, maybe flatten and then up. I
think he's getting better. I think he's progressing. I really
do think the physicality of the pro game has been
something that he has really had to adjust to. And
he told us that last week, and that's what his coach,
Dave Canalis told us. But think about who he's going
(03:32):
up against.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It's not just.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
JC Horn, it's also Mike Jackson in stretches and even
Corey Thornton, this undrafted kid who's got some link to him.
He's not going to face that every time out on
the field. He's not going to get covered by every
team's big corner. And even Mike Jackson told us today,
like most teams have like a big guy and a
little guy. Not everybody's got the link and the size
of the corners that the Panthers have. So that's what
(03:56):
he's going up against. They are challenging him every day,
and what we've heard from tet Tiroa, from Dave Canalis
and even Mike Jackson today is he does the drill
and then he wants to talk about it. Okay, why
didn't that work? Why were you able to knock me
off my spot here? And Mike Jackson told us today
that he does it and then you talk to him
(04:16):
about it, and then the next week he's implementing it.
So I think that's a great sign.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
But you know, we.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Saw the one incredible catch last week.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We didn't see that.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
There were some misconnections last after that. That was Wednesday,
I think, and then Friday at practice they had a
bit of a misconnection and really didn't connect much on
Saturday at FanFest. So you know, they've been a couple
drops in there too. But I think he is progressing
and getting better. Not willing to call it like a
bad camp at all, but nothing to say is been
a sensational camp?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Well, I mean Dave Canalis told us today was a gift, right,
all that weather, the opportunity to practice in the rain.
I'm sure you felt that right. It was a gift
to you as well, to be out there in those
elements and experience that together. But in all seriousness, he
did put the guys in pads and he wanted a
very physical scrimmage at fan Fest on Saturday. I took
it in from the stands, which is obviously a bit
(05:07):
of a different experience. I don't have the press box
Pa feeding me stats and you know, all the commentary
from you and Mike Ky and Joe person to contextualize everything.
But like, what did you think of fan Fest? What
they accomplished, what anything stood? Didn't thing stand out to
you in a good or bad way from Saturday's fan Fest.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I think it was a good fan fest, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I think they announced forty five thousand. You can you
know some of the people who like to count every
single one of them and say, no, it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Was just just pit you right, yeah, okay, But I
thought I thought there was a good vibe.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I thought there was a good vibe, and I thought
it was a nice chance for this team and this
fan base to kind of connect for the only time
of training camp. And you know, obviously there's a lot
of anticipation coming off the close of last season.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I did like how it was structured.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I mean, simply because we just saw you know, team
drill one way, team drill the other way, team drill
the other way, and a lot of it was Bryce Young.
We got a lot of looks at Bryce Young. Thought
he made some nice throws in that too. There were
some drafts, there were some pass breakups, there are some interceptions,
you know. I thought you could take a good amount
(06:15):
from that fully padded practice in some elements and just
constantly seeing eleven on eleven. There really wasn't a break
to go one on one or individual. Once they got going,
they really kept it like a game scenario, So I
thought that was probably a good thing.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Nick Carbony, NBC Charlotte hanging out with us back to
the offense really quickly. There was some hand ringing, I
guess this morning. I saw online about the fact that
Hunter Renfro did not practice again today. It's been a
week since he practiced as of today. But like this one,
to me seems kind of simple. He's got a hamstring
and bringing him back in the driving rain probably doesn't
(06:50):
seem like a very smart idea to me.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Right, Yeah, And that's a great point.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And there were obviously elements on Saturday night as well,
So we'll see if he's out there tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
For padded practice, although.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
We may be looking at some of the same weather
and then we'll see what happens Friday. I'm not sure
if he hasn't practiced the last couple of games, and
at that point will be a week and a half
if they're going to throw him out there Friday. So
he was obviously great stories for the first week and
a half of camp. That doesn't mean he can't come back,
get back on the field and prove that he's continuing
towards the hunter Renfro that made the Pro Bowl with
the Raiders. But I'll tell you who had a heck
(07:23):
of a catch on Saturday night was David Moore. And
if it's down to those two, he's not going down
without a fight. He had some moments last year and
a good connection with Bryce Young and was a somewhat
reliable target for him. So that'll be interesting to see
when Renfro is going to be able to put that
ability of availability back out there for the coaching staff
(07:44):
to see. But yeah, I think that's about four or
five practices in a row now that he has not
been able to go.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, listen, I'm with you on that, and I'm a
big David Moore fan, and I catch some heat for that.
Not as much these days, but like I do still
catch some heat from people who are like, what do
you see he's got a And I'm like, no, I
like this guy, like, I think he's gotten better. They
like him in the locker room. He's got strong hands.
I like him a lot now real quick. On the
other side of the football, Lathan Ransom, like this dude's
(08:11):
making a name for himself. Already had that big hit
in the back of the end zone on Saturday at FanFest,
so I'm out there dancing today. One of the veterans
was really heaping praise on him earlier today. Maybe you
recall who that was, but you know, I'm hesitant to
say that he's ready to make a real impact in
week one, but it seems like they're comfortable with him
back there and that he's comfortable with the job they've
(08:33):
given him.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Well, listen, they still haven't gone out and signed that
free agent safety that we thought in May they were
bound to do, right, So a lot of that is
Demani Richardson, But now here comes Lathan Ransom. I thought
he had a great night on Saturday night. He was
physical and maybe towed the line a little bit too much.
Dave Canalis said, you might be getting a letter from
(08:55):
the league for some of that stuff out there. You
got to kind of pull it back. But that's you know,
I think that's a positive for that, that's a net
positive for this squad. They want the physicality, uh from
this guy from a rookie safety And yeah, it was
Mike Jackson, the veteran you're talking about who was praising tests.
Iron McMillan also when he asked was asked about Laithan Ransom.
One of the first words he said was smart. He's
(09:17):
picking things up. You know, you tell him one thing
one day and he's got it the second day. He's
a great, big personality. Our Daniel Stein went one on
one with him. I think she just tweeted that out.
He's one of his rookie assignments from the defensive backfield
the veterans was to create a handshake for every single guy.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
So like he starts practice doing like eight or.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Nine different handshakes around the around the squads. So you know,
they they obviously were needing physicality at that position last year.
The head of that is going to be Trayvon Merrick.
But if they can get that with Demoni Richardson and
Leathan Ransom in his first year, that's gonna.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Be a big plus.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
But he's definitely a guy that that isn't afraid to
mix it up, and uh, you know, we'll see how
the coverage skills due and all of that, but you know,
I think I think he's really impressed the last couple
of practices.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
All Right, Nick Carboni, NBC Charlotte, hanging out with us
here on a Tuesday. Glad to hear you doing well, buddy.
We will see you out there tomorrow morning. I will
not need to share an umbrella.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I will bring my own, all right. Thanks,
And if I'm going to do anything, either use an
umbrella tomorrow with practice or suck it up and wear
a raincoat. Our next guest went with the umbrella. Now,
he's a TV guy, And while I dabble in some TV,
mostly on the play by play side, you know I'm
a radio guy at heart. Nick Carboni is a TV man.
He's always buttoned up, the shirt's always tucked in, he's
(00:20):
always camera ready, and I expect TV guys to carry
around an umbrella for that reason. And I saw his
photo today. He was locked and loaded with the umbrella,
ready for practice as the Panthers brave the elements, and
Nick Carboni did too. He's back with us on the
hot lines, Nick Carboni, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Brother? How are you oh for being that prepared?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
My wife happens to have an umbrella in the car,
so yeah, that was all her and I happen to
be driving said car today. Really.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Other than that, yeah, I would have been high and
dry without that. Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
So I left the house earlier this morning with the
intent of coming to practice. It dawned on me as
I drew near the city that this was not slowing
down any time soon, and I realized, I've never purchased
an umbrella in my life. I mean, I can't say
that I've never owned one. I think I might have
stolen one from mom or Dad at one point, but like,
I've never owned one. So Amazon just dropped off my
very first umbrella in my life this afternoon. So I
(01:13):
skipped out on practice. I didn't want to get the
feet wet. But I'm going to go out there and
brave it tomorrow for joint practice. So I need you
to catch the people up today you were out there.
What did they accomplish in the driving rain today at practice?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Uh? I guess just preparing four elements like that. There
were a lot of footballs on the ground. It was
absolutely challenging. I mean we were talking about constant, torrential,
hard driving battle rain drops coming down the entire practice.
The ball, no matter how much they tried to keep
it dry and how many they rotate in and out,
(01:48):
so going to be wet. But I did see several
nighte throws anticipation anticipation throws that you know we've come
accustomed to from Bryce Young. There were some really good
dots from Young today.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
He was intercepted by.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Rookie Lathan Ransom in the end zone.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So you know, that was kind of one for the
defense there, but very challenging day to catch the football,
and you could tell all over.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
The field individual drills, team drills didn't matter what position.
The receivers actually weren't wearing gloves, which we initially thought
maybe a challenge from Dave Canalis, like, hey, go go
and catch it without one, but he told us no,
sometimes when it's raining like that, it's actually harder to
catch the ball with those wet gloves on. So you know,
they got work in the padded practice. Will happen tomorrow
(02:33):
against the Browns.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I don't know if it's going to be quite as
constant with the rain tomorrow as it was today, but
that stood out.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I thought, you know, when it comes to Bryce Young
thought he made some really really nice ros did have
the interception though.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Okay, speaking of catching the football, what do you think
of the camp that Tetoro McMillan is having so far?
I see it being characterized as up and down by
some people. I've seen enough things that I like. He's
also disappeared for stretches. What do you think of the
camp that he's having individually.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I mean, you know, we had a lot of national
media out there today and I don't think it would
have been anything that made their headlines.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Right.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Sometimes it hasn't even made ours. Instead of up and down,
I would kind of go down and then up and
up and you know, maybe flatten and then up. I
think he's getting better. I think he's progressing. I really
do think the physicality of the pro game has been
something that he has really had to adjust to. And
he told us that last week, and that's what his coach,
Dave Canalis told us. But think about who he's going
(03:32):
up against.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It's not just.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
JC Horn, it's also Mike Jackson in stretches and even
Corey Thornton, this undrafted kid who's got some link to him.
He's not going to face that every time out on
the field. He's not going to get covered by every
team's big corner. And even Mike Jackson told us today,
like most teams have like a big guy and a
little guy. Not everybody's got the link and the size
of the corners that the Panthers have. So that's what
(03:56):
he's going up against. They are challenging him every day,
and what we've heard from tet Tiroa, from Dave Canalis
and even Mike Jackson today is he does the drill
and then he wants to talk about it. Okay, why
didn't that work? Why were you able to knock me
off my spot here? And Mike Jackson told us today
that he does it and then you talk to him
(04:16):
about it, and then the next week he's implementing it.
So I think that's a great sign.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
But you know, we.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Saw the one incredible catch last week.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We didn't see that.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
There were some misconnections last after that. That was Wednesday,
I think, and then Friday at practice they had a
bit of a misconnection and really didn't connect much on
Saturday at FanFest. So you know, they've been a couple
drops in there too. But I think he is progressing
and getting better. Not willing to call it like a
bad camp at all, but nothing to say is been
a sensational camp?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Well, I mean Dave Canalis told us today was a gift, right,
all that weather, the opportunity to practice in the rain.
I'm sure you felt that right. It was a gift
to you as well, to be out there in those
elements and experience that together. But in all seriousness, he
did put the guys in pads and he wanted a
very physical scrimmage at fan Fest on Saturday. I took
it in from the stands, which is obviously a bit
(05:07):
of a different experience. I don't have the press box
Pa feeding me stats and you know, all the commentary
from you and Mike Ky and Joe person to contextualize everything.
But like, what did you think of fan Fest? What
they accomplished, what anything stood? Didn't thing stand out to
you in a good or bad way from Saturday's fan Fest.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I think it was a good fan fest, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I think they announced forty five thousand. You can you
know some of the people who like to count every
single one of them and say, no, it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Was just just pit you right, yeah, okay, But I
thought I thought there was a good vibe.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I thought there was a good vibe, and I thought
it was a nice chance for this team and this
fan base to kind of connect for the only time
of training camp. And you know, obviously there's a lot
of anticipation coming off the close of last season.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I did like how it was structured.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I mean, simply because we just saw you know, team
drill one way, team drill the other way, team drill
the other way, and a lot of it was Bryce Young.
We got a lot of looks at Bryce Young. Thought
he made some nice throws in that too. There were
some drafts, there were some pass breakups, there are some interceptions,
you know. I thought you could take a good amount
(06:15):
from that fully padded practice in some elements and just
constantly seeing eleven on eleven. There really wasn't a break
to go one on one or individual. Once they got going,
they really kept it like a game scenario, So I
thought that was probably a good thing.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Nick Carbony, NBC Charlotte hanging out with us back to
the offense really quickly. There was some hand ringing, I
guess this morning. I saw online about the fact that
Hunter Renfro did not practice again today. It's been a
week since he practiced as of today. But like this one,
to me seems kind of simple. He's got a hamstring
and bringing him back in the driving rain probably doesn't
(06:50):
seem like a very smart idea to me.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Right, Yeah, And that's a great point.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And there were obviously elements on Saturday night as well,
So we'll see if he's out there tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
For padded practice, although.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
We may be looking at some of the same weather
and then we'll see what happens Friday. I'm not sure
if he hasn't practiced the last couple of games, and
at that point will be a week and a half
if they're going to throw him out there Friday. So
he was obviously great stories for the first week and
a half of camp. That doesn't mean he can't come back,
get back on the field and prove that he's continuing
towards the hunter Renfro that made the Pro Bowl with
the Raiders. But I'll tell you who had a heck
(07:23):
of a catch on Saturday night was David Moore. And
if it's down to those two, he's not going down
without a fight. He had some moments last year and
a good connection with Bryce Young and was a somewhat
reliable target for him. So that'll be interesting to see
when Renfro is going to be able to put that
ability of availability back out there for the coaching staff
(07:44):
to see. But yeah, I think that's about four or
five practices in a row now that he has not
been able to go.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, listen, I'm with you on that, and I'm a
big David Moore fan, and I catch some heat for that.
Not as much these days, but like I do still
catch some heat from people who are like, what do
you see he's got a And I'm like, no, I
like this guy, like, I think he's gotten better. They
like him in the locker room. He's got strong hands.
I like him a lot now real quick. On the
other side of the football, Lathan Ransom, like this dude's
(08:11):
making a name for himself. Already had that big hit
in the back of the end zone on Saturday at FanFest,
so I'm out there dancing today. One of the veterans
was really heaping praise on him earlier today. Maybe you
recall who that was, but you know, I'm hesitant to
say that he's ready to make a real impact in
week one, but it seems like they're comfortable with him
back there and that he's comfortable with the job they've
(08:33):
given him.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Well, listen, they still haven't gone out and signed that
free agent safety that we thought in May they were
bound to do, right, So a lot of that is
Demani Richardson, But now here comes Lathan Ransom. I thought
he had a great night on Saturday night. He was
physical and maybe towed the line a little bit too much.
Dave Canalis said, you might be getting a letter from
(08:55):
the league for some of that stuff out there. You
got to kind of pull it back. But that's you know,
I think that's a positive for that, that's a net
positive for this squad. They want the physicality, uh from
this guy from a rookie safety And yeah, it was
Mike Jackson, the veteran you're talking about who was praising tests.
Iron McMillan also when he asked was asked about Laithan Ransom.
One of the first words he said was smart. He's
(09:17):
picking things up. You know, you tell him one thing
one day and he's got it the second day. He's
a great, big personality. Our Daniel Stein went one on
one with him. I think she just tweeted that out.
He's one of his rookie assignments from the defensive backfield
the veterans was to create a handshake for every single guy.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
So like he starts practice doing like eight or.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Nine different handshakes around the around the squads. So you know,
they they obviously were needing physicality at that position last year.
The head of that is going to be Trayvon Merrick.
But if they can get that with Demoni Richardson and
Leathan Ransom in his first year, that's gonna.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Be a big plus.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
But he's definitely a guy that that isn't afraid to
mix it up, and uh, you know, we'll see how
the coverage skills due and all of that, but you know,
I think I think he's really impressed the last couple
of practices.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
All Right, Nick Carboni, NBC Charlotte, hanging out with us
here on a Tuesday. Glad to hear you doing well, buddy.
We will see you out there tomorrow morning. I will
not need to share an umbrella.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I will bring my own, all right. Thanks,
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