December 27, 2024 • 25 mins
This week on the Happy Half Hour, Darin and Kassidy emphasize the progress the Panthers have made in 2024, recap the Panthers win over the Cardinals, preview the final 2 games of the regular season and so much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This week on a Happy half Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
The last two home finales were presided over by two
different interim coaches. That's not normal, Gang, So now it
feels like they established something last week against the Cardinals
that's going to carry over regardless what happens in Tampa Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
What's the cow?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Whoa?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
It's time for the Happy Half Hour presented by Southern Star,
an official bourbon of the Carolina Panthers. Here are your hosts,
Darren Gant and Cassidy Hill.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Hello, friends, and welcome to a post Christmas, post Cardinals,
post apocalyptic, post holiday, all of the things Happy half Hour.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
I don't even know, don't I think they make a
carol for that?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, well they should. We'll get to that in a second.
There are no good songs for this time of year.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Well, we'll try to say one, and I don't even
know what it means.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
We'll try to struggle through that.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
But right now, the important thing is we're struggling together
and we're pushing through all of all of the stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
And you know what.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Helps this time of year, maybe something from our friends
at Southern Star. Because, as always, the Happy Half Hours
presented by a Southern Star, an official bourbon partner of
the Carolina Panthers celebrate the spirit of the Carolinas. I
just I just gave that car to flick like David
Letterman back in the day and left a mess for
Matt to clean up.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I'll get that, Matt. Don't worry, he.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Already got it.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I bet Southern Star does all kinds of business this
time of year for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You should because it's a wonderful product, and we appreciate
their sponsorship of the Happy Half Hour as always. But yeah,
it's that time of year. I think my bloodstreams like
twelve percent.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Nog right now.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's I'm feeling a little thick right now, feeling kind
of laden.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
It's the holidays.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
We've done all the eating, all the celebrating with friends
that I think I can stand. And it's Friday. So
according to that holiday, our schedule was just all off,
you know, silly major religions and commercialism having their holidays
in the middle of the football week.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
But here being on a Wednesday was so weird.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I just everything.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
One of the things my wife giggles about about the
football industrial content complex is the way we just change
calendars to suit ourselves and like the whole Yeah, Tuesdays
and Wednesday this week, right, And the first time I
hit her with a Tuesdays and Wednesday or Wednesdays and Thursdays,
she was.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Like, what does that even mean?
Speaker 5 (02:41):
I know exactly what you mean.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, of course, especially if you have like a Thursday
night game and all of a sudden you say things
like Monday is Wednesday, and Tuesday is Friday, and then
Wednesday Saturday, and.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
All the people around you look at you with their
head cocked the way the dog looks at the door.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
The doorbell rings.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So anyway, we are here, and hey, the football. We
can talk about the holiday in a second. The football
was good this week.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
It was good.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I feel like the guy on the dog rates on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
We dogs.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I'm very familiar.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
The dogs were good again this week. The football was
good again this week, so that was good news.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
It was and I sadly have not even sat down
and been able to watch the full game.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I've been having trouble finding it.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Darren was was very very kind to let me spend
the game day with my family. I had a cousin
get married, so that was nice to go see that.
But yeah, I was following along with the game with
your Twitter updates, and I could tell at what point
you went downstairs, because the Twitter updates.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Stopped, right it's time to go to work.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
And I started following somebody else's and but that was
that was definitely exciting, and being able to go back
and watch the highlights, the rewind the rewind that our
our great video crew does on Panthers dot com and
kind of see all of the big moments and some
of the low moments that set that up to be
such an exciting finish. This is the third overtime game
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that they have had this year. They've now won two
of their three overtime games, and as Robert Hunt said yesterday,
we should have won the other like we won the
other one until we lost it, which I guess is
kind of just the point of football, but its scores, right,
it factors into all of the things Dave Canalis has preached.
Finish and he's he's been throwing a new one at
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us the past couple of weeks that I really like,
do right longer, do write longer than the opponent, and
that's what they did this past week. Thought it was
really cool a shot that Another one of our video
guys got coming off the field was when everyone went
down to the end zone to celebrate with Cuba, and
Dave Canalis was kind of in that scrum celebrating. When
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Shuba turned around and realized that he was hugging Dave,
he said, Hey, I owed you one talking about from Tampa.
And so you know, it's also just a reminder that
is for as much as these guys say we got
to flush that twenty four hour rule and they do, Yeah,
they are still human.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
And that was in the back of his mind.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, And that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And I think when we look back over this season
as a whole, it's almost as if you could draw
a line at this week and just call it, because
I think the lessons of this year were kind of
encapsulated in that game the other day. Dave Canalis knew
this year was going to be a slog. He knew
that they weren't necessarily blessed with great and deep personnel
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on defense to make this the kind of unit every
coach wants to be a part of. And then Derreck
Brown got hurt, and then Shack Thompson got hurt, and
the run defense became ridiculous. They knew this year was
going to be this kind of head down, slog, get
through it, push daily work kind of season, and to
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see that payoff with I swear I think Chuba Hubbard
is like the patron saint of work ethic at this
point career. I mean, this is a guy I've watched
him since day walked in the door as a fourth
round pick, who was kind of known at Oklahoma State
for being that home run back, that big play. You know,
somebody who is going to pop sixty yard home runs.
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And now he's become the guy you trust to get four,
to get three, to get four, to get five too,
then twelve, and then four again, and then five and
then seven and then eighteen. I mean, that's the guy
Chuba Hubbard has made himself into. We've talked about it
a lot. He used to be an unreliable catcher of
the football and then he and Tommy Trimble dedicated themselves
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to forty five minutes a day after practice on a
jugs machine. And by the way, we got a story
coming out the day at Panthers dot Com about a
new friend they've got in that habit who you know
has a listen to learn himself about it.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
He needed to be there.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
There's a certain.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Young Xavier Legett who has joined them from time to
time in.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
The habit and that can only be a good thing.
But that's kind of the lesson.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
That's the arc of the story of the Carolina Panthers
in twenty twenty four is Dave Canalis was trying to
establish a daily grinder of a team, so he invested
the personality and they invested their cash in mid season
in Chewba Hubbard, and he paid that trust back with
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the dramatic game winner in overtime.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Let me ask you a question, yeap.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Dave talked to us at the beginning of the year,
so I'm about, you know, pointing to a game in
Tampa where it was a loss, but he said that
was the game where we figured it out and we
figured out who we were going to be. What do
you think that game was for the Panthers? And obviously
they didn't go on the run like Tampa did last
year and make the playoffs, but I think you could
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argue they set some foundational pieces for next year.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
When do you think that game was?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I think it could have been Philadelphia, I think and
again with xavierly Get dropped that ball late, which could
have been decisive. I mean that one stuck with a
lot of people. I mean that was a tough one
to swallow because they felt like that day they had
gone on the road to one of those places that
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you just don't go get a cheap win in the NFL.
I mean, Philly's a tough crowd, as has been established.
I think between that game, between the Bucks game here
the way it unfolded with Tuba fumbling in overtime, which
is a thing he just doesn't do, and him being
so central to the personality, and then the Chiefs game
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before that, I think that little three week stretch where
you lose three games by twelve points for very specific reasons,
and that's the thing Dave likes.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I mean, it's one thing if your.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Team is just overwhelmed and can't compete and you get
swamped by people week after week.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
We've seen that.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
But to be in those three games and to say, okay,
that play, that play. When you lose by twenty points,
it's hard to point to really specific things. But when
you lose by three points and.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
You can see three place right.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Then you can say Okay, once we fix that, we've
established that we can compete with Pat Mahomes. We've established
we can go on road to Philadelphia and compete with
one of the best teams in the NFC. And I
think that is where that meaning kind of established itself
for this team in the long haul. And then last
week in your last home game of the year, I mean,
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the Panthers fans have not had a good time of
it in the last little bit, just because you know,
when you stop and think about the last two home
finales were presided over by two different interim coaches. Yeah,
that's not normal, gang, that's not long term sustainable. So
now it feels like they established something last week against
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the Cardinals that's going to carry over regards word was
what happens in Tampa Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
And last year saw finale you were beat by your
current head coach. Time is the flat circle?
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I would have said Kansas City. Part of me wants
to say the Giants just because that was a win
and how that game ended by making the play that
needed to be played, that needed to be made in overtime,
and really earlier than that that, you know, you could
argue a lot of that game, swung on Josie Jewels
interception down in the red zone. That was a game
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where they made the plays that had to be made
and made them a little bit longer. The Saints game,
I mean, you kind of got the gift that the
Saints are going to give in a game like that.
But then that Kansas City game, like you said, they
can look back intangibly point to right there, that's where.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
We messed up that one.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
And yeah, I think that's when they started to realize.
And then, like you said, part and parcel that with
the next two games and realizing we won these games
until we lost it Robert Hunts and you.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Know what, there are two more and there are things
to gather.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
From the next couple of weeks. It's not that these
are unimportant. I mean Jadavian Clowney kind of laughed yesterday
and he's like, we figured out a couple of weeks
ago we weren't going to the playoffs, which was true,
but he said, we're trying to see who's gonna fight.
We're trying to see who's going to put in that time.
And there are guys, you know you wrote about Demoni
richardson the other day and that he's a perfect example
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of what can be gained from this time of year.
I mean, he is a guy, undrafted rookie. He was
the ball magnet of training camp when he was just
some undrafted guy that you never really thought was going
to end up even making the team because of how
deep they were at that position, and then all of
a sudden, he's got a starting job for the last
couple of weeks, and you know, he is probably the
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next sort of poster boy for what happens in December,
because that's he's got an opportunity to create a job
for himself into the future.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
And he's made plays.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yeah, like you said, he was one of those guys
in training camp that made you learn his name and
and that's all you can ask to be at that
time of year, especially as an undrafted guy. He has
He's had three starts now, he's played one hundred percent
of the defensive snaps and all three of those starts,
and so they trust him to be on the field again.
Back to our point though about you know, Dave Lake's
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specific things that he can point to. He talked this
week and he's like, you know, Demani's done really well
we like this, We like that here are the things
Demani needs to do better. And I think what was
encouraging about that if you're Demani Richardson, is that they
are tangible things and and it's like, Okay, coach says,
I need to work on this, this, this, this, this.
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They already trust you enough to be out there to
start and to play the full game. Now here's how
they now's here. Here is how you become a long
time starter in this league. They've kind of done that
with this whole rookie class. And and not just I mean,
I mean obviously not just the drafted guys. You've got Demani,
You've got Jaalen Cocher, and then every single one of
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their draft picks, at least at this point, looks like
they've panned out, because I'm counting Mike Jackson kind of
as one of those.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Sure when you trade a seventh round pick for a
guy who plays ninety nine point nine percent of your
defensive snaps on the season and plays it at a
decent level, yeah, that's a win.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
And so again we're kind of just saying the same
thing over and over in different ways. But you know,
we're writers that's what we do. Why say one Why
say it one time when I can say it's seven different.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Ways exactly I mean and and again, this year was
going to be a process. So what do you want
to see? Do you want to see it? You want
to see a personality developed? Check it has You want
to give young players opportunities to play? Yep, did that already.
And with Jayden crummeny getting on the field, you've basically
seen the entire draft class out there. Over the course
of the season. You found out, Okay, maybe Shaw Smith
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Wade can be a nickel for this team moving forward.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
He's got a little something about him.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
You know, you saw Travel Wallace play some pretty good
football up until he got it shoulder injury late and
he shut down for the rest.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Of the year.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So you know you're seeing these guys, with the exception
of Jonathan Brooks and the unfortunate knee injury. Again, you
know you've seen what you wanted to see out of
most of these guys. So I think the stage is
set for the future.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You kind of got to get through these next two
weeks and once you get on the other side of
these games, then you're going to know your schedule.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Then you're going to know where.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
You draft and all these other things that you've been
working on or thinking about over the course of the season,
then you can start working on intently. Listen, the Carolina
Panthers are not good at run defense. They're last in
the league, and they're last in the league by a
wide margin. I think the Giants are thirty first, and
the Panthers are about four hundred and ninety some rushing
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yards behind them in terms of rushing yards allowed. And
it's you know, and it's largely because you lost to
Derek Brown in Week one, and having a big three
or andre and forty pound anchor in the middle of
your line who you can count on for one hundred
tackles a year, apparently that makes a difference. And losing
your signal caller in Week four, that apparently makes a difference.
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And so they're gonna have opportunities and intent to fix that.
I mean, no matter what else happens. I would imagine
Dan Morgan and Brandt Tillis's priority is fixing that defensive
front seven this year because the secondary has largely been
pretty good and it's largely been present.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I mean J C.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Horn Also, you know, I think he's been identified as
one of those core pieces that this team wants to
build around, and he's been available all year as and
has played at a high level. So I think the
focus is going to be on fixing that front seven.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I think they've got other work to do on offense.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Sure would be nice if there was a wide receiver
other than x L who had actually been drafted. That
would be fun. You know, undrafted rookies are good, but
they're reaching that point where you to add talent to
this thing. So there's a lot to be done, but
two more games to get through, beginning with this week's
trip to Tampa.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Two things.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
One.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Adam Thielen made an interesting point yesterday because he was
asked about do you do you not like Kevin to
go on you would you rather be at home for
the final two games? Does it kind of stuck having
to go on the road, And he said, actually, it's
kind of nice because when you're on the road, you
only have each other.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
And you know this is this is by the time.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
We get to Atlanta and then you come back for
locker clean out day. You know, we say it every year,
this is the last time the twenty twenty four of
Carolina Panthers will be together. Every team goes through changes,
Inevitably during an off season, it's going to look different,
and so.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
It's the last time for them to be together. But
those that will be back next.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Year, that's another chance for them to kind of come
together and say, this is what we've done this year,
this is who we've become, this is who we want
to be moving forward. Second thing, you mentioned losing your
signal caller, and that reminded me. I don't think i've
shared this story yet. You probably know this, but I
thought it was interesting. I was talking to Josie a
couple of weeks ago, and I don't know if you remember.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
It was the.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
What game was before the Cardinals Cowboys, and he had
gotten hurt and he came out at one point.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Right the lean called down for him to get a
concussion chick. Yes, he fell on his elbow and his
arm kind of went out the angle and the concussion
spot or is conditioned to say. Bensinger response, make sure
that guy goes get checked. Josie was not happy about that.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
By the way, appreciate the guy doing his job, but yeah,
Josie had to come off, and I believe John Radigan
went on as the Green dot, so it was John
Radagan and Jacobe win Men out there. So I was
asking Josie what do they do when you come off?
Because you could tell he was itching to get back
out there as soon as they let him go. I
was like, what do they do when you come off?
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Because you have the helmet? And he said, you know,
they've got back up community communicative helmets. And he said,
but I'll be honest. When something happens and I realize
I'm about to have to come off, even for just
a play, I lay there longer than necessary.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
To give them time to switch the helmets.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Sh I'm not supposed to tell.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
People that I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
No, it's it's true. I mean, and Josie is a
Josie's a smart guy. Josie has been through this. He
knows how this worked. So it was, uh yeah, that
sequence was kind of a scramble too. I mean because
when you go the week after putting Trevin Wallace clued
in Cherilis hall On injured reserve, and then boom, Josie
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has to go out for a play and.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
We're literally down to your fifth and sixth linebacker.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah, I mean it was just good. It's like a
metaphor or something. Sometimes these stories smack you in the face.
So we will see what smacks us in the face
in Tampa this week.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I don't know if I want to get smacked in
the face in Tampa. Have you ever been to a
Gasparilla parade?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I yes, I have enjoyed one year during the Super
Bowl down there. Super Bowl Week coincided with Gasparilla.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
What a party.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yeah, that was a sight to see.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I remember, Uh, yeah, I remember some things about that trip.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
It was, uh, it was quite the sight to see.
You know. Gasparilla is kind.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Of like Pirate Marty Gray basically is probably.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
The best way to put it.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
But uh, Martin girls starting up here soon.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
We'll go see our friends, the Pirates. I just love
the fact that there's a boat with actual cannons and.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
It's, uh, it's cool.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Maybe we won't see, uh, maybe we won't hear too
many cannon shots this week.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
But the Bucks got something to play for, the Falcons
got stuff to play for the next couple of weeks,
and we'll get to all that.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
But it is kind of funny that for as much
as the Carolina Panthers quote unquote don't control their own
fade and completely or out of the playoffs, they could
have a big impact on what happens in the NFC
South playoff picture.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
No next two.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Weeks, no question, no question. And nobody likes being spoiler.
But hey, this time of year, that's uh, that's about
all you can think about. Just I mean, motivate yourself somehow. Yeah,
because you're just trying to get of the stretch.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Like Coney said, we know we're not in it, so
who wants to be here?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Speaking of getting to the stretch?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I don't know if you guys have been keeping up
with the injury report this week. God bless our friends
Kevin King and the good folks in the athletic training department.
They've been passing out masks again. It's almost like COVID time.
This thing's going through the room. I have struggled with
it for much of the last four or five weeks.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Cassy's been looking at me like, God, Darren looks like he's.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
About to die. Cass comes in today. You know, listen,
we're all trying to get to the end of the season. Okay,
I've been operating at about seventy five percent for the
last five weeks. My wife finally came down with she's
coughing and hacking and keeping me up all night, which
frankly is ruining.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
My good nights.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
That's true of her.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, I know it's highly inconsiderate of people to get sick.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
So here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Here's here's my last plead to you, are friends of
the Happy half Hour family. Cover when you call, yes,
do the vampire. As I used to tell my kids,
put that elbow right over your mouth and cover that
thing up.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Wash your hand. These are things I shouldn't have to
tell with a human beings.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
But you would think we would have learned in twenty
twenty two. But I will say because I don't always
like think about it as instinctly as I could. But
this morning I was downstairs, I was getting coughing, I sneezed,
and I did the vampire. And then I was talking
to one of the fine ladies there in the calf downstairs,
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and I said, give me just a second, let me
go wash my hands. And I turned around and washed
my hands in the scene.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
There you go, There you go.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
What we can do it for other people, be considerate
of those around you, try to be a good citizen
of the earth. And isn't that kind of the lesson
of the holidays anyway? And that what we're supposed to
be doing, like that, looking out for other people, you know,
trying to make it a better place for somebody else. Yeah,
something like that. We'll go back to. It's it might
be time for me to watch The Grinch, but I.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Watched it the other day. It's been a while since
I've watched it, and it's kind of surprising. And I
know this is like Matt's favorite Christmas movie. He thinks
it's Jim Carrey's best work.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Whatever.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
It's almost like he's so good in that role that
I would be scared to show it to a kid,
because I feel like they would get scared.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
You catch him young enough, I can see that scarring someone.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I mean, it's like.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
He had yellow eyes. He was scary.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, it was a simpler time when we, you know,
just had the cartoon version voiced by Boris Karloff, an
actual vampire who's not just doing the vampire.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Was he Dracula?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yes, anyone? Yeah, we will go through all that. There's
Christmas movies to discuss. Don't even get me started. We
watched some of the worst during the holiday season.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Please give people your review of Hot Frosty.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
My ForWord review of Hot Frosty, Hot Frosty, Hot garbage.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
That was terrible.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
The vet from Chit's Creek was a snowman come to life.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
I watched that Taylor three times before I realized it
was the vet from Shit's Creek.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah, it was awful. It was the worst thing I've
ever seen in my life. I'm truly troubled that a
it was made that b I watched it and see
other people apparently did too. So we all need to decompress.
I think you go home and get well.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
I will do that. Do you have a song for me?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Uh? Oh man, I forgot songs this week? There are
no New Year's songs.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
There is a New Year song and that's the one
I was gonna sign.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
You all right, talk to me about new Year's.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Song called New Year's Day. It is by one Taylor's fifth.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Oh imagine that a Taylor Swift song.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
It's actually I will say this so mostly so that
you don't come back and crap on it next week.
It is my favorite love song of hers.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Oh well, there you go, so you've set the stage.
I can't criticize it. We'll get caught up.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
I actually do want You're real.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I will give this a solid listen and report back
to you.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
But man, I'm overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Too much Christmas, too much nog, too much football, too
much respiratory virus, not enough sleep.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
There has been a lot of football this week.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
There's been a lot of football going on, and I'm
not even participating in your trouble.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Troubling amount of interest in ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Last night and I watched, not even the live version,
the replay of the sixty eight Venturers Bowl between Arkansas
State and Bowling Green.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I don't even want to talk to you anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
So we're gonna call it an episode at that point. Friends,
that's been the happy half hour. We'll try better next time.
This week on a Happy half Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
The last two home finales were presided over by two
different interim coaches. That's not normal, Gang, So now it
feels like they established something last week against the Cardinals
that's going to carry over regardless what happens in Tampa Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
What's the cow?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Whoa?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
It's time for the Happy Half Hour presented by Southern Star,
an official bourbon of the Carolina Panthers. Here are your hosts,
Darren Gant and Cassidy Hill.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Hello, friends, and welcome to a post Christmas, post Cardinals,
post apocalyptic, post holiday, all of the things Happy half Hour.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
I don't even know, don't I think they make a
carol for that?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, well they should. We'll get to that in a second.
There are no good songs for this time of year.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Well, we'll try to say one, and I don't even
know what it means.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
We'll try to struggle through that.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
But right now, the important thing is we're struggling together
and we're pushing through all of all of the stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
And you know what.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Helps this time of year, maybe something from our friends
at Southern Star. Because, as always, the Happy Half Hours
presented by a Southern Star, an official bourbon partner of
the Carolina Panthers celebrate the spirit of the Carolinas. I
just I just gave that car to flick like David
Letterman back in the day and left a mess for
Matt to clean up.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I'll get that, Matt. Don't worry, he.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Already got it.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I bet Southern Star does all kinds of business this
time of year for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You should because it's a wonderful product, and we appreciate
their sponsorship of the Happy Half Hour as always. But yeah,
it's that time of year. I think my bloodstreams like
twelve percent.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Nog right now.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's I'm feeling a little thick right now, feeling kind
of laden.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
It's the holidays.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
We've done all the eating, all the celebrating with friends
that I think I can stand. And it's Friday. So
according to that holiday, our schedule was just all off,
you know, silly major religions and commercialism having their holidays
in the middle of the football week.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
But here being on a Wednesday was so weird.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I just everything.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
One of the things my wife giggles about about the
football industrial content complex is the way we just change
calendars to suit ourselves and like the whole Yeah, Tuesdays
and Wednesday this week, right, And the first time I
hit her with a Tuesdays and Wednesday or Wednesdays and Thursdays,
she was.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Like, what does that even mean?
Speaker 5 (02:41):
I know exactly what you mean.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, of course, especially if you have like a Thursday
night game and all of a sudden you say things
like Monday is Wednesday, and Tuesday is Friday, and then
Wednesday Saturday, and.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
All the people around you look at you with their
head cocked the way the dog looks at the door.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
The doorbell rings.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So anyway, we are here, and hey, the football. We
can talk about the holiday in a second. The football
was good this week.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
It was good.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I feel like the guy on the dog rates on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
We dogs.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I'm very familiar.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
The dogs were good again this week. The football was
good again this week, so that was good news.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
It was and I sadly have not even sat down
and been able to watch the full game.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I've been having trouble finding it.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Darren was was very very kind to let me spend
the game day with my family. I had a cousin
get married, so that was nice to go see that.
But yeah, I was following along with the game with
your Twitter updates, and I could tell at what point
you went downstairs, because the Twitter updates.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Stopped, right it's time to go to work.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
And I started following somebody else's and but that was
that was definitely exciting, and being able to go back
and watch the highlights, the rewind the rewind that our
our great video crew does on Panthers dot com and
kind of see all of the big moments and some
of the low moments that set that up to be
such an exciting finish. This is the third overtime game
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that they have had this year. They've now won two
of their three overtime games, and as Robert Hunt said yesterday,
we should have won the other like we won the
other one until we lost it, which I guess is
kind of just the point of football, but its scores, right,
it factors into all of the things Dave Canalis has preached.
Finish and he's he's been throwing a new one at
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us the past couple of weeks that I really like,
do right longer, do write longer than the opponent, and
that's what they did this past week. Thought it was
really cool a shot that Another one of our video
guys got coming off the field was when everyone went
down to the end zone to celebrate with Cuba, and
Dave Canalis was kind of in that scrum celebrating. When
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Shuba turned around and realized that he was hugging Dave,
he said, Hey, I owed you one talking about from Tampa.
And so you know, it's also just a reminder that
is for as much as these guys say we got
to flush that twenty four hour rule and they do, Yeah,
they are still human.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
And that was in the back of his mind.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, And that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And I think when we look back over this season
as a whole, it's almost as if you could draw
a line at this week and just call it, because
I think the lessons of this year were kind of
encapsulated in that game the other day. Dave Canalis knew
this year was going to be a slog. He knew
that they weren't necessarily blessed with great and deep personnel
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on defense to make this the kind of unit every
coach wants to be a part of. And then Derreck
Brown got hurt, and then Shack Thompson got hurt, and
the run defense became ridiculous. They knew this year was
going to be this kind of head down, slog, get
through it, push daily work kind of season, and to
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see that payoff with I swear I think Chuba Hubbard
is like the patron saint of work ethic at this
point career. I mean, this is a guy I've watched
him since day walked in the door as a fourth
round pick, who was kind of known at Oklahoma State
for being that home run back, that big play. You know,
somebody who is going to pop sixty yard home runs.
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And now he's become the guy you trust to get four,
to get three, to get four, to get five too,
then twelve, and then four again, and then five and
then seven and then eighteen. I mean, that's the guy
Chuba Hubbard has made himself into. We've talked about it
a lot. He used to be an unreliable catcher of
the football and then he and Tommy Trimble dedicated themselves
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to forty five minutes a day after practice on a
jugs machine. And by the way, we got a story
coming out the day at Panthers dot Com about a
new friend they've got in that habit who you know
has a listen to learn himself about it.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
He needed to be there.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
There's a certain.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Young Xavier Legett who has joined them from time to
time in.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
The habit and that can only be a good thing.
But that's kind of the lesson.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
That's the arc of the story of the Carolina Panthers
in twenty twenty four is Dave Canalis was trying to
establish a daily grinder of a team, so he invested
the personality and they invested their cash in mid season
in Chewba Hubbard, and he paid that trust back with
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the dramatic game winner in overtime.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Let me ask you a question, yeap.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Dave talked to us at the beginning of the year,
so I'm about, you know, pointing to a game in
Tampa where it was a loss, but he said that
was the game where we figured it out and we
figured out who we were going to be. What do
you think that game was for the Panthers? And obviously
they didn't go on the run like Tampa did last
year and make the playoffs, but I think you could
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argue they set some foundational pieces for next year.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
When do you think that game was?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I think it could have been Philadelphia, I think and
again with xavierly Get dropped that ball late, which could
have been decisive. I mean that one stuck with a
lot of people. I mean that was a tough one
to swallow because they felt like that day they had
gone on the road to one of those places that
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you just don't go get a cheap win in the NFL.
I mean, Philly's a tough crowd, as has been established.
I think between that game, between the Bucks game here
the way it unfolded with Tuba fumbling in overtime, which
is a thing he just doesn't do, and him being
so central to the personality, and then the Chiefs game
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before that, I think that little three week stretch where
you lose three games by twelve points for very specific reasons,
and that's the thing Dave likes.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I mean, it's one thing if your.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Team is just overwhelmed and can't compete and you get
swamped by people week after week.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
We've seen that.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
But to be in those three games and to say, okay,
that play, that play. When you lose by twenty points,
it's hard to point to really specific things. But when
you lose by three points and.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
You can see three place right.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Then you can say Okay, once we fix that, we've
established that we can compete with Pat Mahomes. We've established
we can go on road to Philadelphia and compete with
one of the best teams in the NFC. And I
think that is where that meaning kind of established itself
for this team in the long haul. And then last
week in your last home game of the year, I mean,
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the Panthers fans have not had a good time of
it in the last little bit, just because you know,
when you stop and think about the last two home
finales were presided over by two different interim coaches. Yeah,
that's not normal, gang, that's not long term sustainable. So
now it feels like they established something last week against
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the Cardinals that's going to carry over regards word was
what happens in Tampa Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
And last year saw finale you were beat by your
current head coach. Time is the flat circle?
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I would have said Kansas City. Part of me wants
to say the Giants just because that was a win
and how that game ended by making the play that
needed to be played, that needed to be made in overtime,
and really earlier than that that, you know, you could
argue a lot of that game, swung on Josie Jewels
interception down in the red zone. That was a game
(10:29):
where they made the plays that had to be made
and made them a little bit longer. The Saints game,
I mean, you kind of got the gift that the
Saints are going to give in a game like that.
But then that Kansas City game, like you said, they
can look back intangibly point to right there, that's where.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
We messed up that one.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
And yeah, I think that's when they started to realize.
And then, like you said, part and parcel that with
the next two games and realizing we won these games
until we lost it Robert Hunts and you.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Know what, there are two more and there are things
to gather.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
From the next couple of weeks. It's not that these
are unimportant. I mean Jadavian Clowney kind of laughed yesterday
and he's like, we figured out a couple of weeks
ago we weren't going to the playoffs, which was true,
but he said, we're trying to see who's gonna fight.
We're trying to see who's going to put in that time.
And there are guys, you know you wrote about Demoni
richardson the other day and that he's a perfect example
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of what can be gained from this time of year.
I mean, he is a guy, undrafted rookie. He was
the ball magnet of training camp when he was just
some undrafted guy that you never really thought was going
to end up even making the team because of how
deep they were at that position, and then all of
a sudden, he's got a starting job for the last
couple of weeks, and you know, he is probably the
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next sort of poster boy for what happens in December,
because that's he's got an opportunity to create a job
for himself into the future.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
And he's made plays.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yeah, like you said, he was one of those guys
in training camp that made you learn his name and
and that's all you can ask to be at that
time of year, especially as an undrafted guy. He has
He's had three starts now, he's played one hundred percent
of the defensive snaps and all three of those starts,
and so they trust him to be on the field again.
Back to our point though about you know, Dave Lake's
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specific things that he can point to. He talked this
week and he's like, you know, Demani's done really well
we like this, We like that here are the things
Demani needs to do better. And I think what was
encouraging about that if you're Demani Richardson, is that they
are tangible things and and it's like, Okay, coach says,
I need to work on this, this, this, this, this.
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They already trust you enough to be out there to
start and to play the full game. Now here's how
they now's here. Here is how you become a long
time starter in this league. They've kind of done that
with this whole rookie class. And and not just I mean,
I mean obviously not just the drafted guys. You've got Demani,
You've got Jaalen Cocher, and then every single one of
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their draft picks, at least at this point, looks like
they've panned out, because I'm counting Mike Jackson kind of
as one of those.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Sure when you trade a seventh round pick for a
guy who plays ninety nine point nine percent of your
defensive snaps on the season and plays it at a
decent level, yeah, that's a win.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
And so again we're kind of just saying the same
thing over and over in different ways. But you know,
we're writers that's what we do. Why say one Why
say it one time when I can say it's seven different.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Ways exactly I mean and and again, this year was
going to be a process. So what do you want
to see? Do you want to see it? You want
to see a personality developed? Check it has You want
to give young players opportunities to play? Yep, did that already.
And with Jayden crummeny getting on the field, you've basically
seen the entire draft class out there. Over the course
of the season. You found out, Okay, maybe Shaw Smith
(13:54):
Wade can be a nickel for this team moving forward.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
He's got a little something about him.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
You know, you saw Travel Wallace play some pretty good
football up until he got it shoulder injury late and
he shut down for the rest.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Of the year.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So you know you're seeing these guys, with the exception
of Jonathan Brooks and the unfortunate knee injury. Again, you
know you've seen what you wanted to see out of
most of these guys. So I think the stage is
set for the future.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You kind of got to get through these next two
weeks and once you get on the other side of
these games, then you're going to know your schedule.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Then you're going to know where.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
You draft and all these other things that you've been
working on or thinking about over the course of the season,
then you can start working on intently. Listen, the Carolina
Panthers are not good at run defense. They're last in
the league, and they're last in the league by a
wide margin. I think the Giants are thirty first, and
the Panthers are about four hundred and ninety some rushing
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yards behind them in terms of rushing yards allowed. And
it's you know, and it's largely because you lost to
Derek Brown in Week one, and having a big three
or andre and forty pound anchor in the middle of
your line who you can count on for one hundred
tackles a year, apparently that makes a difference. And losing
your signal caller in Week four, that apparently makes a difference.
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And so they're gonna have opportunities and intent to fix that.
I mean, no matter what else happens. I would imagine
Dan Morgan and Brandt Tillis's priority is fixing that defensive
front seven this year because the secondary has largely been
pretty good and it's largely been present.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I mean J C.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Horn Also, you know, I think he's been identified as
one of those core pieces that this team wants to
build around, and he's been available all year as and
has played at a high level. So I think the
focus is going to be on fixing that front seven.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I think they've got other work to do on offense.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Sure would be nice if there was a wide receiver
other than x L who had actually been drafted. That
would be fun. You know, undrafted rookies are good, but
they're reaching that point where you to add talent to
this thing. So there's a lot to be done, but
two more games to get through, beginning with this week's
trip to Tampa.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Two things.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
One.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Adam Thielen made an interesting point yesterday because he was
asked about do you do you not like Kevin to
go on you would you rather be at home for
the final two games? Does it kind of stuck having
to go on the road, And he said, actually, it's
kind of nice because when you're on the road, you
only have each other.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
And you know this is this is by the time.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
We get to Atlanta and then you come back for
locker clean out day. You know, we say it every year,
this is the last time the twenty twenty four of
Carolina Panthers will be together. Every team goes through changes,
Inevitably during an off season, it's going to look different,
and so.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
It's the last time for them to be together. But
those that will be back next.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Year, that's another chance for them to kind of come
together and say, this is what we've done this year,
this is who we've become, this is who we want
to be moving forward. Second thing, you mentioned losing your
signal caller, and that reminded me. I don't think i've
shared this story yet. You probably know this, but I
thought it was interesting. I was talking to Josie a
couple of weeks ago, and I don't know if you remember.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
It was the.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
What game was before the Cardinals Cowboys, and he had
gotten hurt and he came out at one point.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Right the lean called down for him to get a
concussion chick. Yes, he fell on his elbow and his
arm kind of went out the angle and the concussion
spot or is conditioned to say. Bensinger response, make sure
that guy goes get checked. Josie was not happy about that.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
By the way, appreciate the guy doing his job, but yeah,
Josie had to come off, and I believe John Radigan
went on as the Green dot, so it was John
Radagan and Jacobe win Men out there. So I was
asking Josie what do they do when you come off?
Because you could tell he was itching to get back
out there as soon as they let him go. I
was like, what do they do when you come off?
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Because you have the helmet? And he said, you know,
they've got back up community communicative helmets. And he said,
but I'll be honest. When something happens and I realize
I'm about to have to come off, even for just
a play, I lay there longer than necessary.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
To give them time to switch the helmets.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Sh I'm not supposed to tell.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
People that I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
No, it's it's true. I mean, and Josie is a
Josie's a smart guy. Josie has been through this. He
knows how this worked. So it was, uh yeah, that
sequence was kind of a scramble too. I mean because
when you go the week after putting Trevin Wallace clued
in Cherilis hall On injured reserve, and then boom, Josie
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has to go out for a play and.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
We're literally down to your fifth and sixth linebacker.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah, I mean it was just good. It's like a
metaphor or something. Sometimes these stories smack you in the face.
So we will see what smacks us in the face
in Tampa this week.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I don't know if I want to get smacked in
the face in Tampa. Have you ever been to a
Gasparilla parade?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I yes, I have enjoyed one year during the Super
Bowl down there. Super Bowl Week coincided with Gasparilla.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
What a party.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yeah, that was a sight to see.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I remember, Uh, yeah, I remember some things about that trip.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
It was, uh, it was quite the sight to see.
You know. Gasparilla is kind.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Of like Pirate Marty Gray basically is probably.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
The best way to put it.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
But uh, Martin girls starting up here soon.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
We'll go see our friends, the Pirates. I just love
the fact that there's a boat with actual cannons and.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
It's, uh, it's cool.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Maybe we won't see, uh, maybe we won't hear too
many cannon shots this week.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
But the Bucks got something to play for, the Falcons
got stuff to play for the next couple of weeks,
and we'll get to all that.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
But it is kind of funny that for as much
as the Carolina Panthers quote unquote don't control their own
fade and completely or out of the playoffs, they could
have a big impact on what happens in the NFC
South playoff picture.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
No next two.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Weeks, no question, no question. And nobody likes being spoiler.
But hey, this time of year, that's uh, that's about
all you can think about. Just I mean, motivate yourself somehow. Yeah,
because you're just trying to get of the stretch.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Like Coney said, we know we're not in it, so
who wants to be here?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Speaking of getting to the stretch?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I don't know if you guys have been keeping up
with the injury report this week. God bless our friends
Kevin King and the good folks in the athletic training department.
They've been passing out masks again. It's almost like COVID time.
This thing's going through the room. I have struggled with
it for much of the last four or five weeks.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Cassy's been looking at me like, God, Darren looks like he's.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
About to die. Cass comes in today. You know, listen,
we're all trying to get to the end of the season. Okay,
I've been operating at about seventy five percent for the
last five weeks. My wife finally came down with she's
coughing and hacking and keeping me up all night, which
frankly is ruining.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
My good nights.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
That's true of her.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, I know it's highly inconsiderate of people to get sick.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
So here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Here's here's my last plead to you, are friends of
the Happy half Hour family. Cover when you call, yes,
do the vampire. As I used to tell my kids,
put that elbow right over your mouth and cover that
thing up.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Wash your hand. These are things I shouldn't have to
tell with a human beings.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
But you would think we would have learned in twenty
twenty two. But I will say because I don't always
like think about it as instinctly as I could. But
this morning I was downstairs, I was getting coughing, I sneezed,
and I did the vampire. And then I was talking
to one of the fine ladies there in the calf downstairs,
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and I said, give me just a second, let me
go wash my hands. And I turned around and washed
my hands in the scene.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
There you go, There you go.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
What we can do it for other people, be considerate
of those around you, try to be a good citizen
of the earth. And isn't that kind of the lesson
of the holidays anyway? And that what we're supposed to
be doing, like that, looking out for other people, you know,
trying to make it a better place for somebody else. Yeah,
something like that. We'll go back to. It's it might
be time for me to watch The Grinch, but I.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Watched it the other day. It's been a while since
I've watched it, and it's kind of surprising. And I
know this is like Matt's favorite Christmas movie. He thinks
it's Jim Carrey's best work.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Whatever.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
It's almost like he's so good in that role that
I would be scared to show it to a kid,
because I feel like they would get scared.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
You catch him young enough, I can see that scarring someone.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I mean, it's like.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
He had yellow eyes. He was scary.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, it was a simpler time when we, you know,
just had the cartoon version voiced by Boris Karloff, an
actual vampire who's not just doing the vampire.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Was he Dracula?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yes, anyone? Yeah, we will go through all that. There's
Christmas movies to discuss. Don't even get me started. We
watched some of the worst during the holiday season.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Please give people your review of Hot Frosty.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
My ForWord review of Hot Frosty, Hot Frosty, Hot garbage.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
That was terrible.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
The vet from Chit's Creek was a snowman come to life.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
I watched that Taylor three times before I realized it
was the vet from Shit's Creek.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah, it was awful. It was the worst thing I've
ever seen in my life. I'm truly troubled that a
it was made that b I watched it and see
other people apparently did too. So we all need to decompress.
I think you go home and get well.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
I will do that. Do you have a song for me?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Uh? Oh man, I forgot songs this week? There are
no New Year's songs.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
There is a New Year song and that's the one
I was gonna sign.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
You all right, talk to me about new Year's.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Song called New Year's Day. It is by one Taylor's fifth.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Oh imagine that a Taylor Swift song.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
It's actually I will say this so mostly so that
you don't come back and crap on it next week.
It is my favorite love song of hers.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Oh well, there you go, so you've set the stage.
I can't criticize it. We'll get caught up.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
I actually do want You're real.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I will give this a solid listen and report back
to you.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
But man, I'm overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Too much Christmas, too much nog, too much football, too
much respiratory virus, not enough sleep.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
There has been a lot of football this week.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
There's been a lot of football going on, and I'm
not even participating in your trouble.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Troubling amount of interest in ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Last night and I watched, not even the live version,
the replay of the sixty eight Venturers Bowl between Arkansas
State and Bowling Green.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I don't even want to talk to you anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
So we're gonna call it an episode at that point. Friends,
that's been the happy half hour. We'll try better next time.
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