October 13, 2025 • 25 mins
Today on the Happy Half Hour, Darin and Kassidy recap the Panthers 30-27 win over the Dallas Cowboys, highlight the offensive line depth, outline why they think the Panthers are becoming a "normal football team", and so much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:55):
Is a happening place to be, it is. Were you
in this building last night? Yeah, you were.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
About to say yes, I was sitting next to you.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I was talking to the audience at large. It was
a the mind kind of thing. For the people who
were just listening and not watching us on the team's
YouTube channel, and if you're not, what's wrong with you.
But yeah, the vibes were good in Bank of America
Stadium yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
The vibes were very good. As someone who has been
here for past Cowboys games in the stadium, it was
a lot more Panthers fans than normal, so that was
really encouraging. J. C. Horn thanked them for that after
the game. And it made a difference at times. You know,
there were a couple of there were a couple of
false starts on Cowboys right, and I remember.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
That there was some impact I would say of the
home crowd. It was definitely heard.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And you know, an exciting win.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Got to see a walk off field goal, got to
see a walk off field goal, got to see a
perfectly executed final drive by the Panthers offense. Held that
ball for more than six minutes. I think, Yeah, they scored.
The Cowboys scored a field goal with six oh seven
been left in the fourth quarter to tie it and
did not touch the ball again.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And never got it back. I mean, it was it
was actually I mean just and that kind of goes
into the first thing I wanted to talk about with
this team. I mean, we can talk about field goals,
we can talk about Reis Young, will and talk about
Rico Dowdle all of those things, and we will. They
are all important. But to me, as the old person
who is charged with perspective around here, the biggest difference
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that's your job. Yeah. The biggest difference in this Carolina
Panthers team right now is what's happening on defense. Yeah,
the Carolina Panthers have allowed fifty rushing yards in the
last two weeks combined. That was a quarter earlier this
season against Jacksonville and for the last six games of
last season when things got lose. I mean, it was
just no, Yeah, it's just not even a comparison. It's
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kind of I sometimes I don't even know how to
describe it because it's so different than what I've experienced
fairly recently. But you see why Dan Morgan went out
on the first day of free agency and sinam a
turc On Wharton and a Bobby Brown and a Trayvon
Merrick and a Christian rose Boom and a Pat Jones.
You see why they put so much emphasis on adding
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to the front seven. Of the defense on draft Day
with Nick and prince Ley, and we keep talking about
this over and over, and maybe it just surprises me
a little bit because it's so dramatically different from what
we saw a tail end last year and that first
game of this year that it's like, Wow, this is
what that group can become.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I was talking to Leathan Ransom and Trayvon Merrik in
the locker room today about the run defense and how
important it setting the edges in that run defense, because
that was something Dave Knalis pointed out during his Monday
press conference as well, and Lathan kind of joked and
he said, well, you know, it's a lot easier to
set the edge when you've got an extra outside linebacker
out there in Trayvon Merrick.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
And you know what, he ain't wrong.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Like that's about That's kind of what Marrek felt feels like,
that's how Merek plays sometimes, and when one guy's or
when it's going well, you see more guys getting excited
about it.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
When j C.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Horn and Mike Jack are excited about throwing themselves into
a gang tackle on run defense, like that means your
defense is moving in a good place and in a
good way.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Right, and people don't care about the way we do
our jobs, but just take you behind the curtain here.
We've got a team of photographers out there on the
field on game days, so after games, we literally have
thousands of images to pull from and they go into
a certain folder. We're looking at it on the computer.
And when you start looking for pictures to describe the
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run defense right now, and the defense as a whole,
and the way they're playing, there are about three hundred
and fifty versions of many large pieces of developing a
much smaller one, and you're used to seeing those when
it's just Derek Brown out there, because Derek has a
way of doing things. I used a picture last night
of Derek Brown's stand up in front of Terrence Steel
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and Terror Steel's a six six three and twenty pound
human being, and Derek Brown was just over the top
of him looking jigans and menacing, and there's a lot
of that happening right now with that whole front. You
saw Bobby Brown have his best game as a panther.
I thought he was active. He was in the backfield,
he was making a lot of stops, and those guys,
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there were so many of them, they're coming at you
in waves. Ashon Robinson continues to be the old head
the pro and Ashan's got that kind of I think
because of the way Sean talks. It's a very deep voice.
He doesn't mind talking low. He's got that serious tone,
and he just intimidates people. He's an intimidating looking guy sometimes,
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and I think on the field he plays with that
style and that's contagious. Man. Those guys are playing defense
at a way that I think Dan and Dave when
they were putting this team together in the offseason could
only dream of making the kind of progress they've made
through three six weeks.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, I mean kind of just piggybacking off that to
wrap up, like you're seeing them swarm more and more,
which coaches always say, you want all eleven hats to
the ball, you want them to swarm. Coaches say it
doesn't always happen. And you know, guys, see, oh, that
tackle is already kind of getting made. I'm on the
other side of the field. I'm just going to stand
right here. And you know, I mentioned this last week
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when we were doing our throwback Thursday and looking at
that twenty fifteen Seattle game. How much of that defense
swarmed and it was such a noticeable effect and difference
in the game. And you're really kind of seeing that
what this defense come about over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Right, and it has been impressive just seeing the way
they're playing off of each other. You've heard those magic
words complimentary football come up so often in the last
couple of weeks. But when the offense is able to
sustain drives and run the way they have, the defense
gets to sit and take a breath, get a drink
of water, and really gather themselves for what's to come.
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I mean, you were talking about that fourth quarter drive
after the Cowboys hit the field goal, Carolina Panthers got
the ball back, they didn't do a whole lot with it.
They punted. That's when you had that series where the
Cowboys went three and out and it was Trayvon Merrick
dropping Javonte for seven yard loss. Uh Williams goes backwards
for five with Trevin Wallace on the other end of it.
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On the next play, and then on third and twenty
two or whatever, you get this harmless little pass to
a full back in a flat ball game. Then the
number one offense in the NFL never sees the ball
again because, oh, by the way, that man Rico Dowdell
is out there doing his thing.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Yeah, thank you for correcting me. I said.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
When they got the kill fieldl they didn't touch again.
It was six oh seventh.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And they traded three six seven six seven Prescott for six.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Minutes to stand there and watch. Yeah, Rico Daddle, he
did his thing, He backed it up. You know, this
is this is a team that is very baseline. You know,
they don't they don't they stay within themselves, as coach
Canalis always tells them to do, you know, come back
to us. But this one was a little personal for Rico.
He admitted it. Canalice admitted it. Brak Sean admitted it,
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and uh bud he went out there and backed it
up a franchise record two hundred and thirty nine yards
from scrimmage. He just squeaked best Christian McCaffrey who did
two thirty seven twice.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
So now it was.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Now the top four in yards from scrimmage, and Panthers
franchise history is ric o'doddle, Christian McCaffrey, Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
And Ricodowddle.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Because of the two thirty four last week. That one
was fun keeping up with in the press box. I
know you had already gone downstairs to get ready for postgame, but.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
We were watching.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
It required a lot of math, which Darren knows is
not my strong suit. But we figured out, okay, he
needs eight yards to set it, you know, seven to
tie CMC, eight to set it. And he had one
run and we all kind of thought it might be
and everybody was like tense and waiting just to see
where they would mark the ball, and then it comes
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over the speaker, nine yard gain and it was.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Like, hey, he did it, he did it. He did it.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
So that one was fun to keep up with. And
what a run he's been on. What he's been on?
What a run this offensive line and tight ends have
been on. Yeah, Like goodness, gracious, I believe, and I
will double check this so I will, so I will
let y'all know for sure. But last I checked, I
say I'll double check because this could have changed with
games that finished last night. Last I checked, Ricododdle was
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top in the NFL in yards before contact, meaning he
was running a good I think like two point six
yards before he was ever getting touched. That is just
an insane number. And we've seen even when he gets
touched he can bounce out of it and then step
out of it. But two point six yards or something
on around those lines before he's even touched, Like that
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offensive line is just opening up lanes that all respect
to Rico Daddle, you or I could run through some
of them.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Do they were? And it's becoming my favorite play in
the Carolina Panthers offensive arsenal. It's not Spider X to
hy Banana. It's fine, big old Damien Lewis and run
where he used to be because there's a space there
now and dlu was out there in front of a
lot of those big Rico Daldle runs.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah he was Rica or Damien was.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I asked a couple of guys on defense today, like,
let's say you're on the other side of the ball
out there and you see Damien Lewis just like chunk
are chugging down to.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
The second level. What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
And a couple of guys said, like, you got to
make a business decision real quick. DJ Wadham said, I'll
meet him, but then we go. I guess we're just
gonna have to see what happens like I don't. He's like,
I don't. I don't want to think about it too hard.
I can't think about it.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Right and dlu it's impressive to me to think about
And I was talking to Austin Corbitt about this a
little bit ago downstairs and stay tuned too Panthers dot
Com for all the latest We got you covered on
a lot of different angles coming up in the next
couple of days. But Austin was talking about with all
the changes he's been here through changes before he was here,
he was one of the patient zeros in three when
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they used about seven different left guards and eight different
guards during the course of a season. They're on that
pace right now. But the results are actually good because
instead of cycling through guys, you're dragging off the street.
And they were literally dragging guys in off the street
and starting them within days. This is a bunch that
knows each other and so even though you're down to
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a new group. I mean, if you look at the
reserve offensive lineman in Sunday's game, they were Nick Samock,
Jake Kerrhan and practice squad Elevation Brandon Walton. Of course,
everybody knows those guys because you've put guys on IR
three of going on IR this year already with Austin
Chandler's viola rob Hunt the big one. But they've been
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able to set this standard with these guys because Brady
Christiansen knows what to do, he knows how to play
all five positions. Caid Mays has stepped in and played
guard and center at a pretty high level. You've got
a yosh Niemen who started fairly well at both tackles
this year. So it's just such a cohesive group and
it's impressive seeing what they're doing out in front. And
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it's also one of the things, and it's one of
those kind of fine points you see if you read
inside the numbers on Panthers dot Com and get into
those snap counts. Mitchell Evans, the second tight end, played
fifty eight percent of the snaps in yesterday's game.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Crazy James Mitchell play.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Do you think the Carolina Panthers are serious about running?
James Mitchell? The third tight end was out there for
ten snaps fifteen percent of the game. But sixty percent
of the game they're out there and two tight end
with a big old offensive line saying let's go, and
they went.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
They were running out there sometimes with like six offensive
line and three tight ends.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, there is a statement of intent quality to what
they're doing offensively right now. But you know, good for Rico,
and Rico's having fun with it. He enjoys running through
them big holes. And you know, he got on people's
radars last week by making a buckle up comment to
the Cowboys, And you know last night you were sitting
in there when somebody said, what would you say to him? Now?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
They didn't buggle up, and it's.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
It's okay to enjoy it. It's okay. So he clearly
did and he's on a heater. But we'll see how
that develops over the next couple of days. Canalis said
today they're getting closer to that point of getting some
guys back into the mix. And you know, he got
asked the perpetual question about what are you gonna do
with you? But when he comes back with Rico on
this kind of heater, and Dave just kind of grant
and said, we'll see, we'll see he does he does
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the old coach thing. It's a good problem to have
because you know, he's talked about being able to call
the whole play sheet when you've got two guys like
that and you can do it all with them. I
And the reality of this is you can use them both.
I have been here. I have been here when generally
the thing that allows you to use them both is attrition.
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Kind of like Cuba missing these last couple of games
when Stephen Davis and Sean Foster were doing it, one
or the other one might be hurt at any given time,
you know, when it was DeAngelo and Stuart, you know,
guys would get hurt and be in and out of
games and the other one would have to take over.
But you can use two at a time, right, That
is absolutely a thing you can do. We've seen it,
and we've seen it in this stadium.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, we've you've.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Seen it in the stadium. You're seeing it right now.
I mean we've said it a few weeks now. But
the Detroit Lions do it every week. Perhaps you know
that they're a good blueprint of how to make it
work and to really kind of utilize the strengths of
each guy, which is what Cuba and Rico can both do.
They do very different things and that makes it really exciting.
Trevor Etn has really kind of stepped up over these
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last two weeks as well as a running back to
and you know, kind of earned his spot to be
those guys that to be that guy that can spell
Cuba and Rico at a time, or you know, can
be trusted to come in for them. Two weeks now,
Rico has had to step out in the fourth quarter
because of cramps.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Mean, when you're running for two hundred yards a game,
this is going to happen, right.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
That's exactly what I was about to say, Like he's
earned those cramps in a way. But both times, you know,
they've been able to trust Trevor Etn to go out
there and still handle things. He handled that final drive
after we came out perfectly yesterday. Credit to Bryce Young
too for making sure Trevor handled it correctly. Dave Canal
told us that Bryce Young kind of pulled them aside
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right before they went out there and said, you know,
I don't care if they let you walk in, go
down as soon as you get the first down. And
Trevor did it, and he probably could have scored. They
were playing a little off and as you know, hoping
to get the ball back and he said Canal said,
when Trevor came off the field, he told him, like,
next time you're gonna have to come off the sideline
and tackle me.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, because I ain't stopping again.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
And listen, these guys all want to get in the
end zone. Teteroa McMillan got in the end zone after
all that conversation about when is tetro Ever gonna score
a touchdown? Oh maybe twice, maybe twice on Sunday. Maybe
that's a thing. But you know, the way the Carolina
Panthers are playing, you know, they don't have to even
throw the ball sometimes. But oh, by the way, that's
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working out okay too. Bryce Young, you know, oh, by
the way, has a three touchdown game. Another game winning drive.
I think one of the more impressive things about Bryce
if you look at it, that was his eighth game
winning drive in his young career. Two and a half
years into this deal. He's already got eight of them,
which is more than Jordan Love, who's been doing it
a couple of years extra. But Jordan Love hadn't always
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been behind as much as it's more than CJ. Stroud.
CJ's got five of them. Came in the League at
the same time. But Bryce is right there in net
area where he's only one behind a Trevor Lawrence and
Joe Burrow who have played about twice as many games
as he has. So Bryce clearly has a knack for
this six times in the last sixteen games, which basically
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gets you the second half of last year into what's
happening right now. He's brought this team from behind by
being timely. And I went through doing math, and I
love doing math, and I can show you. I can
show you the raw numbers and the long edition I've
done here in this notebook. And Bryce Young in his
last four games, the last four game winning drives which
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gets you Arizona in Atlanta last year, and these two
in the last couple of weeks. His fourth quarter passer
rating won eleven point three five. Pretty good, Pretty good
at football. Bryce Shong is he's got, you know, he's
shown that ability to not let the early mistakes. And
obviously you'd like to not have early mistakes. Everybody would
like to not have early mistakes, but when you have them,
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to be resilient, and Bryce has got that resilience about him.
I mean, he's a guy who you know, doesn't say
dramatic things done yell and holler and scream or any
of those kind of things that's good for TV. But
he's playing good ball in the fourth quarter of games,
and guys trust him. I mean, this is two weeks
in a row. Derek Brown said after the Miami game.
He said, after the second turnover, Bryce looks at me
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and he says, get it back for me, and let's go.
And Pat Jones says a lot. Pat Jones said last
night he said, we kind of know at this point
Bryce is going to get it back. We just hand
him the ball back and he's going to get this.
And they've reached that stage where it's it's kind of
feeding itself now and it's becoming once again that complimentary
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football that every coach dreams of playing.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
You know what's impressive about this, too, is is Brice
didon't have to go through that at Alabama a lot. Yeah,
they were up a lot of most of those games.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Resilience is not really one of those skills that you
have to recruit there.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And but speaking of resilience, you know, Dave Canalis had
a great quote last week that I think kind of
encompasses the Panther's team as a whole, but especially Bryce
youonk he said, adversity builds resilience, and I think we
can I mean, let's call a spadees paid. Brychong went
through a lot of adversity.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
His rookie on the adversity thing.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
He went through some adversity last year too, and you're
seeing the payoff of that now. You're seeing him not
get down and not get not buckle under it, but
to kind of rise to it. And you know, Dave
Canalis was asked, I thought a pretty interesting question today.
You know, you've coached both Bryce Young and Baker Mayfield.
Baker Mayfield is playing at an MVP level right now.
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Did you hear about the chance he got yesterday and
the receiver thought it was for him?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah, that was funny.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
He is playing at an MVP level right now. And
Canal has said, you know, the biggest similarity between the
two guys is both of them can have something go
wrong on the field and come to the sideline and
be like, well, the next play is going to be
a touchdown, you know, And that's the kind of belief
and resilience you need to have.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Eight game winning drives.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah, and two of them back to back, and in
Bank of America Stadium, a lot of cool Miles stones
yesterday for first three game home winning streak since twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Two, technically four going back to last year.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Right, No, they yeah, three games?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Oh sorry, three.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Game home winning streak. Three game home winning streak. Here,
they're at five hundred deeper in a season than they've
been since twenty twenty one, when they got to five
and five in the Cam Newton nine back game in
Arizona and then didn't win another game that season. That's
the last time they were this good, this deep in
the season. And it's just one of the things I
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keep saying, and you've got to be getting tired of
hearing me say this. My favorite adjective for football is normal.
You can aspire to normal. The Carolina Panthers have now
attained normal. They are playing regular football games in the
way that many people watch every weekend on television. And
it's not a you know, we're trying to build, we
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don't have enough pieces. Everything's going wrong all at once,
so many injuries, it's calamity. You watch them play football now,
and they're in phase. They can run the ball and
sustain drives. When Brysler is an interception, all of a sudden,
everything doesn't go Hey, why are they just reset and refocus?
Which is what Dave Canalis has been talking about and
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watching them over the last couple of weeks, it's like,
this is the kind of thing they're clearly getting used
to playing. This is the kind of football team they're
getting used to being. And that's the best news anybody
around here has heard.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
And I know that the inevitable argument will come up, well,
look at Miami schedule, look at the Cowboys defense. If
you are a, to use Darren's word, normal football team,
those are the games that you do find a way
to win. And you know, because it is hard to
win in the NFL. And so if you're going to
be a normal and then grow to be a better team,
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you find a way to win that Miami game, You
find a way to win that Dallas game, and you
don't fumble it away.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
And listen, let me be clear. They're not at the
place in the progression. And I think Dave and Dan
would admit this. I mean, everybody talked about building and
becoming more stable this year. They're not at a spot
where any result is out of the ordinary. I mean,
anything can happen. Could I see them losing to the Jets?
Could I see them beating the Bills? Sure, both of
those things seem equally possible to me in this moment.
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But they've just made so many strides in doing all
those stable, basic football things at a good enough level
that they're competitive every week. And I think that's the
biggest testament to what they've put together here as a
team so far.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, it reminds me so much of what Detroit did
under Dan Campbell his first in second year. And that's
we said it earlier with the running backs. It's not
a bad blueprint to follow.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
No, it's definitely not. By the way, so much other
stuff to get to. We're running out of time. But
I did want to touch base. You're a college football say, yeah,
you're you're super well that college football.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Darren went through it on Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I went through it on Saturday night. I wanted to
see Panthers legend Cam Newton, who we all love and appreciate,
get his number retired down at Auburn, and I really
tried to stay away long enough to see Cam Newton
get that number retired. But the last two minutes of
a college football game took.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Thirty eight, no, the last two minutes before the half.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
The last two minutes before the half. Yeah, thirty eight
earth minutes to play.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
And he's not exaggerating. That's really how long it took.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
It. It was like nine oh one to nine thirty
nine before they ever got to the cam portion of
the program that I really wanted to see, and I
was like, please let this die. Y'all watch this every week,
don't you.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Okay, thirty eight minutes for the final two minutes of
the half is not normal. That was a little I mean,
that's big and college football too. That was a little abnormal.
That it can get drugged down though, because the clock
management or the clock is a little different in college
versus the NFL. It doesn't it stops more. And I'd say,
and so it is a little different. But that one
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was that one drug, for sure. But you also get like,
you get things happening. Here's what I've heard somebody say
one time about college football, and I think about it
all the time. College football is interesting because you have
a receiver who.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Or no, let me back up.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
You have a corner who's like an All American guy
who's probably about to go in the top ten of
the draft next year, facing off against a receiver who's
gonna be a dentist in the next year. And that's
really when the magic happens.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, well, I don't know, call me partial to games
that take three hours and feature all NFL.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Play patentry takes time.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I'm kind of weird that way, but super cool to
see Cam Newton get that jersey and retired. I mean,
that season he had at Auburn in twenty ten was
one of the craziest things any of us has have
ever seen. I remember being at his pro day prior
to that draft when he went first overall and came
here and did so many amazing things. Just a brilliant career.
Congratulations to Cam, Congratulations to your Carolina Panthers. Congratulations to
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all the fans out there in the seats. I mean,
there are people who have been through it, and there
were he I was talking to my wife who was
sitting out in the seats and she said, listen, the
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:53):
A sudden, that's a hot ticket.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Is a happening place to be, it is. Were you
in this building last night? Yeah, you were.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
About to say yes, I was sitting next to you.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I was talking to the audience at large. It was
a the mind kind of thing. For the people who
were just listening and not watching us on the team's
YouTube channel, and if you're not, what's wrong with you.
But yeah, the vibes were good in Bank of America
Stadium yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
The vibes were very good. As someone who has been
here for past Cowboys games in the stadium, it was
a lot more Panthers fans than normal, so that was
really encouraging. J. C. Horn thanked them for that after
the game. And it made a difference at times. You know,
there were a couple of there were a couple of
false starts on Cowboys right, and I remember.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
That there was some impact I would say of the
home crowd. It was definitely heard.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And you know, an exciting win.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Got to see a walk off field goal, got to
see a walk off field goal, got to see a
perfectly executed final drive by the Panthers offense. Held that
ball for more than six minutes. I think, Yeah, they scored.
The Cowboys scored a field goal with six oh seven
been left in the fourth quarter to tie it and
did not touch the ball again.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And never got it back. I mean, it was it
was actually I mean just and that kind of goes
into the first thing I wanted to talk about with
this team. I mean, we can talk about field goals,
we can talk about Reis Young, will and talk about
Rico Dowdle all of those things, and we will. They
are all important. But to me, as the old person
who is charged with perspective around here, the biggest difference
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that's your job. Yeah. The biggest difference in this Carolina
Panthers team right now is what's happening on defense. Yeah,
the Carolina Panthers have allowed fifty rushing yards in the
last two weeks combined. That was a quarter earlier this
season against Jacksonville and for the last six games of
last season when things got lose. I mean, it was
just no, Yeah, it's just not even a comparison. It's
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kind of I sometimes I don't even know how to
describe it because it's so different than what I've experienced
fairly recently. But you see why Dan Morgan went out
on the first day of free agency and sinam a
turc On Wharton and a Bobby Brown and a Trayvon
Merrick and a Christian rose Boom and a Pat Jones.
You see why they put so much emphasis on adding
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to the front seven. Of the defense on draft Day
with Nick and prince Ley, and we keep talking about
this over and over, and maybe it just surprises me
a little bit because it's so dramatically different from what
we saw a tail end last year and that first
game of this year that it's like, Wow, this is
what that group can become.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I was talking to Leathan Ransom and Trayvon Merrik in
the locker room today about the run defense and how
important it setting the edges in that run defense, because
that was something Dave Knalis pointed out during his Monday
press conference as well, and Lathan kind of joked and
he said, well, you know, it's a lot easier to
set the edge when you've got an extra outside linebacker
out there in Trayvon Merrick.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
And you know what, he ain't wrong.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Like that's about That's kind of what Marrek felt feels like,
that's how Merek plays sometimes, and when one guy's or
when it's going well, you see more guys getting excited
about it.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
When j C.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Horn and Mike Jack are excited about throwing themselves into
a gang tackle on run defense, like that means your
defense is moving in a good place and in a
good way.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Right, and people don't care about the way we do
our jobs, but just take you behind the curtain here.
We've got a team of photographers out there on the
field on game days, so after games, we literally have
thousands of images to pull from and they go into
a certain folder. We're looking at it on the computer.
And when you start looking for pictures to describe the
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run defense right now, and the defense as a whole,
and the way they're playing, there are about three hundred
and fifty versions of many large pieces of developing a
much smaller one, and you're used to seeing those when
it's just Derek Brown out there, because Derek has a
way of doing things. I used a picture last night
of Derek Brown's stand up in front of Terrence Steel
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and Terror Steel's a six six three and twenty pound
human being, and Derek Brown was just over the top
of him looking jigans and menacing, and there's a lot
of that happening right now with that whole front. You
saw Bobby Brown have his best game as a panther.
I thought he was active. He was in the backfield,
he was making a lot of stops, and those guys,
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there were so many of them, they're coming at you
in waves. Ashon Robinson continues to be the old head
the pro and Ashan's got that kind of I think
because of the way Sean talks. It's a very deep voice.
He doesn't mind talking low. He's got that serious tone,
and he just intimidates people. He's an intimidating looking guy sometimes,
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and I think on the field he plays with that
style and that's contagious. Man. Those guys are playing defense
at a way that I think Dan and Dave when
they were putting this team together in the offseason could
only dream of making the kind of progress they've made
through three six weeks.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, I mean kind of just piggybacking off that to
wrap up, like you're seeing them swarm more and more,
which coaches always say, you want all eleven hats to
the ball, you want them to swarm. Coaches say it
doesn't always happen. And you know, guys, see, oh, that
tackle is already kind of getting made. I'm on the
other side of the field. I'm just going to stand
right here. And you know, I mentioned this last week
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when we were doing our throwback Thursday and looking at
that twenty fifteen Seattle game. How much of that defense
swarmed and it was such a noticeable effect and difference
in the game. And you're really kind of seeing that
what this defense come about over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Right, and it has been impressive just seeing the way
they're playing off of each other. You've heard those magic
words complimentary football come up so often in the last
couple of weeks. But when the offense is able to
sustain drives and run the way they have, the defense
gets to sit and take a breath, get a drink
of water, and really gather themselves for what's to come.
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I mean, you were talking about that fourth quarter drive
after the Cowboys hit the field goal, Carolina Panthers got
the ball back, they didn't do a whole lot with it.
They punted. That's when you had that series where the
Cowboys went three and out and it was Trayvon Merrick
dropping Javonte for seven yard loss. Uh Williams goes backwards
for five with Trevin Wallace on the other end of it.
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On the next play, and then on third and twenty
two or whatever, you get this harmless little pass to
a full back in a flat ball game. Then the
number one offense in the NFL never sees the ball
again because, oh, by the way, that man Rico Dowdell
is out there doing his thing.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Yeah, thank you for correcting me. I said.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
When they got the kill fieldl they didn't touch again.
It was six oh seventh.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And they traded three six seven six seven Prescott for six.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Minutes to stand there and watch. Yeah, Rico Daddle, he
did his thing, He backed it up. You know, this
is this is a team that is very baseline. You know,
they don't they don't they stay within themselves, as coach
Canalis always tells them to do, you know, come back
to us. But this one was a little personal for Rico.
He admitted it. Canalice admitted it. Brak Sean admitted it,
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and uh bud he went out there and backed it
up a franchise record two hundred and thirty nine yards
from scrimmage. He just squeaked best Christian McCaffrey who did
two thirty seven twice.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
So now it was.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Now the top four in yards from scrimmage, and Panthers
franchise history is ric o'doddle, Christian McCaffrey, Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
And Ricodowddle.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Because of the two thirty four last week. That one
was fun keeping up with in the press box. I
know you had already gone downstairs to get ready for postgame, but.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
We were watching.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
It required a lot of math, which Darren knows is
not my strong suit. But we figured out, okay, he
needs eight yards to set it, you know, seven to
tie CMC, eight to set it. And he had one
run and we all kind of thought it might be
and everybody was like tense and waiting just to see
where they would mark the ball, and then it comes
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over the speaker, nine yard gain and it was.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Like, hey, he did it, he did it. He did it.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
So that one was fun to keep up with. And
what a run he's been on. What he's been on?
What a run this offensive line and tight ends have
been on. Yeah, Like goodness, gracious, I believe, and I
will double check this so I will, so I will
let y'all know for sure. But last I checked, I
say I'll double check because this could have changed with
games that finished last night. Last I checked, Ricododdle was
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top in the NFL in yards before contact, meaning he
was running a good I think like two point six
yards before he was ever getting touched. That is just
an insane number. And we've seen even when he gets
touched he can bounce out of it and then step
out of it. But two point six yards or something
on around those lines before he's even touched, Like that
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offensive line is just opening up lanes that all respect
to Rico Daddle, you or I could run through some
of them.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Do they were? And it's becoming my favorite play in
the Carolina Panthers offensive arsenal. It's not Spider X to
hy Banana. It's fine, big old Damien Lewis and run
where he used to be because there's a space there
now and dlu was out there in front of a
lot of those big Rico Daldle runs.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah he was Rica or Damien was.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I asked a couple of guys on defense today, like,
let's say you're on the other side of the ball
out there and you see Damien Lewis just like chunk
are chugging down to.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
The second level. What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
And a couple of guys said, like, you got to
make a business decision real quick. DJ Wadham said, I'll
meet him, but then we go. I guess we're just
gonna have to see what happens like I don't. He's like,
I don't. I don't want to think about it too hard.
I can't think about it.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Right and dlu it's impressive to me to think about
And I was talking to Austin Corbitt about this a
little bit ago downstairs and stay tuned too Panthers dot
Com for all the latest We got you covered on
a lot of different angles coming up in the next
couple of days. But Austin was talking about with all
the changes he's been here through changes before he was here,
he was one of the patient zeros in three when
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they used about seven different left guards and eight different
guards during the course of a season. They're on that
pace right now. But the results are actually good because
instead of cycling through guys, you're dragging off the street.
And they were literally dragging guys in off the street
and starting them within days. This is a bunch that
knows each other and so even though you're down to
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a new group. I mean, if you look at the
reserve offensive lineman in Sunday's game, they were Nick Samock,
Jake Kerrhan and practice squad Elevation Brandon Walton. Of course,
everybody knows those guys because you've put guys on IR
three of going on IR this year already with Austin
Chandler's viola rob Hunt the big one. But they've been
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able to set this standard with these guys because Brady
Christiansen knows what to do, he knows how to play
all five positions. Caid Mays has stepped in and played
guard and center at a pretty high level. You've got
a yosh Niemen who started fairly well at both tackles
this year. So it's just such a cohesive group and
it's impressive seeing what they're doing out in front. And
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it's also one of the things, and it's one of
those kind of fine points you see if you read
inside the numbers on Panthers dot Com and get into
those snap counts. Mitchell Evans, the second tight end, played
fifty eight percent of the snaps in yesterday's game.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Crazy James Mitchell play.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Do you think the Carolina Panthers are serious about running?
James Mitchell? The third tight end was out there for
ten snaps fifteen percent of the game. But sixty percent
of the game they're out there and two tight end
with a big old offensive line saying let's go, and
they went.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
They were running out there sometimes with like six offensive
line and three tight ends.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, there is a statement of intent quality to what
they're doing offensively right now. But you know, good for Rico,
and Rico's having fun with it. He enjoys running through
them big holes. And you know, he got on people's
radars last week by making a buckle up comment to
the Cowboys, And you know last night you were sitting
in there when somebody said, what would you say to him? Now?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
They didn't buggle up, and it's.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
It's okay to enjoy it. It's okay. So he clearly
did and he's on a heater. But we'll see how
that develops over the next couple of days. Canalis said
today they're getting closer to that point of getting some
guys back into the mix. And you know, he got
asked the perpetual question about what are you gonna do
with you? But when he comes back with Rico on
this kind of heater, and Dave just kind of grant
and said, we'll see, we'll see he does he does
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the old coach thing. It's a good problem to have
because you know, he's talked about being able to call
the whole play sheet when you've got two guys like
that and you can do it all with them. I
And the reality of this is you can use them both.
I have been here. I have been here when generally
the thing that allows you to use them both is attrition.
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Kind of like Cuba missing these last couple of games
when Stephen Davis and Sean Foster were doing it, one
or the other one might be hurt at any given time,
you know, when it was DeAngelo and Stuart, you know,
guys would get hurt and be in and out of
games and the other one would have to take over.
But you can use two at a time, right, That
is absolutely a thing you can do. We've seen it,
and we've seen it in this stadium.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, we've you've.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Seen it in the stadium. You're seeing it right now.
I mean we've said it a few weeks now. But
the Detroit Lions do it every week. Perhaps you know
that they're a good blueprint of how to make it
work and to really kind of utilize the strengths of
each guy, which is what Cuba and Rico can both do.
They do very different things and that makes it really exciting.
Trevor Etn has really kind of stepped up over these
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last two weeks as well as a running back to
and you know, kind of earned his spot to be
those guys that to be that guy that can spell
Cuba and Rico at a time, or you know, can
be trusted to come in for them. Two weeks now,
Rico has had to step out in the fourth quarter
because of cramps.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Mean, when you're running for two hundred yards a game,
this is going to happen, right.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
That's exactly what I was about to say, Like he's
earned those cramps in a way. But both times, you know,
they've been able to trust Trevor Etn to go out
there and still handle things. He handled that final drive
after we came out perfectly yesterday. Credit to Bryce Young
too for making sure Trevor handled it correctly. Dave Canal
told us that Bryce Young kind of pulled them aside
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right before they went out there and said, you know,
I don't care if they let you walk in, go
down as soon as you get the first down. And
Trevor did it, and he probably could have scored. They
were playing a little off and as you know, hoping
to get the ball back and he said Canal said,
when Trevor came off the field, he told him, like,
next time you're gonna have to come off the sideline
and tackle me.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, because I ain't stopping again.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
And listen, these guys all want to get in the
end zone. Teteroa McMillan got in the end zone after
all that conversation about when is tetro Ever gonna score
a touchdown? Oh maybe twice, maybe twice on Sunday. Maybe
that's a thing. But you know, the way the Carolina
Panthers are playing, you know, they don't have to even
throw the ball sometimes. But oh, by the way, that's
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working out okay too. Bryce Young, you know, oh, by
the way, has a three touchdown game. Another game winning drive.
I think one of the more impressive things about Bryce
if you look at it, that was his eighth game
winning drive in his young career. Two and a half
years into this deal. He's already got eight of them,
which is more than Jordan Love, who's been doing it
a couple of years extra. But Jordan Love hadn't always
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been behind as much as it's more than CJ. Stroud.
CJ's got five of them. Came in the League at
the same time. But Bryce is right there in net
area where he's only one behind a Trevor Lawrence and
Joe Burrow who have played about twice as many games
as he has. So Bryce clearly has a knack for
this six times in the last sixteen games, which basically
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gets you the second half of last year into what's
happening right now. He's brought this team from behind by
being timely. And I went through doing math, and I
love doing math, and I can show you. I can
show you the raw numbers and the long edition I've
done here in this notebook. And Bryce Young in his
last four games, the last four game winning drives which
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gets you Arizona in Atlanta last year, and these two
in the last couple of weeks. His fourth quarter passer
rating won eleven point three five. Pretty good, Pretty good
at football. Bryce Shong is he's got, you know, he's
shown that ability to not let the early mistakes. And
obviously you'd like to not have early mistakes. Everybody would
like to not have early mistakes, but when you have them,
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to be resilient, and Bryce has got that resilience about him.
I mean, he's a guy who you know, doesn't say
dramatic things done yell and holler and scream or any
of those kind of things that's good for TV. But
he's playing good ball in the fourth quarter of games,
and guys trust him. I mean, this is two weeks
in a row. Derek Brown said after the Miami game.
He said, after the second turnover, Bryce looks at me
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and he says, get it back for me, and let's go.
And Pat Jones says a lot. Pat Jones said last
night he said, we kind of know at this point
Bryce is going to get it back. We just hand
him the ball back and he's going to get this.
And they've reached that stage where it's it's kind of
feeding itself now and it's becoming once again that complimentary
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football that every coach dreams of playing.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
You know what's impressive about this, too, is is Brice
didon't have to go through that at Alabama a lot. Yeah,
they were up a lot of most of those games.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Resilience is not really one of those skills that you
have to recruit there.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And but speaking of resilience, you know, Dave Canalis had
a great quote last week that I think kind of
encompasses the Panther's team as a whole, but especially Bryce
youonk he said, adversity builds resilience, and I think we
can I mean, let's call a spadees paid. Brychong went
through a lot of adversity.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
His rookie on the adversity thing.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
He went through some adversity last year too, and you're
seeing the payoff of that now. You're seeing him not
get down and not get not buckle under it, but
to kind of rise to it. And you know, Dave
Canalis was asked, I thought a pretty interesting question today.
You know, you've coached both Bryce Young and Baker Mayfield.
Baker Mayfield is playing at an MVP level right now.
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Did you hear about the chance he got yesterday and
the receiver thought it was for him?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah, that was funny.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
He is playing at an MVP level right now. And
Canal has said, you know, the biggest similarity between the
two guys is both of them can have something go
wrong on the field and come to the sideline and
be like, well, the next play is going to be
a touchdown, you know, And that's the kind of belief
and resilience you need to have.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Eight game winning drives.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah, and two of them back to back, and in
Bank of America Stadium, a lot of cool Miles stones
yesterday for first three game home winning streak since twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Two, technically four going back to last year.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Right, No, they yeah, three games?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Oh sorry, three.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Game home winning streak. Three game home winning streak. Here,
they're at five hundred deeper in a season than they've
been since twenty twenty one, when they got to five
and five in the Cam Newton nine back game in
Arizona and then didn't win another game that season. That's
the last time they were this good, this deep in
the season. And it's just one of the things I
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keep saying, and you've got to be getting tired of
hearing me say this. My favorite adjective for football is normal.
You can aspire to normal. The Carolina Panthers have now
attained normal. They are playing regular football games in the
way that many people watch every weekend on television. And
it's not a you know, we're trying to build, we
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don't have enough pieces. Everything's going wrong all at once,
so many injuries, it's calamity. You watch them play football now,
and they're in phase. They can run the ball and
sustain drives. When Brysler is an interception, all of a sudden,
everything doesn't go Hey, why are they just reset and refocus?
Which is what Dave Canalis has been talking about and
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watching them over the last couple of weeks, it's like,
this is the kind of thing they're clearly getting used
to playing. This is the kind of football team they're
getting used to being. And that's the best news anybody
around here has heard.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
And I know that the inevitable argument will come up, well,
look at Miami schedule, look at the Cowboys defense. If
you are a, to use Darren's word, normal football team,
those are the games that you do find a way
to win. And you know, because it is hard to
win in the NFL. And so if you're going to
be a normal and then grow to be a better team,
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you find a way to win that Miami game, You
find a way to win that Dallas game, and you
don't fumble it away.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
And listen, let me be clear. They're not at the
place in the progression. And I think Dave and Dan
would admit this. I mean, everybody talked about building and
becoming more stable this year. They're not at a spot
where any result is out of the ordinary. I mean,
anything can happen. Could I see them losing to the Jets?
Could I see them beating the Bills? Sure, both of
those things seem equally possible to me in this moment.
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But they've just made so many strides in doing all
those stable, basic football things at a good enough level
that they're competitive every week. And I think that's the
biggest testament to what they've put together here as a
team so far.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, it reminds me so much of what Detroit did
under Dan Campbell his first in second year. And that's
we said it earlier with the running backs. It's not
a bad blueprint to follow.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
No, it's definitely not. By the way, so much other
stuff to get to. We're running out of time. But
I did want to touch base. You're a college football say, yeah,
you're you're super well that college football.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Darren went through it on Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I went through it on Saturday night. I wanted to
see Panthers legend Cam Newton, who we all love and appreciate,
get his number retired down at Auburn, and I really
tried to stay away long enough to see Cam Newton
get that number retired. But the last two minutes of
a college football game took.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Thirty eight, no, the last two minutes before the half.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
The last two minutes before the half. Yeah, thirty eight
earth minutes to play.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
And he's not exaggerating. That's really how long it took.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
It. It was like nine oh one to nine thirty
nine before they ever got to the cam portion of
the program that I really wanted to see, and I
was like, please let this die. Y'all watch this every week,
don't you.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Okay, thirty eight minutes for the final two minutes of
the half is not normal. That was a little I mean,
that's big and college football too. That was a little abnormal.
That it can get drugged down though, because the clock
management or the clock is a little different in college
versus the NFL. It doesn't it stops more. And I'd say,
and so it is a little different. But that one
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was that one drug, for sure. But you also get like,
you get things happening. Here's what I've heard somebody say
one time about college football, and I think about it
all the time. College football is interesting because you have
a receiver who.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Or no, let me back up.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
You have a corner who's like an All American guy
who's probably about to go in the top ten of
the draft next year, facing off against a receiver who's
gonna be a dentist in the next year. And that's
really when the magic happens.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, well, I don't know, call me partial to games
that take three hours and feature all NFL.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Play patentry takes time.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I'm kind of weird that way, but super cool to
see Cam Newton get that jersey and retired. I mean,
that season he had at Auburn in twenty ten was
one of the craziest things any of us has have
ever seen. I remember being at his pro day prior
to that draft when he went first overall and came
here and did so many amazing things. Just a brilliant career.
Congratulations to Cam, Congratulations to your Carolina Panthers. Congratulations to
(24:22):
all the fans out there in the seats. I mean,
there are people who have been through it, and there
were he I was talking to my wife who was
sitting out in the seats and she said, listen, the
vibes were good. People were into it, and everybody's like, wow,
this is a lot of fun, So join us here.
In a couple of weeks when the Buffalo Bills roll
into town. Between now and then, don't forget to enter
(24:44):
the Deep Eddy Sweet Sip Sweepstakes between now and October
twenty sixth for your chance to win two tickets for
that Saints game on November ninth. So thanks to our
friends from Deep Eddy. Thanks to Cassidy, I'm Darren. There's
Chuck the Duck. Matt behind the board is waving his arms.
David's trying to crawl under the camera, just not be
in the shot this week. We appreciate y'all. We'll see
(25:04):
you on Thursday for the next edition of The Happy
Half Hour.
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