October 23, 2025 • 27 mins
Today on the Happy Half Hour, Darin and Kassidy provide an update on Bryce Young, discuss how Andy Dalton is preparing to possibly start this week, preview the Buffalo Bills, and so much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Happy Half Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hello friends, and welcome to another episode of The Happy
Half Hour Happier than ever. We need to work on
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I think we should we run a competition.
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Well, to have a trumpet fanfare or something every time
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You know, I did learn after the game of Versus
the Jets that Princely Uman meel And places the harmonica.
Of course he does, of course he does. He was
walking around the locker room playing it after the game
and the you know, keeping guys excited and dancing, and
it provided a nice little soundtrack for postgame interviews.
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Yeah, it was sure something I was not expecting a
twenty one year old Princely Uman meel And to pull
a harmonica out of his sock and start playing.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Is that where he pulled it out?
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I don't know, but it feels like a place you
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You know what else I keep.
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I mean, listen, it's Buffalo Bill's week.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
This was one of the news.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
This was one of those no matter what you thought
about how this season was going to go, you kind
of knew this was one because one of the best
teams in football is rolling into your building.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Back when the schedule first came out, I remember you
were gallivanting around Europe. That's right, So Jake diloman I
did schedule.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
He's sleeping in a van down by the river. There's
another way to put that out.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Of course that river was in Iceland.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, I was with my wife and it was wonderful
and all the puffin.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Jake doleman I did a schedule breakdown, and when we
got to Bill's week, I said, do you like having
them right around here? Because you know, obviously they get
stronger as the season goes on, like, but you kind
of know who you are as a team as well
by the time you get to week eight. Do you
like having him? Like having the Bills here? I don't
like having the Bills any week. Like he said, they're
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tough from week one to week eighteen and they're always
going to be that way. And he's right. Obviously on
paper they look a little susceptible right now. They've lost
the last two games, they've had some injuries. They're rushing
is near the bottom of the league. But oh, by
the way, this is still a team that's rushing offense.
Is at the top of the league and has a
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reigning MVP at quarterback. Josh Allen is one of those that,
like when we talk about quarterbacks putting on the Superman cape,
he is the epitome of that. He can do that
game after game he's he's had, he had He went
a twelve game stretch. Shout out to our capadres at
The Bill's website for digging up this stat. He went
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twelve straight games going back from last season up until
Week four I think it was of this season with
only one turnover that's fumbles or interceptions. He's had like
three or four the last two games that they lost,
so he's gotten into a little bit of a turnover rut.
But you know, he is still Josh Allen. He's you
know Nick Gorton said yesterday, He's one of the few
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quarterbacks that'll lower his shoulder and just completely take you on.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Now, I'm trying to think, have we ever seen a quarterback?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Has there ever?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Does there ever lived a quarterback who is bigger and
stronger and faster than all the people.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
On a Superman came and would put.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
On a Superman cape from time to time and would
do things that no one else was capable of doing
in the game football.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I'm going to take three guesses in the first two
don't count.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And one of Steve Berlin.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
All right, he was my next one I was going with.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, I mean, Josh Allen is Cam Newton. Friends.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
They are the same human being, and they are a
breed apart from all the other human beings. And that's
why they both got MVP trophies hanging on the mantles
in their home.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I assume they have mantles.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
If you're setting on the mantle, if.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
You're Josh Allen and you just got married to the
internet person. What's her name?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
She's an actress and singer. Sure Steinfeld.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
All of these people in pop culture exist in a
bubble to me, and they are out there somewhere.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
But do you ever see the True Grit found on
my partner here to know them?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Did you ever see the True Grit remake?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I did not you ever see the original?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Okay, fair enough? I thought that my.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Brother is named after John Wayne. You think I haven't
seen the original True Grip?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I learned something here today, so that that is an
interesting That's a fun fact about Cassiy Hill that even
I did not know up to this point. But yeah,
Josh Allen different from all the other kids in the
same way Cam Newton was different from all the other kids.
And when you've got a guy like that, it just
opens up so much stuff. One of the one of
the things that tickles me about the way we talk
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about the football is, and you mentioned it, they've been
struggling a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
They're foreign to right, the foreign.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
The Bills are struggling at four and two.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
This is a team a lot of people expect to
go to a super Bowl or have a chance to
be in that conversation for those last couple of spots.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
They're foreign too.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
They've got Josh Allen, They've got James Cook, who just
puts up ridiculous numbers seemingly weekly. There are a lot
of cool things we can get into about this game,
and we will in a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
But you know, you've got an MVP walking.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Into your building, and we've seen with our own two
eyes what that looks like and what that can mean
for a team, And that means you got a shot
any week, whether you're four and two, whether you're two
and four. I mean, it's like I assume that the
Baltimore Ravens, for instance, are not going to be one
of the worst teams in the NFL as soon as
Lamar Jackson gets back on the practice yesterday. You know,
these things change over time. But they got that guy,
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and you know what else they got. They got a
bunch of people. And listen, I understand many people from
Buffalo happened to have moved here to Charlotte, North Carolina.
I've heard. I see them when I run through my neighborhood.
There are cars with bills stickers on them. They're Bill's flags.
There are bill bars there Bill's bars.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
And there's a direct flight from Buffalo to Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I think there's a pipeline. There's a spickett we need
to at the corner of trade and trying. And more
of them come out every day. I mean seriously, until
about ten years ago when Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott
took a bunch of people with them to Buffalo, this
was always Buffalo South. I mean, if you go back
to now eighteen ninety five, Bill Polly and the original
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general manager of the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
He came from Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
After building a team that went to four straight Super
Bowls lost them all, but came here and built a
team with a lot of his old friends. Whether it
was Carlton Bailey, Frank Wright, Don bb Metzelars, those are
names you're very familiar with.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I know, yeah, I knew at least one of those.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
You knew at least one of them.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And you know, Bill brought all those people here to
begin with, and then you know, Brandon and Sean took
a couple back with him. That way, there's all kinds
of our old friends up there, whether Shack Thompson, you know, Curtis, Samuel,
Sam Franklin, all kinds of people, and it's just kind
of one of those circle of life things in the
NFL where they got a lot of ours, we got
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a couple of theirs, and it just kind of works
that way.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
It makes these games fun too, it does. There is
so much familiarity before, during after the Bill's going to
four streets of Super Bowls and not winning once helped
Cassidy Hill win a trivia game that was the final
question and anyways, just a little aside, but yeah, there's
a lot of familiarity, and even more so in the
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past couple of weeks. You know, you've got Sam Martin
is here after spending many years in Buffalo, THEI th
under here, Sam Bill's legend and because well, actually, when
he was named NFC Player of the Week this week,
I went back and looked at his record, and he
was named AFC Player of the Month last year for
weeks fourteen through eighteen. That's when the Bills really kind
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of made their run right into the play or really
hit their stride as they were heading into the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
You know, where's Sam Martin's attitude of excellence? Where his
aura comes from? It ain't I'm sure it's app state
Apple Achian state, Sam Martin.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Baby.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Then you also have Mike White who has come in
this week as a backup quarterback amongst all of that
hoopla that we'll get into, I'm sure in a minute.
And Dave Canalis even admitted on Wednesday, He's like, yeah,
you take any and every advantage you can get. He's like,
you're asking Sam, you're asking Mike. Why you're asking Denny,
who is the head trainer who came here from Buffalo,
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very famously and very beloved in Buffalo. I'm sure he
will get a warm welcome from the players when they
see him on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
But Dave was like, you're taking it any advantage, I'm
asking any questions.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
And it was kind of adorable when somebody asked Dave yesterday,
well you asked Mike quite about what he remembers about Buffalo?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, we better What are you.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Doing if we're not? Well He's like, we're not. What
are we? What are we?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah? But I just do.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I mean, it's this is such a cross cultural game.
I mean, every week in the NFL, you're running into
somebody who used to work for the other team, or
these two guys played together, this guy used to coach there.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
It feels like.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Buffalo and Charlotte are the same place now and very
few of us go there, but a whole lot of
them come here.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And I loved. I mean, it's a long time fixture
here in town.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Tavern On tracks just down the street as a Bill's
barrowned by Billy Aquero, an old friend I remember from
many moons ago. But right next to the bills Bar
in town, there's a mural of Luke Keigley on the
wall adjacent to it. So these two fan bases know
each other well, They're kind of intertwined in a lot
of ways. And like I said, we appreciate you all.
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We enjoy your chicken parts, we enjoy your beef on weck.
We do not enjoy your weather, which is why we
do not go there. But welcome this weekend. I'm sure
you'll behave appropriately and it'll be a fine, fine football game.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Are you gonna go take a walk through before you
come into the stadium to see if there's any tables
set up?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I mean that's kind of it's you know, like I said,
I'm not really for property destruction. I'm at phase in
my life where that's a perfectly good table.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Don't do that.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
But Dad mode engaged. But yeah, it's the links between
these two teams are famous. And you know Andy Dalton
once got a standing ovation in Buffalo. Andy Andy beat
Baltimore to help Buffalo break along seventeen year. I think
it was playoff drought and Andy became beloved by Bills fans.
I mean they flooded his foundation with donations. He told
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me it was over four h fifty thousand dollars. Next year,
he shows up in a preseason game and he wasn't
playing that day, but they just kind of introduced him
last and they gave.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
This man a standing ovation.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
So those are dedicated fans. We love him, I love
the passion, I love it. Anytime somebody's that into a thing,
it's got to be worth something. So kudos to our
friends from Buffalo. We'll see all the Panthers fans out here.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
In the building.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
And speaking of Andy Dalton, he might end up playing
a little football this year, because that gets us to
our next big thing. Of course, what everybody wants to know,
and what you've been waiting approximately eleven and a half
minutes for me to get to, is how's Bryce.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You know how Bryce is?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Bryce is okay?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Now you were supposed to say day to day, day
to day, day to day.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
We're all day to day.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
But especially Bryce Young after that ankle injury the other
day in New York. I mean he's been kind of
out there at practice. He's you know, not walking around
in a boot or anything. I mean, he just looks
like Bryce. He's walking the earth being Bryce Young. He
just happens to be not doing all that much at practice.
So we will see. There'll be a final declaration on
his status tomorrow around twelve thirty ish. Tune into Panthers
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dot Com for the latest on that. But he's just
kind of Bryce and he's around. And the good news
is it doesn't appear to be traumatic, right and the
kind of thing that's going to knock him out for
an extended period of time.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
But his status for this week still up in the air.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
And I'm sure that you do have to be careful
to like, you know, kind of save a guy from himself.
You don't want him to come back too early, because
what happens if you know, it ends up causing an
even bigger setback. You've got another big game next week
versus the packers in Green Bay, and so you want
to be careful. And you know, you again, you have
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a capable backup who has seen a lot of stuff.
You know, Brad, as it was saying today, one of
the benefits of having a backup Likedandy is that he
has a clip for everything. Hey, you want Xavier to
get to run a route like this, Andy has a
clip of him and aj Green doing it. You know,
you want Cuba or Rico to kind of set up
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a block like this, Andy has a clip from twenty
fourteen of what it looks like, and so he has
a clip for everything, and so it kind of helps
create a game plan a little bit easier for those
like Canalis and Eazac. But again to your point, we'll
find out day to day what that quarterback situation looks like.
And some of it might be gamesmanship, some of it
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might be you know, you never know what could happen.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Well, I mean it's not as here's the thing, I know,
we work for Panthers dot Com. Many people are aware
that we work for the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Dave.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Dave Canalys is not lying about this. This is going
to depend on Bryce's health. And Bryce is pushing himself.
He said that other people have said it. Bryce is
pushing to try to get himself ready. And if Price
is ready, Bryce will play and that'll be the health.
It will be the thing that makes the determination. But
there's no doubt if you've got an Andy Dalton, I mean,
that's why you have one of those four situations like this.
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And Andy stepped in and three and played well up
in Seattle, threw it around the yard and was all
up and down the field, lost to a better Seattle game.
The difference in this year, and Canal has talked about
this yesterday too, This process is so much more stable.
You know how much I love stable processes. Our process
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is becoming more stable. Things take less time. And as
the Carolina Panthers have done that, as the offensive line
gets better, as the running game improves, as these receivers
get to know each other and everything, everything's a little
more stable than it used to be. So Andy is
stepping into a much different situation now than he did
in Las Vegas a year ago. And that was a win,
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and that was a win out there. But the situation
is so much better because the entire team's better. Everybody
knows what they're trying to do. And oh, by the way,
Carolina Panthers turned out to be pretty good at playing
defense this year. Yes they were not this time a
year ago. But you're talking about a top quarter of
the league in a couple of categories on defense, and
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that's a thing nobody would have necessarily anticipated. But whether
it's Andy or whether Bryce is able to make a
late rally, that person is walking into something with a
better chance.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Are Our friend aniche Roff sent this great stat last
year to see our friend.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
He is our friend. Yes, that was a test you passed.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
So the Panthers rushing defense, even just overall, is pretty good.
They're at one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eighth
in the league. Did I just count that, right?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I think you? Yeah, Yeah, they're at eight.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
That's overall for the whole season.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Since Week two they are. They have the second best
rush defense in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
If you take away that Jags game, if you.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Treat this like Olympic diving and throw out there out below, Yeah,
they are second in the league in that category. Of course,
you got to count that two bills the Jags put
on them in the opener. Those are still those are
still real, they exist. But yes, within that context, and
it speaks to what we've seen over the last couple
of weeks, they are playing really good defense. In the past,
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we've put qualifiers on that.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
It's like, well for a team with or well for
blah blah blah blah. They're just good now at playing defense.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Anytime you don't allow anytime you go three straight games
without allowing a rush of more than ten yards. The
longest rush in the past three games has been six yards.
That's an insane number. I don't care who you're playing,
that's a crazy number.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
If you keep that up against James Cook and Josh
Allen and the Buffalo Bills, that's going to be a
feather in your cap. And you're obviously doing something well.
But it's been remarkable to watch. And again, it's kind
of like what they've done on the offensive line with
so many different lineups and continuing to run the ball well,
they're still playing. They're still playing defense without a Pat Jones,
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with guys coming in and out of the lineup each week.
Turshaun Wharton's been in and out. He finally got back
last week after two separate absences, so they haven't seen
the whole group together yet, but together they're playing at
so much higher level than they were at any time
last year.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
And We're gonna say it every week, and I'll continue
to say it every week until it becomes not true.
Such a big part of that as Derrick Brown, like
that's he is just tossing guys left and right, and
that opens up everything for everyone else. And it's opened
up a lot of things for Turk. As we said,
for Bobby Brown, who's playing really good ball too to
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come in there and kind of make his presence felt.
But dB is setting a tone that this entire defense
has risen to, and it's been fun to watch. He
told us this week that like, they don't do victory Mondays.
They haven't earned any victory Mondays. And he's like, we're
right back in here and and some of that is
a lot of the process that Canalis has put in.
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But when you've got guys like dB who were backing
it up and telling guys like, get back in the
building on Monday, we got more work to do, like
that makes a big difference.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah, no doubt Derek's got dad energy.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
He really doesn't. Derek is a dad and according to
his teammates who've been around him and his kids, he's.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
A great dad.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
And I believe that because Derek, like a guy like
Taylor Moten on the other side of the mall, is
the staff dad on offense, and Derek has come to
occupy that.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Space on defense.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I mean, he really had he shepherds over that group
and they've kind of I can tell when Nick Gorton
starts saying things back that Derek Brown has been saying.
That's when you know, that's when you know a guy
has occupied that space and he really is. I mean
sometimes Derek jokes around, sometimes Dereck, but Derek Brown is
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all about that work. He's the guy who shows up.
He's like, Cuba's another one who's that way. And when
you when you see a guy go through the process
like that, when he talks about process, you take it
more seriously.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah, Nick Gorton said yesterday, he's like, Hey, I'm just
a rookie. I do whatever dB says. That's right, and uh,
that's that's gonna lead you for young rooks. So that's
not a bad plan at all. But yeah, and it's
it's kind of filtering out through the whole team. You're
seeing offense does well, makes the defense excited. When defense
goes out and holds the offense, the opposing offense to
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to you know, three and outs or five and outs
and not allowing a big rush, that makes everybody Punt
team has done really well. Sam Martin, NFC player of
the Week, penning team's deep return game has gotten better.
Tracy Smith said that Trevorytn's performance on Sunday against the
Jets should now raise the bar to this is what
the baseline is with forty five yard returns, and I
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don't know if that's something you can sustain, but something
to attain to. So you're seeing things just start to
click across all three phases and it come together and
you know, now the trick is to do it against
one of the better teams in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
No doubt. It's as simple as that. So it's gonna
be exciting.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I'm looking forward to Sunday at one o'clock here at
Bank of America Stadium.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
And again you'll want to tune.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
In to Panthers dot Com around eleven thirty three am
on Sunday just to see who's going to be active
or inactive. I'm sure there could be a little little
drama around that, but it's gonna be cool. A couple
other odds and ends to get into this week in
addition to the awards, and are our weekly player of
the week that seems to be rolling through here three
weeks in a row now. As you mentioned with Sam Martin,
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Hall of Fame made another cutdown. As you might have noticed,
I'm wearing a Hall of Fame quarter. Zip Andy Dalton
asked me one day, he said, how many of those
do you have? And I said, I don't know. They
just keep sending them to.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Me and I keep wearing.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
So these are my clothes now. It's not any kind
of political statement. These are just the thing.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
I do want you to go out. Now, how many
Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterships.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
You had, It's at least seven or eight.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I could go one for every day of the week
and never duplicate, pretty.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Easily do that one week.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I was a little bit hesitant about wearing the white
one today because I spill food on myself.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
That is a very nice white one though, Yeah, I
appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
But Hall of Fame made another cut down this week,
down to fifty two Modern era finalist That includes a
lot of familiar names. Of course, Luke Keighley, as you know,
as an automatic finalist this year after being in the
top seven last year. Steve Smith was a finalist last year,
so we're looking for him to get back to that
final fifteen. But two new names on the list this year,
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one Greg Olsen, who will see here this weekend. As
a matter of fact, it's always good to see Greg,
especially now that he and.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I buried the hatchet. Thanks to JJ Jansen.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
One of the many skills JJ Jansen has is peacemaker
and he got me and Greg together and we're good now.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
We argued one time.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
It didn't last terribly long, but we're good now. It's
always delightful to see Greg. But Greg is now among
the final fifty two players on the ballot for the
Hall of Fame first year eligible this year. Greg's an
interesting case, and you know, from learning more about Panthers history,
Greg was the first tight end in NFL history to
go thousand yard receiving three years in a row. And
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Greg kind of came in on the front end of
There have been other tight ends who put up big
receiving yards, but Greg was kind of on the front
end of this new wave that includes the Kel season,
the Gronkowski's, big guys who can be downfield threads. Greg
is seventh all time among tight ends in receptions and
receiving yards. He put up huge numbers and he was
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Cam Newton's de facto number one wide receiver for a
minute there. And you know, again, he went three straight
years thousand yards, so he's pretty good at his job.
And of course we can't forget Panthers legend pe Nut Tillman.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, I've watched a lot of Peanut going. I can
watch in the twenty fifteen games and it's fun. I
didn't realize I learned this this year. You're about to
roll your eyes that I did possible. I had just
never put two and two together. That that is why
it is called the peanut punch when you punch out
a ball, and it's because it was how Peanut Tillman
would punch it out like it. It makes sense. I
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just never put two and two together. That that's where
the name came from.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
You know the shoes Air Jordan's, those are based on
a guy named Mike.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
I thought it was just called a peanut punch because
the ball looked like a peanut when it was coming out.
I really thought that I was watching.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
You know, this podcast is not scripted because I did
not have that on my bingo card for today.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
I was watching a game and Peanut punched it out
and they're like, oh, the patented peanut punch, and I
was like, oh my gosh, oh that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Now, it all makes perfect sense. No, Peanut.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Peanut only played one of his thirteen NFL seasons. Here
with your Carolina Panthers, but it was a pretty important
one in twenty fifteen, and I love talking to him
back in the summer, he admitted, I mean, how do
he say it? He said, I don't want to say
I was washed up, but I definitely wasn't in my prime,
and I was mostly here for comedic relief.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
That sounds like.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Peanut is always going to be a favorite of mine,
because when there was a story once upon a time,
old offensive coordinator Mike Shula told a story about his dad,
Don Shula, who coached the undefeated Miami Dolphins in nineteen
seventy two. Of course, and so Mike told a story
about his dad and people messing with his dad. At
some point during that season, Larry Zonka put an alligator
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in his shower, and so Peanut had a moment of
inspiration and when he couldn't find an alligator in Charlotte,
but he found a really nice fake one that he
said he paid four hundred bucks for him, and he
put it in Ron Rivera's shower. Of course, and Ron
Rivera not expecting an alligator in his shower, because you
know you're taking a shower. I love, Ron said, I'm
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standing there, I didn't have anything to throw at it
but a bar of soap. But Peanut was responsible. Peanut
got a lot of mileage out of that alligator. He
put it in Josh Norman's locker. I think one day
got a rise out of Josh or kind of caught
him by surprise coming into the meeting room. But Peanut
was really good at football too. Again, the aforementioned Peanut
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punch in honor of Peanut Tillman.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
If they would have called it the Charles punch, it
would run off the Tilman punch. You would have made
that connection sooner.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yeah, but that doesn't roll off the tongue as well.
It's the alliteration that really sells it.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
But yeah, Peanut is also among that group of fifty
two that are still in the ballot. We're going to
do some more vote and cut that down twenty five,
cut it to fifteen. Hopefully we can get Luke Keighley
in again. He was really close last year. I think
a lot of people are hoping to see Luke push
through that process this year. But we will see how
that goes. A whole lot of stuff to come with Buffalo.
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Are you a wing person, Yes.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
But I don't like it spicy, so I don't do
buffalo sauce.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
You don't do buffalo sauce, but you enjoy the wing?
Do you eat the wing on the bone?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yes, okay, I like to work for it a little.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
She's young, but she's not a child. Boneless wings are
called nuggets, friends, except no substitute. If you're out here
eating boneless wings and think that makes you some kind
of honorary Buffalonian, it does not.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
It just makes you an elementary school student.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
So, now that we've cleared all that up, thanks to
everybody who's coming this weekend, whether you're a Buffalot or
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Hang out the door.
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Yeah, he's trying to make an escape, so he's not
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Of course he does, of course he does. He was
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I mean, listen, it's Buffalo Bill's week.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
This was one of the news.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
This was one of those no matter what you thought
about how this season was going to go, you kind
of knew this was one because one of the best
teams in football is rolling into your building.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Back when the schedule first came out, I remember you
were gallivanting around Europe. That's right, So Jake diloman I
did schedule.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
He's sleeping in a van down by the river. There's
another way to put that out.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Of course that river was in Iceland.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, I was with my wife and it was wonderful
and all the puffin.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Jake doleman I did a schedule breakdown, and when we
got to Bill's week, I said, do you like having
them right around here? Because you know, obviously they get
stronger as the season goes on, like, but you kind
of know who you are as a team as well
by the time you get to week eight. Do you
like having him? Like having the Bills here? I don't
like having the Bills any week. Like he said, they're
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tough from week one to week eighteen and they're always
going to be that way. And he's right. Obviously on
paper they look a little susceptible right now. They've lost
the last two games, they've had some injuries. They're rushing
is near the bottom of the league. But oh, by
the way, this is still a team that's rushing offense.
Is at the top of the league and has a
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reigning MVP at quarterback. Josh Allen is one of those that,
like when we talk about quarterbacks putting on the Superman cape,
he is the epitome of that. He can do that
game after game he's he's had, he had He went
a twelve game stretch. Shout out to our capadres at
The Bill's website for digging up this stat. He went
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twelve straight games going back from last season up until
Week four I think it was of this season with
only one turnover that's fumbles or interceptions. He's had like
three or four the last two games that they lost,
so he's gotten into a little bit of a turnover rut.
But you know, he is still Josh Allen. He's you
know Nick Gorton said yesterday, He's one of the few
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quarterbacks that'll lower his shoulder and just completely take you on.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Now, I'm trying to think, have we ever seen a quarterback?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Has there ever?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Does there ever lived a quarterback who is bigger and
stronger and faster than all the people.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
On a Superman came and would put.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
On a Superman cape from time to time and would
do things that no one else was capable of doing
in the game football.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I'm going to take three guesses in the first two
don't count.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And one of Steve Berlin.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
All right, he was my next one I was going with.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, I mean, Josh Allen is Cam Newton. Friends.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
They are the same human being, and they are a
breed apart from all the other human beings. And that's
why they both got MVP trophies hanging on the mantles
in their home.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I assume they have mantles.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
If you're setting on the mantle, if.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
You're Josh Allen and you just got married to the
internet person. What's her name?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
She's an actress and singer. Sure Steinfeld.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
All of these people in pop culture exist in a
bubble to me, and they are out there somewhere.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
But do you ever see the True Grit found on
my partner here to know them?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Did you ever see the True Grit remake?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I did not you ever see the original?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Okay, fair enough? I thought that my.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Brother is named after John Wayne. You think I haven't
seen the original True Grip?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I learned something here today, so that that is an
interesting That's a fun fact about Cassiy Hill that even
I did not know up to this point. But yeah,
Josh Allen different from all the other kids in the
same way Cam Newton was different from all the other kids.
And when you've got a guy like that, it just
opens up so much stuff. One of the one of
the things that tickles me about the way we talk
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about the football is, and you mentioned it, they've been
struggling a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
They're foreign to right, the foreign.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
The Bills are struggling at four and two.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
This is a team a lot of people expect to
go to a super Bowl or have a chance to
be in that conversation for those last couple of spots.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
They're foreign too.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
They've got Josh Allen, They've got James Cook, who just
puts up ridiculous numbers seemingly weekly. There are a lot
of cool things we can get into about this game,
and we will in a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
But you know, you've got an MVP walking.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Into your building, and we've seen with our own two
eyes what that looks like and what that can mean
for a team, And that means you got a shot
any week, whether you're four and two, whether you're two
and four. I mean, it's like I assume that the
Baltimore Ravens, for instance, are not going to be one
of the worst teams in the NFL as soon as
Lamar Jackson gets back on the practice yesterday. You know,
these things change over time. But they got that guy,
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and you know what else they got. They got a
bunch of people. And listen, I understand many people from
Buffalo happened to have moved here to Charlotte, North Carolina.
I've heard. I see them when I run through my neighborhood.
There are cars with bills stickers on them. They're Bill's flags.
There are bill bars there Bill's bars.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
And there's a direct flight from Buffalo to Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I think there's a pipeline. There's a spickett we need
to at the corner of trade and trying. And more
of them come out every day. I mean seriously, until
about ten years ago when Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott
took a bunch of people with them to Buffalo, this
was always Buffalo South. I mean, if you go back
to now eighteen ninety five, Bill Polly and the original
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general manager of the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
He came from Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
After building a team that went to four straight Super
Bowls lost them all, but came here and built a
team with a lot of his old friends. Whether it
was Carlton Bailey, Frank Wright, Don bb Metzelars, those are
names you're very familiar with.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I know, yeah, I knew at least one of those.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
You knew at least one of them.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And you know, Bill brought all those people here to
begin with, and then you know, Brandon and Sean took
a couple back with him. That way, there's all kinds
of our old friends up there, whether Shack Thompson, you know, Curtis, Samuel,
Sam Franklin, all kinds of people, and it's just kind
of one of those circle of life things in the
NFL where they got a lot of ours, we got
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a couple of theirs, and it just kind of works
that way.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
It makes these games fun too, it does. There is
so much familiarity before, during after the Bill's going to
four streets of Super Bowls and not winning once helped
Cassidy Hill win a trivia game that was the final
question and anyways, just a little aside, but yeah, there's
a lot of familiarity, and even more so in the
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past couple of weeks. You know, you've got Sam Martin
is here after spending many years in Buffalo, THEI th
under here, Sam Bill's legend and because well, actually, when
he was named NFC Player of the Week this week,
I went back and looked at his record, and he
was named AFC Player of the Month last year for
weeks fourteen through eighteen. That's when the Bills really kind
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of made their run right into the play or really
hit their stride as they were heading into the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
You know, where's Sam Martin's attitude of excellence? Where his
aura comes from? It ain't I'm sure it's app state
Apple Achian state, Sam Martin.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Baby.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Then you also have Mike White who has come in
this week as a backup quarterback amongst all of that
hoopla that we'll get into, I'm sure in a minute.
And Dave Canalis even admitted on Wednesday, He's like, yeah,
you take any and every advantage you can get. He's like,
you're asking Sam, you're asking Mike. Why you're asking Denny,
who is the head trainer who came here from Buffalo,
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very famously and very beloved in Buffalo. I'm sure he
will get a warm welcome from the players when they
see him on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
But Dave was like, you're taking it any advantage, I'm
asking any questions.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
And it was kind of adorable when somebody asked Dave yesterday,
well you asked Mike quite about what he remembers about Buffalo?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, we better What are you.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Doing if we're not? Well He's like, we're not. What
are we? What are we?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah? But I just do.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I mean, it's this is such a cross cultural game.
I mean, every week in the NFL, you're running into
somebody who used to work for the other team, or
these two guys played together, this guy used to coach there.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
It feels like.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Buffalo and Charlotte are the same place now and very
few of us go there, but a whole lot of
them come here.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And I loved. I mean, it's a long time fixture
here in town.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Tavern On tracks just down the street as a Bill's
barrowned by Billy Aquero, an old friend I remember from
many moons ago. But right next to the bills Bar
in town, there's a mural of Luke Keigley on the
wall adjacent to it. So these two fan bases know
each other well, They're kind of intertwined in a lot
of ways. And like I said, we appreciate you all.
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We enjoy your chicken parts, we enjoy your beef on weck.
We do not enjoy your weather, which is why we
do not go there. But welcome this weekend. I'm sure
you'll behave appropriately and it'll be a fine, fine football game.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Are you gonna go take a walk through before you
come into the stadium to see if there's any tables
set up?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I mean that's kind of it's you know, like I said,
I'm not really for property destruction. I'm at phase in
my life where that's a perfectly good table.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Don't do that.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
But Dad mode engaged. But yeah, it's the links between
these two teams are famous. And you know Andy Dalton
once got a standing ovation in Buffalo. Andy Andy beat
Baltimore to help Buffalo break along seventeen year. I think
it was playoff drought and Andy became beloved by Bills fans.
I mean they flooded his foundation with donations. He told
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me it was over four h fifty thousand dollars. Next year,
he shows up in a preseason game and he wasn't
playing that day, but they just kind of introduced him
last and they gave.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
This man a standing ovation.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
So those are dedicated fans. We love him, I love
the passion, I love it. Anytime somebody's that into a thing,
it's got to be worth something. So kudos to our
friends from Buffalo. We'll see all the Panthers fans out here.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
In the building.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
And speaking of Andy Dalton, he might end up playing
a little football this year, because that gets us to
our next big thing. Of course, what everybody wants to know,
and what you've been waiting approximately eleven and a half
minutes for me to get to, is how's Bryce.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You know how Bryce is?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Bryce is okay?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Now you were supposed to say day to day, day
to day, day to day.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
We're all day to day.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
But especially Bryce Young after that ankle injury the other
day in New York. I mean he's been kind of
out there at practice. He's you know, not walking around
in a boot or anything. I mean, he just looks
like Bryce. He's walking the earth being Bryce Young. He
just happens to be not doing all that much at practice.
So we will see. There'll be a final declaration on
his status tomorrow around twelve thirty ish. Tune into Panthers
(12:15):
dot Com for the latest on that. But he's just
kind of Bryce and he's around. And the good news
is it doesn't appear to be traumatic, right and the
kind of thing that's going to knock him out for
an extended period of time.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
But his status for this week still up in the air.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
And I'm sure that you do have to be careful
to like, you know, kind of save a guy from himself.
You don't want him to come back too early, because
what happens if you know, it ends up causing an
even bigger setback. You've got another big game next week
versus the packers in Green Bay, and so you want
to be careful. And you know, you again, you have
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a capable backup who has seen a lot of stuff.
You know, Brad, as it was saying today, one of
the benefits of having a backup Likedandy is that he
has a clip for everything. Hey, you want Xavier to
get to run a route like this, Andy has a
clip of him and aj Green doing it. You know,
you want Cuba or Rico to kind of set up
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a block like this, Andy has a clip from twenty
fourteen of what it looks like, and so he has
a clip for everything, and so it kind of helps
create a game plan a little bit easier for those
like Canalis and Eazac. But again to your point, we'll
find out day to day what that quarterback situation looks like.
And some of it might be gamesmanship, some of it
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might be you know, you never know what could happen.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Well, I mean it's not as here's the thing, I know,
we work for Panthers dot Com. Many people are aware
that we work for the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Dave.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Dave Canalys is not lying about this. This is going
to depend on Bryce's health. And Bryce is pushing himself.
He said that other people have said it. Bryce is
pushing to try to get himself ready. And if Price
is ready, Bryce will play and that'll be the health.
It will be the thing that makes the determination. But
there's no doubt if you've got an Andy Dalton, I mean,
that's why you have one of those four situations like this.
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And Andy stepped in and three and played well up
in Seattle, threw it around the yard and was all
up and down the field, lost to a better Seattle game.
The difference in this year, and Canal has talked about
this yesterday too, This process is so much more stable.
You know how much I love stable processes. Our process
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is becoming more stable. Things take less time. And as
the Carolina Panthers have done that, as the offensive line
gets better, as the running game improves, as these receivers
get to know each other and everything, everything's a little
more stable than it used to be. So Andy is
stepping into a much different situation now than he did
in Las Vegas a year ago. And that was a win,
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and that was a win out there. But the situation
is so much better because the entire team's better. Everybody
knows what they're trying to do. And oh, by the way,
Carolina Panthers turned out to be pretty good at playing
defense this year. Yes they were not this time a
year ago. But you're talking about a top quarter of
the league in a couple of categories on defense, and
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that's a thing nobody would have necessarily anticipated. But whether
it's Andy or whether Bryce is able to make a
late rally, that person is walking into something with a
better chance.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Are Our friend aniche Roff sent this great stat last
year to see our friend.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
He is our friend. Yes, that was a test you passed.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
So the Panthers rushing defense, even just overall, is pretty good.
They're at one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eighth
in the league. Did I just count that, right?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I think you? Yeah, Yeah, they're at eight.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
That's overall for the whole season.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Since Week two they are. They have the second best
rush defense in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
If you take away that Jags game, if you.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Treat this like Olympic diving and throw out there out below, Yeah,
they are second in the league in that category. Of course,
you got to count that two bills the Jags put
on them in the opener. Those are still those are
still real, they exist. But yes, within that context, and
it speaks to what we've seen over the last couple
of weeks, they are playing really good defense. In the past,
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we've put qualifiers on that.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
It's like, well for a team with or well for
blah blah blah blah. They're just good now at playing defense.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Anytime you don't allow anytime you go three straight games
without allowing a rush of more than ten yards. The
longest rush in the past three games has been six yards.
That's an insane number. I don't care who you're playing,
that's a crazy number.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
If you keep that up against James Cook and Josh
Allen and the Buffalo Bills, that's going to be a
feather in your cap. And you're obviously doing something well.
But it's been remarkable to watch. And again, it's kind
of like what they've done on the offensive line with
so many different lineups and continuing to run the ball well,
they're still playing. They're still playing defense without a Pat Jones,
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with guys coming in and out of the lineup each week.
Turshaun Wharton's been in and out. He finally got back
last week after two separate absences, so they haven't seen
the whole group together yet, but together they're playing at
so much higher level than they were at any time
last year.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
And We're gonna say it every week, and I'll continue
to say it every week until it becomes not true.
Such a big part of that as Derrick Brown, like
that's he is just tossing guys left and right, and
that opens up everything for everyone else. And it's opened
up a lot of things for Turk. As we said,
for Bobby Brown, who's playing really good ball too to
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come in there and kind of make his presence felt.
But dB is setting a tone that this entire defense
has risen to, and it's been fun to watch. He
told us this week that like, they don't do victory Mondays.
They haven't earned any victory Mondays. And he's like, we're
right back in here and and some of that is
a lot of the process that Canalis has put in.
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But when you've got guys like dB who were backing
it up and telling guys like, get back in the
building on Monday, we got more work to do, like
that makes a big difference.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah, no doubt Derek's got dad energy.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
He really doesn't. Derek is a dad and according to
his teammates who've been around him and his kids, he's.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
A great dad.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
And I believe that because Derek, like a guy like
Taylor Moten on the other side of the mall, is
the staff dad on offense, and Derek has come to
occupy that.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Space on defense.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I mean, he really had he shepherds over that group
and they've kind of I can tell when Nick Gorton
starts saying things back that Derek Brown has been saying.
That's when you know, that's when you know a guy
has occupied that space and he really is. I mean
sometimes Derek jokes around, sometimes Dereck, but Derek Brown is
(18:58):
all about that work. He's the guy who shows up.
He's like, Cuba's another one who's that way. And when
you when you see a guy go through the process
like that, when he talks about process, you take it
more seriously.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah, Nick Gorton said yesterday, he's like, Hey, I'm just
a rookie. I do whatever dB says. That's right, and uh,
that's that's gonna lead you for young rooks. So that's
not a bad plan at all. But yeah, and it's
it's kind of filtering out through the whole team. You're
seeing offense does well, makes the defense excited. When defense
goes out and holds the offense, the opposing offense to
(19:33):
to you know, three and outs or five and outs
and not allowing a big rush, that makes everybody Punt
team has done really well. Sam Martin, NFC player of
the Week, penning team's deep return game has gotten better.
Tracy Smith said that Trevorytn's performance on Sunday against the
Jets should now raise the bar to this is what
the baseline is with forty five yard returns, and I
(19:56):
don't know if that's something you can sustain, but something
to attain to. So you're seeing things just start to
click across all three phases and it come together and
you know, now the trick is to do it against
one of the better teams in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
No doubt. It's as simple as that. So it's gonna
be exciting.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I'm looking forward to Sunday at one o'clock here at
Bank of America Stadium.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
And again you'll want to tune.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
In to Panthers dot Com around eleven thirty three am
on Sunday just to see who's going to be active
or inactive. I'm sure there could be a little little
drama around that, but it's gonna be cool. A couple
other odds and ends to get into this week in
addition to the awards, and are our weekly player of
the week that seems to be rolling through here three
weeks in a row now. As you mentioned with Sam Martin,
(20:43):
Hall of Fame made another cutdown. As you might have noticed,
I'm wearing a Hall of Fame quarter. Zip Andy Dalton
asked me one day, he said, how many of those
do you have? And I said, I don't know. They
just keep sending them to.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Me and I keep wearing.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
So these are my clothes now. It's not any kind
of political statement. These are just the thing.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
I do want you to go out. Now, how many
Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterships.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
You had, It's at least seven or eight.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I could go one for every day of the week
and never duplicate, pretty.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Easily do that one week.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I was a little bit hesitant about wearing the white
one today because I spill food on myself.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
That is a very nice white one though, Yeah, I
appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
But Hall of Fame made another cut down this week,
down to fifty two Modern era finalist That includes a
lot of familiar names. Of course, Luke Keighley, as you know,
as an automatic finalist this year after being in the
top seven last year. Steve Smith was a finalist last year,
so we're looking for him to get back to that
final fifteen. But two new names on the list this year,
(21:41):
one Greg Olsen, who will see here this weekend. As
a matter of fact, it's always good to see Greg,
especially now that he and.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I buried the hatchet. Thanks to JJ Jansen.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
One of the many skills JJ Jansen has is peacemaker
and he got me and Greg together and we're good now.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
We argued one time.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
It didn't last terribly long, but we're good now. It's
always delightful to see Greg. But Greg is now among
the final fifty two players on the ballot for the
Hall of Fame first year eligible this year. Greg's an
interesting case, and you know, from learning more about Panthers history,
Greg was the first tight end in NFL history to
go thousand yard receiving three years in a row. And
(22:22):
Greg kind of came in on the front end of
There have been other tight ends who put up big
receiving yards, but Greg was kind of on the front
end of this new wave that includes the Kel season,
the Gronkowski's, big guys who can be downfield threads. Greg
is seventh all time among tight ends in receptions and
receiving yards. He put up huge numbers and he was
(22:43):
Cam Newton's de facto number one wide receiver for a
minute there. And you know, again, he went three straight
years thousand yards, so he's pretty good at his job.
And of course we can't forget Panthers legend pe Nut Tillman.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, I've watched a lot of Peanut going. I can
watch in the twenty fifteen games and it's fun. I
didn't realize I learned this this year. You're about to
roll your eyes that I did possible. I had just
never put two and two together. That that is why
it is called the peanut punch when you punch out
a ball, and it's because it was how Peanut Tillman
would punch it out like it. It makes sense. I
(23:19):
just never put two and two together. That that's where
the name came from.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
You know the shoes Air Jordan's, those are based on
a guy named Mike.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
I thought it was just called a peanut punch because
the ball looked like a peanut when it was coming out.
I really thought that I was watching.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
You know, this podcast is not scripted because I did
not have that on my bingo card for today.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
I was watching a game and Peanut punched it out
and they're like, oh, the patented peanut punch, and I
was like, oh my gosh, oh that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Now, it all makes perfect sense. No, Peanut.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Peanut only played one of his thirteen NFL seasons. Here
with your Carolina Panthers, but it was a pretty important
one in twenty fifteen, and I love talking to him
back in the summer, he admitted, I mean, how do
he say it? He said, I don't want to say
I was washed up, but I definitely wasn't in my prime,
and I was mostly here for comedic relief.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
That sounds like.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Peanut is always going to be a favorite of mine,
because when there was a story once upon a time,
old offensive coordinator Mike Shula told a story about his dad,
Don Shula, who coached the undefeated Miami Dolphins in nineteen
seventy two. Of course, and so Mike told a story
about his dad and people messing with his dad. At
some point during that season, Larry Zonka put an alligator
(24:44):
in his shower, and so Peanut had a moment of
inspiration and when he couldn't find an alligator in Charlotte,
but he found a really nice fake one that he
said he paid four hundred bucks for him, and he
put it in Ron Rivera's shower. Of course, and Ron
Rivera not expecting an alligator in his shower, because you
know you're taking a shower. I love, Ron said, I'm
(25:06):
standing there, I didn't have anything to throw at it
but a bar of soap. But Peanut was responsible. Peanut
got a lot of mileage out of that alligator. He
put it in Josh Norman's locker. I think one day
got a rise out of Josh or kind of caught
him by surprise coming into the meeting room. But Peanut
was really good at football too. Again, the aforementioned Peanut
(25:26):
punch in honor of Peanut Tillman.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
If they would have called it the Charles punch, it
would run off the Tilman punch. You would have made
that connection sooner.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yeah, but that doesn't roll off the tongue as well.
It's the alliteration that really sells it.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
But yeah, Peanut is also among that group of fifty
two that are still in the ballot. We're going to
do some more vote and cut that down twenty five,
cut it to fifteen. Hopefully we can get Luke Keighley
in again. He was really close last year. I think
a lot of people are hoping to see Luke push
through that process this year. But we will see how
that goes. A whole lot of stuff to come with Buffalo.
(26:02):
Are you a wing person, Yes.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
But I don't like it spicy, so I don't do
buffalo sauce.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
You don't do buffalo sauce, but you enjoy the wing?
Do you eat the wing on the bone?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yes, okay, I like to work for it a little.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
She's young, but she's not a child. Boneless wings are
called nuggets, friends, except no substitute. If you're out here
eating boneless wings and think that makes you some kind
of honorary Buffalonian, it does not.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
It just makes you an elementary school student.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
So, now that we've cleared all that up, thanks to
everybody who's coming this weekend, whether you're a Buffalot or
a Buffalonian or whatever we're calling you people today, whether
you're a Panthers fans, Let's see plenty more of y'all
in the stadium this weekend. It's gonna be a really
time thanks to our friends from deep Eddy. Again, clock's
ticking Sunday. Sunday Sunday is your deadline to enter the
(26:50):
Sweet Sip Sweep Steaks. You want to make sure to
get in all that for all the cool prizes from
deep Eddy. Thanks to them, Thanks to Chuck to Duck,
thanks to Cassidy Matt behind the wall.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
DL didn't even crawl through our shot today. I don't
even think it feels like it.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Hang out the door.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah, he's trying to make an escape, so he's not
attached to this thing.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
We appreciate all of y'all, and we will see you
next week breaking down the Bills game.
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