October 27, 2025 • 28 mins
Today on the Happy Half Hour, Darin and Kassidy react to the Panthers lopsided loss to the Bills, provide an injury update on the three Panther offensive linemen that left Sunday's game early, preview what the running back situation might look like moving forward, and so much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Speaker 2 (00:49):
A lot of Deep Eddies flowing.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, you know, you do what you do. Here's what
I believe about this game. Tell me I believe that
this game was such a weirdoh that this game was
such an oddball that this game was such an outlier
in so many ways. It's kind of easy for me
to put a fence around it and consider it part
of another season altogether, because it just there were so
many things that happened during a forty to nine loss
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to the Buffalo Bills. There I said it once. I'm
contractually obligated to do that. Now it's over with and
I never have to speak of it again. But there
were so many things that happened that were so out
of character that it just seems like, I don't know
that it's the kind of thing you build trends upon,
simply because we hadn't seen them at all. This year.
We saw James Cook go for two sixteen, breaking a
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Panthers franchise record for an individual rusher. We saw Andy
Dalton sacks seven times. Panthers hadn't given up more than
three in a game all year. They hadn't given up
what was it, one hundred and thirty one yards rushing
in the last three over the last three games.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That was even math I was able to do in
my head. God was so simple.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
That's right, that's right, That's why. That's the kind we
like the best. So there were so many screwball things
happened and during that game that it's easy for me
to just kind of put a pin in it, stick
it over there and not consider it part of the
greater hole.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Right exactly. You know, you and I were talking before
we started, like two years ago. That's a game we
might would have expected this year, especially over the past,
you know, calendar year. I would say that felt like
an anomaly. You kind of felt it starting to snowball
early on. And when a game like that starts to
snowball against a team that is as good as the
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Buffalo Bills, it, you know, it's hard to kind of
get it back. We've seen the Panthers make comebacks this year,
even but it did finally reach a point where you
kind of realized, like, Okay, this is gonna be a
weird one. This one's just going to get out of hand.
Even at halftime when it was still in hand, it
felt weird. I ran into our friend of ours, Catherine Fitzgerald,
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who used to cover this team down here but now
covers the Bills, as she saw me, as she kind
of grinned as she said, this is a weird one.
This is gonna be a weird one.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, and fits as well qualified to comment on weird
when she is from the University of North Carolina and
also covered the Arizona Cardinals before making her way to
the Buffalo Bills. So yeah, it was. It was strange
and unusual. There were moments there going into the end
of the first half when I was like, Okay, this
game is twelve to six at halftime, which it very
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nearly was. That's like normal football. And I've told a
couple of people today just walking the halls here, was
that game yesterday an abject disaster? It was. It's still
the truth Monday, there's no getting around it. That was
not great, Bob. But are the Carolina Panthers still four
and four? And if you would have offered everybody who
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walks the halls of this building the opportunity to sign
for four and four in August, I think you'd gotten
a lot of signatures on that petition.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I think it where it kind of really got out
of hand. As you know, Buffalo won that middle eight,
the last four of the first half, the first four
of the second half once they took control. In fact,
I want to even say, do you have the scoring
pulled up right there. I think they scored in both
of those windows, correct, And so once that happened, that's
when it really kind of start to felt out of hand.
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But you know, do they make a comeback in a
game like that later in the year, maybe, who's to say,
Like you said, four and four at the midway. Derek
Brown made the comment yesterday. He said, you know, Canalis
always divides the season up into quarters, and it's a
little tougher to do now that there's seventeen games that
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math doesn't quite work out. It's like four and a quarter,
a four point two fives of a game for you know,
this is and he said, this is now the end
of the second quarter. You know, we've seen what we
did in the first quarter. You go one in three,
second quarter, you go three and one. Now you're sitting
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here at four and four. Essentially, what is halftime? And
what is Canalis's biggest message that he's preached since he
got here. Finish? How do you finish the second half
of the season. How do you finish the fourth quarter
of the season, which is where a huge chunk of
the division games are this year. What does that look
like that's going to be what's really really important Now
that you you've got a huge sample size of what
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happens when things go well, what happens when things go wrong?
How do you use that to now shape the second
half of the season.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, no doubt. And there are a couple of other
particulars about this game I want to get to before
I get into my broader thematic concepts about what's happening
right now. Yeah, this is going to turn into one
of Darren's Ted talks. Brace yourselves friends. Yesterday was mess
for a couple of reasons. Andy Dalton turns it over
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three times. Can't have that led to seventeen points. Can't
offer that kind of benefit of the doubt to a
team that doesn't need it. I mean, this is the
Buffalo Bills we're talking about. Sean McDermott has lost exactly
how many no zero games after a bye week in
his career as a head coach. We knew Sean was
a pretty good coach. That's one of the signs of it.
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When he's got an opportunity to plan and look at
things for a minute, he's always really good at coming
up with solutions. He did that on Sunday the Carolina
Panthers were also out of offensive linemen. By the end
of that game, we were very, very close to seeing
the dawning of the left tackle Mitch Evans era. I
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don't know what.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
If there's anybody I would trust to step in and
do it, it's probably Mitch Evans.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
There were very few candidates left on the board at
that point. He would have probably gotten drafted everybody. Nobody
will cop to that because everybody likes to keep their
emergency behind break glass sealed. But I mean, he was
just the qualified pass protector who would probably get stuck
in there in that situation. We've seen that a handful
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of times in the course of the franchise, and usually
it's a big pass block and tight end who draws
head duty. But they were out of dudes, you know. Unfortunately,
Brady Christiansen probably out for the year with a torn
achilles canal. Has said that last night, called it a
pretty significant one. And Brady, god bless him, has been
through a lot in the last couple of years, whether
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it's a torn biceps early in a season, whether it
was a broken ankle the end of twenty two, whether
it was this one. I mean He's dealt with a
lot of stuff and he's always just bounced back with
a positive attitude. And he's the kind of guy you
want to have around because he start in five spots.
We're still a waiting word on Cade Mays, who left
that game early. The center went out with an ankle injury.
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He said somebody stepped on him, kind of got rolled on.
Taylor Moten did not play in the second half and
stood and watched it in street close. We don't know
how Taylor is. I hope everything works out for the
best for those people first and foremost, because this game
is brutally tough on human beings and we saw that
with our own two eyes yesterday. But we'll see. I mean,
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Canal didn't have a lot of injury updates on cad
or Taylor, any of those guys. Stay tuned the rest
of the week to Panthers dot Com. As soon as
we have that, we'll share it with you. But they
were in a bad spot. I mean they were you know,
I say they're in a bad spot. They were down
to playing Iki Kwanu, Damien Lewis, Austin Corbett, Jake Kerhan,
and Yosh Niman, four of whom they know and trust
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very well. Jake Kirhan is a new name to a
lot of people. He has been here for the last
four weeks. He is also three and one as the
Carolina Panthers, but not a lot of people knew about him.
Signed off the Cardinals practice squad a couple of weeks
ago whence injury's hit. And that's where they're at right now.
I mean, they were talking today about guys like Brandon Walton,
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who's used up his three practice squad elevations. He could
become part of our life again. All kinds of names
are going to be bandied about in the next couple
of days while they try to find their healthy eight
to go into a game against Green Bay. But that's
obviously going to be one of the primary concerns. I mean,
part of the UH seven sacks has a little something
to do with Andy Dalton being a little more pocket bound,
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shall we say, than Bryce young Is. And I'm trying
to be nice here, Andy and Andy's turning thirty eight
this week. We want to be kind and and you know,
part of it was you get that many people mixing
and matching in and part of it is Buffalo Bill's
good at football, So there was a lot of stuff
going on. But that was one of the biggest questions
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that's going to linger into the coming week is how
they put together a unit up front.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Part of that question too, that's going to be interesting.
And this is obviously you don't want to have to
deal with injuries of this sort at all, but this
is one of the I guess better parts that you're
that you get to weigh is what do you do
with Austin Corbett. Here's a guy that he started the
year as the starting center. That's right, he has started
a game at guard this year, you.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Know, yeah, at left guard. His one game at left guard,
which he admitted was a little unusual.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Right, I think it was his first time in years
doing that since he had been with the Rain. Now
do you do you put him back at center? Or
do you trust Nick mac mac? I wanted to say Nick,
say mac and put Austin at guard. You know, Austin's
versatile enough and talented enough to be able to to
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kind of weigh that, but interested to see what happens
there as well.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, a lot of a lot of stuff, and of.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Course that all depends on what the news is with Kate,
we're getting ahead of ourselves.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah, with Caid, with Taylor, we'll see and and all
that stuff. By wednesday we should have a clear picture
on some of that kind of stuff. It usually takes
a couple of days to get all the testing done
on some of these guys. And again when you have
the big traumatic one like Brady, I thought it was
very telling. You know, last night in the locker room,
was talking to Kate, or not Kate was talking to Kate,
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but was talking to Ikyakwanu just about the emotional impact
of seeing guys like Brady Christiansen be carted off, seeing
a guy like Taylor Moten who's meant so much to
this organization, uh leave games and not be able to finish.
And Ikey was talking about that and he said, you know,
these are guys who's been here for the long haul,
seeing the ups and downs. It's definitely tough losing some
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of those guys that are part of the blood and
the bricks. And I was just like, yeah, I mean,
when you realize that these guys are important to this place,
but when you hear iky ikwan who say that, you
understand that bond those guys in that room have because
you know, as he pointed out, there for a little
bit they were working with what amounted to the twenty
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twenty two offensive line minus Bradley Boseman plugging Kve Mays,
who was here in twenty two. But those guys have
been together for a long long time, know each other well,
their kids are friends the whole nine yards. So to
see those guys go down kind of rattled Ikey a
little bit in the aftermath, and you know, it's just
that's gonna be something that's not easy to overcome. They
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are fortunate to have a lot of dudes that they
know and trust, but there's gonna be a lot of
you know, moving parts early in the week. The other
good news that's not good news. The good news was
Dave Canalis said today Bryce Young's probably gonna get out
there on Wednesday, try to practice. See if he can
go this week. That would be welcome for everyone. Bryce
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was wandering around today because it's Tuesday, and Bryce Young
never goes far Monday this facility. What day of the
week is this?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
It's Monday, My God, telling the truth.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, it's tell the truth Monday. That's right, man. I've
been what Yeah, that's where we are. That's the kind
of game it was, ladies and gentlemen, I've lost an
entire day of my life. Bryce was wandering around here
on Monday, because that's what Bryce Young does. He's here
all the time. But a lot of stuff going on,
So hopefully we'll see Bryce out there on the practice field.
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Let's fast forward to today, okay, because today, which is Monday,
thank you very much. Monday was a day they kind
of flipped that calendar every week, and Dave Canalis said
a couple of things today that caught everybody's attention. Number
one one, which is the big obvious one. He said,
we're gonna look at everything, including the way we deploy
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those running backs. Yeah, and that was some red meat
in the cage because a lot of people have been
talking about the difference between Rico and Cuba. If you
look at what Rico did during the two weeks Cuba
was gone, I mean, three eighty nine rushing and seven
point three per carry. Pretty good, pretty good. Rico won
a Player of the Week, earned a lot of acclaim
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during that time, and even in the two weeks since
they've been back and they've been in this job share
where's about fifty to fifty alternating possessions Rico's average five
point three yards per carry to Cuba's two point five.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Those five point three you do that twice, that moves
to change.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
There you go, that's good map. Yeah, thanks, I like
it when you start mapthing.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You know, I thought Dave Canos was very honest and
open with his answer and said, there's so much that
Cuba means to this team and we appreciate it. She
was coming off a thousand yard season and a well
learned extension. You know, there's so much that Cuba can
do and he does mean to this team. He had
the only touchdown yesterday, and you know he still brings
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so much. But he said, you can't ignore. We can't ignore.
I can't ignore what Rico has been doing, which is
all he's been doing is picking up either seven point
three yards of pop or five point three yards a pop.
And you can't ignore that. And that's not to say
that that one of them is better than the other.
A lot of times running backs kind of come and
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go in waves. You know, they hit a stretch. That
was what Cuba did towards the end of last year.
You know, he really hit a stretch on the back
half of the season last year, and and and was
running over people left and right. That's kind of what
Rico is doing right now. He's running violent, to use
Canalys's word, He's running hard and that If this is
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going to be a team whose identity is built on
the run game, then you have to acknowledge what has
been doing in the run game. And that's gonna bring
about a lot of conversations this week to see, you know,
does that timeshare stay the same or do you start
leaning one versus the other. I thought Cuba was very
honest about it today as well. When he talked. He
was like, you know, of course, you hear the narrative,
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you hear what's being said. Nothing in that room changes,
you know, nothing of the relationships between him and Rico changes.
Nothing about how he goes out there and does his
work changes. He's he was basically like, y'all have y'all
gotten to Nobi over the past four or five years,
You see how I work. He's gonna still be the
first out there at practice, He's gonna be the last
guy in same with game day. He's gonna be here
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as soon as the sun will allow him to come
in the door. Yeah, and none of that changes, and
that's what you want in a leader. And but all
of that to say, to go back to what Canalis,
to use Canalys's words, you can't ignore how well Rico
is running right now and how much that can like
spark a team and spark an offense, really get guys
excited to go out there and block, get defensive, to
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go out there and get the ball back. That's that's
huge to a team that's building and trying to create
their identity on the run game.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
No doubt, and Rico Dawdle was a big part of
Dave us the phrase today when we ran our way
back into the Miami game, I mean, when you're down
seventeen to Oh, we've seen this team a lot of
times in the past, you know, just kind of ignore
the run game and all god were down seventeen, got
to throw it all the time. They just kept handing
at to Rico and it just kept working, and all
of a sudden they author one of the biggest comebacks
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in franchise history. And then he blows up against his
former team, the Cowboys. But that being said to be
to your point, to do that you're gonna need both
of them. And there is no doubt there's going to
come a time this year when the Carolina Panthers are
going to be really glad Chewba Hubbard's still on this
team because Chewba Hubbard is another one of those bricks
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in the blood guys around this place. I mean, eleven
hundred and ninety five yards ten touchdowns last year. They
don't go on that run with Bryce hung at quarterback
second half of the year without Chewba Hubbard running the
way he did. And listen, maybe it's the dad in
me talking. Chewba Hubbard is the poster boy for work
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ethic around this place. I mean, I've told this story once,
I have told it a million times. I will tell
it again and again. When Chewba Hubbard realized he was
bad at catching footballs, he went out and found him
a jugs machine and they made a regular date of it.
And when Xavier League it drops a ball that could
have led to a game winning score at Philadelphia last year,
the first thing he did was find Chewba Hubbard in
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a jugs machine. You're paying for that example. Chewba Hubbard's
willingness to work and to put in the time to
get better at the stuff he ain't good at is
the reason he is Chewba Hubbard. And when you extend
Chewba Hubbard and make him part of the personality of
your program, that's what you get. You get that power
of example to go with that, and being able to
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raise his hand and say, this guy's on a heater.
I'm gonna do whatever it takes to win. If if
anybody thinks Chewba Hubbard's gonna pout or stick his lip
out and not go one hundred percent for the next
couple of weeks, if Rico Dwtle's getting more of the
carries they do not know Chewba Hubbard very well.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
And also to your point, you know this can be
good as you get later into the season. You know,
Rico even said a couple of weeks ago when Cuba
was first coming back, he was like, you know, you've
seen the last couple of games Cowboys and Dolphins where
he got to cramping in the fourth quarter, and he
was like, you know, this will be good just to
kind of keep us fresh. And uh, you know, Canalis
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mentioned last week on Wednesday, both guys looked super fresh,
just because they've been able to split them. Even if,
if you know, the cut of carries starts to get
a little more weighted towards Rico's side, I think you
still see a split. How that split happens is what
we'll find out. You'll still see a split though, just
to keep you know, both guys with their legs underneath them,
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not having to be cramping in the fourth quarter and
spending a couple of days trying to come back from
that during the week.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yep, no doubt, no doubt. So we'll see how that
develops over the course of the week. That's something everybody's
going to keep their eye on. But again, they signed
Rico Dudel this offseason on purpose, so you could have
a couple of these guys, So I have no doubt
that they're going to continue to use a couple of them.
All right, This is my philosophical aside, Buck, Yeah, that's right.
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Dave Canalis to me said maybe the most important thing
anybody has said this season as it pertains to the
Carolina Panthers, and I'm just going to go I'm just
going to go to my laptop here. He was talking
about the leadership council meeting he has with the Vets
every quarter or so. In addition to doing self scout,
he usually gets together with a couple of the veteran players,
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the guys who've been other places, the guys who've been here.
Cuba had said he was in that meeting, and he
talks about where they want to go, what they want
to do, And Dave Canalis said, and I quote, going
into this meeting today, there's a sense of an identity.
There's a sense of what we look like at our best,
and we understand what we're doing, where we're going, what
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we're getting after, and what's required of it. So there's
a confidence that's growing and a knowing of who we
are and what our identity can be at its best. Friends,
Dave Canalis just discovered gold. Because if a football team
knows who it is, knows how it wants to win,
and knows how to get there, they have done the
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hard work. They have done the stuff that a lot
of football teams and a lot of programs and a
lot of cultures never quite get to. And the figuring
that out eight weeks into his second season, that is
more valuable than any free agent, any trade acquisition, any
draft pick they're going to come across with because knowing
what to do and recognizing that that out there yesterday
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afternoon was not it. I mean, that's the most value
real estate a team can on.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
And they talked a lot about that last year, about
finding and establishing that identity, and he got asked a
few times during last year, have you found it? What
is it? And he's like, we're still searching for it,
we're still creating it. Now they have it, and there's
an argument to be made that they were able to
really kind of define it by seeing what it wasn't,
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which was what happened on the field yesterday against the Bills,
and they were able to walk off the field, walk
back into the locker room because across the four winds
so far this year, they've all been different. They were
able to walk off the field yesterday and say, regardless
of what commonalities existed in those four wins, we're not
going to be that, and we're not going to go
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into a game and let a game develop in that
such of a way. And he mentioned I think later on,
you know it's going to be getting the run defense
back to what it has been the past few weeks
and running the ball as well on the offensive side.
And so all of that to say, yes, you know
they they have finally kind of fine tuned to fined
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and established who they are what they want to be
going forward, and now you've got a blueprint that's right.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
And again, because I'm an old person, I routinely refer
to things that happened in the past because that's my current.
This is what I do. But I have said for
months the thing this team is beginning to remind me
of the most is the two thousand and two Carolina Panthers.
Why that was John Fox's first year. It was coming
on the heels of a one in fifteen team, and
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you knew everything was getting blown up. That two team
came out of the gate hot, based largely on defense,
and won three games. Then they had a stretch in
the middle of the season where they lost eight in
a row. Mainly that team was running out of people.
Guys were getting hurt. They didn't have enough to begin with.
They knew it was the process. But the tail end
of that season, that team goes up to Cleveland and
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wins an ugly one at Cleveland. I think it was
a third team nine game. It was ridiculous. There were
fewer than twenty five points scored. I know that it
was just kind of a mess of a game. But
they won four out of their last five, and I
think anybody who's over the age of about thirty remembers
what to two thousand and three Carolina Panthers did. They
went to a super Bowl, but more so than any
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of those wins, John Fox talked all the time about
tough and smart, and if you ever listen to Dan Morgan,
when Dan Morgan's talking about the way he wants to
build this team, you'll hear those words creep in. It's
because they've been drilled into his head from the time
he was in his second year in the league. Dan
was tough and smart. Dan heard about tough and smart
all the time, and so being a part of that
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culture where that team began to figure out how they
were gonna win games. The three team then went out
and added a bunch of people to it to help
augment what they were able to do. Part of that was,
you know, a wide receiver like Ricky Pearl, running back
like Stephen Davis to come in and add to what
they were able to do in that person out that
they had built, but just knowing how you wanted to
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win a game, having that platform was the biggest thing
that team was able to do.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
And again to the point, now you've got eight games,
seventy nine nine games left.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I know we'll never get just as in my mind
it's still Tuesday. In my mind, we're still playing sixteen games.
That last one's like a bonus game that happened somewhere
in the twilight.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
You're loss in the second quarter of games comes against
an AFC team. Obviously you don't ever want to lose them,
especially not that way, but you can kind of sit
back and go as an AFC team. Where Falcons lost yesterday,
Tampa won against the Saints, that was a division game.
You're still sitting second in the division. I want to say, well,
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you're probably a little bit farther behind Falcon I'm sorry,
behind the Bucks now, but still sitting second in the division.
And kind of just going back to what we said
at the top, your fourth quarter of the schedule, the
last four games, has three division games in those last
four so a lot still in front of you. And
if now you know who you are and what you
want to be and how you want to win games,
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then you can really start stacking some stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah. I just love everything about the idea of it.
And again, the Carolina Panthers might find themselves in situations
coming down to stretch second half of this year where
they're not able to implement their vision or play to
their personality. And again, these offensive line injuries are going
to play into that. I mean, if they're without a
lot of the dudes that help create that running game,
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it's going to be harder to have that same kind
of identity. But I think the having of it, you know,
knowing you've got a Derek Brown to carry that message
into the locker room, knowing you got to Chewba Hubbard,
who may have some of his toys taken away. It
may not get as many carries. Who is going to
be an adult and do what's best for the team.
The Carolina Panthers have found something here lately, friends, and
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that's going to be important as they move forward.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
This deal so makes it exciting to see what happens next.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
It does, and what happens next is as a trip
to Green Bay, I'm assuming you're you lived in Green Bay.
What do they call the citizens of Green Bay? I
talked last week about the buffal Lights and the Buffalonians.
What do you call a citizen of Green Bay cold?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
That's funny. That's pretty good. I'll give you that one.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It actually shouldn't be too bad this weekend, first weekend
in November. I would guess high forties, low fifties.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I'm expecting a blizzard.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I blizzard. So a friend did text me this morning
and she's like, is it gonna be for because she's
going to be covering the game as well. She's coming
from La where you know anything below seventy two is cold.
She said, is it going to be freezing? And I
was like, no, it'll be high fifties and she's like so.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, Like all right, well as what listen, No matter what,
I've been colder in Green Bay. I was, in fact
there for the ninety six NFC Championship game when it
was three count on three degrees.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I've had to say my first playoff game there, it
was three degrees at kickoff.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah, that's no fun. I don't enjoy it. So I'm
glad we're going there in early November. We'll get more
into Green Bay as we get on about this week
right now, we got a rainy, cold weekend ahead of.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Our week at that's still Monday, Still.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Monday, Still Monday, Darren, Darren knows what day it is.
I promise I keep looking at this imaginary watch that
I have a warn on my left arm since baby
girl was born about twenty three years ago. But here
we are. It is. Yeah, it's raining, it's cold, stay inside,
stay warm, stay dry. I'm gonna go home, Harry Potter,
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I'm gonna go home and have some soup. The wife
and I made soup this weekend, Italian wedding soup. After
making it, we just walked around palming cash to each
other as if we were extras into Godfather. But soup
is delightful this time of year. Deep Bettie's delightful anytime
of year. So thanks to our friends at deep Eddie.
Thanks to you guys for joining us. We will see
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you here on what day of the week, Thursday, Thursday
for the next episode of The Happy Half Hour.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Fully fu
The Happy half Hour. Hello friends, and welcome to the
Happy half Hour. Still happy despite the result of the game,
because we at the Happy half Hour do not let
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process based podcast, friends, and that's why we're still happy.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Speaker 2 (00:49):
A lot of Deep Eddies flowing.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, you know, you do what you do. Here's what
I believe about this game. Tell me I believe that
this game was such a weirdoh that this game was
such an oddball that this game was such an outlier
in so many ways. It's kind of easy for me
to put a fence around it and consider it part
of another season altogether, because it just there were so
many things that happened during a forty to nine loss
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to the Buffalo Bills. There I said it once. I'm
contractually obligated to do that. Now it's over with and
I never have to speak of it again. But there
were so many things that happened that were so out
of character that it just seems like, I don't know
that it's the kind of thing you build trends upon,
simply because we hadn't seen them at all. This year.
We saw James Cook go for two sixteen, breaking a
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Panthers franchise record for an individual rusher. We saw Andy
Dalton sacks seven times. Panthers hadn't given up more than
three in a game all year. They hadn't given up
what was it, one hundred and thirty one yards rushing
in the last three over the last three games.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That was even math I was able to do in
my head. God was so simple.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
That's right, that's right, That's why. That's the kind we
like the best. So there were so many screwball things
happened and during that game that it's easy for me
to just kind of put a pin in it, stick
it over there and not consider it part of the
greater hole.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Right exactly. You know, you and I were talking before
we started, like two years ago. That's a game we
might would have expected this year, especially over the past,
you know, calendar year. I would say that felt like
an anomaly. You kind of felt it starting to snowball
early on. And when a game like that starts to
snowball against a team that is as good as the
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Buffalo Bills, it, you know, it's hard to kind of
get it back. We've seen the Panthers make comebacks this year,
even but it did finally reach a point where you
kind of realized, like, Okay, this is gonna be a
weird one. This one's just going to get out of hand.
Even at halftime when it was still in hand, it
felt weird. I ran into our friend of ours, Catherine Fitzgerald,
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who used to cover this team down here but now
covers the Bills, as she saw me, as she kind
of grinned as she said, this is a weird one.
This is gonna be a weird one.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, and fits as well qualified to comment on weird
when she is from the University of North Carolina and
also covered the Arizona Cardinals before making her way to
the Buffalo Bills. So yeah, it was. It was strange
and unusual. There were moments there going into the end
of the first half when I was like, Okay, this
game is twelve to six at halftime, which it very
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nearly was. That's like normal football. And I've told a
couple of people today just walking the halls here, was
that game yesterday an abject disaster? It was. It's still
the truth Monday, there's no getting around it. That was
not great, Bob. But are the Carolina Panthers still four
and four? And if you would have offered everybody who
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walks the halls of this building the opportunity to sign
for four and four in August, I think you'd gotten
a lot of signatures on that petition.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I think it where it kind of really got out
of hand. As you know, Buffalo won that middle eight,
the last four of the first half, the first four
of the second half once they took control. In fact,
I want to even say, do you have the scoring
pulled up right there. I think they scored in both
of those windows, correct, And so once that happened, that's
when it really kind of start to felt out of hand.
(04:13):
But you know, do they make a comeback in a
game like that later in the year, maybe, who's to say,
Like you said, four and four at the midway. Derek
Brown made the comment yesterday. He said, you know, Canalis
always divides the season up into quarters, and it's a
little tougher to do now that there's seventeen games that
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math doesn't quite work out. It's like four and a quarter,
a four point two fives of a game for you know,
this is and he said, this is now the end
of the second quarter. You know, we've seen what we
did in the first quarter. You go one in three,
second quarter, you go three and one. Now you're sitting
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here at four and four. Essentially, what is halftime? And
what is Canalis's biggest message that he's preached since he
got here. Finish? How do you finish the second half
of the season. How do you finish the fourth quarter
of the season, which is where a huge chunk of
the division games are this year. What does that look
like that's going to be what's really really important Now
that you you've got a huge sample size of what
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happens when things go well, what happens when things go wrong?
How do you use that to now shape the second
half of the season.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, no doubt. And there are a couple of other
particulars about this game I want to get to before
I get into my broader thematic concepts about what's happening
right now. Yeah, this is going to turn into one
of Darren's Ted talks. Brace yourselves friends. Yesterday was mess
for a couple of reasons. Andy Dalton turns it over
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three times. Can't have that led to seventeen points. Can't
offer that kind of benefit of the doubt to a
team that doesn't need it. I mean, this is the
Buffalo Bills we're talking about. Sean McDermott has lost exactly
how many no zero games after a bye week in
his career as a head coach. We knew Sean was
a pretty good coach. That's one of the signs of it.
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When he's got an opportunity to plan and look at
things for a minute, he's always really good at coming
up with solutions. He did that on Sunday the Carolina
Panthers were also out of offensive linemen. By the end
of that game, we were very, very close to seeing
the dawning of the left tackle Mitch Evans era. I
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don't know what.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
If there's anybody I would trust to step in and
do it, it's probably Mitch Evans.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
There were very few candidates left on the board at
that point. He would have probably gotten drafted everybody. Nobody
will cop to that because everybody likes to keep their
emergency behind break glass sealed. But I mean, he was
just the qualified pass protector who would probably get stuck
in there in that situation. We've seen that a handful
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of times in the course of the franchise, and usually
it's a big pass block and tight end who draws
head duty. But they were out of dudes, you know. Unfortunately,
Brady Christiansen probably out for the year with a torn
achilles canal. Has said that last night, called it a
pretty significant one. And Brady, god bless him, has been
through a lot in the last couple of years, whether
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it's a torn biceps early in a season, whether it
was a broken ankle the end of twenty two, whether
it was this one. I mean He's dealt with a
lot of stuff and he's always just bounced back with
a positive attitude. And he's the kind of guy you
want to have around because he start in five spots.
We're still a waiting word on Cade Mays, who left
that game early. The center went out with an ankle injury.
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He said somebody stepped on him, kind of got rolled on.
Taylor Moten did not play in the second half and
stood and watched it in street close. We don't know
how Taylor is. I hope everything works out for the
best for those people first and foremost, because this game
is brutally tough on human beings and we saw that
with our own two eyes yesterday. But we'll see. I mean,
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Canal didn't have a lot of injury updates on cad
or Taylor, any of those guys. Stay tuned the rest
of the week to Panthers dot Com. As soon as
we have that, we'll share it with you. But they
were in a bad spot. I mean they were you know,
I say they're in a bad spot. They were down
to playing Iki Kwanu, Damien Lewis, Austin Corbett, Jake Kerhan,
and Yosh Niman, four of whom they know and trust
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very well. Jake Kirhan is a new name to a
lot of people. He has been here for the last
four weeks. He is also three and one as the
Carolina Panthers, but not a lot of people knew about him.
Signed off the Cardinals practice squad a couple of weeks
ago whence injury's hit. And that's where they're at right now.
I mean, they were talking today about guys like Brandon Walton,
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who's used up his three practice squad elevations. He could
become part of our life again. All kinds of names
are going to be bandied about in the next couple
of days while they try to find their healthy eight
to go into a game against Green Bay. But that's
obviously going to be one of the primary concerns. I mean,
part of the UH seven sacks has a little something
to do with Andy Dalton being a little more pocket bound,
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shall we say, than Bryce young Is. And I'm trying
to be nice here, Andy and Andy's turning thirty eight
this week. We want to be kind and and you know,
part of it was you get that many people mixing
and matching in and part of it is Buffalo Bill's
good at football, So there was a lot of stuff
going on. But that was one of the biggest questions
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that's going to linger into the coming week is how
they put together a unit up front.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Part of that question too, that's going to be interesting.
And this is obviously you don't want to have to
deal with injuries of this sort at all, but this
is one of the I guess better parts that you're
that you get to weigh is what do you do
with Austin Corbett. Here's a guy that he started the
year as the starting center. That's right, he has started
a game at guard this year, you.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Know, yeah, at left guard. His one game at left guard,
which he admitted was a little unusual.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Right, I think it was his first time in years
doing that since he had been with the Rain. Now
do you do you put him back at center? Or
do you trust Nick mac mac? I wanted to say Nick,
say mac and put Austin at guard. You know, Austin's
versatile enough and talented enough to be able to to
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kind of weigh that, but interested to see what happens
there as well.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, a lot of a lot of stuff, and of.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Course that all depends on what the news is with Kate,
we're getting ahead of ourselves.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah, with Caid, with Taylor, we'll see and and all
that stuff. By wednesday we should have a clear picture
on some of that kind of stuff. It usually takes
a couple of days to get all the testing done
on some of these guys. And again when you have
the big traumatic one like Brady, I thought it was
very telling. You know, last night in the locker room,
was talking to Kate, or not Kate was talking to Kate,
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but was talking to Ikyakwanu just about the emotional impact
of seeing guys like Brady Christiansen be carted off, seeing
a guy like Taylor Moten who's meant so much to
this organization, uh leave games and not be able to finish.
And Ikey was talking about that and he said, you know,
these are guys who's been here for the long haul,
seeing the ups and downs. It's definitely tough losing some
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of those guys that are part of the blood and
the bricks. And I was just like, yeah, I mean,
when you realize that these guys are important to this place,
but when you hear iky ikwan who say that, you
understand that bond those guys in that room have because
you know, as he pointed out, there for a little
bit they were working with what amounted to the twenty
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twenty two offensive line minus Bradley Boseman plugging Kve Mays,
who was here in twenty two. But those guys have
been together for a long long time, know each other well,
their kids are friends the whole nine yards. So to
see those guys go down kind of rattled Ikey a
little bit in the aftermath, and you know, it's just
that's gonna be something that's not easy to overcome. They
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are fortunate to have a lot of dudes that they
know and trust, but there's gonna be a lot of
you know, moving parts early in the week. The other
good news that's not good news. The good news was
Dave Canalis said today Bryce Young's probably gonna get out
there on Wednesday, try to practice. See if he can
go this week. That would be welcome for everyone. Bryce
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was wandering around today because it's Tuesday, and Bryce Young
never goes far Monday this facility. What day of the
week is this?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
It's Monday, My God, telling the truth.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, it's tell the truth Monday. That's right, man. I've
been what Yeah, that's where we are. That's the kind
of game it was, ladies and gentlemen, I've lost an
entire day of my life. Bryce was wandering around here
on Monday, because that's what Bryce Young does. He's here
all the time. But a lot of stuff going on,
So hopefully we'll see Bryce out there on the practice field.
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Let's fast forward to today, okay, because today, which is Monday,
thank you very much. Monday was a day they kind
of flipped that calendar every week, and Dave Canalis said
a couple of things today that caught everybody's attention. Number
one one, which is the big obvious one. He said,
we're gonna look at everything, including the way we deploy
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those running backs. Yeah, and that was some red meat
in the cage because a lot of people have been
talking about the difference between Rico and Cuba. If you
look at what Rico did during the two weeks Cuba
was gone, I mean, three eighty nine rushing and seven
point three per carry. Pretty good, pretty good. Rico won
a Player of the Week, earned a lot of acclaim
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during that time, and even in the two weeks since
they've been back and they've been in this job share
where's about fifty to fifty alternating possessions Rico's average five
point three yards per carry to Cuba's two point five.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Those five point three you do that twice, that moves
to change.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
There you go, that's good map. Yeah, thanks, I like
it when you start mapthing.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You know, I thought Dave Canos was very honest and
open with his answer and said, there's so much that
Cuba means to this team and we appreciate it. She
was coming off a thousand yard season and a well
learned extension. You know, there's so much that Cuba can
do and he does mean to this team. He had
the only touchdown yesterday, and you know he still brings
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so much. But he said, you can't ignore. We can't ignore.
I can't ignore what Rico has been doing, which is
all he's been doing is picking up either seven point
three yards of pop or five point three yards a pop.
And you can't ignore that. And that's not to say
that that one of them is better than the other.
A lot of times running backs kind of come and
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go in waves. You know, they hit a stretch. That
was what Cuba did towards the end of last year.
You know, he really hit a stretch on the back
half of the season last year, and and and was
running over people left and right. That's kind of what
Rico is doing right now. He's running violent, to use
Canalys's word, He's running hard and that If this is
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going to be a team whose identity is built on
the run game, then you have to acknowledge what has
been doing in the run game. And that's gonna bring
about a lot of conversations this week to see, you know,
does that timeshare stay the same or do you start
leaning one versus the other. I thought Cuba was very
honest about it today as well. When he talked. He
was like, you know, of course, you hear the narrative,
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you hear what's being said. Nothing in that room changes,
you know, nothing of the relationships between him and Rico changes.
Nothing about how he goes out there and does his
work changes. He's he was basically like, y'all have y'all
gotten to Nobi over the past four or five years,
You see how I work. He's gonna still be the
first out there at practice, He's gonna be the last
guy in same with game day. He's gonna be here
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as soon as the sun will allow him to come
in the door. Yeah, and none of that changes, and
that's what you want in a leader. And but all
of that to say, to go back to what Canalis,
to use Canalys's words, you can't ignore how well Rico
is running right now and how much that can like
spark a team and spark an offense, really get guys
excited to go out there and block, get defensive, to
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go out there and get the ball back. That's that's
huge to a team that's building and trying to create
their identity on the run game.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
No doubt, and Rico Dawdle was a big part of
Dave us the phrase today when we ran our way
back into the Miami game, I mean, when you're down
seventeen to Oh, we've seen this team a lot of
times in the past, you know, just kind of ignore
the run game and all god were down seventeen, got
to throw it all the time. They just kept handing
at to Rico and it just kept working, and all
of a sudden they author one of the biggest comebacks
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in franchise history. And then he blows up against his
former team, the Cowboys. But that being said to be
to your point, to do that you're gonna need both
of them. And there is no doubt there's going to
come a time this year when the Carolina Panthers are
going to be really glad Chewba Hubbard's still on this
team because Chewba Hubbard is another one of those bricks
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in the blood guys around this place. I mean, eleven
hundred and ninety five yards ten touchdowns last year. They
don't go on that run with Bryce hung at quarterback
second half of the year without Chewba Hubbard running the
way he did. And listen, maybe it's the dad in
me talking. Chewba Hubbard is the poster boy for work
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ethic around this place. I mean, I've told this story once,
I have told it a million times. I will tell
it again and again. When Chewba Hubbard realized he was
bad at catching footballs, he went out and found him
a jugs machine and they made a regular date of it.
And when Xavier League it drops a ball that could
have led to a game winning score at Philadelphia last year,
the first thing he did was find Chewba Hubbard in
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a jugs machine. You're paying for that example. Chewba Hubbard's
willingness to work and to put in the time to
get better at the stuff he ain't good at is
the reason he is Chewba Hubbard. And when you extend
Chewba Hubbard and make him part of the personality of
your program, that's what you get. You get that power
of example to go with that, and being able to
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raise his hand and say, this guy's on a heater.
I'm gonna do whatever it takes to win. If if
anybody thinks Chewba Hubbard's gonna pout or stick his lip
out and not go one hundred percent for the next
couple of weeks, if Rico Dwtle's getting more of the
carries they do not know Chewba Hubbard very well.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
And also to your point, you know this can be
good as you get later into the season. You know,
Rico even said a couple of weeks ago when Cuba
was first coming back, he was like, you know, you've
seen the last couple of games Cowboys and Dolphins where
he got to cramping in the fourth quarter, and he
was like, you know, this will be good just to
kind of keep us fresh. And uh, you know, Canalis
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mentioned last week on Wednesday, both guys looked super fresh,
just because they've been able to split them. Even if,
if you know, the cut of carries starts to get
a little more weighted towards Rico's side, I think you
still see a split. How that split happens is what
we'll find out. You'll still see a split though, just
to keep you know, both guys with their legs underneath them,
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not having to be cramping in the fourth quarter and
spending a couple of days trying to come back from
that during the week.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yep, no doubt, no doubt. So we'll see how that
develops over the course of the week. That's something everybody's
going to keep their eye on. But again, they signed
Rico Dudel this offseason on purpose, so you could have
a couple of these guys, So I have no doubt
that they're going to continue to use a couple of them.
All right, This is my philosophical aside, Buck, Yeah, that's right.
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Dave Canalis to me said maybe the most important thing
anybody has said this season as it pertains to the
Carolina Panthers, and I'm just going to go I'm just
going to go to my laptop here. He was talking
about the leadership council meeting he has with the Vets
every quarter or so. In addition to doing self scout,
he usually gets together with a couple of the veteran players,
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the guys who've been other places, the guys who've been here.
Cuba had said he was in that meeting, and he
talks about where they want to go, what they want
to do, And Dave Canalis said, and I quote, going
into this meeting today, there's a sense of an identity.
There's a sense of what we look like at our best,
and we understand what we're doing, where we're going, what
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we're getting after, and what's required of it. So there's
a confidence that's growing and a knowing of who we
are and what our identity can be at its best. Friends,
Dave Canalis just discovered gold. Because if a football team
knows who it is, knows how it wants to win,
and knows how to get there, they have done the
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hard work. They have done the stuff that a lot
of football teams and a lot of programs and a
lot of cultures never quite get to. And the figuring
that out eight weeks into his second season, that is
more valuable than any free agent, any trade acquisition, any
draft pick they're going to come across with because knowing
what to do and recognizing that that out there yesterday
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afternoon was not it. I mean, that's the most value
real estate a team can on.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
And they talked a lot about that last year, about
finding and establishing that identity, and he got asked a
few times during last year, have you found it? What
is it? And he's like, we're still searching for it,
we're still creating it. Now they have it, and there's
an argument to be made that they were able to
really kind of define it by seeing what it wasn't,
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which was what happened on the field yesterday against the Bills,
and they were able to walk off the field, walk
back into the locker room because across the four winds
so far this year, they've all been different. They were
able to walk off the field yesterday and say, regardless
of what commonalities existed in those four wins, we're not
going to be that, and we're not going to go
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into a game and let a game develop in that
such of a way. And he mentioned I think later on,
you know it's going to be getting the run defense
back to what it has been the past few weeks
and running the ball as well on the offensive side.
And so all of that to say, yes, you know
they they have finally kind of fine tuned to fined
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and established who they are what they want to be
going forward, and now you've got a blueprint that's right.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
And again, because I'm an old person, I routinely refer
to things that happened in the past because that's my current.
This is what I do. But I have said for
months the thing this team is beginning to remind me
of the most is the two thousand and two Carolina Panthers.
Why that was John Fox's first year. It was coming
on the heels of a one in fifteen team, and
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you knew everything was getting blown up. That two team
came out of the gate hot, based largely on defense,
and won three games. Then they had a stretch in
the middle of the season where they lost eight in
a row. Mainly that team was running out of people.
Guys were getting hurt. They didn't have enough to begin with.
They knew it was the process. But the tail end
of that season, that team goes up to Cleveland and
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wins an ugly one at Cleveland. I think it was
a third team nine game. It was ridiculous. There were
fewer than twenty five points scored. I know that it
was just kind of a mess of a game. But
they won four out of their last five, and I
think anybody who's over the age of about thirty remembers
what to two thousand and three Carolina Panthers did. They
went to a super Bowl, but more so than any
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of those wins, John Fox talked all the time about
tough and smart, and if you ever listen to Dan Morgan,
when Dan Morgan's talking about the way he wants to
build this team, you'll hear those words creep in. It's
because they've been drilled into his head from the time
he was in his second year in the league. Dan
was tough and smart. Dan heard about tough and smart
all the time, and so being a part of that
(23:41):
culture where that team began to figure out how they
were gonna win games. The three team then went out
and added a bunch of people to it to help
augment what they were able to do. Part of that was,
you know, a wide receiver like Ricky Pearl, running back
like Stephen Davis to come in and add to what
they were able to do in that person out that
they had built, but just knowing how you wanted to
(24:04):
win a game, having that platform was the biggest thing
that team was able to do.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
And again to the point, now you've got eight games,
seventy nine nine games left.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I know we'll never get just as in my mind
it's still Tuesday. In my mind, we're still playing sixteen games.
That last one's like a bonus game that happened somewhere
in the twilight.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
You're loss in the second quarter of games comes against
an AFC team. Obviously you don't ever want to lose them,
especially not that way, but you can kind of sit
back and go as an AFC team. Where Falcons lost yesterday,
Tampa won against the Saints, that was a division game.
You're still sitting second in the division. I want to say, well,
(24:49):
you're probably a little bit farther behind Falcon I'm sorry,
behind the Bucks now, but still sitting second in the division.
And kind of just going back to what we said
at the top, your fourth quarter of the schedule, the
last four games, has three division games in those last
four so a lot still in front of you. And
if now you know who you are and what you
want to be and how you want to win games,
(25:11):
then you can really start stacking some stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah. I just love everything about the idea of it.
And again, the Carolina Panthers might find themselves in situations
coming down to stretch second half of this year where
they're not able to implement their vision or play to
their personality. And again, these offensive line injuries are going
to play into that. I mean, if they're without a
lot of the dudes that help create that running game,
(25:35):
it's going to be harder to have that same kind
of identity. But I think the having of it, you know,
knowing you've got a Derek Brown to carry that message
into the locker room, knowing you got to Chewba Hubbard,
who may have some of his toys taken away. It
may not get as many carries. Who is going to
be an adult and do what's best for the team.
The Carolina Panthers have found something here lately, friends, and
(25:57):
that's going to be important as they move forward.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
This deal so makes it exciting to see what happens next.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
It does, and what happens next is as a trip
to Green Bay, I'm assuming you're you lived in Green Bay.
What do they call the citizens of Green Bay? I
talked last week about the buffal Lights and the Buffalonians.
What do you call a citizen of Green Bay cold?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
That's funny. That's pretty good. I'll give you that one.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It actually shouldn't be too bad this weekend, first weekend
in November. I would guess high forties, low fifties.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I'm expecting a blizzard.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I blizzard. So a friend did text me this morning
and she's like, is it gonna be for because she's
going to be covering the game as well. She's coming
from La where you know anything below seventy two is cold.
She said, is it going to be freezing? And I
was like, no, it'll be high fifties and she's like so.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, Like all right, well as what listen, No matter what,
I've been colder in Green Bay. I was, in fact
there for the ninety six NFC Championship game when it
was three count on three degrees.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I've had to say my first playoff game there, it
was three degrees at kickoff.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah, that's no fun. I don't enjoy it. So I'm
glad we're going there in early November. We'll get more
into Green Bay as we get on about this week
right now, we got a rainy, cold weekend ahead of.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Our week at that's still Monday, Still.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Monday, Still Monday, Darren, Darren knows what day it is.
I promise I keep looking at this imaginary watch that
I have a warn on my left arm since baby
girl was born about twenty three years ago. But here
we are. It is. Yeah, it's raining, it's cold, stay inside,
stay warm, stay dry. I'm gonna go home, Harry Potter,
(27:33):
I'm gonna go home and have some soup. The wife
and I made soup this weekend, Italian wedding soup. After
making it, we just walked around palming cash to each
other as if we were extras into Godfather. But soup
is delightful this time of year. Deep Bettie's delightful anytime
of year. So thanks to our friends at deep Eddie.
Thanks to you guys for joining us. We will see
(27:54):
you here on what day of the week, Thursday, Thursday
for the next episode of The Happy Half Hour.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Fully fu
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