November 3, 2025 • 27 mins
Today on the Happy Half Hour, Darin and Kassidy celebrate the Panthers 16-13 win over the Green Bay Packers, react to Rico's big performance, welcome the newest member of the Happy Half Hour family, and so much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Happy Half Hour. Hello friends, and welcome to yet another
happy half hour. Look at that extra happy.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
We've had a lot of happy this year. So far,
We've had more happy than unhappy.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
There's been way more happy than ever and it can
only be because of our new friends at Deep Eddy
who wanted to sponsor the Happy half Hour and get
in on all this happiness. No, I think the Carolina
Panthers have a little something to do with it. How
about that?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah? That was you know what was so funny was
about I think what halfway through the second quarter we
started talking about like possibilities of winning, and I was like,
you know what, what, I did have it on my
bingo card. It was just kind of scared to bring
it up too too much. But there were there was
always a chance because where the Panthers' strengths are is
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where the Packers' weaknesses were, and vice versa. Packers are
very very good team. But to go up there and
do what the Panthers did, I mean, you got to
come out of lambo pretty happy. I'd hear the locker
room after the game that and we were still pretty
far away and I could hear them pretty clearly. That
may have been the loudest the locker room has been.
I think it beat Post Cowboys how loud that locker
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room has been after a win.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
This season, and they deserve to just to be. Just
to recap. In case you weren't paying attention yesterday, perhaps
you were on Yeah rock I. Caro Panthers beat the
Green Bay Packers sixteen to thirteen on Ryan Fit's monies
laid us to walk off game winner forty nine yard
field goal with one second left sixteen thirteen at lambeau Field.
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All kind of cool superlatives off of that game. First
win at lambeau Field since two thousand and eight, the
day Steve Smith said we're nine to three, it ain't
no reason to coprint t shirts, Love Steve. The Carolina
Panthers are now five and four for the season, first
time over five hundred this late in the season since
twenty nineteen when five and four turned into five and eleven,
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and we don't talk as much about that. It's been
a long time, and the vibes are good, the team
is playing well, and people are happy with or without
the deep Eddie vodka.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
We were getting ready to come down after the game,
and you know, if you don't go down early. You
have to wait and let the coaches go down first.
And so we're standing there at the elevator waiting for
the coaches to come through. And I'm just standing there, like,
you know, smiling. You could hear the coaches like banging
on the elevator like yeah, man, yeah, they said there
are a few other things too, but yeah, they were excited.
And then here comes Dom Capers and he like stops
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and he grabs me and then he gives me a
big hug and he's like, yeah, like.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
That's right, that's right, Dom, because for you and Dom Capers,
it was a revenge game, it was it was a
revenge game. Actually, what I love going to Green Bay
A I've got dear friends there and I love being
able to see them and so Jason, Rob Young, Wes.
It was a delight seeing everyone yesterday. But also they're
just so nice. There was a there was a locker
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room attendant, the person I mean, in case you haven't
been there, and I recommend it to everyone. It's a
great historic.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Bucket list thing.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
If you're a sports kind of thing, you I am
pretty cynical about a lot of stuff sports ball, but
walking into Lambeoufield is still so cool because it's such
an old building. Even though they've renovated, it's like been
built in parts. So they've got helpful staff all over
the building to make sure you're going the right way.
And when Dom Capers comes through our approximately one hundred
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and twenty year old, you know, stadium, attenda is sitting
there saying welcome home, coach Capers, and I'm like, this
is great. These people love Dom as much as we do.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Well. It was so funny too, was when we were
sitting there waiting for Bryce Young to come to his
postgame press conference. Happiest I think I've seen bry since
I've been here. He comes in and the security guard,
who you could tell like this is probably his retirement
hobby doing security guard at Packers game days, he stopped
him and he's like, good good Win today, son, Good
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job good and Bryce was like thank you, sir. He
comes in, he does his press conference and then he
gets he leaves and ready Card tells him again like
good job today's son, good Win and like, you know,
this guy's a Packers and he's probably lived in Green
Bay his whole life, but he was like he had
to acknowledge it, and Bryce was laughing with us walking
back down the hallway. He's like, everybody's been so nice.
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He's like even the fans, like nobody was mean. Like
everybody was just so nice. Like we're just here to
see some good football.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
That's right when they got it. When I think of
Green Bay, I think of words like quaint and bucolic.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
You colic. Wow, that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I know, I word for a living every now and then.
So anyway, no, I dig it it. The vibes are good.
Green Bay is a cool place to go see a
football game, to be a part of a football game,
and for the Carolina Panthers, it was a great place
to be a part of a win. That was a
game they needed in a lot of ways, because, as
we discussed on Panthers dot Com last night, the Carolina
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Panthers have shown you they could do the comeback thing.
They did that against Miami. They showed you they could
do the shootout thing against Dallas. They showed you they
could do the road game win up in New York
against the Jets. Say what you will about to Jets
anytime you went on the road. That's a good one.
But to go to Green Bay, which is that historic venue,
and to beat what was at the time and by
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records still is the best team in the NFC. That
was big for a team that's trying to learn how
to do this thing. And you know, I feel like
Ron Bergundy a lot of times over the course of
this season because I keep putting question marks on the
end of sentences, and it's like, the Carolina Panthers are good,
good question mark and they're learning to get to that
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place where performances like that become part of the dorm
and that's a huge, huge step in the development of
a football team.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
And I think what stands out about yesterday too, is
because you were facing the top team in the NFC.
You were facing a team with an offense that can
you have seen, can throw it all over the yard
and kind of take over a game. You were facing
a team with two of the best pass rushers in
the NFC, quite possibly in the NFL. And Carolina controlled
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this game literally from the coin toss. They put it
on the pace that exactly they wanted to play at
and forced the Packers, one of the best teams in
the league, to play the game to Carolina's pace. And
you can talk a lot about the talent on each side,
like you know, Micah Parsons versus the Panthers Z line,
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who should win that battle, this, that and the other.
What really this came down to is across the board
top to bottom, from calls to execution. The Panthers, I
think like coached a better game. That's the better way,
the best way to say they coached a better game.
They they choose. They chose from the very beginning what
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to do if they won the coin toss, purely knowing
that they wanted to have control of where they might
possibly have to kick a game winning field goal given
the win situations, and it came to fruition, they did
exactly what they wanted to do. They won the coin toss,
They took the ball because Tracy Smith said, I want
the wind in our back in the fourth quarter, and
that's exactly what happened, and that's why Ryan Fitzgerald is
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able to kick that forty nine yard field goal.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And a that was a huge difference that win. Because
I was starting to JJ about the weather and other
than Tracy Smith, JJ is probably the biggest shade tree
meteorologist in the building. I mean, he's an honorary Panovich.
He's in, he's into it. And JJ said the difference
in the wind going into the tunnel where Fitz hit
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the game winner was about a twenty yard difference in
the wind. He said. The penalty that backed that extra
point up to forty eight, he said, that was basically
an unmakeable kick at that point in the game. And
so it it magnifies that coaching aspect that you're talking about,
because it took a bunch of guys getting together and
Tracy kind of getting in Dave's ear before the game
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and saying, I know we usually defer, but if we
take the ball, they'll choose direction. And then in the
second half, they'll take the ball and we'll choose direction.
And hence the Carolina Panthers had the wind at their
back in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Genius. There were other things Bryce and Rico and the
whole offense, but really those two kind of selling the
play on second down on the final drive. They were
at midfield. They had to get closer obviously to make
any sort of field goal, but especially with the wind
in Lambeau yesterday, they completely sold and faked every Packers
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defensive player, because I went and looked at the quotes
every Packers defensive player after the game said we thought
the Rico down on nineteen yard run that set up
the field goal was going to be a pass play. Yep,
it was never going to be. But but Bryce and
Rico did a little acting and they sold it.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
And now they're going to have to act differently next time.
Because Rico had to go and talk about it after
the game.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I couldn't help but laugh. Today, he's like, yeah, Rico
probably shared a little too.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Much all that stuff. All the signals are different now,
trust me.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
But even still, like you see, you saw where like
some decisions were made on the other sideline, like to
go forward on fourth and eight when instead of kicking
the field goal, and that's when Derek Brown like immediately
flushed Jordan Love from the pocket. He ended up throwing
an errant throw that that Mike Jackson could have had
a really good interception return, maybe even a pick six,
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but he dropped. J C. Horn did stick up for
him after as he's like, you don't realize how much
the wind was moving that ball on the field. He's like,
that's a hard catch. He's like he should have caught it,
but that's a hard catch to make with the wind
where it was in that end zone.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And that was killing Mike. But there's a reason Mike
Jackson became a cornerback somewhere along the way. He's instead
of a punt return a wide receiver. But it was a.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Game of decisions like that versus decisions like, hey, I
know exactly how we're going to negate Michael Parsons and Buddy,
did they ever first game in Michael Parson's career where
he did not register a single pressure?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, and so.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, it was a very well coached game from from
literally coin toss to final kick.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Well, and you talking about Parsons again, Micah Parson's one
of the best defensive players in the NFL right now.
For him to go no sacks, no pressures in a
game that has happened exactly no times in his NFL career,
you're talking about one of the best, and he got
locked down by the combination of it. It was mostly
Ikiakwanu a left tackle, but again you've got yosh Niemen
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at right tackle because it was another game, which what
does that mean? Another combination of offensive linemen for the
Carolina Panthers seven starting lineups in nine games. Say it
with me, and then our friend of the program, Jake Kerhan,
ends up playing both guard spots within the same game.
I asked him afterward, I said, you ever done that
a game. Nope, that's a new one for me, because
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it's a new one for everybody. But if you play
for the Carolina Panthers, you better be prepared to play
all the positions at the same time. And I just
I have because I've spent so much time talking to
a lot of these guys over the years, seeing what
that group is doing. Right now, there are a couple
of things at work. One that is one of the
most immaculately coached positions, so run games. Yeah, this offensive
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line run game coordinator Harold Goodwin, old school football coach,
Joe Gilbert, the offensive line coach Dean Patsing, who a
lot of fans might not know. Then get his name
said on TV. But if you start talking to these
guys they say their names, they'll just say Goody and
Joe and Dean, and it's like Goody and Joe and
Dean's one person, but they are actually three people. And
that's a lot of people. Most people don't have that
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many people coaching the offensive line, but when you're the
Carolina Panthers and need a lot of people to play
offensive line, it's good to have a lot of people
coaching them.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
And they may not be one person, but they're coaching
with one philosophy.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
They really are because they're just so physical throughout the game.
I mean, it really seems like it doesn't matter whether
it's Taylor Moten or yosh Nyman or I Kiakwanu or
yosh Nyman or Chandler Zavalla goes out and Jake Kerhan
comes in, or Austin Korbitch your left guard. Now I
know you're a right guard, you're a center. Guess what.
And it's just every week this stuff keeps working and
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they've got they've hit that point of playing into their
core philosophy. And I get a kick out of talking
to Austin after games because he's poured so much into
this program. I mean, we did a big series a
couple of years ago when he tore his acl about
his rehab, so he and I have talked a lot.
I know exactly what he's put into getting back to
this point. So after the game last night. I mean,
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Austin said one of those things that he's it's just
like it gives you chills if you're a football person,
and he said, it's just the griminess, the dirtiness, the
love of the struggle of football, and you just have
to embrace the physicality, embrace the challenge, the opportunity, the moment.
And I'm like, put it on a billboard, right, go
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sell stuff. With that offensive line, the fragrance, I mean,
you know, they were just so into that moment because
this team has adopted the personality of that group. You know,
Dave Canalis talks about resilience a lot. Nobody's had to
be more resilient than that offensive line group through all
those different combinations, playing with all the adversity. And again,
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they paid Robert Hunt one hundred million dollars to come
here and be the centerpiece of that line. He's been
gone since week two, right, and they just continue to
perform at a high level. So Goody and Joe and
Dean are doing work. All of the people are doing
the work. I Mean, it astounds me week after week
that they're able to play to this level. They've given
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up twenty sacks, but seven of those came in one game.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
So when you think about thirteen sacks over eight games,
fewer than two a game, yeah, they.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Are doing only one yesterday.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Running the ball. I mean, the reason Rico Daldell is
a star is because Rico Daddle's pretty good at football.
He ran for a thousand last year in Dallas. But
he's able to do it behind this collection of people,
and that helps a lot too.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I mean, it's to your point. The Packers pass rush
was coming in between Parsons and Gary with the fourteen sacks,
and I was there. I was so close.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
You were mathing right there on the spot. You saw it.
Folks live here on the happy half hour.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I have to picture a blackboard in my mind, and
then I have to picture my kindergarten teacher like writing
it on there in chalk, and then I picture her
doing the math problem. I don't know why my kindergarten teacher,
she didn't teach me math, but uh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
That was your kindergarten teacher's name.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
O goodness, miss I want to say, miss.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Braswell, make something up.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I think it's I think it was Miss Braswell, but
I may have just made.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
That is that a thing only Cassidy Hill would know.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
My first grade teacher was Miss Bandy, My second grade
teacher was Miss Nicholas. My third grade teacher was Miss Smelling.
My fourth grade teacher was Miss.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
All Right, I'll take your word for it.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
And kindergarten was a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Okay, yeah, but that's who I picture longer for some
of us than others. But uh, anyway, I mean the
math was mathing for the Carolina Panthers. You mentioned Rico Dudele.
Yet another week, one hundred and third yards rushing, two
touchdowns and maybe a little extra activity.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You know what, We've gotten a lot. They won, so
it's easy to laugh about it now.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
It did cost them an extra point because the extra
point did get pushed back due to Rico's excessive celebration.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Flag right, and by the way, just in a happy
half hour exclusive, this desk is where it is for
a reason. I would replicate Rico Dalbtle, but that would
be an FCC fine, So I'm not going to. I
might be behind this desk. You don't know that she's
trying to look the other way, so she's not exposed
to come get him under control. Yeah, good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
The best part was Keeg and Michael Keat like weighed in.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
On the man who created Hngele mk Kringleban.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
He weighed in and he was like, Rico, you got robbed.
The funny here's the funniest part of this to me,
because again, now that they've won, we can laugh about it.
I think that the Keeg and Michael key or the
Key and Pel skit came out all those years ago
and people just assumed that was the law of the NFL. Oh,
you get two pumps, you don't get three. Like, I
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don't think that's actually written. I don't think that's ever
been codified in NFL law or anything. It was literally
just a key Impel sketch.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
There's a lot of uncertainty about that. What we know
for sure? I mean, and again, we can laugh about
it now because it's kind of funny. Because they want
as well as the Carolina Panthers are playing, Dave Canalis knows,
there's still at a point in their development where they
can't be given away points, right, and when your penalty
causes you to have to try to kick what your
long snapper calls an unmakeable kick, Yeah, you know it
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kind of you're like, Okay, I see it, And Dave
said the requisite, Hey, we got to be smarter, neet
can't put ourselves in a bad position.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
He also said he was gonna call Keegan Michael Key
for clarification.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
That's right, And I'm not sure. Maybe we can get
Key here to do some do an event. Maybe maybe
he can co host The Happy Half Hour with us
in a couple of weeks. But yeah, I mean, Rico's
one one first came in as the stars, and I
think we all saw that coming based on the way
Dave Canals was talking about it last week. Cuba was
still in there for some key situations, had a conversion,
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was in there for a couple pass pro situations where
you trust a guy like Chewba Hubbard in those situations.
But as everybody knows, Rico's been on one, so you
ride that hot hand, and he heeded everybody up.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Let's get Chewba Hubbard his props real quick. Though.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I know he didn't have it.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I know he didn't have a ton. I know he
didn't have a ton of carries. Yesterday, still stepped in
on kickoff return, stepped in when Rico was a little
hobbled and then to get you know, in the red
zone for a little bit. Chuba Hubbard also had what
could be classified as a game saving play yesterday, and
it kind of got lost in the shuffle of everything
else that happened. There was a play where the only
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sack of the game, Bryce was sacked and the ball
came out. It was a sack fumble. It landed, it
goes forward or no, I'm sorry, it didn't go forward.
So that's why it was a fumble and not an
incomplete pass. Chuba Hubbard scoops it up and then takes
it for eight yards.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I think that was eight of his seventeen yards. That
if that gets picked up by the Packers, that completely
changes the look of that game. It possibly the out
probably the outcome of that game, no doubt. And that
was right at the beginning of the second half. So huge,
huge heads up play, smart play by Cuba Hubbard to
make sure he got He picked that ball up before
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anybody else could get close to it. He might not
have even known, I'm curious to find out. He might
not have even known that it was backwards versus forwards,
but he picked it up to be safe. He ran
it till he got tackled, quite possibly a game saving
play in the ball.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Is always safer in your hands and somebody else's, yes,
so on the ground.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Huge props to Cuba for that play.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yep, no doubt, no doubt. But so many other people
had a hand in that. I mean the defense in
this one. To go into Green Bay and again, this
is Jordan Love we're talking about. This is Josh Jacobs.
This is a high functioning offense. It's got a lot
of explosive players. And to go into their building and
hold a to thirteen points. I mean there are moments
in that game where Josh is dropping back and or
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Jordan's dropping back and gaining twenty, twenty five, thirty at
a time, and he's able to do that. But the
Panthers were in full bind. But don't break mode. I
mean they stood up when they got through the red zone.
Five trips of the red zone for the Packers. They
created a fumble on one of those two field goals
one touchdown, one turned them over on downs. You keep
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the Packers to that kind of red zone production, you're
gonna win a game no matter where it is.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
And I know there's always a debate on a bend
but don't break defense, Like why not just try to
stop them right away?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Da da da da dah. Yeah, why there's a whole
plane at a black box exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Here's what you have to understand too, though. The Packers
have an incredibly explosive offense. They like to throw the
ball down the field, and so that sort of defensive
scheme works really well against them because you're forcing them
into something they don't like to do, which is dink
and dunk. And as you especially can't dink and dunk.
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After you lose Tucker Craft, which was like the your
yak machine and wishing all the best for Tucker Craft,
it sounds like it is going to be a a
cl You hate to see that with anyone, especially someone
that had been playing so well. Just as a fan
of football, you hate to see that, but especially when
you lose Tucker Craft too. I think only had like
two targets before he went out. Anyways, when you don't,
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when you don't have the ability to get that yak yardage,
that's not an offense that can live and die, or
that's not an offense that can survive a game. Dink
and a dunkin. They sort of live or by, live
or die by their explosive plays, especially once they got
Christian Watson back, and so to play that sort of
defense and forever Roe to kind of realize that and say,
we're going to keep everything in front of us, and
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we're going to force you again to play to the
pace we want to play too. It worked. It worked
really really well.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, it absolutely did. We have talked a lot about
all the other people. I would like to in a
moment on the guy whose job happened in that last
one second of that game, Ryan Fitzgerald. Is he kind
of cracks me up because he looks like the golf
pro at your local muni. But what he's got is
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that hustler's vibe. I mean he will straight up look
at you and smile and look like somebody out of
a black and white sitcom from the nineteen fifties. But
he is a babyfaced assassin. He is money. And I
could tell when I asked even before we got to
fitz Money in the locker room, Bryce well, it might
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have been after, but Bryce Young when I asked him
about Fitzgerald after the game, I said, what do we
learn about Fitzgerald today. Bryce and Bryce just broke out
into this devilish little grin. And I'm like, when Bryce
is feeling it, when Bryce is picking up on that vibe,
you know, everybody in that room is confident in the kid.
Because for Bryce to kind of cock an eyebrown be like, yeah,
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that's my guy, right, you can tell that what he's
picking up or what he's putting down there picking up,
because everybody in that room's got a confidence in Ryan
Fitzgerald right now.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I asked j. C. Horn after the game, like did
you watch the kicker or are you superstitious about stuff
like that? And he admitted that usually he is superstitious
and he doesn't watch if it's like a game winning
field goal or something like that. He said, usually I
do look down, but I watched this time because he's
made me a believer.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Love that, Yeah, I mean so. And he's just got
this dead level vibe about him. And again, he looks
like an undrafted rookie kicker from Florida State. I mean,
he looks like somebody who could be working at a
bank here in town or anything like that. He does
not look like Jack Bauer. He does not look like
somebody who's coming to sneak into your house in the
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middle of the night and steal all your stuff. He
is a babyface, but he's killing it. And I just
love the fact that he's so regular about this. I mean,
he's around, He's like, man, I've never had this movie.
You want to come talk to me before.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
The only reason he even celebrates after a game, he's
had two of them now through last one. The only
reason he celebrates is because Sam Martin picks him up
and forces him to. He's just kind of like, yeah, okay, whatever,
big deal.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I mean, Jansen told me in the locker room after
the game. He was like, you know, listen, we all
believe in our teammates, so we all believe we're going
to shut out the other side and score thirty points
every game. What he said when the Packers were driving
for the game winning touchdown and eventually scoring it, he said,
he's just standing on the sidelines with Fits and they're talking.
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He said, he just kind of looks at me and
he says, Yep, looks like today is going to be
a day for a game winner. Well he was right,
and he nailed it, and he nailed it. Now Again,
a lot went into that. You had to have the
wind at your back, that depended on a decision made
before the game, that depended on a little luck and
winning that coin to because you know what, the odds
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on a coin toss are fifty. There you go. She's
math and ladies and gentlemen. So a lot of stuff
went into it. But you know what, there's all kind
of stuff going on all over the place. There's stuff
happening here with the Happy half Hour family. It's bigger
by one this week. Yeah, congratulations to the podcast Matt Family.
Welcome the addition. I was kind of hoping that if
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it was a boy, you could have named him Happy
Eddie in honor of the Happy half Hour sponsored by
her friends at Deep Eddie Vodka. You didn't go that way,
did you. I didn't.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
And that's also my middle name, so it would have
worked great.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
It's a baby girl, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
It is a baby girl, Murphy Lynn Hogan.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
My wife won't admit it, but I named her after
one of my favorite movies, which is Interstellar, which is
a movie about a daughter and a father.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
So my wife denies that. She just likes the name.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
That's super sweet. And look at that picture of baby girl.
That's one of the most beautiful babies I've ever seen
in my life.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah, Matt, you did good. Well, your wife did good.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah. Now let me ask Matt, did you guys know
it was gonna be girl?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Yes, we are very impatient people. So we found out.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
We took a blood test, so we found out earlier
than when you traditionally would.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Oh you paid that extra hundred dollars to find out early.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
We had to know.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
That's my brother, my sister in law would be happy
waiting to find out on delivery day. And my brother's
like pulling out cash, telling the nurse like tell me now,
tell me now.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
And my wife's also a preparer, so she wanted to
have clothes and nursery and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
So yeah, yeah, well I'm a preparer too, and that
runs counter to my belief. I mean, when my when
my baby girl was born, and that will be twenty
three years ago tomorrow, Happy birth, Happy birthday, baby Girl.
I know you're watching because you do every week, but
when baby Girl was born, it was a complete mystery
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to me. That baby came out and I didn't know
what was coming. And so I had to adjust on
the fly to being a girl dad and that was
super cool. Now, when the boy child was born two
years later, I was gonna know, right, I was gonna know,
and so went to the ultrasound. Got everything checked out
at that point. And when the ultrasound texts, you know,
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scanning and uh looking for looking for what became Sam.
She just pointed to the screen and she said, there
it is, mister gan It's gonna be a boy. And
I said, well, yet it is. And she looked at
me and she said, mister Gann, that's his femur. So
that's a possibly inappropriate story, ruining the mood. But congratulations
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to the podcast Matt family.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Murphy, I was born in she was born into Carolina
Panther fandom and she's one to us.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
So all she knows is Monny.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
All she knows has an undefeated record. She's an undefeated
record for Panthers and Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Charlotte they won a playoff game.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
May she know nothing but joy all her days And
same to the podcast Mats over there, so appreciate it. It
was a huge weekend for all the family again FC one,
they got a big one coming up here in Bank
of America Stadium on Friday night. I don't know. I
was so into Charlotte FC and the Carolina Panthers. I've
lost I've lost track of professional basketball in the area.
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But they're playing entertainaball too. It's a good time to
be in Charlotte. We're in the center of the universe.
All things are good the Panthers.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
We will be here Wednesday again.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yes, that so all the good things, and stay tuned
for all of it. We got a bunch of it
coming your way. I know fans are into it, so
a lot of cool stuff coming your way. Keep it
locked on the Panthers YouTube channel for all the latest updates.
Keep it on Panthers dot com for all your breaking news,
injury updates, and more and more about this team that's
suddenly playing real good football. We'll see you Thursday for
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more on the Saints. Coming in here this weekend on
the next edition of The Happy Half Hour.
Happy Half Hour. Hello friends, and welcome to yet another
happy half hour. Look at that extra happy.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
We've had a lot of happy this year. So far,
We've had more happy than unhappy.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
There's been way more happy than ever and it can
only be because of our new friends at Deep Eddy
who wanted to sponsor the Happy half Hour and get
in on all this happiness. No, I think the Carolina
Panthers have a little something to do with it. How
about that?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah? That was you know what was so funny was
about I think what halfway through the second quarter we
started talking about like possibilities of winning, and I was like,
you know what, what, I did have it on my
bingo card. It was just kind of scared to bring
it up too too much. But there were there was
always a chance because where the Panthers' strengths are is
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where the Packers' weaknesses were, and vice versa. Packers are
very very good team. But to go up there and
do what the Panthers did, I mean, you got to
come out of lambo pretty happy. I'd hear the locker
room after the game that and we were still pretty
far away and I could hear them pretty clearly. That
may have been the loudest the locker room has been.
I think it beat Post Cowboys how loud that locker
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room has been after a win.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
This season, and they deserve to just to be. Just
to recap. In case you weren't paying attention yesterday, perhaps
you were on Yeah rock I. Caro Panthers beat the
Green Bay Packers sixteen to thirteen on Ryan Fit's monies
laid us to walk off game winner forty nine yard
field goal with one second left sixteen thirteen at lambeau Field.
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All kind of cool superlatives off of that game. First
win at lambeau Field since two thousand and eight, the
day Steve Smith said we're nine to three, it ain't
no reason to coprint t shirts, Love Steve. The Carolina
Panthers are now five and four for the season, first
time over five hundred this late in the season since
twenty nineteen when five and four turned into five and eleven,
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and we don't talk as much about that. It's been
a long time, and the vibes are good, the team
is playing well, and people are happy with or without
the deep Eddie vodka.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
We were getting ready to come down after the game,
and you know, if you don't go down early. You
have to wait and let the coaches go down first.
And so we're standing there at the elevator waiting for
the coaches to come through. And I'm just standing there, like,
you know, smiling. You could hear the coaches like banging
on the elevator like yeah, man, yeah, they said there
are a few other things too, but yeah, they were excited.
And then here comes Dom Capers and he like stops
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and he grabs me and then he gives me a
big hug and he's like, yeah, like.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
That's right, that's right, Dom, because for you and Dom Capers,
it was a revenge game, it was it was a
revenge game. Actually, what I love going to Green Bay
A I've got dear friends there and I love being
able to see them and so Jason, Rob Young, Wes.
It was a delight seeing everyone yesterday. But also they're
just so nice. There was a there was a locker
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room attendant, the person I mean, in case you haven't
been there, and I recommend it to everyone. It's a
great historic.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Bucket list thing.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
If you're a sports kind of thing, you I am
pretty cynical about a lot of stuff sports ball, but
walking into Lambeoufield is still so cool because it's such
an old building. Even though they've renovated, it's like been
built in parts. So they've got helpful staff all over
the building to make sure you're going the right way.
And when Dom Capers comes through our approximately one hundred
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and twenty year old, you know, stadium, attenda is sitting
there saying welcome home, coach Capers, and I'm like, this
is great. These people love Dom as much as we do.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Well. It was so funny too, was when we were
sitting there waiting for Bryce Young to come to his
postgame press conference. Happiest I think I've seen bry since
I've been here. He comes in and the security guard,
who you could tell like this is probably his retirement
hobby doing security guard at Packers game days, he stopped
him and he's like, good good Win today, son, Good
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job good and Bryce was like thank you, sir. He
comes in, he does his press conference and then he
gets he leaves and ready Card tells him again like
good job today's son, good Win and like, you know,
this guy's a Packers and he's probably lived in Green
Bay his whole life, but he was like he had
to acknowledge it, and Bryce was laughing with us walking
back down the hallway. He's like, everybody's been so nice.
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He's like even the fans, like nobody was mean. Like
everybody was just so nice. Like we're just here to
see some good football.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
That's right when they got it. When I think of
Green Bay, I think of words like quaint and bucolic.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
You colic. Wow, that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I know, I word for a living every now and then.
So anyway, no, I dig it it. The vibes are good.
Green Bay is a cool place to go see a
football game, to be a part of a football game,
and for the Carolina Panthers, it was a great place
to be a part of a win. That was a
game they needed in a lot of ways, because, as
we discussed on Panthers dot Com last night, the Carolina
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Panthers have shown you they could do the comeback thing.
They did that against Miami. They showed you they could
do the shootout thing against Dallas. They showed you they
could do the road game win up in New York
against the Jets. Say what you will about to Jets
anytime you went on the road. That's a good one.
But to go to Green Bay, which is that historic venue,
and to beat what was at the time and by
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records still is the best team in the NFC. That
was big for a team that's trying to learn how
to do this thing. And you know, I feel like
Ron Bergundy a lot of times over the course of
this season because I keep putting question marks on the
end of sentences, and it's like, the Carolina Panthers are good,
good question mark and they're learning to get to that
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place where performances like that become part of the dorm
and that's a huge, huge step in the development of
a football team.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
And I think what stands out about yesterday too, is
because you were facing the top team in the NFC.
You were facing a team with an offense that can
you have seen, can throw it all over the yard
and kind of take over a game. You were facing
a team with two of the best pass rushers in
the NFC, quite possibly in the NFL. And Carolina controlled
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this game literally from the coin toss. They put it
on the pace that exactly they wanted to play at
and forced the Packers, one of the best teams in
the league, to play the game to Carolina's pace. And
you can talk a lot about the talent on each side,
like you know, Micah Parsons versus the Panthers Z line,
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who should win that battle, this, that and the other.
What really this came down to is across the board
top to bottom, from calls to execution. The Panthers, I
think like coached a better game. That's the better way,
the best way to say they coached a better game.
They they choose. They chose from the very beginning what
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to do if they won the coin toss, purely knowing
that they wanted to have control of where they might
possibly have to kick a game winning field goal given
the win situations, and it came to fruition, they did
exactly what they wanted to do. They won the coin toss,
They took the ball because Tracy Smith said, I want
the wind in our back in the fourth quarter, and
that's exactly what happened, and that's why Ryan Fitzgerald is
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able to kick that forty nine yard field goal.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And a that was a huge difference that win. Because
I was starting to JJ about the weather and other
than Tracy Smith, JJ is probably the biggest shade tree
meteorologist in the building. I mean, he's an honorary Panovich.
He's in, he's into it. And JJ said the difference
in the wind going into the tunnel where Fitz hit
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the game winner was about a twenty yard difference in
the wind. He said. The penalty that backed that extra
point up to forty eight, he said, that was basically
an unmakeable kick at that point in the game. And
so it it magnifies that coaching aspect that you're talking about,
because it took a bunch of guys getting together and
Tracy kind of getting in Dave's ear before the game
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and saying, I know we usually defer, but if we
take the ball, they'll choose direction. And then in the
second half, they'll take the ball and we'll choose direction.
And hence the Carolina Panthers had the wind at their
back in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Genius. There were other things Bryce and Rico and the
whole offense, but really those two kind of selling the
play on second down on the final drive. They were
at midfield. They had to get closer obviously to make
any sort of field goal, but especially with the wind
in Lambeau yesterday, they completely sold and faked every Packers
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defensive player, because I went and looked at the quotes
every Packers defensive player after the game said we thought
the Rico down on nineteen yard run that set up
the field goal was going to be a pass play. Yep,
it was never going to be. But but Bryce and
Rico did a little acting and they sold it.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
And now they're going to have to act differently next time.
Because Rico had to go and talk about it after
the game.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I couldn't help but laugh. Today, he's like, yeah, Rico
probably shared a little too.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Much all that stuff. All the signals are different now,
trust me.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
But even still, like you see, you saw where like
some decisions were made on the other sideline, like to
go forward on fourth and eight when instead of kicking
the field goal, and that's when Derek Brown like immediately
flushed Jordan Love from the pocket. He ended up throwing
an errant throw that that Mike Jackson could have had
a really good interception return, maybe even a pick six,
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but he dropped. J C. Horn did stick up for
him after as he's like, you don't realize how much
the wind was moving that ball on the field. He's like,
that's a hard catch. He's like he should have caught it,
but that's a hard catch to make with the wind
where it was in that end zone.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And that was killing Mike. But there's a reason Mike
Jackson became a cornerback somewhere along the way. He's instead
of a punt return a wide receiver. But it was a.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Game of decisions like that versus decisions like, hey, I
know exactly how we're going to negate Michael Parsons and Buddy,
did they ever first game in Michael Parson's career where
he did not register a single pressure?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, and so.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, it was a very well coached game from from
literally coin toss to final kick.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Well, and you talking about Parsons again, Micah Parson's one
of the best defensive players in the NFL right now.
For him to go no sacks, no pressures in a
game that has happened exactly no times in his NFL career,
you're talking about one of the best, and he got
locked down by the combination of it. It was mostly
Ikiakwanu a left tackle, but again you've got yosh Niemen
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at right tackle because it was another game, which what
does that mean? Another combination of offensive linemen for the
Carolina Panthers seven starting lineups in nine games. Say it
with me, and then our friend of the program, Jake Kerhan,
ends up playing both guard spots within the same game.
I asked him afterward, I said, you ever done that
a game. Nope, that's a new one for me, because
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it's a new one for everybody. But if you play
for the Carolina Panthers, you better be prepared to play
all the positions at the same time. And I just
I have because I've spent so much time talking to
a lot of these guys over the years, seeing what
that group is doing. Right now, there are a couple
of things at work. One that is one of the
most immaculately coached positions, so run games. Yeah, this offensive
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line run game coordinator Harold Goodwin, old school football coach,
Joe Gilbert, the offensive line coach Dean Patsing, who a
lot of fans might not know. Then get his name
said on TV. But if you start talking to these
guys they say their names, they'll just say Goody and
Joe and Dean, and it's like Goody and Joe and
Dean's one person, but they are actually three people. And
that's a lot of people. Most people don't have that
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many people coaching the offensive line, but when you're the
Carolina Panthers and need a lot of people to play
offensive line, it's good to have a lot of people
coaching them.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
And they may not be one person, but they're coaching
with one philosophy.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
They really are because they're just so physical throughout the game.
I mean, it really seems like it doesn't matter whether
it's Taylor Moten or yosh Nyman or I Kiakwanu or
yosh Nyman or Chandler Zavalla goes out and Jake Kerhan
comes in, or Austin Korbitch your left guard. Now I
know you're a right guard, you're a center. Guess what.
And it's just every week this stuff keeps working and
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they've got they've hit that point of playing into their
core philosophy. And I get a kick out of talking
to Austin after games because he's poured so much into
this program. I mean, we did a big series a
couple of years ago when he tore his acl about
his rehab, so he and I have talked a lot.
I know exactly what he's put into getting back to
this point. So after the game last night. I mean,
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Austin said one of those things that he's it's just
like it gives you chills if you're a football person,
and he said, it's just the griminess, the dirtiness, the
love of the struggle of football, and you just have
to embrace the physicality, embrace the challenge, the opportunity, the moment.
And I'm like, put it on a billboard, right, go
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sell stuff. With that offensive line, the fragrance, I mean,
you know, they were just so into that moment because
this team has adopted the personality of that group. You know,
Dave Canalis talks about resilience a lot. Nobody's had to
be more resilient than that offensive line group through all
those different combinations, playing with all the adversity. And again,
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they paid Robert Hunt one hundred million dollars to come
here and be the centerpiece of that line. He's been
gone since week two, right, and they just continue to
perform at a high level. So Goody and Joe and
Dean are doing work. All of the people are doing
the work. I Mean, it astounds me week after week
that they're able to play to this level. They've given
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up twenty sacks, but seven of those came in one game.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
So when you think about thirteen sacks over eight games,
fewer than two a game, yeah, they.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Are doing only one yesterday.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Running the ball. I mean, the reason Rico Daldell is
a star is because Rico Daddle's pretty good at football.
He ran for a thousand last year in Dallas. But
he's able to do it behind this collection of people,
and that helps a lot too.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I mean, it's to your point. The Packers pass rush
was coming in between Parsons and Gary with the fourteen sacks,
and I was there. I was so close.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
You were mathing right there on the spot. You saw it.
Folks live here on the happy half hour.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I have to picture a blackboard in my mind, and
then I have to picture my kindergarten teacher like writing
it on there in chalk, and then I picture her
doing the math problem. I don't know why my kindergarten teacher,
she didn't teach me math, but uh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
That was your kindergarten teacher's name.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
O goodness, miss I want to say, miss.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Braswell, make something up.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I think it's I think it was Miss Braswell, but
I may have just made.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
That is that a thing only Cassidy Hill would know.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
My first grade teacher was Miss Bandy, My second grade
teacher was Miss Nicholas. My third grade teacher was Miss Smelling.
My fourth grade teacher was Miss.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
All Right, I'll take your word for it.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
And kindergarten was a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Okay, yeah, but that's who I picture longer for some
of us than others. But uh, anyway, I mean the
math was mathing for the Carolina Panthers. You mentioned Rico Dudele.
Yet another week, one hundred and third yards rushing, two
touchdowns and maybe a little extra activity.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You know what, We've gotten a lot. They won, so
it's easy to laugh about it now.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
It did cost them an extra point because the extra
point did get pushed back due to Rico's excessive celebration.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Flag right, and by the way, just in a happy
half hour exclusive, this desk is where it is for
a reason. I would replicate Rico Dalbtle, but that would
be an FCC fine, So I'm not going to. I
might be behind this desk. You don't know that she's
trying to look the other way, so she's not exposed
to come get him under control. Yeah, good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
The best part was Keeg and Michael Keat like weighed in.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
On the man who created Hngele mk Kringleban.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
He weighed in and he was like, Rico, you got robbed.
The funny here's the funniest part of this to me,
because again, now that they've won, we can laugh about it.
I think that the Keeg and Michael key or the
Key and Pel skit came out all those years ago
and people just assumed that was the law of the NFL. Oh,
you get two pumps, you don't get three. Like, I
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don't think that's actually written. I don't think that's ever
been codified in NFL law or anything. It was literally
just a key Impel sketch.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
There's a lot of uncertainty about that. What we know
for sure? I mean, and again, we can laugh about
it now because it's kind of funny. Because they want
as well as the Carolina Panthers are playing, Dave Canalis knows,
there's still at a point in their development where they
can't be given away points, right, and when your penalty
causes you to have to try to kick what your
long snapper calls an unmakeable kick, Yeah, you know it
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kind of you're like, Okay, I see it, And Dave
said the requisite, Hey, we got to be smarter, neet
can't put ourselves in a bad position.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
He also said he was gonna call Keegan Michael Key
for clarification.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
That's right, And I'm not sure. Maybe we can get
Key here to do some do an event. Maybe maybe
he can co host The Happy Half Hour with us
in a couple of weeks. But yeah, I mean, Rico's
one one first came in as the stars, and I
think we all saw that coming based on the way
Dave Canals was talking about it last week. Cuba was
still in there for some key situations, had a conversion,
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was in there for a couple pass pro situations where
you trust a guy like Chewba Hubbard in those situations.
But as everybody knows, Rico's been on one, so you
ride that hot hand, and he heeded everybody up.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Let's get Chewba Hubbard his props real quick. Though.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I know he didn't have it.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I know he didn't have a ton. I know he
didn't have a ton of carries. Yesterday, still stepped in
on kickoff return, stepped in when Rico was a little
hobbled and then to get you know, in the red
zone for a little bit. Chuba Hubbard also had what
could be classified as a game saving play yesterday, and
it kind of got lost in the shuffle of everything
else that happened. There was a play where the only
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sack of the game, Bryce was sacked and the ball
came out. It was a sack fumble. It landed, it
goes forward or no, I'm sorry, it didn't go forward.
So that's why it was a fumble and not an
incomplete pass. Chuba Hubbard scoops it up and then takes
it for eight yards.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I think that was eight of his seventeen yards. That
if that gets picked up by the Packers, that completely
changes the look of that game. It possibly the out
probably the outcome of that game, no doubt. And that
was right at the beginning of the second half. So huge,
huge heads up play, smart play by Cuba Hubbard to
make sure he got He picked that ball up before
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anybody else could get close to it. He might not
have even known, I'm curious to find out. He might
not have even known that it was backwards versus forwards,
but he picked it up to be safe. He ran
it till he got tackled, quite possibly a game saving
play in the ball.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Is always safer in your hands and somebody else's, yes,
so on the ground.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Huge props to Cuba for that play.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yep, no doubt, no doubt. But so many other people
had a hand in that. I mean the defense in
this one. To go into Green Bay and again, this
is Jordan Love we're talking about. This is Josh Jacobs.
This is a high functioning offense. It's got a lot
of explosive players. And to go into their building and
hold a to thirteen points. I mean there are moments
in that game where Josh is dropping back and or
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Jordan's dropping back and gaining twenty, twenty five, thirty at
a time, and he's able to do that. But the
Panthers were in full bind. But don't break mode. I
mean they stood up when they got through the red zone.
Five trips of the red zone for the Packers. They
created a fumble on one of those two field goals
one touchdown, one turned them over on downs. You keep
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the Packers to that kind of red zone production, you're
gonna win a game no matter where it is.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
And I know there's always a debate on a bend
but don't break defense, Like why not just try to
stop them right away?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Da da da da dah. Yeah, why there's a whole
plane at a black box exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Here's what you have to understand too, though. The Packers
have an incredibly explosive offense. They like to throw the
ball down the field, and so that sort of defensive
scheme works really well against them because you're forcing them
into something they don't like to do, which is dink
and dunk. And as you especially can't dink and dunk.
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After you lose Tucker Craft, which was like the your
yak machine and wishing all the best for Tucker Craft,
it sounds like it is going to be a a
cl You hate to see that with anyone, especially someone
that had been playing so well. Just as a fan
of football, you hate to see that, but especially when
you lose Tucker Craft too. I think only had like
two targets before he went out. Anyways, when you don't,
(20:25):
when you don't have the ability to get that yak yardage,
that's not an offense that can live and die, or
that's not an offense that can survive a game. Dink
and a dunkin. They sort of live or by, live
or die by their explosive plays, especially once they got
Christian Watson back, and so to play that sort of
defense and forever Roe to kind of realize that and say,
we're going to keep everything in front of us, and
(20:47):
we're going to force you again to play to the
pace we want to play too. It worked. It worked
really really well.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, it absolutely did. We have talked a lot about
all the other people. I would like to in a
moment on the guy whose job happened in that last
one second of that game, Ryan Fitzgerald. Is he kind
of cracks me up because he looks like the golf
pro at your local muni. But what he's got is
(21:15):
that hustler's vibe. I mean he will straight up look
at you and smile and look like somebody out of
a black and white sitcom from the nineteen fifties. But
he is a babyfaced assassin. He is money. And I
could tell when I asked even before we got to
fitz Money in the locker room, Bryce well, it might
(21:35):
have been after, but Bryce Young when I asked him
about Fitzgerald after the game, I said, what do we
learn about Fitzgerald today. Bryce and Bryce just broke out
into this devilish little grin. And I'm like, when Bryce
is feeling it, when Bryce is picking up on that vibe,
you know, everybody in that room is confident in the kid.
Because for Bryce to kind of cock an eyebrown be like, yeah,
(21:58):
that's my guy, right, you can tell that what he's
picking up or what he's putting down there picking up,
because everybody in that room's got a confidence in Ryan
Fitzgerald right now.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I asked j. C. Horn after the game, like did
you watch the kicker or are you superstitious about stuff
like that? And he admitted that usually he is superstitious
and he doesn't watch if it's like a game winning
field goal or something like that. He said, usually I
do look down, but I watched this time because he's
made me a believer.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Love that, Yeah, I mean so. And he's just got
this dead level vibe about him. And again, he looks
like an undrafted rookie kicker from Florida State. I mean,
he looks like somebody who could be working at a
bank here in town or anything like that. He does
not look like Jack Bauer. He does not look like
somebody who's coming to sneak into your house in the
(22:49):
middle of the night and steal all your stuff. He
is a babyface, but he's killing it. And I just
love the fact that he's so regular about this. I mean,
he's around, He's like, man, I've never had this movie.
You want to come talk to me before.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
The only reason he even celebrates after a game, he's
had two of them now through last one. The only
reason he celebrates is because Sam Martin picks him up
and forces him to. He's just kind of like, yeah, okay, whatever,
big deal.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I mean, Jansen told me in the locker room after
the game. He was like, you know, listen, we all
believe in our teammates, so we all believe we're going
to shut out the other side and score thirty points
every game. What he said when the Packers were driving
for the game winning touchdown and eventually scoring it, he said,
he's just standing on the sidelines with Fits and they're talking.
(23:39):
He said, he just kind of looks at me and
he says, Yep, looks like today is going to be
a day for a game winner. Well he was right,
and he nailed it, and he nailed it. Now Again,
a lot went into that. You had to have the
wind at your back, that depended on a decision made
before the game, that depended on a little luck and
winning that coin to because you know what, the odds
(24:01):
on a coin toss are fifty. There you go. She's
math and ladies and gentlemen. So a lot of stuff
went into it. But you know what, there's all kind
of stuff going on all over the place. There's stuff
happening here with the Happy half Hour family. It's bigger
by one this week. Yeah, congratulations to the podcast Matt Family.
Welcome the addition. I was kind of hoping that if
(24:23):
it was a boy, you could have named him Happy
Eddie in honor of the Happy half Hour sponsored by
her friends at Deep Eddie Vodka. You didn't go that way,
did you. I didn't.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
And that's also my middle name, so it would have
worked great.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
It's a baby girl, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
It is a baby girl, Murphy Lynn Hogan.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
My wife won't admit it, but I named her after
one of my favorite movies, which is Interstellar, which is
a movie about a daughter and a father.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
So my wife denies that. She just likes the name.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
That's super sweet. And look at that picture of baby girl.
That's one of the most beautiful babies I've ever seen
in my life.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah, Matt, you did good. Well, your wife did good.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah. Now let me ask Matt, did you guys know
it was gonna be girl?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Yes, we are very impatient people. So we found out.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
We took a blood test, so we found out earlier
than when you traditionally would.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Oh you paid that extra hundred dollars to find out early.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
We had to know.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
That's my brother, my sister in law would be happy
waiting to find out on delivery day. And my brother's
like pulling out cash, telling the nurse like tell me now,
tell me now.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
And my wife's also a preparer, so she wanted to
have clothes and nursery and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
So yeah, yeah, well I'm a preparer too, and that
runs counter to my belief. I mean, when my when
my baby girl was born, and that will be twenty
three years ago tomorrow, Happy birth, Happy birthday, baby Girl.
I know you're watching because you do every week, but
when baby Girl was born, it was a complete mystery
(25:47):
to me. That baby came out and I didn't know
what was coming. And so I had to adjust on
the fly to being a girl dad and that was
super cool. Now, when the boy child was born two
years later, I was gonna know, right, I was gonna know,
and so went to the ultrasound. Got everything checked out
at that point. And when the ultrasound texts, you know,
(26:09):
scanning and uh looking for looking for what became Sam.
She just pointed to the screen and she said, there
it is, mister gan It's gonna be a boy. And
I said, well, yet it is. And she looked at
me and she said, mister Gann, that's his femur. So
that's a possibly inappropriate story, ruining the mood. But congratulations
(26:32):
to the podcast Matt family.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Murphy, I was born in she was born into Carolina
Panther fandom and she's one to us.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
So all she knows is Monny.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
All she knows has an undefeated record. She's an undefeated
record for Panthers and Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Charlotte they won a playoff game.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
May she know nothing but joy all her days And
same to the podcast Mats over there, so appreciate it. It
was a huge weekend for all the family again FC one,
they got a big one coming up here in Bank
of America Stadium on Friday night. I don't know. I
was so into Charlotte FC and the Carolina Panthers. I've
lost I've lost track of professional basketball in the area.
(27:09):
But they're playing entertainaball too. It's a good time to
be in Charlotte. We're in the center of the universe.
All things are good the Panthers.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
We will be here Wednesday again.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yes, that so all the good things, and stay tuned
for all of it. We got a bunch of it
coming your way. I know fans are into it, so
a lot of cool stuff coming your way. Keep it
locked on the Panthers YouTube channel for all the latest updates.
Keep it on Panthers dot com for all your breaking news,
injury updates, and more and more about this team that's
suddenly playing real good football. We'll see you Thursday for
(27:40):
more on the Saints. Coming in here this weekend on
the next edition of The Happy Half Hour.
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