November 17, 2025 • 25 mins
Today on the Happy Half Hour, Darin and Kassidy react to the division win over the Atlanta Falcons, highlight a few of the individual efforts that helped lead the Panthers to victory on Sunday, discuss Bryce Young's record setting day, and so much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Happy Half Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hello friends, and welcome to an even happier edition of
the Happy Half Hour.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Could we get any happier?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well, yes, well I think we could thanks to our
friends from Deep Eddie Vodka. Don't pay any attention to
what I'm paying pouring into this red solo cup from
an unmarked bottle of clear liquids here, that's water, as
far as you know.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Thanks to our friends from Deep Eddy.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I'm sure a lot of people were out there celebrating
with that tailgate pack, with that cool stuff from Deep Eddy.
Those guys know how to have a good time, and
plenty of people were having a good time on Saturday afternoon,
put our Sunday afternoon pushing into Sunday evening when that
game finally finished in over.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well, I was rolling with you. I figured there was
something Saturday afternoon that I was.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
There were a lot of things Saturday afternoon. You were
at a wedding, I was. I was at a cool concert.
There was all kind of fun stuff happening in Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
It was just a good weekend in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
All good things happened to the Carolina Panthers and around
the Carolina Panthers. So, uh, thirty two, twenty seven overtime
win for your Carolina Panthers over the hated Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Sweep of the.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Falcons, get the brooms out, scoop up that litter box
for the first time since twenty thirteen, three games on
the road in a row for the first time since
twenty nineteen, and your Carolina Panthers are now six and
five winning record in November and a half game out
of first in the NFC South.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
How about all that.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
That's a mouthful. Yeah, not only a season sweep against
the Falcons, three and ozero against the Falcons in the
Year of the Lord twenty twenty five, because there was
that game in January as well that ended the twenty
twenty four season. Yeah, that took place in the calendar
year of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I don't even remember where I was then.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
You're in Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
It maybe my head might have been someplace. Sales. We've
seen a lot since.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Then, Yeah, and a huge You know what is funny because,
like you were just mentioned, like three games in a row.
The first half of this year, the Panthers couldn't win
on the road. They could only went at home. Now
they've dropped the last two at home, but have gone
on this little streak on the road. The key, of course,
is going to be figuring out how to balance that
and do both and not let your emotions like, not
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let the pendulum swing from one way to the other. However,
it has been interesting to see the attitude that they
have adopted when they have gone on the road recently,
Like it's we see it in like the pregame huddle
speeches that our great video crew puts out on social
and on Panthers dot com. And it's usually some version
from from J. C.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Horn.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I think it was jac Horn ahead of the Packers game.
It was Bryce Shong ahead of this game, say in
some version of like, look, there's not people here for us.
You know, there's not a whole lot of blue out there,
although there actually was a good bit of blue in
Atlanta yesterday, but there's not a whole lot of blue
out there. There's nobody here for us. All we've got
is right here. And they've adopted this little like I
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think they like being underdogs. You think, yeah, I think
would prefer this is kind of let Vegas know they
like being underdogs. It's the reverse Jedi mind trick.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I will have no communication with Las Vegas because gambling
is illegal here at Bushwood, and I never slice, but
they absolutely do dig on getting out there on the road,
getting away from everybody, and kind of that whole we
are enough is something they are very much into as
a team. And when they get on the road, you
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see them lean into it. I mean, and it's it's
taken some time, it's evolved over the course of the
year to your point, and it's a sign of what
we've talked about previously. This year, this team is learning.
It's how it's figuring out how to do certain things.
They figured out how to do a comeback, how to
win a shootout, how to get on the road and
win one, how to win as a favorite.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
How to win a defensive battle.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah, I mean all these different things and new Splash friends,
your Carolina Panthers figured out how to win through the air.
This was ever, This was not Rico dalut Ol going crazy.
This was not Cuba Hubbard going for one hundred and
sum and just beating people into submission like a battering ram.
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This was Bryce Young doing it. I don't want to
say all by himself, because he spread it out to
nine different receivers. But Bryce Young had the game of
his life four hundred and forty eight passing yards new
franchise record eclipse in the mark of Cam Newton during
that hot streak.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You you missed.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You were probably in junior high or something in twenty eleven.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Cam Newton, thank you for thinking that.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, Cam Newton, not true. But Cam Newton came out
in his first four weeks and had three games of
over three hundred and seventy five passing yards each. Uh
and two of those or three of those were in
the top four prior to Sunday. Yeah, because after Bryce Young,
everybody moved down a chair.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
You know, when I was putting together inside the numbers
last night and I put the date on the game
where Cam's at the record, Yeah, I thought to myself,
like that must have been the first or second of
his rookie season.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It certainly was.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
That was It was like an early September game in about.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
A toast to Rob Chazinski for that one. He was
the offensive coordinators time. Rob did amazing things with Cam
early on in that season. You think they're doing amazing
things with Bryce, And I think too, this thing shows
I mean, we've learned about Bryce over the course of
the year.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
He's got the game winning drives.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
He seemed to have a little vibe when he when
he needs to come back when he gets presented with
that situation. But Sunday was something different, because let me
tell you that man hurts today. That man is in pain.
He he woke up this morning and came to the
training room to begin getting treatment to get himself ready
for next Monday night at San Francisco case. Bryce Young
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does not feel good, friends, He is sore. He is
stove up, as the people say. And after that ankle
in the first quarter, he kind of you could see
as he was beginning to come off the field, one
of the helpful staff at Mercedes ben Stadium, and we
love our neighbors, they always treat us so well there
pulled a card up next to him to give him
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a ride to the locker room, and you could see
Bryce kind of give it one of these I mean,
he wasn't gonna make a big deal out of it,
but he waved that man off it like no, I'm good,
I got this, yeah, and he walked on in there
under his own two feet, and then he walked back
out and got back on the field before Andy Dalton
could even take one snap. So, of all the stats
Bryce Young piled up yesterday, to me, the one that
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is as impressive as any of them is eighty snaps played,
which is how many snaps the Carolina Panthers played on offense.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yea had Dave can Al has choked or joked. They
like pretty much went through their whole call sheet. They
ran out of place, but it worked. And I don't
think and I don't think this is happening. This is
not a narrative, but I'm just getting ahead of anyone
that might know.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I hate that word, right, narrative. Yeah, it just gets
at any rate per se, it.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Paints a picture in no way either was this Affluke.
You know, sometimes you can look at a game and
you can look at a score and you can hear
a guy like, oh, he threw for a bunch of yards,
and you think, and you're look at your box score watching.
In this case, the box score and the game tape
line up like that. He was in complete control, and
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he was in complete control of the game against the
number one passing defense in the NFL. And it was
a defense that did try to adjust. Yesterday you saw
them try to run a little bit of the same
concepts that the Saints did to shut down the run game.
The difference was that during the Saints game, the Panthers
didn't really have an answer yet through the air because
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nobody had shut them down in the run game yet,
and so it was kind of like, oh, this is
the first time we've kind of faced this so far
this year, and they went back this week and hammered it.
They've been working on things and building things and building
concepts in practice, but after that Saints game, they went
in and made sure that everything was ready, everything was polished,
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so that the next time a team tried to play
them that way, they were ready to respond. And it
happened the very next week. The Falcons didn't have a
great run defense coming into that game, but you can
tell they really kind of focused on shutting it down.
Bryce went out there against a still a very good
passing defense and just threw it all over the yard.
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You know, the guys asked the guys in the locker
room yesterday, like, what is it like when you're sitting
there and you know you're getting ready to go play
the number one passing defense in the NFL, and the
game plan gets presented it to present it to you
and you realize like, oh, we're just gonna chuck it
all over the place. And Team Mac was like you
start getting excited, like yeah, this is you want to
go out there and make a statement. And with these
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challenges and they did nine different receivers, five guys of
fifty plus yards. I think it's four guys that called
a pass of at least twenty plus yards. The second
pass of the game was an explosive right over the
middle to Jalen Coker that he fit through a window.
And I think that that set the tone early to
let us know day it was gonna be.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, you know what kind of day it was gonna be.
I don't really think about what happened last week. I
just want to go.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I just want to go one to know this week,
and I'm super grateful to all the guys who were
out there helping me. Uh there were so many guys
and listen, this guy is becoming the guy my ankle hurts.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Oh, this guy is.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Turning into that guy in that way in those situations,
they trust him because they know he has shown them Okay,
he is willing to get back out there.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
He is willing to tape that leg up. And Bryce
had a lot of tape on that leg.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It took them a minute to cut all that off
because and he was limping around the locker room pretty good.
Everybody was coming to pat him on the back, dump
gatorade on him, all the things. But Bryce was still
able to enjoy it a little bit and do the
dance after they dumped the gatorade on him. He kind
of hit the dab after breaking Cam Newton's record.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And that was cool.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
But Bryce Shung displayed a toughness that I think a
lot of people wondered about because he is a small guy.
He is not Josh Allen standing back there. He is
not Cam Newton standing back there. But Bryce jumped up
and did he did big guy stuff the other day
and he was he was on it. I mean, he
can show he has shown you that when he gets
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into that mode, he's as good as anybody in the
league at moving a team downfield quickly, be operating well
under pressure, and distributing it. I mean, if you think
about all of the great Bryce Young plays, I mean,
he hasn't always had a t mac out there. Who
is that one a receiver that people talk about or
the big time receiver that a lot of people think
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you need to pass the ball. He's made plays throwing
the Hunter Renfro on fourth down. He's made plays throwing
the Jimmy Horn on fourth down. He's made plays throwing
to David Moore and Dan Chasson on last year. It
doesn't matter who's out there with him. Bryce has got
the ability in those situations to spread the ball, distribute
and find people who were open. And yesterday they had
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a bunch of people open. To your point, nine different
dudes catching passes, guys going for big numbers. It was
an impressive display all the way around for a passing
game that I think was fairly questioned after the week
before against the Saints. Again the Saints dared them to
throw and they couldn't, and this time they did.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
One of the biggest things that helped yesterday as well
is that other guys made catches. And you know, we
hear Canalis say it all the time, like we've got
to execute, We've got to execute. You saw guys make
catches and that immediately this sounds so simple when you
lay it out like this. But you know, football at
its core is a simple is a simple conz out.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
If it was hard, I couldn't understand.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Is you know, when you've got Jalen Coker catching that
huge pass over the middle on the first drive of
the game, when you've got xavierly Get catching that thirty
six yard touchdown down the left sideline, when you've got
all of these guys doing that, it it defenses had
been had begun tilting towards Mac. When these other guys
are doing stuff and executing their part, it spreads the
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defenses back out t Mac received his second lowest target
share yesterday of the season, and he had a career
day and.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
That goes for one hundred and thirty yards.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Those two things directly correlate. And he even said it
after the game. He's like, you know, we know we
all have to be a part of it for any
of it to work right. And buddy, did it ever,
And I can see you getting ready over there, so
I'll set you up. Perhaps the biggest catch of the
day because it set up the game winning field goal,
was the Tommy Trimble fifty forty yard catching run.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
That's right, this viking right here. This man is coming
to rampage through your village and to steal all your stuff,
including your win at Mercedes Benz Stadium that you thought
you might have gotten. Tommy Trimble's kind of insane sometimes,
but in a good way, in the way we like.
When Tommy Trimble gets a ball.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
The man's never met a hurdle.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
He didn't want to jump, yeah, I mean, hurdling somebody
was really the only thing he didn't do. When fifty
five comes down and Tommy's just running downfield, stiff arming him,
I guess with the left, you know, you could just
see it. I mean, he was looking for contact. Nobody
was coming to contact him, so he sought out his contact,
and he stiff arms fifty five halfway down the field.
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You could see him just as soon as this arm
went out, this one went up. I mean, he was
securing the ball, did all the things. But Tommy's reactions
in those moments kind of cracked me up, because Tommy's
one of those dudes who he's a football guy, and
when he gets in that mode, he kind of loses
his mind a little bit, and it's in a fun way,
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it's not in a harmful way. It's Tommy is a
little nuts when he gets in that situation and he
broke out, and you could tell it means a lot
to guys like that because Tommy is a Georgia boy,
He's an Atlanta kid, grew up, ye had a lot
of family around, So it matters to guys to do that.
And when you saw the reaction after that play, it
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was like, Oh, they just did the thing. And that
viking right there, not the Minnesota kind, the angry kind,
Tommy tremble.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
He did that thing, and you know then it was easy.
Then it was just up to Ryan Fitzmaney to hit.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Oh, by the way, his third walk off game winner
of the season.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
He's racking them things up, isn't he?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You know, for an undrafted rookie, that kid's got a
little something about him.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Tommy did make the comment, and I didn't include this
in the play of the Day story because it just
didn't really fit with.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
There's always more than There's always.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
More on the cutting room floor, But he did make
the comment that he thought about just seeing if he
could drag Kayden Ellis into the end zone. He was like,
you know, because at that point he'd already drunk him
for like fifteen yards. He's like, you know, I thought
about just seeing if I could drag him all the way.
And he said, but I knew he had like slowed
me down enough that there's usually like a ghost guy
coming to punch it out. And he's like, so at
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that point, my entire focus just went into like securing
the ball and making sure it didn't fumble or anything.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Is this like baseball extra endings ghost man on second
kind of rule?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I think it's like, you know how we've heard, like
even the Panther's defense say, the first guy makes the tackle,
the second guy goes for the ball, and so it
was that idea of like a ghost guy coming. So
he's like, I just he's like, I thought about seeing
if I could drag him the whole way. But he's like,
at the bigger point, he said, I knew at that
point we were in field goal range, And he said,
the bigger focus just became protecting the ball, not letting
them get it.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
He also got down in bounds. Yeah, he was very
cognizant to get in bounds. Keep that clock rolling a
little bit to see because time was obviously a factor.
I mean, you've got your ten minutes of overtime after
they gave the Falcons ball first and got a stop
on defense, which they did on purpose, and they got
that stop. You don't want to get in a situation
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where if the field goal's not made, they've got a
whole bunch.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Of time to do stuff with.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
So I think Tommy in addition to be in a Viking,
in addition to be in a berserker out there on
the field, he did a smart thing at the end
of that play.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
But there was a lot of that going around.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yeah, have the Panthers been in an overtime game this year?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
How many games have we seen? I don't even remember.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I just noticed a lot of people questioning on Twitter
yesterday why kick in overtime? Why not take the ball first?
I think people forgot that the overtime rules changed this year, right,
and that each team gets a possession in overtime. I
see dl over there doing some research.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
That is, in fact the first overtime game for the
Carolina Panthers this season.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Okay, yes, the overtime rules are new this year. Each
team is gonna get a possession, and so it does
behoove you took kick so that you then know what
you have to do when you get the ball. That's
exactly what happened.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You know what else the Panthers did in overtime, They
got to stop Yeah, and that bunch of that. After
the first half of that game, I wasn't sure that
was the thing I was going to be talking about
because Drake Lonnon and Bijon went kind of nuts in
the first half.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
They are apt to do.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Their first half was kind of like Tommy Trimble running downfield,
but in the second half that did not happen. They
had to combine sixteen yards between them in the second half,
after having about a combined two hundred in the first half.
The Atlanta Falcons had ninety one yards and six.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Points after halftime.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
The Carolina Panthers put the clamps on a team that
had been running up and down the field. I mean,
it's twenty one to seven before they stole that late
field goal into the first half, and it was on
the verge of being a runaway, but the defense just
kind of decided. And I love talking to Derek Brown
because Derek is like he is rapidly becoming He's not
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the dad of the room, but he's like the angry uncle,
and he's kind of he's kind of scolding people every now,
and he's like, it wasn't anything special.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
We just said we had to do the thing we do. Yeah,
thanks for explaining that, Derek.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
But they were able to kind of get in there
and make the plays they needed to and really played
a lot more solid defensively. They had a bunch of
guys in and out. Corey Thornton is another undrafted rookie
who made this team and is making a little bit
of an impact. He's a corner who's got linked he's
got talent. He can get after people, and when you're
playing team like Atlanta that can spread you out, you
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want as many good cover people on the field as
you can get. So Corey stepped up and made a
couple of plays, broke up a couple of passes. Claude
and Cherl has stepped in. Claude is one of our favorites.
He is primarily a special teams player, but he's jumped
in and finished games for Trevon Willas lately.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Started that one the other day and in.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
The first half there were a couple of hiccups and
they've kind of alluded to it today you know, there
were a couple of hiccups, there were some runs that
leaked out, but in the second half everything tightened up.
And when you can take a really good Atlanta Falcons offense,
it doesn't matter who's in. I mean, I know their
quarterback Michael Pennix is headed to injured reserve. That knee
injury that knocked him out of the game is gonna
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cost him at least the next four and maybe more.
We'll see how it is for him. Hope he's well.
But Drake London was in and out afterward in the
second half too. But they put the clamps on those dudes,
and being able to play that kind of you hear
the cliche all the time that complimentary football when the
defense has given you the ball back, when your quarterback's
dealing and doing something with it, all good things.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
And speaking of complimentary football, just have to give a
shout out. One of the reasons they were able to
put the clamps on them in the second half is
because of the special team's play at the beginning of
the second hour. Panthers come out and get the ball
in the first in the second half, go down, score
that touchdown with Xavierly get fell on the two point conversion,
so it's a five point game instead of a three
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point game. And then the Falcons on the kickoff return
fumble or they don't fumble it. Van Martin Scott forces
a fumble. Bam forces the fumble, Princely human meel and
picks it up and that kept the ball out of
the Falcon's hands. Offense wasn't able to do anything with it,
something Canalis apologized for and kind of took the blame
for today. There was some timing issues. He said he
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should have taken a time out before the fourth down,
and you know, credited Bryce for still getting a playoff
that looked like it could have worked. Kayden Ellis just
made a heck of a defensive play anyways, that they
were so deep in Atlanta territory that when the Falcons
did get the ball back, they still had to punt,
and on the ensuing drive, the Panthers get a field goal. So,
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in a way, if you want to think about it,
forcing that fumble recovering it, even though they weren't able
to score right off of it, that ended up still
being a nine point swing in that game right out
of the second half because you're keeping the ball out
of the Falcons hands, and on that first drive, you're
keeping them deep deep in their own territory on their
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second chance. That ended up being huge, and it kind
of got overlooked just because of how everything else that
happened in the game.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
But that was a big play, Yeah, and so many
big plays. Yesterday was one of those games where's so
much stuff happening. When you and I are talking after
the game and start divving up who's going to write what,
it's like, the list is longer than we got time
to write.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Yeah, we just got bad into it.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
So it just.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Spilled over into Monday morning. So check out Panthers dot
com for all that kind of stuff and keep scrolling.
Hit that news tab and go to the news archive
if you need to, because it keeps coming. And it's
just there's so much cool stuff. I even loved our
boy fitz Money, the rookie kicker Ryan Fitzgerald. That was
not his first winner in Mercedes Benz Stadium. He has
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kicked there twice earlier in high school. He won a
game lost state championship game his senior year in high school,
when he was grown up and going to colquit County
High but this one was a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Did he not ever play there with FSU Did he
not play like a Chick fil A kickoff game?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I don't know. Oh, okay, I don't follow a college football.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Journalism only extended to high.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
School, that's right.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I mean, as he's a local kid, played in high
school there and that was a big deal.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
But Fitz was money.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
So many people were my guy Tommy Trimble out here
running around going crazy Bryce of course, everybody on defense.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
It was just that kind of game.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Dave Canalis has been saying, Jalen Coker is going to
have a big game, and he did. He had four
catches fifty two yards. He had an another again, another
play that ended up being a huge game changing play,
the two point conversion in the fourth quarter right there
with a minute left. That made it a field goal
game where if Atlanta kicked a field goal, all that
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was gonna do was tie it and then you get
a chance in overtime. That play was huge.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, and you know what it sets up, friends, It
sets up meaningful football and late November and heading into December,
your Carolina Panthers, you know over there on that chart.
I mean listen when they put it on TV. They
don't have cool deep eddy logos like we do under
the Happy Half Hour. But what they got that section
over on the right that says then in the hunt,
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and that's where the Carolina Panthers are. They're in the
hunt after that one, and it's different. People are getting
used to it around here, and it's gonna take another
set of adjustments because learning to be good requires them
building on that and taking the next step. And the
Carolina Panthers got opportunities. We're gonna see all kinds old
friends had to say.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Did you see the chart of who Panthers have to
go through to make the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
That's right, Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
This week we'll see old friends Baker Mayfield and Sam Donald.
Rough day for Sam yesterday, but that's okay. This is
still a pro Sam account. If I would have had
heads on a stick back in the old days, I
would have definitely had this week.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Give you, as Sam darnld head on this.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Say for the game, I would appreciate a Sam head
on this.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
See what we could do.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
We might have to homemake one, but yeah, all good things.
You You mentioned a wedding yeah, we should have special
shout outs.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
For the bride and room.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yes, congratulations to Sam and Jordan. My cousin, Samantha got
married on Saturday. It was in downtown Atlanta. I really
appreciate her and Roger Goodell working that out for me.
That was really appreciated. But it was a beautiful wedding.
Sam and Jordan were great. They they put off, they
pulled off a good party. It was a lot of fun.
It was so much fun to see my entire family
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there to all be together. And yes, very very happy
for Sam Jordan. They left today on their honeymoon, so
save travels and hope they have a grand old time.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I could great to see.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Mozzel tov to the Sam and Jordan's. It's all good
things we were talking about early on. I did go
to a concert Saturday night. Darius Rucker, you know Hoodie,
that guy Mike Mills from Rim and Steve Gorman, the
old drummer from the Black Crows, just said.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Hey, let's have a band. Why not let's go little
rascals and put on a show.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Would that be like you Rob Demowski and Darren from Arizona,
like forming a book club or something.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, except we'd just be grouchy old dudes muttering about stuff.
But great show at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, seeing
those guys they call themselves howl Al Howell, which is
harder to say than sweet Sip sweepsteaks, frankly, but we
were able to pull that off for a couple months.
But that was a great show. One of the coolest
things about it Mike Mills from Rim. He was so
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into the moment. I have never seen a performer as
happy to be in that place he was at as
Mike Mills was.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
That's that's what it's all about.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
When you find those people who are perfectly in the
moment and perfectly happy being in that moment, that's when
cool stuff happened.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
So I was glad I.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Got to see that Saturday evening. Glad I got to
see the Carolina Panthers do what they did Sunday because
I don't know if a lot of people were expecting
four forty eight out of Bryce, but what a day.
Hats off to the quarterback, Hats off to all the people.
Thanks to all you people who are out there enjoying
the happy half hour. Thanks to our friends from Deep
Eddie and we will see.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
You later this week.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Question Mark gets some Monday Night football week, so all
the days get scooched over by one and by Wednesday,
I'm not gonna know what day of the week it
is at all, But later this week we'll hit you
again on the Happy half Hour and get you ready
for that forty nine Ers game next Monday Night.
Happy Half Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hello friends, and welcome to an even happier edition of
the Happy Half Hour.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Could we get any happier?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well, yes, well I think we could thanks to our
friends from Deep Eddie Vodka. Don't pay any attention to
what I'm paying pouring into this red solo cup from
an unmarked bottle of clear liquids here, that's water, as
far as you know.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Thanks to our friends from Deep Eddy.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I'm sure a lot of people were out there celebrating
with that tailgate pack, with that cool stuff from Deep Eddy.
Those guys know how to have a good time, and
plenty of people were having a good time on Saturday afternoon,
put our Sunday afternoon pushing into Sunday evening when that
game finally finished in over.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well, I was rolling with you. I figured there was
something Saturday afternoon that I was.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
There were a lot of things Saturday afternoon. You were
at a wedding, I was. I was at a cool concert.
There was all kind of fun stuff happening in Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
It was just a good weekend in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
All good things happened to the Carolina Panthers and around
the Carolina Panthers. So, uh, thirty two, twenty seven overtime
win for your Carolina Panthers over the hated Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Sweep of the.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Falcons, get the brooms out, scoop up that litter box
for the first time since twenty thirteen, three games on
the road in a row for the first time since
twenty nineteen, and your Carolina Panthers are now six and
five winning record in November and a half game out
of first in the NFC South.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
How about all that.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
That's a mouthful. Yeah, not only a season sweep against
the Falcons, three and ozero against the Falcons in the
Year of the Lord twenty twenty five, because there was
that game in January as well that ended the twenty
twenty four season. Yeah, that took place in the calendar
year of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I don't even remember where I was then.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
You're in Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
It maybe my head might have been someplace. Sales. We've
seen a lot since.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Then, Yeah, and a huge You know what is funny because,
like you were just mentioned, like three games in a row.
The first half of this year, the Panthers couldn't win
on the road. They could only went at home. Now
they've dropped the last two at home, but have gone
on this little streak on the road. The key, of course,
is going to be figuring out how to balance that
and do both and not let your emotions like, not
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let the pendulum swing from one way to the other. However,
it has been interesting to see the attitude that they
have adopted when they have gone on the road recently,
Like it's we see it in like the pregame huddle
speeches that our great video crew puts out on social
and on Panthers dot com. And it's usually some version
from from J. C.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Horn.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I think it was jac Horn ahead of the Packers game.
It was Bryce Shong ahead of this game, say in
some version of like, look, there's not people here for us.
You know, there's not a whole lot of blue out there,
although there actually was a good bit of blue in
Atlanta yesterday, but there's not a whole lot of blue
out there. There's nobody here for us. All we've got
is right here. And they've adopted this little like I
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think they like being underdogs. You think, yeah, I think
would prefer this is kind of let Vegas know they
like being underdogs. It's the reverse Jedi mind trick.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I will have no communication with Las Vegas because gambling
is illegal here at Bushwood, and I never slice, but
they absolutely do dig on getting out there on the road,
getting away from everybody, and kind of that whole we
are enough is something they are very much into as
a team. And when they get on the road, you
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see them lean into it. I mean, and it's it's
taken some time, it's evolved over the course of the
year to your point, and it's a sign of what
we've talked about previously. This year, this team is learning.
It's how it's figuring out how to do certain things.
They figured out how to do a comeback, how to
win a shootout, how to get on the road and
win one, how to win as a favorite.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
How to win a defensive battle.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah, I mean all these different things and new Splash friends,
your Carolina Panthers figured out how to win through the air.
This was ever, This was not Rico dalut Ol going crazy.
This was not Cuba Hubbard going for one hundred and
sum and just beating people into submission like a battering ram.
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This was Bryce Young doing it. I don't want to
say all by himself, because he spread it out to
nine different receivers. But Bryce Young had the game of
his life four hundred and forty eight passing yards new
franchise record eclipse in the mark of Cam Newton during
that hot streak.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You you missed.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You were probably in junior high or something in twenty eleven.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Cam Newton, thank you for thinking that.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, Cam Newton, not true. But Cam Newton came out
in his first four weeks and had three games of
over three hundred and seventy five passing yards each. Uh
and two of those or three of those were in
the top four prior to Sunday. Yeah, because after Bryce Young,
everybody moved down a chair.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
You know, when I was putting together inside the numbers
last night and I put the date on the game
where Cam's at the record, Yeah, I thought to myself,
like that must have been the first or second of
his rookie season.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It certainly was.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
That was It was like an early September game in about.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
A toast to Rob Chazinski for that one. He was
the offensive coordinators time. Rob did amazing things with Cam
early on in that season. You think they're doing amazing
things with Bryce, And I think too, this thing shows
I mean, we've learned about Bryce over the course of
the year.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
He's got the game winning drives.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
He seemed to have a little vibe when he when
he needs to come back when he gets presented with
that situation. But Sunday was something different, because let me
tell you that man hurts today. That man is in pain.
He he woke up this morning and came to the
training room to begin getting treatment to get himself ready
for next Monday night at San Francisco case. Bryce Young
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does not feel good, friends, He is sore. He is
stove up, as the people say. And after that ankle
in the first quarter, he kind of you could see
as he was beginning to come off the field, one
of the helpful staff at Mercedes ben Stadium, and we
love our neighbors, they always treat us so well there
pulled a card up next to him to give him
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a ride to the locker room, and you could see
Bryce kind of give it one of these I mean,
he wasn't gonna make a big deal out of it,
but he waved that man off it like no, I'm good,
I got this, yeah, and he walked on in there
under his own two feet, and then he walked back
out and got back on the field before Andy Dalton
could even take one snap. So, of all the stats
Bryce Young piled up yesterday, to me, the one that
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is as impressive as any of them is eighty snaps played,
which is how many snaps the Carolina Panthers played on offense.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yea had Dave can Al has choked or joked. They
like pretty much went through their whole call sheet. They
ran out of place, but it worked. And I don't
think and I don't think this is happening. This is
not a narrative, but I'm just getting ahead of anyone
that might know.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I hate that word, right, narrative. Yeah, it just gets
at any rate per se, it.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Paints a picture in no way either was this Affluke.
You know, sometimes you can look at a game and
you can look at a score and you can hear
a guy like, oh, he threw for a bunch of yards,
and you think, and you're look at your box score watching.
In this case, the box score and the game tape
line up like that. He was in complete control, and
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he was in complete control of the game against the
number one passing defense in the NFL. And it was
a defense that did try to adjust. Yesterday you saw
them try to run a little bit of the same
concepts that the Saints did to shut down the run game.
The difference was that during the Saints game, the Panthers
didn't really have an answer yet through the air because
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nobody had shut them down in the run game yet,
and so it was kind of like, oh, this is
the first time we've kind of faced this so far
this year, and they went back this week and hammered it.
They've been working on things and building things and building
concepts in practice, but after that Saints game, they went
in and made sure that everything was ready, everything was polished,
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so that the next time a team tried to play
them that way, they were ready to respond. And it
happened the very next week. The Falcons didn't have a
great run defense coming into that game, but you can
tell they really kind of focused on shutting it down.
Bryce went out there against a still a very good
passing defense and just threw it all over the yard.
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You know, the guys asked the guys in the locker
room yesterday, like, what is it like when you're sitting
there and you know you're getting ready to go play
the number one passing defense in the NFL, and the
game plan gets presented it to present it to you
and you realize like, oh, we're just gonna chuck it
all over the place. And Team Mac was like you
start getting excited, like yeah, this is you want to
go out there and make a statement. And with these
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challenges and they did nine different receivers, five guys of
fifty plus yards. I think it's four guys that called
a pass of at least twenty plus yards. The second
pass of the game was an explosive right over the
middle to Jalen Coker that he fit through a window.
And I think that that set the tone early to
let us know day it was gonna be.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, you know what kind of day it was gonna be.
I don't really think about what happened last week. I
just want to go.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I just want to go one to know this week,
and I'm super grateful to all the guys who were
out there helping me. Uh there were so many guys
and listen, this guy is becoming the guy my ankle hurts.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Oh, this guy is.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Turning into that guy in that way in those situations,
they trust him because they know he has shown them Okay,
he is willing to get back out there.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
He is willing to tape that leg up. And Bryce
had a lot of tape on that leg.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It took them a minute to cut all that off
because and he was limping around the locker room pretty good.
Everybody was coming to pat him on the back, dump
gatorade on him, all the things. But Bryce was still
able to enjoy it a little bit and do the
dance after they dumped the gatorade on him. He kind
of hit the dab after breaking Cam Newton's record.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And that was cool.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
But Bryce Shung displayed a toughness that I think a
lot of people wondered about because he is a small guy.
He is not Josh Allen standing back there. He is
not Cam Newton standing back there. But Bryce jumped up
and did he did big guy stuff the other day
and he was he was on it. I mean, he
can show he has shown you that when he gets
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into that mode, he's as good as anybody in the
league at moving a team downfield quickly, be operating well
under pressure, and distributing it. I mean, if you think
about all of the great Bryce Young plays, I mean,
he hasn't always had a t mac out there. Who
is that one a receiver that people talk about or
the big time receiver that a lot of people think
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you need to pass the ball. He's made plays throwing
the Hunter Renfro on fourth down. He's made plays throwing
the Jimmy Horn on fourth down. He's made plays throwing
to David Moore and Dan Chasson on last year. It
doesn't matter who's out there with him. Bryce has got
the ability in those situations to spread the ball, distribute
and find people who were open. And yesterday they had
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a bunch of people open. To your point, nine different
dudes catching passes, guys going for big numbers. It was
an impressive display all the way around for a passing
game that I think was fairly questioned after the week
before against the Saints. Again the Saints dared them to
throw and they couldn't, and this time they did.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
One of the biggest things that helped yesterday as well
is that other guys made catches. And you know, we
hear Canalis say it all the time, like we've got
to execute, We've got to execute. You saw guys make
catches and that immediately this sounds so simple when you
lay it out like this. But you know, football at
its core is a simple is a simple conz out.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
If it was hard, I couldn't understand.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Is you know, when you've got Jalen Coker catching that
huge pass over the middle on the first drive of
the game, when you've got xavierly Get catching that thirty
six yard touchdown down the left sideline, when you've got
all of these guys doing that, it it defenses had
been had begun tilting towards Mac. When these other guys
are doing stuff and executing their part, it spreads the
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defenses back out t Mac received his second lowest target
share yesterday of the season, and he had a career
day and.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
That goes for one hundred and thirty yards.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Those two things directly correlate. And he even said it
after the game. He's like, you know, we know we
all have to be a part of it for any
of it to work right. And buddy, did it ever,
And I can see you getting ready over there, so
I'll set you up. Perhaps the biggest catch of the
day because it set up the game winning field goal,
was the Tommy Trimble fifty forty yard catching run.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
That's right, this viking right here. This man is coming
to rampage through your village and to steal all your stuff,
including your win at Mercedes Benz Stadium that you thought
you might have gotten. Tommy Trimble's kind of insane sometimes,
but in a good way, in the way we like.
When Tommy Trimble gets a ball.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
The man's never met a hurdle.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
He didn't want to jump, yeah, I mean, hurdling somebody
was really the only thing he didn't do. When fifty
five comes down and Tommy's just running downfield, stiff arming him,
I guess with the left, you know, you could just
see it. I mean, he was looking for contact. Nobody
was coming to contact him, so he sought out his contact,
and he stiff arms fifty five halfway down the field.
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You could see him just as soon as this arm
went out, this one went up. I mean, he was
securing the ball, did all the things. But Tommy's reactions
in those moments kind of cracked me up, because Tommy's
one of those dudes who he's a football guy, and
when he gets in that mode, he kind of loses
his mind a little bit, and it's in a fun way,
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it's not in a harmful way. It's Tommy is a
little nuts when he gets in that situation and he
broke out, and you could tell it means a lot
to guys like that because Tommy is a Georgia boy,
He's an Atlanta kid, grew up, ye had a lot
of family around, So it matters to guys to do that.
And when you saw the reaction after that play, it
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was like, Oh, they just did the thing. And that
viking right there, not the Minnesota kind, the angry kind,
Tommy tremble.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
He did that thing, and you know then it was easy.
Then it was just up to Ryan Fitzmaney to hit.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Oh, by the way, his third walk off game winner
of the season.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
He's racking them things up, isn't he?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You know, for an undrafted rookie, that kid's got a
little something about him.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Tommy did make the comment, and I didn't include this
in the play of the Day story because it just
didn't really fit with.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
There's always more than There's always.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
More on the cutting room floor, But he did make
the comment that he thought about just seeing if he
could drag Kayden Ellis into the end zone. He was like,
you know, because at that point he'd already drunk him
for like fifteen yards. He's like, you know, I thought
about just seeing if I could drag him all the way.
And he said, but I knew he had like slowed
me down enough that there's usually like a ghost guy
coming to punch it out. And he's like, so at
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that point, my entire focus just went into like securing
the ball and making sure it didn't fumble or anything.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Is this like baseball extra endings ghost man on second
kind of rule?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I think it's like, you know how we've heard, like
even the Panther's defense say, the first guy makes the tackle,
the second guy goes for the ball, and so it
was that idea of like a ghost guy coming. So
he's like, I just he's like, I thought about seeing
if I could drag him the whole way. But he's like,
at the bigger point, he said, I knew at that
point we were in field goal range, And he said,
the bigger focus just became protecting the ball, not letting
them get it.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
He also got down in bounds. Yeah, he was very
cognizant to get in bounds. Keep that clock rolling a
little bit to see because time was obviously a factor.
I mean, you've got your ten minutes of overtime after
they gave the Falcons ball first and got a stop
on defense, which they did on purpose, and they got
that stop. You don't want to get in a situation
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where if the field goal's not made, they've got a
whole bunch.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Of time to do stuff with.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
So I think Tommy in addition to be in a Viking,
in addition to be in a berserker out there on
the field, he did a smart thing at the end
of that play.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
But there was a lot of that going around.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yeah, have the Panthers been in an overtime game this year?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
How many games have we seen? I don't even remember.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I just noticed a lot of people questioning on Twitter
yesterday why kick in overtime? Why not take the ball first?
I think people forgot that the overtime rules changed this year, right,
and that each team gets a possession in overtime. I
see dl over there doing some research.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
That is, in fact the first overtime game for the
Carolina Panthers this season.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Okay, yes, the overtime rules are new this year. Each
team is gonna get a possession, and so it does
behoove you took kick so that you then know what
you have to do when you get the ball. That's
exactly what happened.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You know what else the Panthers did in overtime, They
got to stop Yeah, and that bunch of that. After
the first half of that game, I wasn't sure that
was the thing I was going to be talking about
because Drake Lonnon and Bijon went kind of nuts in
the first half.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
They are apt to do.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Their first half was kind of like Tommy Trimble running downfield,
but in the second half that did not happen. They
had to combine sixteen yards between them in the second half,
after having about a combined two hundred in the first half.
The Atlanta Falcons had ninety one yards and six.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Points after halftime.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
The Carolina Panthers put the clamps on a team that
had been running up and down the field. I mean,
it's twenty one to seven before they stole that late
field goal into the first half, and it was on
the verge of being a runaway, but the defense just
kind of decided. And I love talking to Derek Brown
because Derek is like he is rapidly becoming He's not
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the dad of the room, but he's like the angry uncle,
and he's kind of he's kind of scolding people every now,
and he's like, it wasn't anything special.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
We just said we had to do the thing we do. Yeah,
thanks for explaining that, Derek.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
But they were able to kind of get in there
and make the plays they needed to and really played
a lot more solid defensively. They had a bunch of
guys in and out. Corey Thornton is another undrafted rookie
who made this team and is making a little bit
of an impact. He's a corner who's got linked he's
got talent. He can get after people, and when you're
playing team like Atlanta that can spread you out, you
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want as many good cover people on the field as
you can get. So Corey stepped up and made a
couple of plays, broke up a couple of passes. Claude
and Cherl has stepped in. Claude is one of our favorites.
He is primarily a special teams player, but he's jumped
in and finished games for Trevon Willas lately.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Started that one the other day and in.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
The first half there were a couple of hiccups and
they've kind of alluded to it today you know, there
were a couple of hiccups, there were some runs that
leaked out, but in the second half everything tightened up.
And when you can take a really good Atlanta Falcons offense,
it doesn't matter who's in. I mean, I know their
quarterback Michael Pennix is headed to injured reserve. That knee
injury that knocked him out of the game is gonna
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cost him at least the next four and maybe more.
We'll see how it is for him. Hope he's well.
But Drake London was in and out afterward in the
second half too. But they put the clamps on those dudes,
and being able to play that kind of you hear
the cliche all the time that complimentary football when the
defense has given you the ball back, when your quarterback's
dealing and doing something with it, all good things.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
And speaking of complimentary football, just have to give a
shout out. One of the reasons they were able to
put the clamps on them in the second half is
because of the special team's play at the beginning of
the second hour. Panthers come out and get the ball
in the first in the second half, go down, score
that touchdown with Xavierly get fell on the two point conversion,
so it's a five point game instead of a three
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point game. And then the Falcons on the kickoff return
fumble or they don't fumble it. Van Martin Scott forces
a fumble. Bam forces the fumble, Princely human meel and
picks it up and that kept the ball out of
the Falcon's hands. Offense wasn't able to do anything with it,
something Canalis apologized for and kind of took the blame
for today. There was some timing issues. He said he
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should have taken a time out before the fourth down,
and you know, credited Bryce for still getting a playoff
that looked like it could have worked. Kayden Ellis just
made a heck of a defensive play anyways, that they
were so deep in Atlanta territory that when the Falcons
did get the ball back, they still had to punt,
and on the ensuing drive, the Panthers get a field goal. So,
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in a way, if you want to think about it,
forcing that fumble recovering it, even though they weren't able
to score right off of it, that ended up still
being a nine point swing in that game right out
of the second half because you're keeping the ball out
of the Falcons hands, and on that first drive, you're
keeping them deep deep in their own territory on their
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second chance. That ended up being huge, and it kind
of got overlooked just because of how everything else that
happened in the game.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
But that was a big play, Yeah, and so many
big plays. Yesterday was one of those games where's so
much stuff happening. When you and I are talking after
the game and start divving up who's going to write what,
it's like, the list is longer than we got time
to write.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Yeah, we just got bad into it.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
So it just.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Spilled over into Monday morning. So check out Panthers dot
com for all that kind of stuff and keep scrolling.
Hit that news tab and go to the news archive
if you need to, because it keeps coming. And it's
just there's so much cool stuff. I even loved our
boy fitz Money, the rookie kicker Ryan Fitzgerald. That was
not his first winner in Mercedes Benz Stadium. He has
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kicked there twice earlier in high school. He won a
game lost state championship game his senior year in high school,
when he was grown up and going to colquit County
High but this one was a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Did he not ever play there with FSU Did he
not play like a Chick fil A kickoff game?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I don't know. Oh, okay, I don't follow a college football.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Journalism only extended to high.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
School, that's right.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I mean, as he's a local kid, played in high
school there and that was a big deal.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
But Fitz was money.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
So many people were my guy Tommy Trimble out here
running around going crazy Bryce of course, everybody on defense.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
It was just that kind of game.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Dave Canalis has been saying, Jalen Coker is going to
have a big game, and he did. He had four
catches fifty two yards. He had an another again, another
play that ended up being a huge game changing play,
the two point conversion in the fourth quarter right there
with a minute left. That made it a field goal
game where if Atlanta kicked a field goal, all that
(22:13):
was gonna do was tie it and then you get
a chance in overtime. That play was huge.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, and you know what it sets up, friends, It
sets up meaningful football and late November and heading into December,
your Carolina Panthers, you know over there on that chart.
I mean listen when they put it on TV. They
don't have cool deep eddy logos like we do under
the Happy Half Hour. But what they got that section
over on the right that says then in the hunt,
(22:40):
and that's where the Carolina Panthers are. They're in the
hunt after that one, and it's different. People are getting
used to it around here, and it's gonna take another
set of adjustments because learning to be good requires them
building on that and taking the next step. And the
Carolina Panthers got opportunities. We're gonna see all kinds old
friends had to say.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Did you see the chart of who Panthers have to
go through to make the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
That's right, Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
This week we'll see old friends Baker Mayfield and Sam Donald.
Rough day for Sam yesterday, but that's okay. This is
still a pro Sam account. If I would have had
heads on a stick back in the old days, I
would have definitely had this week.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Give you, as Sam darnld head on this.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Say for the game, I would appreciate a Sam head
on this.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
See what we could do.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
We might have to homemake one, but yeah, all good things.
You You mentioned a wedding yeah, we should have special
shout outs.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
For the bride and room.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yes, congratulations to Sam and Jordan. My cousin, Samantha got
married on Saturday. It was in downtown Atlanta. I really
appreciate her and Roger Goodell working that out for me.
That was really appreciated. But it was a beautiful wedding.
Sam and Jordan were great. They they put off, they
pulled off a good party. It was a lot of fun.
It was so much fun to see my entire family
(23:53):
there to all be together. And yes, very very happy
for Sam Jordan. They left today on their honeymoon, so
save travels and hope they have a grand old time.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I could great to see.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Mozzel tov to the Sam and Jordan's. It's all good
things we were talking about early on. I did go
to a concert Saturday night. Darius Rucker, you know Hoodie,
that guy Mike Mills from Rim and Steve Gorman, the
old drummer from the Black Crows, just said.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Hey, let's have a band. Why not let's go little
rascals and put on a show.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Would that be like you Rob Demowski and Darren from Arizona,
like forming a book club or something.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, except we'd just be grouchy old dudes muttering about stuff.
But great show at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, seeing
those guys they call themselves howl Al Howell, which is
harder to say than sweet Sip sweepsteaks, frankly, but we
were able to pull that off for a couple months.
But that was a great show. One of the coolest
things about it Mike Mills from Rim. He was so
(24:50):
into the moment. I have never seen a performer as
happy to be in that place he was at as
Mike Mills was.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
That's that's what it's all about.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
When you find those people who are perfectly in the
moment and perfectly happy being in that moment, that's when
cool stuff happened.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
So I was glad I.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Got to see that Saturday evening. Glad I got to
see the Carolina Panthers do what they did Sunday because
I don't know if a lot of people were expecting
four forty eight out of Bryce, but what a day.
Hats off to the quarterback, Hats off to all the people.
Thanks to all you people who are out there enjoying
the happy half hour. Thanks to our friends from Deep
Eddie and we will see.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
You later this week.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Question Mark gets some Monday Night football week, so all
the days get scooched over by one and by Wednesday,
I'm not gonna know what day of the week it
is at all, But later this week we'll hit you
again on the Happy half Hour and get you ready
for that forty nine Ers game next Monday Night.
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