Panthers Post Game | September 15, 2024

This week on the Panthers Post Game show, Jim, Mike and Eugene recap the Panther's loss to the Chargers, hear from Coach Canales and so much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Now to Jim Zilky with the Panthers postgame show presuming
by Southern Star un official bourbon of the Carolina Panthers,
celebrate the spirit up in Carolinas.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
All right, welcome on board. Postgame show starts here. Twenty
six to three. The final score, Chargers ruining the home
opener for the Panthers here at Bank of America Stadium,
and after coming off a forty seven to ten loss,
losing by thirty seven points, this time by twenty three points.
And Mike and Eugene some of the similar storylines in

(00:40):
this game, just not a ton of offense for the Panthers. Overalls.
You'll get a total net yard one fine, three hundred
and forty nine yards for the Chargers in this game
and another game where the first half it was already
lopsided twenty to nothing at halftime in this one. And
I'll start with you, Eugene for this part of it.
Here again Bryce young At he had twenty two yards passing,

(01:01):
he finishes with eighty four yards. It's not on just
one person, but it's going to be a topic of
a conversation all this week. Once again, that just not
much in the offensive game, especially the passing game.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
And if you notice that the ball went laterally, so
even on the dropbacks, the ball was going out to
the side, almost like in the screen or stick roll.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
It wasn't advanced down the field.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
At the time it was advanced down the field, he
d have thrown an interception that kind of cost him.
Maybe a little bit of your confidence too, because it
felt attle little shaky after that. I can't go ahead
and make things up. I'm just saying it was a
very tough outing for the Carolina Panthers. I thought, defensively,
I thought that the offense of the Chargers was able

(01:44):
to establish the run. They ran the ball extremely well.
And when they were running the ball well, it means
they can do everything from passing the ball to kicking,
protection everything.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
And then finally when they were running the ball, they
got in the rest.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
If it were not for the errors that the Chargers made,
the score could have been even a little bit more lopsided.
And so, yeah, there was nothing that you could do.
I think the coaches gonna have to look at the
film and see what they can gather from there and
where they can make their improvements.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
But it was a very, very tough outing. For the
Carolina Panthers.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
But I felt like last week, like the offensive and
defensive lines for the Panthers weren't able to get much push,
get much thrust. And you know, when things are going well,
everybody's kind of doing their jobs. But when one person
does something, you know, doesn't do the right thing, or
the second guy does, the third guy kind of can
roll downhill a little bit, you know what I mean.
And I think that's what's what we've seen in the

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first two weeks. It's just it's not kind of the
one on one individual battles aren't being one.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
You're right, and here it is.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
And I thought, you know a little bit that the
quarterbacks under duress a little bit out of the pocket
throws that interception. There was just so many things that
kind of went wrong and there was no thing that
you could establish. I thought that coach kanal Is early
in the game tried to establish to run. I would say, okay,
established to run, established to run that will that will

(03:08):
help us out.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
However, that wasn't.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
It didn't hold true because the Chargers were playing very
very good deepense. It looked like they had like twelve
people in the field at times. Yeah, I mean because
they seemed to be ubick was that they were everywhere
the charges were. And so from that standpoint, good game
plan by the Chargers because they were able to nullify
most of anything that the Caroline Panthers were doing.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
We should look at we should look at it at
twelve man things. That's a penalty. That's a penalty. Yeah,
it's worth the look. We can come up with it.
But it's again, it's just wasn't really Once you fall behind,
when the offense isn't playing well, there's not much of
a threat of the comeback, and of course only able
to put up three points in the second half after
nothing in the first half. Chargers, you know what they're

(03:52):
gonna do, As a Eugene said, you knew they were
gonna be a team that runs to run the ball.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
I've run it well.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Dobbins one hundred and thirty one yards. Last week he
had won thirty five against the race. So he just
picked up where he left off last week. He is
just killing it tonning it right now. Had that long
touchdown run where he ran down the left side and
basically almost went on touchdown that forty four yard or
there which was almost Keystone cops as far as the
Panther defenders, you know, being knocked onto their backs and
tumbling over each other during the course without a run.

(04:18):
But again, next up a road trip at Vegas. The
questions that were there last week are going to remain
there this week in terms of offense productivity. Defense doesn't
seem to be as stout so far through two games
as it was last year. Final numbers for Brice we're
eighteen out of twenty six eighty four yards with the interception.
Tommy Trumble was the top receiver, just back off being injured.

(04:39):
Three catches twenty three yards. Adam Thielen two catches for
twenty yards. Just not much there outside of Chuba having
that twenty three yard run that was the only explosive
play in the game. He finishes with ten carries sixty
four yards. And again then the issues on the defense.
Shack Thompson had fourteen tackles today. That's so much the
defense was.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
On the field a lot and also Jase Horne and
a lot of tackles. I mean, particularly if your safeties
or your corners are involved in a lot of tackles,
and you could tell that on Thompson was he's leading
the linebacker for tackles. But when you got your secondary
engage in it, that means that they're getting in the
second the second level. That means they're picking up four

(05:17):
or five, six, seven eight yards a clip, and you
don't want that to happen. But that seemed to be
the case because they were able to run the ball
effectively and it was no answer for him for us
on to make them stop right none.

Speaker 5 (05:29):
And I think also the other thing when you look
at time of possession, it was almost thirteen minutes a
little bit over thirteen minutes in favor of the Chargers,
and the Panthers had about six.

Speaker 6 (05:37):
Or seven three and ounce.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
So you know why you're not able to get first downs,
you're not able to sustain drives. And then the defense,
I mean part of the reason why Shack had all
those tackles because they were.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
On the field thirty six minutes. I mean, how many snaps.
Let's see, they ran well, not a toime as I thought,
sixty five offensive plays for the Chargers, forty sakelar Panthers.
Because there were so many running plays, the game was
kind of shortening in a lot of ways, like typically
you see like seventy seventy five plays. But it was
just so much running up the football. They ran it
thirty five, let's say, forty four times. They ran the

(06:06):
ball forty four times in the game.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
And here's the stat for you here. I'm a stat guy.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
When it comes to the third down percentage, which I
think is one of the most telling stats.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
We were one for twelve.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
We had twelve opportunities and we only converted on one
a first down. And so that tells you that you're
you're three and out. You're three and out.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
You're three and out. You're three and out, you're three
and out.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Well, you have to be somewhere around thirty seven, forty percent,
forty five percent to be really successful in the league.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
And the fact that we were somewhere.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
I don't know that's that's going to be like almost
ten percent, a little bit less than to less than
ten percent. It means that you have no opportunity, it
means that you're not generat thing, it means that you're
not keeping the ball. So there's a lot of gaping
holes that coach Canalis is gonna have to go ahead
and shure up. And I'm not you know, I'm not
fought in their effort. I thought they tried. I thought

(06:55):
they had a great effort, no doubt about that, but
seemed to'll be a little bit more over Mets today
productivity is not it was not there their fifth quarter show.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
We're in the North Club Lounge part of Bank of
America Stadium. Stop buy and see us. We're watching the
end of the early games the start of the late
afternoon games coming up. Over this next hour, we'll give
you a couple of scoreboard updates with Mike. We'll also
have the coach Dave Canalysis thoughts, some of the players
interviews coming up as well a Niche, Jake and Luke
and their final thoughts from the booth among the things

(07:23):
we'll be covering here over the next fifty minutes or so.
As we're ten minutes in twenty six to three, Chargers
with it over the Carolina Panthers here on the Southern
Starbourbon Whiskey postgame show. You're listening on the Carolina Panthers
Radio Network. Panthers falling home to the Chargers by a
score of twenty six to three. The final let's pause

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ten seconds for station identification. You're listening on the Carolina
Panthers Radio network. It along with Eugene and Mike. It's
Jim with you here. We'll have a Christian BALBONI will
be dropping by a little bit later on. Of course,
was on the sidelines for the game. As we're into
the Southern Star Our Bourbon Whiskey postgame show again. The
final score twenty six to three Chargers. Mike has the
full score board is the other one o'clock games. You're

(08:07):
also winding down and wrapping up all.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
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Register to play Digital Instance today. So a couple games final,
get to those in a minute. But games currently underway
right now. Las Vegas with the ball four minutes to
go at Baltimore, they're trailing by a touchdown. Tampa Bay

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at Detroit, leading by four, four minutes to go there.
Jacksonville losing at home to Cleveland eighteen thirteen Minnesota six
points better than San Francisco right now, four minutes. Actually
that's a fourth quarter thirty seven seconds ago in that game,
New England and Seattle. That's at Chelotte Stadium.

Speaker 6 (08:48):
Twenty all.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
I heard something Tod you on the pregame show. The
Patriots haven't beaten Seattle in the regular season since something
like two thousand and eight or two thousand and nine. Oh,
of course they have the big win in the Sucy. Well, yeah,
that's crazy, right with all those.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Teams had that little interception at the end of the day.

Speaker 5 (09:04):
That's right, Soyan, the Jets are over the Tennessee Titans
twenty four, seventeen thirty four seconds to go there, and
another game looks like getting closer to overtime potentially the
Giants at the Commanders in Washington, minute five left to
go there eighteen All couple finals from earlier today. If
you have a Dallas Cowboys fan that you love, give

(09:24):
him a hug. New Orleans forty four Dallas nineteen.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
Oh my goodness, watch out now.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
Alvin Kamara had one hundred fifteen yards rushing three touchdowns.
Dak Prescott threw two picks in that game. And then
Green Bay with Malik Willis behind the helm, he was
twelve or fourteen hundred and twenty two yards in a touchdown.
They beat Indianapolis sixteen to ten Josh Jacobs one hundred
and fifty one yards.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
Wow on the ground those Green Bay packets.

Speaker 6 (09:48):
Okay, no.

Speaker 5 (09:49):
And then the four o'clock games coming up here La
at Arizona, the Lla Rams that is, Pittsburgh is at Denver.
That'll be four twenty five starts, Cincinnati at Kansas City,
Chicago at Houston, then Sunday game tonight, and the Atlanta
and Philadelphia the Monday, and that game eight fifteen torn
You know, I want.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
To say we did have our chances too, because we
had a turnover by J. C. Hornet interception almost neared
like the red zone area, and I thought, man, okay,
this is going to be our shot, and it looked
like we got pushed backwards and by the time I
think there was a sack out of field goal range
where we can't put points on the board, where I
thought that was a pivotal moment because that's a huge

(10:25):
momentum swing, a huge momentum swing indeed, and.

Speaker 6 (10:28):
The Panthers had the one they or close.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
In the turnover battle, there are a couple that we
thought that probably should have been turned that were ruled
the fumble actually on the punt was actually a good call.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
Yeah, because he touched the the return man.

Speaker 6 (10:43):
He kicked him. They kind of feet got tangled up before.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
The ball, right, So that was legit.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
But that one, the catch where you look like you
took a couple of steps, I thought maybe that was
a we're not going to blame the referees.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
No, no, we're not going yeah no.

Speaker 5 (10:56):
But but the point I was trying to make is
you got to you know, especially in games like this,
those are the breaks you got to make for yourself,
and you got to create them and make them happen.

Speaker 7 (11:04):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (11:04):
The first one that was it looked like it was
a fumble and they ruled it an incomplete pass.

Speaker 6 (11:09):
On the video, it looked to me like that should
have been it wasn't a forward pass.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
To me, I said the same thing. But look, I'm
a little bit biased. I'm a little bit right a partisan,
So you know, take that, Take that with a grain
of salt there.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
But you know, what's to your point. You got to
make your own You got to make your own place.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
And sometimes when you're playing well, those breaks just tend
to come. And then when you're not playing well, they
tend to go against you.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Well, we were not playing well and so those things
went against us big time.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yep. Last week was again more lopsided. As we said
it was forty seven to ten. This was twenty six
to three, but still not close. And getting me down
twenty points at halftime was zero points on the board.
Takes a lot of the steam out of it here,
So Eugene, when you again, it's early in a new regime,
but it is two games. Is the NFL, It's not
Pop Warner, so there's a business. Uh. It'd be interesting

(11:59):
to see what the Panthers come up with for this
road game coming up at Las Vegas in terms of,
you know, areas where they can improve, like what what
will work, because it just has not been much of
an attack offensively so far. And then for whatever reason,
I feel like the defense is taking a step back early.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
And I know, really I think, you know, not having
Derek Brown.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Derek Brown is such a pivotal of position too, and
he's such he reminds me of Cortet Kennedy Warren sapp
so dominating. And when I knew that he didn't have
that performance last week, I said, man.

Speaker 4 (12:31):
He must be hurt. Something's wrong with this guy.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
You gotta be hurt because he's too dominant, and now
to find out he has a miscus minisitertire? I'm going, okay,
I see it and I get it. But not having
him in the game, I think you lose something on
that defensive line. I think he lose a leadership, leadership,
and you lose a guy who will punch him man
in the mouth legally.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
That's what you like about Derek Brown is like he'll
get after you too.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
To have that many sacks at the defensive tackle position
last year and that many tackles at the defensive tackle position,
that's kind of really unhurt.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
And he's commanding double teams at times too, right, So
there's matchup issues when he's under.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
There, absolutely, and then when he's not getting on a
double team, that means he has he's a free single
or watch out. But that having him in that in
that lineup, you know, I think it really hurts you,
and I think it hurts that that locker room. I
think it hurts that defensive front a little bit. And
we were just me and a couple of guys ex
football players, were kicking the round shift. Coach of Jarrod
go to a four to three defense as opposed to

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the three four defense, where you have two big guys
who are gonna get the double teams up and then
you have the defensive ends outlock like when we had
Pepper's Jenkins Buckner and Michael Rucker.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Because of the Derek Brown injury, because of the Derrick
Brown injury.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
So that now you show that up and now you
could drop that safety down if you want to get
into an eight man front because you've not got three
linebackers to go ahead and run and scrape.

Speaker 6 (13:47):
Well.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
I think those are some of the questions I really
believe that the coach is gonna have to start to
answer because you can't continue to get pushed. That defense
is going to push because two hundred yards gonna turn
into two fifty and turn three hundred dollars rushing, and
that means you gonna be in the field for a
very long time. So something don't have to give, And
I think the coach is gonna have to go back
to the drawing board and find out what is gonna work.

(14:09):
What if the three four or four to three is
gonna actually work.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Okay, all right, so some things to consider. We'll take
a time out here. When we come back, we'll listen
back to some of the calls of the game, continue
some post analysis here we'll hear from the coach Dave Canalis,
some of these Panther players, more scoreboard updates and more
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Speaker 2 (15:14):
All right, welcome back to the North Club Lounge inside
Bank of America Stadium. Along with Eugene and Mike. It's
Jim fifth quarters our show and present it to you
by Southern Star Bourbon Whiskey. During the break, Mike, we
had Again, those are intense. May fans stick around and
watching some of the Lake games with us here and
talking to Panthers Football said, do you ask questions? You said,

(15:37):
not normally on the air, but we'll take it off
the air. Take your question.

Speaker 6 (15:39):
I was trying to be Chigo, what's your question?

Speaker 5 (15:42):
But no, Jason came up and it was actually something
that Eugene I were talking about earlier in the game.
And Jason's question was basically about the trassing game and
you know, throwing the ball down field a little bit,
maybe helping stretch out the running game.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
Well, first of all, he talked about the turnover that
happened with j. C. Horn And typically that's called stud
of change. Whenever you have sudden change and you're that
close to the end zone anywhere for forty out, every
team takes a shot at the end zone. Why because
the defense is the reeling. They just got on the
field and now they're not ready for it. So typically
defensively said, watch sudden change, wash the deep threat, watch

(16:16):
the deep threat. He pointed out directly, Jason is right
that there was no deep shot down in an end zone,
when typically every team does that.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
On a sudden change.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
And so he's.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
Absolutely right and said the ball went laterally. So I
questioned too, and I'm with him on this. Yes, if
that's the ball down the field, even if you don't
make the throw, even if you miss it, you put
the defense on edge and you put them on the
hills knowing that that ball could go deep down the field.
And don't forget you're still in field goal range presumably

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if you don't take a sack, and so that you
can get the field goal. So Jason and I believe
that you are absolutely right, and that because most teams
actually do that, they take a shot on sudden change.

Speaker 5 (16:56):
But a lot of times sometimes when you do that,
you can kind of soften up the defense. And at
some times, you know, the run will kind of stefp
the pass, but sometimes a pass can set up to
the run.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
But and this is what we say whenever there's a turnover.
We're like this, and and I'm on defense. Hey, they're
taking a shot down the field. Hey, WA's the go route?
Wats the double move? Wats the double move? Okay, you're
gonna get a shake, You're gonna get a dino, You're
gonna get something that's gonna go down the field to
stretch us, so we have to take it a little
bit back and prepare for that. That's why you can
say you can guess him with a screen or guess
him with a run. So there's a lot that happens

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with sudden change that you can take advantage of.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
And it seemed like we didn't. Maybe a missed opportunity.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
All right, And Jason for asking such a great question.
You get to co host the postgame show next week,
so we'll see you back the next Sunday. Thank you
for that question. That's a good one. Listen back to
some of the calls of the game, if you will,
with a Niche and the gang up there, and it
was again UH for the uh for the Chargers. They
jump out to a twenty to nothing. Leader begins with
this one Justin Herbert, a twenty nine yard touchdown throw

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to Quentin Johnston.

Speaker 9 (17:58):
Three wide receiver, look the tight end.

Speaker 8 (18:02):
Herbert, the former first rounder out of Oregon, takes the
shotgun snap Dobbins in the block, floats it down the
left sideline, caught ber a touchdown by Quinton Johnston, who
beat j. C.

Speaker 9 (18:13):
Horn down the left sideline.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Ironically, jac Horn will come back in an interception a
little bit later in that first quarter, one of the
highlights view of the game for the Panthers defense in
this one. Meanwhile, Bryce Young had the Panthers infield goal
range essentially here, but takes a tough sack here and
takes him out of field goal range by hanging on
to the ball too long.

Speaker 8 (18:37):
Chargers showing blitz Young. Gus in the shotgun trips bunch
to the left the snap. Here's the pressure. Brice in
the pocket, flushed rolling to his left, eyes up field,
directing traffic, and he's sacked back at the forty five
yard line.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
And then it would be another Herbert A. Johnston touchdown
the five yard who's left wide opening the end zone.
That would extend the lead to thirteen to nothing at
that time for the Chargers, they would make it twenty
to nothing. Here on this Dobbins touchdown run, it's a
forty four yard touchdown for JK. Dobbins.

Speaker 9 (19:11):
Edwards lined up in full back out of the eye.
Here's this snap.

Speaker 8 (19:14):
Dobbins left side gets a block from Edwards, springs down
the sideline. He's got the twenty left sideline.

Speaker 9 (19:20):
Ten five into the end zone.

Speaker 8 (19:23):
For a Chargers touchdown, a forty three yard run by JK.
Dobbins tight roping the left sideline, and it's nineteen to
la with twoh one to go in the.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Half, and then that was pretty much a twenty to
nothing at halftime. The Panthers got an Eddie Pinero thirty
eight yard field goal to make it twenty to three,
but then the Chargers counter with a pair of field goals.
Twenty six to three the final score in this game,
as the Panthers drop to zho and two. We'll take
a time out here. We got much more to get
to as we continue on the Southern Star Bourbon Whiskey

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postgame show again twenty six to three final score, Chargers
over the pan. There's come join us in the fifth
quarter and the North Club Lounge as we continue here
the Carolina Panthers Radio Network, Chargers twenty six Panthers three.
Welcome back to the fifth quarter and the North Club Lounge.

(20:16):
Welcome back to the gang that's here watching here in
person as well are those listening out there as we
wrap up some of the early games. Four o'clock games underway,
and you know, Eugene guys, like me and Mike appreciate
guys like you that you won lot more than you
lost in your career. But there's a tough loss, a
player that will come out talk, some will someone well,
what of those guys would you? Would you speak after

(20:37):
a loss every time?

Speaker 3 (20:38):
So I mean, there's no way to hide this that
if you're just truthful with people and you just tell
them to what the deal is, people understand it's not.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
Everybody's had a hard day at work.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Everybody knows it would be frustrated not even want to
go to work, or go ahead and go to work,
and they're like, man, I'm never doing that again. Everybody's
been in it, and so not to go ahead and talk,
I think that you do yourself a disservice. I think
you should go ahead and speak to the media afterwards, good,
better and different. Just let them know what you feel.
When somebody just beats you, they just beat you. They

(21:09):
get paid too, that's just part of the deal. And
sometimes you can go ahead and use that as this
is a motivation for me to make sure that the
next time I talk to the media is going to
be positive.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
And the guy that stepped up and spoke with the
postgame crew up in the booth afterwards is a center
veteran guy Austin Corbett, joining the guys up in the
booth with his postgame thoughts.

Speaker 8 (21:29):
We're joined by Panthers center Austin Corbett. Hey, Austin, as
you kind of have a snapshot reaction to what just
took place from your vantage point, how do you assess
what happened offensively?

Speaker 10 (21:43):
Yeah, you know, I think we ran the ball well,
good flashes, you know, we had it in third manageable,
and then it comes down to converting on third down.
That's the big thing. We got to go out there,
hold the pocket, convert, make the plays, you know, throw
the ball, catch the ball, and got to be able
to convert, to be able to stay in rhythm. And
I don't know how many three three and outs straight

(22:03):
that was, but we got to convert.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
On their down.

Speaker 8 (22:07):
As a teammate and somebody who was with him last
year as well, what do you say to Bryce Young just.

Speaker 4 (22:12):
Stay the course?

Speaker 10 (22:13):
You know, I already told him. He's like, look, we
know what it's like to be a part of last
year and how negative it can get. But we've also
you know, you've been on national championships. You know, the
confidence you get when just those things go and when
confidence is high, things start going your way. And that's
a part of it. And we just got to find
that confidence, just one play at a time of finding

(22:34):
those basics and just living in the fundamentals that rest
is going to take care of itself when we got there,
and just do your job, one play, reset, do it again.

Speaker 11 (22:43):
Yeah, Austin is Jake here. I'm just gonna piggyback off
of that. How is he in the huddle? And I'm
worrying more about the psyche of the young kid? How
was he in the huddle? Because yes, it does get frustrating.
We had a ton of three and outs today. I
think we were maybe one one for two over something
like that on third down. How's this psyche in the

(23:03):
huddles as the game has progressed and whenever like we're
down and we're just looking for any kind of spark.

Speaker 10 (23:08):
Yeah, I think that's the you know, credit to Bryce.
So he's the same person. He has this even keel
about him. I always call it it's just that so
cal chill, That's just what it is. But it's that
quiet confidence that he has that allows us to go
out there and be efficient for him, and we got
to keep building on that to allow him to you know,
get those conversions. One for Tel is horrendous. You're not

(23:29):
gonna win any football games doing that. And so we
have to make those plays for him to be able
to just keep rolling. And I told him all the time,
just like, look like, lean on us up front, Let
let whatever you need, we're here. But he's still confident.
That's exactly who he is. It's what he's done his
whole life. And he's still rolling with that.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
Awesome. What's up? It's Luke and I.

Speaker 12 (23:50):
You know, you guys ran the ball, like you said,
well in some spots, you guys had some drives, you
converted some stuff. Can you just talk about continuing to
build on that and how you guys can build on
that moving forward to become or consistent.

Speaker 10 (24:01):
Yeah, that's exactly what we want on our identity to be.
And so last week what it was getting snowball out
of control there, not able to establish the run game.
Come in today, run the ball well. And so that's
what we want to continue to build. When you're running
the ball well, the play action, all the past concepts,
everything opens up off of that. And so as we
continue to just build on this run game, as we

(24:21):
roll out and just build our confidence one play at
a time, everything's going to open up and we're going
to be able to just stay detailed on our techniques
and just keep mashing the ball and running the ball
in the game is all about just ugly runs. Ugly
runs four, five, six here and boom you get one
to pop. And it's just those body blows that we
got to keep establishing, keep pressing the line of scrimmage
and boom, you get one to pop. And that's when

(24:43):
we really set the tone late in the third, early
in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 9 (24:46):
Austin, appreciate you, Thanks Bud.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Appreciate y' all.

Speaker 9 (24:49):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (24:50):
See, that's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
That is a great assessment of just talking to the media,
let them know what time it is, letting me know that, yes,
we're trying to steal more confidence and Bryce shelling knowing
that everything didn't work out, but we can stay the course.
Your cool, calm demeanor, keep that because that's going to
go pay dividends and lean on us to see what
we can do to help. That's a very very good
assessment of just have you get your you know, your

(25:13):
handhanded to you, you know, And also he was truthful
about that. He said one for twelve, you're not going
to be anybody at all.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
You know.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
That's eight point three percent on third down efficiency, which
is the most incredible stat I mean, that's the stat
that with you kind of lean yourself on, because on
third down you either get the first down or you
punt the ball. Well, I guess what, we punted the
ball eleven times and so and only had only had
one conversion.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
That's not good.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
So I like someone coming out of the locker room
and telling you what the delio is. And that's a
great job, mister corporate.

Speaker 5 (25:43):
Yeah, And sometimes I think confidence is such a you know,
it's volatile, it's it's it's important, it's vital, and when
it's fleeting you can see it in the play and
when you playing well, you can see it in droves.
And I think that's where this team has to just
start with the small battles and build up and start winning.

Speaker 6 (26:02):
Then you start winning the bigger battle.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
The two most pivotal positions I think as confidence wise,
is one quarterback and another one cornerback. Because if you
lose your confidence in that and you're a step behind,
you're you're not gonna play well. You're gonna always be
behind the eight ball trying to make a play, and
typically you're trying to make a play and then you
end up messing up on plays. And so confidence needs
to be at the highest optimum at those two positions.

Speaker 6 (26:26):
I would add kicker too.

Speaker 5 (26:27):
Oh yeah, situational situationally sometimes that if a kicker has
missed two and you bring them in for a less
second second field goal, you you're bound to either get
blown up or not because.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
You could be the tidy on the left hand side,
the ball is going to the right hand side and
you missed your block.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
Yeah, and it don't matter as much because of all
went away from you.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
But when you're the.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Quarterback, everything you do is amplified. And when you're a
cornerback and you're in the past the situations.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
You've better be on your game.

Speaker 6 (26:51):
And and then I don't know why I'm defending kickers there,
but put the kickers in there.

Speaker 5 (26:55):
But those are spotlight positions where if you make a
mistake on a one on one as a cornerback, everybody
see that if a quarterback was an interception. Everybody sees
that if a kicker missus the kick, everybody.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
Everybody sees it.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
All right, well, well we'll just sit here since we
were in the top three, we'll stay out.

Speaker 4 (27:11):
Of that out of the range.

Speaker 6 (27:12):
Yeah, he's the he's the quarterback, and I'm the quarterback.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
What do you is that you the kicker will be
the kicker?

Speaker 4 (27:17):
Okay, all right, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Hey, hey, when the game's on the line, you're gonna
need me, so don't.

Speaker 4 (27:21):
That's right, don't take it lightly. And you made a
kick today, mister Pazierro, Right.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
That's right. Here be a kick today. That's right. Eddie
Pino was the only points we had. Thirty eight yard
field goal in this game. Still to hear from the coach.
The guys in the booth are their final thoughts. Mike's
gonna a scoreboard update for you of our own three
and now final thoughts. At the very end of the broadcast,
we'll be working on our sun Bell hardest player, hardest
working player of the game. So that's all still to
come here. Twenty six to three final score Chargers over
the Panthers. As we continue from the fifth quarter, North

(27:47):
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Speaker 1 (27:53):
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Speaker 2 (28:06):
All right, Welcome back, twenty six to three, final score,
Chargers over the Panthers. Jim Olummi, Mike and Eugene and
the North Club Lounge here in the fifth quarter. Show
continues here from Bank of America Stadium. We heard from
Austin Corbett a few moments ago. Still to hear from
coach Dave Canalis in the interim, Let's hear from the
guys up at the booth, Aniche and Luke and Jake
and their final thoughts.

Speaker 8 (28:28):
The Panthers fall to oh and two, dropping the home
opener to Jim Harbaugh, Justin Herbert and the Los Angeles
Chargers by a final score of twenty six to three.
The offense struggled again, only one hundred and fifty nine
yards of total offense after one ninety three in Week one.
Through two games, Carolina is two for twenty two. On

(28:51):
third downs nine penalties today for ninety yards. It seemed
every time there was a positive play, one step forward,
two steps back. And the bigger story after this game,
people are gonna start talking about Bryce Young Luke. We
had the television feed on the monitors here in the booth,

(29:12):
and there were a lot of shots of Bryce on
the sideline, a lot of shots diagnosing what he did
in his dropbacks and his footwork. The adversity now put
on him only escalates, and it goes one of two ways.
He either fights through this and shows us that he
can be the quarterback this franchise believes he can be,

(29:35):
or you gotta have to make some hard decisions within
the building. I don't think we're there yet. I don't
think we're close to being there yet, but I think
we know where the noise outside of the building is headed.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Well absolutely.

Speaker 12 (29:48):
I mean it'd before of us not to think that,
but I think that's what makes this game so special
and so fun is that there's fifty three guys on
the team. There's ten guys in the practice squad, and
then a whole people in there that are coaches, wait staff,
equipment guys, training staff. It's everybody's job to be there
for Bryce right now, He's gonna catch the brunt of

(30:10):
all the questions in the brunt of why isn't this working,
Why isn't this worked, Why haven't you done this?

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Why haven't you done that.

Speaker 12 (30:17):
This is where your older guys come together and say, hey, Bryce,
we got your back, man, We're gonna get through this together.
We all got to play a little bit better. Nobody
played perfect. We had some guys step up to the
defensive side of the ball. I thought Shaq and Josie
played really well. JC after that first initial drive had
a good game. So hey, this is where we all
have to rally around Bryce and say, hey, you're a quarterback.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
We believe in you. We're gonna help you out. We
all have to play a little bit better. Yeah.

Speaker 11 (30:42):
As a I'm trying to write positives and negatives. I'm
started to positives, you know. Shocking Shack and Josie Jewel
they made a lot of plays for us today, especially Shack.
I thought Shaq flew around the football. JC horn same thing.
He was made the interception, but he made plays at
the line of scrimmage. I thought Jadaevion Clowney a couple
of times, made some plays. The turnover battle. We won

(31:02):
that today, which is something we're trying to DJ Johnson
set the edge a couple of times, forced to fumble
on Herbert the one time. But it all goes back
to me, is the offensive production or lack thereof third
down we're struggling mildly, And it's it's not like, oh,
we're I haven't seen a Oh we're so close, or like, man,

(31:23):
if only we made that play or the defense made
a great play. No, I think a lot of it
is us. It's we're we're we're missing, we're missing. There
was a couple of throws we missed today. Bryce got
out in the pocket and we missed. We had an
opportunity for a field go early in the first half
and unfortunately took taking a sack.

Speaker 9 (31:39):
And I know there's been so much.

Speaker 11 (31:41):
Thrown at him being drafted number one last year on
a team that had some deficiencies, and we struggled last
year to put him mildly. We were anticipating a jump
this year, seeing a little more production, and for the
first two weeks we really haven't seen anything. Matter of fact,
it's almost seemed like there's been somewhat of a regression.

Speaker 8 (31:57):
And again this isn't to be Pollyanna, but I do
think perspective is important.

Speaker 9 (32:01):
It's been two weeks.

Speaker 8 (32:03):
It's been two weeks with a new offensive system, a
new head coach, a new play caller. It's only been
two weeks in a eighteen week season. Having said all that,
Dave Canalis addressed this last week. He said, this is
going to be a journey and there is work to do.

(32:24):
And I think what you want to see in these
coming weeks, right we don't know when it's going to happen,
but you want to start to see, you know, bit
by bit, you start stacking blocks, you start stacking wins.
Maybe it's not wins in the standings, but progress getting better.
But I think it does start on the offensive side. Jake, Defensively,
we know what we're up against right now. Derek Brown's

(32:46):
out for the season, but you mentioned Shack and Josie
Jewell playing well. But offensively, you got to score points
to win.

Speaker 11 (32:53):
And I think like we are when I say we
us fans sports riders the team. When we start to
see progress, hopefully it happens on the scoreboard, I think
we're gonna see it in front of our eyes. Okay,
we're starting to see it. That's the thing that I
think we're all struggling with right now. I'm not so
sure we've seen we've seen it yet, you know we

(33:15):
we haven't truly seen that.

Speaker 9 (33:18):
And that's hard.

Speaker 11 (33:20):
And listen, getting on the road to go travel next
week to go play a Vegas team, who I don't
think that's a great football team. They're losing to Baltimore
right now. Watching film on the Chargers this week they
played Vegas, I wasn't overly impressed and watching them, So,
I mean, it's an opportunity, and we have an opportunity
and we gotta get go back and get better.

Speaker 9 (33:42):
In the NFL.

Speaker 11 (33:43):
Listen, nobody is coming to save us.

Speaker 6 (33:46):
I think that's the biggest thing.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
Nobody's come and save us.

Speaker 11 (33:48):
We're gonna We're gonna have to do it, and you
do it by hard work and making a.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
Play on the field.

Speaker 9 (33:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (33:53):
And last week again, a lot of people made a
big deal about what the Saints did. Saints, by the way,
you got forty plus blowing out the Cowboys as we speak.
So there's a lot to unpack. There will be a
lot of questions. No doubt the positive. It's still only
week two. There's a long way to go. And in

(34:14):
defense of Dave Canalis, I think one thing you got
to remember, Dave Canalis wasn't here last year. The prologue
which exists for the fans and you understand why of
two and fifteen, probably should not exist for Dave Canalis.
It feels like it does because people want to see, hey,
is this a better team than the one that won
two games last year?

Speaker 9 (34:34):
He's new.

Speaker 8 (34:35):
You heard Dan Morgan all offseason. We're going to do
it the right way. We want to be disciplined. We
want to make sure that this process is done right.
There's no shortcut. Sometimes there's some pain involved when you're
doing it that way. Hopefully you're getting it out of
your system early.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
Absolutely.

Speaker 12 (34:52):
I think if you know, paying early and went and
do it the right way and taking our time doing it,
you can probably go out and get some guys that
can help us right now. But a year or two
down the line, are they gonna help us?

Speaker 9 (35:03):
Probably not.

Speaker 12 (35:05):
And you're gonna you're gonna spend your allocation on your
your draft picks, your cap your cap money on things
that's gonna help us build moving forward and right now,
I feel like they've done that with who they signed
in free agency, and we've got to continue to bring
those guys in and develop those guys. What can we
get more out of Lagat, What can we get more
out of Mingo? Big physical guys that look good. We
got to get more from those guys again.

Speaker 8 (35:26):
Final score Chargers twenty six Panthers three, Carolina oh and
two Las Vegas.

Speaker 9 (35:32):
A road game on the docket next Sunday.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
All right, a Niche and Jake and Luke there so
some analysis of what lies down the road and hopefully
they can build for a better future. Coming up. But
let's uh take a break. Coming up, Panther the's a lock.

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Speaker 6 (37:14):
Forty four to nineteen. That's never happened. Yep, that's hard one.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
What a time to be alive?

Speaker 5 (37:21):
Feels great to be alive, doesn't it? It sure does
if you're a Cardinals fan. Right now, they're leading the
Rams fourteen to nothing.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Karla mar led fourteen to nothing in a game.

Speaker 5 (37:29):
By the way, of course, well with the three thirty
four to go, I think they have Sorry, sorry, nice try,
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scores to Marvin Iverson Junior. No score in Pittsburgh. In Denver,
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We'll see them in a couple of weeks. Three nothing
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(37:50):
the Taylor Swifts coming up to heights with the Chicago
is at Houston, Atlanta is at Philadelphia, and a couple
of finals from early that we did get to earlier.
Tampa Bay wins over Detroit twenty to sixteen. The crazy
thing in this game, Jared Goff threw for three hundred
and seven yards. Detroit had four hundred and sixty three
total yards to two hundred and sixteen, but the Lions

(38:13):
end up losing by four to the Buccaneers.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
Missed opportunities, definitely missed up. I want to what the
third down percentages on it?

Speaker 6 (38:20):
Too well?

Speaker 5 (38:20):
And two interceptions in that game Jared Goff. Yeah, Green
Bay hangs on. They beat Indianapolis sixteen to ten, Cleveland
over Jacksonville eighteen thirteen, Minnesota twenty three seventeen over San Francisco.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Say Donald's and Baker mayfields to it.

Speaker 5 (38:34):
O yep, Yes, two hundred and sixt eight yards for
Sam Donald, two touchdowns and an interception mentioned. New England
and Seattle going into overtime, Patriots had to punt.

Speaker 6 (38:43):
Seattle kicks a field goal as atom expires.

Speaker 5 (38:46):
They win that game twenty three to twenty, and then
Jets over the Titans twenty four to seventeen.

Speaker 6 (38:50):
Washington beats the New York Giants twenty one eighteen.

Speaker 5 (38:53):
So the Giants now oh two and there'll be a
lot of misery going on in New York City with
the Giants struggling here.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
So think at some point in the future unless something
turns the Munich game, the Giants and the Panthers so
they these teams, they get their act together before we
go onto the big global stage here. We've got some time, though, it's.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Gonna be it's gonna be really imperative that we kind
of turned this thing around quickly, because I mean, you're
talking about confidence and talk about confidence in the locker room.
That stuff for us to go downhill when is contagious.
But we also say loses contagious too, and you don't
want to get that losing attitude. So there's a lot
of work that needs to be done.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
All right, We're gonna take a time out. When we
come back, we'll hear from the head coach, Dave Canalis.
And still we got our Sunbelt hardest working player to present,
and we'll have our three and outs next to Coach Canalis,
we'll hear from him. Twenty six to three final score.
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Speaker 2 (40:05):
Are back twenty six to three Chargers win over the Panthers.
As we continue here with the fifth quarter show, let's
go ahead and here from the head coach Dave Canalis.

Speaker 8 (40:14):
We're joined by Panthers head coach Dave Canalis. Coach, you've
talked about this team and the process of finding an
identity right now, what does that process look like for you?

Speaker 13 (40:27):
I saw improven in the run game. I love the
fact that we were able to come out you know,
in average five yards at the half. The whole story
came down to third down on both sides. We got
to be better as a group. So we know what
the focus is, we know what we need to work on.
I thought the ball awareness on both sides, the guy scared,

(40:48):
They took care of the ball when they were carrying it. Defensively,
they were striking at it. We got a couple of
opportunities for turnovers in this game, you know, and we
weren't able to capitalize on that. But that, you know,
I couldn't ask for more effort from this group, you know,
for two weeks straight, just playing hard for sixty minutes
on both sides. And again it's just about the coaching staff,

(41:10):
the players all of us together just finding those things
we can be confident in to go and execute. So
we'll have to just we got a lot of work
to look at the film, to learn from this and
to take the next step.

Speaker 9 (41:20):
Coach, what's your message to Bryce Young?

Speaker 13 (41:23):
Oh, just the whole thing. It's it's the group, it's
all of us. It's all the details. From a coaching standpoint,
from a player standpoint, it's a full group execution thing.
That really came down to the third downs today.

Speaker 11 (41:34):
Hey, coach, is Jake during the course of the game,
Bryce body language a couple of times it can tell
it there was a like a frustration, especially on the
one the interception He's trying to get to Deontay and
between the linebacker and the safety. Did you sense that
on the sideline with him, like a frustration. I know
he's putting the work in and doing everything possible to
get himself ready, but the production is not happening on

(41:55):
the field.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (41:56):
I could feel it as a group, Jake, you know
it was. It's a frustrating time for us, but we
have to trust the process. This is the discipline that
it takes to be able to play the type of
football in all phases that we're hoping for is to
take the information, to go right back to the film,
to study it, and to take the next step, you know.
And so I could feel the frustration of the whole group,
and I thought, you know, we came out in the

(42:18):
second half together, you know, to try to continue to
to find success, to find the things that we can
that we can count on.

Speaker 12 (42:25):
Coach whatab it's Luke, can you just kind of talk
about the weeks for Shaq and Josie, what the work
they put in coming into this game. I really felt
like those guys showed up today and made some big
plays on the defense side of the ball.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
Yeah, what a great response. You know.

Speaker 13 (42:38):
You know, they were challenged, They challenged each other about
the details, you know, and the things that we're asking
them to do in the run game, and I thought
they just really stepped up to the challenge made some
fantastic plays. And again, you know, the whole group, you know,
Luke not and those two guys for sure, you know,
kind of led the charge with making their plays and
playing assignment football. But as whole group, man, these guys

(43:01):
played hard, and again we got to just get back
to the to the basics of it and kind of
you know, clean up some of the things, and it
really came down to a third down day.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
Coach, Thank you, thank you, and we're back here in
the North Club Lambs, joined by Christian Balboni, who saw
it up close on the Panthers sidelines out there and
wasn't a fun one to be down there for. I'm
sure you saw some of that on the sidelines.

Speaker 7 (43:22):
Yeah, no, I mean there's no sugarcoating a game like
that and a loss like that. I will say they
were trying to get something going until the very end,
especially on offense. You saw Adam Thalen, Austin Corbett huddled
around the Bryce young Dave Canalis came over. That was
before the last few drives.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
But yeah, that's a tough one.

Speaker 7 (43:40):
Nobody wants to go out there and lose. They all
want it, they all are trying, and so emotions run high.
Right when those things don't go your way and everyone's
out there giving it, they're all.

Speaker 4 (43:55):
I want to talk about the Bowl?

Speaker 3 (43:56):
What did you since in the Bowl from the fans too,
because things kind of start to go downhill? Did it
also seemed to that, you know, the life being sucked
out of the fans as well too, I mean, or well,
or was there still more fans still like I saw
still around cheering.

Speaker 7 (44:14):
I would say it started out well, right, and they
responded to especially to the defense, right and some of
those big plays.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
It got tough after that.

Speaker 7 (44:24):
You know, Eugene, it was really it was really quiet
there a few times, and then there were some not
so nice things being said, right, And I think it's
tough to go out and just candidly tough to go
out there and have your new fans fool you, right,
It's it's not what you want. And then, like I said,
these guys are giving it there all. Everyone is out
there playing, everyone wants to win. It is not the

(44:46):
outcome that they wanted, and the fans are frustrated.

Speaker 5 (44:50):
I think the biggest thing probably is when we've been
talking about this is I mean, obviously Dave Canele's mentioned
it two.

Speaker 6 (44:55):
I mean, the effort isn't the problem.

Speaker 5 (44:57):
It's just eventually, at the end of ual battles, the
one on one battles have to be a one eventually,
and then once you win one, then you can win two,
and then that kind of snowballs positively instead of what
we've seen, which is kind of the negative place, snowballing
a little bit.

Speaker 7 (45:09):
I think you could make the case, as Dave Canalis did,
is that there were some improvements this week. I know
when he was on Panther Talk and when I talked
to him. You know the list of things that happened
last week. I mean it was pretty much in every
phase of the game. It was third down, explosive plays,
not wanting the turnover battle, all of those things that
he could let special teams, all of those things that
he could list off. There were less of those this week.

(45:32):
You know, there really were, and he really honed in
on third down in the conversation that we just heard
him have with with Luke, Jake and de Niche. So
I think there are some positives. Of course, so Mike,
as you said, you want to have more positives then
there were. But you know, Dave Canalis is such a
positive guy as all three of you can attest to.
And if anyone can can find the good things and

(45:55):
really bring the team together around that, it's going to
be him.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
And what do you want to see in the early
stages of what is his tenure, which is two games
so far, is improvement. It wasn't a stark improvement today.
Obviously it was not a close game twenty or nothing
at halftime. But if they can get to that point
in the next couple of weeks, I think, you know,
people will settle down and realize, Okay, we have to
accept that this is not a one year fix, that
this is a bit of a process. No one wants
to hear that, but it is gonna be something that

(46:21):
takes more than this season to get eventually to where
this team wants to be.

Speaker 7 (46:24):
I completely agree. And like you said, you want to
see improvement, right, and we saw a little bit of
that today or a lot of bit of that today
after the first game away versus the Saints, and we'll
see what happens. But like you said, if they can
just get some positive momentum going here, improve week by week,
then then people are gonna, you know, bear with them.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
Here.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
Is it a matter of like maybe resetting the expectations
a little bit, because sometimes I think the expectation is that, man,
you want the team to come out and just be
gang busters, and I totally get it.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
However, that's not where we are.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
So it may be that we all expectations as we
move forward throughout the season.

Speaker 7 (47:03):
I think that's a good point. I think that's a
really good point. And like you said, Canallys is someone
that came in with a lot of energy and a
lot of excitement and that hasn't changed, right, That has
not changed and it's not going to change. So if
the expectations get managed and we take a look at
the small things, then I think we could see some
of that that positivity that he has and that he's

(47:25):
expressed to the team. I actually have something that I
want to ask you guys, if that's okay. It's a
sideline reporter and me can't help it. So speaking to
Dave Canalis this week earlier, we asked what the message
was to Bryce Young coming off of this first game,
and he said, you know, it's really a confidence thing
with him. He said, the experience is there. And that's
what I've reminded him of, is that the experience is there.

(47:47):
There's not a lot of stuff that he's seeing out
on the field that he hasn't seen before. He's played
a lot of great football in his career, and so
it is just reminding him of that and then also
going out in the games and finding new experiences right,
getting that common up. So my question is what can
the coaching staff do to to continue to give him

(48:07):
that confidence. And as we're talking about moving forward, what
do you guys think that looks like I.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
Think it is. He's showing film of what he used
to do.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
And that's one great tell tale things because if I
want to know if I'm having that little slump, I
put on some film when I played a really good game.

Speaker 4 (48:23):
This, hold on, wait a minute, that's me out there.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
This is what I'm doing, And it just reminds you
because you know, as cornerback safeties you got to have
really thick skin and you got to move on to
the very very next play. And the same thing at
the quarterback, you got to move on to the next place.
But I would show Bryce, hey, let me show you
what you've been able to do. Let me show if
we were able to do when you were in college.
Let me show you what you were able to do
when you're here in the pros. Let me let me
give a snapshot of these plays and you'll see how

(48:48):
good you really are.

Speaker 5 (48:48):
And then I would I would do to dovetail on
that is, then pick a couple of plays that are
teachable to the rest of the offense that he's comfortable with,
and just just like little bunnies, like just kind of
get get a two for two or three for three.
If he has a drive that all of a sudden
he's four for five or you know, five for five.
Now he's now that conference is building up, so I
think putting, you know, and now they're trying to put
him in positions to succeed, but really hone in on

(49:09):
some specific things that they think they.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
Will let me have the coach move the ball down
down the field, and that so laterally because even laterally
the bill is just traveling on latterally on the outside
and you're not advancing down the field. That's a huge
You've given me time to go ahead and get in
position to force the ball back to the inside to
make a tackle, and so you can nullify us a good.

Speaker 4 (49:29):
Looking screen could be nullified.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
And now it's like it's second and ten and second
and twelve, and so I would really move that ball
down the field to your point those easy plays, and
that's why I told coach Analys, I said, hey, what
about that West Coast offense. It's tons of that type
of stuff where you boom, boom, boom the boss down
the field quickly down the field, and it's like a
five yards six seven yard pair down the field.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
It's like an eight yar nine yard run.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
My answer is going to sound like that old joke
like what's the best way to become a millionaire? Start
with a million dollars. The reason I say that is
him having successes which haven't happened largely, he's had some.
Him having those successes will lead to the confidence like
he's going to have to have it happen. And this
is professional football at the highest level, so it is
it's a job. It's not at activity. It's not something

(50:17):
you do in addition to schoolwork. This is what you're
paid to do, and you're doing it in front of
a lot of eyeballs out there. So I think ultimately
the ultimate answer over the next couple months or so
is successes on the field will lead to that confidence
when they happen.

Speaker 7 (50:31):
Austin Corbett said to me earlier this week, he said,
you know, we got to remind the guys that it's
put on there at Bill Jing King at the US Open.
Pressure is a privilege, right, and so this is the
pressure that this team is under, that Bryce Young is under.
And as you said, Jim, it's a job. And we'll
see how they respond.

Speaker 3 (50:48):
Here and let me put another thing and butterflies, you
get only mean you get ready to do something great.

Speaker 4 (50:53):
It doesn't mean that you're scared.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Christ I know as long day for you. Thank you
for joining us, appreciate it. Happy to do it all right,
Thank you guys and sold take a final break here.
We've got our Sunbelt Hardest Working Player Award to give
out our three and outs as well as we wrap
things up. Twenty six to three, Chargers win over the Panthers.
More to come next and you're listening to Panthers Football
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Speaker 1 (51:15):
The Panthers postgame show continues. Pre see him a by
Southern Star unofficial bourbon of the Carolina Panthers celebrate the
spirit of the Carolinas.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
Twenty six to three is the Panthers fall into the
Chargers fall to zero to two on the season. Next
up a road game at Las Vegas coming up next Sunday.
Final segment for our program here from the fifth quarter
in the North Lounge here at Bank of America Stadium
time to award our hardest working Player of the game,
presented by sun Belt Reynolds, the official rental equipment partner
of the Carolina Panthers, to recap the season today. So far,

(51:51):
we have picked Shaq Thompson in week one, who came
back off of the lost season last Thursday in the
season with ten tackles. Today he had fourteen tackles.

Speaker 4 (51:59):
Go ahead, shot, I'm.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Going to nominate. Does anyone want a second Shaq Thompson?

Speaker 9 (52:03):
Second?

Speaker 6 (52:05):
That is second? Consider it second.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
We have a corn Okay, so that's old business. No
I would have any new business.

Speaker 5 (52:11):
Well, I would like to give an honorable mention to
christ and Belbone for you know, coming up here a
long day. So yeah, thank you for for coming up here.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
Chris select the.

Speaker 4 (52:18):
Water Buffalos, and any other business business.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
We have one last piece of business. It's our three
and outs.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
Here.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
I'll go first, because I got the mic. I will
say this. I think that for this Panthers team. Uh,
it's kind of alluded to in the last segment about Bryce,
but it goes for the entire team. This is professional football.
This is not Pop Warner, It is not high school
it is not college you it's a business. It is
many coaches have said it before, John Fox, it's a
past fail league. And ultimately, again, you know, I want

(52:49):
to make snap decisions on anything. I'm talking broad perspective
here though that yes, you want to cultivate, you want
to groom players to be what they can be as
far as just the best you can get out of them.
But at some point you've got to make decisions about
which way you're going to go. And I think these
guys are all know they're part of a business. Eugene.
It's about it's about winning and uh and that's it. Uh,

(53:10):
It's it's not about college credit. It's not about you know,
what are you going to do for your internship. This
is the maximum level right here. So need to see improvement,
and yes, you want to do it the right way.
We do want to give it time. It is very
early in September of the first season of a new
head coach here, but it needs to it needs to happen,

(53:31):
and it doesn't necessarily all have to happen in one week,
but just that progress where you feel like you're gaining
on it, you can see it and go Okay, I
have the vision now, and that's what fans. I think
what would take at this point is just that just
a yeah, well they'll take a couple of lopsided losses.
I live with it to probably expect that, but we
do need to start seeing competitive in the fourth quarter,
chance to win a ball game and then ultimately obviously

(53:53):
winning some of these games.

Speaker 5 (53:55):
And I would say, these guys are how many are
a thousand something players in the NFL. These are the
best players in the world at this sport. And you
have to drown out the noise and you got to
start winning. You forget about all the big picture stuff
that's going on right now, but concentrate on And I
think Dave can All said this in the pregame interview.
You know, if you do your job, we don't need

(54:15):
two three guys making special super play. Do your job,
the guy next to who does your job. Then things
will start to build up.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
And I think also with Bryce Young, I would show
him some film clips of how well he's done in
the past. I'll get that together so that I don't
want him to I don't want to destroy his confidence
and I want his confidence to be up and so
and say show him what he's capable of doing. I
thought defensively, it may be it's just my opinion because

(54:43):
we got pushed around off on that defensive line. We
may have to get to an eight man front. We
may have to get to something to stop that run
and get eight men down in a box. Whether you
go to a four to three or you do. You
have three four defense, but still got to get eight
people down in the box to stop the run. If
you're able to stop the run, I think we can
hold up on the back end in the in the

(55:05):
Muslim theother thing for the coaches, this is where the
coaches you get paid to and this is where you
got to go ahead and coach. And sometimes it's pretty
it's not not as great. You've got to go ahead
and do it. Sometimes you have to make some crazy decisions,
some tough decisions. So the onus is on the coaches
also to God and collective turn this thing around and
just to.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Be you know, broad Strokes just put that one last
phrase on it. Figure it out. And that goes for
everybody that goes for players, coaches, everybody's just like that.
You're paid to do something at the highest level, as
Mike called it, there. It's your job to figure it
out and whatever that answer is, hopefully it happens sooner
than later. Guys, Thank you as always, thanks to Harold Hambrick,
our technical director, Jerry Dowd, our game site engineer, along
with Wendell Black, David Eats, Matt Hogan, Biban Putman in

(55:44):
the studio, Amy Martin, our broadcast manager, Eric Filman, our
affiliates manager, Christa Malboni on the sidelines, and David Langton
all Right, Executive producer. Panthers follows to the La Chargers
twenty six to three. Next up, a game at Las Vegas.
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