Panthers Post Game | September 8, 2024

This week on the Panthers Post Game show, Brett, Mike and Eugene recap the Panthers 47-10 loss to the Saints, 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 preseming
by Southern Star un official bourbon of the Carolina Panthers
celebrate the spirit of the Carolinas.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
All right, tough way to begin the twenty twenty four season,
a new era of Panthers footballs. The Panthers go to
New Orleans get clobbered by a score of a forty
seven to ten as the Panthers, again with the new
era of football here struggled right out of the gate.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
They were down thirty to nothing in the first half.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Eddie Pinero had to kick a field goal right before
halftime to get it to thirty to three. Panthers were
out of this game almost from the first quarter seventeen
to nothing. They fell behind early as the Saints score early.
Bryce Young's first throw of the year was an interception,
just special. Teams had some disastrous plays and Mike just
a rough way all the way around for the Panthers.

(00:57):
Only one place to go from here. You would think,
which is all you would help? You would help, you
would think, but this was not what anyone expected today.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
Now that's a This was a Murphy's Lag game, right,
I mean everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
And you know, people kept asking me, you know all
through training camp, you know, what do you think of
this team?

Speaker 5 (01:11):
What do you think?

Speaker 4 (01:12):
The team said, well, you know, I think we need
to give it, you know, three or four games to see,
you know, how this team's gonna gel and come together.
You know, new coaching staff, a lot of new players,
and certainly this is not the way you want to
start the season. And it didn't look crisp in kind
of all phases. I mean, there was even some miscues
on special teams. So this is and this is one
of those games. I know we talked about it off

(01:32):
the air. It's like normally, if this was like seven
or eight weeks in, you but all right, throw the
tape out, let's go on to the next game. But
this game, I think you have to go back and
dissect and analyze.

Speaker 6 (01:40):
Yeah, And here's the thing is that we coming out
of the preseason. The last preseason game was very promising
and we looked at the offensive line. We looked at
the first year and said, although they want against the twos,
we saw some spark.

Speaker 7 (01:54):
We saw absolutely no spark.

Speaker 6 (01:57):
Some of the plays that I saw that run in
the Jets game and some of the players I saw
that we ran, those players were stopped immediately. It almost
seemed as if that these Saints knew exactly what we
would be doing on every single snap of the downs.
And so we talked about the turnovers. I thought one
of the things that was impressive to me is that

(02:21):
I thought the Saints just got too much penetration defensively
and on the.

Speaker 7 (02:25):
Flip side of the ball.

Speaker 6 (02:26):
I thought they pushed our defense around, the defensive front around,
and you can't you can't maneuver, you can't. You cannot
win when the defense is front. It's in your lap
as a linebacker or as a safety. And it just
appeared that way. Now that may not be the truth,
but it looked that way every single time.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Couldn't convert anything.

Speaker 8 (02:47):
No.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
One out of ten on third down, one out of
three on fourth down. So it went to fourth down
couple of times. Only eleven first downs in the.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Game for Carolina.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
But you know, it's one thing that it's a new
offense and you expect, Okay, this is for time they've
really done it in a competitive game setting.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
But we had a good defense last year.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
I mean, that's not a not a like high impact
like sacks and takeaways team, but to fourth in the
league and yards and Mike, it just looked like whoever
was out there was run game or pass game. The
Sames had their way with you know, big Gash plays
and relatively ease well.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
And it goes back to what Eugene was talking about
the line of the line of scrimmage. I mean, there
was just there was no penetration. They weren't even holding
the line. I mean they were just getting blown back.
And then you know when you you know, everyone talks
about being a game in the trenches, but when you're
able to run like that, and then it opens up
the passing game. Not that Derek Carr was that great,
but he didn't have to be, you know, he didn't
have to kill you. And then and then just I

(03:38):
think on the other side of the ball, just the
inability to get into any kind of flow. And you know,
I thought, you know, going into a second year, and
again it's one game, so you know, you don't want
to go overboard and overreactions, but I thought the offense
might have been a little bit crisper coming into this.

Speaker 7 (03:54):
Yeah, but this is alarming, though, I mean definitely. I mean,
this is really alarming.

Speaker 6 (03:57):
You thought you had a chance to go ahead and
maybe sneak out a winsion against in the visional game,
and Tim, I want to further illustrate that. I'm not
sure what testdown. It was maybe the second or third
testdown that the Saints uh uh completed, but we were
in that red zone area and it was a pass

(04:19):
play to the back of the end zone, and I
saw Derek Brown in the end zone, Nick Thurman in
the end zone, and a Shawan Robinson trying to make
a tackle on the guy catch.

Speaker 7 (04:31):
The ball, all of whom are defensive tackles. And when when.

Speaker 6 (04:36):
Derek Carr rode out to the right hand side, you
would think that my defensive tackles will be still moving
forward trying to go and press the uh press the pocket.
But no, they look more like linebackers and safety people,
and that should never happen. I'm not even I get
a Sean Robinson, yeah, he was just he was just hustling.
But I don't expect to see defensive linemen in the secondary, indeed,

(05:01):
in the red zone that deepened the end zone.

Speaker 7 (05:03):
That never ever happens.

Speaker 6 (05:05):
So that just tells me, man, I'm not sure what's
going on, but I know that coach of Gerald's not
He's not coachingetto.

Speaker 7 (05:11):
Nobody's coachingetto.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
And I mean was that widespread. It's like it wasn't
like one one phase of the game or they had
some bad luck. I mean, if the game was going
to go for another three hours, it would be just
more of the same.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
The Panthers just never could figure it out.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
It just was kind of the white flag surrender of
the Saints taking their starters out, Panthers putting in their
backup players in the end.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
There.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
So there's a lot to be addressed. With the Chargers
coming to town this next week for a home game
here at Bank of America Stadium. You want people to
be excited about the new season and get things going here.
But to come out of the gate and just lay
a total egg, it was really disappointing.

Speaker 7 (05:47):
Can I just say quickly say this the very first play,
it's like J C.

Speaker 6 (05:51):
Horn on that little bang eight, they had all the
receivers in a nasty position, one of them right X,
nasty Z close. Anytime you get nasty positions where you
at the receiver and close they are trying to beat
the safety, and then he tip, you get this thing
called a jump call, and then you're gonna get a
pull call. So that I get we get people switching responsibilities.

Speaker 9 (06:13):
J C.

Speaker 6 (06:13):
Horn was expecting that the safety was gonna go ahead
and be in a deep middle where he can pull
off on the deep route coming by Olave. Instead, he
hesitates looking back in looking to try to do his job,
and there's nobody in the post, no one in the post,
and soone as he was running, he throws his hands up, going, hey,
where's my help? Now, this is my point. If you

(06:36):
play in preseason, you will eliminate that right now because
you're gonna get one of those routes like that. You're
gonna see one of those routes on some type of
bootleg because that's a classic thing that people do. And
then you can go ahead and work that out and
you can see it live. And this is my proponent
being a proponent of playing special playing in the preseason,

(06:57):
you get to.

Speaker 7 (06:57):
Work out the mistakes.

Speaker 6 (06:59):
Now, we talked about consistency, chemistry, and communication. On the
very first play, communication has dropped that he's handing his
hand out there with my safety he's probably said, where's
the corner, and now we don't know. I think that
is a function, in my opinion, that because you didn't
play in the preseason as much as you could. Now

(07:19):
I could be totally wrong, but those things get aired
out in the preseason.

Speaker 10 (07:22):
Well, I look that way in the first off.

Speaker 6 (07:23):
I'm sorry about that, boy, Pet Peeve. I'm sorry, my
pet Peeve is showing. I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
But the first offensive play looked a little disconcerted too,
because you weren't sure who the receiver was.

Speaker 10 (07:32):
Was it an overthrow? Did somebody run the wrong road?

Speaker 7 (07:35):
I mean two guys in the same here.

Speaker 10 (07:36):
Clearly it was confusion, exactly.

Speaker 6 (07:38):
And and I don't mean to beat a dead horse,
because I'm not trying to impugne the head coach.

Speaker 7 (07:44):
I'm not.

Speaker 6 (07:44):
I'm just saying that there is an advantage to play
in the preseason that you just can't replicate. I don't
want to learn that in the regular season. I don't
want to run it because in the regular season it
could cost you. You can get down in the dumps
on this game and your confidence can actually wayne on that.
So I think that td to work those things out
when you have opportunity to do those and that's what

(08:06):
the preseason is for.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Well, and if it's against an AFC team, okay, so what.
But this is a divisional game, so a.

Speaker 7 (08:12):
Game and a half. This is a game and a half.
Count the game and a.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Half, all right, and we're just underweight, way must That
is Block one. I'm breathing, breeze breath game show. When
we come back, Michael, get you up to date on
the scores and other games. They are just kicking off
right now. We'll later on have some of the calls
of this game. We'll hear from coach Canalis after his
first regular season game along with some of these Panther players.
But the final and a rough one today forty seven

(08:36):
to ten for the Panthers to open their season on
the Carolina Panthers Radio Network. Final score opening day at
New Orleans, the Saints blowout the Panthers forty seven to ten.
It's Jim Zoch along and Mike Pachico Eugene Robinson Panthers
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(08:57):
the Carolina Panthers celebrate the spirit of the Carolinas. So
didn't like that score, Mike yes, maybe we should see
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Speaker 3 (09:06):
Happy heady, I have.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
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at home next week it'll be the Chargers there at
home against Las Vegas. No score there, Denver over Seattle three.

(09:29):
Nothing score in Seattle, Dallas and Cleveland. Game we have
on in here. These are all first scored of Scorse.
By the way, that's a scoreless game. Washington at Tampa
Bay also no score there. From earlier today, If there's
any solid Panther fans can get, Atlanta loses today. Good
Pittsburgh eighteen to ten over Atlanta. Chris Boswell, if you
had him in fantasy, it was a good day for

(09:50):
you because he had six field goals. All the storting
Steelers coming on field goals. Justin Field's fourteen carries for
fifty seven yards. He was seventeen of twenty through one
hundred and fifty six yards. Passing Buffalo beats Arizona thirty
four to twenty eight Chicago, Tennessee. Pretty good game. They're
twenty four to seventeen. Caleb Williams fourteen of twenty nine

(10:11):
in that game. Tyreek Stevenson had a huge pick six
in that game, ended up giving Chicago to score. They
went for two, so twenty four to seventeen.

Speaker 10 (10:18):
There. Gerard Meyo, new head coach of the Newingle.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
Patriots, goes up sixteen to ten on Cincinnati, so the
first win coach. Jacoby Prissett, the former NC State Wolfpack
player fifteen of twenty four, one hundred and twenty one yards,
no touchdowns, no interceptions, and they had a good running game.
Romandre Stevenson twenty five carries one hundred twenty yards with
a touchdown.

Speaker 10 (10:39):
He's a good running back.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
Houston over Indianapolis twenty nine, twenty seven. That game was crazy.
He kind of went back and forth. CJ Stroud at
twenty four thirty two, three hundred and twenty four yards,
two touchdowns, no interceptions. The play we were all talking
about was that early touchdown by Anthony Richardson. He finished
nine of nineteen for two hundred twelve yards. We had
a sixty yard touchdown pass to Pierce and he was

(11:01):
all sorts of distress, thrown off his back foot, but
flat yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Through that seventy yards in the air exactly.

Speaker 7 (11:07):
And what he did was he slipped.

Speaker 6 (11:09):
He absolutely slipped in his when he was backing up
in his drop back, got back to his feet and
threw the ball flat foot about seventy yards of the air.
And that's one of the most amazing throws I think
I've ever seen.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
Miami beats Jacksonville twenty to seventeen to a tongue of
I low, three hundred and thirty six yards in the
air one touchdown. That touchdown was an eighty yard touchdown
pass to Tyreek Hill and then Minnesota over.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Hill had a big day.

Speaker 10 (11:32):
He did have a big day way you know.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
I mean, you know, you half well the game, Yeah,
and then you go and get an eighty r touchdown.

Speaker 10 (11:39):
I mean, how many guys can.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Say that they got Scotty Schffler Scotty s Sheffer shot
six under the day.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Yeah, you think guys are gonna start to want to
get arrested.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
I would not encourage that.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
No, I wouldn't either, But you know, crazier things have happened,
and Minnesota beats the New York Giants twenty eight to six.
How about Sam Darnold two hundred eight yards in the air,
two touchdowns, had one interception, and it was nineteen of
twenty four. We already mentioned all the games coming up here.
Tonight it'll be the Rams in Detroit at a twenty
and the Monday night game is the New York Jets

(12:09):
at San Francisco.

Speaker 7 (12:10):
The Rams in Detroit tonight, right.

Speaker 10 (12:15):
Yeah, the Rams and the Lions.

Speaker 7 (12:17):
Nice right, oh mind, this would be a good one.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
That's the Tigers. Yeah, not the Tigers.

Speaker 10 (12:23):
No, the Tigers. They play this afternoon though, Yeah, I
think Baseball Okland.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
So yeah. So those are the scores.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
And for the Panthers, a lot of work to do
to get ready for the Chargers coming up next week.
And just doesn't matter hoo the play next. We got
to just to get themselves right, is what it is.
It's saying about the opponent right now, Eugene, Right, It's
about figuring out your own stuff.

Speaker 6 (12:39):
Yeah, that's why you cannot you know, take this game,
as Partica was talking about earlier, is that you can't
throw it away. You have to really analyze this. Why
wouldn't my defensive line been getting pushed off the ball.
Why could we not run the ball? What was going
on when we had two guys in the same area
on passes where there's incompletion or there is an interception.
There were just too many glaring holes. And we're not

(13:03):
even the coaches. We just see it from the naked
eye from what just watching it. But can you just
imagine when they break it down in the film room
and how many errors are gonna be so glaringly obvious.
People gonna be getting really exposed. That's that always happens,
and those in those sessions because they always draw up
plays to win, and when you don't win, get blown

(13:24):
off the ball or whatever situation may be, not make
a play. There was a number of plays defensively where
we lose leverage on the outside. You think that the
linebackers are forcing that ball back inside or the corner
is no, you got Kamara Kamara running on the outside,
running free.

Speaker 7 (13:40):
That doesn't happen.

Speaker 6 (13:41):
So typically there's a lot of things that you have
to address and everybody's gonna be held accountable.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
It'll be a rough week in practice, but you gotta
get the things straight. And it's just so widespread. It's
all three phases of the game. Offense, defensive, special teams.
You have blocked punts. I mean it was like defensively again,
there was probably probably the biggest shock to me. It
was just how the defense couldn't stop the run, just
basic things.

Speaker 7 (14:04):
I know.

Speaker 6 (14:05):
That's that's the most odd thing to me, because we
were really good defensively and we're kind of built to
stop the run, and we saw uh Javi and Clowney
talking to the defense and encouraging him earlier. But it
just seems like, man, where were we and so that
can't happen. And I'm expecting the leadership coming from that

(14:26):
lineback cruise Shaq Thompson. I'm expecting to see maybe a
different flavor this week as we move forward.

Speaker 4 (14:32):
Well, and the hope is right that it's just the
snowball went downhill fast and not something that's structural or foundational,
because obviously, if it's the snowball going downhill and it's
just a couple of tweaks here and there, okay, you
can flush it out and go on to the next one.
But if it's if it's more than that, then you know,
it could be a long year.

Speaker 6 (14:48):
And then sometimes when I was as I was watching
the defensive line as they were setting up, and I'm
not sure if coach of Jerald's teaching this, but I
saw sometimes Robinson in a position where he's like a
yard and a half off the ball. So when you
got the defensive line that's lined up, he seems to

(15:08):
be back almost ready to do it like a stunt,
so that you get ready for a stunt, And I
think that's too far to be back. So I think
that's maybe something the correction that maybe that's going to
have to happen too, because I want my defensive lineman
U put a line of scrimmage almost near where they
making collisions immediately unless you are running stunt.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
All right.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
So that's the scoreboard we've got coming up. We got
some of the calls of the game. Will listen back to.
We got final thoughts from the guys in the booth
all happening as well, and much more to continue here
along with Mike and Eugene.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
It's Jim.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Panthers lose today at New Orleans by score of forty
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Speaker 8 (15:48):
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Speaker 8 (16:11):
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Speaker 2 (16:28):
A tough way to start the season for the Panthers
forty seven to ten, they lose on the road at
New Orleans and now get ready for a week two.
It'll be the LA Chargers coming to town next. As
we listen back to some of the calls of the
game from this one and the game started out poorly
quickly things unraveled very quickly as the Panthers will go
down seventeen to nothing in the first quarter, and big

(16:49):
play by Derek Carr here with Rahid Shaheed a fifty
nine yard touchdown pass to him to open the scoring.

Speaker 8 (17:00):
Free receiver set twins to the right. Saints working right
to left, car takes the snap in the pocket, launches
deep down field he wants. Shaheed makes the catch in
stride ten to five, touchdown, New Orleans fifty nine yards
for the score. Car to Shahed so.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
Rashid Shaheed seven to nothing.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
It was already off and running, and then the Panthers
get the ball their very first series and the first
offensive play of the game. Bryce Young gets intercepted.

Speaker 8 (17:29):
Chuba Hubbard is to running back the rookie Jatavian Sanders
motion's left to right. Panthers work left to right, Jordan
Matthews the motion man way. Thank Young fires over the
medal and that's intercepted. The Saints picking off miscommunication and
New Orleans brings it to the forty yard line of Carolina.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
That was set if a field goal Blake a group.
He was good from fifty seven yards, made a ten
to nothing first of four field goals he would have
in this game. Still in the first quarter, and another
touchdown pass from Eric Carr, you had three in the game.
This went to the tight end Foster Moreau.

Speaker 8 (18:06):
Goal line set with an extra blocker play action. Car
boots to his right, directed traffic out at the tenth
throws back across his body dangerous crow and four row
holds out for a touchdown.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
It would be a thirty to nothing game until the
final play of the first half when Eddie pinnerro gets
the Panthers on the board with a forty three yard
field goal. But then the beating would continue, so we
moved to further action where we have a Bryce Young touchdown,
the only touchdown of the game for Carolina, the first
rushing touchdown in the young career of Bryce Young. It
had to be reviewed to make sure he didn't fumble
it. It came down to the wire at the goal line,

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but it holds up as a Bryce Young three yard
touchdown run.

Speaker 8 (18:46):
Fourth of gold five wide quarterback draw could be in
the works too. Young takes the snap under pressure, steps up,
We'll try to run for it. Price able to get
into the end zone. The ball jumps out on it
looks like he broke the plane.

Speaker 11 (19:00):
Yeah we recovered anyway, better sport.

Speaker 8 (19:02):
Yeah, it's a touchdown if Bryce breaks the plane of
the goal line.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
One of the few highlights.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
So we couldn't really enjoy that for a while because
we had to wait for the review to make sure
it was It was good. But anyways, that was it
ten points for the Panthers offense forty seven to ten
New Orleans wins and Eugene again for this team, when
you look at the total yards one ninety three, they
give up three hundred and seventy nine. Let's look at
Bryce Young's performance thirteen out of thirty one hundred and
sixty one yards, two interceptions in this game. He had

(19:32):
the one rushing touchdown, he was sacked four times, but
he didn't look better.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
At times. He looked worse than he did last year.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
I know it was just the first game, but it
did not look to have any flow to it whatsoever.

Speaker 6 (19:42):
Yea, the overthrows in the interceptions almost confused at one
point of like, I'm not sure if he's throwing the
guy on a deep end or the guy behind him
on a pulse, and got two guys in the same area.
So it just didn't look good even when he got
out of the pocket, and it's that it just seemed
like he just seemed to be unsettled. And so, uh,

(20:03):
this was not, in my opinion, a good outing for Bryce.
And you know, I know that he's gonna go say
I got work to do, you know, and he's gonna
look at the film, because don't forget he got sacked
three times, and he got hit pretty pretty dang hard.
I mean he's well four times, I think it was
got sacked. I mean he got hit pretty dang hard
by Taylor, and so I know he's thinking, I got

(20:25):
to do better. And if you're gonna move in this league,
your quarterback is one of the most pivotal players on
the team. And if your quarterback is unsettled at any point,
your team will be unsettled.

Speaker 10 (20:38):
Yeah, I mean, there's not much to say. I mean,
it was just so.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
I guess the one thing is we talked about out
of the Buffalo game, right was like, hey, al right,
we saw the starters. You know, it looks like, you know,
the sun's out, things are rising, and then everything that
could go wrong went wrong to start, and I think
you would have thought that the offense might have had
a little bit more flow to it. But you know,
as we talked about, sometimes with offenses to more time
to gel. And yet you have on the offensive line,

(21:03):
you have some new pieces obviously on the outside as well.
I mean the constants are Juba Hubbard and and Bryce So.

Speaker 6 (21:09):
But you don't expect the passes to be that egregious,
that that far off by Bryce. No, I'm not expecting
Bryce to miss that that wide that you're throwing an interception.
On two interceptions, I was like, wow, how did he
miss that margin?

Speaker 10 (21:24):
And the first one it was not really sure where
he was going.

Speaker 6 (21:26):
Well, he was going with it, So you missed by
a big margin. And that's what my concern is. And
too and then you know, when when you saw us
on the sideline, you don't try to read into how
people look like, but when you're losing and you're getting
your butt whooped and that, I mean, you just had
that look of confusion, just looked bit like just you know,

(21:47):
can't believe that this is happening. You know, and maybe
often say that can't believe this is happening. I can't
say confusion, can't believe that. Wow, that that he's not
performing as well as he could perform, and that the
Panthers are down forty seven points?

Speaker 7 (22:01):
What the you know what the quickness.

Speaker 10 (22:02):
That's not all on him though you know, no it's not.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
But he's going to feel like the two interceptions, to
your point of the interceptions, those throws were off one
the second one, he was out of the pocket and
he missed badly.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
On Adam Feelen first one.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
We had to watch it a couple of times before
we guessed that it might have been to Deontae Johnson,
and he overthrew it by quite a margin there.

Speaker 6 (22:18):
So there, and they'll forget the good down down the
field overthrow, Yeah, I mean that would have been a touchdown.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
So there were again, there were some there were some
issues with the actual throws themselves. It wasn't always just
about protection and so forth, but there were some difficulties
there too. All right, we'll put against another break here.
We'll get the final thoughts from the guys in the
booth coming up next, as the Panthers fall on opening
Day at New Orleans by a wide margin forty seven
to ten. This is the Carolina Panthers Radio network bates

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forty seven Panthers ten, the final score from New Orleans,
and a lopside of the game. As lopsided that score sounded,
it it was it was that it was that wide
of a margin, was thirty to nothing at one point
in the first quarter of the game. We've been given
our thoughts to this point so far, and we will
get the thoughts now of the guys in the booth
as a niche Sorry, somebody at.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
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Speaker 2 (23:16):
Our butler is here as we send it back to
New Orleans now and hear what the guys had to say.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
Week one.

Speaker 8 (23:21):
Game one started the thirtieth season of Panther football, Year
one of the Dave Canalis Serra, year two of Bryce Young.
The start of the season often brings hope and possibility
and what if and aspirations. There's still time for that.
That possibility exists, but if we're being honest, the wind

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was sucked out of the sales early. The Saints, on
their opening drive, got a fifty nine yard touchdown pass
from Derek Carr to Rashid Shaheed. The Panthers first play
from scrimmage offensively Louke Kickley, Bryce Young throws an interception
and it kind of felt like things just snowballed into
disaster from there.

Speaker 5 (24:02):
I mean, you just look at you look at the
play design and that I love that play design. It
just it looked like we were just weren't quite on
the right page on it. Deontay Johnson was was open
and something just didn't. It didn't look right and didn't
feel right. Jake and I kind of talked about it.
I thought we'd come out there and just run the ball.
We go shift, we go motion, and then we go
play action pass and you know, there's nothing. I don't

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have any problem with the play call. It just didn't.
It just didn't work for us. And it's frustrating. And
I thought we'd I thought we'd see some more Chuba.
I thought we see some more pounding run game. But
like we talked about, when when they come out in
their first four drives of the game, they score a
touchdown and we go and we go pick, and we
go punt and we go mingo fumble. It's just it's

(24:47):
just hard, man. It's just hard to it's hard to
get anything going. You got to abandon what you want
to do. Then it's just it's hard, man. That's what
That's what the name of this game and the season
has been so far as things have just been very
difficult for us and Jake.

Speaker 8 (25:03):
We heard all off season that this team wanted to
run the football. It was a big impetus for Dave Canalis.
You get hit with the reality Haymaker. You get behind
so early, it kind of takes the run game out
of the equation. There was never even really a chance
to establish the run.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
No, there really wasn't.

Speaker 11 (25:21):
And you know, I'm trying to put down my notes,
and but one thing that just stuck out all game long,
and I think we all agreed upon it.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
We lost the line of scrimmage. We lost the line
of scrimmage on offense.

Speaker 10 (25:31):
We lost the line of scrimmage on defense.

Speaker 11 (25:32):
We lost the line of scrimmage on kickoff and kickoff return,
and we did. And honestly, we lost it on punt
because we had a punt blocked. That was to me,
and the turnovers killed us. But I expected us to
run the ball a little bit better. And listen, it
is week one. It's week one. I can go back
to the two thousand and one season. I was not

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in Carolina John Fox's first game. Steve Smith takes opening
kickoff against Minnesota and they score a touchdown and they
win no game after that. They go one to fifteen.
I mean, so we have a marathon of a season.
We have sixteen more left to go.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
We don't know.

Speaker 11 (26:06):
Who we are, we don't know the identity of this team.
But you know, when you kill yourself a turnovers early
on to get get in a hole, the time of
possession is never going to be in your favor. And
then we had some missed opportunities. We have a couple
of chances for some interceptions today We really and truly
did you know, And I think everything went the Saints away.
But give the Saints credit. They came in Newo. It's

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a coordinator. They ran the football, they established the line
of scrimmage. They were very, very physical, and that's something
that I think the tape's gonna show, and I think
our players will take it, you know, will take it.
Take coaching well, and one thing about Dave, he seems
to be pretty meticulous and kind of state pretty even
keel and you're gonna have to address it.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
But then we got to get ready.

Speaker 8 (26:52):
And Luke on the defensive shide. Obviously this team lost
Brian Burns and Frankie Luvu and Dan Morgan has been
very open about it, and he said, hey, this is
a process. We're trying to build this thing the right way.
It takes discipline, there's some hard decisions involved with that,
but this defense kept this team in a lot of
games last year when the offense didn't do anything defensively,

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it just seemed that they could not solve this Saints offense,
New Orleans marched up and down. How do you diagnose
where we could see improvement in the next few weeks defensively.

Speaker 5 (27:28):
I just think I think overall physicality, I think that's
something that that's a decision that you make as a
football player. How physical am I going to play today?
Am I gonna let them push me around? Or I'm
gonna stand firm and I'm gonna hold my ground? And
I think kind of we talked about a little bit
is I just didn't feel like we had firm edges.
I think in the wide zone concepts, the ball pushed

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on us, and when the ball pushes, gaps get really big.
They talk about lateral seams and horizontal seams, and we
had a ton of horizontal seams, and when those gaps widen,
it gets really hard to play defense. They had us
moving in different directions. They had pre snat motion, they
had tosses, they had downhill heavy run game, they had
wide zone, they had mid zone. They had some special

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stuff with Taysom Hill in the backfield. I just felt
like their their run game was very it was very
dialed in. I felt like they executed really well and
things looked easier for him on the offensive side of
the ball. So as Gerrera, Evro and that defensive staff
for phenomenal coaches, we just have to continue to get better.
We got to continue to do our job and we
get in there tomorrow with to be very offense from
the defensive side of the ball and say, hey, did

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we do our job to the best of our abilities?
And I think a lot of these guys that have
been around for a long time and say, hey, no,
it starts with me. I'm gonna get a little bit
better each day.

Speaker 7 (28:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (28:38):
And Jake, you brought up a point during the game
with Bryce Young numbers were not great, had the two picks.
He had more time today than he did most of
last season. You wanted to see him be a little
better in the pocket.

Speaker 11 (28:52):
Yeah, I mean, listen, I want to see us play
from the pocket. And that's something that I just think
that's how you you're right in the middle, you're in
the of the offense. I want to see you dial
it from the pocket, and that's something that, Yeah, our
game plan probably got thrown out the window pretty quick,
especially with the run game not being a part of
it because we got so far behind. But that's what

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I want to see. I want to see is Dollon
dowlling it up from the pocket. I know we've got
a couple of injuries on a tight end position and
things like that.

Speaker 7 (29:22):
We're playing a rookie tight end JT.

Speaker 11 (29:24):
Sanders, who's no more as a pass catcher, not not
a true blocker in that sense. But that's the NFL.
That's what happens. It's part of it, and we're gonna
have to regroup.

Speaker 10 (29:35):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
We gotta play a.

Speaker 11 (29:36):
Charger football team and I don't I don't know who
they are, but I know one thing about them. They're
probably gonna be tough, and they're probably gonna want to
run the ball and establish the run. And that's one
thing we're gonna see next week with the star quarterback.
So we're gonna have to answer because you know, there's
gonna be a lot of questions and these guys, I'm
hopeful with that when they watch the film, it's gotta
be all right, what's our medicine?

Speaker 12 (29:58):
We gotta get better? How do how do we change
and how do we get better? Well, it's only one week.
It is still only week one. Panthers get back at
it next Sunday home opener against the Los Angeles Chargers.

Speaker 8 (30:12):
Let's go back to the studio and Jim.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
All right, thanks a Niche and Luke and Jake and
wish they had better news report from New Orleans.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
But you saw it. You heard it.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Forty seven to ten the final score, and you know,
like this was not gonna be coming off two and
fifteen a one off season fixed. This is not gonna
be a one game fix either. This is I don't know. Again,
Every week is its own independent thing. Each week in
the NFL. You're playing a different opponent next week. But
there's a lot of ground to cover between week one
and week two. They usually say your biggest improvement happens

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between week one and week two when you play your
first game. But there's a lot a lot of ground
to cover for this one coming up.

Speaker 6 (30:47):
Well, Jick was really, you know, correctly said that a
line of scrimmage was destroyed on both sides of the ball,
uneven on special teams. I mean, we just got pushed
around physically on a line of scrimmage, defensively pushed off
the ball, offensively.

Speaker 7 (31:02):
Couldn't get it.

Speaker 6 (31:03):
He pushed off the ball, could not even protect h
the quarterback with four sacks, and then the blitz pick up.
I mean they say they were blitzing. There was one
time I think Miles Sanders on the on the right
hand side looked like he needed to switch over to
the other side. Uh, Taylor comes off the edge, boom, Bryce,
the sack look like you know, the uncontested the sacked.

Speaker 7 (31:24):
And so's the standpoint.

Speaker 6 (31:25):
There's there's so many, like you know, it's almost like
the you know, what's that story with the the kid
with the dyke kind of put his fingers and the
it's like different holes.

Speaker 7 (31:36):
This this there's like there's there's like different things.

Speaker 6 (31:39):
We don't wa crushing exactly, you know what I'm trying
to say, whatever that very nursery rhyme thing is.

Speaker 7 (31:45):
But there was just too many holes.

Speaker 6 (31:47):
Blisz pick a third down percent his turnovers, edge control,
there's two lot of scrimmage.

Speaker 7 (31:53):
There's just too many things. That's that's glaringly obvious.

Speaker 4 (31:56):
And progress has to be measured right now in and
I hate to say baby steps, but what about Bob
Let's bring in that reference.

Speaker 9 (32:03):
Yeah, but you know, oh my goodness, but improvement week
to week has to be what's measured and not you know,
the what Ron Very used to talk about, like managing
expectations like yes, and right now we can't even worry
about wins and losses.

Speaker 4 (32:17):
It's to some extempt I think we have to worry about.
You know, is Bryce making better throws? Is the line
of scrimmage being one So it's it's kind of that's
that's where the mindset has to be. It's just winning
your one on one battle exactly.

Speaker 6 (32:29):
That's well said windows one on one battles and we
can worry about winning win a game later, but we
need to win those one on one battles, plug in
each hole one at a time.

Speaker 7 (32:38):
You got you know, that's where we're going with that,
You know what, I'm all right?

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Coach Dave Canals, we'll be hearing from him coming up.
We'll have another scoreboard update with Mike injury updates.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
Hardest working player. You gotta be thinking about that coming
up as well. When did we need to.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
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Speaker 1 (33:15):
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Speaker 2 (33:31):
We are back. Forty seven to ten. Panthers lose the
opener at New Orleans.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
Lopsided game.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Three hundred and seventy nine yards of offense for New Orleans,
one ninety three for the Panthers. Three touchdown passes for
Derek Carr nineteen out of twenty three two hundred yards,
Rice Young thirteen out of thirty one hundred and sixty
one yards was intercepted twice. Did I have a rushing touchdown?
Let's hear from one of the Panthers offensive linemen on
what he saw in the trenches. Eugene was just referencing
that in the last segment about both sides, the lone

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of scrimmage, offense and defense were compromised in this one.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
As the Guy's chat with Taylor.

Speaker 8 (34:04):
Moulton, we were joined by Panthers right tackle and iron
man Taylor Moultin TIMO, I know, tough outcome today, but
one hundred starts in a row, what does that mean
to you?

Speaker 13 (34:16):
It's a blessing and I just want to think, you know,
the athletic training staff and the playing wellness staff for
everything they did to help me, you know, achieve this,
this one hundred consecutive starts. Unfortunately, the game came with
the with the loss, and that's uh, it's hurting quite
a bit, but you know, long season and ready to

(34:38):
get back back to work and learn from this.

Speaker 8 (34:41):
When you kind of look at what took place, what's
your sort of snapshot knee jerk diagnosis.

Speaker 13 (34:49):
And losses like this, I always, you know, point the
finger at myself. You know, there's definitely a handful of
plays that I want back. You know, I feel like
I and could have been better at some areas and
you know, even in year eight hundred starts and I'm
still learning game after game, and you know, it's it's

(35:11):
it's gonna be hard to figure out what exactly happened
until you see the film, right, But ultimately, you know,
I know that, like I personally could have played better,
and that's that's what I'm focusing on this week, is
doing whatever I can to be at my best for
next week when we play the Chargers.

Speaker 10 (35:28):
Taylor Jake Delome here.

Speaker 11 (35:29):
First off, congratulations one hundred straight start. That that's unbelievable.
You're a model of consistency. I know, as a quarterback,
there is nothing more than I like seeing the same
face as weekend and week out that could play and
you're one to go. So one congratulations, but two, my
next question is how much of the game plan that
you worked on all week did we actually see today?

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Meaning that the game got kind of out of hand
pretty quick. I mean, how how much did we deviate
and we just kind of had to play more catch
up mode than what we actually truly prepared for and
we and we're looking to show today. You know, ultimately,
it's crazy. It's something that when I'm out there, I
don't think about right, you have your list of openers,
so you kind of have it gist of what we're

(36:10):
starting off with, and then you know, I visualize those
plays so I can start off hot and get that
get that confidence rolling for the rest of the game.
But you know, after that, it's really just just locking
in on the next play and locking in on performing
and executing.

Speaker 13 (36:26):
The best of my ability. So it's it's hard for
me to uh speak on you know, the game plan
for the entire game, if we deviated from it or not.
What have you. Obviously, when the score gets out of
hand like that, you're going to have to pass the
ball a little bit more. But yeah, that's all I
can really comment on that.

Speaker 5 (36:45):
Yeah, Taylor again, echo a Niche and j congrats on
one hundred straight. Kind of more on you, What what
is your process look like going into games as you've
gotten older in your career versus when you were a
young guy. Have you changed anything up? Have you gotten
anything better? Are you wearing anything different? Risk brays knee
brace rise that helps you get through these games as
an older guy?

Speaker 7 (37:04):
Now?

Speaker 13 (37:05):
Yeah, you know, I guess I'll talk with talk with
the braces, right. I upgraded to the don joy risk
braces a few years back, and that that really saved
my wrists. The thumb guards, I take my fingers up
the Trey Turner especially, you remember, so you know, learn
from them, just because obviously throwing your hands and you know,
big dudes, and you want to protect them so you
can keep throwing them. And along with days you get older,

(37:28):
just modifying what it takes to to have my body
feel like a rookie when I get out there right,
feeling as warmer, loose as possible. And as I get older,
it takes a little bit more time, and I'm learning
to listen to my body and I'm learning what stretches
and what mobility exercises I need to do to get
that that aspect of my body warm. And you know,

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just with film, as you get older, I learn, you know,
how to watch film better. I learn more and more
tidbits about edge rushers and what they like to do.
And you know, obviously it's a it's a little trickier
those first few games. You only get the preseason, they
don't play much and you gotta you know, go off
last year and obviously you know, a whole season they
switch up. But you know, it's I do. I watch

(38:12):
as much film as I can from last year in
the preseason, like I said, to get ready. But Luke, Man,
I just I want to say over the years, I
learned a lot from you man those first few years,
and I really appreciate this opportunity to be in the
locker room with you and watch how you work, the
intensity you bring day in and day out, and it
was truly an honor to step on. I grassed with
you man. I never got to tell you, but I

(38:33):
really appreciate.

Speaker 5 (38:34):
That absolutely, Taylor, for congrats man. It's uh, that's what
makes football special is it's a unique relationship and bond
that we all share together. And uh do congrats man
on a great start to your career.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
Well, Taylor, I'm echo this.

Speaker 10 (38:47):
I didn't never I never got.

Speaker 11 (38:48):
To be in the locker room with Luke or on
the field, but it's an honor to be in the
press box with him.

Speaker 5 (38:53):
Now, you're because you're being too nice because.

Speaker 11 (38:55):
When I tell you, he starts breaking down the play
and then I'm like, oh my gosh, this is the
Rock's computer. That's just kind of you know, digitally typing
out the play. But yeah, no, I had to give
Luke a little jab right there.

Speaker 7 (39:06):
Thank you.

Speaker 11 (39:06):
But once again, congratulations man, great great honor.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
Hunter. Games are beautiful.

Speaker 8 (39:10):
Mind meme up here with Luke and Timo. We know
we can count on one thing. Things may change, but
you're always there at right tackle and you show up
every week. Look forward to seeing you next week as well.

Speaker 7 (39:20):
Appreciate you, guys.

Speaker 13 (39:21):
Wonderful talk with.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
You, guys.

Speaker 8 (39:22):
Thank you, Taylor Molten.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
All right, so the Panthers, Taylor Mouton make is a
one hundredth consecutive start stalwart there at right tackle.

Speaker 3 (39:30):
Panthers locker room show.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
By the way, He's brought to you by Southern Star
official bourbon of the Carolina Panthers. Celebrate the spirit of
the carol Liners. But it was overall not the outing
that the old line, or even the defensive line for
that matter, I wanted to have today in this game.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
Well, I guess the only good thing coming out of
this is, you know, there's a baseline now, right, I mean,
you put something on tape, you've seen something, and now
hopefully the only projection is forward.

Speaker 10 (39:54):
But you know what I mean, the.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
Players they're gonna see what we saw, you know, and
they're gonna take, hopefully take responsibility for that and things
should get better.

Speaker 6 (40:02):
But that's what Taylor said. He said that he'll take responsibility.
He felt like he let the team down, and he's
gonna cost on what he did wrong and he wants
to come back and make those corrections and and do
right and and I think that's going to be the
posture of every man on on on that team that
you have to be really honest with yourself when you

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messed up, or when you weren't in the right gap,
or you blocked the wrong way or got on the
wrong guy, get just beyond with yourself because it is
only one game, and we're being overly critical about this
one game, but this is the one sample size that
we have to go ahead and and and and talk about.
And so we didn't like what we see, and I
know coach like we see what he saw. And so

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hopefully it'll get better.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
No long ways to go, but it can be.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
It can be done, and this team's gonna be mad
at it this week and get on the field and
want to not have that feeling again.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
Come next week.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
For sure we'll be hearing from coach Canal's a little
bit later on, Mike's got another scoreboard update coming up.
We'll be picking our hardest working player of the game
and more to come as we continue on the Southern
Starbourban Whiskey postgame Show following a forty seven to ten
Panthers loss at New Orleans. This is the Carolina Panthers
Radio Network, along with the Eugene Robinson, Mike Pachico, Jim

(41:14):
Zochi with you as we continue on the Southern Star
postgame show. And we've heard from the guys in the booth,
We've heard from Taylor Moten, and now let's hear from
the head coach following his first regular season game, Dave
canal Is. Following this forty seven to ten opening loss
at New Orleans.

Speaker 8 (41:30):
We're joined by Panthers head coach Dave Canalis, coach. The
start of the game, the way it unfolded, What impact
did that have on the overall game plan?

Speaker 14 (41:41):
You try not to, you know, overjudge the outcome of
a game by what happens early. And you know that
was the message to the guys, you know, and I
think you know the opening drive touchdown, the interception on
our first play, really, you know, those are things that
we have to be able to just bounce back and
just continue to keep playing football, you know, and then
you know, it's a game kept going. You know, we
just kept putting ourselves in bad spots and you know,

(42:03):
without even watching you know, second of the film, you
got three turnovers and you give up in the teams
and explosives. That's just a recipe for a really lopsided game,
getting a kick flocked, you know, So in all phases,
you know, we just we just have to be really
honest about where we're at today and look at it
and try to make the next step forward.

Speaker 11 (42:21):
Hey, coach, this is Jake Dilome here. What I'm assuming
the locker room was quiet? What exactly was the failure
message to the team, because certainly week one, first game,
everybody has high expectations, it's a new season.

Speaker 3 (42:32):
But what was the message to the team.

Speaker 14 (42:34):
Yeah, Jake, you know, the message to the team was
just a loss is a loss. So it could have
been by three points or could have been the huge
margin that we had today, and we have to treat.

Speaker 8 (42:44):
It as such.

Speaker 14 (42:45):
That was a loss. Let's go to the film and
let's look at what we can fix, what we can
improve on certainly, you know, elimiting the turnovers, certainly on defense,
you know, the communication and you know, really you know,
just minimizing the explosive plays. But you know, in general,
the feel of the guys was just accountability.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
You know.

Speaker 14 (43:04):
It was a group that was together that said, I
gotta do better. I got to play better. You know,
there's everything. There's stuff that we all got to work on,
you know, from from a game plan standpoint as a
coaching staff, on both sides, we got to do better,
you know. And so it was just that's what I
appreciated the most about being in there with those guys
was just they didn't quit. They played hard all the
way to the end, hammering the runs at the end

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all the way through with our guys playing out there,
and so I really appreciated that response, which give us
the best chance to just take the next step the
improve coach.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
What's up.

Speaker 5 (43:33):
It's Luke, just had a question for you. I know
we're all looking for consistency and all sides of the ball, offense, defense,
special teams. The one consistent thing that we've had is
Taylor Mode one hundred straight starts. Can you just kind
of talk to the consistency of Taylor. We kind of
talked about it up here. We never say his name
in the broadcast because we feel like his guy never
makes the play.

Speaker 14 (43:52):
Yeah, yeah, you know, Timo, that's a guy that we
count on, you know, and and he was, you know,
one of the biggest guys in here that was just
hurt with the outcome of it, you know, and from
a protection standpoint, you know, the pressure that they got
on the quarterback. They had a great scheme. Well they
got us a few times and we got to have
better answers to get the ball out. So Tiamo's a
guy that we that we love and we count on,

(44:14):
and you know, he was just as upset as everybody else.

Speaker 8 (44:17):
Great, Thank you, coach, appreciate the time. We'll catch up
with you this week. Thank you.

Speaker 14 (44:22):
All right, Thanks guys.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
All right, So that I hate to say, when you
lose by that much, you have to realize it is
one loss and so you could do probably more to
correct ep it were a three point loss as far
as things to address, but the big picture is it
is still just one game, one loss. As Mike said,
you have to have a starting point, a base point
to begin with, and you just hope for that improvement.

(44:44):
They didn't put any any expectations on this season. When
you hear them talk in the front office about this season,
they don't put numerical expectations on the season wins and losses.
They realized they're on this journey to try to get
Bryce right the way that they want him, to get
the entire team headed in the right direction here. So again,
you'd like to not to have that gap be what
it is today, But you didn't expect this kind of

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a lopsided scorer. But you do know there's gonna be
a lot of work overall with the season trying to
get to the point where they want to be.

Speaker 6 (45:11):
Yes, And but our game is predicated on winning. It's
always been predicated on winning and losing. And even though
this may not be any expectations on what that number
looks like, every man in that locker room, every coach
in that locker room, wants to win every single game,
you know, every single game. So there's gonna be a
disappointment on the coaches side. Where where could they have

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coach better, what they could have done a scheme wise,
They're gonna be analyzing all that stuff.

Speaker 7 (45:40):
Hey, Yeah, I get it. It's only one game. You're right,
it's only one game.

Speaker 6 (45:43):
It could be three point blowout, a close game or
fifty point blowout, doesn't matter.

Speaker 7 (45:48):
It's just one game.

Speaker 6 (45:49):
But the analysis doesn't have to take place of all
the little things that you got to maybe correct that
may be a little bit more glarely glaring than just
a tight, close game.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
And everybody has like the attention is on everybody right now.
I mean, this isn't like, hey, the offense played great,
but the defense needs to do this or Rice first.
I mean, everybody's on notice. And but I think it's
I mean we say that from a media perspective, but
I think Eugenie, I think you would be from the
player perspective. They feel thirty times worse. Absolutely, and and
so they're internalizing this and they're figuring out ways, all right,

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what what do I need to do.

Speaker 7 (46:21):
To get better? Absolutely?

Speaker 6 (46:23):
I mean that very first play on that post down
the middle, and we've looked like as j C. Holm
maybe as to Dave, we don't know who it is.
I've been in that situation. I know of that jump call.
I know who's supposed to come over the top. Well,
am I gonna take that deep route, you know, all
that stuff, and when the communication gets messed up, you
sit there shaking your head because you said, in practice, look,

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we already have gone over this stuff. You know, we're
already prepared for even when they got in a formation,
You're already prepared for that because you know what you're
going to actually see. And when you miscommunicate, as coach
Canal's is saying, that's something that you have to get correct,
it typically comes from that strong the free strong safety
or the strong safety who's gonna make that communication to

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say what we're gonna do and what we're not gonna do.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Yeah, because you'll want to beat yourself and that's no,
that's a great example of that had nothing to do
with your team. I was just your miscommunication, beating yourself
and not even giving your a chance to win that
play exactly.

Speaker 6 (47:19):
And that's that's almost criminal because they did nothing to
earn that play.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
You just gave it up, all right.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
When we come back, Mike with the latest on the
NFL scores and then one more to go after that,
we'll pick our hardest working player of the game, brought
to you by sun Belt. As we put the wraps
on this forty seven to ten opening day loss at
New Orleans. You're listening to Panthers Football presented by Morris Jenkins.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
Back to Jim's Oki with more of the Panthers postgame
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Speaker 3 (47:55):
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Speaker 3 (48:02):
Panthers will look to improve.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
Next week after dropping the opener or lopsided one forty
seven to ten at New Orleans. And Mike with the
lightest of what's in the books for the day in
the games that are in progress right now around the NFL.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
That's right, Jim, The Drive around the League brought to
you by your Honda Dealers of the Carolinas. We talked
about the Raiders and the Chargers charge will be the
next up for the Panthers. Gard to Minshew had a
thirty one yard touchdown pass to Anthony Madison, So that
made it a seven to three score right now, thirty
four seconds left to go in the half. Seattle just

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went on top of Denver nine to eight. Denver had
two field goals in a safety in that game to
get to eight points. Dallas seven to three, leading Cleveland
right now in Tampa Bay thirteen to seven over Washington.
Baker Mayfield touchdown to Mike Evans. But Washington has just
gone on the board with seven to seventeen to go
in the half.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
All right, So those are the scores of the games
that are in progress. This one forty seven to ten.
One final time out to take when we come back.
Our selection of the hardest working player of the game,
brought to you by Sun Belt, Reynolds and Quick Thought,
and our three and outs coming up next as we
continue to put the final touches on this opening day
loss to the Saints forty seven to ten. This is
Panthers Football presented by Morris Jenkins.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
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 (49:29):
Panthers dropped the opener forty seven to ten at New Orleans.
We do want to pick our hardest working player of
the game, presented by Sunbelt Renolds the official rental equipment
partner of the Carolina Panthers. And while there was not
anything close to a victory today, there were some good
individual efforts out there, some guys that were working hard.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
What do you guys think as far as our selection
of our.

Speaker 4 (49:49):
Player Shaq Shack, Tom, we have a unanimous We went
in the back in the boardroom and we came up
with a quorum, So we.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
Oh corum oh.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
Ten tack for Shackle had the team two for loss,
four solos, and just how hard he work to come
back from last year's season ending injury.

Speaker 6 (50:06):
Just to get back is a big, a really big
accomplishment and to be able to play as well as
he played today by tackle for the loss, two tackle
for loss, that's good.

Speaker 4 (50:14):
Yeah, And you need to find something to rally on.
I think his play can be something to kind of
uplift everybody on the defense.

Speaker 7 (50:19):
And he's also a leader leader, He's a leader in
that lock.

Speaker 10 (50:22):
You need your starts to play out.

Speaker 7 (50:23):
Yeah, absolutely, one of the four captains.

Speaker 10 (50:25):
Shack is a guy.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
All right, Shack are player of the game, the hardest
working player of the game. All right, Our three and outs,
we each could do just one today, since we've cashed
it up enough to wait.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
You can do as man as you want. I'm only
going to do.

Speaker 10 (50:35):
I'm all gonna do. Let's do three and out as one,
two and three.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
Yeah, as a team, as a team, as we do
the three musketeers here, all right, who wants to go first?

Speaker 7 (50:42):
Anybody?

Speaker 10 (50:42):
Well?

Speaker 4 (50:42):
I hope I'm not stealing Eugene's thunder here. But they
got to get better on third down one for ten
ten percent. And I know it's something we harp on
a lot, but you know that means you're not extending drives,
you're getting three and outs, or you're not getting long
sustained drives. And if they want to run the ball
and set up the passing game, they need to get
third downs and kind of move the ball down the field.

Speaker 6 (51:01):
Off side of the ball. Quarterback play has to improve,
has to improve.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
I don't like the term flush it. I don't think
you learn anything by saying, you know, big loss, Like
if you lost by three or whatever, it's different. But
if you lose by thirty seven, you just flush it
and move on and don't look at the game tape.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
I hope they study it. Chew on it. Yes, breathe it.

Speaker 4 (51:17):
But I think you say that when when a team
is like twelve and one and that's just a brain cramp, right, Like.

Speaker 10 (51:25):
Yes, but this is not that.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Yeah, and I'm not saying anybody on the team said that,
but there's a phrase that people use sometimes. I think
they need to learn from it. I hope they have.
They have to hate how last year felt and they
have to hate how today felt so that you cannot
have this feeling in the future. Yeah, this team is
much better than that. That is not This team is
not that personnel poor. I mean, they've got some players

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on this team, and so it's it's got to come together.
And I think, to me, because of last season, it
needs to come together pretty quickly. I think, you know,
the acceleration process needs to begin week one to week
two with the having a dramatic improvement for the Chargers coming.

Speaker 6 (51:58):
And when you say there's no really expectations how many
wins they're expecting to win, everybody is.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
Why else practice and place you're expecting to win.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
But when they say I think they just mean, like,
we're not putting a number on what is success this year,
but they want to see obviously great leaps of improvement.
They just numerically don't want to put a number on
like how many wins and whatever it is you do
want to go, want to know every week.

Speaker 6 (52:20):
And you kept me and man, we got the personnel.
We're not personnel poor at all. You're right, and so
I think Brest is gonna play a lot better next
week and hopefully that that improves officely.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
Well, you guys were the hardest working broadcasters I knew
this week.

Speaker 7 (52:34):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
I have a bible of us against Arbourbon. I'm sure
we have some tucked away somewhere here that is being
hidden from us. Thanks for our crew, Harold Hamrick, our
technical director, Ben Lebens, and Jason Hutchinson, the game said
engineers Wendell Black, David Eads, Matt Hogan right here Byron Putman,
Amy Martin, our broadcast manager, Eric Fiddleman, the Affiliates manager,
Sharon Thorson on the sidelines, and David Landon, our executive

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producer for Mike and Eugene.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
I'm Jim.

Speaker 3 (52:57):
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