October 12, 2025 • 6 mins
Rico Dowdle speaks with the media following the Panthers week 6 win over Dallas.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Upon further review, because so when you bubble up nice
about today, not at all.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
But yeah, uh gotta give all the credit to those
guys up front again. They came out there again week
the week allow for me to go out there and
do what I do.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, gotta get credit to them. This one obviously don't
meant something to you.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
What does it mean to get this win in this
type of way against.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
The the team that didn't bring me back.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Definitely, like I been saying all week, and the main thing,
just wanted to get that win. Big for big for me,
but also big for the organization, you know, getting the
five hundred and protecting the home field three and no
at home. So just gotta continue to keep building. But
definitely was a huge getting that win.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Now you go away into that team game. But to
go out and do what you did today on a
personal level, especially with your defense holded Javonte down, What
did that mean for you for this you know, this former.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Team you played against that, Yeah, basically the same thing.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Like I said, Uh, meant a lot just to go
out there and beat 'em, and like you said, the
defense held them down and those guys up front opened
it up for me.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
And we had a great day. So definitely think did
you do I know you.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Said you were thankful that they gave you five years.
They gave you to start, and they gave me five years.
But was there a little bit of personal you know,
you wanted to show 'em after they just probably try
to resign them.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Un It's a lot that went on in those five
years while I was that.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
But yeah, I definitely said it was a little person
that just wanted to get the win and have a
great performance from my end, and like I said, those
guys allowed me to do it.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
We was able to get the job done again.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
How'd you avoid not branking? I've been two hyped up
in a spot like this and you had all week.
You had the buckle up comments a week ago, but
it seemed like you came in it's a big spot
for you. A lot of guys can come into emotional
get a little bit too hyped up. How did you
really lock in and be ready for the start a game?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Like I said, just standing in the moment. I know
where the U I l I said those comments. I
talked to a couple guys after that.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
They know I meant no harm by it. That's me.
I just always ul talk, joke around with them and
things like that.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
But yeah, just standing in the moment. I know the
don't never let it get too high, don't never get
too low. I come here to do a job, and
I know what I gotta do when I go out there.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
So you're saying that was friendly banter during the game.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
You said it was friendly?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
What said there was friendly banter during the games?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And oh yeah, I was chopping out, had some words
with a couple guys at uh halftime, walking across the
field and also throughout the game.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
But yeah, it was all it's our friendly, it's all love.
At the end of the day, Rico, were you cramping again?
Speaker 6 (02:19):
It looked like you had a massage gun.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Going so well, yeah, I feel like this this week.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, th I started cramping up. I made it a
little farther than I did last week.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Uh huh. Yeah, I start cramping up at the end
of the fourth quarter. But yeah, she just got a
highdrate band fall.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Did you call for the the lateral from excel or
at together the first half?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Did you call for that?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I did. I was telling 'em that's on me.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I told the coaches the same thing that was like,
don't makes uh uh stuff up and uh things like that.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
But yeah, when he caught it.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I was like, pitcher, pitcher, pitcher, and he actually pitched it,
so yeah, yeah, I was just once he pitched it
and I seen it go in there, I'm like, yeah,
but we had never practiced nothing like that before.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
But yeah, it was a great play. Just trying to
make plays out there. Yeah, so what made you game?
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Like you you see those opportunities every once in a
while when you see a guy getting tackled and you
see some space out. So I'm just like pitch and
pitch and pitcher, and I thought maybe if I coulda
got it on the clean pitch or something, I coulda
gained some more yards. But yeah, rehood, we can't have that.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
You references team getting the five parters that has not
happened here is in four years.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (03:19):
And what's it?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Being?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Going forward means a lot?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Like I said, Uh, everything we've talked about throughout the
weeks as well, Uh as far as starting fast, coming out,
taking care of it, uh, playing battery in the second
third quarter, fixing the run game, focus on running it, uh,
Like I said, getting the five hundred, goodie. Uh he
got up talked about getting the five hundred Like he's
saying the same thing. The team hasn't done it in
some years and it was time this week, and so
(03:44):
definitely special getting that done.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
You're a ride parl the Carolinas.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Your guy from the Carolina's from North Carolina, so you're
ball in South Carolina. Does it feel special to do
what you're doing right now here in the home steat?
Oh for sure.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, definitely special, just being back home in front of
a lot of family in front, and had to cut
a lot of people at the game today and like
I said, I'm on the h a on the home team.
So definitely special getting to do it here in North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
And then you're go's here's a lot of credit when
to players, it's off about the B line.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Uh can you speak to the to the make shift
the great side that's been penough fruits.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Flush for atto guys.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You know, we had another guy down today and uh
t Mo and uh Josh came in Like I said
said last week, man down, man up, and those guys
up front just been blocking, they tails off, just allowing
me to do what I do we you.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Go the.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Lot of m you want the last guys into the
large for la today describe the the viible of the
team right now and uh just how the.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Time you ever what it was?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
After this very excited?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Uh these past two weeks we got two wins in
a row, so uh, variouscitings walking down. You can feel
you can feel the energy after the wins. You can
feel the energy throughout the weeks. And we know we
got something special in his room long as we can
come out and execute on the high level. So onto
the next and like I said, we got gotta get
back to work and go get the next one.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I think where's the lame when like at for these
two game record for for Sprema George for you and
did you realize how close you were if you got
into when your rushing the second straight games, you were
like joining like pretty elite players that to do whatever
t your game are is.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
No, I didn't realize that part.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
But uh, definitely special to be able to come here
and uh get in the history books for the home team,
So come around the same question she asked, But so
definitely specially to be able to get in the history
books here and calling Rico.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
If your message last week was buckle up to the Cowboys?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
What's your message after the game They wouldn't buck it up?
Were you you good?
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Were you on? H?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
What was it pickle juice again this year?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
This time?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Or was the Jews?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Same thing?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
You had to start down on the pickle juice again
and uh trying to get back out there. But like
I said, uh, once we got on the two minute warner,
I told coaches just let Tram stay like and he
told me if you not good, to go and and
obviously I when I was still cramping a little bit,
and Trav came did a great job. He came in,
got that he was starting down for us, and he's
been ready the whole time, so he stayed ready and
I told him he just let trap state O.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I think.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
But yeah, do you have interaction with the Cowboys coming
off the field.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I talked to Yeah, I talked to a lot of
guys coming off the field, and they was just telling
me congratulations and things like that.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Are you talking at two way off in between plays?
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Anything like that is giving me an keep back for
you after the game right now?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah. I talked to true Man you know true, he's
just he a leader of the team. So he just
always telling him keep going, telling me to keep going.
And it's coming through me right now while I'm out
there on the field and just telling me, y'all just
keep going that I gotta keep the team up and
keep the team going.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Actually think that's gonna work when Truba comes back and
suddenly all these carriages.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You could be split. Like I said, that's the coach's decisions.
I'm pretty sure we'll figure out where h figure out
a way to do it. Two much better than one.
So he's gonna be hard on the defense seeing this
all four quarters. And I definitely won't camp up
Upon further review, because so when you bubble up nice
about today, not at all.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
But yeah, uh gotta give all the credit to those
guys up front again. They came out there again week
the week allow for me to go out there and
do what I do.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, gotta get credit to them. This one obviously don't
meant something to you.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
What does it mean to get this win in this
type of way against.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
The the team that didn't bring me back.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Definitely, like I been saying all week, and the main thing,
just wanted to get that win. Big for big for me,
but also big for the organization, you know, getting the
five hundred and protecting the home field three and no
at home. So just gotta continue to keep building. But
definitely was a huge getting that win.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Now you go away into that team game. But to
go out and do what you did today on a
personal level, especially with your defense holded Javonte down, What
did that mean for you for this you know, this former.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Team you played against that, Yeah, basically the same thing.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Like I said, Uh, meant a lot just to go
out there and beat 'em, and like you said, the
defense held them down and those guys up front opened
it up for me.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
And we had a great day. So definitely think did
you do I know you.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Said you were thankful that they gave you five years.
They gave you to start, and they gave me five years.
But was there a little bit of personal you know,
you wanted to show 'em after they just probably try
to resign them.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Un It's a lot that went on in those five
years while I was that.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
But yeah, I definitely said it was a little person
that just wanted to get the win and have a
great performance from my end, and like I said, those
guys allowed me to do it.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
We was able to get the job done again.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
How'd you avoid not branking? I've been two hyped up
in a spot like this and you had all week.
You had the buckle up comments a week ago, but
it seemed like you came in it's a big spot
for you. A lot of guys can come into emotional
get a little bit too hyped up. How did you
really lock in and be ready for the start a game?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Like I said, just standing in the moment. I know
where the U I l I said those comments. I
talked to a couple guys after that.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
They know I meant no harm by it. That's me.
I just always ul talk, joke around with them and
things like that.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
But yeah, just standing in the moment. I know the
don't never let it get too high, don't never get
too low. I come here to do a job, and
I know what I gotta do when I go out there.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
So you're saying that was friendly banter during the game.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
You said it was friendly?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
What said there was friendly banter during the games?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And oh yeah, I was chopping out, had some words
with a couple guys at uh halftime, walking across the
field and also throughout the game.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
But yeah, it was all it's our friendly, it's all love.
At the end of the day, Rico, were you cramping again?
Speaker 6 (02:19):
It looked like you had a massage gun.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Going so well, yeah, I feel like this this week.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, th I started cramping up. I made it a
little farther than I did last week.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Uh huh. Yeah, I start cramping up at the end
of the fourth quarter. But yeah, she just got a
highdrate band fall.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Did you call for the the lateral from excel or
at together the first half?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Did you call for that?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I did. I was telling 'em that's on me.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I told the coaches the same thing that was like,
don't makes uh uh stuff up and uh things like that.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
But yeah, when he caught it.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I was like, pitcher, pitcher, pitcher, and he actually pitched it,
so yeah, yeah, I was just once he pitched it
and I seen it go in there, I'm like, yeah,
but we had never practiced nothing like that before.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
But yeah, it was a great play. Just trying to
make plays out there. Yeah, so what made you game?
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Like you you see those opportunities every once in a
while when you see a guy getting tackled and you
see some space out. So I'm just like pitch and
pitch and pitcher, and I thought maybe if I coulda
got it on the clean pitch or something, I coulda
gained some more yards. But yeah, rehood, we can't have that.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
You references team getting the five parters that has not
happened here is in four years.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (03:19):
And what's it?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Being?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Going forward means a lot?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Like I said, Uh, everything we've talked about throughout the
weeks as well, Uh as far as starting fast, coming out,
taking care of it, uh, playing battery in the second
third quarter, fixing the run game, focus on running it, uh,
Like I said, getting the five hundred, goodie. Uh he
got up talked about getting the five hundred Like he's
saying the same thing. The team hasn't done it in
some years and it was time this week, and so
(03:44):
definitely special getting that done.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
You're a ride parl the Carolinas.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Your guy from the Carolina's from North Carolina, so you're
ball in South Carolina. Does it feel special to do
what you're doing right now here in the home steat?
Oh for sure.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, definitely special, just being back home in front of
a lot of family in front, and had to cut
a lot of people at the game today and like
I said, I'm on the h a on the home team.
So definitely special getting to do it here in North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
And then you're go's here's a lot of credit when
to players, it's off about the B line.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Uh can you speak to the to the make shift
the great side that's been penough fruits.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Flush for atto guys.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You know, we had another guy down today and uh
t Mo and uh Josh came in Like I said
said last week, man down, man up, and those guys
up front just been blocking, they tails off, just allowing
me to do what I do we you.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Go the.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Lot of m you want the last guys into the
large for la today describe the the viible of the
team right now and uh just how the.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Time you ever what it was?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
After this very excited?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Uh these past two weeks we got two wins in
a row, so uh, variouscitings walking down. You can feel
you can feel the energy after the wins. You can
feel the energy throughout the weeks. And we know we
got something special in his room long as we can
come out and execute on the high level. So onto
the next and like I said, we got gotta get
back to work and go get the next one.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I think where's the lame when like at for these
two game record for for Sprema George for you and
did you realize how close you were if you got
into when your rushing the second straight games, you were
like joining like pretty elite players that to do whatever
t your game are is.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
No, I didn't realize that part.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
But uh, definitely special to be able to come here
and uh get in the history books for the home team,
So come around the same question she asked, But so
definitely specially to be able to get in the history
books here and calling Rico.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
If your message last week was buckle up to the Cowboys?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
What's your message after the game They wouldn't buck it up?
Were you you good?
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Were you on? H?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
What was it pickle juice again this year?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
This time?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Or was the Jews?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Same thing?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
You had to start down on the pickle juice again
and uh trying to get back out there. But like
I said, uh, once we got on the two minute warner,
I told coaches just let Tram stay like and he
told me if you not good, to go and and
obviously I when I was still cramping a little bit,
and Trav came did a great job. He came in,
got that he was starting down for us, and he's
been ready the whole time, so he stayed ready and
I told him he just let trap state O.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I think.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
But yeah, do you have interaction with the Cowboys coming
off the field.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I talked to Yeah, I talked to a lot of
guys coming off the field, and they was just telling
me congratulations and things like that.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Are you talking at two way off in between plays?
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Anything like that is giving me an keep back for
you after the game right now?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah. I talked to true Man you know true, he's
just he a leader of the team. So he just
always telling him keep going, telling me to keep going.
And it's coming through me right now while I'm out
there on the field and just telling me, y'all just
keep going that I gotta keep the team up and
keep the team going.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Actually think that's gonna work when Truba comes back and
suddenly all these carriages.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You could be split. Like I said, that's the coach's decisions.
I'm pretty sure we'll figure out where h figure out
a way to do it. Two much better than one.
So he's gonna be hard on the defense seeing this
all four quarters. And I definitely won't camp up
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