October 1, 2025 • 26 mins
This week on Sideline Pass, Kristen and Sharon react to the Panthers road loss to New England, look ahead to this Sunday's game against Miami, and so much more - including an exclusive sit down with former Panther, Eugene Robinson.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Cheers.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Kristin Valvoni and Sharon Thors loved with your sideline pass.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
It's sideline pass with your sideline reporters, Kristen and Sharon. Sharon,
how are you this week?
Speaker 4 (00:14):
I am just fine. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
I'm doing great. I'm doing great.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
You know, it's Wednesday, which means it is time for
this football team to turn the page and start focusing
on the Miami Dolphins, which we're certainly going to get
into with the best scouting reports ever, as we know,
we've got that coming up from Sharon. But Sharon, I
want to talk about this game. You were on the
sideline for it with the Patriots. Of course, not what
we wanted in that game, not what the players wanted,
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but something that really stuck out to me immediately after
the game with the press conference, we saw a lot
of accountability. So coach Canalis came out and said, Hey,
this one is on me as a head coach to
have our guys ready to play in all three phases.
We did not see that. He said, the energy and
the effort are there, but not the execution. And then Sharon,
we heard jac Warren and Derek Brown, two of the
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leaders on this team saying no, no, no, this isn't on
coach Canalis. He can't go out there and play for us.
We had a great week of practice and we have
to show up. So I'm just wondering what you made
of all of that as well.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Yeah, I mean I like like you said. I mean,
I think that's great that they are and they're taking accountability.
And the thing that I noticed the most and that
I think is key about the scene is no one's
cashing it in. No one's given up. You know, they
fought till the end. They had that late touchdown, you
know when when Andy Dalk came in let them down.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
The field to score.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
So I mean, the guys kept trying and the defense
got a three and out to set that up, and
they could have easily just cashed it and they didn't.
And things just aren't working from an execution point right now.
And the guys know that, and that's why they're not
blaming this all on you know, the coaching staff and stuff,
cause they're the guys that have to go out there
and play. So I love that that they're stepping up
and that they are taking accountability like that, and they
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realize that they have to play better, and they know
how well they played against the Falcons, so they see
what they're capable of doing. That's what makes this loss
even that much more frustrating. It's because you I mean,
it was just such a one to eighty for when
they had just done just a week before, particularly from
the defense with that shutout. So guys really frustrated after that,
and they know that they have just got to have,
as they say, elite execution, especially because they don't have
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a lot of depth. They have a lot of injuries
in some areas, so there's just no room for error,
and they want to go out there and get that
cleaned up starting this week headed into the Miami game.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, and one area that I just want to briefly
talk about is special teams. You know, there's no doubt
that they did not have a great game on Sunday
and give up something like almost two hundred return yards.
But here's the thing that we know and that I
want to remind everyone is that that special teams has
been a bright spot in the first three weeks, and
I firmly believe that they are going to get right
back to that.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
You know, we saw those numbers.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I mean, they were punting and kicking it to where
it would be on the twenty, you know, and this
was this felt like a one off in terms of
being able to at Marcus Jones being able to return
for the touchdown and then that other big return. You know,
we know Ryan Fitzgerald has a leg and we saw
him kick that fifty seven yard or the week before.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So I really believe that Special Teams.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
This felt like a bad outing, for sure, but I
really believe in that unit, Sharon, and I think it's
going to look a lot better in the coming weeks.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
And I think what maybe some people didn't realize was,
I mean they were missing some guys special Teams. You had,
you know, David Moore who had gotten injured on the
very first series. Offensively, he's normally a stalwart on that
Special Teams group and he's not out there, so then
people have to make adjustment. So you know, we had
the injury to d Levon who also was not able
to come back and play on special that's normally what
he plays. So we were actually missing some pieces to
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the puzzle in Special Teams as well. And I think
that that affected, maybe an impacted to some extent how
they played. So but yeah, you're right. I mean this
has been a great, great, great unit all season now.
They've been just doing some really good things. In fact,
that's what the Patriots have been talking about that leading
up to the game, how difficult their kickoffs were to
return in things like that. So I do think that
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that was not something that we're going to see again.
I think that was They're going to get that stuff
cleaned up now, you know, at least going in who's
going to be out there and who's not. Hopefully we
don't have any more early injuries like that, but you know,
David Moor is out for a couple of weeks now,
Sincy landed on IR today, So you know that you're
going to have some changes there in the personnel of specialisties.
So they have time to adapt to it and prepare
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for it and get ready for the Dolphins with the
people that they're that they know are going to be
out there at this point.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
So I think that played a role in it as well.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, having to make those quick adjustments, and we know
special teams can be the most affected when these injuries happen.
Speaking of injuries, you alluded to it. You know, for
for anyone listening as a sideline reporter, your least favorite
hits when they come down to you are injuries. I
always say, it's a good day if you don't see
the Panthers PR people on the field. There is a
PR contact down on the field and they typically report
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injuries to you once you know, you can report what
you see if someone you know comes up with you know,
they're grapping their knee or whatnot, but the PR side
has the official diagnosis once it's gone through of course,
the trainers and the person's been evaluated. And I always say,
you know, to if it's Ukiah on the home sidelines,
I say, I hope I don't see you very much
because that means that, of course guys are going down.
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And Sharon, we saw a lot of that in this game.
And I know that you have in addition to what
you're saying about about David Moore and some others, you
have an update on just where the Panthers are and
unfortunately pretty pretty injury prone right now.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Yeah, it really stinks. They the injuries have just been
as we all know already starting out with our offensive
lineman Austin Corbett and Robert Hunt, who are already on IR.
Now we're adding Chandlers of Allah, another offensive aligneman who
had come in to take the place of Robert Hunt,
and so he's already out now he has also landed
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on I are Both he and David Moore are the
short term are so hopefully it's not the season ending,
so hopefully we'll be able to get both of them back.
Chandler injured his knee and David Moore had the elbow injury,
so they are both out for at least the next
four weeks. So they made a couple of roster moves
today to take their places. They promoted running back DJ
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Dallas and safety Travion Thomas off of the practice squad.
They signed them to the active roster. They also signed
offensive lineman Jake Curran off the Cardinals practice squad, so
getting some more depths at O line, which they they
definitely need right now. Brady Christensen is going to take
over now for where Chandel lords Oballa was, But then
we're we had our vaunted O line depth has unfortunately
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gotten tested very early on this season, so they just
added to that with Jake off this the Cardinals practice
squad and They also added three more players to the
practice squad and they opened this is the one good
news here and all this, they opened the window for
Lebrian Ray defensive and Lebrian Ray to come back from
that high ankle sprain he's been on ir so hopefully
they can get him back and get him into that
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defensive line rotation. But yeah, lot lots of new faces
and moving PARTO this week headed into Miami.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, and as you said about that O line, you
know they came back with the most depth that he
was the nine guys who played the most last season,
and we know how good that offensive line unit was.
So now you go, as you said, you're kind of
rolling through. You know, you're at your third Brady Christensen
will be the third right guard. But thank goodness they
had that depth and are able to continue to add
to it. I wanted to point out about Jake currn In.
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So he's played five seasons. He signed off the Cardinals
practice wide. He played five seasons, but he's appeared in
forty games and eleven starts. So he was with the
Seahawks and the Bear. So that is that's great news.
You know that you've got someone that can come in
and provide depth who has has really been in it
and has a good amount of game experience behind Brady Christensen.
And we know what Brady Christensen can do as well,
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so that's really great, you know. And then as far
as receivers go, Jalen Koker eventually will will come back.
We hope that it's one of you know, something that
will see them open the window on him in the
next few weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Will certainly keep you posted.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Xavier Lagette still dealing with that hamstring injury, keep you
posted on that as well. But one exciting piece of
news in the receiver room is that Dave Canalis said
that we are going to see Jimmy Horn Junior this week.
Certainly of fan favorite stand out at Colorado and a
speedster share and we know that.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yeah, he is so much fun to watch.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
I'm sure fans probably remember from back in the preseason
and those couple of games. He was just all over
the place and I think he actually prevented a touchdown
on a return too, So he just can go flying
all over the football field and he is so excited
to get out there and get started. I'm sure we're
going to be talking to him later today, but just
seeing him around the team, he's just itching to get
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out there.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
And I know that a lot of fans.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Have just been really clamoring to see him as well,
because they know what he was able to do in college.
And clearly it's the NFL now, we all know it's
a different game. But what he was able to show
us in the preseason at training camp and in those
preseason games, he can move. I mean, you can't teach speed,
and he is flying. And what I think this is
a really cool thing that he was telling us earlier
this season. He was working with trainers over the summer
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to sort of like harness his speed and know how
to actually use his speeds to develop his route running better,
know when to like dial it back and when to
be able to stop on a dime and things like that.
So he thinks that he'll be even more dangerous now
because he's really been training to just use that speed
instead of just you know, just go out, instead of
flying down football field with no rhyme or reason. He
sort of knows now how to develop that into his
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routes and how to use it even more so to
his advantage. So it's going to be fun to see
what kind of opportunity he gets on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Oh, that's so neat.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
It's kind of like, can you have a car and manual? Right,
you're like his second gear right now? Third that kind
of thing exactly. Yeah, let me go back down here
to kind of throw a guy off balance.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
That's that's really cool.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I'm excited to see it, and certainly that, as you said,
that burst of speed is going to be something that
the Panthers haven't had so far, and that is, as
you said, very very tough to defend. All right, let's
talk about the opponent that's coming into Bank of America
STATEIU and the Miami Dolphins. They got their first win
on Monday night, but they lost Tyreek Hill. Sharon, So
what are you seeing? I know, what are you seeing
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from this team? And what should the Panthers be prepared for?
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Well, that's you know, it's it's horrible what happened to
poor Tyreek Hill and now is just an absolutely gruesome
leg injury. I don't know if you were able to
like see that, but.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I wish I had.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
It was fad.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, it was bad.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Good news for him is he's supposedly only needs that
one surgery they repaired all of those ligaments and the knee,
and his agent, Drew Rosenhouse, claims that he'll be right
back out there next year. So I certainly hope that
is the case, because we saw it that basically the
exact same thing happened to Tank Dell last year in December,
and he he is now running, but he's certainly nowhere
and you're going to be back on the football field.
So I hope for Miami's sake and Tyreek Kill's sake
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that he'll be able to come back. But that certainly
takes away a massive weapon. He was their top target
to attag of Bilo of course, their quarterback, who is
dangerous in his own right, but that he was his favorite,
his favorite target, Tyreek Kill, And so without him now
you're you're taking away a lot of yards and a
lot of touchdowns. But they still have a ton of weapons,
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and of course the Jalen Waddall is the guy that
read me looking for now to fill the void and
really take over for Tyreek Hill. They also which this
was just sort of crazy to me. People might have
remember Darren Waller, veteran tightened retired head and played since
the twenty twenty three season, and looked in that game
I to retire. Came back to the Dolphins, was inactive
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for the first three games as he worked his way
to football shape. Came in last week, had three catches,
one of them went to convert a third down, and
two of them were touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yes, I mean, looks looked like he had been playing
for since twenty twenty three exactly exactly.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
So other than that, they don't have a lot of
depth at receiver. When I was starting to prepare my
scouting report, they've only got like three of the receivers
on the roster, and they're young guys and one of
them is only a special teams guy. So it's gonna
be interesting to see what they do this week to
try to fill the void of Tyreek Hill. But then
they've got a great running back in Devon chen and
he is he's really good, one hundred and forty three yards.
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They've got another young guy as well, who's who's coming
in there, Ollie Gordon. He's a rookie and he's coming
and got a touchdown too. But they're not able to
they haven't moved the football. They're not getting a lot
of yards. They're not doing well on either side with
running or passing. They're just they don't have a lot
of yards at all this season, and they are good
at third down. They're converting about forty three percent of
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their first down attempts, but two Attagobella has only thrown
for seven hundred and fifty two yards seven touchdowns through
four games and also has four interceptions, so they're just
a little out of sorts. It seems like this Dolphins
team offensively han't sort of figured out what they're doing yet,
and they looked a whole lot better against the Jets,
but the Jets were zero and three coming in, so
it's sort of hard to tell exactly what they're doing.
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Their defense got a little more aggressive last week. They
had no takeaways come into the game, got three of
them three forced fumbles against the Jets last week. They've
they've got some veteran guys on that defense, Bradley Chubb,
who a lot of people in this area certainly recognize
that name. I'm Matthew jude On too, a defensive end,
some veteran guys in the secondary, but they're they're giving
up a lot of yards there too, and given up
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a lot of points. So this is a team that
is struggling similar to the Anthers, same record. Obviously, doesn't
seem to have found what their identity is yet because
that we just played the Dolphins two years ago in
Miami and Miami was awesome, So then they have basically
all the same people, so you just never know what
is going on with the team, but there they are.
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I think they're a team that's certainly beatable, especially at
home back here at Bank of America Stadium. Is gonna
be fun to have another home game, and I would
think that they the Panthers have a lot of advantages
on both sides of the ball because this team is
struggling offensively and defensively, so they definitely look beatable.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, you're still right.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
You're in a great opportunity for the Panthers to to
get right and get back to those winning ways here
in front of the home crowd at Bank of America Stadium. Okay,
this was great as always. We'll talk to you next
Wednesday after what is hopefully another Panthers win.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Sounds good, Thanks, Kristin.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
This is a real treat because right now I am
joined by my buddy in Panthers legend Eugene Robinson.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Eugene, how you doing, Bud?
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Oh? Good? Great? Doing good? It Actually I'm doing good.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
But my day only goes as well as the Carolina
Panthers go.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
But as we said a little bit earlier, it's Wednesday,
which means it's time to focus on the Miami Dolphins.
They're in there, they're turning the page on things. But
I want to take you back to this game immediately
after the loss, and something that I found really great
and I want to know your thoughts as a former player,
is that Sharon and I just talked about this is
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that Dave Canalis came out immediately after the game and said, look,
this is on me. I'm the head coach. We did
not have these guys ready to play in all three phases.
And then right after that, we heard Derek Brown and
JC Horn, two of the leaders of this defense of
this team, come out and say, no, this isn't on
this isn't on our head coach. They can coach us up,
but they can't get us ready to play, and we
clearly weren't ready to play. So what I want to
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know from you is, if you're a player, Does that
really give you a confidence boost? Does that say something
if you're in that locker room when you have different
sides taking accountability.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Uh, yes it does.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
And first because think about the congress of that bony
the conference is is that if you blame your teammates
for hey, something going wrong in the secondary. Hey we're
not getting enough pressure off on the quarterback. We're not
doing this, you stock to fracture the team, and you will.
But when you take accountability saying hey, this is on me,
that was my bad. If you say it, that goes
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a long long way in that locker room. And then
when you hit a coach says it that hey I
gotta take responsibility. I gotta get my team in order.
I got to get these guys ready to play, and
apparently I didn't do that. Then that means that we're
all in this together and we're not just pointing people out.
Typically what happens with teams that are losing, you get
that fracture and you get guys pointing fingers.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
But when you take accountability, that's a huge thing.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
And when your coach, if your coach takes accountability, then
that says that he's going to set the He's gonna
set the tip off everybody else that we're all in
we're in this together, We're always in this together, and
we're not singing anybody else.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
So yeah, they hear that in that locker room, they
go the long way.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
We always hear about players saying you got to flush
the loss?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
What did that mean for you?
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Like?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
What does that look like in practice? Because to me,
I want to forget about something sometimes and I can't.
I'm going all you know, and I'm not a professional
football player, So how do you actually do that? Because
I think one of the best things about being a
professional you don't get to where you are if you
can't do that.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So what did that look like for you?
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And I was talking to coach Canalis about this very
same thing that typically with me, Like they say twenty
four hour rul, and yes it is, but it really
isn't because I don't want to forget the lessons I
learned in the previous game or the previous weeks. So
I don't want to go ahead and just totally go like, hey,
it didn't matter, and then the new lessons that I
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was taught or some of the things that was successful.
I want to be able to remember. So I'm not
really flushing out. I'm only flushing it. I'm an win
and lost standpoint. But from the lesson standpoint, I'm holding
on to those lessons because for me, like when I'm
in cover two, knowing that if.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
The guy runs a seven rout a corner of receiver runs.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
A corner route, well, I know that the quarterback's gonna
throw the ball before he makes his break. Now, if
I don't know that, and I think about it being
man and man, even though on his own, I'm gonna
be late every single time. However, if I remember that, hey,
the quarterback throws the ball before he makes his break,
So keep your eyes on the quarterback and keep them
in your peripheral vision. Now i can break as soon
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as the quarterback's throwing the ball and before the receiver.
Now I've got to put myself in a great chance
for interception or for a big hit. So I want
to be able to remember those type of things like
and just not flush it that.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I appreciate you saying that, because I've always wondered, like,
how does that work in theory and in reality and
in such a great point is that you've got to
take pointers, you know, no matter what, while also not
getting bogged down. And hey, we lost this game in
a big way. I want to ask you about the
pass rusher situation. So, uh, Carolinas is toward the bottom
of the league and being able to generate pressure and sacks.
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Now we saw you know, I don't think those stats
tell tell the whole story in Atlanta, because we saw
the the entire defense being really aggressive and making Michael
Pennings Junior very confused and really bothering him. But in
terms of the stats, that's where this group is. And Eugene,
they have some they have they've had some big injuries.
Hopefully we'll see these guys back soon. But Pat Jones,
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DJ Wanham, I mean, those are those are the guys
you wanted to come in there and be able to
to rush the pass or DJ Johnson also no longer
with the team. So Eugene, it feels to me like
it's really gonna fall on these young guys if those
injuries continue. Those those two draft picks in Nick Gorton
and Princely Unman Miellen, among a few others.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
So what does that look like to you?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
So I think one of the biggest, maybe the biggest
miss in that in that lineup has been dj Wanum.
I thought that DJ want when he was last year,
when he came back in the mix.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
I was like, who is this dude? This dude right
here is a beast.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
He gets off the edge and he does a great
job in the nine technique and he gets to the quarterback.
And so I was hoping that we would have him
available now with a a reinvigorated.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Derek Brown getting back in the mix, and so I
had hopes.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
But now he was out, Derek came back, we were
filming in in flux a little bit, and then and
then not having Jones, and so I really believe that
we've lost a lot of leadership on that edge, because
I mean, Derek Brown, although he is a captain and
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he is a great voice in the locker room, he's
not an edge rush.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Now he's big boy in the middle.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah, he's that cat in the middle. He's not that
Jujus Papers on the outside. He's not that Brian, He's
not that guy. Because typically you know that those guys
and the the big guys in the middle, they're gonna
take up two people and the glory guys are gonna
be that DJ one them guys outside when they have
that one on one coverage, uh, one on matchup with
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the with the ti end with the with the tackle.
And so from that standpoint, we haven't had that, And
because we haven't had that leadership from that position, it's
really gone down hill because now it puts the strain
on even the secondary.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Our secondary.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
You know, it's actually pretty good, but you wouldn't know
it because we don't see the protivity of having.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Somebody in the face of a quarterback. Now.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
We saw that against Atlanta, all right, but then when
against the Patriots, we didn't see that.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
We had a four.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Man rush at times, and then we had like a
zone blitz. And I'm like, hey, gough to gerald Man,
go after these cats, sending the whole sending an entire crew,
go after these dudes. I would I would. I would
much rather see. And this is me just being a
football player learning from Fritz schimmer Uh. He was our
defense coordinator with the Green Bay Packers. He would send
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the whole far, send everybody, and tell a quarterback, Okay,
figure it out.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
I don't even know what we're doing. Now you figure
it out. Because I don't even know what I got.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
You figure it out that we have a Reggie White,
we had a Sean Jones, we had a Gilbert Brown.
We had some dudes on the edge that can flat
out rush, and we had dudes up in the middle
that was bringing heat, all right. So we knew that
if we could put pressure on the quarterback, Brince Ler,
Royd Bruce, some linepackers, let's get into a six mass,
seven man blizz.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
We got into that.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
We knew the ball had to come out quickly or
we're moving the quarterback off the spot.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
And we saw that with the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
This year with the Panthers, we saw that that Pinnix
he got replaced by it the bike Kirk Cousins. Why
because of all the pressure, Because we had two interceptions
Smith Wade, we had jack interception, we had another a
ransom force of Fumbo and your boy Richardson recovered it.
We had what we were looking for. Because you got
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pressure on the quarterback, you got people in his face,
and I think maybe moving forward, I think that is
and this is me being an old football player. Look,
whenever you could put pressure on the quarterback, go do it,
Go do it. Whenever you can get into an eight
man front, go get into eight man front, stop the
roll with eight people, and then go ahead and blitz.
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And then when you blitzed, now you can fake blitz
all all over the world.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
And at that they don't even know what you're in.
And so that standpoint, I thought that.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Maybe we've we should have kept the same game plan,
maybe a little bit of getting after the quarterback like
we did got off the pinnis. You know, we had
a format rush, but I would like to have seen more.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Would it be easier to do that? Do you think
we'll see more of that this week against Miami? Because okay,
no doubt, because Tyreek Hill is out, so that's gonna
make it.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I mean, yeah, this task of getting after tour just
got a little easier.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
And it got a little.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Easier because Tyreek Hill ain't there. The guy who could put.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
Pull the top off of any defense, he's not there.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
The guy who gets you's gonna you know, the man attention,
he ain't there. And because he's not there, And although
too it is really good at get the rid of
the ball.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
That's when you put the.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Pressure and then you tell your guys, okay, well, we'll
put pressure on the quarterback. Get your hands up because
he's gonna have maybe a shorter drop. He's gonna go
ahead and get try to get the ball out really quickly.
So put your hands up because you may knock the boter.
So that I think that has to be moving forward.
I'm blistening. I'm putting my linebackers in the a gaps
on the outside. I'm making sure he knows that there's
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seven eight people coming at me every single play.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
And then you go figure it out to where you
figure it out to.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Him and us.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
The last thing I want to ask you about talking
about to it, does anything change when you face a
left handed quarterback?
Speaker 6 (24:06):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I mean Steve Young is a left handed quarterback and
he still was deadly. It's a different rotation of the ball,
but your hands don't know the difference of the different
rod stations of the ball because you all all you
know is the ball's real rotating. So and it's much
of something we do on the judge machine and whatnot.
You it won't be a factor.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
The only thing would be a factor is I'm gonna
send somebody off that right tackle. Now that right tackle
becomes that guy because that's the blind spot, the right tackle,
for the for the for that for that left handed quarterback,
that's the blind spot. So if you're gonna bl come
off that edge, make sure you're using that edge, and
make sure you got a guy in that a gap
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to the right side, so that now they got to
make their calls and and and and go ahead and
compensate for all that.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
So that's what I would end up do doing. Body.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I'm trying to get after this quarterback. They won a
big game on Monday night, they lost one of the receivers,
one of the best receivers in the league, and now
I think they're gonna be a little bit more vulnerable.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Get after them.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Let me tell you what, I'm fired up right now.
I want to go lit somebody. I mean, that.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Wouldn't work out for any of us, but I you
got me fired up, as you always do.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Thank you so much for the time. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
No doubt, I really believe. Because when we look at
the Carolina Pethers and that no team is bad at all,
They're just not.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
It's just that we're putting things together and we got
too many we got too many uh uh, too many
not sessions, but too many teams going miss fired. Whether
it's the office miss fired, now, the special teams miss fire, now,
it is the defense miss fired down this miss tackles,
or there's a drop ball this.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
We've got too many of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
And the way you clean that up is you work
in practice and you make sure you have an emphasis on. Hey,
let's play clean football. Let's play clean football, fast football.
Let's play clean and everybody knows how to play clean
football because we've done in all our lives, and so
this is the shouldn't be something that's a mystery. Let's
play clean football and let's get after some people.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Let's get that big win. We saw that clean football
against Atlanta. Let's get another big win like that at home.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
Eugene, no doubt, no doubt, my friend.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Eugene, thank you so much as always, and thanks everyone
for listening. We'll see you next Wednesday on Sideline Pass
Cheers.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Kristin Valvoni and Sharon Thors loved with your sideline pass.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
It's sideline pass with your sideline reporters, Kristen and Sharon. Sharon,
how are you this week?
Speaker 4 (00:14):
I am just fine. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
I'm doing great. I'm doing great.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
You know, it's Wednesday, which means it is time for
this football team to turn the page and start focusing
on the Miami Dolphins, which we're certainly going to get
into with the best scouting reports ever, as we know,
we've got that coming up from Sharon. But Sharon, I
want to talk about this game. You were on the
sideline for it with the Patriots. Of course, not what
we wanted in that game, not what the players wanted,
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but something that really stuck out to me immediately after
the game with the press conference, we saw a lot
of accountability. So coach Canalis came out and said, Hey,
this one is on me as a head coach to
have our guys ready to play in all three phases.
We did not see that. He said, the energy and
the effort are there, but not the execution. And then Sharon,
we heard jac Warren and Derek Brown, two of the
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leaders on this team saying no, no, no, this isn't on
coach Canalis. He can't go out there and play for us.
We had a great week of practice and we have
to show up. So I'm just wondering what you made
of all of that as well.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Yeah, I mean I like like you said. I mean,
I think that's great that they are and they're taking accountability.
And the thing that I noticed the most and that
I think is key about the scene is no one's
cashing it in. No one's given up. You know, they
fought till the end. They had that late touchdown, you
know when when Andy Dalk came in let them down.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
The field to score.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
So I mean, the guys kept trying and the defense
got a three and out to set that up, and
they could have easily just cashed it and they didn't.
And things just aren't working from an execution point right now.
And the guys know that, and that's why they're not
blaming this all on you know, the coaching staff and stuff,
cause they're the guys that have to go out there
and play. So I love that that they're stepping up
and that they are taking accountability like that, and they
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realize that they have to play better, and they know
how well they played against the Falcons, so they see
what they're capable of doing. That's what makes this loss
even that much more frustrating. It's because you I mean,
it was just such a one to eighty for when
they had just done just a week before, particularly from
the defense with that shutout. So guys really frustrated after that,
and they know that they have just got to have,
as they say, elite execution, especially because they don't have
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a lot of depth. They have a lot of injuries
in some areas, so there's just no room for error,
and they want to go out there and get that
cleaned up starting this week headed into the Miami game.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, and one area that I just want to briefly
talk about is special teams. You know, there's no doubt
that they did not have a great game on Sunday
and give up something like almost two hundred return yards.
But here's the thing that we know and that I
want to remind everyone is that that special teams has
been a bright spot in the first three weeks, and
I firmly believe that they are going to get right
back to that.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
You know, we saw those numbers.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I mean, they were punting and kicking it to where
it would be on the twenty, you know, and this
was this felt like a one off in terms of
being able to at Marcus Jones being able to return
for the touchdown and then that other big return. You know,
we know Ryan Fitzgerald has a leg and we saw
him kick that fifty seven yard or the week before.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So I really believe that Special Teams.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
This felt like a bad outing, for sure, but I
really believe in that unit, Sharon, and I think it's
going to look a lot better in the coming weeks.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
And I think what maybe some people didn't realize was,
I mean they were missing some guys special Teams. You had,
you know, David Moore who had gotten injured on the
very first series. Offensively, he's normally a stalwart on that
Special Teams group and he's not out there, so then
people have to make adjustment. So you know, we had
the injury to d Levon who also was not able
to come back and play on special that's normally what
he plays. So we were actually missing some pieces to
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the puzzle in Special Teams as well. And I think
that that affected, maybe an impacted to some extent how
they played. So but yeah, you're right. I mean this
has been a great, great, great unit all season now.
They've been just doing some really good things. In fact,
that's what the Patriots have been talking about that leading
up to the game, how difficult their kickoffs were to
return in things like that. So I do think that
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that was not something that we're going to see again.
I think that was They're going to get that stuff
cleaned up now, you know, at least going in who's
going to be out there and who's not. Hopefully we
don't have any more early injuries like that, but you know,
David Moor is out for a couple of weeks now,
Sincy landed on IR today, So you know that you're
going to have some changes there in the personnel of specialisties.
So they have time to adapt to it and prepare
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for it and get ready for the Dolphins with the
people that they're that they know are going to be
out there at this point.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
So I think that played a role in it as well.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, having to make those quick adjustments, and we know
special teams can be the most affected when these injuries happen.
Speaking of injuries, you alluded to it. You know, for
for anyone listening as a sideline reporter, your least favorite
hits when they come down to you are injuries. I
always say, it's a good day if you don't see
the Panthers PR people on the field. There is a
PR contact down on the field and they typically report
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injuries to you once you know, you can report what
you see if someone you know comes up with you know,
they're grapping their knee or whatnot, but the PR side
has the official diagnosis once it's gone through of course,
the trainers and the person's been evaluated. And I always say,
you know, to if it's Ukiah on the home sidelines,
I say, I hope I don't see you very much
because that means that, of course guys are going down.
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And Sharon, we saw a lot of that in this game.
And I know that you have in addition to what
you're saying about about David Moore and some others, you
have an update on just where the Panthers are and
unfortunately pretty pretty injury prone right now.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Yeah, it really stinks. They the injuries have just been
as we all know already starting out with our offensive
lineman Austin Corbett and Robert Hunt, who are already on IR.
Now we're adding Chandlers of Allah, another offensive aligneman who
had come in to take the place of Robert Hunt,
and so he's already out now he has also landed
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on I are Both he and David Moore are the
short term are so hopefully it's not the season ending,
so hopefully we'll be able to get both of them back.
Chandler injured his knee and David Moore had the elbow injury,
so they are both out for at least the next
four weeks. So they made a couple of roster moves
today to take their places. They promoted running back DJ
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Dallas and safety Travion Thomas off of the practice squad.
They signed them to the active roster. They also signed
offensive lineman Jake Curran off the Cardinals practice squad, so
getting some more depths at O line, which they they
definitely need right now. Brady Christensen is going to take
over now for where Chandel lords Oballa was, But then
we're we had our vaunted O line depth has unfortunately
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gotten tested very early on this season, so they just
added to that with Jake off this the Cardinals practice
squad and They also added three more players to the
practice squad and they opened this is the one good
news here and all this, they opened the window for
Lebrian Ray defensive and Lebrian Ray to come back from
that high ankle sprain he's been on ir so hopefully
they can get him back and get him into that
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defensive line rotation. But yeah, lot lots of new faces
and moving PARTO this week headed into Miami.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, and as you said about that O line, you
know they came back with the most depth that he
was the nine guys who played the most last season,
and we know how good that offensive line unit was.
So now you go, as you said, you're kind of
rolling through. You know, you're at your third Brady Christensen
will be the third right guard. But thank goodness they
had that depth and are able to continue to add
to it. I wanted to point out about Jake currn In.
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So he's played five seasons. He signed off the Cardinals
practice wide. He played five seasons, but he's appeared in
forty games and eleven starts. So he was with the
Seahawks and the Bear. So that is that's great news.
You know that you've got someone that can come in
and provide depth who has has really been in it
and has a good amount of game experience behind Brady Christensen.
And we know what Brady Christensen can do as well,
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so that's really great, you know. And then as far
as receivers go, Jalen Koker eventually will will come back.
We hope that it's one of you know, something that
will see them open the window on him in the
next few weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Will certainly keep you posted.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Xavier Lagette still dealing with that hamstring injury, keep you
posted on that as well. But one exciting piece of
news in the receiver room is that Dave Canalis said
that we are going to see Jimmy Horn Junior this week.
Certainly of fan favorite stand out at Colorado and a
speedster share and we know that.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yeah, he is so much fun to watch.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
I'm sure fans probably remember from back in the preseason
and those couple of games. He was just all over
the place and I think he actually prevented a touchdown
on a return too, So he just can go flying
all over the football field and he is so excited
to get out there and get started. I'm sure we're
going to be talking to him later today, but just
seeing him around the team, he's just itching to get
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out there.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
And I know that a lot of fans.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Have just been really clamoring to see him as well,
because they know what he was able to do in college.
And clearly it's the NFL now, we all know it's
a different game. But what he was able to show
us in the preseason at training camp and in those
preseason games, he can move. I mean, you can't teach speed,
and he is flying. And what I think this is
a really cool thing that he was telling us earlier
this season. He was working with trainers over the summer
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to sort of like harness his speed and know how
to actually use his speeds to develop his route running better,
know when to like dial it back and when to
be able to stop on a dime and things like that.
So he thinks that he'll be even more dangerous now
because he's really been training to just use that speed
instead of just you know, just go out, instead of
flying down football field with no rhyme or reason. He
sort of knows now how to develop that into his
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routes and how to use it even more so to
his advantage. So it's going to be fun to see
what kind of opportunity he gets on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Oh, that's so neat.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
It's kind of like, can you have a car and manual? Right,
you're like his second gear right now? Third that kind
of thing exactly. Yeah, let me go back down here
to kind of throw a guy off balance.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
That's that's really cool.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I'm excited to see it, and certainly that, as you said,
that burst of speed is going to be something that
the Panthers haven't had so far, and that is, as
you said, very very tough to defend. All right, let's
talk about the opponent that's coming into Bank of America
STATEIU and the Miami Dolphins. They got their first win
on Monday night, but they lost Tyreek Hill. Sharon, So
what are you seeing? I know, what are you seeing
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from this team? And what should the Panthers be prepared for?
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Well, that's you know, it's it's horrible what happened to
poor Tyreek Hill and now is just an absolutely gruesome
leg injury. I don't know if you were able to
like see that, but.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I wish I had.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
It was fad.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, it was bad.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Good news for him is he's supposedly only needs that
one surgery they repaired all of those ligaments and the knee,
and his agent, Drew Rosenhouse, claims that he'll be right
back out there next year. So I certainly hope that
is the case, because we saw it that basically the
exact same thing happened to Tank Dell last year in December,
and he he is now running, but he's certainly nowhere
and you're going to be back on the football field.
So I hope for Miami's sake and Tyreek Kill's sake
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that he'll be able to come back. But that certainly
takes away a massive weapon. He was their top target
to attag of Bilo of course, their quarterback, who is
dangerous in his own right, but that he was his favorite,
his favorite target, Tyreek Kill, And so without him now
you're you're taking away a lot of yards and a
lot of touchdowns. But they still have a ton of weapons,
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and of course the Jalen Waddall is the guy that
read me looking for now to fill the void and
really take over for Tyreek Hill. They also which this
was just sort of crazy to me. People might have
remember Darren Waller, veteran tightened retired head and played since
the twenty twenty three season, and looked in that game
I to retire. Came back to the Dolphins, was inactive
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for the first three games as he worked his way
to football shape. Came in last week, had three catches,
one of them went to convert a third down, and
two of them were touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yes, I mean, looks looked like he had been playing
for since twenty twenty three exactly exactly.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
So other than that, they don't have a lot of
depth at receiver. When I was starting to prepare my
scouting report, they've only got like three of the receivers
on the roster, and they're young guys and one of
them is only a special teams guy. So it's gonna
be interesting to see what they do this week to
try to fill the void of Tyreek Hill. But then
they've got a great running back in Devon chen and
he is he's really good, one hundred and forty three yards.
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They've got another young guy as well, who's who's coming
in there, Ollie Gordon. He's a rookie and he's coming
and got a touchdown too. But they're not able to
they haven't moved the football. They're not getting a lot
of yards. They're not doing well on either side with
running or passing. They're just they don't have a lot
of yards at all this season, and they are good
at third down. They're converting about forty three percent of
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their first down attempts, but two Attagobella has only thrown
for seven hundred and fifty two yards seven touchdowns through
four games and also has four interceptions, so they're just
a little out of sorts. It seems like this Dolphins
team offensively han't sort of figured out what they're doing yet,
and they looked a whole lot better against the Jets,
but the Jets were zero and three coming in, so
it's sort of hard to tell exactly what they're doing.
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Their defense got a little more aggressive last week. They
had no takeaways come into the game, got three of
them three forced fumbles against the Jets last week. They've
they've got some veteran guys on that defense, Bradley Chubb,
who a lot of people in this area certainly recognize
that name. I'm Matthew jude On too, a defensive end,
some veteran guys in the secondary, but they're they're giving
up a lot of yards there too, and given up
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a lot of points. So this is a team that
is struggling similar to the Anthers, same record. Obviously, doesn't
seem to have found what their identity is yet because
that we just played the Dolphins two years ago in
Miami and Miami was awesome, So then they have basically
all the same people, so you just never know what
is going on with the team, but there they are.
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I think they're a team that's certainly beatable, especially at
home back here at Bank of America Stadium. Is gonna
be fun to have another home game, and I would
think that they the Panthers have a lot of advantages
on both sides of the ball because this team is
struggling offensively and defensively, so they definitely look beatable.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, you're still right.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
You're in a great opportunity for the Panthers to to
get right and get back to those winning ways here
in front of the home crowd at Bank of America Stadium. Okay,
this was great as always. We'll talk to you next
Wednesday after what is hopefully another Panthers win.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Sounds good, Thanks, Kristin.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
This is a real treat because right now I am
joined by my buddy in Panthers legend Eugene Robinson.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Eugene, how you doing, Bud?
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Oh? Good? Great? Doing good? It Actually I'm doing good.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
But my day only goes as well as the Carolina
Panthers go.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
But as we said a little bit earlier, it's Wednesday,
which means it's time to focus on the Miami Dolphins.
They're in there, they're turning the page on things. But
I want to take you back to this game immediately
after the loss, and something that I found really great
and I want to know your thoughts as a former player,
is that Sharon and I just talked about this is
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that Dave Canalis came out immediately after the game and said, look,
this is on me. I'm the head coach. We did
not have these guys ready to play in all three phases.
And then right after that, we heard Derek Brown and
JC Horn, two of the leaders of this defense of
this team, come out and say, no, this isn't on
this isn't on our head coach. They can coach us up,
but they can't get us ready to play, and we
clearly weren't ready to play. So what I want to
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know from you is, if you're a player, Does that
really give you a confidence boost? Does that say something
if you're in that locker room when you have different
sides taking accountability.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Uh, yes it does.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
And first because think about the congress of that bony
the conference is is that if you blame your teammates
for hey, something going wrong in the secondary. Hey we're
not getting enough pressure off on the quarterback. We're not
doing this, you stock to fracture the team, and you will.
But when you take accountability saying hey, this is on me,
that was my bad. If you say it, that goes
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a long long way in that locker room. And then
when you hit a coach says it that hey I
gotta take responsibility. I gotta get my team in order.
I got to get these guys ready to play, and
apparently I didn't do that. Then that means that we're
all in this together and we're not just pointing people out.
Typically what happens with teams that are losing, you get
that fracture and you get guys pointing fingers.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
But when you take accountability, that's a huge thing.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
And when your coach, if your coach takes accountability, then
that says that he's going to set the He's gonna
set the tip off everybody else that we're all in
we're in this together, We're always in this together, and
we're not singing anybody else.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
So yeah, they hear that in that locker room, they
go the long way.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
We always hear about players saying you got to flush
the loss?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
What did that mean for you?
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Like?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
What does that look like in practice? Because to me,
I want to forget about something sometimes and I can't.
I'm going all you know, and I'm not a professional
football player, So how do you actually do that? Because
I think one of the best things about being a
professional you don't get to where you are if you
can't do that.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So what did that look like for you?
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And I was talking to coach Canalis about this very
same thing that typically with me, Like they say twenty
four hour rul, and yes it is, but it really
isn't because I don't want to forget the lessons I
learned in the previous game or the previous weeks. So
I don't want to go ahead and just totally go like, hey,
it didn't matter, and then the new lessons that I
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was taught or some of the things that was successful.
I want to be able to remember. So I'm not
really flushing out. I'm only flushing it. I'm an win
and lost standpoint. But from the lesson standpoint, I'm holding
on to those lessons because for me, like when I'm
in cover two, knowing that if.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
The guy runs a seven rout a corner of receiver runs.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
A corner route, well, I know that the quarterback's gonna
throw the ball before he makes his break. Now, if
I don't know that, and I think about it being
man and man, even though on his own, I'm gonna
be late every single time. However, if I remember that, hey,
the quarterback throws the ball before he makes his break,
So keep your eyes on the quarterback and keep them
in your peripheral vision. Now i can break as soon
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as the quarterback's throwing the ball and before the receiver.
Now I've got to put myself in a great chance
for interception or for a big hit. So I want
to be able to remember those type of things like
and just not flush it that.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I appreciate you saying that, because I've always wondered, like,
how does that work in theory and in reality and
in such a great point is that you've got to
take pointers, you know, no matter what, while also not
getting bogged down. And hey, we lost this game in
a big way. I want to ask you about the
pass rusher situation. So, uh, Carolinas is toward the bottom
of the league and being able to generate pressure and sacks.
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Now we saw you know, I don't think those stats
tell tell the whole story in Atlanta, because we saw
the the entire defense being really aggressive and making Michael
Pennings Junior very confused and really bothering him. But in
terms of the stats, that's where this group is. And Eugene,
they have some they have they've had some big injuries.
Hopefully we'll see these guys back soon. But Pat Jones,
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DJ Wanham, I mean, those are those are the guys
you wanted to come in there and be able to
to rush the pass or DJ Johnson also no longer
with the team. So Eugene, it feels to me like
it's really gonna fall on these young guys if those
injuries continue. Those those two draft picks in Nick Gorton
and Princely Unman Miellen, among a few others.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
So what does that look like to you?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
So I think one of the biggest, maybe the biggest
miss in that in that lineup has been dj Wanum.
I thought that DJ want when he was last year,
when he came back in the mix.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
I was like, who is this dude? This dude right
here is a beast.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
He gets off the edge and he does a great
job in the nine technique and he gets to the quarterback.
And so I was hoping that we would have him
available now with a a reinvigorated.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Derek Brown getting back in the mix, and so I
had hopes.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
But now he was out, Derek came back, we were
filming in in flux a little bit, and then and
then not having Jones, and so I really believe that
we've lost a lot of leadership on that edge, because
I mean, Derek Brown, although he is a captain and
(19:42):
he is a great voice in the locker room, he's
not an edge rush.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Now he's big boy in the middle.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah, he's that cat in the middle. He's not that
Jujus Papers on the outside. He's not that Brian, He's
not that guy. Because typically you know that those guys
and the the big guys in the middle, they're gonna
take up two people and the glory guys are gonna
be that DJ one them guys outside when they have
that one on one coverage, uh, one on matchup with
(20:09):
the with the ti end with the with the tackle.
And so from that standpoint, we haven't had that, And
because we haven't had that leadership from that position, it's
really gone down hill because now it puts the strain
on even the secondary.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Our secondary.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
You know, it's actually pretty good, but you wouldn't know
it because we don't see the protivity of having.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Somebody in the face of a quarterback. Now.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
We saw that against Atlanta, all right, but then when
against the Patriots, we didn't see that.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
We had a four.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Man rush at times, and then we had like a
zone blitz. And I'm like, hey, gough to gerald Man,
go after these cats, sending the whole sending an entire crew,
go after these dudes. I would I would. I would
much rather see. And this is me just being a
football player learning from Fritz schimmer Uh. He was our
defense coordinator with the Green Bay Packers. He would send
(21:05):
the whole far, send everybody, and tell a quarterback, Okay,
figure it out.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
I don't even know what we're doing. Now you figure
it out. Because I don't even know what I got.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
You figure it out that we have a Reggie White,
we had a Sean Jones, we had a Gilbert Brown.
We had some dudes on the edge that can flat
out rush, and we had dudes up in the middle
that was bringing heat, all right. So we knew that
if we could put pressure on the quarterback, Brince Ler,
Royd Bruce, some linepackers, let's get into a six mass,
seven man blizz.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
We got into that.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
We knew the ball had to come out quickly or
we're moving the quarterback off the spot.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
And we saw that with the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
This year with the Panthers, we saw that that Pinnix
he got replaced by it the bike Kirk Cousins. Why
because of all the pressure, Because we had two interceptions
Smith Wade, we had jack interception, we had another a
ransom force of Fumbo and your boy Richardson recovered it.
We had what we were looking for. Because you got
(22:08):
pressure on the quarterback, you got people in his face,
and I think maybe moving forward, I think that is
and this is me being an old football player. Look,
whenever you could put pressure on the quarterback, go do it,
Go do it. Whenever you can get into an eight
man front, go get into eight man front, stop the
roll with eight people, and then go ahead and blitz.
(22:29):
And then when you blitzed, now you can fake blitz
all all over the world.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
And at that they don't even know what you're in.
And so that standpoint, I thought that.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Maybe we've we should have kept the same game plan,
maybe a little bit of getting after the quarterback like
we did got off the pinnis. You know, we had
a format rush, but I would like to have seen more.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Would it be easier to do that? Do you think
we'll see more of that this week against Miami? Because okay,
no doubt, because Tyreek Hill is out, so that's gonna
make it.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I mean, yeah, this task of getting after tour just
got a little easier.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
And it got a little.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Easier because Tyreek Hill ain't there. The guy who could put.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
Pull the top off of any defense, he's not there.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
The guy who gets you's gonna you know, the man attention,
he ain't there. And because he's not there, And although
too it is really good at get the rid of
the ball.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
That's when you put the.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Pressure and then you tell your guys, okay, well, we'll
put pressure on the quarterback. Get your hands up because
he's gonna have maybe a shorter drop. He's gonna go
ahead and get try to get the ball out really quickly.
So put your hands up because you may knock the boter.
So that I think that has to be moving forward.
I'm blistening. I'm putting my linebackers in the a gaps
on the outside. I'm making sure he knows that there's
(23:52):
seven eight people coming at me every single play.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
And then you go figure it out to where you
figure it out to.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Him and us.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
The last thing I want to ask you about talking
about to it, does anything change when you face a
left handed quarterback?
Speaker 6 (24:06):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I mean Steve Young is a left handed quarterback and
he still was deadly. It's a different rotation of the ball,
but your hands don't know the difference of the different
rod stations of the ball because you all all you
know is the ball's real rotating. So and it's much
of something we do on the judge machine and whatnot.
You it won't be a factor.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
The only thing would be a factor is I'm gonna
send somebody off that right tackle. Now that right tackle
becomes that guy because that's the blind spot, the right tackle,
for the for the for that for that left handed quarterback,
that's the blind spot. So if you're gonna bl come
off that edge, make sure you're using that edge, and
make sure you got a guy in that a gap
(24:48):
to the right side, so that now they got to
make their calls and and and and go ahead and
compensate for all that.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
So that's what I would end up do doing. Body.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I'm trying to get after this quarterback. They won a
big game on Monday night, they lost one of the receivers,
one of the best receivers in the league, and now
I think they're gonna be a little bit more vulnerable.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Get after them.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Let me tell you what, I'm fired up right now.
I want to go lit somebody. I mean, that.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Wouldn't work out for any of us, but I you
got me fired up, as you always do.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Thank you so much for the time. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
No doubt, I really believe. Because when we look at
the Carolina Pethers and that no team is bad at all,
They're just not.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
It's just that we're putting things together and we got
too many we got too many uh uh, too many
not sessions, but too many teams going miss fired. Whether
it's the office miss fired, now, the special teams miss fire, now,
it is the defense miss fired down this miss tackles,
or there's a drop ball this.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
We've got too many of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
And the way you clean that up is you work
in practice and you make sure you have an emphasis on. Hey,
let's play clean football. Let's play clean football, fast football.
Let's play clean and everybody knows how to play clean
football because we've done in all our lives, and so
this is the shouldn't be something that's a mystery. Let's
play clean football and let's get after some people.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Let's get that big win. We saw that clean football
against Atlanta. Let's get another big win like that at home.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
Eugene, no doubt, no doubt, my friend.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Eugene, thank you so much as always, and thanks everyone
for listening. We'll see you next Wednesday on Sideline Pass
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