October 9, 2025 • 23 mins
This week on Sideline Pass, Kristen and Sharon react to the Panthers thrilling comeback victory over the Dolphins, look ahead to this Sunday's home game against the Dallas Cowboys, and so much more - including an exclusive sit down with Panther tight end, Mitchell Evans.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Years. Kristin Balboney and Sharon Thorst loved it with your
Sideline Pass.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Welcome to Sideline Pass with your sideline reporters, Sharon and Kristen. Sharon,
I'm gonna get right into it because you were on
this game on Sunday, This incredible seventeen to nothing comeback
win the Panthers just absolutely I crushed it as they
made this huge comeback over the Dolphins. What was it
like on that sideline as they mounted the comeback.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Oh my gosh, it was so awesome because you know,
it was just like, oh my gosh, we're gonna do this.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
We're going to do this.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Guys just and it wasn't like they were getting like
overly excited. It was just real methodical. You know, like
different guys would come up on the sideline and say,
you know, one play to time, let's go get another one,
you know, just you know, three and out here Derek
Brown was like, we're going to go get the ball
back for you after Bryce had the turnovers, because that's
that was one thing that really stood out to me
in this game was in the past, it seemed like
if we get multiple turnovers like that, it's sort of
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like you know, the airs out of the balloon and
ever was like, oh my gosh, here we go again
kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
And it's like, guys get a little deflated.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
So hard to win after you have two turnovers.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
It is exactly, and it puts such strain on the
defense and stuff. But that just did not happen in
this game at all. I mean, they were just really businesslike,
really methodical, and they never lost and not that they've
lost faith before, but it was just you could just
see it.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
They're like, Okay, we're going to do it. It's like
they really believed.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
And then the way the defense was playing, and it
was really the defense really did such a great job
in this game. It was unbelievable. And then of course,
what can you say about Rico Daddell, Holy moly, he
was unbelievable. But it was just so much fun to
see that, you know, progress, and how they were able
to catch up and then take the lead and then
went down again, then they come back and score again
to win, and it was just like, oh my gosh,
it was It was just awesome.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Sharon.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
If you think about it, what you just said about
the defense and then rico'dowell.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I was just thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Rico Dadell had ten times the number of yards that
the Dolphins rushing attack had because the defense the Panthers
defense and gave up nineteen yards on the ground, which
is just an insane number to me. And then Rico
Daddle had two hundred and six yards on the ground.
That's that's just crazy. The domination on both sides on
the ground is so neat.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Yeah, it was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
And I mean the Dolphins did not have us particularly
stellar run defense coming in, and Rico certainly exploited that.
But the Panthers run difference, I mean, you know, we
had had that shut out against the Falcons and everything
was great, and then you go to the Patriots and
they ran all over our defense and it's like, oh
my gosh. So for them to be able to bounce
back put on the same type of performance that they
did against the Falcons with the run game, I mean,
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to really shut that down. That was amazing because it's
not like the Dolphins didn't have good running backs. I mean,
they had good running backs, So that was really that
was really impressive. And I know that they gouged us
a little bit early on with some of those explosive
pass plays with the you know, wall around Jalen Waddle,
but then they would just shut that down the second
half and that just I mean, Darren Waller was like
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non exist in the second half of the game.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
They did a great job on him.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So overall, the defensive performance was really outstanding, with particularly
against the run, which is I know, they love to
be able to shut down that run. That's what they
always want to do is shut down that run, and
they were able to do that big time on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, and I want to go back to something you
said of a few minutes ago, of just the way
in which they all you said about Dereck Brown saying
we're gonna get the ball back and how they just
methodically went and did it. It's such a good point
because as we know, and we see it on the sidelines,
and I imagine you know, you can infer this if
you watch the game, but these guys are professionals, so
it doesn't matter if they're down seventeen to nothing or
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you know, down bigger on any team really, but especially
on the Panthers, because I can see it on the sidelines.
They professionally go out there and do their job, even
if you're in the fourth quarter and you're down whatever
three touchdowns or whatever it is. All of these guys
take this job very seriously and they go out and
they do what they're supposed to do. So then to
be able to go out and do what you are
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doing anyway and to see it payoff in this way
of a seventeen point comeback is is incredible, you know,
and what a validation. And I was wondering, Sharon in
my head. I was talking to Jonathan Stewart and Thomas
Davis about this earlier on one of our shows, and
I wonder if you think about this the same way
I think when you look at wins. I always think, Okay,
a team can kind of check off a checklist of okay,
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you have a dominating win. And that's what I saw
in the Atlanta game. Right, you're thirty to nothing, your
defense shuts them out, and of course there are things
that they want to take back and do over the
offense or whatnot.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Your special teams looks great, right, and you.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Say, okay, we can shut a team out, we can
put thirty on a team, and then you have a
game like this, which is a comeback win, and then
your players know we can come back. We can come
back from down seventeen to nothing to win this game.
And we can have a late game drive, which we
got to see a lot of last year, these big
late game drives. We have a late game drive and
when the other team has scored and we can come
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back and win the game. And I always think those
are kind of two Okay, we can be dominant and
we can come back and win a game. And then
I think another one that they're probably looking to check
off as a close win, right, we are going to
go back and forth and we're gonna come out and
we're gonna we are gonna win, or we're gonna play
a clean game. But I always kind of think that
big comeback when is something you check off as a
team of proof and I and that's what John the
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Stewart said. He said, it's huge, you know, for for
your identity and for knowing.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
That you can do it. But do you ever think
of things that way? Or is that just my weird brain?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
No, I totally agree with you, because, uh that that's
not easy to do. We all know when you're down,
especially three scores. I mean that's mentally you can A
lot of teams will check out when they get to
that point. They'll be like, all right, game over, let's
just cash it in. But this team was able to,
you know, continue, like you said, to continue to grind,
to continue to work, to just chip away, and then
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I think it just does phenomenal things just for their
confidence to be able to know, you know what, we
can do this just a couple of turnovers and it's
not going to kill us. Obviously you don't want to
do it, but we can overcome mistakes, which I think
in the past this team has not been able to do.
They have not really been able to overcome mistakes and
come out and on the on the winning end. So
to be able to have a couple of turnovers still
be able to climb your way back into this game
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and then come out on the winning and I think
just says huge things for them from a confident standpoint
and just validating that, like you said, they're just you
keep on working and it you know, comes out as.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
A positive for you.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
So for them to be able to do that, I
think that is is just huge because that's it's much
harder to win that type of a game than it
is that thirty to nothing went over Atlanta.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Absolutely, So I want to talk about the fact so
two and zero at home zero to three on the road, chaar,
and you usually do the road game, so sorry, but
you did this awesome games absolutely and then you know,
I talked to Dave can Allis and he said, we
got to figure out how to take this on the road, right,
And I think minimizing the mistakes that you were just
talking about is going to be a big part of that.
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Starting fast, playing the game that they you know, running
on the running that they did in this game, and
then also stopping the run. Those things are going to
be things that they can hope build on. But for
this young team, they get another chance to play at
home and they are playing the Dallas Cowboys, who look good.
They're putting up you know, and their wins are putting
up like thirty seven points, forty points, all sorts of stuff,
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and I think they have well, Sharon, you'll tell me
in terms of their offense, I don't want to.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
I'll let you tell us the stats.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
But before we get into your scouting report, I want
to talk about Rico Dawdle as we said, NFC Offensive
Player of the Week over two hundred yards in this game.
And then now he is facing his former team, and Sharon,
I've heard a couple of quotes, he's not backing down
from the fact that he wants he wants this team
to remember that they let him go exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yeah, he had the you know, buckle up quote.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Earlier this week.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, he's you know, he's ticked off that they let
him go, and he wants to show them exactly what
they're missing. And I'm sure they got a little glimpse
of that with this performance last week against the Dolphins,
and they're probably going, oh, wow, that's maybe that was
a mistake. So I'm sure he's going to be definitely
looking to replicate or at least do even a fraction
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of what he was able.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
To do against the Dolphins would be amazing.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
And to go do it against his former team, which
would be just really cool if he's able to go
out there and do that, Because we're not sure yet
on the status of Cuba Hubbard.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
He's still day to day with that calf injury, but.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
When and if he is ready to go, As a coach,
Canli said earlier this week, it's a good problem to
have to have two running backs in Rico and Cuba
that can do what both of them are certainly capable
of doing, which is putting up some big rushing yards.
So it's gonna be fun to see what happens when
they come back. But I do know that Rico is
ready to roll against his former team and to really
make a point in letting them know that they shouldn't
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let him go.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
But we'll take him.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
We're happy to have absolutely. And Sharon, you made such
a good point before we started rolling.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
You said, because I was asking, I said, have either
of us heard anything about Ceba Hubbard. Obviously we're recording
this on Wednesday before practice, so we'll know more as
the week goes along. And he is day to day,
And you said, but look, doesn't that doesn't that make
you feel a little bit more comfortable if he's not
one hundred percent You know that.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
You have a guy. Of course, we want you back there.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
You'd like to see both of them in the game,
but he can really make sure that that that calf
feels great, right, and he knows that there's someone that
is gonna do a great job in his stead if
he needs it. The coaching staff does as well, so,
like you said, great problem to have there.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Absolutely, absolutely, So let's.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Talk about Dallas beyond just the fact that it's Rico
Dawdell's old team. You always do the best scouting reports here,
and am I right in that they have the number
one offense in terms of yards per game?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
They do? They do?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
They are number one in the NFL average over four
hundred and six yards per game, so they are moving
the football and they're they're scoring a lot too, like
you were saying, they're fourth in the league over thirty
points a game, so they just they pick up a
lot of yards or over six yards per play. So
this is a very high octane offense. They're moving the football,
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Dak Prescott is I mean, they're great both passing and rushing.
Their third in passing offense, eighth in rushing offense. So
there is literally no weakness in this offense. It's pretty
impressive what they're able to do. It's the opposite side
of the ball where they're having some more trouble on defense,
but they have so many weapons and that's without Ceedee Lamb.
You know he's still out with that high ankle spring.
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They're a star receiver, but they're just they're George Pikett,
so they traded for earlier, you know, this offseason from
the Steelers. He's just picked right up, it seems for
Cede Lamb. He's averaging over fifteen yards to catch, seventy
one yards a game.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
He's unbelievable. So and they have a really good tight
end as well.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
So they move the football, and they've got some great
running backs and former Tar Heel Javonte Williams sis up
there running up a storm and a familiar face Miles Sanders,
who of course was here with the Panthers for two seasons.
He is now with Dallas. So they've got a really
impressive offense. It's gonna give this Panther defense all I
can handle, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It'll be interesting to see, and you'd imagine that both
teams want to come out and set the tone early because,
as you just said, the way in which they play
is not the way in which the Panthers play. You know,
the Panthers aren't scoring forty points a game, so that'll
be really interesting to see which team has to adjust.
And of course we hope that it's the Cowboys that
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have to play outside of their game plan. But it'll
be really interesting to see these two teams that kind
of approach things differently, and like you said, the I mean,
the defense approaches things differently because they're not having a
great sea to start to the season. But it'll be
really interesting to see what kind of football we get
in this first half. I'm looking forward to that. And
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then Sharan, how was the crowd in the last home game,
because that first home game, they were incredible, and I
imagine they got really really hyped up as the game
went on. But I'm imagining that we can expect a
really good crowd here on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Oh, I would absolutely think so. I mean, they were
definitely a handful of Dolphin fans, you know.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
They were a lot walking around.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
They were pretty vocal early on, but the Panthers fans
they just took over and it was so loud. It
was funny because when the Panthers were going for it
late there, you know, to win the game, everybody was
so excited in the stands that they were being.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Like loud on offense when they're not supposed to do it.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
And so the players on the sideline, and you know,
a lot of the inactive guys were like trying to
tamp it down.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
They're like, should be. The fans were, Yeah, it was funny.
They were so excited.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
So it was a great crowd, and I'm sure it's
gonna be a great crowd again for.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
This Dallas game.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
You know, the Cowboy fans, they crawl out of nowhere.
It seems like no matter where they go, So you
know there's gonna be some Cowboys fans in there. But
if if this Panthers team can can get going early on,
and that's the one thing about this Dallas team. Their
defense is dead last in the league. It's like their
offenses first. Their defense is dead last, so they are
dead last against the pass. So they have some serious
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vulnerabilities defensively. So if Bryce and the offense can get
rolling early, you know, get up on this team early.
I think that you're going to hear a lot of
loud Panthers fans in the stadium and that the Cowboys
fans can you just go into the concourse and go
get snick.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I just love that you said they crawl out of nowhere.
Oh this was great, Like you said, exciting, exciting home
game when the Cowboys come to town, and Sharon will
do this again next Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
All right, sounds great.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
All right, I'm joined now by Mitchell Evans. Thank you
for doing sideline pass. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Okay, first things first, I've heard it as Mitch and
I've heard it as Mitchell. Most important question of the interview,
which one do you prefer?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I really don't mind. Family calls me a bunch of
different things too, But.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Well, now I have to know what those are.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
What does a family call you Mitch, Mitchell, whatever?
Speaker 6 (13:48):
You ever get a Mitchie?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
My aunt calls me Mitchie. She's listening to this she
oh yeah, yeah, she started that. She still does it.
My dad grew up movie. I forget the movie is called,
but he called me still well.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Okay, oh, I know I can't think of.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
It either of their own. No, that's it. Whatever we're
gonna find.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
If someone is watching or listening, please let us know,
because I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Still well.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah, my my sister travel with volleyball growing up, and
I always just tagged along. So that was kind of
where you got that nickname from. But yeah, it's pretty
much all right.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
There you have it, Mitchie stillwell Evans, that's it. That's it.
That's what we'll call you on your next touchdown.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Fair speaking of which, congrats on the big one on Sunday,
the game winner.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
The best spike I've seen in a long tide.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
It was like it was like you were like the
Thanos from like.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
The like just the energy that was coming out.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Of the So that's two touchdowns in two weeks. I
imagine you kept the ball from the first one.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I did. I cut the ball.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Did you get to keep this one too?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I did not, because I spiked it and I didn't
even know I spiked it that far hard. I just
spike her in the moment and then yes, I blacked
out what was going on. I did not keep this
ball from this last one, but I kept the gloves
because I was like, pretty cool.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
But yeah, where do you where do you put those things?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
So my plan is for the future when I'm doing
football whatever, and in my forever house, I'm going to
have like a main cave and it's going to have
all of memorabilia whatever whatever it is. If it's Jersey swaps,
a lot of stuff, game balls, college jerseys whatnot. Have
a lot of stuff framed and you know, decorated in that.
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But right now it's just sitting at my house somewhere.
I don't even know where it's at.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
You don't know where the ball is from last week.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I think it's in my office at home right now. Sure,
but it was in my car for a couple of days.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
Yeah, you're right, you've got stuff in the back. You're like,
it's in.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
There with like the change I have it though, but
it's going to have a special place.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, you got to and then when you get more,
you got to remember which one the first one is.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
It's already it has like the equipment staff they labeled
it with like a whole look tape and like awesome
when it was today.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Shout out to the equipment stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
They're great about immediately grabbing that football and making sure
that you haven't always think that's such.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
A special moment, like first touchdown?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Did you in the moment, like you said, you blacked
out with this one? Did you did you black out
with the first one?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I mean not really. I was kind of I was
happy you enjoy the moment even though we were not winning.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
It's a special.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Of course, of course that's not when you want it
to happen. Special moment for you.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
It was a very special moment for me. Andy came
up to me, you know, because it was his first
one of the year two so he's like, hey, congrats man,
and obviously I kind of really celebrate. But this one
last week you celebrated. Did celebrate because you know, throughout
the week with head ends, Tommy, DC and James and
I were all just like joking, like we had dances,
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you know, playing and yeah, if you scored, do this
whatever in mind are pretty silly, but those all went
out the window because I get it processed.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
What was going on outside, what was the what was
the dance? Will we see it again?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
If I score? And if I don't block out, maybe
we'll see it. Okay. They told me that you probably
shouldn't do that because it's it would be kind of
as a tight of embarrassment. So they're pretty they're pretty goofy,
but well.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Odds are that we might we might see it soon.
I'm hoping it's goofy, like please please please let the
speak affee. Whenever it happens, we'll get to run it
back and ask you about it. Speaking of Tommy, I
was wondering, since you guys are both Notre Dame Titans,
did you come in knowing each other? Is that or
did he likes or did you get to know each
other first when.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
You got here.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, we never crossed pass because he just left right. Yeah,
I early enrolled in Notre Dame and so if you
would have stayed for his last year, we would have
been there for a year. But we didn't cross paths.
And I actually we just talked about this the other day.
I forgot that we like met each other briefly because
he came back one day and I was already there
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and it was in the summer. It was he just
I think we were fourth of July just hanging out somewhere.
Some guy through a party for the football players. So
we're just hanging out just together and he was there
or whatever. Anyways, girre all just hanging out. And that
was a brief moment because we both kind of forgot
about it. But that was one little yea crossing paths.
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But other than that that, we never really knew each
other before kind of getting here.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Who remembered that meeting first? You're like, hey, hold on
a second.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I honestly was just thinking about that, like random and
like have I ever met because someone asked me like, oh,
have you guys ever crossed paths? I always was like like, no,
I never did. But then I randomly thought about the
question again. I was like, no, what we actually did?
Like it was a very brief, very brief, quick thing.
And he was just telling me about how like hey,
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like you know, just keep your head down and keep
working and.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Giving you the like I'm the elder statesman like I've.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Been type of some good advice. But because I was.
It was probably my freshman year, so I was just
getting there and just getting things started and whatnot. But yeah,
I remember that a little instance. Up until that, I know,
literally nothing until we got here.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
So do you guys talk Notre Dame football.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
We have a fine in our room if we talk,
so anything related. If it's me talking, they're like, no,
that's a fine.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Are you serious? Just so is it other colleges too,
or just because there's.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Two of you in one room to another nd fine,
that's amazing.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Yeah, yes, and especially as a rookie, like I don't
want to find I don't.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Want I'm already up on the board, so I can't.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
That is phenomenal to again check in at the end
of the season and see where you guys landed.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Did you know that you have a Wikipedia page?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I have a Wiki page?
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Did you know that? Because I have something that I
found on it? There's no I just have something I
found on It's it's not avenything bad.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
I just was wondering if you knew.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I inferred I have a wiki page. She can't anybody
make a wiki page, I think.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
So I don't know that ins and ounced. I'm already
too deep in over.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
What I know about know I have probably embarrassing photos
of my younger self on the internet.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yeah, all players have like your elementary school picture of middle.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
School, interviews from high school just after a game.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Well, look, that's the that's the price of being a
pro that people are interested in, you know, all the
things that you used to do. What I saw on
it is that it says that you are a starting
quarterback in high school.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I was a quarterback in high school.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
So Wikipedia got it right. Good to know? Were we good?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I like to think I'm good? Yeah? Oh yeah, so
I always praying about how I can you know, still
sing it, but yeah, I like to sounds pretty good
for quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
So I have two questions off of that. Number one,
you think we're going to see a trick play at
some point?
Speaker 6 (20:58):
You lobbying for its coach.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I loved you every day. I was just you know,
imitate my three step drop whatever, just like, oh yeah, yeah,
I can still if you need it whatever. But yeah,
I mean, if they have things in store for me,
obviously you can't tell us up for it. Whatever they
want me to do. But I don't know nothing. It
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really crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
And then my other question off of that, and my
last question is why then the switch to to tight end.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
So it was I played quarterback my freshman, sophomore, and
senior year, but my junior year I played tight end.
And that's because I was I was hurt going into
that junior year and I couldn't really like twist, but
I could still kind of run and move a little bit,
but it hurt to like really twist. And there was
a quarterback already above me who was playing a lot.
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So I was like, you know, I can't really move.
It's hurt me, but I can still pleasantly stuck me
at tight end and had a decent enough highlight tape.
I guess I've made it myself off of that. And
that's really kind of what colleges saw was that junior.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Year I tape, you throw a little music behind it.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
The huddle, the d gener music.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
I used, like, we can use you as an editor
if this football thing doesn't work out.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
But yeah, that was what colleges saw me as. And
then my senior year I went back to quarterback. But
the plan was I always was going to play tightening
college and luckily are thankfully early enrolling in the name.
I got that spring and in that summer, like that
was so beneficial for me to really kind of like
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not like learn the fundamentals, but like just even like
you know, quicker than just getting there for that college
or for that for camp and something like. It would
have been probably rough if I didn't have that spring
to you know, just literally learn the nuances of being
a tight end.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
So it's worked out well for you, I would say, so, yeah,
so it's been.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Good, Mitchie.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Stillwell, Evans, thank you so much for joining me on
sideline past. This was you shouldn't have told me now
you're never going to live. No, but seriously, thank you
so much.
Years. Kristin Balboney and Sharon Thorst loved it with your
Sideline Pass.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Welcome to Sideline Pass with your sideline reporters, Sharon and Kristen. Sharon,
I'm gonna get right into it because you were on
this game on Sunday, This incredible seventeen to nothing comeback
win the Panthers just absolutely I crushed it as they
made this huge comeback over the Dolphins. What was it
like on that sideline as they mounted the comeback.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Oh my gosh, it was so awesome because you know,
it was just like, oh my gosh, we're gonna do this.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
We're going to do this.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Guys just and it wasn't like they were getting like
overly excited. It was just real methodical. You know, like
different guys would come up on the sideline and say,
you know, one play to time, let's go get another one,
you know, just you know, three and out here Derek
Brown was like, we're going to go get the ball
back for you after Bryce had the turnovers, because that's
that was one thing that really stood out to me
in this game was in the past, it seemed like
if we get multiple turnovers like that, it's sort of
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like you know, the airs out of the balloon and
ever was like, oh my gosh, here we go again
kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
And it's like, guys get a little deflated.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
So hard to win after you have two turnovers.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
It is exactly, and it puts such strain on the
defense and stuff. But that just did not happen in
this game at all. I mean, they were just really businesslike,
really methodical, and they never lost and not that they've
lost faith before, but it was just you could just
see it.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
They're like, Okay, we're going to do it. It's like
they really believed.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
And then the way the defense was playing, and it
was really the defense really did such a great job
in this game. It was unbelievable. And then of course,
what can you say about Rico Daddell, Holy moly, he
was unbelievable. But it was just so much fun to
see that, you know, progress, and how they were able
to catch up and then take the lead and then
went down again, then they come back and score again
to win, and it was just like, oh my gosh,
it was It was just awesome.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Sharon.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
If you think about it, what you just said about
the defense and then rico'dowell.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I was just thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Rico Dadell had ten times the number of yards that
the Dolphins rushing attack had because the defense the Panthers
defense and gave up nineteen yards on the ground, which
is just an insane number to me. And then Rico
Daddle had two hundred and six yards on the ground.
That's that's just crazy. The domination on both sides on
the ground is so neat.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Yeah, it was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
And I mean the Dolphins did not have us particularly
stellar run defense coming in, and Rico certainly exploited that.
But the Panthers run difference, I mean, you know, we
had had that shut out against the Falcons and everything
was great, and then you go to the Patriots and
they ran all over our defense and it's like, oh
my gosh. So for them to be able to bounce
back put on the same type of performance that they
did against the Falcons with the run game, I mean,
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to really shut that down. That was amazing because it's
not like the Dolphins didn't have good running backs. I mean,
they had good running backs, So that was really that
was really impressive. And I know that they gouged us
a little bit early on with some of those explosive
pass plays with the you know, wall around Jalen Waddle,
but then they would just shut that down the second
half and that just I mean, Darren Waller was like
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non exist in the second half of the game.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
They did a great job on him.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So overall, the defensive performance was really outstanding, with particularly
against the run, which is I know, they love to
be able to shut down that run. That's what they
always want to do is shut down that run, and
they were able to do that big time on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, and I want to go back to something you
said of a few minutes ago, of just the way
in which they all you said about Dereck Brown saying
we're gonna get the ball back and how they just
methodically went and did it. It's such a good point
because as we know, and we see it on the sidelines,
and I imagine you know, you can infer this if
you watch the game, but these guys are professionals, so
it doesn't matter if they're down seventeen to nothing or
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you know, down bigger on any team really, but especially
on the Panthers, because I can see it on the sidelines.
They professionally go out there and do their job, even
if you're in the fourth quarter and you're down whatever
three touchdowns or whatever it is. All of these guys
take this job very seriously and they go out and
they do what they're supposed to do. So then to
be able to go out and do what you are
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doing anyway and to see it payoff in this way
of a seventeen point comeback is is incredible, you know,
and what a validation. And I was wondering, Sharon in
my head. I was talking to Jonathan Stewart and Thomas
Davis about this earlier on one of our shows, and
I wonder if you think about this the same way
I think when you look at wins. I always think, Okay,
a team can kind of check off a checklist of okay,
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you have a dominating win. And that's what I saw
in the Atlanta game. Right, you're thirty to nothing, your
defense shuts them out, and of course there are things
that they want to take back and do over the
offense or whatnot.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Your special teams looks great, right, and you.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Say, okay, we can shut a team out, we can
put thirty on a team, and then you have a
game like this, which is a comeback win, and then
your players know we can come back. We can come
back from down seventeen to nothing to win this game.
And we can have a late game drive, which we
got to see a lot of last year, these big
late game drives. We have a late game drive and
when the other team has scored and we can come
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back and win the game. And I always think those
are kind of two Okay, we can be dominant and
we can come back and win a game. And then
I think another one that they're probably looking to check
off as a close win, right, we are going to
go back and forth and we're gonna come out and
we're gonna we are gonna win, or we're gonna play
a clean game. But I always kind of think that
big comeback when is something you check off as a
team of proof and I and that's what John the
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Stewart said. He said, it's huge, you know, for for
your identity and for knowing.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
That you can do it. But do you ever think
of things that way? Or is that just my weird brain?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
No, I totally agree with you, because, uh that that's
not easy to do. We all know when you're down,
especially three scores. I mean that's mentally you can A
lot of teams will check out when they get to
that point. They'll be like, all right, game over, let's
just cash it in. But this team was able to,
you know, continue, like you said, to continue to grind,
to continue to work, to just chip away, and then
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I think it just does phenomenal things just for their
confidence to be able to know, you know what, we
can do this just a couple of turnovers and it's
not going to kill us. Obviously you don't want to
do it, but we can overcome mistakes, which I think
in the past this team has not been able to do.
They have not really been able to overcome mistakes and
come out and on the on the winning end. So
to be able to have a couple of turnovers still
be able to climb your way back into this game
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and then come out on the winning and I think
just says huge things for them from a confident standpoint
and just validating that, like you said, they're just you
keep on working and it you know, comes out as.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
A positive for you.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
So for them to be able to do that, I
think that is is just huge because that's it's much
harder to win that type of a game than it
is that thirty to nothing went over Atlanta.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Absolutely, So I want to talk about the fact so
two and zero at home zero to three on the road, chaar,
and you usually do the road game, so sorry, but
you did this awesome games absolutely and then you know,
I talked to Dave can Allis and he said, we
got to figure out how to take this on the road, right,
And I think minimizing the mistakes that you were just
talking about is going to be a big part of that.
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Starting fast, playing the game that they you know, running
on the running that they did in this game, and
then also stopping the run. Those things are going to
be things that they can hope build on. But for
this young team, they get another chance to play at
home and they are playing the Dallas Cowboys, who look good.
They're putting up you know, and their wins are putting
up like thirty seven points, forty points, all sorts of stuff,
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and I think they have well, Sharon, you'll tell me
in terms of their offense, I don't want to.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
I'll let you tell us the stats.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
But before we get into your scouting report, I want
to talk about Rico Dawdle as we said, NFC Offensive
Player of the Week over two hundred yards in this game.
And then now he is facing his former team, and Sharon,
I've heard a couple of quotes, he's not backing down
from the fact that he wants he wants this team
to remember that they let him go exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yeah, he had the you know, buckle up quote.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Earlier this week.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, he's you know, he's ticked off that they let
him go, and he wants to show them exactly what
they're missing. And I'm sure they got a little glimpse
of that with this performance last week against the Dolphins,
and they're probably going, oh, wow, that's maybe that was
a mistake. So I'm sure he's going to be definitely
looking to replicate or at least do even a fraction
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of what he was able.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
To do against the Dolphins would be amazing.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
And to go do it against his former team, which
would be just really cool if he's able to go
out there and do that, Because we're not sure yet
on the status of Cuba Hubbard.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
He's still day to day with that calf injury, but.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
When and if he is ready to go, As a coach,
Canli said earlier this week, it's a good problem to
have to have two running backs in Rico and Cuba
that can do what both of them are certainly capable
of doing, which is putting up some big rushing yards.
So it's gonna be fun to see what happens when
they come back. But I do know that Rico is
ready to roll against his former team and to really
make a point in letting them know that they shouldn't
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let him go.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
But we'll take him.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
We're happy to have absolutely. And Sharon, you made such
a good point before we started rolling.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
You said, because I was asking, I said, have either
of us heard anything about Ceba Hubbard. Obviously we're recording
this on Wednesday before practice, so we'll know more as
the week goes along. And he is day to day,
And you said, but look, doesn't that doesn't that make
you feel a little bit more comfortable if he's not
one hundred percent You know that.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
You have a guy. Of course, we want you back there.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
You'd like to see both of them in the game,
but he can really make sure that that that calf
feels great, right, and he knows that there's someone that
is gonna do a great job in his stead if
he needs it. The coaching staff does as well, so,
like you said, great problem to have there.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Absolutely, absolutely, So let's.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Talk about Dallas beyond just the fact that it's Rico
Dawdell's old team. You always do the best scouting reports here,
and am I right in that they have the number
one offense in terms of yards per game?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
They do? They do?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
They are number one in the NFL average over four
hundred and six yards per game, so they are moving
the football and they're they're scoring a lot too, like
you were saying, they're fourth in the league over thirty
points a game, so they just they pick up a
lot of yards or over six yards per play. So
this is a very high octane offense. They're moving the football,
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Dak Prescott is I mean, they're great both passing and rushing.
Their third in passing offense, eighth in rushing offense. So
there is literally no weakness in this offense. It's pretty
impressive what they're able to do. It's the opposite side
of the ball where they're having some more trouble on defense,
but they have so many weapons and that's without Ceedee Lamb.
You know he's still out with that high ankle spring.
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They're a star receiver, but they're just they're George Pikett,
so they traded for earlier, you know, this offseason from
the Steelers. He's just picked right up, it seems for
Cede Lamb. He's averaging over fifteen yards to catch, seventy
one yards a game.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
He's unbelievable. So and they have a really good tight
end as well.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
So they move the football, and they've got some great
running backs and former Tar Heel Javonte Williams sis up
there running up a storm and a familiar face Miles Sanders,
who of course was here with the Panthers for two seasons.
He is now with Dallas. So they've got a really
impressive offense. It's gonna give this Panther defense all I
can handle, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It'll be interesting to see, and you'd imagine that both
teams want to come out and set the tone early because,
as you just said, the way in which they play
is not the way in which the Panthers play. You know,
the Panthers aren't scoring forty points a game, so that'll
be really interesting to see which team has to adjust.
And of course we hope that it's the Cowboys that
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have to play outside of their game plan. But it'll
be really interesting to see these two teams that kind
of approach things differently, and like you said, the I mean,
the defense approaches things differently because they're not having a
great sea to start to the season. But it'll be
really interesting to see what kind of football we get
in this first half. I'm looking forward to that. And
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then Sharan, how was the crowd in the last home game,
because that first home game, they were incredible, and I
imagine they got really really hyped up as the game
went on. But I'm imagining that we can expect a
really good crowd here on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Oh, I would absolutely think so. I mean, they were
definitely a handful of Dolphin fans, you know.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
They were a lot walking around.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
They were pretty vocal early on, but the Panthers fans
they just took over and it was so loud. It
was funny because when the Panthers were going for it
late there, you know, to win the game, everybody was
so excited in the stands that they were being.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Like loud on offense when they're not supposed to do it.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
And so the players on the sideline, and you know,
a lot of the inactive guys were like trying to
tamp it down.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
They're like, should be. The fans were, Yeah, it was funny.
They were so excited.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
So it was a great crowd, and I'm sure it's
gonna be a great crowd again for.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
This Dallas game.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
You know, the Cowboy fans, they crawl out of nowhere.
It seems like no matter where they go, So you
know there's gonna be some Cowboys fans in there. But
if if this Panthers team can can get going early on,
and that's the one thing about this Dallas team. Their
defense is dead last in the league. It's like their
offenses first. Their defense is dead last, so they are
dead last against the pass. So they have some serious
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vulnerabilities defensively. So if Bryce and the offense can get
rolling early, you know, get up on this team early.
I think that you're going to hear a lot of
loud Panthers fans in the stadium and that the Cowboys
fans can you just go into the concourse and go
get snick.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I just love that you said they crawl out of nowhere.
Oh this was great, Like you said, exciting, exciting home
game when the Cowboys come to town, and Sharon will
do this again next Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
All right, sounds great.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
All right, I'm joined now by Mitchell Evans. Thank you
for doing sideline pass. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Okay, first things first, I've heard it as Mitch and
I've heard it as Mitchell. Most important question of the interview,
which one do you prefer?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I really don't mind. Family calls me a bunch of
different things too, But.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Well, now I have to know what those are.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
What does a family call you Mitch, Mitchell, whatever?
Speaker 6 (13:48):
You ever get a Mitchie?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
My aunt calls me Mitchie. She's listening to this she
oh yeah, yeah, she started that. She still does it.
My dad grew up movie. I forget the movie is called,
but he called me still well.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Okay, oh, I know I can't think of.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
It either of their own. No, that's it. Whatever we're
gonna find.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
If someone is watching or listening, please let us know,
because I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Still well.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah, my my sister travel with volleyball growing up, and
I always just tagged along. So that was kind of
where you got that nickname from. But yeah, it's pretty
much all right.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
There you have it, Mitchie stillwell Evans, that's it. That's it.
That's what we'll call you on your next touchdown.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Fair speaking of which, congrats on the big one on Sunday,
the game winner.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
The best spike I've seen in a long tide.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
It was like it was like you were like the
Thanos from like.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
The like just the energy that was coming out.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Of the So that's two touchdowns in two weeks. I
imagine you kept the ball from the first one.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I did. I cut the ball.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Did you get to keep this one too?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I did not, because I spiked it and I didn't
even know I spiked it that far hard. I just
spike her in the moment and then yes, I blacked
out what was going on. I did not keep this
ball from this last one, but I kept the gloves
because I was like, pretty cool.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
But yeah, where do you where do you put those things?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
So my plan is for the future when I'm doing
football whatever, and in my forever house, I'm going to
have like a main cave and it's going to have
all of memorabilia whatever whatever it is. If it's Jersey swaps,
a lot of stuff, game balls, college jerseys whatnot. Have
a lot of stuff framed and you know, decorated in that.
(15:38):
But right now it's just sitting at my house somewhere.
I don't even know where it's at.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
You don't know where the ball is from last week.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I think it's in my office at home right now. Sure,
but it was in my car for a couple of days.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
Yeah, you're right, you've got stuff in the back. You're like,
it's in.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
There with like the change I have it though, but
it's going to have a special place.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, you got to and then when you get more,
you got to remember which one the first one is.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
It's already it has like the equipment staff they labeled
it with like a whole look tape and like awesome
when it was today.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Shout out to the equipment stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
They're great about immediately grabbing that football and making sure
that you haven't always think that's such.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
A special moment, like first touchdown?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Did you in the moment, like you said, you blacked
out with this one? Did you did you black out
with the first one?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I mean not really. I was kind of I was
happy you enjoy the moment even though we were not winning.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
It's a special.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Of course, of course that's not when you want it
to happen. Special moment for you.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
It was a very special moment for me. Andy came
up to me, you know, because it was his first
one of the year two so he's like, hey, congrats man,
and obviously I kind of really celebrate. But this one
last week you celebrated. Did celebrate because you know, throughout
the week with head ends, Tommy, DC and James and
I were all just like joking, like we had dances,
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you know, playing and yeah, if you scored, do this
whatever in mind are pretty silly, but those all went
out the window because I get it processed.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
What was going on outside, what was the what was
the dance? Will we see it again?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
If I score? And if I don't block out, maybe
we'll see it. Okay. They told me that you probably
shouldn't do that because it's it would be kind of
as a tight of embarrassment. So they're pretty they're pretty goofy,
but well.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Odds are that we might we might see it soon.
I'm hoping it's goofy, like please please please let the
speak affee. Whenever it happens, we'll get to run it
back and ask you about it. Speaking of Tommy, I
was wondering, since you guys are both Notre Dame Titans,
did you come in knowing each other? Is that or
did he likes or did you get to know each
other first when.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
You got here.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, we never crossed pass because he just left right. Yeah,
I early enrolled in Notre Dame and so if you
would have stayed for his last year, we would have
been there for a year. But we didn't cross paths.
And I actually we just talked about this the other day.
I forgot that we like met each other briefly because
he came back one day and I was already there
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and it was in the summer. It was he just
I think we were fourth of July just hanging out somewhere.
Some guy through a party for the football players. So
we're just hanging out just together and he was there
or whatever. Anyways, girre all just hanging out. And that
was a brief moment because we both kind of forgot
about it. But that was one little yea crossing paths.
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But other than that that, we never really knew each
other before kind of getting here.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Who remembered that meeting first? You're like, hey, hold on
a second.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I honestly was just thinking about that, like random and
like have I ever met because someone asked me like, oh,
have you guys ever crossed paths? I always was like like, no,
I never did. But then I randomly thought about the
question again. I was like, no, what we actually did?
Like it was a very brief, very brief, quick thing.
And he was just telling me about how like hey,
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like you know, just keep your head down and keep
working and.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Giving you the like I'm the elder statesman like I've.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Been type of some good advice. But because I was.
It was probably my freshman year, so I was just
getting there and just getting things started and whatnot. But yeah,
I remember that a little instance. Up until that, I know,
literally nothing until we got here.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
So do you guys talk Notre Dame football.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
We have a fine in our room if we talk,
so anything related. If it's me talking, they're like, no,
that's a fine.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Are you serious? Just so is it other colleges too,
or just because there's.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Two of you in one room to another nd fine,
that's amazing.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Yeah, yes, and especially as a rookie, like I don't
want to find I don't.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Want I'm already up on the board, so I can't.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
That is phenomenal to again check in at the end
of the season and see where you guys landed.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Did you know that you have a Wikipedia page?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I have a Wiki page?
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Did you know that? Because I have something that I
found on it? There's no I just have something I
found on It's it's not avenything bad.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
I just was wondering if you knew.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I inferred I have a wiki page. She can't anybody
make a wiki page, I think.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
So I don't know that ins and ounced. I'm already
too deep in over.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
What I know about know I have probably embarrassing photos
of my younger self on the internet.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yeah, all players have like your elementary school picture of middle.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
School, interviews from high school just after a game.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Well, look, that's the that's the price of being a
pro that people are interested in, you know, all the
things that you used to do. What I saw on
it is that it says that you are a starting
quarterback in high school.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I was a quarterback in high school.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
So Wikipedia got it right. Good to know? Were we good?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I like to think I'm good? Yeah? Oh yeah, so
I always praying about how I can you know, still
sing it, but yeah, I like to sounds pretty good
for quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
So I have two questions off of that. Number one,
you think we're going to see a trick play at
some point?
Speaker 6 (20:58):
You lobbying for its coach.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I loved you every day. I was just you know,
imitate my three step drop whatever, just like, oh yeah, yeah,
I can still if you need it whatever. But yeah,
I mean, if they have things in store for me,
obviously you can't tell us up for it. Whatever they
want me to do. But I don't know nothing. It
(21:21):
really crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
And then my other question off of that, and my
last question is why then the switch to to tight end.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
So it was I played quarterback my freshman, sophomore, and
senior year, but my junior year I played tight end.
And that's because I was I was hurt going into
that junior year and I couldn't really like twist, but
I could still kind of run and move a little bit,
but it hurt to like really twist. And there was
a quarterback already above me who was playing a lot.
(21:50):
So I was like, you know, I can't really move.
It's hurt me, but I can still pleasantly stuck me
at tight end and had a decent enough highlight tape.
I guess I've made it myself off of that. And
that's really kind of what colleges saw was that junior.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Year I tape, you throw a little music behind it.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
The huddle, the d gener music.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
I used, like, we can use you as an editor
if this football thing doesn't work out.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
But yeah, that was what colleges saw me as. And
then my senior year I went back to quarterback. But
the plan was I always was going to play tightening
college and luckily are thankfully early enrolling in the name.
I got that spring and in that summer, like that
was so beneficial for me to really kind of like
(22:41):
not like learn the fundamentals, but like just even like
you know, quicker than just getting there for that college
or for that for camp and something like. It would
have been probably rough if I didn't have that spring
to you know, just literally learn the nuances of being
a tight end.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
So it's worked out well for you, I would say, so, yeah,
so it's been.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Good, Mitchie.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Stillwell, Evans, thank you so much for joining me on
sideline past. This was you shouldn't have told me now
you're never going to live. No, but seriously, thank you
so much.
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