November 9, 2024 • 37 mins
J-Stew speaks with Jon Beason, Luke Kuechly and Thomas Davis at the Panthers Fan Fest in Munich, Germany.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're the thirteenth pick in the two thousand.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
And eight NFL draft.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
Carol las Half the select.
Speaker 4 (00:05):
Jonathan Stewart gets to Stewart, he leaves touchdown. Stewart oh
Rough tough right, angry mad a at elbows, knees, Stuart hesitates, accelerates.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
That's what I'm talking about. That the spash mouth football.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Let Stuart Kyt running round, Stuart jump over a tackler
at the tenth flow, jumping, Laura's his shoulder, keeps running.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
No one will touch him.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Jonathan Stewart house is it you talk about explosive plays
in the run game. It's like the fourth of July
around here.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Right now you.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Are listening to Stu and the crew, Now to Jonathan
Stewart's and Jeremy Kelly.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Welcome to Munich, yep.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
So, Stu, you've been a busy man. You've been running around.
I've seen you at soccer football games. I've seen you
all across Munich. What have been your highlights so far?
Speaker 7 (00:51):
All of it. I've never been to Europe. This is
my first time, so I'm taking it all in. I mean,
we just came from Italy and I felt like I
was in Italy and had some really good food and
we're here now, you know, just having a good time.
And I just love the energy. You know, this is
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a sports town. If you didn't know, If you didn't know,
this is a sports town.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I got it.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Go ahead, start it up. That's just amazing, isn't it.
What are your impressions of the Sherman and the US Crows?
Speaker 7 (01:35):
For sure, you guys are amazing. I really hope that
you guys just come and bring that energy. Just like
that soccer game that house at the other day. I
mean they were jumping for the first eight minutes of
the game.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Don stop.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
So if you guys want to do that during the
football game, that would be awesome to see for a
football game, for sure.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Well, I tell you we are excited to see you
bring up. You gotta hard hitting crew. Oh see what
I did there? Yeah, you've got a great crew that
he's going to bring up ladies and gentlemen. Jonathan Stewart
is gonna do an episode of stew and the crew
makes some noise.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Everybody all right.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Mike is no, it's not there. It is. We're back.
We're back. Uh.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
Check us out on YouTube all platforms. Podcast all that
stewing the crew. But without further ado, I would like
to introduce to you some of my very good friends.
It's interesting, you know, playing football you usually have really
good friends on the offensive side of the ball, but
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being a running back you become really good friends with
the linebackers for personal reasons, right you know, Hey, man,
take it light on me in practice or understanding. You
know how they tick, you know while you you know,
go out for lunch or out the dinner, you know,
spending time.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Quality time with those guys, you know.
Speaker 7 (03:11):
And I've been fortunate enough to have some very special
guys in my life that have looked at me as
a brother, raised me in this game of football to
be the best version of myself on and off the field.
And then one particular guy, if you're around him ever,
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you just want to be the best version of yourself period.
And so I would like to introduce first number fifty
two on the field, number one in your heart.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Mister John B. Safe Stewie.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Heyo John, But some my guy, heyo, John, how you feeling?
Promise that we can cry man? Man, I look at you, yeah,
I look this is my brother right here. Yeah, man,
give it up. For me, love Love. Next up.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
The mayor of Charlotte. If you know who the mayor
of Charlotte is, I need you to give me a
We're gonna do it. We're gonna do a chant. Yeah,
I want t And then d on this side, all right, come.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
On to this, Yeah, the mayor responsible ray Man, this Davis.
How y'all doing? All right? All right? All right? Now
the next one. Somebody call him Superman, Clark Kent. Some
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might call Clark Kent, but I'm gonna call him. Luke
kicked me.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
You don't have a seat, man, Uh, Luke, you're a
little nervous stew. A lot of defensive guys up here.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Man, I ain't nervous, man, I'm my friends. We used
to pick on Sue at practice. Hey, I never practice.
If you just you just played. I just played at
least for the first three years.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Right. You know.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
They always gave me a heck about not practicing. But
they always knew the situation. Just as long as I
showed up on on on Sundays. You know it all happen, Sue.
Tell them tell them why sometimes you didn't practice.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Tell them truth. They gotta notice because it's it's the truth.
I didn't practic just because I was hurt. But you know,
but I was hot. But while were you hurt because
I was out there running the rock? No, the truth is,
nobody wanted to tackle Jay Sue in the National Football League.
It was going for my ankles. It was it was
a business decision that was going from They don't raise
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them like that anymore. So if you're gonna tackle this
guy that gets they get a little nervy, you know,
and they go they go low, they go for his
ankle with his legs because they don't want to hit
him up top. So that's the truth, man, that's the truth.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
I wish I was a scat back then. I would
have I would have been there to play longer. Huh, yeah,
but you played a long time. I played a long
time eleven years. No, man, let's get to it with
y'all out.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Jay Stuh.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
What brand boots are you wearing to COVID?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
You like him?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Man, you've been wearing them ever since I known you that.
I got some mouths on him.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Look, I just I just got him probably last year.
They're a good multipurpose one. They got a lot of
beer spilled ont on this week. That a boy, they're
loving it just as much as I am. So it
works out. We've had had quite a bit of it.
We handled a lot of beer out today. Uh that's great.
You guys here look like you're enjoying it as well.
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We've had We've had a lot of fun this week.
And Stuart glad to be up here. Yeah, man, TD,
what up brother?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
How you been? Man? How you like Germany so far?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Like chick can yarmy?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah we can hear you allright, Just want to make
sure how's Germany been for you?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And Germany has been amazing? Man, Thank you guys for
the hospitality.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
This my first time being here and I cannot say
enough about how special this place is and how much
you guys have embraced Panther nations. So man, give yourselves
a round of applause. You know, we started we started
this trip out strong. We got to go to a
soccer match our first night here on Wednesday night, and
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we actually got to watch them win the game, and
we got the tour their hall of fame and see
all of the accomplishment that this great team has won.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Man, it's truly amazing.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Yeah, it's inspirational, right, uh, beast, what's been your first
your favorite part of Germany so far?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Man, Well, for me personally, you know, I'm here because
of these guys. Been a long time since I got
to chill with my brothers, my boys. So obviously on
the other side, you know, I had a you know,
a quick mummy with the Giants, so it just made sense.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
We'll talk about that. It just made you all talk
about that.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Can I can I be honest John for a second,
Ain't no love lost? I mean, we know who gonna
win the game, right, Yeah? Yeah, I mean that's that's
that's that's what it is. But it was really about that,
you know, obviously, getting a chance to come to a
foreign country. I'm a big soccer head, so I know
all about the Boutasliga. I know about FC Byron all
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their accomplishments, and they're getting the opportunity to meet our fans.
They do it really big here, but they getting a
chance to meet NFL Carolina Panther fans. So for me,
it was it was just a great opportunity to come
out here and experience everything. I love that.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
I love the first thing, the best part of this trip.
Don't get me, don't get me wrong, I love being here.
But the best part for me is being with my brothers,
being with guys that I blessed, wet in tears with
on the field, and just being able to like, you know,
share moments, you know, core memories. You know, this is
a first for me, right, So being able to share
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it with these guys and doing these types of events,
you know, the car rides, you know, waiting on the
car ride at the hotel, eating out together, fellowshipping. Those
are the things that we miss about the locker room,
right And talking about the locker room, Luke, when you
were drafted to the Carolina Panthers, like, how lucky were
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you to have guys like John Beeson and Thomas Davis
in that room?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
So I think that's that was one of the best
things for me was the locker room that I came
into Carolina, like you said, was fantastic. I remember the
first day I was in Carolina. I was upstairs, was
talking with the coaches. Came down, We're in the linebacker room.
TD walks in it says, Hey, Thomas Davis, here's my
phone number. If you need anything, call me. And I
was like, wow, that's Thomas Davis and you're like, hey,
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maybe I'm sure he just gave.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Me his phone number.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
He I mean that, like, if you'll hang out with me,
maybe he'll hang out with me. He probably won't text
me back, and maybe it's not even the right phone number.
And I needed something and I called him and he
picked it up, and I was like, wow, awesome. So
just the best thing about the guys in the locker room.
They teach you a ton about football, but they teach
you about life, how what it's like to be a
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young guy.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Everybody was a rookie before.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Everybody has moved to a new city as a young
guy and hadn't known anybody. Same thing with Beast. I
remember the first time I'm at Beast. I was walking
out of the stadium through the game. What's that they
said you would remember? I thought, everybody remember this. Oh yeah,
that's it, and you walked on through the gate. He
was coming through the gate and he's like, Hey, I'm
John Beeson, nice to meet you. I'm We're happy to
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have you. Can't wait to work with you. And it's
just for a young guy that comes in. I was
twenty one years old. I didn't know anything about the NFL.
I'd never been to Charlotte, really hadn't spent any time.
And for the two best guys in our defense to
come up to me and say, hey, welcome, we got you.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Anything you need, let us know, and they generally generally
meant it.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And that's the biggest thing is you can say.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
All you want about Hey, I'm loved to help you, Yeah, welcome,
blah blah blah, but if you don't back it up
and you don't show it, then it's kind of empty.
But I was lucky to have guys like Thomas and
Bace and obviously you on the offensive side with a
bunch of other guys. That was the one thing that
I think really set us apart early on and into
my career was we had really good players, but we
had really great people. And the people in the relationships
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is what separates good teams from bad teams.
Speaker 9 (11:46):
Oh give it up? Yeah say that again. It's vallot
baby a yo, John, what's up?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Stud? What you got for me?
Speaker 7 (12:03):
So you came to a team that had a dog
on there already too, right, Thomas Davis right, TV was a.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
More of a puppy at that. It was a puppy
at that age. No, no, no, this is my bigger brother.
That's my big brother. Gotta look at that. He's like, boy,
you better stop. This is people. People will believe what
you're about to say. You know, you got to keep
it a hundred. But if I'm not mistaken, Dan Morgan,
I was still around.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Talk to me about your transition and the bond that
you and TD like created during your time with the
Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
So for me, it's interesting. You know, I came in
and I was outside linebacker playing will had just been
playing it for two years when I transitioned at at
University of Miami, but Dan Morgan played at Miami, So
coming in already felt like I knew somebody even before,
and I knew between day more Damian Lewis, that I
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had guys on the defense when I could look up to,
which I did, but also I knew that they would,
you know, take me under their wing. To Luke's point,
there is this kind of stigma that when you come
in it's like, oh, you're the young guy, especially when
you get drafted high, and the old guys will help
you out. But that's the furthest from the truth. It's
it's not like that at all, especially if you're a
good player. They want more good players on the team
because good players are hard to come by and which
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we all know. So for the coming in, because the
objective is to win the game, that's it. I mean
when we talked about last night, we all we all
want to win. I mean that's really what it is.
The fact that we get paid for this is a byproduct.
I mean, we just want to go out. It's something
we love to do. But ultimately it's a it's about championships.
So that that was always something that was at the forefront.
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It made it easy to accept guys that were coming in,
but also you know, trying to live up to that.
You want you want them to to say, hey TD
be like hey listen, man, you're doing it right, bro.
These guys going to help us. He's he's committee, he's
one of us. And you get on that side. Once
you earn their respect, it's big time. Right on, Right on, Louke.
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You played in Frankfurt, right, we played. We played in London, London,
London my last year Europe.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
So you had an overseas experience playing playing some football.
What's the difference of playing overseas and playing at home
or in an away game.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
You know, back in America, I.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Think the consistent energy of the game, because if you
play a home game, it's your crowd, so it's loud
when you're on defense, and it's a little bit quieter
when you're on offense. And obviously on the road it's flipped.
But here when you play, when you play abroad, there's
fans from both teams, from just teams of the NFL
in general, and the energy throughout the whole game is fantastic.
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And I didn't understand that until I went to.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
London.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
We played there in twenty nineteen against Tampa Bay. They
were jerseys. We're want to know the Carolina Panthers are
one and O abroad. We're gonna try to make it too,
and oh.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I hear you, I hear you.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
But the consistent energy, and I have I have a
feelings to and be some and TV that we might
be dominating, dominating the crowd on tomorrow with with Panthers fans.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
So we're looking forward to it. That's it, and thank
you guys all for coming out.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
All right, let's get to a little bit of a
football side of things, Thomas, Yes, sir, when it comes
to the New York Football Giants, right boom, Yes, what
are some things that we ought to be looking at defensively, uh,
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to make sure that we are in good standing and
winning winning this football game.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
So I think when you look at the Giants football team,
they've had a lot of inconsistencies.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
You know.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
The one thing that really stands out to me the
most offensively is the amount of turnovers that Daniel Jones has.
He's thrown five interceptions and he has four fumbles. So
what that says to me is there're gonna be some
opportunities for us defense defensively to take.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
The football away.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
When we get those opportunities, we gotta take advantage of them.
They throw you the football defensively, you gotta catch it.
When you have opportunities to punch the football out or
to get to the quarterback. It's just not about getting
to the quarterback and sacking them and get them to
the ground. You gotta get to the quarterback with the
mindset of I gotta get the ball back to the
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offense because every extra possession that you give the offense,
that's another chance that we have to put points on
the board, and I think this.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Young group have to really understand.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
They got to look at the film and see some
of the ways that they can take advantage the Giants offensively.
They are a very inconsistent football team. They have some
young guys, a lot of young talent. One of the
guys it stands out to me first and foremost is
mylague neighbors. He's gonna be a terrific player in this league.
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He just won't be that tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
We know that right now, right tell us why because
we got a core group of guys starting with j. C. Horn,
that's that's gonna do a phenomenal job against him. I
just I just know that Dane Jackson being back in
this lineup, he's starting to work himself back into it.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
He's a He's a phenomenal player. For those of you
guys that don't understand and know, Dane started this season
out hurt. He hurt his hamstring earlier in the season,
but another another very very good defensive back. So I
just think when you look at having those guys back
there and getting some of our guys back healthy, I
don't know if DJ want him is going to actually
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be on the field. But if we're able to get
him opposite of clowning, those guys can create pressure and
get out of the quarterback and wreak all kinds of
havoc in the backfield and do it consistently. That's what
we haven't seen from this defense all season long. So
once we're able to do that, you can really see
how special this group can be.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Right on, right on, y'all heard it.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I hate him, Professor I hear.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Hey, John, Hey, Yo, Stu.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Last night we had a very very deep, good conversation,
and I'm so glad that we did because as we
were talking about it about what a warrior was, I
started thinking about a guy named Trouba Hubbard, and you know,
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he stands out as a guy that the Carolina Panthers
should be breeding when they're bringing guys in.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Right, this is what we want this guy to look like.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
But I want you to share with me, with this
crowd a little bit of what we talked about as
far as what the warrior is, the warrior mentality and
what that's like.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Well, I think, first off, you know, you look at Tuba,
you can tell when you put the film on or
for me as a fat from Afar watching on TV.
He's a guy who's trying to get it done. And
I think that, you know, if I told Luke to
stand up, or I told Thomas a stand up, not you, Stu,
but you would look at me and you would say, well,
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you know, he's don't kind of don't look like them.
And I think that, you know, we've gotten caught up
in this whole world of measurables, you know, where the
thing that you should be measuring is a guy's want to.
So my game will always be predicated on how it looks.
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I want to look like the guy it matters to most.
I want to chase the ball with a reckless abandonment
that has not been seen. And I practice the same way.
I try to train the same way. And I came
up with this new saying where you know, people call
guys that do really well at the combine he's a
workout warrior. And I said, I'm wanna flip that, and
I say, I was a warrior of work. I just
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I always felt that it's not just about being physically
strong and in great shape. But then I was also
conditioned in my mind where when I stepped on the
field I expected a result. It wasn't a matter of fact,
it was a matter of win. So we were just
talking about different players or how things have changed, or
how that needs to be the main key evaluator of
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the type of players that we bring in. You want
those kind of players where you can say, hey, when
you draft these three guys, we knew exactly what we're
gonna get. When you talk to the coach at Oregon
or BC at Georgia, say hey, this guy loves football.
He's planning to be a champion. That's what produces greatness
on the field. That's the mentality and that's what clearly
I don't know Trouba, but watching the film suggests that
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he has that. Yeah, well said man Truba Hubard.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
For those guys that I don't know, he's signed for
years thirty plus million dollars, So he's a panther and he.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Wants to be a lifer. Right, Luke, give us an insight,
because you're the nicest guy that I know, period, period,
literally period. Give us an insight in how you just
turn the switch. I want to know. People want to
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know how do you turn into Superman on the field.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I think I think a lot of it is the
competition side of the game, and Beasts touched on it
as well. You spend so much time in the off
season and training camp and OTAs in practice to get
ready to play when we were playing sixteen games and
if you're lucky the playoffs, and you want to maximize
your opportunity to play on the field. And by doing that,
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there's a standard that was set in Carolina by Sam
Mills number one, and then Dan and then Thomas and
then Beast, and then when I got there, the standard
it was already set of how you played the linebacker position.
And for me, a lot of it was I loved
playing football. I really, I really enjoyed the opportunity to
be good at it. I didn't want to let my
teammates down. And really the competition amongst us as linebackers
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was so was so important and so valuable.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
And I saw TD and Beast doing it.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
When I got there, and how much fun and how
much joy they had not only doing their job correctly,
but playing hard and competing against each other. So there's
there's multiple parts to the game of football. There's the
physical side, the side that is you versus the opponent.
You versus your teammates, you versus the quarterbacks, and the
mental side of the game, and you just wanted to
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go out there and win. I think that at the
end of the day, whatever you have to do to
go win the game is what matters most. And best
touched on it the guys that we want our guys
that football is super important too. So when you get
on the field, you have a very limited amount of
games you get to go play, so you might as
well let it rip. And I enjoyed having the opportunity
to go play in front of our home crowd on
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the road, and.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Just the competition side is what brings it out of you. Hey, Luke,
I recall this. It just hit me right now when
you came in and you took over at the mic position.
Remember we used to talk about celebrating with your teammates,
not when just when Luke makes a great play, but
the offensive side or Thomas makes a great play. Talk
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about how the energy that you have to have as
a mic linebacker brings everybody together on defense, makes guys
want to continue to make those plays. But then that
forms the bond when you're genuinely happy when they make
a great play. Talk about that well.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I think I think a lot of it is is,
at the end of the day, everybody in the world,
I think, wants to be seen. They want to be
seen for the good things they do, the things they
maybe didn't do as well. And a lot of it
starts with relationships. And you got to understand that. You
got to have a relationship with all the guys in
their team, and then you understand that when they make
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a big play, say it was a guy like Thomas
Thomas makes a big play, I need to be excited
for Thomas because I've seen I've.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Seen hell who.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
I've seen. I just want to I've seen how hard
Thomas has worked an amount of time that he's put
in to go and make that play. And then there's
another guy on the team, a guy like Jalen Coker Beast.
Beast talked a lot about, you know, the offense as well.
So it's one of those things.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I heard that.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
You see a guy like Jayalen Coker, undrafted tree agent
comes in, thinks he makes a team, we cut him,
bring him back, he doesn't know if he's gonna get
cut again. Comes in Adam Thielen gets hurt Deontay Johnson
gets traded, he comes in, starts making plays. You have
to get excited for a guy like that, because earlier
in the season he didn't know if he was going
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to be on the roster. And then I think, I
don't know about you, but I feel like you're probably
the same way. I get a lot of energy from
I'm seeing other people have success and getting excited for them.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
And sometimes you gotta find it somewhere. And sometimes the
best thing.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
To do is watch Sheety Go crack a guy on
first down and the first play of the game, and
it gets you into the game and you see the
intensity on his eyes and you say, I want to
match that.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
So it's kind of the whole thing. I love my teammates,
I love all the guys.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Everybody's been through different stuff, and when he gets excited,
it makes a great play.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I pull energy from that. So and look, we were
doing it for a few years before he came along.
He'll always be baby boy in my heart, that's my guy.
But he talked talk to the fans about how we practice,
and then who do we really compete against on Sundays?
On Sundays, but you're gonna stand up.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Can y'all hear me better?
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
All right.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
So that's one of the things that I tell people
all the time.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
Nobody in the history of the Carolina Panthers were more
blessed than I was as a football player from a
standpoint of the guys that I had around me. I
never played the linebacker position in college. I was a
safety my entire time at the University of Georgia. So
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my first time ever playing linebacker was on the NFL level,
on the NFL stage, the highest level of football, Number
forty seven, the highest level.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I was number forty seven, the highest level of football.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
What I got blessed with was having Dan Morgan there,
initially having Will Witherspoon to learn from.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Then we dropped a young.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Kid with so much energy, with so much aggression, with
a natural ability to play the linebacker position in every
single day. He came in and he worked his butt off,
and I fed off that energy. I started watching beasts.
I started watching the way Damn Morgan did it, learned
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the position. So now every single day it was never
about the offense and what they could do. The standard
was we competed against each other. People didn't understand or
realize we used to compete on how fast we could
run down the field at the end of practice on kickoff.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
On kickoff, we were starters. But that's what it meant
to us. That's what being a competitor really is. You
want to win at all costs. It doesn't matter what
it is, it don't matter what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
You want to win.
Speaker 8 (27:34):
And if you got that kind of energy in that mindset, man,
you will be successful and anything that you want to
do in life. Now, I told y'all that I was blessed, right,
I was blessed to be able to play alongside John Beson.
But then I go through some injuries, beast go through
some injury injuries, and now the team has to make decisions.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
They gave me another opportunity to have to turn my
ac off.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
For the third time. He was staying for free, by
the way, but the contrary was for free.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
If you don't behave it's for free.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Brent.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
Seriously, Brent, we're said with that we drafted Louke Keikley.
So now let me tell you, though, let me tell you,
let me tell you With that in my head, I'm like, dang,
they just told me they were gonna give me an opportunity.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
But then they drafted dude in the first round.
Speaker 8 (28:19):
We got an All Pro pro bo middle linebacker, and
we had another guy by the name of James Anderson
that we had just paid.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
So all of these dudes that paid first round of
all Pro, first round pick. So I'm the odd man
out in my mind.
Speaker 8 (28:37):
But I just told you guys, a competitive spirit, a
competitive nature, I never say never, attitude, and never say
never mindset. I'm never gonna be the one that's gonna
get counted out. That's the mindset that I take into
every single thing that I do in life. And I
encourage you guys.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
To do the same thing.
Speaker 8 (28:54):
When I tell you I was blessed play alongside beasts,
learning everything that I could from him. The linebacker position,
played alongside Luke Keickley, the mindset, the motto, the standard.
It never changed when Luke came in. It was never
about the offense and the guys that we competed against.
Nobody understood anew the game better than Luke Keickley, better
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than John Beeson, the professor. Nobody studied more than Luke
Keickerley and understood what the offense was doing better than
Luke Keickley, nobody, nobody in the history of the game.
But what I can tell you, guys, what I can
tell you guys, And I know I'm getting along with it,
but I want y'all to hear this.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
What I can tell you guys. It wasn't a single day,
It wasn't a single day that went by.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
In practice that we.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
Didn't compete, that we didn't go edit, that we didn't
go hard, that we didn't give every single thing that
we had in that day.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
To make sure that we where we need to be
on Sunday, And it wasn't about the offense. It was about, Hey,
who's gonna be the one to make the first.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Tackle of the game.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
Who's gonna be the one that get to the ball first,
Who's gonna be the one that makes the first big
hit of the game to set the tone for the
team that we're going to get. That's the mindset that
you got to take into the game. Who's gonna be
the one that takes the ball away and gets it
back to Cam. That's the mindset that we took into
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the game. So when we showed up on Sunday, it
was never about anybody else. We would be sitting on
the sideline.
Speaker 8 (30:29):
So comfortable because we had so much confident in the
work that we had put in during the week.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I look up at the scoreboard.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I'm like, Luke, I'm kicking your ass right now in tackles.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
You better catch up. We literally did this.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
I'ma I'm gonna be honest with you, guys. We did
this in the game, the New Orleans Saints game. I'll
never forget it. At this point in the game, I
had eleven tackles and I think Luke was at seven,
And I'm like, Luke, I'm kicking your butt, right, gotcha,
gotch in this game, in this game that I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
This was the third quarter.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I told him that.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
Luke went from seven tackles to twenty six tackles.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
That's a record, and that still is.
Speaker 8 (31:16):
That still is the NFL record for tackles in the game.
But I'm telling you, I'm telling you guys this story, right,
I'm telling you guys this story because that speaks to
the level of competitiveness that we had. You challenged them,
so it was a challenge. It was a challenge that
was presented, and it was a challenge that was met.
We finished that game with a combined forty tackles.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
That's probably a record. We had forty tackles, two interceptions
in a sack.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Each one of us had an interception that game.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
But even even bigger, even bigger than the individual statistics
that we were.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Able to garner that day, we won the football game.
We solidified, we solidified that first spot and won the
NFC South that day. And that's what it's all about.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
We can we can take pride in doing things and
and and receiving accolades and doing things individually, but at
the end of the day, every man on this stage.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Understands that it's about the team. And we learned that
at a young age. It's gonna always be about the team.
We're gonna always keep pounding no matter what adversity do
we face. This team has faced the turn of adversity
to this season right now. To y'all agree that speak on,
speak on, we might be down, but we ain't never outright,
Thomas or any one of you guys.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
The adversity that we've been going through as far as
the team right last seven years has been a lot
of changes. Everything that you're speaking about really comes back to, yeah,
you guys are all competitive. I mean I heard yesterday
TD and the Car talking about, Man, I'll lose my
arm to win, like you're talking about the the the
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hold contest, You'll lose your arm to win that I
wouldn't do it, but you would. But in my mind,
it's accountability, right. It's like this built in measure of
who's in it and who's really in it for the
love of the game. Because if I know on the
defensive side of the ball that they doing all that,
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I now have trust in whatever they're doing and which
now makes me on the other side of the ball,
I have to.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Be accountable, right, I have to make sure that I'm
doing my job.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
One of the things that I loved most because going
back to validation, right, everybody loves to feel seen. Everybody
loves to hear like, hey, you're going the right way.
What I love most was getting to the sideline and
being able to truck somebody in front of the defensive
bench because I use I would hear.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
John be like now you go, stew now you.
Speaker 7 (33:58):
Go, and those types of things really propel the team
because we all in it together.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
And so man, great stories. Man, I really appreciate y'all
sharing that with us.
Speaker 7 (34:13):
I don't know how you guys feel about this, but
you guys are very lucky to be having three of
the best linebackers in Carolina.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Panthers history sharing with y'all some free game on how
to be successful in general. All right, before we get
out of here, he's the victory John Beeson, Well, I
think first and foremost you you have to believe you
can win. And that's based on the preparation that we
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just talked about. One, having accountability to be where you're
supposed to be when you're supposed to be, and then
doing it at a level of conviction that's unmatched. Right,
fly across the pond, New Field, and I will say
this all the time. Once you step between those white lines,
it's over. And it's probably a bad way to put it,
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but this is just my mentality. When I put the
helmet on, I was the gun and I put the
mouthpiece in. That's the bullet and I'm shooting. And we
just to say that TD right, either get out the
way or you gotta go in there and shoot. And
that's gotta be the mentality. Tomorrow. You got a team
that trying to figure it out in terms of the
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Giants as well. But when you get hit in the mouth,
they will get in line offensively, defensively, special teams. That's
gotta be the model td I would say.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
The keys to victory in this game is gonna be
the trench war. We gotta win up front. Whichever team
goes out and dominates the line of scrimmage, whether it's
the offensive line or whether it's our defensive line. Whatever
team dominates the line of scrimmage is gonna win this game.
Because it's not gonna be a team either side that
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goes out and slings the ball around.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
For three or four hundred yards.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
That's not how this.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Game is gonna be won. This game is gonna be
one at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 8 (36:11):
The team that can run the football the best, and
the team that takes care of the football. Whoever wins
this turnover battle and the red zone is gonna be
the key to this football game.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
So we go out and we do those things literally,
those three things will be the difference.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
In this football game.
Speaker 8 (36:28):
Winning the line of scrimmage, taking care of the football,
winning the turnover battle, and holding them to field goals
or take aways in the red zone. Whichever team does
that the best, that's who's gonna win this game.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Well, Luke, I think he covered it all. Anything else.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
The one thing I'm gonna say is we need to
find a way to make this stadium in Munich a
home game for us.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
And I think I think these guys failed it on
you guys.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Weep, all right, We're done, that's it, all right, Appreciate
you guy, love.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Okin good my blessings here.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Thank you guys. Yeah, great job. How about another round
of applause
Speaker 2 (37:19):
For Stu and the linebacker crew.
We're the thirteenth pick in the two thousand.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
And eight NFL draft.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
Carol las Half the select.
Speaker 4 (00:05):
Jonathan Stewart gets to Stewart, he leaves touchdown. Stewart oh
Rough tough right, angry mad a at elbows, knees, Stuart hesitates, accelerates.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
That's what I'm talking about. That the spash mouth football.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Let Stuart Kyt running round, Stuart jump over a tackler
at the tenth flow, jumping, Laura's his shoulder, keeps running.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
No one will touch him.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Jonathan Stewart house is it you talk about explosive plays
in the run game. It's like the fourth of July
around here.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Right now you.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Are listening to Stu and the crew, Now to Jonathan
Stewart's and Jeremy Kelly.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Welcome to Munich, yep.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
So, Stu, you've been a busy man. You've been running around.
I've seen you at soccer football games. I've seen you
all across Munich. What have been your highlights so far?
Speaker 7 (00:51):
All of it. I've never been to Europe. This is
my first time, so I'm taking it all in. I mean,
we just came from Italy and I felt like I
was in Italy and had some really good food and
we're here now, you know, just having a good time.
And I just love the energy. You know, this is
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a sports town. If you didn't know, If you didn't know,
this is a sports town.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I got it.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Go ahead, start it up. That's just amazing, isn't it.
What are your impressions of the Sherman and the US Crows?
Speaker 7 (01:35):
For sure, you guys are amazing. I really hope that
you guys just come and bring that energy. Just like
that soccer game that house at the other day. I
mean they were jumping for the first eight minutes of
the game.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Don stop.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
So if you guys want to do that during the
football game, that would be awesome to see for a
football game, for sure.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Well, I tell you we are excited to see you
bring up. You gotta hard hitting crew. Oh see what
I did there? Yeah, you've got a great crew that
he's going to bring up ladies and gentlemen. Jonathan Stewart
is gonna do an episode of stew and the crew
makes some noise.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Everybody all right.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Mike is no, it's not there. It is. We're back.
We're back. Uh.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
Check us out on YouTube all platforms. Podcast all that
stewing the crew. But without further ado, I would like
to introduce to you some of my very good friends.
It's interesting, you know, playing football you usually have really
good friends on the offensive side of the ball, but
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being a running back you become really good friends with
the linebackers for personal reasons, right you know, Hey, man,
take it light on me in practice or understanding. You
know how they tick, you know while you you know,
go out for lunch or out the dinner, you know,
spending time.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Quality time with those guys, you know.
Speaker 7 (03:11):
And I've been fortunate enough to have some very special
guys in my life that have looked at me as
a brother, raised me in this game of football to
be the best version of myself on and off the field.
And then one particular guy, if you're around him ever,
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you just want to be the best version of yourself period.
And so I would like to introduce first number fifty
two on the field, number one in your heart.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Mister John B. Safe Stewie.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Heyo John, But some my guy, heyo, John, how you feeling?
Promise that we can cry man? Man, I look at you, yeah,
I look this is my brother right here. Yeah, man,
give it up. For me, love Love. Next up.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
The mayor of Charlotte. If you know who the mayor
of Charlotte is, I need you to give me a
We're gonna do it. We're gonna do a chant. Yeah,
I want t And then d on this side, all right, come.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
On to this, Yeah, the mayor responsible ray Man, this Davis.
How y'all doing? All right? All right? All right? Now
the next one. Somebody call him Superman, Clark Kent. Some
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might call Clark Kent, but I'm gonna call him. Luke
kicked me.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
You don't have a seat, man, Uh, Luke, you're a
little nervous stew. A lot of defensive guys up here.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Man, I ain't nervous, man, I'm my friends. We used
to pick on Sue at practice. Hey, I never practice.
If you just you just played. I just played at
least for the first three years.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Right. You know.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
They always gave me a heck about not practicing. But
they always knew the situation. Just as long as I
showed up on on on Sundays. You know it all happen, Sue.
Tell them tell them why sometimes you didn't practice.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Tell them truth. They gotta notice because it's it's the truth.
I didn't practic just because I was hurt. But you know,
but I was hot. But while were you hurt because
I was out there running the rock? No, the truth is,
nobody wanted to tackle Jay Sue in the National Football League.
It was going for my ankles. It was it was
a business decision that was going from They don't raise
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them like that anymore. So if you're gonna tackle this
guy that gets they get a little nervy, you know,
and they go they go low, they go for his
ankle with his legs because they don't want to hit
him up top. So that's the truth, man, that's the truth.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
I wish I was a scat back then. I would
have I would have been there to play longer. Huh, yeah,
but you played a long time. I played a long
time eleven years. No, man, let's get to it with
y'all out.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Jay Stuh.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
What brand boots are you wearing to COVID?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
You like him?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Man, you've been wearing them ever since I known you that.
I got some mouths on him.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Look, I just I just got him probably last year.
They're a good multipurpose one. They got a lot of
beer spilled ont on this week. That a boy, they're
loving it just as much as I am. So it
works out. We've had had quite a bit of it.
We handled a lot of beer out today. Uh that's great.
You guys here look like you're enjoying it as well.
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We've had We've had a lot of fun this week.
And Stuart glad to be up here. Yeah, man, TD,
what up brother?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
How you been? Man? How you like Germany so far?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Like chick can yarmy?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah we can hear you allright, Just want to make
sure how's Germany been for you?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And Germany has been amazing? Man, Thank you guys for
the hospitality.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
This my first time being here and I cannot say
enough about how special this place is and how much
you guys have embraced Panther nations. So man, give yourselves
a round of applause. You know, we started we started
this trip out strong. We got to go to a
soccer match our first night here on Wednesday night, and
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we actually got to watch them win the game, and
we got the tour their hall of fame and see
all of the accomplishment that this great team has won.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Man, it's truly amazing.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Yeah, it's inspirational, right, uh, beast, what's been your first
your favorite part of Germany so far?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Man, Well, for me personally, you know, I'm here because
of these guys. Been a long time since I got
to chill with my brothers, my boys. So obviously on
the other side, you know, I had a you know,
a quick mummy with the Giants, so it just made sense.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
We'll talk about that. It just made you all talk
about that.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Can I can I be honest John for a second,
Ain't no love lost? I mean, we know who gonna
win the game, right, Yeah? Yeah, I mean that's that's
that's that's what it is. But it was really about that,
you know, obviously, getting a chance to come to a
foreign country. I'm a big soccer head, so I know
all about the Boutasliga. I know about FC Byron all
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their accomplishments, and they're getting the opportunity to meet our fans.
They do it really big here, but they getting a
chance to meet NFL Carolina Panther fans. So for me,
it was it was just a great opportunity to come
out here and experience everything. I love that.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
I love the first thing, the best part of this trip.
Don't get me, don't get me wrong, I love being here.
But the best part for me is being with my brothers,
being with guys that I blessed, wet in tears with
on the field, and just being able to like, you know,
share moments, you know, core memories. You know, this is
a first for me, right, So being able to share
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it with these guys and doing these types of events,
you know, the car rides, you know, waiting on the
car ride at the hotel, eating out together, fellowshipping. Those
are the things that we miss about the locker room,
right And talking about the locker room, Luke, when you
were drafted to the Carolina Panthers, like, how lucky were
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you to have guys like John Beeson and Thomas Davis
in that room?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
So I think that's that was one of the best
things for me was the locker room that I came
into Carolina, like you said, was fantastic. I remember the
first day I was in Carolina. I was upstairs, was
talking with the coaches. Came down, We're in the linebacker room.
TD walks in it says, Hey, Thomas Davis, here's my
phone number. If you need anything, call me. And I
was like, wow, that's Thomas Davis and you're like, hey,
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maybe I'm sure he just gave.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Me his phone number.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
He I mean that, like, if you'll hang out with me,
maybe he'll hang out with me. He probably won't text
me back, and maybe it's not even the right phone number.
And I needed something and I called him and he
picked it up, and I was like, wow, awesome. So
just the best thing about the guys in the locker room.
They teach you a ton about football, but they teach
you about life, how what it's like to be a
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young guy.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Everybody was a rookie before.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Everybody has moved to a new city as a young
guy and hadn't known anybody. Same thing with Beast. I
remember the first time I'm at Beast. I was walking
out of the stadium through the game. What's that they
said you would remember? I thought, everybody remember this. Oh yeah,
that's it, and you walked on through the gate. He
was coming through the gate and he's like, Hey, I'm
John Beeson, nice to meet you. I'm We're happy to
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have you. Can't wait to work with you. And it's
just for a young guy that comes in. I was
twenty one years old. I didn't know anything about the NFL.
I'd never been to Charlotte, really hadn't spent any time.
And for the two best guys in our defense to
come up to me and say, hey, welcome, we got you.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Anything you need, let us know, and they generally generally
meant it.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And that's the biggest thing is you can say.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
All you want about Hey, I'm loved to help you, Yeah, welcome,
blah blah blah, but if you don't back it up
and you don't show it, then it's kind of empty.
But I was lucky to have guys like Thomas and
Bace and obviously you on the offensive side with a
bunch of other guys. That was the one thing that
I think really set us apart early on and into
my career was we had really good players, but we
had really great people. And the people in the relationships
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is what separates good teams from bad teams.
Speaker 9 (11:46):
Oh give it up? Yeah say that again. It's vallot
baby a yo, John, what's up?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Stud? What you got for me?
Speaker 7 (12:03):
So you came to a team that had a dog
on there already too, right, Thomas Davis right, TV was a.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
More of a puppy at that. It was a puppy
at that age. No, no, no, this is my bigger brother.
That's my big brother. Gotta look at that. He's like, boy,
you better stop. This is people. People will believe what
you're about to say. You know, you got to keep
it a hundred. But if I'm not mistaken, Dan Morgan,
I was still around.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Talk to me about your transition and the bond that
you and TD like created during your time with the
Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
So for me, it's interesting. You know, I came in
and I was outside linebacker playing will had just been
playing it for two years when I transitioned at at
University of Miami, but Dan Morgan played at Miami, So
coming in already felt like I knew somebody even before,
and I knew between day more Damian Lewis, that I
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had guys on the defense when I could look up to,
which I did, but also I knew that they would,
you know, take me under their wing. To Luke's point,
there is this kind of stigma that when you come
in it's like, oh, you're the young guy, especially when
you get drafted high, and the old guys will help
you out. But that's the furthest from the truth. It's
it's not like that at all, especially if you're a
good player. They want more good players on the team
because good players are hard to come by and which
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we all know. So for the coming in, because the
objective is to win the game, that's it. I mean
when we talked about last night, we all we all
want to win. I mean that's really what it is.
The fact that we get paid for this is a byproduct.
I mean, we just want to go out. It's something
we love to do. But ultimately it's a it's about championships.
So that that was always something that was at the forefront.
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It made it easy to accept guys that were coming in,
but also you know, trying to live up to that.
You want you want them to to say, hey TD
be like hey listen, man, you're doing it right, bro.
These guys going to help us. He's he's committee, he's
one of us. And you get on that side. Once
you earn their respect, it's big time. Right on, Right on, Louke.
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You played in Frankfurt, right, we played. We played in London, London,
London my last year Europe.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
So you had an overseas experience playing playing some football.
What's the difference of playing overseas and playing at home
or in an away game.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
You know, back in America, I.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Think the consistent energy of the game, because if you
play a home game, it's your crowd, so it's loud
when you're on defense, and it's a little bit quieter
when you're on offense. And obviously on the road it's flipped.
But here when you play, when you play abroad, there's
fans from both teams, from just teams of the NFL
in general, and the energy throughout the whole game is fantastic.
(14:52):
And I didn't understand that until I went to.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
London.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
We played there in twenty nineteen against Tampa Bay. They
were jerseys. We're want to know the Carolina Panthers are
one and O abroad. We're gonna try to make it too,
and oh.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I hear you, I hear you.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
But the consistent energy, and I have I have a
feelings to and be some and TV that we might
be dominating, dominating the crowd on tomorrow with with Panthers fans.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
So we're looking forward to it. That's it, and thank
you guys all for coming out.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
All right, let's get to a little bit of a
football side of things, Thomas, Yes, sir, when it comes
to the New York Football Giants, right boom, Yes, what
are some things that we ought to be looking at defensively, uh,
(15:45):
to make sure that we are in good standing and
winning winning this football game.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
So I think when you look at the Giants football team,
they've had a lot of inconsistencies.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
You know.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
The one thing that really stands out to me the
most offensively is the amount of turnovers that Daniel Jones has.
He's thrown five interceptions and he has four fumbles. So
what that says to me is there're gonna be some
opportunities for us defense defensively to take.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
The football away.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
When we get those opportunities, we gotta take advantage of them.
They throw you the football defensively, you gotta catch it.
When you have opportunities to punch the football out or
to get to the quarterback. It's just not about getting
to the quarterback and sacking them and get them to
the ground. You gotta get to the quarterback with the
mindset of I gotta get the ball back to the
(16:36):
offense because every extra possession that you give the offense,
that's another chance that we have to put points on
the board, and I think this.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Young group have to really understand.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
They got to look at the film and see some
of the ways that they can take advantage the Giants offensively.
They are a very inconsistent football team. They have some
young guys, a lot of young talent. One of the
guys it stands out to me first and foremost is
mylague neighbors. He's gonna be a terrific player in this league.
(17:07):
He just won't be that tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
We know that right now, right tell us why because
we got a core group of guys starting with j. C. Horn,
that's that's gonna do a phenomenal job against him. I
just I just know that Dane Jackson being back in
this lineup, he's starting to work himself back into it.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
He's a He's a phenomenal player. For those of you
guys that don't understand and know, Dane started this season
out hurt. He hurt his hamstring earlier in the season,
but another another very very good defensive back. So I
just think when you look at having those guys back
there and getting some of our guys back healthy, I
don't know if DJ want him is going to actually
(17:47):
be on the field. But if we're able to get
him opposite of clowning, those guys can create pressure and
get out of the quarterback and wreak all kinds of
havoc in the backfield and do it consistently. That's what
we haven't seen from this defense all season long. So
once we're able to do that, you can really see
how special this group can be.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Right on, right on, y'all heard it.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I hate him, Professor I hear.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Hey, John, Hey, Yo, Stu.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Last night we had a very very deep, good conversation,
and I'm so glad that we did because as we
were talking about it about what a warrior was, I
started thinking about a guy named Trouba Hubbard, and you know,
(18:38):
he stands out as a guy that the Carolina Panthers
should be breeding when they're bringing guys in.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Right, this is what we want this guy to look like.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
But I want you to share with me, with this
crowd a little bit of what we talked about as
far as what the warrior is, the warrior mentality and
what that's like.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Well, I think, first off, you know, you look at Tuba,
you can tell when you put the film on or
for me as a fat from Afar watching on TV.
He's a guy who's trying to get it done. And
I think that, you know, if I told Luke to
stand up, or I told Thomas a stand up, not you, Stu,
but you would look at me and you would say, well,
(19:22):
you know, he's don't kind of don't look like them.
And I think that, you know, we've gotten caught up
in this whole world of measurables, you know, where the
thing that you should be measuring is a guy's want to.
So my game will always be predicated on how it looks.
(19:43):
I want to look like the guy it matters to most.
I want to chase the ball with a reckless abandonment
that has not been seen. And I practice the same way.
I try to train the same way. And I came
up with this new saying where you know, people call
guys that do really well at the combine he's a
workout warrior. And I said, I'm wanna flip that, and
I say, I was a warrior of work. I just
(20:06):
I always felt that it's not just about being physically
strong and in great shape. But then I was also
conditioned in my mind where when I stepped on the
field I expected a result. It wasn't a matter of fact,
it was a matter of win. So we were just
talking about different players or how things have changed, or
how that needs to be the main key evaluator of
(20:29):
the type of players that we bring in. You want
those kind of players where you can say, hey, when
you draft these three guys, we knew exactly what we're
gonna get. When you talk to the coach at Oregon
or BC at Georgia, say hey, this guy loves football.
He's planning to be a champion. That's what produces greatness
on the field. That's the mentality and that's what clearly
I don't know Trouba, but watching the film suggests that
(20:52):
he has that. Yeah, well said man Truba Hubard.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
For those guys that I don't know, he's signed for
years thirty plus million dollars, So he's a panther and he.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Wants to be a lifer. Right, Luke, give us an insight,
because you're the nicest guy that I know, period, period,
literally period. Give us an insight in how you just
turn the switch. I want to know. People want to
(21:26):
know how do you turn into Superman on the field.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I think I think a lot of it is the
competition side of the game, and Beasts touched on it
as well. You spend so much time in the off
season and training camp and OTAs in practice to get
ready to play when we were playing sixteen games and
if you're lucky the playoffs, and you want to maximize
your opportunity to play on the field. And by doing that,
(21:50):
there's a standard that was set in Carolina by Sam
Mills number one, and then Dan and then Thomas and
then Beast, and then when I got there, the standard
it was already set of how you played the linebacker position.
And for me, a lot of it was I loved
playing football. I really, I really enjoyed the opportunity to
be good at it. I didn't want to let my
teammates down. And really the competition amongst us as linebackers
(22:14):
was so was so important and so valuable.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
And I saw TD and Beast doing it.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
When I got there, and how much fun and how
much joy they had not only doing their job correctly,
but playing hard and competing against each other. So there's
there's multiple parts to the game of football. There's the
physical side, the side that is you versus the opponent.
You versus your teammates, you versus the quarterbacks, and the
mental side of the game, and you just wanted to
(22:41):
go out there and win. I think that at the
end of the day, whatever you have to do to
go win the game is what matters most. And best
touched on it the guys that we want our guys
that football is super important too. So when you get
on the field, you have a very limited amount of
games you get to go play, so you might as
well let it rip. And I enjoyed having the opportunity
to go play in front of our home crowd on
(23:02):
the road, and.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Just the competition side is what brings it out of you. Hey, Luke,
I recall this. It just hit me right now when
you came in and you took over at the mic position.
Remember we used to talk about celebrating with your teammates,
not when just when Luke makes a great play, but
the offensive side or Thomas makes a great play. Talk
(23:24):
about how the energy that you have to have as
a mic linebacker brings everybody together on defense, makes guys
want to continue to make those plays. But then that
forms the bond when you're genuinely happy when they make
a great play. Talk about that well.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I think I think a lot of it is is,
at the end of the day, everybody in the world,
I think, wants to be seen. They want to be
seen for the good things they do, the things they
maybe didn't do as well. And a lot of it
starts with relationships. And you got to understand that. You
got to have a relationship with all the guys in
their team, and then you understand that when they make
(24:00):
a big play, say it was a guy like Thomas
Thomas makes a big play, I need to be excited
for Thomas because I've seen I've.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Seen hell who.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
I've seen. I just want to I've seen how hard
Thomas has worked an amount of time that he's put
in to go and make that play. And then there's
another guy on the team, a guy like Jalen Coker Beast.
Beast talked a lot about, you know, the offense as well.
So it's one of those things.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I heard that.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
You see a guy like Jayalen Coker, undrafted tree agent
comes in, thinks he makes a team, we cut him,
bring him back, he doesn't know if he's gonna get
cut again. Comes in Adam Thielen gets hurt Deontay Johnson
gets traded, he comes in, starts making plays. You have
to get excited for a guy like that, because earlier
in the season he didn't know if he was going
(24:52):
to be on the roster. And then I think, I
don't know about you, but I feel like you're probably
the same way. I get a lot of energy from
I'm seeing other people have success and getting excited for them.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
And sometimes you gotta find it somewhere. And sometimes the
best thing.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
To do is watch Sheety Go crack a guy on
first down and the first play of the game, and
it gets you into the game and you see the
intensity on his eyes and you say, I want to
match that.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
So it's kind of the whole thing. I love my teammates,
I love all the guys.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Everybody's been through different stuff, and when he gets excited,
it makes a great play.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I pull energy from that. So and look, we were
doing it for a few years before he came along.
He'll always be baby boy in my heart, that's my guy.
But he talked talk to the fans about how we practice,
and then who do we really compete against on Sundays?
On Sundays, but you're gonna stand up.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Can y'all hear me better?
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
All right.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
So that's one of the things that I tell people
all the time.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
Nobody in the history of the Carolina Panthers were more
blessed than I was as a football player from a
standpoint of the guys that I had around me. I
never played the linebacker position in college. I was a
safety my entire time at the University of Georgia. So
(26:15):
my first time ever playing linebacker was on the NFL level,
on the NFL stage, the highest level of football, Number
forty seven, the highest level.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I was number forty seven, the highest level of football.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
What I got blessed with was having Dan Morgan there,
initially having Will Witherspoon to learn from.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Then we dropped a young.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Kid with so much energy, with so much aggression, with
a natural ability to play the linebacker position in every
single day. He came in and he worked his butt off,
and I fed off that energy. I started watching beasts.
I started watching the way Damn Morgan did it, learned
(27:00):
the position. So now every single day it was never
about the offense and what they could do. The standard
was we competed against each other. People didn't understand or
realize we used to compete on how fast we could
run down the field at the end of practice on kickoff.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
On kickoff, we were starters. But that's what it meant
to us. That's what being a competitor really is. You
want to win at all costs. It doesn't matter what
it is, it don't matter what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
You want to win.
Speaker 8 (27:34):
And if you got that kind of energy in that mindset, man,
you will be successful and anything that you want to
do in life. Now, I told y'all that I was blessed, right,
I was blessed to be able to play alongside John Beson.
But then I go through some injuries, beast go through
some injury injuries, and now the team has to make decisions.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
They gave me another opportunity to have to turn my
ac off.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
For the third time. He was staying for free, by
the way, but the contrary was for free.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
If you don't behave it's for free.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Brent.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
Seriously, Brent, we're said with that we drafted Louke Keikley.
So now let me tell you, though, let me tell you,
let me tell you With that in my head, I'm like, dang,
they just told me they were gonna give me an opportunity.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
But then they drafted dude in the first round.
Speaker 8 (28:19):
We got an All Pro pro bo middle linebacker, and
we had another guy by the name of James Anderson
that we had just paid.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
So all of these dudes that paid first round of
all Pro, first round pick. So I'm the odd man
out in my mind.
Speaker 8 (28:37):
But I just told you guys, a competitive spirit, a
competitive nature, I never say never, attitude, and never say
never mindset. I'm never gonna be the one that's gonna
get counted out. That's the mindset that I take into
every single thing that I do in life. And I
encourage you guys.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
To do the same thing.
Speaker 8 (28:54):
When I tell you I was blessed play alongside beasts,
learning everything that I could from him. The linebacker position,
played alongside Luke Keickley, the mindset, the motto, the standard.
It never changed when Luke came in. It was never
about the offense and the guys that we competed against.
Nobody understood anew the game better than Luke Keickley, better
(29:17):
than John Beeson, the professor. Nobody studied more than Luke
Keickerley and understood what the offense was doing better than
Luke Keickley, nobody, nobody in the history of the game.
But what I can tell you, guys, what I can
tell you guys, And I know I'm getting along with it,
but I want y'all to hear this.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
What I can tell you guys. It wasn't a single day,
It wasn't a single day that went by.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
In practice that we.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
Didn't compete, that we didn't go edit, that we didn't
go hard, that we didn't give every single thing that
we had in that day.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
To make sure that we where we need to be
on Sunday, And it wasn't about the offense. It was about, Hey,
who's gonna be the one to make the first.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Tackle of the game.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
Who's gonna be the one that get to the ball first,
Who's gonna be the one that makes the first big
hit of the game to set the tone for the
team that we're going to get. That's the mindset that
you got to take into the game. Who's gonna be
the one that takes the ball away and gets it
back to Cam. That's the mindset that we took into
(30:22):
the game. So when we showed up on Sunday, it
was never about anybody else. We would be sitting on
the sideline.
Speaker 8 (30:29):
So comfortable because we had so much confident in the
work that we had put in during the week.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I look up at the scoreboard.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I'm like, Luke, I'm kicking your ass right now in tackles.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
You better catch up. We literally did this.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
I'ma I'm gonna be honest with you, guys. We did
this in the game, the New Orleans Saints game. I'll
never forget it. At this point in the game, I
had eleven tackles and I think Luke was at seven,
And I'm like, Luke, I'm kicking your butt, right, gotcha,
gotch in this game, in this game that I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
This was the third quarter.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I told him that.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
Luke went from seven tackles to twenty six tackles.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
That's a record, and that still is.
Speaker 8 (31:16):
That still is the NFL record for tackles in the game.
But I'm telling you, I'm telling you guys this story, right,
I'm telling you guys this story because that speaks to
the level of competitiveness that we had. You challenged them,
so it was a challenge. It was a challenge that
was presented, and it was a challenge that was met.
We finished that game with a combined forty tackles.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
That's probably a record. We had forty tackles, two interceptions
in a sack.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Each one of us had an interception that game.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
But even even bigger, even bigger than the individual statistics
that we were.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Able to garner that day, we won the football game.
We solidified, we solidified that first spot and won the
NFC South that day. And that's what it's all about.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
We can we can take pride in doing things and
and and receiving accolades and doing things individually, but at
the end of the day, every man on this stage.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Understands that it's about the team. And we learned that
at a young age. It's gonna always be about the team.
We're gonna always keep pounding no matter what adversity do
we face. This team has faced the turn of adversity
to this season right now. To y'all agree that speak on,
speak on, we might be down, but we ain't never outright,
Thomas or any one of you guys.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
The adversity that we've been going through as far as
the team right last seven years has been a lot
of changes. Everything that you're speaking about really comes back to, yeah,
you guys are all competitive. I mean I heard yesterday
TD and the Car talking about, Man, I'll lose my
arm to win, like you're talking about the the the
(32:59):
hold contest, You'll lose your arm to win that I
wouldn't do it, but you would. But in my mind,
it's accountability, right. It's like this built in measure of
who's in it and who's really in it for the
love of the game. Because if I know on the
defensive side of the ball that they doing all that,
(33:21):
I now have trust in whatever they're doing and which
now makes me on the other side of the ball,
I have to.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Be accountable, right, I have to make sure that I'm
doing my job.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
One of the things that I loved most because going
back to validation, right, everybody loves to feel seen. Everybody
loves to hear like, hey, you're going the right way.
What I love most was getting to the sideline and
being able to truck somebody in front of the defensive
bench because I use I would hear.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
John be like now you go, stew now you.
Speaker 7 (33:58):
Go, and those types of things really propel the team
because we all in it together.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
And so man, great stories. Man, I really appreciate y'all
sharing that with us.
Speaker 7 (34:13):
I don't know how you guys feel about this, but
you guys are very lucky to be having three of
the best linebackers in Carolina.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Panthers history sharing with y'all some free game on how
to be successful in general. All right, before we get
out of here, he's the victory John Beeson, Well, I
think first and foremost you you have to believe you
can win. And that's based on the preparation that we
(34:42):
just talked about. One, having accountability to be where you're
supposed to be when you're supposed to be, and then
doing it at a level of conviction that's unmatched. Right,
fly across the pond, New Field, and I will say
this all the time. Once you step between those white lines,
it's over. And it's probably a bad way to put it,
(35:05):
but this is just my mentality. When I put the
helmet on, I was the gun and I put the
mouthpiece in. That's the bullet and I'm shooting. And we
just to say that TD right, either get out the
way or you gotta go in there and shoot. And
that's gotta be the mentality. Tomorrow. You got a team
that trying to figure it out in terms of the
(35:28):
Giants as well. But when you get hit in the mouth,
they will get in line offensively, defensively, special teams. That's
gotta be the model td I would say.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
The keys to victory in this game is gonna be
the trench war. We gotta win up front. Whichever team
goes out and dominates the line of scrimmage, whether it's
the offensive line or whether it's our defensive line. Whatever
team dominates the line of scrimmage is gonna win this game.
Because it's not gonna be a team either side that
(36:03):
goes out and slings the ball around.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
For three or four hundred yards.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
That's not how this.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Game is gonna be won. This game is gonna be
one at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 8 (36:11):
The team that can run the football the best, and
the team that takes care of the football. Whoever wins
this turnover battle and the red zone is gonna be
the key to this football game.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
So we go out and we do those things literally,
those three things will be the difference.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
In this football game.
Speaker 8 (36:28):
Winning the line of scrimmage, taking care of the football,
winning the turnover battle, and holding them to field goals
or take aways in the red zone. Whichever team does
that the best, that's who's gonna win this game.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Well, Luke, I think he covered it all. Anything else.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
The one thing I'm gonna say is we need to
find a way to make this stadium in Munich a
home game for us.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
And I think I think these guys failed it on
you guys.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Weep, all right, We're done, that's it, all right, Appreciate
you guy, love.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Okin good my blessings here.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Thank you guys. Yeah, great job. How about another round
of applause
Speaker 2 (37:19):
For Stu and the linebacker crew.
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