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producer Matt Will. How's it going? I'm good. It's a little cold. Are you cold? I feel like I say that every week now, but it's true. I am cold. It's cold in Charlotte. It is cold in Charlotte. But I moved from Chicago earlier this year, so I just this is fine. This is an upgrade for you. Yeah, this is this works well. I don't know, Matt, I feel I feel like you. You can't handle this at all. Love. I know, I know, I said, I know, I said a few weeks ago, I turned my car air on,
my heat on before I got to my car. But I really do love the cold. I like being cold. Um. I like cold movies, like all my favorite some of my favorite movies are all like in the snow. I'm just a big cold guy. But I'm also kind of a baby, So it's fun. Are you Are you a what do you call the thing you put on your head when it gets cold, either a hoodie or a beanie. It's called it toboggin Kristen, Yeah, I knew called I actually um is having that conversation with with Derek Brown
and Eator Grosmatos. Um I was doing a last week a Thanksgiving kind of like this or that video of all their favorite foods, and they both walked in wearing the exact same what I would call it toboggan and panthers toboggan. They were, you know, socially distanced and in different places, and and Derek was saying each or you know, you're copying me that kind of thing. And I was like, what do you guys because we got into pecan or pecan in honor of Thanksgiving, and I was like, what
do you guys call the thing on your head? And uh Derk Brown said skull cap. But he was like, but I know I've heard toboggan, and I think I think each to our said beanie or something like that. But I I truly did not know that there was another word other than toboggan that was used for a knit hat like that or whatever you want to call it until um I moved to Connecticut to start working for ESPN. I think it was like twenty four and I said something about it toboggan and they were like,
that's a sled. I have no idea what you're talking about. It was. It blew my mind. I've never heard of another word for it. We would have accepted nit cap or beanie, but I've never to me, a beanie is different, though toboggan perfectly describes it's got like the one roll up at the top, you know, and you maybe have a pom pom. A beanie is a beanie is something that doesn't cover your ears, in my opinion, or barely covers your ears like a small I have to get
the big ones. A toboggan. I don't know if will you call it that? Right? Toboggan is a sled, thank you, That's what I'm familiar. It's I think it's a very regional North Carolina thing. No, it's a North South thing. But you just said it's a sled. You're from South Carolina. Toboggan is a sled, not a thing you put on your head. That's wrong. I want people to wait. I just that's that's just wrong. I thought I would come around, you know, my, my people. I'm back in North Carolina.
I thought I could just go back to using toboggan without getting judged for it. You can. If you're sledding down a hill, you can. Oh my gosh, real original, real, original joke. I've never heard that one before. Why not. Just here's the thing. If you're talking about a toboggan, I know exactly what that means in terms of a hat. It's got the little pom pom on the top it rolls up one that's not a beanie or a skull cap. In my opinion, those are smaller. Just call a sled
us lead. You need to know what kind of like what model sled it is? Like, what's the difference between a toboggan and a regular sled like a flat bottom? I'm on, I'm on your side of that. They should call sleds, but they shouldn't call beanies toboggans. So here, Yeah, here's where I got off on the wrong track. When I was quite young, I found out that a toboggan with something you sled down a hill on thanks to Calvin and hop Like. That's where that's where I got
the toboggan term. And then I was foiled later in life, but I attributed all to Calvin and Hobbs. To me, the difference is a beanie is something that um like a like a cool guy would wear, like a hipster would. But you know what I mean, it doesn't cover your ears. It's not for warmth, and a toboggan is you know that it's for warmth. That's what you're grabbing. Yeah, I mean, that's what you're you know what I mean, But Abenia is like for fashion, Toboggan is for warmth, and you
cannot change my mind. Although I would love to hear what what what Anyone who's listening things on Twitter let me know that I'm right at Kristo Balboni. But anyway, it was cold in UH in Minnesota last Sunday. Well they play in the Dome. Um, that's my pretty bad transition. But there we go to UH to the heartbreaker against the Vikings, thank you, the heartbreaker against the Vikings Panthers. Just I couldn't hold on to that lead will It was I mean, it was tough, like there's no there's
no getting around it. And you know I talked to coach Rule and he said this was this was gonna hurt for a little bit. You know. They preached the what's next mentality, and everyone took accountability, from from the coaching staff to Teddy to the defenders, you know, for for their part and what they felt could have gone better,
what they each individually could have done better. But um, you know, mat Rule said that this one's gonna sting for just a little bit, and it should and and we're gonna let it and then we gotta move on. There were there were a number of times in that fourth quarter where it just felt like, oh no, oh no, And part of it was, you know, watching on the
TV the going into it. You know, it just felt like the whole third quarter was just this kind of Jeremy Chin marathon of all the different Jeremy Chin things. And then you kind of look up and there's like fourteen minutes left and it's like, this is a close game,
or this is a still very game. Is not out of reach, right, yeah, this And then they keep showing the Kirk Cousins fourth quarter stats and how Minnesota is one of the best offenses in the fourth quarter, and it's just it just it almost felt like this inevitability about it. I mean, the Panthers, they're a team that you know, we've we've said on this podcast all year. You know, they're so close, They're so close. They've had
eight games decided by a touchdown or less. Out of the twelve that they played, eight have been decided by a touchdown or less. The problem is there two and six in those eight games now, and I think in a lot of ways, you know, you look at that rules history, you look at the way that he's built programs. You know, I think those could be said for for
both Temple and Baylor. You know, they were close, they were close, and then they started winning those games in years two and three, and but at the same time, you want to try to like, you're right there. Everything in the NFC playoff picture broke Carolina's way. If they would have won that game, if they would have been able to get a touchdown there after the muff punt, if they would have been able to get the field goal when it was blocked in the third quarter. You know,
it's so many different things. You know, get a stop and the two been at warning. There's just so many different elements like man, man, you know, I want to win now. You know, like that's great that we're close and we're young, we're getting better, but it's like, you want to win now. Yeah, it's hard. You know, I think saying it in theory and detaching all emotion from it, you go, oh, that's great. You know, considering how young this team is and entirely new coaching staff and um
a lot of new players. Roster turnover was huge. Um no no o t A is like this this team is playing together for for the first time, no preseason um and to be that close in that many games is great, But then it's just hard to not put emotion in it and not you know, feel it every day and and every single week. When you get that close, it's it's hard not to feel disappointment, even though you know in your head you're like, wow, that's that's an
accomplishment for this team in theory. And one of the things that's been asked to both Teddy Bridgewater and Matt Rule this week previous weeks, you know that the media keep trying to come back to is you know, do you guys think about how where you could be if you had Christian McCaffrey or you know, how much do you really miss Christian McCaffrey. Could Christi McCaffrey have been
the difference? And one of the things that that both of those, both Bridgewater and Rule have kind of come back to is obviously, Christian mcaffy is a great player, but you know, we don't want to disrespect Mike Davis. We don't want to disrespect the guys that we have in the field. You know, we're you know, we have faith and trust in every player that we put out there. You know, if if someone gets hurt, the next person has to come in, and you know, we're gonna have
faith in that person too. And I get that, and that's very true. But since this is me and this is you and we're on this podcast, like the Christian McCaffrey still leads the team in touchdowns. He's only played three games and he has more touchdowns than anyone else in this team. You know, you think of all of the the opportunities in the red zone and the opportunities in the middle of the field, the things that Christian McCaffrey is is top three best players in the NFL.
And and you know, we're trying to kind of rationalize and say all these different things, like if you have Christian McCaffrey, this team is a different team. And I think it's it can be that simple that if you have your best player, you're better at football, um, you know, and not making excuses, but also putting some real context on it and not just kind of letting that be uh swept under the rug. Yeah, I think it's hard. I don't think that Teddy Bridgewater or Matt Rule can
think like that. And I think that they're Yeah, I think you can't say what if if you're if you're game planning and you're you're getting from week to week. Yeah, it's a good it's a good thing for fans to remember that we're without, you know, one of the best players in the NFL and have been for most of
the season, right, and that that changes everything. That changes with your offense, that changes, you know, even what you can do on defense to to have him out on the field, you know, the way that another team responds to you if you have him, Um, it just it puts things into a different perspective. And you know, hopefully Christian does return. You know, I'm I'm not in the camp of you know, oh, you know, make sure that he's he doesn't play and let's let's just you know,
kind of see where it goes. You know, like I want him if he's he's completely healthy, you know, like I hope he does play against Denver. You know, well, we'll see if that's the case. You know, I mean, no one wants to rush him back, but if he's ready to go, you know, he he knows he's paid to be an NFL football player. He's not just going to sit on the sidelines. UM. You know, at an abundance of caution. He's paid to go up there and play. UM. So I I hope you know that he that he
does come back and we see him in December. Yeah, I agree. We saw him practice in a limited capacity last week. He's He's not the kind of person that I don't think is gonna sit out if they're healthy. I think it's just is healthy and will he be you know, he's never been injured before, um, in his professional career, and then dealt with that high ankle sprain and then the shoulder almost immediately after. And you know, I'm I don't know enough to know how long something
like that takes the severity of it. UM. So you know, we'll see. But I think you're you're right if he's if he's a hundred percent healthy, UM, I think he'll be back, all right. But we got to talk about something that happened in this game. As as tough of a loss as it was and as disappointing for the team, Uh, there was some history that was made and will you mentioned it. Panthers fans of course know what we're talking about. Those ten seconds where Jeremy Chin had to fumble recovery
touchdowns and made NFL history. It was I felt like I was like a card that needed to wipe my eyes out. I was like, what just happened? It was awesome? Well, everyone was looking back up with the monitor and really, are they just showing a replay because it looked like the exact same play once he got into the end zone. Yeah, well and it looks a yeah, and and and Matt Rule and I talked about it and he was like, yeah, we didn't know if uh and he was down, Like
were the re supposed to stop the clocks that? We weren't quite sure. It looked like one of those plays where someone just like runs it back, you know, just to like hustle in there. And it was just awesome. And you're right, it looked exactly the same kind of similar field position. Uh. It was great. It I even took a while for it to sink into me. I'm like, oh, oh, the score is actually changed twice now, um, but it's
it was. It was great, and it gave the Panthers an incredible advantage in that game, one that unfortunately they couldn't hold onto. Um. But you know, in a larger sense, it is so great to watch his development and also just like there's not a nicer, more humble guy he's I just I think, I think the world of him as a as a person, as a young man, and
it's great to see his development. Really every single game will and I think maybe a little bit lost in this Minnesota game among the ten seconds of fame that that Jeremy had was he had a career I thirteen tackles like he It wasn't just those ten seconds that he kind of you know, jumped in there and made a big splash. He was all over the field the
entire game, making big plays. Um. So I think that speaks to I think that speaks even larger to the way that he's continuing to get better every week, continuing to be an impact player. I mean throughout kind of NFL media, in most of the Twitter circles, throughout all of that stretch, people are now bringing his name up for defensive Rookie of the Year. And you know, and it's not when you just look at it's not just an emotional oh man, those two huge plays were kind
of like his Heisman moment or whatever. I mean, he has eight six total tackles, which his six team more than the second the second place rookie. He has three takeaways, so those two fumble recoveries in an interception more than any other rookie. He's got five pass deflections. I mean this this guy for for playing the position that he does. He plays safety, he plays outside linebacker, he plays nickel, he plays you know, he's he's come up to the line.
He's still convert a fourth town special teams played too, right, Yeah exactly. Yeah, he has a first first down on like he's he's done everything. Um so yeah, I mean he he absolutely should be in that conversation. He should be at the front of that conversation. And and that that's something that I think is really special for him that um you know, like I don't I don't think that those things should be taken away just because of
the team's overall record. You know, I think, you know, really outstanding accomplishment um ends up being something that you know that you can really hang your hat on in years to come. You know, Like people people talk about Julius Peppers in his overall arc of his career accomplishments, and they continue to mention that he was the defensive Rookie of the Year because he set a record for sacks in two thousand two. Well, the Panthers were seven
and nine in two thousand two. That wasn't the Super Bowl year. But I think that speaks to you know, it speaks to his overall body of work. And I hope that Jeremy can win this UM, you know, so that years down the road, you know, that will be
a big part of his career. That's a that's a great point, I almost think, and of course I'm I'm biased, UM as we work for the team, but I almost think it's the way that you're saying that it's almost even more impressive, because, yes, typically you would look at the team's overall success and and that person's UM contributions to that success. But as we all know, this is
a very very young team. So so he's doing this UM with very little experience and with a lot of guys around him who have the same level of experience as Now, that's not to discount you know, the veterans, the Shack Thompson's, the Trey Boston's UM. The list goes on. You know, Zach Kerr, who who's who stripped the ball in order for him to have that touchdown in the first one. But um, there are there. It's no secret there are a lot of young players on this team.
So the fact that he's stepping up and making these huge plays when um, there are a lot of other guys who were also still learning around him, I think is is great. And um, I just he's just so impressive.
It's weird to me. It's is it already weird to you will to think that we I mean, I know he was considered a steal in the draft and the Panthers traded up for him, but it's just like so obvious how good he is, you know, And and I mean that that comes down to coaching and his his hard work, and no one, no one had heard of
him at the draft fans wise, fans wise. Yeah, I mean, it just it goes to show the the level of of you know, even in this day of the Internet and twenty for our ESPN in college football and all that, that you you can be an outstanding NFL prospect and no one's heard of you because you're not at Alabama or Clenson or wherever. You know the fact that here at Southern Illinois and you know you're you're off people's radar. I mean, I guarantee that he was. He was awesome
NFL teams radar just because of that. You know, it does it takes more work, It takes a lot more digging to kind of find out things, you know, just to defind films. Sometimes. Um, there's still that sort of disparity in what you can do, um coming from a big school versus coming from a small school. But I think that that is hopefully, you know, I would love to see, you know, more people kind of use that as a context for Hey, you can come to a non power five. You can come to a smaller school
and find NFL success. You can come there, you can have a great college experience. You can be you don't have to be a blue chip prospect out of high school. You can come and develop and get better if you have the right tools, do you have the right mindset. I mean everyone's already talked about Shack and coach and uh defense Court and Phil snow about how Jeremy is a veteran at whatever, you know, whatever age is. I mean,
he acts like he's older. He's speeches sometimes to like mean, it's just it's just two years and it's the way he approaches it. And you know, Matt Rule called him a serious football guy one time when I was talking to him, and I was like, I'm pretty sure that's the highest compliment that coach Rule could give a player. Um, but you know, I have to say one last thing. Um. I had a chance to talk to his mother and
him at the same time. It was right before he won. Um. But what what do you when the weekly Award will Yeah, yeah, so so earlier in the season, um, And we had a chance to kind of surprise him. His mom was on the zoom call. It was right before the Thursday night game and UM, she was just wishing him luck and it was you know, great for for their family in Indiana to to get to see him play on prime time and it was a big deal for them.
And just talking to her about you know, when did you know that that this was something that he had in him? Um, And and she just said from the age of like I think it was like five or he's like trying to level up to play and in different you know, he wanted to play tackle and there was only flag and it was you know for kids who were older than him. And and she just said, you know, tearing out to high school and he wasn't
that big um. You know, his his kind of growth spurt and and physical development came on a little bit later. But she said, you know, I was kind of hoping that you know, she's working full time and taking him to practices and stuff. She was like, you know, I was kind of okay if he was ready to just you know, relax a little bit. And he's just never had that in him. Just he just pushes it. He works hard all the time, and so I don't think
it's any surprise kind of learning more about him. He's always been this way and and now we see the full payoffs. So it's it's it's great. Yeah, absolutely, And you know, you hope that he continues and to play out these next four games and to really kind of submit that that resume for for this award. That would be great for him man and for his mom. Absolutely.
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will st Out of the Week? Will what you got for us? Fist of the week. So this week is the bye week, which we're all very excited about. And did you know that this is actually the latest that Caroline has ever had a bye week. They've never had a bye week this far into December. This is week thirteen.
So uh, this season, for all of the difficulties, for all of the things having to go through COVID, having to have a new coaching staff and no off season training and you get the latest bye week you've ever had in the franchise history. Well, I knew it was the latest bye week um of any team along with the Bucks, these are the if I'm not mistaken, right, the only two teams to have a bye week in Week thirteen is UH Panthers and Box And of course this is the last one of the season. But is
this like the latest bye week in history? They don't usually do Week thirteen bye weeks, right, Yeah, I think that I haven't seen it. It could very well have been confirmed and sourced out there. I think it was probably due to trying to stretch things out as much as possible for this year's schedule, you know, with all the you know, obvious things that they were, uh continuencies
they're preparing for. So yeah, I mean they try to bunch bye weeks up a little bit more, uh compactly into October and November, So they were spreading out a little bit. But I mean, yeah, to be the one of the two teams to draw the straw to have to wait all the way until now, I'm sure they could have used to buy at some point in October November.
So I know that at one point a few years back, when DeMarco Murray was for the Titans, I had him in fantasy football in my league's fantasy football playoffs start week thirteen, and he was on a bye week and I didn't get to use them. So I'm not sure. I'm not sure how common that is. I don't think it's coming, but I know it from that experience. I know it has happened at least one at the time. What a deep cut memory there, Yeah, to Marco Murray, all right? Or a fantasy stud um in honor of
the bye week. I have a super cheesy game. But I've been holding onto this one. Um, what are things you want to say? By two? In sports? But that's the game we're gonna play, all right, So just things that you're just like, you know what I could do without it? Well you want to start us off? Sure, Um, I could do without the football rule that when you fumble through the end zone it becomes a touch back for the other team. I think it's the stupidest, just
it's it's horrible. You literally, as a defense, you give up however many yards you're literally inches away from giving up a touchdown and you get bailed out because the guy is trying really hard. Like everywhere else in the field, if the ball goes out of bounds, it stays with the offense where it went out of bounds. I don't know why you can Why not just give it to them back of the one, Like, I don't know, it
just feels it just feels really like unfair to Yeah. No, I was gonna say, if you take that rule away, what do you have to do if the offense fumbles through their own end zone? Is that no longer a safety? How does that work? Because that's kind of the opposite. It's like the antithesis of what you're talking about. I'm fine with that. Yeah, I'm fine with that. No, because I mean, wasn't this relatively recently that this rule came in.
It hasn't always been like this, has it. I'm not Yeah, alright, I got one. I got one, um not. This is my only real rule based one, and especially with the NFL. But if you're to throw this out there will since you're since you're already um hot about that rule, uh past interference spot of the foul, I would love to say by to that and go to the college rule
of fifteen yards. Well your thoughts, So, I don't know how you're gonna feel about this, So you just chuck the ball, if you know, if you throw a downfield and hey, you know he's in the end zones just tackling, it'll only be fifteen yards. Despite that's not normally what happens. A lot of times, it's a call that is could go either way, or you know, isn't past interference and then they just you know, or they're they're doing that to get past interference. Isn't that much more common than
someone getting tapped, like tackled in the end zone. Yeah, I mean, like you're you're right, because there definitely are plays where they know, the analytics say there's a chance that this that this sideline throw is going to result in a past interference whether or not it's catchable, and let's just let's just go with it and see what happens. Um. Yeah, And there's and there's just the implication that that ball would have been caught. And we also see it when
that receiver is not catching that ball. I don't care if somebody you know, holding onto them or not, Like that wasn't you know. I just think there's a lot more times where the offense gets rewarded for it, and it's become part of the way that you play the game, and in those situations where you're trying to score especially I agree. Maybe you I don't know how you would do this, but maybe you find a way to make it situational. Maybe if you throw the ball into the
end zone, it's a spot foul. But if it's out of the end zone, or if it can't be a spot foul in the end zone. Yeah, yeah, So if it's in the endzone, you get the ball to two. If it's not in the end zone, maybe it's a fifteen yard I don't have the answers, much like Will didn't have for his But I just you want results, Yeah, I want. I want to say goodbye to it. That's what this is. That's the point of the game. Let's
say goodbye. Uh mine. My first one is I really get annoyed over the NonStop and it's like it's continuing, it's compounding and eating itself online. But it's the NonStop comparison to everything, Like Joe Burrow never did anything and they compared him and then Mac Jones is five games into the season and they're already throwing up graphics for their next to each other and they're on pace, And
it's why do we have to compare everything? Like can we just appreciate Mac Jones and the season he seven? Why is it if it's not the greatest season ever, if it's not Joe Burrow from last year, it's not good. We need to I don't know, I find that very annoying. I just I'm tired of the NonStop comparison. And he's the greatest of all time. Everybody's the goat. It's like the reason why it's the goat, it's because one person is the goat. It's not everybody's the goat. Yeah. Yeah,
the Lebron Lebron Jordan's stuff. I was I've been over that for years and you know that got brought up this year during the finals, like enough, Like you know, it's annoying. Both great Chamberlain, Will Chamberlain and Bill Russell played in different eras and they were still great for I mean, I whatever, Yeah, I don't like any of that. Yeah, it's just a it's just a circle, like there's no
no matter what side you come down on. It, whether it's the different eras or everyone having there there's no resolution because we just can't there's no right answer, and everyone's going to have their own opinion. Um, and it just never goes away. All right, Well what do you
want to say by two? Um? All right, I have I have two half ones, So I'll go quickly on the first one because yet now I'm going to start thinking about well, because I started thinking about rules, and now I like realize all the rules that I hate you and and I don't have time to go through all them. So here's the quick one. Is the is like the
offsetting penalties. When one penalty is like extremely egregious, it's like a five yard you know, it's just like no, you literally ripped the guy's head off and you got ejected, but the other team had a holding call on the left tackle, so they offset and let's replay the down like what like no, these aren't yeah anyway? All right,
So that was my half one. My other one is I think that the NFL should be more like college and suspend some of their uh number rules, Like I want to see more defensive tackles wearing six because I think that's the coolest thing. Yeah, or running back wearing the number five, that would be awesome. Yeah, I like that. That's a good exactly exactly because and then it becomes this whole other drama of you know what new veteran wide receiver or defensive tackle is going to pay, you know,
the punter for number three? You know, like it's it could get all sorts of interesting in terms of who's trying to get other numbers and number drama. I just think it'd be fun. Yeah, I like it. Let's let's have some fun with it. I agree with that one for sure. All Right, Um, I want to stay by too late start times. I lived on the I lived on the West Coast. I lived in l A for three years. And let me tell you what a Sunday, just as a fan, a Sunday um where football started
at ten. Now for us, that'd be tough. I'm not saying I want to move a game up to to ten and one o'clock start up to ten. But just like you got finished at a decent time, if you were watching Sunday night football or Monday night football, you're like, all right, it's eight thirty. I feel great. I just I'm too tired. To stay up until eleven four. I'm always just kind of like drifting at the end of the fourth quarter, like waking up and I'm like, oh
my gosh, what happened. I just I'm in uh. I'm an old lady, and I would love it if things just started a little bit earlier, like trimetime eight twenty. I just it's a little bit like a sixty five, I would take six. What about what about three forty on a Wednesday? Yeah? That for you mean we're getting it like it's a it's things are happening this year. But I don't know. I just in general, I just think like I just get tired. I get tired. I don't know, I get it. I know it's all the
West Coast. I know why it happens. But if I were in bed a little bit earlier, I wouldn't, you know, like two time zones away, you'd be in your your dream scenario. That's the thing is like I did, and it doesn't affect me as much anymore because we're working the games. But that's why I said that. It's awesome like living on the West Coast and having a Sunday full of full ball where you're just hanging out is the best. Okay, all right? Um, what else we got
any any other ones that we want to say? By two? My biggest thing is I hate when people talk about this team is tanking or this team is going to tank. That doesn't happen. Teams don't tank. All these players have incentives on their contracts and they want to win. They don't want to go out and get blanked. I find that annoying that that, oh, he's tanking for tow are
tanking for Trevor. Teams don't really tank. I just don't really buy into that, and I find it annoying that every single year now it's a new hashtag of tank for Tour, tank for Trevor. I just find that incredibly annoying. Yeah. My my last one is actually it's not quite that, but it's a similar thing, which is uh, the cliches
of like they just wanted it more. If I never hear they just wanted it more, I will I will be finding there's it's similar to what you're just saying of players aren't going to go out there and intentionally lose it. That's a long that's an incredibly long season to to just not try it's just not possible. And that's how I feel like. I think very rarely does a team go out there and it is practiced all week,
especially at this level. Um and you know, they're they're making money, they're game planning, they're working out practicing, and they go out there and they're like, you know what, I don't I don't want this as much like I'm I'm I'm good. I'm gonna give minimal effort and then and then I'm gonna go back into the building on Monday and watch this film. I just don't want it
as much. Why would the backup left guard who's fighting for a spot on a roster care whether or not the Miami Dolphins have the number one pick or the number four pick. He doesn't care. There's a lot of things that that can go wrong, and there's you know, if if a team is playing poorly, there's plenty of
reasons and those should be discussed. But I don't think it's ever that, as you said, they're tanking for for them, they may not even be on the team next year, and that they're going out there and they just they just don't really want it as much. I just so that one gets me. All right, here's my last one, and this is way out in left field. All right. After this week and after watching some of the MAUI Invitational from beautiful Ashville, North Carolina, I want to say
goodbye to Bill Walton. Like I know it's a West Coast thing and everyone on the West Coast is used to him and loves him. But then when he's actually calling the game of a team that you care about and it's not just you know, fun and you actually want to like watch the game and listening to what's going on, like it gets it's too much, way too much. He is. Yeah, he is uh an acquired taste, that's for sure. Um. I just want to tack one on
and then we'll move along. But if you're talking about college basketball, I want to say, by to possession arrows. Why are we taking turns? I don't understand, Like why why do you just get a turn? Um? That's all I have, guys. This was fun. I feel like we got some things off our chests. Like it just felt good.
All right. Um, the Panthers will be taking on the Broncos in a couple of weeks, and if the Panthers get a third down stop in the third quarter during a home game which the Broncos game is at home, one lucky fan will win a smart home smoke and carbon monoxide detector through the Morse Jenkins Protect and Check Sweepstakes. If the Panthers get a fourth down stop in the fourth quarter, that same fan will also be going home
with a fifteen hundred dollar gift card. Be sure to check out contest Stop Panthers dot com for more details on how you can enter. All right, we're gonna close it out with our weird question of the week. Weird question of the Week. You're weird. You're weird? Guy producer Mask got this one. Yeah, So we recorded yesterday for Jordan and Jake, and Jordan's was first of all name dropper. Just kidding. Were only we talk every week, It's no
big deal. Um yeah, So we did an episode yesterday were Jordan talked about his most recent vacation for Thanksgiving and him and his family rented a place and they watched a bunch of movies, movies that he said he wanted to show his kids, um, so that they grew up knowing about things. And then he said something about how Jake didn't know anything about movies. So I thought, well, i'd be a good idea. What are three movies that you would want to show your children. I don't believe
any of us have children, but I could be wrong. Um, now you've done us for a while. Now let's I think you're you're fair to say like, none of us kid. I don't want to assume maybe we'll has like a mystery child or something. But what are three movies that you would want to show your future future children? How can I ask one question? How old would these children be?
You can decide when they watch each movie? So like, I have some movies that maybe are for younger children, and then I have movies that are like maybe for like a twelve year old or something like that. I mean, I just picked movies that I liked, Like, I just picked movies that I'm like, this movie is great. Not that I'm trying to teach anyone anything. Um, So I'll start off with, um, since we're almost in the holidays Christmas story, I that does have an historical you know,
obviously before our time. But um, I just I love it. I love the whole fifties vibe of it. The red Writer be begun. It just feels like Christmas to me. I will watch it on I own it, um and our families always owned it. But I will totally watch it on TBS with the commercials during the twenty four hour marathon, even though I could easily just turn it on with no commercials. That's just how much it just has that nostalgia for me. Um in such a big part of our families holidays that I would hope that
that tradition continues. The other two were again just movies that I like. I would definitely show my kids Mean Girls when they get old enough, because I think it's an incredible movie. Um And Bridesmaids when they get a lot older, just because again, those are just movies that I love and I think they're great, and Um, I think they're incredible women driven comedies that are laugh out loud funny. And I'm just trying to hang with my future kids one day and be like, you gotta watch this.
This is hilarious. So that's that's how I went, and I didn't pull any like, you know, Girls is incredible. It's a great movie, super underrated and overrated at the same time, but it's exactly all right, Well, well, what are yours. Um, I would start the younger age. I do remember The Titans. Um, that was almost because I mean just yeah, you know, from a football perspective, from ptorical perspective, yeah, just from you know. I obviously it kind of boils some things down to a more digestible
but it's still a great movie. UM, So I'll go with remember the Titans. Can I say one thing? Can I say one thing? I my favorite quote from that movie and I feel like I feel like I want to say it all the time. Is attitude reflects leadership, Captain? Do you want to talk about her? He's like, oh, I got a bad attitude, and he's like, attitude reflects leadership, Captain. I just I love that lie. I feel like it applies and so many things like good or bad, and
I never know. I'm like, people gonna get this if I say this, though I had to one shot. Yeah you could. You could say any line from that movie. And I feel like people should get it anyone. And that's on anyone, and that's on them if they don't. So alright, continue your list absolutely. Um. This one is I was shown by my brother in law, UM, when I was like twelve, and he said you had to watch it, and I completely didn't get it, And I'm glad that I had to watch it because I've gotten it.
Sense Monty Python and the Holy Grail never seen it. This would be a great discussion that you have with your future kids one day. You know they're gonna be like, what's that funny? So I don't think to make really like not all the way through. I know, like all the funny moments. My cousin was super into it and showed him to me at nauseam, But I don't think I've ever watched from start to finish that movie. All right,
you can. You can watch all of it in like the five minute YouTube segments because they really are kind of like like many many just scenes, and there's not that much that really like ties it all together. It's just scenes that are hilarious. UM. So I would go with that just because I think out of all comedy, you know, comedy can get stale over decades and cultures in time, I still think it's funny. Um. And then finally when they get old enough to be able to
go actually to these sort of movies. Um, despite the cursing in it, I would say good will Hunting right, because I think that's an incredible movie. That's a great list. So I had trouble narrowing mind to three. But I think these three movies are like going to be my right of passage movies for my children. And that is Jurassic Park, not any of the other ones, just the first one. That is. That movie is just jaw dropping when you're a kid to see a t Rex, you know,
are and like, it's just that's so cool. So that one's definitely up there, happy Gilmore when they're appropriate. That is probably my favorite movie, and I just I love that movie. So I don't think I will be able to not show my children that movie. And then the number one. It's kind of three movies so it's kind of cheating, but the Lord of the Rings trilogy, that's like a must for you know, a young uh, you know, twelve thirteen year old kid of mine. So those are
my three. But I wanted to put Jaws and Finding Nemo in there, but those are good. Yeah, Jaws is just scary when you're a kid. I remember watching that. Now I'm like still afraid of sharks because of that movie. I watched it not too long ago. I mean, well long enough ago that everyone could be together like a group of friends outside and it just it held that. Yeah, it held that like fear of the ocean thing in
my mind from being younger than I watched it. I'm like, okay, you can just enjoy this because this shark is not, you know, incredible for the time. Yes, but it's very clearly gineral. But it's if you haven't gone, if you haven't seen that recently, I would I would recommend, like Matt said, it's because it's just it's it's enjoyable. I mean, it's scary, but it's it's a little more enjoyable than I remembered it being. So it's more silly as you get older than it is. Guys, this was this was
so much fun. What a nice way to spend a bye week. Will have you warmed up from the beginning yet at all? I have because I went and I got my beanie, So now I'm beanie out. That's completely unacceptable. We've gone, So now what's a toboggan? All right, We're leaving it here. Thank you so much for listening to the Happy Half Hour podcast. To see you next week.