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It's time for the Happy Half Hour with your friends Kristen Belboni and Will Brian presented by Morris Jenkins. That's right, it's that time of the week. The Happy Half Hour podcast is presented by Morris Jenkins and Mr Jenkins told me that he loves football and he looks forward to this show all week. When you're plumbing or air conditioning is acting up, called Morris Jenkins or visit Morris Jenkins dot com. Kristen here as always with my good friends
Will and Matt and uh guys. We have a lot to catch up on since the last time we spoke last Wednesday morning. Number one being Scott Fitterer is officially the Panthers new general manager. It seems like forever ago, right we were still debating all the candidates that that was just last week. Oh my gosh, at this time
last week have happened. So one thing I would love to do and will certainly get into the people that we've we've talked to about him and kind of what the rest of this week looks like, um as he gets settled in his role. Um. But one thing I think would be cool because up until about a year ago,
I didn't know how all this stuff work. Is Like, Will, I would love for you to start out and myself as well in terms of how this all played out from our end, you know, because when you get the when you get the news, you got to spring into action, and you're one of the people that has to be I mean, you really had to be ready at any
time because of the website. Yeah, I mean, I think one of the things that we had to do was do our best to kind of prep um as many of these guys as possible as their names kind of popped up. Um. I think one of the things that this since usually this happened so quickly, as we kind of talked about over the last couple of weeks. UM. I think that the two week element of it maybe
kind of lulds us to sleep a little bit. But as soon as kind of we I I gotta push uh, and then all the slack messages, all the text and all of a sudden, you know, you're kind of going. So it's it's building out, it's getting as many pictures as possible. UM, It's it's reaching out to folks from Seattle to to get in contact for uh, you know, bios, pictures,
potential interview people. But I have to imagine about this though, is which I think is really interesting, is that I have to imagine that you can't you know, I mean, we knew who the candidates were this time last week, we knew that it was down to the final four. The Panthers released that UM on Panthers dot Com. But I have to imagine that while you're prepping, you can't get too far ahead of yourself in terms of reaching out.
You just said you reached out to people in Seattle, where it's like, I imagine you can't tip your hand too much, right, Yeah, I mean you kind of try
to you tiptoe around it, and a little bit. It was easier with some of the candidates for whom I already had some personal connections, you know, I knew some people, um with some of the other teams with where those candidates were, so it's a little bit easier to kind of navigate that than maybe a team where, um, you didn't have as many people that you kind of knew
already in place. Um and uh and so yeah, I mean I think there was a little bit of kind of some some blind cold emailing there with Seattle, but I mean they were great. And the thing that was interesting was that all the different people I talked to, and I've heard this from everyone else. I mean, you can certainly say this is as soon as kind of the news broke, everyone was like, oh my god, you're gonna love what a great guy. Now, I will say this, I have heard that quite a few times, but I
will change it up a little bit. I was talking to Jim Naggi, who's the head of the Senior Bowl, and we'll get into that little bit later, but he worked with um Scott Fitterer for five years. They were, you know, both in the scouting department with the Seahawks and I'll tell you what he says. Well, oh my god, you're gonna love Fit. So I told him my goal is to to one day get to the level where I'm calling him fit too, because I think that's that's
the thing, that's how you know you're in right. He was like, oh, fits the greatest And I was like, oh, Fit, I like that. What's what's he going to call you if you call him fit? Kristen hopefully? But yeah, I mean, and yeah, so things, I mean, things happen fast. I mean, that was what Thursday night and then we were getting
getting stuff up. We you know, we we went out with something that was a little maybe unorthodox kind of in this world, but we posted and went live with um an offer that we had offered him, not that he had accepted the offer, but just that we had offered him, which I think in this uh in the world from kind of the team side, you don't really see all that much this time of year in terms of you know, the the head coach announcements, the GM announcements,
all that kind of stuff. But knowing that that new story was going to be everywhere else and it was true we had offered him UM, so I think we kind of made a little some waves there from a Panthers dot com, you know, Panthers Social just kind of our whole our whole set of accounts that we announced that, and then four hours later later that night, um, we're able to follow back up and said that he agreed
to terms. Um. So yeah, I mean, I think it was a really interesting sort of set of hours there of of doing something that maybe we weren't exactly expecting because we hadn't done it before. And I think a lot of kind of the professional media and the NFL world were a little surprised by that too. I like it though, And so I had a I had a front row seat to all of those conversations. You know, we're all on the on the same text chains or
slack chains, um. But but I really get to look at it, um from a completely detached perspective, because that's not you know, social and and the website are not necessarily my world unless I'm I'm hosting something for one of those places. Um. But so it was interesting for me to see kind of how that discussion played out. And you know, I think, like you said, people are like, oh,
this is this is new, and this is different. But as you said, uh, stories are out there and you have to be when you're the team, you have to you can't just be like, oh, yeah, this is happening. He just like tweet out like, hey, this is happening. By the way, it's got to be you know, very specific, and the specificity there was, Um, the Panthers have extended a formal offer. And by that point, at least in my own experience as someone who's had contracts before, certainly
I can't speak to that. I was not in the negotiation room here, but that's that's you know, both sides at that point are on board, and then there's you know, a more formal process and that that does by no means, Um that by no means, doesn't mean that he's still taken some time. Usually it's like okay, yeah, like let's do this, and then there's like the formal process of it.
And I thought it was very cool that, um, the Panthers were updating every step of the way, because, as you said, well, a lot of times, as as a team, you don't always get to do that because you have to really, especially when it involves negotiations, really stick to the facts. Whereas someone else can have a report out from sources. UM, you can't do that on the official
Panthers Twitter. No. I mean, and I think that that's been part of the goal over the last three or four years really is to kind of continue to keep pushing pushing those limits, pushing those boundaries of of what this world is and essentially of the Panthers UM, and our official voices are official accounts, are official platforms, really being in the mix of the way that a fan
understands and is informed about this team. You know, we want fans to not only just subscribe to the different media outlets and their pushes, but you know, if they get it from us, they're getting it from us at the same time, UM, and they're they're being informed about it, and then hopefully from you know, yourself, and from Bill both and Darren Gant and from you know, excuse me maybe maybe you know, but like that from that within this group of really getting good insight and understanding why
this not that UM, and trying to to not just hear you know, a potential hot take or you know, a clickbait link, but really you know, stepping through this is why this is happening, and these are the reasons behind it, and this is why you should be excited about it, or even you know, saying this is why this didn't work, um, and and this is what, you know, what the organization is going to try to do to
fix it. You know. I think throughout the season, you know, I think we were trying to be as honest as possible. You know, I wasn't only just giving stats that that we're the good ones, you know, we we said these are the things that that aren't very good, and these are the things that they're gonna keep talking about and working on, and this is you know, what they are. And I think that honesty and that that openness UM hopefully has has been good for our fans and um
maybe attracted some new ones. I think that's certainly a better way of break news. Then. I think it was the Falcons not too long ago that said, sources say we're close to doing something, and it was the Falcons own page, so they were they didn't even they were the team, yet they were using sources. I wonder who their sources were, right, and and that and that's because
they're so there. If you don't really have good alignment internally, and you don't have people that are the power burgers in the room vouching for Hey, oh, by the way, I need confirmation on what we can do on our social channels. You know, when you're when you're kind of a too far steps outside of that process, you kind of have to play a little bit safer. And we we've got some really important people, um that have that have really vouched for the uh, the ability to do
this night. I think it's it's invaluable. Are I mean it might seem like a small little niche all you know, who cares, Like four hours later they said it and I heard it anyway, so I knew about it. But I think it does make a difference, um a little bit when the team and us and when we can all kind of be a part of the conversation UM or A l L. Yeah, I agree, And I think we should make it clear that we're not saying that the Falcons or any other team doesn't have that backing
from there um higher ups. I just think that for us, for the Panthers, um, you know, because we don't know what's going on in any other organization. But I think for the Panthers we have been lucky and we've all felt it UM to have people who UM are higher up, who really value transparency and UM keeping fans in the know in an honest way and trying to do it, you know, as quickly as possible, UM all throughout the season.
And I think that's been incredible for me to come into and and see it happen in real time because I'm still a fan, you know, and so when there's something like this that happens that I'm not directly involved in, you know, we expect to do. You know, I've done interviews of people who who know Scott Fitterer expect to be talking to him soon. But really, when it comes to the breaking news like this that goes on the website, I got to sit back and see how it all happened.
And it's very cool for me, as someone who was a fan of this organization before coming into work here UM to see all that play out in real time in the commitment to keeping the fans in the loop and and not letting the story go by, just because we have to be a lot more buttoned up about the way in which we express things and how you know, it's an important part of every conversation is you know, we got we gotta put this out there, like we got we gotta put this out there for the fans.
So I think that's awesome. So since we've put it out for the fans, what are the things that you feel like you've learned, um, from all of your conversations, um, from the people you've talked to, from the people that Darren Gan has talked to over the last week about Scott Bigger. Yeah. I think this is gonna sound cheesy, um, but it's the truth. Like I'm not just saying this,
this is really the truth. It's it's really what you said earlier, will As when you said people are like, oh my gosh, you're gonna love him, and talking to people on video and seeing their faces, you know, Darren
said a lot of phone conversations. I'm sorry he's had some video conversations as well, but seeing a few of the people the same and Farmers who's a good family friend of him, as well as being just an amazing NFL writer for the l A Times, and um, um, Jim Naggie of the Senior Bowl, as I mentioned, their face like lights up, you know, like they just have a smile talking about him and you can tell that it's deeper, um than just a professional relationship. And I
think that's pretty cool. And just you know, Sam Farmer talked to me about him being just like such a good guy, and uh, Sam Farmer said, you know, I was texting with a colleague the other day and sometimes in this industry there are people who are great at their jobs, but not necessarily the most genuine people, um, and you see them go on to succeed. And he said, it's it's kind of rare, um that you see a guy that you just know, Man, this is a good
dude that everyone is gonna like. And also he's gonna do his job so incredibly well. And so I've gotten that sense will um. And I don't know if that I think that's also come through articles and and the people that Darren has talked to as well. And that seems to be the general consensus is like for the purposes of this higher no one has a bad word to say. Everyone is so incredibly complimentary of the job that he's going to do, and so Panthers fan should
be excited about that. But then in addition to that, it seems like a real good dude and everyone I've talked to us, mentioned his wife whose name is cherished, his kids, Like, you can tell that that stuff is um and those are you know, former co workers, are a writer who's to cover him, who developed into a family friend, and so I think there's a that's told me a lot about him and so Um, as Sam Farmer said, it's cool to see good people, you know
from everything we've heard, succeed at this higher level. And I think I'm excited to get to know him better. The one of the quotes from John Schneider, who's the GM of the Seahawks, who is Fitters boss over the last a decade or so, Um told Darren and I quote, first thing you told Darren you guys are going to kick ass. It'll be a really fun culture. Can I say that on the podcast? Okay? I mean I will
put it on Matt if we get fine. MAT's going to take care of it and cash it's it's on my back that that just speaks to I mean, that's the first thing that he said when he, you know, talked to this writer from the Panthers. Oh man, you guys are gonna kick ass. Like he was so excited to talk about who Scott is and what Scott's going to do well. So much of it is is relationships, right, I mean, especially coming up through the scouting world, it's
it's relationships. And that's what we've heard a lot about.
And I'm sure that's yeah, no, no, I mean, and I was saying, I mean, in some ways, it's almost it's it's kind of sad that like he's walking into this sort of COVID world, you know, where like I I want to get in there and meet him, you know, and you know, you want all these other people to kind of be around him, because he seems like this person that in the pre COVID world where you could really kind of uh have this you know, tight knit community and have all these people really relating and being
close and being in physical proximity to each other. That that's just a world where he thrives um and so you know, hopefully we can we can quickly get back to that world and um and and kind of utilize some of those those aspects of him. But like one of the things that I think kind of moving moving forward of you know, what our fans want to know is Okay, so drafts coming up in three months Senior
Bowls next week, Like, what is this guy's approach? And I think that one of the things that that Schneider again said was that he's really calm and really level and even um and has this kind of level headed spirit to him. Yes. UM, I think that's gonna be really interesting to see how that takes place both within kind of a draft weekend scenario, um, and in the ways that he kind of handles his scouting department. It's funny. Jim Nagy said the exact same thing. Um. He called
him a calming influence. He tweeted it and it got a lot of UM, got a lot of was and he said, you know, he's he was such a calming influence in the draft room. And I don't think I've ever heard anyone described that way. And he said, well, hey, I just want to I just want to make it known. As I was talking to him, he was like, the rest of us weren't crazy, Like we didn't need like we didn't necessarily need the calming influence. But that's how
he described him. Um, so that's really interesting. We gotta he was like the co director with Trent Kirshner, who also used to work for the Panthers back in the day, and um, Schneider kind of called them fire and ice a little bit that Kirshner was was kind of the fire and kind of really you know, push the limits and was and then uh, Scott was more the ice of of kind of pulling, pulling things back and really centering where where things needed to be. Um. And this yeah,
again this calming influence. And I think you look at the success of these Seahawks drafts and a big notable thing that sticks out to everybody is their ability to trade back. Um. And that's something you know, obviously a problem. Really wasn't just Scott pulling the trigger on that. It
was a group effort. Um. But you know, this propensity to trust the work that they've done, that they had done with their scouting, with the way they set up their draft board, and knowing that they could still find value and find really good value by trading back and doing it correctly and doing it well. Um, which will be really interesting to see. You know, what does he what does he do with the eighth overall pick? What does he do in the second and third round? Um?
You know how you know he's found a bunch of guys that have been starters in really big contributors for the Seahawks, you know after the third and fourth round, you know, and he he really feels that there's a lot of value to be found there. Um, and that's something that I think the Panthers haven't always had in recent years. Um, you know, late round draft picks that have really flourished. So uh, that that will be something I think everyone's really looking forward to. Yeah, and so
let's let's continue that. Let's start to look ahead after we take a quick break right now. Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkins told me. Mr Jenkis told me to always make it easy for the customer. That's you. A lave person, will always be here to answer the phone. We're here till midnight, seven days a week, so you never have to take off work. And it's the same prices in the daytime. We're the ones you want to call. We're the ones you want to call. We're the ones you
want to call. You're gonna love these people, I guarantee. See gotta Morris Jenkins dot com. All right, well you brought it up, and I think it's it's so smart. As we look forward, I mean, he's gonna come in and be thrown right into it. Not that I mean, not that that's something he's not prepared for at all. But he's gonna go right into the Senior Bowl. Because the Panthers coaching staff will be one of the staffs
that's um, that are coaching in this game. And and that starts really this weekend, even though the game is not until next weekend because it's a full week. Um. But but what a great opportunity for um Fitterer and this coaching staff to get so much time with these guys. And we saw over this week, h Mac Jones. It was announced yesterday the Alabama quarterback is not only gonna be down there with several um other guys from that championship team, but um, he's also going to be on
the Panthers team. So what a great opportunity for everyone to just hit the ground running and start, especially this year when you know, the combine situation is different, the off season will be different, um, And and the draft is really right around the corner in terms of you know, in GM terms, it's right around the corner. Oh yeah,
I mean, this next week is vital. It's gonna be very very important, and obviously there's gonna be plenty of potential prospects that won't be at the Senior Bowl that weren't necessarily the seniors are invited. Um. But so far, they've announced most of the offensive groupings. UM. I think probably by the time you hear this, they'll have announced
some of the defensive groupings. But so far, what we know, I think the biggest thing that stands out obviously is as you said, Mac Jones, Um, Kyle Trash, Kelen Man, and Jamie Newman are the quarterbacks that the Panthers will have on their side. Um. Trash obviously from Florida, had a big year, Kellen Mond, Texas Ay and him Jamie Newman a name. He was at Wake Forest and then was going to transfer to Georgia but then ended up
opting out of the season. So yeah, Jimmy told me that he thinks he's the most Yeah, he's he's probably the biggest question mark. UM. I don't want to quote him. He might have not a said question mark, but he's the biggest unknown I guess unknown commodity coming into this
because of opting out. So what a great opportunity for for them to get time with all of these guys, a lot of different skill sets, different players UM in that quarterback group and and I think so much of what Panther fans are looking at is that eighth pick and you know, what do you do right there? And I think what's critical is what do you do after it? Because getting some of these guys, and some of these guys end up maybeing second and third round type guys.
UM and really understanding what's there, what's out there. You know, it's not just about finding your guy, but it's about finding who you know, really understanding what other teams may be looking at, what you might know that another team doesn't. UM. One of the things I really took out of your interview with Jim yesterday UM on Panthers dot com. Please check it out is what he said the like, all
the coaches and staffs are down there. Everyone's down there and they're all doing interviews and they're all watching practice from the sidelines. But what they don't get to see is meetings. Who shows up early, who who shows up late, How guys respond in meetings, how they're interacting with coaches, how they interact during drills, how they interact after practice.
Those are really very exclusive sort of things that you get for an entire week just with this set of players that none of the other thirty teams you're going to look at well and really get. Don't you get the sense that it couldn't be a more perfect fit with this Panther's coaching staff because Matt Rule Phil snow they will they will say this as a point of pride that they are elopmental staff that they want to
be referred to as that you know, they give in practice. Um, there twos and threes get just as many, they way more reps than on a normal NFL team, with the thinking being these twos and threes could could become our ones by the end of the season, and we certainly saw that play out in a variety of different ways. They also substitute liberally on the lines, so we're seeing a lot more players um in the mix, and we saw them really developed that that young rookie draft class
and and some of the undrafted free agents. You know, I talked to to Matt Rule not too long ago, and he talked about the Miles Hartsfields and the Joe Charlton's and so I just think it's a perfect fit. Uh, you know even if even if things weren't so complicated this year, but they are of of a team and a coaching staff that likes to develop young talent. Get in there and see all the things that that you
were just talking about. The Jim Naggie said, you know, who's who's here to learn, who's willing to take coaching? Who do we think we see something in that maybe other people might have missed because we're going to get to have these practices with them. So I just think it's a perfect fit. I mean, let's be really. You can you can absolutely hit on the perfect first round pick and could be an incredible Pro Bowl starter and at any moment you might have to go to his backup.
You just don't know. Um in this league. I mean you look around the NFL playoffs right now. I mean there's there's plenty of evidence of needing depth and needing really good depth. UM, and that's what successful NFL teams were able to do. I mean, you have to have great starters, but you have to have really good guys backing them up. So like as we look a couple of the other position groups, this one it's not the sexy one It's not the one that maybe casual fans
may know about, but Alex Leatherwood Google that name. He was the UM left tackle for Alabama the last several years, one unanimous All American, the Outland Trophy. UM. I know there's a lot of talk of uh, you know somethingtential. I mean, what for free agents on the offensive line. So the offensive line will certainly be a point of emphasis this offseason. UM. And you have Leatherwood, you have Deonte Brown. UM also needs an interior linement from Alabama,
Tray Smith, an interior linement from Tennessee. All of these guys are in the top five or five or ten of the best offensive lineman in this draft class. And they're all gonna be on Carolina's team, UM at the Super Bowl or at the Senior Bowl. So I think that that will be a big point of UM point of interest. And you know, seeing what these guys are about and and really how they do in some of these drills and what their ability is to pick up
different formations and and take coaching. So, UM, that will be something. I it's not the sexiest thing, for sure, but it's UM it's vitally important. And I think this will be a huge edge for Caroline's coaching staff. And also just Alex Otherwood one of the best football names, you know what I mean. Like it's just I always think about football names and I'm like, wow, like that's a great one. Um yeah, like Slay like place reliance, right, Lay, Yeah,
so good. I just think Leatherwood like that. Just like you know, even if you didn't know him and you said Alex Otherwood left tackle, Like even if you didn't watch Alabama, you'd be like, oh, that guy means business, right, Like it just commands respect. Chant Bailey, I always love that name. That's a great one. We'll watch draft football names after this. That's next me um so a couple other names just before we move on. Um Davante Smith,
the Hudsmond Trophy winner. He they announced he will be there. He won't be doing active drills. He's on the Miami side, so he'll participate. He'll participate in meetings, but we will not see him out on the field, right. But they will see Cornell Powell on Mari Rodgers too, wide receivers from Clemson. Um that some fans in the region may know pretty well. They'll be on Carolina side. Um. And then another kind of local name that some fans in North Cloom they know is Noah Gray Um from Duke.
Uh So, what had Jim said that he was the best practice players since Peyton Manning. Well, he's we got to clarify. Um. So Jim told me that David Cutcliffe told him, So, you know, I mean I think that makes it even ten times better. Um, So Jim's not saying he's the best practice player since um Hayton Manning.
David Cutcliffe, who was Peyton Manning's coach, UM said that he was the most the most committed practice player since Peyton Manning or like around that area, like the closest he's ever seen, which I just I don't think you can get a better compliment than that. Right, It's pretty good. It's pretty good. I'm excited to see, uh, to see what he can do. And and it's you know, certainly a position that you have to think the Panthers at
tight end um are are looking at. So, like I said, I just think it's it's a perfect marriage, this Panthers coaching staff going down there and getting to work with not just as you said, like the other teams see these guys, but getting to work with these young guys and and hopefully you know, there'll be some good defensive players out there too. You know, I think everyone figures that this draft is going to be all offense since
last year was all defense. But they're they're still looking everywhere, and I think there's still a lot of places to be found. Um. Yeah, it's not like you have to switch like just because we didn't just because all defense last year. It's not like, well, but it's time time for the all offensive job. I yeah, I mean I think you can still there's still probably some places of need, um, you know, on on all levels. And you know, I think especially probably head linebacker. Um, you know, maybe at
cornerback or at safety. Um, I think you can still find uh some young guys that need to be filling in there as well. Completely agree. All right, you're listening to the Happy Half Hour podcast presented by Morris Jenkins, and Mr Jenkins told me that he loves football and he looks forward to this show all week. When you're plumbing or air conditioning is acting up called Morse Jenkins' more Jenkins dot Com. All right, well, to round us out, you have come up with the weird question enough the
week that's true. Do you want to say? Yes? So this is the Senior Bowl where all of these seniors from college you're going to work out for the NFL. So I'm thinking, what was I doing January of my senior year, UM, when I was in college? And what bowl game would I have been invited to go to? Um? What would I have? Bad Boy Mower's Gasparrella Bowl. Right, that's it, that's the one. So yeah, so what what bowl would we've been invited to as seniors? What would
we have been, UM an elite member of? So that that's my question. You go first, I think the first I think the first thing that you're assuming is that I was an elite member of anything in January of my senior year of college. UM, the dangerous assumption. Yeah, I would say if I had to choose, though, I think it's got to be the quizble. I love it. I love it trivia. I always love trivia, watch Jeopardy all the time and get very serious about it. And
you know I like cross words. So I just, um, I'm not I was never physically gifted enough to like be super competitive at any sport because I was just never good enough. But let me tell you what. You put me in a you put me in a trivia thing, you put me in a quiz thing. I get competitive. I love it. Have you watched the new show UM with Ken Jennings and those guys that chase No, it's this like it's essentially all the best winners from Jeopardy that are taking people on and just kind of like
a Jeopardy type show. It's pretty cool. Look, Okay, I will check that out. I will play I'll play along, all right, who's next? I gotta I gotta hear wheels first before I can give mine, because I don't think I don't think I have one that's inceptional Bill or Bill will go, that's nervous. That's nervous, right, I ascribed I ascribed to that. That uh kind of crazy, Malcolm Gladwealth theory? What is it? Ten tho hours makes you expert at something? Yes? D it sent that? I don't
know if utter thousands? Yeah I didn't. I certainly didn't spend ten thousands, but I probably spent more than I should have. UM. I took a class in college called Interactive Digital Narratives. UM. It was a video game class. I love that name. Don't you love when a when a class has a name like that, that's all interactive digital narratives. How incredible is that? So? Yeah, so that was, Um, that was a class I took, I think end of
my junior so going into senior year. My my project for it was the I can't remember the mode name now, but it's essentially where you go from high school to like all America. Remember are you talking about this? Yes, yes, um, I would. I'd be the wrong person to know the name of it, but I remember you briefly saying this, yep.
So yeah, So I I felt like I put a lot of hours into that and got pretty good at play calling in I mean, you know, everyone can play video games, but that was one of the ones I felt like I was I could take most most commers in both my class and my uh my, my, my dorm hall. So I would be invited to the Bowl of n C double A two thousand seven. I love it. I gotta say I did google it while you were talking. A hundred thousand hours is eleven and a half years approximately,
so you could be on your way. You could be on your way. But I think it's not like ten thousand hours. Um is the one that everyone knows about. All right, Matt, you were nervous earlier, you called will Bill. What do you got farable? I'd probably say wasting time. I'm good at that. I don't know. I probably wasted tens of time. I can definitely take a good amount of time and just do nothing with it. Especially in college, I did a lot of nothing. Um, I like that one.
I would say that. But if I have to get specific, something I was good at and put a lot of time in was Super Smash Brothers, the game for to so I, me and my friends probably have put in at least a few thousand hours into that. So I'm pretty good at that, I suppose. Yeah. So you look, you've got these You've got these guys going into the Senior Bowl, you know, top of their their class, great at their craft, perfecting it. A lot of them will be going pro making tons of money. But I tell you,
what are they? You know, the champions of the Quiz Bowl, the Wasting Time, Slash, Super Smash Brothers Bowl, or what is it n C Double A Football two thousand seven? No, I think not so. Really, who's to say who's doing better in January of your senior year of college us back in the day for them right now, I don't know. I couldn't tell you. It feels pretty even to me.
I think we left it was better. I can totally do better at college football in a fake way, playing fake versions of them than they did of them actual their actual selves in real life. I'll take any of them on in Jeopardy. I'll tell you that so so well. I have to ask, what is your favorite n C double a football game? Like year? Yeah, because I have,
I have to, and I'm wondering what yours is? I mean that one I played a lot, because I think that was the first version that had that, the one with Reggie Bush on the cover, right, I think so, yeah, yeah? Or maybe it was the next year. Um, I'm so bad at this. Mine was oh three, Yeah? Which one was three three? I believe had Joey Harrington on the cover the Oregon I never played that one, and then oh five with Larry Fitzgerales also a close second. But anyway,
Regie Bush, Yeah, Reggie Bush. I think that is the Reggie Bush cover. Oh seven I could probably name. That's unfortunate, all right, well that's next week. So at the end of next week you gotta go from from most recent to least recent times. I won't even look it up, all right, we'll tune in for that next week. Thank you guys, Thanks everyone for listening. We'll see you next week on The Happy Half Hour Podcast m