Happy Half Hour Episode 91: Pro Day Roundup

half Hour with your friends, Darren, Augusta and Kristen. Happy April, Happy draft month, you two, happy spring. Yeah, it's happy, happy, happy. We're fully happy now. Well that's part of the brand. Yes, part of the brand, Darren, I know. And we're now fully happy again. So we're all back. We have not recorded an episode since the Panthers traded up to the number one overall pick. Darren, and as you mentioned, Augusta

was on the road for Pro Days. So as we were going through topics, of course we're going to talk about your observations from Pro Days. We're gonna talk about the upcoming draft, but we're like, we gotta go back to free agency. A little bit a lot has happened. Yeah, it's been a been a busy month around here. You know, you trade for the first pick and then you just

start backfilling everything in free agency. I mean, Simon Bradley Boseman was probably the biggest move of the light I mean literally and physically, because having a three twenty pounds center a protects whatever quarterback you're going to be drafting, and it keeps that offensive line together. The starting five is now together under contract through at least the twenty fourth season, and that's huge. I mean when you're trying to protect that investment that they're about to make with

the first pick in the draft. That was the big first step. But then they just went through methodically and checked off the entire shopping list of stuff a young quarterback needs. They got a veteran possession receiver and Adam Dealing. They got a tight end in Hayden Hurst. You know, they go get Miles Sanders, who's a three down back who's good as a receiver and a running back, a type of which we're familiar with around here, and that's going to be a quarterback's best friend in a lot

of ways. So they went out very methodically, and then they come back after the fact and get Djharg to get the speed guy downfield to open things up a little bit. So they've got a lot of options now offensively for whoever that guy's going to be. And then we also saw some moves on the defensive side, which you know they're slotting in kind of what that three

four will start to look like some pieces there. So Augusta, what I'm wondering is, you know, of course everyone who is listening to this followed the free agents signings or some still coming in now as they happened in March, But where do we feel this team is right now after all of these signings heading into the draft. I mean, I feel pretty good about it exactly, and I want to go back to a Darren said, especially about getting

the offensive line together. Obviously Austin Corbett's coming back from injury and Bretty Christiansen coming back from injury. But I was talking I've been talking with with coaches and stuff,

and that that foundation. I think I think a lot of it is, like we said, just putting together the pieces and having like a steady place to build from new coaches, new quarterback coming in with with a sense of you know, kind of what they know what they're setting up from a good basis, a good like if you're looking at like a pyramid, solid base, build up, build up, build up, thinking of the nutrition pyramid in school, right,

so those are your grains down at the bottom. You got to get a lot of those, right, you have like actually probably kind of the meats, aren't they. I mean, didn't we do that last year with the Rby's package. They have the meats, yes, but but yeah, like I mean, and you have like veteran veteran pass catchers like Darren mentioned. I think hayden Hurst was a big one. I wrote a story about that that we published yesterday. I think Um just kind of feeling like he was like, you

know what, I've been five years in the league. I feel like I'm I'm at a place where I have, you know, the confidence that I feel good in the league, and so I can give that to someone younger, you know, he's ready to work. Like in a quarterback in that way, so you start out with a bass, you just keep moving up. So I kind of like like wait setting up and then we'll have the little hop pit quarterback

at the very little top of the pyramid. Well, and speaking of somebody that has a lot to give to whoever this young quarterback is, we haven't even mentioned Andy Dalton, someone who has a lot of experience, you know, ben to the playoffs pro bowler reeve right, Yeah, And we talked about that a lot when they started putting coaching staff together. I mean, Frank Reich and Josh McCown both

played in the league a lot of years. Andy Dalton was more productive than either one of them as NFL quarterbacks.

And Josh told me this, he said, you know, it hits different when it's coming from the guy in the room, And Josh was the guy in the room for a long time in his NFL career as that veteran backup who was there as a sounding board, someone to help mentor it just lands differently with the young guy when it's somebody who's wearing a jersey on the practice field in the locker room with him every day, as opposed

to the coach. I mean, that coaching staff is very good and very experienced in terms of all the years and all the different perspectives they've got to help that guy. But having an Andy is going to be important for whoever it happens to be. I talked to him when he came in during free agency, and I asked him about that. You know, I said, the evntional wisdom is that it will be a quarterback, of course, with the number one overall picks. So what is your mindset going

into that? And he said, look, I got to start as a rookie. I know what that's like, and I also know the pressure of that, and so whatever I can do, because you know, I'm first and foremost going to be the best player that I can be, and but also as a contributor, as a mentor, I understand it. I get it. And like you said, Darren, when you've got you've got Frank Reich, you've got Josh McGown, you've

got Andy Dalton. The amount of combined starts that they have or game appearances that they have is just going to be a wealth of knowledge for whoever this is. So let's talk about who this might be and what you guys learned at Pro Days. I mean, if you want to break any news here on the Happy half Hour podcast, feel Free Well, sources close to me tell me that the Carolina Panthers are likely to select a

quarterback with the first pick. You heard it here first, you heard it here first, And we can probably narrow that list to four since they went to see four different pro days. So I've just been doing them in chronological order of the pro day. But we go from CJ's Trau to Bryce Young to Will Levis to Anthony Richards. I like that, that's your It's funny because I feel like you always have to have the desclip like in no specific order, right, So your order is it's not alphabetical,

it's not it's it's order of pro days, right. And I've had people try to read the tea leaves and they're like, oh, Darren went to House State and Augusta went to Alabama. That means no, it doesn't. That's just it's got more to do with commercial travel schedules than anything else. But let's so then let's go chronologically by you each split it up two and two. So which one was was first? CJ. Stroud, All right, Ohio State. I start there and you walk in the door and CJ.

Stroud looks the part and you know, Augusta in her pre Pro day road trip barnstorming tour hit Georgia, and those guys had seen them all, and those guys had played against all four of them, and CJ was the last one they saw and consistently talked about how he did so many things impressively. And when you get to that pro day, you understand why they say it. I mean, he looks like what an NFL quarterback is supposed to look like. He's six foot three, he's big, he throws

a really catchaball ball. I mean. The Ohio State Pro Day also stood out to me because the best player in the building was a guy who's not even draft eligible in Marvin Harrison Junior. And that guy is just an alien from outer space. He will be in next year's draft, and he ain't going to be there long, so we won't spend much time talking about him, because without a first round pick, you're not even in that zip code. But CJ's always had that kind of talent

around him. So when you watch him work out, yes, he throws a catchable ball. And when you're where we were, you know, standing kind of on the sidelines with the scouts and stuff, you hear these guys whisper to each other and stuff like catchable ball makes it easy for his receivers. I mean, that's kind of the buzzwords you get with CJ. Stroud And so he's really I think

that Georgia game elevated his stock a lot. I don't know that we're necessarily talking about him in the same way without that game, but doing that against that grade of defense got everybody's attention and put him put him on the radar. And then, hypothetically, if you are you making your pros and cons list, what are the things that are standing out to anyone who's evaluating him in terms of Okay, we know all the good stuff, so

what are the things that give you pause? One of the things and I hated about scouting business, but it's real and people lean on it is he's an Ohio State quarterback. And people think, because of all those weapons, because there's a Marvin Junior out here on this side, because there's always top shelf receiving talent around him, how good is he really? How much of it is he

doing himself? And the one thing from being up there and talking to his offensive coordinator, who's you know, believing or not an old Josh McCown teammate, Because everybody who's ever passed through the NFL is an old Josh McCown teammates a lot of teammates. But Brian Hartline talked about how CJ handled a lot more stuff at the line of scrimmage than a lot of other quarterbacks up there have done, and and just a mature guy, he said,

he does it the right way. So I think those negatives can almost become positives at a certain point because he knows how to manage talent. But that's going to be a knock until two or three Ohio State quarterbacks in a road play well in the NFL. That's those old stereotypes die hard. Yeah, but I think you know, there's also the question of he was a little up and down prior to that Georgia game. There was the game before the Georgia game was kind of a disaster

against Michigan. And when you do it against Michigan, people in Columbus remember it a lot more. All right, Chronologically, which pro day was next? Rice Young at Alabama? All right, Augusta, what do you got for us? Yes, so very next day, Darren and I split it up. I will say we split up geographically too. For the people reading the tea leaves. I went south and he went north, so that's another way it went. But um, yeah, Alabama Pro day walk in. I think the first thing I noticed about Bryce was

he waited to throw obviously till the very end. Wasn't doing anything else. Was there with his teammates. He has a calming let's say, I don't want to quiet. Confidence is the word. But it's one of those things where it's like, Okay, yeah, this guy kind of runs the show, but he's not in your face about it, like going around all of his teammates, you know, hitting bumping fists

one thing, and I tweeted about it. But before he threw, he talked with Frank Wright for about ten minutes and I was just standing there and I was almost timing. I'm like, how long are they going to talk? Kept talking so like he had a rapport with a lot of people. There was just talking. I met his family, his dad and his mom, who were very sweet people. I mean, his quarterbacks coach. It felt like one of

those it was just the whole thing. It's a big day, right, but it felt like it was just locked in, very cool, very calm. It looked looked great. I think I talked with his quarterbacks coach. He started working with him when they were when he was in eighth grade, so he's been working with him for almost a decade. Yeah, and he was he was telling me, you know, the program that we put together for him today was basically just

kind of shown as much variety as possible. I mean, he was completely locked in, very much so on target, just Bryce Young, Bryce Young things and also pro day. Like Darren mentioned, it's like the perfect environment. Everyone's calm, everything's cool. Just it felt like, yes, there's a big day and there's a lot going on and there's so many cameras, but something about it still felt like very chill. And I think that's very Bryce Young. I agree, And

that's what we've always heard. And it's cool to see to know that you got that same firsthand experience, because that is one of the things that everyone says when they first meet him, or they first watch him, or you can see it when he's playing, is that the moment doesn't never seems too big for him. He is he is your prototypical quarterback leader, right. He is the guy that is gonna command the offense. I'm sideline reporter for the Panthers. So I see a lot of the way.

I always paid special attention to the way the quarterbacks address the other team members coming off the field, good or bad. Right, And just like you're saying, like dapping guys that like all that stuff, like you're in command, right, you are the de facto leader if you're the quarterback. And it does seem like he always has had that right since we've been watching him play. But then, of course everyone knows what if you want to talk about

what what CJ. Strauto at the knock on CJ Strout is or what the hesitation is, we all know what the typical hesitation with with Bryce Young is. And that's his size, Darren, Right, he's not big. He's not big, and if big is a hang up for you, he's probably not going to be your guy. But there's simply not a lot of comparisons. I mean, there's two of but two's bigger than him. There's Drew Brees, there's Russell Wilson. But it's a pretty short inventory unintended of guys who

have played in the NFL at his size. But also not three bad comparisons, you know, like if I mean those are the three guys that have done some things succeed in the NFL at that size, you've got to be pretty special, and I think bry Shon can be. I mean, to me, when I look at him, it's it's the fact that he's been running an NFL offense. He's been down there with Bill O'Brien and he's been

calling plays at the line of scrimmage. He's been making checks, he's been doing NFL quarterback stuff at the line for the last couple of years and doing it at a really high level. How this is something that we haven't talked about. I'm sure it's it's been talked about or written about, and I've been meaning to ask you about this, So why not right now, hypothetically if you are Scott Fitter, if you are Frank Reich, And as you talked about, the big thing in free agency was making sure that

Bradley Boseman came back. So you know what this line is now. Of course, as you said, Austin Corbett, Brady Christiansen rehabbing from very serious injuries, and you know that this line does not put their quarterback in a bad situation very often. And you have, as you said, three hundred and twenty pounds in front of your quarterback. Does that give you a little more confidence about Bryce Young's size?

I think so, I mean the obvious. And I've talked to other coaches and other personnel people in different places where they've used first round picks on quarterbacks about how you do it. And I think people the first thing they say is often you got to protect that guy. You got to make sure he's protected offensive line wise, am with weapons. And you know, I just think when I go back and look at the very deliberate job

they did in free agency last year. You signed corbitch, you signed Bozeman, You can the draft icky, Yeah, to put that foundation in place so you can drop a quarterback in this is a good spot. I mean, this is a good place for him to be. And I think it was intentional. They didn't know it was going to be Stroud or Young, or it's intentional because you want to have the best offensive line you can have

for any quarterback. But I but I think in that context of a smaller guy, absolutely, it's crucial to be able to have those level of guys in front of them. So and they do all right, so chronologically, which pro day was next well, well le Kentucky, and it was kind of I was going through the map with the dotted lines, you know, it was very Chevy Chase. Vacation holiday road was playing in the back from Ohio on Kentucky. Aren't that It's not right? Yeah, we flew it. Darren

is making it. If you're listening, you can't see. Darren's got you know, one hand over here and then ten feet away, pointing a map all the way. Yes. Now, we flew in a Columbus and then drove down a Lexing in about a three hour drive, not too bad and you know, very Chevy Chase. Yeah, it's uh yeah, it's we're taking Root sixty six to the Grand Canyon. Everybody, um, but no, we rode down in Lexington. And here's the thing about Will Levis he is he can throw the

football over a mountain. I mean he has yoked up. I think the popular phrase now is rocked up. You hear college coaches say all the time. He is muscular, he is big, he is strong, he's got the big arm. He hits the ceiling of the facility, because that's gonna be the new thing now. Josh Allen, Yeah, I mean, I'm old enough to remember Kyle Bohler doing hitting a crossbar from the fifty yard line on his knees, and so hitting the roof is going to be the new thing.

So let's get Michael Jordan to check in the ceiling is the roof. But he's got a big strong arm. He's never been surrounded with a lot of talent around him At Kentucky, obviously it's a different situation. But after transferring him from Penn State, he put up a lot of numbers as junior especially, and he's one of those guys. Before they knew they were picking first, they spent a

lot of time looking at Will Levins. You would walk by Scott Fitter Dan Morgan's office last fall and there would be Kentucky tape on the screen because when they thought they were picking ninth, I mean, that's kind of the range. I think a lot of people were thinking about for Will leave us at the time. So he's somebody they've been looking at for a long time. They went to the weekend of the Falcons game on the road.

They ran up to Knoxville the night before to see him play Tennessee and it's you know, he's somebody they've paid attention to for a long time, talented kid and can move around. He is a mobile guy in addition to big strong arm, so he's an interesting prospect. But the thing that kind of came through up there is, you know, I don't know that I think it would be a huge surprise to a lot of people if

Will leave us was necessarily the guy. But to me, it's an example of how thorough they're being because David Nicole's still there, going out to dinner with him the night before, going through the entire process, the whole offensive coaching brain trust is they're talking to him. They still had a huge contingent there, and Kentucky didn't have a lot of other people other than Will Levis to look at.

You go to Alabama, you go to Ohio State, there's always half a dozen other first round picks on the side at the two places, so not so at Kentucky. Everybody was only there to see Levis. And it's just an example to me of how thorough the process is. You want to make sure you button up everything, you

check everything. And Scott said when we was up there, when I talked to him after the workout, he said, you know, hey, even if it's not in this draft, you know, maybe it's four years from now in free agency, maybe it's at some point down the line, or you know, something happens and you're looking at a trade or you're playing against him. You want to have as much base of information about a guy as you can. And also something that is, you know, a check mark in his column.

Is that system right and the and the coordinators that are the coordinates are typically at Kentucky's. Yeah, the thought is that you know, he has the tools and has been in the system too. Yeah, make the transition to the next level fairly. And I think he's got an opportunity to be good. With all these guys, it's about fit. That's the most important thing in the NFL is getting to the right spot. Because I can see, you know, I can see Will Levis with the right set of

people being really successful in the NFL. I can see any of these guys if they get in bad situations with the wrong people, becoming a complete disaster, because that's what happens in the league. A lot of good quarterbacks go to bad places and you never hear from them again. Yeah. All right, So the last one on the list. Anthony Richardson at Florida, Yes, and came right after the owners meetings in Arizona. So they were coming in hot from that.

The Panthers, Yes, the Panthers, yes, yes, yes, not Anthony richards No, no, no, he was not there. He was not there, So coming in hot from that. This was about a week or move from the other three. Again very similar to Will Levis. I think the biggest thing with him is his strength and his size. I snapped a photo of him holding a football and his hands are so massive, and we talk a lot about hand size. Hands are so massive, looks like one of those nerf

you know, little child size footballs. It's a real one. I actually met his younger brother. This is like a nice little aside. But his brother's like, oh goodness, I want to say, thirteen years old, just as like large Lands already. It was so funny he was grabbing a football. He was like runs in the family was so well. Look for him in like twenty thirty or something exactly. You know, Scott Fitter is probably down there looking at him too, right, and never know in ten years a

little Richardson. Yeah, so his whole family was there too. Um, like Darren said, you know, tried to hit the roof. It was a whole thing. I saw him and Bryce Young do it. He saw Will Levis do it. Um. One of the things before when he was still warming up, he was just like tossing the ball from sitting just completely crisscross apple sauce like on the on the ground like things like that. I mean, just it was. It was again just a show. I felt like it was

being entertained for a minute. Um. But the thing about Anthony Richardson is um and I had forgotten this until I got there. I'm like, he's only twenty years old. Um, he's only started one season. That was something that his coach kind of highlighted as a benefit. It's like he's a quick learner, and you know he came in started one season at Florida kind of you know, already took command. He's only twenty, so he has it's a good coach

to highlight that as a benefit. Right, Yeah, Hey, that's it's good that he's only played one season and started one season. He found a way he kind of he used his in it. He said, inexperience, but found a way to kind of you know to twist it forward and be like, well he's inexperience, but he knows how to do what he's done. He knows how to learn. Um. So that was really interesting talking with with Billy Napier about that, um and then and then yeah, Anthony Richardson.

I mean it's one of those things where you wouldn't you wouldn't see him and think that he's, you know, so young, but it's like one of those things. He's so I don't know if unpolished is the word, but he has so many tools. I mean we saw his his combine was absolutely off the wall. Um. So yeah, it was, it was, It was interesting and and it

was another really exciting day. Again. I felt like that one was almost more like like the Bryce Young one that I went to was very you know, not stoic, but it felt very you know, like professional, and then the Anthony Richardson one was really fun and interesting. I think it like kind of reflects the personalities too in a way. Yeah, yea, because Bryce Young is very you know, I mean they're both like really cool to talk to by.

Bryce is very you know, but nothing and Anthony Richardson's sort of just kind of fun and listen to Anthony Richardson's kind of a cheat code. Yeah, I mean he is so athletic. When you saw him at the combine, set records in the vertical leaps, at quarterback records in the forty yard dash, you see it. I mean, stuff breaks down, he just hits the button and takes off,

and he is capable of doing some incredible things. He's another one of those guys I think, you know, I know, people would probably freak out if Anthony Richardson was the first pick. But the idea of a guy with that kind of tools being surrounded by Frank Wright, Jim Colwell, Josh McCown, Thomas Brown because he's got that running element to his game. I mean, the idea of what they could do with someone like that is amazing. But you know, the big thing, all of those other quarterbacks have at

least basically twice as many snaps. I mean, they've got more reps than him. He just hasn't done it enough, and I think that makes him a little bit of an outlier. But gosh, she's talented. I mean, that kid, in the right situation could freak out. And he gives big number one vibes I mean, he's got some Cam Newton about him, and not just because he's a Florida quarterback, but he plays that way and you can see that potential.

It's just a matter of how comfortable are you drafting potential when you've given up all that stuff to get to that spot. And that's really the thing, right, which is we've just gone through and very systematically. You guys were there in person, and you could make a case for any of these four guys, and certainly that is what's going on with this Panther's front office, ownership, coaching staff is as you said, Darren, they are traveling in Augusta.

As you said, you know, they are taking a huge contingent to each of these places and then they're going to owners meetings and then they're coming back or they're taking it very seriously, really no stone left unturned, and it's the priority. And Darren, on our last podcast Augusta you weren't here, you said, you said, look, they're going to take every opportunity. They're going to do the in person visits. They're going to talk to these players as much as they can, they're going to see as much

as they can. We're going to have conversations every day. Right, I was at the combine and there was a big meeting about about quarterbacks after they had their interviews with them, and then there was a smaller meeting, and I imagine there were more meetings after that, because this is such a big decision and the way in which this Panther's group is approaching it is the way we are going to feel great about whoever this is, is that we are going to take every available opportunity to learn as

much as we can visualize it, as much as we can feel the fit, as much as we can with all of the available quarterbacks that we think could potentially be our pick. And it's exhaustive, but that is the process, right, no question, it's not over all four of those cats are going to rolling through here in the next week,

ten days. Sort of looking at the calendar now, make sure I'm right, But yeah, over the next couple of weeks, all all four of them will be back in the building again for what they call top thirty visits, along with a lot of other guys as a prep for the entire draft, not just that first pick. But it's that's gonna be where they put them on the board and get to spend you know it to combine. You're limited to eighteen minutes, so you're really not getting a

lot of time to go in depth with anything. When they get them in the building here next week and week after that's when you can get them on the board, go through stuff, see how they learn, get them to spit it back to you thirty minutes later, go down the hall and introduce them to somebody else, come back and see if they retained it. So stuff like that's going to happen over the next couple of weeks. Is they narrow this thing down and make a final decision

and Augusta. It feels to me like, you know, on April twenty seventh, when that number one pick gets announced, of course everyone is going to have opinions about it. You've got people in all four If you look at it Twitter, any NFL fan, any Panthers fan has got you know that all four camps have very strong supporters. They are going through the things that we just talked about.

They are pointing out stuff that you know, I don't know if anyone saw this or remember that game or whatnot, but it does feel like whether you agree or disagree with the pick. The Panthers are going to have conviction one percent conviction on who this person is, and no one will have done more due diligence on all of their options, which I think is something that as a fan you got to feel good about, right. But we'll see how it plays out, of course. But there was

no there was no eye Yeah, the eye tests. We're gonna go with this guy. You know, It's really been an incredibly, incredibly thorough process, which I imagine everyone is tired too, so exactly they get a sort of zombified look in their eyes at a certain point. I think when I caught him on day three in Kentucky, No, they were going to turn around and Scott and I were on the same flight to Arizona the next day, so we all flew back to Charlotte, the upset that

you had better seats than him. Unfortunately I did not. I did get upgraded on the way home from Kentucky. That was nice. It still wasn't private, so I don't I didn't win that trip, but um, but yeah, I mean you can see that you get a little bleary eyed out there on the road at a certain point when you're gone from home for more than a couple of days at a time, because we're so used to weekend travel. You're out on Saturday. Back on God though, that was one of the things that we bonded over.

Sideline reported we first Scott here and then a scout. I mean, yeah, we joked about how fast can you pack a suitcase? He was like, oh, I got it in like fifteen seconds, you know, keep it by the door. That was his life. I mean, he's perfectly cut out for that, and I think lives for it a little bit. So this has got to be fun. And then and then, of course, as we said, you're also signing guys during

free agency right during this time too. Oh, by the way, other stuff going on, because they actually got the DJ chart deal done while we were standing on the Sideline's in Kentucky. Yeah, and Sameir was standing there and it's like Sameir, Scott and Frank or I'll standing in a group. It's like, here's the phone, your phone, phone phone, everybody good? Yeah, okay, we're good. And that's how that deal. Let's watch, We'll love us throw Let's watch will love us throw it around?

All right. Well, since you guys have been on the road so much, I figured we would end this with just a little I just want to get some some travel style vibes from the two of you. If you had to choose, you want to drive to wherever you're going, or do you want to take a plane? Not private? Darren every time, fly every time. Me. I like to get out on the open road a little bit. Every time I can go. It's effortless, you know, out of my out of my hands. I was talking to someone

about it the other day. It's like, you know, there's people who love control. That's not me. I love not having it. It's like I can sit back, relax, catch up on some sleep. It is nice to Yeah, you could read a book, do some work, all that kind of stuff. But I every time get out and drive. Yeah. I used to be a big road trip guy. I could do the drive. I have fourteen hours in one day, cannonball at across country, stuff like that. I remember driving back from Chicago once when I was in my twenties.

I left Chicago one morning and drove back to Gastonia and finished up a night shift at the paper. You know, it was just bizarre and why would you do it? But um, yeah, now I'm not there. In fact, it's kind of like driving Miss Daisy. I was out there with Kyle Toot and Rob Paul from the video team, and I told him, I said, I've got one condition on travel. I'm a real prima donna. I don't drive. I was gonna say, who was driving? If you gotta go,

are you driving? I'm gonna guess you standing back, I'm gonna guess Rob drove. Yeah, YEA drove. I could see that. Been out there with Kyle behind the wheel, and it's like, I remember Atlanta a couple of years ago. We drove down for some reason. Um yeah, yeah. I was during COVID. We were all driving separately, and I was in the backseat of the car driving or writing while Kyle was driving. And I was like, okay, I'm finished writing, I can

let you. You can pull over, and I can get in the front seat and be a normal human being. He was like, no, I don't feel like stopping. Did you crawl through? That's what I just sat in the back like I was being show first. This is a more this is a more interesting thing. You had your

laptop out writing in the backseat. Oh yeah, Oh, I would have I would have Oh yeah, I would not have been able to say that's how your sausage gets made at Panthers dot com, all those road games Augustine and I are writing on the bus between the locker rooms and that. But I would have chosen the front seat. I would have gotten too car sick. I could not have done it the whole read the whole Bryce Young Alabama story, I promise you, because we we flew out

of Birmingham and we had to drive from Tuscaloosa. I wrote that entire thing in a backseat of a vehicle. The whole thing, like the from start to finish, was in a car. Well, no wonder you guys want to, you know, not be driving places because all your articles are coming immediately after you finish your event. Uh and they got to be published. All right? This was fun? Yeah, that's happy. Absolutely. Thanks everyone for listening to the Happy Half Hour podcast. We'll catch you nex time. H