The Group Chat Episode 27: New Year, New Coach

you wear a diaper? I hear people that I walked. I walked by it and all the people were in like the cages. They have everyone in cages. That's why you have to wear a diaper. Unfortunately, all were forced in that moment to imagine Will wearing a diaper. We have that in so much more. On the final group chat of nineteen, you've been added to the group chat with your friends Caroline, can Max Sensen, and Will Brian. Happy New Year everyone. If you're listening to this in

two thousand nineteen, that's old news. Happy twenty. This is a weird year because I remember being a senior in high school. My biology teacher had young twin boys and they were. They were teeny tiny and had on these shirts that said class of I thought, wow, that's forever away. Now they're graduating high school, they're going to college. It's weird. This is a big year. So happy new year. Hope

everyone had a great two thousand nineteen. I've seen a lot of negative things on social media about people saying that twenty nineteen is not a good year for them. That's sad. Is it a good year for you guys? So maybe I think it was a good year for Willibro. It was a pretty good year. There's I mean, there's things that didn't go great. You know, the rush defense wasn't fantastic. So that your world around Panthers rush, Yes

it does, Yes, yes it does. Max is totally no. No No, I mean Panthers stack I got to talk about a lot of things this year. So Panthers Stacky is happy. Yes, did you have a good Yeah? I've got no real complaints. Um, I feel like it was a pretty It was a pretty good year for I mean, yes, the football season did not go great, but we don't like a small party. Don't let our world around exactly. You can't all the time.

We unfortunately cannot control the outcome of the games on Sunday, So if we let that some people on Twitter, I think we can. Yeah, I mean, it's just we're just here to tell the stories. So um, yeah, I would have liked to tell some stories about some more wins, but no, I feel like twenty nine team is pretty good to me personally. Yeah, I'm the same. Nine was a great year for me. Is gonna be really fun.

It's gonna be fun for a lot of reason ends a lot of personal reasons, but it's also going to be fun because of all the changes that are about to happen to the Carolina Panthers. Of course, starting with right now, what is stealing all headlines for us as a content group right now is stealing our attention is of course the head coaching search, whether they are rumors or they are true, or their sources. We're hearing so much about this coaching search. I know you are as well.

If you're listening to this podcast nine times out of ten you are a Panthers fan, so you are hearing all about this too. So we thought that we would play a little what is this wheel of fortune roulette? What we we didn't really come up with a fun name for this. Yeah, we should have done that. We're really leaving. We came up with us off of the coaching carousel because that happens every year. Roulette wheel. All right,

let's do the roulette. So that's what we're doing. We're going to just spin the wheel that we have up here with coaches names on them, and we're just going to talk about what you worked really hard on this wheel too. It looks beautiful with all the names on it all. I love the prices, right, and so I just kind of pulled in my best crafty showcase showdown

right obviously that the listeners can't see. But it's this huge wheel that's right in front of us, and Matt is literally going to spin this thing until we land on a coach. Better give it a good space. We've given that an official, an official role in this podcast other than being the producer that puts it all together. So are you excited about that? Very excited. It's a very heavy wheel to spin too. Yeah, it was a bit of a pain to get it in this studio.

We managed it is, all right, So you get you get it. We're gonna spin it. We're gonna talk about it, UM, and then we're just going to run through as many as we can without making this the longest podcast of nine we'll leave this UM and inappropriate yes, appropriate links. So let's has jump into this. Not spin the wheel, good spin nice. What are we laying? First? Up is Mike McCarthy. This is everyone's favorite Mike McCarthy. Well, I

know you want to talk about Mike McCarthy. McCarthy, about Mike, you're actually my Packer sweater. So Mike McCarthy obviously Aaron Rodgers Mike McCarthy have been the dynamic tandem for much of the last decade. Rumored already to have been interviewed twice according to reports. I think the big thing to know about Mike is Mike. Mike, my old buddy Mike.

That just I love Mike. You know Mike, Mike Mack, you know Mike U. So McCarthy was fired by the Packards after or kind of near the end of the season UM two years where Rogers was hurt kind of in his last two years there. Obviously had a long time with Rogers, a lot of success. Offensive coach spent some of the nineties with the Kansas City Chiefs, Um, but obviously offensive minded, one of the older candidates among

the candidates that have been listed so far. UM kind of the big the big storyline around him is that he spent this whole last year essentially in a bunker up in Wisconsin, looking over tape with Jim Haslett, Frank Sinnetti, and Scott McCurley, literally going through, week by week, this

is what I'm gonna do on a Tuesday. This is how I'm gonna structure practice, this is how we're gonna game plan for this, looking back over old Packers tapes, looking at what all of the innovative offenses of the league are doing right now, the Chiefs obviously uh studying them, the Ravens looking at what these teams are doing and trying to figure out ways to kind of innovate and create new ways to go about creating his own offense. So he's putting out the right he's putting out the

right storyline. He's certainly saying what you want to hear of innovation and old school toughness, and that that's what he's trying to convey. So that's kind of why he's he's on the radar right now, and he was someone that they could interview early that they didn't have to wait till the end of the season because he was already you know out Yeah. Yeah. You imagine he has come very prepared for his interviews after spending a year in a bunker evaluating everything there is to see with

NFL football these days. Um yeah. I thought that was super interesting just reading about that throughout the course of the year, that this guy, a Super Bowl champion head coach, was kind of just rededicating himself to evaluating his own philosophies as well as the philosophies of those around the league.

The thing about McCarthy is it's like he was obviously blessed to have a guy like Aaron Rodgers as his quarterback, but it's also kind of something that's like a knock against him now, it's like, how come you didn't win more with Aaron Um And I think that's one of the questions people have about McCarthy is, Okay, so you had one of the greatest quarterback talents of all time.

They did win that one super Bowl. They had some great seasons fifteen and one season, a twelve and four season, won that division, a bunch of years in a row, But why was there not more? And I think that's the question that Mike is answering in these in these interviews, actually looks for his next job. Yeah, we're all just on a first name bracism Mike, but there's no denying that the best we saw Aaron Rodgers was, you know, with with Mike McCarthy. I mean when when those two

were really humming. I mean it was that was something especially I just didn't win as much, Like it's hard enough to win one super Bowl, So he's got that. You know, there's not many guys out there interviewing for jobs with a Super Bowl ring, but I think people do wonder, Okay, you had Aaron Rodgers, how comedian't win more? Well?

And that that might be a theme as we continue down this wheel today of well, all of these guys had this stud at quarterback, you know, so it's like how much of it is really them versus how much of it is this player that's kind of carrying their success. I mean, one way or another. You can always debate, you know, how much of its play calling, how much much of it just this is an incredible quarterback. I wonder with Mike, since we all know him so well

he would be a coordinator. I think he has prepared himself so much and put this narrative out of being a head coach. But like we're saying, there are some things against him that in this new age of NFL, maybe he doesn't fit the bill of what these owners are looking for in a head coach. Would he go in and be a coordinator because he has all the philosophies and he knows he has proven to be that

type of coach. But I do wonder about that of cold hold himself to be the head coach, or would he go in under a young, hot shot coach and be the coordinator. I think he's he's earned the right to be a head coach again. And I think with the way this league works and guys getting recycled around and another opportunities, I mean this, this guy's got a super Bowl ring again. There there aren't many head coaches

who have that. I do think. I mean, he's gonna be a play caller if he's head coach again, and that's going to be part of the deal. It's like he's gonna call plays because he feels like that's what that's what he brings to the table as an offensive mind. So I think he'll get another shot to be a head coach. I don't know where that'll be. Maybe it's here, um, but I think he's He's a guy someone's going to

take a chance and then rightfully so. But you would have to wonder if this cycle, I mean, you know, his name has obviously been now been connected to a number of teams. You know, if this cycle goes through and he doesn't get a job, I mean I I'd wonder that, you know, if two years out of the league, then you start to you know, you start to question that. All right, But that's five minutes on Mike. So let's see. Let's go who are who's our next guy? Wheel? It's

been that wheel? John Can under this is a dark horse in this race. Everyone does anyone know who John Can is? Out there? I don't think they're gonna have to tell us a little bit more. This is my dad was going to say, I think this is so funny. I jokingly threw this out in a planning meeting because

my dad looks like a football coach. So I just that it would be funny if we wanted to create some buds and some rumors to just have my dad fly in to you know, you don't even need to fly in, just walk out of the airport looking like a coach, have a black car pick him up, bring him to Bank of America Stadium, just have him walk in, just so people would be like, who is this guy that the Panthers are interviewing? What's his resume look like? Yeah, tell us a little about what what kind of coaches

he's He's definitely a player's coach. He is more offense. He played offensive line in college, so he was definitely all he's all about the trenches. That was really where he feels old school toughness, but very much so, very very into the discipline and making sure that guys have a routine. That was his big deal when he was he was coaching high school ball was to teach these guys some discipline, which you know that that builds some type of culture here. And so I I, you know,

I really think guys should really give John Candle. Look now, when you say he looks like a coach, like to describe what you mean by that, and like, like what was his game day attire? Like was he like he's like in your classic. The game day really wasn't where he shines. Where he shines is I mean he does in his coaching ability, but looking like a coach. Yeah, we want to coach a shine on game day. That's kind of important. He wants it, you know, he wants

some things now. But where he shines and looking like a football coach is just on a random Tuesday at Target. He is always looking like. He came to training camp this past year in Spartanburg and people instantly were like, where's he coach? Yeah, where's hey coach over here? He came up to Indianapolis to training camp when I was there, and instantly people that I did not know, we're asking, where's he coach? He looked? He just if you if you were going to cast a football coach in a movie,

you would be looking for a John John look coach. Name. Yeah, he John Kane Is. There's a lot of casting calls for these movies. I think he would just be a phenomenal extra in a movie. I don't know if he has the acting chops to be the lead guy, but who knows. My dad is a talented Well. I think I'm gonna spend the wheel again because we're looking for a real coach, not a TV coach. Wow, he was a real coach. He is You make it really tough to be nice to you. He is a he has

a real coach. He actually became an I think John Cant could put together a great staff with some good coordinators. He really could. People would want to work for it. But he did stop coaching. I do understand where you're coming from. He stopped coaching in two thousand twelve, and now he's refreshed. He's energy. He's been watching a lot of taple, watching a lot of he's been in a bunker in Carolina, he has. He's been learning kind of

the organizational type as an athletic director. So he would be able to come in and instantly you go, John, all right, spind the wheel. Matt Matt Rule, hot name, hot name. Everybody's talking about Matt Rule right now. What do we think he's interviewing for every job available? If we talked about the game, what do we think about his you know we're just talking at game day attire.

What do we think about that book? So he's got to look, Yeah, he's got this like this look that I guess became his things l w K. It's like a little like it's like a kind of like windbreaker vest with the hoodie short sleeve right underneath, and I guess his players and everybody just sort of like got behind. It was like had these like Matt Powers. It's the casual Belichick. Yeah yeah, I like the college Belichick. Uh yeah, rules and an interesting guy. I mean his resume looks

a little like this. Took over Temple as their head coach. They were too in tennis, first year six and six and next year ten and four, ten and three, so a complete turnaround rebuild. Then he gets the bailor job. First year there one and eleven, next year seven and six, next year eleven and two. So he clearly has a track record of getting to places, figuring out where the problem areas are, addressing them, and then they become really good,

really competitive. Obviously, this is at the in the college ranks, so there's a transition to be made about coming to the NFL. But clearly with the amount of interest that people have in him, he's got the type of personality, the demeanor. I like his honesty. I like the way he approached his his team, meeting with his Bailor players and was like, guys, I would be dumb not to hear these teams out, and he credited the players like, I'm not getting this opportunity with that you guys going

on the field and getting wins. So I just like the way he's handling it all. Obviously comes from a really good coaching tree with guys he's worked for. So yeah, he's gonna have a job soon. Um. And it seems like teams are lining up to be you know, the ones potentially offer him. Yeah, the Giants are very very interested in him. He said no to interviewing for the

Cleveland Browns apparently, so that's that's something. Yeah. Um, So yeah, this is a This is an interesting person because when we heard David Tepper first talk, he said, you know, having that NFL experience would be nice, but he didn't rule out the fact of of not rule. He didn't rule out talking to college coaches, And this one is interesting and I thought that, you know, the big question is can he make that transition. I think the fact that he held the meeting with his players and was

very upfront with him that's the NFL. That's what makes team successful. As the transparency the honesty, the this is a business, this is you know everybody like Ben. I think that is a big indicator if he has those intangibles that you want out of a coach. Now there's a lot more to it. The NFL is, of course, this national brand, and at Baylor, not too many people unless you're in Waco or super you know, paying attention to that or in Texas. So I think there is

that as well. But I like him. I like how he's handled the press. I like how he's handled his business of they play on New Year's Day, so watching pay attention to tune in to see how they play. I'm I'm super interested he's going. I think he will land in the NFL, which just seems pretty where. Yeah. Yeah, and again like that the Bailor program, like with everything that went on there, like that was not an easy situation to walk into. So yeah, he's clearly got the

coaching chaps. Um. I would be curious to see what kind of staff he could put together. I think a lot for a lot of these guys, it's important that they have somebody with NFL head coaching experience on their staff to kind of help them with that transition. Um, and he's not necessarily a specialist type like this isn't like whiz kid offensive mind or some you know, defensive coordinator who's just shut teams down throughout his tenure. He's kind of a he's a program builder and and I

think that can transfer to the NFL. But a lot of these NFL owners now are looking for a guy who's going to give them a specific edge on one side of the ball, you know, and say we're we know we're going into this game with an advantage because this guy can call plays better than anybody else. Rule is a little bit of a different um candidate in that sense, and that his strength is obviously being the CEO type to kind of bring rise all ships. Would you say that he plays by his own rules? I

think I think you could say that. I think and and finally, I mean and I think the Panthers but I think they need that right now. You know, I don't think they need, you know, a whiz kid to come in and sit in a room. And I think, you know, that's why his coordinator hires would be important, right because there needs to be a culture were established right now, and look at what's coming for the Panthers

in the next three years. I mean, you're you're moving from your headquarters being an uptown Charlotte to moving it to, you know, fifteen minutes away in South Carolina. What's that going to look like for where you're coaching staff lives, where your players live, how the game. I mean, there's a lot of just organization changes that a guy like this seems to have the chops to be able to handle that and move forward. I think that's a big

thing too, if you can. I mean, if your team doesn't know what they're doing when they're doing it, that that's problem number one. And it seems like he's done that for sure. He is. He has to keep his name at the top of your list if you're keeping up with this coaching search. Spend the wheel again, Matt's please Josh McDaniels. You want to take a take a stab at Josh here, first tell us a little b

about Mr McDaniels. I just have a history with Josh McDaniels because I was a part of the content team in Indianapolis when we agreed to terms with Mr McDaniels to come and then he did it. So he's a great coach and he's done this before. This is not the first time that he has said I will go and you know, then comes back to New England, goes back to New England. I think he's his His His hires will also be a very big deal. They're all going

to be a big deals. Coordinators are. But I think him even more because he has been Belichick's right hand man for years and Belichick has made it very clear that he doesn't want Josh to leave, but Josh has continued to, you know, poke his head out of the sand and look at the opportunities that are coming. Obviously, he has had Tom Brady to be, you know, the puppet. I'm not who's sure who's the puppet or puppet master in that relationship, but um, he's had him to work with.

Of course, all the success that they've had in New England. I think what is interesting when you look at assistants that come out of New England is they try to be Belichick. And then that's what you see in Detroit, in Tennessee. That's what you know, we kind of heard about Josh McDaniels coming out is and that's what owners want, owners want. What New England is doing, and so yes, that's a very easy way to kind of sell yourself.

I think Josh McDaniels is a fantastic coach and he was an exciting hire when when we initially hired him in India for a few minutes, just a couple of days. It was really exciting. Um. But I don't know, I'm I'm on the fence about this. I think he's great. I think he would he obviously interviews very very well and he would have this plan. I just I'm just weird about him. Yeah, yeah, well, and look, obviously you

have reason to be. I was intern with the Broncos right after Josh left Denver where he had gotten fired after being the head coach there. That was his first opportunity the first time he left New England, went to Denver, didn't didn't work out great for him there, um, but went back to New England and clearly re established himself as one of the top, if not the top offensive mind in the league. And I think his players all

swear by him. Um, whether it's talking to Chris Hogan here in this locker room or you know, Brady Edelman, all the all these guys, they will have you leave that he is a genius and he's somebody who will give you a clear advantage over the rest of the league with just how he views the game and how he can dissect a defense. As you were talking about, Caroline, everybody wants a piece of what Belichick has done in New England if you can somehow replicate that in your

own franchise. So I think that's what makes Josh appealing. He's young offense. This is an offensive league, a quarterback driven league. That's what Josh McDaniel's specialty is. Um. He's been very picky, clearly about trying to figure out where because he's had the opportunities and he's going to have them again this year. It seems so Um, if you want a guy who you think is going to clearly give you some sort of offensive an edge, that is

what Josh is always seemingly brought to the table. But there's always been questions about him because of just kind of how things went in Denver and obviously what happened with Indianapolis. Yeah, when I say I'm weird about him, it's more just the gun shy. Is he really going to leave New England? I don't know if he will and you look at all these opportunities. I think he would be a great higher I mean, why what you're saying of all the players swearing by him, that's what

you want. You want someone that instantly these players are going to buy into and I think Josh McDaniels would be that will be that if if he chooses to leave New England. I just don't know if Belichick will let him go. And I think, what what is upcoming in New England. You just look at that situation of Tom Brady at the end of the year, is a free agent, all of these changes that could be coming there. Yeah, maybe this is the time for him to leave New England.

Or maybe it's not. Maybe this is where Belichick hammers down and says, absolutely not, you can't leave because we have all these pieces, or maybe it's just it is time. I always had the sense that Belichick was grooming him for this opportunity, and I think that's what Belichick has enjoyed kind of doing, whether it's Patricia or Flores or guy like Rabel who played for him. I think that's that's that's what elevates the greatness of Bill Belichick is when he can say look at all these guys who

have now. Um, So I think he wants Josh to have that opportunity. Um. I think it's more Josh being like I've got Belichick and Brady here. It's like I can I'm not going to leave until I know that I can have success or I feel really really good about the next place I'm going to. Because it has not been a bad gig for him in New England. No,

it hasn't. And let's go with the off the wall chance that he emerges in New England and what if it's an end and of an era, whether it's next year or in three years or whatever it is, and in Belichick saying, hey, man, stick around, I will be fait. You know. So, I just think there's a lot going on in New England. I don't think it's as much of There's been plenty of jobs that Josh obviously was interested in. I think what is the most interesting piece

here is what's happening in New England. It's not you know, he's not a rule where it's like, all right, this is the next step for me. I think it would be almost a lateral, you know, not obviously a head coach is a step up. But when you just look at the opportunities that he has, I think he gets to look at it more from a lateral perspective than all out of these other coaches, and that's what has

held him in New England. He's an interesting one. He's fascinating to me just because of all the interest he continues to get and the decisions he's making and Tom Brady free agent. That's what I'm saying, maybe tom Brady, maybe maybe the time Tom Brady comes with him, let's just throw it all. Let can you imagine? Yeah, you imagine? Oh my goodness, We're just going to leave that out there for everyone. Just just just think about it. Do you guys think that that's the first question Josh McDaniels

has asked about what happened with Indianapolis last year? Do you think that's the first interview question he gets. Yeah, that's got to be It's got to be the elephant everyone's got. I don't know because he was asked about that at the Super Bowl. But after after he went through everything in Indianapolis, there was a press he had a press conference at the Super Bowl, and that's where he was really asked about it. And he did address it.

He had his answer for everyone. But do you think a guy, I mean, you guys know temper If I'm hell, that's what ye yeah, he's saying. Yeah, if I'm an nfil team, I have to get to the bottom of what happened there, explained to me what happened. Yeah, it

is great. I mean the story is that Belichick wouldn't let him leave the building that he had told Belichick and he was starting to pack up his office, and Belichick came down and sat in his office, wouldn't let him and said, what is it going to take to keep you here? That was the story, and so then he called his wife and everyone because there were so many things about the assistance that were higher. I mean, there was a lot of layers to that. One more

time spend the wheel here. My arm is so heavy from spinning. Ye know, we'll get Eric B enemy Eric B enemy, the enemy be enemy. I mean think of all Eric sleeping with the enemy. Yeah, that's a Chris Berman. Uh wanta quick rundown on the enemy. I think this is a really intriguing guy as well. Has had a lot of success under Andy Reid with the chiefs. I'm just gonna let Andy speak again. We're on first name

basis with all these guys. Um, here's what Andy, I'm just because, honestly what we You don't care what I have to say about Erk care. This is what Andy Reid has stayed about airb NIV. I'd say, hire him, like right now. This is what I tell you. I don't want to lose him. But if you're asking me if he's ready to be a head coach, yeah, he's ready. He was ready last year. Nobody has in more control than he is within this game. He's a leader of men. He knows football, but he knows the offense like the

back of his hand. He's in the quarterback room every day. I think if you talked to Patrick Mahomes, I think Patrick would tell you how much of an influence he's had on him. So a ringing endorsement from Andy Reid, who has had a lot of success in this league. Um, the enemy is as an offensive guy. Obviously, with my homes and what that chief's offense has done, people have marveled at it. He's he's clearly ready for an opportunity.

Will a team give him one? I mean, he went through I think four or five interviews with teams last year and didn't get it. Now he's going to kind of go through his name is going through the car wash again, and we'll see. But I I'm also very intrigued by this one. The Enemy, The Enemy, I like it a lot. I think it's a great it's a great call of you know, someone he spent some time at Colorado, so who doesn't necessarily have all of the

years of Nbelle experience. But I think it's interesting that he was assistant in the NFL, then went back for the Colorado job, and then came back, so you know, it has a little bit of both. You know, a lot of times guys are kind of all all one or the other. So I mean it shows that he you know, he's a little bit more u versatile and

what he's programs he's been able to build. But I mean, yeah, I mean went running backs coach, which small Charles, and then now with what he's done with mahomes the last two years. I mean, it's incredible, it is, and I think he's one of those that, like you said, last year, he went through the ringer of interviews, but they didn't really hear his names. So. But then when there's this ringing endorsement that comes out from a head coach, I think, I mean, you have to listen to that because he

doesn't want to lose him. But he's still going out there and saying, hey, I think this guy is very ready to come in in the interesting part with him is I think a question that these coaches aren't getting is the Cam Newton question, what do you want to do? Is their quarterback you you would want to bring in that you think you could bring in, whether that's through free agency or you know. I think that's an interesting piece and I would have loved to hear what he

has to say. I think that Josh McDaniels could pull in a free agent quarterback from somewhere if that's the direction that this organization chooses to go. I think even

you know Rule could do the same. I think there's enough attraction around him, or he even knows the college game really well to maybe know a second or third round guy that you know if you do, if you choose to do that again and do the will career experiment again, I think this is an interesting I just want to know who who would you Who is someone that you you think could do it here in Carolina? What is it Cam Newton? Is it someone else? And I think that that's a piece that with him, I'm

not really sure what that answer would be. I think with all the other guys that are in this running, I'm thinking, okay, I think this might be the direction that they would go with him. I mean, Patrick Mahomes not going anywhere. And then you know, you look at the backups they've had on there and it's like, Okay, I don't know. I think that's the interesting piece with this guy is of course you still there's still this

quarterback question that we're going to be talking about. Absolutely, absolutely, Matt. Do we have time for one more spin? Give us one more spin? One more all right? I can do that. Eric Taylor, Yes, I was hoping he was going to land down this one. This is I mean, this would be okay. I don't even know where to be in with this. I'm just gonna start. I'm just gonna start. Obviously, Coach Taylor walked into a situation at Dylan where expectations

were sky high. I mean, you're talking about a program that expects to win state titles year in and year out. To go eight and two in his first season and win the state title game. With everything that happened with Jason Street early in the year, the horrific nature of that injury, to to rally the team around a guy not many people believed in Matt Sarrison and well, I know you were one of them who didn't think he

could get the job done. But this was a guy who they built a game plan for and really got that whole locker room to believe that Saracen could lead them to a state title. And they did it. It was remarkable. Seven and one the next year to losing the state quarterfinal was disappointing. Okay, you had the j. D. McCoy experiment. Another quarterback you bring into the mix. How was that going to affect the locker room, the psyche of that team. But he met Caroline Doe left. They

managed to navigate You're gonna make me laugh. They navigated that well enough. And yes, he lost again in the state title game in two thousand and eight after nine and one season, but then took on a major rebuilding project in East Dillon, and Matt, you know how difficult that East Dillon situation was very challenging. Circumstances, rebuilds that program to and eight the first year, nine and one the second year, and they win the state title. The

East Dillon Lions winning a state championship. That's I mean, that's storybook stuff. Well, let's not forget all the drama off the field that was happening well, that he had to navigate through make sure that his team was ready for the game day. I mean that that is a leader. Absolutely. You want to hear about some accolades, I'll give you some. Listed MTV's Best TV Character of two thousand eleven, a l TV placed him in it's top twenty TV dads. What more do you want? Hey? Well said that, what

more do you? I ask you? I ask you. He has to be at the top of the list. He has to be if he's not. And is there any any catchphrase for a coach better than clear eyes full hearts? I mean, come on, I mean, I think we already have the graphic ready for that. We need to get that made. Actually, Daniel, can we listen to explosions in the sky for a second game? That should bring us out? That really should. If you don't know who this coaches,

google him. You'll instantly fall in love with him like we have here at the group chat table, and we hope that he's at the top of the list of all the names that we ran through today. Of course, there are more names in the coaching carousel that we will be keeping an eye on that everyone will and from what we hear, this is going to happen pretty fast. So buckle up everyone. We we are going to have

a new coach for the Carolina Panthers sooner rather than later. Um. But before we go, New Year's is another It's a not a real holiday. I'm not a huge New Year's guy. Just come out and it's not a real holiday. Okay, it's a It is a turning of the page. It is a new calendar year for everyone. But uh, the only think it's a real holiday. But it always gives some good stories. So let's give the groupies. Let's go down memory lane of quickly. Has to be pretty quick

here on, we're on time. What's what's like a New Year's story that everyone's got? Well, Will wanted this segment, so I want to know what this one's about. Well, I I was in Times Square. No, did you wear a diaper? I hear people to do that. I walked I walked by it and all the people were in like the cages they have everyone in CA. That's why

you have to wear a diaper. Yet when like, unfortunately all were forced in that moment to imagine Will wearing a diaper, Like, that's just not I'm sorry that I didn't want that. Yeah, No, it was great. We we had a we had a bar like that. We reserved a spot like our whole group, so we just walked through Times Square on the way to the bar in in like the village or whatever. It was awesome. And then getting to see that and then walk back through it at one am, it was like a war zone.

It was. Yeah, that's cool, right, I want to hear hi, Matt. Yeah, I don't have any great stories, so I just want to hear that. Yeah, Max and I are kind of that. It's not really last year. Me and my girlfriend at the time now she's my fiance, we didn't really know each other that well. We went to a bar and we were she was with her group of friends, I was with my group of friends and the floor was really wet and sticky at the same time. It was like one of those gross like college bars type things.

So I'm belining across the bar to get um, get me, and I think one of my he's a drink and I go down at ninety miles just straight um, and I pop up real quick because I was like, you know, this girl that I was dating and I was crazy about, I was like, she cannot have just seen that. Luckily she didn't see it. But then later on I found out that she did the same thing that she went and felled ninety and then she she I didn't see it, which was unfortunate. I would have paid money to see that.

But I thought that was funny. You guys asked me for a story. I don't have a lot of relatable that way, you guys can just relate on that. Guess. I've never had a New Year's kiss. There's a fun fact. I was dating a guy at a time. At a time I was with him, I just didn't kiss him in New Year's I just I don't know. For some reason. I was like, always it's birthdays and New Year's where you reevaluate your life, and I think that's what was

happening with that relationship. Wow, So it didn't work out. No, that one didn't work out, So that one, that one did not work out. What's everyone doing tonight? Going back to Greenville, South Carolina? Same bar? Actually the same bar, same bar. That's a three year tradition. Now that's pretty cool. I'm just gonna go out to a nice dinner, be a nice night at home afterwards with the wife and dog.

Are you gonna make it to midnight? Tbd? Okay, what about you, I've got I've got some house party plans. Well that's exciting. Yeah, thanks for the invite. Yeah you're going to Greenville. Yeah, but I still would have liked the invite. I just want to I want to be It's a courtesy thing. It's okay what friends do. But I'm not coming, but it would have been nice. Yeah. I'm with you, man, I'm with you. I have plans, but I can't tell you about them until next week.

Oiferlif hanger. So everyone have a wonderful Yeah I'm getting engaged. Okay, I'm not. But guys, hope you had a wonderful two thousand nineteen. Thank you for letting us be a part of at least some of it. Twenty nineteen, of course, was a great year for all of us because the group chat started. This has been a really fun rides of twenty. We have a lot of fun and exciting things planned for you, starting with keeping our eye on

this coaching search. The hope everyone has a great and safe nights and a great start to m WOW