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- 0:00Speaker 1: JJ Jansen. The Panthers report for training camp on Wednesday.
- 0:04Speaker 1: This is the final snapchats of the off season, although
- 0:07Speaker 1: I'm sure in like a week we'll be bothering JJ
- 0:09Speaker 1: at his place of work when we do shows from
- 0:11Speaker 1: training camp. But let's talk to JJ Janssen, the Panthers
- 0:15Speaker 1: iron man, America's long snapper. He joins us here on
- 0:19Speaker 1: the mac en Bone Show. JJ, thanks for coming on, brother.
- 0:22Speaker 1: How you feeling man?
- 0:24Speaker 2: I'm doing good in this analogy? Are you the parents
- 0:26Speaker 2: and I'm the kid? Because my experience is the kids
- 0:29Speaker 2: crying out the parent.
- 0:32Speaker 3: That is true.
- 0:33Speaker 2: I'm just trying to complete the analogy. Who's crying for who?
- 0:36Speaker 3: Here? That's a good point.
- 0:37Speaker 1: The dad and mom are high fiving when the kid
- 0:39Speaker 1: gets dropped off at summer camp.
- 0:44Speaker 2: I think the first summer camp you ever go to,
- 0:46Speaker 2: the kids excited and the parents are crying, and then
- 0:49Speaker 2: the second and after that, I think it begins to
- 0:52Speaker 2: flip a little bit, and then then somewhere around high
- 0:54Speaker 2: school time it flips completely back again. So we're somewhere
- 0:58Speaker 2: in that stage of maybe everyone's tier or two.
- 1:01Speaker 3: I like that you broke that down. Do you speak
- 1:03Speaker 3: for experience?
- 1:03Speaker 1: On that absolutely, So how are you feeling, dude, Like,
- 1:07Speaker 1: are you I don't know some guys, you know, some
- 1:11Speaker 1: guys gets at a point where training camp they can't
- 1:13Speaker 1: stand like, but but you guys seem to have a
- 1:16Speaker 1: lot of fun with the long games. That's like, are
- 1:19Speaker 1: you like, are you fired up and ready for camp
- 1:21Speaker 1: or are you kind of like, oh, another camp?
- 1:23Speaker 3: Like how do you give you it?
- 1:25Speaker 2: And now I'm always excited to go to camp. I
- 1:27Speaker 2: think if we had this conversation in three weeks and
- 1:30Speaker 2: everyone's legs are heavy and tired, and maybe we're a
- 1:33Speaker 2: little underslept and all that stuff, and maybe we've had
- 1:36Speaker 2: a couple of fights at camp amongst amongst our own teammates,
- 1:40Speaker 2: at that point, I think everyone will be over camp.
- 1:41Speaker 2: But I think everyone looks forward to it. We know
- 1:45Speaker 2: that it's a it's a long, hard toll in camp
- 1:48Speaker 2: that's never fun. But getting back with the guys, starting
- 1:51Speaker 2: to learn your playbooks again, getting in rhythm and sort
- 1:54Speaker 2: of dreaming up the possibilities of what your season is
- 1:57Speaker 2: going to be. I think is always a very exciting time.
- 1:59Speaker 2: And and you know, we're together not as much as
- 2:02Speaker 2: when we used to go down to wall or down
- 2:04Speaker 2: in Spartanburg where you're together. Yeah, you know, basically sixteen
- 2:06Speaker 2: hours a day. We're still together eleven or twelve hours
- 2:08Speaker 2: a day, but you know, the guys were playing cards
- 2:12Speaker 2: and goofing off and finding ways to shoot hoops and
- 2:15Speaker 2: play ping pong and do all this stuff, and that's
- 2:17Speaker 2: where the bonding happened. Yeah, once we get to the
- 2:19Speaker 2: regular season, we're not together for as long, and it's
- 2:22Speaker 2: very focused on learning the opponent. There's a lot of
- 2:25Speaker 2: extra learning. It's your own playbook, but also the opponent.
- 2:28Speaker 2: During training camp, you're really.
- 2:29Speaker 4: Just focused on yourself, so you also get a little.
- 2:31Speaker 2: Bit of the bonding that hopefully kind of begins to form.
- 2:35Speaker 2: Like what your team's going to be for the season?
- 2:37Speaker 1: Does Canalis And I think we've seen this on some
- 2:40Speaker 1: of like the Blueprint shows and stuff like that, or
- 2:42Speaker 1: the Inside Training Camp whatever whatever that you know that
- 2:44Speaker 1: show is called from the Panthers. Does Canalis have like
- 2:49Speaker 1: an opening speech to y'all almost like the theme for
- 2:52Speaker 1: the season, or like is it does it? Does it
- 2:55Speaker 1: go down that way at the start a camp?
- 2:58Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great question. Yeah, almost every coach I've
- 3:01Speaker 2: ever played for has some sort of opening speech, and
- 3:04Speaker 2: that may come like on day two or day three,
- 3:06Speaker 2: because there's a lot also, like a lot of logistics,
- 3:09Speaker 2: right imagine like you're getting on you guys have been
- 3:11Speaker 2: there forever, but imagine you onboarding for a new job.
- 3:14Speaker 2: I don't know what that means looks like either, but
- 3:16Speaker 2: like there's a lot of logistics. There's paperwork, and you
- 3:19Speaker 2: meet the doctors, you meet the trainers, equipment staff because
- 3:22Speaker 2: you know, there's so many guys on the team that's
- 3:24Speaker 2: never been to a camp with us, So there's a
- 3:26Speaker 2: lot of logistics. After all that's done probably by either
- 3:29Speaker 2: the end of day one day two. Then then coach
- 3:31Speaker 2: Canalis comes in and says, hey, now that all that
- 3:34Speaker 2: stuff's done, all the paperwork, all the logistics, let's get
- 3:39Speaker 2: down to football. Here's where we're going in twenty twenty six.
- 3:42Speaker 2: And kind of the fun part about coach Canalis is,
- 3:45Speaker 2: I mean he's a self identified dreamer. I'm sure that'll
- 3:49Speaker 2: be in the speech. Hey, guys, I'm a dreamer. That's
- 3:50Speaker 2: kind of how he thinks and imagines. I'm sure you
- 3:53Speaker 2: guys have heard it too, Like he can really begin
- 3:56Speaker 2: to paint a picture for what the hopes are for
- 3:58Speaker 2: the season, and he's so positive and optimistic. It really
- 4:02Speaker 2: gets you fired up for the season. You know, when
- 4:04Speaker 2: I played for Ron, you know, some of those speeches
- 4:06Speaker 2: were aggressive.
- 4:08Speaker 4: And nobody believes.
- 4:10Speaker 2: It's just a different mentality and style and the team
- 4:12Speaker 2: will always form in sort of the image and lightness
- 4:16Speaker 2: of their head coach. And so he does a really
- 4:19Speaker 2: good job of sort of setting the course for what's
- 4:21Speaker 2: ahead and keeping us very optimistic. And I think it
- 4:24Speaker 2: also keeps a lot of creativity on the team. Hey, hey,
- 4:27Speaker 2: we're imagining what could be. So go out there and
- 4:30Speaker 2: start to learn more about yourself and your teammates and
- 4:32Speaker 2: see what we will take this.
- 4:34Speaker 3: That's cool, man.
- 4:34Speaker 1: I want to hear some of that when they when
- 4:36Speaker 1: they put out Whenever documentary from training camp. I want
- 4:38Speaker 1: to hear what his message is. Also as a fun
- 4:42Speaker 1: game to play as a Panther fan to try to
- 4:44Speaker 1: guess what the Mets like. Do you kind of think
- 4:46Speaker 1: you said he's going to talk about being a dreamer.
- 4:49Speaker 1: Shouldn't the message? Shouldn't the message like you coach, you
- 4:52Speaker 1: coach youth sports and stuff. Obviously we probably can't talk
- 4:55Speaker 1: as long because I start noticing when I give big speeches,
- 4:58Speaker 1: all of a sudden the kids start looking around. Eventually
- 5:02Speaker 1: I'm rambling too long. They're not adults yet. They're getting older,
- 5:05Speaker 1: but they're not.
- 5:06Speaker 3: Do you kind of have an idea the adults.
- 5:08Speaker 4: Don't want to listen that long either. Let me assure you,
- 5:10Speaker 4: the adults don't want to listen. The message is one
- 5:12Speaker 4: of the things.
- 5:13Speaker 3: Go ahead.
- 5:13Speaker 1: I think the message has to be, doesn't it have
- 5:15Speaker 1: to be? What we did last year is great, but
- 5:18Speaker 1: we can do so much more. Is it something like that?
- 5:20Speaker 2: Do you think, well, you know, I think every coach
- 5:24Speaker 2: goes about it a little bit differently. Certainly, that is
- 5:26Speaker 2: got to be a thing. Hey, look, we went to
- 5:29Speaker 2: the playoffs and we played a really really close playoff
- 5:31Speaker 2: game against probably what was really the best team in
- 5:34Speaker 2: the league, even though they didn't win the Super Bowl.
- 5:36Speaker 2: But none of that matters. Like we're starting all over.
- 5:39Speaker 2: Every team's got a lot of changes. We bring most
- 5:42Speaker 2: of our team back, and yet we have a lot
- 5:44Speaker 2: of notable changes.
- 5:46Speaker 4: You know. The thing.
- 5:47Speaker 2: The thing about it is, I think the message, the
- 5:51Speaker 2: message is we are starting this climb all over again,
- 5:55Speaker 2: and we've got to learn who we are as the
- 5:57Speaker 2: twenty twenty six Panthers. Again, we've got a lot of
- 6:00Speaker 2: the same core, but we're adding a ton of important
- 6:02Speaker 2: pieces and we've got to figure out how that all
- 6:05Speaker 2: messes and works together. And you know, actually, the really thing,
- 6:09Speaker 2: the really thing that, the thing that was really impressive
- 6:11Speaker 2: about the way coach Canalis has handled the first three
- 6:14Speaker 2: seasons is he does not talk a lot. He does
- 6:17Speaker 2: not he does not go on and on and on.
- 6:19Speaker 2: It's a pretty short and brief message. Again, even adults
- 6:23Speaker 2: start tuning out when someone's talking at them for for
- 6:26Speaker 2: even minutes.
- 6:27Speaker 4: Upon minutes, so he keeps.
- 6:29Speaker 2: It pretty short, but again leaves it to our imagination.
- 6:32Speaker 2: What what can we become? Let's use these next five
- 6:35Speaker 2: weeks to really begin to explore what our possibilities are.
- 6:40Speaker 2: And what he means by that is everyone finding their best. Everybody, Hey,
- 6:44Speaker 2: can you add something to your game that you didn't
- 6:46Speaker 2: previously have? Coaches find out what players have in their
- 6:50Speaker 2: bag that maybe we didn't previously recognize. Let's explore to
- 6:54Speaker 2: see how good we can get. And as a player,
- 6:56Speaker 2: what that does is it frees you up to not
- 6:59Speaker 2: be so focused on making mistakes but really trying to
- 7:02Speaker 2: find ways to improve your game. So every coach there's
- 7:05Speaker 2: a different message. You have to have the right personality.
- 7:08Speaker 2: But as his personality goes, it's a lot more like
- 7:12Speaker 2: optimistic and let what is possible.
- 7:15Speaker 4: That's pretty cool.
- 7:16Speaker 3: That's cool. I like that.
- 7:17Speaker 1: And you got to be yourself right like some people,
- 7:19Speaker 1: some fans are like, man, I want more of a
- 7:21Speaker 1: hard aad, but you gotta be yourself, no doubt about it.
- 7:24Speaker 3: JJ Jansen is with us.
- 7:26Speaker 1: They will report for training camp on Wednesday, and Panther
- 7:29Speaker 1: fans are pumped. We got to do some listener questions.
- 7:32Speaker 1: We got to do some ask JJ questions. So whether
- 7:34Speaker 1: they're you know, questions about JJ summer, or whether there's
- 7:37Speaker 1: their funniest things, or whether they're football questions, hit us up.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Seven oh four, five, seven oh nine, six ten. I
- 7:45Speaker 1: we got to ask about this. This is from the
- 7:47Speaker 1: bagel guy that wants me to ask about what you
- 7:51Speaker 1: said about the Steelers. You've been hosting a lot of
- 7:54Speaker 1: NFL radio shows. The Steeler Depot posted a story that
- 8:00Speaker 1: Panthers long snapper JJ Jansen on NFL radio says we
- 8:04Speaker 1: will be uninteresting again and win nine or ten games.
- 8:07Speaker 1: Did you hear from some Steeler fans after that one JJ.
- 8:11Speaker 2: Well, the funny thing was I was doing I was
- 8:13Speaker 2: doing a show with old Panthers beat writer Jordan Rodrieg.
- 8:18Speaker 4: She's out with the Athletic and the Rams.
- 8:20Speaker 2: We talked about all thirty two teams, and the only
- 8:24Speaker 2: team that apparently picked up on something that I said
- 8:27Speaker 2: that was bothered with the Steeler fans, So I have
- 8:29Speaker 2: to laugh. We were doing for those that didn't see
- 8:32Speaker 2: the show, we were doing tiers and they were all
- 8:35Speaker 2: like gifts or whatever, and at the bottom was a
- 8:38Speaker 2: tier like Tier five, but it wasn't. It was just
- 8:41Speaker 2: like uninteresting. And there was a bunch of we put
- 8:43Speaker 2: like the Browns and the Jets, And I said to Steelers,
- 8:48Speaker 2: I think Jordan had the Steelers in there too. Again
- 8:51Speaker 2: nine to eight and uninteresting is, first of all, that's
- 8:55Speaker 2: basically what they've been. So I didn't feel like I
- 8:57Speaker 2: was any sort of brown groundbreaking or earth saturing information
- 9:02Speaker 2: and most teams would prefer to be uninteresting. One of
- 9:06Speaker 2: the one of the categories was good team, they will
- 9:09Speaker 2: break your heart. I don't think you'd want to be
- 9:11Speaker 2: in that category.
- 9:12Speaker 4: So I didn't actually.
- 9:13Speaker 2: Even find it to be the more offensive thing, but
- 9:15Speaker 2: I did. But I did get a few people say.
- 9:17Speaker 2: The only team that seemed to be upset by what
- 9:19Speaker 2: I said was was the was the Steelers. I'm not
- 9:23Speaker 2: trying to start anything. I love Mike McCarthy, I played
- 9:26Speaker 2: for him, I played with Aaron Rodgers.
- 9:27Speaker 4: I know a bunch of guys over there.
- 9:29Speaker 2: I just thought, hey, look that not in not interesting
- 9:32Speaker 2: is a pretty good, pretty good year.
- 9:34Speaker 1: But it's on I can only I can only imagine
- 9:36Speaker 1: that that will be played in the locker room during
- 9:39Speaker 1: Panther Steeler week. Let's go out there this long start.
- 9:44Speaker 2: I have a hard time believing sixteen weeks from now.
- 9:47Speaker 4: I think we played them at the end of the season.
- 9:48Speaker 4: If my memory serve, then that becomes the best Baltimore material.
- 9:52Speaker 2: But if it does, we'll just we'll just have to
- 9:55Speaker 2: go and win, and uh, you know, look, it'd be
- 9:58Speaker 2: pretty I think we played like in Week six team,
- 10:00Speaker 2: so it'd.
- 10:00Speaker 4: Be pretty good if like we cause them to.
- 10:02Speaker 2: Lose, to like put their record at like eight and seven,
- 10:05Speaker 2: and just like it's just sort of lining up.
- 10:07Speaker 4: I don't know, we'll see what happens. It is a
- 10:08Speaker 4: long way to go.
- 10:09Speaker 1: I would love it if they if they tried. If
- 10:11Speaker 1: McCarthy tried to get everybody angry at the long snapper,
- 10:14Speaker 1: I would love that one.
- 10:15Speaker 2: I legitimately admit no harm by it at all, but
- 10:19Speaker 2: that seemed to get picked.
- 10:20Speaker 4: Up on it.
- 10:21Speaker 1: Uh, this texture says. I don't know if it applies now,
- 10:24Speaker 1: but when JJ would go to Spartanburg, where they're guys
- 10:27Speaker 1: that you knew when you're hanging out more with them,
- 10:31Speaker 1: we're going to be the funniest that We're going to
- 10:33Speaker 1: make camp fun. Who are some of the funniest who
- 10:36Speaker 1: the funniest camp dudes from your years?
- 10:40Speaker 2: Well, on this team one of the guys that does
- 10:42Speaker 2: that all the time is Nick Scott. He is as
- 10:44Speaker 2: funny as the con makes it light and he oh yeah,
- 10:47Speaker 2: he's he's really really smart and usually the smart guys
- 10:50Speaker 2: are also the funny guys. And he keeps it light
- 10:53Speaker 2: and and he can hang out with really everybody on
- 10:55Speaker 2: the team and and he can get as good as
- 10:58Speaker 2: he can get. So he's a good one. Mike Rolbert
- 11:00Speaker 2: was fantastic. The toll Dozer was absolutely he had a
- 11:04Speaker 2: great feel for getting it light, especially kind of the
- 11:08Speaker 2: dog days down there in Spartanburg. Everyone knows, Gross and
- 11:11Speaker 2: Khalil were among the very best in terms of keeping
- 11:15Speaker 2: it light. So those are some of the ones that
- 11:17Speaker 2: come to mind. Certain position groups lend themselves more than others.
- 11:21Speaker 2: Derek Anderson, Joe Webb, a couple of quarterbacks were always
- 11:24Speaker 2: a hoot. Maybe it's just because the D line doesn't
- 11:28Speaker 2: invite me over all that much. The D line feels
- 11:30Speaker 2: way more serious during training camp. They're exhausted, they're frustrated
- 11:34Speaker 2: and angry. Linebackers just the same. So you kind of
- 11:37Speaker 2: have to lean into maybe the quarterbacks and the offensive
- 11:39Speaker 2: lineman to be your comedic humor.
- 11:41Speaker 4: But interesting comedic relief. But like Scott for sure right
- 11:45Speaker 4: now on our team is probably one of one. There's
- 11:49Speaker 4: a few other guys, but he's at the top.
- 11:50Speaker 3: Good.
- 11:51Speaker 1: This is a good question from Lake Norman James about
- 11:53Speaker 1: now the camps in Charlotte. Does anybody stay in a hotel?
- 11:57Speaker 1: I feel like it's young? Is it young guys in
- 11:59Speaker 1: a hotel? You guys how they do that?
- 12:02Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's some sort of cutoff. Trust me, I
- 12:05Speaker 2: blew through the cutoff a decade and a half ago.
- 12:08Speaker 2: But the cutoff usually around four or five years, and
- 12:12Speaker 2: I think a little bit of that is, Hey, a
- 12:14Speaker 2: lot of young guys, they don't have a place to go,
- 12:15Speaker 2: so they need a hotel, right like the first, second,
- 12:18Speaker 2: maybe even third year guys. And and then and then
- 12:21Speaker 2: those are the guys without families and without kids are
- 12:24Speaker 2: the ones. I've never been a big like curfew guy
- 12:27Speaker 2: because my feeling is, if in training camp, when you
- 12:30Speaker 2: can't cost us a game, if you are the whole
- 12:33Speaker 2: point of the curfew, right, is to keep you from
- 12:35Speaker 2: going out and spending late nights and drinking or whatever,
- 12:38Speaker 2: you know, whatever you do at late at night. My
- 12:41Speaker 2: point is I've always saw on curfew, I get rid
- 12:43Speaker 2: of curfew and training camp because I want to know,
- 12:46Speaker 2: when there's no rules, which guys are going to hurt
- 12:50Speaker 2: their own potential, end the teams when there's no consequences,
- 12:53Speaker 2: So I would I wouldn't want to hide them in
- 12:56Speaker 2: the Yeah, basically exactly right. That's the irony, of course,
- 13:01Speaker 2: is there's a few there's a few guys who are
- 13:04Speaker 2: married with kids, but they just happen to not be
- 13:06Speaker 2: like to their fifth year and I feel so bad
- 13:08Speaker 2: for them, Like they go home and kiss their wife
- 13:11Speaker 2: and kids good night, and then drive all the way
- 13:13Speaker 2: back to the team hotel. I always feel like we
- 13:15Speaker 2: need like special dispensation for those guys. Like if if
- 13:19Speaker 2: you've got multiple kids at home in Charlotte, I feel
- 13:23Speaker 2: like you should stay home. But although probably.
- 13:26Speaker 1: Rare when they're young, I would love to skip some bedtimes.
- 13:28Speaker 1: I'm going to watch you those bedtimes got stressful.
- 13:32Speaker 4: The problem.
- 13:33Speaker 2: The problem is that usually is like ten thirty or eleven,
- 13:36Speaker 2: so you have to be home for bed It's not
- 13:41Speaker 2: like you're missing all of that bedtime.
- 13:44Speaker 4: And then you got to get the reward of sleep.
- 13:46Speaker 3: Oh, then you gotta go back. That does cast all?
- 13:49Speaker 4: Right?
- 13:49Speaker 3: Last we were.
- 13:51Speaker 4: I'll say this, we were joking in the off season
- 13:53Speaker 4: and in training camp.
- 13:54Speaker 2: Nobody knows the NFLPA rules on length of time and
- 13:57Speaker 2: OTAs in training camp. Then the wives and children, they
- 14:00Speaker 2: are locked in on the rule. They know when Dad's
- 14:03Speaker 2: supposed to be home and when.
- 14:04Speaker 1: He's not, so they can't make up. Yeah, so they
- 14:06Speaker 1: can't get away with saying I can't come out. Okay, good,
- 14:09Speaker 1: last question the moms know. Last question is a great
- 14:12Speaker 1: one seven oh four number. Does JJ spend time JJ
- 14:18Speaker 1: and the specialist spend time in the off season coming
- 14:20Speaker 1: up with new lawn games and texting about it, or
- 14:23Speaker 1: do they show up and just kind of play last
- 14:25Speaker 1: year's long games during training camp.
- 14:28Speaker 4: Yeah, you definitely show up and pick up where you
- 14:30Speaker 4: left off and play last year's long games, and then
- 14:33Speaker 4: inevitably there's.
- 14:34Speaker 2: Something new and it's a little bit like it's like
- 14:37Speaker 2: I'm watching this all the the fefle woke up the
- 14:39Speaker 2: soccer like this. There's inevitably Messy will have some play
- 14:43Speaker 2: on the weekend where he's trying to dribble through someone.
- 14:46Speaker 2: It'll bounce off of two people and it'll right back
- 14:48Speaker 2: to his foot and all of a sudden, here comes
- 14:50Speaker 2: across and it's like, well, that was a cool move,
- 14:53Speaker 2: and then people will like try to recreate it. It's
- 14:55Speaker 2: a little bit like that in long games. All of
- 14:56Speaker 2: a sudden the ball bounces a weird way and we're like, oh,
- 14:59Speaker 2: what if we make the rule that you have to
- 15:01Speaker 2: do that? And you just sort of start changing the
- 15:03Speaker 2: game as something random happens. That's kind of how it goes.
- 15:07Speaker 2: But in training camp, as I have to laugh, in
- 15:09Speaker 2: training camp, we get out there pretty early to do
- 15:12Speaker 2: all of our work. They usually kick us off the
- 15:14Speaker 2: field they're done. They're done with us, So we've had
- 15:16Speaker 2: less time for long games because we're out there early
- 15:18Speaker 2: and then they're like, just just go in and go lift.
- 15:21Speaker 4: The tall year is stronger. So unfortunately we've had less.
- 15:25Speaker 2: We've had less free time of late. But we're all
- 15:27Speaker 2: getting stronger. So maybe that's actually better.
- 15:29Speaker 1: Okay, maybe that's good. Maybe that's a better use of
- 15:32Speaker 1: your time. All right, brother, Well, hey man, we'll see
- 15:34Speaker 1: you over there training camp. We're looking forward to it.
- 15:37Speaker 1: This could be a special year man, so it'll be fun.
- 15:40Speaker 1: Thanks for all the summer hits and we'll talk to
- 15:42Speaker 1: you a little bit.
- 15:44Speaker 4: Looking forward to it.
- 15:45Speaker 2: Joe Panthers, Hey, Happy New Year.