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Mac & Bone Show - Sheena Quick Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: All this show is missing, Bone, is a great guest
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  Speaker 1: like Sheena Quick. And luckily, that is about to happen
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  Speaker 1: right now on this show. Sheena Quick is part of
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  Speaker 1: that awesome new Panthers Collective podcast with Dunk and Joe Person.
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  Speaker 1: You can check that out. And also follow Sheena Quick.
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  Speaker 1: Follow all her coverage online. of the panthers because it
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  Speaker 1: is top notch and we want to see what she
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  Speaker 1: thinks about the team heading into the opener against the
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  Speaker 1: bears and sheena joins us right now on the mac
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  Speaker 1: and bone show sheena what's going on how you feeling
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. I feel good.
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  Speaker 2: How are you guys?
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  Speaker 1: We're doing good. You can't be bad.
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  Speaker 3: Ready to go out there and hit somebody for real.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Football-wise. Or watch people.
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  Speaker 1: Please don't say that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in traffic. Don't say that.
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  Speaker 3: No, watch people.
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  Speaker 1: No, you don't do that.
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  Speaker 3: Watch people hit people for real. Not you in the car. No,
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  Speaker 3: I mean like we're ready to watch people.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. There you go.
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  Speaker 3: Let's clean that up a little bit here.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think, Sheena? You're very online. You're very
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  Speaker 1: like in touch with kind of like what the fans
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  Speaker 1: are doing online. I love that. And the Bears fans,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, ever since the Bryce trade and I haven't
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  Speaker 1: really gotten involved with it, but Lord knows the four
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  Speaker 1: man rush going at those Bears fans every day, every hour. Like,
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  Speaker 1: do you find the Bears fans annoying on social media?
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  Speaker 1: Because it's funny. We played this podcast guy that was
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  Speaker 1: saying the Panther fans are the ones that are annoying.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, I think the Panther fans are just responding
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  Speaker 1: to this condescending post Bryce trade Bears thing.
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  Speaker 2: I agree. I don't feel like Panthers Twitter starts it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes they do, but in this case, they didn't start it.
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  Speaker 2: They're just finishing it, and I've never understood the animosity
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  Speaker 2: from Bears fans because, like, look at the haul that
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  Speaker 2: y'all got in the trade. I don't understand the anger.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like they– I guess they want to throw
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  Speaker 1: that in our face or whatever, but it's– It's so weird.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Sheena, your partner Joe Person on the Panthers Collective
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  Speaker 3: podcast put out some stats this morning about in his
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  Speaker 3: time as a Panthers starting quarterback in the first two
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  Speaker 3: weeks of the year, Bryce Young is the lowest rated
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  Speaker 3: passer in the league for those first couple weeks. So
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  Speaker 3: how important is it for Bryce to get off to
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  Speaker 3: a good start in this game, in this season? And
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  Speaker 3: do you think he's ready to get off to that
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  Speaker 3: hot start that we haven't seen before?
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  Speaker 2: I do think he's ready. He has a great command
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  Speaker 2: of this office. He has some weapons. He has some
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  Speaker 2: protection and he has more time in this system. You
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  Speaker 2: got to think about the instability he was facing the
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  Speaker 2: first couple of years. But, you know, they added Darren
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  Speaker 2: Bevel to that to the staff. So really excited to
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  Speaker 2: see what he brings to it. When people talk about
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  Speaker 2: the early season, you know, woes and things like that,
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  Speaker 2: thank God the season doesn't end at week two. But
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  Speaker 2: I get it. I get the need to start fast
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  Speaker 2: and to start strong, especially for a team that was
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  Speaker 2: kind of so up and down defensively. All season, they
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  Speaker 2: would win one, lose one, win one, lose one. So
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  Speaker 2: I think it's important for the team as a whole
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  Speaker 2: to hit the ground running. And not to mention, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is the first time the home crowd is really
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  Speaker 2: seeing them since that crazy wild card game last year.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. I think they want to carry over that
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  Speaker 1: energy from that game. I can't wait to be at
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  Speaker 1: the bank. and kind of experience that again, because it
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  Speaker 1: was so awesome. It really was. How worried do you
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  Speaker 1: think we should be as fans about the, some of
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  Speaker 1: the offensive struggles in the preseason, right? One, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you had the Houston practice, you had the, you know,
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  Speaker 1: one touchdown drive and five first team drives, the rough
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  Speaker 1: O-line joint practice. Like how much does that worry you?
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  Speaker 1: I will say this. I'm glad it's the Bears defense
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  Speaker 1: and not the Houston defense on Sunday. What do you
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  Speaker 1: think though?
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  Speaker 2: And that's the thing. It's not Daniel Hunter and that
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  Speaker 2: pass rush. And Will Anderson and that Houston. The Bears
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  Speaker 2: are not the Texans. And if I'm worried about anything
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  Speaker 2: for this game tomorrow, it's not the Bears' defense. As
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  Speaker 2: a matter of fact, I think this is probably a
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  Speaker 2: really good opponent, secondary-wise, for us to see what Brad
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  Speaker 2: Izzik is going to do as far as opening that
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  Speaker 2: playbook and taking some shots down the field. I think
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  Speaker 2: there's a great opportunity here, like you said, to start fast.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't think that the preseason is an indication
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  Speaker 2: of what we need to be worried about on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: You got to think about the fact that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it was a patchwork offensive line for the most part
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  Speaker 2: because Damian Lewis and Rob Hunt missed a lot of
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  Speaker 2: training camp. And when they did join, they joined late
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  Speaker 2: in camp and they were kind of still getting their footing.
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  Speaker 2: So I would think that was just knocking a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of the rust off in the preseason. And I
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  Speaker 2: think both of those guys are ready to go now.
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  Speaker 3: Sheena, what's the concern level with Jonathan Brooks, who's been
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  Speaker 3: limited with the groin injury this week? As you know,
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  Speaker 3: anything involving him, we're going to kind of freak out about.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think his status ultimately is going to
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  Speaker 3: be leading up to Sunday?
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  Speaker 2: I think he'll play. I think that the abundance of
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  Speaker 2: caution is warranted. I mean, it's just kind of part
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  Speaker 2: of the course with kind of how his luck has been.
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  Speaker 2: But I think he'll be fine for Sunday. I think
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  Speaker 2: that they are, again, operating out of abundance of caution
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  Speaker 2: just because making sure– he took a lot of reps
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  Speaker 2: in the preseason and in training camp with Chuba out.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that they're kind of just watching that really,
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  Speaker 2: really closely, not wanting to re-aggravate anything unnecessarily. And so
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  Speaker 2: I don't have a ton of concern right now. I
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  Speaker 2: think that it was just Aaron on the side of caution.
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  Speaker 1: Sheena, what do you think about the matchup between that
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  Speaker 1: Bears offense, which is potent– and this Panthers defense that
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  Speaker 1: even with guys like Pat Jones and Skorton out, we're
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  Speaker 1: all so excited to see Phillips and Devin Lloyd. What
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  Speaker 1: do you think about that matchup? Do you think the
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  Speaker 1: Panthers defense can hold their own in that matchup?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a really good challenge
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  Speaker 2: for them. You know, the Panthers were actually first in
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  Speaker 2: defending play action, and that is how Chicago sets up
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  Speaker 2: at least a third of their passing plays, and they're
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  Speaker 2: really good at that. They were one of the best
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  Speaker 2: teams in the league at doing that, and the Panthers
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  Speaker 2: are one of the best teams in the league at
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  Speaker 2: defending it. So it'll be good to see that, and
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  Speaker 2: it'll be a challenge for Evro to see if he
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  Speaker 2: can match all of the misdirection that Ben Johnson and
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  Speaker 2: the Bears are going to bring because that's all you
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  Speaker 2: heard the defenders talk about all week long. That's all
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  Speaker 2: you heard Devin Lloyd talk about. That's all you heard J.C.
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  Speaker 2: Horn talk about. Mike Jack, you know, they're going to
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  Speaker 2: try to disguise some things and get people's eyes in
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  Speaker 2: the wrong direction. And luckily, those guys that I just
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  Speaker 2: mentioned are vets. So they've seen kind of a litany
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  Speaker 2: of things as far as NFL offenses, just being consistently
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  Speaker 2: disciplined and, you know, making sure that they're they're running
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  Speaker 2: their game plan. I think that they'll be fine, but
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  Speaker 2: I think it'll be a really fun matchup to watch.
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  Speaker 3: Sheena, I thought you had some really insightful stuff on
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  Speaker 3: the Panthers Collective the other day with you dunking– well,
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  Speaker 3: I almost called him unk. I almost called it dunking unk.
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  Speaker 3: You dunking Joe Person.
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  Speaker 1: Dunking unk. That should be it. Please don't.
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  Speaker 3: Hilarious. Keep that between us, please. My Lord, I don't
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  Speaker 3: need Joe Mattamy there. Dunking Joe the other day.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to tweet that afterward.
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  Speaker 1: That is pretty funny. You fell into a good one there, Bill.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so– yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 3: You added some insight on the, we always focus on
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  Speaker 3: the Panther side of the potential Bryce Young contract, but
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  Speaker 3: what about the Bryce Young side and maybe what his
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  Speaker 3: camp is feeling about his future contract?
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  Speaker 2: I think that Bryson can't feel that his best ball is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to come. And honestly, maybe accepting an extension
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  Speaker 2: right now isn't reflective of what he feels like he
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  Speaker 2: can do and what he can bring. It might be
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  Speaker 2: an underpayment right now. So I think he's willing to
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  Speaker 2: bet on himself. And just because no one has said
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  Speaker 2: that extension talks have happened or taken place does not
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  Speaker 2: mean that they are not happening. And you can just
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  Speaker 2: read between the lines on that. You know, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people are saying, oh, you know, there's body language.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think the Panthers think that Bryce is it.
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  Speaker 2: And they're trying to make him prove it. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think that's it. I think it's just negotiations over the amount.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to say that I don't think that
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  Speaker 2: that's it. I know that that's not it. I know
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  Speaker 2: that the Panthers have come to Bryce Young with the
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  Speaker 2: expectation that he is their future. So I don't think
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  Speaker 2: that it is a position of the franchise that, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we don't know or we're unsure. That's not what's going
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  Speaker 2: on right now.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's pretty strong right there.
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  Speaker 3: Sheena, you.
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  Speaker 1: You were there for the David Tepper presser. We have
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  Speaker 1: not seen him converse about Panthers-only subjects with the media.
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  Speaker 3: Sheena's laughing.
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  Speaker 1: There were some entertaining moments in there, Sheena. There were
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  Speaker 1: definitely some entertaining moments. I felt for my man Mike
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  Speaker 1: Kay in there, too.
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  Speaker 3: What did you think?
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  Speaker 1: What were your takeaways from talking to Tepper?
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  Speaker 2: I think that he started it out defensively and kind of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, settled in because he hasn't been available to
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  Speaker 2: the media. He hasn't been available during combine or anything
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  Speaker 2: like that or postseason, you know, exit interview, none of
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  Speaker 2: that stuff. We haven't seen him since he fired Frank
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  Speaker 2: Reich and he was getting irritated when he fired Frank Reich.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that he kind of, I wouldn't say
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  Speaker 2: has a mistrust of the media, but I think it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of a touch and go because he has been
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  Speaker 2: beat up in the media before, deservedly so at times.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that the tide is turning. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's taking a step back. And it might be a
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  Speaker 2: sense of, you know, how the players go through media training.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like David Tepper is going through a little
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  Speaker 2: media training of his own, so to speak.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting. I will say this. He said it to y'all.
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  Speaker 1: He's talked about the reason I'm not involved and you're
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  Speaker 1: not hearing from me as much is I trust Brant, Dan,
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  Speaker 1: and Dave. And I think that's the best part, right?
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  Speaker 2: I told everybody that. I said, listen, I said– David
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  Speaker 2: Tepper's involvement is less an indictment on him and more
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  Speaker 2: of an indictment on his confidence in who he had
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  Speaker 2: coaching and in his GM. And I also don't think
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  Speaker 2: that Dan Morgan would have accepted a job if it
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  Speaker 2: were otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. No, that's good news. That's definitely good news. Sheena,
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  Speaker 1: we appreciate it. Thanks so much for coming on. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see you on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you guys for having me.