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Interview: Voice of the Panthers Mick Mixon · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: What's up, Mick? How are you, sir? I'm doing great.
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  Speaker 1: It's good to hear your voice. JP. I've I've been
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  Speaker 1: listening to your your podcasting and looking on your website
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  Speaker 1: and hearing you and Demp seeing the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: boys kind of chop it up down there, and we're
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing Jacksonville. And you're right, it's i think,
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  Speaker 1: from a pantom perspective, it's almost like looking into a
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  Speaker 1: mirror when Carolina looks at Jacksonville. The rock star young
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  Speaker 1: QB is the great running backs and a pretty salty
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  Speaker 1: defense on on both both sides of the field. On something.
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  Speaker 1: It should be a fun matchup this week for sure,
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  Speaker 1: that the Jags and the Panthers coming up. Let's start
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  Speaker 1: with that offense. You know, Cam Newton comes off the field,
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  Speaker 1: he's he said he kind of hid the extent of
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  Speaker 1: his injury. And it's a different feel around here in
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback position in Jacksonville, right because Nick Foles is
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  Speaker 1: a new guy to the organization and all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden min shows coming in and he's the fan favorite.
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Allen's coming up there and played well, But this
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  Speaker 1: is still Cam Newton's team, right is he gonna be
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  Speaker 1: back at some point. And and how much can Kyle
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  Speaker 1: Allen really get done at quarterback? Oh? Great questions. All
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody from North Turner on RIVERA.
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  Speaker 1: I think the talking heads on the TV. So I
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  Speaker 1: think everybody is trying to decode this right now. And
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  Speaker 1: I've pressed my face against the glass, peering in at
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  Speaker 1: the nuances the inner workings of this football team, trying
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  Speaker 1: to answer it my own self. And the best I
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  Speaker 1: can come up with is and that You're gonna hate
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  Speaker 1: me for saying this, but I'm swear to you this
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  Speaker 1: is what I'm getting back, is that the Panthers are
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  Speaker 1: just looking at this week to week. If you try
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  Speaker 1: to fast forward the tape and say, okay, what do
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  Speaker 1: you do if you're six and three or five and two,
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  Speaker 1: and then Cam Newton comes back and he's ready? Do
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  Speaker 1: you mess with a hot hand? Do you can? Can?
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  Speaker 1: Can a player lose his starting gig because of injury
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  Speaker 1: or not? As that old football saw hold water. So
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  Speaker 1: I really think there's some wisdom in just looking at
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  Speaker 1: it one week at a time. And and and the
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  Speaker 1: kid Kyle Allen's playing very very well. He's slinging the
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  Speaker 1: ball around. He's he's incredibly accurate. The teams seems to
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  Speaker 1: have rallied around him, and that would include Cam Newton
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  Speaker 1: rallying around Kyle Allen to try to get as many
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  Speaker 1: wins as possible. And it could be that Cam Newton
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  Speaker 1: doesn't come back. He could envision a circumstance where his
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  Speaker 1: foot just will not allow him to to compete at
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  Speaker 1: the level with which he's become accustomed. And and it
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  Speaker 1: could be Kyle in the in the starting quarterbacks chair
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  Speaker 1: for the for the rest of the season. Who knows
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  Speaker 1: mc mixon with his voice of the Carolina Panthers that
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  Speaker 1: running back Christian McCaffrey's forty five percent of the yardage
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  Speaker 1: this year for Carolina. He's missed four snaps all season. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the guy's everywhere and literally everybody lines up all over
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  Speaker 1: the field. It's a it's a tough matchup this week. Now.
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  Speaker 1: He's terrible. I mean, he's no talent. Bum I would
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  Speaker 1: say to your coaches, just focus on other things. Make
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  Speaker 1: sure you double team uh tight end and and make
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  Speaker 1: sure you got coverage. Rotating over to d J. Moore
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  Speaker 1: and Curtis Samuel um all art testing is this one
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting around. I think you're right. McCaffrey is a
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  Speaker 1: generational talent. I mean, just by any objective analysis, doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter whether his skin color is white or black, or
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  Speaker 1: pink or antifreeze green. The kids just any era, tough,
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  Speaker 1: multifaceted football player, a total pro. Quiet, keeps his mouth shut,
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  Speaker 1: hard to get much out of him, although he is
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  Speaker 1: very funny if you could get him to open up.
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  Speaker 1: He's a he's a sort of a well camouflaged student
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  Speaker 1: of pop culture, old movies, old TV shows, music. He's
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  Speaker 1: he's fun to talk to, but he prefers just to
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  Speaker 1: let his athletic ability do the talking for him. Defensively,
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  Speaker 1: this is a Carolina group that's very very strong upfront.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously the pass rush they're getting home with all the
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  Speaker 1: sacks and everything, but they lead the league in quarterback kids,
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  Speaker 1: and they've had over the last year or so some
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  Speaker 1: additions they're up front, and the front seven obviously keep
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  Speaker 1: with them in a linebacker spot, but up front, defensive line,
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  Speaker 1: pass rushers, outside linebackers. They keep bringing these guys in
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  Speaker 1: and it's built into a great front seven here can
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  Speaker 1: almost argue, yeah, with all the talent of a Christian
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  Speaker 1: McCaffrey and how slippery he is, and and the attention
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  Speaker 1: at quarterback that you and I have talked of already
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  Speaker 1: here today, I think that you could make a case
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  Speaker 1: for the real heartbeat of this Panther team. And if
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville is gonna win the game, this is what they've
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  Speaker 1: got to break the riddle on, and that is this
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  Speaker 1: fierce Panther pass rush. Where there's a there's a depth,
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  Speaker 1: there's a multiplicity, there's a ferocity with which these guys
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  Speaker 1: attack the path, the pocket and pressure the the opposing
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  Speaker 1: team's quarterback in old line and you know starts in
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  Speaker 1: the middle. Dontari Poe has lost some weight and he's
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  Speaker 1: playing great dancers feet and big heavy body, three fifty
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  Speaker 1: pounds and he's disruptive. We won the Jerald McCoy sweepstakes.
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  Speaker 1: In the off season. We signed Bruce Irwin, the mean,
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  Speaker 1: nasty former Seattle Seahawks, so he's in there. Mario Addison
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  Speaker 1: super Mario. Mario can line up inside outside, sometimes to
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  Speaker 1: line up way out about the concession stand. Brian Burns,
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  Speaker 1: the rookie, very spidery, willowy athlete. He's done well. So
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  Speaker 1: so I agree with the premise of your question. J P.