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Here are your Panther Hall of Honor members, Jordan Gross and Jake Delome.

Jake Happy.

First Fall podcast of the season.

It's Fall.

I know it doesn't feel like that where you're at, Jake, but September twenty second, rang it in and I want you to know that.

In true cheesy head coach fashion, for a team meeting on the first day of Fall, I made my team watch Kenny Chesney Boys of Fall official music video.

How do you feel about that?

I love it, man, And you know what, I'm starting to kind of feel the fall because it is miserable hot down here and humid.

But you know why, as we're recording this on Wednesday morning, by the time Thursday morning comes up, we are going to have our first official cool front in South Louisiana.

What is a cool front?

Well, like ninety five.

No, we're tomorrow the high is gonna be like eighty four.

That's a cool front.

Yeah, because it's gonna be like sixty two, sixty three, sixty four in the morning.

So it's gonna feel glorious for about three or four days, and then it's gonna get back to a little bit, you know.

But we're starting it is turned.

We kind of feel it.

We feel it turning.

We got leave change in here now.

No, no, we're still We're still cutting grass, green lush.

There's no leave changing anytime soon.

Here.

After I watched I made my team watch that video, and they liked it.

You know, it's a good video.

Then I tried to work in and see if they noticed lyrics from the song into just my random talking.

I do the team like, hey, guys, they don't just let anybody in this club.

Okay, you mess with one of us, you get us all.

And some of them they picked up on, but others not.

That's what's fun about being me right now.

There's no doubt.

Well, how was the game Friday night?

You were coming off a box?

Got okay?

Oh did you have to break?

Did you have to break any type of no computer, tablet or any white board?

That have to Okayode just praise like crazy.

The other team, though, did It was their homecoming and they had played fireworks for immediately after, so it was a little bit interesting.

Because we won and then there was fireworks and so our team had a lot of fun with that.

Did you use the whole They don't.

They just respect you.

You're their homecoming.

You gotta go that one every time.

You can do it every time, Jake.

It's like in the pros there have chose this game to retire his jersey and honor him.

They think that we're going to be There's always some way you're being mistreated, you know what I mean.

Sure they didn't have the respect to schedule us for their home cut.

Wait, no, that doesn't work.

Never mind, Now it's going good.

I looked us up.

We're ranked three and eighty nine nationally.

Just so you know, I love that straps I love.

Okay, Hey, speaking of fall, I have to tell you a story about my one of my best friends growing up.

His name's Chad.

His son is a sophomore outside linebacker on our team.

Good player, fast kid.

Well dad, we were hanging out this weekend and dad named Chad says, I think I can beat Cooper his son in a race.

And I said, Chad, don't do it.

You're forty five.

I'm telling you.

You never sprint like he's active.

You know I'm doing air quotes right now.

He's an active dad, strong guy.

List waits.

I said, you're going to pull your hamstring.

No, I can do it because Chad, back in the nineteen hundreds was when we were in high school, was very fast, right track guy.

He said, Chad, you're going to pull your hamstring.

I want to do it.

So it comes to p yesterday chat and Chad says, Coop, we're racing after practice.

We're all out there watching my youth football teams get ready to start their practice.

How far are we going?

What do you think?

He says, Jake, forty yards forty yard dash?

And I said, Chad, that's a bad idea.

You want a twenty Nope?

Forty All right, here we go on your mark, Get set go.

The guy didn't make it twenty five yards.

I was going to say twenty seven.

I was going to say it.

Twenty seven yards is when he started to hamstring.

Lock up.

The man down.

He falls and this is a good looking forty five year old man.

But Jake, this is what happens.

We think we're better than we are, and then you race your kid and you fall down, and it's just I'm not I don't like the whole thing, Jake, I don't like the whole thing.

Oh man, did you have it?

Do you have it on video?

Possibly?

I love it.

It may have been shown to the team.

Anyways, you went into a game and the Panthers went thirty and one, thirty to nothing.

It appears that had to have been fun.

It was fun.

And you know, Jordan, I tell you why I knew we were going.

To win one because I just felt we were a better team than we showed and we put ourselves in a buying And two, I think our defense is going to be okay.

And three is when I got to the stadium.

Did not speak to Luke Pryor.

I mean talk to him during the week a little bit, but nothing about what attire I was wearing.

Did not skip Jonathan Stewart about the attire and.

Everyone knows what you're wearing.

Well, Luke and I we.

Wear a panther polo and stuff like that.

I mean that's kind of we're professional.

And like you well, yeah, like last week you were like, you want me to get them to have them get you a panther polo.

I'm like, is it required?

No, I'm like, well, what are you doing well.

Just we representing the Panthers, Jordan, I just think that anyway.

So we get there and Luke shows up and I'm already there and he and I have the same exact Panther Polo did not speak to each other about it.

Yes, yes, walk into the broadcast broadcast room to see d l Zokie Aniche and all the boys.

Stuie's in there, same exact shirt as Luke and I.

Yes, we knew he was over.

You feel like that had a direct on the game.

It did because as bad as we wanted them, the Panthers to get a win, especially week one at home, for our crowd to get the twenty five season going, we just knew it.

There was no doubt, no doubt.

So like like in the locker room, it was probably flat before the game until somebody saw you guys on the pregame on the field and like, hey guys, Rice Young gathered up the team.

Well they.

Fotage and all have the same pole.

Hello on we gotta do this for them.

Let's go, and they're all like ah.

Then they play the Boys.

Of Fall well run out.

They did not.

It was in the tunnel before the offense was introduced and they're not going to show this video.

I have it because it's this top secret.

That's exactly what Bryce said.

And when he finished, he said, we're doing it for them.

He goes get the smoke going, and the smoke machine started and they introduced the offense.

I'm just saying, yeah, well, so now you should just wear the same dang shirt next week.

That will let's just say, probably in the works.

Other than Polo's matching.

What was the deal, Jake?

Why did give me your rundown?

Because it was awesome, very simple.

We did not turn I think one we were fed up at the team.

Two, we didn't turn the ball over on offense.

We did have the one misshap on special teams.

And three, I just believe our defense week one week week one, you can just tell it's like we aren't there yet.

From the preseason, it just it wasn't happening well against Arizona.

Our defense played pretty darn good spot in Arizona ten points early on.

We played pretty darn good and we came out and our defense played attacked numerous different players physical play.

And yes, you can single out a bunch of.

Players, but Derek Brown, I'm just telling you this guy is just different.

We we know how great he was in twenty three, broke the all time record for solo tackles by interior d linemen and to miss him last year.

This guy is just he's different, man, He's just different.

Played great.

H you know.

Morig, you know a Shawn's in there, the young both young defensive ends.

I just I don't know JC making plays, Shaw Smith away, Mike, we're making plays guy Lathan Ransom calls to fumble on the punch out at the end.

You're just kind of seeing it and we just built off of it.

I think that was the biggest thing.

We built off of it.

Offense.

I think we left some points on the board, and I think offense will say the same thing.

We did some good things.

We stuck with the run game, which I loved.

That's something that I loved.

I think we need to stick with that this week.

Although New England has done well stopping the run, I just don't think they've faced true running teams yet to be very honest.

So that's what it was, Jordan, was a complimentary game.

You felt the crowd and we can all say we haven't felt this in years.

I know ever since almost I've started doing the radio.

Maybe the first year in nineteen, which was Wrivera's last year, might have had a game or two early on.

But this is what stuck out to me.

Between the third and the fourth quarter, we had the football and the quarter ends and we have to.

Swap sides of the field.

The whole stand stood up and just started cheering, and it was like, okay, like they appreciated what they saw.

Let's hopefully we can build on this going on forward.

That that stuck out.

To me last week was anybody in the crowd, we're in your Saint Polo.

You know, I'm not sure, I'm so confident concentrating so much of the game.

I apologize.

No, that's what you got to do.

Though, you know, you and I are in Arizona and it's like, gosh, you know they finished strong.

Okay, now we're going back home against Atlanta, which usually travels well and all that, and then you just stomp them.

The energy injected into the Panther Nation has got to be sky high because not only you didn't just win, but it's like a significant win.

Booshy up in the power rank Like the power rankings don't matter but that's what all the you know, fans watch all that stuff.

All right.

Now we're twenty one.

Now we're one and two, and the you know, we're one and two.

The NFC South is wide open.

We stuff Tampa, Tampa Bay's looking good at three and oh but we're ahead of Atlanta New Orleans.

Like just so many things are cured.

Jake with a significant home win and a shutout like that is dang near impossible in the NFL.

I don't know what the statistics are, but like to have a shutout that barely ever happens, Jake.

No, it does, and I want to say we talked about it during the broadcast.

Maybe against Detroit in twenty twenty was the last shutout that the Panthers had, So yeah, that's few and far between, is very rare.

But yeah, just proud of the effort, certainly, never not proud of the effort.

I mean, I think our guys play hard, but you just you sensed it and you felt it, and it was interesting.

We kind of talked to it.

Derek Brown was our player interview right after the game, and in essence, it wasn't celebratory for him.

He was like, hey, that's one week, okay, like we've got to do it again next week.

I think fed up And that word has been brought up.

All those two words have been brought up.

But you heard it from the team leader.

I mean when we getting off the bus, we want Derek Brown walking off the bus first.

I mean, they's a guy I think we need to follow.

And it's like enough's enough and Dan has listened.

Guys that Dan signed, like you just you felt it.

You felt number seven all over the field, trem Morrick, you just you felt his presence.

You felt some of the young, you know, players like Nick Scord.

It's a motor.

It's a motor that doesn't stop, you know, Princely long Lengthy starting to gain more confidence.

You just you felt some of the young guys and some of the free agents that we signed.

And listen, I don't know when.

Turk Warton's gonna be able to come back, but the effort and intensity that he plays with to add to this mix.

Whenever he's able to come back, hopefully it's soon, sooner rather than later.

You know, I think it's good for us.

I've heard some online chatter, read some I should say about is this like twenty thirteen.

That was my last season a number of years ago.

But on that team, we had a third year Cam Newton, We had a really good defense, we had some talented players on offense, and we found ourselves at one and three and just pissed to be to be frank, we went to Minnesota and had our enough is enough moment as a team and beat Minnesota and then went on a run end up being twelve and four.

Now, I don't know that that's like what we can expect here, but when you said, like fed up, Jake, that's that's how we were in twenty thirteen.

And to see it come to fruition this week and man, momentum is a good thing and we look ahead, Jake, I know we got New England this week.

They're one and two, Miami's oh and three, Dallas is one and two, and the Jets are they're zero and three.

I believe right, So like, yeah, there's winnable games the next four games, Jake.

No, this certainly is.

Now we're gonna have to trap it up this week.

This team should have two wins.

I mean, like they.

Gave it to Pittsburgh last week.

I mean the turnovers they had turnovers inside the five yard line.

They just I don't know.

Week one, they lost twenty to thirteen to the Raiders.

They just weren't they weren't smooth, you know.

And they beat Miami which was which was the entertaining game.

And then last week got home against the Steelers.

They feel like they let one slide because of the turnovers, turnovers, and then that's gonna be every week in the NFL, and that's something the bugaboo with us the first two weeks.

We won the battle last week and obviously the scoreboard looked the way it did.

But it's going to be a tough matchup.

Well are you traveling to this game?

I am not.

This is my first game that that I have off.

So ill you don't get to go stay hi to Rabel and talk about two thousand and three.

Uh no, Jordan, I mean, why would I do that.

I the Patriots are a funny organization in relation to Carolina Panthers, because there's obviously significant history that you and I were both a part of, but not a real common opponent.

And fact for you, here the only stadium I never played in, really I missed the only time in my eleven year career.

That the Panthers traveled to New England was the year that I broke my leg.

So I've been there.

I went there as a part of the radio broadcast in fourteen, I believe, but only state I've ever played.

It.

Not a real common opponent that we come across very often.

But as I said, a lot of Panther fans do know that there's some serious history.

Yeah, big history.

Certainly it's the Super Bowl, and you know, I go back to it.

You and I had a good laugh about it.

In Arizona.

We played them in August, the second game of the preseason, second or third after the super Bowl, and it was like a regular season game, you know, whatever reason.

We had an ash, they had an edge, and the starters played through halftime and it felt like a regular season game.

And you have a great story that you probably can't stay on air about you and Rabel at halftime or during the game when he might might have taken a shot at you.

But yeah, it's a And then we beat them in two thousand and five in Carolina with we got after Brady.

I can remember that game.

Our defense played lights out.

It was Week two or three, early in the season.

We got after him.

The stadium was rocking and we were able to win.

And so yeah, it's we have a little bit of history.

You could say this is random, but I want to bring it up.

There's an NFL game this weekend in Dublin, Ireland.

I feel like if the I mean Frankfurt was awesome when the Panthers went there, I got watched it from distance.

I gotta go catch one of the next time the Panthers go international, Jake, we got to go catch this thing.

And maybe we work it, maybe we don't.

But how cool to go play a game in Dublin, Ireland, can you imagine?

I mean, I'm stereotyping what I believe Ireland to be as far as consumption of beer.

But how many pints are going to be consumed on that day?

I'm sure a great amount.

And from talking to all the Panther contingent that went to Germany last year, they absolutely loved it, everything about it.

They loved everything just and the fans.

And I'm very partial to going play overseas, playing in NFL Europe, those fans they bring it.

It's a different type of energy, the singing and things of that nature that they do during the course of the game.

It is an awesome atmosphere, but I was so disappointed.

I shouldn't say that.

I just couldn't make it last year due to family obligations.

But from here on out, you know, ifever we get a chance to do that again.

Man, I'm looking forward to it.

Is there any rhyme or reason too?

And I don't know.

I could do a quick Internet search and find this information, But since I'm talking to you and nobody's listening, is there any rhyme or reason too?

When you go play in Europe?

Do you know?

Well?

I think some teams maybe have I'm a Jacksonville win a decent they have gone a decent amount.

And I don't know if some of that was some fantasy nints of things of that nature.

I'm not exactly sure, to be very honest.

Well, maybe I'll find out next week, or I'll forget won't bring it back up.

One or the other will happen.

Last thing I got for you, Jake, The Hall of Fame class of one hundred and twenty eight has been released and for one more year.

Jake, Congratulations, you and I are both amongst the one hundred and twenty eight.

That is awesome.

I'm glad you told me I need to call start getting fitted from my gold jacket.

I mean, that's pretty cool.

In a fade away, Jake, I got news for you.

You're not making it, and neither am I.

But someday we're going to be not on the nominee list and that's going to be a sad day.

But for now we can enjoy it one day further amongst other Panthers.

Luke Eakley he'll be an automatic finalist because he was in the final seven last year.

Steve Smith he'll be he was a finalist last year as well.

We always talk about those two, which I want to But now you got Greg Olsen TD, first time nominees, Ryan Khalil, five time pro bowler, three time All Pro.

That's Hall of Fame career right there, A great friend.

Jake Delone, Jordan Gross, Wesley Walls, Missin Muhammad, John Casey, Peanut, Charles Peanut, Tillman, Eric Metcalf, Linebacker Lee Woodhall.

Are all the ones who panther tized.

What do you think?

Yeah, honored Humboldt, I mean that.

Is not about you.

I'm talking about the last You're I want to know about the last.

Come on, yeah, listen, Luke, I truly believe he gets in.

I was honestly shocked he didn't get in last year.

To be very honest, I can't understand why.

But if it is what it is, I think he gets in this year.

Steve.

You know, yeah, I've always said, I've talked that nauseam.

How I feel about that.

I'm worried in a way because Larry Fitzgerald is another one that comes up.

It's another kind of long jam at that spot.

So I don't know how that's gonna play itself out.

To be honest, with Reggie, Wayne, Tory, Holt, Smitty and now Fitzgerald to the bunch.

Yeah, I don't know if that she's gonna be a timing issue there.

So you know, I would love to see you know, Greg and TD and certainly Ryan.

Ryan's got credentials.

But we'll see.

But I feel good about Luke, man, I really do.

The best thing about Luke is last year, after he didn't get in, I called him.

I'm like, eh, you know, sorry, but I think he'll be okay.

He's like, yeah, honestly, it would have really messed up some plans I had in August.

If I would have got yea, that sounds just like him.

If he does get in, are you gonna wear the same polo that he's wearing?

It is acceptance speech?

If that's what.

If he tells me what he's gonna wear to that, then I promise you I would yes.

All right.

Well, and Joey, what are you gonna do with the weekend off?

Well, I'll be here, man.

It's a lot of things I'm gonna do.

I enjoying the cool weather.

Yeah, it's gonna be beautiful.

I'll probably go to high school game, catch that my high school, the Turlings Catholic Rebels.

And I'll probably catch one of my college games.

I can only catch a few this year.

This will be one of them.

So do that, and then I'll be buttoned up watching the Panthers at twelve Central, one o'clock Eastern on Sunday.

Muted with radio broadcast.

That's one hundred percent.

That's exactly how I do it.

All right, Well, have fun, man, I'll talk to you next week, I think and two and two it's doable.

Let's go for it, man, how nice would that feel a two week swing?

Yeah, let's build on the momentum, and then we get to come back home.

Let's I agree.

I just I feel confident.

Hopefully we have a good week of practice preparation.

I think we all know.

I mean, you prepare, you get ready to play and go strap it all.

You messed with one man.

You got us all the boys a fault Jake