Shout out Atlanta? Like. Shout out Atlanta. Peace up I mean. Is it weird? I don’t know. It’s weird to root for the Falcons. It’s really weird to have been rooting for the Falcons. You know what? The Falcons are probably the other most inconsistent team in the NFL, uh, next to the Panthers, and they have come through for me 4 times this year. They lost to the Panthers twice, which thank you, and then they. What beat the Bucks beat the Bucks, which helped us out a lot. And then now you beat the Rams too. Shout out to Atlanta, man. I, I, I feel like I gotta quote Jeezy or something like that. Go for it. We’re counting 100s on the tables, 20s on the floor. While we do that, let’s get this sucker started. We’re about to give you some more. Get dialed in, Panthers fans. Here comes an in-depth look at your team. Exclusive interviews, locker room insight. Let’s huddle up for Panthers Playbook presented by Wake Orthopedics, a WakeMed physician practice. Here are your hosts, Dennis Cox and Chris Lee. Welcome back to another episode of Panthers Playbook. That’s Chris Lee. Dennis Cox here with you. Big shout out to our sponsor of Panthers Playbook, Wake Orthopedics. We’re back in the studio, Chris, because this is a special episode. Not only are we putting this out on New Year’s Eve. But Saturday, Saturday, 4:30 down in Tampa, Chris, I know you’re gonna be there at WREL. This is an opportunity that we’ve seen this Carolina Panthers team have, uh, well, I’d say it’s been a while since we’ve seen this Carolina Panthers team actually have a legit shot at making the playoffs. But before we get into Saturday, Chris, No matter what happens on Saturday, I feel like we can comfortably say, I think this, sometimes this can get, get, this can get lost on the, especially on the week to week coverage. This has been a successful season for Carolina. I, we, we, I think we, we met to make sure we don’t lose sight of that. You think, 2023, it was a two-win team. 5 wins last year. Now it’s 8, possibly 9 this year. This has been a successful season even through all the inconsistencies. One thing I, I will say about us that I think maybe gets lost in translation, we both come from a sports background. We also come from media where like you’re only as good as like, you know, the last thing you’ve done. you know, like there’s not a lot of like pats on the back. Great show today. You don’t get a lot of that in media, right? So when we’re talking about the Carolina Panthers, it really is like, hey, like we can point out this is what went wrong here and this is what, it doesn’t mean that we hate anybody or we’re, we’re dismissive of the team or anything like that. Uh, it’s a very sports-like mindset. And so I think that’s the way that we end up talking about it. We don’t talk about it from a fan perspective, even though I can honestly say, like, I’m a big fan of the Carolina Panthers. I know you’re partial to them because you’ve lived in North Carolina for a while, for a long, long time, and, um, you know, even though you didn’t grow up, uh, you grew up a fan of another team, but like we both like the franchise. Yeah, I wanna see him win. I, I genuinely do. And so right now, like looking to where things were. How it’s been, I mean, really, this thing has felt very hopeless, uh, since the end of 2020. I’m gonna give them a pass for 2019. Cam comes into the season, gets to Liz Frank. He’s out. We don’t know what’s gonna happen. People get fired, uh, and then you bring in Matt Rhule waiting to see what happened. And then after that it’s like they get rid of Teddy Bridgewater really quick. It’s like, uh, I don’t know if they know what they’re doing right now. And so it’s felt to me hopeless since 2020. Even though this team has not been in this position since 2017, um, because you remember the, the Cam Newton shoulder injury against Pittsburgh, I mean that derailed that season because he was playing fantastic that year, playing great in 2018, and, um, and then you thought he’s gonna come back in 2019 and then gets to Liz Frank, and so then he’s, his time in Carolina is done. The foot is not such, so I, I, I think that this is a, this is a great position from. Everything that the Carolina Panthers have been through that right now to get from uh a lot of mediocrity, uh, you know, the, the, the best season that we had was 2022 when you had seven wins and a lot of that was due to, uh, uh, Steve Wilkes at the end of the year, um, and you end up now in this position where you have a chance to possibly get nine wins on the season and make the playoffs. This is Everything opposite that has been happening. This is a great position for the, uh, Panthers. And I’m, I’m so happy that they’re in this position right now. I know that Atlanta can win on Sunday and the Panthers can, uh, can backdoor their way into the NFC into the NFC South at 8 and 9. But also you got to look at it on the Saturday in the sense of, It’s right there in front of you. Like, don’t, like hope’s not a strategy. Tampa Bay has to rely on hope to make the playoffs this year because Tampa Bay not only has to beat Carolina, they have to hope New Orleans beats Atlanta. Like that’s hope. Hope’s not a strategy because hope is out of your hands. This is the thing about Carolina is that don’t rely on Atlanta. Don’t rely on Atlanta to do your work for you. You cannot rely on it. No, you cannot rely on Atlanta. You cannot rely on them. You cannot. And something that we could say as well is that this Panthers team has had two opportunities to win this division already. Because remember, Atlanta beat Tampa, like you mentioned at the start of the show back on Thursday Night Football going into week 15 where The Panthers were coming off their bye-week after beating the Rams. Coming off a bye week, two weeks to get ready for the, for the Saints on the road, and you lose 20 to 17. You had a 17-7 lead 5 minutes into the second half. All right, defense was, uh, like, OK, you could say you gave up a double, double-digit lead, but there’s still 25 minutes left in the game. The offense didn’t score at any point after that. So there’s, so anyway, a missed opportunity to not only Win that game, but you beat the Bucks the next week, you could have the division wrapped up going into this game against Seattle, and Sunday’s game wouldn’t have mattered. But then, OK, that wasn’t the situation. You go into Sunday’s game. Miami did work for you to beat the Bucks. And, and you laid an egg, especially on offense. You laid an egg against the Seahawks. You’ve had two opportunities to win the division. Maybe the third time’s a charm this coming Saturday. And we could also take it all the way back to, um, what was the, the week, maybe week 9 after the, uh, Green Bay game, uh, or maybe it was week 10, after they beat Green Bay, and so you, you play the, the New Orleans Saints at home then like just think about that, like 17-7 that, that. Game over there. If you didn’t lay an egg after that and take care of business there. You know that that helps you out right now. Like, literally, um, I, I mean, I don’t, I don’t know what the scenario would be, but maybe you’re already in if you win, you would be 9 and 7 right now if you take care of that win at home, honestly so and everything else, you know, for the rest of the season goes the same way, um, you know, you’re, you’re in. So, um, but this is, this is good though. The, the, the silver lining in all of that though, Dennis, is the fact that for this young team. We got a lot of freshmen, a lot of rookies, a lot of sophomores, a lot of 3rd year guys who they’re starting to learn how to win together and they’re starting to learn how to put that together. It, it, you know, I hate what happened with T Jachevi and Sanders. That sucks. But the, the, what he’s, the lessons he’s learned this year has been invaluable. I’m sure that when he heals up and comes back next year, he’s gonna be better. Uh, you have, you know, let’s talk about the rookies. Lathan Ransom is gonna be a monster, I think, and probably will end up being, uh, one of those ball hawk type of guys. Maybe I’ve, I’ve heard this from people before, could be our next Kurt Coleman. Yeah, and that was one hell of a player. Kurt Coleman was. If that’s the case, hell yeah, um, you know, and so that’ll be cool if that’s, that’s ends up being the case. Nick scoring already better rookie numbers than Brian Burns. Put that in perspective. He’s, he’s getting better week after week. And, and so like, and he had arguably one of the best plays this entire Sunday against Seattle, yes, and. There’s so much that’s there for, I mean, you know, Ryan Fitzgerald’s probably gonna end up getting better. Mitchell Evans is, is gonna get, uh, better, um, you know, all the, all the rookies have done a really good job, and, you know, we didn’t even mention Ted or Roy McMillan. He still has a chance to get, you know, 1000 yards. I think he probably Offensive Rookie of the Year in the NFL, possibly more than likely, um, should be, should be, he should be. Let’s, we, I’m happy with what is being built right now and what has, uh, come to so far this year. Like if New Orleans wins and Tampa Bay wins this weekend. It’s gonna be disappointing, but I won’t be upset over it, right? Because I’ll be bummed. I’ll be, yeah, it’ll be disappointing. I’ll feel down, but I won’t be upset at the team is more so what I mean. Uh, it’s like, all right, cool. You also met expectations for this year, higher expectations than what it was nationally, but it was pretty much our expectations if, uh, If you end up missing out on the playoffs from here on out, if you make it to the playoffs, you’ve exceeded our expectations. We didn’t even, we weren’t talking about playoffs. We said no, you can’t even think about playoffs until maybe 2026 is what we were saying before. And so now if you end up getting it a year ahead of time and you’re learning how to win and these young players are getting all these valuable reps. The future is bright, bro. Uh, we said it correctly was in last week’s episode about how last season we saw them play in tight games. We saw a close game against Kansas City, came out with a loss. Close game against Philadelphia on the road, came out with a loss. We also saw some close games against Tampa Bay. That you came out with a loss, but you beat Arizona overtime, you beat the Giants overtime, you beat the Falcons over time. So they were trying to learn how to win close games. Now, the majority of their wins this season have been via close games. But now how do you as a young team, now you’re learning how to play with expectation. And that’s maybe that’s the next step in the process for this team is learning how to win when there is an expectation where you have the opportunity to win the division. Hey, go out there and take care of business and it’s yours. Like we’ve already talked about how, again, a couple of missed opportunities already, but all right, how do you learn from those previous two? How do you adapt? How do you adjust? And I think that’s something that only we have seen in the inconsistencies week to week from this team, but even in-game, the ability to adjust and to adapt. Like you mentioned the Detavion Sanders injury, very first play of the game, which, which just sucks. This unfortunate thing got rolled up on. Unfortunately, it happens. But I know we asked Dave Canales this in the postgame about how the Panthers love to run that, that 3 tight end set, the 3, uh, 13 personnel, you want to describe it. The 3 tight end set where it’s Sanders, Tremble, Evans, and then Bryson Tremaine is the wide receiver. And that’s a run-heavy package for the team. That’s a, it’s, it’s a, it’s a personnel package that Dave Canales has relied upon heavily. And I asked him, I was like, OK, like how did you have to adapt in the game when you didn’t really have that at your disposal? And he said, yeah, we will put Jake Curran out there a couple of times as like the 3rd tight end to be basically like a heavy personnel, but When I see that as an opposing team, I’m like, well, that’s one receiving option that’s off the field because we have seen the Panthers obviously go run heavy in that personnel group, but we’ll sometimes use play action off of that to possibly pick up, hey, it’s 2nd and 5 play action. They get like a 678 yard pickup. Evans. Yeah, exactly. So we’ve seen that before, but that was taken away from Canales basically the very beginning of the game. So how was he able to adapt his game plan during the course of the game? He didn’t have that as his, at his disposal. I’m wondering if, if you’re going to activate James Mitchell, who’s been just a healthy extra for these last, you know, several weeks. Are, are you going to still rely heavily on that personnel with James Mitchell out there? So again, how does Dave Canales adapt from one week to the next? We’ve seen this team bounce back from losses consistently throughout the year. But this is, there’s, this is the most at stake at any point this season. This is the most at stake. How does Dave Canales as a young head coach and this young team handle it? We’re gonna learn a lot about them from a mental makeup this coming Saturday. And to add on to what you’re saying too, the other thing too is like not only just when the games that you’re expected to win, but within the games when you have, uh, a, a multiple score lead. Hold it. Build on that. Extend it. Extend it, extend it. Step on next, you know what I’m saying? Like put the game away. The way games have been put away on you. Put the game away. That, that’s definitely one of the next, next steps for the Carolina Panthers because they’ll have a couple of games next year, you know, whenever, you know, uh, I, I think we already know the opponents or whatever. I’m not. They play the NFC North and the AFC North. So we’ll, we’ll see what ends up happening, uh, with all those. So like, I don’t know, maybe the Vikings may not be as good next year. We’ll see. We’ll have to see what ends up happening. They could flip around and be amazing, but there’s, they’re gonna play a team that’s not gonna have very good expectations at some point next year, right? When you play Cleveland, when you play that team, you need to make sure that you, uh, step on their necks. And extend the lead at some point and make it comfortable for yourself at the end. They’re gonna try to come back. They’re gonna, they’re gonna, uh, you know, do their best to, to, to nick away at that, that, that, uh, uh, deficit that they’re in. But learn how to win that way. I think that’s an important thing. Like I don’t, I don’t want Bryce or the Panthers to constantly be in these like, OK. 4th quarter we’ve got one drive to make it happen. Let’s go make it happen. That’s not sustainable. That’s not sustainable. You shouldn’t always have to be in that position. Now it’s good that you’ve been successful in those positions, and I think there are ways you can be even more successful. The 2-minute offense needs a lot of work and improvement, I think, um, but you can, you need to learn how to put those away. Sunday is an opportunity to poss Saturday. Saturday is an opportunity to possibly do that because this Bucks team is reeling like you, we thought that once they got healthy they’d be better. They’re healthy. Yeah, like they’re not any better. They’re not any better. Chris Godwin’s playing. Mike Evans is playing, um, you know, uh. They’re just having some issues right now. They’re not on the same page. This is a grand opportunity, even though this is on the road. You’ve already faced this team, uh, a couple of weeks ago. You see what’s going on, and if they’re going to back the other direction, then how can you build on a lead. And sustain it and keep it and keep them at bay the entire time on the road. So if you look at the start of the season for the Bucks, they were 6 and 2. Then they had their bye-week. They’ve been 1 and 7 since their bye-week. 1 and 7 since their bye-week. And I actually, I looked at it, uh, on Monday that they’re giving up just over 27 points a game. I think it’s like just under 28 is essentially is what they’re giving up, and they’re scoring just under 21. Like they’re getting outscored on an average by a touchdown in, in during these last 8 weeks. Like that’s how they’re getting beat. Baker Mayfield hasn’t been playing great. His completion percentage is below 62%, which is well below league average. I think league average is around 65.5%, his league average. So he’s been below him in his passing. Again, Mike Evans, some of these other guys have been hurt, but even when these guys have come back, It hasn’t been great either. Like, yeah, they just lost to. The Dolphins Quinn Gwer’s 2nd start. Like Come on. But the, also the thing that scares me, Chris, is this. Baker Mayfield, Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, those guys have done it before. They’ve done it before. So that’s the thing that also scares me. They’ve done it before. So we haven’t seen this collective group of Carolina Panthers do it. We just simply haven’t. Like, yeah, JJ Jansen was with the team back in, you know, 2015, but this team as a whole hasn’t been in this situation before. The guys over there in Tampa Bay have. That’s something that gives me pause and concern. I, that this is where again, I, I hope that. Again, what have you learned? Like, for example, you brought up, can you step on next? When you’re up 17-7 against the Saints. Bury that team and put away, like, score again. Like you didn’t score at any point after 5 minutes into the second half of that game. That’s something that, so, yeah, the defense, you could say, OK, the, the, the penalty on Lathan Ransom and all that kind of stuff late. But you had a chance where it was tied 17-17 in that game and you had the ball and you weren’t able to get that 4th quarter drive. So they, they haven’t been in this position, but this is where, I would hope that certain people step up. Austin Corbett has been on in a winning franchise before. He’s been with the Rams. He has a Super Bowl ring. Bobby Brown, right? Rams team came from the Rams. Turk Wharton, we’ll see if he ends up playing this week. We’ll see. Came from the Chiefs. Uh, plenty of success, plenty of success with the Chiefs. You have others who’ve been in, you know, certain positions in other, um, other locker rooms and, um, know what winning looks like, who knows what that, I, I would hope that this is the week that those guys rally together like, hey, let’s have a separate meeting with Bryce. Now let’s have a separate meeting with the team. It’s not that we have to, you know, make it like this really serious dire thing, but guys, we have a great opportunity in front of us, and we’ve shown that we can win multiple games in a row. We’ve done it before. We did 3 earlier this year. Now all those teams are losing teams. None of those teams are going to the playoffs. Uh, yeah, Dallas, Miami, Jets, and Jets. That’s right. They’re not going to the playoffs. Uh, so let’s, but we can, we can go ahead and let’s put it together versus Tampa, and then we know after that. Our performance, uh, after that is, will determine whether or not we’re gonna be playing for another week or not. And if we can put together a few wins, who knows what can happen, guys? And this is a great opportunity. Don’t want to look too far ahead, right? But it all starts with this Sun Saturday. But that, I think that council of guys, that those, that needs to be the guys that puts the team on their back. And then, then along with guys like JC Horn and the current stars of, of, of this team who haven’t been there before, JC Horn, Chuba Hubbard, Bryce Young, Tedderoy, McMillan, they haven’t been there before, but they need to also do the same while leaning on the other guys who have been there before with other programs. Your, your top guys gotta be top guys. Like that’s the thing. I, I. When you’ve seen teams make a run in the playoffs or whatever it might be, the stars shine, right? That’s the thing, the stars shine. That’s something we’re going to find out from this, this Panthers team going forward. Chris, to me, the magic number is 20, is 20. So we’ve talked about how over the last 10 weeks, this Panthers team has alternated wins, losses, wins, losses, wins, and losses. I know there’s a stat that was shown during the broadcast on Sunday against the Seahawks. I want you to bring that up here in just a little bit. But also, over the last 6 weeks. The Panthers have alternated scoring 20 plus or less than 20. Every time they scored 20+ in the last six weeks, 1, under 20 loss. This entire season. They’re 6 and 1 when they score 20+ points. The only loss was against that Arizona in week two, which Arizona was playing, you know, soft defense and all that kind of stuff. And they were able to, you know, get a big chunk of plays and price threw 55 times in that game. That’s the only time they’ve lost when they scored 20 points was Arizona. This other 6 games since then, 6 and 0. Like the, the magic number for that team, it’s 20. If they can get to 20. That’s it. Can you get to 20? The last time they went 20+ points in consecutive games for weeks 5 and 6 against Miami and Dallas. That’s it. Can you get to 20? You should be able to versus this Bucks team, especially the way they’ve played over the last 8 weeks when they’ve been allowing nearly 28 points per game. Can you get to 20? That’s it. At least 20. Last time you did 23, that should be, that should at least be the bar. Should be, you know, and it’s not asking a whole lot, not asking you to go out there and be the, the the 49ers from this past Sunday. And, and here’s the part that I’ll add to it too. If you want to take some time to show some improvement in some ways, right? You scored 5 times versus the Bucks, 2 touchdowns, 3 field goals, uh, when you played them a couple of weeks ago. You take 2 of those field goals and turn them to 6. Make him a touchdown with the extra point. No, they got 31. Like that’s, that should be also where you’re looking to improve is to like, all right, we’ve, we’ve gotten ourselves in scoring position, but there have been these times where sometimes our 3rd and 4th down conversions just don’t work. How can you make it work now at this point to continue these drives, have longer sustained drives that end up inside of the end zone, and, uh, you know, because. You can. It’s already proven you can move the ball on the Bucks. You, you know you can do it. You’ve done it. You’ve already done it. You can move the ball on them. We said, uh, versus the Bucks that that was probably the signature I did. That was Bryce Young’s signature game of his career because I felt like he did things in that game. Uh, he wasn’t. He showed some the, the extra, uh, I don’t know what I’m, what word I’m looking for here, but the, I guess the extra ability to go to make the, uh, play to win like he, he had a little the improvisation, just the ability to extend like the touchdown of Sanders, that, that touchdown, um, just looking like Mahomes or just making a, I think an elite level superstar kind of play that’s more than just like he threw the dot he had to get out of, uh, harm’s way. And then also throw the dot and and be elusive at the same time like we saw Brock Purdy like Brock Purdy this past game for the San Francisco Forty-Niners was making some plays and then you start to remember, oh, that’s why they paid him, right? Bryce, you wanna get paid, right? Show why they need to pay you. This is a great week to start that. It’s a great week to start it. It’s a great week for it, great week for it. I’m concerned, Chris, that history. will not be on the side of the Panthers this coming Saturday. 10 straight games alternating wins and losses. And you pointed out a stat to me because you, it was shown on the broadcast this past Sunday against Seattle about teams that have had a stretch of 10+ games in a season where they’ve alternated wins and losses. History is not on Carolina’s side. It’s not, um, they are historically. Inconsistent. That, that, that’s a factual statement. It’s a factual statement. Yeah, I’m not just like trying to take a dig. They’re historically inconsistent. There have been now 6 teams in the history of the NFL who have had 10 or more games where they’re alternating wins and losses, 2 just this season, Detroit and Carolina, um, which is interesting. Um, all of those teams besides the Carolina Panthers, which is still yet to be seen. Did not make the playoffs. Lions will not make the playoffs this year. The ’94, uh, Colts, the 2010 Dolphins, the 2001, uh, Broncos, the 2013 Jets, none of them made the playoffs. So, One, the Panthers can make history being the first team to do that. That’s true. They could. But also, I, I think it’s a, a great opportunity to go back and reflect, you know, the, the weeks in between. Why didn’t you win? And like there are very specific things to point to. It’s, it’s rare that they’ve just gotten beat. Like the other team was just better. There weren’t opportunities. You just got beat. That’s been rare, actually, you know, that’s true. You can actually go back and point to the really bad games against, uh, New Orleans. There are specific things you could have done. The bad game versus the 49ers. You actually won a turnover battle. Can we, can we turn turnovers into 6 points if you, if you’re gonna, you’re gonna, all right, Baker Mayfield is going to turn the ball over. He’s going to turn the ball over this Saturday, OK, whenever he does. Take advantage of that and score 6, right? Offense, I’m talking offense. I’m not putting that on the defense. You don’t have to do like, but that’s putting so much pressure on the defense to make sure it’s a pick 6 or, you know, uh, a scoop and score. You gotta make sure you, you go, you score 6 in, in those situations. Um, Uh, the great opportunity to, to see what, like in versus Seattle, missed tackles, penalties at the right moment, not getting off the field on 3rd down, things like that. There are specific things you can point to as to why the Panthers have lost these games in between, uh, since that 3-game winning streak. They, the Bills just beat them, right, um, you know, I’m saying the Jaguars just beat them. You know what I’m saying, like the Patriots, they’re just better. Patriots are just better. They just beat them. All right, since then though. You’ve had a chance to win all of those games. It’s not like you, you couldn’t have won. You’ve had a chance to win all of those games. Something just didn’t go right on your end that didn’t give you the opportunity to give you the win or a chance to win at the end. Chance to really rectify and fix that this week. I mean, you can go back to, again, just this past Sunday against Seattle. All 3 touchdowns for Seattle came after it was a Chuba fumble. So right there, plus territory, like the 21 yard line, basically the red zone. So the Seahawks started in Carolina territory. Another one of the touchdowns came right after Bryce Young’s interception. So right there, pretty much just right outside the red zone and another was a, then another was a turnover on downs. There was a turnover on downs and Seattle got the ball in plus territory. Like that, like you said, garbage time because Carolina had to go for it. That’s the only 3 times that Seattle got a touchdown in that game. Their offense didn’t light it up. Far from it. Like far from it. Like they actually did. I actually thought they did overall, again, outside of the few missed opportunities, but there’s just too much stress and too much being asked from the defense in that game. But Carolina gets a turnover and plus territory. They got 3 points out of it. They got the ball to Seattle, I think it was 34 or 36. We’ll probably end up having that 1 seed. The Rams did a much worse job defensively versus the Seattle Seahawks than what the Panthers. The Panthers defensively did worlds better than what the Rams did versus the Seahawks. That was a, that was a great defensive performance like. Again, they can’t help that the offense gives them, gives, uh, the offense, uh, the Seattle Seahawks the ball back in plus territory where, you know, you really only have to go a few yards to get a, a touchdown. You would want the Panthers to be able to stop that and force 3, but also you can’t put too much fault and blame on them. So that’s a great point right there too. Like, the defense is playing lights out, but they’re not getting, uh, I guess. The recognition they deserve because the offense is not leaving them in, in good positions and not scoring when they’re giving them grand opportunities. The offense really has been the inconsistent part here. Every single week, is Bryce gonna throw for 54 yards? Is he gonna throw for 448? Who knows? Who knows? And that’s the part that’s tough. And I mean, over like that stretch of from playing Atlanta all the way through that game, I know we can wrap up here shortly, but I know through from the, you know, the Atlanta game, like you said, throws for 4:48 against Tampa Bay. I thought he was outstanding against the Rams, he was outstanding as well. Uh, but, you know, on the Saints, uh, at the 49ers. Like It wasn’t there. Then he gets the Seahawks, uh, like, so he had some of his best stretch of the season over the last six weeks, but again, there’s been sprinkled in mediocre in there. Like, again, right after the Rams game, I’m sorry, right after the, uh, the Falcons game. You got 3 turnovers by your defense on Monday Night Football against the 49ers and you only got 3 points out of it. You only got 3, including one of those opportunities you had. You, you threw a pick in the end zone. So again, it’s just the inconsistency can be very frustrating for this team, but all you gotta do is just win one. Just go win 1 and don’t, don’t, don’t rely on Atlanta. Don’t rely on Atlanta. Don’t rely on the water boys, OK? That’s what Atlanta diss. That’s what Atlanta is. Don’t rely on the water boys. Put the A back and rise up and then make it raise up because that’s what we do in North Carolina. We’re gonna take our shirt off, twist them around our head like a helicopter, and get a win in Tampa Bay. Yes, you should know when you board the plane on Saturday night. You should already know what your next weekend’s gonna look like. Mm. Beautiful. And if you luck up and get the Sunday game, you get an extra day of rest. Woo. Just saying. I wanna see this team back at the bank at least one more time this season. We gotta be there. We will be there. We will be there. Thank you all for tuning in. We’ll have another episode for you all on Saturday after the game. Chris is going to be down there in Tampa. You know, Chris, I think maybe you’re gonna be there. Maybe I’ll do a watch along. So make sure if you haven’t subscribed already, subscribe. I’ll probably do maybe a watch along, maybe like during the first half of the game, like just live on YouTube, just watch along the game with me, all that kind of stuff, OK? Just, just watch along. We’ll just, we’ll just, we’ll talk about the game as it goes along, whatever. We’ll just have some fun. So you’re not gonna take any planes, trains, automobiles, meet me down in Tampa? Probably not, yeah, yeah. There’s reasons, yeah. We’ll see you all. There are reasons. Saturday night
