All right, Julian.
Just what we thought we were gonna
have a calm week in Carolina with
the Panthers having a bye week.
They are making headlines on
Sunday by firing their offensive
coordinator Joe Brady.
What do you make of the
decision to do this now?
Yeah, so they blew up by Sunday.
I thought I was gonna have a
Sunday off guests not come.
Yeah I think it made sense to get
it done now during the bye week
we knew that changes need to be
made on the Carolina Panthers.
Staff like Joe Brady and all likelihood it
probably was not gonna be back next year.
So if you know he's not going to
be back then go ahead and try and
move forward and try and see if you
can make something else happen over
the final five weeks of the season.
This won't be the only change if
Matt Rule is going to be the head
coach here next season which I
think he deserves a third year,
does he not to be a lot of changes?
Throughout the offseason,
not just on the coaching staff
but also in personnel.
And they've got to be able to
figure out what they're gonna do
long term at quarterback and also
try to fix the offensive line,
which I don't think you can throw
all those issues right on Joe Brady,
but he is the offensive coordinator,
so at the end of the day,
it all falls on him.
Yeah, that was gonna be my next question.
When you look at the Panthers
struggles this season,
how much of that does fall on Joe
Brady and how much of that is just
that's what the Panthers have.
Those are their struggles.
They don't have the right people at O line.
They can't get their quarterback
situation resolved.
And also you got, you know,
Matt Rhule running things as head coach.
Yeah, this is Second Street here.
We've seen someone scapegoated offensively
last year was Teddy Bridgewater.
When the team was 28th in the red zone
and Overrating opportunities side down the
field in the final minutes of the game,
they either win or tie.
So that was all him.
Bridgewater, apparently,
so they tried to upgrade by bringing
in Sam Darnold and the hope was that
with Joe Brady and his offensive system
and Christian McCaffrey who's been
injured for the majority of the season,
and DJ Moore or Robby Anderson
that things would workout would be
better and they've been far worse.
And when I look at the situation
with Joe Brady like he didn't make
the decision to trade three pics
to bring in Sam Darnold,
it's not his fault that Christian
McCaffrey is not healthy.
He didn't sign paddle flying in Cam Erving
in the first few minutes of free agency,
but this is the cards that he was
dealt and he did not do a good job.
And there are certainly questions
last year and just how equipped
he was to run this offense.
But last season had four guys over
1000 yards from scrimmage and this year
that's just not going to be the case.
So I don't think I put all the
blame on Joe Brady.
But Matt Rhule had to make
some sort of change.
He decided that Joe Brady
was a guy that needs to go,
and we'll see who goes the next couple weeks.
And if that is rule
alright, five games left.
That's a lot of football still
to be played for this team.
What approach do you think they
should take from this point out?
Well, I would imagine they're
probably going to continue.
To be run heavy when it comes,
offense like they're they
weren't on the same page,
Mount Royal Joe Brady we saw on the
Monday morning press conferences
where Matt talked about I want
to run the football then they
don't run the football at all.
And he's I'm gonna stay here talk to Joe,
we're gonna have a conversation
trying to figure things out and
eventually they kind of got to that.
But then you saw last Sunday against Miami.
That wasn't the situation.
I don't know what you can really
expect to change moving forward.
Cam Newton.
All the better understanding of the playbook.
That's what he's been doing all
week working with Sean Ryan,
the quarterback coach here in Carolina
so they can at least operate quicker.
And faster next week when
they play Atlanta at home.
I just don't think much is going to change.
I was Robbie Anderson all of a sudden.
Gonna start catching the football.
It's gonna be a big time player is DJ Morgan.
I bounce back to where he
started early in the season.
Is the offensive line gonna all of a sudden?
Get healthy and fix itself?
I don't really see that happening
over next five weeks so this is a
change that I guess seemed necessary.
What's gonna happen eventually,
but I don't think it's a change that really.
You know,
change the outlook for the
final five weeks of the season.
For Carolina,
all right Next up for the Panthers,
they're going to face the Atlanta
Falcons at Bank of America Stadium.
They've had the bye week,
some unfortunate news,
Christian McCaffrey,
Dante Jackson, both on injured,
reserve out for the rest of the season.
But you know, when they come back next
Sunday and they take the field at home,
what do you think this
team is going to be like?
Do you think they're gonna put up a fight?
Or do you think they're waving the white
flag slowly till the end of the season?
Well, you hope they put up a fight.
They're still in the playoff race,
saying there today only a half
game out now the tiebreakers?
That they're going to lose to a Minnesota
loss of Detroit, so that helps him out,
but there's still currently there.
The tiebreaker goes. Minnesota.
Same thing with Philadelphia.
Will see what happens, Washington,
so they're still technically in it.
If they can win for the last five games,
they could be a playoff team,
but this team is yet to be
consistent all season long.
They've been consistently inconsistent.
I can't imagine now getting rid of Joe Brady
is gonna help this offense moving forward,
so I expect them yes to come out with
a better effort that we saw in Miami.
It can't get much worse
than that you would think.
But also we thought in Miami that
they would come up with better.
Effort knowing that if they lost that game,
the likelihood of them going to
the playoffs is going to drop.
So we'll see.
I expect him to play a lot better.
They got the week, the rest,
and prepare,
and we'll see what they look like going
out on Sunday against Atlanta Division
opponent there three and division.
And there's a lot of division
games here remaining that could
give them a great opportunity to
be one of those wild card teams.
I'm just not all that confident that
they will be one of those teams,
right,
Julian? We appreciate you making
time for us. I hope that you get
to enjoy the rest of your Sunday.
Yeah, I'll try.