Discussing Baker Mayfield with Darin Gantt of Panthers.com

Financial capital financial.com. This is the gold show the old guy@pampers.com all the time. Darren didn't. My friend covers the pampers for pampers.com and before what the before doing here will do talk about dollar highlights at Lucy's in New Orleans because I told Dennis about this yesterday but I tell you I always knew that Baker Mayfield was an upgrade over Sam Donald that was obvious of having watched both guys play over the last couple years, but your peace about Baker Mayfield and were going to talk words here at the risk of ruining the piece. Your piece was it convinced me that Baker could be more than just a slight upgrade so really good in-depth piece loved it and you've got me excited about what's to come from Baker Mayfield will thank you and everyone else can read it@pampers.com morning radio wanted to get out and proud popular. The one thing it in inside the media ball boys could be a little bit.

It's amazing to me that this is become an entire ecosystem of talking about all my gosh, what is Baker guilty back rent anything about Cleveland. The whole time and in any in this these I talked to the people who worked out with him through the office forever new Carolina within his future and they all said Cleveland never came up in talk about it and talk about you know how to get them wrong or anything like that. It's all all it was all about.

Let's get better and that's kind of the way he's approached his job. That way, all he handled his business throughout it's been consistent. I think everybody keep looking for him to be a character that he has not been for the time he's been in Charlotte and that's why these bigger money and he's come in.

He's done the right thing yet because the state mean honestly walking into a situation where there's a quarterback competition best for all drama or it should be and it just hasn't been he spends now again I don't want to pretend I know Baker Mayfield. I've been around him yell about two months and had decent 15 minute conversation with the one on one another about the extent of it.

But all I don't pretend to know him, but I will say he has impressed all the people around here with the way he has gone about his business there again. Panthers.com is joining us here on the Adam Goldfield is always jumped out to me about Baker is that he he looks the part of number one quarterback. He looks the part of franchise guys the way he carries himself. All of that and while there was his third year evidence that he was going to be that guy. I thought he was judged unfairly by the fact that he played all of last season with that shoulder injury. Yes, it was to a non-throwing shoulder, but if you don't think that matters. I don't know what to tell you because it obviously does matter when your left shoulder is basically busted up and your throne with the right doesn't mean you're that everything feels great so I thought he was judged unfairly based on that, but I do appreciate it in your in your story in your reporting that he's never really use that as an excuse right and Jeff Christensen the private quarterback coach who worked with Baker this off-season continues to work with them in that story you can read.COM Christensen talk about when you will pick him last year, compared to 2020. You could see the difference.

You could tell he wasn't himself.

He wasn't throwing the same way that there were mechanical differences that were evident from one year to the next and when a guy doesn't feel right, that changes everything it change your coworker change to delivery the whole 9 yards so it is gonna say something that he continue to push through and listen. It's reasonable. I mean to think of what Baker Mayfield went through in Cleveland from a Meyer quarterback are not talking a lot and are not in mine. Adult or not I want to be traded know you can't beat like a process and to think that that didn't leave a mark on somebody to think that that doesn't now create the opportunity for bitterness.

I mean listen, I again I don't miss Jake this for I don't mistake. Not saying it out loud for not feeling it, but he hasn't expressed it. And while a lot of guys so you know, turn it into a vengeance game or whatever corny thing. The we we do the week before the opener is never gone there meaning he's also trying to win a job and when a new contract and impress people enough to convince them that he can be part of a long-term solution in someplace whether that's here or somewhere else because it's a one-year deal. This is a very tri-them to Golden studio with my friend to speak with a capital financial advisory group. We are talking retirement as long as you have any risk figure into our retirement and income plan. This is the best of times and the worst of times and longevity risk live too long, but to me everyday lives not too long we want to money to outlive us and unfortunately many people have seen you out there listening. Maybe one of them. Your money is not designed to outlive you. You might outlive your money and that's not what we want to have happen as we get to that day after you run out of money not to be a fun time.

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I think that when you look at what you guys been through come into a new place. Try to establish until when there's so much expectation about who we supposed to be in all he's been since you've been here is who he is, in this moment and you know, again, we don't. I don't know who he is as a person, or what it's going to be like in the future, but again, in this moment this snapshot of time that we try to write about here it Panthers.com is my third plug. I think I got about you. The next man we talked, but I think we'll see how it does mean there are 17 games to determine gonna look like. But the yell for the first two months you been on the job you take in all the right that I can't wait to talk to JJ Janssen later. I can't wait to talk to him get his take on Baker. He seen a bunch quarterback.

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Now, where 14 days from the start of the season. Thoughts on where the rosters made main weakness might line. I still really unsettled and defensive front think you bring in Henry Anderson now hold that big guy Ron Stauffer was knocked around a bit with Jeff and the patriots.

Colton is a good solid clear it's not the kind of thing that makes people go on my God, the Henry Anderson good solid piece that I think that defense needed dummy they they were kind of remaking run defense on the fly after last year they got they were pulling up her speed last year and it worked to son really got a bunch fax Brent Burns that a bunch that they take people around early on but about Dallas game on people figured out that they were little like the feet and you could run out and that's part of what they tried to do. Henry Anderson was a component in that starting a tool gross Matos the definitive end the component of that in a bigger guy and Dana Wilson to play middle linebacker's component of that.

They just want to be almost out obviously against the Browns.

This week that's going to be a question and in other got a lot of bodies to throw with this thing right now to strip five defense to tackle on the roster even after letting the avionics and so I'm going back on the practice squad to meet so it needs a bigger front will see how good they are run defense. I think that the you know, obviously with Cleveland but you know, if you look back over the course of last year were Street people figured out how to play that defendant people kept doing the same thing so they got a steady stream of adapter Dallas New England Minnesota just went straight out of men until they fix it you know it cannot be in the market until you prove you're not that everybody don't try, you and all will see how it goes this week obviously to be a good test may not forecast.

Looks like it's going to be a day for running the football all that. Probably going to be important not. Let's close with running the football with the Carolina Panthers. Chris McCaffrey did not take his nap in the preseason.

Nobody is busted up about that. He is played sparingly. The last two seasons, but we all remember the last taste we had of the full season. Chris McCaffrey and how special that was met. Rule said he's not there and he's playing were not sure that were not going to try and protect him. Once the game starts. Are they going to do a lot of different things with them than they have done in the past or are they basically going to just keep running back and then use them in the passing game basically out of the backfield. Yeah, I don't think you know they're going to turn them into a slot receiver or anything like that for some reason that became a question people ask. Early in the off season and with an idea that Chris McCaffrey is a precious commodity want to value it. You want to protect.

It is much as you can, but at same time.

These also who aren't crystal figurine football players play football. Sometimes people fall across back your leg and it's just dumb stupid lock and you can't do anything about it all. I can tell you from having been around and watched and trained talk to people in that locker room who watch him every day they you know it's not like this is cutting any corners or doing anything.

He should be doing all they are going to try to do some things organically.

I think bringing Beyoncé Foreman in as a compliment back and looked at last year's backfield.

All those guys were kind of like Christian size was young for her body and he can be a short yardage guy. He can be in situations where you're doing a lot of inside running where is not a surly take it so while I don't think it over to Christian. We can't break him it organically in the flow of the game. If you get Foreman involved. If you can keep Cuba Hubbard all run around the edges and use the net long speed he has been. You can kind of naturally do the things that keep them from having the touch of 40 times, yet I not, it's the temptation I mean, if I may football coach. What's my point in that week. I mean I always have football think where the people make it what my plan is a coat I'm can it take the people who are best at footballing and I'm going to have them do it more.

So yes, I mean that's gravity 101. If I get became more at wide receiver, for about past mortgagee good at catching them in continuing to run so Christian can follow that rapidly. I is much you want protect him. He gives you your best chance to advance the ball and score points gain yards and all that fun stuff that people like to do so I know why people want to give it to them a lot and here's the part Christian wanted a lot. Yes, Christian wants no part of the discussion of the pitch count. He just make some grand Dominion can see it. It is not who I want to be so football player. He's going to play football. I love love football players.

One place up on the sheets. Chris McCaffrey's and I finally, as we say goodbye to my friend Darren Gant asked the old guy@panthers.com. I will start asking your guy so I get a T-shirt other than the thirsty beaver. Is there a better spot especially with dollar highlights when we were there. Then Lucy's retired surfers bar and restaurant in the French quarter in the morning. At the pretty good spot that that's a good one.

Me and my close personal friend Kent Summers clears all Republican best man at my wedding can't deny our normal play when we get on the road is Google dive bar in fill in the blank in New Orleans. One time we found Lucy's in Houston. It was a delightful little hole in the wall called Donnie and the lady behind the bar who, oddly enough, was named Sonny looked at me, you have a high life and she said yet you want you can know me. I'm going to still be fine. So it's the kind of thing you can enjoy in places like Lucy's or Sonny's or the thirsty beaver over or the Thomas St., Tavern, right around the corner from the house which I believe you and I have enjoyed before realize I was walking you into that joke. On that note, I have to go to break now. I there again you have a better athlete sleep, that's fine.

You are the best and derogate with tutees Richard Tallent will talk to you soon my friend anybody that's was a quality joke that I did not even realize I was seeing Darren up for I did not have any idea that that was coming fantastic art I want to expand more on my thoughts on Christian McCaffrey and usage and had a couple of other Panthers notes next fall playoff expansion. Maybe we'll get to 2024 season it's it's coming.

I hope we get all of these things ironed out so we can just get to it already. The worst thing about these types of situations. Is that all right, we voted on it now. How long do we have to wait a long time. We have to get to it before the 2026. I know it. It doesn't seem like that far out.

It's that far is that it is that far, so I mean honestly, once they've agreed to it.

We should just do it now. I mean, I should be able to figure that out but obviously there's a lot of things that have to be double talk about it which you Patterson. I so want to talk about a couple things about Canton. We talked about the defensive line with Darren Gant and Henry Anderson gives them whatever number technique he is. It gives them another big body inside. They must be better against the run, certainly by the end of the season last year look like a different strata that pants are given up tons yards on the ground and if if you if you can't stop the run. I just don't believe you can win. I only get any shot to win if you can't stop the run and the panthers need to be better. I also think before you get to Chris McCaffrey.

They've got to figure out wide receiver. We know DJ Moore is the will is there best whether he's a one or you wish he was second and they had somebody better regardless. DJ Moore is there best wide receivers were the best one receiving the game. Who's the second best wide receiver McCaffrey, yes, that that that's the right answer, but in terms of who is going to line up at that position. They wanted to Be Ter., Marshall plot. He's probably a better three. Robbie Anderson is the answer to any of those questions.

So it's like is a get a B should know the got I got from Jacksonville.

I don't know he was productive last year to a certain extent that's a concern of mine. The reason I am staring at the question about Chris McCaffrey's how they going. How are they going to deploy him essentially call consider Christian McCaffrey, a military like vehicle. How are you going to deploy this vehicle. Okay right just using him entirely out of the backfield. I I don't believe does Christian McCaffrey Justice.

I think he should be put in formation.

I'm not saying you make him a slot receiver but sometimes you can't. There sometimes you can and when you start and McCaffrey is in the huddle and easier only running back in the huddle and all of a sudden you got Christian McCaffrey in the slot.

That's trouble for the other team because they're preparing for somebody in the backfield with these linebackers on field action linebackers on the field you should do that put McCaffrey into past patterns, not just safety valve not just know a little low swing pass out of the backfield.

Not a wheel using the past patterns.

He's he might be best receiver DJ Moore so one thing about what did Darren sit at the end about it. You know you he doesn't have to do the inside running. He's a great inside runner I get in certain situations using foreman, but give the book give the ball to 22. If if your goal is to protect them and you're not using them enough to go should not be to protect Christian McCaffrey because of you, protect, and that means you're not using them, and if you're not using them. The other team. I'm not saying wins the game. But the other team wins. If you don't use your best player using it's the reality of the position that it's a shorter shelf life.

There are there are so few examples of running backs that last for more than six or seven years at a high level so few examples of that that if you try and elongate running backs, career you knocking to get the most out of your wasted door that many Adrian Peterson's Frank Gores with Damien Tomlinson's just aren't that many of those wouldn't go south on Derek Henry. It's good to go south in a hurry. Yeah Marvin Ingram stoma league who O'Melveny marketing room marking.

Yes I have the same as he was trail when he and Tamara were splitting carries sure in New Orleans is back in the wall and he is actually so we finally got back to it's it's hard man. It's just hard to maintain anything more than a five or six year career as an excellent running back really difficult so almost it's almost futile to try to kind of extend that shelflife.

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