Carolina Panthers preseason game No. 2 vs. New England Patriots

Financial capital financial USA.com. This is the gold show healthy competition. So Demian Baker just about everything a case of when the job in an as well as curiosity have been worried about when the decisions and an invader for any of that time on was to cover my head down and eliminated time in the mindset for both Sam and I just talk we define the best ball by the end of camp and just handle it correctly because the locker rooms and in the organizations goals are to be refrozen as long as were leading correctly and were no supporting each other good things are gonna happen.

So were not worried about when this can happen just trying to recheck the gold show. I am at a middle those voices, you just heard were those of Sam Darnall and Baker Mayfield Mayfield sounds like a person who knows that he's going to be the start.

I mean it's the worst kept secret. Apparently neither play tonight neither. That's my understanding is that neither will play tonight so now you series doesn't look like we can head probably not going to play but my understanding is that neither will play so I say about that. I see from the sense of okay just spends two days this week.

Basically going live again. Another team I got older I got a majority of the reps okay fine I make sense of the game pretty much rolling the clock back.

Matt rule did say that he would see them in the game against the Patriots.

He really was talking about the practice. The couple practices or the fights against the patriots so again I think I think the decision was made when they traded for Baker Mayfield. I don't that's I've I've always believed that this was never really a competition and next week Baker Mayfield will be named the starting quarterback and that'll be that they don't have to. You know, everybody will coexist is that they are professionals. Sam Donald has almost 19 million reasons why it's okay to be a backup and that's where we are real quick before we get really going here went to see Roger Waters last night at PNC. So this is interesting run of concerts.

For me this summer so Robert plant with Alison Krauss back about a month and 1/2 ago. Yeah, about that two months ago then sought Daryl Hall with Todd Rundgren a week ago and Roger Waters last night. I have to go back to light. I think Robert plant like 73. He's the young guy, I saw this year Daryl Hall 7578 really the guy just incredible shape still going strong. So for those people who did see the show last night. First of all band was excellent, obviously pure Pink Floyd fan. The music is next level. There are arguments to be made that about saying that they are are but I know people who make that make the argument that that they might be the best blend of rock experiment experimental music.

Though the rock opera there telling stories just incredible stuff but I will say this about Roger Waters. They put you to work in the audience because you cannot just go and lose yourself in the music he will not allow it is it is salt and I'm not saying this in a negative way. He demands a lot of you as a member of the audience. He forces you to confront like our own societal issues during the show. It is a massive like if you walk out of their dream.

I did he just it's just a good way, though well yeah because it is closure okay.

Thinking seriously, you have to be okay with that. I could see a people didn't want to hear it. Then it could be a an absolute can be a chore, but man was show but I went to see it and if he comes around again. I'll go check it out again band sounded very very good start, but we have a lot of NFL stuff to get to it again will start with tonight's Panthers patriots game. Foxboro WR, LTD. Five. If you are local to WR LTD five viewing area. I'm sure there on over the air affiliates in Asheville and Wilmington and Charlotte, and Greenville bather is there.

You can watch and if you happen to be somehow just give sampling us online or you know however you consume this program in your outside state. I believe NFL network is airing a game like that layer so PJ Walker is apparently again Baker Sam unlikely to see action which does lend credibility to the idea that this was never a quarterback competition which okay. I think everyone of us assumed that, barring injury, Baker Mayfield would run out with the first team during the opener gets going, that's it.

Okay like none of us believe that Sam was the better quarterback anyway. The only real I guess. Think we have to determine how much better Baker is the Sam Baker basically just had to stay upright to be the starting quarterback for the help.

So again, not really all that surprised there again told us yesterday probably going to be mostly twos and threes so I would say if your tuning into the game tonight at 7 o'clock or listening to it on the radio that we are here in Raleigh. The Panthers affiliate find stuffed about yes oh we can't do that in North Carolina not to do that, or you can just drive a note of your grades were all just travel 29 at Danville just you like Daisy can bet: found that like crazy. I will hear from my man, Coach Pete through the capital financial advisory group. We are talking retirement. I coach simple. When we start tax planning and retirement should start as soon as possible because there's one thing out of Texas are not going away and so the game here is we know the rules. A lot of people want to ignore the rules or act like they don't offer me with them but virus those rules and so we get retirement. The region start taking some of your money out of your accounts so the secret here is to put a force field around as much as possible.

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There is a developing quarterback situation in Tampa Bay.

Although it's already quit well know he is not quick. Now that we know about a week ago. You may recall, Dennis. The box announced that Tom Brady would be away from the team for personal reasons. He was never expected to play in either of the first two preseason games.

I don't remember who they played last week actually was Cleveland last week and they're playing the Tennessee Titans are on the road at Tennessee this week. Tomorrow, so he is, he was expected at as of last week expected back after Saturday's game with the type so the enterprising media asked Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles about Brady's return yesterday was they will talk about next week. Not concerned about right now and play a game after sometime at the Tennessee there is no definitive date for May, but will check on will keep in touch. Fonda that's just I don't know interesting.

Yeah, here's the thing about the fact we don't have any real information just lends itself to a lot of speculation on the docket to speculate that Tom Brady is not coming back because I will be stunned if he's not coming back but if you're away from the team for personal reasons it was. They said it was scheduled if it was scheduled. I'm surprised that nobody knew about it ahead of time.

Yeah right. Because if it was if it was scheduled. You would've thought that hey here's how this is going to go but there was no reason. I guess for anybody in the media to ask hey is to be played either the first or better. Maybe they did but if it's a personal matter. I also don't know that your personal matter has to be confined to well he's going to be out for 10 days. 10 days the personal matter will be over. Sometimes personal matters take longer.

So I'm wondering when he retired. If you booked a vacation and this is the reason why is a low ticket to pay for things pay for.

He shared exactly when he retired. This is what he did he edit schedule was like for example Fred something booked.

He got a new job you like hey by the way, are you some prescheduled here were going to Branson sure were going to Branson Missouri were were were going to go to the Dolly Parton theater. Yes, maybe that was it. Is there Dolly Parton theater in Branson is. There are Randy Barton Randy Parton theater in Branson.

You have no idea what that references about how I don't okay for those people who live up in the Roanoke Rapids yeah there was a time this goes back about 15 years in the state of North Carolina where they tried to make.

Essentially, an interchange on 95 and Roanoke Rapids. They tried to make that like an entertainment hub yeah Dolly that I didn't brother Randy was going to have a Randy Parton theater and there was good up there were to build around it failed to cite if you are scoring at home, Buccaneers fans Blaine Gabbert Kyle Trask Ryan Griffin those are your three quarterbacks on the depth chart so get back soon. Yesterday we had the news of the settlement between the NFL DeShawn Watson 11 games $5 million find counseling all of that. We talked about yesterday there was blathering about second chances and is he'd never again supposed to work by Jimmy Haslam, the owner, as though there is not middleground their we went from so is he never supposed to work. Does it do so America don't we deserve second chances like nobody said he was never supposed to work and nobody said that he couldn't get a second chance of what why do we do this, why do we go to extremes to somehow make a situation better than it needs to be.

So that was silly. Roger Caddell gave us some hot air about Watson being willing to do the hard work to better himself as a person and as soon as Roger Caddell statement came out talking about how you DeShawn Watson really dedicating himself to getting better at doing Watson gave us this little moving over my career, my life is that of minuses is because no settlement and things like that happen, doesn't mean that a person is for anything like person has opportunities that prove that he prove that side for support of the individual. Another person that doesn't sound like he's willing to do the hard work it just I'm I could be wrong, but an expert. I didn't think since counseling as part of I did think that in order for counseling to be effective you had to basically come to grips with why you put your self in that position in the first place. So I would ask DeShawn Watson how does counseling work now. The growth of the person to communicating thought would be able to know no reason situation so myself in the situation I was to grow as a visual hole. Outlook of this myself also have the individual what what dressing would you put on that works out. I Caesar. Caesar dressing little little poppyseed poppyseed – what apology alleged TV apology was a written apology. I would ask Mary Kay Cabot from Cleveland.com what her thoughts are on this as though he were apologizing to get a computer that there was a paradigm shift here actually expressing remorse for something that went on in those round but actually that turned out to be not. He was very adamant today that he had done nothing wrong and he said that numerous times that he stand by here not know I was expecting him to strike today I going to be contrite. I thought he going to say I'm submitting to counseling.

I thought he'd say things like I know I need to change my behavior and there wasn't anything like that yet. Nothing like that so so follow this with me please. So now Watson who was credibly accused of exposing himself and brushing his pistol on two dozen massage therapist while they were trying to work at the very least like there are other details that I left out which make it far worse than this, he settled all of those cases, lawsuits with all of those massage therapist. Somehow Watson has managed to make the league look like the biggest clown in the situation. How is that possible is the NFL is the NFL Roger Caddell just said DeShawn Watson is willing is committed to doing the hard work and DeShawn Watson just pistol whip that congratulations National Football League, but I would argue this by way if you read Sally Jenkins calm about this in the Washington Post it is again phenomenal. Nobody calls people to task like Sally Jenkins I just sit embarrassing moment for the NFL, but the NFL has put themselves in this position.

Over time, like it's a lipservice league and maybe it doesn't have to be anything else. Maybe they simply are a money making entity and we should never look to them to be some sort of a moral high ground on anything. I'm not even throwing shade. Maybe this is an awesome problem. Maybe the league shouldn't even have a personal conduct policy because they clearly don't do anything with it and the reason why the punishment handed down by Sue Robinson was six games was because she thought that was harsh because the NFL for as that what they termed was a non-violent offense, albeit 24 of them what they termed a nonviolent offense to that point thought the longest suspension ever given for a nonviolent offense to the player personal conduct policy was three games. So, Sue Robinson suspended for six I really threw the book at and she pointed out that the NFL poor job because they have so getting 11 games is what almost 300% more than they've ever given anybody else for a nonviolent offense. One day, one day, the NFL will get it again baby should get this could be on us that it doesn't have to be on the NFL. Maybe we should just stop what they are just an entertainment entity and that's it and morals. Screw it. Is he in jail. No good put them on the field but you know what they have to deal with sponsors June 19, 2006, but it all started May 6, 1997 with the announcement that the Hartford Whalers were coming to North Carolina transition of heartbreak of figuring it out on the fly became 25th anniversary of the presented by the Carolina listen. Did you see what the Steelers had the other day, dad.

So I want to get this writer got this of I saw this on Jay Glazer's twitter timeline is the insider for Fox sports Mike Tomlin is driving around the Pittsburgh area. I don't think he's just aimlessly driving around is clearly going home go to work. Whatever. So he spots some kids I guess in the field or a park or playground in a fight bunch kids in a fight stops the car gets out of the car and goes over and diffuses the fight. They recognize Mike Tomlin everybody's condo so he spent much time with the kids that day. The next day invited them all to Steelers practice, training, whatever it is, whatever were calling.

Ultimately he put the kids meet knotty Harris.

He puts them through this all on Twitter by the way, and actually the sporting news is a great breakdown of it, including twitter videos they run through practices by unit drills running back drills like knotty Harris does the kids are in all summer. Kids really pull off the drills really well, Tom, what is coaching them. It is just an incredible scene about when Charles Barkley said that I'm an athlete. I'm not a role model. Always push back on that because whether you realize it or not you are a role model you have influence on young people and Tomlin taking the time not only yesterday in practice, but the previous day.

Tomlin taking the time to spend time with those kids to bring them to practice to connect with them. Those kids lives will never be the same never be the same. Harris the same way. The end and for what we know about Harris Ray Harris has taken time with with young kids. He was homeless for a while, rightly a light on so he he has a history of spending time with young people.

But for Tomlin to do that. It's just it's just awesome twice and I've said several times if the Steelers ever decided get a lot like colleges. They know that. Let's let's try another coach.

I think there would be 20 teams in the NFL who would fire their head coaches to hire Mike talk is more maybe more, maybe 30 teams in the NFL would fire their head coach to hire Mike, he is that good and just an incredible example all right save it for last Braves beat Jacob McGraw and the Mets 32 yesterday two runs early off the best in the league then with Vaughn Grissom on first Michael Harris at the plate. Two outs in the sixth altar strikes again. Amanda gave three to lead.

They went on to win by the score of three to question was the exit velocity on that 76 on the.net hit gets all I heard what we can go two weeks ago in the Braves lost 45 New York blueprints like there was a ground ball that could've easily been a groundout could've easily been a groundout found a whole went to centerfield one evening hard enough centerfielder had to charge and ideally I think Brenda Nimmo did a poor job but anyway, well played series Braves are good. Really good. Looks like they're going to get Mike Sroka back yeah he's doing another minor-league rehab start for AAA and then he should be back and I think there is just a three-game series left between the Braves and the Mets.

I actually think it's in Atlanta again.

I think they most of the first games in the series season series were in New York. Either way I hope that these two teams meet in the playoffs.

It's good baseball it's fun baseball and you get to see some incredible incredible player so good on the Braves are just for back in the loss column now after taking three or four said this yesterday. If the series was a split. It was a loss for the Braves, three out of four is good, good get big they got the deficit down to four games in the loss column and now it's it's manageable. Braves host Houston this weekend. Mets are in Philadelphia this weekend and the Mets will not have mixers or or Jacob ground pitch any of those games fillies plan well so maybe an opportunity for the Braves to pick up some more ground.

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