They were that close. Once again, Chris, they were that close once again for the second straight time, that close another walk off field goal loss, you know, Dennis, it’s, oh, here’s the game they gave it away. Let’s get this sucker started, get dialed in. Panthers fans. Here comes an in depth. Look at your team exclusive interviews, locker room in sight. Let’s huddle up. Let’s just do it. Ok for Panthers playbook driven by Carolina Ford Dealers. Here are your hosts, Dennis Cox and Chris Lee Panthers playbook presented by our friends over at Carolina Ford Dealers with a Ford F 150 on your team. It’s game on, see your Carolina Ford dealer today. Chris missed opportunity after missed opportunity, whether it was anything. Yo miss field goals, two of them. Um, a catch that actually wasn’t a call to catch. So we’re actually standing at that end zone goalpost is right over there and we will hear from Adam feeling here in a little bit of missed tackles, missed tackles, missed opportunities all over the place. But here’s the thing. The Panthers still had to lead with 30 seconds to play. Bryce Young throws a 25 yard dot to a wide open Adam th and I’m like, hey, look at that, like make it Bryce of America Stadium at that point the way he led a comeback the way he led a comeback. But you know what, you guys start tweeting that give him credit price of America Stadium. That’s gonna happen in 2025. Take it from a show I produce so it’s fine. But you know what, here’s the thing, they still had it right there. 30 seconds left in the game, you had the lead and you walk away with the loss. I mean, up until this point, the Carolina Panthers two and oh, heading into as uh two and o after having the lead after halftime at halftime. And so, um, you know, it was a lot of missed opportunities there. This is a game that they can controlled for, I would say maybe about 60% of it and they kind of, they kind of gave it away, they didn’t really execute as well in the second half. Um And then you still had your opportunities, right? You had your opportunities to win at the end of regulation. You had your opportunities to win and take it back uh in overtime and just things just didn’t go your way and this is where you start looking at the, the minor details, right? Like overall the reasons why defense mis field goals and um what was my third thing play, play, play, play calling, lack of running. Right. And so that’s one of the things that can take, thing, take this team a little bit further right. There were times where in the second half, especially uh on the drive when they end up getting the 1716 lead. Tampa Bay Buccaneers started controlling the game, ran the ball the ball running the ball, right. And you know, I’m not saying that Bucky Irving is, is not a good running back at all, but like, if you’re gonna give up over, what, over 100 and 50 yards to him, right? What is Taquan Barkley gonna do next week when the Eagles host the Carolina Panthers in Philadelphia at the link, right? Like, like there, there’s a lot of things to kind to clean up here and a lot of things that the Carolina Panthers can start looking at to say, hey, you know what? We really gave this one away. Yeah, they’re right there. And Adam feeling we talked to him in the locker room. Here’s what he had to say about the team being this close, but still coming up short. Yeah, it’s tough. Um You know, we’re not out here to just have, you know, uh losses that feel good, right? So, um at the end of the day, we have a lot of confidence. I felt like the last 34 weeks, this team just felt like we can win this game. Um You know, the Chiefs come in here, a bunch of wins and not a lot of losses and hey, we can win this game. I just felt like there was no, it wasn’t even word said it was just a lot of, it just felt different in this organization in this building. The week of preparation just felt like, hey, like we can win these games. We just have to do the right things and, um, you know, that makes it more frustrating when you don’t come out in the end when you play good football. Um, it doesn’t look sloppy. Um, and you just don’t come out with a victory but Chris, that’s the story so close, but yet still so much work to do to try and get over the hump. As we mentioned, they were up winning late, but I think also the loss really comes from, from me, not only just not getting stops late when you needed them, but early in the game where you actually had a lead, you could have put this Bucks team away early and separated, but it said you’re only up 13 to 10.5. You have missed field goals. Yes, there was the, the, the incompletion here at the back of the end zone thought Bryce threw a great ball feeling came down with the catch. We’ll actually hear from him in just a second about that, but he came down with the ball and it looked like off replay, but from what we were able to see up in the press box, which is the same things on TV that you all got to see if you’re watching at home, it looked like he had it. But the thing that was perplexing to me is like the side of the end zone that we’re standing on, they had an angle this way from the camera, but not one from over there. Like you tell me, you can’t have a camera over there too. That can show you what, like I can show you that. I’m like, I mean, that’s on, it’s on the NFL. I put it on the NFL. I put it on Fox. But yes, it’s Fox, but the NFL should require, hey, we should have shots coming from both sides. So it’s little things like that. But you still had control, you still had the lead. And that’s the thing that’s frustrating. That’s something about this team though is that you told with me before we start recording, hey, it’s progress. It’s at the point right now where, hey, you know what you actually expect to be in games as opposed to just being completely out of it. That’s what I was just about to say. Like, you know, if we, if we think about the difference, right? And they said this in the locker room, there are no moral victories, right? But if you think about the difference between what we’re talking about at the end of this game at the end of the last game versus the Chiefs versus the first two games of the season where everything was bad. There really wasn’t a bright spot besides the offensive line. Right. And Tuba Hubbard, um, now we’re talking about the minor things to go, actually win you a game and that’s what this team absolutely needs to learn at this point. Like that’s, that’s now going to be the difference between them winning four games in a season to winning nine because, because you’re gonna be in enough games to where, like, it’s gonna come down to the last few possessions. How do you go out there and win? And we thought that we were seeing Bryce Young’s first game winning touchdown pass, you know, he’s had game winning drives with field goals and, you know, uh, Chuba Hubbard running the ball in, he hadn’t had his first game winning touchdown pass and, and, and listen, I’m bringing him up because we’re not going to bring him up anymore. Pretty much Bryce Young. Bryce Young played well. Yeah. Yeah, he played like, there’s, there’s nothing about this game and this loss that is on him. Not at all. It is literally, I, I think that he can be a lot more effective, not because of anything he did or didn’t do Dave Canalis just needs to give him some better play calling. And it’s like he’s, he refuses 18 rushing attempts if you take out Bryce Young’s, uh, three scrambles to 46 passing attempts, right, which you scored right there actually. And I, and I asked him directly, what is the sweet spot for you? Because there’s 18 attempts and, uh, for, for rushing the ball, 46 for passing the ball. And he kind of gave me a nonanswer after the game. Yeah, he was very generic with it. He’s like, well, there’s no true number in terms of how many times you want to carry. It’s kind of flow of the game. But, you know, we want to be balanced. It was just kind of like a word salad. 4046 to 18 is just not acceptable. And we understand by the way, well, actually we’ll hear from Tuba Hubbard here in just a little bit but those 46 pass attempts, I thought he had the touchdown here to Adam thin on the end zone that we’re standing in. Let’s actually go real quick to Adam Thin on that catch non catch. Yeah, they told me that my right hand came off the ball, which is crazy to me because my, the ball never moves so my hand moves, but that’s fine. And my left hand was, was, and that’s why right away when I got up, I was like, that’s a catch because I knew my left hand was locked on it the whole time. So, you know, you were in your knee. Yeah, I knew I was that I was obviously in uh but at the same time, should have caught the first time, so I can’t put it in the rough hands and obviously New York fans either. So you heard Adam Fein say that at the very end, I can’t put it in the hands of the officials. I can’t put it in the folks in New York who do the replay review. He’s like, I got to catch it the first time. Like he took ownership like he owned that. I will. So I will say this, yes, let’s, let’s pull back the fourth wall really quick before the cameras were rolling. Me and Dennis go up to Adam Thin like, hey man, that was one hell of a catch. That was a good catch. Actually both of them and he was like, yeah, man, like my hand didn’t move, you know, or he said the ball didn’t move but my hand moved just a little bit and there, you know, and then when the cameras rolled, he gave the good, you know, camera answer. I’m cool with that. Right. We know we know what it was is that was a catch, um you know, production and NFL kind of screwed that up for the Carolina Panthers, right? And so, you know, as far as what the Panthers can control he is, right? Catch it the first time. Don’t bobble it and, and you got it, speaking of controlling, we can control CBA Hubbard had the fumble late in the game. He talked about what other guys in the locker room said to him after the game. But also he took ownership of him himself too. Everybody’s had my back lifted me up, uh, supported me. But at the end of the day, I, I hold myself to a high standard and, you know, we’re trying to change things here and that’s not helping with anything. So I gotta be better like I said, and all I can do is just work. It happened. Um Just gotta grow from it and keep moving forward. I can have my head down. I’m just gonna keep doing what I always do. And that’s what Chris, I would just like to throw out there that uh I know moments before I posted on X, hey, you’re allowed to run the ball in overtime. Um and then uh CBA hover fumbled the ball. That’s not on me, ok? That’s not on me. It’s not your fault, man. It’s not your fault. Don’t blame yourself. It’s not your fault. I ate popcorn, ok? I ate some popcorn. It’s not that big of a deal. All right. No, but it was a real tweet though like, yeah, it’s up until then like, you know, that’s what that was the 18th rushing attempt and that was in overtime. Yeah, that was in overtime, right? Like these are design runs, not the Bryce Young scrambles. I know there are a couple of RP OS where he pulled the ball and decided to throw it. But again, 18 design call run attempts by, by Dave Canalis today. You, you know what I like right time of possession rush. Oh, we’re gonna get there. Uh, total yards. 445. Tampa 367 for the Carolina Panthers. Carolina Panthers had more than the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the third quarter rushing yards. 236 Tampa 236 Tampa to 78 for the Carolina Panthers, Carolina Panthers and there’s 39 rushing attempts for Tampa to 21 for the Carolina Panthers. And three of those are Bryce Young scrambles because he dropped back to pass. So we’re gonna take out three of those, right? So it was really 18 time of possession, 3931 Tampa to 2739. The Carolina Panthers, those are difference makers like those like, and this is where I’ll say like, you know, in a game like this and I don’t want to make it, make it seem like um this is like a karmic thing, but I brought up back in the Saints game, they didn’t win anything on the field. The Saints literally gave up that win. The Saints really should have won that game. And now you’re standing at a game like that where the Carolina Panthers gave up a game. Now, they didn’t have, you know, time of possession on their edge like uh like the Saints they didn’t have more yards like the Saints did or whatever, but they still gave that game away. You also won the turnover battle. You did one way, but we’ll hear from him in just a little bit here. 2 to 1, right? So like this is these, these are the little things that you have to think about and take care of, especially when it comes down to coaching. And, you know, we talked about what the players can do. Now, we got to talk about what, what coaches can do, right? And so like Dave Canalis has to just, you know, go back and eat some crow a little bit. Like, what did you say that we were at the beginning of the season? You said we were a team that’s gonna run the ball. That is our identity. I’m sorry, I don’t see that identity and you pointed it out to us in the press box, right? Chuba gets paid has the great game against the Giants. You go to the Buy Week and you ignore them for two weeks. Yeah, he has a career day after you paid him and then the bi week to get rested up coming back from Germany and it seems like he’s been forgotten, but hold this really quick. Hold on. I just ran more than Chuba Hubbard. I just ran more than Chuba Hubbard. Yeah, you kinda did. Someone who actually got some touches and carries today, Jonathan Brooks. We actually had the chance to talk to him one on one in the locker room about, hey, how can we get this run game ramped up again? I think just as a whole team, offense, defense, special teams, I think just as a whole, just lock in attention to detail, uh, just focus on ourselves, um, and just really just attack next week and, and look forward to next week. All right, Brooks showed a couple of good runs, a nice catch out of the backfield had some flashes actually had five straight plays where he actually touched the ball in terms of either catching it or running. It actually appear in the end zone where we’re standing right now. So we got to see those flashes of a little bit someone that we actually saw flash and actually make some plays that was around the football quite a bit. Shawn Smith Wade who had an interception today, which he actually kind of told us he’s like I was actually kind of out of position on it slightly, but I ended up making the play as Baker Mayfield kind of forced to throw and he read it perfectly like, hey, props to him, got the interception led to a field goal eventually. But speaking of defense, Chris defense has to finish and Shales Smith Wade actually said that very same thing. Yeah, you know, as we know, there’s no more victories. So, you know, we just have to finish and you know, that’s bold. A big, bold front on the finish. So that’s what that is, Chris. Explain to me when it’s late in the game. There’s six seconds left in regulation, six seconds left in regulation. The Bucks have a time out. You’re trying to have the difference between what it was. A, a, it would have been a 58 R it was, they got four yards on the play. So between a 51 and a 55 yard, that’s, it was 51 and 55 yard field goal. One’s a lot easier to make than the other. And you know what they’re trying to do to, you know, a little bit closer, quick hitter. If it’s not there, he’s gonna dirt the football or throw it away or whatever it is, you know, making Mayfield, he’s gonna do that. I just want to set that up. Why aren’t you pressed up on those receivers? Why are you slacked off? It’s good. Why are we doing this? That was kind of blurry. Why are we doing this? It’s kind of blurry because the camera said it had, but still still you get, you get the point like they’re lagged off like, like eight yards in that situation. Sure enough. What four yard slant catch down on the ground time out 5051 yard field goal, which is interesting because the Panthers actually forced a long field goal in overtime which they missed, which from FK was about 55 yards. That’s the point. It’s little small details like that. That’s the kind of thing that’s frustrating as, as excited as we are to say, hey, we’re right there. But if this team wants to learn how to win, you have to do the small things. Right. That’s the thing that’s lacking right now. You’re there, but you’re not fully there. But again, it’s not just the players, it’s not just that, that’s, that’s coaching, the players are doing what was called, that’s coaching and, um, like certain, I just, I just kind of wonder about situations and if the coaches are going over situations, what do we do if we’re in this and maybe it’s because they haven’t been in these situations before they haven’t really thought about. It’s not front of mind now this, this stuff has to be front of mind. You know what I’m saying? Especially as you’re building towards next year. Um, you know, you gotta, you gotta be able to like coach up your team for the right situation so you can get the right outcome. It’s not just the players on this next week in Philadelphia. You gotta stop squan hold on. Oh, before we stop, before we stop, we gotta talk about Sam Franklin. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. So, uh Dennis go to his Twitter account at the fan rookie. I’ll drop the video here real fast for you. You want to show the video real quick? Yeah. I’ll show it real fast. Ok. Right. Yeah. So that was, uh, Sam Franklin. It looks like he was going, he said number 33 and he won after us. And so basically, just to kind of give you, uh, a little bit of an outline Panthers where we’re standing the Panthers tunnels here and he walks all the way over here to try to confront a Bucks player and like, that’s not a, that’s not a quick walk. Like, you know, uh you, you really have to make an effort to do that and he got pulled back by some Panther staff and things like that. I kind of wonder Dave Canals didn’t know anything about it. Uh Why would he, you know, you can’t really see everybody and there’s a scrum at the end of the game. And so there’s a lot of, a lot of happening, but like, I wonder if that is how they’re going to handle that situation because we also saw that’s one of those things that’s boneheaded that maybe he could get, you know, fined for, but also something that’s boneheaded like on the kickoff of Caleb Farley in the overtime, like you got him pinned back. Like why are you going to, why are you helping the Tampa Bay Buccaneers giving them a free, giving them a free 15 yards uh in that situation. So there are some things to be cleaned up, goes back to coaching too little things like that. But we’ll have an episode for you this coming Thursday. Make sure you check out Panthers Playbook, wherever you find your podcasts as well. Subscribe here on youtube while you’re at it. I just thought about it. What’s up? Sam Franklin was listening to, uh, Kendrick Lamar. Squabble up, squabble up, squabble up, squabble up, squabble up, squabble with the Ford F 150 on your team. 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