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100% ready to roll or, or ramp up style. No, ready to go. Ready to go, man. You won't have to start on the cup or anything. No. How, how were you injured? I don't want to talk about, you know, the injury or whatever, what matters is I'm here. I'm 100%. I'm ready to go. I'm just focused, you know, I'm getting, getting ready for the season. How bad was it? I'm here. I'm focused on the season. I'm ready to go. I'm 100%. Do you feel like you were able to take a lot of good mental reps though during OTAs to be prepared? Oh, yeah, for sure. You know, obviously with a new staff, new system, you know, I was still able to, you know, watch the D BS out there running around and, and still, you know, get better even though I was, you know, sidelined during the time. So I definitely ready to pick it back up that gave other guys an opportunity to step up. Stanley Thomas Oliver kind of moved all around. What did you see from him? Uh, during the spring? Stan, he made a lot of plays on all the corners. Everybody was just seeing a major jump in their level of play, uh, with his new staff just learning a whole, whole lot more stuff, different stuff, uh, just getting better every day. What's it like playing for Jonathan? Cool. It's cool. It's cool. He, he, a young guy got a lot of swag to him, so, brings a lot of energy to the room. Um, and that's, you need at, at DB specifically. So, uh, it's been fun on the other side of the ball but, you know, just, uh, having a number one pick coming in here. I mean, do you feel like a certain different level of excitement coming in the summer? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, the number one pick, you know, a new coach, like I said, just learned and a whole whole whole bunch of different things. Um, and, yeah, Bryce, Bryce was great in OT A, so I'm excited to get out here and work with him and, uh, you know, hopefully pick him off once or twice. Uh, but, yeah, I'm definitely can't wait to work with him. I mean, do you, do you feel a little disrespect of about, uh, yeah, we, most of the ratings like the top cornerbacks and stuff, all that, that stuff bother me. But anybody that know, me know, like I play Madden all day, I'm a real mad in head so it bothered me a little bit that, that I was that. But, uh, I, I posted a video and they dm me about it and I told them there's no pressure. I just go out there and earn it. You had a, a preexisting relationship with Rajon, right? Uh How is that relationship kind of grown since you guys have become teammates? I know you said you kind of factored into him signing here. But what went into that decision? What was the conversation like? Um, just, I actually watched him on last chance you, uh when I was in college and I, I told my, my roommate at the time, I'm like, bro, you gonna be in the league like he really can play. And um my best friend end up getting dropped to Dallas and his older brother got drafted to Dallas and they like real close. So it's kind of just keeping it all in the family. Uh So he, he told me he was coming to Carolina. I was definitely excited and ready for him to get here things for so many years. You know, your father played in the league, talk about having had six generation sort of age. You know, you've been around the locker rooms, you've seen how it operates, not only practice but on game day, what's that been like for you growing up through that into this part of your career? Uh It was, it was just a blessing, you know, like you said, having, having a dad that did everything I wanna do in this league and even more, um, a lot of stuff that a lot of rookie got to go through. I kind of already had those talks and kind of knew how to approach certain situations, just, you know, I've been lucky that my dad, uh played in the league so it's definitely helped my career a lot you had, but just understanding that you can't control them, you know, is, it's always a lot of talk when a player goes down about, you know, him being injury prone or whatever, but I, I don't think people understand that the player doesn't want to be hurt. He's, he's more upset than you about, you know, being hurt. So just telling me to stay focused, you know, focus on the next day and just, you know, keep striving to be better. Now, uh, what can you offer? What kind of advice can you offer to some of these young guys about just the dog or just, just being here, uh, man, just, just be ready to work, you know, it's work, you know, you gonna, at the end of the day, you're gonna be ok when camp over just, you know, put your head down every day and go to work. You try to earn the respect to the coaches, your teammates, you know, the people around the building, that's, that's all you can do new staff, that sort of thing and you, you just missing that sort of stuff. How do you feel like you're maybe a little behind the curve because you didn't get the on field reps and mental reps can only do so much. Where do you think you are in terms of getting acclimated to the system after Miss? Uh, I, I was out there for the, you know, the first part of OTAs and got some on field work. Um, and I was right before I went down, I was actually starting to get, you know, real comfortable in the system and uh you know, we got a good, like 2.5, 3 weeks here. So I'm sure, uh you know, pick back up where I left off and be ready when uh week one comes, is that complicated though when Dante is not out there through the, the whole off season and everything and Jeremy's trying to slide into a new role. How, how does that come together? Uh Yeah, it is kind of weird, you know, not, not having Jack out there and, you know, like you said, uh we got new guys coming in like uh um working a new position or whatever, but, you know, we, we got to get it right and uh to be ready for week one, the off season, but that's signing up. What does that mean for you guys? Super big, you know, super big, um just him and together is like, you know, two professors like we call ex professor uh and not that here, he's like, he's, he's at another level with it too. So for me, it's extremely big, you know, having two guys you can trust behind you as safety and just put me on so much game. Uh and just seeing how much of a professional he is, how you take care of his body, uh every day, um how he in the film room, uh how he knows the playbook, just something big for every young guy to, you know, pick up, want to follow in his footsteps, kind of expectations. Do you guys hold yourself to how you guys? Oh man, the best in the league. I think that's the expectation for every secondary and there's not, there's something wrong with you. Like, obviously, when you go out there, you wanna be the best uh limit, big plays, make a lot of, you know, big plays on your side of the ball. So, uh that's what we're gonna try to go out there and do. What's your primary personal goal to win? Really? You know, I, I feel like, you know, since I came in the league just going in the games and y'all know, I talk a lot of junk. I feel like we don't, you know, have a lot of respect at this organization right now. So I feel like going in the year three, I'm just so focused on the team and us winning and getting our respect around this league. What do you think that is? Why do you think you're not getting the respect, you know, you've been winning a lot of games, so you gotta turn that around. We gotta win games, you know, this division as well as anyone. Do you think there's an opportunity you guys have number one overall pick? There's been some transition quarterback for the other teams. Is there an opportunity for you guys to sort of seize control? Yeah. Yeah, obviously it's a, it's a huge opportunity for us to, you know, win a division and make some noise, but these are days that matter. Uh, we got no matter what we got on paper, the number one pick, uh all these defensive acquisitions don't matter if you don't put in the work. So we're gonna try to go out here and do that over these next couple of weeks. These are the days that matter when you walk away from here in two weeks or whatever, what needs to be accomplished for these days who have mattered. I think just camaraderie as a team one. I think that's, you know, the biggest thing we want to get out of camp. Um, just, just figuring each other out, you know, in the back end, especially, you know, figuring out God's strength and weaknesses, uh, what you can do with this person behind you or, you know what I'm saying, to another person covering you. Um It's just a lot of different things, we gotta, you know, work out and we gonna get it worked out throughout, throughout these two weeks. I'm sorry, it's a couple of weeks away. But is it nice to have sort of that carrot on a stick with the jets coming in here and Aaron Rodgers to have that kind of get through these? Yeah, it's definitely a, you know, a huge opportunity, you know, Aaron Rodgers is one of the greatest Q Bs to play this game. Um So you got a guy like him coming in and, you know, they got a good receiving crew over there and they got a great defense. So it'll be, you know, good for our offense too and this is gonna be a fun battle. Um I'm sure both teams are gonna walk out of there, uh better than they were before is a point of emphasis for you to get through the entire season being all the way through something that is one of your main goals. And do you feel like that's something that you need to do anything different from what you've done in your life? Uh Yeah, I think I could do, you know, some stuff better, you know, I feel like diet wise, you know what I'm saying? Taking, even if I felt like I was taking care of my body before it doing more because like you said, just trying to be available the whole season, you know, seeing how much it hurt us last year, you know, going out at a crucial time, you know, I understand what, what's at stake this year. And I um I wanna take every, every measure to make sure I'm out there on Sundays if you need to play inside sometimes in the obviously outside where you gonna be if you have. Um I just started a little bit better. They may not know how hard it is to play nickel back, just some of the functionality of that position and where you learn that from going into that position. Uh Yeah, man, I'm, I'm willing to, to play inside, outside, you know, whatever the coaches, you know, feel is best for that week, uh match up wise or skiing wise, whatever. Um And yeah, it's definitely, you know, a different job going on the inside playing nickel. Um, and I was kind of introduced to my freshman year at South Carolina and we had, you know, two guys who, who on the outside who were seniors and pretty good. So I played inside and, um, it kind of just followed me to the league, so I'm just, you know, wanna be versatile. I be able to play both outside and inside and just help the team in whatever ways I can. We all good, appreciate y'all.

Horn: I'm 100%, I'm ready to go

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Bryce Young became the third quarterback the Carolina Panthers have selected in the first round of the NFL Draft, joining Cam Newton (2011) and Kerry Collins (1995).

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Chris Lea and Jared Fialko joined Kacy Hintz on WRAL Sports Xtra and praised the job new Panthers general manager Scott Fitterer did in the NFL Draft. They also analyzed the 'experiment' that will be Sam Darnold at quarterback.

Welcome back into sports extra. Now that the 2021 NFL draft is behind us, it's time to take a look and see how we think the Carolina Panthers fared and to help me do that. We've got the band back together again, Chris Lee and Jared Falco joining us guys. Let's jump right in and let's start with the Carolina panthers first pick in the first round, their eighth overall. They went and got south Carolina cornerback JC Horn scott fitter. We're saying it was the perfect fit for them at that spot. So my question for you guys is what do you think of the fit to take Horn eighth overall? I was cool with it. I would have thought of that. They would have traded back. Maybe that's when you can get the corner, but if that was the man that they wanted at number eight, then they got him. I'm now looking to see what he's gonna do now when he's actually on the team, josh norman Brett James Bradberry. Those guys are no longer with the team, those are the best corners that the team has had in the last, You know, 7, 8 seasons. They actually need a good corner that's gonna stick around that can take care of the big receivers like Julio, jones and mike Evans and Michael thomas in the NFC South. Hopefully JC Horn can do that and he can shut down some of those big receivers across the league, but also across the division that routinely cut the panthers defense up. I think the overall tone of JC Horn being a med pick simply stems from the fact that we have three top tier quarterbacks, two game changing wide receivers. Uh, maybe the most intriguing tight end prospect we've had in the draft in years and an offensive lineman that would have been a top to pick just about any other draft day. This was the first non flashy pick of the draft, but I don't see any fault and taking a guy like JC Horn, especially when you're going to be facing guys like Mike Evans, chris, Godwin, Michael, thomas, Julio jones and the division for years to come. Well Jared, you mentioned those three quarterbacks, of course they passed on Justin Fields, which shows their commitment to Sam Donald. Just get your thoughts on obviously that commitment going forward. Yeah, they picked up his fifth year option in that $19 million dollar price tag certainly shows that they are all in on the stand Arnold experiment and I call it an experiment because we saw in new york, he did not have a great deal of success and he is best known up there for being the guy who saw ghosts against the new England Patriots Matt rules hypothesis clearly is going forward that Sam Donald will be a success in our system. But as we know, the NFL is anything but an exact science. Sam Donald has no excuse. But also cam Newton wouldn't have had an excuse, Kyle. Allen wouldn't have had an excuse. Teddy, Bridgewater would not have had an excuse the way that scott fitterer has set up Sam Donald on the offense, but also the defense that he's trying to fill this year. I think this is probably the best job that GM has done in the off season, including free agency and the draft that has ever happened in panthers history. As long as I've been a panthers fan, which is the whole time the panthers have been around. Um, you know, he really has no excuse. So this is the next two years. We're gonna see if Sam Donald really is the quarterback that everyone said he could have been coming out of college and he'll have all kinds of weapons at his disposal and also some protection at the same time. Well, you said that they certainly went out and got him some playmakers, six guys on offense in total. Obviously they boosted that defensive line and maybe got a little bit bigger there in the secondary overall. Obviously they can't fix everything in one draft. But what is your overall grade of this 11 man draft class for the panthers? I'll give him an a um, just a flat A because I love the fact that he got a lot of the guys that, that they wanted, just literally by trading back, they would have been there anyway, traded back, accumulated more picks, came into this whole thing with six or seven picks, ended up with 11 guys that they're coming out coming in with. That is amazing. And then also just the fact that this reminds me the 2017 Saints draft class that had such an impact over the last four years. You had album camara, their margin Lattimore, you had Alex Angeloni Trey Hendrickson, along with others that were in that draft class. The real test of this draft class will be three years from now, four years now. How much of an impact with these guys? Make all these guys made an impact in college. If they can make an impact through this system and on this team for the next few years, this will be a masterful job by scott fitterer and I'm going to skirt the system instead of giving a grade, I'm just going to crown a best pick and I'm also going to skirt the system with that by saying it goes to David Tepper for picking scott fitterer as their general manager a few months back because he did a masterful job on day two, making something out of nothing. And what was essentially a universally praised effort on draft day too. You both use the word masterful and that's exactly what matt rule used to describe the job done by scott Federer guys, thanks so much for a chiming in. Of course, we've got a lot to watch now with the sea. Where else they go in this offseason, but we will talk to you guys later. Thanks guys.