Oh my goodness, good morning, good afternoon.

Whatever it is for you, I hope you're having a fantastic day.

My name is Zach Schamler. This is Strong Opinion Sports episode 519.

Welcome in, it's Friday. Happy Memorial, no, today's Veterans Day.

Happy Veterans Day. Actually,, so I live in my truck and I've been going to coffee shops like a ton.

Every day, that's where I do all my work.

I have like 180 gigabytes on my cell phone plan to upload the podcast. I don't think it's wise to waste my really fast internet on like menial tasks on my computer.

So I go work at coffee shops and today I sat next to a veteran it was

awesome he served in Germany really really cool I I don't know it was just cool

though like I encourage you if you meet an old guy who served in the military

Sit down next to them ask them questions they have lots of stories they want to tell and they're usually very very very interesting. Now let's jump in today and start with

Thursday night football. On Thursday night, the Carolina Panthers beat the Atlanta

Falcons 25 to 15. It was a really nice win by Carolina. They had a great game plan

especially on defense. Shout out to the Panthers defense on Thursday night. They loaded the box with

defenders and blitched a ton and basically their goal was to take away

Atlanta's running game and force the Atlanta Falcons to throw the football.

Their philosophy was, if you're going to beat us, you're going to have to do it by throwing the football.

And, you know, Atlanta took a long time to adjust. It was very

interesting to me because finally like on their second to last drive, literally

it literally was their second to last drive in the entire game in the fourth quarter.

They spread things out, you know, use four wide receiver formations and wide open sets, and on that

one drive in particular, Marcus Mariota hit, you know, four big completions in a row.

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