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Well, hello, belly up to the bar, let's talk football.

This is the Locked on NFL podcast.

I am Matt Williamson.

I was a scout for the Browns. I was the recruiting assistant

at Pitt before that for three years, a director of football operations at the University of Akron

before that. And I was at ESPN for 10 years. And since then, I've been talking with you guys regularly,

usually five days a week. And during the season, we have Mike Renner from Pro Football Focus on every Wednesday.

And as usual, he has joined us. Mike, how are you?

Doing great, Matt.

Great, great. Those of you that haven't been listening for a long time, and there's a lot of new to listeners.

I also work for Steeler Nation Radio. I'm going to go to Panthers, Steelers, tomorrow.

But Mike just did an article about this Panthers offense.

And we talked to the Locked-on Panthers, folks, and it's a really dynamic offense.

And I know there's a lot of great ones out there, but I don't think this one's getting the credit as an upper tier unit.

Mike, what do you think?

What do you see in there?

Yeah, truthfully, I did not expect them coming into the season to be that great.

I mean, one big reason was the offensive line.

You lost Andrew Norwell, one of the best guards in the NFL. You lost both your starting tackles, you know, in preseasoned injury, even though

Matt Khalil, not a huge loss.

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