Name: Panthers Playbook: Brian Burns traded
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Description: Dennis Cox & Chris Lea discuss the breaking news of the Carolina Panthers trading Brian Burns to the New York Giants for a 2024 2nd-round pick and a 2025 5th-round pick.

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Dennis Cox & Chris Lea discuss the breaking news of the Carolina Panthers trading Brian Burns to the New York Giants for a 2024 2nd-round pick and a 2025 5th-round pick. 

Well, Chris, it happened. Brian Burns is no longer a Carolina Panther. He's being traded to the New York Giants breaking news here, folks. No, no intro today. By the way, that's Chris Lee Dennis Cox Panthers playbook. Like, subscribe, leave your thoughts in the comment section on Brian Burns being no longer a Carolina Panther. Chris, you tweeted this out. Dan Morgan was kind of in a lose, lose situation. Absolutely. And I know it's gonna be very easy to be upset with Dan Morgan at this point. But honestly, look at what his predecessor did before he passed on two deals that would have given the Carolina Panthers first round picks, uh, for Brian Burns, right? So Dan Morgan basically is, is working with the hand that he was dealt, right. You're either gonna have to pay Brian Burns and not have any room to do any of the other stuff that they plan on doing or signing, uh, Robert Hunt, who they signed, uh, who they've agreed to a deal to today or you're gonna lose Brian Burns after the tag is over because you're not gonna be able to tag him for the second time because you may have to use that on Derek next year. And so, uh there's like a whole like avalanche of things that have happened and I know we'll talk about it, but the Panthers are losing people that probably they needed to lose in order to move forward. Now, I have other thoughts about that, but just in general, just to wrap up what this trade was about, they got fleeced by the New York Giants for a 2nd and 1/5. That is nothing for Brian Burns, but you needed to get something out of this. If not Brian Burns was gonna walk after the season for nothing, or you needed to pay him and you would have had no room uh to pay anybody else and it's not Dan Morgan's fault. Scott Fitterer didn't leave him any other room to operate outside of this. The Panthers were at a lose, lose situation right here going into this trading situation and so the Giants could come in swoop in and get a great player for little to nothing and they're fine. The Panthers have been screwed and that was Scott Fit's fault. Yeah. So Brian Burns agreed to a five year contract with the New York Giants. I think that was probably like the contingency of the, of the trade taking place. Five years max value 100 and $50 million. So you're looking at $30 million a year, I don't think the Panthers could have afforded that. Now, I think the deal is about $87.5 million guaranteed. So essentially the first three years of the contract guaranteed, Panthers weren't gonna be able to afford that with all the holes that they had to fill. They already were in a pretty tough salary cap situation for not only just for this year but just going forward. Heck, we've seen them in the last couple of days announce that they're gonna release Bradley Bozeman, which isn't gonna give them much salary cap relief at all. They're gonna release safety Vaughan Bell, which is only gonna give him about a million dollars worth of cap space as well. Well, he was, he was good. He was set to make over 10 million this year. He was, but still, but, but, but dead cap money though is still $9 million. Dead cap hit. So you're only freeing up a million dollars in terms of cap space. Same thing with like Bradley Bosman, you're not clearing up a whole bunch. Hayden Hearst, the release of him is only gonna save this season $52,000 on this salary cap. Now, I understand in 2025 you're gonna save cap money and all that stuff. I totally understand that, but still the, the Panthers are actually getting rid of guys and they're not getting a whole lot of value in terms of cap savings for getting rid of some veteran players. It seems like Dan Morgan and that whole new front office, whatever he his, his lead. Now, as a general manager, we're getting our own guys. They no longer have Fitterer signings. No longer have any of that kind of stuff. It's he, Dave Canalis. We're getting our own guys and that's what they're doing moving forward. That's at least that's what that feels like. Ok, you got a second round pick from the New York Giants. I'm not sure if that's gonna be pick number 39 or pick number 47 because the Giants have two second round picks and you got a second. I mean, you, sorry, you got a, you got 1/5 oo on top of that, but nonetheless, I don't think they're gonna be able to sign Brian Burch that deal like you said. And then still pay Derek Brown, especially when you see Christian Wilkins get a four year $110 million deal as an interior defense alignment. I'm sorry, Derek Brown is probably thinking dollar signs in his mind right now too. And this is a long term play. You brought up the dead money, uh for this year. But then we talk about 2025 the Panthers are gonna have, uh some room to operate either to help Bryce get more weapons to protect or whatever because if you think about it, we, and we've said this on the show a bunch of times, Dennis, they're not gonna have a lot of room to, to one sign people. Um, and already you have some taken away because of the signing of Robert Hunt, which we'll talk about that. Uh, but then also, like, they didn't have a lot of draft captains. Now they get, you know, two more draft picks back, but you still don't have a first, you have another second and you have another fifth. Um So at the end of the day, like, no, no, no matter what they did, you're not going to be able to like have a complete turnaround this off-season. So you needed to make a few moves to give you some room and some play for next year's off-season and for the year after that, and this is pretty much where they are and I didn't necessarily expect to lose four starters uh from the defense. Um But essentially you knew that, that it was possible to really lose two and I kind of in my, in the back of my head thought that Brian Burns may not be playing for the Carolina Panthers, Frankie Luu may not be playing for the Carolina Panthers and we lost V Bell, we lose Dante Jackson. That's another guy that we, we kind of sort somewhat expected to be gone. And so, um, you know, this is a real rebuild instead of what we were the good, the bill of goods that we were sold before in 2020 in 2023 we were told that. No, we've got enough on this roster. We can go win. Now, did we win? Now, do we, do we win? You won, you won the Chicago Bears the first overall pick. That's what you want. We didn't win. Ok. And in the process, Scott Fitterer traded away all of our picks for Sam D for, uh, for, uh Baker Mayfield for Matt Coral, for DJ Johnson. You know what I'm saying? Like so right now Dan Morgan is cleaning up. So for all the fans out there who may be mad at Dan Morgan, what else could he have possibly done? Yeah, by the way, the, the fifth round pick is actually a 2025 5th round pick. So you're not gonna get that. It's not next year, not this year, it's next year. So I think it's gonna be your stuff out as we, as we, uh go along. Exactly. So I think it's gonna be the higher of the two picks. Uh, but nonetheless, you look at this defense no more, Brian Burns no more. Frankie Lou. They, they're gonna release Dante Jackson, they're releasing Vaughan and Bell. That's four starters off your defense. That's four guys. You got to replace, four guys gotta replace. It's the rebuild. Uh It seems like the way things are gonna go at least this off season, it's building around you at some. Say here, Chris. Yeah. Well, I, I will say this and I, if this ends up happening. I don't feel too terribly bad about losing Brian Burns, but there was a report and I don't know how much, how much legs it has to it right now that the Carolina Panthers are targeting Pat Patrick Queen. Now, he's not as good as Brian Burns, right? But he's somebody that different position, but he's somebody who, who can rush the quarterback because that's one of the things that we're, we're worried about, right? Because without Brian Burns, we literally have nobody that you, uh feel confident in that can rush the quarterback and also the, the next person who is the best. Uh, Marquis Haines, he's a free agent so we could possibly lose him. Um And even if you resign him, you know it, what are you really getting for it? Right. So, uh I, if that happens, at least you're getting like somebody from a legit defense, number one defense in the NFL to come in and help anchor that defense. And so, you know, there are possible, there's a possibility you can get a few pieces here there to, to fit in and it could be a little bit cheaper than what you already had. By the way, Brian burns New York Giants are at the Panthers this coming year. Just want to point that out, just want to point that out. He's gonna sack Bryce like three times. Oh my gosh, he's gonna be icky a lot. I feel like now if he's trying to rush maybe on the interior on a stunt. He's gonna have to deal with the guy that the Carolina Panthers have agreed to a contract too. And Robert hunt offensive climbing. They picked up from the Miami Dolphins. According to our friend Joe, person, from the athletic Joe person actually gave some numbers and some stats on, on, on Robert hunt this past season. Robert hunt 66 £330 by the way, big dude, very athletic guys to age 27 years old Panthers agreed to a five year $100 million deal, uh, with $63 million guaranteed. Robert Hunt had the lowest pressure rate just 0.8% among all o linemen in 2023. You give up one sack and three pressures and 315 pass block snaps. That's it. That's it. I'm sorry, what, what, what was the talking point? A lot of this past season for the Carolina Panthers and when it comes to Bryce Young couldn't protect his ass, could they? Well, guess what? Now you got someone that can help on the interior of that because everyone that played on the interior of the offensive line including Bradley Bozeman. Now, the Carolina Panthers are gonna be getting rid of were like turnstiles at metro stations. They were just like revolving doors just letting people through. That's what they were. So, you know what, you sure up the one thing on the offense or at least part of it that you needed to fix when signing Robert Hunt props, do you want to get that job done? So, I, I tweeted this out earlier today too and I, I just kind of put out like his, uh, snapshot from pro football focus. He was the sixth best, uh, graded, uh, guard from the NFL last season. And each year since he was drafted in 2020 his grade has gotten higher and higher. He literally gets better every year. Uh went from a 66th grade up to a 67 to a 72 in 2022 to a 76 last year. So he's, he's legit. He went from 50 to 36 to 12 to 6 best. And so, uh, he's getting better, right? Um He's somebody who's, again, you said 66 £335. But athletic as hell because he's been used in passing schemes from the Miami Dolphins. He's, he's caught a pass from uh Tu Aago Vallo. And so like you can use him to, to pull, to do whatever you need him to do against somebody. And I'm, I'm initially thinking if Austin Corbett is uh healthy, um, Robert Hunt was on the right side of the line for the Miami Dolphins, but I'm assuming the Panthers are gonna keep what they have on the right side. If Corbett is healthy, have him, Moton. Uh those two together have worked well, when they get a chance to, uh, be healthy together and they're playing together. So I'm thinking Robert Hunt is next to Icky. And once you find the center, once you find the center, um, you put this whole thing together and maybe you have a better unit than what you had last year. Let's keep a few things in mind. You brought it up, the interior of the offensive line was mainly where the real issue was. Another big part of the issue was Bradley Bozeman. Clearly wasn't very good at, uh, identifying what, um, I guess protection packages they need and to identify pressures so that Icky Awu can be aware of things because we've seen a few times where Icky was maybe guarding, gone inside the gun outside is just a free shot to, to Bryce Young and yes, Icky should be more situationally aware than that, but also that goes on the center who's, uh, in charge of the entire group who should be calling that out to people when they see it, it's, uh, quarterback, it's called play caller, quarterback, it's all that. So, uh, so you're, you're getting, you have a new coach, new play caller, the only thing that's the same is the quarterback in that case and you, we can give him a pass because he had one year. So I like this move honestly and, you know, it hurts seeing what the Carolina Panthers have lost, but honestly, I'm not walking away from today feeling like, oh, this team is in the dumps. We've been in the dumps. You went two and 15 last season, we've been in the dumps. So like to, to, if you keep doing the same thing over and over again and keep failing, that's, that is what insanity is. So, you've got to do things that feel like it, it hurts in the moment. So we're not gonna have Brian Burns, it hurts. I love Brian Burns. I would love to keep him there. But in order to move forward, some people are gonna have to get cut. It's just how it is. And you've got to expect this because this, this is gonna be a completely new team under a completely new regime when you go two and 15, no one's job safe. Simple as that. Even your best players when you're two and 15 society, nobody, but that's Panthers playbook for this week. As simple as that. Um You know what we said it, this is a rebuild year. This honestly feels like just a complete reset. Dave Canalis, Dan Morgan, the whole group restart this sucker. That's what was needed. Restart this sucker. You know what it stinks you on a first round pick this season. Someone else is gonna have it for you. But you know what? You gotta start somewhere. I expect this by 2026. No, honestly take a couple of years to really rebuild this da uh Dave Canalis, build the culture up, really start to establish what you wanna do. Get the right guys that you want, not someone else's signings, not someone else's draft picks, the guys that you want, get them in the locker room and then move forward. Can I I just want to bring this up really quick? I was listening to Sheena Sheena Quick who was a huge uh she, she had this first I believe uh saying that this was a possibility. Um, but I went into her, her room the other day and they were kind of talking, uh, today, I don't know. I said the other day today earlier today a few hours ago, uh they were talking about this potential trade and uh a lot of the Panthers fans were saying stuff like, uh it feels like everybody good that we have, we end up trading them away. And I guess that technically is the case um, since, uh Scott Fitterer right before we had the problem um with uh Marty Hearney where he overpay for guys and we keep them maybe for too long. Um I would say the Panthers fans this be patient with Dan Morgan. He's cleaning up a huge mess right now and you know, this, I don't think he can be 100% graded on what he does this off-season because a lot of this off-season is just literally getting back to square one. Can we get a, a nice foundation OK. Now, we need to build on that foundation 2025 and beyond. And so he's just making sure there's no cracks in the fo foundation right now. There are plenty of cracks that he needs to fill in. And that may mean to also move a few pillars that we were expecting to have. So I just want to put that out there. It's gonna look different. This is gonna be another painful year. Me and Dennis are right here for the ride with you guys. We are. That's why you gotta subscribe right here on 99 9 fans youtube page and that's why you gotta smash that like button and leave your thoughts in the comments section below. You're a hated therapist. We are, we're here for you to that and you know what vent in the comment section if you hate it, say so if you like it, if you like it, say so let us know in the comments section below. But again, make sure you say subscribe here on the fans, youtube page. That way we can always keep you updated on all the stuff that's happening until next time. Be good to yourselves and enjoy the beautiful sunshine that we actually do have here in the State of North Carolina. And if you ever see us ask for a hug because you might need it this year. Yeah. Well, my

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<p>To, to all of you and we bring you greetings. I would like to also extend gratitude to other elected officials who are joining us today. If you'll please stand. Thank you. I want to also start by expressing how thrilled we are to have you here today. We are proud of our city here in Greenville. And I think that pride is evident in this room today and why wouldn't we be proud? Greenville is a thriving hub of, of eastern North Carolina. We have a growing population, a diverse based manufacturing manufacturers, top notch educational institutions, state of the art, medical facilities and vibrant art and entertainment scenes. The people in Greenville are as friendly and as talented as they come. We all work well together and that is a tremendous, tremendous key to progress. There are so many reasons to be proud of Greenville and today I'm thrilled that our city is getting even better with all of that being said, I would like to introduce to you a Greenville native and Chief Deputy Secretary of Commerce Jordan Richard. Well, thank you so much. Uh Mayor Pro Daniels. Uh it is a beautiful day and uh uh especially great day to be back home in Greenville, North Carolina. Uh So, on behalf of uh our North Carolina Secretary of Commerce Michelle Baker Sanders, uh Good afternoon. Uh Today really is not only the celebration of an incredible partnership uh with the city of Greenville, Pitt County, uh the Greenville Eastern North Carolina Alliance, the Department of Commerce, our, our partners across the state. Uh But it's also calls to celebrate uh some really exciting news and the first uh such announcement this year in Pitt County across the state in North Carolina, we are uh already ahead of our pace from last year. Uh Having a wonderful year in terms of economic development. Today is a wonderful announcement of that. Since January across the state, we've announced uh 39 projects and this will be our 40th, more than 3600 jobs across North Carolina and over $2.5 billion in economic development investment statewide. And today's news uh is also great as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of Greenville, North Carolina. Over those 250 years, we've seen Greenville change and evolve and the evolution of Greenville as a community is parallel to what we've seen across the state from an economy once dependent on agriculture and tobacco. Pitt County and Greenville is transformed into an economy that's supported by medicine uh and advanced manufacturing and clean energy jobs like we're here to talk about today. Uh having grown up here and watch that evolution and watch Downtown and Dickinson Avenue evolve and having gone to school across the street at CMXS Middle School, it's especially gratifying to be back and to be working on wonderful announcements like this. Uh And today, it's also an incredible honor to introduce uh someone who I've had the great pleasure of working for in Raleigh for the past 7.5 years. Uh He's been working to build a stronger North Carolina uh where everyone has as an opportunity to live in safe communities, get a quality education, uh have good access to great jobs and great health care. Uh And where everybody has a chance to live lives of purpose and abundance. And today he'll share with the Greenville community some outstanding news. Uh that'll help get us closer to North Carolina, North Carolina. That's more diverse, more inclusive works uh even more for all the people of this great state. 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Those members are here today, our Golden Leaf Foundation, our Greenville Eastern North Carolina Alliance, Pitt County Electric Cities, Greenville Utilities Commission and the city of Greenville. At this time, I would like to, to welcome to the podium, the CEO of Bovi at Solar, Jimmy Shea. And I'd like to present him with a gift on behalf of the people of North Carolina, Jimmy. If you could come forward, Jimmy, this is a piece of pottery made one of our, by one of our famous artists uh Ben Owen. And on it has the great seal of the state of North Carolina and it has a part of it. Our, our motto, Si Quam Beri, which means to be rather than to seem, we want you to know in North Carolina we are who we say we are. And we look forward to this partnership for years and decades to come. Congratulations. Thank you for being here. Uh This is uh cup of the Chinese tea. Oh, outstanding. Thank you very much. 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First one of the project, we use the building to manufacture our solar modules per to will including contracting uh start uh start off the art 500,000 to 60 thou uh 100,000 square foot factory on 34 acres to manufacture of PV cells which are used to build the solar panels. The location is expected to output the two gigawatts of solar and the two gigawatt uh PV cells since the future, uh uh will help bring our top performance PV modules to our variable clients to foster stronger connections with the independent uh power products. EP CS product uh developers, solar in, in installs and the contractors. We will have product uh they need uh in increase the deve deployment of uh uh U utilities, commercial industrial and uh dangerous solar project. We will require a strong workforce to product pro produce these solar panels so we will hearing about uh 900 employees uh over the next five years, job are expect expected to increase engineers, product workers. And so on, on behalf of uh B solar, I would like to thank everyone in involved in making this uh weight of product uh possible. The first is the governor uh Rio Cooper and uh and the secu uh secondary security Sanders and the North Korea development of the commerce tr uh territory uh D feature and the e economy uh economic uh developer partners of the North Korea Carolina, North Carolina General and Een North Korea uh communi Community College System, Go Goen Le found uh Foundation, Yanda down uh and the team at the Greenville East, North Carolina Islands, Kelly Andrew and the Peter County developer office, as well as the Pitter county government, Kathy Howard and the leadership team at the Greenville Utilities Commission City of the Greenville Electricity of the North Carolina and our advances today, our dream are coming true. We are upon the to begin pro product in our pe models in the US, bring our manufacturers exciting excellence to our most important uh solar market, creating jobs and the ma uh making up in impact. Solar energy in the United States is a bombing driving by its many benefits. Solar is an economic engine, a source of clean cheap um produce energy set and make a electricity affordable for customers and improve the air quality for health uh communities. We are surrendered to help uh future wills rep reputation for the green. I I can economic and uh manufacturing. We look forward to working with all of our partners, our path towards a cleaning future in the United. Thank you. I wanted to make sure I recognized Senator Candy Smith and Representative Glory Steam Brown and Representative reader, the legislature helped us a lot with this too. So, thank you very much for. Ok. Mhm. Good afternoon. My name is Anne Lord Huggins and I serve on the Pitt County Board of Commissioners. In conclusion of this momentous announcement, we must emphasize how truly honored we are that Pitt County was chosen over the many communities that were under consideration for this project. We are not only announcing the selection of Pitt County for a new industry that will bring strong economic growth to our community, but we are celebrating the collaboration that have developed and will continue to develop among Pitt County. Our partners and this esteem company. This announcement is the culmination of shared vision. This company's vision for its first us manufacturing facility in a business friendly asset, rich and welcoming community and Pitt County's vision for growth through strong industry partners that create highly skilled high paying jobs for our citizens. This vision will come to life in the, in the gr in the green corporate park and we look forward to our continued partnership to make this project successful. Beyond expectation. On behalf of Pitt County and the Board of commissioners, we extend our appreciation to each and every individual who has contributed their time, expertise and passion to make today possible. Most importantly, we extend heartfelt thanks to Bovier Sola for choosing us to communicate, to commemorate. Excuse me, this day, we would like to present a sculpture crafted by local artist Jordan Pera titled Connecting the Links May this day be a continuation of connections that will ensure your continued success. We are honored to be your partners and your chosen community. Welcome to your new home, Pitt County. OK. And I accept this on behalf of pick him and now and welcome to the podium, Thomas Taft Junior Board of Directors of Greenville, NENC Alliance for a toast. That's good. Not a force of guys. II, I had a prepared speech, but I'm gonna take this in a slightly different direction because II I, everyone has, has talked so much about the relationships and everything else. That got us to this point. But all I can say on behalf of Pitt County and on behalf of the Greenville NC Alliance is we won. We have won, we have beat out other communities, phobia technologies to come here. It's everything that we've all been working for, for years and years and years. I look at so many of you out here that uh were participants in that. And again, all I want to say is we won. Pitt County won North Carolina won. Thank you, Governor Cooper. Cheers, everyone. Cheers. Thank you. I don't mind. That's fine. No, no, no, no. Well, I would just add that this is the single largest jobs announcement in Pitt County's history. Uh, I don't believe we've had a governor here in, uh, about 15 years to announce anything, uh, economic development, a new, a new, uh, I'm sorry. But, uh, but either way we're proud to have you here. We're proud to have you guys here. Cheers again to a victory for Pitt County here here. Thank you. Thank you very much. Ok. Thank you so much. I'm ready to provide. Yeah. Yeah. Ok. They see. All right. Right. Yes. That's first. He said going across the way, come back in time.</p>

Gov. Cooper announces major economic development deal in Greenville

A lockdown has ended at Enloe High School in Raleigh, police said Friday.

Good afternoon. My name is Lieutenant Jason with the Public Information Office of the Raleigh Police Department. Deputy Chief Boyce is going to provide an update on the incident that happened at a high school today. Uh Good morning, uh Deputy Chief Rico Boyce of the Raleigh Police Department. I want to provide an update of the incident that occurred here at in low high school this morning. I'm joined here with Major Harrison of the Field Operations Division as well as major latour of the field operations division. I want to begin by saying that everything and everyone is safe at Inlow High School. There's no students, no staff that has been injured as a result of this. Obviously with uh with the allegation of a firearm on campus, it really has an effect on the students and staff, but I want to alert the public that everything is ok. Uh Wake County schools have been very helpful in investigating this matter with the Raleigh Police Department. So what happened just after 10 a.m. this morning, a student approached the principal and made the principal aware that there is a subject on campus with a firearm. The principal immediately placed a school on code red lockdown and with the assistance of the school resource officer, additional officers were called to the scene. Once officers arrived on scene, they began to do a systematic search of the entire school interior and exterior of the school to determine that there was no one on campus with the firearm. Obviously, when you talk about a firearm on campus, it has a very large impact in our community and that's why we had a very large presence of law enforcement. But I will say Raleigh PD working with the Wake County public schools, we have determined that there is no threat on campus. We took this matter very seriously. We're going to continue to investigate and see how this all originated. But at this time, I just want to let the community know that this threat is unfounded, right? There's no threat, there's no firearm, there's no one injured at in high school. So we're going to continue to make sure that the message get out and Wake County public schools will put out an update of how the rest of the school day is going to go as far as any potential early release. I cannot say that right now, what I can say is a student made the principal aware that there is a potential of someone on campus with a firearm. The principal took that information very seriously and placed the school on a code grade lockdown and we began to investigate from there. So at this time, I can't determine if it was a hoax or not. Are you looking for anyone else? I mean, there have been a report that there was a student who said her boyfriend was with a gun. Are you looking for that person? Since no one was found in the school with a gun? We're investigating right now, like say this originated from a student and the information was shared with the principal. So we're still trying to determine what exactly was shared with the principal to lead to the core lockdown. So right now that is like say under investigation, did you guys do a systematic room by room search? Yes, we did. Like I say with this being a school and the threat of a firearm on campus, the Raleigh Police Department's selective enforcement unit, state capital PD County Sheriff's office, they all responded to help us do a systematic search of the entire campus, not only inside the school but it outside school in the surrounding neighborhoods is the lockdown lifted currently. No, it's still code red lockdown right now. We're just finishing up like say some last minute details with Wake County public schools and they will update us when they're going to lift that code red. One more question. I just want to make sure I'm clarifying this correctly. A call from the principle that a student had reported this. Are you still on the lookout for someone who might have been on campus and then left or are you investigating this in a different way? We're investigating this in a different way that this was a alleged threat of someone with a gun on campus. So right now, there's nobody on campus, but we're trying to get the exact details. Like what else was involved in this communication with the student and the principal. Can you really quickly just talk about the response? I mean, this is a massive response to something like this and the impact that has on officers, parents, students out there actually has a huge toll, a huge effect on our officers responding to any school with the potential of a firearm b on a campus. That's why you saw the response to get today. Uh We work very well with our law enforcement partners and we're very thankful for them helping us to clear the school. Uh And obviously with parents, of course, this is going to have a huge impact on parents as well as student and staff. Anytime you see a large police presence on a, on a school campus, but it's all to make sure that everyone is safe. Uh And then we're quickly, we'll try to get the school back to normal operators uh operating as soon as possible. So yes, we came with a lot of resources if there was a threat or would someone would have gone, we wanted to quickly mitigate that. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you.

No threat at Enloe High School, releasing students early

Sky 5 flies over code red lockdown at Enloe High School 