Do ever surprise yourself with what you do?
“Well, I was honestly scared though when I was flipping. But no, it’s just things that you expect. Come game time, you pray and hope that things carry over to the game. Coach always talks about making practice game-like. It’s only a matter of time. 1+1 is always going to equal 2. I don’t care what book you use or what mathematics you’re using. For us, you have a good day of practice on Wednesday, you have a good day of practice on Thursday, Friday, a good walkthrough Saturday, it’s bound to turn over on Sunday. I don’t necessarily have any translations going to how I run in practice. But I still try to make fluid cuts that are realistic in the game. We’ve still got to fix a couple wrinkles in the game. But nothing that we have to stress about. I know winning covers up a lot of things, but we’re sitting at 2-0 and going against a great Saints team that we have to be prepared for. Being ahead of every single look that they give us.”

Did your phone blow up after the game?
“Not more than usual. The best is still yet to come.”

What was the best thing you heard about the flip from somebody?
“I think the actual play, I kept hearing this person [shouting], “Woo!” I thought I was excited, but [Jonathan Stewart] was more excited than me.”

How about the slip?
“What slip? I don’t know what you’re talking about … You know, in this game, you got to have a short memory.”

Did Steph Curry ever text you about the play?
“I talked to Steph. Me and Steph have a lot of things in common. He’s in Charlotte; I’m in Charlotte in his offseason, part of the [Under Armour] family. We’ve been in communication for years now. I can call him a good friend of mine. I talked to him.”

Did he say anything about the play?
“Cool.”

What did you think of Trai Turner’s block on J.J. Watt?
“That was pretty cool. Now we’re turning the page and we’re ready to go. Now the focus is on the New Orleans Saints.”

There are handful of quarterbacks every week dealing with injuries. Do you feel a sense of pride in avoiding injury?
“I can’t compare myself to anybody. I only can look at their situation and try to better myself from it. I have full respect for the other 31 guys that play in this league, but yet we’re all different. Our situations are different. My main focus is trying to work this fine-tuned machine and the Panthers offense to try and get us to the last rectangle on the field each and every week. I can’t be too much worried about what another person is doing.”

What about your offseason preparation? Staying healthy can’t be an accident?
“Yeah, but it’s just not all myself too. It’s a credit to our unbelievable support cast we do have here. The training staff does an unbelievable job; the coaches do a great job of giving us ample time to prepare our bodies for the rigors of not only the games but practice. At the end of the day, coach always says, ‘Be a professional athlete – a professional whatever you do, no matter what you are.’ It goes beyond the confines of the walls of Bank of America Stadium. It’s outside of this, getting the proper massage and treatment for your body. So you can be performing at the premium form on Sunday.”

Drew Brees hasn’t missed a game due to injury with the Saints. You know the position – how impressive is that?
“It’s extremely impressive. Knowing that you are the prize jewel pretty much on every team. You knock a quarterback out, the chances of that team winning is pretty lowered. Now you got the starting quarterback back; that’s just what the statistics show. But for a person to be going strong that many years is pretty impressive. Knowing that a person that touches the golden nugget every single play now, you know, defenders are keying in to take away every single play – you know, that’s football.”

What improvements have you seen from your receivers?
“It’s just practicing. That’s the only thing we can control. Of course, I don’t mean to throw an inaccurate ball. I’m pretty sure those guys are not meaning to just drop the ball. As I say, we’re practicing to get on the same page so that it can carry over to game time. We’re practicing extremely hard, and that’s the only thing we can do – put ourselves in the best situation that can get positive feedback coming in.”

How has Brenton Bersin been the last few weeks after he was released but then signed to the practice squad?
“Bers is as steady as they come. He’s a very reliable and dependable guy. He always knows where he’s going to be, he always knows his assignment, and you never have to worry about him missing his responsibilities. It’s kind of funny that Bersin is somewhat the principal in the media room. We’ve got whatever going in from a pass pattern, a pass concept or block protections to new signals to whatever – Bersin is the guy. We have to clear with him, saying, ‘Well Bersin, what does this look like?’ ‘Well, that looks like so-and-so so-and-so.’ We can do that because Bers is there. He’s just a smart player that we all love to enjoy and it shows when he’s out there on the field.

So you’ve added executive producer and TV host to your job titles with the new Nickelodeon show?
“It’s really unbelievable. You know I’m a kid at heart, we all know that – but yet, I think nowadays days, so much is really said about reality TV. After knowing so many people that are actually there, I didn’t necessarily want to go that route. I wanted to use my performance in a way that I would profit from it. Not only from actually being there but emotionally as well. I love kids; I love giving back and just seeing their faces and the energy they give off, which is reciprocated because I’m enjoying that as well. The show is ‘I Wanna Be’ and it’s coming off the notion of everybody sees the superhero in how I play. I’ve gotten the nickname Superman, SuperCam ever since I can remember. And now I’m showing that, to kids, you don’t necessarily have to be a football player, you don’t have to be a basketball player, but everybody has a superpower in them. Your superpower may be drawing, your superpower may be being a teacher, your superpower may be even being a scientist or a doctor. When you look at the comic books, Superman looks completely different from Batman, completely different than Aquaman, Ironman, Catwoman. I say that to say every person, even in this room, and in the world, is different and possesses some type of superpower that nobody knows what it necessarily is until you dig into yourself and find out. You know, God’s given me the ability to play football. I want to show that best through my ability. For me to go on this wild ride, with meeting new kids and trying to make them maximize their superpower is pretty cool.”

Where are you going to film that?
“We haven’t necessarily landmarked a specific date, but I know the kids are going to range from everywhere. I don’t necessarily think we’re going to be at a specific point. But I don’t have the details yet. I think I got my plate still full, so I’m really focusing in on that.”

How do you avoid the same sort of slip from 2-0 as last year?
“We mentioned it in practice and obviously we’ve been in this situation before. We’re trying to put ourselves in better situations and having great practices. I sound like a broken record with mentioning practice, but we can’t let any opportunity slip away. More than ever, we have to hone in the scene and try to put the microscope on our game day. Like I say, winning really covers up a lot of loose ends. Yet we have to find those loose ends and make them better. Everybody’s watching film on teams. We know what our weaknesses are with the team that we’re about to play. We know our weaknesses. So we have to be on our A-game even more than ever. This is a division game. This counts, we say, plus two. We have to be ready to stop a team that’s extremely hungry for a win.”

Does the passing game open up after you’ve run the ball a few times?
“To a degree, it just gives defenses another thing to worry about. I say it often, that can be my gift and curse. A lot of times I feel like I can run, and I do run, that’s an opportunity for me to throw it. When I feel like I got to throw it and not take what the defense gives me, then it’s like a give and take thing. It’s what you practice for, and hopefully the game slows down, so you can be aware of when and when not to run.”

What about the no-huddle helps you?
“It just allows me to see the defense sooner rather than later. When you go in a huddle, on average, you probably break the huddle around 14 or 13 seconds. When you’re in no-huddle, you get the whole lapse of the clock. And that starts at usually 40 seconds, 30 or even 25 seconds. So that gives us an opportunity to play faster and create that edge that we want to dictate the defense.”

You seem to like that don’t you?
“I just like scoring.”

How would you describe Mike Remmers?
“Mike is pretty good. I think last week showed him to a lot of people. It wasn’t a surprise to us. He was playing one of the top defenders in the league and for him to minimize his performance, what he did – J.J. [Watt] still had his opportunities, he still made his presence felt, but Mike did an unbelievable job making him uncomfortable at times. That’s what you can respect from him. Not only him but Trai and just the whole game plan going into it. But like I said, last week is over with and we have another challenge in the Cameron guy that’s in New Orleans and we have to be prepared for him.”

What do you see out of the Saints secondary?
“Well, we can’t give those guys any hope. We always talk about – Coach Matsko always mentions it – he says we have to create that killer instinct. This game is not going to be easy. We know that. They have a lot of talent on that team. I can’t really focus on their offense because I’m not watching those guys, but defensively, they have rangy cornerbacks that can and will make plays if you let them. But we have to be able to run the football. That’s one of our keys to win each and every week. Just controlling the line of scrimmage. Guys that are watching extra film and going back to last year and trying to crack the Da Vinci code of what Rob Ryan is going to do there. We’ve just got to be prepared for anything and not those guys dictate the game to us. We’ve got to execute our game plan and be very efficient at that.”