Tre Boston - , panthers Event: Press Conference | Date: 2026-09-09 | Full transcript (primary source).
Tre Boston spoke at a press conference for the Carolina Panthers on September 9, 2026, where he discussed the upcoming NFL season and the team's aspirations. The event served as a platform for Boston to engage with fans and share insights about the Panthers' preparations and goals for the year ahead.
Transcript
Boston: Welcome back to the avenue. Hey, it's your boy Trey Boston. And this year, hey, this is the avenue. So I had to go ahead, recruit a thief. You see him himself. My dog, Kirk Coleman, is in the building, man. Appreciate you having me, bro.
Coleman: Thank you for having me, brother. I am excited to be a part of this and excited to bring some awesome content back to the show.
Boston: Hey, listen, I say appreciation for having me because I feel so honored to be with my brother, man. I mean, we're really about to rock out on this show. We can't wait this year to give y'all some fresh, great content. And this year, what we want to do on the avenue is be more, let's be more couch entertaining, man. Let's be together. This is for us. We'll be controversial. We're going to face all the football controversies. We don't have to be all controversial. No, no, it's just we want to agree. We want to be all over the world with this. We don't just want to give y'all Panther information and topics, but we want to also give y'all topics that y'all want to hear about. Give y'all life and this together, amen. We in this together as a community, man. Y'all on the avenue, man. So let's get started. Let's do this. My guys, hey, listen, football is back. Football is back. I'll say it again. Football is back.
Boston: How you feeling, Panther, man? Hey, listen, I'm excited. The Carolina Panthers this season, hey, we're coming off of a what? Divisional championship, making the playoffs, getting into a run. Kurt, man, talk to me. What are your expectations for the Panthers?
Coleman: I got a lot of things that I want to say. Number one, Dan Morgan, great job. In this offseason, two things that I was looking at to trying to address. A, free agency, we did that. We got Devin Lloyd, Jalen Phillips, and a few other pieces to continue to bolster this roster from a veteran standpoint. We did that and he did it really well by keeping us under the cap. Number two, the draft. You win with the draft because you've got to have young guys that are ready to come along. And then when injuries occur, guess what? Those young guys have to be ready to play. First round draft pick, Monroe Freeland, is ready to go. He's got a lot of experience now through the preseason and he's had those growing pains of being able to face the Will Anderson's of this world. But guess what? It's his time to shine. And then you have a guy, I have a little circle. It's an asterisk, because you know why? Will Lee. I'm a DB, he's a DB, and I tell you what, the coaches have been singing this praise. I got to watch him up close for three straight games. This guy is ready to ball. And he's got great size as a corner. You can play him inside, outside. I'm excited about some of these new additions to this team.
Coleman: I love it, I love it, man. Listen, last year, man, I rave about Dan Morgan. Anytime you get GMs who know the game, they end up bringing in guys. At the very beginning, he said he's bringing in dogs, and we continue to bring in some dogs around here. So I love to see it. And we got the season opener. We're starting this bad boy at home in Bank of America Stadium. Come on, man. Hey, the Bears. Hey, how are we feeling going against a guy like Caleb Williams? For me, I see a guy like Caleb coming off a good season. They make it to the playoffs. He gets a few wins under his belt. You got this little celebration with his painted nails. You know what I'm saying? But I think what we, as a Carolina Panthers team, we come out identifying who we are. We know the type of team we are. We're going to play great defense. We got to run the ball on offense, take care of the ball. They know on the avenue, this is what I say, this is the winning recipe of winning football.
Coleman: Now, hold on. When we say running the ball, I'm looking at more big picture, like control the line of scrimmage. Absolutely. Because it's not just running the ball, but when we do pass the ball, our guys have to protect who? B.Y. Right, y'all. Please, please. And here's a quick little stat. So Carolina Panthers, they're 11 and 20 in their all-time week one games. That's a crazy stat. Now, B.Y. and his first three starts of his career in week one. They have been almost identical. Two interceptions in each game and around 140 to 160 yards passing per game. So what does that look like? Guess what? I know we said run the ball. I know you said defense, but I got to say it all starts with that man getting the rock every single time. And that's Bryce Young. He's got to have a great game because he's going to be going against the defense as well. And he's going to be going against an opponent. And again, when you talk about quarterbacks, it's just kind of like the NBA. I look at big stars, right? Yeah. Your record is what your team is. And that always goes as your quarterback record. No one knows what my record was as a player. Do you know yours? No, no. So what I'm saying is, this is Kayla Williams. If I'm correct, he's on the cover of Madden this year? Yes, yes. My kids play. Yes, yes. So what I'm saying is, hey, Bryce, this game is for you. This game is for you to show who you are in this league, who you want this team to be. And like you said, that identity that this team is, we got to be dogs. I want to see Bryce get in somebody's face, throw a big pass, and go talk that talk to that guy on the sideline. That's the Bryce young, that's the team, this is the mantra that I want to see. I want to see this Panthers team come out and set the tone as the week one, 2026, we're out for blood every single time. Hey, man, this is going to be a great season. You are a little juice right now. Just know we're going to be out there this weekend, man. Hey, I'm providing the juice to the fans. Just know it. Let's go.
Coleman: All right, now this year's schedule, looking at the schedule, third hardest in the league. Like this is a year that they- It's Vegas though, it's Vegas. And it's based off of what wins, losses or what they predict every team's going to be. So my thing is this, does it really matter? No. Because you really don't have to be better than the best team in the league. You just got to be better than the team that you play on that Sunday. And so this week one, everyone's fresh, everyone's ready to roll. So what's there to say that this team can't rip off because we got to get a streak. We got to get a streak and we got to start early and it's in Bank of America. What did Wilkes used to always say about the Bay? What? That's our house, man. I was like saying, this is our house. Lock down the bay, throw away the key. They ain't coming in and getting out. That's, I'm sorry. No, listen, we got to take care of home. And I'll say this, the last few years we have been a great team here in Bank of America State and we've taken care of business. But I think it's an advantage to start here at home because you get to put one underneath the belt. Once you get one in that column of Ws, you know how a season can go. I've been a part of teams that have started not here, but 0 and 4.
Coleman: Thank you for that clarification. Not here. Thank you for the clarification. Hey, we'll do that here in the bank. It was crazy. But you even talk about like starting here, but what's funny is other teams, not naming the ones that might be in Ohio, they are actually enjoying starting somewhere else because they don't have to deal with their fans. Guess what? I can tell you this, Carolina Panther fans, bring the energy, bring the intensity, bring the focus. This team wants to play here and guess what, they need you to be loud and represent who we are when another team comes in this building.
Boston: Yeah, man, we love it. We love it, man. Hey, we need y'all Panther Nation. Hey, I'm going to be there. Just know that.
Coleman: Is that just some hurt? So all the show, we told y'all, we're going to dive into other topics outside of the Panthers. We want this to be between us, really on the couch, having fun. So what we have for you, big time travel. Malbin, is that how we pronounce it? Malbin? I'm going to be honest. I'm not an English major and I'm hearing conflicting reports. I'm going to call it Melbourne.
Boston: Melbourne? No, no, no. I'm going to call it Melbourne. Let me be criticized for pronouncing it wrong. I'll take that. But if there's an R in a name, I look, it's just like the G we want to put down. You want to pronounce it? Like why are we, why don't we take, just leave it on the left, just take it out. Don't put it in there. Lasagna, you know.
Coleman: Lasagna, no. Lasagna.
Boston: Lasagna. Malbin. Do you say caramel, caramel? Which one is it? Caramel, caramel.
Coleman: Caramel? Caramel.
Boston: No. So you're French. I mean, we, we, we.
Coleman: We, we.
Boston: We, we. We, we. We, we. We, we. This is the longest trip in NFL history. You're talking about Malbourn, Mal, I'm going Malbin. I'm going Malbin. Cause I was told.
Coleman: Melbourne. Melbourne. Melbourne. 17 to 19 hours ahead of the West coast. You even had Raheem Morris miss out on his 50th birthday. His birthday was while they were traveling in the air. Did he get to celebrate it twice? No, because they left on the second. And he ended up on the fourth? He landed on the fourth. So it's, it's some difficulty going on here, man.
Boston: Look at the travel stats of this. You got departed on. Oh, this now, this is what we got to talk about because as players, we don't really get a say. So have they ever asked you for your say so on how you would like to travel, Kurt?
Coleman: Absolutely not. Because I promise you this, the teams that have the coaches sitting up front. Yeah. That's my, that would, I would address that first, like first and foremost. Let's talk about it. Let's talk because people, the viewers don't know. Let me bring you in here. Bring them in. This is what it's about right here. This is what it's about. The one thing that I love about being a player is you don't have to think about anything. They tell you when you're leaving, when you're getting there. But the bad thing about being a player is you don't get a say in anything that goes on. So if we're going to travel, whether it's 30 minutes and as we saw 16 hours of travel, you don't get to dictate, are you sitting up front first class in that nice little plush roll down, get my robe on and got my little foot scrubbed. Oh my good. I'll tell you what the coolest thing was they give you like a little travel bag and you have a toothbrush. I was feeling bougie. I was so bougie when I traveled across the States. But anyway, they don't tell us that. And then you got to go in there and you're dealing with, I couldn't do the fried chicken. I know you a fried chicken kind of guy. If I'm traveling, you know, but if you're on an airplane for that long, I can't have bubble guts. Now that you can, you got to be healthy. I got to have fruit, something that's going to keep my stomach light. Anyway, as a player, they're not telling us anything about how we're traveling, what we're doing. And then it's like, we're the one that's playing. You guys are coaching. Yes, you're doing a job, you got it. But there's a lot of other people that are doing their job for this game. We're the ones that have to play. I want to be at my peak and at the top performance. And if I can't do that based off of science, then it needs to be preference. Because if the stats of my physiological state aren't telling me, I'm going to be at my peak, then I want to be able to recline and go about a week and a half early. I want a week and a half. I want to see Melbourne, Melbourne. But I want to go see the Gold Coast. I want to go travel. I want to go to the places that Matthew McConaughey was talking about. He got lost in the interweaves of the villages of Australia. I want to see the dangos. I want to see the dangos. Down, down, down.
Coleman: Listen, I'm with them. I'm with them. When it comes to travel, like he's saying, I've been a part of some units that, hey, we did get first class. We got nice little double deck type, you know. Hey, we the whole team? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. See? Hey, the ballers. The whole team? Hey, the ballers. You know what I'm saying? The best in the superstars. If you were one of the, you know what I'm saying, you got towards the front. But the rest of the team, y'all and coach, you know what I'm saying? All you others is what he's saying. Anyone that is, ah. You know what I'm saying? So, you know, you got to be balling to be in the front. But my question is, if they're going out there, why do they need to go, why not be out there for almost a week and a half? To get trying to acclimate it. Enjoy the city, see the people, do it all. Why has it got to be a rush? Because it's the first game of the year. Meaning, there's nothing that you need to be done before that. And you have practice facilities out there. You probably, I mean, it's all straight. I'm sure they have training facilities and all this stuff that you need. So why not go out well out in advance, get situated. Because if I'm a player, me, my preference is saying I want to go out as early as possible. Now, yes, are there going to be cuts? Are there going to be trades? As a matter of fact, I just saw someone got injured out there and he's out for the year. And the issue is, it's like, okay, what do you do? You have to bring, I think the NFO should allow them to bring 70 guys out there instead of the normal amount. Because if the guys are injured or whatever. But let them go out there, let them see the people. That's how you build the culture. If you really want to grow the game, let them go out there early and experience Australia. And not just us bring the game to them, but allow us to experience the new culture and really see everything that it has to offer. Not just go out there and play again and get out. That's like, walk in your house and take whatever you want and then leave. No. You want like Goldilocks, I'm putting it up in it. I want you to bring me a plate. Can you bring me a plate while you come to my house? Can you bring me a plate? I get that. Okay. I get that.
Coleman: That's all I'm saying. I do get that because again, growing the sport, imagine going to the city, doing some work in the city with the kids and foundational work. Thank you. You're right. You're right. The country of Australia and Melbourne, Melbourne. Yeah. Am I getting an Australian accent as I'm saying it? Down and down, down and down. But yes, down in Australia, do something for them as much as they want to be able to get done in that country, in that city. No, I like it, I like it.
Coleman: All right, we're on to, hey, the hot topic of the NCAA. Yes, we are talking NCAA on the show. We got it. It's football. It's football. We got NFL players trying to go back to college. And now we know that they ruled LSU. They got people on their active roster so they can't go back. But there was a point of time where we were actually trying to be serious about this. What is your take about NFL players going back to college once they have declared and been on rosters or is there a stretch where?
Boston: Okay. Yeah, I'm gonna give you my first point and I wanna see what you think from that. And then I got some other layered areas in this. My first thing is this. Do you have an issue with someone that's playing professional baseball? Professional baseball. All right, I wanna keep using the word professional. And he's a pitcher. He's throwing 97 miles per hour, just zingers, boom, boom, boom. And then, you know what, something happened? He's done. He wants to come play college football. Do you have an issue with that?
Coleman: No, no, different sport. Different sport, different sport.
Boston: Okay, so the sport dictates whether you're professional. Yes.
Coleman: Or collegiate, is that what you're telling me?
Boston: Absolutely, because you don't.
Coleman: No, can I go to my second question?
Boston: Okay, I'll let you, yep, yep.
Coleman: So I answered the question, yep, yep, yep. So is professionalism dictated based off of salary?
Boston: Not these days, because some getting paid more than NFL players.
Coleman: Okay, so what dictates professional and collegiate in today's game?
Boston: What dictates it when you declare and sign in, like go, like say, hey, I am going to the professional league of my sport. So that's what dictates professionalism and collegiate. Is that what I'm hearing?
Coleman: The letter of intent to go play in a professional league. That's what you're telling me.
Boston: Yeah, we sign contracts all the time. I just wanna know what are the parameters? What are the categories? What are the metrics that we're looking at to say what is professional and what is collegiate? Because to me, professionalism used to always be salary. It was all based, you are being paid to play. That's what I grew up learning. That's what professional.
Coleman: Okay, so the professionalism now, based off of what I just said, does not really translate to the collegiate gaming work because like you just said, they're being paid actually sometimes more than what they would be paid in the actual professional game, right? So then the issue comes to me is there was a little asterisk saying these fifth year players had to declare by a certain time, right? That's for the NFL draft. You had to declare. But they didn't get that fifth year because of they were that COVID year and how things kind of happened. They were almost the odd man out. So they had to make a rash decision, not based off of the full wealth of knowledge that they could have had. So my question is, if they had an opportunity now to go back and say, we knew we could play a fifth year if we didn't declare, do you think they would?
Coleman: Well, these days, absolutely.
Boston: Well, that's okay. So I think we have gone back and it's kind of like we squeezed the toothpaste out and now we're trying to put it back in there because we didn't tell them all the things that they need to know ahead of time. But beyond that, okay, let's just say the ruling has worked because what happened was those guys try to come back. You have the SEC, the big 10, all these big conferences trying to get real legislative laws put into place where teams are just saying, I just want the best roster. Technically, they are, okay. So then let me ask you this. What about the guy that's seventh and eighth year playing still in college ball because he's had injuries and this and that. He's older than the guys that were coming back from the NFL. He's still got to get out of there. He's still, I'm letting y'all know he got to get out of there too. But he's playing. You had your time. This guy is playing. I just, I find it very hypocritical in the sense of we're gonna say one thing, they go ahead and do it and then there's a new way for them to come back and then we're trying to close the door on that and now they're kind of stuck without a home because they could add, I think, not just obviously the athletic ability to a team, but they're gonna be able to add the experience, the knowledge. I was telling you a story about a guy that I was talking to about, he is an awesome athlete. He's gonna be a phenomenal player, but the one thing is sometimes he thinks he's a little bit ahead of his time, meaning that he thinks he's ready for the game, but he's not showing up to meetings on time or he's not taking everything in seriously. Having somebody that's been cut from the NFL, you don't think that they could bestow some knowledge, some wealth into these young men that we want them to be ready for the game.
Coleman: Yes, but what I wanna say is, but you had your chance. You played your four years. If you declared and didn't get a fifth. Hey, how many years did you play in college?
Boston: Four.
Coleman: Okay, I played four. That's enough to go to the league. And when you made your decision to go to the league, you're gone. Can you come back and make, yes, Trey Boston can go back to college and be very influential on the college game. I'm saying this, if someone were to say, I will pay you a million dollars, me, Kurt Coleman, to come back and play for you. I'm gonna go, it doesn't make it right. It doesn't. But if I'm a better player, if I'm a, let's just talk. Again, we are in a capitalistic society. If I'm a better player, why not pay me? I'll come play. But the point is, I'll come play. You went pro. This is my thing. You went to the league. Yes. You've already been in camps. You're gone. You wanna know why you wanna come back? Because you're trash. You're not good enough to make a roster. So guess what? Just like the rest of us, we got to go find a job. We got to go do something in life. Hey, what's your major in, bud? It's time to get real life started. It's just like, that's the game.
Boston: So enterprise, national, budget, all. It's time to go, man. You had your chance. You had your chance. You played, you made it to the league. You weren't good enough. So you don't get to rewind.
Coleman: Your stance is, if you sign it, you're done. You're done. You're done. That's crazy. You're done and signed.
Boston: So you know, and the NBA did it. There's a couple of guys that played in the NBA. I don't like it. In the G league. I don't like it. And then they come down and play in college. I don't like it. But is it good for the game is what I wanna know.
Coleman: No. You think it takes away from the integrity. Now this is why I think it takes away from the integrity because high school, it's already getting hard for these high school kids to be recruited. That's fair. You got the transfer portal where high school players are, they're not looked after anymore. Like, hey, I can go get a 21 year old who I see film on at the next university inside of our conference. I'll go get him before I go get this 18 year old who I don't know what I'll get with him. For me, you take away from the high school game. Now we already got enough transfers. So now the guy who, hey, I happened to be at Carolina for three years, it's going into my senior year. Now I wanna go get an NFL player to come take my spot. Dang, go!
Coleman: Okay. Dang, go! Is that any different? So what you're just saying is you were trying to protect the collegiate game.
Boston: I wanna protect the collegiate game. Is the collegiate game any different than the NFL? Where the NFL, we've been on teams and I've been a part of it, where they are constantly evaluating you and they are always looking to replace you. Always looking to replace you. The college game was to replace you from again. If you're my age and you have played in college, you could be replaced. If you go get a younger guy from high school, you could be replaced. You cannot replace me from a guy in the NFL. That's just how I feel.
Coleman: You know what, we can agree to disagree. We can agree to disagree. I do agree with you and I respect your opinion. I respect your opinion. I respect it. But we gonna disagree.
Boston: Um. The next topic, man, the NFL eliminates the Pro Bowl. I mean, did you see that coming?
Coleman: Yes. Yeah. Like the NBA was eliminating the slam dunk content. Yes, I see that. The game has changed. We have seen it and hopefully, you know, we can somehow bring it back. But you're gonna need it to have to allow players and maybe it's the collegiate guys playing in a Pro Bowl. They'll go all out. All I'm saying is you may not have the fanfic.
Boston: That's called the Senior Bowl. That's called the East and West Ryan game, bro.
Coleman: All I'm saying is the game that we once grew up watching that we used to love to see, it's not the same. When they have changed it from the paddy cake to the flag. Look, look at this clip right here. This is. All-time favorites. This is what the Pro Bowl used to be. When you think of the Pro Bowl.
Boston: The punter trying to go for a little. You trying to fake it, no, sir. No, sir. Not today. Why do you have no chest? Hey, that same foot, same shoulder, straight to chest. That is as clean as a hit gets. Hey, man. And why is he running so high? Well, he's a punter, bro. Well, he's a punter. He's a punter. He ain't got to be a punter. Check down, check down.
