CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Carolina Panthers cornerback Josh Norman has successfully taken on the opponent's top receiver this season, and he likely will draw Indianapolis' T.Y. Hilton on Monday night.

But on Sunday, in a bus outside of Bank of America Stadium, Norman will take on a different "opponent."

He will join ESPN analyst Jon Gruden when he tapes a segment called "Gruden's Grill" that will run Monday night during the countdown show.

"I think we're going to have a pretty interesting conversation," Norman said with a laugh.

The fourth-year cornerback wasn't happy when Gruden said during the first quarter of Atlanta's 26-24 victory over Philadelphia in the Monday Night Football opener that he hadn't seen "anybody cover Julio Jones in the last couple of years."

Norman reminded reporters that in Carolina's two games against Atlanta last season, Jones, who averaged 99.5 yards a game in 2014, had a combined 10 catches for 117 yards and no touchdowns.

He fired back at Gruden, saying, "That goes to show you how much he watches film, or how much he pays attention to what goes on to the people he's watching in the NFL."

Norman said this even though Gruden's reputation is that of an analyst who watches film as much as or more than any of his peers.

"I'm definitely going to ask him, did he watch [those] games?" Norman told ESPN.com on Thursday. "He probably is going to apologize. I'll go, 'You know what? It's probably just Monday night. You're trying to hype everything up.'

"That's probably what he's going to say. But if he says anything different, we're going to take it to the south. It's going to be a conversation going south real fast."

It is rare for Gruden to have a cornerback in the MNF bus for this segment. Quarterbacks, skill position players and coaches tend to get the invite.

But Norman has earned this one. He has four interceptions, including two returned for touchdowns. Seattle and Philadelphia have challenged him beyond the line of scrimmage only once the past two games.

He's playing at such a high level that Pro Football Focus rates him the No. 1 cornerback in the NFL.

Norman is grateful for the opportunity Gruden is giving him.

"I'm blessed," he said. "I'm very blessed. I'm fortunate to be in this situation. I'm probably going to still ask him if he watched the games when we played [Atlanta].

"We'll see what he says."