Did the header CATs finally go?

[Bbarfoot14]

Hey guys,
So obviously I, like many have ran the stock cats on the headers for some time (27k miles) and just recently whippled. The car sounds great for the last 100 miles with the h pipe to roush quads. Just yesterday as I’m out driving and get on it around 3k I start hearing the landmower type raspy sound. Also when I started it today it smells very strong not like normal. I attached the video below, it appears that 1 cat has possibly detached part of the internal honeycomb and may be jostling around in there. I’d love your feedback.
What are my option? I really don’t want to get much louder and catless headers are not going to work for passing emissions and such around here.
I hate to say it but I’d love a cheaper option to this... I’m thinking take it to an exhaust shop and have them cut the stock cats out and replace with high flow cats? Any recommendations on those?
Thanks for any help, I’m def not driving it till I get this figured out as I’ve seen cat material light on fire before and I don’t have a FE in the car.

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[Bbarfoot14]

Update: got the car jacked up, all the connections look relatively fine. Granted it’s a few band clamps that have the normal water leak but nothing out of the ordinary.
Then I noticed a good bit of what appeared to be hair in the left muffler were the noise was coming from. It was a good bit of fiberglass hair which I can assume is from the roush muffler?
Can’t confirm if that’s the noise yet. I’m going to drive it without mufflers soon to see if it goes away and troubleshoot that.