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Mac & Bone Show - Carla Metts Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Carla match joins us fresh off the sidelines for the
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  Speaker 1: Panther preseason win on Friday night in Jacksonville. Carla, what's
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  Speaker 1: going on? What's happening?
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  Speaker 2: Just yeah, I excited to start off the week, Excited
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  Speaker 2: to see that joint practice y'all mentioned on Wednesday, and
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  Speaker 2: confirmation I did not do that. The raw rocks here
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  Speaker 2: on the sideline. I think that one was maybe retired
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  Speaker 2: before my time.
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  Speaker 3: I'm old. Oh yeah, I'm old. I'm old. Oh man.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Carla, let's get into it. It looked I
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  Speaker 1: gotta tell you. I like watching you on the sidelines,
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  Speaker 1: watching you interview players who just got done playing, and
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  Speaker 1: having lived in Jacksonville, I like started sweating watching y'all.
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  Speaker 3: How dang like was it humid? Is all get out
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  Speaker 3: on Friday night?
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  Speaker 2: Listen. I spent the week beforehand in Georgia, and I
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  Speaker 2: thought the weather there was hot until I landed in
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  Speaker 2: Jacksonville and the sun was out and there was no
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  Speaker 2: breeze in the stadium. And finally, I think when the
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  Speaker 2: sun went down it cooled off just a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But there just wasn't a lot of, you know, movement
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  Speaker 2: in the air. It was really, really hoigh. You could
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  Speaker 2: tell those guys were hot, but maybe not even struggling.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, we've heard a lot about the
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  Speaker 2: conditioning of the Panthers this off season. They've certainly had to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, practice in hot conditions, but that one was
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  Speaker 2: that one was something else that was definitely hotter than
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  Speaker 2: the Charlotte Carla.
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  Speaker 4: How excited should we be for the progress of Jimmy
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  Speaker 4: Horn Junior and what ultimately he can add to this
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  Speaker 4: offense now that it looks like he's probably going to
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  Speaker 4: make the fifty.
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  Speaker 3: Three men roster.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he is a really exciting player, and
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  Speaker 2: I think they knew that he had that potential last year.
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  Speaker 2: We knew how quick he was, but I think just
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  Speaker 2: where he's come in his game and I think just
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's trying to prove that he's not just
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  Speaker 2: fast right like that, and he's really really good you
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  Speaker 2: watch him in practice, really great at running his routes
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  Speaker 2: and like just very clinical in that way. But I
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  Speaker 2: think just to see his speed, even more so on
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  Speaker 2: display in Jacksonville was impressive. I think I read a
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  Speaker 2: stat after I mean, he looked fast on that one catch.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it was what the thirty nine
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  Speaker 2: yard one but to be five eight and to you know,
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  Speaker 2: and and he's not a very big player, but I
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  Speaker 2: think it next Gina said he ran like a twenty
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  Speaker 2: point five mile miles per hour on that one play,
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  Speaker 2: which is just I think insane as far as speed.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, if he can continue to put together his
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  Speaker 2: his full game, I mean, I think he could be
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  Speaker 2: a threat. We see these little you know, wide receivers
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  Speaker 2: like on these special plays, and I think he could
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  Speaker 2: be out there a little bit more than we've seen
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  Speaker 2: him in the past. So yeah, I'm really excited about him.
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  Speaker 2: And he's such a great guy. You listen to him,
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  Speaker 2: and he does all the right things and puts in
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  Speaker 2: the hard work and just wants to be a you know,
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  Speaker 2: as much help as he can be on that offense.
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  Speaker 1: Carla, you were down there on the sidelines. You saw
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  Speaker 1: the team react to Jonathan Brook's first touchdown, albeit not
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  Speaker 1: a regular season one, but the first touchdown in this
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  Speaker 1: or you know, young injury plague career. He you know,
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  Speaker 1: he did the you know, celebration for his dad, you
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  Speaker 1: know up there in heaven looking down at him, like
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  Speaker 1: what do you think of Brooks and his story that
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  Speaker 1: that had to hit you. Being down there on the sideline,
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  Speaker 1: you could tell his teammates felt for him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, they were just a static for him. And
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  Speaker 2: I think it's right like he's he's been out there
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  Speaker 2: now for a little bit to like just get these
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  Speaker 2: reps that we haven't you know, really been able to
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  Speaker 2: see from him. And you talk about i mean one
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  Speaker 2: acl Tayer, like that's a lot to come back from,
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  Speaker 2: much less two and back to back where he didn't
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  Speaker 2: really even get a chance to play. So you definitely
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  Speaker 2: felt the emotion on the sideline when he did. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, talking to Cuba Hubbard and those guys are
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  Speaker 2: are really close to have a really special special bond
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  Speaker 2: of like how they've trained together and how they've really
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  Speaker 2: been right beside each other, you know, the past two seasons.
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  Speaker 2: And so yeah, I think that was the biggest thing
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  Speaker 2: though for some of the coaching staff, like they knew beforehand,
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  Speaker 2: right like he's a smart player. He has the power
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  Speaker 2: in his run and can find the open hole. But
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just like, Okay, you've trained for it,
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  Speaker 2: you're back healthy, But what happens when the pads go on?
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  Speaker 2: What happens when you're in that contact. That's what they
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  Speaker 2: needed to see and I think that's what they saw
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  Speaker 2: again on Friday, So super excited about him. I do
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  Speaker 2: think the running back room as a whole is going
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  Speaker 2: to be interesting just because there are you know, some
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  Speaker 2: talented running backs behind him too, and you know, and
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  Speaker 2: they're all doing kind of special things on special teams,
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  Speaker 2: which we know plays plays the major parts. I think
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  Speaker 2: the coaches are going to have some hard decisions after
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  Speaker 2: that game in Houston.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're we're talking to Carla Metz of the Panthers
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  Speaker 4: television network. You guys did a really cool feature and
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  Speaker 4: halftime on the upbringing of t Mac and how he
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  Speaker 4: got to this point with his family. How special of
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  Speaker 4: a guy, Karla is t Mac? And ultimately, what do
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  Speaker 4: you think the ceiling is for him going forward?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think he's just shown his connection with
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  Speaker 2: Bryce really is special and that he can be that
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  Speaker 2: weapon that we not necessarily that we haven't seen, right,
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  Speaker 2: like we had Dj Moore here who kind of did
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  Speaker 2: it all when he was here, but like we haven't
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  Speaker 2: had just like that. I don't know, like I really
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  Speaker 2: think he could be that that star player, even though
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  Speaker 2: you know the Panthers roster in general isn't really built
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  Speaker 2: that way, right, It's built more more holy than that.
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  Speaker 2: But but I just think, like the way that he plays,
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  Speaker 2: if you talk to him, how confident yet humble he is.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like all a part of his game. And
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  Speaker 2: just the fact that they're able to use him and
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  Speaker 2: rely on him the way that they have been. I
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  Speaker 2: just think, you know, to see him get his first
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  Speaker 2: couple of catches in the preseason, it's just, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a small taste of what we're going to see again.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is the reigning offensive rookie of the
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  Speaker 2: year over one thousand yard receiving last year. Let all
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  Speaker 2: Panthers in catching, and I just think it's only going
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  Speaker 2: to go up from here. And I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he and Bryce have worked a ton in the off season,
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  Speaker 2: and that connection was already strong before him, but now
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  Speaker 2: it's like these two are working in tandem, which is
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  Speaker 2: exactly what you want to see what a wide receiver
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  Speaker 2: won big time.
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  Speaker 1: Carla Metz is with us, fresh off of being on
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  Speaker 1: the sidelines for the Panther TV Network coverage of the
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  Speaker 1: preseason game on Friday. Carla gave us the details of
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  Speaker 1: Quadzilla's book Bone the AJ Dillon Children's book Where She Is,
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  Speaker 1: which I may have to order here, Carla. That was
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  Speaker 1: a I love that tidbit. Our favorite Quadzilla comment was
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  Speaker 1: a niche as y'all are going to commercial casually drops in. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he's known as Quadzilla for his powerful thighs. He once
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  Speaker 1: crushed a watermelon between his thighs. We'll be right back me, Carla.
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  Speaker 2: That's what happens when you have like a quick in
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  Speaker 2: and out to commercial. You just like try to see
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  Speaker 2: out the you know, the information that you've got on
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  Speaker 2: the player. But listen, it's it goes further than that.
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  Speaker 2: Like Quadzilla. He's he's an author, but they also call
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  Speaker 2: him the quad Father, which you know, I kind of
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  Speaker 2: like that nickname to you. I think that's yes, not bad.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty good. That's a hell of a nickname. He's a
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  Speaker 4: fast character all the way around, though, isn't He's he's
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  Speaker 4: got so many interests outside of football. He's you mentioned
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  Speaker 4: he's the author, but if he also I'm sure you know,
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  Speaker 4: like immediately after he signed here, like he gravitated towards
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  Speaker 4: everything Charlotte with the fan base.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and and and he also has a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a connection with Luke Colmbs like thin Green
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  Speaker 2: Bay when he was spending some time there. If you
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  Speaker 2: look at, you know, some of his social media stuff,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, man, they're no telling like what that relationship
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  Speaker 2: is like because we know obviously Luke colmb's a big,
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  Speaker 2: big Carolina fan too, but yeah, this is this is
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  Speaker 2: a guy. It's just such a pro att what he does.
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  Speaker 2: And we know what he did, you know with Green
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  Speaker 2: Bay when when he was there, and certainly wanted to
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  Speaker 2: have maybe even more opportunity, but like he is truly
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  Speaker 2: just a great person, a great teammate to have on
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  Speaker 2: the team, but certainly just like his athleticism and I
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  Speaker 2: mean not to not that we talk about players quads often,
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  Speaker 2: but like there's a reason for that. Like there're thirty
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  Speaker 2: four inches conference which say Kwon Barkley was twenty nine
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  Speaker 2: for reference, So you kind of think of the player
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  Speaker 2: that you watch and you're like, oh my gosh, like
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  Speaker 2: they're really strong in their lower body. But yeah, AJ
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  Speaker 2: Dillon is just like on a whole other level there.
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  Speaker 3: It's how's that human?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 3: How does a human being have quads like that?
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  Speaker 1: What a beast? And it shows man that touchdown run.
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  Speaker 1: He's just play. He's carrying guys.
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  Speaker 2: You know the coaches are staying too like he's as
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  Speaker 2: good as anybody when he's out there running.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you brought off special teams.
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  Speaker 1: Canal has told everybody all the different special teams roles
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  Speaker 1: he's play in the preseason. So I'm team for running backs.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see all four make it. But you
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  Speaker 1: got to give somewhere else in the roster, so I
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  Speaker 1: know that's a debate. Before we let you go, I
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  Speaker 1: got to ask you a NASCAR question. You are the
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  Speaker 1: hostess with the mostes for the you know, CW coverage
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  Speaker 1: of the O'Reilly Series. I want to ask you a
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  Speaker 1: Cup Series question, though, is are we at the point
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  Speaker 1: with the way the Penske cars have been lately, the
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  Speaker 1: way the darn Toyotas have been all season? And I
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  Speaker 1: say this as a disgruntled Hendrick fan. Car Let's work
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  Speaker 1: with me. Are we at the point where we can
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  Speaker 1: say it's a Penske driver or a Toyota that wins
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  Speaker 1: the championship?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think I don't know if I'm quite
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  Speaker 2: ready there, just because I like to be a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a skeptic, but I do think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with where they're ranking in the chase standings, has got
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  Speaker 2: one more race to go in Daytona. Daytona can be crazy,
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  Speaker 2: we know that. But there's obviously a lot of those
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  Speaker 2: guys are already locked into the chase. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: think we're going to know pretty quickly as we get
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  Speaker 2: into those first couple of races in the Chase, but
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  Speaker 2: certainly an argument is there. And listen, I mean Kinskey
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  Speaker 2: Lian Blaney outside of you know, all the other Fords,
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  Speaker 2: like he's really been the only one that's been good
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  Speaker 2: from that camp. And then all of a sudden, we've
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  Speaker 2: seen a thurge, you know from Joey Logana over the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of weeks, like he was at one point
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  Speaker 2: maybe not going to make the chase, and now he's
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  Speaker 2: already up in the standing. So we can see. That's
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  Speaker 2: that's why I say don't count Sheddy out just yet,
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  Speaker 2: because like I feel like a lot of ground can
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  Speaker 2: be made up if somebody gets on a run. But
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  Speaker 2: certainly Ford has been on a run, and this is
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  Speaker 2: their spiel, right, Like, we get into close to the
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  Speaker 2: postseason the chase, and they start getting really good because
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  Speaker 2: we start visiting tracks that they're really good at. So
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be it'll be fun down to stretch. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: certainly those two manufacturers have figured out something as we've
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  Speaker 2: gotten closer to the end of the season.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Carla, awesome to chat with you. Good seeing
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  Speaker 1: you back on the sidelines working. Good to see you're
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  Speaker 1: still working the Panthers into your life with all the
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  Speaker 1: nat Our stuff you're doing. Keep kicking butt on the TV.
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  Speaker 1: You're doing awesome and thanks for hanging out with us.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thanks guys, A