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- 0:03Speaker 1: Bueno, como esta?
- 0:04Speaker 2: Oh, oh, oh, here's Mike and Bo.
- 0:07Speaker 3: You guys are the most entertaining sports program in the world.
- 0:12Speaker 4: Drop it, Bo.
- 0:13Speaker 5: Drop it, baby.
- 0:14Speaker 1: No, no, stop twerking. You and I are a couple eating, like,
- 0:16Speaker 1: Lady and the Tramp. You're the lady on the tramp.
- 0:19Speaker 6: Yeah! Cabo!
- 0:21Speaker 1: Cabo, baby! I wish I was Boopy. Boopy McClain, man.
- 0:24Speaker 1: That's a great name.
- 0:25Speaker 7: All aboard!
- 0:42Speaker 8: Good Friday morning, Charlotte. Welcome aboard to Football Friday. We've
- 0:45Speaker 8: got to do this dang thing today, baby. We've got
- 0:47Speaker 8: Panthers-Browns coming up on Sunday. Can we get ourselves a
- 0:51Speaker 8: winning streak here early in the season? We'll talk about it. Unfortunately,
- 0:56Speaker 8: the injury report got even more cloudy and more dicey yesterday.
- 1:00Speaker 8: We will talk about that today on the show. We
- 1:03Speaker 8: will not alarm you. There will be no alarming on
- 1:05Speaker 8: this show, I'm sure. I'm sure you believe that. We've
- 1:08Speaker 8: got an Atlanta Falcons big-time performance today. Who saw that coming?
- 1:13Speaker 8: And how stinky is Green Bay? We'll talk about that
- 1:15Speaker 8: off the jump. We get to say welcome back to
- 1:18Speaker 8: Dell and EC. That's big news from a Hornets standpoint
- 1:24Speaker 8: and much, much more going.
- 1:26Speaker 4: J.J.
- 1:27Speaker 8: Redick wants you to know the five white guys will
- 1:29Speaker 8: not start for the Lakers. That's amusing. We had a
- 1:33Speaker 8: lot of things happen. We had a college football weekend
- 1:35Speaker 8: with six. AP ranked matchups, big matchups for Carolina's teams,
- 1:41Speaker 8: including Clemson at Cal tonight.
- 1:44Speaker 4: That one is scary.
- 1:45Speaker 8: I'm actually in shock. that Clemson is favored in this game.
- 1:48Speaker 8: I'm actually in shock. Matter of fact, I just found
- 1:50Speaker 8: that out this morning. Mack and Bone with you. The
- 1:53Speaker 8: Bone Man's here. The fit dog fresh off a birthday
- 1:56Speaker 8: extravaganza yesterday.
- 1:59Speaker 1: And we're ready to do this thing on a Friday.
- 2:01Speaker 1: How you feeling, Boney? What's going on? What is up,
- 2:03Speaker 1: my man? What's up, my bro-tessitore?
- 2:06Speaker 4: That's a good one. I like that one.
- 2:07Speaker 1: That's better than my bros of Gordon Levitt yesterday.
- 2:10Speaker 4: Yeah, that one, that led to me scrambling.
- 2:11Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
- 2:12Speaker 1: By the way, what was I going to say?
- 2:15Speaker 5: Huh?
- 2:16Speaker 1: Something to protest ator.
- 2:18Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 2:18Speaker 1: I was like, I had a great line. It was
- 2:20Speaker 1: right there. And I, uh, well, if I think about it,
- 2:23Speaker 1: can I let you know?
- 2:23Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 2:23Speaker 1: Yeah. Get back to me. You got four hours bone.
- 2:26Speaker 4: Relax. Take your time.
- 2:27Speaker 1: I gotta be honest. I forgot we were starting the
- 2:28Speaker 1: radio show. I was kind of just zoning out, hanging out.
- 2:30Speaker 1: And I realized, Oh, we're live baby. We are live
- 2:33Speaker 1: on a football Friday.
- 2:34Speaker 4: We are, man. I love football Fridays. It's so exciting. Everybody.
- 2:38Speaker 8: Well, not everybody thinks their team's going to win. Actually,
- 2:40Speaker 8: we're going to find out today. Does anybody think their
- 2:42Speaker 8: teams are going to win? But you're just anticipating. I'm
- 2:46Speaker 8: watching the games.
- 2:46Speaker 4: What am I eating? Some of y'all are going to games.
- 2:49Speaker 4: I love it. I love these Fridays, man.
- 2:51Speaker 8: And we actually got fall weather for this Friday.
- 2:55Speaker 1: I know. This is one of your things, but I
- 2:58Speaker 1: do need... Let's contain the fall weather for a while.
- 3:03Speaker 1: Let's bottle it because sometimes we go from 90 to
- 3:05Speaker 1: 95 and then we'll have a little bit of you know, 70s,
- 3:11Speaker 1: and then before you know it, by the time we
- 3:13Speaker 1: get mid-November, it's like, oh, no, where did fall go?
- 3:16Speaker 1: We need to just sort of level out a little
- 3:19Speaker 1: bit here. Let's just chill in the fall for a.
- 3:20Speaker 5: While, right?
- 3:21Speaker 4: I love it.
- 3:21Speaker 8: Let's not get too crispy on me. Problem is we'll
- 3:24Speaker 8: be back. Looking at the 10-day, we'll be back to
- 3:27Speaker 8: like 87, 88 next week. But, yeah, I like fall.
- 3:31Speaker 8: There's not much from the north. that I like better
- 3:34Speaker 8: than down here. Full transparency. Your wife's one.
- 3:39Speaker 4: Yes, I met her there. But like.
- 3:43Speaker 1: The fall weather is it. I love it, man.
- 3:47Speaker 8: And down here, it just feels like we get like
- 3:50Speaker 8: summer 2.0 often during the fall months. So we will
- 3:55Speaker 8: enjoy it while it's here, Bone Man. I don't know.
- 3:57Speaker 8: I'm not enjoying the Falcons come up. They get Michael
- 4:01Speaker 8: Penix in the lineup, and they look like a different team.
- 4:04Speaker 8: They run the heck out of the football yesterday. They
- 4:07Speaker 8: route the Packers and Lambeau. 35-14. They run for.
- 4:13Speaker 9: 242.
- 4:13Speaker 4: Bijan himself runs for.
- 4:15Speaker 1: 194.
- 4:16Speaker 8: Oh, speaking of. 194, Drake London, nine catches for 194 yards.
- 4:20Speaker 8: There were so many big plays from this team last night,
- 4:26Speaker 8: and we were wondering about the Packers yesterday because— The
- 4:31Speaker 8: spread was notable. Yeah, we were talking about that. And
- 4:34Speaker 8: we were wondering about them. Like, you give up 29
- 4:36Speaker 8: straight points to Minnesota and Carson Wentz. Then you have
- 4:40Speaker 8: to rally in the fourth quarter to force overtime from
- 4:43Speaker 8: 10 down just to force overtime against the Jets. And
- 4:46Speaker 8: you beat the Jets in overtime. It turns out, Bone,
- 4:49Speaker 8: that all the questioning that everybody was doing is going
- 4:53Speaker 8: to ramp up even more. They looked pathetic.
- 4:56Speaker 1: Awesome. 53 pass attempts for Jordan Love. Because they got behind,
- 5:01Speaker 1: they only ran it for 17 yards. The loss of
- 5:04Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs in his situation has been huge for them. Yeah,
- 5:09Speaker 1: it's not often, Matt, that we see the Steelers and
- 5:13Speaker 1: the Packers really be what we consider– Bad?
- 5:16Speaker 8: The Steelers are bad on offense. The Packers look like
- 5:19Speaker 8: they're just bad.
- 5:20Speaker 1: But their franchise is that even when they're not good,
- 5:23Speaker 1: they're still kind of middling. They're still in the mix somehow.
- 5:27Speaker 1: They're 500. It looks to me like the Steelers and
- 5:29Speaker 1: the Packers, the two teams that Atlanta's played besides the Panthers.
- 5:33Speaker 1: Green Bay specifically looks like they are an absolute mess
- 5:37Speaker 1: right now. Well, floor's probably in trouble. Yeah, it's eye-opening
- 5:41Speaker 1: when you see Green Bay just be outright bad like that.
- 5:44Speaker 4: Green Bay looks like one of the worst teams in football.
- 5:46Speaker 10: Yeah, no doubt.
- 5:46Speaker 4: Let's just call it what it is. That's how bad
- 5:49Speaker 4: they look.
- 5:50Speaker 8: Jordan Love, yeah, he threw for 312, but he had
- 5:52Speaker 8: to throw 53 times to get there.
- 5:54Speaker 1: And also, that game didn't start out like it finished it.
- 5:58Speaker 1: It was kind of ugly back at Fort Pennix. It
- 6:01Speaker 1: looked like both teams were going to suck early. Pennix
- 6:02Speaker 1: had his customary turnover early, and then he almost had a...
- 6:05Speaker 1: A horrific fumble like he always has.
- 6:08Speaker 4: That was bad.
- 6:08Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, from the second quarter on,
- 6:11Speaker 1: it was just all Atlanta.
- 6:12Speaker 8: It was crazy. I cannot believe how bad this Packers
- 6:16Speaker 8: team is. And it can't just be... You mentioned Jacobs
- 6:18Speaker 8: being out. Micah Parsons obviously is out. But holy crap.
- 6:24Speaker 8: And the fans, how angry... They are known bone as
- 6:28Speaker 8: the small town, nice fans. Like it's their stadiums in
- 6:33Speaker 8: a neighborhood. Anybody I've heard that's gone to Lambeau for
- 6:36Speaker 8: a Panther game has said, Oh my God, they're so
- 6:37Speaker 8: nice there. Those nice, that's not Philadelphia. And those fans
- 6:42Speaker 8: booing and groaning and the looks on their faces on
- 6:45Speaker 8: the crowd cutaway shots. I have never seen Green Bay
- 6:49Speaker 8: Packer fans that angry, dude.
- 6:51Speaker 4: It's crazy.
- 6:52Speaker 1: I saw one fan back just holding his cheese head.
- 6:56Speaker 1: He wasn't wearing it.
- 6:57Speaker 4: Just took the cheese head off.
- 6:59Speaker 1: Just holding his cheese.
- 7:00Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
- 7:01Speaker 1: When you see a fan just holding his cheese... Holding
- 7:04Speaker 1: his cheese.
- 7:05Speaker 8: Hey, now, there was a woman that was like holding,
- 7:08Speaker 8: like massaging her temples like the team was giving her
- 7:11Speaker 8: a headache.
- 7:11Speaker 4: And I'm like, that looks bad. That looks bad. That does.
- 7:15Speaker 4: So you got to worry about you got to wonder
- 7:17Speaker 4: about the floor.
- 7:19Speaker 1: I heard there was a Packer fan back, Packer George,
- 7:22Speaker 1: that was there. He said, I will not have my
- 7:24Speaker 1: fourth kielbasa of the game. No, in protest, in protest.
- 7:28Speaker 8: So, like, do we think the Falcons, it's as simple
- 7:30Speaker 8: as putting Pennix in and now they're good? Or is
- 7:33Speaker 8: it more, to me, it's more about, like, good, you
- 7:36Speaker 8: got to give Green Bay credit. They went the hell off.
- 7:39Speaker 4: But, um.
- 7:41Speaker 8: We saw Penix here last year, and he didn't score
- 7:43Speaker 8: a point. So pardon me, Bone, if I don't believe, oh,
- 7:46Speaker 8: they're a different team. Maybe it's because I hate the Falcons,
- 7:51Speaker 8: but I just truly believe that's more of a reflection
- 7:53Speaker 8: of where Green Bay's at.
- 7:54Speaker 4: I think so, too.
- 7:55Speaker 1: Can I also say that Atlanta's defense... in the games
- 8:01Speaker 1: outside the Panthers, hasn't really done very bad.
- 8:03Speaker 4: Have they? How about that? How about that?
- 8:05Speaker 1: The one team that torched Atlanta doesn't have many known
- 8:09Speaker 1: names right now on their defense. They got a couple,
- 8:12Speaker 1: but the Panthers torched them. Aaron Rodgers in Pittsburgh did not, definitely.
- 8:17Speaker 1: And Jordan Love, yeah, threw for a lot of yards, but...
- 8:20Speaker 1: Panthers offense did the best by far against that defense
- 8:24Speaker 1: so far.
- 8:24Speaker 4: Hell yeah, baby. It's a good sign.
- 8:26Speaker 8: Of course they did, because they played that game at
- 8:28Speaker 8: Mercedes Bryce Stadium, damn it. Of course the Panthers offense
- 8:32Speaker 8: went the hell off. Panthers offense also got the benefit
- 8:35Speaker 8: of five turnovers.
- 8:37Speaker 4: In that game.
- 8:38Speaker 8: So anyway, that was kind of a crazy outcome. Also
- 8:41Speaker 8: want to mention the Jamie Chadwell bowl went to the team.
- 8:45Speaker 8: Jamie Chadwell currently coaches over the team that he used
- 8:49Speaker 8: to coach Liberty ends up pulling away late from coastal Carolina.
- 8:54Speaker 8: 34-17 last night on the teal turf. They get it done,
- 9:00Speaker 8: and Liberty was running the heck out of the football
- 9:03Speaker 8: in the second half of this game. They're clearly the
- 9:05Speaker 8: better football team. I know Coastal hung in there for
- 9:08Speaker 8: a while, but on Liberty, by the end, it was
- 9:10Speaker 8: clear Liberty is definitely the better football team.
- 9:14Speaker 1: No doubt. By the way, Matt, good point. Steven from Huntersville.
- 9:18Speaker 1: Keep in mind, the Packers and Steelers are both on
- 9:21Speaker 1: the Panthers' schedule. Yeah, there you go. And that's two
- 9:23Speaker 1: of those games when the season– I wasn't as concerned
- 9:27Speaker 1: necessarily with the Steelers, but the Packers were a team.
- 9:29Speaker 1: We said, oh, man, Green Bay's on the schedule. Packers
- 9:32Speaker 1: right now, it's one of those games where things change
- 9:35Speaker 1: throughout the year. All of a sudden, Green Bay does
- 9:38Speaker 1: not feel like that daunting task maybe that we thought
- 9:41Speaker 1: a couple weeks ago. Yeah.
- 9:42Speaker 8: Oh, no doubt about it. Good point by Steven. We'll
- 9:45Speaker 8: see where they're at when we play them. We also
- 9:47Speaker 8: play them on a Thursday in Lambeau, right? So we'll
- 9:49Speaker 8: see where they're at when we play them, right? Teams
- 9:52Speaker 8: will ebb and flow. But yeah, that's a good call.
- 9:55Speaker 8: I had that thought watching them last night, too. Pittsburgh, like,
- 9:59Speaker 8: I don't want to overdo it with Pittsburgh. I still
- 10:02Speaker 8: kind of feel like Pittsburgh is, although I guess we
- 10:05Speaker 8: didn't expect their offense to look this horrible. And Aaron Rodgers,
- 10:08Speaker 8: by the way, they're a statue's bone, including the Jerry
- 10:11Speaker 8: Richardson one that somehow mysteriously moved There are statues that
- 10:15Speaker 8: moved better than Aaron Rodgers. Like, he is a sitting
- 10:18Speaker 8: duck back there, man. And this is a dude that
- 10:20Speaker 8: used to move around and make plays. But, like, Pittsburgh
- 10:25Speaker 8: has a hell of a defense. I still view Pittsburgh
- 10:28Speaker 8: bone as, like, the same area.
- 10:30Speaker 4: Mediocre.
- 10:32Speaker 1: Yeah. You know? In their Tomlin range.
- 10:35Speaker 8: Yeah, right in that, you know, I don't know, eight win,
- 10:37Speaker 8: something like that. But, like, this Green Bay thing looks
- 10:41Speaker 8: like a freaking emergency. There is no doubt about it.
- 10:45Speaker 8: By the way, Liberty last night ran the ball for–
- 10:49Speaker 8: Liberty Bibbidi ran the ball for 284 yards last night
- 10:54Speaker 8: against Coastal in that win. And how about the fact
- 10:58Speaker 8: that Deshaun Purdy– is the quarterback he was throwing some
- 11:02Speaker 8: party balls last night had a 58 yard he's always
- 11:04Speaker 8: thrown a very good deep ball the former charlotte quarterback
- 11:08Speaker 8: um he was out there lighting up coastal last night
- 11:10Speaker 8: for liberty.
- 11:11Speaker 1: Yeah liberty uh always seems to be all right they're
- 11:13Speaker 1: three and one jamie chadwell at some point mac you
- 11:15Speaker 1: think he's he did the work at coastal looks like
- 11:18Speaker 1: he's doing work at liberty at some point he's gonna
- 11:20Speaker 1: he's gonna get a He's going to get a pretty
- 11:22Speaker 1: big job, I think, at some point. Yeah, he's not
- 11:25Speaker 1: as hot as he was. There was some real hotness
- 11:28Speaker 1: there at one point. He also got rid of the mullet.
- 11:31Speaker 1: I didn't even recognize the dude. I know, I know.
- 11:33Speaker 1: You and him both got rid of your mullets.
- 11:35Speaker 8: At the same time. Yeah, we didn't collaborate on that.
- 11:38Speaker 8: That's just a coincidence. All right, let's talk about Hornets stuff, y'all, because...
- 11:44Speaker 8: This is something that fans have kind of been sweating out.
- 11:46Speaker 8: We've been getting a couple texts about it. Social media,
- 11:49Speaker 8: Hornets fans have been sweating this out. All the different
- 11:52Speaker 8: announcements about TV and being on SOC and Channel 64
- 11:55Speaker 8: and all that stuff.
- 11:57Speaker 4: And there hadn't been a mention of... Dell and EC.
- 12:01Speaker 8: And I think we always have this fear bone that
- 12:04Speaker 8: EC is such a stud and he started to, he
- 12:07Speaker 8: does the national stuff, right? National stuff for Fox with
- 12:09Speaker 8: college football.
- 12:10Speaker 4: He does the national NBA stuff now.
- 12:12Speaker 1: He's like our hot girl. We always worry about finding
- 12:14Speaker 1: somebody else.
- 12:15Speaker 6: Yes.
- 12:15Speaker 10: Yes.
- 12:16Speaker 8: So like, you're always wondering, you know, could he, could
- 12:20Speaker 8: he leave us? We don't want him to leave us.
- 12:21Speaker 8: He's so special. So yesterday it was finally announced bone
- 12:25Speaker 8: that Dell and EC are back in And that's a relief.
- 12:29Speaker 1: The video they did on the Hornets feeds was incredible, Matt,
- 12:33Speaker 1: where they.
- 12:34Speaker 4: Oh, I didn't see it. Oh, my gosh. You got
- 12:36Speaker 4: to see it.
- 12:36Speaker 1: You remember when the the Ravens PA guy at training
- 12:39Speaker 1: camp was outside and he introduced all the players coming
- 12:42Speaker 1: in and surprised them all?
- 12:43Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 12:43Speaker 1: Well, the players walking into the building for this video
- 12:46Speaker 1: did not know that EC and Dell were sitting there
- 12:48Speaker 1: like they were for a game in there. suits in
- 12:50Speaker 1: their little setup and as they walk into the tunnel
- 12:53Speaker 1: area they would announce them and ec would do all
- 12:56Speaker 1: his calls and that's yeah so he.
- 12:58Speaker 4: Said musa oh yeah baby.
- 13:00Speaker 1: Put up the antler so they all turned the corner
- 13:03Speaker 1: and he'd introduce them all then he said shannon spake
- 13:06Speaker 1: and that's when they said the whole crew.
- 13:08Speaker 8: Is back shannon's back too i don't want to forget
- 13:11Speaker 8: her need to mention that as well so that's pretty
- 13:13Speaker 8: cool news we might not have lamello but we got
- 13:16Speaker 8: dale ec shannon we He went through all his.
- 13:19Speaker 1: Sayings during this video. He had them all running. We
- 13:22Speaker 1: might need to pull a clip of that. What we
- 13:24Speaker 1: do have a clip of, though, is Del Curry.
- 13:26Speaker 8: Del Curry was on yesterday with KB to talk about
- 13:30Speaker 8: the news and this is what Del said about coming
- 13:35Speaker 8: back again with his good friend and partner, Eric Collins.
- 13:40Speaker 3: Both of us got asked about that all the time
- 13:42Speaker 3: in recent weeks out in the public. We just hang on.
- 13:44Speaker 3: We'll see what happens, but I want to be here
- 13:48Speaker 3: until I can't. And I think Eric feels the same way. Again,
- 13:52Speaker 3: we have fun doing it, calling games, hanging out. There's
- 13:58Speaker 3: only 30 chairs that get to do that, and we
- 14:00Speaker 3: want to make sure ours is filled.
- 14:02Speaker 8: So there you go, man. He's fired up about wanting
- 14:05Speaker 8: to do this until I can. That's a good quote.
- 14:08Speaker 8: I might have to use that about this job right here.
- 14:10Speaker 8: It's been cool to watch that relationship grow. Also to
- 14:14Speaker 8: see how much Dell loves EC. Because, Mac, remember when
- 14:18Speaker 8: Dell first started during the Bobcat years, it was... Right when.
- 14:22Speaker 1: Steph was really cooking, we said, does Dell really want
- 14:25Speaker 1: to be part of all these broadcasts when Steph is
- 14:28Speaker 1: having this run? And I thought, yeah, Dell can't want
- 14:30Speaker 1: to do this forever. He's going to want to eventually
- 14:32Speaker 1: just go watch his sons. But you've seen over time
- 14:35Speaker 1: with the relationship with EC, Dell is now like, not
- 14:39Speaker 1: that he wasn't before, but you can now tell how
- 14:42Speaker 1: much this means to Dell. And like you said, he
- 14:44Speaker 1: never wants to leave. Dell has fully... over the last
- 14:48Speaker 1: decade with EC, I think really said, you know what,
- 14:51Speaker 1: this is what I want to do.
- 14:52Speaker 8: I think when they first started, too, I think Dell
- 14:55Speaker 8: was taken aback by EC's style and some of the
- 14:58Speaker 8: jokes and comments. But over the years, I mean, they
- 15:00Speaker 8: just play off each other so well. Yeah, I mean,
- 15:04Speaker 8: the whole thing, best player to ever come out of Schenectady.
- 15:07Speaker 4: Yeah, he is.
- 15:08Speaker 8: They just, they play, Del will use some of the
- 15:10Speaker 8: EC jokes, he'll create his own. Like, it's just, you
- 15:13Speaker 8: can tell they're just, they tell they're just great friends now, too. So,
- 15:16Speaker 8: that's fun news, man. That is really good news. Also, Bone,
- 15:21Speaker 8: big news, because they're doing all these media days now
- 15:23Speaker 8: and stuff. Matter of fact, we're going to get to do,
- 15:27Speaker 8: all the shows are going to be doing interviews online.
- 15:29Speaker 1: On Monday. What two guys are we talking to next week, Mac?
- 15:33Speaker 1: Who are we talking to?
- 15:34Speaker 4: Did you work your magic on this, Bone?
- 15:36Speaker 1: No, I'm not even aware.
- 15:38Speaker 8: Is this a Bone brotherhood? I don't even know what
- 15:40Speaker 8: you're speaking about. Because they're giving us Khan and Grayson Allen.
- 15:45Speaker 8: And everybody thinks Bone went behind the scenes and was like,
- 15:48Speaker 8: I'm going to need my brothers, man.
- 15:50Speaker 4: My Duke brothers.
- 15:51Speaker 1: I need you. I need you to apologize to Grayson
- 15:53Speaker 1: for the way he was treated.
- 15:57Speaker 8: We're going to have to come up with a tactful
- 15:59Speaker 8: way to bring all that up.
- 16:01Speaker 4: We'll see how I break that in.
- 16:03Speaker 1: What if this is like Curb Your Enthusiasm when you
- 16:04Speaker 1: trip over Grayson's feet?
- 16:08Speaker 8: That would be comedy, man. But anyway, so we're going
- 16:10Speaker 8: to get to do those interviews, all the shows. You're
- 16:12Speaker 8: going to hear a lot of good Hornets stuff next week.
- 16:14Speaker 8: But my point is, Bone, they're doing media days. Duke
- 16:16Speaker 8: basketball did their media day yesterday. But here's my favorite
- 16:20Speaker 8: media day clip.
- 16:22Speaker 4: J.J.
- 16:22Speaker 8: Redick trying to make everybody feel okay that the Lakers
- 16:27Speaker 8: will not start five white guys. That those final two
- 16:31Speaker 8: starting spots up for grabs will not be white guys.
- 16:35Speaker 4: This is amusing to me. Starting spots are up for grabs.
- 16:39Speaker 4: Is that, I mean, you said spots, right?
- 16:41Speaker 2: Multiple? Is that kind of a new view? Obviously, presumably
- 16:44Speaker 2: Luka will start off. I'm pretty confident in three of
- 16:46Speaker 2: the spots. Yeah. And then, Rob, the other two spots
- 16:52Speaker 2: will not be two white guys.
- 16:53Speaker 6: Mm-hmm. Thanks.
- 16:59Speaker 4: Those are the two things I'm confident in.
- 17:01Speaker 1: All right.
- 17:01Speaker 4: There you go, baby. There you go.
- 17:04Speaker 1: You've got Luka, Austin Reeves, Laravia, and Walker Kessler are
- 17:08Speaker 1: four of the five starter projections right now for the Lakers.
- 17:12Speaker 1: Although he said it won't be two white guys, those
- 17:14Speaker 1: two spots up for grabs. Yeah, so I don't know.
- 17:15Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 17:16Speaker 4: So I would think Kessler, Reeves, and Luka.
- 17:21Speaker 8: Yes are the three white dudes starting and then it
- 17:23Speaker 8: sounds like bone if you're a white guy you ain't
- 17:25Speaker 8: getting starter minutes outside of those so you better try
- 17:28Speaker 8: to get yourself in the bench rotation.
- 17:29Speaker 1: Don't connect you might not have much.
- 17:31Speaker 8: Of a chance no dalton you're coming off the bench
- 17:33Speaker 8: baby you just heard it yesterday all right that is
- 17:36Speaker 8: a very interesting honest unnecessary admission i just.
- 17:41Speaker 1: I'm amused by that man i am All right, we
- 17:44Speaker 1: come back on the Mac and Bone Show. It's Panther
- 17:46Speaker 1: injury report time. A little bit scary. Jalen Phillips on
- 17:50Speaker 1: a revenge tour. And the No Fun League is back
- 17:54Speaker 1: and lamer than ever.
- 17:55Speaker 4: We'll explain.
- 17:56Speaker 1: Sports Radio 92.7.
- 18:12Speaker 10: Bye. Bye.
- 18:24Speaker 8: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNC. Happy Football Friday to those who celebrate.
- 18:29Speaker 8: And I am hoping most of you, I believe most
- 18:31Speaker 8: of you are celebrating. And happy Panther Friday to y'all.
- 18:35Speaker 8: We will talk tons of Panthers Browns on this show.
- 18:38Speaker 8: And unfortunately, a big part of the conversation. is going
- 18:42Speaker 8: to be the injury situation, Bone. We're in the clear
- 18:46Speaker 8: on Jalen Phillips. He was full practice yesterday with the
- 18:50Speaker 8: back injury. He was full go. He did an interview.
- 18:53Speaker 8: You're going to hear part of that here in a minute.
- 18:56Speaker 8: And he was asked, so does this mean you're playing
- 18:59Speaker 8: on Sunday?
- 18:59Speaker 4: And he said, Oh, yeah.
- 19:00Speaker 8: Almost like he was like incredulous. The question was being asked.
- 19:04Speaker 8: So he's good to go. Bobby Brown and Pat Jones
- 19:06Speaker 8: practice in full for the second straight day. So the
- 19:09Speaker 8: defensive front, the news is pretty good. But yesterday we
- 19:14Speaker 8: got even more worried about Jalen Coker. and then his
- 19:19Speaker 8: buddy XL joined the DNP parade. Yesterday, Jalen Coker, with
- 19:25Speaker 8: that ankle injury, did not practice. So he is going
- 19:28Speaker 8: the opposite way of what we want him to do.
- 19:31Speaker 8: He was limited on Wednesday to DNP yesterday, making us
- 19:35Speaker 8: worry about that ankle. Canales will talk about that. I'm
- 19:38Speaker 8: sure he'll be asked about it today. And then XL
- 19:42Speaker 8: apparently said something Joe Person said at Monday's practice about
- 19:47Speaker 8: about needing to get an MRI and they asked him, Hey, what,
- 19:50Speaker 8: you know, what's that on? He wouldn't tell him, well,
- 19:53Speaker 8: that MRI must be on a knee on his knee because, um,
- 19:56Speaker 8: yesterday XL did not practice at all with a knee
- 20:00Speaker 8: injury bone. Um, Nick Scott and chair list didn't practice.
- 20:04Speaker 8: I'm kind of just kind of conceding those guys might
- 20:06Speaker 8: not be ready, but, uh, Devin Lloyd, Devin Lloyd was
- 20:10Speaker 8: a DNP with a calf injury for the second straight day.
- 20:13Speaker 8: So is this Coker XL Lloyd? How are you feeling
- 20:17Speaker 8: about this?
- 20:17Speaker 1: Yeah, the DNP is on Thursday. It doesn't make Friday
- 20:21Speaker 1: back really– You know, something you're looking forward to to
- 20:24Speaker 1: see the reports necessarily of what their status might be. Yeah,
- 20:28Speaker 1: I'm worried about all three with the calf with Lloyd.
- 20:31Speaker 1: It's something you got to be careful with, because as
- 20:34Speaker 1: we've seen before, a calf strain can, you know, one
- 20:37Speaker 1: wrong step. And all of a sudden, as we've seen
- 20:39Speaker 1: a lot in the NBA, it can make it so
- 20:42Speaker 1: much worse. So they have to be careful with him.
- 20:45Speaker 1: XL not wanting to talk about it was a little
- 20:47Speaker 1: worrisome the other day. And Coker, Matt, the video that
- 20:50Speaker 1: Nick Carboni had yesterday was interesting when he was walking
- 20:53Speaker 1: off with the trainers and not walking off with the
- 20:55Speaker 1: wideouts because of whatever he had going on.
- 20:59Speaker 8: Nick said that was from Wednesday's practice. It looked like
- 21:02Speaker 8: he went up to a coach and a coach almost
- 21:03Speaker 8: was consoling him, patting him on the back or whatever.
- 21:10Speaker 8: And then he just kind of walked off on his
- 21:12Speaker 8: own while everybody else was practicing.
- 21:13Speaker 1: Yeah, but he didn't participate after that.
- 21:15Speaker 4: Yeah, didn't participate yesterday. Yeah, I'm worried about it.
- 21:18Speaker 1: I mean, Coker and Lloyd, obviously massive pieces to the puzzle. So, yeah,
- 21:23Speaker 1: I'm very curious to see what their statuses are today
- 21:26Speaker 1: or what they do today.
- 21:27Speaker 8: Yeah, we're going to have to talk through this one, y'all.
- 21:29Speaker 8: We're going to have to talk through this one today.
- 21:31Speaker 8: If we don't have Coker, can we get it done?
- 21:34Speaker 8: Can Bryce get it done? It'll be another challenge, you know,
- 21:37Speaker 8: for Bryce Young. And who are the folks– That can
- 21:39Speaker 8: step up. I will say this. I think a guy
- 21:45Speaker 8: like Waller could take an increased role. Tremble and Evans,
- 21:50Speaker 8: you know what I mean? I heard Mike Kay say
- 21:51Speaker 8: this with KB. You've got to stick to that run
- 21:53Speaker 8: and stick to this game. You go more tight ends,
- 21:56Speaker 8: more multi-tight end sets. Could a guy like David Moore
- 21:59Speaker 8: be called up just to help you move the chains
- 22:01Speaker 8: if you don't have Coker and Axel? You bring up
- 22:03Speaker 8: the run game. Cleveland has been horrible against the run
- 22:06Speaker 8: early on. Do you just pound the football more so?
- 22:09Speaker 8: Maybe a Chuba, A.J.
- 22:10Speaker 1: Dillon, let's really just run it down their throat. I
- 22:13Speaker 1: don't know if that's the mindset of this team to
- 22:15Speaker 1: run it down the throat. They may have to have that, though,
- 22:18Speaker 1: in this game. But good coaches adjust, right? And so
- 22:21Speaker 1: will they adjust if they don't have these guys? The
- 22:24Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd thing, I'll say this. If they start Bobby
- 22:29Speaker 1: Okereke and Tyrell Dodson, that is still– better than last
- 22:34Speaker 1: year's linebacker situation.
- 22:35Speaker 4: Oh, it's facts.
- 22:35Speaker 8: So like, that's the one thing I want to tell
- 22:38Speaker 8: myself and my fellow Panther fans, Devin losing a player
- 22:41Speaker 8: like Devin Lloyd is far from ideal. Um, but it
- 22:44Speaker 8: does have to be said, somebody texted that earlier in
- 22:46Speaker 8: the week too, was like still better than having Rose
- 22:49Speaker 8: boom at Wallace.
- 22:51Speaker 4: So I think that's a point that needs to be made.
- 22:54Speaker 8: Also a point that needs to get on the show
- 22:56Speaker 8: record here is from a dude that calls himself Earnhardt
- 22:59Speaker 8: Too Easy.
- 23:00Speaker 4: Earnhardt Too Easy.
- 23:02Speaker 8: By the way, Dale Jr. told an amazing story on
- 23:04Speaker 8: his podcast yesterday about Dale Sr. when somebody came and
- 23:07Speaker 8: shot his deer on his property. And he loved those deer,
- 23:11Speaker 8: by the way. And he did not want people trespassing
- 23:14Speaker 8: on his property with guns. He went over to this
- 23:16Speaker 8: dude with a gun and started beating the heck out
- 23:19Speaker 8: of him in the face.
- 23:19Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
- 23:21Speaker 8: And they called the cops and got the dude arrested.
- 23:23Speaker 8: But anyway, great story. But Earnhardt2easy is telling us that
- 23:28Speaker 8: he thinks the reason Redick made those comments that we
- 23:31Speaker 8: played at the end of the last segment that, hey,
- 23:33Speaker 8: those last two slots won't go to white guys.
- 23:35Speaker 4: We're not going to start all white guys.
- 23:36Speaker 1: Stephen A.
- 23:37Speaker 8: I guess, made a comment this week saying, that you
- 23:39Speaker 8: can't take the Lakers seriously because they're going to start
- 23:42Speaker 8: five white guys.
- 23:43Speaker 4: So anyway, I guess Redick having some fun with that.
- 23:46Speaker 1: Normally something like that does involve the NBA calling out
- 23:50Speaker 1: Stephen A.
- 23:51Speaker 7: right?
- 23:51Speaker 4: So, Finney, today we're going to hear. J.J.
- 23:54Speaker 1: Redick, the one thing you don't want to do, and
- 23:56Speaker 1: you learned that here on first take, you don't want
- 23:59Speaker 1: to mess with me. You and your white army there, J.J. Redick.
- 24:05Speaker 1: You don't want to mess with me.
- 24:07Speaker 8: Here's the thing, Stephen A. He's got to reset his
- 24:10Speaker 8: feud for the year, though, right? Here's the thing about
- 24:13Speaker 8: Stephen A. He's going back to this well a lot.
- 24:15Speaker 8: I don't take much umbrage at this. I don't take
- 24:17Speaker 8: much umbrage at making fun of white ballers.
- 24:20Speaker 4: But Stephen A. goes to that well a lot. I've
- 24:22Speaker 4: seen Stephen A. 's broke jump shot.
- 24:25Speaker 5: Like, I've said, Stephen A.
- 24:25Speaker 1: let's not act like you were MJ, bro.
- 24:27Speaker 11: Dude, the guy got caught playing solitaire while supposed to.
- 24:31Speaker 1: Be covering the NBA finals. Who's the real basketball? I
- 24:35Speaker 1: know this is close to tangent, Bill, but it is
- 24:38Speaker 1: a big day for first take. Skip Bayless is back
- 24:41Speaker 1: today for his Friday appearances. Now, Matt, Stephen A. tells
- 24:45Speaker 1: a story about his basketball career. He got a scholarship
- 24:49Speaker 1: for basketball at the Fashion Institute of Technology. That's where
- 24:52Speaker 1: he started playing. But then he went to a workout
- 24:56Speaker 1: in Winston-Salem where Clarence Big House Games was watching him.
- 25:01Speaker 1: And Stephen A. says, I took that basketball and I
- 25:04Speaker 1: hit 17 straight three-pointers. And he said, I need you
- 25:07Speaker 1: on my squad. No, you didn't. I've seen your jump shot.
- 25:11Speaker 1: He claims he was just shooting around a pickup game
- 25:13Speaker 1: or something. He had 17 straight threes, and that's why
- 25:17Speaker 1: he got out.
- 25:18Speaker 8: I've seen your jumper, bro. You're Skip Bayless in it
- 25:21Speaker 8: a little bit right now. Bill's fan said that. OK,
- 25:25Speaker 8: so Bill's fan is saying that Stephen A's comments were
- 25:28Speaker 8: a while ago. And he says, y'all talked about it
- 25:30Speaker 8: on the show.
- 25:30Speaker 4: Been a while.
- 25:32Speaker 8: I know he was doing the white ball. I thought
- 25:33Speaker 8: he followed up on it. All right, so this is J.J.
- 25:35Speaker 8: Redick's first chance to crack a joke about it, I guess.
- 25:38Speaker 8: All right, Bills fan. Thank you for keeping us honest.
- 25:40Speaker 8: Bills fan, worry about those hideous gray uniforms your boys
- 25:43Speaker 8: are going to wear.
- 25:44Speaker 1: Don't worry about those. I don't know what I said
- 25:46Speaker 1: in the last segment. Never mind.
- 25:47Speaker 6: Once again.
- 25:47Speaker 8: All right, let's get into the Panthers here, shall we?
- 25:51Speaker 8: As a slight white baller tangent there. But let's get
- 25:54Speaker 8: into the Panthers. You don't want to mess with me,
- 25:56Speaker 8: Bills fan. So Jalen Phillips, the news is good for
- 25:59Speaker 8: him with his back injury. And the news is good
- 26:02Speaker 8: for him to start to the season. Two sacks, seven pressures.
- 26:06Speaker 8: He was joking around with the media yesterday when they
- 26:08Speaker 8: said you're off to a good start with two sacks.
- 26:10Speaker 8: He said, I also got Josh Allen in the preseason
- 26:12Speaker 8: as well. So he's feeling frisky. He says this is
- 26:16Speaker 8: the plan. He says he has worked on things to
- 26:19Speaker 8: convert a lot of those pressures that he has into
- 26:22Speaker 8: more sacks.
- 26:23Speaker 4: Listen to this.
- 26:25Speaker 9: Really taking advantage of my ops when they come to me.
- 26:27Speaker 9: I'm not going to get into specifics of what I've
- 26:30Speaker 9: been crafting because I don't want the other teams to
- 26:31Speaker 9: see it. But I think I've been in the right
- 26:34Speaker 9: place at the right time and just taking advantage of
- 26:36Speaker 9: those ops. Truthfully, as a pass rusher, it's kind of
- 26:39Speaker 9: hard because you can do everything right and it doesn't
- 26:42Speaker 9: fall your way. Something happens, play goes the other way,
- 26:44Speaker 9: quarterback gets the ball out. So when the opportunities do
- 26:47Speaker 9: come and you have a layup in front of you
- 26:49Speaker 9: or you win and you finally have the quarterback in
- 26:51Speaker 9: front of you, you've got to get him to the ground.
- 26:53Speaker 9: In the past, I've missed a lot of opportunities, missed
- 26:56Speaker 9: a lot of sacks, and so I'm on my revenge tour.
- 27:00Speaker 4: Love it. Revenge.
- 27:02Speaker 8: Don't put up those sacks, baby. Take down those quarterbacks.
- 27:06Speaker 8: Get the hell after it, baby. And let's start that
- 27:09Speaker 8: with Deshaun Watson, who has been taking a ton of
- 27:11Speaker 8: sacks early in the season. He played a really good
- 27:14Speaker 8: game yesterday or last week. He bounced back from week one,
- 27:17Speaker 8: but he has been sacked seven times. And a lot
- 27:20Speaker 8: of it is like the pass blocking has been pretty good.
- 27:22Speaker 8: A lot of it is him holding on to the ball.
- 27:25Speaker 8: go everybody up front princely pat jones you're coming back
- 27:28Speaker 8: go get this doofus on the freaking ground.
- 27:32Speaker 1: Yeah no and i i think i think both guys
- 27:34Speaker 1: will be money well spent absolutely who you talking huh
- 27:38Speaker 1: who you talking what you're talking about uh-oh yeah.
- 27:47Speaker 8: I was talking about Phillips, and then I threw in
- 27:49Speaker 8: Princely and Pat Jones sacking Deshaun Watson. Yeah, I was
- 27:52Speaker 8: commenting on Phillips. Both guys are going to be money
- 27:56Speaker 8: well spent. Jalen and Phillips. Jalen and Phillips.
- 27:59Speaker 9: No, no, no, no, no.
- 28:00Speaker 1: I didn't even finish the thought there because you started laughing.
- 28:03Speaker 1: I was saying, I think that. I just asked you who. No,
- 28:06Speaker 1: I was going to say the guys that were signed
- 28:09Speaker 1: in the offseason, both Phillips and.
- 28:11Speaker 5: Devin Lloyd, will be money well spent. But you said
- 28:14Speaker 5: the guys you talked about. Is it possible, Bone, that
- 28:18Speaker 5: you did not listen? Is that possible? I was listening.
- 28:22Speaker 4: Did I care?
- 28:22Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but I was listening.
- 28:24Speaker 4: Did you care? What is that all about?
- 28:27Speaker 1: I'm just kidding.
- 28:28Speaker 4: I'm just kidding.
- 28:29Speaker 7: More importantly, guys, are we a cool enough show to
- 28:32Speaker 7: use the word ops? Can we shorthand opportunities and say
- 28:38Speaker 7: ops and not sound cringe?
- 28:39Speaker 8: I thought ops were like the opponents. I thought that's
- 28:43Speaker 8: what the youngins called ops. The opponents.
- 28:46Speaker 4: See, I thought when.
- 28:47Speaker 7: Jay, because he said ops twice, I thought that was
- 28:50Speaker 7: shorthand for opportunities.
- 28:52Speaker 11: And we've heard Dave say ops a few times.
- 28:54Speaker 8: I mean, he might have said it there, but what
- 28:56Speaker 8: the kids are saying, and I only know this because
- 28:58Speaker 8: I have kids, but with the kids, when they say ops,
- 29:01Speaker 8: it's like the opponents.
- 29:03Speaker 11: Does Little Mac use it in his fantasy football?
- 29:05Speaker 4: He might use that. Yeah, that might be his thing.
- 29:07Speaker 8: All right, let's move along here. Due to time constraints,
- 29:11Speaker 8: let's move along here to further Panther conversation. Yesterday was
- 29:15Speaker 8: coordinator day, and Brad Idzik was asked the question we
- 29:21Speaker 8: all want to know the answer to. How the heck
- 29:24Speaker 8: has this offense become this potent downfield machine?
- 29:28Speaker 6: It's a group effort, so it's– A lot of investment
- 29:31Speaker 6: we've had with the skills over the last couple years,
- 29:33Speaker 6: a lot of investment we've had with Bryce over the
- 29:36Speaker 6: last couple years of concepts and understanding what kind of
- 29:38Speaker 6: space we're trying to attack. And then, you know, as
- 29:42Speaker 6: the game plans unfold, just me and him talking about, hey,
- 29:45Speaker 6: here's our spots to take our shots. Here's our spots
- 29:47Speaker 6: to take advantage of some of the space the defense
- 29:50Speaker 6: we think is going to give us. And he's done
- 29:52Speaker 6: a great job of capitalizing. So I commend him of
- 29:55Speaker 6: opening up that dialogue with me and being receptive to
- 29:58Speaker 6: all the teaching that we've given him you know, in
- 30:00Speaker 6: our system the last couple years. And then for us,
- 30:03Speaker 6: it's just about that time on task with a skill
- 30:06Speaker 6: group that's now been here with him, you know, and
- 30:09Speaker 6: developing that trust for, hey, this is how we want
- 30:11Speaker 6: to attack them. This is what we're expecting. And it's
- 30:14Speaker 6: a beautiful thing when, you know, the defense presents how
- 30:17Speaker 6: you kind of present it to them in the meeting room.
- 30:19Speaker 6: The guys start to believe in the, you know, the
- 30:22Speaker 6: plan of attack, and then they're playing fast and aggressive,
- 30:25Speaker 6: and we're getting more opportunities to do so.
- 30:27Speaker 4: We're getting more ops to do so. He didn't say that.
- 30:30Speaker 4: He did not say that. No ops there.
- 30:33Speaker 1: Boy, I think that it's back in control right now.
- 30:37Speaker 1: Feels so much better and more streamlined than canal is
- 30:41Speaker 1: doing it all. There is that thought that the fan,
- 30:43Speaker 1: it is amazing Mac, what fans mindsets are. We were
- 30:46Speaker 1: so worried about the offense for so long. And now
- 30:48Speaker 1: there's some fans that are worried that it's, it is
- 30:50Speaker 1: too good. And now he might leave at some point,
- 30:52Speaker 1: which if he does, that's wonderful. That means this offense
- 30:56Speaker 1: had a great season. That's how I look.
- 30:57Speaker 8: That's a champagne problem here and worry about the offense
- 30:59Speaker 8: being too good. That's a champagne problem. I've never once
- 31:03Speaker 8: been one to like, obviously, do I want to get
- 31:05Speaker 8: more than one year as a coordinator out of them?
- 31:07Speaker 4: Yeah, I would like so.
- 31:08Speaker 8: But again, like they don't take guys that are running
- 31:11Speaker 8: the 27th ranked offense in the NFL away from you.
- 31:14Speaker 8: It will mean that Bryce Young has played like this.
- 31:17Speaker 8: all season if he were to get a job that
- 31:19Speaker 8: fast so yeah i don't i usually don't sweat that
- 31:22Speaker 8: stuff i usually like to be a team that has
- 31:25Speaker 8: its assistants coveted if.
- 31:26Speaker 1: We get a new oc every year because they keep
- 31:29Speaker 1: getting jobs that's a good thing for where this franchise
- 31:31Speaker 1: is going not ideal for you know for bryce per
- 31:35Speaker 1: se but it's a good sign of where this team
- 31:38Speaker 1: and this organization is going if you have to keep
- 31:40Speaker 1: not firing ocs but have to keep hiring ocs Because
- 31:43Speaker 1: someone left because they got hired somewhere else.
- 31:45Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 31:46Speaker 8: And I feel like this would be a little quick
- 31:47Speaker 8: for him after just one year. Personally, Averro is one
- 31:51Speaker 8: that if he had a good year defensively, I could
- 31:53Speaker 8: see that because that's been talked about for years.
- 31:55Speaker 4: All right.
- 31:56Speaker 8: One other thing I want to what I want to mention. Oh,
- 31:59Speaker 8: the Canales thing. I want to mention this, too, before
- 32:01Speaker 8: I rip the NFL bone. I'm sure we're going to
- 32:03Speaker 8: rip the NFL. I can't imagine you guys are sticking
- 32:05Speaker 8: up for him. The canalis energy I get from some
- 32:09Speaker 8: of y'all, though, I don't like. The whole thing about, oh,
- 32:12Speaker 8: it's so much better once we got Dave. Once Dave
- 32:14Speaker 8: got done with the play calling, oh, we're so great now.
- 32:17Speaker 8: Dave was doing two jobs at once. Dave got this
- 32:20Speaker 8: job because of the job he did as a coordinator
- 32:22Speaker 8: in Tampa. All right. So I don't want to, although
- 32:25Speaker 8: I would argue that play calling problem wasn't his biggest
- 32:27Speaker 8: strength there. It's probably working with quarterbacks. But I just
- 32:30Speaker 8: want to say we don't have to rip Canales. The
- 32:33Speaker 8: man was doing two jobs. Think of it at your office.
- 32:36Speaker 8: If you have somebody that's your boss, but they also
- 32:38Speaker 8: have to cover another job. And now they go back
- 32:40Speaker 8: to just being the boss. Like just we don't. And
- 32:43Speaker 8: it also, as you said numerous times, it takes an
- 32:46Speaker 8: egoless person as an offensive minded head coach to to
- 32:49Speaker 8: to look and see that, hey, we'd be better off.
- 32:53Speaker 4: If I don't do this, too. If he does it. No,
- 32:57Speaker 4: it deserves.
- 32:57Speaker 8: I don't like the negative crap that is out there
- 33:00Speaker 8: about Canales with this.
- 33:01Speaker 1: No, it deserves praise, not ridicule. Canales realized what this
- 33:05Speaker 1: organization team needed. He went out there and he made
- 33:08Speaker 1: a choice. And it's working so far. So, no, it
- 33:11Speaker 1: doesn't need to be ripped. It's a great thing that
- 33:14Speaker 1: he did, and it's working so far. Should be praised, man.
- 33:16Speaker 1: His job is to be the head coach. This allows
- 33:17Speaker 1: him to be a better head coach as well. All right,
- 33:20Speaker 1: the NFL. The no fun league bone has annoyed me
- 33:23Speaker 1: for years. I mean, it's just you're an entertainment product,
- 33:26Speaker 1: and the way you try to, like, take away any
- 33:30Speaker 1: fun has been really an annoying pet peeve of mine
- 33:34Speaker 1: over the years. They took it to a whole new
- 33:37Speaker 1: level yesterday, Bone. Finding out all the different suspensions, not suspensions,
- 33:42Speaker 1: but fines that they are handing out to players for
- 33:45Speaker 1: celebrations this week. You talk about you're doing too much,
- 33:48Speaker 1: our segment yesterday. You are doing way too much, NFL.
- 33:52Speaker 8: And the most ridiculous one, Bone, is this use check thing,
- 33:56Speaker 8: the fullback for the Niners.
- 33:58Speaker 4: They are fining him for his celebration, which is crazy.
- 34:01Speaker 4: a drinking motion.
- 34:04Speaker 8: He has explained that he does that because his nickname
- 34:07Speaker 8: is Juice. But the NFL looked at that celebration, which
- 34:11Speaker 8: he has done his whole career, by the way. I
- 34:12Speaker 8: don't know why all of a sudden now it bothered them.
- 34:15Speaker 8: But they looked at that celebration and said it's an
- 34:17Speaker 8: offensive act, Bone. Him drinking what they say could be
- 34:21Speaker 8: a beer. They find it offensive. Keep in mind, their
- 34:25Speaker 8: official beer is Bud Light, and they proudly put out
- 34:27Speaker 8: cans with all the team logos on them. But drinking
- 34:31Speaker 8: a beer is somehow offensive. This is the most ridiculous
- 34:35Speaker 8: thing I.
- 34:36Speaker 1: Have ever seen. Could it not be a soda?
- 34:38Speaker 4: It's juice.
- 34:39Speaker 1: His name is juice. It could be anything.
- 34:42Speaker 8: But yes, why are you assuming it's a beer? Why
- 34:44Speaker 8: do you think, what, a little kiddie's looking at that?
- 34:46Speaker 8: Now they want to drink beer? But they also got
- 34:49Speaker 8: Bone a guard for Indy, who did the pop the
- 34:52Speaker 8: top celebration after Ty Warren handed him the ball. That,
- 34:56Speaker 8: he's getting fined for that. Then you have this whole
- 34:59Speaker 8: ridiculous Jamar Chase and Tee Higgins thing where they say
- 35:03Speaker 8: they're doing the people's elbow. I got to be honest
- 35:05Speaker 8: with you, Bone. I know enough about wrestling to know
- 35:08Speaker 8: that's not the people's elbow, but whatever. But like the
- 35:10Speaker 8: NFL says, it looks like a phallus. The way that
- 35:14Speaker 8: they put their arm out over their elbow. It's just like, bro,
- 35:18Speaker 8: no one thought that. No one thought that. Again, you're
- 35:21Speaker 8: doing too much. Now, I'm on Raw. acting like St. Brown,
- 35:25Speaker 8: acting like he was smoking a joint. Yeah, you might
- 35:27Speaker 8: want to hit him with a fine. But the other guys,
- 35:30Speaker 8: it's ridiculous. No fun league. You are a bunch of
- 35:33Speaker 8: dorks running the show, man.
- 35:35Speaker 1: It's amazing that they're finding guys for foulest stuff when
- 35:38Speaker 1: a bunch of people making decisions.
- 35:39Speaker 8: Back are exactly that. It's ridiculous. By the way, I
- 35:45Speaker 8: would love to see those meetings where they have to
- 35:51Speaker 8: analyze these things, where they're trying to figure out, was
- 35:54Speaker 8: that the people's elbow? Was that a joint by Brown?
- 35:57Speaker 8: Is it juice, soda, a beer? I'd love to hear
- 36:01Speaker 8: the actual conversations that happen.
- 36:02Speaker 4: Who is the.
- 36:02Speaker 8: Pencil neck geek that brought that to the higher ups?
- 36:05Speaker 8: We really got to crack down on these celebrations, all right?
- 36:08Speaker 8: I mean, seriously, you're right. Release the audio of that.
- 36:12Speaker 8: Who's the Willie P of the office? Like when Willie
- 36:16Speaker 8: P tried to crack down on Finney drinking a beer.
- 36:19Speaker 11: Hey, guys.
- 36:19Speaker 4: The night before a show.
- 36:22Speaker 1: Willie P would be a great office narc.
- 36:25Speaker 4: Oh, God. He would shut down celebrations, no doubt about it.
- 36:28Speaker 1: Hey, Roger, I do believe that Kyle Juszczyk might be
- 36:31Speaker 1: drinking a brewski on the field.
- 36:32Speaker 8: Oh, God.
- 36:33Speaker 4: Get out of here.
- 36:34Speaker 8: By the way, we keep our streak alive. We've been
- 36:37Speaker 8: called unks. We've been called unks. Apparently our whole ops
- 36:41Speaker 8: conversation got us called unks.
- 36:43Speaker 4: So the show is officially started when we get called unks, Bo.
- 36:47Speaker 1: Yeah, Tara's telling me it's opposition or opponent, Finney, not opportunity.
- 36:51Speaker 1: So there you go. I tried to tell.
- 36:52Speaker 4: Tara knows.
- 36:52Speaker 1: She's a schoolteacher.
- 36:53Speaker 8: Yeah, she knows it too. Yeah, that's a good call.
- 36:55Speaker 8: Maybe we could use her to figure out what these
- 36:57Speaker 8: things mean.
- 36:58Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Oh, man.
- 37:00Speaker 4: All right, we come back.
- 37:01Speaker 1: It is the Couch Potato Guide, your guide to all
- 37:04Speaker 1: the action on TV this weekend. Sports Radio 92.7.
- 37:27Speaker 10: Flip over to the offensive side.
- 37:29Speaker 1: It's all about this quarterback.
- 37:30Speaker 10: I mean, it's a dude now. This is a pro.
- 37:32Speaker 10: If you want to know what an NFL quarterback looks
- 37:34Speaker 10: like playing college ball, that's this kid. He's just got
- 37:38Speaker 10: a lot of experience last year as a freshman. And,
- 37:43Speaker 10: I mean, he is an elite passer. I mean, he
- 37:47Speaker 10: can make every throw from every angle, every area on
- 37:53Speaker 10: the field. I think he throws a really good deep ball.
- 37:56Speaker 10: He's got a great feel for the back shoulder ball.
- 37:59Speaker 10: He's a really good thrower on the run. But he
- 38:03Speaker 10: can place it. I mean, and he's athletic. He's big,
- 38:06Speaker 10: big and athletic. can move around, can hurt you with
- 38:11Speaker 10: his legs. I mean, he's just a really, really good
- 38:13Speaker 10: football player. So a lot of respect for him. And honestly,
- 38:16Speaker 10: I saw him last year prepping for the Louisville game.
- 38:19Speaker 10: You know, they played Cal, I guess, before us, and
- 38:22Speaker 10: I didn't know who he was. And I just remember
- 38:24Speaker 10: watching that tape going, when.
- 38:26Speaker 1: Do we play Cal?
- 38:27Speaker 10: Oh, that's next year? And going, this guy's going to
- 38:30Speaker 10: be a problem.
- 38:31Speaker 8: I got bad news for you, Dabo. You play Cal
- 38:34Speaker 8: tonight at Cal at 1030. Although Dabo made a great
- 38:36Speaker 8: point this week as we get into our couch potato
- 38:39Speaker 8: guide and let you know what games, what sporting events
- 38:42Speaker 8: are on at what time as we all mentally plan
- 38:44Speaker 8: our weekend. But Dabo brought up a good point about
- 38:47Speaker 8: the time. They've started two games because of weather at 930.
- 38:51Speaker 8: So it's only one hour later than those two games.
- 38:55Speaker 8: Because they have been the Clemson weather delays. They might
- 38:59Speaker 8: want to change the name.
- 39:00Speaker 1: It's going to take a while back to get that
- 39:02Speaker 1: rest of y'all bus, though, from Clemson to Berkeley. That's
- 39:05Speaker 1: a long trip on the bus.
- 39:06Speaker 8: It's the rest of y'all playing this week, man. The
- 39:09Speaker 8: rest of y'all playing, I guess.
- 39:10Speaker 4: All right.
- 39:11Speaker 8: So let's get into it. Clemson Cal tonight at 1030.
- 39:14Speaker 8: Before that, you got Northwestern Indiana at eight o'clock on Fox.
- 39:20Speaker 1: Indiana's first real appearance of the season, honestly, tonight. I've
- 39:23Speaker 1: not really seen Indiana too much so far. during the
- 39:25Speaker 1: first set of games. Besides highlights, they have not played exactly.
- 39:29Speaker 1: Not that Northwestern's going to be here.
- 39:30Speaker 8: Yeah, and I'm still not sure this is going to
- 39:32Speaker 8: be considered a real test, but we'll see. I know
- 39:34Speaker 8: Northwestern had that big rout. of Colorado last week. Indiana
- 39:38Speaker 8: favored by 21 last time I saw it. There you go.
- 39:40Speaker 4: There you go.
- 39:41Speaker 1: So that sounds about right to me, but we'll see.
- 39:43Speaker 1: We'll see.
- 39:44Speaker 8: Starting tomorrow, noon window, Texas, Tennessee, one versus 14 on ABC.
- 39:51Speaker 8: That is a really fun matchup, no doubt about it. Wake,
- 39:55Speaker 8: could they pull off an upset? Could Louisville be in
- 39:58Speaker 8: a spot? for a letdown after the big win against SMU.
- 40:03Speaker 8: That's on ESPN at noon. You've got Ohio State, Illinois
- 40:08Speaker 8: also at noon on Fox. Hopefully that one will keep
- 40:11Speaker 8: Gus Johnson a little more lively than last week's Ohio
- 40:15Speaker 8: State big noon game.
- 40:16Speaker 1: Yeah, wellness check on Gus, please. Touchdown, Chris Henry.
- 40:20Speaker 8: Virginia Tech, B.C. First of all, Virginia Tech looks tremendous,
- 40:24Speaker 8: and they play Pitt next Friday. I am very much
- 40:27Speaker 8: looking forward to that game. But how bad is Boston College, Bone?
- 40:32Speaker 8: They only won by six last week against the main
- 40:36Speaker 8: team that App State beat by 50.
- 40:40Speaker 4: Are you kidding me?
- 40:41Speaker 1: I was checking scores on my phone of the games
- 40:43Speaker 1: that I didn't have on TV last week, and I
- 40:45Speaker 1: saw that score, and I thought, okay, I'm about two
- 40:48Speaker 1: minutes away from having to alert Mac that BC's in
- 40:51Speaker 1: trouble with me. I didn't do it.
- 40:52Speaker 4: Brutal, dude.
- 40:53Speaker 1: Brutal.
- 40:53Speaker 4: Brutal.
- 40:54Speaker 8: All right, so then you get to the afternoon window.
- 40:57Speaker 8: You got Notre Dame-Purdue on Peacock at 3 o'clock. You've
- 41:01Speaker 8: got Oklahoma at Georgia 330. Arrogant Georgia fan wants to
- 41:06Speaker 8: know when you're talking about this game. I'm talking about
- 41:09Speaker 8: right now. We won't talk a lot about it probably
- 41:11Speaker 8: because I think we all think that Oklahoma's offense is
- 41:15Speaker 8: a joke and they will roll into Athens and that
- 41:18Speaker 8: Georgia defense will shut them down. I mean, Mateer turned
- 41:21Speaker 8: it over, had two interceptions bone against New Mexico. It
- 41:25Speaker 8: just feels like trouble for Oklahoma, man.
- 41:28Speaker 1: It feels like 31-3, 34-10. I don't really see Oklahoma, Mac,
- 41:33Speaker 1: scoring more. Maybe if double figures, it might be exactly 10.
- 41:38Speaker 1: I don't see them going higher than that.
- 41:39Speaker 4: It's hard to imagine.
- 41:40Speaker 1: Is it Georgia favored by 14, I think, in that game?
- 41:43Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 41:43Speaker 1: That feels like a Georgia cover, doesn't it? Yeah, that
- 41:45Speaker 1: feels like, man, yeah. That's my play of the week,
- 41:49Speaker 1: Georgia covers that one, if it's still 14th.
- 41:51Speaker 8: Maybe the best game of the day, Ole Miss coming
- 41:55Speaker 8: off the big emotional win against LSU at Florida in
- 41:57Speaker 8: the Swamp, 3-30 on ABC. Another ranked matchup, Iowa-Michigan, first
- 42:03Speaker 8: one to 10 wins. Boney, 3-30 on CBS. You have
- 42:08Speaker 8: East Carolina trying to get to 2-2 at 4 o'clock
- 42:11Speaker 8: on ESPN +, hosting North Carolina Central. And then you've
- 42:16Speaker 8: got Vanderbilt at 4-15, the 4-15 SEC Network game, Vanderbilt-Auburn.
- 42:21Speaker 4: Intriguing game. Intriguing.
- 42:23Speaker 1: Pretty good one. Yeah, no, that's actually one of those
- 42:25Speaker 1: ones that, no, that's a pretty good one there. Let's see, 6.30,
- 42:29Speaker 1: you have Charlotte hosting Louisiana on ESPN +. 7 o'clock,
- 42:34Speaker 1: you got Alabama hosting South Carolina on ESPN +. You've
- 42:39Speaker 1: got West Virginia hosting Oklahoma State.
- 42:42Speaker 4: That's a good one. Real good one. FS1, 7 o'clock.
- 42:45Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Vandy Auburn and Oklahoma State-West Virginia could
- 42:48Speaker 1: be two of those games that you wouldn't think about
- 42:51Speaker 1: right away. But, yeah, I think they're going to be
- 42:52Speaker 1: very good games this weekend. Oklahoma State-West Virginia.
- 42:56Speaker 8: The winner of that game could end up in the
- 42:57Speaker 8: Big 12 title game.
- 42:58Speaker 4: I honestly believe that.
- 43:00Speaker 8: West by God, Virginia! 7.30, you got App State at
- 43:04Speaker 8: NC State. Very intriguing game that the Appies have been
- 43:08Speaker 8: texting about this week. Where's State at emotionally? We'll talk
- 43:11Speaker 8: about that one a bunch today. Oregon, USC, NBC at 7.30,
- 43:17Speaker 8: A & M, LSU, ABC at 7.30.
- 43:19Speaker 4: And then, as if we don't have enough.
- 43:21Speaker 8: Match-ups of intrigue at night. Missouri at Mississippi State, rank
- 43:26Speaker 8: versus rank, 745 SEC Network. And on the same night,
- 43:30Speaker 8: Charlotte FC's playing Chicago in a four versus five match-up
- 43:33Speaker 8: in the East.
- 43:34Speaker 4: That's huge. Saturday night is just going to be... I mean,
- 43:38Speaker 4: it's going to be crazy, man.
- 43:39Speaker 1: I was going to say that there's no way Willie
- 43:42Speaker 1: P is not tweeting about cowbells, but he's got the soccer.
- 43:46Speaker 4: Game, though.
- 43:46Speaker 8: Yeah, he's not going to be able to watch, at
- 43:48Speaker 8: least until like the fourth quarter or so of that, man.
- 43:51Speaker 11: You know what that means? Willie P, not a football guy.
- 43:57Speaker 8: You don't get an exemption for your job fitting. You
- 43:59Speaker 8: don't get an exemption, work exemption.
- 44:02Speaker 1: Nope.
- 44:02Speaker 11: No.
- 44:03Speaker 1: Those are tough rules, man. Phinney's tough.
- 44:06Speaker 8: Let's see here. What else do we want to mention?
- 44:07Speaker 8: NASCAR at Kansas on Sunday. The NFL plays a bunch
- 44:11Speaker 8: of games, Boney. Any of the games other than Panthers-Browns
- 44:15Speaker 8: at 1 o'clock. Any of the other games that you
- 44:17Speaker 8: want to highlight?
- 44:18Speaker 1: Patriots-Jaguars is pretty good, I would say, for two playoff
- 44:22Speaker 1: teams last year. Chargers desperately need a win at Buffalo,
- 44:26Speaker 1: or they're in trouble. The late window, the 4 o'clock window, Mac,
- 44:29Speaker 1: not bad because we all want to see Tampa go
- 44:32Speaker 1: in three. You've got Ravens, Cowboys, Tampa, Minnesota. You got Vikings, Bucks.
- 44:37Speaker 1: You got Ravens, Cowboys. Also Raiders Saints is the CBS
- 44:42Speaker 1: debut of one Lucas August Keeley on the CBS NFL broadcast.
- 44:48Speaker 1: There you go.
- 44:49Speaker 8: The Saints playing the two and O Raiders. How about that?
- 44:52Speaker 8: That's not a terrible game. Honestly, the Ravens in Dallas
- 44:56Speaker 8: is the Brazil game. Apparently the turf is horrible in
- 45:00Speaker 8: that soccer stadium. Apparently it's just– but the NFL, the
- 45:04Speaker 8: show must go on. The show must go on. Sunday
- 45:06Speaker 8: night Rams-Broncos, pretty interesting. I like that one. Absolutely.
- 45:11Speaker 1: When we come back here on the Mac and Bone
- 45:13Speaker 1: radio program on this football Friday, it is time to
- 45:18Speaker 1: talk Browns and Panthers. What do we feel good about?
- 45:21Speaker 1: What worries us in the Sunday matchup in Cleveland? Mac Bone,
- 45:25Speaker 1: the Fit Dog, Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ.