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- 0:17Speaker 1: What a great job by E and the guys just
- 0:19Speaker 1: continuing to work through with the new group, with guys
- 0:21Speaker 1: going out there who have played for us. But that
- 0:24Speaker 1: communication is critical. It's great to have Nick back out there,
- 0:26Speaker 1: Nick Scott, you know, being able to direct traffic. And
- 0:30Speaker 1: the guys were really disciplined. It felt that way in
- 0:31Speaker 1: this week. And I doubled down on that on Saturday
- 0:34Speaker 1: just to let them know, like, this was our best
- 0:37Speaker 1: week of practice from a defensive standpoint in terms of
- 0:39Speaker 1: just playing the run game, playing the pass concepts in
- 0:42Speaker 1: the different situations. And we were able to get the
- 0:45Speaker 1: ball down at the line of scrimmage a couple times.
- 0:47Speaker 2: Which always helps.
- 0:49Speaker 3: That is Coach Canales giving a little love to Ajero
- 0:52Speaker 3: Vero in the defense. Obviously, Bryce Young, T-Mac, the IDZIC
- 0:58Speaker 3: game plan of the RPOs in the quick passing game.
- 1:01Speaker 3: These are going to be the things that are probably
- 1:03Speaker 3: on page one, Bo? of the Mac and Bone Panther Gazette.
- 1:07Speaker 3: But right there on page two, you said it. To
- 1:10Speaker 3: allow 26 points, I feel like if we were to
- 1:12Speaker 3: tell Panther fans yesterday, you know, I saw into the future,
- 1:17Speaker 3: they're going to give up 26 points. I feel like
- 1:19Speaker 3: Panther fans would have two reactions. One would be, hell no,
- 1:22Speaker 3: you're lying to me. And the other one would be,
- 1:24Speaker 3: if they didn't think you were lying, they'd say, that's amazing.
- 1:27Speaker 2: That would be awesome. Unless some gigantic rainstorm hit or
- 1:30Speaker 2: something and the field got sloshy. Then I'd say, all right, well,
- 1:33Speaker 2: that's that's crazy to happen. But also, I didn't think
- 1:36Speaker 2: 32 would be enough for the Panthers to win this game.
- 1:40Speaker 2: I thought they may have to get to 40 to
- 1:43Speaker 2: win this game. That's what I was thinking on Friday.
- 1:46Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
- 1:48Speaker 2: That's why I picked the Lions to win. You're welcome, Charlotte.
- 1:51Speaker 2: You are welcome for that. So how about the fit dog,
- 1:53Speaker 2: by the way, standing by his guns? Picking the Panthers
- 1:57Speaker 2: to win.
- 1:57Speaker 4: Is that notable?
- 1:58Speaker 2: City went out on a whim and made the rare
- 2:01Speaker 2: pick of the Panthers. It wasn't just me.
- 2:04Speaker 5: KB did pick Carolina last night on the pregame show.
- 2:07Speaker 2: He did. He did.
- 2:08Speaker 3: He got me on that one. I'm so glad he did.
- 2:10Speaker 3: I am so glad I'm wrong. I have no problem
- 2:14Speaker 3: being wrong if we're winning, man. Well, you're wrong every day.
- 2:17Speaker 4: Thank you, Mrs.
- 2:18Speaker 2: Mack.
- 2:18Speaker 4: Can we save that for Mrs.
- 2:19Speaker 2: Mack? I'm married.
- 2:20Speaker 4: I already got here and out of the house.
- 2:21Speaker 2: Here we go.
- 2:22Speaker 5: There are people that don't want y'all to dance. I've
- 2:25Speaker 5: got a lot of texts and tweets that... Oh, get
- 2:27Speaker 5: out of here. I can show you the receipts calling
- 2:30Speaker 5: y'all the B word.
- 2:31Speaker 2: There's some real nasty things.
- 2:33Speaker 4: Oh, get out of here. There's no one else I
- 2:35Speaker 4: would rather shake my butt with. Why are they mad
- 2:40Speaker 4: at us?
- 2:40Speaker 2: Because y'all didn't pick the team. But hold on.
- 2:42Speaker 4: When I pick them, they say I'm going to jinx them.
- 2:44Speaker 2: Don't pick us.
- 2:44Speaker 4: Who was this?
- 2:46Speaker 2: Chad Crosby on Facebook.
- 2:48Speaker 4: You said a lot of people.
- 2:49Speaker 2: Yeah. You downnamed one person. Well, I mean, I gave
- 2:51Speaker 2: you a specific... I can take screenshots.
- 2:54Speaker 3: Anyway, I don't give a damn. This ain't Footloose, y'all.
- 2:58Speaker 3: You ain't stopping me from dancing today. I'm absolutely giddy.
- 3:01Speaker 3: And by the way, Panther fans, you're welcome for picking
- 3:03Speaker 3: the Lions.
- 3:04Speaker 2: You're welcome.
- 3:06Speaker 3: So I have to tell you, I don't know if
- 3:07Speaker 3: you noticed today, Finney, I don't give a damn about
- 3:09Speaker 3: the outside noise.
- 3:10Speaker 4: Good.
- 3:11Speaker 3: Neither did the Panthers. I don't give a damn either.
- 3:13Speaker 3: I am elated today. I am dancing, and I'm going
- 3:16Speaker 3: to enjoy the hell out of it. And now we
- 3:19Speaker 3: get to the 7 o'clock segment that, after a win,
- 3:22Speaker 3: Bone Man, is way more fun. than after a loss
- 3:26Speaker 3: on a Panther Monday. After a loss, it's who the
- 3:28Speaker 3: hell pissed you off? After a win, it's who are
- 3:31Speaker 3: we giving credit to? And I just, I started this segment, Bone,
- 3:34Speaker 3: by mentioning the, hearing, we heard Canales there talking about
- 3:38Speaker 3: the defense. When you can hold them to four field goals,
- 3:41Speaker 3: that is four wins. Every time they kicked a field goal,
- 3:45Speaker 3: I said, thank you, sir, may I have another? Because
- 3:47Speaker 3: this was not the sort of game, Bone, that was
- 3:49Speaker 3: going to be won with field goals. And I think
- 3:52Speaker 3: the defense deserves credit for bowing up, getting a couple
- 3:54Speaker 3: of red zone stops, getting a couple of stops on downs,
- 3:58Speaker 3: including the one at the end. Princely had a huge sack.
- 4:00Speaker 3: So I don't want it to go unnoticed, Bone, the
- 4:03Speaker 3: job they did. Yeah, they gave up like 400 yards passing.
- 4:07Speaker 3: The job they did on Gibbs, like you brought up.
- 4:08Speaker 3: So the defense has got to be, you know, has
- 4:11Speaker 3: got to get some attaboys, too, considering they didn't have
- 4:14Speaker 3: the corners.
- 4:15Speaker 2: And an individual within the defense. I thought Derrick Brown
- 4:18Speaker 2: was Derrick Brown last night, but also Devin Lloyd's presence
- 4:21Speaker 2: was felt again last night. So Devin Lloyd, the difference
- 4:26Speaker 2: with Devin Lloyd and without him was... On display from
- 4:30Speaker 2: Cleveland to last night, Devin Lloyd, what a signing and
- 4:33Speaker 2: what a difference maker. He is both in play, in leadership.
- 4:37Speaker 2: He's everything you want your linebacker with the green dot
- 4:42Speaker 2: to be right there.
- 4:43Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. Just a playmaking presence, man.
- 4:46Speaker 3: Somebody said earlier, am I wrong or is Devin Lloyd
- 4:49Speaker 3: already the leader of the defense?
- 4:50Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
- 4:51Speaker 3: He picked that up instantaneously. You see him out there.
- 4:54Speaker 3: How about the time Bobby Brown was trying to run
- 4:56Speaker 3: off the field? Now, granted, he shouldn't have ran off
- 4:58Speaker 3: the field. We had 11 guys. But Devin Lloyd's out
- 5:02Speaker 3: there screaming. He is taking charge of that defense. He
- 5:07Speaker 3: is the quarterback of that defense. Nine tackles last night.
- 5:11Speaker 3: three stops bony. They blitzed him a ton. They found
- 5:15Speaker 3: a good mix between blitzing and not blitzing. And I
- 5:17Speaker 3: actually thought Avero blitzed a good amount in those late drives.
- 5:22Speaker 3: Like he did not just go soft zone and say,
- 5:25Speaker 3: we got a 13 point lead. Go ahead, take the,
- 5:28Speaker 3: like they mixed in blitzes. They blitzed 45% of time
- 5:31Speaker 3: last night. And Goff's passer rating bone was like 40
- 5:35Speaker 3: points lower on our blitzes. than it was when we
- 5:39Speaker 3: didn't blitz. So it was effective as well. It really was.
- 5:43Speaker 3: And then the offense. I mean, what can you say?
- 5:45Speaker 3: I don't want to act like I'm going to do
- 5:46Speaker 3: the whole segment here, Bone, about the undermanned defense. The
- 5:50Speaker 3: offense was undermanned too and went out there and put
- 5:52Speaker 3: up 32 points. Should have been 34. Sorry, Fitzy. Should
- 5:56Speaker 3: have been 34 points. But it was balanced, Bone. They
- 6:00Speaker 3: ran the most times they have all season at 28.
- 6:03Speaker 3: And the trend continued, Bone. They are so much better
- 6:06Speaker 3: of a second-half running team. than they are a first-half
- 6:09Speaker 3: running team this year. And that continued yesterday with 90-something
- 6:14Speaker 3: yards after the break, and I think 38 in the
- 6:18Speaker 3: first half. They are kind of setting up the run
- 6:23Speaker 3: with the pass. They're almost, you know what I mean?
- 6:25Speaker 3: They're almost getting you to worry, especially last night with
- 6:28Speaker 3: that RPO. I guarantee you after a wild air bone
- 6:31Speaker 3: in the second half, every time Bryce showed the ball
- 6:35Speaker 3: to a running back, they're thinking, where's he passing it?
- 6:38Speaker 2: Where's T-Mac?
- 6:39Speaker 3: And Chuba had two huge long runs in that second half, man.
- 6:44Speaker 2: Mag, we'll try to, there's so much stuff happening here.
- 6:48Speaker 2: on Twitter in terms of Bryce praise, Panther praise, not
- 6:52Speaker 2: just from fans, but from those that cover the sport,
- 6:55Speaker 2: played the sport. RG3 has a whole Panther breakdown on
- 6:59Speaker 2: his Twitter feed from overnight, really praising Bryce Young. So
- 7:03Speaker 2: when we say it, it's one thing, but RG3 goes
- 7:05Speaker 2: on to say, His trademark anticipation, quick release, and accuracy
- 7:10Speaker 2: from Bama are all showing themselves because he's playing ahead
- 7:14Speaker 2: of the defense, getting the ball out of his hands
- 7:16Speaker 2: so quick, the rush can't get to him. He's beating
- 7:19Speaker 2: the defense to the punch, which was what made him
- 7:21Speaker 2: so great. at alabama so we say that but when someone.
- 7:25Speaker 3: Of that nature says i think it goes a long
- 7:27Speaker 3: way also absolutely and listen this was a game plan
- 7:29Speaker 3: this week he has not been throwing it that quick
- 7:32Speaker 3: like he had been throwing it more downfield that was
- 7:36Speaker 3: a game plan last night now he executed it beautifully
- 7:39Speaker 3: he was getting his point guard on because it was
- 7:41Speaker 3: just like quick dealing dropping dimes um but That was
- 7:45Speaker 3: a Brad Izzik game plan last night, Bone. How do
- 7:48Speaker 3: we do this with this offensive line, with Hutchinson on
- 7:51Speaker 3: the other side? The amount of help that they gave
- 7:55Speaker 3: to the tackles, whatever side Hutchinson was on, was awesome.
- 7:58Speaker 3: We even survived old Stone Forsyth having to get in there, Bone.
- 8:02Speaker 3: Against Hutchinson last night. So Bryce executed it beautifully, but
- 8:07Speaker 3: that was a change-up from their game plans this year
- 8:10Speaker 3: so far. That was the perfect game plan for the situation.
- 8:15Speaker 2: It really was. Yeah, it was. So yeah, they took away, really,
- 8:19Speaker 2: you're never going to fully take away... jameer gibbs and
- 8:23Speaker 2: hutchinson but they didn't wreck shop last night either side
- 8:26Speaker 2: of the ball they had plans in place where if
- 8:28Speaker 2: you're going to beat us it may be jared goff
- 8:31Speaker 2: throwing bombs down the field the williams but it's not
- 8:33Speaker 2: going to be it's not going to be gibbs going
- 8:36Speaker 2: off for 170 total yards hutchinson in the backfield all
- 8:39Speaker 2: night long they are going to do what they have
- 8:41Speaker 2: to do to limit those two guys and they did
- 8:43Speaker 2: that last.
- 8:44Speaker 3: Night BG says– I'm with you on this, BG. He
- 8:47Speaker 3: says the offensive game plan was in place because the
- 8:49Speaker 3: O-line is so bad. I'll throw in slash injured, right,
- 8:53Speaker 3: is why they've been so bad. He says help out
- 8:55Speaker 3: the weak link. Both sides of the ball's game plans
- 8:58Speaker 3: I thought were designed– to, you know, you had to
- 9:01Speaker 3: help out the injury ravaged units, the O-line on one
- 9:05Speaker 3: side of the ball, and then the secondary on the
- 9:07Speaker 3: other side of the ball. And they were able to
- 9:09Speaker 3: survive and come out with a win. Sweet T wants
- 9:12Speaker 3: to know how many times T-Mac was in the slot.
- 9:14Speaker 3: Last time I looked last night, it was still around
- 9:16Speaker 3: like 29%, which is where he is every game, it
- 9:19Speaker 3: feels like. But Bryce was 6 of 6, 94 yards,
- 9:24Speaker 3: and two tutties thrown to him when he was in
- 9:26Speaker 3: the slot.
- 9:27Speaker 2: With the perfect passer rating, too.
- 9:29Speaker 3: Not only did he have a perfect passer rating in
- 9:31Speaker 3: the slot, Fetty, perfect passer rating according to PFF, throwing
- 9:36Speaker 3: to TMAC the whole night. Not easy to do, by
- 9:41Speaker 3: the way. 14 of 15 with one throwaway left out.
- 9:44Speaker 3: I said this in the first hour, according to PFF,
- 9:46Speaker 3: with a 158.3 throw into TMAC, who had 14 for
- 9:51Speaker 3: 192 and two touchdowns.
- 9:52Speaker 2: I tweeted this last night, Mac.
- 9:54Speaker 5: TMAC had one of those games we'll be talking about
- 9:57Speaker 5: like 10, 15 years from now. Like, Smitty has those games.
- 10:02Speaker 5: Maybe Greg Olson had those games as a receiver where, like,
- 10:04Speaker 5: you know, he had the touchdown against Seattle. When we
- 10:06Speaker 5: talk about TMAC and we're referencing, like, his career, like,
- 10:10Speaker 5: in past tense. Like, that was a legacy type of
- 10:13Speaker 5: game for him last night. And after the slow start,
- 10:15Speaker 5: after what happened last week in Cleveland, you know, Brad
- 10:18Speaker 5: Izzik said on Thursday, hey, I've got to do a
- 10:20Speaker 5: better job getting him involved. And you knew after the
- 10:23Speaker 5: first two drives that he was about to eat like
- 10:26Speaker 5: you and I in the McDonald's drive-thru.
- 10:28Speaker 2: And they had no answer for him.
- 10:30Speaker 3: Yeah, that was another part of the game plan, too, Fitty.
- 10:32Speaker 3: It's like, we will not be denied. We will feed
- 10:34Speaker 3: T-Mac all night with Coker and XL out. I love
- 10:38Speaker 3: the text. Keep them coming, man. People are happy. People
- 10:42Speaker 3: are fired up.
- 10:43Speaker 2: 704-570-9610.
- 10:45Speaker 3: DVR Dave says, talk about Will Lee. Yeah, as rough
- 10:49Speaker 3: as Evans night was, and my God, did they target him, Bone?
- 10:52Speaker 3: Like they, it's funny. They didn't target the rookie. They
- 10:56Speaker 3: targeted the dude that is an amazing gunner on special teams.
- 11:00Speaker 3: But is being asked to start due to circumstances. And
- 11:04Speaker 3: PFF says he gave up over 200 yards receiving. But
- 11:08Speaker 3: Will Lee, it was three for 36, scored a PFF.
- 11:11Speaker 3: I mean, you know, take it for a grain of salt.
- 11:14Speaker 3: But he was noticeably, Bone, really good. He was right
- 11:18Speaker 3: there on a big golf third down throw, Bone, on
- 11:22Speaker 3: one of those drives. We got a stop on downs late.
- 11:24Speaker 3: and then him and Ransom. By the way, Ransom had
- 11:26Speaker 3: a ridiculous hit in the first half.
- 11:27Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, he did.
- 11:28Speaker 3: But he and Ransom Boe made the final stop to
- 11:31Speaker 3: end the game on that final possession as well.
- 11:34Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it was a lot of the Jamison
- 11:36Speaker 2: Williams down the field stuff was a problem, certainly, for Evans.
- 11:40Speaker 2: I will say, though, while we're talking about Gibbs only
- 11:44Speaker 2: having 77 yards, I didn't really feel like they were
- 11:47Speaker 2: torched by Amonrod St. Brown either. That's another guy that
- 11:50Speaker 2: can go off. I mean, yeah, he had 75 yards,
- 11:53Speaker 2: But if you would have told us on Friday that
- 11:56Speaker 2: Gibbs would have 77 total yards and St. Brown would
- 11:59Speaker 2: have 75, we would have said, well, the defense must
- 12:01Speaker 2: have done a hell of a job there. So got
- 12:03Speaker 2: to give them credit for that as well.
- 12:04Speaker 4: Absolutely. No doubt about it. Let's see here. This texter.
- 12:10Speaker 4: You got Tesla.
- 12:11Speaker 2: Though, out of day.
- 12:12Speaker 4: He did. They drove that Tesla a little bit. They did.
- 12:15Speaker 4: There's no doubt. But again, I don't give a damn
- 12:18Speaker 4: as long as we get the dub.
- 12:19Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
- 12:20Speaker 3: I'm sure you'll have some jabroni text in. I think
- 12:22Speaker 3: we gave up too many passing guards. I'm a little
- 12:24Speaker 3: concerned about it.
- 12:25Speaker 4: No doubt.
- 12:26Speaker 3: No doubt, you dope. I'm now, I'm calling a texter.
- 12:29Speaker 3: It doesn't even exist to dope now, but anyway, like, yeah,
- 12:32Speaker 3: just find a way to win man with all the
- 12:34Speaker 3: injuries we have.
- 12:36Speaker 2: Um, it was beautiful.
- 12:37Speaker 3: It really was, um, multiple people bringing up the Bryce
- 12:40Speaker 3: to TMAC play. This dude says I'm with Fitty. I
- 12:43Speaker 3: think it's going to be known as the TMAC game.
- 12:46Speaker 3: And also, um, uh, I think we're going to remember
- 12:49Speaker 3: the Bryce to TMAC third and long completion.
- 12:53Speaker 2: It was filthy.
- 12:54Speaker 3: The placement, Bryce escaping, placing the ball like that on
- 12:58Speaker 3: the run, T-Mac catching it, but also getting the feet down.
- 13:03Speaker 3: It is one of the most impressive Panther plays that
- 13:07Speaker 3: I have seen.
- 13:08Speaker 2: It's almost like last night it was Bryce and T-Mac saying,
- 13:11Speaker 2: all right, there's not many other guys to really throw
- 13:13Speaker 2: the ball to as a wideout, so it's me and you, Bubba.
- 13:15Speaker 2: We're just going to go and get yards and chunks.
- 13:18Speaker 2: There's no Liget. There's no Coker. We know Brazel's out.
- 13:22Speaker 2: It's me and you, man. Let's go dominate. And they
- 13:24Speaker 2: did it.
- 13:24Speaker 4: They still couldn't stop them.
- 13:25Speaker 5: The neat thing about that play, guys, is like back
- 13:28Speaker 5: in the offseason, T-Mac challenged himself to get better at
- 13:31Speaker 5: making those plays. Like he would say, I've got to
- 13:34Speaker 5: be better at finishing those types of plays.
- 13:36Speaker 2: I can make them. I got to get stronger.
- 13:40Speaker 5: Like how much did the extra weight that he put
- 13:42Speaker 5: on where he feels a lot more comfortable playing at
- 13:44Speaker 5: 225 as opposed to what he played at last year?
- 13:47Speaker 2: I thought that showed up.
- 13:49Speaker 5: A lot of ways last night because he his physicality
- 13:52Speaker 5: at the line of scrimmage deep in the routes they
- 13:55Speaker 5: couldn't handle a man they couldn't handle him.
- 13:57Speaker 3: No doubt no doubt man you have plays like that
- 14:00Speaker 3: where it's like maybe as good as your season was
- 14:03Speaker 3: last year fitting maybe you didn't make enough of those
- 14:05Speaker 3: contested plays like that that one was filthy and i
- 14:08Speaker 3: do not agree with what was i don't agree with
- 14:10Speaker 3: a lot of what collinsworth said last night and we'll
- 14:12Speaker 3: get into that later i usually don't hate on the
- 14:14Speaker 3: dude he drove me crazy in the fourth quarter last
- 14:16Speaker 3: night And it sounds like he drove a lot of
- 14:18Speaker 3: y'all crazy.
- 14:19Speaker 4: So we'll talk about that later, Bone.
- 14:21Speaker 3: But one thing I didn't agree with was I thought
- 14:24Speaker 3: he already had both feet down before the DB kind
- 14:27Speaker 3: of knocked his foot into the ground.
- 14:29Speaker 4: I thought he already had that second foot dragging. It
- 14:31Speaker 4: was an unbelievable play.
- 14:32Speaker 2: Personally.
- 14:32Speaker 3: Unbelievable play. So I don't think he needed. They did
- 14:35Speaker 3: the whole thing. Well, here's a guy that got some
- 14:37Speaker 3: help from a DB.
- 14:38Speaker 4: I didn't think.
- 14:40Speaker 3: I thought he already toe tapped both toes down. He
- 14:43Speaker 3: has more than two toes. Both feet down.
- 14:45Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a ridiculous effort without help, Mac. We
- 14:48Speaker 2: have a Bryce convert. One of the haters has said
- 14:52Speaker 2: he's now in. Yeah, baby. Picante is now in on
- 14:55Speaker 2: the Bryce.
- 14:55Speaker 4: Picante, welcome aboard, baby. Welcome aboard.
- 14:59Speaker 2: Finney, we need to play a horn when we get
- 15:01Speaker 2: one of the converts to move on over to our side.
- 15:06Speaker 4: My horn sounded like it got stuffed up there.
- 15:07Speaker 3: And if Bob has a rough horn there, if Bob
- 15:11Speaker 3: ever converts, we're going to set off fireworks like they
- 15:13Speaker 3: did pregame at the stadium last night. Finney, go get
- 15:17Speaker 3: the fireworks set up just in case that unlikely event
- 15:20Speaker 3: ever occurs.
- 15:21Speaker 2: Yeah, can you ask Colin are we allowed to put
- 15:22Speaker 2: fireworks on top of the building?
- 15:24Speaker 3: Oh, just shoot them off, baby. Just shoot them off.
- 15:26Speaker 3: This bum has now been converted to Bryce-ism.
- 15:30Speaker 2: Oh, man. All right, we come back on the Mac
- 15:32Speaker 2: and Bone Show. Normally a Jim Zoki time. He will
- 15:35Speaker 2: be on in the 9 o'clock hour today. Do the
- 15:37Speaker 2: late game last night. When we come back, how much
- 15:40Speaker 2: did last night's win have changed the vibes in the
- 15:44Speaker 2: season outlook? Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
- 16:13Speaker 1: It was great to just have a little bit of
- 16:15Speaker 1: balance there with some of the RPOs playing off of
- 16:17Speaker 1: the runs. As you know, we're trying to get our
- 16:19Speaker 1: run game going and we saw that happen today, but
- 16:21Speaker 1: the RPO just loosens it up a little bit and
- 16:23Speaker 1: allows you to have some optionality and you can start
- 16:27Speaker 1: to dictate to the defense whether they can play zone
- 16:29Speaker 1: or man, how they try to attack those things, and
- 16:31Speaker 1: then When they went to man, we were able to
- 16:34Speaker 1: hit the ball down the field and get T-Mac a
- 16:35Speaker 1: huge touchdown there. Darren Waller running away a couple of times.
- 16:38Speaker 1: So it fits the whole piece in on the offensive side.
- 16:42Speaker 4: There you go.
- 16:43Speaker 3: That's Coach Canales talking about the RPO-heavy game plan last night,
- 16:47Speaker 3: which was perfect from Idzik and the whole offensive staff.
- 16:51Speaker 3: And Bryce executed it like the maestro he has become
- 16:55Speaker 3: in year four for our Carolina Panthers. Shout out to
- 16:58Speaker 3: the fans that were in attendance. I went weak sauce
- 17:02Speaker 3: after the pregame show at the doghouse, a raucous doghouse
- 17:05Speaker 3: bone where some of y'all were sauced already long before
- 17:09Speaker 3: the game started. God bless you. I walked back, diligently
- 17:13Speaker 3: walked bone to my car. got in the car before
- 17:16Speaker 3: the game started, went home and watched this thing at
- 17:20Speaker 3: the house to try to give myself some sleep. But
- 17:22Speaker 3: those of you that were there, man, and I know
- 17:24Speaker 3: there was probably an annoying amount of Lions fans, but
- 17:27Speaker 3: those of you.
- 17:28Speaker 4: That were there, you made a difference. You were heard.
- 17:31Speaker 3: And I fully believe, Bone, that delay a game false
- 17:33Speaker 3: start combination on that second to last drive we got
- 17:37Speaker 3: to stop on.
- 17:38Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 17:39Speaker 3: I firmly believe that was crowd noise, 100%.
- 17:41Speaker 2: Did you go old lady ball walker on your way
- 17:44Speaker 2: down Moorhead?
- 17:46Speaker 4: I was pushing it so much. Ladies with the weights
- 17:48Speaker 4: in their hands? Basically.
- 17:49Speaker 3: No weights in my hands, but basically. I had a
- 17:52Speaker 3: couple of shake weights there. Would that be normal?
- 17:55Speaker 2: Oh, no. All right.
- 17:57Speaker 4: Let's talk, babe.
- 17:57Speaker 2: I'm blushing.
- 17:58Speaker 3: Let's talk. Let's talk. How much better? I'm asking everybody,
- 18:02Speaker 3: but Bone is going to get the question first. Panther Nation.
- 18:06Speaker 3: It was a week of consternation. We lost to the Browns.
- 18:10Speaker 3: We had injuries upon injuries upon injuries. It was a
- 18:14Speaker 3: doom and gloom week, Boney. How much does last night
- 18:19Speaker 3: change your outlook?
- 18:21Speaker 2: How much do you think it.
- 18:22Speaker 3: Just changed the overall fan vibes going into the bye?
- 18:25Speaker 2: I think there's a huge difference going into the bye
- 18:27Speaker 2: between two and two. and 1-3, and that would be
- 18:31Speaker 2: a 1-3 off consecutive losses because there is still a
- 18:35Speaker 2: lot of concern about the health of the football team,
- 18:38Speaker 2: and if they're 1-3 with a bye week, we have
- 18:41Speaker 2: a lot, I think, of discussions, and we will, but
- 18:43Speaker 2: a lot of it will be of the negative variety.
- 18:46Speaker 2: We said, hey, 3-1 would be out of this world
- 18:50Speaker 2: when the year began. 2-2, though, considering you're playing Chicago,
- 18:55Speaker 2: you're playing the Lions, that would be not... what you'd
- 19:00Speaker 2: sign up for necessarily, but you take it and go
- 19:03Speaker 2: from there to the bye week. And also when you
- 19:05Speaker 2: look at the schedule Mac beyond the bye week with
- 19:09Speaker 2: the way that Bryce and the offense is playing, there's
- 19:12Speaker 2: a lot more winnable games. It's no longer the gauntlet
- 19:15Speaker 2: that we thought it was big time at Philadelphia. They
- 19:18Speaker 2: can win that game. Tampa Bay.
- 19:20Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 19:21Speaker 2: Green Bay. Yeah. Denver. That's tough, but that's winnable. It's
- 19:25Speaker 2: no longer back. Oh my God.
- 19:27Speaker 4: They're playing this team, this team, this team, this team.
- 19:29Speaker 2: That Philadelphia-Tampa-Green Bay area, you're telling me they can't go?
- 19:34Speaker 2: I mean, 3-0 would be out of this world, but
- 19:36Speaker 2: you're telling me they can't go 2-1 in that stretch?
- 19:38Speaker 6: 100%.
- 19:38Speaker 3: Absolutely they can't. We were talking about that on the
- 19:41Speaker 3: pregame show, man. It's just, yeah, you look at those
- 19:43Speaker 3: three teams and none of them overly impressive. And by
- 19:48Speaker 3: the way, they're back to wanting to murder themselves. Sirianni
- 19:50Speaker 3: again because he went for it with a 13-point lead
- 19:54Speaker 3: and didn't make it a 16-point game. But Jalen Hurts,
- 19:57Speaker 3: the dude was open, and Jalen Hurts missed him. Yeah,
- 20:01Speaker 3: Jalen Hurts didn't even get to 100 yards passing yesterday.
- 20:04Speaker 3: Bryce averages 317 for the season so far.
- 20:05Speaker 2: That's not– I have– I don't– Look, I'm not saying
- 20:09Speaker 2: you go to Philadelphia and it's... an easy game, but
- 20:13Speaker 2: that is a, that is a winnable football game.
- 20:15Speaker 3: Much more than I thought, say a couple of weeks ago.
- 20:17Speaker 3: Every one of those is winnable. We might lose that one,
- 20:19Speaker 3: but every one of those we have a chance in.
- 20:20Speaker 3: And I think this team reminded us if, and I
- 20:23Speaker 3: don't know if we need, well, I picked, I picked
- 20:24Speaker 3: the Lions to win by three. So maybe I did
- 20:26Speaker 3: need reminding. I think they reminded a lot of us
- 20:30Speaker 3: the heart that this team has. And like Fetty said earlier,
- 20:32Speaker 3: the culture that Canales has beat, that was a culture
- 20:35Speaker 3: win last night.
- 20:36Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 20:36Speaker 3: We got a ton of starters out at key positions,
- 20:38Speaker 3: ravaged by injuries, but, That's all right. We're going to
- 20:41Speaker 3: come up with a great game plan on both sides
- 20:43Speaker 3: of the ball. We're going to execute it. We're going
- 20:45Speaker 3: to get a win with the whole country watching. I
- 20:46Speaker 3: think that was a reminder, Bone, of what this team
- 20:49Speaker 3: is capable of. We saw it last year in the
- 20:52Speaker 3: Green Bay win and the Rams win. And, yeah, I
- 20:55Speaker 3: watched all three of those teams yesterday you're mentioning. Wasn't
- 20:58Speaker 3: impressed by anybody. Hell, even when the Eagles were up
- 21:01Speaker 3: by 13, I wasn't very impressed by them. They still
- 21:06Speaker 3: were barely doing anything. And then they got the Barkley
- 21:08Speaker 3: injury that we don't know how that's going to play
- 21:10Speaker 3: over the next couple of weeks as well. Green Bay,
- 21:13Speaker 3: I know they beat Tampa Bay, but Tampa Bay Bone
- 21:15Speaker 3: was starting Jalen Daniels, who is a bit in over
- 21:18Speaker 3: his head, I feel like. They also, Green Bay also,
- 21:22Speaker 3: Jordan Love threw an interception as they were driving to
- 21:25Speaker 3: try to make it a two-score game late, threw an
- 21:27Speaker 3: interception in the red zone that could have come back
- 21:30Speaker 3: to haunt them, but they were able to get a stop.
- 21:32Speaker 4: But I don't think Green Bay, even in victory, doesn't
- 21:36Speaker 4: look good.
- 21:36Speaker 3: But the Panthers have to be consistent. The 704 number
- 21:41Speaker 3: makes a good point. It says, guys, I'm elated about
- 21:44Speaker 3: the win, but you can't tell me in the back
- 21:46Speaker 3: of your mind you're not thinking, Are we going to
- 21:49Speaker 3: do this win one, lose one thing the entire season?
- 21:52Speaker 2: Well, so far it's lose one, win one, lose one. Yeah, well,
- 21:56Speaker 2: you can't. Well, how's that work, though, with the bye week, though?
- 21:58Speaker 2: Would that be the loss week then? You think the
- 22:02Speaker 2: bye week could change that? I like it. Do they
- 22:04Speaker 2: reset things also? We talk so much about how the
- 22:08Speaker 2: schedule changes throughout the year. You look down the line,
- 22:11Speaker 2: I'm talking about these games that are more winnable than
- 22:13Speaker 2: we thought. But then also, later on down the line,
- 22:16Speaker 2: you've got Minnesota at Minnesota. That looks like one of
- 22:19Speaker 2: your toughest games now on the schedule. Yeah, and that's
- 22:21Speaker 2: the thing about— So it just all moves around as
- 22:23Speaker 2: we go along here. Oh, my God.
- 22:25Speaker 4: You think Brian Flores will blitz Bryce at all?
- 22:27Speaker 2: Minnesota and San Francisco have been highly impressive so far
- 22:33Speaker 2: in the NFC. Even the Rams yesterday, Mac, they were
- 22:35Speaker 2: very close to going one and three for crying out loud. Oh,
- 22:37Speaker 2: hell yeah. That was ugly.
- 22:38Speaker 4: That Stafford doesn't look the same at all. He's got
- 22:41Speaker 4: five pickles already. 704-5709-610.
- 22:43Speaker 3: Casey says, Panthers play down or up to opponents. I
- 22:49Speaker 3: would agree with you that we need to get that consistency.
- 22:52Speaker 3: 704 number says, Mac, is it wrong of me to
- 22:57Speaker 3: think we will end up, once we get healthy, ending
- 23:00Speaker 3: up winning this division?
- 23:02Speaker 4: By multiple games. I'm not ready to go there.
- 23:05Speaker 3: We also got Superbowl Scott, who is on a brand
- 23:08Speaker 3: and saying, we're going to win the Superbowl. Those two fellows,
- 23:11Speaker 3: while I appreciate the optimism bone, I'm not going to
- 23:14Speaker 3: go there. I'm not going to Matt curse these things.
- 23:17Speaker 3: I just think we still got to remember, like I still,
- 23:21Speaker 3: the goal to me bone is still to maintain, to
- 23:26Speaker 3: survive and until we get Horn and Mike Jack back,
- 23:32Speaker 3: until we get the tackles back.
- 23:34Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
- 23:36Speaker 3: Now, you can maintain and survive, and in this division,
- 23:39Speaker 3: you could end up leading the thing with a 500.
- 23:40Speaker 3: Something like that would be very nice.
- 23:42Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's interesting to see what happens tonight, Mac,
- 23:46Speaker 2: in Atlanta, New Orleans. Does Atlanta put together back-to-back offensive
- 23:50Speaker 2: juggernaut games? How do the Saints look right now? Also,
- 23:54Speaker 2: for Atlanta, it's at New Orleans tonight. Then they host Baltimore.
- 23:59Speaker 2: They host the Bears. They host the Niners. So Atlanta's
- 24:02Speaker 2: got a very, very tough road to hoe here. And
- 24:05Speaker 2: then the Saints, yeah, they're playing Atlanta tonight. They play
- 24:09Speaker 2: Minnesota on Sunday. So there's some losses coming up for
- 24:12Speaker 2: those teams, man, for sure. And Tampa Bay, Mac, they
- 24:16Speaker 2: have coming up, oh, yeah, all losses. I don't need
- 24:19Speaker 2: to go through their schedule.
- 24:39Speaker 3: 704-570-9610. 704 number says, I was at the game. First
- 24:45Speaker 3: one I can remember a long time. When the opponent
- 24:48Speaker 3: took the field, the boos overwhelmed and silenced the cheers.
- 24:52Speaker 3: Panther fans showed up. Another 704 number. Mac, please shout
- 24:58Speaker 3: out the fans. I have no voice this morning. I
- 25:01Speaker 3: have a conference call for work, and I'm going to
- 25:03Speaker 3: be useless, but I'm happy about it. Yeah, we started
- 25:07Speaker 3: the segment by shouting out the fans. Absolutely. Or one
- 25:11Speaker 3: of these segments. I think it was this segment. It's
- 25:12Speaker 3: all running together. It's all one Panther party, baby. I
- 25:14Speaker 3: don't even know what day it is. But, yeah, y'all
- 25:17Speaker 3: were loud. I know I was stout bone and went home. But, like,
- 25:22Speaker 3: you could hear it on TV. It was loud. And
- 25:24Speaker 3: I know some people are saying there was a lot
- 25:26Speaker 3: of Lions fans there. And there were a couple moments
- 25:29Speaker 3: where you're like, oh, the Lions fans made some noise.
- 25:31Speaker 3: But it was nowhere like the Bears game. And primetime
- 25:36Speaker 3: football in Carolina, between that and the playoff game, Holy hell,
- 25:40Speaker 3: Panther Nation rises to the occasion, man.
- 25:42Speaker 2: Texter wants to know if Matt can do a woo
- 25:45Speaker 2: tribute to Charlotte Flair for doing the key pounding drum.
- 25:48Speaker 2: So you're known for your great woos, Matt.
- 25:49Speaker 4: Yeah, right. Y'all just want to laugh at my woo?
- 25:52Speaker 2: Woo!
- 25:55Speaker 4: Why does my voice not make that noise? Woo! There's
- 26:00Speaker 4: something I've done to my vocal cords. I thought you
- 26:02Speaker 4: had a powerful woo. I wouldn't set you up for that.
- 26:05Speaker 3: No, that's not what you wanted at all.
- 26:08Speaker 5: Woo!
- 26:08Speaker 3: Why did my woo get stuck there? I don't know
- 26:11Speaker 3: what that was. That was like a woman. That was
- 26:14Speaker 3: like a man, a construction worker when a woman walks
- 26:17Speaker 3: past the street or something.
- 26:19Speaker 4: I don't know what that was, Bo.
- 26:21Speaker 2: Shitty, what's your best woo?
- 26:23Speaker 3: Woo!
- 26:24Speaker 2: There you go. That's a woo.
- 26:25Speaker 4: There it is. That's a manly woo.
- 26:27Speaker 3: I don't know if it's all my screaming on the
- 26:28Speaker 3: radio bone, but I used to be able to hit
- 26:31Speaker 3: that note.
- 26:32Speaker 4: I can't do that anymore.
- 26:34Speaker 3: I think I've destroyed my voice from all this sports screaming.
- 26:38Speaker 4: You and Bon Jovi both mess up your voices. Yeah, man.
- 26:42Speaker 2: Two greats there.
- 26:43Speaker 4: Two greats.
- 26:45Speaker 3: Two Pump Selly says, Max Woo sounds like Mrs.
- 26:49Speaker 2: Doubtfire.
- 26:50Speaker 4: This dude said, Mac got the weakest woo in America.
- 26:53Speaker 3: I've got a 95-year-old great-grandfather that can woo better than that.
- 26:58Speaker 4: Call the show, baby. We want that. Pulse of Panther Nation.
- 27:01Speaker 3: I need 95-year-old great-grands wooing.
- 27:05Speaker 2: That'll be the second oldest person to call the show
- 27:07Speaker 2: in the last week. Shout out to Granny Patch. She
- 27:10Speaker 2: was up late last night. We've got to go to
- 27:13Speaker 2: Fitty with an update. Fit Dog, man of the hour.
- 27:21Speaker 4: It's all right.
- 27:21Speaker 2: There we go, baby. Be a little Fitty.
- 27:23Speaker 4: A little hometown or a big old city. Might as
- 27:27Speaker 4: well share. Might as well smile. Life goes on for
- 27:31Speaker 4: a little Fitty.
- 27:32Speaker 2: Wow. Thank you, guys.
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- 28:04Speaker 5: Wanting you all to spend a few minutes talking about
- 28:07Speaker 5: the Braves and how they've handled their pitching staff through
- 28:11Speaker 5: the first two games of the NLDS. They got the
- 28:14Speaker 5: split in LA. They came back and won game two
- 28:17Speaker 5: last night. They returned back to Atlanta. Tomorrow, with their
- 28:22Speaker 5: ace Chris Sale on the mound, he'll get the ball
- 28:25Speaker 5: in an all-important game three of a best-of-five series. So
- 28:30Speaker 5: just if y'all want to spend a few minutes talking
- 28:32Speaker 5: about what the Braves did, because I did not watch
- 28:35Speaker 5: a single pitch.
- 28:36Speaker 2: We did talk about it. It's interesting. They took a gamble,
- 28:39Speaker 2: and it paid off in a big way. They went
- 28:41Speaker 2: with the bullpen day again, led by Ray Kerr, and
- 28:45Speaker 2: then your guy John Holmes came in.
- 28:46Speaker 4: Ray Kerr's been money, dude. Not John Holmes. John Holmes.
- 28:50Speaker 2: Completely different. Grant Holmes came in. Grant Holmes came in
- 28:53Speaker 2: with his long, flowing hair, and they got the job done.
- 28:57Speaker 2: But they could have tried Sale last night, although, like
- 29:00Speaker 2: you said, it was very interesting. They couldn't use him, actually,
- 29:05Speaker 2: because they used him out of the bullpen earlier.
- 29:07Speaker 3: And I didn't think it was necessary. Didn't they have
- 29:09Speaker 3: a four-run lead when he went in the game?
- 29:11Speaker 2: Yeah, I got it. Against the Phillies, we're talking. Yeah,
- 29:13Speaker 2: you put him in there for one out, and he
- 29:15Speaker 2: got it, and he brought him back in. You didn't
- 29:17Speaker 2: need to bring him back into that game. You kind
- 29:20Speaker 2: of rode almost the emotion of the moment. You didn't
- 29:22Speaker 2: need to do that. He should have been able to
- 29:24Speaker 2: go last night, honestly.
- 29:25Speaker 3: But, hey, it worked out perfectly for him because their bullpen,
- 29:28Speaker 3: who we've praised all year, has been so amazing all year.
- 29:31Speaker 3: I thought Fuentes was the star. I mean, Kerr deserves
- 29:33Speaker 3: major love for him to have to give you two-plus innings,
- 29:37Speaker 3: three-plus innings, two-plus innings, and back-to-back spots. like he deserves
- 29:41Speaker 3: a shout out bone but fuentes was an absolute daddy
- 29:45Speaker 3: I mean, he was ridiculous getting those 11 straight Dodgers out, man.
- 29:50Speaker 2: He really was. 6 p.m. tonight, or excuse me, Tuesday night,
- 29:53Speaker 2: Wednesday night, for three and four for the Braves in Atlanta.
- 29:57Speaker 2: When we come back on the Mac and Bone Show,
- 29:59Speaker 2: college football conclusions. What stuck out from a busy weekend
- 30:04Speaker 2: of college football? And it's the rare time we say this, Mac.
- 30:08Speaker 2: We have to talk about the absolute chaos that occurred
- 30:11Speaker 2: with the Colorado State coaching staff. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
- 30:52Speaker 6: You know, it's a great experience for our guys. You know,
- 30:55Speaker 6: that's one thing I'll say. They're getting battle tested. And
- 30:59Speaker 6: they know what it feels like, what it looks like,
- 31:01Speaker 6: what it smells like. And, again, I think we grew
- 31:04Speaker 6: in a lot of areas. I know it's weird to
- 31:06Speaker 6: say that when you just, you know, lose a ball game. But, man,
- 31:11Speaker 6: I saw some good stuff out there tonight. I saw
- 31:16Speaker 6: some Clemson football. I saw some toughness. I saw some physicality.
- 31:20Speaker 2: I saw Miami.
- 31:22Speaker 6: There's some things that didn't show up on the stat
- 31:26Speaker 6: sheet that we can build on.
- 31:30Speaker 3: That is Dabo Sweeney after a– let me check my
- 31:33Speaker 3: notes here– 28-point loss to Miami. And Bone brought up
- 31:36Speaker 3: a great point. And listen, there were some good things,
- 31:38Speaker 3: especially Tate Reynolds. I will say that. He was– he
- 31:41Speaker 3: showed some– He showed some toughness, man. He had no
- 31:44Speaker 3: shot back there. Under pressure, the throws he made, taking hits.
- 31:49Speaker 3: There's something there. They couldn't run the ball. I thought
- 31:51Speaker 3: the defense fought for a while there, Bone. So I
- 31:53Speaker 3: kind of understand what he's saying. But my first conclusion, Bone,
- 31:56Speaker 3: of college football conclusions, and we're going to do the
- 31:58Speaker 3: full-on college football pumped or pissed at 9 o'clock. We're
- 32:02Speaker 3: going to continue to go Panther mania for the whole
- 32:04Speaker 3: 8 o'clock hour. But 9 o'clock, we'll start giving more
- 32:07Speaker 3: attaboys to State. We'll start hearing how angry– Gamecock fans are. Clemson, Charlotte,
- 32:14Speaker 3: all that. Gamecock should get first half attaboys. We should
- 32:17Speaker 3: do a whole who gets first half credit.
- 32:20Speaker 4: Well, they had a good practice. Give them an attaboy
- 32:22Speaker 4: for practice.
- 32:23Speaker 3: But anyway, my first conclusion is I don't sense Dabo
- 32:27Speaker 3: and Shane Beamer are helping themselves at the microphone.
- 32:30Speaker 4: Like, you know what I mean?
- 32:31Speaker 3: Like a Dabo when they're winning Dabo's pressers are so great,
- 32:35Speaker 3: but like Clemson fans don't want to hear that after
- 32:37Speaker 3: you lose by 28, because bone made the point in
- 32:40Speaker 3: the first hour, you used to do that to the
- 32:42Speaker 3: opposition in big games. And now it's being done to
- 32:44Speaker 3: you in big games, just like the LSU game. So
- 32:47Speaker 3: spare us Dabo. Even if they're worse, even if I
- 32:50Speaker 3: know in a way what you're saying, I'm not sure
- 32:53Speaker 3: fans wanted to hear that on Saturday night.
- 32:55Speaker 2: Here's 20. I'm not sure I got the right dates. 2015.
- 32:58Speaker 2: to 2019 of what clemson did to miami 58 nothing
- 33:04Speaker 2: 38 3 42 17 40 to 10 they played a
- 33:09Speaker 2: brand with their quarterback their receivers their solid back their
- 33:13Speaker 2: athletes their coach the way he went about things that
- 33:17Speaker 2: is who you used to be you go into someone's
- 33:20Speaker 2: environment you beat the hell out of them not apologize
- 33:23Speaker 2: and go on to the next one teams feared you
- 33:25Speaker 2: getting off the bus there's no fear in clemson.
- 33:27Speaker 3: Dabble also said he thinks we can compete for the
- 33:29Speaker 3: acc title this year as well that's like like that's
- 33:32Speaker 3: the thing yeah i guess miami you say it a
- 33:35Speaker 3: little bit too much there broski like i just i
- 33:38Speaker 3: and and clemson fan t time says i see what
- 33:41Speaker 3: he's saying he like we saw i know what he's
- 33:43Speaker 3: saying too but i'm not sure that's the time bone
- 33:45Speaker 3: right after the game to act like you're excited to
- 33:48Speaker 3: lose by 28 to an elite team.
- 33:51Speaker 2: What do you got over there? Give me a college
- 33:52Speaker 2: football conclusion, Boney. Mag, we've always thought that the Charlotte
- 33:56Speaker 2: 49ers were struggling in afternoon kickoffs, nighttime kickoffs, late night kickoffs.
- 34:02Speaker 2: We thought, well, with the game moved up to 11
- 34:04Speaker 2: in the morning, maybe they can catch Memphis still sleeping
- 34:08Speaker 2: in a little bit. As it turns out, Matt, the
- 34:11Speaker 2: Charlotte 49ers are also not good at kickoffs before noon.
- 34:15Speaker 2: As they lost 59-8. I feel for Charlotte fans, man.
- 34:19Speaker 2: Just a hopeless, helpless situation, whatever term you want to use.
- 34:23Speaker 2: I feel for them. We'll talk about it more in
- 34:24Speaker 2: the 9 o'clock hour in Pumped or Pissed. I mean,
- 34:27Speaker 2: I don't even know if Niners fans, are you still
- 34:29Speaker 2: pissed or are you just numb? Because it's just, I mean,
- 34:32Speaker 2: and more turnovers. And I don't know if you need
- 34:35Speaker 2: to change a quarterback. I'm not sure that's going to help.
- 34:37Speaker 2: But Gonzalez has struggled. And that defense got lit the
- 34:40Speaker 2: heck up for damn near 700 yards left on Saturday.
- 34:44Speaker 3: I've got a conclusion for you, Bone. Dabo thinks they
- 34:47Speaker 3: can contend for this year's ACC title at Little Oak Clemson.
- 34:50Speaker 4: Little Oak Clemson.
- 34:52Speaker 3: I beg to differ, but I'm telling you who can
- 34:55Speaker 3: contend for an ACC title and who has a shot
- 34:58Speaker 3: to be here in Charlotte, and that is Wake Forest.
- 35:01Speaker 4: I am fully convinced.
- 35:01Speaker 3: I've looked at that schedule, Bone, and I'm sorry to
- 35:04Speaker 3: do this, State fans, after you had such an awesome win,
- 35:06Speaker 3: but Wake is better than damn near everybody on this schedule,
- 35:10Speaker 3: and that includes, in my opinion, the Wolfpack. They hung 57.
- 35:13Speaker 3: I don't care if it's Stanford. 57 points, Bone, on
- 35:17Speaker 3: an ACC foe at little old Wake Forest is absolutely remarkable.
- 35:23Speaker 3: The offense is a juggernaut. Their defensive front is relentless.
- 35:27Speaker 3: This Wake team is going to win a lot of
- 35:29Speaker 3: football games. I'm not sure, Bone, it's not a double-digit
- 35:32Speaker 3: win season at Wake, honestly.
- 35:33Speaker 2: That was their second most points.
- 35:35Speaker 4: In ACC history against Stanford.
- 35:38Speaker 2: The other day. It was 57 points, right? The highest
- 35:43Speaker 2: came in 2018 against Stanford. Against Duke, they scored 59-59
- 35:47Speaker 2: against Duke.
- 35:48Speaker 4: There you go. That could be the big show.
- 35:50Speaker 3: Could that be the play-in game for the ACC title
- 35:53Speaker 3: game at the end of the season?
- 35:54Speaker 2: Duke and Wake? With Pittsburgh's quarterback injury, Heinzel, Terriga's ACL.
- 36:01Speaker 2: Pittsburgh was kind of on a path there as well,
- 36:03Speaker 2: but now they've got a quarterback issue there. Matt, Gio
- 36:06Speaker 2: Lopez is not only playing great football, you have to
- 36:08Speaker 2: start wondering about Gio Lopez as an NFL prospect as well.
- 36:11Speaker 2: The way he's playing, his style, I know he's smaller. Yeah,
- 36:14Speaker 2: that I'd be more skeptical of. He's at least going
- 36:16Speaker 2: to get a look. Think about where he was a
- 36:17Speaker 2: year ago. What a bad look that is for the
- 36:22Speaker 2: Belichick staff of what he was a year ago.
- 36:24Speaker 5: And last year he was playing for the 33rd NFL team.
- 36:28Speaker 2: I know.
- 36:28Speaker 4: And now he goes to Wake Forest. He was an
- 36:31Speaker 4: NFL quarterback last year. He's on the 33rd pro team.
- 36:34Speaker 2: Playing himself into ACC player of the year talk already. Yeah,
- 36:38Speaker 2: he's just in the perfect system for him.
- 36:39Speaker 3: Robbie Zell, it's second school now that he's looked like
- 36:42Speaker 3: that in the system.
- 36:42Speaker 2: It's beautiful.
- 36:43Speaker 3: And I'm telling you, man, that kid Hernandez is an
- 36:45Speaker 3: absolute baller. I mean, one of the best wide receivers
- 36:48Speaker 3: in the ACC, man.
- 36:49Speaker 2: Absolutely. Matt, we don't bring up this program a whole lot,
- 36:52Speaker 2: but we have to right now, and that is the
- 36:54Speaker 2: Colorado State Rams. And what happened the other day is
- 36:58Speaker 2: they got blown out by Oregon State.
- 37:00Speaker 4: Jim Moore, Jr.
- 37:01Speaker 2: Matt, removed the defensive play calling duties from his D.C.
- 37:06Speaker 2: Was it Tyler Summers, Matt? Was that his name? Tyler Summers?
- 37:10Speaker 4: I think so.
- 37:11Speaker 2: I believe that was his name there. I want to
- 37:12Speaker 2: make sure I got his name right. I should have
- 37:14Speaker 2: had that in advance. Tyson Summers. Tyson Summers, Mac, was
- 37:20Speaker 2: removed of his defensive play-calling duties during the game. Then
- 37:24Speaker 2: he left during the game.
- 37:26Speaker 4: The D.C.
- 37:27Speaker 2: Got fired and left. We've seen the mores in the past, Mac,
- 37:32Speaker 2: not handle adversity well. This is the newest example of that.
- 37:37Speaker 2: Their head coach is Jim Moore Jr.
- 37:39Speaker 4: if you didn't know.
- 37:40Speaker 3: He said that I told him he's not getting to
- 37:42Speaker 3: call plays anymore, and he said the dude just walked
- 37:44Speaker 3: off the field. And then he, so at that point,
- 37:46Speaker 3: I guess that's, I guess he kind of fired himself
- 37:48Speaker 3: in a way.
- 37:49Speaker 2: I heard that. That is freaking hilarious. I heard Jim
- 37:51Speaker 2: Moore Jr. said, you're not doing diddly poo effectively. That's
- 37:56Speaker 2: a mess.
- 37:57Speaker 4: Playoffs.
- 37:57Speaker 3: By the way, you mentioned Pittsburgh beating Virginia Tech. What
- 38:00Speaker 3: a freaking thriller of a game. I'm going to be
- 38:03Speaker 3: honest with you. I am not sure to this minute
- 38:05Speaker 3: Pittsburgh beat Virginia Tech.
- 38:07Speaker 4: I thought live, I thought it was a made field goal.
- 38:10Speaker 3: I had the same reaction as the kid loved the
- 38:12Speaker 3: kicker when he couldn't believe they said it was no good.
- 38:16Speaker 3: I had the exact same reaction. I thought that went through.
- 38:19Speaker 3: After seeing a bunch of replays, I'm still not sure
- 38:21Speaker 3: it went through. And I'm with Jimbo Fisher. Jimbo Fisher's
- 38:25Speaker 3: big thing for years had been, can we get some lasers?
- 38:28Speaker 3: Can we get some technology bone to where when the
- 38:30Speaker 3: ball goes over the goalpost like it did, you were
- 38:33Speaker 3: able to know, did it go?
- 38:35Speaker 4: He brought up a great point, like goal line technology
- 38:37Speaker 4: in soccer.
- 38:38Speaker 3: Can we not get something to where when it goes
- 38:40Speaker 3: over the goalpost, you know if it was in or
- 38:43Speaker 3: not in?
- 38:44Speaker 4: Because I think they might have got screwed. I got
- 38:45Speaker 4: to be honest with you.
- 38:46Speaker 3: But then again, they turned it over four freaking times,
- 38:48Speaker 3: so maybe they were asking for it.
- 38:50Speaker 2: Poor ACC, by the way. They do a great job, Mac,
- 38:53Speaker 2: of being transparent in the leaders, of being able to
- 38:56Speaker 2: watch the referees do all their calls and whatnot. But
- 38:59Speaker 2: yet the ACC has a situation like this come up
- 39:01Speaker 2: as well. Oh, the poor ACC.
- 39:04Speaker 3: Yeah, there's nothing transparency can help you with there.
- 39:07Speaker 2: The rule is, and I guess it's college football rules,
- 39:09Speaker 2: it's not reviewable. Yeah.
- 39:12Speaker 3: Which again, they got to find a way because the
- 39:14Speaker 3: ball goes over the goalpost a fair amount. They got
- 39:17Speaker 3: to find a way to figure that out. You know,
- 39:20Speaker 3: when we come.
- 39:20Speaker 2: Are you done? I had one more. I have one
- 39:22Speaker 2: more bone. I'm rolling, baby.
- 39:24Speaker 3: I'm going to say a very nice thing about a Buckeye.
- 39:27Speaker 3: Jeremiah Smith is the greatest college. football wide receiver I
- 39:31Speaker 3: have seen in my life, and I'm old as dirt.
- 39:34Speaker 3: I think it is just that simple. He goes off
- 39:37Speaker 3: bone for another double-digit catch, 200-plus-yard game against Iowa.
- 39:41Speaker 4: Who entered the game as the No. 1 defense. I'm
- 39:44Speaker 4: not sure his quarterback is really that good.
- 39:46Speaker 2: I've got to be honest with you.
- 39:47Speaker 3: He is, and y'all feel free to send in names
- 39:50Speaker 3: if you want to, but I don't believe I have
- 39:53Speaker 3: ever seen a better college football wide receiver than that cat.
- 39:57Speaker 4: Absolutely ridiculous, man.
- 39:59Speaker 2: No, hell no. No, he's... Yeah, I don't... I don't
- 40:03Speaker 2: think so. I mean, the only number one wideout is
- 40:07Speaker 2: Keyshawn Johnson. The only wideout to go number one overall
- 40:10Speaker 2: is Keyshawn Johnson, right? And in my memory, I don't
- 40:13Speaker 2: remember Keyshawn being as this time. Heck no. This guy,
- 40:17Speaker 2: Heisman Trophy. Someone says Fitzgerald at Pitt. He was really good,
- 40:20Speaker 2: but I think this dude's better than that. This guy's
- 40:22Speaker 2: at a level that I don't know if there's a
- 40:24Speaker 2: comparison for him right now.
- 40:25Speaker 3: He needs to get to Heisman. I know everybody that
- 40:27Speaker 3: votes is obsessed with quarterbacks. he needs the Heisman. There
- 40:31Speaker 3: is no question he is the best player in college football.
- 40:34Speaker 3: I don't even think it's close at all.
- 40:37Speaker 2: No, it's not. Also, shout out to Virginia. We touted
- 40:42Speaker 2: you when the year began, and now you've completely fallen
- 40:44Speaker 2: off the rails. What has happened to the Virginia Cavaliers, Mac?
- 40:47Speaker 2: Blown out by Florida State after the disappointing game against
- 40:50Speaker 2: West Virginia. I thought Virginia was going to be similar
- 40:53Speaker 2: to last year. It turns out that's one that I....
- 40:58Speaker 4: I missed on there. That was a big win for
- 40:59Speaker 4: Mike Norvell, by the way. Huge.
- 41:01Speaker 3: I'm going to go out on a limb and say,
- 41:03Speaker 3: Wahoo fans, you have trouble with running quarterbacks. I watched
- 41:06Speaker 3: against Michael Hawkins and Ashton Daniels, who scored five touchdowns
- 41:10Speaker 3: on Saturday.
- 41:11Speaker 4: Jeez.
- 41:11Speaker 2: God dang. When we come back, Bryce Young put on
- 41:14Speaker 2: a show on a national stage last night. How do
- 41:18Speaker 2: fans feel about him now? A full Bryce discussion. Sports
- 41:21Speaker 2: Radio 92.7 WFNZ.