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Mac & Bone Hour 2: Victory Formula - Falcons · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:14
  Speaker 1: People will say something about Bone and Mack saying that
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: they're going to win, but remember what happened there in
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: those games last year, the Saints games. Three score galore.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: Those are the real death notes is when Mack and Bone,
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: specifically Bone, says that.
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: So Be on the lookout.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: Hopefully Mac and specifically Bone don't say that three words combined.
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: Just trying to enjoy my Wednesday afternoon, Bone. Waiting in
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: the pickup line for my daughter, Caitlin. Hold on, let
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: me catch that stray that came my way. It's unbelievable.
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: Just waiting in the pickup line, just listening to my
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: boys Smoke and KB. And Smoke has to call out
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: Mack and Bone. His biggest concern this week, not even B.
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: John Robinson. I think he's more concerned about our predictions
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: and especially your prediction, Bone. He is very... He is
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: very worried about a galore situation when you predict the
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: game tomorrow. It was one Saints game last year. I
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  Speaker 2: did not go back to the well on it. How
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: many galores have you done in your career? This is
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: my 22nd football season, right? I've done three scores galore
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  Speaker 2: approximately one time. against New Orleans last year. It feels
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  Speaker 2: like more than that because everybody brings it up all
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: the time. No, but there's locked cities and stuff. But
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  Speaker 2: three scores galore was only that Saints game. And I
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: went to the game and they lost it here. Remember,
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: I was not going to go back to that. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: everyone was so mad. I didn't go back to it
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  Speaker 2: again last year. I did it one time. Everyone freaked out.
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  Speaker 2: You got mad at me. Everyone freaked out. Three scores
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  Speaker 2: galore was never prior to last year. I came up
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: with that on the fly last year. That was never
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  Speaker 2: something I did previous seasons. I've done three scores more
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  Speaker 2: one time, and people are just– it's the most shook
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  Speaker 2: prediction in the history of our radio show. Yeah, I mean,
• 1:59
  Speaker 2: I thought Lock City was bad, and then you went
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: with three score galore. But you know what? And Charlotte
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: will never forget. People keep poking that bear at some point.
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  Speaker 2: At some point, they're going to force my hand here.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to do it out of sheer defiance?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no. Now I know how everybody feels when I
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  Speaker 2: pick the Panthers. I think I went three. I understand now.
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  Speaker 2: I think I went galore last year again, but it
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  Speaker 2: was like three points galore. I think I made fun
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  Speaker 2: of it last year. I would definitely take a three
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  Speaker 2: points galore this weekend, man. Just get out of there
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  Speaker 2: with a dang dub. I'm not saying the Falcons are
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  Speaker 2: any good, but just get out of there with a dub.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I'd like to see them open it
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  Speaker 2: up on them. But the last two games have been
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  Speaker 2: overtime games. And I'm a little shook. I'm a little
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: shook by how the defense looked last week. And just
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  Speaker 2: want to dub you, man. We've got to get a
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  Speaker 2: freaking W. We gave up like eight scores galore last week.
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: Eight damn tutties given up in a single freaking game.
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  Speaker 2: But we got to move on, though. Yeah, we can
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  Speaker 2: reverse galore if you want to. We are on reverse.
• 2:59
  Speaker 2: That sounded weirder than I intended it to. Reverse galore
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  Speaker 2: definitely sounds. It's either a wrestling move or it's either
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  Speaker 2: something very naughty. It's one or the other.
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  Speaker 4: Jerry Jones is interested in both, though.
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  Speaker 2: Jerry Jones got us right there. All right. Now you
• 3:14
  Speaker 2: can see Jim Ross going, by God, by God, he's
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: got him in the reverse galore. Damn it. Oh, Patrick
• 3:21
  Speaker 2: in Huntersville says, just a little shook, Mac. Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just a little shook. I do believe ultimately the defense
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: will bounce back, but I believe the text line bone
• 3:31
  Speaker 2: is hella shook. I believe the padded walls bone have
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  Speaker 2: been installed in a lot of Panther fans' houses. And
• 3:39
  Speaker 2: I get it. And I get it. As far as
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: this game, the point spread has gone. There's been a
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  Speaker 2: big line shift in this game where it opened with
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  Speaker 2: the Falcons as a one and a half point favorite.
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  Speaker 2: And it now is, I think, is it still two
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  Speaker 2: and a half in favor of the Panthers? uh let
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  Speaker 2: me double check here this morning i haven't checked it
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  Speaker 2: as of last night but that line that line move
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: bone that went from like sunday night to like tuesday
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  Speaker 2: by like tuesday afternoon and that line had moved four
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  Speaker 2: points the falcons are choosing between 12 quarterbacks that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: help the line and none of them and none of
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  Speaker 2: them are any good seriously defense don't do it don't
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  Speaker 2: make any of these guys look like you and i
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  Speaker 2: were talking still two and a half two and a
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  Speaker 2: half um you and i uh i saw uh Well,
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  Speaker 2: let's finish this thought first. I have so many thoughts
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  Speaker 2: in my dang head and we've got to get to
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  Speaker 2: the victory formula. How do we ensure that we win
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  Speaker 2: this game and get one that we really have to get?
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  Speaker 2: But we were talking about this bone. The Panthers do
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  Speaker 2: have a history. I don't want to go too deep
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  Speaker 2: in it to make you all depressed of like losing
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  Speaker 2: the quarterbacks where it's like, how did you lose to them?
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  Speaker 2: the Brady Quinn game. And then you said, yes, I
• 4:47
  Speaker 2: forgot all about it. Cooper Rush himself has a dang
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  Speaker 2: win against us. That's two years ago. So anyway, what
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  Speaker 2: do you think, Bone? I guess we have to start
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  Speaker 2: the conversation with Keyon B. John Robinson in the run
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  Speaker 2: game and the pass game and make the Falcons beat
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  Speaker 2: you other ways, right? Like the run defense has to
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: bounce back, has to, you know, hold up at the
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  Speaker 2: point of attack, not get moved. Get-off blocks, gap integrity. Like,
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  Speaker 2: they've got to slow down or contain, I guess is
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  Speaker 2: the word, B. John Robinson. Bone, he also had eight
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  Speaker 2: of their 12 catches last week. Cooper Rush completed four
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  Speaker 2: passes to dudes not named B. John Robinson last week. Like,
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  Speaker 2: it's just, if you take him away... They're not beating you, right? Like,
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  Speaker 2: Drake London's a hell of a receiver. Cooper, Rush, or Penix,
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  Speaker 2: they're not beating us by throwing to Drake London and
• 5:45
  Speaker 2: the receiver. Pitts didn't even have a catch last week. No,
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  Speaker 2: I think in this game, the defense doesn't have to
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: go from atrocious last week to great in one week.
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  Speaker 2: If they did, that's fine. I think in this particular game,
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: because of the Falcons' defense, I think that as long
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: as they make progress and they... They show improvement. I'm
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  Speaker 2: good with that. Mack, with this Falcons depth chart, I
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: don't think we realize, because we've talked a lot about
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: Jalen Walker being out for the year, Pierce being out,
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  Speaker 2: now A.J. Terrell might not play. Mack, this Falcons defense,
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  Speaker 2: you talk about nondescript. My gracious. Up front, Brandon Dorlis,
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  Speaker 2: LaKale London, Mason Smith, and Samson Williams. E-B-U-K-A-M. God bless you.
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: I don't even know how to say his name. He's
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  Speaker 2: the dude who used to be in L.A., right, with
• 6:43
  Speaker 2: the Rams? Yeah. The linebackers, Divine Diablo, Kendall Daniels, Cameron Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: The secondary, Mike Hughes. If it's not A.J. Terrell, it's C.J. Henderson.
• 6:53
  Speaker 2: Billy Bowman. Ooh, C.J. Henderson. Billy Bowman's the nickelback. The
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  Speaker 2: best part of their defense would be Bates and Watts
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  Speaker 2: at safety, but... My God, that front seven, I don't
• 7:02
  Speaker 2: even know how those guys even are right now. Give me,
• 7:05
  Speaker 2: give me. There's no excuse for the offense not to
• 7:07
  Speaker 2: open it up again. Give me C.J. Henderson against Team Acker-Coker, please.
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  Speaker 2: Give it to me. But I will say this. All
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  Speaker 2: that said, Bone, they gave up. The defense against Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 2: last week gave up only 13 points. Because remember, T.J.
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  Speaker 2: Watt had a pick six in that game. And Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 2: only scored 20. the defense bone uh number one in
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  Speaker 2: the league in rush yards allowed and yards per carry
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  Speaker 2: against pittsburgh last week 2.8 yards to carry that might
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  Speaker 2: also tell us a lot about pittsburgh that's what i
• 7:35
  Speaker 2: was gonna ask you think that's more about pittsburgh it's
• 7:37
  Speaker 2: gotta be that pittsburgh offense ain't gonna be good i
• 7:40
  Speaker 2: think that was more about just two non-offensive teams playing
• 7:43
  Speaker 2: uh playing a bad offensive game i i mean look
• 7:46
  Speaker 2: i don't a panthers offense should be much better than
• 7:49
  Speaker 2: pittsburgh it's a good offense it's a good matchup it's
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  Speaker 2: got an old decrepit man at quarterback it's a good
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  Speaker 2: they do it's a good offense bone for it's a
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  Speaker 2: good matchup for the panthers offense and i think you
• 7:59
  Speaker 2: i i think you go out there and put up
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: a 30 burger in this game i mean that's what
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  Speaker 2: that's what i'm looking for in this game we mentioned
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  Speaker 2: bone they scored 30 last year to win it over
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  Speaker 2: time they scored 44 the year before that to win
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  Speaker 2: in overtime. You talk about Deshaun Hand's not playing. He's
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  Speaker 2: not on hand for the game, Bo, at defensive line.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned Terrell could be out. The two edge rushers
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  Speaker 2: are out. They also lost Caden Ellis in the offseason.
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  Speaker 2: He had four and a half sacks last year at linebacker.
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  Speaker 2: I think Darren Gantz said they have three players that
• 8:28
  Speaker 2: are playing right now that had two sacks or more
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  Speaker 2: from the team from last year. That's it. It just
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  Speaker 2: feels like a spot where our offensive line runs. And
• 8:37
  Speaker 2: I want to see the mix. I want to see
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  Speaker 2: us throwing downfield. Bryce was 9 of 15 on passes
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  Speaker 2: of 10 yards or more last week. But I want
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  Speaker 2: to see them run the ball more in the first half.
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  Speaker 2: I want to see them balance it out a little more.
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  Speaker 2: This doesn't have to be a 14 possession game necessarily,
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  Speaker 2: because I think we can run the ball. I love
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  Speaker 2: the way Chuba ran it last week, man. I think
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  Speaker 2: Chuba's back and it's not getting talked about much this week.
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  Speaker 2: And I do tend to agree with you. I think
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  Speaker 2: we will do much more than Pittsburgh did against their defense. Now,
• 9:07
  Speaker 2: they did add a couple of guys. They're working in
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  Speaker 2: there and Gervon Dexter, the trade from the Bears and.
• 9:12
  Speaker 2: Z'Darrius Smith up front. Smith had two sacks last week.
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  Speaker 2: So that's another guy. I need to say that on
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  Speaker 2: the depth chart, he's listed behind some of those guys,
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  Speaker 2: but he is a guy to monitor there. Yeah, Z'Darrius
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  Speaker 2: Smith played 14 pass rush snaps and had two sacks. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so that's a guy to worry about. And he had
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  Speaker 2: both sacks over the right tackle. So Monroe Freeling, that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be you. So I think you have to
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  Speaker 2: contain Zedaria Smith because no one else really got much
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  Speaker 2: of a pass rush. And on offense, Bone, to me,
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  Speaker 2: it's all about B. John Robinson. I feel like if
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: you get them, Lindstrom might not play. If you get
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  Speaker 2: them in... Third and long. I think our defense, I
• 9:54
  Speaker 2: don't think they're going to, they got nobody that's going
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  Speaker 2: to Caleb Williams us. If we get pressure on them,
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  Speaker 2: I think this could be a bounce back. princely game
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  Speaker 2: because if you get pressure on these guys Rush Penix
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: whoever it ends up being they're not pulling any damn
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: Houdini's on you like Caleb Williams obviously Drake London's always
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: a problem but the other two wideouts are Jahan Dotson
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: and Zaccheaus. It's not necessarily, now I know last week
• 10:17
  Speaker 2: we talked about the Bears wideouts and we went to
• 10:19
  Speaker 2: the tight end spot, but as a problem, which he
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  Speaker 2: did nothing. It's not necessarily the depth of weapon. It's Bijan.
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  Speaker 2: Pitts is who he is. It's London, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: exactly the deepest group of playmakers that they've had there
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  Speaker 2: in Atlanta. It's, it's, Bichon is very scary, no doubt,
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: but they don't really have a whole depth of wide
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: outs outside of London. Yeah, this dude says, it could
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: be a dudette. I shouldn't assume. 704 number. Mac acts
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: like all we got to do is just shut down
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: that immensely talented Bichon Robinson just a week after giving
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: up 291 yards. That should be simple. I don't want
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: to make it seem, Bone, like it's simple, but we're
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: doing the victory formula. It's the obvious answer. Just don't
• 11:07
  Speaker 2: let him beat you. Make the quarterback and the receivers
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: beat you. As far as Drake London goes, Bone, Drake London...
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: Last year did have 12 catches in the two games combined.
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: He has 28 in the last four games. His first
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: four games against the Panthers, he only had 11 catches.
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  Speaker 2: But business has picked up for him the last four games.
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: This texter says, how the hell are we not scared
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: about Kyle Pitts with our history with tight ends? How'd
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: that go last week with Loveland, though? They did good
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: on him last. I know Komet had some plays. But
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: Loveland did nothing last week. No, he didn't catch one ball, literally.
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: And even the one that Comet caught, Devin Lloyd's coverage wasn't, like,
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: it was pretty good coverage. It was a great throw
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  Speaker 2: by Caleb. It was a ridiculous throw, man.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think Horn travels this week?
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got to go down to Atlanta, play the game.
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  Speaker 2: Got him. Well, they're definitely going to move him, right,
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  Speaker 2: from outside to the slot. They're definitely, well, you think
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: they don't do the slot thing this week.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder if they make an adjustment back to having Horn.
• 12:21
  Speaker 4: I know that we want JC to travel, and I
• 12:25
  Speaker 4: think we want the idea of our best corner locking
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  Speaker 4: up whoever the best receiver is. But it might be
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  Speaker 4: when they play to their scheme to the fullest.
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  Speaker 2: It's when J.C. is on his side of his field.
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  Speaker 2: They had a boundary. That's the way it's always been
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  Speaker 2: in the past. Kyle Pitts, by the way, get out
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: of here with the Kyle Pitts fear. Two catches last
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  Speaker 2: year in the last game, four in the first, two catches, three, three, two, two.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like he's not been a Panther killer. No,
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  Speaker 2: absolutely not, which you know what that means? After I
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: said that? Don't say it. So he's going to go
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: off for like two bills on us. But anyway, just historically,
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  Speaker 2: he does not do a lot against us. And like
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  Speaker 2: we said, he literally had zero catches last week. They've
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  Speaker 2: got to be able to take care of it. They've
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: got to be able to do some stuff against the
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: middle of this Falcons defense, right, with Diablo. Diablo got torched.
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: I was looking at PFF. Rookie Kendall Daniels is in there.
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: He's a fourth rounder at right linebacker, inside linebacker. And
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: Cameron Thomas. They've got to have some ability to– Send
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: T-Mac across the middle, Coker across the middle, get some
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: tight ends involved. You would think they have the ability
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: here to do some damage against that linebacker. 78 passing
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  Speaker 2: yards on Diablo, according to PFF last week. To your point, Boney,
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  Speaker 2: I will say this, too. You've got to dare Cooper
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: Rush to throw it downfield on you. Cooper Rush was
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: dinking and dunking. He was in a rush to get
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: rid of the football last week. 0 of 1 on
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: deep passes, only two completions of 10 yards or more.
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  Speaker 2: His average distance of target was 4.5 last week. And
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: his quarterback rating was the lowest among. And I feel
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: like Rush is probably the most likely guy to play.
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  Speaker 2: Probably either him or Penix. His quarterback rating was only 51.9.
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  Speaker 2: But here's how many Panther fans are paranoid when I
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  Speaker 2: say all this. Like, do you fear, Bone, that our
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: defense is in such a bad place? that it makes
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: Cooper Rush look good, or is that out of the question?
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  Speaker 2: Is this 100% get right? Remember, the NFL is a
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  Speaker 2: crazy league. A lot of times what happened the week
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: before doesn't always matter the next week. It's a very
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: week-to-week league. So it's also about sometimes teams' motivations, what
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: they're coming off of. It's about the next opponent. It's
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: about the matchup. The Bears, obviously, were just a terrible matchup.
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  Speaker 2: But none of that matters this week. I know it
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: matters in the fans' mindset. But, Mac, how many times
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: do we see in the NFL what you are one
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  Speaker 2: week is not necessarily what you are the next week?
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: It's a very week-to-week volatile league. So yeah, last week sucked,
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: but I don't know if they're automatically just going to
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: give up 250 yards to be John Robinson this week.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: I don't see that happening this week. I know. Panther fans,
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: I understand the paranoia we all have, though. When you
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: start talking about, oh, this guy, look at this chump.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: Then you start getting– you get that Panther paranoia from
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  Speaker 2: history in the past. I would have to think these
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: dudes on defense come out angry this week. Like, if
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: we think we're mad, imagine how they freaking feel. They
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: got literally humiliated. And they also lost a game bone
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: by three scores galore when they scored– when the offense
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: scored 37. Like, again, like– Sometimes I think fans, was
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: it Shaqued that was telling you that he cares more
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: about losses than the players? Is that what you were
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: telling me? Somebody told us that. Shaqued Bartal, noted Panther
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: fan on social media, thinks that he cares more than
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: the team and the front office. It's like a newsflash
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: to fans like that. Like, we're angry? Imagine how they feel, man. Like,
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: this is their life. So I will say this. In
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: the formula, I said run the ball a little more
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: in the first half. They only ran it eight times
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: in the first half last week. Play action passing, too.
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, that old decrepit, what did you call him?
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: An old decrepit man. There you go. He was 8
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: of 10 on play action, 9.8 yards per attempt, and
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: 107 quarterback rating. And what did Brycey do last week? Oh,
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: just posted the number one PFF play action passing grade.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Run the ball, hit him with play action, man. Go
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  Speaker 2: after that secondary. That defense may have a hard time
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: stopping Brooks also if he gets in the open field, right? Definitely.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: You saw last week. Get him on Diablo. Yeah, well,
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: let them try to stop Brooks on that surface. When
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: we come back on the Mac and Bone radio program,
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: a bunch of college football crap and an embarrassing photo
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: of Belichick has gone viral. The Big Ten really did
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: screw Western Michigan up. And Captain Handsome, Manny Diaz, reacts
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: to being named the most attractive coach in all the land.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. We got
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: to turn the page, baby. We got to turn the page,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: get cranked up to beat those dirty birds. Seems like
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: a little bit of nervousness, but it seems like every
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: damn Panther fan believes we should win this game. But
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: should doesn't mean will. People are upset with me. Because
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Smoke said yesterday that he's worried that what I might do.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: I've not said anything other than this is a very–
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: I've not said a word. Smoke got people mad at me.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: I've not even done anything yet. Damn it. That's when
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: you know you've made bad picks before when someone just
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: suggests I might do something with no– with no– Lead up.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: I've not said anything about three scores go or lock
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: city rollout brigade. I have not said a word about that.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I'm being measured here, but don't push me folks. Because
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I'm not the guy you want to mess with. All right,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Stephen A., thank you for that. You don't want to
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: make an enemy out of me. Salesman. You worried about
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: three scores go off, Vinny? We'll go four scores go off. Salesman,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: is this a scheduled tweet, Bone? Is it about toilets
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: in Indonesia or something? No, it's about our curse. There's
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: only one key to victory for the Panthers every week,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Mack and Bone picking the opponent to win.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: I've got really bad news for Salesman. Y'all aren't going
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: to pick them to lose on Sunday.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: You don't know that.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to pick them to lose on Sunday.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: And then they play the Browns next week. You might
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: want to hunker down, salesman. You might want to get
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: the rosary beads out for the next couple weeks.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: The Panthers will be 3-1 at their bye week. They're
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: winning their next three games.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Get them, Finney. Get them, Panther Finney. I ain't ready
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: to go there yet, though. Smoke just clutched his pearls
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: right now. Smoke is having a heart attack right now.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Someone can smoke to the emergency room. All right. Let's
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: let's have a little fun with some college football stuff.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: We'll keep the Panther talk going or we'll get the
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Panther talk going again at 745. We have to talk
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: about the big national narrative bone that defenses got lit
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: up in week one because they just don't work on
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: tackling at all. Hardly if you know, and they don't
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: play in the preseason games. to work on tackling. Is
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: that an excuse for the Panthers, or do we not
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: want to give them that excuse? We'll talk about that
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: coming up at 745. We've been doing this on Thursdays
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: now the last couple weeks. We just kind of Instead
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: of random crap, let's just do some college football crap.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Let's just throw all these little odds and ends stories
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: out there and have a little fun with them. And
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: let's start with two different type of stories, Bone, that
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: have gone viral involving the Carolina and Duke head coaches.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: And I just simply want to about their appearances. And
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: I just simply want to say advantage Blue Devils. Bone,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: the Bill Belichick photo. uh has gone viral it is
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: him talking to jones angel jones will be on the
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: show at nine o'clock i don't think i can bring
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: myself to bring this up to jones but bill belichick's
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: wearing a unc football sweatshirt and i don't know if
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: it's like an optical illusion or is this a real
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: thing but this happened last year too in the same
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: type of sweatshirt did it so it's a certain sort
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: of clothing yeah that is not flattering no it looks
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: like he has for lack of a better better term
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: here y'all Looks like he has big old boobs. I mean,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know how to. Well, that's the that's the
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: clinical term for it. I would have said he's a
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: large chested individual. OK, that's a good way to put it.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: And he got clowned so bad on social media. I mean,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: the texts were funny as hell. I can't admit it.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: It is something. It takes a lot. It takes a
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: lot for someone to get more attention for that than
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Sidney Sweeney does. But I feel, I feel like those
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: are the two right now that are mostly to that
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: particular thing. Oh God. If Bill takes his top off
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: and does a, you know, he sports betting ad. I mean,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: people are going to lose their minds just like they
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: did on Sydney. Yeah. Oh my goodness. It's, it's a way,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: but he doesn't always look like that 50. So is
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: it certain outfits? What is going on here, man? What's happening?
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Did he, did he have an enhancement done in the
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: off season? I, I'm confused.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: I want to think, Mac, that it's the sweatshirt that
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: he is wearing, and maybe he's got another shirt underneath
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: that's just maybe compressing it against his chest. I'm going
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: to tell you right now. If that's what he has
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: to look like for us to win football games.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't care. I hope he goes up a
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: cup size every week. Up a cup size.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, I do not give a damn. Look at
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: Andy Reid. He's nothing to want to look at in Marvel.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: He's one of the best coaches in football. Ultimately, it
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter. Canales is like George Clooney handsome. That didn't
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: help us last week. Can we talk about the other
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: side of this and Manny Diaz and what he said yesterday?
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Abone loves this. This is such an advantage, Duke, in
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: the rivalry. If we were ever wanting to gauge the
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: attractiveness of coaches in the rivalry, it was a bad
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: juxtaposition for Bill Belichick because his counterpart– counterpart his counter
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: husky part bone uh manny diaz was being named um
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: in a uh in this in this poll i guess
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: it wasn't a poll i guess it was like a
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: study being done based on all these facial uh features
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: scientific scientific study facial science but uh manny diaz was
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: named the number one most attractive coach in america and
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: they ranked like all 138 of them Poor Tim Albin
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: was 137 out of 138. I feel bad for you, Timmy.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Number two was Kurt Cignetti, and number three was Dabo Sweeney.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Dabo talked about it the other day. Well, yesterday, Manny
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Diaz was asked about it, and it was funny.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: I ended up on a text thread with Dabo and Cignetti.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: My response to that is that a week ago when
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: somebody quit an AI company and said that AI is
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: going to kill us all soon, These are the first signs, right?
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: This is how the computer, this is how the machines
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: distract us for their eventual takeover. So don't say that
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: we weren't warned if we're making lists of attractive college
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: football coaches.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: This is literally like the first strike against humanity. He's
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: being too humble. He is too humble. You got great hair, Coach.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Let's be honest. The hair alone should get you up
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: near the top. By the way, I saw, Mac, one
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: of the Florida State insider sites yesterday putting out their
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: list of coaches that they want in case Norvell or
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: when Norvell gets run out of there. Florida State, stay away,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: all right? They're eyeing up Manny Diaz.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Uh-oh.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Uh-oh, Bozy. Manny Diaz is coming up a lot already.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Stop it right now. Duke fans can't like that. It's
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: going to be interesting, Mac, with Manny Diaz being serious.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Manny Diaz and Jake Dickert. you get the sense that
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: as we go forward, their names are going to come
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: up quite a bit. Definitely could be wanted, Ben. No
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: doubt about it. And what did I want to say?
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Florida State. Oh, that reminded me of another college football
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: crap story coming from Tallahassee. So there was a very
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: large truck outside Norvell's house in Tallahassee. There's probably spies
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: out there just watching the house constantly, Bone, the way
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: they are watching this dude like a hawk nowadays. And
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: people thought it was a moving truck. So this big
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: rumor started online that Norvell's moving. The Norvell family's already
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: started their move. He must be getting fired soon. So
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: one reporter asked Norvell about it in the presser. Literally says, hey,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: there's been a lot of talk online that there might
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: be a moving truck outside your house. Is that what
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: that was? And he says, well, that's kind of scary.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: That's what's being talked about online. But he said it
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: was a delivery truck of furniture for his daughter. Yeah.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: So anyway, sorry to disappoint Florida State fans. So they
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: were removing stuff. They were adding more furniture. Yes, you're right.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: A complete opposite of moving and taking stuff out of town.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: You know, Mac, you're on the college football hot seat
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: when moving truck monitoring is going on. And then that
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: moves over to the flight tracking, right? That'll be next. Oh,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: college football fans are the best. Like the LSU stuff
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: that's going on. Um, uh, so Prince Lee, uh, or
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: no Prince will Prince Lee's here. His brother, Prince will
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: who mind me? Ellen's just a stud five sacks already
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: in two games off the edge. And, um, he, uh,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: he is one of two players bone that is getting
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: sued by Ole Miss for breach of contract. When they
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: went from Ole Miss to join lane in LSU. I
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: don't think it's any coincidence bone that Prince will got
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: served outside the LSU football facility this week. No doubt.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: When it's Ole Miss LSU week, right? Oh, what are
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: the odds of that happening?
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: It doesn't.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Nothing's a coincidence. Like you said, is Sam Leavitt all
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: of a sudden popping up as doubtful in the injury
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: report out of nowhere? Coincidence? Or is this just gamesmanship?
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Did you hear what Governor Landry, the politicians in Louisiana,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: are just like, I'm not sure they care about any
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: damn thing other than football, other than go Tigers. Go Tigers.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: There you go. Thanks, Eddie O. Got it. Governor Landry
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: said they made a mistake. He said they could have
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: saved some money at Ole Miss and just waited until
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Prince Will got there on Saturday. He'll be easy to find.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: He'll be in your backfield all night. I just love
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: college football. Like, this stuff's just crazy. This stuff's just
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: so amusing, man. I mean, people monitoring Norvell's house, politicians
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: taking shots at the rival. It's just college football. It's
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: just great, man. That scene on Saturday is going to be...
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: No matter what happens, either you're going to get Kiffin
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: being smug on the field if security's around him, I guess,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: and he's doing an interview if they win, or you're
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: going to have Ole Miss fans just acting an absolute fool.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: It's going to be... A spectacle. That's the word. Maybe
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: a spectacle that we often haven't seen of this much hostility.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: That's the word right there, spectacle. I wanted to mention
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: something interesting real quick here. It doesn't involve upper body
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: parts of male coaches or alleged moving trucks, but it's interesting.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: The Athletic Bone did a piece where they used their
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: sources to estimate what the roster budgets are for teams
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: in Power 4 conferences. And the top is Ohio State,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: $ 49 to $ 54 million is the range they're putting the
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: roster in. Oregon... Money maybe not well spent. $ 48 to
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: $ 54 million. So they're second. And they have not looked
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: worth it the first two weeks. All that money in
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: the Oklahoma State coach comes out, Eric Morris, and talks
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: about Dante Moore tipping his plays at the line of
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: scrimmage publicly. that they knew what he was doing based
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: off of his... Because two of their linebackers noticed it
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: in film study. Yeah, I saw the whole thing. I
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: didn't mean to interrupt you, but... No, no, it's a
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: good one, because that's a good one for this segment, too.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Dante Moore, when it is a.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: It's one way or the other, either run play or
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: pass play. He either is straight in the shotgun, two
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: feet or even, or there's one foot ahead of the other.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: And it completely tipped them off on what's a run
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: or a pass. Here's my question. How have the Oregon
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: coaches never noticed this? Seriously. Doesn't matter how much your
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: roster's worth, to your point, Bone. If your coaches can't
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: figure out, your star quarterback has a tell like that.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Unreal.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Texas with third, LSU, Texas A & M, that's the
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: top five. Miami, Notre Dame, six and seven in terms
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: of the projected roster spending. So now let's get to
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: some local schools, Bone. South Carolina is the highest of
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: the teams in the Carolinas, 32 to 35 million. Clemson fans,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: one of you was crying poor with me last week,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: saying something that y'all have $ 20 million to build a roster.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: The Athletics has 29 to 32 million. Little old Clemson.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: And that would still put them, Bone, the second most
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: in the ACC. But most of that money is trying
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: to fix the rest of y'all bust that broke down
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: last week. So that's my point. Yeah, Clemson doesn't have
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: what Miami has. Clemson doesn't have what the SEC schools have.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: But could you not lose by like 40 something when
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: you play the sec could you compete in the acc
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: you know that's my point waste winning games and they
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: have like 55 dollars to spend we'll get to them
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: in a second it's wake and duke the coaches you
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: mentioned earlier look even better when you read this off
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: nc state 22 to 26 million north carolina 20 to
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: 25 million Projected roster. Oh, my God, I'm scrolling, Bone.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Wake Forest, $ 16 to $ 20 million. I actually didn't think
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: it would be that high. And Duke, Bone, how about this?
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Duke has, according to The Athletic, the second lowest money
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: spent on their roster. BC is the only one lower
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: in the Power Four. Duke is $ 12 to $ 15 million.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: And they won the damn league last year. And they
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: won nine games each of the last two years. And
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: it looks like they're trending towards that again. By the way, Matt,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: the Duke basketball program spends no money. All the players
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: play for the love of the game and do basketball.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: It's all about hashtag brotherhood, baby. So anyway, I thought
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: that's interesting there. And I guess what happened, Bowen, the
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: sanctioning body, the national sanctioning body that Western Michigan appealed
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: to and said we should literally get a win for
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: this game. Surprise, surprise. They said there's nothing we can
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: do about it, but the Big Ten followed the wrong procedure.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: You should have won the game.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Thank you. That does a lot. That does so much
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: for us. It's like the last two-minute report in the
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: NBA telling you you got screwed. What do I get
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: for that, a cookie? Mac, you've got to text the
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: three Syracuse fans. I want to know where they're at
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: during the break here. You can bring them that news here.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Syracuse fans, y'all got a game tonight, baby, but I
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: can't imagine you spent much money on this roster. Yeah,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: I'll look it up. I'll look it up. When we
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: come back, many defenses got lit up in the NFL
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: in week one. Many experts think it's because of the
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: lack of tackling in the preseason. Is that a valid
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: excuse for the Panthers' defensive performance in Game 1? Sports Radio,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: 92.7 WFNZ.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: I don't want to use the word comedy of errors.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: It just wasn't good. It wasn't good enough. This scheme
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: is very difficult to play against, but the communication has
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: to be there. Everybody's got to be on the same page.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: I think I read something where Bobby Brown even talked
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: about it. Listen, we got to play better. And Everill
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: did take ownership, I think, in the meetings from what
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: he said that, hey, I could put you on better spots.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: But Bobby said, we've got to create havoc up front, too,
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: as a defensive line. So I think everybody's kind of
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: pointing at themselves, which is what we're supposed to do.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: It's embarrassing. I mean, they're in fact, you're a professional.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: That hurts. There's no doubt. You'll see a better performance.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: But certainly 59 points is not the way you want
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: to start. I don't think we anticipated that. by any
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: stretch of the imagination. So hopefully this is a one-week
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: type of deal and we can get it back on
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: the right track.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: No doubt.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Right now, I mean, listen, offensively, I think that's where
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: we're going to have to carry it until we kind
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: of get going on defense.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: All right, there he goes, Jake DeLome with KB this
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: week talking about what went on on the defense. We've
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: got to talk through this, Bone, because there is this
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: narrative that out there nationally that the defense has struggled
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: so much. Most points scored in NFL history, I think
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: it was actually tied for week one, including some really
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: good defenses. They didn't pull a full 59-pointer, but Houston's
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: vaunted defense giving up 36, 30-plus points to the Chiefs,
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: to the Denver vaunted defense as well. And the theory
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: that I first heard from Mike Tomlin Sunday night was,
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: And Tony Dungy reiterated it on Twitter and many other
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: football people have reiterated it is the reason why the defense,
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: because in the past, Buckner said that with us this week.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: He says, Matt, I've never seen defenses behind the offense
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: like this. Right. Usually it's offenses or usually it's defenses
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: ahead of the offenses. And he thought for the Panthers,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: it was a content. It was like a continuity communication thing.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: We have a lot of different parts, some different players,
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: and he thought that was the biggest thing. But a
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: lot of people, Bone, are basically absolving all the defenses
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: and saying, hey, guys cannot work on tackling in camp anymore.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: They just don't do it. And then your starters on
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: defense barely play in the preseason. So they barely get
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: any real physical football, you know, and physical tackling. How
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: much do you think, and I'm asking everybody out there
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: that's a Panther fan, when you guys hear this, and
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: I know I heard KB talking about it, I know
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Wes Walker, I know everybody's been talking about it locally
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: and nationally. And Kyle was talking about it yesterday, too.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: How much do you think, Bone, you know what? That
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: could really be what happened to the Panthers. And how
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: much of it do you think? I don't really want to.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: I don't think that excuse applies to the Panthers defense.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: I think it's valid across the league. I think it's
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: partly that. I think it's matchup based, especially when you
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: get to week one and who you're playing. And if
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: you're not used to tackling or the intensity of the season,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: certainly it's going to take a hit. I also look
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: at a number of the high scoring teams this week.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Kansas City scored 31 against Denver. Well, they got the
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: enemy back. Mahomes and the enemy. I know the enemy
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: has been gone, but there's continuity there. You look at
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: the Bears, Cable Williams, Ben Johnson. They're not new to
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: each other anymore. Josh Allen, Joe Brady. They're not new
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: to each other anymore. A lot of the high scoring
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: teams back. It's the starting quarterback paired with the guy
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: he's been with for a while or at least a
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: reasonable amount of time. They rolled in there like it
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: was old, old habits. When you look at the Panthers' defense,
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: it's week one. They're facing Cable Williams and Ben Johnson,
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: who now know each other very well. And the Panthers'
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: defense is trying to figure each other out, like Buck
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: talked about this week. It takes a while to get
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: used to. Even the good players like Devin Lloyd, he's
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: got to call out the defenses now and get used
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: to it. So I think it's partly the tackling, partly matchup-based,
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: and I think it's also partly continuity of getting used
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: to each other when you're facing an offense that knows
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: each other very well. I will say this. Denver is
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: a defense that didn't tackle. Denver missed 24 tackles, according
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: to PFF. There's another site that had them with 28
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: missed tackles. They could not tackle Walker. I don't think
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: that was near the biggest problem for the Panthers. Dave
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Cannell said the same way. I love a good Panthers excuse.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Y'all know me. I love myself a good Panthers excuse.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: I use many, and I can use many about this game.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: I can bring up Pat Jones and Skorton not being there.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: I can bring that up. I thought those were big misses.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: I think playing Will Lee might have been a little
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: premature by Ajiro Avero in hindsight and playing him as
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: much as they did. But the Panthers missed 11 tackles.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: That's not a great number, but that's not a horrible number. Um,
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: to me, and this texter says tackling, we couldn't even
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: touch Caleb Williams, much less tackle. You have to be
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: honest with you, bone. It was too much where we
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: weren't touching dudes. The lack of contain on Caleb Williams
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: was atrocious. It was just terrible over and over again.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: And in the running game, yeah, there were some missed tackles.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: The one that comes to mind is Swift for 28
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: yards in the first half. There was also some no
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: tackles at all. When Lloyd and Lee missed the tackle
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: on him. But a lot of the runs, Bone, to me,
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: that went for big yards. To what you're saying there,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: we didn't even get enough contact on a guy to
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: be registered as a missed tackle. We were getting moved.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, again, I hate to keep picking on poor
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Prince Lee, but on the 61-yard run, watch the way
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: he gets moved by that zone blocking scheme. got completely
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: shoved to the side and second level, everybody's blocked. No
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: one's getting off blocks. So I just feel like, and
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: I know Jake Delone, we played that clip. He was
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: big on like, they weren't gap sound. Um, Dave canal. Yeah.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Dave can Alice himself said, no, this wasn't a tackling issue.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: You know, this was our assignments. This was being gap
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: sound front fits and stuff like that. So I don't know.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: I don't think that that excuse applies as much to
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: the Panthers. Um, This is the maddest I've seen the
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: text line since yesterday at the 7 o'clock hour. 7
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: o'clockers get angry, man. What are they saying? It's just
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: not an excuse. That's basically the gist of it all.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: They're going after Rivero. It's the same. I'm just rehashing
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: the same stuff here. I thought we were on to Atlanta.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Someone says, what do Buck and Jake know about football? Well,
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: I think they know more than you do, sir. We apparently, Mac,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: have a lot of Zach Thomas tackling machines on the
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: text line right now. A bunch of form tacklers, baby.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: I guess I could have said the loop, but Gator
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Rube was talking about the Dolphins, so that's why. Yeah,
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: this texter says, you've got to be kidding me, Mac.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: There's making excuses, and then there's making ridiculous excuses. They
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: gave up 59 points. There's no excuse for that. Yeah,
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: that's the thing, too. Even if you want to say, okay,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: I'm lumping the Panthers into the teams that, you know,
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Had trouble tackling because they just don't do it in
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: camp anymore. And it'll get better. Although they don't really
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: do it in practice. They don't really practice tackling hardly
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: at all anymore. But anyway, if you want to believe that, okay,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: what does it bring it down? 59 to 42, 59
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: to 45. Like their number is so high. Like somebody
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: else says, Mac, are you really comparing 59 points to
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: giving up 36 and 31? That is laughable. I'm just
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: talking about the struggles around the league. We were in
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: our own stratosphere. We were in our own damn area
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: code of defensive suckitude. So I'm not even, you know,
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: I'm not trying to like say we were like them
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: and I'm not making the tackling excuse for them. Somebody
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: else brings up Cam Jackson needs to play this week.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: That's another Avero you know, playing time decision like the
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: will Lee one where I'm wondering, will they revisit it?
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Now I will say, I thought Bobby Brown was pretty good,
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: but unfortunately Bobby Brown's got that back injury. We won't
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: know if he can play this week. I thought Lee
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Hunter was pretty good too. There was a video compilation
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: bone of Lee Hunter. I don't know if you saw it.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: And we talked about him on Monday. That was a
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: great debut for him, but obviously there wasn't a lot
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: of other highlights. Can I say something, Matt, that might
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: anger people because it may come across as an excuse?
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: This was a tie game at one point, right? At 31,
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: and then it got away from them. Is it possible,
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: and I'm not saying this is good because the Bears
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: were out there too, but the style of the Bears' offense,
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: it was a lot of not containing players. Caleb Williams,
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: it was a lot of runs. It was a lot
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: of chasing by the Panthers' defense, right? How worn down
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: did they get because it was week one also by
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: the end of the game? Because, yeah, the defense wasn't
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: good early, but it got away from it. It was
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: a tie game, and then they ended up giving up
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: 59 points. I do wonder how worn down did they
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: get also, which led to the 59, because they were
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: having to chase Caleb Williams all over the football field also.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: I know it comes across as an excuse, but it
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: seemed like it really got a whole lot worse as
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: it went along there. Oh, yeah. Well, you started seeing them.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: First of all, they won time possession by almost 10
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: minutes in a game with 90 plus degree heat. So
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: I think the team that was going to possess it,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: the team is going to run it more, was probably
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: going to have a good chance of wearing down their opponent.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: KB and I were talking about that in the pregame
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: and look at after the game was tied 31-31. They
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: ran the ball 18 times for 163 yards. They just said,
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: they basically said, we are going to come right at you.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: We are going to pound it at you. We are
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: going to wear you down. And they did. But again,
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: that's why I want to see more running. I would
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: have liked, the offense was amazing. Bryce was amazing. Idzik,
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: great start for him. But I would like to see
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: more than just eight runs in the first half of
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: a game like that. You know what I mean? Someone says,
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: how can they be worn down in week one? Do
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: we not see guys get cramps all the time in
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: week one? Do we not see... Bro, it was like
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: 95 degrees, huh? I see fans get tired at the doghouse. Bro,
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: you probably were in the beer line. You know... You
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: probably need an oxygen mask coming back from the beer line.
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: Now, Matt, you can't say that.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: This guy probably got winded on his 10 chicken wings. Oh,
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: I can say that, Finney, because I'm a 52-year-old unk
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: that gets winded walking up the stairs. So I know
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: the type of cats that are sports fans that are
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: texting in. Are you seriously asking how the hell in
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: that weather? They got worn out? Are you kidding me?
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: How do you get worn out in week one? When
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: do you think you're going to get the most heated?
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: Probably when it's the hottest out there. Yeah, big time.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: This isn't scientific stuff here, Bill Nye. Now, the thing
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: that sucks is that we are the ones that play
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: in that humidity, right? Practice in that humidity. And we
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: could not wear them down. As much as we wore that,
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: you know, as they wore that, whatever the hell I'm saying.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know, man. Multiple people saying, when are we
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: moving on to the Atlantic game? We did earlier this hour.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: We did earlier this hour, and I dragged us back in.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: That's on me, y'all. That's my bad. My hand's up.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: That's my foul. This has been one of the toughest
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: move-on weeks we've had. We've had a lot of those.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: When we come back, more people seem to be wondering
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: if Jalen Coker is as good or better than T-Mac.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: Who do Panther fans think our number one wideout is?
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: Moving forward, Coker versus T-Mac, Sports Radio, 92.7.