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Mac & Bone Hour 1: Hornets Preseason Opener & Panthers Roster Moves · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: What's up, party people? Bueno, como estas?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, oh, it's Mike and Bo.
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  Speaker 3: This is my friend, Matt.
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  Speaker 2: It's a beautiful work Wednesday, everybody. This is my friend, T-Bone.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost like no matter what we do, we're just
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  Speaker 1: considered losers.
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  Speaker 4: You guys are the best.
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  Speaker 1: Pony, pony, pony, pony. You're the best. I love those guys.
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  Speaker 1: And this is Little 5'7, 200-pound, innocuous commenting loser ends
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  Speaker 1: up ruining my mood.
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  Speaker 5: All right, one time for the one time.
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  Speaker 6: You're listening to the Mack and Bo Show on Mack
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  Speaker 6: and Bo Radio.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, baby.
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  Speaker 2: It is Mack and Bo Radio Showtime, kids.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome aboard.
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  Speaker 2: We're ready to do this thing, ready to Wednesday it up.
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  Speaker 2: as best we can. And we appreciate y'all being here
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  Speaker 2: for it. We got ourselves Panthers conversations to have. Bryce
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: Mania continues to sweep the nation. We got some Panther
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  Speaker 2: roster moves being done. We got a cornerback, new cornerback
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  Speaker 2: added to the fold. We will discuss that here on
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  Speaker 2: the Mac and Bone show. We've got the Braves losing
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  Speaker 2: the sale Yamamoto pitchers duel and their life is on
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  Speaker 2: the line tonight in game four against the Dodgers. We
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  Speaker 2: had the Hornets getting the preseason going. We've got Charles
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  Speaker 2: Lee talking about the Kobe injury. We got reports of
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  Speaker 2: a possible Brandon Miller contract here at some point in
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  Speaker 2: the near future. So we got things to talk about,
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  Speaker 2: college football conversations to have. We got things popping here
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  Speaker 2: today on the Mac and Bone Show. And Fitty gets
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  Speaker 2: ready to head out to ACC tip-off to represent WFNZ.
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  Speaker 2: And the man has gone hatless, and that is a beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Bald Dome right there, baby. What's up, Bone Man? What's happening?
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. There's no better man to represent all of
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  Speaker 1: us than Fiddy Yacht Public. Look at that shaved dome, baby.
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  Speaker 1: This is a man that is... He's living right now.
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  Speaker 1: He's out at ACC Media Days. He's... You know, there's
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  Speaker 1: a pending marriage here at some point. He was with
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  Speaker 1: the girlfriend's friend group last night, hanging out, eating Viva
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  Speaker 1: chicken for hours. This man is... He's living. Yeah. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about you. I love... Fitty, I love
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  Speaker 1: the no hat, dude. Like, that's... Matt's a no hat guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's encouraged me before to not wear hats. Well, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's ironic because I wear hats every day of my life.
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  Speaker 1: It's your thing. It's what you like in a man.
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  Speaker 1: But as far as Fitty goes, that's just... Oh, my God, Fiddy.
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  Speaker 2: That's how I want the station represented right there.
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  Speaker 1: That's how I want it represented, baby. Him going home
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  Speaker 1: was a great move. It was. He got rid of
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  Speaker 1: the cul-de-sac. He just went barren neighborhood. Mac, I've also
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  Speaker 1: got my own update because we are going to be
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  Speaker 1: at our fine sponsor, Harrah's Resort Casino, next Friday. A
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  Speaker 1: live show in the morning. We're going to head up
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday. I'm sure we'll talk about it more next week.
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  Speaker 1: But Tara's going to be with me there. girlfriend Tara,
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  Speaker 1: and also they're trying to figure out, they're working on
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  Speaker 1: it here. It may not just be the two of us.
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  Speaker 1: It could be myself, Tara, and Big Murph could be
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  Speaker 1: headed to Aaron's Resort Casino. Oh, no. Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: Harris Cherokee Casino Resort, by the way, is our Uptown
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  Speaker 2: Studio sponsor until next Friday. I have a feeling Murphy
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  Speaker 2: may destroy a room and a hotel so badly, Bone.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, imagine him just getting loose in the casino
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  Speaker 2: eating chips off the tables. I mean, imagine him chewing
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  Speaker 2: up a table. I just I feel like there's going
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  Speaker 2: to be some apologies to Harris coming next week.
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  Speaker 1: Tara's at Harris sounds like a bit. Tara will be there.
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  Speaker 1: She he behaves more when she's around. That's a good
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  Speaker 1: mom's around. This guy kind of guy kind of tightens
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  Speaker 1: up a little bit. I will say, though, Tara did not.
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  Speaker 1: She's looking forward to meeting you. She's seen you before,
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  Speaker 1: but she's looking to be in there getting away for
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  Speaker 1: a few days. I did not tell her back till
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  Speaker 1: right now that Murphy might be going on the and
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  Speaker 1: you'll be stuck in the room with him. Not only
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  Speaker 1: is Murphy going, but yeah. I strategically said, you know what?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell her until she listens. It's
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  Speaker 1: a pet-friendly hotel. They're trying to figure it out here. Matt,
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  Speaker 1: would you be excited if Big Murph represented the station?
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  Speaker 1: I want chaos. Yes, I want chaos.
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  Speaker 2: I'm upset Fitty's bald head will not be there because
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  Speaker 2: obviously I'm very excited about that this morning.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, I want chaos. I'll be there with you
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  Speaker 1: next week. Oh, you're coming?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's everybody, man. Oh, really? I thought you had
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  Speaker 1: to stay back and run the board.
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  Speaker 3: No, we've got some depth here. We got some people
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  Speaker 3: behind me.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: The main reason why I have to go, per management,
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  Speaker 3: they think I need to drive you.
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  Speaker 1: Get out of here with that. Get the heck out
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  Speaker 1: of here with that. I was looking forward to driving
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  Speaker 1: by myself.
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  Speaker 7: Damn.
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  Speaker 1: Crap, this sucks. Oh, so you're saying that you weren't
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  Speaker 1: going to ask me to give you a lift?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you were here running the board. The plan
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  Speaker 1: is for me to go as of this moment.
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  Speaker 2: I thought I was going to have a clear mind,
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  Speaker 2: a three-hour ride by myself with my thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need that. Oh, God, I got the gas lighter.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be on the side of the road while Murphy's— Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you can drive yourself. I was just going to offer
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  Speaker 1: to drive you. Okay, maybe I'll do it. We'll work
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  Speaker 1: it out. How about we— How about we work on
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  Speaker 1: Sports City right now, kids? Why don't you drive me, Tara,
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  Speaker 1: and Big Murph up there to the back? There you go.
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  Speaker 1: You drive that crew. Drive that crew.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's sports it up, y'all. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 2: what happened last night in the world of sports. The
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  Speaker 2: Hornets opened their preseason bone, and it was very preseason-y
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  Speaker 2: in the second half. The Hornets had some very deep
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  Speaker 2: depth in the game in the second half, and the
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  Speaker 2: Nets absolutely won. obliterated them in that second half. How
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  Speaker 2: did you feel bone? You, you got your first pregame
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  Speaker 2: show in for the preseason opener. How did you feel bone?
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  Speaker 2: I will say this Grayson Allen and Nas Reed gave
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  Speaker 2: us a nice little taste, taste bone of what I
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  Speaker 2: think those two gentlemen can do, including running some offense
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  Speaker 2: through Nas Reed in the post and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: But what did you, how did you feel? With the
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  Speaker 2: Hornets back on the court, albeit in a meaningless game.
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  Speaker 2: It was cool to see them on TV64, what the
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  Speaker 2: new setup is going to be. Not that it's dramatically
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  Speaker 2: different looking, but it's just cool to have it on
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  Speaker 2: over-the-air TV. It's cool, Mac, to see the Hornets actually
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  Speaker 2: on YouTube TV. So I can multi-view last night the Braves, Dodgers,
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  Speaker 2: and the Hornets as they got deeper in the game.
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  Speaker 2: So that was pretty cool to see last night. One
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  Speaker 2: of the themes, Mac, of the pregame show last night
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  Speaker 2: is when you don't have– Guys that you want to
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  Speaker 2: see playing, Khan and Brandon and Kobe White and Grant
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  Speaker 2: Williams and rookie Christian Anderson. But to still have that
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  Speaker 2: many guys out there that you want to see, that
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  Speaker 2: have value to discussion, that shows you the depth of
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  Speaker 2: the team, of how many storylines there are. So, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: I think that the depth was on display. One guy, Matt,
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  Speaker 2: that I'm very— Was the depth on display, Bone, when
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  Speaker 2: Jarkel Joyner— and pj hall and tijan salon and wyatt
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  Speaker 2: fricks were in the game in the second half getting
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  Speaker 2: run by.
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  Speaker 1: Uh i'm a big i feel like wyatt fricks might
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  Speaker 1: be one of walker's new guys that he touts here
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  Speaker 1: all in the way it feels like that could be
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  Speaker 1: so sure um one guy matt that i'm really curious
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  Speaker 1: and we were talking about him last night where does
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  Speaker 1: we talked a lot about tijan and how he fits
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  Speaker 1: in where does liam mcneely fall in the rotation he
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  Speaker 1: had a great Vegas Summer League. He is a talented dude, man.
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  Speaker 1: He's worked on his body. He was a guy that
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be a lottery pickle on the way,
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  Speaker 1: fell a little bit due to injuries. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of depth here. I don't know where he
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  Speaker 1: fits in, but I'm fascinated to see, does he work
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  Speaker 1: his way into the rotation? Kind of a forgotten man, right,
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  Speaker 1: with all these moves that have been made.
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  Speaker 2: He is interesting, and they started him at the three
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  Speaker 2: with Brandon sitting out, even though Brandon seems good to go.
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  Speaker 2: They sat him out last night, and Liam McNeely did
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  Speaker 2: some really good things. The third quarter, he had 14.
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  Speaker 1: Points, Bone. They kind of took.
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  Speaker 2: The experienced guys out, Schroeder, Grayson Allen, and Nas Reed
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  Speaker 2: did not play in the second half. So Liam McNeely
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  Speaker 2: was kind of the go-to guy of that group in
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  Speaker 2: the third quarter.
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  Speaker 1: He put up 14.
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  Speaker 2: He had four threes, but he also had six turnovers.
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  Speaker 2: And I continue to feel, I don't know where he
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  Speaker 2: fits in rotation. I do know this. We already have injuries,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll have injuries. So you may map out your
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  Speaker 2: best 10 man rotation, best 11.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Is he in that? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But, like, we will need other guys to play minutes
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  Speaker 2: for stretches when other rotation guys are out. Could he
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  Speaker 2: be that sort of guy? I just know this. When
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  Speaker 2: he has the burden, I said this during Summer League,
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  Speaker 2: when he has the burden of, I am the initiator,
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  Speaker 2: I am the guy with the ball, bring me a
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  Speaker 2: ball screen, that's when I think it gets a little
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  Speaker 2: dicey with turnovers. But as a spacer, as a guy
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  Speaker 2: that plays off others, you know, I think there's something
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  Speaker 2: interesting there.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: And I would hope, Bone, he would not have to
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  Speaker 2: be much of an initiator in the regular season. I
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  Speaker 2: would hope he can play off others in the regular season.
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: A couple more observations last night. That was outside Mac of...
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  Speaker 2: of Mikel Brown, the lottery pick for the Nets. That
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  Speaker 2: was basically their team last night. We kind of played
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  Speaker 2: the Julius Randle, Michael Porter Jr., and that was essentially
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  Speaker 2: the Nets regular season team compared to what we threw
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  Speaker 2: out there. One observation that I had that it's not shocking,
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  Speaker 2: but we've had a lot of chatter about Grayson Allen
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  Speaker 2: and his past and.
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  Speaker 1: His ability to shoot the ball and what he adds.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really correlate until he brought it up to
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  Speaker 1: us last week. I didn't really think anything about Grayson
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  Speaker 1: Allen's past with Charles Lee and what Grayson Allen might
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  Speaker 1: mean as the veteran extension. He's out there coaching young
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  Speaker 1: bucks up. Going into halftime last night, not even a
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  Speaker 1: young buck, going into halftime last night, there was a
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  Speaker 1: play right before the whistle. And as we're going to
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  Speaker 1: break on the court, it's Charles Lee, Grayson Allen, both
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: instructing something they wanted Nas Reed to do. We talk
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  Speaker 1: a lot about Grayson and all that stuff. I think Grayson,
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  Speaker 1: knowing Charles Lee, being a smart basketball player, there's definitely
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  Speaker 1: a veteran extension of Lee that I think we need
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  Speaker 1: to bring up a little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little underrated part. I also think we talked
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  Speaker 2: a lot about his shooting. I think we forget about
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  Speaker 2: the athleticism that he has that was on display at Duke.
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  Speaker 2: He can be a creator, too. He can be a—
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  Speaker 2: you know, a secondary initiator as well. And I think
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  Speaker 2: you saw that last night, too. So, yeah, I thought
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  Speaker 2: it was a good debut for Grayson Allen. Walker Mayo
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  Speaker 2: back on the pregame show. I was very happy to
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  Speaker 2: see that. He's so modest. He didn't even tell us
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  Speaker 2: about it. We sit with him every day after the
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  Speaker 2: show and before his show. And he didn't even tell. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I do know why he got that sweet haircut now,
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  Speaker 2: because he was going on TV.
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: I'm aroused. Okay. Hey, now. There's some rumors here. that
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: he wasn't saying anything publicly because... Moussa, Moussa's got the
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: restraining order against them. Moussa doesn't want them out there
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  Speaker 1: that close? He had to walk into the building wearing
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  Speaker 1: a Groucho Marx mask.
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  Speaker 2: Moussa, Moussa's out there grabbing offensive rebounds and chucking it
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  Speaker 2: right back out to the shooters, baby.
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  Speaker 1: Moussa doesn't know it. Love that unselfishness. Moussa doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: the game doesn't count. Love that unselfishness.
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  Speaker 2: So, all right, let's talk about the Braves because these
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  Speaker 2: things were on simultaneously last night. The Hornets are playing
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  Speaker 2: a meaningless game and the Braves are playing such a
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  Speaker 2: meaningful game and they will play one with even more
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  Speaker 2: meaning tonight, Bone. because Mally will be on the mound
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  Speaker 2: trying to save their damn season tonight against the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: And just how clutch are the damn Dodgers? Fit was
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  Speaker 2: bringing it up before the show, Yamamoto just being a
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  Speaker 2: ridiculous postseason clutch pitcher, and you saw it again last night,
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  Speaker 2: seven innings, one run, 10 Ks, and Sale has the
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  Speaker 2: one-inning bone where he gives up the two bombs, and
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  Speaker 2: that's it. Some of these Braves' big bats bone are
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  Speaker 2: absolutely a sleeper. And it is Dodger pitching, so I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to scream at him too bad, but this
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  Speaker 2: is a state of emergency now for the Atlanta Braves, Bone.
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  Speaker 1: A couple things I didn't realize, I heard on ESPN Radio,
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  Speaker 1: Jay Reynolds, before we came on the air, the Braves
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  Speaker 1: are 0-8 in this spot tonight. The Braves down 2-1
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  Speaker 1: in the five-game series. in this format, are 0-8. So
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  Speaker 1: this is a spot they've never won in when down
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  Speaker 1: in a series like this, in the five-game series. So
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  Speaker 1: history not on their side. I did not realize until
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  Speaker 1: last night. I know that Ronald Acuna has missed seasons
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  Speaker 1: and postseasons before. He has not homered in the postseason, Mac,
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  Speaker 1: in six seasons. I know he's not been in there
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  Speaker 1: in full the whole time, but for as many postseasons
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  Speaker 1: as the Braves make, that's kind of astounding that Acuna
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  Speaker 1: has not gone yard in six postseasons.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's also not hitting at all right now. And
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  Speaker 2: it's unnerving that he had to DH last night because
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  Speaker 2: of this knee. So this knee is a problem. It's just,
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: it's dicey, man. I know Bo and I am not
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  Speaker 2: breaking any news to Braves fans. This is just a
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  Speaker 2: horrible feeling.
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  Speaker 1: One thing about the Dodgers, and yeah, they, a ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: amount of money, whether it be in the staff or
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  Speaker 1: the star players, but it always seems like, I saw
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  Speaker 1: it with the Yankees when they beat them in the
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  Speaker 1: World Series a couple years ago. Yeah, they are. They
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  Speaker 1: are rich. They are star driven. But it always seems
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  Speaker 1: like somebody does step up along the way. That's not
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: Kike Hernandez is always a guy where your clutch is
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  Speaker 1: that you're worried about Freeman and Otani and all these guys.
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  Speaker 1: It's Tommy Edmond will have a game. It's always somebody
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  Speaker 1: else that seems to help them out along the way.
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  Speaker 1: So you never know where it's going to come from.
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  Speaker 1: But Kike Hernandez is ridiculous. He's often the guy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: 17th career postseason home run last night. And they're all
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  Speaker 2: two-run bomb against Sale. And they're all huge ones.
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  Speaker 4: So, yes.
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  Speaker 1: They're just clutch. They've been here. They've done it.
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  Speaker 2: And, yeah, they cost a lot of money. And, man,
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: now who's pitching for the Dodgers tonight? I know it's
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: Malley for the Braves. And I do feel fairly confident
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  Speaker 2: in him. But I'm not fairly confident in the Braves' bats.
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  Speaker 1: No, no.
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  Speaker 2: That's the thing. It's like Mally's going to really have
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  Speaker 2: to be damn good. And even if they survive, Bone,
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  Speaker 2: it's probably a bullpen game again tomorrow or again in
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  Speaker 2: game five.
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  Speaker 1: It's glass now tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, it gets a hell of so much easier tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't it? I'd rather face glass now than Yamamoto, though,
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  Speaker 1: in this spot. That's for darn. That guy is ridiculous. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I would agree with you on that. But it's not
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  Speaker 1: like they're going from Yamamoto to Phitty. No, they're not
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  Speaker 1: going full scrubs. No offense.
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  Speaker 2: That needs to be said. It's not like we're going
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: from J.C. Horn to a Caleb Evans.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, Caleb. Sorry.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, that'll be six o'clock tonight. Braves trying to
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: stave off elimination. The Canes win last night six to
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: four in a conference final rematch last night over Montreal.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: I want everybody to know, a lot of people, Kaniak
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: Mac takes a lot of heat for being a bandwagon
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: postseason man. I tried to dabble in this game last
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: night because DirecTV, Bone, has it as Channel 650, has
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: a Canes logo, and on the guide tells you, Canes
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  Speaker 2: Montreal coming up at seven o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: How about that? I was ready to rock baby.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: I go to the channel at about seven Oh six.
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  Speaker 2: And all of a sudden the screen comes up that says, uh,
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: our contract with this team has run out and we
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: are working on it right now. Bear with us, everybody.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Why would you even put it on the guide like that?
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: If you don't have the damn game, I guess, cause
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: you want schmucks like me to want to watch the
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Canes to hit, click on it and then to see
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: the message and then get pissed off and go nag
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: direct TV or nag the canes or somebody.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Schmuck bait. I guess that's what they're looking for there.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: Full on schmuck bait. I guess that's what's going on.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Um, so yeah, that's, that was annoying.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: That is annoying. They even put it bone in the, you.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Know how direct TV has the page where it's like
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: live sports and upcoming sports.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: And there it is.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: They're telling me the score of the game. No, They're
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: putting it Canes and Canadians.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: Oh, God.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: And the score grab. You know what I'm talking about?
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: That score grab. So you can go click on a game. Oh,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: this game is 2-2. I want to watch this. You
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: click on it. It's not really there.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: Oh, God.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Like, what the hell is that? Now, YouTube doesn't have it, right? No,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: it doesn't.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: No.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: So is it just pretty much Prime and Spectrum? I
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: know Spectrum has them. I think so. Yeah, I think so.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Canes, get crack-a-lacking, man. Canes, you've got to sign more
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: of these providers, y'all. You're defending champs. I don't want
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: to pay extra money with Prime.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: I'm cheap. Mrs. Mack's going to yell at me. I
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: know my man Mack. You've got about one more of
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: these incidents, and then Mack is out until May. He's
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: going to try one more time.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm only going to try so much, man, once
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Hoops heats up fully and all that stuff. But anyway,
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: they put up six freaking goals against Montreal last night.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: We do need to mention the biggest NFL news from yesterday, Bone,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: and it has a big impact on the Panthers' next game.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Lane Johnson, one of the greatest right tackles in the
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: history of football. I don't think I'm using hyperbole here.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: He is retiring right now, active immediately. He has, throughout
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: his career, Bone, been vocal about his battling for mental
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: health and being serious about his mental health. And apparently
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: thought about it, Bone, during the offseason. Came back, played
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: in the first three games, did not play against the Rams.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: So their offensive line is already messy. They will not
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: have right tackle Lane Johnson moving forward, including, obviously, the
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Panther game.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: First of all, I think we all say, well, glad
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: he's not in there for the Panther game, but obviously
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: it's paramount that mental health is okay and that he's
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: not retiring for something other than just looking out for
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: what's best long-term. But, yeah, that's a– just put the
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: stamp on there, no doubt, Hall of Famer in five years.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: That guy had one of the greatest careers of all time,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: but in– In a city that won a lot, probably
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: offensive lineman Jason Kelsey gets so much of the credit,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: but man, Lane Johnson... you talk about just the best
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: of the best when he was in his prime.
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: He said, we're hoping that he's an absolute bad. We're
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: hoping that Monroe freely could be some semblance of our
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Wayne Johnson. Yeah. Although I, although, yeah, I take that
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: career to heartbeat right now. You kidding me? Um, uh, yeah.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: And I do think freely ends up on the left
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: side probably, you know, but Lane Johnson, literally you think
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: of left tackles being the best tackles in the game.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: This dude was one of the best tackles in the
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: game on the damn right side. Um, So best of
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: luck in retirement. But Bone, they already don't have Landon Dickerson.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: They've already moved Juergens over out of position because they
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: don't have Landon Dickerson. They are a mess. This is
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: a team that everybody knows. Their offensive line has been
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: the staple of their success over the years. And it
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: is a complete mess right now. I'm not saying ours
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: is not. but our upcoming opponents line is a mess. And,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: and Barkley Saquon like has this hamstring injury and Adam
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Schefter says he's going to miss time. It doesn't sound
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: like much. So if he misses time, that's this week's game, right?
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: If Schefter's right. And then it just comes down to,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: does he miss the second game? Or do we get
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: him back?
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: For an offense that's already been a mess. Seriously. To
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: have Barkley compromise, you lose Lane Johnson. A.J. Brown's no
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: longer there. They were having offensive problems back with all
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: these guys active last year in recent times. So I
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: can't imagine. Philly is very, very combustible right now, Mac.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: And that's why I can't wait to see 930 Sunday.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Does Jacksonville gaslight? them even more before we even play Philadelphia?
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: That's going to be a very interesting game on Sunday.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Could you imagine the meltdown in Philly for Panthers week
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: if they have lost three straight games? Yeah, and it's very, very,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: very possible. Honestly, I don't think I want to play
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: him on a three-game losing streak. I think I would
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: love some sort of surprising, shocking, you know what I mean?
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: You'd rather that everything is all good here, locker room's fine.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Imagine the feelings if they beat Jacksonville. That's a good point.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: I would love them coming off that type of thing,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: but I don't know if they're going to. But having
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: them meltdown is kind of funny, too, though. I want
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: to induce the giant meltdown.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I want the Panthers to do it. I like your plan.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Very Stiggy, a flair-like plan. A Flair family-like plan. More
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: on that later of a potential betrayal from the Flair family.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: When we come back here on the Mac and Bun
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Radio program, plenty of college football stuff. Shane Beamer talks
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: about being on the hot seat. Do we have four
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: ACC teams looking to escape? And we're sorry, 49ers fans,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: but you're not getting any offensive play caller changes. Sports
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: We'll be right back.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. A little heads up out there
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: to Tar Heel basketball fans. Michael Malone, your head coach,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: on the show today shortly after 8.30. alert your philatar
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: heels uh this will be uh live on the air
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: with you boys mac and bone unless fitty who will
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: be out there facilitating the interview bone unless fitty just
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: hits record on his phone and says i got this
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: interview myself y'all and goes rogue when the when.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: The heels are driving back to chapel hill they're gonna
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: hear commotion in the trunk They're going to pull over.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: What is going on back there? Phinney Marlow, Mac, will
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: end up in the trunk of the Tar Heel ride
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: back to Chapel Hill. Oh, man.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Looking forward to that. We're going to. And there will
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: be a little Duke presence, too. Patrick Gumba at the
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: end of the show.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: 945.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: We don't get Coach Shire, but we get Patrick Gumba.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: It is ACC tip-off in Charlotte and all the big
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: four schools today. You'll hear a state wake presence on
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: with Walker later today as well. So you'll start getting
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: your ACC hoop fix with ACC tip-off here in Charlotte today.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I'm actually excited that John Shire's not on because I
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: don't need Fitty Marlow's paws anywhere near John Shire over there.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: I need them separated. I don't need them coming near
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: you over there. I've met him. I've shook his hand
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: a couple times. How dare you? Bones jelly now. How
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: dare you get your sweaty palms on my man?
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Bone hadn't got to get the shake, the Shire shake.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Now, last time we had an incident, not last time,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: but years ago, we had an incident where at ACC
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Media Days, that's when I wrote Coach K that letter,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: and Ryan Schell brought it to him. And he read
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: it on the air and said, man, that guy's creepy.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: You scared him. If I write John Shire a letter today, Finney,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: do you think you should give it to him for me?
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I would hand deliver it.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: There you go. Put that together, bud. And make it handwritten,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: all right? Handwritten feels really sincere. It looks like a
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: ransom note. We got a stage five claim. Oh, did
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: he say ransom note? He goes, what is this written
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: on a ransom note?
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: I heard he's not doing interviews today because he's already
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: lining up his NBA interviews for next season.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: You take that back, sir. You need it for the conference, Vinny.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: You love the conference.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: We'll talk about the Panthers' roster changes, who the new
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: cornerback is. In town, we'll get to all that stuff
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: coming up at 645. But let's give you some college
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: football stuff. Speaking of the ACC tip-off event, it didn't
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: mean that Jim Phillips, when he spoke yesterday, was only
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: going to talk about basketball. Because there's a pretty big
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: story that we really haven't talked about that really broke
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: on Friday in full. that we really haven't talked about, Bone,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: because we've been so caught up in the Panthers and
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: the actual on-the-field ball and stuff like that. But you've
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: got four ACC teams. Not very shocking when you hear
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: who they are. that are apparently calling themselves the Coalition Bone.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: This is Florida State, Miami, Clemson, and North Carolina. And
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: they sent a letter last week, the Athletic Obtained This,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: and this is how everybody got the details on Friday
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: about it. Those four schools are requesting changes to part
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: of the Protect College Sports Act. And the part involves
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: specifically restrictions on students Conference realignment and schools joining new
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: conferences and conferences taking in new schools.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Wonder why those four, Bone, would want that process to
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: be easier. I wonder.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: So anyway, they would like to change the part of
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: the Protect College Sports Act that caps conference size at
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: 20 teams. They want it up to 22, so make
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: room for them in the SEC and the Big Ten.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: And Tomahawk Nation, I guess, was the first one to
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: report this story.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: They also, Bone, want it changed to, It's the part
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: of the rule where schools are forced to be an
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: independent for three years before they can join the conference
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: they are joining. So anyway, that is an interesting development.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: 2030 is not far off, is it, Mac, for the ACC?
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Nope, not at all, dude. This is going to be,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: because it's really going to start, as you're seeing now. Yeah,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: 2030 is going to be when it all comes to
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: a head, but you're already starting to see things in
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: motion here well before that. So I'm worried about this conference.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I saw someone the other day, and I sent it
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: to you, and I forget the exact teams, but they
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: did like a projection of what the conference looks like,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: could look like. the conference is and the acc i
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: mean this is the most respectful way possible it looked
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: just like the aac does now i said that looks
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: nothing like the acc that was just like the aac
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: it was crazy of what they projected potentially the acc
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: to look like.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Listen and we don't know and i'm gonna get to
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: jim phillips in a second i'm ramping up to jim
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: phillips because of course he was asked about this bone
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: uh yesterday but to your point like We don't know
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: if the Big Ten and SEC in 2030 will want
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: these schools, if they'll want to expand. Because you bring
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: in more teams, you need to know it's going to
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: bring in enough revenue. Because all of a sudden, you've
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: got to cut one more slice of the pie. So
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: you've got to know, okay, you're going to bring in
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: X amount of revenue. So when we divvy it up
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: now between more teams... it means more per team. So
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: there is that math aspect of it. But if they
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: do want to expand, everybody knows these four schools and
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: the ACC is a conference that's going to be picked at. Now,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: this was Jim Phillips yesterday, Bone, was asked to comment
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: on Florida State, Miami, Clemson, and North Carolina sending a
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: letter to try to get the Protect College Sports Act
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: to make it easier on schools to leave conferences. You
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: have the.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: Individuals, the elected officials that put this thing together. You
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: certainly get input from various groups, whether they be donors,
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: whether they be the President's Commission on College Sports, whether
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: they be conferences, athletic directors, coaches, student athletes. So they
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: come together to try to create the best bill.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: That they can.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: That's one. Two is that it's rare to have unanimity
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: on anything as it relates to a bill in particular.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: The 171 page document, there's an awful lot that people like.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: And don't like.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: So you have that piece of it and the significance
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: of the bill. I've said from the very beginning, and
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: will continue to do so. My job is to state
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: and support all 18 schools. We don't have anonymity in
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: our league, and we just pointed that out with four schools.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: So making sure that the senators know and making sure
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: that those schools, whether you're for the Protect College Sports
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: Act or you're against a portion of it, don't think
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: they're against all of it, but a portion of it,
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: they need direct access to state their case. The final
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: thing I'll say is I've been very consistent about I've
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: always tried to make sure that this was a conference
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: that people wanted to be in. And I'm really proud
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: of what we've done.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Jim Phillips is chill about this whole thing, but I'm
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: very chill. That's what I'm concerned about because I'm not chill.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I am very concerned about the SEC in a time
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: when everybody's out for themselves, whether it's the conferences, the teams.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: everybody's out for themselves. I'm highly, highly concerned about the
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: ACC standing going forward of what all this is going
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: to be. I almost wish, I almost wish in a
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: perfect world that we didn't have conferences anymore and everyone
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: was just independent. Everyone's independent and we go from there.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? It's just because I think
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: we're headed back to just two main conferences and that's,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: It's all we're going to have, and then everyone else
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: is going to be afterthoughts.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: It's kind of what it is anyway at times. I've
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: always feared the Super League. One conference is the SEC.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: One conference is the Big Ten. And, yes, I've always
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: feared that. In 2030, the reason why 2030 is the
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: year that ACC fans worry about teams being snagged is
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: because of that lawsuit settlement with Clemson and Florida State.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: It made the fees go down substantially in 2030 to
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: get out of the conference. Wolfpack Scott says, I hope
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Fitty is real proud of his Tar Heels.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: They're blaming Fitty.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: Damn proud to be the leader of the ACC. Damn
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: proud to be leading the charge to get out.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Of the ACC. Do you want to be out of
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: the ACC?
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Or are you just kind of like, if the Titanic's
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: going to sink, let's take these women and children and
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: shove them down so we can get on the lifeboat?
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: This is something that, Mac, like five, ten years ago,
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: I would have fought against. Like, I would have told
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: you all of our history, all of our tradition is
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: baked into that conference. But with the economics changing and
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: revenue being at the utmost importance in the day and
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: time where you're paying players on top of what you're
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: paying coaches, if I had confidence that Jim Phillips could
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: get us somewhat on par with the SEC or the
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Big Ten, then, Mac, I'd advocate to stay in the league.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: But, Mac, we're behind the Big 12.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Like, the Big 12 is like the third conference in
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: college athletics in In fairness— And we're not even close
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: to them with what they're doing with the monster energy deal.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: They're thinking outside the box ways to generate the revenue
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: to try to compete. With the SEC and the Big Ten,
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: we're not doing that.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Here in the ACC.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: But in fairness to Jim Phillips, David Copperfield couldn't turn
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: the ACC into the cash cow that the Big Ten
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: and the SEC is.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: No, he could not. It just is what it is.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: If you had better leadership.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: It's horrible for fans. I'm with you on that. I
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: want to make sure we get Beamer and Albin in here.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: But it's horrible for fans in the ACC. What has
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: been happening with conference realignment sucks for fans. You lose rivalries,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: and it's all about money. With that said, Scott's calling
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: the Tar Heels greedy. That's not a bad thing. Like,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: you would want your leader's bone to, if spots are
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: going to be available, and like Fitty said, money rules
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: every damn thing in the world of college sports. I
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: would want my leaders being like this and being on
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: the forefront.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: You got to get to Beamer before it's too late.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: He's on the hot seat here. Beamer and Albin. He
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: could be gone by 8 a.m. Beamer and Albin. All right.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Charlotte fans just want a new play caller on offense.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: You know, South Carolina fans want to never see Shane
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Beamer again.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Let's start with Shane Beamer.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Just asked yesterday about how you deal with being on
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: the hot seat.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a challenge.
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: It is what it is. It's week to week. in
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: this league. And I know that. And right now two
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: and three is not good enough. And I own it.
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's on me. I have not been good
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: enough as a, uh, as a head coach. And I
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: get that. We've got to be better as a, as
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: a football team. It really doesn't change Lulu, to be honest,
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: like going into it versus in it or whatnot right now. It's,
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: it's focusing on what I can control. And that's trying
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: to put together, um, um, the best team to go
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: play on Saturdays to give us the best chance to
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: be successful on Saturdays. And that's where my focus is
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: and not worried about anything else. All I can go
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: on is what, you know, the conversations that conversations that
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: I've had with, um, Jeremiah, who's been awesome. Jeff Crane,
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: who has been awesome, uh, text message I got from, uh, uh,
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: president Amarita's over the weekend. Who's been awesome. Some of
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: our biggest, uh, donors that I've gotten phone calls.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: So there you go, bone man. He's battling through, baby. No,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: he said he got a lot of calls. Were those
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: positive phone calls and texts or what was being said
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: in those messages? Yeah, I want to know what they're
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: saying behind your back, coach. That's what I want to know.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Not what they're saying to you. You know what I mean?
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Not what they're saying to you personally.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: What are they saying when they talk about you behind
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: your back?
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: You asked the other day, Mac, if there was the
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: audio of what Beamer said about not calling the timeout. Yeah,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: we got it. But due to time constraints, it will
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: not air now. But what? But yeah, I was going
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: to paraphrase. I didn't know he had. I was going
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: to paraphrase it. He said that he felt that the
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: play clock was winding down and Kentucky was out of sorts. Yeah,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: he didn't want to let him off the hook. No, coach,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: your defense had no clue what was going on. That
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: quarterback was winding the clock down. He knew exactly what
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: was going on. He was actually looking at your defense thinking, oh, man,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: these guys are awfully confused.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: It was very odd because anybody watches that video, you
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: look like the team that was like, hey, you got him.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: What are we doing here?
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: The quarterback is not panicking. He's just sitting there waiting
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: for the play clock to wind down. So that was
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: an odd answer. It's not going to help Beamer standing
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: with Gamecock fans. The only thing that could help that
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: is win a football game. And going to Florida is
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: a tough ask to do that, especially when Florida is
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: coming off what they're coming off.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Their embarrassing loss to Mizzou.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Now let's get to Coach Tim Albin because– uh, Charlotte
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: fans just want to see something changed, right? You lose
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: 59 to eight. Your offense continues to be a mess.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Can you just change something? And Charlotte fans are pointing
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: to Todd Fitch as the play caller. Can we try
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: a different play caller? And for the second straight week,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Tim Albin has told you, you will get no new
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: play caller.
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: Nothing's going to change. Nothing's going to change here. Again, I'm, um,
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: I've said my, what I've said on that, um, um,
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: I'm involved in it. We've got to be better, you know,
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: in the areas that I've already pointed out. You know, again,
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: at the end of the day, it's Tim Albin. And
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: I've got to approve the offensive game plan. You know,
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: Nate tells me what we're going to do on defense. And,
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: you know, I'll have a few comments, but I'm not,
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: you know, I'm on the headphones with him on defense
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: just to hear what the call is and then talk
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: between series. I'm in special teams every day with the guys. Again,
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: all three game plans are my responsibility, and it's my
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: job to have the staff to go out and execute them.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Man, Bone, Tim Albin has talked to us. He seems
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: like the nicest guy.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: But that answer is not exactly going to make Niner
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Nation calm. Like, I'm on the headset. I'm approving the calls.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: I'm in communication with them. Do you think that makes
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: everybody feel better? Like, Niner fans just want you to
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: try something different. You're getting obliterated every week. It's just,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: I feel for Niner Nation, man.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: I do. I don't take glee in this because Tim
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Albin feels like a salt of the earth guy. I know,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: so nice. We're all rooting for Tim Albin, but when
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: you have one win. in your tenure, a rally over
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Monmouth over a year ago, you just got absolutely smoke
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: rolled by Memphis. And one of your first words is
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: nothing's going to change. I know what that was. I
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: know what that was in reference to, but the fan
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: base does not want to hear the words. Nothing's going
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: to change. That's not what they want to hear. If
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: you're competing and you're close and you're knocking on that
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: door and you're getting almost that win, that's fine. But
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: when you are not even close and you say nothing's
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: going to change, Take it from me that has a
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: coach on the hot seat as well. Nobody wants to
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: hear nothing's going to change. You want to hear answers
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: of how it's going to change. 100%. And then the
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: whole thing about I'm on the headset.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're on the headset when this team turns it
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: over four times again and you score eight damn points.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Feel for the Niner fans. They deserve so much. So
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: much for what they've been through in the last 15 years.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: So we come back here on the Mac and Bone Show.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: The Panthers make some roster moves. Bryce-a-mania continues as the
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: QB stops by the Pat McAfee Show. Sports Radio 92.7 WFND.
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: Me personally, I'm not on social media.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: I don't go on there.
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: So it probably is a little easier for me to
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: avoid stuff than probably most, good or bad. But for me, honestly,
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: I'm being my faith. That's why I draw my purpose
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: from there. So good or bad, I try to let
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: that be my guiding light. I trust a lot of
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: people around me. I'm definitely not too big to learn
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: or to, you know, take in criticism, but I'm selective
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: of who that, you know, who I'm going to listen to.
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: The people in this building, the people that I trust
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: and I have rapport with, those are the people that,
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: you know, if they have a criticism, there's something that,
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: you know, feels like I need to get better at,
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: then that's what I, you know, that's what I value.
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: That's what I listen to.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Not shocking that Bryce is not on social media and
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: not paying attention to the negative feedback that might be
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: out there. That's a very Bryce answer on the Pat
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: McAfee show yesterday.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Bryce, you don't need to be on there. I'm taking
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: out one hater at a time right this week for you, buddy.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: I got your back on this one. Me too, Jordan Cork.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: That dude still had it going on. That dude's whole
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: day now is just trying to bash a quarterback that
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: is playing some of the best quarterback in the National
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Football League.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: His whole claim is that Geno played better against the
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Lions than Bryce did, and Bryce had a bad second
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: quarter against the Browns. White back quarterbacks could never have.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: One quarter out of 12? Mahomes, Allen, Burrow, Lamar, they
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: never have one bad quarter ever.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: No, no.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Burrow didn't have two picks on Sunday. That didn't happen.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Josh Allen didn't throw an interception to end the game
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: the other day.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: No, that couldn't have happened. I'm going to put a
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: cork in it and not mention that guy ever again.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Not enough of that guy. Ruining my week.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: These folks, yeah, Bryce, don't listen to these goobers. Let
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Bone handle it for you. Bone got your back, baby.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Even if the O-line ain't protecting you like we want,
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Bone's got your protection on social media. These folks, Bone,
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: that are clinging to this thing that Bryce sucks, and
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: it's like their whole self-worth depends on it, like that
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: dude on Twitter just fighting everybody.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: What a sad life. Like, what a sad life that
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: your whole day is like, I'm telling you, he still sucks.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: I don't care what the numbers say. It's just like, what?
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Give it up already. My God. And a legend fan
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: of the team also, which obviously not, right? By the way,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that. Is this guy a Panthers fan?
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I think so. What the? He's supposed to be. If
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: you're a Panthers fan, why wouldn't you just enjoy? What
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: are the odds that Bebop followed this guy already? Oh,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: this could be Bebop's burner, I'm thinking. No, this guy's
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: too analytically smart for that.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: But it's just like, and again, I don't want to
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: waste too much time on this, but you would just think,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: if you're a fan of the Panthers, and we've all
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: been there, we've all been skeptical about somebody on our team.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: And we thought, eh, they're not good enough.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: But when they have a four-week stretch like this, why
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: wouldn't you just enjoy it? Why would you still be
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: fighting to prove he sucks? It's just weird to me.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: These people have no eyes. Neither does the people that
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: fight them all day, apparently, because that's me.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: And you know what? This guy had the gall to interrupt.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I was watching Below Deck yesterday. This guy distracted me.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: I was very busy with my programs, and this guy
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: screwed up my whole afternoon yesterday. Unbelievable.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Unbelievable. Heat fan says that's my franchise QB. Damn straight
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: he is, man. He is proving that right now. I
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: went into the season thinking he had to prove something,
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: much like the Panthers did. He is proving it, in
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: my opinion, right now. One more Bryce clip before we
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: tell you about these handful of roster moves the Panthers did.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: A lot of roster.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Shuffling yesterday. Bryce Young giving love to T-Mac and T-Mac's
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: work ethic behind the scenes to Pat McAfee yesterday.
• 41:14
  Speaker 7: I've known him for a while. We actually played against
• 41:16
  Speaker 7: each other in high school, so I've always followed him
• 41:18
  Speaker 7: and known he's been special. But I think his offseason
• 41:21
  Speaker 7: was just another level of respect that I have for
• 41:25
  Speaker 7: him in his game, for him to go out, have
• 41:27
  Speaker 7: a great rookie year, obviously, rookie of the year. It
• 41:30
  Speaker 7: could have been easy for him to go into the
• 41:31
  Speaker 7: offseason and just like, you know just just sing his
• 41:35
  Speaker 7: own praises be like I'm good you know I got
• 41:36
  Speaker 7: this NFL thing figured out and not work hard but
• 41:39
  Speaker 7: it's around him a lot and the amount of work
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: he put in the amount of attention to detail he
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: had uh the strain he had um you know it
• 41:46
  Speaker 7: was stuff that and it wasn't him you know in
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: front of a bunch of cameras showing the world it's
• 41:50
  Speaker 7: just stuff that you know I got the privilege to
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: see because I was around him um you know he
• 41:55
  Speaker 7: he was grinding and again it's the mindset like he
• 41:57
  Speaker 7: was You could ask him about his rookie year, and
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: he'd be like, this is what I want to improve on.
• 42:03
  Speaker 7: I want to get better at this. And he takes
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: that approach every single day. He comes in and works,
• 42:09
  Speaker 7: puts his head down, grinds, practice. He's always trying to...
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: Strive for the best on the side. Get extra reps in.
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: If there's something that doesn't go well, we don't connect
• 42:19
  Speaker 7: on something in practice. He's not just, ah, whatever.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: It's coming.
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: All right, what did you think about this? Let's get
• 42:24
  Speaker 7: it on the side. Let's work on it. And, again,
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: all that stuff is special.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Matt, can you imagine how easy it is to play
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: with a quarterback like Bryce Young, to have a guy
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: that's playing that well but doesn't have the ego? and
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: never will of a high-level star quarterback, right? Because you've
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: got to think about it, Mac. Imagine trying to suggest
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: stuff or work or develop chemistry with, let me check
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: my notes here, Aaron Rodgers or some of these guys
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: that have all the answers that aren't going to. Think
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: about the ability for Bryce Young, Mac, to relate to
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: all the players around him. That's a strong point as
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: well for a personality of Bryce Young. And the same
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: thing goes for our receivers. Yeah, it's very true. T-Mac
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: and Coker are not diva receivers. At all. And I
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: think that's good, too.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: I think there's not a lot of ego and attitude between,
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: you know, those three dudes right there.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: And I think that starts with the leadership, too, the
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: coaching staff. Dave Kanellis showed no ego in giving up
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: play calling. Dan Morgan has no ego. Matt David Tepper
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: has no.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Maybe I've gone to a place. No, but I'm just saying.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: You may have gone a little too far. There's not
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: ego that permeates throughout the organization. No, there's not. It's
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: a very.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: It's all like this radio show. We're very ego free, right, Finney?
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: It feels like a really good culture right now. And
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: I don't think enough fans give Dave Canales credit. for
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: the culture. And we'll talk about that later today during
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: the fawning over Brad Idzik portion of the program. But
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: before we get to all that, let's talk about the
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: roster moves. So the Panthers are bringing Nick Hampton, the
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: former App State edge rusher, back to the practice squad.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: He was with us in preseason. I thought flashed a
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: little bit in the preseason.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: Cornerback Marco Wilson is added bone to the Panthers roster.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Practice squad. This dude has two claims to fame. Here
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: we go.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: One is he's the dude that had a pick six
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: for Arizona against Andy Dalton. And you can see there's
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: a shot where you see him bone flying into the
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: end zone. He just like threw his body into the
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: end zone with no one there. It's a very funny gif, jif,
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: whatever we call it. And then the one you may
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: be more familiar with is this dude was the shoe tosser. Now,
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about the President Bush press conference shoe
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: tosser back in the day. The guy for Florida Bone
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: that tossed a player's shoe and threw it, I don't know,
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: 20 yards or something, got a penalty and killed Florida
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: in that game against LSU back in the day.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he stopped the tight end on a third down play.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: on sportsmanlike conduct, LSU goes on to kick the field
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: goal and wins the game. I will say he throws
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: shoes better, Mac, than some past Panther quarterbacks throw footballs out.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: That is fair. There's something here with this guy in
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: a special, in a gimmick play. So I do wonder.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: Can you do that, Mac? Can he, can they create
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: a play when he distracts you on the team by
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: throwing a shoe? And they're like, oh, my God, what's
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: going on? And then something happens. Clearly, that's what we're
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: setting up here. Clearly.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: So he is the new cornerback on the practice squad.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Robert Rochelle, who we brought back last week, he's been
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: released from the practice squad, along with Jeremiah Moon, edge rusher,
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: and Isaiah Glass, offensive lineman. So you have some change
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: there on the practice squad bone. Trey Tyus has been
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: waived from the active roster recently. This is probably because
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: HN is expected to be back for the next game,
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: but they got a couple of open spots on the
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: active roster. One you would expect for HN, the other
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: one sitting there, and I'm hoping it will be occupied
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: in the near future by Taylor Moten or Turk Wharton,
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: but I'm not sure.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: I'm just speculating, you know, if that could be the case. Mack,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: when we come back, plenty of more Panther talk. What
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: has been better and what has been worse than you
• 46:07
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• 46:10
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