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Mac & Bone Hour 2: UNC/NC State Both Surprise & Panthers Roster Surprises · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: I had a lot of people that were tagging me
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: and I didn't respond, but I saw it. And you said,
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: say something nice about North Carolina. You need to say
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: something nice about Bill Belichick. Did you say anything nice?
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: It's not like I've been trashing this guy and trashing
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: the likelihood that North Carolina would be good and getting
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: a ton of pushback. In fact, Jesse, I don't remember
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: over the course of the last six months that When
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: I stated my opinion on the future of North Carolina,
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know if we heard from any Tar Heel
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  Speaker 1: fan that said, nuh-uh. And truthfully, even yesterday, it was muted.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: But it was a really good win. Don't ever apologize
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  Speaker 1: for winning a game. And don't ever let anyone knock
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  Speaker 1: you for winning a game. There's no such thing as
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  Speaker 1: an ugly win in week one, especially.
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: That is Josh Pates on his live show last night
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: recapping Week Zero. Seems like, Bone, he is hearing some
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: of the same stuff we are, although I'm hearing way
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  Speaker 3: more about my ridiculous, absurd-looking Wolfpack hype than I am
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  Speaker 3: about doubting Bill Belichick in Carolina. but it sounds like
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  Speaker 3: he is hearing a lot of it, and he's pointing
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  Speaker 3: out none of y'all believed in him, but apparently he
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: doesn't know Complainer in Chief.
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  Speaker 2: Complainer in Chief, full credit, man. He called his shot. Now,
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  Speaker 2: he also had them winning 11 games, including beating Miami.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see how that plays out during the season. But
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  Speaker 2: for one day? It's Complainer-in-Chief's world. There is a lot
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: of fitty backlash here coming through. What? Fitty backlash? He
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: called it. He predicted it. Gamecock Kevin wants a piece
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  Speaker 2: of him, though, that he's acting like he stayed strong
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  Speaker 2: throughout the whole summer when he wavered like a month
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: ago on Bill Belichick. But he did pick them to
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  Speaker 2: win the game, though. He did. Like, he deserves credit
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  Speaker 2: for that. We weren't doing that. People are also saying, though...
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  Speaker 2: He picks the Panthers to win every single Friday. So
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  Speaker 2: did he actually believe they were winning, or was it
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  Speaker 2: a real pick? I don't know, Ben.
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  Speaker 3: We were about to hear his reasoning for picking UNC
• 2:08
  Speaker 3: when he was driving to meet up with KB, and
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  Speaker 3: you ordered the code red to Schrappi and hung up
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  Speaker 3: on Finney.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have the hang-up button. Oh, there was definitely
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  Speaker 2: a code red ordered over there. I don't have the
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: hang up button. You definitely ordered the code red. I
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  Speaker 2: don't have the hang up. But yeah, but do I?
• 2:24
  Speaker 2: I don't have the ability to hang up on anybody here.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I said you and Choppy together. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: did you not need a break from Fitty for like
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: an hour? Yeah, that's a good point. That's definitely a
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: good point. I'm just saying. How can we miss you
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  Speaker 2: if you don't go away? It's crazy, Fitty, that people
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  Speaker 2: are coming after you. Like, you should have some glory today, man.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's the kind it was. It wasn't pretty Josh pay.
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  Speaker 2: Try to say something at the end about that. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't pretty, but before Tom Brady started putting up ginormous stats,
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  Speaker 2: wasn't that the way bill Belichick won in the early years?
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  Speaker 3: Often you want a super bowl that way. Defensive adjustments.
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  Speaker 3: They did not score a point after the first quarter.
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  Speaker 3: They were the more well-coached team. They didn't make as
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  Speaker 3: many mistakes and, Like, if you're a UNC fan, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I like people harassing Fitty, but shouldn't UNC fans, like,
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  Speaker 3: have a day today?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they should. Here's the question, though, that I think
• 3:18
  Speaker 2: we should throw out there at some point as just
• 3:21
  Speaker 2: an overall thing throughout the morning. What do people believe
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: in more? The Heels being good or the Wolfpack being
• 3:31
  Speaker 2: that bad? What's the most truthful performance on Saturday? Which
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: one will we see more of? Wolfpack being horrible or
• 3:40
  Speaker 2: the Heels winning a lot of football games? Definitely.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's what we'll get into in the
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  Speaker 3: 8 o'clock hour, Bone, when we kind of look at
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  Speaker 3: the full season. Like, are we expecting– does this mean
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  Speaker 3: the Heels– Like how good now do we expect the
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  Speaker 3: heels to be?
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  Speaker 2: For NC State, do you expect them to stink?
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  Speaker 3: I got to be honest with you, Bone, as far
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  Speaker 3: as NC State goes, and this is why I look
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  Speaker 3: like more and more of a moron every year. I
• 4:00
  Speaker 3: hype them up in the summer.
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  Speaker 2: Every day.
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  Speaker 3: Bone, there are six losses by NC State since 2019
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  Speaker 3: in the first three weeks of the season by double digits,
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  Speaker 3: by 14 points or more. They do this all the time.
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  Speaker 3: They do it all the freaking time. But I'm still
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  Speaker 3: too much of an ignoramus to be able to see
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  Speaker 3: it coming. And, and so like, so.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if anybody like, like I said, when
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  Speaker 2: the show began, they were underdogs throughout the whole lead
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  Speaker 2: up to the game. And then in the game, there
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  Speaker 2: were four point underdogs. So them losing is not some,
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God, I can't believe they lost, but it's
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  Speaker 2: the way they just completely no show. It's the way
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  Speaker 2: they lost. They got beat down into obliteration. Nobody saw
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  Speaker 2: UNC winning. I don't know many people that saw NC
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  Speaker 2: state completely not shown up for that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, definitely not. But I'm going to defend you on
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  Speaker 3: that one. Definitely not. And Virginia deserves a major amount
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  Speaker 3: of credit, too. But that was a pummeling in the trenches.
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  Speaker 3: 258 yards rushing. A complete pummeling. You talk about a
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  Speaker 3: soul-snatching drive. That 23-play, 12-minute drive where Virginia converted four
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  Speaker 3: fourth downs. That is an absolute, we have no respect
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  Speaker 3: for your ability to hold up in the trenches against us. Like,
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  Speaker 3: Virginia ran it 57 times and passed it 11 times.
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  Speaker 3: nc state knew the run was coming damn near every
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  Speaker 3: play and in that drive they knew it was coming
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  Speaker 3: and they couldn't do a damn thing about it that
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  Speaker 3: is soul snatching man it really is.
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  Speaker 2: Can i also make sure that we start to put
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more respect on the name of tony
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  Speaker 2: elliott and the job that he's doing. Definitely. When we
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: talk about the best coaches in this league, even after
• 5:37
  Speaker 2: last year, you didn't really see him brought up that much,
• 5:40
  Speaker 2: including myself. But based off last year and how they maximized,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was, was it Lugenbill on Friday saying
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  Speaker 2: how last year they hit on almost every single player
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  Speaker 2: in the portal? Well, this year starts with a lot
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  Speaker 2: of portal guys contributing yet again. I... I think Tony
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  Speaker 2: Elliott's figured this thing out based off last year, the
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  Speaker 2: other day. I think he utilized the fact that they
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: were disrespected and really not talked about a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: over the course of the summer. I now believe that
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  Speaker 2: this is not a fluke, that with the money that
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  Speaker 2: they have, their ability to identify talent in the portal, I...
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  Speaker 2: I think Tony Elliott, Mac, is the real deal, and
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  Speaker 2: he's figured it out at Virginia.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, 100%.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what he's figured out? Veteran players.
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  Speaker 3: That is the most experienced roster in Power 4 football.
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  Speaker 3: NC State, I didn't know this, the sixth most inexperienced
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  Speaker 3: roster in Power 4 football.
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  Speaker 2: And it showed. And don't look now.
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  Speaker 3: Remember that easy schedule we were talking about, how State
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  Speaker 3: and Virginia had easy schedules? Look at Virginia's schedule and
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  Speaker 3: the way they played. Listen, there'll be a game or two, Bone,
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  Speaker 3: where they struggle to run it, and it's on Bo
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  Speaker 3: Pribula's arm, and I would question how you're going to
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  Speaker 3: do in that game, Virginia. But there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: wins on that schedule for that experienced, tough team. How
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  Speaker 3: about their defense without Cam Robinson? But as far as
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  Speaker 3: the Heels and the Pack go, I want your thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: If you're a Carolina fan, if you're a state fan,
• 7:01
  Speaker 3: what went right? If you're a Heels fan, what did
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  Speaker 3: you love about that win? And if you're a state fan...
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  Speaker 3: Please come on here and obliterate your team if you'd
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  Speaker 3: like to, because what a flop that was, man.
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  Speaker 2: 704-570-9610 if you want to get in.
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  Speaker 3: I also thought Bone State didn't even really try to
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  Speaker 3: establish the run on their own end. Like Duke Scott,
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  Speaker 3: how many times did I say it in the offseason?
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  Speaker 3: Dude had a 196-yard game in one of his starts
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  Speaker 3: against Georgia Tech, and in the other start was over 100.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought that they just kind of gave up
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  Speaker 3: very early, only carried it seven times for 20 yards.
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  Speaker 3: I thought they gave up very early on the run.
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  Speaker 3: They ran Bailey. Now, some of it was scrambling because
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  Speaker 3: they got and they got behind so early that they
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  Speaker 3: took them away.
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  Speaker 2: But were they behind that much bone that they can't
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  Speaker 2: run the football more than seven times? Yeah, that's like
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  Speaker 2: I just we see, you know, I just it bothers
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  Speaker 2: me when you just can't run it.
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  Speaker 3: Like, you just concede that. Because then when you drop
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  Speaker 3: back and pass, it becomes predictable. I thought they used
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  Speaker 3: Bailey as a runner at times, maybe a little too much.
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  Speaker 3: Some of it was scrambling, Bailey running for his life.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, Virginia, that's a punking. That's a physical punking.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to Clemson fans. There has been six of
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  Speaker 2: them have now entered the chat here because Tony Elliott's
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  Speaker 2: doing work at Virginia and you know who they want
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  Speaker 2: eventually when Dabo leaves to replace Dabo Sweeney. So Clemson
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  Speaker 2: fans have now woken up trying to get Tony Elliott.
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  Speaker 3: I'm wondering, is it eventually Clemson fans or y'all trying
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  Speaker 3: to slide Dabo out at the end of the season?
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  Speaker 2: Is that what your plan is? I'm not even lying.
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  Speaker 2: There's five. live clubs and fans that said we're keeping
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  Speaker 2: our eye on tony oh my gosh 7045709610 if you're
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: a state fan are you ticked off we got a
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  Speaker 2: guy that wants philip rivers to be the head coach
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  Speaker 2: in raleigh in 2027 So that's what we got. Tony
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  Speaker 2: Elliott and Clemson.
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  Speaker 3: We got Philly Rib back in Raleigh coaching his son Gunner.
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: God, college football's back, baby. We're giving credit to Complainer
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  Speaker 2: in Chief, tipping our hat to him for our accurate prediction.
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  Speaker 2: Zach in Miami is the opposite. He's a diehard State fan.
• 9:03
  Speaker 2: This is coming from us, and you and I are
• 9:05
  Speaker 2: wrong often. I don't know if any individual ever in
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  Speaker 2: the history of this show has been more wrong in
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  Speaker 2: one day than Zach in Miami was about NC State.
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  Speaker 2: He had C.J. Bailey winning the Heisman Trophy. He had
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  Speaker 2: State going undefeated. He said Virginia is way too banged
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  Speaker 2: up to have a chance in this football game. He
• 9:23
  Speaker 2: not only was wrong about the game, but he had
• 9:25
  Speaker 2: predictions that went through the whole entire season. And I
• 9:28
  Speaker 2: asked him today, Zach, are you OK? All I've gotten
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  Speaker 2: back so far is he adopted a new kitten this weekend. Oh,
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: he go play it that way. He go talk about
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: anything but ball. I got to tell you, if Mac
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: and I are saying no one's been more wrong, what's
• 9:41
  Speaker 2: that telling you? I know, seriously.
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  Speaker 3: I thank God for Zach in Miami, because he's the
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  Speaker 3: only guy more wrong than me about the Tam Wolf Pack.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my God. Fitty, what did you like the most about...
• 9:52
  Speaker 3: Name that kid Brabula. What did you like the most, Fitty,
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  Speaker 3: about the Heels win? Other than the fact that it's just...
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  Speaker 3: the biggest win you got. Everybody's watching, too. This didn't
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: blend in, Bone, with bigger game one or week one games.
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  Speaker 3: This was the start of the season. National TV week zero.
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  Speaker 3: with the whole country watching. What did you like about
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  Speaker 3: that win the most, Finney?
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  Speaker 5: Well, you could see.
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  Speaker 4: The Bobby Petrino impact, and I know the offense wasn't great.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't put up the types of points and yards
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  Speaker 4: I think they're going to be capable of doing the
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  Speaker 4: rest of the year. But, Mac, Billy Edwards Jr. threw
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  Speaker 4: for the most yards in a game under Bill Belichick.
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  Speaker 4: I thought he managed the game in a very respectable
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  Speaker 4: way because, Mac, that game became like a field position
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  Speaker 4: game in the second half. And there were two drives
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  Speaker 4: where they were backed up inside their 20 and where
• 10:43
  Speaker 4: flipping the field was just as important as getting points.
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  Speaker 4: And those are the little things. That's like the Belichick way,
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  Speaker 4: the situational football. It felt like whenever they needed to
• 10:51
  Speaker 4: just flip the field and let their defense keep doing
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  Speaker 4: what they were doing, they were able to do all that.
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  Speaker 5: The mental toughness.
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  Speaker 4: That they displayed because, you know, TCU committed, I think,
• 11:01
  Speaker 4: 11 penalties, although Sonny Dykes never thought they did anything wrong,
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  Speaker 4: was a big difference in the game. It wiped out
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  Speaker 4: some big plays for TCU that maybe could have flipped
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  Speaker 4: the game the other way.
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  Speaker 5: How about the two turnovers? They fumbled the ball twice.
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  Speaker 4: When Keke Una fumbled the ball with less than six
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  Speaker 4: minutes to go, it kind of felt like TCU might
• 11:20
  Speaker 4: be able to go grind that game out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But Carolina stood tall, and they won that game. They
• 11:26
  Speaker 4: lost that game last year. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And your point there, Carolina wasn't perfect. You know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean? But they were much cleaner than TCU, who
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  Speaker 3: was so undisciplined with the turnovers, the snap over the head.
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  Speaker 3: I'm telling you, don't take J.J. Jansen for granted, Bone. TCU,
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  Speaker 3: that's two points right there. The sack forced fumble. Carolina
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: turned into three points. That's your ballgame. Those were the
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: only five points scored, Bone, after the 10-10 first quarter.
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  Speaker 3: Carolina stopped TCU on fourth down four times out of five,
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  Speaker 3: including the two in the red zone.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what do you think about this, Bone?
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  Speaker 3: There have been a couple of texters that are trying
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  Speaker 3: to take away Carolina joy. by blaming TCU. This texter says,
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  Speaker 3: quit acting like Carolina won that game. TCU lost it.
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  Speaker 3: And another texter, 704 number, I love the way y'all
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  Speaker 3: on here giving the Tar Heels props like they did
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  Speaker 3: something special. They beat a terrible TCU team. That was
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  Speaker 3: a TCU.
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  Speaker 4: Program that was top 30 in the AP poll during
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  Speaker 4: the season.
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  Speaker 2: But also, where was the... Is that fair or is
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: that foul? Where were the Heels projected in the ACC
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: to start the season? Where was their ranking? So... Yeah, TCU,
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  Speaker 2: I think, did help the cause, but the heels took
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: advantage of the mistakes by TCU, whether it be penalties
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  Speaker 2: or you got to give full credit to the adjustments
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  Speaker 2: that Belichick made. We went through it in the first
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: hour of the run numbers in the first half of
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  Speaker 2: the second half. When they forced the runs back inside,
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: that was gashing them in the first half. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think TCU obviously is not what they were, but
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give my credit to UNC as well
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  Speaker 2: and say they took advantage of TCU not being what
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  Speaker 2: they were last year. If you're a UNC fan, you
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: don't care what the other team is like. You don't
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  Speaker 2: need to apologize. You don't care.
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  Speaker 3: You want wins, and you got it. I think the
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  Speaker 3: key you said is, what did we expect out of Carolina?
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  Speaker 3: And then I would go further and say, what kind
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  Speaker 3: of bleep show were they last year? Like, I'm sorry, man.
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  Speaker 3: We can't set the bar, Fitty, and I'm defending y'all
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  Speaker 3: on this one. Like, we can't all of a sudden
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  Speaker 3: move the bar now because we want to take credit
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  Speaker 3: away from Carolina. Like, what did we think they were
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  Speaker 3: going to be, Bo? And TCU's average— I mean, they
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: were 9.5 underdogs. TCU's average— exactly. TCU's average nine wins a
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  Speaker 3: season for the last four years under Sonny Dykes. So, like, listen,
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  Speaker 3: did TCU— did that look like, oh, my God, this might be—
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  Speaker 3: Kind of like Sonny Dyke's five and seven season, like
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  Speaker 3: the one bad season he's had.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like maybe. But also by the same token,
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  Speaker 2: what did we all think of the Tar Heels going in?
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  Speaker 3: So, Phitty, I'm not going to be a hypocrite and
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  Speaker 3: call out the Tar Heels all offseason, tell you how
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  Speaker 3: skeptical I am. And then when you beat TCU, nitpick
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  Speaker 3: the way you want it, man. That's huge. for the
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: momentum and to stop the negative narratives, man.
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  Speaker 5: That's growth and maturity out of you, Mac.
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  Speaker 4: There was a lot of people that were trying to
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  Speaker 4: discredit what Carolina did.
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  Speaker 5: And yeah, but Mac, that's football. It's a game of ventures.
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  Speaker 5: It's a game of mistakes. It's who's going to make
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  Speaker 5: less of them.
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  Speaker 4: And in a game like that, Carolina was able to
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  Speaker 4: not commit the penalties.
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  Speaker 5: They were able to move the ball when they had to,
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  Speaker 5: the fourth down stops.
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  Speaker 2: This TCU team, I'm.
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  Speaker 4: A little bit more skeptical now because I think Jaden
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: Craig's a little bit more underwhelming than what we were
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  Speaker 4: sold on.
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  Speaker 5: But Sonny Dax is a good football coach. That's a
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  Speaker 5: good program.
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  Speaker 2: And he got outcoached.
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  Speaker 4: There was this whole narrative about the regression of TCU
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: football because they lost North Carolina.
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  Speaker 5: Look, what they did a few years ago was a
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: miracle season.
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  Speaker 4: That's not the expectation. That's not the standard at TCU.
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  Speaker 4: They should not be going to the playoff every year.
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  Speaker 4: They should be going to the national title game every
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: other year.
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  Speaker 3: Belichick and staff severely outcoached, severely had them more prepared.
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  Speaker 2: And that's progress.
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  Speaker 3: Because last year, I've got to be honest, we talked
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  Speaker 3: about all summer, Carolina looked like a hideous coach football
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  Speaker 3: team so many times, Bone.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: Well, they weren't even coached.
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: Bone, Carolina had 20— Offensively, that defense was top 30
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: in yards per play last year. Yeah, the defense— Gave
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: up the fewest yards per game in 16 years. I'm
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: talking about mistakes. They beat themselves a lot.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Like, for example— Carolina against Duke and state had 23
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: combined penalties. Those two losses at the end of the
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: year for 230 plus yards, three for 20. On Saturday, well,
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: TCU had 11 penalties. That's all I'm saying, Fitty. It's
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: just mistakes, man. That's what I'm talking about. Husker Mike, though,
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: wants to come after Fitty and the Heels. We're talking
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: about good football teams here, man. You want to step
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: out here? If your teammates want to know, you can't
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: address me.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: Address my assistant. The Heels, Mac, were 111th in penalties
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: last year.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they were just undisciplined, you know, and so far
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: they cleaned it up and the other team beat themselves.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Husker Mike says it's pretty simple of the two games
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: that y'all were talking about. There's one good team and
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: the other three suck. So he is acting like it's
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: the mid 90s again as a Husker fan, isn't he?
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: He is. Seriously. He's got his neck roll on.
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: He's ready to go.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Hit somebody. Oh, my God. Now, Florida State's getting called out, too.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: This dude says, if you want to try to talk
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: about style points and a victory against the Heels, y'all
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: better as hell do it against Florida State. Florida State, bone.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: It took them a while. to pull away for a
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: 17-point margin against New Mexico State in a game that
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Bone is calling the Wes Bryant special because Wes was
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: on the sidelines for the CW.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Did you see him interviewing the NXT tag team wrestlers? Oh, yeah,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: that was it. That were smacking their bellies around? That
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: was funny. That was funny. I don't think Tom Brennan
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: always knows what to say when he has the wrestlers
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: down there. There goes Wes and the NXT tag team.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: And he didn't have a Castellanos anymore, Bone, to distract him.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: I thought Florida State, very underwhelming. Their defense got shredded
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: for two deep balls against their blitz for touchdowns by
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: New Mexico State. New Mexico State should have had another touchdown.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: It was a running back option pass that was dropped
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: in the end zone by New Mexico State. And then
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: if you look at Florida State's schedule, Bone, early on,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: But watching what I saw from Florida State and then
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: looking at their early schedule, I think they're screwed.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: It's SMU Labor Day night in Tallahassee at Bama, who
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: you know they're ticked off from last year. They have
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Central Arkansas in there. But then it's Virginia, Louisville, Miami,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: and Clemson. Look at that, man. How's Norvell going to
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: survive this if that's the way they're going to be?
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: I don't think he can. I was wondering, Mac, if
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: they would have something for SMU Labor Day night. But
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: I didn't like what I saw the other day against
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: New Mexico State. Now I'm not sure. I thought maybe
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: they could do one of their things like they did
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: for Bama last year. SMU comes in. A lot of expectations.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Could they pull off the upset in Tallahassee? Now I'm
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: not going near that one now.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: I'm going to let them be for right now. Yeah,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: I tend to agree, man. Husker Mike has responded. We back, baby.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Way back. You wouldn't have weighed back. When we come back,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: the Panthers' 53-man roster is set for now. What were
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: the cut-down day surprises? What positions looked strong or weak?
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: And what is next for the roster? Mack Bone, the
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Fit Dog. Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ.
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: I think you'd have to be knocking on the door
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: of like a championship caliber offense. And when I say that,
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: I mean something like if you finish this year, 12th
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: and some offensive efficiency metric, and you could talk yourself
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: into taking another small step forward next year for, I mean,
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: as simple of a reason as we lost Chris Basil
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: coming into the year, he would have given us the
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: opportunity to do all this different stuff because we felt
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: like we could stick him on the line of scrimmage.
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: If you can get Moten back, At some point this year,
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: you move freely into left tackle. Can the offensive line
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: be even better next year? That's where it would have
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: to be. I would have to be in a position,
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: if I were Dan Morgan, saying, I think we are
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: close enough to have a Super Bowl caliber offense in
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: 2027 with some more incremental improvements for me to feel.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: good about just rolling it back with him. Because at
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: a certain point, you got to be ready to compete.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: You've spent the money. At a certain point, you got
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: to be knocking on the door. You're not in year
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: one or two of this build anymore. Now you're closer
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: to year four. And so if you don't think he's
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: close enough where you're ready to compete, then what are
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: we doing?
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: That is Robert Mays from The Athletic talking to Mina
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Kimes on her podcast, which features Lenny, of course. The
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: look on Mina Kimes' face bone when she asked the question,
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: what does Bryce Young need to do to be the
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: guy moving forward after this year in Carolina? And he
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: says they have to have a championship caliber offense.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: The look on her face is like, really?
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: I feel like that bar is being set by Robert
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Mays a little too high there. Like, that might be
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: what Bryce needs to do to get $ 60 million a year. But, like,
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure that that needs to be the he's
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: not back next year bone unless they're, like, around the
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: top 10 in offense.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know about that. This might be a matter
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: of semantics, Mac, but are they not a— championship offense
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: already they are the defending nfc south champions what more
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: do you want here pal yeah.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Forget about the fact they rank like 30th and 29th
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: and 31st and many categories who.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Won the championship last year how many teams won the
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: south oh there's one it's the panthers.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Now to your point if you want to say hey
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: they got to repeat his south champs he needs to
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: take another step i feel like he set the bar
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: a little too high bone um almost like he might
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: be a texter to the show under a different name
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: The way he set the bar high.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: But that was interesting. Thought that was notable. I mean,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: that's just not a high bar, Mike. That's like making
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: a basketball goal 17 feet high and saying, go dunk.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: I'm just not sure with the offensive line situation, just
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: with the overall personnel yet. And, you know, Bryce isn't
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: the type of guy, Bone, to carry the overall offensive
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: personnel to No.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: 10 and off.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Like, there's a lot of things going on there. But anyway,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: all right, so let's talk about the news from last
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: night because the 53-man roster for now, the initial 53-man
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: roster was released last night. Dan Morgan made us wait, man.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: We had to wait until almost 8 o'clock when the
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: cut-down deadline was 6 o'clock to get this roster.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Is that because, Mac? He talks to all of them, like,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: via Zoom, or does he talk to each individual that
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: he's released, probably?
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: I guess is probably what the delay was. I don't
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: know what was going on. I would guess that Dan Morgan—
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: I just know it seemed like every other team had
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: their cuts announced.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: And we were just waiting. I would guess that knowing
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Dan Morgan, the human, he definitely wants to make sure
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: he's talked to every guy that he's released. Yeah, I
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: could see that. That might be part of the reason why.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I could see that.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: He also, Bone, we know he worked that trade late.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: That was described by Adam Schefter as the trade that
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: they made for Terrell Edwards, or T-Ryle Edwards.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: T-Ryle!
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Figured out exactly how to say that name. But the
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: young second-year defensive tackle that they got for next year,
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: a 2028 defensive sixth round pick in the draft. That
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: deal was described as a buzzer beater by Adam Schefter.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Like that was right before the cuts were due at
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: six o'clock. So maybe that pushed it back a little bit.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: We didn't really talk about this in the first hour.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Haynes King makes the roster. Kyle Trask is cut, but
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: it's Pickett as the backup behind Bryce and Haynes King
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: on the roster. So congratulations to him, man. I know
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: he said on Friday night to Joe Person, he says,
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: I was healthy enough probably where I could have played.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: on Friday night, but they wanted to make sure this,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: you know, injury doesn't reoccur and bother me all season,
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: but Haynes King's on there. Only three running backs on there.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: HN suffered a first quarter ankle injury the other day
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: on Friday night. He got put on IR designated to return.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: So he's got to miss the first four weeks, only
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: three running backs. Um, uh, but AJ Dillon is on
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: their bone, man.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: So congratulations to AJ Dillon. We didn't curse him, though,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: last week. Now, Haynes King Mack will be the emergency
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: guy most weeks, right? So he won't be in there
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: unless the first two goes down. Unless, if he is
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: active for a game, Mack, would that tell you, for
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: any time, would that not tell you that maybe perhaps
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: that they would want to use him in some sort
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: of Taysom Hill role at some point? Yeah, that's possible, too.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: So if he ever is active, I wonder if that, oh,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: he may have something special for him in this particular game.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that could be interesting to watch. They kept five
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: tight ends. These definitely some of these numbers position wise
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: were not what we were expecting. Five tight ends. So
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: everybody that we've talked about made it.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: J.T.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Sanders, as of now, is still on the team. There
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: still has to be some movement to this roster, obviously.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: But J.T.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: 's there. Waller's there. And special teams ace Felipe Franks
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: is there, too. Yeah, he had to make it. He
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: provides too much energy. And also, like Dan Morgan was
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: talking about on the broadcast, there's a level of skill
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: at that tight end spot for Felipe Franks. He's shown
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: some ability where I'm starting to wonder– Is he going
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: to be more of a threat in the passing game
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: as a tight end than we ever thought he was
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: going to be? He's starting to show some things there.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: That play at the end of the first half where
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: he caught it, made a guy miss, went and got
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: the first down, he has been better as a receiver
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: than we thought, which brings me to my point.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Why do we have five then? You know what I mean? No,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: I get it. I don't get it.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Is this a thing, Bone, where they're not sure Darren
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Waller's completely ready yet? but they don't want to release
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: him where someone can add him to their roster. I just,
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: to me, are they worried about his health after the
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: three inches last year?
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Like I'm personally done with JT Sanders.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: I'm not trying to be mean and rude about it,
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: but if they could cut Trevin Wallace, which by the way,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: was one of the major headlines yesterday is Trevin Wallace
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: outright waived. Not a bench player, but outright waived. And
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: they are bringing in Bobby Okereke, but he has not
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: been signed yet. So they do have to at least
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: cut bone one person to make way for Okereke at linebacker. But, like, JT,
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: I just don't see the need for five tight ends,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: to be honest with you.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: No, and you have five tight ends right now with
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: 10 offensive linemen. So you have 15 spots right there.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: As of now, obviously, one of the offensive linemen we
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: think probably gets moved. I mean, Zavala made it. Bobby
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: O gets signed today, probably. Zavala, Forsythe, and Albert Reese.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Albert Reese, undrafted free agent tackle, who had been really
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: good in the preseason until Friday night when it got ugly.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Dave Canales gave him an excuse, though. He said he
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: got stuck against a 5'10 edge rusher who was so
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: low to the ground that it gave Albert Reese trouble.
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: Ha, ha, ha, ha.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: He ran into a Phinney Marwell. Yeah, was Phinney out there?
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Phinney was at Harrah's with Bailey, so it could be Phinney.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: But yeah, Zavala, that's another one. Again, not trying to
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: be rude, just trying to be honest this morning. I
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: don't see the need for Chandler Zavala to be on
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: this football roster. I feel like he's another guy, Bone,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: that has gotten chances, and I thought he had a
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: bad preseason, and I'm not sure the need for him,
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: unless you don't fully trust Brady See's health yet. Yes,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: certainly possible. But Brady Seed should be the backup guard. Oh,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: you know who we didn't mention yet today, Matt, that
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: didn't make it? Credit to a texter for pointing it out.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: We have not mentioned that Isaiah Simmons did not make
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: the roster yet. That's another one that sort of caught
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: my eye there. Only kept the four safeties. Yeah. I
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: thought for sure he was going to make it for
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: the special teams abilities, but... They did not do it. Again,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: they want guys that can contribute both in special teams
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: and in the regular play. And if you are limited
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: in one area, you're probably on the way out of
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: this thing.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: I would expect them to try to get Simmons back
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: on practice squad.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: David Moore, they cut. They did not keep David Moore
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: or Jasim Reed. Mechie. Mechie was a surprise keep for me.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: What would we do without our vitamin D, Mac?
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Definitely a surprise. They're going to bring him. They're going
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: to try to get him back on his practice squad.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: I've talked to some sources. They're going to bring David
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Moore back by the International Pathway Program. He'll be David Moret.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: He'll go get the international players. A wide receiver out
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: of France.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Mechie was surprising to me. I, I, they've had him
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: so down, down so far, but he liked that one
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: so far in the pecking order. I did not necessarily
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: think he would show up there. The fact that HN
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: is on IR for the first four weeks, Jimmy Horn,
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: it's his return man job, which I'm kind of excited
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: to see. I like what he did as a return
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: man this off season. Um, so these are some of
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: the things that are surprising. If you've got thoughts on surprises,
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Corey Thornton's gone. Did he get Matt cursed? I hyped
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: him up incessantly, much like I did the Wolfpack, Bone,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: this summer.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: So did I.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: I think Justine Reed's a no-doubt practice squad guy. I
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: think he'll be one of the 16 there for that.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: I would think so, too.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Thornton is another guy you can bring back on practice
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: squad if you want to. Caleb Evans, though, takes Thornton's spot.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: This was first suggested by Mike Kay last week in
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: his 53-man roster. The feeling is, Bone, he's such a
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: special gunner. A Caleb Evans that that is why. So
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: maybe a Caleb Evans gets on there for his special teams.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Frank's in large part. And maybe they just felt like, OK,
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: we can only do so many special teams first guy.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: So maybe that's why they chose. But with Simmons to
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: cut him. But again, I think Simmons is another guy
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: they want to keep around.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: I would think. There's a certain number of practice squad maggots,
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: 16 guys, and how does it work again? There are
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: six guys that are, they said the other day.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: In the project 10 guys are have to be first
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: or second year players okay six guys can be any
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: experience at all so those six spots david moore um
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: simmons there there's yeah they've got a handful that can
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: go in there but they got six spots for those
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: for those veterans.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Surprised are you mac that jackson kuwach made it now
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: again bobby uh Okereke is coming in here. And Bam
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Martin-Scott's on IR for the first four weeks. So, Kuwach, Mag,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: I thought he'd be on the practice squad, but he
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: makes the initial 53 again for now. I know, man.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of Kuwach.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: Kuwach!
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Kuwach Nation out there has been texting us.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Some of y'all have been saying, hey, what's up, Akua?
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: And I just kind of thought, like you, that's probably
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: a practice squad player. But to his credit, as a
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: seventh-round pick, he went in there and won a job. And, yeah,
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: until we get Okereke on there, he's one of three
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: inside linebackers that will eventually become four. And we'll see
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: what happens when Bam Martin Scott's eligible to come back.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Okereke. I've been saying Okereke. I want to make sure
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: we're on the same page here. I don't know. What
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: have I been saying? I don't know. I'm just going
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: to say O'Kara Key. O'Kara Key, yeah. O'Kara Key, yeah.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I just call him Bobby O. I
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: call him 143 tackles, and he's better than what we have.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens, Bone. You know they're going
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: to look at the waiver wire. Remember the year they
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: picked up six guys off the waiver? I'm not sure
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: they're doing anything near that. Could there be a couple
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: waiver guys? O'Kara Key, two. could there still be a
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: few guys that exit this roster? So it's not final.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: They can start adding to that practice squad today. But, man,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: it's here, man.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: It's close. There's also 1,000 dudes out there from other teams.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: That's the other thing we have to monitor as well.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: It's not just their own guys in practice squads. If
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: there's someone else out there that they like, that's another
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: part of this thing. There are so many guys that
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: flood the market at once now. It's going to take
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: a little bit of time for them to figure it out.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Morgan said the other day they have, what, like 800,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: 900 guys files on guys ready to go if they're
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: cut so they got a lot of work to do.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: 100 um uh panther bow says david moore you can't
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: cut that fella or no david what did you say
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: again who what's david's name david morey yeah he says
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: you can't cut that guy another texter says so when
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: do the photos get shared by david moore that he
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: has on canalis but if they keep them on practice
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: squad maybe bone maybe the photos don't get shared You know,
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: we kid because we care.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Listen, I think that's a good sign, Bone.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: That he's not like so stubborn about the David Moore thing.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: He'll try to keep him around, but he's not so
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: stubborn that if there are young guys like Jimmy Horn
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: and they think John Mechie, I would have kept Reid
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: over Mechie. But Mechie also is a guy that could
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: be like a kick return option. Could it be Horn
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: and Mechie back there together?
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Jimmy catch punts and he don't care. So we'll see.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Bones on a roll today, man. A roll, baby. Jimmy
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Crack Horn. I got you. I got you. Let's go
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: to the victor. My heel's got to win this week,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: and I'm happy.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: People are trying to call out Fitty today, saying he
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: was not with Belichick all offseason. But, Fitty, you got
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: yourself a dub, and you called it on Friday. You
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: get an update, my friend. What do you got over there?
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: It's all right to be a little fitty a little
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: hometown or a big old city.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Might as well share might as well smile.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Life goes on for a little fitty.
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• 33:26
  Speaker 4: It was a weekend of upsets from UNC taking down TCU.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: to myself securing a second date. And even late last
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: night into the wee hours this morning at the 2026
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: US Open up there in Flushing's Meadow, where the fourth seed,
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: Novak Djokovic, dropped a five-set thriller in his opening round
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: match to get the tournament started.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Off with the bank.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: Venus Williams did not take the court until well after
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: 12 o'clock this morning. She got beat as a 46-year-old,
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: but the No. 4 seed, arguably the greatest hardcourt surface
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: player of all time, is out at the U.S.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Open. And Serena, who you called overrated, also on the way. Matt,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: did you see how much the turkey sandwiches are at
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  Speaker 2: the U.S.
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• 34:28
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• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Now it's the roasted turkey sandwich, which is high level.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: $ 30.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Pastrami is $ 29. How is pastrami cheaper than turkey? It's
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: a special turkey, I guess. It's a bargain, Finney. Get
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: up there. Get that bargain pastrami deal.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: I would love to go, but my guy's out of
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: the tournament.
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: I have no reason to go now. Well, I like
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: Alcarez and all the Americans.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: All right, when we come back. I believe that's our
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: tennis for the week, y'all.
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: I'll be back.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: When we come back, it's weekend conclusions. We have a
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Charlotte team. that won a championship this weekend. We'll salute them.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I'll update how Murphy did on his first college football day.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Update not good.
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: Uh-oh.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: And Max got some conclusions as well. Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Maxey got around his man, coming toward the middle. Still St.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Maximin crossed to the middle.
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: Pep Biel took a shot on it.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: A rebound, they score!
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Idan Toklamati cleans up the Pep Biel cross and the
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: crown to the lead in Atlanta thanks to great play
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: from Alan St.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Maximin and Pep Biel. That'll surely be St. Maximin's first
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Charlotte FC goal contribution with a secondary assist. ran out
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: of gas there at the end it was like reading
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: a disclaimer on an ad.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: Like me going home on 74 he.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Was losing his breath he was like me introing the
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: show today after i had to jog up the stairway
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: he did not have the full uh air in the
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: pipes at the end though but it was an exciting
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: goal and it started when a great team moved from
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: all the way back in our end where they played
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: so calmly against the press out the back. Next thing
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: you know, Schnegg gets it. Schnegg's been amazing at left back.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: He and Cleary, I think they're upgrades, honestly, over the
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: vets at the fullbacks. But he gets it to Maxie,
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Maxie to Pep, and Pep to Toklamati. Bone, who owns
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Atlanta more? Charlotte FC with four straight wins in Atlanta
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: or Bryce Young?
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: It's pretty close, isn't it? Yeah, they both have parts
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: of that building that they own, right?
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: Seriously.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: That game could have been a lot worse, too. Oh,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: it definitely could have been. Tokobani finally got one, but
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: he was close a few times before that where that
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: could have been even a lot worse than it was.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: It definitely could have been, and they didn't allow any
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: legit chances. That's the worst Atlanta performance I've seen since
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: the last time I saw Tua play for them. I'm
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: telling you, Atlanta, get ready, baby. Week two, you about
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: ready to lose another football game in your own stadium
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: to a Charlotte team. All right. Anyway, all right, let's
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: do it, baby. Let's get to weekend's conclusions. Let's get
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: to it, Bone. What did you conclude this weekend, sir? Mac,
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: we have a championship squad in the Queen City. Congrats
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: to the Charlotte Crown. There you go. Who won the
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: inaugural Upshot League Championship, New Women's Basketball League, by beating
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: the Jacksonville Waves in the title game over the weekend.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: How about that? They hung on late. 81-76, I believe,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: was the final. Yes, it was. Deja Kelly, the former
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: UNC player, was the MVP of the– of the championship.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Please tell me her nickname is Vu. Deja Vu, Kelly?
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: I don't have that information.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: That would be a good nickname, calling her Vu.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: But anyway.
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: Now they call her something else.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Now, calm yourself down over there, Fetty.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: She's representing the city of Charlotte, and she won a championship.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Calm yourself down, my friend.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: But anyway, Bone, I have joined you with sorry dad
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: jokes here this Monday morning.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: I have joined you. Remember when Joe Obvious Mac had
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: a problem with the way Charlotteans are with the The
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Carolina Hurricanes. I don't want the OG podcast celebrating this
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: upshot championship. No, this is ours, y'all. This is ours.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Stay away.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: All right, Bone Man.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: I've got to shout out the Memphis squad, Bone, that
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: went to UNLV late Saturday night.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: An amazing game.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: And, yes, I recorded it and watched it the next morning,
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: the second half, because I wasn't staying up for the
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: second half. but Memphis bone with a brand new coach. Um,
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: our guy Huff bone has been at Marshall Southern Miss
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: and Memphis now the last three years, but my God,
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: he had Memphis ready to play. He might not be
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: there for all UNLV.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: It's true.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: UNLV bone was getting playoff hype as the group of
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: six representative Dan Mullen squad and Memphis that D line
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: was hunting in the damn second half. I think it
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: was like 11 tackles for loss and six sacks. They
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: were eaten. And now all of a sudden, Bone, everybody's
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: throwing UNLV out and is wondering, could Memphis be a
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: group of five playoff contender?
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: That was a hell of a game. He had a
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: great celebration afterwards, too. He was on the ground. He
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: got knocked down. He went up to chest bump a player.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: The player knocked him on his keister. I love it.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: That was fun. Also, Fitty Mack, not a football guy,
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: didn't watch it live. I'm just saying, Mack disappointed.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Me on that one. There is no way, Bone, you
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: were up at what time that end? Like 2 in
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: the morning?
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: No, I wasn't.
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: It was pretty late because, yeah, I fell asleep at halftime.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: That's when I went to sleep, but I knew I
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: was watching the second half. I knew the final score
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: during a pee-pee break, but I didn't watch it live.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: Dude, Brando was cranked. He had a couple of rants.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: He was fired up.
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: He was in mid-season form.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: It was good to hear Brando rant about something other
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: than politics on the Kyle Bailey show, you know?
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: All right, what you got, Boney? Mac, it was my
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: first college football Saturday with my new puppy, Murphy. Now,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: when Mabel was alive, one of the great football-watching partners
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: you could have, she slept all 12 hours both days.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: There was no issues with her. So how did Murphy, Mac,
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: handle the first college football Saturday? I'm here to update
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: you that he was absolutely horrible. Ha, ha, ha. I
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: had to yell at him at least 30 to 35
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: times during the games. At one point, he came out
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: during the NC State game with a credit card in
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: his mouth. He somehow got my wallet, and there was
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: a credit card. He wasn't chewing it, but he had
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: it in his mouth like he wanted to order some food.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: That's a little scary. Yeah, so he.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: You know, he's a freshman, and there's some growing pains there.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: It was not a good first Saturday.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, I think that's what you're in for, Bone, because
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: he doesn't know the Bone man's watching. He doesn't know
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: this is important. I gave him a speech before the games.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: I said, man, this is football. You've got to lock in, man.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: And he looked at me and said, all right.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: And then he just completely... Here's what I think you
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: need to do. You need to tire him out so severely.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: I say the entire time game day is on on
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: Saturday mornings, you walk him. Now, the problem is this
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: may kill you as well. But, like, if you literally
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: walk that dog in the heat for three hours, I
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: think you might at least get to the 7 o'clock game, Bo,
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: before he comes to.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: But that would take Chelsea Bowen away from the TV.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to watch it on your phone. You
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: got to watch it on your phone there. See, like
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Chelsea Bowen yesterday, he... He kind of sleeps in that
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: because his normal routine would be he sleeps when I'm
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: at work. So in the morning, he does get his
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: rest in. So during the Premier League, he does catch
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: up on his sleep. He behaves himself. But when we
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: get to that 12, 1, 2, 3 o'clock range, yeah,
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: good luck on that one. Chelsea, by the way, is
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: like a Big 12 football school. Seriously. What is it?
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: Like a combined 12 goals in their first two games.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: They can't be stopped. They can't stop a soul. All right, anyway.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: But it's fun. I need to wrap this up.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: I guess Finney said he wants to do a conclusion
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: about a listener.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: So we got to hear this. This isn't about Anne Hathaway,
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: is it?
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: I just simply want to say, Bone, that I have
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: no idea what these youths are into nowadays. I do
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: not understand what kind of movies these young kids, Bone,
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: find entertaining. There's a movie called Buddy that I don't
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: know if you're familiar with, Bone.
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: I'm not.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: Little Mac Jr. was telling me, I'm going to see
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: this movie. It's a horror movie.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: It's Buddy.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: My daughter then asked me, can you take me to it?
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: Because she's not 17 like her brother is. So she
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: needs an adult to take her to the movie. She
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: and I have watched a bunch of horror movies together
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: because mom is afraid of horror movies.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: So I'm her go-to.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: She doesn't like me being around much, but I'm her
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: go-to for horror movies. We go and see this movie, buddy.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: What a demented, hilarious, silly horror movie this is. Bone,
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: it is about a giant....
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: Fluffy unicorn that hosts a kid's show, and he just
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: starts killing the kids.
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: What?
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: Oh, my God.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: I was dying laughing the whole time. It's such an
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: absurd concept. And Caitlin is like.
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: Why are you laughing? Everybody can hear you laughing. I'm like,
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: this stuff is funny. I can't take this stuff seriously.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: So it's got Patton Oswalt, Topher Grace, Kenan Michael Keith.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: Kenan Michael Keith does the bunny, the murderous unicorn voice.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. I was somewhat amused, but why the
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: heck are kids into that weird crap? Not based on
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: a true story, right? No. I saw the end of
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Oak Street last week about the dinosaurs. Tremendous movie.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: Slightly different. Slightly different than this insanity I saw.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: This might be scarier. Finny, you got an update for
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: us here? What's going on there?
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a message from a concerned listener, Panther Steve,
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: formerly known.
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: or currently now known as Panther Weenie.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: Steven Whitaker for the general public, right?
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: Yes, he messaged me wanting to know how my trip
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: to Cherokee was.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: And then he followed up by asking me, I hope
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: you have voiced my displeasure to Mac and Bone about
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: calling me Panther Weenie. If they want to fight me,
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: I'll show them that I'm far from being a weenie.
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: I said to him, I will pass the message along.
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: He replied, and if they want to have a tag
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: team match, my brother will join me.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. Look at this dude. Brother weenie. This
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: dude taking things seriously. This man is around 58 years old,
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: and he wants to fight people because he's been called weenie.
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: He would not have survived at the seventh grade lunch table.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: Panther Steve, we'll.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: Give you some free tickets, which is what you really
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: want out of life, and we'll call you Weenie.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: How about that? How about we call it a deal?
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Free tickets, we call you Weenie for life. Do you
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: think telling Fitty that you don't like being called Weenie
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: is going to make us not call you Weenie?
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're like children. You tell us not to do something,
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: we're going to do it even more. I think y'all
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: can take them, though.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: We'll treat them like Buddy treats the children.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: Don't make me get my buddy, the unicorn mascot outfit on.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: When we come back, UNC with a huge win. State
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: got mollywhopped. What does that say about the type of
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: seasons these teams will have? Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ.