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Mac & Bone Hour 1: Panthers Injury Updates & Dabo Holds Court · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: What's up, party people? Bueno, como esta? Oh, oh, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's Mac and Bo.
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  Speaker 2: This is my friend, Matt.
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  Speaker 1: It's a beautiful work Wednesday, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: This is my friend, T-Bone.
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  Speaker 3: If I'm over there blowing my instrument, I'm not focused
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  Speaker 3: on whatever's going on over here.
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  Speaker 4: You guys are the best.
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  Speaker 1: Pony, pony, pony, pony. They're the best. I love those guys.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be the butthead.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to the Mac and Bo Show on Mac
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  Speaker 5: and Bo Radio.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Charlotte. Welcome aboard a little midweek, a little
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  Speaker 1: Humpty Hump, a little hump day edition of the Mac
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  Speaker 1: and Bone Show. It is week one in college football.
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  Speaker 1: And yesterday, Dabo was the star of the college football world.
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  Speaker 1: I mean... You could give him a whole hour for
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  Speaker 1: that pressure yesterday. He was funny. He was basically calling
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  Speaker 1: out Lane Kiffin. Um, he then at one point said
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  Speaker 1: how proud he is of Lane Kiffin improving himself as
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  Speaker 1: a human. He talked about the quarterback situation. Um, it
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  Speaker 1: was good stuff. It was good stuff. So, uh, We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk a lot about Dabo today, a lot about LSU
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  Speaker 1: and Clemson, the premier matchup in Week 1. We'll start
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  Speaker 1: talking about the other ones, too, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 1: We've got all kind of Panther stuff, too, because Dan
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  Speaker 1: and Dave held their first pressers after the cutdown. So
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  Speaker 1: you know we're going to talk a lot about what
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  Speaker 1: they had to say. So we've got a lot happening, man.
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  Speaker 1: Football is on, baby. We will talk about it today.
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  Speaker 1: on the Mac and Bone show it's also a win
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday with our guy Westy Charlotte FC just keeps on
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  Speaker 1: piling up the dubs so Ashley Westwood captain of Charlotte
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  Speaker 1: FC joining us at 7 45 here on the Mac
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  Speaker 1: and Bone show Bone is in the house you could
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  Speaker 1: hear him there the fit dog is in the house
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  Speaker 1: what is that what is that noise you're making I
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  Speaker 1: don't know I just made a noise I was just
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  Speaker 1: trying not to interrupt you, but I was trying to
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  Speaker 1: act like I was engaged. Oh, I like that. I
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  Speaker 1: like that. I like that. I wanted to say good
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  Speaker 1: morning to you, bro. Bro Montana. What's up, Boney? What's up, man?
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  Speaker 1: See what I did, bro Montana? I like that. I
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 3: I have a new thing where I'm going to see
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  Speaker 3: how many consecutive days. I can call you a different
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  Speaker 3: name of a bro or something of that nature. So
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  Speaker 3: that's my new quest here. You and Fitty were putting
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  Speaker 3: in great work for the show. You were down in
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  Speaker 3: the lab collecting audio. Then Fitty puts it all together
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  Speaker 3: to play. I'm up here thinking of things like bro Montana.
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  Speaker 3: That's my role. Is there more to come? I currently
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  Speaker 3: have a list of 61 of these things. So we're
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  Speaker 3: good for about three months. We're good for about three
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  Speaker 3: months of names.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to come until a curmudgeon says, I don't
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  Speaker 1: tune in for this type of stuff at six o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: Bro Montana, what are you doing? What are you doing, son?
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  Speaker 1: There was a whole.
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  Speaker 2: Commercial dedicated to this bit like a decade ago.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there was.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like Bro-tato Chip?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All sorts of names of Bro.
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  Speaker 1: Mac and I got a kick out of that, so
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  Speaker 1: we're bringing it back, Bro Montana. There you go. Ten
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  Speaker 1: years later. Let's do it. Let's do it. I also
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  Speaker 1: accidentally sent the list to Mac today, so he already
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  Speaker 1: knows them all. Yeah, kind of. Spoiler alert. Spoiler alert. Well, hey,
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  Speaker 1: Bro Montana here with you, and we are broadcasting live
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  Speaker 1: from our Uptown studio that is presented by Harris Cherokee
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  Speaker 1: and sportsbook partner. I do have to issue a warning
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  Speaker 1: bone to you and everybody else. Fitty on the dump button.
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  Speaker 1: I was telling you guys what had happened, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if a listener's got a good suggestion to me.
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  Speaker 1: I had to fill up my little gas can that
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  Speaker 1: I used to fill up the lawnmower the other night,
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  Speaker 1: and I overflow some gas from the pump all over
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  Speaker 1: the can. So I'm wiping the can down, but that
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  Speaker 1: thing sat in the back of my car. I since
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  Speaker 1: have wiped down that area in the back of my car.
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  Speaker 1: But we're a day and a half later. I was
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  Speaker 1: in the car for over three hours yesterday because I
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  Speaker 1: had to drive to Statesville last night for a Sun
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  Speaker 1: Valley soccer game. The boys did win. But I have
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  Speaker 1: been in this car so much, I am loopy from
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  Speaker 1: the gas smell. I cannot get rid of the gasoline smell.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know if anybody has any suggestions, but
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  Speaker 1: this is annoying. My daughter was livid with me yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: What is this gas smell? What is this?
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  Speaker 3: You came in today and said your gas can was leaking,
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  Speaker 3: and Fidi and I thought it was a medical problem,
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  Speaker 3: and it was fajita night again that caused this problem.
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  Speaker 1: It usually is leaking, yes, to your point. This is
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  Speaker 1: actually a gas problem I think it's worth talking about.
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  Speaker 1: But I swear it's affecting my mental, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: have much mental to begin with. Yeah. You kind of
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  Speaker 1: got a little glazed look in your eye right now. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It can't be healthy, Fetty.
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  Speaker 2: Have you thought about just opening up the back of
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  Speaker 2: the car?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I had it open up for hours yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: And it was still strapped in there?
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  Speaker 1: He was driving like Ace Ventura down the highway this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand. I wiped it down, bleached, detergent.
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  Speaker 2: You may need to go to Auto Bell. You may
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  Speaker 2: need to pay $ 30 and have the pros clean your car.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's possible, I guess. Damn. I don't like spending money.
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  Speaker 2: My cousin works at the one in Munger. I can
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  Speaker 2: get you a discount.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, now we're talking, man. Now we are talking, baby.
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  Speaker 1: Sidney's idea was, did you roll your window down?
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, I was talking about opening the back of
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  Speaker 2: the car.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had everything.
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  Speaker 2: And just letting it sit there in the heat of
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  Speaker 2: the day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had everything open for a while and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, man. I don't know, bro-tater chip. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what the heck's going on. But anyway, I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to— You're so high, man. You're like bro Montana.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to battle through the fog here. And we
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  Speaker 1: are going to talk football today. So, OK, at 625
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  Speaker 1: or so, we'll start letting you hear. There's so much
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  Speaker 1: stuff from Dan Morgan, Dave Canales about the roster moves,
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  Speaker 1: about the current roster. Dan. We've got to talk about
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  Speaker 1: some potential strategies that Dave Canales was discussing, asked about,
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  Speaker 1: trying not to tip things off with the opener a
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  Speaker 1: week and a half away. We will start, though, with
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  Speaker 1: the injury situation. Devin Lloyd back at practice. That is
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  Speaker 1: one bone that I wanted to see. It has been
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  Speaker 1: a long time since they practiced. It's been six days, right?
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  Speaker 1: Because the last practice was the joint practice against Houston.
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  Speaker 1: So Devin Lloyd's back. That's good to see. Okereke joined
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  Speaker 1: him right next to him. And yes, Dan Morgan said
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  Speaker 1: we plug in him right into the starting lineup with
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  Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd. We also saw the returns to practice of Chuba. XL,
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  Speaker 1: Haynes King. You knew this was coming because Haynes King
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  Speaker 1: told Joe Person after the game on Friday, I could
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  Speaker 1: have played tonight. They didn't want me to play. So
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  Speaker 1: they wanted me to take caution, make sure I didn't
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  Speaker 1: hurt it again. So we knew that was coming. But now, Bone,
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  Speaker 1: we've got Darren Waller on the side. They say it's
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  Speaker 1: still part of the ramping up process. This has been
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  Speaker 1: a very slow ramping up process. But the big headliner, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe it's not much anything, is that Jonathan Brooks
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  Speaker 1: was on the side with the trainer because of what
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  Speaker 1: Canales called as soreness. And that probably has a lot
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  Speaker 1: of Panther fans worried. Yeah, hopefully it's just because he's
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  Speaker 1: getting hit for the first time in a long time
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  Speaker 1: fully in extended periods of time.
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  Speaker 3: Hadn't been hit in six days, though. I just mean
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  Speaker 3: in general, maybe it's taken a while to get back
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  Speaker 3: acclimated to... real life football stuff so maybe that hopefully
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  Speaker 3: that's just part of it you're thinking positive.
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  Speaker 1: Here yeah i mean again i'm not on here trying
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  Speaker 1: to alarm anybody i would not do that so i
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  Speaker 1: would not freak out and alarm an entire city but
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  Speaker 1: yeah he had not played since the joint practice six
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  Speaker 1: days ago and he's got soreness and he's coming off
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  Speaker 1: two torn acl so that's just that you know what
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  Speaker 1: i mean This isn't just any regular old, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, Joe out there. To use your Joe theme.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to take a long time not to worry
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  Speaker 1: about him. Yeah, exactly. I think that's what I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to say.
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  Speaker 3: If he gets up slow, he's going to be one
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  Speaker 3: of those guys where every time he grimaces, you're going
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  Speaker 3: to collect your pearls.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely, definitely. So, I mean, that feels notable. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: what happens. We do have a week and a half.
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  Speaker 1: until the opener against the bears we are one week
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  Speaker 1: away from the nfl opener next week which is still
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  Speaker 1: weird to say on a wednesday niners leave today man
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  Speaker 1: to get ready the how about that the niners leave
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  Speaker 1: the day to get acclimated to australia sean mcveigh says
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  Speaker 1: they will be leaving they will be like getting there
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  Speaker 1: like 24 hours in advance that's that's insane to me
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  Speaker 1: Feels like the Niners strategy is better.
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  Speaker 3: This is not going to London, man. This is going,
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  Speaker 3: what is it, a 19-hour flight?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: This is not going across the pond simply here. No,
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  Speaker 3: this is a different level of travel. That is, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: advantage Niners on that one. Those are two completely different strategies.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Two completely different strategies. Although with the Niners.
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  Speaker 3: They're probably going to practice next to an Australian substation.
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  Speaker 1: Did the fake guy get on there? The fake Niner player? No,
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  Speaker 1: I believe he was posing for his mugshot. That man's
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  Speaker 1: got one hell of a forehead on him. He has to,
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  Speaker 1: after seeing that forehead, I'm like, oh yeah, he has
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  Speaker 1: to pretend to be an NFL player to get any babes.
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: There is no way a woman's going for that forehead
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  Speaker 1: unless he says he's rich.
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  Speaker 3: How funny it would be, Mac, if they showed him
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  Speaker 3: getting off the plane and there's that guy holding his helmet.
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: There he is, baby. And how'd he find a helmet
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  Speaker 1: to fit that thing to wear on the beach? He
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  Speaker 1: was working out on the beach in a Niner helmet.
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: That's Peyton Manning, Mike Ford. That's an advertisement. Back to
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  Speaker 1: the Panthers. Chandler Zavala is back with the Panthers. Back
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  Speaker 1: on the practice squad. Not only active roster, but still
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  Speaker 1: with the team on the practice squad. The practice squad
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  Speaker 1: bone is officially finished. finalized. They announced Zavala back. They
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  Speaker 1: announced defensive lineman Anthony Goodloe. Tyrell Dodson, linebacker, officially announced.
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  Speaker 1: Offensive lineman Torricelli Simpkins, officially announced. And cornerback Zion Childress back.
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  Speaker 1: So the practice squad, Bone, is put together. So there
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  Speaker 1: we go. We're ready to go, baby. And of course, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: I remembered all those names that you just rattled off.
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  Speaker 1: How could I forget? Can you say all those again, please?
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  Speaker 1: I've lost track here. But there will be a quiz later, Bone,
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  Speaker 1: on the Panther practice squad. All 17 of those bad boys.
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  Speaker 3: We had a guy yesterday in the flow of the
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  Speaker 3: show ask, who does the practice squad play against? I
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  Speaker 3: think he thought that the practice squads play like... like
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  Speaker 3: JV games against other teams. I had to explain like
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  Speaker 3: what the practice squad was yesterday to a listener.
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  Speaker 1: He thought they played 17. They had two 17-man squads
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  Speaker 1: and they played each other. What do you think that
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  Speaker 1: was like? Did they play that in the morning on Sunday? Like,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, it's like in the JV spot before
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  Speaker 1: the varsity.
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  Speaker 3: I was trying not to be mean, but I was like,
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  Speaker 3: what do you think that, yeah, like the Carolina JV
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  Speaker 3: basketball team. Is that still going on, Finney? The JV
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  Speaker 3: basketball team? It's got to be a thing.
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  Speaker 1: No. No.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, interesting. I didn't know that. Damn, damn. And who
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  Speaker 1: did they ever play, Finney? Because no one else had
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  Speaker 1: a JV.
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  Speaker 2: They played like Fork Union, and there were some other schools.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know what? Fork Union, you too.
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  Speaker 3: Again, whatever Mac says today, great job by Mac today.
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  Speaker 3: It's all in the gas problem.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I'm loopy, man. Mac said something dumb today.
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  Speaker 3: That wasn't dumb, but if you do, it's all because
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  Speaker 3: you're all gassed up. It might have been dumb. We
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  Speaker 3: got so many suggestions here. A lot of people want
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  Speaker 3: you to light a match and see if it works
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  Speaker 3: or not. Get that smell out of there.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds like I'm not that loopy to where I
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  Speaker 1: like that idea. That'll take a few more days of loopiness.
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  Speaker 1: Any who.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to talk about Dabo a bunch today.
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  Speaker 1: And Bone, you actually called this off the air. You
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  Speaker 1: said to me, wait until Dabo does his presser this week.
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  Speaker 1: He will say he will have an opinion about what
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  Speaker 1: is going on. with pro players coming back to college,
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  Speaker 1: including multiple ones at LSU. And sure enough, he did.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't wait any longer. This is going to
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  Speaker 1: play multiple times during the show today, but I can't
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  Speaker 1: wait any longer, Fitty. We have to play this clip
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  Speaker 1: where he talks about pro players coming back to college football,
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  Speaker 1: and nobody is shocked that Dabo can't stand this.
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  Speaker 7: Rarely am I at a loss for words, but Chapel Womack,
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  Speaker 7: kind of a loss of words. I would just say
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  Speaker 7: it's kind of embarrassing. I mean, honestly, it's just embarrassing
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  Speaker 7: that that's where we are. And I don't blame the
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  Speaker 7: kids and people trying to take advantage of the system.
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  Speaker 7: I just think it's embarrassing where we are with college football.
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  Speaker 7: And we've been there for a while, so it didn't–
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  Speaker 7: I just– I just keep my energy and my focus
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  Speaker 7: on and my energy on the things that I control
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  Speaker 7: and the things that matter, and that's these kids here
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  Speaker 7: and our team. But, you know, all that outside stuff,
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  Speaker 7: I mean, we just kind of– no pun intended, we
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  Speaker 7: just stay in our lane, you know, here at Clemson.
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  Speaker 1: Try to.
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  Speaker 7: Every now and then somebody will ram into us, but
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  Speaker 7: we try to just kind of handle our business here.
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  Speaker 1: But it's embarrassing.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it really is. You know, we have no rules.
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  Speaker 7: There's no governance. I mean, it's a joke. There's zero rules.
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  Speaker 7: And when you enforce rules, somebody just goes and finds
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  Speaker 7: a judge to say, no, you can't enforce that rule. So,
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  Speaker 7: I mean, never did I think I'd be living in
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  Speaker 7: an era like this, but that's where we are. You know, hopefully,
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  Speaker 7: eventually there will be some different things coming down the pipe.
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  Speaker 1: Man, Reverend Sweeney is preaching right there, man. I don't know, Mac.
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  Speaker 3: His approval rating yesterday may have never been higher because
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  Speaker 3: a lot of times when Dabo speaks, there's a split thing.
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  Speaker 3: We're even more so anti-Dabo, myself included, on what he said.
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  Speaker 3: But yesterday, it felt like that was the most approval
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  Speaker 3: rating consensus wise that dabbo has had because of the
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  Speaker 3: side he's on the words that he said i thought
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  Speaker 3: full no no cap no cap i thought dabbo was
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  Speaker 3: tremendous yesterday the in 49 i said full cap that's
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  Speaker 3: not even a thing no cap no cap there you
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  Speaker 3: go yeah you get full cap is.
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  Speaker 1: What you want to do to your gas can when
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  Speaker 1: you put it away get it straight there um dabbo
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  Speaker 1: uh 49 states in the country Everybody in those states
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  Speaker 1: are nodding right now. Obviously, Louisiana is the holdout. They
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  Speaker 1: don't give a crap about rules right now. They want
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: Lane to get the best team he can put together.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, he was preaching. And I love it when
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  Speaker 1: he says, no pun intended. We got to stay in
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  Speaker 1: our lane. Believe the pun might have been intended, Bo.
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  Speaker 1: Believe the pun was intended. I heard Smoke Ludwig say
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  Speaker 1: yesterday he made the same stay in your lane comment
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  Speaker 1: on his coach's show the night before. So I have
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good suspicion, Bo, the pun was intended. And
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  Speaker 1: now the question is, does that tick off? Is that
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  Speaker 1: a rallying cry in the LSU locker room? We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about that later. Does that tick off Lane Kiffin and company? Although,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, Dabo did say some really nice stuff
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  Speaker 1: about Lane and how much Lane has improved himself as
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  Speaker 1: a person and all that stuff. But that's the headline
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  Speaker 1: right there. That's the thing, Bone, everybody's going to be
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  Speaker 1: talking about right there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the big question, we'll talk about it later
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  Speaker 3: as we get more into, oh, yeah, there's a football
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  Speaker 3: game being played on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: LSU, motivated?
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  Speaker 3: Distracted it's one of those great unknowns of when you
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  Speaker 3: put a whole new team together like they are new
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  Speaker 3: coach and everything is new it's hard to know exactly
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  Speaker 3: what clemson is facing besides a very talented football team
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  Speaker 3: but their mindset it's all new this is a fascinating
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  Speaker 3: matchup here because while lsu is very talented it's also
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  Speaker 3: very new for all them as well keep that in Yeah, I.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Mean, it's people not just from the NFL. It's people
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: from every league in America. NFL, Sunbelt. They probably got
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: someone from every conference on that team. They got so
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: many transfers. So it's a melting pot right there. And
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: I do think for Clemson, it's probably the time you
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: want to play LSU. It's probably in week one. I
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: would say the cohesion bone is probably the lowest it
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: will be all season. So this is a juicy one.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: We got a whole segment later about all the storylines
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: of this game. Dabo did acknowledge yesterday Vazina's the starter.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: He did say in the presser that maybe they'll both play.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: He also separately in a one-on-one interview, was it with
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: David Halebone? Yes. Did say, yeah, both guys are probably
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: going to play. So it does feel like there'll be
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: some sort of package or a series or something for
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: the freshman Tate Reynolds. We also need to mention, Bone,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: that the Braves lost last night 9-5. It was nice
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: of them. They were doing a Dolly Parton tribute. They
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: wanted to lose 9-5 to salute Dolly yesterday. The Nationals
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: beat them 9-5. What a weird week for the Braves.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: They had a make-up standalone game against the Giants at
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: 6 o'clock on Monday. Then it's a two-game series with
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Washington that includes a 1 o'clock game today. And then
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: they're off on their way. Smith-Shalver having to be in
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: the rotation right now, Bone, is... is not ideal uh
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: he ended up giving up five in four innings last
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: night and he has given up bone and the last
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: three starts 12 earned runs in 13 and a third
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: inning it's just it's it's a clear weakness obviously when
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: the young buck has to you know when it's his
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: turn in this rotation.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Right now mac i have a question for you whatever
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: happened to that guy named spencer strider I see him
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: selling music and doing concerts in Atlanta. But what is he?
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Is he just never going to what's happening? I know
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: that he got hurt in June being facetious, but Spencer Strider,
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: is he just never going to be what we thought
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: he was going to be? I guess I guess he's
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: out for it. They're going to roll him out for
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: the season, I guess. Like he's just is it just
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: never going to be what we thought it was going
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: to be for him at this point?
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, is he out for the season officially? I
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: thought they were. I feel like he is, right? Yeah,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: I think so. Or they're about to rule him. I
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: have to go check. Also, Braves have their... Walt Weiss
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: says it's unlikely he will return this season.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go. He said that a couple days ago.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: They have their big series with the Phillies this weekend,
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: the Braves do. So it's college football. It's the Braves.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: They just.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: They just can't fully bury the Phillies. The Phillies have
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: won six in a row again, and they still remain
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: three out with seven to play with each other.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: The Spencer Strider thing's sad, man. It is, man. Because
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: he could be an all-time great. But unfortunately, there's a
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: long list of pitchers, Bone, that fit the description of
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: guys that have nasty stuff and so much talent. And
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: those arm injuries. You know what I mean? He's kind
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: of Mark Pryor-like in a way. That's a name that
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I think of. Yes, that's the one right there. Of
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: a guy that flashed as a young guy immediately, and
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: you thought, wow, this guy's got Hall of Fame stuff.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: And then very quickly, he just never– he kept waiting
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: and waiting and just never happened. Hard to keep those
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: arms healthy, man. And that's why if you– I mean,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: I don't mean to get all preachy here, but if
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: you're coaching young kids and you've got a dude that's
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: got it, like, man, you've got to watch his arm.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Like, that stuff. Some of the stuff, some of the
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: curveballs and stuff, they got kids throwing so young.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: You can almost see guys that are time bombs. Like,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: you don't want that to happen because dominant pitchers, like
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: I grew up with Pedro and Randy Johnson, and those guys,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: they can be awesome to watch. But at the same time,
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: a guy like Mizorowski is awesome to watch. But when
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: he throws 300 pitches this year, faster than everybody else
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: in the league, it's just a matter of time before
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: you go.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Is he good is that going to hold up and
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: last your hope you're just hoping remember linsicum with that
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: crazy motion yeah and that's what's amazing about chris sale
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: still going right now is who would have thought that
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: frame the way he threw then he had all the
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: injuries but yet he bounced back it's pretty i know
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: you didn't bone because the second they signed him you
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: said this dude will be hurt he was hurt four
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: years in a row yeah but then he did get
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: hurt in the post before the post season last year
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: but hopefully this year he's been amazing man dan and
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: dave hold their post cut down pressers yesterday we react
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: to that bobby okereke talks about why he joined the
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: panthers plenty of reaction to panther news from yesterday on
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: sports radio 92.7 wfnz no cap radio Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Mack and Bone with you. Getting things going here on
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: a Wednesday. Inching closer to a full week of college football.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: And cannot wait, man. We're going to talk more college football.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Talk college football a bunch today. Aaron Murray's going to
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: join us in the 8 o'clock hour from CBS, but
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: coming up at 845. More from Dabo. Dabo had a
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: good zinger. Dabo. Dabo had a good zinger yesterday, too.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: So we'll get that one for you coming up at 645.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: In fact, Picante suggests you put baby powder on that situation.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I think Picante tuned in late and thinks you have
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: a personal hygiene problem going on. Baby powder on what situation?
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: The gas car situation. I think he.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Picante may be confused and think you're having a man
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: issue and not a car issue.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: He says baby powder and baking powder will get to
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: take the odor. I had baking soda. I was using
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: it back there. I don't know if I didn't scrub
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: every part down that touched the gas can. For those
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: of you just joining us, because this could be confusing,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: I'm going on a day and a half with a
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: gas smell in my car. from a spill on my
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: gas can before I put it back in the car.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: So if anybody has any fumigation ideas, let me know,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: because this stuff is making me high, man. Someone said
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Max's car is going to catch fire like Ricky Bobby.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: He's going to be running around in the bend. Oh, man. Anyway,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: all right, so I'll deal with those suggestions. I know
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: everybody's helpful out there. We've got some good suggestions.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: 704-570-9610.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: We've got baking soda. Vinegar and water. That's James from
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the 704. NASCAR Brad had, go to Walmart and buy Ozeum.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: It's in the car care section. Ozeum. That sounds like
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: a substance getting you suspended from the NFL. Yeah, it
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: sounds like something people will find in a sting operation. Okay, okay,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I've got to work on this. Hot Dog Condiment says
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: eat less beans. Different sort of gas smell in my car.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I'm used to that other smell, though, that other gas
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: smell lingering in my car. All right, let's talk some
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Panthers here. We want you to hear things that Dan
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and Dave said yesterday. I mean, we're just loaded up
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: between Dabo's comments, Dan and Dave's comments. I mean, we're
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: just loaded up with interesting stuff that was said yesterday.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: I do want to mention, Bone, Dan Morgan was asked
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: about some of these guys with the long-term injuries. He
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: did say that he expects Icky, Wharton, and Moten to
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: be ready at some point this season. But, of course,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: there was no time frame given. So all we know
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: is they've got to miss the first four games, every
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: one of those guys.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and like we've said multiple times, it's technically the
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: first five weeks because of where that bye falls. So
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: they have a break there with that. So it'll be
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: interesting to see if these guys are back for week
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: six or if it's after that or what happens there.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, your guess is as good as mine. I
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: have no idea.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: First of all, a blood clot in your lungs, that's
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: nothing to mess with.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: That's not a hamstring. That is a life-altering thing.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Icky's injury, I mean, the CIA doesn't keep secrets like
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: this about Icky. And Wharton, it's a neck injury. I
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: think you've seen him, too, out there, Bone, how good
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: he looks hitting the sled, running around. He's in shape.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: He looks good. The problem is, when are you ready
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: to put your neck into that gauntlet in the trenches?
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? So all three of those,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: it's not even worth trying to figure out, although we'll
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: keep doing, when they're going to come back. Dan Morgan
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: also said that ETN, Bam Martin-Scott, and Brady Christensen, they're
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: all on IR. He also expects them all to be
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: back at some point as well, but of course... Uh,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: no timeframe. Uh, let's listen to some of these comments bone.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: So, uh, Dan Morgan asked about cutting Trevin Wallace. It
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: was just, um, back in 2024 in the draft. His
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: first draft is GM, uh, He takes a day two linebacker.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: We're all thinking, oh, Dan knows linebackers. And it didn't
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: work out. They cut him. He ends up getting claimed
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: by the Jets. And Dan Morgan talked about cutting Trevin Wallace. Yeah,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: it's difficult.
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: You know, me and Trevin, we developed a really close relationship.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: He's been in my office multiple times, us watching tape together.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: I really, you know, wish him the best. Obviously getting
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: claimed by the Jets. Really happy for him and his family.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: And a new start for him, a new direction. And
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: I know he's excited about it. But, again, those decisions,
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: they don't come easy. But I think bringing linebackers in
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: like Bobby Okereke, bringing Tyrell Dotson onto the practice squad,
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: and then having Claude Cherlis and Jackson Kuwach, Two young
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: guys that we're really excited about. We feel good about
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: our linebacker core.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Interesting to watch, Mac, how this plays out.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: I was going to bring up Ku watch there anyway,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: because one of the storylines with Dan Morgan in his
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: time so far is, you know, the misses in the
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: draft like we get so far.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: We'll see, but right now it doesn't look great.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: But doesn't hit on Liget high in the draft, but
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: yet he finds a gem in Coker in that same draft.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Trevin Wallace, he obviously didn't hit on.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: He's gone.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: But does he hit on Kubac, who ends up being
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: a guy that's a contributor? So it's interesting how it
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: works out, where sometimes you miss on higher-drafted guys, but
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: right now Dan Morgan seems to have a feel for
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: some guys that go late in the draft or undrafted.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: So much for the feeling that, oh, he played— that' s his position.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: He can't mess that one up. You know, that's not a,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: you know, absolute. There's no doubt about it. The draft
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: is not any sort of absolute science. No doubt about it.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: And we'll see what he does with the Jets. Obviously,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: injuries have been a part of it as well, but
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: he's just— I mean, he has struggled to make impact plays.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, so many times go by, you don't know
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: he's on the field unless he, you know what I mean?
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Unless he misses a tackle or beat in coverage.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: And at that linebacker spot, he had every opportunity with
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: the way the roster has been the last couple of years, right?
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: He's had every chance to be the guy and just
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: didn't fully grasp it when they wanted to.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: It's a shame.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: They wanted him to be, he was their draft choice.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: They wanted him to be that guy and they let
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: him have the chance. He just couldn't grasp it.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: They were begging him in his third training camp, begging
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: him to take the job. He couldn't take it. And
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: it's a shame that he was not at a point
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: where he could have been trusted and played with Devin Lloyd.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Because I think that really would have helped him. But,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: you know, Dan gave up. And I appreciate the fact
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: that he's willing to admit a mistake. You know, don't
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: prolong it. Admit your mistake and move on. Dan Morgan
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: was also asked about the very unconventional conventional keeping of
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: five tight ends on the roster.
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: Keeping five tight ends, you know, I think it really
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: comes down to each of those guys have a specific
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: skill set that we like. And, you know, if you
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: go down the line with Tommy, you know, really good
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: blocker and receiver. Mitch, you know, just a big body
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: wide blocker, you know, who's also a very capable wide
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: out for us. So you go down the list and
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: Darren Waller, to answer your question, you know, I think
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: he has a unique skill set that I think we
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: can utilize. I know Coach Canales and his staff are
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: really excited about having him and what he can bring
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: to our offense, a different dimension to our offense. I
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: think that all went into keeping Darren.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: So it makes sense. They do all have varied skill sets.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: It does feel like when those roster spots are so
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: precious and Dave talked, Canales talked yesterday about the Haynes
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: King decision was a hard one because they usually keep
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: two and a third one on the practice squad. They
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: just didn't want to risk losing him the waivers. But
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: like he says, that makes the roster math tougher. And
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: then you throw five tight ends, five tight ends to me.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's necessary. I don't know, Bone.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's sustainable for that long to have
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: three quarterbacks, five tight ends, yet only three running backs,
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: by the way. I know Tyus is on the practice squad.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: It is notable that only three backs right now are
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: on the field.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: There's no fourth. At some point, you would think they
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: may need a fourth running back on there, I would guess.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: My guess is that they want to give Waller time here.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: to get up to speed. And then at that point,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: I wonder if they do something with JT Sanders. But
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: we'll see. There's also the thought, I know KB was
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: talking about it a bunch yesterday, and Canales was talking
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: about it. Hey, does this mean more of that 13 personnel, right?
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Which is one running back and three tight ends. Lord
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: knows the Rams ran it well. They might have been
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: running it on that final drive when they lit us
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: up in the playoff game. I know it was a
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: tight end that got the touchdown on us. But that's
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: interesting to me. But then you're taking like a coker
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: off the field, and you're playing three tight ends. And
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: it's like, our tight ends are kind of eh, you know?
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: But it just, you know, it creates mismatches, right? Where
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: you're in the three tight end set, they load up
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: in base set, and then you all of a sudden
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: can spread out. And especially the guy like Waller, if
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: he's one of your tight ends, you can flex him
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: out and get him on a linebacker and go to town.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: So it's five tight ends for an offense that hasn't
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: fully utilized a lot of the tight ends.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: That's that's another point, too. Yeah.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: It's not like this is a offense where it's heavy.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: You know how Max Seattle works in a lot of
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: different tight end. Some teams use tight ends a lot.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: The Rams, for example, right.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: And the Panthers don't really Panthers don't really utilize a
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: lot of tight end stuff.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I would venture to say the Rams probably don't even
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: have five on the roster. I think they have the
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: four that they use. Matter of fact, I would ask
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: the question, does anybody in the league other than us
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: have five on the roster? It has to be extremely
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: freaking rare, man. It really does. By the way, Darren...
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Think Siri's got that for you? She's ignoring me. I
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: thought women only ignored Finney. No, that joke doesn't work anymore.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: You know you're annoying. Finney's got a sweetie now. You
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: know you're an annoying man. Even Siri's like, bro, that's enough.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Why did you talk to Siri and the printer started working,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: by the way? That was creepy.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I said Siri, show us five. I asked her
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: if Siri's tight end, and that might be why she
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: was offended. Oh, yeah, she's reporting you to HR right now.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: I was talking to Siri, and something printed out over here.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Canales, because Dave Canales was
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: asked about an interesting roster move, keeping Mechie on this roster,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: and he talked about why he won that job.
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: I mean, it's huge, and Jimmy did a great job
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: this summer as well in the return game. John showed
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: he can do it. I would say the consistency that
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: John showed throughout camp and then just when we got
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: into game-type situations, his ability to make yards after the catch,
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: catch it and accelerate, picking up 15, 20 yards across
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: the field, catching it, stopping, getting it. He had a
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: bubble this preseason where he caught it, kind of slipped
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: up the sideline, made a guy miss and got nine
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: on a bubble. That probably would have been a three-
• 32:32
  Speaker 8: or four-yard gain. all that hidden yardage, those things really
• 32:35
  Speaker 8: piled up for Dan and I in our mind, a
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: guy that we certainly could use.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: So there you go. And he was talking about at
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: the beginning the return abilities. And apparently Horn and Mechie
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Bone were the two guys doing the punt return duty yesterday.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: So I'd like to see Horn get first crack at
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: punt returns, kick returns. You figure it's going to be
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Horn and Mechie back there. But we'll see. Mechie's in
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: this mix as well. And Mechie also had success in
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: returns yesterday. in the preseason. Your printer's fired up over there.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: You got that baby going over there. Did Siri print
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: that for you? I was printing out something for you, man, actually.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I was printing out the Panthers. Here you go. Grab
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: that right there, big guy. Grab that, bro. It's the
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Panther depth chart for you right there with the practice
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: squad guys. Thank you, Siri. We're doing this all year.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Siri, the printer.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: I just handed Matt the Panthers depth chart with the
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: practice squad guys. See, I'm always staying.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: I'm a teammate, man.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: That's a bro's bro.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: I'm your co-host, but I can do a little producing
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: like I used to on the side.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: I'm your everything, man. That's what I am. That was
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: well done right there, Bro Bro Trader. Very well done. No, nothing?
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Nothing on Bro Bro Trader? Oh, I didn't, but son
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: of a... JoJo Trader, NC State. Do me off there.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Were you not listening, bro? We lost him. We lost him.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: What happened to that thing you do to make sure
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: you listen to me? Mm-hmm. Where'd that go? Where'd that go?
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: All right. Anyway, last but not least, Bobby O'Karakay was
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: introduced yesterday to the media. Dan Morgan and Dave both
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: told you, yeah, he's plugged in the starting lineup initially.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: And in order to learn this offense, Okereke yesterday had
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: a receiver in his helmet where he gets to hear
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: the play calls come in. He said, no, I will
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: not have the green dot. I've already conceded that to
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd. I said, Devin, it's your show. He's a
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: guy who's had the green dot a lot in his career,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: but he will not be doing it here. Yesterday he
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: talked about how long has he been talking to different
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: teams and the whole decision of picking the Panthers.
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: Just being an eight-year vet at this point, I wanted
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: to make sure I was going to a really good
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: fit position-wise, opportunity-wise. And, yeah, we've been having these conversations
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: with multiple teams since basically March, April. But, yeah, just
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: kind of knowing the belief and trust I have in
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: myself to prepare myself for a season, I just wanted
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: to make sure I was going to the right opportunity,
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: and it felt great, and obviously it did here.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Was that waiting process hard for you?
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: It was interesting, for sure. I was definitely itching to
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: play football, for sure. But it was good.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: I'm an eight-year pro.
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: I love working out. I love taking care of my body.
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: I feel fresh. I felt fast out there today. So
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: I just kept myself mentally strong and ready to go.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: So there you go. It is kind of a quick turnaround, Bone,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: for a guy that just got into camp. And will
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: be starting in a week and a half. That's a
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: quick turnaround. But sounds like he's keeping himself in shape.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: He's a true pro, right? You get the feeling he is.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: He's a man of his word in terms of keeping
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: himself in shape. I also think the timing, Bone, is
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: not a coincidence. He's an eight-year vet. He literally signed
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: right after the final preseason game. I do not think,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: much like Aaron Donald did, I don't think either one
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: of those things are coincidences, Bone. I think they both said,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: trade a camp, not for us.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: It was interesting, Mac, how quickly Bobby O might be playing.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: But yet when Dan Morgan was asked about Tyrell Dotson,
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: he was talking about catching up to speed and he'll
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: be on the practice squad. It sounded like, you know,
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: for one guy, he's going to have to move very,
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: very fast. And with Dotson, it's going to be almost
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: like a warm up, kind of like Darren Waller's had.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: It sounded like a little bit there. They definitely signed it. Yeah,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: and we'll see. We'll see if it shows with Okereke.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Hasn't hit anybody since last season. You know, hasn't been hit.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: So I do wonder about that a little bit. Do
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: you see some rust in the first game? I honestly
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: believe Tyrell Dodson is... right there with Okereke. I honestly
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: believe that. And he's a little bit younger, too. And
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: I think it's only— and Dan kind of said it without
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: totally saying it, but it sounds like, you know, Dan
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: was with Dodson in Buffalo. He was there when they
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: brought Dodson in as an undrafted free agent. So he
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: says that's a big reason why Tyrell came here. It
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: sounds like he probably told him, hey, you're going to get—
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Because a guy like that,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: my first thought is he's too good for a practice squad.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: That's what I thought too. But I don't think it's
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: going to be long.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: He's got a good relationship with Morgan also, which is
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: part of the reason why he is taking that opportunity there.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: So long-term, that's a good thing. Morgan's relationship's panning out there. Mack,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: real quick, you always get a kick out of when
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Panther fans want to– you know, move a player to
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: tight end. How about this one from Triple Dipper? He
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: wants to know, can Felipe Franks be the break glass
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: in case of the emergency quarterback? We want to now
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: move Felipe Franks from the tight end spot to the,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know, the fourth quarterback, I guess. Don't let
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: the Haynes King bros hear you, man. Do not let
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: them hear you. He is, it is crazy that he
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: was a quarterback. That's what he was recruited to Florida as.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Cause I mean, and I say this with the absolute affection.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: I love this kid. He is a lunatic in a
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: good way. Quarterbacks usually ain't built like that. No, no, no, no, no.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: They ain't crazy like that. By the way, shout out
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: to Big Tex, the best text bone of the day
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: about my gas situation. Not personal gas. The gasoline scent
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: in my car. Big Tex says, just take the gas
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: can out of the car. Big text. Is that how
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: dumb the listeners think I am, Bo, that I just
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: left the gas can in there for two days? Fair question.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: When we come back, more from Dabo's must-hear presser yesterday,
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: including comments on the QB spot. Lincoln Riley defends the
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Southern Cal attendance problem. And Tim Albin makes Mac proud.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: You'll hear that. Sports Radio 92.7.
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: I've been spending these last week or so studying the
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: Browns and the Cowboys and the Saints and the Bucks,
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: you know, trying to get ready. I actually got to
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: go watch practice early June for the Browns, so I'm
• 39:14
  Speaker 7: probably going to get turned in for tampering.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: I wish I'd have known.
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: I'd have paid a little more attention. But, yeah, it's crazy.
• 39:24
  Speaker 7: It's hard, you know.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Dabo was on fire yesterday. on absolute fire, man.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: He gives good press conference.
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: He does.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. He gets people talking. It
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: was enjoyable.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: He gets people talking, whether you agree, disagree, like him, don't.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: He is in a time when the sport doesn't have
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: as many characters and willing to say stuff like they
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: used to.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: That dude will say whatever that nothing sums up the
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: state of ridiculousness we are in right now. Then Dabo
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: was at Brown's practice and many coaches will do this right. Visit,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: you know, different camps, you know, NFL camps as college coaches,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: stuff like that. and didn't realize it, but there's a
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: very good chance there was a guy in that practice
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: he will be playing against. We'll see. We'll see what
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: happens with the Thursday court case and whether or not
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: there is some sort of restraining order or whatever legal
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: word I'm looking for here. That's because on Thursday we'll
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: find out, Bone, are they going to hold up? The
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: guys from being eligible before the case ends, which who
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: knows when that is, or are they going to let
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: them play until. The case ends. So we will see.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: We still have no idea. We've got TROs. We've got RPOs.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: I'm surprised Dabo didn't say that yesterday.
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: RPOs.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: That would be a great Dabo rant. We're out there
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: trying to run the RPO. They're running the TRO.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, it really would. That would be a great Dabo rant.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: No doubt about it. I can't wait for the game.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: We'll talk more later. 7.25, we'll talk about this game,
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: all the storylines. Clemson fans, how are you feeling midweek
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: as we get ready for week one?
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: College game day will be fascinating on Saturday, right? It's
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: in Baton Rouge. um in that setting but there's going
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: to be a lot of talk about what's going on
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: uh within the sport involving lane kiff and that'll be
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: a very interesting setting on saturday for college game day
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: and all the discussions they're gonna have.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: I'm guessing lane's going to join them on the set
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: for an interview because he's not gonna this dude doesn't
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: turn down an interview because they're.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Week three uh they're in oxford he's not gonna join
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: him for that one so i would i would guess
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: that for this one for sure yeah.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, don't they usually get the home coach on? Yeah.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: And this dude, didn't this dude try to get himself
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: on the ESPN broadcast of the Ole Miss playoff after
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: he left last year?
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Like, this dude does not say no to airtime, does he? Oh, man. Anyway,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: what a couple of— And Pat McAfee, of course, is
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: going to suck up to him. We've got the way
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Kiffin and the— He already did that last week. He
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: already sucked up to him last week. I'm not watching
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: game day unless McAfee performs his music live. That's the
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: only way that I'll switch from Premier League soccer to
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: watch that on Saturday morning. And all those guys having
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: to act like it's great. I do want to shout out, Bone.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: I do want to shout out Tim Albin, Charlotte head coach.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: And we'll start to give you more of the sounds, Bone,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: from the pressers of the local coaches in the next
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: few days. But Tim Albin yesterday opened his week one presser.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: with a 10-minute opening statement before any questions were asked.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: That is the way I open a show sometimes, Boat.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Just talk for 10 minutes and then say, oh, Boat,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: I didn't see you over there. How you doing?
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the only way I jump in early is if
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: you're out of breath from the stairwell.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: That is true. That is true.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Good reference. See you at the Strom Thurman reference. That's
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: a great reference. But anyway, I am very intrigued to
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: see Cole Gonzalez play. I know it's a game against
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: the Citadel for Charlotte, but the kid has talent, man.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: The kid has talent. I'm very intrigued to see him play.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Strom Thurman, Mac. Dead or alive, Strom Thurman. He's got
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: to be dead at this point, right? Isn't he? Wouldn't
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: he be 160 if he was alive? Let me check
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: this out. Strom Thurmond.
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you got this one right. We lost old Strom
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: in 2003 at the age of 100. That's what I'm saying.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: He would literally be under 23 years old at this point,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: which actually I thought one of his filibusters was going
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: to go for 123 years. So having said that, thoughts
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: and prayers to the family of Strom Thurmond. Oh, there
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: you go. Bone finally asked me an easy one there
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: that even I could not mess up. I want to
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: talk about this USC crowd situation, the Southern Cal crowd situation.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: It's gone viral. Everybody's seen the screenshots. If you weren't
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: watching the game, I could not believe, Bone, the pregame,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: I think it was Catherine Tappan on the field right
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: before the game on NBC, and it was like, That's
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: that's what you got for the season opener. This hyped
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: up USC team, all these hyped up freshmen. And by
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: the way, damn near all of them played really well.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: But there was more. It was brutal. More attendance in
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Philly's man cave than the Coliseum. It was brutal, man.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: And of course. They had to shamelessly announce it as
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: 51,000 fans. I think it might have been closer to 51.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley came out yesterday, Bone, and defended the attendance. Said,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: this is USC. People are always going to have an opinion.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: I don't buy into the false narrative. I think that
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: comes from a lot of people that don't follow our program.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: And most of these people have never stepped foot in
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: the Coliseum. We don't need to step foot in the
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Coliseum to look at the stands for your game and
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: see that it was very, very empty.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: For a team that is ranked in a playoff contender.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: I know that Lincoln Riley is, is on the hot
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: seat in some ways, but that, that team is still
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: loaded up to have a good year. And maybe quite frankly, Mac,
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: it's time to not consider them a, The real USC anymore.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: Take that title away. You don't want to watch your
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: team play? How are you the real USC? The real
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: USC doesn't have that problem down there in Columbia. No,
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: they don't. That is such an LA thing, too, by
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: the way. Like, I could go to the beach. I
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: could do this. I could do that. I could go
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: see USC. No, I'll wait for USC to play some
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: primo game. That is very LA.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, can we be seen on TV? Well, maybe not really. Well,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: then we don't want to be there. In a very
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: college football moment in Lubbock, Texas this week, Joey McGuire,
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Texas Tech head coach, had to take a little shot
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: at USC.
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: Not to take any shots, because I have a lot
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: of respect for USC and Lincoln Riley, but man, it's
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: really awesome to be playing in Lubbock, Texas, knowing we're
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: going to be playing in front of 60,000, and it's.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Going to be warm.
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: It's going to be every bit as warm as it
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: was Saturday. The great thing is we've got some really
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: tough people at West Texas that love their football, and
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: they're going to show up. And no matter what the
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: weather's like, there's not going to be any excuse of
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: why they're not going to be here for us.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: That's right. The heat wave in L.A. was the big
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: excuse given. But not to take any shots, though, Boat. No,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Joey Maguire, not to take any shots, but allow me
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: to take it. It's like when you say no disrespect
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: and then you proceed to disrespect.
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: That's what he did there to bring the segment full circle.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: We like to call him Brody Maguire.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: There you go. There you go. Check out the top
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: of the hour and that'll make a whole lot more sense.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: Hilarity ensued today, I believe.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Maybe not.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: When we come back here on the Mac and Bone Show,
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: we know Panther fans are stressing out about the offense,
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: but how is the defensive confidence holding up? Are we
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: expecting a top 10 unit? Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.