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Mac & Bone Hour 3: Panther Fans Optimism · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Fitty.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we appreciate all the texts trying to talk
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  Speaker 2: some sense to him. The Bill Simmons thing. I don't
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  Speaker 2: mean to insult Fitty here bone. The Bill Simmons thing
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  Speaker 2: is really hard to believe. Like Fitty's just a knucklehead
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  Speaker 2: in his twenties. That's stubborn, and you can't tell him anything.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Simmons is old, he's a father, a husband, like
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not saying that, but there's a lot there invested
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  Speaker 4: in Bill Simmon, and why would you take that risk?
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  Speaker 3: The futures mama. Though you don't wear a seatbelt. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: I have a bigger responsibility to the world than Bill
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  Speaker 5: Simmons does. Like there should be more upset I'm not
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  Speaker 5: wearing the seatbelt than some podcast guy that you know
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  Speaker 5: stalks Conco.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very upset you don't wear a texture has a
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  Speaker 2: theory that he doesn't wear the seat belt so he
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  Speaker 2: can reach during the fast food drive through. That cuts
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  Speaker 2: his range of motion. That could be a good call anyway.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, he does have company Bebop. Bebop has
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  Speaker 2: you are not a no coun is pro seatbelt. Someone
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  Speaker 2: was saying something like he has a song this again,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know damn thing about hip hop into two thousands,
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  Speaker 2: but Kanye apparently has a song about like not being
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  Speaker 2: too cool to wear a seatbelt. So I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: y'all tell me, but anyway, let's move along. Let's move
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  Speaker 2: along here, Bonie. Let's talk about the Panthers first. I
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  Speaker 2: want to think about week one for a second. Listen
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  Speaker 2: to Brian Baldinger, he's been at Bears camp. Listen to
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  Speaker 2: Baldy talk about what he saw from our week one
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  Speaker 2: opponent in Chicago.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I saw the division winner from a year ago,
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  Speaker 6: the Chicago Bears at Allas Hall, and they read through
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  Speaker 6: it two and a half hour scrimmage. And Ben Jonson's
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  Speaker 6: just the definition of AI. He's just a machine. And
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  Speaker 6: the offense looked very, very good. Cayleb looked awesome, Like
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  Speaker 6: I think, just watching him interact with new guys like
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  Speaker 6: Khalif Raymond, who's a speed demon, you know, just interacting
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  Speaker 6: with the guys like he's in a leadership role. They
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  Speaker 6: have some work to do on defense right now. They
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  Speaker 6: lost Kevin Byer, who led the league in interceptions, They
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  Speaker 6: lost nay Shan Wright, they lost Jakwan Brisker, and Kobe Bryant,
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  Speaker 6: who they picked up from Seattle they were counting on.
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  Speaker 6: He looks like he's going to miss a big chunk
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  Speaker 6: of the season. So they've got some questions on defense.
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  Speaker 3: So and that I think that tracks.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, offense can be scary, no doubt
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  Speaker 2: about it. But I'm glad he said that because all
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  Speaker 2: this hype and they are one of we had on
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  Speaker 2: Ben Fawks right, the gambling guy. They are one of
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  Speaker 2: the hot trendy teams. It seems like it seems like
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  Speaker 2: they're one of the teams that people almost want to
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  Speaker 2: be good, the vaunted Chicago Bears. But that defense bone
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  Speaker 2: is extremely flawed. That's been my point this whole time
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  Speaker 2: when we talked about how ninety three percent of the
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  Speaker 2: spread bets are coming in on Chicago that defense. I
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  Speaker 2: think Bryce can have a big time success against so.
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  Speaker 4: On the other side, I don't disagree with how good
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  Speaker 4: their offense can be, but Luther Burden looks like he's
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  Speaker 4: going to go right up until that I'm if he's
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  Speaker 4: going to play, and that's a huge deal for the
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  Speaker 4: mag No more Dj Moore. There's a lot on Burden
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  Speaker 4: to be that one of their main guys. The early
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  Speaker 4: thought on that game is, I do think the Bears offense,
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  Speaker 4: even if Burden is not in there is still with
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  Speaker 4: Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams, is going to be a problem.
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  Speaker 4: They always say though that the defense is ahead of
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  Speaker 4: the offense. Well, for the Panthers in this game, they
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  Speaker 4: will need their offense to be ready to go because
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  Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be a game where some points
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  Speaker 4: are scored. They can score on the Bears defense, the
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  Speaker 4: Bears can score on their defense. I think we may
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  Speaker 4: get the rare, relatively high scoring Week one game. A
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  Speaker 4: lot of times I always go lower on the points
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  Speaker 4: for Week one, but I think there's gonna be some
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  Speaker 4: points on both sides in the fix.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely could be a fun one.
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  Speaker 2: Man could have a similar feel of the two Rams games,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. It could feel kind of
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  Speaker 2: like that. Maybe I do not have much fear of
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  Speaker 2: that Bears defense. That's what I'm saying, man, That's what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying. All Right, let's talk about out something you notice,
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  Speaker 2: Bone and it it's we got to discuss this. So
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  Speaker 2: it's the fan It's the Optimistic Fan Rankings. It's based
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  Speaker 2: on a survey done by a website of five thousand
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  Speaker 2: fans across all thirty two fan bases to find out
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  Speaker 2: which fan bases are the most optimistic and which fan
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  Speaker 2: bases are the most pessimistic. It's no shock Bone to you,
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  Speaker 2: certainly or anybody, that your New York Jets Bone are
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  Speaker 2: number thirty two on this list. I'm pretty sure you
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  Speaker 2: did not bat at eye when you saw that. No, No,
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  Speaker 2: I would be if they weren't Brown's thirty one that tracks.
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  Speaker 2: They got rid of Miles Garrett. They have the saddest
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  Speaker 2: quarterback competition. Why is America and ESPN obsessed with that
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  Speaker 2: quarterback competition? I think that's it, but it's just like, really,
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  Speaker 2: this needs this much airtime. But anyway, let's get to
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  Speaker 2: the important stuff of where the Panthers are. And I
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  Speaker 2: want to hear from y'all. Do y'all think this is right?
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  Speaker 2: Or do you think we're more optimistic than this? Seventeenth
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  Speaker 2: The Panthers are seventeenth bone in terms of optimism, and
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  Speaker 2: the CBS Sports right up again. This is based on
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  Speaker 2: a survey of five thousand fans and all fan bases included.
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  Speaker 2: The rite up says Panther fans are drinking the kool
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  Speaker 2: aid after watching their team capture the NFC South in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. It's safe to assume Panther fans are
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  Speaker 2: confident Bryce Young will take another step in his ongoing development.
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  Speaker 2: I would say most of us are. There are some
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  Speaker 2: of you that staunchley are still skeptics. Obviously those teams
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  Speaker 2: that are around us. Dallas is one behind us in optimism,
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  Speaker 2: which is how is that insane fan base? Not one
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  Speaker 2: of the most optimists?
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  Speaker 1: Are you?
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  Speaker 2: They always like how bad a business are you? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they're still in the mid nineties right now. Houston Texans
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  Speaker 2: are two spots behind us, which is interesting. The way
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  Speaker 2: Stroud played last year late in the year in those
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  Speaker 2: play playoff games. Maybe a factor there. Twentieth is the Bengals.
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  Speaker 2: They improve that defense a lot, but their optimism still
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  Speaker 2: ranks below us. Vikings twenty one. Then you go right
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  Speaker 2: ahead of us bone Tampa sixteen, Washington fifteen, Jacksonville fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: Detroit thirteen. So are we when you think about who's
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  Speaker 2: around us, are we? Is it right for us to
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  Speaker 2: be the seventeenth most optimistic fan bait? I would think
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  Speaker 2: we can go should be a bit higher than that,
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  Speaker 2: at least a couple spots higher, certainly higher than Tampa.
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  Speaker 2: They've got the Baker Mayfield stuff going on, They've got
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  Speaker 2: the Vita Veya stuff, Todd Bowles on the hot seat.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of pressure MAC right now for them
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  Speaker 2: to win. Now.
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  Speaker 4: I think the Panther fans, from what we see, should
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  Speaker 4: be more optimistic than the Bucks fans. And I never
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  Speaker 4: really think of the Washington fans, the ones I know
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  Speaker 4: at least as being that optimistic. They're negative, They're upset
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  Speaker 4: about something that's kind of doom and gloom. I would
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  Speaker 4: have the Panthers mac. I know Daniels is back and
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  Speaker 4: you know it should be healthy. But I would have
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  Speaker 4: the Panthers at least ahead of those teams and then Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 2: We can debate that or not.
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  Speaker 4: But the other two I would say, yeah, they should
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  Speaker 4: be head of Tampa in Washington.
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  Speaker 2: I yeah, that was kind of my thought too when
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  Speaker 2: I saw this. Washington just lost tons Sol. Now this
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  Speaker 2: survey might have been done before the tons of injury. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean he's gone for the damn season. Possibly,
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  Speaker 2: that is a huge blow. I don't know if the
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  Speaker 2: Panther injuries played a role of this. It does seem boning.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, heck, I'm looking at the Panther ten win
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  Speaker 2: club and my name's been crossed off, right, So I
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  Speaker 2: know the injuries have shook me a little bit. Although
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  Speaker 2: I still believe we're the best team in this division.
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  Speaker 2: I will I'll ask you this way, how do you
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  Speaker 2: guys view our level of optimism as a fan base?
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  Speaker 2: You guys, listen to the show, you listen to us talk,
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  Speaker 2: you listen to OKAB taking calls, you listen to the
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  Speaker 2: Texters and what they say. You talk to your your buddies, like,
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  Speaker 2: do you feel like we're kind of middle of the road.
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  Speaker 2: I would have hoped bone, coming off our first division
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  Speaker 2: title in what ten years, our first playoff berth in
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  Speaker 2: eight years, I would have hoped for top half of
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  Speaker 2: the league optimism. Again, I understand this is a five
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  Speaker 2: thousand fans, This is far from a perfect scientific study, right,
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  Speaker 2: but I would think we have to beat to your
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  Speaker 2: point bone about moving us up at least a couple
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  Speaker 2: of spots. I would have to think where we've been
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  Speaker 2: as a team and where we were last year the
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  Speaker 2: offseason Dan Morgan had, especially with Phillips and Lloyd coming in.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like, I just find it hard to believe if
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  Speaker 2: you could somehow scientifically study or optimism, that we're not
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  Speaker 2: at least top half of the league. I haven't really felt.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, you're always gonna have some fans that are negative,
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  Speaker 4: your bops, your bagels, your whatnots. You're gonna have those
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  Speaker 4: guys that are negative. But I have not felt well
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  Speaker 4: nearly as much negativity back as we have in past years.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like the fan base last year got some
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  Speaker 4: momentum for themselves off seeing some wins. I don't feel
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  Speaker 4: anywhere near the negativity in full as we normally do.
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  Speaker 4: There are some fans that are always going to be
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  Speaker 4: that way. It's always going to be dooming gloom. I
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  Speaker 4: think every fan base has some of those guys, but
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  Speaker 4: I don't near. I don't think the majority of fans
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  Speaker 4: are anywhere near as negatives say a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 2: No, definitely, there's no doubt about that. TEXTA brings up
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  Speaker 2: a good question. Where are the Saints? The Saints are
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  Speaker 2: twenty fifth, believe or not. I would have thought they
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  Speaker 2: might be a little bit higher right because they like,
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  Speaker 2: they got schuck Mania going on there. They the national
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  Speaker 2: media seems to be hyping them up, which feeds into
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  Speaker 2: your fervor. So I would have thought that they would
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  Speaker 2: be higher up. The Falcons. How are the Falcons fans
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  Speaker 2: the twenty second most? How are they bone more optimistic
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  Speaker 2: than ten fans? I guess because they're idiots. I guess
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  Speaker 2: that's the question. The answer because they ain't that bright.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, again, with us, when was this done with
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  Speaker 4: Jalen Walker in the mix? Maybe when this was done also,
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  Speaker 4: that's possible. I still would say that this could have
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  Speaker 4: done a month ago.
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  Speaker 2: I would be honest with you, before Jalen Walker got
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  Speaker 2: injured bone. They still should have been a body if
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  Speaker 2: they were bright enough to see the tea leaves. I
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  Speaker 2: thought they should have been a bottom five fan base
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  Speaker 2: of optimism, I think they're I think they've been. I've
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  Speaker 2: thought since the summer they're a bottom five team in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL. Honestly, wouldn't you.
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  Speaker 4: Think Tennessee fans are more optimistic than Atlanta fans because
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  Speaker 4: they got they got a new coach, they've got cam
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  Speaker 4: Ward year two, they're getting a new stadium. They they're
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  Speaker 4: they're on the they should be on the on the
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  Speaker 4: on the come up a little bit. I would say
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  Speaker 4: Tennessee would be higher than thirty just based off of
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  Speaker 4: some changes they made. Definitely, definitely I would That's what
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  Speaker 4: I was that I was boots on the ground back
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  Speaker 4: in Tennessee. A while you were doing research. Maybe you
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  Speaker 4: were doing your various honkey talks, grown up lunchables.
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  Speaker 3: What a name that is? Pop positive but nervous?
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  Speaker 2: This Texter says, the injuries have shook my confidence a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, So I think seventeen probably works. I think
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  Speaker 2: we would have been maybe twelfth or thirteenth. Maybe the
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  Speaker 2: injuries knocked us back a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Is in I know you mentioned them when you're reading
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  Speaker 4: them off and we joked about Dallas. Isn't Houston kind
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  Speaker 4: of low at nineteen just based off their defense alone.
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  Speaker 4: I know Stroud's taking it to Strouds. I know Strouds
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  Speaker 4: taking a step back with that defense basically carried them
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  Speaker 4: last year, and they're going to be a major factor
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  Speaker 4: in the AFC defensively anyways.
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  Speaker 3: They will.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's the Shroud stuff. Remember some of that,
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  Speaker 2: Remember the performances and the turnovers in those playoff games.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that has taken a lot of air
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  Speaker 2: out of their balloon. Which brings us to a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the answers and responses from our texters about why
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  Speaker 2: we would only rank seventeenth in this fan optimism survey.
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  Speaker 2: Is Bryce, Let's see Seth from Kannapolis. I think the
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  Speaker 2: skepticism is linked to Bryce's development and not knowing what
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  Speaker 2: to expect. This texter says, Bryce Young is the reason
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  Speaker 2: why we're in the middle. The rest of the team
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  Speaker 2: would have us in the top ten, but the quarterback
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  Speaker 2: has us nervous. I mean, the quarterback had six game
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  Speaker 2: winning drives last year, was extremely clutch. I just yes,
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  Speaker 2: we want him to be better, but it's not bone
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  Speaker 2: like we have. I don't know Deshaun Watson or shad
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  Speaker 2: or Sanders as our starting quarterback or two or Pannix
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  Speaker 2: as our starting Great God, and yes, thank god for that.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody's looking for the top five. Yeah, let me give
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  Speaker 2: you ones at the top.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't. We didn't really go A.
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  Speaker 4: Lot of these are also shocking that the good the
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  Speaker 4: teams near the top are the best teams the football.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it breaks down pretty simple. You know.
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  Speaker 4: That's why the Jets are below some college teams on
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  Speaker 4: this line.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's a no brainer. Man, I didn't see the
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  Speaker 2: list of where are the tar Heels? An't the thirty
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  Speaker 2: third NFL team? Where's their fan heels fans? I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 2: that's a Lombardy slam. I love y'all on his way out.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see, it's just on leave. Scritch yourself, just on
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  Speaker 2: leave all right for now? At least eat Wow. Back
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  Speaker 2: in number one is the Chiefs. Chiefs fans think you
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  Speaker 2: got us last year. Pat was hurt, but it's go
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  Speaker 2: time again. I clearly that's what they're thinking. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure it's that simple, but that's what they're thinking.
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  Speaker 4: I think Kenneth Walker gives them a whole other dimension
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  Speaker 4: at the running back spot.
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  Speaker 2: It definitely helps, no doubt, But they lost McDuffie. I
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  Speaker 2: mean they lost some stuff too. The Rams and the
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks tied at second, Eagles fourth, even losing aj Brown
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  Speaker 2: and all the Jalen Hurts negativity.
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  Speaker 3: I'm surprised the Eagles are fourth.
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  Speaker 4: The problem with that is the Eagles fans are negative
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  Speaker 4: and down when they win jabionships.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: Year they could win a Super Bowl and be angry they.
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  Speaker 3: Were ticked last year.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Jalen Hurts, There's a lot of negativity in questioning
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  Speaker 2: of him, so I'm very surprised they would be considered fourth,
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  Speaker 2: Denver fifth.
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  Speaker 3: That makes it.
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  Speaker 2: That's coming off their season and having Sean Payton captain
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  Speaker 2: as their coat captain. Purse lips cat first lips uh. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: very interesting stuff. Oh Bebop is weighed in if Haines
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  Speaker 2: King was at top of the depth chart, we'd be
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  Speaker 2: number one.
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  Speaker 3: Wanh wanh wanh wanh I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Not throwing out his best stuff today. He's not throwing
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  Speaker 4: that fastball today. I didn't know he had a fastball boat.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he had that Ronald Reagan fastball mid eighties,
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  Speaker 2: That's what I thought he had. Shout out Ben McDonald.
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  Speaker 2: I heard that from Ben McDonald. I was gonna say,
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  Speaker 2: he's got that. Charlie huff oh Man. When we come.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't want to jinx at bone.
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  Speaker 2: But we are still in the uh, we are still
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  Speaker 2: hanging by a thread. In contention to advance in the
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  Speaker 2: League's Cup. What percentage chance would do it? The mac
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  Speaker 2: percentage index here probably one percent You need like three results.
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  Speaker 2: You need things to really go exactly in your favorin
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  Speaker 2: the scene.
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  Speaker 3: But there's a chance.
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  Speaker 4: That was the quickest I've ever seen. Colin gave you
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  Speaker 4: a liner and you read it point three seconds later.
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  Speaker 4: You had no idea what that said. That's how about
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  Speaker 4: that got in trouble before when he just hand him
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  Speaker 4: that could have been that could have been a.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Were you worried that they brought him? What was the
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: one Jim got conned into doing these nuts? A product
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: called these nuts.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: I got him on Heikne's Barbecue one with barbecue.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we messed with the.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Old man tagline will smack your bottom good and he
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: read it on the air. So I was concerned, like,
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: I don't know swivel map, but that was on the
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: I'm safe.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: I feel like, not until I'm sixty will you guys
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: start doing those pranks on me.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Ye, it's not that far away. No, it isn't.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Man anyway, all right, I still got two presidential terms
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: to get there, though, Bony. All right, Mac and Bone
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: with you here on a Thursday morning radio show. Six
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: NFL preseason games tonight. I know it's preseason, but it's something.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: It's something. And then of course on Saturday at one
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: o'clock it will be the Bills and the Panthers starters
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: versus starters, and you're gonna be able to to hear
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: our next man, our next guest on the call doing
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: usually the radio voice, but of course during the preseason
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: does the games on TV. And he is a Niche
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: roff and he joins us here on the Mac and
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Bone Show to preview this Panther team. A Niche, thanks
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: for coming on, man, how you doing.
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: I'm doing great. It's uh. It's fun to hear the
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: last conversation because I've gott an eight year old who's
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: coming to training camp practice today, and I keep waiting,
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: I keep waiting when the poop and the fart jokes
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: will get old. And clearly, you guys are a great example.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: It never does. No, my wife tells me all the time.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: You guys are just big kids. You never mature our audience.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Niche oh man, anyway, all right in Niche, Well, hey,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: if your eight year old listens.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: I think we're on his level. I think you know
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: what I mean.
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Oh, you're definitely on her level. You are definitely
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: on her level. Here's the thing, so am so the apple.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: Doesn't oh man a niche exal seems like he's having
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: a great camp here so far from what we see.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: You're out there quite a bit watching where where have
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: you seen the most improvement so far?
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: For we get here in camp fluidity?
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: He just looks more fluid. He's catching the ball with
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: his hands more. And I'll let you in a conversation
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: that that Steve Smith actually brought up when we did
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: the Training Camp Live show on Monday. I thought he
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: made a great point. He said, as a receiver, when
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: you start to lose confidence, the first thing to go
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: is your hands, because you're now overthinking about catching the
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: ball and you're using your body and sometimes you have
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: to break that. And the coaches sort of privately have
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: you know, mentioned, hey, if we can kind of get
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: him to catch the ball with his hands and he
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: can become a yack guy. He's fast, he's big, he's strong,
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: he's physical. If he's not giving the defense that extra
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: beat to recover because he's using his body. All of
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: a sudden, he becomes a real weapon in the yacht game.
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: And that's an area that the Panthers have really emphasized
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: in the off season. They want more yards after catch.
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: It's about ball placement from the quarterback, but it's also
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: things that the receivers can do. So listen for Xavier Leguet.
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: We all said it a few weeks back, this is
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: a big camp. This was when Chris Brasel was a
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: part of the equation with Brasel hurt. Now he's got
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: an opportunity to run and be that number three guy,
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: and he's kind of penciled in as that number three guy.
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: It's promising. Now we need to see it happen in games,
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: and hopefully it can.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Definitely, kat he's one of the guys we're going to
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: be looking at on Saturday. I want to talk about
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Tea Mac too. We saw you, Fitty, and I saw
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: you out of practice yesterday. Te Mac had another big day.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: And when I look at him, you know, I've heard
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: him talk a niche about putting on that twenty pounds
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: or so, but man, when you see it up close
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: in personal, it's like, man, he looks and I just
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: think it's gonna help him with contested catches. It's just
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: playing through contact. I mean, what do you think he's
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: looked like so far in camp?
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: He had a tremendous catch one on one with Mike
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: Jackson's raped all over him yesterday, and I think that's
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: the one you guys might be talking about. Uh Again,
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: the contested catch skill set was a big part of
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: his calling card when he came out of Arizona. And
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: now you're adding a little more size, a little more girth,
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: and he's again a guy who's big and physical to
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: begin with. You amplify that and then you know, we
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: talk about fluidity with you leagueded. That was the one
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: thing about McMillan that just jumped off the page a
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: year ago. He's just smooth. I mean, just a smooth operator.
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: He might not be the fastest guy, but he does everything.
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: You know, I'm not comparing him to Jerry Rice, but
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: Jerry Rice wasn't the fastest guy, but he was so
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: smooth and he was so precise. And there's a little
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: bit of that with Ptero McMillan. Where he catches the ball,
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: it's a quick tuck, it's a turn, he's in his motion,
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: he's running, he can get upfield. I think again, he's
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: got a chance now to break into that next tier
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: of wide receivers in the NFL, and by the end
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: of season two, I think he's got a chance that
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: the league will know outside of the NFC South. I mean,
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: he made a name for himself last year, but I
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: think he's got a chance to really be kind of
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: one of those guys that people around the league. Yeah,
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: it's an a one bona fide alpha receiver who could
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: play for anybody.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: That's the voice of a niche.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Shroff the radio voice, a TV voice in the preseason
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: for the Panthers and of course ESPN all year long
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: as well a niche. What do you think of the
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Darren Waller signing that happened last night and how much
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: of a factor do you think he can be for
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: this offense.
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: I think it's fascinating because let's be honest, right the
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: tight end position was a question mark. It wasn't one
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: that was addressed in free agency, it wasn't one that
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: was addressed in the draft. Mitchell Evans kind of seems
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: to be that number one guy right now. I think
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: we know what Tommy Tremble is, and he's a solid
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: number two guy. JT. Sanders had some promises a rookie
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: had that neck injury, hasn't really been the same since
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: was up and down last year. So now you bring
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: in a guy who's played a lot of football, who's
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: had some productive seasons. How much is left in the
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: tank That is a very real question. And how healthy
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: can Darren Waller be That is a very real question.
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: But again, he gives you a guy who can stretch
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: the field vertically, make plays through the air, give you
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: a legitimate pass threat in the middle of the field.
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: To me, it's two things. One, I think it's a
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: signal to the offense, Hey, we need another pass catcher
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: in that tight end room. Two, it's a signal to
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: the other guys in that room, Hey, you're gonna have
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: to work for your spots.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: One percent, it really feels like you mentioned Evans and Tremble,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: both those guys are relied on to block so much.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: This he feels like this really speaks volumes about maybe
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: their concerns over JT.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Sanders.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, do you do you almost feel like it
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: there's only one spot for Waller or Sanders or am
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: I jumping the gun a little bit there?
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: They took four last year, they took four tight ends
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: on the fifty three. But you know, the wild card
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: here is Felipe Franks, who we know is a very
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: good special teams player and he may not be able
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: to help you a whole lot on offense, but certainly
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: on special teams. He's a guy and he makes plays
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: and he brings some energy and we've seen him in
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: that gunner role getting downfield. So you know, does this
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: impact Franks or if Franks is making the team on
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: special teams? Yeah, then JT. Sanders might have to fight
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: for a roster spot here. But again, they call it
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: NFL not for long for a reason. You know, you
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: get a couple of years in and then if you
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: don't show the production and if it's not there, I mean,
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: we've seen this in the past with a lot of players.
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: You hope j T can you'll make the most of
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: this opportunity and and and kind of run with it
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: now now that Waller is here. But you know, we've
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: seen this movie, not just with the Panthers, with a
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: lot of teams in the past. And you know, the
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: NFL waits for nobody.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Has Freeling looked on the right side the last couple
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: of weeks.
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah, listen, I think the challenge that he has in practice,
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: he goes up against Jalen Phillips quite a bit, and
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: you know, you've got a veteran and you've got a greenhorn,
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: and so he's learning. But they love his athleticism. Again,
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: I think in the ideal scenario, and you guys know this,
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: you kind of ease him into this. You've got Moten,
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: You've got Rashid Walker. But with Taylor Moten hurt, he's
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: gonna get thrown in the fire. And so these preseason
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: reps and these practice reps are going to be critical
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: for Freely. You know, he's looked, I think, good enough,
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: but he's looked like a rookie at times too, which
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: is to be expected. So again, there's a lot, there's
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: a lot in terms of a learning curve that you know,
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: Monroe Freeling is gonna have to pick up a little quicker,
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: just because I don't think anybody thought that he was
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: going to be the Week one starter when everything you know,
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: broke at the beginning of camp.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we were watching him there yesterday. Man, he continues
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: to hold his own. I know Phillip's on that last
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: you know, move the ball period and eche got him.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: But man, those one on ones, like he has more
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: than held his own against Phillips in.
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: That one jumps off. He is for a guy his size,
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: the way he can move, and he's a smart guy
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: on top of that. But his athleticism really jumps off
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: the page. And I just think he might need a
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: little seasoning in the first quarter of the season. Once
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: he gets going, he's got a chance to be a
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: staple on this old line for a long.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Time, no doubt about it.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: What do you think from the defense we've been we've
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: kind of set the bar a niche top ten, Like
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: make that jump from like middle of the pack, you know,
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: fifth sixteenth in that area to top ten. The scorting
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: thing definitely shook us a little bit. I love that kid,
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: but man, there's talent on this defense. What do you
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: think is a good bar to set for this defense?
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: You know, I kind of looked at it the same
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: way where I said a year ago. I think when
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: we were talking around this time, I said, if you
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: could go from historically bad to middle of the pack,
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: that's probably worth three wins and they went eight to nine.
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: They eight wins from five wins the year before. Now,
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: if you can make that leap into the top ten,
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: you got a chance to have a really good defense.
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: I think they're really good on the back end. I
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: really like what they have on the back end with JC.
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: I had interviewed Mike Jackson the other day, who's a
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: chess player, and the way he uses chess and the
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: strategiery that goes along with chess onto the football field.
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: It was incredibly fascinating. I think the Panthers are going
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: to post it in the next week or so. The
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: safety's Trayvon Merrig had a really strong first season with Carolina,
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: and then Nick Scott's just a heady guy. They kind
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: of view him as a force multiplier. He makes everybody better, smart, communicates,
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: and then behind him you know Ransom Wheatley. They have depth.
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: Even a guy like Isaiah Simmons could find a role
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: on defense. To me, the questions are who plays next
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: to Devin Lloyd, Is that Trevin Wallace, Is that Claude Cherriliss,
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: is that potentially somebody who's not on the roster right now,
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: And then yeah, the scot and injury. That's huge, there's
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: no way around it. Opportunity for Princely, opportunity for Pat Jones.
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: But to me, the defensive line I don't think is
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: being talked about enough. You have an All Pro and
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: a stud in Derek Brown. Lee Hunter is a rookie,
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: Bobby Brown is now going to be in a bigger role.
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: Turk Wharton is injured, Cam Jackson again, second year guy,
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: didn't play a whole lot. Brian Ray just retired. To me,
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: it's arts in the trenches, and you know A'shawn Robinson was.
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: I just thought a really solid second banana to Derek Brown.
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: He was a first division starter. You knew what you
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: were getting. He made all the right plays. Maybe not flashy,
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: but right now, outside of Derek Brown, you're kind of
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: looking for other guys to emerge up front. You hope
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: it can be Lee Hunter, you hope Bobby Brown takes
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: the next step, and you hope Turk Wharton can get
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: back sooner or later. But until that happens, they have
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: some question marks up front, and as we saw two
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: years ago, it all starts on the d line. You
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: can have a great secondary, but if you can't stop
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: the run. It commutes the strength of your defense absolutely.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: By the way, A Niche, you we were talking about
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: this earlier. You were there when the Little Wayne song
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: played at training camp yesterday and you guys realized that
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: mild but has never heard Wayne alone.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: I was with them hip hop Bone by my side.
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: Were you the fact the fact that you just said
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: little when.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: The shoot.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Dang, I got tried to go to the little but
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: it didn't work out for me embarrass the show yesterday. Honestly,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: I know hip hop Bone would never let that happen.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: I felt judged yesterday. A Niche, I did feel judged. Man.
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: You know what, Listen, We're not that far apart in age.
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: And I'm at the point too where you know, the
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: the hip hop bones that I have these days, I
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: keep going back to it, I said, I grew up
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: in the nineties, like we have unbelievable music in the nineties,
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: So I'm kind of getting to the point now where
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: like the music that comes out now it's just noise.
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: I remember when the great music used to be and
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna hang on to that.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: There you go, baby, That's the way I felt.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: That was the first practice I been at Bone where
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: they're playing music and I'm kind of like, man, this
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: loud stuff's annoying me. God, I've turned into my dad.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: That's what I say when I hear you on the show.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Oh dang, oh dang, what is happening to us? A Niche?
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: All right? Man, will Aniche, you did it?
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: You and Fiddy helped educate me, along with Kyle Bailey
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: and Kelly Barnick on Lil Wing. Let me get that
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: straight there, what a layne. I still can't do that
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: all right?
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: Anyway?
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Watching Niche uh and the crew Saturday one o'clock Panthers
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: and Bills.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Thank you a Niche, appreciate it.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Man, you guys are the best.
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: Always good to see you, always good to talk to.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Thanks brother. There you go.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: That is a Niche for Rof play by play voice
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: of your Carolina Panthers.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: Now we're gonna do a Panther roundtable when we come back,
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: and said it's a new combo we haven't tried before
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: and may never try again. It's Monroe and Weathervan Mark.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what a duo.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: Granny patsmen hospitalized. I hope she's alright and prayers to her.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: So we had to bring in from looking at his
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: wind turbines. Weather Man Mark with Wuera pray this goes well.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: Sports Radio ninety two seven w FNZ.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: It's time. It is time for the most spirited panther
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: talk you can find, ladies and gentlemen, the Mac and
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Bone Show Panther Roundtable where we get panther die hards
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: or pecante on the show. Bone, because I'm still I
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: still feel like we we got you know, we got
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: hoodwink on that one. We get panther diehards on the show,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: and uh, they get passionate. Baby it all may it
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: may not always make the most sense, but they are
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: going to get passionate about your Carolina Panthers.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: And right now we welcome in.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: The savvy veteran weather Man Mark back for another appearance
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: on the round table table.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Weather Man, Mark, how you feeling.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: I'm doing good. I'm doing so good, I can't stand myself.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Come on, you gotta like yourself there, Mark, I like it. Man,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Mark a DVR day, make us seem like we're really funny,
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: y'all just laughing every day.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: All right, let's bring in is this her rookie appearance? Bone.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: I think it is right for the round table.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, she was also the Fitty Dating previously, the Fitty
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: Dating coordinator.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: I can't say it.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: With this right face. I think she's I think she's
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: gonna have more success with this than the Fitty matchmaker role.
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: She quit and my since retired.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: She tis Yeah, this is about a good she is.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Monroe Lara, Lara, what's happening?
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: Good morning guys.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: Are you ready to go?
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Monroe Lara, I think this is more your cup of
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: tea talking Panthers did rather than getting Fitty a date.
• 33:44
  Speaker 8: You know, yes, I did actually do a round table
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: with Granny Pat.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah she was on Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: It was a spur of the moment thing. Yes, I
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: have one other.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: All right, well, we're we're taking to Granny. She's currently
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: in the hospital. You know, she's a true she should.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: All right, let's pray for Grandy Pat. Everybody but Monroe
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: Lera is here. Let's start this thing off. Monroe Lera,
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: what do you think about?
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: What is your optimism level for the Carolina Panthers. Do
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: you believe this team is repeating as division champs?
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: I do, I absolutely do. Actually, I feel really good
• 34:25
  Speaker 8: about them this year. I've been kind of listening to
• 34:28
  Speaker 8: analysts the last couple of weeks who have been to practices,
• 34:34
  Speaker 8: Steve Smith who I always trust, the Great Smithy and
• 34:38
  Speaker 8: his opinions and his views at practice, and seeing Bryce
• 34:42
  Speaker 8: with a chip on his shoulder out there and actually
• 34:45
  Speaker 8: saying bad words and fighting. But no, I think this
• 34:49
  Speaker 8: team has a little bit more fight in them even
• 34:53
  Speaker 8: than they did last year.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Do you say, do you say bad words, Lara? I
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: have a feeling maybe the answer is yes.
• 35:00
  Speaker 8: Worse than a sailor right now?
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Not now, that's what pass for.
• 35:07
  Speaker 8: I have one on the radio.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: You guys are like, oh my god, Oh that's right,
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: that's horrible mouth.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Okay, all right.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of guys out there they're like, you know,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: they probably they probably like that sort of thing. And
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: maybe one of those is weather Man Mark, weather Man Mark,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: you like it? Do you like a woman with with
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: with a potty mouth?
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: No, I'll try to keep that clean. Man. I'll say
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: other words. Uh, what do you say slips on?
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: What are your what are like if if we're trying
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: to if we're trying to clean.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Up our mouths, what words would you suggest using as alternatives?
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Uh? Sugar, ned Timber's my rear end stuff like that.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: I'll sell man.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Well, how much rear end kicking do you think the Panders.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: Will do this year?
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Man, They're going to kick in this year?
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Division champs again.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: I had I had the lower to thirteen wins because
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: some of the injuries.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: And yeah, why so will Mark?
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I still got him. My wishes out get well to Granny.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: I was thinking about her. And also I'd like to
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: give congratulations to my favorite UH linebacker of all time,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Luke Keikley. Heck yeah, what a what a awesome guy. Man.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I love hearing, you know, with my eyes. I have
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: to listen to the radio broadcasts and one of my fans,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: you guys, just had on. I love an Ah shrob Man.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: He's an awesome play caller. Yeah he is. I love
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: his play calls.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: He's great.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: I feel like we lost focus here though, bowing on
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: the round table. I feel like we got off topic,
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: which I guess fits this radio show. We were asking
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: about how good.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Back on focus. I'm sorry, I want to go back
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: for a second again.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: You are cool off?
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: You said you settled there. I locked yourself in there.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: There was a lot going on there Mark, though you
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: were good. Monroe Lero, what do you think about this
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Darren Waller signing. Does this make a big difference to
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: the offense?
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 37:14
  Speaker 8: I think it does. I think any any good signings
• 37:19
  Speaker 8: for Ofphins are needed. I'm excited about it. Of course,
• 37:24
  Speaker 8: my son who is a Dolphins.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: What Dolphins fan, we're kind of parent exact.
• 37:29
  Speaker 8: No, guys, it happened when he was four, and I
• 37:32
  Speaker 8: was thinking it would change. But he does go to
• 37:34
  Speaker 8: all of our games and he does pool for the Panthers.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: And I've got I've got no.
• 37:39
  Speaker 8: I love it. I think it's great.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Why the Dolphins, they haven't been good since I was
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: a kid.
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: I mean, I think he's four, right, so he's like
• 37:46
  Speaker 8: Dolphin that's cool and cool colors. And I think at
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: the time you got to break it tyreek Hill, like
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: greek Hill was coming in and doing his thing. And
• 37:58
  Speaker 8: he he has ever since then like he and he
• 38:01
  Speaker 8: follows them and he can statue out out of most books.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Okay. I respect that.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: I respect that young buck that is already an educated fan.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: I think what you got to do is what we
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: do at the McLean House where we tell the kids
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: if you don't root for the Panthers.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: We're not feeding you.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: And I think if you, I think if you do
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: that you can get him to change.
• 38:20
  Speaker 8: Well, we still we still take we still take them.
• 38:23
  Speaker 8: But he'll stand up for his team if he has to.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, all right, but he is told see
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Derek Waller didn't. Now, the thing is the injuries bone
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: three separate injuries. But when he was in there, you
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: can't argue that he didn't that he didn't produce.
• 38:36
  Speaker 8: He'd go that same argument. And Easton started telling me
• 38:39
  Speaker 8: about his other numbers, and I was like, oh, then
• 38:41
  Speaker 8: this is good.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, there you go.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Well, at least your dolphin fan son Easton came in
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: handy on this one when that.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: Had seven red zone targets last year in the red zone,
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: six touchdowns in the red.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Zone five and he caught five or seven deep targets too.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: So those are things that those are things Sanders we
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: thought Sanders would do and he didn't do last year.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: All right, let's bring in the weather man. Weather Man,
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Mark does how good can Darren Waller make this offense?
• 39:08
  Speaker 8: Oh?
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Man, he is gonna do outstanding, man. I'm telling you
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: something right now, you guys talking about nobody's welcome in
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: my home and don't root for the Panthers. They will
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: not get weather Man Mark's food.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: That's right now, So you can't.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: You won't let anybody in your house if they don't
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: root for real.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: No, I respect that, Mark.
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: So so like if you have family come over for
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: the holidays, did they just sit outside?
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: No, they're all Panthers fans. So that's that's a familiar.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: What if they attractive woman comes over and says, uh,
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: I'm a Bucks fan.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: She's not allowed it.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: No, we don't have Buck fans right here, you get
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: kennonised for being a uh Bucks fan? Around here? You
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: might get shot.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, didn't march?
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Where do you win? Mark didn't march threatened if any
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Bucks hand steps foot on his property.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: Where do you live, Mark? Oh my god, don't you
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: live Wicked Hill?
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: I'm just choking, of course.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: Where do you live?
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Down here in the south. You gotta be careful down here?
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Where you live? Marky?
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: I live in the footthills of the Warren Mountains.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Man, nowhere the foothills.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: So your Warren Mountains the here?
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Okay? All right?
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Mark, men Hill, North Carolina, all.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Right, Mark, someone on the thought, someone on the text
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: line wants to know if you are excited talking to
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: Monroe LERA, Oh yeah.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Of course. Welcome, Lara. I appreciate you being on.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: He's welcome. Heard of his show? Yeah, all right, Lara
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: really broke down Darren Waller, Lara, do you do Yawn?
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: You're out there in Monroe. I know y'all got a
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: gun or two out there. I live in Union County.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: You are you aren't shooting Bucks fans though, are you?
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Or are you?
• 40:58
  Speaker 8: No?
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: No?
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: Actually, well a neighborhood, I don't. I don't allow fans
• 41:05
  Speaker 8: into my house.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: All right now we go back to weather Man, Mark,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: We're back on home.
• 41:12
  Speaker 8: No football parties of football part y'all are welcome. Good, good,
• 41:15
  Speaker 8: clean competition is welcome.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: All right there, I've got more questions for Mark here momentary.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: I've got questions about this. Let's get Mark back on.
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: Have you shot a fellow fan?
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: No, I haven't. I'm joking about.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: People are dying on the text line right now.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Mark, bugs, fans are not welcome in my community. Let
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: me put it up.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: This dude, says Mark. There, that is no way to
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: treat an enemy fan. Base Bucks fans just deserve a
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: minor stabbing. There you go.
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: That is.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: Y'all.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: We gotta calm ourselves down here, all right, This is humor, y'all.
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: Are we gonna calm ourselves down here? Little bit?
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: Is that good money?
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: He were glad we got a good coach, And now
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: what aren't you guys? We glad we got a good coach.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Look like he's learned. He's starting our starters Saturday. I
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: liked the whole coach canalist.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: All right, dude, because you've been critical of him, mark
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: I feel like you get him a hard time in
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: the past.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: You know, he's spent on the uh, he's spent on
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: the hot burner sometimes. But I really like him. I
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: like what he's doing. Uh. He's got me red been
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: fired up, man, he's got his team fired up. He's
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: got me fired up for me to get out and
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: get to go on.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: Heck yeah, Marky, I would love to see market in
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma drill getting going, baby, mark.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Man, put me on the old line. I'll take care
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: of business.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: You're not allowed to have your gun though on the field.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: I'll let you to know that.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: All right, Marky, you rock, baby, You always entertained. You
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: are what Cam Newton was in Charlotte previously. You are
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: an icon and an entertainer. My friend, great job, Marky.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Do you guys have a good one?
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: Monroe Lera, Rolera, we appreciate you. What's your first impression
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: of hanging with weather Man Mark?
• 43:10
  Speaker 8: I can barely breathe right then?
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: He also apparently lives in Some people are trying to
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: figure out what mountain range was he described.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: I didn't really know what he.
• 43:19
  Speaker 8: Was just it's like the albumar area you are. Mountains
• 43:22
  Speaker 8: are to the east. It's further south.
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: Than I am.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: No one thought he was in Russia. Okay, all right,
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: all right, Lara, I'd.
• 43:31
  Speaker 8: Like to say, guys, real quick, I'm excited to see
• 43:34
  Speaker 8: what having an actual offensive coordinator is going to do.
• 43:37
  Speaker 7: I want to see what.
• 43:38
  Speaker 8: He brings out on Saturday Night.
• 43:40
  Speaker 7: I think I'm most excited to see that, definitely.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: I think I think it'll make the O coordinator position
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: better bone and I think it'll make Canalis better as
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: a head coach because he won't be distracted trying to
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: juggle two things. All right, Lara, you rocked. You also
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: didn't threaten to kill kill or shoot anybody. So that's
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: definitely a kudo there.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: Great job. We appreciate you.
• 44:01
  Speaker 8: Thanks guys, have a great day.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: All right, there you go, Monroe, Lera and weather Man
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: Marvin wants.
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: Weather Man Mark Band for bringing the segment down here.
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: I don't think he brought it down from DVR, Dave,
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: so let's be honest about it.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, weather Man Mark is a all right,
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: your nique fell when we go down, man, we're gonna
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: talk to David Cone. No, not the David Cone that's
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: near and dear to my heart, that David Cone.
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: For on three Sports and Craney and Cone Show talking
• 44:29
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• 44:33
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