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Mac & Bone Hour 3: Panthers Rankings · Mac & Bone Podcast

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Speaker 2: moves forward, we will now move forward here into the
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Speaker 2: sports calendar with plenty of college football taught that we
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Speaker 2: just did and Panthers an NFL talk, as well as
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Speaker 2: training camp not too far away. Aaron Shotz, who has
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Speaker 2: been the long time creator of Football Outsiders, is now
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Speaker 2: working for Espnfitty and he did yesterday a piece on
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Speaker 2: ranking all the starters all the teams by starters in
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Speaker 2: the league, not the depth, but the starters on offense
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Speaker 2: and defense, and he did biggest strength and weakness for
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Speaker 2: each team as well. The Panthers came in on this
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Speaker 2: list second of starters in the NFC South, but they
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Speaker 2: were ranked twenty fourth overall in the league. Tampa Bay
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Speaker 2: came in at eighteen, the Saints came in at twenty six,
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Speaker 2: and the Atlanta Falcons starters came in at number twenty nine,
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Speaker 2: which is are tied for twenty nine. Kind of surprising
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Speaker 2: because when you think of all that offensive talent that
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Speaker 2: the Falcons have, that they would be ranked number twenty nine,
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Speaker 2: But there they are in the list. Do you think
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Speaker 2: fair or foulfitty when you look at the twenty two
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Speaker 2: projected starters that twenty four would be about right on
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Speaker 2: this list.
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Speaker 3: I would think bone they've got a better roster than
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Speaker 3: the twenty fourth best roster in the National Football League.
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Speaker 3: But if this is what he thinks of this roster,
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Speaker 3: he must think really highly of Dave Canalis as a
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Speaker 3: head coach, considering the job he has done each of
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Speaker 3: his first two years in Carolina new inherited a two
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Speaker 3: win football team, won five games his first year, took
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Speaker 3: that five win football team, won eight games in a
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Speaker 3: division title. Yes, with the losing record in his second year.
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Speaker 3: And I just I can't help but wonder how much
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Speaker 3: how much does the Bryce Young affect impact how he
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Speaker 3: ultimately ranks this roster because you look at the offensive
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Speaker 3: side of the ball, He's a big believer in the
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Speaker 3: offensive line. You've got a capable his.
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Speaker 4: Biggest strength is the offensive line.
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Speaker 3: On his west here, you've got a capable and productive
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Speaker 3: running back in Cheba Hubbard who went healthy as a
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Speaker 3: one thousand yard runner. You've got the reigning offensive rookie
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Speaker 3: of the Year and Team MAC. So you've got pieces offensively,
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Speaker 3: and then defensively, you've got Derek Brown, you added Jalen Phillips,
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Speaker 3: you added Devin Lloyd to that front seven to go
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Speaker 3: with a really good back three in that secondary with Horn,
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Speaker 3: Mike Jack and Merrick. So I can't help, but wonder,
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Speaker 3: you know, you mentioned Atlanta being so far down with
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Speaker 3: all the offensive weapons. How much does his belief in
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Speaker 3: Bryce Young as a as a as a playmaker at
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Speaker 3: the quarterback spot impact this roster being voted twenty four.
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Speaker 2: It's a combined piece. So Aaron Schotz did the starter's
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Speaker 2: ranking and then on the right up of biggest strength
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Speaker 2: and weakness that is Mike Clay actually did that. So
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Speaker 2: Mike Clay has offensive line the biggest strength and surprising
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Speaker 2: to us, the biggest weakness who we kind of assumed
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Speaker 2: would be tight end of this team. Running back is
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Speaker 2: the biggest weakness on this team because a Chuba was
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Speaker 2: here last year in the uncertainty of Jonathan Brooks. If
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Speaker 2: Jonathan Brooks is good to go, running back to me
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Speaker 2: is a far cry. I understand that it's unknown, we
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Speaker 2: get it. There's injuries with Brooks. He's got to prove himself.
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Speaker 2: But I don't think as this season goes along, we're
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Speaker 2: going to consider the running back spot of weakness. I
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Speaker 2: just I don't see it happening. No, especially you've got
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Speaker 2: the offensive line as a strength. Then to me, it's
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Speaker 2: not just about pass protection. If the offensive line is
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Speaker 2: run blocking, well, well guess what the running backs I
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Speaker 2: would think wouldn't be a weakness.
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Speaker 4: I don't even.
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Speaker 3: With the questions about Cuba Hubbard and how productive can
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Speaker 3: he be bo and if I think if he's healthy,
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Speaker 3: I think he's gonna rush for a thousand plus yards
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Speaker 3: this year. And I understand the concerns that exist behind
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Speaker 3: him with Jonathan Brooks, et n e Chan Dylan and
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Speaker 3: those guys, the answer should still be tight end, like
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Speaker 3: that is the biggest weakness on this roster. And to me,
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Speaker 3: I don't even know if it's really that much of
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Speaker 3: a debate, like that was the position. That's why I
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Speaker 3: was very adamant about them drafting Sadik. I was right
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Speaker 3: there with you. I was a Sadiq freak in the
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Speaker 3: NFL draft. Whenever we talked free agency, whenever we talked
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Speaker 3: what moves would you like to see Dan Morgan make
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Speaker 3: to upgrade the roster? What position did we come back to?
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Speaker 3: It's been the tight end and it's still been the
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Speaker 3: tight end. We'll enter training camp and I would still
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Speaker 3: tell you they need to upgrade that spot because I'm
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Speaker 3: not a b and what these guys have produced and
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Speaker 3: shown me so far. You look at Tommy Trimble, j T.
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Speaker 3: Sanders and the like. So I don't know how he
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Speaker 3: didn't look at the tight end room and evaluate that
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Speaker 3: is the biggest weakness. But as someone that looks and
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Speaker 3: watches and covers his team on a day in, day
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Speaker 3: out basis. That is by far and away to be
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Speaker 3: the biggest weakness right now on this roster.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, there's no doubt.
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Speaker 2: I agree their biggest X factor on the team Seth
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Speaker 2: Walder did that on the piece and he has Jalen
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Speaker 2: Phillips and Devin Woyd as the biggest X factors because
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Speaker 2: Walder points out, well, if they come in and they
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Speaker 2: play up to their standard and what they had in
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Speaker 2: their contract, they'll be all right. But it feels like
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Speaker 2: there's not a belief there in the right up necessarily
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Speaker 2: of either guy. So I believe in both guys. They
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Speaker 2: have to prove it. But I think this defense, I
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Speaker 2: think this defense has ability fitty to be top ten,
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Speaker 2: maybe twelve, I don't know, but anything anything fifteen or
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Speaker 2: below having horn Mike Jack Merrig, I think Scordon takes
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Speaker 2: a leap. I think Princeley will be a great depth
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Speaker 2: piece when you need that energy boost there. I think
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Speaker 2: anything below fifteen on defense in terms of team ranking
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Speaker 2: would be kind of disappointing. I think it's all there.
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Speaker 2: They still have to fill in a couple of pieces
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Speaker 2: here and there. Like the other safety spot. We have
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Speaker 2: to see how does Trevin Wallace fit into this whole equation.
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Speaker 2: There's stuff going on here, but I think there's enough
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Speaker 2: top end talent on this defense for this to be
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Speaker 2: a really good football team.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I said back in the opening hour of the show.
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Speaker 3: I thought that the floor for this defense was was
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Speaker 3: top twelve because, unlike some of the anti Avero people,
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Speaker 3: I believe in his ability. Like Dan Morgan told you,
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Speaker 3: this defense was asked two years ago because he didn't
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Speaker 3: have bodies, he didn't have players.
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Speaker 4: He speaks as the family friendly.
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Speaker 3: He has spent the last two years getting him players
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Speaker 3: and adding not only talent to that room, adding depth. Yes,
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Speaker 3: I was very critical of the decision to let Ashawn
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Speaker 3: Robinson walk in free agency. It hurts even more that
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Speaker 3: he lands within the division They go and get my
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Speaker 3: guy though out of Texas tech Lee Hunter. I think
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Speaker 3: the front four, with the addition of Phillips Nick Gorton
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Speaker 3: coming into year two, I think the front four is
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Speaker 3: going to be really, really strong. I know Devin Lloyd
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Speaker 3: is going to be good in that linebacker spot. Is
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Speaker 3: Trevin Wallace really ready to be a difference maker A
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Speaker 3: plus at that linebacker position. If so, I think you'll
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Speaker 3: be talking about one of the more underrated front sevens
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Speaker 3: and all the National Football League. And we all love
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Speaker 3: the secondary, we all love JC was really impressed with
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Speaker 3: what Mike Jack was able to do down the stretch
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Speaker 3: last year. Marrika is just a versatile monster on and
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Speaker 3: off the field. What he can do as a football
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Speaker 3: player cannot be stated enough. I think lethan Anthem assets
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Speaker 3: take a step forward too, So I think this defense
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Speaker 3: is really poised to be one of the best units
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Speaker 3: in the entire NFL here in twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 2: You know they talk in baseball about like being strong
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Speaker 2: up the middle of the field with catcher infield defense
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Speaker 2: center field. Think about the things that this defense can
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Speaker 2: do in the middle of the field at times, depending
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Speaker 2: on the scheme in that particular moment. But Marrik as
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Speaker 2: an outfielder but can also move up. You've got Devin
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Speaker 2: Lloyd patrolling as a linebacker, and think about Derek Brown
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Speaker 2: opening up the gaps for a guy like Devin Lloyd
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Speaker 2: who can rush the quarterback. And then Merrik also gets
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Speaker 2: in the backfield quite a bit and makes tackles. So
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Speaker 2: think about the guys that are going to patrol the
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Speaker 2: land in the middle. Now, that's a hell of a
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Speaker 2: of a group there in the versatility. Mary can move back,
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Speaker 2: move forward. Devin Woyd is a guy that could be
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Speaker 2: a playmaker, whether he's moving forward moving backwards. Derek Brown's
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Speaker 2: going to create so many opportunities for those guys. I'm excited.
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Speaker 2: I didn't see that. Yeah, it's not even kind of
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Speaker 2: the edge rushers, but just the middle of the field.
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Speaker 2: Now up the middle, that's gonna be a real strength
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Speaker 2: to the team.
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Speaker 3: I think the defense has gotten quicker sidelined to sideline.
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Speaker 3: The addition of Lloyd gives you that guy because he's
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Speaker 3: with the way that these teams attack defenses. In the
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Speaker 3: passing game, He's gonna get lined up on a wide receiver,
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Speaker 3: he's gonna get lined up on a tight end. The
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Speaker 3: teams will scheme that. But unlike Christian Rosebroom, he can
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Speaker 3: hold his own running down the field with those guys.
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Speaker 3: And that's that was the biggest thing. We came out
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Speaker 3: of the Rams playoff loss and said, we've got to
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Speaker 3: get a linebacker that that can cover, and you you're
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Speaker 3: able to get that in Devin Lloyd. And now that
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Speaker 3: you've just got so much versatility. I think that's when
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Speaker 3: Avero can really put on, you know, his thinking cap
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Speaker 3: and really start to draw some stuff up, scheme some
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Speaker 3: stuff up. It's easier when you can get natural pressure
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Speaker 3: on the quarterback with three or just for I feel
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Speaker 3: confident they'll be able to do that more often this year.
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Speaker 3: But then he can really get exotic, really get sexy
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Speaker 3: with some of those blitz packages that could really throw
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Speaker 3: quarterbacks off and be the difference between winning and losing
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Speaker 3: ball games.
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Speaker 2: I know that in Week one there's gonna be a
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Speaker 2: lot of focus on the quarterback. The quarterbacks that are
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Speaker 2: in the game, I say matchup, but they're not playing
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Speaker 2: against each other but Kleb Boyet and Bryce Young, but
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Speaker 2: that chess match. I think it's gonna be fascinating to
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Speaker 2: watch between all the new wrinkles and all the stuff
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Speaker 2: that Averro's gonna want to do versus Ben Johnson's offense.
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Speaker 2: To me, that's gonna be fascinating to see what can
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Speaker 2: Avero do against one of the best offensive minds in football.
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Speaker 2: That to me is going to be a hell of
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Speaker 2: a battle to watch their Week one of the season.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely so, the quarterbacks are one thing, but what is
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Speaker 2: a Vero gonna do to Caleb Williams That that, to me,
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Speaker 2: will decide this football game. How does a Vero slow
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Speaker 2: down a pretty potent Bears attack?
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Speaker 3: Yep, I think he's got he's got more weapons in
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Speaker 3: his arsenal and it's it's a credit to Dan Morgan
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Speaker 3: for being able to do that, and he's been able
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Speaker 3: to do it in free agency. And yes, you may
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Speaker 3: have to pay people, may you may have to overpay
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Speaker 3: to get people to come play in a small market,
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Speaker 3: but I think some of these guys also looked at
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Speaker 3: the growth and the progress and see how close this
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Speaker 3: team really is to being ready to compete. And I
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Speaker 3: think that that made it easier to bring the guys
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Speaker 3: in free agency. I thought this draft, you know what
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Speaker 3: we did with Lee Hunter and the other guys as well,
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Speaker 3: Will Lee in that cornerback spot. They're starting to really
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Speaker 3: build up the type of depth you need on that
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Speaker 3: side of the football as well. And barring a significant
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Speaker 3: injury to a Derek Brown someone like that, I think
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Speaker 3: this defense is really poised to be the best version
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Speaker 3: of what it can be. Under Jerovero.
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Speaker 4: We cannot wait.
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Speaker 2: Training camp just a few weeks away, so plenty more
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Speaker 2: panther discussions like this coming up here on Sports Radio
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Speaker 2: ninety two seven all throughout the shows. Here when we
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Speaker 2: come back, Adam Gold is going to try to explain
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Speaker 2: to us maybe what occurred last night in Seattle. The
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Speaker 2: US is out, how did it happen, and how does
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Speaker 2: the US somehow, some way try to get more competitive
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Speaker 2: in these matchups in the future. Sports Radio ninety two seven, WFNZ.
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Speaker 5: Welcome back, Mac and Bone Show.
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Speaker 2: Mac is still on his alleged cruise right now, probably
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Speaker 2: driving the family nuts, but we miss them here on
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Speaker 2: the back in Bone Show. Next segment, stick around there,
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Speaker 2: we're gonna give you some intel from Seth Wickersham of
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Speaker 2: ESPN that Adam Schefter just tweeted out about an idea
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Speaker 2: that Sean Payton had in twenty twenty four to step
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Speaker 2: down to become the assistant coach of the Broncos to
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Speaker 2: Bill Belichick coach fifteen games. You got to hear this
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Speaker 2: crazy idea that's going to come up in full in
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Speaker 2: the next Steve.
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Speaker 4: But well, now we go to the guest line.
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Speaker 2: Bring in our Weekly eight twenty five, one of our
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Speaker 2: favorites from ninety nine point nine to the fan in Raleigh,
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Speaker 2: Adam Gold joins the Mac and Bum Mac and Bum program.
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Speaker 4: Adam, what's up? Man?
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Speaker 1: How are you? What's going on?
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Speaker 4: What's going on?
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Speaker 5: Man?
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Speaker 2: I'm in a different chair today, so I have to
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Speaker 2: be more professional and I don't.
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Speaker 4: I don't know. I can't won you.
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Speaker 1: Why would you try that.
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Speaker 2: I'm not supposed to joker have fun in this chair.
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Speaker 2: I'm supposed to be a serious I'm like, who is
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Speaker 2: your guy there? Tom Sneider? Was that a guy?
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Speaker 1: Tom Snyder was a guy?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: It sounds like it's like a hostage situation. Hold up
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Speaker 1: a newspaper.
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Speaker 2: Well, last night, and what the US was in their
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Speaker 2: own situation last night? The loss of Belgium? What element
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Speaker 2: of the because losing is one thing, but the way
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Speaker 2: they lost is another. What what surprised you the most
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Speaker 2: in what transpired last night in Seattle?
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Speaker 1: Well, look, it's it's pretty obvious that they didn't meet
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Speaker 1: the moment, that that moment was way too big for
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Speaker 1: them because some of the mistakes they made are absolutely basic.
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Speaker 1: First goal should have never even should have never even
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Speaker 1: been as possession should have ended. Yeah, after the Freeman header,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't It wasn't a great defensive header. But Sergenio
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Speaker 1: Desks and to a lesser extent, Weston McKinney both could
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Speaker 1: have like attacked the ball and cleared it out of
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Speaker 1: the area, but neither did. Serginio Desk let the ball
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Speaker 1: bounce it and looked around. I'm like, dude, is this
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Speaker 1: challenge soccer? Is this the highest level you've ever played at?
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Speaker 1: And like they so they lost that moment there. Tim
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Speaker 1: Reim was at a position and it was an easy
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Speaker 1: tap in goal past Matt Freeze. The second goal, uh,
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Speaker 1: said Leandros Troussard, who is not known as a speed merchant,
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Speaker 1: was able to beat two guys to the bylon byline
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Speaker 1: and cross it.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: And then Tim ream got big boyd by the same
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Speaker 1: guy who scored the first goal went right over top
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Speaker 1: of him. I mean, you just have to be stronger there.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: And then the third goal, of course, was a calamity,
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Speaker 1: a calamity of an inexperienced goalkeeping by Matt Freeze. Other
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Speaker 1: than that, how was the play? Missus Lincoln Kristan Polistic
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Speaker 1: wasn't very good. Sergenio Desk had to be taken off
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Speaker 1: for various reasons at the half. I didn't think it
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Speaker 1: was a great night for Weston McKinney or Tyler Adams.
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Speaker 1: Uh And I thought the United States deficiencies showed throughout.
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Speaker 1: I mean people are saying Floe Balligan wasn't very good.
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Speaker 1: I mean, how could he be. He's nobody. Nobody could
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Speaker 1: get him the ball really in great position. It was
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Speaker 1: a terrible night all across for the US.
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Speaker 2: I mean nobody, honestly, nobody was very good. On the
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Speaker 2: ESPN rankings, the highest player they ranked was Tilman at
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Speaker 2: a five out of ten because of the goal that
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Speaker 2: he had, But I mean nobody. Matt Freeze was awful.
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Speaker 2: Not only the misplay was sort of like the end
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Speaker 2: of it, but he wasn't good on the previous goals either.
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Speaker 4: He had himself a bad night.
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Speaker 1: I actually didn't. I didn't hate. I mean, I don't
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Speaker 1: think he's at fault for the first two goals. He
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Speaker 1: makes the great save in the first minute where he
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Speaker 1: goes left hand upper ninety were on the right side
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Speaker 1: of a goal, I mean, to save a goal, and
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Speaker 1: I thought that was a great sign for him. I
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Speaker 1: don't really think either of the two goals are on him.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he is frozen, but he's not making the
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Speaker 1: save on either of those, so I don't blame him
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Speaker 1: for those, but I mean, here's I think Mauricio Pochettino
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Speaker 1: did a pretty good job with this team, or a
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Speaker 1: great job with this team, but I'll go back to
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Speaker 1: one one area where he definitely made a mistake. I
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Speaker 1: don't really care that you rotated basically your entire team
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Speaker 1: against Turkey A in the final game of the group stage,
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Speaker 1: but Matt Freeze can't be treated like he's an experienced
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Speaker 1: goalkeeper that you needed to give the night off and
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Speaker 1: let Matt Turner play. We know what Matt Turner is.
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Speaker 1: If Matt Turner's in the game, it's over. Yeah, Matt
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Speaker 1: Turner is no good anymore. But Matt Freeze to that
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Speaker 1: point had fewer like competitive caps for the US than
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Speaker 1: he had friendlies, and that that had to be rectified
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Speaker 1: against a team like Turkey A, who, even if they
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Speaker 1: didn't play their best eleven and they didn't, was still
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Speaker 1: in quality a round of thirty two caliber team maybe
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Speaker 1: been around him sixteen caliber team, considering two of the
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Speaker 1: players they put on the field in Yields and Gooler,
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Speaker 1: who are world class players. And they didn't even like
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Speaker 1: let Freeze go out there and maybe try to win
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Speaker 1: a game, maybe be the difference in a win and
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Speaker 1: a loss, or a draw and a drawn a loss,
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Speaker 1: or even winning a draw. They didn't do that, and
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Speaker 1: I thought that was a mistake. And the first time
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Speaker 1: the lights were really bright, he wasn't ready for it.
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Speaker 1: The United States used to be a goalkeeping nation. It's
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Speaker 1: the one thing we would produce, and we haven't produced
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Speaker 1: a world class goalkeeper probably in ten years.
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Speaker 2: One of our texters says they should have put Brandon
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Speaker 2: Bussey in last night. I think we're getting our would
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Speaker 2: have been great. We're getting our situations confused here without
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Speaker 2: him Gold.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, he would have been great.
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Speaker 2: Christian Polisk is getting just ripped to shreds both in performance.
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Speaker 2: He lost the ball per ESPN stats eleven to five
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Speaker 2: eleven possessions. He lost in forty five minutes. Curly Woyd
20:02
Speaker 2: tore him up after the game on the set there.
20:06
Speaker 2: What happened to Polistic? And how justified is this ripping
20:08
Speaker 2: this morning?
20:10
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how. I mean, he was bad.
20:12
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what happened to him. I
20:14
Speaker 1: know he had he left the first match against Paraguay
20:20
Speaker 1: at halftime with an injury. He didn't play again until
20:24
Speaker 1: the last thirty five minutes against Turkya, But when he
20:27
Speaker 1: came on against Turkia, he was fantastic. He looked like
20:32
Speaker 1: the Christian Polistic that would be a factor in a
20:36
Speaker 1: positive way going forward. I don't know if it was
20:39
Speaker 1: the moment. I don't know if it was the opponents.
20:42
Speaker 1: I do know Belgium set up to defend, that they
20:45
Speaker 1: had defensive players in offensive positions. Juri Tilamans is more
20:50
Speaker 1: of a defensive central midfielder, defensive midfielder. He was playing
20:55
Speaker 1: as an attacking midfielder. So they were set up to
20:58
Speaker 1: defend Andre who unfortunately left the match early with an injury.
21:04
Speaker 1: He's a defensive midfielder and he was playing as more
21:06
Speaker 1: of a deep lying you know. So they were set
21:11
Speaker 1: up to defend, and they were set up to stop
21:14
Speaker 1: Polisic in Balligan and Robinson and dest and they did
21:18
Speaker 1: that effectively and Polific just not could not handle. I
21:22
Speaker 1: think he tried to go a little two one on one.
21:25
Speaker 1: I don't think the US was showed particularly good movement
21:28
Speaker 1: away from the ball, but I thought he was bad.
21:33
Speaker 1: Tilman was okay, death was terrible, but again, their best
21:38
Speaker 1: players weren't good enough. And I think the underlying thing
21:41
Speaker 1: for me is that the United States just doesn't have
21:45
Speaker 1: enough high quality players to get past this round of
21:49
Speaker 1: the World Cup. Our ceiling is round to sixteen until
21:52
Speaker 1: there are better players in the US system.
21:56
Speaker 2: And that's what I was going to ask you about,
21:57
Speaker 2: is the ceiling and can they ever get past this area?
22:01
Speaker 2: I know they did in two thousand and two in
22:04
Speaker 2: a different format of teams, but yeah, do you do
22:08
Speaker 2: you think.
22:08
Speaker 4: They can ever get past this?
22:09
Speaker 2: Or is this just are we kind of a mid
22:12
Speaker 2: major where we're never really going to advance to the
22:15
Speaker 2: to go take on the blue bloods at the end.
22:18
Speaker 1: I mean they could have. They probably should have been
22:22
Speaker 1: matched up against Senegal yet last night, Yeah, so Senegal
22:27
Speaker 1: boss Belgium for eighty minutes and then all of a
22:32
Speaker 1: sudden just completely caved, which I mean fair play to Belgium.
22:37
Speaker 1: They do have some, I mean legitimately world class players.
22:42
Speaker 1: Of course they didn't start two of them, which is
22:45
Speaker 1: hysterical to me that Jeremy Doku and Kevin de Bruyne
22:50
Speaker 1: were not part of the of the starting eleven. It
22:54
Speaker 1: was that just showed you. Rudy Garcia did a masterful
22:57
Speaker 1: job setting his team up to deal with the United States,
23:03
Speaker 1: But we just don't have the quality. And are we
23:07
Speaker 1: a mid major? I mean, yeah, that's probably a fair
23:10
Speaker 1: assessment right now until we get and four years from now,
23:17
Speaker 1: Like some of the players I just mentioned are all
23:19
Speaker 1: going to be in their thirties. Adams is going to
23:21
Speaker 1: be in his thirties. Mckenny's going to be in his thirties.
23:23
Speaker 1: I mean, Tim Reim is going to be in his forties.
23:26
Speaker 1: Tim Reim was a tough night last night. Good Chris
23:31
Speaker 1: Richards our best central defender. I mean, if we ranked
23:36
Speaker 1: the best Premier League defenders, I don't know that he's
23:41
Speaker 1: in the top fifteen in that league. So I mean
23:45
Speaker 1: he's good, but he should be part of your center
23:49
Speaker 1: back tandem. He shouldn't be. We cannot live without Chris Richards.
23:55
Speaker 1: I mean, we're not talking about prime virgil Van Dyke here.
23:58
Speaker 1: So it's the US needs to continue and this is there.
24:04
Speaker 1: They're on the path. They need to continue developing players.
24:09
Speaker 1: And I think while this is going to sound like
24:11
Speaker 1: a knock at Major League Soccer or but it's not
24:16
Speaker 1: really look at where the best American players play. Uh,
24:20
Speaker 1: and there are very few who play in the best
24:25
Speaker 1: leagues for top clubs and do well. Very few.
24:30
Speaker 2: Virgil van Dyke that is not a relative of the
24:32
Speaker 2: great Dick van Dyk, Right, just to clarify, Uh, you.
24:35
Speaker 1: Know what, I don't know that he isn't. So let's
24:38
Speaker 1: just go with it, all.
24:39
Speaker 2: Right, I'm gonna I'll look that up here during the
24:41
Speaker 2: during the breaker talking to Adam Gold ninety nine point nine,
24:44
Speaker 2: the fan and Roley talking the US performance last night.
24:48
Speaker 2: Can't can't let this conversation go by till the next
24:50
Speaker 2: stuff year without asking at least their opinion on the
24:54
Speaker 2: flow Balligan situation and all that went down there and
24:57
Speaker 2: how that transpired.
25:02
Speaker 1: Not good. It's clear what happened, right, It was a
25:09
Speaker 1: terrible red card. The process was bad, so he shouldn't
25:13
Speaker 1: have been sent off. FIFA could have said that in
25:17
Speaker 1: their ruling when FIFA released their statement when they basically
25:23
Speaker 1: suspended Baligan's red card. They didn't take it away. It's
25:27
Speaker 1: just been suspended the punishment of a match ban, which
25:32
Speaker 1: is standard for a straight red card in a match,
25:37
Speaker 1: standard which a lot of people for some reason don't know,
25:40
Speaker 1: which is fine, it's not their sport. Necessarily, it was
25:45
Speaker 1: suspended and there's no mechanism for an appeal, so it's
25:49
Speaker 1: not an appeal situation. It's FIFA deciding for whatever reason
25:55
Speaker 1: that they were just going to let Valigan play. Now,
26:00
Speaker 1: if they had said we didn't like the process, you're
26:04
Speaker 1: not supposed to use just slow motion and still photography,
26:08
Speaker 1: which is apparently what they did. If that was the situation,
26:13
Speaker 1: FIFA could have said that they have been offered multiple
26:17
Speaker 1: opportunities to blame the process or say we felt it
26:22
Speaker 1: was an incorrect decision for the red card, and they
26:25
Speaker 1: could have rescinded the red card in the tournament. People
26:27
Speaker 1: could do whatever the hell they want. But they never
26:30
Speaker 1: said that. They just said we're suspending the red card,
26:33
Speaker 1: which is basically a parent saying don't you do that again,
26:36
Speaker 1: young man. And like there's people can talk about president
26:42
Speaker 1: all they want, while they did it with Ronaldo. While
26:45
Speaker 1: it's the same organization, it's not the same tournament. The
26:51
Speaker 1: World Cup is different than qualification and it all depends
26:57
Speaker 1: on like do you believe even like if you're a parent,
27:02
Speaker 1: do you tell you do you teach your kids right
27:04
Speaker 1: and wrong? I think we all do right. If you
27:06
Speaker 1: have kids, you teach your kids right and wrong.
27:09
Speaker 5: Right.
27:09
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to teach your kids you're gonna have
27:11
Speaker 1: to overcome some adversity the United States for political reasons
27:18
Speaker 1: and pressure, we're told you don't have to overcome adversity.
27:23
Speaker 1: I don't know that they wouldn't have had a better
27:24
Speaker 1: chance to be Belgium without flow Balligan, they would not have.
27:28
Speaker 2: I think it actually hurt them last night because I
27:30
Speaker 2: think the whole situation Belgium came out like a house
27:34
Speaker 2: of fire. I think they were, they were angry and annoyed,
27:37
Speaker 2: and I think it actually, I actually think it kind
27:40
Speaker 2: of woke Belgium up a little bit.
27:42
Speaker 4: This whole thing.
27:44
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, we really don't know. There's no there's
27:47
Speaker 1: no way to apply any proof to anything. So I'll
27:52
Speaker 1: never say that it's like bulletin board material. I don't
27:56
Speaker 1: believe in it. But if teams do, and maybe it
28:00
Speaker 1: does work, right, if anything that you can use to
28:05
Speaker 1: motivate yourself a little bit more, sharpen your focus a
28:09
Speaker 1: little bit more, And I don't know. I mean, I
28:11
Speaker 1: think you can make an argument that it hurt the
28:14
Speaker 1: US right, that they maybe took the field with a
28:18
Speaker 1: little bit less respect for Belgium, feeling themselves. Hey, we've
28:22
Speaker 1: got our guy. Everything's gonna be fine. None of this
28:26
Speaker 1: to me matters, but it might, and I just have
28:30
Speaker 1: to allow for that, because it's the intangibles and the
28:33
Speaker 1: human side of sports that sometimes are inexplainable. But the
28:38
Speaker 1: process was horrific. It shows it shows very poorly on FIFA,
28:45
Speaker 1: it shows very poorly on the US and the people
28:48
Speaker 1: arguing that this was just. I mean, that's just not true.
28:53
Speaker 1: It was not just. Even though the red card was
28:56
Speaker 1: a terrible decision and the process was faulty, the process
29:01
Speaker 1: to get it back to like, the two wrongs don't
29:04
Speaker 1: make a right theory. Right, FIFA was wrong and the
29:07
Speaker 1: whole thing was wrong, but that doesn't make it a right.
29:11
Speaker 1: And I think the US should have dealt with their punishment,
29:14
Speaker 1: even though the punishment was way too harsh for me
29:18
Speaker 1: and incorrect. I just think that that's the situation and
29:21
Speaker 1: sometimes you just got to deal with it. But I mean,
29:25
Speaker 1: I was glad that he played because I think the
29:27
Speaker 1: more good players you have, the better chances that you
29:31
Speaker 1: have of winning. But ultimately, the United States doesn't have
29:35
Speaker 1: enough good.
29:35
Speaker 2: Players Adam the light at the end of the tunnels here.
29:39
Speaker 2: I mean not that we don't like talking Canes, but
29:41
Speaker 2: the Canes win the Cup, then we move on talking
29:44
Speaker 2: to you about the World Cup. Guess what's next though,
29:47
Speaker 2: coming up a full summer and fall of ACC football talk. Buddy,
29:52
Speaker 2: we got that coming up.
29:53
Speaker 1: What j Let's just talk about the games we.
29:57
Speaker 4: Got ACC football.
29:58
Speaker 5: Man.
29:58
Speaker 2: We just hit a topic on what fan base is
30:01
Speaker 2: in the Carolinas our most fired up and we got
30:04
Speaker 2: like three responses, So we're still working through some things here.
30:07
Speaker 1: Who is fired up?
30:08
Speaker 4: ECU fans?
30:10
Speaker 2: Okay, although they got Bama Week one, but that's a
30:13
Speaker 2: good opportunity for that ECU fans.
30:15
Speaker 1: And I'd say, wait, wait wait, wait, wait wait wait wait,
30:18
Speaker 1: ECU has Bama in week one. Did you just say
30:21
Speaker 1: that's a good opportunity for them?
30:23
Speaker 2: Well, no, I just mean they're on the national stage.
30:25
Speaker 2: Bama's not what they were they could they can at
30:27
Speaker 2: least compete.
30:28
Speaker 4: I think in that game a little bit.
30:30
Speaker 1: I mean, I hope.
30:31
Speaker 2: So, all right, what's saved these We got all summer
30:34
Speaker 2: for these discussions.
30:34
Speaker 4: Man, let's save these.
30:35
Speaker 1: I hope they're not USA to Bama's Belgium.
30:40
Speaker 2: Let's hope not. That's Adam Gold. Thanks man for joining
30:42
Speaker 2: Talty next Tuesday.
30:44
Speaker 1: You got it, man, nice job all right?
30:46
Speaker 4: No, no, you did a nice job.
30:48
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm just here making stuff up, all right, Man,
30:51
Speaker 1: appreciate you.
30:53
Speaker 2: There you go, Adam Gold ninety nine point nine to
30:56
Speaker 2: fan in Raleigh. Uh fitty, I've done this now out
31:00
Speaker 2: for uh twenty two years. Why did he sound so surprised?
31:04
Speaker 2: I did a good job.
31:07
Speaker 3: Well, there's the first time forever.
31:09
Speaker 5: What do you mean?
31:09
Speaker 4: Well, well, what do you mean? Well?
31:12
Speaker 2: Well, I mean if I can't handle my own here,
31:14
Speaker 2: I can't wear the big boy pants, I can't wear
31:16
Speaker 2: Max jeans for the week.
31:17
Speaker 3: I wouldn't want to wear Max jeans. And also, like
31:21
Speaker 3: Goldie doesn't give off the impressions that he goes around
31:24
Speaker 3: handing out compliments.
31:25
Speaker 4: That was one.
31:26
Speaker 3: So I think that he was really impressed by the
31:29
Speaker 3: job that you did. You came in with prepared questions,
31:32
Speaker 3: You got through the interview in a timely manner, got
31:35
Speaker 3: to him on time. There was a lot of things
31:38
Speaker 3: you did that Mac didn't do or doesn't do, and
31:41
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31:42
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Speaker 4: All right, we come back.
32:21
Speaker 2: We're gonna tell you this seth Wickersham's story on what
32:23
Speaker 2: Sean Pagan tried to do a couple of years ago
32:26
Speaker 2: involving Bill Belichick. We're also going to do a real
32:29
Speaker 2: quick ask. The audience saw a lot of people on
32:32
Speaker 2: social media that now want to be soccer fans past
32:36
Speaker 2: the World Cup. What sport have you changed your mind
32:41
Speaker 2: about over time if you didn't like it before or
32:44
Speaker 2: the reverse? What sport do you no longer like anymore?
32:47
Speaker 2: We'll ask the audience. Sports Radio ninety two seven WFNT
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Speaker 2: Today with Colin Hoggard will take it from there. Wild
33:13
Speaker 2: note today that Adam Schefter tweeted out per Seth Wickersham,
33:18
Speaker 2: who either he's either got a long form article or
33:21
Speaker 2: a book out on Denver Broncos. I have to go
33:23
Speaker 2: figure out where Nope. Seth Wickersham spent a month this
33:28
Speaker 2: past January embedded with Sean Payton and the Broncos, sixteen
33:33
Speaker 2: hour days. He got access to every single meeting with Denver.
33:39
Speaker 2: In a note this morning that Sean Payton told Seth
33:43
Speaker 2: Wickersham along the way was. In twenty twenty four, Sean
33:48
Speaker 2: Payton considered presenting Broncos owner Greg Penner a proposal where
33:53
Speaker 2: Denver would hire Bill Belichick to be the head coach
33:57
Speaker 2: until he broke Don Schule's record and Sean Payton would
34:01
Speaker 2: step aside. It'd only run the offense during that time.
34:05
Speaker 2: It was too complicated and too too much had to
34:09
Speaker 2: go into it.
34:09
Speaker 4: Fiddy, what is that Sean Payton just looking.
34:13
Speaker 2: To suck up to the goat or do you think
34:16
Speaker 2: that's a real thing he thought of.
34:18
Speaker 4: I don't.
34:19
Speaker 2: That seems like a lot, man. It seems like a
34:22
Speaker 2: very generous thing and also a very complicated thing to
34:25
Speaker 2: have a guy come until he breaks the record and
34:27
Speaker 2: then I also don't think Belichick would want to do
34:30
Speaker 2: that because that would feel like a charity case situation.
34:32
Speaker 4: Yeah.
34:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if it was presented to him
34:36
Speaker 3: that way, because like what happens, Belichick breaks the record,
34:40
Speaker 3: Belichick resigns, and Sean Payton becomes the head coach again?
34:43
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, Like or does Belichick go coach the
34:46
Speaker 2: defense or so there's already defensive coach there, so that
34:49
Speaker 2: doesn't I also, I think it's a good idea from
34:52
Speaker 2: Sean Payton his mind. There's no way Belichick was going
34:55
Speaker 2: for that. No, he doesn't want to just be gifted
34:58
Speaker 2: something like that.
34:59
Speaker 3: Is real life. There are egos involved, including Sean Payton's,
35:03
Speaker 3: And maybe Sean Payton is a big enough of a
35:05
Speaker 3: man to set aside and let Belichick break the record.
35:08
Speaker 3: He's I don't think he is either. I also don't
35:12
Speaker 3: think that would be the way that Belichick would want
35:14
Speaker 3: to break the record like and I think if he
35:19
Speaker 3: was honest with you now, I think he's come to
35:22
Speaker 3: terms that his NFL life is over. If he's gonna
35:24
Speaker 3: coach for football, it's gonna be at the collegiate level.
35:27
Speaker 3: Who knows how much longer that's gonna last. It would
35:31
Speaker 3: have been. I mean, it would have been an interesting
35:34
Speaker 3: story to follow, because that's like a movie script like
35:38
Speaker 3: that'd be being played out in real life. That this
35:40
Speaker 3: coach gets fired, You bring this coach in, help him
35:43
Speaker 3: achieve a certain.
35:44
Speaker 4: Would Kevin James play Sean Payton again and might be.
35:48
Speaker 3: The worst casted football.
35:49
Speaker 4: Coach movie I've ever watched. Twice you've watched its watching it?
35:53
Speaker 4: Have you watched it once?
35:54
Speaker 5: Oh?
35:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had to watch it again to make sure
35:57
Speaker 2: it was as bad as the world the first time,
36:00
Speaker 2: boy mcgummy. For the second time, I didn't know what
36:02
Speaker 2: I was doing. I really have been extremely into this
36:08
Speaker 2: World Cup, not even just the US but every match
36:11
Speaker 2: to me, I've seen most of them outside the late
36:15
Speaker 2: kind of midnight windows where they buried some teams. I
36:17
Speaker 2: have been fully into the World Cup. I've now chosen
36:21
Speaker 2: Chelsea as my English Premier League team. Obviously FC is
36:25
Speaker 2: our team here that we support in full Willypee coming
36:28
Speaker 2: up at nine, I am fully wanting to invest in soccer.
36:33
Speaker 2: This World Cup has made me want to go root
36:37
Speaker 2: for more of this, so I wanted to know. Has
36:42
Speaker 2: has there ever been a time when someone completely bought
36:45
Speaker 2: in to a sport that maybe they were bought into before,
36:49
Speaker 2: or has a sport left them that they love. We're
36:53
Speaker 2: getting some people that say they now love hockey. The
36:56
Speaker 2: Canes run and they're in. They're run.
36:58
Speaker 4: The last decade or so has made them hockey fans.
37:02
Speaker 2: There's a lot of college sports fans, especially on the
37:04
Speaker 2: college basketball side, that are not enamored with it any more.
37:08
Speaker 4: Fit.
37:09
Speaker 2: Is there a sport that, either way you've either fallen
37:11
Speaker 2: out of love with or that you love more than
37:14
Speaker 2: you did before.
37:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, the sport that comes to mind is baseball, and
37:17
Speaker 3: that I've I've refallen in love with it. Growing up
37:20
Speaker 3: as a kid, it was like a lot of kids,
37:22
Speaker 3: it was. It was the first sport I ever played.
37:25
Speaker 3: It was the first sport I ever loved. I grew
37:28
Speaker 3: up on a ball field. I played my dad umped
37:31
Speaker 3: we were I was out of ball field six days
37:33
Speaker 3: out of a week. Then you know, I got into basketball,
37:36
Speaker 3: got into football, it kind of went away. And I've
37:40
Speaker 3: always talked about like during the pandemic when we didn't
37:43
Speaker 3: have sports, baseball was the first sport, like them and
37:46
Speaker 3: NASCAR were the first sport to kind of come back.
37:50
Speaker 3: And ever since, ever since they came back during COVID,
37:53
Speaker 3: I've been I've been passionate. I mean, I watch listen,
37:57
Speaker 3: consume one hundred and sixty two met games out of
37:59
Speaker 3: the year year.
38:00
Speaker 4: It's not healthy that a lot of maybe your issues.
38:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of my anger. And while I'm angry
38:06
Speaker 3: and upset and frustrated, a lot of the times, I
38:11
Speaker 3: get the since like I get the college basketball where
38:14
Speaker 3: fans are no longer as passionate as as they were
38:19
Speaker 3: because of the transfer portal the n I l I'll
38:22
Speaker 3: say this though, the product is as good as it's
38:27
Speaker 3: ever been since the since the nineties, I think, like
38:30
Speaker 3: since it climbed into the nineties. I do think now
38:33
Speaker 3: like the level of the talent in college basketball is good.
38:37
Speaker 3: So if you can kind of forget about all the
38:40
Speaker 3: off the court crap like you do with college football,
38:43
Speaker 3: I do think college.
38:44
Speaker 2: It's about the jerseys and your team more than the
38:49
Speaker 2: who's in them because it's gonna it's gonna be a
38:51
Speaker 2: new team every year.
38:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, like root for I view my college sports on granted.
38:57
Speaker 3: I mean I'm a college football in college basketball junkie,
39:00
Speaker 3: my two favorite sports to watch, but almost treat like
39:03
Speaker 3: you treat when you watch the US, whether it's hockey, basketball, soccer,
39:08
Speaker 3: Like root for the logo, not the player as much
39:11
Speaker 3: as that's that's how I find myself. I want all
39:15
Speaker 3: the players to do well, but I'm rooting for those
39:17
Speaker 3: three letters you and see as much as I am
39:19
Speaker 3: rooting for X, Y and Z player.
39:21
Speaker 2: Here's some answers on the text Ye seven oh four
39:23
Speaker 2: five seven nine six y ten rock Hill Ryan he
39:27
Speaker 2: fell back in love with the NBA this year because
39:30
Speaker 2: of the hornet season, So that's a good answer.
39:32
Speaker 4: There. Differing opinions here.
39:34
Speaker 2: Joe from Gastonia never watched NASCAR before until recently. He
39:40
Speaker 2: fell in love with it a year ago. So John
39:43
Speaker 2: from Gastonia fell in love with Nascar. Krabby Patty left
39:48
Speaker 2: NASCAR because of how they do the chase in the playoffs.
39:52
Speaker 2: So Krabby Patty out Joe from Gastoni and NASCAR feels
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Speaker 2: like that sort of it. There are some people that
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Speaker 2: are never going to leave it, and there are some
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Speaker 2: that the way NASCAR is now it's not what they
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Speaker 2: grew up with, right.
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Speaker 3: It's definitely a sport that has evolved. I've always said
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Speaker 3: to people that kind of scoff at NASCAR, it's a
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Speaker 3: sport that kind of like kind of soccer is if
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Speaker 3: you go experience it at the track and everything that
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Speaker 3: goes into going to a race. Like I'm not saying
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Speaker 3: you gotta do what I do in six hundred, get
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Speaker 3: there at ten o'clock, puke by eleven thirty, but if
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Speaker 3: you if you spend time.
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Speaker 2: At backup shirt, maybe if you want to go to it,
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Speaker 2: you'll you'll come away with a different appreciation.
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Speaker 3: It's a sport that I've stayed interested in because of
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Speaker 3: my brother loves it, because I kind of got out
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Speaker 3: of it as I was getting older, and now I'm
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Speaker 3: back into it where I watch thirty six races. A
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Speaker 3: lot of the guys here at the station, like our
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Speaker 3: group chat on Sundays, we're talking about whatever NASCAR race
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Speaker 3: is going on. So I wonder for Joe from Gastonia,
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Speaker 3: John from Gastonia, if he went to a race because
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Speaker 3: I feel like once we people go experience Dowfter.
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Speaker 4: He's he's the one that list Now. Yeah, I think once.
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Speaker 3: You go experience, you come away and think, damn, that's
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Speaker 3: pretty cool. Because that that that's how that's how I
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Speaker 3: view it, Like it's I'm mixed. I'm going to North
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Speaker 3: Books Borrow in two weeks will Smoke, and I'm as
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Speaker 3: genuinely excited to go experience that race at that track
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Speaker 3: as anything I've done sports watcher in the last stand
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Speaker 3: full of years.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's a good chance that Smoke is one
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Speaker 2: of those guys that climbs the fence and tries to
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Speaker 2: talk to the drivers on the track, So you might
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Speaker 2: want to keep the smoke.
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Speaker 4: Smoke boos it up at the Does he drink at
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Speaker 4: the race track.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if he does. I know he won't
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Speaker 3: be this this race because he is the driver.
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Speaker 4: He told me in the race. But to the to
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Speaker 4: the to the.
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Speaker 3: Track, he says, as I have to work the next morning,
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Speaker 3: he wasn't going to make me drive, uh, because it's
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Speaker 3: gonna be a late night because it's a Sunday night.
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Speaker 4: What a man this guy is, I tell you.
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Speaker 3: Moving up the totem pole here is he?
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Speaker 4: Is there a chance here that smoke? He's passive flounder?
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Speaker 3: Now, I don't Flown's got fifteen plus years man, but
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Speaker 3: could he maybe pass shoppy?
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Speaker 4: Okay, I think that's definitely on the table.
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Speaker 2: Keep us updated on that. Trying to see if they're
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Speaker 2: a hockey who's your bobby? Is another one that he
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Speaker 2: now loves hockey seems to be a popular one that
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Speaker 2: I think once people experience maybe a team they're rooting
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Speaker 2: for make a postseason run like the Canes just did
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Speaker 2: and win it all, I think once you once you
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Speaker 2: see that, I think it's hard to really not invest
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Speaker 2: yourself right the rest of the way. So that kind
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Speaker 2: of makes sense to me, especially right now locally with
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Speaker 2: what the Canes just did. When we come back a man,
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Speaker 2: we're all invested in locally. Willie p joins us to
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Speaker 2: try to make some sense of what we saw last
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Speaker 2: night from the US. The future of US soccer Potch,
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Speaker 2: what's his future? We'll ask Willy pe all this and
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