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Mac & Bone Hour 3: Panthers Playoff Wagon · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody.
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  Speaker 4: It is the Mac and Bone Show in the Queen
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  Speaker 4: City of Charlotte, North Carolina. It is Luke Keighley Appreciation Week.
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  Speaker 4: He is headed into the Hall of Fame on Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: We cannot wait to celebrate him, and we celebrate them
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  Speaker 4: all week here, including conversations with people who know him well.
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  Speaker 4: And our next guest fits that description. A guy who
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  Speaker 4: was on the staff here in Carolina from twenty twelve
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  Speaker 4: to twenty seventeen. That was his first stint before he
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  Speaker 4: came back to his hometown of Charlotte on the ANTH staff.
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  Speaker 4: He is Steve Wilkes, and he was DB's coach, assistant
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  Speaker 4: head coach, and then a defensive coordinator all while Luke
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  Speaker 4: Keigley was here. And he's nice enough to join us
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  Speaker 4: on the Mack and Bone Show. Coach Wilkes, how you doing.
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  Speaker 4: What's going on?
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  Speaker 5: Man?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing great today. Excited to be here with you
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  Speaker 1: guys this morning.
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  Speaker 4: Appreciate you joining us. So you're coaching the DBS in
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  Speaker 4: twenty twelve. But I'm sure when Luke Keighley hits the
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  Speaker 4: practice field, it's it doesn't matter what position you're coaching,
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna notice somebody like that was what did he
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  Speaker 4: do and what was the first time that he kind
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  Speaker 4: of caught your that he really caught your eye?
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  Speaker 1: Well, Luke has that presence about him, as you know,
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  Speaker 1: and just really the heartbeat of that defense. And we
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  Speaker 1: always talk about the lionebacker being somewhat like the quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody respected him because of how he went about
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  Speaker 1: his day to day operation. But being around him, man
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  Speaker 1: was a joy each and every day because he was
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  Speaker 1: just a pro.
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  Speaker 2: What what attribute made him so unique to coach? What
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  Speaker 2: did he have that was different than almost everybody else?
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  Speaker 1: He had a unique form of discipline and dedication. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: it's something that it's hard to describe. I give this
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  Speaker 1: story about him we were as coaches. Man, we will
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  Speaker 1: probably come down for dinner maybe about seven thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: forty five, and mind you, practice have been over since
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  Speaker 1: maybe about three thirty four o'clock. Once we finish meetings.
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  Speaker 1: So we're sitting there conversing as coaches, and next thing
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  Speaker 1: you know, here comes Luke coming around the corner. And
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  Speaker 1: he's been there since the end of practice in that
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  Speaker 1: linebacker room, going over film and just watching tape over
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  Speaker 1: and over and over again, trying to get a true
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  Speaker 1: feel for exactly what's gonna happen on Sunday. And when
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  Speaker 1: people see him out there calling the plays out, I
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  Speaker 1: just understand the time and effort that he put into that.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, big time, big time. It's it's it's no doubt
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  Speaker 4: about it.
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  Speaker 3: Rivera coach.
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  Speaker 4: Rivera's got the story about Christmas Eve and there he
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  Speaker 4: is watching films, so I definitely believe it. Do you
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  Speaker 4: think I almost feel like coach because so much of
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  Speaker 4: the focus is on his studying right and the way
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  Speaker 4: he knew what players are gonna be called, like the
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  Speaker 4: cerebral part of it. I almost feel like some people
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  Speaker 4: underrate the athlete he was. I mean, his size, the
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  Speaker 4: way he would move that ain't normal either, Like do
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  Speaker 4: you kind of do you kind of feel like sometimes
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  Speaker 4: people kind of forget this dude was a freak as
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  Speaker 4: an athlete.
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  Speaker 1: Too, of course he was. And I think when you
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  Speaker 1: look at the aspect of the game and where many
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  Speaker 1: people say it's played between the ears. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: where a lot of his credit comes from. But you're
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  Speaker 1: exactly right, man, this guy was a specimen. He spent
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time in the weight room. He believed
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  Speaker 1: in taking care of his body, you know, eating right,
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  Speaker 1: just doing the right things to put himself in position. So, yes,
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about sideline and sideline and he's such a
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  Speaker 1: nice guy. Can't clark as everybody say, but this guy
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  Speaker 1: was nasty as you know what on the field, and
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  Speaker 1: he had that little mainstreak about him which I loved him.
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  Speaker 2: And TD were, as you know, unbelievable combo. What do
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  Speaker 2: you think it was about those two in their games
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  Speaker 2: and their personalities that allowed them to gel as well
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  Speaker 2: as they did.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Luke, as great as he is, he is extremely humble,
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  Speaker 1: and he knew early on the role that Thomas possessed
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  Speaker 1: and that he carried, and he allowed Thomas to be
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  Speaker 1: that vocal point, the guy that got everybody going, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody fed off Thomas just like they fed off Luke.
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  Speaker 1: But Luke was, like I said, humble enough to allow
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  Speaker 1: Thomas to be him and say that, you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're tandem here, but I understand your leadership and I
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  Speaker 1: respect that he allowed Thomas to get out front.
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  Speaker 4: We're talking with Steve Wilkes, longtime member of the Panther
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  Speaker 4: coaching staff, Charlotte native, of course, joining us here on
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  Speaker 4: the Mack and Bone Show. It is Luke Appreciation Week
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  Speaker 4: and he's helping us appreciate what made Luke Keighley special coach.
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  Speaker 3: You grew you were a dB you know at app State.
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  Speaker 4: I mentioned DB's coach some of your time with the Panthers,
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  Speaker 4: you coach DB's a lot. Uh what Luke Keighley's coverage.
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  Speaker 4: We got to talk to you about his coverage. Now,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna say maybe he moved around like one
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  Speaker 4: of you smaller, quicker dbs, but I'll be danged if
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  Speaker 4: that dude at his size wasn't amazing and coverage. I'll
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  Speaker 4: never forget the time Julio Jones caught one on top
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  Speaker 4: of him, but I couldn't believe Luke was even near him,
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  Speaker 4: like thirty yards downfield, like he was even right there.
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  Speaker 3: What was you know? What was it like to see
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  Speaker 3: a guy like that covered the way he did?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 1: I think it goes back to your initial question. He
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  Speaker 1: talked about how people don't give him enough credit of
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  Speaker 1: the athlete that he was. You know, he was extremely fast,
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  Speaker 1: as you mentioned, quick can cover pretty much, you know,
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  Speaker 1: receivers in a slot, any tight end in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: We we wasn't concerned about that. But he just had
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  Speaker 1: a knack for really finding the ball, being in position
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  Speaker 1: and knowing when to get his head turned around and
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  Speaker 1: make a player on the ball. I mean I've seen
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  Speaker 1: that time and time again, just being in position. We
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  Speaker 1: talked about, you know, the same dig combination. He's running
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  Speaker 1: vertical and he knows that dig is coming. I mean
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  Speaker 1: I can see it right now Thanksgiving Day when he
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  Speaker 1: just comes off on the vertical and just picks Romo
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  Speaker 1: and goes in for a touchdown. It was amazing just
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  Speaker 1: to see the things that he just brought to life.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, wife has come full circle for you where it
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  Speaker 2: all began in college. At least you're back at Apps State.
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  Speaker 2: Explain what you're doing now and how much it means
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  Speaker 2: for you to be back now you're Alma mater.
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  Speaker 1: It means a lot to be back up there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they gave me I think they felt sorry for me. Say,
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  Speaker 1: they gave me some kind of a title specialist, you know,
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  Speaker 1: special assistant to the athletic department. So, uh, it's been great.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: I spent a little bit of time with with d
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  Speaker 1: Loo and the football team. I went through spring with
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  Speaker 1: those guys, just being out there, and like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited about this year and what he has put
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  Speaker 1: together with his staff. The players look great. They're going
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  Speaker 1: back in on Wednesday. Uh So I'll be back up
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  Speaker 1: there and really doing a lot with that athletic department
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  Speaker 1: as a whole.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: This revenue share n I L whatever you want to call,
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  Speaker 1: has really changed the game. Uh So I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: bring a lot of awareness to alumni and what we
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  Speaker 1: got to do, uh to really stay in the game.
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  Speaker 1: You know. And a lot of times, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: don't like and I say, we as alumni don't like
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  Speaker 1: the fact that this nil revenue is really taking over.
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  Speaker 1: But I have a concept that, Man, I love the
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  Speaker 1: AID more than I hate n I L. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: willing to do whatever I need to do to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that we're competitive.
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  Speaker 3: I love it, and it's a coach.
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  Speaker 4: It's for the group of six schools like app and
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  Speaker 4: we see it here with Charlotte. I mean, this nil
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  Speaker 4: portal combination has been tough, right because these these bigger
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  Speaker 4: schools can just poach players at will, and they have
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  Speaker 4: the funds.
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  Speaker 3: To do it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's a tough part about it. And you
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  Speaker 1: have to understand and realize and know that you're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna keep them all. But you have to put yourself
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  Speaker 1: in the position that when you can save one or two,
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  Speaker 1: that you have the capacity to do that, which really
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  Speaker 1: means the funds. You know, some guys are gonna get
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  Speaker 1: you know, approached and whatnot, and you're gonna get out bid.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, that's the mere fact of having good
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  Speaker 1: players and you're developing and whatnot, and that's why you
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  Speaker 1: got to make sure you have a pipeline.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, don't don't tell Coach Loggins this. I was using
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  Speaker 2: App State as my dynasty team in College Football twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven the video game, and I got us, I got
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  Speaker 2: us fired.
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  Speaker 3: Coach.
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  Speaker 2: It was not a good scene. So please don't tell.
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  Speaker 2: Don't tell Logins.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't need to know that.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do that.
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  Speaker 3: Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: I threw thirteen picks, coach in three games and they
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  Speaker 2: told me to get going.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, we don't need we don't need you playing quarterback, That's.
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  Speaker 3: What they told me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh man, I coach. Last question I have to
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  Speaker 4: ask you. I'm dying to ask you this question. It's
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  Speaker 4: been bothering me in a lot of Panther fans. Baker Mayfield,
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  Speaker 4: who you coached here in Carolina. I was watching the
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  Speaker 4: Quarterback Show and I don't know if you've heard about
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  Speaker 4: this or on Netflix or whatever, but like when he
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  Speaker 4: played against you with the Jets, he had this whole
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  Speaker 4: thing with his teammates trying to fire them up to
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  Speaker 4: go against you because he keeps talking about coach Wilkes
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  Speaker 4: cut me when I thought the story was you guys
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  Speaker 4: were gonna give him his release and kind of work
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  Speaker 4: with him.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't know if you heard about this.
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  Speaker 4: He had a whole chip on his shoulder and the
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  Speaker 4: huddle yelling about you.
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  Speaker 3: Did you hear about any of the stuff he was saying?
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  Speaker 3: And did that bother you?
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  Speaker 1: Someone sent me a text about it, Gardener, No, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't bother me. I got a lot of respect for Baker,
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  Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of respect. You got to understand, I
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  Speaker 1: was with him in Cleveland, and that was really one
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  Speaker 1: of the main reasons why I wanted to go there,
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  Speaker 1: because I felt like, being a defensive guy, I still
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  Speaker 1: look at the offense and because you can have a
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  Speaker 1: good defense, but three and out, three and out, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. And I felt like, you know, we had
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback because he's very competitive. Uh, he's gonna will
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  Speaker 1: the team, and that's just who he is. So you
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  Speaker 1: got to know Baker to know, Baker's gonna fabricate whatever
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  Speaker 1: he can to try to create that monster within himself
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  Speaker 1: to motivate his team. You know, Baker and I had
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  Speaker 1: a great conversation the year that I went to the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl with Sam Franz. I ran into him out there.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about the whole situation. So when I got
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  Speaker 1: the text, I sort of giggled a little bit because
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Baker and I talked about this. It's
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  Speaker 1: like he's just trying to mote. He tried to motivate
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  Speaker 1: his team, you know. So that's that's just who he is.
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  Speaker 1: Man of respect for him, but yeah, it's it's all good.
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  Speaker 1: Like like I said before, if if I had any
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  Speaker 1: control of that, Christ mccaprio would have never left Bank
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  Speaker 1: of America Stadium. So I had no I had no
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  Speaker 1: control of any any of that at that time. So
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  Speaker 1: and and and then speaking of that, man, Uh, I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited about uh this year with with the Pats. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I know Matt gets a little superstitious and whatnot. I
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  Speaker 1: believe it's Mac maybe you bod, I can't remember. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I think the guy is gonna win the South again.
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  Speaker 1: I think Bryces is coming into his own and I
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  Speaker 1: don't I don't think the defense gets enough respect. I
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  Speaker 1: think coach he has done a tremendous job. And and
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  Speaker 1: really where it stems from. I think Dan dan Is
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  Speaker 1: is really formulate the roster the where it needs to be.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm excited about this year and watching those guys play.
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  Speaker 4: Man, I love that love you're in that Coach. We
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  Speaker 4: are fired up here too, no doubt about it. I'm
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  Speaker 4: glad to see a Charlotte man still pulling for those
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  Speaker 4: Carolina Panthers.
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm a I'm a Panther fan, so I'm definitely
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  Speaker 1: pull with form.
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  Speaker 2: We're not superstitious. We just make predictions that go wrong
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  Speaker 2: all the time. Coach, That's that's the issue.
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  Speaker 1: We have yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, well don't say anything, man,
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  Speaker 1: how about that.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, we'll get You're the first to tell us that
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  Speaker 4: speak for a lot of people. All right, Coach, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: we had a pleasure talking about you. Love talking about Luke,
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  Speaker 4: but love catching up with you. And the Baker's story
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  Speaker 4: has been set straight. I love that. Thank you for
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  Speaker 4: coming on and best of luck up there at Boon
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  Speaker 4: with your alma mater.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you, Take care, enjoy your day.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 4: Steve Wilks, former coach of the Carolina Panthers. Two stints here,
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  Speaker 4: including one where he got the boys straightened out late
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  Speaker 4: in the season as interim coach, and you know, unfortunately
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  Speaker 4: did not get the Baker head coaching joa lying interesting
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  Speaker 4: how about that tidbit? Sure enough, sure enough, Baker Mayfield
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  Speaker 4: and Steve Wilkes talked it out during Super Bowl week
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  Speaker 4: the year that Wilkes's Niners were in the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 4: They had talked it out, and Baker Mayfield still later
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  Speaker 4: on goes out there and makes this this huge win.
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  Speaker 4: That's win this one because Steve Wilkes cut me into
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  Speaker 4: a nasty, mean human being.
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  Speaker 3: How about that.
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  Speaker 2: There's a good chance that Baker midfield can't catch on
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  Speaker 2: fire here at some.
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  Speaker 4: Point today, but it could happen. We saw that for
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  Speaker 4: what it was though, like we caught it. We called
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  Speaker 4: we called it the m move motivation. Michael Jordan was
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  Speaker 4: the best at that, making up some slight because hardly
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  Speaker 4: anybody slighted him, but he would just make up a
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  Speaker 4: slight and then he'd go out there and hang sixty
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  Speaker 4: three on somebody because of the made up.
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  Speaker 2: Slide, the famous one to battle Bradford Smith that he
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  Speaker 2: taught his whole team that well Bradford Smith was trash
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  Speaker 2: talking him, and then he went out and scored. Well,
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  Speaker 2: however many it was on him the next game. They
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  Speaker 2: played back to back games and he made up the
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  Speaker 2: whole entire thing. Oh that is vintage Mjay. I love
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  Speaker 2: the way bone you got wilk straightened out there. You're like, now,
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  Speaker 2: Ma's not superstitious. He he just curses everybody aroun. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's what it is. That's what you mess up.
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  Speaker 4: I do want to mention this because he was talking
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  Speaker 4: to us a bunch about Luke Keigley. I do want
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  Speaker 4: to mention because I've not mentioned this today and we
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  Speaker 4: want to put this together tomorrow. We want to have
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  Speaker 4: a fan montage of mess messages of salutes to Luke.
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  Speaker 4: We got a bunch yesterday, but we still want to
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  Speaker 4: get a bunch more. It's real simple. You go on
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  Speaker 4: the wf and Z app either download it or if
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  Speaker 4: you have it, just clicked on it. Get on the
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  Speaker 4: wfn Z app. You'll see a little microphone at the bottom.
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  Speaker 4: It'll allow you to record a thirty second or less message.
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  Speaker 4: When you're done with that, you stop it. You'll be
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  Speaker 4: able to put in your information and it will and
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  Speaker 4: send it off. Fiddy will be able to get all
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  Speaker 4: these messages. We want to put a great Friday kind
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  Speaker 4: of montage together of just people loving on Luke. Tell
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  Speaker 4: us why you love Luke. Talk to Luke directly if
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  Speaker 4: you want to. I think we'd like to find a
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  Speaker 4: way to pass this along. Let him give a little
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  Speaker 4: listen to what the fans on WFNZ think about him,
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  Speaker 4: and we will do a drawing of everybody that contributes,
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  Speaker 4: and we'll give away a pair of tickets to the
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  Speaker 4: Houston preseason game, which is the only home preseason game
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  Speaker 4: we have. So WFNZ app, click on that microphone and
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  Speaker 4: record your messages. Let out your Luke's tell your heartfelt stories,
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  Speaker 4: hand a phone to your wife if she has a
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  Speaker 4: crush on them, whatever you want to do. But we
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  Speaker 4: want to let everybody know how much y'all love Luke.
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  Speaker 3: So keep firing those babies in. I don't want my
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  Speaker 3: message out in the public. Thoughtal Luke.
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  Speaker 2: Well, when we come back, Panther fan vibe check. Are
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  Speaker 2: we still on the playoff wagon despite the injuries? We
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: discussed Sports Radio seven WFNZ.
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  Speaker 6: A lot of communication about the concepts that we've thrown
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  Speaker 6: at him over the course of two and a half season, sorry,
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  Speaker 6: one and a half seasons with us to be able
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  Speaker 6: to see, here's the full gamut of what we can do,
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  Speaker 6: what do you love? And then here are a couple
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  Speaker 6: of things that I feel like we need to kind
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  Speaker 6: of round out some of our concepts. Let's get mastery,
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  Speaker 6: let's own those concepts. Let's learn how to eliminate your
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  Speaker 6: first progression early on pre snap so that you can
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  Speaker 6: move through the rest of them. And he's done that,
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  Speaker 6: and we had a great offseason, a lot of growth there.
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  Speaker 6: He was able to connect with some of the guys
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  Speaker 6: this summer and really since we started camp, you could
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  Speaker 6: see the chemistry he's building with Tim, act with Jalen,
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: with Xavier, with Bryce and Tremaine, you know. And he
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: certainly was showing some flashes with Chris Brazl and unfortunately
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: Chris is going to be down for the year. But
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: I can feel the chemistry. I can feel the mediu
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: factor coming alive, and that's what we're looking for right now.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: Coach Canalis NFL Radio talking about Bryce Young, his familiarity
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: with the playbook now, with the scheme, with the coaching staff,
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: his chemistry with receivers. It continues to grow. And it's
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: probably no coincidence Bone all that's happening, and he's having
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: the best training camp of his career so far. He
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: will be in the it'll be one of the many
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Bone in the jumpsuit on UH tonight on the sidelines.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: But man, I cannot wait to see him deal for real.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: Once things get going. I would get I would hope
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: that Bryce in the first team offense and first team
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: defense play a little next week against Buffalo.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: I mean what a Yeah, I would hope.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: So it's also one of the better teams in the
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: league to at least play a little bit again.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, definitely, that'd be whoever they're playing. I mean, I
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: don't know what they're gonna do. But in the meantime, QC.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Dillon Mack wants to know. I don't know if he's
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: being series or not. I know it's preseason, but is
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: there going to be a segment where you all decide
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: if you're gonna Panther up tonight or not? For Panthers
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: up tonight, baby, I said, do you mean like for
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: a winner or loss? He said, yes, I am like
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: irrationally excited to watch Kenny Pickett and Haines King sling it.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie to you.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: It's Panther football, Like I want to see Jes see
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: him read, and like I really think he can make
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: the team. So like guys like that, right, But like
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: I cannot get on here and do a speech. How
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: funny would be if I tried to give you.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Do we do? Sir Long? Could Sir Long get fired
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: up for us?
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: I'm sure he could give a thirty five seventeen prediction
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: at some point, but I can't. I don't know if
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: I could do that bone without laughing hysterical.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: If the Panthers win tonight, well, there'll be a victory
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: dance tomorrow. That would be I gotta tell you that
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: would be the most ridiculous dance ever. A part of
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: me watts state just attempt that. You know, you know
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: how I said earlier.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Bone.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: If you're betting on preseason football, you got djen status.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: If you catch us dancing to celebrate a Hall of
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Fame game victory, Somebody get me to therapy immediately.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Somebody get me.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Some Maybe we send in the second string dancers instead
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: of us for preseason.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, the backups go in there? Will he got used yesterday.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: We could use them again tomorrow. That's right, That's right,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: you will. We dance and send floundering there for a dance.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Is Flounder the backup thong guy around here, like when
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: Fitty needs to rest in the preseason so he doesn't
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: get hurt dancing, we send flound in in the thong.
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: Speaking of the thong, Oh no, no, the guy that
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: sit the thong in last year. You know, he reached
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: back out seeing to get me a new thong for
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: this year. Yeah, we have a national emergency. There's a
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: shortage of panther thongs available.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: On the web.
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: Oh man, So it could be delayed before I get
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: my attire for this year's victory.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: That is a dang shame. Man.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: That's what happens when you go to the playoffs Bone.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: A lot of panther thongs are.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Person saddest part of this is the guy came back
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: to try to get you a different one, now hear me? Now, no,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: maybe maybe no thong. Maybe you just paint your body
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: panther blue. And just what am I doing? I'm not
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: helping matters here, am I?
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Oh? Anyway, if anybody was excited to see Jonathan Brooks
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: play tonight, well I've got news for you.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: But I know Brook's not playing. I mean I'm wondering
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: who play, Like where's the cutoff for who plays? Because
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: when Princely said he's going to be in a jumpsuit,
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: I was like, oh, man, he doesn't because you would
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: think young buck like that that we're counting on.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Maybe get him some reps. So where's the jumpsuit cutoff?
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: At Bone? It might be like player thirty six or something.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: So anyway, I don't know, but it's panther football man,
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: and we will be there. Matter of fact, KB and
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: I got a pregame show tonight count down to kickoffs
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: back tonight at six o'clock. I do want to talk
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: to you about how you're feeling as we sit here
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: on the day of the preseason opener.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie, Bone. I was shook.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: I was shook, and I admitted yesterday I was too
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: rattled and too shook by the combination of Taylor Moten
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: and Nick's Nick Gorton. I was too shook, and I
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: downgraded my victory total. Heck, I did that before Scot
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: and even got hurt from ten to nine. We got
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: a rally to troops, and I have to I have
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: to participate in that. I feel like Bone I was
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: killing Panther mojo and Panther vibes when those injuries were happening.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: The more I think about it, I still think this
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: division is ours. I still think this is a playoff
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: team only downgraded to nine wins. I still think nine
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: wins wins the division. I want to know who out
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: there is still a Panther postseason believer. How much have
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: the injury shook you? Have they shook you to the
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: point where you now have lost your feelings that we're
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: gonna repeat as division champs. Or is the majority of
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: our audience still Panther believers.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: You did not waiver, you did not doubt. Oh did
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: you downgrade? Bone? I did downgrade after brazzle, you down
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: at nine. But you're still now you still have that
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: as postseason or no? Yeah, they're still gonna win the South.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Here's the issue, not the issue, but here's the reason
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: why I still think they're gonna win the South. Nick
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Gordon is a guy where very are you excited about?
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: We're excited about Brazil. The Falcons and Saints lost more
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: known commodities right now on defense than what Scrton is.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: They lost Walker, who had a heck of a year
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: as a rookie, and Brian Brazie of the Saints is
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: out for the year. So while we're all upset about
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Scorting on defense, I think the Saints and Falcons have
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: been hit harder already by their two losses that they've had,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: or at.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Least similarly hard right.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and then how about the Falcons take not that
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: we were worried about them to begin with, but taking
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: a step further, Ky Dallis was great for them last
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: year left in free agency, and then you go to
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: the pier situation. There's a very good chance he is
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: suspended right after his domestic violence. Like, there's a very
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: good chance that both their starting ed rushers are not
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: there in Week two when we play them.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Listen.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Part of this has to do with the division, but
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: I also think, Bone, if I stop, the woe is
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: me paying Oh my god, the Panthers have injury stuff.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: To your point, you're starting to see other teams start
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: have injuries too. You're starting to realize it's not just
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: going to be us this year. Bryce is out there
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: slinging it in his third year in an offense. He's
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: familiar with t Mac and Cocher to me, are ready
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: to make jumps from where they were. Brooks could bring
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: a dynamic Bone that we did not have in terms
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: of big plays from the running back position in the
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: run and pass game. And this defense, even without Scorting,
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: I believe it. I believe it's a top ten defense.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: They were only five or six spots away from that
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: last year. They've added Devin Lloyd, They've added Jalen Phillips.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: So I want you to know, Bone, I am still
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: playoff wagon strong. I want you to know that right now,
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: all right, even though I was shook strong.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: So do we need to are you back to ten? No,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: I'm still a nice Okay. I didn't know who had
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: to put you back on the board over here.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: But I am.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: I am watching bone now. I'm not watching like that
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: guy in the high rise building. That's filming practice. But
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: I'm watching to see over these next few weeks, could
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: I get them back to double digits.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Someone said that guy's looking at panther practice like foul
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: or what's that Instagram model pages?
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Right now? Come on, right now.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: Flown wants to know if he can get side by
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: side with that guy and just watch the ladies at
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: uptown Charlotte during lunch hour, and he lots of flat.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Poor Flown flo got like forced trace the last five minutes.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: He donnat deserve that, does he?
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: No?
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: He doesn't, probably not any Sometimes we have to take
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: a break from Fiddy to let him off the mat.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: Plus Fitty's so feisty to have kind of back down.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: I decided to hug him and back down. You know today,
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: you know what Flounder would say about.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Us, bad guys, bad guys? All right?
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Anyway, this texter says, hell yeah, Mac, I never left
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: the wagon. We are the kings of this division for
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: the foreseeable future. Yeah, that's another part too. I think
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: we are positioned well boned with Bryce continuing to improve
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: to own this division. I do wonder if the Bucks
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: are ready for a regime change there, you know what
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: I mean. They had the friction of Todd Bowles now
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: management and a couple of key players Mayfield and Vega for.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: It's just I wonder if we're about red.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying we don't still have talent, are we
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: close to seeing them kind of drop down? And I
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: just I do feel like it is our time in
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: this division, and I think advancing in the playoffs is
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: in play. How can you not think that with the
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: defensive upgrades that we made Bone and as close as
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: we were last year, Like you could argue if we
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: had Jalen Phillips rushing Matthew Stafford and had Devin Lloyd
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: dropping in the middle of the field in coverage, that
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: they would have gotten off the field Bone, that they
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: would have ended that football game against the Rams and
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: won in the playoffs.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: You can make that argument, Mack.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: You want me to read off some of the doubts
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: of the shout as No. I thought we were rallying
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: all the truth, but I want to read this one specifically.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Hot dog condiment quote, take me off the board, a
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: and not.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: A and nine.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: I can't even read. It's typing here, take me off
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: the board. I'll eat a pound of a litter mush
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: and that crap is crap? Does he mean the whiver mush?
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Or is he talking about eating cat litter litter mush?
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Well we did all right, you're on dot conniment, you're
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: eating cat litter. Oh, they don't win ten games, that's
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: a dish. If they win ten games, that's what's dryer
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: cat litter? Or WILLI pea'ss No, No, says back, No
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: sat person will give the Panthers more than six or
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: seven wins?
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: How do you get that? In Vegas? Seven a hair exactly?
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: And look at the improvements that they made defensively on
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: this team too big money studs, are.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: You kidding me? I'm with you, fiddydd This perfect timing.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Uh Cornelius rob ten win wagon Zach and Miami says
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: winning the division should be a lay up.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Well he didn't go that far, but they should win
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: this time. They just don't read off his text. Why
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: he's positive that NC.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: It's going undefeated this year, He just says, he just
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: says stuff like don't he doesn't mean anything that he says.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: He just says, it's panther positivity, trying to find panther.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: But he always says, like the strike a lay up,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: it's that easy, Like it's not that easy. Yeah, I
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: wouldn't use those words, but he is a guy that
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: takes any states never losing a football game. Ever's take
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: that with some salt grains.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Our guy Hamdia from Waxall says, I'm more worried about
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: the Saints than I am the Falcons or the Bucks.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: I say, I say Bucks and and Saints, a combination
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: of the two. The Falcons. Yeah, I gotta tell you
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: that I'm about as worried as about the Falcons is
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: as missus Mac is worried about me when I come
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: up to the bedroom on a Saturday evening. You know
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: what I mean, which is spoiler alert, not very not
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: very concerned all right, anyway, help straight, just beat everybody
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: you make it up there?
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: What Sometimes sometimes you don't want me to.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: I canna lie fitty, uh, Texter says Mac has done
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: his mea Kolpa and has said he still believes in
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: the Panthers, but didn't Fitty downgrade as well. Please tell
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: me he hasn't abandoned the playoff wagon. You still do
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: use on board fitting.
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: I would never leave the faithful members of the Panther
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: ten win club. This is like, uh, well, I was
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: gonna use a great reference, but I forgot what reference
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: I was gonna use.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Regardless of the.
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: I did downgrade them after the injury took to score
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: and what we had happened there with all the right
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: tackle situation, But then we went to FanFest. I've been
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: to two practices. I've seen Bryce young deal. I think
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: I think our guy is poised to have a massive season.
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: I think he's gonna have the best season of his
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: young NFL career. So not only am I still in
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: the ten win wagon, I'm back up to the eleven
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: win wagon, where the Panthers are gonna win this division
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: and they're gonna win eleven games like I predicted back in.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: April before I downgraded.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: Baby, we have a Texter here that says, is it
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: wrong that I agree with the I honestly think we
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: win the division by two or three games.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: That's what Connor or from SI has us at right
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: now because he does the thing where he predicts every
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: game of the season. He has the Panthers winning the
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: South by three games. Yeah, ten wins to the Bucks
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: being in second place with seven.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: So yeah, there's a guy Bone that doesn't say NC
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: State will never lose a football game again, that thinks
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: they can open it up. I don't know if I'm
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: prepared Bone to do all that kind of stuff, you know,
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: like we're gonna run away with it or all that.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, I picked him to win nine games. I
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: could see the Saints of the Bucks winning eight. But
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: I just believe, like last year, I just believe in
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: Bryce Young being clutch. I also think Bone that they
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: are going to let Bryce open it up downfield more.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: I think they're gonna be less conservative, and I think
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: they're gonna actually win some games Bone where they don't
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: have to go down to the wire. One of the
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: things I see some of the skeptics say is they
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: were six and two in close games last year, and
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: close games is a stat Bone that a lot of
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: the analytics guys say is is not something that carries
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: over necessarily.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Right, that can change from year to year.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: So some analytics people think, oh, it's inevitable the Panthers
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: will lose the close games. But don't y'all think it's
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: possible that the Panthers go out there. They're more aggressive,
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: the passing attack is a bit more lethal, bone and
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: the and the defense is better, and they go out
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: there and just win some games by two scorers instead
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: of every game having to be won by bryce late.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: They're also they're also not staying status quo. Dave Canalis
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: gave up play calling, so Zig is now play calling.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: They brought in Daryl Bevell. We have to see how
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: how does that affect not only just the system of plays,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: but the mindset of Canal is to now be free
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: for game management stuff. So there's a lot This isn't
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: just running back the same exact operation. That's a whole
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: new thing as well. So I like that, by the way,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: that even though they won the South, they made the playoffs.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Yes they said, hey we can we can still grow
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: a get better. Dave Canallis is still growing as a
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: head coach.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: Keep that in mind to and I think you're going
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: to see a better kind of you know, game manager
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: on the sidelines now.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: More focus, more and more into the moment rather than
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: the next moment. He's always about. He'll tell you that
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: he's always about that next moment and not necessarily what's
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: going on and there in front of me, and for
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: him it's the next play call.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Well, now he don't have to worry about that.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: That's Brad Inseick's things right, and I'm sure he'll he
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: will definitely have input, but things like remember the Tampa
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: game when we in that second half are having all
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: these ridiculous calls go against us, and he kind of
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: admitted afterwards, well, you know, at some point I had
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: to move on from the.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Call and call the next play.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: But now he's freed up to let me get in
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: that ref's booty a little bit, let me, you know
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: what I mean, let me see if I can get him.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: Maybe I get a call down the road because I
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: make my case. I still maybe my players see me
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: fighting for them and and that has an effect. Or
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: maybe fitty, maybe they're challenge flags that he doesn't get
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: out there in time because he's worried about calling the
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: next place.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: So I think that's an improvement to Bode's point, and.
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: Remember remember the time out he had to waste against
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: Miami because he got caught in the moment celebrating a
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: big explosive play.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Mac. We have a celebrity text.
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: Papa Fiddy has written into the text line Panthers will
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: win the division.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: And win a playoff game. You know what?
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm smelling?
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: What's that? I think? I think Papa Fiddy wants to
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: become Panther, Papa.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Fitty, Papa fifty. Come on home, Dad Carries, Come on
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: home to Sweet Caroline. Leave, Leave the dastardly cowboys.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: It's not worth it.
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: Dak A never gonna win crap. Jerry's on the bat nine,
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: He's on whole seventeen. He's on whole eighteen. Temper's learned
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: to get out of the way. Dave Canalis is handsome.
• 32:49
  Speaker 7: Dan Morgan gives me free gear. Bryce sung all right.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: All right, put that in a text. Sorry, by the way,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: we'd family group Jack.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: We uh, we have noos here on the windboard here
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: we've now upgraded, per sources. Willy P's now at sixteen
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: and one. Oh man, that's big baby, that is big sixteen.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: When Willie, what are you doing? I'm out of your
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: freaking mind. What are you trying to play?
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Pile? Don't play me because I know ball. Next time,
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: so many great soundbites.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Next time we're out, we can just play Willy sounds
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: for four hours, having the whole conversation.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: I've got a great radio bit.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: Although you can't do this like you used to, But
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: like if you would call people bone and just uh,
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: the only thing talking to them is Willy sound bites
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: and they answer their phone. It's all Willy sound bites.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: God, God Almighty, you should call Selenia as Willie and
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: you have no idea?
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: What's up? Willy?
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: What's up?
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: What's the problem here? Oh my gosh, God, he is
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: a human SoundBite machine.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: He really is.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Geese. What a gift.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: When we come back, you're gonna hear our conversation that
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: we had with Bruce arians, longtime NFL head coach. He's
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: going to give us the opponent's coaching view of Wuke
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Keighley in his primes. It Sports Radio ninety two seven,
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  Speaker 2: w FNZ.
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  Speaker 4: Sports Radio ninety two to seven, WFNZ Mac and Bow
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: with you hanging out here on a beautiful Thursday in
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: is Panther game day. How do you feel about that
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: in the city of Charlotte. Saturday is going to be
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: awesome too, seeing Luke Keigley get honored the way he
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: deserves to be honored, going into the Hall of Fame,
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: and it's Luke Week, It's Luca Palooza, as a listener
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: put it yesterday on our show, and we continue to celebrate.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: We wanted to get an imposing coaches point of view
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: on Luke, someone that went up against him, and I
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: think it's perfect because he's got a player going into
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame as well. He's going to be
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: there this week supporting Larry Fitzgerald. He's Arizona Cardinals coach
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: Bruce Arians, who, of course, twenty fifteen he was the
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: they were the opponent in the famed NFC title game
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: victory where Luke had a pick six. We started the
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: conversation with Bruce Arians by talking about what it's like
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: as an offensive minded coach when you know you're going
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: to go against Luke.
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: Well, you knew you were never going to fool him, Yeah,
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: because he was probably the most one of the most
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: prepared linebackers I've ever faced. And if you take the
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: athletic ability, which was unbelievable. I'll pro everything, but man
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: was he was so prepared He knew what was going
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: to happen before it happened just.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: About every play, Coach, how often did you say, because
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: other coaches and players that played against him would say,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: how in the world did.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: He know we were going to do that when we
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: just put it in this week?
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: So did you also get that feeling with him of
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: oh my god, how the hell did you figure that
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: out so quickly?
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: I mean every time you, like I said, you might
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: sneak one pass him early in the game that he
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: hadn't seen and you're never gonna get that one again.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: That's great.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: We're talking with Bruce arians former head coach in Arizona
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: in Tampa, and you know he faced Luke a couple
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: times in the playoffs. Coach, probably don't want to talk
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: about those games. The Bucks divisional rivalry games too, So
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of sample size of you going against
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: Luke Keighley that twenty fifteen I'm gonna make coach relived
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: these he may hang up on us the twenty good
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: talk coach, I always say, Coach the twenty fifteen champion
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: NFC Championship game is my favorite sporting event in my
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: twenty plus years of being in Charlotte. But then of
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: course they go on and they get upset by Denver
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: in the Super Bowl. What did you think of that
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: team that Luke was a part of the defense, Cam Newton,
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: and were you surprised they lost to Denver that year?
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: No? I thought that defensively, it's one of the best
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: teams and one of the most well coached teams I've
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: ever faced. Uh, that linebacker crew, the whole crew, and
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: then you know, the front the whole front seven was outstanding,
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: and then there was no there was no weaknesses. And uh,
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: you know, I was shocked in that championship game that
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: that we played as poorly A was dead, but not
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: as shocked as they played as good. The thing about
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: them was if they got ahead, well watch out that
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: that was they got that that ball rolling with Cam
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: and everybody, and you know, the celebrations on the sideline,
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: and so if if they couldn't get ahead, I was
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: wondering if they could play from behind. So that I
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: think that was the down ball against Denver.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: How surprised were you when Luke Kickley retired when he
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: did with what seemed like a lot of football years
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: still ahead of them.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, not very I.
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: Think some guys know, you know that they've got priorities
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: in life.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: He obviously attained every goal he wanted to as a player,
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean those guys know, I think of
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: some of the other guys, Patrick Willis and some other
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: guys are just knew you know. And so it didn't
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  Speaker 5: surprise me at all.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: Coach you you're still with the Bucks, right? What is
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: the capacity you're with the Bucks on? And are you
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: joining us just to get intel on the division rival?
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: What's all the way? All the way, I'm no longer
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: employed by the oh okay, contract ran up in February.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: I'm not a consultant anymore.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: So we can let it rip. We can tell you
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: a secret so.
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: I can root from my boys, Joe, Joe Gilbert and
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: Harold Gowin.
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: That's right, you they were on your staff. They we
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: talk all the time.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: Like last year we went through so many injuries on
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: the O line, and we and and it just seemed
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: like they always had the next guy ready to play
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: with no drop off like that?
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Is that that that doesn't surprise you one bit?
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: Huh No, No, step was Goody for over twenty years
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: and Joey too. I mean, those guys are tremenous coaches.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: What do you think of Bryce? Coach?
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: And he made some progress last year, but it seems
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: like it's polarizing when we talked to football people about
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Bryce and he's got the contract coming up. What have
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: you seen from Bryce? Do you do you like Bryce?
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Or do you think that Yeah?
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: I think steady, steady improvement, stay in the same damn offense,
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: man quid firing guys and changing offenses on him. These
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: young quarterbacks don't get a chance to sit in an
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: offense for three years anymore and learn how to play
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: the game in the NFL, because if they don't run
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: right away, they fire the quarterback coach or the offensive
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: coordinator or the head coach and start all over again
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: with them. Patience has a lost virtwo with owners anymore.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: As the hell, it's so true, it's so true, and
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: you you know it was only one year, but coach
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: Canalis was down there in Tampa. What do you feel
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: about him as a as a young head coach.
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: I loved his energy. I thought he had great positive
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: energy and what was really very very related with the
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: players and interacted extremely well. So, yeah, I thought Dave
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: had a really good future.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: He's given up play calling already to brad inzick out.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: How selfless is that for a young coach as they're
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: trying to build something, to already pass off the play
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: calling for the benefit of the team, and he says
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: it's to free his mind up for the end game stuff.
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's a great move. You know, they'd
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: have been together for a long time. I did the
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: same thing with Byron Lefwiz, you know, once I knew
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: he was more than ready to do the job. Actually,
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't have taken the Tampa job, but he did
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: not come with me because I knew he was ready
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: and I didn't want to do that anymore. So I
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: think it's a good move. It does allow you to
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: free up, especially end a half in the game scenarios
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: and plan ahead.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: Coach.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: We got to talk about your Hall of Famer too.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: We can't make this all about us here in Charlotte.
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: Larry Fitzgerald first ballot Hall of Fame, And it doesn't
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: matter what the score was at the end of Cardinals
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: Panthers games. Whether we want or not, Man, we we
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: knew Larry Fitzgerald was a headache to deal with. What
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: was he what was he like to coach? And what
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: in yours as as a guy that coached him, What
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: are the things that really made him special?
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: Number one, he's all He's a Hall of Fame human being.
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: Larry is one of the best people I've ever coached.
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: And but his availability, he was always there, and he
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: was always available at a very very high level. So
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: it was like he loved coaching. He never miss practice.
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: He was always He was the perfect role model for
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: all young players to follow.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: When you look at the great wide receivers, ever, Randy
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Moss was the speed, size, combo work ethic for Jerry Rice.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: When you look at Fitzgerald, the way he played the game,
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: what was it about him as a player on the
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: field that made him so special?
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah? I had all those attributes. She had his size,
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: he had a strength, he had a speed unbelievable. And
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: the best thing about Larry, you know he hasn't celebrated
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: a touchdown yet.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: It's true. Barry Sanders like that.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's an old school folks loved his approach, right,
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: just play football man, None of the other stuff.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: It's true. It's true.
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: This is the question, Coach that if I ever got
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: a chance to interview you, I wanted to ask you
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: the most. I am a York, Pennsylvania native, much like
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: your Much like yourself. I went to York Catholic High School. Coach,
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: I made it through. I know you got a little
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: crazy and ended up being asked to leave. You ended
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: up at York High which was a huge rivel in basketball.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: We had some battles with them in basketball. What was
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: it like growing up in York? Man, small small town?
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: Uh and uh, and you're one of the you're one
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: of the most famous. I would have to say.
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: It was a great man. York was an awesome place
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: to grow. You know, I started a renovation of the
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: park systems with Mayor Bracy when she was in office.
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: And you know, I grew up in the parks. Mom
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: and dad were working in factories like everybody else's mom
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: and dad and he had somewhere to go. We went
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: to the park every day and uh, you know, played
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: every game known to man. And uh had had a great,
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: great growing up in New York, Pennsylvania and UH, great
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: friends to this day.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: That is maybe a guy slightly more famous for me
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: from York, York, Pennsylvania.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: Bruce Arians, who was the guy that broke the backboard
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: on your head from York or was he from you?
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: No?
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: No, they're for more Harrisburg. Thank you.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: But thank god that didn't happen in the viral area.
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, I would have been embarrassed and humiliated.
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: Glass falling on my head. Darvin Ham the whole country
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: would see it. But anyway, Bruce Arians did get kicked
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: out of my high school. The word is Bone.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: They got caught with some Bruce Kees. So I didn't
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: know that. Could you kicked out of your Catholic high schools?
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: He got to call with Teddy, No, not Teddy, but
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: anyway nice him to join us talk about Luke and
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: also to uh talk football with him.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: We did not realize that when we were.
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: Doing the interview he is going to Canton, but we
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: did to for Larry Fitzgerald, but we didn't realize it
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: when we were talking to him Bone, and he tweeted
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: about it yesterday. He underwent open heart surgery earlier this year. Yeah,
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: and is recovering. He says he's getting there, you know,
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: getting to the point where he wants to be back
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: on the golf course.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: But I didn't know he was dealing with that. So anyway, Mane, well,
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: he wish him the best. He's an all time character
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: in an interview. And when we talked to him, we
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: realized he was a little more subdued and not as
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: chatty as usual, and he did seem a little under
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: the weather when we were booking him there, So uh,
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: I did not realize that was a thing though, so
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: that that that would explain why you weren't getting the
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: more bombastic area. He is definitely an interview. That's we
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: were prepared for Bretton, Butner told us don't put him
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: on live because so it just cost the entire interview.
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what we were ready. We were ready for
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: him to let it rip retired with the Bucks glatization.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Gladdy's okay, but that explains a little bit maybe of
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: this to do nature. It was still cool to talk
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: to him though, definitely, man findly a guy from York
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: that I respect. Oh dear, oh my, is that because
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: I have a question about York? Maack, real quick, is
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: that where your peppermint patties come from?
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Oh Yeah, York Barbell too, York Barbell Company. Okay,
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: Shock never tied that in Again, Shock and a Bone
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: knows about the candy, but not the barbell company. I'm
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: the same as you. No I knew Hershey, Pennsylvania. I
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: did tie in New York.
• 45:35
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