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Mac & Bone Hour 4: Willie P & Scott Hanson · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Allow me to reintroduce myself my.
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  Speaker 2: Name is i'm will pelagic all right it's time for
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  Speaker 2: the p-man uh we have a texter i'll have to
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: check this out we have a texter that says sheena
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: updated the story And this poor guy, this poor Panther fan,
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  Speaker 2: Craig Myersbone, just simply happy because his team won. It
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  Speaker 2: just so happened to be at the place he was
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  Speaker 2: working at, Mercedes Bryce Stadium, that they, Sheena updated it
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  Speaker 2: and said that he can't come back to work. They
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  Speaker 2: told him he can't come back to work.
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  Speaker 3: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: Did they run that by the guy that owns the building,
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  Speaker 2: Bryce Young? Because I have a feeling Bryce Young would
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  Speaker 2: not approve of that. I was going to say, they
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  Speaker 2: may tell Bryce not to come back anymore. Luckily, they
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  Speaker 2: can't do that.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: But, yes, have they talked to the man who now
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  Speaker 2: has the deed to Mercedes Bryce Stadium? Because I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure you can do that without his permission. That's Bush League, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Go talk to the landlord about this.
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  Speaker 2: That's Bush League. We got to do something for him.
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  Speaker 2: Panthers got to do something for him, man. Can we
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  Speaker 2: hire this guy here?
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  Speaker 1: Move him here?
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  Speaker 2: Hire him here?
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: You going to pay him?
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  Speaker 2: Let him stay with Fitty?
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  Speaker 5: Can we hire him to replace you?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm talking about Tep Daddy.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Fitty, you've been an aggressive little tool today. Seriously, you
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  Speaker 2: have been. Like, I've ignored most of them, but you
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  Speaker 2: have been an aggressive, angry little dude. You found love, sir.
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  Speaker 2: You should be happier than this. My goodness. Anyway, you did.
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  Speaker 5: You did tell me last week, quote, let me smack
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  Speaker 5: that fat face.
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  Speaker 1: I did.
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  Speaker 2: I was angry at the time. But today it's just
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  Speaker 2: been you needling and nothing in return. Like you are
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  Speaker 2: trying so badly to create some sort of dust up
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  Speaker 2: over there. All right. Anyway, let's maybe we get a
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  Speaker 2: dust up with Willie P. Maybe we do that right now.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we do that right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We were friends on Monday, weren't we?
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get let's bring on Willie P. Enough of that.
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  Speaker 2: Let's bring on the P-Man. It's time for Willie's World.
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  Speaker 2: We got Panthers to talk about. We got FC unbeaten
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  Speaker 2: through nine. We got things happening. The P-Man is with us. Willie,
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: what's going on, man? I'm not falling for Fitty's bait
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  Speaker 2: today that he's putting out there, man. What's going on?
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  Speaker 4: I'm a little worried because he said on the line
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  Speaker 4: with me before we came on that we're dying to
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  Speaker 4: talk to you today, which either means one of the
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  Speaker 4: two things. It means the three of you are at
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  Speaker 4: odds or I'm about to be at odds with somebody.
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  Speaker 1: I think Mac and I are vibing all right. I
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  Speaker 1: think Finney and Mac have something going on here. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not doing anything. What's happening here? What's happening? Talk
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  Speaker 2: to the needler over there. That's what I'm saying. Don't
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  Speaker 2: yell at me. I'm saying you guys, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what it is.
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  Speaker 4: I really wanted to know what the unedited version of
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  Speaker 4: you little blankety blank.
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  Speaker 2: I really want to know what the, I know I
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  Speaker 2: was so close to saying something. Uh, we have a
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  Speaker 2: texter here that says, Mac, if you told the man,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to slap his fat face. I have a
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  Speaker 2: feeling he is entitled to needle you a little bit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but we've moved on from that. We moved on days ago. Um,
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  Speaker 2: what do you think P man of the bounce back performance?
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  Speaker 2: Not a bounce back performance for Bryce in the offense. They've,
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  Speaker 2: they've done it now two straight weeks, but the defense
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  Speaker 2: bouncing back, the blowout of the Falcons, the What were
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  Speaker 2: your biggest takeaways from that one?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I liked that they did bounce back. And the
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  Speaker 4: fact that you're looking at a team right now who
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  Speaker 4: comes in at one and one and has a really
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  Speaker 4: good chance to go two and one. I hope that
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  Speaker 4: the more real version of this defense looks like it
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  Speaker 4: did on Sunday, as opposed to what it looked like
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  Speaker 4: against the bears. And I think it goes back to
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  Speaker 4: what I said last week. They executed a heck of
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  Speaker 4: a lot better. It's easier to execute when the quarterback
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  Speaker 4: is Cooper Rush and not Caleb Williams. But I think
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  Speaker 4: there's definitely a lot you can build off of. I
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  Speaker 4: think Devin Lloyd having the kind of game that he did,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he basically, he pulled out a Luke Hickley-esque
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  Speaker 4: game and really capped in that defense. You force turnovers,
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  Speaker 4: you get off the field when you need to. And
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  Speaker 4: I think the, the offense just keeps on churning. I
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  Speaker 4: love that. We're now looking at this version of Bryce
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  Speaker 4: young as maybe this is the normal, maybe this is
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  Speaker 4: what we're looking at and saying, this is, this is
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  Speaker 4: Bryce young from here on out, because if that's Bryce young,
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  Speaker 4: I think I was going to get a heck of
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  Speaker 4: a lot of money here. Come the off season.
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  Speaker 2: Big time.
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  Speaker 1: Willie, do you now view Coker and TMAC as sort
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  Speaker 1: of one a and one B more so than a
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  Speaker 1: one and a two option?
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  Speaker 4: I think you have to just based on, you know,
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  Speaker 4: what we saw in the first week and Coker and,
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  Speaker 4: and how important he has been on third down. But
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  Speaker 4: I think that TMAC reminded you who he was too
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  Speaker 4: with the game on Sunday, because I think For whatever reason,
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  Speaker 4: Chicago made a choice to take him out of the game.
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  Speaker 4: And not that it was a bad strategy. They ended
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  Speaker 4: up winning the football game as a result of it.
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  Speaker 4: But I think that they really concentrated a lot of
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  Speaker 4: their coverage around Ted Roddick-Millen. And it led to Jalen
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  Speaker 4: Coker being open a lot. And as they shadowed their
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  Speaker 4: coverage toward Coker, Bryce started to find T-Mac a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more in that first game. and a team like
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  Speaker 4: TMAC took it upon himself to make sure he was
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  Speaker 4: a little bit more open. I mean, that one catch
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  Speaker 4: down the sideline, one of his best catches in his
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  Speaker 4: young career. I think he had a really nice 1A
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  Speaker 4: and 1B option, but the thing that I think was
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  Speaker 4: most encouraging is that one catch from Xavier Liget. I
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  Speaker 4: think that that was the big part where you look
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  Speaker 4: at it and say, man, oh man, we've been waiting
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  Speaker 4: on that one for three years. That looked very similar
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  Speaker 4: to the one that he messed up against the Philadelphia Eagles.
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  Speaker 4: If that kind of stuff starts happening for the Panthers,
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  Speaker 4: then you really start cooking with this offense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's exciting, man. It really is. We haven't exactly
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  Speaker 2: been explosive offense central here for a while.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: And it is fun to see. And you're right, man.
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  Speaker 2: The performance like this, I said the other day, if
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  Speaker 2: he plays 12 games out of 17 like this, at
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  Speaker 2: this level, he is going to get the bag and
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  Speaker 2: he's going to get a good amount of money. So
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  Speaker 2: how do you feel about the team, Pete? The defense
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  Speaker 2: had just an embarrassing first game. They bounced back this week.
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  Speaker 2: But it does need, we do need the asterisk that
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  Speaker 2: they're playing against Cooper Rush and Jack Strand. Like, do
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  Speaker 2: you feel about the same way you did about this
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  Speaker 2: team before the season started? Better?
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  Speaker 3: Worse?
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  Speaker 2: What are you thinking?
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  Speaker 4: I'm about the same. I think I need to see
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  Speaker 4: more data. I think this upcoming week is probably in
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  Speaker 4: between the Falcons and the Bears. When you think about
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  Speaker 4: the Browns, I'm not looking at them and saying that
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  Speaker 4: I'm ultimately scared by them, but Deshaun Watson looked competent
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  Speaker 4: for the first time in a while on Sunday in
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  Speaker 4: that game against the Buccaneers. I know that it took
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  Speaker 4: a rain delay and a bunch of other histrionics for
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  Speaker 4: them to win that football game, but it is something
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  Speaker 4: where I look at and say the Panthers have some
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  Speaker 4: opportunity here. And not, not that, not that Detroit isn't
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  Speaker 4: a team that also scares you too in the following week,
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  Speaker 4: but they have not looked like themselves either. So this
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  Speaker 4: is maybe a more palatable stretch for the Panthers than
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  Speaker 4: we initially thought it could be. And, you know, If
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  Speaker 4: the Bears game stands out as an outlier and it
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  Speaker 4: is only an outlier, then this looks like a complete
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  Speaker 4: football team. And I understand that folks will still be
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  Speaker 4: somewhat gun-shy to say anything good about the defense. And
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  Speaker 4: believe me, I'm one of those people who usually is
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  Speaker 4: the ringleader at this scenario when it comes to talking
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  Speaker 4: about a zero of arrow. But I more believe that
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  Speaker 4: what happened on Sunday is close to the level that
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  Speaker 4: we'd expect the defense to be.
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  Speaker 1: Willie, when you look at Charlotte FC and potential playoff
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  Speaker 1: opponents along the way, who do you view as good
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  Speaker 1: matchups for FC and who should they be trying to
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  Speaker 1: avoid matchup-wise?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think the two teams you want to avoid
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  Speaker 4: right now are Nashville and Miami. I think those are
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  Speaker 4: the two teams that you look at and say are
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  Speaker 4: probably the teams you want to avoid. And if Charlotte
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  Speaker 4: finishes in third, then you do avoid them here for
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  Speaker 4: a little bit. You at least avoid them in the
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  Speaker 4: first round. But the other teams I look at, New
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  Speaker 4: England is one that I feel like is still a
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  Speaker 4: palatable matchup even though they're playing well. Chicago at full strength.
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  Speaker 4: is a little bit scary just because they've got Levandowski,
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  Speaker 4: they've got Philip Zinkernagel, and they've got a bunch of
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  Speaker 4: young rising talent. But outside of those three, Nashville, Miami, Chicago,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not really scared of anybody. I know Philadelphia is
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  Speaker 4: coming on strong, and they've been rather dangerous here lately.
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  Speaker 4: They're on a very long, unbeaten streak, and Calvin Sullivan
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  Speaker 4: is scoring goals for fun at age 17. So that
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  Speaker 4: part is a little bit weary, but, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: like the way they're playing right now, and I like
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  Speaker 4: the way that Ashley Westwood put it. The fact that
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  Speaker 4: really nobody is really even talking about the kind of
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  Speaker 4: run they're on. It's just expected. It's become routine. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's eight in a row unbeaten and 12 of the
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  Speaker 4: last 13. If not for what Philadelphia and St. Louis
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  Speaker 4: are doing, it's one of the best runs in MLS
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  Speaker 4: right now. So why not Charlotte FC?
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  Speaker 2: How about that kid, Kevin Sullivan, who just turned 17?
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: Or actually, I think he turned 17 in a few days.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's still 16. And his birthday is September 28th.
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  Speaker 2: He already got a national team call up before his
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: 17th birthday. That'll be interesting over the next couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: And you do know P-Man when he turns 18 where
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  Speaker 2: he is headed.
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  Speaker 4: I know he said it to your homeland.
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  Speaker 2: Manchester City Football Club, baby.
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  Speaker 1: Your homeland.
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  Speaker 2: Homeland. He's going to York, Pennsylvania? All right. Anyway, no,
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  Speaker 2: he's in Philadelphia right now. All right. So, P-Man, let's
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  Speaker 2: see here. What are you thinking? I got to ask
• 9:23
  Speaker 2: you about your Mizzou Tigers, man. You are six-and-a-half-point underdogs.
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  Speaker 2: against this Mississippi State team with Kamario Taylor. Bone might
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  Speaker 2: be aware of them. What are you, are you like,
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  Speaker 2: are you feeling like we shouldn't be touchdown underdogs to them?
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  Speaker 2: What do you, how are you feeling about that one?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we didn't look good against Troy. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: at this point right now, I wouldn't know who I'd
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  Speaker 4: pick us against after the way we looked last week.
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  Speaker 4: They very much came back down to earth. I think
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  Speaker 4: the game against Kansas provided maybe a little letdown for
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  Speaker 4: them against Troy. It's a tough, tough spot. They went
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  Speaker 4: down there a couple of years ago. and won. Eli
• 10:01
  Speaker 4: Drinkwich kind of had some trash talking there at the
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  Speaker 4: end that the Mississippi State Bulldog fans certainly remember where
• 10:07
  Speaker 4: he said, Hey, Mississippi State, quit woofing or I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to score again. The game that we were blowing them
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  Speaker 4: out in. So there might be some extra motivation behind
• 10:15
  Speaker 4: them this weekend. I don't like the spot we're going
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  Speaker 4: into this weekend in Stark Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to be going crazy with them cowbells.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. They're trying to set a cowbell ringing record,
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  Speaker 4: which is definitely not what I want to hear.
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  Speaker 2: Who holds the cowbell ring?
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: How do they know they're saying, I've got more questions
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  Speaker 1: than you have answers?
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: How do they not have it already? Where is there
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: a larger group of cowbell ringers?
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: Keep your NC State jokes to yourself in here. I
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: don't need that around here.
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: NC State.
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  Speaker 1: It does make it difficult to watch them.
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  Speaker 4: Between them and the baseball, Vandy Whistler, I'm about done
• 10:52
  Speaker 4: with noise makers.
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  Speaker 1: I will say, it does make the viewing experience, though,
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  Speaker 1: when you watch a Mississippi State game, it is a
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  Speaker 1: little bit annoying after a while.
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  Speaker 2: It is all right. Oh, we're not going to hate
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  Speaker 2: on the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 4: A little bit. A little bit.
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  Speaker 5: That's one of the best traditions and environments in college football.
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  Speaker 2: When you get married, Finney, we're ringing cowbells. Good thing. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: that would not seem right. Good thing, Bone, then, if
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  Speaker 2: you're so bothered by the cowbells, good thing y'all weren't
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: taking that L in Stark Vegas. You would have lost
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: your mind. I want to smack you in your fat face.
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: Who said that before on this show? By the way,
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: that rooster noise... Mrs. Mack, I don't think, had ever
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: sat down with me during a South Carolina game. She
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: couldn't believe the amount of times they go to the
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  Speaker 2: Rooster Noise at Williams-Brice.
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: They go to the.
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  Speaker 4: Rooster Noise a lot at Williams-Brice Stadium.
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  Speaker 2: That one's not exactly easy to deal with as well.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Who am I talking to?
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  Speaker 1: Willie.
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  Speaker 2: Willie. I almost said pity. I almost said bone.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, guys.
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  Speaker 2: The P-Man's here. Don't forget. P-Man, who is your uncultured
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: swine of the week?
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  Speaker 4: People in this town cannot drive in the rain, man.
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  Speaker 4: We had a little bit of rain, a little bit
• 12:04
  Speaker 4: of sprinkle. Colin Hoggard texted me. He said he has
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  Speaker 4: not left Belmont. And he's been in traffic for an hour. So,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, what's going on, guys? A little bit of
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  Speaker 4: a sprinkle. Let's get it going. Let's get it going
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  Speaker 4: on a Wednesday. Come on, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Pump them up, Pete. Pump them up, baby.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to be honest. Sometimes when it's sunny outside,
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  Speaker 1: people have trouble around here. Including myself.
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  Speaker 4: Not untrue. Not untrue.
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  Speaker 2: All right, P. You are the man, baby. Have a
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  Speaker 2: good call. Big game against Chicago. Bunch of guys missing, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: in the international break on both sides. But at the bank,
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: head to the bank. And if not, make sure you're
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: tuning in to Willie P. Even if you're watching it
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: on Apple, you can listen to Willie and Anna there
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  Speaker 2: as well. All right, P-Man. Appreciate you, brother.
• 12:47
  Speaker 4: Hey, Donnie Garbs, can we get a little postponement, you know,
• 12:49
  Speaker 4: because of the international window? I mean, come on here.
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: What are we doing here?
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  Speaker 2: That'll be one of the best things about the change
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  Speaker 2: in this calendar, right? Is this stuff like this, man? Jeez.
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  Speaker 4: It's supposed to be, you know. It's supposed to be.
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  Speaker 4: I'll believe it when I see it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, P-Man. There you go. That is Willie P,
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  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen. He got a little bonus shot there.
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: He got bonus swine in there.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we come back, Mac, on the Mac and
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  Speaker 1: Bone Show. I do believe we're going to call this
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  Speaker 1: the witching hour because Scott Hanson of the NFL Network
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: and the Red Zone Channel, he will join us. We're
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  Speaker 1: Top Panthers, Bryce Young, NFC South, and why is he
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: in town today? We'll promote that as well on Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ playing that Red Zone music, getting
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  Speaker 2: ready for Mr. Red Zone himself, Scott Hanson, to join us.
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  Speaker 2: He is doing an appearance today from 2 until 5
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  Speaker 2: at the Lowe's up there in Huntersville. He's promoting Duracell.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk football with him. Panthers have actually
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  Speaker 2: been in the red zone. I've seen more of us
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  Speaker 2: than usual this season, I feel like. That's the first
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  Speaker 2: thing I was going to ask him. What's it like
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  Speaker 2: to see the Panthers again?
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  Speaker 5: He hasn't seen the Falcons in the red zone yet.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 2: Is that not an amazing stat? And I'm so glad
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  Speaker 2: the Panthers are a part of this. Two games in,
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  Speaker 2: the Atlanta Falcons have not entered the red zone.
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  Speaker 1: And the Falcons are on Thursday this week, so the
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  Speaker 1: Falcons will spend the first three weeks of the season
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  Speaker 1: not appearing anywhere on Red Zone Channel.
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  Speaker 2: That's good, man.
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  Speaker 1: Here he is.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the first five weeks, because they play primetime the
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  Speaker 2: next three games.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's right, yeah. There's a chance that Scott Hanson
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  Speaker 1: never sees the Falcons ever again.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely a very good chance. Anyway, so we're looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to talking to him here in a second. He's on
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  Speaker 2: the line. I do want to mention we've talked a
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: lot about the Jonathan Brooks injury. Ian Rappaport had it reversed.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: saying he's going to need surgery on a core muscle injury,
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: and it's going to be at least six weeks, and
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: he's going to be headed to IR. We'll see if
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: there's any more information about that before we get out
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: of here from other reporters. But we've talked about that
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: a ton, how that affects the Panthers, how we view it,
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: how bad we feel for Brooks. So anything you missed
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: today on the Mac and Bone Show, go listen to
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: those hours that you missed in podcast form, WFNZ.com, Apple, Spotify.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: Go check that stuff out, everybody. All right, let's bring
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: in Mr. Red Zone himself right now, the host of
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: the amazing, iconic Red Zone channel, NFL Red Zone, available
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: with NFL Plus Premium. as part of NFL Sunday Ticket
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: or YouTube and across satellite and cable providers. I'm glad
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: to say my cable or my satellite provider has it.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: For more details, NFL.com slash Red Zone. And like I said,
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: you can see him today at the Lowe's in Huntersville
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: for a meet and greet between two and five on
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: behalf of Duracell. He is the great Scott Hanson. Scott,
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: welcome to Town Man and thank you for coming on.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: How you doing?
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: Mack and Bone, good to be with you guys. Happy
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: football season and always a pleasure when I get back
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: to Charlotte. I love my time that I've had here
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: in the past and hoping for a good or great
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: day today.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: We were just joking that you as host of the
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Red Zone channel, you have probably seen more of the
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Panthers offense, I would say, than normal so far through
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: the first two weeks. We're ecstatic the way they're playing,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: the way Bryce is playing. What do you think about
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: what we've seen from Bryce in the offense?
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: I mean, look at it. It starts right at the
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: top there. I mean, this is why they drafted Bryce Young.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: This is why he was the player coming out of college.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: And I know that early on there was a dip
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: in the expectations and saying, oh, man, is he really
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: or isn't he really? We saw that little probably about
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: a month window at the end of last season where
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: it was like, Look, I know some of these games
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: don't matter for some of the opponents that they're playing here,
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: but he's throwing the ball. He can be a high-volume,
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: high-production passer. Obviously, the playoffs last year and then coming
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: back into the season, two games in, he's number two
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: in passing yards in the entire NFL right now, slinging
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: it around. There is real reason for big optimism there.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: in this team this year. And I know I heard
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: about the Jonathan Brooks here this morning already. That's a
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: tough loss there. I know they're already scrambling to look
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: at some more names to bring into the franchise at
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: the running back position. But yeah, I mean, come on.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: We know what Ted Arroa McMillan is. Jalen Coker is
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: one of the lesser talked about, but more productive wide
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: receivers in the NFL in 2026 years so far. Fun
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: stuff on the offensive side and fun stuff for us
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: on red zone for sure.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Scott, where do you think the truth lies on the
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: defensive side? Because it was a horrible start against the bears.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: They turn around and then Devin Lloyd leads them with
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: one of the best linebacker games, really stat wise ever. Where,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: where do you think the truth is with that side
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: of the ball though?
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: It's somewhere in between the two. Look, the Bears exploded,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: caught them. I was like, what are we doing on
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: the defensive line for the Carolina Panthers, the way that
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: the Bears were moving them off the line of scrimmage?
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: And then you look at that Atlanta game. I think
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: it's in between the two, and the reason I say
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: that is because there are new additions, right? I mean,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: when you look at this team trying to coalesce on
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: the defensive side of the football, It might take a
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: little while. Now, Devin Lloyd just asserted himself as I
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: think the awards come out today. There's no way he
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: pardon the double negative. There's no way he won't be
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: an NFC defensive player of the week. But yeah, I
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: think the truth lies in between the two. And really,
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: it'll be the ebb and flow of individual games as
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: to what we see out of the defense. Can Bryce
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Young in the offense give them a touchdown lead, give
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: them a double-digit lead, and then change the dynamic of
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: the type of defense they're going to be able to
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: play in the second half of games? I think that'll
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: prove itself to be true based on the opponent week
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: to week.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Scott, I'm telling you right now, if Devin Lloyd were
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: to not get defensive player of the week in the NFC,
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: I would hijack your studio on Sunday. I would tie
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: you up and I would demand the NFL. I'm not
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: letting Hanson out until we get this award. Because, yeah,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: that was, God, that was filthy, that game.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: And the most aesthetic defensive play that we might see
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: all year with his interception. And, of course, you have
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: to say which interception we're talking about. of course that
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: first one with the stiff.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Arm oh what a run back and the.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Juke back to the inside it was a one-handed interception
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: too that like the tv replay didn't have a real
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: tight iso of it he stabs it with one hand
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: he switches the football and stiff arms, my man into,
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: into the, the, the nether regions. And then now he's
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: not going to, he's not going to, if you watch
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: the end of that, that run back, he's not going
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: to want to run the 40 yard dash at the
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: scouting combine this upcoming year. And he started to run
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: out of gas there at the end, but man, what
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: a play, what a play and what a player. You know,
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: he had a 99 yard pick six last year, the
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: longest play of from scrimmage all season. There was a
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: couple of kick returns that I think were 100 plus,
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: you know, but he had the longest. I mean, he
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: is one of the best past defending interior linebackers in
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: the sport. And big things ahead for him this year.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Scott, do you think this ultimately is a two-team race
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: in the NFC South, Saints, Panthers, or do you think
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: the Bucs can still get back in this thing? It's early,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: but what do you think is going on with them,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: and what's your projection of them?
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Look, let's throw a little bit of bucket of realism
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: on here. That NFC South, we have no idea. I mean,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: tell me what the winning record of the NFC South
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: team is going to be. Is someone going to get
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: the 12 wins? I don't think so. So, yeah, I
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: went so early in the year. Right off Baker and
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: the Bucs at your own peril. You know, the Saints,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: some people in the preseason predicted, hey, you know, I
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: think Tyler Shuck might be a franchise quarterback or at
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: least a viable starting quarterback. That looks like that could
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: be coming true there. But no, I think this race,
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: it'll be... the whole season and depending on if Atlanta
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: can get their quarterback position settled, don't write them off
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: just yet. I think NFC, it won't be, the South
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: won't be decided until around Christmas time, I'm guessing, or later.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: What do you think about that Saints team? I like
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: even the rally and the loss and hell, they might've
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: got screwed out of a touchdown against Detroit in the
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: first half, but even that, that Detroit loss was kind
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: of impressive. The rally at Baltimore, like, what do you
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: think of this Saints team?
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: You know, I look at them, and if you look
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: at the personnel, you're like, okay, where are they getting
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: it from? Now, Chris Olave is elite, elite, right? But
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: he obviously has dealt with an injury history in the past.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: But it's Tyler Shuck. It's like, really? They got this guy?
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: What was he, third round, fourth round pick? And he
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: seems unflappable in there. He seems to have meshed really
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: well with what Kellen Moore demands out of that position.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: And they can score with some people now. And then
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: the defense still has pieces, but I think they're playing
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: a little bit above their heads right now or their
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: opponents to this point aren't as impressive as what we thought.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Maybe the Detroit Lions aren't what we thought the Detroit
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Lions would be. But yeah, no, it's going to be fun.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: And then when y'all go tangle with them twice this year,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: that's going to be a fun, fun time as well.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: And it's the South, man. I mean, I know people...
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: in the national scene, they can, they can hate on
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: it and say, yeah, win the division with a, with
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: a sub 500 record. It's, it's competitive football. It's absolutely
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: competitive football. And then even go back to the, the
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: home playoff game that you all got after winning the
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: division championship last year, did the Rams come in here
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: and steamroll? No, no. I mean, that was, yeah. So yeah, fun, fun.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Fun season.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Scott, NFC South, we say not for the weak. That's
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: our motto around here. So try to use that on
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Red Zone Channel at some point. Speaking of Red Zone Channel,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I know you've addressed the not using the bathroom thing
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: a million times. I'm not going to ask you about that.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: But when I watch you on Red Zone every Sunday,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I think, my man. Scott Hanson's got to be hungry.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: If I was doing that show, I'd have like four
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: orders at my door already from DoorDash. Scott, what's the
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: food like, man? How do you handle Red Zone days eating-wise? Because, man,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: I don't think I could handle that.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Well, do you mean during the show or after the show?
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Kind of both.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: You obviously can't eat during the show, so what do
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: you eat before and after?
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so at the NFL Network headquarters, we have a
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: big cafeteria. The chefs are great there, and they make
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: me the same dense protein, salty breakfast. I get scrambled
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: egg whites, turkey burger patty, no bun, crispy salty bacon,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: a big muffin for kind of some filler in my gut.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: I eat a big thing of mixed fruit, and then
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: the secret ingredient is kalamata olives. A little purple Kalamata
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: olives because I need as much sodium inside of me
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: to retain water so that I famously don't take a
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: bathroom break during the show. And that fills me up.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: I eat that two hours and 45 minutes before the
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: show like clockwork every single Sunday morning. And then I
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: don't eat again. But then at the end of the show, yes.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Uncle Scott's pretty famished at the end of the show
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: for not eating for, it's been probably 10 hours since
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: I had a bite of food in my stomach by
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: the time I get home. And I flip on Sunday
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: night football on my television. And I will, this is
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: kind of a bad confession, but I will order Postmates
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: and DoorDash. And I let them race to my front door.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: And I might mix, I want a bacon cheeseburger and
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: I want Chinese. I want a burrito and I want,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: And I will see which one of them can get
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: to my door first. And sometimes they have met in
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: my hallway.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. This sounds like something Bone would do, Bone.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: This is amazing.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I've often sent multiple drivers out there, Scott, to see
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: who can get there.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: First, like a race. What a combination of foods you're ordering.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: That is remarkable, man. What a Sunday you have, brother.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: You're eating like that on Sunday night. You get to
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: do for a living, watching all the games, going to
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: this game, going to that game. What a Sunday you have,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: my friend.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: I'm a blessed man. I'm a blessed man, and I
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: hope to serve the audience as well as can possibly
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: be done. And here's the great news, guys. We still have,
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: what is it? We still have 16 more Sundays of
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: showing you every touchdown from every game going forward.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's beautiful.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: We're just getting going, man. All right, so let's let
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: everybody know. You guys, I'm sure, know all about NFL
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Red Zone. You can get it with NFL Plus Premium
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: on Sundays, taking you through every game or bouncing to
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: the key parts of every game. NFL Sunday ticket, obviously,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: you get it YouTube and across satellite and cable providers, NFL.com.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: com slash red zone and then the big deal today
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: is he is here in the charlotte area he's at
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: the lows in huntersville today doing a meet and greet
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: if you're a big red zone fan stop on out
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: talk to him about the witching hour two until five
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: today this afternoon on behalf of duracell anything you anything
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: you want to say um on behalf of duracell or
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: anything uh that i have not said.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: No you know no Look at the good folks at
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Duracell have partnered with Lowe's to bring me out here.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Like I said, it's exactly what you said. It is
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: a meet and greet. You guys want to talk ball.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: You want to get a selfie. You want to maybe
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: make a video for your fantasy league trash talking them
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: with Uncle Scott handling the business there. Come on out.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Meet us. Meet us there. Two o'clock to five o'clock
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: in Huntersville at the Lowe's. And we'll have a good
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: time here.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: All right, brother. Well, have fun here in our city.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: I hope they talk your ear off about Bryce Young.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: I hope people nonstop talk to you.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: As well they should. All right, man. As well they should.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Have fun. Appreciate you. All right, there you go. That
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: is Scott Hanson, NFL Red Zone host. God, he just
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: sounds like football in the fall, doesn't he? No doubt.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to sit there and just let him
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: talk like he does to us on Sundays.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Your question got an amazing answer. What the heck is
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: an amazing culinary— Yes. Eating performance by him on Sunday nights.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: I was intrigued by the burger and the Chinese food
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: burritos and spaghetti.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I can only imagine what that does to uncle Scott.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Well, I didn't want to ask him about the bathroom
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: because I feel like he addresses that. Like every time
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I hear him talk, it's someone about them. So I
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: knew that he had other stuff that he also deals with.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Who do you think gets asked more about how do
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: you go to the bathroom while you're working? Scott Hanson
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: or NASCAR drivers? We kind of know what they do.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Scott can't do that? Is that frowned upon in the
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: NFL Network studio?
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: He might.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: I would wear a dang diaper if I was working
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: that job. I just put the grown man dipes on.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: What's that? Grown man dipes. Let's go to Finney Morrow
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: with an update. Speaking of a man who wears the
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: grown man diapers. Have you guys squashed your beef here?
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: You guys are getting a little testy.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: We're good.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I just wanted to note, I was not falling for his,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: you know, shenanigans today. I was trying to hold off
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: with some restraint. You did a good job, Fitty. What
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: you got for me?
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: It's all right to be a little Fitty.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: In a little.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: Hometown or a big old city.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Might as well share, might as well smile. Life goes
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: on for a little Fitty.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 29:05
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• 29:21
  Speaker 5: So, Mac, a few weeks ago, I think during Random Craft,
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: we did the story about the viral fake 49ers player.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: What?
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: 9-9-3-4. So, Mac, a few weeks ago, I think during
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: Random Craft, we did the story about the viral fake
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: 49ers player. Well, undoubtedly, they were tipped off back about
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: this guy back in December.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: I saw that. Some woman called the 49ers eight months
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: before they arrested him.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: They said, no, that's actually Brandon Ayuki does play here.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: That could have been what they thought. Oh, my God.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: This guy may actually play before Ayuk does again. That's crazy.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: What a clown show this dude was. Unbelievable. $ 1. 3 million.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: He is being accused of taking all various women just
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: over this scheme of pretending he's a 49er player, man.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I heard before he was single, Fitty was out there
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: at the bar pretending to be Nicole Jokic of the
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets. And they said, wow, that's amazing you play
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: in the NBA.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: I feel like he might have had a better chance
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: of trying to be Muggsy Bogues, I feel like, believe
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: it or not.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: See?
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: You guys are working out your beef here, and all
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: of a sudden you get a shot taken here.
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: And he wonders why I have my days.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: And it's always, he's never at fault. It's always the
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: other person. I'm the host, though. I'm supposed to take
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: shots at my producer. And I'm not supposed to fight back? No.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: I turn 30 tomorrow. Oh, is that what you're feeling?
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: I'm going to bite back.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: I'm going to stand up for myself.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: I respect it. Where's Flounder, though, Bowen? That man just
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: never said a word. We can throw whatever stray out
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: there we want.
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  Speaker 1: Flounder's getting a baseball bat pulled on him on Independence.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Is that happening again?
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Again?
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to have fun, of course,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: but we're also going to... Get serious, and we're going to,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: once again, as we did when the show began, pay
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: our respects to our friend of the program, ESPN broadcaster
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: and hero in many ways of life, Chris Patola, who
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: passed away on Monday. We'll talk about Chris when we
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: come back. Sports Radio 92.7. In the community, what's the
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: first thing you got to do?
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  Speaker 4: In the A?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when you're back in here.
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  Speaker 4: Well, now I got to make sure I'm washing what
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: I eat because usually it's go to Waffle House.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 2: Go.
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  Speaker 1: Sausage, egg, and cheese, hash brown bowl.
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  Speaker 3: And depending on what kind of mood I'm in, either
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: a double waffle or sometimes I go single waffle.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. Why not talk about more food? Although
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: there is a poor guy on the text line. Icy
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Vein says he has not eaten anything yet today. And
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Scott Hansen is killing him. Well, now Darren Waller is
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: killing you, too, because that's him after the game with
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: the media talking about being back at the crib in Atlanta.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: And what he normally does is eat that order right
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  Speaker 2: there from Waffle House. So now Icy Veins are going
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: to be even hungrier now.
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  Speaker 1: I trust people based off of what their Waffle House
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: order is, so I've got deep trust in Darren Waller.
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  Speaker 2: That's an acceptable one right there.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Also, looking at him in person, Mac, a few weeks ago,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't guess that he's got a body built by
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Waffle House.
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  Speaker 2: No, that can't be a regular thing. That's got to
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: be a treat, right?
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Because he looks tremendous, man, no doubt about it. And
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: he's playing tremendous. And we're seeing it on the field.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Playing tremendous.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're seeing it on the field. Him and Bryce
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: already have this connection already. which is scary for the
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: opponents moving forward. But unfortunately, if y'all missed it, Jonathan
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Brooks is going to miss some time here. Ian Rappaport
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: had it first. Going to need surgery on a core
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: muscle injury. And Ian Rappaport said, hey, it could be
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: six weeks, at least six weeks, if not more. IR
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: in the future here, where you have to miss at
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: least four weeks for that. There hasn't been anything official
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: on this, right? I'm guessing, Boe? from the Panthers? No,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: I'm guessing that's going to be a little bit.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Not yet. No.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: All right. Um, so that's not ideal news, especially for
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Jonathan Brooks. He's just trying to get some rhythm.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Speaking of news, speaking of news, Magna, in a much
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: different way, some real life news. Um, it's now out
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: in the public, but we were told yesterday about our friend, uh,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: an ESPN analyst, Chris Batola, uh, sudden passing. Um, that
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: really shook us there, Mac. You, um, You got the
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: info on the age of his children there, but he
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: came on the show all the time. He became a
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: friend of the show, liked us on the show. His
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: best friend, Hal, from childhood, is a longtime listener to
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: the program. So our thoughts are with Hal, the Spatola family,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: the Krzyzewski family, all those... that this impacts there, Mac.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: And he's got a lot of connections to, uh, not
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: only our show, but he's got how here, um, his,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: his podcast co-host is Dallin cuff right now. Obviously the
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: husband of Kelsey rigs cuff, another friend of the show.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: So I know they're dealing with a lot, but he
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: wasn't only a Mac and basketball analyst. He had a
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: whole life before ESPN army's fifth, all time leading score.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: And then he became a decorated war hero as well in, uh,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: in Operation Iraqi Freedom. So he had a whole life
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: before basketball.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: He did. He's Coach K's son-in-law. He married Coach K's daughter, Jamie.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: It was just such a fun dude, man. Just such
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: a fun dude. But he would let the opinions rip
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: when he was on the air, but he would cut
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: up and have fun with us, too.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir. Five years as an Army officer. He was
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: a company commander. He deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: and he came home with the Joint Service Commendation Medal
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: awarded for what the citation called exceptional combat performance.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, how about that? A true freaking hero, man.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: The basketball world not only lost somebody, really the United
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: States lost a hero as well.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Big time. And his three kids are 16 and younger,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: so my God, it pains me for them not to
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: have their dad. So it's horrible. He's only 47 years old.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Rest in peace to Chris Spatola. That's horrible.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Horrible.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: People are telling us on the text line now the
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Panthers have, I guess, announced Bone and made it official.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: that uh jonathan brooks is on ir so um and
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: austin eckler is he he's the only known one right
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: as far as a running back that's been reported to
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: have a workout with us yes i haven't seen anything
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: else but there's a bunch of names out there.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah austin eckler reported first by ian rapaport then mike
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: a followed up with that yes all right man let's
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: see if we can um uh wrap this show up
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: man hard to segue from that, uh, horrible news, but, uh,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: let's wrap it up.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Thank you to Scott Hanson, Willie P, Chuck Oliver, and
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Ashley Westwood joining us on the show today. Let's get
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: to some of these, uh, texts here and see what
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: we have from y'all. Um, let's see this. Oh, this
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: is back to, this is our, if, if the Browns
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: win there, beat us by 22 or more, there's a
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: dude wipes promotion. where a Browns fan will win $ 50, 000
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: if they win by 22 points or more. And what
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: did you say, Bone? You will walk to the Dude
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Wipe headquarters in Chicago.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: I was hoping that maybe it was, you know, in
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: the Moorhead Street area of Charlotte, but apparently not. I'll
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: be headed towards, no, they're not losing by 22 or more.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: I said I will eat a Dude Wipe, and Fitty
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: says he'll get a Brazilian wax.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: If you eat a Dude Wipe, Mac, here's the fitting
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: part about this whole thing. you eat a dude wipe
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: you might need to.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Use one afterwards yeah then when i get rid of
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: the dude wipe do i then use a dude wipe
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: to wipe the wipe anyway yeah um let's read some
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: text here shall we texter says why are you making
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: some poor person give fitty a brazilian what bet did
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: they lose Another texter points out, guys, hate to break
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: up the fun on this topic, but we did lose
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: a game by exactly 22 points a little over a
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: week ago.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Is that why they did that? Everyone thought 22 was
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: for the number two, but was that because the Panthers
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: lost by 22? Or is it all tying together, maybe?
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Did you see the texter that said
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: we wanted to know why 22 points? And he just
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: simply said, doo-doo, 2-2. Ha ha ha. That's the type
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: of maturity, sir, that speaks to us here on the
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: text line.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Joey from Huntersville is having a rough one here. What's
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: going on with him, man? He said, swing and a miss.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: I'm disappointed in that joke, Bone. When I said that
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Fitty went to a bar and tried to pretend like
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: he was Nikola Jokic, like the 49er guy pretended to do,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: he said, the Joker is 10 feet tall. Joey, I
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: know Fitty's not near the same size as Jokic. That
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: was the point of the comment.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: That was the joke. Before Joey texts me, the reason
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: why I said Muggsy Bogues, even though they're both short,
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: is Muggsy's black, Fitty's white. So I made the joke
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: that they would call him Muggsy before they call him Jokic.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: So anyway. Work with us, Joey.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: I will put up with my sarcasm not working. That
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: was just straight up not even sarcasm.
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: Oh, man.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: That's Joey's brain not working, man.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Multiple people asking us if we're getting Nick Wilson on
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: this week because they're playing the Browns tomorrow at 925.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: So this hour tomorrow, 925, Nick Wilson joins us.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: He came looking for us, by the way. He came
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: looking for Mack and Bo. Is he feeling good about this?
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: They want to take down the entire NFC South, I guess,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: after doing it in Baker. Not so fast, my friend,
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: but we'll talk to him later. about their very interesting
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: quarterback situation. Oh, God, we're playing some quarterback cluster teams
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: in the early portion of the season, aren't we?
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Although I am not, I do, I'm more weary of
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: the Browns, though, than I was Atlanta. I think it's
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: gonna be more of a fight than we.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Saw last week you don't agree with juju smith schuster
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: and uh mike tomlin that the browns is uh browns
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: is the browns.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Panders are winning but i'm i'm i i don't think
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be quite as easy as last week the
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: sean watson is coming off of is that his best
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: game ever as a brown yeah I mean, 238 yards, 24-30.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. Two touchdowns. He earned another start, really, right?
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Let me just tell you what he did. He dinked
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: and dunked. His average distance of target was 3.8 yards
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: per attempt. I don't think you've beaten us that way,
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: but we'll see. We've got two days to talk about it.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: They are, but they are not beating us. I'm not
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: saying anything crazy about this. But will Finney go three-score
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: galore for the second straight week? Stay tuned.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Stay tuned this week to the Mac and Bone Show.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Finney might also do that every game of the season now.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: That's possible. Yeah, he hit one, man. You got to
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: give him credit. All right, we're out of here, y'all.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: We will talk to you tomorrow on the Mac and
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Bone Show. We'll talk more about the Browns and that game.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Colin Hoggard, Charlotte Sports Today, coming up next.