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Mac & Bone Show - Zach Gelb Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Zach Gelb doesn't deserve having to sit here while we blabber.
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: You were going to make him wait until Friday.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, why is he on hold a day early?
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  Speaker 2: I forgot. He's traveling tomorrow. Zach Gelb is here a
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  Speaker 2: day early, baby.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk football and Zach Gelb, Compass Media,
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  Speaker 1: NFL coverage, NFL radio.
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  Speaker 2: He joins us here on the Mac and Bone Show. Gelb,
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  Speaker 2: what's happening, baby? What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: You mother truckers. What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: What's happening, man.
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  Speaker 4: Phidias.
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  Speaker 2: We have 500 injuries.
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  Speaker 1: We lost to the Browns, but Phidias Panther Phidias still
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  Speaker 1: has his confidence.
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  Speaker 3: Anytime I mentioned the Eagles, which would be a good
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  Speaker 3: amount of time with their success. And it was like
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  Speaker 3: him running the Rocky steps and eating like a cheesesteak
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  Speaker 3: from his visit in Philadelphia. I made a restraining order
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  Speaker 3: against him, but a nice guy.
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  Speaker 5: Wait until he finds out you're on Compass Media NFL Radio.
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  Speaker 5: He's going to find you. He is going to find you, Gelby.
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  Speaker 5: There's no doubt about it. I mean, Gelby, what do
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  Speaker 5: you say about the Panthers-Browns game?
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  Speaker 2: It was ugly.
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Young had no protection. What did you think about that?
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  Speaker 1: I feel shame losing to the Browns. I ain't going
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  Speaker 1: to lie to you.
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  Speaker 3: It just shows me that this team isn't good, but
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  Speaker 3: you don't need to be good to win this division.
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  Speaker 3: And like, they should probably lose to the lions and
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  Speaker 3: then coming off the buy, they should probably lose to
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  Speaker 3: the Eagles. And then what they'd be sitting there at
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  Speaker 3: one in four, I believe. And if that's the case,
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  Speaker 3: they could still win this division because division stinks. Like
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  Speaker 3: even like I was ready to buy in on the
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  Speaker 3: saints and then they lose to the Raiders. And I
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  Speaker 3: get it. The Raiders are three and oh, but I
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  Speaker 3: don't think the Raiders are are this unbelievable team. So,
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  Speaker 3: and then Baker start with, with, with Tampa Bay. So the, like,
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  Speaker 3: it's the same thing as last year. Can you get
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  Speaker 3: to eight wins? Honestly, you may only need to get
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  Speaker 3: to seven wins.
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  Speaker 5: How much of your faith is really hurting the Panthers
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  Speaker 5: right now due to the injuries we find out JC
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  Speaker 5: horn out for the next two months, Mike Jackson out
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  Speaker 5: for two months. Do you think because of the South,
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  Speaker 5: they can navigate this or is there a chance that
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  Speaker 5: this gets ugly because.
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  Speaker 2: Of all these injuries?
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  Speaker 3: I feel bad for JC horn. I feel like this
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  Speaker 3: guy gets hurt like every other year. Right. It just,
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  Speaker 3: you know, ever since I've been doing this segment with
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  Speaker 3: you guys, it seems like he's really good. And then
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  Speaker 3: he gets hurt. And we know when he's healthy, he's,
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  Speaker 3: he's a phenomenal corner in this league. So the injuries,
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  Speaker 3: they are unfortunate. They definitely hurt this football team, but
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  Speaker 3: once again, If you guys were playing in the NFC
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  Speaker 3: East or if you were playing in the AFC West,
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  Speaker 3: they would be more detrimental. But in this division, it's like,
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  Speaker 3: all right, yeah, the Panthers should have won the game
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday. There's no doubt about that. And they could
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  Speaker 3: have been and they probably should have been 2-1, but
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  Speaker 3: now they're still in first place at 1-2. And even
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  Speaker 3: if they lose the next two, it's not like I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to sit there and say, this team can't win
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  Speaker 3: the division because none of these teams in this division
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  Speaker 3: look really good right now.
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  Speaker 2: That's the one saving grace.
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  Speaker 1: I keep coming back to the fact that I love
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  Speaker 1: our division so much, Gelby. I love this being in
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  Speaker 1: this division because it does give you that room for error.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think about the Lions? I mean, their
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  Speaker 1: offense is scary, especially when we have both corners out.
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  Speaker 1: But you have to acknowledge, too, the Lions' defense has
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  Speaker 1: been a mess with their injuries in the secondary as well.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think about this Detroit team?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the, the Panthers should absolutely be able to put
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  Speaker 3: up points and Bryce Jones in the league and passing yards.
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  Speaker 3: So I would expect them to be heavy thrown the
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  Speaker 3: football once again, even though I, you know, the having
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  Speaker 3: success on the ground is, is going to be big
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  Speaker 3: for them because I think, you know, you have to
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  Speaker 3: play a little keep away from this lion's offense. The
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  Speaker 3: lion's offense is really am good. Jared golf is, is
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  Speaker 3: not a great quarterback, but He's a fringe top 10
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  Speaker 3: quarterback in this league at Amara St. Brown. Jamison Williams,
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  Speaker 3: a really good one, two punch, and then maybe the
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  Speaker 3: best running back in football in Jameer Gibbs, who I
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  Speaker 3: believe had three touchdowns a week ago, two on the
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  Speaker 3: ground and then one through the air. So this is
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  Speaker 3: going to, this has a potential to be a shootout.
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  Speaker 3: but ultimately I just trust the lions more, but this
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  Speaker 3: is not this dominant lions team from two, three years ago.
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  Speaker 3: We saw them miss the playoffs last year and they
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  Speaker 3: really have never looked like that team from two or
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  Speaker 3: three years ago, ever since you've seen the coordinating changes
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  Speaker 3: with the Aaron Glenn and Ben Johnson, both get a
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  Speaker 3: head coaching jobs.
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  Speaker 5: Galby NFC South question. What do you think has happened to,
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  Speaker 5: to Tampa Bay here and their slow start? Now they
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  Speaker 5: have Minnesota at our season. Now they have green Bay
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  Speaker 5: at home this week. They've got Dallas on Thursday. What,
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  Speaker 5: what has gone on here with Tampa?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the first two weeks, it was just,
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  Speaker 3: everything came crashing down where last year they, they, they
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  Speaker 3: lost out on the tiebreaker and that's how the Panthers
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  Speaker 3: did get in. And then you had the unfortunate Baker
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  Speaker 3: injury right at the end of the game. They just
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  Speaker 3: can't finish games right now. And I think that's a
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  Speaker 3: team that we, we probably didn't praise them enough after
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  Speaker 3: losing Tom Brady, how seamless Baker Mayfield was just able to,
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  Speaker 3: to go on in and they were kept on winning
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  Speaker 3: the division. But this team got old, their defense isn't
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  Speaker 3: as strong as, as what it once was. And you
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  Speaker 3: look at the pieces on offense. Sure. Mecca Bucas is
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  Speaker 3: a good wide receiver. The kid from Oregon's also a solid,
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  Speaker 3: but You know, it's like, all right, Mike Evans is
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  Speaker 3: no longer there. They're not as strong as what they
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  Speaker 3: once were. So I think there's just a longer delay
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  Speaker 3: of the house falling where you would have thought it
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  Speaker 3: probably would have occurred three or four years ago, but
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  Speaker 3: they were able to manage to avoid that. You know,
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  Speaker 3: people taking over the house and ripping it from you.
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  Speaker 5: You know, if you say Steve Whitaker's name three times
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  Speaker 5: in a row, he appears like Beetlejuice. He's now sent
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  Speaker 5: in the video of him running the steps in Philadelphia,
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  Speaker 5: the Rocky statue. Matt, he's not happy, though, is he?
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  Speaker 1: He's upset with Gelby because he says he is not
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  Speaker 1: eating a cheesesteak. He doesn't want that out there. He
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  Speaker 1: has now sent us the video and it does look
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  Speaker 1: like he just replicates the Rocky run and then puts
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  Speaker 1: his arm in the air, Rocky style.
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  Speaker 2: So, so, so sorry.
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  Speaker 3: I was in pre I now I remember this. So
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  Speaker 3: I was in preseason form with Steve.
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  Speaker 4: How dare I?
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  Speaker 3: It was like his daughter or, or niece or something
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  Speaker 3: took him for cheesesteak. There was this whole bit that
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  Speaker 3: he used to do. Okay. Send me the video running
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  Speaker 3: the Rocky steps. And then he would ask me where
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  Speaker 3: to go get cheese steaks. I think it was his daughter.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe that, that he took care.
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  Speaker 2: All right. There's cheese steaks involved there. Don't lie. Don't
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  Speaker 2: act like you, like you're not partaking in Philly. All right.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, I would protect.
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  Speaker 3: Another crazy Steve that unless there's another crazy Steve that
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  Speaker 3: likes the Panthers that tweet me, which I guess you
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  Speaker 3: never know.
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  Speaker 2: It's very, this is him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it is possible, Bone, for us to have
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  Speaker 1: multiple crazies with the same name. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: discount that. But yes, he is all over the place, man. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. Gelby, as far as college football goes, what
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  Speaker 1: do you think about this Clemson-Miami game? Clemson has played
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  Speaker 1: a bit better, but this feels like... This feels like
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  Speaker 1: a handful of steps up from UNC and Cal. Like
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  Speaker 1: Dabo said the other day, this is a game that's
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  Speaker 1: going to come down to the final play. Do you
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  Speaker 1: feel that way or do you think Clemson's in trouble?
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  Speaker 2: What do you think?
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  Speaker 4: I hope Miami drags Davo up and down the field
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  Speaker 4: for four quarters of on being honest, the arrogance and
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  Speaker 4: the stubbornness of Davos, sweetie, I am so tired and
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  Speaker 4: him acting like he won the fricking national championship two.
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  Speaker 3: Weeks ago on the comeback up against UNC. It looked
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  Speaker 3: like it was going to be the opening of some
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  Speaker 3: dramatic movie and then, okay, congratulations. You beat Cal with
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  Speaker 3: Tosh LaPoya, first year head coach. And, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: know JKS is a solid quarterback, but like now we're
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  Speaker 3: celebrating beating Cal. It just kind of shows you where
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  Speaker 3: that Clemson program is at. I hope it's Darian Mensah, Malachi, Tony,
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  Speaker 3: Mark Fletcher, Cooper, Barcade, just running up and down the field.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, that Miami defense, I, you know, I do
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  Speaker 3: wonder if, Are they like, I picked Miami to win
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  Speaker 3: a national championship before the season started, but after losing
• 8:28
  Speaker 3: Mesador and after losing Bain, are they a national championship defense?
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I just don't see in the year of 2026,
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  Speaker 3: how Clemson has the horses to compete with the firepower
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  Speaker 3: that Miami does possess.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. Clemson fans, Zach Gelb says, hello, Clemson.
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  Speaker 5: We have a listener question from a texter named Bagel Guy.
• 8:47
  Speaker 5: He wants to know your thoughts on what's going on
• 8:49
  Speaker 5: with Drake May this year in New England. Hmm. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Mental. I would say it's more mental than physical with
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  Speaker 3: Drake may right now, but geez, the thing that was
• 9:00
  Speaker 3: really disheartening was we all know the, the first, the
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  Speaker 3: third interception in week one up against the Seahawks. So
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  Speaker 3: we didn't learn from that. And then through basically a
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  Speaker 3: similar interception up against the Jaguars to Travis.
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  Speaker 2: Hunter and Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It made me say not a lot of nice things.
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  Speaker 3: When I was watching that game about my Patriots on Sunday,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they'll beat the bills this weekend. If
• 9:20
  Speaker 3: they do, it would be sweet. After that, they have
• 9:23
  Speaker 3: the jets and the Raiders and the jets are, are
• 9:25
  Speaker 3: have some young talent. And the Raiders are obviously three
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  Speaker 3: and Oh, so I would still like to think that
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  Speaker 3: they could be three and three, even if they do
• 9:32
  Speaker 3: lose to the bills this weekend, but they're missing Stefan digs.
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  Speaker 3: There's no question. They got rid of Keishon booty. He
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  Speaker 3: was also a safety blanket for Drake. And A.J. Brown's
• 9:42
  Speaker 3: out still with that ankle injury. And Romeo Dobbs is
• 9:44
  Speaker 3: allergic to catching the football. But here's the weird thing. Like,
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  Speaker 3: the line hasn't been horrible. Like, Will Campbell has bounced back.
• 9:51
  Speaker 3: I know they've had injuries with the right guard, Ueno,
• 9:55
  Speaker 3: going down for the season. And then his backup, Greg
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  Speaker 3: Van Roden, also going down. But it's just like, I
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: don't know, that spark isn't there through the first three games.
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  Speaker 3: But the kid's so talented. Like, you guys saw it
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  Speaker 3: at UNC in that monster season the second year when
• 10:10
  Speaker 3: he lost some order. That was the other quarterback, Howell. But, like,
• 10:14
  Speaker 3: you just look at a guy like Drake May and
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  Speaker 3: I it's, it's everything's coming down on him right now.
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  Speaker 3: And he just got to get back to the basics
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  Speaker 3: and got to learn when to just give up on
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  Speaker 3: a play. Cause sometimes, man, he just tries to create nothing.
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: And when there's nothing there, it's okay to just go
• 10:33
  Speaker 3: down or throw the ball out of that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But he's got too much talent, not to, not to
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  Speaker 1: get right at some point, as far as I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Galby, Clemson fans are mad at you now.
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: This would probably be a, you take maybe a, and
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: Michael may, the cookies aren't good anymore. Maybe that, that,
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: that's what it is.
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, we got to investigate that for us, please. There's
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: a Clemson fan that says, why would I let a
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  Speaker 1: temple fan? Why would I care what a temple fan
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: says about college football?
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  Speaker 2: Speaker 3 0 That's fine.
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  Speaker 3: Well, four years ago, I got dragged on Clemson message
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  Speaker 3: boards were saying that Davos arrogance is going to do
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  Speaker 3: him in and look who was right. Me, not you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God.
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  Speaker 5: Speaker 1 Let's all calm down and have cheesesteaks with
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  Speaker 5: Panther Steve.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks as always, brother. Have a good weekend, man. Next week, man.
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: You got it guys.
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  Speaker 4: Be well.