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

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Speaker 5: All right, let's do some college football talk right now,
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Speaker 5: ladies and gentlemen. More panther talk coming up as we
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Speaker 5: react to Friday's preseason game and start getting ready for
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Speaker 5: a big joint practice against the Texans on Wednesday. Right now, though,
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Speaker 5: we're going to talk a little college football. It is
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Speaker 5: week zero, Happy week zero to those that celebrate. And
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Speaker 5: in week one, our next guest, he will beget his
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Speaker 5: season will be getting underway as his app State Mountaineers
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Speaker 5: host Maine, and then after that it's at ECU home
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Speaker 5: against Charlotte at NC State. Is going to be a
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Speaker 5: real interesting first month of the season for our next
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Speaker 5: guess and his Mountaineers. He's at State head coach dal
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Speaker 5: Loggins and he joins us here on the Mac and
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Speaker 5: Bone Show.
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Speaker 3: Coach, how you doing? What's going on?
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Speaker 1: I'm excited. Just finished a big scrimmage on Saturday and
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Speaker 1: we're cleaning up the tape. So I popped out of
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Speaker 1: a special teams meeting to come top of w all nice.
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Speaker 2: We appreciate your time always coach. From the script from
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Speaker 2: the spring till now, where do you think your team
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Speaker 2: has improved the most over the course of fall?
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Speaker 3: Cam already?
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Speaker 1: Well, Number one, it's starts with not having a transfer
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Speaker 1: portal in May. You know, I love that three starters
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Speaker 1: last May and uh, man, it's the hazycy fast He's
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Speaker 1: like in a transfer portal world withere two of them
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Speaker 1: you're asing and dog gears and college football is hard enough,
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Speaker 1: but uh, you know, so now it's like you have
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Speaker 1: a team and you can really start to work on
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Speaker 1: your culture of your team and if you guys know,
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Speaker 1: like that's a huge part of half. We have a distinct,
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Speaker 1: proud culture. And for us to be able to know
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Speaker 1: who our team is in January was a really big
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Speaker 1: deal for us, so we could actually start doing stuff
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Speaker 1: with team building, building connection and those things. I think
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Speaker 1: our team got a lot faster, we got a lot
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Speaker 1: more experience. I'm excited about the roster we've built. But man,
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Speaker 1: what a what a blessing and a relief just to
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Speaker 1: know who those guys are. And uh after spring ball
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Speaker 1: who you had, and you aren't worried so much. Well, actually,
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Speaker 1: you're so worried about the depth chart. If if you
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Speaker 1: set a depth chart, if you went ones, twos, and threes,
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Speaker 1: just someone not gonna like for their role, and all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden you go leave and look for something else,
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Speaker 1: and now just be able to play those guys and
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Speaker 1: practice the way you want to and use the depth
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Speaker 1: chart as also a motivation tool. It felt like coaching. Again.
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Speaker 5: That's cool, that's cool, you're you're a lot of coaches
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Speaker 5: have shared that sentiment.
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Speaker 3: The portals.
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Speaker 5: The portal's rough, but at least don't take my players
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Speaker 5: after spring practice.
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Speaker 3: And uh, I think I think y'all got to love that.
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Speaker 2: You might get our money edwards back at this point
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Speaker 2: here before the season starts.
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Speaker 1: You know, Hackett was wasn't our scrimmage on Saturday. I said, hey,
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Speaker 1: get I guarantee you got some We gonna appeal to
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Speaker 1: somebody if I'm gonna give you one more year. I mean,
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Speaker 1: we're letting guys on pro contracts and come back.
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Speaker 3: It's crazy.
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Speaker 1: And you O. Hackett didn't, he didn't red shirt. He's
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Speaker 1: probably got a year legter.
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Speaker 3: You go find a judge finds are judging Boone that.
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Speaker 5: There's got to coach the quarterbacks that you guys like
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Speaker 5: like just about every program out there, a lot of turnover.
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Speaker 5: You're you're telling us, Hey, I think we got faster.
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Speaker 5: I think we got better in a lot of areas.
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Speaker 5: The quarterback position is Good's going to be different. I
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Speaker 5: know a lot of app fans have texted us about
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Speaker 5: Malachi Singleton as as a quarterback that they're looking forward
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Speaker 5: to seeing. Is the job his How are your quarterbacks
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Speaker 5: shaping up here?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? So Malachai was He is our offensive team captain,
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Speaker 1: voted by his team mates. We we announced three captains.
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Speaker 1: We did offensiven specs teams, and Maley's put himself in
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Speaker 1: a really good, really good position to lead this football team.
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Speaker 1: We are really excited about him. Just what he's able
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Speaker 1: to bring. We wanted to we I told you we
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Speaker 1: wanted to get faster. We also wanted to have quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: that could run anthrow. We wanted more dual threat. Uh.
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Speaker 1: When you have pro style pastors, you have to be
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Speaker 1: so good in the offensive line, there's less room for air.
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Speaker 1: We called him a racers. The ability to erace things
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Speaker 1: and and cover other other people's mistakes up. So we're
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Speaker 1: really excited about where Malachi is. That is that we
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Speaker 1: also have Henry Hasseback here, who is you know, transferred
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Speaker 1: from UCLA. Matt Hasseback's son who I coached back in
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Speaker 1: Tennessee a long time ago. And uh, he another guy
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Speaker 1: that can run. He was a top of little cross
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Speaker 1: player in the country. So we're excited about both those guys. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: if we're gonna go out and play today, Malachi would
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Speaker 1: go out number one for sure. And but it they may.
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Speaker 1: They have made our team better. They've increased our team speed,
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Speaker 1: and they brought leadership that we needed to in our program.
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Speaker 2: Coach Lewis at running back six hundred yards last year,
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Speaker 2: how excited are you for the next step.
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Speaker 3: For him in this offense?
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Speaker 2: And I got to tell you, coach, I may I
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Speaker 2: mean a lot to you, but I used him in
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Speaker 2: the video game College Football twenty seven.
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Speaker 3: This guy's got something going on here.
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Speaker 1: Man. I love that. I love that that you and
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Speaker 1: my son are the same. I get a lot of
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Speaker 1: advice from my son based on the game. But any
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Speaker 1: of y'all have no clue how much our players whine
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Speaker 1: about their rankings as well, soa man I had nothing
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Speaker 1: to do with their like why is my speed eighty
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Speaker 1: two man run better than that? But now Jakari's coming
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Speaker 1: off a really good season where he split time last year.
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Speaker 1: He's done a nice job, like talking about a kid
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Speaker 1: that's grown up a ton. Sunday morning, I'm getting ready
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Speaker 1: for church and I get a text it's like, hey,
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Speaker 1: I went on this assessment of how I'm practicing. You know,
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Speaker 1: I was like, I'm proud of him how much he's
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Speaker 1: grown up. It's hard when you're coming from a you're
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Speaker 1: a freshman from South Florida, you come to Boone, North Carolina.
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Speaker 1: You've got to grow up best and it's a different environment,
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Speaker 1: a different culture. But coming off a great year, as
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Speaker 1: you know, the thing we got to continue to work
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Speaker 1: with him is he we're getting into the third level,
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Speaker 1: and we got into the third level a lot of
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Speaker 1: last year. His emphasis has been, hey, make that unblocked hitter,
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Speaker 1: make that last safety miss, and let's go have a
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Speaker 1: great year. Because he is a really good player. He's
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Speaker 1: got natural instincts and vision, contact bounce, he's compacted. He
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Speaker 1: is a good football player that we're really excited about.
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Speaker 5: We're talking with dal Logan Zapp State head coach. They
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Speaker 5: are now inside two weeks from their opener on September
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Speaker 5: fifth at home against Maine.
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Speaker 3: Coach.
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Speaker 5: You, guys, you know, I'm we're getting ready for this interview.
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Speaker 5: So I'm looking at the portal, you know, situation for
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Speaker 5: you guys since we last talked to you last season,
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Speaker 5: y'all lost. The count I'm seeing on twenty four to
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Speaker 5: seven sports is forty two of them, eight to the
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Speaker 5: Power for Schools. But then you also are ranked by
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Speaker 5: twenty four to seven second in the Sunbelt. For this
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Speaker 5: year's incoming portal. You brought thirty four three stars in.
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Speaker 5: So it's a ton of guys out, a ton of
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Speaker 5: guys in. How how did you talked about a little
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Speaker 5: bit earlier and said team speed, Tell me about what
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Speaker 5: you lost and what you gained, Like is are we
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Speaker 5: all going to see it as a net positive by
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Speaker 5: the time it's all said and done.
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Speaker 1: I believe that I'm really excited about this football team,
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Speaker 1: and and you know, I'm excited for the guys that
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Speaker 1: earned opportunities other places. That's the world we're in. Have
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Speaker 1: great relationships with those guys, and we talked about when
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Speaker 1: you come here and recruiting lifelong. You know, we want
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Speaker 1: to have life changing experiences, not life changing money. We
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Speaker 1: don't have life changing money into North Carolina. But we
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Speaker 1: can offer something really special here. And we have tradition,
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Speaker 1: and we have the best fan base in our conference,
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Speaker 1: and we have the best facilities, in my opinion, in
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Speaker 1: our conference. So we have a lot to sell here
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Speaker 1: and we've got great people. I think that we are
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Speaker 1: a lot better football team right now than we were
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Speaker 1: this time last year. I'm excited to coach this football team.
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Speaker 1: Where we went out and went got in the transfer
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Speaker 1: portal and the high school rankings since we had the
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Speaker 1: number one class and the history of the Sun Belt
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Speaker 1: not just app stayed, the history of the Sun Belt
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Speaker 1: rated by multiple recruiting services. We wanted to get faster.
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Speaker 1: We want to get team team. We needed to improve
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Speaker 1: our team speed, We needed to get experience. We wanted
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Speaker 1: guys that have been captains before, so we went through
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Speaker 1: a deep dive. So there's not a whole lot to
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Speaker 1: do in boone North Carolina outs. I'd go to class
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Speaker 1: in football. So we want the guys that football was
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Speaker 1: really really important to And if you're going to class.
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Speaker 1: That means you're a good student, you're a good person,
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Speaker 1: you're and we want the people that were into the team,
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Speaker 1: and they had a natural kip on their shoulder because
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Speaker 1: we went back and out. You know, you get here
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Speaker 1: and you know about APP. And then after the first
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Speaker 1: year you got to sell reflect and say, okay, where
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Speaker 1: can I get better? What did I do good? What
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Speaker 1: does that do bad? Of course, as a coach, and
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Speaker 1: you're like, did I do anything good? Like this is
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Speaker 1: it's got to improve. And so I did a deep
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Speaker 1: dive on like, hey, what wins here? And it was
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Speaker 1: speed and it was a chip on your shoulder and
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Speaker 1: edge to you. So when we went out and recruiting
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Speaker 1: these guys, I'm may I was really hard on our
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Speaker 1: assistant coaches, A hey, make sure we get people that
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Speaker 1: have been through something really hard in their life, because
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Speaker 1: if you can come there are no great victories in
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Speaker 1: life unless you overcome hard stuff. And then let's let's
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Speaker 1: check these speed Let's check these track times. Let's make
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Speaker 1: sure that we get fast. We create that edge that's
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Speaker 1: always made APPS special.
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Speaker 2: Coach, how fun is it to look at the schedule
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Speaker 2: for your program and your fan base? Two three, to
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Speaker 2: see three of the in state opponents in a row, ECU, Charlotte,
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Speaker 2: NC State. A lot of work to do, But how
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Speaker 2: big are those local games.
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Speaker 1: For you guys, Well, I think it's huge. I think
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Speaker 1: apps they will always be a bus program we want
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Speaker 1: to be, you know, it's we can bust and get
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Speaker 1: places and it doesn't kiv weigh at our budget in
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Speaker 1: that way, and to be able to stay in state
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Speaker 1: for us, it helps recruiting a ton and so that
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Speaker 1: that also you talk travel, you talk recruiting, you talk
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Speaker 1: about kids being able to get their families there the
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Speaker 1: road games. There's a lot to sell for us that way,
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Speaker 1: and we're really excited about the opportunity to compete in
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Speaker 1: this state and not leave the state for the first
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Speaker 1: month of the schedule.
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Speaker 5: Coach, we got a Texter that's a die hard app
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Speaker 5: guy and and he texted in and he's got one
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Speaker 5: of the great text line names of our listeners. Chubbing
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Speaker 5: a tub is his name, all right, And he's a
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Speaker 5: big he's a big ask questions we just ran. He's
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Speaker 5: a big Mountaineer fan, and he makes a great point
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Speaker 5: about how he wants to see y'all get back defensively
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Speaker 5: to what tradition you talk about, what wins it out?
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Speaker 5: I'm sure you talk about grit. I'm sure great defenses
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Speaker 5: is part of that. Right, Like it's been five years
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Speaker 5: since you know, last four years, twenty six points are
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Speaker 5: more allowed. What can you tell APP fans that are like,
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Speaker 5: you know, I want to I want to recognize an
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Speaker 5: app state defense again? What about this unit?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that you're right, and uh with the tub and
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Speaker 1: the tub the tub spot on? All right? So it
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Speaker 1: is it's it's when you start building that identity, like
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Speaker 1: what do you want your team to look like? I
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Speaker 1: want to be a team that plays great defense, that
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Speaker 1: plays that makes the difference in special teams, that can
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Speaker 1: run the ball and take care of the football and
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Speaker 1: that smart, tough, competitive spirit comes out all the time.
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Speaker 1: And I think defense is played with team speed. But
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Speaker 1: it's also the edge we talked about, Like I go back,
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Speaker 1: you watch those upsets. You just go put on the tape,
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Speaker 1: you just sit there and watch, Hey, how did they
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Speaker 1: beat South Carolina? Well it was a different world then,
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Speaker 1: like there was no nil and now that those players
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Speaker 1: that we've beat South Carolina there I think there were
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Speaker 1: six draft picks they've been playing for South Carolina now,
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Speaker 1: so we had to develop these guys quickly understand how
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Speaker 1: long we're going to have them for. But all of them.
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Speaker 1: You go to Texas A and M that the South
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Speaker 1: Carolina game, so many other closed ones, the Penn State, Tennessee.
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Speaker 1: But you see this relentless effort, and you see a
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Speaker 1: team that it was always about the next play, that
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Speaker 1: never gave up, that was going to fight you for
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Speaker 1: sixty minutes, and excited to compete any place, anywhere. And
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Speaker 1: I think that goes into the mental makeup of the
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Speaker 1: kids you recruited. I think we lost that a little bit.
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Speaker 1: I think we lost an edge here as we went
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Speaker 1: to the transfer portal in the and IL world, and
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Speaker 1: we worked very diligently to get that back because we
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Speaker 1: want to put as a head coach, I'd get to
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Speaker 1: be the head coach at freaking app State, Like I'm
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Speaker 1: going to make sure that every fan that sits in
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Speaker 1: that stadium that shows up and we have the best
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Speaker 1: game the atmosphere in our conference. But I want them
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Speaker 1: to be proud because they say our style plays back
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Speaker 1: and we've lost it, and we didn't. We didn't. We
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Speaker 1: haven't had it for a period of time, but it
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Speaker 1: starts with a relentless aggressive defense that I think is
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Speaker 1: the key to any team sports. So Tub of the Tubs,
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Speaker 1: spot on. We worked diligently to make our guys our
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Speaker 1: fans happy, and I think we've got to go in
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Speaker 1: the right direction that way.
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Speaker 2: Coach, if you mentioned his name three times, he's going
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Speaker 2: to ask for free ticket. So you might want to
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Speaker 2: just stop with Chubb with the top.
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Speaker 3: He might want to call. He might want to call
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Speaker 3: the defense.
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Speaker 1: Coach for myself. He may I got for myself. I
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Speaker 1: can't give any other.
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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, that's fair, that's fair.
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Speaker 5: Uh well, hey, we appreciate you, coach, and I will
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Speaker 5: say this, what what my man t Bone here did
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Speaker 5: not tell you about playing the video game with appstage?
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Speaker 3: Why are you doing this?
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Speaker 1: Man?
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Speaker 3: You were done. Do a good job, coach, all right,
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Speaker 3: you go do a much better job than he did,
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Speaker 3: which I was. I was asked politely to no longer
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Speaker 3: coach the team after the video game.
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Speaker 1: Oh you got fire from the game.
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Speaker 3: Something happened.
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Speaker 2: There was a coach, coach, coach, there was a glitch
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Speaker 2: and I threw thirteen picks in three games, and I
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Speaker 2: couldn't stop throwing picks, and I had to.
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Speaker 3: I had to step away from the program for a while.
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Speaker 1: I hate saying that, but like I had a glitch
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Speaker 1: last year of red zone interceptions too that you just
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Speaker 1: gave me a badive. So yeah, I'm with you.
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Speaker 3: That's why we was at so many yards, coach. I
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Speaker 3: stopped throwing the ball after a while because running into
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Speaker 3: a thousand like a good adjustment, a good adjustment.
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Speaker 1: We saw our identity the same way great defense, great
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Speaker 1: special teams run the ball, take care of the ball,
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Speaker 1: and take care of the football.
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Speaker 3: I love it there.
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Speaker 1: Here we go.
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Speaker 5: That's what we want to see, and that's what app
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Speaker 5: fans want to see. Thank you for coming on, coach.
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Speaker 5: Best of luck this year. We appreciate you.
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Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys. Have a good one.
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Speaker 3: All right. There you go.
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Speaker 5: That is down wrong with you. Logan's apt head coach.
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Speaker 5: I was like his bone, not going to fully fess
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Speaker 5: up about his explorience. He didn't want to, by the way,
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Speaker 5: I you know, the coaches are in the game now,
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Speaker 5: so you got him. I was him and it wasn't myself.
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Speaker 5: I didn't want to be like, hey, coach, bad news.
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Speaker 5: I got you fired. Yeah, I didn't want to bring
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Speaker 5: that out.
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Speaker 3: Here goes coach gos what got your fired out?
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Speaker 5: But it's worked out for you though, right you bounce
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Speaker 5: back at South Carolina, then you got a job at Michigan.
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Speaker 5: You're now like top five ranked or something. You're number
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Speaker 5: one in the country. There's a happy ending. This coach
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Speaker 5: doesn't have to bounce around though, to find happy at
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Speaker 5: Michigan by way right now, So stop trying to recruit me.
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Speaker 5: It's so hard bone to like look at app and
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Speaker 5: know what they're gonna be. Because they did lose forty
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Speaker 5: two in the portal and again eight guys went, including.
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Speaker 3: One to South Carolina that already graduated.
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Speaker 5: The eight guys that well, yeah, I guess it's I
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Speaker 5: guess it's forty three now if you throw him in
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Speaker 5: Ethan Johnson, Well, these fifty year guys. It just went
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Speaker 5: to South Carolina after the Louisiana court case, but eight
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Speaker 5: guys to power for it.
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Speaker 3: Like they lost a lot.
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Speaker 5: They lost Dozer to NC State at wide receiver, they
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Speaker 5: lost Jayden Barnes at wide receivers Charlotte, so like they
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Speaker 5: lost a lot, but they brought in a ton of
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Speaker 5: guys too. And like I said, twenty four to seven
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Speaker 5: has it ranked as the second best portal class.
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Speaker 3: So it's like it's hard to know.
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Speaker 5: He thinks Bone it's a net positive for the program,
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Speaker 5: and I hope it is because the way they ended
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Speaker 5: last year is not good enough for the standard. They
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Speaker 5: lost six at their last seven, But it's hard to
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Speaker 5: know what they're getting in versus what they lost.
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Speaker 3: You know, Yep, it was hard.
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Speaker 2: When you come back here on the Mac and Bone
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Speaker 2: radio program, I'll ignore b Bob here during their commercial break,
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Speaker 2: the Panthers stay over and pick things up on Friday night.
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Speaker 2: Do fans feel better now or not.
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Speaker 3: After what we saw? Sports Radio seven w FNZ.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it was great.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 6: Of course you always want to go out there every
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Speaker 6: time we want to score. You know, I think for us,
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Speaker 6: you know, coach talks about all the time, we're so
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Speaker 6: process oriented. We just, uh, we're not too big picture.
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Speaker 6: You know, if we don't do this, what does it
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Speaker 6: mean all that?
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Speaker 1: Uh?
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Speaker 6: You know, we just want to put put good tape
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Speaker 6: out there. Whenever we get to go out there. We
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Speaker 6: don't take that for granted. Any time it's a game situation.
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Speaker 6: We want to maximize that uh, you know, still left
16:55
Speaker 6: one out there, and then we got one uh in
16:57
Speaker 6: the paint, which is great something to build off of.
16:59
Speaker 6: But you know, I want to get too high. I
17:00
Speaker 6: want to get too low. It's one preseason game, so
17:03
Speaker 6: learn from it, grow and get ready to get back
17:05
Speaker 6: to work.
17:06
Speaker 5: There you go, Bryce Young on the importance of getting
17:09
Speaker 5: that scoring drive that they got in their second drive.
17:13
Speaker 5: Wish they would have went two for two in terms
17:15
Speaker 5: of scoring. But the second drive was a real nice
17:18
Speaker 5: touchdown drive. You had Jonathan Brooks running for eleven yards
17:22
Speaker 5: in there. You had Bryce with a couple of passes
17:25
Speaker 5: in the intermediate range, a nice out to Tremble hitting
17:29
Speaker 5: t Mac on that over route. You saw him throw
17:31
Speaker 5: that quick pass to t Mac in the slot bone
17:34
Speaker 5: to get down to the one, and then Jonathan Brooks
17:36
Speaker 5: with the feel good touchdown. And I exhaled bone when
17:40
Speaker 5: that happened. I exhaled. I did not celebrate. I did not,
17:43
Speaker 5: you know, do any dancing, all right. I didn't dress
17:45
Speaker 5: fitty up in a thong or any of that stuff. Well,
17:47
Speaker 5: thank thankfully, but I definitely exhaled. And like we're getting
17:51
Speaker 5: ready to have this conversation here and the negative ninnies
17:54
Speaker 5: are already chiming in.
17:55
Speaker 2: We called that offensive playing Brooks had done by the way, Hey,
17:58
Speaker 2: Brooks had done pretty much, it wasn't it.
18:01
Speaker 5: They should play Brooks and done. When he scores a touchdown,
18:04
Speaker 5: that's Brooks and the drives done.
18:05
Speaker 1: I like that.
18:06
Speaker 5: But you name one Brooks and dune song of course,
18:12
Speaker 5: damn probably not. I mean, I know I probably heard him,
18:14
Speaker 5: but red Dirt Road, maybe I haven't heard him. If
18:19
Speaker 5: that's what you're leading with, I believe I got nothing.
18:23
Speaker 5: Bootscoop boogie was there? Bootsoo, there you go, baby to
18:27
Speaker 5: bootscoop boog their topics.
18:29
Speaker 3: Ne on moon right, I don't know that, hardworking man.
18:32
Speaker 3: Let's not get crazy. Hey, thank you, thank you.
18:36
Speaker 5: Let's go back to you with more appreciate you noticing
18:40
Speaker 5: my work ethic anyway, all right, let's uh, let's refocus here, kids.
18:44
Speaker 5: I got bootscoop boogie. That's all you're getting, fitty scoop boogie.
18:47
Speaker 5: Let's talk about the performance and and the The conversation
18:51
Speaker 5: is do fans feel better?
18:54
Speaker 3: Pay?
18:54
Speaker 5: Last week was a freak out. You would have thought
18:57
Speaker 5: that we lost forty to nothing in the season open.
18:59
Speaker 5: The regular season opener, and actually, I think we've done
19:03
Speaker 5: close to that bone in recent openers. But you would
19:05
Speaker 5: have thought that's what happened, or you would have thought
19:08
Speaker 5: we started season oh to eight or something like that.
19:11
Speaker 5: We now have to have the conversation now that the
19:14
Speaker 5: starters did get that touchdown. Drive backups look much better,
19:19
Speaker 5: the offensive line looked much better, pass protection, running game,
19:22
Speaker 5: all those things. They forced turnovers, two of them, they
19:25
Speaker 5: didn't turn it over. The kick return game, regardless of
19:29
Speaker 5: who the return was, was real strong. How does this
19:32
Speaker 5: stuff make you feel? Does it make you feel any better?
19:35
Speaker 5: And I'll ask you bone, how do you feel today?
19:39
Speaker 5: Is it better than you felt on Friday when we
19:42
Speaker 5: left the left gud.
19:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, because the depth guys played a lot better. It's
19:45
Speaker 2: not just the offense getting some points on the board.
19:48
Speaker 2: The depth looked so much better and more solid than
19:51
Speaker 2: against Buffalo. That was part of the problem. It wasn't
19:53
Speaker 2: just the top level guys that played in that game anyway.
19:58
Speaker 2: Just the overall depth did not look good to look
20:00
Speaker 2: much better on Friday than it did the previous game.
20:03
Speaker 2: So you take it in stride. If we're going to
20:06
Speaker 2: say it's just a preseason game, in the first game.
20:09
Speaker 2: Well this one is too, But certainly I'd rather in
20:12
Speaker 2: this particular game after the first one, come out with
20:15
Speaker 2: the feeling of positivity than that.
20:18
Speaker 3: Hell we went through a week ago.
20:19
Speaker 5: I feel like they've I said this earlier, they've calmed
20:22
Speaker 5: the waters, like the weather started getting rough. Bone and
20:25
Speaker 5: the tiny ship was tossed last week in Buffalo. All right,
20:31
Speaker 5: there's no doubt. Shout out Gilligan's Island fans. It was rough, right,
20:36
Speaker 5: it was a rough performance this week. I'm not going
20:39
Speaker 5: to act like playing against no starters for the Jaguars.
20:42
Speaker 5: I'm not on here trying to act like all of
20:44
Speaker 5: a sudden, this was some you know, amazing night in
20:49
Speaker 5: Panther history. But they certainly have avoided for our sanity.
20:54
Speaker 5: They have avoided bone another freak out, because can you
20:57
Speaker 5: imagine what the freak out was? If we did not
20:59
Speaker 5: score any points against the backup defense, Oh, the season
21:02
Speaker 5: would be complete. The season would be lost. This season
21:05
Speaker 5: would be lost, exactly. So I feel like we avoided that.
21:09
Speaker 5: I feel like we steadied the ship. The waters are
21:12
Speaker 5: calm down now, and to me, I think the more
21:16
Speaker 5: important happening is Wednesday's joint practice I think the other
21:20
Speaker 5: day it's like, okay, defense, you held them.
21:23
Speaker 3: To three points in two drives. That's all right.
21:26
Speaker 5: Wasn't perfect from the defense, but you didn't have your
21:28
Speaker 5: four best players playing in this game.
21:30
Speaker 3: On defense offense.
21:32
Speaker 5: The first drive, well, Jonathan Brooks missed the pass protection
21:36
Speaker 5: something I am a bit worried about with him, Bony
21:38
Speaker 5: because of Friday night, and and Bryce had to hurry.
21:43
Speaker 5: It couldn't hit your Maine. So we didn't get eight points.
21:45
Speaker 5: But the way they bounce back that second drive, that's
21:48
Speaker 5: what I wanted to see. So yeah, I feel good
21:51
Speaker 5: about it. But I really think Wednesday is going to
21:54
Speaker 5: be more important, and I just hate the fans can't
21:56
Speaker 5: see back.
21:57
Speaker 2: Shout out to Desmond from Concord. We are two hours
22:00
Speaker 2: and thirty one minutes into the show.
22:02
Speaker 3: Do you know who we have not?
22:03
Speaker 2: I mean, if you did along the way, I missed it,
22:06
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Do you know who, at least myself I
22:08
Speaker 2: have not praised yet during the show. Ryan kicks Generald
22:11
Speaker 2: sixty one yardfield goal. Hell yeah, babe, what an absolute
22:14
Speaker 2: unit this guy is?
22:15
Speaker 3: Hell yeah? Now, granted bone, even all.
22:18
Speaker 2: The kicking worries we had before, Remember the Joey sly
22:20
Speaker 2: years where the guy was like thirty four percent accuracy.
22:24
Speaker 5: How about this guy kicked. I think this guy is
22:25
Speaker 5: going to be here for a very long now. He
22:27
Speaker 5: did miss a shorter one and much shorter one the
22:30
Speaker 5: second half. He actually, well, it's just preseason. It didn't count.
22:33
Speaker 5: That was a good one counts. I was talking, okay,
22:35
Speaker 5: I was talking to Joe person about this. Joe was saying, Man,
22:39
Speaker 5: I've been out here at all these practices. He hasn't
22:41
Speaker 5: had a great training camp practice wise, but at FanFest
22:46
Speaker 5: he was perfect.
22:47
Speaker 3: We saw that, right like.
22:50
Speaker 5: The preseason, hits a sixty one yard or hits all
22:52
Speaker 5: his other kicks until I think until the second half
22:55
Speaker 5: the other day. I still believe in him. And that's
22:57
Speaker 5: sixty one. That's a weapon right there, man, that is
23:00
Speaker 5: a certified weapon. Sixty one or that leg Harrison Butker
23:05
Speaker 5: by the way, said hold my beer, I'm gonna hit
23:07
Speaker 5: a sixty nine yarder.
23:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that. Not for these kickers, by the way
23:12
Speaker 3: I saw.
23:12
Speaker 5: I think it was like Steve Palizolo tweet out the
23:15
Speaker 5: kickers in the NFL are in their steroid era, and
23:18
Speaker 5: I know he's joking, but it is it not insane
23:21
Speaker 5: the range that these kickers have now compared two years ago.
23:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you go watch like an old game or
23:27
Speaker 2: old highlights or whatever, you can watch anything on YouTube, Matt,
23:30
Speaker 2: they'll they'll come out and they'll say, uh, Al del
23:32
Speaker 2: Greco for example, his his law in this year is
23:35
Speaker 2: forty eight yards. It's like, wait a minute, now, forty
23:38
Speaker 2: yards whatever. I'm just throwing it out there, but it's
23:40
Speaker 2: all it's very like forty eight, forty nine. Sometimes they
23:43
Speaker 2: hit a fifty, nothing like we see now. It's a
23:45
Speaker 2: whole new world.
23:46
Speaker 4: Man.
23:46
Speaker 5: Shout out out the Greco, by the way, should go
23:48
Speaker 5: you out there, you go, ol, shout out to you
23:50
Speaker 5: in your forty eight yard range for your time. That
23:52
Speaker 5: was a leg baby, all right. Nowadays you'd bet leg
23:56
Speaker 5: would be Piddley. So anyway, Yeah, no, I think that's
23:58
Speaker 5: a good shout on fits zero.
24:00
Speaker 3: I do think.
24:01
Speaker 5: I think the game Bone was more about like, okay,
24:05
Speaker 5: starters going against two's go out there and give us,
24:11
Speaker 5: give us something to feel good about, and they did that.
24:13
Speaker 5: I also think Bone it's about individual players as well.
24:17
Speaker 5: You know, like people are shouting out shell Smith Wade,
24:20
Speaker 5: this is a dude, Bone whose job I tried to
24:22
Speaker 5: hand to Corey Thornton. I've been on here running to
24:25
Speaker 5: Corey Thornton, you know, pr campaign, and I don't think
24:28
Speaker 5: there's any denying. I know he whipped really bad on
24:32
Speaker 5: that play at the line of scrimmage and it ended
24:34
Speaker 5: up being a twenty something yard run, but he didn't
24:37
Speaker 5: get his head down. He came back made plays after that,
24:40
Speaker 5: including the diving interception, and Thornton missed a tackle too.
24:44
Speaker 5: Like I just I don't think you can deny bone
24:47
Speaker 5: that Smith Wade who they're trying out outside a little
24:50
Speaker 5: bit too when they move Horn inside. I don't think
24:53
Speaker 5: anybody can deny he's had a good camp man. I
24:56
Speaker 5: do not believe that Thornton was on Mike Caye's final
24:59
Speaker 5: fifty three. No, I don't think so. I have the
25:01
Speaker 5: double check again, Yeah, pretty sure he was not on there.
25:04
Speaker 5: I didn't think that it was getting that bad on there, shoot,
25:09
Speaker 5: because Evans is a quality gunner on spepecial teams. By
25:12
Speaker 5: the way, some guy we're not talking about with special teams.
25:15
Speaker 5: I heard canalis Uh talking about it on Saturday Night
25:18
Speaker 5: is Aj Dillon. Not only is AJ Dillon carrying dudes
25:21
Speaker 5: into the end zone on a touchdown bone. Not only
25:23
Speaker 5: is aj Dillon catching a pass out in the flat
25:26
Speaker 5: and breaking tackles like he did the other night. AJ
25:29
Speaker 5: Dillon is a key part of like a lot of
25:31
Speaker 5: the special teams units that like when we start talking
25:35
Speaker 5: about can they keep four running backs? That may allow
25:38
Speaker 5: them to justify keeping four running backs.
25:40
Speaker 2: You said there was a broadcast moment you want to
25:42
Speaker 2: talk about. Also was an involving Diyllan. Oh you didn't
25:46
Speaker 2: say what that was.
25:47
Speaker 5: How about a Nie Shroff talking about they're talking all
25:50
Speaker 5: about Quadzilla, Yeah, and his big quad and a knee.
25:54
Speaker 5: SF just casually drops this in as they're going to
25:57
Speaker 5: break as he's known by Quadzilla because of his powerful thighs.
26:02
Speaker 5: He once crushed the watermelon between his thighs. We'll be
26:05
Speaker 5: right back.
26:08
Speaker 1: I know.
26:09
Speaker 5: It's just an amazing broadcast moment from a niche I
26:13
Speaker 5: was dying.
26:14
Speaker 3: I may need a little more info on how that
26:16
Speaker 3: came about. Y'all got video on that.
26:17
Speaker 5: For me, I've always been dying to see a man
26:21
Speaker 5: crush a watermelon between his thighs.
26:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, How did that occur? One day?
26:26
Speaker 5: What is the background to that one? He help me
26:28
Speaker 5: check that out. I'd never heard that before. Smitty was
26:33
Speaker 5: getting loose again too. He did it on TikTok in
26:35
Speaker 5: twenty twenty one. Okay, there you go, there you go.
26:38
Speaker 3: He did it.
26:39
Speaker 2: He did the stunt of a fill of promise to
26:41
Speaker 2: fans after hitting two hundred thousand followers.
26:45
Speaker 3: Oh man, that is a trip.
26:47
Speaker 5: Smitty was getting loose too when they started talking about Bojangles.
26:50
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and Smitty was doing the read for the
26:53
Speaker 5: boat bites or whatever as Smitty said, Yeah, last year
26:56
Speaker 5: for some reason that I couldn't have done, and they
26:58
Speaker 5: didn't let me talk about bow Jangles. But now can
27:00
Speaker 5: talk about bow Jangles again, and it's just like what happened,
27:03
Speaker 5: And quickly, thank god, the conversation moves to something else.
27:07
Speaker 3: But that was pretty funny too. Anyway, have you been.
27:10
Speaker 4: Timpted to try the bow bites? Because it's never once
27:12
Speaker 4: crossed my mind whenever I've had them.
27:15
Speaker 3: Are they good? My kids get them.
27:17
Speaker 2: It's just like the Chicken supres, but in a different
27:20
Speaker 2: different form. I mean's it's you. I mean they marketed
27:24
Speaker 2: as oh it's bow bites, Well it's it's Chicken suprees.
27:26
Speaker 3: But they're more nuggets.
27:27
Speaker 5: There's better things to order, right, like the Cajun file a,
27:30
Speaker 5: the actual fried chicken.
27:31
Speaker 4: I love the chicken supremes ahead of Would you rather
27:36
Speaker 4: have the chicken nuggets from Chick fil A or the
27:37
Speaker 4: bow bites from bow Jangles?
27:43
Speaker 3: Okay, I thought, I mean, I don't really I mean
27:46
Speaker 3: either one.
27:46
Speaker 1: I don't.
27:47
Speaker 3: I don't discriminate when it comes to nuggies.
27:49
Speaker 5: One spicy ones not though, right, the bow bites are spice.
27:52
Speaker 5: I don't really get the nuggets at Chick fil all
27:54
Speaker 5: that much. I'm more of just a sandwich guy there. Okay,
27:57
Speaker 5: I'd go I'd go bow Jangles by by Smidge.
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Speaker 3: Really okay, because I've never tried them.
28:02
Speaker 5: But now at Stage's Access, bow bites are way better
28:05
Speaker 5: than Supremes.
28:06
Speaker 3: I don't think so. How about that We got a dispute.
28:08
Speaker 3: I think it's that big of a difference. We got
28:10
Speaker 3: a dispute.
28:11
Speaker 5: Jimmy Clawson's Happy Feed bow bites are not spicy z Access.
28:14
Speaker 5: Why would something at bow Jangles not be spicy? World?
28:17
Speaker 3: Are we living in? Bos? What world are we living in?
28:23
Speaker 3: People want Fitty to crush a watermelon between his thighs.
28:26
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm down I'm willing to add this to the
28:30
Speaker 4: dance routine. There's no way you can do that, though,
28:33
Speaker 4: Are you telling you don't think my quads power?
28:35
Speaker 2: Dan said he could barely do it. It was very difficult,
28:37
Speaker 2: quad Zilla. I mean, you've gotta be special. Fitty, Why,
28:41
Speaker 2: I know you dump truck me in the hallway. Don't
28:43
Speaker 2: we try a smaller fruit between your legs, like a
28:46
Speaker 2: plumb or something.
28:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't have to be a big or grown watermelon.
28:51
Speaker 3: Get you like a get a mini melon.
28:56
Speaker 4: Well, there's one person that could wash a watermelon with this.
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Speaker 3: Quads. Well, how do there y'all? Kyle Bailey hearing? Yeah,
29:03
Speaker 3: you know, I wake up in the morning six o'clock exercise.
29:07
Speaker 3: I am so glad. I love your impression.
29:10
Speaker 5: By the way, I am so glad you said quads though,
29:13
Speaker 5: because the way you talk about other parts of Kyle
29:16
Speaker 5: Bailey's and that, I'm glad you said quads.
29:18
Speaker 3: All right, can I is there any way? Well we
29:21
Speaker 3: gotta go to Fiddy now.
29:23
Speaker 5: Fitty just completely bow guarded that segment there, Bony, Well,
29:27
Speaker 5: I guess I boguarded it too. With the with with
29:29
Speaker 5: the watermelon. We'll talk more football in than nine o'clock hour, y'all,
29:33
Speaker 5: it'll be good. It'll be good.
29:34
Speaker 3: We now go to the mass. It was a fun
29:36
Speaker 3: a fun little exit ramp. We talk. We now go
29:39
Speaker 3: to the band they called the neck Fitty Marwoe neck Zilla.
29:43
Speaker 3: It's all right. Actually got in the hometown or the
29:47
Speaker 3: big old city.
29:51
Speaker 1: Smiles, how.
29:56
Speaker 3: Macam bone.
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Speaker 3: The Cowboys. Oh yeah, series classes never make it onto
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Speaker 5: I get on this question, Fitty, what's something you have
30:59
Speaker 5: you spent any time this morning preparing an update?
31:02
Speaker 4: I was gonna do the Mike k thing, but then
31:03
Speaker 4: we did it here in the segment.
31:05
Speaker 5: Okay, so when I was going to do I'm starting
31:08
Speaker 5: to fear Bone that he is not putting a lot
31:10
Speaker 5: of effort into his flashes, and it's upsetting.
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Speaker 2: I feel like you're working your way into the update
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Speaker 2: while it's going on, like Camp, like a guy that's
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Speaker 2: getting it shaped.
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Speaker 5: Dr Camp, next hour, don't, Fitty, next hour, you're gonna
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Speaker 5: shine baby. All right, pick a news story and command it.
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Speaker 3: Next hour. Some people think he's worn out from breeding
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Speaker 5: I do have to say it three times as long
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Speaker 5: Shout out to panther Boh no, oh, you gotta read
32:49
Speaker 5: this one on the tech side, man, because we have.
32:51
Speaker 3: A contract here where we it's kind of amusing here
32:55
Speaker 3: we're supposed to read it. Amuse listeners.
32:57
Speaker 5: All right, Fanny I found. We'll give you a hug
32:59
Speaker 5: after words. Make you feel better, panther Bo. The conversation
33:02
Speaker 5: of Fiddy and not having a neck, panther Bo says,
33:07
Speaker 5: or Fiddy does not have a neck. His head just
33:11
Speaker 5: kind of morphs into his body, like my corky.
33:15
Speaker 3: So there you go, corky. I did not have that
33:18
Speaker 3: on Fitty Bingo a corky comparison.
33:20
Speaker 2: I mean, he got called a beanbag chair last week,
33:23
Speaker 2: now he got called a corky this week. This is
33:26
Speaker 2: I know this during the break Every once in a while,
33:28
Speaker 2: Fiddy has that resolve where nothing gets to him.
33:31
Speaker 3: He was not He said, the textures are coming at me.
33:35
Speaker 2: I don't like all this right now, So right now,
33:38
Speaker 2: he's on the road, and I don't want to textus
33:40
Speaker 2: keep coming at him like that.
33:42
Speaker 5: That's all right, Fiddy, we got someone making a run
33:44
Speaker 5: at me too. Texter says, you think bo Jangles is spicy?
33:49
Speaker 5: What the heck's wrong with you? You?
33:51
Speaker 3: What kind of pansy? Are you? Two people calling me out?
33:54
Speaker 3: I thought it's not. We can acknowledge. It's cajun. It's
33:58
Speaker 3: got a spice to it, it's got a kick to it.
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Speaker 3: Chicken cack is spicy, it's got a Fitzgerald sixty one
34:03
Speaker 3: yard kick to it. So I don't understand just comparing
34:06
Speaker 3: it to other fried chicken that might not be.
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Speaker 5: Spiced like now, there's yeah, it's got something doing, all right.
34:11
Speaker 5: So we're all getting insulted. Fitty, don't worry. It's a
34:13
Speaker 5: normal day. David ends and why I will not let
34:16
Speaker 5: this deter me.
34:17
Speaker 2: Mac.
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Speaker 3: I'm a man on a mission. What's that to crush
34:22
Speaker 3: the watermelon with your thighs? Maybe or different mission?
34:26
Speaker 2: I may.
34:26
Speaker 4: I may be playing for the National Championship tonight and
34:29
Speaker 4: the NCAA twenty Saturday.
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Speaker 3: There you go, baby, there you go.
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Speaker 5: You guys can say what you want about Fitty a champion.
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Speaker 5: He could be a championship coach later tonight, y'all.
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Speaker 3: That might be the biggest thing I have going on
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Speaker 3: this week. Oh, fit Daddy, don't tease me, Fitty, don't.
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Speaker 2: You're gonna say that, and then you're gonna get mad
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Speaker 2: when Mac finds us out.
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Speaker 3: Oh man, it's happening for the fit dog. Baby, it's happening.
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Speaker 3: Oh you're gonna h stop, don't do that?
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Speaker 1: What is that?
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Speaker 3: Stop?
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Speaker 2: What are your biggest weeks? You're gonna get a date
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Speaker 2: and UNC is going to cover that point spread.
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Speaker 3: That's what I was referring to. Bone. Oh, okay, you
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Speaker 3: a top blog podcast preview.
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Speaker 1: Man, it's it's go.
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Speaker 5: It's game week, baby, all right, we water frogs going down.
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Speaker 5: I don't know what this show Bone as. Really we've
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Speaker 5: gone to Tangent Villa. We have not come back. It's
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Speaker 5: been watermelons and Fitty and you know, watermelons and Fitty.
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Speaker 5: Let's talk about this Hornet's Real Access for a couple
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Speaker 5: of minutes. We'll get back into the Panthers top of
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Speaker 5: the hour. I want to spend a few minutes talking
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Speaker 5: about this because this was really cool. What the Hornets did,
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Speaker 5: and and and they do this on the regular, but
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Speaker 5: this one really hit. This one really the fact that
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Speaker 5: it was the LaMelo trade and the Bridges trade, and
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Speaker 5: they had the behind the scenes stuff of both of
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Speaker 5: these trades. It was pretty damn fascinating.
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Speaker 3: It really was.
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Speaker 5: Now, there was one moment in here that led to
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Speaker 5: many around the country trolling us, and we'll get to
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Speaker 5: that too, but let's just let you hear a sample
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Speaker 5: of the front office pondering the Lamello ball trade ahead
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Speaker 5: of time.
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Speaker 2: We have a team that's meeting our price on the
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Speaker 2: mellow wall.
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Speaker 5: So when are we calling teams?
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Speaker 7: What's our line?
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Speaker 6: Fight out? One last time the most were giving up,
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Speaker 6: so that we're not doing it on the club.
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Speaker 7: We're trying to be a great team, which a West
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Speaker 7: Pockets give us the best gets Osre in my mind,
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Speaker 7: is exactly this.
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Speaker 1: We've looked at every team in the NBA and what
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Speaker 1: could come, what conversations could come to you.
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Speaker 5: We have a deal that we need to finalize before
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Speaker 5: we can properly evaluate this one.
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Speaker 1: If we trade LaMelo, we're probably trading miles.
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Speaker 5: That was fascinating right there, and I guess it makes sense,
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Speaker 5: right We all kind of thought, Oh, with LaMelo being traded,
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Speaker 5: he and Miles are so tight, it's got to mean
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Speaker 5: Miles trade. Well, they were talking about that too. What'd
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Speaker 5: you think, Bone, of the Lamello stuff? It was it
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Speaker 5: was pretty damn cool to get a look.
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Speaker 1: In like that.
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Speaker 2: You know, we live in a world where there's more
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Speaker 2: access than ever before, where they follow teams around for
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Speaker 2: a year. We've seen hard knocks now for twenty five years,
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Speaker 2: but I don't remember too many examples of getting the
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Speaker 2: inside scoop there from when it was going down of
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Speaker 2: a team trading a star player with the owner involved.
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Speaker 2: That was a look that, even in this day and age,
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Speaker 2: you don't often see a team put out there. So
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Speaker 2: I thought that was a very cool thing.
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Speaker 3: They didn't have to do that. That was a pretty
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Speaker 3: cool look at how it works.
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Speaker 5: Oh definitely. Now listen, it was selective right, like it's
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Speaker 5: the towne team thing. So like there's there is a glaring.
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Speaker 2: Question I'd show when LeVar call it and yelled at him,
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Speaker 2: I'm scared there's a glaring question that we will probably
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Speaker 2: never hear the honest answer to from Jeff Peterson or
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Speaker 2: any of those guys.
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Speaker 5: Bone and the glaring question is because they you heard
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Speaker 5: it in there, the same stuff they said publicly that
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Speaker 5: you heard Rick Snall in there, say that we need
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Speaker 5: you know, this trade has to be something. We want
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Speaker 5: to be great long term. We want to sustain the success,
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Speaker 5: and that's their thing. They think this trade will help
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Speaker 5: them be able to reach. They don't want to settle
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Speaker 5: to just be all right. They want to be great eventually.
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Speaker 5: The question that they did not include, like, is why
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Speaker 5: trading your best player gives you a better chance to
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Speaker 5: be great down the road?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we saw that the question. They already decided the
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Speaker 2: move and they were going over and they didn't. There
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Speaker 2: wasn't the lead up of what you're right?
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Speaker 3: Why did this?
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Speaker 5: Jeff Peterson Charles Lee saying, shoot, you know, Jeff Peterson
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Speaker 5: asking Charles Lee, coach, how you feel about trading them?
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Speaker 5: You know what I mean, the honest, real talk about
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Speaker 5: his game and how they feel about it and about
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Speaker 5: the injuries.
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Speaker 3: Why you know what I mean? Why do you think
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Speaker 3: you're better off down.
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Speaker 5: The road, Maybe not now, but down the road by
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Speaker 5: trading your most talented p Yeah, we got the that's
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Speaker 5: the one that I want to know.
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Speaker 3: But they're not going to put that out that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we got the end of the meeting stuff where
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Speaker 2: they decided that that's what they're gonna do, and how
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Speaker 2: do they go at it, not the lead up and
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Speaker 2: the walk up to why are they making this?
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Speaker 5: You're right, that's a good point. I did notice Bone
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Speaker 5: that the Miles stuff compared to the Mellow stuff, the
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Speaker 5: tone is completely different. The Mellow stuff is kind of somber, like, Hey,
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Speaker 5: we think we got to do this, we got to
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Speaker 5: take this offer. This is for the best long term.
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Speaker 5: But nobody seems overly, you know, giddy about it. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: the Miles Bridges bro when they consummate that trade, they
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Speaker 5: are fist pumping everybody. I mean there are Janitor's Bone,
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Speaker 5: there are concession workers I think that are getting fist pumps.
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Speaker 2: Got completely different tones, Jim, the dan Ushers and they're dancing.
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Speaker 3: They brought him in for.
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Speaker 2: They're talking about Melow. Then they go and we're also
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Speaker 2: got that trade.
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Speaker 3: Bridges.
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Speaker 5: Okay, fer, Okay, what did you think Bone about the
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Speaker 5: clip that has heat Fan all over heat Fans all
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Speaker 5: over the internet, mocking us, that has Big Cat from Barstool,
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Speaker 5: mocking us and many others. Charles Lee presents to Kobe
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Speaker 5: White a frame the frame net from the play in win.
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Speaker 5: We are getting mocked for this because it's a play
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Speaker 5: in and we framed a net.
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Speaker 2: Mocked for it's an historical moment. They they've they've taken
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Speaker 2: a piece away from that game. So I don't have
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Speaker 2: nothing to mock there, MACI we if another team did
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Speaker 2: this on this radio show, we would never mock another team.
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Speaker 3: Here's the thing.
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Speaker 5: If we framed the net and hung it up in
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Speaker 5: the Spectrum Center somewhere, like if we hung the net
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Speaker 5: in the rafters, that is the play in net where
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Speaker 5: Kobe shot went through, that's embarrassing.
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Speaker 3: That would be embarrassing. We also have no shame.
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Speaker 5: I will point out we have printed T shirts for
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Speaker 5: a Summer League title, so we tongue in shek have
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Speaker 5: no shame. But that was not what we were doing.
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Speaker 5: That was a gift to Kobe. Kobe had an amazing game.
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Speaker 5: That was a gift to Is it a different because
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Speaker 5: it was a gift to Kobe. It wasn't like something
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Speaker 5: we're displaying in the arena, like we're so proud of
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Speaker 5: this accomplishment. We want to play in game. You said
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Speaker 5: that you know you said the Heat fans. I saw
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Speaker 5: Heat fans mocking us.
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Speaker 2: Do you want to know Mac the Heat retired, the
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Speaker 2: retired numbers for the Heat, the Mac who bosh Wade Hardaway,
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Speaker 2: Shaq Morning Haslem, Bill Russell and Michael Jordan the Heat
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Speaker 2: or the team that has Michael Jordan's over twenty three retired?
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Speaker 2: A guy that beats your ace for a decade plus?
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Speaker 2: Why do you have MJ's jersey retired? Do you want
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Speaker 2: to mock people? There you go, un that's your response?
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Speaker 2: Bony yep, Jack says, don't forget. We also sold those
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Speaker 2: T shirts for fifty dollars. You're not helping, Jack, You're
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Speaker 2: not helping.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Also, Mac, that Miami Heat honored Dan Marino by retiring
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Speaker 2: a jersey with his famous number in two thousand and five,
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Speaker 2: So you've honored Michael Jordan.
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Speaker 3: Someone tell Bigcat let him know that stuff, all right?
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