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- 0:07Speaker 1: You guys are the most entertaining sports program in the world.
- 0:12Speaker 2: No, no, stop twerking.
- 0:15Speaker 3: You and I are a couple eating, like Lady and
- 0:17Speaker 3: the Tramp. You're the lady on the tramp.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Yeah, come on! Come on, baby! I wish I was Boopie.
- 0:23Speaker 2: Boopie McClain, man. That's a great name.
- 0:25Speaker 4: All aboard!
- 0:40Speaker 2: Good Thursday morning, Charlotte. Welcome aboard. It is Mac and
- 0:44Speaker 2: Bone radio show time. As we get ready to do
- 0:47Speaker 2: this thing, we are approaching a football weekend, ladies and gentlemen,
- 0:53Speaker 2: that we'll see a lot of Panthers players watching the
- 0:56Speaker 2: game like you are. But I think we've got some...
- 0:59Speaker 2: Some decent outlooks for a couple of guys. We'll talk about, obviously,
- 1:04Speaker 2: the topic of the week, the injuries. We've got some
- 1:07Speaker 2: clarity on Mike Jack and J.C. Horn's injuries. We'll talk
- 1:10Speaker 2: about that. We've got the Braves and Phillies, the only
- 1:13Speaker 2: remaining wildcard series as the Braves blow a lead yesterday.
- 1:17Speaker 2: 8 o'clock tonight for Game 3. We've got old Jarrett
- 1:21Speaker 2: wheeling and dealing. We've got a cowboy trade apparently happening tonight.
- 1:25Speaker 2: We've got college football conversations to have. And we've got
- 1:29Speaker 2: Mike Jack, who has joined most of America in hating
- 1:33Speaker 2: the city of Cleveland, Ohio. He will explain in his
- 1:36Speaker 2: words why he cannot stand Cleveland, Ohio. But we got
- 1:40Speaker 2: a lot of things happening here on the Mac and
- 1:43Speaker 2: Bone show today. The Bone Man's here. The Fit Dog
- 1:46Speaker 2: is here. Bone Man, you knew it. You knew what
- 1:50Speaker 2: the hat choice would be today, ladies and gentlemen, after
- 1:53Speaker 2: the Yankees completely obliterate the Red Sox. That was ugly, Bone.
- 1:56Speaker 3: Good morning to everyone, to my main man, Angelina Broly,
- 1:59Speaker 3: right here. That's my man, Mac. I'm starting to run low.
- 2:02Speaker 3: We're now going to the women's names. I got to
- 2:04Speaker 3: be honest, Mac. I got about two or three more
- 2:07Speaker 3: left of the bros.
- 2:08Speaker 2: Oh, no.
- 2:09Speaker 3: And we got to start moving to the pals and
- 2:11Speaker 3: the slims. Okay.
- 2:12Speaker 2: As long as you have a backup plan.
- 2:13Speaker 3: Pals and slims are all right, right? I'm starting to
- 2:15Speaker 3: run a little bit. You told me there was one
- 2:17Speaker 3: name on there. Once I hit it, you and Walker
- 2:20Speaker 3: laughed and said, once I get to that awful one,
- 2:22Speaker 3: it's over for the bros.
- 2:23Speaker 2: And we're getting close to it right now. But anyway, yeah.
- 2:27Speaker 2: It's not as over as it is for the Red Sox, though.
- 2:29Speaker 3: Laughing this morning because the Red Sox, who just got
- 2:32Speaker 3: decimated by the Yankees, they were wearied. They were wearing, obviously,
- 2:37Speaker 3: what a lot of the teams have to wear for
- 2:39Speaker 3: the MLB postseason, the MLB, you know, much like March Madness,
- 2:43Speaker 3: they'll all have their slogans and their shirts. The Red
- 2:47Speaker 3: Sox were wearing hoodies last night before the game that said,
- 2:50Speaker 3: Red Sox, no time like October. Now, the funny part
- 2:54Speaker 3: about that, Mac, what was last night's date? It wasn't October.
- 2:58Speaker 3: Not October yet. So the Red Sox, Cubs, and Astros
- 3:02Speaker 3: are wearing that gear and never quite made it to
- 3:04Speaker 3: October baseball.
- 3:05Speaker 2: Don't! That is pretty funny. That is absolutely hilarious. Oh, God,
- 3:11Speaker 2: I kind of wish the Red Sox were the only
- 3:13Speaker 2: ones so we could just clown them alone on that.
- 3:15Speaker 3: I know.
- 3:16Speaker 2: But what the heck, we'll throw them all in there
- 3:18Speaker 2: as well. Yeah, it does kind of stink for the
- 3:21Speaker 2: drama of the baseball series. It does move the Braves
- 3:25Speaker 2: game into primetime, though. So if you've been a Braves
- 3:28Speaker 2: fan where it's been kind of a pain to like
- 3:30Speaker 2: middle your workday, be monitoring the game, you will get
- 3:33Speaker 2: that game tonight. It'll run same time as that Browns-Steeler
- 3:37Speaker 2: game tonight. But it does stink for drama to have
- 3:40Speaker 2: two of these things be sweeps. And it's one thing
- 3:43Speaker 2: to get sweat, Bone. Three of them. It's one thing.
- 3:47Speaker 2: Three of them. Yeah, that's what I've been saying. That's
- 3:49Speaker 2: what I meant to say. Work with me. I got you. No,
- 3:51Speaker 2: I'm just saying I got you. Work with me. I
- 3:53Speaker 2: got you.
- 3:54Speaker 4: I got you.
- 3:54Speaker 2: All right. So anyway, it's one thing to get swept.
- 3:58Speaker 2: The Red Sox got absolutely obliterated. I mean, the best
- 4:01Speaker 2: way I can put it is my Orioles and Phitties
- 4:03Speaker 2: Mets could have done that. I mean, two absolute, you know,
- 4:07Speaker 2: shalama bamps. I mean, that's embarrassing. Oh, yeah.
- 4:10Speaker 3: Yeah. Now the Yankees have a tough one with the Rays,
- 4:15Speaker 3: which will be nowhere near what that was. That is
- 4:17Speaker 3: going to be a very lengthy series right there. How
- 4:20Speaker 3: about Boston Mac bringing in Garrett Crochet last night with
- 4:25Speaker 3: the game in the balance? Now Garrett Crochet was one
- 4:28Speaker 3: of the best pitchers in baseball last year, had a
- 4:32Speaker 3: huge year. He got hurt at the end of April.
- 4:36Speaker 3: our first week in May, he has not pitched since then.
- 4:39Speaker 3: And they put him on the roster and put him
- 4:41Speaker 3: into a huge spot last night.
- 4:44Speaker 2: And that's what busted the game open. So it's one
- 4:47Speaker 2: of those weird things, Mac.
- 4:48Speaker 3: You put one of your best guys in there, but
- 4:51Speaker 3: he had not pitched all year. He's not going to
- 4:54Speaker 3: be himself. And that came back and bit the Red
- 4:56Speaker 3: Sox right in the tuckus last night.
- 4:57Speaker 2: Definitely a risk to that, no doubt about it. And
- 4:59Speaker 2: the risk did not pay off there.
- 5:01Speaker 3: I think sometimes those things sound better in theory, like
- 5:04Speaker 3: the Yankees have Giancarlo Stanton on the roster, but he
- 5:07Speaker 3: hasn't played since April. I think those things, based off
- 5:11Speaker 3: of name and history, they sound better. But baseball is
- 5:14Speaker 3: a weird sport. You've got to get in the rhythm.
- 5:16Speaker 3: You've got to get going. You can't just throw the
- 5:18Speaker 3: name guy on the roster and say, all right, we're
- 5:19Speaker 3: good to go. Especially a pitcher like that who takes
- 5:23Speaker 3: a little bit of time to get going and you
- 5:25Speaker 3: throw him into that moment there. That guy really had
- 5:27Speaker 3: no chance of success last night. Yeah, that's a tough spot.
- 5:30Speaker 2: It is, man. I get it. He's a major talent.
- 5:32Speaker 2: But that one backfired on him. In the Braves game, I.
- 5:38Speaker 2: I'm utterly shocked at what happened in the Braves game.
- 5:41Speaker 2: Not that the Phillies won the game, but the way
- 5:44Speaker 2: they won the game. The fact that it went to
- 5:46Speaker 2: the bullpens and the Phillies ended up winning that game
- 5:50Speaker 2: where the Braves bullpen did not get it done. I just...
- 5:54Speaker 2: First of all, Duran, I've just realized it's Duran and
- 5:57Speaker 2: not Duran, Bone. It took me two games into the
- 5:59Speaker 2: series to realize that. I'm actually with you on that one.
- 6:01Speaker 2: He couldn't pitch. He couldn't pitch. Mattingly tried to stretch
- 6:05Speaker 2: him the other day. Not only did it backfire in
- 6:07Speaker 2: the game, but he couldn't pitch. 27 pitches, and dude
- 6:12Speaker 2: told him, I can't go. So he couldn't go bone,
- 6:15Speaker 2: but the Phillies bullpen goes, uh, three and a third
- 6:19Speaker 2: of shutout baseball painter was the real stud. They're getting
- 6:21Speaker 2: the wind going three innings of shutout baseball, but the
- 6:24Speaker 2: Braves had the lead with the pen coming in. Malley
- 6:28Speaker 2: pitched tremendously as he has since he has joined the
- 6:31Speaker 2: brave seven innings, one run. And it was Dylan Lee
- 6:34Speaker 2: and it was Fuentes giving up three combined homers. Lee
- 6:38Speaker 2: gave up the back-to-back Schwarber and Harper homers to tie
- 6:42Speaker 2: it at three after it was 3-1. And then Fuentes
- 6:45Speaker 2: in the 10th gives up the home run to Alex Boehm.
- 6:49Speaker 2: I would have never, if you were to tell me
- 6:50Speaker 2: that scenario, Braves got a two-run lead. In the eighth inning,
- 6:55Speaker 2: I would not have thought the game would go that way,
- 6:57Speaker 2: which sucks, man.
- 6:59Speaker 3: You mentioned them, but it was the big names for
- 7:01Speaker 3: the Phillies that carried them, although Painter out of the
- 7:05Speaker 3: bullpen was unbelievable for where they needed it the most.
- 7:08Speaker 3: A unexpected hero for Philly goes three innings plus to
- 7:13Speaker 3: get the win, but it was Harper, Schwarber, Alex Boehm.
- 7:17Speaker 3: Their big guns are the ones that saved them. Acuna
- 7:20Speaker 3: had a couple of chances in there as well. Couldn't
- 7:24Speaker 3: get it done to break it open. They rode Sanchez,
- 7:26Speaker 3: Matt Gay, a long time. You kept waiting because we're
- 7:29Speaker 3: so used to baseball. But either in the regular season
- 7:33Speaker 3: and the postseason, a lot of times it's a quick hook.
- 7:35Speaker 3: Don Mattingly did not have that with Christopher Sanchez.
- 7:37Speaker 2: He let him keep going and going and going. I mean,
- 7:40Speaker 2: he even gave up the lead there.
- 7:42Speaker 3: You kept waiting for Sanchez to come out. I mean,
- 7:45Speaker 3: I guess he kept a minute to some degree. 116 pitches. Yeah,
- 7:48Speaker 3: which is a lot. I guess he kept a minute
- 7:50Speaker 3: more than the bullpen probably would. But at one point,
- 7:53Speaker 3: Don Mattingly came out, and I said, oh, there goes Sanchez.
- 7:56Speaker 3: And he kept a minute again. I mean, he does
- 7:59Speaker 3: not have a quick hook with these guys.
- 8:01Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. Again, he didn't want to go
- 8:04Speaker 2: to his bullpen for a reason.
- 8:06Speaker 3: No, no.
- 8:06Speaker 2: Traditionally, in recent years, it's been terrible in the postseason.
- 8:10Speaker 2: And then you look at where they ranked 21st in
- 8:13Speaker 2: bullpen ERA this year. And then you look at what
- 8:15Speaker 2: their top guy did the other day when he was
- 8:18Speaker 2: scared to take him out. Like, it's just, that's, that's
- 8:21Speaker 2: what kills me from a brave standpoint is that you
- 8:24Speaker 2: had it in the sort of game that was at
- 8:27Speaker 2: your advantage. You had to lead your pen and, and, and,
- 8:33Speaker 2: and they won the battle of the bullpens. And that's,
- 8:36Speaker 2: that's gotta be frustrating for brace fans. I love the
- 8:39Speaker 2: fact that Bryce Harper effed up on defense too. And,
- 8:42Speaker 2: in the Braves two run seventh, as he misplays the
- 8:45Speaker 2: fly ball, allows the go ahead run to score. But
- 8:48Speaker 2: then he comes right back out and he ties the game. Yeah.
- 8:52Speaker 2: When he follows Schwarber with a home run. Boehm had
- 8:55Speaker 2: a defensive miscue, Boehm, earlier in the game. Came back,
- 8:59Speaker 2: hits the game winning home run. So credit to their
- 9:01Speaker 2: guys for bouncing back. I also hate this loss for
- 9:03Speaker 2: the Braves because I messed up yesterday. I messed up
- 9:07Speaker 2: Braves fans. I was trumpeting my Braves. excited to watch
- 9:12Speaker 2: my Braves. And I should have never done that crap.
- 9:15Speaker 2: I should have kept my distance like I have all season.
- 9:18Speaker 2: Should have said I'm happy for y'all. But when I
- 9:20Speaker 2: threw myself in there, Bo, it's over. The series is
- 9:23Speaker 2: probably over now. I have probably ruined everything for this team.
- 9:27Speaker 2: Not to mention the Phillies seem to always beat the
- 9:30Speaker 2: Braves in the playoffs. Matter of fact, they do always
- 9:32Speaker 2: beat the Braves in the playoffs every single time they played.
- 9:34Speaker 2: And now I'm worried that's about to happen again. And
- 9:37Speaker 2: we thought it was different last night towards the end. But, man,
- 9:40Speaker 2: Schwarber coming up in the big spot. Harper did, too,
- 9:43Speaker 2: last night. But Schwarber just seems to deliver time and
- 9:46Speaker 2: time again when they need it. Now, today, both teams'
- 9:51Speaker 2: pitchers are listed as TBD. It's essentially all hands on
- 9:55Speaker 2: deck now. The thing with the Phillies, though, Zach Wheeler,
- 9:59Speaker 2: who's been.
- 10:00Speaker 3: a dominant postseason pitcher, I know he got hurt this year,
- 10:04Speaker 3: but he has not been used yet. He is still
- 10:07Speaker 3: available as well as everybody. Even Jesus Lizardo may be around,
- 10:11Speaker 3: who pitched a couple days ago.
- 10:12Speaker 2: And the Braves... It's going to be similar. It's going
- 10:14Speaker 2: to be one of these. It sounds like Holmes is
- 10:16Speaker 2: pitching tonight in some capacity. It's just a matter of
- 10:20Speaker 2: does he start or do they use Kerr as an
- 10:24Speaker 2: opener like they did last week and then bring Holmes in?
- 10:27Speaker 2: They used Kerr before Holmes last week. There's some thought.
- 10:31Speaker 2: I was reading multiple Braves writers on this. There's some
- 10:33Speaker 2: thought that maybe they do it that way. They could
- 10:36Speaker 2: just go conventional and start Holmes tonight. So that's what
- 10:39Speaker 2: it sounds like. Phillies, on the other hand, have been,
- 10:42Speaker 2: it seems a little more, you know, tougher to figure
- 10:44Speaker 2: out exactly what they're going to do, but you're right. They, they,
- 10:47Speaker 2: they have said everybody, everybody's fair game in this one. Um,
- 10:51Speaker 2: so anyway, we've got, uh, we've got the decisive game
- 10:54Speaker 2: three tonight, eight o'clock in Atlanta. These are the two
- 10:58Speaker 2: worst teams in winter. Take all games. I did. I
- 11:01Speaker 2: did not realize that until they showed that stat after
- 11:03Speaker 2: the game last night that are in the national league
- 11:06Speaker 2: all time, the two worst winning percentage bone in winter,
- 11:08Speaker 2: take all games. But I am informed that somebody, my
- 11:11Speaker 2: sources tell me, somebody has to win this tonight.
- 11:15Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how it works. That is how the post,
- 11:17Speaker 3: a lot of angst towards Mac right now. I'm trying
- 11:20Speaker 3: to tell these people to come back.
- 11:20Speaker 2: I know. I was kind of glad that neither you
- 11:22Speaker 2: nor Finney jumped on me when I made that admission.
- 11:25Speaker 2: But what does it matter if you and Finney are
- 11:26Speaker 2: nice to me? The Braves fans on the text line
- 11:28Speaker 2: are going to obliterate me. And what am I going
- 11:30Speaker 2: to say? I shouldn't have done that. I made a mistake,
- 11:33Speaker 2: and I hope the Braves can rebound. All right? I
- 11:35Speaker 2: hope they can.
- 11:36Speaker 3: When did you realize, Matt, that you may have made
- 11:38Speaker 3: a mistake? Was it when the Harper ball was in
- 11:40Speaker 3: the air or the Schwarber ball in the air?
- 11:41Speaker 2: Or the Boehm? Yeah, it was 10th inning. Because I'm
- 11:43Speaker 2: still holding out hope, Boehm, that bullpens, they can win it. But, yeah,
- 11:49Speaker 2: once they took the lead in the 10th, I'm like, oh,
- 11:51Speaker 2: why did I do that? Why the hell did I
- 11:53Speaker 2: do that?
- 11:54Speaker 3: Hey, and for the Braves fans that were mad they
- 11:56Speaker 3: were playing in the afternoon, well, you get a primetime
- 11:57Speaker 3: game tonight.
- 11:58Speaker 2: How about that? There you go. You're in primetime. I
- 12:00Speaker 2: don't like that personally. I'd rather have the game in
- 12:01Speaker 2: the afternoon than I stick to the football at night.
- 12:03Speaker 2: But that's all right, baby. That's what you got two
- 12:05Speaker 2: TVs for.
- 12:06Speaker 3: Yes.
- 12:06Speaker 2: All right? Even if it bugs Mrs. Mack, that's why
- 12:08Speaker 2: we got two TVs. You're doing your work, man. You're working.
- 12:11Speaker 2: That's clearly grinding, baby. Grinding. All right. So a couple
- 12:15Speaker 2: of football things I want to mention here. The Cowboys
- 12:20Speaker 2: are trading for Joey Porter Jr. So that saga is over.
- 12:25Speaker 2: I like Joey Porter a lot when he was at
- 12:26Speaker 2: Penn State. He was one of my Nittany Lions. Somehow
- 12:29Speaker 2: along the way, he became Deion Sanders in his prime boat.
- 12:33Speaker 2: I'm not sure if he's quite that good for all
- 12:36Speaker 2: this hubbub, but he is being traded for a couple
- 12:40Speaker 2: of draft picks, and if my computer cooperates here, I
- 12:44Speaker 2: would be able to tell you what those draft picks
- 12:47Speaker 2: are reportedly.
- 12:48Speaker 3: One was a second. There was definitely a second. I
- 12:52Speaker 3: didn't see the other ones in there. I just saw
- 12:53Speaker 3: the second. There was definitely a second involved. I don't
- 12:55Speaker 3: know if it's the Wi-Fi. I don't know if it's
- 12:57Speaker 3: my computer. But anyway, at some point we will inform you.
- 12:59Speaker 3: But it's two draft picks. One of them's a second.
- 13:02Speaker 3: And the Cowboys will get Porter Jr. And they'll inevitably
- 13:06Speaker 3: pay him a ton of money. And we'll see, man.
- 13:10Speaker 3: They definitely could use some help on that side of
- 13:13Speaker 3: the ball.
- 13:14Speaker 2: Jarrah. Oh, Jarrah. He ain't, you know. I don't know
- 13:18Speaker 2: if he's Jeff Peterson, but that guy likes, he likes
- 13:20Speaker 2: him some damn wheeling and dealing. He does.
- 13:23Speaker 3: They're not going to talk contract with Porter jr. Now
- 13:26Speaker 3: they want to see him play for a bit. Here's
- 13:28Speaker 3: the interesting part. They may just rent them. Like, there's
- 13:31Speaker 3: no way you can't not pay him.
- 13:34Speaker 2: No. Whatever I'm trying to say. I did a double negative.
- 13:36Speaker 2: I might have erased it. But you know what I'm saying. Like,
- 13:38Speaker 2: you can't give away those picks, Bone, and not sign them, right?
- 13:41Speaker 3: Here's part of the reason why they may wait a
- 13:43Speaker 3: little bit on it. The Cowboys have six key free
- 13:47Speaker 3: agents now with him picking.
- 13:49Speaker 2: It goes on and on, overshown.
- 13:50Speaker 3: They have six guys, Matt, that are free agents next
- 13:53Speaker 3: offseason in March, all with the same agent. All six
- 13:57Speaker 3: players that are key free agents all have the same agent.
- 14:01Speaker 3: So there may be a little bit of gamesmanship there
- 14:05Speaker 3: where they have to wait on it. The agent might
- 14:06Speaker 3: be saying, hey, we got a lot of clients to
- 14:08Speaker 3: work through. So I'm guessing there's a lot of behind
- 14:10Speaker 3: the scenes there of why I think he would sign.
- 14:13Speaker 3: But I'm guessing they've got a lot to work through that.
- 14:14Speaker 3: They got a lot of going on there in Dallas.
- 14:16Speaker 2: ESPN reports that it is a 2027 six round pick,
- 14:21Speaker 2: 2028 second rounder that they're trading for Porter. Oh, mess
- 14:24Speaker 2: around and let this dude sign somewhere else in free agency.
- 14:27Speaker 2: I would die laughing. I would die laughing if you
- 14:29Speaker 2: gave up two picks, including a second rounder, and the
- 14:32Speaker 2: dude just rolled out in free agency. Because that's the
- 14:35Speaker 2: kind of thing. Remember, it happened to the Jets with
- 14:37Speaker 2: Hassan Reddick. Yeah, that's the kind of thing where you
- 14:40Speaker 2: need to like, I don't I've never been a GM
- 14:42Speaker 2: in the NFL, but I feel like you're best served
- 14:44Speaker 2: to sign that dude immediately. If it's one of these guys, Bone,
- 14:47Speaker 2: you're trading for because he's disgruntled and wants a contract elsewhere.
- 14:51Speaker 2: You don't want to mess around, do what the Jets
- 14:53Speaker 2: did with Redick. No, absolutely not. They traded for him,
- 14:56Speaker 2: got nothing out of him.
- 14:56Speaker 3: It was Todd Archer, the Cowboys writer, who said the
- 15:00Speaker 3: Cowboys have 20 players that are UFAs in March. Six
- 15:03Speaker 3: of them, Pickens, Porter, Overshone, among others, are all repped by.
- 15:11Speaker 2: the same agent.
- 15:11Speaker 3: So that's going to be a busy time of the
- 15:14Speaker 3: year for Jerry Jones on Dallas Cowboys.
- 15:17Speaker 2: All right. Good luck there, Jerry. Good luck there. College
- 15:19Speaker 2: football stuff. Let's be honest.
- 15:21Speaker 3: He's one interception away from Jerry saying, that's what we
- 15:24Speaker 3: do here in Dallas.
- 15:24Speaker 2: We take the ball from the other team on Dallas Cowboys.
- 15:27Speaker 2: We get signed quick. Um, college football stuff, uh, Ross Dellinger, uh,
- 15:34Speaker 2: college football reporter reporting, uh, writing an article from the
- 15:38Speaker 2: college football playoff meetings that were held yesterday. Um, it's,
- 15:42Speaker 2: it sounds like, I mean, I don't think this is
- 15:44Speaker 2: a shock to anybody, but it sounds like it is
- 15:47Speaker 2: all but inevitable. The 2014 playoff is incoming. Um, there's
- 15:51Speaker 2: a quote in there from, um, someone in the game
- 15:55Speaker 2: essentially saying that as long as the TV deal looks good,
- 15:59Speaker 2: It's a 2014 playoff. So they're in their negotiating window
- 16:03Speaker 2: with ESPN right now, trying to see how much money
- 16:05Speaker 2: they can make. Apparently, they're talking about buyouts of the
- 16:08Speaker 2: championship games, because once you go to the college football
- 16:11Speaker 2: 2014 playoff, there'll be no more conference, at least power
- 16:14Speaker 2: for conference championship games. So this the sport bone like
- 16:19Speaker 2: was stuck at, you know. They were stuck at the
- 16:23Speaker 2: bowl system with tie-ins where often the national title was
- 16:27Speaker 2: decided in two separate bowls for years. Then they were
- 16:30Speaker 2: stuck with the BCS for years. Then they stayed with
- 16:33Speaker 2: the four-team playoff for years. But ever since they've gone
- 16:36Speaker 2: to the 12-team playoff, everything feels like it is changing constantly.
- 16:41Speaker 2: You know? F-A-F-O, right?
- 16:44Speaker 3: And eventually it may come back and get you. We've
- 16:46Speaker 3: already seen a little bit of the ratings. F-F around
- 16:50Speaker 3: and find out.
- 16:52Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. I'm like, Fafo? Who is Feifo?
- 16:57Speaker 3: Is he a Brazilian soccer player? We'll call him Feifo.
- 17:04Speaker 3: In this day and age, we're not used to ever
- 17:06Speaker 3: seeing ratings go down a little bit. Most of the time,
- 17:08Speaker 3: we're thinking, oh, the ratings for everything has gone up
- 17:11Speaker 3: to some degree. College football ratings have actually taken a
- 17:14Speaker 3: little bit of a hit here, and they're down compared
- 17:16Speaker 3: to usual to start the year. And you wonder whether
- 17:19Speaker 3: that's matchup-based to some of these games and not a
- 17:21Speaker 3: ton of... huge games so far that have really drawn
- 17:25Speaker 3: a lot of people in, but you keep tinkering, you
- 17:27Speaker 3: keep messing around. Eventually it's going to take a little
- 17:30Speaker 3: bit of a hit and it is right now.
- 17:31Speaker 2: So that's your, so that's your theory is that this
- 17:34Speaker 2: has to do with what people being angry about the
- 17:36Speaker 2: portal and NIL.
- 17:37Speaker 3: Maybe, maybe, maybe a little bit, maybe a little bit
- 17:40Speaker 3: of just maybe don't feel as engaged. They don't know
- 17:43Speaker 3: the players, the teams. I'm not saying they've gone way down,
- 17:46Speaker 3: but usually we're saying the ratings are way up for
- 17:49Speaker 3: this sport and this sport and this sport.
- 17:51Speaker 2: We're not used to saying anymore.
- 17:52Speaker 3: This sport has taken a little bit of a hit,
- 17:54Speaker 3: but we're not used to seeing football ratings go down
- 17:56Speaker 3: a little bit, but they have this year.
- 17:57Speaker 2: No, it is notable. Was it 11% down? Yeah, down 11%
- 18:02Speaker 2: through this amount of time. I would have to be
- 18:04Speaker 2: able to cross-reference last year's big games and that sort
- 18:07Speaker 2: of thing. You know what I mean? I do sense, Bone,
- 18:09Speaker 2: that there probably are less teams opting out of these games.
- 18:13Speaker 2: Some of these big non-conference games early in the season
- 18:16Speaker 2: because everybody's, you know, adding a conference game essentially. So, yeah,
- 18:20Speaker 2: I would need a little more data on that whole thing.
- 18:23Speaker 2: But I'm sure the articles are getting ready to be written.
- 18:27Speaker 2: That look, college football, I don't know if I'm ready
- 18:29Speaker 2: to go there. I do want to mention Lincoln Keenholz,
- 18:33Speaker 2: quarterback for Louisville, officially listed as questionable on the initial
- 18:36Speaker 2: availability report for the game against NC State. And we
- 18:40Speaker 2: haven't talked about this this week unless I've heard you
- 18:43Speaker 2: mention it and I was thinking about my to-do list
- 18:47Speaker 2: or something at the house. But South Carolina favorites over Kentucky,
- 18:51Speaker 2: that's kind of interesting to me. They are at home.
- 18:55Speaker 3: Yeah, so that does play a factor in the odds,
- 18:57Speaker 3: but it does, with the way that Kentucky has started
- 19:01Speaker 3: their year, they're like, oh my goodness, Will Stein's going
- 19:04Speaker 3: to get that thing moving.
- 19:05Speaker 2: He already is.
- 19:07Speaker 3: Shane Beamer's got some of the hottest backside parts in
- 19:11Speaker 3: the country right now, but yet the Gamecocks are a favorite. Mac,
- 19:14Speaker 3: is that part of, because when the Gamecocks have had
- 19:18Speaker 3: their backs against the wall a lot of times under Beamer,
- 19:21Speaker 3: they seem to sometimes in this spot, figure out a
- 19:24Speaker 3: way to get it done there's been numerous times they
- 19:26Speaker 3: have is that is that leaning on the past year
- 19:29Speaker 3: and thinking that that South Carolina's got one more effort
- 19:33Speaker 3: in them this weekend I guess I don't know I'm
- 19:35Speaker 3: trying to figure it out myself.
- 19:36Speaker 2: I like I don't know if we need to crown
- 19:38Speaker 2: Kentucky some sort of college football playoff contender though bone
- 19:41Speaker 2: like they beat up on a Texas A & M
- 19:43Speaker 2: team that listen it's notable Will Stein's a young impressive
- 19:48Speaker 2: coach but I think A & M dog do personally.
- 19:52Speaker 2: I don't think Marcel Reed is very good. I think
- 19:55Speaker 2: he's being exposed. Um, I just, I, I like, and
- 19:59Speaker 2: I will just say this. I think there's a very
- 20:01Speaker 2: good chance South Carolina wins a football game, but full disclosure,
- 20:05Speaker 2: I thought they were going to bounce back with a
- 20:06Speaker 2: good effort last week. I feel like there's a good
- 20:10Speaker 2: effort coming from the Gamecocks here at some point. Maybe
- 20:13Speaker 2: I'm a moron for thinking that. Also, Kentucky's ranked, but
- 20:17Speaker 2: I don't think they would be ranked if they were
- 20:19Speaker 2: in the ACC. I think they're getting a little bit
- 20:21Speaker 2: of an SEC. I'm not saying they haven't had a
- 20:23Speaker 2: nice start, but I think that if they were in
- 20:25Speaker 2: the ACC, like Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech, some of these teams
- 20:29Speaker 2: that aren't ranked at the bottom of the top 25,
- 20:32Speaker 2: I think Kentucky benefits from being in the SEC, and
- 20:35Speaker 2: that's partially why they got that ranking already, when some
- 20:38Speaker 2: ACC teams haven't got that yet. Yeah, well, 100%. The
- 20:43Speaker 2: A & M win is, I think, being overvalued. personally
- 20:47Speaker 2: i agree like that that's that's you know to your
- 20:49Speaker 2: point but anyway um uh we're off and running bone
- 20:52Speaker 2: we are off and running and i will not act
- 20:54Speaker 2: like i'm a brave fan today brave fans i matter
- 20:56Speaker 2: of fact maybe i should go to philly's mac mode
- 20:58Speaker 2: today try to reverse things around a little bit go
- 21:01Speaker 2: get a little cheesesteak i mean i am from i
- 21:03Speaker 2: grew up about an hour and a half out of
- 21:04Speaker 2: philly hey maybe i'll just act like a jackass and
- 21:07Speaker 2: pretend i'm a philly fan you got the ties right
- 21:09Speaker 2: there I don't know.
- 21:10Speaker 4: I kind of like Braves Mac. If you want to
- 21:11Speaker 4: start doing the chop during breaks.
- 21:13Speaker 2: No, we ain't doing that. I'm here for that. I
- 21:15Speaker 2: made the mistake one time, Fetty. I made the mistake.
- 21:17Speaker 2: Make it twice.
- 21:18Speaker 3: Philly fans, Fafo, all right? Fafo, you got Mac on
- 21:21Speaker 3: your side right now.
- 21:22Speaker 4: There's enough Philly fans in this area. We got Mike K,
- 21:24Speaker 4: Joe Person.
- 21:26Speaker 3: Joe Bruno. Christian Audi, Joe Person. Say Joe Person.
- 21:29Speaker 4: I think I did.
- 21:30Speaker 2: Okay, yeah. Why is half the Charlotte media from Philly
- 21:34Speaker 2: and I'm from Pennsylvania? Why do we all come down here, man?
- 21:37Speaker 3: Never trust a northern guy that comes south and does media.
- 21:40Speaker 3: When we come back, it's a crowded Panthers injury report.
- 21:44Speaker 3: We have more on the cornerback injuries, Bryce, Coker, and Freeling,
- 21:48Speaker 3: and a lot of reasons why Mike Jack now hates Cleveland, Ohio.
- 21:53Speaker 3: Sports Radio 92.7.
- 22:22Speaker 5: Neither of them are out for the season. I'll give
- 22:25Speaker 5: you kind of a rough timeline. It's like eight-ish weeks,
- 22:27Speaker 5: give or take. Could be sooner, could be longer. So
- 22:30Speaker 5: it's a big swing there depending on how the return
- 22:34Speaker 5: to play process goes with both guys.
- 22:36Speaker 3: For both of them?
- 22:37Speaker 6: Yeah, right about.
- 22:42Speaker 5: Mike Jack had surgery yesterday, a successful surgery in his
- 22:45Speaker 5: groin area. He's in rehab. This is very similar to
- 22:49Speaker 5: what Jonathan Brooks had, so The optimistic timeline would be
- 22:52Speaker 5: like six weeks. And then just kind of giving a
- 22:55Speaker 5: little bit of a buffer for, you know, what that
- 22:57Speaker 5: might look like.
- 22:58Speaker 2: And JC surgery, non-surgical.
- 23:00Speaker 5: No, just just right into rehab. You know, he's in
- 23:03Speaker 5: the building. He's going to be, you know, two days
- 23:05Speaker 5: in that regard. And so just I want to just
- 23:08Speaker 5: encourage him. You know, I know he's had some things
- 23:09Speaker 5: in the past, but, you know, he needs to just
- 23:12Speaker 5: be positive about this and know like we're going to
- 23:14Speaker 5: keep battling when he comes back. We'll be ready to rock.
- 23:20Speaker 2: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ, Mack and Bone with you. All right, so,
- 23:25Speaker 2: I mean, it's not ideal, Bone, but it's not terrible.
- 23:28Speaker 2: Eight weeks or so. Six weeks was also mentioned as
- 23:33Speaker 2: a possibility for Mike Jack. Six to eight weeks was mentioned. J.C.
- 23:37Speaker 2: Horn's supposed to be a very similar time frame. One
- 23:40Speaker 2: of those games is a bye week. I mean, it's
- 23:43Speaker 2: far from ideal to have your two starting cornerbacks out
- 23:46Speaker 2: for that long a period of time. There's a bye
- 23:49Speaker 2: week in there, like I said. It's a lot better
- 23:53Speaker 2: than some of the initial fears that JC was out
- 23:55Speaker 2: for the season. I don't know. It's not good, but
- 23:59Speaker 2: it's not as bad as it could have been, I
- 24:02Speaker 2: guess is what I'm trying to say.
- 24:04Speaker 3: It's going to be hard to look long-term and say
- 24:07Speaker 3: that We think they're going to be at this win
- 24:09Speaker 3: total or do this.
- 24:10Speaker 2: It's going to be very much a week-to-week matchup-based thing.
- 24:14Speaker 3: I think some games, Matt, will be able to navigate
- 24:17Speaker 3: because they're going to run up on teams that... have
- 24:20Speaker 3: a lot of injuries themselves. That's the way the league
- 24:22Speaker 3: is right now. They may, Tampa Bay, hey, hell, they
- 24:25Speaker 3: could be headed towards 0-5 and may not even have
- 24:27Speaker 3: a win by the time they get to the Panthers.
- 24:29Speaker 3: So it'll be very matchup-based. For example, without those guys
- 24:33Speaker 3: this week against St. Brown and Jamison Williams, it's going
- 24:36Speaker 3: to be a problem. When Green Bay comes up down
- 24:38Speaker 3: the line and the way Green Bay likes to put
- 24:40Speaker 3: the pressure on the corners and just throw bombs down
- 24:43Speaker 3: the field, that's probably going to be a problem. But
- 24:46Speaker 3: there might be some games where they can take advantage
- 24:48Speaker 3: and not have it be a problem. So To me,
- 24:50Speaker 3: it's going to be very much week to week. How
- 24:53Speaker 3: can they navigate it? Who are they playing against and
- 24:55Speaker 3: what do they like to do? And so, yeah, it's
- 24:58Speaker 3: not the end of the world. It's just going to
- 24:59Speaker 3: be a very, very much a week to week thing
- 25:01Speaker 3: where it's going to be hard to look ahead and
- 25:03Speaker 3: project a lot going forward.
- 25:04Speaker 2: I mean, the fact it's both of them together is
- 25:06Speaker 2: what hurts. If you if you're missing, I mean, J.C.,
- 25:10Speaker 2: don't get me wrong. You lose J.C. Horn. It's it hurts.
- 25:12Speaker 2: It hurts real bad. But then if you had Mike Jack,
- 25:15Speaker 2: but now you have no veteran reliable stud presence. Now
- 25:20Speaker 2: it's Willie. It's a Caleb Evans. It's shall Smith Wade.
- 25:25Speaker 2: Robert Rochelle got the call up yesterday back to the
- 25:28Speaker 2: practice squad. Like it's Corey Thornton could be back. It's
- 25:32Speaker 2: I really believe I know Brenton Buckner said he didn't
- 25:34Speaker 2: necessarily agree with me on this. I really believe they
- 25:36Speaker 2: will return to just a ton of zone. I think
- 25:39Speaker 2: they will return to soft coverages, keeping stuff in front,
- 25:43Speaker 2: and I think Panther fans will whine about it, but
- 25:45Speaker 2: I think it would be the prudent thing to do
- 25:48Speaker 2: with the corner situation we have. Just don't give up
- 25:51Speaker 2: big plays and try to keep them in front of you,
- 25:54Speaker 2: and we'll see. We're going to talk more about this
- 25:57Speaker 2: and the defense trying to deal without having these two
- 26:00Speaker 2: stallions in your secondary. We're going to talk about that
- 26:03Speaker 2: more in the 7 o'clock hour, but of course, Bone,
- 26:07Speaker 2: we have to move on Two more injury situations. We
- 26:10Speaker 2: are not done. We are far from done because this
- 26:13Speaker 2: injury report was lengthy. It was long, and it included
- 26:17Speaker 2: Monroe Freeling in the concussion protocol, something that surprised all
- 26:21Speaker 2: of us. Now, the good news is Dave Canales says
- 26:24Speaker 2: he's trending in the right direction, thinks he might even
- 26:27Speaker 2: be able to practice as soon as today. So there
- 26:30Speaker 2: could be a chance that Freeling plays on Sunday. The
- 26:33Speaker 2: alternative is Stone Forsythe starting at right tackle. In a
- 26:37Speaker 2: game where Aiden Hutchinson plays a lot of snaps against
- 26:42Speaker 2: the right tackle. Excuse me, I'm getting some... Getting, um...
- 26:47Speaker 2: What's that? Brile? No, no. Bile in my throat? Is
- 26:50Speaker 2: it bile? You getting a little sick over there?
- 26:53Speaker 3: Not brile.
- 26:53Speaker 2: That's O.C. at South Carolina.
- 26:56Speaker 3: I'm getting some bile in my throat there thinking about
- 26:58Speaker 3: old Stoney against Big Hutch.
- 27:01Speaker 2: That's shocking. I can't blame you for feeling a little ill.
- 27:04Speaker 3: That'll be the most violent thing on NBC since last
- 27:07Speaker 3: week's Law & Order.
- 27:10Speaker 2: Um, uh, so we'll see what goes on Freeling. We
- 27:13Speaker 2: also had the surprise Prince Lee DNP with an ankle injury.
- 27:17Speaker 2: So now we gotta, we gotta monitor that one. D
- 27:19Speaker 2: Lou is not playing this week. Um, you have Coker
- 27:23Speaker 2: who was deemed day to day by Canalis XL was
- 27:26Speaker 2: deemed more week to week. I do think it kind of,
- 27:29Speaker 2: you know, he said today will be a big day
- 27:31Speaker 2: for Coker and maybe Coker can get out there today.
- 27:33Speaker 2: They changed it up and did a walkthrough yesterday. So
- 27:38Speaker 2: it was kind of like estimating if we did a
- 27:40Speaker 2: full practice, what would these guys be in practice? Bryce Young, well,
- 27:46Speaker 2: let's focus a little bit on the Bryce Young injury.
- 27:48Speaker 2: Apparently it's a knee injury. So it was not Rasheed
- 27:52Speaker 2: Walker stepping on his foot. It sounds like it happened
- 27:54Speaker 2: on the same play, but it's some sort of knee injury.
- 27:57Speaker 2: So let's go to Bryce himself yesterday and hear a
- 28:01Speaker 2: couple of these exchanges, one of which got a bit silly.
- 28:05Speaker 2: Let's start first with Bryce telling everybody, hey, I feel
- 28:08Speaker 2: good for Sunday.
- 28:08Speaker 7: I feel good.
- 28:10Speaker 6: I'm blessed.
- 28:11Speaker 7: What happened early and finished the game, definitely a blessing.
- 28:15Speaker 7: It's football. Stuff like that happens again. We're all battling
- 28:20Speaker 7: through something in this sport. So, yeah, I'm excited, feel good, practiced. So, obviously,
- 28:30Speaker 7: I'm not a doctor, but me personally, I feel good.
- 28:33Speaker 2: All right, so Bryce sounds like he is good to go, Boney.
- 28:38Speaker 2: But the question is, Bryce, which knee did you hurt, man?
- 28:44Speaker 2: Which knee is it?
- 28:46Speaker 7: Is that like an injury report thing?
- 28:47Speaker 6: Okay.
- 28:50Speaker 7: Someone got to look it up, then. I don't know
- 28:51Speaker 7: what I'm able to disclose or not disclose.
- 28:53Speaker 8: Okay.
- 28:54Speaker 7: You can Google it.
- 28:55Speaker 2: Okay. Did you say you can Google it?
- 28:58Speaker 7: Yeah, if it's on the Internet. It's not on the
- 29:00Speaker 7: injury report. All right. Well, then it's just one of
- 29:02Speaker 7: the knees.
- 29:03Speaker 3: Got it. I understand.
- 29:09Speaker 2: I'm dying.
- 29:10Speaker 3: You couldn't hear Ron Rivera Max saying that a decade ago.
- 29:13Speaker 3: We can't really tell you about the guy's injury. You
- 29:15Speaker 3: can go ahead.
- 29:15Speaker 2: And Google that. See for yourself. Sheena quick in the
- 29:18Speaker 2: background is killing me. Did you just say Google that?
- 29:23Speaker 2: I love it, man. And obviously if they don't have like, if, if,
- 29:27Speaker 2: if we don't have to tell the opponent, which knee
- 29:30Speaker 2: to target on Bryce, we're not going to. And I
- 29:33Speaker 2: guess they don't have to do that, right? On the
- 29:36Speaker 2: injury report, you just put knee.
- 29:38Speaker 3: They're going to be trying to guess. There's only two options,
- 29:40Speaker 3: I guess. They got to try to figure it out.
- 29:42Speaker 3: Good luck spending all week on that, Dan Campbell.
- 29:44Speaker 2: And good luck getting to our quarterback through our awesome
- 29:46Speaker 2: offensive line, Detroit.
- 29:49Speaker 3: I will say, we were just talking about it's not
- 29:51Speaker 3: the end of the world and how it's, hey, look,
- 29:53Speaker 3: there's going to be some weeks Things might work and
- 29:56Speaker 3: it might not. The one thing that gives us hope
- 29:58Speaker 3: here is if they lost Mike Jack and Horn and
- 30:02Speaker 3: they have before, but they won against the Rams last year.
- 30:05Speaker 3: But if they had this amount of injuries and these
- 30:07Speaker 3: defensive guys going out, we'd say, oh, my God, how
- 30:10Speaker 3: can the offense do anything to help out all these
- 30:13Speaker 3: defensive injuries? Well, this year, I think there'll be games
- 30:16Speaker 3: where the offense can keep them in games much more
- 30:19Speaker 3: than they could before. Bryce can... put up 30 points
- 30:22Speaker 3: in a game and keep them around. So the offense
- 30:24Speaker 3: gives them hope. And that's my trust right now in
- 30:27Speaker 3: this football.
- 30:27Speaker 2: Yeah. And we'll talk again. We'll talk about it more
- 30:29Speaker 2: in the seven o'clock hour, how we overcome it. The
- 30:32Speaker 2: offense can be a part of that. I also think
- 30:34Speaker 2: bone we're better in the front seven than we have
- 30:37Speaker 2: been in the canalis and Morgan era. So I think
- 30:40Speaker 2: if those guys do their job up front, they can
- 30:42Speaker 2: help the fellas at the back end. So, yeah, I
- 30:46Speaker 2: don't want to blow everything. And don't get me wrong.
- 30:50Speaker 2: Somebody said, Mac, we lost two great corners, and you're
- 30:53Speaker 2: telling us everything's fine. The alternative was they're both going
- 30:56Speaker 2: for the season, I guess is what I'm thinking. You
- 30:58Speaker 2: know what I mean? You lose them for half the
- 31:00Speaker 2: season in hell, it could be for Mike Jack six weeks.
- 31:02Speaker 2: So that's all I'm saying. I'm not trying to blow
- 31:04Speaker 2: smoke up anybody's glutes. I'm not trying to do that
- 31:07Speaker 2: sort of thing.
- 31:08Speaker 3: And in the NFC South, there's a great chance that
- 31:10Speaker 3: those guys get back and they're still in the race.
- 31:12Speaker 3: So it's not like they're playing in a division like
- 31:14Speaker 3: the NFC West where they're going to get buried. They're
- 31:17Speaker 3: going to have– they can hang around, tread above water.
- 31:20Speaker 3: You don't have to go win 12 games. You can
- 31:22Speaker 3: win eight games. and win this division that's been proven before.
- 31:26Speaker 3: So just figure out a way, get those guys back,
- 31:29Speaker 3: and then maybe you're healthy. Maybe the injuries now ultimately
- 31:33Speaker 3: benefit you by the end of the year. Guys like
- 31:35Speaker 3: Will Lee and those guys.
- 31:36Speaker 2: Are going to play now. Yeah, maybe they're more ready
- 31:38Speaker 2: or whatever. But anyway, it does seem like the Damian
- 31:43Speaker 2: Lewis thing is just going to be one game, it
- 31:44Speaker 2: sounds like, listening to Canales. It does sound like they
- 31:47Speaker 2: think he'll be back post-bye. So that's a little bit
- 31:49Speaker 2: of good news. It'll be Corey Bullock at left guard
- 31:52Speaker 2: in the meantime, so... We are starting backups at left tackle,
- 31:55Speaker 2: right tackle, and left guard. Again, it's far from ideal.
- 32:00Speaker 2: Let's go to the media here in the Queen City,
- 32:03Speaker 2: trying to get an answer out of Dave Canales on something.
- 32:06Speaker 2: Multiple questions about the meetings that they held about injuries.
- 32:10Speaker 2: Canales revealed that on Monday. We're going to sit down together.
- 32:14Speaker 2: We're going to get a bunch of people together and
- 32:16Speaker 2: try to figure out what's going on with these injuries.
- 32:18Speaker 2: And of course, Everybody yesterday wanted to know, can you
- 32:21Speaker 2: tell us about the findings in those meetings?
- 32:24Speaker 5: Nothing really glaring. Nothing that I want to share to
- 32:28Speaker 5: me as I look at it. I kind of go
- 32:30Speaker 5: back to that Chicago game and that huge spike of work.
- 32:34Speaker 5: Then the Atlanta game. Obviously, one week after another, they
- 32:38Speaker 5: just keep coming. And I just feel like coming out
- 32:41Speaker 5: of how many snaps. A lot of the things that
- 32:44Speaker 5: are happening on the offensive side are more like structural things.
- 32:48Speaker 5: The defensive side with some of the soft tissue things
- 32:50Speaker 5: that showed up, I mean, that's just a lot of football,
- 32:53Speaker 5: a lot of high speed miles, a lot of snaps
- 32:55Speaker 5: out there. But again, it's up to us as coaches
- 32:58Speaker 5: to make sure and players to execute so we can
- 33:00Speaker 5: get off the field. If you look at our time
- 33:02Speaker 5: of possession right now over three games, we're on the
- 33:05Speaker 5: wrong side of it, you know, offensively speaking. So sustaining
- 33:08Speaker 5: those drives from an offensive standpoint, we were scoring pretty fast.
- 33:12Speaker 5: We worked with some short fields in Atlanta. So by
- 33:14Speaker 5: the nature of it, we just didn't have as long
- 33:16Speaker 5: of drives offensively, but The defense has played a lot
- 33:19Speaker 5: of snaps in the last three weeks.
- 33:21Speaker 2: So there you go. And he kept coming back to
- 33:22Speaker 2: the snaps the defense has played, Bone. And he did
- 33:25Speaker 2: make the connection yesterday. He talked about the importance to
- 33:29Speaker 2: get the running game going. And one of the reasons
- 33:31Speaker 2: is to get that defense some rest. I also think
- 33:34Speaker 2: the obvious reason is to.
- 33:37Speaker 2: One, not have Bryce drop back a gazillion something times
- 33:40Speaker 2: when you can't pass protect. But also, and I said
- 33:42Speaker 2: this five times yesterday, I'm going to say it five
- 33:44Speaker 2: more times today. If you run the ball more, if
- 33:47Speaker 2: you establish a running game, the defense is off balance
- 33:50Speaker 2: and they can't pin their ears back. Help your pass
- 33:53Speaker 2: protection by getting a running game going. Like it's elementary, man.
- 33:57Speaker 2: I'm writing down. You've got four more times. Four more.
- 34:00Speaker 2: Keep track of me saying run the ball, and it'll
- 34:03Speaker 2: help the pass protection. Got my Mac run game chart.
- 34:06Speaker 2: Four more times. Somebody wants to know what drugs we're having,
- 34:09Speaker 2: what we're smoking this morning. That good yucky, as the
- 34:11Speaker 2: kids call it. We got that good good, y'all. Are
- 34:16Speaker 2: we coming across this? Mac, I've got me a little reefer.
- 34:19Speaker 2: Are we coming across as too positive? I guess that's
- 34:23Speaker 2: what that's alluding to. They're in the NFC South. That's
- 34:25Speaker 2: the key point.
- 34:26Speaker 3: There's no such thing as too positive when you're in
- 34:28Speaker 3: that division.
- 34:29Speaker 2: That's the key point.
- 34:30Speaker 3: Keep this in mind. We thought the Bucs, Mac, again,
- 34:33Speaker 3: will probably be the... They were trending down, but still
- 34:36Speaker 3: the favorite going in, at least Vegas-wise. They have Green
- 34:40Speaker 3: Bay this week. Green Bay's been struggling, but... Probably another
- 34:45Speaker 3: loss for Tampa, I would guess. It's up in the air,
- 34:47Speaker 3: but that's 0-4. Then they go short week Thursday on
- 34:51Speaker 3: the road next week to Dallas. I mean, Tampa Bay
- 34:54Speaker 3: is staring 0-5 right in the mirror right now. So,
- 34:58Speaker 3: I mean, let's just think about the division that they
- 35:00Speaker 3: play in before we say, oh, you guys are being
- 35:02Speaker 3: too positive. And also, again... These injuries suck, and there's
- 35:06Speaker 3: a lot of them, but there's a lot of teams
- 35:08Speaker 3: that are trying to figure out their rosters right now
- 35:10Speaker 3: with these injuries in the league. We're going to run
- 35:12Speaker 3: into teams. We're running into a team this week in
- 35:14Speaker 3: Detroit who's missing three-fourths of their secondary right now. Every
- 35:17Speaker 3: team is dealing with some element of injuries, and it's
- 35:20Speaker 3: only going to pile up more and more. Who knows
- 35:21Speaker 3: what teams may be playing with as we go along here.
- 35:23Speaker 2: Although the negative Nancys would say, it's just more time
- 35:27Speaker 2: for us to get more critical injuries.
- 35:29Speaker 3: Those negative Nancys can bite me where I branch, as
- 35:32Speaker 3: Flounder likes to say.
- 35:33Speaker 2: Damn, you went full– Poppycock. Tony Pags on them. All right.
- 35:37Speaker 2: By the way, one interesting thing about us playing Tampa
- 35:39Speaker 2: is Baker Mayfield may or may not be back for
- 35:42Speaker 2: that game. It's like it's right around that time frame
- 35:44Speaker 2: of maybe him coming back. All right. Let's close it down.
- 35:48Speaker 2: Knowing him, though, he might play without thumbs.
- 35:50Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 35:51Speaker 2: Let's go ahead. Cause I'm telling you injured Baker. I
- 35:54Speaker 2: feel like, well, I don't want to jinx it. I
- 35:56Speaker 2: don't want to jinx it, but y'all watched injured Baker
- 35:58Speaker 2: last year. That's all I'm going to say. But anyway,
- 36:01Speaker 2: let's get a good laugh here to close this segment
- 36:03Speaker 2: down this segment of, of injury stress. Let's hear Mike
- 36:06Speaker 2: Jack talk about his story of what went wrong in
- 36:10Speaker 2: Cleveland bone. It wasn't just the injury. He had himself
- 36:14Speaker 2: a horrendous Sunday in Cleveland.
- 36:17Speaker 5: Mike, Willie said that you said you're not going back
- 36:19Speaker 5: to Cleveland.
- 36:20Speaker 7: Nah, bro, because I lost.
- 36:22Speaker 5: So I got hurt in the game.
- 36:23Speaker 6: I lost my phone in the locker room. And I
- 36:26Speaker 6: left my wallet there.
- 36:28Speaker 2: So that shit be my wallet.
- 36:29Speaker 7: I don't never want to go back to Cleveland.
- 36:32Speaker 2: Lost his wallet. lost his cell phone um i i
- 36:37Speaker 2: can let everybody know there was a follow-up he did
- 36:40Speaker 2: get those find those things okay but it was a
- 36:42Speaker 2: pain in the rear.
- 36:43Speaker 3: End normally in cleveland you lose those things you're not
- 36:45Speaker 3: getting them back.
- 36:48Speaker 2: Oh god those are two more reasons to hate cleveland
- 36:50Speaker 2: i feel like there's some other reasons that mike jack
- 36:52Speaker 2: could have thrown into hate cleveland including the fact that
- 36:55Speaker 2: they beat us for god's sake.
- 36:56Speaker 3: Texter points out that's got to be a horrible day
- 36:58Speaker 3: to lose your phone Your wallet and your groin all
- 37:01Speaker 3: in like an hour time period.
- 37:02Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness.
- 37:04Speaker 3: If I had to write those things, I'd probably go phone.
- 37:08Speaker 3: I can't lose my phone. Can't lose my wallet. The groin,
- 37:11Speaker 3: I'd be like, yeah, you know, keep that Cleveland. I'm
- 37:13Speaker 3: not using it.
- 37:14Speaker 2: Keep my groin, Cleveland. And the whole Panthers O-line lost
- 37:18Speaker 2: Mason Graham and Jared Verse all day as well. No.
- 37:24Speaker 8: No.
- 37:25Speaker 3: I was a Dennis Miller. Yeah, I'm trying to think.
- 37:28Speaker 2: Yeah. All right. That's a wrap, Boney. That's a wrap, baby.
- 37:31Speaker 3: When we come back on the Mac and Bone Show,
- 37:34Speaker 3: you're doing too much. Our new segment we debuted last week.
- 37:38Speaker 3: You have to stick around, and I guarantee you, you
- 37:41Speaker 3: will get angry at the Dan Lebitard crew.
- 37:44Speaker 2: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
- 37:59Speaker 4: We'll be right back.
- 38:08Speaker 2: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. Mack and Bone with you. Hope
- 38:13Speaker 2: everybody's having a good Thursday morning. Now that we talked
- 38:16Speaker 2: about 472 Panther injuries, I'm sure you're having a great morning.
- 38:22Speaker 2: But we're getting close. Getting close to another football weekend.
- 38:25Speaker 2: We've got Steelers and Browns tonight. And we've got Braves
- 38:30Speaker 2: and Phillies tonight at 8 o'clock. And I will tread lightly.
- 38:34Speaker 2: I will tread lightly, Braves fans. um, with the support.
- 38:37Speaker 2: All right. I feel like it backfired yesterday. I feel
- 38:40Speaker 2: like I got a little good talking about the name
- 38:41Speaker 2: of this segment. You're doing too much. I feel like
- 38:44Speaker 2: I did a little too much Braves Mac yesterday.
- 38:46Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 38:47Speaker 2: I just got to chill out, be quiet about it,
- 38:49Speaker 2: and maybe try to find a way to jinx the
- 38:51Speaker 2: Phillies by the end of the show.
- 38:53Speaker 3: We could just keep renaming this segment. You're doing too much.
- 38:56Speaker 3: You're rooting too much. You're tooting too much. You're doing
- 38:59Speaker 3: a lot too much. I'm just too much, aren't I?
- 39:01Speaker 3: I'm too much of everything. I've got to dial everything
- 39:04Speaker 3: back in moderation. You're too much man for the rest
- 39:06Speaker 3: of us. Yes.
- 39:08Speaker 2: That is the first time that has ever been said.
- 39:10Speaker 2: I know Mrs. Matt never said that before. All right.
- 39:14Speaker 5: Anyway.
- 39:14Speaker 3: Can we talk about your dating life yet, or is
- 39:15Speaker 3: that still off limits?
- 39:18Speaker 4: What do you want to talk about? We've got some.
- 39:19Speaker 3: Stories, but we're being mature about some stuff here.
- 39:22Speaker 2: That's good. It's all right.
- 39:23Speaker 4: Because if you don't, you're doing too much. You'll be
- 39:25Speaker 4: on the list.
- 39:26Speaker 2: Phinney's doing just enough, everybody. Just enough. All right. Anyway,
- 39:30Speaker 2: let's get back to the task at hand. Brand new
- 39:32Speaker 2: segment on the show. We're going to try to break
- 39:34Speaker 2: this out on Thursdays. Feel free to play along. If
- 39:37Speaker 2: anything applies that you can think of, you're doing too much.
- 39:43Speaker 2: Folks that are... you know, doing too much, saying too much,
- 39:47Speaker 2: and we need to make note of it. We need
- 39:48Speaker 2: to call him out for it. Start us off, Bone.
- 39:50Speaker 2: What do you got over there?
- 39:51Speaker 3: Mac, a couple weeks ago, I'm sure you saw the
- 39:53Speaker 3: news where ESPN's Joe Buck re-signed for Monday Night Football
- 39:58Speaker 3: and ESPN with a $ 100 million contract. Love Joe Buck,
- 40:02Speaker 3: that's not the guy here. Troy Aikman, though, has not
- 40:06Speaker 3: re-signed yet, and there's been a stall in the contract talks.
- 40:09Speaker 3: We don't know why, necessarily, he has not re-signed. His
- 40:12Speaker 3: best buddy's Joe Buck. You would assume that Troy Aikman
- 40:16Speaker 3: would be in the mix for a similar contract. Troy
- 40:19Speaker 3: Aikman is not the problem here. The problem is the
- 40:21Speaker 3: Press Box podcast is speculating that they wonder, is Troy
- 40:27Speaker 3: Aikman maybe having a little snag in negotiations because ESPN
- 40:32Speaker 3: could be trying to Dennis Miller, Pat McAfee, in.
- 40:37Speaker 2: To the Monday Night Football booth. My God.
- 40:39Speaker 3: Because you can see that, right, where they would want
- 40:40Speaker 3: him in there, and Aikman's like, really, seriously? I'm not
- 40:43Speaker 3: doing that. Mack, you talk about doing too much. What
- 40:46Speaker 3: would your reaction be if Pat McAfee lands in the
- 40:50Speaker 3: Monday Night booth?
- 40:51Speaker 2: McAfee was already my doing too much last week, and
- 40:53Speaker 2: now we're talking about the possibility ESPN wants him to
- 40:56Speaker 2: do something else on top of too much?
- 40:58Speaker 3: You could so see it happen. Or Stephen A. Like,
- 41:00Speaker 3: one of those guys could.
- 41:02Speaker 2: Oh, my God. I'm waiting for the moment where it's Buck,
- 41:05Speaker 2: McAfee and Stephen A. Talk about too much. Oh, don't
- 41:10Speaker 2: do it, ESPN. Don't do it. It's not crazy to
- 41:12Speaker 2: think that. Don't do it, y'all.
- 41:13Speaker 3: It's not crazy to think McAfee gets that. Or would
- 41:16Speaker 3: they put him, like, in a Sarah Gooser role on
- 41:18Speaker 3: the sidelines where they go down to McAfee and they
- 41:20Speaker 3: chat him up down there?
- 41:21Speaker 2: That could always be a thing, too, right?
- 41:22Speaker 4: What's scary is he was doing too much on the
- 41:25Speaker 4: Monday night broadcast.
- 41:26Speaker 3: I know.
- 41:26Speaker 2: Now they want him to do the game too. Again,
- 41:28Speaker 2: just speculation. So hopefully... Did you hear.
- 41:31Speaker 8: Him like bullying Kelsey because he said we when talking
- 41:33Speaker 8: about the Eagles? He's sort of like mocking him during halftime.
- 41:37Speaker 2: How dare you? How dare you? It's like, dude, he
- 41:38Speaker 2: played his.
- 41:39Speaker 8: Entire career that won a Super Bowl. He's a god
- 41:41Speaker 8: in Philadelphia. It's okay if he says we.
- 41:44Speaker 2: I hope Jason Kelsey gets the Swifties on him. That's
- 41:47Speaker 2: what I hope. I hope we get a Swifty attack
- 41:50Speaker 2: on McAfee.
- 41:51Speaker 4: Nobody wants that.
- 41:52Speaker 3: When will Pat McAfee say, I'm doing just enough? Never, right?
- 41:56Speaker 2: It's ESPN, too. They seem to keep asking him to
- 41:58Speaker 2: do more as well. All right. Speaking of you're doing
- 42:03Speaker 2: too much, How about this one right here? How about
- 42:06Speaker 2: those Florida Panther fans on the Dan Levitard show? Dan Levitard,
- 42:11Speaker 2: and especially you, Mike Ryan. He's the most obnoxious one.
- 42:15Speaker 2: Listen to these boys after the Panthers beat the Canes
- 42:19Speaker 2: 1-0 on opening night.
- 42:21Speaker 1: Brindamore's quotes are kind of great. Remember, Brindamore, when he
- 42:24Speaker 1: was swept from the playoffs, said it wasn't really a sweep.
- 42:27Speaker 1: And now, after last night, this first sentence... This is
- 42:32Speaker 1: from the champions in their first game after winning the champion.
- 42:34Speaker 1: This is the voice of the champions. We're just not
- 42:37Speaker 1: used to that kind of pressure.
- 42:40Speaker 2: They're not. They're not. We watched the playoffs. Everyone knows
- 42:44Speaker 2: what happened. Daddy came back to town and showed you
- 42:48Speaker 2: exactly why he's been daddy.
- 42:50Speaker 7: Hold on.
- 42:51Speaker 6: Let me hear a little more from this quote from
- 42:53Speaker 6: Brenda Moore because the second sentence might be better than
- 42:55Speaker 6: the first. It's not just we were just not used
- 42:59Speaker 6: to that kind of pressure. You just hadn't seen it
- 43:02Speaker 6: in practice or even the games in the preseason or
- 43:05Speaker 6: half the pace of that one.
- 43:07Speaker 2: They play the Panthers like three times in the preseason. Seriously.
- 43:11Speaker 2: Talk about doing too much. You're one game into an
- 43:13Speaker 2: 82-game NHL season.
- 43:15Speaker 4: 84 game now.
- 43:17Speaker 2: You won. Is it really? Okay, 84 game, whatever the
- 43:20Speaker 2: hell it is. You are one game into the season.
- 43:23Speaker 2: You won it. Won nothing with four seconds left in overtime.
- 43:29Speaker 2: You're acting like you won five, nothing. Daddy, why don't
- 43:33Speaker 2: you just go sit on the couch, eat your TV
- 43:35Speaker 2: dinner that mom heated up for you and watch the
- 43:38Speaker 2: season play out. My God, they're hateable. It's already enough.
- 43:42Speaker 2: They got a couple of kachuks, but this tone from
- 43:44Speaker 2: Panthers fans. including those boys. My God, the Canes got
- 43:49Speaker 2: to beat these in a playoff series.
- 43:50Speaker 3: It's not a real title, Daddy. It's nauseating right now. Also,
- 43:54Speaker 3: by the way, you finished seventh in the Atlantic Division
- 43:57Speaker 3: last year, okay? It's not like something, I mean, yes,
- 44:00Speaker 3: you've had a great run.
- 44:02Speaker 2: All injuries, though, Bo.
- 44:03Speaker 3: But my Lord, you're right. I, right now, I need
- 44:08Speaker 3: Panthers blood. I need bloodshed because I hate the Panthers
- 44:11Speaker 3: right now.
- 44:12Speaker 2: I hate them.
- 44:13Speaker 3: That's going to be clipped. Fritty's going to clip that
- 44:15Speaker 3: at some point. I said Fritty. Fritty, please, let's isolate that.
- 44:18Speaker 3: We'll try that again. I need Florida Panther blood. I
- 44:21Speaker 3: hate the Florida Panthers.
- 44:22Speaker 2: You're right.
- 44:23Speaker 3: You add the player to the mix. You add that.
- 44:25Speaker 3: Because if they're starting to yap now. This is going
- 44:30Speaker 3: to be a long season here.
- 44:31Speaker 2: It's going to be an annoying season, but the rivalry
- 44:34Speaker 2: has kicked up now because they're bothered that we're the
- 44:37Speaker 2: ones that won it when they had a season, and
- 44:39Speaker 2: in fairness, with a bunch of injuries. They had kind
- 44:41Speaker 2: of a lost season, but it bothers us that we're
- 44:43Speaker 2: the ones that won it. And I'm telling you, we're
- 44:46Speaker 2: going to have to take care of daddy in the playoffs.
- 44:49Speaker 2: And I know, be careful what you ask for. But
- 44:51Speaker 2: I feel like we need it. All right. Go ahead, Bone.
- 44:54Speaker 2: What else you got? I have one more.
- 44:55Speaker 3: This one was a little while ago, but it popped
- 44:57Speaker 3: up yesterday. This is in the Mac. You're doing too much.
- 45:00Speaker 3: There's different categories, right, for this. This is the you're
- 45:04Speaker 3: doing too much and you paid too much too soon category.
- 45:07Speaker 3: Andrew Garcia. A 29-year-old Los Angeles native is suing LeBron
- 45:13Speaker 3: James Mack for $ 865. Remember last October when that teaser
- 45:19Speaker 3: video came out where we all thought that LeBron was
- 45:22Speaker 3: going to announce his retirement tour? and it turned out
- 45:25Speaker 3: to be an ad for Hennessy, and it wasn't anything
- 45:27Speaker 3: to do with his career. Well, when that teaser ad
- 45:30Speaker 3: came out, when that trailer came out, Andrew Garcia spent
- 45:34Speaker 3: $ 865 on the last home game of the season last
- 45:37Speaker 3: year to see LeBron James for the last time. And
- 45:41Speaker 3: it turns out a day later, he found out, oh, no.
- 45:44Speaker 3: It was just a Hennessy ad, so he's suing LeBron
- 45:47Speaker 3: for $ 865.
- 45:47Speaker 2: Oopsies. Also, why do you think LeBron's got that kind
- 45:51Speaker 2: of money? Sir, why? Yeah, I do feel like he
- 45:56Speaker 2: can handle that pretty easy. He can pull that out
- 45:57Speaker 2: of his wallet and throw it on the ground. You
- 45:59Speaker 2: go pick it up, peasant.
- 46:01Speaker 3: That's Bronny's allowance.
- 46:03Speaker 2: If you're too dumb to ever believe all the times that, oh,
- 46:06Speaker 2: my God, that means LeBron's retiring. If you ever believe
- 46:09Speaker 2: that and ever buy into that, you're too dumb to
- 46:11Speaker 2: win a lawsuit. Seriously, like that should be thrown out
- 46:13Speaker 2: of court, bro. No one should ever believe. How many
- 46:16Speaker 2: times has he personally dropped hints of retirement? Don't ever
- 46:19Speaker 2: believe it, man. Seriously.
- 46:21Speaker 3: Andrew, you're not thinking too much. Don't ever believe it.
- 46:24Speaker 2: By the way, Flip Flops has admitted he's texting too
- 46:26Speaker 2: much during this segment, included in his text, wanting to
- 46:30Speaker 2: know if now that Fitty has a sweetheart, has it
- 46:32Speaker 2: still been four years? Sir, that's personal information. We don't
- 46:36Speaker 2: do that here. Personal information. Now, if Fitty does want
- 46:39Speaker 2: to answer, that's fine. Yeah, address the man's question. That's personal.
- 46:45Speaker 4: I'm not addressing that.
- 46:46Speaker 2: Okay, that's what I thought. That's personal, sir.
- 46:49Speaker 3: With a warm regards to Fitty. Fitty's forehead does too much.
- 46:53Speaker 2: That's cold, man. Why does every segment turn into about Fitty, baby?
- 46:56Speaker 4: That text is doing too much. You want to talk
- 46:58Speaker 4: about my no neck?
- 46:59Speaker 7: Fine.
- 46:59Speaker 4: You want to talk about my bald head?
- 47:01Speaker 2: Fine.
- 47:02Speaker 4: You want to talk about my rotund stomach? Fine. Don't
- 47:06Speaker 4: come after the forehead.
- 47:07Speaker 2: That's where it gets personal. He's doing too much now.
- 47:10Speaker 4: I got the forehead of a god.
- 47:12Speaker 2: The forehead of a god. Oh, my God. Oh, 704-570-9610.
- 47:19Speaker 2: We are getting applause for going after Florida Panther fans. Yeah,
- 47:23Speaker 2: this is— you know what? I just realized something. Caniac Mac
- 47:27Speaker 2: going to watch all the Panther regular season games against
- 47:29Speaker 2: the Canes, baby. Caniac Mac's in for those games. I
- 47:32Speaker 2: don't know about the rest, y'all. I'm a busy man.
- 47:34Speaker 2: But I'm in for those games. I'm so pissed.
- 47:36Speaker 3: That might be bad news for the Canes fans.
- 47:38Speaker 2: That's true. That is true. Is that going to help?
- 47:40Speaker 2: I watched the other day. They lost. Last but not least, Bone,
- 47:44Speaker 2: I must admit. I was doing too much last night.
- 47:46Speaker 2: I have to raise my hand here. I have, you know,
- 47:50Speaker 2: I am moonlighting bone as the esteemed Sun Valley varsity
- 47:55Speaker 2: soccer play-by-play voice and a very, very bad clock and
- 48:00Speaker 2: scoreboard operator. I didn't know that I had to do that.
- 48:04Speaker 2: I thought I could just talk. Turns out I have
- 48:06Speaker 2: to run that stuff, too. And I'm not very good
- 48:08Speaker 2: at that. No, clock management's not what we do well
- 48:11Speaker 2: around here. Never, never. Sun Valley scored a goal yesterday.
- 48:14Speaker 2: I try to get excited for the Sun Valley goals.
- 48:16Speaker 2: I try to give the kids a good, like, call
- 48:18Speaker 2: of who scored the goal and some excitement in my voice.
- 48:21Speaker 2: And I was so caught up in the moment that
- 48:24Speaker 2: a minute after the goal was scored, all of a
- 48:26Speaker 2: sudden I hear some of our parents yelling up to
- 48:28Speaker 2: me in the press box, Hey, Mac! Put the goal
- 48:31Speaker 2: on the board. Totally forgot to put Sun Valley's goal
- 48:34Speaker 2: on the board. Now, I forgot to put about two
- 48:36Speaker 2: Piedmont goals on the board throughout the night, but that
- 48:38Speaker 2: was on purpose. All right. I was trying to do
- 48:40Speaker 2: that on purpose. But the Sun Valley one, I was
- 48:43Speaker 2: doing too much. I got to give my goal call
- 48:45Speaker 2: and then I got to lock back in as scoreboard operator, Matt.
- 48:49Speaker 3: You had a, now I've had a similar thing I
- 48:51Speaker 3: can talk about in my soccer announcing pass you had
- 48:54Speaker 3: an overtime problem right along.
- 48:55Speaker 2: The way too didn't what was oh yeah i told
- 48:57Speaker 2: this story oh you did okay i forgot yeah i
- 48:59Speaker 2: told this story on the air that i thought the
- 49:00Speaker 2: game was over didn't know we played overtime when i
- 49:03Speaker 2: was extra time.
- 49:04Speaker 3: When i was a charlotte eagles announcer um when i
- 49:07Speaker 3: was 20 pa announcer i i announced a uh it
- 49:12Speaker 3: was uh overtime in a playoff game in the charlotte
- 49:14Speaker 3: eagles scored and i said hey eagles win eagles.
- 49:20Speaker 2: Eagles win and.
- 49:21Speaker 3: No one cheered i did not realize matt that the
- 49:23Speaker 3: game kept going that it wasn't golden goal and then
- 49:27Speaker 3: they gave up two goals immediately and lost the game
- 49:29Speaker 3: oops that was the bone curse on display right there
- 49:31Speaker 3: y'all The absolute bone curse. And for some reason, they
- 49:34Speaker 3: never called me back again to announce. And now tying
- 49:39Speaker 3: it all together, we come back. The SEC has six
- 49:42Speaker 3: teams ranked in the top 11 and were great in
- 49:45Speaker 3: the non-conference schedule. Is the SEC back at the top
- 49:50Speaker 3: of the college football mountain as the best conference?
- 49:53Speaker 2: Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ.