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Mac & Bone Show - Jim Szoke Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Mack and Bone with you here on a Thursday in
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: week one. It is go time, baby. How many wins
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: for the Panthers? And are you a playoff believer like
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: the three of us are? Or are you not as
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: cool as we are? That's the question this morning. And
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: if you're not as cool as we are, it's a
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: severe problem for you. 980 number, Bone, got creative. 8-8-1.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: There always has to be somebody that puts a tie
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: in their prediction. Jim Zoki joins us. Let us know
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: which game they're tying so we can monitor it. Come on, baby.
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: You've got to be more specific. Zoki joins us with
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  Speaker 1: a view from the booth. Zok, what's going on, man?
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: How are you feeling?
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  Speaker 2: Feeling good. I agree with you guys. I think playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: I think winning record this year. So I feel, again,
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: here we go. It's an exciting time of the year.
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: Everybody feels good about your team except– Maybe Drake May fans,
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: that was kind of a weird ending last night.
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: He said he was throwing that ball away, but it
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: sure looked like he was... Oh, I didn't hear that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so.
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  Speaker 3: He said, but I didn't... The throw looked like I
• 1:08
  Speaker 3: thought he was throwing the corner out to the receiver.
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: It was throwing the game away is what he was doing.
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  Speaker 1: He definitely should have thrown it away, right? He was, like,
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  Speaker 1: off balance, leaning back, so maybe he didn't get on
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  Speaker 1: it when he wanted to, but that's a horrible mistake
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  Speaker 1: to make.
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  Speaker 2: It's usually when it's like you either catch it or
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  Speaker 2: it's out of bounds. I'm sure it was in his head.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. But, you know, you already have the field goal
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  Speaker 1: in your back pocket. So, anyway, weird start to the season.
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  Speaker 1: Brutal mistake, man. Ugly game, but entertaining finish. We get
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  Speaker 1: another one tonight between the Rams and the Niners. And
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  Speaker 1: then we get to Panthers, Oak. So you're still saying, like,
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: we are winning record in playoffs. What do you think, though,
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: about the Pat Jones news? Because this stinks just for
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  Speaker 1: him after he missed so much time last year. He's
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  Speaker 1: got a back situation again. Canals says, hey, it's a
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: different area of the back than he had the surgery on.
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  Speaker 1: And he's week to week, so we don't know how
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  Speaker 1: long this is going to be. But he was the
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  Speaker 1: guy that we felt good about. Okay, he's back. So
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: we lost Nick Skorton, but Jones is back. Now we
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  Speaker 1: don't have either one. Like, how worried are you about
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  Speaker 1: that Bears offense with those two edges out?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, especially, you know, first game, wanted to have rotational depth, obviously.
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  Speaker 3: So it's going to bite into that. So guys like
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  Speaker 3: Thomas Incomer are going to have to step up. But
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  Speaker 3: I was talking yesterday after practice with Prince Lee, Amon Miellon, and,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like Nick Skorton, that would have been taking
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  Speaker 3: a big step up, I think, as far as first
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  Speaker 3: year to second year.
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  Speaker 2: Skorton would have been on that trajectory. I think with Princely,
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  Speaker 2: same thing.
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  Speaker 3: He's looked really good in camp and in the preseason
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  Speaker 3: games when he's out there on the field for those
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  Speaker 3: reps that he had there. So you got the players,
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  Speaker 3: but again, you get into the depth of the game
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  Speaker 3: and we'll see, you know, fourth quarter. When you're rushing
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback, you know, for four quarters out there, you
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  Speaker 3: want to have that rotational depth out there. And you
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  Speaker 3: saw with Moon, they brought him onto the practice squad.
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  Speaker 3: So obviously someone's going to fill the roster spot. We'll
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  Speaker 3: see how they do that. come later in the week.
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  Speaker 3: But that's a great way to start the season, I think,
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  Speaker 3: is we have fun, entertaining games.
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  Speaker 2: It is a fun matchup. I'll say one thing, Bo,
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  Speaker 2: real quick.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Kay did make a point, and this was before
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  Speaker 1: Pat Jones' news came down, but he was saying that
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Moon is seen as a better run defender on
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  Speaker 1: the edge. than Cam Gill, because they dropped Cam Gill
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  Speaker 1: off the practice squad. He's seen as more of the
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  Speaker 1: pass rush specialist. And maybe because Pat Jones was going
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  Speaker 1: to be one of those run-down defensive ends, maybe they
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  Speaker 1: want Moon.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they're going to call him up this week. We'll
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  Speaker 2: see if they work that way.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Zog, we envision this team being built and playing... kind
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  Speaker 1: of like the Dan Morgan teams that he played on
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  Speaker 1: with the defense-to-run game. An offense that may not be
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  Speaker 1: spectacular but does enough. Is that sort of how you
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: see this playing out a little bit?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he seems to know linebacker play pretty well.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, I think we all love the Bobby Okereke signing
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  Speaker 3: to put on the inside with Devin Lloyd. So that
• 3:45
  Speaker 3: was just what the doctor ordered. And then it gives
• 3:47
  Speaker 3: you the depth, obviously, with Claude and Sheryl Lewis. I
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  Speaker 3: think developmentally, on the 53-man roster with Jackson, Kuwach, I
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  Speaker 3: think they like his potential. of what he can become
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  Speaker 3: seventh-round pick out of Miami of Ohio. But as far
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  Speaker 3: as having that front-line starting linebacker out there, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: a guy that's 30 that's been in the.
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  Speaker 2: League this long, that's an easy plug-and-play.
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  Speaker 3: Of just a veteran guy that you need behind that
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  Speaker 3: defensive front.
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  Speaker 2: So I love it.
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  Speaker 3: I like the way they've addressed and kind of attacked
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  Speaker 3: this offseason, obviously with Phillips, mentioned Devin Lloyd. And then
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  Speaker 3: in the draft, I think Lee Hunter, obviously a lot
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  Speaker 3: expected right away because, again, depth issues with injuries there.
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  Speaker 2: And then what will Lee? And I think Zachy Wheatley.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think this is going to shape up
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  Speaker 3: a really good draft class that as we get into
• 4:28
  Speaker 3: the season, that these guys, the rookie three I just
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  Speaker 3: mentioned there, as they develop to go with the veterans
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  Speaker 3: in there, hopefully it hits the ground running week one.
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: As we know, we're traditionally a slow starting team. We'd
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  Speaker 3: like to not be this year, not go 0-2 to
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  Speaker 3: start the season. But if we can hit the ground
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  Speaker 3: running and then get everybody going in a couple weeks
• 4:45
  Speaker 3: here as far as you've got to give the rookies
• 4:46
  Speaker 3: a little bit of time. Same with Monroe Freeling at
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  Speaker 3: right tackle. You've got to have a little grace that
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  Speaker 3: there's going to be some plays missed out there. But overall,
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  Speaker 3: if they can win a lot more than they lose,
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  Speaker 3: they're being in shape.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking with Jim Zoki, Panther Radio Network, since the
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  Speaker 1: inception of the Dang franchise. Ladies and gentlemen, he is
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  Speaker 1: an institution, and he is hanging out with us here.
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  Speaker 2: We should be in one, maybe. Oh, that's what I meant.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't checked my notes yet.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I was trying to say.
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  Speaker 2: I have to go back and attend.
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: Thank you to your coaches for letting me out. That's
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  Speaker 1: some good self-deprecating humor. All right, let's go to this
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  Speaker 1: matchup specifically. The offense has really been, I mean, not
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: that we haven't just slow started as a team lately,
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: but that offense, 10 points each of the last three years,
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: every year that Bryce has been here, I'm not blaming
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: it just on him, but like 10 points in each
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: of those games. But I look at the Bears matchup
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: and as scary as their offense can be, I look
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: at that defense and say, man, there's an opportunity against
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  Speaker 1: that unit. to get off to a better start offensively.
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  Speaker 1: I got my fingers crossed.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think?
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  Speaker 1: Is that kind of what you see? What do you
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  Speaker 1: see with this matchup with the Bears? The Bears are interesting.
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: As you guys have, a lot of Bears stuff this week.
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  Speaker 1: And they were the No. 1 turnover team last year.
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  Speaker 1: They by far led the league in interceptions and takeaways.
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  Speaker 1: But the yards and the points, the things that go
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  Speaker 1: up on the scoreboard, the yards that lead to the
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  Speaker 1: points and what they were doing, they knew they had
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  Speaker 1: to revamp it. Dennis Allen, I have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: respect for him as defensive coordinator. But it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like they've retooled it.
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  Speaker 3: But then when they lost Kobe Bryant, I thought that
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  Speaker 3: was big as far as losing that safety piece there.
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  Speaker 3: So they've changed out to the point where like five
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  Speaker 3: of their top six guys on defensive snaps last year
• 6:18
  Speaker 3: are gone through a trade or just different reasons why
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  Speaker 3: they're not there released. So, again, everyone going into a
• 6:25
  Speaker 3: new season, you don't know exactly what they have. But
• 6:27
  Speaker 3: that clearly is, I would think, hopefully early in the season,
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  Speaker 3: a weakness for them. I'm excited to see what Brad
• 6:32
  Speaker 3: Idzik does as play caller. I think he's going to
• 6:35
  Speaker 3: be like a general on defense. I think he's going
• 6:37
  Speaker 3: to be an aggressive play caller. So I don't think
• 6:38
  Speaker 3: everything's going to be a dink and dunk and West
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  Speaker 3: Coast kind of type passing style. I think they'll take
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  Speaker 3: their shots down the field.
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  Speaker 2: And it'll be.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting to see like Jimmy Horn with his speed. Obviously,
• 6:47
  Speaker 3: T-Mac up and running for a second season, hitting the
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  Speaker 3: ground running for his second year. It'll be fun to see, again,
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  Speaker 3: you want to establish the run and have that. But
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  Speaker 3: also open it up and take it down the field
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  Speaker 3: with some big chunk plays, hopefully.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think of the Panthers' defense and how
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  Speaker 1: they match up against the Bears' offense? Stopping them seems difficult,
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  Speaker 1: but how do they at least slow them down to
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  Speaker 1: give themselves a chance in this game?
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  Speaker 3: I think here, too, I think Averro's got the ability
• 7:12
  Speaker 3: to not go crazy, but to move pieces around out
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  Speaker 3: there in the secondary and bring them closer in. Obviously,
• 7:17
  Speaker 3: I talked about putting J.C. Horn in the slot. Trayvon
• 7:20
  Speaker 3: Merrick did really well as a box safety last year
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  Speaker 3: at times. So you can show different looks and sometimes
• 7:26
  Speaker 3: fake as if you're blitzing and so forth. As much
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  Speaker 3: as you might want to be aggressive, just to show
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  Speaker 3: that look to get them thinking. And again, I was
• 7:33
  Speaker 3: talking with Prince Lee yesterday about this. He said it's
• 7:35
  Speaker 3: almost like a Sean McVay mentality with what Ben Johnson
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  Speaker 3: and the offense does. A lot of shifts in motions
• 7:41
  Speaker 3: where they try to get you to show what you're
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  Speaker 3: going to do defensively. A lot of pre-snap things. So
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  Speaker 3: they have to be disciplined.
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  Speaker 1: In that.
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  Speaker 3: I think Ben Johnson made the comment he wants to
• 7:48
  Speaker 3: be the highest scoring team in NFL history.
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  Speaker 2: Not this year, but I think in the history of
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  Speaker 2: the NFL, I believe it was his comment. And win
• 7:53
  Speaker 2: every game and route to a Super Bowl title. Which
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: we all want.
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  Speaker 1: He likes to ease into the season.
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  Speaker 3: But he may have a better chance than some in
• 8:00
  Speaker 3: the league at being able to actually pull that off.
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  Speaker 3: So it kind of gives you an idea of what that, again,
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  Speaker 3: that McVay mentality of what they can do out there.
• 8:08
  Speaker 3: Caleb Williams is coming off the highest passing season of
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  Speaker 3: any yardage-wise, any quarterback in Bears history. Two dynamic running backs, obviously,
• 8:15
  Speaker 3: in there as well. And as we know, because every
• 8:17
  Speaker 3: year DJ Moore gets traded, they think Luther Burden's ready
• 8:21
  Speaker 3: to step up. So we'll see if he's ready to
• 8:22
  Speaker 3: step into that number two role. I don't know about
• 8:25
  Speaker 3: Roma Dunzey, what his foot situation is. Have we got
• 8:27
  Speaker 3: an update on him?
• 8:29
  Speaker 2: They said limited.
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: It's weird. They practiced Tuesday and were off yesterday. So
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: they did like an estimation type injury report, but they
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  Speaker 1: said limited for him.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like he's probably going to play.
• 8:41
  Speaker 3: Yes, to some degree. So anyway, they're well-balanced. The tight ends,
• 8:44
  Speaker 3: like we talk about this every year. Can the Panthers
• 8:46
  Speaker 3: defense cover tight ends? They've got two good ones, especially Loveland.
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  Speaker 3: So That's going to be the thing. Is this defense
• 8:52
  Speaker 3: prepared to not lead in the seams over the middle
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  Speaker 3: with the tight ends?
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  Speaker 2: It's got to be better with Ward here. It's got
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: to be better.
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  Speaker 1: I heard Eric Mangini talking about this yesterday with Danny
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: Parkins because Danny Parkins on First Things First, a Bears fan.
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: Mangini likes the Panthers this year. And he was, in
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: this particular game, not just this season, he was asking
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: Danny Parkins, what did the Bears add on offense this offseason?
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: The answer is nothing. You lost D.J. Moore. You're hoping
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: that Loveland, if you're a Bears person, takes that leap.
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  Speaker 1: But their receiving group, it's not very deep, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: So a doomsday, if he's not in there healthy, that's
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: a big problem for them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They do not have a lot of wide receiver capital.
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  Speaker 1: It is. That's true, man. That's definitely true. But their
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: run game, their tight ends are top notch. We got
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  Speaker 1: Jim Zoki with us here for another minute or another
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  Speaker 1: couple minutes or so. Zok, what do you think about Bryce?
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: We can't do a Panther interview without asking a Bryce question.
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: Do you need Dan Morgan's number? What do you need? What?
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: More on that later. That's a David Tepper press conference reference.
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: More on that later.
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  Speaker 2: We'll let you hear it.
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  Speaker 1: I have it, but I don't think he's going to
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: answer me on that one.
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: Tell me.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't answer my question, Tepp. What's your feeling? I
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: feel like he's gotten better every year in this league.
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: and I feel like he will make another jump, but
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: it's just like, how big, you know what I mean?
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: How big is that jump? Like, is that similar? Like,
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: how do you kind of feel like Bryce is going
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  Speaker 1: to play?
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, what you, what you said, he's
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  Speaker 2: gotten better every year.
• 10:18
  Speaker 3: And I think, you know, Dave Tepper said this yesterday,
• 10:20
  Speaker 3: everyone's kind of, you know, on the same boat with
• 10:22
  Speaker 3: this like consistency. Like we've seen, it doesn't happen a lot,
• 10:25
  Speaker 3: but we've seen some of the 400, 350 yard passing games.
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: And I guess not about your fantasy stats, but, Then
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: you have one that's like 120, and the offense just
• 10:34
  Speaker 3: isn't moving. So you need more consistent performances from him.
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: And again, just with Brad Idzik in there, it'll be
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: interesting to see how they put him in the best
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: position to succeed with getting him where he has open
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: passing lanes. I think they're playing it exactly the right way.
• 10:48
  Speaker 3: Let it play out on the field. You don't have
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: to do it in advance. You can do it in
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: the timing that they're going for right now. Let's see
• 10:55
  Speaker 3: some more evidence on the field this year before you
• 10:57
  Speaker 3: commit a lot of salary cap space and years to
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: that position right again. part two of that is you,
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: if you don't, you have to have a solid plan.
• 11:06
  Speaker 3: You can't just be like, we're moving off of that.
• 11:08
  Speaker 3: And here we go with a mid to late first
• 11:10
  Speaker 3: round draft pick. Like we just had a similar season
• 11:12
  Speaker 3: to last year, something along those lines, because it's not
• 11:15
  Speaker 3: Kenny Pickett and it's developmental with Haynes King to see
• 11:18
  Speaker 3: him to be even a number two quarterback in this league.
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: So what are your realistic options of like, you know,
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: what would be the plan if you were to move
• 11:24
  Speaker 3: off that to find your starting quarterback? So That's the
• 11:27
  Speaker 3: two-part thing is like, yeah, you've got– sometimes you slow
• 11:31
  Speaker 3: play it and you look at what you got and
• 11:33
  Speaker 3: you have to make that evaluation. But on the other hand,
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: if you do make a big decision, where are you
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: going to go? Because as you can see, it can
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: also set you back if you don't have the right
• 11:41
  Speaker 3: guy that comes in as a replacement.
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: That's what I was saying earlier, Bone, and I know
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: you and I have talked about this too. Like there's
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: no guarantee if you go and say, we're going to
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: use a first-round pick, right? We're moving on from Bryce.
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: There's no guarantee he's as good as Bryce even, right?
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: Surely he could be better ultimately, and it could take time, right?
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: So that could set you back a little bit having
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: a rookie QB, but there's no guarantee. Look at Will
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: Levis and Anthony Richardson from his very same draft class.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: You could get, you could draft that. No, 1,000% right.
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  Speaker 2: That was an intense mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: You really agreed with that.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he was going to start texting somebody else.
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: I was into that one. No, that was my mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Zug. What an honor for you. Thursday today.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: Back in on Monday. We had the Labor Day holiday,
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: so we'll have the quick turnaround here.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, ECU fans are asking about the App State matchup.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: This is a weird one because I don't know what
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: we know about ECU because of what happened at Bama, right?
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  Speaker 2: Because it's Bama on the road. And I don't know, even.
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  Speaker 1: Though I was impressed by App State putting up 50-something,
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: winning by 50 as a 17-point favorite over Maine, it
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: was Maine.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what it means. Like, do you have
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: a feeling?
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: There was very little, you're right, there was very little
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: evaluation overall for An ECU team playing above their weight
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: class and then the same, as you said, in reverse,
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: App State at home against a team that's gone 16-32
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: over the last number of years under the coach they
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: have right now. So this will be, obviously, this will
• 13:10
  Speaker 3: be the closest barometer seeing what these two teams can do.
• 13:12
  Speaker 3: And in not only college football, in the group of
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  Speaker 3: six in particular, like ECU had 14 players elevate up
• 13:18
  Speaker 3: to power four. So on top of graduations and everything else,
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: they've had so many players move up. It takes a
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: little while to get— you need game reps to figure out
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: exactly what you got. We're still not sure Mitch Griffiths,
• 13:28
  Speaker 3: what he can be at quarterback, and that's a very
• 13:30
  Speaker 3: important thing right now. I will say Singleton looked terrific
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: for App State. Malachi Singleton, again, understanding the competition, but
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: 22 out of 24 passing, three touchdowns.
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: So I think it's going to be a fun matchup.
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: Of course, it's in Greenville, so that's a little bit
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: of benefit to— Get those Mountain Boys out in the
• 13:46
  Speaker 3: heat out there a little bit.
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: Noon kickoff on a Saturday. Are you talking about the
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: fans tailgating? We got tailgate early, too. It's ECU favored
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: by 7.5.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: 87% of the money right now is on ECU. But 75%
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: of the spread is being bet towards App State.
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: Seven and a half.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: I think I'd take the seven and a half. I'm
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: going back and forth on the game.
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: I think ECU is better, though. So I would go
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: ECU at home with the win.
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: It's an interesting matchup.
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: And then real quick, the ECU then goes on the
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: road with another Sunbelt Conference team at Old Dominion, which
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: won 10 games last year. I know the quarterback had
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: moved to Wisconsin. So it'll be interesting. I think it's
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: a barometer over the next two weeks for ECU. And again,
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: maybe sometimes when you start with a team like Alabama,
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: everything else should seem slower and easier. So it doesn't
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: guarantee victories. But the pace of the game, the tempo, again,
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: you couldn't get into a rhythm of any kind offensively.
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: This will allow, again, new play caller for us from
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: North Texas with Jordan Davis. the opportunity to get in
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: there and really work the offense and run it the
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: way they want.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: That's a great point. Zoki, the voice of ECU football.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: In case you're wondering, why are we asking Zoki? Zoki's
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: the voice of ECU football. In addition to the Panthers.
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: Adam Witten's not here to defend App State. You can
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: say whatever you want.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: All right, Zoki.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: Thank you, brother.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: Enjoy it.