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Mac & Bone Hour 3: Panthers/Lions - Victory Formula · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Oh, oh, oh, it's Mac and Bo on your radio, baby.
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  Speaker 2: This is my friend Matt.
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  Speaker 3: Posh, come on, Posh.
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  Speaker 2: This is my friend T-Bone.
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  Speaker 3: Let's have some fun.
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  Speaker 2: I can't go to work without listening to Mac and Bone.
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  Speaker 3: Do it live.
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  Speaker 4: We certainly got to get our run game going. That's
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  Speaker 4: something that can also help The whole thing tie in
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  Speaker 4: when you have your run game, then obviously you have
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  Speaker 4: your play passes. So you have your your control in
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  Speaker 4: the clock. You're getting explosive plays. The longer our offense
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  Speaker 4: is able to stay out there, your defense can get
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  Speaker 4: a little bit more in the tank. It's a huge
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  Speaker 4: part of what we're doing.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 5: That is Dave Canales talking about getting the run game going.
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  Speaker 5: Lord knows we've all been obsessing over the desire to
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  Speaker 5: see that. Bone brought up a great point. The yards
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  Speaker 5: per carry number is up there in the top third
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  Speaker 5: or so of the league. The total yards, the total carries,
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  Speaker 5: the consistency of it, not necessarily there. And I'm sure
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  Speaker 5: that will come up, Bone, in our victory formula. Have
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  Speaker 5: we ever done a victory formula before a game that
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  Speaker 5: did not.
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  Speaker 3: Include run the football? I win the turnover battle.
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  Speaker 6: I have those two things ever not been included. So
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  Speaker 6: I guess we got to get them out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: The formulas don't really range far off from each other.
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  Speaker 6: Although the opponents change and sometimes the weather condition changes.
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  Speaker 6: People are saying we need a downpour on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 5: People want to rain, man. They want to do a rain.
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  Speaker 5: They want a Mac and Bone rain dance. ahead of
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  Speaker 5: the game with Finney rain dancing in a Speedo. That
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  Speaker 5: was a suggestion out there.
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  Speaker 6: Why does it always end with him with less clothes on?
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  Speaker 6: How about we put more clothes on?
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  Speaker 7: It would be the honor of my life, guy, to
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  Speaker 7: get in the Speedo and dance to bring a downpour
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  Speaker 7: on Sunday Night Football.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you should come out to the doghouse and do
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  Speaker 5: a Panther Speedo rain dance.
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  Speaker 3: Why am I asking for this too, Bone? What's wrong
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  Speaker 3: with me? I have no idea.
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  Speaker 6: The one thing I think we do know in this game, Mac,
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  Speaker 6: there will be, I think, depending on the weather situation,
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  Speaker 6: this will be an offensive showcase. The way both teams
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  Speaker 6: are defending so far, the loss of players in both
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  Speaker 6: secondaries right now. Hell, the Lions are giving up 32
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  Speaker 6: points per game. They're last in defense, and they are
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  Speaker 6: in the bottom of a lot of defensive categories. There
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  Speaker 6: is going to be a lot of points, I think,
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  Speaker 6: in this football game.
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  Speaker 5: So are we putting in the formula that you have
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  Speaker 5: to probably score 30-plus to win this game?
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  Speaker 3: I think so. At least 30.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's the way that we feel is that
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  Speaker 5: we have to be able to put up a ton
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  Speaker 5: of points, and the first number should probably be a
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  Speaker 5: three to win this game because the Lions are their
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  Speaker 5: tail two units, right? Offense, third in points on offense,
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  Speaker 5: ninth in rush, eighth in pass.
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  Speaker 3: They're balanced.
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  Speaker 5: Jared Goff has eight touchdowns, zero picks, and a 116 rating.
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  Speaker 5: But that defense, Bo, as you pointed out, their pass
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  Speaker 5: defense has been absolutely atrocious. Their run defense is ranked 22nd.
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  Speaker 5: Their pass defense is dead last in the league. They
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  Speaker 5: are giving up one yard shy of 300 yards on average.
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  Speaker 5: They are getting lit. Even the Jets passing game lit.
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  Speaker 5: Geno Smith lit them up for 277 last week. He
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  Speaker 5: was 31 for 37 for 300 plus.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, for 300.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, the sack numbers brought it down to 277. He
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  Speaker 6: was 31 for 37 for 300 plus yards last week.
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  Speaker 6: Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 3: 32nd points per game. 31st in opponent's yard per game.
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  Speaker 3: 31st in third down defense.
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  Speaker 1: Um.
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  Speaker 6: 31st in red zone defense, and the list goes on
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  Speaker 6: and on and on. In one area last week where
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  Speaker 6: the Jets exploited the Lions, they had Garrett Wilson get
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  Speaker 6: 100 yards receiving, but Kenyon Sadiq. had over 100 yards
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  Speaker 6: at tight end last week. They gave up a lot
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  Speaker 6: to the tight end last week. Can the Panthers get,
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  Speaker 6: whether it be Waller in the scene, whatever it may be,
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  Speaker 6: can they do some things that Sadiq did last week
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  Speaker 6: up the middle of the football field? Got to use
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  Speaker 6: the tight ends. Got to use the tight ends. And
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  Speaker 6: you got to use the wide receivers. T-Mac needs to
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  Speaker 6: bounce back. I think you need Coker to play.
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  Speaker 5: And I do think it sounds like, knock on wood,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not trying to curse it the way I cursed
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  Speaker 5: the Braves yesterday, but I do think it sounds like
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  Speaker 5: there's a chance Coker can play in this one, Bone. But, like,
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  Speaker 5: they gave up five deep balls alone to Geno Smith.
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  Speaker 5: Five pass plays, Bone, that travel more than 20 yards
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  Speaker 5: in the air. The way Bryce Young has thrown the
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  Speaker 5: deep ball, and I know it wasn't perfect against Cleveland,
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  Speaker 5: but that requires pass protection too. And the Detroit pass
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  Speaker 5: rush has been damn good. They got four guys with
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  Speaker 5: at least two sacks, and Aiden Hutchinson is an absolute
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  Speaker 5: beast who has three and a half sacks and 21 pressures.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, they've got to find a way to double
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  Speaker 5: team help on Hutchinson's side. Has to happen a lot,
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  Speaker 5: doesn't it?
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  Speaker 6: Well, there's a problem on each side of the ball
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  Speaker 6: where they have guys that can completely wreck everything that
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  Speaker 6: you do. Hutchinson on defense and Jameer Gibbs on offense.
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  Speaker 6: They're just two absolute game wreckers. But then, you know,
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  Speaker 6: without Mike Jack and Horn, especially the first game this
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  Speaker 6: year without both guys, well, you've got Amidron St. Brown
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  Speaker 6: and Jamison Williams. So it's... It's just pick your poison
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  Speaker 6: on that one, I think, this week. There's worries all
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  Speaker 6: over the place on that side.
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  Speaker 5: Which goes back to the point of score 30-plus, right?
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  Speaker 5: Score 31 or so, 34 maybe even, to win this game.
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  Speaker 5: What do you think it will take to be as
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  Speaker 5: banged up as we are and find a way to
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  Speaker 5: pull off the upset on Sunday Night Football? Texter says
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  Speaker 5: move the game to the daytime. We do not win
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  Speaker 5: primetime games. I don't know if that's an option, Bo.
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  Speaker 5: Not sure we've got. I definitely understand your feeling, though.
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  Speaker 6: You can't flex it this close to the game unless there's, like,
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  Speaker 6: some sort of hurricane coming and they say, oh, my God,
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  Speaker 6: we've got to move the game.
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  Speaker 3: There you go. Panthers start.
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  Speaker 5: Tep Daddy called a league office saying we've got to
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  Speaker 5: move this for weather, even though I think it's also
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  Speaker 5: going to be raining during the day. today we gotta
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  Speaker 5: deal with hurricane hutchinson that's true man 704-570-9610 texter says
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  Speaker 5: why does this have to why do all the injuries
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  Speaker 5: have to hit before the prime time game yeah it's
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  Speaker 5: a couple other people were texting that too i hate
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  Speaker 5: that you want to put on a good showing everybody's
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  Speaker 5: watching and our great corner tandem's out Our offensive line
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  Speaker 5: bone is starting three backups. Like, I just, I do hate,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you don't want that ever, but it does
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  Speaker 5: suck that it's our big close-up.
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  Speaker 3: Hadn't had a Sunday night game in 11 years.
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  Speaker 1: You know? Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: A texter's upset that we do this every week and
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  Speaker 6: we put out stats and how much better we are
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  Speaker 6: than the other team. Why do we do this every week?
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  Speaker 6: Had to tell this guy. It's called the victory formula.
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  Speaker 6: We're giving you the ways the Panthers can win. So, yes,
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  Speaker 6: it may come across as homerish, but it's literally the
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  Speaker 6: keys to victory in this football game. Do you want
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  Speaker 6: us to do the defeat formula? We can do that
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  Speaker 6: as well. I think we need a disclaimer.
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  Speaker 5: That says there's a very good chance that none of
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  Speaker 5: this stuff happens at all. But Mac and Bone are
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  Speaker 5: just asking you what things need to happen to create
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  Speaker 5: the unlikely occurrence that the banged up Panthers win this
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  Speaker 5: football game.
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  Speaker 3: The Mac and Bone show is for entertainment only.
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  Speaker 6: Please don't take them seriously or wage off of their predictions.
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  Speaker 3: Unless you're going Mac.
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  Speaker 6: To harrah's resort casino that's when you wage that's when
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  Speaker 6: you go there put your money down at harrah's but
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  Speaker 6: don't do it because mac and bone are.
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  Speaker 5: Giving you stats definitely not this texter i would agree
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  Speaker 5: with the text you read the victory formula is the
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  Speaker 5: lions plane does not work and they don't make the
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  Speaker 5: trip macker 82 says mike lee is gonna ball out
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  Speaker 5: breakout game Do Will Lee's friends call him Mike? Those
• 8:01
  Speaker 5: are the mistakes. No wonder that guy's nicknamed Mac-er. Do
• 8:04
  Speaker 5: all the Macs mess up names? I got Mike Lee on.
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  Speaker 3: My list, too.
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  Speaker 6: Is Mac-er 82 Mac your old AOL screen name?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome, you've got mail. AOL screen name.
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  Speaker 5: Squirrel Meat Henderson says Panthers score 40. God, if we
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  Speaker 5: had a healthy old line, I'd be right there with
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  Speaker 5: you trumpeting that. But, again, I think they can have
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  Speaker 5: a big day. I mean, the way quarterbacks, Geno Smith, 330,
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  Speaker 5: the way quarterbacks are lighting up the Lions secondary, 10
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  Speaker 5: deep balls allowed in three games. But, again, the protection's
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  Speaker 5: got to hold up. You've got to get some sort
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  Speaker 5: of run game so they can't just tee off. Let's see, 704.5, 709.6.
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  Speaker 5: Fit Daddy, what do you think, Panther Fitty? What would
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  Speaker 5: you throw in there as part of the formula to
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  Speaker 5: pull off this upset?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 7: I would like to think that, Mac, with the way
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  Speaker 7: that Jared Goff doesn't move well in the pocket, can
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  Speaker 7: you maybe force him into a bad mistake or two?
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  Speaker 7: Can you get some turnovers and maybe give this offense
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  Speaker 7: that has been explosive, but can you give them some
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  Speaker 7: short fields? Can you give them the ball on the
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  Speaker 7: plus side of the 50 once or twice? Mac, I
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  Speaker 7: look at this game and... You know, Jalen Phillips has
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  Speaker 7: been good, two sacks, 12 pressures, first three games. I
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  Speaker 7: need a Derrick Brown game from him. I need him
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  Speaker 7: to be a menace, just wrecking shop on the interior
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  Speaker 7: of their offensive line.
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  Speaker 3: You need a Derrick Brown game from Derrick Brown? Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Or from Jalen Phillips? Both.
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  Speaker 7: But, like, I know what you're saying where you expect
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  Speaker 7: Averro to maybe go back to more zone play.
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  Speaker 5: But got to keep the big plays from happening. That's
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  Speaker 5: what you got to do. Keep them in front of you.
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  Speaker 5: And then to your point, make them run more plays.
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  Speaker 5: Don't let them have big plays, Finney. And then you
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  Speaker 5: increase the likelihood of turnovers. But I've also loved the
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  Speaker 5: aggressive nature.
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  Speaker 7: Like, Mac, there were plays to be made last week
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  Speaker 7: on Deshaun Watson when he blitzed him. Like, Trayvon Merrick had, like,
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  Speaker 7: three that he just didn't finish. So, like, golf doesn't
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  Speaker 7: have the escapability.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good point. I agree with you.
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  Speaker 7: We're probably going to be in that big shell, keep
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  Speaker 7: everything in front of us. But when the time is right, go.
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  Speaker 5: Get that guy. I'm not saying you blitz 0% of
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  Speaker 5: the time. I'm just saying, being 7th in the league
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  Speaker 5: in blitz percentage right now, I don't think that number's staying.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, Devin Lloyd's an animal blitzing, right? And I
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  Speaker 5: think you made a really good point there. Plus, if
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  Speaker 5: you stay back in zone 100% of the time, Jared Goff's.
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  Speaker 3: Going to light you up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You got to show him different looks.
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  Speaker 6: Can I tell you something that scares me right now
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  Speaker 6: that I'm looking at here?
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  Speaker 3: What's that? Gibbs and St.
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  Speaker 6: Brown, 11 touchdowns combined already this year. We're just into October.
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  Speaker 6: These guys are ballers, man. Gibbs has six and St.
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  Speaker 6: Brown has five. Jameson Williams. Has not had one yet
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  Speaker 6: this year, but the other two guys, yeah, 11 already.
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  Speaker 6: Goff's been really good. He has not been throwing the
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  Speaker 6: ball downfield. Knock on wood.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want this to be one of these stats
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  Speaker 5: that we bring up that y'all watch the game and
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  Speaker 5: bitch about. I can just tell you the stats. I
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  Speaker 5: can't tell you if the Panthers can keep those stats
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  Speaker 5: being the way they are. But Goff has only completed
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  Speaker 5: two deep balls all season. Only 4% of his attempts
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  Speaker 5: are deep. A lot of it, it's been short, been intermediate.
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  Speaker 5: So maybe, maybe they, you know, maybe it's moving the
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  Speaker 5: ball down the field and it's not the big pass plays.
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  Speaker 3: Alex in Steel Creek said, I like that, Fitty. Great point.
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  Speaker 3: The Fit Dog brought it, baby. He brought it. He
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  Speaker 3: brought it.
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  Speaker 6: One problem when you blitz golf is you have to
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  Speaker 6: worry about the safety valve of Gibbs also out of
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  Speaker 6: the backfield where if you get to him, you better
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  Speaker 6: get him because it could just be a quick out
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  Speaker 6: to Gibbs and all of a sudden he's gone.
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  Speaker 3: So you got to be careful with that as well.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You better get golf on the blitz or else Gibbs
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  Speaker 3: slips out. You're in trouble. Yeah, you got to. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you have to tackle.
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  Speaker 5: I do like the fact that we got the warm-up
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  Speaker 5: for Gibbs with Bijan.
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  Speaker 1: It's true.
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  Speaker 5: I think they're very similar in the way they can
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  Speaker 5: affect the passing game and affect the running game. If
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  Speaker 5: we do the job that we did on Bijan against Gibbs,
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  Speaker 5: I would take that in a heartbeat. I'm not guaranteeing
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  Speaker 5: that's going to happen, but I would say now here's
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  Speaker 5: the problem, though. Jack Strand ain't walking in that door
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  Speaker 5: and putting on Lions Blue. No, he would fall down
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  Speaker 5: if he was. Cooper Rush ain't putting on Lions Blue.
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  Speaker 5: This dude, Austin, says, stop blitzing. Every bad play this
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  Speaker 5: season has been bet on plays where we had quote-unquote pressure.
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  Speaker 3: But why is that?
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  Speaker 5: But Fitty's point is those guys made plays, Watson and Williams,
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  Speaker 5: because of their escapability.
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  Speaker 3: You remember the Falcons making plays when we blitzed?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: So the point Fitty made is a great one.
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  Speaker 5: When you blitz, you have a much better chance of
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  Speaker 5: getting golfed down than you did Watson and Williams.
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  Speaker 3: I pray for the day we talk to an educated audience.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, no!
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  Speaker 1: Fitty!
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  Speaker 3: These are our customers, Fitty! These are our meal tickets.
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  Speaker 3: How dare you? I mean, but this guy's saying stop blitzing.
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  Speaker 3: You mean Gwizzy Gobbler right here is uneducated? If you
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  Speaker 3: know what you're.
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  Speaker 7: Watching, the blitz isn't the reason why they've given up
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  Speaker 7: big pass plays or big run plays. It's because Phillips, Princely,
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  Speaker 7: that guy hasn't, you know... Kept gap in lane integrity.
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  Speaker 7: Merrick flat out just didn't tackle Deshaun Watson.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a blitz.
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  Speaker 7: Amaro put the guys in the position to make the
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  Speaker 7: freaking play.
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  Speaker 3: And if they would have made the play, you would
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: have been praising the blitz. You can't have it both ways.
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  Speaker 5: I think the ultimate point is that you can blitz
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  Speaker 5: and know this dude ain't going to escape you. I
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  Speaker 5: think that's the ultimate point here, and you couldn't do
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  Speaker 5: that with Williams and Watson. You know what I mean?
• 14:00
  Speaker 6: People are now setting in their education levels and where
• 14:03
  Speaker 6: they went to school, looking for Fiddy and where.
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  Speaker 3: He finished his college degree. So this is going to
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: go up.
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  Speaker 7: Number one in my class. I was so damn good,
• 14:11
  Speaker 7: the school went out of business. Because they couldn't top
• 14:14
  Speaker 7: me after I was in the Carolina School of Broadcasting.
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  Speaker 3: They said, that guy's too good. We're broke AF. We're
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: shutting our doors.
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  Speaker 6: They closed because of the pandemic, fool. I thought it
• 14:25
  Speaker 6: was the embarrassment of having you as a student. I
• 14:27
  Speaker 6: thought they were shamed. I was also number one. There
• 14:30
  Speaker 6: were seven people in the class. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: And I only got into that.
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  Speaker 6: I only got the internship here from that school because
• 14:40
  Speaker 6: the first guy they called was working at Burger King.
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: People are firing back at Fitty right now. This is
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: not good. Mute the mic, dump Fitty. That's from Life
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: That Likes to Paycheck. Joey from Huntersville, go put your
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: bikini on and shut the hell up. If you just
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: tuned in, that is not a sexist comment towards a woman, y'all.
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: That is somebody blasting Fitty who just ripped our audience apart.
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  Speaker 5: This dude says, from Travis' Statesville, says, let's go Fitty.
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  Speaker 5: He's loving it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, and the people that are pushing back, guess what?
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  Speaker 7: You're exposing yourself.
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  Speaker 3: You don't know ball.
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  Speaker 7: That's why you listen to my fat ass tell you.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, hold on.
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  Speaker 3: They want an IQ test for Fitty live on the air.
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  Speaker 5: This dude said, Fitty acts like he went to Harvard
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: and he's ripping all of us.
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  Speaker 3: There is some irony there.
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  Speaker 6: Our school is now a vacation rentals place.
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  Speaker 3: Is that true?
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: That's what you did to that place, Fitty. You shut
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: it down with your mere presence. Permanent vacation. Okay, now
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: this is some good context here. Fitty wants smart audience.
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: Kakalak says golf has an 82% completion percentage against the Blitz, Fitty.
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: To that point, Maybe I should have looked at this
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: stat in my notes before we got blitz heavy. Hung, hung, hung,
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: hung go? gung-ho on the blitz uh golf 80 141
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: rating five touchdowns and zero interceptions versus the blitz this season.
• 16:07
  Speaker 8: Means he's due for a bad game you gotta pick
• 16:09
  Speaker 8: your spots back we have to pick your spots we
• 16:11
  Speaker 8: have breaking text news here from denver justin okay he
• 16:15
  Speaker 8: says great point by fitty but he stole it from
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: his text that he sent in at 8 11 a.m
• 16:20
  Speaker 8: this morning he said word for word What Fiddy said
• 16:24
  Speaker 8: to you on the air, he wants Fiddy to now
• 16:26
  Speaker 8: acknowledge that you stole from him.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: Oh, damn, Fiddy. Fiddy, you a fraud over there, Fiddy?
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: There's nothing fraudulent about.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Me, Mac.
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: I feel like Fiddy right there. His response told you
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: you got busted there.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's something, baby. That is something right there. Mac,
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: will you now give credit to Denver Justin for his point?
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Denver Justin, great point that Fiddy stole from you there, man.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: Maybe two great minds thinking alike. Maybe that's what ends
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: up happening.
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: When we come back, we're going to talk to former
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: longtime Detroit player and broadcaster Lomas Brown of the Lions
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: Radio Network about the Detroit side of the matchup Sunday night.
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: Sports Radio 92.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. Mack and Bone with you, rocking
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: and rolling, man. Getting ready for football. We had a
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: text where somebody says, Mack, I've just listened to the
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: last 40 minutes of the show. It feels like it's entirely,
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: how badly are your college teams going to get beat
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: this weekend?
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: Can anyone cover the spread?
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: And then on Sunday, what is the in-depth formula where
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: our injury-plagued team can steal a football game? I can,
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: we can only deal with the situations we are handed bone.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: That's all we can do, man. Thursday's usually a low point.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: We rev it up by Friday.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: Let us, let us get low to come back up again.
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: Shawty getting low over there, baby. Tomorrow, tomorrow we, we
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: bring the confidence tomorrow.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know. You'll find out.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: But anyway, yeah, we got some situations on Saturdays and
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: Sundays right now. But, and we got the lions and
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: that high powered offense coming in. Let's talk about the Lions,
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: the offense, the way the defense is playing, and how
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: they match up with the Panthers, with a man that
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: played in the trenches in the NFL for years. He
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: is and has been for a while now, the color
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: analyst on the Lions radio network. He is Lomas Brown,
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: and he joins us on the Mac and Bone show
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: here in Charlotte.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Lomas, what's going on, man?
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: How you doing? I'm doing great, guys. Feeling good, man.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I like it. I love the energy, too. I can
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: feel it. I can hear it in your voices.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: That's cool, and I know you're going to bring the energy, too.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: We've talked to you in the past. From the outside
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: looking in, do you think the Lions are licking their
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: chops over the Panthers' injury situation? Horn and Mike Jackson
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: both out. I mean, it's going to be three backups
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: on the offensive line. Do you feel like the Lions
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: are looking at the Panthers as vulnerable? Do you feel
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: that way?
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I'll say this. Welcome to our world. I mean, we've
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: been dealing with this all year long with Kirby Branch.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Brian Branch, Kirby Joseph, you know, Avante Maddox.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're depleted of safeties, and we lost one
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: in our corner. So we've been dealing with this all
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: season long. And, you know, again, on the defensive side
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: of the ball, you see we haven't played well, and
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: it's been because of the injuries. so I think, yes,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: the Lions, especially on the offensive side of the ball,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: they have to be looking at this game as a
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: game offensively to try to get right. Because even though
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: we put 31 points up in each of our first games,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: our offense still hadn't been clicking the way it's been
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: clicking in the past. And it is a concern, and
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: those guys are trying to remedy that. And we're hoping
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: that Sunday that can happen for the Detroit Lions.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: How much of a concern on our end do you
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: think it's going to be? No J.C.
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: Horn, Mike Jackson in the secondary against those wideouts. We've
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: been worried about Gibbs' wellness, but now those wideouts versus
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: our secondary, how big of a problem will that be
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: on the Panther side?
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: It could be a major problem. As you say, man,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: we bring out Jameis Williams. We have Amirah St. Brown,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: probably one of the best wide receivers in this game
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: at catching the ball and running routes. We got the
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: young fella in Isaac Tesla, who we're trying to incorporate
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: in our game plan. And then we have the reliable
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Sam Laporta. Very, very good tight end. So we have
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: weapons to attack you guys. I just think from what
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: we've been going through, the best way to attack a
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: great passing offense is by getting those front four, front
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: five guys to get pressure sacks hits on your quarterback.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: If your quarterback doesn't have a lot of time to
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: stand back there and scan the field and let those
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: routes develop, then I think that can help your secondary
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: so much. And that's the same formula we're looking for
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: here in Detroit while our secondary tries to mend itself.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's a good point.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: And we definitely want to talk more about how Bryce
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: might be able to take advantage of your secondary. That's
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: a happier conversation for us. But I want to ask
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: you about your O-line, Lomas. You are playing a rookie
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: that we know in the Carolinas from Clemson and Blake Miller.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: It seems like he's been pretty good. Sewell's on the
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: other side. Like, how has your pass protection been, you know,
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: and can Carolina get pressure on golf?
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: What do you think?
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, first of all, the big fella has some glorious hair,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: as you can see from the commercial that he's in
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: with Jarrett. So he has a very, very lovely-looking lock
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: of hair. But he has been fantastic, man. I've been
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: watching Blake since training camp. because of the nature of
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: the position. And I tell you what, man, been impressed
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: since day one with some of the little things that
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: he was able to do. Great pass sets, hands in
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: the ready position, keeping his shoulders parallel to the offensive line.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Just little things like that that you're watching rookies do
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: They normally struggle with that. And he came in because
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: of all the college experience he had. He's just stepped
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: right in there. So he's part of that line. He's
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: a part of what makes our offensive line go. He's
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: been very, very valuable for us this year so far.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: So I'm definitely looking forward to him coming. playing on Sunday.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: He's been very good for us this year so far.
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: I was actually just texting with former NFL defensive lineman
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: and coach, Brenton Buckner, about this during the commercial break there.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: The Panthers had a ton of problems week one with
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: the Ben Johnson offense, 59 points given up.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: How much of the DNA of.
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: Ben Johnson's offense is still paramount with the Lions offense?
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: That's a great question because it's still something. You can
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: see some of the residue, and it's good residue, of
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson left on this offense. Of course, Drew Petzin,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: our new offensive coordinator, is putting his stamp on this team.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: But it's things that you see every now and then,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: or more so than every now and then. It's a
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: lot of things that you see that Ben Johnson instilled
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: in this offense that we're still using, especially with Jameer
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Gibbs right now, who's become pretty much... I would say,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I hate to say a poor man's version of Barry
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: because all the money Jameer just got, but another version,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: a very rich version of Barry Sanders, how we're using
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: this guy, especially coming out the backfield, catching the ball,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: some of the moves he can make in the run game.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: We're coming back with some of our trickeration, some of
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: our trick plays. We're starting to incorporate those more into
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: our offense. And, you know, that was a big staple
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: of Ben Johnson when he was here. So you can
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: see some of it there. But Drew Petsine is more
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: and more putting his fingerprint on this offense each and
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: every week.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: We're talking with Lomas Brown, former O-lineman in the NFL,
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: Detroit Lions. radio analyst. I just want to say something.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: Six time all pro Lomas Brown.
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: I got to, I'm underselling. I'm underselling baby. All right, Lomas,
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: let's go to y'all's defense. Cause I do feel like
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: maybe that's where maybe the hope lies for us to
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: take advantage of all those secondary injuries. Y'all been giving
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: up a ton of pass yards.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: There's no secret why, but to.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: Your point earlier in the interview, a pass rush can
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: negate that the Panthers are banged up on the O-line
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: and How has that dynamic worked?
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: I know Aiden Hutchinson's been good. How has it worked?
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Because even though y'all have had some good pass rush,
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: you still have been vulnerable at the back end.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: How has that played out this year?
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: You're so right about that. And the thing about it is,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: so this is kind of what I expect you guys
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: to do. I expect you guys to slide the line.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: I expect you guys to chip in. I expect you
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: guys to put the tight end over to Aiden Hutchinson's
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: side so you can get maybe one or two guys
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: on him. But what that means is the other guys
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: on that defensive line, they have one-on-one matchups. And that's
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: when you have to win your one-on-one matchups. When you
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: got a dominant guy that you're going to pay a
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: lot of attention to, like Aiden Hutchinson, then those other
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: guys that got one-on-one blocks, they have to be able
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: to defeat those one-on-one blocks. And it's the same with us.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: On our defensive side, trying to attack you guys, that
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: side has to be. Again, one-on-one matchups, those guys have
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: to win those one-on-one matchups. That's kind of how we
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: did it last game when you see DJ Wanham get
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: two sacks. You've seen Aline McNeil get a sack. You know,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: that's what has to happen to affect these great offenses
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: because if these quarterbacks... if they have time to sit
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: back and scan the field, or if pre-snap they can
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: see where you're bringing the pressure from or bringing the
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: blitz from, they have blitz beaters. These quarterbacks are too
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: good in this league to show them what you're going
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: to do. So that's part of it is disguising it,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: but yet still winning those one-on-one matchups when you have them.
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: Lomas, you spent a decade, 85 to 95, as a Lion.
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: So that means from 89 to 95, you were blocking
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: for Barry Sanders. I sometimes go on YouTube and just
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: watch the 45-minute highlight videos of his best moments. Do
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: you have a favorite run? I love the one. Was
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: it against the– there's one against the Patriots, right, when
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: he turns the DB sideways and the guy gets confused?
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes, yes. Look, there's so many. It's that one
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: against the Patriots. You can think about the one against
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears where everybody had them pinned in and
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: he hurdled the guy and took it to the end zone.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: You can talk about the one versus Buffalo. It was
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: only a two-yard touchdown, but that's the one where he
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: put his hand on the ground and pirouetted. all the
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: way back around to get in the end zone. Or
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: you can talk about the one against the Dallas Cowboys
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: when we were in the playoff game, when he bounced
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: and Tony Casillas was just standing there and Barry was
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: running behind him running. It's just so many, I tell
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: you this, I'll say this real fast for me, every Monday,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: every Monday we went and watched film myself and Kevin
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Glover and It would be five plays. Every Monday you
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: would say, oh, my God, how did he get out
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: of that? It may be a one-yard gain. It may
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: be a two-yard loss. But it's going to be the
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: best one-yard or two-yard loss you've ever seen in your life. Yes, sir.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: I still think he's the greatest, man. I still do.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: I'm with you. To this minute.
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: All right, last question about the current Lions, I would ask.
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: And Bone kind of went there with his question about
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: remnants of Ben Johnson's offense. But I think there is
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: a feeling in the football world that, hey, they're just
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: not the same team as they were when Ben Johnson
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: was calling the plays today. And on the other side,
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: Aaron Glenn was a defensive coordinator. Do you push back
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: on that, or do you feel like, yeah, that you know,
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: that has, that.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Has hurt us a fair amount. What do you think?
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: No, I mean, I think anytime you lose coordinators that
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: become head coaches, that tell you one, how great they
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: were because they're head coaches now. So anytime you lose
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: coordinators like that, yes, it is going to be a
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: setback for this team. And not just coordinators. Don't forget,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: we lost players, too. When you talk about Kalief Raymond
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and some of the other players that we lost. All
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: for the offense and the defensive side of the ball,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: either due to free agency or injury. So, yes, it's
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: going to hurt. But I think now, I think we're
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: starting to get our footing and our identity. We're starting
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: to claim that. Look, this is a new NFL. Now
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: it takes time. takes you to week three or four
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: in the regular season to find out what type of
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: team you have, because you don't play the preseason. Oh
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: my goodness. These first games of the season, the light
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: preseason games for teams. So you don't really know what
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: you have. I think now you could start saying, okay,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: this is the identity of our team. This is how
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: our team is going to look. And this is how
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: our team is going to win. If we win games.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: All right, let me do this.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: Lomas Brown is is a Super Bowl champion, and he
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: is a six-time All-Pro, and he's pretty darn good at
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: doing the talking about football thing, too. Lomas, thank you
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: for coming on, man. Enjoy Charlotte this week. Unfortunately, it'll
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: be raining like crazy, it sounds like, but hey, we appreciate.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: You, man. Be good.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Hey, I appreciate you guys having me. Thanks.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: All right, Lomas.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: There you go, Lomas Brown. Always a pleasure to talk
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: to you.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: I can't take it.
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: He said great question to me on that about Ben Johnson.
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: That was me crafting a buck comment into a question.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: I did say Buckner's name, but that was Buckner. I
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: would love to say, but that was me crafting what
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: he said into a question. I thought it was appropriate.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: To ask him that. That's good integrity by you.
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: Fitty would have just stolen his own point, as we
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: found out earlier on the show.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: Buck's also got some points on blitzing Jared Goff. I
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: want that at some point. Yeah, that's the thing. I'd
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: love to see those. I just have a question for Buck.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: Buck, why does Boehm get text to cheat sheet to
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: ask a good question?
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: I could use a good question, too. Because I wasn't
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: going to take the credit. You would have just crafted
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: that into your own. Buck also said, which is Gretchen Buckner,
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: golf beats pressure with his play recognition and release time.
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: Detroit believes in getting the ball to their playmakers' hands
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: very quickly lets them get to work. that usually negates
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: the blitzing because of the... So he's countering Fitty's blitz.
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: That's a damn good point. Pre-snap, he knows. That's what
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: I was saying about Gibbs. You better be careful that
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: he doesn't leak out all of a sudden. That's good
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: stuff from Buck slash Bone, man. That's good stuff over there, baby.
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: Put me on the Butt Naked Truth Podcast, baby.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: Let's get naked, Buck. All right, let's bring it. Speaking
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: of getting naked. All right, go ahead. Oh, also need
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: to mention real quick. Oh, yeah, we got to go
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: to Fitty real quick.
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: You could tell it's football season when every person that
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: speaks on the air gets backlash. People were mad at
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: Lomas Brown. Miss Sweet Cheek says he is giving the
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: Panthers bless your hearts, but you have no chance energy.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: Multiple Texter says, is Lomas seriously trying to act like
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: their injury situations as bad as ours? Yeah, it's bad,
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: especially in the secondary. But I feel like, Bo, we
• 33:03
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• 33:07
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  Speaker 7: TIRE to the text line, and you'll be entered your
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  Speaker 7: chance to win a family four-pack of tickets to next
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: week's Bank of America 400, the first MAAC Charlotte race ever.
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  Speaker 3: In the fall. I'm also here. On the oval. I
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: love it. I'm so glad they're back to the oval fit.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Me too.
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: So glad they're back to the oval, man. That's much needed.
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: And I think it could be a great race, man.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: I really do. Hope it's better than that Kansas race.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: As long as Kyle Larson wins, I'll enjoy the race again.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: The rest of y'all might not.
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: Can I give you guys some news here that will
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: make your hearts happy?
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: What, a buck text again? No, no, no, no. It's
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: private between us.
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: Brad McGriffey tweeted out that today starts a streak of
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: 61 straight days or nights, I should say, nights and days,
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: days and nights, where college or NFL is on.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: We have 61 days in a row. Oh, football. That
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: feels good, baby. It's so good.
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  Speaker 1: 61.
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  Speaker 6: Matt, that also includes Panther games. Some of our college
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: football teams are in there, too. But guess what?
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: We get to watch other teams, too.
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: All right. Thank you, Fit Dog. I thought that went well.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: When we come back, we are going to Granny's house. Steve,
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: he doesn't want to be called Panther Weenie, does he? No,
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: he is really protesting. Steven Panther Whitaker and Grandma Patrice, a.k.a.
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: Granny Pat, will be in Granny's house today. The Panther Roundtable,
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: that is next. We have no idea what you're about
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: to hear. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: All right, baby.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: The setting is Granny's house. What's in Granny's house today?
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: It is the Panther Fan Roundtable. You know Granny Pat
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: is in the house. You know she is the star,
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: the franchise player of the Fan Roundtable. She will be
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: joined today by Panther. Don't call me Panther Weenie. Panther Steve.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: I don't know if I got that all. It seems
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: very convoluted. I've got to shorten that down. Steven Whitaker.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Steven P. Whitaker.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: Steven Whitaker in the house. Let's start with Granny. Welcome
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: her to the show. Granny, thank you for coming back
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: on the Roundtable. Granny, you are the star of the
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: Roundtable each week.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: How you been?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I just love the name Steven Wiener. I like that.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's not. That's not. Stephen Whitaker. That's not. His name.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: His name.
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: His name is Stephen. His name is Steven Whitaker. He
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: doesn't want to be called Panther Weenie.
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Okay, all right. Although you may have just given him
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: a new name. Oh, my God.
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: All right, let's bring in the man whose name is
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: Steven Whitaker.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: Let me get that right. Steven Whitaker, Panther Steve. Panther Steve,
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: what's going on, baby?
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Hey, Mac, what's happening?
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: Let's do it. Hey, what's going on? Let's do it, Steve.
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: Stevie, we noticed that we really should stop calling you
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: Panther Weenie.
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: We realize you have reached out to our boss, Colin Hoggard.
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: Who else did he reach out to, Bo?
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: Nick Carboni. Tell them it's just Nick Carboni.
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: Nick Carboni, you wanted people to make us stop calling
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: you Panther Weenie.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: So I think we must oblige at this point.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Well, thanks. I appreciate it.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: I want to ask Granny Pat, does she like big
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: wieners or a little wiener?
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, Stevie! Stevie, I'm not even sure.
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: Nope, nope, nope, nope. I think we just hit the
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: dump button. Hit that Granny's theme again there. I think
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: we just hit the dump button on Steve.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Is he gone?
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Steve, you still there or no?
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Did you hit the dump button?
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, you got dumped.
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you can't, you can't. I'm pretty sure. You can't
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: do that. One more out of you and we're going
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: to have to kick you. We're going to have to
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: boot you out. Can we go back to Granny and
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: let him reset himself there? Let's go back to Granny.
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: We need to talk to Granny about something disturbing. That
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: is the message that she sent me on Sunday, blaming
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: Bryce Young for what was going.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: On in Cleveland. Granny, you're back to not liking Bryce again?
• 38:18
  Speaker 9: Y'all are taking this the wrong way. You don't see
• 38:20
  Speaker 9: the truth. And the truth is the whole team stumped
• 38:26
  Speaker 9: in various parts. Coaches were calling stupid-ass plays. Canal sits
• 38:34
  Speaker 9: over there and looks like a little fairy.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: Is this two dumps? Have we had to dump each
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: member of the round table?
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Here's the problem. It takes six minutes to build back up.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: So we've lost both. All right. They're going to have
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: to be on their best behavior here. This isn't moving forward.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: This is not.
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: This never happens with Leatherman Mark. Granny, tell us your
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: Freedom Park story.
• 39:00
  Speaker 9: I want to do chapter three of Freedom Park. You
• 39:03
  Speaker 9: know I was caught making out in the car. The
• 39:07
  Speaker 9: police got each one of us, took our name and everything,
• 39:12
  Speaker 9: scared to death, going to tell our parents. Next day,
• 39:15
  Speaker 9: the cop called me to go out.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, shoot. Oh, my God.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 3: What is chapter four going to be? Cliffhanger, Granny. We've
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: got to leave the cliffhanger for chapter four. Oh, my God.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: How old were you during this Freedom Park?
• 39:28
  Speaker 9: Like, 27. 20.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: Okay. I bet you were frisky.
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: Granny.
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: You were frisky and wild when you were 20, weren't.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: You, Granny? Oh, Bobby.
• 39:35
  Speaker 9: They called me just because I was making out.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know.
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: I don't like the sounds of this, but I can't
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: wait for the next episode, Granny.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: I can't wait.
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: Speaking of frisky and wild, we go back to Panther
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: Steve now.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Have you settled yourself down now, please? Panther Steve, you
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: ready to behave? Respect Granny. She's a respectable woman. Panther Steve.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: I agree.
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: Go ahead.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: I agree with Granny Pat. Ken Alice just stands over
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: there and does nothing hardly. She's just getting mad a
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: little bit.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, really.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: Who do.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: You blame Sunday's ugly offense for, Steve?
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Okay, third and one, fourth and one, we throw the
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: ball long. And then when it's third and long, we
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: throw the ball short. I can't figure it out.
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so you're putting it on Idzik as a play caller.
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: You're putting it on Canales, too, I guess.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Well, that and Bryce. I mean, come on, we just
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: needed one damn yard.
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: Well, hey, let's bring in Granny on that. Granny, what
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: did you think about going for it on fourth down?
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: And as Steve said, you run two pass plays on
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: fourth down when you don't have pass protection, and he
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: gets sacked on one bone, and he gets pressured into
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: incompletion on the other. Did you like Canales going for
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: it on fourth down twice?
• 40:52
  Speaker 9: It was so damn dumb and stupid. And I honestly
• 40:59
  Speaker 9: think he, I just don't know if these coaches are
• 41:03
  Speaker 9: good enough. And as far as Bryce, you know, he
• 41:07
  Speaker 9: is not getting, there were four or five passes over
• 41:10
  Speaker 9: people's heads. He can't look over the line and see
• 41:16
  Speaker 9: where to throw him. It's nothing new.
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: Granny, he's getting hit and pressured all the time. He's
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: running for his life back there the other day. And
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: he still leads the league in passing yards, Granny.
• 41:27
  Speaker 9: Well, let's get a bigger one.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: A bigger what?
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, Granny!
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: No!
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: No, we can't say that! What is going on? Has
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: Grady been drinking that moonshine this morning, Bone?
• 41:47
  Speaker 9: Not yet.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay. Let's go back to Steve. Let's go back
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: to the cleaner comment.
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: Basically, every time we have to use the dump button,
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: we try the other one, and they make us use
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: the dump button again. Steve, do you have a– I
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: think this could be clean. Do you have a reason
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: of why there's so many injuries?
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably because they don't do anything in preseason.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: They hardly play.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: They don't practice hardly. I practiced harder in high school.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, we had two days.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: We sweated. We barely could get water. These guys, it's
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: just ridiculous. You know, they got to play more, practice harder.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: I need to know, Panther Steve, about your high school career.
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: Was it here locally?
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't know.
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: What position did you play? In what school?
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Well, I played end.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: And I played for Catholic.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: And to the bench. Oh, my God.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: I didn't know.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: I'm asking questions.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was pretty much a bench warmer.
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: All right, we don't want to upset you about it.
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: We don't need to relive those moments, all right?
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: You don't sound too excited about your past career.
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: Steve, we have a text that says, man, these two
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: are downright angry, no positivity. Do you still feel like
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: the Panthers can defend your division title, or do you
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: feel like the injuries are.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: Just too much?
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Well, we backed into that division title, so I wouldn't
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: even call that a division title, Mike. I mean, we
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: backed into it. Yeah, we won it, but we backed
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: into it. We didn't actually go out there and win it.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: But did you see the six years previous?
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: Like, I'll take that any day over the previous six,
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: seven years.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Hey, I just want to win a Super Bowl before
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: I die, okay? That's just what I want. I want
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: a Super Bowl win.
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: I'm with you on that.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: I'm not greedy like Steeler fans or Patriot fans. I
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: just want one.
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: I'm with you, brother. I'm with you on that. All right,
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: let's go to Granny. Didn't she win them as a
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: Washington fan?
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God, the truth comes out.
• 43:53
  Speaker 6: I'm just saying, like, you won for the Panther before
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: you die, so I get it.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's what he said.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: That wasn't my hometown team. That wasn't my hometown team.
• 44:02
  Speaker 6: That wasn't a not, but you did win them as
• 44:04
  Speaker 6: a Washington fan.
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there you go. Well, I won, too, as a
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: Ravens fan. I know what he's saying, though. You know,
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: now that I'm a full-blown Panther fan. I won the
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: AFC East as a Jets fan once.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: The AFC East.
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: All right, let's bring in Granny. Granny going to get
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: the final word on this one right now.
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: Granny Pat, do you think we.
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: Could– what's up?
• 44:22
  Speaker 9: I want to just tell– Stephen, I played basketball at
• 44:24
  Speaker 9: Charlotte Catholic.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, y'all might have gone to school together, Granny.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: I doubt it.
• 44:29
  Speaker 9: It could be my grandbaby, I think.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: Granny, were you good, Granny?
• 44:35
  Speaker 9: I was damn good, I'll tell you that. I was
• 44:37
  Speaker 9: a guard like then. We had three on each side.
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you told us about that. I didn't even know
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: that was a thing. I had to look that up
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: on Google. That was a thing way back in the day.
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: What kind of guard were you?
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: Were you a shooter? Were you a passer? Were you
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: a driver? What kind of guard?
• 44:53
  Speaker 9: I was a knocker down and get the ball, throw
• 44:56
  Speaker 9: it back to the forward. I knocked people down.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: I like it. I like it.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: All right, so, Grant.
• 45:02
  Speaker 9: All right, one thing.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: I went.
• 45:04
  Speaker 9: For 20 years to the Panther games, rain or shine,
• 45:10
  Speaker 9: I want these people to go because the little rain
• 45:14
  Speaker 9: didn't go hurt you. Think of the damn Yankees go
• 45:17
  Speaker 9: up there in freezing weather. We got to show up Sunday.
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: I like it, Granny. I like it.
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: Let's end it on that inspirational message. Granny, you got
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: a little out of control and unruly. We had to
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: use the dump button, but you were awesome as always, Granny.
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: Enjoy the game this week. Um, and, uh, Panther Steve,
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: we appreciate you too, brother. Um, that is a record bone,
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: three dump buttons in one fan round table. I don't
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: even think, have we ever had to use one?
• 45:43
  Speaker 6: I gotta tell you right now, the future of the
• 45:46
  Speaker 6: round table is very much in doubt. Granny's house just
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: burned down. It was a great tennis match of dump
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: button use.
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: There's a fine line there because it was extremely amusing
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: and entertaining. But the FCC couldn't hit us with fines, Bo,
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: that the station asked you and I to personally pay.
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: So there's a fine line here, I feel like. City
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: got them all, right?
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: Are we good? Yeah, we got them all dumped. All right.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: We're good. We come back.
• 46:12
  Speaker 6: Jones Angel, Tar Heel Radio Network on Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: We are here.