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Mac & Bone Show - Ian Eagle Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Ian Eagle, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: CBS Sports, nice enough to join us here to preview
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles and the Panthers.
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  Speaker 1: Ian, how you been, man? What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: It's a bone birthday. Yes, sir. Who knew? Amazing.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: What do you plan?
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  Speaker 4: We are doing our show. We have a sponsor, Harrah's
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  Speaker 4: Resort Casino. We're going to be doing our show from
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  Speaker 4: there tomorrow morning. I'm going to drop my dog Murphy
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  Speaker 4: off at the pet resort, and we're going to drive
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  Speaker 4: up the mountain to go to the casino. Now, Ian,
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  Speaker 4: the problem here is my man Mac here has a
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  Speaker 4: car that we're not sure his car is going to
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  Speaker 4: make it all the way up the mountain. So that's
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  Speaker 4: one of our shows story-wise right now.
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  Speaker 3: Will Mac.
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  Speaker 1: We'll end up in some weird mountain town. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot going on here right now. I got it.
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  Speaker 3: Have you considered a sponsor through a rental car place?
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: That to me would be maybe using your head a bit.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people are suggesting we've got dealership sponsors.
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  Speaker 1: We've got rental car avenues. That is true. But I
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  Speaker 1: feel like that wouldn't be fun.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it's the challenge bone of trying to
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  Speaker 2: take this wounded.
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  Speaker 1: In no vehicle and just nurse it there.
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  Speaker 4: This is the same gentleman whose car door handle's been
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  Speaker 4: broken for a year, so he has to climb in
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  Speaker 4: through the passenger side.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know if a new car's in the
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  Speaker 1: works here for this guy. I'm a simple man. Simple
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  Speaker 1: man I am.
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  Speaker 3: That worked for Bo and Luke Duke on Dukes of Hazzard.
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  Speaker 1: You're good. Roll those windows down and go Luke Duke style, baby.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I should do. Luke Duke. How bad would
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  Speaker 1: I hurt myself if I tried to do that bone?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: That would just be the bone show.
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  Speaker 4: All Ian said was what's on the birthday plate, and
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  Speaker 4: he got a lot more than he wanted for it.
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  Speaker 1: Always gets more.
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  Speaker 3: He went TMI.
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  Speaker 2: More than you bargained for, once again, with Mack and Bone.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited to hear you, Ross Tucker. It feels like
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  Speaker 2: you've been a real good mix calling games, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to hearing you guys. What do you think
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  Speaker 2: of the way Bryce Young has played? I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: town is extremely excited about the start to the season
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  Speaker 2: for him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's a reminder, and we all fall
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  Speaker 3: victim to it. We form very strong opinions very quickly.
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  Speaker 3: on players, on teams, and sometimes it does require patience.
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  Speaker 3: And with Bryce, it's just been amazing to see him
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  Speaker 3: become a dynamic figure. The numbers are eye-popping. The plays
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  Speaker 3: are completely explosive offensively. And there's clearly been a shift.
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  Speaker 3: There's a shift in the way that the Panthers are
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  Speaker 3: being viewed around the NFL. There's a shift in how
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  Speaker 3: they're going about their business. If they can get to
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  Speaker 3: the point where their defense can stop people consistently, this
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  Speaker 3: team could be a factor because the offense is fun,
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  Speaker 3: the division is winnable, and I have to feel as
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  Speaker 3: if Panther faithful hit that bye week feeling as if
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  Speaker 3: we got a little something cooking here. It's been really
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  Speaker 3: exciting to watch this develop over the last few years.
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  Speaker 3: I've called enough Panthers games the last two seasons to
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  Speaker 3: to feel as if there was something inside that building.
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  Speaker 3: But in the NFL, you just never know. You never
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  Speaker 3: know which situation is going to develop in a positive manner,
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  Speaker 3: and it's great that the Panthers has, at least in
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  Speaker 3: the early going.
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  Speaker 4: Ian, how much of a schedule advantage for this week
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  Speaker 4: do you think it is for the Panthers to be
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  Speaker 4: off the bye week? Not only did the Eagles lose
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  Speaker 4: in gut-wrenching fashion, but they're coming from England. A little
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  Speaker 4: quirky how it worked here. We'd be mad if it
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  Speaker 4: was the opposite probably, but how much advantage is that
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  Speaker 4: in this game for the Panthers in your view?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a legitimate advantage. The one part of
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  Speaker 3: it is desperation. When desperation comes into play, and I
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  Speaker 3: think Philadelphia is feeling that a bit. Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 3: Their division is also winnable. So it's not as if
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  Speaker 3: somebody is going to just run away with that division
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  Speaker 3: in the NFC East. I don't think Philadelphia enters week
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  Speaker 3: six feeling like they're out of the mix. They're still
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  Speaker 3: very much in the mix. The problem is these injuries
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  Speaker 3: are now mounting. Their offensive line doesn't look like anything
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  Speaker 3: that they thought it would be when the season started.
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  Speaker 3: Saquon Barkley, I'm not sure what's going to happen this week,
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  Speaker 3: but you're talking about a hamstring issue for one of
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  Speaker 3: the best running backs in the NFL. Then his backups
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  Speaker 3: have been banged up. Tank Bigsby, Will Shipley, they're leaning
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  Speaker 3: now on Damian Pierce. Devontae Smith hasn't played in two games. Obviously, A.J.
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  Speaker 3: Brown now in New England. And that was supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be an area where they thought they could have advantages
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  Speaker 3: with the rookie Makai Lemon, who's been asked to do more.
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  Speaker 3: Dontavious Wicks has actually put up decent numbers so far,
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  Speaker 3: but the struggles for them on offense are real. They
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  Speaker 3: are real. And look, Carolina's defense has yet to prove
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  Speaker 3: that they can consistently stop people. The week one game
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  Speaker 3: probably set the tone for a lot of opinions around
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  Speaker 3: the NFL. They've been better since that point, but I
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  Speaker 3: think Philadelphia is looking at it as, hey, this is
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  Speaker 3: the week to get right.
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  Speaker 4: I think desperation is the theme both for Philly and
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  Speaker 4: for Mac when his car is on the side of
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  Speaker 4: that mountain smoking in a couple hours.
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  Speaker 1: My car and Philly's O-line are in similar situations.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 3: Is there an automobile IR that we can look into
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  Speaker 3: for this week? Even short-term IR?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: I love the text we got from one of our texters,
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  Speaker 2: Bagel Guy Ian, that says, of all the ads Mac
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  Speaker 2: does and sponsors he does shamelessly, you mean to tell
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  Speaker 2: me this is the.
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  Speaker 1: One thing he doesn't have? This is the one product
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  Speaker 1: I can't beg for a deal on. Unbelievable. He's got
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  Speaker 1: dips and chips and everything. thing but he can't get
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  Speaker 1: a car i've.
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  Speaker 2: Got everything a homeowner needs covered but i don't when
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  Speaker 2: i go on the road i got issues oh my
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  Speaker 2: gosh um.
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  Speaker 3: So i mean the fact that you do have aluminum
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  Speaker 3: siding for the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 2: Is wonderful those universal windows baby leave your house i'm
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  Speaker 2: telling you draft free windows at my disposal at the
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  Speaker 2: ready baby all right anyway I, you mentioned something there.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, you know, maybe could this be to get
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  Speaker 2: right game for Philly? And I think there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fans that are worried about that. The Panthers have
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  Speaker 2: this thing where they're just not consistent, right? Last year,
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  Speaker 2: beat the Packers, beat the Rams. lost twice to the Saints,
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  Speaker 2: and we've seen it this year, the Browns game, that
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  Speaker 2: they didn't win after a 34-3 win over Atlanta. What
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  Speaker 2: do you think about this Panther team? We've been extremely
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  Speaker 2: wounded in our own right. Panther's offensive line's been struggling.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think they can get to that consistency step
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  Speaker 2: this season? Because they were missing that last year, even
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  Speaker 2: though they made the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt about it. I think the The way
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  Speaker 3: it works in the NFL is you can have flashes
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  Speaker 3: in the pan just based on scheduling, based on injuries,
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  Speaker 3: based on having a really good draft class. To sustain
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  Speaker 3: success is a completely different animal. Philadelphia has been a
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  Speaker 3: franchise that has sustained success. They've had a few iterations
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  Speaker 3: of this, yet their philosophy, Howie Roseman, how they draft,
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  Speaker 3: how they sign free agents, how they develop talent, has
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  Speaker 3: stood the test of time. You go into this week
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  Speaker 3: and you say, all right, things are falling apart in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 3: They certainly have people in their locker room that know
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  Speaker 3: what it takes to get right. The problem is they're
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  Speaker 3: slowly losing the pillars that were such a big part
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  Speaker 3: of that stability, the Lane Johnson retirement. So you compare
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  Speaker 3: it to Carolina. You're trying to develop a culture of winning.
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  Speaker 3: You're trying to develop a culture of consistency. And I
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  Speaker 3: think the signs that you're seeing are they're heading in
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  Speaker 3: the right direction. The only concerns that I would have
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  Speaker 3: on the Carolina side right now is the secondary and
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  Speaker 3: whether or not you can really stop anybody with those
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  Speaker 3: two corners. I mentioned what Philadelphia's got. If Devontae Smith
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  Speaker 3: comes back to play, now you're asking a great deal
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  Speaker 3: out of Lee and out of Evans and Maring is
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  Speaker 3: a chess piece for them. Smith-Wade is getting more and
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  Speaker 3: more time just based on necessity. So that would be
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  Speaker 3: the only concern in the short term. Can they weather
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  Speaker 3: the storm of those two cornerbacks that are on IR
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  Speaker 3: and Can they put together enough wins to not just
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  Speaker 3: stay in this race, but maybe be the team to
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  Speaker 3: beat in their division?
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  Speaker 4: Ian, what was your reaction to the way the Eagles
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  Speaker 4: lost last week? You've done games forever, but do you
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  Speaker 4: remember calling a game where a team kicks a field
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  Speaker 4: goal with eight seconds to go and still loses the game?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: I've certainly never done a game like that. I thought
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  Speaker 3: last week it is crazy with the NFL because You
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  Speaker 3: guys have been following the league for so long. I've
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  Speaker 3: been involved broadcasting the league for so long. Every time
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  Speaker 3: you think you've seen everything, something happens where you say, man,
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  Speaker 3: never seen that. So the wackiness of the Giants and
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  Speaker 3: the Commanders game, how that game came to an end,
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  Speaker 3: the Buffalo Rams game was wild down the stretch. And
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  Speaker 3: the fact that Buffalo won that game still is mind boggling.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I think Philadelphia Jacksonville takes the cake, just
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  Speaker 3: how it happened, the circumstances in how it happened. And look,
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  Speaker 3: you can lock in on the final seconds because that's
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  Speaker 3: what we'll mostly do. But if you really look at
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  Speaker 3: the sequence of plays that Philadelphia had prior to that.
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  Speaker 3: it did raise some eyebrows as to how they handled
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  Speaker 3: the clock. The clock management thing has become such a
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  Speaker 3: strong story in the NFL because we recognize the margins
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  Speaker 3: are so slim. You play 17 of these things and
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  Speaker 3: you If you don't take care of business and are
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  Speaker 3: not buttoned up and lose a game here, lose a
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  Speaker 3: game there based on these scenarios and situations, this can
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  Speaker 3: cost people jobs. This changes lives. So I think on
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  Speaker 3: the Philadelphia side, anytime they've had some adversity in the past,
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  Speaker 3: they've handled it and they usually bounce back. The question is,
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  Speaker 3: can you keep going back to the well? And I
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  Speaker 3: think that's why the head coach is is getting a
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  Speaker 3: lot of scrutiny leading up to this one.
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  Speaker 4: Texter says Ian's his favorite guest on the show because
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  Speaker 4: Ian does the best job of pretending to enjoy being
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  Speaker 4: on the show.
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  Speaker 1: That is true.
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  Speaker 4: Most people just tell us the truth.
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  Speaker 1: That is true. He has us convinced he likes us, man.
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  Speaker 2: No other guest even tries, Ian.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone thinks, oh, he's a great play-by-play guy. No, he's
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  Speaker 3: an elite actor.
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  Speaker 1: Ha, ha, ha, ha.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, so Bone, before we say bye to Ian, who
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  Speaker 2: gets to do the joke that we both thought of separately?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, I would never. This is not. You want
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  Speaker 1: to disassociate yourself from this joke? I thought about it.
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  Speaker 1: You said it on the air.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you just thought about it and then thought better.
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  Speaker 4: This is really going to blow his socks off. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: this will be the hang up right here on this one.
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  Speaker 4: I've got to send Ian my college basketball preview magazine.
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  Speaker 2: Ian, I was expressing the concern that me and my
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  Speaker 2: fellow Panther fans have about Can you be biased or
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  Speaker 2: can you be non-biased in a game involving the Eagles?
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  Speaker 3: I know. I know. It's a huge concern.
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  Speaker 1: He's not impressed.
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  Speaker 3: They're distant cousins on my father's side. It's not something
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  Speaker 3: I like to talk about publicly, but now that you've
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  Speaker 3: uncovered it. Yeah, I can't. I can't. I'm in the bag.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I thought. Well, we don't have a broadcaster
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  Speaker 1: named Panther, so this is what we have to work with.
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  Speaker 4: Iron Panther.
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  Speaker 2: Iron Panther.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe for the second half, you're Iron Panther. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: maybe do that for the second half.
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  Speaker 1: You know what?
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  Speaker 3: Let's make it Ian Panther.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: We also have somebody that wants to know what it
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  Speaker 2: was like for Ian to work with Luke Keekly in
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  Speaker 2: the season opener on Netflix. Is this happening constantly? That
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: was your son, Noah. Is that happening all the time now?
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  Speaker 3: It is actually happening all the time. But the best
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  Speaker 3: thing that happened was a fellow NBA broadcaster said, two
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  Speaker 3: years ago came up to me prior to the game
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  Speaker 3: and said, Hey, I saw your brother the other day.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no. Someone's going to be offended in there and
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  Speaker 3: it's not going to be me.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, shoot.
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  Speaker 2: That guy made your day.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that is amazing. That is a good one.
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  Speaker 4: One of my favorite parts of March madness last year
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  Speaker 4: was when, uh, You said you were sharing a room
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  Speaker 4: with Noah and people believed you on the broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: People believed me. I started getting texts from people like, man,
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  Speaker 3: that's amazing. You and Noah shared a room. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we slept head to toe.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy? I love it. I love it.