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Mac & Bone Hour 2: Ranking the Panthers Weapons · Mac & Bone Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in seven o'clock hour of the Back in
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Speaker 1: Vote Show. A lot of hornet summerlee talk got the
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Speaker 1: show rolling right now. We're going to focus on the Panthers.
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Speaker 1: It's list and ranking season. There's a number of things
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Speaker 1: that happened yesterday to sort through, whether people disagree or not.
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Speaker 1: Will ask the question when you find out what was
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Speaker 1: right yesterday, But I will say fiddy. While I was
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Speaker 1: searching for Panther news and notes today, they came up
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Speaker 1: on Google a headline on the Steelers depot site. Are
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Speaker 1: you familiar with the Steelers depot?
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Speaker 2: I am not.
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Speaker 1: The headline said, and I quote Panther's along. Panther's a
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Speaker 1: long snapper call Steelers uninteresting perdict nine and a record.
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Speaker 1: I guess JJ on his weekly NFL show on Sirius.
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Speaker 1: I guess he called the Steelers basically, uh, boring and
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Speaker 1: they will go nine to eight. And now he's uh,
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Speaker 1: he's drawn the ire of these Steeler fans at these
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Speaker 1: Steelers depot. JJ, welcome to the media, my friend. It's
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Speaker 1: not always easy as a pal, JJ calls it headlines.
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Speaker 1: How about that?
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Speaker 3: That's always a dangerous thing when and I think it's
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Speaker 3: different when you have a guy like JJ, who.
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Speaker 1: What if they meet him at midfield when they play
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Speaker 1: each other and they say, we heard you said about us.
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Speaker 1: That's a very he's very he's very accurate with what
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Speaker 1: he said.
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Speaker 4: By the way.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, although I think I'm intrigued by what Pittsburgh cannon
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Speaker 3: will be this year. But yeah, when these guys want
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Speaker 3: to get into the media, like you have to give
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Speaker 3: your opinion, and it's I think it's a difficult line
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Speaker 3: to walk when you're still in the league. It's not
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Speaker 3: egregious as some of the things that Draymond Green has
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Speaker 3: said while being an active player in the NBA.
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Speaker 4: Well, that's the question.
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Speaker 1: Is JJ Jansen now Draymond Green seven oh four five,
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Speaker 1: seven oh nine, six ten.
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Speaker 3: I just wish that he would have said this an
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Speaker 3: interview when he was on with US. He joined KB
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Speaker 3: earlier this week. Aggregate wfn Z, you're gonna be working
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Speaker 3: here in your careers over anyway. We know that he's
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Speaker 3: replacing either you Mac or someone in the mid days
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Speaker 3: or the afternoon.
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Speaker 4: Wait a minute, what about you.
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Speaker 3: You think JJ is going to retire from snapping footballs
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Speaker 3: to run a board.
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Speaker 1: No, I slide over, I run the board. I JJ
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Speaker 1: are like that punder long Snaper combo, and you you
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Speaker 1: find yourself. Let's be honest, Fitty, you're doing a great
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Speaker 1: job here, but your destination you're gonna work in a subshop. Well,
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Speaker 1: let's be honest about this.
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Speaker 2: I mean, look, it's one of my favorite places in
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Speaker 2: the world is.
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Speaker 4: You may own one, but you're you've got sub chop
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Speaker 4: written all over you.
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Speaker 2: I've thought about it.
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Speaker 3: Whenever I go to Jersey Mike's, they're always promoting how
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Speaker 3: good it is to work for them. I've thought about
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Speaker 3: getting a second job and becoming a not.
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Speaker 1: Say, you're the potential Danny DeVito of the up Rage.
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Speaker 1: So that's the h the JJ Jansen story there. Now listen,
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Speaker 1: Ranking season, let's go through the good end of the show.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday we found out on the Jeremy Fowler ESPN dot
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Speaker 1: Com continued series where he ranks the players by executive
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Speaker 1: votes and coaches and whatnot, Derek Brown did crack the
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Speaker 1: top five for defensive tackles, right behind Chris Jones at four.
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Speaker 4: Jeffrey Simmons was in Jeffrey.
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Speaker 1: Simmons was in the top five there, So Derek Brown
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Speaker 1: made the NFL Top one hundred, made the top five
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Speaker 1: defensive tackles, got to vote for number one in that list.
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Speaker 1: There feels like it's slowly happening. He's probably not as
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Speaker 1: high as we think he should be in anything, but
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Speaker 1: at least Derek Brown's name is out there more this
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Speaker 1: offseason than it's been previous offseasons.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's about damn time.
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Speaker 3: Remember when Lebron won the Bubble Finals, they teld me
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Speaker 3: how he wanted his damn respect. It's about time that
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Speaker 3: Derek Brown's getting the respect that he's deserved and then
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Speaker 3: he's earned. But I will stand by this. I think
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Speaker 3: he's the most underappreciated player in the National Football League.
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Speaker 3: Like if he played in Dallas, Philly, New York, Chicago,
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Speaker 3: he played in the big market, we would get told
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Speaker 3: all the time he's one of the best defensive linemen
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Speaker 3: in football.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's not a coincidence that they made the playoffs
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Speaker 1: last year and the Panthers quarterback made the NFL Top
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Speaker 1: one hundred. Yep, Derek Brown starting to get some run.
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Speaker 4: Here.
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Speaker 1: Four players so far the top one hundred. Are they
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Speaker 1: as high as we think they should be? Of course not,
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Speaker 1: But at least. The Panthers are involved more now than
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Speaker 1: have been, and that's what comes with being a playoff team.
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Speaker 3: And it's why Bone I like, you know, we picked
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Speaker 3: the game the other day, like which game would we
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Speaker 3: want to win the most? And I went for the
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Speaker 3: Panthers that Sunday night game against the Lions, because that's
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Speaker 3: now the marquee game of the week, like Sunday Football
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Speaker 3: is what Monday night football used to be.
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Speaker 4: So I'm saying we've been waiting all day for Sunday Night.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly right.
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Speaker 3: And so I think if the PAMs were in that game,
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Speaker 3: like Bryce st Dom't have to play well, Derek Brown
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Speaker 3: have to play well, and it would force the national
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Speaker 3: media when they're reacting on Monday, they'd have no choice
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Speaker 3: but to talk about these guys, whereas if they're winning
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Speaker 3: games at one o'clock, they get mentioned in a highlight reel,
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Speaker 3: but they don't have to talk about the Panthers until
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Speaker 3: they're in the playoffs. So I'm really happy for dB.
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Speaker 3: I still can make the argument that when ninety on
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Speaker 3: the top one hundred was still too low, he should
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Speaker 3: be probably where J. C. Horn is at a bare minimum.
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Speaker 3: But if the Panthers play well this year, He'll play
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Speaker 3: well this year, that number one will continue to improve.
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Speaker 1: So that's on the good side. Also on the good side,
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Speaker 1: Warren Sharp Sharp analytics, who is very you know, obviously
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Speaker 1: it goes out saying analytically and stat driven. He ran
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Speaker 1: in the Panthers offensive line twelfth in the league, which,
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Speaker 1: all things considered, you lose your left tackle to injury
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Speaker 1: and then you replace him.
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Speaker 4: That's that's twelfth is pretty good.
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Speaker 1: That's the offensive line has gotten some good reviews this
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Speaker 1: week from ESPN dot Com and now Warren Charby. I
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Speaker 1: think that, you know, ultimately we want them still a
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Speaker 1: little bit higher, but we would we would take twelve
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Speaker 1: as offensive line.
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Speaker 3: And a big reason why, I think is obviously the
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Speaker 3: interior defensive line with Damian Lewis. Robert Hunt I said,
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Speaker 3: when the Ikey Aquano injury happened and they went Monroe
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Speaker 3: Freeling in the first round of the draft, that may
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Speaker 3: have been a blessing in disguise, because I think that
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Speaker 3: they have found their answer at left tackle for the
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Speaker 3: next ten to twelve years. I think Ikey, if he
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Speaker 3: gets healthy, still has a place on this roster moving forward.
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Speaker 3: I think they could convert him to play right tackle
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Speaker 3: when Timo's career is done. But credit Dan Morgan because
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Speaker 3: this wasn't a highly thought of unit when he inherited
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Speaker 3: this roster, and in just two short seasons he's got
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Speaker 3: it widely regarded as a top twelve unit across the league.
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Speaker 3: It's versatile, it's deep, they're athletic, they're young in the
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Speaker 3: right spots.
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Speaker 2: The future is bright up front for Carolina.
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Speaker 1: Now on the negative side, cbssports dot Com a couple
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Speaker 1: of days ago put out their twenty twenty six NFL
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Speaker 1: Offensive Infrastructure rankings.
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Speaker 4: So what this is.
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Speaker 1: This does not include the quarterback, but it does include
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Speaker 1: the play callers. They ranked all thirty two supporting casts
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Speaker 1: by grading play callers, offensive lines, in the weapons to
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Speaker 1: see which teams have set up their quarterbacks ultimately for
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Speaker 1: success here this coming season. And this did not go
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Speaker 1: well as well as previous lists we just gave you.
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Speaker 1: The Panthers came in at number twenty eight. In how
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Speaker 1: they've set up around Bryce on Miami was thirty two.
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Speaker 1: They were in their own tier, simply called the Dolphins.
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Speaker 1: They're in their own tier. The Panthers were in the
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Speaker 1: help need a tier with Tennessee Cleveland. I'm sorry, yes, no,
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Speaker 1: it's a there's a lot of help need a tier Tennessee, Cleveland,
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Speaker 1: Washington twenty nine, then the Panthers at twenty eight, the
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Speaker 1: Giants and the Jets at twenty seven and twenty six.
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Speaker 4: There's a lot of bone teams in.
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Speaker 1: The help wanted area there fitty based off play calling,
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Speaker 1: offensive line, weapons, and to the audience. If you think
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Speaker 1: that's right, tell us why seven oh four, five, seven
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Speaker 1: oh nine to six ten. If you disagree, tell us
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Speaker 1: the reasons why CBS will be.
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Speaker 4: Wrong with those rankings right there.
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Speaker 1: And look, I think with Cuba having a down year
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Speaker 1: compared to who he is, Bord's coming off injury. I
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Speaker 1: understand a little bit of where that is right now.
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Speaker 1: But if they're twenty eight when the year ends, we
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Speaker 1: got a big problem on our hands. If they're twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty eight now, but where can they finish? That better
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Speaker 1: not be twenty eight.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, But if they're twenty eighth when the year ends,
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Speaker 3: I think two things are on the table. One, this
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Speaker 3: team doesn't win the division, this team doesn't make the playoffs. Two,
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Speaker 3: I don't know if they're reinvesting or investing in Bryce
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Speaker 3: Young moving forward. Now, to be fair, I don't think
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Speaker 3: this list is a result of what they think or
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Speaker 3: believe in Bryce.
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Speaker 4: No, this is about how they're helping Bruys right.
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Speaker 3: Because the write up says the Panthers received average rankings
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Speaker 3: across the board.
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Speaker 2: They got a three at every position group.
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Speaker 3: And look at it. At running back. You have known
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Speaker 3: we have one known commodity and Cheba Hubbard. You hope
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Speaker 3: that Jonathan Brooks can stay healthy. I don't know what
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Speaker 3: h Chan can give you as the third down back.
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Speaker 3: We've all got our questions about the tight end room.
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Speaker 3: It's why you and I were the leaders of the
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Speaker 3: Sadiq freaks. I don't know what to expect from the
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Speaker 3: tight end room. And then you go to the wide
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Speaker 3: receiver room. Bone You've got Ta ma Ac and you
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Speaker 3: you think you have Jalen Cocher for seventeen games. You
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Speaker 3: think you like to imagine that he stays healthy. What's
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Speaker 3: the production in that room outside those two guys look
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Speaker 3: like we don't.
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Speaker 1: Know yep and so, and the tight end is that
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Speaker 1: that does not help this either.
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Speaker 4: Here.
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Speaker 1: A lot of what we talk about goes back to
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Speaker 1: that spot. But the tight end not being a factor.
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Speaker 1: A known factor is not going to help the rankings
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Speaker 1: like this.
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Speaker 3: I'd love to be able to argue against it and
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Speaker 3: make the argument against it. I don't think I can
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Speaker 3: like as much as I believe in what the Panthers
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Speaker 3: offense will be. What the Panthers offense can be. I
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Speaker 3: think Bryce is poised to have his best statistical career
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Speaker 3: in the National Football League. It's me putting a lot
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Speaker 3: of faith in some of these guys being able to
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Speaker 3: stay healthy and then just produce at a level that
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Speaker 3: we haven't seen them produce that, Like, I think Brasl's
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Speaker 3: going to have.
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Speaker 2: A bigger role than that.
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Speaker 3: Maybe when they put the list together, they were probably
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Speaker 3: anticipating maybe exaferly Get does finally emerge and as a
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Speaker 3: difference maker at that wide receiver spot for Bryce Young.
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Speaker 3: If Jonathan Brooks is healthy, I think we feel different
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Speaker 3: about the running game.
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Speaker 2: Can can Tremble? Can can JT. Sanders?
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Speaker 3: Can those guys finally be what we've been talking about
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Speaker 3: them being since they got drafted. If all that, if
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Speaker 3: that happens, then the Panthers when they do this list
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Speaker 3: at the end of the year next year, but they'll
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Speaker 3: be higher than twenty eight.
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Speaker 2: That's for damn sure.
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Speaker 1: One thing that needs to be mentioned that factors into
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Speaker 1: this is the play callers are part of this ranking,
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Speaker 1: and that's why New Orleans is fourteen spots higher than
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Speaker 1: the Panthers are, and that's because of the job that
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Speaker 1: Kellen Moore did last year with Tyler Shuck. Right now,
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Speaker 1: the Panthers play caller Brad Izick, you know, that's that's new.
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Speaker 1: We think Bevil's going to help. We know that it's
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Speaker 1: going to be Canalis as plays. But you know, in
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Speaker 1: fairness to this ranking, they've got Brad Izick as the
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Speaker 1: play caller of course, and that's that's an unknown as well.
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Speaker 1: So you know, I want to sit here and cry foul,
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Speaker 1: and I think they will be better than this. But
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of questions that I understand why Brooks
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Speaker 1: is a question still, Idsick's a question. There are a
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Speaker 1: lot of questions that need to be answered. I think
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Speaker 1: they will, but for this ranking year, I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's not week seven, it's it's July, so I get it.
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Speaker 3: Brad Isaack isn't unknown. That doesn't mean though that bone
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Speaker 3: there aren't people in the media that believe in him.
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Speaker 3: Here's what Cameron Wolff had to say yesterday about his
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Speaker 3: expectations for the first time play calling Brad Iszack.
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Speaker 5: Let's go to Carolina where they have the same coordinator,
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Speaker 5: but in a new role. Brad Isaac will now be
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Speaker 5: the play caller, with Dave Canalis now looking over the
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Speaker 5: entire offense, the entire.
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Speaker 4: Team in a CEO role.
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Speaker 5: I think that's going to be great for both parties.
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Speaker 4: But a little bit more for Isac. He specialty is
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Speaker 4: wide receivers. He's been the.
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Speaker 5: Guy behind the hub helping this Carolina Panthers offense do well.
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Speaker 5: He helped tedor Ro McMillan have a thousand yards last year.
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Speaker 5: He can help him continue to be one of the
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Speaker 5: best receivers in football. They obviously drafted a young receiver
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Speaker 5: that can come in and play spots where McMillan can
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Speaker 5: play a lot more in the slot, and unleashed this
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Speaker 5: offense for.
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Speaker 4: Bryce in a new way.
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Speaker 5: They've created a basketball team of six three or taller
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Speaker 5: receivers for Bryce Young and I've been really high on
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Speaker 5: this Panthers team is it can be the guy that
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Speaker 5: can really help elevate them As a play caller. His
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Speaker 5: connection with Bryce Young has been really cool to see.
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Speaker 5: I talked to both of them in camp last year,
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Speaker 5: and is it challenge Bryce Young to be more vocal
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Speaker 5: with the team use his leadership. He did that and
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Speaker 5: players saw a different version of Bryce. Can't wait to
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Speaker 5: see what they do another year together in a different role.
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Speaker 1: There's Cameron Wolf NFL Network. One thing that will be
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Speaker 1: interesting about the change to Zick is there's the exig
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Speaker 1: part of it. How does he do But there's also
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Speaker 1: the freeing of the mind of Canallas and how that
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Speaker 1: helps his game management? So can they get the best
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Speaker 1: of both worlds? And that might be why where Bevil
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Speaker 1: comes in to play. Here. Bevill's gonna go help Ezick
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Speaker 1: learn how to call plays and free of mind canaas
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Speaker 1: without having to look at that play sheet the whole time.
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Speaker 1: That will be interesting to see how that helps out
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Speaker 1: the overall coaching of this team.
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Speaker 6: It does.
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Speaker 3: It does make you believe that the Panthers will be
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Speaker 3: a lot more cleaner in some of their two minutag
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Speaker 3: drills and some of their execution stuff, because look at
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Speaker 3: how many times last year the Panthers would would not
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Speaker 3: be lined up after a big play because your head
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Speaker 3: coach was he would admit it, but Canal has got
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Speaker 3: caught up.
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Speaker 4: In the moment.
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Speaker 1: His face in the UH he's looking at like me
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Speaker 1: looking at a waffle ells man here.
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Speaker 3: So I I'm hesitant because calling plays are not is
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Speaker 3: not easy. But I think that's why Darryl Bevill got added.
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Speaker 3: And I put a lot of trust in faith in
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Speaker 3: the relationship Insach has with Bryce. And not to say
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Speaker 3: that there's friction between Bryce and Canalis bone I've always
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Speaker 3: thought there was a disconnect between play caller and quarterback.
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Speaker 3: I think that's why we've seen the inconsistencies from both
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Speaker 3: those guys since Dave Canalis arrived here.
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Speaker 2: I don't think that'll be the same case with Isaac.
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Speaker 3: I think those two guys speak the same language and
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Speaker 3: they'll be able to kind of work through their differences
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Speaker 3: when they have, you know, a three and out or
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Speaker 3: two three and outs back to back, whatever it is.
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Speaker 3: I'm excited to see how Issit grows as a play caller.
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Speaker 4: When we come back.
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Speaker 1: First of all said in your thoughts seven oh four, five,
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Speaker 1: seven oh nine, six ten on the Affordable siding and
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Speaker 1: windows text lining your hometown home Experts, we come back
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Speaker 1: our friend Cole Bryson from the Fan Upstate is back.
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Speaker 1: We're going to take a look at where Clemson stands
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Speaker 1: right now as we approach the season, and the game
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Speaker 1: Cocks as well. What's the vibe of the Clemson fan
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Speaker 1: down there? Sports Radio ninety two seven WFNZ. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: t Bone here. No updates yet on how my bulldog
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Speaker 1: Murphy is doing with the cleaning crew. This is a
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Speaker 1: first they've met the dog simply known as Hannibal Lickter,
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Speaker 1: and hopefully he does not assault and mess too much
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Speaker 1: with the cleaning crew. So I'm very nervous today about
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Speaker 1: what I'm coming home to you. What I'm not nervous
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Speaker 1: about is talking to our next guest, friend of the program,
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Speaker 1: host of the Upstate in the afternoons down there in
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Speaker 1: South Carolina, Cole Bryson makes his return to the program.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk Clemson, Game Cocks, the fan vibes and
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Speaker 1: all of that. Cale, My man, thanks so much for
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Speaker 1: joining us. I appreciate it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, man, If I ever start making you nervous, you
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Speaker 6: know you're a bad place in life. Buddy.
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Speaker 1: Clemson fans might be a little bit nervous right now
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Speaker 1: about the state of the football program. Walk us through
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Speaker 1: right now if you can, the mindset and the vibe
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Speaker 1: of the Clemson football fan as we approach the season.
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Speaker 6: Well, you know, the funny part about that bone is
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Speaker 6: that the first game out of the gates LSU, right yep.
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Speaker 6: And you know, for the longest time, Clemson and other
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Speaker 6: teams they got some warm up games. And I'm not
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Speaker 6: saying that like warm up games make you a better
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Speaker 6: team or they give you time, but they are they
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Speaker 6: are very important to a team when you talk about
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Speaker 6: getting off on the right foot with a new quarterback
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Speaker 6: like Clemson has this year in Christopher Vizena. So you've
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Speaker 6: got a guy and Christopher Vesena who doesn't have a
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Speaker 6: ton of experience. He played a little bit last year,
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Speaker 6: but now he's going into the full time starting role
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Speaker 6: as the guy for the first time. And you go, look,
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Speaker 6: we were talking about this yesterday on my show Go
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Speaker 6: Back and look on the last few years of Davos
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Speaker 6: Sweeney and season openers, Clemson's look unprepared. They've looked unprepared
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Speaker 6: in season open and season opener. So I think when
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Speaker 6: you talk about Clemson's outlook and fan vibes, I think
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Speaker 6: there's a lot of nervousness just because you have a
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Speaker 6: new quarterback in Christopher Verzena. I think the roster itself
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Speaker 6: isn't as talented as on paper as last year's was.
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Speaker 6: Though last year's underperformed in a major way. I think
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Speaker 6: the record could be better. But when you start out
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Speaker 6: in Baton Rouge going against Lane Kiffin, I don't know
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Speaker 6: that there's a Clemson fan in the upstate right now
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Speaker 6: that feels really good about that Boe.
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Speaker 1: The last time I checked, I think the point spread
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Speaker 1: was eleven eleven and a half.
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Speaker 4: I think it opened.
18:18
Speaker 1: So think about that point spread a couple of years ago,
18:21
Speaker 1: where Clempson would never be eleven point underdogs against anybody.
18:26
Speaker 1: What's the obviously the quarterback you mentioned there, Outside of that,
18:30
Speaker 1: what's the what's the biggest question about Clemson's roster and
18:34
Speaker 1: where do you think they're strong entering the year?
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Speaker 6: Well, you know, I do feel good about Tom Allen
18:40
Speaker 6: coming back, having another full off season as defensive coordinator.
18:44
Speaker 6: I'll start with the strongest part of the question. First,
18:48
Speaker 6: this defensive unit's going to be led by one of
18:51
Speaker 6: the ACC's best linebackers, one of the nation's best linebackers
18:54
Speaker 6: and Sammy Brown. Sammy Brown's a guy that's going to
18:57
Speaker 6: be playing on Sundays and he is that in tag
19:00
Speaker 6: full of a player. So I feel good about Semmi
19:02
Speaker 6: Brown will help. Last year, the transfer in from Purdue
19:06
Speaker 6: had a big season. I expect him to have a
19:09
Speaker 6: big season. The defense was really bad at times last
19:12
Speaker 6: year bone they got gashed. I sat there in the
19:14
Speaker 6: press box and watched them get gassed by SMU last year.
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Speaker 6: Just play after play, drive after drive. And this defense
19:22
Speaker 6: has to be better. I mean they have to be
19:24
Speaker 6: better in twenty twenty six. They don't have a choice.
19:27
Speaker 6: So Tom Allen from Penn State, he's in the system
19:30
Speaker 6: now for a couple of years. I do feel better
19:32
Speaker 6: about it. Last year he talked about a few times
19:35
Speaker 6: not having the right guys that he wanted in the system,
19:38
Speaker 6: and I think through the poral and recruiting now that
19:40
Speaker 6: he's had a little bit of time to get those
19:42
Speaker 6: guys in, plus Sammy Brown, who I talked about, So
19:45
Speaker 6: I do feel better. If you're a Clemson fan, I
19:48
Speaker 6: think you should feel better about the defensive unit, especially
19:52
Speaker 6: led by guys like Sammy Brown and will help. That's
19:55
Speaker 6: going to be a veteran unit on defense. Where I
19:58
Speaker 6: think there is a little bit of concern is on
20:00
Speaker 6: the offensive side. With first year had first year play
20:03
Speaker 6: caller Chad Morris. Dab O Sweeney goes back to the
20:06
Speaker 6: well as we know and brings his old buddy Chad
20:09
Speaker 6: Morris from the glory days back in. And Chad Morris
20:12
Speaker 6: is a veteran play caller, but he's been out of
20:15
Speaker 6: the game for a couple of years. And Chad Morris
20:17
Speaker 6: was really successful at Clintson when he had new Compkins
20:21
Speaker 6: and Sammy Watkins. You heard of those guys, Well, bet
20:24
Speaker 6: nuth flash, they don't have those guys right now now,
20:27
Speaker 6: no disrespect. Bryant Westco is a really good receiver and
20:30
Speaker 6: I think he's gonna have a big year for Clintson.
20:33
Speaker 6: And they've got some talent at the receiver position, and
20:36
Speaker 6: I think TJ. Moore and Tristan Smith can all have
20:39
Speaker 6: big years at receiver. Also, a guy right there out
20:42
Speaker 6: of y'all's backyard, Golden Sellar's the third wide receiver sixty
20:45
Speaker 6: three to two hundred out of Providence Day, I think
20:47
Speaker 6: he could have a big year as well. But when
20:49
Speaker 6: you talk about then, when you talk about a brand
20:52
Speaker 6: new quarterback and Christopher Vezina and a brand new OC.
20:56
Speaker 6: There's a lot of questions there. If they're playing at
20:59
Speaker 6: State eight week one, there's not as many questions. If
21:02
Speaker 6: they're playing South Till on a state week one, there's
21:05
Speaker 6: not as many questions. But when you are going to
21:07
Speaker 6: have your feet held to the fire like they are
21:10
Speaker 6: week one, it just raises the awareness as you know,
21:14
Speaker 6: and we're going into that game in every mistake will
21:17
Speaker 6: be maximized in a big way. So I think that's
21:19
Speaker 6: your strengths on defense and your concern with a first
21:22
Speaker 6: year as see in a first year quarterback.
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Speaker 1: That's the voice of Cole Bryce in the fan upstay
21:27
Speaker 1: down there in South Carolina. We will talk about the
21:30
Speaker 1: game costs here momentarily. One more question on Clemson really
21:34
Speaker 1: for the first time in full there's been some questions,
21:38
Speaker 1: whether it be the national level down here about what
21:42
Speaker 1: exactly is the future of Dabo. Some even have said
21:45
Speaker 1: hot seat. Are those justified discussions or do you find
21:50
Speaker 1: those preposterous.
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Speaker 6: I'll land somewhere in the middle. Okay, I'll land somewhere
21:56
Speaker 6: in the middle on that. Look, the reality is bomed
21:59
Speaker 6: down doesn't get the benefit of the doubt anymore. You
22:03
Speaker 6: mentioned that point spread against LSU, Davosweeny does not get
22:08
Speaker 6: the benefit of the doubt like he did five years ago.
22:11
Speaker 6: Davos Sweeney's back to a place now where he has
22:14
Speaker 6: to consistently and constantly prove himself and prove that this
22:19
Speaker 6: program can compete on a national level, because if you
22:23
Speaker 6: go back and look at the past five years, this
22:25
Speaker 6: program has been embarrassed on the national stage by the
22:29
Speaker 6: likes of Georgia LSU last year. Heck SMU at Hall
22:33
Speaker 6: of the ACC. They couldn't even perform in the ACC
22:35
Speaker 6: last year. So you go look, I think it all
22:38
Speaker 6: starts back in twenty twenty three when they lost on
22:40
Speaker 6: Monday night football Labor Day Night to Duke. We all
22:43
Speaker 6: remember that game and Clemson was by far the superior
22:47
Speaker 6: talent on paper at least. But to answer your question,
22:51
Speaker 6: Devo Sweeny's back to a place where he has to
22:54
Speaker 6: prove himself now. When you look at what he's done
22:57
Speaker 6: this offseason with the recruiting and tossing money around and
23:00
Speaker 6: getting players committed to the program through recruiting and blue
23:03
Speaker 6: chip guys, there's a lot of positivity there there's a
23:07
Speaker 6: lot of momentum there. However, you're judged by what you
23:10
Speaker 6: do on Saturdays. While all that's great, all that's fine
23:13
Speaker 6: and dandy, and getting big recruits is obviously part of
23:16
Speaker 6: the game. He's ultimately gonna be judged by what happens
23:20
Speaker 6: against LSU. He's gonna be judged just a few weeks later,
23:24
Speaker 6: just a few weeks later when he plays Miami and
23:27
Speaker 6: dari and Menza. You're judged on Saturdays, and Davos Sleeni's
23:31
Speaker 6: back to a place where he has to prove himself
23:34
Speaker 6: and the program has to prove himself. Weake in and
23:36
Speaker 6: week out. I don't think Davosleeni is on a hot
23:39
Speaker 6: seat right now. Do I think Davosleeni knows that this
23:43
Speaker 6: program has fallen, has taken a step back. I absolutely do.
23:47
Speaker 6: And you look at the change in coordinators in the
23:50
Speaker 6: past few years on the defensive side and the offensive side,
23:53
Speaker 6: of the Garrett Riley experiment not working. It all comes
23:56
Speaker 6: back to me during Clemson's heyday. Davos Selene he had
24:00
Speaker 6: stability at OC, He's had stability at DC. Tony Elliott
24:04
Speaker 6: at OC won eleven games last year at Virginia as
24:07
Speaker 6: the Cavaliers head coach after a Rocky started at Virginia Vitables.
24:11
Speaker 6: We all know what he's doing. And when Davos Sweeny
24:14
Speaker 6: had to replace those two guys, clemtson football has not
24:16
Speaker 6: been the same.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, on the record, pre Vetables and post Venables. It's
24:21
Speaker 1: it's eye opening to say the least. Start talking to
24:23
Speaker 1: cole Brice and the fan upstate. We'll not talk about
24:26
Speaker 1: the game Cocks. And last year it felt like one
24:29
Speaker 1: of the worst Sellers was almost a one man operation
24:31
Speaker 1: at times fighting for his wife on offense. How how
24:36
Speaker 1: much better if you think they are? Do you think
24:38
Speaker 1: this team has set up for success around Lenora Sellers
24:42
Speaker 1: this year?
24:43
Speaker 6: Well, you know, the offensive line was as bad as
24:45
Speaker 6: the offensive line could be last year at times, and
24:47
Speaker 6: you had a left guard, you had a true flashman
24:50
Speaker 6: from Gaffney starting a big a big kid in sarat
24:54
Speaker 6: on the left side. On the right side, you had
24:56
Speaker 6: injuries all season long, so you had talent there. Fire
25:00
Speaker 6: your offensive line coach Lonnie Peasley halfway through the season,
25:04
Speaker 6: and then you bring in a guy in the off season,
25:06
Speaker 6: you bring some coaching changes in, you bring in a
25:08
Speaker 6: new running back coach. You bring in a new offensive
25:10
Speaker 6: line coach, and Stan Drayton, you bring in a new
25:12
Speaker 6: offensive coordinator and Kendall Brile. So Lenora's Sellers last year
25:16
Speaker 6: you talk about a one man show. He was playing
25:18
Speaker 6: that fiddle and nobody else in the band was joining
25:20
Speaker 6: along right now. To be fair, Lenora's did not have
25:24
Speaker 6: a good year last year. He did not. He regressed
25:26
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty five, and I think he'd be the
25:28
Speaker 6: first one to tell you that. However, if you look
25:30
Speaker 6: around Leanora Sellers, that offensive line was never consistent and
25:34
Speaker 6: never consistently healthy. So obviously, newsflash, that's where it starts.
25:39
Speaker 6: And I think the offensive line will be a lot
25:41
Speaker 6: better this year. I a lot of what they did
25:43
Speaker 6: in the off season where the assistant coaching changes. Beamer
25:47
Speaker 6: was you talk about hot seat man. Beemer was aggressive,
25:50
Speaker 6: like Beamle was really aggressive in the offseason go out
25:54
Speaker 6: and get in some of these assistant coaches. I mean,
25:56
Speaker 6: we were down there just a few months ago interviewing
25:59
Speaker 6: three brand new coaches at the same time. So he
26:02
Speaker 6: knew something had to change. He knew that Leonora Sellers
26:06
Speaker 6: was the future of this offense for twenty twenty six.
26:08
Speaker 6: But when you go watch Leonoras in twenty twenty five
26:12
Speaker 6: compared to twenty twenty four, there were things that Lenoras
26:15
Speaker 6: did not look as comfortable with last year bone as
26:18
Speaker 6: he did two years ago, just in the way that
26:21
Speaker 6: he played his style. The freedom he played with in
26:24
Speaker 6: two thousand twenty four, it wasn't there in twenty twenty five.
26:27
Speaker 6: And I think when he feels most comfortable, he can
26:30
Speaker 6: have that freedom to play just like he is is
26:34
Speaker 6: designed to play because when he's at his best, he's
26:36
Speaker 6: a good quarterback. Now when you bring in Kendall Briles,
26:39
Speaker 6: and I think it's a great hire. Now Kendall Briles
26:42
Speaker 6: hasn't called a single play yet. When you bring in
26:44
Speaker 6: Kendall Briles to pair with Lenora Sellers, I think that's
26:47
Speaker 6: a big time move in South Carolina. Now in twenty
26:51
Speaker 6: twenty six, they're still in the SEC, they still play
26:55
Speaker 6: a gauntlet of a schedule, but I think they're much
26:57
Speaker 6: more prepared heading into the season on their part than
27:01
Speaker 6: they were in twenty twenty five. If that makes sense.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Cole, you're the best man. We appreciate it. We
27:05
Speaker 1: urge people to give you a follow on Twitter. At
27:08
Speaker 1: the Cole Bryson of the Fan ups that you're the
27:12
Speaker 1: best man. I'm sure we'll talk again soon as the
27:15
Speaker 1: storylines develop for both the Tigers and the game Cocks
27:19
Speaker 1: here at twenty twenty six.
27:21
Speaker 6: Thanks as always, man, all right, thanks.
27:22
Speaker 1: That's cole Bryson there. The fan ups. Interesting comments there
27:26
Speaker 1: about Dabo Sweeney. He's doing radio down there and he's
27:30
Speaker 1: kind of in the middle of the Dabos future of
27:33
Speaker 1: looking kind of murky discussion there, fit Dog.
27:36
Speaker 2: I've maintained this belief.
27:38
Speaker 3: It just feels like twenty twenty six is a very
27:42
Speaker 3: important yearns of that.
27:43
Speaker 1: I do not think they will ever fire him. I
27:45
Speaker 1: don't think the words fired will ever come out there.
27:48
Speaker 1: He may move on, they may part ways and will
27:51
Speaker 1: know what it is. I don't think they're ever going
27:53
Speaker 1: to outright put out there publicly that he's fired. That's
27:56
Speaker 1: just my thing on it. He may leave and go
27:59
Speaker 1: do TV ever, but you're never gonna hear. I don't
28:02
Speaker 1: think they're gonna publicly fire nowbo.
28:05
Speaker 3: I think it's interesting if football is different than than
28:09
Speaker 3: these basketball coaches that have tenure, right, like you know
28:12
Speaker 3: you knew that Dean Smith, Roy Williams coach Kelly. Those
28:15
Speaker 3: guys were never there was They were never gonna get
28:18
Speaker 3: fired if they had a bad year or even two
28:21
Speaker 3: bad years. But boone, if if this is a six
28:25
Speaker 3: and six, seven and five program, if this is what
28:28
Speaker 3: they are again, especially in this conference, I think that's
28:32
Speaker 3: what's they They adn't even got into the SEC, the
28:36
Speaker 3: Big Ten. They've regressed in the ACC, which I think
28:40
Speaker 3: is the fourth conference in the Power for I think
28:43
Speaker 3: the Big twelve is a better conference than the ACC is.
28:47
Speaker 3: I look at their schedule. I think this should go
28:50
Speaker 3: ten and two at Rivers nine and three. If if
28:54
Speaker 3: South Carolina is as improved as people think they are, like,
28:58
Speaker 3: they should lose to LSU, they should lose to Miami,
29:01
Speaker 3: maybe they lose their rivalry game. Clems should be losing
29:05
Speaker 3: these other teams. Man, it's just point playing simple.
29:07
Speaker 1: Well, we have to see about Virginia Tech, right, I mean,
29:10
Speaker 1: that's that's one. They got Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech
29:13
Speaker 1: at home. But I will say they've you know, I
29:16
Speaker 1: don't think Duke's gonna be what they were the last
29:18
Speaker 1: couple of years, but they've lost.
29:19
Speaker 4: To in a row a Duke also down there, So
29:21
Speaker 4: I get. You never know in this weird acc there
29:24
Speaker 4: could be a matchup that sneaks up on somebody. I
29:26
Speaker 4: don't know, but they.
29:26
Speaker 3: Better have their eye on that team from Chapel Hill.
29:29
Speaker 3: That's all I got to tell you. I think I
29:31
Speaker 3: think Belichick's got a thing up his hoodie for for
29:33
Speaker 3: Dabo this year after what happened last year.
29:36
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32:56
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34:57
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35:00
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35:02
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35:05
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35:07
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35:12
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35:16
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35:20
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35:23
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35:23
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35:26
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35:28
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35:32
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35:35
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35:39
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35:39
Speaker 2: LSU i do.
35:41
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35:44
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35:47
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35:49
Speaker 1: ROUGE i have a very up and down view Of Lane.
35:52
Speaker 1: KIFFIN i used to hate him and he got The
35:54
Speaker 1: Old miss AND i kind of liked, him and NOW
35:55
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35:58
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36:00
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36:04
Speaker 1: people are gonna be into that with.
36:05
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36:07
Speaker 3: same warm and fuzzy feelings About kiffin And lsu as
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Speaker 3: we did during his time In. Oxford number FOUR i
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Speaker 3: went With Marcus freeman Of Notre Dame, bone AND i do.
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Speaker 1: Respect, that not as A Notre dame, fan because that's
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Speaker 1: not WHAT i, am BUT i do respect that you
36:22
Speaker 1: put him on the.
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Speaker 3: LIST i think there's a case to be made that
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Speaker 3: maybe this time next, year If i'm ranking my top
36:30
Speaker 3: five coaches in college, football he's not in my top,
36:32
Speaker 3: five not because he's not a top five. COACH i
36:35
Speaker 3: do think at some point he'll have to go to THE.
36:37
Speaker 3: NFL i think the offers are going to be too
36:40
Speaker 3: much for him to pass.
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Speaker 2: Up he's done the.
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Speaker 3: Impossible he's Made Notre DAME i think likable to a
36:47
Speaker 3: lot of people that don't Like Notre. Dame mack will
36:49
Speaker 3: push back on. THAT i don't have.
36:51
Speaker 4: To Replace Brian, kelly so that might be part of.
36:53
Speaker 3: IT i don't have the generational disdain for the Fighting,
36:56
Speaker 3: irish not the biggest fan of that, program but it's
37:00
Speaker 3: hard to root against, him AND i guess kind of
37:03
Speaker 3: the character that he's brought to that job after the
37:05
Speaker 3: Way Brian kelly conducted. Himself i'd like to think he
37:09
Speaker 3: stays In South bend long enough to win a national,
37:11
Speaker 3: championship BECAUSE i think it'd be good for the sport
37:14
Speaker 3: to have that program back on the national title. Platform
37:18
Speaker 3: BUT i do think at some point this guy is
37:20
Speaker 3: going to be in THE.
37:21
Speaker 1: Nfl, also let's be honest and you're not afraid to
37:24
Speaker 1: say this. Either, well he's got to be one of,
37:26
Speaker 1: the if not the best looking college football.
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Speaker 4: Coach he's up.
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Speaker 2: There, Yeah i'm very jealous THAT i don't.
37:32
Speaker 4: LOOK i.
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Speaker 2: DON'T i don't look At Marcus.
37:34
Speaker 4: Freeman this guy is another level.
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Speaker 3: Here he has the, hair the, eyes underrated, shoulders he
37:39
Speaker 3: has a.
37:40
Speaker 4: Guy he is all, right go, ahead number, three all,
37:42
Speaker 4: right number, three number.
37:44
Speaker 3: THREE i Put Ryan day on this. LIST i think
37:48
Speaker 3: it's very. Appropriate and did finally get over the, hump
37:52
Speaker 3: won the national championship two years, ago got over the,
37:56
Speaker 3: hump finally beat his Rival michigan last.
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Speaker 2: Year but, pone there's an argument to be.
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Speaker 3: Made no coach has done less with more than What
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Speaker 3: Ryan day has done In Ohio. State like we always
38:08
Speaker 3: make the joke about doing less with, more not making
38:12
Speaker 3: national title games in.
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Speaker 2: BASKETBALL i, DON'T i.
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Speaker 4: Don't i'm, NOT i.
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Speaker 2: DON'T i know you don't make the, joke but you
38:17
Speaker 2: have to listen to it from.
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Speaker 3: ME a lot the same could be applied To Ryan
38:22
Speaker 3: day when what he's done In columbus because he's.
38:25
Speaker 4: Had, titles he does have a, championship he does have
38:30
Speaker 4: A this is not Gonna i'm just gonna tell you right,
38:33
Speaker 4: NOW i know How Ohio state fans are. This you've
38:36
Speaker 4: just you've just opened up.
38:37
Speaker 1: A problem for yourself more than likely BECAUSE i think he's,
38:41
Speaker 1: yeah he's had this, opportunities but the guy has still
38:45
Speaker 1: been one hell of a football coach and he has a.
38:47
Speaker 3: Title he checks in number three on ESPN's, list, though
38:51
Speaker 3: so you see the.
38:52
Speaker 4: Mothership you said less with, More MAYBE i am all,
38:57
Speaker 4: right go, ahead number.
38:58
Speaker 3: TWO i Have Indiana's Kurt signetti checking in at number. Two,
39:06
Speaker 3: obviously last year the best story maybe in the history
39:09
Speaker 3: of the, sport taking the losing this program of all
39:12
Speaker 3: time from a power conference, level going undefeated first sixteen
39:16
Speaker 3: to oh team to win a national. Championship his first
39:20
Speaker 3: two years has been nothing short of. Impressed i've taken
39:23
Speaker 3: That indiana program to the. Playoff and maybe this is
39:27
Speaker 3: still Because i'm, bitter bitter Because i've been told that
39:32
Speaker 3: Had carolina fired Mac brown when they fired Mac, brown
39:37
Speaker 3: That signetti would have taken the job and we could
39:40
Speaker 3: have Had signetti.
39:43
Speaker 2: In Chapel hill had they moved on from Mac brown
39:45
Speaker 2: one year.
39:45
Speaker 3: EARLIER i also am interested to see how sustainable this.
39:50
Speaker 3: Is the financial investment is, There BUT i don't know
39:55
Speaker 3: If i'm ready to admit out, Loud bud That indiana
39:57
Speaker 3: is going to be a player here in you're out
40:00
Speaker 3: on the college football Seem with that being, said right,
40:03
Speaker 3: now he's my number two coach in the.
40:04
Speaker 4: Country you're both in a good.
40:05
Speaker 1: Spot you Got belichick he's doing, well And signet he's
40:08
Speaker 1: doing all. Right so it all worked out for the everybody.
40:10
Speaker 1: Involved their number, one number.
40:12
Speaker 2: One number.
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Speaker 3: ONE i still Go Kirby smart BECAUSE i think that's
40:17
Speaker 3: the program right NOW i trust the most to be
40:23
Speaker 3: in the, playoff be top six come Selection, sunday and
40:27
Speaker 3: we're talking about them getting too the semi, finals having a.
40:30
Speaker 2: Chance to win a national.
40:31
Speaker 3: Championship it feels like they're a lot to be In
40:34
Speaker 3: atlanta every year for THE sez title. Game and that's
40:38
Speaker 3: with the quarterback maybe not being where you would expect
40:40
Speaker 3: a program with the stature Of georgia to, be BECAUSE
40:43
Speaker 3: i don't Think Gunnar stockton is the third best quarterback
40:46
Speaker 3: in the conference like on three.
40:48
Speaker 2: Ranked him earlier this.
40:49
Speaker 3: Week BUT i do think this is right now the
40:53
Speaker 3: best program in the, country AND i Think Kirby smart
40:57
Speaker 3: right now is still the best coach in all the.
40:59
Speaker 1: College Football so fidy Goes kiffin Five freeman Four day,
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Speaker 1: Three Kurt signetti Two Old kerbs number ones and in
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Speaker 1: your thoughts On fiddy's list seven oh four five seven
41:13
Speaker 1: h nine six' ten and if, you're angry tell him
41:16
Speaker 1: in all caps and send in a very stern Words
41:19
Speaker 1: towards phitti's. TOP five a good, job there. Fit dog
41:21
Speaker 1: which one do you think is going to cause the
41:23
Speaker 1: most costa pa not costa pation what we're mooting?
41:26
Speaker 4: For, There, consternation.
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Speaker 2: Yeah consternation Probably The ohio state One.
41:30
Speaker 3: Qced buckeye he has two wins against a team, up
41:33
Speaker 3: north three counting than. Ducking them in, twenty twenty he lost.
41:40
Speaker 4: Four straight he got to. Own that he got he gotta.
41:43
Speaker 4: Own that we've seen what.
41:44
Speaker 3: Happens the coach that loses four straight in, that rivalry
41:47
Speaker 3: that usually gets. Them fired and boe have they not
41:49
Speaker 3: bounced back in that playoff and won the national championship
41:53
Speaker 3: as the, EIGHT seed i very well think he would have.
41:56
Speaker 3: Been fired so that's gonna be the one with the.
42:00
Speaker 3: Most PUSHBACK but i Do think i'm not the only
42:03
Speaker 3: one that has that Sentiment about ryan day and the underachieving.
42:08
Speaker 3: In parentheses if people he's done With That ohio.
42:10
Speaker 4: State program when we.
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