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Mac & Bone Hour 3: Panthering Up? · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, oh, oh, it's Mac and Bo on your radio, baby.
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  Speaker 2: This is my friend Matt. Posh, come on, Posh. This
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: is my friend T-Bone. Let's have some fun.
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  Speaker 1: I can't go to work without listening to Mac and Bone.
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  Speaker 2: Do it live. WFNZ, Mac and Bone with you.
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  Speaker 3: We're live in the fan cave. It's awesome doing a
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  Speaker 3: show on the couch, Bone. We ought to do this
• 0:32
  Speaker 3: more often, man. This is beautiful. We are at the
• 0:34
  Speaker 3: Fan Cave Harris Casino, our Cherokee Casino Resort, in the Sportsbook.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, Bone, everything is quiet out there. Not you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: That is the second meanest thing Bone said to me
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  Speaker 3: earlier during the break.
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: Bone said, yeah, I can hear you breathing. It's really
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: bothering me. And I'm like, does Bone want me to
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: cease from breathing? Out of context. Out of context.
• 1:02
  Speaker 4: I was saying that when you're doing the interview and
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  Speaker 4: it's quieter, you were up so high. I could hear
• 1:07
  Speaker 4: you breathing more than I normally could as I was
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  Speaker 4: adjusting my own head.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I thought your complaint was back is still breathing.
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  Speaker 2: When's this old man going to keel over?
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's another thing. We were adjusting. This must be
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  Speaker 4: how Ian Eagle treats Evan Washburn.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh. Anyway, let's do it, baby. Is this
• 1:26
  Speaker 3: how Joe Buck treats Troy?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Better not go there.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, we ain't bringing Evan in any of this stuff,
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  Speaker 3: all right? We're not going to get Evan in trouble.
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  Speaker 3: Evan Washburn, CBS, we talked. to the great Ian Eagle yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: and he raved about Evan Washburn, said all the kind things,
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  Speaker 3: as you would expect. Evan Washburn, nice enough to join
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  Speaker 3: us now, before being on the sidelines for the CBS
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  Speaker 3: broadcast of Panthers-Eagles on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Evan, how you doing today, man? Thanks for coming on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good morning, fellas. I'm glad those checks are paying
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  Speaker 1: off for Ian. He charges a heavy premium for kind words,
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  Speaker 1: but it's worth it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, brother.
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  Speaker 3: He's doing his job. If you're paying, you're getting your
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  Speaker 3: money's worth.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 3: So this one, Evan, like all of us, the way
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  Speaker 3: we've talked about this game has obviously changed when we
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  Speaker 3: get the news about Jalen Hurts. And I mean, the
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  Speaker 3: most important thing is, man, your heart goes out to
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  Speaker 3: him with his blood clots. We've seen it here with
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  Speaker 3: Taylor Moten. This is serious stuff. But it does change
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  Speaker 3: the complexion of the game. What are your thoughts on Hurts' situation?
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  Speaker 3: And Tanner McKee, I'm sure you're... You're scrambling now to
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  Speaker 3: dig up probably some late-week info on Jalen's situation, but
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  Speaker 3: also on who Tanner McKee is, right?
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  Speaker 1: Well said. Whenever you hear blood clots, and I thought
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  Speaker 1: Taylor's comments coming back to practice about what he went
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  Speaker 1: through now carries even more weight because of what you
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  Speaker 1: think Jalen has to go through now. with this situation,
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  Speaker 1: but it just seems to be the next and what's
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  Speaker 1: been a nightmare season for the Philadelphia Eagles in terms
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  Speaker 1: of injuries, availability, with Lane Johnson having to step away.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a market that doesn't pay kindly to struggles,
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  Speaker 1: even if it's kind of out of your hands from
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  Speaker 1: a health perspective. So that adds a weight to it,
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  Speaker 1: the home game. So all those things, it really feels
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  Speaker 1: like we're walking into a cauldron in so many ways.
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  Speaker 1: So the one thing I've realized though, doing this job,
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  Speaker 1: all that said, wacky stuff happens on Sundays or Mondays
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  Speaker 1: or Thursday nights. And so we can have all these
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and we will about what this means for the
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  Speaker 1: matchup and how much this benefits Carolina. But until you
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  Speaker 1: see it on the field, a lot of it's just projection.
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  Speaker 4: Evan, your role and what you do on the sidelines,
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  Speaker 4: it's not just relaying the in-game information to your, you're
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  Speaker 4: very much a storyteller. So how compelling is this story
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  Speaker 4: of Bryce Young right now from where he was to
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  Speaker 4: where he is now and where it appears that he's
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  Speaker 4: going as the future of this franchise?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's arguably the best story in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: right now that probably isn't getting as much attention as
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  Speaker 1: it should. And I think that'll pick up here. I
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  Speaker 1: thought Sunday night helped a win and a performance in
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia in that market, a big window for us at
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  Speaker 1: 1 p.m. will help. I can't believe what I'm seeing
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  Speaker 1: from a, I want to say performance, but really just
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  Speaker 1: what seems to be an extremely calm guy in the pocket.
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  Speaker 1: And that has not been the case, as you guys
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  Speaker 1: well know, through the first three years of his career.
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  Speaker 1: But not much has changed from what I can tell,
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  Speaker 1: talking to people about his mechanics, or there's been this
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  Speaker 1: sweeping shift in how he's playing the position. He's almost...
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  Speaker 1: through the help of Brad Idzik and Dave Canales and
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  Speaker 1: that staff, somehow gotten and created an environment where he's
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  Speaker 1: playing like he did in Alabama because it looks really
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  Speaker 1: similar when you put that tape next to one another.
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  Speaker 1: So it's cool. I hope it keeps going because you
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  Speaker 1: need guys to play that position well for us to
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  Speaker 1: have entertaining games on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: 100%.
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  Speaker 3: Evan Washburn's going to be on the sidelines in Philly
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  Speaker 3: when you're watching Panthers-Eagles on CBS. Evan, what do you
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  Speaker 3: think of the Panthers in general? I think we here,
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  Speaker 3: and they've been banged up themselves, and they still have
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  Speaker 3: this inconsistency thing, right? Give up 59 to the Bears,
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  Speaker 3: route the Falcons, lose a tough one to Cleveland, but
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  Speaker 3: you lose both your starting corners but still find a
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  Speaker 3: way to beat Detroit. There's still this inconsistency, but I
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  Speaker 3: think most fans here believe this thing under Canales and
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  Speaker 3: company is really headed in the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel that way? What do you think about
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  Speaker 2: where this franchise is headed?
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  Speaker 1: I would agree. I mean, I think we're still so
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  Speaker 1: early in this year. We have it every season right now.
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  Speaker 1: It could be the Minnesota Vikings with their start last year.
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  Speaker 1: It was the Indianapolis Colts. I'd put Carolina kind of
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  Speaker 1: in that discussion of Is this sustainable? Is this something
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  Speaker 1: that once we get to week 8, 9, 10, 11,
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  Speaker 1: and 12, where there's more tape, there's more ability for
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  Speaker 1: teams to scheme against what you do well? What's your
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  Speaker 1: health perspective? How many guys do you have available for you?
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  Speaker 1: It strikes me with Carolina, and I wish more organizations
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  Speaker 1: did this. is there's clearly been some patience from David
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  Speaker 1: Tepper on down because it didn't look good, whether it
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  Speaker 1: be Bryce or even with Dave and his kind of
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  Speaker 1: first foray into head coaching coming from being somewhat of
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  Speaker 1: a no-name coordinator. And he's built a culture, which is
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  Speaker 1: the word we always throw around. And they have a–
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  Speaker 1: it's funny. I talked to Will Harriger yesterday, their quarterback coach,
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  Speaker 1: and they all kind of sound the same. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: when Brad Idzik steps to the podium, they've got this–
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  Speaker 1: joyful approach to the job, which I think is how
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  Speaker 1: Dave approaches it. And they use a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: same buzzwords. And at times that can be frustrating because
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  Speaker 1: you just kind of want to get a different vibe
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  Speaker 1: from a different coach. But he's clearly permeated that building.
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  Speaker 1: I think Bryce is kind of perfect for it because
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  Speaker 1: he's a smiling guy that doesn't say much. And they
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  Speaker 1: just kind of go about their business. It's clear they're
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  Speaker 1: all rowing in the same direction. Where that ends up going,
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  Speaker 1: that's the fun part. But at least they're all aligned.
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  Speaker 4: Evan, as we analyzed this matchup yesterday, obviously the Jalen
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  Speaker 4: Hurts news changed stuff and all the injuries with Philly.
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  Speaker 4: It's been a little bit difficult to try to zone
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  Speaker 4: in on some of the stuff going on. But when
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  Speaker 4: you look at where the Eagles are, what they're coming
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  Speaker 4: off of, that fan base in general, if the Panthers
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  Speaker 4: get off to an early lead, how quickly is that crowd,
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  Speaker 4: do you think, ready to turn on their home team?
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  Speaker 1: They'll boo after the first series. I mean, that's a given.
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  Speaker 1: But that said, most of the players on that team
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  Speaker 1: outside of the young guys are used to it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't really affect them in the way that I
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  Speaker 1: think it would if you were maybe in Carolina or
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City. Like, they're not booing Mahomes after he goes
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  Speaker 1: three and out in the first series, but that would happen. Now,
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  Speaker 1: did they give a little grace because it's Tanner McKee?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: But it's hard to orchestrate whatever it is, 70 plus
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  Speaker 1: thousand people to have the same sympathy for a situation,
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  Speaker 1: especially in that market. But I think a fast start
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  Speaker 1: obviously is critical for all those reasons.
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys have acknowledged this. Philly's still really
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  Speaker 1: good defensively. I mean, they're down a couple of guys.
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  Speaker 1: But they caused a lot of headaches for an arguably
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl caliber offense in the Jacksonville Jaguars last week.
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  Speaker 1: So that part for Bryce and company is real. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think they're going to let them do as much
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  Speaker 1: play as they're comfortable at pace as they did against
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  Speaker 1: Detroit a couple weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think that's definitely fair.
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  Speaker 3: Evan, when you are on sidelines in a place like Philly,
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  Speaker 3: do fans yell stuff at you?
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  Speaker 2: Or do they just stick to yelling at the players?
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  Speaker 1: I get stuff everywhere. Yeah, it's fun. I just keep
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  Speaker 1: it moving. But it's either somebody yelling your name in
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  Speaker 1: a fun way or they're yelling something. And as long
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  Speaker 1: as you're walking with pace and I just give a
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  Speaker 1: thumbs up, something like that. Ever since the Raiders moved
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  Speaker 1: out of Oakland, Nothing ever. That's it's tame.
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  Speaker 2: It's easy.
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  Speaker 1: But Oakland, you would literally or I would literally rent
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  Speaker 1: the end zone. So like if you're kind of walking
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  Speaker 1: the sideline and then I would sprint the end zone
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  Speaker 1: just in case anything was flying from the hole, whatever
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  Speaker 1: they called it, the black hole. Yeah, that was real.
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  Speaker 1: That was cool. I was like going to Mad Max.
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  Speaker 1: It was different.
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: Thunderdome. See, I'd yell out, Washburn, you got the best
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  Speaker 2: hair in the business. You'd be very nice.
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: I get a lot of the hair stuff. It's the go-to.
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  Speaker 3: I figured you had to. Bone didn't bring it up.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to compliment you. I felt weird.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's the best in the game. But I figured
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  Speaker 2: you had to. to get that all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's fine. There's plenty of worse things that can
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  Speaker 1: be your identifier. I'll take quality hair.
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  Speaker 2: 100%. None of my identifiers are positive, Evan. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to know that right now. So you've got something going. Well, hey, man,
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  Speaker 2: we appreciate you joining us. We're looking forward to hearing you. You, I,
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  Speaker 2: and Ross, the whole team, on the call on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy Philly. Keep it moving if they're yelling stuff. And
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  Speaker 2: thanks for joining us, man. We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, have a good one, fellas.
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  Speaker 2: All right, there you go. That's Evan Washburn from CBS.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be on the sidelines.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, because if you acknowledge one fan in the
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  Speaker 4: places like Philadelphia, the Black Hole back in the Oakland days,
• 10:43
  Speaker 4: if you're Evan Washburn, you acknowledge one guy, you're cooked.
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  Speaker 4: You can't look or acknowledge that you're cooked. You're dead meat.
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  Speaker 3: No, you need those blinders on like a dang racehorse, man.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want to see anything. He sprinted past the
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  Speaker 3: black hole, the fans in the end zone. That is hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: That's funny, but I had never thought of that before now.
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  Speaker 3: And we've got another sideline reporter in Taylor Davis on
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  Speaker 3: who does SEC games for ESPN later, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: we can– I mean, she– I'm sure her being a woman,
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  Speaker 3: she probably hears a whole different set of things.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder what SEC fan base is the most vocal
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  Speaker 4: towards the sideline people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we can ask her that.
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  Speaker 3: But I had never really thought about you're down there
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  Speaker 3: on the sidelines, but they all kind of know you,
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  Speaker 3: and they've had a few pops in them, so it
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  Speaker 3: makes sense, especially some.
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  Speaker 4: Of these places. There's no doubt about it. Philly's had
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  Speaker 4: more than a few pops by that point.
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  Speaker 2: You get the feeling they go hard at the tailgate,
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: you're feeling like?
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  Speaker 4: 19 beers and 31 cheesesteaks.
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  Speaker 2: Whip whiz. That's what you say, right? Whip whiz. Now,
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  Speaker 2: it's interesting. I don't like the cheese whiz.
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  Speaker 3: I'm kind of surprised that that is their favorite in Philly,
• 11:58
  Speaker 3: as any conversation on this show can always go to food.
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  Speaker 3: How do you feel about cheesesteaks? Because I just would
• 12:05
  Speaker 3: rather have provolone on it. But I understand people in
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  Speaker 3: Philly would probably say, and we've got people from Philly
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  Speaker 3: that live in Charlotte, that might say, oh, you've got
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  Speaker 3: to do the whiz. I don't really like the cheese
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  Speaker 3: whiz as much.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think?
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  Speaker 4: First of all, all cheese is good. So if it
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  Speaker 4: had whiz on there. I'm probably not turning it down,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm with you. I'm more into the.
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  Speaker 2: Just melt that provolone, baby. I'm more into the provolone
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  Speaker 2: than I am wit.
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  Speaker 1: Wit.
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  Speaker 2: Wit. Wit. Wit.
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  Speaker 3: What do you like, Fitty? What's your cheesesteak? Got to
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  Speaker 3: have onions on there. What do you like on your cheesesteak, Fit?
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  Speaker 5: I'm kind of a plain Jane. Usually just the meat
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  Speaker 5: and the cheese. Sometimes I'll get a little onion, little
• 12:43
  Speaker 5: jalapeno going.
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  Speaker 6: But for the most part, just give me the meat
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  Speaker 6: and the cheese, baby.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I do. I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't do onions and peppers, so my cheesesteak is
• 12:53
  Speaker 4: usually pretty basic.
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  Speaker 2: Mayo's got to be a slather. Give me the meat.
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  Speaker 2: I do mayo on it. Hey, now, KB. I do mayo, too.
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  Speaker 6: You put mayo on a Philly cheese sandwich?
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  Speaker 2: Both of us do. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Both of us do. And you know what else I
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  Speaker 3: want on there? I order what they call a pizza steak.
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  Speaker 3: I get marinara on my cheesesteak.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you a naughty boy. It's tremendous.
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  Speaker 3: And the marinara mayo mix, by the way, It's out
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  Speaker 3: of this world, Bone.
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  Speaker 2: If you're not putting mayo on there, what do you
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  Speaker 2: put on there? Nothing. Just cheese and meat. Jeez. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you are a plain dude, man. All right. All right,
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: there you have it, everybody. It's an award troubling, I'd say.
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  Speaker 5: For someone to be so fat, Mac, you have some
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  Speaker 5: of the worst food habits I've ever known to mankind.
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  Speaker 2: What is the weird part of my cheesesteak?
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  Speaker 6: Why are you putting mayonnaise on any sandwich ever?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know mayo on a sandwich was a controversial topic.
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  Speaker 2: Phitty, I think Mayo Nation is bigger than you.
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  Speaker 3: I think anti-Mayo Nation is not the same size as
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  Speaker 3: Mayo Nation.
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  Speaker 2: Do I need to get Mike Gullick Jr. on here,
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  Speaker 2: the president of Mayo Nation? Love Mayo.
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  Speaker 4: Also, my skin tone is described as mayo also.
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  Speaker 2: How are you fitting the way you are and you
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  Speaker 2: don't like mayo? How do you get that way without
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: liking mayo?
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  Speaker 6: Because I eat a real man's condiment, mustard.
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  Speaker 2: A real man's condiment. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: Gamecock Kevin does mayo and A1 on a cheesesteak. A1' s
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  Speaker 3: all right. I go marinara, but, yeah, I kind of
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  Speaker 3: like the sauce on there in some form. Sirloin of
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: beef says Duke's mayo on everything. No mayo on a sandwich.
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: It makes it soggy. That's what Big Cat John says. Finney,
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: sit this one out. That one came in from Burberry Gary.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: We're getting accusations of bit stealing.
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  Speaker 2: What's that?
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  Speaker 4: Willie went off on provolone is a simpleton's cheese yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: When he was on yesterday. Simpledon's Cheese. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: People are now saying we stole Willie's topic.
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  Speaker 3: My bit is on the other side of his. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't know what he was doing or I would have
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  Speaker 3: slandered him. I am Provolone-centric.
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  Speaker 4: We're playing Philadelphia. We were going to talk cheesesteaks at
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  Speaker 4: some point. Willie did not invent the cheesesteak.
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  Speaker 3: No, and he didn't invent Provolone cheese, and he apparently
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  Speaker 3: don't know crap about it if he thinks it ain't good.
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  Speaker 3: Because I love me some provolone. On an Italian, provolone.
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  Speaker 3: On my roast beef sub, provolone.
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  Speaker 5: Matt, what was that cheese you ate when you went to.
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  Speaker 2: Italy last summer?
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  Speaker 4: There's not a cheese I don't like, except for maybe feta.
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  Speaker 4: That's the one I don't really, I'm not too sure
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  Speaker 4: about feta. But there's not a cheese. You're a cheesy dude.
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: I could go to Cheese Island at Wegmans.
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  Speaker 2: What are you talking about? You're trying to slander me
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: for getting my Italy trip canceled, Finny. Is that what
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: that was? Was that a stray there? Come on, man.
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  Speaker 4: People want us to send an apology to Willie for
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: stealing his content.
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  Speaker 3: We are rebelling against his content, though. If he was
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: slandering Provolone, we will retort.
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  Speaker 4: Only Willie P has a comment called a simpleton's cheese.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, App State Zach cannot believe people would say no
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  Speaker 3: mayo on a sandwich.
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  Speaker 2: Like, do you want a dry sandwich? Although Fitty said mustard.
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  Speaker 5: I put mustard whenever I go to Jersey Mike's because,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Mike's way, they always put the mayo on there.
• 16:11
  Speaker 6: I got to tell them no mayo. Add mustard to
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: that thing, baby.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: You mean to tell me you think Fitty's way is
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: better than Mike's way?
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Mike's got a whole chain of sub shops, and you
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: think Fitty's way is greater than Mike's way?
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: No, sir. And Willie P's way is never the right way, y'all.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Never the right way. Someone said, how did Fitty get
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: that body type and avoid mayonnaise? That's what I was asking.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: I was trying to do it. I was trying to
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: ask it in a kinder way, though.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: I did.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Why didn't I? I just read it.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: This is the peak male physique, guys. Everyone should want
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: to look like me.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: I got a body built by Hellman's.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Mayonnaise on a cheesesteak is called a California cheesesteak. That's
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Brandon from Mint Hill. Tommy says, Mac looks like a
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: man that would love mayonnaise. I don't think that's a compliment.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: Mayonnaise dipping French fries in mayonnaise is good, too.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: I like that, too.
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: Don't say you'll do that.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: I do like that, too. I mean, not all the time,
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: but I'm not opposed to it. Yes, I do like that. Oh, man.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: All right. Anyway....
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: I'm going to take a break here. Now I'm hungry.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: Jersey Jenny didn't like Phitty's way.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, man. Per Ishmael. Got him. Worked out for the best, though.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Am I right? He's got his Velma bone now. He's
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: got his personal Velma.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Someone asked, when does Willie get removed from Food Topics?
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: He's too snobby for these. That's it right there, baby. Provolone,
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: not good enough. Provolone is a peasant's cheese. I bet
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: that's what Whitley said. It's the cheese of the simpleton.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Alright, next up, we gotta get back to the football game.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: You know a food tangent is gonna break out.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: You know it is.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: But we gotta get back to the football game. So,
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Jalen Hurts out with the blood clots. Tanner McKeon, does
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: that make you less paranoid as a Panther fan or
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: more paranoid that oh my god, we're gonna mess around
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: and lose to a backup? And Is it time for
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: us to Panther up? We'll talk about it. Sports Radio
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: 92.7 WFNZ.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Go on and bury me.
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: People are like, wait a minute, I thought Andy Dalton
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: was the backup. No, they've released Andy Dalton.
• 18:23
  Speaker 8: No, Tanner's actually really good.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I had Tanner in a Dynasty League.
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: I swear to God, I had Tanner in a couple
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: of Dynasty Leagues because I'm like, this guy's going to
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: be a starting quarterback in the NFL at some point.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: So for people probably not familiar, Mo, with Tanner McKee,
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: talk to me a little bit about.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Who he is. Who he is.
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: And he's big, physical. I think if... So he took
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: that year off because he was a Mormon and he
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: did his mission.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: But if he didn't, like, he was a big five-star
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: prospect coming out of high school. Like, if he would
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: have just gone into it, played three years, like, he's built, like,
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: a first-round pick. And, I mean, the Eagle scouting department
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: is top three or four. So, like, they obviously know
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: how to identify talent, especially in the later rounds.
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: So we're rooting for you, Jalen Hurts. And if he's
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: your fantasy quarterback, you are going to need a replacement.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: On his podcast with Mo Hassan, one of his co-hosts.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Mo Hassan played quarterback at USC. He knows a little
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: something about Tanner McKee playing at Stanford. That was before
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Stanford was an ACC school. They actually played West Coast schools, Bone.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: In USC before they were Big Ten schools.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Exactly. A lot has happened if you've been out of
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: the country for the last decade.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: We've got a lot to catch up on if you've
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: been cryogenically frozen for about ten years.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Or you've just been at home like Jim Salania and
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: not paying attention to anything.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: So anyway, they're raving about Tanner McKee. We look up here.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: We're live from Harris Cherokee Casino Resort. Y'all, I'm telling you.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: if you love a good sports book, you love a
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: good casino, this is a trip that you should absolutely make.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Nice little three-hour or so trip from Charlotte.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: I told Marvin who works here in marketing and our
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: guy Showtime who set us up today, I told them
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: during the break, us leaving at 10, not looking good today.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: You definitely not leaving at 10. I probably will scurry
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: myself back pretty quickly. Marvin, what's the– You do not
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: look like you're leaving anytime soon. Marvin, what's the DoorDash
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: situation here? Do I have to get up and go
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: get them? Do they bring it here? Just let me
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: know during the break. You got that delivery. Remember how
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: they delivered to our table yesterday in the sports book
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: from any of the restaurants? They will deliver you– Like
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: right in here?
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Right to the couch. How awesome is that? Oh, my gosh. Oh, man. Look,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: they just passed it over to Bone. There you go, baby.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Get that order ready, Bone.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: I don't think you're moving until a bunch of dudes
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: that rented this place later tonight come in here and
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: kick you out.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: I feel like you will be here until then. Marvin's
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: my new roommate. Oh, God.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: These fan caves are cool, man. You can rent them out.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Byron Showtime.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Bone. Showtime.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: He told us they got an Xbox hooked up. You
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: play Xbox on the big screen there. This is fan
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: caves at Sportsbooker.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I'm not getting chewed by a bulldog. Aren't you so
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: glad you didn't bring Murphy now? You look so comfortable
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: over there. Why do you think I'm not going home
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: for a day? Oh, man.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: So, anyway, we look up at the TV during the
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: break as we sit here on the couch in this
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: man cave at Harrah's, and we see they're asking, the
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: graphic on the screen is, what if Tanner McKee plays well?
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: And I know what they're doing.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: They're already– poor Jalen Hurtsbone has a serious blood clot situation,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: and I guarantee you they're on there talking about, could
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Tanner McKeek take his job? I guarantee you they're on
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: there talking about that. But anyway, then they put up
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: another graphic. Joe Fortenbaugh's best bet, Eagles plus three and
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: a half.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: And that takes us right into this conversation.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Not just a bet he's making. It is his best bet.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: His best one on the NFL card. And you just
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: heard Matthew Berry and Mohassan rave about Tanner McKee. So
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: I ask you and I ask Panther Nation listening, does
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: the Tanner McKee playing thing, the backup quarterback thing, and
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: no Jalen Hurts, does it make you more scared?
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Because we already had some nervousness that, oh, my.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: God, these are the games when you expect the Panthers
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: to go on the road and win and you think
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: they're the better team and the other team's injured. These
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: are the kind of games that the Panthers will let
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: us down. So are you more worried about that or
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: less worried about that?
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: No, obviously the legs of Jalen Hurts now taken out
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: of the game.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: So that helps. That's big.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: If Tanner McKee had all the pieces healthy, if he
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: had Devontae Smith fully healthy, Dallas Goddard fully healthy, I
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: know they may be out there, but they're just coming
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: back from injury. The running backs are out. The offensive
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: line is banged up and all shuffled around. If all
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: the pieces were in place– I often will say, hey,
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: the backup quarterback may actually be an advantage because you
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: have not had time to prepare as much for him
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: as Jalen Hurts. I don't think this matchup right here
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: is one to panic about with the quarterback because is
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: he going to carry.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Them to victory?
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: Because I feel like in this matchup here, Tanner McKee
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: would have to go off and be a guy that
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: beats you and doesn't just manage the game.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Is he going to do that? I don't think so.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and– There's not enough there for him just to
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: manage it. He's going to have to go win it.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: If you had, like, a playoff caliber, NFC East champion
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: caliber Eagles supporting cast around him, great O-line from two
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: years ago, Devontae Smith, Barkley, and you plug him in–
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: because I do think he's got a live arm.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: And listen, he hit a bunch– Well, if he had
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: the Niners team with everyone healthy– Or even the Eagles
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: two years ago. Yeah, I'd say, oh, yeah, that's a problem.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Just give them all his– just go 2024 Eagles. Right?
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: But, like, this just feels like a skeleton crew. And
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: I said it earlier. I just really– you said something
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: really key. What was our biggest worry about this Eagles
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: offense was our lack of ability to contain the mobile
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: quarterbacks like Williams and Watson.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: That is completely out the window.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Tanner McKee is your big 6'5, 230-pound gunslinger that ain't
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: going to move much. Listen, we got two backup quarterbacks in,
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Caleb Evans' cornerbacks. Caleb might start. Like, can he make
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: some plays?
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But they might not have Wicks or Devontae Smith.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: And then no Barkley.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: So you can load up on– you can stop the
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: running game, get them in second and third and long
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: against a backup quarterback. The Panthers are fifth in the
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: league at force in turnovers. Like, I think there's a
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: chance to turn McKee over. I just– this one makes
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: me feel better and not worse. But I was listening
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: to KB and Smoke on my ride here to Harrah's
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: yesterday and And they said they were getting some texts
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: of people that became almost even more paranoid.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: But that's that Panther thing.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Like, if it feels like you should, the more it
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: feels like you should win, the more Panther fans get worried.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Look, I completely get backup quarterback paranoia. Matt, some of
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: the best ever came in as backups and they never
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: left that spot or became the GOAT, for example. They
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: became Kurt Warner. We've seen guys out of nowhere make
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: that leap. I don't think that's a situation here, not
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: because I don't think the guy's got an ability, like
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: you talked about his live arm and his size. I
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: don't think he's got enough help there to lead them
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: to victory. That's just how I feel about it right now.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: This texter says he'd have to go nuts and go
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: for like 350 yards, and I don't think there's enough
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: there in this game for him to do that.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: This texter, 704 number, any chance we see Andy Dalton?
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: There are some rumors about his return. Yeah, it kind
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: of would make sense. A doctor in Philly yesterday was
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: on sports radio there saying that these type of clots,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: for the fear that it does move to the lungs
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: like it did for Timo, like this very well could
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: be blood thinners and you're out for a month and
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: a half to three months. So they probably are going
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: to need another quarterback. Dalton was just there, but Dalton
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: got demoted before he got fired, before he got cut.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: I have to be honest with you. If Andy Dalton–
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: I will say this. If Andy Dalton was playing, and
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: I don't want to be mean. Andy Dalton was a
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: class guy, you know, big asset to Bryce in that
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: QB room. But didn't it become apparent, Bone, last year,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Andy Dalton ain't that same dude anymore? And then he
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: jokes in the– one play, one pass, he has to
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: throw against the Bears in the red zone. Like, I
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: would feel even– I'd feel way better even if it
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: was Andy Dalton.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: I got to be honest.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: He maximized himself out, and when there started to be
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: a little age, some slippage– As we see with some guys, Matt,
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: that aren't the most freakishly athletic guys. Jake DeLomac, at
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: the end of his career, once it started to go
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: for the other teams he played for, Cleveland and whatnot,
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: you really started to see it start to go rather
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: quickly there. A good point by a texter, Matt. Some
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: of these paranoid folks about Tanner McKee were the same
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: folks that were paranoid about Cooper Rush.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: How'd that work out?
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that is true. That is definitely true. This dude
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: said it's the year of the backup quarterback season. Google it. Well,
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: I do know what it's been like. Six or seven
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: backup QBs have won at least a game. So I
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: don't want to sit here and act like it can't happen.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: I think the point that Bone and I believe is
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: that it's because the Eagles offense is such a skeleton crew.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: It's like those other teams, Bone, like Carson Wentz or
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Case Keenum or Bajent, before he looked terrible last week,
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: they won because they simply plugged in to mostly healthy offenses.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: And you know what I mean?
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Like, that would be a Panther paranoia situation to me.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Because I could see, like, this dude says, if y'all
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: don't think McKee can pass the ball better than Hurts
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: has been passing, y'all don't know ball.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: I think we acknowledge that. I think we acknowledge that.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: Guys have to make plays for him is our point.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: He can't throw it to himself and catch it. Like,
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: he's got to have guys out there making plays for him. Look,
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: I'm not even saying this is going to be easy.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: I'm not even saying it's a blowout. I... I respect
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: the Eagles' defense. I just think the Panthers are winning
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: the game. I'm not even going brigade. No, I just
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: think the Panthers are winning the game. Look, he may
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: make a few plays. I just don't think it's going
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: to be enough to determine the outcome in terms of
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: the Eagles getting a win here.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: 704 number says their defense will keep their offense in
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: the game. Another texter says, love the way you guys
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: are just glossing over the fact that that Bryce and
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: the offense have a brutal matchup against this Philly defense.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: The Eagles defense, we went through it yesterday. It's the
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: better unit of the team right now, but they're not
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: exactly dominant against one thing either. They have their own
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: issues on defense. They're not great against the pass. They're
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: not really great at anything. Yeah, I think people get
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: in their mind because, you know, they played the Rams
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: relatively well. They did all right against Jacksonville for a
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: while last week. The Eagles defensive numbers aren't exactly, like,
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: Great either.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: No, they're not.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: They gave up 300 yards passing to Lawrence and Stafford. Now,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: they kept their team in the game against. As a
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: matter of fact, they blew leads in both of those games.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: Won in eight seconds, famously. I could see a game, Bone,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: where it is, you know, and I guess it's about
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: time to give our predictions and make our Panther up calls. But, like,
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying we're going out there and scoring 30.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's going to be as easy it
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: was for Bryce against the worst defense in football.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying any of that.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: But I, like, I believe in this offense, and I
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: don't think, like, if you were to tell me last
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: year's offense, okay, I could see the Eagles holding us to, like, 17.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: I have a confidence in this group, man. Like, the
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Eagles give up.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: I know Quinion Mitchell is a concern. People are wondering,
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: does he shadow TMAC, and does he do what Denzel
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Ward did to TMAC? But the good news is Coker's
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: coming back. So I think that helps big time. Remember,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: they should have won there last time against a better
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Eagles team. Lee Gett drops the ball. That's right. And
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Lee Gett, bless your heart, but you ain't walking in
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: that building. And if you do, you ain't got a
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: uniform on.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Might be riding his horse in there.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: That would go over well in Philly. Liga just rides
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: in on a horse. All right, let's do it, man.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Let's make our picks. Some of you seem a little hesitant.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: I would say it's about 50-50 as to whether you're
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: paranoid or whether you, like, here's a 9-8-0 number that said,
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: we are just the better team.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: We're going to take care of business.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: I think the paranoia comes from the amount of times, Bone,
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: we felt like we should have won games and were
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: the better team and did not win them.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: What is your– I'm not here to talk about the past.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: What's your prediction on the game? Thank you, Mark McGuire.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: What's your prediction?
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: I think the Panthers win 24-14. I was thinking maybe
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: a little bit closer with Hurts just because of the
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: ability to run. I'm going 24-14 Panthers. There you go.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: Maybe kind of a grind it out close game early,
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: but eventually– Tanner McKee just can't make enough plays to
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: win the football game.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Take that, Joe Fortinball. Yeah.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Don't just shove Joe Fortinball's best bet where the sun
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: don't shine.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: By the way, they moved on from the Eagles talk
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: right to the Cowboys talk.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: They can't help themselves. They're playing the hits, baby. They're
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: playing the hits. Kind of like us talking Bryce on
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: the show.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Fit dog. Let's go, baby.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: I think we know what you're doing. I think you
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: are ready to Panther up, baby. Where are you at
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: on this one?
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: The unfortunate thing, Mac, is that I thought when I
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: was going to make my pick, because I'm picking the
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: Panthers to win the game, I would be able to
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: guarantee a Nick Sirianni firing. I think you know Jalen Hurts,
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: some other guys maybe not suiting up on Sunday. He'll
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: be safe for at least one more week up there
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: in Philadelphia. Look, Mac, if we're the team we think
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: we are, if we're the offense we think that we are,
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: There's no reason for this game to not go the
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: way of the Carolina Panthers. I think Bryce Young continues
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: to play at a high level. I'd like to think
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: we run the ball a little bit more consistently from
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: start to finish. And hopefully our defensive line, DB, Jalen Phillips,
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: hopefully these guys eat in a way on Sunday like
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: Willie P eating provolone cheese when he's at his dad's
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: house later that night for the family supper. Give me
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: Carolina on the road 27-13. How about that?
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: It's about 99% Panthers on the text line right now.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, it is?
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, except for Kyle from Mount Holly has the Eagles
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: by 11.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, so for all the worries, in terms of just
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: making predictions, just about everybody is picking Panthers. Yeah, it's
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: a Panther-up situation. Come on, Panthers.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Y'all are going to prove that you have come along.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: You're also getting healthier. This is also a team bone
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: that I don't think has the weapons to take advantage
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: of our corner situation. You pointed it out, Green Bay
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: in a couple weeks, definitely. But this doesn't feel like
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: one where, you know, Caleb Evans or whoever's out there
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: at corner is going to get lit up. I also
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: want to mention this because I saw some Avero slander
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: on the text line. Of course, that has to happen
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: every day for some reason. Since the Bears game with
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: 59 points given up, fifth in EPA per play, sixth
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: in EPA per rush, ninth in EPA per pass.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Don't look now.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: This defense is playing pretty good since that abomination in
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: week one, Boney. I think they will keep the Eagles
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: relatively in check. And I think on offense, I think
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: this offense is good enough, Bone, to do more than
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Jacksonville did. Jacksonville struggled to run the ball. I think
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: we're eventually going to get the running game going. Sometimes
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: it takes a while. And I think Bryce Young is
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: going to make some plays in the passing game with
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: Coker back, the dynamic duos together.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: I've got Panthers 24. To 16. How about that, baby?
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Come on, Marvin. Heck yeah, baby. Heck yeah. We got
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: this one. By the way.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: You know what's happened, too, by the way? A lot
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: of blame for Rivera on the first game. Rightfully so.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: It was that bad. But I haven't really heard a
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: lot of credit about the defensive jobs against B. John
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: and Gibbs, have we?
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: No. And they deserve major credit. Those are two best
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: backs in the league probably. And they may shut Saquon
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: down too. They go home to zero yards. That's my
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: bold prediction. Put that in the average. Oh, man.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: All right, let's do this. Let's take a breather. How
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: do you feel, text line? We already had Realtor Wally
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: saying he is worried because he could tell I was
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: picking the Panthers. That has to happen every Friday. I
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: have to scare you if I'm picking the Panthers. When
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: we come back, let's do some– I've got to move
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: to this kiosk over here. Let's do some– yeah, Bones
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: is going to be doing some wagering. We're attached to
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: this Matt Kershaw.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: We've got our own kiosk. Yeah, let's see it. Let's
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: see how that works. Showtime. Give me the kiosk. Put
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: your money where your mouth is.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: We're live at Harrah's Cherokee Casino and Resort, the sportsbook. Man,
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: what a place to hang. When we come back, sounds
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: of football in the Carolinas. You have to hear what
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: a national media member who is a Panther fan, who
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: he wants the Panthers to trade for at quarterback.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: It's coming up next. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
• 35:12
  Speaker 9: I could see a team like, we'll see what happens
• 35:14
  Speaker 9: with Bryce Young as the season goes on, but I
• 35:17
  Speaker 9: could see a team like the Panthers.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I hope so.
• 35:22
  Speaker 9: That would be the type of team, I think, like
• 35:24
  Speaker 9: a team that'll finish in the middle.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Of the.
• 35:29
  Speaker 9: Draft, in the middle of the league, and.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Could seek out an opportunity.
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: You got me all excited about Justin Herbert.
• 35:36
  Speaker 8: On the Panthers.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: That is Henry McKenna and Stephen Ruiz, Bone, discussing where
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: Justin Herbert could be traded to.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: There's already speculation started.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Could they just deal him and start over, essentially, as
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: they sit there at 0-5, the Chargers?
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Stephen Ruiz needs to be noted, Bone, is a Panther fan. Oh, yeah.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: And thinks it would be the most exciting thing ever
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: if they trade for Justin Herbert. Steven Ruiz is a
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: guy bone that has never liked Bryce Young. And when
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: I say that, that's putting it mildly. He has been
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: like one of Bryce's biggest critics. Do his eyeballs work?
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: Has he not watched the.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Way Bryce is currently playing compared to the way that
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Justin Herbert is playing? Are you kidding me?
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: Justin Herbert, I felt for a while. was an overrated player.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: I know Finney's got thoughts on this too here in
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: a second. Justin Herbert Mack has always, even when the
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: Chargers have been good, I felt like got ranked a
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: little too high at times. A guy that throws for
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: a lot of yards, looks the part, has a lot
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: of skill, but I never quite got it. And now
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: that they're bad, I really don't get it. I really
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: don't get the continued hype now. Bryce Young right now,
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: is a better player than Justin Herbert. I don't think
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: you can deny it.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: And if you're sitting there saying, well, supporting Cass, Bryce
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: Young is the most pressured quarterback in the NFL. So
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: there's no excuse that he is handling the pressure and
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: still throwing for the most yards per game in the league.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: And it'd be one thing if I could just say
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: it's Yahoo's in the national media. The fact that Stephen
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Ruiz tells everybody he's a Panther fan and is trying
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: to act like, For some reason, trading for Herbert and
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: paying him, taking on that contract is a good idea.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: And not even saying a word about the way Bryce
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: Young is playing is lame as hell.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: All right, Fetty, you're angry. Fetty's angry.
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: Mack, from now on, we will refer to Steven Ruiz
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: as a former Carolina Panther fan, an ex-Panther, ex-con. He's
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: not a Carolina Panther fan. And at some point, let's
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: just go ahead and say this. His work for FoxSports.com,
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: it's as equally overrated and as underwhelming as Justin Herbert's
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: play as a quarterback is.
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: Like, my absolute God, man.
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: What the absolute hell has Justin Herbert done that makes
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: you want to trade for him right now at 0-5?
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: As compared to what Bryce Young is doing, the guy
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: has not won a damn thing in his life. He's
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: won it life off the field.
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: I give him that.
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: He got Madison Beer. Congratulations, man. But when it comes
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: to that guy on a football field, you trust that
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: boob to take you into battle? Nah, F that dude.
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: I am so sick and tired of people that want
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: to claim to be Panther fans but not want to
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: be a fan of the quarterback. That makes absolutely no
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: sense to me. And how do you have a national platform?
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: And instead of doing a dispute, that kind of nonsense, Bone,
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: I want you to book him Monday, 925, and yell
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: at him for 15 minutes. I don't know if I
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: got to do it. You got to do it. Someone's
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: got to do it. He needs to be put on
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: trial for his Panther fandom moving forward. I'm done with
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: this dude.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: I'm sure he would love to sign up for that.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: Let the little angry bald guy yell at me for
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: 15 minutes.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: Get yelled at by a keyboard elf on his Monday morning.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: I feel like if he were.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: To come on, it might have to be an actual
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: interview conversation with maybe some spirited debate. I don't know, Finney,
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: if unleashing our version of Cujo at him for 15.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Minutes is the way to do it.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: Hey, Steven, do you have time Monday at 925 for
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: our pit bull to chew your legs?
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Let us know. Thanks. Yeah, he's going to yell at Mac.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: For 15 minutes at 9 o'clock for liking mayo, but
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: he can squeeze you in to his anger lineup at 925.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: Do what the real men do. Do what Flounder does.
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: Go after him on Twitter.
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: I thought about it.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: By the way, both Bigfoot Bailey and Willie P on
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: my side about mayo being a.
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: Bad condiment. They both agreed mustard is a superior condiment
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: over mayo.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Well, congratulations. Three of you can be wrong. You know
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: what I mean? You have the right to be wrong.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: Go be a group called the Mustard Brothers and go
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: galvan around town.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: We also have different taste buds, and my taste buds
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: can't get enough of mayonnaise.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Can't get enough of that stuff, man. Seriously.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: I wanted to get mayonnaise involved in my honey.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Well, anyway. I'm sorry. We don't talk about that. Excuse me?
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Where did we go here? We don't talk about that.
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: I thought you were in Blue Ranch involved, not mayonnaise.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Mrs. Mack wouldn't go for that idea. Showtime.
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: Blue Cheese 2 is another good one. Showtime just walked out.
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: Marvin's not one.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: Marvin didn't need to hear that. And hopefully Mrs. Mack
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: ain't listening. Oh, my God. Mrs.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Mack.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Why do you ruin everything? I'm going to be in trouble.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: We're in public. Why do you do these things? Why
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: do you ruin everything? Oh, crap. I forgot we got
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: more sounds. I forgot this. Yeah, it sounds– yeah, not
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: just your sounds. I thought it was just a Steven
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Ruiz segment.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: I mean– Marvin is shutting the curtains now after your comment.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: This dude, 704, Steven Ruiz has always been a fake
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Panther fan. This texter says, Steven Ruiz is one of
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: those guys that can't back down from his pre-draft analysis.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: He will never concede Bryce is good. I feel like
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: you're just disingenuous, though, if you can't acknowledge the growth. Again,
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: the word growth, I know it's– but you know what
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: I think it's– I mean, yeah, you're holding on to
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: something that's really not there right now.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: You're just being stubborn. It's like if you're a true
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Panther fan, how are you not liking what's happening with Bryce?
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: You're holding on to that raft like you're Rose in Titanic.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: All right, let's get to it. What a movie, by
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: the way.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: Let's play one more clip. I hadn't seen it, but
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: I hadn't seen it. Let's get to one more.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: How is that possible?
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: I haven't even seen Titanic.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: I know what happens. You know what I mean? I
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: feel like I know the story. I didn't see it.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Let's get one more clip in because this is glorious.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: This is a guy from Charlotte named Atticus who loves
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: his ECU Pirates bone and watched the dink and dunk
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: offense of Emery Williams, the quarterback, and Jordan Davis, the OC,
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: last night and watched them blow the lead and score
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: three points on their last ten possessions and had enough.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: Pirate Radio Live Bone has a call-in show. And Atticus
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: from Charlotte got a little fired up.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Listen to this.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: He gets paid money to do it. Jordan Davis, you
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: are a pathetic coward, dude! You are a pathetic coward, bro!
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: Nothing like that pre-event offense on.
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: The last drive, dude.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: Now, in fairness, Jeremiah Melvin's their big play threat downfield.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: He was out, and then when he went out, they
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: scored three points the rest of the way. But still,
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's– you know, I know Blake
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: Harrell called out Emery Williams. Blake Harrell called out the
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: quarterback bone and said he has to throw more downfield.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: Atticus appeared to bone have been calling out Jordan Davis
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: the OC but if you're a Pirate fan that has
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: to infuriate you because that defense I know they gave
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: up the 93 yard drive but that defense played good
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: enough to win that damn game that offense took the
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: last three quarters off man they out they outplayed UAB
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: for most of the game and then it just it
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: unraveled as we said when the show began it's really
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: got to be a turn of events to lose by
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: 13 in overtime something had to go Really wrong, right,
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: on all things.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: You're not scoring. They're scoring on you. They're scoring on
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: your offense.
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: That is one of the most shocking 13-point losses from
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: where they were to where they got that I've ever
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: seen in my life.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Hey, I'll say this.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: Emery Williams threw a game-ending touchdown pass. Problem was it
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: went to an ECU player. I mean right to him.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: Isn't Atticus the prison in New York? Attica, Attica. Thank you, Marvin.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: I just stared at Bone. Thank God Marvin's here, man.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: We might have to take Marvin home with us, man.
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: He's got quality contributions. All right, when we come back,
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: let's talk some SEC football, a bunch of good SEC matchups.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: The Gamecocks are off, though, but we can ask about
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: the Gamecocks. Taylor Davis talks all things SEC ball with
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: us next. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.