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Mac & Bone Show - Sheena Quick Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk to one of the absolute fan
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  Speaker 1: favorites when it comes to media members covering your Carolina Panthers.
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  Speaker 1: She is at Sheena, two E's, at Sheena underscore Marie
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  Speaker 1: three on X slash Twitter. She is Sheena Quick, and
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  Speaker 1: she joins us here to try to figure out what
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  Speaker 1: has happened to our Carolina Panthers the last two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Sheena, how have you been? What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: I've been good.
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  Speaker 2: How are you guys? What's happening? We're doing good. We
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  Speaker 2: are doing good.
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  Speaker 1: I think we all needed a weekend where the Panthers
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  Speaker 1: didn't play, where we could watch other teams play, and
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  Speaker 1: we got help yet again and stayed in first place.
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  Speaker 1: We were having a discussion earlier, Sheena, about Tampa in
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  Speaker 1: the last 24 hours or so overtaking Carolina on DraftKings
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  Speaker 1: as the favorite in the division.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel like.
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  Speaker 1: We shouldn't be favorites anymore, should we?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that's fair, sadly. What do you think?
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  Speaker 4: Unfortunately, it is fair, but this is the NFC South.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think anyone should be the favorite right now.
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  Speaker 4: This is just such a wacky, strange division.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you've got a valid point there. Just
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  Speaker 1: like we thought about the Panthers at 3-2, in this division, Sheena,
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  Speaker 1: just when you think somebody's on a roll, then they'll
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  Speaker 1: lay an egg, you know?
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  Speaker 4: Right, right, exactly. Like, you just never know from week
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  Speaker 4: to week what these teams are going to look like.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, did you have it on your bingo card
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  Speaker 4: that the Bucs will win a game without Baker Mayfield
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  Speaker 4: completing any passes?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, I didn't. I thought we would be the embarrassment.
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  Speaker 2: Atlanta said, here, watch this.
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  Speaker 4: Insane, absolutely insane.
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  Speaker 3: Sheena, what do you think of the Avero dismissal, and
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  Speaker 3: how impactful do you think a move like that could
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  Speaker 3: be within the season?
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  Speaker 4: I've always felt like this was his prove-it season. I
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  Speaker 4: think that this being his prove-it season was kind of
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  Speaker 4: overshadowed with people talking about, is this Bryce's prove-it year?
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  Speaker 4: Is this Xavier Leguette's prove-it year? For me, it's always
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  Speaker 4: been Everett's prove-it year. I felt like they gave him
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  Speaker 4: some grace with the injuries he'd had on that side
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  Speaker 4: of the ball and all the resources that had been
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  Speaker 4: spent on the offensive side of the ball. This offseason,
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  Speaker 4: last offseason, they made it a point to focus on
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  Speaker 4: defense heavily. They spent a ton of money on that
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  Speaker 4: side of the ball, and week one was just abysmal
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  Speaker 4: for that reason. And I know he's had his share
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  Speaker 4: of injuries, especially with Mike Jack and J.C. Horn, but
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  Speaker 4: everybody other than Nick Skorton was on the field in
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  Speaker 4: week one. I just think that that was just, for me,
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  Speaker 4: it's always been a win more so than an if
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  Speaker 4: after that game.
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  Speaker 1: What, um, so what do you expect to change? Like,
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  Speaker 1: obviously we're waiting on Mike Jack and horn and that
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  Speaker 1: can make a difference. It seems like there's a chance
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  Speaker 1: Phillips can come back this week, but like, do you
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  Speaker 1: expect things to look different? I mean, it's, you can't
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  Speaker 1: really overhaul a scheme completely, but do you, do you
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  Speaker 1: think things will be done a bit differently with Todd
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  Speaker 1: wash running the show?
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  Speaker 2: I think so.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, other than just the product on the field,
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  Speaker 4: I think the product on the field is a testament
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  Speaker 4: to maybe a difference in philosophies. I was kind of
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  Speaker 4: hinted at that. He didn't really go into detail about it.
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  Speaker 4: But I do think that we see some more Latham Ransom.
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  Speaker 4: He's kind of disappeared the last couple of weeks, and
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  Speaker 4: it gave me shades of Jeremy Chin when Ebro first
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  Speaker 4: got here. You guys remember that guy?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So Latham Ransom being a complete ghost these last couple
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  Speaker 4: of weeks after being impactful the first part of the
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  Speaker 4: season was really interesting to me. And I do think
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  Speaker 4: that I've seen the rumors floating around that they're going
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  Speaker 4: to a 4-3. It's not completely... out of the question
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  Speaker 4: for me because they do still have the personnel to
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  Speaker 4: fill the 4-3 scheme. I don't know if they'll do
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  Speaker 4: that or if they'll try to slowly introduce it. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not sure. But what I do expect is for the
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  Speaker 4: Panthers to not have the Broncos running down their throat
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: That would be nice. I request that. I'm asking for that.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think of the addition of D'Angelo Hall
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  Speaker 3: to the staff? And the Canales comments about not that
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  Speaker 3: I'm paraphrasing, but that D.
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  Speaker 2: Hall.
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  Speaker 3: Questioned the status quo when he was here. Yeah, he
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  Speaker 3: questioned the status quo. What do you think of the
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  Speaker 3: fact that he's back and what Canales said about that?
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  Speaker 4: I think that goes back to the philosophy. I think
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  Speaker 4: that Evo, I'm not taking away from his football mind
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  Speaker 4: and him being absolutely, you know, intelligent and a rock star.
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  Speaker 4: As JC Horn said, a wizard at breaking down other teams'
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  Speaker 4: offenses and things like that. I just think he was
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  Speaker 4: somebody that became a prisoner to his own stubbornness. Sometimes when,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it seems to me like he's one of
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  Speaker 4: those guys that would rather be right than successful. And
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  Speaker 4: that's always, you know, that's always slated for doom.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It comes before the fall. And the more that we're
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  Speaker 4: hearing about that staff and just the timing of D'Angelo
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  Speaker 4: Hall coming back, anyone that challenges that or challenges the
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  Speaker 4: status quo and then you're subsequently dismissed. And then as
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  Speaker 4: soon as, you know, the DC is going, you're back.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I think that that says a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It did.
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  Speaker 1: It was almost Dave kind of wanted everybody to hear that.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it was weird. Cause that was a
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  Speaker 1: question right at the end of the presser where, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if it wasn't a follow-up wasn't asked about the Angela,
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  Speaker 1: he might not have said that.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, that felt kind of telling.
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  Speaker 1: It really does. We got to go to the offensive
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball. Things ain't exactly Rosie over there.
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  Speaker 1: This O line is just making everything so hard to do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Is there any, Brady Christensen is a guy, I know
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  Speaker 1: you were asking about that, I think it was Friday's presser.
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  Speaker 1: And yesterday he did finally say, hey, he is good
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  Speaker 1: to go. We're putting him on this, you know, open
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  Speaker 1: up his 21 day window. Like he's a dude, Sheena,
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  Speaker 1: where like, I feel like he can definitely help. The
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  Speaker 1: only question is like, he's so versatile. What position do
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  Speaker 1: they plug him in at? Because I think he could
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  Speaker 1: be better than what we got at multiple positions right now.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely at left tackle and center, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Those two, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: But the question becomes, do you move Monroe Freeling to
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  Speaker 4: his more natural position at left tackle and plug Brady
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  Speaker 4: Christensen in there? And maybe give the rookie Sam Heck
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  Speaker 4: a look at center.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be mad at that at all.
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  Speaker 4: I made a tweet during the game on Thursday, or
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  Speaker 4: maybe right afterwards, that that was the same week one
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  Speaker 4: starting line, except for Damian Lewis was out and Corey
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  Speaker 4: Bullock had stepped into his position due to injuries. But
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  Speaker 4: other than that, you know, and outside of Monroe Freeling,
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  Speaker 4: everybody else is a vet. Everybody else was slated in
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  Speaker 4: as the week one started. There's no way they should
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  Speaker 4: have put that performance up on week eight. So in
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  Speaker 4: addition to Everett's dismissal, I'm pretty sure Dave Canales lost
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of sleep trying to figure out how
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  Speaker 4: he's going to fix this offensive line.
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  Speaker 2: Big time. Big time. Trade deadline is a week from today, right?
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  Speaker 2: Is that correct, Mac? Yeah, yeah. The 10th. Do you
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  Speaker 2: expect the Panthers, Sheena, to be active at the deadline?
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  Speaker 2: How do you think that's going to play out?
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  Speaker 4: I do expect them to be active at the deadline,
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  Speaker 4: but I think a lot of that weighs on how
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  Speaker 4: the game goes on Sunday. If you get back to 500,
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  Speaker 4: even if you don't get back to 500, it's still
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  Speaker 4: a salvageable season because you're in the NFC South. So
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  Speaker 4: I do expect them to at least be in the
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  Speaker 4: market for some O-line help and maybe some cornerback help, but...
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  Speaker 4: Depending on how this Sunday goes for a lot of
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  Speaker 4: different teams, that's going to impact who's going to be available.
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  Speaker 4: Some of these teams are doing fire sales because the
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  Speaker 4: season is lost. Some teams are waiting to see what
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  Speaker 4: their status is after Sunday. Does that make them a
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  Speaker 4: buyer or a seller at the deadline? So I think
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  Speaker 4: a lot hinges on these week nine games.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt. No doubt.
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  Speaker 1: So, Sheena, people are sending in, I know you're shocked
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  Speaker 1: by this, comments and questions about Bryce. They would like
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  Speaker 1: us to get your two cents on this. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you've noticed it and had it going on in your mentions.
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  Speaker 1: We get a lot of this now. The people that
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  Speaker 1: disappeared while Bryce was balling, right, at a high level,
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  Speaker 1: have now reappeared on our text line online. And they
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  Speaker 1: want to give him a lot of blame for what's
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  Speaker 1: been happening. How much blame do you think Bryce deserves
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  Speaker 1: for what's happened the last two weeks?
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  Speaker 2: Or do you put it on the O-line exclusively? How
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  Speaker 2: do you feel about that?
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  Speaker 4: I think it starts at the O-line, and I don't
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  Speaker 4: want Bryce to get... feelings of discomfort that he had
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  Speaker 4: in 2023. I mean, you get sacked 60-plus times and hit,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I don't even know how many times that
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  Speaker 4: starts to mess with your mechanics. And I wouldn't say confidence,
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  Speaker 4: but just how you go through your reads and things
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  Speaker 4: like that. So to act as though the offensive line
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  Speaker 4: play hasn't been abysmal and that Bryce is just stinking
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  Speaker 4: it up, I think is just super disingenuous. Super disingenuous.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody has seen what he can do. And I will
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  Speaker 4: say this. We're not sure what's going on with the knee.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: He doesn't seem as willing to take off running as
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  Speaker 4: before because we know Bryce is an athlete. We've seen
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  Speaker 4: what he can do. And that may have been the
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  Speaker 4: difference in him making that O-line look better than it
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  Speaker 4: actually was earlier this season. Because, again, this is kind
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  Speaker 4: of the same starting offensive line. It's not a makeshift
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  Speaker 4: patchwork offensive line like, you know, like they were playing
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  Speaker 4: within the secondary on Thursday because of all the injuries.
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  Speaker 4: This is who you guys have slated to be the
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  Speaker 4: starters week one, you know, with the exception of Damian Lewis.
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  Speaker 4: For me, I know that all the stats that Bryce
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  Speaker 4: was leading the league in, one of the stats that
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  Speaker 4: he was leading the league in was he was the
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  Speaker 4: most pressured quarterback. He was performing in spite of that pressure.
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  Speaker 4: That's not even a category that you want him to
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  Speaker 4: have to thrive in.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want to have to.
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  Speaker 4: Be under pressure all the time. And eventually that weighs down.
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  Speaker 4: You can't always outperform a bad offensive line.
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  Speaker 2: No, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the thing. You said it. We saw him
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  Speaker 1: do it for five weeks, right? And eventually, the dam
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  Speaker 1: is broken here. And I do think... I was saying, Sheena,
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  Speaker 1: after the Bucs game, he's not escaping the way he
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  Speaker 1: was previously.
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  Speaker 2: And I think the need.
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  Speaker 1: I know Bryce haters or Bryce doubters, I should say,
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  Speaker 1: are going to say, y'all are making excuses.
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  Speaker 2: But, like, something was off. The knee thing makes sense,
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  Speaker 2: you know?
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  Speaker 4: Can we really say that the people that are overzealous
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  Speaker 4: Bryce doubters, can we really say that they employ logic
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  Speaker 4: for real? I think we're giving them a little bit
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  Speaker 4: more credit than they deserve. Anytime I hear they hit height,
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  Speaker 4: has anything to do with the last two weeks, I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm exiting the conversation. We're giving those guys, we're giving
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  Speaker 4: that group way too much credit. They don't employ logic anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, they can't even spell logic. And it's funny
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  Speaker 3: that they're going after Bryce's height. I would guess, Sheena,
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  Speaker 3: that some of those guys are probably like 5'7.
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  Speaker 4: That's the thing that always gets me. I'm like, let's
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  Speaker 4: see your height. Oh, you're just not tall enough. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: the Chargers are sitting at, what, 0-8 now, or are
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  Speaker 4: they 0-7?
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  Speaker 3: 0-7.
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  Speaker 4: 0-7. And only because they had a bye.
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  Speaker 1: Big old strapping quarterback. And look how he looks.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, all right.
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  Speaker 4: You just cannot outplay– you can't continuously outplay a bad
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  Speaker 4: offensive line. You just can't do that.
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  Speaker 2: That's way too much stress. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: Sheena, great stuff as always. I look forward– to reading
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  Speaker 1: some angry texts from Bryce Dowders right now.
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  Speaker 2: You gave him the business.
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  Speaker 1: If y'all want this great information, if you're not following
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  Speaker 1: Sheena already, I ask, what are you doing with your life?
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  Speaker 1: At Sheena underscore Marie3 on Twitter and slash X.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Sheena. Enjoyed it. Thanks so much.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, guys.