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Mac & Bone Hour 2: Bryce Young's Contract Outlook Amid Baker's Situation · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: M h.
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  Speaker 2: I want to see what it means for about Brice Young,
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  Speaker 2: because there are some pockets, uh around this organization, around
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  Speaker 2: Bryce that I think always felt like maybe analysis was
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  Speaker 2: a little too restrictively.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't have enough shot plays generalizing it. But that
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  Speaker 3: was sort of the main argument here. And so doesn't
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  Speaker 3: mean it's it's gonna come out and like become you
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  Speaker 3: John coriol that's a deal.
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  Speaker 4: But but no, but I do think there is a.
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  Speaker 2: Comfort level with with Bryce Young and Brad it's.
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  Speaker 4: It that's important.
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  Speaker 5: That is Joe Person on The Athletic Football Show, they
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  Speaker 5: did a preview on there of the Panthers. Robert Mays,
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  Speaker 5: the host, brought Joe Person on good chunk of Panthers
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  Speaker 5: talk there on that podcast. But I thought what Joe
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  Speaker 5: said there is interesting bone, especially in light of the
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  Speaker 5: fact that it was last week when I asked Canalis
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  Speaker 5: about Bryce's efficiency throwing the deep ball. I don't know
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  Speaker 5: if anybody has heard me mention this, but pff HadAM
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  Speaker 5: Bone is the highest created deep ball car know how
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  Speaker 5: many people have heard that, But anyway, and so it
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  Speaker 5: was a very efficient when he would throw it deep.
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  Speaker 5: But he threw it the twenty second most times downfield,
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  Speaker 5: and I asked, coach, is that something that you have
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  Speaker 5: to change give more deep shots? And his answer was interesting.
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  Speaker 5: Canalis basically said, that's why it's efficient. We don't force it,
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  Speaker 5: We do it when it's there. So that led me
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  Speaker 5: to believe, well, dang, coach doesn't really unless he's playing poker,
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  Speaker 5: coach doesn't really want to sling that thing downfield the
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  Speaker 5: way we do. Because I just think I think they've
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  Speaker 5: got to throw it down field more. But that's interesting
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  Speaker 5: to hear Joe person say there are people in the building, Brad,
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  Speaker 5: it's it might be one of them that think, yes,
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  Speaker 5: we've got to not be so conservative with Bryce.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's why we were so excited for brasl to
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  Speaker 6: be in there, because we thought he was a guy
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  Speaker 6: that would allow them to be that way to open
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  Speaker 6: things up a little bit. So even if it wasn't
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  Speaker 6: even making plays, just him open it up, his presence
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  Speaker 6: was going to be huge. That's what sucks about no
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  Speaker 6: brasel out there.
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  Speaker 5: So Baker Mayfield turned down two years, one hundred plus million.
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  Speaker 5: I'm hoping that Brad Agsick can help Bryce make that
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  Speaker 5: next step bone to where maybe the Panthers feel like
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  Speaker 5: giving him money, and maybe we feel like, yes, it's
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  Speaker 5: time to pay him. It's time to give him that money.
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  Speaker 5: If Baker turned down two years one hundred to one
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  Speaker 5: hundred and five or so million dollars, what do we
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  Speaker 5: think it's going to take for Bright to sign Bryce
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  Speaker 5: next year? I guess it depends Bone on the type
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  Speaker 5: of season that Bryce had. Fifty million dollars would make
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  Speaker 5: Bryce Like, let's just say he got fifty million a year,
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  Speaker 5: that would make him the thirteenth highest paid quarterback in
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  Speaker 5: the NFL. What do you think Bone about that? Because
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  Speaker 5: I do feel like there is some sticker shock. We're
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  Speaker 5: not even buying the car yet. We've just looked at
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  Speaker 5: the sticker on a possible Bryce extension, and I think
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  Speaker 5: a lot of us have been like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 5: fifty million?
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  Speaker 4: Is he worth it? Is he worth using up that
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  Speaker 4: much of your cap? Pie?
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  Speaker 5: Like, what do you think Bone, a contract extension for
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  Speaker 5: Bryce could look like?
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  Speaker 4: Is he somewhere in that range?
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  Speaker 6: We're talking about that forty five to fifty million dollars
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  Speaker 6: a year, and I'm basing that off of some of
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  Speaker 6: the other guys that are in that neighborhood. It's it's Mayfield,
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  Speaker 6: it's Darnold, it's Malik Willis is at forty five. Malie
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  Speaker 6: Willis is in that neighborhood as well. Malik's aid twenty
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  Speaker 6: two million a year. Okay, twenty five. It's a guarantee
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  Speaker 6: I was working to guaranteed.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: I'm looking at maybe the range of guys of where
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  Speaker 6: he falls in. I think it's into that the Daniel
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  Speaker 6: Jones area. It's he's forty four million years that area
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  Speaker 6: of quarterback that I think Bryce falls into right there.
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  Speaker 6: What the number is exactly like you said, it depends
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  Speaker 6: on the year. It could go either way. I think
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  Speaker 6: Bryce is going to have a good year. But that's
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  Speaker 6: not a guarantee. But I do think he's in that.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not I'm not counting to Shaun Watson there. He's
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  Speaker 6: a different category of he made forty six million season
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  Speaker 6: his own some of the worst.
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  Speaker 4: Money ever spend, that good thing we never wanted.
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  Speaker 6: In that Jones, Donald Mayfield, Willis area of where they
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  Speaker 6: rank in terms of the league's quarterback contracts.
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  Speaker 4: I think he falls into that category.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Well, Malik Willis is twenty two million a year,
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  Speaker 5: Baker's thirty three million a year, Donald thirty three million
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  Speaker 5: a year. Yeah, the Donald and Baker thirty three million
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  Speaker 5: a year is the one that I keep using that
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  Speaker 5: they should offer to him right now. He probably would
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  Speaker 5: turn it down. Those those guys are underpaid at thirty
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  Speaker 5: three million a year. Then you start to get up
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  Speaker 5: Bone to the area where you were talking about with
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  Speaker 5: Daniel Jones getting forty four million a year, DeShawn forty
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  Speaker 5: six million year, Jalen Hurts fifty one, Lamar fifty two.
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  Speaker 5: If we if Bryce Young throws thirty touchdown passes this year,
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  Speaker 5: career high, throws for a career high in passing yards,
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  Speaker 5: Bone thirty let's say thirty six hundred something like that,
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  Speaker 5: and the Panthers win the division? Again, is he worth
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  Speaker 5: fifty million dollars a year then, like, cause we're gonna
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  Speaker 5: get to the point Bone like once Baker signs a
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  Speaker 5: new deal, either in Tampa or elsewhere. I mean, I
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  Speaker 5: feel like he's gonna be up a like. I feel
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  Speaker 5: like we're getting close and there's a bunch of other
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  Speaker 5: young quarterbacks what's used to gonna do with Stroud?
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  Speaker 4: I think we're getting close to the.
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  Speaker 6: Point we got Caleb, You've got Daniels, You've got May,
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  Speaker 6: You've got all a lot of dudes, cam Ward. Eventually,
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  Speaker 6: you've got a lot of guys that are going to
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  Speaker 6: be that are going to be grouped in there with Bryce,
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  Speaker 6: that are coming up with the next time.
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  Speaker 5: Their extension eligible. Those guys you mentioned are extension eligible
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  Speaker 5: this year after the third year, Caleb Williams, Drake May,
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  Speaker 5: and Jane Daniels. I think what I'm trying to say here,
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  Speaker 5: Bone is I have a feeling it's not going to
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  Speaker 5: be too long before half the league gets fifty million
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  Speaker 5: dollars a year. So if you think you have a
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  Speaker 5: top half quarterback, you give him fifty million dollars a year.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's what Bryce should get if it
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  Speaker 6: all goes well. I know I've done the word if
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  Speaker 6: in there. If there's some meltdown that happens where Bryce
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  Speaker 6: reverts back to the negatives that we've seen at times,
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  Speaker 6: then obviously that discussion changes. If Bryce has as good
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  Speaker 6: of a year as I think he can have that,
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  Speaker 6: I think fifty million dollars is the price for doing business.
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  Speaker 4: So and it does fear you look at the text
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  Speaker 4: line and again.
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  Speaker 6: He could also don't mess that up, Bryce and go
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  Speaker 6: out there and have a complete meltdown, and all of
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  Speaker 6: a sudden, the Baker Mayfield discussion has become real because
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  Speaker 6: you had a horrible year. I'm not predicting that, but
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  Speaker 6: it's it's not guaranteed that Bryce has a great year.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I don't think. I can't imagine it being
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  Speaker 4: horrible though, you know what I mean, don't. I can't
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  Speaker 4: imagine it being a horrible year.
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  Speaker 5: I guess the question is, like, I don't know, everybody
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  Speaker 5: that's texting in right now has sticker shock like they
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  Speaker 5: like everybody texting right now is like, hell no, we
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  Speaker 5: don't pay Bryce fifty million a year. But I think
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  Speaker 5: the point we're trying to make is fifty million dollars
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  Speaker 5: a year is not what maybe you're used to thinking
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  Speaker 5: fifty million dollars. The cap goes up every year, and
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  Speaker 5: these quarterback contracts are gonna keep going up. I just
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  Speaker 5: we gotta let the year play out, like, because I
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  Speaker 5: right now don't I wouldn't pay Bryce fifty million dollars
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  Speaker 5: a year right now. This is a huge prove it
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  Speaker 5: year for him. You also have him bone for the
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  Speaker 5: fifth year at twenty six million, very very ardable rate.
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  Speaker 5: You could make him pay out ears fifth year. You
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  Speaker 5: could make him play his fifth year out and see
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  Speaker 5: what happens, and then you have the franchise tag after
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  Speaker 5: that for a couple of So there is a scenario
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  Speaker 5: two where you don't even have to give him a
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  Speaker 5: deal this coming off season and you can have him
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  Speaker 5: under team control using two years of a franchise tag
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  Speaker 5: into his year seven season. So there's that there's that
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  Speaker 5: option as well.
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  Speaker 6: I guess the risk with that, and it's not a
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  Speaker 6: bad risk maybe, but the risk with that would be
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  Speaker 6: all the other guys will get their deals and then
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  Speaker 6: if Bryce goes completely bonkers and balls out when you're
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  Speaker 6: looking at maybe seventy.
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  Speaker 4: Million, then you go in.
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  Speaker 6: Then you're going away above what you thought. So that's
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  Speaker 6: that that would be the risk with waiting that volt.
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  Speaker 5: That's a good point too, whereas like fifty million, like
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  Speaker 5: eventually that's not good. That's middle of the pack money
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  Speaker 5: for quarterback. It's gonna be middle of the pack money.
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  Speaker 5: Like I said, we're very close to half the league
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  Speaker 5: getting fifty million, and then bone in five years, what's
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  Speaker 5: fifty million gonna look like? You know, you could be
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  Speaker 5: the twenty second, twenty third eye. You know, so they're
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  Speaker 5: only going up. So I don't know. It's it's it's
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  Speaker 5: a tough conversation to have, but it's an interesting conversation
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  Speaker 5: to have as well. What do y'all think Baker Mayfield
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  Speaker 5: turned down a two year reported two year, one hundred
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  Speaker 5: to one hundred five million dollar deal. What do you
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  Speaker 5: think a contract extension looks like for Bryce Young? I
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  Speaker 5: just again, I need to point out to everybody bone
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  Speaker 5: that is saying And I like the way.
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  Speaker 4: They've handled this.
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  Speaker 5: I like the wait and see approach, but I do
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  Speaker 5: need to point out to everybody that is ripping Bryce
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  Speaker 5: Young on the text line right now saying he's not
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  Speaker 5: worth fifty million a year. You guys do realize that
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  Speaker 5: you're re entering the quarterback lottery right like guys on
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  Speaker 5: here saying just draft somebody. You do realize that's buying
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  Speaker 5: a lottery ticket. And then you got to start all
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  Speaker 5: over again with a rookie learning curve. And then I
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  Speaker 5: saw somebody else on here go after others. There are
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  Speaker 5: some go after Baker Mayfield. Do you what do you
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  Speaker 5: think about that bone? I forget what it was. There
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  Speaker 5: was one website that had a list of like five
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  Speaker 5: teams that should be monitoring the Baker Mayfield situation if
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  Speaker 5: he hits free agency next year and the Panthers were
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  Speaker 5: on the list. We've got a couple of Texters that
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  Speaker 5: have just said, why don't we just signed Baker Mayfield
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  Speaker 5: and give him the years he wants. What do you
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  Speaker 5: think about that, Bony? There's two things about that. I
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  Speaker 5: would say.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not saying zero percent chance because it goes back
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  Speaker 6: to what we just said about if Bryce had a
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  Speaker 6: horrible year and it opened things up, then obviously anything
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  Speaker 6: could happen with the quarterback market. Not a prediction, just
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  Speaker 6: going that Devil's advocate route saying how Bryce, excuse me,
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  Speaker 6: Baker would make sense. The only issue with this is
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  Speaker 6: I don't think Baker mac really likes the Panther organization
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  Speaker 6: very much, not that those guys.
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  Speaker 4: Are here anymore.
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  Speaker 6: But in Baker's mind, he sees Carolina and it goes
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  Speaker 6: back to Steve Wilkson all those times PTSD.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know I.
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  Speaker 6: Think Baker would view that as a career going not
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  Speaker 6: that I'm saying, but his mind he viewed that going
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  Speaker 6: backwards to where was negative for him. I don't think
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  Speaker 6: Baker would even sign here.
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  Speaker 5: Honestly, he has he has a condition that a lot
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  Speaker 5: of us Panther fans have. He has pp SD post
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  Speaker 5: panther traumatic stress disorder. Right whereas we have been.
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  Speaker 4: Put through so much traumas Panther fans, we could revert
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  Speaker 4: back to those memories.
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  Speaker 5: You're right, he had the low career here. So what
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  Speaker 5: medication you use for that would go v what's the
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  Speaker 5: I haven't.
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  Speaker 4: Found it yet. If y'all find a good one for
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  Speaker 4: our pps D, let me know. I guess right now,
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  Speaker 4: maybe Canalis and Dan Morgan are the medicine because they
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  Speaker 4: are helping us feel better. The agent says, hey, you
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  Speaker 4: want to be a Panther. He's not. He's not gonna.
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  Speaker 4: He's not gonna want.
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  Speaker 5: You would have You would have to really outbid everybody,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Would there be a panther tax on it? Going back
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  Speaker 4: to Carolina text?
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  Speaker 5: So, I don't know that's an interesting part if you
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  Speaker 5: just looked at it from a football standpoint, I mean.
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  Speaker 4: How old is Baker now?
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  Speaker 7: Bone?
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  Speaker 4: I guess I could just google that. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: why I asked. James Zager was.
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  Speaker 6: Drafted in twenty eighth, guess twenty eighteen thirty one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, like Bryce is way younger. That's the thing. Your bet.
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  Speaker 4: Bryce is way younger.
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  Speaker 5: But it's a question of will Bryce play as good
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  Speaker 5: as Baker at his best. I think he can get
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  Speaker 5: to that different sort of quarterback, a lot safer, not
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  Speaker 5: as not as you know, much of a gun slinger.
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  Speaker 4: But I still believe Bryce can get.
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  Speaker 5: Into the top ten or twelve quarterbacks over the next
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  Speaker 5: few years.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I still do believe that is possible. But this year
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  Speaker 5: he's got to bring it. He's got to make a
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  Speaker 5: jump this year, man. Yeah, and I think you will.
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  Speaker 5: I think he will. I do think he will make
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  Speaker 5: that jump this year. I don't know if I so.
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  Speaker 5: The year's difference really favors Bryce. For me, having a
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  Speaker 5: younger quarterback rattan having a thirty one year old that
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  Speaker 5: we just talked about Bone gets every body part beat
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  Speaker 5: up through the course of the season.
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  Speaker 6: Do you know what Mac hurts some of these quarterback
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  Speaker 6: contracts coming up here. I know that he wins a
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  Speaker 6: lot and he's a good courtquarterback, but the amount of
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  Speaker 6: money that brock Party makes is really gonna mess with
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  Speaker 6: some of these other guys, isn't it because they're gonna
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  Speaker 6: look at Rock Party and think I could do that
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  Speaker 6: in a Shanahan offense.
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  Speaker 4: I know that he wins and he's good for the Niners.
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  Speaker 6: Brock Party's maybe fifty three million, he's a top five
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  Speaker 6: and overall overall contract.
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  Speaker 4: Though, isn't he? Isn't he talk?
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  Speaker 5: He is ninth, ninth highest paid and average vout. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: you're saying over overall he's like fifth though. I yeah,
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  Speaker 5: he got a two hundred and sixty five million dollar deal.
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  Speaker 5: He got one hundred and eighty two million guaranteed.
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  Speaker 4: I think Trevor Lawrence is right there too with him.
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  Speaker 4: So Rock Party.
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  Speaker 6: These quarterbacks coming up are looking at Rock Party thinking,
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  Speaker 6: am I not better than that guy? That's gonna be
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  Speaker 6: a problem for someone like Baker Mayfield, back to me,
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  Speaker 6: is a better quarterback. I'd rather have Baker Mayfield went
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  Speaker 6: healthy than Brock Party.
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  Speaker 5: Are you just doing this because Niners Eddy is bothering
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  Speaker 5: you on the text line about Brock Party right now?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, seven Party is good, but he's making great.
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  Speaker 5: Money seven O four five, seven oh nine six ten
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  Speaker 5: if y'all want to jump in here, But again, I
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  Speaker 5: would argue bone, he's ninth highest paid a fifty three
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  Speaker 5: million a year. That's the probably range he should be at.
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  Speaker 5: If we're sitting here saying, if Bryce has a good year,
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  Speaker 5: pay him fifty million.
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  Speaker 4: Dollars a year or more. We can't get mad that
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  Speaker 4: brock Perty's got fifty three million, right.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just saying that the other quarterbacks are gonna look
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  Speaker 6: at what he is and they're gonna want above him.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, I mean Trevor Lawrence is getting fifty
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  Speaker 5: five million a year.
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  Speaker 6: It's been an up and down career for him to
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  Speaker 6: this pint all on shampoos and conditioners. Most most teams,
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  Speaker 6: if you have a good quarterback, you don't you pay
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  Speaker 6: him because the alternative is, oh crap, I'm out there
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  Speaker 6: in quarterback never Never Land, searching in the forest for
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  Speaker 6: one and I may end up with a turn.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean. Like that's the thing.
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  Speaker 5: So like, so it's like, if Bryce can get it
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  Speaker 5: to a level where you feel like he's in the
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  Speaker 5: neighborhood as some of those guys, you probably have to
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  Speaker 5: pay him for the fear of like those of you
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  Speaker 5: that hate Bryce and think he should not get any
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  Speaker 5: money any extension anything, that he should pay the Panthers
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  Speaker 5: to work for them, like he should be on an
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  Speaker 5: unpaid internship. Those of you that feel like, no, we
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  Speaker 5: can't pay Bryce, don't y'all remember what it's like to
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  Speaker 5: be out there and quarterback never never Land. It ain't
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  Speaker 5: a guarantee you we all of a sudden end up
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  Speaker 5: with the next Pat Mahomes.
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  Speaker 6: Zach and Miami often has some of the worst tastes
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  Speaker 6: on the text line says Baker was the worst Panther
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  Speaker 6: quarterback they've ever had. Oh, sir, don't you dare disrespect
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  Speaker 6: Jimmy claws in with that, with that.
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  Speaker 1: Take Bryan Saint Pierre played for this, play for this friend.
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  Speaker 5: Rist Winkey just said, Hey, don't forget what I accomplished here.
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  Speaker 5: Raby Fossani would like to learn the zero point zero
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  Speaker 5: blue Tarski QB rating for a game. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 5: we've had a lot of suckage here.
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  Speaker 4: Don't disrespect them. I will say that.
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  Speaker 5: A couple of texts making instries point though about Baker
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  Speaker 5: and Carolina and I don't know why why am I
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  Speaker 5: doing this? I would much rather because of the age,
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  Speaker 5: have Bryce. I want Bryce to play well and earn
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  Speaker 5: this fifty million or so, multiple people pointing out that
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: Canalis was the quarterback bone in Tampa or was the
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: coordinator for Baker's big season there when he kind of
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: righted the ship. So somebody says, could Canalis convince Baker
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: to come back to the site of his trauma here
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: in Charlotte, North Carolina?
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: Unless Baker says, no, Canalis cut me and just blames
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: everybody for cutting him.
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: You would think he'd remember het What do he sayd
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: about Canalis? Optimist bully, Yes, he loved Canalis. He did
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: love him, So that is a fair point there. Let's
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: see here, Fitty, where is your take on all this?
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: Bryce Young, This dude says, are these buffoons not realizing
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: that fifty million dollars in five years will look like
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: nothing to a quarterback?
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: That's the point I think Bone and I were trying
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: to make. How do you feel about all this?
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Obviously, as a big fan of Bryce and a big
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: believer in him, Mac, I think he's gonna play at
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: a level where we're going to offer him a respectable
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: contract offer. But Mac, if we're talking north of forty
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: five in that closer to fifty.
• 17:15
  Speaker 8: Million dollar range, you named.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: All those quarterbacks are like paid in that in that
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: kind of in that in that price range.
• 17:21
  Speaker 8: What do they all have in common? They all wont
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: playoff games.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: So like that would suggest to me we either repeat
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: his division champs or we get it as a wild
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: card and Bryce wins a playoff game. And that's been
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: my prediction as the leader of the ten win wagon.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I think that they will win this division. They will
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: advance to you.
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm still the leader.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: I may have dropped. Wait, here's the thing about right now?
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Your record, says Fitty question Mark, Well scaredy cat.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: After fan fest, I wanted to make it know when
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I'm back at the eleven at the eleven win Mark.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Because they fight against each other.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: After the third back shoulder throw that Bryce made it
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: to look beautiful, I'm back on the eleven wind wagon.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: He was hitting some back shoulders. Man, if he puts
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: that consistently in his back. But Mac, I'm still gonna
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: say that.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I think if they offer him like anywhere close to
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: forty million dollars, I think they're offering him something that's
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: very very fair. On the flip side, Mac, if if
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: this doesn't go right, if this doesn't go well, and
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Dan Morgan does decide, hey, this is not the quarterback
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: I want to invest in. The roster is in a
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: better position to do that definitely. Then it was when
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Scott Fitterer said, we're a quarterback away.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we could just drop a quarterback in be a
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: great team. E Laser eyes. You had to swing him
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: and miss that laser eyes.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Mac talking back shoulder. It's Fitty. It's not Cherry Knipple
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: this time around.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I gotta tell you I do the only shoulders
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: I like better, or the back shoulder passes. Man, There's
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: something beautiful about a back shoulder pass. It is like
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: indefensible when thrown correctly, when the receiver knows how to
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: use his body. And Fitty's right. He had TMAC on one,
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: hit XL on one, and XL got the feed in.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: If he can, oh god, if he can start hitting that.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: This text says seven O four number.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: I'd give him to Daniel Jones special two years, eighty
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: eight million dollars. I don't.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: I think Bryce is looking like Baker and Tampa. I
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: think Bryce is looking for more years than two years.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: When we come back, we get Luke Keighley appreciation. We
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: go in a lot of interviews, a lot of coverage
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: of Luke Keikley go to the Hall of Fame on
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: Saturday and can Steve Speck saw him first before we
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: all did in high school. Keekley's high school football coach,
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: Steve Speck joins back and I next for an assessment
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: of what young Luke was why.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: On Sports Radio ninety two seven WFNZ.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: Sports Your Radio ninety twenty seven WFNZ, we are reminiscing
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: about our Friday night out.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: On the town.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: It doesn't happen often that all three of us are out,
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: and about Panther fan Fest gave us a reason to
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: get together. Still, we had a blast. Still exhausted, you
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: wore yourself out. Be it out to like ten o'clock.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: Bone gotcha. I got home. I got home. It was
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: like nine to forty and my wife is like, oh
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: my god, why are you home. You're home so early.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: It was like sheer disappointment that I was home.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: She was like here, I thought that she was missing
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: our Friday night TV time together.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: She's sitting there reading a book, upset that I got home.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Oh my god. Anyway, love you too, there, missus. Mac
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: let's uh, let's someone else we love bone, Luke Keikley.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: And this is Luke Keighley Appreciation Week here on The
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Mack and Bone Show and really quite frankly on WFNZ.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: He's going into Hall of Fame on Saturday. We can't
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: freaking wait to hear the speech, and all week long
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: we want to let you hear from people who know
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: Luke and can you put it into their words? What
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: makes Luke so special? Next hour at A twenty five,
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: it's going to be Kirk Coleman, his former teammate with
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: the Panthers. Right now, it is Steve Speckt. He is
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: a head coach at Saint Xavier in Cincinnati. He's won
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: four state titles there. One of them was with Luke Keigley.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: And the first thing I wanted to ask him is
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: at what point was it in Luke's high school career
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: where you realize, man, we got somebody really special here.
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: It really wasn't until his junior year. He was had
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: an ankle in issue with sophomore year and he wasn't
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: playing a whole lot. He was actually a tight end.
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: And then his junior year, man, we were loaded. I
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: think we had the best team in the country that year.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: We were either ranked one or two, and we had
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: eleven guys. We had fifteen guys coming back from the
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: two thousand and six season on defense. I mean, guys
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: had played a bunch and it was an incredibly talented group.
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: And after about a week of mini camp my defensive
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: coordinator Tim McDonald says to me, he says, we got
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: to get this kid on the field, and it was man.
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: You talk about being a difference maker from the get
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: go for us, Luke was something special that year on
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: a team loaded with just great players.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: Coach, it's hard for us to see Luke at anything
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: other than linebacker. Was he any good at tight end?
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah? He Actually his senior year he went both ways
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: for us, and we moved him to safety. Strangely enough,
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: he played what we call an adjuster position. He's really
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: a quarterback of the defense lines in the middle of
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: a field, about seven yards off the ball, and he
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: just tracks ball carriers. Luke was made for that position,
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: but he played safety and he played tight end. Hardly
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: ever came off the field his senior year.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: Did he have the gift like back then of being
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: able to diagnose plays and know what's coming, because that's
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: one of the things that he is obviously known for,
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: you know, in his NFL career.
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it was. It's funny you asked that because I
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: gave a president I was given a clinic presentation a
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: couple of years back, and I was looking for pictures
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: of Luke and I found a picture of him from
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: high school where you could see him calling out, pointing
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: that you could see him directing traffic. And I found
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: a picture of him in college doing it the same thing,
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: and then a picture with Panthers doing the same thing
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: back to back to back. So he had been doing
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: it at a lower level at high school compared to
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: what he did with the Panthers. But man, you talk
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: about a young guy that studied the game, watched film.
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: The way he would watch film in high school was
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: different for me as a coach because he enjoyed it.
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: Most most high school kids, I t's we got fifteen
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: minutes of film and they want to get out. He'd
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: stayed longer. He'd ask to come in a coach, Can
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: I get can I see at lunch? Can we watch film?
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: He wanted to watch film all the time. It was
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: really it was really neat to watch the evolution because
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: he just improved every year into what he into obviously
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: what he is now.
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, So, coach and reading about Luke in those years
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: lead you guys to that state title. Puts up phenomenal
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: numbers across the board on defense and I'm sure on offense,
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: as you said, they contributed to as a contributor as well.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: Why was he only a three star recruit and the
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: forty fourth outside linebacker that year in the country. Looking
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: at it now, it seems impossible that there were that
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: many guys better than him.
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: Well, that's a great question. I think some of it is.
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: You know, he was long and lanky. He was he's
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: probably six foot two, six foot three at the time.
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: He wore a wire he did. He didn't look the part,
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: and I don't think playing him at safety, the you know,
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: didn't help a whole lot. A great quick story for
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: you and Jeff Monkin, who's the head coach at West Point. Now,
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: Jeff was with Georgia Tech and he was in recruiting
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: and I told him, I said, man, you got I said, coach,
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: you gotta look at my number three, Luke Keighley. He's
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: he's he's as good as anybody I've ever seen play
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: this game. He said, yeah, we watched and coach thought
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: he was a little stiff, and I was like, oh, okay.
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: Well fast forward. I was taking my son on a
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: tour of West Point. One of the coaches I knew
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: was giving us a tour and he said, hey, coach
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: Monkin can't be here today. He apologizes, no problem, no
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: big deal. We get the tour and here comes Jeff Monkin.
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: He comes out of the weight room. He says, coach,
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: I had to see. I said, I didn't think you
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: were going to be in today, and he said, ever
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: since I missed on Luke Keighley, anytime you have a
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: guy here, I'm going to make sure that I see
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: him in.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: I love that he was not alone in underrating him.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: Early on, we're talking with Steve Speck. He is a
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: head coach at Saint Xavier High School in Cincinnati. He
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: was Luke Keigley's coach in high school, and he's telling
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: him some great stories as Luke gets ready to go
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: to the Hall of Fame back in Ohio.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: In Canton.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: One of the things that I will say does drive
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: me crazy about Luke is how humble he is now. Listen,
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: it's awesome how humble he is. But man, now that
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: he's going into Hall of Fame, we want to hear
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: him talk about himself and he doesn't want to talk
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: about himself. And I know this doesn't surprise you. Coach.
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: Was he that way as a kid where you would
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: coach some kids that would get a little full of himself.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: I can't imagine Luke was full of himself. Was he
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: that humble dude as a kid as well?
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: Always always coach, you wouldn't he was. The most I
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: ever heard Luke talk was when he was on the field. Yeah,
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: I mean he was very soft spoken. He led by example.
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: The kids followed his example. I mean more kids started
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: watching film because of the standard that Luke said. It
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: was like it became a standard of how to watch
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: film here. But Luke cares about people. He cares about
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: the team more than the individual. And I still to
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: this day, I think part of the reason Luke retired
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: so young is I don't think he felt he was
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: playing up to the standard he set for himself, even
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: though that he was playing better than almost all the
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: linebackers in the NFL. I really think that he thought
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: he was hurting his team because he couldn't play up
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: to the standard he set for himself to help his teammates.
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: I don't think Luke ever played the game just for
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: the tackles, for the Hall of Fame, for the awards.
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: He played the game for his teammates. And it was
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: that way in high school, and you saw it all
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: the way through the NFL coach.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: We've heard from a teammate of his a story that
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: he told someone at the rookie symposium that he was
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: going to play eight when he was a rookie, that
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: he was going to play eight years and that'll probably
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: be enough. And then he played eight years and that
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: was enough. Are you are you surprised that that he
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: did not have a longer career or do you kind
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: of think, yeah, that Luke, like you said, as soon
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: as there was a little bit of slippage, he walked away.
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: I think the great thing about the way it happened
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: for Luke is he left the game on top. You know,
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: he's he he had suffered a few of those concussions
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: and that's always frightening, but he was able to go
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: out on his terms. So did it surprise me? Not really.
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: He had eight unbelievable years, and in the NFL, your
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: body can take so many hits. And I really think
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: that Luke looked at it and he just said, I
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: can't perform to the level of expectation I have for myself,
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: and he felt like he would let people down. That's
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: my take on it, because Luke was always about making
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: others better and raising others level of play.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: Coach, are you are you going to be there in Canton?
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: Is this something you're gonna take part in?
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: Absolutely, we're taking Actually, I'm gonna go up Friday. We
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: moved our scrimmage from Saturday to Friday. I'm gonna go
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: up Friday evening and stay through Sunday. And my staff
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: and my varsity team, they're all coming up on Saturday.
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: This is a once in a lifetime deal for us.
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: It's historic. I mean we I want these kids to
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: see homegrown guy that did well. I think there'll be
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: just a great experience for all of us.
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: Coach, you have a website and a book, right, go
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: ahead and promote that as well.
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah. I wrote a book called Fourth in Redemption.
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: It was about our twenty sixteen season. We went five
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: and five barely snuck into the playoffs and then ran
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: five street victories Duenna State title. It was a true
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: uh David and Goliath. Story. But there there's a there's
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: an expert on an excerpt in it about when Luke
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: retired and and you guys will love this. We're in UH.
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: I have a podcast and my co host was a
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: was a student at Saint Axe with Luke back in
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: two thousand and seven, and we uh, we were celebrating
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: the podcast at a bar in Tampa, Tampa, Florida, and
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: we're eating and all of a sudden, across the TV
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: at the screen, it appears that Luke Keigley retired, and
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: the entire restaurant got quiet, and everybody's looking at it,
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: and then, uh will my my podcast. My co host
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: tells the waiter said, he went to our high school.
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: This is his high school coach. And the waiters telling everybody,
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: this is Luke Keigley, the high school coach, and everybody
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: starts cheering. Everybody started cheering for Luke Keighley. It was
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: a celebration. I think they were cheering because they knew
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: that they weren't gonna have to play him anymore.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: I was just it was so cool, crazy that.
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: I mean, everybody loved that guy. How can you not
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: love Luke Keigley even though you're you know, your arrival.
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: The whole place was just cheering, asking questions. What was
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: he like?
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: Is?
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: It was so neat cool experience, and I thought, man,
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: what a way to go out on top.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: That is a tremendous story. Fun interview.
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: Steve Speck still at saying Xavier High School bone still
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: want to state championship just a couple of years ago,
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: his fourth overall, but he won one with Luke in
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: that junior season that he talked about and that story
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: about being in a Tampa bar and seeing bucks hands
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: celebrate Luke Keikley. He's done that, God, he's done. That's
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: so good. I love the energy and so did the
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: text line of coach there. That was awesome to get
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: wog weeks started there. That made me want to go
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: back talking to coach and play high school football again again.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: Huh oh, I didn't know, yeah, I didn't know you. Well,
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: I thought you had four or full years of eligibility.
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: I misworded that. That makes me want to go back
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: and maybe use my uh use my fifth year.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: Man, check with the court and see if you're cleared
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: another year.
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: If they were mag if you could go back and
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: use a fifth year of high school, would you use it?
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: Go back to high school again? I think I may
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: use my I would love to play basketball against high school. No, oh,
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: I don't know my kidding, I'm out of shape. Why
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: do I want to do that? What do you try
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: to get me involved in?
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: Bone? I'd die on the court. I literally die on
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: the court. I'd go back to West right now, will
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: be a god? Now do I want to go back
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: to college?
• 32:35
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: That could be kind of fun. I don't know if
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: I survived that either, though for different reasons, they'd say,
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: oh my god, that guy knew Chris paul Man, this
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: is gonna be a fun this Luke Eakley a week
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: is gonna be fun man, Kirk Coleman later, I love
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: Luke's stories. Darren Gant's been doing a really good job
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: Bone of writing different articles.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: He has been killing it. Man.
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: Of course, he's a Hall of Fame voter here, you know,
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: representing the Charlotte market, and he is part of putting
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: Luke Keighley in the Hall of Fame. But some of
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: the stuff that he has been that he has been writing.
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: There was a story in there where there's a TD
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: quote on Panthers dot com about how he woke up
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: from the surgery the next morning. Remember, he broke his
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: arm against Arizona to you did in the twenty fifteen
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  Speaker 5: NFC title game, and he went to that surgery immediately
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: next morning because he was going to plea was dead
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: set I will play even with his broken arm in
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: the Super Bowl. He says he woke up from the
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: surgery and there was Luke Keickley just waiting for him, said,
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to take you home, man. Want to make
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  Speaker 5: sure you're all right the night after. There also is
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: a There also is a Darren Gant article about Luke
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: Keighley's infamous notepads. He wasn't just bone a compulsive film watcher.
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: He was a compulsive note taker, kind of like that
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  Speaker 5: nerdy kid in school that you'd be like.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, I didn't get any notestake. I bored that notebook
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  Speaker 4: just and used the exact same pen, the exact same
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  Speaker 4: type of pen all the time to take his notes
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  Speaker 4: for his entire career.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: But he would go through like five Darren said, he'd
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: go through five notebooks a season, and what he would
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: do is just keep repeat. He'd write stuff over and
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  Speaker 5: over again. And I think a lot of people were
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: like this when studying. Like he says, if I wrote
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: it enough, I would remember it and yeah it's it's
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: a but there's really you. Just go check Panthers dot com.
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: Darren Gantz got about five freaking gems about Luke Man.
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  Speaker 4: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 6: Shall we go to our gem Fitty Marlow here with
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: a update?
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  Speaker 5: Heck yeah, man, heck yeah. Check out this guy's notes
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  Speaker 5: over there.
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  Speaker 4: It's all right.
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  Speaker 10: A little hometown or a big old city might as
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  Speaker 10: well shared, might as well smiles.
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  Speaker 8: Wow, thank you guys.
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  Speaker 1: This update is brought to you by the ancient s
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  Speaker 8: Do not wait for a small problem to become a
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  Speaker 8: big one.
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  Speaker 1: If you see an issue with your root for your gutters,
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  Speaker 1: three three four nine to nine three four. That is
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  Speaker 1: seven zero four three three four nine to nine three
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  Speaker 1: four one final time seven zero four three three four
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  Speaker 1: nine to nine three For some other football happenings over
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: the weekend in the NFL in the Division. Saints wide
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: receiver Jaylen Polk officially retired after being the thirty seventh
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: pick in the twenty twenty four NFL draft. Played one
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: season in New England, got traded to the Saints, never
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: played for New Orleans when he did retire in Jadevian
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Clowney going back to where it all started, signing as
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: a free agent with the Houston Texans. That's the name
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: we've talked about as a maybe potential addition since the
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Knick's court and injury. Not a whole lot of buzz
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: around it, but Javid Jenevian Clowney has found his new
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: football home where it all started, back in Houston.
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: He is starting bone He's played for all the NFL teams.
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: He is now starting his second lap through the NFL.
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: Eventually he's gonna get to a second stint with the Panthers.
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: When he is sixty two years old, it'll be time
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: for a second stint with the Panthers.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: All right, we come back. It's weekend conclusions.
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: I kind of went caaring yesterday Mac on a customer
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: service in a customer service situation. Oh, I'll explain that
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: prominent media member goes after back in Guy, we'll talk
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: about that and what impressed Fitty most about Max's night
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: out on Friday Sports Radio ninety two seven WFZ.
• 36:46
  Speaker 9: So my mom and my dad they both pay the way.
• 36:49
  Speaker 9: A lot of folks don't really nobody. I don't talk
• 36:51
  Speaker 9: about it, you know what I'm saying. I I don't
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: like to hear about it and stuff like that, and
• 36:58
  Speaker 9: what I wanted to all let it be with it
• 37:01
  Speaker 9: back up to how it was when I was a
• 37:03
  Speaker 9: little mine because my highs burnt down when we was
• 37:06
  Speaker 9: when I was in third grade that year the year
• 37:11
  Speaker 9: a whole lot of stuff have Man, I think that's
• 37:13
  Speaker 9: the same year my mom had died. I know, that's
• 37:15
  Speaker 9: what counselors. My dad had a lot of heart attack
• 37:17
  Speaker 9: that same year, and I have burnt down.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: That same year at h Yeah.
• 37:22
  Speaker 9: Well that's part of it. That's part of it, you
• 37:25
  Speaker 9: know what I'm saying. I always tell folk and they
• 37:27
  Speaker 9: I tell what my people paid away. They always say so.
• 37:31
  Speaker 9: He always telling me so, because to me, I kind
• 37:34
  Speaker 9: of feel like that's what while I'm like how I
• 37:35
  Speaker 9: am today, that's what made me, you know what I'm saying.
• 37:38
  Speaker 9: But I always had a plan since I've been lit
• 37:40
  Speaker 9: and I always stuck with.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: That is Excel.
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: The conversation he had with Sports Illustrated SI, this is
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: the day Bony that he was having his big, big
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: shin dig out there and Brian Price went out there,
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: wouldn't get on the horse, but got on the three wheeler.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: It was that day and that comment right there.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: Lost his parents when he was young, and he is
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: renovating his house, his childhood home in Mullins because he
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: wants to remember what it was like when he was
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: little or as he said, a little man.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: That's how he said it.
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: You hear things like that about Excel, I feel like
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: and I feel like sometimes we just start throwing out
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: all these comments out of frustration in him as a player.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: I think we forget he's an actual human being who's
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: been through a lot, and I think sometimes we all
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: need a little bit of reminder of that, and like
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: he just seems genuine good people man, and got to
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: hope he can turn it around. He's frustrated me as
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: a fan, But man, you listen to that guy. How
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: can you not want that guy to have success? We
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: need the football player to match the human being XL.
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: As if we get that, then we have an all
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: time fan favorite on our hands. Nobe about it, definitely, man,
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: So anyway, I wanted to make sure everybody heard that
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: right there, we will talk about a fan fest. Xcel
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: had a real nice player on Friday night, so many
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: of the receivers did. We'll talk fan fest at the
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: top of the hour right now, though, Bone Man, let's
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: get to more weekend conclusions.
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  Speaker 4: What do you have over there, Mac?
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: We're gonna start with what impressed Fitty the most about
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: what he witnessed you do on Friday night. I've seen
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: this a million times and it always amazes me as well.
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: Mac might be the best wing eater we've ever seen.
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: Not necessarily in volume yeah, volume, yeah yeah, but how
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: you you clean the bone?
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: That sounds weirder than I wanted it to.
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  Speaker 10: But you giving you a bathroom some one hand you
• 39:44
  Speaker 10: one hand the wings you get nothing on you it
• 39:49
  Speaker 10: is You're an extraordinary wing eater.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: Fitty, you were great. Thank you man. Let's heart. It
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: warms my heart.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: It was like watching Picasso or someone, you know, Da Vinci.
• 39:59
  Speaker 8: You know it was a work of art.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: Jed Williams at the Plate back in the forties.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: I've never seen someone one handed chicken wing that that
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: dips that. You put a lot of blue cheese on
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: your wing. There's a lot of sauce and old you
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: had buffalo sauce wings and not anything on your shirt,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: no flavor, savor and your beard.
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: Now, I will say this, that part you don't even
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: use both hands. You have one hand down on the table. Yeah,
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's just it's artistray. Thank I'm glad somebody
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: noticed that. I will say this, The part about me
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: not making a mess, that was an aberration.
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: That is not That's not a normal thing. But I
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: believe no piece of chicken meat should be left behind
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: on any of those bones. I get angry if I
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: see Mac Junior didn't clean his wings. He gets a
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: scolding at the house. All right, that's the way you
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: do it.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe. I'm so glad that y'all notice that. It might
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: be your your best quality, your best features. I don't
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: have much gold. That's your most defied skill. I think
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: I don't know how much going for me. I'll be
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: glad to just have one skill. So I do appreciate that.
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: I don't appreciate my daughter Caitlyn and what she told
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: me on Friday night. She has started watching the Golden Girls.
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: This is a tradition in my house. Mac Junior watched it,
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: my wife watches it. But now Caitlyn, my daughter, thirteen
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: year old daughters watching Golden Girls, and she says to me,
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: do you know you're as old? You're almost as old
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: as one of the Golden Girls characters. One of the
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: Golden Girls characters was fifty five years old during Golden Girls.
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: That you're almost that age. First of all, on fifty two,
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: we got three years. We got three years to go girly,
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: all right. But secondly, that's not what I want to hear. Man,
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: even if it's true, that is not what I want
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: to hear.
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: Bone.
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's crazy that all the characters were in
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: there early to mid fifties.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: Is that what it was?
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: The actresses were in there, yeah, like fifties or whatever,
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: because I like, you watch them and I think they're
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: supposed to be like seventy something, right, yeah, but they
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: weren't or no, no, no, I mean I think Sophia was,
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: oh yeah she was, but the other ones one other
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: ones were more in there, I guess in their fifties
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: way fifties. So should I be a golden guy now?
• 42:10
  Speaker 9: Is that what?
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: Probably? I don't feel old. I don't feel all that
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: show now takes me off.
• 42:15
  Speaker 6: Your co host still watches too here. Let's not believe
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: him out either. Well, that's a given. That's definitely a given.
• 42:20
  Speaker 6: Mac Ryan McGee, friend of the station. You hear him
• 42:23
  Speaker 6: every week from ESPN on with KB. He was preaching
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: on Saturday morning when this tweet came up. Quote said
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: it before worth repeating one of the dumbest trends of
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: my lifetime, holding up an entire parking lot to do
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: a reverse five point turn all just the back into
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: your spot like you're unloading uranium cores down at the shipyard. Dude,
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: you're in a Chevy Colorado at the public and what
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: truck does fitting drive as Chevy Colorado?
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: I thought of fitting back in nation?
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: Is that got twelve thousand likes one point five million views?
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: Ryan McGee for your service?
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: Hell yeah, man, that is a seriously literally and there's
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: like four of us backed up just watching this guy
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: put on a damn backing in expedition? Are you freaking
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: kidding me that I said it? I respond to that
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: tweet That's why I'm a pull through guy. All I
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: do is, oh, I don't need that spot that close.
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: Let me go back here towards the back of the thing,
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: and I can pull through still.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: Get the same result. I'm gonna drive through that parking lot.
• 43:26
  Speaker 6: We figured out the grace I will give if you
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: have a big truck and you're in a parking deck
• 43:33
  Speaker 6: and it's easier to get out of that. I understand
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: that when you're at Harris Heater, when you're at Public's,
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: when you're at Target. It's the when you're at a
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: chain restaurant, it's those back ends where you go.
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: Is that necessary? That's crazy?
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: It's over the deck, Fitty. I'm good with that. But
• 43:50
  Speaker 6: you are your back end guy, Fitty, aren't you? I am?
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: But not if I'm gonna hold up multiple cars in
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: a parking lot.
• 43:57
  Speaker 8: Usually I do take the mac approach.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: I'll just pull a little bit further down and just
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: walk so I don't have to do that. But like
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: when I drove y'all to the stadium last week to
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: do training camp, I backed into my parking spot.
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: Parking deck, parking deck. I think that's approved. I prove that.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: I just think there's some people when I see texts
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: like that, those guys that meinly can't back in and
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: it's just safe space. It's twenty twenty six. We're not
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: gonna judge you just say you can't back up a vehicle.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: It took me a long time to figure it out myself,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: but now that I know how to do it.
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: Someone on the text line said, Bone's jealous he couldn't
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: back into a parking spot if he tried.
• 44:34
  Speaker 7: I don't know what.
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: I don't need to back in.
• 44:38
  Speaker 8: West did it at the mall on Saturday and it
• 44:40
  Speaker 8: was perfect.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: That brings me. Let's wrap this up.
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: My final conclusion Bone is that FITTI we you know,
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: we give him a hard time. We got the jokes
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: to fit around here. Fitty might be the most socially
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: active guy at the station.
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: When when when it comes to.
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: Hanging out with his cowork Fiddy, well, obviously him and
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: Flounder are best friends for years.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: He hung out Bone with you and I. It was
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: a show.
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: Outing to FanFest on Friday and then on Saturday, Bone
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: he had a one on one man date to go
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: see the Spider Man movie with Wes Bryant. Fiddy needs
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: credit for being the social butterfly at w f NZ.
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: Thank you Mac.
• 45:23
  Speaker 8: I also went to North Wolkesboro with Smoke.
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: That's true, so Walker and Kyle want nothing to do
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: with Walker and Kab would have to You'd have to
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: take them at gunpoint to hang with them outside of work.
• 45:36
  Speaker 8: But Wes was a fun hang. I went to Jim
• 45:38
  Speaker 8: and Nicks. I tried their smoke wings.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: They're worth everything that they are priced to be, and
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: they are priced very, very expensively. But I got the
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: album of white Sauce wings. Those were fantastic. And Spider
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Man was good. It's not as good as it's being
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: hyped up to be. But Tom holl And, I think
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: did cement himself as the best actor to portray Spider
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Man with his with his latest work.
• 46:01
  Speaker 8: I enjoyed the movie. I had a really fun time there.
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: You go, Bone, I know you wanted a Spider Man
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: review bow today. That's fine.
• 46:08
  Speaker 8: One day I will get y'all into.
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: The superhero like the superheroes, but hey, sounds like a
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: hell of a time.
• 46:14
  Speaker 8: I like soccer hero though. Either For the longest time,
• 46:16
  Speaker 8: I think I can win you.
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: Anythink you can turn me into a superhero movie gun
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: when we come back.
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: Full FanFest recap, How was the fan experience and who
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: stood out. Sports Radio ninety two to seven WFNZ