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Mac & Bone Hour 1: Panthers/Bears FOOTBALL FRIDAY · Mac & Bone Podcast

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Speaker 1: What's up, party people?
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Speaker 2: Bueno, como esta?
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Speaker 3: Oh, oh, oh, it's Mike and Bo.
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Speaker 4: This is my friend, Matt.
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Speaker 1: My Panther cockles are always going, baby. This is my friend, T-Bone.
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Speaker 1: My blighter's always going like Carson Husslevar.
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Speaker 3: You guys are the best.
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Speaker 1: Pony, pony, pony, pony.
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Speaker 3: They're the best. I love those guys.
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Speaker 2: Panthers kicking ass. All right, one time for the one time.
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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Mack and Bo Show on Mack
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Speaker 1: and Bo Radio. All right, baby, we are here. We
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Speaker 1: have arrived at a real Panther Football Friday, everybody. It
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Speaker 1: is time. All right, all that stuff. All that stuff
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Speaker 1: we've been doing for months here. all the way back
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Speaker 1: to the Rams playoff game. All that stuff has been
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Speaker 1: building to this moment. Will your boys Panther up? Is
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Speaker 1: the city Panthering up or. Is everybody a little concerned,
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Speaker 1: a little scared after the preseason we've had? So we'll
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Speaker 1: talk about it all today here on the Mac and
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Speaker 1: Bone Show. What a juicy, fun opponent this is. By fun,
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Speaker 1: I mean I can't stand them. Coming in this week
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Speaker 1: in the Chicago Bears, we will talk about it all
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Speaker 1: here on the Mac and Bone Show. You know we
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Speaker 1: got college football to discuss as well. Two juicy national
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Speaker 1: matchups and then intrigue locally all over the place, especially
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Speaker 1: in Greenville. tomorrow at noon when App and ECU do
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Speaker 1: it on the field. We'll talk about that. Clemson, can
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Speaker 1: you actually handle Georgia Southern? We got Dak going on.
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Speaker 1: Can Duke get revenge against Illinois? The Tar Heels are
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Speaker 1: back on the field. And NC State's playing tonight. Get
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Speaker 1: ready tonight, y'all. Richmond tonight, State will be wearing those
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Speaker 1: special Wolfpack Warrior uniforms, cool-looking black camo unis tonight, as
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Speaker 1: everybody is thinking about 9-11 today, the 25th anniversary of
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Speaker 1: that horrible day. in our country's history. So we got,
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Speaker 1: we got a lot going on. We'll talk about, we
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Speaker 1: had an NFL game last night. We found somebody to
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Speaker 1: look worse than Patriots last night or yes, or this morning,
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Speaker 1: but it was really last night here, but it was
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Speaker 1: this morning last night in Australia. Anyway, I'm confused. And
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Speaker 1: that's when I bring in the bone man and the
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Speaker 1: fit dog fit dog. And I are Panther hat twins today, bony.
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Speaker 1: I'm disappointed. You did not wait, get the memo. What
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Speaker 1: is that? What is Adam my head right there. I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about the exact same hat. We got the Dan
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Speaker 1: Morgan special for you and I. I'm sorry. I did
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Speaker 1: not get the message there.
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Speaker 2: We have one called this the football hat.
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Speaker 5: This hat does not really properly fit my head the
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Speaker 5: right way.
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Speaker 6: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 1: So you don't have it in the rotation. It's not
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Speaker 1: really in my rotation. Otherwise, I probably would have tried to.
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Speaker 5: I thought for some reason I was wearing a hat
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Speaker 5: that I put on my head because I got a
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Speaker 5: lot of different hats.
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Speaker 1: That I wear. So I didn't know if I accidentally
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Speaker 1: put on the wrong team or something.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: No, you're good, baby. You've got the Panther gear on
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Speaker 1: on this Panther Friday.
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Speaker 5: I just want me and my man Mean Bro Green
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Speaker 5: on the same page today.
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Speaker 1: Football getting going here. Oh, we're ready. Mean Bro's ready, baby.
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Speaker 1: We are ready to go. Man, we've been waiting for
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Speaker 1: this show. You didn't think I was going to work
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Speaker 1: that in, did you? No, I got it in there.
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Speaker 1: I thought maybe Football Friday, Panther Friday, we forget about
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Speaker 1: that routine. But no, no, Bo, we'll never let it die.
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Speaker 1: Driving in today, I said to myself, self, we haven't
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Speaker 1: used Mean Bro Green yet. At least you saved a
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Speaker 1: good one for this first Panther Friday of the season.
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Speaker 1: Are you saying some like Bro Piscopo are not good?
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Speaker 1: That was a good one. What was it? Bro Piscopro.
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Speaker 1: That one was strong. I still think my Bro Bro
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Speaker 1: Trader is elite, and I have not gotten my due
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Speaker 1: respect for that. We're thinking about it, right? Gotta be
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Speaker 1: honest with you. We're thinking about it. Hopefully, Bro Bro
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Speaker 1: Trader tonight will have himself a game. Hopefully, C.J. Bailey
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Speaker 1: can find his old high school teammate because I got
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Speaker 1: to be honest, I'm not sure we even knew he
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Speaker 1: was on the field in Charlottesville, JoJo Trader. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: I digress. We got State Richmond tonight, 7 o'clock. Four
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Speaker 1: ACC games tonight. There's three other ones as well. Nothing,
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Speaker 1: I mean, like Louisville's playing Villanova. It's Virginia-Norfolk State, right?
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 1: And then there's one. BC and Rutgers. Oh, that's the
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Speaker 1: red bandana game at BC on the 25th anniversary.
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Speaker 2: On 9-11.
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Speaker 1: So it is a special game. That's a big one
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Speaker 1: for them, man. And that's why it has that Friday
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Speaker 1: night spotlight. Oh, definitely. Definitely. And they get a Rutgers
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Speaker 1: team coming in like, whoo! I mean, I know BC
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Speaker 1: stinks usually and didn't start great last week, but they
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Speaker 1: got to be happy to see Rutgers show up after
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Speaker 1: what Rutgers did last week.
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Speaker 5: And it's featuring, you know, two class guys that are
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Speaker 5: easy to root for in Greg Sciano and Bill O'Brien,
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Speaker 5: two guys you just want to see. have uh i
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Speaker 5: care success.
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Speaker 1: Yeah they're both hotheads it's it's a former nfl coach
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Speaker 1: hothead special and of course the actual big national game
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Speaker 1: missouri and uh in kansas tonight we'll go through the
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Speaker 1: rest of the schedule 6 45 but that is a
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Speaker 1: uh that's the non-acc one on there tonight how about
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Speaker 1: my national game the whole country bone can't wait to
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Speaker 1: see missouri and kansas play football tonight willie p you
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Speaker 1: owe me five dollars oh daddy.
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Speaker 5: Yes How about Miami with a little struggle last night
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Speaker 5: with FAMU?
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Speaker 1: What did the final score end up being? 77-7. What
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Speaker 1: did they do? They chilled out at that point?
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Speaker 5: They went to a 10-minute quarter in the fourth quarter,
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Speaker 5: and Miami scored 77 points in three quarters.
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Speaker 1: That's when I checked out on it. 77-0. That's when
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Speaker 1: I said, I don't even need this on TV, too.
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Speaker 1: 49-0 at the half. I mean, it was... I mean,
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Speaker 1: 60 points wasn't enough. It ended up being like a
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Speaker 1: 60-point spread for Miami, like 59.5. And that was not enough.
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Speaker 1: And it could have been worse if Miami wanted to be.
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Speaker 1: I mean, like, every receiver... I mean, Darian Mence is amazing.
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Speaker 1: This offense is going to be amazing. But every receiver
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Speaker 1: is wide open. They run the ball, and, like, no
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Speaker 1: one touches Mark Fletcher. Like, I know, fam, you got
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Speaker 1: good money for that game. But that is, like, that's
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Speaker 1: a mismatch to where I'm like... And I know it's... Again,
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Speaker 1: I know it's an in-state game, and it's like... FAMU
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Speaker 1: is getting bucks, but that's a game where I'm watching,
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Speaker 1: and I almost want to cover my eyes watching that bone.
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Speaker 2: It's like you versus me in the Oklahoma drill. It's
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Speaker 2: a contest.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 5: It's just like that. When it gets to be 70
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Speaker 5: to nothing, it's a little uncomfortable, right?
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Speaker 1: I mean, the whole game, it's like they could score
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Speaker 1: in two seconds every time they get the ball back.
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Speaker 1: It's just– it was crazy. So slow clap for Miami.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what that did anyway, and they're lucky–
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Speaker 1: Although I think they did get one or somebody hurt
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Speaker 1: the first portion. That's the thing. You go out and
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Speaker 1: get somebody hurt in a game like that. I don't
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Speaker 1: even know a game like that should be played.
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Speaker 5: It's the ugliest block score I've seen since LSU and Clemson.
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Speaker 1: Oh, no. Oh, no.
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Speaker 5: Clemson should probably consider scheduling FAMU going forward.
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Speaker 1: For your opener. Clemson, you schedule an opener like that.
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Speaker 1: Stop with the SEC openers, you guys. Here's the real
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Speaker 1: quick numbers. Miami had 856 yards of offense to 107.
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Speaker 3: 426 passing.
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Speaker 1: Rush yards was 430 to 37. First downs was 42
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Speaker 1: to 4. Miami Mac only had to be one for
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Speaker 1: three on third down. That's all they had to do
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Speaker 1: last night.
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Speaker 2: There you go.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it was like watching an NFL lineman fight
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Speaker 1: a four year old. I mean, seriously, you're like, I
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Speaker 1: can't watch this. It's just anyway, that was ugly last night.
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Speaker 5: It was like watching founder holler at an Instagram model.
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Speaker 5: It was just a match that, you know, wasn't going
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Speaker 5: to go well.
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Speaker 1: I got to be honest, Bone. It wasn't it wasn't
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Speaker 1: exactly in that stratosphere. But the Rams were, I thought,
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Speaker 1: pathetic last night. or this morning, whatever we're calling that game.
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Speaker 1: So much for the multiple get-up segments about the Rams
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Speaker 1: going undefeated. That lasted a week. The super team talk.
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Speaker 1: Remember the Eagles super team and how that went? I'm
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Speaker 1: not saying it's going to go like that for the Rams,
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Speaker 1: but this whole thing where you try to build teams
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Speaker 1: up like they're dominant and unbeatable in this modern NFL,
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Speaker 1: I will never buy it completely. I'm not saying they
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Speaker 1: can't win the Lombardi and all that stuff. I also
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Speaker 1: think Sean McVay got completely out-coached, Bone, long before the
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Speaker 1: game was even played. We talked about this leading up
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Speaker 1: to the game, and I didn't really understand why the
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Speaker 1: Rams were treating this almost like a regular travel game
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Speaker 1: when you have a 15-hour flight and you have that
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Speaker 1: much of a difference in time zones. They went in
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Speaker 1: basically at the last minute. The Niners were there for
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Speaker 1: a week acclimating. And I forget who I heard say
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Speaker 1: this last week, but I heard somebody talk about the
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Speaker 1: acclimation that you need when you go that far away.
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Speaker 1: And it just appears that that had to be a
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Speaker 1: huge factor. And that's self-inflicted. I don't understand what McVay
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Speaker 1: and the Rams were thinking.
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Speaker 5: They thought they were smart because they said they had
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Speaker 5: been studying how to do this for two years. They
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Speaker 5: sent staffers over. I think 15 times to try to
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Speaker 5: figure out what the best schedule would be. And that
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Speaker 5: is what they came up with. I read that last
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Speaker 5: night that they had this whole plan for years of
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Speaker 5: knowing this could happen. And that, that was what they
9:22
Speaker 5: came up with. And that's why they did it the
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Speaker 5: way they did it.
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Speaker 1: Flying at the last minute was what the staffers came
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Speaker 1: back with. Like, I don't understand why that makes any sense.
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Speaker 1: The staffer said, F that sleep. Like, I just don't
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Speaker 1: get why you would spend all those resources and come
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Speaker 1: to that conclusion. That makes it even worse now that
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Speaker 1: I've heard that.
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Speaker 5: Also, Mackers, we had the debut last night of Luke
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Speaker 5: Keekly on Netflix with Noah Eagle.
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Speaker 1: Did you see, Mack.
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Speaker 5: Why for the first time so many people got upset
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Speaker 5: about People seem to love Noah Eagle, but they were
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Speaker 5: mad at Noah Eagle all over social media last night.
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Speaker 7: Why?
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Speaker 5: Because he was pronouncing Melbourne. as the way they say
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Speaker 5: it over there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard that. He was saying Melbourne. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: was wondering. I'm like, what's that all about?
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Speaker 5: I guess that's the proper way to say it over there,
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Speaker 5: and people were just freaking out on Noah Eagle last night.
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Speaker 1: And you know what? This really bothered people. You know
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Speaker 1: what Luke's response was? What was that?
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Speaker 3: Bam.
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Speaker 1: I did not think Luke would come out with a
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Speaker 1: John Madden-esque catchphrase, but every time somebody hit somebody on
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Speaker 1: a replay, Luke said, bam, in the first quarter. The Niners,
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Speaker 1: I really thought the Rams were really bad, but you
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Speaker 1: have to give the Niners credit. They ran the ball
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Speaker 1: on him like crazy, 174 yards. The rookie out of Indiana,
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Speaker 1: Kalen Black, looks like a very good complement to Christian McCaffrey,
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Speaker 1: where you can give McCaffrey 10 carries and he gets 68.
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Speaker 1: You don't have to overwork McCaffrey, kind of like Ron
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Speaker 1: Rivera and company did here. Kalen Black, 14 for 65.
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Speaker 1: I think that's a good duo. Mike Evans had a touchdown,
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Speaker 1: six catches last night. He's a great addition for them.
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Speaker 1: It's early in the season, so they haven't had all
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Speaker 1: their injuries yet, Bone? The power stage hasn't struck them yet,
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Speaker 1: so they're healthy. And Myles Garrett, my lord, was he
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Speaker 1: on the field. I mean, I know that he's got
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Speaker 1: a knee situation, and after the game, he definitely wanted
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Speaker 1: to tell everybody, I'm not 100%. Bone, I'm not sure.
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Speaker 1: I was watching the live game data on PFF. As
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Speaker 1: of early fourth quarter, I'm not even sure he played
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Speaker 1: after this point, but as of early fourth quarter, he
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Speaker 1: did not have one pressure or one tackle in the game.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Trent Williams erased that dude. Yeah, he did
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Speaker 1: absolutely nothing in the game. He's not even in the
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Speaker 1: box score.
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Speaker 5: No, that game there, though, tells me much more about
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Speaker 5: the Niners than it does about the Rams. The Rams
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Speaker 5: will figure it out. They'll be fine. The Niners, Mac,
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Speaker 5: made a statement that said, we've heard a lot about,
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Speaker 5: rightfully so, but the defending champions, the Rams, and how
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Speaker 5: great they're going to be. Let's not forget that I'm
11:59
Speaker 5: talking about from a Niners perspective. This is what they're saying,
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Speaker 5: that we have Hall of Famers as well on this
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Speaker 5: football team. Trent Williams, Mike Evans, they're older and they
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Speaker 5: have to stay healthy. McCaffrey, Debo, Brock Purdy, Fred Warner,
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Speaker 5: all those guys have injury histories. They have to stay healthy.
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Speaker 5: But the Niners last night said, hey, we we deserve
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Speaker 5: to be in that discussion as well.
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Speaker 1: That's a good point. Now, you're right, though.
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Speaker 5: The thing about the Niners is what they are on
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Speaker 5: paper never seems to be what they end up being
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Speaker 5: because they lose a lot of people and they got
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Speaker 5: a lot of older dudes on there. But if they're healthy,
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Speaker 5: they got they got a hell of a roster in
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Speaker 5: their own right. Yeah, no doubt about it. What a
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Speaker 5: division that is, man. That is a sick, ridiculous freaking division.
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Speaker 5: And the Cardinals are in there, too. I'm so glad.
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Speaker 5: They have nothing to do with it, but they're in there, man.
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Speaker 5: But anyway, I'm glad we ain't playing that division again.
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Speaker 1: That's the thing. We won our division and had to
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Speaker 1: play those three teams. in that division last year. Um, uh,
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Speaker 1: so although the MC North ain't that easy either, uh,
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Speaker 1: I did want to mention, I thought Luke bone was
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Speaker 1: his usual real good self in terms of breaking down
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Speaker 1: the game. He did have a couple moments where I
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Speaker 1: thought his football intensity got the best of them. The
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Speaker 1: end of the first half, he so badly wanted to see, uh,
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Speaker 1: I forget which team had the ball. He so badly
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Speaker 1: wanted to see whoever had the ball with 20 something
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Speaker 1: seconds left.
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Speaker 2: It It was the Rams.
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Speaker 1: Try to score. And he's telling you, here's what you got.
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Speaker 1: You got three timeouts. You can bing, bang, boom. And
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Speaker 1: then right after that, they're taking a knee. And then
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Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all were still watching with three
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Speaker 1: minutes left, but the Rams. I was out by that point.
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Speaker 1: The Niners kicked a field goal, made it a 20-point game.
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Speaker 1: And Luke Kuechly is not giving up the fight for
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Speaker 1: the Rams. He's like, you get this ball back here.
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Speaker 1: You held him to a field goal. That's good. Or no,
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Speaker 1: the field goal missed. That's what it was. The field
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Speaker 1: goal doinked off. And he said, that's big for the Rams.
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Speaker 1: You get this ball back now. You didn't fall down
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Speaker 1: 23 points. You get this back, get a quick touchdown.
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Speaker 1: And next thing you know, they pan to the sideline, Bone.
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Speaker 1: And Noah Eagle says, yeah, Matthew Stafford has been taken
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Speaker 1: out of this game. So I thought Luke got a
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Speaker 1: little over eager there, Bone, a couple of times. I
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Speaker 1: did a search last night to see what people were
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Speaker 1: saying about Keighley. And it was about 98% positive, which
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Speaker 1: you don't always get when it comes to, even the,
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Speaker 1: Some of the best ones, people will be tweeting hate
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Speaker 1: about them. One theme, though, and I saw it come up, Mac,
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Speaker 1: about 30 times, and it blew my mind once I realized, oh,
14:19
Speaker 1: my God, people are right. Lou Keighley sounds exactly like
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Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah. If you actually go listen to Keeley call
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Speaker 1: the game, and if I would tell you that's Daniel Jeremiah,
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Speaker 1: not Luke Keeley, you would have no idea. They sound
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Speaker 1: so much alike. See, that's odd to me because I
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Speaker 1: listen to Jeremiah a lot. Luke's Luke. Like, his voice
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Speaker 1: is Luke's voice. So I would never think about that.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's the untrained Luke ear. Maybe we hear so
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Speaker 1: much of him here, so we know Luke's voice. I
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Speaker 1: heard it. I heard it. I did hear it. I understood.
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Speaker 5: What people were saying i said yeah i get that
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Speaker 5: i there's a cadence what they're talking that i yeah
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Speaker 5: i got it yes.
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Speaker 1: And that's the thing is people you know they don't
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Speaker 1: know luke's voice as well as we do you know
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Speaker 1: so yeah maybe that's why they're thinking that it was
15:03
Speaker 1: a ridiculous scene there 100 000 plus at that giant
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Speaker 1: cricket stadium over there in australia that was impressive um
15:11
Speaker 1: one thing that i could not call atlanta stadium back
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Speaker 1: the giant cricket because it's so quiet all the time
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Speaker 1: So they got them speakers going, baby. God, it feels
15:19
Speaker 1: good to mock other teams on week one. Yeah, you're
15:23
Speaker 1: always safe in week one to mock. Everybody's tied. Everybody's tied.
15:26
Speaker 1: Atlanta had themselves a day yesterday. Tua literally goes down.
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Speaker 1: There's video of him literally like having to put himself
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Speaker 1: on the ground in pain with an oblique injury. And
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Speaker 1: Cooper Rush took all the snaps with the ones because
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Speaker 1: Penix ain't ready to play yet either.
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Speaker 5: I mean, Tua got named the starter, and then one
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Speaker 5: day later, he gets... I mean, just falls down. I mean,
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Speaker 5: we have no idea who... I know that we're looking
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Speaker 5: at week one, but just... Real quick, we have no
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Speaker 5: idea what to predict of who may play against the
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Speaker 5: Panthers in week two.
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Speaker 3: At this point.
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Speaker 5: It's just going to be, all right, who could stand
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Speaker 5: up straight against the Panthers?
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Speaker 1: Who could actually go out there and not get injured?
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Speaker 1: We have no idea in week two or week three
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Speaker 1: who the quarterback's going to be.
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Speaker 3: That's true.
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Speaker 1: Right? Playing the Falcons and the Browns. Did y'all take
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Speaker 1: note of the Matthew Stafford picture that Netflix kept using?
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Speaker 1: On the graphics? Oh, yeah. Am I the only one
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Speaker 1: that thought he looked rough? Like, he looked like me
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Speaker 1: waking up in the morning. His hair is sticking up
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Speaker 1: all over the place. He has this beard that looks
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Speaker 1: like me, like you're just too lazy to shave it
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Speaker 1: as you get old. It looked like Nick Nolte's infamous mugshot.
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Speaker 1: like that's how bad this look did y'all notice that
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Speaker 1: it looked like he maybe had just woken up before
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Speaker 1: the photo what was he looked like he's old as
16:42
Speaker 1: dirt just woke up and yeah it's i had never
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Speaker 1: seen somebody's photo for a broadcast look so like was
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Speaker 1: it looked like he was on an absolute bender the
16:53
Speaker 1: night before they woke him up after an hour and
16:56
Speaker 1: a half sleep and said smile He just had a
16:59
Speaker 1: late hot tub night with Sean McVay, and they just
17:01
Speaker 1: rolled in and did a photo.
17:03
Speaker 5: Can I say something, Mac, with the utmost respect? It
17:06
Speaker 5: looked like you when you're waiting for the show and
17:09
Speaker 5: the stairs get the best of you. You come up here,
17:11
Speaker 5: you take your hat off, and you've got your Ace
17:13
Speaker 5: Ventura hair going. It did look like that a little bit.
17:15
Speaker 5: I think that tracks. I mean that out of respect
17:17
Speaker 5: and love, though. We've got to be on the same page,
17:19
Speaker 5: all three of us today. It's not about fighting each
17:22
Speaker 5: other today. It's not about fitty slams. It's about fighting
17:25
Speaker 5: an entire city named Chicago today is what it's about.
17:28
Speaker 5: Fitty's one of us today. We're not going to be
17:31
Speaker 5: no fitty jokes today. This is all serious today. Now,
17:33
Speaker 5: can we take shots at Aaron Rodgers, though? Absolutely, yes,
17:36
Speaker 5: please do.
17:36
Speaker 1: Did you hear any of that podcast he did with
17:38
Speaker 1: his teammate Cam Hayward? I saw about 20 clips of
17:43
Speaker 1: it yesterday. Yes, I did. And each one got weirder
17:45
Speaker 1: and weirder. Here's what I don't get about Aaron Rodgers.
17:48
Speaker 1: He is so fast to tell you that he can't wait.
17:52
Speaker 1: When he's done, you will never see him. He will
17:54
Speaker 1: disappear with his fake wife of his. They'll make a
17:56
Speaker 1: fake family, and he will never be seen again. For
18:00
Speaker 1: a guy, Bone, that wants to never be seen again
18:02
Speaker 1: so badly, my God, he loves the attention and he
18:06
Speaker 1: loves saying stuff that will get you more attention. Like
18:10
Speaker 1: he is Mr. Shock Value. People that say shock value
18:13
Speaker 1: stuff want attention. Look at Fitty. Oh, I forgot. We're
18:15
Speaker 1: not slamming him. We really disagreed a minute ago.
18:19
Speaker 4: I love it.
18:19
Speaker 1: I forgot all about that. We get one. We all
18:21
Speaker 1: get one. Get it out of the way early. But, like,
18:25
Speaker 1: I don't know how much y'all saw of this, but
18:27
Speaker 1: this dude is, like, absolutely giving you, like, he is, like,
18:32
Speaker 1: saying the most personal things. Like stuff about Danica Patrick.
18:37
Speaker 1: She was depressed during our relationship. Horrible to be around.
18:41
Speaker 1: Shailene Woodley, who he's engaged to. Craziness. I mean, he
18:45
Speaker 1: flat out says, oh, yeah, after I engaged her, she
18:47
Speaker 1: told me she wants to get it on with this
18:49
Speaker 1: dude before we get married. It's like, I mean, people
18:52
Speaker 1: that really want to disappear and like. and never be
18:58
Speaker 1: heard from again usually don't, like, constantly give you crazy-ass headlines.
19:03
Speaker 5: Yeah, he went after both sides politically. He went after
19:06
Speaker 5: former teammates like Greg Jackson. I mean, it was just
19:09
Speaker 5: clip after clip that I saw. And, Matt, you talk
19:12
Speaker 5: about him just wanting to disappear. Can he do that, though? Like,
19:15
Speaker 5: post-Aaron Rodgers, he's going to go off in quiet, and
19:17
Speaker 5: you're never going to hear Aaron Rodgers again.
19:19
Speaker 1: Is that possible? That's what I'm saying. He claims that's
19:24
Speaker 1: what he wants to do. But he craves attention. No,
19:28
Speaker 1: he can't. He's got to get his message and his
19:30
Speaker 1: words out there. He'll do something.
19:31
Speaker 5: I don't know what exactly, but there's no way Aaron
19:34
Speaker 5: Rodgers is just going to disappear into the darkness for him,
19:38
Speaker 5: so to speak.
19:38
Speaker 1: He is one of the most fake, disingenuous people in sports.
19:42
Speaker 1: I don't want to be around y'all. Y'all annoy me.
19:45
Speaker 1: I don't want any attention. I want seclusion. Oh, by
19:48
Speaker 1: the way, listen, I'm going to give you about 17
19:51
Speaker 1: headlines and Twitter clips right now.
19:53
Speaker 3: Yes.
19:53
Speaker 1: Like it's just, I'm just so over him. And by
19:55
Speaker 1: the way, He.
19:56
Speaker 5: Also went after Matt LeFleur also at one point for
19:59
Speaker 5: backing up Jordan Love.
20:00
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. His number one jock sniffer in the audience,
20:02
Speaker 1: Myron Goodman, if you haven't already, send your text in
20:05
Speaker 1: defending him now because you absolutely cling to that man's jock.
20:09
Speaker 1: You're the only person in America that likes that dude.
20:12
Speaker 1: His fake wife don't even like his ass, I'm guessing.
20:15
Speaker 1: I mean, hell, his parents took him two decades to
20:17
Speaker 1: like him again. And if his fake wife goes Cheyenne Woodley,
20:20
Speaker 1: who knows who she's with? Oh, my goodness.
20:21
Speaker 5: His fake wife could be with anybody right now. Is
20:23
Speaker 5: she going to get it on with a fake man? Phinney,
20:25
Speaker 5: you should call Aaron Rodgers' fake wife up. That wasn't
20:28
Speaker 5: a slam. That was not a slam, Phinney. That was
20:30
Speaker 5: a pro Phinney. That was a Rodgers slam.
20:32
Speaker 1: Yes, it was. More than Phinney.
20:33
Speaker 5: When we come back here on the Mac and Bone
20:36
Speaker 5: radio program. The latest Panthers-Bears injury news. Avero talks Caleb Williams.
20:42
Speaker 5: Idzik on trying to get Bryce off to faster starts.
20:46
Speaker 5: And we have a non-Bears believer. The one and only
20:51
Speaker 5: Gronk Speaks. Sports Radio 92.7.
21:09
Speaker 7: To be honest, I feel like I'm in the best
21:11
Speaker 7: shape of my life. I worked really hard this offseason. Obviously,
21:14
Speaker 7: I had a chip on my shoulder from last year.
21:16
Speaker 7: I need to get my mind right, my body back right,
21:19
Speaker 7: but I feel really good.
21:21
Speaker 3: I worked really hard, obviously, a little bump in the road.
21:23
Speaker 7: During training camp, but thanks for the training staff and
21:26
Speaker 7: the coaches. Everyone just allowed me to get back right for.
21:29
Speaker 3: Week one, but I feel really good.
21:31
Speaker 1: There you go, Chuba Hubbard's feeling great. That is good news, man.
21:34
Speaker 1: That is good freaking news as we get ready to
21:38
Speaker 1: go against the Chicago Bears on Sunday at the bank.
21:41
Speaker 1: KB and I, I think you heard a little, maybe
21:43
Speaker 1: I don't need to say it because I think you
21:44
Speaker 1: just heard the promo in there. But, hey, extra reminder,
21:47
Speaker 1: KB and I got countdown to kickoff. If you're headed
21:50
Speaker 1: down to the game, headed to the bank, stop at
21:53
Speaker 1: the doghouse, hang out with us a little bit on
21:56
Speaker 1: Sunday morning. We are looking forward to it, man. We're
21:59
Speaker 1: going to get this thing going.
22:00
Speaker 5: Going bone man i didn't realize this multiple texters saying
22:03
Speaker 5: that stafford photo was right after the 15 hour flight
22:06
Speaker 5: maybe that's why he looked that way why did they
22:08
Speaker 5: was his head out the window of the of the
22:10
Speaker 5: of the plane.
22:10
Speaker 1: Why did they snap the the photos right after they
22:13
Speaker 1: got that's hilarious yeah it was he was sleeping on
22:17
Speaker 1: the plane yes well you were sleeping during the photo
22:20
Speaker 1: did so that's not common knowledge did they talk about
22:23
Speaker 1: that or something on the broadcast i don't know multiple
22:25
Speaker 1: people said oh really how'd y'all hear that let me
22:28
Speaker 1: know i missed it too did they have to give
22:30
Speaker 1: an excuse for it on the air i need to
22:31
Speaker 1: know more about this i missed it because it was
22:33
Speaker 1: the most laugh and did everybody's photos look like that
22:36
Speaker 1: i didn't notice it i didn't notice because i have
22:38
Speaker 1: never seen a graphic look like me waking up in
22:41
Speaker 1: the morning man i have never seen that before and
22:44
Speaker 1: me waking up in the morning that's mrs mac it
22:46
Speaker 1: ain't a good thing it ain't a good thing at
22:48
Speaker 1: all All right, so Chuba says he's feeling good, Bone.
22:52
Speaker 1: Jonathan Brooks got out there, limited fashion yesterday, pads on
22:56
Speaker 1: and did practice yesterday with the groin injury. It feels,
23:01
Speaker 1: and Bobby Brown got out there in a limited capacity
23:04
Speaker 1: as well. It feels like both, I don't want to
23:06
Speaker 1: jinx it, but it feels like both Brooks and Bobby
23:09
Speaker 1: Brown are going to play. Yeah. Right? Is my gut feeling?
23:12
Speaker 1: That's what it appears.
23:14
Speaker 5: The concern, though, is definitely JB and how limited Jonathan
23:19
Speaker 5: Brooks has been in practice so far. That, to me,
23:23
Speaker 5: is the concern. Not only that, how much is he
23:27
Speaker 5: ready to go for this game in general without practicing
23:29
Speaker 5: all week long?
23:30
Speaker 1: I'm concerned about him dearly right now. You are, man.
23:33
Speaker 1: You're stressing every dang morning about him. Well, I think
23:37
Speaker 1: that his presence there, we know... like how good he
23:41
Speaker 1: can be long-term. But I also think for this matchup here,
23:44
Speaker 1: he gives the... Bear's something that they can't game plan
23:48
Speaker 1: for with him. He's dynamic, but they've not seen him
23:51
Speaker 1: in the game. So there's something there. They can game
23:54
Speaker 1: plan for Chuba, like Chuba, but they know what he does.
23:58
Speaker 1: They know who he is.
23:59
Speaker 5: The offense with Jonathan Brooks being heavily involved, the Bears
24:02
Speaker 5: have no idea what they may do, what he can do.
24:05
Speaker 5: It's a whole element there that they can't plan for.
24:08
Speaker 5: But if he's not in there or not effective or injured,
24:11
Speaker 5: it takes away a great dynamic element of what this
24:13
Speaker 5: offense can do.
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Speaker 1: And with groin injuries, you do worry about, hey, he
24:17
Speaker 1: gets out there. Oh, there it goes again. You know
24:19
Speaker 1: what I mean? You worry about stuff like that. So
24:21
Speaker 1: I get where you're coming from, though. But I think
24:24
Speaker 1: he's going to play. I unfortunately believe Roma Dunzey is playing, too.
24:27
Speaker 1: That feels pretty obvious to me. I don't know about you.
24:31
Speaker 1: He was out there. Yeah, I think so. He was limited.
24:33
Speaker 1: It was first practice of the week. His situation sounds
24:36
Speaker 1: like Brooks. Um, sounds like they're taking it easy with them.
24:40
Speaker 1: Ben Johnson made similar comment that like, it sounds to
24:43
Speaker 1: me like he's playing. They do have a, they're, and
24:45
Speaker 1: they're pretty damn healthy. I like it. They will not
24:48
Speaker 1: have Trapillo their left tackle in this game. Um, he's
24:51
Speaker 1: coming back. Same injury as Icky. Um, uh, but it's,
24:55
Speaker 1: they're pretty damn healthy to be honest. Xavier would, although
24:58
Speaker 1: they do have training camp injuries too, in the secondary,
25:00
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant won't play their Nickelback will not play. Um,
25:03
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods, former Panther safety. They had the whole Kyler
25:06
Speaker 1: Gordon maybe out for the year also. Yeah, he's their nickelback.
25:10
Speaker 1: He's not playing. Xavier Woods was added to the injury
25:15
Speaker 1: list with a groin injury of his own yesterday, was limited.
25:18
Speaker 1: He is their safety. So we'll see what happens with
25:21
Speaker 1: that one there. If anyone can donate a fresh... groin
25:26
Speaker 1: to use for Jonathan Brooks. I not, I not use
25:28
Speaker 1: a groin. Jonathan Brooks could use that.
25:32
Speaker 5: Matt, this is where I was going to make a
25:33
Speaker 5: 50 joke, but I promised a few minutes ago, I
25:35
Speaker 5: wasn't going to make 50 jokes.
25:37
Speaker 1: So I won't say 50. He's got a groin. That's
25:39
Speaker 1: really fresh right now.
25:40
Speaker 3: He can donate. Yeah.
25:41
Speaker 1: Oh my God.
25:43
Speaker 4: Trying to win a football game. Make all the jokes
25:46
Speaker 4: you want. I will give both my groins.
25:49
Speaker 1: Could you spare an ACL? Both your groins. I didn't
25:52
Speaker 1: know there were two groins.
25:53
Speaker 3: I didn't know there.
25:53
Speaker 1: Were two of them. That may explain a lot of
25:57
Speaker 1: your struggles, Vinny. Oh, my God. Could you also spare
26:01
Speaker 1: an ACL that we can keep in storage, though, too?
26:03
Speaker 1: I hope it's not needed.
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Speaker 4: Mac, I've got many unused body parts and ligaments I'm
26:09
Speaker 4: willing to donate to win on Sunday.
26:12
Speaker 3: I love it.
26:12
Speaker 1: Panther Fitty's on board, baby. Fitty Toot, his rap name
26:15
Speaker 1: would be Two Groins. MF said he got that. Which groin? Oh,
26:23
Speaker 1: my goodness. Let's let you hear, because yesterday was Coordinator
26:26
Speaker 1: Day yesterday. I will just say this. I appreciate Tracy
26:30
Speaker 1: Smithbone being a lot nicer to Mike K than David
26:33
Speaker 1: Tepper was yesterday. Tracy and Mike K. It's the buddy
26:37
Speaker 1: cop show we need in our lives that Netflix is
26:39
Speaker 1: not greenlit yet, but they have a good time at
26:42
Speaker 1: the start or the end of the presser. So I
26:44
Speaker 1: was glad to see Mike K. getting some love. Tracy
26:46
Speaker 1: Smith is a damn trip. And he did say it's
26:49
Speaker 1: very possible, like the unofficial depth chart says, that XL
26:53
Speaker 1: is out there on kick returns. And brought up the
26:56
Speaker 1: fact that not only does he do well when he
26:59
Speaker 1: catches the ball on a kick return, but as a blocker,
27:02
Speaker 1: that big old beast. Can block for Jimmy Horn. Jimmy
27:04
Speaker 1: Horn's locked into the returns. It's just a matter of
27:07
Speaker 1: who's the other guy on the kick returns. Yeah, that's
27:10
Speaker 1: something we here wouldn't have thought about. We're thinking about
27:13
Speaker 1: who actually gets the ball and returns it. When you
27:16
Speaker 1: think about it, yeah, Jimmy Horn would excel in front
27:19
Speaker 1: of him blocking. We wouldn't have considered that, but it
27:21
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense when you hear him say it. Yeah,
27:23
Speaker 1: because the kick return, you got two back there. So
27:25
Speaker 1: whoever doesn't get it doesn't just stand there. Come on,
27:27
Speaker 1: come on, Jimmy.
27:29
Speaker 5: Now if it's Jimmy Horn walking for XL, that might be,
27:32
Speaker 5: I don't know if Jimmy Horn's going to be as
27:34
Speaker 5: effective as the blocker.
27:35
Speaker 1: No, not as XL, but I'm telling you, Jimmy Horn
27:38
Speaker 1: is stronger. You can see it.
27:39
Speaker 2: He is, he is.
27:39
Speaker 1: Jimmy Horn, Jimmy, I don't know if he's reached strong yet.
27:43
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? They're strong and then they're strong,
27:46
Speaker 1: as Jameis would say. But Jimmy Horn's bulked up and
27:49
Speaker 1: I think you've seen it. I think I think I
27:51
Speaker 1: think you've seen it in the preseason. All right. So
27:54
Speaker 1: let's the coordinator spoke yesterday. So let's let you hear
27:56
Speaker 1: some of this. A zero of Vero, a bunch of praise.
28:01
Speaker 1: for people involved in this Bears offense, and they deserve it, man.
28:04
Speaker 1: They are scary. There is no doubt about it. Brad Idzik,
28:08
Speaker 1: on the other hand, wasn't asked one question about the
28:10
Speaker 1: Bears defense. I think that if we didn't already know
28:14
Speaker 1: what this team was about, that sums it up. Avero
28:17
Speaker 1: talking about what makes Caleb Williams so tough to defend.
28:22
Speaker 3: He's an explosive athlete.
28:24
Speaker 8: With his legs and with his arm, he has the
28:26
Speaker 8: ability to, uh, from any body posture, whether he's on
28:29
Speaker 8: a move or in a pocket or stationary, he can
28:32
Speaker 8: make big time throws and really get pushed the ball
28:34
Speaker 8: to any part of the field. And so that's the challenge. And, uh, he's,
28:38
Speaker 8: he's got magic to him in terms of, he's got
28:40
Speaker 8: a sixth sense when things are around them, when people
28:42
Speaker 8: are around them.
28:43
Speaker 3: And, uh, he's a elusive obviously.
28:46
Speaker 8: Um, and he's got real, real, real, real athletic traits,
28:49
Speaker 8: the ability to run and run through tackles and all
28:51
Speaker 8: of those things.
28:52
Speaker 3: So, He's a physical freak. You can see his game
28:55
Speaker 3: has continued to grow.
28:56
Speaker 8: Obviously, Coach Johnson and his staff have done a great
28:59
Speaker 8: job of developmental with him.
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Speaker 3: And so, yeah, it's going to be a tough challenge.
29:03
Speaker 1: What a job it is for the edge rushers and
29:06
Speaker 1: the guys that play the edge back for the Panthers.
29:08
Speaker 1: It's not just about the pressure in terms of sacks
29:12
Speaker 1: and that type of pressure. It's also containment for those
29:15
Speaker 1: guys because there's that element there. I'm not saying he's
29:18
Speaker 1: on the level of Mahomes or a Brett Favre or
29:21
Speaker 1: that type of guy, but he does play the game well.
29:24
Speaker 1: in that way where if you flush Caleb Williams and
29:27
Speaker 1: he sees downfield and the play breaks down, sometimes that
29:31
Speaker 1: might be when he's at his best. So if he
29:33
Speaker 1: gets outside containment, that's going to be a big problem.
29:36
Speaker 1: So it's going to be about not only pressure within
29:38
Speaker 1: the pocket, it's going to be about containing him. You
29:40
Speaker 1: got to keep him there. You got to keep him
29:42
Speaker 1: there as well. It's that rush where you got to
29:43
Speaker 1: stay in your lane and don't get too frisky and
29:46
Speaker 1: eager to get the sack. Here's an interesting story. If
29:49
Speaker 1: you get to him, bring him down. Don't let him
29:51
Speaker 1: escape you. He ain't easy to bring down. He had
29:54
Speaker 1: the second best pressure to sack ratio in the NFL
29:56
Speaker 1: last year. But here's the thing about Caleb Williams under pressure.
30:00
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams under pressure when he passes, that's all right. 39%
30:07
Speaker 1: completions under pressure last year as a passer. When he runs...
30:12
Speaker 1: It's dangerous as hell, man. And I'm sure after I
30:16
Speaker 1: just said that, Bone, he'll probably complete five passes under pressure,
30:19
Speaker 1: and people will say, that's your fault, Mac! But the
30:23
Speaker 1: stats last year, the PFF grades, they show a picture
30:27
Speaker 1: where when he... If it deals with pressure to pass,
30:31
Speaker 1: not nearly as good as dealing with pressure to run.
30:33
Speaker 5: Mac, you're in a Friday safe space. Anything you say
30:37
Speaker 5: here cannot be used against you in the court of law.
30:39
Speaker 5: It won't be brought back up again.
30:40
Speaker 1: No, not at all. This is a safe space here.
30:42
Speaker 2: Not at all.
30:42
Speaker 1: Every Panther fan listener listens to this show and just
30:46
Speaker 1: waits for where I may have ruined the outcome. Oh,
30:51
Speaker 1: my God, you just said this guy's not going to
30:53
Speaker 1: go off on us. He's guaranteed to have 200 yards rushing.
30:56
Speaker 5: Some guy like Richie probably has, like, an old-school tape
30:59
Speaker 5: recorder just playing it back over and over again. You
31:02
Speaker 5: said Richie specifically. I imagine he probably has, like, espionage devices.
31:08
Speaker 5: I'm guessing so.
31:09
Speaker 1: Okay, okay. Yeah, Richie feels like that type of guy.
31:11
Speaker 1: Let's get to Brad Idzik, who also spoke Thursday's coordinator
31:15
Speaker 1: press conference day. Brad Idzik spoke yesterday, Bone, about Bryce
31:20
Speaker 1: Young and the slow starts within games. Not necessarily the
31:24
Speaker 1: slow starts of the season, but that's obviously a problem
31:26
Speaker 1: for Bryce and the Panthers. But the slow starts within games,
31:30
Speaker 1: and Brad Idzik talked about how you get him going early.
31:34
Speaker 6: For us, you always want to have a balanced attack.
31:38
Speaker 6: That always helps a quarterback get rolling. We know he's
31:41
Speaker 6: special on the edge. We know he's he's special on
31:44
Speaker 6: third down. And he's also special, you know, outside of
31:47
Speaker 6: the makeshift of the play. He can extend plays and
31:50
Speaker 6: he does that early, often in games. So for us,
31:53
Speaker 6: it's how do you put him in that mindset where
31:56
Speaker 6: he can go and it might not be a perfect
31:59
Speaker 6: set drop back, but it might be moving him off
32:01
Speaker 6: the spot early, getting him in that mindset, but complementing
32:04
Speaker 6: it with the run game, staying ahead of the sticks.
32:06
Speaker 6: That's the that's really the biggest thing. You know, having
32:09
Speaker 6: balanced football early. And I hope everybody out there hears this.
32:13
Speaker 6: Like we want to have balanced football early to stay
32:16
Speaker 6: ahead of the sticks, stay out of the second and long,
32:18
Speaker 6: stay out of the third and longs. We don't need
32:20
Speaker 6: those downs early. Like we can still play complimentary football
32:23
Speaker 6: on third and short.
32:25
Speaker 1: So there you go, man. It makes sense. It sounds good.
32:28
Speaker 1: It has to actually happen on the field. This Panthers team, Bone,
32:32
Speaker 1: and they have been in these openers, the three openers
32:36
Speaker 1: since Bryce Young has joined the team. We've talked about
32:38
Speaker 1: it all week. They scored 10 points in each of
32:40
Speaker 1: those games. The first quarter has been especially horrendous. They
32:44
Speaker 1: have three points. in three first quarters in Bryce's season openers.
32:50
Speaker 1: Not what you want. Not ideal.
32:52
Speaker 5: Mack, we've talked a lot about the fast starts, not
32:55
Speaker 5: only how important it is for this game, but for
32:58
Speaker 5: this season to get off to a fast start. That's
33:00
Speaker 5: been the theme early is this team has to get
33:03
Speaker 5: off to a good start in the game within the season.
33:05
Speaker 5: So having said that, I know some people may completely disagree,
33:09
Speaker 5: but based off the schedule, what this team needs to
33:12
Speaker 5: do early, is this a week one must-win game for
33:17
Speaker 5: the Panthers? They're playing a playoff team. They've got some
33:20
Speaker 5: opponents coming up they can win.
33:22
Speaker 1: It's not that— What if they lose this game, or
33:24
Speaker 1: is the season over if we lose this game? But
33:28
Speaker 1: it's such a tone-setting matchup, though, for what we think
33:31
Speaker 1: they can become again this year.
33:32
Speaker 5: And if it goes like the other matchups, where they
33:35
Speaker 5: only score 10 points and they can't— If this offense
33:37
Speaker 5: can't get going.
33:38
Speaker 1: Against this defense. Against this Bears defense. Yeah, I see
33:40
Speaker 1: what you're saying. I mean, Mac, even if they....
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Speaker 5: I need this offense to get home early so we
33:48
Speaker 5: can start to really talk positively about the offense.
33:51
Speaker 1: Is this a must-win for your sanity, your Panther sanity?
33:57
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about Monday's show if this offense doesn't show up.
34:02
Speaker 1: And I don't know health reasons why, mental reasons why.
34:08
Speaker 1: we need to win this damn football game. I think
34:11
Speaker 1: Finney Marwell told me today, all he said to me
34:14
Speaker 1: this morning, he looked me in the eye and said,
34:16
Speaker 1: we got to win this damn football game. I wanted
34:18
Speaker 1: to run.
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Speaker 3: Through a wall.
34:19
Speaker 1: I told you this week how badly I want this game.
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to say must win when we have
34:24
Speaker 1: 16 more, because what if we say must win? We
34:26
Speaker 1: come in on Monday. We say the season's over. I would,
34:28
Speaker 1: I would go with some, some will. I would go.
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Speaker 3: True.
34:32
Speaker 1: I would go with AJ on the text line. I
34:33
Speaker 1: would go with you on this one, man. You get
34:36
Speaker 1: this game. This is huge. This is a huge win.
34:39
Speaker 1: First of all, it's a statement that, hey, we're different
34:42
Speaker 1: than those teams that started so horribly. Secondly, Bone, you
34:46
Speaker 1: set yourself up for a legit shot at 3-0. Now,
34:50
Speaker 1: the Panthers' history, the Panthers last year would beat somebody
34:53
Speaker 1: really good like the Rams. They would lose a game
34:55
Speaker 1: they shouldn't. They would get swept by the Saints. So
34:58
Speaker 1: nothing's guaranteed, but you would put yourself in a really
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Speaker 1: good position if you get this game. It would be
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Speaker 1: huge if you get this game. that's where i will
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Speaker 1: go it's.
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Speaker 5: Not it's not must win from the standpoint of you
35:08
Speaker 5: can't dig yourself out of it but what could a
35:10
Speaker 5: win do for you going forward would be massive like
35:14
Speaker 5: you're talking.
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Speaker 1: About right once a qb says it's not must win
35:17
Speaker 1: because you play in the nfc south that's true we
35:20
Speaker 1: could lose about eight still be right there at contention
35:23
Speaker 1: uh in the afc south we found a uh friend
35:26
Speaker 1: today bone packer jace who, of course, hates the Bears,
35:30
Speaker 1: would like us to knock the fingernail paint off Caleb
35:33
Speaker 1: Williams on Sunday.
35:34
Speaker 2: I want to do more than just that to him.
35:36
Speaker 3: Sorry?
35:37
Speaker 1: Hey, now. What's going on?
35:41
Speaker 2: I want.
35:43
Speaker 4: To me, I want Derek Brown's fingerprints all over him.
35:47
Speaker 4: I want to make Caleb Williams find his mama in
35:50
Speaker 4: the stands and cry.
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Speaker 1: He's done it before.
35:54
Speaker 2: I want to physically.
35:56
Speaker 4: and mentally break this team down and kick their ass. Like,
36:00
Speaker 4: I would love to think, Mac, that this team's got
36:02
Speaker 4: that kind of killer instinct, and if they can get
36:05
Speaker 4: blood in the water on Sunday, they put the pedal
36:07
Speaker 4: to the metal, they step on their throats, and we
36:10
Speaker 4: break their souls.
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Phinney. Phinney, you ought to give the
36:13
Speaker 1: pregame speech on Sunday. Phinney, hold on a second. Let
36:16
Speaker 1: me launch myself into a wall right now.
36:18
Speaker 3: Oh, man.
36:18
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin's halftime speech got nothing on you, Phinney.
36:22
Speaker 5: I want to give a real quick shout-out. Myers Park
36:25
Speaker 5: last night rallied to beat North Carolina... Number seven, Mallard Creek.
36:30
Speaker 5: So a huge win for Duke Howell in his first
36:33
Speaker 5: year at Myers Park. The father of Sam Howell, Myers
36:36
Speaker 5: Park upsets Mallard Creek. Shout out to Myers Park for their.
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Speaker 1: Win last time. That's a big game. Big game. It
36:41
Speaker 1: is a big game for Duke Howell. How about, you
36:43
Speaker 1: just reminded me, how about Drake May during the player
36:47
Speaker 1: intro where they introduce themselves on NBC? How about him
36:50
Speaker 1: saying Myers Park High School and not North Carolina?
36:54
Speaker 3: Uh-oh.
36:55
Speaker 4: A guy can't pay tribute to his high school without
36:57
Speaker 4: it being a national conversation. Ooh, Bill Belichick disrespected the Mayfield.
37:04
Speaker 2: Maybe he just wants to pay tribute to Myers Park.
37:06
Speaker 1: Or he hates Bill Belichick. Or he knows Bill Belichick's
37:09
Speaker 1: been a complete jerk towards the Patriots, and maybe he
37:12
Speaker 1: thinks Bill Belichick's been a mess at his alma mater.
37:14
Speaker 1: I don't know, Finney. All these things are in play,
37:17
Speaker 1: Fit Daddy. 1-0, baby.
37:18
Speaker 2: We are 1-0.
37:18
Speaker 4: We're going to be 2-0 after tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: I would say that's true. We're going to go to break.
37:22
Speaker 1: We come back.
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Speaker 5: It's Myron Goodman's favorite segment, the Couch Potato Guide, your
37:26
Speaker 5: guide to all the sports on TV this weekend, including
37:30
Speaker 5: a jam-packed college football Saturday at Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
37:57
Speaker 1: All right, y'all. It is the time of year where
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Speaker 1: we tell our loved ones every weekend, we catch you
38:04
Speaker 1: on Monday. All right, we will catch you on Monday
38:07
Speaker 1: because we've got wall-to-wall football, not to mention other sports, Bone,
38:11
Speaker 1: that we want to try to work in as well.
38:13
Speaker 1: And that is why it is Couch Potato Guide season
38:18
Speaker 1: on the Mac and Bone Show as we will set
38:22
Speaker 1: you up for what's going on when... on your TV
38:26
Speaker 1: Braves Phillies tonight their first of three tonight Braves still
38:30
Speaker 1: up four games headed into this three game series 735
38:34
Speaker 1: tonight also need to mention tonight college football we've got
38:39
Speaker 1: as Bone put it the big national contest Missouri and
38:43
Speaker 1: Kansas that is on Fox at 8 o'clock at 7
38:46
Speaker 1: o'clock we got a few ACC games we've got State
38:51
Speaker 1: and Richmond ESPNU and then you got Virginia Norfolk State,
38:54
Speaker 1: that's ACC Network Extra. That's basically like ESPN Plus. And
39:00
Speaker 1: that should pop up on YouTube TV now, just right
39:03
Speaker 1: there in the guide. Oh, they do it on DirecTV Stream, too.
39:06
Speaker 1: They got ESPN Plus games.
39:07
Speaker 5: That certainly helps out having to go back and forth
39:10
Speaker 5: with some of those games.
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Speaker 1: That's a good point. Villanova-Louisville, ACC Network tonight as well.
39:16
Speaker 1: And I don't know... Rutgers-BC is at 7 also. Rutgers-BC
39:19
Speaker 1: at 7 o'clock as well tonight. And then you get
39:22
Speaker 1: to tomorrow, Bone Man. where we just do that dang
39:26
Speaker 1: marathon on the couch, baby. And I like some of
39:29
Speaker 1: these noon games, man. uh you've got app state ecu
39:33
Speaker 1: at noon on espnu you got wake forest at purdue
39:37
Speaker 1: on fs1 you got the heels against east tennessee state
39:41
Speaker 1: noon acc network you've got the oklahoma michigan game on
39:46
Speaker 1: fox that's their big noon kickoff game Sneaky, interesting. Arizona State,
39:51
Speaker 1: Texas A & M. That's on ABC at that time. Heck,
39:54
Speaker 1: Oregon's playing Oklahoma State on ESPN at that time. Virginia Tech,
39:58
Speaker 1: Colton Minion on the CW. There's some games. There's some
40:02
Speaker 1: interesting games, though.
40:03
Speaker 5: You've got Penn State Temple in that window as well
40:06
Speaker 5: for yourself. You versus Zach Gelb. And I talked to
40:08
Speaker 5: Zach Gelb on the phone yesterday. He's looking forward to
40:10
Speaker 5: that game tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: He shouldn't be. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
40:14
Speaker 5: But I think for us, it's App State ECU, although
40:17
Speaker 5: you did mention in there, very interested to see Virginia
40:21
Speaker 5: Tech against a better team that's given them problems in
40:25
Speaker 5: past regimes in ODU. How does Virginia Tech look not
40:29
Speaker 5: playing VMI? That could be a sneaky, interesting matchup in
40:32
Speaker 5: there as well. We'll see what happens.
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Speaker 1: ODU has beat them. two of the last four times
40:37
Speaker 1: they've played. You're right. So, yeah, this is going to
40:41
Speaker 1: be an interesting game, no doubt about it. Then you
40:44
Speaker 1: get to the 3-30 window, Bone Man, and you get Duke, Illinois.
40:49
Speaker 1: Duke trying to get revenge after that five-turnover debacle that
40:53
Speaker 1: they had against Illinois last year, FS1. I desperately need
40:58
Speaker 1: a win over Fathead badly.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
41:01
Speaker 5: He got me for South Carolina. He got me for Duke.
41:05
Speaker 5: The man never stops yapping.
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Speaker 1: I need to beat. That fat-headed man tomorrow. This is
41:11
Speaker 1: personal for you, man. This is damn personal.
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Speaker 5: Am I not due to beat him at this point,
41:15
Speaker 5: by the way? He's beaten all my teams. I need
41:18
Speaker 5: to win badly. You do need this one, man. ACC
41:22
Speaker 5: game that's kind of interesting. Cal at Syracuse. ACC Network
41:25
Speaker 5: at 330. Alabama, Kentucky on ABC. And then another game
41:32
Speaker 5: that I think is kind of under the radar nationally.
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Speaker 1: Arizona at BYU. That's a big game for BYU. kind
41:38
Speaker 1: of who's going to challenge Texas Tech in the Big 12.
41:42
Speaker 1: That game is on Fox.
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Speaker 5: UCF Pittsburgh interests me in that window as well, because
41:47
Speaker 5: Heichel for Pittsburgh, he did not get talked about a
41:51
Speaker 5: lot this offseason in terms of the best quarterbacks in
41:53
Speaker 5: the ACC. But boy, howdy. We may have to start
41:56
Speaker 5: putting him up there at some point soon. That guy
41:58
Speaker 5: is a baller. Bone, do you want to hear from
42:00
Speaker 5: Salty Pirate this morning?
42:02
Speaker 1: Not really. Pirates alum Caden Houser going to win Barristook. Yeah.
42:06
Speaker 5: That is from Salty Pirate. Salty Pirate, why don't we
42:08
Speaker 5: talk about your team? Because you didn't talk about the
42:10
Speaker 5: Alabama game last week.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, ECU fans, shouldn't you be focused on this app game?
42:16
Speaker 1: Y'all hadn't beat them in the last three tries. What
42:18
Speaker 1: are you worried about? Y'all need this game. Why are
42:19
Speaker 1: you worried about your former quarterback?
42:21
Speaker 4: That's weird.
42:21
Speaker 1: Why don't you focus on the now, Salty Pirate? Salty Pirate?
42:25
Speaker 1: Why don't you call him Salty Pirate? Salty Pirate. Salty Pirate. Oh,
42:29
Speaker 1: my goodness. Salty Pirate's a different texture. I want to
42:32
Speaker 1: shout out North Carolina A & T and North Carolina Central.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: They play at 6 o'clock ESPN +. I know it's
42:38
Speaker 1: a big game. So I know if we got A &
42:40
Speaker 1: T and Central, folks, listen, I know it's a big one.
42:42
Speaker 1: 7 o'clock, you've got a grudge match between my alma
42:47
Speaker 1: mater and Bones Gamecocks. Now, so that's SEC Plus game.
42:54
Speaker 1: That's not the SEC Network.
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Speaker 5: It's not, but much like we said for the Virginia game,
42:58
Speaker 5: that should pop up just right there in the guides
43:01
Speaker 5: now due to ESPN Unlimited there. That's 7 o'clock. You've
43:05
Speaker 5: got Tennessee, Georgia Tech, ESPN. Brent Key, one shot, kid.
43:09
Speaker 1: Come on, man. Take him out. You've got the big one,
43:12
Speaker 1: Ohio State and Texas, 730 on ABC. And then you've
43:16
Speaker 1: got Georgia Southern and little old Clemson. Can Clemson bounce back?
43:21
Speaker 1: Can Clemson make that DB, that mouthy DB from Georgia
43:24
Speaker 1: Southern eat his words bone? That's ACC Network. He's got
43:28
Speaker 1: a name. He's Aaron Sears, all right? We believe in
43:30
Speaker 1: Aaron Sears. There you go. If they win, I can
43:32
Speaker 1: use his name. If not, he's just that clown that
43:35
Speaker 1: called out the little old Clemson. 745 Charlotte at Ole
43:40
Speaker 1: Miss ESPN2.
43:43
Speaker 5: Did you mention the fighting Ludwigs in there? Western plays
43:47
Speaker 5: at Cincinnati tomorrow night as well. How about that?
43:50
Speaker 1: I did not mention that one.
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Speaker 3: Damn it.
43:53
Speaker 5: That one is not going to make it on my screens.
43:55
Speaker 5: I want to save you the text from Smug when
43:57
Speaker 5: you don't mention that.
43:57
Speaker 3: All right?
43:58
Speaker 1: Try to help you out here a little bit. Oh, man.
44:01
Speaker 2: Ole Miss is wearing their red uniforms tomorrow night. Love
44:04
Speaker 2: that look. That might not be the only red thing
44:07
Speaker 2: on the field. They're going to make Charlotte blue.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my God. That got titty. I was going to
44:11
Speaker 1: say it blends in with the blood.
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Speaker 3: Oh, both of y'all.
44:15
Speaker 1: Poor Charlotte. Poor Charlotte. Also tomorrow night, Charlotte FC at
44:19
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Apple TV. And, of course, WFNZ tomorrow night shortly
44:23
Speaker 1: after 7.30 start there. Can Charlotte FC stay hot? And
44:26
Speaker 1: then Sunday, a whole bunch of NFL games, I'll tell
44:30
Speaker 1: you that. And NASCAR on USA at 3.30 there at WFNZ.
44:35
Speaker 1: um st louis bone and i both uh noticed the
44:39
Speaker 1: same thing about the end i think kb was talking
44:41
Speaker 1: about this this week the nfc south schedule um as
44:45
Speaker 1: much as we feel like oh man we get a
44:47
Speaker 1: tough opener um every other nfc south team is on
44:50
Speaker 1: the road and every other nfc south team is underdogs
44:53
Speaker 1: by at least a little.
44:54
Speaker 5: Bit more than us Yeah, Tampa, all the 1 o'clock.
44:58
Speaker 5: NFC South back, for some reason, it's all the 1
45:00
Speaker 5: o'clock window here. Tampa Bay, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Detroit, and Atlanta, Pittsburgh.
45:06
Speaker 5: So it's a tough day for the South. The big
45:08
Speaker 5: game in the 1 o'clock window will be the Bills
45:11
Speaker 5: and the Houston Texans. Buffalo has lost their last five
45:15
Speaker 5: regular season games. down there in Houston. Then the 4
45:19
Speaker 5: o'clock window, Green Bay, Minnesota, Washington, Philly, and then the
45:25
Speaker 5: Sunday night game, Dallas, and the New York football Giants
45:28
Speaker 5: finally got in a big window there.
45:30
Speaker 1: Why does that game have to be the Sunday night
45:33
Speaker 1: game so often? Especially in week one.
45:36
Speaker 5: It's like 95% of the time that game's in the
45:39
Speaker 5: primetime window.
45:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, that game kind of annoys me. Anyway, a lot
45:42
Speaker 1: annoys me. I'm an old, grumpy man. But not this weekend, baby.
45:46
Speaker 1: We got so much football. I'm 52! I'm an old,
45:49
Speaker 1: decrepit man! That's who.
45:51
Speaker 5: To show you where we're at right now in local
45:53
Speaker 5: college football, Georgia Southern fans want to know, where are
45:56
Speaker 5: the Clemson fans this morning? We have Georgia Southern fans
46:00
Speaker 5: back calling us. Oh, they calling you out, Tiger fans.
46:05
Speaker 1: Is this true? Hokie Highlander checking in. Highlander, I'm sorry
46:08
Speaker 1: I pointed out ODU beat you two times in the
46:10
Speaker 1: last four times because you're trying to help. He says
46:13
Speaker 1: something about Adam Gold said the A & T game
46:15
Speaker 1: against Central was moved to noon because of weather. Oh,
46:18
Speaker 1: I did not know that. I'm going to have to
46:20
Speaker 1: check this out. But you know what it does, by
46:23
Speaker 1: the way? You're checking it out. I can say, North
46:25
Speaker 1: Carolina Central! Where's our guy, Ben? Biggie Mack, man. They
46:29
Speaker 1: used to say that on the air. Where's our guy, Ben?
46:31
Speaker 3: Here it is.
46:32
Speaker 1: The A & T Central rivalry game moved up yesterday afternoon. Yeah,
46:41
Speaker 1: it'll be noon tomorrow. That's a good heads up, Highlander.
46:43
Speaker 1: A good heads up. Score one for Goldie. Goldie won.
46:46
Speaker 1: Mack and Bone, nothing on that.
46:48
Speaker 6: Yes, yes.
46:49
Speaker 1: We come back here on the Mack and Bone radio show.
46:52
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46:56
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47:00
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