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Mac & Bone Hour 1: World Cup Continues to Deliver · Mac & Bone Podcast

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Speaker 1: When come sty.
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Speaker 2: Oh it is you guys are the most entertaining sports
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Speaker 3: The Bone go no, no, stop porking. You and I
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Speaker 3: are a couple eating like lady in the tramp. You're
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Speaker 3: the lady on the tram.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, come on baby. I was Boopy Boopy
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Speaker 1: MacLean man's name, Oh the Bond, Yes.
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Speaker 3: Good morning. I almost called myself mac I am not
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Speaker 3: mac I am Bone along with Fiddy. Here it is Wednesday,
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Speaker 3: July eighth, and you know what that means. It's Fiddy
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Speaker 3: and Bone. As the months get hot, as the days
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Speaker 3: get hotter, and we get less sports out there in
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Speaker 3: the world, they put Fiddy and I together for weeks
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Speaker 3: on end, and we are working our way through the week.
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Speaker 3: Today we'll continue to talk about an excellent World Cup
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Speaker 3: that delivered again yesterday. Old dudes in sports are just
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Speaker 3: crushing it.
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Speaker 1: Right now.
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Speaker 3: We've got J. C. Horn kracking the list of top
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Speaker 3: DB's in the league. An NFL analyst says, the Panthers
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Speaker 3: will shock the world. Try to figure out what that
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Speaker 3: means exactly. And in the nine o'clock hour, Willie p
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Speaker 3: is on an athletic adventure today with Goalie Wards, so
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Speaker 3: we may get live reports of whatever Willy is doing
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Speaker 3: in net today out there promoting the All Star Game.
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Speaker 3: It's Bone, it's fitty ass. Mentioned glad to be here today.
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Speaker 3: A lot going on. We're gonna cover football, We're gonna
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Speaker 3: cover racing, basketball. It's all on the table here on
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Speaker 3: the Mack and Bone radio program. The one thing that
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Speaker 3: we don't really want to talk about right now is
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Speaker 3: our baseball teams, whether it's our favorite teams Mets for Fiddy,
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Speaker 3: Yankees for me, Max Orioles, or the team that we
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Speaker 3: cover here on WFNZ, the Atlanta Braves, who fell again
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Speaker 3: last night to the Pittsburgh Pirates. They were down seven
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Speaker 3: to two by the time that game got to the
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Speaker 3: third inning, and when you're facing Paul Skeens and you're
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Speaker 3: down by that much, it's not going to end well.
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Speaker 3: Braves lose twelve to four. They are now two ahead
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Speaker 3: of the Phillies, and don't look now, the Miami Marlins
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Speaker 3: are scorching hot. They are three behind. So the Braves
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Speaker 3: find themselves not only in a race with Philadelphia that
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Speaker 3: we've talked about, the Braves are almost caught by the Marlins.
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Speaker 3: Of all teams with all that being said, we bring
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Speaker 3: in the aforementioned the station, the tower, the signal. Did
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Speaker 3: I get them all right?
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Speaker 1: The transmitter, the transmitter. Is that all of them? Now?
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Speaker 4: I think that's all of them for today. We could
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Speaker 4: add one by the end of the week.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the dog sitter.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the trash man, because I'm in charge of taking
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Speaker 4: max trash to the road as well.
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Speaker 3: How many How heavy's that been right now? Well, that's
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Speaker 3: got to be a lot of IPA's and pizza boxes.
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Speaker 4: There was like four bags of trash when I added
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Speaker 4: to it last night, So not not bad for a
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Speaker 4: household that contains four. But at this rate, Bone, I
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Speaker 4: think I'm just I think I'm just moving in. I
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Speaker 4: had to clean up my first uh dogdo incident yesterday,
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Speaker 4: and since I have no contact with Mac, I just
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Speaker 4: had to go find the stuff to do the cleaning.
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Speaker 4: So I've got even more familiar with where he has
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Speaker 4: stuff situated in his house.
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Speaker 3: No contact Mac is scary because we need eyes on
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Speaker 3: him at all times. Also, the amount of stuff he's
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Speaker 3: the energy that he's going to have when he comes back.
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Speaker 3: I get all your words in this week because when
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Speaker 3: he's back next week, we don't even need to be
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Speaker 3: here really honestly.
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Speaker 4: Not that we hit our break times on time. Anyway,
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Speaker 4: when he's here next week, there's no chance.
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Speaker 3: No why the sponsors, we're just you know, we'll read
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Speaker 3: him off to you during the show.
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Speaker 1: We'll try to get you in next week.
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Speaker 4: But what a what a day of sports yesterday, considering we.
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Speaker 1: Were come over, cuff goes away. We're in trouble. Are
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Speaker 1: we do? What when the World Cup ends? We're in trouble.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, because baseball has not been our friend and unfortunately
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Speaker 4: only race one time a week. One thing I loved about,
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Speaker 4: you know, when they were racing back during the pandemic.
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Speaker 2: Was you got those multiple race weeks. I really enjoyed that.
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Speaker 4: It really was able to break up your sports week
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Speaker 4: when you were waiting for football to come back. Two dramatic,
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Speaker 4: thrilling finishes at the World Cup in a World Cup
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Speaker 4: that again, it might be hyperbod because we're still in
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Speaker 4: the moment.
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Speaker 2: Best World Cup of our.
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Speaker 3: Lifetime, one of the best overall events ever, I would say,
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Speaker 3: just based off of it, feels like there are so
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Speaker 3: many great games, but they keep topping each other. You
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Speaker 3: forget the previous great games every day or every other
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Speaker 3: day something else happens that takes our attention. And yesterday
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Speaker 3: it was the insane comeback by Argentina. They're down to nothing.
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Speaker 3: Messi heavily involved. They went three to two to the
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Speaker 3: defending champs. Stay alive, and yes, the jokes right themselves.
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Speaker 3: The game was played in Atlanta, so that's a city
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Speaker 3: that knows epic collapses obviously. I mean, what else can
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Speaker 3: you say about that?
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Speaker 4: Even Brady got in saying that their comeback top to
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Speaker 4: his twenty eight to three comeback in the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm willing to go that far.
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Speaker 4: Maybe if the Belgium comeback against Senegal would have taken
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Speaker 4: place in Atlanta, maybe there would have been something there,
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Speaker 4: because you know, that was the latest comeback in the
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Speaker 4: history of the World Cup. But Messi stays alive on
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Speaker 4: his quest for another World Cup title. The late game,
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Speaker 4: the mid afternoon game was you know, phenomenal as well.
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Speaker 4: And I only caught the last say, fifteen minutes of regulation,
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Speaker 4: all of extra time and then the pks because what
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Speaker 4: was going on at Wimbledon with my my favorite tennis player, Novak.
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Speaker 1: Djokovic, another old guy crushing it right.
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Speaker 4: Was a must to watch television, so you know, it
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Speaker 4: was kind of worried about focus.
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Speaker 3: On what that was yesterday, So I was not paying
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Speaker 3: attention to Wimbledon. Tell us what that was about.
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Speaker 4: You He played the longest quarterfinal match in the history
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Speaker 4: of Wimbledon. And if you want to know how long
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Speaker 4: they've been playing tennis there, you got to go back
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Speaker 4: to like the eighteen seventies, so there's a lot of
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Speaker 4: tennis that has been playing at tennis. At the England Club,
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Speaker 4: he plays the longest, his longest match of his career
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Speaker 4: that went within north of five hours. Bone he was
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Speaker 4: on the tennis court yesterday, north of five hours. They
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Speaker 4: basically they basically ran right up into the curfew because
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Speaker 4: you have to be done playing tennis at a certain
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Speaker 4: time at Wimbledon, they suspend play. You come back the
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Speaker 4: next day to finish it. That's how long it took
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Speaker 4: him to get that match. And he takes down the
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Speaker 4: three seed and what was just a phenomenal tennis match
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Speaker 4: and now you know, now Djokovic into his sixty sixth
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Speaker 4: semifinal at a major tournament. It just defies reality, cause
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Speaker 4: like bone and tennis, you're old when you're twenty nine thirty.
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Speaker 4: This guy is near forty and he's not the best
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Speaker 4: player in the world. That's Jonnick Center. Carlos Alcarez when
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Speaker 4: he's healthy, is a better tennis player, but he shows
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Speaker 4: up and all he does is make the second weekend
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Speaker 4: of Majors and usually gets to at least a quarterfinal.
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Speaker 4: Now he's back in the Semis. Was incredible to watch
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Speaker 4: him play yesterday and for his body to still hold
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Speaker 4: up at that age. I was just glad after coming
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Speaker 4: off such a debbie downer of a Monday sports night
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Speaker 4: with the letdown of the US men's national team, there
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Speaker 4: was something there to pick me up yesterday as a
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Speaker 4: sportsman like I thought, maybe I wouldn't be interested in
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Speaker 4: the World Cup, but how could you not be, because
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Speaker 4: it's just been that kind of a World Cup. You know,
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Speaker 4: I'm a tennis guy, and both of those sporting gaments
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Speaker 4: delivered in more ways than one.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, if I would have told you during the pandemic time,
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Speaker 3: so you know five six years ago that we will
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Speaker 3: be talking in July of twenty twenty six about the
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Speaker 3: performance of Novak Messi still doing what he's doing, and
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Speaker 3: the fact that well bron James is still trying to
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Speaker 3: find another basketball team. You'd say, wait, all three of
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Speaker 3: those guys are in the headlines still, Yeah, they all are,
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Speaker 3: and they're all still doing it, maybe not at their
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Speaker 3: highest level, but certainly higher levels than most. The World
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Speaker 3: Cup today not going on today kind of makes me
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Speaker 3: sad a little bit that we're getting down to the end.
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Speaker 3: We do have France Morocco tomorrow at four, and then
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Speaker 3: we have Spain and Belgium three o'clock on Friday. Saturday
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Speaker 3: is going to doubleheader here in the last eight. Norway
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Speaker 3: England can't wait five o'clock Saturday in Argentina, the team
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Speaker 3: that survived yesterday against Switzerland, who obviously not as good
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Speaker 3: as these teams, but still I've not been impressed by
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Speaker 3: them at all, hardly, but yet, as Willie told me yesterday,
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Speaker 3: they kind of remained neutral and they work their way
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Speaker 3: through the field here as the Swiss does, and they
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Speaker 3: are in the in the final little interesting to me,
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Speaker 3: Fitty that all these games coming up, whether it's tomorrow
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Speaker 3: at four, three o'clock, Friday, doubleheader Saturday, the second ones
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Speaker 3: at nine, but here on out, the only game that
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Speaker 3: remains in primetime with these great ratings, and I know
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Speaker 3: it's a world event, but Argentina at Switzerland is the
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Speaker 3: only primetime game left.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was really confused and I asked Willie and
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Speaker 4: he didn't answer me. But I was really confused as
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Speaker 4: to why we played so early yesterday. And I guess
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Speaker 4: the only thing I could think is that they want
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Speaker 4: to make sure that the countries that these that.
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Speaker 1: Are playing us right yes the world, So.
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Speaker 4: I guess that would be the only reasonable explanation. It
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Speaker 4: doesn't matter what time these these matches are being played,
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Speaker 4: Like I think everybody is carving time out of their
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Speaker 4: sports weekend to watch watch all these matches.
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Speaker 2: As we get closer and closer to.
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Speaker 4: The end of this event, it's kind of like it's
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Speaker 4: kind of like the first two days of March Madness
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Speaker 4: Bone where like, but it's like the World Cup version
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Speaker 4: where it's more like the first like three weeks, where
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Speaker 4: it's just soccer overload, where it feels like there's games
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Speaker 4: on it every hour of the day. Every time we
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Speaker 4: turned around, there's another game starting. And then like when
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Speaker 4: you get to the second weekend, everything is very spread
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Speaker 4: out and you kind of realize, oh, this is this
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Speaker 4: is coming to an end. I know our journey ended
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Speaker 4: on Monday night, but what's just been a fantastic World Cup.
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Speaker 4: We're getting closer and closer to the end, and that's
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Speaker 4: that's gonna make it sad, because then once this is over,
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Speaker 4: there's nothing to hold us over to football season outside
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Speaker 4: of media days in college football, outside of really the
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Speaker 4: height of talking season. It's another sign that football was close,
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Speaker 4: and we're getting closer to the start of training camps
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Speaker 4: and starting talking about the games that are gonna actually
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Speaker 4: be played. But it's been nice having this buff were
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Speaker 4: coming on your every single morning, something pretty dramatic or
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Speaker 4: historical talk about from the World Cup.
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Speaker 3: It's done its job so far, obviously, because we're only
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Speaker 3: two weeks away from camp, so it's bridged that gap
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Speaker 3: that we don't normally have. It makes you wonder what
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Speaker 3: are we normally doing in June and July without the
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Speaker 3: World Cup. I don't know how we survived. How do
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Speaker 3: I survive the afternoons? What do I what do I
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Speaker 3: do all afternoon? Don't don't answer that, because you know
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Speaker 3: I'm watching on the Merchant River. I gotta tell you,
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Speaker 3: the World Cup has been so captivating. I'm behind right now.
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Speaker 3: On a lot of Real Housewives stuff.
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Speaker 2: I've been a job.
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Speaker 1: I can't catch up with my programs.
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Speaker 4: I've been trying to finish Madmen for a while now,
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Speaker 4: and I can't because, like Boone, I will. I will
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Speaker 4: check in on a match and think okay, like the
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Speaker 4: Senegague Belgium match, it was too nothing, thought I was good,
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Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden you have this dramatic,
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Speaker 4: historic comeback. There have been times where like I wanted
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Speaker 4: to carve out. Can I watch my show? Can I
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Speaker 4: maybe work in some some video games? Can I go
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Speaker 4: get in the pool. And it's taken me away from
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Speaker 4: all those activities. So when the Roll Cup does end,
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Speaker 4: I've got a lot of sitting on my ass and
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Speaker 4: watching TV to do because I haven't done enough of that.
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Speaker 1: Tour in this World Cup.
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Speaker 3: So you need to sit down on your ass as
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Speaker 3: opposed to what you've been doing, which is sitting on
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Speaker 3: your ass but just watching different programs. I completely relate
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Speaker 3: to it with somebody who was sitting the other night.
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Speaker 3: Fitty that has been called out by a lot of people,
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Speaker 3: including Carly Lloyd is Christian polistic. He was called out
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Speaker 3: again on Twitter by Carly yesterday do you have that
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Speaker 3: tweet pulled up of exactly how she worded that thing yesterday.
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Speaker 4: And she just flat out said because he was asked
12:41
Speaker 4: a question by Jenny Taft, who the All American girl,
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Speaker 4: Jenny Taft, about the injury that that forced him to
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Speaker 4: exit the game on Monday night, and basically he said,
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Speaker 4: he just twisted his ankle, but it'll be okay. He
12:56
Speaker 4: can rest now. And Carly Lloyd just sent a tweet
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Speaker 4: late last night. You rest when you're playing. Career is over, period.
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Speaker 4: She's taken on the Alexi Lawless role. It feels like
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Speaker 4: where she's She's not minced words, been very been very critical.
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Speaker 1: He's a pregnant Alexey Wallace right now.
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Speaker 4: I think as as this World Cup comes to a
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Speaker 4: close and Christian Pallisa gets ready to go back and
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Speaker 4: recover from injury, he's got some soul search. I think
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Speaker 4: he's got to do as the face of American soccer,
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Speaker 4: like like I think flow Balligan was the guy that
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Speaker 4: jumped onto the scene with the with the unique story
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Speaker 4: and then of course everything that comes comes around with
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Speaker 4: the red card that being overturned. But Christian Polisic is
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Speaker 4: our best player. He didn't have the best World Cup,
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Speaker 4: and now Carly Lloyd, who's on the mount rushmore of
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Speaker 4: American soccer figures, has taken to the airwaves and the
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Speaker 4: social media to be critical of his play or comments
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Speaker 4: that he's made post his play. I feel like he's
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Speaker 4: got some soul searching to do in the months and
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Speaker 4: weeks to come.
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Speaker 3: I think they're soul searching to be done. And really
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Speaker 3: I was reading yesterday some roster projections for four years
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Speaker 3: down the road, and obviously he's heavily involved as the
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Speaker 3: face of US soccer. But I can't remember yesterday if
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Speaker 3: it was one of our guests, whether Adam god or
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Speaker 3: I can't remember who said it exactly. But you know,
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Speaker 3: they've got to figure out a way to up the
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Speaker 3: physicality level as well the size. Even Bosnia was just
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Speaker 3: out physically, they're bigger. Yeah, our skill level might be
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Speaker 3: there for the most part, not the other night, but
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Speaker 3: the physicality and the toughness certainly is something that when
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Speaker 3: you're building out a roster. I'm not that I'm the
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Speaker 3: foremost expert on US soccer rosters, but it's glaring that.
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Speaker 1: We can get roughed up a little bit here.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it kind of feels like, well, maybe you've seen
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Speaker 4: some college basketball teams how they've approached building their rosters,
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Speaker 4: or like there's been a you know you've seen from
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Speaker 4: Duke and Carolina. Righty, what's one thing that they have
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Speaker 4: in common? They're they're big, and they're long, and they're athletic.
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Speaker 4: I do think if Mauricio Pochettino stays in that role,
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Speaker 4: I think he will look at it and say, yeah,
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Speaker 4: we need to do this better and that better tactically,
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Speaker 4: but we also need to get some bigger bodies get
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Speaker 4: in the weight room.
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Speaker 2: No matter what it is.
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Speaker 4: Charisma Supreme with an all time comparison here, he said,
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Speaker 4: Christian Polistic is toll house cookies baked for nine minutes soft.
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Speaker 1: That's uh, those are the delicious though.
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Speaker 4: No, it's very appropriate. Like I said, that's a very
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Speaker 4: apt comparison because if you've ever baked cookies, and I
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Speaker 4: don't know if you have, Oh, whenever I bake cookies,
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Speaker 4: I've been taught to take them out about a minute
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Speaker 4: or two before like the schedule time, because they'll cook
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Speaker 4: when they're outside the oven. Well, the problem is is
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Speaker 4: Christian Polistic's not cooking outside the oven he's not cooking
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Speaker 4: when he's inside the oven. So I think good comparisons
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Speaker 4: as you and I embark on our new soccer journey.
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Speaker 4: Be interesting to see how this team changes and transformed
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Speaker 4: in the next four years.
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Speaker 3: Because remember when Shire took over, they got hand mandled.
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Speaker 3: Hand mandled. That's a man handled hand mandled to not
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Speaker 3: that sounds weird, It sounds like something Fitty would do
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Speaker 3: in his spare time. Man Handled by Tennessee in the
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Speaker 3: NCAA tournament. They really had to, they really had to
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Speaker 3: up there. Hey we're we may lose, but we're not
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Speaker 3: gonna lose going out like punks.
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Speaker 1: Yep, yep.
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Speaker 3: So that that that was a mindset change, and that
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Speaker 3: may have to be something that they work on here
16:48
Speaker 3: real quick mentioning what Bron James in this segment per
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Speaker 3: reports of Sham's, looks like we're down to three either
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Speaker 3: back home to Cleveland again, back to Miami for another stint,
17:01
Speaker 3: or Philadelphia. Seems like they're in the mix. So we'll
17:04
Speaker 3: figure out where Lebron might go. Where as Hornets fans
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Speaker 3: would we want to see Lebron go? Obviously out of
17:13
Speaker 3: Miami would be ideal, but is there a spot that
17:17
Speaker 3: we think he's going to go.
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Speaker 1: Where do we want him to go? We will figure
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Speaker 1: that out along the way.
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Speaker 3: We're also here from Aaron Murray of ESPN and the
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Speaker 3: SEC Network, their new lead analysts by the way, for
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Speaker 3: SEC Network this upcoming season. He joined us yesterday. We
17:33
Speaker 3: went through all the storylines, the teams to watch, the
17:36
Speaker 3: under the radar teams. We covered it all with Georgia
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Speaker 3: legend Aaron Murray of ESPN yesterday. You'll hear that next
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Speaker 3: on Sports Radio ninety two seven WFNZ Welcome Back, Mac
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Speaker 3: and Bode show. Here yesterday we had the chance to
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Speaker 3: talk with Aaron Murray, ESPN, SEC Network all things Southeastern
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Speaker 3: Conference and college football. We started by asking him when
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Speaker 3: Norris Sellers and the expectations this year? Can he meet
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Speaker 3: them which the team didn't meet for him last season?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we'd love to see him continue to
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Speaker 5: develop as a passer. I remember I had, you know,
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Speaker 5: opportunity to cover South Carolina a couple of years ago,
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Speaker 5: and you really loved what I saw from him and
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Speaker 5: it helped a lot of the great running game. I mean,
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Speaker 5: Rocket Sanders was a huge addition. He looked really well. Obviously,
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Speaker 5: Norris was playing at a high level and it felt
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Speaker 5: like last year, you know, kind of without that support.
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Speaker 5: And obviously, you know, they's still have been a lack
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Speaker 5: of consistent talent from the receiving position. I think at
18:46
Speaker 5: the end of the day, it's it's very tough for
18:48
Speaker 5: any quarterback who you know, especially a guy like Lenorris,
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Speaker 5: who who's I think is a great, good thrower with
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Speaker 5: the football. You know, I wouldn't say necessarily elite passer,
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Speaker 5: but obviously brings so much to the game with his strength,
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Speaker 5: his ability to run the football. But he's going to
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Speaker 5: get better as a passer the more and more that
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Speaker 5: he's put in those situations and and feels comfortable doing so.
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Speaker 5: So you know, for South Carolina for the past couple
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Speaker 5: of years, it's been you know, where are the playmakers
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Speaker 5: on the outside? Where's that consistency, Where's someone that could
19:16
Speaker 5: take some pressure off or is that you know that
19:18
Speaker 5: guy that can that would win those one on one
19:20
Speaker 5: battles over and over again. And you know, a couple
19:22
Speaker 5: of years ago, tremendous tight end who had a great year.
19:24
Speaker 5: But you know, I just think that right now, lenors is,
19:28
Speaker 5: like I said, tremendous runner. Physical runner is gonna, you know,
19:31
Speaker 5: get you those nitty gritty yards in the ground. But
19:34
Speaker 5: because he's not necessarily you know that that a plus
19:37
Speaker 5: plus passer, Lee, I'm not. I think he's a good
19:40
Speaker 5: good passer, a really good passer, but he needs some
19:43
Speaker 5: guys to really step up on the outside. So I
19:45
Speaker 5: think for South Carolina it's it's continued to see Cant
19:48
Speaker 5: some guys really emerge to to create a little bit
19:52
Speaker 5: more separation for him to be out there, go out
19:54
Speaker 5: there and throw some confidence because you know, if he
19:56
Speaker 5: gets going throwing the football in this season, along with
19:59
Speaker 5: what he can do with his leg, it's really going
20:01
Speaker 5: to put defenses in a mind. So still very high Leanoris.
20:04
Speaker 5: I know know a lot of people have him maybe
20:06
Speaker 5: ranked as high as maybe a year ago, but you know,
20:10
Speaker 5: watch out. I still think that guy can do something
20:11
Speaker 5: special this season.
20:12
Speaker 3: May need Dick Harbor to finally fully blossom too. It
20:16
Speaker 3: feels like we see a little bit here and he
20:18
Speaker 3: makes plays, but they could ever get the guy we
20:21
Speaker 3: thought at wide receiver and Nick Harbor certainly that would
20:25
Speaker 3: go a long way too. When you look at the
20:27
Speaker 3: top of the sec Aaron, we played your Georgia Bulldog
20:30
Speaker 3: Sog coming in here. And a lot's been made in
20:33
Speaker 3: the last couple of years about the Big Ten now
20:35
Speaker 3: winning national titles on the SEC. Where are they now
20:39
Speaker 3: in this How many true national title contenders do you
20:42
Speaker 3: see at the top of the SEC entering the season?
20:47
Speaker 1: You know?
20:47
Speaker 5: Right now, I think there's there's three, maybe four teams
20:50
Speaker 5: that I consider legit contenders and maybe you can throw five.
20:54
Speaker 5: And I mean, obviously George is gonna be right in
20:56
Speaker 5: the returning quarterback in gunnerstock ten. I think they're gonna
21:00
Speaker 5: be very talented around him at the running back position,
21:02
Speaker 5: the tight ends or extremely loaded. And you look at
21:05
Speaker 5: Georgia when when they're winning the championships a few years ago,
21:08
Speaker 5: it was the brock Bower Show. Then you had Darnell
21:11
Speaker 5: you know as well, So you know a lot with
21:13
Speaker 5: through the tight ends, toll personnel, thirteen personnel. So I
21:16
Speaker 5: think Brobo's gonna have the ability right now with with
21:18
Speaker 5: a mobile quarterback season quarterback talent around of a good
21:22
Speaker 5: running game to get things going. I think that's the
21:24
Speaker 5: biggest issue I've seen with Georgia the past couple of years.
21:26
Speaker 5: It's been where's the run game? You know, Georgia, you know,
21:29
Speaker 5: touts himself as running back. You and you know from
21:32
Speaker 5: from what I was getting recruited to. You know, obviously
21:34
Speaker 5: no Sean, and we had Todd and Keys, and then
21:36
Speaker 5: you had you know, Nick Chubb and Sony then you
21:40
Speaker 5: know a few more after that. It's just been like
21:42
Speaker 5: a dominant few of running backs NFL talent, first round talent,
21:46
Speaker 5: and just feels like that's not in the case the
21:47
Speaker 5: past couple of years. So can they get back to
21:50
Speaker 5: run the ball a little more consistently, not just with
21:52
Speaker 5: Gunner in his legs And I think they got some
21:55
Speaker 5: play Americans, young playmakers on that side, but really those
21:57
Speaker 5: tight ends should be really really special this year. That's it.
22:00
Speaker 5: It was a young defense a year ago. I think
22:02
Speaker 5: they're gonna be very talented on the back end. You'll
22:04
Speaker 5: hopefully be able to rush the passer as well with
22:06
Speaker 5: some use of the defensive end position, the outside line
22:08
Speaker 5: banker position. So getting Georgia's you know right there in contention,
22:12
Speaker 5: funning Texas with all their weapons that they're going to
22:15
Speaker 5: have on offense, with cam Coleman coming from Alburn, you know,
22:17
Speaker 5: with with Arch heading into a second season, you know,
22:20
Speaker 5: you know, the defense is going to be good. They
22:21
Speaker 5: got mush up now the defensive DC position, getting Texas
22:25
Speaker 5: maybe a tad bit more talented than Georgia heading into
22:29
Speaker 5: the season, but until you can actually beat them, kind
22:31
Speaker 5: of get that monkey off the back. Similar feelings to
22:32
Speaker 5: what Georgia had with Alabama, unable to beat Alabama for
22:35
Speaker 5: so long. That's kind of the feeling I had with
22:37
Speaker 5: Texas and Georgia right now. So george is still the
22:40
Speaker 5: top dog at the moment in the conference, but you know,
22:42
Speaker 5: Texas will be really good obviously this year. I think
22:45
Speaker 5: LSU is going to be tremendous. You know, I've always
22:47
Speaker 5: been a big fan of Link Kiffin. I love him
22:49
Speaker 5: as a head coach, not necessarily some of the stuff
22:51
Speaker 5: he does off the field, but on the field, especially
22:54
Speaker 5: in the offense side of the football. He's got plenty
22:56
Speaker 5: of talent. He's got a really good quarterback, he's able
22:58
Speaker 5: to get healthy to trans from from a s U,
23:02
Speaker 5: and he's gonna have the most one of the most
23:03
Speaker 5: talented rosters that he's maybe ever had. So I think
23:06
Speaker 5: the LSU has a chance to make a pretty deep run.
23:09
Speaker 5: You know, Mattier Oklahoma get him some protection get him
23:13
Speaker 5: a run game. I think that that Oklahoma is gonna
23:15
Speaker 5: be really good once again this year, and then A
23:18
Speaker 5: and M. You know, let's not forget Marcel was playing
23:20
Speaker 5: really good football for a good portion of the season
23:23
Speaker 5: a year ago. Did not play well down the stretch.
23:25
Speaker 5: Obviously did not play well in the playoffs. But that's
23:27
Speaker 5: another team that is recruited really high for a long time.
23:30
Speaker 5: I think Elco is a tremendous coach. You have a
23:33
Speaker 5: betteran quarterback coming back, like I said in Marcel Reed,
23:36
Speaker 5: So you know, I said there's some teams in Texas, Georgia,
23:41
Speaker 5: L s U. You know, at Alabama contendant Ease. You
23:44
Speaker 5: know my thoughts of the quarterback position. You know, they
23:47
Speaker 5: got a good stable running backs, they got a really
23:50
Speaker 5: really good defense, made the best defense going back in
23:53
Speaker 5: the SEC next year, really good back in. But it's
23:56
Speaker 5: just hard to feel confident about a football team when
23:59
Speaker 5: you're not necessarily how good that quarterback position is going
24:01
Speaker 5: to be with two guys battling out to take over
24:04
Speaker 5: Tys Simpson. So they're going to have the talent, no
24:07
Speaker 5: doubt about, on both sides. But if you don't have
24:08
Speaker 5: a guy back there that could make place in the
24:10
Speaker 5: quarterback position, you know you're not going to truly contend
24:13
Speaker 5: for a championship. So until I really see Alabama in
24:16
Speaker 5: those quarterbacks for the first three or four weeks of
24:18
Speaker 5: the season, you know, I hold back and say, like, yes,
24:20
Speaker 5: really good team, probably going to be fighting for you know,
24:23
Speaker 5: nine ten wins. But if the quarterback spot is really good,
24:26
Speaker 5: are the chance to be good? Then all of a sudden,
24:28
Speaker 5: that's the true contender in the SEC in the national
24:30
Speaker 5: title contention as well.
24:31
Speaker 3: Talking to Aaron Murray SEC Network ESPN here on the
24:34
Speaker 3: Mack and Bone Show, you may have mentioned them in passing,
24:37
Speaker 3: but I don't. I want to ask you further about
24:39
Speaker 3: what do you think about trinidat chambl was an whole
24:41
Speaker 3: miss this year. What do you think about him as
24:45
Speaker 3: a quarterback, what makes him special? And what do you
24:48
Speaker 3: think about their chances in the sec P Golding Year
24:51
Speaker 3: one in full?
24:53
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I love Trinidad, no doubt about it.
24:55
Speaker 5: I think he was he was you know, I remember
24:57
Speaker 5: early in the season, first couple of games, I did
24:59
Speaker 5: a few back breakdowns to him. I was like, this
25:01
Speaker 5: kid's everything you want. He's he's athletic, he to make
25:05
Speaker 5: all the throws. Not only you know the RPO game,
25:07
Speaker 5: which was so prevalent for him a year ago, but
25:10
Speaker 5: he can put touch and layer of the football down
25:11
Speaker 5: the field. I thought he checked off a lot of boxes.
25:14
Speaker 5: But you know, going back to what I just said
25:15
Speaker 5: about you know, Lane Kiffen and in my confidence at LSU,
25:19
Speaker 5: I think Lane Kiffin is a tremendous offensive mind. And
25:23
Speaker 5: what he was able to do along with the OC
25:26
Speaker 5: a year ago and what they've what they've been able
25:27
Speaker 5: to do for a long long time, you know, from
25:30
Speaker 5: from uh FAU. So obviously they're at old Miss uh
25:34
Speaker 5: is some of the best offenses you'll see, you know,
25:36
Speaker 5: in the country, if not the best offense. I think
25:37
Speaker 5: Lang Kiffin is the best offensive mine right now in
25:40
Speaker 5: the game. So you to lose that and have to
25:43
Speaker 5: to kind of, you know, figure out that new chemistry
25:46
Speaker 5: with a new OC. Obvious the new head coach who's
25:49
Speaker 5: more of a defensive minded coach compared to an offensive
25:51
Speaker 5: minding coach, it's gonna be a little bit different for Chandlers.
25:54
Speaker 5: I honestly personally thought, you know, it would it would
25:56
Speaker 5: have been better for him to leave a year ago.
25:59
Speaker 5: Take advantage of all the momentum that he was created,
26:01
Speaker 5: you know, he created as a player towards the end
26:03
Speaker 5: of the season, knowing that it was a pretty weak
26:06
Speaker 5: draft process it is, uh, and then obviously projecting forward
26:09
Speaker 5: to this next year and we never know, we thought
26:11
Speaker 5: last year's draft was gonna be amazing and ended up
26:13
Speaker 5: being kind of a dud. But this one is projected
26:16
Speaker 5: to be really, really good. So, you know, good for
26:18
Speaker 5: him for coming back and wanted to play at Ole
26:21
Speaker 5: Miss and stick it out there and not go to
26:23
Speaker 5: the NFL Draft or maybe not follow lan Kiff into LSU.
26:25
Speaker 5: But you know, I think he has a chance to
26:27
Speaker 5: have a really good year once again. But I just
26:30
Speaker 5: don't know if Old Miss necessarily has you know, all
26:33
Speaker 5: the talent around, and we got to see what people
26:35
Speaker 5: they could do the full time head coach before you know,
26:37
Speaker 5: I started putting all my my, you know, my confidence
26:39
Speaker 5: in the Rebels make another playoff, push Aaron.
26:42
Speaker 3: We have a lot of Tennessee volunteer fans that listened
26:45
Speaker 3: to the show. They finished eight and five last year.
26:47
Speaker 3: It's now year six for Josh Hipel. He's the uh,
26:51
Speaker 3: the longest ten yured coach there since Phil Fullmer. I
26:54
Speaker 3: can't figure them out though when I read about them.
26:57
Speaker 3: What what do you think about the Valls entering this
27:00
Speaker 3: season and what can their fans expect?
27:03
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think there there are not below
27:07
Speaker 5: those teams that that I've talked about previously. Yeah, I
27:10
Speaker 5: love what they've been doing. You know what they've been
27:13
Speaker 5: able to do the past couple of years a little
27:14
Speaker 5: bit with bangs of DC and the aggression of which
27:17
Speaker 5: he plays. I don't mind Hypel's offense. You know, I'm
27:20
Speaker 5: not I'm not necessarily a huge fan of what they do.
27:23
Speaker 5: I think that there's some some some limitations of how
27:27
Speaker 5: far that that offense can take you when it comes
27:29
Speaker 5: to a run. But I mean even the year ago,
27:31
Speaker 5: you know, my big thing was like, Okay, you know this,
27:33
Speaker 5: this this offense, like I said, has these limitations. You've
27:36
Speaker 5: seen Georgia kind of have a stranglehold on on the
27:39
Speaker 5: balls and all of a sudden they have actually explosive
27:43
Speaker 5: offensive game against Georgia, So you know, can you build
27:46
Speaker 5: some confidence for that? And then let's not forget you
27:48
Speaker 5: you had a quarterback a year ago that you know,
27:51
Speaker 5: had what three months in the in the system before
27:53
Speaker 5: going out there with the whole craziness with with Nico
27:56
Speaker 5: and the transfer to UCLA and essentially the trade. So
27:59
Speaker 5: you know, I, I know there's some inexperience at that position.
28:03
Speaker 5: You know, those guys have still probably been in the
28:04
Speaker 5: offense a little bit longer than even you know, the
28:08
Speaker 5: guy that they had last year. So you know, I said,
28:13
Speaker 5: it's a it's an eight win team, nine win team,
28:16
Speaker 5: and if you get really really special quarterback play, maybe
28:19
Speaker 5: you can push the big dogs in the secs and
28:21
Speaker 5: maybe Steak got a win or two here. But yeah,
28:24
Speaker 5: I think they're just like I said, not to below
28:25
Speaker 5: those five teams I talked about earlier.
28:27
Speaker 3: And one more question. Once you go on your way
28:29
Speaker 3: here and enjoy the rest of your summer. You know,
28:31
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, the Gag Cops made a
28:33
Speaker 3: push for the postseason, came up Shore. Vanderbilt has been
28:37
Speaker 3: an improved team the last couple of years. Do you
28:39
Speaker 3: have it under the radar surprise team? However you want
28:44
Speaker 3: a word it entering this season of a team we're
28:46
Speaker 3: not talking about a lot in the SEC that you
28:49
Speaker 3: think could be better than expected.
28:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Florida could be that team. I love
28:55
Speaker 5: love their their new head coach. I love their offensive
28:58
Speaker 5: coordinator that they got from d to Tech. Obviously, he
29:01
Speaker 5: brings with them his quarterback from Georgia Tech as well,
29:03
Speaker 5: and I think that's going to still continue to be
29:06
Speaker 5: an ongoing, you know battle for that quarterback spot. But
29:10
Speaker 5: you've seen a lot more investment in the Florida Gators
29:13
Speaker 5: this off season, uh, financially through NIL through obviously this
29:17
Speaker 5: new project with the stadium. So I think there's a
29:19
Speaker 5: lot of excitement about this new era. So I'm not
29:23
Speaker 5: going to say that this is a team that necessarily
29:25
Speaker 5: is going to push to to maybe win the SEC.
29:29
Speaker 5: Are truly truly compete for a SEC championship, But I
29:34
Speaker 5: love what Buster Faulkner has been able to do offensively
29:37
Speaker 5: there at Georgia Tech. I said, he is the chemistry
29:39
Speaker 5: with his quarterback. I think it's gonna be a very
29:41
Speaker 5: dynamic offense. You have a great, great defense or you know,
29:45
Speaker 5: defenive minded coach that that's coming over from from Tulane
29:47
Speaker 5: actually an opportunity to cover them when they faced Duke
29:50
Speaker 5: a year ago. Got to know him. I think he's
29:52
Speaker 5: a tremendous coach. So I think there's a lot of good,
29:55
Speaker 5: good good going on there in Gainesville. We'll just be
29:59
Speaker 5: able to see, you know, what Filo looks like with
30:01
Speaker 5: Faulkner in that first game, and kind of build from
30:04
Speaker 5: there because the talents there, like I said, the investments there.
30:07
Speaker 5: Now for the forty Gators, now, can you start chalking
30:09
Speaker 5: up some wins, especially wins against Georgia.
30:12
Speaker 3: There is the lead analyst joining us yesterday for the
30:14
Speaker 3: SEC network, Aaron Murray.
30:17
Speaker 1: Great stuff there.
30:17
Speaker 3: Check out the full interview wherever your podcasts are found.
30:21
Speaker 3: We were talking fitty about the playoff teams there in
30:24
Speaker 3: the SEC, at the top of the pecking order. Who
30:28
Speaker 3: is considered national title contenders in that conference? The ACC
30:32
Speaker 3: obviously has basically one in Miami, unless someone comes out
30:37
Speaker 3: of nowhere and pushes I hope people think SMU might
30:41
Speaker 3: be a team that at least makes the playoffs, But
30:43
Speaker 3: in terms of true national title contenders, it's Miami and
30:47
Speaker 3: really no one else in the ACC. When you look
30:49
Speaker 3: at the landscape of this sport in twenty twenty six
30:52
Speaker 3: and you were if you're a betting man, would you
30:55
Speaker 3: say that Miami is the most sure bet in the
30:59
Speaker 3: sport to make the season of all these teams like
31:02
Speaker 3: they not win at all necessarily, but guaranteed, no doubt
31:05
Speaker 3: playoff team.
31:06
Speaker 2: I think it's.
31:06
Speaker 4: Fair to say that just because I think Mario crystal
31:12
Speaker 4: Ball has enabled trust and belief that they're they are
31:16
Speaker 4: what we expect Miami to be every single year. Like,
31:19
Speaker 4: I don't think this is going to be a roller
31:21
Speaker 4: coaster where they're going to be good one year, down,
31:23
Speaker 4: the next year good now. I think Mario crystal Ball
31:25
Speaker 4: has established Miami as a premier program in the ACC,
31:30
Speaker 4: as a premier program and all of college football. What
31:33
Speaker 4: they're able to do in the transfer portal pretty much
31:35
Speaker 4: solidifies them once again as a power within the sport.
31:41
Speaker 4: And I think if you want to find some other
31:42
Speaker 4: sure bets, I do like I don't see a scenario,
31:47
Speaker 4: and I usually defend Notre Dame schedule like I think
31:50
Speaker 4: they do a really good job trying to schedule really tough.
31:54
Speaker 4: I don't see a scenario where they missed a playoff
31:57
Speaker 4: this year. If they lost those two games, you could
32:01
Speaker 4: argue it's a disappointment. I believe they're over under is
32:04
Speaker 4: eleven and a half. I think going into going into
32:06
Speaker 4: the season, that tells you what the schedule makers and
32:10
Speaker 4: the odd makers think about them. So of course those
32:13
Speaker 4: two teams play each other. I think it's in November,
32:16
Speaker 4: which is going to be a fantastic matchup, could be
32:18
Speaker 4: a national title game preview. You've got schools in the
32:21
Speaker 4: Big ten and the SEC that are going to end
32:23
Speaker 4: up being there. But in terms of sure bets, if
32:26
Speaker 4: I had to bet a future, the two schools I'd
32:29
Speaker 4: put big money on would be Miami and Notre Dame.
32:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Mac has that as his national title game,
32:34
Speaker 3: and you know it's not SEC Big ten, but the
32:38
Speaker 3: way things are structured for them, they're going to be there,
32:41
Speaker 3: and Notre Dame has proven, hey, they can compete now
32:44
Speaker 3: at that level. You're right, November seventh is Notre Dame Miami.
32:47
Speaker 3: Thirty three years ago. We had a lot of game
32:51
Speaker 3: with the centuries along the way, but it was Florida State.
32:55
Speaker 3: It was Notre Dame Game of the Century and one
32:57
Speaker 3: verse two nineteen ninety three. Notre Dame won that game,
33:01
Speaker 3: and then the next week they got shocked by Boston
33:04
Speaker 3: College at home. It's funny that they played and that
33:07
Speaker 3: was in November. They played Miami November, then they host
33:10
Speaker 3: Boston College this year the very next week. Now, I'm
33:13
Speaker 3: not to expect Boston College to be what they were
33:16
Speaker 3: with Glenn Foley back then quarterback in that football team,
33:20
Speaker 3: but that, to me, that's the game of that's the
33:24
Speaker 3: game of the year, and the way the schedules are
33:26
Speaker 3: for both those teams, it's most likely probably one verse two.
33:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I think Lane Kiffin's return to Oxford might
33:36
Speaker 4: be like the most anticipated environment of the college football.
33:40
Speaker 1: Season, the hostile game of the year, right, that type
33:43
Speaker 1: of game.
33:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, But in terms of the on field product and look,
33:47
Speaker 4: Ole Miss could turn out to be a playoff team.
33:49
Speaker 4: LSU could very well turn out to be a playoff team.
33:52
Speaker 4: I don't think either one of those teams are going
33:55
Speaker 4: to be in the national championship conversation when it's all
33:59
Speaker 4: said and done.
33:59
Speaker 2: I think both Miami and Notre Dame will be.
34:02
Speaker 4: There's a very good chance, depending on how this thing
34:04
Speaker 4: gets bracketed, when we get to selection Sunday, they're both
34:08
Speaker 4: playing each other maybe in the semi final. We're with
34:11
Speaker 4: the chance to maybe meet in the national championship game.
34:14
Speaker 4: And obviously you have you know the Catholics Versus Convicts,
34:18
Speaker 4: the documentary about the when they played. I believe it
34:21
Speaker 4: was in eighty eight. There's a lot of history and
34:23
Speaker 4: tradition when those two schools meet. It's just a whole
34:27
Speaker 4: lot more fun and exciting as a college football junkie
34:30
Speaker 4: when there's meaning on the line, when they're both nationally relevant.
34:33
Speaker 4: They were nationally relevant last year when they met in
34:36
Speaker 4: the season opener. They'll be nationally relevant again this year,
34:39
Speaker 4: and it very well could be a national title.
34:41
Speaker 2: Preview in early.
34:42
Speaker 3: November, it was like on paper that that might be
34:45
Speaker 3: the only loss between them is whoever loses that game,
34:49
Speaker 3: that might be the only loss. That one might go
34:51
Speaker 3: undefeated and then someone's gonna lose. But that, to me
34:55
Speaker 3: is the circle game of the college football season. Real
34:59
Speaker 3: Quick college Football video game out in full tomorrow. I
35:03
Speaker 3: know that it's out in certain additions like the luxe
35:06
Speaker 3: edition right now. Are you are you still fired up
35:09
Speaker 3: over a couple of years ago because it had not
35:11
Speaker 3: been out in a while, we were all through the
35:13
Speaker 3: roof over it. Are you still you still get that
35:16
Speaker 3: excitement level for the video game?
35:17
Speaker 4: I gotta tell you, bone, I'm still gonna end up
35:20
Speaker 4: purchasing the purchasing it tomorrow. I don't know if you
35:23
Speaker 4: saw the hashtag running around on social media, EA pay
35:28
Speaker 4: don't play, or play don't pay.
35:31
Speaker 2: One of the big content creators, I think his name's.
35:33
Speaker 4: Boudreau, put up a whole j al to my great
35:36
Speaker 4: uncle put up a whole thing last night where they've
35:39
Speaker 4: changed some things where you got to like pay to
35:40
Speaker 4: upgrade your coaching, Dynasty mode, paid upgrade your player and
35:44
Speaker 4: wrote to glory, kind of pushing it to what you
35:46
Speaker 4: kind of see with the Madden video game. So there's
35:50
Speaker 4: been some negative energy around it when you take that away,
35:54
Speaker 4: though the gameplay looks the best at expenses.
35:56
Speaker 2: The game came back.
35:57
Speaker 4: They've always done a great job with the graphics, with
36:01
Speaker 4: the realism of the crowd, the tradition that you see
36:04
Speaker 4: in college football. I'm still gonna buy it, but this
36:09
Speaker 4: very well could be the line in the sand for
36:11
Speaker 4: me if they don't maybe fix some things that the
36:13
Speaker 4: big tongue, the big content creators are complaining about on
36:16
Speaker 4: social media.
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Speaker 3: I was watching two of the barstool guys playing last night,
36:20
Speaker 3: Tate and Liam Blutman, because they're doing one of those
36:23
Speaker 3: challenges where they can't leave until they win a national championship.
36:26
Speaker 3: On Heisman mode.
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Speaker 5: Uh huh.
36:27
Speaker 3: And they started with the worst team Louisiana Monroe, and
36:31
Speaker 3: they're trying to so it's gonna be like a multi
36:33
Speaker 3: day operation. As of the last check year before the show,
36:36
Speaker 3: they had won one game in about seven hours. Oh god,
36:40
Speaker 3: they made there's a chance those dudes never leave that
36:42
Speaker 3: that room in the gameplay. Me watching it yesterday, you
36:46
Speaker 3: could tell that it's The game plays great. Yeah, and
36:48
Speaker 3: the coaching mode is awesome too with the real coaches
36:50
Speaker 3: in there now because you can you can sake up
36:53
Speaker 3: your real coach. Now to the recruiting, you can pick
36:56
Speaker 3: your whatever recruiting pipeline you want. You can you can
36:59
Speaker 3: sync up their actual recruiting area to where they do well.
37:03
Speaker 3: So the whole Dynasty mode is I know you're paying
37:05
Speaker 3: for stuff, but it's good. It looks really good and fun.
37:09
Speaker 3: So we will want us know if you played it
37:11
Speaker 3: so far. No heat fan had it a couple of
37:13
Speaker 3: days ago. When we come back. Speaking of barstool Fitty,
37:17
Speaker 3: they asked a question yesterday that seems ridiculous to me
37:20
Speaker 3: and maybe to you, but I'm gonna ask it anyway,
37:24
Speaker 3: And as someone in the audience may agree or they'll
37:26
Speaker 3: call it stupid for asking find out what that question
37:29
Speaker 3: is evolving the World Cup and the Super Bowl. Sports
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Speaker 3: Radio ninety two seven WFNZ, Welcome back in Mac and
37:44
Speaker 3: Bone show here on this Wednesday. Fiddy and Bone here.
37:49
Speaker 3: Mac on his cruise with no phone signal. We guess
37:53
Speaker 3: no internet signal. So I've never been on a cruise before.
37:58
Speaker 3: It's not free. I guess fitty to have the Internet.
38:00
Speaker 3: You would think that with all your paying for a
38:03
Speaker 3: cruise you would get Wi Fi? Or is Mac ignoring us?
38:07
Speaker 1: Is he cheap?
38:08
Speaker 3: What's going on here? I gotta be honest. I've got
38:10
Speaker 3: to worry about my guy right now.
38:12
Speaker 4: I think this falls in the Mac is cheap category
38:16
Speaker 4: because we got we got a bunch of text saying
38:18
Speaker 4: that there is a Wi Fi package that you could
38:21
Speaker 4: pay for. But but he told me that when he
38:24
Speaker 4: left it, I wouldn't. I guess I'll be able to
38:25
Speaker 4: hear from him tomorrow nights when they get back. They
38:29
Speaker 4: get back into Orlando, because they're driving back on Friday.
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Speaker 1: He didn't really cruise very long, did he.
38:34
Speaker 4: I guess it was the left on Monday back on Thursday.
38:38
Speaker 4: So what four days, three nights? I guess is what
38:41
Speaker 4: ultimately boils down to. So so yeah, I bet Little
38:45
Speaker 4: Mac paid for the Wi Fi because you know, kids
38:49
Speaker 4: cannot be disconnected from their tablets, and I bet you
38:52
Speaker 4: he's had to, like sneak on Little Max, He's.
38:54
Speaker 1: Got it there.
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Speaker 3: There's got to be Wi Fi sharing, right, There's no way.
38:57
Speaker 3: There's no way he's not monitoring and scrolling some the
39:00
Speaker 3: news going on. He has to. He has to be
39:02
Speaker 3: using his or Kaitlin's phone. There's no way he's not.
39:05
Speaker 2: We'll just know that.
39:06
Speaker 4: He's back when the group chat is getting flooded with
39:09
Speaker 4: all the stuff that he missed while he was gone
39:11
Speaker 4: that you and I have already seen and discussed. But
39:14
Speaker 4: he's gonna he's gonna want to make sure that we
39:15
Speaker 4: see it and rediscuss it.
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Speaker 2: On Monday.
39:17
Speaker 4: It'll be like the Shaked Bartall group chat we're in
39:20
Speaker 4: where the phone will not stop for hours on end
39:22
Speaker 4: over the week.
39:23
Speaker 3: I think I know how this goes. I will be exhausted,
39:26
Speaker 3: and it's fine, it is what it is. It's not hard,
39:28
Speaker 3: but I will be tired on Friday from doing the
39:31
Speaker 3: show Allie without him, and then I'll want to take
39:33
Speaker 3: a break from the guest booking of the week, and
39:35
Speaker 3: then Friday afternoon and say, hey, bun, what do we
39:37
Speaker 3: have on Monday? And I'll say, gosh, darn it, my
39:40
Speaker 3: man's is back. But that's fine. We look forward to
39:42
Speaker 3: him coming back next week. I do need your help
39:46
Speaker 3: after the show tomorrow or Friday. I know that you're
39:49
Speaker 3: you're busy right now, but I've got my own situation
39:51
Speaker 3: happening here.
39:51
Speaker 1: I may need your help withus on here.
39:53
Speaker 3: Okay, got a car problem going on, and you're you're
39:56
Speaker 3: mister hands around here, You're you're mister fix it.
39:58
Speaker 4: They did call me hands in the middle. Unfortunately stay
40:01
Speaker 4: through high school.
40:02
Speaker 1: Quite a car thing I can't figure out right now.
40:04
Speaker 1: You want me tell you what it is?
40:05
Speaker 2: What you got going on?
40:06
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I got my new car in May,
40:08
Speaker 3: and I don't think it came with I think the
40:10
Speaker 3: windshield white pers are bad on it. It's not when
40:13
Speaker 3: I when I use the windshield white pers, it's kind
40:15
Speaker 3: of not clearing it all the way. So I need to,
40:17
Speaker 3: I think, get new wipers, and I may need some
40:20
Speaker 3: help installing the white pers.
40:24
Speaker 2: Oh, you've never had to change wiper blades before.
40:27
Speaker 3: I put them on backwards once, So I'm a little
40:32
Speaker 3: a little nervous here on this whole thing.
40:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, do you mind. I know it's a tough job,
40:36
Speaker 1: but how is it gonna take a while?
40:38
Speaker 4: No, it should take us maybe all of five It
40:41
Speaker 4: should take us all of five minutes. Okay, Uh, confession time.
40:45
Speaker 4: I know that I came to Max Rescue when he
40:47
Speaker 4: had the flat tire.
40:48
Speaker 1: Yeah.
40:49
Speaker 4: I've never changed wiper blades before either, Like I've bought
40:52
Speaker 4: them but just had them be installed, like when I've
40:56
Speaker 4: taken my car in to have service done on it.
40:58
Speaker 4: I've never actually done the wiper blade change myself.
41:02
Speaker 1: So is this a flounder job that maybe no chance?
41:05
Speaker 2: There's absolutely no chance we'll fire.
41:07
Speaker 3: Will YouTube, but we'll figure this whole thing out there tomorrow.
41:09
Speaker 3: We'll figure this whole thing out.
41:10
Speaker 1: But we may have to turn to shopping.
41:13
Speaker 3: Barstill asked a question yesterday that on the surface, I
41:18
Speaker 3: think I know our audience and what the vast majority
41:22
Speaker 3: will say, but I wanted to throw it out there
41:24
Speaker 3: to see if there's anybody out there that feels differently fitty.
41:28
Speaker 3: First of all, the ratings for US Belgium, forty two
41:33
Speaker 3: million people watch the game. The NFL Divisional round in
41:37
Speaker 3: total was thirty nine and a half million people. So
41:40
Speaker 3: we can say what we want and people can start, oh,
41:43
Speaker 3: what are you talking soccer for? Well, that forty two
41:46
Speaker 3: million is MJ like viewing numbers back in his prime,
41:50
Speaker 3: So that is an unreal number there. If barstill asked
41:54
Speaker 3: a question, would you rather your team your country win
41:58
Speaker 3: the World Cup or your team win the Super Bowl?
42:03
Speaker 4: I mean, I think it's a very easy answer. It's
42:07
Speaker 4: you want your team to win the Super Bowl because
42:10
Speaker 4: that's like the World Cup. The Olympics are once every
42:14
Speaker 4: four year events, and I think it would be cool
42:21
Speaker 4: to see just the reaction to the United States winning
42:25
Speaker 4: the World Cup and just the impact that could have
42:29
Speaker 4: on the sport here.
42:30
Speaker 2: But you know, as.
42:31
Speaker 4: A fan of the Panthers that have been in the
42:34
Speaker 4: Super Bowl twice and lost them, like you you don't
42:37
Speaker 4: forget that feeling, you don't forget that emotion because for
42:40
Speaker 4: most teams, your football team is your favorite team, Like
42:44
Speaker 4: that's the team you live with, that's the team that
42:45
Speaker 4: you die with. You're you're there through the good, you're
42:48
Speaker 4: there through the bad, you're there during the ugly, and
42:51
Speaker 4: to have a chance to win a Super Bowl when
42:56
Speaker 4: you know everybody is watching and.
42:58
Speaker 3: On a year and year out through a caveat in
43:01
Speaker 3: there though, of those that may you and I obviously
43:04
Speaker 3: are going to say super Bowl, right. Yes, I do
43:07
Speaker 3: have a third team that has won a couple, But
43:09
Speaker 3: main teams have not won a Super Bowl. You have
43:13
Speaker 3: not seen it. Not that your Dallas anymore, but you
43:15
Speaker 3: didn't see them win in your lifetime. But if you
43:18
Speaker 3: are a fan of the Patriots or the Steelers or
43:22
Speaker 3: Seattle or these teams that have won multiple times, do
43:26
Speaker 3: you think the answer could be different? Like, if you're
43:28
Speaker 3: a big soccer fan and you're a Patriots fan, are
43:31
Speaker 3: those the ones that might say World Cup because they've
43:33
Speaker 3: seen it so many times? I'm not a fan of
43:37
Speaker 3: those teams. But if you're a forty nine er fan
43:39
Speaker 3: in the eighties and he saw all those runs, would
43:41
Speaker 3: you maybe say World Cup?
43:42
Speaker 1: Is it possible?
43:44
Speaker 4: I think the best way to flip that around to
43:46
Speaker 4: make it apply to you and I. We've both seen
43:49
Speaker 4: our college basketball teams win national championships. I've seen Carolina
43:54
Speaker 4: win a handful. You've seen Duke win a handful. If
43:57
Speaker 4: you had to pick right now between Duke basketball, under
44:01
Speaker 4: John Shire actually getting over the hump and cutting down
44:05
Speaker 4: the nets, or the US mens national team winning the
44:08
Speaker 4: World Cup.
44:08
Speaker 2: Which what are you choosing.
44:09
Speaker 3: I would sell my men Organs for Duke to it
44:11
Speaker 3: at all, So that's that's easy for me to say.
44:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess selling the Kerkrees.
44:15
Speaker 2: I heard he's in the marketplace.
44:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, I put it up.
44:18
Speaker 3: I'll put my man Organs on Facebook marketplace.
44:21
Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, it's Duke there.
44:23
Speaker 3: But you know, I think there may have been a
44:25
Speaker 3: time fitty where you know, the Yankees won so much,
44:29
Speaker 3: I may have sacrificed the Yankee one for something else
44:32
Speaker 3: to happen. But it's been so long because they want
44:34
Speaker 3: it kind of need another one. But there was a
44:36
Speaker 3: time there where the Yankees in a dynasty. If you
44:38
Speaker 3: would have told me, would you sacrifice the Yankee championship
44:42
Speaker 3: for blah blah blah to happen? I may have actually said, hey,
44:45
Speaker 3: you know what makes sense? But not right now. But yeah,
44:49
Speaker 3: the answer overwhelmingly feels like it's it's it's football. I
44:54
Speaker 3: have not really seen much. There's also a lot of
44:57
Speaker 3: people that are on me about wiper Blades.
45:00
Speaker 4: Lot of people, well, I think you could have expected
45:02
Speaker 4: that I think.
45:03
Speaker 1: I called a quote girly man by somebody.
45:06
Speaker 4: Come on, well, look, we all have deficiencies. I'm not
45:08
Speaker 4: the I'm not the car person either. Like I was
45:11
Speaker 4: lucky when I lived at the Marlow Mansion. You know,
45:14
Speaker 4: my cousin lived below me. He's my mechanic. Like whenever
45:17
Speaker 4: I had an issue with my truck, I just took
45:19
Speaker 4: it down to him and I made him fix it.
45:22
Speaker 4: I think the other thing too.
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Speaker 2: Bone.
45:24
Speaker 4: Now this doesn't apply to you and I because we
45:26
Speaker 4: are foremost football guys here at wfn Z, like.
45:32
Speaker 1: Some some say, carrying the station during its darkest time
45:35
Speaker 1: this week.
45:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, because we didn't book vacations during the World Cup,
45:38
Speaker 4: like like William Madden and they.
45:39
Speaker 3: When people think of this station and who was there
45:42
Speaker 3: for them in their darkest moments of the Belgium loss,
45:44
Speaker 3: it's it's me, you hoggy Like it's on, it's not
45:48
Speaker 3: the two soccer guys one's on a cruise and ones
45:50
Speaker 3: in net right now getting ready to be goalie wars.
45:52
Speaker 2: Also happens to be the two guys.
45:54
Speaker 1: That Willie was on yesterday. That'll still be fair.
45:56
Speaker 4: Also, the two guys that played the game at the
45:58
Speaker 4: highest level The care factor for the for the US
46:03
Speaker 4: men's national team isn't on a It's not on an
46:06
Speaker 4: everyday basis. Like there are some people that are probably
46:10
Speaker 4: Panther fans, like Mac is pretty invested whenever they're playing friendlies,
46:14
Speaker 4: whenever they're playing in these other tournaments he's watching. I
46:17
Speaker 4: don't know how many of those types of fans exist
46:19
Speaker 4: where there's that care level. It only it only comes
46:23
Speaker 4: once every four years where we get disinvested where it
46:27
Speaker 4: matters like it does, like like football games matter during
46:30
Speaker 4: the fall, where we're so consumed by everything the Panthers do,
46:35
Speaker 4: like control, you know, the slightest decision that they make.
46:39
Speaker 3: Because the last World Cup was in football season, if
46:41
Speaker 3: we remember, it got pushed back, and yeah, it wasn't
46:44
Speaker 3: a different time zone, you know, it wasn't quite it
46:46
Speaker 3: wasn't a North American World Cup, but it did. It
46:49
Speaker 3: was not the interest level of this one. So when
46:52
Speaker 3: it was against football, it was a little different, right.
46:56
Speaker 4: This one person does bring up the point that if
46:58
Speaker 4: you win the World Cup, you have bragging right now
47:00
Speaker 4: for four years as opposed to one. There are some
47:03
Speaker 4: like intricacies to this where we're like, yeah, like if
47:07
Speaker 4: the United States were to win the World Cup, for
47:11
Speaker 4: no matter what would happen for the next four years.
47:14
Speaker 4: We would be able to talk crap tour our European
47:18
Speaker 4: neighbors that this this soccer nation that hasn't accomplished anything,
47:23
Speaker 4: won the biggest sporting event in the world. That would
47:25
Speaker 4: be that part of it would would be fun. But
47:30
Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm turning down that to win
47:33
Speaker 4: a Super Bowl like I would not. I'd rather the
47:36
Speaker 4: Mets win the World Series than the US men's national
47:39
Speaker 4: team win the World Cup.
47:41
Speaker 2: I would have.
47:42
Speaker 4: Preferred the Knicks to win the NBA Championship, which the
47:45
Speaker 4: course just happened, then the US men's national team win
47:49
Speaker 4: the World Cup.
47:49
Speaker 2: I'd prefer the Panthers to win.
47:52
Speaker 4: Like I think, I'd prefer all of my day in,
47:54
Speaker 4: day out teams to win their respective championships as opposed
47:58
Speaker 4: to our country winning a world event.
48:03
Speaker 3: What do we think Matt mac who would pick the Panthers,
48:05
Speaker 3: no doubt right well, although he does he does have
48:08
Speaker 3: a deep love for soccer, but it would be it
48:11
Speaker 3: had to be overwhelming Panthers for him, right I don't
48:14
Speaker 3: know if it's overwhelming I text him right now, but
48:16
Speaker 3: his phone might be if I could call.
48:20
Speaker 2: Him, I'd call him.
48:21
Speaker 4: I think this would be the one where he would
48:24
Speaker 4: have the devil on one shoulder and the angel on
48:27
Speaker 4: the other whispringing his ear, and he'd have to fight
48:30
Speaker 4: and battle and throw. He starts smacking himself, you know,
48:33
Speaker 4: to try to make a decision. I think he would
48:36
Speaker 4: ultimately end Panthers, but I don't think it would be
48:39
Speaker 4: he wouldn't answer right away.
48:40
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think he would say Panthers.
48:42
Speaker 4: I think he'd be like, I don't know, bone and
48:47
Speaker 4: then try to debate himself.
48:48
Speaker 3: Text line's trying to take away us as the two
48:50
Speaker 3: biggest soccer guys here because we we didn't pick the
48:53
Speaker 3: US soccer team in this topic.
48:56
Speaker 1: Gotta tell you that might be a problem.
48:59
Speaker 3: I don't have a counter to that. I don't have
49:00
Speaker 3: a counter to that. We will we will regroup. Hydration
49:05
Speaker 3: break right fit, Hydration break right now.
49:06
Speaker 2: I need some water.
49:08
Speaker 3: Speaking of the Panthers on the way back seven o'clock hour,
49:12
Speaker 3: we are going to talk about the team that's just
49:14
Speaker 3: a few weeks away from camp. Find Out where JC
49:17
Speaker 3: Horn ranked on ESPN. Jeremy Fowler's top dB list based
49:23
Speaker 3: on executives around the league and an analyst has the
49:26
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