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Mac & Bone Show - Adam Gold Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, God. It's so week one, baby. It is so
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: week one.
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: Finley and I trying to counterpoint negative Panther fans. I
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: just don't get it, man. We had the best season
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: bone in nine years last year. Had a moment at
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: the bank that I will never forget. Yeah, we didn't
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: win it, but holy crap, the way we pushed the Rams,
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: a team we beat in the regular season.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: How do you, we add Lloyd, we add Phillips.
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: How are you not coming into this season feeling like,
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: can we take another step? We've taken steps each year
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: under Canales. Can we take another one? Instead, we got
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: these fans out there like a bunch of damn stick
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: in the mud Eeyores.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's ridiculous.
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: It's like, y'all, I keep, if you had that attitude
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: during the rule era, during Frank Reich, during the early
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: years of David Tepper, that's the appropriate attitude, right? I
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: just don't get why you have yourself back to this
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: humdrum negative self-sadness, self-pitying crap.
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: Some of these texters make Eeyore seem like Richard Simmons.
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: By the way, I believe— God, we got to fire
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: you up this week, fools!
• 1:27
  Speaker 3: Were all three of us mad at a different texter
• 1:29
  Speaker 3: during the break in our own little world? Mac had
• 1:31
  Speaker 3: somebody over there.
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: Finney was.
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: Finney and I double teamed this guy. In the battle royal, Finney, oh,
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: you two were on the same guy. And Finney was
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: the safety over the top. I pressed him, and then
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: Finney came over the top and said, no, you don't, sir.
• 1:42
  Speaker 3: I heard both you guys typing your keyboards hard. I
• 1:44
  Speaker 3: didn't know what was going on.
• 1:45
  Speaker 4: I want to fight this guy in a parking lot
• 1:48
  Speaker 4: at a bank.
• 1:49
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:49
  Speaker 4: I want to give him the address and beat this
• 1:51
  Speaker 4: dude's ass.
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: Well, I didn't know how to do all that now.
• 1:55
  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm so, I'm tired of, we backed our
• 1:59
  Speaker 4: way into the playoffs.
• 2:00
  Speaker 6: No one 10 years from now is going to remember
• 2:03
  Speaker 6: that the record shows that the 2025 Panthers made the playoffs.
• 2:07
  Speaker 4: That's all that matters.
• 2:09
  Speaker 6: And Oh, by the way, the roster today, better than
• 2:12
  Speaker 6: the one that lost to the Rams in the playoffs
• 2:14
  Speaker 6: back in January.
• 2:15
  Speaker 3: It's okay.
• 2:16
  Speaker 4: To be excited as a sports fan.
• 2:18
  Speaker 3: Go off, King.
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: Is it a defense mechanism? Anyway, we'll talk.
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: We got all week to try to analyze, psychoanalyze our
• 2:24
  Speaker 2: fellow Panther fans here in the Queen City.
• 2:26
  Speaker 3: I didn't even step outside for a minute.
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: We got all week to do this.
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's a self-defense, like a defense mechanism.
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. Anyway, we'll talk through
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: it this week here. We will try to get you
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: all fired up for the game. Uh, let's bring in
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: Adam gold right now, who just wants to deal with
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: his storylines in the triangle bone, like investigations into football programs,
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: not a fan base that is worried about the season after, uh,
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: winning the division. Adam gold joins us 99, nine to
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: fan in Raleigh. And of course, weeknights here on WFNZ
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: at seven o'clock Goldie.
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: How you feeling, man? What's going on?
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  Speaker 5: I am feeling well. I totally understand sitting out wanting
• 3:09
  Speaker 5: to talk college football. Completely get that.
• 3:12
  Speaker 4: We're 1-0, Dodie. We're the best team in the triangle. Whoa, easy.
• 3:16
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 3:18
  Speaker 5: Well, you're not. Duke is better, but still. Because they're
• 3:22
  Speaker 5: also 1-0. And by the way, 35 carries for Nate Shepard.
• 3:28
  Speaker 5: That's child abuse.
• 3:31
  Speaker 2: They work at him early, man. They got a bunch
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: more games to go against tougher teams. That was interesting.
• 3:36
  Speaker 5: That was just nutty. I sort of get what you
• 3:42
  Speaker 5: guys are saying about the Panthers, though. There's an unusual
• 3:46
  Speaker 5: amount of negativity there. around a team that I think
• 3:52
  Speaker 5: the reason for that is the preseason didn't go well. Yeah. Right.
• 3:56
  Speaker 5: The preseason didn't go well. And I didn't think the
• 3:59
  Speaker 5: defense looked all that good. I think the defense will
• 4:01
  Speaker 5: be better, but there's a lot of things that I
• 4:03
  Speaker 5: didn't like about the preseason, but it's just the preseason.
• 4:08
  Speaker 5: I want to see it during the regular season before
• 4:10
  Speaker 5: I make a judgment on it. I'm so I'm sort
• 4:12
  Speaker 5: of like, uh, I'll wait and see what I see
• 4:16
  Speaker 5: first before I lose my mind.
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: I think that's fair.
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: And I'm not saying that offensive tackle concerns aren't fair.
• 4:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, we're missing our two starters from last year's team.
• 4:26
  Speaker 5: I think it's the interior of the offensive line that's
• 4:29
  Speaker 5: the real problem for me.
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: Interior? You're not talking about the guards, are you? So
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: you're talking about Fortner?
• 4:35
  Speaker 5: Well, they've got to be– those two dudes, they weren't
• 4:39
  Speaker 5: really healthy in the preseason. Those two dudes have got
• 4:41
  Speaker 5: to stay healthy. If they don't, it's over. Their offense
• 4:45
  Speaker 5: will suck if Hunt and Lewis do not remain healthy.
• 4:50
  Speaker 5: Their offense will suck.
• 4:51
  Speaker 2: Goldie, I'm glad to see you aren't knee-jerk reacting, though.
• 4:53
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? You're angry about injuries that
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: haven't even occurred yet. Anyway, Hunt's health, Damian Lewis has
• 5:04
  Speaker 2: missed like one game a year pretty much for like
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: five games straight. I'll take that. That's pretty solid. Robert
• 5:10
  Speaker 2: Hunt is the one whose health I worry about. But Goldie,
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: we're not here to talk about our defending division champs.
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: We're here to talk about the Chapel Hill off the
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  Speaker 2: field train.
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: Wreck, sir. All right.
• 5:21
  Speaker 2: That's what we're here to talk about. What do you
• 5:23
  Speaker 2: think about this WRAL piece that they put out at
• 5:27
  Speaker 2: the end of last week, kind of detailing that? where
• 5:30
  Speaker 2: the investigation is headed. Like, do you feel, and I
• 5:33
  Speaker 2: hate it for Tariel fans because they finally get some
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: momentum with the win in Ireland. And now here's another
• 5:38
  Speaker 2: off the field thing. Although I do think Lombardi resigning
• 5:41
  Speaker 2: is good news for the program, but like, does this,
• 5:44
  Speaker 2: does this investigation make you think, Oh no, this like,
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: even if Belichick wins a few games, this could, this
• 5:50
  Speaker 2: could chase them out of there.
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: What do you think?
• 5:54
  Speaker 5: Look, I think if they play reasonably well, I think
• 5:56
  Speaker 5: they'll come back for year three and, I think there's
• 6:00
  Speaker 5: a lot of things at play here. First of all,
• 6:02
  Speaker 5: this is not a WRAL investigation. This is a UNC
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  Speaker 5: investigation in which somebody or multiple people within the administration
• 6:12
  Speaker 5: are leaking the questions that are being asked. So this
• 6:17
  Speaker 5: is not like Pat Welter and Brian Murphy knocking on doors.
• 6:22
  Speaker 5: This is not Pablo Torre finds out here. And I'm
• 6:27
  Speaker 5: not trying to slight those guys because they have been
• 6:30
  Speaker 5: they've received information and now they are asking questions. But
• 6:33
  Speaker 5: this was a UNC investigation into the H.R. violations that were,
• 6:38
  Speaker 5: you know, that Michael Lombardi was accused for accused of.
• 6:41
  Speaker 5: On top of that. Remember when they said it was
• 6:45
  Speaker 5: a witch hunt and they have nothing on him, otherwise
• 6:48
  Speaker 5: they would have fired him already? And then he resigned? Okay.
• 6:53
  Speaker 5: Maybe Tom Mars got out over his skis a little bit.
• 6:57
  Speaker 5: Maybe Michael Lombardi wasn't completely truthful with his attorney. We'll
• 7:00
  Speaker 5: see where it goes from here. But look, there have been...
• 7:05
  Speaker 5: all sorts of crazy rumors. I don't want to get
• 7:07
  Speaker 5: into the rumors because that's not fair to anybody, not
• 7:10
  Speaker 5: to mention if you're wrong, you expose yourself. But everything
• 7:15
  Speaker 5: that has been posed by WRAL are questions that are
• 7:19
  Speaker 5: being asked by the investigators that UNC is paying. And look,
• 7:25
  Speaker 5: what happened yesterday at that press conference, I got no
• 7:28
  Speaker 5: problem with both parties. No problem. Like, I mean, should
• 7:32
  Speaker 5: Bill Belichick have answered some of the questions that he
• 7:35
  Speaker 5: can answer? Yeah, absolutely. But anybody that ever thought he
• 7:40
  Speaker 5: was going to is nuts. So Pat Welter asked the
• 7:45
  Speaker 5: questions that needed to be asked in the way he
• 7:47
  Speaker 5: needed to ask them. He left it like, Bill, you
• 7:50
  Speaker 5: should answer this question. And Bill just went, basically, we're
• 7:52
  Speaker 5: on East Tennessee State. Yeah. And that's fine. That's exactly
• 7:56
  Speaker 5: what he was going to do. But the questions have
• 7:58
  Speaker 5: to be asked. Carolina fans getting mad at that. Just
• 8:01
  Speaker 5: get out of here.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's been my thing has been Welter and the report.
• 8:06
  Speaker 3: They didn't open up and start the stuff with UNC.
• 8:09
  Speaker 3: That was done, to your point, by them. They're just
• 8:12
  Speaker 3: reporting on what was found.
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: They're talking to the people who have been questioned.
• 8:16
  Speaker 3: This wasn't an RAL special report where they went inside
• 8:19
  Speaker 3: and found stuff. It was like, Lombardi was on leave
• 8:21
  Speaker 3: for a reason, guys. It wasn't like they got him
• 8:24
  Speaker 3: on leave. Like, oh, they found this out.
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: He's on leave.
• 8:26
  Speaker 3: He was on leave, and they're trying to figure out
• 8:29
  Speaker 3: why he's on leave.
• 8:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the investigation went from Lombardi to the entire program,
• 8:33
  Speaker 2: which ain't good news.
• 8:35
  Speaker 5: Steve Belichick's on medical leave. They haven't told us of
• 8:38
  Speaker 5: a medical condition. Is he dealing with cancer? Is he
• 8:41
  Speaker 5: dealing with some heart murmur? Whatever. We don't know what
• 8:46
  Speaker 5: the deal is. So it makes more sense— that maybe
• 8:50
  Speaker 5: this is drug-related, maybe he is in a rehab. I
• 8:55
  Speaker 5: honestly do not know. But when they leave it with
• 9:00
  Speaker 5: no information, and that's a Bill Belichick thing, well, then
• 9:03
  Speaker 5: you leave yourself open to everything that comes with that,
• 9:06
  Speaker 5: and you can't be surprised when that stuff happens.
• 9:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. Goldie, how do you think this plays
• 9:11
  Speaker 3: out with Dabo and his future at Clemson?
• 9:14
  Speaker 5: I don't know. Well, as long as Pat Welter and
• 9:18
  Speaker 5: Brian Murphy don't get involved, I think Dabo's probably okay. Look,
• 9:22
  Speaker 5: that was about as embarrassing as you're going to get
• 9:27
  Speaker 5: in college football. I mean, everybody I talk to, I
• 9:31
  Speaker 5: ask the same question heading into the season. Give me
• 9:35
  Speaker 5: a surprise team in the ACC. Roddy Jones, Eric McLean,
• 9:40
  Speaker 5: even Wes Durham, they all say, Clemson could be good.
• 9:44
  Speaker 5: And I'm like, man, they stunk with nine NFL draft
• 9:49
  Speaker 5: picks last year. I don't I don't play the post
• 9:54
  Speaker 5: the offseason roster game. I really don't. Because you just
• 9:59
  Speaker 5: don't know. let me see you when you play maybe
• 10:02
  Speaker 5: LSU is a national championship team I'm going to allow
• 10:05
  Speaker 5: for that so it looked worse than it could have
• 10:07
  Speaker 5: been but boy did Clemson look dysfunctional.
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: They did, man.
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, it was, I mean, just outclassed in a trench.
• 10:14
  Speaker 2: They had 74 yards before that last 71-yard drive that
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: nobody stayed up for. Like, they had a 71-yard touchdown drive.
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: Nobody stayed up for it. Nobody watched it. They had
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: 74 yards before that. Goldie, they had zero rush yards
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: when that final drive nobody watched started.
• 10:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: Like they, I think, God, they got manhandled, but I
• 10:33
  Speaker 2: do tend to agree. And there were some textures that
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: were ripping me for this yesterday. I do like, I
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: still think Clemson can have an all right season, but
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: that shouldn't be good enough. But I also think they
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: have a problem in these openers. They can't compete with
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: these sec schools anymore. They've lost eight straight, but I
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: also think LSU, like, I think they're the goods, man.
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: I thought that that might've said more about LSU on Saturday.
• 10:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 11:00
  Speaker 5: I think it probably, I think it said something about both.
• 11:04
  Speaker 5: But yeah, I think LSU is a national champ, might
• 11:06
  Speaker 5: be a national championship contender. And Clemson is a good,
• 11:13
  Speaker 5: let's see, they're like the Aston Villa of the ACC.
• 11:17
  Speaker 5: I don't think they're good enough to play all the
• 11:19
  Speaker 5: way at the top, but I think they could finish
• 11:22
  Speaker 5: fourth or fifth and maybe make Europe.
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: And incidentally, Ashton Villa has not scored a goal all season.
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: Very similar to the struggling early season Clemson offense the
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: last few years.
• 11:33
  Speaker 3: People are laughing at Goldie doing the Michael Jackson when
• 11:36
  Speaker 3: he got asked about Dabo there. What was that noise
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: you made there, Goldie?
• 11:39
  Speaker 5: I don't know. Did I make a noise?
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: There was some high-pitched laughter at Dabo's expense.
• 11:46
  Speaker 5: It's actually cool here in Oxford, North Carolina.
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay. I wasn't laughing at that. It was a
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: little chilly, a little chilly. All right, Goldie, you are
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: the man. I love it, baby.
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: I love it. Keep it up, and everybody, make sure
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: you listen to Goldie. Weeknight, 7 o'clock here at WFNZ.
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: His dog also has a lot to say about football
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: in the background.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: I love a dog. I love a dog who gets
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: fired up when you talk football, Goldie. That's cool.
• 12:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Earl's more of a European football fan, though.
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: He did really get fired up when you mentioned the promotion.