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Mac & Bone Hour 2: Panthers Expectations · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: And we're never gonna shy away from expectations. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we have high ex expectations ourselves in the locker room,
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  Speaker 1: in the building. You know, our ultimate goals to win
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  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl, to bring a championship back here to
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  Speaker 1: the Carolina's, in this city and in this building, a
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  Speaker 1: super Bowl trophy. So yeah, we're not shying away from
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  Speaker 1: any of that. We have high expectations ourselves. Uh, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna hold our ourselves to a high standard and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna go earn it. And you earn it by going
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  Speaker 1: every day in training camp, every practice.
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  Speaker 2: Giving it.
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  Speaker 1: You're all getting better every single day. And our players,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety two seven wfn Z seven o'clocker's welcome aboard.
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  Speaker 2: Wake up baby, It's football time in the Queen City
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  Speaker 2: of Charlotte, North Cakilaki. First practice coming up later this morning,
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  Speaker 2: Bank of America Stadium, and I swear this is the
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  Speaker 2: last year the fans will not be involved at training camp.
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  Speaker 2: Man the project, the fieldhouse over there, we'll be complete
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  Speaker 2: by next year and we can get things back to normal.
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  Speaker 2: From a fan at training camp standpoint.
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  Speaker 3: It's weird walking out there. And not hearing fans call
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  Speaker 3: our names and it's empty in the stands, all our names, Man, cars,
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  Speaker 3: what up be Fitty? You bone us, baby, that's hard
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  Speaker 3: not to hear that when we walk out there. I
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  Speaker 3: thought you were gonna say, tick a team and stick
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  Speaker 3: with that, I hear.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna say, it's weird not having
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  Speaker 2: the the fans there to cheer on the players when
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  Speaker 2: they make big plays. Bone goes, it's weird having them
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  Speaker 2: not yell at us.
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  Speaker 3: Fitty knows what I'm talking about, right when when they
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  Speaker 3: yell your name out there, it's a little oh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh man. Maybe maybe does he get the adoration
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  Speaker 2: of for the I got. Maybe we'll yell each other's
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  Speaker 2: names out you know, maybe we can do that to
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  Speaker 2: boost each other's egos. But that was Dan Morgan. He
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  Speaker 2: brings up super Bowl. He's not necessarily saying, hey, it's
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  Speaker 2: super Bowl or bust this year, but he is giving you,
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  Speaker 2: you know, his kind of generic answer. The goal is
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  Speaker 2: to get to a Super Bowl and bring that to
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  Speaker 2: Carolina at some point. And I am so with you, brother,
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  Speaker 2: and we're heading in the right direction. But the question
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  Speaker 2: I think has to be, what are the fan expectations.
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  Speaker 2: We do this a lot boned with college football teams,
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  Speaker 2: right because our local college teams are often all over
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  Speaker 2: the map in terms of what is a fair expectation
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  Speaker 2: for each team. With the Panthers, expectations have to be
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  Speaker 2: raised after last year, you know, getting into the playoffs
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  Speaker 2: and making those strides that they made. What is a
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  Speaker 2: fair expectation for this team? I want to know from y'all, like,
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  Speaker 2: what do they have to do for you to call
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  Speaker 2: it a successful season? How high are you setting that bar?
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  Speaker 2: And why where would you set that bar? Bone Like,
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  Speaker 2: they've got to do this at least this season. What
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  Speaker 2: do you think winning record?
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  Speaker 3: Does that something that we should be striving for? Because
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  Speaker 3: last year, despite the success, it wasn't a winning record.
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  Speaker 3: So even even nine wins mag would be a step
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  Speaker 3: up from a year ago. We'll see where that would
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  Speaker 3: play out in the pecking order of the NFC, But
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  Speaker 3: I think having a winning record and continuing the momentum
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  Speaker 3: and not going backwards would be what fans want to
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  Speaker 3: see because what do we hear all the time now
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  Speaker 3: that they can do it this year, but we hear
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  Speaker 3: all the time this franchise never happened back to back wins. Well,
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  Speaker 3: guess what in order to do that, get nine wins
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  Speaker 3: this year, keep moving forward and let's accomplish that. So
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  Speaker 3: no going backwards, No six to seven, No six to
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  Speaker 3: seven wins. Obin Fitty would did.
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  Speaker 2: Not hear that.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently he didn't. I don't think he's doing the win total.
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  Speaker 3: But if they get to they get to nine and
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  Speaker 3: then hopefully more than that. But I think even nine
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  Speaker 3: wins MAC would be with this schedule would be a success.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's not my ideal record, but I would
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  Speaker 3: still take that. Like but I think I think I
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  Speaker 3: want us to be fair about it. We had somebody
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  Speaker 3: here talk about two playoff wins or something. Is that fair?
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  Speaker 3: Is that fair to ask out of this team? I
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  Speaker 3: just want it pretty loaded up NFC, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: it's that's a lot it is.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to keep making progress if you take a
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  Speaker 2: step back. So if you don't win the division or
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  Speaker 2: you don't have a winning record, I'm just gonna start
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  Speaker 2: right there. If you don't win this South, which we
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  Speaker 2: are not expecting to be a murderers rowbone again this year,
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  Speaker 2: I know the Saints are getting better. The Bucks We'll
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  Speaker 2: see Baker will be healthy to start the season. We'll
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  Speaker 2: see how that plays out. We'll see how they you know,
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  Speaker 2: mesh with Todd Bowles. That was kind of a mess
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  Speaker 2: late in the year last year the FALC. They apparently
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  Speaker 2: play football two bone. But I just feel like, keep
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  Speaker 2: this positive momentum going. This division should be ours again.
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  Speaker 2: We're not asking for too much there, And I agree
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  Speaker 2: with you if it's just a one jump win, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think. I think, matter of fact, I think some
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  Speaker 2: texterers might say we're not asking for enough maybe, but
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  Speaker 2: I just would set the fair groundwork there, keep the
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  Speaker 2: positive momentum going. And then there are other questions too
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  Speaker 2: about what else do you want to see from this season,
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  Speaker 2: like Bryce Young? Like what do we want to see
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  Speaker 2: from Bryce Young in order to feel like he's our guy?
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's another part of the season as well.
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  Speaker 2: So but I think, uh, I think I'm kind of
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  Speaker 2: similar to you. What do you all think out there?
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  Speaker 2: What are your expectations for this team? Where you say
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  Speaker 2: you do this Panthers and it's a good season. You
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  Speaker 2: don't do this, we're gonna be disappointed in you. Seven
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  Speaker 2: oh four, five, seven oh nine, six ten, UFC Pillow
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  Speaker 2: Fight brings up an interesting uh name a way of
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  Speaker 2: putting it. Win the division outright and don't back into it.
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  Speaker 2: That would be nice when to actually win your way
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  Speaker 2: into it rather have to sit there and watch two
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  Speaker 2: teams you hate?
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  Speaker 3: What what about mac? Continued work being shown by Dan
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  Speaker 3: Morgan with some of these young guys. Let's see, let's
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  Speaker 3: see free Wing have a really solid year. What's see
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  Speaker 3: brazzle uh fit in maybe to that's the third spot.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see the guys they paid big money to payoff
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  Speaker 3: Phillipson Boyd.
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  Speaker 2: Let's continue to.
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  Speaker 3: See Dan Morgan add to the Brooks even right, Scordon.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see the young guys or the highly paid guys
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  Speaker 3: that Dan Morgan is responsible for. Let's continue to watch
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  Speaker 3: Dan Morgan's moves in how they do?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that that that's that would that would that would
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  Speaker 2: make me feel warm and fuzzy, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: If we're looking at and we're like, oh, young players
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  Speaker 2: being coached up well and Dan Morgan drafted well, I
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  Speaker 2: think that would be a very good feeling. Yeah, there
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  Speaker 2: is this angle too of like there's so many ways
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  Speaker 2: to talk about this conversation. They're hours away from starting camp.
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  Speaker 2: We're defending a division title. We're amped up, even though
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  Speaker 2: the injuries, you know, and health situations have been a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a bummer. But man, you know, people are
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  Speaker 2: fired up for this.
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  Speaker 3: Thing about Canal is being a lot more comfortable as
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  Speaker 3: a head coach now that the play calling in game.
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  Speaker 2: Him more in command in a game. Definitely that would
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  Speaker 2: do it. But yeah, things like that bone that like
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  Speaker 2: in addition, yeah, I'm curious winds loss is what accomplishments
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  Speaker 2: you want to see. But also just like one of
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  Speaker 2: the thinks, like this defense in the top ten, that
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  Speaker 2: would go a long way towards giving me the warm
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  Speaker 2: and fuzzies. If this defense is in the top ten
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  Speaker 2: and you're like, okay, a vo's getting the most out
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  Speaker 2: of this unit. They've gotten better every year since the
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  Speaker 2: cluster f in twenty twenty four. Dan's moves and money
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  Speaker 2: spent is paying off. This defense being what we feel
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  Speaker 2: it can be would be great, man, because then all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, the pressure isn't on Bryce as much.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like, just how many games have we seen
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  Speaker 2: the last two years. Saw in the playoff game against
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  Speaker 2: the Rams, you saw it like three or four times
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  Speaker 2: the year before where Bryce could have had another game win.
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  Speaker 2: He drives, He's already got a ton of them, but
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  Speaker 2: it could add another one. But then the defense gives
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  Speaker 2: up the lead late. I just I would love to
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  Speaker 2: see that defense finish off football games. We've got a text.
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  Speaker 2: If Averro gets a head coaching job, that's a great sign.
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  Speaker 2: If he finally gets the opportunity. If he's not here
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  Speaker 2: because the defense is bad, that's terrible. But if Avero
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  Speaker 2: ends up coaching somewhere as a head coach, that means
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  Speaker 2: this defense probably reached those goals that you're talking about. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: no doubt. We got a texture to us win the
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  Speaker 2: close games. We were six and two in them last year.
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  Speaker 2: But that leads to a lot of the analytical people,
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  Speaker 2: the Aaron the Aaron shots is of the world that
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  Speaker 2: will say, oh, teams have won close games the year before.
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  Speaker 2: That often will swing back the other way. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: how about Bryce just keep being that dude in the clutch.
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  Speaker 2: I think we definitely want Bryce to be more consistent.
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  Speaker 2: We want this offense bone to take more shots, right, Like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to have to sit here and point out, oh,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, Bryce is passing great on deep balls.
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  Speaker 2: Is number one. Everybody's like, but we don't throw deep
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  Speaker 2: that much? Like I want to be able to see
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  Speaker 2: more volume. Yeap. You know he was efficient going deep
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  Speaker 2: last year and that's where Brasel could really come in. Man,
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  Speaker 2: that's where the Brazl Dazzle could come in.
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  Speaker 3: And look, Russell Wilson is one of the great deep
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  Speaker 3: ball throwers of all time and we saw too many
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  Speaker 3: times against the Panthers those mood shots down the field.
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  Speaker 3: But who was also there for a lot of that? Well,
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  Speaker 3: Daryl Bevell was there for a lot of that. Can
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  Speaker 3: they can he help maybe open things up in yep?
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  Speaker 3: Can they open things up more for those Russell Wilson
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  Speaker 3: type throws down the field? Open it up a little more?
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  Speaker 2: Can Now it's got to have the stones though, Man,
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  Speaker 2: I know there are too many games where and it'll
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  Speaker 2: be interesting seeing now that he's not calling plays, he'll
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  Speaker 2: still have a hand in things right and the game
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  Speaker 2: plan and what kind of plays you're running. But like
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  Speaker 2: it'll be in see there were too There's been too
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  Speaker 2: many games where Dave Canalis appears. It's like, do you
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  Speaker 2: not trust Bryce in this game? Because it felt like
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  Speaker 2: you trusted him last week. It's you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I want more consistently that. I want more consistently with
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  Speaker 2: the run game. I don't want the games where it's like,
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  Speaker 2: oh man, Dave Canal has just said I can't run today.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to do that either, So it'll be
• 10:19
  Speaker 2: interesting to see. Does Insit calling place change that sort
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  Speaker 2: of thing. You know Dave's still there.
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  Speaker 3: Here's another one, man from a Texter, and I know
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  Speaker 3: you agree with this one wholeheartedly. Don't lose to the
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  Speaker 3: Saints this year again, please don't. I mean, although they
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  Speaker 3: are better than we thought they were gonna be at
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  Speaker 3: this point with that schedule being what it is, you can't.
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  Speaker 3: You can't afford to losses to a team that you
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  Speaker 3: should be better than right now.
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  Speaker 2: You can't get swept by him again at the brooms
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  Speaker 2: again on us, dude. I'm losing it, man, I'm losing it.
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  Speaker 2: It's not gonna be pretty, man, it is not going
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  Speaker 2: to be pretty at all. I don't know what I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about. I'm just gonna yell. I don't know. I'm
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: acting like something really horrific is going on. I was
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: waiting for the end of that, but I don't. I
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: just go scream on two Mondays. But it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you got to at home to protect a bank against
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: those fools. Mane my goodness, I'm just gonna scream like
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  Speaker 2: like I'm doing something very drastic.
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  Speaker 3: Let's be honest, You're gonna scream on money either way,
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  Speaker 3: just a matter of positive or negative.
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  Speaker 2: But Bryce needs better stats. This dude wants to see
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  Speaker 2: more numbers. Yeah, I'd like to see the yards get
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  Speaker 2: up a little bit. I would. I think the consistency
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  Speaker 2: somebody else says, get off to a fast start from Bryce.
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  Speaker 2: Every year he starts the year looking like he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: belong in the NFL and then picks it up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: can we please do this to where I don't have
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  Speaker 2: to at the end of the year tell everybody that
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  Speaker 2: Bryce in the last eight or ten games had these stats,
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  Speaker 2: Like can he just play more consistent to where it's
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  Speaker 2: just like, you know what, he had his most consistent
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  Speaker 2: best season the whole way through. Yeah, there are a
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  Speaker 2: couple of games he struggled in, But I don't, like,
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be searching. But if I'm searching
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: on PFF for weeks twelve through eighteen, what are like
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: if I'm doing that, man, that ain't good, That ain't.
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  Speaker 3: Good with a contract on the line, Yeah, we don't
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  Speaker 3: want you searching that site, and we don't want Fitty
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: also searching certain sites.
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  Speaker 2: But he's gonna do that regardless of what Bryce's stats are. Though.
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: I have a feeling, oh god, I would love back
• 12:16
  Speaker 3: at some point just to get a little little peaksy
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: ad of Fiddy's Google history.
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  Speaker 2: It's gotta be an all timer, right figu.
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  Speaker 4: As someone that is talking about my own Google history.
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  Speaker 5: No you don't.
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  Speaker 4: I'm ashamed that sometimes ends up in the search bar.
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  Speaker 2: All right, all right, we don't need to go there,
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: or we don't need to go there. Everybody use your imagination.
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: I don't or actually don't use your imagination. Food hotties
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  Speaker 2: on Reddit thread, women eating cheeseburgers dot com.
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  Speaker 4: Well remember that old Heartyage commercial back in the day,
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: Oh do we ever? I mean, if mac if it
• 12:53
  Speaker 4: didn't make you think which.
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: One you talking about? Kate Upton? Kate Upton was in one?
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know. Sophie Hunningham did a thing for
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: for like was it Hardy's or Rby's? I get them confused.
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: She did one like hot girls Love Hardy's or something
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  Speaker 2: last year. Anyway, what kind of tangent are we in
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  Speaker 2: right now? Matt Kennon, Oh my goodness, can I ask
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  Speaker 2: you a question? Oh god?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: First, you want to plead the fifth?
• 13:23
  Speaker 4: Am I a bad Panther fan? Because I don't think
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: it's a disappointment if they make the playoffs again and
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: losing the wildcard round? Like I want to advance and
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: I think that they can't advance. But Matt, let's just
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  Speaker 4: say they find themselves in a similar situation last year,
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  Speaker 4: Like last year where you're maybe hosting the best team
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  Speaker 4: in the NFL. So people thought the Rams were better
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  Speaker 4: than Seattle and you're hosting the MVP. Yeah, and they
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: get beat in a last second drive.
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  Speaker 2: Like the same kind Yeah, very similar last year? Right?
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  Speaker 3: Could they win the South and maybe hopefully avoid that?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if it's at all possible because the South
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  Speaker 3: feels whit. They're always penciled in back for that Ford
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  Speaker 3: spot where they're probably gonna be in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, we have to have like the third best
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: record of a new division, because that's is that a
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  Speaker 2: good goal to set that you're not the last division winner? Fit?
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  Speaker 3: He's right, It just you can have a really great season,
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  Speaker 3: end up four, play a great game, and you end
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  Speaker 3: up with Seattle most likely this year, probably Seattle because
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  Speaker 3: the Rams I think are right now a tier above them.
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  Speaker 2: But still you don't you don't want either one of those.
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: Here's the thing, though, with this year's defense, we're gonna
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: close out a football like we could close out that
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  Speaker 2: Rams game if we had this year's defense last year
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  Speaker 2: and Jalen Phillips could go put pressure on Stafford and
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  Speaker 2: you didn't have Christian rose Boom flailing in the air
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: it passes going past his ear hole, you had Devin
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  Speaker 2: Lloyd in coverage. Ye, Like, I would argue this year's
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: defense can finish out Seattle. This t Exter says, Fiddy
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: is describing last year's season all over again this year.
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  Speaker 2: How is that progress? If you have progress back?
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  Speaker 4: If they go if they go ten and seven, I've
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  Speaker 4: got them penciled in at eleven and six.
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  Speaker 2: This dude says, no playoff, no playoff win, We ain't
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  Speaker 2: making progress. Yeah. I think that's a good debate. There is,
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  Speaker 2: Like when we talk about what expectations are we putting
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  Speaker 2: on this team? Do we have to win a playoff game?
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  Speaker 2: But progress isn't always linear like they could.
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  Speaker 4: They could take a step, they could be a better
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: football team, and I think they're gonna be, but they
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: could still find themselves going home after the wildcard round
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: because of how other just because of how good this
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: this conference is. Like you you look at the you
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: look at the West, I think you see three potential
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: playoff teams coming out of that division.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: Look at the North.
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  Speaker 4: If if the Vikings figure out their quarterback situation, if
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: the if the Lions bounce back, eight teams could come
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: out of that division and make the playoffs. I'm only
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: seeing maybe one team in the in the NFC East.
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  Speaker 3: If they win nine or ten games, win the NFC
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  Speaker 3: South back to back, Yeah, lose to one of the
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  Speaker 3: best teams in football in the wild card game. If
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: that's how it plays out, I still think I would
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: take the progress and win and division titles back to
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: back this most because again, we go I mean, we
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: had to also see how good how good the I mean,
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: I think we know, but you never know. Maybe I
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: mean it's Seattle like last year, but yet they're the
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: second seed in the second team in the West.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know. We'll see how it plays out. Multiple
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: texters are all making the exact same point, and it's
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: probably a good one. Consistency is progress. One guy says,
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: I never agree with Fitty, but consistency is progress. There
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: would be something to be said. We still can't. We
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: still can't erase the no. Two winning seasons in the
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: row thing because we got to the playoffs last year
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: with a losing season. But there would be something to
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: be said for two straight division titles. There would be.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: But if if it plays out that way, you can.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: You can bet your bottom dollar. You can bet your
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: sweet Pippy that. One of the storylines after the season
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: is how do we get over this hump? Yeah? You
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: know what I mean. But yeah, I would again give
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: me a winning record, give me a division title. I
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: feel like that is the bare minimum. But I will
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: tell you right now, man, having been at that playoff
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: game bone and having felt like I was my body
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: was transported back to twenty fifteen, the way that stadium
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: was rocking. My god, What I would give for a
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: playoff win at the Bank. Yeah, what I would give, Bro.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'd give you and Fitty up for that.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: Andy from Balentine says five years ago, we would have
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: taken two playoff years in a row, back to back,
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: no matter the result at all. Well, two years ago, Fiddy,
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: did you Google search at one point? So one of
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: your friends says you look for Will counkle shirtwist on Google?
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Was that true? Are we talking about?
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: I wanted to see how his hair and hin lick
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: without a shirt on. What's wrong with that?
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: I got? Fiddy doesn't deny. He goes, yeah, I probably did. God,
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: I thought the food and women talk was weird, this
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: has got even weirder.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: I'm very envious of Will Cuncle's body.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: All right, when we come then, when we come come
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: back to Panthers season. When we come back, Mike Kay
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: of the Charlotte Observer, he's going to talk about all
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: these things, what's his expectation and what's his biggest camp
• 18:16
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• 18:48
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• 18:50
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• 18:52
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• 18:55
  Speaker 2: It's training camp, first practice today. You want to hear
• 18:57
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• 19:00
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• 19:04
  Speaker 2: We are in fun and football mode, bone man. All right,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: if we stray from either of those things, I want
• 19:11
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• 19:13
  Speaker 3: So I'm say that's our best. That's when we're at
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: our best. Fun and football, fun and football. So we fun,
• 19:18
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• 19:19
  Speaker 2: That's true. That's we can't throw the food out although
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: food's fun though food's fun. Good point, all right, anyway,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: But check out the podcast. If you can't listen to
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• 19:32
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• 19:37
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• 19:43
  Speaker 2: with Luke Farelli while he was in class at Clemson.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: What did he say about it? That's coming up and
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: more so, stay tuned for all that right now, though
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: we know this man is going to help us bring
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: great Panther content to y'all. He does it constantly in
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: the Charlotte Observer. He and alexand Lo do a great
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: job covering this team, and they'll be out in about
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: a training camp. Mike K, Charlotte Observer Panthers beat writer
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: joins us now on the mac en Bone Show. Mike,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: how you feeling, man? What's going on?
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: Well? This the weather outside is frightfulland I'm not looking
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: forward to it. I love training camp, but I don't
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: really like getting rate ones.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: So I heard it's a rough one and that could
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: hinder you as you try to write on your notepad.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Are you bringing back the training camp practice notepad. I'm
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: a big fan of that.
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: I mean it's me so yeah, yeah, I've got to
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: figure out. I've actually went to sleep trying to figure
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: out graded ways and funny ways that I can integrate
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: it today without it being like a completely just failed
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: a tense for humor, because I could lose countless notebooks.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Over this range with that notebook when you're writing notes down, Mike,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: what position battle entering camp most intrigues you?
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: What are you focused on?
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: Well, it would have been the left tackle battle until
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: a couple of days ago, but I think right now
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: it's got to be wide receiver three. I mean, I
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: really think they are trying to do everything they tend
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: to put the zager to get in position to thrive,
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: particularly at the Z position, get him out in space,
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: get him to avoid press, get him to just do
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: what he needs to do to be a productive guy
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: with the ball in his hands. Chris Brassel played the
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: exposition for the bulk of OTA's and minie camp with
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: Tetroo McMillan sideline with a foot injury. So I think
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: with McMillan back, we'll see how versatile they try to
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: make them.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: You mentioned left tackle would have been your number one
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: storyline to watch now, you know, or the battle to
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: watch now it may be the number one storyline to
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: see Monroe freeling the rookie quicker than we expected in
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: there with the ones at right tackle. He came out
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: and everybody knows his physical talents and the upside. But
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: many people that know way more about watching his O
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: line tape than me, Mike have pointed out, oh, the
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: technique is roll. Oh his functional strength needs to improve.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: How much should we be worried? You think about him
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: having to play right tackle from the jump.
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: What do you think they said all that same stuff
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: in twenty thirteen about Lane Johnson. So I think with it,
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: look that he's been my comp for him since March
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: or April, right before the draft, So I think for
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: him it's just a matter of coaching. It's a matter
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: of reps. The whole thing with him is, yeah, he's
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: got those physical tools, but he doesn't have a lot
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: of experience. Well, now he's going to get a full
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: training camp to get as many reps as possible at
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: that right tackle position opposite Rob Hunt. And also, I
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: would say from an optimistic standpoint, he doesn't have a
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: lot of experience at left tackle. Yes, he was a
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: starting left tackle last year, but he hasn't developed all
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: these unchangeable habits that would deter him from moving to
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: the right side of the line. So I think there's
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: the benefit there, and they've also cross trained him a bit.
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: Going back to the offseason program, I think for the
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: most part, there's an afflet to serendipity here in that
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: both Lee Hunter and min Roe Frieling were drafted at
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: premium spots at positions where injuries are piling up, so
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: I think they feel good about where they're at with
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: Monroe Freel and they also resegned Brady Christiansen and so
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: and forth. Sight has plenty of experience at right tackle
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: as well.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Mike, you mentioned monitoring the wide receiver three battle. It's
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: also intriguing the back end of the wide receiver spot, Metchi, Horn,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Tremaine and all those guys. David Moore, how do you
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: think it shakes out with the room in total and
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: who ends up making this thing?
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: Well, bryceon Tremaine I think is the fifth guy at minimum.
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: I think his special teams value, his ability to play
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: all three wide receiver spot puts him in a very
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: very good position. Now, when you talk about David Moore
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: and John Metchi, they're kind of competing with Tremaine and
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: Xavier Laguette and Chris Brasel for snaps because they're not
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: necessarily just going to be these guys that play on
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: special teams. And then Jimmy Horn is a guy where
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: I think he really needs to develop a role on
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: special teams to make this team. I'd also throw Jasim Reed,
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: a practice squad holdover, into that mix as well. He's
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: a guy who had an impressive Ricky Minni Caamp, impressive
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: off season program, catches the ball well. So I think
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: it's pretty ended beyond Tremaine. Of that group, John Metchi
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: is not a special teamer, and I think that's gonna
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: make it very hard unless he can force the team
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: to move on from Xavier Lagette or bryceon Tremaine via
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: trade because he's playing so well. You just there's only
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: so many spots. And I think that you also deal
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: with the aspect of AJ Dillon, Felipe Franks, James Mitchell.
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: Those guys are going to factor into the pass catcher
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: playmaker battles as well. So it's a matter of numbers
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: at other positions. Do you really want to keep seven
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: wide receivers when you're gonna get into the pass catcher
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: playmaker battles as well? So it's a matter of numbers
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: at other positions. Do you really want to keep seven
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: wide receivers when you're going to keep five active on
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: game day?
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be another one. Just like last year.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: We're gonna be watching those numbers big time. Mike k
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: joining Us Charlotte Observer, Charlottebserver dot Com, him and Alexandlo.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: You know they're going to cover every aspect of Panthers
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: training camp. Make sure if you're not doing Panther fandom right,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: if you're not reading those guys here during training camp, Mike.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: On the defensive side of the ball, Derek Brown yesterday
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: said he said, I'm not putting a number in terms
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: of like where we can be ranked, but this defense
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: has a high ceiling. He did go there, we've kind
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: of been using that top ten like wanting them to
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: be a top ten unit. Do you think that's possible?
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: What do you think is the is the you know,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: fair goal for this defense and how good they can
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: be this year?
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: Well, I know the narrative has been that they overpaid
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: for Jalen Phillips, but with this Vic Fangio style defense,
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: there are only about like five to seven guys in
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: the league who can truly do that position justice from
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: what e jarro Everro asked them to do. You know,
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: you got to drop in coverage, you got to rush
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: the pass, you got to set the edge, You've got
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: to literally do everything at that outside lineback and position
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: in the scheme. And Jalen Phillips is a great pit
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: for that He's also I would call a force multiplier.
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: He makes guys better around him. Is he going to
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: get a ton of sacks? Probably not, but he's going
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: to create a ton of pressure, which is going to
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: be good for Derek Brown, good for Dick Gordon, and
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: thus good for the guys behind them at linebacker, at safety,
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: at corner. If J. C. Horton can stay healthy, if
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: Mike Jackson can stay healthy, this is probably the best
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: cornerback group in the division. And I think Devin Lloyd,
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: if he does not fall off on the cliff from
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: what he was able to accomplish in Jacksonville as a blitzer,
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: as a guy in coverage, is an interception ballhawk. I
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: think top ten is realistic. I don't think they are
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: going to somehow be the top defense in the league
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: or top five, but I think top ten is realistic.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Mike, this debate over the grass that the entire league
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: is having. Robert Hunt spoke out about it yesterday. What's
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: your take on the whole situation And when guys like
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Robert Hunt speak out publicly, do you think it matters
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: at all or ultimately is this going to have to
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: be a big discussion within the CBA and the owners eventually.
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I think this is going to be
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: something that has to wait for the CBA. But they
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: should be playing on grass. I mean I think when
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: the preference of this many players and for this long
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: has been grass, grass grass. I understand that, you know,
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: like Bag of America Stadium has other business ventures going on, right,
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: But I think across the league, I think you're seeing
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: a major resistance and this is going to be a
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: massive talking point of the future CBA talks. It's got
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: to be. Players are being too upfront and out there
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: about it. It's almost like a baseball salary cap fal issue.
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: I mean, this is this is not just about the
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: integrity of the game, but keeping guys healthy. And I
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: think they're going to push for this hard.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: All right, last thing we want to ask you something
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: we've been kicking around with our fellow Panther fans today
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: is like, Okay, what what are fair expectations for them
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: this season? Like what do they have to do, Mike
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: for this season? And obviously they get a bunch of
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: key injuries it kind of throws that off, but like,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: assuming they're pretty darn healthy, Like, what do you think
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: a fair thing to ask for as fans from this
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: team is.
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: Like, as far as a record goes, yeah, record.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Kind of achievements, Yeah, what do you think?
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: I mean, I think above five hundred is a pretty
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: fair way to start. I think they are better than
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: what they were last year. I think the roster's been
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: upgraded in quite a few positions. I also think the
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: depth has been upgraded in quite a few positions. Granted
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: now they've got injuries at spots that are pretty prominent
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: and important. I think this the problem with the NFC
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: South is they're kind of like the NFC West from
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: like a decade and a half ago, where everybody just
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: beats each other silly, and so it kind of dilutes
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: the overarching success of these records. But I think I
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: think as much as I think the Saints have improved
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: in ways, I think the Falcons have improved a lot
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: of a big Kevin Stavanski guy. I think what they've
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: done from a coaching staff perspective to match their talent
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: is pretty pretty good. And the Buccaneers seem like they're
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: falling into the ocean. Mike Evans was so excited about
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: their future that he decided to bolt for San Francisco.
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: I think it's anybody's division, but I think the Panthers
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: are in a good spot to finish no worse than second.
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: So I think if they can push forward and they
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: can use their talent wisely and avoid catastrophic injury, if
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: Bryce Young can take them. I mean, I can't believe
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: it's taking this long to talk about Bryce Young in
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: this interview. But if Bryce Young can take the next step,
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: he can do what he's shown flashes of, and they
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: can start early. That's been this problem. The problem with
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: this team is they don't start early in the regular season,
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: and he don't start early in games, can play as
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: well early on as they tend to finish. I think
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: they're going to be in a really good spot to contend,
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: not only for the playoffs, but for a premium spot
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: amongst division winners.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Love it man. By the way, we're getting a tip
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: here from our text to Rachel that wants us to
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: tell you that I have never heard of such sorcery
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: that scuba divers have notepads they can use underwater. Maybe
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: they're on Amazon, so that is she's trying to help
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: you with a notepad you can write on at camp
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: in the rain, Mike K So there you go.
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: You said this, You said this caller, this texture is Rachel. Yes, okay, cool. Well,
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: when I get one of these, I'm going to have
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: to give her a shout out in the notebook.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Definitely, she's got to make it.
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: If this notebook survives the rain today, maybe she'll get one. Okay,
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: A good Always appreciate you guys having me. Hopefully I
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: can function as a person that scribbles down thing.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: You got this, you would go viral if you wore
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: scuba gear out there. Oh yeah, yeah, I add that
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: in there too. That would really be sweet. All Right,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: I'm not the story, he said, you forget both. This
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: man's an actual journalist. But Bone and I, we were
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: in the opposite We would prefer to be the story.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Last arrogant to do it later on. All right, brother,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: all right, Mike, hey, looking forward to reading you and
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Alex and all those Charlotte Observer coverage. You can't man,
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: keep up the good work.
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: Thanks for having me.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: All right, thank you. There you go.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: There's Mike an I did, just a reporter wearing big
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: old scuba gear.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: I'm ready for the rain. Coach Canalis. That's what if
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: we go out there during your rain practice. Can we
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: get Fitty some scuba gear to go out there? Fitty
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: won't mind being the story. The story, not at all.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Matter of fact, there's some backlash from the Texters that
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: tuned in for football this morning and got some weird
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: stuff from Fitty. So I apologize. Weird, what was weird
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: about it? I apologize if that's not your flavor, you
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: know what I mean? All right? I thought Fitty was
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: gonna say something alright anyway, No, maybe not, maybe not.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: We can go to Fitty for an update though quickly
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: right now, all right, we can stick to sports, none
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: of that other Internet search history. Update. Fitty, what do
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: you got in the world of sports for us? Man?
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Give us a flash. It's all right to be a
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: little fitty. A little hometown or a big old city
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: might as well shared. Might as well smile, live goos home,
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  Speaker 4: nine nine three four seven zero four three three four
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  Speaker 4: nine four. Speaking of mac, give a round of applause
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: to the Baltimore Oriole. They finally snapped the Red Sox franchise,
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: tying a fifteen game win.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Streak last night. There we go to salvage.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: One game in their best of three.
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  Speaker 2: We lose too, though, wo.
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  Speaker 4: So congratulations last night to your Orioles bone. The Yankees
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: loss the first game of the doubleheader, come back and
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: they win the second game of the doubleheader. And my
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: New York Mets, well, they do what they do best.
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  Speaker 4: They lost again to the Milwaukee Brewers.
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  Speaker 2: There you go back.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: He's got MaTx freedback. That was a big deal. Uh
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: with great last night when we come back backers sounds
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: of the SEC new coaches Pete Golding and John Somerole
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: stirred up at media days. But what do we think
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: of Somemmerole's response when asked about or excuse me, this
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: will be Golding's response. What do you think about Golding's
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: respons when asked about tampering with Clemston Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 3: two seven WFZ.
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  Speaker 2: Smarts Radio ninety two seven WFNZ, Back and bone with you.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: We're buzzing, man, we're buzzing figuratively, not literally. All right,
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: don't come down here and give us a sobriety test.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: The boss is here at Radio one. No need for that.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: But we watch a lot of those on YouTube, those
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: sobriety test videos, the bodycam videos.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: I tell you what, so hell the way to entertain yourself?
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Well, it's well because sometimes they ask him to do
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: what the ABC's backwards and stuff, and it's like, how
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: in the world do you I'm not even sure something
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: I can walk those lines sober. It's quite quite a
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: thing they do to these people. Anyway, go ahead, all right,
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: I just said too much.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Anyway, I got a lot of freak got weird search
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: history too. It's not just city Searchestry full circle Mac.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: This is why I need football back, man, Yes, I
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: got to get off the YouTube, man, I get the
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: algorithm brings up some weird stuff from here. I totally
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: need football. I've been a lot of I'm watching a
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: lot of bodycam videos. All right, let's uh, let's talk
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: a little SEC football. All I was trying to say
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: is everybody's fired up that the Panthers are starting training
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: camp here.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: But I don't know about you. The college football talking
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: season gets me revved up to the ACC here. Last
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: week we got a lot of great ACC talk in
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: and I have to be honest, yesterday, a couple of
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: the newbies Bone A couple of the newbies were pretty
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: entertaining yesterday, new coaches in the SEC. Pete Golding at
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: John Summer All. I mean they were. They had some
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: moments that were entertaining. Pete Golding was so beloved by
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: the SEC media they gave him a round of a
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: play as he walked off the podium. I mean, it's
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: crazy they were fawning all over this man. Because but
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: I need to don't be loving Lane. Lane will be
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: putting on a show later today, I'm sure. But anyways,
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: just because they have a new character right in the
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: it just means more drama. They have a new character
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: and they are so excited. So but I need to
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: ask Clemson fans, are you amused? I'm guessing Clemson fans
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: aren't so amused. Listen to this, you're gonna hear Pete Golding.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: We're gonna give you some of the fun more fun
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: stuff here, but you're gonna hear Pete Golding and his
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: thoughts on tampering and him being asked about the fact
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: that they're under investigation by the NCAA and the CSC
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: for what Dabbo called them out for contacting their transfer
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Lineberger at the time, Luke Farelli while he was in
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: class in Clemson. Listen to this coach.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: You guys have been accused of tampering, you know, and
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: you got instead of investigation, at least from what I've heard.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Talk to me about your feeling about tampering.
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I don't get into feelings, to be honest with you,
• 38:04
  Speaker 8: you know. I mean, we got a compliance department. They
• 38:06
  Speaker 8: get paid to do their job. They do a really
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: good job. So it's our responsibility recruit really good players, right,
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: coach them extremely hard, getting ready to win football games.
• 38:15
  Speaker 8: So we're gonna continue to recruit really good players. That's
• 38:17
  Speaker 8: both in the high school market and in the portal market,
• 38:20
  Speaker 8: and we'll continue to do it.
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: Have we done it?
• 38:22
  Speaker 8: How would you fix tampering or is it something that
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: cannot be fixed in this environment? Let me put it
• 38:30
  Speaker 8: to you this way, Okay, like it'd be so obviously
• 38:32
  Speaker 8: you're a porter, right, would you quit your job before
• 38:36
  Speaker 8: interviewing for another job or being offered another job?
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: No? No, no, nobody would. But right, but we we
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: have a portal that you can go in with it.
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: Do not contact.
• 38:46
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna quit my job where I'm getting paid, and
• 38:49
  Speaker 8: I'm going to go in saying I need a new job,
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: but nobody can call me to interview.
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: Like what have we created?
• 38:58
  Speaker 8: So we've created it on top of reper presentation for
• 39:00
  Speaker 8: these players, right that it's their responsibility to make sure
• 39:04
  Speaker 8: they get paid really well, and they also have opportunities.
• 39:07
  Speaker 8: So by design, it's put a lot of people in
• 39:09
  Speaker 8: bad positions. And let's not act like recruiting in college
• 39:13
  Speaker 8: football for the last hundred years is the most moral thing, right,
• 39:17
  Speaker 8: that's ever been existed.
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: I mean, like, what are we talking about here?
• 39:20
  Speaker 8: So I'm really not going to get into my feelings,
• 39:22
  Speaker 8: and I know how I've been educated to answer this question.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: Right, does that make sense?
• 39:27
  Speaker 8: It's where we have a great, great compliance department, right
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: and all those type of things.
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: But but no, I mean the.
• 39:33
  Speaker 8: Model obviously has been broken, and I'm all for everybody.
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: Being on the same playing field and doing the same things.
• 39:39
  Speaker 8: I get it, But I think that's in any job, right,
• 39:42
  Speaker 8: Like coaches, we're under contract. You don't think other ads
• 39:45
  Speaker 8: are calling us during a year, same ones that are
• 39:48
  Speaker 8: bitching about all this stuff, or the same ones calling
• 39:50
  Speaker 8: coaches right to come to other schools.
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: Right, and everything.
• 39:53
  Speaker 8: So it's everywhere, It's in every profession. So I'm not
• 39:55
  Speaker 8: saying I've got all the answers. I'm not saying that
• 39:57
  Speaker 8: at all, right, as that makes sense, So you go
• 40:00
  Speaker 8: by then the rules of the program, right and how
• 40:02
  Speaker 8: the flow. Just like when you're on the interstate and
• 40:04
  Speaker 8: people are flying by you, what do you start doing?
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: Damn right, you're gonna get hit, right?
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Is that make sing?
• 40:10
  Speaker 7: Pfession?
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: You're gonna get fire?
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Right, So don't get fire?
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: He is Josh from Charlotte says he's rambling like Richard
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: walker On back in the day. He is a character,
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: There's no doubt about it. But I need someone to
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: steal his players immediately though. I need this to happen.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: First of all, he did not answer the investigation question.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: He just did not answer that.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Now. The SEC media loved his honesty about the transfer portal.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: It kind of sounded to me like he was almost
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: defending his actions by saying, everybody does it. Everybody does it,
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: so I have to do it. Everybody's speeding on the highway,
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: I have to speed up. But do you have to
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: do it so blatantly. My problem with the with the
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Mississippi tampering is Luke Farelli had had already transferred to
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Clemson and was in class and Dabbo Sweeney says that
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: you sent a text a photo of a million dollars
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: million dollar check to Luke Farelli and then you pulled
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: him away to where he transferred a second time in
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: the same transfer port First of first of all, you
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: should get one transfer in one portal. They're trying to
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: limit one transfer bone for your whole career eventually right
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: back again. But you should not be allowed to transfer
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: twice in the same port That's absurd. And you shouldn't
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: be allowed to go after somebody who just transferred and
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: is sitting in a classroom. So, like, I know he
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: gave them good sound bites. I know the SEC media
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: has their new star and they love them or whatever,
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: but like, you didn't answer the question about being investigated
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: once you did to Clemson his bush league, and then
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: you tried to use the everybody's doing a defense, the ads.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: The ads are calling us coaches, but they want to
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: complain about Tampa, and it's just there's no accountability.
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: Man.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: You know, It's one.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: Thing if the guy was still a recruit out there
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: making a decision, and maybe he you know, verbally can admitted,
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: and that goes on as well. But when a guy
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: is in class, that meal is already cooked, man, Like
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: that's done. That is, that is a decision has been made,
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: and then you put the you put the young athlete
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: back in that weird spot where he made a commitment.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: To a school.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: But if he's getting I mean, he's a human, and
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: if he's getting texted photos of a million dollars as
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: a twenty twenty one year old, hell as a forty
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: two year old, I'd be like, I mean, I know
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: I committed here, but that puts him in an odd spot.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: When a guy's in class, he's made that decision. Let
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: him just transfer. Let let him be made like he
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: just transferred there. I didn't even know that was legal.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: But then again, bone they feels like there's nothing illegal.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: And if something is ruled illegal, then they'll find a
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: local judge. Anyway, I digress man, Pete Golden getting mixed reviews.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: We have a golding is a piece of bleep signed
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: a Clemson fan. This texture says he's right, Clemson fans
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: deal with it. Another texter, he's a guilty blieve and
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: he bleep. Another texter. He looks like a fret boy.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: That boy with gray hair though, here's what he looks like.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: All right, let's get to a couple of other clips
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: that might not trigger you as much.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: They might just entertain. Mean, Keivin didn't build this up
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: with a tagery after this time.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: So all right, So Pete Golden, you know he's gonna
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: be asked about that, and you know he was gonna
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: be asked about Lane Kiffin like they had been really tight.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: How's your relationship now? Listen, listen to this.
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: Like I told an all misgroup the other day, at
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: twenty one.
• 43:29
  Speaker 8: I said, all right, in twenty twenty one, if you
• 43:31
  Speaker 8: said you can look in twenty twenty five and you're
• 43:34
  Speaker 8: about to be eleven and want to go to the playoff,
• 43:35
  Speaker 8: which you take it if your coach was leaving the hell, yeah,
• 43:38
  Speaker 8: I was like you w everybody won from it. It's okay, Keith,
• 43:42
  Speaker 8: Like you made a great hire. He did a great job.
• 43:44
  Speaker 8: Every place isn't for everybody. That's coaches, that's players, that's
• 43:47
  Speaker 8: your job, that's everything, and that's okay, you know. And
• 43:51
  Speaker 8: so throughout the process, I'll be the first one to
• 43:53
  Speaker 8: tell you I told him I was thinking he was dumb.
• 43:55
  Speaker 8: If he was a leave, I want him to stay.
• 43:56
  Speaker 8: That was a selfish decision because I love being the
• 43:58
  Speaker 8: DC where I was at right, But he decided what was.
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: Better for him and his family, and that's for him,
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: that acide.
• 44:03
  Speaker 8: So I have no ill will towards him at all,
• 44:05
  Speaker 8: all right, wish him the best of luck. We play
• 44:07
  Speaker 8: him like every other SEC team, and we're gonna both
• 44:09
  Speaker 8: show up and spot the ball and play. So I
• 44:12
  Speaker 8: talked to him on a regular basis, but no ill
• 44:13
  Speaker 8: will at all, right, and really appreciative of how he
• 44:16
  Speaker 8: treated me and my family. And then this created an
• 44:19
  Speaker 8: unbelievable opportunity for me as well on top that I
• 44:21
  Speaker 8: really wasn't looking for, but so appreciative that.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: So there you go. If anybody was worried that they
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: may not be BFF anymore, it sounds like they're okay, BONEU, Well,
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: we could sleep easy.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: Of course he's gonna have no ill will wake Kiffin
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: doing what he did open up the door for Pete
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: Golding to get it, to get an SEC job and
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: think about the money increase with Wayke kiffn leaving that
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: Pete Golden guy. So why would do you have Yeah,
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: he may not like him as a fellow coach in
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: the conference, and they may end up having their own
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: issues along the way, But why would he say, oh,
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: I don't like wake Kiff and he left me here
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: with a head coaching job with millions of dollars.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: By the way, Golding's and that's what he was saying.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: He said, everybody's it's worked out. Everybody. We went to
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: a semi you know, you said it. He got a job,
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin got the job he wanted and all that stuff.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: By the way, his comment, Bone, that was the craziest
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: that it was not I don't think it was. To
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: the broadcast media. David Hale, ESPN's writer had it. Let
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: me let me read this off to you because this
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: was insanity. This was Pete Golding and work with me here, Bone,
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: I'm scrolling through my notes. All right, this is Pete Golding.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: Asked what he did to keep quarterback Trinidad Chambliss and
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: running back Keewan Lacy out of the transfer portal. He
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: says he told them football is gonna end. What are
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: you gonna use? You got to use an alumni base
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: to be able to keep your job. Where are you
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: gonna bring your kids to? What jersey are they wearing?
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Y'all two created a legacy in one season that's gonna
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: be hard for anybody to overtake. And for what's going
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: on now. For coach Kiffen to leave, go google Lane Kiffin.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: I had them both do that in his office. Goog
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: in my office. Google Lane Kiffin, the dude they have.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: They'd have the statue to three days ago. Google his
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: name right now. They wouldn't pee I'll say he said
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: a different word. Okay, they wouldn't pee on him if
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: he was on fire. They'll do the same thing to
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: y'all if you leave. But if you come out and
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: say I'm gonna continue to build a legacy, I've created.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: What that's going to do for you and this fan
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: base and the alumni for the rest of your life.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: I don't give a bleep where you go or what
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: they pay you. You'll never amount to that much. Wow,
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: that was his saleskit. They wouldn't pee on Lane Kiffen.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: Now the Missouri or the Mississippi lums if he was
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: on fire sold me. Oh my god, I want to
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: Passsippi now.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: Alright, mac Housid steel Creek is uh defending the tampering
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: of Golding here. I'm not sure why. First of all,
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: he said he's not rambling. He definitely was rambling. He
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: also is questioning why the player, the student athlete, had
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: his phone on in class. So it's the it's the play,
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: it's the player's So.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: I don't think we don't think every college student has
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: his phone. Got waiting to player for getting the text?
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: What was it? By the way, he would have thought
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: after class, Yeah, what does it matter? I think the
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: point is Alex he was in real he had transferred
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: from Kyle to Clemson. He was enrolled in class at
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: Clemson at that point. The transfer process should be over.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: And again, some of it's don't some of it's it's
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: hate the game, right, some of its don't hate to play.
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: I hate the game. Maybe you can make that argument
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: the game should be hated to. It's absurd that it's
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: legal to do that. It's absolutely absurd that it's legal
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: to do that.
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: All right, all right, bonesy, good hour, Bonesy. Yeah, Well,
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: I guess we'll do John Summer all later on.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get he got he snapped a media member.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: That's the Florida Gaters head coach.
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: When we come back, Chris Morrow one time, sec media
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: memories down there in Tampa. He's covering all this and
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: he had a hack of a moment with Shane Beemer
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: the other day.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: We need to talk about that. Sports Radio ninety two
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: seven WFNZ