Latest / Mac & Bone Podcast / Mac & Bone Hour 1: Panthers Waive Jimmy Horn
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- 0:03Speaker 1: What's up, party people?
- 0:05Speaker 2: Bueno, como estas?
- 0:07Speaker 3: Oh, oh, oh, it's Mike and Bo.
- 0:09Speaker 1: This is my friend, Matt.
- 0:11Speaker 3: It's a beautiful work Wednesday, everybody.
- 0:14Speaker 2: This is my friend, T-Bone.
- 0:18Speaker 3: Did we ask for your opinion? He actually did. Oh,
- 0:20Speaker 3: did you?
- 0:20Speaker 1: You guys are the best.
- 0:21Speaker 3: Pony, pony, pony, pony.
- 0:24Speaker 2: They're the best.
- 0:25Speaker 1: I love those guys. Y'all get started treating me this way.
- 0:28Speaker 2: All right, one time for the one time.
- 0:29Speaker 1: You're listening to the Mackin' Bo Show on Mackin' Bo Radio.
- 0:42Speaker 3: Good morning, Charlotte. Welcome aboard. Happy Wednesday, everybody. It's a
- 0:46Speaker 3: work Wednesday for our Carolina Panthers. They'll get back to
- 0:49Speaker 3: practice today and we'll find out what's going on with
- 0:54Speaker 3: Jalen Coker's ankle. Hopefully everything's all right. Maybe limited today,
- 0:58Speaker 3: but hopefully he does a little bit and we can
- 1:02Speaker 3: feel good about that. He seemed to feel good about that,
- 1:04Speaker 3: but we've got a lot to do in the meantime.
- 1:07Speaker 3: Before those boys hit the field, we will talk plenty
- 1:09Speaker 3: of Panthers on the show today. How about focusing on
- 1:13Speaker 3: what was good on Sunday for a change this week?
- 1:15Speaker 3: The offense. The offense. Are you readjusting your offense expectations?
- 1:21Speaker 3: It sounds like everybody has on the other side of
- 1:24Speaker 3: the ball. But are you readjusting in a good way
- 1:26Speaker 3: the offensive expectations? We'll talk about that. We have a
- 1:30Speaker 3: surprise cut by the Carolina Panthers yesterday. that must be
- 1:34Speaker 3: discussed here in a matter of minutes. And we had
- 1:38Speaker 3: all kinds of other stuff. There is the Palmetto States
- 1:42Speaker 3: duo is under siege from the upset alert folks. Are
- 1:47Speaker 3: you buying the upset alert for Clemson against Carolina? Are
- 1:52Speaker 3: you buying the upset alert? for South Carolina against Mississippi State.
- 1:55Speaker 3: We will talk through that a little bit on the
- 1:58Speaker 3: show today. And we're going to let you hear from
- 2:01Speaker 3: Brenton Buckner, who joined us in the last hour of
- 2:03Speaker 3: the show yesterday. We wanted to get a guy that
- 2:06Speaker 3: has much more NFL defensive knowledge than us to talk
- 2:10Speaker 3: about what he saw from the Panthers' defense and the
- 2:13Speaker 3: hot-button topic of Avero. and his scheme and all that stuff.
- 2:17Speaker 3: So that's coming up. We'll let you hear that, 6 o'clockers,
- 2:20Speaker 3: later this hour. So we've got a lot of things happening.
- 2:23Speaker 3: We've got the Bone Man. We've got the Fit Dog.
- 2:25Speaker 3: Bone Man, how are you feeling today?
- 2:27Speaker 4: Hey, good morning to the audience. Good morning to Fitty.
- 2:31Speaker 4: And good morning to my main man, Brona Hill.
- 2:34Speaker 3: I was waiting to hear what my alter ego was.
- 2:37Speaker 3: You're starting to wonder. You're starting to wait on it. Yeah,
- 2:39Speaker 3: you're Brona Hill today. How about that? I'm starting. Yesterday
- 2:41Speaker 3: was Seth Brogan, and today was Brona Hill. I'm starting
- 2:44Speaker 3: to warm up to this. I can feel it. I
- 2:46Speaker 3: can sense it. I'm starting to feel like, okay, what
- 2:48Speaker 3: am I going to get called right now?
- 2:49Speaker 4: It took 11 times, but now you're starting to get going.
- 2:52Speaker 4: I'm going to run out, though, eventually, but I got
- 2:56Speaker 4: about 44 more to go.
- 2:57Speaker 3: Okay, good.
- 2:58Speaker 4: And then we go to the audience, and that's when
- 3:00Speaker 4: you probably say, all right, enough of that.
- 3:03Speaker 3: I've had quite the... A harrowing morning. Blessed to be
- 3:06Speaker 3: here today. What a start. What a start to my
- 3:09Speaker 3: day today. My gracious. You all right? I let Murphy
- 3:12Speaker 3: out of the crate. He woke up and he got excited.
- 3:14Speaker 3: And the first.
- 3:15Speaker 4: Thing he does was he jumps up and he punched
- 3:17Speaker 4: me square in the kebabs. I mean, direct hit right
- 3:20Speaker 4: into the... Right into the shishkis. Like, right, whatever, the
- 3:23Speaker 4: shish kebabs.
- 3:24Speaker 3: Like, right there. Like, direct punch right there. You might
- 3:26Speaker 3: need your own bodyguard with this dog. I might need
- 3:28Speaker 3: to wear. This dog is hurting you. Cut your finger
- 3:30Speaker 3: all up. I might need to wear a cup. I
- 3:32Speaker 3: need to wear a cup. And then I had a jerk.
- 3:33Speaker 3: Full suit of armor and a bodyguard on hand.
- 3:36Speaker 4: Not only that, so I had to take a few
- 3:37Speaker 4: minutes off there and make sure the furniture was all
- 3:40Speaker 4: in line. And then I had a jerk on 77
- 3:42Speaker 4: today that was really trying to just kill me.
- 3:45Speaker 3: Just absolutely kill me this morning. I didn't do it.
- 3:47Speaker 3: It wasn't my fault this time. Was Murphy behind the wheel?
- 3:50Speaker 3: Can we blame him or no?
- 3:52Speaker 4: I was about to merge on the highway, getting onto
- 3:54Speaker 4: the highway, and the guy, just me and this guy,
- 3:57Speaker 4: he did not, and his truck, would not get over
- 4:00Speaker 4: to the left lane. Guys, I'm trying to get over.
- 4:02Speaker 4: This guy keeps on coming. So I had to like,
- 4:05Speaker 4: I like ran out of room on the trying to
- 4:06Speaker 4: merge because this guy wouldn't get over.
- 4:11Speaker 3: How do you have so many like driver tete-a-tetes before
- 4:16Speaker 3: like 5.30 in the morning? When he got to the
- 4:18Speaker 3: left lane, he immediately got on the bumper of the
- 4:21Speaker 3: car that was in that lane, flashed his lights. So
- 4:23Speaker 3: this guy was just being an absolute menace. How do
- 4:26Speaker 3: you have– I looked over and I said, is that
- 4:28Speaker 3: Carson Hosovar? That might be him. So there's hardly any
- 4:31Speaker 3: cars on the road. Like, how do you have so
- 4:35Speaker 3: many like road run ins at this hour?
- 4:38Speaker 4: Probably because people have more room to operate. So they
- 4:40Speaker 4: feel like they can be more like 77. You can't
- 4:42Speaker 4: really do much normally. I guess at that hour of
- 4:45Speaker 4: the day, they feel like they're empowered because there's not
- 4:47Speaker 4: as many people out there, I guess. So these guys
- 4:50Speaker 4: in these big trucks just bully me all the time.
- 4:52Speaker 4: I tell you, Fit, I don't know about you, Fit.
- 4:53Speaker 4: We drive in on Independence. They are gentlemen at this hour.
- 4:57Speaker 4: All right?
- 4:58Speaker 3: Gentlemen at the early 4.30, 4 o'clock hour of my drive.
- 5:03Speaker 3: Wasn't that the road where Flounder got a baseball bat
- 5:05Speaker 3: pulled on him?
- 5:06Speaker 5: But that was not at 5.30 in the morning.
- 5:09Speaker 3: No, the sun. Oh, no, Flounder's incident was he ended
- 5:12Speaker 3: up in the woods to go to the bathroom. Yeah,
- 5:13Speaker 3: that's what it was. No, the baseball bat incident was
- 5:17Speaker 3: broad daylight for Floundog. In fairness, if you're on the
- 5:22Speaker 3: road with Flounder, he could rage at any hour. So
- 5:25Speaker 3: maybe you're just running into the... Mooresville Flounders. You know
- 5:29Speaker 3: what I mean? Maybe the Lake Norman Flounder is driving
- 5:33Speaker 3: at the same time as you.
- 5:34Speaker 5: Mack, I'm starting to think this is more about Bone
- 5:36Speaker 5: than it is the other people.
- 5:37Speaker 3: I'm starting to wonder. I'm starting to wonder, is Bone
- 5:39Speaker 3: the problem? All these other people are like, what's wrong
- 5:41Speaker 3: with this guy?
- 5:42Speaker 1: Hear me out.
- 5:43Speaker 5: We need a Bone cam.
- 5:44Speaker 3: We do.
- 5:45Speaker 4: When someone's merging onto the highway and there's no one
- 5:48Speaker 4: there but one car a little bit in front of you,
- 5:50Speaker 4: you've got to get over to the left lane.
- 5:51Speaker 3: You've got to let me into the highway. You've got
- 5:54Speaker 3: to move there.
- 5:55Speaker 5: Now, Bone, when you're merging into the highway.
- 5:58Speaker 3: Do you.
- 5:58Speaker 5: Merge with a sense of urgency? Like when you're coming
- 6:01Speaker 5: down the ramp?
- 6:02Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
- 6:03Speaker 4: I mean, I've done it a million times.
- 6:05Speaker 3: This guy would not move. Can you not just get
- 6:09Speaker 3: out of the gas and just be like, all right,
- 6:11Speaker 3: I'll just concede that spot and I'll just funnel in
- 6:14Speaker 3: behind you? I mean, I guess I could. Bones trying
- 6:17Speaker 3: to get off pit road. Bones like, I got to
- 6:18Speaker 3: do the best time off pit road here, man. All right.
- 6:22Speaker 4: Anyway, I acted like a jerk after that. So you
- 6:24Speaker 4: could tell that this guy wasn't following the rules.
- 6:26Speaker 3: Of the road. Unbelievable, man. Between Murphy and the dogs
- 6:30Speaker 3: and the drivers, you're targeted. Why is this all about
- 6:33Speaker 3: me here? I wonder. I wonder why this is all
- 6:36Speaker 3: about you. Anyway, let's talk about. I didn't open up
- 6:39Speaker 3: for criticism. Let's talk about Jimmy Horn here, Bone Man.
- 6:44Speaker 3: Jimmy Horn could be driving out of town, or maybe
- 6:46Speaker 3: he won't be. Maybe he'll clear waivers and be back
- 6:48Speaker 3: on the practice squad. But yesterday afternoon, Panther fans, I
- 6:52Speaker 3: think many, shocked by the fact that Jimmy Horn Jr.
- 6:55Speaker 3: was waived. after a rough game, no doubt about it.
- 7:01Speaker 3: He obviously had the fumble that was killer on the
- 7:05Speaker 3: muff punt. The defense actually did something well after that.
- 7:09Speaker 3: They held him to a field goal, which was pretty good,
- 7:10Speaker 3: but still cost us a few points in that game. Also,
- 7:13Speaker 3: we're going to have decent field position after a defensive stop,
- 7:17Speaker 3: which we didn't get a lot of. It was killer.
- 7:19Speaker 3: He had another moment, Bone, that I thought looked weird
- 7:23Speaker 3: on a punt return where he, like, Had all this space.
- 7:27Speaker 3: He ran into it. And the second he got to defenders,
- 7:30Speaker 3: he kind of just turned his back and said, go
- 7:31Speaker 3: ahead and hit me. And the ball came out, but
- 7:34Speaker 3: he was down. He was ruled down at that point
- 7:36Speaker 3: in time. So he got lit up pretty bad on
- 7:39Speaker 3: a kick return, but seemed to pop right back up.
- 7:41Speaker 3: But it wasn't necessarily the return debut that I think
- 7:47Speaker 3: I expected. I know I really, and maybe that's where
- 7:49Speaker 3: this turned for him. I really got in his corner.
- 7:52Speaker 3: I thought he had a tremendous preseason as a pass catcher.
- 7:55Speaker 3: And a returner. So maybe I ruined this for Jimmy
- 7:59Speaker 3: Horne Jr.? I thought he was different in skill set
- 8:01Speaker 3: where you could... utilize him in different ways than the
- 8:04Speaker 3: other guys. And that also is why I bought in, hey,
- 8:07Speaker 3: maybe this guy can be not a heavy stat guy,
- 8:10Speaker 3: but a guy you've got to plan for because he's
- 8:12Speaker 3: different than all the other wideouts. The preseason end around
- 8:15Speaker 3: was encouraging. He started running more crisp routes. So I'm
- 8:19Speaker 3: pretty damn surprised by this. But clearly, a matter of fact, Fit,
- 8:23Speaker 3: let's play the clip from Panther Talk on Monday night.
- 8:26Speaker 3: I referenced this yesterday. Little did I know that this
- 8:31Speaker 3: is what... Dave Canales might have had on his mind bone.
- 8:34Speaker 3: I just said Dave Canales admitted that they are looking
- 8:37Speaker 3: at their options as far as return spots after Jimmy
- 8:40Speaker 3: Horne's fumble. But listen to Anish's question. It's a Monday night.
- 8:45Speaker 3: This is the day before Jimmy Horne is waived. Listen
- 8:49Speaker 3: to the question from Anish. Listen to Dave Canales' answer
- 8:52Speaker 3: on Panther Talk, and maybe you can understand what Dave
- 8:55Speaker 3: Canales is really thinking. Do we continue to see Jimmy Horne?
- 9:00Speaker 3: on punt returns or is that an area where maybe
- 9:03Speaker 3: you try a few other bodies this week?
- 9:04Speaker 6: Yeah, we're going to have to consider that part. You know,
- 9:07Speaker 6: those are some, some really important situations right there, especially
- 9:10Speaker 6: after a stop, a huge stop by the defense. And,
- 9:13Speaker 6: you know, we're, everybody's fired up and it's like, here
- 9:16Speaker 6: we go. You know, we're going to now take the
- 9:18Speaker 6: next step in this game and let's recapture the momentum
- 9:21Speaker 6: to give it right back to a really good offense
- 9:23Speaker 6: in that kind of territory. You know, we're going to
- 9:25Speaker 6: have to think about all that. And Tracy and I
- 9:27Speaker 6: will make sure, you know, and Dan, We'll make sure
- 9:29Speaker 6: that we figure that part out.
- 9:30Speaker 3: Dan, when he said Dan, when I listened to that
- 9:33Speaker 3: back this morning, he said, Dan, it's like, oh, this
- 9:36Speaker 3: is a right. Okay. So I feel like at that
- 9:39Speaker 3: point he kind of knew in the back of his
- 9:41Speaker 3: mind as he's answering the question, yeah, this isn't just
- 9:44Speaker 3: about the return spot. This is about his roster spot.
- 9:47Speaker 3: You know, maybe, maybe. You're not going to Dan with
- 9:49Speaker 3: the return stuff. No, no. You're going into the, hey,
- 9:53Speaker 3: can we move him off here and do something different here?
- 9:55Speaker 3: And I didn't catch that. Didn't think anything of it
- 9:57Speaker 3: the first time on Monday night, right?
- 9:58Speaker 4: Also, the Panthers aren't messing around back with the two
- 10:02Speaker 4: of the guys they drafted think about Trevin Wallace he
- 10:05Speaker 4: was fighting for a what we thought was a starting
- 10:09Speaker 4: spot in the last preseason game back he doesn't not
- 10:11Speaker 4: only not make the starting lineup he gets moved off
- 10:14Speaker 4: the football team Jimmy Horn is Jr. in the first
- 10:17Speaker 4: game is the return man, and then he's gone after
- 10:21Speaker 4: one game. They're not only, Mac, moving guys off of
- 10:24Speaker 4: what we thought would be prime spots in the lineup.
- 10:27Speaker 4: They're moving guys off the roster. They're not messing around
- 10:30Speaker 4: right now. They're saying, yeah, you were close to being
- 10:33Speaker 4: a starter, Trevin Wallace. You're gone. Jimmy Horn, you were a...
- 10:36Speaker 4: Special teams, player force, and week one, you messed up,
- 10:39Speaker 4: you're gone. They're not messing around, even with guys that
- 10:42Speaker 4: are draft choices of their own.
- 10:43Speaker 3: Yeah, JT Sanders is over there hanging out in a tracksuit.
- 10:46Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Like, no helmet, tracksuit, fit
- 10:49Speaker 3: tight end. It's like, why?
- 10:50Speaker 4: The interesting part about this is now Mechie moves up
- 10:54Speaker 4: on the depth chart as the main return guy, has
- 10:57Speaker 4: returned punts in the NFL.
- 11:00Speaker 3: No, I'm sorry, has returned kicks. Only seven kicks. He's
- 11:02Speaker 3: returned kicks, but has not returned any punts in the NFL.
- 11:05Speaker 3: Never returned in college either. So that's interesting. Returned only
- 11:08Speaker 3: seven kicks, too. It ain't that many. And his average
- 11:11Speaker 3: is not good. It's 17.1. It's interesting. So he doesn't
- 11:14Speaker 3: have a lot of experience. I thought he looked pretty
- 11:16Speaker 3: good in preseason, but... We all thought Jimmy Horn looked
- 11:19Speaker 3: pretty good at in the preseason as well. So, yeah,
- 11:24Speaker 3: they released a depth chart yesterday, and John Meche, who
- 11:27Speaker 3: is on the active roster, just slides in to that
- 11:29Speaker 3: role as far as the return man goes. There seems
- 11:35Speaker 3: like there's also another reason they needed a roster spot.
- 11:41Speaker 3: Tyrell Dodson is the guy that they are– Giving the
- 11:44Speaker 3: roster spot, too. The linebacker from Miami had over 120
- 11:49Speaker 3: tackles last year. They signed him to the practice squad.
- 11:53Speaker 3: Dan Morgan knows him from Buffalo when they signed him
- 11:57Speaker 3: as an undrafted free agent in Buffalo. Dan Morgan, at
- 12:01Speaker 3: the presser when asked about it, made it a couple
- 12:04Speaker 3: weeks ago. It sounded like there was an understanding between
- 12:08Speaker 3: the two of them. My thought with that kid was,
- 12:12Speaker 3: you're active roster good, and you honestly might be starter good.
- 12:17Speaker 3: Why did you sign with our practice squad? Sounds like
- 12:20Speaker 3: the way Dan Morgan was putting it without totally saying
- 12:23Speaker 3: it is, they had a talk, and I do wonder, Bone,
- 12:25Speaker 3: if it was acknowledged at some point here in the
- 12:28Speaker 3: near future. you will be on the active roster. A
- 12:31Speaker 3: couple of things that were pointed out by our insiders
- 12:34Speaker 3: here in Charlotte about Tyrell Dodson. One is Mike Kay
- 12:39Speaker 3: says he has a source telling him there was a
- 12:42Speaker 3: team that reached out to try to claim him off
- 12:45Speaker 3: the practice squad and put him on their active roster.
- 12:48Speaker 3: So the Panthers probably, Mike Kay says, because of that,
- 12:51Speaker 3: the Panthers needed to get him on to the active roster.
- 12:54Speaker 3: Joe Person points out that you'll see this a lot
- 12:57Speaker 3: with veterans, where if you don't have them on the
- 13:01Speaker 3: active roster week one, but then put them on week two,
- 13:05Speaker 3: the contract's not guaranteed. Okay, that makes sense. So it
- 13:08Speaker 3: seems like there's two reasons, Bone, why he is going
- 13:11Speaker 3: on the active roster now. They needed a spot, but
- 13:14Speaker 3: I can't imagine any, like, I never would have thought
- 13:17Speaker 3: Jimmy Horn's, like, to your point earlier, I can't imagine,
- 13:20Speaker 3: I wouldn't have imagined Jimmy Horn's roster spot was in jeopardy.
- 13:24Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I agree with that 100%. Mack, why would
- 13:26Speaker 4: you think, though, the Panthers watched that game on Sunday
- 13:30Speaker 4: and thought they need more defense? What would have led
- 13:32Speaker 4: you to think that they needed Dotson? I'm surprised, Matt,
- 13:35Speaker 4: they didn't call up Dotson during the football game. Like,
- 13:37Speaker 4: Dan Morgan didn't call down and be like, Put on
- 13:39Speaker 4: a uniform, kid! I was surprised Dan Morgan himself didn't
- 13:43Speaker 4: shimmy down to this bench and say, all right, guy,
- 13:45Speaker 4: anybody in the stadium they could have used the other day.
- 13:47Speaker 3: Hey, Dodson, put on Prince Lee's uniform. You're going in, man.
- 13:51Speaker 3: He can't, he can not contain this quarterback at all.
- 13:54Speaker 3: But anyway, yeah, so I honestly, I like Dodson a lot.
- 13:57Speaker 3: 120 plus tackles. Like I said, five sacks last year.
- 14:00Speaker 3: He gives you some blitzing. I thought Devin Lloyd was
- 14:02Speaker 3: tremendous blitzing the other day. Some of the other stuff
- 14:05Speaker 3: was more hit or miss, but I think Dodson could
- 14:08Speaker 3: add a blitzer. I honestly think with Lloyd Okereke, who
- 14:12Speaker 3: still has to get up to speed. He made a
- 14:13Speaker 3: couple of plays, but he still needs to get up
- 14:15Speaker 3: to speed. And Dodson, I think it's three starting caliber linebackers.
- 14:19Speaker 3: For two spots, which is good, which is a good thing. Oh, definitely.
- 14:22Speaker 4: I know after what happened the other day, any time
- 14:26Speaker 4: we praise the defense, people get mad at us. But
- 14:28Speaker 4: that linebacker room is certainly far better than it could
- 14:31Speaker 4: have been and it was last week.
- 14:32Speaker 3: And I'm not saying the linebacker play was great. You know,
- 14:36Speaker 3: on Sunday, I thought Devin Lloyd was all right, you know,
- 14:39Speaker 3: compared to the expectations we have for him. So anyway,
- 14:43Speaker 3: we're going to talk a lot about that today. A
- 14:45Speaker 3: lot of people wondering, could David Moore end up being
- 14:48Speaker 3: on the squad and being, you know, a guy that
- 14:52Speaker 3: is involved in the return game just because of sheer trust?
- 14:55Speaker 3: Just catch the ball. You know what I mean? Or
- 14:59Speaker 3: will it truly be Mechie? Like you said, the depth
- 15:01Speaker 3: chart they released yesterday has. There's a lot to talk
- 15:04Speaker 3: through with the Horn situation. We'll talk through that as
- 15:07Speaker 3: the show continues. Feel free to chime in if it
- 15:09Speaker 3: bothers you. I know he's a fan favorite, and I
- 15:13Speaker 3: do feel bad. It's almost like bone. Maybe I should
- 15:16Speaker 3: have never started supporting the kid. I was so skeptical
- 15:19Speaker 3: of the kid, Bone, early preseason. Maybe I shouldn't have
- 15:23Speaker 3: jumped in. Did you think Dan heard you and me
- 15:25Speaker 3: hyping him up? And he's like, oh, crap. Mac and
- 15:29Speaker 3: Bone now like Jimmy Horn Jr. This is bad. We
- 15:32Speaker 3: got to get rid of him. Think it was that?
- 15:34Speaker 4: Guys we like often don't stick around very long.
- 15:37Speaker 3: We got some Hornets TV. Someone's going to say, well,
- 15:39Speaker 3: you like Averro? He's still here. Well, yeah, it seems
- 15:42Speaker 3: as if during Bailey's show yesterday, Bone, A couple of
- 15:46Speaker 3: callers still had us on their minds.
- 15:48Speaker 4: Mac, I did some research here while you were talking.
- 15:51Speaker 4: Jasim Reed was a primary return man at San Diego
- 15:55Speaker 4: in college. I wouldn't have thought of that.
- 15:57Speaker 3: Interesting.
- 15:58Speaker 4: Yeah, I wouldn't have thought that either. He's got college
- 16:00Speaker 4: return experience. I'm just trying to think of if Mechie
- 16:03Speaker 4: can't do it. We keep going down the line here.
- 16:06Speaker 4: Jaseem Reed does have special teams and return in his past.
- 16:09Speaker 3: Interesting. Interesting. I was just commenting, Bone, because you brought
- 16:13Speaker 3: up Avero. I was just commenting that I was listening
- 16:16Speaker 3: to KV yesterday. And we heard y'all. We heard y'all
- 16:19Speaker 3: running to daddy. We heard y'all running to daddy, KB.
- 16:22Speaker 5: Well, howdy there, y'all.
- 16:24Speaker 3: Kyle Bailey here. KB, Mac and Bone are acting up
- 16:26Speaker 3: in the morning. They're defending Avero. Do something about it, KB. KB,
- 16:31Speaker 3: tell me you don't agree with those guys. And I'm
- 16:33Speaker 3: on to you. All caps, Rod. The man that texts
- 16:36Speaker 3: us passionately in all caps. All caps, Rod. I heard you, baby.
- 16:40Speaker 3: I heard you, baby. You were entertaining. I'm going to
- 16:42Speaker 3: give you that. All caps are on.
- 16:43Speaker 4: You keep calling and acting that way, you're going to
- 16:45Speaker 4: end up on the round table at some point.
- 16:47Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Put him in there with Granny Pat. Let
- 16:51Speaker 3: him get a baptism by fire against old granny. Oh man.
- 16:55Speaker 3: But anyway, we'll, we'll have some more fun. I'm sure
- 16:56Speaker 3: the Vera will come up on the show today.
- 16:58Speaker 4: Granny's going to come back around when we talk about
- 17:00Speaker 4: Davo being a hunk here at some point, I'm sure.
- 17:02Speaker 3: Yeah, that's coming up soon. Davo. Why is Davo considered
- 17:05Speaker 3: a hunk this morning? But let's, um, let's, let's hit
- 17:07Speaker 3: you with a, let me hit you with a couple
- 17:09Speaker 3: of notes here real quick. Boney, um, Hornets have signed
- 17:12Speaker 3: a deal with the zone to be their official direct
- 17:15Speaker 3: to consumer streaming option. Um, I mean, I guess you
- 17:21Speaker 3: got to cover all your bases, right, of getting your
- 17:23Speaker 3: product out there. But I'm not sure it's very necessary
- 17:28Speaker 3: for most people, right, in this market with all their
- 17:32Speaker 3: games being on broadcast TV. Yeah, with the reach of SOC,
- 17:35Speaker 3: I would think not, yeah. I mean, even if you, like,
- 17:38Speaker 3: your cable system is all going to have SOC or 64,
- 17:41Speaker 3: whatever the games are going to be on. Hell, break
- 17:43Speaker 3: out the rabbit ears if you have to and watch
- 17:45Speaker 3: the game old school. I guess with DAZN, there's extra content, Bone.
- 17:51Speaker 3: it seems like there's extra content there that comes with it.
- 17:53Speaker 3: And also you could obviously probably have the games like
- 17:56Speaker 3: on record where you can't record with rabbit ears. You
- 17:59Speaker 3: know what I mean? That's true. There's no DVR for your,
- 18:02Speaker 3: unless you set up a VCR, like the.
- 18:05Speaker 4: Old days, I guess out of town fans, that's a
- 18:07Speaker 4: big deal probably. But for local, no, I guess.
- 18:10Speaker 7: Right.
- 18:11Speaker 3: You get the zone if you don't have the in market. Yeah.
- 18:13Speaker 3: So out of town, I didn't think about that. Like
- 18:16Speaker 3: out of town, do they have to rely on league
- 18:19Speaker 3: pass or is this an option to be able to
- 18:21Speaker 3: get all the Hornets games out of town?
- 18:23Speaker 4: I think this would be an option. OK, because I
- 18:25Speaker 4: didn't think about that. This is me off the cuff.
- 18:28Speaker 4: This would be an option just to get the Hornets
- 18:30Speaker 4: and not have to. by every league pass.
- 18:32Speaker 3: Team see okay i didn't think about that well i
- 18:34Speaker 3: have to look that up but i but then again
- 18:36Speaker 3: i don't know do i care about out of town
- 18:38Speaker 3: did you hear how this is going to affect you
- 18:39Speaker 3: i'm sorry we might have some out of town hornets
- 18:41Speaker 3: fans i'm sorry did you hear.
- 18:43Speaker 4: Back how this is going to affect the encore product
- 18:45Speaker 4: here this season No, I did not. They're going to
- 18:47Speaker 4: use more of the zone defense. The zone defense.
- 18:50Speaker 1: Oh, man.
- 18:50Speaker 3: It's 119 for the basic, 139 for what gives you
- 18:53Speaker 3: a little bit more content and stuff like that. We'll
- 18:55Speaker 3: try to look up. whether or not that's an out-of-town
- 19:05Speaker 3: option or if you've got to go league pass out
- 19:06Speaker 3: of town. I want to mention, Bo, in the Protect
- 19:09Speaker 3: College Sports Act, because it is, I don't know, it
- 19:12Speaker 3: seems like, are they in the red zone maybe? Maybe
- 19:14Speaker 3: they're in the red zone trying to get this thing
- 19:16Speaker 3: in the end zone. It's the witching hour. It passed
- 19:19Speaker 3: the first hurdle in the Senate, a preliminary vote yesterday
- 19:23Speaker 3: in the Senate that basically said, ensures there'll be no
- 19:26Speaker 3: filibusters there'll be no like debate um this thing still
- 19:30Speaker 3: has to get through the house at some point but
- 19:33Speaker 3: they're making a go they're making a run here to
- 19:35Speaker 3: try to get this protect college sports act through i'm
- 19:38Speaker 3: still not holding my breath there's some strong opposition from
- 19:42Speaker 3: um some democrats so this thing's not totally bipartisan And
- 19:48Speaker 3: the groups like the Black Congressional Congress, the NAACP, they
- 19:55Speaker 3: don't think it's very athlete friendly. I saw the president
- 19:58Speaker 3: of the NAACP on SportsCenter last night pointing out no
- 20:02Speaker 3: one has really asked the athletes. about their perspective on this.
- 20:06Speaker 3: And it's pretty damn true. But there's a lot of
- 20:08Speaker 3: things to like about this bill. So anyway, that's kind
- 20:12Speaker 3: of where that stands. And the Braves with a rally
- 20:15Speaker 3: last night, down 3-0 early. Martin Perez kept them in
- 20:19Speaker 3: the game until the Bats got going bone. Three separate
- 20:23Speaker 3: two-run dingers last night by the Braves. It started with Acuna.
- 20:28Speaker 3: It went to Albies. And then Baldwin added some insurance
- 20:32Speaker 3: in the ninth inning. The Braves ended up winning 6-3
- 20:35Speaker 3: over the Cubbies last night.
- 20:36Speaker 4: Yeah, and Game 3 of the series tonight, 7-40. So
- 20:41Speaker 4: Braves trying to win that series tonight.
- 20:43Speaker 3: We come back.
- 20:44Speaker 4: College sports stuff aplenty. We've got news with Clemson, the
- 20:48Speaker 4: Charlotte 49ers at NC State. Dabo apparently is a hunk,
- 20:54Speaker 4: and Arch Manning apologizes.
- 20:56Speaker 3: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
- 21:21Speaker 7: That's the hard thing is when you see a guy
- 21:23Speaker 7: run at a different offense, how much of the offense
- 21:26Speaker 7: is going to go with that quarterback and how much
- 21:29Speaker 7: of it isn't. In this case, I think that he's
- 21:33Speaker 7: going to continue to run and improve his execution on
- 21:36Speaker 7: the Clemson offense. That's why they got him in there.
- 21:39Speaker 7: What we can see is what they've done. I'm sure
- 21:43Speaker 7: they'll add new things. I'm sure that they'll put some
- 21:45Speaker 7: wrinkles in for us, but you can't predict those. But
- 21:48Speaker 7: what we have seen them do, I think, is there's
- 21:50Speaker 7: plenty on tape to see.
- 21:52Speaker 3: That is Bill Belichick. I think you might have known that.
- 21:55Speaker 3: I think you might recognize that voice. Talking about Tate Reynolds.
- 21:58Speaker 3: That was earlier in the week. I mean, everybody knew
- 22:02Speaker 3: Tate Reynolds was going to be the starting quarterback in
- 22:05Speaker 3: this game. It is interesting. Clemson Carolina noon in Death
- 22:09Speaker 3: Valley on Saturday. It is interesting, though, Bone. There was
- 22:12Speaker 3: an initial report. We mentioned this on Monday. That elbow
- 22:16Speaker 3: injury that Dabo referenced in his halftime interview on Saturday
- 22:19Speaker 3: night with Vizina. there was an initial report that that
- 22:23Speaker 3: was going to cost him a game or two. Yesterday,
- 22:26Speaker 3: Dabo announced that Tate Reynolds is starting and Christian Vazina
- 22:30Speaker 3: is available. So there's, I mean, I'm not going to
- 22:33Speaker 3: say there's not an injury, but it's an injury that
- 22:36Speaker 3: is not going to keep him out of the game.
- 22:38Speaker 3: So the decision is being made, point blank, We're going
- 22:42Speaker 3: with Tate Reynolds, and I can't imagine really anybody out there,
- 22:47Speaker 3: I could be wrong, but I can't imagine too many
- 22:48Speaker 3: people in Tiger Nation that think that is a bad decision.
- 22:53Speaker 3: Vizina has not been good enough, Bone, to where you're,
- 22:57Speaker 3: you know what I mean, where you just want to,
- 22:59Speaker 3: it just feels like, Vazina hasn't been good enough for
- 23:02Speaker 3: you to resist the urge to just play this naturally
- 23:06Speaker 3: gifted talent. You know what I mean? Just get him
- 23:08Speaker 3: out there and go.
- 23:09Speaker 4: You could sense Vazina was in the pressure cooker back
- 23:12Speaker 4: up to the very start of the season when that
- 23:14Speaker 4: quarterback battle went down to the wire more than we thought.
- 23:17Speaker 4: So we had to get off. to a relatively good
- 23:20Speaker 4: start now. Not performing well against LSU is one thing.
- 23:24Speaker 4: Then you have the Georgia Southern game. It's just Vazina
- 23:28Speaker 4: had to get off to a good start for himself,
- 23:30Speaker 4: or this was what was going to happen, and this
- 23:32Speaker 4: is what did happen. You could see it coming the
- 23:34Speaker 4: way it was going through camp, too. Tate Reynolds hung
- 23:37Speaker 4: in there, hung in there, hung in there. Vazina couldn't
- 23:39Speaker 4: put him away. Didn't get off to a good start.
- 23:42Speaker 4: Pass also tells you that Dabo's not afraid early in
- 23:45Speaker 4: the season. If he's got a young quarterback, he will
- 23:47Speaker 4: go to him very early in the season. Yeah, and
- 23:49Speaker 4: that doesn't make Tate Reynolds DeSean Watson or Trevor Lawrence.
- 23:52Speaker 3: Right. But I do think he's a pretty gifted kid. Now,
- 23:57Speaker 3: it doesn't mean Bill Belichick can't scheme away, Bone. and
- 24:00Speaker 3: come up with ways to mess with the young kid
- 24:03Speaker 3: making his first start. Like, that's definitely one of the
- 24:05Speaker 3: subplots in this game. Dabo didn't put too much pressure
- 24:10Speaker 3: on him yesterday at the Presser Bone when he compared
- 24:13Speaker 3: Tate Reynolds to Tim Tebow. Now, he was doing so, Bone,
- 24:17Speaker 3: in terms of physical, right? Like, what his body's like
- 24:20Speaker 3: and stuff like that. But it's just that name being
- 24:25Speaker 3: in the headlines compared to Tate Reynolds... Go ahead, kid.
- 24:29Speaker 3: Go ahead, kid. Enjoy that. Enjoy that heat. Yeah, there's
- 24:33Speaker 3: only one Mr. Tebow, sir. How dare you? How dare you?
- 24:36Speaker 3: One of the, dare I say, one of the hunkiest players, Mac,
- 24:39Speaker 3: of all time. And that leads us to our next
- 24:41Speaker 3: topic here.
- 24:42Speaker 2: Oh, man.
- 24:42Speaker 3: Bo, you can't wait. You want to talk hunky coaches,
- 24:44Speaker 3: don't you? Does this count? Does the hunk-o-meter count? Does
- 24:50Speaker 3: the playoff committee take that into consideration? I would hope
- 24:53Speaker 3: that they would. I'm told. Yeah, I'm told that that
- 24:55Speaker 3: may not matter.
- 24:56Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 24:57Speaker 3: If you guys missed this yesterday, the there was a. uh,
- 25:04Speaker 3: email kind of press release thing that was sent out
- 25:08Speaker 3: to a lot of the college football media that ranked the, um,
- 25:13Speaker 3: top five just revealed. And now they go all the
- 25:15Speaker 3: way from one to one 38. I only saw the
- 25:18Speaker 3: top five and the bottom five. That's a lot. Who
- 25:21Speaker 3: had this assignment? And the top five best-looking coaches, according
- 25:25Speaker 3: to this thing, which, by the way, Bone, they said
- 25:28Speaker 3: each image of a coach was assessed using a six
- 25:31Speaker 3: facial proportion measures, including face shape, facial thirds, eye spacing,
- 25:38Speaker 3: and the relative distances between the eyes, mouth, and overall face.
- 25:44Speaker 3: So there you go. Makes sense of that. How about
- 25:47Speaker 3: Dabo's going to come up here in a second, but
- 25:49Speaker 3: how about Manny Diaz from Duke? I think it's the hair, personally.
- 25:53Speaker 3: It's got him up there. Manny Diaz, number one. Best
- 25:56Speaker 3: looking coach, according to this. As he should be. That
- 26:00Speaker 3: hair is plush. Now, how's Kurt Cignetti, too? Kurt Cignetti's
- 26:04Speaker 3: a big old dork to me.
- 26:05Speaker 4: He's like the Dan Aykroyd of college football. How is
- 26:08Speaker 4: he anywhere near the top 50?
- 26:10Speaker 3: He's the number two, according to this, he is the
- 26:13Speaker 3: number two most attractive coach. Dabo Sweeney, number three. And
- 26:18Speaker 3: listen to this, Bone. Dabo was informed live and they
- 26:21Speaker 3: had no knowledge of this. Listen to him get informed
- 26:25Speaker 3: live in his press conference that you have been ranked
- 26:28Speaker 3: as the number three best-looking college football coach. You've been
- 26:33Speaker 3: ranked third in the country in terms of attractiveness of
- 26:37Speaker 3: head coaches.
- 26:39Speaker 8: You're ranked number three.
- 26:41Speaker 3: As in, like, good-looking?
- 26:42Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 26:44Speaker 3: Finally something comes my way.
- 26:45Speaker 8: I thought you were going to say, like, most hated
- 26:49Speaker 8: guy or whatever.
- 26:50Speaker 3: You're behind Diaz and Cignetti.
- 26:53Speaker 2: Apparently.
- 26:53Speaker 1: Apparently.
- 26:55Speaker 4: Wow.
- 26:58Speaker 8: We'll have to process that. What kind of reputable website
- 27:05Speaker 8: is this we're dealing with?
- 27:08Speaker 2: Using six facial proportion measures, including face shape, facial thirds,
- 27:13Speaker 2: eye spacing.
- 27:15Speaker 3: Wow. Relative distances between.
- 27:18Speaker 8: Did Kath get 22 votes?
- 27:19Speaker 2: Uh....
- 27:23Speaker 8: I do remember, I do remember, oh, Kathy, she would
- 27:25Speaker 8: be so mad at me. I do remember, I don't
- 27:28Speaker 8: know what year, well, maybe it was right when I
- 27:29Speaker 8: first got hired or something, they did Coach's Hottest Wives
- 27:32Speaker 8: or something, and she was the second hottest wife. And
- 27:36Speaker 8: I'm like, well, who was number one? And I think
- 27:39Speaker 8: it was Lane Kiffin's wife.
- 27:41Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I can't remember. This was a long
- 27:43Speaker 3: time ago. The wife Lane Kiffin was cheating on. Anyway. Anyway,
- 27:48Speaker 3: I just throw that in there. I've got an issue, Mac,
- 27:50Speaker 3: with the list here.
- 27:51Speaker 4: I know it's not a serious list, but Kurt Cignetti,
- 27:54Speaker 4: not even the best looking coach in his own state.
- 27:56Speaker 4: How would Kurt Cignetti, Mac, be above Marcus Freeman on
- 27:59Speaker 4: this list?
- 27:59Speaker 5: Yeah, I saw before he had hair transplants.
- 28:01Speaker 3: Marcus Freeman's not in the top five. I don't have
- 28:03Speaker 3: a problem. I'm secure enough as a man to tell
- 28:06Speaker 3: you how the heck is he not a top five?
- 28:08Speaker 3: Marcus Freeman is a great looking man. And I don't
- 28:10Speaker 3: mean to stir up the Palmetto rivalry here. Oh, yeah.
- 28:14Speaker 3: Isn't Shane Beamer more? Absolutely. Is this a debate we're
- 28:18Speaker 3: going to have today on the show? Is it wrong?
- 28:21Speaker 3: Do I have bad taste in men that I think
- 28:23Speaker 3: Shane Beamer is more attractive than Dabo?
- 28:25Speaker 4: No offense to Dabo. Yeah, I'm not even sure. Manny
- 28:27Speaker 4: might not even be my most attractive coach on my team.
- 28:30Speaker 4: I got a lot of good-looking men in my life.
- 28:32Speaker 5: I would probably go Dabo over Beamer.
- 28:35Speaker 3: Really? Really. Man, I don't like your taste in men. Well,
- 28:37Speaker 3: you do like them kind of folksy, though, don't you?
- 28:40Speaker 3: You're an older man. You like your men a little older.
- 28:42Speaker 3: You like your boys. I've seen the way you look
- 28:43Speaker 3: at me. A little country, a little folksy.
- 28:45Speaker 5: But I would take Beamer over Cignetti. When I look
- 28:50Speaker 5: at Kurt Cignetti, he looks like a mad scientist. And
- 28:54Speaker 5: most scientists are not good looking.
- 28:58Speaker 3: I think he looks kind of dorky. They're nervous. Like,
- 28:59Speaker 3: I'm looking for the pocket protector on old Cignetti. We
- 29:02Speaker 3: did have the bottom of the list, Mac, which was
- 29:03Speaker 3: not just not. Poor Charlotte. Poor Charlotte and poor Tim Albin.
- 29:08Speaker 3: Come on, man. As if things aren't hard enough for
- 29:10Speaker 3: Tim Albin and Charlotte, he ranks 137 out of 138
- 29:15Speaker 3: coaches in terms of attractiveness. Only Barry Odom from Purdue
- 29:20Speaker 3: is behind Tim.
- 29:21Speaker 2: Oh, no.
- 29:21Speaker 3: Tim Albin. Poor Panther Bo. Y'all see Tim Albin up
- 29:25Speaker 3: there on campus. Anybody on campus in Charlotte today, give
- 29:28Speaker 3: that man a hug, y'all. That man needs a damn
- 29:30Speaker 3: hug on multiple levels. Tim Albin yesterday, Bo, acknowledged, as
- 29:34Speaker 3: we now steer it back to football, I can only
- 29:35Speaker 3: imagine what the text line is saying about this conversation
- 29:39Speaker 3: we're having.
- 29:39Speaker 4: There's an entire Reddit thread about how good-looking Marcus Freeman is.
- 29:42Speaker 3: And there should be. And there should be. But anyway,
- 29:44Speaker 3: let's steer it back to football here, Bonesy. Tim Albin
- 29:48Speaker 3: yesterday acknowledged that Chance Williams is no longer on the roster.
- 29:51Speaker 3: The running back had a big 40-yard run against Ole Miss.
- 29:55Speaker 3: Pretty damn good game. And He is off this roster.
- 29:57Speaker 3: He would not acknowledge why, so I don't know the
- 30:00Speaker 3: details on it. Carmani Alexander now I expect to be
- 30:03Speaker 3: the No. 1 guy. He had 138 against the Citadel
- 30:06Speaker 3: in Week 1, but Albin acknowledged, hey, this is a
- 30:10Speaker 3: committee-type situation. So anyway, the hits keep coming for Charlotte.
- 30:15Speaker 4: They have a hard enough time already, never mind kicking
- 30:18Speaker 4: productive players off the team.
- 30:20Speaker 3: That's all.
- 30:20Speaker 4: I mean, it's just, as we said yesterday when that
- 30:23Speaker 4: news broke, the program can't catch a break. They have
- 30:24Speaker 4: a productive running back, does well against Ole Miss, and then,
- 30:28Speaker 4: you know, days later he's gone.
- 30:30Speaker 3: Did want to mention that NC State will be going
- 30:33Speaker 3: up against Vanderbilt this week, and we found out yesterday
- 30:36Speaker 3: State will be going against the highest-ranked recruit in Vanderbilt history,
- 30:42Speaker 3: Jared Curtis, the quarterback, freshman quarterback. He had not been
- 30:47Speaker 3: starting the first couple of games, but he did throw
- 30:51Speaker 3: 22 passes, run eight times on Saturday. against whatever Scraboni
- 30:55Speaker 3: they were playing, Boney. It slipped my mind right now.
- 30:58Speaker 3: He had three of their four total touchdowns in that game.
- 31:01Speaker 3: It was just a matter of time. Although you brought
- 31:05Speaker 3: up an interesting point off the air about the way
- 31:07Speaker 3: Vanderbilt handled this.
- 31:08Speaker 4: I saw some people talking yesterday. If you intended to
- 31:11Speaker 4: go to him this early, and you mentioned the numbers early.
- 31:15Speaker 4: And I'm sure everybody knew that he was starting pretty early.
- 31:18Speaker 4: Why did he not get full go against lesser competition
- 31:21Speaker 4: as a starter instead of coming in and splitting the
- 31:24Speaker 4: time if he's your guy Delaware they played this past
- 31:26Speaker 4: year he's your guy why did he not just start
- 31:28Speaker 4: the first two games get comfortable give him tons of
- 31:31Speaker 4: rep wouldn't you want to make a lot doesn't mean
- 31:33Speaker 4: so then then you play your best team so far
- 31:36Speaker 4: and now he starts wouldn't you want to maximize your
- 31:38Speaker 4: reps I'm sure they knew we're starting him soon here
- 31:40Speaker 4: I don't know if it's a matter of Vanderbilt I
- 31:42Speaker 4: know he's from Nashville we are in an era of
- 31:44Speaker 4: college football Mac where when you have five-star freshmen you
- 31:49Speaker 4: better play them early because if they get disgruntled, it
- 31:52Speaker 4: doesn't take much for that five-star to say, you know what?
- 31:54Speaker 4: I could have went to Georgia. I may now go
- 31:56Speaker 4: to Georgia. You got to keep your five-stars happy, especially
- 32:00Speaker 4: when you're at a school like Vanderbilt who doesn't get
- 32:02Speaker 4: many five-star quarterbacks. Yeah, he was a Georgia verbal commit,
- 32:05Speaker 4: and Vandy pulled the robbery. So anyway, that just adds
- 32:10Speaker 4: to this game, man. This is a hell of an
- 32:12Speaker 4: important game for NC State, and I don't know. He's uber-talented.
- 32:17Speaker 3: But to get him early in his freshman season, can
- 32:21Speaker 3: DJ Elliott, you know, we talked about with Belichick, can
- 32:24Speaker 3: DJ Elliott find ways to confuse the young buck a
- 32:28Speaker 3: little bit? That's 1245 SEC Network on Saturday. We need
- 32:33Speaker 3: to mention Bone because we talked about it in a
- 32:36Speaker 3: very similar time frame. In this hour yesterday, the whole
- 32:39Speaker 3: Arch Manning thing, and I know a lot of texters
- 32:42Speaker 3: stood up for Arch and were upset about that we
- 32:44Speaker 3: had a problem with Arch Manning laughing and joking around
- 32:48Speaker 3: about the AI video of Sark smacking Holly Roe. It
- 32:54Speaker 3: wasn't just Arch. It was worse that the grown adults
- 32:56Speaker 3: of the media were dying laughing. But Arch Manning did
- 33:00Speaker 3: issue an apology on Instagram yesterday. And Holly Roe said,
- 33:04Speaker 3: accept your apology, Arch. Thank you for calling me. They
- 33:07Speaker 3: had a conversation as well. So you knew this was coming.
- 33:10Speaker 3: And like I said yesterday, as a dad, as a
- 33:12Speaker 3: dad of a knucklehead, and as someone who used to
- 33:15Speaker 3: be a knucklehead and had to have conversations with my
- 33:17Speaker 3: dad about it, you just know that that phone was
- 33:21Speaker 3: ringing very quickly after that got out. And it was...
- 33:27Speaker 3: It was his dad on the air or on the phone.
- 33:29Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
- 33:30Speaker 4: There's no doubt about it. He said, what the hell
- 33:32Speaker 4: are you doing? Imagine how many calls he got, Mac,
- 33:34Speaker 4: from legendary family members. Well, his dad of Cooper, yes.
- 33:38Speaker 4: But then I'm sure Eli probably called and then Peyton
- 33:40Speaker 4: called and then Archie called. Imagine, Mac, messing up in
- 33:44Speaker 4: that family, how many phone calls you might get from
- 33:46Speaker 4: Manning Royalty.
- 33:48Speaker 3: You think Cooper told everybody? Can you guys all call
- 33:51Speaker 3: him to really drive this point home? He's a knucklehead.
- 33:54Speaker 3: And that painting man he called also. The alter ego.
- 33:58Speaker 3: And again, I don't want to get the sensitive text
- 34:00Speaker 3: line going. I'm not acting like Arch Manning committed a
- 34:03Speaker 3: felony here. But it's just like, bro, you're going to,
- 34:06Speaker 3: like I said yesterday, you are going to be the
- 34:09Speaker 3: face of an NFL franchise. You are the face of Texas.
- 34:12Speaker 3: You and Sark are the face of Texas football. Just
- 34:15Speaker 3: think about what you're giggling about here. And by the way,
- 34:18Speaker 3: I never understood why that AI video was made. I mean,
- 34:22Speaker 3: AI just does dumb stuff all the time, but like
- 34:25Speaker 3: Sark is the one that wronged her. Like Sark is
- 34:28Speaker 3: the one that was a jerk and blew the interview
- 34:29Speaker 3: off with her. So like, it should be, you know
- 34:34Speaker 3: what I mean? Like she should be upset with him.
- 34:37Speaker 3: So I don't even understand why they did that to
- 34:39Speaker 3: begin with. I don't know.
- 34:40Speaker 4: The person under Fire Mac was also the guy that,
- 34:43Speaker 4: I forgot his name, the Texas media member that tweeted
- 34:46Speaker 4: it and said, this is gold.
- 34:48Speaker 3: He said, the response from Arch is gold. Evan Veith
- 34:52Speaker 3: tweeted out, the answer is gold. And man, he got
- 34:55Speaker 3: as much. Obviously, he's not the name. He apologized, too.
- 34:59Speaker 4: He got the wrath of just about everybody also for
- 35:02Speaker 4: calling it gold, as he should.
- 35:03Speaker 3: Yeah, he definitely apologized, too. So, again, not the end
- 35:06Speaker 3: of the world, but Arch learned a lesson. As many
- 35:10Speaker 3: bros do, myself included, when you are a young dude
- 35:14Speaker 3: like that. I mean, I'm still making knucklehead mistakes. Not you.
- 35:19Speaker 3: You and Fitty aren't at all, though. That's not happening
- 35:21Speaker 3: for you guys. No, no, I'm mistake-free in 2026.
- 35:24Speaker 4: When we come back, we had a chance yesterday to
- 35:27Speaker 4: talk to former Panther and longtime NFL player, Coach Brentson Buckner,
- 35:32Speaker 4: it's must-hear audio. He breaks down the defensive issues for
- 35:36Speaker 4: the Panthers as well as anybody can. What went wrong
- 35:40Speaker 4: here from Buck Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ.
- 35:53Speaker 3: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ, Mac Imbone with you. 678 number says,
- 36:00Speaker 3: Kurt Cignetti looks like the principal in every 80s movie.
- 36:04Speaker 3: That is actually a hell of a text. That is
- 36:06Speaker 3: a great line. That is a hell of a text. Yes,
- 36:08Speaker 3: how is that man the number two most attractive coach
- 36:11Speaker 3: in college football, according to this survey? He looks like
- 36:14Speaker 3: a guy that would have a problem with Ferris Bueller's behavior. Yes, yes.
- 36:18Speaker 5: I was going to make the same joke, by the way.
- 36:19Speaker 3: I like it. I like the way y'all are thinking.
- 36:21Speaker 3: 704 number says, the amount of passion that you guys
- 36:25Speaker 3: have over which coaches are attractive in college football is
- 36:30Speaker 3: a little strange.
- 36:31Speaker 5: Well, you remember, Mac, I was supposed to do my
- 36:33Speaker 5: top five list back in the summer.
- 36:35Speaker 3: I know, I know. This was Fitty's wheelhouse, man. He's
- 36:37Speaker 3: got a lot of opinions. And you denied me. Panthers
- 36:40Speaker 3: might be near the top of the NFL list for
- 36:42Speaker 3: that also. Yes, definitely, definitely. Hollywood A says, Signetti looks
- 36:46Speaker 3: like Dwight Schrute. Oh, Sweet T, we're not alone. Sweet
- 36:51Speaker 3: T was asking before we brought him up, where did
- 36:53Speaker 3: Marcus Freeman rank? See, we ain't the only bros thinking
- 36:56Speaker 3: Freeman should be up there. All right, anyway, let's get
- 36:58Speaker 3: back to football, y'all. Let's get back to football. But, yes,
- 37:00Speaker 3: we are all way too into that attractive coach list.
- 37:04Speaker 4: And, God, I feel for Portimmy Albon. Someone says, Bone,
- 37:06Speaker 4: where does Brett Bielma rank? I'm not saying a word.
- 37:09Speaker 4: How's he not bottom five, that big old moose head?
- 37:11Speaker 4: How's that dude not? I mean, seriously.
- 37:14Speaker 2: Big old moose head.
- 37:14Speaker 3: Oh, my God. All right. Anyway, let's go to let's
- 37:16Speaker 3: get Brenton Buckner in here, who is not a big
- 37:19Speaker 3: old moose head at all. But, you know, we love Buck.
- 37:21Speaker 3: This was an emergency. We had to call Buck in
- 37:23Speaker 3: for the second straight week on the show as a
- 37:25Speaker 3: guy that played defense and coached defense in the NFL
- 37:29Speaker 3: to give us perspective on what he saw from the
- 37:31Speaker 3: Panthers defense and a Vero scheme. You're going to hear
- 37:34Speaker 3: about that here, too. But the first thing we wanted
- 37:36Speaker 3: to know was what really stuck out from about this
- 37:40Speaker 3: defensive performance.
- 37:41Speaker 1: First of all, let me put this out here.
- 37:43Speaker 2: We know it was a bad performance, so I'm not
- 37:45Speaker 2: making excuses for any of that. We all saw it
- 37:47Speaker 2: was a bad performance. The thing that I saw that
- 37:51Speaker 2: you really don't understand is communication.
- 37:54Speaker 1: You know, you look at this defense. Yes, we put
- 37:56Speaker 1: together early in the preseason.
- 37:59Speaker 2: In the offseason rather, but then you add a brand
- 38:01Speaker 2: new middle linebacker after preseason games were over with, after
- 38:04Speaker 2: two-a-days were over with. And you got a lot of
- 38:07Speaker 2: young guys playing. And this group really did not play
- 38:10Speaker 2: together in the preseason. People don't understand communications between defenses
- 38:15Speaker 2: just as important as it is for offense. Or getting
- 38:17Speaker 2: a feel for one another. You know, a linebacker knowing that, hey,
- 38:21Speaker 2: my partner might not steal this to me. He might
- 38:23Speaker 2: box it back, let me slow down. Or a defensive back,
- 38:26Speaker 2: he might not get the full communication out, but his
- 38:28Speaker 2: partner should know, all right, we're going to change the
- 38:30Speaker 2: coverage and we're going to rock this way. And what
- 38:33Speaker 2: I saw was, a team that hadn't gelled together defensively.
- 38:37Speaker 1: Now, I cannot make excuses.
- 38:39Speaker 2: I did see a lot of missed tackles and a
- 38:41Speaker 2: lot of missed fits. And I'm a coach that always
- 38:44Speaker 2: believes tackling is they want to. You can't go do drills. Well,
- 38:48Speaker 2: you can go do them, but you can't teach a
- 38:50Speaker 2: person how to stick his face in the fan. He
- 38:53Speaker 2: got to want to get that person on the ground
- 38:54Speaker 2: by any means necessary. And then you couple that with
- 38:57Speaker 2: an offense– Ran by Ben Johnson is one of the
- 39:00Speaker 2: most complicated offenses in the NFL.
- 39:03Speaker 1: It was a recipe for disaster.
- 39:05Speaker 3: Was the run game like– we'll talk about dealing with
- 39:08Speaker 3: Caleb Williams and those issues in a second. But the
- 39:11Speaker 3: run game, right? Each back goes for over 100 yards.
- 39:15Speaker 3: Menungai had the big 61-yarder. Was that– did you think
- 39:19Speaker 3: that was more– like of them moving people and guys
- 39:24Speaker 3: not being able to get off blocks? Did you think
- 39:28Speaker 3: there were missed tackles? What was the run issue you saw?
- 39:33Speaker 1: I thought that was them moving people.
- 39:36Speaker 2: Especially on that 61-yard run, I believe, they moved people
- 39:40Speaker 2: and the guys that were free to make the tackle,
- 39:42Speaker 2: the guys that were getting moved got in their way.
- 39:45Speaker 2: But I'm still not going to make an excuse. You
- 39:47Speaker 2: still got to find a way to get him on
- 39:48Speaker 2: the ground. Now, we used to always say defend every
- 39:51Speaker 2: blade of grass. If you got to trip him at
- 39:53Speaker 2: the one-inch line, get him on the ground so we
- 39:55Speaker 2: can line up and we can play again. And what
- 39:58Speaker 2: began to happen was you get punched in the mouth
- 40:01Speaker 2: over and over again, and they have a success with
- 40:04Speaker 2: the run. I thought guys started to panic. And they
- 40:07Speaker 2: started looking to make tackles rather than play the defense. Yeah. Well,
- 40:11Speaker 2: let me knock you back. Let me get my gap.
- 40:13Speaker 2: Let me hold my gap. Let me trust my guy.
- 40:15Speaker 2: It's going to be what he's supposed to be. Let's
- 40:17Speaker 2: converge and make the tackle. You start seeing guys start
- 40:19Speaker 2: to panic and start to try to make plays by themselves,
- 40:22Speaker 2: and it breaks down the fabric of the defense.
- 40:25Speaker 4: Buck, how much tougher is it now, overall football, I know,
- 40:29Speaker 4: offense too, but to be a defensive player in week one,
- 40:33Speaker 4: how tough is it now with the limited hitting in camp,
- 40:36Speaker 4: the lack of preseason games? How tough is it now,
- 40:40Speaker 4: especially when your first game, as you said, is against
- 40:43Speaker 4: the Ben Johnson offense to really get after it like
- 40:46Speaker 4: you normally would as the season goes along?
- 40:49Speaker 2: Watching games this weekend, I made a statement that this
- 40:52Speaker 2: is the first time in a long time that I
- 40:54Speaker 2: saw offenses were ahead of defenses during the first regular
- 40:57Speaker 2: season game. I've never seen it before like this. But
- 41:01Speaker 2: it's really hard.
- 41:02Speaker 1: Because you take the physicality out of football. You can't
- 41:05Speaker 1: thud up. Well, they'll say thud up in practice, but
- 41:07Speaker 1: as soon as.
- 41:07Speaker 2: That running back gets thudded up and he falls on
- 41:10Speaker 2: the ground, head coach is having a fit. I got
- 41:12Speaker 2: fired by Bruce Aarons about four times during training camp
- 41:16Speaker 2: because we were thudding. And the running back would go
- 41:19Speaker 2: to the ground and he would have a fit. So
- 41:21Speaker 2: you take that tackling part out of it, that thud,
- 41:25Speaker 2: that wrap up out of it, and then you don't
- 41:27Speaker 2: play in the preseason games. You don't tackle during preseason.
- 41:31Speaker 2: But then you're going to go tell these guys, now
- 41:33Speaker 2: let's go 100 miles per hour. No, tasseling is something
- 41:36Speaker 2: you've got to get your body course to. And it's
- 41:38Speaker 2: not so much as the hitting, it's the willingness to
- 41:40Speaker 2: fall on the ground. That hurts just as much as
- 41:43Speaker 2: hitting somebody. And when you're not used to doing it
- 41:46Speaker 2: for two months, where for the whole offseason you've been
- 41:48Speaker 2: tagging off or you've just been wrapping up, letting go, well,
- 41:52Speaker 2: you do what you normally practice. And so now this year,
- 41:55Speaker 2: more than ever, I see it with a whole bunch
- 41:57Speaker 2: of defenses. Just don't think Carolina struck. We thought Houston–
- 42:02Speaker 2: Texas defense is going to.
- 42:04Speaker 3: Be the 85 Bears.
- 42:06Speaker 2: The Denver Broncos defense got ran through.
- 42:09Speaker 1: So you're seeing it all over the league.
- 42:12Speaker 3: Buck, let's cut to the chase here because I know
- 42:14Speaker 3: fans are thinking, Mac, you've got to ask him about
- 42:16Speaker 3: Averro and his scheme. I'm sure you hear it, Buck.
- 42:20Speaker 3: Averro is a hot-button name. There are Panther fans that
- 42:24Speaker 3: don't like a lot of his stuff schematically, right? Soft
- 42:27Speaker 3: zones or, hey, we're giving cushions with the corners, and
- 42:30Speaker 3: it's third and four or something like that. And then
- 42:33Speaker 3: they see a game like this, and I think they just, oh,
- 42:37Speaker 3: it's got to be Averro, man. Why is he still here?
- 42:40Speaker 3: What do you think about Averro's defensive scheme, and do
- 42:46Speaker 3: you have issues with it? Do you like it? What
- 42:47Speaker 3: would you say to the fans that really blame Averro
- 42:51Speaker 3: for these defensive issues?
- 42:53Speaker 2: Hey, man, schemes, you can have great schemes and have
- 42:57Speaker 2: a horrible day from your players and you look bad.
- 43:01Speaker 1: You know, it's not the scheme. Now, you know, and
- 43:03Speaker 1: this is a coach and me speaking. Everybody wants to
- 43:05Speaker 1: say fire the coach, fire the coach. Let me tell you,
- 43:08Speaker 1: when coaches are sitting up there, defensive coaches are sitting
- 43:11Speaker 1: there watching film, when everybody's in the bed and they're
- 43:14Speaker 1: hugging their wife and.
- 43:15Speaker 2: They eat potato chips and ice cream, every defense that's
- 43:18Speaker 2: drawn up is meant to stop every play on paper. Now,
- 43:23Speaker 2: When you get into the game and those X's and
- 43:25Speaker 2: O's start to move, there's so many variables that go
- 43:28Speaker 2: into it. Miscommunication, misfit, mistackle, somebody loafing, somebody over-pursuing. So Rivera,
- 43:35Speaker 2: you know, Rivera, he's not a horrible defensive coordinator. They
- 43:40Speaker 2: had a bad day. He's not the first defensive coordinator
- 43:43Speaker 2: that's going to have a bad day. You weren't saying
- 43:46Speaker 2: that last year when it was– When they was winning games,
- 43:49Speaker 2: they were balling defensively toward the end of the year,
- 43:53Speaker 2: and it was the same guy. That's why I don't
- 43:56Speaker 2: like the point of the finger.
- 43:58Speaker 1: Yeah, it was bad.
- 43:59Speaker 2: The coaches would tell you, hey, man, we got to
- 44:01Speaker 2: get better. The players would tell you, we.
- 44:03Speaker 1: Got to get better. So it's a.
- 44:05Speaker 2: Group effort in this. So I'm a fan of his.
- 44:09Speaker 2: You know, if he playing off and they're stopping people, oh,
- 44:13Speaker 2: my God, it was great. He didn't let them get
- 44:15Speaker 2: behind him. Now they lose the game, so everything you
- 44:17Speaker 2: do is under the microscope. Bruce Aarons used to say this.
- 44:21Speaker 2: The same thing they hire you and love you for,
- 44:23Speaker 2: the same thing they're going to boo you and fire
- 44:25Speaker 2: you for one day.
- 44:26Speaker 3: Oh, that makes a lot of sense.
- 44:28Speaker 1: It does.
- 44:29Speaker 3: Talk to us about the idea. This is Avero's mentor,
- 44:33Speaker 3: certainly one of them, is Vic Fangio. Oh, by the way,
- 44:37Speaker 3: the Vic Fangio scheme with Philly– Two years ago, won
- 44:40Speaker 3: the Super Bowl and was the No. 1 ranked defense
- 44:42Speaker 3: in the NFL. I just want to point that out. But, like,
- 44:45Speaker 3: the Vic Fangio scheme is built on right buck, a
- 44:47Speaker 3: lot of the umbrella coverage, let's keep everything in front. Now, obviously,
- 44:52Speaker 3: they didn't do that the other day, and it was ugly. But, like,
- 44:55Speaker 3: what do you– do you like– because some people will say,
- 44:58Speaker 3: I don't, you know, I don't like– Some people say,
- 45:01Speaker 3: I don't like the 3-4. Others will say, I just
- 45:04Speaker 3: think it's too conservative. Like, what do you think as
- 45:07Speaker 3: a defensive guy about that scheme, that mindset?
- 45:12Speaker 2: Man, you just said, Big Tango just won the Super
- 45:14Speaker 2: Bowl with it. But look at the players he had.
- 45:17Speaker 2: Then he went to Miami and they ran him out
- 45:19Speaker 2: of town because they didn't like it.
- 45:21Speaker 1: You know, and there's a misnomer out here about the 3-4.
- 45:23Speaker 2: The 3-4 is the most successful defense in the history
- 45:27Speaker 2: of the NFL.
- 45:28Speaker 1: Let's not get that twisted now. Baltimore Ravens, 3-4.
- 45:32Speaker 2: New England ran a 3-4. Denver Broncos, both of their
- 45:35Speaker 2: Super Bowls, a 3-4. You know what the Steelers have
- 45:39Speaker 2: done with the 3-4. You know, it's a great defense,
- 45:42Speaker 2: but all defenses struggle. You know, Tampa Bay won a
- 45:46Speaker 2: Super Bowl with Bruce Aarons running the 3-4 defense. A
- 45:49Speaker 2: lot of times, it's not the scheme. It's not the coaches.
- 45:53Speaker 2: Sometimes the players.
- 45:54Speaker 1: Got to take.
- 45:56Speaker 2: Got to take ownership of, was I in my right place?
- 45:59Speaker 2: You heard something that Carolina Panthers defensive player said, I
- 46:02Speaker 2: put bad film on tape.
- 46:04Speaker 1: I can't do that.
- 46:05Speaker 2: Now the 3-4 can't make up for pass rush integrity
- 46:09Speaker 2: where you get a free rush in Phillips, but the
- 46:12Speaker 2: other defensive end goes inside and now the quarterback runs
- 46:14Speaker 2: away from a sure sack or a pressure. So what
- 46:17Speaker 2: that has to do with 3-4 or 4-3. And let
- 46:19Speaker 2: me give you a little secret. The 3-4 and the
- 46:22Speaker 2: 4-3 is not about scheme. It's just about what you
- 46:25Speaker 2: label your fourth rusher. If you label him an outside linebacker.
- 46:28Speaker 1: It's a 3-4.
- 46:29Speaker 2: If you say he's a defensive end, it's a 4-3.
- 46:32Speaker 2: So take that misnomer out your head that 3-4 and
- 46:34Speaker 2: 4-3 are totally different. It's just what you decide to
- 46:37Speaker 2: call your four guys as rushing.
- 46:39Speaker 3: There you go. That is Brinson Buckner. I just want
- 46:42Speaker 3: to put on the record a guy that played the
- 46:43Speaker 3: game for years at the NFL level and coached it
- 46:46Speaker 3: as well. And many texters, Bone, do not agree with Buck.
- 46:51Speaker 3: It was us yesterday. We were defending Averro, and y'all
- 46:54Speaker 3: were mad at us. Today, it is Brenton Buckner that
- 46:58Speaker 3: you are now angry at.
- 47:00Speaker 4: Why would we take the word of a guy that's
- 47:02Speaker 4: played high-level football back in college in the pros since when?
- 47:05Speaker 3: The late 80s, right?
- 47:07Speaker 7: Oh, man.
- 47:07Speaker 3: Anyway, we'll talk more about it. These defensive numbers about Averro,
- 47:11Speaker 3: we got to talk about later on the show.
- 47:12Speaker 4: When we come back here on the Mac and Bone Show,
- 47:15Speaker 4: are you buying that Clemson is on upset alert against
- 47:19Speaker 4: the Heels? A lot of hype going towards the Heels.
- 47:22Speaker 4: And what about the Gamecocks? How much trouble are they
- 47:25Speaker 4: in with the Bulldogs of Mississippi State?
- 47:28Speaker 3: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.