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Mac & Bone Hour 2: Can the Offense Stay Hot? · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:21
  Speaker 1: The entire defense, they play really, really well together. Up
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: front in the box, super stout, super physical. In the
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: back end, they do a great job of communicating, great
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  Speaker 1: job of being sticky in coverage. They've come up with
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  Speaker 1: some really big plays back there. So we have a
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  Speaker 1: ton of respect for that unit, for them as a team,
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  Speaker 1: for the hospital environment we're going to go into. Throughout
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: the week, we have to make sure we're working to
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  Speaker 1: give ourselves the best chance to go and compete, and
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: then we're happy for the opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. Bryce is back in form, baby.
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  Speaker 3: The bye week, he did not forget, Bone, how to
• 0:55
  Speaker 3: prop up the opposing team's defense during the bye week.
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  Speaker 2: That comes natural to the man. Absolutely.
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: Right there, raving about the Eagles defense. We'll talk more
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: about the Eagles at 8 o'clock today. We will discuss
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: the Panther paranoia we noticed yesterday on the text line.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of Panther fans feeling, and we are one-point underdogs.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to act like Vegas has us favored
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  Speaker 3: on the road in this game. But a lot of
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  Speaker 3: Panther fans have this feeling of, how are we going
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  Speaker 3: to be off the bye week? The Eagles, everybody's counting
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  Speaker 3: them out. We can't win two games in a row.
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  Speaker 3: All those issues have Panther fans a little paranoid.
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  Speaker 4: But think about how things have changed back when we
• 1:38
  Speaker 4: looked at the schedule and saw post-bye week Philadelphia up
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  Speaker 4: first when we did the win-loss, win-loss game. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think this is one we thought of, oh, yeah. That's
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  Speaker 4: going to be a win for the Panthers. So the
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  Speaker 4: Panthers have played better. Eagles have had their problems. So
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  Speaker 4: the fact that we're having paranoia about playing the Eagles
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  Speaker 4: is a much better feeling than just, oh, my God,
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  Speaker 4: what are the Eagles going to do to this football team?
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  Speaker 4: Things have changed. throughout the course of the season so far.
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  Speaker 4: It's actually a good thing that we're paranoid. That means
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  Speaker 4: things are going well. You know how they put out
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  Speaker 4: all the lines before the season? I wonder what this
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  Speaker 4: line was.
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  Speaker 2: Seven? Oh, I can look that up. That's a good question.
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  Speaker 2: It probably was like seven.
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  Speaker 3: So the fact that even though we're not favored, the
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  Speaker 3: fact that it's a one-point spread in Philly speaks to
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  Speaker 3: what you're talking about, man.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. I'm just going to say this. It's an opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: It is an opportunity, if you go in there and
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  Speaker 3: play your best, to get a dub. Although we're still
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  Speaker 3: waiting to figure out, is Saquon Barkley back? Is Devontae
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  Speaker 3: Smith back? They might get a little healthier, too. They've
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  Speaker 3: been wounded themselves. It opened six and a half. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's what I was thinking. I figured it had to
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  Speaker 3: be up there. So that's a pretty big swing, a
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  Speaker 3: little six-point swing, based on how the teams are playing,
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  Speaker 3: even though we're at two and two.
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  Speaker 4: I have been told, Bone... that I'm acting like our
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  Speaker 4: record is not 2-2. Well, we have 2-2 reminder guys
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  Speaker 4: out there. We know what the record is. 2-2 in
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  Speaker 4: the South is gold, baby.
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  Speaker 2: It's gold.
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  Speaker 3: But when you lived the hell that we lived, 2-2 is...
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  Speaker 3: A great feeling. And the South, it's like dog ears.
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  Speaker 3: You have to do the conversion chart. That's at least
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  Speaker 3: a good 3-1.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, I would say I feel
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  Speaker 3: undefeated right now. All right, let's talk about something else, Bone.
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  Speaker 3: I have noticed a lot of worrying from some of
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  Speaker 3: y'all during the bye week. We've just been on here
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  Speaker 3: gloating and acting like we're 4-0. Something that I've noticed
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  Speaker 3: a smattering of on the text line is, I will
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  Speaker 3: say this, shout out to Xavier Bone, who is the
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  Speaker 3: lead dog of this charge. Xavier is the lead texter
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to Bryce is just feasting on bad defenses.
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  Speaker 3: Wait until the way the rest of the season plays
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  Speaker 3: out and he comes back to earth. I have noticed,
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  Speaker 3: maybe not as much about Bryce, but I have noticed
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  Speaker 3: a few people that through the last couple of weeks
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  Speaker 3: have kind of been like, are we sure this offense
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  Speaker 3: is going to continue to be this good? Or this offense,
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  Speaker 3: the defense has to get better. We can't count on
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  Speaker 3: the offense to be a top four unit. And that's
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  Speaker 3: what they are right now, Bone. Top four in both
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  Speaker 3: yards and points per game. So I want to have
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  Speaker 3: a conversation about this offense. Like, is this who they are, Bone?
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  Speaker 3: And it doesn't need to be top four to me.
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  Speaker 3: Are they a top ten offense? Are they a top
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  Speaker 3: eight offense?
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, Bryce's pace of 5,300 yards may go down a
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  Speaker 4: little bit there, folks.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think, Bone, that we are, and when the
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  Speaker 3: season's over, do you think we're a legit— Good offense?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: So you don't have any fears of an offensive regression? No.
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  Speaker 4: Keep in mind that T-Mac got off to a slow-ish
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  Speaker 4: start where we were kind of wondering after Cleveland, hey,
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  Speaker 4: he got taken out of that game. Mac, he has
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  Speaker 4: not had really... TMAC going with a fully healthy Coker
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  Speaker 4: going at once. The run game still has a way
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  Speaker 4: to go. This offense has been really good. They're still
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  Speaker 4: playing NFL teams. Good defense, bad defense. I don't think
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  Speaker 4: the offense back has peaked yet. There's another level that
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  Speaker 4: they can still get to here. It's going to tail
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  Speaker 4: off a little bit, obviously, from the pace of... Bryce
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  Speaker 4: going for 45 touchdowns in a million yards. But there's
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  Speaker 4: also other things that will happen. I think both receivers
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  Speaker 4: having big games together, the run game getting going, the
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  Speaker 4: offensive line playing better. There's still room to grow for
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  Speaker 4: this offense that we haven't seen yet. And the reason
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  Speaker 4: that they're playing well is because the quarterback, wait till
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  Speaker 4: everyone at NTMAC, but wait till all these guys around
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  Speaker 4: them play a little better as well. that those there's
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  Speaker 4: room to fall off for brights if these guys are playing.
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  Speaker 3: Well there's good there's there's good points in there the
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  Speaker 3: one the one about the room to grow is a
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  Speaker 3: good one i will definitely want to explore that one
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  Speaker 3: like i'm not saying they finish fourth or third where
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  Speaker 3: they're adding yards and points but like to me if
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  Speaker 3: this offense is outside the top 10 i'd be pretty
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  Speaker 3: damn surprised and like if if all the key components
• 6:03
  Speaker 3: are healthy and that unfortunately is it if here in
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  Speaker 3: Charlotte this year. But if all the real key components
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  Speaker 3: are healthy, I'd be very surprised by that. It starts
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  Speaker 3: to me with Bryce Young. It's just, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: this is, and Xavier, the persistent texter, would apparently beg
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  Speaker 3: to differ, but I don't think this is Fugazi. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think this is a fraud. I think this is
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  Speaker 3: who Bryce Young is. Now, yeah, will he throw for
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  Speaker 3: 5,100 yards? I would probably say no. He's averaging over
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  Speaker 3: 300 yards passing a game. I would say maybe that
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  Speaker 3: comes down a little bit. But this thing where they
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  Speaker 3: are now aggressive– and going after it downfield more. And
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  Speaker 3: Bryce Young is delivering, hitting intermediate passes, hitting the second
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  Speaker 3: most deep balls in the NFL so far this year. Like,
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  Speaker 3: that's who he is. I said it last year. Y'all
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  Speaker 3: laughed at me when I gave you the deep ball
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  Speaker 3: PFF stats. The point was he was extremely accurate throwing
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  Speaker 3: deep balls, but we didn't do it a lot. I
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  Speaker 3: asked coach Canales during training camp, the exact, I phrased
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  Speaker 3: it that exact way.
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  Speaker 2: He was the number one graded passer. He's so efficient.
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  Speaker 2: Are we going to see more of it?
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  Speaker 3: And he kind of downplayed it, but I'll be damned
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  Speaker 3: that slide dog because Brad Idzik is coming out gun
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  Speaker 3: and bone. And then I love the versatility of the
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  Speaker 3: different ways we can beat you. because they threw downfield
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  Speaker 3: a bunch in the first three weeks. What'd they do
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  Speaker 3: against Detroit when the offensive line's real wounded and they're
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  Speaker 3: worried about Aiden Hutchinson? Let's go RPO and get it
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  Speaker 3: out of Bryce's hands quick. And the little fella can
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  Speaker 3: handle that just as well. So to me, Bryce Young's confidence,
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  Speaker 3: just what the most pressured quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: With the most yards. That doesn't compute. That doesn't make sense.
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  Speaker 3: What Bryce Young is doing, and this goes back to
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  Speaker 3: your point, Bone, about there is more meat on the
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  Speaker 3: bone offensively. Taylor Moten's coming back. He's doing what he's
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  Speaker 3: doing under adverse circumstances, man. Tons of offensive support on
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  Speaker 3: the text line here. Many people talking about top 10 offense,
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  Speaker 3: top 7 offense.
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  Speaker 2: Bebop is being negative. I like it. No, not that.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like that brown muster back with a great
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  Speaker 4: point he believes that this could be a top 10
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  Speaker 4: offense because the play calling of brad inzik is making
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  Speaker 4: that big of a difference in the offense yes the
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  Speaker 4: defenses have not been great but there's also been times
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  Speaker 4: back i would say in the last handful of years
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  Speaker 4: where this offense struggled against defenses that were also bad
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  Speaker 4: well i looked it up too like that bears defense
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  Speaker 4: is ninth in the league y'all by the way I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if y'all didn't get the memo on that.
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  Speaker 2: They played exponentially better. And so is our defense, by
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  Speaker 2: the way.
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  Speaker 3: I looked it up, Bone. The Lions obviously is the
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  Speaker 3: worst defense in the league. We played them. But other
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  Speaker 3: than that, we've only played one bottom 10 defense.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. The Lions. Cleveland's 20th. Atlanta 16th and the
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  Speaker 2: bears are ninth.
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  Speaker 3: It averages out to 19th because I looked that up
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  Speaker 3: because I kept, I, it wasn't a lot. It was
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  Speaker 3: probably Xavier 14 times and like two other guys, but
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  Speaker 3: it's like, we got that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they're feasting on bad defenses.
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  Speaker 3: And to your point, I didn't see, we feast on
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  Speaker 3: every bad defense in the past here, you know? So
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  Speaker 3: to me, there's just growth. Just watch them, watch them
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  Speaker 3: under pressure and watch how cool and calm he is.
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  Speaker 3: And tell me you think that's fraud. You know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean?
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  Speaker 2: He's arrived, man. He's arrived. He's comfortable. The game has
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  Speaker 2: slowed down. And they have made it Bryce's offense.
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  Speaker 3: They have gotten the perfect offense to fit Bryce now.
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  Speaker 4: Think about the offensive pace that they're on and the
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  Speaker 4: offensive line problems that they've had. This offense is rolling
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  Speaker 4: without the offensive line playing great for Bryce.
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  Speaker 2: They are.
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  Speaker 4: So we're talking about playing bad defenses.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a crazy thing.
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  Speaker 4: Instead of talking about, hey, he's playing bad defenses, what
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  Speaker 4: if we say, oh, what if the offensive line.
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  Speaker 2: Actually plays better? How good could Bryce be? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: He's doing this under pressure all the time. Maybe that
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  Speaker 4: helps him out in some weird way.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: But think about the offensive line in the run game
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  Speaker 4: actually helping Bryce out more than they have.
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  Speaker 2: I think they can get more consistent with the run game. Yes.
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? I think they get Moten back.
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  Speaker 2: I think that helps pass pro definitely.
• 10:04
  Speaker 3: I think Robert Hunt will play better.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think he certainly has been at his best,
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  Speaker 3: but I would think, Bone, he gets further away from
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  Speaker 3: that injury. I would think maybe there could be an
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  Speaker 3: uptick there for him.
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  Speaker 2: 704 points out.
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  Speaker 4: Bryce is also limiting the silly turnovers. He has two
• 10:21
  Speaker 4: interceptions this year, and he's right. One was the one
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  Speaker 4: against Cleveland, which was just a— They hit his arm.
• 10:26
  Speaker 4: They hit his arm, and he had the one that—
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  Speaker 4: a weight one that whatever the other one was enough
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  Speaker 4: for grabs one that wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: Right before half against chicago.
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  Speaker 3: That's right where he where he didn't care if he
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: turned it over he's trying to there's literally seconds left
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: he's trying to get us into field goal range so
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: he throws a yolo ball so other than that i
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: yeah i would argue there's not a legitimate interception that
• 10:45
  Speaker 3: has been thrown yet where it's like he made a
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: mistake he hasn't.
• 10:48
  Speaker 4: Also had the ridiculous fumbles either that's not happening either
• 10:52
  Speaker 4: i probably shouldn't say that knock.
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: On the wood knock on all the wood you can
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  Speaker 3: find you know huh Just an expression.
• 11:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 2: Don't need to talk about Finney's weekends. Just an expression. Oh, man.
• 11:05
  Speaker 3: This texter says, yeah, Arn Moten and Icky coming back.
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: Moten could be back this week.
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  Speaker 3: Icky, that's one I'm not sure of. But Moten will
• 11:14
  Speaker 3: be a steadying force. And maybe Moten helps Rob Hunt.
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: Maybe things work a little smoother over there. I have
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: noticed some stunts get to us. Maybe those two passing
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: off the stunts.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe Bone.
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  Speaker 3: That works better than a rookie passing off stunts with Moten.
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  Speaker 3: This texter says, once we get a real center in there,
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  Speaker 3: the offense will take off.
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: Poor Luke Fortner.
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: By all accounts, he's a great dude, but he is
• 11:36
  Speaker 3: off to a really rough start. And I do wonder,
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: could you see Sam Hecht at some point late in
• 11:41
  Speaker 3: the season?
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? It makes you wonder, too,
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  Speaker 2: this matchup on.
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday, does this go really, really bad for Fortner
• 11:51
  Speaker 4: where Heck ends up in there for the next... You know,
• 11:53
  Speaker 4: I mean, this could be one where I'm a little
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  Speaker 4: concerned about this one there, interior versus what Philly has.
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: You think Canales could say, what the heck? Put Sam in.
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: What the heck?
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, I don't know if that's funny. I don't know
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: if that is. You sure made yourself laugh. I did.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed it.
• 12:14
  Speaker 4: Matt will be appearing doing comedy at Harrah's Resort Casino
• 12:18
  Speaker 4: this Thursday night.
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: That's right. Come see me Thursday night, baby. I'll be performing.
• 12:21
  Speaker 4: Don Rickles. 704-570-9610.
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: Not Don Rickles. That's Grady Pat. My God. Talk about
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: a stray.
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  Speaker 4: Whoa.
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness. Kevin in Charlotte says Rob Hunt will
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: definitely play better. He just got married. Remember how distracting
• 12:40
  Speaker 3: and stressful wedding planning was? I wasn't really a part
• 12:44
  Speaker 3: of it, really. Yeah, I was going to say the
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: same thing, Bone. I'm guessing many guys had the same
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: experience as us. My wife and her mom, they seemed
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: hella busy. I got to tell you, I didn't really
• 12:54
  Speaker 3: have anything extra going on.
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: I saw her plan the wedding and plan her way out.
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: We're not involved in either plan? No, not really. Oh,
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: my goodness. I'm going to take it by surprise, honestly.
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: So that's interesting, Kevin.
• 13:06
  Speaker 3: You must have been involved in the planning. Congratulations to
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: Big Rob for that as well. Advice if you're getting married.
• 13:12
  Speaker 3: All you do is say, yeah, yeah, good idea.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, I like it.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: Good idea. That's it? That's all? You can't mess that
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  Speaker 2: one up? I love it. Good idea.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: You can't mess that up at all. 704-570-9610.
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: Barron says, isn't Icky in a contract season? I wonder
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: how that plays out. I was thinking about that, too.
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: I said yesterday, Bone, are we going to see him
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: at all? I don't know. They've really pushed that one off.
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: And it's a serious knee injury. And he's a big man.
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: I just I don't know what to think about that one.
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: And I've stopped really even thinking about his return. I've
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: started to now think about, OK, T-Max is going to
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: play this week or probably next week. We got to
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: see when Freeland gets healthy, who's the left tackle. That's
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: kind of where I'm at now. Is it Walker or
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: is it Freeling? The Icky thing would be like icing
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: on top of the cake. But as far as his contract,
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Do they part ways? Do they get
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: Icky a kind of a bargain? Obviously, he's such a
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: good dude. I hate it for him, but it does not...
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: obviously help his contract situation at all. He might need
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: a one-year deal to prove something.
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: Does he end up with a Brady Christensen-like role of
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: a guy that plays multiple spots on the line while
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: Freeling ends up the left tackle, you've got Moten at
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  Speaker 4: the right, and then we'll see about Moten's future.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: Walker's a free agent too, right? He was on a
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: one-year deal? Richie Walker, a one-year deal? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So him and Icky are both on contract here. I mean,
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: that's Freeling's job going forward.
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  Speaker 3: Moten has one year left after this, you know, if
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: they were to keep him and if he wants to
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: play again. Pat in Mount Pleasant says, Mac is Bryce's
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: ball boy. Hold them up high, Mac.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he sent about 19 texts about you and Bryce.
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: Why would you not? He's our quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: He's been inconsistent to this point, but he's shown flashes,
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: obviously showed flashes in the playoff game last year. And
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: now it appears like not only Bone is he pretty
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: darn consistent so far, but he also appears to have
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: taken his ceiling to a place where maybe we didn't
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: think his ceiling was.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: Why would we not? Hold them.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: Why will we not be fired up? That's what I
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: don't get about other fans, unless they just don't like
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: the Panthers. A lot of these texts are very similar.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: This guy's got an obsession with this, I guess, Pat.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: Patton Val Pleasant.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he is. He's on a roll, man. Where's X-Man?
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: Did Xavier weigh in, Bone, to try to make his
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: point about Bryce playing against bad defenses? I lost it
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: along the way. I don't think we got him here, man.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: Spoiled lettuce, we are a legit offense. The Voice, this
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: is a top 10 offense. Brian says, Max acting like
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: he has some hot take. We'll have a top 10 offense.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: This offense will finish in the top three at the
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: end of the season.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: There you go, baby. I like the bravado there. I
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: That seems like that's how I live in, but I mean,
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: if that happens, then... We're going pantsless. That's where I go, Bone.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: Some of y'all are saying, hey, it's a four-game sample.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Chill out.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: But it's a four-game sample, and we've seen Bryce improve
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: each year. So I thought it was a no-brainer he
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: would improve this season. It's just a matter of how much.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: How can you not look at it and say, oh,
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: his jump is the biggest one he's made yet season
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: to season? I will say the whole offense will finish
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: in the top three, scoring in yards or whatever that
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: texter said. That's where I say a little bit of, okay,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: it's a four-game sample. Because teams will adjust a little
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: bit to our offense, although I feel very good about
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: Brad Idzik and the way he has called plays. But
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: that's where I give myself some wiggle room and say, like,
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: top 10.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: You know? Yeah.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: But it's not falling. Like this dude said, it's a
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: mid offense once by the end of the season. And
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: I just to your point, Bone, Coker injury, XL injury,
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: offensive line injuries. Like, I just I don't understand why
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: y'all can't see that there is room to grow that
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: like I can't imagine they get healthier bone and fall off.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: Also, people are going to– if Bryce doesn't have a
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: huge game against Philadelphia, against that defense, which, Maggie, I
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: don't think he's going to go completely nuts. This is
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: going to be, I think, a tough, physical, grinded-out football game. People,
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: no matter– even if they win the game, they'll say, oh,
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: Bryce didn't throw for– 330 yards. Hey, man, the guy
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: just needs to win football. I don't care what his
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: numbers are, but you can already see that happening, too, though. Oh,
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: Bryce didn't carve up a great defense.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: The thing is, Bo. I'm expecting this to be a
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: very tough game. The thing is, is you are seeing
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: that you are seeing his ability to be the most
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: important player on the field. You are seeing his ability
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: to be pressured the most in the league and still thrive.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: You're seeing his ability to, hey... Who are my weapons?
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Got number two and three wide receiver out. Let me
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: get these tight ends involved.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Let me get Bryson Tremaine four catches for 80-something yards
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: in Cleveland. You're seeing the ability of him to lift
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: others up around him.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: And I didn't know.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: I didn't know if he truly had that ability that
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: the great quarterbacks have. You're seeing that right.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: Now, man.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: Texter says if Bryce played bad the first four games,
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: the haters wouldn't be calling it an early season sample.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: If he played bad, they would be talking about how
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: horrible he is. That is a fair point, too. I mean,
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: we all do that to a degree. But that, yes,
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: that is 100% true. Randall sent us a hilarious text.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: And Bryce would never do this.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: I want this on the record, that our Brycey would
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: never do this phone. He's smoking a cigar, drinking a beer,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: and giving the middle finger.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Is this a T-shirt?
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Looks like it is a T-shirt somebody made of Bryce.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: That could not be our Bryce. Can we get one
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: of those for Bebop, mate? Probably has one.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: I'm going to need to get that t-shirt made for Bob.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: When we come back, reports say Brandon Miller is asking
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: for close to a max contract. Where do the negotiations stand?
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: And how much should the Hornets give Miller? Sports Radio
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: 92.7 WFNZ.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. We are having a good time
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: talking about our highly ranked, highly talented offense. Defense getting
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: better too, y'all. I don't know if I told you, Bone.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Seventh in EPA on defense since week two.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Don't know if I told you that stat 17 times
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: or not over the last week. What I like about you, Mac,
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: is you don't repeat your stats often.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: No, I want to drill them home, baby. I want
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: to drill them home. We'll see what happens. There's a
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: chance for this defense to have a good week this
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: week against this Philly offense, although I want to see
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: what's up with Barkley and Devontae Smith.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: On the injury list. But we got to lock into
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: the Hornets right now. We got to lock in.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: We will get ourselves back to the Panthers. By the way,
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: it's a Westy win Wednesday. Charlotte FC rallied from 2-0
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: down to win last weekend against Dallas. And even though
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Westy is in Columbus, Bone, getting ready for tonight's game.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: He still wants to join us for a little Westy Wednesday.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I miss the guy.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: So we're going to talk to him at 745, have
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: some fun. But right now, let's talk a little Hornets
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: because don't look now, Bone. We're a week away from
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: the season. Exhibition 3 is tonight in Boston. Bone and
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: KB will have your pregame on WFNZ. And we're getting close.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: And we also, it seems like Bone could be getting
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: close to a Brandon Miller contract extension.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: We have not talked a whole lot about this.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: I feel like this deserves a segment because we're getting
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: close and there's some juicy stuff that is going on.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Let's start this with the latest. And there's been a
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: lot of different insiders reporting about what Miller wants. Five years,
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: $ 200 million-ish, $ 200 million-plus contract. There have been multiple reports saying,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: let's hear the latest from Jake Fisher, NBA insider, on
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: this Miller contract situation.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: Brandon Miller's deal, again, has been something that the whole
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: league has been looking at in the range of the five-year,
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: $ 200 million ballpark that Amin Thompson signed with Houston. Miller
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: has a higher offensive ceiling than Amin, without a doubt.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: And that has led so.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: Many front office executives I've been speaking to to think
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: and believe that Miller is worth more than that deal.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: And I know that Miller has certainly been seeking more
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: than that deal. That Miller has been seeking close to
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: a max contract. We'll see if he gets it because
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: ESPN's Bobby Marks today said... he would put a five-year
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: $ 175 million offer on the table for Miller, that would
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: be very, very team-friendly, I believe, and certainly more in
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: the ballpark of what Charlotte would hope for. But I
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: think it's going to be very challenging for the Hornets
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: to get anywhere below that five-year $ 200 million threshold that
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: Miller is seeking. A lot of people around the NBA,
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: I've been kind of surprised by, honestly. I've been telling
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: them that they think Brandon Miller's got perennial all-star potential
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: after showing a pretty seamless 20-point-per-game scoring ability over the
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: last season and change. So that's a $ 40 million player
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: in today's NBA.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: So there you go, Bone Man. Obviously, do the math there.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Yes, five years, $ 200 million would be $ 40 million. Amen
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Thompson got five years, $ 208 million. So it seems like
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: that's something he's trying to exceed, maybe. But then they
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: brought up Mac's contract situation, which would.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Be a rookie.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Mac's, not Mac, contract situation. I hope he doesn't get
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: a Mac contract. I hope he can earn more than that.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: So Brandon Miller's money's going to Christina McClain. What do
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: you think about all of this, Bone? I think it's,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: to me, it's a no-brainer. $ 200 million, to me, I
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: should say, would be a no-brainer because.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: When they traded Lomelo to Minnesota, they gave the keys
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: to the franchise to both Brandon Miller and Conn Knipple.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: And that means numbers-wise, leadership-wise, money-wise, you already chose that
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: investment when you traded Lomelo Ball. So now, yes, the
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: agent knows that as well. But I think Brandon Miller
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: hasn't even scratched the surface of how good that guy
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: is going to be. He's going to be a 25-point-per-game,
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: all-star-level player. I think $ 200 million would be ideal. If
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: it's the max, that's fine. I think Brendan Miller is
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: worth every penny he's going to get.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's the max contract for a rookie. They call
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: it the rookie max extension, right? When you're three years
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: into the league and you sign a deal. LaMelo did it.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: It's supposed to be 25% of the salary cap, it
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: said here. Of course, it can go up, Bone, if
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: you're all NBA, which Wemby was. That's why Wemby's was 252%.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: And he actually could have taken a little more than that,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: didn't take the full of what he was entitled to.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: But for Brandon Miller not to have been all NBA,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: it would be lower than that. A quarter of the cap, 25%
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: of the cap, would be $ 41 million a year. And
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: that would be around what we're talking about. with the
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Amen Thompson contract. To me, if we're using that as
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: a guideline, I understand Amen Thompson is gifted as hell.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: He's versatile.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: I think he put up something like 18-7-5 last year.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: But the dude is a 22% career three-point shooter. He's
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: amazing defensively. I'm not acting like B-Mill is as good
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: as him defensively, Bob. But when it comes to B-Mill's
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: offensive game, I believe it blows away A-Man Thompson's because of.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: The shooting piece.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: We're in an era, Bob, where the shooting matters. And
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Brandon Miller has a serious advantage in that category.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Brandon Pajewski of the Warriors just signed a five-year deal
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: worth $ 110 million. So if you think about that value
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: for him and what he got, Brandon Miller is a
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: much better, more valuable asset than he is.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: And Brandon's looking for about a hundred million more total.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: You know, he's looking for 20 million more than, than
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: he got. But like you look at the players, but actually,
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: you know what? I'll start with this. I had the
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: same thought as one of our texters that said the
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: second LaMelo was traded, it was a no brainer that
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: you were going to give Brandon a ton of money.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: And that's my thought process, too, Bone. It's a no-brainer.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: You trade LaMelo Ball and you save all that money,
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: up near $ 50 million a year. The obvious thing would be,
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: what young piece are you paying and building around now?
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: And Brandon Miller, obviously not extension eligible for a couple
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: of years, Brandon Miller is the answer to that question,
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: the obvious answer.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Now, we have a text here from Tyson.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: He says.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: For Miller, wow, he's always hurt. Part one of that.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he was hurt last year, and dude played through
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: it all year with a 10 out of 10 pain
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: threshold and still never complained about it. So he played
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: through his injuries last year when he was hurt. The
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: second part of that, he says we aren't winning with him.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: Didn't the Hornets have a winning record last year, Matt?
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: Check my notes with Brandon Miller. Yeah, 44 wins, one
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: of the best teams in the second half of the year.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: DVR Dave had a similar thing about winning.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: He said you don't give max contracts to 500 teams
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: or sub-500 teams.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Dave, stick to DVRs because 14 players in the league
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: right now have max contract with teams that had losing
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: records last year, including Steph Curry, by the way, and
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Jimmy Butler, both of the Warriors.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: That's some good intel.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Brandon Millerbone playing through that immense shoulder pain last year
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: that we did not know he was dealing with until
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: he told that to Wesson Walker. He put up career highs, Bone,
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: last year in so many different categories, even with the injury.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Career high in three-point shooting, even with the injury. Career
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: high in effective field goal percentage, free throw attempts, free
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: throw percentage.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Let's see here. Blocks as well.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: So, I mean, there's so many categories, Bone, where he
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: was at his best.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Does he still have room to grow? Is he a
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: perfect player?
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: No.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Like, I still think, Bone, he's got to beef up.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: And apparently, according to Charles Lee, he was in, despite
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: the shoulder issue, in the surgery, he was in the
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: weight room a ton. He needs to become... And Charles
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Lee said this the other night. He challenged him and said,
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: I need him to be a two-way player every night.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: He needs to be more consistently that guy bone that
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: can guard the good wings. You know what I mean?
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: And not get pushed around and let guys get to
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: their spot. He also, Bo, needs to get better at
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: creating his own. And he's going to get that opportunity
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: to do so and creating for others. But I think
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: you already saw growth in those areas last year. You
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: are not paying for what Brandon Miller has already done.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: You are paying, in this case, for what you think
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Brandon Miller will be. in every form, offense, defense, leadership.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: And I trust.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Also, by the way, the man in charge has proven
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: you got to trust the man. Jeff Peterson, Mac, outside
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: of maybe an overdrafting of Tijon Salon. That dude is
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: all over it. And think about people are saying, oh,
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: it's a lot of money. Do you know how well
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: set up they are, both in assets and in terms
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: of being under the luxury tax for the foreseeable future?
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: He has done an unbelievable job, he being Jeff Peterson,
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: of setting this team up financially, asset-wise, talent-wise.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: He has done an unreal job. So I'm not going
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: to sit here and worry too.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: Much about the cap because I trust that dude there,
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: and I trust all the guys around him right now.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: The 40, the Mitch Kupchak years, man, where it's just
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: kind of throwing noodles at the wall. These guys know
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: what they're doing.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: 100%.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Well, I guess I was going to say what happened
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: to trust in Jeff, but I think the lamella trade happened.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: I think the lamella trade is what shook people. But
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: I have at least as much as the lamella trade
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: disappointed me because I feel like we're going to take
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: probably a little bit of a step back at least
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: this year. And I wanted, Hey, let's go for 50
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: wins this year in the longterm. If you really think
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: it through in the long term, you can see a
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: world bone where they're better off because of the lamello
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: trade long term. You can see that, you know, picking
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: up more assets, got an asset for bridges and eventually
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: pouncing and making a move. And for people that don't
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: want to spend money, we have eight where, according to
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Bobby Marks, we're 80 million dollars under the luxury tax
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: on next season as of right now. so there nobody
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: on next season bow not this season but next season
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: nobody is making more than 25 million dollars no we
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: have we are set up beautifully bone with assets but
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: also we're set up beautifully here with room when it
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: comes to payroll.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: Absolutely myron goodman back says, why are we so quick
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: to offer lottery picks after three seasons, the max? Number one, Myron,
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: that's because that's when they're eligible to get that. Number two,
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: it's not the max compared to like what an eight
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: year fact. It's the max of people that are like
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: in that experience time. Myron also says, I understand Charlotte's
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: not a destination, but $ 200 million for Miller is crazy.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: To me, I'm good at $ 185 million.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: Well, Byron, that $ 15 million there is a huge difference.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: What in the world? That's $ 3 million a year over
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: five years. Yeah, well, $ 200 million is crazy. $ 185 million
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: is where I draw the line here. My God.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: This dude said Bobby Marks legit said he would offer
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: $ 175 million. Are you guys saying you're smarter than Bobby Marks?
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: We'll tell him that next time he comes on. Mack is.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: That's why we call Mack Skidmarks.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: I'm Bobby's brother, Skid. That was just a really dumb exchange,
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: but I'm glad we had it. That would be a
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: rough nickname to have. If your last name is Marks,
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: I wonder if you get nicknamed Skid as a kid.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: That would suck, man.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: That would be awful.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: But anyway, what Bobby was saying is that's what he
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: would offer, right? What's Bobby's job before he went to ESPN?
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: An executive.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: So he's telling you where, and, and maybe the Hornets
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: are offering that. And maybe Brandon's asking for, Hey, let's
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: beat a man Thompson's contract. Maybe they'll meet somewhere in
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: between around 200.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, but so Bobby, I think is talking about
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: the team playing the game. As far as, as Myron saying,
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: he's not a $ 200 million player.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: All right. But he's a 185 or whatever.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: If he makes what Amen Thompson makes, which is right
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: around 41 and a half million per year, that puts
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: you around Scotty Barnes. Scott Barnes, a hell of a player,
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: better defensively than Brandon, better creator, but not the shooter.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: And I don't think the score that Brandon Miller is.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: I think that's I think that's perfect company for Brandon
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Miller personally. Franz Wagner makes $ 41 million a year. Bankero
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: makes $ 41 million a year. Austin Reeves makes $ 41 million
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: a year. Brandon Miller doesn't fit in that category?
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: I believe he does.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: I don't know who's better than Austin Reeves. I believe
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: he fits in that category. We're getting a lot of
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: negativity right now. We should probably just ignore some of that.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: No, no.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: I can't believe this can't be our texters being negative. Bo,
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: what have you done with our texters?
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: Bone Shrine guy. What if Miller's injuries get worse and
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: Khan falls off? Listen, the Miller injury thing. What if
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: he gets dumped by his girl?
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Things happen.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: What if I get dumped? What if Murphy bites me?
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: These are things we deal with every day.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: The Miller injury thing's a legit risk. it is there's
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: a legit risk there um but i don't know what
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: do you do it feels like what do you do
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: let him make all nba and then the contract next
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: year bone goes through the roof because that's what happens
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: yeah and i think he's legit got a third and
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: third team all nba chance lamello almost did it last
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: year yeah you know.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: When we come back it's a westy wednesday ashley westwood
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: the captain of charlotte fc joins us live from columbus
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: on sports radio 92.7 wfnd.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNT. Mack and Bone hanging with you.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: Happy Wednesday, everybody. We made it to Wednesday. All right.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: We made it to Wednesday.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: It's not a wonderful Wednesday.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: It is not a work Wednesday. No bone. Uh, Panthers
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: off today. They practice yesterday. Instead.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: It sounds like it is a tweak of their bi-week schedule.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Maybe because Canalis is Owen two after buys. Um, so I,
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: I applaud that if they're trying to change something only
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: lost by three in each game, but one of the
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: post by games was last year's game in new Orleans. Um,
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: and that one wasn't a good one bone because that
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: one solidified the sweep that's the one where freaking um
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: kyler shuck should.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Get an emmy award oh yeah that one for.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: The damn acting on the ransom hit um so it
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: wasn't it wasn't ideal wasn't ideal i have to buy
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: last last year i remember the game against the world's
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: here because i was there.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: And i that was my uh that was the uh
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: the old uh Remember what happened before that game? That
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: was the bone curse game. That was three scores galore game. Oh, geez.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: And you showed up.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: So you won three scores galore and you showed up
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: in person. The old double whammy. Oh, geez.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: We didn't stand. In hindsight, we didn't stand a chance,
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: did we? I should be working on Wegmans right now
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: after that performance.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Before we get to Panthers-Eagles on Sunday, obviously a ton
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: of college football. We're getting ready to talk some college
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: football in the 8 o'clock hour. Got to talk a
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: little Tar Heels, a little Gamecocks. We got some sports tonight, Bones,
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: some local sports tonight. You and KB, I see that
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: you have unceremoniously bumped the P-man from WFNZ tonight. You,
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Sam Barber, and Kyle Bailey on WFNZ tonight, Hornets pregame.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: That's not a gang you want to mess with, honestly.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: Apparently not. We got to let you know where to
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: find these games. Hornets pregame. So the Boston game starts at.
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: 7.30, Bones?
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Yes. All Boston games are always 7.30. That's what I thought.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: So y'all are on at 6.30 here on WFNZ with
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: the pregame. P-Man will begin his broadcast at 7 o'clock.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: It's over on WBT, which is now 107.9. They now
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: have an FM signal. So we'll talk to P-Man. We'll
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: promote it. We'll talk a little FC as well.
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: You can also just hang out uptown and hear Willie
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: yelling from his broadcast booth.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. Westy has not rang us, man.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: Actually, Willie would be. You could hear him, yeah, from
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: his broadcast. But, yeah, you can hear him. I was
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: thinking where he.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Was, but, yeah. Westy has not given us a ring here, man.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: I'm wondering if he is.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: Do you think it has just occurred to him that
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: maybe his game day routine is not made better by
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: chatting with Mac and Bone at 745 in the morning?
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Wednesday sounded good until Wednesday arrived. Trust me, Westy.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Back on Wednesday, sometimes I don't want to talk to
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: him either.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: They told us. They said, hey, he can still do
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: game day. Because I thought, let's do it on Tuesday.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Let's do it on Tuesday. That's probably a travel day
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: to get to Columbus. And, you know, it might be
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: a little easier on you.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: But anyway. Did he finally get tired of us? It
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: was bound to happen at some point. Westy loves us,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: damn it. He loves us. Plus, I was so fired
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: up to talk about the rally. They've only done that once.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Second time in history they've been down two goals in
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: the second half and came back and won. But anyway,
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: we've got the Hornets' preseason game tonight, and we've got
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: Westy and the boys against Columbus. And they do have
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: a shot, with a win and a little bit of help,
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: of clinching a playoff spot. We've got that going on
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: as well.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: 704-5709-610.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Feel free to send in your text here as we
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: fill the Westie void. I also want to circle backbone
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: to the Brandon Miller thing. This texter says, if Mack
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: and Bone were the GMs of the local teams, we'd
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: pay every freaking buddy. You can't pay everybody. How is
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Brandon Miller getting paid, Bone? especially after you trade lamello
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: ball and get rid of that contract the obvious next
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: one is building around brandon miller how does brandon miller
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: fall into the category like i'm not gonna lie in
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: the past i probably wanted to pay guys the panthers
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: haven't paid and they've been right i'm not gonna lie
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: about that yeah but like how is paying brandon miller
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: considered paying everybody Like, you know what I'm saying?
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: That's like I'm trying to get Pat Connaughton a max extension.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Don't confuse the depth of the team for a ton
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: of guys making a lot of money because it's not.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of guys that are on good contracts.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: And as I said last segment, they are so well
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: off financially for the future that Jeff Peterson has set
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: this up to pay guys like Brandon Miller. Con eventually
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: when it comes around. They're set up to have these
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: guys be those guys that are making the money.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: They're doing a great job of.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: Smart management that we don't often see around here. But
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: they're doing that right now. So you just got to
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: trust JP, man. He's got a plan, and that includes
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: the Brandon Miller deal. Why do we think that they
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: were so mad willing to move Lamello? There's many reasons.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: We haven't heard fully why, but that's because they trust
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: both in basketball and in body and in mind what Brandon.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Miller is going to be successful.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: And Khan, like they, they made a decision that brand, like,
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying they might not add a, like they
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: could add a superstar at some point. I'm not saying
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: that they will, but the two young guys they chose
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: to build around that they think have the Hornets DNA.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Is Brandon and Khan. And I think they have that
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Hornets DNA too.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: I don't think, I'm surprised nobody's brought up the leadership
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: factor with Brandon Miller. I go back to his rookie
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: year and he's yelling at PJ Washington, get the heck back.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: Like I just, he has that dog in him, man.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: He has that leader in him. Don't let the slim
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: frame fool you.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: This dude's got a little bit of that killer in him,
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: that veteran leader that can speak up. So I think
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: that's part of what they want from him, too. A
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: lot of people are thinking that Wesley got confused by
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: a time change. I think it's possible. It is 7.52
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: in Columbus. Oh, there's no time change, is there? Yeah,
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Ohio's Eastern Standard Time. That's not it.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Good effort, though.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: 704 number says he doesn't want to talk to cheaters
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: like Man City Mac.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: Ha!
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Sir that's under appeal sir i would like you to
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: know that process has not played out yet all right
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: well maybe i don't know we'll see if we can
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: get him we'll see if we can get him later
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: if not we'll catch him hopefully we got a win
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: on a wednesday and we can do a win thursday
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: or something like that.
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: He's protesting because of the way that willie p's treated
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: on this radio station i do believe he's taking shots
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: too at willie p in the past.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah he said willie said toffalo well willie was
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: trying to talk trash to toffalo about stealing toklamati's uh
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: hat trick the other night and toffalo told him to
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: shut the bleep up as a good english lad would So, Willie, yeah, apparently.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: I said, Willie, they treat you like the banter is
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: the same with you and the players as it is
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: with you and us. I just want to say this, Bo.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: I want to say this. Willie said people always hit
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: him up and say, man, those boys Mack and Bone
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: must not like you. And I just got to set
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: the record straight right now. I absolutely love Willie P.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: He's one of my absolute favorite co-workers, Bone. Who's your
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: favorite one?
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Willie P. Go you boys first. You're on my squad.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Hold on. You said you boys. You and Fitty. I'm
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: going you and Fitty. You're my team. So I got
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: to go with my teammates first. After 22 years, I
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: can't comfortably get number one here?
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: No.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: I don't want to. So with no disrespect, I should
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: be number one. If someone asked me, I'd say, Meg,
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say, well, it's this guy and this guy
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: and this guy. No, Meg's my dog. Oh, my God.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Sam number one. Oh, my God.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Sam one.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Can you not be tied?
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: No.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Isn't that what a good teammate would be? What has
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: this guy done to be tied with me for? This
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: dude works behind the scenes, does so much stuff that
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: no one sees. Yeah, like I did for 15 years. Yes,
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: but why can't— How am I not one? The fact
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: that I'm not one, oh, this is the end.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Of it here.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: Do you think I should choose between my children? Aiden
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: was born first. Should he be my favorite? Yeah, absolutely. Sidney,
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: this is shocking, is it not?
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Yes, because I work with both of
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: you guys. Look up to both of you guys. Neither
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: one of you are my number one people to work
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: with here. Who's your number one? My best man, Flounder,
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: because you know why? He's been there since the sixth grade.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: He's always been there with me. You know what? I
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: just moved Finney down to No. 2 after that. I
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: don't want to be No. 3 now.
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: Let me get to my passionate statement. I was trying
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: to set up my passionate statement about Willie. We got
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: sidetracked there by Bone's frustration with me.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: I absolutely love Willie because the amount of material Willie
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: gives us, like whether it's unbelievable passionate goal calls, whether
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: it's him just flying off the handle, whether it's his
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: postgame show, he's screaming. People are screaming at him on
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: the phone lines. whether it's the brisket storyline. And here's the.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: Thing, too.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: People are like, man, y'all are mean to Willie. Don't
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: act like Willie doesn't give it back.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? He's a downright bully at times.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: It's a two-way street. Now, the thing is, we have
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: the advantage of.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: Being here every morning for four hours, so it probably
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: seems like it is not a level playing field.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: But Willie, I mean, the.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: Text line, Willie texting us on group– Willie gets his
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: shots back in.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: I love that man. I just want to say that
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: That's my co-worker.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Putting my list together here, my top five. My top
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: five co-workers list. Matt, you cried the top six. Thank you.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: That's good. That's good.
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: This texter said, oh, Fight for 12 says Fitty is
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: Mac's side piece and T-Bone is wifey. 704 says, man,
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: you guys are desperate to fill time without Westy.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Mac actually complimented Willie.
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: Chris in Huntersville says, it's the band the Eagles broke up.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: Y'all are killing me. Travis from Statesville. Mac belongs below
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: Tampa Tammy on Bones' list of coworkers in the building.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Not even a coworker.
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah. In the building, right? If you throw the whole
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: building in. Oh, if we're throwing people in the building,
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: then you're way off this list. Alex Giles is up there.
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: Big Al Conklin, one of the classiest gentlemen in the
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: whole world. The vending guy, does he count? Vending refill guy?
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: His name's Tony.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: Of course, Finney knows the guy with the snacks. Finney
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: going to invite the guy for the snacks to his wedding.
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: Whoa!
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, Baron says, Mac's always so shy to give Bone love.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: I don't understand what I did wrong. I said you
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: two guys.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: I never even.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: I just said you two guys are my two favorite coworkers.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: I thought that was a nice statement.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: I just thought that.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: I thought after two decades plus, I thought comfortably I
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: could at least.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: Okay, you're number one. If that's what you need for
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: your ego. You know what you are? You're number two
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: right now, sir.
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: On my list, you're number two.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: I didn't even rank you guys. I just said, oh,
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: my Lord. Seriously. See what you've done, Westy? See what
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: you have done.
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: Now I know how Shaq and now I know how
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: Phil Jackson dealt with Shaq and Kobe.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: This dude says Bone has, does Bone have an ego?
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: Is he, does he lack personal security or is he
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: just a diva? Or bone wasn't really being all that serious.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: Panther Cliff said bone should be clear, number one. But
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: your bony acts are very serious. Your bony acts are
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: coming after me right now.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: Because they protect their investment. All right.
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: Hogfather's got to be number one on this list. He's
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: listening today, right? He's moving, man. He doesn't know what
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: you're saying. Just a gentleman of all gentlemen. No problem.
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: Walker males on their Bailey's on their smokes on their
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: Walker West. They're all out there. When we come back
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: on the Mac and bone show, eight o'clock hour, we
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: are sensing a lot of Panthers paranoia from fans about
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: this weekend's game in Philly. Is that justified? We also
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: have a new Bryce song or excuse me, a new
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: bi-week song, not Bryce song, a new bi-week song that
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: dropped it's Mac, his favorite 50 and the bone man
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: sports radio, 92, seven.