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Mac & Bone Hour 2: USMNT Takes Center Stage · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: That's that's great. We've got the opportunity to do something
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  Speaker 1: incredibly special this summer and we're on home soiler. We're
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  Speaker 1: looking to win a tournament and you can't get there
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  Speaker 1: without winning this next game. So I fully would say
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  Speaker 1: that this is the most important game. Then it us
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  Speaker 1: played to the States and we all go into that
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  Speaker 1: mindset of you know, it's do or die. We've got
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  Speaker 1: to find a way to win. Even if we don't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily perform as well as we have done, we just
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  Speaker 1: have to find a way to get a result.
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  Speaker 2: That is shout out Robinson, left back for the US
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  Speaker 2: men's national team, talking to Colin Cowhard about this being
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  Speaker 2: the biggest game that this group has ever played.
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  Speaker 3: It's tonight.
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  Speaker 2: It's eight o'clock on Fox against Bosnia and Herzegovina. It's
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  Speaker 2: the knockout round. There's no more room for error. They're
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  Speaker 2: trying to win their second knockout game ever. Bone they're
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  Speaker 2: playing their first knockout game ever as a favorite tonight.
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  Speaker 2: And the ratings for this I have a feeling and
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  Speaker 2: this is the whole ratings for this World Cup and
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  Speaker 2: the US men's national team, you know, kind of go
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  Speaker 2: in with what I want to talk about now. I
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  Speaker 2: want to know are sports fans in Charlotte, North Carolina
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  Speaker 2: that hang out with Mack and Bone? I want to
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  Speaker 2: know how hyped are you for this? How big of
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  Speaker 2: a deal is this for you? Because the ratings for
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  Speaker 2: the World Cup in general, Bone have been absolutely ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: You and I were talking about this off the air yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I think the fact that it's in the US ads
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  Speaker 2: interest for you know, for people. I think the fact
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  Speaker 2: that's in the US the game times are very US friendly,
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  Speaker 2: whereas when it's overseas or whatever, you'll have game times
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the night or early in the
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  Speaker 2: morning on a workday and.
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  Speaker 4: Everything like that morning show friendly also a right in
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  Speaker 4: our wheel house. Right in the afternoon, you couldn't draw
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  Speaker 4: it up. And sometimes we're in here during hours where
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  Speaker 4: there's games being on depending on what the country had
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  Speaker 4: in and you miss most of what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that's a big factor in the ratings
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  Speaker 2: as well. But just look at the US men's national
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  Speaker 2: team ratings.
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  Speaker 3: Bone.
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  Speaker 2: They had almost twenty five million total viewers between Fox
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  Speaker 2: and Telemundo for a meaningless game essentially right Turkey A
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  Speaker 2: was out, we were already first in the group. We
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  Speaker 2: played nine different players, right, it was a completely different
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  Speaker 2: lineup and on almost twenty five million watch Bone it
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  Speaker 2: was the same audience essentially as the decisive game of
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  Speaker 2: the NBA Finals, Game six. And that's not just any
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  Speaker 2: NBA Finals. That's the highest rated NBA Finals since Jordan
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  Speaker 2: played in one.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's insane number.
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  Speaker 2: The opener against Paraguay did twenty seven million people plus
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  Speaker 2: between Fox and Tilamundo. And now it's the knockout stage.
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  Speaker 2: It's prime time at ten o'clock tonight. I just think
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  Speaker 2: this is going to be I thought it was o'clock
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  Speaker 2: or eight o'clock today. I'm sorry, that's what I meant.
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  Speaker 2: Eight o'clock tonight. This one, what the hell is at
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  Speaker 2: ten o'clock eight o'clock tonight. So it's right in people's
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  Speaker 2: wheelhouse Bone, And there are a lot of TV you
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  Speaker 2: know folks, folks that are into the TV numbers that
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  Speaker 2: think this could be thirty million plus tonight for this game.
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  Speaker 4: It will be the highest rated US soccer game ever.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think that's going out on a limb. If
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  Speaker 4: there's interest back and the ratings are high, think about this.
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  Speaker 4: This is the fourth game. Second game was in the
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  Speaker 4: afternoon on a Friday at three. The last game was
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  Speaker 4: not even in the wheelhouse of primetime. It was at
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  Speaker 4: ten o'clock. It wasn't eight or nine even for East Coast.
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  Speaker 4: So think about this game and what this means. Eight
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  Speaker 4: o'clock on a Wednesday. There's no doubt in my mind
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  Speaker 4: that when we're talking about the ratings of this game,
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  Speaker 4: this will be the highest rated US game of all time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 2: I'd say it because I think the two that I
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  Speaker 2: just mentioned, Bone are are the top right now. So
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  Speaker 2: I definitely think that that will happen. I agree with
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  Speaker 2: you all of that to say the country is captivated
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  Speaker 2: by this? Are y'all captivated by this? I understand Bone,
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  Speaker 2: that soccer will polarize the text line. I understand it.
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  Speaker 2: I see it all the time. But I need to
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  Speaker 2: know when you throw in the fact that it's the
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  Speaker 2: US team, Like, far from everybody Bone that watched the
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  Speaker 2: US men's hockey team and got into that run to
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  Speaker 2: Gold is a diehard hockey fan. Far from it, right,
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  Speaker 2: So is this having the same effect on you? National pride, patriotism?
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  Speaker 2: How fired up are you? It's also in a calendar
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  Speaker 2: part of the Yearbone, where we don't have a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot going on in the sports calendar. I just I
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  Speaker 2: really hope and I really think that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: you are going to hit us up on the text
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  Speaker 2: line and say, I'm psyched for tonight. I'm into this team,
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  Speaker 2: but I want to see out of curiosity, how much
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  Speaker 2: are you into this team? Seven zer four or five,
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  Speaker 2: seven h nine, six ten, Because I'm nervous, like the
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  Speaker 2: Panthers are playing in a playoff game tonight, like I am.
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  Speaker 3: I am so amped up for the night, Man, I couldn't.
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  Speaker 5: I was.
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  Speaker 3: I try to sleep last night. All I think about
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  Speaker 3: is this game.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 2: They have to do this. They are the better team, Bone.
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  Speaker 2: This is a team that legitimately can get as far
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  Speaker 2: as we've seen any team in our lifetime get. God,
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  Speaker 2: they gotta show up and bring it from the start.
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  Speaker 3: You're right.
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  Speaker 4: It's the perfect time too, because it's not like Mac
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  Speaker 4: anyone on this show or Braves fans want to watch
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  Speaker 4: their baseball team right now. Why would I want to
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  Speaker 4: watch the Yankees right now over this? Why would you
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  Speaker 4: watch the Braves Orioles Mets. The team's here, like they're
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  Speaker 4: all horrible in this moment in time. So yeah, this
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  Speaker 4: is the only thing that matters right now.
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  Speaker 3: Mac.
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  Speaker 4: I test of the text line right now, I would
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  Speaker 4: say ninety eight percent are fired up. We're their viewing parties.
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  Speaker 4: I'm ready to go. Albermarle fan is ready to go. Kid,
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  Speaker 4: you think MAC with on the top of your head.
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  Speaker 4: Who's the one guy that said, and I quote, I'll
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  Speaker 4: be watching my dogs playing.
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  Speaker 3: My grass grow. Who's that? That would be be Bob Johnson.
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  Speaker 3: But be Bobby is the type of guy I thought you.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Bebop's the ultimate patriot. On the text line,
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  Speaker 2: Oh he is funny? How that funny? How that left
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  Speaker 2: here for soccer?
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  Speaker 3: You got some call, you got some Rudway blue hats there?
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  Speaker 4: Uh? Be buggle with them on MAC. Here's the thing
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  Speaker 4: about Bebob. He texts the radio station all day. And
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if he likes sports or not, because
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  Speaker 4: everything we bring.
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  Speaker 3: Up he hates. What does he? So, be Bob, what
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  Speaker 3: do you like in life? Do you like sports?
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  Speaker 4: Because all you do is spend time hating on sports.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, I also don't know if your last
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  Speaker 4: name was Johnson or not.
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  Speaker 3: I made that up.
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  Speaker 2: Uh This texture says, sweet Tea, I hate to hear
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  Speaker 2: Max's excitement. Heartbreak is coming. I don't think you could
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  Speaker 2: blame me for if the US men national team screws
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  Speaker 2: up in soccer. I feel like they have done that
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  Speaker 2: on their own plenty of times. I'm not even sure
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  Speaker 2: what I do matters. This texture says, also, there's so
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  Speaker 2: there's some What we're getting bone is interest, but reservations
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  Speaker 2: Matt and the hatch says, I'm into it, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: worried about them choking tonight, USA, let's go. If I
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  Speaker 2: could stay awake, I'll definitely be watching. That's trophy, husband.
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  Speaker 3: Trophy, Hubby, you can't get you can't make it to
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  Speaker 3: ten tonight. Who are you me?
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  Speaker 2: Even bone going to be even with that puppy wearing
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  Speaker 2: bone out, He's gonna make it tonight to ten o'clot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the match starts at eight. I think I worried everybody
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  Speaker 2: when I said ten. For some reason, A match starts
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  Speaker 2: at eight to night.
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  Speaker 4: And these soccer matches, when it says eight, when it
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  Speaker 4: says nine, when it says twelve, when it says one,
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  Speaker 4: they are starting.
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  Speaker 3: Right there right.
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  Speaker 4: This is not our sports here, normally where it says
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  Speaker 4: eight in by eight twenty five, they gave going right away.
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  Speaker 4: I missed the start of a few games back because
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  Speaker 4: early on when it said whatever time it was, I
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  Speaker 4: tell I got a few minutes here, and they say,
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  Speaker 4: I know, I'm seven minutes late to the game.
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  Speaker 3: I'm great, that's wonderful. Yeah, I'm so used to that.
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  Speaker 4: Ten fiften, you know whatever, ten fifteen, twenty after the hour.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this is a beautiful thing, and that's the way
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  Speaker 2: soccer is around the World's great. Not in the MLS, though,
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  Speaker 2: we ruined it in the MLS, right, it starts about
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  Speaker 2: nine ten minutes.
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  Speaker 4: After MLS is kind of likecar where it says a
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  Speaker 4: certain time and then forty five minutes later you're like, when.
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  Speaker 3: Did this thing get going? Isn't every American sport except
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  Speaker 3: the NFL so bad?
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  Speaker 2: The NFL pretty much starts right on time, all right,
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  Speaker 2: So let's talk about it. What do y'all think? Are
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  Speaker 2: you excited about this? And then the second question is confident.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like y'all are nervous, probably because of the past.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm telling y'all, y'all know this right with your
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  Speaker 2: own eyes. Have you not seen that. This is the
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  Speaker 2: best US men's national team and the best the US
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  Speaker 2: men's national team has ever played in our lifetime, Like
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  Speaker 2: you gotta be back to nineteen fifty but to find
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  Speaker 2: anything you could compare this to. Come on, man, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to do to business tonight. They're going to get
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  Speaker 2: the lineup in their Bone that played the Paraguay game
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  Speaker 2: because Polistic's back, so it won't even be the one
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  Speaker 2: that played against Australia where they use two strikers up front.
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  Speaker 2: Weren't as good, but we're still good against Australia. This
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  Speaker 2: is the team that ripped the Paraguay team that just
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  Speaker 2: beat Germany. They're going to have the ball and they
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  Speaker 2: have been magical with the ball, especially Bone went Polistics
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  Speaker 2: in there. The midfield, I mean the athleticism and the midfield,
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  Speaker 2: like those guys are dogs athletes, those guys are skilled.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I just think guys like West, McKinney, Tillman
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  Speaker 2: and Adams in the midfield are gonna be a huge difference.
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  Speaker 2: And watch for if we win the ball back immediately. Bone,
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  Speaker 2: when we lose the ball, like you remember the Paraguay game, Yeah, Australia,
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  Speaker 2: we lose the ball in their end because it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be We're gonna have it an ar end for most
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  Speaker 2: of the match, and watch us winning it right back.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't do it against Turkey with the different group
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  Speaker 2: in there. If you see these guys winning that damn
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  Speaker 2: ball right away and then going right back on the attack,
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you that was what made them.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things that made them so great in
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  Speaker 3: those first two games. Man, I think I.
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  Speaker 4: Think they're gonna win tonight and then from here on
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  Speaker 4: out that I think it's all the matchups and well,
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  Speaker 4: it'll be nerve wracking for me this one. I think
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  Speaker 4: based off the opponent, I know that you know Bosnia
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  Speaker 4: can somehow get out to a lead. That can always
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  Speaker 4: be trouble in these games. I think the US can
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  Speaker 4: do what they've done, get out to the early lead,
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  Speaker 4: kind of put Bosi away early in their hopes and
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  Speaker 4: move on. It's it's going forward. I worry they're pretty
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  Speaker 4: heavy favorites tonight, macers in this game. They're minus seven
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  Speaker 4: hundred on draft games. That's for these games. That's kind
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  Speaker 4: of a lot there for how even some of these
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  Speaker 4: matchups are I really want to say something right now,
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  Speaker 4: but for the sake of the country and my safety.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna say right now there's something I really
• 10:33
  Speaker 4: want to say about this game, but I'm not. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not even good. I can't have a long country. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I don't feel like you can lock city again. It
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: wasn't it wasn't It was not locked out. Okay, three
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  Speaker 4: score galore. No, it wasn't four goals or more. No,
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't three scores goalar. It was two scores, goalre sink.
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  Speaker 4: The US can could win this thing by two tonight,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's two nothing, three to one. I think they
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  Speaker 4: win tonight.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to two scores gore. I think they can
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  Speaker 2: definitely win by two, and they might be a win
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  Speaker 2: by more. I mean, the best team that Bosia played
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  Speaker 2: in Switzerland, and Switzerland put four past them. You're gonna
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  Speaker 2: see at the US so much more athletic. Bosni has
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  Speaker 2: got some big, old giants. You actually made the point
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  Speaker 2: earlier this week. We don't want to give away corners
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  Speaker 2: and free kicks to them. We do because we're entering
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  Speaker 2: this round. I don't know where it would be to
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  Speaker 2: these games. They led the group stage in quarterkick goals
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  Speaker 2: off quartercakes it's because they're so big inside, so you
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  Speaker 2: don't want to give them up. But other than that,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I just there's gonna be such an athleticism
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  Speaker 2: advantage that the US has. Polistic I think is going
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  Speaker 2: to be masters. Batigan is back. I mean, just flow.
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  Speaker 2: Battigan's going to finish Man. He is in amazing form.
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: So I know everybody's out there saying the Mac curse
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: and all this stuff. Whatever, Man, the Matt curse didn't
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  Speaker 2: seem to affect the Canes. It's funny how good teams
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: bone actually aren't.
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  Speaker 3: Affected by the Mac curse.
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  Speaker 2: But when Max says a stinky ass panther team gonna
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  Speaker 2: do something and they lose, it gets blamed on Mac
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  Speaker 2: and that the stinky ass panther team.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think Max responsible for the state of America
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  Speaker 4: and stuff that happens here. I think we can let
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  Speaker 4: Mac off the hook for for predicting a soccer game here.
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  Speaker 4: Mackers are there are a lot of Bosnian bears in there,
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  Speaker 4: like Nurkic.
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  Speaker 2: So they got I think like their center backs resemble
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: like Bosnian biggs. No doubt about it. This, Texas says Mac,
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  Speaker 2: you don't just curse bad local teams. Remember the twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight Cardinals game. All right, I got come on,
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: move on, let's move on. How can't you baby good
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: juju today? Let's not think about that kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of stuff, can I so you for a second? Mac?
• 12:26
  Speaker 4: How come when Mac gets something wrong, you never forget.
• 12:30
  Speaker 4: But yet the Canes win it, and no one ever says,
• 12:34
  Speaker 4: well that you just move on to the ones that
• 12:36
  Speaker 4: are negative. Praise my man forgetting something right.
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  Speaker 2: Praise me Bro, thank you Bo, praise my guy here, well,
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  Speaker 2: thank you sir.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the two times I was right in twenty plus years,
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: why don't y'all remember those two times? This Texas says,
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  Speaker 2: best opportunity we're going to see. Yeah, and I hope
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  Speaker 2: that that brings out the best in these fellas. This
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  Speaker 2: is their shot. I heard Tim Reem talk about this.
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  Speaker 2: If Tim Reem it's really his shot, right, this is
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  Speaker 2: his last go round in the World Cup. But he
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: talked about this is arm. They know it's their moment,
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  Speaker 2: they know it's their chance. They know that they got
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  Speaker 2: the group that they could win, and they went out
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  Speaker 2: and capitalized on that bone. They've got a draw where
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  Speaker 2: I think it is very doable to get to the
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  Speaker 2: round of eight for only the second time ever. But
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  Speaker 2: they got to seize it. They can't shrink from it,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean like that, And I don't
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  Speaker 2: think they will. They can't come out and be you know, conservative.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't think Pachettino, I don't think you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to let them do that. People bringing up
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  Speaker 2: this might be the best coach the US has ever had.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a factor as well. We're talking about
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  Speaker 2: a world class coach. I'm excited. I'm excited by the
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  Speaker 2: amount of people that are into this.
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  Speaker 3: I will not.
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  Speaker 2: I will not trade banter bone with James Rare Maiden
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  Speaker 2: and Myron Goodman, though I'm gonna trade banter with them
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  Speaker 2: or bebop Myron. And they're soccer hating and US soccer hating.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not here for that much.
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  Speaker 4: Iron Goodman watches regular season college baseball games and he's
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: he's hating on the world like we we all, you know,
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  Speaker 4: college baseball has a point of excitement along the way.
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  Speaker 4: But Myron texts about regular games in like you know, February,
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  Speaker 4: and Myron, I mean, I'm gonna respectfully say, Myron Goodman
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  Speaker 4: sit this one out man sub out, subody out. We
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  Speaker 4: got the numbers up, mack we're taking out Myron and Bebo.
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  Speaker 4: What three numbers up on the board.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, James and James, you made okay? So
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: I lied.
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  Speaker 2: I am going to engage James from maid and hating
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  Speaker 2: on this US soccer game. Like you said, Bone expected
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  Speaker 2: to do the biggest numbers of viewership in the history
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  Speaker 2: of US men's national team, and so the nation's captivated.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: But James wants to text about.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: Duke recruits Bone that will be available when the Hornet's
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  Speaker 2: picking the twenty thirty three NBA dra They will be
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: one and Done's Bone the twenty thirty three NBA draft.
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  Speaker 2: And this dude is tracking sixth graders on behalf of Duke.
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  Speaker 3: I need that in follr. I let him keep going. Ah, Louie,
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  Speaker 3: P's nervous.
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  Speaker 5: Mac.
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  Speaker 4: Let's let's see Mackenzie has a train that worries on
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  Speaker 4: why do we care about that?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: What he said.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we got Reem and Richards at center back.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess if there's an injury, but I
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: don't really feel good about him.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: If he's healthy.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I have to ask the level of
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: excitement from one fitty Wellington alwhich's Marlwa.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: Was soccer fitty? How fired up are you tonight?
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: Man?
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: You feel I know you? Ready to go fitty?
• 15:30
  Speaker 6: Hell yeah? This is the biggest thing on the sports
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: of viewing calendar today. The Mets play at three. Hopefully
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: they'll get their ass beat and I can just be
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: alone in the zone, ready to watch, ready to watch
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: this team play. I think they're gonna get it done.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: Mac.
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: You know, this is probably the most I've been into
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: us since twenty ten. I was really big into the
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: World Cup that year. That was back at the height
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: of my playing career. That was really when I was
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: emerging as a young superstar and inister county. So I've
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: really gotten back into it. Watched all three matches yesterday,
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: so I kind of bounced back up for falling asleep
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: on Monday night. So soccer fitty, football, fitty, FIFA fitty,
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: Everton fitty, ready.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: To go to that? How did how?
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: How can he turn any topic bone into what he
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: did in his personal youth career in a sportie like
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: any any Hornets topic can turn into church league fitty
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: and any soccer topic could turn into that one year
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: was on the team.
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: That's the burden of being the only athlete on the show.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: How what are you talking about? What did you do?
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: What did I do? I got doug daughter made the news. Yeah,
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: I got dunked on, made the news. Baby.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: I hit two big late free throws in a state
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: playoff game against Cumberland Valley Homes.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: What are you talking about? What did I do?
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: But I did go on to lead to a championship.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Yes, mine did.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: I won regional tournaments in Pennsylvania as a captain of
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: a basketball team when I was eleven.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Fitty, what should bone soccer? Phones another Will? He's trying
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: to Will he had a typo in there. Will. He
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: messed up. Will.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: He thought it was Weston McKinney, who wasn't training Western.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: McKinnie is completely healthy. It is mackenzie backup center back.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: So you would think a soccer guy would know.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Toupball, get on your game, buddy, tighten your game up.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: He this Texas flo just Texas says floor burns only
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: two points in a playoff game, and he wants to
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: brag about him skipped Bayless. I think I had like
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: four probably have four in that game, sir, steal late
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: in that game.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Too, Fiddy, I chose a different path in high school.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: I didn't play UH for any high school teams. I
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: chose the path of UH the Pep Club. Did you
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: were you a hicho athlete, Fitty? Did you play in
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: high school like the.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Actual remember that freshman year soccer?
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: Though?
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: Yes, I played JV basketball. I played UH soccer as
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: a freshman, got caught up to varsity as a freshman,
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: was there with the team the final two games.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: What happened that What happened, Well, they.
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: Were wanting to get me acclimated for the next year.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: What happened?
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: And then the next year I went out there. Coach
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: yanna me for not chasing out a ball, and I
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: was like, the hell with this.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: The point is Mac played varsity. You said, bet Asley
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: done their show, Max, the only one.
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: Here that was seventies.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Mac had a nineteen nineties letter jacket. We did not
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: have that.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: Hey, anyone can wear a jacket, not everyone can. Can
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: can play on the plane for.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: A fitty you got the coach tried to actually let
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: me check my notes here. Coach you and you had
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: a problem with it is that how I read that. Yeah,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: this dude bone that wants to yell at every athlete
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: on every one of his teams couldn't handle his coach
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: yelling at him.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: What the heck?
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Seven of them said? Mac also played wide out. He
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: talks about it all the time. Played wide receiver. Didn't
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: you Nichi put me a tight end? That was my
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: one year of football where I wanted to quit after
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: like four practices.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: My dad wouldn't let me.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: It was horrible. I hated football. All you guys that
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: played football or animals? Man, you guys are beasts seven
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: four numbers, says, Let's face it, guys, you're on radio
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: talking about sports for a reason. I think that's fair, sir,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I think that's fair. Yeah, because my injuries piled up.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Willie pet might be the best athlete on the team.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: DC area edge rusher though, like speed rusher in on
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: the mean streets of DC high school sports.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Him in the mix, Him.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: And Eddie Royal, just the captain of the squad. Oh, man,
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: when we when we come. Oh somebody went to Cumberland
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Valley beer maker. Man, Yeah, that's my Albunding moment. Someone said,
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Max Albundy moments are sad Max Albundy moments are two
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: made free throws, Al sack Mac.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: It is sad. It is kind of sad.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: Will we come back some more? Devnoyd shade from a
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: media member. Do we worry at all about these Devin
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: doubters that they could be proven?
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Right? Panther Talk Next Sports Radio ninety two seven w FNZ. Yeah.
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: I mean, I think football is football. So you know,
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: anything you could ask a linebacker to do, you know,
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: I take pride in being able to do it at
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: a high level. So in this scheme, you know, the
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: ask the linebackers obviously we have a really really stout
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: d line so to make plays in the run game.
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: And then obviously in the past game. You know that's
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: kind of uh, you know, a big emphasis coach's defense.
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: So you know, at the end of the day, football football.
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't even say, you know, scheme to schemes anything different,
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: But for me, you know, it's showing coach that hey,
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: I can do anything I can. Bless, I can cover
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: whatever position you asked me to do, put me in
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: and make the play him feeling comfortable. And I think
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: the big thing is like, Okay, well, how often do
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: you bless linebackers. I think that's the element of my
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: game where you know I've been successful and I want
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: to continue to take that next step. And so it's
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: just winning whenever my number is called. And you know,
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: the more you do that, the more you'll call your number.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: That is New Carolina Panther Devin Lloyd can't wait to
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: see him on the field at training camp, Training camp,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Bone is what are we now?
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Three weeks away? I think from training camp. I can't
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: believe it's here already. But it's not too long.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: JJ Jansen, get your family vak in, baby, get your
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: vak in. It is almost gonna be got time for
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: the boys. But he's a guy that I know we
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: all can't wait to see out there. And I've noticed something.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: We have the backdrop of the Wukeley celebration also there.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a fun start. Gonna be a fun
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: start even if Bone, even if the third and four
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: stringers play the entire game in Canton, Ohio, it's still
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: gonna be a fun weekend.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Hey, that's say football. Football's football when it comes to
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: the Panther. So you could throw out four stringers and
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: a couple of recycling bands. I'm probably gonna watch it.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: I am predicting bone big Haines King commentary after the
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame game, you know, because he probably go
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: thrown about twenty.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Four times which word Haines I have? What guy?
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: I think that it's gonna be interesting to see what
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: kind of role he dives into in this league. But
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: there's no doubt that the new Joe Webb of the
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: summer will be Haines King.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be Haines King versus Kenny Pickett versus Will
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Greer in a backup and third string QB steelcage match.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: That will be the discussion after in August seventh, after
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: the day after the Hall of Fame game.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: You know that there will be texts that you address
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: and I address him on the way about those that
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: want to move Haines King to play tight end at
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: some point, right, that is right? Because the Taysom Hill thing,
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: it's honest. It's probably gonna be an honest discussion at
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: someone is he is he? I call him Haysom Hill?
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Is he Hayes some Hill?
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Shout out to captain real quick because I want to
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: get into Devin Lloyd and the fact that I'm seeing
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: a trend lately, Bone with some media members being skeptical
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: of Devin Lloyd and you know, his ability to be
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: as good as he was in the Jacksonville scheme and
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: the way he was used in Jacksonville and Carolina. I
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: want to talk about I know something a couple of
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: weeks ago y'all talked about a little bit, but it
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: happened again. It happened again in another article. But I
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: do want to shout out Captain Dave for telling us
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: about this, and shout out to Charlotte Independence. They are
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: playing again. They move their game time up tonight Bone
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: to five point thirty. They'll play Corpus Crispy Chris, Corpus
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Cormuths Crispy.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: What am I figuring about? Chicken? I think I got
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: fried chicken.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: On the brain Corpus Christy at five thirty tonight at
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Memorial Stadium. And then they're holding a watch party watching
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: on the big screen at eight o'clock tonight with a
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: bunch of soccer fans. So that's pretty cool, So shout
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: out to them for that. All right, let's talk about
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: this Devin White thing. So you sent me a link
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: to this Bone and it is the NFL off season
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: grades from ESPN, and the Panthers get a B, which
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I feel like we deserve a B plus at least
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: to be plus. But I'll take a bee, all right,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I'll take a bee. And then you start reading some
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: of the stuff. Okay, So they like the Jalen Phillips signing.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: They like not extending Bryce and waiting on Bryce. Which listen,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: I like Bryce. I think he's getting better and better.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: But you know, we've talked all on about Hey, the
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: holding pattern on Bryce, let us see more. Probably a
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: smart thing to do. But the move that the writer
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: from ESPN disliked is signing Devin Lloyd. He says the
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: team upgraded the second level of defense, signing Devin Lloyd
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: to a fifteen million dollars per year contract. I went
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: into free agency expecting to be quite down on Lloyd's signing. Well,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: he made impactful plays last season. Jacksonville didn't trust him
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: to stay on the field for all snaps, which is
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: a red flag. But he got less than I thought
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: he would. So while I don't like the deal, it's
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: not terrible either. All right, So that is who did
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: this on ESPN? Who is this mass Man, there was.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: I had one of them earlier that we taught Seth Walder. Okay,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: this is Seth Walder. Now I bring this up and
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: I say this is a trend bone because yes, Ben
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Solak was also a couple of weeks ago when y'all
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: talked about this. You know, I'm not trying to say now,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: I can't say expressing skepticism in Devin Lloyd and what
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: he will do outside of the Jacksonville scheme. Couple of
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: things he wrote. Let's read a little bit of what
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: to take you back to what Ben Solak ESPN wrote.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Lloyd certainly played better with physicality last season, but his
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: breakout twenty twenty five seems more related to his role
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: than his actual improvement. After he spent four seasons with
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: the Jaguars, the Panthers gave him forty five million dollars
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: to join Girovero's defense, and they need him to be
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: a three down off ball linebacker that makes those sideline
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: to sideline plays. Carolina does not have the depth at
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: linebacker to specialized specialize Lloyd's role the way Jacksonville did.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Lloyd played better last year, but not as well as
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: his production would indicate that is a blip year and
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: it won't be the only one at the top of
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: the linebacker market, as recent contracts are aging poorly at
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: this changing position. Then he wrote the book on Lloyd
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: has always been that his length and explosiveness would give
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: him sideline a sideline range, but that light bulb never
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: really came on as a true off ball linebacker. So Campanilli,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: who was the first year decordinator last year that used
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: him bone in this certain way, insisted or instead line
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Lloyd up at the line of scrimmage more up from
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: eight percent to sixteen percent at times, flexing him off
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: the edge into almost a nickelback alignment. This narrowed Lloyd's vision.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: He didn't have to read and react to nearly as
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: many post snap keys, and it let him play faster.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: The reimagined role also allowed into blitz Moore, and he
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: excels there. So what I know, you and Fitty kicked
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: a little bit of this around.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: We did.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Do you have any and the fans too. I'm curious.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Now we've got a second writer expressing, you know, skeepticism
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: that it's definitely going to be that good for Carolina.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Do you have any of these fears at all.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: It feels like Seth Walder didn't like Woyd in general
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: no matter where he signed, based off the warning the
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: way he worded that did to begin with there in
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: what you read about skepticism about he's going to get
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: over paid, so you thought that no matter where he went,
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: he might not be as good. So it didn't matter
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: where he fit in there. A couple of points here.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: First of all, let's look where he's going and the
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: linebacker depth and what he's improving here. Well, even if
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: he met is a tick below what he was in Jacksonville,
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: he's still a massive upgrade over what this team had
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: and he sorely needed for many reasons. They praised his leadership,
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: his boitzeing abilities. There was a lot of criticism, criticism,
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: criticisms in those write ups for a guy that, let
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: me check, was second team All Pro last year. So
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Seth Walden, Seth Walder, Seth Walden Walter, he says, oh,
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Jacksonville took him off the field. Well, guess what Wick
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: cow productive? He was to become a second off team
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: All Pro when they still took him off the field.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: What's that tell you?
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: Tells you the guys a hell of a football player
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: when he's out there.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Here's I felt like that was over the top a
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: little bit.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: There's a couple of things going on, like do I
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: think he's gonna be second team All Pro here in
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Carolina this year? I probably would bet against it, But
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: then again, I lose most of my bets, so maybe
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: that's a good thing. Do I think he's gonna be
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: a Pro bowler? I don't know. I don't know if
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: i'd bet on that. But do I think he's a
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: major upgrade for us at middle linebacker?
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: Hell?
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he is major upgrade. And I get it.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: A lot of people in the media are pointing to
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: the five interceptions he was second in the NFL. He
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: a'n't gonna get those again. But that's not all he did.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Bone He had his best coverage season in general last year.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: He had an amazing season as a blitzer, as one
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: of the articles pointed out.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: And here's the thing, like, yes, he will.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Have to be more of your He will be the
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: middle linebacker, might have that green dot right, be that
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: man in the middle of this defense. But compared to
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: what we've had recently, I expect him to be an upgrade,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: a serious upgrade for us. Yes, And I also think
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: this like people, you know, I guess it was the
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: it was it Ben Sulac. It was the Ben Solac
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: part of this where it's like, well he was used
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: in this certain role right up on the line or
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: over the over the slot receiver and stuff like that.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: It's like, but you don't think as Eerio Vero is
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: smart enough to watch that tape and work some of
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: that in as well, you know what I mean, Like
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: I just I just believe. And I looked at it
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: because again I'm not gonna act like Bone. I'm watching
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: all Jacksonville's games for all of Devin Lloyd's career, so
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at his PFF numbers. Again, they're not the
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: end all on the b all, but they can be
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: a guide. And I'm looking at those numbers and I'm
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: expecting Bone his numbers to be like the way Solac
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: was talking, like way worse and way different in his
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: previous seasons. Got off to a slow rookie start. I mean,
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: it's a forty eight PFF grade that is pretty bad
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: after being a first round pick. But after that Bone
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: it went up to seventy eight seventy six, and then
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: last year was the big year eighty seven when he
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: was the second highest grade linebacker. But those PFF grades
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: are good. His run defense grades bone have been eighty
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: four or more the last three years. His stop numbers like, yeah,
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: last year he played less snaps because Jacksonville had like
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: a defined role for him and he'll play way more
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: snaps here. But he had forty four stops thirty nine
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: stops when he played more snaps.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: And again, look at our middle linebackers.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Do we not think it's a serious freaking upgrade in
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: the middle of our defense.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: Well that's what salesman on the Affordable siding windows text
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: line says.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: So what were they gonna do?
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: Not bringing Devin Lloyd if he wanted to be here
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: with that money, just Stan paddout linebacker. If they would
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: have still pad out linebacker, these these experts back would
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: rip the depth of the linebacker position. They say the
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: Panthers have good enough linebackers with all these other guys
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: they were not there. They got a guy that's highly productive.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: It's not a completely insane deal. I think for his
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: production level last year, it's a good deal. And that's
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: other people are pointing out it's not just a Vero
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: who paid him this money, who gave him the contract,
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: it's Dan Morgan. Do we not trust Dan Morgan to
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: eye up a linebacker and know that position.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: I do a good point. That's a very good point.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: This texter says mac. I don't really send some among
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Panther fans any of this skepticism the media has about Lloyd.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: I feel like he's a home run. But talking to
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: my buddies, the uh Jalen Phillips skepticism is a thing. Yeah, Well,
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: I mean I haven't.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: I would.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know what y'all got In terms of text
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: when you talk about Devin Lloyd Boone and Ben Solack
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: and what he said about him, I would agree on
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: the text line if there's skepticism, and I think I
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: think most of the fans are excited as hell about
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: both guys and excited as hell to see this defense.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: And I think most fans believe, man, we got a
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: chance to be a top ten defense this year. I
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: would say this, though I have seen more skepticism about Phillips.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Phillips got more money based he got double the money,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: of course because of the position and a lot of
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: people get hung up on the sack numbers of Jalen Phillips,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: like would you agree with that? Like, I don't know
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: how y'all like it does feel. I think it feels
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: like Phillips's question more well.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: I think the production numbers skew more towards Devin Lloyd.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: You look at the interceptions and the tack like you
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: look at just the stats, Devin Lloyd's going to stand
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: out more than you always talk about the disruption and
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: production for what we see on the numbers, Devin Woyd
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: just has more of those numbers that catch your eye
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: because of all that he did, like yeah, highlight plays
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: also last year, that interceptions and returns, that that stands
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: out as well there in that world, right.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I would argue that seventy something pressures
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: is a very impressive stat.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: I would argue that, but again, not everybody.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Most people are just googling Jalen Phillips looking at the
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: stats like you're talking about and seeing he had five
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: sacks last year, so that that you know, they're not
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: looking necessarily to these pressure And again I'm not saying
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: these pressure numbers are the end on the b all
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: stuff like that. But and I don't think we should
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: be skeptical about either one of them. They're both major upgrades.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: And that's the one thing that I worry about with
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Phillips's health. Tours Achilles towards ACL two separate, you know,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: serious injuries, has missed time. Then he had the situation
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: in college Bone where he thought, man, I might be
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: done playing. So he does have a history of health issues.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: I will admit, all right, because someone said Homer Mack
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: is in preseason mode touting every signing, and yes, I
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: love both these signings. I think both these signings are
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: major upgrades in the two biggest areas we need to
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: help on on defense.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: But I will at least.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Admit here Bone, maybe in a moment of Homer weakness
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: and honesty, I will admit the Lloyd if there's one
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Lloyd worry. If he's on the field, I feel like
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: he's gonna affect the game, in the run game, of
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: the past game, he's gonna affect track double teams. He's
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: gonna help everybody else. But I don't know about you.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: The health peak, yes, I think it's a legit. I
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: think that's where the risk was taken by Dan Morgan
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: is the health part of it.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: Macuy found here an article from a couple of weeks
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: ago from Bucky Brooks of NFL dot com the top
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: seven players who should crack the NFL Top one hundred
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: in twenty twenty six. Devin Lloyd made Bucky Brooks list
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: based off last year of players.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Oh there you go.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: He said, it's rare to find a linebacker with a
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: knack for creating impact plays in the passing game at
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: Carolina made sure to Locke went up this offseason. Last
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: season with Jacksonville, Woyd stagged a career high five interceptions,
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: returning one for ninety nine yards against the Chiefs as
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: a spot as a spot dropped defender in a vision
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: and break scheme that feasting on tip that overthrown passes.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: Woyd's exceptional ball skills mass some coverage issues, but there's
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: always a place on the field for a guy that's
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: that active there. Given his skill set, Woyd should be
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: in the NFL Top one hun And you suggested that
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: earlier in the show. You said that you think that
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: we could very well see him on this list. I mean,
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: he is just a dude, Like, what was the number
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: one weakness bone, rose Boom against the run.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Thought it was all right.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Rose Boom against the pass see the Rams game, see
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: the middle of the field in the Rams game and
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: many other games. Rose Boom against the pass was just
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: a horror show man, just absolutely. Freddy Krueger wasn't scarier
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: than having us drop rose Boom back in the coverage
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: on third and seven.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: And that's the thing.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: You look at what Lloyd did twenty eight pressure's bone
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: from a linebacker spot. He might have been the league's
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: best blitzing linebacker. And what's another thing. You can point
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: to the coverage abilities and it's like, that's the passing
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: down stuff.
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Were also take into account the players that will be
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: around him when he wants to blitz. Think about Derek
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Brown Mack and how much he's going to attract on
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: the defensive front. There the tackles and Lloyd running right
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: through those gaps because Derek Brown, Oh.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, multiple people brought that out, like he hadn't been
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: playing behind that big old band.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: He didn't have big balls in front of him. Jacksonville
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: like that does he big.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Old lee in front of him with blockers, So yeah,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: he'll be free.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: You would think he'll be pretty free right to make place. Yes,
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: when we come back. It's World Cup Wednesday with Westy.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: Ashley Westwood, the captain of Charlite FC, joins us to
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: preview tonight's game. Is he concerned about the US against Bosnia?
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: Sports Radio ninety two seven w FNZ.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety two to seven w FNZ, E Mac
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: and Bone with you. We've talked already a bunch about
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: the US men's national team playing as an actual favorite
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: in the knockout round for the first time ever the
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: night against Bosnia and Herzegovina eight o'clock on Fox. We're
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: pumped up about it. I mean, they call our next
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: guest in the Charlotte f C locker room mister America.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: So I know he's probably fired up about that. But
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: by the way, his country England playing d Or Congo
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: today at noon as well, so we both got big
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: games coming up.
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: Are I've I've become a soccer guy. I thought that
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: was doctor Congo when this whole thing started, but now
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: I know it's Dr Congo.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: We just played one individual, doctor eleven on one that
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: would be that would be easy for doctor Congo guy.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: All right, anyway, let's bring in the man who, for
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: some reason we don't know why, has chosen to help
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: us as our World Cup correspondent. He is Ashley Westwood,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: captain of Charlotte FC. It's World Cup, Westy, Westy? What's
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: going on? Man?
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: How you doing?
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: Good morning follos. Hopefully we don't need doctor Congo today.
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: Hey, well see that was me like when I hold
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: now I'm mom all in. That was a different version
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: of me a while ago. You're yeah, now you're next.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Now you're in guru Man, Westy, are you let me
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: ask you this as an England fan, are you worried
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: about this matchup today? They're huge favorites or have you
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: thought about the prospect of their next game if they
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: win in a Stadio Azteca, which is a which is
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: an insane environment. We saw it last night against Mexico.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Either of those things concern you, Westy.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: If I was speaking as a player, I would say
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: I just concentrated on this game. But no, as a
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: as a fun we're looking for a second. It should
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: be amazing. I watched watched Mexico last night. It looked
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: an incredible stadium.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: I know that place was on its ear man. You
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: know they will be in the round of sixteen. Uh, well,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: I get to I've got a question, Westy, what have
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: you been doing with your life during this Wild Cup
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: World Cup? Because I know you went to the beach
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: at one point. We talked to you at the beach
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: at one point. What are you guys raining?
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: Like?
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: What's going on with Charlotte FSI players? Have you guys?
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: You guys get like a long vacation. I have to
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: imagine they brought you back for some training.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: What's going on?
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we started back two weeks ago.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, they were back.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: We're back in the full swing of it. But we
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: get home. We've got a good life. Mate. We get
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: home for about two pm.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Oh there you go.
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: And then me and the little me and my little
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: boy we watch every game.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: Oh nice, that is cool. How old's your How old
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: is your older boy?
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: He's fourteen today? Birthday today?
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: Oh awesome, Happy happy birthday to him. I'm sure you
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: guys were watching the US tonight against Bosnie.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Is there any any concerns with this matchup?
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: And if so, what what could Bosni you do that
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: might bother the US?
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: These are tough, these are this is probably the toughest
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: game you're gonna have there. I would say they're coming
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: in as underdogs, so they've got they've not got much
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: to lose, and they're just going to be called European,
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: well Eastern European. It means the world to them.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: They I mean, everybody's anticipated in them, wesd to not
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: have the ball, right, the US to have the ball,
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: a bunch to defend. They're all so big, you know,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: so they probably want to make it physical. Like do
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: you worry about the US in a game like that?
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, the Paraguay and Australia played that way and
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: it went well for the US. What do you think
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: about about that aspect of this game?
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: I think these have probably got a bit more grit
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: than the two teams. Okay, so yeah, it's good, but
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: I would fully expect USA to come through.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: What we're we're we're kind of marveling when the show
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: began and just about how how quick and how good.
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: Now it's not shocking, but how good France has been
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: so far? Do you see anyone that can slow them down?
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: How?
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: How could France lose this thing? What has to happen
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: for France not to win the Cup?
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: And we called it early on. They've got they could
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: put some teams up seriously and two of that teams
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: could probably make the finals. Well again, you never know that.
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: Harland looks like he's his lead in Norway. Who are incredible.
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: I'm even doing the Viking ron.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Viking roads amazing. They were doing that in the Mexico
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: locker room last. You're doing that everywhere.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: Wes. You got to bring that to Charlotte. Man, you
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: gotta do some rowing. That is so cool.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: And then when Odegarde hit the drum and the players
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: and fans in Unison after the game did like, that's cool.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: Man Holland had his Viking helmet on after the game
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: after that. Always the thing is he always wear that
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: and he I'd never seen that.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: And he had a cowboy hat on down there in
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Texas as well.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: So you got a cowboy hat wear.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: You're telling Westy, we're getting a fan question here, and
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: ask Westy question. Westy's fourteen year old son. Does he
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: play soccer? And if so, does he get yellow cards
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: and get into uh, get into scraps like his dad?
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: He plays he plays the same position. Okay, Well, he's
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: a bit more culture than me.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Mom's influence. Mom's influence must have played a key role
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: that he.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, she's worse. He does he play any other sports
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: right now?
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: We're just soccer, just socker's. I've got into golf. Well,
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: I've forced him into golf, so it gives me an
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: excuse to go.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: I have noticed that my son is in high school
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: and he started really getting into golf. And I have noticed.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: It's fun because I can tell my wife when I
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: go and blow time and money on golf, it's hey,
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: it's it's it's father son time.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: It does got a bonding time that works out really well. Okay,
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: so I got something I'm curious about. I want to
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: ask you. You I gotta be on with you. I'd
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: rather I wish you took more penalties for Charlotte f C.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: But I don't want to get in I don't want
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: to get on your teammates or anything like that. All right,
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: but I wish the captain would step up more. But
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: with that said, there was a story after Germany lost
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: in penalties, there was a story out there where it
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: was reported that four different German players basically said, I
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: don't really know about if I want to take a
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: penalty here, I'm not feeling it, and that's why the
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: center back ta had to step up and take his
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: first penalty ever, and he sailed the damn thing. Man,
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: it hit it into another world. You you seem cool
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: as hell on those occasions you have to take a penalty.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: But is this something where like a players will say no,
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: man like, it's not best for us to have me
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: take it in a penalty?
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: Shoot Like? Is that more common than we would think?
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it is. Probably depends how you've done in the game. Listen,
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: if you've had a bad game, you don't feel confident.
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: Think these these boys that play internationally, they should they
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: should have enough experience and yeah, a bit more confidence
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: to take Apparently I would, I would step up.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, would you again?
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: A lot of pressure. It's a lot of pressure.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: We know you don't fear anything, Westy. We know you,
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: we know we know Captain Westy stepping up. Do you think, like,
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: will the team think less of guys that said no?
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: What's that?
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: I fear the wife.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: It makes two of us, brother we got different wives,
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: but we both have the same fear. I fear my
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: ex wife.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, do you think guys want let's hear
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: your ex wife. Do you do you think guys will
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: think less of those players?
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: Uh? Probably in a in a few months when it
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: all settles down and nothing. That's my ideal. And there
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: was talk of Van Dyk. Mister didn't want to take
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: it as well, So please take some Liverpool.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that big old bit. I thought that big old
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: bear wasn't afraid anything.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: Man. How about that? How about that? Yeah?
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: I hate Liverpool. I had to get that shot in there, Wesley.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: But all right, brother, he enjoy the games today, enjoy
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: the father son bonding, whether it's watching World Cup or
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: whether it's out on the golf course. We look forward
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: to seeing you guys back on January twenty twenty or
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: January What am I talking about?
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: July twenty second?
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: That's a long break west side that long read July
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: twenty second against Atlanta at the Bank.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: All right, Westy, thank you so much, brother, be.
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: Good, thank you, good luck tonight. I enjoy it all right.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Thank you to y'all too. There you go, Ashley Westwood,
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: Charlotte FC. When we come back.
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: I can't wait for our next gets Mec because he
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: covers everything, especially college football, but he's also huge into
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: the World Cup. He's a Miami grad, so you know
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: he's going to talk about the team that's best in
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: the a SEC entering the season. That's Chris Filica, the
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: Bear from Fox Sports Talks, Soccer Talks World Cup, Next
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: Sports Radio ninety two seven WFNZ