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Mac & Bone Hour 4: Panthering Up? · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Why are.
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  Speaker 2: You so.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty now?
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  Speaker 4: I actually think this could be Miami's kind of announcement
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  Speaker 4: to the rest of the country. We think we know
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  Speaker 4: that they're really good. I think on Saturday night, we're
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  Speaker 4: going to be like, yep, that is one of, if
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  Speaker 4: not the best teams in the country. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if there's enough guts in a bring your own gut
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  Speaker 4: style environment for Dabo Sweeney to go out there and
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  Speaker 4: beat a Miami team that's that talented. unless Miami beats themselves,
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  Speaker 4: which they have a propensity to do at times. But
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  Speaker 4: this feels different this year. You've got Darian Mensah playing
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  Speaker 4: at a high level. You've got Malachi Toney. And if
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  Speaker 4: we didn't have Jeremiah Smith in this sport right now,
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  Speaker 4: Malachi Toney would be head and shoulders the best wide
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  Speaker 4: receiver in college football. By the way, Mensah played in
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  Speaker 4: Tiger Stadium last year, beat Clemson. in the road environment,
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  Speaker 4: in a tight game. They're better at the line of
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  Speaker 4: scrimmage than Clemson is. They're better than Clemson. Clemson's gotten
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  Speaker 4: some wins over, what, Georgia Southern, North Carolina, and Cal?
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  Speaker 4: I've got Miami winning on the road 42-17. They cover
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  Speaker 4: the 16.
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  Speaker 5: And a half.
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  Speaker 2: Road favorites, baby! What are we doing? This is crazy.
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  Speaker 6: That is Joel Klatt thinks Miami could put it on
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  Speaker 6: the Clemson Tigers. And that's one of the questions, Bowens,
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  Speaker 6: as we enter the college football confidence segment. If you're
• 1:37
  Speaker 6: looking for expertise breaking down the Panthers and their situation
• 1:42
  Speaker 6: right now with all the injuries and the game against
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  Speaker 6: the Lions, we're not going to give it to you.
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  Speaker 6: We tried earlier, but Trevor Sycamore from NFL Media joins
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  Speaker 6: us at.
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  Speaker 2: What time would that be, Bo?
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  Speaker 5: 925.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're.
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  Speaker 3: Looking for Zach Gelb, he was on yesterday this week.
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  Speaker 3: Check out the podcast wherever you find your podcasts.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 6: All right, so we want to know which college fan
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  Speaker 6: base is out there. We definitely want to hear from
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  Speaker 6: some of the local ones, but I mean, heck. If
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  Speaker 6: you're a Bama fan, you want to shout out, you're
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  Speaker 6: tied going into Starkville. If you're a Mississippi State fan,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, whoever you root for, Ohio State, Iowa, hell,
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  Speaker 6: we'll even take Buckeye fans, whatever, Notre Dame fans going
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  Speaker 6: into Chapel Hill. But I definitely would love to hear.
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  Speaker 6: from local fans in the Carolinas, um, who is feeling confident.
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  Speaker 6: And if you're not feeling confident, let us know too.
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  Speaker 6: Like if you just, I think you could certainly understand
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  Speaker 6: bone if Clemson fans and Tar Heel fans are like, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I ain't got no confidence for these matchups. Do you think, um,
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  Speaker 6: what do you think? Cause I can't help. Clemson fans
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  Speaker 6: or Notre Dame or Carolina fans, I think they're both
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  Speaker 6: about to get Molly Wombone. Do you think there's either
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  Speaker 6: of those teams keeping it close or not really?
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  Speaker 2: Check my notes here. No, not now. I think Clemson
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  Speaker 2: will maybe.
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  Speaker 3: night game death valley uh maybe for a little bit
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  Speaker 3: longer actually i don't know i think notre dame like
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  Speaker 3: i said yesterday i think they may bleed unc to
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  Speaker 3: death i don't know if they're just going to go
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  Speaker 3: ahead and put it on them immediately but it might
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  Speaker 3: be seven nothing and then 14 nothing but they're going
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  Speaker 3: to get to a number that the unc offense just
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  Speaker 3: can't catch it might end up being 24 to 3.
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  Speaker 2: It may end up being 27-6. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: But I just feel like Notre Dame's going to score here,
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  Speaker 3: score there, and eventually it's going to pile up where
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  Speaker 3: UNC just can't keep up with that. Miami has a chance.
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  Speaker 3: I think eventually they're going to go on a run,
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  Speaker 3: and it's going to get very ugly for Clemson. But
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  Speaker 3: I think Clemson will stay in the game a little
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  Speaker 3: bit longer than the Heels will.
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  Speaker 6: Here's the thing for the Heels, and I do agree
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  Speaker 6: with you. If Notre Dame put up 27, it was 27-3,
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  Speaker 6: it wouldn't shock me. If it's 31-10, you know what
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  Speaker 6: I mean? Something like that, it wouldn't shock me. Notre
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  Speaker 6: Dame's offense is not perfect. There's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 6: They still want to get the running game going, get
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  Speaker 6: more explosives going. but I just have to mention, I'm
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  Speaker 6: not trying to ruin the mood of Tar Heel fans, Boney,
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  Speaker 6: but I just have to state the absolute mismatch when
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  Speaker 6: the Tar Heels have the football. Notre Dame's defense bone
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  Speaker 6: is number one in yards, number one in points, number
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  Speaker 6: one in yards for play, number three against the rush,
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  Speaker 6: and number seven against the pass. UNC in games against
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  Speaker 6: FBS competition, so take the East Tennessee game out, They
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  Speaker 6: are 108th in points on offense and 87th in yards
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  Speaker 6: on offense.
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  Speaker 2: How on earth? Because Carolina, they need to run the ball.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they're running the ball.
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  Speaker 6: I know they did against Clemson, but this is a
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  Speaker 6: completely different animal defensively. This might be the best defense
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  Speaker 6: in the country.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is going to be very, very hard for
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  Speaker 3: them to score in this game. It also may be hard, Mac,
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  Speaker 3: for our own guy, Phinney Marlow, to score tickets to
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  Speaker 3: this game because we got some very upsetting news.
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  Speaker 6: During the commercial break. I cannot believe Smoke pulled the
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  Speaker 6: robbery on you, Fetty. I can't believe this.
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  Speaker 2: That's sneaky. Notre Dame fans are sneaky, man.
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  Speaker 3: The station tickets or the building tickets for all the stations,
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  Speaker 3: they're given away on Friday for the UNC games, and
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  Speaker 3: a lot of times they end up in the... the
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  Speaker 3: pause of either Fitty or Flounder. They did not win
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  Speaker 3: the raffle this time. Enjoy the game, Smoke Ludwig.
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  Speaker 2: Golden Smoke.
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  Speaker 6: Golden Smoke, the Notre Dame fan, snagged the tickets that
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  Speaker 6: normally you guys would get.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: How are your mom and dad? That's sneaky. Those domers
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  Speaker 2: are sneaky, y'all.
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  Speaker 3: What a win for Smug. Finny, maybe Smug will take
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  Speaker 3: you to the game. You can sit with him the
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  Speaker 3: whole time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably not.
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  Speaker 1: This is probably the first of many L's I'll be
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  Speaker 1: taking this weekend during the football weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Lost the tickets. Brutal.
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  Speaker 1: My team's probably going to lose the game on Saturday. Hopefully,
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  Speaker 1: my team doesn't lose on Sunday. This could be an
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  Speaker 1: O for weekend.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen it quite so far.
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  Speaker 3: Finny, you could have taken the tickets and taken your
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  Speaker 3: woman to the game and press her a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we're not ready for that.
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  Speaker 6: I ain't going to yell at you about that one.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't going to yell at you about that one.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy the game, Smogalicious. What do you think about this?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, so we have a couple of fans thinking either
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  Speaker 6: Clemson or UNC can hang in there. Brian says, Mac, oh,
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  Speaker 6: so he's not a Tar Heel. I thought we had
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  Speaker 6: a Tar Heel fan with some confidence. No, he says,
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  Speaker 6: I don't have a dog in the fight, but I
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  Speaker 6: have watched Notre Dame a bunch this year. They play
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  Speaker 6: with their food against Wisconsin and Michigan State. Could they
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  Speaker 6: do that tomorrow? Yeah, but I still think the final
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  Speaker 6: score to Bones Point is like 27 points or so.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? It'll eventually get to that,
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 3: You may look and say, oh, it's only 17-0 Notre Dame,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just going to keep growing.
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  Speaker 2: Like a Price is Right dough board.
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  Speaker 6: AllIn since 79 says, Mac, talk those canes up. I
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  Speaker 6: think I will, and I think, yeah, I get why
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  Speaker 6: you want me to. 704Numbers says, I'm a Clemson alum.
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  Speaker 6: I do think that we can hang in this game
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  Speaker 6: for three quarters. It feels like, though, Miami plays at
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  Speaker 6: a pace that we can't keep up with.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't.
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  Speaker 6: This has to be an ugly rain. A lot of
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  Speaker 6: Clemson fans are asking, can the rain keep us in
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  Speaker 6: the game?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe. I know this.
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  Speaker 6: Mensah completes 89% of his passes as more touchdowns than incompletions.
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  Speaker 2: It's just filthy what he has done.
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  Speaker 6: And what he did last year to y'all, Joe Klatt
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  Speaker 6: said it, well, four touchdowns, no picks, 361 yards passing
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  Speaker 6: with the Duke supporting cast. So I just can't help
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  Speaker 6: to feel like, Bone, I can't help to feel like
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  Speaker 6: with this supporting cast, he's going to go off. Even
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  Speaker 6: if Clemson hangs for a while, it just feels inevitable.
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  Speaker 6: And the whole thing about pace, how's Clemson's offense hang
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  Speaker 6: with Miami's offense if they start scoring?
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  Speaker 3: That's the problem. Neither Clemson or North Carolina has the
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  Speaker 3: offensive firepower to do that. to hang with the opponents,
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  Speaker 3: albeit different styles in their ways they do it. They
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  Speaker 3: don't have the offensive firepower to hang in there for
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  Speaker 3: four quarters. It's eventually going to just wear out, and
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  Speaker 3: they're not going to be able to keep up with
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  Speaker 3: those teams. Now, NC State, I do think, has the
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  Speaker 3: firepower to keep up in their game, and I would
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  Speaker 3: like to get the NC State fan vibe on their
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  Speaker 3: matchup tomorrow. You picked him to win this game. What's
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  Speaker 3: that confidence level on that? Because Wolfpack Bone came a
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  Speaker 3: howling and has picked your team to win tomorrow.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Wolfpack Mac put his Wolfpack fingers down. I am
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  Speaker 6: not armed with Wolfpack fingers today. I just, I think
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  Speaker 6: it's a tough spot. I think if you're a state
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  Speaker 6: fan and you saw Wake Forest beat Louisville, I think.
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  Speaker 2: You said, oh no, oh no. Oh, no.
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  Speaker 6: Because I think Louisville's too talented, Bone, to lose to
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  Speaker 6: both these teams in a row. I just think they are.
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  Speaker 6: I think their running game is too talented to get
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  Speaker 6: shut down again the way Wake shut them down. Not
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  Speaker 6: to mention, I don't think NC State's front is as
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  Speaker 6: good defensively as Wake's. So I don't think NC State
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  Speaker 6: has the ability to shut them down. And I know
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  Speaker 6: NC State's had very little pass rush.
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  Speaker 2: What do they have all year? Four sacks?
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  Speaker 6: So, like, I don't like being against the Wolfpack. I
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  Speaker 6: love coming on and getting the hows going and getting
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  Speaker 6: the fingies going and all that stuff. I think your
• 9:16
  Speaker 6: Gamecocks are the ones that should feel like this is
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  Speaker 6: their bounce-back moment. I think the Gamecocks— Got Kentucky tomorrow, man.
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  Speaker 2: I think they will find a way.
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  Speaker 3: I think Beamer will survive a week, and then next
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  Speaker 3: week we'll have a discussion about what Florida does to
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  Speaker 3: the Gamecocks. So you give me the Gamecock, you give
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: me the rooster, and I'll do the Wolfpack owl, all right?
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Three, two, one.
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  Speaker 7: Cock-a-doodle-doo!
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  Speaker 2: Why was I howling? Why did my cock-a-doodle-doo turn into
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: a howl? I don't know what happened there. Try it again. Cock-a-doodle-doo!
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  Speaker 3: That's a confident Gamecock. That's a confident Rooster right there.
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  Speaker 6: Boyle, I got to say this right, Boyle Peanuts says
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  Speaker 6: this is going to be State's random win over a
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  Speaker 6: good team. Brian says, I can see how Bone would
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  Speaker 6: think this is State's moment like Georgia Tech was last year,
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  Speaker 6: but I got to see it to believe it. I
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  Speaker 6: know Bailey's playing well, Keenan Jackson, Douglas. I mean, they're starting,
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  Speaker 6: they're getting the pass game going. The run game's been
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  Speaker 6: better the last couple weeks. I think Louisville's good, man.
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  Speaker 6: I still do, even after the loss last week.
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  Speaker 2: I think Bama falls tomorrow in the noon game. Do you?
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Have you been converted to Mississippi State, Bo? You finally
• 10:33
  Speaker 6: have been converted.
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  Speaker 2: Bulldog bone! Take my shoe off and throw it at you.
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  Speaker 5: No!
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  Speaker 2: I'm a broadcast journalist.
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  Speaker 6: I think this is one too much to ask for
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  Speaker 6: Mississippi State. They have been playing in big games two
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  Speaker 6: straight weeks now. The South Carolina game on the road
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  Speaker 6: where they had to come back from 16 down. Last
• 10:53
  Speaker 6: week at home against Mizzou, that went down to the
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  Speaker 6: last drive. I just feel like getting up for a
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  Speaker 6: third one might be too tough to ask. If they
• 11:02
  Speaker 6: can turn Russell over like Kentucky did in the first half.
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  Speaker 2: Then, yeah. That could change it, though, Boney. I would
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  Speaker 2: love to see him do it, man.
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  Speaker 3: And I know it's a big game on the road,
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  Speaker 3: and Nick Saban always seemed to not have, it seems,
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  Speaker 3: have this problem. Bama does play Georgia next week. That's true.
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  Speaker 3: A little look ahead. And I'm missing to say it's
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  Speaker 3: much better than normal. But are they getting a little pixie?
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  Speaker 3: A little look ahead to get ready for Georgia?
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  Speaker 2: And bam! That's an interesting question.
• 11:29
  Speaker 6: This texter says, Bone does not seem very happy about
• 11:33
  Speaker 6: the fact he thinks his Gamecocks will win. That's why
• 11:35
  Speaker 6: I said we got to ask Bone and all the
• 11:37
  Speaker 6: Gamecock fans the question, do y'all even want to win
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  Speaker 6: the game?
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 7: I do.
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  Speaker 3: I do for the kids that put in all the effort.
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  Speaker 3: Are you going to be cheering? If they're winning the game,
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  Speaker 3: you're going.
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  Speaker 2: To be like, yeah!
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: I'm saying I'm not going to be mad, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: also weary of just putting off the inevitable. Also, I
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  Speaker 3: don't feel like Beamer is going to do enough to
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  Speaker 3: come back with this win. Start some run like two
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  Speaker 3: years ago. I don't see that happening. You never know,
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  Speaker 3: but it's hard to see him right now going to
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  Speaker 3: win six or seven in a row. And that's the problem.
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  Speaker 3: It's the inconsistency. They can win this game. And next
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  Speaker 3: week they get beat, you know, 45 to 12 or something. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: But I would hope the fans are going to cock-a-boos
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  Speaker 6: it up and be loud. I would hope the fans will. Oh,
• 12:23
  Speaker 6: they'll always provide that. I mean, that's what I'm saying. But, like,
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  Speaker 6: if you were at the game, like, would you be loud? Like,
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  Speaker 6: has every South Carolina fan just– you've almost emotionally removed yourself.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 6: And I think, have more Gamecock fans done that, you think? Like,
• 12:38
  Speaker 6: you're just so out on Beamer, it's like, nah, I've
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  Speaker 6: seen enough. Like, I wonder if that's happened. We'll know
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  Speaker 6: early also, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: If there is something bad in one of the first
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: couple drives, this thing is going to get ugly, I think.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe not score-wise, but just vibes-wise. Speaking of vibes, Matt,
• 12:54
  Speaker 3: we've got to bring in our newest pep talker. And
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  Speaker 3: that is BP from HB. I believe that's Huntington Beach, California.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, this dude's coming from Cali.
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  Speaker 3: I think so. I think BP is his initials. HB
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  Speaker 3: is California. BP, what's up, man? Introduce yourself.
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  Speaker 5: Mack Bone City.
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  Speaker 7: The beautiful people of Queen City.
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  Speaker 5: It is me, BP from HB. Huntington Beach. You got it, boys.
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  Speaker 5: It's an honor to be here. Terloin of beef, Weatherman Mark,
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  Speaker 5: you walk so I could run with this segment. Let's go, boys.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's pep up the Panther fans. The Panther
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  Speaker 2: fans are down, baby. Pump them up. This is a
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  Speaker 2: Phitty hire, by the way. Pump them up, baby.
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  Speaker 5: Come on now. Come on. Let's start with the bad. Mack,
• 13:42
  Speaker 5: that's assault, brother. of the verbal variety this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, stay on track. You're supposed to be pumping up
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  Speaker 2: Panther fans, baby.
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  Speaker 5: All right, back to football. Back to football. There's no
• 13:53
  Speaker 5: way around it, all right? It hurts. You lose your
• 13:56
  Speaker 5: top two corners, Damian Lewis, Cougars banged up. It's going
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: to be tough, but you know what? I've got some good.
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  Speaker 8: I like that.
• 14:06
  Speaker 5: Try that.
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  Speaker 2: I've been waiting all day for what's Sunday night.
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  Speaker 5: It's the first time in 11 years, boys. We're going
• 14:13
  Speaker 5: to be rocking at the bank. I will be there.
• 14:16
  Speaker 5: We will be cheering. It's a blackout. The Lions, D,
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  Speaker 5: they're gettable. They're giving up over 300 yards a game.
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  Speaker 5: They're dealing with their own injuries. We got Bama Bryce here.
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  Speaker 5: This is what we've been waiting for. The number one
• 14:29
  Speaker 5: pick playing out of his mind. Number one in the
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: league in yards. We run the ball, control the clock.
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: Jared Goff, he is not Caleb. He's not Deshaun. The
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: guy is not mobile, all right? He's got a good-looking wife.
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  Speaker 5: We'll give him that. But, you know, when the big
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: moment comes, he's going to choke.
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  Speaker 7: He is.
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: We've seen it time and time again. A tail is
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: all this time. We get that ball going. You know,
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: Devin Lloyd is back. O'Kerrigan's balling. Tight ends. Darren Waller.
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: Come on, boys.
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: Everything is... Y'all have been talking about this. This is
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: looking like the Rams last year, but it's countless out.
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: The spread might not say it is what it was there, but...
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  Speaker 5: But these thirds are for real.
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  Speaker 7: It's 31-27.
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  Speaker 5: It's going to the good guys.
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  Speaker 2: I like it, baby.
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: He pounded. Let's go, baby.
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  Speaker 6: Let's go, baby.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: I like it, baby.
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: I like it.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: Let's go, baby. Good job, baby. Good job. Did you
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: call them the thirds? He called him Thurs. Oh, no, no, no.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: We were so close. Good job, though, brother.
• 15:33
  Speaker 7: Good job, though.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: We were so close to a perfect dunk. Good job.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Can you pump up the Panther fan base by calling
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: him Thurs, though?
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: I don't know if you can. I don't know if
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: you can. That is such a Cali man's way of referring.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: To the Panthers. The Thurs. The Thurs. Anyway, I don't know.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: He's pretty good, though. He's good, man. Here's the thing.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: He did not like your attitude towards Finney either.
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: He did not, man. I had to get him back
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: on track. Here's the thing. Now, Miss Sweetcheek says he sucks.
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: Why is that? No one ever says these pep talkers
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: are great. That's a badge of honor. But here's the thing, though.
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: He gave more football points than previous pep talkers. No
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: offense to Loyne and Mark, but football points were not
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: what they were.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Here to do. You know what I mean? Was that
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: good that he did that or not?
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: I think it's good. I think it's good. Was he
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: too smart for the pep talk? Yeah, was he too,
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: Hold on a minute. Too smart for the pep talk.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Sirloin does football points. He does? Yeah. Gives you a score.
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: Somebody said this dude was four points away from going
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: full Sirloin.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: That is true. He went 31-17 instead of 35-17. I
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: like it, though. I think he mixed information with some fire.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: I think he may. And let's face it.
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: All we're trying to do right now is find someone
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: that can fire us up on a Friday, but also
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: bone somebody that's good luck.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Because weatherman Mark. He lost it.
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: He got bounced because we lost the damn game. He
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: also worked into Kerry Underwood's stuff as well, by the way.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, that was good. That was good. I like that, man.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: When we come back, you're going to hear from Trevor
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Sykema of NFL Media. He's got a new show out.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: He's going to break down what's making the Panthers offense
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: successful so far and how do they attack the Lions
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: on Sunday. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. Sports Radio 92.7. WFNZ,
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Mac and Bone with you.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Love it, man. Love it.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: People have all kind of opinions about BP's performance as
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: the pep talker.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: This dude said.
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: Half these listeners criticizing BP couldn't bring the heat and
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: the facts like that. He brought heat and facts. Another texter, though,
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: says bring the other two jackasses back. That's from Stifler.
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: I believe.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Is that complimentary? Do you mean that as a term
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: of endearment? Miss Sweetcheeks wants more delusion and grandeur.
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: A grandeur for a pep talk she wants fitty she
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: said she said panther fitty will bring more of that
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: that she wants just kind of like i don't.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Know just all these pie in the sky.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: Beliefs anyway bp you the man i know this bp
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: if we get a dub and pull off the upset
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: with you man you're back in the seat all right
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: that's how it works weatherman marsup said he called us
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: birds i had it it's thurs not birds.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Thurs winston did you hear birds Oh, man. All right. Anyway,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: let's bring in some expertise here, shall we?
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: He's not here to pump us up, but he's here
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: to give you his educated opinion on what's going on
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: with the Panthers and what is going on specifically with
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: the Lions and this matchup, how the two teams match
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: up on Sunday night here at the bank where it
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: could be rainy. Trevor Sikkim is joining us from NFL Media.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: He hosts, along with Brett Coleman, the NFL Pro Show.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: It's Monday, Thursday, and Friday at 5 p.m., and there's
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: so many different places to get it. NFL Channel, NFL Plus,
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: the YouTube channel, the NFL, the NFL Pro YouTube channel,
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: and also the NFL app. He is Trevor Sykema, and
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: he joins us here on the Mac and Bone Show
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: to talk about the Panthers dealing with all these dang
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: injuries that they're dealing with.
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: Yeah, obviously it's tough. When you talk about teams who
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: are the most successful in this league and sort of
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: make it the furthest, you've got to have a little
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: bit of luck on your side when it comes to injury.
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: And I would say that in the secondary and in
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: the trenches, outside of maybe quarterback, those are really the
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: two most important spots. Defensive line, you could obviously argue
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: that as well, but I feel like a lot of
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: times you get to have on the defensive line sort
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: of waves of guys that could sort of come in
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: and it's a little bit easier to hey next man
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: up when it comes to that defensive line when it
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: comes to roster construction it's really hard to say all
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: right sure yeah our starting tackles down we'll just sub
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: somebody else out in especially for the injuries that the
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: panthers already had going into this season um any sort
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: of extra injuries along the offensive line you know it's
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: really got the potential to hurt them and the secondary
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: i The secondary is interesting because the Panthers under Jiro
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: Ebro have played more off-zone coverage than anybody else in
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: the NFL. Now, on one hand, you could say that, hey,
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: it might be a little bit easier to find players
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: that could sort of play that off-zone coverage role and
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: at least keep the floor of this team in this
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: secondary and what's after it a little bit higher. But
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: on the other side of things, with zone coverage does
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: come chemistry. It comes a demand for being able to
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: play in close continuity with the guys who are next
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: to you. And it's hard to sign guys who maybe
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: haven't been on the team for a long time or.
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: At least been running with the ones.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: It's sort of.
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: I'm not sure which one's going to matter more, right?
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: Is it the fact that they need that chemistry and continuity,
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: or is it the fact that, hey, it's softer zone
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: coverage stuff by nature. They like to keep things in
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: front of them a lot. They like to sort of
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: run and chase the football and not give up explosives
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: and really be able to sort of control.
• 21:07
  Speaker 9: The game that way.
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: Does that make it a little bit easier to replace
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: those guys? So, you know, anytime you're replacing a... you're
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: trying to replace a talent like J.C.
• 21:14
  Speaker 9: Hornet, it's never going to be easy, but.
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: I think there are ways to sort of mitigate that
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: a little bit, but it's obviously going to be tough,
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: and any time that you have the injuries that the
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: Carolina Panthers have just mounting up in the early parts
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: of the year, it's going to require a lot from
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: some unsung heroes, no doubt.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Trevor, Bryce Young's off to a really good start. Leads
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: the league in passing yards, albeit early. Didn't have his
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: best game on Sunday, but nonetheless, a really good start.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: What do you attribute his early success to, and how
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: sustainable do you think this start is for Bryce Young
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: in the long haul?
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I'd sustain it to just natural growth
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: and progression and maturation of a young quarterback sort of
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: becoming an NFL quarterback. And when I look at Bryce,
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: I look specifically at the fact that not only is
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: he leading the the NFL in passing yards and a
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: lot of passing categories, it's specifically against zone coverages, something
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: that he really struggled with early on in his career. Now,
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: it's interesting because attacking zone coverages was something that he
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: was great at when he was at Alabama. But the game,
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: if this is more evidence to people, it's just so
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: different at the pro level when it comes to speed
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: and how tight these windows are and how you can
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: second guess and doubt yourself. Even a player like Bryce Young,
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: who played with elite anticipation when he was at Alabama,
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: When he got to the NFL, he started second-guessing himself.
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: And it took him.
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: A year and a half. It took him 10 weeks
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: into his sophomore season in the NFL for him to
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: throw a touchdown against zone coverage. And he's already got
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: multiple of those and a ton of yards against zone
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: this year. I think that is just a matter of
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: getting a lot of snaps under your belt, really having
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: a lot of confidence in that anticipation and what you're
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: seeing from the defense. And so that's what I love
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: the most about Bryce Young right now and why I
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: can say that I feel as though this is not
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: something that's fleeting. This isn't something, well, oh, he had
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: a couple of good matchups early on.
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: In the season. It's not going to be the same
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: moving forward.
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: I think that we can see this sustained level of
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: success from him because I think that it stems from
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: legitimate growth. from Bryce Young. So, yes, I think he's
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: been playing at a very high level to start the season,
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: and I think that they can continue to lean on
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: that from him moving forward, especially if teams want to
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: continue to play a lot of zone against him.
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: We're talking to Trevor Sykema, NFL media, about the Panthers, obviously.
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: And this week, it does stink. We have all these
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: injuries in a national showcase game.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: It's been.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: You know, over a decade since the Panthers, Trevor had
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: a Sunday night game here.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: We don't get invited much, Trevor. In Charlotte, yeah.
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: We get to host this party. We don't even usually
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: get invited to this Sunday night party. What do you
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: think about the way they match up with the Lions?
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: Let's talk about Bryce and the offense. In one respect, man,
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: Bryce has to be licking his chops at the wounded
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: secondary of Detroit, but also you got the problem with
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: your backup tackles trying to protect against Aiden Hutchinson. What
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: do you think of this particular matchup?
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah, so, I mean, you mentioned it a little bit there.
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: Detroit's had a lot of troubles in the secondary, not
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: just this year, where they're averaging the most yards, passing yards,
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: excuse me, against them per game. But also, you go
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: back to last year, too. I mean, it's tough for
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: them last year. So this isn't a new change or
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: something that you expect Detroit to just snap their fingers
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: and get better at, especially with the injuries that Kirby
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: Joseph and Brian Branch in the secondary at the safety spots.
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: I mean, they are not the same team anymore. with
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: those guys out there. Now, an interesting part of this
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: is I just talked about how good Bryce.
• 24:41
  Speaker 9: Young has been against zone. The lions don't want to
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: run a ton of zone.
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: Now, everybody in the league runs more zone than they
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: do man. But when it comes to just overall percentages
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: of man coverage in the NFL, Detroit wants to be
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: more in that top five, top 10 conversation of how
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: often they're able to run man coverage. So, Bryce should
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: see a good amount of man coverage in this game,
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: but for how poor the secondary has played, I don't
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: have a lot of faith that they're going to rattle
• 25:06
  Speaker 8: Bryce in any way against that man coverage. Instead, I
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: think it could.
• 25:09
  Speaker 9: Be a really good day at the office for Bryce Young,
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: especially if it's anything from what we have seen lately.
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: Obviously, you mentioned being able to hold up with those
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: tackles is going to be really, really important, and Aiden
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: Hutchinson's one of the best in the NFL at getting
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: after the quarterback, but I still think as though Detroit's
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: sort of searching for that second fill to him. Now,
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: They're playing a lot better, I think, as a group
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: along the defensive line, specifically on the interior. So it
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: hasn't been as strong of a start to the year
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: for the Panthers' interior offensive line as well. I've noticed
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: that from that group. And you kind of need those
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: stars to be able to step up, right? I mean,
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: like you look at Robert Hunt, and he's got to
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: have a much better start.
• 25:50
  Speaker 9: To the season.
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: And I just think that the interior offensive line has
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: got to continue to play really, really well, or even
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: step up and play really, really well amongst all those injuries.
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: So I think it's going to be a shootout, right?
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: I mean, you talked about how Sunday night football in
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: Charlotte for the first time in over a decade. I
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: think it's going to be, I think it's going to
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: be a light up the scoreboard type of a game.
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: So it's going to be really exciting. And obviously Panthers
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: fans just hope that no matter what the score is,
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: whether the numbers start with a 3 or a 4,
• 26:17
  Speaker 8: or I don't think it's going.
• 26:19
  Speaker 9: To start with a 5.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Please don't.
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: You just hope that the Panthers are going to be
• 26:22
  Speaker 8: on top. I know the fans are thinking of that,
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: but I think that they're going to have an exciting
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: game no matter what.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: We already saw the 5-9.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: We don't need to see the 60s or anything close
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: to that again. T-Mac's off to a slowish start this
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: year from what we thought. Do you think on Sunday night, Trevor,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Coker's been banged up? You're going over the line in secondary.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Is this a spot for McMillan to really maybe get
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: going for the first time this year in full?
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: I think it should be. I mean, the recipe is
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: definitely there for it. And, you know, when you're facing
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: a lot of zone coverage, it's not always easy to
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: just identify, like, hey, here's the superstar wide receiver on
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: the team. Let me feed him the ball. Like, sometimes
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: your game plan can be predicated around that. But I
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: think a lot of it is instead– giving Bryce a
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: lot of different passing options to give you the ball to,
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: and being able to attack zone coverages in the correct
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: way there. I think that that's left a little bit
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: of meat on the bone when it comes to what
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: Tets or O. McMillan can do. But I think that
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: it's a great matchup, especially, again, since if Detroit's going
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: to try to play that man coverage a lot more,
• 27:28
  Speaker 8: well then, okay, you have a guy who you want
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: to bet on one-on-one in man coverage at all times
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: in McMillan. So I know it's been a little bit
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: slow for him, but I still feel as though he's
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: going to be a major factor in this game. Coker,
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: I know he's been banged up as well, but I
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: think this could be a big, great game from him
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: if he is out there.
• 27:45
  Speaker 9: So I think that those two.
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: Guys, they're in for much more of sort of those
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: early week standout performances and maybe even at the same
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: time here against a struggling Detroit defense.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: All right, last thing we want to ask you, Trevor,
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: when you're watching the Panthers so far, only three weeks in,
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: but there's some notable things that look different, and I
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: wonder if it has to do with Brad Idzik calling
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: the plays. I wonder how much it's in his influence.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: Have you noticed things differently with Idzik? They're clearly throwing
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: the ball downfield more. What do you see differently maybe
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: from a play-calling or schematic standpoint from this offense this year?
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah, so I do think that they are trying to
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: throw the ball deeper.
• 28:27
  Speaker 9: I think that they still want to get the tight.
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: Ends involved quite a bit, and I wondered if, you know,
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: with them kind of moving away from Jutabian Sanders, hey,
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: are they going to continue to try to be a
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: multiple tight end team?
• 28:38
  Speaker 9: And they are. They're still trying to get the tight
• 28:40
  Speaker 9: ends involved.
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: Quite a bit and they've got those guys on the field.
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: And I just think that it's really just the next
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: evolution of the offense. I don't know how much they're
• 28:47
  Speaker 8: doing like schematically that I didn't see last year that
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: you could kind of tell like, Hey, they want to
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: get into this a little bit more, whether it's the
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: tight end passing game or, you know, taking shots deep
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: down the field, they just didn't have the reliability in
• 29:00
  Speaker 8: either of those areas. And this year it just feels
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: as though, whether it's a Bryce young evolution or maybe
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: just to, you know, how they've designed some of these
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: plays this year, it just looks a lot more confident.
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: So to me, the difference this year isn't like, oh,
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: they're trying something new that they've never tried before. It's
• 29:17
  Speaker 8: a lot of the same philosophy of what they want
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: to do. They're just genuinely doing it better. So I
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: think that that's really how I identify it, is whatever
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: it is with Izzik and sort of the plays that
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: they're calling, Bryce just has a lot more confidence, and
• 29:32
  Speaker 8: these guys are executing at a much higher level to
• 29:34
  Speaker 8: start the season than last year. And I think it's
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: just that evolution of what they wanted to do last
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: year that they felt like they couldn't.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: That is Trevor Sykema, NFL Media, joining us here on
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: the Mac and Bone Show, breaking down Panthers and Lions
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: on Sunday night. Remember, KB and I have got the
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: pregame show 5 o'clock, 5 until 8, getting you ready
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: for the 8-20 start tonight. on sunday night remember they
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: want to do the blackout they want you to wear
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: your black panther gear um and maybe some rain gear
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: would help as well uh based off the weather report
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: from distinguished meteorologist weatherman mark today on the show.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: You and i said an hour ago we've got picante
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: coming up here momentarily with this pics you and i
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: said an hour ago we did not expect A full
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: Lions takeover. There's always going to be fans of other teams.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: It's the way it operates. But a full Lions takeover,
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: we did not see that. But we've got two airport reports.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: What's going on back at Charlotte Douglas this morning? This
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: is a second one. We read the first one an
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: hour ago. A second one that people are being told
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: by folks that are at the airport that it is
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: a Detroit invasion at the damn airport.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? We got to worry about this
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: fan base, too?
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: They're not even coming in just for Saturday to hang out.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: They're coming in for the whole weekend here.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Damn, seriously. Well, if you lived in Detroit, you probably would.
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: Although our weather probably— they ain't really going.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: To enjoy the weather.
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: Did you have that good pizza there, though, I will say.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: I like that Detroit style. That crispy, I like that.
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: We have another text that brings up an interesting point.
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: They said, Mac, you guys were saying that because of
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: the colors of the Lions and Panthers, we won't be
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: able to tell it's a takeover, but we're doing a blackout.
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: The Panther fans will be in black. The Lions blue
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: and silver will stick out.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: This might be a bad idea.
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: Does it backfire? There can't be that many Lions fans.
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: Maybe they're all coming in right now. Maybe they're all
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: at the airport right now. On TV, they're still going
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: to look like Panther fans. If you're just watching, you'll think, oh,
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: that's a lot.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Of Panther fans. Okay, okay. Let's bring in the man.
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: I'm nervous about this with a lot of Lions fans.
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: Tell me the Lions don't take over, too, y'all. All right,
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: let's bring in the man with the plan. Picante, 2-2
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: last week, and he feels bad about it, Bone. But
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: we're sticking with our guy, all right? We know there's
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: something there, and he has vowed, Bone, to bounce back
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: with a winning week this week. It's time for Picante's picks.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Picante! How are you feeling this week, man?
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  Speaker 7: Hey, guys. I feel confident, man. From week zero, still
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: week five, still standing.
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: I'm in.
• 32:09
  Speaker 7: I'm in.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: All right. All right. Let's hear what you got. What's
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: your first pick?
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: All right. My first pick, I'm actually surprised that the
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: line is that low. Pain state, minus two and a half.
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: Rocker Bear will bounce back after that horrible game that
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: he got against Wisconsin. But I do believe that it's
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: still like a playoff team, so it needs to win
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: for Penn State minus two and a half.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: I feel a little better about my Nittany Lions now
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: that I know you're backing them.
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: What's your second pick?
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: My second pick will be a showdown. Literally, it will
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: be a showdown. Running, passing, Alabama versus Mississippi. Two fresh quarterbacks.
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: Over.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: I smell over.
• 32:51
  Speaker 8: Over.
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: The over, baby. Give me the over to the moon.
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: I started with 59.5. The line is sitting at 60.5.
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: I believe at the end of the line tomorrow it's
• 33:04
  Speaker 7: going to be like 63. So do it now. It's 60.5.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Over. Over 60.5 with those two teams. I like it.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: I did not take a Picante pick last week, and
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: I took a pick from one of the free sample
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: guys at Target, and I completely screwed up.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Don't buy your picks at Target.
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: Hey, boom, I'm 11-2 in my Instagram page. I'm so
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: hot right now. I'm hotter than Granny Pat in Freedom Park.
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: What?
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Why? Picante, picks, and humor.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, God, Picante's on. It's at the Picante picks, but
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: it's not Picante.
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: Stevie, okay, my best bet, it will be Memphis against
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: the poor 49ers, man. It's going to be every possession
• 33:51
  Speaker 7: I got. I think they're going to score. So Marcus
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: Stokes has been great. So I think that they will
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: win by 40 or 35.
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: That's a tough one for the Niners, man. There's no
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: doubt about it. Memphis offense is explosive.
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: So, yeah, so Memphis still needs to prove something, but
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: the Niners don't have anything.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: I think they moved the game.
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: So, the line is minus 20 and a half.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: I'm thinking that they're going to cover that very easy.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: What if they moved the game time up, Charlotte did,
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: but didn't tell Memphis?
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: It's an 11 a.m. game, but Bo thinks Memphis shows
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: up for 3.30. That would be– that would actually be
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: playing chess. However you get a win, get a one.
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: That would be playing chess, Niners.
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: I need to give a shout out to a loyal listener,
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: Nick Centro. I met him in a bar yesterday. And
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: he said, I was like, what? I guess because of
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: my accent or something. I don't know, man.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: You famous. Yeah, you're blowing up now, man.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: So you're at ThePicantePics on Instagram, but Picante is P-I-K-A-N-T-E, right?
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so ThePicantePics. Yeah, it's like that.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: All right, brother.
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: Thank you guys again. And I'm telling you, man, we're
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: going to roll this week.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Good luck. Hit these, baby. Hit these.
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: All right, there you go. Although I hope you don't
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: hit the Niner one. I like the Niners to hang
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: in the game. You know, they're like 20-point dogs. Have
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: a good week. Win the other two, though, baby. Win
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: the other two.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: When we come back, Mac, I guess we're going to do–
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: it's a little bit off today, but we're going to
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: do our Panther predictions, right?
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: We come back? It occurred to us a little while ago,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: we never Panthered up.
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: Weatherman Mark came on and stopped– we forgot to Panther
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: up or not Panther up.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: We come back. That's the question.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: What direction are we going in? Are we going Lions
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: or Thurs? Sports Radio 92.7.
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: Oh, we have just gone down a rabbit hole here online.
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: So we had a texture, Mac and Bone with you here.
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: We will make our Panther picks. Not to be confused
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: with Picante picks. There's only one Picante. We'll make our
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: Panther picks. We did not Panther up or pick the
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: Panthers to lose earlier in the show. But we've discovered
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: the AI knowledge that, you know, when you Google, the
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: knowledge of AI on stuff on the Mac and Bone
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: show is scary.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's crazy.
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: A listener said, Bone, that they Googled Picante's picks and
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: they knew all about the segment on WFNZ in Charlotte.
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: And then there's stuff about us, like Fitty's personal life.
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: Like they know all about the show, talking about Fitty
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: and Stro trying to give advice on the show to
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: Fitty about his personal life.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it all comes from, you know, social media and
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: website posts and it puts it all together. But yeah, it's...
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: The knowledge is crazy. I told you that one day, though,
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: I Googled most frequent texters of WFNZ, and it gave
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: us like five made-up names.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Remember that day where it gave us like— Yeah, they
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: totally made up the names, though. Yeah, totally made up
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: the names. That was off, man.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: That was definitely— Here's—I AI-searched the top five most popular
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: WFNZ texters.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Would you like me to read off the list, Matt? Yeah,
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: what are they? Number one, Bebop. That was right. Seriously?
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: They got that?
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: Number two, Mark from Gastonia, the most legendary caller of
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: all time.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: Number three, Big Dave. Who the heck's Big Nick? A
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: constant fixture on the morning show. Who often gets mad
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: at local roster moves.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Number four. No-neck Nick. No-neck who, Nick?
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: No-neck Nick. He's actually a host here. A recurring fan
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: who's known for his blue-collar rants.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Number five. The G-Man. Our daily betting advisor on the
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: text line.
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: Okay, so they got a little squirrely there. They lost
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: the plot on a couple of those made-up guys. I
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: need to know who No Neck Nick is. Maybe Finney's
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: got a twin.
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: No.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: We've also got Lee and Gastonia, Panther Dan, and we're
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: also known, Mac, for our segment called Pros vs.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Moes. What is that supposed to be?
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: Where we put on pro athletes and have them debate
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: people in the audience.
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: Our most.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Well, I guess pros versus Joe's already taken. So they
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: think we should take pros versus.
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: We should actually start doing the segments that they suggest
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: that they think we already do.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: What is called back versus 50?
• 38:26
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, man. All right, anyway. It's hilarious. I love it.
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: AI is crazy, man. Bro's first moments. Bagel Guy. Oh,
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: this is a segment in itself. We've got to ask
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: the audience. How about ask AI? Bagel Guy wants to
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: know if AI knows all the Bones teams.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: I'll be like, I'll be like.
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: This is a hell of a game. I may spend
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: my Friday night doing this.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: You know where it is, right? I don't have much
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: going on. We know what you're not going to be doing.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: Matt, go on Google search now. Just go right to
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: the left. It says AI mode right there next to it.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Okay. Okay. What teams does T-Bone root for? Give me
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: a second here. Put WFNZ. This is very exciting. Very exciting.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: We swear we're going to do our Panther picks in
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: a second. Yeah, I got this. Hold on. We're loading, loading, loading.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: Let's see.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: What teams does T-Bone root for? Let's see.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: It's shocking that the Cirque is taking a while, isn't it?
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: They are scouring right now. It only has me listed
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: as the Hornets and Panthers.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Come on, AI. Get your game right.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: It lists me as the esteemed official pregame show host
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: of the Hornets radio network.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Man, they've been listed.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: To kb ai is a kb fan the esteemed travis
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: and got did i wear ai.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Gave up on it thereby we can't possibly do.
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: All this search no ai said y'all we got plans
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: all right we got a breakfast to get to it
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: has me as a wake forest fan due to my
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: friendship with chris paul a yukon husky fan And a
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: Boston Red Sox fan for some reason.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Gee, you better take something up with AI.
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: Texter wants to know, do they think the Panthers, does
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: AI think the Panthers will beat the Lions? They have,
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: they don't, they just say Lions have roughly a 62
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: to 64% chance of winning the game.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: It'll give you like the odds off on the internet.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they have Lions. They're not doing all that now. Okay.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: All right. Let's get to our picks, though. All right?
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: The heck with AI. You ain't picking the game. We will.
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: Bone, are you panthering up with all the injuries and
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: the Lions coming in on primetime?
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: I've been thinking a.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: Lot about it back, and I've decided that I am
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: not panthering up on Sunday. I think the Lions are
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: going to win 41-34. I think the Panthers' offense will
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: perform very well. I need to see them perform this
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: season without Mike Jack and Horn. I think this is
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: a very tough matchup for the young guys. Offense plays well.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: A lot to be proud of offensively. I just don't
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: know if the defense can hang with the Lions without
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: those two dudes.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: If that happens, I'm sure a zero of arrows day
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: might come up once or twice on Monday.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: Daddy.
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: Would you let Panther Nation down, or are you Panthering up?
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Should be a fun one at the bank on Sunday night.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Excited to see Bryce Young perform in a primetime setting
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: like this game will be. Mackey's playing the best football
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: of his career. He's going to have to play maybe
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: the best game of his career to give Carolina a
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: chance to win on Sunday. amid all the injuries. I
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: think that happens. I think we get the good version
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: of Bryce. Not that he was bad last week against Cleveland,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: but we get more Bryce from week one, more Bryce
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: we saw from week two. I think they run it
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: a little bit better. They get a turnover or two
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: from Jared Goff when they blitz him. I got the
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Panthers at home over the Lions 34-29.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, Fink. There you go, Fink. Give us a growl, baby.
• 41:45
  Speaker 8: Wow, wow, wow.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: There you go. There you go.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: Now people are mad I didn't pick the Panthers, but
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: yet they're mad if I do pick the Panthers. You
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: know that's like mad to be able to be in
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: a no-win situation like this?
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: I think I know what they want out of me, though.
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: I am pretty sure they do not want me to
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: pick the Panthers. I'm torn on this one because I
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: have said all along, if we can beat the Rams boat,
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: who were the hottest team in the NFL last year
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: with the absences we had, this Lions team that is
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: very flawed on defense, this is nowhere near the challenge
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: of the Rams. And I do agree with Fitty about Bryce.
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: Their past defense is trash. And I do believe Bryce
• 42:23
  Speaker 6: will make plays. Now, will there even be moments that
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: Hutchinson and, you know, Eileen McNeil and maybe even Wanham
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: get to Bryce? Yeah, unfortunately, I think there will be
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: with our O-line situation. But I think it's going to
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: move the pocket for Bryce. I think we'll run the
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: football more this week, Boney. And I think the Panthers
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: offense will have a huge freaking night. Now, here's the problem.
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: The problem is the Lions are not the team I
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: want to face when we're trying to get Will Lee
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: and a Caleb Evans acclimated. I think Avero will keep
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: the Lions in front of us for the most part, Bone,
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: but I think they'll move the ball up and down
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: the field. I think the Panthers lose an entertaining shootout
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: with America enjoying themselves, but I think it ends up 34-31, Lions.
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: yeah just the two injuries if it was even just
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: mike jack plays and horn doesn't it's just and who
• 43:13
  Speaker 6: cover who covers amon ron the slot where he plays
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: you know about half the time.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: Does finney become a god i don't know man a
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: god by monday morning we'll find out if we win
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: i'm dancing alone i hope you're right baby i hope
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: you are right fit he's dancing alone there you go
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: have at it oh solo finney dance we what do
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: we just sit there and watch like we're at the
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: club We just throw dollars out. Is that what our
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: role will be? I hope we're victory dancing, y'all. And
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: I hope to see you at the doghouse pregame. Get
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: ready for the game. Rain or shine. We need you
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: out there, Panther fans.
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: We had Charlotte Todd's brother or Todd from Detroit, who's
• 43:51
  Speaker 6: a texter. His brother-in-law said, I guess he took Todd's
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: phone and texted us. I just landed with a bunch
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: of my friends from Detroit. So they're here, Boney. They're here.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Look out. One guy said he knows four Lions fans
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: are all going to the game. Look out. Look out.
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: All right, we're out of here, y'all. We'll talk to
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: you about it. Everybody enjoy their weekend. Good job out
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: of Phinney. Had no issues at Phinney today at all.
• 44:16
  Speaker 6: I don't know what y'all are talking about. Good job
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: out of the bone, man. Colin Hoggard, Shore Sports Today,
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: coming up next.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend.