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Mac & Bone Hour 3: Panthering Up??? · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Oh, oh, oh, it's Mac and Bo on your radio, baby.
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  Speaker 2: This is my friend Matt. Posh, come on, Posh. This
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  Speaker 2: is my friend T-Bone. Let's have some fun.
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  Speaker 3: I can't go to work without listening to Mac and Bone.
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  Speaker 2: Do it live.
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  Speaker 4: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. We got two more hours to go, baby.
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  Speaker 4: Eight o'clockers. We getting ready to talk Panthers. Are you
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  Speaker 4: Panthering up, y'all? Vegas seems to know something, Boning. Panthers
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  Speaker 4: only two and a half point dogs against the six
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  Speaker 4: and two Broncos.
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  Speaker 2: But there is that O-line thing, Bone. There is that
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  Speaker 2: O-line thing.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll talk through it all coming up later this
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  Speaker 4: hour on the Mac and Bone show. We'll preview the
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  Speaker 4: mammoth college football weekend of seven freaking ranked matchups. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we got to talk Duke State. You know, we got
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  Speaker 4: to talk. about all the games for local teams. Gamecocks,
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  Speaker 4: can they keep going? I've already scheduled my lunch for tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: You've already got your lunch delivery for tomorrow's big slate
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  Speaker 4: of games?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Feels like barbecue tomorrow. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I can't go wrong there. But right now, we're going
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  Speaker 4: to talk matchups. We're going to talk ACC football. But
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  Speaker 4: we're also going to talk about those first playoff standings,
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  Speaker 4: rankings not being kind to Wake Forest and.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore the ACC.
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  Speaker 4: Taylor Tannenbaum, ACC Network, the hostess with the mostest, is
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  Speaker 4: with us to talk all things ACC right now.
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  Speaker 2: Taylor, what's going on? How you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Always great to be with you, friends.
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  Speaker 2: I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm putting my final touches on my packing because we
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  Speaker 1: are heading to Syracuse, New York. So that's a drive
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  Speaker 1: from my stomping grounds here in In Connecticut.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, okay.
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  Speaker 4: That's an intriguing game with the way Syracuse has played
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  Speaker 4: the last two weeks. Clemson finally got offense going last week.
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  Speaker 4: That's kind of interesting, that game. It's not snowing there yet,
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  Speaker 4: is it?
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  Speaker 2: No, but it's.
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  Speaker 1: Rainy and cold, so you know it could potentially happen.
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  Speaker 1: It could snow because we're rolling into town naturally. It
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  Speaker 1: is somewhat intriguing, you guys, because Well, Clemson, for one,
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  Speaker 1: is not fully out of the ACC championship race by
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  Speaker 1: any stretch because of the way things have been going
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  Speaker 1: in the league. And they looked competent offensively last week.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say it was their greatest performance,
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  Speaker 1: but you did have Tate Reynolds looking like a more
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  Speaker 1: mature quarterback in his sixth start and running the offense
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  Speaker 1: a little bit better. And then you have a Syracuse
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  Speaker 1: team that's confident, right? They've won two straight, and there's
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  Speaker 1: this little bromance between Fran Brown and Davos Sweeney over
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  Speaker 1: the years from a few years ago and Syracuse knocked
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  Speaker 1: off Miami in that regular season finale, which ultimately sent
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  Speaker 1: Clemson to the ACC championship game and then the college
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  Speaker 1: football playoff. And last year, Syracuse going to Death Valley
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  Speaker 1: and beating Clemson there. That's when they lost their quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: Steve Angeli, to that Achilles injury. And both have been
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  Speaker 1: very complimentary of each other. So a pivotal point, it
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  Speaker 1: feels like, for both programs. For Syracuse, it's about bowl
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  Speaker 1: eligibility at this point. And for Clemson, it's how are
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  Speaker 1: you going to close out this season that did not
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  Speaker 1: start or has looked the way that we thought it would.
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  Speaker 6: Syracuse, such a different team, and the numbers bear out too,
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  Speaker 6: Mac and Taylor, with Angele versus without them. So it
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  Speaker 6: makes a much more difficult matchup for Clemson tomorrow. ACC Network,
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  Speaker 6: check out Taylor and the gang. all their coverage there. Taylor,
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  Speaker 6: we know here and you know from what you do
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  Speaker 6: day in, day out, how good Wake Forest is. But
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  Speaker 6: it's not shocking to us that maybe nationally and committee-wise
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  Speaker 6: they were disrespected. It doesn't mean it's not annoying, but
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  Speaker 6: it's not shocking to us. What's your take on Wake
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  Speaker 6: Forest in the initial playoff rankings based on their level
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  Speaker 6: of dominance lately that they came in at No.
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  Speaker 2: 16?
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  Speaker 1: I'm really disappointed. Again, like you just said, I'm not shocked,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm really disappointed if you've watched football at all.
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  Speaker 1: And even if you look at their record, their only
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  Speaker 1: loss is quite literally to the number one team in
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  Speaker 1: the country. You would recognize that that's a top 10 team.
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  Speaker 1: My biggest thing is, look, I'm not going to blow
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  Speaker 1: it out of proportion, despite what my mind is telling
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  Speaker 1: me after release of week one. Okay. Because they do
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  Speaker 1: still have quote unquote opportunity ahead of them, which is
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  Speaker 1: simply just winning out and continuing to play the way
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  Speaker 1: they are at the level they are. But my biggest
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  Speaker 1: issue is the disparity and the lack of clarity from
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  Speaker 1: the committee. It's obvious they're valuing wins and ranked wins.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why the SEC has as many teams in
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  Speaker 1: there as they do. And as many in the top
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  Speaker 1: 12 as they do, despite several of them having two losses.
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  Speaker 1: But it's, To me, why is Wake 16 and, like
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  Speaker 1: I say, Indiana is four, or even a Notre Dame
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  Speaker 1: at 11? None of those have a ranked win on
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  Speaker 1: their schedule. The metrics essentially align Indiana and Wake Forest.
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  Speaker 1: The eye test would tell you Wake Forest is playing,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the last month, significantly better than Indiana. And
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  Speaker 1: credit where credit is due, the Hoosiers are the reigning
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  Speaker 1: national champions, but that was last year. This is this year. Um,
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  Speaker 1: so to me, it's not necessarily, I'm going to complain
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  Speaker 1: about where wake is ranked. I don't think they're 16.
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  Speaker 1: I think they should be a top 10, at least
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  Speaker 1: 12 teams. But to me, it's the disparity and the
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  Speaker 1: lack of clarity from the committee and in why. And
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  Speaker 1: to me, when you boil it down, the only reason
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  Speaker 1: would be is because quote unquote, they play in the ACC,
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  Speaker 1: which is a perceived lesser conference. When we're also in
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  Speaker 1: the same breath, having the same conversation, um, that there's
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  Speaker 1: more parody in the country than ever before, but this
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  Speaker 1: league's not getting that benefit of the doubt. Instead, the
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  Speaker 1: league is just not good when it could just be
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  Speaker 1: that everyone is beating up on each other like other leagues.
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  Speaker 1: So that's my short spiel. I have the numbers to
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  Speaker 1: back it up, but hopefully they can continue to win.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see what the status is of their quarterback, Gio Lopez,
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  Speaker 1: because he did definitely injure that knee last game. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll continue to monitor that.
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  Speaker 2: Luckily, they have the Mary Mac game.
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  Speaker 4: No disrespect to Mary Mac, but I'm just being real,
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  Speaker 4: Mary Mac.
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  Speaker 2: I'm being real on this one.
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  Speaker 4: But luckily, they have that game, but they got SMU
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  Speaker 4: next week. SMU's got Virginia Tech tonight in an important one.
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  Speaker 4: I want to follow up on what you're saying, Taylor.
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  Speaker 4: The thing that gets me, and I do acknowledge that
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  Speaker 4: the way their rankings shape up, they don't have the
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  Speaker 4: ranked win rate. But the thing that stinks is it
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  Speaker 4: seems to be apparent that they're going to have to
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  Speaker 4: win the ACC outright to get in, right? Like they
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  Speaker 4: don't have a chance of playing Miami down to the wire,
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  Speaker 4: blowing everybody else out and get in.
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  Speaker 2: And I hate that for Deke fans.
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  Speaker 1: Me too. And that's sort of what they're signifying. Now
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  Speaker 1: I will say there are a ton of teams in
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  Speaker 1: front of them that will inevitably beat up on each other,
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  Speaker 1: but because the committee is so evidently valuing you know,
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  Speaker 1: your strength of schedule and who you beat, those are
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  Speaker 1: all going to be ranked wins in the SEC because
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  Speaker 1: they're putting the SEC in all of these ranked positions
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  Speaker 1: and not valuing anything this league has done. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that is disappointing. And, again, you just kind of have
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  Speaker 1: to go out there and take care of your business
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  Speaker 1: and let everything catch fire around you, which is subject
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  Speaker 1: to happen. And I will say, you know, like, the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the league in the ACC does have to
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  Speaker 1: carry its water. Like, you know, that game next week
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  Speaker 1: against SMU was slated to be a ranked win, and
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  Speaker 1: then SMU goes and loses to Syracuse. And while Syracuse
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  Speaker 1: is on a hotter streak, when you're at the top
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  Speaker 1: of the league, you have to carry that water. And unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: you saw like a Virginia Tech lose to a Cal
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  Speaker 1: or else that could have potentially been a ranked game
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  Speaker 1: on Friday. And you have a Louisville team whose only
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  Speaker 1: three losses– are by three points each. And, oh, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, one of them is to a top-ten team
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  Speaker 1: in Ole Miss, but we're not going to acknowledge that, apparently.
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  Speaker 4: The State loss is the one with Louisville-Taylor where it's like,
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  Speaker 4: come on, you're not helping the Con. As much as I, like,
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  Speaker 4: personally wanted State to win, it's like, come on.
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  Speaker 1: You can't lose to NC State because that's a ranked
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  Speaker 1: win that falls off of Wake's schedule. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: all tied together. But go out, take care of your business,
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  Speaker 1: and hope that the rest of the country cannibalizes itself.
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  Speaker 6: And, Taylor, the team at the top right now, Miami,
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  Speaker 6: has been teetering a little bit in some of these games,
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  Speaker 6: and that was with Malachi, Tony. Now we find out
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  Speaker 6: he's out for a while here. How worried are you,
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  Speaker 6: not just about the Notre Dame game? Of course, that's
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  Speaker 6: tough with or without Tony. But the stretch run, how
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  Speaker 6: can Miami survive this without Tony here for the next four, five,
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  Speaker 6: six weeks?
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  Speaker 1: Run the damn ball. I will say, obviously Malachi Tony
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  Speaker 1: is the engine that makes this offense go, but don't
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  Speaker 1: forget they have a Heisman Trophy candidate at quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: Darian Mensah, and that just didn't pop up overnight because
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  Speaker 1: he got a good receiver. This has been a strong
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  Speaker 1: sample size from Tulane to Duke to now at Miami.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing is, Malachi Tony eats up so much
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  Speaker 1: of the catches that other people haven't had to step up.
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  Speaker 1: This is your chance to go shine. He has his
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  Speaker 1: Robin to his Batman from Duke and Cooper barking, who
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  Speaker 1: has really yet to break out. You've seen flashes, but
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  Speaker 1: they have a rapport that was built two years ago.
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  Speaker 1: And then you have a young guy in Galen Upshaw.
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  Speaker 1: You do have an elite tight end and Elijah Lofton.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just incumbent on other people to find, to
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  Speaker 1: finally step up and fill that void that Malachi Tony
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  Speaker 1: is going to leave. And you have a stable of backs.
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  Speaker 1: You have Mark Fletcher. You have JV and Mallory who
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  Speaker 1: has really come into his own as a Shannon Dawson,
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  Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator, is going to call a great game
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  Speaker 1: like he always does. It's not like they're without weapons.
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  Speaker 1: I'm more concerned defensively, you guys, honestly. The offense is
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  Speaker 1: going to do its thing. I do think it will
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  Speaker 1: score points, even though Notre Dame's defense is quite literally
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  Speaker 1: the best in the country. um the defense has to
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  Speaker 1: to pull its weight like they can't just be allowing
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  Speaker 1: 30 plus points per game if they are going to
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  Speaker 1: survive this stretch run without a malachi tony.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah no doubt that past defense you saw it last
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  Speaker 4: week they made billy edwards look like drake may last
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  Speaker 4: week so yeah and the florida state game too so
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  Speaker 4: It's a huge game. I hate it that Tony's not playing.
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  Speaker 4: It's such a showcase game. It does suck. I do
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  Speaker 4: wonder how the committee, not to go back to the committee, Taylor,
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  Speaker 4: and get on that fun topic again, but I'm wondering
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  Speaker 4: if they were to lose without Tony, but they then
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  Speaker 4: lost to Wake in the ACC title game, would they
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  Speaker 4: get a bit of a break and definitely be in
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  Speaker 4: the field because the loss was to Notre Dame without
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  Speaker 4: Malachi Tony?
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  Speaker 1: If you're going to tell me that you are going
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  Speaker 1: to keep out Miami after watching them an entirety of
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  Speaker 1: the season and full well knowing that he is capable
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  Speaker 1: of returning for a playoff and leave them out, then
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  Speaker 1: abolish the committee.
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  Speaker 7: Respectfully.
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  Speaker 1: But Miami, too, has to win the rest of its
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  Speaker 1: regular season games if by chance something goes wrong at
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame. You have to acknowledge that they have other
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  Speaker 1: elite players on this team, including at quarterback. But it's
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  Speaker 1: incumbent on Miami to just not even allow the committee
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  Speaker 1: to be in this conversation.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm with you on that. I, and, and, and
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  Speaker 4: your run the damn ball comment. Like I do kind
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  Speaker 4: of wonder, not that like Mensa, like to your point
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  Speaker 4: is really good, but I do wonder no names run
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  Speaker 4: defense is damn good. But do they say Mark Fletcher,
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  Speaker 4: this game's on you. We given you the ball 30 times.
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  Speaker 4: Like I wonder if they try and then ball control
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  Speaker 4: it and keep car off the field and protect your defense.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if they try that, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's definitely going to be part of the game plan.
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  Speaker 7: And I think Mark Fletcher.
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  Speaker 1: Is going to say, I want the ball on my shoulders.
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  Speaker 1: He did it in the playoff last year. He is
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  Speaker 1: more than capable of carrying a load and then some.
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  Speaker 1: And I think as a senior leader and Malachi, Tony
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  Speaker 1: is one of his closest, dearest friends. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: see that this weekend. I think they're going to have
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  Speaker 1: added motivation, which is not necessarily what you want. Now
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  Speaker 1: credit to Notre Dame. They are an elite football team.
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  Speaker 1: They too are dealing with some, some valuable injuries.
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  Speaker 6: If the committee even thought about leaving Miami out, I
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  Speaker 6: think that Michael Irvin would go get the RV that
• 12:13
  Speaker 6: he gave to Mama Fletcher and drive it into the
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  Speaker 6: offices of the committee.
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  Speaker 2: He'd knock all their hats off that rack. I'm terrified
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  Speaker 2: how that man would react to this. All their hats
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  Speaker 2: would fall off that rack, Boney.
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  Speaker 1: He really might. You're so right about that. But man,
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  Speaker 1: if a Miami team gets left out of a 12-team
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  Speaker 1: playoff by potentially losing a close one to Notre Dame
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  Speaker 1: and falling short in a championship game that a lot
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  Speaker 1: of three-loss SEC teams aren't even going to be playing in, oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, then you're not putting the 12 best
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  Speaker 1: teams in the country in the playoff, and you're doing
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  Speaker 1: the fans a disservice.
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  Speaker 4: This text is hilarious. 704 number says, Mac, what are
• 12:44
  Speaker 4: you doing to poor Taylor? You're bringing up hypotheticals that
• 12:47
  Speaker 4: are getting her even more angry. Please don't do this.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, I promised myself I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 7: Get riled up.
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  Speaker 1: I promised myself, but I can't do it, you guys.
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  Speaker 1: I am who I am.
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  Speaker 4: But that's why we love you is like you are
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  Speaker 4: just passionate.
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  Speaker 2: You have opinions. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: You've got opinions. You back it up with facts. It's
• 13:04
  Speaker 4: not like you're just throwing crazy stuff out like our
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  Speaker 4: text line does.
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  Speaker 2: You got facts, baby. I like it.
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  Speaker 1: Only sometimes, you know? Hand over to my Twitter for
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  Speaker 1: the real facts because I'll drop numbers on there.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think?
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  Speaker 4: Before we let you go, we've got to ask you
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  Speaker 4: about Duke-NC State, a big game here in our neck
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  Speaker 4: of the woods. Duke has, and Bone has reminded State
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  Speaker 4: fans of this over the last three years.
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  Speaker 2: Just numbers. I just have the numbers, Taylor.
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  Speaker 4: I can't deny it. Double-digit wins each of the last
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  Speaker 4: three years for Duke over State. Do you think that continues?
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  Speaker 4: What are your thoughts on this one?
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  Speaker 1: I remember sidelining that 23 game in Durham. That was
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  Speaker 1: not good.
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  Speaker 2: That was a real bad one for State.
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  Speaker 1: That was not good at all. I think Duke has
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  Speaker 1: the best running back and one of the best players
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  Speaker 1: in the country. By the way, they just launched... Nate
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  Speaker 1: Shepard's Heisman campaign, too, and rightfully so. His numbers are
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  Speaker 1: off the charts. I don't know that NC State for
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  Speaker 1: four quarters can sustain trying to figure out how to
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  Speaker 1: stop Nate Shepard. That's just what this game boils down to,
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  Speaker 1: I think. It will be great for NC State to
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  Speaker 1: get Duke Scott back if they do because they need
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  Speaker 1: a run game. It's... You know, they want to compete
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  Speaker 1: in this one, I think, to be sustainable and not
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  Speaker 1: just leave it up to C.J. Bailey and this passing
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  Speaker 1: game against a really, really, really good Duke defense. So
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  Speaker 1: those are some things to monitor, but trying to stop
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  Speaker 1: Nate Shepard is something people haven't been able to do.
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  Speaker 1: If they can do it on the ground, great, but
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  Speaker 1: he's going to kill you in the pass game.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: He's more scrimmage yards than anybody else in the country,
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  Speaker 1: 18 of them.
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  Speaker 4: He's got 972 rush yards and 14 rush TDs. 31
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  Speaker 4: catches for 302 receiving yards and four receiving TDs. He
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  Speaker 4: has to be a Heisman finalist, doesn't he? And I
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  Speaker 4: don't have confidence that the voters will do that, but
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  Speaker 4: doesn't he have to be a finalist, y'all, if he
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  Speaker 4: keeps this up?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely does.
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  Speaker 7: I think numerically, yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: The good news is Duke does play Miami next week,
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  Speaker 1: and Duke does play Wake Forest. So he's going to
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  Speaker 1: have chances to show not just the ACC we're watching,
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  Speaker 1: but the country who he really is against a legitimate...
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  Speaker 1: contender for a college football playoff.
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  Speaker 2: Good point.
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  Speaker 6: And he has those numbers and he wasn't healthy for
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  Speaker 6: about three weeks here. If he was actually healthy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, that's a great point too, man. Y'all are
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  Speaker 2: all over it, man.
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  Speaker 4: I feel, I feel, I feel like we're all vibing
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  Speaker 4: right now on the same page. We do need to
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: shout out Taylor. She has added like a 14th job
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  Speaker 4: at ESPN or, you know, with, with ESPN, the ACC network,
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: you now are going to be doing for ESPN a,
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: coverage of the women's TGL golf.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Is this true?
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: It is true.
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: It starts on Sunday.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: It's the inaugural season of WTGL. They're heading into year
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: three of TGL.
• 16:03
  Speaker 7: So they wanted to get the ladies involved in rightfully so. And, uh,
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: there are some incredible names, uh, from the LPGA that
• 16:11
  Speaker 7: are coming over to play in this, including headline by
• 16:14
  Speaker 7: Michelle Lee West.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Everybody knows her. Um, and, And I'm excited to dive
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: into an aspect of sports that I'm not normally dabbling in,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: which is golf. But it's so different. And I hope
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: people will tune in. Our first match is Sunday at
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: 3 o'clock on ESPN. And I know a lot of
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: people will be watching NFL. But if you want a
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: little change of pace and to see some of these
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: incredible ladies do their thing. um, lock in and then we'll,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: we'll see what I bring to the table because this
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: is a fun, exciting learning experience for all of us
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: because it's never been done before. So let's get it.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: So Sunday's your day off. You said, I'll just throw
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: another job on the table. Who needs days off?
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Who needs a day off?
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: We'll sleep in June.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: All right, Taylor, you rock. Congratulations on that and all
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: your success. Um, uh, thanks for coming on. We appreciate it.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: You guys are the absolute best anytime, and I hopefully
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: will see you soon.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, definitely, definitely. All right, Taylor, be good. Thank you, Taylor.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: There you go. That is Taylor Tannenbaum.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: I guess she's referencing ACC titles.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: She'll be here, right, in Charlotte? Yes. Does she want
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: to do a studio visit? Not many do, Bone. Oh, yeah,
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: she'll be here.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: Maybe she does. Oh, by the way, one quick thing
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: on golf. How about Liv? Pour one out for Liv.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: It is finally over. That abomination of a horrendous idea
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: that all it did, Bone, is cost the Saudis gazillions
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: of dollars. All it did is cost many golfers, Bone,
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: trust and I don't know, actual likability for the decisions
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: they made. What a complete epic failure. Like that is
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: like a sports equivalent of Coca-Cola trying new Coke. I mean,
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: that's like the glowing puck on Fox. That's how bad
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: that damn thing failed.
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: You're going to do a list of your top five
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: live moments here throughout the show.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Give us one of them.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: I liked it when they once had 300 viewers for
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: one of their golf tournaments.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, that thing, no one was watching. Even with
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: the big names, no.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: One cared enough to put it on. Anyway, man, good
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: riddance to that. Let's get everybody back on the same
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: damn tour and rock and roll, man.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: When we come back here on the Mac and Bone Show,
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: does Panther Nation have any confidence with Denver coming to town?
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: Denver's coming down that mountain, Mac. Are we going to
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: Panther up and send them back home with the big
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: old L-ski? As Mac says, Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: They went nine straight drives without scoring.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: How impressive and how impressed with you were the defense today?
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: I was. I wish we would have finished better. I
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: said this, it's not a good offense we played. It's
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: just the truth. So we expected that and we're going
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: to see a lot better teams.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: All right, so you got to go backbone to the
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: 2024 season.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: That was old Sean O right there. Go scratch yourself.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: That was old punchable face himself, Sean Payton, after they
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: beat the Panthers in Bryce Young's return from the benching game.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Jalen Coker's first touchdown as a NFL player, by the way,
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: in that game. and Sean Payton running up the score
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: late in the game, pissing off JC Horn and having
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: words with him after the game. And then he goes
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: in the presser and says that, eh, they're not really
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: that good of an offense anyway. So that was two
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: years ago, Bone. I added that on the list. That
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: was like reason 100 not to like Sean Payton. And
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: fast forward to this week's bone this week, talking about
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: the 2026 Panthers offense.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Listen to what he has to say.
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: Listen, he's, he's, you've definitely seen, um, you know, his, uh,
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: ascension and he's very comfortable with what they're doing. Um,
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: It's an explosive team. I think they're seventh or eighth
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: in explosives. They do a great job mixing the play action,
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: the RPO game. They've drafted well. And so all those
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: numbers are different today than they were two years ago.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: So there you go. Now, you better not say after
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: the game, if you beat us, that offense is terrible.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: We got you on record, baby.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Explosive.
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: The moral to the story is always keep your Sean
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: Payton receipts. You never know when they could be come
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: up again.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: AJ says, I just wish JC horn would have bleep
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: beat the bleepity bleep out of Sean Payton that day
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: when he was showing him at the end of the game.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. Please.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Hey, maybe somebody could get them. Maybe somebody can chin
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: them bone this week. God, I would love to beat them.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: I'd love for our defense with the new coordinator, Todd wash,
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: who came across as so likable in that presser with
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: his intensity and passion and and the way he wants
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: players to attack, I would love it if Sean had
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: no answers for Todd Walsh and the Panthers' defense, man.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I would love that. And with the safety.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: Injuries for the Broncos, we know that their corners are good,
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: especially the all-world Sertan, but they've got some questions about
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: injuries in the secondary, and can the Panthers exploit that
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: in this game?
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, that is true.
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: Not a lot of holes in this defense, if you
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: look at their roster. They're good at all the levels, but...
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: with those safeties being injured right now, that could be
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: a big factor here. So I'm curious with Panther fans
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: out there, right? Like the fact that spreads two and
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: a half is interesting. It's very interesting.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: And how many times, Bone, do you see a spread
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: where you're like, whoa, that's different than I thought. And
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: it ends up like, oh, yeah, they knew.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: They knew. You know, Vegas knew type thing.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: And I wonder if this is going to be a
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: spread where a lot of people look at and say, man,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: I watched the Panthers offense. They can't pass protect. They're
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: going against the Denver front, which I'm terrified of, by
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: the way. How the hell is it only a two
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: and a half point spread? And then the Panthers find
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: a way to win the game. I'm wondering how much
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: confidence there is out there in the Panthers. What are
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: y'all feeling, Panther Nation, my fellow Panthertonians? What are y'all
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: feeling out there? I don't know if that's going to stick.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: I don't think so.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: I'm not really sure where that's going. I don't think
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: that's it. I hope not. I think Thurs has a
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: better chance of sticking than that crap. But like, is.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: This a game where y'all kind of feel like, Hey,
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Denver's offense is certainly nothing dominant. Their running game is
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: one that's 29th in the league bone. It is one
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: that I think much like the Packers run game, we
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: can slow down and then make them put it in
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Bo Nix's hands. Like at the very least, I think
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: the defense, and I don't know if y'all would shake
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: your head at this, I think the defense is going
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: to play for Todd Walsh. Finney brought this up earlier.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: The defense is going to play with a little edge
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: after what happened with Avero. I am very confident we're
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: going to be right there in this football game. The
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: thing I can't get past is, Bone, the pass protection
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: against Nick Benito, Zach Allen, and those guys up front.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: And then I can't get past the way Denver has
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: kind of had that.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Fourth quarter magic. You know what I mean?
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: But there's like zero doubt in my mind, which I'm
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: sure is what you want to hear, y'all, that we're
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: going to be right there in this game, Bones.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: This is a fourth quarter game. It's close down the stretch.
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: If the Panthers defense back, yes, we can look at
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: Chicago and Tampa, and rightfully so, how bad it was.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: But you can also look at the job they did
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: in containing B. John Robinson, Jameer Gibbs. The Packers didn't
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: go off to the level we thought they were. They've
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: actually contained some good offenses, especially Detroit and Green Bay,
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: down to a level where Detroit, they won, and Green Bay,
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: if the offensive line would have held up, they probably
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: had a chance to do some weight in the game.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: If they can contain those offenses, certainly. A much more
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: pedestrian attack that is the Denver Broncos. They can limit
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: them and not have them gash them like Chicago and
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: Tampa Bay did. This is a four-quarter game. This is
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: a close game. We get much more of the Panther
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: product we saw to begin the year than we do
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: the last couple weeks in this football game.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: What do you think about these numbers? How about these numbers?
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Three of the last four games, the Panthers have given
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: up 66 rush yards or less.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Now, the problem is, the one in the middle, we
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: gave up $ 7 gazillion.
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: And you mentioned Tampa Bay back in Chicago, lead the
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: league in rushing, as someone pointed out. There might be
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: a reason for that.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: We definitely contributed to that, but they ain't just running
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: on us.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: See Tampa last week, Mo. That's true. They ain't just
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: running on us. I can assure you of that.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: How about this stat? Against bottom 10 run games, which
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Denver definitely is.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Actually, I had a 29, 26 in the league in
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: yards per game and yards per carry Denver. But against
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: bottom 10 rush attacks, the Panthers have played three of
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: those teams. They have given up 78 yards a game.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: They can play run defense against a team like this.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: And then it becomes Bo Nix. We had a texter
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: that says, Mac, I agree with you. I think we'll
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: hold up against the run. But how the hell are
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: those corners stopping Waddle and Sutton? Because Bo Nix is
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: throwing the football. I don't think they're going to get
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: it downfield a ton. That's not the type of season
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: Bo Nix is having, man.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: No, and Waddle's been hit or missing some games. It's
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: not like he's been a dominant force. So, yeah, no,
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: I feel horrible about what the offensive line can do.
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: I feel good about the defense in this game. How
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: do offensive line to me is a much more bigger
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: problem than the defense.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: In this game.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah. This text is with you. 704 number says, y'all,
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: I love your optimism. I love the weekly positive vibes
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: you try to give us, but how on earth is
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: our offense going to do anything against that defense? If
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: the offensive line gets it handed to them again. So
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: I'll ask you, Bo, what's, how do we overcome that obvious,
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: scary mismatch?
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: Pray.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Go to church. Give me that rosary. Hug your
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: loved ones.
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: Maybe there's a monsoon and the footing gets bad and
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: they can't get they can't just run by Rashid Walker.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: I don't have I don't have I don't necessarily have
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: the answer for that.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Can we panther up?
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Fitty, I'll ask you, well, I'm asking Fitty if we
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: can panther up, panther up under any scenario. It could
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: be the football monster's bone against the Panthers and Fitty's
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: panthering up.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Do you, like, how do.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: We panther up, Fitty, when we have to acknowledge that
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: if our O-line's not better, Denver's pass rush... which is
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: sixth in pressure percentage, they're going to be all over Bryce. Like,
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: do you just think the game plan finds a way
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: to work around that?
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Or do you just think we run it? I think
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: it's a little bit of both.
• 26:55
  Speaker 9: I do think Carolina will be able to establish the
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: run game. I think Chuba's going to get 80-plus yards
• 27:03
  Speaker 9: on the ground. I think they'll get back to some
• 27:05
  Speaker 9: of the RPO stuff. I do think, Mac, you had
• 27:08
  Speaker 9: 10 days from the Green Bay game to this game.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: I think you'll see Bryce on the move.
• 27:13
  Speaker 9: I think you'll see a much more mobile pocket where
• 27:16
  Speaker 9: he's not just standing back there.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: He better.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Like a duck waiting to get shot.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: The thing that I come back to is you look
• 27:26
  Speaker 9: at Denver, and I don't want to take away from
• 27:28
  Speaker 9: what they are and how good a football team they are.
• 27:31
  Speaker 9: They play a lot of close games, and they've won
• 27:35
  Speaker 9: a crap ton of close games. NFL record of one
• 27:37
  Speaker 9: possession game for the last two years. At some point,
• 27:40
  Speaker 9: that's going to stop. At some point, the luck's going
• 27:43
  Speaker 9: to run out. Bo Nix is not going to make
• 27:44
  Speaker 9: the plays. They're not going to get the stops. At
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: some point, that's just a law of averages. And this
• 27:49
  Speaker 9: feels like a game where our guy rises to the occasion.
• 27:54
  Speaker 9: I don't know if Bryce is going to be great.
• 27:56
  Speaker 9: It might not be pretty. But I think he's going
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: to make those throws he has to make in the
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: fourth quarter. to elevate this team in what I think
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: is going to be an ugly football game from start
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: to finish.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Can it be a clutch Bryce game? Last year, Bryce
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: was Mr. Fourth Quarterbone. This year, Bo Nix has been Mr.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Can we get Bryce as the clutch man? Did you
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: make a pick on the game there?
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, Panthers won the game 17-13.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, here we go.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: I was just going to assume I was just, just
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: like bone. We knew Bethany was Panther it up. We
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: also are not shocked to see sir. Loin say I'll
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Panther up guys. 35, 17.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Not shocked to see that.
• 28:34
  Speaker 9: We scored 35 points on, on this Denver defense. The
• 28:38
  Speaker 9: victory dance is going to get haywire.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: We dance in our underwear, bro. Mark it down. Mark
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: it down. We are dancing in our underwear if we
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: score 35 on this defense with our O-line.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Mac, don't give me hope.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Come on, baby.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: I need to shake my ass.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: We're wanting views, you know. Oh, you can't act like
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: women won't flock. To that damn video, Bone, if Fitty
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: and I are in our undies. Can you act like that?
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: I don't need to see Fitty's waxing gibbous.
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: Bone, are you saying that she would not dance in
• 29:07
  Speaker 9: your underwear with us? It would be Bode or Mack
• 29:09
  Speaker 9: and I in the undies?
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: Well, I have other stuff I'm working on that could
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: be delivered by Monday. So just hold on to your horses.
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: Hold on to your horses.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Bone's going to have a live horse. Bone's borrowing XL's.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: Exhales horse dollar bill gonna show up in in the
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: building oh god all right so here's the deal bony
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: fitting his panther it up we got some textures panthering
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: up we do have a fair share of people not
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: panthering up which i don't i completely get a hundred
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: percent um what's your prediction bony.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna do something that people sometimes get mad at
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: i am going to go lock city on this football
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: game Denver 24 Panthers 20 the Panthers lose this game
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: lock it up i don't think the offensive line gives
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: this team a chance to win the football game.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Man, he locks City the opponent. Has that ever been
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: done before? You just took the wind out of my sails.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Holy crap, Moe.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Give me your tickets. I'll go and sit with you
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: on Sunday.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Hey, Larry and Moe, play the game here, what I'm
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: doing here, all right? You trying to fool the sports gods, Moe?
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: I'm going to the game. Last year I went to
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: New Orleans. That was my three scores galore incident. So
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: please allow me here to do what I'm doing here
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: and just pick the Broncos 24-20.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay. There's a method to your madness.
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: Do I have to explain everything around here on the radio?
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: There's a method to your madness.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: This texter, Dan the Ranger fan, is requesting we dance
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: in thongs if the Panthers score 35.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: I've got one. I am ready to go.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: Who wants to know? I'll really say who wants to
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: see that. Why do you want that, Dan? Dan, what's
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: wrong with you? Are you a blind man, Dan, and
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: you're trying to set up all the people with sight
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: to see something horrifying?
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: I'll get the bra and the thong. Get my audition
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: for tassels ready to go.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: We need cheek coverage, y'all.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: I mean, seriously, that thong would be covering us like
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: the Panther secondary, all the injuries right now.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Does your insurance guy AC cover cheeks? Cheek coverage.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: I'm going to do a thing here. I'm going to
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: do a thing. I'm going to pick the damn Panthers.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: I'm teetering. I think we're going to be right there
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: in a low-scoring game, Bone. I think our defense is
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: going to play inspired. I think they're going to play well.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: I don't think Denver's offense is anything special. I do
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: worry a little bit about not having Jalen Phillips and
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: possibly Okereke and Willie, obviously. But I just think we're
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: due to win a game like this. We did not
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: beat Green Bay, and I know the O-line is going
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: to be probably the same personnel, even though I want
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: to see Brady see. I think we can win an
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: ugly one here, Bone. I think we can lean on
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: Chuba and run the ball. I think Idzik had 10
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: days to figure out how can we scheme around the
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: O-line a little bit. I say the Panthers win 17-16.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: 17-16 on a Fitzy field goal at the buzzer.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: What is going on? Come on, Finney! What is hitting
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: him back there? That wasn't very mature, was it? No,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know. There's like people punching things around here.
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: I hope you're right. I do think it will be,
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: like you both said, ugly game.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: This thing.
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: Low scoring. This thing is not going to be aesthetically pleasing.
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: I think so, man. Much like most of my radio career.
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: Much like our victory dance on Monday, potentially. Much like
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: much of our lives, to be honest.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll see. I'm sorry if I just ruined
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: that game, Bo. Also, if.
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: If your predictions come true for you two, I do
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: need to know if anybody out there has a lead on.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: A horse that could travel on Mondays. Exhale, baby, come on.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Ride him right into town, baby.
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: Do you think, Mac, there would be a meeting called
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: by Marsha and Colin and the executives if I just
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: started riding a horse down the hallway?
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Or would they just be like, that's a victory dance?
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I think that would be fine.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: I think if Philly and I are in our underwear, though,
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: that could result in corporate-level meetings.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: You're not taking this away.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: If we win on Sunday, I'm dancing in my drawers.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: I want to, too, man.
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: I would rather clean up after my horse than see that.
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: All right. We're going to figure out what happened here
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: when we come back. It's a huge college football weekend.
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: The biggest of the year. Seven ranked matchups. What games
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: are can't miss? And who is getting the dubs? Sports
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
• 33:42
  Speaker 10: You got that two-headed monster.
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: Look at that slate, by the way.
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: Seven top 25 matchups.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: I need to say something.
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: Most ever.
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: And I've never been more serious about something in college football.
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: If you have a family member or a friend that
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: is getting married tomorrow and you go, then you either.
• 34:22
  Speaker 9: You mean this weekend?
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Saturday. Yeah, Saturday.
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: If you've got anyone getting married this Saturday, unfamily them
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: or unfriend them and don't go.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: That is Matt Berry on the broadcast last night for
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: UTSA FAU. And that is his message, Bone, about this
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: amazing college football weekend with seven.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Rank versus rank matchups. You heard him.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: If you got a wedding to go to, you know
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: what Matt Berry just told you to do. Friendships are over.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: And on family. That's a new term.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: Family relationships will be destroyed, according to Matt Berry. Oh, man.
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: If you have a new girlfriend and you have a
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: babysitting assignment that's taking up 2 p.m. to 11 p.m.,
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: you got to put your foot down and say, not
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: this weekend. This is God's football weekend. Hypothetically speaking, Fitty, right?
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Fitty, you've taken some ribbing on the text line.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: Throughout the week because we've been reiterating that you and
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: your lovely girlfriend maddie are going to be babysitting i
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: guess is it her three her sister's three kids correct
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: um between two and like midnight on saturday during this
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: amazing college football weekend you've been called not a football
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: guy yep you've been called a dude that just ought
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: to buy the damn ring now You've been called a
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: guy that is a total hypocrite for the way he's
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: criticized others over the years for not watching sporting events
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: to be with their ladies.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: What do you have to say for yourself, Vic?
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: I am a coward. I own that I am a coward.
• 35:59
  Speaker 9: And I deserve every bit of the wrath that I
• 36:02
  Speaker 9: am getting for the way that I have said things.
• 36:05
  Speaker 9: What I've said previously, most notably at guys like Walker Amell,
• 36:08
  Speaker 9: who doesn't miss.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: Is Walker free to head to the zoo on any
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: big sports day now?
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: But I have made it known.
• 36:17
  Speaker 9: The Heels play tomorrow at noon, so the babysitting starts
• 36:19
  Speaker 9: during the Heels game. I'm still going to get my
• 36:22
  Speaker 9: football in. She understands what I do for a living.
• 36:26
  Speaker 9: The boys have never watched football, so they'll be introduced
• 36:29
  Speaker 9: to the great sport tomorrow.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: I will still be locked in.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Well, they're USC fans then. How old are these boys?
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: One's five or six, and then it was like two.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Finney's going to have a live Oklahoma drill. These boys
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: are going to hurt. They're going to break something.
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: I told Tara this weekend, this is my weekend. Don't
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: bother me. Let me have Saturday night. uh all day
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: she's also out of town this weekend so look at
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: you tough guy i'm gonna miss her actually and i
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: wish she was here on saturday tough guy.
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: All right let's talk about the games for those of us.
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: That will never say that if she was in town
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: by the way because she's listening right now for those of.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: Us that would not be breaking up a fight between
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: a two-year-old and a five-year-old uh during a big fourth
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: down play in one of these seven rank matchups let's
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: talk about it um what game uh I mean, is
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: the obvious answer. Notre Dame, my Notre Dame Miami is,
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: is the obvious answer bone in terms of the biggest
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: can't miss game, or is it literally the one at
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: the same time.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Georgia Ole miss.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: Seeing if Georgia can respond to what Trinidad Chambliss did
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: to them in the Sugar Bowl is really fascinating to me, man.
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, if we're removing team stuff out of this, like
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: Duke State, South Carolina, obviously.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to get to those games in the
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: next segment.
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: But if you're just looking for the national can't-miss games, Mac,
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: I believe it's that.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: It's that window itself.
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: Because Notre Dame-Miami to me was the obvious answer, but
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: Tony goes out and it takes a little steam out
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: of it. But when you have Georgia Ole Miss also
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: playing at that time and Kentucky-Tennessee, which I think will
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: be a great game as well, although a little bit earlier, 6-15,
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: I just think it's that 6-15 window on down there.
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: I think those three games, because Ole Miss-Georgia's got potential
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: to be a better football game and closer than I
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: think Notre Dame-Miami without Tony in there.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Ole Miss's defense can have a rough night.
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: Georgia can lose to Auburn at home, so who's to
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: say they can't lose to Ole Miss?
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: That is true, but has Kirby scared them smart? Scared
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: them smart. Scared them straight since then? Scared smart. I
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: wish someone would scare my dumb ass, Mark.
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: So I'm excited for that entire window to me is captivating.
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: That's multi-view. That's like, hell, just put those two up, man.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: Although you got Tennessee, Kentucky, like you're saying, I think
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: that's going to be a good game. I mean, this
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: is just as, and this is an awesome freaking Saturday.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: It's my favorite sport to watch, Bone. um when it's
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: not my team right i'll have other you know you
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: know my team the panthers are invested in everything going
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: on like i care about everything so we have all
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: these local games and we'll get into those kind of
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: more specifically in college football confidence in the nine o'clock
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: segment we'll do more panther talk with zach gelb at
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: 9 25 um but just to have this day and
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: have the playoff format and so much on the line
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: what do you think about this notre dame so you
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: think You think Notre Dame covers that seven and a half?
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: I'm starting to think Miami.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: Is going to keep it close I'm starting to get
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: a feeling they're going to keep it close without Tony.
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: I don't know if they'll cover but I don't know
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: what the chances of Miami winning that game are without
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: Tony though I don't think there's a lot of mystery
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: of who the winner is in that game There was
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: with Tony, obviously, although I felt this was a spot
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: for Notre Dame anyway because of the pressure on the ranking,
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: the must-win nature, the playoff late game it is.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: For the Irish. You take Tony out of their back.
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: They haven't used Barca really nearly as much as I
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: thought they would. You got Leonard Moore, the best DB
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: in America, can now go on Barca. Miami still got
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: their run game, but this felt like Notre Dame to
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: me anyway. Now it really feels like the Irish. So
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: can it be right around the spread? Maybe, but I
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: don't have any doubt that Notre Dame's winning this football game.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: I'm starting to feel like they ride Fletcher. They just
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: tell that freaking machine, that cyborg he's carrying it 28 times.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: Now Notre Dame's run defense is real freaking good. They're
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: top 10 in everything, statistically, defensively. Did you know that
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: Fletcher's mom ghosts every game on RV?
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: I've heard that.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: You do have CJ Carr, who's going to make some
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: big plays, Bone, against Miami's wounded secondary. Yeah, I wouldn't
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: pick a game. And Notre Dame's playing for their season,
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: whereas Miami is not. I feel like it would be close,
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: but I'm with you. It's hard not to pick Notre Dame.
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: What do you all think about this one? And I
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: love the fact that Lane Kiffin is annoyed that the
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: hallowed LSU-Bama game... has to be insulted by playing at
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: 330 and.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Not playing in the night window. That old rough 330
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: window for.
• 41:04
  Speaker 8: The SEC game.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: It's horrible. Lane Kiffin was personally offended.
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: It wasn't home to the best SEC game, I don't know,
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: for the last 25 years.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Alabama can finish off Lane Kiffin, right, playoff-wise? Yeah.
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: If he gives them a third loss where they're ranked
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: right now, Fitty, if Alabama gets a third loss, the
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: committee might drop them from five to six.
• 41:23
  Speaker 9: Yeah, like, what's the ramifications in this game? Like, yeah,
• 41:26
  Speaker 9: the game means a lot more for LSU for where
• 41:28
  Speaker 9: they stand. Like, we need to be prepared for Bama.
• 41:32
  Speaker 9: If Bama's not going to make the CFP, they've got
• 41:34
  Speaker 9: to lose at least twice. If there are three losses,
• 41:38
  Speaker 9: they're not going from five to 13.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: They're just not going to happen.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: You're right.
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: The committee just said you can afford one more and
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: you're still so comfortable with five.
• 41:45
  Speaker 9: Which is absurd. Which I have a major issue with.
• 41:48
  Speaker 9: It's ridiculous. I'm pulling for LSU to win the game.
• 41:52
  Speaker 9: I want Lane Kiffin to have this moment. But I
• 41:55
  Speaker 9: thought it maybe would come at the expense of maybe
• 41:57
  Speaker 9: putting Bama in a situation where Their playoff lives would
• 42:00
  Speaker 9: be over.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: You want Lane Kiffin to have a good moment?
• 42:03
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Are you human?
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: I always pull for LSU in this game. I never
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: pull for Bama.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: Even with that jerk running the show? Yes.
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: Oh, I want that dude out of the damn playoff
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: so badly. I could taste it, man. I could just
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: taste it. But Alabama's annoying, too. The best text I
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: saw the other day when we were all whining, I
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: believe deservedly, about Bama being ranked five with the two
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: losses was a texter that says, is the committee confused?
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: Do they think they have to overrank Alabama because Nick
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: Saban's still coaching them? Or are they still fearful of Saban?
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: Don't they know they don't have to do this anymore?
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: Matt, we have some sad news here about our guy
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: Gator Rube here. Big college football fan. Tomorrow's his wedding anniversary.
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: So he's trying to work in a brunch. Ooh, that's tough.
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: He's trying to work in a brunch. Ruby, that's a
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: tough one. How about a Friday night? How about a
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: little anniversary Eve?
• 42:58
  Speaker 9: Is it like a monumental anniversary? Because it was like
• 43:01
  Speaker 9: the 13th anniversary.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: Then he had to do lunch. But it's like 15,
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: 20 years.
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: Is Maddie listening to this? Maddie, take notes on this, girl.
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: This is your future. You're celebrating 15 days back there.
• 43:14
  Speaker 6: By the way, by the way, Rube, Rube, that's a
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: bad job by you. You didn't see the future on
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: this and future Saturdays that could be compromised by your anniversary.
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God. Yeah, you get married in the fall.
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: That's one of the reasons why I was like, we
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: got to do a summer wedding. Because then you don't
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: have anniversaries while football's going on. Husky Pants says, I'm
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: glad you already embraced your hypocrisy in this segment. But
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: why LSU, Fitty? He's bothered by that. This dude says,
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: Fitty has fallen in love faster than a Charlotte sports
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: team season can go in the tank.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: That's true, Bone.
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: Let's go back a couple of weeks where Finney was
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: still lonely. We had Panther optimism and Hornets optimism. Desmond
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: from Concord says, Bone doesn't know ball, man. I had
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: to say, why doesn't Bone know ball? To say you
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: have no doubt the number one team doesn't have a chance.
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: Notre Dame struggled with Navy last week, although they ended
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: up blowing them out.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: Because I know ball.
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: They haven't been this dominant team. Hey, Desmond from Concord,
• 44:16
  Speaker 6: when you take Tony out of the lineup, would they
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: still be number one? Or would they have lost some
• 44:20
  Speaker 6: of these games that they got by UNC, Florida State,
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: even the Wake Forest game, the beginning of that game?
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: You do not know what Miami will be like without Tony.
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: That's my point.
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, the big plays he creates, not to
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: mention the attention he draws to free up others, that's
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: gone now, too. I have a feeling Miami's going to
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: put up a good fight, though. I have a feeling
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: you were going to see Mark Fletcher's mom happy today.
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: during this game a few times. I just think he's
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: going to literally carry people. You're going to see Michael
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: Irvin fighting the leprechaun on the sidelines. All right, we
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: come back.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know. What do I know? But, man, I
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: can't wait.
• 44:59
  Speaker 6: We come back on the Mac and Bone Show. College
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: football confidence. Who's feeling good about this weekend from the
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: local angle? We got Duke State. We got the Gamecocks. And,
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: of course, we just talked Notre Dame-Miami. Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ.