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- 0:03Speaker 1: What's up, party people? Bueno, como está?
- 0:06Speaker 2: Oh, oh, oh, it's Mike and Bo.
- 0:09Speaker 3: This is my friend Matt.
- 0:11Speaker 2: It's a beautiful work Wednesday, everybody.
- 0:15Speaker 3: This is my friend T-Bone.
- 0:18Speaker 1: That crack's been exposed for decades. You guys are the best. Pony, pony, pony, pony.
- 0:24Speaker 4: They're the best.
- 0:25Speaker 1: I love those guys. Are they going to say nothing?
- 0:27Speaker 1: Nothing there?
- 0:28Speaker 3: All right, one time for the one time.
- 0:30Speaker 5: Oh, man.
- 0:32Speaker 6: You're listening to the Mack and Bo Show on Mack
- 0:35Speaker 6: and Bo Radio.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Good Wednesday morning, Charlotte. Welcome aboard.
- 0:46Speaker 2: We have made it to day one of your Charlotte
- 0:49Speaker 2: Hornets season. In Brooklyn tonight, it feels like Brooklyn is
- 0:54Speaker 2: our most popular opener opponent.
- 0:56Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 0:56Speaker 2: I don't have the data. We'll have to check that.
- 0:59Speaker 2: I do know we've won five in a row. and
- 1:01Speaker 2: seven of the last ten openers, thanks to Walker Mayles,
- 1:04Speaker 2: Hornets Advanced Research, and he provided bone with us yesterday.
- 1:08Speaker 1: Will they make it six in a row tonight? We'll
- 1:10Speaker 1: talk Hornets tonight.
- 1:11Speaker 2: We'll talk Hornets season outlook, and we'll talk about the
- 1:15Speaker 2: fact that that folks are still not ready to put
- 1:19Speaker 2: a smile on their face and move on post-Lomelo trade.
- 1:22Speaker 2: We will try to talk through that. As fellow Hornets
- 1:26Speaker 2: fans today on the Mac and Bone Show, you know
- 1:28Speaker 2: we got Panthers combos to have today, including some interesting
- 1:32Speaker 2: comments unsolicited by Dave Canales on Panthers talk about Icky.
- 1:37Speaker 2: The forgotten tackle. So we'll get that to you here
- 1:40Speaker 2: this hour as well. The Jalen Hurts thing saga is
- 1:44Speaker 2: setting up to be NFL versus NFL PA. We got
- 1:48Speaker 2: that going on. We've got LeBron and Philly beating the
- 1:52Speaker 2: Knicks last night. We've got the NBA back. We have
- 1:56Speaker 2: the Canes winning last night. And, of course, we have
- 2:00Speaker 2: three injured Hornets that won't play tonight. So we've got
- 2:02Speaker 2: a lot of things happening. Bone is here. The fit
- 2:05Speaker 2: dog is in the house. I feel like, Bone, when
- 2:07Speaker 2: Hornets season starts, I feel like I need to start
- 2:10Speaker 2: calling you Travis T-Bone Hancock because that's what you are
- 2:15Speaker 2: on the pregame show.
- 2:16Speaker 1: It's not just that.
- 2:17Speaker 3: The esteemed Travis T-Bone Hancock.
- 2:20Speaker 1: I forgot about that. I am esteemed in the fall
- 2:22Speaker 1: and winter and then– Well, some parts of the spring,
- 2:26Speaker 1: not deep into the spring. Eventually the esteem runs out.
- 2:28Speaker 1: I like to call this Operation Day. First of all,
- 2:30Speaker 1: good morning to you guys. Happy to be here. Honored
- 2:32Speaker 1: to be here. I like to call this a six-legged
- 2:35Speaker 1: groove machine.
- 2:37Speaker 3: Oh, God.
- 2:38Speaker 2: I hadn't even thought about it. I mean, I guess
- 2:40Speaker 2: we had EC for a couple of seasons. I'm just
- 2:42Speaker 2: ready for EC and Dell, man. Every night with EC now, man.
- 2:46Speaker 2: I'm ready for it, baby. Home opener will be Friday
- 2:48Speaker 2: against Atlanta. Then they've got Miami Saturday. So you get
- 2:52Speaker 2: a little back-to-back over the weekend, which will be cool.
- 2:55Speaker 1: It's here. The new look heat with Giannis. Yeah, that
- 2:59Speaker 1: is true. That is true.
- 3:03Speaker 2: The injury thing is a buzz kill, I guess pun intended.
- 3:07Speaker 2: I'm not happy with myself about that pun. No one's
- 3:11Speaker 2: happy about what just happened. Five trillion times it's been
- 3:13Speaker 2: used and no one wants to hear it, especially when
- 3:16Speaker 2: we're talking about these injuries. It does stink that yesterday
- 3:20Speaker 2: became official. Hornets did put out their injury report and
- 3:23Speaker 2: Khan and Kobe and Grant.
- 3:24Speaker 1: Williams were are all out.
- 3:26Speaker 2: The one bit of good news is Grayson Allen, who
- 3:28Speaker 2: hadn't played the last three preseason games, will go tonight.
- 3:31Speaker 1: And I know some fans are like, oh, that's great.
- 3:34Speaker 1: I understand. You want to con in Kobe.
- 3:37Speaker 2: But I don't want people to just poo-poo our boy
- 3:41Speaker 2: Grayson Allen. I think he is going to be huge
- 3:44Speaker 2: bone in terms of the second unit, in terms of
- 3:47Speaker 2: a guy that can initiate offense and drain three. So
- 3:50Speaker 2: I don't want to totally poo-poo my man. I think
- 3:52Speaker 2: he's pretty important, especially when you don't have your two
- 3:55Speaker 2: starting guards.
- 3:56Speaker 1: He's a veteran guy that's already been in the Charles
- 3:59Speaker 1: Lee system or at least close to Charles Lee in Milwaukee.
- 4:04Speaker 1: So it's not going to take a lot of time.
- 4:06Speaker 1: to adjust to what they want to do. The good news, too,
- 4:09Speaker 1: was Khan, Grant, and Kobe are at least ramping up
- 4:12Speaker 1: to doing basketball stuff. Kobe White is doing basketball stuff,
- 4:16Speaker 1: as Nata Edwards was pointing out yesterday. Now, there was
- 4:18Speaker 1: some thought of when is he going to do basketball stuff. Well,
- 4:20Speaker 1: the fact that they're already doing that, especially Kobe, is
- 4:23Speaker 1: a good sign that they're not that far off. That
- 4:25Speaker 1: is true.
- 4:25Speaker 2: I was kind of surprised, though. They make it sound
- 4:28Speaker 2: in the report, they're all doing the individual drills, but
- 4:32Speaker 2: they make it sound like they're all doing the same thing.
- 4:34Speaker 7: I can't.
- 4:35Speaker 2: I'd still be surprised, Bone, if they were all at
- 4:37Speaker 2: the same level. Then again, I'm acting like I know
- 4:39Speaker 2: what I'm– you know what I mean? I'm acting like
- 4:41Speaker 2: I've seen the medical records.
- 4:43Speaker 1: I just hate it because we were talking about it yesterday,
- 4:45Speaker 1: and I think you were mentioning it too. This is
- 4:48Speaker 1: a really jammed up Eastern Conference. Big time. The games
- 4:53Speaker 1: in October matter just as much as the games at
- 4:56Speaker 1: the end of March and early April. So, you know,
- 4:59Speaker 1: this could come down to one or two games. The
- 5:01Speaker 1: seating in the play-in or the seating, whatever it may be,
- 5:04Speaker 1: is going to be so compact with every team basically
- 5:09Speaker 1: in this– conference thinking that they're approved to some level
- 5:12Speaker 1: even milwaukee without yannis thinks hey you know what we
- 5:15Speaker 1: got a lot of guys here can we surprise washington's
- 5:18Speaker 1: better chicago gets caleb wilson and norman powell they think
- 5:22Speaker 1: they're better hell brooklyn had five rookies last year they
- 5:25Speaker 1: had julius randall when the year begins they're at least
- 5:28Speaker 1: gonna michael brown's there they're at least gonna think hey
- 5:31Speaker 1: can we win a few games early this year everybody
- 5:33Speaker 1: thinks they have a chance at eastern conference right and
- 5:35Speaker 1: everybody i don't want them to get behind by any
- 5:37Speaker 1: means And everybody now does not want to be horrendous. Exactly.
- 5:43Speaker 2: You do not want to be the three worst teams now.
- 5:46Speaker 2: That is where you don't want to be. Now, what
- 5:49Speaker 2: you want to be, if you're thinking about rebuilding and
- 5:52Speaker 2: the draft and all that, is four through nine. But
- 5:55Speaker 2: the whole idea of last year, the race to the bottom,
- 5:58Speaker 2: it's not going to be quite like that, to your point. So, yeah,
- 6:02Speaker 2: you look at that East and you're like, it's, it's
- 6:05Speaker 2: deep as hell. And, and there's no gimme's to like
- 6:08Speaker 2: the nets tonight, Michael Porter jr. On the nets to
- 6:11Speaker 2: Washington actually has players. You know what I mean? We
- 6:14Speaker 2: play them next Monday. So that's part of this whole thing.
- 6:18Speaker 2: Do you think we play them with Trey young and
- 6:20Speaker 2: Davis are playing? Do we, we think, I don't know.
- 6:23Speaker 2: Is it possible bone? Is it possible? They can't make
- 6:27Speaker 2: that far into the season. Do you think Grayson starts tonight?
- 6:33Speaker 2: That's probably it, right? shooter and then Grayson at the.
- 6:36Speaker 1: Two yeah if Grayson's healthy and ready yeah he's playing
- 6:38Speaker 1: yeah he'll start tonight.
- 6:39Speaker 2: I would think I would think that's probably what they
- 6:41Speaker 2: do that's what they did in game one of the
- 6:43Speaker 2: preseason the one game that he did play um and
- 6:46Speaker 2: then it's probably Christian Anderson running the second unit Sion
- 6:50Speaker 2: Sion actually not only did Sion I thought his shot
- 6:54Speaker 2: looked Pretty damn good. But he also, knock on wood,
- 6:57Speaker 2: handled it better when he was playing point guard in
- 7:00Speaker 2: the preseason. So we'll see how they handle the backup
- 7:03Speaker 2: point guard. We didn't talk about it because Panther mania
- 7:06Speaker 2: and football mania and all this stuff. But on Friday night, yeah,
- 7:11Speaker 2: the final score, they got blown out by Memphis. But
- 7:13Speaker 2: in the last preseason game, Steinbach had a double-double, and
- 7:17Speaker 2: Christian Anderson played damn good. We've been kind of wondering
- 7:20Speaker 2: with these rookies, are they going to be brought along slow?
- 7:23Speaker 2: Due to injuries, probably not for Anderson. We'll see for Steinbach.
- 7:27Speaker 2: But those guys finished the preseason damn good, man.
- 7:30Speaker 1: They really did. They did. By the way, before we
- 7:32Speaker 1: get too far into the show, Mac, I want to
- 7:33Speaker 1: just say good morning to my lovely Tara Masu out there,
- 7:37Speaker 1: who's a beautiful woman, a lovely woman, Neft. She heard
- 7:41Speaker 1: the end of the show yesterday, so I just want
- 7:43Speaker 1: to make sure that she gets a shout-out today.
- 7:46Speaker 2: Did she not like that whole thing about calling you dad?
- 7:49Speaker 1: Oh, she's okay. Oh, yeah, she's okay. I think so.
- 7:52Speaker 1: I think we're okay here.
- 7:53Speaker 2: That was quite an omission from Bone.
- 7:57Speaker 1: This lady calls him daddy. Check out the podcast for
- 8:00Speaker 1: more on that. But I just want to make sure
- 8:01Speaker 1: that she gets a shout-out there, old Tara Masu. No,
- 8:03Speaker 1: we got old, not old, not old there. Watch that there. Oh, like, oh, well, like, oh, OK.
- 8:09Speaker 5: Do I need to delete the promo I made of
- 8:11Speaker 5: you admitting this on the air?
- 8:12Speaker 1: It made the promo. You cannot wait. How about the
- 8:16Speaker 1: other day when we were presenting to the executives and
- 8:20Speaker 1: the people trying to buy advertising? Who came up with
- 8:25Speaker 1: me screaming at Mac as the audio played for our show?
- 8:27Speaker 1: Was that you, Fit?
- 8:29Speaker 3: I had no part in that.
- 8:30Speaker 1: I feel like that had to be Colin. Maybe. Colin
- 8:32Speaker 1: would be like, this is funny as hell.
- 8:33Speaker 2: These two dudes just staying mad at each other.
- 8:37Speaker 1: Yeah, that was funny.
- 8:38Speaker 2: The promo clip they played for us for all these
- 8:41Speaker 2: sponsors was Bonin and I yelling at each other.
- 8:45Speaker 1: Why don't they ever play us singing Kumbaya? What's the song? Kumbaya?
- 8:48Speaker 2: Kumbaya, my lord. Let's do that together, baby. I'm singing
- 8:53Speaker 2: all the religious hits. I sang Eagle's Wings earlier this week.
- 8:56Speaker 2: Now I'm singing Kumbaya. I'm going all the way back
- 8:59Speaker 2: to my Catholic school roots.
- 9:02Speaker 1: We have major breaking news this morning on the text line,
- 9:05Speaker 1: courtesy of the one and only Bagel Guy. He is
- 9:10Speaker 1: not excited for the Hornet season. I'm going to write
- 9:12Speaker 1: that down on my list here of things he's not
- 9:13Speaker 1: excited about.
- 9:14Speaker 2: Bagel Guy, I got an idea. Let's make a shorter list.
- 9:17Speaker 2: Bagel Guy, what does excite you about Charlotte sports? Give
- 9:21Speaker 2: us the list of things that are on there. Yeah,
- 9:24Speaker 2: we'll talk a bunch of Hornets today, kind of season projections,
- 9:27Speaker 2: win total number. The Vegas number is 39 and a half.
- 9:31Speaker 2: And then we will have that conversation about, OK, y'all.
- 9:35Speaker 2: We were kind of taken aback by our Brandon Miller.
- 9:38Speaker 2: You know, I wanted to kind of celebrate Brandon Miller
- 9:40Speaker 2: and project, hey, what kind of player we think he's
- 9:42Speaker 2: going to develop into. What's his ceiling? And the conversation
- 9:45Speaker 2: kind of got hijacked, Bone, by, man, we paid him,
- 9:50Speaker 2: but now we traded LaMelo? Like, it really, LaMelo anger
- 9:54Speaker 2: is still there. We will deal with that, Bone, like
- 9:56Speaker 2: good therapists do later on on this show.
- 9:58Speaker 1: That's what we do. We're here to help. sometimes now
- 10:01Speaker 1: we're 10 minutes in back and i know that oh
- 10:03Speaker 1: shoot we got to talk about dude i didn't i
- 10:05Speaker 1: didn't i wasn't even talking about that i was just
- 10:07Speaker 1: is that what you wanted to talk about i was
- 10:08Speaker 1: just looking at the grid i kind of forgot i
- 10:10Speaker 1: wanted to get to do quicker than that my bad
- 10:13Speaker 1: I'm glad you said something. I wanted to get to
- 10:15Speaker 1: this quicker.
- 10:16Speaker 2: So, yeah, the Duke performance against Tennessee, who's ranked eighth
- 10:21Speaker 2: in the preseason.
- 10:22Speaker 1: Again, that's just a preseason ranking. They are all transfers
- 10:25Speaker 1: for Tennessee. It's going to take a while for them
- 10:27Speaker 1: on the Rick Barnes system. Take a while.
- 10:29Speaker 2: Thank you fanny thank you i've jumped in on that
- 10:31Speaker 2: one um uh i mean i don't know what the
- 10:33Speaker 2: final score ended up being bone but they had they
- 10:36Speaker 2: had 40 point leads plus on the regular i don't
- 10:39Speaker 2: know if it ended up 40 plus uh the walk-ons.
- 10:43Speaker 1: Uh we're having some fun at the end of the
- 10:45Speaker 1: game it got i was a little disappointed it got
- 10:47Speaker 1: a little sloppy with the walk-ons up by 40 nick
- 10:49Speaker 1: arnold morrisville's own out there was trying to get some they.
- 10:52Speaker 2: Were cheering that little dude like i thought we i
- 10:55Speaker 2: didn't i thought we had some sort of celebrity on
- 10:57Speaker 2: the Duke bench or something that was getting into the game.
- 10:59Speaker 2: It's my guy, Hey Arnold. All right, man. Obviously, they
- 11:03Speaker 2: just played amazing in so many ways. What were the things, Bone,
- 11:07Speaker 2: that stuck out to you and got you the most
- 11:09Speaker 2: excited for this Duke season?
- 11:10Speaker 1: The way they were defending and how multiple they are.
- 11:15Speaker 1: They can beat you in different ways, whether it's half court, transition,
- 11:18Speaker 1: it's defense, it's rebounding. It's just they come at you
- 11:22Speaker 1: in waves. And two of the important guys didn't play
- 11:25Speaker 1: last night. A starter, we think, at least, in Caleb Foster.
- 11:30Speaker 1: And your guy from Belmont, old Sharknado, didn't play last night.
- 11:33Speaker 1: So those are two guys that are part of the rotation.
- 11:37Speaker 1: The most interesting part about this will be the playing
- 11:40Speaker 1: time and the and the ability to manage all these
- 11:44Speaker 1: guys that Shire has to do. And look, this isn't
- 11:48Speaker 1: to me about the regular season anymore. They've proven under
- 11:51Speaker 1: Shire they can be a dominant regular season team. They
- 11:54Speaker 1: have a great regular season. It's about sweeping the leg
- 11:57Speaker 1: when we get to April and finishing the deal. And
- 11:59Speaker 1: we're a long way until then. A lot of things
- 12:01Speaker 1: rotation-wise are going to happen. They are so deep. It
- 12:04Speaker 1: is fascinating.
- 12:05Speaker 2: To try to figure out how the minutes go. I
- 12:09Speaker 2: think De'Ron Rippey was like the biggest kind of wow
- 12:13Speaker 2: takeaway in a night of wow takeaways. What do you have, 21?
- 12:18Speaker 2: They win 103 to 64, by the way. So it
- 12:20Speaker 2: was 39-point win over Tennessee. Yeah, Rippey ends up with
- 12:24Speaker 2: 21 points. My Lord, he is explosive with the basketball.
- 12:28Speaker 2: Explosive with the bounce, quick, herky-jerky, and then.
- 12:32Speaker 1: It's a.
- 12:34Speaker 1: I don't want to say poor man. It's kind of
- 12:37Speaker 1: Derrick Rose-like, his athletic ability.
- 12:39Speaker 2: Oh, the way he rose up and dunked that one?
- 12:40Speaker 2: I was like, whoa, whoa! Yeah, that's reminiscent of Derrick Rose.
- 12:45Speaker 2: And it's like, he's not your starting point guard, at
- 12:48Speaker 2: least as of now.
- 12:49Speaker 1: Well, he's not even the backup point guard. Because Boozer
- 12:52Speaker 1: and Foster... Well, I guess Foster and Blackwell off the ball...
- 12:58Speaker 1: Boozer and Rippy, I don't know. He's got to figure
- 13:00Speaker 1: out game to game how that's going to operate. Foster,
- 13:03Speaker 1: how do you like coaching?
- 13:04Speaker 2: Because I got news for everybody. Deron Rippy needs to play.
- 13:11Speaker 2: This is not one where it's like, you wait your turn.
- 13:13Speaker 2: Maybe next year we'll get you. We've got Foster and Boozer. No,
- 13:16Speaker 2: this kid is freaking special. and so is Boomchay Boomchay inside.
- 13:20Speaker 2: Blackwell's just a professional scorer. We can say that now
- 13:25Speaker 2: about the college players because they literally are pros. They're
- 13:27Speaker 2: getting paid. But he was 6 of 8, 4 of
- 13:30Speaker 2: 6 from 3. He makes it look easy. He doesn't
- 13:33Speaker 2: need a lot of shots to get his. Saar is
- 13:36Speaker 2: a dude who's such the force defensively, but he had
- 13:39Speaker 2: 15 last night. He's improved his offensive game. Boomchay Boomchay
- 13:43Speaker 2: and Gungba is a great young and vet big combo
- 13:47Speaker 2: i mean it is ridiculous.
- 13:49Speaker 1: There's two freshmen that might not the riches there's two
- 13:52Speaker 1: five-star freshmen that might not even see much action because
- 13:55Speaker 1: of the depth now there's a guy on this roster
- 13:58Speaker 1: that redshirted last year not because of injury they just
- 14:01Speaker 1: sat him out and you brought him up twice now
- 14:04Speaker 1: and that's sebastian wilkins as a bench rotational piece yeah
- 14:08Speaker 1: he was a top top 30 top 40 guy and
- 14:10Speaker 1: whatever reason didn't play last year just because the roster
- 14:13Speaker 1: uh he's in there now as a uh As a
- 14:16Speaker 1: second-year guy, so that's interesting of what he can do also.
- 14:19Speaker 2: Yeah, he had 11-5 last night, 6-8 long and scrappy fights.
- 14:24Speaker 2: And I'm just like, I think he's got to have
- 14:26Speaker 2: a role off the bench. So then you start wondering
- 14:28Speaker 2: about the thin man, Cameron Williams, the freshman. What's my
- 14:35Speaker 2: man Josh Howard's son?
- 14:36Speaker 1: Bryson. Bryson Howard.
- 14:37Speaker 2: The guys you brought up, they're big-time recruits, but where
- 14:40Speaker 2: do they fit in? It's just a fascinating team, and
- 14:43Speaker 2: I've got news for you, Bone, and James from Maiden,
- 14:45Speaker 2: and all our Duke fan listeners out there. Duke Mac
- 14:49Speaker 2: is in the building, baby. Duke Mack, if you want
- 14:52Speaker 2: to sing every time we touch, I'm here for you.
- 14:54Speaker 2: This team is going to be a show, bro.
- 14:56Speaker 1: I'm not going to freak out until I get to
- 14:58Speaker 1: the very end of a scene, the end of a game,
- 15:00Speaker 1: end of a possession where the ball has to cross
- 15:02Speaker 1: half court. Finney, you are Mr. college basketball, Mr. CBB.
- 15:07Speaker 1: He was scouting last night. He was scouting the Blue
- 15:09Speaker 1: Devils last night. You are to college basketball what Bob
- 15:12Speaker 1: Uecker was being Mr. Baseball for all those years. Your reaction,
- 15:16Speaker 1: your thoughts on Duke last night as you were just
- 15:19Speaker 1: invested in exhibition hoops.
- 15:21Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw a picture of the score. It was 37-12,
- 15:26Speaker 3: and I was glad I wasn't watching.
- 15:28Speaker 1: Mr. College Basketball, what happened to you?
- 15:30Speaker 3: Oh, Bone, you don't know what's on the itinerary on
- 15:32Speaker 3: Tuesday nights?
- 15:34Speaker 1: This is a new thing. You are Mr. You yell
- 15:39Speaker 1: at Mac if he tweets something during a game you
- 15:41Speaker 1: don't like. What were you doing? Were you involved in
- 15:45Speaker 1: a UNC podcast, perhaps? Were you involved in something involving
- 15:49Speaker 1: the Heels? I was not.
- 15:50Speaker 5: Pre-recorded my podcast yesterday. Tuesday nights are now Dancing with
- 15:54Speaker 5: the Stars nights. It was dedication night on Dancing with
- 15:58Speaker 5: the Stars. I'm hooked. What's happened here already? This man's
- 16:02Speaker 5: been husband up, y'all.
- 16:04Speaker 2: Banny's got him watching Dancing with the Stars on Tuesday nights, man.
- 16:08Speaker 1: I have been there before, man. I know the feeling.
- 16:11Speaker 1: This is the quickest journey from desperate and horny to
- 16:13Speaker 1: max life I've ever seen in my entire life.
- 16:15Speaker 3: It was an elite back-to-back.
- 16:17Speaker 5: We had Moonshiners on at 8 and then Dancing with
- 16:19Speaker 5: the Stars on at 9.
- 16:20Speaker 1: Who do you like in Dancing with the Stars right now?
- 16:22Speaker 1: Who's your favorite on there?
- 16:23Speaker 3: Oh, the comedian is by far my favorite.
- 16:27Speaker 1: Stavros? Is that who it is?
- 16:29Speaker 3: I don't know his name. His name is Connor.
- 16:32Speaker 1: Oh, no, Stavros isn't on there. I'm sorry. He doesn't
- 16:34Speaker 1: seem totally locked in, though. I was locked in.
- 16:37Speaker 3: When Julian Huff was on the television.
- 16:38Speaker 1: That's about it. I bet you were. You better watch yourself, though,
- 16:41Speaker 1: with Maddie sitting next to you.
- 16:43Speaker 3: She told me every guy that danced was hot. I
- 16:45Speaker 3: don't want to hear it.
- 16:46Speaker 1: Okay, that's good. That's good. Bernie Bowles is running in
- 16:49Speaker 1: here with something.
- 16:50Speaker 2: I don't know much about Dancing with the Stars, but
- 16:53Speaker 2: I do want to know, Fitty, how did Jenna Dewan
- 16:55Speaker 2: do last night?
- 16:57Speaker 1: I may have been monitoring this season.
- 16:59Speaker 3: Which one does she dance with?
- 17:02Speaker 2: How do I know her partner? I don't give a
- 17:03Speaker 2: damn about her partner. It's Janet Dewan, for God's sake.
- 17:05Speaker 2: I don't know who that is, but.
- 17:08Speaker 1: Back she did great. Oh, my goodness. Christoph Schmierdorf is
- 17:12Speaker 1: her dancing partner.
- 17:14Speaker 3: I learned what a lift is.
- 17:15Speaker 1: Just go with a random Russian name. You might be right.
- 17:17Speaker 5: I learned what a lift is and how you get
- 17:19Speaker 5: punished for a lift in a dancing routine.
- 17:21Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
- 17:22Speaker 1: Carrie Ann Inaba doesn't like the lifts. Yeah. Now why
- 17:24Speaker 1: are you bringing me back to the dance with a
- 17:25Speaker 1: dancing partner?
- 17:26Speaker 5: All right.
- 17:27Speaker 1: Anyway, even Mrs. Mack doesn't want to.
- 17:29Speaker 2: You'll get to a point, though, Finney, the good news is,
- 17:32Speaker 2: as you've been husband up, you'll get to a point
- 17:34Speaker 2: in your relationship where even the wife doesn't want to
- 17:36Speaker 2: watch those stupid shows with you anymore.
- 17:39Speaker 1: Although my wife did lament.
- 17:40Speaker 2: She she was picking up Caitlin at theater last night
- 17:44Speaker 2: and they get home and she sees Duke on the
- 17:47Speaker 2: one TV.
- 17:48Speaker 1: And Sixers Knicks on the other one. Oh, no. Basketball?
- 17:53Speaker 1: It's bad enough with the football and the soccer. Basketball? Like,
- 17:56Speaker 1: I always, I don't know if this works the same
- 17:58Speaker 1: way for y'all. Don't tell her the Duke game didn't
- 18:00Speaker 1: count either.
- 18:00Speaker 2: I don't know how this works with y'all, but, like,
- 18:03Speaker 2: when the wife all of a sudden just out of
- 18:06Speaker 2: the blue realizes another season has started, I get that
- 18:08Speaker 2: reaction all the time.
- 18:10Speaker 1: No, daddy can watch what he wants. Oh, by the way, Mac,
- 18:14Speaker 1: real quick, Mac, just 30 seconds. You took my recommendation
- 18:19Speaker 1: for a Netflix documentary to watch yesterday. You're into it
- 18:22Speaker 1: right now. It's not finished yet for you. What do
- 18:24Speaker 1: you think of the documentary, Mac? Don't pick up the phone.
- 18:28Speaker 1: This is the craziest story. Of the guy that was
- 18:30Speaker 1: prank calling McDonald's in the early 2000s and having them
- 18:33Speaker 1: do nefarious stuff. It's unbelievable.
- 18:35Speaker 2: And it's unbelievable how dumb some of these managers are
- 18:37Speaker 2: at fast food restaurants all across America, believing this is
- 18:41Speaker 2: a cop telling them to get employees to do this
- 18:43Speaker 2: messed up crap. It's addictive, though, because you want to see,
- 18:46Speaker 2: are they going to catch this degenerate? So I kind
- 18:50Speaker 2: of got addicted to that a little bit last night.
- 18:54Speaker 2: Mac Jr. comes home from working last night at like 10.
- 18:57Speaker 2: And it's like, Unc, you ain't watching the hoops? And
- 19:01Speaker 2: I'm like, bro, it's on TV too, but I'm watching
- 19:03Speaker 2: this documentary Bo told me about. So he was disappointed
- 19:06Speaker 2: in me. He was so fired up about the NBA.
- 19:09Speaker 2: Wemby starts 0 of 12 last night from the floor.
- 19:12Speaker 2: It gets feisty and scrappy. I love this rivalry. And
- 19:17Speaker 2: OKC beats the Spurs last night. LeBron and the— philly's
- 19:25Speaker 2: uh philly's next dream team here um in the sixers
- 19:29Speaker 2: beat the knicks last night and um the afternoon game
- 19:32Speaker 2: bone where apparently many affiliates of nbc did not cover
- 19:36Speaker 2: that did not run the game so a lot of
- 19:38Speaker 2: basketball fans were very angry about this on social media
- 19:41Speaker 2: uh the game was at three in the afternoon so
- 19:43Speaker 2: some affiliates said we got better things to do Detroit rallied, right?
- 19:48Speaker 1: Boston had led much of the game. Detroit rallied and won.
- 19:51Speaker 1: A huge second half. I'm shocking, Mac, that the 3 p.m.
- 19:55Speaker 1: Tuesday NBA game didn't really take off like they thought
- 19:58Speaker 1: it would.
- 19:58Speaker 2: They want to do this on the regular, too, but
- 20:00Speaker 2: I don't know how it worked out. Maybe you just
- 20:02Speaker 2: put it on NBC Sports, your sports channel, and just
- 20:05Speaker 2: go from there. I know they want the big ratings,
- 20:06Speaker 2: but you have a sports channel to use that for. Mac,
- 20:09Speaker 2: when we come back here on the Mac and Bone Show,
- 20:12Speaker 2: plenty of college sports news.
- 20:14Speaker 1: Bad news for the Buckeyes. Good news for Will Wade.
- 20:18Speaker 1: Exciting news for App and ECU fans. And Shane Beamer
- 20:21Speaker 1: had his version of breaking news. All that and more
- 20:24Speaker 1: in a segment we're calling A Lotta News. Sports Radio
- 20:27Speaker 1: 92.7 W.
- 20:54Speaker 7: First of all, I'm just really disappointed. And I told John,
- 20:58Speaker 7: I'm sorry we didn't give him a better challenge tonight.
- 21:03Speaker 7: We know we've got a lot going on with our
- 21:05Speaker 7: program in terms of having so many young guys starting
- 21:09Speaker 7: from scratch. But we're still looking to see what we
- 21:13Speaker 7: can find in terms of a group of guys that
- 21:15Speaker 7: are willing to compete.
- 21:21Speaker 2: That is not a normal opening to a press conference
- 21:24Speaker 2: from Rick Barnes after Duke won by 39 against Tennessee.
- 21:28Speaker 2: He says, I just told John, I am sorry we
- 21:32Speaker 2: didn't give them more of a fight. When you feel bad,
- 21:37Speaker 2: you played an exhibition and you did not help your
- 21:39Speaker 2: opponent because you got your butt kicked that bad, that
- 21:43Speaker 2: is a doozy of a butt whooping right there.
- 21:45Speaker 1: This is the second time in three years a coach
- 21:46Speaker 1: had to tell John Shire, I'm sorry we didn't help
- 21:48Speaker 1: you out here during the exhibition. Bobby Hurley also got
- 21:51Speaker 1: beat by 40 with Arizona State. Did he say the
- 21:53Speaker 1: same thing to him? Very similar. I'm like, yeah, sorry
- 21:54Speaker 1: we didn't really do much for you here. I will say, though,
- 21:58Speaker 1: Tennessee usually gets better as it goes along, and that
- 22:01Speaker 1: is Tennessee will often, Mac, well, I guess back in
- 22:04Speaker 1: the day, they would bring back a bunch of veterans
- 22:07Speaker 1: and mix in some guys. It is all new Tennessee
- 22:10Speaker 1: players right now, and that Rick Barnes system, they're going
- 22:13Speaker 1: to get better, but that was eye-opening that they got
- 22:16Speaker 1: beat by that last night.
- 22:17Speaker 2: They weren't exactly defending like a Rick Barty. We didn't
- 22:20Speaker 2: even mention the biggest news. The biggest news from the
- 22:22Speaker 2: Duke game was in the crowd. Music star Alicia Keys
- 22:27Speaker 2: was there. Her son, I guess, Bone, is a college
- 22:31Speaker 2: basketball recruit.
- 22:33Speaker 1: Out there in California.
- 22:34Speaker 2: So she was there with him last night sitting there
- 22:37Speaker 2: near the front row. And I guess, yeah, Egypt Dean
- 22:41Speaker 2: and I guess the Cameron Crazies, as they like to
- 22:43Speaker 2: do with recruits, called him over, did the sit with
- 22:46Speaker 2: us chant. He went on over and.
- 22:48Speaker 1: Sat with them. So anyway, that was pretty newsworthy, Alicia
- 22:52Speaker 1: Keys hanging out last night. Yeah, he's a 16-year-old, 6'4,
- 22:55Speaker 1: shooting guard. Okay, all right. Now he's playing in New York, obviously,
- 22:59Speaker 1: because Alicia Keys, New York. Does that sound like her
- 23:03Speaker 1: at all? Yeah, just like it. How does a kid
- 23:05Speaker 1: from New York end up rooting for Duke? That is crazy.
- 23:08Speaker 1: It's amazing. Amazing, man.
- 23:10Speaker 2: Next, you're going to tell me they're big in Jersey also.
- 23:13Speaker 2: Is that what you're going to.
- 23:13Speaker 1: Tell me next? Are you going to say Alicia Keys'
- 23:15Speaker 1: new remix song will be New Jersey? Oh, God.
- 23:21Speaker 2: Anyway, that was kind of cool last night. So let's
- 23:24Speaker 2: segue in from basketball to basketball. We had a ton
- 23:26Speaker 2: of football stuff.
- 23:27Speaker 1: His father is Mr.
- 23:28Speaker 2: Beats.
- 23:30Speaker 7: Mr.
- 23:30Speaker 1: Beats there, Swiss Beats. Okay, okay. All right. Is that
- 23:33Speaker 1: a DJ? No, Swiss Beats the rapper. Oh, I thought
- 23:36Speaker 1: he was... No, he's a rap legend.
- 23:38Speaker 2: I have no idea. Music producer, Swiss Beats. Producer, okay. Yeah,
- 23:42Speaker 2: I was taking a guess there. Anyway, let's move along here.
- 23:46Speaker 2: Before we get to all the college football stuff, Will
- 23:48Speaker 2: Wade got good news yesterday. I hate to be the
- 23:51Speaker 2: one to have to report this to you. I never
- 23:54Speaker 2: want to be the one that tells you Will Wade
- 23:56Speaker 2: got good news. He did get some obvious bad news.
- 23:59Speaker 2: There was no chance that R.J. Lewis was going to
- 24:02Speaker 2: play basketball for LSU. That has become clear. The SEC is,
- 24:07Speaker 2: you know, is determined to do this. This wasn't just
- 24:10Speaker 2: a Lane Kiffin thing. This is a grudge match between
- 24:13Speaker 2: the SEC and LSU. And they were determined. They still
- 24:16Speaker 2: have the court case going on. They were determined. They
- 24:19Speaker 2: were using Will Wade's own words in a press conference
- 24:21Speaker 2: against him in that court case last week in a filing.
- 24:24Speaker 1: This was obvious.
- 24:25Speaker 4: R.J.
- 24:25Speaker 2: Lewis was with two different NBA teams. He was not
- 24:29Speaker 2: going to be able to play for LSU. But literally
- 24:32Speaker 2: every other dude, Bone, five of the six in question,
- 24:38Speaker 2: apparently now are going to be eligible. So I guess
- 24:42Speaker 2: the blatant, shameless strategy of just trying to load up
- 24:48Speaker 2: on these guys and hope for the best, I guess
- 24:51Speaker 2: it's going to work out for them. And I hate
- 24:53Speaker 2: when things work out now for Will Wade.
- 24:55Speaker 1: Well, now they become one of the odds-on favorite with
- 24:59Speaker 1: that news to win it all. Did you know that?
- 25:01Speaker 1: I did not know that. Yeah, Matt. They now have
- 25:03Speaker 1: a chance to win the NIT with all these guys
- 25:05Speaker 1: in the mix.
- 25:05Speaker 2: A chance to win the NIT. That is the thing, though.
- 25:08Speaker 2: It's like it's all these moving parts you're trying to—
- 25:11Speaker 2: Is there any guarantee? Especially in that conference. That's a gauntlet.
- 25:16Speaker 2: I saw an LSU writer. Oh, man, expectations are through
- 25:19Speaker 2: the roof now. And I'm like, yeah, they got a
- 25:22Speaker 2: lot of talent, but they're human beings. You got to
- 25:28Speaker 2: make this thing mix and make this thing work. I
- 25:30Speaker 2: know last year Will Wade appeared to underachieve. I know
- 25:33Speaker 2: it's possible.
- 25:34Speaker 1: I have a question. Will Wade in the news a lot,
- 25:36Speaker 1: and I know that he's had success. Are we sure he's...
- 25:41Speaker 1: That good of a coach? Like, is he that good
- 25:44Speaker 1: of a coach? Like, he's had some success, but for
- 25:48Speaker 1: the news that he makes, the moving around and all
- 25:50Speaker 1: this stuff, is he, Finney, do you think he's that
- 25:52Speaker 1: good of a coach?
- 25:54Speaker 3: Never did.
- 25:54Speaker 1: Well, yeah, Finney's not the one to talk to.
- 25:57Speaker 3: And I tried telling Mac he's not that good.
- 26:00Speaker 1: I think I'm the one to ask Bone.
- 26:01Speaker 2: Mac, do you still think he is John Wooden?
- 26:04Speaker 1: I like the way he supports me. John Wooden 2.0.
- 26:07Speaker 1: He's like my brassiere.
- 26:08Speaker 5: Hey, daddies and zaddies unite, baby.
- 26:10Speaker 3: I've always got your backbone.
- 26:11Speaker 1: Always got your back, Fit.
- 26:14Speaker 2: How can you sit there and say you think he's
- 26:15Speaker 2: some sort of great coach after the crap job he
- 26:17Speaker 2: did last year? You know what I mean? Anyway, we've
- 26:22Speaker 2: already talked too much about this bum. I root for
- 26:24Speaker 2: the worst for him. But, yes, you can certainly sit
- 26:27Speaker 2: here and be skeptical of– What has he really done?
- 26:31Speaker 2: He's shown an ability to get teams to the tournament.
- 26:34Speaker 2: But can you stay somewhere long term, build something, sustain something?
- 26:39Speaker 2: That's obviously a legitimate question. Can you not act like
- 26:42Speaker 2: a complete jackass is another legitimate question about him.
- 26:47Speaker 1: All right. So this is cool news. ECU and App.
- 26:50Speaker 2: Now we got to wait till 2029 for this, but
- 26:52Speaker 2: ECU and Apple play September 1st, 2029 at the bank
- 26:57Speaker 2: in the Duke's Mayo classic 2029 edition. So this is
- 27:02Speaker 2: a cool one. These are the type of matchups you
- 27:04Speaker 2: had happen Charlotte over there recently. These are the type
- 27:08Speaker 2: of matchups bone. I like having in Charlotte. Yeah, every
- 27:11Speaker 2: year they have them wind up. They have two next year.
- 27:13Speaker 2: North Carolina Central A & T. Yeah, that's a good one, too.
- 27:15Speaker 1: That's a cool one. Notre Dame-Wake plays there next year.
- 27:18Speaker 1: Look at that matchup now. Hopefully Jake Dickert for Wakestamp
- 27:22Speaker 1: point of view is still there. You've got Tennessee-West Virginia
- 27:24Speaker 1: down the line. You just mentioned ECU-App. Wisconsin-Virginia Tech in 2031.
- 27:30Speaker 1: And then you have a Virginia-West Virginia rematch. Every year...
- 27:34Speaker 1: They have one, which is a cool thing.
- 27:35Speaker 2: Yeah, I like the in-state teams playing, or North Carolina,
- 27:39Speaker 2: South Carolina played there before. I like those, like Wisconsin,
- 27:42Speaker 2: Georgia Tech, no offense to Hokie fans.
- 27:45Speaker 1: Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech, no offense to Hokie fans, and KB.
- 27:48Speaker 2: Bone, I'm going to tell you right now, I'm not
- 27:51Speaker 2: going to get extremely excited that we're hosting Wisconsin, Virginia Tech.
- 27:54Speaker 2: I understand they want to bring these big traveling fan
- 27:58Speaker 2: bases in here, but it's, you know.
- 28:01Speaker 1: The problem is, like, No disrespect, but when we keep
- 28:04Speaker 1: inviting West Virginia fans here, they don't leave for a while.
- 28:07Speaker 1: They linger like Cousin Eddie during the holidays.
- 28:10Speaker 2: By the way, has West Virginia won since they beat
- 28:13Speaker 2: Virginia and I declared them a contender for the Big
- 28:15Speaker 2: 12 title?
- 28:16Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't think they've won since then.
- 28:18Speaker 1: What a horrible defense. I don't think so. All right,
- 28:21Speaker 1: let's move to some other stuff here.
- 28:22Speaker 2: Ryan Day said yesterday, Bone, Julian— They have not won
- 28:26Speaker 2: since September 19th.
- 28:28Speaker 1: Oh, no, they beat Cincinnati this past week. They won
- 28:30Speaker 1: this week. 45-42. There you go. They're back.
- 28:33Speaker 2: Ryan Day, Bone, talked about Julian saying with this arm-slash-shoulder
- 28:38Speaker 2: injury out indefinitely and essentially said, we're basically planning on
- 28:43Speaker 2: not having him through the postseason.
- 28:46Speaker 1: That is freaking mammoth. That's huge, too, because they've also
- 28:50Speaker 1: got running back injuries, by the way. If Jeremiah Smith
- 28:56Speaker 1: was a running back, you could say, all right, they've
- 28:58Speaker 1: got this generational talent at running back. Can this quarterback
- 29:01Speaker 1: just not mess it up? But for Ohio State to
- 29:04Speaker 1: be who they think they're going to be and be
- 29:06Speaker 1: that national contender... jeremiah smith has to get the ball
- 29:10Speaker 1: in his hands so when you go from saying to
- 29:13Speaker 1: the backup quarterback now jeremiah smith who's your everything on
- 29:17Speaker 1: offense how's that going to affect him when you have
- 29:20Speaker 1: to have the quarterback get him the ball as opposed
- 29:22Speaker 1: to a running back that can take over on his
- 29:24Speaker 1: own it's not only the quarterback problem now mac it's
- 29:27Speaker 1: that how does he get jeremiah smith involved in the
- 29:29Speaker 1: It'll be true.
- 29:30Speaker 4: True.
- 29:30Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see this Fahey kid big time recruit.
- 29:34Speaker 2: But man, he he went in there and it was
- 29:36Speaker 2: like they were scared to death to let him do
- 29:38Speaker 2: much But he was thrown into a game that he
- 29:41Speaker 2: wasn't expecting to play in against a great team. It'll
- 29:44Speaker 2: be interesting to see how they coach him up and
- 29:46Speaker 2: what level they can get him to moving forward. But
- 29:49Speaker 2: this is brutal news for Ohio State. Meanwhile, we got
- 29:53Speaker 2: an ACC team at number one of the polls bone
- 29:56Speaker 2: for the first time in six years. We hadn't really
- 29:58Speaker 2: talked about Miami being number one that much. It's been
- 30:02Speaker 2: since the COVID year in 2020 when Clemson was number
- 30:05Speaker 2: one since the ACC had a number one team. And
- 30:10Speaker 2: this is the first time. that the Canes have been
- 30:14Speaker 2: number one since 2002.
- 30:15Speaker 1: And it.
- 30:18Speaker 2: Has been said four million times since then that the
- 30:21Speaker 2: Canes are back. But now it seems like they might
- 30:23Speaker 2: actually be back.
- 30:24Speaker 1: When I was a high school senior. And they were,
- 30:27Speaker 1: I don't know, Mac, how many games did they lose
- 30:29Speaker 1: in my high school life? Not many. They were loaded
- 30:32Speaker 1: back in those days. Ken Dorsey lost, what, two games?
- 30:35Speaker 1: I think so. He lost to Washington in the regular
- 30:37Speaker 1: season and then the last game to Ohio State. So, yeah,
- 30:41Speaker 1: that's the best team I've ever seen. I know that
- 30:46Speaker 1: we can debate that and some of the Bama teams. Oh, yeah,
- 30:48Speaker 1: they were loaded. That Miami team of that era, specifically
- 30:52Speaker 1: the one we're talking about, that's the most talented, best
- 30:54Speaker 1: team I've ever seen. Loaded up, man. They'll play Pitt
- 30:57Speaker 1: this week.
- 30:57Speaker 2: Pat Narduzzi still being asked about Pitt trying to steal
- 31:00Speaker 2: Mason Heintzel. If you don't know the story, before they
- 31:05Speaker 2: went to steal Mensah, they tried to steal Heintzel from
- 31:07Speaker 2: Pittsburgh without success. But unfortunately, injury has stolen Heintzel, and
- 31:12Speaker 2: I have a bad feeling. I have a bad feeling
- 31:14Speaker 2: for Pittsburgh against Miami this week.
- 31:15Speaker 1: The way Pittsburgh was playing when the year began, this
- 31:17Speaker 1: would be an interesting... Interesting spot here, but not without
- 31:22Speaker 1: Heichel in the lineup. No chance.
- 31:24Speaker 2: They lost to BC this week after the UNC loss.
- 31:27Speaker 2: And Pitt, I will say this, though. The injury obviously
- 31:30Speaker 2: changes for them. Pitt does this about every year.
- 31:33Speaker 1: Yeah, they do. Pitt starts about 5-0 every year, and then...
- 31:35Speaker 1: What was that noise you made? Just go down. You
- 31:40Speaker 1: just crash. I like it when you make sound effects.
- 31:42Speaker 1: You just crash and burn. Like you're Michael Winslow from
- 31:44Speaker 1: Police Academy. Mackie Winslow. How about this number? Well, I
- 31:48Speaker 1: don't have the number, but I have the story. Tennessee.
- 31:53Speaker 2: Oh, Rocky top set the all time college football record
- 31:57Speaker 2: bone in the stands at Neyland stadium on Saturday, the
- 32:02Speaker 2: highest scientifically verified decibel level in a college stadium in
- 32:08Speaker 2: the history of college football.
- 32:10Speaker 1: How about that? I think it was third or fourth quarter.
- 32:13Speaker 2: They were up 1910, a big play coming up and
- 32:16Speaker 2: the crowd went absolutely berserk. So they were fired up
- 32:20Speaker 2: as they should be. In Tennessee, fired up. Playing that
- 32:25Speaker 2: stupid song.
- 32:26Speaker 1: That's why.
- 32:29Speaker 2: Oh, speaking of Tennessee, we got to get to your Gamecocks,
- 32:32Speaker 2: who will be hosting Tennessee this week. Yesterday, Shane Beamer
- 32:38Speaker 2: had his first presser of game week.
- 32:41Speaker 1: And Bone, I have bad news for you.
- 32:44Speaker 2: The title that you guys had owned of being the
- 32:47Speaker 2: greatest practice team in the history of football apparently might
- 32:51Speaker 2: have to be relinquished.
- 32:52Speaker 1: Listen to this. We had two good days.
- 32:55Speaker 6: Well, I know everybody says I always come in here
- 32:57Speaker 6: and talk about how great practice was. I wasn't very
- 32:59Speaker 6: happy with Tuesday's practice. And so there's like breaking news
- 33:02Speaker 6: for you. Shane said that they didn't have a great practice.
- 33:05Speaker 6: It wasn't terrible, but I didn't think it was our standard.
- 33:07Speaker 6: And I let him know after practice on Tuesday. We
- 33:09Speaker 6: came back on Wednesday and I thought it was awesome.
- 33:12Speaker 1: So there you go.
- 33:13Speaker 2: This might be good, Bone, because when he claimed, was
- 33:15Speaker 2: it Alabama week or was it Kentucky week?
- 33:18Speaker 1: It was one of the bad weeks.
- 33:20Speaker 2: One of those two weeks, he claimed to have the
- 33:23Speaker 2: greatest practice. Basically, I'm making my own phrasing here, in
- 33:27Speaker 2: the history of organized football.
- 33:29Speaker 1: And they went out and suffered a tough loss. So
- 33:32Speaker 1: is he playing games? Did they really look good? And
- 33:35Speaker 1: now he's, I don't know. I can't figure out his practice.
- 33:38Speaker 1: So did they look good now, but he wants to
- 33:40Speaker 1: tell you they look bad? I can't figure it out.
- 33:41Speaker 2: I think they had a crappy practice, but I think
- 33:43Speaker 2: he couldn't wait to tell everybody that because he knows
- 33:46Speaker 2: he got mocked from bragging about having a great practice.
- 33:50Speaker 1: So now he wants to tell everybody, look, I'm going
- 33:51Speaker 1: to tell you, too, we had a horrible practice. Hey, coach,
- 33:53Speaker 1: just stop talking about practice. We're talking about practice, coach.
- 33:56Speaker 1: We're talking about practice. When we come back on the
- 33:59Speaker 1: Mac and Bone show, we've got a lot of Panthers
- 34:01Speaker 1: and NFL stuff. Canales with interesting remarks about Icky. We
- 34:06Speaker 1: have a Tampa quarterback update in NFL and NFLPA drama
- 34:10Speaker 1: over the Jalen Hurts situation. Mack Bumfitty, Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ.
- 34:30Speaker 1: What are you going to do when Monroe comes back?
- 34:31Speaker 3: You've got the sort of an embarrassment of riches there
- 34:33Speaker 3: on the online.
- 34:34Speaker 1: That's the big question.
- 34:35Speaker 8: And nobody's talked about Icky and Icky's been working his
- 34:39Speaker 8: tail off too, you know? So this, these are, these
- 34:42Speaker 8: are going to be really interesting conversations. And, you know,
- 34:45Speaker 8: my dad would always tell me and my brothers, a
- 34:47Speaker 8: man with options is blessed and you're not, you don't
- 34:50Speaker 8: always come into a situation where you have choices where, Hey,
- 34:54Speaker 8: this is the, this is where we're going to make
- 34:56Speaker 8: the best out of it. But we have, we have
- 34:58Speaker 8: a lot of awesome players, and Rasheed Walker's coming off
- 35:01Speaker 8: of his best game of the season in terms of
- 35:03Speaker 8: how he played against this group. And so I'm excited
- 35:06Speaker 8: about that direction. These are things that we're going to
- 35:08Speaker 8: be talking about, and we'll play them out and do
- 35:10Speaker 8: what's best for the Panthers.
- 35:11Speaker 1: Before we wrap up, are we breaking news here? Is
- 35:13Speaker 1: Icky getting close?
- 35:14Speaker 8: Well, I mean, I'm not breaking any news here. I'm
- 35:17Speaker 8: just bringing up the fact that nobody's asked me about Icky,
- 35:20Speaker 8: and we've got another great tackle in the building who's
- 35:22Speaker 8: been working his tail off.
- 35:24Speaker 1: Stay tuned. That's a little interesting right there, Bone. That
- 35:28Speaker 1: is a little interesting.
- 35:29Speaker 2: Dave Canales was asked by Sharon Thorslund on Panther Talk
- 35:33Speaker 2: about when we talked about yesterday, Monroe Freeling is healthy,
- 35:36Speaker 2: what happens? And Dave Canales says... We got another great
- 35:40Speaker 2: tackle working his way back, and Icky Iguano, unsolicited.
- 35:44Speaker 1: So, I don't know.
- 35:46Speaker 2: Does it mean anything, or did he just kind of
- 35:48Speaker 2: feel like, I want people to remember Icky. I don't
- 35:51Speaker 2: want them to– they're talking about all three of these guys.
- 35:53Speaker 2: You know what I mean? I don't know what that was,
- 35:56Speaker 2: but that was rather interesting.
- 35:59Speaker 1: Because Icky's working hard, maybe just give him a shout-out.
- 36:01Speaker 1: I don't know. Because where does he– Where does he
- 36:04Speaker 1: fit in? We've been talking about Walker and Freeling now,
- 36:07Speaker 1: but Icky, I don't know. I have no idea. No
- 36:10Speaker 1: clue where he fits into this. I hate to say
- 36:12Speaker 1: this because Icky's such a good dude. I've just kind
- 36:14Speaker 1: of put him out of my mind as a fan.
- 36:15Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
- 36:16Speaker 2: It just seems like we don't know the time frame.
- 36:19Speaker 2: We don't know if he's ever getting back. When he
- 36:21Speaker 2: does get back, are they going to feel like he's better?
- 36:24Speaker 2: It feels like it's off in the distance. So that
- 36:27Speaker 2: was kind of interesting.
- 36:29Speaker 1: If we had a cry on Mac and labeled the segment,
- 36:33Speaker 1: this would be called an icky situation. An icky situation.
- 36:37Speaker 1: We don't do that because I would be naming them
- 36:38Speaker 1: and they don't want me in charge of that type
- 36:41Speaker 1: of stuff. You should be the guy.
- 36:42Speaker 2: Go down the hall and type in their graphics for them.
- 36:44Speaker 2: You should be the guy that comes up with the
- 36:45Speaker 2: witty graphics. for TV shows. So I do want to
- 36:50Speaker 2: shout out Trey Tyus. He has been promoted to the
- 36:52Speaker 2: active roster from the practice squad. And you can see, yeah,
- 36:57Speaker 2: depth piece at running back, but you can see on
- 37:00Speaker 2: Sunday where they like him. They love him as a
- 37:02Speaker 2: special teams player, just effort player. And he had the
- 37:05Speaker 2: block punt that set up the short field that allowed
- 37:08Speaker 2: us to go down there and make that for the.
- 37:12Speaker 1: A two score game they got a lot of great
- 37:15Speaker 1: energy guys on special teams they do man they do
- 37:18Speaker 1: felipe franks has uh the most energy and then it
- 37:21Speaker 1: goes down from there but it ain't no shame man
- 37:24Speaker 1: yeah simmons i mean they've got some guys in coombs
- 37:26Speaker 1: hurt he's a good special teams guy we'll see uh
- 37:29Speaker 1: when the x they don't know if you've heard before
- 37:31Speaker 1: bone but today's work wednesday and that's when we get
- 37:34Speaker 1: the injury report that's when dave canals will finally Answer
- 37:38Speaker 1: injury questions. And I guess the questions this week are...
- 37:40Speaker 1: Do we still have to talk to RV? That's gone.
- 37:44Speaker 1: That's gone. We've got....
- 37:49Speaker 2: In Kuhn with a calf injury, and I think the
- 37:50Speaker 2: big one is Jalen Phillips' hamstring injury and Freeling. I
- 37:53Speaker 2: think those are probably the three injuries.
- 37:55Speaker 1: So, Mac, it went from John Fox would say, oh,
- 37:57Speaker 1: got to go, got to go, we'll tell you Wednesday.
- 38:00Speaker 1: It was always, we'll tell you Wednesday. Then Rivera was,
- 38:03Speaker 1: you got to go talk to RV. Matt Rule would say,
- 38:06Speaker 1: you got to go talk to RV. And now Canales
- 38:11Speaker 1: has worked Wednesday.
- 38:12Speaker 2: What about Frank Reich? Frank Reich didn't get a chance
- 38:14Speaker 2: to even answer injury questions. He was gone so fast.
- 38:16Speaker 2: I don't think he was here on a Wednesday. Poor Frankie, man.
- 38:20Speaker 2: Poor Frankie. Nicest guy ever.
- 38:23Speaker 1: When he got hired, he invited, this is a true story,
- 38:26Speaker 1: invited Mack and I in his office to hang out,
- 38:29Speaker 1: was watching film, was sharing stories. Oh, God, it was
- 38:33Speaker 1: so good. I was so pumped. It was awesome. This guy,
- 38:35Speaker 1: he hugged us on the way out. And then about
- 38:37Speaker 1: two weeks in, we're thinking, this guy's not going to
- 38:38Speaker 1: make it.
- 38:39Speaker 4: God dang.
- 38:40Speaker 1: Seriously. Did we Matt curse him in the office? It
- 38:42Speaker 1: might have been.
- 38:43Speaker 2: When you let us step foot in that dang office, Frank,
- 38:46Speaker 2: I mean, there should have been some sort of exorcism
- 38:49Speaker 2: performed in that office. Because if not, I think we
- 38:51Speaker 2: got you. The guy was the nicest man ever. I
- 38:55Speaker 2: was so fired up after we had that convo with him, man.
- 38:58Speaker 2: All right. Anyway, all right, so let's get some more
- 39:01Speaker 2: Panther stuff and let's talk about this Jalen Hurts situation
- 39:04Speaker 2: because this thing could get really ugly.
- 39:05Speaker 1: The NFL.
- 39:07Speaker 2: NFL tried to be slick yesterday. I'm not sure they're
- 39:09Speaker 2: going to get away with it, Bone. But let's get
- 39:11Speaker 2: one more little quick shout out to what was going
- 39:15Speaker 2: on in the community yesterday. Bryce Young was doing press
- 39:18Speaker 2: events with a lot of local TV folk, Bone, for
- 39:23Speaker 2: trying to hype up his sneaker ball, which is his
- 39:25Speaker 2: big charity thing that he does coming up in December.
- 39:28Speaker 1: Derek Brown was doing a thing. with the Charlotte Fire.
- 39:30Speaker 2: Department, hanging out with the fire department, put on the
- 39:32Speaker 2: uniform and everything.
- 39:34Speaker 1: That fire doesn't want to see that man coming.
- 39:37Speaker 2: That fire put itself out. They see Derrick Brown coming.
- 39:39Speaker 2: Did you see DB Matt just throwing people out.
- 39:41Speaker 1: Of the fire?
- 39:43Speaker 2: That would work well. But we have to let you
- 39:46Speaker 2: hear this. This is Chris Long on CBS Sports Network. No,
- 39:53Speaker 2: Kyle Long. I knew I was going to do that.
- 39:54Speaker 2: This is Kyle Long on CBS Sports Network becoming the
- 39:58Speaker 2: latest to rave about Bryce Young.
- 40:00Speaker 4: So Bryce Young, dude, if you were going to design
- 40:03Speaker 4: a superstar to be 2026 proof, And when I say
- 40:07Speaker 4: 2026 proof, I mean all the noise. It's Bryce Young, okay?
- 40:12Speaker 4: It's a guy who's rooted in his faith, obviously a
- 40:15Speaker 4: great teammate, does not listen to the noise, doesn't even
- 40:18Speaker 4: have social media. People ask him about memes, and he's like,
- 40:20Speaker 4: I don't know what you're talking about. All he does
- 40:22Speaker 4: is throw touchdowns now. All he does is collaborate with
- 40:25Speaker 4: Dave Canales. and Tater, and all the guys out there.
- 40:28Speaker 1: And Brad Itzik doing a great job, too.
- 40:29Speaker 4: And they're having a great season, and it's very real, okay?
- 40:33Speaker 4: And when I think about these quarterbacks that enjoy success,
- 40:37Speaker 4: not all of them just start off as, like, MVPs, okay?
- 40:40Speaker 4: Just go back in history and think about some of
- 40:42Speaker 4: these guys who have had maybe two or three teams
- 40:46Speaker 4: before they become the star.
- 40:47Speaker 1: Thank God for Bryce Young.
- 40:50Speaker 4: That he gets to enjoy it for the team that
- 40:51Speaker 4: he got drafted to, especially after everybody said he's a bust.
- 40:55Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Tater is what they
- 40:57Speaker 1: call Tracy Smith, right? Because that's who his dad was.
- 40:59Speaker 1: He just wanted to say Tater. Who doesn't want to
- 41:01Speaker 1: say Tater? How far down on the list is Tater
- 41:03Speaker 1: of the dude? Like, don't get me wrong. You know,
- 41:06Speaker 1: Tater Smith has coached this league for a long time.
- 41:08Speaker 1: Tracy Smith's dad was in Seattle. That's how Canales knows him.
- 41:13Speaker 1: Great dude by all accounts, but he's down on the list.
- 41:17Speaker 1: My man just wanted to make sure Tater got in there.
- 41:19Speaker 1: If you have someone you know named Tater, your wife's
- 41:22Speaker 1: going in the right direction. I wish my name was Tater.
- 41:24Speaker 1: And has anybody ever called— Tater Bone. That should be
- 41:26Speaker 1: what it stands for.
- 41:27Speaker 2: Has anybody ever called a buddy Tater and that person
- 41:30Speaker 2: wasn't lovable?
- 41:31Speaker 1: You can't have the nickname Tater without being lovable. No,
- 41:34Speaker 1: you can't.
- 41:34Speaker 2: You just can't.
- 41:34Speaker 1: You've got to be gregarious and jolly if you're rocking
- 41:37Speaker 1: the name Tater. No doubt. Fitty would be a great tater.
- 41:40Speaker 2: Yeah, Fitty could be a tater, although now he's Zaddy.
- 41:44Speaker 2: Apparently his lady calls him Zaddy. Apparently Zaddy's like an
- 41:47Speaker 2: old sugar daddy for Tara. Not calling me Zaddy, but
- 41:51Speaker 2: that's what it stands for. I read one of the
- 41:53Speaker 2: definitions off yesterday.
- 41:55Speaker 1: When I think of old sugar daddies, I think of
- 42:00Speaker 1: Phinney Marlowe. He likes sugar, but he ain't a daddy.
- 42:04Speaker 1: Here's the meaning right here.
- 42:08Speaker 2: Zaddy is a slang term for an attractive, stylish, confident,
- 42:11Speaker 2: and often older man who oozes charisma and swagger.
- 42:15Speaker 1: There you go. I've got both of those.
- 42:17Speaker 3: And I was informed Zaddy is, in fact, greater than Daddy.
- 42:21Speaker 1: There you go, baby. There you go. Well, good for you.
- 42:25Speaker 2: Wait for 21 years of marriage and see what names
- 42:27Speaker 2: you get called.
- 42:29Speaker 1: Before you move on, I do want to mention that
- 42:31Speaker 1: the Bryce Young sneaker ball is December 15th at the
- 42:35Speaker 1: Revelry in Charlotte. You can get tickets now through the
- 42:38Speaker 1: Young Nine Foundation. That benefits youth sports and mental health
- 42:43Speaker 1: and mental wellness. So if you have interest in that,
- 42:45Speaker 1: make sure you check it out. That's what Bryce was
- 42:47Speaker 1: promoting yesterday, as you mentioned. Yeah, absolutely.
- 42:49Speaker 2: All right, so let's get to Baker Mayfield. It's another week.
- 42:52Speaker 2: It's another opponent with an uncertain quarterback situation. The way
- 42:57Speaker 2: Todd Bowles described it on Monday in the presser is
- 43:00Speaker 2: that Baker Mayfield will return to practice today. He will
- 43:04Speaker 2: practice today. He will practice this week. He says they
- 43:07Speaker 2: are planning. He's trying to come back from this dislocated
- 43:10Speaker 2: thumb on his throwing hand. They say they're planning on
- 43:14Speaker 2: Jalen Daniels starting. Do you have a gut feeling on this, Bone?
- 43:18Speaker 2: Do you need a Wednesday injury report?
- 43:20Speaker 1: What are you thinking? Don't know yet. I guess we'll
- 43:23Speaker 1: find out today. I don't have a feel, but I
- 43:26Speaker 1: would think, Mac, if... with where their season is and
- 43:29Speaker 1: how desperate they probably are, division game, I would think
- 43:33Speaker 1: that if there's a... If Baker Mayfield back is feeling 40%,
- 43:38Speaker 1: he might play in this game. This is a different
- 43:40Speaker 1: level of guy we're talking about here. So I would be...
- 43:43Speaker 1: I'd be surprised if it's not Baker Mayfield. Yeah, that's
- 43:45Speaker 1: kind of where I'm at.
- 43:47Speaker 2: I know Bowles is saying, we're planning that Jalen's going
- 43:50Speaker 2: to start.
- 43:51Speaker 1: My gut feeling is Baker. If they were off to
- 43:54Speaker 1: a decent start and things weren't in peril and their
- 43:56Speaker 1: coach on the hot seat, I could see Baker maybe
- 43:58Speaker 1: taking one more week. I don't think under these circumstances
- 44:01Speaker 1: for them, with it slipping away already, that he's going
- 44:03Speaker 1: to sit out this game.
- 44:04Speaker 2: But if his right thumb... is still a problem, it
- 44:08Speaker 2: can affect the way he throws the football. That's the thing.
- 44:11Speaker 2: This isn't like some of these other injuries that Baker
- 44:16Speaker 2: Mayfield does his stuntman routine and plays through. And we
- 44:19Speaker 2: saw him play through injuries last year and it hurt
- 44:21Speaker 2: his performance.
- 44:23Speaker 1: So there is that aspect of this. Does it surprise
- 44:25Speaker 1: you that the spread being the game here is only
- 44:28Speaker 1: three and a half and the home team usually gets three?
- 44:31Speaker 1: Are you surprised Mac is actually that close? I don't know. No.
- 44:36Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know.
- 44:39Speaker 2: It's the Panthers. It feels like there's still a level
- 44:44Speaker 2: of skepticism, right, with the Panthers. They don't seem like
- 44:48Speaker 2: a team, Bo, and we don't get big spreads often,
- 44:50Speaker 2: it feels like. I don't know, and I'm not going
- 44:54Speaker 2: to take them lightly, Bo. I'm not going to take
- 44:56Speaker 2: them lightly. Not that it matters. I'm not playing or coaching.
- 44:59Speaker 2: I do want to mention this Jalen Hurts thing real
- 45:01Speaker 2: quick because it has just seemed fishy the way the
- 45:04Speaker 2: Eagles handle it from the jump for me, and I
- 45:06Speaker 2: do realize the NFL came out yesterday. And they had
- 45:10Speaker 2: a press conference with their medical people, and they were
- 45:12Speaker 2: defiant as hell about this Jalen Hurts thing.
- 45:16Speaker 1: It was handled the right way.
- 45:17Speaker 2: They went off on some of the reports out there
- 45:20Speaker 2: that they said were false information. I think the big
- 45:22Speaker 2: one is the one about that the Eagles told Jalen
- 45:25Speaker 2: Hurts not to sleep for 36 hours for the game.
- 45:28Speaker 2: That ends up being BS. Tom Pelissero sounds like messed
- 45:31Speaker 2: that up. and had to come back and do an
- 45:33Speaker 2: about-face on that.
- 45:33Speaker 1: I heard a sleep expert the other day talking about
- 45:35Speaker 1: at 22 hours with no sleep, you technically become drunk
- 45:38Speaker 1: in a way. Like, your mind is like you're drunk.
- 45:41Speaker 1: So imagine 36 hours. Yeah, it sounds like that was crap.
- 45:44Speaker 2: But.
- 45:47Speaker 2: Like, should he have been able to play with the
- 45:51Speaker 2: blood clot? Should he have been able to fly with
- 45:54Speaker 2: the blood clot? These are all legit questions. The NFLPA
- 45:58Speaker 2: issued a statement after the NFL.
- 46:00Speaker 1: Clearly wanted to be the first ones, right?
- 46:02Speaker 2: Make everybody think, oh, everything's fine with the way the
- 46:05Speaker 2: Eagles handled this Hurts situation. NFLPA issued a statement last
- 46:09Speaker 2: night calling for a full investigation into the medical care
- 46:12Speaker 2: of the Eagles. So Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts. NFL PA
- 46:15Speaker 2: is not going to just lie down on this. And
- 46:18Speaker 2: I also wonder bone, if Jalen hurts, attorneys are going
- 46:22Speaker 2: to lie down on this. Like, I wonder if there
- 46:23Speaker 2: could be a loss. I just, this, this one, this, this,
- 46:26Speaker 2: when I heard, when I heard that NFL presser, I'm like, dude,
- 46:31Speaker 2: it can't be this simple. Like they're trying to make
- 46:34Speaker 2: it go away, but it can't be that simple. This
- 46:36Speaker 2: thing needs to be, we, we've investigated far less.
- 46:39Speaker 1: Fishy sounding things, man.
- 46:41Speaker 6: Oh yeah.
- 46:41Speaker 1: This is, this is, this is far from over right now.
- 46:43Speaker 1: This will, uh, Continue, Mac. Real quick before break, want
- 46:46Speaker 1: to send thoughts and prayers out to the wife of
- 46:49Speaker 1: Texter Bebop. They are celebrating 21 years of marriage tomorrow.
- 46:53Speaker 1: There you go. There you go, Bob. I feel bad
- 46:56Speaker 1: for her and all she's endured and what she's been through.
- 46:58Speaker 1: So we're thinking of a Mrs.
- 46:59Speaker 2: Bob.
- 46:59Speaker 1: Try to hang in there a little bit longer.
- 47:00Speaker 2: We will induct you, Mrs. Bopp, into sainthood on tomorrow's
- 47:03Speaker 2: radio show. We will officially. I'm just checking with the
- 47:06Speaker 2: Catholic Church, see if we have power to do that.
- 47:08Speaker 2: But you must be a saint, ma'am.
- 47:10Speaker 1: We come back. Special 7 a.m. guest, Chris Doering, SEC Network.
- 47:14Speaker 1: He joins us to talk about the season, the Gamecocks, Tennessee,
- 47:17Speaker 1: and much more. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.