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- 0:06Speaker 1: Thank you.
- 0:22Speaker 2: Let's talk some Tar Heels, baby. What a showcase game
- 0:25Speaker 2: this is. But it's a tough one. That comes with
- 0:28Speaker 2: the showcase game. Notre Dame, noon on ESPN. And, of course,
- 0:34Speaker 2: I know what the Tar Heel fans are going to do.
- 0:36Speaker 2: They're going to turn the sound down, and they're going
- 0:37Speaker 2: to listen to our next guest, Jones Angel, call at
- 0:39Speaker 2: 11 a.m. pregame on the Tar Heel Radio Network for
- 0:42Speaker 2: the noon start. And, of course, in Charlotte. Listen to
- 0:45Speaker 2: Tar Heel Radio Network on our sister station, WBT. Jones
- 0:49Speaker 2: Angel is the voice of the Heels. Jones, what's going on, man?
- 0:52Speaker 2: How are you feeling this week?
- 0:55Speaker 3: Doing great, guys. Good to be back with you, as always. And, yeah,
- 0:58Speaker 3: what a challenge this weekend. I just think in getting
- 1:01Speaker 3: ready for Notre Dame some this week, man, this is
- 1:03Speaker 3: a really, really good football team, really complete, just not
- 1:08Speaker 3: a lot of weaknesses. They check every box. And, yeah,
- 1:11Speaker 3: I think it's probably the best team Carolina's played since
- 1:14Speaker 3: I was thinking about this, guys. Maybe back to 2019
- 1:17Speaker 3: when Clemson came in, number one, Trevor Lawrence. That was
- 1:19Speaker 3: that game where Carolina went for two with about two
- 1:22Speaker 3: minutes left with that really young team. That was Mack
- 1:24Speaker 3: Brown's first year of his second tenure. Sam Howell was
- 1:28Speaker 3: the freshman QB that year, and he'll fail on the
- 1:30Speaker 3: two-point play, lost 21-20. But this is a national championship
- 1:35Speaker 3: contender for sure in Notre Dame. And so for Carolina,
- 1:39Speaker 3: obviously the Heels are better. Obviously the Heels are not
- 1:41Speaker 3: a national championship contender at this moment. They're not a
- 1:44Speaker 3: finished product. And so it'll be a good opportunity for
- 1:47Speaker 3: them to see where they stand and try to compete
- 1:50Speaker 3: with one of the very best in the country this year.
- 1:52Speaker 4: Jones, for so long the question about Notre Dame was
- 1:55Speaker 4: can they ever get back to national title contention. And
- 1:59Speaker 4: you said right there, they're in that mix. What do
- 2:01Speaker 4: you think it is about Marcus Freeman and what he's
- 2:05Speaker 4: found and what he's done for the program that has
- 2:07Speaker 4: put them back on that level?
- 2:09Speaker 5: Sure.
- 2:10Speaker 3: Well, they, they played for what, two years ago. So,
- 2:12Speaker 3: I mean, I think they've been there here recently for sure.
- 2:15Speaker 3: And I know they missed the playoffs kind of controversially
- 2:17Speaker 3: last year, but obviously had a very good team.
- 2:21Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 2:21Speaker 3: What, this is totally my opinion. Obviously I'm looking at
- 2:23Speaker 3: this from afar and, But one thing that impressed me
- 2:26Speaker 3: about Notre Dame, and what I think is the right
- 2:28Speaker 3: way to do it, guys, now it's a lot easier
- 2:30Speaker 3: to do it when you're playing at the level that
- 2:32Speaker 3: Notre Dame is financially, et cetera, is they've stayed consistent
- 2:37Speaker 3: with their team. And by that, I mean their roster
- 2:39Speaker 3: stayed pretty consistent. You look at their roster, for the
- 2:42Speaker 3: most part, not exclusively, but for the most part, these
- 2:45Speaker 3: are guys who have been in their program for multiple years.
- 2:49Speaker 6: And then what you do is, oh.
- 2:50Speaker 3: Hey, you know what? We really feel like we need
- 2:52Speaker 3: to go get a quality– cornerback. Well, then they're going
- 2:56Speaker 3: to go into the transfer portal and they'll go get,
- 2:59Speaker 3: you know, a DJ McKinney, who's going to be a start,
- 3:01Speaker 3: you know, started multiple years at Colorado and then they
- 3:03Speaker 3: bring them in and now he's going to start for them.
- 3:06Speaker 3: And so I think the way they've been able to
- 3:08Speaker 3: build their roster again, much easier said than done when
- 3:11Speaker 3: you're playing at that financial level is the way to
- 3:15Speaker 3: do it. And the way to be, in my opinion,
- 3:17Speaker 3: the most successful in this very turbulent time of college athletics.
- 3:22Speaker 3: And so they have a lot of guys back. That
- 3:25Speaker 3: would be the number one thing. And this isn't breaking
- 3:29Speaker 3: news that they've got talent. And so when you've got
- 3:31Speaker 3: a lot of guys back and they're talented players and
- 3:35Speaker 3: they've been in your system a couple of years now
- 3:37Speaker 3: and they've kind of naturally moved up from, hey, a
- 3:39Speaker 3: backup and I'm the starter and now I'm starting two
- 3:42Speaker 3: years in a row or whatever it might be, that's
- 3:45Speaker 3: a pretty good formula. And I think you see it
- 3:47Speaker 3: working for Notre Dame.
- 3:49Speaker 2: All right, so speaking of formula, we do this thing, Jones,
- 3:52Speaker 2: every Thursday for the Panthers, a victory formula. Sometimes the
- 3:56Speaker 2: team goes out and does those things.
- 3:59Speaker 6: Sometimes they do not.
- 4:00Speaker 3: Why don't they just listen to you every week? That
- 4:02Speaker 3: would be so much easier.
- 4:03Speaker 6: It's unbelievable. They might sometimes, Jones. It's unbelievable.
- 4:07Speaker 2: So I want to ask you, like there's, you know,
- 4:10Speaker 2: Carolina is a three touchdown underdog.
- 4:11Speaker 6: Essentially.
- 4:12Speaker 2: You've just talked about how good they are and what
- 4:15Speaker 2: makes Notre Dame so good. What are the things Carolina
- 4:18Speaker 2: needs to do to like, I think all you want
- 4:21Speaker 2: right late middle of the fourth quarter, you're right there
- 4:23Speaker 2: with a chance to win.
- 4:24Speaker 6: How could they make that happen? Do you think?
- 4:27Speaker 3: Number one is you cannot beat yourself. And I think
- 4:30Speaker 3: when you see these games Notre Dame has played this year,
- 4:32Speaker 3: two of them, Rice and Purdue, they just ran away from.
- 4:36Speaker 3: Michigan State and Wisconsin were competitive games into the second half.
- 4:40Speaker 3: And in each of those instances, there was a key
- 4:42Speaker 3: mistake by the opposition. In fact, I think, guys, they
- 4:46Speaker 3: were both interceptions that really flipped the game. And Notre
- 4:49Speaker 3: Dame just jumped all over the mistake. And so you
- 4:52Speaker 3: cannot have a pick six. You cannot have a punt
- 4:55Speaker 3: that gets blocked. You cannot have... a 50-yard game that
- 5:00Speaker 3: gets called back because of a hold or something. So
- 5:02Speaker 3: you cannot beat yourself. That's number one. And then for Carolina,
- 5:06Speaker 3: I do think the Tar Heels have proven here through
- 5:08Speaker 3: the first couple of weeks they've got a solid run game.
- 5:11Speaker 3: They've got a solid defense. You've got to lean on
- 5:13Speaker 3: those a little bit. You've got to lower the possessions
- 5:16Speaker 3: in this game. You need to possess the football as
- 5:19Speaker 3: best you can, move the chains, kind of all that
- 5:21Speaker 3: boring stuff. But I think if you do those things–
- 5:24Speaker 3: That gives Carolina a chance to be in this game.
- 5:27Speaker 3: As you said, you get into the mid.
- 5:29Speaker 4: To late third quarter.
- 5:30Speaker 3: It's early fourth quarter and it's 21-17 or it's 24-7,
- 5:33Speaker 3: you know, whatever. Then all of a sudden it becomes,
- 5:38Speaker 3: I think, a different situation. So got to play clean
- 5:40Speaker 3: football and you got to rely on your strengths in
- 5:43Speaker 3: this game if you're Carolina.
- 5:45Speaker 4: Jones, when you look at the start for the Heels,
- 5:47Speaker 4: the schedule getting tougher here starting with Notre Dame in
- 5:51Speaker 4: the next couple weeks, in your mind, what do you
- 5:54Speaker 4: view now as a successful season at the end? If
- 5:57Speaker 4: there's a number they get to, would you say, all right,
- 6:00Speaker 4: that's a good season for the Heels?
- 6:03Speaker 3: I don't think anything's changed in that regard for Carolina
- 6:06Speaker 3: just because it had a bad second half against Clemson
- 6:09Speaker 3: a couple weeks ago. I think it continues to be
- 6:12Speaker 3: can Carolina show progress? Can this be a team that's
- 6:15Speaker 3: getting better? Can this be a bowl-level team? Can you
- 6:19Speaker 3: get into that area by the end of the season? Now,
- 6:22Speaker 3: as you said, I mean, Notre Dame, Miami's coming soon.
- 6:24Speaker 3: They're very good. Carolina goes to Pitt next weekend. Pitt's
- 6:27Speaker 3: had a great start to the season. So there are
- 6:29Speaker 3: plenty of roadblocks along that journey for Carolina. But I
- 6:34Speaker 3: think it's the improvement. I think it's the consistency, which
- 6:39Speaker 3: you have seen to this point. But do you see
- 6:41Speaker 3: it for another nine weeks for Carolina as the competition
- 6:45Speaker 3: ratchets up week in and week out? I think that's
- 6:48Speaker 3: the most important thing for the Tar Heels right now.
- 6:50Speaker 2: Jones, what do you think about the quarterback situation? Belichick
- 6:53Speaker 2: did say this week, hey, it's going to be Edwards.
- 6:56Speaker 2: We talked to you about it last week and you
- 6:59Speaker 2: kind of discussed, you know, O'Neal, Burgess, the young freshman.
- 7:04Speaker 2: Do you think this game in particular is one where
- 7:07Speaker 2: there will be a shorter leash on Edwards or do
- 7:10Speaker 2: you not feel like like in this game would be
- 7:12Speaker 2: the time they would make a change?
- 7:15Speaker 3: It does feel like a challenging game to make a
- 7:17Speaker 3: change just because of the level of the opponent that
- 7:20Speaker 3: you're playing. And guys, I mean, I think also you
- 7:22Speaker 3: look through Bill Belichick's long, successful tenure and he's not
- 7:28Speaker 3: one to just kind of willy-nilly change the quarterback or
- 7:31Speaker 3: be flipping guys back and forth and, you know, just
- 7:34Speaker 3: to try something different. He really, in my opinion, seems
- 7:37Speaker 3: to be, okay, you know, we've decided this is our
- 7:40Speaker 3: guy for now. You know, let's move forward with this.
- 7:42Speaker 3: How do we make it? How are we best successful
- 7:45Speaker 3: with the situation that we're currently in? That doesn't mean
- 7:47Speaker 3: that he's not open to it, but he just doesn't seem,
- 7:50Speaker 3: if you look through the history of his coaching career,
- 7:54Speaker 3: to be a guy who's just going to change it
- 7:56Speaker 3: just to change it. And so it feels like a
- 7:59Speaker 3: challenging week to do that. But at the end of
- 8:02Speaker 3: the day, Carolina needs to win games. That's what they
- 8:04Speaker 3: want to do. That's what they're there to do. And
- 8:06Speaker 3: so I do feel as though if that's what is best,
- 8:09Speaker 3: he's going.
- 8:10Speaker 6: To do it.
- 8:10Speaker 3: Because one thing about Bill Belichick, guys, all he cares
- 8:14Speaker 3: about is trying to win the game. He doesn't care
- 8:16Speaker 3: if it's 63-62 or 3-2. He just wants to try
- 8:21Speaker 3: and win the game. And so I think ultimately, while
- 8:24Speaker 3: he's not going to be reckless about it, I think
- 8:26Speaker 3: he will make the decision that it's just going to
- 8:28Speaker 3: best give his team a chance to win.
- 8:31Speaker 2: All right, Jones, always good talking to you, brother. Pretty
- 8:33Speaker 2: soon we'll be getting, you know, we might tail end
- 8:35Speaker 2: the football season. We'll get a little bit of hoops.
- 8:38Speaker 2: into these conversations.
- 8:39Speaker 3: Carolina plays a week from today or a week from tomorrow.
- 8:42Speaker 3: They have an exhibition a week from tomorrow in Greensboro
- 8:45Speaker 3: against USC. It's crazy how fast it's all coming.
- 8:47Speaker 6: It is crazy.
- 8:48Speaker 2: Heck, we got media day here. Basketball media day coming
- 8:51Speaker 2: to Charlotte next week.
- 8:53Speaker 4: I think Virginia and Vanderbilt are playing outside on Sunday
- 8:56Speaker 4: coming up this week.
- 8:56Speaker 3: Yeah, they already played. They've already played outside.
- 8:58Speaker 6: Oh, they did that already?
- 8:59Speaker 4: Okay, I missed that one.
- 8:59Speaker 3: I think it was last weekend, so it's wild. Already here.
- 9:02Speaker 4: I missed that one. It's almost go time, baby. All right, well,
- 9:04Speaker 4: we'll talk to you about that pretty soon. Now, you've
- 9:06Speaker 4: got to know somebody to know somebody to get to
- 9:07Speaker 4: score these games.
- 9:08Speaker 2: That is true, though. That's a secret, Jones. You won't
- 9:10Speaker 2: be able to tell us anything, will you?
- 9:11Speaker 4: Let us know, Jones.
- 9:12Speaker 2: Oh, no.
- 9:13Speaker 3: These are wide open. We're broadcasting that game.
- 9:16Speaker 4: Tickets available.
- 9:17Speaker 3: Carolina, USC, and Greensboro.
- 9:19Speaker 1: Let's go.
- 9:19Speaker 4: Is there TV on that one? I mean, I know
- 9:21Speaker 4: you're trying to promote your radio network.
- 9:23Speaker 3: Yes, there is. In fact, all three games... Carolina plays
- 9:26Speaker 3: three exhibitions this year.
- 9:27Speaker 6: They've got that one.
- 9:27Speaker 3: They play Indiana in Indianapolis, and they play Charlotte with
- 9:32Speaker 3: Wes Miller.
- 9:32Speaker 6: Oh, that's right.
- 9:33Speaker 3: It's coming to the Smith Center. All three will be televised,
- 9:35Speaker 3: and we've got all three on the radio network as well.
- 9:37Speaker 6: Love it. Okay, that's cool.
- 9:39Speaker 4: That's cool.
- 9:39Speaker 6: All right, Jones, bring in the info, man.
- 9:41Speaker 5: How about that, Jones?
- 9:42Speaker 6: All right, Jones, have fun calling this one on Saturday, man.
- 9:45Speaker 6: Appreciate you.
- 9:46Speaker 3: Thanks, guys. Talk to you next week.
- 9:47Speaker 6: All right, there you go. That is Jones Angel, Voice
- 9:49Speaker 6: of the Heels.
- 9:50Speaker 2: Remember, if you're driving around or you want to sync
- 9:52Speaker 2: up the TV video with the audio of Tar Heel
- 9:55Speaker 2: Radio Network, they're on the air at 11.
- 9:58Speaker 6: The game is at noon. and WBT's got the game.
- 10:01Speaker 4: Some of these exhibition games are much better than the
- 10:03Speaker 4: actual early season matchups. Now, there's some good ones, but
- 10:06Speaker 4: like Virginia-Vanderbilt, a hell of a game that we'd like
- 10:08Speaker 4: to see in the regular season. Some of these games— Duke
- 10:11Speaker 4: goes to Fog Island, by the way, in exhibition season.
- 10:15Speaker 4: I know that they have a tough schedule already, but
- 10:16Speaker 4: can we not— Can Duke not play them? Can we
- 10:19Speaker 4: make some of these regular season games?
- 10:20Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 10:21Speaker 2: But now that they're televising a lot of these, I
- 10:23Speaker 2: kind of forgot that last year they kind of really
- 10:25Speaker 2: started televising them.
- 10:26Speaker 6: Because before, you couldn't even figure out. It was very secretive. Oh,
- 10:28Speaker 6: big time. You would get a rumor that so-and-so upset so-and-so. Oh,
- 10:31Speaker 6: my God.
- 10:32Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 10:33Speaker 6: Usually it was State getting beat by somebody.
- 10:35Speaker 5: It was.
- 10:35Speaker 6: I remember Georgia beat State in an exhibition. Everybody's like, well, Pac-Mac,
- 10:39Speaker 6: you worried? I heard a rumor. Georgia beat State. It
- 10:41Speaker 6: turns out I should have probably been worried.
- 10:44Speaker 4: Okay.
- 10:44Speaker 2: I did not... We have to talk about something else
- 10:48Speaker 2: here involving Carolina football. I didn't want to... We didn't
- 10:50Speaker 2: want to bombard Jones with it because an article.
- 10:54Speaker 2: About what's going on with Bill Belichick and the football
- 10:58Speaker 2: program dropped from The Athletic. And it's got some stuff
- 11:03Speaker 2: in there that is not particularly flattering about the folks
- 11:07Speaker 2: that have been involved there running the show. We didn't
- 11:09Speaker 2: want to hit Jones with it because literally he may
- 11:11Speaker 2: have not even heard about it yet. but I do
- 11:14Speaker 2: want to get it out there. And I know Tar
- 11:15Speaker 2: Heel fans are rolling their eyes right now. Like, Oh no,
- 11:18Speaker 2: there's another day.
- 11:19Speaker 6: I'm a hard to go. What, what, what is in
- 11:20Speaker 6: there now?
- 11:21Speaker 2: So you were reading this thing, but what are you,
- 11:23Speaker 2: you have some of the like cliff notes over there.
- 11:26Speaker 4: I mean, it just came out right before Jones was on.
- 11:28Speaker 4: So I kind of had to skim it. I know
- 11:30Speaker 4: Brendan Marks, Ralph Russo, David Ubbin. There's like five different
- 11:34Speaker 4: writers from the athletic involved in the, the premise of
- 11:38Speaker 4: the article is UNC is hosting Notre Dame on Saturday
- 11:42Speaker 4: and These are supposed to be marquee moments, marquee games.
- 11:46Speaker 4: with Bill Belichick and UNC at his presser on Monday,
- 11:50Speaker 4: he got asked like two questions about Notre Dame and
- 11:52Speaker 4: a bunch about investigations. How did UNC get here when
- 11:57Speaker 4: this was supposed to be like their football, you know,
- 11:59Speaker 4: I don't know if revival is the right word, but they're,
- 12:01Speaker 4: they're coming out in the last couple of years and
- 12:04Speaker 4: it goes through all that's happened here. They talked to
- 12:06Speaker 4: 12 anonymous people who chose to remain off the record
- 12:10Speaker 4: due to potential retaliation from, uh, the football program within
- 12:15Speaker 4: the UNC school and staff. So they talked to 12
- 12:18Speaker 4: different people about what went on there. It's not very
- 12:21Speaker 4: flattering that I could be shocked towards one Michael Lombardi. Yeah,
- 12:25Speaker 4: what's some of this Lombardi juicy stuff in there? I'm paraphrasing.
- 12:29Speaker 4: He'd argue with the recruiting coordinators. He'd say, I've done
- 12:32Speaker 4: 30 NFL drafts. What have you done? And they would say,
- 12:35Speaker 4: we've done 30 recruiting classes. What have you done? So
- 12:38Speaker 4: a lot of stuff there where Lombardi would just treat
- 12:41Speaker 4: people poorly.
- 12:42Speaker 3: And.
- 12:43Speaker 4: There's some stuff in there about Lombardi wouldn't always inform
- 12:46Speaker 4: Belichick of all that was going on negatively.
- 12:49Speaker 6: Oh, I bet.
- 12:50Speaker 4: Because he didn't want Papa to think that he couldn't.
- 12:52Speaker 6: Do the job. I bet. Even though he couldn't do
- 12:54Speaker 6: the damn job, right?
- 12:56Speaker 2: And for some reason, why did Papa Belichick believe this
- 12:58Speaker 2: goober could do the job?
- 12:59Speaker 6: There may have been some.
- 13:01Speaker 4: Steve Belichick stuff going on there that he may not
- 13:03Speaker 4: have told Papa about there. I have to go read fully,
- 13:07Speaker 4: but like I said, I sort of got the Cliff
- 13:08Speaker 4: Notes version of it right now.
- 13:09Speaker 2: And the Lombardi stuff about like him, like flaunting, like
- 13:13Speaker 2: I've read so many articles about the way he would
- 13:16Speaker 2: flaunt and Belichick too, all they knew from the NFL years.
- 13:20Speaker 6: And the game is so different.
- 13:22Speaker 2: Like I just do not get, has there ever been
- 13:24Speaker 2: a more of a nitwit with such arrogance about him?
- 13:29Speaker 2: Like a guy that just is, I mean, looking back
- 13:34Speaker 2: at Finney.
- 13:35Speaker 6: No, I thought we were going, no, no.
- 13:36Speaker 4: I was looking to see if we're going to break
- 13:37Speaker 4: or not.
- 13:38Speaker 3: Seriously?
- 13:38Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh, I thought you were looking back at Finney
- 13:40Speaker 4: because you're thinking he's a nitwit with arrogance. I was,
- 13:43Speaker 4: but why'd you out me on that? Oh, my man,
- 13:46Speaker 4: my man. It's just like the hubris. Trying to be
- 13:48Speaker 4: on the sneak here a little bit.
- 13:49Speaker 2: The hubris those guys brought to college football, feeling like, yeah,
- 13:52Speaker 2: y'all been in this particular sport all your life, but
- 13:55Speaker 2: we're just going to come in and show you how
- 13:56Speaker 2: to do it. We're going to show all the other
- 13:58Speaker 2: coaches we compete with how to do it. That's one
- 14:00Speaker 2: of the things about it.
- 14:01Speaker 4: And it says in there that no other coaches would
- 14:03Speaker 4: survive all that's gone on but Belichick. because of the
- 14:07Speaker 4: financial investment. It also has an interesting thing in there, Mac,
- 14:10Speaker 4: when they came out, what was the phrasing of the,
- 14:15Speaker 4: remember that statement that came out that said they found, no,
- 14:20Speaker 4: that the program wasn't out of control. What was the
- 14:22Speaker 4: phrasing that they used? They used that certain phrasing a
- 14:25Speaker 4: couple weeks ago, and remember the program they didn't see
- 14:28Speaker 4: out of control, whatever it was?
- 14:29Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
- 14:30Speaker 2: They thought it was isolated, and it wasn't a lack
- 14:33Speaker 2: of control.
- 14:35Speaker 6: Systemic.
- 14:35Speaker 4: That statement right there makes it impossible to fire Belichick
- 14:39Speaker 4: with cause. So that statement right there, absolving Belichick right there,
- 14:43Speaker 4: makes it very difficult to fire Belichick.
- 14:45Speaker 6: That's a good point. How about this one?
- 14:46Speaker 4: And the point of this was Belichick has to go
- 14:49Speaker 4: win games. If he wins eight games— This year, for example,
- 14:53Speaker 4: this is the sources, nothing matters. Go win eight games,
- 14:56Speaker 4: but if he wins less than that— Did it say
- 14:58Speaker 4: something about six games in the article, or was eight
- 15:00Speaker 4: the number? I think eight was the number. Oh, okay.
- 15:03Speaker 2: Oh, so eight games. I'm not sure that's— I have
- 15:05Speaker 2: to go back and double-check. Now, six, could they get there?
- 15:07Speaker 2: I think it was eight. How about the quote from
- 15:11Speaker 2: the trustee about, we've had our five minutes of fame,
- 15:15Speaker 2: now we're stuck with this problem? And it's interesting because
- 15:20Speaker 2: it was a trustee and John Pryor and everybody that
- 15:22Speaker 2: enabled him. They got them through this damn problem.
- 15:25Speaker 4: I also point out that when they arrived in Ireland,
- 15:30Speaker 4: nobody involved in the hiring of Belichick was around to
- 15:33Speaker 4: be in Ireland but Belichick. Like, those that hired him
- 15:37Speaker 4: didn't even make the hire one. Oh, jeez.
- 15:38Speaker 6: He's the only one that got off the plane. Everyone
- 15:39Speaker 6: else is gone. Bubba and Pryor and everybody. Oh, yeah, yeah.
- 15:43Speaker 4: All the people involved in that are no longer there. I, um, Fitty,
- 15:46Speaker 4: what do you think? John Pryor's in the windlass protection
- 15:48Speaker 4: program right now.
- 15:49Speaker 6: What do you think about this, Fitty? Like, this is
- 15:52Speaker 6: my whole thing.
- 15:52Speaker 2: I know you said it during the break that they
- 15:55Speaker 2: feel like we've invested so much money in him, the salaries. Hell,
- 15:59Speaker 2: Lombardi made the highest paid GM for some reason. The NIL,
- 16:03Speaker 2: stuff like that. But I'm sorry, man. Like if this
- 16:07Speaker 2: does not like improve this season, don't you just have
- 16:11Speaker 2: to pay him his $ 10 million you owe him then
- 16:13Speaker 2: after the season and get the heck out of this?
- 16:15Speaker 7: Yeah, probably.
- 16:16Speaker 2: But we'll see. I mean, we'll see. Give him a
- 16:18Speaker 2: fair chance. The football is better than last year. But
- 16:21Speaker 2: I don't know, man. Look, their next three opponents are
- 16:23Speaker 2: all undefeated.
- 16:25Speaker 7: There's a very good chance. Like Saturday could be ugly.
- 16:28Speaker 7: I don't know how full the stadium will be of
- 16:30Speaker 7: Carolina fans. There'll be a lot of Notre Dame fans
- 16:32Speaker 7: in Kenan on Saturday. If they're non-competitive in their next three,
- 16:37Speaker 7: their two and four, that puts them at six and
- 16:39Speaker 7: 12 overall.
- 16:40Speaker 6: Does he even make it to the end of the season?
- 16:42Speaker 6: It does say six wins. It does say six wins, Mac.
- 16:45Speaker 4: If we can get to six wins at one source,
- 16:47Speaker 4: involved in the search that landed Belichick, I think everybody
- 16:50Speaker 4: will be comfortable moving forward. There's only so many people
- 16:53Speaker 4: involved in the search, though, so I don't know who
- 16:55Speaker 4: that could be. So there you go, Phinney. To your question,
- 16:59Speaker 4: six wins.
- 16:59Speaker 2: Somebody inside the program is saying if we get to
- 17:02Speaker 2: six wins, I think we'll be fine.
- 17:03Speaker 7: And that's because that would be a two-win improvement off
- 17:05Speaker 7: of last year.
- 17:06Speaker 6: You get to a bowl game.
- 17:08Speaker 7: And they're building towards 27 with the way that they've
- 17:11Speaker 7: built the roster.
- 17:12Speaker 6: And the schedule. To your point, how hard it is?
- 17:15Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 17:15Speaker 6: Six wins would look, you know what I mean?
- 17:17Speaker 7: Like Myron is talking about its low expectations. No, you've
- 17:19Speaker 7: got to look at the nuance and the context that
- 17:22Speaker 7: goes into it. Like they're building for.
- 17:25Speaker 4: The long term.
- 17:26Speaker 7: I just disagree with the way that you're doing it.
- 17:29Speaker 7: Like you don't have to build through high school recruiting.
- 17:31Speaker 7: You can build through the portal. Look at what Indiana's doing.
- 17:35Speaker 7: They're going to recruit better in high school now. But
- 17:37Speaker 7: they don't have to. They can go build championship rosters
- 17:40Speaker 7: for the portal year in, year out.
- 17:41Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 17:42Speaker 2: And their schedule's so tough. Six wins. I don't want
- 17:45Speaker 2: to make it seem like six wins is easy, Bone.
- 17:47Speaker 2: You know what I mean? I wouldn't bet on six wins,
- 17:50Speaker 2: I don't think.
- 17:52Speaker 6: I don't know.
- 17:52Speaker 4: I mean, it's going to be a fight to get there,
- 17:54Speaker 4: but we shall see. When we come back on the
- 17:57Speaker 4: Mac and Bone Show, it's not Friday, it's Thursday, but
- 17:59Speaker 4: we're still going to talk to Zach Gelb about the Panthers'
- 18:02Speaker 4: performance against Cleveland, what to expect against the Lions. And
- 18:06Speaker 4: we'll go around the NFL. Zach Galbo of Compass and
- 18:09Speaker 4: NFL Radio is next on Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. We'll
- 18:35Speaker 4: be right back.
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- 19:00Speaker 2: to want to listen to the Fan Roundtable. Got rather squirrely.
- 19:04Speaker 2: We had to use the dump button three times. Twice
- 19:07Speaker 2: on Granny Pat. Once on Panther Steve. It was unruly,
- 19:11Speaker 2: but we have some good news for the, because multiple
- 19:14Speaker 2: people said, I think I heard the last Panther round
- 19:16Speaker 2: table fan round table. The boss, Colin Hoggard walked in
- 19:20Speaker 2: after that segment. Didn't really know what we were going
- 19:22Speaker 2: to be told.
- 19:23Speaker 6: Boney.
- 19:24Speaker 2: We were not told the segment needs to be canceled.
- 19:27Speaker 2: We were told. Let's not let that happen again.
- 19:30Speaker 6: So I'll take it. I'll take it. Round table, you
- 19:34Speaker 6: get another run.
- 19:35Speaker 2: Now let's not mess around and have to use the
- 19:36Speaker 2: dump button three times next week, y'all.
- 19:38Speaker 4: We've learned with Colin, three dump buttons is the limit.
- 19:41Speaker 4: Three dumps is the limit. But you get a second chance, though.
- 19:44Speaker 4: But if you do three dumps a second time, ooh, man,
- 19:47Speaker 4: we in trouble.
- 19:47Speaker 6: Four dumps, you're out. It's like 50 at a time.
- 19:50Speaker 7: Those three dumps, a foreshadowing of three score galore on
- 19:55Speaker 7: Sunday night at the bank.
- 19:55Speaker 2: We gonna find out what for the other team, for
- 19:57Speaker 2: the Lions? I'm sorry, that's very negative. That's very negative.
- 20:00Speaker 7: I'm sniffing 37-20 Panthers on Sunday. That's where I'm at
- 20:04Speaker 7: right now.
- 20:06Speaker 4: Can we get to Zach Gelb?
- 20:08Speaker 6: Oh, I forgot Gelb was there.
- 20:09Speaker 4: Let's do it. The guy does as good as it
- 20:11Speaker 4: was hard.
- 20:11Speaker 3: I know.
- 20:12Speaker 4: Zach Gelb doesn't deserve having to sit here while we blabber.
- 20:15Speaker 4: You were going to make him wait until Friday.
- 20:19Speaker 6: I was like, why is he on hold a day early?
- 20:21Speaker 6: I forgot. He's traveling tomorrow. Zach Gelb is here a
- 20:24Speaker 6: day early, baby.
- 20:25Speaker 2: We're going to talk football and Zach Gelb, Compass Media,
- 20:28Speaker 2: NFL coverage, NFL radio. He joins us here on the
- 20:31Speaker 2: Mac and Bone Show. Gelb, what's happening, baby? What's going on?
- 20:35Speaker 1: You mother truckers.
- 20:36Speaker 5: What's going on?
- 20:38Speaker 2: What's happening, man. Philly is the, we have 500 injuries.
- 20:41Speaker 2: We lost it a Browns, but Philly Panther. Philly still
- 20:44Speaker 2: has his confidence.
- 20:45Speaker 1: Galby is Panther Steve, by the way, is he like
- 20:49Speaker 1: on Twitter, like S wit or something like that? Oh,
- 20:56Speaker 1: he used to tweet me religiously back when I, when
- 20:58Speaker 1: I did the show for, for CBS sports radio, he
- 21:01Speaker 1: used to send me this video.
- 21:03Speaker 5: Anytime I mentioned.
- 21:04Speaker 1: The Eagles, which would.
- 21:05Speaker 5: Be a good amount of time with their success.
- 21:08Speaker 1: And it was like him running the Rocky steps and
- 21:10Speaker 1: eating like a cheesesteak from his visit in Philadelphia.
- 21:14Speaker 6: I needed a.
- 21:16Speaker 5: Restraining order against him, but a nice guy.
- 21:20Speaker 4: Wait until he finds out you're on Compass Media NFL Radio.
- 21:22Speaker 4: He's going to find you again. He is going to
- 21:24Speaker 4: find you, Gelby. There's no doubt about it. I mean, Gelby,
- 21:27Speaker 4: what do you say about the Panthers-Browns game?
- 21:31Speaker 2: It was ugly. Bryce Young had no protection. What did
- 21:36Speaker 2: you think about that? I feel shame losing to the Browns.
- 21:39Speaker 2: I ain't going to lie to you.
- 21:41Speaker 1: It just shows me that this team isn't good, but
- 21:44Speaker 1: you don't need to be good to win this division.
- 21:48Speaker 1: And like, they should probably lose to the lions and
- 21:50Speaker 1: then coming off the buy, they should probably lose to
- 21:52Speaker 1: the Eagles. And then what they'd be sitting there at
- 21:55Speaker 1: one in four, I believe. And if that's the case,
- 21:59Speaker 1: they could still.
- 21:59Speaker 5: Win this division because division stinks.
- 22:01Speaker 1: Like even like I was ready to buy in on
- 22:04Speaker 1: the saints and then they lose to the Raiders. And
- 22:06Speaker 1: I get it. The Raiders are three and oh, but
- 22:08Speaker 1: I don't think the Raiders are are this unbelievable team. So,
- 22:12Speaker 1: and then Baker start with, with, with Tampa Bay. So the, like,
- 22:15Speaker 1: it's the same thing as last year. Can you get
- 22:18Speaker 1: to eight wins? Honestly, you may only need to get
- 22:20Speaker 1: to seven wins.
- 22:23Speaker 4: How much of your fate is really hurting the Panthers
- 22:25Speaker 4: right now due to the injuries we find out JC
- 22:28Speaker 4: horn out for the next two months, Mike Jackson out
- 22:31Speaker 4: for two months. Do you think because of the South,
- 22:33Speaker 4: they can navigate this or is there a chance that
- 22:35Speaker 4: this gets ugly because of all these injuries?
- 22:38Speaker 5: I feel bad for JC horn. I feel like this
- 22:41Speaker 5: guy gets hurt like every other year.
- 22:42Speaker 1: Right. It just, you know, ever since I've been doing
- 22:46Speaker 1: this segment with you guys, it seems like he's really good.
- 22:48Speaker 1: And then he gets hurt. And we know when he's healthy, he's,
- 22:51Speaker 1: he's a phenomenal corner in this league. So the injuries,
- 22:55Speaker 1: they are unfortunate. They definitely hurt this football team, but
- 23:00Speaker 1: once again, if you guys were playing in the NFC East,
- 23:04Speaker 1: or if you were playing in the, the AFC West,
- 23:06Speaker 1: they would be more detrimental, but in this division, it's.
- 23:10Speaker 6: Like, all right.
- 23:11Speaker 5: Yeah. The, the Panther should have, should have won.
- 23:13Speaker 1: The game on Sunday. There's, there's no doubt about that. And,
- 23:16Speaker 1: and they could have been, and they probably should have
- 23:18Speaker 1: been two and one, but now they're still in first
- 23:21Speaker 1: place at one and two. And even if they lose
- 23:24Speaker 1: the next two, it's not like I'm going to sit
- 23:25Speaker 1: there and say this team can't win the division because
- 23:28Speaker 1: none of these teams in this division look really good
- 23:30Speaker 1: right now.
- 23:31Speaker 6: That's the one saving grace.
- 23:32Speaker 2: I keep coming back to the fact that I love
- 23:34Speaker 2: our division so much, Gelby. I love this being in
- 23:38Speaker 2: this division because it does give you that room for error.
- 23:42Speaker 2: What do you think about the Lions? I mean, their
- 23:45Speaker 2: offense is scary, especially when we have both corners out.
- 23:48Speaker 2: But you have to acknowledge, too, the Lions' defense has
- 23:52Speaker 2: been a mess with their injuries in the secondary as well.
- 23:55Speaker 2: What do you think about this Detroit team?
- 23:57Speaker 1: Yeah, the, the Panthers should absolutely be able to put
- 23:59Speaker 1: up points and Bryce Jones in the league and passing yards.
- 24:02Speaker 1: So I would expect them to be heavy thrown the
- 24:05Speaker 1: football once again, even though I, you know, the, the
- 24:07Speaker 1: having success on the ground is, is going to be
- 24:09Speaker 1: big for them because I think, you know, you have
- 24:12Speaker 1: to play a little keep away from this lion's offense.
- 24:15Speaker 1: The lion's offense is really am good. Jared golf is,
- 24:17Speaker 1: is not a great quarterback, but He's a fringe top
- 24:20Speaker 1: 10 quarterback in this league got Amara St. Brown, Jamison Williams, a.
- 24:24Speaker 5: Really good one, two punch, and then maybe.
- 24:26Speaker 1: The best running back in football in Jameer Gibbs, who
- 24:29Speaker 1: I believe had three touchdowns a week ago, two on
- 24:32Speaker 1: the ground and then one through the air. So this
- 24:35Speaker 1: is going to, this has a potential to be a shootout.
- 24:39Speaker 1: but ultimately I just trust the lions more, but this
- 24:42Speaker 1: is not this dominant lions team.
- 24:44Speaker 5: From two, three years ago.
- 24:47Speaker 1: We saw them miss the playoffs last year and they
- 24:48Speaker 1: really had never looked like that team from two or
- 24:52Speaker 1: three years ago, ever since you've seen the coordinating changes
- 24:56Speaker 1: with the Aaron Glenn and Ben Johnson, both get ahead
- 24:58Speaker 1: coaching jobs.
- 24:59Speaker 4: Galby NFC South question. What do you think has happened to,
- 25:03Speaker 4: to Tampa Bay here and their slow start? Now they
- 25:06Speaker 4: have Minnesota at our season. Now they have green Bay
- 25:08Speaker 4: at home this week. They've got Dallas on Thursday. What,
- 25:12Speaker 4: what has gone on here with Tampa?
- 25:15Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the first two weeks, it was just,
- 25:17Speaker 1: everything came crashing down where last year they, they, they
- 25:22Speaker 1: lost out on the tiebreaker and that's how the Panthers
- 25:24Speaker 1: did get in. And then you had the unfortunate Baker
- 25:26Speaker 1: injury right at the end of the game. They just
- 25:29Speaker 1: can't finish games right now. And I think that's a
- 25:32Speaker 1: team that we, we probably didn't praise them enough after
- 25:37Speaker 1: losing Tom Brady, how seamless Baker Mayfield was just able to,
- 25:40Speaker 1: to go on in and they were kept on winning
- 25:42Speaker 1: the division. But this team got old, their defense isn't
- 25:45Speaker 1: as strong as, as what it once was. And you
- 25:48Speaker 1: look at the pieces on offense.
- 25:50Speaker 5: Sure.
- 25:50Speaker 1: Mecca Bucas is a good wide receiver.
- 25:53Speaker 5: The kid from.
- 25:53Speaker 1: Oregon's also a solid, but You know, it's like, all right,
- 25:57Speaker 1: Mike Evans is no longer there. They're not as strong
- 26:00Speaker 1: as what they once were. So I think there's just
- 26:03Speaker 1: a longer delay of the house falling where you would
- 26:07Speaker 1: have thought it probably would have occurred three or four
- 26:09Speaker 1: years ago, but they were able to manage to avoid that.
- 26:12Speaker 1: You know, people taking over the house and ripping it
- 26:14Speaker 1: from you.
- 26:15Speaker 4: You know, if you say Steve Whitaker's name three times
- 26:17Speaker 4: in a row, he appears like Beetlejuice. He's now sent
- 26:20Speaker 4: in the video of him running the steps in Philadelphia,
- 26:24Speaker 4: the Rocky statue. Matt, he's not happy, though, but he is.
- 26:27Speaker 2: He's upset with Gelby because he says he is not
- 26:29Speaker 2: eating a cheesesteak. He doesn't want that out there. He
- 26:32Speaker 2: has now sent us the video and it does look
- 26:34Speaker 2: like he just replicates the Rocky run and then puts
- 26:37Speaker 2: his arm in the air, Rocky style.
- 26:39Speaker 5: So, uh, so, so, so sorry.
- 26:41Speaker 1: I was in pre I now I remember this. So
- 26:43Speaker 1: I was in preseason form with Steve. How, how, how
- 26:45Speaker 1: dare I? It was like his daughter or, or, or
- 26:49Speaker 1: niece or something took him for cheesesteak. steak. There was
- 26:51Speaker 1: this whole bit that he used to do. I mean,
- 26:53Speaker 1: the video running the Rocky steps and they would ask
- 26:55Speaker 1: me where to go get cheese steaks.
- 26:56Speaker 5: I think it was his daughter.
- 26:57Speaker 3: Maybe that Betty took care.
- 26:59Speaker 6: All right. There's cheese steaks involved there.
- 27:00Speaker 4: Don't lie.
- 27:01Speaker 6: Don't act like you, like you're not partaking in Philly.
- 27:04Speaker 6: All right. And then by the way, I.
- 27:05Speaker 1: Would protect another crazy Steve that unless there's another crazy
- 27:08Speaker 1: Steve that likes the Panthers that tweet me, which I
- 27:10Speaker 1: guess you never know.
- 27:13Speaker 2: Yeah, but it is possible, Bone, for us to have
- 27:16Speaker 2: multiple crazies with the same name.
- 27:17Speaker 6: I don't want to discount that.
- 27:19Speaker 2: But yes, he is all over the place, man.
- 27:22Speaker 6: Oh, my God.
- 27:22Speaker 2: Gelby, as far as college football goes, what do you
- 27:27Speaker 2: think about this Clemson-Miami game? Clemson has played a bit better,
- 27:32Speaker 2: but this feels like... This feels like a handful of
- 27:35Speaker 2: steps up from UNC and Cal. Like Dabo said the
- 27:39Speaker 2: other day, this is a game that's going to come
- 27:41Speaker 2: down to the final play. Do you feel that way
- 27:44Speaker 2: or do you think Clemson's in trouble?
- 27:46Speaker 6: What do you think?
- 27:47Speaker 8: I hope Miami drags Dabo up and down the field
- 27:51Speaker 8: for four quarters of on being honest, the arrogance and
- 27:55Speaker 8: the stubbornness of Dabo Sweeney. I am so tired and
- 27:59Speaker 8: him acting like he won the fricking national championship two.
- 28:02Speaker 1: Weeks ago on the comeback up against UNC. It looked
- 28:06Speaker 1: like it was going to be the opening of some
- 28:08Speaker 1: dramatic movie. And then, okay, congratulations. You beat Cal with
- 28:13Speaker 1: Tosh LaPoya, first year head coach And, you know, I
- 28:16Speaker 1: know JKS is a solid quarterback, but like now we're
- 28:19Speaker 1: celebrating beating Cal. It just kind of shows you where
- 28:22Speaker 1: that Clemson program is at. I hope it's Darian Mensah,
- 28:26Speaker 1: Malachi Toney, Mark Fletcher, Cooper Barcaid. just running up and
- 28:30Speaker 1: down the field. But yeah, that Miami defense, I, you know, I,
- 28:34Speaker 1: I do wonder, are they like, I picked Miami to
- 28:37Speaker 1: win a national championship before the season started, but after
- 28:40Speaker 1: losing Mesidor and after losing Bain, are they a national
- 28:42Speaker 1: championship defense? But yeah, I just don't see in the
- 28:47Speaker 1: year of 2026, how Clemson has the horses to compete
- 28:50Speaker 1: with the firepower that Miami does possess.
- 28:52Speaker 6: There you go. Clemson fans, Zach Gelb says hello.
- 28:55Speaker 4: We have a listener question from a texter named Bagel Guy.
- 28:59Speaker 4: He wants to know your thoughts on what's going on
- 29:02Speaker 4: with Drake May this year in New England.
- 29:03Speaker 8: Hmm.
- 29:05Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 29:06Speaker 5: Mental.
- 29:07Speaker 1: I would say it's more mental than physical with Drake
- 29:10Speaker 1: may right now, but geez, the thing that was really
- 29:13Speaker 1: disheartening was we all know the, the first, the third
- 29:16Speaker 1: interception in week one up against the Seahawks. So we
- 29:18Speaker 1: didn't learn from that. And then through basically a similar
- 29:21Speaker 1: interception up against the Jaguars, the Travis.
- 29:23Speaker 3: Hunter and, Yeah.
- 29:25Speaker 1: It made me say not a lot of nice things
- 29:27Speaker 1: when I was watching that game about my Patriots on Sunday.
- 29:30Speaker 1: I don't think they'll beat the bills this weekend. If
- 29:33Speaker 1: they do, it would be sweet. After that, they have
- 29:35Speaker 1: the jets and the Raiders and the jets are, are
- 29:37Speaker 1: have some young talent and the Raiders are out three
- 29:40Speaker 1: and Oh, so I would still like to think that
- 29:42Speaker 1: they could be three and three, even if they do
- 29:44Speaker 1: lose to the bills this weekend, but they're missing Stefan digs.
- 29:49Speaker 1: There's no question. They got rid of Keishon booty. Who
- 29:51Speaker 1: was also a safety blanket for Drake may. And A.J.
- 29:54Speaker 1: Brown's out still with that ankle injury. And Romeo Dobbs
- 29:56Speaker 1: is allergic to catching the football. But here's the weird thing.
- 30:00Speaker 5: Like, the line hasn't been horrible.
- 30:02Speaker 1: Like, Will Campbell has bounced back. I know they've had
- 30:04Speaker 1: injuries with the right guard, Owenu, going down for the season.
- 30:09Speaker 1: And then his backup, Greg Van Roden, also going down. But...
- 30:13Speaker 1: It's just like, I don't know, that spark isn't there
- 30:17Speaker 1: through the first three games, but the kid's so talented.
- 30:19Speaker 1: Like you guys saw it at UNC and that monster season,
- 30:21Speaker 1: the second year when he lost an order, that was a,
- 30:23Speaker 1: that was.
- 30:23Speaker 5: The other quarterback at Howell.
- 30:25Speaker 1: But like, you just look at, at, at a guy
- 30:28Speaker 1: like Drake may. I it's, it's everything's coming down on
- 30:32Speaker 1: him right now. And he just got to get back
- 30:35Speaker 1: to the basics and got to learn when to just
- 30:38Speaker 1: give up on a play. Cause sometimes, man, he just
- 30:41Speaker 1: tries to create nothing. And when there's nothing there, it's
- 30:44Speaker 1: okay to just go down or throw the.
- 30:46Speaker 5: Ball out of that.
- 30:47Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 30:47Speaker 2: But he's got too much talent, not to, not to
- 30:49Speaker 2: get right at some point, as far as I'm concerned.
- 30:53Speaker 2: All right, Galby, Clemson fans are mad at you now.
- 30:57Speaker 1: This would probably be a, you take maybe a, and
- 30:59Speaker 1: Michael may, the cookies aren't good anymore. Maybe that, that,
- 31:02Speaker 1: that's what it is.
- 31:02Speaker 2: Oh, we got to investigate that for us, please. There's
- 31:06Speaker 2: a Clemson fan that says, why would I let a
- 31:09Speaker 2: temple fan? Why would I care what a temple fan
- 31:12Speaker 2: says about college football?
- 31:14Speaker 3: That's fine.
- 31:15Speaker 1: Well, four years ago, I got dragged on Clemson message
- 31:18Speaker 1: boards for saying that Davos arrogance is going to do
- 31:21Speaker 1: him in and look who was right. Me, not you.
- 31:25Speaker 6: Oh my God.
- 31:26Speaker 4: Let's all calm down and have cheesesteaks with Panther Steve.
- 31:32Speaker 6: Thanks as always, brother. Have a good weekend, man. You
- 31:37Speaker 6: got it, guys.
- 31:37Speaker 4: Be well.
- 31:38Speaker 2: All right, there you go, Zach Gelb. I do not
- 31:40Speaker 2: think Boney wants to patch it up with Clemson fans,
- 31:41Speaker 2: I feel like.
- 31:42Speaker 3: No, no.
- 31:42Speaker 6: I feel like this is a long-running thing.
- 31:44Speaker 2: I feel like that was targeting. There's no doubt about it.
- 31:47Speaker 2: The Drake May thing is interesting. I was reading, I
- 31:50Speaker 2: think they had an article at Awful Announcing where they
- 31:53Speaker 2: had all these clips of Boston media talking about the
- 31:56Speaker 2: Drake May situation. It has become like a tabloid thing there.
- 31:59Speaker 2: He didn't... Even into the postseason, he didn't really play
- 32:03Speaker 2: that well down the stretch last year. Not at the end.
- 32:05Speaker 2: Definitely not. Obviously, he had damn near an MVP caliber
- 32:07Speaker 2: regular season.
- 32:08Speaker 1: Right, right.
- 32:08Speaker 2: But people questioned the schedule. But, like, there's tabloid-type drama. Like,
- 32:14Speaker 2: Mike Vrabel had to come out at his press conference.
- 32:16Speaker 2: and say there's no issue with me and Drake May.
- 32:18Speaker 2: A lot of people think there's an issue between the
- 32:21Speaker 2: two of them. Then you have Drake May bringing up
- 32:24Speaker 2: his shoulder injury. You've got some on talk radio calling
- 32:28Speaker 2: him an excuse maker. You've got other people questioning the
- 32:32Speaker 2: Patriots behind the scenes and how they've handled his shoulder injury.
- 32:35Speaker 2: It's turned into one of those big— I know you're shocked
- 32:38Speaker 2: by this, Bone— It's been blown up into something huge
- 32:41Speaker 2: in Boston.
- 32:42Speaker 6: I know you're surprised.
- 32:43Speaker 4: You know, you hate to see it for a guy
- 32:45Speaker 4: like Mike Vrabel, who obviously was focused all offseason on
- 32:47Speaker 4: the task at hand. That could never be a problem either, right?
- 32:51Speaker 8: Oh, man.
- 32:52Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not on the same page with Drake May,
- 32:54Speaker 2: but we know who you were on the same page
- 32:56Speaker 2: with for a while there. All right?
- 32:58Speaker 6: Oh, my goodness.
- 32:59Speaker 2: Same side of the bed. All right. Is it update time, Fit,
- 33:03Speaker 2: or no?
- 33:04Speaker 6: No update?
- 33:04Speaker 1: All right.
- 33:05Speaker 4: The man has declined airtime two days in a row.
- 33:08Speaker 4: I'm telling you, this girl's changing this man. This lady
- 33:10Speaker 4: is changing this dog. Any apologies to the audience about
- 33:13Speaker 4: their education levels earlier?
- 33:14Speaker 8: Okay.
- 33:17Speaker 7: Not a single apology.
- 33:19Speaker 4: Good point. Maybe she hasn't changed him in hindsight. We
- 33:23Speaker 4: let the dog off the leash for about two minutes there.
- 33:25Speaker 4: When we come back, it's the wrap-up. Get your set.
- 33:27Speaker 4: Braves Phillies tonight. Brown Steelers as well. We talk about those.
- 33:32Speaker 4: Sports Radio 92.7. Hey, you gotta tell me, what are you.
- 33:54Speaker 2: Feeling right now?
- 33:55Speaker 8: 100.
- 33:56Speaker 1: 100?
- 33:56Speaker 4: Not 1,000 this time? Yeah, 100. I am Japanese! It's
- 34:04Speaker 4: early in Japan. They're celebrating with you.
- 34:06Speaker 1: Anything you want to say to them?
- 34:07Speaker 3: Same, hi. Same, same.
- 34:09Speaker 5: Same.
- 34:10Speaker 6: Yeah, he's drunk. He's drunk. But he's drunk.
- 34:16Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 34:16Speaker 6: You told me you didn't need him.
- 34:18Speaker 8: I'm drunk.
- 34:20Speaker 6: Yeah, yesterday, maybe hungover, you know?
- 34:23Speaker 1: Yeah. Tomorrow, hungover.
- 34:25Speaker 8: Yes.
- 34:26Speaker 4: No, no, yesterday, tomorrow.
- 34:27Speaker 6: Yeah, sorry.
- 34:28Speaker 4: I don't speak English.
- 34:30Speaker 6: You don't need the translator.
- 34:31Speaker 4: Congratulations, Bruna. Thank you so much.
- 34:35Speaker 6: What a rock star.
- 34:36Speaker 2: I think it's possible that Minnetonka Murakami Bone had a
- 34:42Speaker 2: drink or two. I was pretty excited that the White
- 34:44Speaker 2: Sox swept the Astros in two games.
- 34:46Speaker 4: The audio doesn't do the video justice how funny that was.
- 34:49Speaker 6: That dude's a trip, man.
- 34:50Speaker 4: He is. He's hilarious.
- 34:51Speaker 2: He is so funny, and it's like some of it
- 34:53Speaker 2: you're getting, some of it you're not.
- 34:54Speaker 4: That's basically the playoff of what he did last week
- 34:58Speaker 4: when they clinched the playoffs. He's lightning in a bottle.
- 35:02Speaker 2: What do y'all think about the way they break out
- 35:04Speaker 2: like champagne and stuff for a two game best two
- 35:09Speaker 2: out of three wildcard series? It's kind of a noise,
- 35:12Speaker 2: kind of annoys me a little bit.
- 35:13Speaker 4: It used to annoy me, but they all do it now.
- 35:15Speaker 4: And I used to say the Yankees wouldn't do it,
- 35:17Speaker 4: but they do it too. So, you know, it is,
- 35:18Speaker 4: it is what it is. It's just kind of weird
- 35:20Speaker 4: to me.
- 35:21Speaker 2: Could you imagine a celebration like that after winning a
- 35:23Speaker 2: wildcard playoff game?
- 35:25Speaker 6: I don't quite get it myself, but they all do
- 35:29Speaker 6: it now.
- 35:29Speaker 7: That franchise hasn't won a series, though, since 2005.
- 35:32Speaker 2: It's for everybody. It's a baseball-wide thing. Yes, it's a
- 35:35Speaker 2: baseball thing.
- 35:36Speaker 6: It's just weird to me.
- 35:38Speaker 2: But in fairness, there's a pretty good chance that we
- 35:41Speaker 2: would have done a champagne-doused victory dance if we won
- 35:44Speaker 2: a wildcard game last year, in fairness.
- 35:46Speaker 6: We might do one on Monday. Oh, you're right.
- 35:49Speaker 4: I've always said, why are they doing that?
- 35:51Speaker 6: It's dumb. Video defending because I'm Mr. Baseball Guy here.
- 35:55Speaker 6: I'm a baseball purist. That's not even remotely close to
- 35:58Speaker 6: what it is. I just enjoy it. It's stupid.
- 36:01Speaker 7: They have the longest season in professional sports. It's okay
- 36:05Speaker 7: to let your hair down and celebrate when you clinch
- 36:08Speaker 7: a playoff spot and win a playoff spot.
- 36:10Speaker 2: Clinch a playoff spot's okay, but you should never do
- 36:12Speaker 2: it again unless you win a World Series.
- 36:14Speaker 4: If the Yankees get to the World Series and they
- 36:16Speaker 4: win the AL, I would do it, or they win
- 36:18Speaker 4: the championship. I don't know about wild card and divisional rounds.
- 36:22Speaker 6: You want to bet.
- 36:23Speaker 4: You want to best two out of three wild cards
- 36:25Speaker 4: for God's sakes in an expanded playoff.
- 36:27Speaker 2: So anyway, it's just, it's annoying. I'm a grumpy old man.
- 36:31Speaker 2: You're just mad because your Orioles can't do stuff like that.
- 36:34Speaker 7: If the Orioles were to do it, you'd.
- 36:36Speaker 6: Be defending it. Cause you know why?
- 36:37Speaker 7: Cause Pete Alonzo was great in those moments.
- 36:40Speaker 4: And you would be like, oh, look at Pete.
- 36:41Speaker 6: Such a great. Oh, I would love.
- 36:43Speaker 4: This is just a general. This is just a general
- 36:45Speaker 4: knock of all the baseball fitting.
- 36:47Speaker 5: All right.
- 36:47Speaker 6: You do not.
- 36:48Speaker 4: You're not Rob Banford. You do not need to stand
- 36:50Speaker 4: up for all of baseball over there.
- 36:52Speaker 6: Seriously.
- 36:54Speaker 2: Message to the lady in Fitty's life. Take him out tonight.
- 36:57Speaker 2: Show him a good time and get this guy back
- 36:59Speaker 2: in a good mood.
- 37:00Speaker 4: All right, please.
- 37:01Speaker 6: In a great mood. All right, let's go to.
- 37:03Speaker 4: We have a Ross Dellinger on 3Mac update here on
- 37:07Speaker 4: the Protect College Sports Act this morning.
- 37:09Speaker 1: Okay.
- 37:09Speaker 4: It's facing pressure in the House of Representatives due to
- 37:13Speaker 4: the conference expansion provision. So that could be a current
- 37:17Speaker 4: holdup here on the whole thing.
- 37:18Speaker 2: I can't imagine it would be a holdup in D.C.
- 37:20Speaker 2: Can't imagine that we'd have those there.
- 37:22Speaker 4: Miami and Florida State were, in the quote here, Miami
- 37:25Speaker 4: and Florida State were singled out for trying to... Their potential...
- 37:30Speaker 4: their potential to undermine the bill along the way.
- 37:32Speaker 6: Oh, I wonder why. Wonder why.
- 37:34Speaker 2: Yeah, half the ACC probably going to try to undermine
- 37:37Speaker 2: that bill. All right, let's get to what this texture says.
- 37:40Speaker 2: Mac would be fine if they poured IPAs all over
- 37:42Speaker 2: each other. I will say this. The dude pouring, was
- 37:46Speaker 2: it Tatis? pouring his beer on John Fanta's head was
- 37:50Speaker 2: pretty amazing.
- 37:51Speaker 6: Yes. It was pretty entertaining.
- 37:53Speaker 4: Oh, Picante coming up in Matt's kitchen.
- 37:55Speaker 6: What's he saying?
- 37:56Speaker 4: The last time the Orioles poured beer, Mike Musita was involved.
- 38:00Speaker 6: Oh, no.
- 38:01Speaker 4: Picante.
- 38:01Speaker 6: You ain't kidding. In fairness, y'all.
- 38:03Speaker 4: Picante, man, you got to protect your spot on Friday.
- 38:06Speaker 6: I probably am just a little baseball happiness bitter. You
- 38:09Speaker 6: know what I mean?
- 38:09Speaker 2: Towards those of you that have it. Braves and Phillies tonight,
- 38:13Speaker 2: 8 o'clock. tonight um it's the only series left only
- 38:17Speaker 2: series with the game three so they've got prime time
- 38:19Speaker 2: tonight on nbc steelers playing browns as well also need
- 38:24Speaker 2: to shout out our ask the audience sponsor sponsoring all
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- 38:47Speaker 2: All right, so let's get to some texts here, see
- 38:49Speaker 2: what we have.
- 38:51Speaker 4: 704-5709-610.
- 38:51Speaker 2: Shout out to Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort, our Uptown Studio sponsor.
- 38:58Speaker 2: All right, so I got a guy over at Sun Valley,
- 39:00Speaker 2: our listener Chris Geller. Tell it on me, Bone.
- 39:02Speaker 8: All right.
- 39:03Speaker 2: Says, hey, Fitty, you might need to bring a mop
- 39:05Speaker 2: to clean up out here at Sun Valley when Mac
- 39:10Speaker 2: announces the soccer games. He had some clock trouble yesterday,
- 39:15Speaker 2: and all he announced was, my bad. So clean it
- 39:18Speaker 2: up at work and after work. Anyway, Chris Geller was
- 39:22Speaker 2: nice enough, Bowden, to give me a golf cart ride
- 39:25Speaker 2: from the entrance to the, um, over to the, uh,
- 39:29Speaker 2: stands area.
- 39:30Speaker 6: Um, you really shouldn't require that. It's not that far.
- 39:34Speaker 4: See, this can't be a sprawling soccer complex.
- 39:39Speaker 6: It's definitely not.
- 39:40Speaker 4: Oh, shoot.
- 39:41Speaker 6: What did I just do over here?
- 39:42Speaker 4: What's happening right now? You're standing up. Your headphones are off.
- 39:45Speaker 6: Get the mop out, Finney. Just clean up Matt completely.
- 39:47Speaker 4: I had to apologize to the referee because he had
- 39:49Speaker 4: to stop the game and tell me. On the microphone,
- 39:52Speaker 4: you said my bad.
- 39:52Speaker 1: I did.
- 39:53Speaker 6: I felt like being nice, so I said my bad
- 39:54Speaker 6: to the referee.
- 39:55Speaker 4: Well, this is why anytime there's a microphone, you're going
- 39:57Speaker 4: to use it. All right, let's read some more texts.
- 40:01Speaker 2: Texter says, as a Charlotte Catholic alumnus, I'm proud that
- 40:04Speaker 2: Granny is an alum too.
- 40:06Speaker 6: There you go.
- 40:07Speaker 2: I bet Granny followed all the rules at Catholic School, Bone,
- 40:09Speaker 2: growing up.
- 40:10Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
- 40:11Speaker 6: Oh, man.
- 40:11Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure Mac Freedom Park's not Granny's first park.
- 40:16Speaker 2: Somebody thinks the story's a lie because when Granny was 20,
- 40:19Speaker 2: the car wasn't invented yet.
- 40:23Speaker 4: That is cold, man. You haven't gone to Freedom Park yet.
- 40:26Speaker 6: Oh, that was Ishmael. Ishmael Slander.
- 40:27Speaker 4: You haven't been to Freedom Park yet, have you, Finney?
- 40:30Speaker 3: I have not.
- 40:30Speaker 1: All right.
- 40:32Speaker 4: In a car?
- 40:35Speaker 3: No.
- 40:36Speaker 4: Outside a car?
- 40:37Speaker 1: No.
- 40:39Speaker 6: Leave the man alone. Leave the man alone.
- 40:40Speaker 4: I'm just trying to get the lay of the land here.
- 40:42Speaker 2: Ishmael also said that the name he has some names
- 40:45Speaker 2: of the show of the segment when Granny and Panther
- 40:48Speaker 2: Steve are on together. He's thinking the dork and the
- 40:51Speaker 2: drunk or the weenie and the wino. Don't call him
- 40:57Speaker 2: a weenie, man. We had to back down on calling
- 40:59Speaker 2: him Panther. We got very upset. Dougie fresh says that
- 41:04Speaker 2: wasn't a round table. That is a, that was a
- 41:06Speaker 2: prison lunch table.
- 41:08Speaker 4: He's in law enforcement.
- 41:10Speaker 6: Oh, man.
- 41:11Speaker 2: Another texter says, Granny talked about her high school basketball
- 41:14Speaker 2: at Catholic. Was she shooting at a peach basket back then?
- 41:18Speaker 5: Oh, man.
- 41:18Speaker 2: Somebody else says, Granny just described herself as a basketball player.
- 41:22Speaker 2: It's basically the female version of Dylan Brooks. I like
- 41:25Speaker 2: to knock them down, Mac. Steal the ball.
- 41:27Speaker 4: Mac, you mentioned Dougie Fresh. Speaking of Dougie Fresh, his
- 41:30Speaker 4: six-year-old son, Grant, listens with his dad in the car
- 41:34Speaker 4: all the time. He had a non-cancerous tumor removed from
- 41:38Speaker 4: his wrist and his arm on Friday. He handled it
- 41:41Speaker 4: like a champion. He's got a ways to go for recovery,
- 41:43Speaker 4: but we wanted to shout out Dougie Fresh's son, Grant,
- 41:46Speaker 4: for the toughness that he showed. There you go, Grant.
- 41:49Speaker 4: You're a baller. You're going to be a baller with
- 41:51Speaker 4: that toughness. Also, whatever we say on the radio, don't
- 41:54Speaker 4: repeat it.
- 41:56Speaker 2: Especially granny and steve that segment definitely do not say
- 42:00Speaker 2: those words um now let's get that was very nice
- 42:03Speaker 2: that was very uplifting now let's get back to people
- 42:05Speaker 2: slamming us this texter says if max says one nice
- 42:08Speaker 2: thing about my braves again i'm coming to the station
- 42:10Speaker 2: and punching his ass he has jinxed us more than
- 42:14Speaker 2: any team out there and that includes the panthers and
- 42:16Speaker 2: the hornets.
- 42:18Speaker 8: I told you.
- 42:18Speaker 6: Why are you laughing? I told you.
- 42:20Speaker 4: I'm laughing because I'm laughing like, that's messed up. See,
- 42:22Speaker 4: I'm not laughing at anyone. I'm laughing at the guy's behavior.
- 42:26Speaker 4: I announced today that I feel bad.
- 42:29Speaker 2: I feel personally responsible that your bullpen blew that lead
- 42:32Speaker 2: uncharacteristically yesterday when I called them my Braves.
- 42:36Speaker 6: I am out, Bo.
- 42:37Speaker 2: I am not going to act like I'm a Braves fan.
- 42:39Speaker 6: I'm too toxic. Matter of fact.
- 42:42Speaker 2: Guaranteed a Phillies win tonight. Guaranteed a Phillies win.
- 42:46Speaker 6: All right.
- 42:47Speaker 2: Fitty got called a thief, a plagiarizing little toad, and
- 42:52Speaker 2: a guy that picked up his fandom at Walmart. Man.
- 42:57Speaker 4: All in one second.
- 42:58Speaker 6: Yeah, it was different text, though. I want to make
- 43:00Speaker 6: that clear. Those are different people.
- 43:01Speaker 7: And I'm still better than NC State fans.
- 43:05Speaker 6: Goodwill rejects.
- 43:07Speaker 2: Someone also said, I just heard Fitty announce that we
- 43:12Speaker 2: are all dumb in this audience. I would love for
- 43:16Speaker 2: you guys to pick out an audience member to play
- 43:18Speaker 2: Jeopardy or Trivia against Fitty. That's not a bad idea.
- 43:24Speaker 2: Somebody represents the audience that Fitty slandered.
- 43:28Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not bad.
- 43:29Speaker 6: And we find out who's got the brainpower.
- 43:31Speaker 4: I kind of like it.
- 43:32Speaker 3: Are you in, Fitty?
- 43:34Speaker 7: I'm down to embarrass a listener or two.
- 43:36Speaker 6: Now we've got so many geniuses out there. Who do
- 43:38Speaker 6: we pick, Mo? That's the question.
- 43:40Speaker 4: It's going to take me all day to figure this out.
- 43:43Speaker 6: Weatherman Mark. All right, we've got to get out of here, y'all.
- 43:46Speaker 4: Weatherman Mark is back tomorrow. No, he's not back tomorrow.
- 43:50Speaker 4: We bench Weatherman Mark. No, we've got the new guy.
- 43:53Speaker 6: Did you tell Weatherman Mark personally? No, no, that's going
- 43:55Speaker 6: to be you today.
- 43:56Speaker 4: We've got HV from the PB, PV from the HV.
- 44:01Speaker 4: Someone from the Harris Teeter. I forget who it was.
- 44:04Speaker 4: BP from HB. BP from HB.
- 44:06Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
- 44:07Speaker 6: Yeah, he's a screamer.
- 44:08Speaker 2: He sent us a recording of his call to Willie
- 44:10Speaker 2: on a postgame show.
- 44:11Speaker 3: Yeah, he's in.
- 44:12Speaker 2: So I think he might be good. Somebody break the
- 44:15Speaker 2: news to poor weatherman Mark. He got benched for the week, man.
- 44:17Speaker 2: I got it.
- 44:17Speaker 4: I got it.
- 44:18Speaker 6: I feel bad.
- 44:18Speaker 4: I'll let him know.
- 44:19Speaker 6: All right.
- 44:20Speaker 4: Check on your turbines. It's going to be bad weather anyway, Mark.
- 44:23Speaker 2: All right. We're out of here, y'all. Enjoy your Thursday.
- 44:26Speaker 2: I won't even say good luck to the Braves, Bone.
- 44:28Speaker 2: I won't even do that to them. Good work out
- 44:30Speaker 2: of the Bone Man, the Fit Dog. We'll talk to
- 44:33Speaker 2: you tomorrow on a Football Friday.