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Mac & Bone Hour 1: Panthers Still in First Place & Local CFB Recap · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: You guys are the most entertaining sports program in the world.
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: No, no, stop twerking. You and I are a couple eating,
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  Speaker 2: like Lady and the Tramp. You're the lady on the tramp. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: come on!
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  Speaker 3: Come on, baby! I wish I was Boopie. Boopie McClain, man.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great name.
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  Speaker 4: All aboard!
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  Speaker 3: Good Monday morning, Charlotte. Welcome aboard.
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  Speaker 2: Hope everybody enjoyed their Panthers off week. How could you
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: not with what happened to the Falcons and the Saints, y'all?
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  Speaker 3: We will talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: We will talk about the Hornets getting on the court
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  Speaker 2: last night at the Hive. Last second exhibition game, last
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  Speaker 2: home preseason game, and we saw Brandon Miller back on
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  Speaker 2: the court, which was a very, very good game. Welcome site.
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  Speaker 2: We will talk about it. It was a dub for
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  Speaker 2: the Hornets. If that matters to you, we had a
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  Speaker 2: absolute epic classic finish at the bank.
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  Speaker 3: Um, I told you all, I told you go.
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  Speaker 2: Back to the mile and a half, get rid of
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  Speaker 2: that goofy Roval and it delivered an all time finish.
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  Speaker 3: We will talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations to Chase Briscoe for getting that dub. And we
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  Speaker 2: got ourselves some outcomes in college football to discuss.
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  Speaker 3: The Heels and Gamecocks are alive, baby. I told you.
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  Speaker 2: They are alive. Bow down to the Bean Dog. I
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  Speaker 2: tried to tell him, just keep calling my babies. I
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  Speaker 2: got to get fired? Wake Forest is damn good. NC State,
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  Speaker 2: is it over? Is it just time to just? Dave,
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  Speaker 2: you go your way. We go our way. We've done
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  Speaker 2: some nice things, but is it over? We'll talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a rough loss for Duke. We've got a
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  Speaker 2: rough loss for App. We've got Charlotte. I mean, do
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  Speaker 2: I even need to tell you what happened? And we've
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  Speaker 2: got ECU. It wasn't necessarily pretty, but a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the games, they got a dub. It wasn't exactly pretty.
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  Speaker 2: We got Georgia winning a classic with controversy. We got
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  Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin losing another. I mean, we got things to
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  Speaker 2: talk about, y'all. So anyway, we'll get into it all
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  Speaker 2: here on the Mac and Bone show, Charlotte FC, with
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  Speaker 2: a classic comeback. So we got a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: here to work in to today's radio show, even without
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  Speaker 2: the Panthers playing. We got the Fit Dog in the house,
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  Speaker 2: fresh off a well-behaved performance, Bone Man, by Fitty, at
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  Speaker 2: the racetrack yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like it was well-behaved. Did they let you in?
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  Speaker 2: Or did they immediately, like, gather around you because they've
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  Speaker 2: been looking for you for months now?
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  Speaker 5: No, they didn't even stop me to make sure I was...
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  Speaker 5: Bringing in any alcohol, he'll let me walk right in.
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  Speaker 2: This lady has changed his entire mindset. Meg, we have
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  Speaker 2: so much going on. You went through it there. We
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: can barely fit this into four hours. And also, at
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  Speaker 2: points throughout the show, we also have to salute one
• 3:08
  Speaker 2: of the great characters in... in sports history and now
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  Speaker 2: late Mike Ditka. So we'll have to work that in
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  Speaker 2: as well and share our thoughts on him. I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: your dad, I'm guessing as a Bears guy, was a
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  Speaker 2: big Mike Ditka guy. That was his favorite coach of
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  Speaker 2: all time.
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  Speaker 3: The first guy I thought of was your dad.
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  Speaker 2: I said, that's got to be a guy that his dad,
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  Speaker 2: Max's dad loved. Favorite coach of all time. Pops is
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  Speaker 2: probably trying to talk to him in heaven right now.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for that 1985 Super Bowl that I watched
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  Speaker 2: the VHS tape of 78 times. Also one of the
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  Speaker 2: most Halloween costume sports characters of all time, right? I'm
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  Speaker 2: guessing this Halloween you're going to see a lot of
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  Speaker 2: my Ditkas out there. Oh, and then you've got the
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  Speaker 2: mini Ditkas. I mean, yeah, what an absolute legend. We
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  Speaker 2: lost him on Friday, so we definitely got to say
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  Speaker 2: some words. Plus, we're going to hear him in his
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  Speaker 2: own words. I forgot all about this clip of him
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  Speaker 2: tearing apart the guy going after him on his radio show.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, the radio caller, yeah. He had some great ones.
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  Speaker 2: Remember the time he got asked about the quarterback situation
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  Speaker 2: after playing the Panthers for the next game?
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  Speaker 3: Who wants to know? Well, sir, we're the media.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you want to know? When you'll know, you'll know. Sir,
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  Speaker 2: do you have any insight?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: He was so mad. He started laughing at one point.
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  Speaker 2: It was like Billy Joe Tolliver or Billy Joe Hunker,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it was.
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember. Oh, yeah, it was the big Billy
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  Speaker 3: Joe bat.
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  Speaker 2: Who wants to know? The fans, sir, the media. Who
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  Speaker 2: wants to know? When you got two Billy Joes, you
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  Speaker 2: don't have one quarterback. I can tell you that right now.
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  Speaker 2: Him and Buddy Ryan might be arguing already up there.
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  Speaker 2: That could be going on. All right, so Bone, I
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  Speaker 2: did it last night. I stayed up for that entire
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  Speaker 2: game last night. Ended at about 11.50 for the hope
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  Speaker 2: that the Atlanta Falcons would lose to Snoop Huntley, the
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  Speaker 2: backup quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens. And my God, if
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  Speaker 2: it didn't happen, Bone, if Atlanta did not blow that lead,
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  Speaker 2: and lose in overtime, 30-23 last night. It was glorious
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  Speaker 2: to watch all that Falcons hype that was starting to percolate, Bone.
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  Speaker 2: How about we just put an end to that right now?
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  Speaker 2: That's what the Ravens said. It was a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 2: The Ravens had to drive for a touchdown and a
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  Speaker 2: two-point conversion at the end of regulation. to force the
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  Speaker 2: overtime they then get a touchdown drive in overtime um
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  Speaker 2: to uh finished up the game because michael pennix i
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  Speaker 2: don't know if i hadn't seen an official diagnosis looked
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  Speaker 2: like he took a shot to the ribs he got
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  Speaker 2: a rib injury is that what it was and uh
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  Speaker 2: just pick a body part on pennix it's like uh
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  Speaker 2: operation operate yeah there you go Tua then threw a
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  Speaker 2: game-ending interception. So, anyway, their running game was– Bijan ended
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  Speaker 2: 86 yards, but their running game wasn't what it's been
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  Speaker 2: the last couple weeks. And their vaunted number one run
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  Speaker 2: defense got gashed for 208 yards on the ground. So,
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed that one late night, Boney. I ain't going
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  Speaker 2: to lie to you. The Ravens put on a master
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  Speaker 2: class in overtime where it looked like– Atlanta may not
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  Speaker 2: even get to touch the football at one point. That's
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  Speaker 2: how long the drive went. What, eight minutes or so
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  Speaker 2: before they scored?
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  Speaker 3: Seven and change, I think. I think it was like
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  Speaker 3: 250 or so. They did.
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  Speaker 2: They put Atlanta in a spot, Mac, where even if
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  Speaker 2: they came down and scored... They probably were, unless they
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  Speaker 2: went for the two-point conversion, Atlanta wasn't going to win
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  Speaker 2: that game.
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  Speaker 3: So, great job.
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  Speaker 2: Would you like, Max, some laughable history involving the 2026
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  Speaker 2: Atlanta Falcons? Oh, yes. For the first time in NFL history.
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  Speaker 2: Four different quarterbacks on the same team have thrown interceptions
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  Speaker 2: within their first 10 pass attempts of the season.
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  Speaker 3: There you go, baby. Rush, Strand, Penix, and Tua now
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  Speaker 3: makes the list. There you go, Falcons. Hey, you're making history, baby. Atlanta,
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  Speaker 3: where history happens.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you talk about how much time Atlanta was left with.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't need the full 250 for Tua to throw
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  Speaker 2: a pick. It was the second play. And I'm watching
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  Speaker 2: this game with my man, Mac Jr., and he says—
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  Speaker 2: after the first pass that Tua threw on that drive, man,
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  Speaker 2: that would have been funny. That would have been funny
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  Speaker 2: if he would have thrown an interception on that first pass.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, what if he throws one on the
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  Speaker 2: second pass of this drive? And I'll be damn boned
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  Speaker 2: if about five seconds later, he threw a horrible pick, right?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what he stared it down.
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  Speaker 2: And then Kyle Hamilton is right there between him and
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  Speaker 2: the intended receiver in zone.
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  Speaker 3: It was horrible, man.
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  Speaker 2: Once they said Tua was warming up, you just knew
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  Speaker 2: that ball was going somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: It's not supposed to go. It was horrible.
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  Speaker 2: So the Falcons dropped to 2-3, and the Panthers, lo
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  Speaker 2: and behold, have I told you I love playing in
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  Speaker 2: the NFC South? The Panthers at 2-2. Alone in first place, Bone.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't we say this last year after the bye week?
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  Speaker 2: The best week you could have in the NFC South
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  Speaker 2: is just to sit out and let these other schmucks play.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Although the NFC East, Mac, is knocking on that door
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  Speaker 2: right now of being a bad division.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We got a full conversation to have.
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  Speaker 3: Are we not the worst? Are we not the worst?
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  Speaker 2: We'll go through what happened yesterday to some NFC East teams. Philly, though,
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  Speaker 2: coming in is a fascinating team back there. Coach, I believe,
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  Speaker 2: is now squirrelly on the hot seat. They are all
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  Speaker 2: types of banged up on offense. No Barkley yesterday. No
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  Speaker 2: Tank Bigsby. No Devontae Smith. No Goddard. They lose Shipley
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  Speaker 2: during the game. The offensive line is all guys that
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: are playing different positions right now. Philadelphia's offense is an absolute–
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  Speaker 2: their defense is still– Very, very solid. Jalen Carter had
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  Speaker 2: a game yesterday out of this world. But that offense
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  Speaker 2: back for Philadelphia, you talk about a gigantic mess. And
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  Speaker 2: Panthers bye week. Philly played in London, and now their
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: fans are all out of sorts because they're wondering why
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  Speaker 2: didn't they get a bye week when they came back.
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  Speaker 3: What a shame. What a shame.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all you need to know about the way that
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles lost and Washington did not win in Tide
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  Speaker 2: is that Nick Sirianni and Dan Quinn both apologized for
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  Speaker 2: messing up their chances to win after the game. Holy crap.
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  Speaker 2: They went NFC least yesterday, man. Did they not? So
• 9:26
  Speaker 2: we get a lot to talk about. I didn't even
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  Speaker 2: mention the Saints bone. I'm old enough, Bone, to remember
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  Speaker 2: when Tyler Shuck and the Saints offense was considered an
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  Speaker 2: absolute unit.
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  Speaker 3: I think that was two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: They have had two rough, rough weeks against Atlanta and
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  Speaker 2: then yesterday against Minnesota. Full disclosure, I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: talk too much trash about what the Minnesota defense does
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  Speaker 2: to you because the Panthers have to play them. And
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  Speaker 2: Brian Flores, I don't care how much y'all are colluding
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  Speaker 2: as NFL owners today. Someone just give this guy a
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  Speaker 2: head coaching job. I know there's a whole suit. in
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  Speaker 2: the league thing. Tyler Shuck did not make it to
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  Speaker 2: a hundred yards yesterday. Bone, 96 yards, no touchdowns, two picks,
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  Speaker 2: a 3.8 yards per carry.
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  Speaker 3: They had, they had.
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  Speaker 2: No plays over 16 yards in the entire game. They
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  Speaker 2: ended up bone with, let's see here. I got to
• 10:19
  Speaker 2: do the math. 87 pass yards, 55 rush yards for
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: a grand total of 142 yards in their 23, 13
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  Speaker 2: loss to Minnesota yesterday. They they've allowed 64 points in
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: five games. Total insane numbers. And I was going to
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: say the same thing. You watch a lot of these teams, Matt,
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  Speaker 2: that struggle with decision-making where coaches have to apologize. And
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: then you watch Minnesota, the way they play. Yeah, Brian
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  Speaker 2: Flores couldn't do a better job than about three-fourths of
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  Speaker 2: this league right now. Get out of here with that nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: That guy deserves to be head coach. That defense is filthy, man.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely filthy. And they blitz you coming. I think Tyler
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  Speaker 2: Shuckbone got hit when he dropped off the bus from
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  Speaker 2: the team hotel. I mean, dude, they blitz you from
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  Speaker 2: the second they see your ass. I heard he was
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: walking down Franklin Street Saturday afternoon and got hit by
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  Speaker 2: a blitzer by Brian Flores.
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  Speaker 3: Per source. Oh, man. Dallas Turner hit him on Franklin Street.
• 11:16
  Speaker 3: Is that a street? Is that a real street in
• 11:18
  Speaker 3: New Orleans? Not Franklin Street. What's his street? Bourbon Street.
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: Bourbon Street. Bourbon Street. I was like, Bone has the
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  Speaker 3: knowledge in New Orleans. Why am I thinking about Chapel Hill?
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  Speaker 3: Why is that in my mind?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: Tyler Shuck.
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  Speaker 2: Because they still celebrate, baby. Tyler Shuck was trying to
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  Speaker 2: avoid getting hit, so we went to Chapel Hill.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And then Dallas Turner found out. I'd like to go
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: full Sirianni, Dan Quinn.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: This is my second sorry of the week, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: On the pregame show last night, the critically reviewed pregame show,
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: I had the Hornets play the Milwaukee Brewers last night.
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: Oops.
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  Speaker 6: Oops.
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  Speaker 2: Can you believe I'm making mistakes like that? Oh, by
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: the way, let me say it now so I can
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: say we got it in the show. Brewers beat the
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: Dodgers last night 2-1. Let me make sure I get
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  Speaker 2: that in there. Dodgers will now trade for multiple Brewers
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: in this series. They lead the NLCS 1-0. They'll play
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: game two at five tonight. American League, Rays and Guardians.
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: Guardians struck out 21 White Sox batters on Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: That's not my American League. Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, throw the American League in with the NFC
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  Speaker 2: South and the NFC East. We got to talk about
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  Speaker 2: the Hornets. You say you were doing the pregame last night.
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  Speaker 2: Hornets played at 7 o'clock. It was the last appearance
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: at the Hive before the opener, nine days away from
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: the opener against Brooklyn at the Hive, where one, Peter F.
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  Speaker 2: Pablo will perform, Bone, at halftime of that season opener, baby.
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: How about that? Now, let's take a guess. What song
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: do you think Mr. Peter F.
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: Pablo is going to sing? I think he's going to
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: sing an ode to Carolina, but that's just me. That
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  Speaker 2: could definitely happen. We're going to spin around like a helicopter.
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  Speaker 3: Helicopter? Helicopter. A helicopter.
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: Doesn't Willie P get emotional when Petey Pablo performs?
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that a thing? Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think Willie P on press row may take
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  Speaker 2: his shirt off and spin it around like a helicopter?
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: I think that could happen. The way he thinks about
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: Petey Pablo very well could. Go to the game anyway, though.
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: Willie might be shirtless next Wednesday, but go anyway, folks.
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: Petey Pablo is Willie P's Bruce Springsteen. All right, let's see.
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  Speaker 2: So we got to talk about the Hornets game last night, Bone. Obviously,
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: they still don't have Khan. They still don't have Grant Williams.
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: They still don't have Kobe White. But it was nice
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: to see Brandon Miller out there after that minor shin
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: injury earlier in the week. Kept him out of the
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: first exhibition. He ends up, Bone, with 18 points. Had
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  Speaker 2: 13 of them in the first half. And he showed
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: a little bit of playmaking, too, with the four assists.
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: You can clearly see– turn that down there. Turn that down, Matt–
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  Speaker 2: You could clearly see bone that, and you're going to
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: see it with con when he plays too, the ball
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  Speaker 2: is going to be in their hands more and they're
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: going to have to create more. And it's going to
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: be fascinating to see how they handle those responsibilities, how
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: much those guys get, and how much maybe they still
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: play off the ball. But Brandon Miller showed some playmaking. Hell,
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: dropped a dime to Musa. Excuse me.
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  Speaker 3: Musa!
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  Speaker 2: In the first few minutes of the game. But he
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: did end up with four turnovers, too. Four assists, four turnovers.
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  Speaker 2: But you could see, Bone, it was part of what
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  Speaker 2: they wanted to do, is get it in his hands more. Mac,
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  Speaker 2: when you take a step back and analyze this team
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  Speaker 2: without Wamello Ball.
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  Speaker 2: And then you hear the way they talk about Brandon Miller.
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  Speaker 2: You hear how mature he is, what a leader he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be, the toughness that we found out last
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: week of the last couple weeks of playing through that
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: shoulder pain 10 out of 10. It's like, yeah, it
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: was a no-brainer. I'm just speaking for them, but a
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: no-brainer in the eyes of the front office that this
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  Speaker 2: guy was ready for increased roles that went beyond just
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: scoring the basketball but leadership role. And that's why, Matt,
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  Speaker 2: they were so comfortable saying, and giving him the keys
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  Speaker 2: and saying, and when they give him that contract, it's
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: yours now. Because I think they fully trust this guy, Matt,
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: as a person and a leader as well as a
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  Speaker 2: basketball player right now. Add Mark Stein to the list
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  Speaker 2: of NBA insiders that are reporting that it's going to happen,
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  Speaker 2: that there is going to be a five-year, $ 200 million-plus
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  Speaker 2: contract to Brandon Miller here in the near future. I
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: also liked, again, second game of Nas Reid. They're using
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  Speaker 2: him more to play through him more in the post
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  Speaker 2: than I kind of thought. So that's kind of intriguing
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: to me. Liam McNeely's intriguing, too. They had him in
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  Speaker 2: the starting lineup. The only guy missing is Grayson, and
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: Liam McNeely took his spot again. Or not Grayson, Khan.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: And Grayson didn't play last night either.
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  Speaker 3: I need to point out.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, they are really giving him opportunities and minutes
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  Speaker 2: with the starters. He had five dimes last night. It
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: wasn't just, A, he can shoot the ball, catch and shoot. No,
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  Speaker 2: he dropped five dimes last night with no turnovers. He's
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  Speaker 2: one of the most fascinating guys on the roster to
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: see how it plays out. Does he force himself into
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: the rotation? This is one of the deepest Charlotte basketball
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  Speaker 2: teams in terms of guys that can play that.
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  Speaker 3: We've ever seen. So it may be a situation. Rob
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: Longo was talking to us last night.
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  Speaker 2: Is this just too many people at the end where
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  Speaker 2: he may get shut out at times, or does he
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: work his way into there? One question I did have, Mac,
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: and I don't know if I didn't hear the postgame
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: audio at all from Charles Lee. It was notable in
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: the first game. the minutes of Steinbach was a little limited.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: And last night also, he didn't play for a lot
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: of the first half last night. He ended up, I think,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: with 15 minutes. Why is Hannes? He got 12 minutes
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: last night. He ended up playing in the first half.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: He played earlier. He came in way late, fourth quarter
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: in the first game. Yeah, but it's been a limited-minute situation.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: I wonder what's going on. Are they just easing him in,
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: I guess? I'm just wondering what's going on with him
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: not playing a little bit more. I thought in the
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: preseason he would play more, but.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it definitely is interesting. But you said it, this
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: team is really deep. By Hornets standards, especially, this team's deep. Like,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Seon James is another guy that I think a lot
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: of us thought, oh, could he kind of find himself...
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: outside the regular rotation. He's shooting the heck out of
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: the ball. I don't know how many threes he was
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: shooting a day in the off season, but he'd been,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: he's been nailing it. Um, and he's been okay in
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: that backup point guard role that they need him to
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: play right now because of injury. So he had 11
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: last night, four assists. So it's, it's, It's a battle
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: for minutes in the backups.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Because here's the thing with a guy like McNeely. Yes,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: he has improved. Yes, he was one of the best
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: high school players in his class. So you know he's
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: got talent, Bone. But Royce O'Neal and Grayson Allen are
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: pros on the wings with playoff experience. Grant Williams, when
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: he gets healthy, is kind of a winning basketball player, right?
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: So it's not easy to get minutes there on the wings.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: But there will be injuries. I don't know if you've
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: thought about this, Bo. But there could be some injuries
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: for the Hornets where the depth pieces couldn't end up
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: playing more.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, name the last Hornet that got hurt, please. We're
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: past that now.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: So I think that's the key, is these guys, Bo,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: that might not be in the top 10. You know
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: they're going to have to play at some point. Might
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: be early in the season, unfortunately. Also, Matt, Chase Briscoe
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: wins in Charlotte yesterday. I want to mention that before
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: we go to break as well, of course. It was
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: an absolute epic. Him and his teammate Chris Rebell battling
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: to the line at Charlotte Motor Speedway. It was the
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: closest finish of the season. And per Smoke Ludwig's stats
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: and research... It is the second closest finish in the
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: history of Charlotte Motor Speedway. One of Jimmy Johnson's 78
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: wins there, Bone, is still the closest. But it was tight, man. See,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: real quick, how was the experience yesterday?
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Had a blast.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: It's always a great time being out at the track.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: Was there occupied by little Fitty, his first time at
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: Charlotte Motor Speedway.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Oh, there you go. What a good big brother you were, Fit.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: My dad was with us.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: I had my cousin. Met up with NASCAR Brad, Flound.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: At one point, I didn't see Shroppy, though. Was told
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: that Shroppy could not leave his seat.
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: What?
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Someone going to handcuff him to his seat?
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: Undoubtedly, he could not walk. So undoubtedly, Schrappi pulled a
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: me at the track yesterday, but loved being there. Would
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: have liked to see a better showing from the No.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: 9 car, obviously, but it was a lot of fun.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: It's good seeing the oval back here at the fall race. Mac,
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: and already counting down the days for the 600.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: If you work for the Speedway, can you send Shroppie
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: back home, please?
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Is he still stuck in his seat? He's just talking
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: about hockey.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: He's like, where's the Cades game?
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: I need to know.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Was it so bad, Shropp, that you are the second
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: WFNZ employee to puke in your own t-shirt out there
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: at the Speedway?
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: We're getting close to not getting invited back here. this thing.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Is it one guy that's a designated, inebriated dude?
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Is that how we roll out to the Speedway? We
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: come back.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: A lot of college football weekend recap. Huge wins for
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: the Heels and the Gamecocks.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Cop-a-doodle-doo.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Wake Forest keeps on rolling at the expense of NC
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: State and rough days for Duke. app in charlotte sports
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: radio 92.7 wfnz.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Hey look fellas that's the way to grind it out
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: now never easy okay gotta grind it out we've done
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: a lot of close games we'll probably be in more
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: of them All right, a couple guys came off the bench,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: didn't practice much, hadn't worked much, came in here, gave
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: us some big snaps.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: It was a good team win.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: You guys did a hell of a job. Let's take
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: it in stride. Let's take it in stride. Okay, there's
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: a lot more of these ahead of us. We just
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: got to keep grinding and keep working. That's a hell
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: of a job today. That's the way to out-tough them,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: out-compete them, all right? And I say I'll play them
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: in the second half. It's a great job.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: Congratulations.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: Before we play, before we play, first-rate win.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Plenty more to come. You go through a lot of fire.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: You have to prepare.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: You do a lot for us. First game ball, Coach B. Oh,
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: what a jubilant. That's the happiest Belichick's been in his life.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: What a jubilant. And it includes that moment with Jordan. Oh,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: never mind. Hey, now.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: That is a jubilant UNC locker room.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: How about that? In Pittsburgh.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: First ranked win for Bill Belichick as a college head coach. Yes,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: we will probably never see Pitt near the rankings ever
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: again this season with a backup QB in there. But
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: it is a ranked win and it is a big
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: win for the UNC football program. That's Jordan Shipp, by
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: the way, giving Belichick the game ball at the end
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: and all the guys went crazy. They may like the
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: old curmudgeon after all. They actually liked the man and
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: they fought their butts off. We said it was the
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: exact sort of game bone we said it would be.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, I for once didn't jinx the Tar Heels.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I thought they're going to get it. I tried to.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: But Bone tried. It didn't work there either.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: It was ugly. Their defense had to bring it. They
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: certainly benefited from Mason Heinzel not being in this game,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: but that's the way football works. We don't need to
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: tell anybody in Charlotte about football injuries being a part
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: of the game. They didn't run it really at all.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: 20 yards rushing bone on 25 carries. I mean, to
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: go on the road and beat a ranked team, whether
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: or not they have their starting quarterback or not, to
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: get out gained 150 to 20 on the ground for
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: a team that wants to win in a certain Belichick
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: style is... It is kind of amazing that they're able
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: to get that win, and you can't say enough about
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: the playmakers and the job that they're doing, whether it's
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Jordan Shipp. Easter had the big play. Thurman had only
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: 29 yards but had the touchdown. The playmakers. have come
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: up so big for them this year as opposed to
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: last year. And you've got to give Billy Edwards– I
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: still think there needs to be more of him, but
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: we mentioned last week Kamari Easter starting to get involved.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: You said it. He had the game winner. 75 yards
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: shot down the seam. That was the game winner, and
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: they needed a big play like that. They had a
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: big play to ship, too, because they weren't going to
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: pound it on the ground against that great pit rush
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: defense and grind out long drives. And listen, Billy Edwards,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: it was still a mixed bag. Still had himself a
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: couple of picks where I was like, what are you thinking.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: On that one?
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: But he made a bunch of plays through for those
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: two touchdowns you talked about. And the defense really fought.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: The defense had to get, I think, three touchdowns. turnover
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: on down stops bone fourth down stops in the second
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: half of that football game to get it done and
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: to seal it so carolina fans should be should be
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: happy there's some progress happening man billy edwards jr also
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: overcame a hot mic joke by tom hart the uh
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: play-by-play guy for espn you saw that mac i'm sure
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: right we have the audio i don't know how like
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: muffled it is though yeah I can explain it for now.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Tom Hart, coming back from break, said that their hotel
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: breakfast was the Billy Edwards Jr.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: Of hotel breakfast. And I don't think that meant high level.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Are we thinking that's not a compliment? It kind of
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: sounded that way. He should come out and say, no, no,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: the breakfast was great.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: What are you talking about?
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Did he apologize for that? That's like, I know these
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: college kids get paid now, so we view them a
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: little differently. But it's like you did just get caught
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: on a hot mic.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Slandering the kid. Yeah, did he? I don't know.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I have to.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: I'm a Tom hard guy, by the way, on the,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: did you hear the way he, he must've known he
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: did it. Cause did you hear some of the compliments
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: he threw at Billy Edwards, Jr. The rest of the broadcast,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: including on the touchdown. If you hear the call, the touchdown,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: the long one, the Easter, he drops back and he says,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Billy Edwards drops back.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Good pocket presence. He throws it.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: It's good pocket presence. He just dropped back and then
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: let it pass go. He didn't even have to really
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: move or anything. No, he has not replied to a
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: tweet since October 9th, so Friday, right? He has not
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: actually tweeted out since Saturday at 7.08 p.m. when he
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: said college football needs a red zone channel. We're in
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: the witching hour. But he has not on social media
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: addressed what happened. I mean, I was laughing at it,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: but it's not ideal. Gamecock's got to win. We're going
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: to talk all about these. We'll try to hit you
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: with this kind of rapid-fire stuff here, including giving Georgia
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: a little love for their big win. But South Carolina,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: a much-needed win in their own right bone. A win that,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: if we all kind of thought we saw UNC's win coming,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: nobody in this studio saw the South Carolina win coming.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: And to do it in blowout fashion at the Swamp.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: If you told me that they did, I'd say, well,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: it had to be maybe some... fluky fashion or something
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: crazy happened, not that they would go in there and
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: double up the Gators. Florida's got more problems, I guess,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: than we imagined, but Sellers looked like the guy that
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: gets that draft. That's supposed to be one of the
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: best in the game. And like Lane Kiffin's Rasputin. Remember
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: they used to call Wayne Fonstad for the Lions back
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: in the day, how he would survive whatever's back was
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: against the wall? It just seems like whenever they're at
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: their lowest moment, Shane Beamer finds a way to get
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: one of these ranked wins. He now has more ranked
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: wins than in the SEC than Lane Kiffin does, by
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: the way, against top 25 teams. There you go, Lane.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: And now.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Well, you had a chance, Lane. Although, Kentucky dropped out,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: didn't they? Kentucky dropped out when they beat South Carolina.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: It's true. And then they beat Lane. So then you
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: start to look at the next set of games. No,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: it's the Gamecocks, so... Now are they going to win
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: all the games, Bone, if you completely flip? Well, now
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: you look at how it opens up at Tennessee, Oklahoma,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: A & M, and Arkansas. One win can completely alter
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: how you always view stuff. I mean, if they can
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: go on the road and win in Gainesville, can they
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: go find some more wins in that group?
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: I think they can. But, you know, with this outfit,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: I never know what to expect.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: We're going to talk more about how fans feel in
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Tar Heel Nation, Gamecock Nation. NC State fans are already
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: calling out Dave Dorn.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: You should.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: And by the way, some of this stuff from Dave
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Dorn in the press conferences, I'm going to play a
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: clip later. He is an excuse-making fool right now. I mean,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: the way he wants to just— he is so quick to
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: want to tell you it's the player's fault. I just
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: think that dude's got to vacate Raleigh. I just personally do.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: And we've got to talk about Wake Forest. Like, how
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: big can Wake Forest dream after they put it to
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: NC State in the second half, put up 38 points?
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Gio Lopez, Hernandez, and now Foley. That's two out of
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: three games for Foley where he contributed big time. They
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: got a juggernaut on offense. And their defensive front's pretty nasty, too.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: No doubt about it, dude.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: They are legit.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: And when we talk about the amount of playoff teams
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: can the ACC get in... If they're going to get
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: a second team outside Miami, that might be their best hope. Now,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: there's going to have to be some work to be
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: done and avoid losses and maybe beat Miami.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: I don't know, but Wake is legitimate.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: I also didn't realize because I lose track these days
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: of who's eligible. It's a crazy world. Gio Lopez also
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: has one more year to go, by the way. He
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: is not out of eligibility. So we'll see what happens
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: with Dicker. But think about how good Gio Lopez may
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: be one year from now as well in that offense. Yeah,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: and where is he going to be? But I don't
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: want to spoil it. You know what I mean? I
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: don't want to play that game for Wake fans. What's
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: the eligibility of Hernandez? Is he a senior? I'm just
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: trying to figure out their long-term look. I feel like
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: there's more eligibility. It's crazy. Wake fans ought to just
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: enjoy this right now. Because I saw the guys on
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: the ACC Network late night huddle show Saturday night doing
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: their power rankings.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: And all of them had Wake No. 2 in the
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: conference behind Miami.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: It's just that the type of season that y'all can
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: have can be real special. And y'all have had some
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: special seasons. You've had runs to the ACC title game, right?
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I only tell y'all under two previous coaches. Um, and
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: it could happen under a third. Um, they are so
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: dynamic and NC state. There are so many questions. When
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: you look at wake's budget bone for getting players and
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: you look at the NC state budget for getting players,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: and then you look at, I know Duke lost, but
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: still you look at Duke's budget for getting players and
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: state's budget for getting players, uh, NC state fans, you
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: should be asking how. How are they better than us?
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: How does this happen? So we're going to talk about that.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: The Duke loss is another one. I don't think anybody
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: saw it coming.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Nope. I don't think anybody saw it.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: It's nice to know your friend Bagel Guy woke up
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: on a Monday morning and said to himself, I got
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: the first thing I need to do Monday. I don't
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: need to take a shower. I don't need to make
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: myself some breakfast. I need to text the show and
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: troll Bone about Duke losing to Georgia Tech.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, it wasn't even the loss.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: He's trolling about the lack of rushing yards that Nate
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Shepard had, although he did. get injured during the game.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: He was playing injured. I simply pointed out being a guy,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: if you want to tell a full story, Nate Shepard
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: had 191 yards of offense because he had 91 receiving
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: yards as well, but he stuck on the rushing yard.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: So I, I was pointing out that, yeah, he, he
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: didn't get as many yards on the ground, but he
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: still had 191 yards rushing.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: He made two of offense.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: He made two huge plays in the receiving game to
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: get them into field goal range. And I'm going to
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: be honest with you do probably lost that game bone.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Cause her kicker was hurt. And they had to go
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: with a freshman kicker, this kid Strange, and he ended
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: up missing what would have forced overtime. But it doesn't
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: mean everything in there was perfect, right? There's a bunch
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: of stuff for Duke to address. There's no doubt about it.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: You've got to be concerned. You've got a Carolina team
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: that now is feeling their oats next. And Nick Shepard's
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: got some sort of foot or leg injury or something.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: You know, that he was trying to battle through. He's
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: basically the engine. If he's not right, then they're not
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: going to win many football games. They've also got a
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Georgia Tech problem. I'd have to go look and see
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: what the last... handful of games is i feel like
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: mac georgia tech gets them and i should have saw
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: it coming more than i did i got a little
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: bit overconfident because georgia tech is not good they got
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: a georgia tech problem i feel like that's one of
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: their unc does too right yeah um okay so georgia
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: tech has won mac six straight games against duke duke
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: has not beaten uh georgia tech since 2019 Even when
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Duke is good, they do not beat that man. So
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: maybe we should have mentioned that on Friday.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: Maybe we should have told that part of the story.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: I thought about it afterwards.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: I was like, when that game started, I said, probably
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: should have mentioned that Duke doesn't really win against Rorty
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Tech very often. They also had those sweet rambling rec helmets, man,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: that were pretty badass. I ain't going to lie about that. So, Bone,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: group of six teams in North Carolina results. Charlotte was
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: down 42-10 at the half. 42. 10 was the score
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: at halftime. It escalates quickly against those boys. App State,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: my God. Malachi Singleton, we could not say enough good
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: things about you in the first month of the season.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it was just the weather, because
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: they might have had the nastiest weather of all the
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: bad weather, Bone, in the Carolinas. And that game was
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: butt ugly against ODU. But Malachi Singleton got benched at
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: the end of the game for Henry Hasselbeck, who throws
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: an interception at the end of the game, by the way.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Singleton was 5 of 23. It was horrendous, man. God,
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: it was tough to watch. I hope the kid can
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: bounce back. If not, is this going to be another
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: season where they have... some good quarterback play early, like
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: last year. And then eventually they're like, you know, rolling
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: dice to figure out who starts.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Like, I hope not.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, we're only three points in that game against ODU.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, what, I mean, it's one thing if they
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: lost in a, in a game with a lot of points.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Now they play coastal on Friday night.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Um, in Conway.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: So they go on the road on a short week,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: although Coastal, not great. They're coming off a win over Marshall.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: And then Mack plays at home against JMU the following Thursday. Oh,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: by the way, Mack, it doesn't matter who the coaches are.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. JMU just keeps on rolling. They've now
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: got Billy Napier. And they are 6-0 this season. Can
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: JMU turn Napier into a good coach? That's the ultimate test.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: Can Napier, like Cignetti and now Chesney, who gets another
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: big win at UCLA over Oregon, can Napier now be
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: rehabbed at JMU? That is a legit question. If I'm
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: a coach in sports, I'm going to go to JMU,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: hang out for a little bit, then go find my
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: way somewhere else. Whether it's Cignetti, whether it's Chesney. Mark Bindington, Matt,
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: they coach at Vanderbilt Basketball. Who's turned that program around?
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: JMU.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: You go to JMU, there's some weird potion that falls
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: upon you, and all of a sudden you're a great coach.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: You as a youth soccer coach, Matt, should go to JMU,
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: drive around the campus a little bit, and get that
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: pixie sauce.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Pixie dust. We mentioned Cignetti.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: How about his boys needing to rally from 11 down
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter? Against the fighting Matt Rules. Matt
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Rule got a seven-year plan. He's okay, though, Bone. But
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: that had to be devastating for Nebraska fans.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: Devastating. What's the Matt Rule rank stat, Matt? What's the
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: update on that one?
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Two and 26 against ranked teams as a college coach
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: all time. Nebraska has still gone a decade plus without
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: beating a ranked team. But, my God, they're better. But
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: they've got to get themselves one of those games. Barstool
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Gambling has a tweet up from two days ago. Matt Rule,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: as a college football head coach and an NFL coach
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: against teams above 500, ranked teams and teams above 500
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: 5-37 in his coaching career. I'm not sure that's good, Boney.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure that is good at all. So now
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: the Indiana Rally sets up Indiana-Ohio State with Gus Johnson
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: on the call, Boney. Not sad, Gus, though. This will
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: be happy Gus, right? Nah, he's going to be real
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: happy to be there. Joe Klatt, I've been sad all year!
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Joe Klatt.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: I'm happy now. We got the Buckeyes.
• 35:09
  Speaker 7: Oh, man.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: His guy, Maserati Marv, got traded yesterday to the Houston Texans.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: When we come back on the Mac and Bone show,
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: it is Ask the Audience.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: No, it's not.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: It's not Ask the Audience. Why did I say that?
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Why did I say ask the audience? It's not our topic.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: It's Sounds of the Weekend.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Willie P with an epic call of Charlotte FC's game winner,
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Charles Lee on Brandon Miller's role, Michael Malone on the Heels'
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: performance on Friday, and much more. Obviously, that's Sounds of
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: the Weekend, and that's the audience next on Sports Radio
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: 92.7 WFNZ.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: Pep Biel, right central channel, has it in the attacking half.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Head to the top of the box. One touch in
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: the area, Pep Biel. Cross to the middle, shot!
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: They score!
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: They score! A hat-trick for Toklamati! And the crowd has
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: come all the way back! With a hat-trick for Eden!
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: Oh, what a game!
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: Is that a 10?
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: That's epic. You think that's 10, Mickey? That might be.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: That might be his highest, right? That might be. The screaming, too.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: The level of screaming he was doing. That's a 10.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: I think that was a full 10. And an epic
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: game winner in an epic second half comeback deserved an
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: epic call from Willie P. on the Charlotte FC radio network,
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: and he delivered it, man.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: He really did.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: That's the highest I've heard him scream since that day
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: he ran in here yelling at Fitty about something. When
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Fitty got banned from his house that one day, and
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: he came screaming.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: I don't care! He sucked! He sucked! Or that moment
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: right there. Or that moment.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: What a rally to get down 2-0 and all of
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: a sudden they flipped the switch.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: This is a trend.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: I would like to see them be as aggressive as
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: they were once they got down 2-0 earlier in some
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: of these matches. But Dallas was the third seed in
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: the West coming in. This is a heck of a team, Bone,
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: that they were able to rally for three straight goals
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: against in the second half, really the last 20-plus minutes
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: of the second half. Toklamati had two. He thought he
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: had a hat trick, but the header was given to Toffolo.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Pep Biel made things happen, had the final. The final
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: move was just amazing. Biel to Oloko, back to Biel,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: over to Toklamati. A guy that changed that game to
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: me was Oloko. Loco is a dude that we've talked about, Bone,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: as a physical freak, but it's just the final pass,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: the final shot. That stuff needs to be there. He
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: absolutely just ran at them and caused havoc, and he
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: changed that game. I think he deserves a start on Wednesday,
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: so they'll play Columbus on Wednesday. They're still in fifth, Bone,
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: but they're tied with New England. New England lost, so
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: they're tied with New England. They're three spots out of second.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll take a look at that. Everything's tight.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Miami in second, down through Charlotte is really tight. It's
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: second through fifth, three points. So six games left, man.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: And we'll see where they can end up in the
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: pecking order. Toklamati's really turned it on since the World
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Cup break, right? I mean, does that tie into Maxie
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: also being there and opening things up for Toklamati?
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: Is that why he's been a lot more– It definitely helps.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: He's helped Abada, too. You know what I mean? And
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: you saw Maxie shake and bake and create that first goal.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: So very happy for Charlotte FC on Saturday night. That
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: one wrapped up, Bone, and I was still able to
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: watch Alabama get screwed by the SEC refs. I had
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: plenty of time to work it all in on Saturday
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: night and watch Lane Kiffin cry like a baby as
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: dudes flipped the bird behind him during the field storm.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: you see those videos yes oh somebody else ran on
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: the field storm a kentucky fan and tried to dunk
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: on their sideline hoop they set up over there i
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: had that for weekend conclusions today we'll bring it back
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: but maybe don't bring a basketball hoop on the road
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: when you're way elaine kiffin coach team in a game
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: you know that the opponent can't wait to field storm.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Or you might get yammed on on the sidelines. Or
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: you just go win the game and you don't have
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: to worry about it. But they did not win the game.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: If I was a student, I'd storm the field and
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: do a classy lay-in. I'd just lay it in. fundamental
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: don't not i want a fundamental lay-in to drive the
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: knee up off the glass um can you tell my
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: dad was a coach all right let's get to more
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: sounds of the weekend shall we uh let's get to
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: uh charles lee last night we mentioned the hornets getting
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: a dub against the bucks playing a ton of dudes
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: as you're apt to do in the preseason brandon miller
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: back with 18 points and i do i said it
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: i do i do i do who i said it
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: earlier in the hour um it's gonna be fascinating to watch.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: I do, I do, I do.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Brandon Miller and Khan in more of a playmaking role
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: without LaMelo. And how much do they undertake and how
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: do they handle it? Brandon Miller, when he does it,
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: has to cut down on those turnovers. He had four assists,
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: four turnovers last night. And Charles Lee was kind of
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: asked about this. And Charles Lee, you know, explain what
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: he wants from Brandon Miller as a player this year.
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: I want to see him just continue to be like
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: an elite two-way player and do it consistently every night.
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: He is capable. of doing so much for our team
• 40:43
  Speaker 7: and impacting the game in so many ways that I
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: would never put a ceiling on what he's able to
• 40:50
  Speaker 7: accomplish for us. So we want to keep pushing the
• 40:51
  Speaker 7: envelope with Brandon. Brandon wants us to keep pushing him.
• 40:54
  Speaker 7: He wants to guard the best player. He wants to
• 40:57
  Speaker 7: continue to be in an offensive action so that he
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: can be a playmaker. So it was really good to
• 41:03
  Speaker 7: see him out there today, and I thought that he
• 41:04
  Speaker 7: did a heck of a job of impacting the game
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: on both ends.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: I'm going to say it right now. Brandon Miller will
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: make the all-star team this year. I tend to agree.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to put it on the poor guy,
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: but go ahead. I think they're going to be a
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: team that, again, plays a fun style. Hell, Matt, Zach
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Lowe's already talking about this. They're still going to be,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: even without Lomelo, still on people's minds. Bill Simmons is
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: going to talk about them. Khan is still there. I
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: think Brandon Miller, Matt, goes up to that. 25 a
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: game category in there somewhere? When you consider how well
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: he played last year and what he was playing through. Right, right.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: And now Lomelo's gone. He's going to be asked to
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: do more.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Now, the interesting part about Khan is the adjustment without
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: the shot creation from Lomelo. So you think that hurts
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Khan more than Brandon, you're saying? I think so, yeah.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: I think it affects the whole team. But I think
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Khan may be similar, maybe a little bit less, because
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: I think the offense is just going to be structured
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: a little differently this year. I think they both get
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: more shots, though. I don't know if y'all noticed. There
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: might be some shots available post-Lamella. Could we get multiple All-Stars?
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Or do you think the team may not win enough
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: for that? I think we could have the whole East
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: starting five. Well, they don't do it East anymore. Because Khan,
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: we got Nas Reed could be a guy. Have you
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: been talking to Sunshine Sam lately, Boat?
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: I have, actually.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: By the way, speaking of that, maybe in conclusions we'll
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: talk about, you lost a little bet to Sammy, didn't you?
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Sammy got me. Sammy's Trojans got my Nittany Lions, and
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: I knew it. We'll talk about it later. Have you
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: ever made a bet, just good-natured bet, when you know
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: you're going to lose it? That's what happened to me
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: on Saturday.
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: Most of my career. A couple people chiming in here, Bone.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: I've got tattoos for that reason. That's true.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: A couple people chiming in here on Topics Conversation. Wildcat Walker,
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: very fired up about his Kentucky squad, and you should be.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: You got yourself, babyface Signetti, on the sidelines, I swear
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: to God. He says, allegedly, the basketball was stolen from LSU, Bone.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: So throw that one in to your story later on
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: on the show.
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: That's finally a good Kentucky basketball moment. It's been a while. Yeah.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Been a while. There you go, Fit.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: And also, Trophy Husband points out that former Premier League
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Everton midfielder Decore is coming in for Charlotte FC as well.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: They signed him over the weekend. So, yeah, that's another
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: bit of good news. Let's wrap this up, though, because
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: let's give Fitties Tar Heel hoop squad. A little bit
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: of love here, shall we? They win by 18 over
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: USC in the exhibition on Friday night. And it was
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: interesting because the guys I expected, Bone, to do a
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: lot of scoring didn't necessarily do it. And some of
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: the guys I did not expect to do a lot
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: of scoring did a hell of a lot of scoring.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: Pretty encouraging. And after the game, Michael Malone talked about
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: what and who impressed him.
• 43:50
  Speaker 6: First half, they shot 47%. Second half, they shot 27%.
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: First half, they had 16 paint points. Second half, only
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: six points in our paint. So I felt at one
• 44:02
  Speaker 6: point I think we'd gotten seven or eight straight stops,
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: which is something we try to pride ourselves in. It
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: did not happen in the first half very often. So
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: we got our defense into the game. That got us
• 44:12
  Speaker 6: out running, playing with a little bit more of an
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: attack mindset. But our bench was great tonight. I think
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: we outscored their bench 35-5. And Jaron Stevenson had a
• 44:23
  Speaker 6: hell of a performance. And being able to play through
• 44:26
  Speaker 6: him late was great to see. Jaron works his butt off.
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: And I'm proud of him.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: So there you go.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Stevenson had 25, man, and they were thrown into a
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: post playing through him. I was like, all right, can
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: we do this this year? Fit Daddy, you were there
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: in attendance. My man, what did you think?
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: First thing that stood out to me, Michael Malone's intensity
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: on the sideline.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: Really refreshing. Was it the same as yours in the stands? Yes.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: The language was very much on Paul.
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: He caught a timeout three minutes into a game that
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: didn't count and looked at his team and said, what
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: the F are y'all doing?
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: That's a little bit different than the guy that was
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: there previously. And he didn't say fart. No, he did not.
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: So that was very refreshing. Mac, they're raw. Like, down low. Like,
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: I don't know if Steve's going to be that every
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: single night. They need Keita. They need Sam Maduro to
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: grow up and grow up very quickly. I thought Isaiah
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: Dennis was very impressive. He was taking shots at Hubert
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: at his post-game press conference.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, really? Oh, yeah. About not getting minutes?
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: Basically said, I could have done this last year if
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: I was given the opportunity. I thought that was really
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: interesting to make that public. But I don't know how
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: good they're going to be ultimately. I don't know if they're...
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: Elite 8 good. I don't know if they're a Sweet
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: 16 good. I think they're going to be fun.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: And for the.
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: First year with a new head coach learning the college game,
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: I'm okay with that. And so I'm excited to watch
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: this team grow and develop. They're on the road next
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: Sunday at Indiana. Another preseason top 25 team, and we'll
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: learn about how good they could be this upcoming year.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: USC was missing three key guys.
• 46:06
  Speaker 7: They were.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: I'm not trying to hate them. I'm just throwing that in.
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: What impressed me was the sideline energy of Michael Malone.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: It's a different level, so maybe Mackey's got to coach
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: more possession by possession than he does in the NBA.
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: Even Sean May was setting up coaching, and he hasn't
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: served for anything except for food since 2005.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: I was really impressed just with the overall sideline demeanor
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: and energy that Michael Malone has. I like the way
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: Bone's just trying to squeeze in a nice compliment for
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: Michael Malone if he's in there taking cheap shots at
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: poor Sean Madden.
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: That's a big man.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: When we come back, do North Carolina and South Carolina
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: fans feel better? How pissed are state fans? And how
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: big should Wake Forest fans be dreaming? College Football Talk,
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: locally on Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ.