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Mac & Bone Hour 4: Jake Delhomme & Dave Helman · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety wfn Z Mac and Bone with you
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  Speaker 1: having fun here, man having fun. We got the Panthers
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  Speaker 1: playing tomorrow night in Canton. Many will be in jumpsuits,
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  Speaker 1: but man, it's football, it's starting. It's go time. Panthers
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  Speaker 1: traveling today, and then obviously Thursday is a or Saturday
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  Speaker 1: is a huge day for Panther fans too to see
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  Speaker 1: one of our all time favorites, Luke Keigley, induct it
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  Speaker 1: into the Hall of Fame. So it's a big Panther
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  Speaker 1: week and a big Panther weekend. And we've been calling
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  Speaker 1: it Luke Appreciation Week. We're gonna tell you again we're
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  Speaker 1: having people leave salutes to Luke. We've got a you know,
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  Speaker 1: a way to do it through the wfn Z app.
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  Speaker 1: We'll tell you more about it. We want people to
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  Speaker 1: shout out Luke. We want to put a nice little
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  Speaker 1: kind of message together with y'all for him. But right
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  Speaker 1: now we continue Luke Keighley Appreciation Week with the guy
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  Speaker 1: that works with him many Sundays on the Panther Radio Network.
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  Speaker 1: And I know he's a guy that would have had
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  Speaker 1: a headache or two bone if he would have been
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  Speaker 1: going head to head against Luke Keigley when they play.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about Jake Delome of your Carolina Panthers, an
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  Speaker 1: absolute legend in his own right, and he joins us
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  Speaker 1: here to talk about Luke and of course the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six Panthers.
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  Speaker 2: Jake, what's going on? How you doing? Man?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing great, guys. I can feel the excitement in
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  Speaker 3: your guys voice for the season coming up, and I
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  Speaker 3: feel the same way. And I think certainly this weekend,
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  Speaker 3: you know, with Luke being inducted, and yeah, I did
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  Speaker 3: not play with him, and I knew him very little
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  Speaker 3: when he was playing here because I wasn't really around
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  Speaker 3: getting to know him the last few years. I would
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  Speaker 3: like to say, pretty darn well. Yeah, anything that's said
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  Speaker 3: about him, it could be multiple times ten because what
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  Speaker 3: he was on the field, he's probably better than that
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  Speaker 3: off the field.
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  Speaker 1: Is and everybody says that, and it's sincere. You can
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  Speaker 1: tell and Jake, have you said.
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  Speaker 2: That about you? Also?
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  Speaker 4: Jake?
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  Speaker 2: We said learning the show today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're you're like you guys both kind of seem
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  Speaker 1: like regular guys, even though you did these special things.
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  Speaker 1: Do you as far as being like a Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Famer an absolute superstar. I can't imagine there's as many
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  Speaker 1: as humble as Luke, Like he doesn't even feel comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I can't wait to see the speech. Like
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't even feel comfortable talking about himself. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's so humble.
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  Speaker 3: No, he does it and uh, he always wants to
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  Speaker 3: deflect to someone else. And even you see it. And
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  Speaker 3: I'll say it again, and I've said it many times.
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  Speaker 3: When we go on the field before the game, we
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  Speaker 3: make a couple of trips up and down from the
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  Speaker 3: booth and we always go watch the other team warm
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  Speaker 3: up in the flesh. Film is one thing, but just
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  Speaker 3: seeing them move, body types, things of that nature. I
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  Speaker 3: want to see arm lengths, I want to see how
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  Speaker 3: they see things like that. We're both that way. It's
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  Speaker 3: amazing that the players from the other teams they go
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  Speaker 3: up to him and it's in reverential terms. It's almost
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  Speaker 3: like the genuflected in front of them, and they're like,
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  Speaker 3: oh my gosh, I still watch film. And then guys
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  Speaker 3: in shriek cloths, like guys that are inactive or practice
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  Speaker 3: squad guys, Oh my gosh, I watched film leading up
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  Speaker 3: to the combine on you. I want it's it's unreal,
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  Speaker 3: and he just never wants to talk about himself. He
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  Speaker 3: was like, well, good, how you doing, man, how's everything?
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  Speaker 3: You know, he wants to deflect it immediately.
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  Speaker 5: But that's the.
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  Speaker 3: Impact that I think he had on the game that
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  Speaker 3: I don't unders think people truly understand is that he
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  Speaker 3: is still studied to this day by all these young
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  Speaker 3: players and they continuously talk about him and that's the standard.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Jack, when I asked them on the show this week,
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  Speaker 4: he didn't tell me that he was too busy going
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  Speaker 4: into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Luke told me
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  Speaker 4: that he's busy coaching the kids up, the high school kids.
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  Speaker 6: So it wasn't a bat that's true, Like it's it's
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  Speaker 6: a he just like, well, when we'll talk on the
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  Speaker 6: phone and we talk a lot and a lots during
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  Speaker 6: the season and he'll start talking about his games, coaching
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  Speaker 6: the kids and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: He just he loved it. He just wants to pour
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  Speaker 3: everything into him into the kids.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome, man, And that's one of the things
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  Speaker 1: about him. He was such an awesome player. But man,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, fans and Panther Nation are in love
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  Speaker 1: with with him as a as a person as well.
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  Speaker 1: When you're sitting up there in the booth and you're
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  Speaker 1: talking ball, whether it's on the air during a game,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's you know, before the game, Like, how apparent
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  Speaker 1: is it talking to this dude that, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: this is one because I know a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: y'all quarterbacks maybe think those defensive guys aren't as sharp
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  Speaker 1: as you. I'm not sure any quarterback ever thought that
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  Speaker 1: about Luke Man. He was he was. He was playing chess,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't he.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he was.
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  Speaker 3: And his like formation recognition and how he can pick
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  Speaker 3: up everything's formation wise and you know, like offensively. For me,
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  Speaker 3: when I watch film on the defense, I'm looking at
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  Speaker 3: obviously the whole structure and you kind of know down
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  Speaker 3: in distances what a team tendency is, what they like
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  Speaker 3: to do, and so you have that as you build
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  Speaker 3: up your game plan through the course of the week. Well,
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  Speaker 3: he was so good at recognizing formations and things of
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  Speaker 3: that nature. And hey, they like doing this out of
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  Speaker 3: the backs off set. Be careful of this, and he's
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  Speaker 3: going to go to a guard set or a tackle
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  Speaker 3: set and watch kind of how they're set in their stance.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty remarkable, just his recall and what he can
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  Speaker 3: see and what he can do, and just pattern recognition
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  Speaker 3: that he was able to do. Like you go back
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  Speaker 3: to everyone knows the two Tony Romo plays, but the
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  Speaker 3: interception on things given night, you just watch him. He's
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  Speaker 3: running up the scene with somebody, then realizes, okay, well
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  Speaker 3: I have a da coming in behind me, and he
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  Speaker 3: lets the guy go and he goes right to whether theyg'
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  Speaker 3: supposed to be in the ball He catches it right
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  Speaker 3: in front of his face. It's those things that he
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  Speaker 3: could do so fast, And another thing we probably don't
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  Speaker 3: talk about enough. He was so athletic. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think he gets enough credit for quick and explosive.
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  Speaker 3: When you watch those those films, he's backpedaling when he
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  Speaker 3: puts his foot in the ground, it's immediate he's going
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  Speaker 3: forward or he's going in the direction, and just it
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  Speaker 3: was different, man, he was different.
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  Speaker 4: Jake, Well, we're excited to see we go to the
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  Speaker 4: Hall of Fame. We saw Sam Mills, we saw pap
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  Speaker 4: We're waiting for the day when eighty nine can get
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  Speaker 4: up there as well, Steve Smith and give what will
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  Speaker 4: likely be an iconic Hall of Fame speech, Well, what
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  Speaker 4: do you think about Smitty not getting in yet? And
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  Speaker 4: how ridiculous do you think it is that he's having
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  Speaker 4: to wait a little bit here?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, I'm certainly I'm very biased, I will say that.
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  Speaker 3: And here's the thing that's that's so tough. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there seemed like there's been a log jam there that
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  Speaker 3: they have you know, Tory Holt, you know Reggie Wayne,
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  Speaker 3: and then you had Smitty. It's like everybody that was
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  Speaker 3: cannibalizing each other. And then Larry comes in and Larry
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  Speaker 3: becomes a you know, a first ballot. So it's and
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  Speaker 3: it's frustrating for me. I just know what Steve was
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  Speaker 3: talking to other players and people to coordinate us throughout
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  Speaker 3: the years. The number one thing that they that they
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  Speaker 3: had to do weekend and week out was stop eighty nine.
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  Speaker 3: And the thing that I know that I took, I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to say it was frustration on Steven ice part,
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  Speaker 3: but like we would play a couple of games. We
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  Speaker 3: played Tampa one year, I think it was eight or whatnot.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't throw the ball to him because they dedicated
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  Speaker 3: two people to stop him, so he had to split
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  Speaker 3: in the corners on him, and the safeties all the
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  Speaker 3: way outside the hash well, the Angelo and Jonathan were
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  Speaker 3: just running it right at him because we had a
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  Speaker 3: numbers advantage. Because Steve affected that, and that doesn't show
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  Speaker 3: up in the stat sheet. The same thing happened in
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  Speaker 3: Green Bay in two thousand and eight. It wasn't that
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  Speaker 3: good of a game for him statistically, but because it
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  Speaker 3: was so okay, he is not going to beat us.
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  Speaker 3: And then what happens late in the game, under two minutes,
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  Speaker 3: I hit him down the team and he's able to
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  Speaker 3: run past all the guys he catches it. We take
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  Speaker 3: a field goal to win. Those are the things that
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  Speaker 3: it goes unnoticed. And it's not what he did on
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  Speaker 3: the field. Listen, if this guy would have only been
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  Speaker 3: a kick and pun returner, he'd be the best kicking
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  Speaker 3: punt returner there ever was. I mean, he did it
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  Speaker 3: as a as a rookie in his second year. He
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  Speaker 3: was in our third year, Super Bowl year, he was
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  Speaker 3: still returning kicks for touchdowns. The guy was just different.
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  Speaker 3: I know I'm standing on the soap box and i
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  Speaker 3: know I'm beating the drum for him, but the guy
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  Speaker 3: was different than the other ones. That's just my opinion.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think there's any doubt. When will he get in,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, but it definitely I feel I'm frustrated
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  Speaker 3: for him and he's done. He's done the right thing
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  Speaker 3: by taking the high row. But I promise he was
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  Speaker 3: pretty frustrating for him too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't blame him.
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  Speaker 1: We're frustrated too, because it's just I see these guys
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  Speaker 1: that were great receivers, but I see them in offenses
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  Speaker 1: that passed more, you know what I mean, whereas you
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  Speaker 1: got it. Yeah, and I just know, man, he's better
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  Speaker 1: than that guy, you know. I just feel that in
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  Speaker 1: my heart. And I'm biased to, you know, being a
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  Speaker 1: Panther fan. One other thing I got to ask you
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  Speaker 1: about Smitty is we played a clip earlier in the week.
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  Speaker 1: It was Shannon Sharp's podcast. He had Jeremy Shockey on
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  Speaker 1: and Shocky played with Panthers for one year and play
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  Speaker 1: with Smitty for one year, and they were both talking
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  Speaker 1: about something that we always marveled at the fact that
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  Speaker 1: this dude was five to nine but would go up
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  Speaker 1: and get Pete for jump balls like he was Randy Moss,
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  Speaker 1: like he was some six or five receiver and they
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  Speaker 1: were just freaking out over that.
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  Speaker 2: Jake.
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  Speaker 1: You would throw it up for him, man, and you
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  Speaker 1: would trust him, like did you like did it take
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  Speaker 1: a while to trust like that little dude, he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: go up and get like like that's that's I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen a jump ball receiver at his size.
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  Speaker 2: It was ridiculous, man.
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  Speaker 3: So okay, I'll go back to O three and we're
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  Speaker 3: splitting reps Rodney, Petechris Winky and myself because Rodney was
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  Speaker 3: the establaged starter going into the year. And I remember
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  Speaker 3: trying to throw some in routes right so about eighteen
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  Speaker 3: yard in route, and I could when when I think
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  Speaker 3: it needs to let go, I let it go, and
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  Speaker 3: I would throw early with anticipation that hits the receiver
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  Speaker 3: where he's supposed to be. Every time I would throw
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  Speaker 3: it like Steve's catching it, but he's catching it behind
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  Speaker 3: his body, and I'm like, lobby, damn, what am I doing?
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  Speaker 5: And I'll never.
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  Speaker 3: Forget Rodney and Chris a lost back and I didn't
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  Speaker 3: know them well enough yet. It's early in the springs
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  Speaker 3: and they both looked at me, and Rodney said, Jake,
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  Speaker 3: he said, he's not normal I said, what do you mean.
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  Speaker 3: He goes, there's no one with the explosion out of
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  Speaker 3: his break like him. He goes, well, you think you
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  Speaker 3: need to throw it in your mind, go to yours further.
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  Speaker 3: And I really agree. I had to kind of retrain
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  Speaker 3: my brain and he and I were both so wet
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  Speaker 3: behind the years that year. Yeah, I was in my
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  Speaker 3: seventh year as my first year starting well, he was
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  Speaker 3: in his third year, but really and truly his first
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  Speaker 3: time as a full time wide receiver. We grew together,
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  Speaker 3: We made mistakes together, but I was able to kind
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  Speaker 3: of Dan Henning would say.
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  Speaker 5: It best guys with.
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  Speaker 3: Steve Smith has. He said, only the good law can produce.
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  Speaker 3: He goes, he's just different. And we had a we
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  Speaker 3: had three letters. We'd say all the time f T
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  Speaker 3: S and it will feed the stud And Dan was like,
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  Speaker 3: any time he's one on one or anything, him a chance.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean that's exactly kind of what we did.
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  Speaker 3: We gave him a chance, and he made us right
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  Speaker 3: many more times than not.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if anyone's ever played a better game.
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  Speaker 4: It took over a game at wide receiver more Jake
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  Speaker 4: than you guys. In that five playoff game against the Bears.
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  Speaker 4: Considering dision divisional round, the defense that the Bears had
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  Speaker 4: that year, and what Smithy did to them that day,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if a receiver's ever had a better
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  Speaker 4: day than that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was special. You know, the first third down
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  Speaker 3: of the game, we ran a play that was a
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  Speaker 3: staple fifty hitch Oregon, and you know, you had Charles Tillman,
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  Speaker 3: and usually there was if he was like six yards
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  Speaker 3: or less, Steve would run the go. Well, if he's
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  Speaker 3: had seven yards or more, he's going to run the hitch.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, as he lined up, you know I
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  Speaker 3: kind of glanced breaking the hudd offs. Okay, he's about seven.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna run the hitch. We'll get the first out.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I heard it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm making my drop and it's just a quick five.
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  Speaker 3: I'm replacing steps in the pocket and I turned and
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  Speaker 3: I crank it to go to throw the hitch. Well,
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  Speaker 3: Steve has his head topped down and he is running
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  Speaker 3: the one hundred meters like usain boat and Pina kind
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  Speaker 3: of watches my stance and he thinks I'm driving, and
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  Speaker 3: Pina kind of fits for a second. Steve runs right
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  Speaker 3: past him. Sow recoil real quick, get it to him
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  Speaker 3: and we come to the sidelines and I'm like, dude,
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  Speaker 3: I was bying to throw the hitch, and he said,
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  Speaker 3: that's the way to watch me and know what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It was one of those deals. And as the game
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  Speaker 3: went on, I remember it was one point the touchdown
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  Speaker 3: passed on the left side line when Steve jumped and
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  Speaker 3: celebrated on the goal post. They put maybe Nathan Vasher
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  Speaker 3: on him, and I knew he had good ball skills,
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  Speaker 3: but he couldn't run. And I'm like, oh no, I
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  Speaker 3: mean this is easy. I'm throwing it. It's a go route.
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  Speaker 3: It's not even close, and I lay it up there
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  Speaker 3: and Nathan Vasher just falls because Steve goes by him
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  Speaker 3: so fast. And he he was just different. Even Ronde Barbaro,
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  Speaker 3: who I thought it was. He's the Hall of Famer
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  Speaker 3: for a reason. But Ronde the same weight. We play
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  Speaker 3: in Tampa and Ronde if ever, he pressed him and
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  Speaker 3: he'd laugh at it. I heard him give a signal
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  Speaker 3: we throw a go and he just shake his head, like,
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  Speaker 3: what am I gonna do if I play off? They
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  Speaker 3: throw it in front of me and gets in yards
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  Speaker 3: if I you're getting near him, he's gonna run past me.
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  Speaker 3: He's just different.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Cannot wait till Steve has
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  Speaker 1: his day in Canton. Uh and it's coming, and Luke
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  Speaker 1: will have one this week. We got to ask you
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  Speaker 1: before before you go. You're the radio analyst on the
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  Speaker 1: Panther radio network. You know this team, you lived it
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  Speaker 1: last year, the run to the playoffs. I want to
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  Speaker 1: ask you about the current quarterback, Bryce Young. The Panthers
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  Speaker 1: has seem like they're kind of in a wait and see.
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  Speaker 1: They want to see a little more before they commit
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  Speaker 1: to him long term with a contract as someone that
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  Speaker 1: watches him but knows the position way more than we do.
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  Speaker 1: What are some of the things that you think Bryce
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  Speaker 1: has to do to take it to the next level.
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  Speaker 3: Well, listen, we want to annoy guy so fast, right
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  Speaker 3: rookie year c J. Stroud is the next great quarterback? Well,
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  Speaker 3: now that that's the question. In Houston, they feel that's
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  Speaker 3: the super Bowl team, but they're questioning the quarterback like.
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  Speaker 3: It takes time, guys, and I'll go back to it.
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  Speaker 3: I think continued growth up rice And that's not a
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  Speaker 3: cop out on answering the question. Last year, we took
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  Speaker 3: away his his his blanket, right, we took away Adam Feelnd,
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  Speaker 3: meaning he got traded, So we didn't start early in
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  Speaker 3: the season that well, we got better as we went
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  Speaker 3: on during the season. But you're throwing to the year two,
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  Speaker 3: popa year two and team back year one, so like,
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  Speaker 3: and I think Bryce mentally, he's so far ahead of
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  Speaker 3: so many players at his age that you know he's
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  Speaker 3: learning these guys. And I just think you saw the
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  Speaker 3: steps that he made last year. I'm looking for another
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  Speaker 3: continued growth and hopefully he's the guy and a lot's
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  Speaker 3: gonna determine what we do this season. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 3: that's just the way it gets, the way it goes.
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  Speaker 3: I think this roster is getting built different now. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: like I was able to be out there for the
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  Speaker 3: first practice of the year when Nick Scorton went down.
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  Speaker 3: But just watching this team, watching how we look, watching
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  Speaker 3: how you know they even and Dan Morgan and Grant
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  Speaker 3: have built this football team. You just you since it coming,
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  Speaker 3: you sent it coming together, and the quarterback is a
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  Speaker 3: big part of it. But I just think consistent play,
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  Speaker 3: especially early in the season and early in games, and
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  Speaker 3: then just kind of go from there and hopefully the
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: continued growth and hopefully, you know, we're talking about a
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: massive deal for Bryce at some point in the future,
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: because that's what you want when you drop somebody first. Overall,
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: you want a decade quarterback or longer for yourself, for
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: your team.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: Definitely, no doubt about it, Jake. It is always fun.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: We could go down Panther memory Lane with you for hours, man,
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, I tell you it's beautiful, dude.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: We want some John Foxx stories next time.
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: Next.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: I got a B, I got a B.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: I bet man. All right, Jake, be good man. I
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: know it'll be go time before we know it in
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: the regular season. Man, thanks for joining us anytime.
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: Guys. I appreciate it.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: And uh, you know, go Panthers baby.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: All right, there you go, Jake Delone joining us here
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: on the Mac and Bone Show. Talking about Luke. He
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: really though, goes. You can tell how much he loved
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: playing with Smitty when he talks about him, Well, it.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Kind of made it.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: It kind of made it made his career right in
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: a lot of ways. That chemistry they had, man, like,
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: it was special. And you're right if he having Smitty there,
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: I mean he'll be the first to tell you how
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: much it helped him. But it's almost like, not to
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: get too cheesyer, it's almost like hearing someone talk about
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: their soulmate, Like it's like, I swear, it's like his
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: football soul mat. Like those two the Bojangles ads off
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: the field, like and yeah, they went after each other,
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: but man, they just they were such a tandem, dude,
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: they really were.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: And I think Bryson t Mat can be like that.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: Man, two guys that made each other better, did ads
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: together or ate bow Jangles together? It sounds like you
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: and I.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, i'd be I'm hontered bone if you
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: think we're in that same category.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: I do want to mention to Luke Keikley.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: I want to mention the salutes to Luke because I
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: want to create on by Friday, we want to have
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: a bunch of messages from the fans to you know,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: about Luke, essentially to Luke. All you gotta do is
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: go on the app to leave a salute to Luke.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Go to the WFNZ app download if you don't have it,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: and click on the microphone right there at the bottom
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: of the kind of homepage of the app and then
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: it'll allow you to record. You only got thirty seconds,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: you got thirty seconds or less, let out your big
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Luke's talk about what you know, what you loved about
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: him as a player, what makes them so great, and
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: leave that message for us. You can then give you
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: a place to share your information. We're gonna pick somebody
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: out and we're gonna send somebody pair of tickets to
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: the Houston preseason game, the only home preseason game for
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: sharing this memory. But we want to get good content.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: You guys are so good on the text line. We
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: want to hear your voices talking about Luke Keikley and
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: hopefully we can kind of get it over Luke's way
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: and kind of let them hear the love from WFNZ listeners.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: But go to the wfn Z app and leave yourself
• 17:55
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• 17:59
  Speaker 1: when we come back. Hellman, he's one of the co
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: hosts of the Athletic Football show Mac. We're gonna talk Panthers,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: NFC South and maybe go around the NFC a little
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: bit and who the Panthers can be competing with for postseasons.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Possible of those teams. Sports Radio WFNZ Sports Radio ninety
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: two seven, WFNZ Mac and Bone with you, Fun week Man,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Fun Week. We got some of the Panthers playing tomorrow.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: We'll leave it at that. We do have a Super
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Bowl winner Bone at starting quarterback, as a Texter pointed out,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Candy Pickett. Very well played. I'll use that up until
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night's game. If you guys, we got Jake going
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: in or we got Luke going in the hall on
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Saturday night or Saturday afternoon. Looking forward to that. And
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I would tell everybody if you got football fever like
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: we do, go back and listen to the parts of
• 19:15
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• 19:18
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• 19:22
  Speaker 1: If you didn't hear the whole Jake diloone interview talking
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: about Luke Keigley, talking about Steve Smith, talking about the
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six Panthers. It was great stuff. Go check
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: it out in podcast form. All right, Our next guest
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: knows a little something about a podcast. He works on
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the Athletic Football Show, and he joins us from the
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Athletic Dave Hellman nice enough to join us talk a
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: little bit of Panthers, but take a look around the
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: NFL here in camp. Dave, thank you so much for
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: coming on.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: Man.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: How you doing.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: Thanks for having me. I'll happy to be here. I'm good.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you man. So we are. We've been uh you know,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: we've taked. We've had a couple of key injuries that
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: have that have tested our uh you know, our positivity.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: But I will say this, it has been a long
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: time since we have been able to enter training camp
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: as defending division champs. And we don't care about the
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: record or the manner which.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: We got in. Dave, all right, we want it. What
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: do you think do you feel like the shirts? Do
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: you we do? The t shirts are there?
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Do you feel like the Panthers can they They've added
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: three wins each year under Canalis.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Do you feel like this year can be another step?
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: How do you feel about that?
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: I'm happy to hear that y'all are regaining your optimism because,
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: like just from the thirty thousand foot view, I mean,
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: I'm I'm really excited about the Panthers going into this year.
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: And so it killed my buzz so hard to see
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: what happened to s Gordon and Brazzle and all the
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: stuff that y'all have had to deal with.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: And it's not to.
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: Say it's going to completely derail the season, but it's
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: just such a down not to start things off on.
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: And I think it's one of those things where like
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: you're kind of a prisoner of the moment during training
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: camp and you're like, ah, like I was really counting
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: on Scorting to take this year two leap, Like, are
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: the Panthers really gonna, you know, reach their ceiling without
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: this guy? And with some of the other injuries they've
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: had to deal with, They've already got some issues on
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: the offensive line, but we know football season is a
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: long long time and things go in ebbs and flows.
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: You know, they'll get at least a couple of the
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: injured guys back, particularly thinking about offensive linemen, and so
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: I do still feel overall optimistic about Carolina. I'm optimistic
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: about seeing, you know, adding a talent like Jalen Phillips
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: to that pass rush and unlocking Derek Brown to an
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: even higher degree than he's already had. So I really
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: do think the Panthers can be a very spicy team.
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: I think the Panthers can repeat as the Vision Champs
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: and maybe even do it with a winning record. We
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: joke about it on our show all the time, though
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: there's just there's so much of it that hinges on
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: Bryce obviously, and I mean that's not really expert level analysis,
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: but you come to this repetitive place with the Panthers
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: where you're like, I want to believe so many good
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: things about them.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: How much better is Bryce Young gonna be?
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: And if he can unlock even like, you know, if
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: we don't even have to play like a superstar, but
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: if he can just be the good Bryce on a
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: somewhat more consistent basis, this could be a really, really
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: good football team. And I think we're just waiting to
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: see if he can do that because there were so
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: many times, even last year when they won the division,
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: there were so many times where you know, you get
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: to the end of a Sunday and you're just like, ah,
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: Bryce Young, what was that?
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: Man?
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: Like I thought this was going to be the week
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: where you put two consistent performances together, And so I'm
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: waiting on that. I don't know if it's going to happen,
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: but if it does, I'm pretty ready to buy in.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: On Carolina, we're talking to Dave Helmand of the Athletic
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Football Show here on the MAC and bo Joe Dave.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: This is a very dangerous, difficult question to ask anybody,
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: but how do you ranked the teams in the NFC
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: South entering the season?
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: Oof it is, I mean, like the way I look
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: at it, I think, And don't get me wrong, the
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: way last season ended for them was really really bad,
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: and I get it if people are down on them,
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: But I still think the things that make Tampa a
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: very complete team are still there. And you're probably hoping
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: that a change in offensive coordinator, hopefully Baker Mayfield can
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: stay healthy. They had a very exciting draft class, you know,
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: adding Ruben Bain to that defense is very exciting. So
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: I probably give Tampa the edge just because I trust
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: their quarterback a little bit more. But I think Tampa
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: and Carolina are very much neck and neck. I know
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: we're all excited about New Orleans, but the quarterback there
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: with Chuck is it's still such an unknown that I'm
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: not willing to put too many eggs in that basket.
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: So I would probably go Tampa just slightly ahead of Carolina,
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: and then there's a little bit more of a gap
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: before New Orleans and then I would have Atlanta bringing
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: up the rear.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: It's interesting because where you have the Saints because there's
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of Saints hype right the way that
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Tyler Shuck came in and played, and I mean, I hate,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I try to forget this, but he and the Saints
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: swept our Heiniez last year unfortunately. But there's a lot
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: of hype. And I'm wondering. I see why they're saying
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: it because Shuck looked the part, but I kind of
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: do wonder is it a year or like, are the Saints,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe a year still away or so from
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: really being ready to contend for the division? You put
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: him in third. How do you view the Saints and
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the fact that they are getting you know, some trendy
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: kind of hype out there nationally.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Well, that's I mean, that's the type of thing that happens.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: And I remember, not to pat.
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: Myself on the back, but the way the Saints finished
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: the season, I looked at my co host and I said,
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: get ready for the Saints to be the darlings of
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: the because when you go from you know, whatever their
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: record was, they were like two and they had you know,
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: they were like two in eight and they finished six
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: and eleven or whatever. It was, Like, Tyler Shuck had
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: a really nice finish to the season. And when that
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: happens and you look at some of the other young
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: talent they have on their roster. They've signed Travis Station
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: in the spring, it's understandable why people get excited. And
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: what makes them so interesting is that could be totally justified.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: Like if Tyler Shuck just takes it and.
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: Runs with it and he's a better player in year
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: two and the Saints really hit on a franchise guy
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: with pick forty, then they could win the division and
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: you know, maybe we're talking about the NFC South belonging
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: to the Saints the way that he used to again.
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: You know, but I'm I'm more of a show me
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: first type of person, and I'm not I'm not ready
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: to just jump on that bandwagon without a little bit
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: more evidence. But man, we talked about it on our
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: show earlier this week. If Tyler Shuck is a dude,
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: there's talent all over that team. I mean, the offensive
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: line has the potential to be amazing.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: A chan is there.
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: Now, They've got two really exciting young receivers. They just
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: locked the lave up like the only thing stopping them
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: from being a pain in everybody's butt is Tyler Chuck.
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: And so it's a waiting game, and I'm a little
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: more cautious than some others, and that's why I have
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: the Saints and third.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: But I'm not going to be super surprised.
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: If we look up in October and the Saints heard
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: or one of the stories of the season.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Dave, you are your Chicago base So I wanted to
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: ask you about the Bears because that is the Panthers
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: opponent in week number one? What do you think about
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: the Bears entering this season? Had a big injury this week,
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: but what are you thinking about them year two under
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Ben Johnson?
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: I mean, I think having been in Caleb In's place
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: makes the Bears one of the most exciting teams in
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: the NFL. And it's been so fun. I'm I'm relatively
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: new to Chicago, but it's been so fun to live
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: here while the Bears have actually been good because this
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: is such a football town even when they've been bad,
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: so for them to actually be one of the stories
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: of the NFL has been really cool. But I mean,
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: Ben Johnson said it himself. They're one of the primary
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: candidates for regression. You know, they won so many zany
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: games last year. That defense, especially with Kobe Bryant getting
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: hurt in practice the other day, Like you said, not
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: super optimistic. The defense is going to be a lot better.
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: And it's a scary place to be knowing that you're
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: counting on the offense to be a top five, top
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: ten sort of unit if you're going to have any
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: chance of getting back to the playoffs. So, I mean,
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: I think, I said, having been in Caleb there, I'm
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: confident the Bears are going to be a solid team.
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: As far as building on last.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: Year, I'm a little less confident.
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: But man, that the whole NFC NORC just feels like
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: a total crap shoot. I mean, every team is good,
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: but every team is very flawed for one reason or another.
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: And I'm really not looking forward to picking the winner
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: of that division when we get time to make our
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: prediction before the season starts.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: It's it's loaded, man, it is loaded. It might be
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: the opposite. I can do this. We're NFC South hands.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: It might be the opposite of the nc South. It
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: may be it may be what a class of the NFC.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Is it still between Seattle and LA essentially? I mean,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: or does a Miles Garrett move and maybe Aaron Donald
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: coming back? Does it tip it to LA?
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: What do you? Who do you have at the top
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: of the NFC?
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's boring, and obviously we know a
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: lot can change during the course of the season, but
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: it's really those two teams for me and I and
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: I think there's a pretty substantial gap between everybody else.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, you know, we don't know if.
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: Aaron Donald's coming back yet, but I think there's a
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: pretty good chance that it happens. And so yeah, like
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: I I lean toward LA at least a little bit
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: in that conversation. But LA and Seattle, I think, I
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: think have a full head and shoulders on everybody else
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: in the in the conference right now. And I know
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: we've been saying that all year, but it's we say
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: it for a reason.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Right, Absolutely, no doubt about it, no doubt about it
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: all right, man, Well, hey, we appreciate it.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Guys.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Listen to Dave and Robert Mays, the whole crew the
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Athletic Football Show and check him out and all their
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: great NFL coverage. Yeah, we love Joe person his Panther coverage,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: but check out all their great coverage of the league
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: at Theathletic dot Com. Thank you, Dave, appreciate you man.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: Hey Doime Fellas.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Thanks all right, be good.
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: There you go.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: That is Dave Hellman joining us from the Athletic here
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: on the Mac and Bone Show.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Did you pick the Bucks? Buddy?
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: He's you know, he gave you his reasons. Yeah, I
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: mean the Bucks are the favorite.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: I was.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: I was watching NFL Live yesterday, Bone, and I saw
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: more of these like analytic like model numbers. Right, it
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: was the FPI numbers, and they have the Bucks with
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: like a forty percent chance to win the division. They
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: have the Saints second at or no, the Falcon second
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: FPI with like a twenty seven percent chance to win
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: the division. I'm like.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: It was before that, but I'm like, are you kidding me?
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: And the Panthers were last with a twelve percent chance
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: to win the division. It's just I don't know why
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: these models, like these computer programs don't like. It makes
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: me want to just bash a computer with a damn
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: baseball bat.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Seriously, never trust the model, am I right? Fitty on Instagram.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: What are the ig models thinking? The panthers, these computer
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: models don't like us fit how flound nose flown definitely knows.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Oh man. By the way, come on, are we allowed
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: to say what happened?
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Fitty? What are we allowed to say? What happened?
• 30:42
  Speaker 8: No?
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: We were talking about your dating. No, we can't just
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: stop talking.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: Well, if we stop talking, that means we just we're
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: on the radio, though, we've got to keep talking.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: That means Fitty just takes over and talks about anything
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: but this dating situation.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Probably for the best.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Somebody heard, somebody heard, all right, anyway, I'm sorry.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: I want to do an update here, not on your life.
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: What's going on?
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: But so he's just do sports, man, just do sports.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: No one's gonna mind. This can't even just catch you.
• 31:23
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  Speaker 9: them a call. They'll give you free estimate seven zero
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  Speaker 9: four three three four nine nine three four seven zero
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  Speaker 9: four three three four nine nine three four seven zero
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  Speaker 9: four three three four nine nine three four.
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  Speaker 2: What bothers me? Fit you? Know what bothers me? What
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: what is that?
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: You used to be an open book about your pursuit
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: of love and I don't know.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Bone.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Now he's starting to get very closed off. It's just
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I like to communicate with him.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I like to help. I like to know what's going on.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Your help has got I don't mean nowhere.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Are you closing? Am I getting frozen out? Is that
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: what's happening? I'm very upset about this. Well, maybe you
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: should have been a better wing man. The worst Robin shot.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Give me another shot right now, I think I can.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: I think this is my chance. By the way, sports update,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: fitty my bad.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: I think the.
• 32:21
  Speaker 9: Collective baseball world could take a deep breath last night
• 32:25
  Speaker 9: because the Dodgers did lose in terror Scoobl's debut with
• 32:29
  Speaker 9: with the team. A lot of people canna be rooting
• 32:33
  Speaker 9: to make sure that they do not win the World Series.
• 32:35
  Speaker 9: But Bone, we have talked about George Lombard, the number
• 32:38
  Speaker 9: one prospect in the Yankees system, in his in his
• 32:43
  Speaker 9: first game, He's gonna be a legend in the Bronx.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: I'm so excited for him.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: As of yesterday, I am I am not talking to
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: Yankees with this man right here.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: It was a happy day. Your team won, My team won.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Match teams, we all won.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Back on the mack and boat your ros out of baseball.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Now I can't now bone. I'm even complimented.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: If you want me to answer your or talk about
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: the Yankees, he's got to go stand out in a doorway.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Unbelievable. So I can't get you acted like a big
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: giant bee. Yesterday I was upset. I was upset with
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: the orioles and the direction. All right, but I'm better today.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: I met you a Yankee result that I got talked
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: down to yesterday.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: That was on me. I was going through some stuff. Okay,
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: one on you. It was on me. It's always you, Mac.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: It's yeah, no, can't be.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Really something really juicy hat anyway, I'm sorry.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: All right. When we come back, it's the wrap up.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: We get you set for the day and night in
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: sports and Mac, I have an update on a betting
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: line early in the college football season that will highly
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: interest you on Sports Radio seven w FNZ.
• 34:08
  Speaker 8: Have to ask, because everyone is dying to know, how
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: do you pronounce your last name Mechi or Michie?
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: I would say, I've been saying Mechi, but I think
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: it originates in mechier.
• 34:17
  Speaker 8: What do you want people to call you here in Charlotte,
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: I'll say Michi Mitchie, okay, because some people are calling
• 34:23
  Speaker 8: you metch for short because they're not sure if it's
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: metro Michie. I heard that on the radio today.
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  Speaker 6: Really, I don't.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think that's why they're doing it.
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: I think that's just I think people would just like
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: to give nicknames to everything or try to like abbreviate everything.
• 34:33
  Speaker 8: You know, aren't you heard it here?
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: First?
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: All right, there's the scoop.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: I'm getting harassed on the text line right now. That
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: is a scoop. Kelly Bardick w c c B said
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Bony when she was listening yesterday that she would get
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: to scoop for us. She would go right to the
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: source and we would settle this is it mechi or
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: mechie thing?
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: After all? And there you heard.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: It may have originated as mechi a but he's cool
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: with mechi and apparently.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: Bone he doesn't need you to call him mets. Why
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: did you assume that that some people just love to
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: get nicknamed? Am I?
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: Macin fit the job by KB on the interview. This
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: is just everyone's got nicknames around here. We've got oh yeah,
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: there's you can't well. I feel like dudes are nickname
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: given son of a gun's right, Like, like there's no
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: group of friends that that calls each other by their
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: proper formal name.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Is there?
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Like everybody's got stuff they call each other. It's not Chris,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: That's what I mean. I don't ever even even my
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: wife doesn't call me that. Only my mom my Mom's
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: like the only my mom and my sister are like
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: the only people that will call me Chris.
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: I mean, if we called each other Chris, Travis, and John,
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: it sounds like a giant nerd It sounds like a
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: giant nerd fest.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Like and I feel like guys are like that in general.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: One of the whiter shows around. Oh man, but any
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Chris and Josh. You see the text we got earlier, Great,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: we got the scoop. Please helease tell Walker to stop
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: saying mechier now.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: I still think he might like to ny Mets though,
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: I it seems like you don't bring up the other
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: thing I say about him? What's that mechie play calls
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: that that works at Z w thirty two wide. Mechi
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: go fetchi.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: It's a good thing he wants to go by mechi
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: because mechie go fetchi.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: A would not work as well for you, it would not.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Braves in action tonight, trying to win another one. Beat
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: the Marlins last night for two. Big effort for homes
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: last night for the Braves six innings, a shutout ball.
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Coming up. League's Cup continues. Charlotte won't play in the
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: League's Cup until Friday, but they are one and ozer
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: with a nice three gold differential after that win last night.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Let's get to some of these texts, shall we? No
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: no panther practice?
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: They travel today and obviously tomorrow will be talking all
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: about the Hall of Fame game. KB and I'll have
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: a pregame show tomorrow at six o'clock for the Hall
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: of Fame game. I win, Kyle Bailey. Let's get to
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: some of the not to be confused with KB, Kelly Barding.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: And certainly not Kyle Bailey here that KB, and not
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: to be confused with KB Kelvin Benjamin when anybody confused?
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: When that do?
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: All right? All right, Let's get to some of these texts.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Here seven oh four, five, seven oh nine, six ten
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: if you want to send them in here. On the
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: text line, Scott the UFL Honk drew bones eyere during
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: the break by saying, it's okay, Mac, no one wants
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: to hear Bone talk Yankees anyway.
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: You can eat my shorts. Here's here's the issue. Your
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: name is Scott the UFL honk. You win four people
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: in America watch the UFL, and you're concerned about the Yankees.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: Like enough, like go go watch your UFL like whatever, man,
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: but don't don't try to tell me about the Yankees
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: when you're a UFL fan. He texted back to you,
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: He said, the UFL is way better than the Yankee.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for all eight of you I watch. I mean,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I can't stand the Yankee, but I can't even side
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: with that. My god, Uh, we've got uh what have
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: we named this guy?
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: On the text linebone that tries to get rid of
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: me all the time, Mac mat Now Mac needs to retire.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Guy is back. Why is Mac not retired? And then
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: I say, oh my god, it's it's you, and he
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: then says your time has passed.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Pretty please, please?
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Mac, do us a favor is this is this Fitty's burner, Buddy,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: chance does Fitty take if I roll out?
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: He gets in one of these two seats.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: He always needs to pop up when you Outfitty's love life.
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna investigate whether or not that's Fitty's burner. We figure,
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: can Mac? Can Mac talk about the U up yet?
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Nope? Okay, the fact that you've been shut out? Oh
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: my god, no more.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: You might be too after the second Oh no, looking good.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Somebody was lace Mac anyway, I'm sorry, Anode says, uh,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: call Mac the iceman. He's frozen out of everything today.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: That is true, man, that is I'm losing some of
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: my privileges here. I've also been called the worst Robin
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: of all time for my lack of help with Pitty's
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: love life as well.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: That's a superhero reference medication.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: I understand ro I used to watch the old Batman
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: TV show way back in the day. Yeah. When I
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: put the words up, I lost up there. Yes, I'm old.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: I'm way old. We also have I said earlier Bone
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: that due to popular demand of the audience, we have
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: kept Willy for a second segment. He was on with
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: us for two segments earlier. A Texter says, there's no
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: way in hell anybody wanted Willy to stay on, sir.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: That is completely disrespectful.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: So he did come in four hours early for this
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: dance thing today though, yeah, really Will is in a
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: good mood today.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I will say he was in a real good mood.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: It's got to be the FC performance maybe, but.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Not a good teammate.
• 39:53
  Speaker 9: I tried to give him an activity take up some time,
• 39:57
  Speaker 9: sending them on a food run.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: He was not happy with that. Let me get the
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: text out.
• 40:02
  Speaker 9: Where in my job description does valet or door dash
• 40:06
  Speaker 9: er driver appear? I told him it's in the fine
• 40:09
  Speaker 9: print of your contract.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: But you're here for four hours.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: I mean you're kind of treating him like he's flounder
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: or shoppy making a food run for y'all or something.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean. I mean, Willy, this is
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: the voice of FC bank.
• 40:19
  Speaker 9: Would you rather him go on a food run or
• 40:21
  Speaker 9: sitting there with you while you wait to talk to
• 40:22
  Speaker 9: Ron Rivera In ten.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Thirty, we actually are doing a dance together for a
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Ted Greeve and Associates dance challenge, sir, So maybe we
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: can work on our moves. Maybe be good for me
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: and Willy to spend some time together. Little dirty dancing
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: practice dirty, He's gonna lift you up. Who's gonna put
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: baby in the corner?
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Me or him? Uh, let's see what else we have here.
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: There's a genius on the text line bone a genius
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: the mag retires.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Stop that.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: No, there's a texture out there that says we should
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: be calling this week instead of Luke Appreciation Week Luca Palooza.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and that is just bad. That is brilliant.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: Can we just steal that and not give this guy
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: any credit?
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Sure?
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Because that is damn good. Someone wants to know if
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Fiddy has left a message on the Luke line. You
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: can go on our app and leave a salute to Luke,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: leave a message of what you love about Luke and
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: we're gonna play him at.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: The end of the week.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: And somebody wants to know Fitty left a voice message
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: for Luke where he is sobbing? What if he leaves
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: a message for Luke and it's kind of like, Luke,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: I love watching you play. But man, that quarterback, right.
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: Mac, we've ended so early, We've reached a truce, Mac
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: with the Mac needs to retire guy. Oh okay, now,
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: he might just be mag needs more vacation time. Hey,
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: now we could talk.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Maybe that sounds like something we can agree upon there.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Oh man, although who am I kidding?
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: Bone?
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Both of us leave so many vacation days on the table.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Why do you need a vacation when you talk about
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: freaking sports for a living man, it gonna be like
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: two weeks and I'm good for the rest of the year.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: What I need a vacation for him? By the way,
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: have a good resident.
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, deal with Murphy all afternoon and back
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: all morning.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: It's like corral cage animals. That's tough, baby, That is tough.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: No retire guy. Now it's just propification, o AC says.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Word on the street is missus Mack gave e Harmony
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: a negative review after being married to Mac for a month,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: she got a refund. Oh gosh, how about this one.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: We were talking about the Akron football team, who is
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: going to give a season ticket holder the chance to
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: design the plays on the first drive against Robert Morris?
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: And we were talking about how Robert Morris must be
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: ticked about this as like insulting. Somebody texted in and says,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: what's stopping the Robert Morris defensive coordinator from buying season tickets,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: winning the contest and knowing every play that would be
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: still get beat by the plays. Oh god, that's amazing.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: All right, we had fun today. I don't care if
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: the retirement guy didn't have fun. The rest of us
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: had fun on today's show. Good g Steve wilkeson Ron
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Rivera on tomorrow's show. Oh yeah, gonna be good to Wilkes.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: By the way, Mac, my centers are. He's gonna talk
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: about what Baker Mayfield. So yes, how do you know that?
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: Man?
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: It's just a gut feeling. You have a feeling deep
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: in my wings.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's one hundred percent got a response to
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: all Baker hating on him. But anyway, all right, we're
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: out of here. We'll talk to you on tomorrow. More fitty,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: The Young Guns are coming up next. Everybody will right
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: here on Sports Radio ninety two says will he know
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: that the Young Guns are doing this show?
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: And he didn't get the show?
• 43:40
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: No, Young Guns coming up next. Sports Radio ninety two
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: to seven WFNZ. Stay tuned.