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Mac & Bone Show - Zach Gelb Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: All right, let's bring in our next guest, Zach Gelb.
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  Speaker 1: Joining us, you know he's in the studio NFL Sundays
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  Speaker 1: for Compass Media on their NFL broadcast, and he's nice
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  Speaker 1: enough to hang with us again on Fridays to talk ball,
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully that doesn't mean much about the Panthers' defense
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  Speaker 1: from last week.
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  Speaker 2: Zach Gelb is in the house. Gelb, what's going on, brother?
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  Speaker 3: My little friends, how we doing? By the way, did
• 0:26
  Speaker 3: Fitty get actually engaged? Is that true? Did I miss that?
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  Speaker 2: No, he's been on five dates, though, so we're acting
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  Speaker 2: like he's getting married soon.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're exaggerating, but at Gelby, it seems like
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  Speaker 1: he's downright smitten, man.
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  Speaker 2: It really does.
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  Speaker 3: So the Panthers, Falcons and 50, no rings, right?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. That hurts. Do you want to get
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  Speaker 2: dropped a minute into the interview? Actually he might.
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  Speaker 3: I go out and I continue my Friday. I'll be good.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he's aiming for. That's a good point.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like, it's not like we're sending ginormous checks
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  Speaker 1: to go.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have any, do you have any wedding DJ,
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  Speaker 2: a wedding DJ pass? We're looking for someone that can
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  Speaker 2: DJ the wedding.
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  Speaker 3: Know, it's funny. I said this to my girlfriend, the
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  Speaker 3: last time we were at a wedding, cause I was
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  Speaker 3: told that I was an elite wedding guests that I
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  Speaker 3: think I would be a great wedding DJ. I always
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  Speaker 3: like a band, but I've started to become a really
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  Speaker 3: open to just the DJ and you get a sax player.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't, I know a friend of mine actually
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  Speaker 3: is a DJ, but if you put a good DJ
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  Speaker 3: with the sax player, usually gives you a pretty good wedding.
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  Speaker 1: That's a hell of a combo. Write that down, 50,
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  Speaker 1: write that down when you're wedding planning. gelby i mean
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  Speaker 1: what the heck kind of crazy drunk game did we
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  Speaker 1: have here in carolina last week bryson the offense looked
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  Speaker 1: good we can say that but holy crap the defensive
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  Speaker 1: performance from a unit gelb that we all thought man
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna be better even with with lloyd and with
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  Speaker 1: jalen phillips man how how do you explain what the
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  Speaker 1: hell happened to the panthers defense.
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  Speaker 3: You know, in our half-decade relationship, we're really in uncharted
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  Speaker 3: territory because usually we're not surprised with what happens with
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  Speaker 3: the Panthers. We just expect them to lose, and they have.
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  Speaker 3: And then last year, okay, they go 8-9 to make
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs. But this year, there are somewhat of expectations.
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  Speaker 3: And if you would have told me, if we sat
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  Speaker 3: here last Friday and you would have said, Zach, the
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  Speaker 3: Panthers would have scored 37 points. I'd be like, all right,
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  Speaker 3: they're wanting to know. I would have never thought that
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  Speaker 3: they would have lost by 50 plus points, but 20
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  Speaker 3: plus points. But that's what happened when you had the,
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  Speaker 3: the Panthers allowed 59 points to the bears. I understand
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  Speaker 3: Ben Johnson is a whiz kid. Caleb Williams, really good
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  Speaker 3: young quarterback. And they have a good offense with the,
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  Speaker 3: you know, with the Chicago bears, but I would have
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  Speaker 3: never thought in a million years, like the additions you said,
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  Speaker 3: in the offseason that the Panthers made that they would
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  Speaker 3: have allowed 59 points in the game.
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  Speaker 2: Crazy. How much of it do you think was on the– obviously,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of blame everywhere and reasons why, but
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  Speaker 2: how much do you put on the Panthers' defense and
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  Speaker 2: also the Bears also being that good?
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  Speaker 3: but this is, you got to have a game like
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  Speaker 3: with all the energy from last year and all the
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  Speaker 3: momentum from last year, if they start the year, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: and two to a football team that I just think they're,
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  Speaker 3: they're better than in the Atlanta Falcons. That would really
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  Speaker 3: be disappointing. And I believe you guys have the Browns
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  Speaker 3: after that. So you win this one. you should be
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  Speaker 3: on a path to being 2-1 and surviving that week
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  Speaker 3: one drop.
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  Speaker 2: And then it's the Lions' defense after that. Obviously, their
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  Speaker 2: offense is still a problem, but there's a chance here
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  Speaker 2: for Bryce and his offense to really get rolling the
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  Speaker 2: first month of the season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's a big year for Bryce because I
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  Speaker 3: think we've all been on the same page. Even throughout
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  Speaker 3: our five years of disagreements, we've all been on the
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  Speaker 3: same page with Bryce that they didn't need to go
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  Speaker 3: rush and give him a contract this off season. Like
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  Speaker 3: he had a good year last year, but it's only
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  Speaker 3: been a year and a half of us talking successfully
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  Speaker 3: about Bryce young. So this is a prove it year
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  Speaker 3: for Bryce young. And it can't just be one of
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  Speaker 3: those years where it's like, they're seven and 10, they're
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  Speaker 3: eight and nine. And, and they're just only in it
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  Speaker 3: because the division stinks. Like I got to see strides
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  Speaker 3: this year and the offense played well in week one.
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  Speaker 3: So I can't really ding the offense all that much,
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  Speaker 3: but this defense, they're going to get their head out
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  Speaker 3: of there. You know what? So they got to start
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  Speaker 3: performing better.
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  Speaker 2: We got a great text here from AC, Gelby, about
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  Speaker 2: you trying to get thrown out of the show early.
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  Speaker 2: He compared you to former Braves manager Bobby Cox when
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  Speaker 2: he would get thrown out during the lineup cards on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody asked, does Gelby have a tee time that he's
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  Speaker 1: trying to get to and get kicked off the show? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we always thought, don't hang up on Gelby, get mad.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're like, oh, no, actually, this might.
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  Speaker 2: Help him out a little bit. You know what?
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  Speaker 3: I would be like Bobby Cox if I was on
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  Speaker 3: the golf course, because man, that first shot would go right.
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  Speaker 3: And I'd be mother bleeping everyone up and down the fairway.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: Zach Galbraith is with us, Compass Media, talking some football,
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  Speaker 1: talking some Panthers. As far as Atlanta go, like, do
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  Speaker 1: you think... I like, do you think the Panthers put
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  Speaker 1: up another 30 spot this week? The Falcons defense actually
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  Speaker 1: played fairly well last week. Although I wonder if that
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  Speaker 1: has something to do with Pittsburgh's offense. Like, what do
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  Speaker 1: you think Bryce and the offense does for an encore
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  Speaker 1: this week?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually, I like the Panther secondary, Xavier Watts
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  Speaker 3: from Notre Dame and Bates coming over all those years
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  Speaker 3: ago from the Bengals and the Bengals defense started to
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  Speaker 3: fall apart. They have AJ Terrell too. So they have
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  Speaker 3: a good secondary. I got to see more of their
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  Speaker 3: pass rush though, because Jalen Walker tours ACL this off season,
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  Speaker 3: James Pierce Jr. I went 10 and a half sacks
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  Speaker 3: last year. He's he's out because of a suspension. So
• 6:03
  Speaker 3: I'm curious how they're going to look in the front seven,
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  Speaker 3: but their, their backend. They have a good secondary, and
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  Speaker 3: that should be a challenge for Bryce. And I'm curious
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  Speaker 3: to see how Bryce is going to perform up against
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  Speaker 3: that secondary in a divisional game where it always feels like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, these NFC South games usually lower scoring. and
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  Speaker 3: maybe they have some fireworks in the fourth quarter, but
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  Speaker 3: it usually feels like it's a seven-point game or a
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  Speaker 3: three-point game, and we could see those clutch moments maybe
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  Speaker 3: happen for Bryce once again.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of fireworks, that might describe what we see tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: night on the college side in Oxford. What's your take
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  Speaker 2: on this game in terms of who do you think
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  Speaker 2: is going to win the game, and how wild of
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  Speaker 2: a scene do you think we're going to see when
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  Speaker 2: Kiffin comes back to Ole Miss?
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  Speaker 3: I honestly think it's going to be nothing like we've
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  Speaker 3: ever seen before. Because I was talking to Jeff Collins,
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  Speaker 3: the former Georgia tech and temple head coach. And he
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  Speaker 3: was a part of the egg bowl for all those
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  Speaker 3: years as a defensive coordinator, Mississippi state. And he goes,
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  Speaker 3: that's stadium at an Oxford. I've gotten the nastiest thing
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  Speaker 3: said to me, he goes, it's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: hundred times worse for Lane Kiffin than an egg bowl.
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  Speaker 3: And you remember those Tennessee fans throwing golf balls and batteries.
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  Speaker 3: I like that stuff. I don't advocate for that's ridiculous,
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  Speaker 3: but it is going, it's going to, I think it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be worse than Chris Beard going back to Lubbock. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's one that I, that I do remember,
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  Speaker 3: but this is going to be just a wild scene.
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  Speaker 2: It's weird. It's weird.
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  Speaker 3: I picked LSU to make the playoff before the year started.
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  Speaker 3: I think I had them as an 11 seed. I
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  Speaker 3: don't buy that their quarterback is actually hurt. I think
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  Speaker 3: he's going to play in the game. But for most
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  Speaker 3: of the week, I thought that LSU was going to
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  Speaker 3: win the game. I don't know why. On Thursday and Friday,
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  Speaker 3: I just started to feel like Trinidad Chambliss and Keewon
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  Speaker 3: Lacey are going to lead a 10-point comeback. And Ole
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  Speaker 3: Miss is going to come back and ruin the party
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  Speaker 3: for Lane Kiffin.
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  Speaker 1: Gelby, what's your theory on, back to the NFL now,
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  Speaker 1: what's your theory on, it wasn't just the Panthers defense,
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  Speaker 1: although we clearly were the worst, but you saw good
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  Speaker 1: defenses too, Denver and Houston getting lit up. What's your
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  Speaker 1: theory on the defensive slow starts? Is there a link?
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  Speaker 2: Do you think so?
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  Speaker 3: The, the Houston game, I was doing it for compass
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  Speaker 3: and I was shocked and I get it. It's Josh Allen,
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  Speaker 3: but that defense last year was able to sack him
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  Speaker 3: eight times. And the Texans had Davis Warren, Davis mills,
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  Speaker 3: excuse me, as their quarterback. And they were able to out, out,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a score, Josh Allen, I think the game
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  Speaker 3: was 23 to 19. And then the Broncos game it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't even as if my homes played that well, it
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  Speaker 3: was just a Kenneth Walker just running through them like
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  Speaker 3: a hot butter, like a, like a knife through hot butter.
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  Speaker 3: But I just, I really think that it's maybe I'll
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  Speaker 3: chalk it up to the sloppiness because it used to
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  Speaker 3: be the first month of the season was bad the
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  Speaker 3: last three years with the way that they don't really
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  Speaker 3: train in the off season. I feel as if it's
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  Speaker 3: not until November 1st where we start to see clean football.
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  Speaker 3: So I would like to think the Texans and the Broncos'
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  Speaker 3: defenses are going to bounce back because they're that great. But, man,
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  Speaker 3: those two defenses were stunning how bad they were in
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  Speaker 3: week one.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt. No doubt. All right, brother.
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: Well, hey, we appreciate you joining us. Unfortunately for you,
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: you did not get kicked out. You lasted the entire interview.
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  Speaker 1: But we appreciate you hanging with us, man. Have a
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: good weekend, brother.
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  Speaker 3: And congratulations. I'm a man of my word, Mac, to
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  Speaker 3: your Penn state, any lions. It wasn't pretty.
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  Speaker 1: It was not pretty brother. I was that offense, the
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  Speaker 1: running game for Penn state right now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh God. But we got one more preseason tune up
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  Speaker 2: against Buffalo.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Penn state season hasn't begun yet. We'll work on that later.
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: That is a sad schedule, Galby. God, that's sad. Can
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  Speaker 2: you in Indiana?
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: And you're right. The big 10 schedule is an easy
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: big 10 schedule. Can Indiana Penn State maybe play like
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: the first couple of weeks? Cause they both play nobody. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're playing, they're playing a high school team
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  Speaker 2: this week. I think Indiana. All right, Galby, you're the man.
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  Speaker 3: Gelby. Later guys, be well.
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: All right, there you guys are. Gelb joining us on
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  Speaker 2: the Mac and Bone show.