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Mac & Bone Hour 3: Panthering Up? · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Oh, oh, oh, it's Mac and Bo on your radio, baby.
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  Speaker 2: This is my friend Matt.
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  Speaker 1: Posh, come on, Posh.
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  Speaker 3: This is my friend T-Bone.
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  Speaker 1: Let's have some fun.
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  Speaker 2: I can't go to work without listening to Mac and Bone.
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  Speaker 1: Do it live.
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  Speaker 4: It's huge.
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  Speaker 5: You know, having guys that are, you know, they not
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  Speaker 5: only just are big, but they like you said, they
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  Speaker 5: play big. You know, being able to get physical atop
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  Speaker 5: the routes, go and meet the ball in the air going.
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  Speaker 5: It's it's huge for me. You know, we have a
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  Speaker 5: ton of guys that I can go and trust and
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  Speaker 5: and know, just, you know, try to give them a shot.
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  Speaker 5: And that's such a luxury as a quarterback. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I'm so yeah, I'm so grateful for the weapons we
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  Speaker 5: have for the receivers, the tight ends, the backs. The
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  Speaker 5: way that they play, again, they make my job so
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  Speaker 5: much easier. So for me, it's just trying to give
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  Speaker 5: them a shot, get the ball in their hands, and
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  Speaker 5: they do all the hard work. So it's great having
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  Speaker 5: them around.
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  Speaker 6: That is Bryce talking about having these big receivers, big
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  Speaker 6: catch radius, and you saw that on display on the
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  Speaker 6: ball where T-Mac mossed C.J.
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  Speaker 1: Henderson on the sideline.
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  Speaker 6: You saw that on the play where Coker made that
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  Speaker 6: sprawling diving catch on the sideline.
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  Speaker 1: To haul it in.
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  Speaker 6: It's a beautiful resource, and it's just a couple of
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  Speaker 6: the things that make this Panthers offense hum and purr
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  Speaker 6: right now.
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  Speaker 4: Purr.
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  Speaker 1: Mack and Bo. I went bird noise. I'm not sure why.
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  Speaker 1: Why am I purring like a bird?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I got nervous. I just started making noises. I was
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  Speaker 1: going to say, that didn't sound like a great purr.
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  Speaker 1: You got a purr for us? Not really. How do
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  Speaker 1: you purr? I really don't know. Purr, purr. It just
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  Speaker 1: occurred to me. I don't know how to make. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a big purr guy. I can do that. But
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  Speaker 1: as a purr, I don't really know. I don't really
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  Speaker 1: know what to do there. I don't have cats.
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  Speaker 6: I really don't even know what noise they make. I
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  Speaker 6: know Sir Purr, though, baby. I know Sir Purr. He's
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  Speaker 6: an icon and an entertainer. We've got two more hours
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  Speaker 6: to go. We're going to have fun on a Friday.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to celebrate the fact that this is the
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  Speaker 6: time of year. We've got football to watch. In college,
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  Speaker 6: you have so many different fan bases that are either
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  Speaker 6: excited or either fearing together. And there's six ranked matchups.
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  Speaker 6: There's so much cool stuff to talk about there. But
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  Speaker 6: this Panthers-Browns game, Bone, is a chance to get to 2-1,
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  Speaker 6: have Sunday night football here against the Lions.
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  Speaker 1: This place will be rocking if they get to 2-1.
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  Speaker 6: But as a texter put it yesterday, there's a huge
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  Speaker 6: difference in the atmosphere Sunday night if you win or
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  Speaker 6: if you lose this game. And as someone that's going
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  Speaker 6: to be there at the doghouse, be at the game,
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  Speaker 6: I want that place rocking.
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  Speaker 1: I do, man. Mac, when's the last time the Lions
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  Speaker 1: came to town and you were in the crowd, if
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  Speaker 1: you recall? Oh, yeah. The freezing cold game. Yes. Holy crap.
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  Speaker 3: One of the great offensive performances in franchise history.
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  Speaker 1: But we don't want to focus on the Lions.
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  Speaker 3: We're in all over them. We can't do that, though.
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  Speaker 3: We don't want to fall into a trap where we're
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  Speaker 3: looking at the Lions.
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  Speaker 1: Do not at all, Bonesy.
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  Speaker 6: So I want to talk about some of these things
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  Speaker 6: that Panther fans are throwing out as concerns here.
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  Speaker 1: In this game.
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  Speaker 6: In fairness, we were talking about in the first hour
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  Speaker 6: or second hour, matchups we like, matchups we're worried about.
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  Speaker 6: We didn't really have a whole lot of matchups we're
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  Speaker 6: worried about against the Browns. That's the first thing I
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  Speaker 6: would say to the Panthers. They're the Browns. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 6: beat Tampa. You're the better team. you're the better team
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  Speaker 6: go take care of business but the injuries are the
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  Speaker 6: number one thing i think that have fans shook because
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  Speaker 6: yesterday we were kind of hoping bone with the injury
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  Speaker 6: report that stuff would work itself out in a positive
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  Speaker 6: way instead it got more negative now we did get
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  Speaker 6: jalen phillips full practice and he did assure the media
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  Speaker 6: oh yeah i'm good to play on sunday um and
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  Speaker 6: you do have bobby brown and pat jones coming back
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  Speaker 6: it looks like unless there's a setback knock on wood
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  Speaker 6: But they've been practicing all week. But now we have
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  Speaker 6: three specific players that I think have fans spooked. The
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  Speaker 6: fact that the calf injury for Devin Lloyd is still
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  Speaker 6: as such, to use a Ron Rivera term, that he
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  Speaker 6: did not practice yesterday still. Now we'll see if he
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  Speaker 6: does a little bit more today. And then you have
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  Speaker 6: the Coker. I think the Coker XL thing has fans
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  Speaker 6: freaked out because I think everybody thought, OK, Coker's limited
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  Speaker 6: on Wednesday. They're going to ease him in.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he went to a DNP yesterday, so he's going
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  Speaker 1: in the wrong direction.
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  Speaker 6: And then XL, there's a knee injury. Apparently he had
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  Speaker 6: an MRI on on Monday. And then he comes out
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  Speaker 6: Wednesday practices, but by Thursday he DNP. So the first
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  Speaker 6: thing is, and we could talk this through Panther fans,
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  Speaker 6: hit us up on the text line. Like how worried
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  Speaker 6: are you about these injuries? And is there one or
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  Speaker 6: two specific injuries you're the most worried about?
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  Speaker 3: I'm really concerned about Devin Lloyd because of what it is.
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  Speaker 3: That's an injury Mac, even if he's feeling okay. We've
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  Speaker 3: seen in other sports that when it comes to the
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  Speaker 3: calf strains and those type of injuries. You've got to
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  Speaker 3: be careful not to go out there too soon, or
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  Speaker 3: it could become a much worse situation, and that could
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  Speaker 3: be one where we get Tyrese Halliburton in the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 1: He was dealing with a calf strain.
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  Speaker 3: We've seen various baseball players have calf strains, and they
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  Speaker 3: go back out there, and all of a sudden, they're
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  Speaker 3: back for a short.
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  Speaker 1: Period of time. They're out again.
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  Speaker 3: I would be very, very cautious back, and if he
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  Speaker 3: has to miss a game, it sucks, but you have
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  Speaker 3: to be really careful not to sacrifice, potentially, a long-term situation,
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  Speaker 3: and they're not easy to... I don't think those are
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  Speaker 3: easy injuries to judge sometimes. And I think the guys
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  Speaker 3: might feel all right, but they go out there and
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  Speaker 3: one wrong misstep and it could be a major problem.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm a little bit concerned about what the injury
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  Speaker 3: is for Devin Lloyd.
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  Speaker 1: I will say this.
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  Speaker 6: And yeah, just a texter says that calf can lead
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  Speaker 6: to Achilles.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about that yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to trust Devin Lloyd and the comments he
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  Speaker 6: made the other day. On Wednesday, where he said, I'm
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  Speaker 6: not too concerned about it. Happened in the second half
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  Speaker 6: of the game, or first half of the game. I
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  Speaker 6: played the whole second half after that. I played extremely well,
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  Speaker 6: ran extremely well with the football twice. So my gut
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  Speaker 6: is he's going to play and he's all right. And
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  Speaker 6: there's no need to practice this man right now. The
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  Speaker 6: Coker thing has me the most worried. Some texters are
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  Speaker 6: worried about the Coker XL combo. This walk-em-down says no
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  Speaker 6: one cares about XL. I think it's the fact that, again,
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  Speaker 6: if you can't win a football game without XL's contributions,
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  Speaker 6: you should pack it up. I will say that. I
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  Speaker 6: think it's the combination bone of... If Coker's out and
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  Speaker 6: XL's out, you're down two and three wide receiver, right?
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  Speaker 6: Or you're down one A, one B, and number three.
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  Speaker 6: In a matchup where the secondary is one of their
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  Speaker 6: strengths already, so your offense, which has been flying high already,
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  Speaker 6: you miss two wide outs against that secondary. You're going
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  Speaker 6: to have to kind of almost hopefully they would think
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  Speaker 6: about changing their approach a little bit. and be a
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  Speaker 6: run team more than that's got to be part of
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  Speaker 6: it but the coker thing like i'm not gonna lie
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  Speaker 6: that has me shook a little bit that does because
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  Speaker 6: i thought they're saying now the good news is bone
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  Speaker 6: we got a bye week after next week so i
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  Speaker 6: don't know if he can make it to the bye
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  Speaker 6: week or does he sit out one game play that
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  Speaker 6: but at some point there's going to be relief during
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  Speaker 6: the bye week where he can sit out and you
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  Speaker 6: would hope that ankle can get good. But that one
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  Speaker 6: has me worried. He's been playing at such a high level.
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  Speaker 6: You mentioned it. Denzel Ward and Campbell are really good.
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  Speaker 1: But what did I say earlier? That dude that plays
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  Speaker 1: in the slot bone is very gettable. And We like
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  Speaker 1: Coker in.
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  Speaker 6: The slot a lot, so I would like to see
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  Speaker 6: him out there being able to exploit that matchup. I
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  Speaker 6: also worry about if you have to go down to
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  Speaker 6: receivers four, five, and six, how are they going to
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  Speaker 6: get open against the man coverage of Campbell and Ward?
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  Speaker 6: So I do worry about that the most, this Coker situation.
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  Speaker 6: This texter says Coker's fine. He said it's just a precaution.
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  Speaker 6: Coker has not spoke, I don't think, Bones, since the
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  Speaker 6: DNP yesterday. It's not the initial Coker stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's the.
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  Speaker 3: The video that television's Nick Carboni posted, and then that
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  Speaker 3: was what got people shook back when he was talking
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  Speaker 3: to a coach leaving the field, almost being consoled in
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  Speaker 3: some way. Yeah, kind of being patted on the back,
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  Speaker 3: and then he just walks off the field. And he's
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  Speaker 3: not been out there since then. That's the worry about
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  Speaker 3: that one for sure. This texter says, what about Coker
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  Speaker 3: being out? Does Waller play some slot? Waller's already going
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  Speaker 3: to be in that slot. But yeah, to Bone's point,
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  Speaker 3: how do you overcome these things? Even if they don't
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  Speaker 3: have Devin Lloyd, Bone, I said it the first hour,
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  Speaker 3: I like the combination of Okereke and Dodson better than
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  Speaker 3: the linebackers from last year.
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  Speaker 6: And you are playing a Browns offense. I just don't
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  Speaker 6: expect them to light up the scoreboard. Even their win
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  Speaker 6: against Tampa, they scored only 23 points today. But to
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  Speaker 6: your point, I think the big question is, what are
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  Speaker 6: the things we do offensively? You said run the ball. Waller,
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  Speaker 6: more snaps from Waller probably. Maybe more three tight end,
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  Speaker 6: more 13 personnel to get tight ends on the field.
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  Speaker 6: I do think there are ways, Bone, where this offense
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  Speaker 6: can still be good enough to beat the Browns. I
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  Speaker 6: wouldn't want to be playing, Bone, one of the best
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  Speaker 6: teams in the league. I wouldn't want to have this
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  Speaker 6: be the Philly game, you know? If we're going to
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  Speaker 6: miss two wide receivers, but against the Browns, like, do
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  Speaker 6: we have to score a ton to get them, you know,
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  Speaker 6: to beat them?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The Browns feel like it.
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  Speaker 3: The Browns hope in this game is to really muck
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  Speaker 3: it up and have it a real low scoring game
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  Speaker 3: and be an ugly game. Uh, Texter says cooker was
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  Speaker 3: on NFL radio yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't know. I did fine. Oh shoot. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know about that. I did not know, but I
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  Speaker 1: I'll check on that.
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  Speaker 3: Double check. I'll double check. But if he's on a
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  Speaker 3: media thing, usually if a guy's, uh, Not doing well.
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  Speaker 3: He's not going to do media. I wonder if we
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  Speaker 3: got a cut of that.
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  Speaker 1: All right. That's good work by y'all. Because I somehow
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  Speaker 1: missed that one. We will find that for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Good eye.
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  Speaker 1: Good eye there.
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  Speaker 4: 919.
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  Speaker 3: But we'll make sure it's yesterday, though. Because if it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't yesterday, it might be something from a week before
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  Speaker 3: or earlier in the week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. OK, we'll just see if we see if you
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  Speaker 1: can find that, Fiddy.
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  Speaker 6: See if you can find any of Jalen Coker being
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  Speaker 6: on NFL radio yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see.
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  Speaker 6: What else do we have going on here? This texter says,
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  Speaker 6: we're playing the damn Browns. If we can't lose a
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  Speaker 6: couple of starters and beat the Browns, there are bigger
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  Speaker 6: issues to worry about.
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  Speaker 1: They are.
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  Speaker 4: I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we still have enough.
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  Speaker 6: Honestly, if all three of those guys don't play, I
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  Speaker 6: would still pick the Panthers to beat the Browns. It
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  Speaker 6: just gets a little– it gets dicey and scary then.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be– it's more of a fight than
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  Speaker 3: we really– than we think it should be at this point, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Now, what do you think about the trap game thing?
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  Speaker 6: I saw Cat Crave, the Panthers blog site, bring this up.
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  Speaker 6: I saw somebody else text us about this. Is this
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  Speaker 6: a trap game? We blow out our rival. Big, and
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  Speaker 6: then we go to the Browns. This doesn't really feel
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  Speaker 6: definition of trap game for me.
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  Speaker 3: I don't really feel like the Panthers are good enough
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  Speaker 3: consistently yet. They're still working their way to that to
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  Speaker 3: end up falling for the trap situations. I still think, Mac,
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  Speaker 3: that they're still two weeks removed. from a game where
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  Speaker 3: they gave up 59 points. I don't think their attention, Mac,
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  Speaker 3: is going to swerve off of what it has to
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  Speaker 3: be on now. I don't think they're at that point yet.
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  Speaker 3: They're not good enough to not focus on their opponent yet.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying they're not good, but they're... They're not
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  Speaker 3: good enough yet to overlook somebody.
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  Speaker 6: I know after last night's demolition of the Packers that
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  Speaker 6: the nation now views the Falcons bone as elite.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that.
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  Speaker 6: But like, I don't think the Panthers really feel like
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  Speaker 6: like they're still not less than two weeks removed from
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  Speaker 6: giving up a Keekly, giving up 59 points. I don't
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  Speaker 6: feel like beating the Falcons and Cooper Rush and Jack
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  Speaker 6: Strand has them feeling like their bleep doesn't stink.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 6: No, I don't buy that for a second. It's not
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  Speaker 6: like some huge win against one of the best teams
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  Speaker 6: in the NFL. So I don't really feel the trap
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  Speaker 6: game thing, plus the Browns won. See, that's another thing
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  Speaker 6: that I think makes it, by definition, not a trap game.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a team, Bone.
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  Speaker 6: That actually like the fans actually like are proud of
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  Speaker 6: the Browns right now. Like they don't know what to
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  Speaker 6: do with themselves. They're happy about the win over the Bucs.
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  Speaker 6: So they're going to at least at the, at the
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  Speaker 6: start of this game, be a little fired up and
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  Speaker 6: hopefully our defense can change that and we can get
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  Speaker 6: them hating on Deshaun. But yeah, I just like, they
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  Speaker 6: beat a Tampa team bone that, you know, we battled
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  Speaker 6: with last year down to the wire, split with them
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  Speaker 6: in two games.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about the whole trap, we're not ready
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  Speaker 1: to play thing.
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  Speaker 3: This texter now refutes the report of NFL Radio having
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Coker on.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, shoot, now we got, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just did a quick scan, I saw nothing
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  Speaker 2: of Coker.
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  Speaker 3: That would be big, because that means he's probably, but
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  Speaker 3: if he's not, then that doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: Really do anything.
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  Speaker 6: So I don't think there's an, okay, so we don't
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  Speaker 6: think there was an NFL Radio interview with Coker. Where
• 12:51
  Speaker 6: are we getting this stuff.
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: From, man? Here's the thing, who do you trust, Finney?
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  Speaker 1: In the year of our Lord, 2026. Like, it's so
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  Speaker 1: hard to know.
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  Speaker 6: Like, I wanted to trust those texters, but they must
• 13:01
  Speaker 6: have got bad information from probably a non-trust.
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  Speaker 1: Like, who can you trust in this world, Fetty?
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  Speaker 2: And who am I to judge?
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  Speaker 4: I got AI'd in terms of a Jameis Winston quote
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  Speaker 4: the other night after.
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  Speaker 2: The Monday Night Football game.
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  Speaker 1: That is true.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to judge the texter. Mac, let me
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  Speaker 2: ask you this question.
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  Speaker 4: If Carolina loses on Sunday and then they come back
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  Speaker 4: next week against the Lions and they win at home,
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  Speaker 4: Are we going to get last year's vibes from this
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  Speaker 4: year's team with the we're.
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  Speaker 2: Going to win one, lose one, win one, lose one?
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  Speaker 2: Because here's my thing. This is how I view Sunday's game.
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  Speaker 6: We will.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to take every game one game at a time.
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  Speaker 2: Can't look ahead. If they are a playoff team, playoff
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  Speaker 2: teams won this game. That's how I view it.
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  Speaker 4: If we are a team that's capable of being one
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  Speaker 4: of the seven best teams in the NFC, whether it's
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: through division or through a wild card, we win.
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  Speaker 2: The game on Sunday. If not, I think it's fair
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  Speaker 2: to question. Are they a legitimate playoff team?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you've got to get this one. We said last
• 14:02
  Speaker 6: week you have to get that one. You've got to
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  Speaker 6: get this game. Like, regardless of the injuries, you're the
• 14:07
  Speaker 6: better team. You've got to win a game like this.
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  Speaker 6: And there is a burden of proof to show that, hey,
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  Speaker 6: we can do consistent. Do we have more developments on
• 14:15
  Speaker 6: Jalen Coker on the text line, Bo?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: He did an interview with Larry Sprakel, according to one texter.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, people are joking. Here I was thinking this was
• 14:22
  Speaker 6: a serious text. By the way, did Bebop actually say
• 14:25
  Speaker 6: something funny, Bo?
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: Is this a first? I was ignoring him. Bebop says,
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: you know who you can trust? The government. Or is
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: he being serious? I don't know.
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: I have no idea.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: I'm hoping that's a silly.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: When we come back, we're going to get frisky on
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: a Friday here because it's our college football confidence check-in
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: for all the teams in the Carolinas. Who's feeling good
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: ahead of their matchups this weekend? Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
• 15:08
  Speaker 7: These teams have played the last two years. It's been
• 15:10
  Speaker 7: down to the wire. Bama had a good week eventually
• 15:14
  Speaker 7: last week, but FSU scored a little too many points
• 15:17
  Speaker 7: for comfort. But then we also watched what South Carolina did.
• 15:22
  Speaker 7: South Carolina, the antithesis, they got off to a really
• 15:24
  Speaker 7: fast start, and then they withered down the stretch. So
• 15:28
  Speaker 7: each of these teams is the polar opposite of each
• 15:30
  Speaker 7: other in terms of halves. There may be a good
• 15:32
  Speaker 7: derivative play for those of you interested in betting this
• 15:34
  Speaker 7: game on that front. But Lenora Sellers... Has to bounce
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: back or it's over. And I say this game's over.
• 15:41
  Speaker 7: More than that could be over. My instinct on this
• 15:46
  Speaker 7: game since the conclusion of Saturday's games is South Carolina
• 15:51
  Speaker 7: is going to take a fight to Alabama. That's my instinct.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: There you go. There you go, Gamecock fans.
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: Josh Pate's got an instinct that South Carolina's going to
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: take the fight to Alabama.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: And I have that instinct, too. What could go wrong, Bo?
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: What could go wrong? Nostradamus is back.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: When it's 49-7 in the third quarter, Mac, remember this
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: moment of the show.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: You calling route, Finney? You calling route?
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: No, you just asked what could go wrong.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: You teaming up with Josh Payne seems a little dangerous.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: Can I say something about this matchup here? I don't
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: want to sound defeated because I've been that way all week,
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: but I would like to say South Carolina plays at Alabama,
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: Kentucky next week, who's better, at the Gators, then Tennessee,
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: then Oklahoma, on and on and on and on. To
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: think they're going to win all those... I'm not a dumbo. Like,
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: that would be insane that they're going to win them all.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: So what I need to see, Mac, is a higher
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: compete level, at least, against Bama. Can they do what
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: they've done recently and push them to the end? If
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: they win, that's great. But I need to see some fight.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: some care. I need to see Sellers play well. I
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: need to see them push Bama, and I need Sellers
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: to carry them to some degree. I don't need to
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: see them get blown out, because I think there's some carryover, Mac.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: If they do keep it close, they do play well.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Sellers does play well. Let that carry over to next
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: week against Kentucky. Let there be some carryover. Even in
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: a loss, I think they can gain something here. But
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: a blowout loss here, where they don't show up, and
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Sellers is awful, there could also be some.
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: Carryover in a negative way. Alabama is very slow to
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: start games. You saw it last week against Florida State.
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: They got down 21-6. You saw it against Kentucky. Keelan
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: Russell turned it over three times.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Bing, bang, boom. Kentucky opened up a lead.
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: The question is, if the Gamecocks get a lead early,
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: because I think they have to start strong, take advantage
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: of that.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: But can they hold a lead?
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: We've seen Shane Beamer's squad blow leads last week and
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: beyond multiple times. I just feel like they'll be in
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: a fight. I feel like you will leave Saturday feeling better.
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: But that's what we want to ask you. Who feels
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: college football confidence this week? We had a Bama fan
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: last hour that said this is a blowout. Keelan Russell
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: will be on the bench mid-third quarter. How do Gamecocks
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: fans feel about that? Does that tick you off, or
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: do you say, yeah, he's probably right? And anybody else
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: that wants to jump in here, Clemson fans, it's a
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: scary game tonight against Cal. How do you feel about that?
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: NC State and App fans, we've got to get NC
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: State and App fans going. Are both sides confident? The
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: app fans, app fans and wake fans, Bone, have been
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: the pluckiest underdog fans of the week. Wake fans today
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: are calling out Louisville. They're calling out Bones, Duke, Blue Devil.
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: They're calling out all the Carolinas. They're calling out everybody.
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: It's very feisty behavior from wake fans. Did I say
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: waste getting unruly right now?
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: It's crazy.
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: It doesn't usually happen. App fans want a piece of state.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: I think app fans.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Listen, it's fun.
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: It makes it fun if y'all want to text in
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: and say, oh, NC State, you know, you know, they're
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: going to choke another game away.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: They're going to do it against us.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: I just I think there's a trench difference between them,
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: NC State and their budget to acquire players and App
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: State and their budget to acquire players. And I would
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: be shocked if Duke Scott and Davion Goss do not
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: run over App. I just would like, and I'm not,
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: they got to have a game back for state. And
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: I don't mean just for the season. Obviously it is.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: This is a gotta have a game for the program
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: for Dave Thorne. This is a, you, you, you can't lose.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: You lose this game.
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: I think it's over. Do you think there's any chance
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: they can lose though? Like, I think there is close
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: to a 0% chance that they lose this football game.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Can I say, though, Mac? I'm saying close. I'm not
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: going all the way. Mac, this is NC State. Did
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: you think a week ago on Saturday? when they had
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: the ball at the end, there was a chance to lose?
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: They said, hold our barbecue, Mackey.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: So I will never say close to zero. So I
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: will never do that. Yes, this is NC State. They
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: could put it all down their legs at any given moment.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: They could completely fall apart. So I will never say
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: never with State.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: A 704 number says, Mac, I'm not sure State has
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: the best quarterback on the field. Singleton is a beast.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: He is.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: And State's defense, you know, you saw Curtis last week
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: hit some balls downfield. Averaged almost 10 yards in attempts. So, yeah,
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: if State can't, I think State's going to control their
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: run game. Appa struggled a bit to run the football game.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: But yeah, I mean, I'm not saying that App doesn't
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: do anything in this game. I just, I would be
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: utterly shocked if State lost in this spot. To Bone's point,
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: I was utterly shocked that C.J. Bailey said, come on
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: over here and hit me and knock the ball away. Like,
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: so yeah, it is State.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: What do you feel about Max saying there's really no
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: chance State has to lose this game?
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I said close to 0% chance. I think that's close.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: I think that's very disrespectful to app state with how,
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: how good they've looked here early on this year. And
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: also what is, what is NC state? I know they
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: were on the verge and should have won that game
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: last week.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: They did a lot of stuff, though, like good stuff
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: on the road against an SEC team.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: That can't be forgotten here.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: I just wonder where this team's psyche is after what
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: happened last week.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: That's a legit question.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: Combined with what happened in Week 0 where they showed
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: up to Virginia and got ran all over.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: By that program.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Bone, the fact that you said this is a gotta
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: have a game, isn't that a pretty damning reflection of
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: where NC State football is in year 1400, Dave Doran? Well,
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: they gotta win a game at home against Appalachian State.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Well, it's because of the way the season played out.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: They didn't show up week one. They had one of
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: the worst losses ever. against vanderbilt now if they were
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: if they were to lose to app a in-state team
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: on top of.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: The other it would be horrible i think that's all
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: bone saying bo's not on here saying they're going to
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: win by the way captain chuckles over there i don't
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: think all of a sudden you'd we'd all view it
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: as a layup if app came calling for carolina You
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: know what I mean? You're acting like, this is disrespectful. Like, really?
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: Like, we view Carolina as some unbeatable force against App State?
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about NC State, Mac.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying. I don't understand what you're saying.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: I'm saying that I think App State's more than capable
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: of going in there and competing with this NC State
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: team for four quarters.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: This isn't going to be some 48-7 result on Saturday.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: No, I'm not saying that, but I'm saying it's at
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: least a 14-point win, I believe.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: It's down to 13-and-a-half, by the way. Have I ever
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: been wrong? I mean, have I ever led you astray
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: on a game prediction?
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Point blank period, if State loses on Saturday, Dave Doran
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: should be unemployed on Sunday.
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, get the boxes out. It's a get-the-box-out situation.
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: Let's talk more here, although Smitty from the City says
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: we could play Will Wilson, barely throw the ball the
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: whole game and still win.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, gee. You're going to need C.J. Bailey to win
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: this game.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: 828 says App State's front seven has to play lights out.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: App does have a good tandem linebackers, Ferris and Mitchell.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: You're right.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: And this defense is much closer to the standard at
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: App defensively than past years. I just feel like... It's a,
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: you know, they lean on them. Maybe it's one of
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: those things where the game's close for a while, but
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: the depth, the depth of the, of the power for team,
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: you know what I mean?
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Ways in. All right.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: So Clemson, this texter says, why is everybody acting like
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: this is such a scary game for Clemson? I was
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: more scared about the Tar Heel game and we really
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: showed something outscoring them 22, three in the second half.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: This game, the alarmists are overdoing it. This Cal game
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: to me is nerve wracking. It should be nerve wracking
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: to Clemson fans. And I don't think Clemson's winning. Now
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: that might be good news for Clemson fans. But the
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: way Clemson's defense has played, Bone, outside the top 100
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: in every category of total defense, I just think Sagapulitelli
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: could light them up. Can they stop Muhammad from running
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: the ball?
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: It's a short week after an emotional home win. You've
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: got to get the guys ready for this one here. Yeah,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: I could definitely see Cal winning. You're starting at 1030
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: at night, your time. We talk about.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Trap games. You're coming off the win over North Carolina
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: at home. You've got the Friday night sleepy kind of
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: game against Cal, and then you've got Miami next week
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: at home. So you talk about the game between the games,
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: that's trouble. This has trap written all over it for
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Clemson tonight.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: Bone Shrine Guy says, Cal doesn't worry me so that
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: we will probably lose. Jonathan says, I have no dog
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: in the fight, but how does a Clemson fan think
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: they're guaranteed to beat anybody?
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: They're favored by a point and a half in this game.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: I know, and I was surprised they were favored, man.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I think it flipped around. I thought Cal was favored.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Is that what it was? I think so. It's been
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: a point and a half both ways.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: Smitty from the city is back again trying to trash
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: App State and what his Wolfpack will do. We could
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: do to App what Virginia did to us.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: That's what you're supposed to do.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: You're an ACC school.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: That's a Sunbelt school. You're supposed to, if you do that,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: you're supposed to do that. You shouldn't brag about that.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: You're supposed to run absolutely to the ground.
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: I need to know, I need to know, Fitty. I
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: feel like I remember watching a game not that long ago.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Yes, I know.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: They came into my stadium and beat me.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's all I'm saying.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: I get that.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: Also, when we talk about this Clemson-Cal game, you forget
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: about the one in Tangible.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: What does the man upstairs think about this game?
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Because Dabo told you last week they won the game
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: because God wanted them to win that football game.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I thought he meant in our building upstairs. Does God
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: want Clemson football to beat Cal?
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Because if God wants Clemson to win, I think Clemson's
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: going to win.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: But I don't know. Is 10-30 of a start too
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: late for God? I don't know.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: That's a hell of a breakdown, Finney. Hell of a breakdown. Bone,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: give me another game that we're not talking about. It
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: doesn't have to be local.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: I mean, some of these SEC games are so freaking juicy. Like,
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: what fan base? There's Tennessee against Texas. We've got a
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: lot of Vols fans. I think we've got Gator fans listening.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: We've got Bone. I haven't heard from you this week.
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: I want to smack your fat face. Gators against Ole Miss. Like,
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: is there a fan base out there.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Bone, you want to say you should feel confident this week?
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Boy, I can't wait to see Texas and Tennessee, Ole Miss, Florida,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: those two games right there. Kind of the unknown of
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: maybe how good Tennessee is there in that game. I
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: lean Texas to beat Tennessee. I'm still not believing yet
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: in Tennessee. Now, Ole Miss, Florida, Florida's favored in all
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: the monies coming in, like 80% on the Ole Miss side.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: I do think this screams a letdown for Ole Miss.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: I think that Gator offense can hang with Chambliss, and
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: the Gators offense can hang with the Ole Miss offense.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: They're scoring some points. I think the Gators– get a
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: huge win and prove that they are actually one of
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: the better teams in the SEC this year.
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: I think the Gators beat Ole Miss. See, I'm with
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: you on the Gators. That's the fan base I wanted
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: to shout out. Tennessee, I'm just not sure. I picked
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: Texas earlier in the week to win by double digits.
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: I do realize Arch has not been playing great. And
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: I do realize Tennessee's running for almost 300 yards a game.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: So can they just power it right at Texas? It's
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: going to be interesting. I just think Tennessee hasn't proved
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: anything yet. And I'm skeptical of them a bit. They've
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: got that true freshman. in Faison starting. Is he ready
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: for this moment? But you are at home. Florida's the
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: one I feel most strongly about, though, Bone. Like, I'm
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: with you, and there are Gator fans now texting in
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: to think they got a shot. Multiple people are pointing
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: out the letdown angle of Ole Miss. That was an
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: emotional game. I keep seeing that picture, Bone, where the
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: guys on the Ole Miss defense ran past Lane Kiffin
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: after they picked off that pass at the end, and
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: we're all yelling and pointing at him.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: It's a classic photo. That game meant everything. I Everything
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: to Ole Miss. I actually think, Mac. I think Florida
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: might blow out Ole Miss. Blow them out?
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: Damn!
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: You see that in college football sometimes. A team that's
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: coming off the huge win the week before goes on
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: the road, and they're not the same team anymore from
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: what they were the week before. I think this is
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: a spot where Florida puts it on Ole Miss.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: They do have Lacey Hurt. They do have Lacey Hurt.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I will say this.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: I watched Florida's defense last week give up 39 points
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: to an Auburn offense that looked really bad against Baylor.
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: So I feel like Trinidad Chambliss can put up points, too.
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: I just think it's a classic. I think it's like 38-35.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: But I do think the Gators can win this damn game, man.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: I think that Chambliss comes in as one of the leaders,
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: rightfully so, for the Heisman Trophy. I think Jaden Ball
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: has a game where we say, oh. he might be
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: up on the high on that list.
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: That old miss run defense is shaky bro yep jayden
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: ball i think is going to have a lot of
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: success but i just chambliss to me is going to
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: keep him in it i think the kid is freaking
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: amazing but we'll see the gator fans love the show
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: today gator fans are all over the place this dude
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: says gator mac and gator bone i freaking love this
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: show gator bone professional that that just says what he
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: thinks the right thing by the way mac fitty with
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: an all-time uh Excuse me, Willie with an all-time.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Stray at Fiddy on the text line. What's going on
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: with Willie?
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Fiddy was talking about God there. Willie said, nothing is
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: impossible for God. He brought Fiddy a girlfriend.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Dang!
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: It is a salient point.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Maybe he can bring Willie some better cooking habits on the.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: On the smoker.
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: Guys.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: You just got to tip your hat to Willie on
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: that one.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Damn, P-Man.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: We haven't talked enough about this USC-Oregon game because we
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: don't talk Big Ten football on this show enough, according
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: to some people.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: That, in my opinion, Mac, is a de facto elimination.
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: Game.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: If Oregon loses, that's two losses in September.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: But it would be USC's first loss.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: But have you seen their schedule the rest of the way?
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough. It's definitely tough.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: That is a sneaky, really big, important game for Lincoln Riley.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: It's huge.
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: It's a huge game for Oregon, though, to your point.
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: They've got to play better than they did early in
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: the season. I personally believe USC is a bit fraudulent.
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: I think their defense is horrible. They gave up 35
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: points in that crappy-ass Rutgers game. I feel like it's
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: a moment for Oregon to bounce back, but we still
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: have to see Oregon's offensive line, Oregon's defense play better
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: than they did in the.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: First two weeks of the season.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Can I make a from the gut selection here, Mac,
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: just thinking about it right now. Charlotte's been, they've been fighting, right?
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Ole Miss game, they played better than we thought. Last
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: week in the elements, they fought against App. I think Charlotte, Mac,
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: this week, Tim Albin.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: They get their win this week. There you go. I
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: think they beat Louisiana this week. How about that, baby?
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: How about that from the bone man? I think Charlotte
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: gets a win this week. How about that?
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: 40!
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, my bad. Niners! My bad.
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: I was looking up who Louisiana has played this year.
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: Louisiana only lost to you. Louisiana put up 30 on USC, though, bro.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: That sums up our show and the Charlotte 49ers right there.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I yell 40 and eight seconds later... Come on, baby.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Let's get it.
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: I would love it for Charlotte fans. I feel bad
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: for Charlotte fans. I just want their football to be better.
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: I want them to have things to be excited about,
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: to text about, to engage.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: With the show. I know they played USC. Who else?
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: They scored 30 against USC, which, again, might help my
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: point about USC's defense.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: They beat UAB last week as well. And then they
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: beat Lamar. Some dude named Lamar. They played 11-on-1. Beat
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: them 38-7. Speaking of that, I have not heard from
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Joe Person all week, by the way. Because Duke's playing
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: William and Mary this week. The Fighting Joe Persons.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: The Fighting Joe Persons and Mike Tomlins. Oh, he don't
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: want that smoke. I heard from Jumpin' Joe. Jumpin' Joe,
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: come get some. He don't want that smoke, Bo.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Duke, you filth. Hold on.
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: We did hear from Mike Tomlin, though. I think he's
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: got something to say. Mike Tomlin got something to say.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Over there to Bo? Let's see what he's got. The
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Browns is the Browns. Okay, okay.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Speaking of the Browns, when we come back, it is
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: the Browns. Does that mean it's an automatic Panther up situation?
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Our game picks are next. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. Mack and Bo with you.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Loving it.
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: Loving hearing from all these different fan bases. Can't wait
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: to watch college football tomorrow. Just hunker down, baby. Then
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: you throw the FC game in Saturday night. Huge game
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: against fifth seeded Chicago, although tons of guys not playing
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: on both sides. But can't wait for the weekend. And
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: obviously Panthers and Browns on Sunday. A quick note. KB
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: and I will take our show on the road again.
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: Countdown to kickoff is at the Twin Peaks in Fort Mill,
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: right there by Carowind. So if you're down anywhere near there,
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: come on out and see us. 11-1, eating some wings.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: And getting you ready for Panthers and Browns on Sunday.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: So, Bone Man. Oh, yeah, you had some news, though,
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: some show news. Yes, we want to wish a very
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: happy birthday. We're still calculating exactly which one it is.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: Happy birthday to the one and only. Granny Pat.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: Send in your birthday wishes. Yesterday was 50. Y'all send
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: in a lot of nice messages. Send in your birthday
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: wishes to Granny Pat today on the show.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: 704-5709-610.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Take it serious. I don't want jokes about that. It's
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: her birthday, all right? When we figure out which one,
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: we're going to let you know.
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: She's only two years older than my dad passed, but
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: my mom. She's only two years older than my mom, so...
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: You know, about the same age. So granny could be
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: my mom. That had to be a cool mom growing up.
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: Just kind of like the boozy, crazy mom. I didn't
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: have one of those. My mom barely drank. I kind
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: of wish I had.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: A boozy mom like granny.
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: All right, let's talk Panthers here, shall we?
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. Y'all have boozy moms? Let me know.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Let's talk Panthers, baby.
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: It's time to Panther up or to not Panther up,
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: and I feel like everybody knows where this is going.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: I feel like everybody knows.
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: I would think all three of us on this show
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: think enough about the Panthers to get a dub, regardless
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: of the injuries, in Cleveland. But I need to know, Bone,
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: how do you think this game plays out, and what
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: is your pick?
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: When I looked into my crystal ball for this game,
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: I was having a little trouble, Matt, trying to find
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: the exact score for my pick. I do think the
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: Browns are in that 10 to 13 area. I don't
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: think the Panthers are going to go as high scoring
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: as previous weeks because the secondary for the Browns is good.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: The Coker status.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: I do think the Panthers find a way in a
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: somewhat maybe ugly, mucked up type game. I think the
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Panthers win this game by a score of 20 to 10.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Whoa, so you definitely went in that low scoring.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: I thought maybe perhaps 23 to 10. But with the
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Coker injury, I'm going to say 20-10 for right now.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: If I find out Coker's fine, I may up the
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: points to maybe 24-10.
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: With this offense, could you imagine if we're held that
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: low but far below 30? It'll be crisis radio on
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: Monday morning.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: What has happened to the high-powered Carolina Panthers? But you're right.
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: They may not have Coker, and we may not have
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: a third receiver, XL. So Fitty has been talking up
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: the possibility of having to grind it out, too. This
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: low-scoring game. I wonder if Fitty is picking a similar
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: score to you. I also wonder if Fit Dog is
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: going to try to make it two consecutive three score
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: galore picks. He hit the first ever correct three score
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: galore in show history last week and deserves to be
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: saluted and really fed grapes.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: And fanned for that. He doesn't eat grapes.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, I love grapes.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Just don't eat enough of them. Give us the list.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: You just love some things more.
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: Some things that are passed to you through a window.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: You just prefer. Oh, for grapes. Fit Daddy. Is it
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: three scores galore? What is it? What's the pick?
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: It worked so well last week. What's the harm in
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: trying it again? I have flirted with what they shut out.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: It's really hard to shut out a team in the NFL,
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: although I do think if you do get bad to
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: Sean Watson, it is on the table in this game.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to go that route. I'm with Bone, though.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: I think this is going to be a grinder of
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: a game.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: I think this game could be close in theory on
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: the scoreboard.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: We know who the better team is.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: Deep into the second half, a late touchdown here really
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: puts the game– Out of reach. Back-to-back weeks, I'm going
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: three-score galore.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: Give me the Panthers on the road in the armpit
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: of America, 24-7 over the Cleveland Browns.
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: 24-7.
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: This man has gone the unprecedented double galore bone.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: You don't like this? You're nervous?
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Not three touchdowns galore, but three scores, two touchdowns and
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: a field goal galore.
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: Literally the lowest point total you can have to be
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: three scores galore, because 16 is still technically two scores galore.
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: So he did go on the very low end of
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: three scores galore.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Anyway, I don't know. I don't know if we can
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: rip him, though. It didn't jinx us last week.
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: Everybody gets worried when you and I do stuff like
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: blowout predictions, but it worked for Fit Dog last week.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: What could go wrong?
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: This texter says, can y'all cut to the chase? There
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: is a 0% chance we are losing on Sunday. You
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: ain't going to hear that out of me. And if
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: you do hear that out of me, hit me over
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: the head with a tire iron. Because seriously, I need
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: to be stopped. I've got a tire in my bag
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: right here.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: It just so happens. I will say this. Of course,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: I'm picking the Panthers.
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: I'm Panthering up, but I don't want to do any
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: of this juju that there's no way we can lose
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: this game, especially when there are injuries to Lloyd, Coker, XL,
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: stuff like that that are factoring in. It'll be a
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: new challenge. Cleveland's going to go man-heavy on us. We
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: hadn't faced that yet this year. We may have to
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: do it without Coker, but I like what Bone says
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: about the ability to run the ball in this matchup.
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: I think Chuba's actually been pretty efficient, and imagine what
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: his yards per carry number would be, Bone.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: If we stopped committing penalties last week. So I think
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: you do have to clean up the penalties.
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: I think you need to pound it at them a bit.
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: But I think Bryce Young's a different dude, and I
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: agree with what Fitz said earlier. I don't think it's
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: going to be the same statistical numbers for Bryce, but
• 38:46
  Speaker 6: I think you're going to look at it and say, hey,
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: let's say he was missing Coker. I think you're going
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: to look at it and say, Browns have some good
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: secondary parts. They were number three pass defense in the
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: league last year. And look at Bryce, 225, two tutties
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: and no picks. Something like that, right? Where you're like,
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: he's still got it done in a different way. And
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: then on defense, I think the boys are going to
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: eat man. And it seems like both y'all do too,
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: based on your Browns score prediction. I think these guys
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: are going to stuff the run. I know we're dead
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: last in league and run defense, but if that is
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: all because of that Bears game, I think we slow
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: down a running game bone that has been brutal. And
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: I think we get Deshaun into third and long situations.
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: And then I think we go after him. He's been
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: sacked seven times in two games. That's up there in
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: the top of the league. I think Jalen Phillips gets
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: another one. I think Prince Lee can get them down.
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: So I think the Panthers win a game similar to
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: what y'all are talking about.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I will go 24 to 13. Okay. Panthers beat the Browns.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: I'm kind of thinking in that neighborhood as well. I
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: forgot part of my prediction there. I think Deshaun Watson
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: throws two interceptions, one each to Horn and to Mike Jack.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: Because those guys are– there was stuff up yesterday. Those
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: guys are upset, Mac, at all the plays being made
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: by the linebackers. Those guys want to eat and get
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: their own turnovers. I think J.C. jumps around, picks one off.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: I think Mike Jack also. I think they both get
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: INTs on Sunday.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: I like that.
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: These rookie wide receivers, they're going to learn a lesson
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: from these corners this week. I really like the fact
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: we have great corners against their young– receivers uh 704
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: number says i'm gonna go opposite of you guys i
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: go with the dude wipe special the browns win by
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: 22 that is that is the dude wipes browns challenge
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: if they win by 22 this week or more A
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: fan wins.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: $ 50, 000.
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: If I'm a Browns fan, I would not start mentally
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: spending any money. If he throws two picks, by the way, Bone,
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: it could result in Browns fans throwing objects at Deshaun Watson.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Dude wipes. Throwing other dude wipes out.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: I said the other day, if the Panthers lose by
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: 22 or more, I will walk.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: To the headquarters of Dude Wipes. And I said I
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: will eat. Chicago. In Chicago. I will eat a Dude Wipe.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: And I'll get a Brazilian wax.
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: There you go, baby. So now all that's on the line. Panthers,
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: don't mess this up. This texter says all three Mac
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: and Bone members picking the Panthers.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Not a good feeling. Like we did last week? Like
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: we did last week, Skillet. Like we did week one?
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: That might be a bad example.
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: Oh, God.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Come on. We need this game, man. You've got to
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: have this. You're the better team. You've got to have
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: this game, Panthers.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Hey, it's not your time to pep talk. Let's put
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: them in more. I know.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: I don't really know. Shut up. Why am I screaming?
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: They're not listening. Who am I screaming to? But I'm excited, man.
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: Get to 2-1, baby, and then have Sunday night football
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: with a two-game win streak.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: That would be hype.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that place will be jumping next Sunday night if
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: that's the case. It won't be jumping anyway. When we
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: come back. We're going to talk ACC football for the
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: first time. 12-year NFL vet Rodney McLeod, now of the
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: ACC Network, joins us to preview all the action this weekend.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: How much pressure is truly on NC State's program tomorrow night?
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: That's next. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.