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Mac & Bone Hour 3: NFL in Europe? · Mac & Bone Podcast

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Speaker 3: It is that time?
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Speaker 5: Well, I guess last segment wasn't last segment was literally
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Speaker 3: There was no footballing there the way it ended.
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Speaker 5: Somebody has pointed out that segment literally was random crap.
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Speaker 5: what we're in right now. Football and fun mode. And maybe,
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Speaker 5: just maybe we can blend the two together because we
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Speaker 5: are just counting down bone to college football. I can't
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Speaker 5: believe it's ten days from game day for UNC and
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Speaker 5: for NC State and Virginia U n CTCU and NC
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Speaker 5: State in Virginia is ten days away?
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Speaker 1: Is that?
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Speaker 3: Does that not seem crazy?
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Speaker 2: And there are times where week zero, you know, it's
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Speaker 2: fun to have football on, but the rooting interest or
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Speaker 2: whatever may not mean a while. Last year Mecca. I
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Speaker 2: remember I got into Stanford Hawaii in Week zero because
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Speaker 2: there wasn't a lot of options. But this year here
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Speaker 2: to have a double header White did. That's pretty awesome.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, let's talk some ACC football to hate early in
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Speaker 5: the season.
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Speaker 3: This is fun.
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Speaker 5: Now you go, man, just get it going, get the
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Speaker 5: lather and get it. Get a good hate lather right away, baby.
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Speaker 5: Our next guest here, we're going to talk ACC football.
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Speaker 5: He's the co host of Locked on ACC, also co
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Speaker 5: host Locked on wolf Pack. He's a former wolf packer himself.
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Speaker 5: He is Kent and Gibbs, who joins us to talk
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Speaker 5: some ACC football. Kenton, how you feeling, man? What's going on?
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Speaker 1: Hey? I'm great as always. I'm not a wolf packer.
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Speaker 1: A wolf packer till I'm dead.
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Speaker 3: That's that's not shame on me.
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Speaker 5: Once a wolf packer, always a wolf packer, especially one
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Speaker 5: like you.
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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 5: All right, let's start. I do want to get to
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Speaker 5: the place immediately. He just Oklahoma drew. If that was
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Speaker 5: an Oklahoma drill, he would have pancake me. Oh man,
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Speaker 5: all right, can't. Let's we're gonna get to the wolf packer.
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Speaker 5: Let's start with a team we've been talking about today Miami.
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Speaker 5: I'm surprised that we have people here in ACC country
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Speaker 5: that are still skeptical of of Miami because I think
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Speaker 5: they could potentially win it all and I feel like
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Speaker 5: they're finally gonna break through in the A C C. Like,
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Speaker 5: do you feel like all the the hype is real?
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Speaker 5: You think they're gonna justify it? How do you feel
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Speaker 5: about this Cane's team?
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Speaker 1: This has to be the year that they break through.
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Speaker 1: This This is not just a possible year that they
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Speaker 1: break group. They are so much better than the field
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Speaker 1: on that if they can't get it done right now,
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Speaker 1: what if people of Brances said back in the day,
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Speaker 1: if they don't love you by now, you ain't never
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Speaker 1: gonna be loved if you can't get in ACC championship
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Speaker 1: right now, when you've got a down Florida State, when
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Speaker 1: you've got a down Clemson, when your biggest challenges are
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Speaker 1: SMU and Louisville. With all due respect to those teams,
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Speaker 1: both of those teams have done a fantastic job over
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Speaker 1: these past couple of years. Bron coming back to his
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Speaker 1: Alva mater, the you know, the native son returns home,
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Speaker 1: brings his brother with him and does a great job
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Speaker 1: of development quarterbacks, getting guys out of the portal, SMU,
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Speaker 1: Kevin Jennings, potential, Heisman, got all that good stuff. PJ. Williams,
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Speaker 1: one of the best offensive linemen in America. They've done
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Speaker 1: a great job, but there is a gap. There is Miami,
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Speaker 1: and then there's a gap, and then there's the field.
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Speaker 1: So if you can't get it done now, a lot
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Speaker 1: of people accuse Mario Christoball of being born on third
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Speaker 1: base because he got fired at FIU and then his
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Speaker 1: next head coaching job is at Organ. And who can't
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Speaker 1: have success at Organ? You me, your mother, granny who
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Speaker 1: just got out the hospital, my last segment coaching that Organ.
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Speaker 1: Go from that job now to Miami, where you're always
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Speaker 1: gonna have the top talent. And so you know, you
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Speaker 1: see a situation where the field, the gap between them
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Speaker 1: and the field is so massive. And mind you, they're
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Speaker 1: the ones who created the gap. They took the ACC
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Speaker 1: champions last quarterback and wide receiver one and Cooper Bark
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Speaker 1: Darian Mensa on the last day, last minute of the portal.
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Speaker 1: So realistically, if Miami can't get it done this year,
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Speaker 1: they'll never get it done. And I'm very comfortable saying
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Speaker 1: that CA.
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Speaker 2: And then the next group behind Miami, that group of
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Speaker 2: Clemson SMU that you mentioned Louisville. Who do you think
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Speaker 2: ends up being the second best team in that tier?
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Speaker 1: So listen, I know that y'all are in Charlotte. Y'all
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Speaker 1: are very close to South Carolina. So for safety reasons,
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Speaker 1: you got to put Clemson in that tier. They're not there. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you can't sell me Chris Vizina being your quarterback and
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Speaker 1: you being in that next tier. Now, who do I
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Speaker 1: feel like his closest? Louisville has an extremely complete team.
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Speaker 1: I mean cleve moving off the edge. First of all,
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Speaker 1: how did that young man break his Army commitment? That's
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Speaker 1: that's what I want to know for before anything I
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Speaker 1: need transferred from Army the coastal into Louisville.
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Speaker 3: But he has been a.
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Speaker 1: Minuce off the edge and every confidence he's played in
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Speaker 1: at every level of ball. Brian Brown, as much as
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Speaker 1: he gets love as a quarterback, whisper, tell me when
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Speaker 1: the last time is that Louisville has missed on a
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Speaker 1: wide receiver transfer out of the portal. And Isaac Brown,
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Speaker 1: let me tell you something, There is no bigger fan
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Speaker 1: Isaac Brown than maybe his mom and dad and his
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Speaker 1: old lady than me. That kid is the Flash personified.
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Speaker 1: He is the closest thing we've seen the Chris Johnson
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Speaker 1: since Chris Johnson. With his ability to stop and start
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Speaker 1: on a dive, with his ability that when he's even
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Speaker 1: he's leaving and then he has a contact balance. That's
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Speaker 1: uncanny for a guy his size. Everybody talks about he
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Speaker 1: was banged up last year and yet he still averaged
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Speaker 1: over six yards per carry. So over the course of
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Speaker 1: about four to five handoffs, to that kid, you cover
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Speaker 1: nearly half the field right like he is a human
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Speaker 1: highlight reel waiting to happen. And I'm gonna tell you something.
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Speaker 1: If Louisville is to have that surprise year where we
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Speaker 1: look up and say, well, then does Luisvia have eleven wins?
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Speaker 1: He could go up to New York for the Heisman.
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Speaker 1: Sarah Bondy Kenton.
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Speaker 2: I've never seen a guy get more fans on the
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Speaker 2: text line this quickly than Kn't people loving Kenton man.
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Speaker 2: Although because he put you in your place and that's
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Speaker 2: really good. That probably scored it. That probably scored a
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Speaker 2: lot of points. We'll see if Clemson fans love Kenton
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Speaker 2: because I got to follow up on that little dig.
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Speaker 3: Kenton, we got it. We gotta let you elaborate.
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Speaker 5: So your thoughts on Clemson not being in that next tier,
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Speaker 5: and I don't know if I disagree with you, I'd
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Speaker 5: probably put Louisville SMU in there.
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Speaker 3: But like, let's talk through this. Is it just the
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Speaker 3: quarterback position or is it is it? Is it more
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Speaker 3: than that?
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Speaker 1: So in college football is different than the NFL because
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Speaker 1: the talent gaps are a little bit different. Right in
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Speaker 1: college we saw Bama win for years and year in
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Speaker 1: years with like subpar to good quarterback play. So they
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Speaker 1: showed us a route to where you can win football
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Speaker 1: games without having a superstar quarterback that can go letting
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Speaker 1: and take that thing over. The problem is, does Clemson
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Speaker 1: have that type of talent around Vezina, the wide receiver room,
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Speaker 1: fantastic Gideon Davis. We all know what we're expecting get
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Speaker 1: him to do in year two and all that good stuff.
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Speaker 1: But the problem is you're gonna have an offensive line
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Speaker 1: that's versusly rebuilt, a defensive line that outside of will help.
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Speaker 1: Who's your guy? Peter Woods is one of the best
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Speaker 1: run stoppers in the nation last year and I Love
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Speaker 1: Me from Sammy Brown. He plays with his hair on fire.
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Speaker 1: He plays like former wolf packer or I'm sorry, former
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Speaker 1: wolf pack player Peyton Wilson. He plays just like him.
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Speaker 1: I mean, here's on fire, flying around one thousand miles
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Speaker 1: power everywhere he goes. The reality is he needs somebody
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Speaker 1: in the middle to keep those big hog malls out
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Speaker 1: of his lap as soon as the ball is snapped.
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Speaker 1: Who's going to be those guys for Clinton. Who's going
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Speaker 1: to be those defensive tackles that keep those linebackers with
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Speaker 1: the ability to flow and find and all that good stuff.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what it looks like for them the
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Speaker 1: defensive backfield. I mean, they're good enough if everything else
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Speaker 1: around them was really high level. I don't think that
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Speaker 1: they I just don't think they have it. So it's
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Speaker 1: the quarterback is the start of my concerns, but it's
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Speaker 1: not the end of my concerns. To me, they don't
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Speaker 1: have the situation where their team is more times than
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Speaker 1: everybody else by a mile, and they don't have the
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Speaker 1: quarterback that Kevin Jennings can make you right jks out
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Speaker 1: and Kyle he can make you right. Even if everything
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Speaker 1: else goes wrong in the play. You've got JKS. You've
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Speaker 1: got a shot at him making you right. You don't
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Speaker 1: have hell even CJ. Bailey can make your right when
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Speaker 1: you need him to. I'm not looking at Christmas Eve
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Speaker 1: and saying he can make you right, and then I'm
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Speaker 1: looking at the other players like, well, you're gonna have
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Speaker 1: to make you right a lot. That's just the reality
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Speaker 1: with their.
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Speaker 3: Roster, speaking of a CJ.
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Speaker 2: Bailey, A lot of height growing throughout the summer for
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Speaker 2: NC State Justified is that hype ken Can this team
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Speaker 2: finally get to that ten win mark that's eluded them
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Speaker 2: under Dave Dord.
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Speaker 1: You know, we are hoping and praying and wishing and thinking,
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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna tell you something. Can this team get there?
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Speaker 1: It's very possible because they have the opposite problem with Clinton.
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Speaker 1: They have the guy in place at quarterback. I think CJ.
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Speaker 1: Bailey is really really special. I really do. And everything
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Speaker 1: I've been hearing out of campus, the game is slowing
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Speaker 1: down for him even more. He's processing these things at
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Speaker 1: a higher level of before, and his physical tools were
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Speaker 1: never the problem. It was never thought of Kenny throw
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Speaker 1: the ball the country mout, Kenny doing enough as a runner,
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Speaker 1: Kenny doing enough, Canny make you right. He's really good
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Speaker 1: at playing out of structure and playing on time as well.
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Speaker 1: The thing was, you know, how well does he process
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Speaker 1: the game? How well does he see the game? And
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Speaker 1: he's doing that at another level now, which I think
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Speaker 1: is very important for the wolfback. The biggest question I
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Speaker 1: have about the wolf Pack is defensively, what are you
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Speaker 1: gonna do? What's gonna happen. Don't get me wrong, Harvey
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Speaker 1: Dyson one of the biggest pickups in the portal for
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Speaker 1: anybody period. Heck of a pass restaur out of Tula,
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Speaker 1: He's going to be an impact player. I think you
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Speaker 1: need at least two solid edges in order to be
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Speaker 1: good and power for football, because the reality is teams
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Speaker 1: could shift to one guy. Teams could just say we'll
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Speaker 1: neutralize that guy, We'll send a chick, we'll send a
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Speaker 1: tight end, whatever, and so where do you go from there?
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Speaker 1: Who's your next up? But I'm gonna tell you the
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Speaker 1: linebacker corp is a much improved from last year. We
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Speaker 1: had guys playing terribly out of position last year. I mean,
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Speaker 1: we had guys playing will linebacker that are now playing
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Speaker 1: edge at their new school because their new school figured out, oh,
10:39
Speaker 1: this boy can't cover grass. When we asked him to backpedal.
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Speaker 1: It looks like a baby draft trying to walk for
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Speaker 1: the first time. And we had those guys detached from
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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage trying to do that for us.
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Speaker 1: So the defense is still a question marked to some extent. However,
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Speaker 1: King Mack on the back end, Brian Nelson the second
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Speaker 1: on the back end, you feel a little bit better
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Speaker 1: and the linebacker play can't be worse than it was
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Speaker 1: last year outside of the Kton Ford when Sean Brown
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Speaker 1: went down, I knew right there, like, oh oh boy,
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Speaker 1: I'm able to look away from this linebacker play. And
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Speaker 1: there were times last year we do this thing called
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Speaker 1: the Lockdown Looking Week, I had to stop myself from
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Speaker 1: talking about our linebackers because I'm like, this is bullied
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Speaker 1: at this point, this is not what we stand for.
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Speaker 1: You're on Lockdown Podcast Network, all right.
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Speaker 5: Last thing I want to ask is Kenton Gibbs, by
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Speaker 5: the way, locked on acc and locked on wolf Pack,
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Speaker 5: telling you what it is about this wolf Pack defense.
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Speaker 5: Got to ask you about the tar heels, my lord,
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Speaker 5: I mean, it's We can't even you can't even talk
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Speaker 5: football with them. There's always something going on that is
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Speaker 5: dramatic and is a total mess. I mean, can they
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Speaker 5: be a better football team this year? And here's the thing, though,
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Speaker 5: will they have the wins to show for it? Because
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Speaker 5: that schedule's way tougher this year?
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Speaker 1: What do you think it couldn't happen to a better program.
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Speaker 1: It just could not happen to a better program. And
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Speaker 1: by the way, we can talk football with them, my
12:02
Speaker 1: fellow cast technicians, CJ. Sadler, give me a call. Brother.
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Speaker 1: The university can't temper with you, but I can. We
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Speaker 1: can get you over the state. We gotta no, b
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Speaker 1: we ain't got to do it here. Here's here's what
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Speaker 1: I will say about you and c. Can they be
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Speaker 1: a better team than last year? No? Will they be
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Speaker 1: a better team in the last year with their schedule?
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Speaker 1: Absolutely not. Allegedly, there's there's an investigation being opened up
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Speaker 1: into Lombardi for improprieties with nil and all that. And
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Speaker 1: they just named Billy Edwards their starter. Do you know
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Speaker 1: how down bad you have to be to cheek to
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Speaker 1: secure Billy Edwards as your starter? Oh my god, it's
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Speaker 1: like finding out that your kid cheating on this test
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Speaker 1: and got a D minus like we could we could
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Speaker 1: have You mean, you got the answers online and you
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Speaker 1: still got all the answers wrong. I'm deeply concerned about
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Speaker 1: this team, and I will say this, I'll do my
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Speaker 1: one big D so hopefully when I get to the
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Speaker 1: Pearly games, the big man it's pleased with me. Un
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Speaker 1: C has shown the ability and willingness to spend on football.
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Speaker 1: That is the most important things that will come out
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Speaker 1: of the Belichick era, because this is a error. This
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Speaker 1: isn't the era. This has been an error from day one,
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Speaker 1: where you're old lady who's very young, actually so young
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Speaker 1: that I couldn't even talk to her with our people
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Speaker 1: looking at me. Funny is asking for four year requests
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Speaker 1: of who's mentioning their name and your GM's being suspended
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Speaker 1: for hr reasons. And the crazy thing is you got
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Speaker 1: all this sheneigans going on. And I think that this
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Speaker 1: is a scheme set up by the bete apps because
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Speaker 1: if you would have told me that Bill Belichick with
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Speaker 1: a twenty four year old girlfriend and bottom of Patrino
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Speaker 1: were on the same staff, but there would be the
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Speaker 1: field who gets an hr investigation. I would have put
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Speaker 1: some good money on that. I would put good money
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Speaker 1: on Bill or Patrino. You know, I would have watched
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Speaker 1: the Motorcycles, watched the co Eds, and now we got
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Speaker 1: to watch the Lombardi too. I only got two hours,
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Speaker 1: you know, so I think it's a setup by Draftking.
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Speaker 5: I'm telling you though, in all that rival snark that
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Speaker 5: is making tar Heel fans mad. On the text line,
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Speaker 5: there was a goosebumps there. Well, you both was liking
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Speaker 5: if Fitty was hiding over there. I couldn't get a
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Speaker 5: reaction at got a lot to say to Ken gives
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Speaker 5: it sixteen Kenton, there was a tremendous point in there.
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Speaker 5: They spent money on football.
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Speaker 3: Please.
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Speaker 5: You know, if you're a Targel fan, you got to
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Speaker 5: be thinking be willing to do that again, except on
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Speaker 5: a legitimate hire the next time. Appreciate it, brother, you
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Speaker 5: knocked it down the park. This interview was a great
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Speaker 5: advertisement for Locked on acc Look it up and listen
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Speaker 5: to Kenton also Locked On wolf Pack as well. Thank
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Speaker 5: you man, We appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: Be good.
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Speaker 1: Hey, I appreciate you. And again we all hoping that
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Speaker 1: Margret to get out the hospitals. They can do joy
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Speaker 1: some good tale football.
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Speaker 5: Let all the grand He's out. Dang it all right,
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Speaker 5: thank you, thank you, Kenton, appreciate it. Man, that is
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Speaker 5: Kenton Gibbs.
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Speaker 2: You you you singled him out and said he's he's
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Speaker 2: a wild like. Uh, he's a wild one. He got
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Speaker 2: personality former wolf Pack.
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Speaker 3: I love it.
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Speaker 5: D Lyman had his career ship cut short by injuries,
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Speaker 5: but man, it didn't stop his personality. He's got personality,
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Speaker 5: very entertaining man. So yeah, people want to know where
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Speaker 5: fitty way, fitty.
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Speaker 3: Were you listening. Were you listening to that? Did that
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Speaker 3: make you mad? Or you just like resigned to just
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Speaker 3: take in all that kind of insults and stuff.
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Speaker 6: Full disclosure, I took my headphones off because I was
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Speaker 6: working on the podcast feedback here, so I don't know
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Speaker 6: what he said.
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Speaker 2: He's said here when you post the audio fit he
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Speaker 2: said maybe eight wins.
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Speaker 3: He said, maybe eight wins for the Heels. He's very
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Speaker 3: upbeat about the Tar Heels.
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Speaker 6: But Mac, I'll tell you this a lion. Those are
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Speaker 6: concerns about the opinion of a sheep.
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Speaker 3: That sheep has been beaten. The lion, though I'd been
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Speaker 3: eating that lion a lot lately on a football field.
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Speaker 3: We'll see what happens this year to the new year.
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Speaker 3: All right, there I go, mack Ers.
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Speaker 2: When we come back here on the Mac and Bone Show,
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Speaker 2: we're gonna talk panthers and observation. So far here in
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Speaker 2: the preseason, former van or Al Wallace stops by for
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Speaker 2: insight on sports Radio ninety two seven wfn Z.
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Speaker 5: Oh Man shout out to Kent and Gibbs for stirred
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Speaker 5: everybody up.
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Speaker 3: Ken Gibbs got those texting fingers going this morning. Bone.
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Speaker 2: Usually the NC State fans are complaining about what I
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Speaker 2: guess said, Not this guy.
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Speaker 3: Oh, State fans are so proud of this guy. They
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Speaker 3: finally got time to quit milking their cows.
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Speaker 2: Ken Gibbs was on you said nothing about that is true,
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Speaker 2: just sitting over there getting some work done.
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Speaker 3: Off the air.
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Speaker 2: Jimmy realized Kenon Gibbs is sixty two three hundred pounds
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Speaker 2: and stopped talking.
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Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, all right, anyway, that was entertaining you.
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Speaker 5: UNC and Clemson fans hate them. Every other listener loved them.
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Speaker 5: That's a breakdown, Bone, That's how I can see on
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Speaker 5: the text line. But he told you what he was thinking,
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Speaker 5: and I definitely respect that. Our next guest is also
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Speaker 5: played in the trenches, played for your Carolina Panthers in
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Speaker 5: the trenches, and he is also going to tell you
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Speaker 5: what he is thinking. He is former Panther Al Wallace,
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Speaker 5: and he joins us here on the Mac n Bone
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Speaker 5: Show to talk Panthers. They are about an hour away
17:21
Speaker 5: from getting that joint practice going in Jacksonville.
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Speaker 3: Al, how you been, man? What's going on?
17:27
Speaker 4: What's up?
17:27
Speaker 1: Boys?
17:27
Speaker 4: I'm doing good man? How you guys been?
17:29
Speaker 3: What's up? We're doing good man, We're doing good.
17:33
Speaker 1: We are.
17:33
Speaker 5: We are still dealing with Saturday's performance. A lot of
17:39
Speaker 5: Panther fans losing their minds after that one. You know
17:43
Speaker 5: what it's like to play in the preseason. You understand
17:46
Speaker 5: this better than we do. Like, when you watch that game,
17:50
Speaker 5: did you come away like concerned about the Panthers or
17:54
Speaker 5: would you tell us, Hey, it's just it's just preseason.
17:57
Speaker 5: There were a couple backup guards in everybody chill out.
18:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a.
18:02
Speaker 1: Lot, right.
18:02
Speaker 4: So, I think the way the NFL is set up,
18:06
Speaker 4: and certainly under Dave Canalis, the way this team has
18:09
Speaker 4: performed or approached preseason is different from a John Fox preseason.
18:16
Speaker 4: It was serious. He wanted to go four and zero
18:18
Speaker 4: in preseason, and we were passed to get out there
18:22
Speaker 4: and do that. Whether it was the first team guys
18:23
Speaker 4: out there for ten reps or the second and thirdeen
18:27
Speaker 4: guys like myself who were going to be out there
18:29
Speaker 4: as the remainder of the game. It was critical to
18:31
Speaker 4: go out there and perform like you would in September
18:34
Speaker 4: and October. And when you watch this team at least
18:37
Speaker 4: last week, there was no sense of urgency. It was
18:39
Speaker 4: kind of milling around. It didn't look like a team
18:42
Speaker 4: that was prepared, and you don't game plan for preseason,
18:46
Speaker 4: but they weren't ready to go out there and compete.
18:48
Speaker 4: And that's what you want. You want the DNA, the
18:50
Speaker 4: identity of the Carolina Panthers to push through no matter
18:54
Speaker 4: the situation, and that includes a preseason game against a
18:58
Speaker 4: really good roster in the Buffalo Bills.
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Speaker 2: Al what spot on defense right now is more concerning
19:04
Speaker 2: for you the spot on the edge that was supposed
19:07
Speaker 2: to be occupied by s Gorton or that linebacker spot
19:10
Speaker 2: next to free agency Devin Lloyd.
19:14
Speaker 4: I think the spot next to Devin Lloyd. We saw
19:16
Speaker 4: those flashes, we saw while that money was spent well
19:20
Speaker 4: at that middle linebacker position. Now, who's gonna fill that void?
19:23
Speaker 1: Is it?
19:24
Speaker 4: Is it Wallace?
19:25
Speaker 1: You know?
19:25
Speaker 4: Is it Chairless? Is it one of those two guys
19:28
Speaker 4: who are in that proverbial camp battle the edge? I
19:32
Speaker 4: think is fine. Prince Lely Umai Miellen, you saw what
19:34
Speaker 4: he is capable of doing. Is he gonna be a
19:37
Speaker 4: guy that you trust on first and second down to
19:40
Speaker 4: stop the run, to get them to a third down situation?
19:43
Speaker 4: Opposite Jalen Phillips. I'm not sure. You certainly lose a
19:47
Speaker 4: guy like Nick Gordon and it's gonna hurt you a bit.
19:50
Speaker 4: And it's just because of the lack of experience that
19:52
Speaker 4: Uma Miellen is gonna bring. Cam gill is another guy
19:56
Speaker 4: that that came out and flashed out a sack in
19:59
Speaker 4: that preseason game. So I'm more concerned about linebacker. That's
20:02
Speaker 4: been a spot that is historically been a position of
20:06
Speaker 4: greatness for the Panthers. In the last few years, you
20:08
Speaker 4: just haven't been able to find that body in there
20:12
Speaker 4: that really stands up to the historic names that have
20:16
Speaker 4: played in the middle of the defense. The captains of
20:18
Speaker 4: the defense. So yeah, I think linebacker is the one
20:21
Speaker 4: position right there on that second level between what I
20:24
Speaker 4: think is a really solid I would say, a good
20:27
Speaker 4: secondary in a defensive front that has the potential to
20:31
Speaker 4: do some damage.
20:32
Speaker 5: We're talking to former Panther d linman Al Wallace talking
20:36
Speaker 5: about your twenty twenty six Panthers. Al is a guy
20:39
Speaker 5: who played on some great defenses here in Carolina. A
20:43
Speaker 5: lot of US fans are so excited about these editions,
20:46
Speaker 5: right Phillips and Devin Lloyd, and we believe, man, this
20:50
Speaker 5: defense could be in the top ten in the league.
20:53
Speaker 5: Do you think you know, I know they lost Gordon.
20:56
Speaker 5: Do you agree?
20:57
Speaker 3: Do you think that they are going to have that
20:59
Speaker 3: sort of season or would you tell us to slow
21:01
Speaker 3: down a little bit? What do you think?
21:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that defense, when it gets all its pieces,
21:06
Speaker 4: can have that type of season.
21:08
Speaker 3: Mag Look, no.
21:09
Speaker 1: Doubt about it.
21:10
Speaker 4: You get Derek Brown in there, Phillips coming off the edge,
21:14
Speaker 4: you get a rotation of guys to replace Nick Gorton
21:18
Speaker 4: and what he brought to the table. We talked about
21:21
Speaker 4: Devin Lloyd, and here's I think one of the most
21:24
Speaker 4: underrated strengths of this entire football team. That secondary is
21:28
Speaker 4: something that I'm glued to during the football game. With
21:32
Speaker 4: Mike Jack back there and j C. Horn, and then
21:34
Speaker 4: you get some of the young guys and the guys
21:37
Speaker 4: that have to get some more experience under their belt
21:39
Speaker 4: to really round it all out. I think good at
21:42
Speaker 4: the safety position, but two of the better corners right
21:45
Speaker 4: that one of the better combos I think in the NFL.
21:48
Speaker 4: And when you're really good on the back end, you
21:50
Speaker 4: become so much better on the front end. Trust me,
21:53
Speaker 4: because that's how my defense was built. Our defense fed
21:56
Speaker 4: off the ability to just have time to get to
21:59
Speaker 4: the quarterback because guys on the back end, Dion Grant,
22:03
Speaker 4: you know, Mike mentor those guys were so good on
22:05
Speaker 4: the back end, they gave us an opportunity to get
22:08
Speaker 4: after the quarterback. So I think this unit is gonna
22:10
Speaker 4: play well together. We saw those flashes, but in the
22:15
Speaker 4: preseason game, not having Derek Brown in the middle alongside
22:18
Speaker 4: Jalen Phillips and Devin Lloyd on that second level, you're
22:22
Speaker 4: not going to see the whole thing. But this could
22:24
Speaker 4: be one of the better units, one of the better
22:25
Speaker 4: strengths of this team going into this twenty twenty six season.
22:29
Speaker 2: Al as you're well aware of being a part of
22:32
Speaker 2: this business yourself for a very long time. Also, so
22:36
Speaker 2: many discussions we have on Bryce Young day in, day out,
22:39
Speaker 2: and it feels like right now there's almost three schools
22:42
Speaker 2: of thought. Some think he can make a leap, there
22:45
Speaker 2: are some that think he may be the same, and
22:47
Speaker 2: there are some, you know, detractors that think he may regress.
22:51
Speaker 2: What's your expectation for Bryce Young here in season four?
22:56
Speaker 1: Yeah?
22:57
Speaker 4: What I do know, guys, what I know about Bryce
22:59
Speaker 4: is he will improve. He is going to work on something,
23:03
Speaker 4: and we've seen it. The proof is there from year one,
23:06
Speaker 4: Bryce Young holding the ball too much, getting sat way
23:10
Speaker 4: too often and some of that is not all his fault,
23:14
Speaker 4: and then figuring it out who he wants to be right.
23:17
Speaker 4: You add in the ability to run and get out
23:19
Speaker 4: of the pocket and capability, and I think going into
23:22
Speaker 4: this year it's going to be combining all those things,
23:25
Speaker 4: taking control of this offense, having receivers and tight ends
23:29
Speaker 4: that he believes in and able to get the ball to. So, yes,
23:33
Speaker 4: I think we'll continue to see the evolution of Bryce Young.
23:36
Speaker 4: Now when does that go or talking about is he
23:39
Speaker 4: in some type of MVP race. I don't think so.
23:41
Speaker 4: I think he's good enough, and he's proved that last
23:44
Speaker 4: year with the way he led this team. So if
23:47
Speaker 4: Bryce comes out and he's just as good as he
23:50
Speaker 4: was last year, this team has a chance to win
23:52
Speaker 4: the NFC South for back to back seasons and make another,
23:56
Speaker 4: you know, make a playoff run. So I like Bryce.
23:59
Speaker 4: I like how cerebral he is. I like how he
24:02
Speaker 4: continues to add to his game, just little things he's
24:04
Speaker 4: adding to his bag to improve as a quarterback. And
24:07
Speaker 4: I fully expect when we get to Week one, game
24:10
Speaker 4: one Chicago Bears in that building, we'll see a new wrinkle,
24:15
Speaker 4: a new evolution of Bryce.
24:17
Speaker 5: What do you think, like if you were running the
24:19
Speaker 5: show right, Like, if you if Dan Morgan said, Al,
24:22
Speaker 5: I'm gonna let you handle this Bryce contract situation, all right,
24:26
Speaker 5: no pressure back. You know, he ain't gonna let me
24:29
Speaker 5: and Bone do it. So we'll just we'll play this
24:30
Speaker 5: game with Al. What would like what would Bryce have
24:34
Speaker 5: to do in order to get that bag to get
24:37
Speaker 5: paid this offseason?
24:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think I'm gonna channel my inner
24:43
Speaker 4: Cam Newton here, show me thirty two other guys that
24:47
Speaker 4: are not already starting quarterbacks that you're gonna replace. It
24:50
Speaker 4: is just so difficult in the NFL to go out
24:53
Speaker 4: and find a starting quarterback, a guy like Bryce Syong,
24:56
Speaker 4: a young quarterback like Bryce Shong. And I'm still gonna
24:59
Speaker 4: feed into the fact that Bryce is young and maybe
25:02
Speaker 4: not hit his stride because I'm looking at the Sam Donald's,
25:05
Speaker 4: I'm looking at the Baker mayfields, and I know those
25:08
Speaker 4: are comps that we can get that the light came
25:11
Speaker 4: on at some point. I believe Bryce Young has that
25:14
Speaker 4: skill set. I believe he is a better pure quarterback than.
25:17
Speaker 1: Of those guys.
25:18
Speaker 4: Has he been able to tap into it quite yet
25:21
Speaker 4: the way they have probably not. I'm gonna pay Bryce
25:24
Speaker 4: Young because I don't believe that I want to get
25:27
Speaker 4: back in the pool, go back in the search to
25:29
Speaker 4: try to replace a starting quarterback in the NFL that
25:32
Speaker 4: has proved that he's capable of leading and winning football
25:36
Speaker 4: games for your team. I'm sticking with Bryce Young. If
25:39
Speaker 4: I'm Dan Morgan, give me the keys, Dan, I'm paying him.
25:43
Speaker 2: We had a listener question for you here, Alan, who
25:46
Speaker 2: every once in a while we do this, Hey, Texter,
25:47
Speaker 2: wanted to know what do you put more stock in
25:50
Speaker 2: what you see in the preseason games or what comes
25:54
Speaker 2: out of the joint sessions like today versus Jacksonville.
25:59
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a game, right, Show me who a guy
26:02
Speaker 4: is when the lights come on preseason or you talk
26:05
Speaker 4: about these joint practices and it's something new. We rarely
26:09
Speaker 4: did it when I was playing all those years ago,
26:11
Speaker 4: early two thousands. It's still practice, it's still controlled. You're
26:16
Speaker 4: not going to be able to do many of the
26:18
Speaker 4: things that you would be able to. The intensity level
26:21
Speaker 4: is more on showing improving the other guys across from
26:25
Speaker 4: you in the other jerseys. As I'm watching some joint
26:29
Speaker 4: practices with the Saints and the Cowboys, just it's fights.
26:32
Speaker 4: It is just, you know, fifty three guys on both
26:36
Speaker 4: ends poking out their chests, trying to prove how tough
26:39
Speaker 4: they are in a long camp practice. So show me
26:42
Speaker 4: who a guy is under the lights in a real
26:44
Speaker 4: live game scenario, in real football situations. That's who you are.
26:49
Speaker 4: That's the game. Practice is going to be practiced, and
26:53
Speaker 4: I'm never going to put more stock and things that
26:55
Speaker 4: are scripted and prepared by both sides as a guy
26:59
Speaker 4: on the fly to use his football instincts, and the
27:01
Speaker 4: skills that he's put together in practices. So when I
27:05
Speaker 4: turn on the film of the preseason, that's how I'm
27:08
Speaker 4: evaluating my football team, and I hope now is does
27:11
Speaker 4: the same thing.
27:12
Speaker 5: All right, Last thing, I've got to ask you, because
27:14
Speaker 5: you played on great defenses, you played on some right
27:17
Speaker 5: here in Carolina. Questions and comments we get all the time. Heck,
27:22
Speaker 5: they were coming in after the preseason game about Avero's defense.
27:27
Speaker 5: Anytime that there are cushions, it's gonna drive the guy
27:33
Speaker 5: sitting on his couch and Panther gear crazy. And certainly
27:37
Speaker 5: there were moments specifically where they were kind of soft
27:40
Speaker 5: defensively late in games last year, including the playoff game
27:43
Speaker 5: that drove fans crazy. You had the cushion also on
27:46
Speaker 5: a fourth and three play the other day that drove
27:49
Speaker 5: fans crazy. What would you say to us, is someone
27:52
Speaker 5: have played in the NFL like, are they are these
27:55
Speaker 5: cushions something that should upset fans? Or do you you
28:00
Speaker 5: kind of stand behind the scheme and the way this
28:03
Speaker 5: defense plays in that respect?
28:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it.
28:07
Speaker 4: And this is how I know Carolina Panthers football is
28:10
Speaker 4: back and we're gonna start questioning a Vero, We're gonna
28:12
Speaker 4: look at the coverages and start, you know, hey, if
28:18
Speaker 4: he doesn't get it done, is this guy finally out
28:20
Speaker 4: of here? I love it. Listen, I'll tell you this,
28:24
Speaker 4: Zero Vero is a really good defensive coordinator. I think
28:29
Speaker 4: it just goes back to the beginning of our conversation
28:32
Speaker 4: here this morning. Guys can these three levels of the
28:35
Speaker 4: defense work together? And I don't know that he has
28:38
Speaker 4: been able to go out and roll his defensive out
28:42
Speaker 4: defense out with excellence at all three levels. I think
28:46
Speaker 4: he has that this year, especially with going and getting
28:48
Speaker 4: Phillips and you know the rest of the guys to
28:51
Speaker 4: just round it out Devin Lloyd on the second level.
28:55
Speaker 4: So yeah, I think there are situations when you look
28:58
Speaker 4: at the Panthers. The reason why they went and Jalen
29:00
Speaker 4: Phillips is they did not have a pass rush. So
29:03
Speaker 4: if I don't have a pass rush, am I playing
29:05
Speaker 4: press coverage? Am I gonna get in the guy's face
29:08
Speaker 4: if you miss? Which you will because those guys on
29:11
Speaker 4: the other side get paid to those wide receivers. Then
29:14
Speaker 4: you're cooked the balls down the field. Now you give
29:16
Speaker 4: up a bomb and you're gonna say, hey, why are
29:18
Speaker 4: you so aggressive in those situations, he can't win. He's
29:22
Speaker 4: always set up in a position to fail because that
29:25
Speaker 4: D line, that pass rush, the pressure wasn't there. I
29:28
Speaker 4: gave praise to the back end. Now it's time for
29:31
Speaker 4: Derek Brown, for Jalen Phillips, for Princeville Lumama Yellen to
29:34
Speaker 4: step up and be able to create that pressure on
29:37
Speaker 4: the quarterback to take some of the relief off of
29:40
Speaker 4: Mike Jack and JC where VERO doesn't have to call
29:44
Speaker 4: coverages where they're in to cover four. They're just trying
29:46
Speaker 4: to keep the top one. They're trying to keep everybody
29:48
Speaker 4: in front of them and allow those two big, physical
29:52
Speaker 4: quarterbacks to get in the faces of wide receivers and
29:55
Speaker 4: compete at a higher level. It is not the scheme.
29:58
Speaker 4: It is more personnel. And that's what I've said since
30:00
Speaker 4: Saverro is here. First it was does he have the
30:03
Speaker 4: right personnel for three to four defense and trying to
30:06
Speaker 4: get those guys in This may be I believe this
30:09
Speaker 4: is the year that he has at all, and I'm
30:11
Speaker 4: with everybody else. If it doesn't work this year, good bad.
30:14
Speaker 4: No matter what my opinion is on the zero, Verro
30:17
Speaker 4: as a defensive coordinator. It may be time to turn
30:20
Speaker 4: the page, not because he is terrible, just because it
30:24
Speaker 4: just didn't work out and everything didn't come together. But man,
30:28
Speaker 4: this is football. I love it. It is more personnel
30:30
Speaker 4: for me than it's been about Vero scheme, and.
30:33
Speaker 5: It feels like the personnel is definitely the best he's
30:35
Speaker 5: had here in Carolina. I can't wait to watch it. Al,
30:38
Speaker 5: thanks for coming on. Appreciate you man, good stuff as always.
30:42
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, the happy football can't wait to see you
30:45
Speaker 4: guys up in the booths, man in the line getting
30:47
Speaker 4: some food.
30:47
Speaker 1: I know I'm always from there.
30:51
Speaker 5: Are you still you're gonna be doing the stuff on,
30:53
Speaker 5: you know, with Clean City News, the pregame stuff.
30:56
Speaker 4: I'll still be there with those guys. You can't wait
30:59
Speaker 4: to get everything kicked off. I heard you guys talking
31:02
Speaker 4: about food for an entire segment, so uh, maybe I'm
31:06
Speaker 4: going to get a honey butter biscuit or something.
31:08
Speaker 2: By the way, I got a text from Brentson during
31:10
Speaker 2: this seven, upset at the guest, but not al Watz.
31:13
Speaker 2: Brentson was upset at the previous Cats. He's going his
31:16
Speaker 2: former team. Man, He's yeah, he's good now. But the
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Speaker 2: previous guy Brenson, Walt the pizza.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he ran.
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Speaker 2: He made a run at Clemson, he made a run
31:23
Speaker 2: at Bucks, Tigers. He didn't acknowledge al those We're good here,
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Speaker 2: I doubt be good man, appreciate you all right, see
31:32
Speaker 2: you guys, thanks of course you and the food.
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Speaker 5: Line will Yeah, I can't pawn that off on bone.
31:39
Speaker 5: He has seen me get about four balls of popcorn
31:41
Speaker 5: per game.
31:41
Speaker 2: By the way, before we go to Fitty with the
31:43
Speaker 2: sports update, man, we have some breaking news out of ESPN.
31:46
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32:19
Speaker 3: much Super Bowl coverage will McAfee be part of?
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Speaker 1: All of it?
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Speaker 6: Brewers twenty two to nothing. But the highlight of the
33:38
Speaker 6: night was Julio Rodriguez catching a routine fly ball with
33:42
Speaker 6: the bases loaded, thinking that was the final out of
33:45
Speaker 6: the inning.
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Speaker 3: Instead it was just the second out.
33:48
Speaker 6: He threw the ball into the stands, allowing multiple Brewers
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Speaker 6: runs to score.
33:54
Speaker 2: Magett was nineteen nothing and Julio's still out there. Catches
33:57
Speaker 2: the fly ball, blows a bubble gum out like he's nonchalant,
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Speaker 2: looks to the crowd, and just whips it up to
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Speaker 2: the second row. Down by nineteen runs at all, the
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Speaker 2: Brewers start to marry go around. The Brewers are laughing
34:10
Speaker 2: while running the bases.
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Speaker 5: I gotta be honest, down nineteen runs up my mind
34:14
Speaker 5: would probably you know, drift as well.
34:16
Speaker 2: The best quote came from Brewers manager Pat Murphy, who
34:19
Speaker 2: might be the best manager going in baseball the last
34:21
Speaker 2: couple of years.
34:22
Speaker 3: He said, Julio's not in Julio, excuse me.
34:25
Speaker 2: The Brewers manager by Julio said he missed it because
34:28
Speaker 2: he was in the clubhouse playing catch with his son.
34:31
Speaker 2: Up nineteen runs, so they all checked out. So the Brewers,
34:34
Speaker 2: even the Brewers are yeah, we didn't actually see that play.
34:37
Speaker 2: Everybody was checking out at a nineteen run game. When
34:39
Speaker 2: we come back, Roger Goodell says the NFL will have
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Speaker 5: This is a commissioner himself saying this. He said that
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Speaker 5: it is only a matter of time until we have
35:53
Speaker 5: teams with an s from other countries in the National
35:58
Speaker 5: Football League. We know Bone that the plan is to
36:01
Speaker 5: have as many as ten by twenty twenty seven, to
36:05
Speaker 5: have ten games that are out of the country. We
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Speaker 5: know bone that there's been talk of can we get
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Speaker 5: sixteen so every team plays a game on foreign soil.
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Speaker 5: There has been talk about the Super Bowl though, and
36:19
Speaker 5: then there's one of the nflvps is quoted as saying
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Speaker 5: that's not on the front burner right now, but you
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Speaker 5: do feel like you could see a world bone where
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Speaker 5: a super Bowl's in London, for example, absolutely or in
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Speaker 5: another country. Now this one from the commissioner's mouth himself,
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Speaker 5: how do you feel about this? You understand why they're
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Speaker 5: doing it. Money, the market you want to keep growing in,
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Speaker 5: you know, outside this country. Would this bother you as
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Speaker 5: a fan?
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Speaker 2: It would? I don't think it's necessary, but that's not
36:54
Speaker 2: going to stop the NFL, and I think that's where
36:56
Speaker 2: it's headed. I don't think there's any doubt that they
36:58
Speaker 2: will put teams on broad because max so much is
37:02
Speaker 2: now put on the international, whether it be the games,
37:05
Speaker 2: we'll get, the draft and how basically Day three is
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Speaker 2: all about promoting the the international fans and then doing
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Speaker 2: these picks everywhere. I think it's growing to where they
37:16
Speaker 2: are going to put at least one or two teams
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Speaker 2: outside the US I just said, I don't know when
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Speaker 2: that will be, what time in our lives that will be,
37:25
Speaker 2: but I think that's where this is trending. Definitely a
37:28
Speaker 2: jan I think I think that that might be where
37:30
Speaker 2: the NBA might go as well at some point.
37:32
Speaker 3: I do think there's logistical issues.
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Speaker 4: You have to.
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Speaker 5: Like, how many teams are over there? How about the
37:41
Speaker 5: travel for those teams? Forget the teams they just got
37:43
Speaker 5: to go there one time a season. How about the
37:45
Speaker 5: travel back and forth for those teams where half their
37:48
Speaker 5: games are in another continent. Then you bring up how's
37:54
Speaker 5: how do those organizations do in signing free agency? Do
37:57
Speaker 5: players want to go to these cities or do they
37:59
Speaker 5: not want to go to these cities? I just there's
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Speaker 5: a lot of logistical questions, and then there is I'm sorry,
38:05
Speaker 5: I am a very global minded person when it comes
38:10
Speaker 5: to sports. I can't wait for the freaking Premier League
38:12
Speaker 5: to start this weekend. I love to watching the Champions League,
38:16
Speaker 5: like the World Cup. Like I don't want to be like,
38:19
Speaker 5: you know, we're America. We don't need the rest of
38:22
Speaker 5: y'all to do sports. I don't want to act like that,
38:25
Speaker 5: but there is an element of do we really need
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Speaker 5: teams in other continents in America's game, like, go ahead
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Speaker 5: and send all the all the regular season games you want,
38:35
Speaker 5: go ahead and send them overseas as marketing tools, right
38:38
Speaker 5: to make you more money. But do we really need
38:41
Speaker 5: Like Mike Florio Bone wrote a piece about this, said,
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Speaker 5: he honestly can see a world Bone where you have
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Speaker 5: like forty teams in the league. You have four European
38:52
Speaker 5: teams in one division, and you have teams like Brazil, Argentina,
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Speaker 5: Mexico in another foreign division. Like do we really need
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Speaker 5: to go towards that?
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Speaker 2: I feel like the world can enjoy our sport, Bone
39:06
Speaker 2: without literally taking you know, multiple franchises to other countries.
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Speaker 3: We don't need it.
39:13
Speaker 2: But the thing that we see in sports meg we believe.
39:16
Speaker 2: I think at times that less sometimes can be more.
39:20
Speaker 2: But the leagues and when it comes to money and
39:22
Speaker 2: all that stuff, they don't always believe less is more.
39:24
Speaker 2: So they're always going to want to add, They're always
39:26
Speaker 2: going to want to expand. So I believe that that's
39:29
Speaker 2: a possibility. I also think that in this day and
39:32
Speaker 2: age and going forward, Yes, the flights are long New
39:36
Speaker 2: York to London, for example, is what seven hours or so,
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Speaker 2: I think so, Yeah, the flights would be long from
39:43
Speaker 2: the East coast over that's what they say. The NFL
39:45
Speaker 2: is going to look at it as well. You're flying
39:47
Speaker 2: private anyway, it's not really that big. It's not a
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Speaker 2: normal flight there. You're on these team planes. It's not
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Speaker 2: a big deal. I think that's how the NFL will
39:54
Speaker 2: look at this whole entire thing, that they may be
39:56
Speaker 2: long fights, but you're not flying commercial over there.
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Speaker 5: I think the NFL would look at it. I don't
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Speaker 5: care about you because I want to make more money.
40:02
Speaker 5: I don't care about the players. We're gonna we want
40:04
Speaker 5: to do what we want and if we have to
40:06
Speaker 5: collectively bargain and give you something as a trade off,
40:09
Speaker 5: we're gonna do it, just like they're gonna do with
40:10
Speaker 5: the eighteen game schedule.
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Speaker 3: Like that's just cold hard facts. I'm not they.
40:15
Speaker 5: I feel like they view players as pawns to get
40:18
Speaker 5: to their end game of more cash.
40:20
Speaker 2: Just quite honestly. Yeah, look at the owners in the field,
40:23
Speaker 2: stuff that goes on exactly.
40:25
Speaker 5: Fans are not happy bone this texture says the quality
40:30
Speaker 5: would drop.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you start you start.
40:32
Speaker 5: Doing with Florio dead bone and expanded at eight more teams.
40:35
Speaker 5: Then you're watering the sport down. Then then you're then
40:38
Speaker 5: then you're ruining your talent level a bit as well.
40:42
Speaker 5: This texta said just redo NFL Europe. Yeah, I tend
40:45
Speaker 5: to agree with that. Uh, he's how we got Jake
40:47
Speaker 5: the home, isn't it there? You gogue Nel Frankfurt Galaxy baby.
40:52
Speaker 2: Uh.
40:52
Speaker 5: Then you have people that are angry about even the
40:54
Speaker 5: idea of just a super Bowl overseas. Tea time says
40:58
Speaker 5: an international super Bowl is discussed. Football is an American sport.
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Speaker 5: The super Bowl at very minimum should be played on
41:04
Speaker 5: US soil. See here's the thing. When the UEFA Champions
41:08
Speaker 5: League gives the US a Champions League final, maybe we
41:12
Speaker 5: can talk. I have a strong suspicion they will never
41:16
Speaker 5: do that. They've talked bone about putting like La Liga
41:19
Speaker 5: games the Spanish league, like regular season games in the
41:22
Speaker 5: United States, And I mean people lose their minds over it,
41:26
Speaker 5: and the fans over there when they when they don't
41:28
Speaker 5: like something, remember the Super League, They tell you we
41:31
Speaker 5: don't like something, and the establishment bowls down.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't work like that in the United States.
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Speaker 2: You know, I have a real question Mac that would
41:38
Speaker 2: test out the love of the money for the league.
41:42
Speaker 2: So you know how invested in MAC the Saudis now
41:45
Speaker 2: are in sports and entertainment, right, So all these wrestling
41:49
Speaker 2: events that are over there, the Saudi Prince is paying
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Speaker 2: like fifty million dollars or every one.
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Speaker 3: Of those things. Like money is just it's not an op.
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Speaker 3: It's not a question for those events.
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Speaker 2: If if the Saudis came and said, we'll give you
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Speaker 2: one billion dollars for a super Bowl or some outrageous number,
42:06
Speaker 2: would they be able to turn that down eventually?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be an image issue, that'd be a
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Speaker 3: no doubt.
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Speaker 2: But I wonder like the amount of money that they
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Speaker 2: would offer would be astronomical if they If they want
42:17
Speaker 2: to deal with the Saudi's, just contact Michael Lombardi. He's
42:19
Speaker 2: got a He's got to contact it for him. I
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Speaker 2: forgot about that. When we come back, Oh it's pee time.
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