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Mac & Bone Hour 2: Hoops Recap & Panthers Still NFC South Favorites??? · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:23
  Speaker 1: I knew how many minutes I was going to play.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: I knew I was going to shake out before the
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: game even started. So my mind was kind of already
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: wrapped around that. Um, But obviously it's challenging because you
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: want to be out there. You want to compete. But,
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: you know, that's the situation it is right now. And
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: like I said, like I can sit here and complain
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  Speaker 1: about it, but I'm blessed to be out there getting
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: the opportunity I do to get to play the game. So, yeah,
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: so I knew, like I said, I knew how much
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: I was going to play. So probably play a little
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: more than I was supposed to.
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: It was good to have Kobe White back.
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  Speaker 3: He scored seven points, Bone, but he describes there his
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: minutes restriction that he's on. Says he played, oh, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, the Pistons late third quarter went on a
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: 19-0 run and ran away from the Hornets at the Hive.
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  Speaker 3: But he played 16 minutes and says, I probably played
• 1:15
  Speaker 3: a little more than I expected with my minutes restriction.
• 1:18
  Speaker 3: So he's on what, about a half a mellow minutes
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  Speaker 3: restriction right now?
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  Speaker 4: He didn't really play that much.
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  Speaker 2: He played 16 minutes. So what did he expect to play?
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  Speaker 3: 13 or 14?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe if you can't go more than 16, is he
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  Speaker 4: fully ready to go? I'm concerned about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, that's an interesting point.
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  Speaker 4: I understand easing him back in. I'm not saying he
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  Speaker 4: should be under restriction, but that is. That's really easing
• 1:42
  Speaker 4: him back in. That is like end of the game,
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  Speaker 4: playing for 10 minutes and see how he does type stuff.
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  Speaker 3: See, I kind of just thought that he did not
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  Speaker 3: play in the fourth quarter because he got lopsided and
• 1:50
  Speaker 3: stuff like that. And I kind of thought, oh, if
• 1:52
  Speaker 3: the game was tight, he would play more.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he would.
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  Speaker 3: It's just we need him on the floor for more
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  Speaker 3: than 16 minutes. I'm not trying to get the man
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  Speaker 3: hurt again. I know there's been issues with the calf injuries, Bone,
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: now the last two seasons. But I am desperately trying
• 2:06
  Speaker 3: to get that man on the floor more. I'm trying
• 2:09
  Speaker 3: to get Dennis Schroeder on the floor less. And I
• 2:12
  Speaker 3: don't want to be mean to the guy, man. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not saying he doesn't serve a spot on the roster
• 2:17
  Speaker 3: as a veteran backup. But veteran backups do not need
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  Speaker 3: to be forcing things. to the point where you turn
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  Speaker 3: it over five times. They had 27 turnovers as a team,
• 2:26
  Speaker 3: but the veteran backup point guard led them in turnovers, man.
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  Speaker 2: How long you been in the league, Shrewd?
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  Speaker 4: Matt, with Shrewd at the helm here, we are 30th
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  Speaker 4: in points per game. We are 29th in fast break
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  Speaker 4: points per game, 28th in points in the paint, 29th
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  Speaker 4: in assists per game, 30th in turnovers, and 30th or
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  Speaker 4: worse in all shooting categories.
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  Speaker 3: It's been brutal. And listen, we're tied for work. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they're missing Kobe. They're missing con.
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  Speaker 2: They're missing Lamella.
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  Speaker 3: Like it's, It's got to be said, the dude just
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: created offense for himself and for others.
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  Speaker 4: It's tough because there was going to be a major
• 3:06
  Speaker 4: adjustment period without Melo if they were healthy. Guys adjusting
• 3:11
  Speaker 4: like Khan, like Kobe, like Miller creating on his own.
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  Speaker 4: There was going to be a natural Nas Reed we
• 3:16
  Speaker 4: talked about. There was going to be a big adjustment
• 3:20
  Speaker 4: with the roster if they were in full. You take
• 3:23
  Speaker 4: guys away and it leads to this right here. There's
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  Speaker 4: already an adjustment. Now you throw this on top of it.
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  Speaker 4: It's not ideal.
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  Speaker 3: It's not hitting the ground running with your big three
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  Speaker 3: would have been ideal.
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  Speaker 2: And again, like you're saying, yeah, it would be different.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's roles are changing. Brandon Miller had 14 at the half,
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  Speaker 3: only scored three. in the second half. And I cannot
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  Speaker 3: believe how quickly I get, listen, the Pistons are damn good.
• 3:48
  Speaker 3: And they were on fire last night, Bone, hitting 18 threes.
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  Speaker 3: Now I'm not sure, Bone, our defense helped matters in
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  Speaker 3: that game last night. And obviously the turnovers didn't help
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  Speaker 3: matters because how often were they out in transition, scoring
• 3:58
  Speaker 3: in transition? And Kate Cunningham dominated the basketball game as well.
• 4:03
  Speaker 3: you know, for himself, setting up others with shots. He
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  Speaker 3: just dominated the damn game.
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  Speaker 4: We gave up 37 points off the turnovers last night. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and so many of them are runouts. I just can't
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  Speaker 4: believe how... We had four of our own in fast
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  Speaker 4: break last night, by the way. So think about the
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  Speaker 4: difference in those numbers. Yeah, again, that's where you would
• 4:21
  Speaker 4: miss Lomelo there, too, as well.
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  Speaker 3: And I've got to tell myself, I can't allow myself
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  Speaker 3: to get angry that Lomelo's not here. The move was
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  Speaker 3: not made for the here and now. If they were
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  Speaker 3: trying to have the best basketball team on the floor, Bone...
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  Speaker 3: in October of this year. If that was their goal,
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  Speaker 3: I guess we're November now, but you know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 4: I got it.
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  Speaker 2: Their goal would be, they would still have Lamello here.
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  Speaker 3: That is not their goals to be the best team
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  Speaker 3: we can be in October, November of 2026. And honestly,
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  Speaker 3: their goal is not to be the best team they
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  Speaker 3: can be this year. And that's what I got to
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  Speaker 3: keep telling myself. Um, but it's, it's, it's frustrating two
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  Speaker 3: of the last three games to get routed. At least
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  Speaker 3: you didn't get routed by the is a damn unit.
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  Speaker 3: There's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 4: You're right. We knew there, we talked about it all summer,
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  Speaker 4: that there was going to be a step back. It
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  Speaker 4: was just a matter of how much of a step
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  Speaker 4: back it would be. I think the eye-opening part is,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think we even thought fully with all these guys,
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  Speaker 4: even the guys that haven't played yet, but the guys
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  Speaker 4: that are playing right now, I don't think we thought
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  Speaker 4: that the offensive numbers would look that bad in the
• 5:24
  Speaker 4: Charles Lee system. I mean, it is top to bottom.
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  Speaker 4: Every offensive category is absolutely... pathetic right now on where
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  Speaker 4: they rank.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't think they'd be that well. And they're 9th
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  Speaker 4: in defense and they're 10th in rebounding. They're doing other
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  Speaker 4: stuff well. So hopefully the offense can eventually just get
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  Speaker 4: up to average here at some point soon. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I never thought, Matt, they'd be that low in almost
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  Speaker 4: every single category possible.
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  Speaker 2: If they end up only.
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  Speaker 3: They've got to be top 10 in... It's impossible to
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  Speaker 3: judge right now. Kobe White is limited to 16 minutes. Um.
• 6:00
  Speaker 4: Sion actually hit shots for a change.
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  Speaker 2: Good for him.
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  Speaker 3: Cause I'm sure it was killing the kid. Like if
• 6:04
  Speaker 3: we think we're mad, what do you think he's going through?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 2: So I think that needs to be pointed out. But yes, like.
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  Speaker 3: I know LaMelo's gone, but we're talking about a team
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  Speaker 3: bone that I don't know if you heard was number
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  Speaker 3: one in offensive efficiency over the last, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: insert your games here, 40 last year.
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  Speaker 4: Yep. If they drop off to like 15th in the league,
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  Speaker 4: fully healthy, That's not good enough.
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  Speaker 2: To me, man.
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  Speaker 4: That's a much bigger drop than we anticipated.
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  Speaker 3: And again, you can't judge what they're doing right now.
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  Speaker 3: You got to let cons out there doing five on
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  Speaker 3: five now. So it seems like he's really close. Grant
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  Speaker 3: Williams helps the bench unit. He's a floor spacer and
• 6:42
  Speaker 3: a floor stretcher. The turnovers too. Like it's one thing
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  Speaker 3: when you don't make shots, but when you literally 27
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  Speaker 3: times say, here, Pistons, take the ball. That's 27 shots
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  Speaker 3: you don't get to even take.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And you can't, like, no one can handle that. But
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  Speaker 3: a team that's not shooting well definitely can't handle, here,
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  Speaker 3: we'll bypass a shot, you know, 27 times.
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  Speaker 4: The eye-opening part, Mac, about the turnovers last night, it's
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  Speaker 4: not like one guy just had a meltdown and had, like,
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  Speaker 4: nine turnovers. I mean, no guy had more... Schroeder had five,
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  Speaker 4: but it's Kobe White at three, Seon three, Royce O'Neal two,
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  Speaker 4: Steinbach two, Kalkbrenner two. We said Schroeder five, Grayson Allen two,
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  Speaker 4: Anderson two. Everybody, Mag, was a problem with the ball
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  Speaker 4: last night.
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  Speaker 3: Dude, what's up with that bench, by the way? The
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  Speaker 3: bench had six guys with two turnovers or more. That's great.
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  Speaker 2: Now, some of it was in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 3: Ben Schmidt, like Christian Anderson came in. Steinbach and these guys.
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  Speaker 3: And he turned it over twice. Steinbach turned it over twice.
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  Speaker 3: He finally got to play nine minutes. So there's some
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  Speaker 3: positive for people that want to see Steinbach.
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  Speaker 4: We have a lot of people, Matt, not only worried
• 7:55
  Speaker 4: about just the loss of Mello, but there's the Nas
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  Speaker 4: Reid component there where he just simply doesn't look comfortable
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  Speaker 4: yet here. He's forcing stuff, man. That's something that is–
• 8:05
  Speaker 4: he was so– into what his role was in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 4: He played it to a tee. Now he's asked, we
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  Speaker 4: talked about the leadership stuff last week with that went
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  Speaker 4: on with Charles Lee. He's just, it's a different role.
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  Speaker 4: And I didn't think the adjustment period, I didn't consider
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  Speaker 4: it would be what it was for Nosbridge. Like it
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  Speaker 4: is right now.
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  Speaker 3: He's out there trying to create off the bounce, like
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  Speaker 3: way more than I think he's supposed to.
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  Speaker 4: That's not his game, man.
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  Speaker 3: We can't fully judge this until Kobe's up to full speed.
• 8:32
  Speaker 3: Khan's up to full speed. So I'm trying to be
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: fair about that. I do want to mention one note
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  Speaker 3: before we get into Fitty ranting about the Heels game.
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  Speaker 3: And we got to give shout outs to a bunch
• 8:43
  Speaker 3: of the dudes that balled out bone for the in-state
• 8:45
  Speaker 3: teams last night. But I do want to mention Conn, Kniple,
• 8:50
  Speaker 3: and McNeely's third-year options have been picked up for their
• 8:55
  Speaker 3: third year next year. Tijon Salon's fourth-year option has not
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  Speaker 3: been picked up. So, listen, he's been out there fighting.
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  Speaker 3: I know he was 0-5 last night, but he had
• 9:05
  Speaker 3: seven rebounds, had two steals, two blocks. Like, I feel
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  Speaker 3: like he's been fighting and giving us some hustle minutes.
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  Speaker 3: But they didn't renew his fifth year, pick up his
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  Speaker 3: fourth year option. I mean, is he about done, Bone?
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  Speaker 3: Could he be traded at the deadline.
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  Speaker 4: Or something like that? How do you say second-round pick
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  Speaker 4: in French? Because that's probably what he's going for at
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  Speaker 4: some point soon.
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  Speaker 3: I never understood this big upside they talked about with him.
• 9:30
  Speaker 3: He had so far to go. I never understood. What
• 9:33
  Speaker 3: was this ceiling they were thinking? Yeah, he seems like
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: a good kid. He's a guy you could easily see
• 9:38
  Speaker 3: rooting for. My favorite thing back about Dijon, though, is
• 9:42
  Speaker 3: when he comes into the game, he does a great
• 9:44
  Speaker 3: job of acting like he knows exactly what's going on
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: the court.
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  Speaker 4: He's pointing. He's telling people where to go. He is
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  Speaker 4: a great back. You go here. I go here. I'm
• 9:52
  Speaker 4: going here. You're going here. I'm going here. He knows
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  Speaker 4: exactly where guys are supposed to be, but he's just
• 9:57
  Speaker 4: simply not that good at basketball. he loves to play
• 10:00
  Speaker 4: the performance part he goes out there and he's active
• 10:03
  Speaker 4: and he's talking he's doing all this stuff and then
• 10:05
  Speaker 4: he gets the ball in his hands and then disaster
• 10:07
  Speaker 4: can sometimes happen.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 3: Gas House Earl says, what are you guys going to
• 10:12
  Speaker 3: admit that when we traded LaMelo, you thought we'd take
• 10:14
  Speaker 3: a small step backwards?
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: We'd take a giant leap backwards.
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  Speaker 4: Gas House Earl is all over the place, Mac. He
• 10:19
  Speaker 4: was on the 22-win train all summer. They won early.
• 10:25
  Speaker 4: And he then jumped up to 40. He goes game
• 10:27
  Speaker 4: by game. He is. He's the new MFG.
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: He is.
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  Speaker 4: He pretty much is. Oh, that's right. The gas house.
• 10:32
  Speaker 3: Let's put a pin in that one. Cause I do
• 10:34
  Speaker 3: want to mention the college basketball opening last night. Put
• 10:36
  Speaker 3: a pin in that one. We can have, I'm sure
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: we're going to have to have without Lamello combos, but again,
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: you can't judge this team until you see the full
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: team out there.
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So the Tar Heels, Fitty, how worried are you? You
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: were at the game last night. like how worried are
• 10:51
  Speaker 3: you about this Tar Heel team? Like they're going to
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: get better with the coaching and the teaching of Mike Malone.
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  Speaker 3: But my question would be fit. How high really is
• 10:59
  Speaker 3: the ceiling? Like how much can they, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Unfortunately, Mac, this, this ceiling is not the roof. It's
• 11:09
  Speaker 5: going to be a week to week, month to month improvement.
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  Speaker 5: I don't, Mac, if they make the second weekend of
• 11:19
  Speaker 5: the tournament, man, like Michael Malone should probably be the
• 11:22
  Speaker 5: coach of the year. If they win a tournament game,
• 11:24
  Speaker 5: I would take that and run with that because they
• 11:29
  Speaker 5: cannot rebound. I was hoping maybe once the game's counted,
• 11:33
  Speaker 5: there'd be a different sense of urgency. Mac, it doesn't
• 11:37
  Speaker 5: matter about the urgency. They just physically cannot do it.
• 11:40
  Speaker 5: And I don't want to take away from Charlotte and
• 11:42
  Speaker 5: Western Carolina that Credit to those kids.
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: They played their tails off last night.
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  Speaker 4: Carolina won by eight over Western, if you missed it.
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: But Western was right there in that game, had four
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: chances to take the lead.
• 11:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, missed all three field goals and then committed a turnover.
• 11:56
  Speaker 4: Ran out of steam when their player fouled out.
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: Y'all said it.
• 11:59
  Speaker 4: When that kid Smith got that technical, the game changed.
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: Mac, that was the game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 3: The Texters brought it up, too. Like, how dumb is that?
• 12:06
  Speaker 3: You're right there with the heels down, too, bro. Keep
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: yourself calm.
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  Speaker 5: Carolina was up three and about a minute they were
• 12:12
  Speaker 5: up 10 and they were able to kind of just
• 12:13
  Speaker 5: coast their way from there. But Western Carolina plus six
• 12:16
  Speaker 5: on the offensive glass last night. And this is the
• 12:19
  Speaker 5: second straight game. I sit in these pressers with Michael Malone.
• 12:22
  Speaker 5: I see the stress on his face. And he says, hey,
• 12:25
  Speaker 5: we switched Jaren Stevenson.
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  Speaker 2: One through four. No damn excuse, man.
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  Speaker 5: Battle your ass back inside.
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  Speaker 2: Get a freaking rebound. He had two rebounds. You're 6'10.
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: He had two rebounds. This guy had 22 rebounds.
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  Speaker 5: He had 25 and 10 back against USC. I'll be
• 12:38
  Speaker 5: without the starting big man.
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  Speaker 2: What happened to him?
• 12:40
  Speaker 5: A preseason top 25 team, mind you, USC. And he
• 12:45
  Speaker 5: has not done anything since then. So they've got more
• 12:51
  Speaker 5: issues than I thought. But I come back to, I
• 12:55
  Speaker 5: trust the guy that's coaching them. The intensity that he
• 12:58
  Speaker 5: brought to the sideline last night, I have missed that.
• 13:02
  Speaker 5: Because at some point, Mac, he's going to blow a gasket.
• 13:05
  Speaker 5: He cannot handle the no rebounding, the stupid turnovers, the
• 13:11
  Speaker 5: not getting back on defense. And he's not going to
• 13:14
  Speaker 5: go in there like Hubert Abrams and patty cake them.
• 13:16
  Speaker 5: He's going to get, there's going to yell at him.
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  Speaker 4: There's going to be no, I think much like the Hornets,
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  Speaker 4: the heels are for the future and not the immediate.
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  Speaker 4: They got a, one of the best players in America
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  Speaker 4: for next year, a five-star Michael Malone is all over
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  Speaker 4: the recruiting trail. They're going to amass a lot of
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: great recruiting classes coming up. So much like the Hornets, it's,
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: you're going to, you're going to get wounded now a
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: little bit. You're going to have basketball that maybe you're
• 13:39
  Speaker 4: not liking the watch, especially heels fans, but eventually the
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: better days are coming. Like 50 stock.
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: I I still think the three guards, I think like Brown,
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: I know he didn't finish a lot, but he got
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: to the foul line. He can attack. Avdalis is skilled.
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: Abel had 18. But the inside, guys, step up. And
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: can we get this transfer, big old Cameron Fens, can
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: we get him eligible? Is there not a Tar Heel
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: grad judge somewhere?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but Nick. Come on, man.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he went hell.
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  Speaker 5: Because he'd give some height, some girth. He wouldn't get
• 14:08
  Speaker 5: pushed around the way that Katie gets pushed around, Sam Maduro,
• 14:10
  Speaker 5: their international bigs or their finesse bigs. But this guy,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he's not Dennis Rodman. He's not going to
• 14:18
  Speaker 5: cure all their issues if they get him healthy.
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  Speaker 2: But they're desperate.
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  Speaker 5: Matt Abel, I did not know he was that damn explosive.
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  Speaker 5: He has some ups, man.
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  Speaker 3: You mean when you were telling us that you didn't
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: want him from NC State, you weren't familiar with his game?
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: I am very glad and very able he's a Tar Heel.
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: Neo Abdalas is going to frustrate the ever-loving crap out
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: of me.
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  Speaker 2: He is so damn passive. It makes me want to
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: run out there. He's Euro, man. He's Euro.
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  Speaker 4: If you're running, this is a big thing here. If
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: you're running out there.
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  Speaker 3: He's very skilled and makes some great plays, but then
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: there are moments where it's like, ah, you just weren't
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  Speaker 3: physical enough.
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  Speaker 2: His ability to get to the rim is impressive.
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  Speaker 5: That crap don't matter if you're going to throw it
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: underneath the rim half the time and.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: Miss the shots. All right, let's go.
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: Terrence Brown kind of reminds me of Trey Mann a
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: little bit. Let's go to Bones. Yeah, I can see
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: it the way he looks, too. All right, so let's
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: go to Bones TV. I was in Greensboro for a
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: big Sun Valley soccer playoff game. I was very proud
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: the boys won it. But Bone literally showed me his setup.
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: He had like six basketball games at the same time.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: So I will go to Bone Man. Duke, you said
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: Shire wasn't happy afterwards.
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: No, because oddly enough, they were up by 40, and
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: they were not really playing that well. They were shooting 9%
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: from three with 10 minutes to go in the game.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: John Blackwell, Matt, did not score until about 11-minute mark
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: of the game, 10-minute mark, whatever that was. Boucher Boucher
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: is probably going to be running some wind sprints here
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: due to a windmill dunk. late in the game when
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: he was cherry picking. So it's one of those things, Mac,
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: where it wasn't the amount they won by. It wasn't
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: the result. Obviously, that's what they wanted. But the goals
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: are so much bigger. And there's only so many tune-up
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: games that these guys have now. Yeah, there's exhibition games,
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: but you play Army, you play Coastal, and next thing
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: you know, You know, it's Michigan State. It's Illinois. It's
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: UConn right around Thanksgiving. It's Florida Gators. The gauntlet starts
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: pretty quickly, so there's not a lot of time, Mac,
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: if something's going wrong or they're not performing like Shire
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: wants to fix it. There's not four or five tune-up
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: games anymore for the way that they schedule, at least.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: There was a lot of rusty, you know, in these games.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Like NC State fell behind 10-3 out the gate against Campbell.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: They end the half with a 28-3 run.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: And end up 22 points at the half. State is
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: this team that I need to like Google while I'm
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: watching them. Like other than Lubin, it's like, okay, where'd
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: this guy come from? Like this kid, Darius Adams is
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: very intriguing. Guard, he came from Maryland. This kid, Ed
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Bede is very, so I'm trying to figure out NC State.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: They beat Campbell. 83-64.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: I didn't get to watch the Charlotte game yet. I
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: want to watch their second half tonight because they scored
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: 51 in the second half. I guess Tillery is the
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: big takeaway, Bo? Yeah, Tillery is the big takeaway. That's
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: a game, Mac, that we've seen them lose so many times.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Early season road game against... A team they should be
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: better than. Who knows about Indiana State this year. But
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: that was important just to get off to a good start.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: They lose, and they have back in the last 20 years.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: How many times has Charlotte lost an early season game
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: where we said, oh my God, that already affects... And
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: then it piles up. But they lose a lot of
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: those games. They didn't last night. They were mature. And
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: they got a legit star guard in Tillery. How many
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: times can we say Charlotte has a star player in
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: recent years?
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: No, they do.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: This kid, a former top 50 recruit, he did it
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: in the exhibition games against UNC. He did it last night.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: They got a legit dude in Tillery. And we haven't
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: really seen the Harris guy, the Sunbelt Player of the
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Year that came in from South Alabama. We haven't really
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: seen him go off yet. That's another guy in there
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: that's going to be a major part of this deal.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: But no, they just look so much more competent than
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: they have in recent memory.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Shout out to Sinister Finister. My man Finister had double-double
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: last night. So Charlotte won at Indiana State.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: As well. And Wolfpack Scott wants to try to be,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: act like a.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Damn hemorrhoid on my patootie right now. Way to do
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: your job. Way to do your job, Mac. These guys
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: have only been committed to state for six months. When
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: they committed, we talked about it, but my mind goes
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: to other things. So when the season starts, I have
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: to be reminded.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Okay. Oh, he's the guy that came from Maryland. Okay.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: I remember when he transferred there. Okay.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: I remember him like I can't be the only person
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: that doesn't remember exactly where every transfer to every damn
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: school came from.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Who said this?
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Wolfpack Scott.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Wolfpack Scott. First of all, we cover more than the Wolfpack.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: We cover a lot of teams.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Duke.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: UNC state wake Charlotte. There's a lot of things that
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: we cover in the middle of football season as well.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: If you think we can keep track of where every
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: guy came from, I can barely keep track of where
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: the Duke guys possibly came from at times. It is impossible.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: You go watch any college basketball game last night. I
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: was watching Mac Arizona, UCLA last night, two pretty well-known programs,
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: new one guy in the whole game. How about last night?
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: the beginning of Charlotte's game, they mentioned that in that
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: game last night, returning players for both programs, one guy,
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: both teams, first game, one guy came back for both programs.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: We're all doing this. We're all scrambling.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: So God forbid, Wolfpack Scott, we got to Google where
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: guys came from.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Wolfpack Scott, don't even make me break out the damn
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: college basketball transfer quiz on you.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: Who'd he play for?
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: You would.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, man, if we did, who'd he play for? I'm
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: telling you, you'd look like Charles Barkley right now, Wolfpack Scotty.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: So settle your sensitive hiney down, sir. I'm trying to
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: sit here and talk about state. These boys are all
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: talking about their shade of blue. I'm trying to get
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: state in the conversation, and Wolfpack Scott becomes a painful
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: hemorrhoid on my glutsky.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: Mac, do you have hemorrhoids? Because that's two mentions in
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: a second. Everything okay back there?
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: No, I've never had them.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: But I'm saying, like, this has to be what a
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: hemorrhoid feels like.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: The pain in the rear end I am feeling. We've
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: got to go to break here. We come back. What's
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: the bleep? Next, Sports Radio 92.7.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ Mac and Bone with you. I
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: have good news here, Bone. I have started a dialogue
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: with Wolfpack Scotty. I've started a dialogue here. I want
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: to be Wolfpack Mac. I want to be a friend
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: of the pack.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: So I don't want to maybe just keep calling him
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: a human hemorrhoid for long.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: I want to patch this up.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: He said what struck him is that I didn't make
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: the Google where I got to find out where they
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: remind myself where they transfer comment about Duke or about Carolina.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: I did it about State, and he said it might
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: be my little brother syndrome, but I expect more from
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Wolfpack Mack.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: I will be better, Scotty. All right, now watch your tone.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Watch your tone.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: I didn't sleep much last night, but we have patched
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: this up, Bo. Mack knows John Blackwell came from Wisconsin.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: I don't really know how hard that was.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: I know what?
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: John Blackwell came from Wisconsin.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: John Blackwell came from Wisconsin. I'm not going to lie.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: I think I know where every one of the Blues
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: transfers came from. So, Scotty, I'm going to look inward. Well,
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Pac-Mac's going to look inward and be better. All right?
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: That just struck me some sort of way there, Bone Man.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Can we go to our.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Can we just laugh at some Florida people?
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: Well, this actually, Mac, what the bleep here is not Florida.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: We're going to a little place called York, Pennsylvania. Oh, no,
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: the hometown. Are you familiar, Mac, with old York? Yeah, slightly.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: And the Regal Cinemas is in the news. because that
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: is where 60-year-old retired tax officer Glenwood Hoskins Jr. has
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: set the record for most movie screenings in a year.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: All right, what a great day.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: He saw 1,207 movies. in one year at the York Cinema.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: That actually... Oh, I went to that York Cinema, man.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: The average max 3.3 movies per day, staying from early
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: morning until midnight, sometimes 15 hours a day. They helped him,
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: the employees... find movies that were short so he could
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: maximize his day. They even had a workout routine, Mac,
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: where he could get his laps in the theater between showings.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, man, you got to walk that popcorn off, man.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: Now he saw 1,207 movies. One day, Mr.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Hoskin Jr.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Will see a woman.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: What to believe.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I have to tell you, though, Bone, I grew up
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: in York, Pennsylvania, small little town that I couldn't wait
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: to get out of.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: That tracks. There's not much to do there.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: I could totally see why a guy would be like,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: let me just go to 3.5 movies a damn day.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Ain't got nothing else to do here.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: And oh, by the way, he had to watch the
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: same movies over and over and over and over. It's
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: not like there's that many movies out there.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: And by the way, Mr.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Hoskin, have you thought about streaming devices?
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: No.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: You can watch those at home, Mr. Hoskin Jr. Go
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Edmund Hoskin Jr., simply known as the cinephile of all cinephiles.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you I was scared when you
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: said my hometown was involved. I thought it was going
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: to be much worse. They've done much worse.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: I thought it was going to be much worse than that.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: I've got a what the bleep. A man from England, Bone,
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: that is described as a strong man. This man dressed
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: up on Halloween like Michael Myers and set out to
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: set a record, Bone.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: And he did just that.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Love a good record.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: He becomes the first person to ever pull a car with.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: How do I say this? I mean, you can say
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: the body part on the air. You're not... You can
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: say the body part. Say it.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: With his... Thingamajigger.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: That's not what I was looking for, but go ahead.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: He attached it to a car.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: And pulled it.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: And this dude apparently, Bone, this dude apparently has a
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: track record.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: He has used the.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: He's used a duo before to pull things. Now he
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: used his solo act down there to pull a car.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: He has done this sort of thing before. He must
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: have an extreme pain tolerance bone. He did admit, though,
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: that this was the most painful stunt he's ever done.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: I've heard of truck nuts before, but I thought those
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: go in the back of the car.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: So first he did he did one with the nuts
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: and then he came back and said no we we
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: gotta get the frank involved we had the beans involved
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: we get the frank involved why this is this is
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: insanity i mean how does that work by the way
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: even the guy does that thing not like i don't
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: understand i just got.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: A text from glenwood hoskett jr up york he said
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: this guy needs a life this.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Guy needs to head to a movie Check out a
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: movie or three later today. John Stevenson is your man
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: from England there, Bowen. He's a daredevil.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: These guys from England, they're not normal.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: I was going to tell Westy you said that.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: Mac, are you familiar with the work of one Jessica Alba?
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Slightly.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Well, she posted her Halloween costume on the Internet the
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: other day, and the bullies and Karens of the Internet
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: have now forced her to remove her very controversial costume
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: that she wore. She went as Nancy Kerrigan wearing a
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: bloody knee brace. From the 1994 attack by Tanya Harding
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: and Jeff Gillooly. Her friend was Tanya Harding right there
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: with her. The reason is they said she was advocating
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: violence against women and they ran her off the internet there.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: Your thoughts on Miss Alba's bloody knee brace?
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: We might be a.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: Bit sensitive as a society.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: This just in. Let the bleep. This just in. We
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: might be a bit sensitive, Bo.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: What's next? We can't go as OJ? I mean... 94
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: was a different time, my friends.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, like, yeah, that was.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: It's one thing if you go as, like, a domestic
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: violence victim. I'm not thinking that's cool.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: But, like, this is this big pop culture moment. Nancy
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Kerrigan was fine. Once she stopped screaming, why? She was okay.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: She competed in the Olympics. Everybody loved her. Everybody turned
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: on Tanya. Like, I don't know if that needs to be.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: She wasn't wearing a sign that said domestic violence supporter. Like,
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: I think we know that about her. Yeah, like, if you're...
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's not going as Ray Rice and his girlfriend.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know what I mean? Or she's not.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: It feels like a little soft there on that. Do you.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: And are we the type of country to have a
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: society nowadays that would overreact, Mo?
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's just crazy.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: Oh, Mac, another text from Glenwood Hoskin Jr. He says,
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: I'd like to watch a movie about Tonya Harding. Let
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: me know which one that is. Put on that.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: He hasn't watched I, Tonya.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: That has been one of his seven million screenings that
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: he has done, Boney.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: All right, let me continue.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Someone says he's watched so many films now he's on
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Mac's basketball highlight tapes.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: I ain't going to find anything good on there, sir.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: All right. Let's, um, I got to what to bleep
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: out Michael's bony.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: And it's not because he sounds like you don't fall
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: asleep during football games. Did anybody else catch when he
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: was talking? I forgot to mention this on Friday when
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: they were going over the trade, the trades that had
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: happened in the NFL on last Thursday's broadcast. Uh, they
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: were talking about the DeForest Buckner deal. Did y'all catch
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: this where he said, so Branson Buckner back to San Francisco.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Uh, I didn't see that.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: What the bleep are we doing? Now listen, that would
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: be a good payday for Buck. Buck, I'd like to
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: see you get paid again by the Niners. And you
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: were a Niner at one point. But that is the
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Forrest Buckner, sir. How did Buck get involved, man?
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Al Michaels, baby.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: I would say Al Michaels is losing it, but I'm
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: like 30 years younger than him and I've done lost it.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: We're going to go to a mall in Orlando, Florida.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: The mall at Millennia in Orlando at the Tiffany Company store,
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: where in February of 2025, the guy's on trial now,
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: a man posing. This is Jason Gilder. posed as a
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: rep for a Orlando Magic basketball player at the jewelry store.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: They took him to a VIP room and showed him
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: $ 760, 000 worth of laundry jewelry for his player, for his client.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: He then ate all the jewelry.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I ate all the jewelry.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: Yes, he ate all the jewelry, hopped in his car.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: They tracked him down 250 miles away where they had
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: to put him in a body scan, Mac, and flicking
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: the jewelry inside his gut.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Man thought he was slick, man. Yes. That ain't working, baby.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: They gonna find him.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: They going to find it on.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: You, man.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: I got to tell you, not a bad effort. Yeah,
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: I give them an A for effort.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: It was definitely like this man committed to it and
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: gave it a run.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: I'm here on behalf of the Wagner brothers.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: They just going to wait, though.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: They going to detain you, and they going to keep
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: you until you pass that stuff.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Here comes the earrings.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Here it comes. That might hurt coming out. By the way,
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: some of that stuff you might want to say, you
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: know what there, Mr. Gilder, just keep that one there.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: You don't need that bracelet back. Who's the person got
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: to wash that stuff off, by the way, when it
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: comes out?
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: All right. I've got a what-to-bleep, Bone, an Alabama woman.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: I've got a what-to-bleep, this Alabama woman. All right, so
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: there was video that was captured on one of these
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: ring cameras, Bone, of two adult women.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: stealing a bunch of.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: Candy from a bucket left outside the home in Alabama
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: for trick-or-treaters. Everybody knows this situation, right? If you can't
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: be there at the house or for us, I had
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: to go watch football. My wife took my daughter and
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: her friends. around to check out some of the haunted houses.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: So you know what I did? I said, let me
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: pull the old bucket trick. I'm going in to watch football.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Enough of this trick or treat. But usually, and usually
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: when someone takes it all, it's kids. This was two
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: grown women, Bone. Well, it turns out that somebody, the
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: people at the house put this video stuff up on
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: social media. They know who the woman is in the
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: And they tagged one of these women's employers, this restaurant,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: sushi restaurant in Alabama. The employer saw this and said,
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: are you going around stealing candy out of buckets? And
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: the woman lied and said, I did, but I have
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: given it all back and I have apologized personally. Well,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: apparently the restaurant checked with the household, the people at
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: the house where the candy was stolen from, and they
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: said her friend apologized and gave her candy back. Your
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: employee has not said a word to us or given
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: us her candy back.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: She got fired.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: For this, y'all. Oh, my gosh.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Don't mess around as a grown adult. that's got a
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: sweet tooth.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: Go buy your own damn candy, or better yet, have
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: kids and steal their candy out of their bags and buckets.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: But don't you dare do this. You could lose your
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: job over this. What the bleeps are these women doing, man?
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh. Mackers, my last story real quick is
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: a viral story of a woman on her wedding day
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: in Turkey. on a very windy day. They were taking
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: photos by a pier, and she had this giant bouquet
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: of balloons she was holding onto, and the wind picked
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: up the balloons back, and she was holding onto it,
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: wouldn't let go, and it lifted... It lifted her up
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: with the balloons into the air, and she nearly went
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: into the side of a building holding onto the balloons
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: until the photographer made a last effort, made a play,
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: and stopped the woman from crashing into the building full speed.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: I saw this.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: What did this woman weigh?
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: The balloons are outrageous. It's a huge thing of balloons. Okay,
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: so it wasn't a her issue, it was the balloons. Well,
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: she could have let go, I guess.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: That is true. That is an option for you, lady.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: I mean, if that building's not there, she may not
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: come back down ever.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: I was picturing like Verne Troyer's sister. I was picturing
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: like Minnie Bam. So you're saying, OK, you're saying that
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: this was not necessarily that situation.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: That is a very valid point. Let the balloons go.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: What the bleep are you doing?
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: He got dragged along the seawall and lifted up in
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: the air.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: By the way, quick headline. What the bleep headline.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: Shout out Robert Kessler, who offered to plead guilty and
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: accept a life sentence in jail. If he would just
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: be in Tampa, if he would just be given a
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Philly cheesesteak, an order of fries and a 20 ounce Pepsi.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: But he wanted like a very specific. He said he
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: listed off like the condiments. That'd be exact or it's
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: no deal.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: Well, that makes it worth spending life in jail as
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: long as they can get your condiments right.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: We call that guy here Willie P.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: Willie P, if you give him the most bougie foods,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: he will accept a life sentence in the WFNZ jail.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: When we come back on the Mac and Buncho, the
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: Panthers are still claimed to the favorite status in the South.
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: Do they deserve to be? Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. Mack and Bone with you.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: Having a little fun with some what the bleep stories.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Now let's get back into something, Bone, way less fun.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: The Carolina Panthers right now.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: My God.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: It wasn't that long ago, Bone, that I was on
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: here crowing and a yapping about how the Panthers were
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: a team that once they get their corners back, could
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: make significant progress in the NFC playoffs.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: And now I'm sitting here saying, playoffs?
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: Playoffs.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: I have completely done a 180, and I'm not alone.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: You're talking about the Panthers or the Hornets? I'm not alone, man.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness. Yeah, what happened to Wind City, Bo?
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: What happened to our red-hot Panthers and Hornets?
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: We got an FC in the postseason.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: We're in dark times right now, man. But there is
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: good news. God bless the NFC South, y'all. Print the t-shirts.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: We play in the NFC South, and because Tampa in
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: that monsoon was able to embarrass the Falcons 16-0 in
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: a game that had so many historical weird situations, like
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: the one where Michael Penix completed four more passes to
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Buccaneers than Baker did.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Because of that game bone.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: We are still in first place by ourselves in the
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: NFC South with a 3-4 record. The Falcons and the
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: Bucks are 3-5. The Saints, who also fired an assistant,
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: fired their run game coordinator on offense. They have been
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: really struggling to run the football. Some people have been speculating,
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: would they try to trade for Jonathan Taylor or to
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: spark their run game.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: HN's hurt there. Tough economy for coaching in the South
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: right now.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: It's interesting.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: I was very curious to look it up, and I
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: don't know, Bone, it might have changed now. I don't
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: know what you're seeing on your app in terms of
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: NFC South odds.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: Why have DraftKings put up here? What do you have first?
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: When I looked it up yesterday, DraftKings had the Panthers
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: still as a slight favorite.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Is that still true?
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: DraftKings has the Buccaneers as a favorite right now. Oh,
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: so that's switched. Buccaneers plus 184. Panthers plus 200, the
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: Falcons right there plus 265, and then the Saints at
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: plus 660.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: So that switch, because when I looked at it yesterday
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: at about three, it was Panthers still favorite plus 190,
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Bucs so close to us at plus 194, and then
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: it was Atlanta plus 265 and New Orleans plus 660.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: So there's been a switch there.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: The money is coming in on Tampa, literally, in the
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: last half a day here. Who do you think should
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: be the favorites in the NFC South? And I would
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: ask Panther fans, do we all just relinquish this title?
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: We had been the favorites for a while there. Do
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: we hear this and say, yeah, I don't blame bettors
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: for betting.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: On the Bucs?
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: I would say right now the way the Bucs are playing,
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: they found something in here. I don't know how long
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: that's going to work for before teams adjust, but by
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: the time that happens, Baker's probably throwing again. Look, I
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: can't sit here and watch what the Buccaneers did a
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: number of days ago to the Panthers and sit here
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: and say– I think the Panthers are better. It may
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: change because this division's wild, but right now I would
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: think the way that Tampa beat Atlanta, they beat the Panthers,
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: the way they're running, their defense also leads the league
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: in takeaways right now. They're doing a great job defensively.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: I think it's got to be Tampa right now.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: They do two things at an elite level, and those
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: two things, Bone, have been proven over time to win
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: football games, and that is run the ball and play defense. Elite.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: Look at what they've done on the ground the last
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: two weeks. And that defense is elite. We've got to
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: stop beating around the bush, man. That defense is awesome.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: So you look at those two things, who else in
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: the NFC South is doing two things at an elite level?
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: Just them right now.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: There's nobody.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Um, so I know they're kind of playing hide the
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Baker right now. Like they're trying literally hide the Baker.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: They're trying literally to ask Baker Mayfield to be a
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: lead blocker and not a quarterback. And he oddly bone
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: with his personality seems to be enjoying it playing in
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: the mud with Jesse Bates. Um, I think you have
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: to give them that right now. I will say, um,
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: I want to see this evolve over the next couple
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: of weeks here. We're obviously three games away from playing
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: Tampa again. I want to see if Todd Walsh can
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: make a difference. I want to see how quickly we
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: can get Mike Jack and J.C.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Horn back. I don't want to concede yet.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: Because it is the NFC South bone, but I'm with
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: you where I feel like we got to give Tampa
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: their due.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: They're unbeaten right now in the, in the South.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: I think Atlanta might be eliminated from this pretty soon,
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: by the way, their next four games, Cincinnati, Kansas city, Minnesota, Detroit,
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: the way they're up and down. If they're in a downswing,
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: that stuff. And by the way, Matt, just cause Tampa's
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: playing well right now, they're at Chicago on Sunday night
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: football this week. Then they have the lions after that.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: So both those teams, not saying the Panthers can't lose
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: to anybody, but the Falcons right there, that's four in
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: a row where they're not favored in any of those
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: four games.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they are two up and down. And by the way,
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: we got someone saying Atlanta should be the favorite or whatever.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: How many games are winning out of that schedule? He
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: says Tampa beat them in a monsoon. But here's my question.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Why couldn't Atlanta impose their will in the run game?
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: They got B. John Robinson. You know what I mean?
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: And Michael Penix. We can blame the rain. all we want.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: We've seen him have days, but like he's, we saw
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: one here in Charlotte. Couldn't blame the rain for that 30,
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: nothing loss. Like, so to me, I wouldn't trust him.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: This texter says, um, trophy husband, seven Oh four, number
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: are basically saying the same thing. You can't keep winning
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: this way. This dude said you can't hide the Baker
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: all season. At some point he's got to pass. Another
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: texter says you can't use this run only strategy to
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: beat teams in divisions. Other than the NFC South. I
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: think y'all have some points here, but here's my thing though, bone.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: So what he might have to throw a 20. Like
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: I still think their run game again, how many games
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: you got to win to win the South? You get
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: to eight, maybe even seven. God forbid. I just think
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: that their run game is legit. I'm not saying there
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: won't be games where Baker will have to throw it
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: and make mistakes. I think their defense is legit. And
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: I just, as a Panther fan, I don't, what can
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: we hang our hat on? Like Two weeks ago, I
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: thought we could hang our hat on Bryce and Idzik
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: and the offense, and now this O-line and the way
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Bryce is handling the pressure, it's all got me shook, man.
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: This Tampa-Chicago game, not that we're focused on the Broncos-Panthers,
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: of course, but Tampa-Chicago, Mac, will be fascinating. Because Chicago
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: is one of the best teams in football. If Tampa
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: goes in there and beats Chicago, I don't think they would.
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: But if they did, that would be a really telling
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: sign that this is a legit thing that they're doing
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: right now.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: Baker might have to complete some passes to beat that team.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: AC brings up a good point, Bone, about the Falcons.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: Falcons got lucky and caught the Niners the week they
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: were completely beat up with injuries. Yeah, that's true, too.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: Even though they get a lot of credit for that win,
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: and Lord knows, Bone, we could beat some teams with injuries.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: At the quarterback position, specifically. But I think there's something
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: to be said for that as well.
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: They're playing in Madrid. Madrid? Madrid?
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Madrid.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: Not Madrid, that sounds... Real Madrid. Your most favorite soccer team.
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: They're playing in Madrid, the Falcons are, this week against
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: the Bengals.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: Formal Timothy says, The offense has carried the team so
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: far this season. They had two bad performances, and you're
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: going away from the hype they've been given at the
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: start of the season. So you're not confident they can
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: figure this out.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: What happened? I'm being real, bro. Like, I'm being real.
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: And what happened to you?
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: You aren't Mr.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Confidence and Positivity. So, like, are you just grilling me,
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: old Timmy? Or are you, like, there's no way you're positive,
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: is there? Like, it can't be you saying, Mac, we
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: got to be positive. I would simply submit the offensive
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: line tape. And I would say, now I do think
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Brady Christensen can come in and help us out. It
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: sounds like he could be about to do that, but
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Brady Christensen can't play left tackle, center, left guard, and
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: right tackle at the same time.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: No, that's impossible to do. He can only help us
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: at one position.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: So I said I'm not waving a white flag, Timmy boy,
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: but by the same token, am I allowed to be
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: real here on the show and say that with that
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: offensive line situation, I'm a little bit shook right now?
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: You did not go formal on Timothy's name there. I
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: know what you're doing there. I know what you're doing there, Timmy.
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: Big time Timmy Jim. I know what you're doing. What
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: is that from? I have no idea.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Is that from an ESPN ad? Big time Timmy Jim?
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: I feel like it is. Steve Levy saying big time
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: Timmy Jim? Or did I imagine that? I don't know.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: Was that a fever dream I had? Come back to it, Selenia.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: A Trailer Park Thomas says.
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: It was a Tim Whitsitt commercial on This Is SportsCenter.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Yes!
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Yes!
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: I completely nailed it. I guarantee it was Levy that
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: said it.
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: Anyway, don't you tell me, Selenia, I was all over it.
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: It was Steve Levy. Yeah. Big time, Mackie Mack.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: We also have somebody on the text line, Bone, much
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: more annoying than formal Timothy, that wants to bench Bryce
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: Young and try Haynes King as the starting quarterback.
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: Of course. That'll take all things out of you.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: Offensive line, Rasheed Walker going to turn into Jackie Slater
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: if we do that?
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: When we come back on the Mac and Bone Show,
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: Sheena Quick, great reporter for the Panthers and podcaster, will
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: join us for her thoughts on what we may see
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: at the trade deadline and where the Panthers go from here.
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.