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

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  Speaker 1: Let's bring in Gelby right now. Zach Gelb, very cool
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  Speaker 1: news that you informed me of, Bone. He's working with
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  Speaker 1: NFL Radio now, Compass Media. He's in the studio for
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  Speaker 1: these NFL games, including Ravens and Cowboys on Sunday, and
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  Speaker 1: we're talking ball with him right now.
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  Speaker 2: Zach Gelb. Gelby, what's going on, brother? How are you feeling? Guys,
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing well.
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  Speaker 3: B plus. I forgot about the victory dance video. So
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  Speaker 3: I was on hold. I was trying to locate it
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  Speaker 3: bone tweets too much. So it took me way too
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  Speaker 3: long to find it, but I eventually did. And here's
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  Speaker 3: my breakdown. The old geezer in the beginning was a
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  Speaker 3: good addition. Bone starting to look a little bit like
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  Speaker 3: a woman, a nice backside on him. And Mac, I
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  Speaker 3: think you've lost a few pounds. You're looking good, brother.
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  Speaker 1: How about that, baby? I'll take it. I'll take it, man.
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  Speaker 1: What doubt there's no for your compliment.
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  Speaker 3: Also.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a compliment. How's there no comment on Finney.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like he was very notable.
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  Speaker 3: In that dance. Oh, I only got through the first
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  Speaker 3: 30 seconds. Did Fitty come in at the end with
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  Speaker 3: the bra on? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, you know what? Talk about nice backsides. Actually, close
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  Speaker 2: that out right now.
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  Speaker 4: We actually have a controversy right now with Fitty, Zach.
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  Speaker 4: We'll bring you in real quick. He's got a new girlfriend.
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  Speaker 4: She took him out for a birthday. His birthday was yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: She took him out to dinner, paid for it. So
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  Speaker 4: she was paying for it. So Fitty only ordered a
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  Speaker 4: six-ounce steak to be respectful that she was paying for
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  Speaker 4: in our text line. is now saying 50 is not
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  Speaker 4: a real man. Real men don't order less than 12
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  Speaker 4: ounce steaks. The guy's getting shredded, Galby, but he's trying
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  Speaker 4: to be a nice guy.
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  Speaker 3: So two things, one, I've never seen Sydney Sweeney, Fitty
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  Speaker 3: and Bill Belichick in the room at the same time.
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  Speaker 3: That's number one.
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  Speaker 2: Number two, that's.
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  Speaker 3: The one time out of the year where your girlfriend
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  Speaker 3: has to pay for you. So get whatever you want.
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  Speaker 3: Cause you're going to have to give her so much
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  Speaker 3: more through the year. And here's the crazy point.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good point.
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  Speaker 3: My girlfriend this year took me out for a lovely
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  Speaker 3: dinner down at the Jersey shore. My parents called the
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  Speaker 3: restaurant and paid for the bill. And they thought they
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  Speaker 3: were being nice and said, guys, you know, wait for
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  Speaker 3: another day. This is the one time she actually has
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  Speaker 3: to pay.
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  Speaker 2: What are we doing here? Oh, she must've loved that.
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  Speaker 2: That's hilarious. That's rough. Gelby. That is rough there. Nice parents.
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  Speaker 3: It's like being a Falcons fan.
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  Speaker 1: Or as being a Packer fan. Even worse, I wonder.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with that and then we'll get to the Panthers.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, does Michael Penix make that much of a difference? Like,
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  Speaker 1: what did you think of last night's game? And I mean,
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  Speaker 1: is Green Bay just horrid? I mean, God, that was brutal.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the Packers, they, they can't block. They don't even
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  Speaker 3: try to run the football and they can't defend the run.
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  Speaker 3: So you can't do those three things. You're not going
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  Speaker 3: to win many games in this league. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: in March or April, I said a take people were
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  Speaker 3: looking like for bold predictions. And I got, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think the Packers are gonna make the playoffs this year.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't think it was that bold of a take
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  Speaker 3: because they've been teetering on missing the playoffs the last
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  Speaker 3: two years. I didn't know what was going to happen
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  Speaker 3: with Josh Jacobs at the time, but Micah Parsons wasn't
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  Speaker 3: going to be there to start the season. And I
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  Speaker 3: just didn't love what I was seeing with this team.
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  Speaker 3: I like, here's the thing. And I said this on
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  Speaker 3: NFL radio last night, Falcons fans should be excited that
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  Speaker 3: they're now back in the mix. Let's see what they
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  Speaker 3: do up against the same. So they could even this
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  Speaker 3: out to two and two next week, or if they're
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  Speaker 3: just going to go to one and three, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: not this big believer in Michael Pennix jr. But if
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  Speaker 3: you just get competent quarterback play and he started off
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  Speaker 3: the game poorly through the interception was one to five
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  Speaker 3: and then relied on Bijan found Drake London, Did a
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  Speaker 3: nice job, and they were able to get the victory.
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  Speaker 3: Last night, yes, it does save the Falcons' season, but
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  Speaker 3: I think it's more of an indictment on the Packers than, oh,
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  Speaker 3: my goodness gracious, the Falcons are this force to be
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  Speaker 3: reckoned with.
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  Speaker 4: As far as the Panthers go, Gelby, quite a different
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  Speaker 4: feeling and different vibes right now when we talk Panthers.
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  Speaker 4: When you watch this Panthers offense, how sustainable, within reason, obviously,
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  Speaker 4: but how sustainable do you think this offensive start is
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  Speaker 4: for Bryce Young and this offense?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think they're going to be scoring 34,
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  Speaker 3: 35 points each and every week, but this is the
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  Speaker 3: continuation of just the Bryce Young train moving in the
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  Speaker 3: right direction. And I know the last year and a half,
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  Speaker 3: he's taken some massive strides, and now you just want
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  Speaker 3: to see the consistency. But offensively, the first two weeks,
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  Speaker 3: you couldn't ask for much more. I know you would
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  Speaker 3: have liked to have got the first win to start
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  Speaker 3: off the season, and the defense was just horrific. But
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  Speaker 3: the two wide receivers, and I know Tetwin, rookie of
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  Speaker 3: the year last year, um, are, are playing really well. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: Bryce is, is doing what they're asking him to do. And,
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  Speaker 3: but the thing is, and I don't know if you
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  Speaker 3: guys have this take, um, and, and you guys watch
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  Speaker 3: it more intently than me, they got to get more
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  Speaker 3: on the ground, uh, rushing the football. Uh, they need
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more of that balance.
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  Speaker 2: Um, and, and that's.
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  Speaker 3: Something that's going to be a work in progress, but
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  Speaker 3: through the first two games, just offensively, yeah, you gotta
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  Speaker 3: be a pig rolling and doodoo with the way that
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  Speaker 3: their offense is playing.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt.
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  Speaker 4: I like how Gelb resorts to things that we just
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  Speaker 4: relate to.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: You're speaking our language, Gelb. Zach Gelb is with us
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  Speaker 1: talking football.
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  Speaker 3: I know my target audience.
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  Speaker 4: True.
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  Speaker 2: Very true.
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  Speaker 1: Talking football with Gelb as we do every Friday. So, Gelb,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I hesitate to ask this two weeks in,
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  Speaker 1: but we've been talking about ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to bring you in on it.
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  Speaker 1: Like, do you feel like, yeah, Bryce is this dude now?
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  Speaker 1: Or do you still have part of you that is like–
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  Speaker 1: He's been inconsistent. I don't know if he can keep
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  Speaker 1: this sort of thing up. Like, how are you viewing
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  Speaker 1: what you've seen from him two weeks in?
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  Speaker 3: Well, like if you're asking me, should they go pay
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  Speaker 3: him 55, $ 60 million a year? And do I feel
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  Speaker 3: like he's a 55, $ 60 million a year quarterback? I don't,
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  Speaker 3: but he's been good. And that's the thing. Like there's
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  Speaker 3: just a lot of quarterbacks that are just good. You know,
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  Speaker 3: in the NFL, like I don't look at Bryce right
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  Speaker 3: now and say, Oh my God, he's definitely a top
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  Speaker 3: 10 quarterback, but could he be eventually a fringe top
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  Speaker 3: 10 quarterback? I guess he can be so, but this
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  Speaker 3: is a guy that was thrown into a corner. Everyone
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  Speaker 3: thought his career was over. Everyone thought he was a
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  Speaker 3: bust CJ Stroud's better and he's playing better than, than
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  Speaker 3: CJ Stroud right now. And the last year and a half,
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  Speaker 3: he saved his career. And I just, as we said, even,
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  Speaker 3: you know, at the end of last season, don't give
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  Speaker 3: him a contract extension and let's see where we are
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  Speaker 3: at the end of this season. But through the first
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  Speaker 3: two weeks, Man, what is there really to critique with
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  Speaker 3: the individual play of Bryce Young?
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  Speaker 2: I don't have much.
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  Speaker 4: Zach, how much better do you feel about the defense
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  Speaker 4: compared to week one? And where do you think the
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  Speaker 4: truth may lie with the defense? Is it somewhere in between?
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  Speaker 4: Or do you think this defense can be pretty damn
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  Speaker 4: good based off what you saw last week?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough because I know everyone slammed them after
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  Speaker 3: the Chicago game. I don't think they were as bad
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  Speaker 3: as what they put on performance up against Chicago. But
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  Speaker 3: then on the other side, with the crappy quarterback that
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  Speaker 3: you guys were going up against last week, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think that's as dominant as they are. So there's probably
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  Speaker 3: somewhere in between. And if this could be, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a top 15 defense, you know, maybe they could creep
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  Speaker 3: into the top 10. You know, I like the moves
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  Speaker 3: that they made this off season, bringing in Devin Lloyd,
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  Speaker 3: Bobby O'Kerrick has been around the league for a while.
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  Speaker 3: He's a real solid football player coming over from the giants.
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  Speaker 3: And before that being a tackle machine with the Indianapolis Colts,
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  Speaker 3: but if they could just get average defensive play, which
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  Speaker 3: they're more than capable of doing. And the offense continues
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  Speaker 3: to light it up the way that they have been.
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  Speaker 3: Why can't they go nine and eight? Like, why can't
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  Speaker 3: they go maybe 10 and seven and, and when this division,
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  Speaker 3: like right now, when I look at it, the two
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  Speaker 3: best teams in this division are the saints and, and
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  Speaker 3: the Panthers. I picked the same to win the division
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  Speaker 3: before the season started. And I really liked what I'm
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  Speaker 3: seeing by Tyler shock. I think I said last night
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  Speaker 3: that they were two and oh, and it almost felt
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  Speaker 3: like that win week one, that last week one was
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  Speaker 3: a win up against Detroit. But that's, you know, that
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  Speaker 3: they're a team that I liked their quarterback. I liked
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  Speaker 3: their running backs. They got good wide receivers. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 3: know Tyson is out right now and they have a
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  Speaker 3: solid defense, but it feels like right now it's the
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  Speaker 3: Saints and the Panthers in this division. I know the
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  Speaker 3: Falcons stabilized thing last night, but I'm not still totally
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  Speaker 3: bought in on them. And then, man, the Bucs, that
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  Speaker 3: was a rough one last week up against Cleveland.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt.
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  Speaker 1: Now, okay, so the Panthers got Cleveland this week. Do
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  Speaker 1: you view this as, like, should we be concerned? Deshaun
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  Speaker 1: Watson actually played a good game last week. How do
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  Speaker 1: you evaluate Panthers and Browns?
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  Speaker 3: Like we just got into the conversation. Are the Panthers
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  Speaker 3: a good football team? We'll find out this weekend because
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  Speaker 3: good football teams beat up on inferior football teams, specifically
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  Speaker 3: when the inferior football team just got this victory and
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  Speaker 3: they're going to be riding high. We know Cleveland has
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  Speaker 3: a good defense offensively. I have zero respect for Deshaun Watson.
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  Speaker 3: I know that he won the game last week. you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'll give him credit for a week and he could
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  Speaker 3: show you some of those old flashes, but I do
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  Speaker 3: not think that that's going to be sustainable through the
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  Speaker 3: course of a 17 game season. And I believe you'll
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  Speaker 3: have more week one to Sean Watson than week two
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  Speaker 3: to Sean Watson. So if the Panthers are really turning
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  Speaker 3: this thing in the right direction. You don't only just
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  Speaker 3: beat Cleveland. You beat them comfortably this week.
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  Speaker 2: I like it, Gelby. I like it, man. Gelby pumping
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  Speaker 2: us up a little bit here.
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  Speaker 4: We'll be following all your thoughts on social media, on Twitter,
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  Speaker 4: at ZachGel. We encourage all the listeners to give you
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  Speaker 4: a follow for all your takes. I think they might
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  Speaker 4: actually send nice tweets to you, Gelby, this season.
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  Speaker 2: I think they do. You're talking nice about the Panthers, Gelby.
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  Speaker 2: I like this.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the thing, Mac. You know, you look like Vanna
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  Speaker 3: White standing next to Bone and Fitty in that video.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're talking, baby. Some people call me very white. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: somebody asked. Somebody said very white. Somebody has asked.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, how are my friends at Lake Norman
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  Speaker 3: doing this year? My buddy, who I grew up with,
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  Speaker 3: Spencer Lasker, is one of their offensive line coach. I
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  Speaker 3: saw their quarterback, Caden Kraft. committed to Tennessee. So, you know,
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  Speaker 3: isn't that your school bone?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's this, it's the school that is near me.
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  Speaker 2: I did not go there. You claim them though. Bone
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  Speaker 2: is your favorite or you went off.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They're five and Oh, Gelby they're balling dude.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And, and coach Lasker has them stout up front. And
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  Speaker 3: I know this, that quarterback, man, I've been following him
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  Speaker 3: the last two years. He's a player. He got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of big-time offers, and he ended up going to Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: He's a player.
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  Speaker 4: They've won by 47, 28, 49, 41, and then seven
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  Speaker 4: last week. Now that I know they're undefeated, Gelby, then
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  Speaker 4: they are my team. They beat my son's high school 47-0, Gelby.
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  Speaker 2: It was ugly.
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  Speaker 3: Ugly. Good. They should have run up the score a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. Oh, my God. I used to do these
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  Speaker 3: segments and that we would talk about no offenses. Now
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  Speaker 3: we've got two teams in town that can't, they keep
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  Speaker 3: on scoring. The price is going up and up and up.
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  Speaker 1: And even 50 scoring now, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: There's so much scoring here, baby.
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  Speaker 2: I have a late Norman T-shirt at home. There you go.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. All right, Galby. Enjoy the football, brother.
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  Speaker 3: You got it guys. Be well.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to you next week.