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- 0:23Speaker 1: It's Radio ninety two seven WSVNC Final hour of the
- 0:26Speaker 1: show Baby, Final Hour to show an hour away from
- 0:28Speaker 1: the first padded practice of camp. We are looking forward
- 0:31Speaker 1: to watching that one and keeping an eye on the trenches,
- 0:35Speaker 1: macing bone with you fiddies in the in the house.
- 0:37Speaker 1: Phiddy's head no longer sweating, man, he looks very comfortable now.
- 0:41Speaker 2: Uh.
- 0:42Speaker 1: The AC is pumping and h our next.
- 0:44Speaker 3: I thought at one point today JJ that he passed
- 0:47Speaker 3: out during the show. His eyes were.
- 0:50Speaker 1: Closed, sweaty head, closed eyes. It did not look good
- 0:52Speaker 1: for him. But he's bouncing back.
- 0:54Speaker 4: That's the guys right now, getting ready for a full
- 0:56Speaker 4: padded practice.
- 0:59Speaker 1: JJJ had some joining us. What's up, man, how you doing?
- 1:03Speaker 2: It's good to have you guys here. What are you
- 1:04Speaker 2: guys calling this Homer hangout? Homer hangout?
- 1:07Speaker 1: I like it.
- 1:09Speaker 3: I thought Homer headquarters could also apply classy Homer Haven.
- 1:12Speaker 1: I was thinking, Oh no, that's pretty nice. That's a
- 1:14Speaker 1: notre dame education type word.
- 1:16Speaker 3: That sounds like a dive bar. I'm not going to
- 1:22Speaker 3: the Haven tonight.
- 1:22Speaker 1: Oh man, So you made a joke there about guys
- 1:25Speaker 1: getting ready for this is like guys getting ready for
- 1:27Speaker 1: a padded practice. I don't know if your routine chape
- 1:31Speaker 1: does your routine chaine like when it's.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Padded Well, yeah, so usually the first day of padded
- 1:36Speaker 2: uh practice on special teams is always a punt rush day.
- 1:40Speaker 1: So we're gonna so yeah, it's gonna it's.
- 1:42Speaker 2: Gonna get it's gonna get a little loud in there, uh,
- 1:44Speaker 2: first day back. But Uh, the cool part about the
- 1:48Speaker 2: way we practice is it is a lot of speed
- 1:51Speaker 2: all the time. I think the toughest part about it
- 1:53Speaker 2: padded practice in general was the speed goes up. Well,
- 1:56Speaker 2: we practiced really really fast. There's no contact, but we're
- 1:59Speaker 2: going pretty darn fast. And so I think we were
- 2:03Speaker 2: talking about this like twenty years ago, like when I
- 2:06Speaker 2: first got into the league nineteen years ago, Like the
- 2:09Speaker 2: whole training camp started goal line full pads, that's how.
- 2:14Speaker 1: You started right away right away.
- 2:16Speaker 2: And now with all the rules and just how teams
- 2:18Speaker 2: are training for speed, they're not necessarily brute force.
- 2:21Speaker 4: It's speed, so there's not.
- 2:23Speaker 2: As big of a jump in my opinion when you
- 2:24Speaker 2: go to full pads. Uh, you get a little more
- 2:27Speaker 2: a little more thumping, but it's still I mean, the
- 2:30Speaker 2: speed's pretty fast.
- 2:31Speaker 4: Even when we're just in helmets and T shirts.
- 2:34Speaker 3: Were they were they doing to days when you were younger?
- 2:37Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 2:37Speaker 3: Can you remember when that really stopped?
- 2:39Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 2:39Speaker 1: There was.
- 2:40Speaker 4: There were two days.
- 2:41Speaker 2: In fact, my first year with the Panthers, uh make
- 2:44Speaker 2: kimo Ayatu got hurt and the opening drills of to
- 2:48Speaker 2: today my very first practice. And back then you also
- 2:52Speaker 2: had special teams meet or like walk throughs on the field,
- 2:56Speaker 2: so you'd go out three times.
- 2:58Speaker 1: In a day.
- 2:58Speaker 2: Now it's it's a practice and a walk through. So
- 3:02Speaker 2: I've been through two cbas and every time there's a
- 3:05Speaker 2: new CBA there's also less practice.
- 3:07Speaker 1: There you go something doing their jokes.
- 3:09Speaker 4: So if I can make it one more CBA, we
- 3:10Speaker 4: might just play games.
- 3:11Speaker 1: Do you you now? You made me think of something
- 3:17Speaker 1: mentioned in the union and things improving? Do you There's
- 3:20Speaker 1: been a lot of people talking about the grass versus
- 3:23Speaker 1: turf right with the World Cup. I don't know. I
- 3:25Speaker 1: don't blame y'all for looking at and being like, you know,
- 3:27Speaker 1: hold on, now, do you think that? Would you think
- 3:29Speaker 1: the Union would get involved and that would be something
- 3:31Speaker 1: y'all would ask for in the CBA, because I almost
- 3:35Speaker 1: feel like the owners would make it come like, hey,
- 3:37Speaker 1: we'll give you that, but you give it, you know
- 3:38Speaker 1: what I mean?
- 3:39Speaker 2: Yeah, if you know, the tough part with the CBA
- 3:42Speaker 2: is everything you don't like, you don't barter like i'll
- 3:46Speaker 2: give you this, you give me that.
- 3:47Speaker 4: You have to agree on everything.
- 3:48Speaker 2: So it's kind of, uh, it's kind of one missmash
- 3:52Speaker 2: of twenty things that the owners want, twenty things that
- 3:55Speaker 2: the players want, and it's hard to tell like what
- 3:57Speaker 2: you're trading for what in the whole bit. Yeah, certainly
- 4:01Speaker 2: that's something that will get negotiated.
- 4:03Speaker 4: You know, Look, I watch I watched a lot of soccer.
- 4:07Speaker 2: I certainly know we've had instances here in other places
- 4:10Speaker 2: where soccer guys they're like, I'm just not gonna play.
- 4:12Speaker 4: If it's not on grass.
- 4:14Speaker 1: You can't, Yeah, you can't get you just won't play.
- 4:17Speaker 2: And so you know, I would tend to think that
- 4:21Speaker 2: if all of a sudden, you know, Patrick Mahomes or
- 4:23Speaker 2: Josh Allen's like I'm not playing on turf, I imagine
- 4:26Speaker 2: that changes it. Without a CBA, I think only a
- 4:29Speaker 2: few guys have that leverage. You see this in every sport, right,
- 4:33Speaker 2: you know, Tiger Woods comes into golf and immediately the
- 4:36Speaker 2: money explodes and everything changes about how every golfer's changed.
- 4:40Speaker 2: We see it in basketball, you know WNBA, Caitlin Clark
- 4:42Speaker 2: shows up, there's a lot more money, and all of
- 4:44Speaker 2: a sudden, everyone's flying a lot better flight. So I
- 4:46Speaker 2: think it has more to do with the star power
- 4:48Speaker 2: than hey, we're going to negotiate something.
- 4:50Speaker 4: We'll see.
- 4:51Speaker 2: It's certainly better for all of us out there. I know,
- 4:54Speaker 2: twenty years ago, I think there's a lot of players like, hey,
- 4:57Speaker 2: let's get on turf because some of the grass was
- 4:59Speaker 2: really bad. Like you go up to like New England
- 5:01Speaker 2: and you see those old videos like New England grass fields,
- 5:04Speaker 2: they're all chewed up and it just looks like a
- 5:05Speaker 2: slot fest.
- 5:07Speaker 4: It's not that way anymore. We saw it with with
- 5:09Speaker 4: the World Cup.
- 5:10Speaker 2: You can do a really really good grass field in
- 5:12Speaker 2: all elements and indoors. I mean, I think that was
- 5:14Speaker 2: the big argument, like how are they gonna put grass
- 5:16Speaker 2: in uh, you know, Atlanta Stadium or whatever.
- 5:20Speaker 4: It's like, oh, that look gorgeous.
- 5:21Speaker 1: So JJ, you get on that call that you're on
- 5:24Speaker 1: so often with the Fellows stars in the league, Yeah,
- 5:26Speaker 1: and you get throw your right around.
- 5:27Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll let them know I'm boycotting.
- 5:31Speaker 3: It's crazy to gotch and to go back and watch
- 5:33Speaker 3: old stuff, even though we watched it live. To look
- 5:36Speaker 3: at the services they used to play on back in
- 5:38Speaker 3: the day, like the Vet and some of those places. Yeah,
- 5:41Speaker 3: the wonder a lot of those guys have struggles now
- 5:43Speaker 3: based off with their bodies.
- 5:45Speaker 2: Well, the one I always think that was kind of
- 5:47Speaker 2: funny and my old Special Teams coach Bruce de Haven
- 5:49Speaker 2: used to talk about it was old Cleveland Stadium, you know,
- 5:52Speaker 2: the original Dog Pound, because you had the baseball field
- 5:54Speaker 2: on there. The stadium was so tall, it was like
- 5:57Speaker 2: four stories tall that in the winter, like part of
- 6:00Speaker 2: the field was like ice, part of the field was grass.
- 6:03Speaker 2: Then you had the dirt infield and like kickers and stuff,
- 6:06Speaker 2: we're having to like chained shoes based on every ten yards.
- 6:10Speaker 4: When I was first in.
- 6:10Speaker 2: The league, we played a preseason game in Miami and
- 6:13Speaker 2: you played on the hard pan of a baseball infield.
- 6:15Speaker 2: Like we have great services, there's no argument from players like, hey,
- 6:19Speaker 2: the turf is far better than what we were playing on,
- 6:23Speaker 2: you know, five or ten years ago. I think the
- 6:25Speaker 2: argument always has been when we can't put grass in
- 6:27Speaker 2: certain locations, and the World Cup just showed you you
- 6:30Speaker 2: can put gorgeous grass in every location. So I think
- 6:33Speaker 2: now the players like, can we play on that. That's
- 6:35Speaker 2: gonna take care.
- 6:36Speaker 4: Of our bodies.
- 6:36Speaker 2: We're gonna recover a lot better if you just walked
- 6:40Speaker 2: out onto any surface and you went on the you
- 6:42Speaker 2: took a stroll in the park and you're on the concrete,
- 6:44Speaker 2: and then you put your feet on the grass, like
- 6:46Speaker 2: you feel better. And so I think that's the position
- 6:48Speaker 2: of the players is now that we know that we
- 6:50Speaker 2: can do it, let's work towards that.
- 6:52Speaker 1: Last week was a tough week, Like it started with
- 6:54Speaker 1: the Tailor Moten health situation, that blood clod and that
- 6:58Speaker 1: sounds real serious, way more Importland football. And then it's
- 7:02Speaker 1: the Nick Scrton injury on the first day and man,
- 7:05Speaker 1: it sound like he was tearing up. Sound like guys
- 7:07Speaker 1: were literally in a line to like, man, I feel
- 7:10Speaker 1: for you to hug him up. How hard is that
- 7:13Speaker 1: to bounce back from as a team like, hey we
- 7:16Speaker 1: got the whole.
- 7:17Speaker 4: Damn l Yeah, you got everything left?
- 7:19Speaker 1: Does that does that take a little bit of time
- 7:22Speaker 1: or no? Or is it like hey man, next man up?
- 7:24Speaker 2: Totally it is unfortunately, you know kind of the you know,
- 7:28Speaker 2: the harsh reality of pro football is it is next
- 7:30Speaker 2: man up, and and you know, guys are immediately thrusted
- 7:34Speaker 2: into new opportunities, right Like a guy like Princely immediate
- 7:37Speaker 2: is like, oh I might have a shot to start
- 7:39Speaker 2: right where maybe I didn't see a pathway before. And
- 7:41Speaker 2: so as sad as it as he's for his brother,
- 7:44Speaker 2: like he's like, oh I now I'm excited, Like I
- 7:46Speaker 2: get an opportunity. There's there's a there's a new roster
- 7:49Speaker 2: spot that gets elevated. So now you got guys competing
- 7:52Speaker 2: for it. It's a weird way that you have to
- 7:54Speaker 2: sort of emotionally work around it.
- 7:56Speaker 4: Certainly, we all love you know, we're talking about.
- 7:59Speaker 2: Nick like we all love him and hate that that happen,
- 8:02Speaker 2: hate it for him, hate it for our team.
- 8:04Speaker 4: But you do have to come back quickly.
- 8:06Speaker 2: And the story I told a few times last week
- 8:08Speaker 2: to guys was, Hey, in twenty fifteen, about the tenth
- 8:12Speaker 2: day of camp, Calvin Benjamin goes down with a non
- 8:14Speaker 2: contact ACL and I remember feeling like our season's over.
- 8:18Speaker 2: Like that was a pretty normal feeling that day. Yeah,
- 8:21Speaker 2: that's the way we all felt everyone felt that way, right,
- 8:24Speaker 2: and we didn't lose till Christmas.
- 8:28Speaker 1: So honestly, we had a text or send that in
- 8:31Speaker 1: last week because of course I was whining and moping
- 8:34Speaker 1: about things. Yeah, and that's the best example that y'all
- 8:37Speaker 1: can give.
- 8:38Speaker 4: Man, it's a team game.
- 8:39Speaker 2: It certainly we're not better for it, but every team
- 8:43Speaker 2: has to deal with these injuries. Unfortunately, we had a
- 8:46Speaker 2: big one happen on the first day, but everyone deals
- 8:48Speaker 2: with it. It is a game of attrition, and you know,
- 8:52Speaker 2: there's lots of good players on the roster. There's more
- 8:54Speaker 2: than fifty three good players on our roster, so it's
- 8:57Speaker 2: not the drop off that I think you go to
- 9:00Speaker 2: when it's oh that's a starter, that just that just
- 9:03Speaker 2: went down. But again there's roster building is a twenty
- 9:07Speaker 2: four to seven, three sixty five jobs. So Dan and
- 9:10Speaker 2: Branton and coach Canalis, I'm sure are looking for more guys.
- 9:13Speaker 2: Can we continue to improve the roster, but guys got
- 9:15Speaker 2: to also step up within the roster.
- 9:17Speaker 3: Ocho cincos here today, I told.
- 9:19Speaker 2: Ryan Fitzgerald that he's very excited about the kicker, and
- 9:22Speaker 2: he thought I was totally making it up.
- 9:24Speaker 4: I was like, no, he's tweeting about it.
- 9:25Speaker 3: He wants he wants to know who the wide receiver
- 9:28Speaker 3: coach is.
- 9:29Speaker 4: Sure, he wants he should know who the wide receiver
- 9:31Speaker 4: coaches is.
- 9:32Speaker 3: He wanting to meet Fitzgerald because he's Yeah.
- 9:35Speaker 4: So Ocho is a big soccer guy.
- 9:38Speaker 2: And remember he kicked a field goal or pat in
- 9:41Speaker 2: a preseason game up in New England, so he he is.
- 9:45Speaker 2: He's a foot to ball guy. And whether it's on
- 9:48Speaker 2: the pitch or on the practice field. So I wouldn't
- 9:51Speaker 2: be shocked if there's I don't think we have field
- 9:53Speaker 2: goal today. I wouldn't be shocked if all of a
- 9:55Speaker 2: sudden we have an impromptu field goal period where with
- 9:58Speaker 2: Ocho kicking. So, I don't know if they got his
- 10:00Speaker 2: I don't know they got his appropriate sized cleats in there.
- 10:03Speaker 2: But something tells me he may wander over and learn
- 10:06Speaker 2: that Ryan Fitzgerald is the kicker of the Panthers.
- 10:08Speaker 1: Like he's interested in meeting him, but needs to know
- 10:12Speaker 1: who he is. He doesn't know who he is with
- 10:14Speaker 1: some respect on that kid's name.
- 10:16Speaker 3: He know why he's a Panther fan.
- 10:18Speaker 2: Do we have any No, I have no idea he
- 10:21Speaker 2: is r and when he's been doing this for a
- 10:23Speaker 2: couple of years now. You'll see this occasionally. R and
- 10:26Speaker 2: we have been common words out of his mouth. And so, uh,
- 10:31Speaker 2: I'm I'm a fan, you know. I know he's a
- 10:33Speaker 2: big McDonald's fan to bow Jangles. Maybe maybe we can
- 10:36Speaker 2: slide him over.
- 10:37Speaker 1: Yeah, he would love that bow Jangles breakfast. Why not?
- 10:40Speaker 4: Why? Absolutely not?
- 10:42Speaker 1: So we were doing a topic yesterday. Damn Morgan wouldn't
- 10:47Speaker 1: give me anything on this. But I can go to
- 10:48Speaker 1: you for this, after all.
- 10:50Speaker 4: Anything the GM won't tell you, the long snapper will good. Perfect.
- 10:54Speaker 3: It's not a good sign JJ. When we're talking to
- 10:57Speaker 3: Dan and Bruce moves closer for.
- 10:59Speaker 1: Oh he I was suggesting a trade for Alex high
- 11:02Speaker 1: Smith and Bruce I think thought I was gonna get
- 11:03Speaker 1: Dan in trouble for tampering. Gotcha, you've got a little
- 11:06Speaker 1: tense in here. It did. It doesn't sound good for
- 11:08Speaker 1: my trade idea though, unless he's bluffing me, you know
- 11:10Speaker 1: what I mean. But anyway, we were talking about guys
- 11:14Speaker 1: like I was pumping up Corey Thornton. Sure who I
- 11:17Speaker 1: think is? You know better than a lot of people
- 11:19Speaker 1: think Travis Gibson's a guy I think is better than
- 11:22Speaker 1: people think. Uh, Nick Scott. My whole point is he
- 11:26Speaker 1: was better last year. Like, he's not as bad as
- 11:29Speaker 1: some of the fans. That is there a guy on
- 11:31Speaker 1: the team you want to salute and just be like, dude,
- 11:33Speaker 1: everybody on the outside doesn't know how good this guy is. Like,
- 11:37Speaker 1: who comes to mind for you?
- 11:38Speaker 2: Well, the one that would have that I would have
- 11:40Speaker 2: used for the last you know, two years until we
- 11:44Speaker 2: had a playoff game.
- 11:45Speaker 4: This building was Cocher.
- 11:46Speaker 1: Yes, I mean that was.
- 11:47Speaker 2: The one that I had at the top of my
- 11:49Speaker 2: list for you. Hit on a couple of them, right,
- 11:51Speaker 2: Like Corey Thornton has been a big physical corner for us,
- 11:55Speaker 2: does a lot of stuff. You know, as I'm sort
- 11:59Speaker 2: of sitting, I'm sifting through all the names, right, you
- 12:02Speaker 2: pick all these the really good players you already know.
- 12:06Speaker 4: Okay, I'll give you.
- 12:07Speaker 1: One answer, Dan said, Derek Brown stand out. People still
- 12:14Speaker 1: don't give him credit for him.
- 12:15Speaker 4: Yeah, I think.
- 12:17Speaker 2: At a national level, You're absolutely right Derek going forward.
- 12:21Speaker 2: You know, he's a Notre Dame guy. So I'm a
- 12:23Speaker 2: big fan of him. The one I wanted to give
- 12:24Speaker 2: you guys that I love and we have a lot
- 12:26Speaker 2: of wide receivers is Bryson Tremaine.
- 12:29Speaker 4: He is.
- 12:31Speaker 2: He's certainly fantastic in our room, but every time he's
- 12:33Speaker 2: on the field he is. He's a physical blocker in
- 12:36Speaker 2: the run game. Right when you're a third, fourth, fifth receiver,
- 12:39Speaker 2: you gotta be a physical blocker on the run game.
- 12:41Speaker 2: He's got great hands, he's a big, long target. So
- 12:44Speaker 2: I definitely put Bryson up there. I think Thomas Kombe.
- 12:49Speaker 2: He reminds me so much of Yeah, whenever you're a
- 12:56Speaker 2: pass rusher, you end up on special teams.
- 12:59Speaker 4: And then he sort of evolved.
- 13:00Speaker 2: He to me is young Mario Addison for guys that
- 13:03Speaker 2: remember when he's when Mario got here.
- 13:05Speaker 4: He's good, He's fantastic on special teams.
- 13:08Speaker 2: He's got pass rush skills, he's got some length, he's
- 13:12Speaker 2: he's quick off the ball, and so maybe that's one
- 13:14Speaker 2: of those roles where, hey, maybe he finds a way
- 13:16Speaker 2: to get on the field third downs, rush the passer,
- 13:19Speaker 2: kind of those specialty situations.
- 13:21Speaker 4: So those are a couple of guys that.
- 13:22Speaker 2: Stand out for me, and you know, I'll do one
- 13:26Speaker 2: more kind of mind necker with I don't think Sam
- 13:28Speaker 2: Martin gets nearly enough credit for how good of the
- 13:30Speaker 2: year he had last year. I think there's a little
- 13:32Speaker 2: bit of Oh he's a veteran punter, he's an old guy.
- 13:35Speaker 4: He's got as fast of a leg.
- 13:37Speaker 2: As anyone in the league at thirty six years old,
- 13:39Speaker 2: and he's a great locker room guy. So those are
- 13:42Speaker 2: a couple. But yeah, if we're allowed to just take
- 13:44Speaker 2: Derek Brown, then sure, I mean that's that feels like cheating,
- 13:48Speaker 2: Like well, Merrick's pretty good and you know that.
- 13:51Speaker 1: J C.
- 13:51Speaker 4: Horn I don't think. I think he's better than people think.
- 13:54Speaker 1: Oh JC, Darren Gant told assist and I forgot to
- 13:57Speaker 1: mention it on the air. Darren Gant just filed the
- 14:00Speaker 1: story that jac has been cleared to return to practice.
- 14:02Speaker 4: Oh that's good, good news. I hadn't heard that.
- 14:07Speaker 3: I pointed at him. Now he's activated, is it?
- 14:09Speaker 1: Do you think.
- 14:14Speaker 3: With just a point that's how excited are you for
- 14:16Speaker 3: Felipe Franks? That character, he's a lunatic.
- 14:20Speaker 2: I love it in all the in all the best ways.
- 14:22Speaker 2: He's great, he loves football, he's he brings a ton
- 14:26Speaker 2: of energy. We've been killing him in the special teams
- 14:28Speaker 2: room for four for four or five months because we
- 14:30Speaker 2: just we had two really good special teams.
- 14:33Speaker 4: Games last year versus Atlanta.
- 14:34Speaker 2: He's of course playing on Atlanta, so we've been just
- 14:36Speaker 2: like circling him and crushing him as a falcon, which
- 14:41Speaker 2: has been a lot of fun. But but we know
- 14:43Speaker 2: how he fits in the system. You know, him and
- 14:45Speaker 2: Isaiah Simmons, they are unique athletes. They're long, they're fast,
- 14:49Speaker 2: they're physical. That helps us so much in the kicking game.
- 14:54Speaker 2: You know, you just need a lot of genetic freaks
- 14:57Speaker 2: in special teams because it's organized chaos out there. And
- 15:00Speaker 2: then you add to that people that loved to run
- 15:03Speaker 2: and hit and go make plays. And like, I'll take
- 15:05Speaker 2: you back to the to the playoff game, Isaiah Simmons
- 15:09Speaker 2: rushed upunt realized that guy can't handle me. He walks
- 15:11Speaker 2: over to Tracy Smith and goes, can I just rush
- 15:13Speaker 2: the next one? And Tracy's like, go for it, like
- 15:16Speaker 2: let her rip, and he goes and blocks like and again,
- 15:19Speaker 2: that's the kind of stuff that you can't.
- 15:20Speaker 4: Necessarily quote coach. It's just long athleticism.
- 15:24Speaker 2: Athleticism, you know, in Isaiah's particular case, that's why he's
- 15:27Speaker 2: the eighth pick of the draft, and and those things
- 15:30Speaker 2: but Felipe brings a ton of energy, a lot of
- 15:32Speaker 2: position flexibility, and he's he's as into special teams as
- 15:35Speaker 2: he is offense.
- 15:36Speaker 1: I love it bone And I noticed when we were
- 15:39Speaker 1: practice the other day that they had you assisting. You
- 15:44Speaker 1: had the blue pad out, and it looked like, oh yeah,
- 15:49Speaker 1: yeah what it looked like. I I will trust that
- 15:54Speaker 1: your assignment was to give light resistance to the gunner.
- 15:58Speaker 4: Yes, that was it?
- 15:59Speaker 1: Thought you were not giving much. Do you get the
- 16:01Speaker 1: odd jobs around here like I do?
- 16:03Speaker 2: I get the I get some of the jobs that
- 16:08Speaker 2: really are more coaching jobs, but we probably need like
- 16:11Speaker 2: a pro athlete to stand in that spot. So like,
- 16:14Speaker 2: for instance, that was that's actually kind of a fun drill.
- 16:17Speaker 2: It's it's basically a two man cover drill. And then
- 16:20Speaker 2: my job is to just provide some resistance. So like,
- 16:23Speaker 2: for instance, as those guys are running down the field
- 16:26Speaker 2: to cover, I'm actually trying to force them to take
- 16:29Speaker 2: a bad angle so that they then have to redirect,
- 16:31Speaker 2: get into correct relationship and then go make the tackle.
- 16:35Speaker 2: So I sort of ad libbed a few times and
- 16:37Speaker 2: ran into people and and I was I was providing
- 16:41Speaker 2: medium resistance on those places.
- 16:43Speaker 1: But for you.
- 16:44Speaker 2: That was a fun drill. The special teams drills are
- 16:46Speaker 2: fun just because you're trying to there's again, if you
- 16:50Speaker 2: just watch a special Teams place, like, there's people running everywhere.
- 16:53Speaker 4: It doesn't look organized.
- 16:55Speaker 2: But then you watch some of the drills, you're like, oh,
- 16:57Speaker 2: I see how everyone's trying to relate off of one
- 16:59Speaker 2: another to go tackle.
- 17:00Speaker 4: So those are fun drills to watch.
- 17:02Speaker 1: Yeah, we got a great question from a Texter that
- 17:05Speaker 1: because coach was on, Coach Canalis was on talking about
- 17:08Speaker 1: what he is freed up to do in practice now
- 17:10Speaker 1: that he's not, you know, the play caller, and somebody
- 17:13Speaker 1: wanted to know if he has wandered over to the
- 17:16Speaker 1: Long Games area with the special I'm thinking he has
- 17:19Speaker 1: more important things to do, but I figured i'd ask
- 17:21Speaker 1: the question, how's how's the Long Games going? Invite coach over.
- 17:24Speaker 2: Maybe the thing I've noticed about Coach so far with
- 17:27Speaker 2: a little extra free time is he's he's working on
- 17:29Speaker 2: his long toss before practice. Now there's not as much
- 17:33Speaker 2: to coach, so he's been working on his long.
- 17:35Speaker 4: Coss on football. So I think he's out about forty
- 17:37Speaker 4: or forty five yards.
- 17:38Speaker 2: He's a former baseball guy, so he knows arm health
- 17:41Speaker 2: is very important. You got to you gotta take care
- 17:43Speaker 2: of your wing there and.
- 17:45Speaker 3: Throw that challenge flag.
- 17:46Speaker 2: You gotta throw the challenge flag. Now, most coaches just
- 17:49Speaker 2: kind of drop it. I would like to see a
- 17:52Speaker 2: coach just chuck it from the sideline like the back
- 17:55Speaker 2: judge when they throw it thirty five yards. I actually
- 17:57Speaker 2: think that's what coaches should do. They they tend to
- 17:59Speaker 2: run then kind of drop it right at the feet.
- 18:01Speaker 3: Of Remember the Belichick one where you got mad and
- 18:04Speaker 3: you just threw it out the just kind.
- 18:06Speaker 4: Of just spiked it.
- 18:07Speaker 2: Absolutely, I think that, you know, we were talking about
- 18:10Speaker 2: from time to time rule changes.
- 18:11Speaker 4: I do. I do like the idea that the head
- 18:13Speaker 4: coach has.
- 18:14Speaker 2: To throw the challenge flag at the white hat in
- 18:17Speaker 2: the middle of the field and like if you don't
- 18:19Speaker 2: get it within like a certain distance, challenge.
- 18:25Speaker 4: Skill.
- 18:25Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, brother, great catching up with you. Are
- 18:28Speaker 1: so pumped about this version of the Panthers and we're
- 18:31Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing the pad of practice today. Man,
- 18:33Speaker 1: thanks for hanging out with us.
- 18:34Speaker 4: Are you guys can there throw some pads on get
- 18:36Speaker 4: hit by anybody?
- 18:37Speaker 1: Yeah? Why we were waiting for our past.
- 18:38Speaker 3: We want you to hit us with those umpire packs.
- 18:40Speaker 2: No, this is what we're gonna do one of these
- 18:42Speaker 2: One of these days, we're gonna get you out there
- 18:43Speaker 2: in full pads, maybe after practice, and we'll see which
- 18:47Speaker 2: watch all the drills and figure out which drill you
- 18:49Speaker 2: could be most likely to do.
- 18:51Speaker 3: So we got to talk about the cold tub earlier.
- 18:54Speaker 1: Is that? Uh is the cold tub horrible?
- 18:57Speaker 4: Like?
- 18:57Speaker 1: Could we do that?
- 18:58Speaker 4: Oh?
- 18:59Speaker 2: You guys would die, You guys would die.
- 19:01Speaker 3: I could fifteen seconds.
- 19:05Speaker 2: Yeah, the cold tub. The cold tub is one of
- 19:07Speaker 2: those things. If you can get through the first sixty seconds,
- 19:10Speaker 2: you can go for a while.
- 19:11Speaker 1: Sixty seconds.
- 19:12Speaker 4: Oh I go, I go fully up to my chin
- 19:16Speaker 4: for four to five minutes. But you gotta get through
- 19:18Speaker 4: the first sixty seconds and then you then your numb
- 19:21Speaker 4: and then it's like, this is great. It's very refreshing.
- 19:24Speaker 1: We had a listener say they would like to see
- 19:26Speaker 1: us out there hitting the sled.
- 19:27Speaker 2: Do you think I was thinking, I would like I
- 19:30Speaker 2: want to see you guys go over there with Coach
- 19:32Speaker 2: Wash and the d line drills, follow Derek Brown and
- 19:35Speaker 2: just go through their their their drills.
- 19:37Speaker 4: I think that would be good.
- 19:38Speaker 2: It's small areas there's some bags involved, there's some pass
- 19:42Speaker 2: rush moves and sort of retrace back up the field.
- 19:45Speaker 2: There'd be some good I mean, you guys would definitely
- 19:47Speaker 2: get hurt, but it would be fun to watch that
- 19:50Speaker 2: look like in that sort of vein. That's that would
- 19:54Speaker 2: be kind of what we're trying to get done. That'd
- 19:57Speaker 2: be really good.
- 19:57Speaker 1: I forgot about that when he was rolling around.
- 20:00Speaker 4: Oh my good, Yeah he slept. He probably didn't have
- 20:02Speaker 4: the right footwear. Clear that was probably what it was.
- 20:05Speaker 1: Clearly, that was it, all right, brother, Good to see
- 20:06Speaker 1: you man.
- 20:07Speaker 4: That was also a morning practice, so you.
- 20:09Speaker 1: Okay, okay? There he is Irish go Irish. Golden Bone
- 20:16Speaker 1: is a vibe this season. I love true national title context.
- 20:20Speaker 4: Hey ar motto this year is leave no doubt. I
- 20:22Speaker 4: think we're gonna be pretty good. Ship.
- 20:24Speaker 1: Can I tell you a story? I know you're just
- 20:26Speaker 1: I just hang around Chase like I tell them when
- 20:29Speaker 1: I when I go.
- 20:30Speaker 4: Yeah, practice will start when I get out there.
- 20:33Speaker 1: My mom, God bless her, my mom. But her she's
- 20:36Speaker 1: in eighty two, all right, and she you know her mind,
- 20:41Speaker 1: she it's not as sharp as it used to be.
- 20:43Speaker 4: So since your mind's so sharp.
- 20:45Speaker 1: Yet listen, I'm fifty. Oh my god, Wow, that's savage.
- 20:49Speaker 1: J's all right, savage.
- 20:51Speaker 4: I want to make sure we're taking care of mama.
- 20:53Speaker 4: Mac just fine.
- 20:54Speaker 1: Okay, the amount of straits that JJ ketches, Okay, that's true.
- 20:59Speaker 1: She's iheard Notre Dame fan. My dad was too when
- 21:02Speaker 1: he when he was here, and so they would root together.
- 21:05Speaker 1: So my mom, though, we keep telling her that Notre
- 21:09Speaker 1: Dame plays Wisconsin to start the season, she thinks because
- 21:13Speaker 1: y'all did not make the playoff that they can no
- 21:15Speaker 1: longer play football, just like she just thinks they're done.
- 21:20Speaker 1: So I'm trying to make sure she knows how to
- 21:22Speaker 1: write it down. So I'm trying to make sure she knows.
- 21:24Speaker 1: At some point we might have to get Notre Dame
- 21:26Speaker 1: legends to contact her.
- 21:27Speaker 2: Maybe she would remember, as I'll make sure we'll get
- 21:31Speaker 2: a nice uh phone call from DeVante Smith, Tommy Tremble.
- 21:39Speaker 1: Maybe remember.
- 21:40Speaker 4: Maybe I'll get Brady Quinn on the phone and we'll
- 21:42Speaker 4: get it.
- 21:43Speaker 1: I keep telling her, I wish that was the case
- 21:45Speaker 1: that Notre Dame.
- 21:46Speaker 3: Fairness, they did st playing for a little while, but
- 21:48Speaker 3: they're back here.
- 21:49Speaker 4: We were back and we were.
- 21:52Speaker 2: Getting h hopefully not relegated. We're getting promoted to NFL stadiums.
- 21:55Speaker 2: I'm just saying that a bigger go have we just
- 21:58Speaker 2: moved right into like segment three.
- 22:01Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know why I had to
- 22:03Speaker 1: share that story. I embarrassed my poor mom too. Maybe
- 22:05Speaker 1: I shouldn't have told that great story.
- 22:07Speaker 4: Mac.
- 22:09Speaker 1: I love it all right, man, you go, JJ Jansen.
- 22:15Speaker 1: If your Carolina Panthers, sorry, Mama Mac. I don't know
- 22:18Speaker 1: if I embarrass you too bad, Sorry, Mama Mac. Notre
- 22:21Speaker 1: Day miss playing this year and they're one of the
- 22:22Speaker 1: national title favorites. All right, when we come back, there's
- 22:25Speaker 1: two Really, it feels like big deal things bone to
- 22:29Speaker 1: talk about outside of us being at Panther campconsin, no, no, no,
- 22:33Speaker 1: not that we've got the Michael Lombardi situation. What's the latest?
- 22:39Speaker 1: And I mean, Howard tar Heel fans supposed to feel
- 22:42Speaker 1: about this dude getting himself in potential trouble after the
- 22:46Speaker 1: horrible first year he had on the job. And then
- 22:48Speaker 1: there's the Steph Curry comes back home to the Hornets.
- 22:53Speaker 1: This stuff is now going to the national media. The
- 22:55Speaker 1: national media is now wanting to see it. We'll tell
- 22:58Speaker 1: you about into that. Talk about that. It's coming up
- 23:01Speaker 1: next with Live from Training Camp Sports Radio ninety two
- 23:03Speaker 1: to seven WFNZ.
- 23:12Speaker 5: A fake trade that I had in mind this offseason.
- 23:15Speaker 5: Let's just say Stephen Curry decided he wanted to go
- 23:17Speaker 5: east to the Charlotte Hornets. Let's just say he wanted
- 23:20Speaker 5: to go home with wear number thirty with Charlotte and
- 23:23Speaker 5: go pursue a championship. Today, the Hornets are not able
- 23:28Speaker 5: to put together a package to meet the demands. Financially
- 23:32Speaker 5: for the Golden State Warriors. They would have to wait
- 23:34Speaker 5: until late August or September, depending on the players that
- 23:37Speaker 5: are in there, because then players can be aggregated. All
- 23:40Speaker 5: that said, late August late September, a deal like Christian Anderson,
- 23:44Speaker 5: T John Salon, two young players and then the younger guys.
- 23:48Speaker 5: Those are the younger guys, and then the veterans salaries
- 23:51Speaker 5: Grayson Allen, Grant, Williams, Trey Man, and a whole bunch
- 23:55Speaker 5: of picks. Charlotte is one of the teams of the
- 23:58Speaker 5: most amount of assets in basketball. So something like Anderson,
- 24:02Speaker 5: who was just the eighteenth pick, a former lottery pick,
- 24:05Speaker 5: and T John's salon and an x amount of draft
- 24:08Speaker 5: picks for Golden State. Golden State who stillings to fill
- 24:11Speaker 5: roster spots, Charlotte who needs to cut down on the roster.
- 24:15Speaker 4: I'm intrigued.
- 24:18Speaker 1: That is Kevin O'Connor. He's a trigged Steph to Charlotte bone.
- 24:21Speaker 1: We have somehow reached the point. That's Kevin O'Connor on
- 24:25Speaker 1: his podcast, longtime NBA writer. We have reached the point
- 24:28Speaker 1: bone where this is not just something that Hornets fans
- 24:33Speaker 1: say either, you know, text to the radio shows at WFNZ,
- 24:37Speaker 1: on Hornet's Twitter, stuff like that. Right, this is now
- 24:42Speaker 1: reached a point in Steph's career, the Warriors whole situation,
- 24:46Speaker 1: the report that Steph is not necessarily fond of where
- 24:50Speaker 1: they're at right now in their path. We have somehow
- 24:52Speaker 1: reached a point I didn't know we'd ever get to
- 24:55Speaker 1: where national media members are now joining in saying Hornets
- 25:00Speaker 1: go get Steph and bring him home. Man, I never
- 25:02Speaker 1: saw this happen.
- 25:03Speaker 3: Well, it's the combination of the Warriors mac falling back
- 25:07Speaker 3: to earth the last handful of years. It no longer
- 25:11Speaker 3: the contenders they once were. They've tried multiple times to
- 25:15Speaker 3: try to have whether it be one last run whatever
- 25:17Speaker 3: it is not working out, and there's the rise of
- 25:20Speaker 3: the Hornets where they're getting better. They have all the
- 25:23Speaker 3: flexibility financially to do something like that. And it's Steph's hometown,
- 25:28Speaker 3: so it took a while, but nationally they're starting to
- 25:31Speaker 3: tie it together. Yeah, if it was ever gonna make sense,
- 25:35Speaker 3: some people like Kevin O'Connor think it would make sense.
- 25:38Speaker 4: Now.
- 25:39Speaker 3: While you and I are in lockstep on this one,
- 25:41Speaker 3: I disagree. If you feel that Steph has at least
- 25:46Speaker 3: a couple of years left and not say one more
- 25:48Speaker 3: great year. If he's got a couple of years left,
- 25:50Speaker 3: he's a free agent next year, Why spend all that
- 25:53Speaker 3: money in aspect when you can go get him next
- 25:56Speaker 3: year and say, having a couple of years with them at.
- 25:58Speaker 1: A still a high level, and then see what kind
- 26:00Speaker 1: of ring, See what kind of rate you could get
- 26:03Speaker 1: him on Lebron's playing for four million a year. Steph,
- 26:06Speaker 1: you really want to be home. You've talked about Is
- 26:11Speaker 1: he gonna be okay? Apparently though he can afford a
- 26:13Speaker 1: helicopter as he lives in New York and helicopters into
- 26:16Speaker 1: Philly every day.
- 26:17Speaker 3: How many how many tweets. Did we see about Lebron's
- 26:20Speaker 3: living the reverse fresh Prince? He went from bel Air
- 26:23Speaker 3: to Philadelphia. I know, I didn't think that ever happened.
- 26:25Speaker 3: I didn't know what happened that way. But he left
- 26:27Speaker 3: in Air.
- 26:28Speaker 1: That's like he did. That's like if someone were to
- 26:31Speaker 1: actually non football person actually moves from Charlotte to Buffalo.
- 26:36Speaker 1: That is tell me, does that exist other than people
- 26:40Speaker 1: going for the Panthers of the Bills? Not one person?
- 26:43Speaker 1: All right, So there's a lot to unpack here. I
- 26:46Speaker 1: would say Darren's text is kind of the way I
- 26:50Speaker 1: feel about this. Why would we give up so much
- 26:52Speaker 1: for Steph Curry at thirty nine? Like as much as
- 26:55Speaker 1: it has been a fantasy for lack of a better word,
- 26:59Speaker 1: for Charlott sports fans for years, and I wouldn't be
- 27:02Speaker 1: opposed to it the way you said it. He makes
- 27:04Speaker 1: sixty two million this year, He'll let him hit free
- 27:06Speaker 1: agency and then let's see, you know what I mean? Yeah,
- 27:10Speaker 1: if you really want to make it happen, let's, you know,
- 27:12Speaker 1: make it happen. And yeah, him, Con and Brandon could
- 27:15Speaker 1: be fun for a couple of years. But what Darren
- 27:18Speaker 1: just said is the key Kevin O'Connor is putting this
- 27:20Speaker 1: trade together, and I'm not worried as much about like
- 27:22Speaker 1: the veteran players he was putting in there.
- 27:24Speaker 3: Why are we grant Williams and yeah, those would make s.
- 27:30Speaker 1: And Grayson Allen like it's a ton, don't get me wrong.
- 27:33Speaker 1: But my whole thing is, Jeff Peterson's worked his butt
- 27:36Speaker 1: off to create this treasure chest of draft pick assets.
- 27:40Speaker 1: Why are we going to give a bunch of those
- 27:42Speaker 1: first round picks for a guy who is going to
- 27:44Speaker 1: be thirty nine before the season ends like that? That's
- 27:47Speaker 1: where we That's where I feel like you have to
- 27:48Speaker 1: take And I know I'm one to say take the
- 27:50Speaker 1: emotion out of it. I don't always do that well,
- 27:52Speaker 1: but I feel like you got to take the emotion
- 27:54Speaker 1: out of this. And does it feel like a Jeff
- 27:55Speaker 1: Peterson move? Like it? You know what I mean? Maybe
- 27:58Speaker 1: the old regime would get caught up been we could
- 28:00Speaker 1: sell some tickets by bringing Steph home or whatever. But
- 28:03Speaker 1: Jeff Peterson collected those assets for a reason. Isn't doesn't
- 28:07Speaker 1: the star that if you start using three four first
- 28:10Speaker 1: round picks, doesn't the star player have to be younger
- 28:14Speaker 1: that you finally turn in your assets for Yeah.
- 28:16Speaker 3: Also, and sometimes you know, we don't always analyze trades
- 28:19Speaker 3: on the reverse because we're we're the Hornets here where
- 28:22Speaker 3: we're we're looking at it from the Hornets perspective. But
- 28:24Speaker 3: mag if you're the Warriors and you're gonna give up
- 28:26Speaker 3: Steph Curry and you're gonna rebuild, well obviously you're gonna
- 28:29Speaker 3: ask for as many picks as you can. You don't
- 28:31Speaker 3: want just trade Man and Grant Williams and t John Zalon.
- 28:34Speaker 3: You want to build for the future. So the Warriors,
- 28:36Speaker 3: of course are gonna ask for a bunch of picks.
- 28:38Speaker 3: That's why it makes more sense to do in free agency. Yeah,
- 28:41Speaker 3: because why would the Warriors just want all the players
- 28:43Speaker 3: They're gonna They're gonna release Havel those guys. Anyways, Yeah,
- 28:46Speaker 3: they're gonna want all those picks and rebuild.
- 28:47Speaker 1: It just doesn't make sense. And that's why I was
- 28:50Speaker 1: so surprised when I heard Walker mayl like be kind
- 28:54Speaker 1: of excited about this, because Walker, mister logical, mister clean
- 28:58Speaker 1: the glass and a little we love him for all
- 29:01Speaker 1: that stuff. I steal his stats bone when I hear
- 29:03Speaker 1: him say it. But like I didn't think he gets
- 29:06Speaker 1: his case was, could we get two or three good
- 29:08Speaker 1: years of Steph, it would be worth making a move
- 29:10Speaker 1: like this. And I'm like, if we don't get him
- 29:13Speaker 1: because we let him go to free agency and don't
- 29:15Speaker 1: make a trade nowur at the deadline, I'm fine for it, man,
- 29:18Speaker 1: there's a bigger goal in line. Would it be cool? Yes,
- 29:21Speaker 1: But we have this logical patient rebuild going on. It
- 29:25Speaker 1: just doesn't seem to necessarily fit with that. If you
- 29:28Speaker 1: got to give up assets to get him.
- 29:29Speaker 3: If you think he still has three years left at
- 29:32Speaker 3: a high level, not even the all times Steph level,
- 29:34Speaker 3: but a high level, well, then sign him for two
- 29:37Speaker 3: after this year. Yeah, instead of getting him for three
- 29:40Speaker 3: in the trade, get him for two after this year.
- 29:42Speaker 3: If you think he's got three, then take the gamble
- 29:45Speaker 3: that's you think he's got two after this.
- 29:47Speaker 1: One, But don't give up your draft assets. Man, And
- 29:50Speaker 1: that's where I am. This dude says. Also track and
- 29:52Speaker 1: bone are no fun. Also trust what the Curry name
- 29:55Speaker 1: means to chart with that. If he's a free agent,
- 29:57Speaker 1: you can woo him here. He's he's mentioned it. Well,
- 30:00Speaker 1: even said I told him thirty's available. We'll bring it
- 30:02Speaker 1: right out of the rafters for him. Let's see NASCAR,
- 30:05Speaker 1: Mike says, Walker hitting the glue.
- 30:09Speaker 6: He always looks like it doesn't he Oh my god,
- 30:12Speaker 6: what is that about?
- 30:13Speaker 1: What is that stray all about?
- 30:14Speaker 3: You don't talk about Walkie talking that way.
- 30:16Speaker 1: That's the worst stray since JJ absolutely bludgeted me a
- 30:20Speaker 1: few minutes.
- 30:21Speaker 3: Was due to get one over.
- 30:22Speaker 1: Honest, though he's taking a lot of he deserves it.
- 30:24Speaker 1: He definitely deserves he.
- 30:26Speaker 3: Got one in the previous segment from Dan Morgan.
- 30:28Speaker 1: I wanted to talk. That's true, he said, I think
- 30:30Speaker 1: he knows what that one is. He, oh, he does it.
- 30:32Speaker 3: They sell those jerseys. Was that astray from Dan? Or
- 30:35Speaker 3: is that was that legitimate question? It's stray stray?
- 30:39Speaker 1: That was a I was a middle linebacker starter and
- 30:43Speaker 1: you're a long snapper. I'll bit a good one, but
- 30:45Speaker 1: you're a long snapper. Well, okay, let's let's talk through
- 30:48Speaker 1: the Lombardi thing, because this is the one other thing
- 30:50Speaker 1: I feel like that's out there bon in local sports
- 30:53Speaker 1: that it's like, we have a few minutes here, We're
- 30:55Speaker 1: actually gonna talk to Sheena Quick real quick before we
- 30:57Speaker 1: wrap up, and before pre real Quick gets going I
- 31:01Speaker 1: didn't try that. I didn't try that. She a real question.
- 31:06Speaker 1: She was quick on that track back in the day.
- 31:08Speaker 1: Man at stateon Florida State, very quick. All right. So
- 31:11Speaker 1: the Lombardi thing, So there's an investigation going on. Multiple
- 31:16Speaker 1: reports say that there was an HR complaint filed by
- 31:18Speaker 1: a former front office employee there at UNC and that
- 31:21Speaker 1: is the reason for the administrative leave. Uh so we'll
- 31:24Speaker 1: see where that goes. It was a double whammy yesterday
- 31:27Speaker 1: when when we found out multiple reports, Pablo Torre got
- 31:29Speaker 1: involved in this. You know, he was glad to get
- 31:31Speaker 1: back on this case. That the CSC, the College Sports
- 31:34Speaker 1: Commission that regulates or at least tries to the nil deals.
- 31:38Speaker 1: They're investigating guitar heels as well. So this is a
- 31:41Speaker 1: double whammy. Fitty, when your boy Flounder stormed in, he
- 31:45Speaker 1: storms in to our side studio bone that we hang
- 31:48Speaker 1: out in after our show and before Flounders show, he
- 31:52Speaker 1: storms in like Cosmo Kramer used to storm in to
- 31:55Speaker 1: Jerry's apartment. So Flounders storms in and I mean he
- 31:59Speaker 1: is hitting fire about Thank God, get Lombardi out of here.
- 32:04Speaker 1: Here's the thing though, Yes, I think Lombardi has had
- 32:08Speaker 1: a brutal start, right, especially if there's this so called
- 32:12Speaker 1: nil money. How where did it go on that first
- 32:14Speaker 1: roster which transfers. Have they spent it on this go
- 32:18Speaker 1: round or it's been or has it been on all
- 32:19Speaker 1: those high school guys? I don't dispute. You can do
- 32:21Speaker 1: way better than Lombardi. Also, they're they're paying him the
- 32:24Speaker 1: most of any GM in the country. Here's my thing, though,
- 32:27Speaker 1: Fitty Bill Belichick thought Lombardi was the right guy for
- 32:30Speaker 1: the job. We're gonna let Bill Belichick hire the next
- 32:33Speaker 1: the next one. Like I just is Bill be is
- 32:37Speaker 1: Bill Belichick even gonna be around to hire the next
- 32:40Speaker 1: Like I just I don't know. Is this good news
- 32:42Speaker 1: to you if you're a tar heel fan? I just
- 32:45Speaker 1: I just think it creates It adds to the narrative
- 32:48Speaker 1: that UNC football is still this out of control, chaotic mess,
- 32:54Speaker 1: and that does not help recruiting. Man.
- 32:56Speaker 6: Yeah, Mac, I do think that if, like if Belichick
- 32:59Speaker 6: has commit it to doing this thing and being here
- 33:02Speaker 6: for the long term, which is the message they're preaching.
- 33:05Speaker 6: Because of how they've got about building the roster with
- 33:07Speaker 6: all this high school freshmen that they that they added,
- 33:11Speaker 6: this gives him the opportunity to bring in a legitimate
- 33:14Speaker 6: college football level GM. Like it does offer him the opportunity,
- 33:21Speaker 6: do I think? Like my biggest concern is why this
- 33:24Speaker 6: is going on, this investigation? Is Belichick gonna vouch for
- 33:28Speaker 6: him because this is his this is his right hand man,
- 33:31Speaker 6: like they they've got this history, they got this relationship together.
- 33:34Speaker 6: I look at this way. I hope Belichick sees I
- 33:37Speaker 6: can part ways. We can wipe the slate clean, and
- 33:40Speaker 6: I can go get a legitimate GM to help me
- 33:42Speaker 6: navigate the portal better.
- 33:43Speaker 1: Here's the only fear what legitimate college talent evaluator is
- 33:47Speaker 1: in a hurry to take this job. Doesn't it feel
- 33:50Speaker 1: like a sinking ship? It just or do you not
- 33:56Speaker 1: think it's a sinking ship? Do you think Belichick can
- 33:59Speaker 1: survive you?
- 34:00Speaker 6: I mean, I was starting to believe, and maybe it's
- 34:03Speaker 6: because it's all I have right as a Carolina football fan.
- 34:05Speaker 3: You got to have hope because you guys are like Dippin' Dots.
- 34:10Speaker 4: It's not a bad comparison.
- 34:11Speaker 3: I love because I've heard my entire wife that Dippin'
- 34:14Speaker 3: Dots is the ice cream of the future. I've heard
- 34:16Speaker 3: that UNC is a progam of the future now my
- 34:19Speaker 3: entire life, and it just never.
- 34:20Speaker 1: Seems to work out that way. Yeah.
- 34:21Speaker 6: Look, look, we're the sleeping giant that still hasn't awoken yet.
- 34:25Speaker 6: We haven't been with Oregon's been in the Pacific Northwest.
- 34:28Speaker 6: I was starting to buy into the vision because I
- 34:31Speaker 6: thought the vibe of Accy kickoff was there, Like I thought,
- 34:34Speaker 6: you know, the message was, Hey, we're further along than
- 34:38Speaker 6: we were a year ago. We've got better chemistry. We
- 34:41Speaker 6: may not win as much this year, but we're taking
- 34:43Speaker 6: the right steps. But man, we didn't hire him to
- 34:46Speaker 6: go four and eight. We we didn't hire him to
- 34:49Speaker 6: And that's the thing that kills me. Fitty is I
- 34:52Speaker 6: truly I know bones mocking the sleeping giant thing because
- 34:54Speaker 6: they've said that for the national media said that for
- 34:56Speaker 6: years about I'm MACKI too, But I do believe if
- 34:59Speaker 6: you high, you need to tell me, if y'all brought
- 35:01Speaker 6: in Kurt Signetty and gave him the nil money you've
- 35:03Speaker 6: given these bozos, you mean to tell me, y'all wouldn't
- 35:06Speaker 6: be winning big if you hire John Summerle and gave
- 35:09Speaker 6: him this nil budget. You don't think y'all would be
- 35:12Speaker 6: winning big. That's the thing. Well, I think he saw
- 35:17Speaker 6: a sec job. I think, But also I was listened
- 35:19Speaker 6: to Andy Staples yesterday. Andy Staples said the word is
- 35:22Speaker 6: his agent. Saul found out what was going on with
- 35:24Speaker 6: that stupid John Pryor dual search and said, we ain't
- 35:28Speaker 6: going there.
- 35:28Speaker 1: This is a bleep show. So like, if y'all just
- 35:31Speaker 1: and that's just an example of it, right, hire a
- 35:34Speaker 1: good football coach and give him an actual budget, like why,
- 35:38Speaker 1: Like this is what I hate for Tar Heel fans
- 35:40Speaker 1: who have been starving. You be good for football, you
- 35:42Speaker 1: finally invest serious currency, and it's for that old boso
- 35:47Speaker 1: that doesn't appear to really have any interest to care
- 35:49Speaker 1: about this like and then he brings along his unaccomplished
- 35:53Speaker 1: schmuck Michael Lombardi like I just I just I fee
- 35:57Speaker 1: and I fear fiddy that y'all will be like, well
- 36:00Speaker 1: we tried with the money, well no need to, no
- 36:02Speaker 1: need to use all like and then it'll be wasted on.
- 36:05Speaker 1: I hope I'm wrong. I hope I eat these words
- 36:07Speaker 1: and Belichick can turn it around. I said, I saw
- 36:10Speaker 1: Danny Canell tweet this yesterday. I said it when it happened.
- 36:13Speaker 1: If you're willing to invest that kind of NL money,
- 36:15Speaker 1: why would you give it to a coach that's never
- 36:17Speaker 1: coached college football? Why wouldn't you give it to Mac Brown?
- 36:19Speaker 1: Your greatest coach ever? He I mean, he had to
- 36:21Speaker 1: do things on a shoestring budget. When the nil's erastart.
- 36:24Speaker 6: It was a real slap in the face how much
- 36:25Speaker 6: they invested after not having not and not give him
- 36:29Speaker 6: back the same resources.
- 36:30Speaker 1: I can't hate that for ma.
- 36:31Speaker 6: Like, like, like my biggest fear is when they wipe
- 36:34Speaker 6: their hands clean. They wipe their hands clean and say, hey,
- 36:37Speaker 6: we we tried.
- 36:38Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. We're just like that's not that's
- 36:40Speaker 1: not a thing, and it's like, no, it could be
- 36:43Speaker 1: your thing.
- 36:43Speaker 6: There seems to be a better commitment from like the
- 36:46Speaker 6: president and the chance or there's a greater sense of
- 36:48Speaker 6: commitment of football, But those people make decisions they're not
- 36:52Speaker 6: the money. Is the money still gonna be like yeah?
- 36:55Speaker 1: Are they gonna say, well, we try to support this
- 36:56Speaker 1: sport and it didn't work. And it's like no, but
- 36:58Speaker 1: you tried to support the wrong dudes, spend your money
- 37:03Speaker 1: for to get somebody that's legit and give him a bunchet.
- 37:05Speaker 6: That's kind of like when a radio station invest in
- 37:07Speaker 6: the wrong host, you know, or maybe someone that's aging,
- 37:10Speaker 6: maybe he needs to find their next chapter in line.
- 37:13Speaker 4: You know.
- 37:13Speaker 1: Maybe you are the radio a Belichick is to football.
- 37:16Speaker 1: Oh my god, don't make me smack you over there. Man,
- 37:19Speaker 1: I'm gonna go shack versus hoaster tag on you fool.
- 37:21Speaker 1: You're getting everywhere, I know. Seriously, all right, let's take
- 37:27Speaker 1: a deep breath here, everybody. All right, those were hurtful words,
- 37:31Speaker 1: fitty hurtful words.
- 37:33Speaker 4: You reasted in my head the first fifteen minutes of
- 37:35Speaker 4: the show.
- 37:36Speaker 3: Your head was roasting all the guys you straight back
- 37:38Speaker 3: are fighting back.
- 37:39Speaker 1: I know. It's will attack of a strays. All right,
- 37:43Speaker 1: when we come back, Sina Quick's gonna stop on by.
- 37:46Speaker 1: And we were just minutes away from checking out the
- 37:48Speaker 1: first padded practice for the Panthers in camp this year.
- 37:52Speaker 1: We're looking forward to that, uh Sports Radio ninety two
- 37:55Speaker 1: to seven w FNZ.
- 38:06Speaker 7: You know, I'm gonna get my first game where I
- 38:08Speaker 7: gave up three sacks to and I was just like, well,
- 38:12Speaker 7: that's that's the end of this whole NFL journey. And
- 38:15Speaker 7: my left tackles Jordan Gross and he was just laughing
- 38:18Speaker 7: at me, and I was like, why is this guy
- 38:20Speaker 7: laughing at me in the middle of this game? And
- 38:22Speaker 7: he just put his hand on my shoulder and he
- 38:24Speaker 7: was like, listen, one day you're going to understand this.
- 38:27Speaker 4: This is it's not as bad as it seems. It's
- 38:29Speaker 4: not as great as it seems.
- 38:30Speaker 7: And so that was a great lesson, which is you
- 38:32Speaker 7: just have to kind of stay like this the whole
- 38:34Speaker 7: way through and and and it helps, but not everybody
- 38:37Speaker 7: goes through that, and you see guys get discouraged pretty
- 38:39Speaker 7: quickly and they don't have guys that can get around them,
- 38:42Speaker 7: and they just kind of they just kind of fizzle out.
- 38:45Speaker 4: But seriously, why are you laughing right after?
- 38:50Speaker 3: Remember it to this day here?
- 38:52Speaker 4: I don't mean that.
- 38:54Speaker 7: I think after the third sack, Jake DeLong got up
- 38:56Speaker 7: and he was like, is that you again?
- 39:05Speaker 3: That is Ryan Khalil, the New York Boers job kind
- 39:09Speaker 3: of the day, located the Dill Wharf. We're really is
- 39:12Speaker 3: Port Maille Indian Land and carry it always on Instagram
- 39:16Speaker 3: and why but your why more? That is mac what
- 39:18Speaker 3: we uh the voice of Mkalel but not the body
- 39:22Speaker 3: of what we know of Mkhalil. Ryan Khalil. Huh, who
- 39:26Speaker 3: did I say, M Khalil, the one that went viral.
- 39:30Speaker 1: Yeah, we've been hearing a little bit too much about
- 39:31Speaker 1: his body from his ex wife. Yeah right, Oh my goodness,
- 39:37Speaker 1: Ryan Khalil, he does not look that's on NFL network.
- 39:42Speaker 1: He does not look. I mean you, And if you
- 39:45Speaker 1: didn't know who that was talking, you would not be
- 39:48Speaker 1: able to identify him. Jordan Gross same thing, got real
- 39:51Speaker 1: thin or whatever. I feel like you can at least
- 39:55Speaker 1: still see Jordan Gross in there. Ryan Khalil looks like
- 39:58Speaker 1: a different dude. It's crazy when it just goes to
- 40:01Speaker 1: showbone how unnatural it is for a lot of these
- 40:03Speaker 1: linemen to be at the weight that they are at.
- 40:04Speaker 3: I saw that and Khalil and I knew that was him,
- 40:07Speaker 3: and I still didn't realize it was Well, it's crazy.
- 40:09Speaker 1: Man, it really is. But good for him. Man lost
- 40:12Speaker 1: a ton of weight. He's like a Hollywood producer man
- 40:14Speaker 1: movies and stuff like that. So he's doing great, and
- 40:17Speaker 1: that's a cool story.
- 40:18Speaker 3: Television's Nick Carboni walked in today to practice with Ojo Sinko.
- 40:22Speaker 1: Oh are they buds down?
- 40:23Speaker 3: And he asked him a few questions.
- 40:25Speaker 1: Two notes.
- 40:27Speaker 3: Wants to talk Leap to J. C.
- 40:28Speaker 1: Hort.
- 40:29Speaker 3: He must know him from his father, probably right. Yeah, Also,
- 40:32Speaker 3: he wants to talk to MLS Commissioner Don Garber about
- 40:36Speaker 3: playing in the game tomorrow night.
- 40:37Speaker 1: We all start getting Oh so the skill He's already
- 40:39Speaker 1: in the skills competition tonight, but he won once on
- 40:41Speaker 1: the game. I would that'd be kind of vegetating. Can
- 40:45Speaker 1: he at least get like six minutes maybe in the game.
- 40:47Speaker 1: I know it's important you're playing against league Amecki's for Mexico,
- 40:50Speaker 1: but six minutes for o show Ojo's a damn riot man.
- 40:53Speaker 1: He is a freaking scrip.
- 40:55Speaker 3: You want some ratings on Apple, you put other people.
- 40:58Speaker 1: In the game, put him in the boot. Maybe at
- 41:00Speaker 1: least should make at least make a booth appearance, shouldn't
- 41:02Speaker 1: he tomorrow night? Yeah? He could be funny as hell
- 41:04Speaker 1: up there, and he loves soccer, he really does.
- 41:07Speaker 3: I'd like to see his podcast partner also out there.
- 41:12Speaker 1: U's he unk out there as well? Uh? Bone, It
- 41:15Speaker 1: appears that Sheena is not coming to talk to us.
- 41:18Speaker 3: No, I don't know.
- 41:19Speaker 1: She got our hopes up and then just isn't appearing
- 41:22Speaker 1: in here.
- 41:23Speaker 3: Man Fiddy's not movingbout being stood up.
- 41:27Speaker 1: This is the first time a woman got his hopes up.
- 41:29Speaker 3: Now we are in the building, so I don't know
- 41:31Speaker 3: if you know she could. I don't know how accessible
- 41:33Speaker 3: we are. We're kind of protected in our in the home.
- 41:36Speaker 1: The vip sweet baby, Uh panther, You got.
- 41:39Speaker 3: To know people. To know people, you gotta know your
- 41:41Speaker 3: chanted and your Morgan's.
- 41:43Speaker 1: Panther, Bo says the vitriol. When Mac calls someone a schmuck,
- 41:47Speaker 1: never want to be on the receiving end of that.
- 41:49Speaker 1: Another is really tough. Another Texter said Max paraphery. I
- 41:55Speaker 1: can't find about paraphray. So somebody said something the effect of, uh, Mac, you,
- 42:00Speaker 1: this is the lamest words when trying to hurt people verbally.
- 42:03Speaker 3: He called me a dodo bird once and I've never
- 42:06Speaker 3: It was August seventeen, twenty seventeen, and I'm still not
- 42:09Speaker 3: over there.
- 42:11Speaker 1: I don't necessarily come out slinging with the nastiest words,
- 42:14Speaker 1: you know what I mean? I feel like I you know,
- 42:16Speaker 1: I feel like that.
- 42:17Speaker 3: What's the one that makes me mad all the time?
- 42:18Speaker 3: That it's a due fall?
- 42:19Speaker 1: Dufefall doofall really really burns my biscuits. Let me write
- 42:24Speaker 1: that because you're so make sure, you're so angry and
- 42:27Speaker 1: you think duke ball is gonna the words don't match
- 42:29Speaker 1: my anger. I will, I will admit that. It's I
- 42:32Speaker 1: don't know how you keep a straight face.
- 42:34Speaker 3: That's why you're fighting with Brenzon. Butner was so funny.
- 42:36Speaker 3: He called Bretson a dufeball.
- 42:38Speaker 1: He called you the B word, a little bee, and
- 42:41Speaker 1: then it stormed out of that studio and not even
- 42:43Speaker 1: a big bed. Oh my goodness. All right, we can
- 42:46Speaker 1: read some text here coming up in the world of sports, obviously,
- 42:49Speaker 1: Panther Camp, the MLS Skills Challenge right here in Bank
- 42:52Speaker 1: of America Stadium tonight. You can watch that on Apple
- 42:55Speaker 1: if you're not gonna be in a tendancy. It's a
- 42:57Speaker 1: fun event.
- 42:58Speaker 3: Sheina couldn't come in because the players were walking in,
- 43:01Speaker 3: so they stop everyone from walking.
- 43:02Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, so it's not it's not us,
- 43:05Speaker 1: it's security. No, it's okay, I thought it was us.
- 43:08Speaker 3: Scott stood up. It's not a one of us has
- 43:10Speaker 3: body owner.
- 43:11Speaker 1: We might after sweating earlier, Phitty's head might stink after
- 43:15Speaker 1: all the sweat on his head. Somebody did an AI photo. Yeah,
- 43:18Speaker 1: y'all are getting real clever with the AI photos. Someone
- 43:21Speaker 1: did an AI photo of Fitty's sweating and just I
- 43:24Speaker 1: mean water just dripping all over the man. We also
- 43:27Speaker 1: got AI. It was like the guy and get out.
- 43:32Speaker 1: It is like that.
- 43:33Speaker 3: Speaking of that, did you see Obsession yet?
- 43:35Speaker 1: Yeah? I saw it over the weekend. You like it?
- 43:37Speaker 3: That's good, wasn't it?
- 43:37Speaker 1: It was all right? It's crazy, man, that is crazy. Yeah,
- 43:41Speaker 1: I thought it was right. I would say good. I
- 43:42Speaker 1: would say, yeah, it was worth a good hour and
- 43:44Speaker 1: a half or so movies.
- 43:46Speaker 3: In twenty twenty six. It's very unique. You haven't seen it.
- 43:48Speaker 1: Definitely is unique, no doubt about it. Braves Mets. Tonight,
- 43:51Speaker 1: the Braves will try to bounce back from a fourteen
- 43:53Speaker 1: to three loss last night. I would suggest to the
- 43:57Speaker 1: Braves they give I know, they were trying to rest
- 43:58Speaker 1: the entire bullpen Land La night, so Connor Thomas had
- 44:01Speaker 1: to stay in there and give up eleven runs, poor guy.
- 44:04Speaker 1: I would say it would be a good idea tonight,
- 44:06Speaker 1: Walt Weiss to maybe just let Connor Thomas rest on up,
- 44:10Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
- 44:11Speaker 3: Yeah, because dinner. He threw seventy six pictures last runs.
- 44:16Speaker 1: I also might give him, uh, you know, the directions
- 44:19Speaker 1: to Gwinnette. I might do that as well if I
- 44:22Speaker 1: was if I was Walt Weise, ooh, that got ugly. Yeah,
- 44:26Speaker 1: when you make the Mets bats look that good? Bone,
- 44:28Speaker 1: you know you struggling.
- 44:30Speaker 3: Absolutely, fourteen to three results are normally found when the
- 44:34Speaker 3: Giants and Jets play and not and not the winning end.
- 44:38Speaker 1: Oh man, all right, so we got some different texts
- 44:40Speaker 1: coming in here. Uh, this text is anyway we can
- 44:43Speaker 1: get mac and bone in some in some pads for
- 44:46Speaker 1: some show content that has been that's been requested a lot.
- 44:49Speaker 1: This morning, we wore pads in Humet that one time
- 44:52Speaker 1: we were catching punts. Oh my god, it is that's impossible.
- 44:55Speaker 1: I don't know how people do that. Listen, there's a
- 44:57Speaker 1: lot of guys out there that know, you know, obviously
- 44:59Speaker 1: played football and pads for more than like, I don't
- 45:02Speaker 1: know the four weeks I did it when I was
- 45:04Speaker 1: a kid. It makes it so much harder to function
- 45:06Speaker 1: in the pads. It's it's crazy. And wearing a helmet
- 45:10Speaker 1: makes it a little bit. It does.
- 45:13Speaker 3: Your vision gets blought.
- 45:14Speaker 1: Somebody says, if Mac keeps complaining about the lack of
- 45:17Speaker 1: air conditioning in the suits, Tepper may throw a beer
- 45:20Speaker 1: on him. That would be a good segment. If he
- 45:23Speaker 1: came in just threw a beer on me, I'd be
- 45:24Speaker 1: a good segment. And I'm not sure he's sure he
- 45:28Speaker 1: wants to go there. This texter says, I said that
- 45:31Speaker 1: David Newton was trying to uh had concern for you
- 45:34Speaker 1: bo when he thought you were gonna pass out in
- 45:36Speaker 1: Spartanburg one year and the end the text responded by saying,
- 45:39Speaker 1: David Newton probably told everybody, Hey, this Tyrone Hancock guy
- 45:43Speaker 1: needs help over here. I don't know if I speak
- 45:47Speaker 1: for all fans.
- 45:48Speaker 3: Gina's apologizing to her fans out there that you can
- 45:50Speaker 3: knock him on.
- 45:52Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, she and a quick nation was ready, baby.
- 45:54Speaker 3: He'll be on the show on Friday, Friday.
- 45:56Speaker 1: Okay, let's do it. Let's do it. I'm kind of
- 45:59Speaker 1: gonna miss Newton. Am I the only one?
- 46:02Speaker 3: Because probably literally Newton always blocked out any mistakes that
- 46:06Speaker 3: we made, no matter how bad.
- 46:08Speaker 1: Our mistakes where we can always read.
- 46:09Speaker 3: And I said to Mac the other day, I'm gonna
- 46:11Speaker 3: do a tribute to nude soon and just mess up
- 46:12Speaker 3: tweets all practice.
- 46:14Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I got we got called out bone
- 46:17Speaker 1: by Tampa Matt. He says uh, he says, Mac and Bone.
- 46:21Speaker 1: We're pressing Coach Canalis that we need to take more
- 46:23Speaker 1: deep shots than Immediately after the interview, they share their
- 46:27Speaker 1: love for the easy routes when they're in the driver's
- 46:30Speaker 1: seat playing Madden or college football. It is true we're
- 46:33Speaker 1: afraid to throw deep in a video game, but we
- 46:36Speaker 1: definitely want the Panthers to throw deep. For man, they're
- 46:39Speaker 1: the pros. They can handle it.
- 46:41Speaker 3: I did throw deep heads thirteen I n t's.
- 46:44Speaker 1: Hey, they're arm punts. At least if you're throwing deep.
- 46:47Speaker 3: Part of my game went all right, Jolly, go to
- 46:49Speaker 3: we got We talk about practice.
- 46:51Speaker 1: We talk about practice.
- 46:53Speaker 3: It's time baby to pads and Colin's great job back there.
- 46:56Speaker 1: Yeah, Collins did an amazing job back there in the
- 46:59Speaker 1: studio holding it down so Fiddy could come out here
- 47:03Speaker 1: and sweat his you know what off out here hanging
- 47:06Speaker 1: out with us. Good work out of the fitman as well.
- 47:08Speaker 1: You two Bone. We had a blast, guys. Remember check
- 47:11Speaker 1: out all the interviews you missed. Coach canal Is, Dan Morgan,
- 47:14Speaker 1: Bryce Stevin Lloyd, Jalen coch or any of these interests
- 47:17Speaker 1: Monroe Freeling. Any of these interviews you missed, check them
- 47:20Speaker 1: out in podcast FORMWFNZ dot com, or wherever you get
- 47:24Speaker 1: your podcasts. Tomorrow, we'll talk about this padded practice and
- 47:29Speaker 1: so much more on the Mac and Bone Show Charlotte
- 47:32Speaker 1: Sports Today coming up next, keep it right here,