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Mac & Bone Hour 4: Final Thoughts on Panthers/Texans Joint Practice · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: It is the Mac and Bone Show, Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
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  Speaker 2: Panthers are wrapping up training camp, but we still want
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  Speaker 2: to chat with the boys, and we get a chance
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  Speaker 2: to chat with a guy now that has become a
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  Speaker 2: fan favorite. He didn't even have to play a game
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  Speaker 2: for the Panthers to become a fan favorite. The way
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  Speaker 2: he embraced the city of Charlotte. He's Panthers running back A.J.
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  Speaker 1: Dillon. A.J., how you doing, man?
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  Speaker 3: Doing well, man.
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  Speaker 4: Appreciate you guys having me on the show. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's been a great couple months, three months since we,
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  Speaker 4: I'm counting OTAs. But it's been great, man. And this
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  Speaker 4: whole training camp experience down here is really exciting. And
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  Speaker 4: it's been a blessing to be down here, be a Panther. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's been great to see the Panther fans
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  Speaker 4: traveling on the road, too. I know it's just preseason,
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  Speaker 4: but it's good to see them out there and have
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  Speaker 4: their support.
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  Speaker 1: We're from the same area of Connecticut.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You're from New London, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, 860.
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  Speaker 2: I'm from a little bit further east, but. How did
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  Speaker 2: you end up with the quads, man? I end up
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  Speaker 2: sitting next to.
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  Speaker 1: Mac every day. It must not be something to water them.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't seem fair, AJ. Yeah, see, so there's some
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  Speaker 4: differing strategies. I like to give credit to my mom
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  Speaker 4: and say you've got to eat your vegetables. But I'm
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  Speaker 4: more of like an air squat guy. So normally if
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing a podcast or something, I tell them to
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  Speaker 4: leave the chair and I just sit there and squat
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  Speaker 4: as long as I can.
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  Speaker 3: So that's the secret.
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  Speaker 1: You said it's been three months.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like longer because immediately we realize you– gravitate
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  Speaker 2: right towards the city. You become part of it. You've
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  Speaker 2: got your list that we follow of all that you
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  Speaker 2: want to do. What's it mean to you not only
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  Speaker 2: to contribute football-wise, but to be a part of everything
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  Speaker 2: in the city of Charlotte?
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  Speaker 4: Man, I think it's really important. People talk about the
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  Speaker 4: platform that we have as football players, and I've been
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  Speaker 4: blessed to be going into year seven now. Obviously, when
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  Speaker 4: you're first getting into the league, football, number one, definitely
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  Speaker 4: need to make sure you're on top of that. But
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  Speaker 4: you know I think for me and moving my family
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  Speaker 4: and being on the third place now here in Charlotte
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  Speaker 4: I'm really a proponent of being where your feet are
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  Speaker 4: and really experiencing like what is this like and so
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  Speaker 4: obviously football is king and that's the main goal but
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  Speaker 4: you know I'm out here and you know my youngest
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  Speaker 4: is maybe looking at a preschool and things like that
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  Speaker 4: you know depending on what happens and we're like okay
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  Speaker 4: well maybe Charlotte's a place we could live you know
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  Speaker 4: post football or during football and things like that so
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  Speaker 4: I think it's you know, it's twofold. I feel like
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  Speaker 4: you play best, at least me, myself. You know, I
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  Speaker 4: play best when I really feel that pride in what
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing. And so I feel like anytime I'm wearing
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  Speaker 4: this blue jersey or white or black or whatever the
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  Speaker 4: color combination is, I'm not just representing, you know, this
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  Speaker 4: team and organization, but also the people in it. So,
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  Speaker 4: you know, me and my wife, we like to support
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  Speaker 4: local when we can go to a local coffee shop,
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  Speaker 4: things like that. I think for me and my mindset,
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  Speaker 4: that's kind of how I approach it. I know it's
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  Speaker 4: a business. I know people move around. That is what
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  Speaker 4: it is. But You know, that's just how it was
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  Speaker 4: when I was at Boston College out there in the
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  Speaker 4: East Coast. And I kind of try to bring that to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the teams that I'm at, the players and
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  Speaker 4: the people that I connect with.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't mean to go Chamber of Commerce on you,
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  Speaker 2: but you probably noticed a lot of athletes kind of
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  Speaker 2: stay here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Even if they play, even if they go to another team,
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  Speaker 2: like when their career ends, they often end up staying here.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking to A.J. Dillon.
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  Speaker 2: He's a happy new Charlotte man, you can tell. Now
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  Speaker 2: let's talk about on the football field. I feel like,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think you've gotten fans a little bit
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  Speaker 2: excited in training camp, too. you know, running the ball,
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  Speaker 2: but also we've noticed you've made a lot of plays
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  Speaker 2: out of the backfield with your hands. We might have
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  Speaker 2: underestimated that part of your game. How do you feel
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  Speaker 2: like camp's going?
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  Speaker 3: Man, I feel like camp's going well.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's always, you know, the camp is really
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  Speaker 4: kind of that grueling part to get you ready, and
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  Speaker 4: I think it does that. You know, we practice hard.
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  Speaker 4: We have a lot of high intensity. Dave does a
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  Speaker 4: really good job with that, but, you know, that's one
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  Speaker 4: of those things. The hands has always been a thing
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  Speaker 4: that people have thought. You know, you look at me,
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  Speaker 4: big back, and I didn't do it a lot coming
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  Speaker 4: out of college, but, you know, I've I've been doing that.
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  Speaker 4: I was with Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay for four
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  Speaker 4: of his years there or three of his years there.
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  Speaker 4: And you can't play in that offense as a running
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  Speaker 4: back and not be able to catch the ball. So,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I got a lot of reps at that.
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  Speaker 3: It's on film.
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  Speaker 4: And, you know, I think I really pride myself, especially now,
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  Speaker 4: you know, continuing to learn, continuing to add to my
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  Speaker 4: skill set. But I really pride myself on being able
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  Speaker 4: to do it all. That's what I wanted to do
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  Speaker 4: when I got into this league was first down, first quarter,
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  Speaker 4: fourth quarter, whatever it may be. you can look at
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  Speaker 4: 28 out there and be like, okay, he can get
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  Speaker 4: the job done for us. It's not, oh, I don't
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  Speaker 4: like him in this situation. You can feel confident. And
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  Speaker 4: Johnny up in the row, the nosebleeds knows, okay, AJ's in,
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  Speaker 4: we're all right. And so that's what you want to be,
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  Speaker 4: at least for myself as a football player. You know,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's shocking people that I can catch or, you know,
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  Speaker 4: people just kind of nod at it and know that
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  Speaker 4: I already can do it. Whatever it is, when I'm
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  Speaker 4: out there, I want to instill confidence in the offense, coordinators, fans, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we now know, right, Bo? We're not going to
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  Speaker 1: question it. No, no, I'm not going to be a Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, Johnny was helping you out, though, right?
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  Speaker 3: Johnny's supporting you. Yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: We want to be Johnny's.
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  Speaker 3: We want to be Johnny's.
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  Speaker 2: How excited are you for– Jonathan Brooks to really get
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  Speaker 2: his first full go. Had a touchdown the other day.
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  Speaker 2: What's he been like in the running back room, and
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  Speaker 2: how excited should Panther fans be that this guy is
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  Speaker 2: such a part of the future?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, man. I'm excited, and I see it.
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  Speaker 4: It was really cool to get here early, as I
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  Speaker 4: know he'd obviously been working back and recovering for long
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  Speaker 4: before that. But to see him from when I first
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  Speaker 4: got here to now, he's just continued to make so
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  Speaker 4: many strides. And I think it's kind of one of
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  Speaker 4: those interesting things where, You know, people might go, oh, well,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he hasn't played. But, you know, he's been
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  Speaker 4: in a room with, you know, great backs. I know
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  Speaker 4: Rico was here last year and had a great year.
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  Speaker 4: Chuba's here, has been here now six years and knows
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  Speaker 4: a lot of the offense. And so those guys, they
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  Speaker 4: really have a room now, that running back room that
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  Speaker 4: I'm part of.
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  Speaker 3: It's nobody is, you know, it's not, oh, I'm.
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  Speaker 4: In year seven. I know more than you. Or, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I've been here longer, so I know more than you.
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  Speaker 4: It's really one of those things where nobody can take
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  Speaker 4: every rep at practice. You see a guy make a
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  Speaker 4: play and it's like, okay, How did you do this?
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  Speaker 3: What were you seeing?
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  Speaker 4: And it's really an open learning experience in there. I
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  Speaker 4: think Coach Parmley, our running back coach, does a great job.
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  Speaker 4: He played eight, nine years in the league, which is
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  Speaker 4: a first for me to have a running back coach
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  Speaker 4: who had actually been in there. And so I think
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of an environment where, you know, a guy
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  Speaker 4: like Jonathan can really grow and really feel like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: I'm able to go out here and be myself and
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  Speaker 4: push myself and, you know, maybe. make a mistake trying
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  Speaker 4: to get better, and everybody's going to, you know, support me.
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  Speaker 4: And so to see him get in the end zone
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  Speaker 4: last year, I learned the whole thing about his dad
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  Speaker 4: last year. That was– or last game. That was really
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  Speaker 4: cool to see.
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  Speaker 3: Happy for him.
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  Speaker 4: And, you know, I'm a big fan of when running
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  Speaker 4: backs eat, man. I'm excited. All running backs, I want
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  Speaker 4: them to do well. I know the narrative out there.
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  Speaker 3: I like it.
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  Speaker 2: You're in that running backs union, man. Yes, sir. Card
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  Speaker 2: carry member.
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  Speaker 5: A.J.
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  Speaker 2: Dillon's hanging with us another couple of minutes. Okay, so
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  Speaker 2: we've got to talk about it. I mean, it's a
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  Speaker 2: big week for you, right, in terms of roster cuts.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people that try to guess
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  Speaker 2: this thing, and, you know, we've tried to. I think
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  Speaker 2: it really feels like four running backs would be the
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  Speaker 2: way we'd go, all right, to guess.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously our opinion goes a lot. Thank you, Johnny.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure they're listening to us or Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like special teams is something you've embraced. Dave
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  Speaker 2: was raving about it. How do you feel about, do
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  Speaker 2: you feel like the combination of what you've done at
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  Speaker 2: running back and special teams will keep you here?
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel right now?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think I try to, as much
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  Speaker 4: as humanly possible, right, I try to not get my,
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  Speaker 4: not try to get too into it. You know, I've
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  Speaker 4: been there. I've been through this process. And, you know,
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  Speaker 4: luckily it always worked out for me. I think it's
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  Speaker 4: one of those things where, kind of like I was
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  Speaker 4: saying as a running back, I'm always trying to be
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  Speaker 4: the best that I can be. I know it's cliche
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  Speaker 4: when I'm out there on the field. So, and special teams, too,
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  Speaker 4: ask to do some things I haven't really done before,
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  Speaker 4: but go out there and, you know, just kind of
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  Speaker 4: do the best that I can. And I feel very
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  Speaker 4: confident in the way I approach the game and the
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  Speaker 4: way that I approach practices and try to learn from mistakes,
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  Speaker 4: not make them again, and just go out there. And so,
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  Speaker 4: you know, whatever it is, three, four, five– here or elsewhere,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I know that I've been putting my all
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  Speaker 4: into it. I'm not cheating the game in any type
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  Speaker 4: of way. And like I said, going into year seven
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  Speaker 4: as a running back, absolute blessing. And, you know, the
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  Speaker 4: reality is it is a business. There's only a certain
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  Speaker 4: amount of slots, certain amount of numbers. Ideally, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'd love to be here. It's been a fantastic place.
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  Speaker 4: But also, like they say at the beginning of training camp,
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  Speaker 4: you're putting out film for 31 teams. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 4: just continuing to stack that film and these joint practices
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  Speaker 4: out there in the preseason game, just kind of putting
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  Speaker 4: out a great body of work And then, you know,
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  Speaker 4: years of film in the past that, you know, showcased
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  Speaker 4: my abilities.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it was 31 teams. Now people are putting out
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  Speaker 1: film for LSU out there.
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  Speaker 3: See, see, see.
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  Speaker 1: You've got any more LSU films? Don't answer your phone
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 4: See, now this is a whole other topic, and I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if we have time for it. But, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I left before the NIL. So maybe I'm like the unk,
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  Speaker 4: I'm the hey, I don't like any of it.
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  Speaker 6: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like any of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you missed out, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you this, you could do the media thing
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  Speaker 2: when you're done playing.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I did leave in three, so I don't
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  Speaker 4: know what the rules are. I might still have that year.
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  Speaker 1: You could definitely do that.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't want to open with the questions about your quads.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to kind of ease into that. But they
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  Speaker 2: dropped a– Anish Shroff dropped a note about you on
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  Speaker 2: the broadcast during the preseason game. And I had to
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  Speaker 2: rewind to make sure I heard it correctly. You have
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  Speaker 2: crushed a watermelon, I guess it was on social media,
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  Speaker 2: with your quads. Did you mission accomplish?
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  Speaker 1: Like, was it a tough task for you?
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  Speaker 3: No, it was a tough task. I won't lie.
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  Speaker 4: It took a couple takes, you know, to kind of
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  Speaker 4: figure out how to do it.
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  Speaker 3: But now it's a whole new thing now. I've been
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  Speaker 3: seeing it. It's back.
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  Speaker 4: It's recycled. So that was early TikTok days. I think
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  Speaker 4: that was my second year in the league, 2021. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: watermelon has been crushed. Full-size watermelon. not the little baby ones.
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  Speaker 4: But I do think the baby ones would be smaller
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  Speaker 4: or would be harder, actually.
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 3: A little bit more compact.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think our guy, Phitty, could pull it off?
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  Speaker 1: We've been trying to see over here.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: See, the thing with radio is nobody can really tell
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  Speaker 4: how big this guy's quads are. So he's got radio quads,
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  Speaker 4: and I– I think he can do it.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a radio quad.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we do that live on the air for him.
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  Speaker 1: You know, maybe we break that out. All right, man.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, it's great to have you here in town, man.
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  Speaker 2: You've really embraced it. And I think the fans have
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  Speaker 2: embraced you back. We're pulling for you on Sunday to
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  Speaker 2: make the squad, man. Nice talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate your time. Keep pounding.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, A.J. Dillon fighting to make the Panther squad,
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  Speaker 2: winning over the hearts of Charlotte Tehan's bone from the
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  Speaker 2: second that he got here with that, you know, bucket list,
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: Charlotte bucket list, and asking fans, hey, what are the
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  Speaker 2: things I need to do in Charlotte and getting out
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  Speaker 2: and about and doing them? And you can hear it there.
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  Speaker 2: He just seems like a really good dude, man. All
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  Speaker 2: the dudes today, Darren Waller, Nick Scott, A.J. Dillon, all
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  Speaker 2: Great interviews, but also guys that you want to see
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  Speaker 2: succeed in football and life. Just great dudes that we
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  Speaker 2: were able to talk to yesterday. So thanks to the
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  Speaker 2: Panthers for helping us out yesterday. That was an awesome
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  Speaker 2: day of interviews. Definitely. JP in Mooresville wants to know,
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  Speaker 2: are the radio quads that Dylan brought up that Fitty has,
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  Speaker 2: are they a.k.a. chicken legs? No, Fitty's got himself some quads, man.
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  Speaker 2: Fitty's got a two-piece.
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  Speaker 3: Fitty.
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  Speaker 2: Two-piece hey now that sounded weird can i can i
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  Speaker 2: is our or would you say you're our quadzilla or
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  Speaker 2: is is wes our quadzilla or is kb or who's
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  Speaker 2: the quadzilla at wfnz fit i.
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  Speaker 7: Don't think bailey is quadzilla i think he is uh
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  Speaker 7: caboosezilla um backsidezilla I mean, I guess you could go
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  Speaker 7: West because he's the former offensive lineman. His body's definitely
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  Speaker 7: better toned and better shaped.
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  Speaker 2: I would go Schrappi for quads. I do think my—
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  Speaker 2: Schrappi and I, we're chicken bone central over here with
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  Speaker 2: our legs, man.
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  Speaker 7: I do think my undercarriage is vastly underrated. When you
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  Speaker 7: look at my quads, you look at my calves— There
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  Speaker 7: was athletic potential there if I wasn't 5'7.
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  Speaker 2: Dolly Parton just said something from the afterlife and said
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  Speaker 2: your undercarriage is overrated. Undercarriage. What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure you know what undercarriage is here, the
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  Speaker 2: way you're talking.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I didn't know how to describe it.
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  Speaker 2: Sam Farber's in the window. Sam Farber walked in here
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  Speaker 2: and is already shaking his head. Hey, Sam, you want
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  Speaker 2: to come in here? Want to talk undercarriages, Sammy? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: my goodness gracious. Sammy's feeling USC right now, isn't he? Oh, man.
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  Speaker 2: Sam Farber, by the way, wearing like a three-piece suit
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  Speaker 2: right now. Look at him. Come on in here, Sam.
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  Speaker 2: We got a minute here.
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  Speaker 1: Come on in.
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  Speaker 2: Mac is now going to the door. We're booking guests live.
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  Speaker 2: Mac is approaching Sam Farber. Sam Farber is reluctant to
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  Speaker 2: talk to Mac. This is the weirdest transition ever. One
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  Speaker 2: of the nicest gentlemen ever happens to walk by while
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  Speaker 2: Finney's describing his unders there. What's up, Sam? Just another
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  Speaker 2: day here.
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  Speaker 9: That's how you landed on that? That's literally the first word. Hey, Sam.
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  Speaker 9: And then I'm not repeating it. I'm too nice a
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  Speaker 9: guy to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Sam, are you running for senator? What's going on here today?
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  Speaker 1: No, it's Sam.
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  Speaker 10: We had a little TV appearance just down the street,
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  Speaker 10: so I figured, you know, why not check in on
• 13:39
  Speaker 10: my favorite radio morning show?
• 13:41
  Speaker 9: And so here you are.
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: That's true. You checked in on Bo and Beth, I see,
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: your favorite morning radio show. And then you said, well,
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: Mac and Bo are down here, too. Sam is dressing
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: like I picture Finney's lawyer dresses like when he gets
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: in trouble every day.
• 13:54
  Speaker 9: Hence the conversation I walked in on, right?
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: Can Finney afford a lawyer that dresses like this? Because
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: this is a strong suit game, Sammy. You are now
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: suited and booted, Sammy.
• 14:03
  Speaker 9: We got to look good on radio. You know, the
• 14:04
  Speaker 9: people can tell.
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: Sam, we're a different team coming up this season, but
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: we're a lot of moving parts, but we're excited to
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: kind of see how all this whole thing matches.
• 14:15
  Speaker 10: No, most definitely. And especially with the schedule just coming out.
• 14:17
  Speaker 10: I mean, that's what we were just talking about down
• 14:19
  Speaker 10: the walkways.
• 14:20
  Speaker 6: You know, the.
• 14:22
  Speaker 10: momentum for the season is building definitely with the way
• 14:25
  Speaker 10: the team played from January through the end of the
• 14:26
  Speaker 10: stretch disappointing how the play-in tournament ended but the start
• 14:31
  Speaker 10: of it was amazing that environment we had at Spectrum
• 14:33
  Speaker 10: Center and we're seeing it I mean if you look
• 14:35
  Speaker 10: at individual game tickets there are some available but They're
• 14:39
  Speaker 10: fewer and farther between than we've ever seen before in
• 14:41
  Speaker 10: my time with Hornets.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: This man's a pro. This man's a pro. He worked
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: in an individual game. And where do you buy those tickets, Sammy?
• 14:46
  Speaker 9: Oh, you've got to go to Hornets.com, Ticketmaster.
• 14:49
  Speaker 10: You can go to the Hornets app, and of course
• 14:50
  Speaker 10: you can call 704-HORNETS and have a rep help find
• 14:53
  Speaker 10: the right package for you if you want to go
• 14:55
  Speaker 10: to multiple games and make it a little easier price
• 14:58
  Speaker 10: point per game.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: Here, just take my money right now. How about that?
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: Just take my money. I have a take, by the way,
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: on the Hornets. I'm crafting it right now. It's hard
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: to say sometimes so-and-so might make his first all-star game
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: it's tough to figure out what the there's not a
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: lot of spots i think uh naz reed will put
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: up numbers where we at least talk about him through
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: the first half of the season as an all-star captain
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: you've been talking to jeff peterson he's gonna go if
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: you put up those numbers as a six-man sam yeah
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: if you as a vocal point is he gonna go
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: like 20-9, 20-10, is he going to put up those
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: type of numbers?
• 15:35
  Speaker 9: Well, I mean, think about it.
• 15:36
  Speaker 10: He's got the kind of support to give him space
• 15:39
  Speaker 10: to operate and maneuver. He's going to open things up
• 15:41
  Speaker 10: for guys like Conn Knipple and Brandon Miller. I think
• 15:44
  Speaker 10: whether it's Nas or someone, someone is going to be
• 15:48
  Speaker 10: in the all-star conversation. If you think back to last year,
• 15:51
  Speaker 10: the only reason Brandon Miller missed it was because he
• 15:53
  Speaker 10: got so hot after the voting was already in. LaMelo,
• 15:58
  Speaker 10: the record was maybe a little bit weaker last year.
• 16:00
  Speaker 10: to allow him the spot, even though the statistics matched
• 16:03
  Speaker 10: up with him being an all-star. So if this team
• 16:05
  Speaker 10: is 500 last year, they would have had at least one.
• 16:08
  Speaker 10: So I think record-wise that's going to determine whether or
• 16:11
  Speaker 10: not the Hornets get one, maybe multiples.
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: If they're really a hot team.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: I'd bet Brandon Miller.
• 16:15
  Speaker 9: I like that pick.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: I would bet.
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: Matt scored 20 points per game with one arm.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 16:20
  Speaker 9: So give him two good arms and a full season.
• 16:23
  Speaker 9: Here we go.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Hell yeah. What was the thing you saw, Bone? The
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Hornets ranked where in this? It was the Hornets Reddit thread.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: ESPN.com somewhere did a list of the teams that may
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: make the most major league this year. And the Hornets
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: were tied for seventh. Nationally, I feel like there's a
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: lot of people that are touting the Hornets, though.
• 16:43
  Speaker 10: There are, and then at the same time, whenever you
• 16:46
  Speaker 10: see these win shares come out, the Hornets end up
• 16:48
  Speaker 10: somewhere 10, 11, 12. And so I do agree that
• 16:52
  Speaker 10: people are aware of how talented the team is, how
• 16:55
  Speaker 10: talented the front office is, how talented the coaching staff is,
• 16:59
  Speaker 10: but they're not necessarily putting it all together and giving
• 17:01
  Speaker 10: the Hornets their due. So I think that's A, motivation
• 17:04
  Speaker 10: for the team, and B, maybe a sign that as
• 17:07
  Speaker 10: much as we think teams are going to be thinking
• 17:09
  Speaker 10: more about the Hornets. maybe you'll catch a few people
• 17:12
  Speaker 10: who are looking ahead on the schedule or not truly
• 17:15
  Speaker 10: focusing on what's being built here in the queen city i.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Just would like to tell uh texters that sam did
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: not make the decision to trade lamella ball i just
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: want to be whatever you think of it now we've
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: already been down there you know.
• 17:26
  Speaker 10: I i love lamella we all love like jeff peterson
• 17:29
  Speaker 10: every time he's asked about it talks about how much
• 17:31
  Speaker 10: he likes lamella this is their it's business and it
• 17:35
  Speaker 10: was the right move to make for the team at
• 17:37
  Speaker 10: the right time.
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: And you saw Real Axis, the horns behind the scenes show.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: That was good stuff.
• 17:41
  Speaker 10: You heard some of the quotes, you know, about the
• 17:43
  Speaker 10: thinking as to why the price was met. And, you know,
• 17:46
  Speaker 10: you have to make smart decisions for the long-term future.
• 17:48
  Speaker 10: But that said, I get it. I got a 10-year-old.
• 17:51
  Speaker 10: He hugs his lamello pillow like... We're all fans. And
• 17:55
  Speaker 10: so I look forward to that game very much, February 15th.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: That's going to be juicy.
• 17:59
  Speaker 10: A family-friendly tip time, noon tip time on President's Day.
• 18:03
  Speaker 10: You can bring that 10-year-old out if you got a ticket. Hornets.com.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Walker.
• 18:08
  Speaker 9: Hornets app together.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Sorry, Walker Male has his Musa pillow that he hugs
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: every day.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: He does.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: It's got handles on it. Sam, I noticed that just
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: for people that are blaming Sam for any trades that
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: are made, if you like or don't like, you were
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: not in the war.
• 18:22
  Speaker 9: Room in real access. You can see.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: I double checked the video.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: You're not in there.
• 18:25
  Speaker 9: There is so much behind the scene footage.
• 18:27
  Speaker 10: I'm not in there one time because I'm not allowed
• 18:29
  Speaker 10: in that war room.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: But you know what, though? You saw how collaborative. process
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: is and how many people are involved. I thought that
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: was cool. That was good stuff.
• 18:38
  Speaker 10: And it goes back to draft day too. Like when
• 18:40
  Speaker 10: you watch that, you see how easy those picks felt
• 18:44
  Speaker 10: because they had done so much work to go through
• 18:47
  Speaker 10: all the different manipulations. What might happen? What happens if
• 18:50
  Speaker 10: someone trades over the top? If this guy gets in,
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: it felt like they had thought through every scenario 10,
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: 15 times and And the picks they made were home
• 18:58
  Speaker 10: runs in terms of what we're looking for to.
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: Add to the Hornets' DNA.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: All right, Sammy, it's good to see you. We've got
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: to let you go. Check out the Hivecast. Still going.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Still going. Check out where podcasts are found. We've got
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: to let you go because I have not whined about
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: a joint practice performance for football in an hour. And
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: I'm getting the ticks and the shakes over here.
• 19:15
  Speaker 9: I'm getting antsy for football season two.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: I can't wait.
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: Football preseason is so tricky because how much are they
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: really putting on tape? What are they really trying to show?
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: And then inevitably you get to week one and it
• 19:27
  Speaker 10: looks like a totally different team. So I'm hoping from
• 19:29
  Speaker 10: the last practice that's what it looks like.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I'm hoping that's the case for the offense. Thank you
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: for adding some class to this segment, Sam, by the way.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: I know. Philly has just been dragging us down.
• 19:37
  Speaker 10: I came in with Philly and undercarriage and now we're
• 19:40
  Speaker 10: exiting on higher notes.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Like a godsend just appeared. I feel like you straightened
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: this show out for us. When we come back, Mac
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: mentioned the joint sessions yesterday. We'll talk about those. We
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: also have some. local quarterback news, Mac. A team named
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: a starter and is a starter we thought was going
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: to be Clemson's, not going to be the guy. We'll
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: handle that, too, in the news segment. Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. Thanks to Sam Farber for swinging
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: by the studio. He's doing a TV interview, and he
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: reacts to Finney's comments about his undercarriage. And next thing
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: you know, he's moving product. He's selling ordinance tickets right
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: here on WFNZ. What a, just a gem of a person, though.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I know, man. He really is, man.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: He looked good, too, man. He looked good in that suit.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I think he wears a suit every day, actually, the
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: more I think about it. You think so? The only
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: time I don't see Sam in a suit is at
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Street Turkeys. Street Turkeys was like jeans and a polo. Yeah.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: But every other time, like when he works, he's sued
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: every time. Great wrestling manager back then. Always dressed to
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: the nines.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: He is.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: He is. He's got it going on us on the
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: other hand, Bone. I wear a collared shirt and think
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: I'm in formal wear.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Wearing jeans and pants lately
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: has gotten too tiring for me, so I just, you know,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: I just, I go more of the athletic pants than
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: I used to.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Oh, man.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: All right, so we're going to take. Anyway, I've said
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: too much. We are going to take our final look
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: back at yesterday's joint practice, and we are going to
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: move on. After the next 10 minutes or so, we're
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: going to move on with our lives from the joint practice,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: but we want you all to hear what some of
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: the reaction was, some very honest reaction from guys today.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: afterwards about how it went. Um, we also have to
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: let you hear the reaction on the text line. Bone
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: has pulled the most entertaining joint practice reactions from the
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: text line, either during or immediately following the practice time.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: You gotta love football. People didn't even see this stuff, Bone,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: and they're sending texts and giving up on the damn season,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: giving up on coaches, players. Oh, you gotta love football.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: There are some all-timers, and there's three pages of stuff
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: going on here today. All right, so let's start first
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: with a reasonable reaction before we laugh at some of
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: the extreme reaction yesterday. This is from Dave Canales talking
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: about how the practice was tilted severely in favor of
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: the Texans' defense over the Panthers' offense.
• 22:42
  Speaker 11: Yeah, it was pretty lopsided today, I'll be honest. I
• 22:44
  Speaker 11: would say that in general, over camp, I'm very excited
• 22:49
  Speaker 11: about where we're at as an offense in our scheme,
• 22:52
  Speaker 11: the variation of the run game, the actions tied into that,
• 22:55
  Speaker 11: the drop back pass game, Bryce's rhythm with a lot
• 22:58
  Speaker 11: of our guys with TMAC. Xavier hasn't been out there,
• 23:01
  Speaker 11: but with Jalen, just finding different ways to get completions
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: and all. So I've been really encouraged by that. today
• 23:07
  Speaker 11: did not show that. Today there was a couple of
• 23:09
  Speaker 11: flashes of some nice throws and catches, but that was
• 23:11
  Speaker 11: a good group today. So again, I try not to
• 23:14
  Speaker 11: just take it all in a microcosm, but if we
• 23:16
  Speaker 11: want to be good, we have to be able to
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: play against teams like this.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: That last part's an important one, Bone. Like, yes, the Bears'
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: defense isn't like that. The Falcons will be missing two
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: edge rushers early. Cleveland traded Miles Garrett away. Like, those
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: first three weeks are not going to be like what
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: it was yesterday. But at some point, if you want
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: to get into the playoffs again, you want to maybe
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: advance in the playoffs, you've got to at some point
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: be able to handle pass rushers like those guys. Look
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: at the three teams they went against, the first-team offense.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: It was Buffalo... Jacksonville and Houston. Those are all teams
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: that are playoff teams or in Buffalo's case, a Super
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Bowl contending team. We think Houston's got a Super Bowl defense.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: So those are all postseason type teams that your offense
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: didn't really show a whole lot about. And he mentioned
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Coker in there. How would you best describe Coker's camp?
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Just quiet, awfully quiet, right? Quiet, man. Once the preseason started,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: it's been real quiet. I thought last year he was
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: in the news a lot because he was trying to
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: work himself into shape. He had a drop yesterday.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he did.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: He had a drop yesterday. I mean, there's really not
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: a lot to analyze. He didn't do anything hardly that
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: we noticed at all. Not yesterday and not much in
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: the preseason games. And so, yeah, we're going to need
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: more than TMAC to join the dang party. My favorite
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: quote from Coach Canales yesterday, you can tell that Hunter
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: and Anderson had him shook as well as the O-line
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: and Bryce shook. He says, I'm going to tell you
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: what happened.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Two words.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Two words, Daniil Hunter and what's Anderson's name?
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Will.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Will Anderson. Two words, Daniil Hunter and Will Anderson. He goes, oh, no,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: I guess those are four words.
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: It was like when Charles Barkley said, I got two
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: words for you, Steve Nash and Chris Paul.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: I screwed it up. I'm no better. I screwed it
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: up trying to reiterate that quote. Chris Paul, you say, huh?
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: You ever hear a story about Bone and Chris Paul?
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: They go way back. Chris Paul II is making his
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: college choice soon. There you go. Family. My family. Everybody
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: look out. Family. He's thinking of family. The family jewels.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Is he going to be a family jewel kicker? It's
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: been 21 years since Hodges. Hodges, Hodges got in the way.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: All right, let's continue here. Let you hear some more
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: sounds from yesterday. What did the Panthers say? On offense,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: I thought they were completely honest with the reaction. That
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: included Bryce Young, who acknowledged the Texans' defense, brought it. But,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: of course, Bryce had to look at the bright side, Boney.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: They got after us.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: You know, I have a lot of respect for them.
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: Really good unit.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: But we have to be better.
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: You know, we... You know, I have to respond. I
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: think it's going to be great for us as a process.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: You know, we always try to be a process-oriented group.
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: It's going to be a lot of great film out
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: there to watch, a lot of stuff to grow from.
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: You know, all of us, myself included, there's a lot
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: of great lessons out there. So, you know, it's not
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: fun on a day like this, but, you know, that's
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: a challenge for us now, making sure we're watching the film,
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: knowing we can grow from it. And that's the game.
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: You know, that's the sport. They got after us today. But,
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: you know, I'm super excited and grateful to be part
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: of this offense.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: There you go, Boney. He's excited for the growth opportunities.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I like the way Bryce put the positive spin on it.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: If we played good, man, that film wouldn't help us
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: at all. That wouldn't be able to show us anything
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: that we can improve on. But because we were that bad,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: oh my God, this tape, everywhere we turn, there's going
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: to be a chance to improve. I like it, Bryce.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: That is good quarterback cliche right there, baby. They have
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: a lot of time to... figure out what went wrong
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: especially yesterday also there's a lot to figure out what
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: went wrong yesterday so they need to maximize their time
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: because it's going to take a while don't worry they're
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: going to get freeling some help once the regular so
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: once montez sweat lines up across from him they're going
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: to have a game plan to make sure freeling the
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: rookie is feeling um is feeling good i also would
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: love to know bone when taylor moten it could come
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: back um and i'd love to know bone What's going
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: on with Icky? Like, I guess we'll find out, Bone,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: when they've got to make the roster decisions coming up
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: this weekend and decide who you put on the active
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: roster and who you put on, like, pup list to
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: miss the first four weeks. I guess that'll tell us
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: a lot about, you know, do Icky and Moten have
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: to miss the first four weeks? I described him yesterday
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: as Icky. You felt icky yesterday in general?
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, icky, yeah.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: All right, last but not least, I do need to
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: shout out the defense. I thought Derrick Brown looked great.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: He's had the knee soreness, had a knee brace on.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I thought he looked great. I thought Horn and Mike Jack.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: And Shaw Smith-Waite, all these guys got their hands on passes.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: The run defense was good. Pass rush, eh, not great.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: But I thought the defense was much better. Derek Brown, though,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: was not necessarily overflowing with praise for his defensive unit.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: No, we had an average day. For us, we want
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: to be able to dominate a lot of scrimmage. I mean,
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: Cedar's a good quarterback, right? I mean, he's going to
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: find his dinks and dunks, right? They're getting the ball
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: out quick today. So, I mean, for us, it's about
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: going in here and watching the tape, being honest with ourselves,
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: and getting back.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: To work.
• 28:25
  Speaker 10: Why did you characterize it as average?
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: I got high expectations.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: I got real expectations.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: See, I think that's just him being a leader. Like,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: we got to be better. They were, first of all,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: on a scale of Panther's offense bone. Two great defense,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: great performance. They were definitely way ahead of Panthers offense,
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: but he's the leader. He wants more from those guys.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: I thought they were above average, and I thought they
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: won it. It was close, but I thought they won
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: their battle on their field. Certainly more debatable than the
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: other field. Oh, there's no debate there. All right, so
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: that's the player reaction. The other field was like a
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Civil War reenactment. It was ugly.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: It was ugly.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Guys just dropping. Oh, God.
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: I thought I saw DVR Dave out there.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's a good thing the fans couldn't be there
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: voting for that one yesterday. All right. Boney, that was
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: the reaction of the players. Now give us the reaction
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: of the fans.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: The either.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Live reaction to the joint practice on the text line
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: or immediately following? What was the text line like? NFL.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: FNZ Drive Time. Here we go, Mac. 9.59 a.m. The
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: times are important at times here. It hadn't even started yet.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: 9.59 a.m. Tired of the WFNZ lies about who we
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: are this season. Anonymous. 10.13 a.m., we're off to another
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: slow start this season, and that's unacceptable from the coaching staff.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: That's from Ball Knowing Bruce. They were only stretching. They
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: were stretching at 10.13. What was he mad about? 12.04 p.m.,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: with the first pick of the 2027 draft, the Panthers
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: select who? That's from Finney's Love Sensei. 12.09 p.m. Not
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: going to make a big deal out of this if
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Tepper does the right thing and moves on from the
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: entire regime. That's from your guy, Big Alpha. 12.25 p.m., Mac.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: I'm 1,000% worried about the O-line and the defense. We've
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: seen enough in the preseason to confirm everything that happened
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: in practice. We're in big trouble. That's from Likes to Paycheck.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Defense with solid paycheck. 12.35 p.m., Thienemann was always my
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: guy in the draft. That's from Coward. How would Thienemann
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: have helped protect Bryce yesterday? I know the timing of that.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: I guess because he wants to bash Freeling. 12.39 p.m.,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Mac Applebutter sends in his list of free agent right
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: tackles to replace Monroe Freeling. 12.41 p.m. Now, keep in
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: mind of what this guy witnessed yesterday just by reading stuff. 12.41.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Bryce panics too easy, and he brings on many of
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: these sacks because he processes too slowly. I thought processing
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: was his superpower. That's from White Knight. He didn't see
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: any of the sacks. That's the funniest thing is I'm
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: not going to act like I haven't overreacted to stuff
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen before, Bodie, but that's the sheer comedy
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: of this is people didn't even see these plays. Few more.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: 1259.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: After Bryce becomes a bus this year, we need to
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: go get Mac Jones next season.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: That's from Darren.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: What?
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: This one, Mac, I just thought this was funny in
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: all the chaos. 2.23 p.m. When I kiss a woman,
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: I go with my tongue a-blazin'. Serve wine to beef.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: All righty, then. It doesn't relate to anything other than that.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: How did that get in the middle of the freak-out
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: text line?
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: 2.47 p.m.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Why can't Dave just say this is simply not a
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: good football team this year? I'm tired of sunshine and rainbows.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: That's from Magic Beans. Maybe because it was a practice,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Magic Beans. That doesn't count. Here's a couple more. Cokers overpaid.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: What a bad signing by Anonymous. 319. Is Devin Lloyd soft?
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: How does he miss a day this important? It was
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: a practice. They don't play for it. They play 18
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: days later. He's not allowed to sit out. Mac, here's
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: a tweet or a text about Bryce Young from? Say Alabama, Mac. Oh, Alabama.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Bryce is a YMCA counselor, not an NFL quarterback. You
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: know what, though? He actually said counselor. I was afraid
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: he was going to say he's one of the kids
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: at a camp. 432, another bad coaching job today. No
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: adjustments made. Oh, my God. And at 1237 and 309,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: and possibly, I believe, in the 5 o'clock hour, bagel guy,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: were there any adjustments made at practice today? You do
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: realize the adjustments come after practice. You're not going to
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: game plan the middle of practice and adjust so that
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: you can win the practice. They clearly wanted their tackles tested.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: They now have the information. They now know. what they
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: have to do to help these guys out. Come on, y'all. Oh,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: that's hilarious. By the way, I do want to shout out.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: When I say from, Mac, you yell where the school
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: they're from.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Okay, my bad.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: I forgot about that. You're supposed to be Tom Jackson
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: over there. I forgot about that over there. Fitty, I
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: do want to shout out our guy, Kyle Bailey, because KB,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: during a rough practice to watch for our offense, KB
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: gave us some comic relief when he dressed up in
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: almost an identical outfit to all the Texans employees that
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: were in red shirts and dark shorts. I mean, it
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: must have been 10 people must have cracked jokes about
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: how KB looks like he's working for the Texans.
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: He didn't want to be associated with the home team, Matt.
• 33:53
  Speaker 8: Can't say I blame him.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Did he change into that after about four sacks? Did
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: he go and change into a Texans-looking outfit? We have
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: to go to Fitty for a very quick update. He's
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: got some quarterback info from the local schools.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: Right, Fit Dog?
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: All right, Fit. More now, man.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: A lot of whooping.
• 34:19
  Speaker 8: That's right, guys.
• 34:20
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• 34:25
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• 34:29
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• 34:31
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• 34:35
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• 34:39
  Speaker 7: You must be 21+, and you must be physically located
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: in North Carolina. The ECU Pirates are set to start
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: Mitch Griffiths on the road against Alabama in week one
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: next Saturday at Bryant-Denny Stadium. So we got another local
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: team announcing their starting quarterback. He was at Texas Tech
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: last year. So, Mac, he does bring playoff experience to
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: this ECU program.
• 35:04
  Speaker 9: Playoff experience?
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Was he watching playoffs? He did the same thing I
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: did during that playoff game against Oregon.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: Nothing.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: And I watched.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: I am surprised. I have more faith in Peter Griffin
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: than in Mitch Griffiths. I thought Emery Williams, he's a
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: four-star talent, was down there at Miami. I thought for
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: sure he would be the guy, Bone Man. So that's
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: shocking to me. Yeah, if you could put Couser back
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: on that team, Mac, like we said the other day,
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: you talk about a team that would have very high hopes.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Couser.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: What did I say?
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: Couser.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: I thought I said Kate and Houser.
• 35:39
  Speaker 8: Nope, you just combined it. It happens.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: It happens, man. It happens to me 700 times a day.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Good, Bo?
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll go to break right now. I'm trying
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: to figure out what just happened there. Hey, at least
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: you didn't cuss, though. That's good. I don't often make
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: a lot of mistakes in my mind, in my head.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out what happened. When we come back,
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: it's the wrap-up. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. We're coming back
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: from break. And Bone's over there typing. And Bone goes,
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: I'm just telling Bebop right now, I just simply don't
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: like him. Well, I'm retired from Bob. But, like, I just,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, what do you want me to do? Lie
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: about him? Like, I don't, I don't, who likes Bob?
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Take that text line away from Bone over there. We're
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: not his own daughter. What, what, what, do you like Bob? No,
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't know. I don't really care.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: So do you like Bob?
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: I don't really care.
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: Do I like him?
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: That's strong.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: That's a strong word.
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: Am I amused by him? 100%.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Sometimes. Sometimes. Anyway. We're not even sure his own daughter
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: that text likes Bob. All right. I mean, I guess
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: I don't have to text him. I mean, I don't
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: have to text him. Like, Bob, I don't really like
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: you very much right now, man. That's just crazy. But
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: I'm not texting it because I'm not wasting my time
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: on that. Bones back and forth with the texters is
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: absolutely glorious, man. It really is. You didn't turn the
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: hat around. I was going to mention that. You didn't
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: turn the hat around. You can't be that mad. I'm
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: not really that. I mean, it's not every texter. It's
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: the select few, and some of them are. But I've
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: been better about it lately, though. I haven't really gotten
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: as many extended brawls. All right. All right. Well, that's good.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: I do believe that. At 42, I'm starting to mature
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: a little bit. Clearly. You can see it happening, baby.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: I've got a soft undercarriage. You can see it happening.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Who doesn't? Right. Anyway, Lori, by the way, I told
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: her it sounds like she's trying to be a late
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: entrant to our overreaction text segment. She texted in right
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: at the end of you reading all those texts. Dear God,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: we are going to suck. Oh my gosh. Could we
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: start slow on offense yet again? And could we be
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: very frustrated? Yes. But I will point out, remember how
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: rough things were in the first two weeks last year?
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: We ended up winning the division. We play in the
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: NFC South. We don't need... We're not an SEC team
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: trying to win the SEC. We're not trying to win
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: the Big Ten here as a Big Ten school. We're
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: trying to win the NFC South. It's very early. Moten
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: will come back. Icky will most likely come back. I
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: feel like we can be concerned, Bone, without making... What
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: am I trying to say? Declarations. Declarations.
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: Or declarative statements.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: That's what I was trying to say, but declarations is easier.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Without making these big, sweeping declarations about the entire season.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: We have some breaking news on a former Panther this morning.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: Ex-Eagles star Panther and Cowboy Miles Sanders has been arrested
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: for DUI after being found slumped over in the middle
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: of the highway. So we'll have more details on that,
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: I'm sure. That ain't safe. Boy, DUIs are not a
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: good thing in any way, shape, or form. But to
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: be slumped over the middle of the highway, that's a
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: scary situation. No, big time. Big time. Miles Sanders arrested.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: Overnight.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: All right, so here's the wrap-up. Here's what we got
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: coming up in sports tonight, Boney. We got four NFL
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: preseason games tonight. The final week of preseason. I am
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: not expecting many starters playing for anybody. We've already been informed.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: that the Panthers and Texans starters won't play tomorrow. You've
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: got Steelers-Bills, Patriots-Browns, Niners-Raiders, and Niners-Raiders! And the Saints and
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: the Chargers. How long do you think I can go
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: on that? I enjoyed that. That's fun to do. That
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: was 12 seconds. Why don't you try that? That's fun
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: to do, man. Read it. You're like wheezing there at
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: the end there. Oh, my gosh. I'm so tired from
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: my Chris Berman two minutes over there. Braves trying to
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: sweep the Dodgers. What a couple of awesome games. One
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: on a walk-off last night. What a couple of awesome
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: games it's been. Sale Yamamoto tonight. And Bone wants us
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: to say that now that he is a brand new
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Chelsea Football Club fan. Caribou Cup, baby! They are playing
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: in the Carabao Cup. What's it called? Which is basically
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: like the U.S. Open Cup is here. Domestic Cup, open
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: to all levels in the English soccer pyramid. Who are
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: they playing today? Is it pronounced, is it Wooton or Wooton? Wooton. Okay, Luton.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Luton Town. They're playing Luton Town? Luton Town.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it was Luton. I didn't know
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: the name of it. There you go, Bonesy. All right.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: By the way, someone said that Fitty's, in ode to
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: Chris Berman, Fitty's dating life is called the fastest two
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: minutes in dating. Not this time, though, baby. Man was
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: working on his second date during the first date. Have
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: you figured out the plans yet?
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: No.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: You got this, though, baby.
• 41:21
  Speaker 8: You got this. But I've got some ideas.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Give us one.
• 41:27
  Speaker 7: Well, I haven't made it known that I've always wanted
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: to go to the Titanic Museum that they got here
• 41:34
  Speaker 7: in Charlotte. I was thinking maybe that could be an activity.
• 41:39
  Speaker 7: But like a meal first followed by an activity.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Not the most uplifting of venues there, Finny.
• 41:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but I've always been fascinated.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: By the Titanic. Girl, I'm going to take you for
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: a dinner, and then we're going to go see the
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: museum of one of the biggest disasters ever. That's funny.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Why not like an aviation museum that they have? Mini golf, Fetty.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: Dinner and mini golf, man.
• 42:06
  Speaker 8: I'm telling you, I don't know if I'm ready.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: I don't think you're ready for a Titanic museum.
• 42:12
  Speaker 8: I cannot hide the competitive juices.
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: So the second I miss a putt that I shouldn't miss,
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: there's going the club, multiple F-bombs.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Why would someone take mini golf that seriously?
• 42:22
  Speaker 8: Because, Mac, I'm a competitor. I know you don't know
• 42:25
  Speaker 8: what it's like to be a competitor.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: No, not at all. So.
• 42:29
  Speaker 8: I don't want that side to come out just yet.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Have you ever thought about therapy? I don't know why
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: I've never suggested this before. Imagine Fitty and the girl
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: on the Titanic tour, and they're like, this is where
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: the first people jump ship, and they all die. I mean,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: this is not going to end in a positive light year.
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: 704 number, Titanic exhibit is dope.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Fitty, do it.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: This texter says, Titanic museum is great, just not on
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: the second date. So there you go. As always, Fitty
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: can't say or do anything, Bone, without polarizing the entire audience.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: That is why he is a content god, ladies and gentlemen.
• 43:06
  Speaker 8: This person wants me to do the Lazy Five Ranch?
• 43:10
  Speaker 8: I did that as a kid.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: I'm good. You don't do that crap unless you have
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: kids and you're looking for something to do. That's when
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: we used to end up out there. I feel like
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: no one without kids should have to suffer through that.
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: Lazy Ranch is very applicable to you.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: What does this mean at night? What does this mean
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: at 953, Mac? First time texter. Are you all doing
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Van Damme impressions? What does that mean? Did someone do
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: a Jean-Claude Van Damme impression? Did he think the Raiders?
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Did he think that was Jean-Claude Van Damme or something?
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: I've got a lot of... I don't know. Apparently, texters
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: are telling us that they... that, or Texter wants to know,
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: why was I sweating profusely when Bailey was in long
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: sleeves and said it wasn't hot out there? I think
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: Mac was sweating, but I don't think he was sweating. Oh,
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: my neck was dripping, bro. I didn't want to get
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: that close to your, get that neck. First of all,
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: I have a serious neck sweat issue. It's kind of
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: like Fitty does with his head. Fitty brought up a
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: great point. The fact that I have this mullet in
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: training growing right now That does not help the neck
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: sweat situation at all, man. But what's up with KB?
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: He was in long sleeves. How is he not hot?
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: Does he have like a refrigerated body or something? Don't
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: know the answer to that one. Tester says, Fitty mini
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: golfing for children. You got to take her to play
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: real golf. 18 holes like a real man. Yeah. Talk
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: about sweating. How sweaty would Fitty's head be out there
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: for 18 holes?
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, man.
• 44:36
  Speaker 8: El Capitan with the most important question.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: What's that?
• 44:39
  Speaker 8: Can I keep her around long enough?
• 44:42
  Speaker 7: To visit the local pumpkin patch. That is the goal.
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: I want the Panthers to win 10 games.
• 44:48
  Speaker 8: And I want to go to the pumpkin patch.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: You're right. You've been dreaming about taking a lady to
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: the patch. You're so close, Fit. You are so close, bro.
• 44:54
  Speaker 8: I can smell the pumpkin spice from here.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: All right, we're out of here, y'all. It has been
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: an experience today, y'all. I don't care what you say.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: We were not overreacting. This was rational, concerned conversation, y'all.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: We'll talk tomorrow. A lot of college football tomorrow with
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: Carolina playing and State and Virginia playing on Saturday, week zero.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: A lot of college football tomorrow.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Plus.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: We'll deal with all the people complaining that the starters
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: aren't playing probably tomorrow as well. We're out of here, y'all.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: Charlotte Sports Today with Colin Hoggart coming up next. Enjoy it.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: We'll talk to you on a football Friday.