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Mac & Bone Hour 3: Sounds of the Panthers · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Oh, oh, oh, it's Mac and Bo on your radio, baby.
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  Speaker 2: This is my friend Matt.
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  Speaker 3: Posh, come on, Posh.
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  Speaker 4: This is my friend T-Bone.
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  Speaker 2: Let's have some fun. I can't go to work without
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  Speaker 2: listening to Mac and Bone.
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  Speaker 3: Do it live.
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  Speaker 5: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
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  Speaker 3: 8 o'clockers, welcome aboard.
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  Speaker 5: Man, I'm telling you, there's just a feeling bone right
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  Speaker 5: now with the show. I mean, don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 5: Texters are argumentative. They're getting after us. They're getting after everybody.
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  Speaker 5: But you could just feel the fire. Like football season
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  Speaker 5: is here, whether it's the Panthers playing in a week
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  Speaker 5: and a half, whether it is your college team, maybe
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  Speaker 5: you already have played well or not well. whether it's
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  Speaker 5: week one college football, man. I live for this time
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  Speaker 5: being on the air. This is awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, people are getting awfully feisty today. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 4: remain calm. I'm not really involved in much over here today. No,
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  Speaker 4: not at all. Also, I didn't mean, Mac, to be
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  Speaker 4: stretching when my microphone came on. That was me warming
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  Speaker 4: up for the second time. You sound like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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  Speaker 4: You sound like your Schwarzenegger impression. Yeah, you and Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Ashley are in some sort of knockdown drag out or something.
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  Speaker 3: No, he was going after Ashley Westwood, and I wasn't
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  Speaker 3: having it.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like he was going after you first, and
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  Speaker 5: then it transferred over to Westy.
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  Speaker 6: Well, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Ashley, how do I put this properly here?
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  Speaker 7: Nicely.
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  Speaker 3: Mr. Ashley, big Georgia fan. A few meets sort of
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  Speaker 3: a platter.
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  Speaker 5: He's just upset that he is not the number one
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  Speaker 5: Ashley in our hearts, man. Ashley Westwood is the number
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  Speaker 5: one Ashley. But anyway, we appreciate all the text, even
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  Speaker 5: if you're in here stirring it up. Yesterday was a
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  Speaker 5: good day of, you know, kind of. Panther Conversations over there, Bone,
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  Speaker 5: was the first presser for Dan Morgan and Dave Canales
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  Speaker 5: post-cutdown to the 53. We also found out Chandler Zavala's
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  Speaker 5: back on the practice squad. He got the final, 17th
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  Speaker 5: and final spot on the practice squad yesterday. But some
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  Speaker 5: of the stuff that happened yesterday in terms of the comments,
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  Speaker 5: extremely interesting. I do want to mention we got good
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  Speaker 5: news yesterday when Devin Lloyd said, Chuba Hubbard, XL, they
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  Speaker 5: all came back from injury to practice. We do have
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  Speaker 5: this Brooks situation. where Canales said he's got soreness.
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  Speaker 3: He wouldn't say anything more than soreness. We're, of course,
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  Speaker 3: fearing it's that knee. Anything involving him is going to
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  Speaker 3: be stressful, I think.
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  Speaker 5: We all turn into, like, moms when their kid goes
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  Speaker 5: down on the turf during a youth football game.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? We're all, like, so worried
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  Speaker 4: and concerned. What's it when you put a baby in
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  Speaker 4: a blanket, you swaddle?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We want to swaddle Jonathan Brooks. I would like to
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  Speaker 3: swaddle Brooks.
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  Speaker 5: And Canales said, basically, I don't have to give you
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  Speaker 5: specifics until next week, next Wednesday, the first injury report.
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  Speaker 5: So basically, you will not get specifics until then, is
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  Speaker 5: basically what he said. And I don't know how specific
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  Speaker 5: they'll be even then, but it'll be more than it
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  Speaker 5: was yesterday. You at least then have to know a
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  Speaker 5: status and that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 3: A body part you'll get.
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  Speaker 4: We just want updates that Icky's alive. That's all it is.
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  Speaker 3: He's breathing. Is he all right?
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  Speaker 5: Morgan did tell us he does expect Icky, Moten, and
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  Speaker 5: Wharton to come back this year. And he does also
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  Speaker 5: expect ETN, Bam Martin, Scott. And who's the other one?
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  Speaker 5: Brady Christensen to come back from IR this year as well.
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  Speaker 5: All right, let's get into some of the juicy comments yesterday,
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  Speaker 5: some of the most interesting ones. Dan Morgan was asked
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  Speaker 5: about the brutal offensive line performance for the first team,
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  Speaker 5: specifically those tackles against Houston's defense at the joint practice
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  Speaker 5: this week, and he defended his offensive line.
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  Speaker 8: I feel good about our O-line, and we made some
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  Speaker 8: moves the other day. bringing Corey Bullock in. He was
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  Speaker 8: with the Ravens in the preseason, a guy we identified,
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  Speaker 8: center guard, flexibility on the inside there. He's a really firm, tough,
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  Speaker 8: tough guy. He has all the things that we're looking
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  Speaker 8: for in linemen. But back to your question, yeah, like
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  Speaker 8: the Houston practice, absolutely it was rough. But I thought
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  Speaker 8: it was also a really good learning experience and being
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  Speaker 8: able to go against Jacksonville and their edge rushers and
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  Speaker 8: then go against Houston and their edge rushers. That's why
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  Speaker 8: we do these practices. We do these practices to get
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  Speaker 8: our guys prepared for the season and know what we have.
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  Speaker 8: Monroe continues to get better and better every single day,
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  Speaker 8: as does Rasheed on the left side. They're still kind
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  Speaker 8: of gelling in our system and our scheme. I think
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  Speaker 8: you'll see them continue to grow as time goes on.
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  Speaker 5: So there you go, defending his team. He's not lying.
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  Speaker 5: We both said it, Bone. It's a great workload. The
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  Speaker 5: teams that they're going against have just been great teams
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  Speaker 5: to prepare for a season with. But when you do that,
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  Speaker 5: some of your flaws might end up on display.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but again, for as bad as it sucked last
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  Speaker 4: week to get dragged all over the practice field by Houston,
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  Speaker 4: especially the offensive line, the only benefit of that is
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  Speaker 4: the benefit of going through that and growing from that
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  Speaker 4: the next couple weeks. Hopefully that's what they're doing right now.
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  Speaker 4: You're not going to see too many defenses like Houston
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  Speaker 4: in this league ever.
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  Speaker 5: No. Especially in week number one. Definitely not then. I
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  Speaker 5: would probably argue that there's no defense comparable to that
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  Speaker 5: in the whole league. And they only do play one.
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  Speaker 5: edge rusher that was in the top 25 in sacks
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  Speaker 5: in the first three games. That kind of helps Freeling
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  Speaker 5: ease in. Also needs to be mentioned again, they did
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  Speaker 5: not give Monroe Freeling a bunch of help. When we
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  Speaker 5: play the Bears, I would expect a lot more help
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  Speaker 5: when he's going against Montez Sweat, who is the only
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  Speaker 5: top 25 sack guy off the edge from last year
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  Speaker 5: that we play in the.
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  Speaker 3: First three weeks.
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  Speaker 4: You also wonder, too, the amount of tight ends that
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  Speaker 4: they have on their roster as part of that because
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  Speaker 4: they're going to have to utilize a lot of help,
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  Speaker 4: they think, maybe for Freeling.
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  Speaker 3: Early in the season.
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  Speaker 5: They can perfectly do it. There's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 5: They could throw on a five tight end lineup if
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  Speaker 5: they want to out there. I don't know if I'd
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  Speaker 5: ask for that. You want to go 15 personnel? That
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  Speaker 5: might actually not even be possible. One running back and
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  Speaker 5: five tight ends. No, that's not possible.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Anyway, let's continue here with Dan Morgan. So a lot
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  Speaker 5: of talk's been done about the 2024 draft, right? Trevor
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  Speaker 5: Wallace gone from it. And there's a bunch of other
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  Speaker 5: dudes that we're looking at saying, are you going to
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  Speaker 5: step up and perform from that draft?
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  Speaker 3: Sanders, Brooks, Legat, all those guys.
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  Speaker 5: Dan Morgan yesterday was asked about the 2024 draft, the criticism,
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  Speaker 5: and I thought he had a great, honest answer.
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  Speaker 8: Obviously excited about the guys that are still on our
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  Speaker 8: team from that class. We think they have high upside
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  Speaker 8: and playmaking ability. Of course, you're not going to hit
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  Speaker 8: every pick. No teams do. But again, that's on me
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  Speaker 8: to go back and look at our processes, look at
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  Speaker 8: the way we do things. You know, if we do
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  Speaker 8: miss on a player, why did we miss on the player?
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  Speaker 8: And I think as long as we're getting better every
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  Speaker 8: single year, I think that's the main thing is, you know,
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  Speaker 8: learning lessons, not just mistakes, but just learning lessons in
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  Speaker 8: every area.
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  Speaker 5: So I thought that was a I thought that was
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  Speaker 5: a cool, honest answer. He didn't duck it. He admitted, hey,
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  Speaker 5: that's our first draft. We feel like since then, Bone,
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  Speaker 5: we have learned lessons, and every year we learn lessons.
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  Speaker 5: I thought that was a pretty cool answer, and he
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  Speaker 5: easily could say, hey, by the way, we've changed about
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  Speaker 5: five or six positions in our scouting department and front
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  Speaker 5: office after that draft.
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  Speaker 3: He's not the type of guy to do that sort
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  Speaker 3: of thing, though. No, he's not.
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  Speaker 4: Also, not admitting mistakes and maybe hanging on to guys
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  Speaker 4: too long because– You don't want to admit mistakes. That's
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  Speaker 4: part of what the Hornets' problem was for a while.
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  Speaker 4: They would never really admit, hey, we misfired on this
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  Speaker 4: draft twice and then hang on to them a little
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  Speaker 4: too long. So I think it's a good sign that, hey,
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  Speaker 4: we didn't hit on it. We're not going to hold
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  Speaker 4: on to them because we feel like we have to.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to move on. So that's a good sign
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  Speaker 4: that they're willing to.
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  Speaker 3: Admit, hey, messed up. That's on us. Move on to
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  Speaker 3: the next guy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and let's go replace him with Okereke. Let's bring
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  Speaker 5: in another guy that was a full-time starter at Miami
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  Speaker 5: the last couple years and Tyrell Dotson.
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  Speaker 7: Like, I.
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  Speaker 5: I agree with you on that 100%. The turnover of
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  Speaker 5: the linebacker position from last year to this year has
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  Speaker 5: been substantial.
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  Speaker 4: It's like when I was married, she looked at me
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  Speaker 4: and said, that's a mistake. And then she moved on
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  Speaker 4: and said, that's enough. I respect that.
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  Speaker 3: You move on from your mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: You get out early.
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  Speaker 3: You get out early and you win.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad you said that.
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  Speaker 5: I'm glad that Fittier, I want the record to show
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  Speaker 5: Fittier and I did not make that joke.
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  Speaker 3: I saw it in your eyes. You were thinking it. No, no.
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  Speaker 5: All right. Let's talk about Okereke because Dan Morgan was asked,
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  Speaker 5: is the plan to start Okereke right away week one
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  Speaker 5: next to Devin Lloyd?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that's the plan right now. And, and again,
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  Speaker 8: you know, he, he started a lot of games in
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  Speaker 8: this league. He's played at a high level. He's a
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  Speaker 8: really smart guy. He's been with Pete Hanson before. He
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  Speaker 8: kind of understands the concepts of our defense and what
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  Speaker 8: we're trying to accomplish. So I feel like he's going
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  Speaker 8: to be a really good fit there next to Devin. And,
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  Speaker 8: you know, of course, bringing a guy like Tyrell in,
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  Speaker 8: another guy that's a veteran guy that, we could elevate
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  Speaker 8: at some point if we need to, if an injury happens.
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  Speaker 8: So that was the idea with bringing him in as well.
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  Speaker 4: Meg, I wonder how long Okereke was. Did he hit
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  Speaker 4: on it yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember.
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  Speaker 4: How long was he in their plans where they thought
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  Speaker 4: as soon as camp ends, we're going to bring him
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  Speaker 4: in here and maybe... That's why Okereke might be ready
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  Speaker 4: to go right away. Maybe they had this plan already
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  Speaker 4: where he may be out to speed more than we
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  Speaker 4: think because the ultimate plan was, I'm not going to camp.
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  Speaker 3: As soon as it's over, I'll go to the Panthers.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah. He pulled a savvy vet move just like
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  Speaker 5: Aaron Donald. So he may be ready to go more
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  Speaker 5: than we thought he was. He pulled a savvy vet
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  Speaker 5: move just like Aaron Donald. There ain't no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 5: But I would say this, Bone, the other guys have
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  Speaker 5: been playing contact football.
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  Speaker 3: Like, it can't.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 5: No matter how in shape you are, I would argue
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  Speaker 5: that you're still not.
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  Speaker 4: Going to be at your best. I was talking more
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  Speaker 4: about the system and all that they want to do
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  Speaker 4: from that angle. I wonder how ready he already is
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  Speaker 4: for that.
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  Speaker 5: You're wondering if they gave him the stuff already type stuff?
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  Speaker 4: I wonder if they reach out at some point. He's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'll be ready to go once the season
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  Speaker 4: is here. Because he had two different answers, Mac, for Dotson.
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  Speaker 4: in okarake because dots is on the practice squad and
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  Speaker 4: it was more yeah we'll get him up to speed
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  Speaker 4: and at some point we may some more down the
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  Speaker 4: line we may need him this and that no care
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  Speaker 4: case oh yeah we plan to have him in there
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  Speaker 4: right away so two guys that came in this week
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  Speaker 4: one they're preparing for him to be ready to go
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  Speaker 4: the other guy they're thinking at some point we may
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  Speaker 4: need them.
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  Speaker 5: And i would also argue i i keep saying this
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  Speaker 5: i think they're very close in ability Like, I think
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  Speaker 5: they're very close. Dodson's a little younger. I have to
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  Speaker 5: tell you right now, it is not often you see
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  Speaker 5: a player that good on a practice squad. Like, it's shocking.
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  Speaker 5: And Dan was asked about it yesterday. Like, why did
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  Speaker 5: he not have other opportunities?
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  Speaker 3: Dan said, yeah, he did.
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  Speaker 5: Dan really believes one of the reasons he agreed to
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  Speaker 5: play on his practice squad. First of all, it sounds
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  Speaker 5: like there was communication, maybe like, You'll get your time
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  Speaker 5: type stuff. But also, they've got a relationship. I didn't
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  Speaker 5: realize this, that Dan Morgan was in the Buffalo front
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  Speaker 5: office when they acquired him as an undrafted free agent
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  Speaker 5: coming out.
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  Speaker 3: Of Texas A & M. And I didn't realize that.
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  Speaker 5: So Dan thinks their relationship is a reason why they
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  Speaker 5: were able to get a dude that is this good.
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  Speaker 5: 120 tackles, five sacks last year. And watch the tape
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  Speaker 5: on him, man. When he gets going downhill and his
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  Speaker 5: ability to get around blocks, that's something you never saw
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  Speaker 5: Trevor Wallace do. So we got two really good linebackers.
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  Speaker 5: I think they're both going to play a role, man.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, Okereke, he pulled the okey-doke. He pulled the
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  Speaker 5: training camp okey-doke. There's no doubt about it. And he's
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  Speaker 5: far from the first, and he will be far from
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  Speaker 5: the last one to do that. I want you to
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  Speaker 5: hear a little bit of Dave Canales here as well
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  Speaker 5: from yesterday's pressers. This is him talking about why he
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  Speaker 5: thinks Okereke will be ready to start week one.
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  Speaker 9: Consummate pro, very intelligent, um, tackling machine. You know, if
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  Speaker 9: you just pull up his stats, he's all over the field,
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  Speaker 9: solo tackles assists. He's on every play, um, that type
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  Speaker 9: of style, that type of mindset. Um, we love having,
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  Speaker 9: you know, Devin is that way. Um, we feel like he,
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  Speaker 9: he fits into the nature of what we're looking for
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  Speaker 9: at the position. And so, uh, we're excited to get him, uh,
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  Speaker 9: saw him out there at practice for the first time
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  Speaker 9: today and, uh, was already running around. He's in great shape. Um,
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  Speaker 9: if you know the guy that probably wouldn't shock you,
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  Speaker 9: this is a guy that was ready to go And
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  Speaker 9: now it's just a matter of the communication factor.
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  Speaker 3: So there you go.
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  Speaker 5: And they had a receiver in his helmet yesterday. He's
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  Speaker 5: not calling the plays. I think the quote from him was,
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  Speaker 5: I told Trevin, it's your show. Or I told Devin,
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  Speaker 5: it's your show.
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  Speaker 3: Not Trevin.
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  Speaker 5: Trevin's gone. Devin's here. As far as like green dot
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  Speaker 5: and calling the defense. But they had a receiver in
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  Speaker 5: his helmet where he can take it in. That's the
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  Speaker 5: one thing about him. Like, he's just smart. And like
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  Speaker 5: Okereke said yesterday, Every kind of concept we run, he
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  Speaker 5: has been at a team bone at some point in
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  Speaker 5: his career where they have run those concepts. He also
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  Speaker 5: knows Pete Hanson, a linebackers coach from Stanford Day. So, like,
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  Speaker 5: I don't worry at all about Okereke in week one
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  Speaker 5: with the mental. To me, it's just, like, is he
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  Speaker 5: at his peak physical readiness for tackle football?
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  Speaker 3: Probably not.
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  Speaker 5: But I still think, again, all you got to do
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  Speaker 5: is clear the chairless Wallace bar.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? It could be on a
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  Speaker 3: snap count of some.
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  Speaker 4: Number also for week one, right? It's early season. It's
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  Speaker 4: going to be hot out there. He may be limited
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  Speaker 4: to a certain amount of staff. So we may see
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  Speaker 4: a guy like Kuwach maybe in there a little bit
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  Speaker 4: because of getting Okereke out.
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  Speaker 3: A little bit more than he normally would be.
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  Speaker 5: I think what you could see is when they move
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  Speaker 5: Merrig up into the box. and they bring Ransom on.
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  Speaker 5: And they basically play with three safeties, but Merrick's in
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  Speaker 5: a linebacker position. I think that is something they did
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  Speaker 5: last year that they can do this year.
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  Speaker 3: And we'll talk more.
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  Speaker 4: About Week 1 against the Bears, 9 o'clock hour back.
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  Speaker 4: Is that a little advanced formula.
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  Speaker 3: There a little bit? No, we ain't going that far
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  Speaker 3: just yet. I'm just saying. We ain't going that far.
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  Speaker 3: No formula, no formula.
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  Speaker 5: I just want to talk Panther football. I want to
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  Speaker 5: talk a real Panther football game. Like, we're talking a
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  Speaker 5: lot of week one college football, including coming up here
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  Speaker 5: in a few minutes. But I want to talk about
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  Speaker 5: an actual Panther game. Not bony, hey, which backup are
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  Speaker 5: you looking for to excel tonight?
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Like, screw the preseason.
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  Speaker 5: I want to talk about a real Panther football game.
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  Speaker 5: And we're doing that in the 9 o'clock hour. Panther
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  Speaker 5: football game. Was that an impression of me, by the way?
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  Speaker 3: This is football! No, that was us in general with
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  Speaker 3: all the.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: stupid preseason topic sound very familiar.
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: Is dave canalis playing his starters enough what do you
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: think like i know we just did that last week
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: but like that sucks i'll just admit it now it
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: kind of sucks do you believe in stone force life
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: or not yeah like let's do it let's talk about
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: the damn bears a team and a fan base i
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: can't stand coming up nine uh 925 up next though
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: the new lead analyst For the SEC Network, Aaron Murray
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: joins us. We'll preview week one, the season, Gamecocks on
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: the table, all SEC talk next.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ.
• 16:39
  Speaker 10: If, in fact, you're going to say that Big One
• 16:43
  Speaker 10: Wright is a backup tight end, if you're going to
• 16:47
  Speaker 10: say that whoever else that you're going to get is
• 16:50
  Speaker 10: a backup player, then why go to this effort? Why
• 16:54
  Speaker 10: put yourself in a position of playing chicken with the
• 16:56
  Speaker 10: Southeastern Conference and playing a little roulette with some of
• 17:01
  Speaker 10: your existing players who have been with you all the way.
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: Through last spring, the summer, and now into the fall camp?
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I don't get it.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: I just don't.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: The distraction in and of itself, going into a game
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: with Clemson, and I realize this is not the same
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: Clemson team really from a year ago, and the game
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: is in your Death Valley, not their Death Valley. But
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: why put yourself in this kind of peril if you're
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: just talking about shoring up the roster, that the roster
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: is already in pretty good shape?
• 17:35
  Speaker 10: Makes no sense to me.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: I got to tell you, I feel Tim Brando on
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: that one.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: There's Tim Brando bone in his car, either headed to
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: or from the golf course, which pretty much is the
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: way Brando spends most days.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: It was hard to tell what direction I was headed in.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: I don't know if it was from or to, but like,
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: I feel that like they have trade as green, one
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: of the best tight ends, maybe the best in the country.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: Do they really need, right? Do you need to like
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: maybe upset the apple cart in the locker room to
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: do that? Is Harris worth the trouble defensive tackle? An
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: interesting point, and everybody has an opinion, obviously, in the
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: sport on Lane Kiffin, and I'm sure our next guest does, too.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: We'll talk about it.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: We'll talk about the Clemson-LSU game specifically, and we'll talk
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: about Week 1. How about that Ole Miss-Louisville game? Got
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: to talk about that one as well. Aaron Murray, you
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: will hear him and see him now Saturday night on
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: the big primetime show. sec network matchup every week and
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: he joins us here on the mac and bone show
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: aaron what's going on man how you doing.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Man just excited to get on the road i got
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: my first coaches call today at a production.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Meeting yesterday there you go.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Um so it we are we are here week one
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: is here and i just cannot wait uh to get
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: on the road this weekend for the first time this
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: season be on these you know for me these sec
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: campuses and feel the energy and get ready to start
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: calling some football games.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Well, well deserved, man. We've got you on for a
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: couple of years now. We've seen you grow and for
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: you to get that, that primetime spot in the SEC, man, congrats.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: That's awesome. We can't wait to see you have those
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: matchups every week.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I'm excited. It's, it's, yeah, I know the
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: big 10 has been, you know, kind of puffing their
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: chest out a little bit this off season, but the
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: SEC is still the deepest, most talented league out there. And,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: you know, to have this opportunity to go out there and,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Call some big-time games week in and week out. Like
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I said, man, it's going to be so much fun
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: to get around. And then, you know, for my wife,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: I got two young kids, so she's just happy that
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: there's some weekends I should be able to get home
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: on Saturday night or first thing Sunday morning. There you go.
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: Before we get into the games and we finally do
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: get to talk about games, I do have to get
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: your thoughts on Lane Kiffin and, you know, him attempting
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: to bring these guys back that were in NFL camps. Obviously,
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: the SEC wants to fight this out. There's a big
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: court ruling coming in Louisiana tomorrow. Do you blame Lane
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: Kiffin for doing it? Or do you understand... Do you
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: understand it, or you come down on the side of, like,
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: you don't like him doing this?
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of Lane Kiffin. I'll just start
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: with that first. I'm a big fan. I've always enjoyed
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: being around him. I've always enjoyed talking ball. Love watching
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: what he's done in his career. I mean, hell, I
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: had some games of him when he was at FAU
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: and then had multiple games when he was at Ole Miss. So,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: you know, I think he's one of the best in
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: the game. I think he's probably the best when it
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: comes to, you know, offense, obviously with him and Charlie,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: you know, kind of tag teaming that offense at Ole
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Miss and at LSU. So, and the one thing that
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: you love about Lane is he finds a way to
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: be the center of college football and the center of conversation. So,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: you know, I just sit back and kind of laugh, like,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: does Lane even really care about bringing these players in,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: or is this just Lane continuing to find ways to
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: be in the media? And, you know, we always say, like,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: you know, any publicity is good publicity, you know, because
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: we're talking about Lane Kiffin, and he's the forefront of
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: All discussions, ESPN, radio shows, recruits are hearing his name.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: They're hearing about more stuff at LSU. So, like, I
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: think this is just him being, once again, the master
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: of understanding. I want to be in the center of
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: discussion around college football. I'm going to suck up all
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: the oxygen in the room. And I think it's brilliant
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: by him. So, like, does he truly need these players?
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Does he even really want these players? I don't know.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I don't think he really needs the players, to be honest. But,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the day, LSU is
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: going to be successful if they get these guys or not.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: I'm in the camp of I don't like the ruling
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: at all. If you have an opportunity to move on
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: to the NFL and you take that chance and you
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: go into the NFL, then you're done with college football,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: plain and simple. So I don't like it that these
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: guys are coming back, but am I going to blame
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin for continuing once again to put his name
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: out there and be the talk of college football and be,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: in some people's mind, the villain?
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: No.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Good for him, man. Like I said, he is the
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: master player. of doing that, and he continues to do
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: it there in Baton Rouge.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: As far as the LSU game against Clemson goes on
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: Saturday night, as we've gone through this week, there's been
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: a lot more discussion about the focus level of LSU.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Are they distracted? How much of a chance do you
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: give Clemson to maybe take advantage of LSU for all
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: they've been through here the last couple weeks?
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, listen, you can tell you want that, like, oh,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: LSU could be distracted, but Clemson's just as distracted as well.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're having to talk about it. They're hearing it.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: You know, Dabo's talking about it. So it does go
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: both ways. And, you know, once again, like, you know,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: people always talk about, okay, Lane, LSU, all the brand-new team,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: they got all these new kids. You know, how are
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: they going to figure that out? You know, it's going
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: to take some time for those guys to gel and mesh.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I'm like, man, listen, Lane has been Lane forever. He's
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: always had some sort of controversy and drama around him.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: He's always, at least in the past few years, has
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: built his roster through the transfer portal. And guess what?
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss has been one of the most successful teams
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: over the past five, six years in college football. He
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: knows what he's doing. He knows how to get a
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: team focused. He knows how to build a roster through
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: the transfer portal. So I know it seems like I'm
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: fanboying hard over here over Lane Kiffin, but I do
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: think that he knows how to play the game in
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: today's world. He knows how to deal with NIL, what
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: he accomplished with Ole Miss and their collective and raising
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: funds for players. what he did pulling together rosters of
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: players from all over the country year in and year out.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: And then obviously you see the success in the football
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: field immediately. It's like, I don't doubt that lane knows
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: how to bring a team together through drama, through the portal,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: through NIL, and then get them to go out there
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: and win. Cause it's proven over and over again there
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: in Oxford that he could do that. So I think
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: those guys are ready. I think they're hungry. I think
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: lane is ready to our works. I mean, you're at home.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: You've got Clemson, who I know is not as dominant
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: as they've been in years past, but it's still Clemson.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: It's still Dabo. The juices are going to be flowing.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: It's a great roster there at LSU. So I think
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: you're going to get some hungry tigers on both sides
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: come Saturday night.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: That's so juicy. That game is.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: Aaron Murray, SEC Network, with us on the Mac and
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: Bone Show. I want to ask you about another one
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: that I find to be a heck of a matchup.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: That's Sunday night. Mississippi against Louisville. This is a good
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: SEC-ACC matchup. My God, it would be huge for the
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: ACC to get a win like this. But Ole Miss
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: is favored. What do you think about this matchup? Does
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Louisville have a shot? What do you think?
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm going to lean a little bit, obviously,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss on this one. I love Trinidad Chambliss. I love, love,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: love Louisville. um, you know, Lacey and, and kind of
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: what they have coming back. I think the defense is
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: going to be tremendous. So I, I, I think that
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Ole miss right now, when you look at that roster,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: you know, there's not a lot of holes that you
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: can poke at them, you know? Yeah. They, they, they
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: lost some receivers. I think they went out there and
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: got some studs. Uh, and then you look at Louisville.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I think there are some question marks about, you know,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: the quarterback spot and, and, you know, what he's gonna
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: be able to do in his first start there against
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the rebels. So, Yeah, I'm just a big fan of Trinidad.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: You look at him, I remember a year ago when
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: he made his first start, I did a little bit
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: of a quarterback breakdown. you look at what he's capable
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: of doing from the RPOs to the move in the pocket,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: layering football, throwing the football deep down the field. And,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: and yeah, I just gushed about Lane Kiffin for the
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: first five minutes of this interview about how good he is. And,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: you know, obviously his, his, his, you know, ability as
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: a play caller with Charlie Weiss and getting guys wide open.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: So yeah, like there may not be as much, you know,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: green grass to throw to in this offense and hopefully
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: there is, but yeah, sure that I can play in
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: any system. I think he's that good. I think he's
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: that talented. I think that he's, like I said, he's
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: got all the tools and toolbox you want besides maybe
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: the fact that, you know, he's not six, two, you know,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: if he was six, two, we'd be talking about like
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: a hundred percent, the first pick in the NFL draft
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: and hell he could have been the first pick in
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: the NFL draft a year ago. Uh, if he was
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: a little bit taller, but you know, when it comes
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: to his ability to get within it inside any offense,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I think he can do that. I think the weapons
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: are going to be good. Like I said, him and
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Lacey in the backfield, the defense is going to be
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: very talented on that side as well. So, uh, I
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: just think Ole Miss will overpower them when it's all
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: said and done, and I just don't know if Louisville
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: has the offense with a little bit of an inexperienced
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: quarterback to kind of keep up with what Ole Miss
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: is going to be able to put up on their
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: side of the football.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Aaron, as far as the Gamecocks go, it wasn't the
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: year last year that we expected from Lenora Sellers. What
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: are you expecting this year, and how big will Kendall
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Bryles be for trying to get the most.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Out of him?
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I think when Norris has always been
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: a very talented quarterback, you know, I had him twice
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: his freshman year and got to see him really grow
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: as a quarterback during that season. I think that he's
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: got the size, he's got the arm, he's got the
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: athleticism to really be a dominant player. The issue's always
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: been for South Carolina is who's he throwing to? One,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: can you protect him? And two, does he have playmakers
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: on the outside? In his first year, South Carolina had
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: an incredible defense. That defense was absolutely loaded all three levels.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: You had a really good tight end, and then you
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: had Rocket Sanders, who was very impactful as a transfer
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: there from Arkansas. You saw that offense get better as
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the season went along. Hell, I remember the first game
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: of the season, they almost lost. I think it was
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: to Old Dominion. Luckily, the defense got a fumble inside
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: the 10-yard line, and offense was able to punch it
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: in to win. You saw him grow that year, but
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: then the next year, Rocket's gone, the tight end's gone,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: and you've just never seen consistent playmaking on the outside.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: So that's always been the big thing. That's going to
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: be the big thing for Kendall to kind of get
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: this offense going is I don't think that there's anything
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: wrong with Lenore as a quarterback. It's hard to play
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: quarterback in this league when, one, either you're on your back,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: or two, you don't have guys that can kind of
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: create separation and get open.
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: And I think that's, you know, something for browse and
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: his offense this year is, can you maximize the talent
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: around him, put him in a situation where you can
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: go out there and feel like he can throw the
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: football and not have to run the football 24 seven and,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: and just get the ball up his hands and get
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: him comfortable. But, you know, like I said, a big
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: fan of him and he obviously don't do it on
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the other side. It's an absolute nightmare. And, It reminds
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: me a little bit about when we played them. They
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: had Connor Shaw. They had a big receiver on the
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: outside in Alshon. They had, obviously, Jadavian Clowney as a
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: defensive end position. Not necessarily elite talent everywhere else, good talent,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, but they just had game wreckers
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: on both sides, and they have that this year. It's
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: just a matter of can you get him going in
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: a new offense and can you get some playmakers just
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: to even just support him a little bit. I don't
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: need all SEC-type receivers. I just need guys that can
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: start winning some more one-on-ones.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: I can't wait to see this Bryles offense, the effect
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: it has on sellers and everybody else. And I know
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: this South Carolina fans probably watched how much TCU struggled
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: on offense.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: It looked like they missed Kendall Bryles.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: It did on Saturday.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: All right. So let me ask you this question.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: If you had to make a guess, how many playoff
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: teams does the SEC get in the 12 team playoff
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: and who are the teams you would pick?
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: What would you go with?
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: We, man, I tell you what, it is a, a,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: a just college football in general, this year's ultra competitive.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, I can name, you know, I can name
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: eight teams that have a legitimate chance to win a,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: you know, a national championship, you know, from. across the country.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's going to be a lot of fun.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I guess I'm, I'm super excited. I get to call this,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: you know, call this game in the SEC, but you
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: always see Georgia is kind of the favorites right now
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: in the SEC. You know, I think my, my dogs
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: look really good heading into the season, you know, defensively,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: they should be really good offensive line, running backs, tight ends,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: you know, gutter in a second season. So, you know,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: You like Georgia as the favorite in the SEC, and
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: obviously you get a spot in the tournament from there. Texas,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: you love the roster. I think that there's some things
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: I continue to want to see from Arch Manning, but
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: you saw him develop as the season went on a
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: year ago. Can the offensive line be better, though? The
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: offensive line was terrific a year ago. They got the receivers.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Running back should be good, obviously, with the guys they
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: got in the portal, but man, that offensive line could
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: not protect uh, you know, arts throughout the season. I
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: think that's a, that's a big worry. And I think
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: that could hold them back, you know, once again, this season,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: but you still like them overall. I think it's actually
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: a tremendous coach. So, you know, I like Georgia. I
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: like Texas. I like LSU a lot. Um, you know,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I think Oklahoma is a tremendous team, great defense, love
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: their quarterback, same thing, you know, offensive line, it comes
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: down to them. Can they protect, can they run the football,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: take some pressure off, um, Alabama, you know, I think
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: that's kind of, to me, that's, that's, it's, If the
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: quarterback is as good as we think he could be
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: and all the noise coming out of camp and the
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: excitement about him, that defense is going to be top-notch.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: They've got some playmakers on the outside. If he is,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: like I said, as good as anticipated for a young buck,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Alabama is going to be a team that's going to
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: be right there in the mix of it as well.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: There's a bunch. I got one this weekend. I think
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Florida is going to be an interesting team. You know,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I'm watching tape on them all week. You know, I'm
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: very high on Aaron Filo. I think the talent around
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: him is absolutely incredible. The receivers are elite.
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: The running backs are elite.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: You know, I think the defense should be better this year.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: You know, question marks the offensive line. But, man, I'm
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: just so excited about what Buster Faulkner has to work
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: with on the offensive side of the football. Ole Miss
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: we talked about, A & M we talked about. All
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: these teams, you can make a case, should compete for
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: the SEC title. I think they end up getting probably
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: about four in there. And I think it's going to
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: be a dogfight to the end, which is going to
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: make for a very fun season to call.
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: I didn't ask you an easy question. I'm trying to
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: figure out who comes out of that conference, man. That's
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: a tough one. But it's going to be fun to watch.
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: And your season starts Saturday night with those Gators. Looking
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: forward to seeing how they look with Summerall there. Gators-FAU
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: is your first game. First of many great Saturday night
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: games on the SEC Network with Aaron Murray as the analyst.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Aaron. Appreciate you, brother.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys. Have a great week, and let's enjoy
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: some football.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Heck yeah.
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: All right, there you go. That is Aaron Murray from
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: the SEC Network. And another sign, Bone, that football season
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: is here is how upset the text line got at
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: Aaron Murray for.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: In order to.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: Praising and defending Lane Kiffin. This guy talks so much, SEC. Yeah,
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: and that was SEC network analyst Aaron Murray on the show.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: The SEC haters are mad. The Lane Kiffin haters are mad.
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: People are mad that he picked Ole Miss to beat Louisville, Mac.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: 89.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: 99% of the betting public has picked Ole Miss to
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: win that game. It's not exactly like– I didn't get
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: SEC homework out of that answer. To me, that was
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: an obvious one.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: They're the favorite, man. It's going to be a close game,
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: but it wasn't that crazy.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: I did like the text where a texter says, ask
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: him if he thinks the SEC will lose any non-conference
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: games this season. That's Paco from Charlotte. Let's go to
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: the Fit Daddy right now with his update for you, everybody.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Fit, educate us. What's going on?
• 33:37
  Speaker 11: Mac, I have my work cut out for me if
• 33:39
  Speaker 11: I'm trying to educate either one of you two. This
• 33:42
  Speaker 11: update brought to you by our good friends over at
• 33:44
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• 33:54
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• 34:02
  Speaker 2: 704-334-9934.
• 34:05
  Speaker 11: I thought about giving y'all a U.S.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Open update. Figured y'all didn't want to hear that, so
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: here's something for you. ESPN.com.
• 34:15
  Speaker 11: They have put out a list predicting the top 100
• 34:17
  Speaker 11: players for the 2026 season. Only two. Carolina Panthers made
• 34:24
  Speaker 11: the list. Cornerback J.C. Horn checked in at 94. Defensive
• 34:29
  Speaker 11: tackle Derek Brown checked in at number 78.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: No Devin Lloyd, all pro last year.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: No T-Mac.
• 34:37
  Speaker 11: No T-Mac, offensive rookie of the year.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: No Bryce.
• 34:40
  Speaker 11: No Bryce Young, who made the NFL's top 100, which
• 34:44
  Speaker 11: ranked by the players. The fine folks over at the Mothership.
• 34:48
  Speaker 11: Now with a big outlook for the black and blue
• 34:50
  Speaker 11: this year.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: J.J. Jansen was number 31 on the list. No, J.J.?
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: I didn't even think about that.
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: J.J.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Snubs?
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: By the way, during list season, why doesn't anyone do
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: a long snapper list?
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: You talk about giving us some content. Where's J.J. on
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: the long snapper list?
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: Where's the respect? Long snappers are people, too, man. If
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: Rich Eisen can do the putters are people, too, we
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: can get the long snappers are people, too.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Going here.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Long snappers are good people, too. Definitely.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: When we come back at the Mac and Bone Show, well, Mac,
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: I will let you handle this because it's random crap
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: coming up. I don't know what random crap Mac has
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: in mind coming up, but it is next, though.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's true.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: I might have wanted to tell you what's happening, Bone Man.
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: What kind of crap's on your mind? We got Tua
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: in hot water over an Instagram post. We've got Pat
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: McAfee's next career.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Move as well, Boney.
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: Glad he landed on his seat. He's found some more work.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: And we got Bill Simmons for the second time in
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: not too long of a period saying, maybe saying something
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: on his podcast he shouldn't have said. It's all coming up.
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: Random Crap Next, Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ.
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: Random crap, random crap, Mac and Bone talk, random crap,
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: random crap, random crap, Mac and Bone talk, random crap, random,
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: random crap, random crap, random crap.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: What the deuce? Oh, crap.
• 36:25
  Speaker 8: Oh, crap.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: We stink like a baby's blowout infested diaper.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: They talk about crap that is random. It's the Queen
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: City's favorite born in tandem. Mack and Bone.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Random crap.
• 36:37
  Speaker 7: Mack and Bone.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: All right, time to do a little random crap, right?
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: We pick various stories from all over the place, sports, non-sports.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: We have a little fun with them here on the
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: Mac and Bone Show. We will join the P... We're
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: not joining him. The P-Man joins us. I'm telling you,
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: it's that gasoline scent in my car. I'm freaking high, man,
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: right now. But anyway, P-Man joins us coming up at
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: 9 o'clock with Willie's World. But right now, let's do
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: some random crap. All right, so Pat McAfee, Bone, I
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: know a lot of people have been worried, is he
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: going to find any more work? It really seems, Bone,
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: like he could use another paycheck, right? Doesn't seem like
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: he has things very well. I like to see a
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: man just land on his feet like this. So, Netflix
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: has announced the details of a movie called The Mosquito Bowl.
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: This is from popular director Peter Berg. This is going
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: to be a movie, Bone, about college, fictionalized college football
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: players who enlist in the Marine Corps during World War II.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: The bowl refers to a football game the unit organizes
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: as they prepare to ship out to the Pacific Front.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: Sounds interesting.
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: Pat McAfee will now add actor, and maybe he already
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: has done this, I don't know, but he will do
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: some acting, Bone, because Pat McAfee will be starring in
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: the movie as a drill sergeant.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: Well, first of all, Peter Berg is tremendous. He's from
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: Friday Night Lights, among other things. So it does sound
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: like an interesting concept.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: For a movie.
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: Mac, there was a report back months ago before the
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: country music stuff started that Pat McAfee's been training to
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: be a movie star, like action hero. He feels he
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: can be like an Arnold or a Sylvester Stallone type guy. So, yeah,
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: it's been music, it's wrestling, it's football, it's that... Singing,
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: all this stuff. He now thinks that he can be
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: like a Dwayne Johnson type guy. And he doesn't just
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: think it. These other folks enable him to go about it. Like,
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: can we not have any walk of our lives that
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: doesn't include Pat McAfee? We can't even stream Netflix movies
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: and be McAfee free. We can't even listen to music
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: without the music world being McAfee free. It's just McAfee overload, man.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: I have a question, Mac, now. This may seem crazy
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: on the surface, but crazier things may have happened in life.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: Is Pat McAfee going to be our president one day?
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't. Is he going to get into politics? Oh,
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: I do not shake my head at any of those
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: type of questions. When you say, can blank celebrity be
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: a president?
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: I don't react the way I once did. He tries
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: to be involved in everything. Who's to say politics is
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: not something? It definitely seems like he's the guy our
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: country needs.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Eye roll.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: 92! What would you do to McAfee in a debate, 92?
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: I would punt him off the stage. Matt, can you
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: not say Netflix, by the way?
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: Netflix.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: Netflix.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Netflix.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: And that might be a different site.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: People are mad at Mac. Settle down over there. Everyone's
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: mad at Mac now.
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: What'd I do? For saying Netflix. I'm trying to say Netflix, y'all.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: Work with me here.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: My man has a gasoline brain right now, all right?
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: Mine's messed up. I've been driving around in a car.
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: I can't get the gasoline smell out of the damn thing.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: I tried baking soda, detergent. I tried everything, and it's
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: making me extra loopy, y'all. Give me some grace today, people.
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: And Finney can't wait to make fun of you either.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: We'll support our man, Finney.
• 40:14
  Speaker 11: Coach Manson said that McAfee was a guest speaker at
• 40:16
  Speaker 11: their church on Sunday.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, this guy's going to be Billy Graham and Donald.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: Trump all in one. He had to be joking. He
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: was joking, Finney. That had to be a joke.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: I took him literal.
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: By the way, I don't have much elaborate to say
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: about this. Did you see Cam's mustache?
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: Cam's got a mustache. It's a very interesting look for him, man.
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: And by interesting, I mean, Cam, it's not working for you, baby.
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: You're the coolest guy in the world. I don't know
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: if that mustache is oozing cool.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: It's not quite Ryan Blaney. No, you're not pulling it
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: off like Blaney is. No one can pull off the Blaney.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: No doubt about it.
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: All right, so people are asking for the Tua story, Bone.
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: Tua put an Instagram post up kind of like saluting Atlanta.
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: I forget what the verbiage was on his Instagram post,
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: but just kind of showing his love for Atlanta. I'm
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: not sure Atlanta loves him. after the preseason he had, Bone,
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: and then right underneath it, from Tua's same account. is
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: a comment basically saying, hey, we got you back. Oh, no,
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: he said for the A, and then the comment from
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: his same Instagram account underneath said, we're so proud of you,
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: you got this with a heart emoji. So everybody thought
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: Tua has a burner account that he did not switch
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: over to and was caught praising himself.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: It seems like it was his wife saying, who runs.
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: His social media account, who maybe didn't switch over to
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: her personal account. It was still a pretty shameless inside job. Yeah,
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: definitely caught in the act.
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: A bunch of good Kevin Durant burner got busted in
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: the act there.
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: If you're going to shamelessly do that, you've got to
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: make sure you know what accounts you're on.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: I always make sure that I'm on the right account.
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: You got to. All the bone compliments that get tweeted
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: out there? Is that you?
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: Remember before I tweeted out from Mabel's account. I got
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: the wrong account.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: OK, so you can relate to this. By the way,
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry. Even we're not done with Pat McAfee yet.
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: I forgot to tell you, Stephen A. Smith would like
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: to be the field goal kicker in Pat McAfee's field
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: goal kicking challenge at game day this year. Maybe he
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: can miss and kick McAfee. Another guy we don't need
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: any more of. He's trying, even Stephen A's trying to
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: weasel himself on another damn ESPN show. Oh, my goodness.
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: All right, so how about this, Bone Man? Bill Simmons
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: has been on a little bit of a roll lately. Uh,
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: and it has continued. Um, he's, what was he?
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: The seatbelt admission.
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: He made the, the fitting type seatbelt admission that he
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: never wears a seatbelt and he got blasted for that. Well,
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: now bone, he got to talk in, uh, recently on
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: his podcast that his daughter's boyfriend, Hank, uh, did him
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: a solid bone by placing proxy bets for him. For
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: people who don't know, proxy bets are like Bill Simmons
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: lives in California where it's not legal. The sports gambling
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: is not legal, which I cannot believe, but it's not
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: legal there. So his daughter lives back in Massachusetts and
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: her boyfriend, Hank, would log on to Bill's account on
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: FanDuel and place the bets that Bill wanted.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: Well, Bill went on the air.
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: Talking about how great Hank is, how much they bonded
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: together through this by placing proxy bets. Well, the Massachusetts
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: Gaming Commission, Bone, started investigating Bill Simmons and informed him
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: proxy betting is illegal, his bets bone have been negated,
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: and he had to come back on his podcast and say,
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I had no idea what Hank.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: Was doing for me was illegal. I will never do
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: it again.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, isn't FanDuel one of his sponsors?
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: Or DraftKings. DraftKings. One or the other. It's DraftKings, yeah.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: So then why is he saying he's using Vandal then? Oh,
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: my God.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: He's in a hole. He got himself all kind of trouble.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: Mac, by the way, real quick on my end of
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: things over here, I may have accidentally cured my dog
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: Murphy of puppiness. The biting and the chewing everything. I
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: don't know if it's coincidence or what happened the other day. Mac,
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: he was nibbling my arms on Monday afternoon. And I sneezed.
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: And whatever that noise was, it scared him, Mac.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: And he almost like.
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: came to attention like a person being yelled at by
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: a drill sergeant. He sat straight up and stopped biting.
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: It just stopped moving. And then he went and napped.
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: I thought, well, that's weird. One sneeze has just set
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: this guy off the nap. So then when he woke up,
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: he started nibbling a little bit, and I went, achoo!
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: I fake sneezed, and he did it again.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: He just stopped.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: This dog now for two days, Mac, has not gotten
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: in any trouble. He's no longer biting. All I have
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: to do is go, achoo! And he just stops doing
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: whatever he was doing. What the hell happened here? Even
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: that little dainty sneeze gets him right there. It's a
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: little weird, though, because when I'm walking him now, if
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: he's starting to go too far ahead, I'll go, and
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: he'll just stop.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: Neighbors are like, what the hell is going on here
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: with this guy?
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: You are the new Cesar Millan. Even Cesar Millan never
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: thought of this method. Why is this happening? I'm waiting
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: for him to snap out of it. He's like in
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: a trance. I will say this. One of our dogs, Bacon,
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: is very scared when I sneeze. Now, I don't sneeze
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: like I am an eight-year-old girl, like your little sneeze noise.
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: Well, that's my fake noise. I have a very loud,
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: obnoxious sneeze. Well, that's not my real sneeze. That's me
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: just going, making the, I go, achoo! I just make
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: the noise, and he stops.
• 46:03
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: What's in his past?
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: I need to know, Murphy. What's in your past? Did
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: you get sneezed on during COVID times? I wouldn't ask
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: any questions. I would be glad that you have cracked
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: the case.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: And he looks at me, like, terrified. Like, oh, my God.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: What's happening here? And he just sits there. Anyway, when
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: we come back.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: Achoo! Achoo!
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: Does it work for Finney? Yeah, look at him over there.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Achoo!
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: Look at him over there. Willie P, Sports Radio, 92.7.