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Mac & Bone Hour 3: Concerns Growing Around 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. Posh, come on, Posh. This
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  Speaker 2: is my friend T-Bone. Let's have some fun. I can't
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  Speaker 2: go to work without listening to Mac and Bone. Do
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  Speaker 2: it live. It was bad.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and listen, there are going to be days
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  Speaker 3: like this for Monroe Freeling and to a lesser degree,
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  Speaker 3: Rasheed Walker. I mean, his fingerprints were on some of
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  Speaker 3: those pressures too. But you've got two new starters at
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  Speaker 3: both tackle spots. That is significant. And I think You know,
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  Speaker 3: during preseason and practices where it's three-quarters speed, you know,
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  Speaker 3: all right, okay, Monroe Freeling looks like he's doing okay.
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  Speaker 3: And I do think the future remains bright for him.
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  Speaker 3: But going against two of the top edge rushers in
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  Speaker 3: the league, he was overmatched.
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  Speaker 4: That is Joe Person with Sheena Quick and our guy
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  Speaker 4: Dunk on the Panthers Collective podcast. Last night, they reacted
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  Speaker 4: to the joint practice. They saw the same things, Bone,
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  Speaker 4: we saw with our eyes yesterday. How could you not
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  Speaker 4: see it? The Panthers offensive line and offensive tackle specifically.
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  Speaker 4: Getting a given to him by Hunter and Anderson.
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  Speaker 2: The show pro staff did more protecting yesterday than the
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  Speaker 2: Patriots offensive line did. It was hard to get into
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  Speaker 2: practice yesterday. You had to know somebody. Thankfully, I met
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  Speaker 2: somebody along the way that asked me about Murphy, and
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  Speaker 2: they let me in yesterday. There you go, baby. There
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  Speaker 2: you go, Bone.
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  Speaker 4: Your celebrity status gets you a lot of places in
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  Speaker 4: this town. If it wasn't for my dogs, what would
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  Speaker 4: I be doing half the time? So Murphy's getting famous, too?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right. All right, Murph.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you'll ever be Mabel Murph, but
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  Speaker 4: you're on your way though, baby. You are on your
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  Speaker 4: way right now.
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  Speaker 2: Maniac. Oh man.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, by the way, the text line seems to think bone.
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  Speaker 4: I did Darren Waller wrong here. Um, uh, AC says Mac,
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  Speaker 4: Mac telling Darren Waller, he's putting them on the practice squad.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, just being honest, it's been a conversation like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Mike K brought it up. We've talked about it.
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  Speaker 4: If he's not fully up to speed, do you practice
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  Speaker 4: squad him? and then you can activate him whenever. I
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  Speaker 4: think he's going to be on the active roster. To
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  Speaker 4: KB's point, that I brought that up with him, this
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  Speaker 4: dude still, at 33, still has some juice and some
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  Speaker 4: ability to do things other tight ends don't on this roster.
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  Speaker 2: There's a desire to get back to a level that
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  Speaker 2: he was at as well. He's a really good dude,
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  Speaker 2: and I was also struck yesterday, and so was Fiddy Mack.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody will ever pass Greg Olson. in the good-looking tight
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  Speaker 2: end rankings. Fitty, Darren Waller's a good-looking man, is he not?
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  Speaker 2: There's a, it's like a model. Are you putting him
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  Speaker 2: ahead of Olsen? No, because Olsen's in the rugged category.
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  Speaker 2: And that's your type? Yeah, Waller's more in the mob,
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  Speaker 2: but that guy, Fitty even acknowledged, Fitty was sweating next
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  Speaker 2: to this guy yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: You could put that man in an underwear catalog and
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't complain.
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  Speaker 4: This is the joint practice analysis you don't get elsewhere, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: And there might be a reason for that. You don't
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  Speaker 2: get this elsewhere. I was lost in his eyes yesterday
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  Speaker 2: when this guy was talking. Also, Mac, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: announce I'm officially retiring as of today. Retiring from interacting
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  Speaker 2: with bebop.
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  Speaker 5: I'm done.
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  Speaker 1: I'm out.
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  Speaker 2: I am completely out. Could be a good move. Bebop
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  Speaker 2: on the text line is like something that you get
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  Speaker 2: at Myrtle Beach and it never goes away.
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  Speaker 4: Could be a good move for your own health. Miss
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  Speaker 4: Sweet Cheeks also thinks I did Waller wrong. Says Mac
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  Speaker 4: was going to make sure Waller knew he was old.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just trying to do real talk with the man, baby.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just trying to do some real talk with this guy.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Let's do it.
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  Speaker 4: This is, by the way, this is a, remember the
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  Speaker 4: guy got mad yesterday, said we always read Bebop's text.
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  Speaker 2: This is a, I'm not reading any of Bebop's text. No,
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  Speaker 2: he's out. He's done. He's not blocked, but maybe he
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  Speaker 2: is blocked. I may read them tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: I just, today for me, it's just, it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be a day where we're going to talk over here
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  Speaker 4: at the adults table. And let's talk about this offense.
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  Speaker 4: How much are you concerned about the Carolina Panthers offense?
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  Speaker 4: We have 16 days, no, 17, 17 days until the
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  Speaker 4: season opener against Chicago. They had, again, somebody said, Mac,
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  Speaker 4: I thought you weren't going to overreact.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not overreacting.
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  Speaker 4: I'm telling you right now, it was an absolute mammoth
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  Speaker 4: beatdown of our offense. I thought the defense probably won
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  Speaker 4: the day slightly, my opinion, but I cannot describe it.
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  Speaker 4: I can't sugarcoat it. It was absolute demolition. It was
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  Speaker 4: like a car stop.
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  Speaker 2: All right, what a great day. And a train came
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  Speaker 2: through and you couldn't stop it, right? It was horrible.
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  Speaker 4: The pass protection on the outside was absolutely terrible. But
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  Speaker 4: it gives them some stuff, Bone. They've learned some stuff
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  Speaker 4: about their tackles and they've learned some stuff that they
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  Speaker 4: might have to do moving forward. But are you worried, Bone,
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  Speaker 4: about this offense?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I am. It's not just based off yesterday. It's
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  Speaker 2: the Buffalo beginning of that game. It's the joint session
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  Speaker 2: against Jacksonville. It's the first drive against Jacksonville. Look, it's
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  Speaker 2: still a simple size that is in the preseason and practice.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not like complete a thousand percent, oh my God, panic.
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  Speaker 2: But we've seen enough now where And we've seen enough
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  Speaker 2: of this offense in the past under Canales where it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't really feel right now, Mac, like this offense is
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  Speaker 2: going to get off to a fast start. And when
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  Speaker 2: you have a week one opponent that is the Bears
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  Speaker 2: that we know, is going to put up some points
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  Speaker 2: against every team they play with Ben Johnson and Caleb
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  Speaker 2: Williams at offense. I don't feel great right now about
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  Speaker 2: where this offense is heading into a game in week
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  Speaker 2: one in a couple weeks where they have to show
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  Speaker 2: up early in that game. They're not getting some offense
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  Speaker 2: they can go and win a game 16-13 against in
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  Speaker 2: week number one. No, that's the thing. You feel like
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  Speaker 2: they might have to put up some points. This has
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  Speaker 2: to be like a 31-27 type game. I'm worried about
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  Speaker 2: it right now.
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  Speaker 4: Good news is the Bears' defense bone was in the
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  Speaker 4: bottom five or so last year in the NFL. They've
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  Speaker 4: got injuries on that side of the ball, and that
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  Speaker 4: defense is nowhere near the Houston Texans.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the good news, right? But I think.
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  Speaker 4: Yesterday was a reminder to those of us that have
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  Speaker 4: thought Freeling's having a pretty solid camp, that he's a rookie,
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  Speaker 4: and no matter how talented he is, that mama said
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  Speaker 4: there'd be days like this and there will be. So
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  Speaker 4: I think that's definitely in your head. I was very
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  Speaker 4: surprised by Rasheed Walker because the pass protection is his
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  Speaker 4: strong point. The run blocking is something that you think
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  Speaker 4: is his weakness. You also have, you brought up the
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  Speaker 4: slow starts under Canales. I'll give you a number too.
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  Speaker 4: I'll put a number on it for you.
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  Speaker 5: In the.
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  Speaker 4: First two weeks of the season, so it's four total games, right?
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  Speaker 4: Two years for Canales, four-game sample. The Panthers average 11
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  Speaker 4: points a game. Their offense has started off so damn slow.
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  Speaker 5: All right, what a great day.
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  Speaker 4: And you see it a day like yesterday, and you're like,
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  Speaker 4: is it going to be another slow start? Now, I
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  Speaker 4: would remind everybody, we started very slow last year, lost
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  Speaker 4: our first two games and won the division.
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  Speaker 2: Right? We still play in the NFC South.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think we need to sort, like there are
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  Speaker 4: people on the text line freaking out, man, the season's,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think we need all that energy, but can
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  Speaker 4: we have like a nuanced conversation about our concerns about
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  Speaker 4: the offense?
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  Speaker 2: That's, I think we have to do that. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we could still think that the team will
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  Speaker 2: be similar to last year, but we thought that at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of the year, the offense would get off
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  Speaker 2: to a quicker start based off all the... progression the
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  Speaker 2: moves but right now it feels like they haven't made
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  Speaker 2: much progress at all in terms of how they're starting
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  Speaker 2: a season and that's a little frustrating honestly absolutely so
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  Speaker 2: send your text and i'm not worried about there are
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  Speaker 2: some people will read off the text later on from
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  Speaker 2: yesterday but this isn't like oh my god i'm long
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  Speaker 2: term worried about free link like look he oh no
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  Speaker 2: He's going to take his line. He's also playing the
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  Speaker 2: right side. He's going against a couple of beasts yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: We knew it would be a warning experience, but we
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  Speaker 2: didn't know, Mac, that like you and I, that Monroe
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  Speaker 2: Freeling may have trouble getting out of kindergarten, though. That
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  Speaker 2: was rough yesterday. That was an experience like you and
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  Speaker 2: I had. But here's the thing. But again, he's only
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  Speaker 2: going to benefit because.
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  Speaker 5: Of that yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: Here's the point that has to be said. I'm not
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  Speaker 4: sure we talked about it since the first hour. There
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  Speaker 4: are people texting about this. They're not game planning for
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  Speaker 4: a joint practice. They're also not really adjusting in a
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  Speaker 4: joint practice. Like a lot of texters are like, what's
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  Speaker 4: wrong with the coaches? Why didn't they adjust? Start giving
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  Speaker 4: them some help. Why didn't they start throwing screens? because
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  Speaker 4: you get the feeling bone. They wanted to really test
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  Speaker 4: their tackles against probably the best edge rush duo in
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  Speaker 4: the league and kind of see, okay, what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: Like it's the rare situation bone where Bryce can't get
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  Speaker 4: hit and you can totally test the tackles on islands.
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  Speaker 2: And they chipped a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Can Alice talked about that, but there certainly wasn't a
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  Speaker 4: lot of tight ends over there for help. So like
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  Speaker 4: now they know, right. Now they know what can happen.
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  Speaker 4: And I think, you know, Montez Sweat lines up, Bone.
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  Speaker 4: Last year, Sweat, the Bears' best edge rusher, lines up 83%
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  Speaker 4: of the time last season over the right tackle. So
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  Speaker 4: that's going to be Monroe's assignment. So now you see
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  Speaker 4: what kind of help you need and what kind of,
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  Speaker 4: you know, maybe we got to run more screen than
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  Speaker 4: we thought. So, like, I think that's the good part
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  Speaker 4: of this. from yesterday's practice.
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  Speaker 2: They're not attacking it as if they're trying to win
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  Speaker 2: a regular season game. They are, yes, they're trying to
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  Speaker 2: play well, but also it's, they're trying to see where
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  Speaker 2: What do they have to work on the next two
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  Speaker 2: weeks so they can go win games when they matter?
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  Speaker 2: So they're not sitting there calling timeouts and game planning
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  Speaker 2: and adjusting, and they're not chip-locking. I saw people yesterday saying,
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  Speaker 2: did they use tight ends? They're trying to figure out
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  Speaker 2: how far along Freeling is. They want to know what
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  Speaker 2: are the weaknesses. Because now, with the way this whole
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  Speaker 2: preseason sets up, Mac, there's a lot of time after
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  Speaker 2: the game tomorrow. There's a lot of time before the
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  Speaker 2: first game. It used to be pretty quick. Now, because
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  Speaker 2: they don't play as many games normally, In the preseason,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of time before week one. They want
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  Speaker 2: to know what is our biggest area of focus. the
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  Speaker 2: next two plus weeks. So when we go play the bears,
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  Speaker 2: we can make adjustments. It's not about winning yesterday. It's
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  Speaker 2: about winning week. Number 100%. That's what I'm saying. And like,
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  Speaker 2: it's to sink or swim. And if you sink, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to help you be able to swim in week one.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to know what we can do in order
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  Speaker 2: to help you and stuff like that. So I think
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  Speaker 2: that's got.
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  Speaker 4: To be mentioned here as well, but I would be
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  Speaker 4: lying if I came on and said, I'm not worried
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  Speaker 4: about this offense and possibly another slow start.
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  Speaker 2: I will say this, too.
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  Speaker 4: Montez Sweat's a pretty good edge rusher, and he will
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  Speaker 4: be on Freeling's side, it seems like, most of the
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  Speaker 4: time in Week 1. But Sweat Boney is the only
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  Speaker 4: edge rusher in the top 25 in sacks from last
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  Speaker 4: year that we play in the first three weeks. Miles
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  Speaker 4: Garrett was traded. Thank the Lord, hallelujah, for that. Because
• 11:34
  Speaker 4: we would have seen him bone in Week 2. And
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: we remember what— or Week 3. And we remember what he
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  Speaker 4: did to Icky in Icky's debut. Um, so you don't
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  Speaker 4: have to worry about him. Um, and then the Falcons bone,
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  Speaker 4: you don't have to worry about James Pierce. He's suspended.
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  Speaker 2: He won't play. They won't even have Walker either.
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  Speaker 4: So until you get to eight and Montez sweat in
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  Speaker 4: week one, eight and Hutchinson in week four, but weeks
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  Speaker 4: two and weeks three, Jared verse, I think was like 28th.
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  Speaker 4: In sacks last year, he's now on the Browns, came
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  Speaker 4: back in the trade for Garrett. So I do think, Bone,
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  Speaker 4: it's not a horrible start to the season in terms
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  Speaker 4: of edge rushers.
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  Speaker 2: Matt, we had something, a miracle happening on the text line.
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  Speaker 2: We had five straight texts. trying to be upbeat about
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  Speaker 2: yesterday there we go baby there we go it's just
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  Speaker 2: practice guys thanks for being logical uh trying to say
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: a lot of praise for houston and let's remember that
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  Speaker 2: that might be the number one defense in the league
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  Speaker 2: our streak got broken up though by weatherman mark oh
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  Speaker 2: no marky should i read it have we lost you
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  Speaker 2: mark i read it as mark yeah yeah good morning
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  Speaker 2: guys i'm getting worried about our panthers man.
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  Speaker 4: God, who wants to break it to Mark that not
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  Speaker 4: only did the Panthers' offense, first-team offense, look rough yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: but also the lovely Kelly Bardic said that she will
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  Speaker 4: not go out on a date with weatherman Mark. We
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  Speaker 4: tried to make that love connection yesterday, and she said no.
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  Speaker 4: She will not stop by the weather station. I just
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  Speaker 4: don't understand why not.
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  Speaker 2: Is it possible chicks don't dig the turbines? Is that possible, Bo? Well, boy,
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  Speaker 2: my date and wife's got a cold front. Oh, man.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, I'm glad some people are trying to keep it
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  Speaker 4: positive here. This texter says, is it just me or
• 13:19
  Speaker 4: are we not running the football at all? Jonathan Brooks
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  Speaker 4: hasn't done much except for a highlight here or there.
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  Speaker 2: He had a highlight yesterday, Fit.
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 4: On the pass where Bryce moved away from pressure, of course,
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  Speaker 4: and hit him downfield. He's really good in that. You
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  Speaker 4: get him on a linebacker bone, out of the backfield, wheeling.
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  Speaker 4: He's really good in that role. The running game yesterday
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  Speaker 4: felt like it was getting stuffed. It felt like we
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  Speaker 4: were stuffing their running game. I also think it's probably
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  Speaker 4: harder to run in those joint practices. I remember a
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  Speaker 4: guy I know that coaches O-line in high school would
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  Speaker 4: always say, it's o-line plays a mindset like when you're
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  Speaker 4: trying to do practice o-line play and you're trying to
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  Speaker 4: do like joint practice o-line play like it's not the
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  Speaker 4: same as when it's a game and it's like i'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna go obliterate that guy you know so i do
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  Speaker 4: think it's a little harder to run in these but
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  Speaker 4: yeah i don't think the first team offense has run
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  Speaker 4: great but i.
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  Speaker 2: Have in the preseason i have an observation slash question
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  Speaker 2: for you about that is that where icky's missed the
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  Speaker 2: most Like Walker can hold his own. I know yesterday
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  Speaker 2: was rough, but Walker can pass protect all right, but
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  Speaker 2: Icky's run blocking will be where he's missed the most. Definitely.
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  Speaker 2: That might show out early because of that. That could
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  Speaker 2: be what the issue there is. And Shuba's not been
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  Speaker 2: in there either.
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  Speaker 4: Whereas we thought we'd be better with Walker at pass pro.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, Walker was not all right in pass
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  Speaker 4: pro yesterday. Narrator, narrator. He was Rasheed Wallace yesterday. He
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  Speaker 4: was not okay yesterday in pass pro. But again, they
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  Speaker 4: were going against two absolute beastly fellas. Let's see what
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  Speaker 4: else is going on in the text line. Mac is
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  Speaker 4: freaking out. I knew it was going to happen. It's
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  Speaker 4: cracking me up. Another texter. Is it wrong that the
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  Speaker 4: fact that you guys are now worried and not cocky
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  Speaker 4: is actually a good thing to me? What do you
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  Speaker 4: think about that, Boney?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you're– I think that you're not in
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  Speaker 2: freak-out mode, but how– Concerned. You can't come in and
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  Speaker 2: be dancing a jig today after yesterday. Dancing a jig.
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  Speaker 2: You were watching both sides of the field yesterday. I
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  Speaker 2: came in there. You looked like you were– I was locked, baby.
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  Speaker 2: You were sweating buckets. You were worried but not freaking.
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  Speaker 5: Out, I'd say.
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  Speaker 4: Defense did a lot of good things, man, but I'm
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  Speaker 4: definitely concerned about the offense. I mean, look at their preseason, Boney.
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  Speaker 4: Five drives, seven points. That's not a great points per drive.
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  Speaker 4: So for the first team offense, this texter says, I
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't be as worried if we had preseason reps left
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  Speaker 4: for the first team offense. But of course, Dave doesn't
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  Speaker 4: want to make them work after that pathetic day on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't pathetic. He told us it's a great day.
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  Speaker 2: Great day. A fantastic day for Monroe. That's exactly All right.
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  Speaker 5: What a great day.
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  Speaker 2: Weatherman Mark has weighed in on the rejection of one
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  Speaker 2: Kelly Bardick. Oh, my God, my heart's broken. We tried, Marky.
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  Speaker 2: We tried, baby. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: All right, so give us a list of the other
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: celebrity ladies in Charlotte you have a crush on. You've
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: gone from Strode to Vashti, Kelly Bardic. Let us know
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: who else, and we will— Not Patty the Batty, though.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: That's Fitties. We will try to play Love Canary. Leave
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Fitties woman alone.
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: And, Mac, I felt like I sold Weatherman Mark really,
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: really well. Like, has a weather station, a cute dog
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: named Winston.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: You tried, man. You did try. Finney's had one date.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Now he's playing matchmaker with people. Yeah, Finney. You should
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: try this, Mark. Dating's fun. Finney's a guru now, baby.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: All right, man. Yesterday we had a great time with
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Nick Scott, Panther Safety, one of the best talkers on
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: the team. He's a leader. I really think getting to
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: know Nick Scott a little bit more will be fun
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: for the audience here.
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: Great dude.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: You'll hear him next. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. Welcome back, everybody.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: It is the Mack and Bone Show right here on
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: 92.7 WFNZ in Charlotte. Panthers camp is winding down, and
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: we've got to talk to a member of this defense
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: that fans are so excited about this season. He is
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Nick Scott, safety for your Carolina Panthers. Nick, thanks for
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: hanging with us, man.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: How are you doing?
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: No problem, man. Thanks for having me. I'm good. I'm excited.
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: Camp's winding down, like you said, so there's two parts
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: to that excitement. I'm happy to be here.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: I know it's not like a Spartanburg camp, like where
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: you're away, like that.
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: Hey, however you slice it up, man, camp is camp.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: It's a grind.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: You're still happy that it's done.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Your eyes lit up. You smiled when I said fans
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: are excited about this defense. I don't know if you
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: hear that, but it's additions like Phillips and Lloyd, and
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: it's the jump y'all made last year as a defense.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: internally are you guys kind of feeling like, yeah, we're
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: ready to make another jump?
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Like how do you feel about it?
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: I feel great, man. You guys are excited. We're excited.
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: We put the work in, and we got some great pieces,
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: some great pieces added to this defense from last year.
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: We got all the right guys. And even with those
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: new additions, everybody's really locked in on the system. There
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: hasn't been any drop-off in communication or understanding of the scheme.
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: So that's just going to propel our game because the
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: guys can still play fast.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: After one of the camp fights this year, you and
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Bryce had a long conversation.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: And we really marveled at your leadership in that moment there.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: How important is that for you, not just to be
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: an important piece to the defense, but to be a
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: vocal guy and a leader for this group as well?
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really important.
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: And, you know, it's not anything I try to force, but,
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: you know, wherever it's needed, I try to fill in
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: and be that voice. You know, we're a physical group.
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: And any team that you're on, you're going to have
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: those conversations that you need to have. We're pushing each
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: other every day. Some days it's 100 degrees out here,
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: so temperatures will flare up a little bit. But it's
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: all love, and it's all in the spirit of making
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: each other better day in and day out. And if
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: we have times where we've got to have some spillover
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: and communicate with one another and figure out what kind
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: of tempo we want to have, that's just what we do.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Sometimes we have radio fights. We might need you to
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: step in and help us out a little bit.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Hey, I'm a great mediator, man. I got a psych degree,
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: so you ever need me, call me. All right.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Your phone going to be on speed dial.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: As many times as we argue. It'll be like it's
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: 630 in the morning. What could they possibly be? How
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: are they screaming already? I love it, man. Hey, we
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: bring the intensity, just like y'all do on the field.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: It's a sign of a great relationship, man. All right.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: We're talking to Nick Scott, Panthers safety.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: So we were watching the joint practice, and it seems
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: like most of the media focus is on what Houston's
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: defense did.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, they got after Bryce.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: But I was watching a bunch of you guys, and
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: I thought there was a lot of good stuff from
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: you guys. How did you feel about how y'all fared
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: against Houston in that test?
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: I felt really good about it.
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: I mean, we got a great rush and great guys
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: in the back end and everything like that.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: It was a real good day with good work. Houston
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: made some plays. That's just part of the game.
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: But I really felt like we walked away and made
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: the plays that we were supposed to and did well
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: with the situations that we were presented with. Houston does
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: a really good job of getting the ball out fast
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: for whatever reason.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: You know, that's just their style.
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: A lot of short stuff. And, like, we're not tripping
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: off that, especially in the back end. You know, you
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: can dink and dunk all you want, but teams in
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: a game are going to get impatient. They're going to
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: start taking their shots. So as long as we stay
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: disciplined in the back end, we should be good. But
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: one thing that we never question on this team is guys'
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: toughness or want to. So that's the expectation. Guys came out.
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: We're hitting as usual. We're communicating and talking. So that's
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: all good, and we can always build off that.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: How special is this secondary room when you look at
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: the mix of stars like J.C. Horn, Merrick, we think
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: is one of the best in the game. You've got yourself.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: You've got Mike Jack. You've also got young guys. How
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: good of a room is this right now for the secondary?
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: I think it's as good of a room as I've
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: been a part of. Just the guys that you mentioned
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: and I think what's so special about the group is
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: not necessarily just the talent, but just the way that
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: we work and play off one another. You know, we
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: truly have good relationships. We enjoy each other. We enjoy
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: spending time with one another. And that does two things
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: for you. It just builds off the camaraderie, and it
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: allows you to have tough conversations with guys. So there's
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: not one guy in the room that can't be challenged
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: by another, and that's all because there's a mutual respect
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: with one another for each other's craft, and we all.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: Care about it deeply.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: What's it like playing for Coach Avero? Because he's a
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: guy that, you know, he'll be a hot-button guy with
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: fans sometimes. Like, end of the Saints game, oh, my,
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: why aren't we blitzing? End of the Rams playoff game.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: You know, things like that. But that's easy for us
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: to say on our couches or whatever. Like, what's he
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: like as a coach? And how do you feel about schematically? Like,
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: what are the strengths, things that we don't see as
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: a fan schematically?
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: I think he's great to play for, man. He's so smart.
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: Just with his understanding of the game and how offenses
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: are trying to attack us. You know, I try not
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: to give too much away from a schematic standpoint, but
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: I think his greatest strength that people see with just
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: the guys who make plays is he is so good
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: at identifying what somebody's strong suit is and putting them
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: in that position to shine. I don't know too many guys,
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: too many coaches out there that would have Trey Merrick
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: in as many positions as he was in last year,
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: and he thrived in it, right? He's a physical safety
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: that can play up on the line of scrimmage, and
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: just talking to Trey last year and learning him, he's like, man,
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: I never played this type of game. Like, when I
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: was over there, I was in the back end, and
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: I didn't even know I was really a box safety.
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: It's like, he does a great job of identifying players
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: and putting them in a position to be successful, which
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: is why, you know, we had guys that really showed
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: up last year and had good seasons, so that's just
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: a testament to his football character and knowledge and his
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: attention to detail when it comes to his roster.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: That's a good call.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: I don't think, Bone, people talk enough about the creativity
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: of using him as a chess piece.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: It's more about the results that people react to and
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: not necessarily the reason why things happen. So you're a
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Penn State guy. Yes, sir. Drop in a we are, Mac,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: for me. We are, baby.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: We are, Penn State.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: But you're also a Fairfax, Virginia guy as well, right?
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: That's true. So James Franklin goes Virginia Tech.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: How excited should that fan base be for the country?
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: I think they should be extremely excited. James Franklin is
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: a guy, he knows good ball, he knows good players.
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: He's going to get the right guys in Virginia Tech.
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: Virginia Tech has all the pieces to build a strong
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: program that should be competing for an ACC championship every year.
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: So I'm not worried about them. Those fans should be
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: extremely excited. He's a great coach. I had a great
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: time with him, and I was sad to see him go.
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: I still bleed blue, but I'll be rooting a little
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: bit for the Hokies for sure.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Hey, man. But Matt Campbell, though, baby.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: We're the Cyclones East with all the guys he brought.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Plus the schedule. Have you peaked that schedule yet?
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: I like that one.
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: It's definitely a nice introduction into the Big Ten for Campbell, man.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: I'm excited about him, too.
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: The thing I love about him, just with the glimpses
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: I've seen, is just how he interacts with every position,
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: every side of the ball. and is able to talk
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: about the game with each person and give them tips.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: So it's apparent that he's just a.
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: Ball guy and that his knowledge of the game is
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: extensive past the offensive side of the ball. He can
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: talk to defensive guys, D-line, linebacker, DBs, all that stuff.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: All around, Coach. One more quick question. Is Excel a
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: trash talker out there? When Excel's out there, is he
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: talking trash, or is it kind of like we have
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: no idea what he just said?
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: I don't know. If he is talking trash, I can't
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: understand it.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: It wouldn't be very effective.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: Exactly. You just kind of nod and go back to
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: the huddle.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Okay, last. I swear this is my last one. You
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: asked your last one. I'm going to ask my last one.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: Y'all got as many as you.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, we're good? Okay, we're good.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: I'm starting to get a little tired.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: It's been a long day. You were talking about the
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: way Coach E used Merrick.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Well, it brought up the thought of the experimentation with
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: JC in the slot.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: So far this year. What does, like, how does that
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: look so far? Are we good enough on the outside
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: to where, hey, Will Lee or CSW or somebody can
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: hold it down outside? And what are the benefits of
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: JC being inside like that?
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: Well, I think the first benefit of JC being in
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: the slot is just a different feel and a different
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: perspective of the game. Anytime you can move a guy
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: and have them see the game a little bit different,
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: it's only going to help them when they go back
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: home to their normal spot. So he's growing his knowledge
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: of the game schematically and understanding what the guys around
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: him are going to be doing and how he can
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: work off his leverage and things like that, getting that
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: nickel roll. As far as guys that have been outside,
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: there's been a plethora of guys that have been rotating in,
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: and they've been doing a great job. I think you
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: guys have seen Shaw Smith-Wade showing up in the past
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: couple weeks and just his abilities. He's just a football
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: guy and a natural. Will Lee has come in and
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: done everything that we've asked him to do from a
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: rookie standpoint. He's continued to get better and make plays
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: on the ball. So regardless of where eight is at,
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: I think we got a good number of guys.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: Corey Thornton is another guy.
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: I mean, if that's an active competition between those three guys,
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: they've been making it really hard on the coaches. We
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: feel like we got some guys who can come in
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: and play any position and they're doing a really nice job.
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: So wherever those guys are at, I'm going to do
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: my best to just talk to them and communicate at
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: a high level so they can play calm and do
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: their thing. And I'm confident with those guys, whoever's on
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: the field, we're going to play some good ball.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: All right, awesome, man.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Is that your final question? I swear, I'm not lying.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: That was my final. Although I think he wanted more.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: I think he wanted more.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: That's a great question. I could do this all day, man.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: I was going to bring up, wait, we're close friends
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: with J.J. Jansen.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: Okay, yeah.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: We haven't asked anything. Do you ever look at J.J.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: and think, like, man, that guy's been around a long time?
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, man.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: He was doing this when Joe Paul was up at State.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's insane, man. He's definitely an old guy. He's
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: got a lot of wisdom. A lot of wisdom behind
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: those eyes.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Like an old owl, we say.
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: Like an old owl, and he's got some great wisdom,
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: some great information, whether you want it or not, because
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: he is a talker. I know if you know him well,
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: you know that.
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: I see him sometimes talking to somebody and be like, hey, man,
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: blink if you need help. But J.J., he's a great dude, man.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: He's a great presence in the locker room.
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: Anytime you can have somebody that's– been around since the
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: nfl got started uh.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: It just it helped it helps big time that is
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: hilarious we picture him doing like a general talk show
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: in the locker room you know oh yeah very ex-guests
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: all right you're my guest now let's talk about it
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: but he's got a whole set and a couch and
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: yeah that's the way it should be.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: That's a great idea man you we should set something
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: up a mic.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: For him and everything locker room talks in The Today
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Show with J.J.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Jansen.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: The news of the day.
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: The only twist is you don't ever get to know
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: whether or not you're going to be a guest.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: He just selects you.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Just springs it on you. And when you're a guest,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: you don't talk.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: Exactly. Just let him talk. You nod and smile.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Have you ever been on Car Talk or no?
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: I haven't been on Car Talk, so I got a
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: little bit of a quarrel with him with that. He's
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: got to get me on Car Talk. Me and him,
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: we got some natural back and forth. I might try
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: to call a.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Game with him at some point. Has he been doing
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Car Talk? Have I seen it? I haven't seen a
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: cart talk in camp yet. I haven't seen one.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: I'll get on him, man. We got, what, two more
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: days to do it before the game?
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: He better get after it. Forget about that long snapping stuff.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: He's going to be riding around everywhere.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: Exactly. We'll make it happen.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Nick Scott from your Carolina Panthers. That's great. We'll pick
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: it outside his house if we have to to get
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: you on cart talk.
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: Oh, man, I'll be out there with you.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Okay, good to hear. All right, man, good meeting you,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: and best of luck this year.
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: Thanks, guys, man. Happy to be on.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: All right, man, it's awesome.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: That is Nick Scott's great personality, really one of the guys, Bone,
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: that is one of those, you know.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Leaders in the locker room, right?
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: You know, on the defense side of the ball, we
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: talked to him about him and Bryce and Mary getting
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: together and hashing out that real physical practice the one day.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: It just seems like a great dude, man. And we're
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: getting a lot of texts, you know, because fans are
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: rough on him, man. Two years ago, he had a rough,
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: rough year. And fans are rough on him. We're getting
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: a lot of texts from people that are like, man,
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: I never realized how cool of a guy he is.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: So that was cool to see that side of Nick Scott.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: He's a guy that you want to see succeed. Like
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: you want him to find success. A level of success.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: You know that off the field, Mac, whether it's coaching, talking,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: that dude's got a future that's bright as hell. Definitely.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Speaking of bright futures, Fitty Marlowe with an update. That's right.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: What a segue, baby. What a segue. Daddy, what's up, baby?
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: What you got over there?
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: It's all right to be a little Fitty. In a
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: little hometown or a big old city. Might as well share,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: might as well smile. Life goes on for a little Fitty. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: One final time.
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• 30:39
  Speaker 6: Someone that may have to call in for help. South
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: Carolina quarterback, Lenoris Sellers.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: What happened? He loses internship at the golf course? He's
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: not hurt, is he?
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: Was pouring over the ESPN list of the top 100
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: players for the 2026 season. 18 quarterbacks listed. Not mention
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: the quarterback of South Carolina.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Not mention in what? All 100? That is correct. So,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: hold on. They listed 100 players, and he is not
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: ranked in the top 100 entering the season. Uh-oh, bone.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: You're telling me that there's at least 18 quarterbacks. Who
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: knows where they put him, ultimately. There's 18 quarterbacks better
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: than him.
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: According to ESPN.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: That's just simply we've gone way too far. I'm glad
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: that he's not on there from the simple standpoint of
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: motivation and to prove the doubters wrong. But, Matt, we
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: have gone way too far in the narrative on Sellers.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Last year, I admit, like, obviously, the way it went, yeah,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: he did get overhyped. He didn't play up to that standard.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: But now he's not a top 100 player. That's a
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: little bit ridiculous.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: Improved O-line. Kendall Bryles at OC. Chip on his shoulder.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: I agree. That's crazy.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: And by the way, it's kind of weird because, yeah,
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: some people, Bone, are kind of sleeping on cellars after
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: last year.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: But there's plenty of dudes. Jordan Reed, McShea.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: They've all talked about how high he could still go
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: in the draft and the big year that he could
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: have this year. So I'm pretty damn shocked by that one.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: The best thing was.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: The Arizona quarterback is on there. He's good. I'm not
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: trying to knock those guys, but there's comparable guys. You got.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: All right. Is that in their situation with the Sacramento
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: offensive line last year? Not all those guys would be
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: on that list. Oh, no, not at all.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: I mean, he went through he basically went through all
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: year what Bryce went through yesterday.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: By the way, the best part, though, when when Bone
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: found out about this off the air was when he says, clearly,
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: surely they've forgotten about him. Bone going to send a
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: text to the writer. I just want to remind you,
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: I know this.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Is just an oversight. It was Max Olson of ESPN.com.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Send him a text, man. Clearly he just forgot. I'm
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: going to text for a guest spot here so I
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: can really give this guy the old one-two. The old
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: how's your father? Isn't that an oil change? I guess
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: that's not it. I'm not giving out free oil changes.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: When we come back, random crap. ESPN makes a controversial decision.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: What is a fart corner? Oreo and chicken collabs seem
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: to be all the rage. And, Mac, we're getting leg-breaking
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: news that Finney may have turned his back on us
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: yesterday with something. Uh-oh. And it hurts. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Random crap, random crap. Mac and Bone talk, random crap.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Random crap, random crap. Mac and Bone talk, random crap. Random,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: random crap. Random crap, random crap.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: What the deuce? Oh, crap. Oh, crap. We stink. like
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: a baby's blowout infested diaper. They talk about crap that
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: is random. It's the Queen City's favorite born in tandem.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Mack and Bone. Random crap. Mack and Bone.
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: All right, let's do it, y'all.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: Let's get ourselves some random crap. Let's have some fun
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: here with some stories. You're going to hear, by the way,
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: our conversation. We did all these interviews yesterday after the
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: joint practice over there at camp.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: And I love talking to all these guys. A.J.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: Dillon, a fan favorite for the way he's embraced Charlotte.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: and his running style. He's going to join us top
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: of the hour, 9 o'clock, so stay tuned for that.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Random crap. Seeing his quads next to yours was really something.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Two great athletes when they were in their primes. Two
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: men that are just built different.
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: A little bit.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Made my legs look like fingers. You know what I mean? Seriously.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: Now, Fitty, though, he did appreciate Fitty's quad game. Yeah,
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: game respects game yesterday. By the way, speaking of Fitty,
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: so Chris in Huntersville has told on you, Fitty, and
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: I believe this is, I believe yesterday you pulled a
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: Palachuk is the best way I could put it. Don't
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: say you pulled a Wilkie.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: I don't care! He sucks! You don't want to say
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: that on the radio.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: I think I did.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: I think the way I did it's best. The whole
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: world yesterday loving on Dolly Parton. Literally everybody politically, religiously, racially,
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: like everybody just agreed.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: What an awesome woman. What a talented woman.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: What a woman with a heart of gold that did
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: so many great things for so many people. And then
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: Fitty apparently takes a shot at Dolly Parton.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Goes after her catalogs.
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: On Wes and Walker yesterday. Fitty, why are you blasting
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Dolly Parton, sir?
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: Well, look, I want to make it very clear. Dolly Parton,
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: the person, not going to. I mean, Mac, it's Jesus,
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: Dolly Parton, like two of the best people to walk
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: the face of the earth.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: So why do you do this? Because we. One day
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: after her passing. Because the.
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: Two hip hop guys wanted to talk about her music.
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: And all I said was, I know she's got iconic songs.
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: I love her iconic songs. I played them yesterday. But
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: once you get through like her top three or four songs,
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: I'm good. Like for me, I don't view her as
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: someone that like when I, if she pops up on
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: the playlist, unless it's nine to five, Jolene. I'll always
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: love you. I'm probably hitting skip.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: She has 25 No. 1 hits. I know what she has.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: You're making it about Dolly just the musician, and she
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: was so much more, though. So you're going through her catalog,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: and it's like, yeah, I mean— Because they were trying.
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: To tell me they knew her music better than I.
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: They've never listened to— so did Flounder. Flounder thought Luke Combs
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: invented the genre of country music. Like, I grew up on—
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: I'm a white guy from the South, born in Tennessee.
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: I know all about Dolly Parton's music.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: It doesn't sound like you really appreciate it.
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: Her top three or four are iconic.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: But to me, yes, the discussion. She is an icon.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: The discussion about her. I'm talking about her music, though. Oh, dear.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Not hers. She's a great person. The person passes away,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: and you're the guy that calls them overrated immediately.
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: They asked me my thoughts on her music.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Not on her as an individual, but her whole thing
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: is about her being more than music. Actress, philanthropist. I mean,
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: she's Dolly.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't crap on her. Fitty, when you live
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: a life where you can be known worldwide as just
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: your first name, I'm sorry, man.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: That's special.
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: Fitty's getting destroyed on the text line right now. Why
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: couldn't you focus on the positives, Fitty? That's what I'm saying.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: It's one day after her passing.
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: They asked me my thoughts on her music.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: You deaf imbecile.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: I don't think you handled it correctly. This is the
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: most Fitty backlash I've seen in a couple days. People
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: are now rooting for your love life to fail, Fitty.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: It probably will. You're getting bashed so bad. Oh, my gosh.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: People are just questioning your timing of just kind of
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: analyzing that.
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: Timing.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: Not to mention she has 11 Grammys and 25 number
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: one hits.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: But Fitty thinks she's got four songs. By the way.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: And why would you say that?
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: You're so well versed in her music.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Get out of here.
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: When we celebrated her yesterday, why did you say anything?
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: Thank God he didn't. Thank God he saved this for
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: another show.
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: I was playing those songs that I love. I love
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: those songs that I played.
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: Thank God he saved this for another show. Anyway, let's
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: move on. Let's move on to some more enjoyable fare.
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: Big Cat John agreed with Fitty.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: You going to read that text? You pick out the
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: one guy to like 50. Casey agrees with Fitty.
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: Clint Tickleman, I agree with Fitty.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Casey from Cherryville, I agree with Fitty. You going to
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: read those texts, dumbass? If Clint Tickleman, what'd you call it?
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: What'd you say?
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: I asked Maggie, was you going to read those texts?
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Here's the thing, though.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: Okay, you agree with Fitty about her music. Would you
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: have said it, sir, on a radio show less than
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: 24 hours after her passing?
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: I was asked a question.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: Was I not supposed to answer the question?
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: No, you're supposed to. There's a better way to answer
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: that question. Okay.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: But that would involve class, not ass. And that's not
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: your specialty. Sir, you can go sit in the corner
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: with Willie and John Sterling. Yeah, you pulled a palace.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Dee Hancock.
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: That's what Willie did to John Sterling.
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: All right, let's get some fun stuff in here.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: I won this argument. No, you did not. There's no argument.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: There's no argument. You're a sad human. Finney's a moron.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're skipping over the good text. You are
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: a sad human, Finney. All right, let's continue here, man.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: You know what? I'm not mad at you. I'm disappointed, Finney.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: That's all. Sorry, Dad. Just disappointed that my radio son
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: went and did that bone. Behind our back. You know?
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: All right. What else do we have? have here? Oh,
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: we've got the video.
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: The police video of Jed York getting arrested for responding
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: to a prostitution ad in Ohio. Why did they have
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: to put this video out? And he's wearing a Yankees t-shirt.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Why? That is so funny. Why? You own your own
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: pro sports franchise, and you're wearing one that's 3,000 miles away.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: I don't understand. this. Why am I yelling? I don't know.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: This is wrong, man. Another moment. Did someone say we're
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: going to put a different team on? Another moment where
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: a Yankee fan... represents the fan base the way many
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: of them do. There are plenty of Yankee fans that
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: could do that on the road, sir. And they probably have,
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: all right?
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: The best part of this story is, of course, he
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: got pulled over in that Ohio trailer park, but the
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: Ohio trailer park wanted to make sure it was known
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: that he was not meeting the prostitute here. That stuff
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: does not happen in our fine neighborhood. they were like
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: trying to clear it up this dirt ball was not
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: coming to our place for that just got pulled over
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: here uh what about the backlash uh you think people
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: are angry at fitty over his timing of his dolly
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: parton comments how about the backlash yesterday bone when it
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: was announced that espn will no longer have the ticker
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: for scores up during their college football coverage Are you
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: kidding me? Like, with as many games as are played
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: on College Football Saturday, that is the number one day to.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Have a ticker for people. Yeah, and I know that
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: they don't put it up for specialized events like the
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Stanley Cup finals, NBA finals. There's not as much to–
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's stuff going on, but not as much
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: to care about. College Football Saturday, there's a million things
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: going on. It's the busiest. You see the color flash,
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: and you– oh, my God, there's a score in there. Mac,
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: I have a theory on why ESPN chose to do this.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Ready for this one? We know that they're always at
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: war with Fox Sports and the other college football carriers.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: I think that ESPN, I have not read this, but
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: this is my theory. I think ESPN, Mac, doesn't want
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: to show the scores for, say, Ohio State, Penn State,
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: the early games, Penn State, Michigan. They don't want to
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: flash up that score. And if it's close, you're going
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: to go jump to that game from, if you're a
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: one-screen person, they want your eyeballs on the ESPN family network.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: That's definitely possible. I think they're trying to keep it
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: into their own. That's definitely possible. The updates will come
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: up on the screen, like studio updates, but I don't
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: think they want to show you what's going on on
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: the Fox games.
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: So you don't go to one of the other games.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: They don't want you to jump to the big new
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: kickoff game. It's possible because their explanation was to free
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: up more on-screen real estate. That ticker's not large. Or
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: for a cleaner presentation. It's like, no, it's fine. The
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: presentation is fine.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Did you see the meme yesterday? It was just what
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: their new ticker is. It's all Pat McAfee news at
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: the bottom.
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: There you go. Put all that down there, man. What's
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: McAfee's latest? Does McAfee have a number one hit single? Finney,
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: you want to say McAfee's better country, more talented country
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: artist than Dolly?
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: Nope. Willie's now upset. Why? What happened? Don't compare Dolly
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Parton to John Sterling. She's more talented than he was yesterday.
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: Oh, Willie's still going in on Starling.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: That's baseball, Susan.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: You know where we're going to send you for your
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: Dolly slander and the timing of it?
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: Hopefully home.
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: We're going to send you to a Georgia elementary school,
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: all right, where teacher Candy Sidney Browning says that she
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: has a designated corner called the fart corner. where students
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: can go if they need to pass gas so they
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: don't do it in other parts of the classroom where
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: everybody else is trying to learn.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: Finney, I sentence you.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: To a full school day in this Georgia elementary school's
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: fart corner, sir.
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: Better than spending four hours with you.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Did you say, Mac, what the name of the corner was?
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: So bitter, man. The gas station.
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: I thought it was just the fart corner. No, it's
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: nicknamed the gas station.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: The gas station. Oh, man.
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: Mac would never leave class anymore. He'd be in there
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: for years. I would not be in my seat at all.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: I would be over in the corner. They would move
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: my seat to the fart corner. That's what they would
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: do with my gas issues. They would hold your graduation
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: ceremony in the corner.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, God. Finney's bitter, isn't he? Finney upset, man. He
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: needs to call his new girl, Jolene, today and see
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: what's going on. Oh, God.
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: Don't even let your girl know the way you talked
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: about Dolly today.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Finney's tired, Mac, from working 9 to 5 yesterday. We
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: talked about it on the date.
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: I delivered a hot take on the date.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: When we... First Serena Williams, now this. When we.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: When we come back, our first conversation with Quadzilla himself. A.J.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: Dillon joined us yesterday. You will hear that about him
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: having a bigger role in the past game than we thought,
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: his journey to Charlotte, his love of Charlotte, and much more.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Don't miss Quadzilla. A.J. Dillon next. Sports Radio 92.7.