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Mac & Bone Hour 3: College Football Confidence · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, oh, oh, it's Mac and Bo on your radio, baby.
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  Speaker 1: This is my friend Matt.
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  Speaker 2: Posh, come on, Posh.
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  Speaker 1: This is my friend T-Bone.
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  Speaker 3: Let's have some fun.
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  Speaker 4: I can't go to work without listening to Mac and Bone.
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  Speaker 2: Do it live.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to tell you, we're going to see Mississippi
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  Speaker 5: State upset South Carolina on the road. It's a dual threat.
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  Speaker 1: Dual.
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  Speaker 5: You have two of the best quarterbacks in the country
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  Speaker 5: in Kamario Taylor and Lenora Sellers. I think it's going
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  Speaker 5: to be an awesome game. It's an underrated game. People
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  Speaker 5: are not talking about it as much this weekend. But
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  Speaker 5: Kamario Taylor has been something of a revelation. Talk to
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  Speaker 5: Jeff Lebby this week. He's from like a half hour
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  Speaker 5: outside of Starkville. He's a hometown kid, and it means
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  Speaker 5: so much more for him to do this.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously.
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  Speaker 5: he can run it. But he's also the SEC's leading
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  Speaker 5: passer right now. He is a human highlight reel, as
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  Speaker 5: is Lenora Sellers, and I think Mississippi State is going
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  Speaker 5: to win this duel, and they're going to be ranked
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  Speaker 5: in the AP poll come Sunday for the first time
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  Speaker 5: since 2022.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 6: Nicole, our back. Gamecock Bone going to get mad at
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  Speaker 6: you like he did me earlier this week.
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  Speaker 2: No, she just made the list of all the others.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay.
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  Speaker 6: I just wanted to make sure you were keeping a
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  Speaker 6: list and not just hold it against me.
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  Speaker 2: Let me call A-U-E-R. Okay, got it. Oh, man, what
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  Speaker 2: a juicy freaking game.
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  Speaker 6: Even the national people, even when Lane Kiffin's back at
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  Speaker 6: Ole Miss, the national people are recognizing that 4-15 game,
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  Speaker 6: Sellers versus Taylor, a quarterback, that thing is a game
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  Speaker 6: to watch, too. And it is time for college football confidence.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to check in with D. Orlando Ledbetter, who
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  Speaker 6: covers the Atlanta Falcons in Atlanta. We're going to check
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  Speaker 6: in and discuss... Their whole situation, the quarterback situation, the
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  Speaker 6: defense without those edge rushers. We'll get into all of it,
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  Speaker 6: which actually played pretty well last week, in fairness. We'll
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  Speaker 6: talk about it all coming up at 825. But you
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  Speaker 6: know we've got to talk about your game, Bone. You
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  Speaker 6: know we've got to talk about Clemson and UNC. Charlotte
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  Speaker 6: app is something we got to start talking about this hour.
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  Speaker 6: We have not talked a ton about it this week,
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  Speaker 6: but it's a juicy, you know, in-state game. And then
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  Speaker 6: you also have the Wolfpack trying to do something they
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  Speaker 6: normally don't do, which is win non-conference games on the road.
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  Speaker 2: Against power four teams.
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  Speaker 6: It has been 24 years since they've done that. And
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  Speaker 6: anybody else, if we got LSU and Ole Miss fans,
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  Speaker 6: if we have any other fan base, this is your
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  Speaker 6: time to tell us, are you feeling confident?
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  Speaker 2: And we'll shout you out.
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  Speaker 6: We'll read a bunch of these. But these games, Bone,
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  Speaker 6: that I mentioned are all real juicy. and I'm wondering
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  Speaker 6: how much confidence fan bases have out there.
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  Speaker 2: 704-570-9610. It seems like you're not alone, Bone.
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  Speaker 6: It feels like Gamecock fans in general got ticked at
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  Speaker 6: me this week when I said, man, I am.
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  Speaker 2: I'm fearing y'all are going to lose this game.
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  Speaker 6: Kamario Taylor looks like he is special. And it feels
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  Speaker 6: like Gamecock fans really bowed up against me this week.
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  Speaker 6: It seems like y'all, in general, kind of feel like,
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  Speaker 6: go ahead and talk that talk, national media.
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  Speaker 7: Well, here's the thing. I am not downplaying how much
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  Speaker 7: better Mississippi State is this year, that they're a factor,
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  Speaker 7: that their quarterback is great. I'm not saying this is
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  Speaker 7: not a challenge.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 7: But, Mac, how many people have we heard that cover
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  Speaker 7: college football this week put the Gamecocks on upset alert?
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  Speaker 7: How many alerts can you put out there that they're
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  Speaker 7: on an alert before it's no longer really an upset
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  Speaker 7: besides the three-point point spread? Yes, it's a tough game,
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  Speaker 7: but the amount of people that have picked Mississippi State
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  Speaker 7: and they act like they're all of a sudden the
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  Speaker 7: 2019 LSU Tigers.
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  Speaker 2: Like, let's slow down here. I know South Carolina.
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  Speaker 7: Wasn't great against Towson last week, but I also don't
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  Speaker 7: think they fully unleashed the Kendall Bryles offense yet either.
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  Speaker 7: He's going to be in his bag. I think so
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  Speaker 7: many people. have talked about Mississippi State being an upset team.
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  Speaker 7: The Gamecocks are in trouble. I think it's one of
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  Speaker 7: those weeks where that works against Mississippi State. The attention
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  Speaker 7: is had by the Gamecocks. It's already the first SEC game.
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  Speaker 7: You know Williams-Brice is going to be an electric factory there.
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  Speaker 7: But I think there's been so much chatter about Mississippi State,
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  Speaker 7: they're not sneaking up in this game. The Gamecocks are
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  Speaker 7: not taking them lightly. I think all the hype of
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  Speaker 7: Mississippi State backfires against them At Williams-Brice. I actually think
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  Speaker 7: the Gamecocks win 34-24.
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  Speaker 6: You think they win by double digits? That would be
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  Speaker 6: extremely impressive. Yeah, I'm curious with Gamecocks' confidence. And, like,
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  Speaker 6: on the flip side with Clemson, it seems like Clemson
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  Speaker 6: fans have no confidence. Like, when you say— They apparently
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  Speaker 6: have no phone to text either. When you— When you
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  Speaker 6: say Mississippi State, this offense averages 50 points a game
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  Speaker 6: at 620 yards per game, and Kamario Taylor could be
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  Speaker 6: a low-key Heisman candidate, like Gamecock fans push back, right?
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  Speaker 6: What about sellers? What about our defense? What about getting
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  Speaker 6: Dylan Stewart back? Clemson fans, I don't even know, do
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  Speaker 6: Clemson fans even want to beat North Carolina? I'm almost wondering, Bone,
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  Speaker 6: if Clemson fans are turning so much on Dabo, do
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  Speaker 6: they want to lose these games? Do they feel like
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  Speaker 6: we'd be better off just completely stinking and then you
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  Speaker 6: really want to Did.
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  Speaker 7: Clemson fans, Finney, have not only lost juice, say juice
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  Speaker 7: for a cell phone, they've gone completely dead on the battery.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: There's very little pulse of Clemson. Have you had interactions, Finney,
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  Speaker 7: this week with Clemson fans?
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  Speaker 2: Not a whole lot.
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  Speaker 6: How good do you feel about the Heels winning? Now
• 5:55
  Speaker 6: the off-the-field stuff... I'd feel.
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  Speaker 3: Better if CJ Sadler was going to be involved in
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  Speaker 3: the game plan.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: That does hurt, man.
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  Speaker 4: But, Mac, I.
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  Speaker 3: I'm salivating at the thought. Freshman quarterback, first-ever home start.
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  Speaker 3: The way our defensive line is playing, even if Mel
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  Speaker 3: Cart's going to be compromised, you got him, Harvey, Lewis,
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  Speaker 3: Leroy Jackson's been underrated. Isaiah Johnson's been really, really good.
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  Speaker 3: I think Bill Belichick, if they can put what happened
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  Speaker 3: yesterday behind them and just focus on the football of
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  Speaker 3: it all, I think they can make life hell for them.
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  Speaker 3: It's not going to be a pretty game. It's not
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  Speaker 3: going to be a game that you would want to show.
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  Speaker 3: If you're trying to introduce someone to college football, maybe
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  Speaker 3: watch South Carolina in the Mississippi State game.
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  Speaker 4: Because this game could be like 17-13.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be a grinder.
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  Speaker 4: But I am here for it.
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  Speaker 7: This is going to be a slobber knocker. I think
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  Speaker 7: 17-13 range is what I'm thinking, too.
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  Speaker 1: 100%.
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  Speaker 2: Feels like an under game. Big time.
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  Speaker 7: I'm picking Clemson, but I'm not by any means shocked
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  Speaker 7: if it's the reverse.
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  Speaker 2: The UNC wins 17-13. It's in that area.
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  Speaker 6: I honestly think both underdogs are going to win these
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  Speaker 6: two games we've been talking about. I honestly think Carolina's
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  Speaker 6: going to win and Mississippi State's going to win.
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  Speaker 2: I hope I'm wrong about the Mississippi State one. I
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  Speaker 2: really do.
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  Speaker 6: Lenores Sellers and those receivers have to play better. Lenores
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  Speaker 6: was 10 of 23 against stinking Towson, but those receivers
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  Speaker 6: dropped a lot of passes, including Nick Harbor.
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  Speaker 2: As far as the Tar Heels go, I.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: Are they both too trendy? Are they both too trendy
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  Speaker 6: of an upset pick, Bone, to have them both hit?
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  Speaker 6: I am so stuck on Clemson's offense and their offensive line. Bone,
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  Speaker 6: they've given up 21 tackles for loss, the most in
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  Speaker 6: college football, through two weeks. They have 37 yards before
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  Speaker 6: contact on runs.
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  Speaker 2: In two games. That's it. The running back's got to
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  Speaker 2: do it all on their own, man.
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  Speaker 6: And they are 124th in sack rate.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they have been.
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  Speaker 6: And then up front on defense, other than Will Helt,
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  Speaker 6: who the hell's getting it done? They're 136 in pressure
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  Speaker 6: rate on defense, despite having the 11th highest blitz rate.
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  Speaker 6: So they're blitzing a ton and still not getting any pressure.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not saying– And the.
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  Speaker 7: Mystique of– I know they were talking about it this week,
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  Speaker 7: the coaching staff. The mystique is also gone of Clemson. Matt,
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  Speaker 7: when you're going to Death Valley for a number of years,
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  Speaker 7: you had no chance. You were beaten as soon as
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  Speaker 7: that bus pulled up and they ran down that hill.
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  Speaker 7: You just– teams just peed down their leg and it
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  Speaker 7: was over. But– There's no longer, I don't think there's
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  Speaker 7: a fear anymore of going into that place either.
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  Speaker 2: Teams hang in games. They win there. The mystique of
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  Speaker 2: Death Valley is also gone, right? Absolutely.
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  Speaker 6: And our point about the fans, if Clemson gets down
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  Speaker 6: early in this game, how do you think it's going
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  Speaker 6: to sound in that stadium?
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  Speaker 2: That was quiet. I was being quiet.
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  Speaker 6: I would go as far as to say you will
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  Speaker 6: hear groaning and you will hear some booing. I just
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  Speaker 6: feel like the Clemson fan base bone is ready to
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  Speaker 6: turn in stadium. I feel like there was some grumbling
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  Speaker 6: last week from the fans and some displeasure last week
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  Speaker 6: against georgia southern um so i don't know man um
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  Speaker 6: this dude let's see here 7045709610 myron myron says 1310
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  Speaker 6: clemson you know he can't he can't allow himself bone
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  Speaker 6: to pick his star heels no he's like he must
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  Speaker 6: be i think he's superstitious or something this dude said
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  Speaker 6: i'm a clemson fan we're gonna get routed in this game.
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  Speaker 7: I That feels a little over the top. I don't
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  Speaker 7: think there's a route. I don't think there's a route
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  Speaker 7: on either. This is not a route game. Is Carolina
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  Speaker 7: going to score a ton of points either?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 6: But I do think Edwards will protect the ball. And
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  Speaker 6: I worry about, like, Tate Reynolds is going to be
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  Speaker 6: awesome moving forward eventually. Is he going to be awesome
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  Speaker 6: against Belichick's scheme? I have a question for you about
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  Speaker 6: the game, Cox.
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  Speaker 2: This is a.
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  Speaker 7: legitimate like i'm curious question not argument i'm not getting
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  Speaker 7: worked up but i need to know because you're right
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  Speaker 7: the other day i said you doubted south carolina this
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  Speaker 7: off no you actually know you're right you did tout
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  Speaker 7: the game seven or eight wins for but the first
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  Speaker 7: challenge they see in the sec you now picked against
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  Speaker 7: them So why are you already, is it just the
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  Speaker 7: Towson game? Why are you now, because you did like them.
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  Speaker 7: What has scared you? Oh, it's Mississippi State.
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  Speaker 4: They've done something that South Carolina hasn't done.
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  Speaker 6: Did you expect in the summer Mississippi State to go
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  Speaker 6: on the road against Minnesota and win by 25 points? Like,
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  Speaker 6: I don't think you can answer yes to that question.
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  Speaker 7: But I also don't know if we've seen the full
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  Speaker 7: Gamecock outfit yet either.
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  Speaker 2: Peek's not been in there. Stewart's not been in there. No,
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  Speaker 2: that'll definitely help. I'm not going to judge it just
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  Speaker 2: based off these. I mean, I hope y'all win. I do.
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  Speaker 2: I do, I do, I do.
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  Speaker 6: Shout-out to Wes and Walker there. All right, let's talk
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  Speaker 6: about Charlotte and App.
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  Speaker 4: I do, I do, I do.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. Walker does it better than me. I'll
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: never do that as well as Walk.
• 10:51
  Speaker 6: 704 number says, Welcome Dan says, Who cares about Mac?
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  Speaker 6: We need the curse in our favor. This dude says,
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  Speaker 6: I'm a Gamecock fan. Don't ever pick us again. You're
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  Speaker 6: dead to me, Mac. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Why is this guy turning on me, man?
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  Speaker 6: That's harsh. I honestly think Camario Taylor... I think he's
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  Speaker 6: an NFL star. Like, I'm being, forget just college football.
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  Speaker 6: I just believe, Bone, that this kid is that special. Like,
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  Speaker 6: watching some of the throws, I was watching a Jeff
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  Speaker 6: Collins break. You saw that piece, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, he is making throws that are special.
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  Speaker 6: Lenoris is inconsistent passing-wise, inaccurate at times. This kid is
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  Speaker 6: like a special passer and runner.
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  Speaker 7: He is, but he's not the only element of the
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  Speaker 7: game here also, though. He's a big part of it,
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  Speaker 7: but I don't know. Gamecocks defense is going to be challenged.
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  Speaker 7: It feels like one. where I'm going to come in
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  Speaker 7: on Monday, and I'm going to say, Mac, what happened
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  Speaker 7: to your prediction there? I feel like you're going to
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  Speaker 7: be strutting in here. I don't want my man to
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  Speaker 7: be embarrassed.
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  Speaker 2: I can tell.
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  Speaker 7: I don't want my man to be mad. I don't
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  Speaker 7: want to yell at you like you did poor Phitty
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  Speaker 7: last break.
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  Speaker 6: Boy, was that startling. More on that later, because I
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  Speaker 6: want to move to some of these other games here.
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  Speaker 6: You made a comment to Phitty that made our quote board.
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  Speaker 6: I'm very surprised App State fans. We haven't even talked
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  Speaker 6: about Wolfpack. We've got a lot of games to get
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  Speaker 6: to here, Bone. App State fans are not texting in
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  Speaker 6: with confidence. The whole segment is college football confidence. I'm
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  Speaker 6: really curious what the pulse is of all these fan bases.
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  Speaker 2: 704-570-9610.
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  Speaker 6: I haven't seen much from App fans. This texter's a
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  Speaker 6: Charlotte fan and says, I would love to be confident
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  Speaker 6: going into Boone. I'm going to be there tomorrow. I
• 12:38
  Speaker 6: have a feeling I'm going to have to drink my
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  Speaker 6: sorrows away.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say this. Charlotte was better last week, Bo. They
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  Speaker 2: were better.
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  Speaker 6: I like the way Gonzales played. They ran the ball
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  Speaker 6: pretty well. They just couldn't finish drives in the red
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  Speaker 6: zone at all. And that was a very hard place
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  Speaker 6: to play. I just really like this App State team.
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  Speaker 6: I think Singleton, a quarterback, is special. I like the
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  Speaker 6: transfer talent they brought in around him. Fugit, the tight end.
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  Speaker 6: The wide receivers as well pick it. And I think
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  Speaker 6: they're balanced. I think the defense is improved. You had
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  Speaker 6: a Lewis cross combo. I think the defense is improved.
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  Speaker 6: I think Charlotte, they lose by, what's the spread?
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  Speaker 3: 17.
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  Speaker 2: That seems.
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  Speaker 7: I know Charlotte covered last week and looked better than
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  Speaker 7: we thought, but this reminds me a little bit of
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  Speaker 7: the App main spread that was also the same spread
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  Speaker 7: week number one. I don't think that, to me, App
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  Speaker 7: State clears that 17 and a half.
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  Speaker 6: I'm thinking 20. They win by 20 to 24. I'm
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  Speaker 6: thinking 20. App State fan says, Lock City, puff, puff. Well,
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  Speaker 6: Pac James, App covers the 17. I think so, too.
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  Speaker 2: 704 number.
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  Speaker 6: Charlotte looks better, but App looks much better than last year.
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  Speaker 6: This texter brings up the speed of App State.
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  Speaker 7: Charlotte loses their starting running back also. Let's keep that
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  Speaker 7: in mind here.
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  Speaker 2: They lose, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Alexander went for 138 in the opener against the Citadel,
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  Speaker 6: so he's still there. But Williams is the one who
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  Speaker 6: looked like, oh, he's got some big playability. He had
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  Speaker 6: the 40-plus yarder against Ole Miss. This App State defense
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  Speaker 6: I'd be fired up about. I'm not saying it's great.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not saying it's back to the standard. But App
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  Speaker 6: State fans, you know how down from the standard it
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  Speaker 6: had been recently? Um, NC state, we got to talk
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  Speaker 6: about bone. We hadn't even really gotten into NC state.
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  Speaker 6: I just can't allow myself to believe they're going to
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  Speaker 6: win this game. I listened to the minute 30 clip
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  Speaker 6: of Joe Giglio reciting bone, their resume in games like this,
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  Speaker 6: where they don't beat sec opponents in the regular season.
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  Speaker 6: They don't beat non-conference opponents on the road.
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  Speaker 2: It's been 24 years.
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  Speaker 6: Um, It's just, it just feels like a spot where
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  Speaker 6: NC State doesn't come through. And maybe I shouldn't let
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  Speaker 6: that stuff mess with my Wolfpack Mac.
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  Speaker 2: Brain, but it is.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think, Vandy clearly is not Pavia era Vandy,
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  Speaker 6: but I just, like State's got to prove it to me.
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  Speaker 2: I know they were way better last week, but they
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  Speaker 2: got to prove it to me. What do you think, Bunk?
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  Speaker 7: I'm leaning Vanderbilt in this game just based off history.
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  Speaker 7: I know Joe Giglio did a whole piece on this,
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  Speaker 7: but this just feels like– look, I know that they
• 15:36
  Speaker 7: look better against Richmond, but they're going to have to
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  Speaker 7: do a lot more. to get the vision of what
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  Speaker 7: happened against Virginia out of our minds. It wasn't just
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  Speaker 7: that they lost to Virginia. I mean, it wasn't even competitive.
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  Speaker 7: DJ Elliott, Matt, the fact that he wasn't prepared for
• 15:52
  Speaker 7: a guy in Bo Pribula that has played college basketball,
• 15:55
  Speaker 7: I think, since the mid-' 80s, college football college football and
• 15:59
  Speaker 7: well yeah sorry college football since the mid-80s but yet
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  Speaker 7: now he's gonna prepare for jerry curtis who hasn't played
• 16:04
  Speaker 7: college over there how's he gonna prepare for a guy
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: he doesn't know a lot about and oh by the
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: way he is a true freshman making his first start
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: do you get him to make mistakes but here's the
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: thing too that's interesting 77 of the money right now
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: is coming in on vanderbilt So Vanderbilt is also in
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: the biggest stuff here is not the spread, but the
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: money line. Vanderbilt is 77%. You know what that tells me?
• 16:30
  Speaker 7: That people watched NC State play on week zero. That's
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: what it tells me. And that's another reason to doubt it, too. Like, yeah,
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: you could beat up on AFC Richmond.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: You beat up on Ted Lasso's crew. But like, what
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: are you going to do? Can you do something against
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: a power four opponent? But I will say that this
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: texter says, y'all acting like Pavia is walking through that door.
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: The kid that's playing is more talented than Pavia, and
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: it's not even close.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Physically gifted.
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: I think if you're a State fan, the hope is,
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: can DJ Elliott, can we get him to make freshman mistakes?
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: Kind of like, you know, what Carolina is hoping for
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: against Tate Reynolds. Real quick, just because I know we've
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: got to get to our guy, D. Orlando Ledbetter. We
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: hadn't talked to LSU. The Ole Miss fans, we've got
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: a few Ole Miss fans. I'm surprised they ain't saying
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: anything on the text line. This texter says, I'm a
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: diehard LSU fan. There is no doubt in my mind
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: we obliterate Ole Miss fans. This is personal for Lane.
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: Like it ain't personal for Ole Miss. i mean they
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: might try to murder your man it can't be any
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: more personal now with that said i would lean lsu
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: but this route stuff on the road in the grove
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: with the nastiest most ornery environment of the season i
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: don't know about that route stuff i think that thing's
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: going down to the wire and i completely believe sam
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: levin has no injury at all though no he doesn't put.
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: That on the record i'm rooting for old miss in
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: this game and i think they'll win and i think
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: you're going to see a Heisman-like performance out of Trinidad Chambliss.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: That's what I think you're going to get in this game.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: They're going to get after him, though.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: Does LSU pressure him and get him down, or do
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: they pressure him, Bone, to your point, and he makes
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: a bunch of big plays, and it's like, holy crap,
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: you know?
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: When we come back, D.
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: Orlando Ledbetter, longtime Falcons writer, now with Bowtie Sports. He
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: will join us to preview the game on Sunday.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Don't miss D. Orlando next on Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: It's just occurring to me, Bone. Tar Heel fans are
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: going to have a problem.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: If they don't already have a problem with me, and
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: I feel like Fitty does, I think they're going to
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: have a problem with me. I'm starting to get some blowback.
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: Get away from my Tar Heels. Gooch is one of them.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: We're going to talk about who's going to pull off
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: the upset next segment. Carolina, State, or Charlotte. I have
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: a bad feeling that I could have. There could be
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: some pitchforks in the hands of Tar Heel fans. Not
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: exactly my favorite matchup. I had to hold my nose
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: when picking Clemson. I said, yeah, I'm going to go
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: with Clemson there.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Why is Coach K picking the game? Stop it.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Stop it, guys.
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: All right, but let's focus on the Panthers right now.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: We talked a bunch of Panthers. Make sure you listen
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: to the podcast. 7 o'clock hour was primarily Panthers. 6
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: o'clock hour was a ton of it as well. And
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: the 9 o'clock hour will be primarily Panthers. And right now,
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: we want to know our enemy a little bit. We've
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: got to talk to D. Orlando Ledbetter. Long time. member
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: in Atlanta. You've got to check out his bowtiesports.com and
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: see what he's got going on as he still covers
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: the Falcons. And D'Orlando Ledbetter joins us here on the
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Mac and Bone Show.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Orlando, how you been, man? What's going on?
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Hey, Mack and Bud, I've been doing pretty good, man.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Everything's going well, just getting back in the flow here,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: getting ready for another season of Atlanta Falcons football.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I love it, man.
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: Hey, congrats on the sight, man. We love bow tie sports.
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: You're looking good, man. You got the hat going on.
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: You got the bow tie. You're pulling off the looks
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: that Mack and I can't pull off.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Hey, I really appreciate that. Yeah. I'm trying to keep
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: it classy on both sports.com.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: I glad to hear one of us is doing that.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: That's good to know.
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: I have to start with the quarterbacks, Orlando. I, as
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: ugly as it is, I got to start there. Who's
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: your feeling? Like, do you think it's Cooper rush? Do
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: you think it's Pennix this week? What's, what's your gut feeling?
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: And does it matter? Like, is there a reason to
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: have confidence in either one of these guys? Well, I
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: guess the Panthers giving up 59 might give y'all some confidence.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: What do you think?
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm thinking it's Cooper Rush based on talking to
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Michael on Wednesday. And he was talking about how good
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: he was and how he felt and how he was close.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: And I said, hey, was that mean you could play
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: on Sunday? And he's like, no, no, I didn't say that.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: So I think they are. Both of them are practices.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: But I think, you know, we might get an announcement
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: today that they're going to go with Cooper and let
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Michael continue his rehab. as they get him back from
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: his lower body and knee surgery.
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: Orlando, what can Cooper rush do to have success against
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: this Panthers defense?
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Well, he's got to deploy all of the weapons. You know,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: last week, uh, Bajon was able to get 29 touches for, uh,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: 173 in a touchdown, but Drake London, only two passes,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: one run, and Kyle Pitts was zeroed, one target. So
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: he's got to move the ball around and deploy all
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: other weapons. It can't be just a one-person attack like
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: it was last week up in Pittsburgh. D.
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: Orlando Ledbetter, longtime Atlanta media member. Long time on the
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: Falcons beat. Check out his website, bowtiesports.com. Orlando, we can't
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: run from it here. I can't laugh at y'all's quarterback
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: situation and not acknowledge that giving up Luke Keekly's jersey
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: number last week to the Bears is not embarrassing.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: It's pathetic. It's sad.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: Are y'all looking at it in Atlanta and feeling like, oh,
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: that defense, we might be able to get some confidence
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: on offense, or... Are y'all, are y'all so down in
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: the dumps about the offense right now that, that no
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: one's really believing that?
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: What do you think?
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think maybe the Panthers did a tribute to
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Luke since he went in the hall this summer.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: That's very nice of them.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Very nice of them, no doubt. But no, the Falcons
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: are in no place to make any fun of anybody
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: that kicked them in the face twice last year. They're like, no,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: we're not putting any stock in that. We went up
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: there last year. They body slammed us 30 to nothing.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Then came down here and put it in our face 30-27th. So, yeah,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: they're not taking any stock in that. They were writing
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: that as a one-off. They know the Panthers are going
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: to come in here tough and ready to play. Derrick
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Brown's already mad. So, yeah, they're just putting that as
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: one of those early season games that stuff just didn't
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: work out because nobody practices anymore. Then you go play
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: these real games, and now they're going to be firing
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: on all cylinders. So nobody's putting too much stock in
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: that outing by the Panther defense.
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: Of the Falcons' defense that we'll see Sunday, what is
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: the strength of that unit, and where can the Panthers
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: take the most advantage of that group?
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the strength is up the middle with
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: the big guys they got now, Mason Smith and Javon Dixon,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: linebackers Devon Diablo, Kendall Daniels, and then the safety. So
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: where you're going to have to attack them is outside
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: on the edges. You know, James Pierce is out, Jalen
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Walker is out. And, you know, the quarterbacks are A.J.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Terrell and Michael Hughes. You got to try to go
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: after those guys outside and work the edges in the
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: run game. That's the way I would attack this defense.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: It seems like, I did not see the game against
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: the Steelers, but just kind of looking at all the
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: numbers on PFF and reading about it, it feels like
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: the defense, even without those edge rushers, was pretty darn
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: good last week. Were they good last week? Was it
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: Pittsburgh being bad on offense? What happened for that side
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: of the ball, do you think?
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they did a pretty good job against the run.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: They ran to the ball was what Coach Oldbrook said
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: they did particularly well in getting tackled, holding the running
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: game at 21-58. And then just the timing in the
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: passing game was off for the Steelers. They had a
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: couple shots down the field. D.K. Metcalf dropped four balls.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: You know, A.J. had a pass interference, 35-yarder that, you know,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: when he got beaten on, he tripped the guy up.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: So the Steelers had opportunities to attack in the passing game,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: but wasn't able to run it at all. So, you know,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: that was a big concern coming into the season was
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: whether the Falcons could stop the run. So if they
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: could continue to stop the run, that'll help them. Yeah,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: they did get some people. We're open last week, but,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: you know, time was off with Rodgers and his new guys.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I saw he was 0 for 6 on deep passes.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: I'm hoping Bryce can take advantage of those opportunities where
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: the old man could not. All right, well, hey, it's
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: always good catching up with you, man. It seems like
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: you are keeping your energy and your fire and your
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: good vibes, despite the quarterback situation in Atlanta. Keep it going, baby.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: And everybody, if you want to know intel on the enemy,
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: the Atlanta Falcons, bowtiesports.com. Check it out. Orlando, thanks so
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: much for coming on, man. Always appreciate it.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Sure, guys. Thanks for having me. Have a great day.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: There you go. That is D.
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: Orlando Ledbetter, formerly of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. And unfortunately, Bone,
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: what happens with so many newspaper guys, they end up,
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: you know, laying them off.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: And he's now doing his own thing. So good for him.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: An institution down there in Atlanta. Big time. And he's
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: like R-Speed. He's one of your favorite guys. He's R-Speed.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: He's just fun. He's happy. You know what I mean?
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: He's got energy. He comes on. He's got a bow
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: tie on.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: He's got a bow tie on. Do you think any
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: of us three could pull the bow tie look off?
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: What do you think about Finn?
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: You would look a little bit like Pee Wee Herman.
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: Finn would look like an aging.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know what I was going to say there.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: An aging Chippendale, maybe, of some sorts.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: I'd look fly AF in a bow tie.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: You're going to have one on for that wedding soon, probably.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Speaking of... My bad, Finn. My bad.
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: Before we go to the Phitty update here, Mac, did
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: you see what, speaking of bad defenses in the Panthers,
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: did you see what Dan Campbell said about his own
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: defense last night when he met the media? After they
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: gave up 446 yards and 34 first downs. They said, Dan,
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: about your defense, he said, I told the team, the defense,
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: don't even bother showering. You guys are good.
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: And by the way, find your own method of transportation
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: home from Buffalo, too. I came into the season hyping
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: up Detroit. I thought they were going to have a
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: bounce back year. Is it possible, Bone, and I know
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: many people have said this and probably saw this before,
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: you know, my pea brain self saw it. Is it
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: possible that without Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn, you know,
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: last year they lost both coordinators.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Boom, same offseason.
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: Is it possible that Dan Campbell's like a good motivating
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: kind of meathead coach, like rah-rah motivating? But, like, is
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: it possible they just lost way too much from a
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: coordinator standpoint?
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: Is he similar to Dabo in a way? Once Dabo
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: lost Venables, and he lost the real... He lost the
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: X's and O's, those type of guys, and he is
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: more of the motivator, head of the snake, CEO type guy.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Dan Campbell, probably not.
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think there's Dabo and Dan Campbell similarities. There's
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: some personality and stuff. Not exactly, but you know what
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: I mean. They kind of oversee the operation. They motivate.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know. It's an interesting way of looking at it.
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: This dude says, all I know is Sunday night football
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: in two weeks is going to get a hell of
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: a shootout. I'm looking for 45-40. It's going to look
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: like an NBA All-Star game. Yeah, I wonder if both
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: defenses won't be allowed to shower after that game.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, man, we'll see.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: Here is the fit dog who I want everybody to know.
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: Bone wants this on the record on the show. What
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: I said to Fitty when he was, I believe, I
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: believe trolling me off the air. I have apologized to
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: him since Bone. I'm not sure he's accepted my apology.
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: I did yell at Fitty. Let me smack you in
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: that fat face.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: I did yell at that, too. And I apologize, Fiddy.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: That was a little too much. It went from zero
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: to 60. It was.
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: We went to break. You said a few words, and
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: then you said, I'm going to smack that fat face.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: You made our quote board up here now. That's what
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: it is. Yeah, I'm honored. I'm honored. Fitty, I'm sorry
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: what happened to you there, my friend. That's unprofessional, Fitty.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: I'll be better, Fitty. I'm going to be better.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: It's all good, boys.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Fitty.
• 29:58
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• 30:19
  Speaker 3: You must be 21 plus, and you must be physically
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: located in the state of North Carolina.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: Mac, the Braves were off last night.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: The Phillies, though, they took the first of a four-game
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: set against the Mets.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: They enter this weekend. Four games behind Atlanta in the
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: NL East race. So it looks like that.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: That race for that division will come down to the
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: final week, but the Braves still in a really good
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: spot to win the NLEs over the Phillies.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Are the Mets still in it?
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: You just got done apologizing for being an ass. And
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: now you're back being an ass. Hey, were y'all cheering
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: for the Phillies guys last night too? Or y'all only
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: do that for Alonzo? He is all up in your
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: kitchen right now, man.
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: First, he threatened to smack your fat face, and now
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: he's verbally smacking your baseball team around.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, God. You want to apologize again or not? No,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: I feel good about this one.
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: When we come back, a ton of interesting underdogs this week.
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: Who has the best chance to pull off an upset?
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: Out of state, the Heels and the 49ers. Mack Bones,
• 31:22
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• 31:22
  Speaker 1: 92.7 WFNZ. Thank you.
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: Tate's going to get all the first team reps. Tate's
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: going to be the guy. And maybe that's the difference.
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: Maybe that unlocks something in the offense.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: And now I don't think it's a case of North
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: Carolina not having film. Like they've seen him play against
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: LSU and they've seen him play against Georgia Southern.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: He played most of the game against Georgia Southern.
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: So it's not like Bill Belichick is going to be
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: surprised by anything.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:24
  Speaker 9: Well, you're also, I feel like we're also, if you're
• 32:29
  Speaker 9: picking Clemson because Tate Reynolds gets all the, reps in practice,
• 32:32
  Speaker 9: you're also kind of expecting that he elevates the team
• 32:35
  Speaker 9: in a way that I'm not sure he's ready to,
• 32:37
  Speaker 9: even if he's good and he turns out to be
• 32:38
  Speaker 9: one of the best quarterbacks in Clemson history, to break
• 32:41
  Speaker 9: a game because Tate Reynolds is going to elevate them
• 32:43
  Speaker 9: in week three after what's been an awful performance the
• 32:46
  Speaker 9: first two weeks, I think is a little, is a
• 32:47
  Speaker 9: bridge too far for me.
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: That's Ari and Andy on three. Ari Wasserman, Andy Staples.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: I feel like that's the way I feel about Tate Reynolds' bone.
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: I think the kid's the goods long term, but I
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: also think he's playing with a really bad offensive line.
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: They have not been able to run the football at all.
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: They do have a couple good receivers if he can
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: get time and get it to them.
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: He's facing the strength of the Tar Heel team, which
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: is that defensive front.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. That front against their O-line.
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: But then again, on the other side, if I'm a
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: Clemson fan, and I'm not, the UNC offense doesn't really
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: necessarily scare me on the other side. And that's why
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: I do think it's going to be a low-scoring even
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: down to the wire.
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  Speaker 2: Probably... Probably some mistakes made in this game on both sides.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: And maybe that swings it.
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: Low-scoring game, maybe the mistakes swing it. So who do
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: you think makes the mistakes? I think Edwards has been
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: pretty good with the ball, but he's playing in a
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: road environment. Or does Bill Belichick's defense... Do they get
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: the freshman in his first start to make mistakes? That's
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: what I could see happening. We've got to ask this question.
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: By the way, Panther conversation coming up top of the hour.
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: Do we have at least close to a 100% Panther
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: up rate? That's what I want to know today. We're
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: going to give our predictions. Fitty has already pretty much
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: told you what he's picking.
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: We'll tease that here. If you missed what Fitty did,
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: you don't want to miss the 9 o'clock hour because
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: I don't feel like enough people heard what he did
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: or got worked up at him because he did something
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: early in the show that if you and I did this.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: We couldn't get away with it. We would be run
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: out of town on a train. We couldn't get away
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: with it. So I do want to know.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know why a train is a specific reason
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: we got run out of here.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: But what I'm saying is.
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: He did something that I feel like may have crossed
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: the line that even you and I are like, whoa, Bubba, whoa, Bubba.
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: We need to bring that back up at nine and
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: maybe ask the audience, is that all right? Why is
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: Fitty okay to do this? The bone wants Fitty. The
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: bone wants the ire of the audience at Fitty for
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: a change.
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: But before we get to that, before we get to
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: the Panther Up conversation. Who's pulling an upset this week?
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: I believe North Carolina's pulling an upset. Is anybody else
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: pulling an upset? Can State do it at Vandy? Can
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: Charlotte do it at App? App fans are, like, going
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: off on the notion that Charlotte could even be close
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: in this game on the text line. And then I'll
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: throw in Wake. We got a Deacons fan that says,
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: why don't y'all talk about Wake? You're talking about all
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: these other bleep shows. How about talking about the Deacs,
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: who are 21-point dogs against Miami? What is the most
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: likely upset, Bone? Of all those upsets, I think it's
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: the freaking heels, especially if Mel Card Al-Bajabi plays. That
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: combination of him and Harvey on the ends and Xavier
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: Lewis inside, how is that stinky Clemson O-line blocking that?
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: I just don't see it. So of UNC.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: NC state Charlotte and wake and wake. Yeah. All the underdog.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Can I go? None of them do.
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  Speaker 7: Cause I already picked Vandy to win. I already picked
• 35:53
  Speaker 7: Clemson to win, but if I had to pick one
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: that I think, well, to me, it's, it's not wake
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: or Charlotte. It's going to be UNC or NC State.
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: I would go the most likely one to pull an
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: upset will be UNC also.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Or actually, you know what?
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: Based off what I hear, the Gamecocks might upset the
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: mighty Mississippi State Bulldogs.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: You are a favorite, sir. You are a favorite. Even
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: if it doesn't feel like it.
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: I would say I still need to see more out
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: of NC State because of what happened in week zero.
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: So I'm going to go ahead and say... UNC is
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: the most likely to pull off an upset, although I
• 36:29
  Speaker 7: do think my actual pick, though, is Clemson.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Winning the game.
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: T-Time says, I don't even think UNC beating us would
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: be an upset. He's a very down-and-to-dumps Clemson fan.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Many are.
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: Big Deke Energy Nick says, I'm taking the Deacons with
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: the points.
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: Not going straight up. I know Lee Sterling did this morning.
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: They can gain a lot out of this game and
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: not get away. They can be competitive and we can say, wow,
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: Gio Lopez played well against Miami's defense. I don't think
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: their chance to win is anything at all, but if
• 37:02
  Speaker 7: they're competitive for any stretch in this game.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: That would prove a lot. That would be a statement.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: I wonder, it's one or the other.
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: It's either sleepy Friday night in Winston-Salem and Miami wakes
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: up halfway through the game and it's like, oh, crap.
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: Or it's Mensah continuing. I believe Mensah has four incompletions
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: in two games. It's Mensah continuing that against a Deke's
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: defense that I like. I like this defense. But what
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: Ryan Brown of Purdue did to him, what that running
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: back easy boy did to them. That way defense looked
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: terrible against Purdue. What like if Miami brings it a game.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: It's ugly.
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: By the way, there's no such thing, Mac, as a
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: sleepy Friday night in Winston-Salem.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: That's where the bone man was developed. It's always hopping.
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: It's always hopping there. Oh, my gosh. What do you think, Fitty?
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: Our guy Gooch says, worry about the wolf pack. Get
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: away from my tar heels. I have informed him, Fitty.
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: Tar Heel Mac is in the building. I want this
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: win for y'all. Y'all have been through so much off
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: the field crap and on the field crap last year
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: with Bill Belichick.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: I want this win for y'all. Sorry, Clemson fans.
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry to abandon the Tiger fans, but I want
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: this win for North Carolina. And I think they can
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: get it, man. I think 17 points, like you said,
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: wins this football game, man.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: Sounds like to me, Mac, I should just watch a
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: different game at 12 o'clock tomorrow. Because I bet by
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: 2 o'clock I might be going on one of those
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: flounder Twitter rants where I'm just venting about you picking
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: Carolina to win a game.
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: Quote tweeting like Tar Heel doo-doo 24-7 or something.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: It's very much in the cards. I do think.
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: Two things when we talk about this Carolina-Clemson game. The
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: fact that Carolina's in a position where they're a three-point underdog,
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: I think, one, shows the progress, Mac, we've made this
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: year under Belichick and that things on the field are
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: a whole lot better than they were a year ago.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: More importantly, to me, it just signals the regression we've
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: seen from a program that entered the decade right there
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: with Alabama, the best program.
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: In the sport.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: So far off, man.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: And I just don't think I ever saw it getting
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: this bad. for Clemson and Dabo. But that's where they are, man.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: And I can't blame the fan base that wants them gone. Like,
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: you won national championships, you won ACC championships, but you
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: haven't adapted as the sport has changed. And that's not
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: fair to a fan base that got used to excellence.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: So it's going to be really interesting to see what
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: that environment is like. If Carolina can go in there
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: and make that game sleepy and make that game ugly,
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: there was no environment last week.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: And what's going to happen tomorrow afternoon?
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: That's what I'm saying. You get a lead early, get
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: a touchdown early. Those Clemson fans are so disgruntled, Bone,
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: they could turn on the old Dabster.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: You know? If they aren't already. Very much so. Yeah.
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: Finney, when is the UNC-Notre Dame game? When is that
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: coming up?
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Two weeks from Saturday. Carolina has a bye week, so
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: it's the first Saturday of October.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: So it's week five of the season.
• 40:10
  Speaker 7: Because, Mag, as a texter brought up and should have
• 40:12
  Speaker 7: mentioned this earlier, Kirk Herbstreet mentioned yesterday that if UNC
• 40:16
  Speaker 7: does win tomorrow, it is on the table for possibilities
• 40:21
  Speaker 7: of game day, Notre Dame-Carolina week five.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Will Pat McAfee have a joint on the set of
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Game Day? No, that's only during his podcast.
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: Is that really a joint? Doug Gottlieb tweeted out that
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: Pat McAfee could.
• 40:33
  Speaker 7: Do whatever he wants.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: It was all over the place yesterday. Is that really
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: what is going on there? It looked like it. For
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: my joint knowledge. Oh, that explains a lot of comments
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: that he makes.
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: Although, Mac, the way you talk, people think you're on
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: the bonbons during the show.
• 40:47
  Speaker 8: I know.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: I have no such excuse. I'm sober when I say
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: this crap. A couple of texts really quick here.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: We've got to get chocolate back on the air.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: A couple of texts here.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, we don't.
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: JP says, Mac goes heels. Line immediately goes to Clemson.
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: Mine is seven. Formal Timothy says, a guy called himself
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: Big Deke Energy and didn't pick the deke straight up.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: That's true. That's some tiny deke energy there, baby.
• 41:09
  Speaker 7: Well, I think we have to put a question mark
• 41:11
  Speaker 7: next to his name, like Ron Burgundy.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Big Deke Energy?
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: Really? Trucker T says, Miami gonna blow Wake out of
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: the water. If they show up from the jump, yes.
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: And B-Dawg says, App State fans are the most annoying
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: dadgum fans, like a swarm of gnats. What did App
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: State fans do? I said they were going off on
• 41:34
  Speaker 6: Charlotte fans, giving them no chance to win the game.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: You know what?
• 41:37
  Speaker 7: That's what makes a rivalry, though. You've got to get
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: some get back against them. Unfortunately, it probably won't be tomorrow.
• 41:44
  Speaker 7: App fans are feeling frisky, and I don't blame them, man.
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: This is– App's on a statewide whooping tour right now.
• 41:53
  Speaker 7: They're back home this weekend, but it's NC State next week, right?
• 41:56
  Speaker 7: Ain't no whooping tour there, sir. Ain't no whooping tour. App,
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: I'm going to bail on y'all next week. By the way,
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: this is where Phinney next week is already in motion here.
• 42:05
  Speaker 7: App is out of Mac, so NC State's back in
• 42:07
  Speaker 7: next week.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: We'll pack Mac back in. App Mac leaves.
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: App Mac returns after that. Should I just give everybody
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: like a guide? To which Mac show up which weeks?
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: Should I do that? Gamecock Mac will be back. They
• 42:18
  Speaker 6: play Alabama next week. I may even come back next week.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: For the Alabama game?
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: I may even pick y'all to knock off Alabama. They're
• 42:23
  Speaker 6: on the road in that game. How close were y'all
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: to beating them last year? I may actually do that.
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: After you lose this week, a bounce-back game, Keon Russell
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: turns the ball over.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: He turned it over three times last week. You are
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: one confusing man.
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: You leave teams more than a Kardashian leaves a man.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Ha, ha, ha, ha.
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: I'll put a guide out for all y'all, all right?
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: All right, we come back.
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: We're going to make our predictions on the Panthers game
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: on Sunday against the Falcons. How close to a must-win
• 42:53
  Speaker 7: game is this? What is our Panther up percentage? We're
• 42:57
  Speaker 7: going to tell you what Finney said earlier in the show.
• 43:00
  Speaker 7: He'll say it again. And a new pep talker. We're
• 43:03
  Speaker 7: changing the tide. Sir Royne Bencht.
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 43:07
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