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Mac & Bone Hour 3: Panthers/Bucs - Victory Formula · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:03
  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
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: is my friend T-Bone. Let's have some fun.
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  Speaker 3: 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 4: First chance to kind of see Baker out there.
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  Speaker 3: Just wanted to see how it looked and how you
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  Speaker 3: feel like he's coming along.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's coming along fine.
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  Speaker 5: Once he got warmed up, he started looking pretty good.
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  Speaker 6: His practice went on, so we'll continue to monitor and
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  Speaker 6: see how he goes through the week.
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  Speaker 2: You started the practice with a glove. Did that stay
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  Speaker 2: on the entire practice today? Yes, it did. There you go,
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  Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield getting his David Carr on with a glove,
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  Speaker 2: with one glove, getting his Michael Jackson on at practice yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: That glove, of course, on the throwing, the right hand
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  Speaker 2: on his throwing hand with the dislocated thumb that he
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  Speaker 2: is trying to come back from. That is Bucs coach
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  Speaker 2: Todd Bowles. He practiced by all accounts through the ball
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  Speaker 2: pretty well. They want to see how everything feels, Bone,
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  Speaker 2: through the rest of the week. But as we get
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  Speaker 2: ready to fire up, and Sam Farber, by the way,
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: if you want more Hornets talk, Sam Farber coming up
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  Speaker 2: at 825. Sunshine Sam re-upped Bone. for another year of
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: weekly visits to his boys, Mac and Bone.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, didn't even ask for more money in this deal.
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  Speaker 7: Not like the Troy and Joe Buck situation. Sam Farber,
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  Speaker 7: very happy and will not fight us at any Hornets games.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that text you just heard? Sam's asking for more money. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: there he is. Sorry, Sam. Talk to Joe Buck. My bad, Bone.
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  Speaker 2: I'm new at radio. I didn't know you had turned
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  Speaker 2: your phone down on the radio. That's okay. No, no.
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  Speaker 2: You're awarded. You're awarded on the spot here. All right.
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  Speaker 2: So let's OK. So I will just start simply. And
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  Speaker 2: Dave Canal has said he thinks that Baker's going to play.
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  Speaker 2: But right now is our Thursday tradition as Fitty sets
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  Speaker 2: the tone with the music. Feel free to jump in here.
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  Speaker 2: We're playing the division rival Bucs. They come in one
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  Speaker 2: and five. Ask the audience. Jump in here. Courtesy of
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  Speaker 2: QC Mechanical. I like that. Your local HVAC experts. I
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  Speaker 2: like that, baby. And we're asking the audience, what should
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  Speaker 2: go into the victory formula list this week to beat
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  Speaker 2: the Bucs? And I would just simply start with be prepared.
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  Speaker 2: And this is nothing that they're not going to do.
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  Speaker 2: But be prepared for Baker Mayfield. Their season feels like, Bone,
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  Speaker 2: obviously it's slipping away. They can't afford another loss. Some
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  Speaker 2: would say if they didn't play in the NFC South,
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  Speaker 2: some would say their season's already gone. And Baker Mayfield,
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  Speaker 2: that dude has to be going crazy. You saw it
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  Speaker 2: last year, Bone. He don't want to sit down. He
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  Speaker 2: wants to play through everything. So I find it very
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  Speaker 2: hard to believe it will not be Baker. You've got
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  Speaker 2: to be prepared for Baker Mayfield. But I will say this, Bone,
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't playing really that good before his injury.
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  Speaker 7: No, their season was already going downhill before he got injured.
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  Speaker 7: Then his injury... has put them at 1-5. I think
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  Speaker 7: Baker's playing. They are desperate for a win. Todd Bowles
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  Speaker 7: is extremely desperate, Mac, for maybe a job-saving win. So
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  Speaker 7: I think maybe if they were in a better spot,
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  Speaker 7: maybe he waits one more week. They can't afford that
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  Speaker 7: right now. One thing that is notable, though, their offense
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  Speaker 7: has struggled. Their defense is good in a lot of areas, though,
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  Speaker 7: especially against the run. Oh, it's been real good against
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  Speaker 7: the run.
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  Speaker 2: Very, very good. I think they're second in yards per
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  Speaker 2: game allowed. Yep. And second in yards per carry allowed
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  Speaker 2: against the run. So how does that affect as we
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  Speaker 2: scheme them up, baby? Scheme them up, Bones, and get
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  Speaker 2: our Izzik and Averro on. How does that affect the offense?
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  Speaker 2: Is it another pass to open up the run game,
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  Speaker 2: do you think? the way we've been playing it i
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  Speaker 2: would think you're probably against their run defense with vea
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  Speaker 2: and those guys i would think you got a pass
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  Speaker 2: to set up the run kind of like we've been doing.
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  Speaker 7: Because how does this version of bryce young match up
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  Speaker 7: with what todd bowles wants to do todd bowles back
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  Speaker 7: one of the biggest blitzers yeah people are bringing it
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  Speaker 7: up on the text line but bryce young's ability to
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  Speaker 7: What was the noise that Garnett made there? The big, big, big, big.
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  Speaker 7: Rice Young's ability, Matt, to move the ball so quickly
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  Speaker 7: out of his hands now, how does that counter what
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  Speaker 7: Todd Bowles wants to do more so than it did before?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, our guy Regulators is saying it. Beat the Blitz.
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  Speaker 2: Bowles loves the Blitz. They Blitz the third most in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL based on percentage, 42%. And you're right, that's
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  Speaker 2: his M.O. And you know we're going to be ready
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  Speaker 2: for it. I mean, that's the thing, Bone, about this
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  Speaker 2: victory formula. My sources tell me that Canales usually leans
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  Speaker 2: heavily on our victory formula for non-divisional games. But he
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  Speaker 2: tells people that he doesn't need Mack and Bone for
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  Speaker 2: the divisional games. He's very aware. So they may not
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  Speaker 2: need his advice, but you know they know when they
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  Speaker 2: go against Bowles, they got to be ready for the blitz.
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  Speaker 7: I told you I saw Dave Canales running today. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 7: the timing didn't work. I could have gave him, Mack,
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  Speaker 7: maybe some... a sheet of ideas we have for this matchup.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, when he goes for his run yesterday, tomorrow, go
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  Speaker 2: out there and hand it to him. Bryce Young... Have
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  Speaker 2: you thought about winning the turnover battle, Coach? Bryce Young against...
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  Speaker 2: Is that coming up? Somebody said, when's winning the turnover
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  Speaker 2: battle and running the football coming? We just said, we
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  Speaker 2: think you've got a pass to open up the run
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  Speaker 2: against this team. Bryce Young against the Blitz this year, Bone,
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  Speaker 2: has been pretty darn good. 97 passer rating, 7.8 yards
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  Speaker 2: an attempt, four touchdowns, No picks, doesn't have one turnover-worthy play,
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  Speaker 2: according to PFF, against the Blitz. Three big-time throws. His
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  Speaker 2: grade bone against the Blitz is 85.9 on PFF. He's
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  Speaker 2: been doing great. So I think he can handle it, man.
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  Speaker 2: I think he can handle that Blitz.
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  Speaker 7: Not only are they good against the run. Now, I
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  Speaker 7: know this is skewed a little bit because of the
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  Speaker 7: Dallas game, right, where they went nuts, what they run for.
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  Speaker 7: Bucks ran for, what, 250 in that game? So in
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  Speaker 7: large part because of that game, they are sixth in
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  Speaker 7: yards per carry in the league. They are sixth and
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  Speaker 7: eighth in the league in rush yards per game. So
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  Speaker 7: a lot of that's Dallas, but we've seen Bucky Irvin
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  Speaker 7: get us before. This is a game where line of scrimmage,
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  Speaker 7: us running the football against a tough defensive front, but
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  Speaker 7: they've got a sneaky good running game here lately.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to, I think you've got to stop Bucky
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  Speaker 2: Irving first and foremost. I think you've got to stop
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  Speaker 2: the running game first and foremost. Even if Baker comes back,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not disrespecting Baker. The good news is, Bone, since
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  Speaker 2: the debacle of giving up 291 yards against the Bucs,
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  Speaker 2: this team's been really good against the run. Under 50
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  Speaker 2: yards the last two weeks, including holding Gibbs to only
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  Speaker 2: 46 yards. I think we're ready for that. Now, it
• 6:51
  Speaker 2: does suck having Phillips out, and that is the part
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  Speaker 2: of this victory formula is you have to now overcome
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  Speaker 2: not having Jalen Phillips in addition to not having your
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  Speaker 2: starting corners. And that Phillips thing hurts us in the
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  Speaker 2: run game, too. He is an edge setting Jesse. He
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  Speaker 2: really is.
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  Speaker 7: And these quarterbacks, whoever it is in this game, this
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  Speaker 7: is one of those matchups where the legs could be
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  Speaker 7: a problem, whether it's Daniels or Baker Mayfield. Trying to
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  Speaker 7: contain those quarterbacks in the pocket is paramount here.
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  Speaker 2: Pressure. Yeah, Baker's going to run, too. So you're right.
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  Speaker 2: We go back to the contain game. It's not the
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  Speaker 2: Tanner McKee thing where you just, you know, go after
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  Speaker 2: that damn big old statue.
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  Speaker 7: Both offense not good on third downs. They're 23rd in
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  Speaker 7: the league in third down conversions. Also not good in
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  Speaker 7: the red zone. 28%, so there are some key areas
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  Speaker 7: there that the Bucs are not going to have.
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  Speaker 2: Their offense is rough, man. It's rough. 30th in sack
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  Speaker 2: percentage allowed, 30th in passing yards. A lot of this
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  Speaker 2: has to do with having Jalen Daniels, an undrafted free agent,
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  Speaker 2: play way before he probably should be playing. We mentioned
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  Speaker 2: about pressure about Baker. and pressure if we or i
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  Speaker 2: guess i'm gonna do it now if you can stop
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  Speaker 2: that run and get them in the second along and
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  Speaker 2: third along then you talk about bowls blitzes bone we're
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  Speaker 2: seventh in the league in blitz percentage averro is getting
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  Speaker 2: his brian flores on this year bro yes for years
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  Speaker 2: people said we don't he don't blitz him he's blitzing
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  Speaker 2: like crazy he did it against philly baker mayfield under
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  Speaker 2: pressure bone this year went before the injury um 47
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  Speaker 2: quarterback rating 3.6 yards per attempt He ain't handling it well, man.
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  Speaker 2: And hit him. I don't, I don't mean to be,
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  Speaker 2: I don't mean to go Greg Williams here, a former
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  Speaker 2: defensive coordinator that said a lot of things about hitting
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks that maybe went across the line. Maybe didn't. You
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  Speaker 2: got to hit him. And if you hit him in
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  Speaker 2: his throwing hand, I ain't mad at you. No, I agree.
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  Speaker 7: You have to make him uncomfortable, especially coming off the
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  Speaker 7: injury where he might be thinking about it a little bit.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not saying you go, you know, rip his thumbs off,
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  Speaker 7: but you got to make him feel some pain here
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  Speaker 7: a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think about 704 text that says, y'all's
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  Speaker 2: victory formula and stats don't matter. Is he a Bucs
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  Speaker 2: fan or something? When Bake plays... Oh, they're 3-2 this
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  Speaker 2: year with the formulas. When Bake plays... They are a
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  Speaker 2: different football team. How much do you think it changes, Bone?
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  Speaker 2: Because Jalen Daniels has been scrambling and making some plays
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  Speaker 2: that way. The passing portion. I mean, look at Ibuka's
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  Speaker 2: stats and Godwin's stats. Neither one averages 10 yards a catch.
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  Speaker 2: Those two ain't making any big plays. Do you think
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  Speaker 2: it dramatically changes with Baker in there? Like, what do
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  Speaker 2: you think? Maybe not the first game back.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know how healthy he is, so I would
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  Speaker 7: say not a big deal. We do have a text
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  Speaker 7: from Mac that is still worried about Mike Evans hurting
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  Speaker 7: us in this game, despite Mike Evans being on the
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  Speaker 7: West Coast now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't blame you. PTSD, man.
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  Speaker 7: Can I bring up something, Mac, here that I think
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  Speaker 7: is vital to this game? Have we talked about winning
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  Speaker 7: the turnover battle in this No, that's a revolutionary angle.
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  Speaker 7: Gotta win that turnover battle. We should get that sponsored.
• 10:02
  Speaker 7: Somebody needs a sponsor. What are the turnover battle?
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  Speaker 2: And the Bucs are not good turnover-wise, Bone. Bottom third
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  Speaker 2: of the league in turnover margin. On offense, they're 24th
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  Speaker 2: in turnovers per game. Now, again, some of that might
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  Speaker 2: be skewed by young Jalen Daniels turning the ball over.
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  Speaker 2: But Baker will turn it over, too, y'all. Baker, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Baker had, he didn't even play three full games. He
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  Speaker 2: had four touchdown passes and six turnover-worthy plays. That's not,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? He puts it in harm's way.
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  Speaker 2: He will try to gunsling it. And if he tries
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: to gunsling it, Bone, with a thumb on his throwing
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  Speaker 2: hand that's just still not right, but he feels like
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  Speaker 2: he has to play.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe you get a couple of pickles off him. That
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  Speaker 7: thumb might sling right off there. Maybe you get a
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  Speaker 7: couple of pickles. I'm looking at the Cowboys' Tampa box
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  Speaker 7: score to try to figure out, hey, Tampa's one win.
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  Speaker 7: What did they do? But, I mean, obviously the 241
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  Speaker 7: rushing yards. But they also ran it well. They also
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  Speaker 7: held Dallas to 50 yards. Dallas couldn't run it on them.
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  Speaker 7: That's the thing right there is like, can we keep
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  Speaker 7: playing the run well? Because they run it well, and
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  Speaker 7: they are so good at stuffing the running game. How's
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  Speaker 7: it going to work?
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  Speaker 2: But again, I bring you 2026 Bryce. And we've seen
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  Speaker 2: it in games where the running game is slow to
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  Speaker 2: get going and we don't commit to it. But Bryce
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  Speaker 2: carries us in the first half. I think 2026 Bryce
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  Speaker 2: is made for a game. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: I think we're in our best position where if we
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  Speaker 2: can't run early, you've seen it this year. It's not
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  Speaker 2: a problem for us, you know? So anyway, let's see
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  Speaker 2: what else we have. 7045, 709610. This texter says, as
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: long as you show up at the stadium, you beating
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: the Bucs. This team is dead. What do you think
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  Speaker 2: about that? This team's going to play desperate. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: buying into this. If y'all want to start like a.
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  Speaker 2: Blowout brigade, three scores galore rhetoric. Four scores or more.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I want to do all that.
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  Speaker 2: NFL division matchup. Division game? Division matchup, the NFL are top.
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  Speaker 6: Riding high but running by five. Trying to think of something.
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  Speaker 6: Because I might be in the building on Sunday, guys.
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  Speaker 6: Panther 50 might be making an appearance.
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  Speaker 4: Right, right.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, Fit Daddy. You returned to your house,
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: Fit Daddy. He's renting.
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  Speaker 7: He's renting the house for the last couple years. He's welcome,
• 12:23
  Speaker 7: and I go, and it's like, oh, he's going to
• 12:24
  Speaker 7: ruin everything. Because we're like 0-42 with you there. He
• 12:27
  Speaker 7: was with me at Seattle last year.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good point.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but that was Seattle. We went to the South
• 12:33
  Speaker 6: Carolina game together last year. If that wasn't good, what,
• 12:35
  Speaker 6: Virginia Duke for you last year?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, you got a track record, Bone. You got a
• 12:39
  Speaker 7: rough track record. I'm 0 for 11 in the last
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  Speaker 7: five years. I understand that.
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  Speaker 6: I was at the Atlanta game last year, and we won.
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  Speaker 6: So when I don't go with Bone, things go well.
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  Speaker 6: This time I'll be going with a listener.
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  Speaker 2: Who are you going with? Oh, a listener.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Who's this guy? His name's Patrick. Do we trust this guy?
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: Is this the Make-A-Wish program? Get Fitty to a football
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: game program? It's the Make-A-Fit program. Make-A-Fit. 704 number says...
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: Why did this guy invite you and not the rest
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: of us? It fits his favorite, I guess. 704 number says,
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: if any of you go Lock City... Or go galoring.
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: I'm going to come down there to the station tomorrow.
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: People are still worked up about galore. I galored one
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: time a year ago. But now other people are galoring. Now, Fitty,
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: you hit a galore this year. Are you galoring this weekend,
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  Speaker 2: you think? We're about to beat the brakes off Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think so? I don't feel that way.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to beat Tampa so bad that Tampa Tammy
• 13:33
  Speaker 6: quits her job. She's not going to show her face
• 13:35
  Speaker 6: to the Mac and Bone show at Wednesday at 7 o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: She's already been swagger jacked. You know, she came around today,
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: and you know the things she talked trash about? Not
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: about her Bucs playing the Panthers, but she is talking
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: trash to Bone about Duke losing to UNC.
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  Speaker 7: And she's a Clemson football fan. What does she care
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  Speaker 7: about Duke losing to UNC? I'm contacting her HR department
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  Speaker 7: over what occurred today. What is that, a go-to for people?
• 13:57
  Speaker 7: I have nothing else to say, so I'm going to
• 13:58
  Speaker 7: say Duke sucks.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. Not a bad way to live their life.
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  Speaker 2: It's classless. Hey, Bo, Duke sucks. Have class. Shrimp Fried
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  Speaker 2: Bryce says, if Ibuka doesn't play, the Bucs will be
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  Speaker 2: in real trouble. Not sure who Baker will throw to. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they've got a lot of guys that DNP'd that did
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  Speaker 2: not practice yesterday. The Jalen Phillips one for us hurts.
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  Speaker 2: And one of his backups, Nkoum, is also not going
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  Speaker 2: to play. That's not ideal when you already have Skorton
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  Speaker 2: out at the edge, Bo. But they had a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of guys. Ibuka, Gadecki, who's one of their starters on
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  Speaker 2: the O-line.
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  Speaker 3: Irving.
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  Speaker 2: Bucky Irving's an illness, so you would think he would
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  Speaker 2: get healthy by then. McCollum, their corner, who shut down C.D.
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  Speaker 2: Lamb on that Thursday night game, he's sick. You would
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  Speaker 2: figure he would play. Roseboom, also DNP with an injury.
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  Speaker 2: They've got a few key guys, though, that might not play.
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  Speaker 2: Ibuka would hurt them, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 7: A texter points out that you've got to at least
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  Speaker 7: try to stick with the run because in the Dallas game,
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  Speaker 7: It ended up being Dak Prescott trying to throw it
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  Speaker 7: through it over. Was it over 40 times in that game?
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  Speaker 7: You don't want Bryce to have to go back there
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  Speaker 7: and throw it that many times in the game.
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  Speaker 2: When Bryce starts to throw it 40, 45 or more.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it was 42 for Dak in that game because
• 15:12
  Speaker 7: they couldn't run the ball. You got to at least
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  Speaker 7: stick with it and not have Bryce have to go
• 15:16
  Speaker 7: out there and throw it that many times.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but we have seen the ability this season to
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: throw to set up the run. And it's interesting.
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  Speaker 7: But if you get to a certain number, that means
• 15:26
  Speaker 7: the game's going a certain way and you don't want
• 15:28
  Speaker 7: it to go that way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing. 42 is not too bad. But
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  Speaker 2: when you start to go to the 45 or the
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  Speaker 2: 50 range, then you're going too far up. But that
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: probably means you're losing, you know, when you're throwing that much.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: I get what everybody's saying. I've been sitting here saying,
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: can we run better in the first half? I'm just
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: looking at this game and I feel like it might
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: follow the scripts of games this year where you got
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: to pass to set up the run. And it's interesting.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: The conventional wisdom is run to set up the pass, right?
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: That's what the old school football people have been screaming
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: for decades. Moose Johnston yesterday said to us, there is logic.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: in passing to set up the run. He says, if
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: you get those big fellows on the D-line rushing the passer,
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: he said, that takes more energy. He says, you get
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: them tired out in the second half, you hit them
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: with Chuba, hit them with that hammer that is Chuba Hubbard.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: He says that is a recipe for success, and maybe
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: that's the method to the Panthers' madness.
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: Goes back to what Olsen says. You pass on first
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: down to run on second down.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: That's what Greg Olson says.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: First down passing is the Ron Jaworski back in the day.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: That's down to pass. First down. They're sitting on the run,
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: so they're in base defense often. So anyway, it's going
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: to be fun to see, but you will not hear me.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: I've got good news for y'all. Y'all will not hear
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: me on tomorrow talking about a blowout. Let Fitty galore
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: till his butt soar. but i do that every day
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: i don't really know what that means but anyway he
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: let him galore till the cows come home i believe
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: we'll be in for a fight i believe baker mayfield
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: will come back he's the heart and soul of their
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: team he will inspire them they will they will be
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: inspired i think if baker plays but but i also
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: think we're easily the better football team this year bo
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: i agree on both fronts we're also inspired by sam
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: farber clearly of the hornets radio network he joins us
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: after colin the victory over the Nets last night. He
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: reacts to that game with us next on Sports Radio
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: 92.7 WFNZ. Oh, if you just tuned it.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: In.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: We've been buzzing about those Hornets, ladies and gents. Not
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: the prettiest all the time, but they got it done. And, man,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: did they get balanced scoring last night with five dudes
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: of 17 or more. But if you're just tuning in,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: check out all the Hornets talk, a lot of Panther
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: talk on the show so far. Some silliness, as always.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Check out the podcast, the parts you miss of every show.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: You can check them out in podcast form, WFNZ.com, Apple, Spotify,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to your boys, Mac
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: and Bone. throughout your day into the evening, even late
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: night with Mac and Bone, if you want to, by
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: listening to those podcasts. We are excited to get a
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: chance now to talk Hornets with our next guest. He
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: is back for another season of Bringing the Sunshine, baby.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Sunshine Sam Farber talking about those 1-0 Hornets. Sam Farber,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: radio play-by-play voice of the Hornets, is now going to
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: join us every Thursday at 825. Sammy, what's going on, man?
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: How are you feeling today?
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: I'll let the sun shine in. It's a little bit
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: of a late arrival coming back here to the Queen City,
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: but it always feels good to be on the plane
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: on a win and always good to be waking up
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: with Mac and Bone. Plus, special guests I've already heard
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: this morning. We had Coach O on the show. You
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: had Charles Barkley. You got Shaq Preschut. You got it all.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: They've all been here, all the luminaries.
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: Sam, we know the current state of the Nets and
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: where they are in the East, and it is the
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: first game.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Of the year.
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: But as we talked about on the critically reviewed pregame
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: show last night that you were a part of, how
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: big is a win like that to get things started,
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: considering how jammed up we think this Eastern Conference will
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: be in this season?
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and in large part because everyone's trying now. I mean,
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Brooklyn lost. I think I counted up. I think they
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: lost 25 of their last 30 games last year, and
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: I think they're disappointed they didn't lose more. Teams weren't
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: trying actively to lose, and that's not going to happen
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: this time around. So I'm looking at the box score,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: and Brooklyn, their star players at least, played well. Julius
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Randle put 30 on the board. Michael Porter Jr. got
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: hot as he tends to do. You can make a
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: strong argument that just from a counting stat standpoint, the
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: top two players for Brooklyn outperformed the top two players
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: for Charlotte, even with Nas Reed and Brandon Miller having
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: pretty strong games, 20 and 10 for a debut. Not
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: bad at all for Nas Reed, I'd say. But it's
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: the collective that shine through here for Charlotte, the depth
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: of the roster, the depth of talent and players relying
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: on each other, leaning on each other. You know, Charlotte,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: you know, again, counting stats wise, they might have lost
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: the top two versus the top two to Brooklyn, but
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: top 10, it wasn't close. The only thing that made
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: it close was turnover. So, I think every win is important.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: We learned that last year. No matter what the situation is,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: for 82 games, it always seems to come down to
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: one or two, deciding whether or not you're going to
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: make the playoffs or have to fight your way through
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: the play-in. This is one the Hornets now have in
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: their back pocket.
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: It is.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: They needed to get it, but I don't think it's
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: crazy that it wasn't easy. You're missing two of your
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: three best offensive players. You're missing a leader and a
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: role player in Grant Williams. And you're right. It was
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: the balance and the depth of the Hornets that showed
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: over the Randall and Porter show for the Nets. Let's
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: talk about some of those guys that contributed to the
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: five guys storing 17 points or more. I love the
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: fact that it was some of the new guys that
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Jeff Peterson just acquired. You mentioned Nas Reid's game. I mean,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Grayson Allen scoring off the bench was so big, too,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: with 21 points. What did you think of Nas and
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Grayson for a couple of starters here to talk about?
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: What did you think?
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, Nas just solid as a rock, kind of
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: as expected. If you take the numbers that he had
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: the last couple years in Minnesota and you extrapolate them
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: over starters' minutes, this is kind of what you were
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: hoping for. And he shows proof of concept there on
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: night one. Plus, his playmaking, I think, has been vastly underrated.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: He had a career-high seven assists last night. And, you know,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: it wasn't like he was doing something totally out of
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: the ordinary. It didn't feel that way as we watched
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: him distribute the ball. He just looked very natural in practice.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Charles Lee's offense and clearly a defensive presence just his
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: size that they upgrade there in terms of physicality it's
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: noticeable so great great start for him and then Grayson
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Allen we talked to him after the game on the
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: post game show and he was like man this was
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: fun like Musa is a monster and you've got Brandon
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Miller that it requires all this attention I mean he's
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: just basically allowed to roam and operate and do what
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: he wants to do and get to his spots and
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: knock down wide-open threes. What could be better for one
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: of the all-time great three-point shooters out of Duke?
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: Thank you for saying that last part there. Sam, what
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: is the— Did you pay him to drop that in?
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: No, no, no. It's not like his Lowe's threes or
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: his Dr. Pepper dunks. Oh, how many Dr. Pepper dunks?
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: It's not a bone Duke reference. How about Musa with
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: six Dr. Pepper dunks, baby? I love it.
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: Sam, what was your assessment of Brandon Miller's performance last night?
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: 17 early, only one after that. What changed in the
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: second half where his scoring slowed down like it did?
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Well, he was clearly the focal point of Brooklyn's defense.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Even in the first half, they were throwing two at
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: him any time he touched the ball. So this is
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: going to be kind of the scouting report for a
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: while here, I think, on Charlotte, particularly with Kobe and
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Con out. Teams are going to test him. They're going
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: to say, let's see if we can get the ball
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: out of his hands. In the first half, he did
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: an excellent job getting to his spots despite the pressure.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: He got really, really hot there at the end of
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: the first quarter and into the second. 17 points and
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: a half, that was awesome. And then in the second half,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: he was smart enough to recognize, like, hey, if I'm
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: getting all this attention, I can go ahead and let
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: other people operate. And so, you know, it wasn't his
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: strongest three-point shooting night. They're not all going to be
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: that way. But he has proven over the course of
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: his career that if you play it out over an
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: 82-game season, he's going to make 36%, 37%, 38% of
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: his threes at high volume. He's going to be north
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: of 20 more nights than he's not. And to win
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: a game where you didn't shoot as efficiently as you
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: normally would hope to, where you did turn the ball
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: over 20 times, and the opposition's two best players had
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: a really good stat line, that's a big win. That's
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: something that most teams in the NBA are not able
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: to do. If they don't play their A game and
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: the other team's best players have really good games, you
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: normally count that one as a loss, especially on the road.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: So I give Brandon Miller a ton of credit for
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: working through a tougher shooting day and finding ways– to
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: be a big time contributor towards the season opening win.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: I'm glad you said that because that's what I was saying.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: That's what I saw too. Like when Brandon hit those
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: 17 points in like the first 15 minutes of the game,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: it felt like the Nets then realized, okay, we got
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: to make sure this dude doesn't beat us. Make the
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: other guys beat us. Every time Brandon came off a
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: ball screen, like you're saying, they were blitzing it. They
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: were doubling him. And I know, Sam, maybe I'm sunshiny
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: like you. I tend to look at it like, okay,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: it's not ideal Brandon scored one point after that point
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: early in the second quarter. But I tend to look
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: at it like, hey, without two of our three best
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: offensive players, We still had a bunch of other dudes
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: that could step up and say, OK, you're going to
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: take Brandon away. We can score like Dennis Schroeder attacking
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: the rack over and over again as they blanketed the shooters.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Like to me, yes, we're going to keep watching Brandon
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: because of the new contract. But but you have to
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: point out the positives, too, that this team is deep
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: enough with Kobe and Khan out to still have four
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: other guys to step up and get buckets.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Totally agree. And not every team is Brooklyn where they've
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: got clearly two really, really elite scorers in Porter and Randall,
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: and then a couple other guys who are experienced, but
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: they play a lot of young guys. They've got seven
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: first-round picks. in the last two years. They didn't play
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: them all, but they're playing significant minutes with these guys.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: And so you would assume that a veteran like a
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Dennis Schroeder or a Grayson Allen or a Royce O'Neal
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: or an Oz Reed will know how to operate against
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: those younger players and take advantage of the matchups. But also,
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: it's the attention you have to focus on Brandon Miller. Listen,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Dennis Schroeder is spectacular. I am in love with our
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: new point guard here. For Charlotte, his change of speed,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: his understanding of spacing and timing and how to change
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: speeds out there, he's been brilliant. But I'm under no
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: illusion that it's just how quick he is. There clearly
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: were some lanes that he's able to take advantage of
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: because the opposition doesn't want to leave Brandon Miller alone
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: or doesn't want to leave Grayson Allen alone or doesn't
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: want to leave Nas Reed alone. And so that's where
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: the team aspect of this comes into play. And again,
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: I'll go back to it. If we're just using counting steps,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: just using points, Julius Randle, Michael Porter Jr. played well
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: enough for Brooklyn to win that game. It's the fact
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: that the Hornets weren't necessarily better 1-2, which they can
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: be on a lot of nights and will be on
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: a lot of nights, but 1-10, it wasn't close. The
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: only thing that made it close was the turnovers.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Sam, how about this nugget of information?
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: Now, I know that the Hornets are tied for first
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: right now with the Wizards and the Hawks, but as
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: we sit here in Mac, October 22nd, The Panthers and
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: the Hornets are both in first place.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, man. What a day to be alive. Oh, my God.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Green City wearing the crown.
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: Damn straight, baby. We get some walkouts right now. We
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: get some walkouts right now.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, man. Stop the season. We're both in first. It
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: feels good. All we do is win, win, win, Boney.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: No matter what, I say. Hell yeah, sir. Hell yeah.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: All right, Sammy. Well, so it's a big, as we
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: wrap this up, we know that Sammy is going to
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: go into ticket selling mode, Boney. So I'm going to
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: lob this up to you. It's like Billy Mays. Like
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: you're Musa, and you're going to dunk this thing home.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: If you want to check out the new look bugs,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: and everybody's still getting to know them, right, without LaMelo
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: and all that sort of stuff, there's still so many
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: ballers on this team. You're going to have three chances
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: coming up over the weekend through Monday. Hit everybody with
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: the info they need, Sam, for this homestand coming up.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, enormous weekend. It starts off tomorrow night, Friday night,
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: home opener for Charlotte. taking on the Atlanta Hawks, one
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: of the teams that they're going to have to chase
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: down if they want to make it into the playoffs
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: next year. And in addition to being all the fanfare
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: that comes with opening night and a home opening night,
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Petey Pablo will be the halftime show. And you don't
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: have to take your shirt off. We're going to give
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: one to you. Free shirt for everyone in attendance. Petey
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Pablo at halftime. It's going to be awesome. Then on
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Saturday night, two of a back-to-back. It's the new look
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Miami Heat with Giannis Antetokounmpo in town. And then you're right,
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: three games in four days. It'll be the Washington Wizards,
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: who themselves, new look, two All-Stars on that roster now,
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: and Trey Young and Anthony Davis. Plus, hopefully he's playing
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: by then, the newly number one overall pick, A.J. DeVanta.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: So it's going to be a great weekend of Hornets basketball.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: The headliner, clearly, Brandon Miller and the Bugs. as Buzz
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: City tries to keep this unbeaten run going to start
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: the season. And home court advantage has been absolutely enormous.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: It was all through the end of last season. Hopefully
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: that continues starting tomorrow night. And tickets are available at Hornets.com.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Last time Mr.
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: Peter Pablo was here, Willie P, didn't he cry during the–
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: He cried, right?
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: He teared up, yeah. People were calling him Willie Pablo
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: for a couple of days. Here's the problem.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Hey, guys.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Willie Pablo's got to call FC that night. They're out
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: in Portland. So I don't think he can get there,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: take his shirt off, and spin it around like a
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: dang helicopter and shed some tears.
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: It's very sad.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: He did not bring that up on the post-game show
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: last night. I did not hear that he had a
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: prior commitment there.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Very sad. Yeah, there was a lot of emotions.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Maybe he's going to try and call the game from
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: our studio.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: He gets very emotional over Petey Pablo. He had to
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: make a choice, Bone and Sam. He had to choose
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: the mayor, Brant Bronico, over Petey Pablo, and that was
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: one of the hardest choices. It's like choosing between your
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: two children for you and I, Sam. All right, brother. Well, hey,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: it's good to have you back on the airwaves. Good
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: start to the season and appreciate you, Sam. Be good, man.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Thanks for coming on.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Appreciate you guys as well. We'll see everyone at the
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Hive this weekend.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: All right, there you go. That is Sam Farber. Check
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: out the Hornets at the Hive this weekend. Or how
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: about this? You can win tickets, Bone Man. This is cool.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Halloween night, LeBron and the New Look Sixers come in
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: here on Halloween night. So that's a week from Saturday,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: 6 o'clock start. And all you got to do to
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: win tickets and get in the hopper is text PHILLY.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: P-H-I-L-L-Y for those of you that don't know exactly how
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: you spell Philly. Text in Philly right now to 704-570-9610.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: And you will go in the hopper. We'll do the
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: drawing at the end of the show. Nine o'clock hour,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: we're going to pump up the FC. We got a
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: pair of FC tickets to give away later in the show.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: But to see the Hornets against LeBron and the Sixers.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Text the word Philly to 7045709610. The seats are on
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: the foul line next to Joel Embiid that night.
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: You get to sit right next to him while he's
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: shooting his 45 foul shots. Also, if you sit close enough,
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: you can harass LeBron and you might go viral for
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: him like the other night.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Please get your material ready. Get better material, then.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: You're from the West Coast, and LeBron just tells the guy, no,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: I'm from Ohio. I'm Ohio, baby. Shut the heck up.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Grayson says, give the Canes some love. Canes also in
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: first place. My Lord, we are all over the top
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: of the standings, Bone. When will this ever end? I mean, seriously.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: That is a question we should definitely not ask. Don't
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: answer that.
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  Speaker 7: When we come back, Panther Fan Roundtable. This week, Granny
• 31:29
  Speaker 7: Pat and Lara. It's the ladies' edition of the Roundtable.
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  Speaker 7: Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ.
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  Speaker 2: Stand and cheer for the Panthers. Stand and cheer for
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: the team. The pride of both Carolina and city of
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: the queen. Carolina. Stand and cheer for the Panthers. In
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: our grand old day. Nothing could be finer than a Panthers.
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  Speaker 7: 92.7 WFNZ.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Mack and Bone with you. He's calling Grady's landline. Fitty
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: is having a struggle getting Granny Pat on, man. Is
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Granny Pat in a fan roundtable contract? Hold out right now.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: What's going on? It's like bugging Eggman. Oh, I've got
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: her on the line. There we go, Granny.
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  Speaker 6: The first thing she told me to do, go to
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  Speaker 6: Freedom Park.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, are we going to get another chapter in Granny's
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: in the car with her man Marvin back in the
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: day at Freedom Park Story? What was Granny like at
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: the drive-in theaters? Oh, Granny was naughty. Those nursing stories
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: she tells us? Granny was naughty as a young little vixen. Naughty!
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  Speaker 2: All right, anyway, let's focus on football, though. Football, baby,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: is the focus, at least until Granny Pat takes us
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: down some other avenue. We've got It's Ladies' Day here.
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  Speaker 2: Granny Pat, Monroe Lara. It's Ladies' Day.
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  Speaker 7: I'm playing.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I feel like somebody texted in and said, Granny Pat
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: and Monroe Lara, it's like the veteran star quarterback who
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: is helping groom the young rookie QB. And I do
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: feel like that. I feel like we have serious lady
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: talent out there. Granny is like our George Blanda. George Blanda.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: All right, let's bring in Granny Pat first. It's Panthers
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  Speaker 2: fan roundtable time. Granny, how you feeling right now? Everything
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  Speaker 2: all right?
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling great. I'm so happy to be on here
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  Speaker 1: with another lady.
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  Speaker 2: I like it. I like it. We'll do the best
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  Speaker 2: for you, GP. So, Granny, what is the next, when
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: we last left you, what was going on, Bo, when
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: we last left her, her and Marvin back in the
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: day at Freedom Park in the car? I believe the
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: dump button got used. Ha, ha, ha.
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: In the record-setting four-dub-button performance the last time we came on.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: That's true. Not on her. That's true, Granny. We've got
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: to behave ourselves with the language. So what was going
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: on in that car, Granny? What was happening there?
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Well, as I'll start over, making out down in Freedom Park,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: flashlight in our face, the cop was down there. And
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: we left and went home, and what.
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  Speaker 1: Marvin and I went inside my house where my mother lived.
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  Speaker 1: She kept plastic on every piece of furniture, and we
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: couldn't make out.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, no. Granny, roughly what year was this?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I would say we got married in 64, so
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: about 62.
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  Speaker 3: How old were y'all?
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  Speaker 2: Were y'all, like, young 20s?
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: He's older than me. He's four years older. Nobody wants
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: to hear this crap.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's get to the Panthers. I'm very intrigued by
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: young granny, you know, out and about.
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: It's like a steamy romance novel. We just keep turning
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: that page. By the way, Laird is there too.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, Monroe Laird. Let's get Monroe Laird. Are you going
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: to Freedom Park? Monroe Laird is with us as well
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: on the Panther Fan Roundtable. Laird, do you have any
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: stories like that from your past you want to share
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  Speaker 2: or no?
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  Speaker 4: Um, no, I do not. I do not.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's start with.
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  Speaker 7: Lera, there's rumors that Granny Pat might be your actual
• 35:11
  Speaker 7: grandmother on the text line.
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  Speaker 4: I would not hate that.
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  Speaker 2: You got a little sass like Granny, too. I can
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: see it. All right, so let's start with you, Lera,
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: on the actual football side.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: How.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Are you are you convinced that Bryce Young is now
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: worthy of a fifty five to sixty million dollar contract?
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Are you are you convinced he's that sort of player
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  Speaker 2: and why?
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: Um, I, I am convinced that I know I'm going
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: to probably make a few people mad that are constant
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: Bryce haters, but the numbers don't lie guys. Okay. So
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  Speaker 5: if you look at the numbers, the end of last season,
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: especially in this season, oh my God, he's.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: All over the place.
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: As far as, uh, media talking about him and his
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: performance on the field is perfection.
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  Speaker 4: It's perfection.
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: So do you really want to get rid of that
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: and risk losing him, or do you want to pay him?
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: You pay the guy.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: I'm with you. Now, let's see what Granny says, because
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Granny Bone is very up and down on Bryce, right?
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, she'll rant about it. Was she mad at
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: him this week? Yes. She was mad at him this week. Granny,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: you are hot and cold on how you feel about Bryce.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Do you think he has already proved he is worth
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: that big upper echelon contract, like $ 55 million a year plus,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: or no?
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  Speaker 1: No, sir. I think he needs a couple of more games,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: like at least half the season. He is up and down.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: And the last weekend, I thought he was a little
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: bit off, but he came back. He was good after
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: a while, but he has so many ups and downs
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: right now, Mac. I don't want to pay him yet. Okay.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're not paying them. I understand what you're saying.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, listen, they're not going to pay him now. Anyway,
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: it's a season's going to play out and he's going
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: to have to prove it for a full season. I
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: just don't like these negative vibes you get. It seems
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: like granny, you don't want to acknowledge that Bryce has
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: made a jump in his game. Like If that was,
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: and I agree with you, he was off accuracy wise
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: at times in that game. He still made some huge
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: throws and he still ended up with 280. If like,
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: if those are his bad games now, granny, 281 and
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: two touchdowns and no interceptions, doesn't that show progress?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it does. And I hope he stays. He's a
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: great guy. I love him. He's great. But I don't
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: think he's $ 55 million worth right now.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Okay. Bone, look at the text line. Granny is polarizing
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: the text line. Embrace the success. Thank you, Granny.
• 37:46
  Speaker 7: She has heated up this text line like it's Freedom
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: Park in 1962.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Dee Hancock says, please retire Granny. Bryce will never satisfy her.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Granny's our Ric Flair. She's never going to retire. This
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: dude says, was Granny this tough of a critic of
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: Marvin when he was courting her? Were you like this, Granny,
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: where he had to sell you? He had to win
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: you over?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, he did.
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  Speaker 4: He did.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: What was your first date?
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: My mother hated him because he went to a trashy
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: high school, but we made it.
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  Speaker 2: Did your mom come around on him, or did she, like, always?
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I don't think she ever did, but, you know, no.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: I want to hear about Lara's husband.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, that's a great segue. All right, thank you.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: All right, Lara, Granny Pat would like to know about
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: your man, apparently. Is there anything you can share?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what he wants me to share. My
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: husband's amazing.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what to tell y'all.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Does your family approve? Does your family, because Granny was
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: getting some pushback from Mom, it sounds like.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know that my family's ever approved of anybody
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: that I've dated.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: That's honest. Good luck to the husband there. When I
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: ask the question, I'm like, oh, Laird doesn't want to
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: answer this. Have him call Marvin. They can chat. so
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: lara i have a question about a man i want
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: to ask you all right my sources indicate lara that
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: you are very excited to do this with granny and
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: that if it was weatherman mark you were you were
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: a little terrified you were a little terrified to work
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: with weatherman mark on the radio is that true lara
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: um A little bit. Is he intimidating? What is it
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: with Weatherman Mark?
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  Speaker 4: Not because he's intimidating. Because of his comments on the
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: Hornets yesterday, and I felt like he was way, way,
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: way off track. And I know that sometimes we can get.
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: Off track sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: But when we're talking, we're talking our sports and we're talking.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Our ball, we got to be a little bit more
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: accurate than that.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Weatherman Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 39:53
  Speaker 7: She just went mom mode on Weatherman Mark.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Randy, what do you think of Weatherman Mark? Randy, Pat,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: do you like doing the round table with Weatherman? Is
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: he a good round table partner?
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, I think he's fun to talk to. He's great.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: You and him are similar. You guys go back and
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: forth between, like, the fun side of y'all, but then
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: this fan side of you that can be very negative. Like,
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Mark is, you know, Mark's kind of like that with you.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: You know what I feel? I feel like there's similarity.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you, boys, I see the truth.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Sometimes y'all think, oh, he's so great. He's doing so great.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: But.
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: We also think you see moonshot.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: That's another thing. Let's get lair and have moonshine.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Y'all should double date with your man. You want to
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: know about her man, y'all should get together and shine
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: it up, you know?
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Ask her if she'd take a nip.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: What do you think? Now, again, that means a sip
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: of moonshine, right? I can't breathe. A nip means a
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: sip of moonshine, right?
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  Speaker 4: Right.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: That's right. I thought we were back in Freedom Park.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: That misunderstood. Lara, would you like to hang out and
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: drink moonshine on a double date?
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: Guys, I'm a Western Carolina alumna.
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: Of course I would drink moonshine with Granny Pat.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. What if I say, me and Tara, we're in.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: We'll go. How about that?
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: Let's do it.
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: Can you bring Murphy, too?
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can. You know, he's blind in one eye. Fit,
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: can you do that? Or y'all have to stay home
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: and watch TV like the old married couple you're becoming? Oh,
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: we could come out. Oh, look at that. Look at that.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: Look at that, everybody. What a night.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: By the way, Mac, can you come out? Nah, I
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: got to check on Mrs. Mac. I'm not sure. I'm
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: not sure. That might be too rowdy for her.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Mac needs a ride.
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: Mac needs a ride.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: It's easier to get out a bulldog terrier than Mac.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Somebody just asked a great question. What happened to the
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Panther stock? It's been in there. I've got to be honest.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: I feel like it stopped a while back. Welcome to the.
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: Mac and Bone Show.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: That's true. You guys got us off track today. I
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: blame Lara and Granny. It can't have anything to do
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: with us here. All right, Lara, it was a great performance,
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: and it seems like there's a great social outing that
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: could be set up as a result of this. And
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: I have put a note in your– we keep notes here, Bone,
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: on the roundtable, folks. I put in Lara's notes section,
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: do not book with Weatherman Martin. All right, I'm going
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: to put that in there. All right, Lara, you rock.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: Thanks, guys.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: All right, there you go. Salesman, very excited. All right, Granny.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: That a WCU grad is on the air. Granny, good job, Granny,
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: as always.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: What up, Mac?
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: Yo.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: We're going to win, son. It's going to be hard
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: as hell, but we're going to win.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: I tend to agree. I think we're going to fight
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: for it. But I like that optimism, Granny. I like
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: that optimism. Are you going to host this, the four-couple
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: moonshine extravaganza, Granny?
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got a nice porch. We can sit out
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: there and have a nip.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: There you go. All right. She keeps going back to
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: that one. And Bo keeps giggling. All right, Granny, you rock.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Great job on the roundtable, Granny.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Thank you, boys. We're going to win now.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: I hear you. I hear you. Let's get it, baby.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: Keep pounding, Granny. I think Granny's already on that shot.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Keep pounding that moonshine. I think Granny was stringing during
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: that segment. Oh, that was good. All right, we come back.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it was good, but I felt
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: it was good. We're going to class it up here.
• 43:27
  Speaker 7: Jones Angel of the Tar Heel Radio Network talks about
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: the win over Duke and what's ahead for the Eel
• 43:32
  Speaker 7: Sports Radio.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: 92.7 WFNZ.