Latest / Mac & Bone Podcast / Mac & Bone Hour 2: What's Next After Losing Jaycee Horn?
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- 0:14Speaker 1: There's no replacing JC Horn. He has had such an
- 0:18Speaker 1: amazing off-season, training camp, in-season, just the energy, the preparation,
- 0:27Speaker 1: all the different things. has been amazing, has been really beautiful.
- 0:31Speaker 1: So there's no replacing that. We're not asking our guys
- 0:33Speaker 1: to replace JC. We're just asking them to do their
- 0:35Speaker 1: job and we'll make accommodations. We'll game plan stuff and
- 0:39Speaker 1: help them put those guys in positions that they could
- 0:41Speaker 1: be successful in. But it certainly takes away some of
- 0:45Speaker 1: the flexibility that we could do with JC and move
- 0:47Speaker 1: him inside, follow a guy, cover Kyle Pitts, come out
- 0:51Speaker 1: here and cover this wide out. So there's some flexibility challenges.
- 0:55Speaker 1: But again, It puts the onus on execution. It puts
- 0:58Speaker 1: the onus on team football and everybody just doing their part.
- 1:02Speaker 1: The guys are ready to handle that part.
- 1:05Speaker 2: Coach Canales, damn. This sucks. This really does.
- 1:10Speaker 3: We talked about, Bone, the barrage of injuries we've had,
- 1:13Speaker 3: and I didn't even mention Turk Wharton. There's at least
- 1:16Speaker 3: 12 starters that are injured now or have been injured,
- 1:20Speaker 3: and we're only three weeks in.
- 1:23Speaker 2: This one really freaking hurts. One, because it's J.C.
- 1:26Speaker 4: Horn.
- 1:27Speaker 3: The other is because of the severity of it, that
- 1:29Speaker 3: it could be the season, although Jeremy Fowler of ESPN
- 1:33Speaker 3: has given it this wide range of six to 12 weeks.
- 1:36Speaker 2: Multiple people have reported injuries.
- 1:37Speaker 3: Torn quad, even though the team still wants him to
- 1:40Speaker 3: get a second and third opinion.
- 1:42Speaker 2: But you're right, Bone. That doesn't bode well.
- 1:45Speaker 3: You don't get a second and a third opinion when
- 1:46Speaker 3: the first one is good news, usually. So we got
- 1:50Speaker 3: to deal with this man. And I'm interested to see.
- 1:55Speaker 4: You have to ask three people about it. You probably
- 1:58Speaker 4: didn't get the news on the first one, right? That's what–
- 2:02Speaker 4: when Finney gets a haircut, he has three people. You're
- 2:05Speaker 4: not trying– They all say, what hair? You're not trying
- 2:09Speaker 4: to go three for three on that, right? You didn't
- 2:10Speaker 4: get the answer you wanted the first time around. Definitely not, man.
- 2:13Speaker 4: So this is– we got to dig in. We're not
- 2:15Speaker 4: going to have them.
- 2:16Speaker 3: It's compounded by the fact– Mike Jack has a groin
- 2:19Speaker 3: injury in his own right. No word on him, but
- 2:23Speaker 3: you could easily see him miss a week. Thank God
- 2:26Speaker 3: the bye week is next. When we got that schedule initially, Bone,
- 2:29Speaker 3: I thought, that bye week's way too early. You want
- 2:32Speaker 3: it more centrally. We've had a lot of late bye weeks.
- 2:35Speaker 3: Now we've got a real early one. Who would have
- 2:37Speaker 3: known that three weeks in we'd be begging for this
- 2:40Speaker 3: dang bye week to get here?
- 2:41Speaker 4: And we're trying to get offensive linemen back that have
- 2:43Speaker 4: been out for a while before the season got going.
- 2:48Speaker 4: This is a triple whammy because it's a player that
- 2:52Speaker 4: greatly impacts the game. It's the injury that he has,
- 2:56Speaker 4: and it's who it's to because he's had injuries before,
- 2:59Speaker 4: but it's also the person that got hurt here as
- 3:02Speaker 4: well because J.C. Horn is a very easy guy to
- 3:06Speaker 4: root for. He's first class. He's a good dude. And
- 3:10Speaker 4: you saw that Mac in his social media post yesterday
- 3:13Speaker 4: where he feels bad. He's got this bad injury news
- 3:16Speaker 4: and he's on his social media, you know, talking about
- 3:19Speaker 4: how he let the fans down. It breaks your heart. Very, very,
- 3:23Speaker 4: very easy guy to root for. You're always mad when
- 3:26Speaker 4: a player gets hurt or you feel for a player,
- 3:29Speaker 4: but especially when he gets hurt because of who he
- 3:31Speaker 4: is and also what he's been through before.
- 3:34Speaker 3: I hate it when he's hurt, man. If you're a–
- 3:36Speaker 3: you know it kills him, man. So let's talk through this. Like,
- 3:41Speaker 3: is this an injury that U.S. Panther fans look at
- 3:45Speaker 3: and say if he's gone for, you know, eight weeks,
- 3:48Speaker 3: 12 weeks, the season, like– How badly are we screwed?
- 3:52Speaker 3: I just want to say this. The first thing I
- 3:54Speaker 3: want to say is we play in the NFC South.
- 3:56Speaker 3: Because we're going to have a lot of injury conversations.
- 3:58Speaker 3: We're going to deal at 8 o'clock with the fact
- 4:00Speaker 3: we're getting texts already of people saying, it's just going
- 4:02Speaker 3: to be a lost season because of injuries. And I'm
- 4:05Speaker 3: going to keep reiterating. We play in the NFC South.
- 4:08Speaker 3: The division bone where you can be furious with your
- 4:11Speaker 3: team one minute. You wait three hours and watch Tampa
- 4:14Speaker 3: New Orleans play defensively. and you're right back tied for
- 4:16Speaker 3: first place. A division where eight wins, I wouldn't be
- 4:19Speaker 3: shocked if it won it again.
- 4:21Speaker 2: So I do want to say that, man. I don't
- 4:24Speaker 2: think you're ever out of things.
- 4:25Speaker 3: I don't want to say ever, but I don't think
- 4:27Speaker 3: it's going to take more than this, Bone, to get
- 4:29Speaker 3: us out of the NFC South divisional race. That's the
- 4:33Speaker 3: first thing I would say. It's a very good point.
- 4:36Speaker 2: What do you think about this horn injury?
- 4:39Speaker 3: Is this dude says, uh, we can overcome it with offense,
- 4:42Speaker 3: but this defense is going to stink this year.
- 4:45Speaker 2: How do you feel about that?
- 4:46Speaker 4: Well, it, it, the secondary may take some hits for sure,
- 4:50Speaker 4: but maybe if you just ride out, we'll leave, he
- 4:53Speaker 4: takes his bumps. And then in the longterm, it's one
- 4:56Speaker 4: of those things where we'll leave ends up better for
- 4:59Speaker 4: it because he had to play for JC horn. And
- 5:01Speaker 4: who knows, maybe Mac, we'll leave ends up showing us something.
- 5:04Speaker 4: And then And up comes the Mike Jack conversation in
- 5:07Speaker 4: the offseason with the contract. So I know that Will
- 5:10Speaker 4: Lee is nowhere near J.C.
- 5:11Speaker 3: Horn.
- 5:12Speaker 4: He's got his own issues right now as a rookie.
- 5:14Speaker 4: But Will Lee, if he's thrown into the fire, well, yeah,
- 5:17Speaker 4: he's going to have some moments that are bad. But
- 5:19Speaker 4: maybe ultimately this gets Will Lee going in his career
- 5:22Speaker 4: earlier than we thought it would. Yeah, and I think
- 5:24Speaker 4: he's shown improvement. So maybe that's the blessing here in
- 5:26Speaker 4: a way?
- 5:27Speaker 2: I think if you look at.
- 5:27Speaker 3: The last two or three weeks, I will say this, though.
- 5:30Speaker 3: I appreciate it. I'm not really looking for blessings. I'm
- 5:33Speaker 3: looking to defend a division title. I'm looking to win
- 5:35Speaker 3: more games.
- 5:36Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like, we are in the
- 5:38Speaker 2: point where I want progress now.
- 5:41Speaker 4: Um but that is a longer there's only so many
- 5:43Speaker 4: options though and i'm looking at will lee as all
- 5:45Speaker 4: right well you're a rookie but maybe in the long
- 5:48Speaker 4: term um this ends up being a benefit to will
- 5:51Speaker 4: lee well we'll see what happens.
- 5:53Speaker 3: As far as as far as he should have had
- 5:55Speaker 3: i mean you could or i'm not gonna say that
- 5:57Speaker 3: i think that i think in this stupid climate we
- 6:00Speaker 3: live in where you can't make any contact to the
- 6:03Speaker 3: face or face mask of a quarterback i guess that's
- 6:05Speaker 3: a penalty But if that wasn't called a penalty, Will
- 6:08Speaker 3: Lee would have made a huge play that probably would
- 6:10Speaker 3: have helped us win that game along with Caleb Evans.
- 6:13Speaker 3: I think a couple of things you've got to look
- 6:14Speaker 3: at here in terms of the J.C.
- 6:16Speaker 2: Horn injury.
- 6:17Speaker 3: I think one thing, Bone, is how long is Mike
- 6:19Speaker 3: Jack out? Because without the two of them, it feels
- 6:23Speaker 3: pretty damning. Especially if we don't have them against those
- 6:27Speaker 3: wide receivers, St. Brown and Jameson Williams. Feels very, very
- 6:34Speaker 3: bad against. And that might be one where on Sunday,
- 6:37Speaker 3: if we don't have both corners, yeah, we might have
- 6:40Speaker 3: to put up 30-something. Which.
- 6:42Speaker 3: I think we might have a chance to do if
- 6:44Speaker 3: the O-line could do their job at all. The other
- 6:47Speaker 3: thing to me is, Bone, is Averro will adjust.
- 6:50Speaker 2: And we're already getting snarky comments.
- 6:52Speaker 3: Some do said if it's up to Averro to put
- 6:55Speaker 3: people in good positions, then.
- 6:57Speaker 2: We're in trouble or whatever. Last year we had a defense. Again,
- 7:00Speaker 2: it wasn't anything great.
- 7:02Speaker 3: But coming off the year before, it made a huge
- 7:04Speaker 3: jump to middle of the pack. And they did so
- 7:07Speaker 3: with a pass rush that was absolutely pathetic. They could
- 7:09Speaker 3: not get any pressure with four. That is an absolute
- 7:12Speaker 3: death knell to a defensive coordinator. And we still found
- 7:15Speaker 3: a way, Bone. Now we had Horn and we had
- 7:17Speaker 3: Mike Jack, but this year I think the pass rush
- 7:19Speaker 3: is better. early on statistically. So I think maybe you
- 7:25Speaker 3: get a little more pass rush and it helps you.
- 7:28Speaker 4: The other part that it changes as we go along here,
- 7:32Speaker 4: but that stretch after the bye week, while I'm not
- 7:36Speaker 4: saying any games for the Panthers are easy, they just
- 7:39Speaker 4: lost to the Browns for crying out loud.
- 7:40Speaker 2: I'm not saying that.
- 7:42Speaker 4: But that Eagles, Tampa, Green Bay, that area, those teams
- 7:47Speaker 4: are trying to find their way, too. Green Bay has struggled.
- 7:50Speaker 4: Tampa Bay hasn't won a game yet. Philadelphia is not
- 7:53Speaker 4: really what they've been, Mac, in their title years. Look
- 7:55Speaker 4: at them last night. So I think that stretch after
- 7:58Speaker 4: the bye week, there are more winnable games than we
- 8:02Speaker 4: thought when the schedule came up. That's not a gauntlet
- 8:04Speaker 4: that we thought it was. That's the Panthers. It can
- 8:07Speaker 4: always be, but we'll see. That's a hell of a ball.
- 8:09Speaker 3: Yeah, when you lose to the Browns, In that butt-ugly
- 8:13Speaker 3: game we lost to, you just announced we can lose
- 8:15Speaker 3: to anybody.
- 8:16Speaker 1: Yes.
- 8:16Speaker 2: Especially after a win.
- 8:17Speaker 3: There are middle school teams the Panthers would lose to
- 8:21Speaker 3: if they won the week before.
- 8:22Speaker 2: We're so damn inconsistent. Win one, lose one, which is maddening.
- 8:26Speaker 3: But I think another, like we're talking about what can
- 8:29Speaker 3: be done, Bone, if you're without Horn, if you're without
- 8:32Speaker 3: both corners for a little while here. I think it's
- 8:35Speaker 3: got to go.
- 8:36Speaker 5: A little while.
- 8:37Speaker 3: We have been blitzing significant points. bit more this year.
- 8:44Speaker 3: Last year, we were middle of the pack, 16th in
- 8:46Speaker 3: blitz percentage. So far this season, Bone, we're seventh. So
- 8:50Speaker 3: we've been blitzing more. We've also been playing more man significantly.
- 8:54Speaker 3: We were 31st in percentage of man coverage last year.
- 8:57Speaker 3: We're 17th this year. So I would expect Avero to
- 9:00Speaker 3: probably flip those things back to where he was last year.
- 9:03Speaker 3: I would think if you don't have Horn, and if
- 9:05Speaker 3: you don't have Horn and Mike Jack especially, you're probably
- 9:07Speaker 3: not going to play man with these young corners that
- 9:09Speaker 3: we are playing. So I would think that we would
- 9:11Speaker 3: drop back to soft zones. Everybody will whine about it,
- 9:14Speaker 3: but it makes sense if you lose your stud corner
- 9:17Speaker 3: or corners. And I would think we would probably go
- 9:20Speaker 3: less splits. But I also think this year we're more equipped, Bone,
- 9:24Speaker 3: with Phillips, with Pat Jones in there. I like the
- 9:28Speaker 3: way Princeley, by the way, is No. 3 in pass
- 9:30Speaker 3: rush win rate this season. So I think with those guys,
- 9:33Speaker 3: I think we're better equipped to get pressure with four
- 9:35Speaker 3: when we couldn't last year. So those are things I
- 9:38Speaker 3: would look for. It's all about finding a way. You're
- 9:42Speaker 3: now going to have a weakness at that back end.
- 9:44Speaker 3: You're not going to have that stud corner. You're not
- 9:46Speaker 3: going to have his versatility. Like Canales said, the guy
- 9:48Speaker 3: you can move into the slot a little bit and
- 9:50Speaker 3: then move him back outside. But it's up to you know,
- 9:53Speaker 3: the coaching staff on the defense side to get to work.
- 9:56Speaker 4: You know, the the the part that that ticks me
- 9:59Speaker 4: off about Horn, it's like this text from this guy
- 10:01Speaker 4: named 704 Diddy on the text line right here.
- 10:04Speaker 5: He he.
- 10:06Speaker 2: Has J.C.
- 10:07Speaker 4: Horn played max one full year in his career without
- 10:10Speaker 4: getting injured? He played 32 games the last two years.
- 10:13Speaker 4: He's been healthy the last two years. So let's not
- 10:16Speaker 4: act like J.C. Horn hasn't had healthy years. Yeah, it's
- 10:19Speaker 4: been a struggle to get to that point health-wise, but
- 10:21Speaker 4: he's been playing fully the last two years. He hasn't
- 10:24Speaker 4: been injured the last couple years.
- 10:25Speaker 3: No, I think what he missed, did he miss a
- 10:27Speaker 3: game in each season or something like that?
- 10:28Speaker 4: Yeah, he's been much healthier. Which you'll take every year.
- 10:30Speaker 4: Then the guy says, well, he's not a lead anymore. Well,
- 10:32Speaker 4: he got ranked the fifth best corner in football by
- 10:35Speaker 4: the exact same coaches in the league about a month
- 10:36Speaker 4: and a half ago. So what are we talking about here?
- 10:39Speaker 4: I've got to be honest. These people coming after Horn
- 10:41Speaker 4: piss me off.
- 10:41Speaker 3: Other than the missed tackle where he got trucked the
- 10:45Speaker 3: other day out in the flat, and I just, that was,
- 10:49Speaker 3: you know, other than that, what have y'all seen from J.C.
- 10:52Speaker 3: Horn this year do you think was bad? Because I
- 10:55Speaker 3: think him and Mike Jack have been out of this
- 10:56Speaker 3: world good to start the season. Horn gave up a
- 11:00Speaker 3: couple of catches the other day, according to PFF. But
- 11:03Speaker 3: both these guys, whatever damage has been done, hell, even
- 11:06Speaker 3: in the Bears game, whatever damage was done was not
- 11:08Speaker 3: done on those two guys, really. So I don't understand
- 11:13Speaker 3: where you're getting that from, the J.C.
- 11:15Speaker 2: Horn.
- 11:16Speaker 3: You don't think he's been real good this season? That
- 11:18Speaker 3: makes no sense. So I just don't get it. Plus,
- 11:20Speaker 3: he's been able to go into the slot for us.
- 11:21Speaker 3: That guy just sends texts, and he wants them right
- 11:23Speaker 3: on the air.
- 11:24Speaker 2: And you know what? I did it. So that's on me.
- 11:26Speaker 2: It's my fault. I'm the dummy that read his text.
- 11:29Speaker 2: I fell for it.
- 11:29Speaker 3: Well, he's not the only one. I mean, I noticed
- 11:32Speaker 3: it as well. Somebody else says, Mac, is it time
- 11:35Speaker 3: to have the J.C. injury-prone conversation again?
- 11:39Speaker 2: Listen, J.C.
- 11:40Speaker 3: Himself, in the statement he put out, Bone, He is
- 11:43Speaker 3: acknowledging the injuries have kept me from being my peak.
- 11:46Speaker 3: It has kept me from fulfilling my total potential. You're
- 11:50Speaker 3: right in saying that he has played two full seasons.
- 11:54Speaker 3: I mean, it still is.
- 11:56Speaker 2: A lot of games. You know, you start loading up
- 11:57Speaker 2: on these games.
- 11:58Speaker 3: I mean, it still is a situation, but I don't
- 12:00Speaker 3: think it's a situation where you cut him.
- 12:03Speaker 2: You know? Yeah.
- 12:04Speaker 3: If he misses the full season. But yeah, it's going
- 12:06Speaker 3: to go right back. It's going to bring those conversations back, though, Bone.
- 12:10Speaker 3: I think it's inevitable, you know, because then we're talking
- 12:12Speaker 3: about a dude that has been injury plagued.
- 12:15Speaker 2: For probably a little more than half of his career. Yeah,
- 12:18Speaker 2: probably just about half.
- 12:19Speaker 3: So it just sucks. But again, I just it's killing him.
- 12:23Speaker 3: Read that statement he put on Instagram. It is absolutely
- 12:26Speaker 3: killing him. He is gutted, man.
- 12:28Speaker 2: You know?
- 12:29Speaker 4: No doubt. It's not like we need to rip into
- 12:30Speaker 4: him or anything. No, that's what bothers me about the
- 12:33Speaker 4: whole thing.
- 12:33Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I feel you on that one. Let's see. 704-5709-610.
- 12:38Speaker 3: The guy's trying to get hurt, right? Yeah, that's the attitude.
- 12:45Speaker 3: And I get it as fans. We're all frustrated with injuries.
- 12:48Speaker 3: But I just don't feel it. Unless you have a
- 12:51Speaker 3: dude bone that is like Kawhi. I feel like Kawhi
- 12:54Speaker 3: sits out sometimes. You know, there are certain guys. Hell,
- 12:57Speaker 3: Christian McCaffrey. I've been told, hey, he probably could have gone,
- 13:01Speaker 3: you know, back when he was here in Charlotte. Unless
- 13:03Speaker 3: it's guys that you feel like they can go and
- 13:06Speaker 3: they're just kind of baby in their engine. You know
- 13:08Speaker 3: what I mean? But that has not been the case
- 13:10Speaker 3: with J.C.
- 13:11Speaker 2: Horn at all.
- 13:12Speaker 3: You know, this dude says we have reached the point
- 13:16Speaker 3: of the season where Mac tries to tell us everything's
- 13:18Speaker 3: going to be OK, which is a 100 percent sign
- 13:22Speaker 3: that things are not right.
- 13:27Speaker 2: You don't like my speech?
- 13:28Speaker 3: Wait till you hear my 8 o'clock speech when everybody
- 13:32Speaker 3: sweats the lost injury season.
- 13:34Speaker 4: Speaking of speeches, people asking, Weatherman Marks pep talk on Fridays.
- 13:38Speaker 4: He's out, right?
- 13:40Speaker 2: Is he out now? Are we benching Marky? So what,
- 13:42Speaker 2: do we go back to Sirloin?
- 13:44Speaker 3: Is there anybody else that wants to scream and do
- 13:46Speaker 3: a pep talk on Friday, just scream like a maniac?
- 13:48Speaker 4: I'd like Willie P to do a pep talk for us.
- 13:51Speaker 4: You think he could do that? Or do you think
- 13:53Speaker 4: he just started?
- 13:53Speaker 2: Oh, it's throat code. No, he's on vacation this weekend. Oh, yeah,
- 13:56Speaker 2: they don't play this week. He's on vacation. Yeah, they're
- 13:57Speaker 2: off this week, and he's on vacation.
- 13:59Speaker 4: Yeah, so.
- 14:00Speaker 2: But he's still coming on with us Wednesday. How about this?
- 14:01Speaker 2: You don't think he'd break into a vacation for airtime?
- 14:04Speaker 2: How about this?
- 14:05Speaker 4: You can send voice text to 704-570-9610. Send in your samples.
- 14:12Speaker 4: Send in a little bit of a voice text. So
- 14:16Speaker 4: we can judge almost like American Idol style, Matt. We
- 14:19Speaker 4: might move you on.
- 14:20Speaker 2: We'll see. We'll see if we can get some pep
- 14:22Speaker 2: talkers in for Friday. Send us your auditions, baby.
- 14:25Speaker 3: We need intense craziness and Panther passion. He's going to
- 14:30Speaker 3: be upset. It's nothing you did. Mark is the team.
- 14:33Speaker 3: Unless you give Mark a mulligan.
- 14:35Speaker 2: He's going to throw punches like Dylan Stewart.
- 14:36Speaker 3: Unless you give him a mulligan bone. That's the only thing.
- 14:39Speaker 3: Do you give him a one chance to mess up?
- 14:42Speaker 3: and you still keep the job. So by the way,
- 14:46Speaker 3: speaking of that Dylan Stewart thing, as Fitty gets us
- 14:49Speaker 3: off the phone into another area of discussion, but it works.
- 14:51Speaker 3: We didn't mention it in the first hour. South Carolina's
- 14:54Speaker 3: Dylan Stewart. So this thing about the SEC and South
- 14:57Speaker 3: Carolina agreed. on a one-game suspension for punching the Alabama player.
- 15:04Speaker 3: Does that mean it won't go any longer than that
- 15:07Speaker 3: on South Carolina's end?
- 15:08Speaker 2: No. That's the SEC getting involved.
- 15:10Speaker 3: Because it said, didn't it say SEC and then South
- 15:12Speaker 3: Carolina agree?
- 15:14Speaker 2: A joint one-game suspension?
- 15:15Speaker 4: Yeah, he's on that, but he's also on the indefinite
- 15:17Speaker 4: suspension from South Carolina. So I don't know if they're,
- 15:20Speaker 4: I think they might be Two different things, maybe?
- 15:22Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 15:23Speaker 3: Because it was weird the way it was phrased, that
- 15:24Speaker 3: SEC and South Carolina.
- 15:26Speaker 2: Agree on a joint one-game suspension.
- 15:28Speaker 4: I guess he's got a mandatory SEC game, and South
- 15:30Speaker 4: Carolina is just— Why do they have to have to.
- 15:32Speaker 2: Sign off on it? I don't know.
- 15:33Speaker 3: Just say the SEC suspended him. I don't know.
- 15:35Speaker 4: He's gone for— I' d be surprised if he's back at all.
- 15:38Speaker 2: Yeah, he may never play again there.
- 15:40Speaker 4: He also feels like he's just going to eventually say,
- 15:43Speaker 4: I'm going to get ready for the NFL.
- 15:45Speaker 3: Yeah, and good luck with your stock, because you just
- 15:47Speaker 3: showed your complete booty. You're a freakish talent, so someone's
- 15:50Speaker 3: going to take you probably still pretty high. But I
- 15:53Speaker 3: would think the stock's got to take a hit. But anyway,
- 15:56Speaker 3: we'll see. My whole thing is, he should be suspended
- 15:59Speaker 3: longer than a game for South Carolina. Because if the
- 16:01Speaker 3: punch gets you a game, South Carolina, I believe, was
- 16:04Speaker 3: most pissed about all the stuff afterwards. The disobedience, the
- 16:08Speaker 3: lack of respect for the coaching staff. That kind of stuff.
- 16:11Speaker 3: He punched four.
- 16:12Speaker 4: That's the SEC part of it. So it better be
- 16:14Speaker 4: more than that. It better be more than that. I...
- 16:17Speaker 4: I would be surprised if we see him again in
- 16:19Speaker 4: a Gamecock uniform.
- 16:20Speaker 3: Yeah, it's starting to feel that way, no doubt about it.
- 16:23Speaker 3: All right, let's see what we have here on some
- 16:25Speaker 3: more of these texts. This texter says, people have lost
- 16:29Speaker 3: faith in Bryce because of one OK game. Bryce Young
- 16:33Speaker 3: and this offense are equipped to carry the load without J.C.
- 16:37Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's part of it, too.
- 16:39Speaker 3: Like, I still believe that we've got to have Coker
- 16:42Speaker 3: healthy and we've got to get our tackles healthy at
- 16:44Speaker 3: some point. That's another problem. But if you want the
- 16:47Speaker 3: offense bone to put up points to maybe, you know,
- 16:51Speaker 3: if the defense gets a little worse without Horn, I
- 16:54Speaker 3: do think this is a year if we get certain
- 16:56Speaker 3: guys healthy that we're more equipped to do so. Yeah.
- 16:59Speaker 2: You know, than past seasons.
- 17:01Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 17:02Speaker 2: I think that's part of it as well.
- 17:03Speaker 3: If you're trying to figure out how can we still
- 17:05Speaker 3: win this division without Horn?
- 17:07Speaker 2: Have you checked.
- 17:08Speaker 4: Out the, people were asking about, are there anybody out
- 17:11Speaker 4: there on the market? Cause Canales did say, Dan, we'll,
- 17:14Speaker 4: we'll look, is there anyone out there on the market that,
- 17:17Speaker 4: that catches our eye at the corner?
- 17:19Speaker 2: I hadn't, I had not seen any discussion.
- 17:21Speaker 4: All I kept seeing was people bringing up Joey Porter Jr,
- 17:24Speaker 4: but we already went into that, that, that that's just
- 17:26Speaker 4: simply not feasible. He's, he's in a contract standoff. It's
- 17:29Speaker 4: not like the, The Steelers don't view him as a talent.
- 17:32Speaker 4: He wants to be paid. He already turned down a
- 17:36Speaker 4: $ 27 million a year deal from the Steelers. It's going
- 17:38Speaker 4: to take a first round to release, if not more
- 17:40Speaker 4: picks than that. Joey Porter Jr. is going to be
- 17:43Speaker 4: a huge investment when you already have the investment in J.C.
- 17:47Speaker 4: Horn and other defensive players.
- 17:48Speaker 2: You can't pay another. There's no way.
- 17:49Speaker 3: You can't pay Joey Porter Jr. $ 30- plus million a year
- 17:53Speaker 3: when you're already paying J.C. Horn $ 25 million. You can't
- 17:58Speaker 3: do it. To me, that's a non-starter. Here is an article.
- 18:02Speaker 3: Four cornerbacks that it can add to elevate the stale secondary.
- 18:06Speaker 2: This is about the Lions.
- 18:07Speaker 3: Yes.
- 18:08Speaker 2: I'm telling you, y'all, take the over early in the week.
- 18:11Speaker 2: Don't you think, Bo?
- 18:12Speaker 3: Yes. Don't you think both these wounded secondaries are about
- 18:14Speaker 3: to get lit up probably? Joey Porter Jr., they're talking
- 18:18Speaker 3: about him too. Christian Fulton, also on this list. Tyson Campbell?
- 18:24Speaker 3: Why is Tyson Campbell on there? Are they going to
- 18:26Speaker 3: trade for him?
- 18:27Speaker 2: Trayvon Diggins. Why would the Browns trade for him?
- 18:30Speaker 3: Mike Jackson. They got Mike Jackson on this article. You
- 18:33Speaker 3: think we're going to trade? First of all, Mike Jack's hurt.
- 18:35Speaker 3: You think we trade Mike Jack with JC Horn? That
- 18:38Speaker 3: is the SI Lions writer. Some of these SI writers
- 18:41Speaker 3: should wipe their asses with their articles. Seriously, Paul, I'm
- 18:44Speaker 3: sorry for my language, kiddies.
- 18:46Speaker 4: Okay.
- 18:46Speaker 3: If you're in the car, kiddies, I'm sorry. That was
- 18:48Speaker 3: just a— But that's annoying. Some of these SI fans—
- 18:50Speaker 3: You didn't really mean to physically do that. You were just—
- 18:53Speaker 3: They should. I just didn't mean to say it on
- 18:55Speaker 3: the air. I should have said booties, patooties.
- 18:57Speaker 4: Trayvon Diggs is still out there, but he's not— he' s a
- 19:00Speaker 4: mess himself.
- 19:01Speaker 3: This texter says, I got news for you guys. It's
- 19:03Speaker 3: a bunch of scrubs that don't have jobs for a reason. Yeah,
- 19:07Speaker 3: that's kind of why I didn't really look it up.
- 19:09Speaker 3: it's kind of like plus like you dave said yesterday
- 19:13Speaker 3: that like if you go outside you want to find
- 19:15Speaker 3: someone with familiarity to your scheme did you see who
- 19:19Speaker 3: who is the d what is his name is it
- 19:22Speaker 3: troy pride is that the db's name.
- 19:24Speaker 4: The one from notre dame right from the panthers did
- 19:28Speaker 4: you see what he did yesterday He's trying to get
- 19:30Speaker 4: back into on social media.
- 19:32Speaker 3: He basically made a comment like, um, Hey, over here,
- 19:36Speaker 3: or you forgot me or something like that. Like I
- 19:38Speaker 3: can help the Panthers cornerback situation. A Panther fan hit
- 19:41Speaker 3: him back on social and said, nah, we good dog.
- 19:45Speaker 3: And he responded and said, man, y'all gotta let that
- 19:48Speaker 3: 2020 hurt go he was laughing too he had like
- 19:53Speaker 3: laughing crying emojis while he was saying it so he
- 19:55Speaker 3: had a little fun with that but i had the
- 19:57Speaker 3: same reaction to the panther fan troy i'm sorry back.
- 20:00Speaker 4: There's a former panther out there waiting for a call
- 20:04Speaker 4: Do we make a Boodle call?
- 20:05Speaker 3: DiCaprio Boodle is out there. I like it just for that.
- 20:08Speaker 3: A little late night Boodle call? I should have said
- 20:11Speaker 3: Boodle instead of what I did say earlier. Late night
- 20:13Speaker 3: Boodle calls.
- 20:15Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness.
- 20:16Speaker 3: Josh Norman. Someone's got Josh Norman back. Storm Duck for
- 20:20Speaker 3: Chuba straight up. That's Gator Rube.
- 20:24Speaker 2: Oh, God. Gator Rube.
- 20:26Speaker 4: You're not my GM, Gator Rube. We come back on
- 20:29Speaker 4: the Mac and Bone Show. You're going to hear our
- 20:31Speaker 4: interview with Khan Kanipal. What's his status before the season opener?
- 20:36Speaker 4: How did he get hurt? And much more with Khan
- 20:40Speaker 4: on Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. Welcome back, everybody.
- 20:56Speaker 3: This is the Mac and Bone Show, Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
- 21:00Speaker 3: Mac and Bone now joined by a slightly bigger name
- 21:03Speaker 3: in this Charlotte sports landscape. I do believe he is
- 21:07Speaker 3: the man that should have been a dang rookie year
- 21:08Speaker 3: last year in the NBA. He is Con Knipple of
- 21:11Speaker 3: your Charlotte Hornets. Con, what's up, man?
- 21:14Speaker 2: How you doing?
- 21:14Speaker 6: Hey, guys. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it.
- 21:16Speaker 3: So how are you feeling? Let's get that question out
- 21:18Speaker 3: of the way. Fans did not like hearing you and Grant,
- 21:21Speaker 3: both hamstring injuries.
- 21:23Speaker 2: How are you feeling, man?
- 21:24Speaker 3: I'm sure that has to bum you out this time
- 21:27Speaker 3: of year when you're ready to get after it.
- 21:29Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, a little bit of unfortunate timing. You know,
- 21:31Speaker 6: it's better than a little bit later or during the season. But, yeah,
- 21:35Speaker 6: I mean, I'm feeling pretty good, progressing every day. You know,
- 21:39Speaker 6: I feel like I'm in a really good spot. You know,
- 21:42Speaker 6: it happened, you know, a couple weeks ago now, so
- 21:45Speaker 6: I've got on ahead of it. Yeah, and it just
- 21:48Speaker 6: happened actually up here, both of us on the same day.
- 21:51Speaker 2: Just pulled them.
- 21:53Speaker 6: Uh, you know, I was just going full speed, got
- 21:55Speaker 6: a defensive rebound, was trying to go coast to coast
- 21:57Speaker 6: and just felt it, you know, felt the pull on me. So, um,
- 22:01Speaker 6: you know, I've, I've been, I've been doing good attacking
- 22:03Speaker 6: the rehab. We've been doing a great job and, you know, we'll, we'll,
- 22:06Speaker 6: we'll reevaluate here. Uh, you know, probably right when the
- 22:08Speaker 6: season starts.
- 22:09Speaker 4: As you get ready for season number two, what'd you
- 22:11Speaker 4: work on most in the off season on your game?
- 22:13Speaker 4: Like what's the next, what's the next step in your process? Yeah.
- 22:17Speaker 6: I mean, I think, This summer was big just for
- 22:20Speaker 6: overall game growth, but this summer we worked a lot
- 22:22Speaker 6: on offhand finishing, just getting better with my left hand
- 22:26Speaker 6: around the basket. That'll make it easier when I'm in
- 22:28Speaker 6: the lane and I can go to both hands pretty easily.
- 22:32Speaker 6: And then just a lot of secondary playmaking, ball screen stuff,
- 22:37Speaker 6: ball handling. It was a big summer for all those areas,
- 22:41Speaker 6: and I'm glad you don't want to get injured, but
- 22:45Speaker 6: it was good to have the whole summer you know,
- 22:47Speaker 6: really up until a couple of weeks ago before, before
- 22:50Speaker 6: getting injured. So I didn't miss, you know, a whole
- 22:52Speaker 6: ton of time.
- 22:52Speaker 3: When you're working out in the off season, how many
- 22:55Speaker 3: shots are you putting up average day.
- 22:58Speaker 2: In the off season?
- 22:59Speaker 6: You know, not as many as I used to, like,
- 23:01Speaker 6: if you think about like those workouts, I mean, what I,
- 23:04Speaker 6: what I just mentioned, like a lot of it wasn't
- 23:06Speaker 6: like there was days when we'd get a bunch of
- 23:08Speaker 6: shots up, but you know, that, those are like you
- 23:11Speaker 6: know you're shooting a lot of layups you're going against
- 23:12Speaker 6: live defense so it's just a little bit tougher in
- 23:14Speaker 6: like a different way you know maybe not as many
- 23:16Speaker 6: reps but you're going game speed um so yeah i'd
- 23:20Speaker 6: say like the total shots was down i don't know
- 23:22Speaker 6: we probably have it up on the oh.
- 23:23Speaker 3: I was wondering what those numbers are oh we can
- 23:25Speaker 3: see your shots oh okay i'll just wait for that
- 23:27Speaker 3: to come back.
- 23:28Speaker 6: Around yeah yeah so that's in the last week so
- 23:32Speaker 6: yeah i mean we probably have numbers from Was that you, 8.51? Yeah, 8.51.
- 23:38Speaker 2: It's firing.
- 23:39Speaker 6: 9.47. Yeah, I'm barely shooting.
- 23:43Speaker 3: So you're working on other things. Now, when you were young,
- 23:48Speaker 3: we know your family loves hooping. You were probably a
- 23:51Speaker 3: nut about it.
- 23:51Speaker 6: Yeah, it got to a point where I'd shoot and
- 23:54Speaker 6: my shoulder would be sore. You're pushing it past the limits.
- 23:59Speaker 6: But when I was in high school, yeah, I was
- 24:00Speaker 6: just getting shots up like crazy.
- 24:02Speaker 4: It seemed like you had a pretty smooth transition from
- 24:04Speaker 4: Duke to the NBA. What allowed you with your game
- 24:08Speaker 4: to have that transition? And what was the biggest difference
- 24:11Speaker 4: from college to the pros and getting used to the
- 24:13Speaker 4: whole league?
- 24:14Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 24:14Speaker 6: The biggest difference is the physicality. Um, you know, players
- 24:17Speaker 6: are bigger, faster, stronger, uh, than college. Um, and you know,
- 24:22Speaker 6: it's just much harder to, you know, defend in space. Um,
- 24:26Speaker 6: it's easier to score in space and in college or in,
- 24:28Speaker 6: in the NBA, I should say. Um, But, yeah, I mean,
- 24:32Speaker 6: defending the spacing and also just the physicality, I think
- 24:36Speaker 6: what helped me with, you know, coming into the first
- 24:39Speaker 6: year was I was, like, physically prepared. Like, I got
- 24:43Speaker 6: a big, strong base and build, and, you know, I
- 24:46Speaker 6: didn't really have to worry about, you know, putting on
- 24:48Speaker 6: as much weight or strength as an issue kind of
- 24:52Speaker 6: coming into the league at first.
- 24:54Speaker 3: We're talking to Con Knipple of your Charlotte Hornets, Hornets
- 24:56Speaker 3: Media Day today, and we're out and about. con i'm
- 25:00Speaker 3: going to ask you the question i would anticipate you
- 25:03Speaker 3: might have already been asked a bunch and you will
- 25:04Speaker 3: be asked a bunch i'm sure with lamello gone you
- 25:07Speaker 3: can probably finish this question there's a lot of talk
- 25:10Speaker 3: about you and brandon specifically as do they need to
- 25:13Speaker 3: create more on ball how are you feeling about that
- 25:17Speaker 3: do you feel like it's going to be more of
- 25:18Speaker 3: you initiating things and is that if so is that
- 25:21Speaker 3: something you're kind of excited about.
- 25:22Speaker 6: How do you feel about that Yeah, I mean, I think,
- 25:25Speaker 6: you know, definitely in that scenario. We've talked about Hornets.
- 25:28Speaker 6: It's an area that I've worked on all summer. You know,
- 25:32Speaker 6: and it's going to be some growing pains with that.
- 25:36Speaker 6: You know, I've done it before in my career, not
- 25:39Speaker 6: at this level. You know, I created some last year,
- 25:43Speaker 6: you know, and so, you know, it's just going to
- 25:45Speaker 6: be a bigger sample size. And so I'm going to
- 25:48Speaker 6: have to get outside my comfort zone. We've got a
- 25:50Speaker 6: lot of guys, Brandon, Kobe, Grayson, that can really create
- 25:53Speaker 6: as well. We'll have a bunch of different guys that
- 25:57Speaker 6: can share that load. I think it's not going to
- 26:02Speaker 6: fall on all the one shoulders of me or Brandon
- 26:05Speaker 6: of what we can do, but we've got a really
- 26:08Speaker 6: deep team and a lot of guys that are versatile
- 26:10Speaker 6: and can play in a bunch of different ways.
- 26:12Speaker 4: We were marveling at the national love that you guys
- 26:15Speaker 4: got last year, whether it be Zach Lowe or bill
- 26:18Speaker 4: simmons a deep love for the hornets last year uh
- 26:21Speaker 4: we could not believe the fact that he drove you
- 26:23Speaker 4: 30 minutes at the all-star weekend he drove you from
- 26:27Speaker 4: where he was doing his podcast to the hotel that
- 26:30Speaker 4: what was that.
- 26:30Speaker 6: Like yeah it was actually the when we were playing
- 26:33Speaker 6: out in la yeah um so not not that's right
- 26:36Speaker 6: but um yeah it was cool i i mean i
- 26:39Speaker 6: listened me and my dad are we're huge fans growing
- 26:41Speaker 6: up i read his book when i was in like
- 26:43Speaker 6: middle school so um It was really cool to go
- 26:46Speaker 6: over there and see his house, but also his studio
- 26:50Speaker 6: and everything. That was awesome. But I Ubered out there,
- 26:53Speaker 6: and then he was like, yeah, we had a good time.
- 26:57Speaker 6: So he drove me back.
- 27:00Speaker 4: Then he has this story where he came out a
- 27:02Speaker 4: couple weeks ago and said he doesn't wear a seatbelt.
- 27:04Speaker 4: yeah so our first reaction was oh my god like
- 27:07Speaker 4: you drove this precious cargo.
- 27:09Speaker 2: As long as you had a seat belt that's all
- 27:10Speaker 2: we need to know i.
- 27:11Speaker 6: Had a seat belt on and when that when that
- 27:12Speaker 6: came out i didn't uh i had i had to
- 27:15Speaker 6: ask him i was like yo were you wearing a
- 27:16Speaker 6: seat belt or i texted somebody else and he was
- 27:18Speaker 6: like no i definitely wasn't which i didn't even notice oh.
- 27:22Speaker 3: Man yeah now he'll refer to you lovingly as his
- 27:24Speaker 3: son now that's a good thing but i would think
- 27:27Speaker 3: like y'all nerded out like y'all are both basketball nerds
- 27:31Speaker 3: right like y'all must have had some fun conversations.
- 27:34Speaker 6: Yeah he uh i mean that was that was right
- 27:36Speaker 6: after my packers lost in the playoffs and he did
- 27:39Speaker 6: like a whole whole breakdown on like the most devastating
- 27:42Speaker 6: you know packers playoff losses and i was like man
- 27:45Speaker 6: i know this isn't a fun conversation but um you
- 27:47Speaker 6: know he's definitely you know knowledgeable about all sorts of
- 27:51Speaker 6: sports so i think that's those are always fun conversations
- 27:53Speaker 6: for me all right.
- 27:54Speaker 4: We got to talk a little some duke stuff here and.
- 27:56Speaker 3: So Boak wore the Duke hat for interviews with Con
- 27:59Speaker 3: and Grayson today.
- 28:00Speaker 4: So your brother Cager's coming in next season at Duke, right?
- 28:03Speaker 4: So what are we getting with Cager here? So like
- 28:05Speaker 4: a 6'10 version of you? Is that what we're getting here?
- 28:08Speaker 4: What's going on?
- 28:09Speaker 6: Yeah, he's 6'10. We play a little bit differently. He's 6'10,
- 28:12Speaker 6: but he moves like he's 6'6. So he can guard,
- 28:16Speaker 6: you know, one through four. He can really slide his feet,
- 28:19Speaker 6: super long arms. Um, and that's the part of his,
- 28:22Speaker 6: his game that Duke's really loved. This is ability to defend. Um,
- 28:26Speaker 6: you know, they like to switch everything. They like big guys, um, uh,
- 28:30Speaker 6: you know, that can guard with length. So he's going to,
- 28:32Speaker 6: that's going to be a big, big strength of his,
- 28:34Speaker 6: but then also you can shoot the crap out of it. So, um,
- 28:36Speaker 6: you know, he's, he's got a long ways to go physically,
- 28:38Speaker 6: you know, which is his body and he'll keep growing
- 28:40Speaker 6: into it. Um, but he's working really hard and he's,
- 28:43Speaker 6: he's getting himself prepared for, for next season.
- 28:45Speaker 4: That's cool.
- 28:46Speaker 3: That's cool. Do you, uh, what was your reaction to
- 28:49Speaker 3: the Lomelo trade? Like it, the report came out that
- 28:52Speaker 3: LaMelo was traded while we're on the air. And I mean,
- 28:55Speaker 3: we and the fans on the text line, it took
- 28:58Speaker 3: us a while to come to terms with this. Like,
- 29:00Speaker 3: at first, we're upset. We want to know the details.
- 29:04Speaker 3: As a friend and as a teammate, like, how did
- 29:06Speaker 3: that hit you initially?
- 29:09Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think we had, you know, Colin
- 29:13Speaker 6: was traded at the deadline. So just like having teammate
- 29:17Speaker 6: that's like on the you know he was on our
- 29:18Speaker 6: bus and like all of a sudden he's like getting
- 29:20Speaker 6: off the bus you know because he's going to Chicago
- 29:22Speaker 6: or whatever and the mellow thing kind of happened quickly
- 29:25Speaker 6: you know like it was the night before I saw
- 29:27Speaker 6: some reports and I woke up to a bunch of
- 29:29Speaker 6: texts like my uncle's like yeah you think this is
- 29:31Speaker 6: gonna happen I was like I have no I have
- 29:33Speaker 6: no idea came in the building and yeah he got
- 29:35Speaker 6: traded that morning. That part of the business is tough.
- 29:42Speaker 6: You have a teammate one day, he was in here
- 29:44Speaker 6: every day in the spring, and then the next day
- 29:47Speaker 6: he's gone. But that's why you've got to really pour
- 29:50Speaker 6: into those relationships. in this sport because it's important because
- 29:54Speaker 6: not everything lasts forever. I really enjoyed being around him
- 29:58Speaker 6: every day. He was great to everybody in the building.
- 30:02Speaker 6: We wish him success with the T-Wolves.
- 30:05Speaker 3: What are you going to miss more?
- 30:06Speaker 2: The passes or the humor?
- 30:09Speaker 6: Humor for sure. The court and stuff is fun but
- 30:15Speaker 6: the relationships like I just mentioned are what it's all about.
- 30:18Speaker 6: It's one of the things I think is really special
- 30:19Speaker 6: about this group is we already have really good rapport
- 30:23Speaker 6: in the locker room, and we enjoy each other.
- 30:25Speaker 4: Well, we're looking forward to you year two. Even though
- 30:27Speaker 4: Bello's gone, it feels like there's a lot of excitement.
- 30:30Speaker 4: You're a big part of that, man. We can't wait
- 30:32Speaker 4: to watch you here do your thing. I appreciate it.
- 30:34Speaker 4: Get better, too, man. Thank you, Con. I got a hamstring, too,
- 30:37Speaker 4: myself here, but we'll share notes. You did hurt that running, though.
- 30:40Speaker 2: I know that. No, no.
- 30:41Speaker 4: It was actually walking over here.
- 30:43Speaker 2: All right, Con. Good luck this year, man. Appreciate you.
- 30:46Speaker 6: Appreciate you guys. Thanks. All right.
- 30:47Speaker 4: Thanks, Con.
- 30:48Speaker 3: That is Conn Knipple, your Charlotte Hornets, a man that
- 30:51Speaker 3: was unjustly robbed of the NBA Rookie of the Year
- 30:54Speaker 3: last year, working on more on his all-around game bone.
- 30:59Speaker 3: And he did confirm, hey, it's going to be on
- 31:01Speaker 3: me and Brandon to do a little more creation of
- 31:04Speaker 3: things without LaMelo Ball. He was a joy to talk to.
- 31:08Speaker 3: And it seems like he came into the league as
- 31:10Speaker 3: a guy, he didn't have a lot to say.
- 31:12Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
- 31:12Speaker 3: Just kind of, you know, wasn't like he was, you know,
- 31:16Speaker 3: rude about it, but just kind of didn't really have
- 31:18Speaker 3: long answers.
- 31:20Speaker 2: That one seemed.
- 31:20Speaker 3: To me like he opened up a bit there, and
- 31:23Speaker 3: even listening to his media day presser, seems like he's
- 31:25Speaker 3: opening up a little bit now.
- 31:27Speaker 2: Yeah, I had more questions, too.
- 31:28Speaker 4: I need to get into his uncle's basketball team, the
- 31:32Speaker 4: Flying Caniples.
- 31:33Speaker 3: We didn't ask him about that, or the rec league
- 31:35Speaker 3: that he plays in, the league with all the unks.
- 31:37Speaker 4: We were a little bit pressed for time, a very
- 31:39Speaker 4: busy day media-wise for them, so we didn't have a
- 31:41Speaker 4: chance to get into the depth of that. But yeah,
- 31:44Speaker 4: I need to know more about the Flying Caniples.
- 31:46Speaker 3: This dude wanted us to ask if he's ever rode
- 31:49Speaker 3: in the car with Mello, which is another great question.
- 31:54Speaker 3: Have you done, what's scarier, Bone, the Richard Petty driving
- 31:57Speaker 3: experience ride-along or a LaMelo ride-along?
- 32:00Speaker 2: There's no question, is there? That's an easy one.
- 32:02Speaker 4: When we were driving to the arena yesterday, I pointed
- 32:04Speaker 4: out a lot of the people walking in that area
- 32:07Speaker 4: felt a lot safer now that Melo is off the streets.
- 32:12Speaker 2: Oh, man.
- 32:12Speaker 4: Imagine the stress walking when Melo was going to the arena.
- 32:15Speaker 4: Hold your loved ones.
- 32:18Speaker 3: Did anybody even walk out and go to lunch or
- 32:20Speaker 3: did they just stay in their offices brown bagging? for
- 32:23Speaker 3: fear that lamello could be leaving practice oh lamello love
- 32:27Speaker 3: you lamello but man that driving that driving was dicey
- 32:30Speaker 3: baby that was dicey oh man all right i ain't
- 32:33Speaker 3: any good either driving lamello all right let's go to
- 32:36Speaker 3: the fit daddy with it uh are you doing an
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- 33:57Speaker 5: Getting to my update. We had a move yesterday in
- 34:00Speaker 5: the NFL. The New York Giants have traded for Vikings
- 34:04Speaker 5: quarterback J.J.
- 34:05Speaker 2: McCarthy.
- 34:07Speaker 5: Jameis Winston and his coach will stay QB1, but there's
- 34:10Speaker 5: a new backup quarterback in the Big Apple.
- 34:13Speaker 4: Just, I guess, to see what he has there. Maybe
- 34:16Speaker 4: they can develop him. He needed out of Minnesota, the
- 34:19Speaker 4: disappointment that he's been.
- 34:21Speaker 2: I don't know, Mac.
- 34:22Speaker 4: When these quarterbacks move around, you never know what another
- 34:25Speaker 4: team may unlock.
- 34:26Speaker 2: We see it a lot in this league, right?
- 34:27Speaker 4: It's true.
- 34:27Speaker 3: And he was a top-ten pick, although I will say this.
- 34:30Speaker 3: I never understood why the heck he was drafted that high.
- 34:32Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I never saw it at Michigan.
- 34:34Speaker 2: He handed off really well at Michigan.
- 34:36Speaker 4: He may be the Mac Jones of that draft class.
- 34:39Speaker 4: Maybe he moves around a couple more times. But, you know,
- 34:42Speaker 4: these guys have to find their right spot, and maybe J.J.
- 34:45Speaker 4: McCarthy will eventually find that. I don't know if he will, but...
- 34:49Speaker 4: That's what I'm looking at for him. Don't take the
- 34:50Speaker 4: job from Jameis, baby. I need Jameis.
- 34:52Speaker 3: I need Jameis' full visibility so we get more Jameis quotes.
- 34:56Speaker 2: Yes.
- 34:57Speaker 4: When we come back on the Mac and Bone Show,
- 34:59Speaker 4: it is time for What the Bleep. I know Mac's
- 35:02Speaker 4: got a story about a college football coach smearing blood
- 35:07Speaker 4: on his face. You're going to hear that one. Sports
- 35:09Speaker 4: Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
- 35:40Speaker 2: All right.
- 35:40Speaker 3: We had a concern what the bleep fan earlier wanted
- 35:43Speaker 3: to know where what the bleep was. Sorry, we had
- 35:46Speaker 3: to push it back a segment for con freaking can nipple.
- 35:50Speaker 3: But I love the passion Gamecock Moody. I love the
- 35:53Speaker 3: passion for what the bleep and we need it.
- 35:55Speaker 2: We need it.
- 35:56Speaker 3: It's sandwich bone between Panther injury segments as well. So
- 36:00Speaker 3: we need it. We need this levity and comic relief.
- 36:03Speaker 3: That is people doing messed up stuff and saying messed
- 36:06Speaker 3: up stuff. It's time for What the Bleep. What do
- 36:09Speaker 3: you got, Bones? Start us off.
- 36:10Speaker 4: Matt, the only thing more dangerous than Florida man driving
- 36:14Speaker 4: in the wee hours of the morning might be Texas
- 36:17Speaker 4: man driving in the wee hours of the morning because
- 36:19Speaker 4: this past Sunday, a 60-year-old man in Rosenberg, Texas, drove
- 36:25Speaker 4: through the front. of a Kroger grocery store by the
- 36:28Speaker 4: pharmacy area. He drove literally through the doors of the
- 36:33Speaker 4: grocery store. When asked why he did it, he had
- 36:36Speaker 4: to use the restroom, and the doors were locked.
- 36:38Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
- 36:40Speaker 3: I read the same story. You and I are all
- 36:41Speaker 3: over the same story. He was mad. The doors were locked.
- 36:45Speaker 3: And just his idea was drive right, ran right into
- 36:48Speaker 3: the Halloween candy through the front of the door.
- 36:49Speaker 2: Into the Halloween candy. He also drove a little bit
- 36:52Speaker 2: into the store. Oh yeah. It's oh yeah. Not just,
- 36:54Speaker 2: not just like stop. Like he was trying to find
- 36:56Speaker 2: that restaurant.
- 36:57Speaker 3: He literally hit the Reese's and the Hershey's bar display.
- 37:01Speaker 3: through the glass doors, ended up up against the Reese's
- 37:05Speaker 3: and Hershey bar display.
- 37:06Speaker 2: It's absolute insanity, man.
- 37:09Speaker 3: And the excuse, does he think, do these guys think
- 37:11Speaker 3: the excuse is helping?
- 37:12Speaker 2: What the bleep we doing?
- 37:13Speaker 4: Now, Matt, we want to help these guys, right? We
- 37:16Speaker 4: don't want to just mock them. I suggest maybe... You
- 37:19Speaker 4: find another place to use the bathroom, but that's just me.
- 37:24Speaker 2: Oh, my God. All right.
- 37:26Speaker 3: I've got to go to PJ Fleck. I purposely withheld
- 37:29Speaker 3: this story. We could have done this.
- 37:31Speaker 2: I was wondering yesterday where this went. We could have
- 37:33Speaker 2: done this in college.
- 37:34Speaker 3: Football conclusions yesterday bony would have fit perfectly kind of
- 37:37Speaker 3: around the colin simmons you know uh simulating the restroom
- 37:42Speaker 3: celebration penalty but this is unbelievable pj fleck we already
- 37:46Speaker 3: knew mr rode a boat the minnesota head football coach
- 37:50Speaker 3: was a little bit of a looney tunes crazy coach
- 37:52Speaker 3: right And credit to them, they beat Washington while we
- 37:56Speaker 3: were all sleeping the other night, late at night, Bone.
- 37:59Speaker 2: 27-24, huge win for them.
- 38:01Speaker 3: After the game, linebacker Maverick Baranowski's face was all bloodied.
- 38:08Speaker 3: What a name for a linebacker. And what a face
- 38:10Speaker 3: for a linebacker after a game, all bloodied.
- 38:12Speaker 2: P.J.
- 38:13Speaker 3: Fleck took the blood with his hand, wiped it off
- 38:16Speaker 3: his linebacker, and wiped it over his own face.
- 38:20Speaker 2: You're freaking kidding me. P.J.
- 38:22Speaker 3: Fleck, I don't know whether to exalt the football freak
- 38:26Speaker 3: that you are or to what the bleep you and
- 38:29Speaker 3: call the loony bin in Minnesota.
- 38:31Speaker 2: I'm what the bleep of you, though. That feels a
- 38:33Speaker 2: little overboard, man.
- 38:34Speaker 4: I can see Finney doing that with founder's blood after
- 38:38Speaker 4: a Heels podcast.
- 38:42Speaker 2: Would you like that?
- 38:44Speaker 3: You can't imagine Dave Canales doing that, so it's not
- 38:46Speaker 3: even maybe worth throwing out. If your coach did that,
- 38:51Speaker 3: would y'all like that? I like crazed football coaches, Bo,
- 38:55Speaker 3: and that seems a wee bit too far.
- 38:56Speaker 4: That feels like a Dan Campbell move.
- 39:00Speaker 2: Hopefully not Sunday. Matt, this is funny.
- 39:03Speaker 4: At the same time Texas Man was driving through Kroger,
- 39:07Speaker 4: three men, some wearing only underwear, were arrested at 4.30 a.m.
- 39:13Speaker 4: outside a Waffle House in Seminole, Florida. The group caused
- 39:17Speaker 4: a late-night disturbance by pounding on the restaurant windows, and
- 39:20Speaker 4: they were pelting the windows with meat snacks. So we've
- 39:27Speaker 4: got men in their underwear with meat snacks.
- 39:29Speaker 2: The subject.
- 39:30Speaker 4: were charged with disorderly conduct. To this day, police and
- 39:34Speaker 4: court records have never established motive for the assault, what
- 39:38Speaker 4: flavor profiles were thrown, or what specific brand of meat
- 39:42Speaker 4: was deployed.
- 39:43Speaker 2: Oh, come on. Get to the details for me, y'all.
- 39:47Speaker 2: I'm probably wondering how we got here. Yeah, we kind
- 39:49Speaker 2: of are.
- 39:49Speaker 3: I'm going to say, Bone, drugs or alcohol may have
- 39:52Speaker 3: played a role. I'm just going to guess.
- 39:54Speaker 4: By the way, do you Do you really want to
- 39:57Speaker 4: fight the people at Waffle House? That seems like something
- 40:00Speaker 4: I don't want to do. There are a bunch of
- 40:01Speaker 4: fighters there. There's cooks and those waitresses get after it
- 40:03Speaker 4: every night, man. Especially at 4.30 when their shift may
- 40:06Speaker 4: be ending. I don't know what their schedules are.
- 40:08Speaker 2: I don't want a piece of that.
- 40:09Speaker 3: My goodness, man. We do this segment to make ourselves
- 40:12Speaker 3: feel normal. I think that that might be. Comic relief
- 40:15Speaker 3: and to make ourselves feel normal. But as we get older,
- 40:17Speaker 3: we're trying to help. Hey, Florida men, don't do that.
- 40:21Speaker 3: Put your pants on. Don't throw your beef sticks. I've
- 40:24Speaker 3: got you what the bleep. A few unnamed members of
- 40:27Speaker 3: the Sacramento media that were covering King's media day. It
- 40:30Speaker 3: was media day all around the NBA. That's where LeBron
- 40:34Speaker 3: told the world he really wanted to sign with the Knicks.
- 40:36Speaker 3: but couldn't sign with them because they won the championship,
- 40:38Speaker 3: and that wouldn't look good, so he went to Philly.
- 40:40Speaker 3: My God, I bet you made your new team feel good.
- 40:42Speaker 3: But anyway, that's where we talk to Khan. That's where
- 40:45Speaker 3: our Grayson Allen interview. That's where Walker is broadcast. So
- 40:48Speaker 3: all the teams were doing media day, but no one
- 40:51Speaker 3: did it like the Sacramento Kings media. So they're standing around, Bone,
- 40:54Speaker 3: waiting for a presser. And you can hear this. You
- 40:57Speaker 3: might turn your radios up a little bit here because
- 40:59Speaker 3: it's low there in the background. But a hot mic
- 41:01Speaker 3: kept running from local TV stations. Listen to there's a
- 41:05Speaker 3: guy that jumps in here. This is listen to the
- 41:07Speaker 3: gossip and listen to what they say about how they
- 41:11Speaker 3: rate the attractiveness of Ben Simmons and Zach Levine, members
- 41:14Speaker 3: of the Kings. This is unbelievable. And I need to
- 41:17Speaker 3: know the names and identities of these people. What the bleep?
- 41:19Speaker 2: He's like a looking dude.
- 41:21Speaker 1: I didn't notice like.
- 41:22Speaker 2: And his skin's, like, so smooth. I was like, damn,
- 41:25Speaker 2: no tattoos.
- 41:26Speaker 1: Hold on, I thought Jordan Poole was your tag. It's fine.
- 41:31Speaker 1: I like light skins, I guess.
- 41:32Speaker 2: Jordan Poole. Oh, she likes light skin.
- 41:35Speaker 1: What about Zach Levine, then?
- 41:38Speaker 2: I think his personality annoys the s.
- 41:39Speaker 4: * * * out of me, so that's what makes
- 41:41Speaker 4: him not fun.
- 41:41Speaker 6: Well, he doesn't use it.
- 41:42Speaker 1: I don't look like him.
- 41:43Speaker 2: You kind of look like him.
- 41:44Speaker 1: You're getting there.
- 41:45Speaker 3: I was probably like, God, you're kind of getting there.
- 41:47Speaker 2: I remember when you came in, you looked old.
- 41:49Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
- 41:50Speaker 4: You got bags under his eyes.
- 41:51Speaker 3: Listen.
- 41:52Speaker 2: Zach's cute.
- 41:53Speaker 4: His personality f * * * ing worries me.
- 41:55Speaker 2: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
- 41:56Speaker 4: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
- 41:58Speaker 2: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
- 42:15Speaker 4: Probably because Ben overs that.
- 42:17Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 42:17Speaker 2: Yeah. Because I don't like that.
- 42:19Speaker 4: They're about the same age, but Ben looks way younger.
- 42:21Speaker 2: That's on Mike. Like, he's very smooth.
- 42:23Speaker 5: I was like, hey, what's your lotion?
- 42:26Speaker 2: And a skincare routine at one point.
- 42:28Speaker 4: Right, the skincare routine.
- 42:29Speaker 3: His skincare. Ben Simmons is so smooth. I don't know
- 42:32Speaker 3: how well you could hear that. It was background audio.
- 42:34Speaker 3: But it's two women and a man gossiping like we
- 42:38Speaker 3: back in high school.
- 42:38Speaker 2: Yeah, King's Twitter's already figured out. Oh, have they?
- 42:41Speaker 4: It hasn't been official, but King's Twitter kind of already knows.
- 42:44Speaker 4: They know the guy, at least. How about the guy?
- 42:47Speaker 3: You probably couldn't hear it, but they're talking about Zach Levine.
- 42:51Speaker 3: They're so into how he's he's he's hella cute, but
- 42:55Speaker 3: he's a bleepity bleep. And then the dude drops in.
- 42:58Speaker 3: He's a UCLA guy. They all are. So good luck
- 43:01Speaker 3: dealing with UCLA guys. And these women, listen, I'm amused
- 43:05Speaker 3: by it.
- 43:05Speaker 2: Whatever.
- 43:06Speaker 3: They're talking about how hot these guys are, but they're
- 43:08Speaker 3: jerks or whatever. I'm just going to say this. What
- 43:11Speaker 3: the bleep? What the bleep to them? But I'm going
- 43:13Speaker 3: to say this, Bone. Double standard. Can you imagine if
- 43:16Speaker 3: two men talked about female athletes like that and were
- 43:19Speaker 3: caught on mic?
- 43:20Speaker 2: They'd be canceled.
- 43:22Speaker 6: 100%.
- 43:22Speaker 2: They'd be canceled.
- 43:23Speaker 4: Also, could you imagine if Walker got caught talking about
- 43:26Speaker 4: Musa like that?
- 43:28Speaker 2: Oh, my God. He's hit the weight room. You see him, Wes? Oh,
- 43:31Speaker 2: my gosh.
- 43:32Speaker 4: When he puts his antlers up, his arms are rippling. Mac,
- 43:35Speaker 4: I have one more story here. It's an older one,
- 43:39Speaker 4: but it popped up in my algorithm when I said
- 43:41Speaker 4: to myself, this feels like a what the bleep. This
- 43:45Speaker 4: is Beaverton, Oregon. where a car thief stole a running
- 43:49Speaker 4: SUV from a grocery store parking lot, and when they
- 43:52Speaker 4: took off, they realized a four-year-old child was in the
- 43:56Speaker 4: backseat of the car. They said, well, damn it. Then
- 44:00Speaker 4: they brought the car back to the grocery store, dropped
- 44:04Speaker 4: off the child, got out of the car, scolded the mother,
- 44:08Speaker 4: for being a bad parent and how you don't leave
- 44:10Speaker 4: your kid in the back of a car unattended. Bad
- 44:13Speaker 4: things can happen. Berated the mom for being a bad parent.
- 44:16Speaker 4: Then the car thief, Mac, got back in the stolen
- 44:19Speaker 4: car and took back off again. Yeah, you're a horrible person,
- 44:22Speaker 4: but don't pardon me. Pardon me while I go play
- 44:24Speaker 4: Grand Theft Auto Real Life Edition.
- 44:27Speaker 2: Seriously. You are a terrible person. Allow me to steal
- 44:31Speaker 2: this car before somebody comes out and catches me.
- 44:33Speaker 4: What the bleep are we doing? He also threatened to
- 44:35Speaker 4: call the cops on the woman and said, you don't
- 44:37Speaker 4: do that. So then he got in the car and
- 44:38Speaker 4: took off. What the bleep are we doing? By the way,
- 44:40Speaker 4: I just want to shout out. I want to bleep him,
- 44:42Speaker 4: but I really want to shout this man out. The
- 44:44Speaker 4: guy in Manassas, Virginia bone that was pulled over for speeding.
- 44:48Speaker 4: Now this dude was doing, I don't even think LaBella
- 44:51Speaker 4: would do this. This dude was doing a 70, 72
- 44:52Speaker 4: and a 25. This guy was getting after it. But
- 44:56Speaker 4: his excuse is amazing. And I can relate. He was asked,
- 44:59Speaker 4: you know, he's riding a motorcycle, too. Are you freaking
- 45:01Speaker 4: kidding me? So he's asked, you know, what's going on there?
- 45:04Speaker 4: He said, yeah, I was going a little too quick.
- 45:06Speaker 4: He said, I was trying to hit that McDonald's breakfast.
- 45:10Speaker 4: He was trying to get to McDonald's, and I can.
- 45:12Speaker 2: Relate to this.
- 45:12Speaker 3: Because when you want Mickey D's breakfast and they tell
- 45:15Speaker 3: you you only get lunch, man, you want to rage. But, yeah,
- 45:19Speaker 3: so he was speeding to try to get the Mickey
- 45:21Speaker 3: D's breakfast before they shut it down.
- 45:23Speaker 4: And there's two places, Mac, we know where you can
- 45:25Speaker 4: never speed. nascar pit road and virginia you're getting caught
- 45:30Speaker 4: every time so that guy had.
- 45:32Speaker 3: No is that a thing i got i got a speeding.
- 45:34Speaker 4: Ticket i got the one a couple years ago in
- 45:35Speaker 4: virginia for going like nine over whatever i got a
- 45:37Speaker 4: speeding ticket in virginia as well i mean as soon
- 45:39Speaker 4: as you cross that that border to virginia it is
- 45:42Speaker 4: just they have like drones flying over now.
- 45:44Speaker 3: It's crazy i will say okay interesting i will say
- 45:47Speaker 3: this i also got caught here in north carolina just.
- 45:50Speaker 2: Ask ac ac you can you can just Voucher me.
- 45:54Speaker 2: I loved yesterday.
- 45:55Speaker 4: We won't go into details, but yesterday Mac and I
- 45:57Speaker 4: were sharing parking deck tales of our past and how
- 46:01Speaker 4: we don't like driving in parking decks.
- 46:02Speaker 2: It's too tight, man. It's too tight. I hate driving
- 46:05Speaker 2: in parking decks. You did a good job yesterday. I'm
- 46:06Speaker 2: not comfortable in those tight spaces.
- 46:08Speaker 4: I get nervous in parking decks. I get backing out.
- 46:11Speaker 4: The payment process, I'm not a parking deck guy. It's
- 46:14Speaker 4: too much for me. No, I'm glad I could take
- 46:16Speaker 4: the wheel, Boney. I'm glad I could do that.
- 46:17Speaker 3: You know what?
- 46:18Speaker 2: You should drive more. You should tell your wife I'm driving. Yeah, right.
- 46:23Speaker 4: When we come back on the Mac and Bojo, Adam Gold, 825.
- 46:26Speaker 4: People are asking about Kane's talk. We also have very
- 46:29Speaker 4: interesting Kane's news with Adam Gold.
- 46:31Speaker 2: Speaking of what to believe.
- 46:32Speaker 4: In the 8 o'clock hour when we come back, it's
- 46:34Speaker 4: going to be an ask the audience question. We are
- 46:37Speaker 4: hearing some folks saying they think this could end up
- 46:39Speaker 4: being a lost season for the Panthers due to injuries.
- 46:43Speaker 4: How much do you fear that? It will be a
- 46:46Speaker 4: QC Mechanical. Ask the audience next on Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.