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Mac & Bone Hour 4: Panthering Up? · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:20
  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson scheme.
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: Very, very good.
• 0:23
  Speaker 3: It's top, top notch. Uh, it starts with running the ball. Um,
• 0:26
  Speaker 3: you know, people are going to make a big thing
• 0:28
  Speaker 3: about the, the big plays and the, the, some of the, uh,
• 0:31
  Speaker 3: gadgets and things of that nature, which is all tough and,
• 0:34
  Speaker 3: really adds to the level of complexity of what they do,
• 0:37
  Speaker 3: but they really do an excellent job. Start first and
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: foremost with the run game. Um, everything comes off of that.
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: And then you watch how that manifests into the, uh,
• 0:45
  Speaker 3: the play action game, the boots and the keepers. And, uh,
• 0:49
  Speaker 3: they have, uh, a really good way of a blend
• 0:52
  Speaker 3: of the scheme and a blend of the execution and
• 0:58
  Speaker 3: a blend of the toughness that they bring. And so
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: I just think when you play offenses like that, not
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: only operate at a high level, they execute at a
• 1:05
  Speaker 3: high level, but they play with physicality and toughness and
• 1:08
  Speaker 3: they have challenging concepts.
• 1:14
  Speaker 4: All right, there is Jero Avero, D.C., for your Panthers,
• 1:18
  Speaker 4: talking about what to expect from the Chicago Bears. Mac
• 1:22
  Speaker 4: is now back with us.
• 1:23
  Speaker 5: You okay? You okay, man?
• 1:26
  Speaker 4: I can't even describe what's happening behind the scenes right now.
• 1:31
  Speaker 5: I don't want to describe it.
• 1:32
  Speaker 4: Let's just say we got this segment started by Mac
• 1:35
  Speaker 4: firing off his own gas.
• 1:36
  Speaker 5: Oh, my gosh. Unbelievable, man.
• 1:38
  Speaker 6: Mac can't pass a little gas without the whole city
• 1:41
  Speaker 6: of Charlotte knowing.
• 1:42
  Speaker 5: Unbelievable. Then you broke the air freshener. You were scrambling around.
• 1:46
  Speaker 6: Oh, my God.
• 1:47
  Speaker 5: Oh, my God.
• 1:48
  Speaker 6: Anyway, very professional. We are very professional here, y'all. That is,
• 1:53
  Speaker 6: we got to pull it together, Bone. It's game week, man.
• 1:55
  Speaker 6: It's week one, baby. That's such preseason stuff to have happen.
• 1:58
  Speaker 6: All right, that's on me. That is a preseason moment.
• 2:01
  Speaker 6: I'm not ready to go to air because I got
• 2:02
  Speaker 6: to lights all the studio.
• 2:05
  Speaker 5: You're running around here. You're running around here. I got
• 2:07
  Speaker 5: a shot at 52 just in case. You know what
• 2:09
  Speaker 5: I mean?
• 2:09
  Speaker 6: I just kind of put some good sense back there
• 2:11
  Speaker 6: behind him as well.
• 2:12
  Speaker 5: But that was on me, y'all. That was on me.
• 2:14
  Speaker 5: And that was Jiro Vero of the Panthers. I've started.
• 2:18
  Speaker 5: This is the way the Panthers perform in week one.
• 2:20
  Speaker 6: They make a stinky and then they can't get it
• 2:24
  Speaker 6: smelling good until.
• 2:25
  Speaker 5: Later in the season.
• 2:26
  Speaker 4: This is I pulled a Panther week one right there.
• 2:29
  Speaker 4: We're talking deep dish.
• 2:32
  Speaker 6: Anyway, Avera was talking about Ben Johnson. I just want
• 2:35
  Speaker 6: to say this right now because somebody said Mac has
• 2:37
  Speaker 6: no respect for Ben Johnson or Caleb Williams. Caleb Williams. Listen, man,
• 2:41
  Speaker 6: the guy's a hell of a young talent. I don't
• 2:43
  Speaker 6: think you can deny that. Ben Johnson. Somebody said, Mac,
• 2:47
  Speaker 6: you wish he was our coach or whatever. There was
• 2:49
  Speaker 6: a time where I did. I mean, I'm going to
• 2:51
  Speaker 6: roll with Canales now. I'm going to roll with my guys.
• 2:55
  Speaker 6: But hell yeah, I think he's brilliant. I really do.
• 2:57
  Speaker 6: And I actually, even though he kind of annoyed me
• 3:00
  Speaker 6: a little bit, Bone, with the... Our goal is not
• 3:04
  Speaker 6: just to win the Super Bowl, but we want to
• 3:06
  Speaker 6: win every game and we want to score the most
• 3:08
  Speaker 6: points in NFL history.
• 3:09
  Speaker 5: Like, it feels like a little too much. But I just...
• 3:13
  Speaker 5: If he was my coach.
• 3:16
  Speaker 6: That whole intensity and the thing where he goes after LaFleur.
• 3:21
  Speaker 5: And the Packers, I would love that if he was
• 3:23
  Speaker 5: my coach.
• 3:24
  Speaker 6: I don't want to act like I don't respect what
• 3:26
  Speaker 6: he's doing there, but I think the Carolina Panthers, and
• 3:30
  Speaker 6: we're going to do our predictions here. We want to
• 3:31
  Speaker 6: hear your predictions. I think they've got a great chance, Bone,
• 3:34
  Speaker 6: to win this game, man.
• 3:35
  Speaker 5: I really do. I do.
• 3:37
  Speaker 4: I respect the Bears' offense, but you said it when
• 3:40
  Speaker 4: the show began. Week one can be very unpredictable. Well,
• 3:44
  Speaker 4: the Bears may go on to win 11 or 12
• 3:47
  Speaker 4: games this year.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. We'll see. I don't know if I
• 3:50
  Speaker 5: trust their.
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  Speaker 4: Defense all that much, but they're probably a playoff team again.
• 3:55
  Speaker 4: But I think in week one, the Panthers can utilize
• 3:58
  Speaker 4: a little bit of the disrespect card here for how
• 4:01
  Speaker 4: much the Bears are being talked up, how little the
• 4:03
  Speaker 4: Panthers are being talked about. When they weren't really, Mac,
• 4:06
  Speaker 4: that far apart from each other last year, the Bears
• 4:09
  Speaker 4: went one step further. They're both teams that are emerging.
• 4:12
  Speaker 4: And when you hear people talk about the Bears, it's
• 4:15
  Speaker 4: almost like they're talked about in ways of future contender,
• 4:19
  Speaker 4: and they're building, and they're this and that. And then
• 4:21
  Speaker 4: the Panthers, you look at power rankings and projections, and
• 4:23
  Speaker 4: it's six wins, and they're 23rd in the power rankings.
• 4:26
  Speaker 4: And the Bears are thought to be this and that.
• 4:28
  Speaker 4: And I know their quarterback is getting better, but I
• 4:30
  Speaker 4: think it's a lot more even than people want to realize.
• 4:33
  Speaker 4: And I think the Panthers on Sunday will come out
• 4:36
  Speaker 4: a lot more balanced. The Bears have the strongest unit
• 4:40
  Speaker 4: in the game of their offense, but I think when
• 4:43
  Speaker 4: you look at the totality of both teams, the Panthers
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  Speaker 4: are a much more balanced operation than the Bears are
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  Speaker 4: in week number one.
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  Speaker 5: I think, Bone, you said it.
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  Speaker 6: That national media hype that they get, it feels a
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  Speaker 6: little over the top.
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  Speaker 5: It's a city that... It's a team and a franchise.
• 4:58
  Speaker 5: They love hyping nationally. It really is.
• 5:00
  Speaker 6: And I don't think we are that far apart. And
• 5:03
  Speaker 6: I think that's going to be proven on Sunday.
• 5:05
  Speaker 5: I really do.
• 5:06
  Speaker 6: Listen, have I been nervous about the offense bone leading
• 5:09
  Speaker 6: up to this?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I have been.
• 5:11
  Speaker 6: It hasn't been the most beautiful preseason. I watched that
• 5:14
  Speaker 6: joint practice, but this bears defense feels bone like the
• 5:18
  Speaker 6: perfect unit for our usually slow starting offense in week
• 5:23
  Speaker 6: one to go up against. And if we don't Do
• 5:26
  Speaker 6: damage against their defense. Don't worry, we're going to be
• 5:29
  Speaker 6: all kind of frustrated and angry and venting on Monday.
• 5:32
  Speaker 4: If they can't get off to a good start these
• 5:34
  Speaker 4: first two weeks, then that's completely on them and they're
• 5:37
  Speaker 4: just not very good.
• 5:38
  Speaker 5: Then, right?
• 5:39
  Speaker 6: Just a horrible sign, Bone. But I think, you know,
• 5:43
  Speaker 6: I do worry a little bit. Will the Panthers protect
• 5:45
  Speaker 6: the football? They have not been good at that in
• 5:46
  Speaker 6: these week one games. And the Bears were so good
• 5:49
  Speaker 6: last year at forcing turnovers. But who really expects the
• 5:53
  Speaker 6: Bears to be that good at forcing turnovers this year?
• 5:55
  Speaker 6: They lost their top two interceptors from last year in
• 5:57
  Speaker 6: the secondary. Two other players that are on this current
• 6:00
  Speaker 6: secondary are out, including big-money safety Kobe Bryant. They're missing Gordon,
• 6:06
  Speaker 6: their slot corner, and they may be starting a fourth-round
• 6:09
  Speaker 6: rookie at slot corner. Dean Amin's a rookie, although... going
• 6:12
  Speaker 6: to be good. Yeah, but you're catching him in his
• 6:14
  Speaker 6: first game. I just think Bryce can have a game.
• 6:17
  Speaker 6: As far as pass protection, you're talking about a Bears
• 6:20
  Speaker 6: team bone that was towards the bottom of the league
• 6:23
  Speaker 6: in pressure percentage last year. They were 25th in pressure percentage,
• 6:28
  Speaker 6: 23rd in sack percentage, and I think their pass rush
• 6:30
  Speaker 6: is one-dimensional.
• 6:32
  Speaker 5: I think it's Montez Sweat or Bust.
• 6:34
  Speaker 6: So yeah, Montez Sweat can give Freeling the business, but
• 6:37
  Speaker 6: how often are we going to leave Freeling one-on-one? I
• 6:40
  Speaker 6: think we're going to give him help. I think we're
• 6:42
  Speaker 6: going to chip on him over there and make those
• 6:44
  Speaker 6: other guys beat us. So I think this can be
• 6:46
  Speaker 6: a much better start for Bryce than we've normally seen.
• 6:50
  Speaker 6: I'm not going to act, Bone, like it's not scary
• 6:53
  Speaker 6: on the other side of the ball. When the Panthers
• 6:55
  Speaker 6: have the ball, my God, they can do everything. Big plays,
• 7:00
  Speaker 6: run game. I think this defense bone and this front
• 7:04
  Speaker 6: seven is vastly improved. Last season's defense, the Bears might
• 7:09
  Speaker 6: hang 34. I'm not thinking that's happening against this new
• 7:13
  Speaker 6: and improved defense.
• 7:14
  Speaker 4: I think this is a game we want to see
• 7:15
  Speaker 4: it played in the 20s for a couple of reasons.
• 7:18
  Speaker 4: First of all, if it's a low-scoring game, Matt, that
• 7:21
  Speaker 4: would worry me that the Panthers' offense— Even if their
• 7:25
  Speaker 4: defense was all right. If the Panthers offense can't score
• 7:27
  Speaker 4: points against the Bears defense, that's worrisome. If they got
• 7:30
  Speaker 4: one of these 13, 10 games, I'm a little bit
• 7:33
  Speaker 4: concerned about the offense having problems down the line. I
• 7:36
  Speaker 4: also don't want to see this game get into the
• 7:39
  Speaker 4: thirties because that means the Bears offense is going off
• 7:42
  Speaker 4: and the Panthers offense is really going to have to
• 7:44
  Speaker 4: try to match them. And that's probably not going to
• 7:46
  Speaker 4: play to the Panthers favor. I think it was in
• 7:48
  Speaker 4: the middle there in the twenties. Again, the word balance
• 7:51
  Speaker 4: is important here for both teams. And I think, The
• 7:54
  Speaker 4: score of this game in the 20s is a better
• 7:56
  Speaker 4: balance in low scoring than high scoring. If it's in
• 7:59
  Speaker 4: the 20s, I think the Panthers have a great shot
• 8:01
  Speaker 4: to win this football game. Yeah, I think— I don't
• 8:03
  Speaker 4: want it too high scoring or low scoring. I want
• 8:05
  Speaker 4: it right there in the sweet.
• 8:06
  Speaker 5: Spot in the middle.
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  Speaker 6: I think it could be in that 23-20 type range. 24, 21,
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  Speaker 6: something like that. And listen, we could lose it too.
• 8:15
  Speaker 6: It feels very much like a field goal game to me.
• 8:19
  Speaker 6: And Oh, by the way, Vegas has the bear's favor
• 8:21
  Speaker 6: by a field goal. Like I expect the game to
• 8:24
  Speaker 6: be really close. Both teams did really well in close
• 8:27
  Speaker 6: games last year. That's one of the knocks on each
• 8:29
  Speaker 6: of us is can they duplicate their, their late game success?
• 8:33
  Speaker 6: So I think that'll be a storyline. I feel like
• 8:36
  Speaker 6: one of these quarterbacks bone is going to have the
• 8:38
  Speaker 6: ball in his hands late. And can he drive them down?
• 8:41
  Speaker 6: But I'm telling you, as good as Bryce is late,
• 8:43
  Speaker 6: if he gets the football against that dang flawed defense,
• 8:46
  Speaker 6: what a chance to do this thing. I think he's
• 8:48
  Speaker 6: going to pull it off, man. I really do. And
• 8:51
  Speaker 6: I just, I think Darren Waller can be a weapon
• 8:54
  Speaker 6: that we use. I don't know how many snaps he plays.
• 8:56
  Speaker 6: Maybe 20 or something like that? I'm just guessing. But
• 8:59
  Speaker 6: I think he can be a mismatch. I'm looking forward
• 9:03
  Speaker 6: to this, man. I think the Panthers have a chance
• 9:05
  Speaker 6: to make a dang statement. Because you were reading off,
• 9:08
  Speaker 6: I guess, was it our guy Michael Bell on Twitter?
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 9:11
  Speaker 6: That shared the graphic of all the ESPN predictions. It's
• 9:14
  Speaker 6: like 12-0 in Famer of the Bears. Oh, it's... You know,
• 9:18
  Speaker 6: I think we can open some eyes. Most sites have that. I.
• 9:22
  Speaker 4: I would be stunned, Mac, if it's not a close
• 9:24
  Speaker 4: game because of what you're talking about. Both these teams
• 9:26
  Speaker 4: do play close. And Bryce Young and Caleb Williams have
• 9:30
  Speaker 4: the ability to win games late. So I don't think
• 9:32
  Speaker 4: it's going to be a– I don't think the teams
• 9:35
  Speaker 4: are really going to separate a whole lot within the game.
• 9:37
  Speaker 4: I think it's going to come right down to the wire.
• 9:39
  Speaker 4: And may I make my prediction on.
• 9:40
  Speaker 5: This game, Mackers?
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: Ready?
• 9:42
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
• 9:43
  Speaker 4: I like Ryan kicks Gerald to hit the game-winning field goal.
• 9:48
  Speaker 4: Panthers win 24-23.
• 9:50
  Speaker 6: There you go, baby.
• 9:52
  Speaker 5: There you go. What did you say the score?
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: 24-23. 24-23.
• 9:54
  Speaker 4: Okay, so you're in that area. You're in that area.
• 9:58
  Speaker 4: where we're talking about. It was such a big moment
• 10:00
  Speaker 4: you got lost in thought, and I appreciate that.
• 10:02
  Speaker 6: I was so excited I didn't listen to the actual numbers. Yeah,
• 10:05
  Speaker 6: that's the area we're talking about where I feel like
• 10:07
  Speaker 6: this game can be in. This text just says, no way,
• 10:11
  Speaker 6: without those two edge rushers, we're holding the Bears under 30.
• 10:16
  Speaker 6: We held the Rams at 27 in the regular season
• 10:19
  Speaker 6: last year, and we didn't have Merrick or Horn in
• 10:21
  Speaker 6: that game.
• 10:21
  Speaker 4: We still have Jalen Phillips, by the way, in this game. Yeah,
• 10:23
  Speaker 4: the guy we didn't have last season. The whole front's
• 10:25
  Speaker 4: not out. Devin Lloyd, no Cherokee we didn't have last season.
• 10:28
  Speaker 6: Like, I still think even with those— like, Pat Jones, we
• 10:31
  Speaker 6: didn't have most of the season last year. And Derrick
• 10:33
  Speaker 6: Brown was coming off injury also, by the way. He
• 10:34
  Speaker 6: was coming off injury. You expect him to be more
• 10:36
  Speaker 6: healthy this year.
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: Scorton?
• 10:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're missing Skorton, but you.
• 10:41
  Speaker 6: Didn't have Pat Jones, and you've added Jalen Phillips.
• 10:46
  Speaker 5: That's an upgrade.
• 10:48
  Speaker 6: Those two linebackers are both upgrades, and Devin Lloyd is
• 10:51
  Speaker 6: a significant upgrade. So I think the front seven is better.
• 10:54
  Speaker 6: A'shawn's not here, but I think Lee Hunter and Bobby
• 10:59
  Speaker 6: Brown are guys that are underrated.
• 11:00
  Speaker 5: So if we could beat the Rams, that's my whole thing, Bone.
• 11:05
  Speaker 6: If we could beat the Rams without Merrick and Horne, Like,
• 11:08
  Speaker 6: we absolutely can win this game without Skorton and Jones.
• 11:12
  Speaker 6: And Prince Lee against a backup tackle, if we can
• 11:15
  Speaker 6: hold up enough against the run to get them in
• 11:17
  Speaker 6: third and long, Prince Lee against Braxton Jones, their backup tackle, I.
• 11:21
  Speaker 5: Think he can do some damage, man. Absolutely. All right, Fiddy,
• 11:23
  Speaker 5: what is– two things, Fiddy. First of all, have we–
• 11:27
  Speaker 5: People are really excited I picked the Panthers. Is that– seriously,
• 11:30
  Speaker 5: they are? No, no. They're highly concerned. Okay. Fiddy, have
• 11:35
  Speaker 5: we found Sir Loin for the pep talk? Negative. Oh, shoot.
• 11:40
  Speaker 5: We forgot to contact him. We had Sirloin planned and
• 11:43
  Speaker 5: no one forgot.
• 11:44
  Speaker 6: We just assumed he'd be like ready to go. We
• 11:46
  Speaker 6: thought he'd be on call today.
• 11:48
  Speaker 5: Everyone relax. We got time.
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: We have time.
• 11:50
  Speaker 5: All right. So in lieu of a Sirloin pep talk
• 11:53
  Speaker 5: right now. We forgot the most important part of this. Matt,
• 11:57
  Speaker 5: can you just go ahead and do the Sirloin pep
• 11:58
  Speaker 5: talk for us? I'm going to tell you right now.
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: 3517.
• 12:05
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's right. I forgot a woo in there. I
• 12:08
  Speaker 5: forgot that.
• 12:09
  Speaker 6: I feel like that should suffice. Didn't we just do it? Fitty,
• 12:12
  Speaker 6: what's your call on this game? Fitty, a lot of mystery.
• 12:16
  Speaker 6: When Fitty steps up to the mic on Panther Games,
• 12:18
  Speaker 6: who you going with, Fitt?
• 12:19
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm in lockstep with you guys where I don't know,
• 12:23
  Speaker 7: can we win this game to the 30s? I think
• 12:27
  Speaker 7: that answer is no. I think you want this game
• 12:30
  Speaker 7: played there in the 20s. Mac, this locker room knows
• 12:33
  Speaker 7: how important it is to get off to a fast start.
• 12:36
  Speaker 7: Your head coach, your owner, your quarterback, your offensive play caller,
• 12:41
  Speaker 7: every single person in that organization that gets talked about,
• 12:44
  Speaker 7: we've got to start fast. And I think they're going
• 12:46
  Speaker 7: to get off to that type of fast start. I
• 12:49
  Speaker 7: want to see this defense play with the lead. I
• 12:53
  Speaker 7: want to see this defense be able to dial up
• 12:55
  Speaker 7: the blitzes and all that stuff that makes a Jero
• 12:57
  Speaker 7: Averro at his best as a defensive coordinator. The Bears
• 13:01
  Speaker 7: are going to move the ball. They're going to make
• 13:03
  Speaker 7: some plays of their own. They're going to put some
• 13:05
  Speaker 7: points on the board. This game means more to Carolina
• 13:09
  Speaker 7: in the short term. It means more to Carolina in
• 13:12
  Speaker 7: the long term. It's going to be a great scene
• 13:14
  Speaker 7: at the bank on Sunday, even with you in the
• 13:17
  Speaker 7: press box eating three bags of popcorn.
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  Speaker 5: Give me the Panthers, 27-23. There you go.
• 13:23
  Speaker 8: There you go, baby.
• 13:25
  Speaker 5: There you go. I like it, Fit. I like it, baby.
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: Want more 50 Panther win predictions? Join us next Tuesday.
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: Or next Friday.
• 13:33
  Speaker 5: We'll have more. I don't know why I said Tuesday.
• 13:35
  Speaker 5: At some point, do I have to pick them to
• 13:36
  Speaker 5: lose a game? Did you pick them every game last year?
• 13:39
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 13:39
  Speaker 4: I thought you didn't pick one, didn't you? There was
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: one where you sounded dejected, but you picked them anyway.
• 13:44
  Speaker 5: You picked them anyway. You had to commit. You had
• 13:46
  Speaker 5: to commit to the bit. All right. I am going
• 13:50
  Speaker 5: to make it a clean sweep. I'm sorry, Panther fans.
• 13:52
  Speaker 6: I know you get nervous when we get this confident,
• 13:56
  Speaker 6: but I really think Bryce, T-Mac, Coker, Waller, Horn. I
• 14:01
  Speaker 6: think Horn can make a big play in the return
• 14:03
  Speaker 6: game and the passing game. Or maybe it's an end
• 14:05
  Speaker 6: around in the run game. But I think there'll be
• 14:07
  Speaker 6: big plays. Chicago's defense last year, Bone, was the third
• 14:11
  Speaker 6: worst at giving up explosive plays.
• 14:14
  Speaker 5: I think we can make some big plays.
• 14:16
  Speaker 6: You look back at the home games we won last
• 14:18
  Speaker 6: year that were big. The Rams game in the regular season,
• 14:21
  Speaker 6: big plays on fourth down, downfield. The Bucs game. Big
• 14:25
  Speaker 6: plays downfield in those games. The Rams playoff game, big
• 14:29
  Speaker 6: plays to compete and go back and forth. We were
• 14:31
  Speaker 6: a pretty darn good team against good opponents last year
• 14:35
  Speaker 6: at home, whereas the Bears went 5-4 and were kind
• 14:39
  Speaker 6: of average on the road last year. I think the
• 14:42
  Speaker 6: bank is going to be going crazy like we were
• 14:44
  Speaker 6: last year at playoff time. I think the Panthers win
• 14:47
  Speaker 6: this game 24-23. How about that?
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: All right, baby. Do we have the same score? I
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: think so.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: That's why I was asking your score. I'm like, I
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: think I'm going to pick the same score you did. Oh, no.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: Dude.
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: What could go wrong? I was trying to pick a
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: score you were going to pick. And then you picked
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: the same.
• 15:06
  Speaker 5: Score I picked. Because I've been saying that. Vinny, what
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: was your score? I've got Carolina 27-23. So he's got
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: an extra field goal there.
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: Are we doing a Michael Jordan tribute, giving the team
• 15:16
  Speaker 6: from Chicago 23 points? Everyone breathe.
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: Relax. Our pep talker is here. He's got 30 seconds. Sir, what?
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: Pep us up, baby. Sir Roy. Hello. Yeah, you're up.
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: Hello.
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah. What's up, buddy? How y'all doing, man? Roy. I'm
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: down here in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
• 15:38
  Speaker 8: With my toes in the sand and raising pains for them.
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: Carolina Panthers, baby.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: It is opening weekend.
• 15:45
  Speaker 8: Chicago Bears, look out. You have never seen anything like
• 15:49
  Speaker 8: this before in your entire life.
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: The Panthers will win.
• 15:53
  Speaker 8: 75, 17, baby, on Sunday.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Let's go get them.
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: Get some. Get some, Charlotte. Get some.
• 16:00
  Speaker 8: Get behind the Panthers and let's have a big day.
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: All right, man.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: Woo!
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: Lordy! There you go.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: Someone is out there setting up their beach chairs ready
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: for a nice quiet day.
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: This man's at the beach. This man's at the beach. Although,
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: I got to be honest. He started out kind of quiet.
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: He said, hello?
• 16:23
  Speaker 8: Hello?
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: He is.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: And then he just said, what the hell? I'm in public.
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: I'm on the beach at Myrtle. I'm just going on.
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: I have to tell you, don't you think people are
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: screaming crazier stuff in Dirty Myrtle on the beach?
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: Oh, he fit right in. By the way, Slytherin finds
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: himself at Myrtle Beach quite a bit. I've noticed that. Yeah, seriously, man.
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: And I feel like it fits. I feel like he
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: is a fit bone for that atmosphere.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: A man who fits his radio show is back for
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: another season, Zach Gelb of Compass Media. He will preview Bears-Panthers,
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: go around the NFL, and probably make fun of Mac.
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ.
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: Oh it's been a lively football friday why wouldn't it
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: man first panther football friday of the season the bears
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: are coming in this one is uh Woo, this one
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: is juicy. Remember, KB and I have got the countdown
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: to kickoff, 10 a.m. to 1, live from the WFNZ
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: Doghouse corner of Mint and Moorhead. Stop by, see us,
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: have yourself a tasty beverage, and get yourself ready for
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: the game. Also want to mention, you can spend the
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: rest of your day or your weekend checking out the
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: parts of today's football friday you missed on the mac
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: and bone show it's all up there wf or will
• 17:51
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• 17:55
  Speaker 6: the hours you missed man um it's go time but
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: then we.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Have uh picante coming up after uh gelby right.
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: Oh that's right picante's picks he's four and two he's
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: going two and one each time.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: He keeps increasing the picks he wants to do it
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: went from three he told mac this week he's got
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: 74 games to go through This dude is a gambling nut, man.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: He went 22 for 25 last week. He sent me
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: the slips. This guy's a machine.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: He's hot. He's hot. So maybe I should try his picks.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: Maybe I should actually try.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: To bet on him. I did last week. Then I
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: tried my own and I lost. I definitely don't want
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: to try my own picks. I won on Friday without
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: my own picks and Sunday without my own picks. Used
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: my own picks on Saturday and lost. What's that tell you?
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: I think you got some good data there. I told myself, self,
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: you might be a moron. Our next guest, I'll use
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: his picks too, man. I'll use this man's picks.
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: He is back joining us again on Fridays to talk football,
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: and we're very happy about it. He will be in
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: the studio. for Compass Media's NFL coverage. They got Bills, Texans,
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: that's a good one. Cowboys, Giants, my God, why is
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: this game always a Sunday night game? But he'll be
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: in the studio for the national radio coverage on Compass Media.
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: He is Zach Gelb, and he joins us here on
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: the Mac and Bone Show. Gelb, how you been, man?
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: What's going on?
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Mac bone doing great. Panther's coming off an NFC South championship.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: What a wild time it is to be.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: All with you guys.
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: A beautiful time to be alive.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: Kelby. We've moved on. We're now on the quest for
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: back-to-back championships.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Now we were, it's we're forgetting what happened last year.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: We're focused on going back to back right now. Clearly.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Can we find a way to get to nine and
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: eight instead of eight and nine?
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: How does he know what my prediction is for the season?
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: One more win, Gelby, and you can still win the South.
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: So let me ask you this. I'm almost afraid to ask, Gelby,
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: but I'll ask it. The national media perspective on this team,
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: it does feel like a lot of people look at
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: and say they only won eight games. They needed help
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: in the final week to get there.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: There.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: A lot of people seem skeptical. What do you think
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: of the Panthers' chances to repeat in the South?
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: I think they got a shot. I think every team
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: in this division has a chance to win it because
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: there's not that much separation. It's a big year for
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the quarterback because you're moving closer and closer to that
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: contract extension. I think he's been serviceable the last year
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: and a half. I like Tedderow McMillan who won the
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: offensive rookie of the year. And do you look at
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball? Derek Brown's a phenomenal player.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: And I did like the signing of Bobby O'Kerrick. Devin
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Lloyd created a lot of turnovers a year ago. So
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: you kind of look at this team and you go, Yeah.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Like they could be eight wins. They could be nine wins.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: And that puts them right in the thick of things
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: to try to go win this division again.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: Who do you have winning this division though?
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: So I'm picking the saints.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: They are, they are trending. Here's why.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Here's why I look at Atlanta. They don't have a quarterback.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: So I don't trust them. I, the Panthers eight wins
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: a year ago, they got a chance right in the mix. Again,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to take the team that repeated as
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: division champions. Cause I've done that enough with all my
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: other picks. And then I looked at Tampa Bay, you know,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: I may regret not picking Tampa just because Baker got
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: the contract deal taken care of and Vita Bay did
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: as well. And for most of this off season, like
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Baker wasn't going to get the contract deal done, like
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: probably on paper, Tampa is the best team. But I
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: look at the saints. I'll just take a gamble on
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Tyler shock. I know they're the wide receiver. They just
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: drafted has already hurt, but they do have a lot
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: of a, and then how about this? Travis ATN jr.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Do you see how he's pronouncing his name now, guys?
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because we have his brother here, so we have
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: the same issue here.
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: It's crazy.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: HN? Like, when the heck did that happen? Do they
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: just want to be Devon HN now?
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: It's crazy. All of a sudden, we've been saying the
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: name that wrong all along.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: You saw that HN money and said, man, I got
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: to get in on that. And how do you get
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: HN out of that spelling? I'm just, I guess that's
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: some Bayou stuff there. I'm just confused, Kelby.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Man, man. You know, Mac, usually you and I are
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: both idiots on this one. I think we're the, we're,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: we're more intelligent, right?
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: Clearly, clearly, by the way, as far as we've never
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: called you an idiot before.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: No, would never happen. Would never have Gelby. I just
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: want to say, shuck you about your pick though, in
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: the South. That's all I want to say.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: You know what? That's not preseason for Mac. I'm like
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the Patriots and the Rams.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: What did you think of the Rams game? I mean,
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: I guess we got to give the Niners credit, man.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: They went there and took it to them. But my God,
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: the Rams were so bad. What did you think of
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: that game? And do you draw any conclusion? I guess
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: the one conclusion we draw is the Rams aren't some
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: super team that's going to roll like, you know what
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: I mean?
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: We got to chill with that stuff a little bit.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: What did you think?
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I take you back to 2003. The Patriots ended up
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: going 14 to winning the Superbowl. They lost the first
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: game of the season, like 31, nothing to the bill.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: So I don't overreact in game one of the regular season,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: but like this notion that the Rams who I do
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: think are the team to beat and they are my
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Superbowl pick, but the idea that people were thinking they
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: were going to go undefeated while they're playing the NFC West,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: that's just insulting to teams like the Seahawks and the 49ers. And, yeah,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: I don't put much stock in it last night, but
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: it's just a reminder, yeah, the 49ers still really am good,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and the Rams just aren't going to waltz to a
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Yomi, what do you think of the matchup on Sunday, Panthers-Bears?
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: You gave us your thoughts on the Panthers. What do
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: you think of the Bears both in this game and
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: this year? Feels like a pretty lopsided team when you
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: look at their offense compared to what their defense has
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: right now.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Don't you find the spread to be funky? Like bears
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: are only a three point favorite. I get it. They're
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: on the road. I thought that number would have been greater.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: So maybe there's a chance for, for the Panthers in
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: this game. And maybe it's like a 30 to 27
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: high scoring type of game between Bryce young and Caleb Williams.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I guess I'll take the bears, but man, I'll tell you,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I want the Panthers to win this weekend because I
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: do not like Ben Johnson. Like I will spite watch
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson all throughout the season with his arrogance.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: What did you think of the whole, we don't just
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: want to win the Super Bowl, we want to win
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: every game, and we want to score the most points
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: in NFL history?
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: How did that hit.
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: You?
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson said that?
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he said it this offseason.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: That adds on to the arrogance that he showed last year, Gelby.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I want to be Timothee Chalamet, all right?
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: How about you have a 4,000-yard pass, all right, Ben?
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: Seriously, they still are trying to check that box in
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: franchise history.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: When you hear about the Bears, you would think they're
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: on a Seattle Rams, NFC West level, but it's like,
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: you got a ways to go here, guys.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: You know what it reminds me of? It reminds me
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: of the lines and Ben Johnson's cut from the dang
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Dan Campbell cloth. Like it's been so miserable in Chicago
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: for so long that you got to kind of just
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: say outrageous things to get everyone just believing that the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: coach is a psycho and a maniac. And they just
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: like blindly support him and it's worked to his credit. uh,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: goes in year one, uh, get to the second round
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: of the playoffs that they could have actually won that second, uh,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: round game. If he didn't get so conservative, uh, up
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: against the Rams and maybe they would have been in
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: that NFC championship game or dare I say it's a Superbowl, but, uh,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: let's see, uh, from year two to year three, if
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams could show consistency because, uh, last year, man,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: he really did turn the narrative, which was a disappointing
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: year one. He turned it around in year two, but
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I look at that defense, uh, Um, it wouldn't surprise me.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I think this is still going to be a big story.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Max Crosby from now to the deadline. Uh, you're not
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: going to have to give up two first round picks, uh,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: like because of the whole Raven situation, but one first
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: round pick and something else, maybe the bears get in
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: the mix for that.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: Cause there is, uh, on the other side of Montez sweat,
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: we've talked about it. It, there is a lack of
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: studs in the pass rush game outside of him. Um, Gelby, uh,
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: down the road in South Carolina, uh, Dabo Sweeney has
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: been having a rough one.
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: My God, the national.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: From one arrogant man to the next.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: We had a feeling Gelby would want to jump in
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: on the Dabo stuff. I mean, dude, that was so
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: brutal and so embarrassing. How do you feel, like, Feinbaum
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: had the report yesterday that he is hearing that the
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: athletic department is basically been given, the AD has basically
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: been given to go ahead to get us a list,
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: put a list together of guys that could replace Dabo.
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: Do you think, like, is that where you think this
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: should head?
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't think it's going to, I think it should,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: but it's $ 57 million in the buyout. If you fire
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: him in season, it goes to 60 after the season.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: So I don't think Clemson's going to pay that. The
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: three names I'll give you. I love Charles Huff. I
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: took Memphis to make the playoffs before the year started.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I also like Spencer Danielson at Boise state. Uh, dabble
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: actually surprised Danielson this year at Boise state was just
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: in town, showed up and went to one of his meetings. Um,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: and maybe the former, uh, Clemson offensive coordinator in Tony Elliott,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: but it's not surprising what what's happened. Like in 2022,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: I was questioning dabble and I got eviscerated on Clemson
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: messenger boards and how I ended up being a hundred percent.
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: But you look at the last four years to open
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: up the season, they lost the Duke 28 to seven.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Then they got blown out by Georgia 34 to three.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Last year, they lost to LSU 17 to 10. And
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: then this year they lost to LSU by a score
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: of 51 to 10. It's adapt or die. And Dabo
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: has just been so stubborn in this new era of
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: college football. So no one should be surprised what we've
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: been seeing.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: I mean, they are, they used to be at that
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: level with the best with Alabama, right?
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: Eye to eye. And now you see the difference. It
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: is startling.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: They can't even compete to win the ACC now. I
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: think they've won it like twice in the last five years. So,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: you know, going into this year, I didn't think of
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Clemson to win the ACC. It was clearly Miami. Then
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: if you said Miami couldn't get there with SMU and
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Louisville and Virginia has done a nice job. So, you know,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: they're not even competing. Just that was my big debate.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I got into this debate with Isaiah Simmons. A few
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: years ago, I said to him, I go, dad was
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: no longer great. And he goes, how can you say
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: that the guys on two national championships? I go, well,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: because that's no longer the standard at Clemson to a
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: national championships just to win the ACC. And now we
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: don't even expect them to win the ACC.
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: Look at Gelby going after Panther special teams.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: It's a tough conference to win, Gelby.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of teams in that conference. Only the
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: mighty Duke Blue Devils could emerge last year, Bo. I
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: like how you acknowledge. Thank you, Gelby, for acknowledging that
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: the downfall of Dabo started because the Duke Blue Devils
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: destroyed him on Labor Day night.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: Thank you very much, Gelby. That's right.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: And Duke, we only acknowledge them in football in this
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: area because UNC football, even after getting that victory up
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: against TCU, woof.
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's the first Gelby Wolf of the year. Hey,
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: at least Gelby good. Things are going well off the
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: field here in Chapel Hill for UNC.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: At least that's good. All right, brother.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: You want to know how bad it is? You want
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: to know how bad it is? Jordan Hudson isn't even
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: a thought anymore because Mike Lombardi is such a creep
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: and God knows what Steve Belichick's doing.
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: I know, man. It's ugly. It is. All right, brother.
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: Well, it's great to have you back. We appreciate you
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: spending some time with us, dude. Thanks for coming on.
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: We'll talk to you next week.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Hold on.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: Hold on. Hold on. What's that?
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: No mention of my temple owls going up against your
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Penn State Indy lines this week.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: He's very confident right now. Oh, my God. Matt Campbell.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: What a debut for Rocco and Campbell, man. I'm feeling good.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: They're making the playoff this year.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: I think with that schedule, I think they got a shot, brother.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Temple should be in the playoff.
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: Oh, my God.
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: Hey, Matt, unless Matt rules in the visitor's locker room,
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: given that pep talk.
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: I don't think Temple can beat us. Yeah, that's true.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: I was on the call for that in 2015 when
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Temple knocked off Penn state for the first time.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: I couldn't believe it.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: 74 years. And also they sat Christian Hackenberg 10 times
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: in the game.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: They were all over and I was embarrassing.
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: Anyway, I don't think it's happening this week. All right, Gelby,
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: be good. We'll talk to you next.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Friday, brother.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: Football's back, guys. Appreciate it. Hell yeah, dude.
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: And Gelby is back here on the Mac and Bone Show.
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: He's doing national radio this week in the studio for
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: Compass Media, as he will be all season doing those
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: national games. Bone, we go from one respected, although the
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: text line might beg to differ after that Bears pick
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: and the Saints divisional pick, but one respected football mind
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: to another. Ladies and gentlemen, Picante is opening up eyes,
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: Bone Man. We were skeptical.
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: And wallets.
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: We were skeptical as he bragged about his picks to us,
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: I don't know, for about two years. We said, all right,
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: let's see you do it on the air. The man
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: has started off 2-1 each week. We have told him
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: you have a winning record in your three picks. You
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: come back. He's still standing, Bone, three weeks in. And
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: Picante joins us with Picante's picks. Picante, what's going on, man?
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: How you feeling?
• 30:37
  Speaker 8: I'm feeling great. Let's go, guys.
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: What a week. Hey, congrats on your big week last week, man.
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: That's awesome.
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: You got to follow my page. I'm five out of
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: five right now. It's Wednesday. It's been great. It's been amazing.
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: This dude's on fire. Now, people want to know. People
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: are asking.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: People think that you are, I don't know how to
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: phrase this, people think that you're a liar, Picante.
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: Well, I put the pick before it comes out.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: You're at like a 98% clip right now. People are
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: calling BS on it, but Bone saw the slip. I
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: saw the slip? You told me the slip?
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: He did.
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: You texted us yesterday and said Miami will win by 67%.
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: That's a cover.
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: That's a cover, baby.
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: Now, people want to know, last week you said your
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: wife let you have the big piece of chicken because
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: you did so well in your picks in week one.
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: What about last week? Did you get two big pieces
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: of chicken?
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: What's happening?
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: Dude, I had to put my foot down now. I
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: think I gained 11 pounds since I started the segment.
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: She did some key lime pie. I never had all that.
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: And it was amazing. It was great. Delicious.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: You've never heard of it before? It's a whole new
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: world for Picante, man.
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: He made that on Monday, and I was impressed. I
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: was like, what is that? A lemony thing, but it
• 31:51
  Speaker 8: was so good.
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: You've got to.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: Try carrot cake, Picante. It's like vegetables, but it's a
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: cake form. What are your picks, man?
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: We got to go here. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: forgot he's doing picks. All right, go ahead. Give us
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: your picks.
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: Let's go with week two. I'm excited. This is one
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: of the best weeks, actually, right now on paper. I'm
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: going to start with a team that is improving every year, like,
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: fitting with the relationship. It's Mississippi State against Minnesota. with
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: a deflated defense. So I'm thinking Mississippi State plus one
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: and a half.
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 32:23
  Speaker 8: Tyler Taylor, the quarterback, I think he's going to have
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: another great game.
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's awesome. That's a good pick. I like that.
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: That's a good one. That is a good one. That's
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: a good pick. I like that pick. What's your second pick?
• 32:32
  Speaker 8: My second pick will be Oregon against Oklahoma State, our
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: future quarterbacks. They're playing together. I got the over. I
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: got the over on 57 and a half.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: Drew makes it really slow last week. I think that
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: they're going to just swing it.
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: I don't trust you on Messermaker right now. He can't quit.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: He can't quit.
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: No, I cannot quit now. I need to go.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: I need to start going. You got a Messermaker problem. Okay. Okay.
• 33:00
  Speaker 8: So I got the Oregon plus 57 and a half.
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: Okay. Okay.
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: My last one, which is the best bet, I go
• 33:08
  Speaker 8: with Nebraska minus 29 and a half. I guess team
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: Bowling Green lost, a disgusting loss, I guess out of 10. Okay.
• 33:18
  Speaker 8: So I'm going, Nebraska is going to cover like by
• 33:21
  Speaker 8: 45 probably.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: So you got Mississippi State. Okay.
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: And Jamal Rule, impressive opening day. I think he's like
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: a top 15 running back right now. So Nebraska, for me,
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: is my best bet.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: There you go. There you go.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: So Pecante and Matt Rule teaming up. So Mississippi State,
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: you got Nebraska, and you got the over at Oregon-Oklahoma State.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: We will monitor those. We're pulling for you, man. And
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: don't let these people get under your skin here. I
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: know you're not lying.
• 33:48
  Speaker 8: I Googled Matt Rule, and Matt Rule was related, but no.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: Okay. Good research. That's your research, though, baby. Where can
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: people find your Instagram page?
• 33:59
  Speaker 8: It's easy. The Pecante page.
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: Cause I tried to find it.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: I got some pictures of a guy named Picante and
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: it wasn't you. And yeah, there were some pics that
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: you did not want to see.
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: All right. So what is it for your gambling units?
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: I got something else. All right. So it's, what is
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: it at Picante pics?
• 34:18
  Speaker 8: No, no, no. No number, nothing. Just E H E
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: Picante pics. We K.
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: All right. I got you. I got you, baby. All right.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Picante.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: Good luck, baby. Good luck on those pics.
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: Thank you, guys.
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: There you go. You are not finding that page. Yeah,
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: now you've got to look for it. Why was I
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: even asking?
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: We come back.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: It's the Wrap Up. I think we've got songs. We've
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: got pep talks. We've got picks. Now it's time to
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: wrap it all up. Sports Radio 92.7.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: So, John, what happened with the clock?
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: Why wasn't the game over?
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Well, Pat, there's a stadium clock, and then there's a
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: TV clock. And the TV clock is actually the camera
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: on the game clock. At least that's what they say
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: it is. Now, people know about those two clocks, and
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: both those clocks said zero seconds left.
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: Uh-huh.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: But what they don't know about is the secret clock.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: And the secret clock was the real clock. And it
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: had one second left, even though all the other clocks
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: had zero seconds on them and said that the game ended.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: So the game wasn't over?
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: Not according to the secret clock.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: And that's the clock that counts.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: John, I didn't even know about the secret clock.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's because it was a secret.
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: But it's not a secret anymore.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: So now people know about the formerly secret clock?
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: And that's what they're using?
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: No, from now on, they're using the stadium clock and
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: the TV clock because that's what people see so they
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: know how much time is left.
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: That is just more brilliance from Frank Caliendo. That is
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: Madden and Summerall, if they were with us today, Bone,
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: explaining the Michigan-Western Michigan debacle.
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: Oh, God, that's beautiful.
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: I love his Madden and Summerall never get old. That's
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: so beautiful. His Madden's legendary, but the Summerall cracks me up, too.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: It's so good.
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: You guys said very few words, and then Madden starts
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: going again.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: It's going to be a weekly feature, too.
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: He said on Twitter he's going to do a Madden Mondays.
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: Oh, nice.
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: I like it.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: I would like to see him do Madden, and some
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: are all talking about the college players trying to– the
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: pro players going back to college, trying to figure out
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: that whole thing.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: That should be next week.
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: Why don't you text him, tell him that should be
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: his go-to. Did you hear he admitted after all these
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: years that John Madden, back in the day– wanted to
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: sue him for his impression.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: Did you hear it? No, I did not hear that.
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: Charles Barkley actually told the story because Caliendo told Barkley
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: about it. Cause Barkley thought when Caliendo does Charles Barkley
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: thought it was hilarious. But Barkley said, you know, who
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: doesn't think it's funny is John Madden. John Madden told
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: Charles Barkley that I'm thinking of suing Frank Caliendo and
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: Barkley came out and told, and said it in an
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: interview that And then the word got out. Caliendo said,
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: out of respect, I was not going to say anything
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: about this. But he says now that Charles told the story,
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: I can talk about it, too. John Madden was so
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: bothered by the by the impression initially that he considered
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: suing Caliendo.
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: I never heard. That's crazy.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Hilarious.
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: That is wild. But, Mac, it's not. I mean, while we're.
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: We're looking forward to the football games this weekend. We're
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: having fun.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: 25 years ago today certainly was the opposite of fun.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: One of, if not the worst days in American history. 9-11-2001,
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: it's hard to believe. It's already been 25 years. I
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: tweeted out a few minutes ago. That feeling that day was,
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: I would say, numbness, helplessness. There was a fear of
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: the unknown. And I still think we feel a lot
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: of that today when we think back about that day.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: So it's wild to me that it's been 25 years,
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: but it's still such a fresh memory for us because
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: of the sadness of that day.
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we can't get on the air today and yuck
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: it up and goof off and do the stuff we
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: do without acknowledging what this day means, man. And those
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: of us that were alive that day, and I'm sure
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: there's plenty of you that were impacted by this, lost
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: loved ones, lost friends, friends of friends. And so, man,
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: we're thinking of everybody out there that was alive that
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: day and however it hits you. But that was a
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: brutally sad day. And I was working in Washington, D.C.
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: that morning. I was driving in to D.C. where I
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: worked at XM Satellite Radio. And I'm driving into D.C.
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: and I'm listening to Howard Stern's show. I drove in,
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: must have been 8 in the morning, 8.30, whatever the
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: first one hit. And And they talked about what was happening.
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: And then all of a sudden you had the Pentagon involvement.
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: And I'm just a few miles away from that. That was,
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: and I'll never forget driving home from work that day.
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: Like Washington, D.C. streets are ridiculous, right? We think we
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: got traffic here. Ain't seen nothing compared to D.C. And
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: there was hardly a car on the road when I
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: drove home that afternoon at like three o'clock.
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: It was eerie.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm glad you said your perspective, because I think
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: in our heads and certainly mine, we think of, the
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: images of New York, but we also can't forget that
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: there was D.C., there was Pennsylvania as well. It was
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: not just New York City. It was And, you know,
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: it could have been a lot worse if the plans
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: would have gone through. But heroes stopped some of that.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: So we thank the we think about those that are lost,
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: those that sacrifice the heroes of that day that made
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: it so much. Not that it was a good day,
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: but it could have been a whole lot worse if
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: people didn't emerge and step up. So, yeah, big time.
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of great content out there right now.
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: I know tonight, like the. ABC, and I know we're
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: focused on football and all that stuff that's secondary to
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: real life, but there is a lot of great, like
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: Netflix has documentaries out right now. There's a lot of
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: great 9-11 content out there. Tonight, there's going to be
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: specials as well. I try to watch as much of
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: that as I can because while it's tough to see it,
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: it's something that we never really truly ever want to
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: forget and go away from either because of what that
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: day meant. See, I'm the opposite. I don't think I
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: could bring myself to watch. It's hard, but I feel like,
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: you know... I feel like it's a reminder of what
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: we have now and how fragile and quickly it can
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: be taken away. So I try to remind myself of that.
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: Totally.
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: I do need to mention Picante has sent in, Bone,
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: his social media address. We got people asking us. I
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: did not know what the heck he said, but now
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: I know. It's the Picante, P-I-K-N-T-E, pics.
• 40:56
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: Follow him on Instagram. He has his own logo on Instagram.
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: He's got a hot pepper. A hot pepper logo for
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: his picks. And he is on fire right now. Ishmael
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: had his first Buc-ee's experience this morning. He says, I
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: didn't know they have a life-size statue of Fitty out front.
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: Is that the beaver? It's the beaver. You are such
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: a sad little bald man. It was nobody for the
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: 50 day, and this is what happened. Salesman is furious
• 41:21
  Speaker 6: with us for about the, I don't know, 100th time
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: for picking the Panthers. He says, I cannot believe you
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: are screwing us like this, picking the Panthers.
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: Salesman, what's our record in the 2026 game so far?
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: I don't count the playoff game that was earlier in
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: the year.
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: The 2026 season right now. Unbeaten, baby.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: Unbeaten.
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: All right, we're out of here. Hopefully we don't jinx
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: the Panthers. What could go wrong? All three of us
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: picking the Panthers to win. Multiple people think Sirloin is
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: hungover in Myrtle Beach. This dude said I heard his
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: speaking voice for the first time ever. Is he feeling okay?
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: What's shocking to me is his name is Paul. He's
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: one of those guys you don't even want to know
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: he has an actual government name. You just want him
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: to be sirloin of beef.
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: All right, man.
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: Like, you just need to be T-Bone. Don't be Travis Hancock.
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: Just be T-Bone. Travi doesn't ring a bell. Definitely don't
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: be that.
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: All right, we're out of here, y'all. It's go time.
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: KB and I are at the doghouse at 10 a.m.
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: to 1, getting you ready on Countdown to Kickoff.
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: We hope to see y'all down there. Enjoy the weekend.
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: Be good.
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: We'll talk to you on Monday. Charlotte Sports Today, Colin
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: Hogger coming up next.
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: Big old gompers.
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: You see the wrong dude naked, your appetite's gone. I'm
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: still trying to get the yank out of me.
• 42:37
  Speaker 8: All right, one time for the one time.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Y'all be sorry you treated me this way.
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: My bladder's always going like Carson Hosovar. Ladies and gentlemen,
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: the weekend.