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Mac & Bone Hour 1: Panthers Continue to Make Roster Moves · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: You guys are the most entertaining sports program in the world.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, stop twerking. You and I are a couple eating,
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  Speaker 2: like Lady and the Tramp. You're the lady on the tramp. Yeah!
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  Speaker 3: Cabo!
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  Speaker 2: Cabo, baby! I wish I was Boopy. Boopy McClain, man.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great name.
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  Speaker 3: All aboard!
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  Speaker 2: Good Tuesday morning, Charlotte. Welcome aboard.
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  Speaker 4: We got ourselves four hours to do this thing today, baby.
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  Speaker 4: Football and fun. And we'll also talk NC State football.
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  Speaker 4: That might not be fun, but the rest of it
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  Speaker 4: should be fun, including Tar Heel football conversation. How you
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  Speaker 4: like Bill Belichick now? How do we like Bill Belichick now?
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  Speaker 4: We will talk about it. Try to tell y'all, just
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  Speaker 4: a matter of time.
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  Speaker 2: Here on this show.
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  Speaker 4: Also, the Carolina Panthers make more roster moves. We've got
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  Speaker 4: two new additions to the roster. Two guys we've got
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  Speaker 4: to say bye to. We've got a practice squad being
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  Speaker 4: put together. So we've got things happening. We'll kind of
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  Speaker 4: get you up to date on that right here at
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  Speaker 4: the top of the show. And stop me if you've
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  Speaker 4: heard this before. Lane Kiffin versus the SEC. LSU versus
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  Speaker 4: the SEC.
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  Speaker 2: It is getting.
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  Speaker 4: As juicy as it's been. I mean, it's just unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: But anyway, we'll talk about that. We'll talk some actual football, too.
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  Speaker 4: Clemson quarterback situation kind of seems like we know what's
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  Speaker 4: about to happen. So we'll talk about it all here
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  Speaker 4: today on the Mac and Bone Show. We got the
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  Speaker 4: Bone Man here. We got Fit Daddy here. It's Fit
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  Speaker 4: Daddy's world right now. We're just living in it, baby. Boney,
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  Speaker 4: how you feeling, man? What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, big time. How's it going over there?
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  Speaker 2: Everything okay?
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  Speaker 4: Big time. I like that, man. Can we do that
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  Speaker 4: every day? Did that sound cool?
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  Speaker 2: You think people today were going to see their buddies
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  Speaker 2: and say, good to see you today, big time? I
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  Speaker 2: think you should. I think it provided an ego boost
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  Speaker 2: for me. It made you feel good, didn't it? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it did. It did. Got to be honest, he kind
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  Speaker 2: of caught me off guard there. I just threw out
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  Speaker 2: big time, but there we go. I didn't mean to talk,
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  Speaker 2: but you probably thought I had another four minutes in
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  Speaker 2: me to set up the show. The way I roll. Yeah. Mac,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to say it right now, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: starting to wonder something. Don't take this the wrong way.
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  Speaker 2: I'm starting to wonder something about. This Clemson-LSU game on
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  Speaker 2: Saturday night. Ooh, Clemson bone going to show up for
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  Speaker 2: a miracle? We'll get into the spice levels of what's
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  Speaker 2: going on here with LSU and the SEC and all that.
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  Speaker 2: Just the focus of LSU right now. Are they focused
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  Speaker 2: on the task at hand on Saturday night? Are they
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  Speaker 2: focused on the team that's coming in there? They should win.
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  Speaker 2: But are they focused on the first game of the
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  Speaker 2: season or everything else around them right now?
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  Speaker 4: It's an interesting question, Bone. It is an interesting question.
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  Speaker 4: We will talk about that here on the show today.
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  Speaker 4: We got to start getting the week one talk cranked up.
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  Speaker 2: Here it goes. We got to start. Here it is.
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  Speaker 2: What is that? Hold the tiger. Hold the tiger.
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  Speaker 4: Look at Finney conducting the band behind you, by the way, Bone.
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  Speaker 4: You'd be a hell of a band conductor, Finney. Are
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  Speaker 4: band conductors doing anything or are they just moving their hands?
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  Speaker 3: Great question.
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  Speaker 2: Do those hands... They're band geeks listening.
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  Speaker 4: I've always wondered, Bone, do those hand gestures mean anything
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  Speaker 4: or does it just look cool?
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  Speaker 2: It's all eye candy, I think. Is that what it is?
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  Speaker 2: Here's what I think. There's got to be a reason
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  Speaker 2: for it, though, right? I think it's look at me.
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  Speaker 2: So you don't notice, you know, Freddie Lou back there
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  Speaker 2: messing up his tuba spot.
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  Speaker 3: As someone that took in many a band competition.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: His sister was in the band. We had to travel.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: That's why my Saturdays are now sacred. I do think
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  Speaker 5: they're doing something. I don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Because it doesn't look like anything that would, like, do anything.
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  Speaker 2: It's weird. And how are you focused on your instrument?
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  Speaker 2: And you got some wacko up there just, like, laying
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  Speaker 2: in airplanes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, what are you seeing? And what does it make
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  Speaker 4: you do if you're playing the flute or something? Or
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  Speaker 4: the tuba or whatever? Like, I don't understand it. I
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  Speaker 4: need band geeks to explain this to me, man. I've
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  Speaker 4: always wondered this.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm over there blowing my instrument, I'm not focused
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  Speaker 2: on whatever's going on over here. No, you locked in, baby.
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  Speaker 2: You locked in.
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  Speaker 4: So anyway, all right. So I don't know. We'll toss
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  Speaker 4: it out. Is it too early for a band geek
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  Speaker 4: to be.
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  Speaker 2: Awake, though? You know what I mean? Probably. Haven't you
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  Speaker 2: called them band geeks before and band nation got mad
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  Speaker 2: at you at one time? I believe you went after
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  Speaker 2: band people before. I got going after them. I'm just–
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  Speaker 2: I use that term affectionately, Bo. I believe some guy–
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  Speaker 2: Threatened to shove his tuba up.
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  Speaker 4: Well, before he does that, can he give me an
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  Speaker 4: answer on what the conductor is doing? All right, let's
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  Speaker 4: talk about the Panthers. Before we circle back to that,
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure the answers are just rolling in right now.
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  Speaker 4: But before we get to that, let's talk about the
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  Speaker 4: Panther roster shuffling bone. Yesterday, two moves that get them
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  Speaker 4: to the 53-man roster for now. Obviously, it could be
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  Speaker 4: a fluid situation all season long, but they're at it
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  Speaker 4: right now. So let's start with Bobby Okereke officially signing
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  Speaker 4: one-year deal with the Carolina Panthers. I would expect him
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  Speaker 4: to start at linebacker right away. Next to a very
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  Speaker 4: sharp dude. So I'd expect him to be able to
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  Speaker 4: pull this off where he starts right away, Bone, next
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  Speaker 4: to Devin Lloyd.
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  Speaker 2: Similar personalities, Devin Lloyd and Bobby O. You can see
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  Speaker 2: those guys matching well, both cerebral personalities. both leaders. You
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  Speaker 2: could see that duo being pretty special there, I think. Definitely.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt about it. I agree with that.
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  Speaker 4: That's a sharp duo there in the middle.
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  Speaker 2: Not the one you're working with.
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  Speaker 4: Brady Christensen was placed on IR in the corresponding move.
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  Speaker 4: He has a hamstring injury bone. Of course, he is still,
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  Speaker 4: I would say, probably not fully up to speed, though,
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  Speaker 4: even though he's been playing in the preseason, coming off
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  Speaker 4: the torn Achilles. But the hamstring injury has him on IR,
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  Speaker 4: so he has to miss the first four weeks of
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  Speaker 4: the season at least on IR. The Panthers did add
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  Speaker 4: an offensive lineman, Corey Bullock, who was waived by the Ravens.
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  Speaker 4: on cut-down day, center-slash-guard. He has been added to the
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  Speaker 4: active roster, and Chandler Zavala has been waived. We were
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  Speaker 4: all wondering, how did Chandler Zavala make this team? Well,
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  Speaker 4: he was on their bone for about, I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: 16 hours or so before he was replaced by Bullock.
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  Speaker 4: And with Brady Christensen on IR and Zavala gone, then
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  Speaker 4: I would say Bullock probably, who's very inexperienced, Has only
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  Speaker 4: played 13 regular season snaps. I would say, Bone, he's
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  Speaker 4: probably the backup guard. Because I don't think Sam Hecht...
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  Speaker 4: I don't really feel like they've played Sam Hecht at
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  Speaker 4: guard at all.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't play guard in college. No, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 4: So, it's... Bullock seems like he might have some talent,
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  Speaker 4: but he's a very inexperienced backup guy on the inside.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's undrafted in the 2024 class, finished his career
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  Speaker 2: at Maryland, Mac, but he started at one of the
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  Speaker 2: local schools that you love to say the name, North
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  Speaker 2: Carolina Central. North Carolina Central! They'll come up later in
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  Speaker 2: this segment, too, by the way. There you go. They
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  Speaker 2: will come up. So, yeah, he's got local ties there
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  Speaker 2: from his college days before going to Maryland.
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  Speaker 4: 111 preseason snaps and three preseasons, only one pressure allowed.
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  Speaker 4: That ain't too shabby. 6'4, 331, that ain't too shabby.
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  Speaker 2: Has the versatility that you mentioned of multiple spots, which
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  Speaker 2: you know that they like the backup guys to be
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  Speaker 2: able to move around and do different things. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: see what he can do.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it is an inexperienced first guy up. I feel
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  Speaker 4: better about Brady Christensen being the first guy up at guard,
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  Speaker 4: but that can't happen when Brady Christensen's got a hammy
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  Speaker 4: injury and has to go on the IR. That's been
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  Speaker 4: the constant story of Brady Christensen also, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: It's just... can't sustain health from up here yeah it's
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  Speaker 2: been a big part between that and his versatility right
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  Speaker 2: that's been the the versatility has been the good thing
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  Speaker 2: um the injuries have been the bad thing no doubt
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  Speaker 2: about it um i will say this about bullock he
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  Speaker 2: did beat out nick samak who the panthers waved the
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  Speaker 2: other day um for a spot on baltimore's roster last
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  Speaker 2: year just to give you a little, you know, where's.
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  Speaker 4: He at on the same act scale? He's just, he
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  Speaker 4: was ahead of him in Baltimore last year. So obviously
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  Speaker 4: bone with Chandler Zavala gone, only Bryce young remains from
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  Speaker 4: the 2023 Panther draft class.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was a very long time ago, right?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 2: Three years.
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  Speaker 4: That draft, the combination of Federer's last draft and Morgan's
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  Speaker 4: first draft is It's looking like two rough years back
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  Speaker 4: to back in the old draft.
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  Speaker 2: To quote what the kids say, I believe, of Mac Jr.
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  Speaker 2: 's age, cheeks.
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  Speaker 4: They drafted Cheeks and not Moe Cheeks. 2023 was the
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  Speaker 4: left one. 2024 was the right cheek.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently. We need to mention. Very mature show moment there.
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  Speaker 4: Speaking of Nick Samak, Minnesota claimed him yesterday to their
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  Speaker 4: active roster. And the Jets claimed Trevin Wallace. So there
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  Speaker 4: you go, Bone. You get to keep rooting for Trevin Wallace.
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  Speaker 4: He will be wearing Jets green, though, now.
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  Speaker 2: When you have the amount of teams I root for,
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  Speaker 2: you're never far away from a guy just rejoining you
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  Speaker 2: one day later. It makes sense. Third round pick.
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  Speaker 4: I kind of thought somebody surely has to try to
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  Speaker 4: pick him up here because he was a third-round pick
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  Speaker 4: just two-plus years ago. So we'll see if they can
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  Speaker 4: get anything out of him. Well, they're going to be
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  Speaker 4: thinking the Panthers are a playoff team. This guy was
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  Speaker 4: a starter. He's got to have some value to him.
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  Speaker 4: to a team, at least depth-wise. That's why it was
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  Speaker 4: a little surprising here that they didn't view him as
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  Speaker 4: a depth piece, Matt. But what we saw was there
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  Speaker 4: was other moves to be had, and that's why they
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  Speaker 4: didn't view Trevin Wallace as a depth piece. I mean, dude,
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  Speaker 4: they brought in– I've got to talk about this guy,
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  Speaker 4: Tyrell Dodson, because he has been added to the practice squad.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm not sure he's worse than Okerekei.
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  Speaker 2: No, you're right.
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  Speaker 4: He's younger. He's 28 years old from Miami. Miami released
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  Speaker 4: him at cuts. He has made 43 starts in Miami.
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  Speaker 4: We add him to the practice squad. 43 starts to
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  Speaker 4: Miami at Miami, 379 tackles, 11 and a half sacks.
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  Speaker 4: Last season, 120 tackles, five sacks, 49 stops, according to PFF.
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  Speaker 4: 16 pressures. He's a hell of a blitzer. And he's
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  Speaker 4: two years younger than Okereke. He is a dude bone
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  Speaker 4: that has had 100 plus tackles the last two years.
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  Speaker 4: And there's a clip floating around right now on social media.
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  Speaker 4: where the headset communication wasn't working on a Saints two-point
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  Speaker 4: conversion against the Dolphins, and he called the defense himself
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  Speaker 4: on the fly because, I can't get a play, the
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  Speaker 4: headset ain't working, and he picked off the pass on
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  Speaker 4: a two-point conversion.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you love it.
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  Speaker 4: So we talk about Okereke being cerebral. Dotson's cerebral, but
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  Speaker 4: he also brings a pass rush punch. Like, to be
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  Speaker 4: able to get two linebackers like this, and it just
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  Speaker 4: feels like Dotson's going to play a role at some point.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody that good, I can't imagine just staying exclusively on
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  Speaker 4: the practice squad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can easily see off his bio, the
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  Speaker 2: connection is he was a Buffalo Bill for four years. So, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Bean, I'm sure Dan Morgan probably said what. What's
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  Speaker 2: up with this guy? You had him for a long
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  Speaker 2: time there. Then he went on to Seattle for a year.
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  Speaker 2: And then, as mentioned, the Dolphins, the last couple here.
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  Speaker 2: What a job, Mac, of... Just upgrading the linebacker spot,
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  Speaker 2: not only– really the whole offseason. You brought in Lloyd.
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  Speaker 2: You got Okereke. Now you bring in Dotson. But you
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  Speaker 2: also have a guy in Jackson Kulach there. We think, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you know what? As a depth guy, this guy could
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  Speaker 2: be something here. So all of a sudden, the linebacker spot, Mac,
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  Speaker 2: has gone from one of, oh, my God, who could
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  Speaker 2: step up next to Devin Lloyd to– I think there's
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  Speaker 2: some really good depth there right now at those spots. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: big time, man. Big time. Great job. And that's Dan Morgan,
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  Speaker 2: who you trust to address. I know the Wallace thing
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  Speaker 2: was a mess, but you trust Dan Wallace. You trust
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  Speaker 2: Dan Morgan at the linebacker spot that he knows what
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  Speaker 2: guys are going to work there.
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  Speaker 4: Wallace was a miss, though. Yeah, that's the thing. It's like,
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  Speaker 4: do we? As far as the Wallace thing, Peyton Wilson
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  Speaker 4: was on the board.
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  Speaker 2: I was saying that I forgot about Wallace and I realized, oh, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm in trouble. I mean, these just feel like you
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  Speaker 2: just said it.
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  Speaker 4: They it feels like they have severely upgraded the linebacker
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  Speaker 4: position right at the end of the preseason.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's cool. I think it's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: We also need to mention Torricelli Simpkins, a guard center,
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  Speaker 4: has been added to the practice squad. He started two
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  Speaker 4: games with the Saints last year, played at South Carolina,
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  Speaker 4: and before that he played at North Carolina Central. So
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  Speaker 4: we've added two guys, Bone, two offensive linemen that started
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  Speaker 4: at Central and then transferred to P4 schools. The rest
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  Speaker 4: of the practice squad in terms of who... Torricelli, by
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  Speaker 4: the way, a Charlotte guy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't know that. Oh, went big high school. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: there you go. There you go.
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  Speaker 4: Also want to mention, Bone, the guys that are being
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  Speaker 4: brought back that were Panthers that are being brought back
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  Speaker 4: to the practice squad, Isaiah Simmons and David Moore, Jake Curhan,
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  Speaker 4: Cam Gill. Jasim Reed, those guys all not surprises at all.
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  Speaker 4: Devontae Smith, who had a series three and out that
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  Speaker 4: he forced all by himself the other night in the preseason,
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  Speaker 4: made every play. Offensive lineman Isaiah Glass, wide receiver Casey Washington,
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  Speaker 4: defensive lineman Parker Peterson, running back Trey Tyus, and Maz
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  Speaker 4: Mwanza is the international player. He takes that spot that
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  Speaker 4: John Mehta had last year. So we still have a
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  Speaker 4: few spots missing. left on the.
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  Speaker 2: Practice squad to add to? I believe five, right? Because
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  Speaker 2: there's four, and then because Maz Mwanza adds the international guy,
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  Speaker 2: so they can add 17 players to the practice squad.
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  Speaker 2: But then you have Dotson, you have Simpkins, I don't know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's true. Yeah, so you're at least at.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's rock, baby, let's rock! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
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  Speaker 3: Rock and roll, yeah, yeah, yeah!
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  Speaker 2: That's my Beavis. That's my Beavis impression. My bad. Old
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  Speaker 2: folks know. Old folks know Beavis. You were so quick
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  Speaker 2: to react to that. That's how I react to Rock.
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  Speaker 2: You also, people couldn't see Mac's face when he was
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  Speaker 2: doing that. I love it.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Pure Beavis. Embrace it, man. Embrace it. I want to
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  Speaker 2: be the butthead. So we at least got 14.
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  Speaker 4: There's a couple other guys that I heard some rumors about,
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  Speaker 4: but I don't know for sure if we're bringing in.
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  Speaker 4: So the practice squad coming together, bone man. It's coming together, butthead,
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  Speaker 4: isn't it? Yeah, it's nine hours ago.
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  Speaker 2: Pandas.com said they still have five spots remaining to go
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  Speaker 2: in the practice squad.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, but that can't be including the reported ones, right?
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  Speaker 4: Because Dodson and Simpkins I don't think official yet. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so it's probably more like three, I guess. I think
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  Speaker 4: that's what they're doing. So it needs to be said,
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  Speaker 4: good point, it needs to be said that they are
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  Speaker 4: not official.
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  Speaker 2: Were you a Beavis and Butthead fan? Were you too
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  Speaker 2: young for that? Obviously, in their heyday, they were popular
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  Speaker 2: when I was 8, 9, 10. Oh, yeah, you shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be watching that. But I watched most of it, yeah. Oh, man.
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  Speaker 2: We had a kid in school that looked like Beavis.
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  Speaker 2: That's unfortunate for him. They're back now, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: Very unfortunate. They're now back again. What are they doing?
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  Speaker 2: They've got new episodes. On what? Is it Paramount Plus?
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: I have to go check and see. I was going
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: to say, is MTV still on the air? Barely. I
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: think they're... Yeah, they're... Are they... I think there might
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  Speaker 2: be back. Yeah, I think they are. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I have not followed that, but yes, college years, a
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: lot of beers while watching Beavis and Butt-Ed.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of that happened. All right. Jimmy's kind of
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: got a butt cheek head. Whoa!
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's go to the Braves. Braves lose last
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: night 7-3 to the Giants. Stops their win streak bone.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: They're coming off two straight sweeps. They had been on fire.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: Last night they had a 3-2 lead, and then Elder
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: got run. They ended up giving up four runs in
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: that sixth inning. And San Francisco held the lead the
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: rest of the way. So I can't imagine Brace fans
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: going to be too angry about that bone with the
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: role that they're on.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: No, they were due for a loss. It seemed like
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: they were... uh in control of that one as you
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: said and then uh giants got up by four and
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: they couldn't you kept kept thinking as i was watching
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: that that the braves were gonna pull out some magic
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: and that was gonna be one of their ridiculous wins
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: but didn't happen they ended up losing seven to three
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: the um i didn't surprise elder kind of uh melted
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: down a little bit there's been pretty good.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: I did want to mention bone that uh the la
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: rams hype is in full swing on espn my god
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: they just they can't help themselves can they they like
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: just they can't you talk about me trying to fight
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: and be measured mac versus like fanboy excited mode i
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: failed with that with nc state by the way um
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: they can't help themselves like do we have the dan
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: orlowski clip fitting where he's talking he's comparing it listen
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: to what he is comparing this to adding aaron donald
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: And listen to what he is comparing it to. And
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: I'm not even sure what he's saying makes any sense.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Listen to this.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: This is Brady going to the Bucs.
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: And that's the last time a team went into the
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: season being.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: That much of a favorite.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: When Tom Brady chose the Bucs, it was both expectations.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: People didn't expect the Bucs to win that year. Absolutely.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Because they were a team that everyone was like, they're loaded.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: And they get Tom Brady. Were they a huge favorite
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: that year? I don't even think they were a favorite
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: that year. I don't think so. So I'm not even
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: sure what he's saying is accurate. I mean, they were
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: a major discussion point of what we wanted to see
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: from them, but I don't think it was, oh, my God.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: they're some, you know, overwhelming favorite.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: I'm not, like, were they even favored in the preseason
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: to win the Super Bowl?
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: That was which year? I don't even remember.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously a lot of people said, whoa, Jameis
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: turned it over like 30-something times. You bring in Brady,
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: they've got talent. But, like, I certainly don't think they
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: were some overwhelming favorite, and the Rams look like they
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: are trending towards being an overwhelming favorite.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: We also didn't even know who the favorite was because
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: that was also the COVID times. It was very weird times.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: Tampa Bay that year was plus 1,000, and their projected
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: win total was 9.5.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: So what's he talking about? I have no idea.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Not to mention, Aaron Donald's a huge addition. Their defensive
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: front was already good. They add Garrett, and they do
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: trade verse for Garrett, but they had garrett and aaron
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: donald i'm not sure we're getting but i'm not sure
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: aaron donald clicks his heels and he's in his prime
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: again he's still going to be really good i'm just
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: not sure that aaron donald equates to Tom Brady being added.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: To the Bucs. No, I mean, Aaron Donald will still
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: be a major factor. We'll see what level. He will be, definitely. Mag,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: I've talked to a source within the production team for
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Get Up this morning. They said this Rams stuff is
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: so crazy, they've considered not talking Cowboys today. Oh, my God!
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: They must be so happy, though, when the producers say,
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: we're going big on the Rams.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: No Cowboys, thank God! No, you know what their topic's
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: going to be. Can the Cowboys at some point... Be
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: as good as the Rams this year. Oh, yeah. Are
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: we on a collision course? Rams, Cowboys, NFC title game.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Don't forget the Bears. They're the third one they love.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: With all that said, Bone, I'd.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Probably still pick the Rams to go to the Super
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Bowl from the NFC. But it's just like, it just
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: feels like that network can't wait. to just hype the
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: ever-living crap out of something. It feels like, Mac, it's
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: the same topics every day. By the way, coming up next, Mac,
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: it's LSU versus the SEC as it gets real spicy.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Have we talked about that before? Not really. A rival
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: SEC coach says taking NFL players is immoral and the
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Clemson quarterback situation seems a little bit more clear this morning.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio. Sports Radio, 92.7. I'm directing you back. Directing
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: you here. 92.7 WFNZ.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: These players on all of our rosters, not just ours,
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: have been working for nine months for this moment on Saturday,
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: which then will lead into the next five to six months.
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: The fact that somebody out there is going to take
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: a player off of an NFL roster and tell somebody
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: who's been doing it for nine months go kick rocks,
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: that doesn't sit well with me. I think that's wrong.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: That morally is wrong. So I think our presidents, ADs,
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: and chancellors got it right, and we'll support it, and
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: we'll fall in line.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: That's Steve Sarkeesian at his media availability yesterday, head coach
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: of Texas.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: You heard what he said.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: I'm glad to hear some coach say that, Boney, and
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: some coaches have made it clear. We don't want to
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: upset the apple cart here. We got guys been working.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: We don't want them to lose starting spots. We don't
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: want to have to take guys off the roster. And
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: I respect that point of view.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: And it seems like a lot of guys have that
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: point of view. Lane Kiffin, though, Bone, is not one
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: of those individuals. By the way, this SEC versus Lane
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Kiffin thing, this thing is versus, I should say, LSU.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: It's not just Lane Kiffin versus LSU. The whole athletic
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: department from LSU. It does seem like Lane Kiffin's got
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: the backing of the LSU folks. So there's a report yesterday, Bone,
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: from Ross Dellinger talking about SEC school executives are talking
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: about possible extreme measures to address LSU adding these players
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: that have been with NFL teams. And as their spitballing bone,
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: the ideas include boycotting competition, I guess, in games when
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: you're playing LSU, I guess, probation or expulsion from the
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: conference or fire filing a federal legal challenge. I know
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: a lot of people are over this, and we started
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: the games, and we're getting to week one. This thing
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: is so... I'm so tired of all of it. I
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: got to be honest, Bone. This thing's juicy. This thing
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: entertains me, man. And there are so many levels and
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: layers to all this. How about the thing last week?
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: I know we talked about it, but the thought that
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin Mack was.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: sort of starting all of that. I say Lincoln, but
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: LSU was starting all of this with trying to get
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: guys to do the lawsuits. And they were tampering with
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: NFL contracts, which could be a problem for them down
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: the line.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I guess.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Lanes denied that, but yeah, but that could always be
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: denied somewhere down the line. That'll come back up again.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: I'm sure. But there, there is, there is so much
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: to this and every day, because right now it is
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: football season and it is on the forefront of the headlines.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: There is something new. every single day right now involving
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: this stuff. It's crazy. How about the not football-related, but
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: it is related to the SEC? How about Mark Mitchell yesterday,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: who we thought was going to Kentucky, the Missouri basketball star,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: who became first-team all-SEC. Now he's back at Missouri. So
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: he's back in college, but it's not Kentucky because he
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: couldn't transfer in the conference.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess he didn't want to fight the legal battle.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: No. I guess he had to get enrolled and actually
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: in college. Yes.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: Because that's a great question. Was it you that asked?
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Somebody asked last week.
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: I did.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Don't these guys have to enroll in classes, these former
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: NFL guys or whatever? Usually there's like a deadline. Let
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: me check out my notes here. When you have to
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: start school. It's this week. So it's what you're seeing
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: with Mitchell. As far as the LSU football players, I mean, yeah,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: you would think they've got to get themselves at least
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: registered for school. But we're waiting.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: So here's where it stands. We're going to get you
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: to Lane Kiffin's latest quote on all of this. But
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: the Louisiana case that will be heard on Thursday is
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: a big one. That is the court that last week
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: ruled at the end of the week on Friday bone
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: that ruled the SEC can't even punish the schools. for
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: taking these players in.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, my God.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: So, like, not only, Bone, is it contested in court
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: as to whether these players should be eligible coming back
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: for their fifth year from the pros. But now the
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Louisiana court on Friday said, nope, you can't even– SEC
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: don't even think about it. You can't even discipline these schools.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: You can't– like, the whole thought, Bone, of– remember, you
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: brought it up last week. The SEC and the Big Ten,
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: they're trying to punish the school– As a deterrent, because
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: they feel like, oh, shoot, we're going to keep losing
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: these court cases against the players.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: That's all they can do to try to stop this
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: is have their own rules in place.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: So that's a temporary restraining order right now to where
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: the SEC can't punish the schools. So Lane Kiffin, by
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: the way, two of these players are already practicing. Lane
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: Kiffin says, yeah, talk to everybody at the SEC. They're
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: allowed to practice, but they just can't be added to
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: the full team. So Daquan Wright and the defensive lineman
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: that was with Notre Dame last year, those two guys,
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: those two fifth-year players are practicing already and aren't even
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: officially on the team. So that's going on. Not sure
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: why that's allowed. Taking practice time, oh, by the way,
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: from guys that may actually play on Saturday. Yeah, don't
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: even know if they're going to be eligible. Did you
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: see what the Chiefs did, though? The Chiefs.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Probably screwed. I did, I did. The Chiefs screwed Lane Kiffin.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: I hope they did it on purpose.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: That dude, Jack Pyburn, who was in Bucks camp and
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: who had been talking about, I don't know if I
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: get waved here, I'm just going to go join LSU
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: where I played last season. The Chiefs picked him off
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: off waivers. So I guess he should be happy he's
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: now on the active roster with the Chiefs, but Lane
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: Kiffin was planning on making this the fourth dude, fifth
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: year guy that he added.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: This is the... This is the state that we're in, Mac,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: in college athletics now. When Jack calls home, right, talks
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: to his dad. Hi, Dad. What's wrong, son? I got
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: signed by the Chiefs. Practice squad? No, I'm going to
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: be on the roster. Well, that's great, son. I don't
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: really want to. But I wanted to go make money
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: at LSU, Dad. I can make more money at LSU
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: and make money. But, son, you're going to play with
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Andy Reid and Pat Mahomes and Travis Kelsey. Yeah, but.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I don't get to play with Lane and the guys.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: The guys will now call home back and say, Dad,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: unfortunately I made the NFL 53-man roster.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: Terrible news. You do wonder if he's upset. Because I'm
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: guessing the rookie minimum is probably less than what he
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: was going to get at LSU, right?
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes. I hope at some point when this goes
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: to the courts, they have to call Ed Orgeron, who's
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: now on the staff again, to the stand. And he's
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: got to go up there and say, I don't know
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: what's going on here. I just came back. All of
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: a sudden, I came back to get a little bit
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: of gumbo in my belly right there. And all of
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: a sudden, we got all chaos going on. Just starts rambling. Oh,
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: my God. Mr. Orgeron.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Mr.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Orgeron.
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Orgeron.
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: Mr.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Orgeron.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Court case in Louisiana. Louisiana, by the way. I wonder
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: if there's any bias in those courts. Court case in
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: Louisiana about can the SEC punish these schools. That's coming
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: up on Thursday morning. Lane Kiffin yesterday was asked about
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: this phone, and he wanted everybody to know. how torn
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: he is over whether to add these guys from NFL rosters.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: You're a liar.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: So he bone says, I had to go to my
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: leadership guys, my leadership committee on the.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Team, he says.
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: I met with our leadership committee of our players, and
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: I asked them, what's your team? What do you want
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: to do? If these players are allowed to be added
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: to rosters, What do you want to do? Every one
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: of them was emphatic about they can help us win,
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: bring them. We understand that we have a team that's
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: practiced together, worked together all offseason, but one of them said, hey,
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: this is how it works at the next level and
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: this is how the real world works. You can't bring
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: employees into certain jobs to help the company. So that
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: made me feel a little better in the struggle and
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: being torn back and forth.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Mac, it's heartbreaking to hear a coach at a Crossroads
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: like this. God, he must really be. I bet he's
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: not sleeping.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: I bet he's so worried, Bone, about adding these players.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Just wandering the neighborhood just thinking about what to do.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Morals versus money and fame and winning. Mac, I'm not
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: going to be a silly goose here. and pick Clemson
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: to win in that Death Valley at night. That I
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: don't think will happen. But I do wonder if the
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: thought of Clemson getting blown out and getting their doors
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: blown off, despite some questions at quarterback, I may be
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: putting that out the window right now only because I
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: don't really know how focused LSU is. They have... So
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: much going on in their athletic department, their football team.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: All they're talking about is all these other things. And
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: I think they'll still win the game. But right now,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Clemson's hope, I believe, would be that LSU's not even
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: really thinking about their opponent this weekend. And that just
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: seems to be like the outside view on this whole thing. Yeah,
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: that's an interesting point. I know they'll be ready. I
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: know the environment, but I just... If I was an
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: LSU fan and I'm not, I'd be thinking, are we...
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Are we prepared right now? Are we focused on all these?
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Who's playing? Who's not playing? We got a court hearing
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: on Thursday. We got a lot of distractions right now.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: And maybe Dabo can use that to his advantage.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: That is a very interesting angle. I can't imagine it helps.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? As far as Clemson goes on,
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: 3Sports has reported that Vizina has been taking all the
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: first team reps lately. It's expected that he's going to
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: be the starter. And again, I'd never believe, Bone, that
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Dabo Sweeney was going to send a true freshman. into
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: LSU's Death Valley at night and say, good luck, kid.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: But I brought this up last week, and I heard
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Greg McIlroy say it the last few days, a couple days.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: I do wonder if the Tate Reynolds situation is going
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: to play out like the Deshaun Watson and Trevor Lawrence situations,
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: where they weren't the starters right away, but at some
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: point in their freshman year, and not too long into
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: their freshman years, it became apparent This dude's got to start.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: I do wonder, Bone, if he is that good.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, depending how this goes, the intriguing part to me
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: is who starts week two? Who starts week three? When
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: does Tate Reynolds get a crack? If it goes bad,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: if Chris Vazina goes in there and plays well, obviously
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: it's not a question, but you can kind of see
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: where this is headed, that Tate Reynolds is going to
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: get a crack at this thing. And I don't even
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: know if he needs to play bad. Who was the
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: kid that Trevor Lawrence took his job? Bryant, right?
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Kelly Bryant.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: I don't think he was bad. Heck, he took him
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: to the playoff the year before. But I think it
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: just became apparent. Trevor Lawrence is that dude.
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: And I just hearing some of the talk bone out
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: of Clemson about Tate Reynolds. I wonder if he's another
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: one of those dudes.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Which is where they've had the most successes, with dudes
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: at the quarterback spot.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying he's Watson or Lawrence, but is he
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: that good of a true freshman? Is Vizina just kind
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: of okay?
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: So that's something that we'll be watching. Bone Man touting
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: Clemson a little bit.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: A little bit. That's a plot twist there, baby. I
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: was talking to my dad yesterday about how unlikable Wayne
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Kiffin is, and then I started thinking, but LSU Clemson,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: obviously I don't want Clemson to win their arrival team here,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: but I don't really feel comfortable right now rooting for
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Wayne Kiffin in this whole situation either. So it's one
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: of those weird, like I don't want Clemson to win,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: but at the same time, I also wouldn't mind.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin getting humbled either. You know what I mean?
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: It's one of those weird kind of moments. Choose your fighter, everybody.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Choose your fighter. I heard someone. Dabo, by the way.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Dabo's so much more. I'm going to say this. Hand up. Dabo,
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: a lot more likable than Lane Kiffin is. Both coaches, though,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: can annoy, right? Maybe Dabo's definitely not on the Lane
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Kiffin level. Right now, it's a lane time. Dabo can
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: just kind of sit back a little bit right now.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: What were you saying, Fit?
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: I heard someone come to the defense of Kiffin yesterday.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: And saying that the only reason why he's chasing the
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: NFL players is to force the SEC.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: And for all these rules... and the legislation to actually
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: come to fruition.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: Yes, he's looking out for the best in college sports.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: That's what Lane Kiffin's all about. You got that from
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: Nick Saban over the years. Let me just take this
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: heat on me for the betterment of college football. Maybe
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: this will prove to Washington, D.C., they need to help
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: us with the Protect College Sports Act.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Do you know who else did stuff like that? What's
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: your major?
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: Remember, he would always try to stick up for the
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: sport and take all the heat.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: I'm tough enough.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: I can handle all of it. Hold on a minute now.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: I just said Nick Saban was very much that way
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: as well. Well, Nick Saban would try to tell you.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: That's where Lane Kiffin got that from. Lane Kiffin isn't
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: even pulling it.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: He's... Lane Kiffin with a straight face is not even
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: going to try to tell anybody I'm doing that. I
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: believe Lane Kiffin is one of the most selfish human
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: beings in America. Do we even believe.
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: He asked his leadership counsel about this?
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: And that's saying something. I believe he probably did go
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: to the players. I don't know if I'm accusing him
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: of lying about that. What, Winks and his girlfriend? Who's
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: his daughter? But, Fiddy, please tell me you don't believe
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: the person. Oh, no. I heard this.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: And it was just like the all-time Fiddy scoff.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Okay, good.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: Let's not try to defend what this jackass has done.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: I think the defense for him is if it's legal,
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: he can play the players. It's legal.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: I think that's the defense. Everybody is out to win
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: in college athletics. It's dog-eat-dog. I think that's the defense.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: This is far from the first example ever of somebody
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: being cutthroat and not caring what people.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: I think that's probably the defense. Coach K's still in
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: your head, huh? You look in your rearview mirror. There
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: he is.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: You look.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: How did Coach K get involved in this? You look
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: around the corner. There he is. You look in your bed.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Next to you, there's Coach K. You can't get enough
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Coach K. You still talk about Coach K. I don't
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: talk about Coach K nearly as much as you do.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Still in your head. Still dancing. Still living rent-free in
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: that fitty, bald dome. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Also, I
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: didn't really mean to put Coach K in your bed.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: That got a little bit weird there. When we come back,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Coach Canales.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: I need someone in my bed.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Coach Canales makes his first public comments about the two
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: new defensive additions to the active roster. We have interesting
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: NFC South news and a moment of appreciation for the
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: still rostered Sam Howell. Sports Radio 92.7.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Evans, uh, plays square to the line of scrimmage.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: He's got some real game experience, um, under his belt
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: from last year and had really good tape in the
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: preseason and, uh, felt that he gave, gave us some
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: versatility across the inside, those inside three, you know, whether
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: he's playing the nose or the defensive end spot. And, um,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: we're fortunate enough to, to be able to, to do that. Um,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: with Bobby, you know, there was, we had a competition
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: at the linebacker spot with Trevin and Claude the whole time,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: and they were neck and neck, and they did an
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: incredible job of competing with each other, and, you know,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: as the competition started to close in, we're also looking
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: at their film, and then also looking at the other
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: linebackers that were still available, Bobby being one of those,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: and comparing that film and what it looked like, and
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: we felt like he gives us a competitive advantage to
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: be in there playing next to Devin, and he's a
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: guy that Has a lot of familiarity with people on
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: our staff, with Pete Henson, the linebacker's coach from Stanford days.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: And Brad Idzik was around him as well. And not
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: just a great football player, but an amazing human, a leader,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: and the type of guys that we love having.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: There's some good stuff right there from Coach Canales about T.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Ry Edwards.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: Defensive tackle, who Dan Morgan pulled a trade for with
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: the Chargers. Also, Bobby Okereke as well. And I did
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: not think about that. I did not realize the connection there.
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: By the way, it's Panther Talk. I want to give
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: them credit. That was on the Panther Talk show last night.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: Canales has not done a presser since acquiring those guys.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: That's the first we've heard of anybody over there talk
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: about those guys. He will talk today. Dan Morgan will
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: talk today, right? They're both talking today?
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: Okay, so they'll both do pressers today, but kudos to
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: Panther Talk for getting us that.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Kudos to Panther Talk. What a fine programming institution.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: But that allowed us to hear what Dave Canale said
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: about these guys. Pete Hanson is Bobby O'Kerke's position coach
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: here at Carolina. and was with him in Stanford. Idzik
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: was there, too, other side of the ball. But I
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: would have never put that together. Yeah, I wouldn't either. Yeah,
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: there's always some tie-in somewhere, but I would have not
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: looked that one up there.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: I would have not known that.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: So there you go, man. There you go, baby. Between
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: him and Tyrell Dodson, what a linebacker upgrade. That's freaking cool, man.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: That really is. Dodson only on the practice squad as
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: of now. We get to see different levels of linebacker.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: There's the high-priced guy in Boyd. There's a veteran now
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: in Okereke that we're looking to see. There's also a
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: guy like Jackson Kupoc, a young guy that made it, who,
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: when he gets in there, we'll be interested to see
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: how he develops. So the linebacker spot has gone from, oh,
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: this could get ugly, to, yeah, that's kind of a
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: fun area of the team to now watch. It's a fun—
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: To coo-watch. To coo-watch it, baby. We coo-watch it. All right.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: I didn't mean for that to be the same.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: Hot Dog Condiment says, Did you just say the new
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: linebacker's name is Carrot Cake? Did he send this last week?
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: This sounds familiar. I feel like we got this last week. Yeah,
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: and that led to us talking about carrot cakes. Oh,
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: carrot cake.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, carrot cake. Oh, we already dealt with this? Okay,
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: I didn't realize we— Yeah, I believe this has happened before.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: I didn't realize we already dealt with it. I don't
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: appreciate the text line not being focused. When you listen
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: to this show— You focus, man. You don't get off track.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Focus here. Focus on what we're saying. You don't hear
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Mac and I going off track, right? No, it never happened.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: I do want to mention, Bone, some other stuff around
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: the NFC South. The Tampa Bay Bucs, Bone, are going
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: with an undrafted free agent at backup quarterback. Now, we
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: got a third string undrafted free agent we like in
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: Haynes King. But the kid out of Kansas, Jalen Daniels,
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: won the backup job for the Buccaneers.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: How about that, man? Yeah, kudos to him for making it.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: But that's interesting that it's not a veteran, Matt, considering
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: who their quarterback is. I know it's hard to get
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield to rest and sit out, but you would
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: think at some point the way that Baker plays, they
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: may rely on the backup quarterback for a game or
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: two just off the– The physical beating that Baker takes,
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: and now they're going to go with a rookie. He
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: beat out Jake Browning. The bloom is off the Jake
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Browning rose.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: Remember, Bone, a few years back when Joe Burrow, of course,
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: was injured, and he went in and his girlfriend wore
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: the hot little number to the game, and he was
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: actually playing well, and the cameras liked her, and he
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: was the toast of Cincinnati. He played some horrendous– football
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: since then for the Bengals and couldn't even beat out
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: an undrafted rookie. He's definitely fallen, man.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: I remember back in the late winter, early spring, someone
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: on this radio program said, was trying to tout Jake
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Browning as being a backup possibility before Kenny Pickett got signed. So, boy,
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: does that guy look foolish now. By the way, good
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: morning to me. Was that you, Boat? Yeah, it definitely was.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: The only thing we went to was his girlfriend's hot
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: little number that she wore.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: Oh, man.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: Look, man, I thought there was something there, and it
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: turns out– My quarterback evals may not always be the best.
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: He's really regressed, man. No doubt about it. Picante on
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: the text line. Shout out to Picante. Picante's picks is
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: a brand new segment.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: He now wants more, though. He's now wanting more than three. No,
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: you've got to stay at three picks.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: We thought he would fail and have a losing record,
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: and we'd tell him, you're fired, don't come back.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: But he went two and one.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: So he'll get another pick segment, the self-proclaimed gambling guru.
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: But he wants to know what kudos means. I believe
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: that was a snack bar back in the day. Kudos
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: is like props, love, right?
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: That's what we're looking for. Not a snack bar. That's
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: what we're looking for there. Hugs and hand pounds.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: By the way, man, we have an upset guy from
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: a 704 number. It's shocking that we have someone upset.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: Y'all trying to spin positivity on the linebacker room is hilarious.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: Could be one of the worst groups on the team.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Having to add guys from other rosters after camp is
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: not a good sign.
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, it's not ideal. You'd love to have
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: starting caliber players. What I'm saying is they've upgraded the position.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: They did a great job of making something out of
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: this group right now. They added two dudes that had
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: 120 tackles or more last year. Okereke and Tyrell Dodson,
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: who's on the practice squad out of Miami, had 120 tackles,
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: five sacks last year, and 16 pressures. So all I'm
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: saying is they improved the position. I'm not on here
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: trying to tell you they got the 85 Bears linebacking core.
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: That's not what I'm trying to say. But what I'm
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: trying to say is that they have improved that position
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: in the last couple of days.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: That's all. It's vastly improved right now over what it
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: could have been. Imagine if they didn't make these moves.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: Then you're talking about one of the worst groups, if
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: not the worst group on the team. But right now,
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: I feel very good about this group. Although Pro Football
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: Focus somehow had them ranked 10th.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: Well, now they're going to be a top five room, right?
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: For some reason, they acted like Trevin Wallace was a positive.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were throwing out his grade that they had
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: for him. But his grade was horrible, though. I don't know.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: So why would PFF, of all places, say, with Devin
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: Lloyd and Trevin Wallace, this is the 10th best linebacking corps.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: They weren't talking about the edges, by the way, just
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: the linebackers inside. Why?
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: Trevin Wallace had like a 40-something run grade the last
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: two seasons. So I don't understand why that publication would
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: like him.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: It didn't make any sense. Anyway, the Falcons made a trade.
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: We haven't mentioned this Falcons trade, have we, Bone?
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: With the Bears, they end up bringing in Gervon Dexter,
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: defensive tackle. This is kind of being presented as, hey,
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: they need a defensive line help. because of the injury
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: to Jalen Walker and because of Pierce's suspension. And listen,
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: he's a dude that brings a little bit of pass rush,
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: but he's an interior player. 6'5, 326, an interior guy.
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: This is not some sort of dude, Bone. Yeah, I
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: guess he helps your D-line. I'm not going to say
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: he doesn't. But this dude ain't going out on the
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: edge and filling in for Jalen Pierce.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, no, no. He's... Jalen Pierce. James Pierce
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: or Jalen Walker. No, he's a slab of beef in
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: the middle there. He's not a... Big time. They're just
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: trying to get... They got... So Darius Smith also. They're
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: just trying to... Yeah, Smith was the guy they tried
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: to use to help the edge situation. They're just trying
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: to get any defensive help they can get, really, right now. Anywhere.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: They are. They are.
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: So we've got to shout out Sam Howe, Sun Valley's finest.
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: We've got to shout him out here, Bone, because we
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: discussed the Cowboy quarterback backup situation recently. And the national
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: media led us to believe that Joe Milton was looking
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: great and Sam Howe was struggling and Sam Howe was
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: going to lose that backup job. Sam Howe. Sun Valley's
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: finest has won the backup job. And Joe Milton has
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: been released. I should have never doubted you. Slinging Sammy,
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: I should have never doubted you. And can we make
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: this statement right now about Joe Milton? One of the
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: most overrated quarterbacks on the planet. This dude gets hyped
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: up everywhere he goes.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: Tennessee. I was at Michigan before that. Tennessee. Where was
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: he last at in the NFL where they were hyping
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: him up? Patriots. New England. Dallas.
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: This dude has an amazing arm. It takes way more
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: than that to play quarterback. Everybody gets excited about his
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: big arm. Joe Milton, Joe Milton, Joe Milton. He is
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: not a good quarterback. Can we just say that right
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: now and be done with the Joe Milton infatuation? It's
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: all canon and no idea.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: Where it's going. He throws it like 80 yards, but
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: it doesn't mean he's throwing it to the right team
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: or anywhere near the wide receiver. Sam Howell, Matt, credit
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: to him. He's sticking with this thing. He's on the
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: verge of almost. you know, not even being in the league.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: He's only thrown four passes in the last four years.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: But he's been employed, though, right, as a backup. Well,
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: he's also... Or third string last year. He's been mainly
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: the third string. But what I'm saying is, though, for
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: him to get this opportunity where it looked like, man,
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: if he doesn't make this one, this will be five
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: teams in the last four years where he hasn't even played.
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: So Sam's barely hanging on. But you know what? Good
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: for him. He's sticking with it. Class family. His dad's
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: now coaching at Myers Park as a head coach. So
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: it's always a family that gets a lot of love
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: in the area. So I'm glad to see Sam at
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: least have an opportunity to make a football team. He's
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: got himself a career. He's doing a hell of a job.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: And Joe Milton, it's got to be said.
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's like the hot woman that everybody gets
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: infatuated with. And she's been divorced seven times. And it's like, man,
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: she's unbelievable. Why would ever like, you know what I mean?
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: Like everybody gets drawn into Joe Milton on, on the
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: big giant arm. It's like enough already.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: He ain't good. It's annoying.
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: And the fact I fell for it at the expense of,
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: of slinging Sammy from Sun Valley.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: I'm upset with myself, Bone. I am. Yes, sir.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: I'm upset.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: When we come back here on the Mac and Bone
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: radio program with the Panthers, 53-man roster set for now,
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: we wonder what is the biggest position of strength and
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: area of weakness right now on the 53. Sports Radio,
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: 92.7 WFNZ.