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- 0:02Speaker 1: Bueno, como esta?
- 0:04Speaker 2: Oh, oh, oh, here's Mike and Bo.
- 0:07Speaker 3: You guys are the most entertaining sports program in the world.
- 0:12Speaker 1: Drop it, Bo. Drop it, baby.
- 0:13Speaker 4: No, no, stop twerking. You and I are a couple eating, like,
- 0:16Speaker 4: Lady and the Tramp. You're the lady on the tramp.
- 0:19Speaker 5: Yeah!
- 0:20Speaker 1: Come on! Come on, baby! I wish I was Boopy.
- 0:23Speaker 1: Boopy McClain, man. That's a great name. All aboard! Good
- 0:41Speaker 1: football Friday morning, Charlotte. Welcome aboard.
- 0:44Speaker 6: It's time to do this dang thing as we cross
- 0:47Speaker 6: our fingers and hope the Carolina Panthers can get to
- 0:51Speaker 6: one-on-one on Sunday. Or do you not even need to
- 0:54Speaker 6: cross your fingers? Is this a situation where we go
- 0:57Speaker 6: down and beat an inferior team? No questions asked. We
- 1:00Speaker 6: will talk about it today on the show. We've got
- 1:03Speaker 6: college football conversations to have. I mean, UNC Clemson, South Carolina,
- 1:08Speaker 6: Mississippi State. State, Vanderbilt, and App Charlotte. We've got to
- 1:12Speaker 6: spend some time talking about App and Charlotte as well
- 1:15Speaker 6: in Boone tomorrow night.
- 1:17Speaker 1: There's plenty to talk about.
- 1:18Speaker 6: There's a game in Baton Rouge that some people seem
- 1:21Speaker 6: to be interested in. And, of course, we have more
- 1:24Speaker 6: news on that one here early this morning. We'll touch
- 1:28Speaker 6: early on here on the Steve Belichick upcoming resignation, the
- 1:34Speaker 6: latest to go that was very close to Bill Belichick.
- 1:38Speaker 6: following Michael Lombardi's resignation. The good news is the investigation
- 1:42Speaker 6: is over.
- 1:43Speaker 1: So that is the good. Can't lose anybody else right now.
- 1:47Speaker 6: Oh, by the way, the Heels are playing a major
- 1:50Speaker 6: game tomorrow in Death Valley. So there's a lot of
- 1:52Speaker 6: things to talk about here today on the show. Football, football,
- 1:56Speaker 6: more football. We got the bone man. We got the
- 2:00Speaker 6: fit dog ready to go. on today's radio show bone
- 2:04Speaker 6: what you thinking today bowie.
- 2:05Speaker 4: What's happening man good morning to to the fit dog
- 2:07Speaker 4: and my main man my my bro pesci chris mclean
- 2:12Speaker 4: i like that one i like that one yeah that's
- 2:14Speaker 4: a good one i messed up yesterday my bro and
- 2:16Speaker 4: wilson so i had to make up for it today
- 2:18Speaker 4: i was just noticing we have the sponsor sheet here
- 2:22Speaker 4: if the panthers don't show up on sunday and They
- 2:25Speaker 4: don't end up one and one. I may go sit
- 2:28Speaker 4: on top of an H & S roof for probably
- 2:30Speaker 4: a week or so. I'm glad to plug your sponsor,
- 2:32Speaker 4: but I may end up on that roof.
- 2:35Speaker 1: There's something there.
- 2:36Speaker 4: Not harming myself. I just want to sit up there
- 2:38Speaker 4: and reflect if that's what I need to do. There's
- 2:40Speaker 4: something there.
- 2:41Speaker 6: There's a cross-pollination sponsorship slash shameful bet that could be combined.
- 2:48Speaker 4: There's no doubt about it. We might need to put
- 2:50Speaker 4: sirloin of beef or somebody on a roof for like
- 2:52Speaker 4: a week.
- 2:52Speaker 6: Have we made a decision on Sirloin's pep talk? Have
- 2:55Speaker 6: we benched him? I was just thinking about that this morning. Well,
- 2:57Speaker 6: I noticed that on the sheet here.
- 2:59Speaker 1: I took him off. I noticed that there's just... I
- 3:01Speaker 1: took him off.
- 3:02Speaker 4: Where Sirloin's name goes, it's just blank right now. It's just,
- 3:05Speaker 4: there's nothing there anymore.
- 3:06Speaker 6: I thought about sitting him down for a week, but
- 3:10Speaker 6: do we give him another chance? Do I give him
- 3:12Speaker 6: another chance? Fitty says no. Look at Fitty has turned
- 3:16Speaker 6: on his man. Fitty, what is happening over there?
- 3:18Speaker 1: Look, I love Loin.
- 3:21Speaker 7: He's an A1 listener to the show. But I think
- 3:25Speaker 7: we need a new voice. I think his message has
- 3:28Speaker 7: grown stale on the listening audience and the player fan base.
- 3:32Speaker 7: We need to find someone that can motivate this man
- 3:36Speaker 7: before they go into battle.
- 3:37Speaker 1: And I have the guy. I have the idea.
- 3:40Speaker 4: I think a man whose voice just carries, who gets
- 3:43Speaker 4: the audience fired up, can make us stand up and cheer.
- 3:46Speaker 4: I think 9, what, like 9, 12 or so? I
- 3:50Speaker 4: think it's time for a Weatherman Mark pep talk.
- 3:54Speaker 6: Yeah, that might not be a bad lineup change.
- 3:57Speaker 1: Everybody get on your feet for your Panthers.
- 3:59Speaker 4: I think that man can maybe a little different, but
- 4:02Speaker 4: he can motivate with the power of his voice.
- 4:04Speaker 6: Yeah, it might not be a bad lineup change. You know,
- 4:06Speaker 6: we're not done with you, Loin. Your story's not over.
- 4:09Speaker 6: Much like Dave Canales said about Jimmy Horn, and I
- 4:12Speaker 6: now have checked my notes and realized, Bone, that the
- 4:14Speaker 6: story is apparently over in Carolina.
- 4:16Speaker 1: He signed with the Cleveland practice squad. yesterday. So that's
- 4:20Speaker 1: not even.
- 4:20Speaker 4: I think Weatherman Mark has the pep talk, guy.
- 4:23Speaker 1: I just want to hear how it sounds. Yeah, give
- 4:24Speaker 1: it a shot, baby.
- 4:24Speaker 6: I think that's what we're going to do today. Give
- 4:26Speaker 6: it a shot, man. See if he can get some
- 4:28Speaker 6: pep going. Does he have pep in his step?
- 4:30Speaker 1: You know what I mean? I think he can do it.
- 4:32Speaker 1: All right.
- 4:33Speaker 6: I don't mind that move. Loing will be very upset, though.
- 4:35Speaker 6: You've got to deal with the locker room impact of
- 4:37Speaker 6: benching Loing, though, Bone.
- 4:39Speaker 4: So good luck with that one. I'm going to handle
- 4:41Speaker 4: this like a man. I'm going to tweet both of them.
- 4:44Speaker 6: Thursday night football last night, college and pro. Neither game was,
- 4:50Speaker 6: I mean, they ended up finishing closer than they were
- 4:53Speaker 6: at other points during the game. The Bills beat up
- 4:57Speaker 6: on Detroit and that Detroit defense. My God, is it
- 5:02Speaker 6: too early to start talking about Bryce against that Detroit defense?
- 5:05Speaker 6: 41 points for the Bills.
- 5:07Speaker 1: They win.
- 5:08Speaker 6: 41-31. The Lions did try to fight back. They got
- 5:12Speaker 6: the ball down 10 in the fourth, but had a
- 5:14Speaker 6: quick three and out. But the Bills went off for
- 5:17Speaker 6: 27 points.
- 5:17Speaker 1: We're up 27-7. 21-0, 27-7 in the first half.
- 5:18Speaker 6: And they ran for 2-0-3. Josh Allen passed for 2-48.
- 5:20Speaker 6: Josh Allen, five total tutties last night, Bone.
- 5:33Speaker 4: I see the tweet from Kevin by SportsCenter here where
- 5:36Speaker 4: Kevin Clark of ESPN is talking to SVP last night.
- 5:40Speaker 4: And the quote is, Josh Allen is the best player
- 5:42Speaker 4: on the planet right now. It's hard to say this,
- 5:44Speaker 4: but he's the indefensible quarterback right now.
- 5:47Speaker 1: Matt, it's hard.
- 5:49Speaker 4: To not say that Josh Allen's not the best player
- 5:52Speaker 4: in football right now. Mahomes, all-time great. We know that
- 5:56Speaker 4: there's other great quarterbacks. Lamar Jackson, multiple-time MVP. But Josh Allen,
- 6:01Speaker 4: to me right now, is the most unstoppable force in
- 6:04Speaker 4: all of football.
- 6:05Speaker 1: He's a beast. I don't know if I would argue
- 6:07Speaker 1: with that.
- 6:08Speaker 4: It's the combo, it's the running, the passing, the ability
- 6:12Speaker 4: to make something out of nothing, the physical specimen he is.
- 6:15Speaker 4: The way he now can... At first, Mackey was getting
- 6:19Speaker 4: by on a lot of... When he first started, it
- 6:22Speaker 4: was a lot of instinct, a lot of reactionary plays.
- 6:25Speaker 4: Now he's got a command of what he's doing out there.
- 6:28Speaker 4: He's got Joe Brady as his head coach now. Josh
- 6:31Speaker 4: Allen is as, I mean, he is just, I can't say,
- 6:34Speaker 4: I was not a big Josh Allen believer early on
- 6:36Speaker 4: in his career. Now I can't say enough good things
- 6:39Speaker 4: about the way that guy plays the game. And lo
- 6:40Speaker 4: and behold, Keon Coleman is making plays. When's our guy
- 6:44Speaker 4: from that draft that has disappointed us make play? I mean,
- 6:48Speaker 4: I can't watch Keon Coleman without thinking of XL. I know.
- 6:51Speaker 6: They were both drafted in the same area. They were
- 6:53Speaker 6: both under consideration. We talked about them both coming out
- 6:56Speaker 6: of the draft. They have both been absolute letdowns and disappointments.
- 7:00Speaker 6: Keon Coleman catches six for 63. Does XL have a
- 7:04Speaker 6: six for 63 game in him ever again? It's hard
- 7:08Speaker 6: to feel like he does, man.
- 7:09Speaker 4: And then DJ Moore gets hurt, who's a big part
- 7:13Speaker 4: of opening up that Buffalo offense. He gets hurt, doesn't
- 7:16Speaker 4: really do anything before.
- 7:17Speaker 1: Yeah, didn't have a catch.
- 7:18Speaker 4: No, doesn't do anything before that. But Josh Allen, it
- 7:21Speaker 4: doesn't matter. He still goes out there and has five touchdowns.
- 7:24Speaker 4: Also last night, Jameer Gibbs, the numbers look all right.
- 7:28Speaker 4: He had over 100 yards of offense, got off to
- 7:30Speaker 4: a good start. I thought the Buffalo defense, though, while
- 7:33Speaker 4: Jared Goff did put up good numbers, the Buffalo defense
- 7:37Speaker 4: in the second half did a much better job in
- 7:40Speaker 4: not letting Jameer Gibbs get loose. Also, that was a
- 7:42Speaker 4: big factor there. in the second half of that game.
- 7:45Speaker 4: I mean, shoot, he averaged 3.3 yards a carry. Every
- 7:47Speaker 4: team would take that against him.
- 7:49Speaker 6: The Panther fan in me watches that Detroit defense without
- 7:52Speaker 6: two starting safeties and watches Tyler's shot throw for 4-10
- 7:56Speaker 6: and then watches that. And the Panther defense in me
- 7:59Speaker 6: is very excited for Bryce and company on that Sunday night.
- 8:03Speaker 1: Now, we'll see.
- 8:04Speaker 6: We'll see how the Panthers' defense plays the next two
- 8:06Speaker 6: weeks for that game. Because that offense can.
- 8:09Speaker 1: Be a challenge. I do want to mention. It could
- 8:11Speaker 1: look like an 80s NBA game with Doug Moe's offense.
- 8:14Speaker 6: Or it could just look similar to last week's Panther
- 8:16Speaker 6: game at the same stadium. Hopefully it's not a 59 spot.
- 8:19Speaker 6: That's an unfortunate point. We've got to mention Pitt winning
- 8:23Speaker 6: last night over Syracuse. This was an interesting game. They
- 8:26Speaker 6: did it a different way. Actually, they've done it a
- 8:29Speaker 6: different way in every game so far. Mason Heintzel went
- 8:33Speaker 6: off for 450 yards and seven touchdowns in the opener.
- 8:37Speaker 6: And then last week, they're playing through a complete rainstorm
- 8:40Speaker 6: in Florida against UCF, and they win it with defense 12-7.
- 8:44Speaker 6: And then last night, it wasn't a good day for
- 8:47Speaker 6: Mason Heintzel. He goes 10-23, no touchdowns and a pick.
- 8:53Speaker 6: but they run the football all over Syracuse for 245 yards.
- 8:58Speaker 6: They win the game 27 to 13. I am starting
- 9:01Speaker 6: to think bone that in Syracuse, they are no longer
- 9:05Speaker 6: ready for that. And jelly. He got bench late in
- 9:08Speaker 6: the game. He has been horrendous with the pickles the
- 9:12Speaker 6: last two weeks. He has five interceptions in his two
- 9:15Speaker 6: ACC games. And I'm not sure that he is going
- 9:18Speaker 6: to start next week, man. Yeah, it's going to get
- 9:21Speaker 6: really bad for Cuse. They're at UConn in a couple weeks.
- 9:24Speaker 4: But outside of that, at Virginia, this is in a row. Virginia, Louisville, UNC, SMU, Clemson,
- 9:33Speaker 4: NC State. There's really very little wins there for Syracuse.
- 9:37Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to be honest.
- 9:38Speaker 6: Outside of BC, I'm not sure you can name an
- 9:40Speaker 6: ACC team where right now we're going to be like,
- 9:42Speaker 6: hell yeah.
- 9:43Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 9:43Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 9:44Speaker 1: You know what I mean? For Syracuse?
- 9:45Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 9:47Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 9:47Speaker 4: And then Pittsburgh now 3-0. All three are home games.
- 9:50Speaker 4: They got Bucknell in another gimme game next. But then
- 9:54Speaker 4: we're going to find out a lot more about Pittsburgh
- 9:56Speaker 4: beginning of October at Virginia Tech on a Friday night.
- 10:00Speaker 4: game that's their first road game and then at the
- 10:03Speaker 4: heels um.
- 10:04Speaker 6: Oh you're right they didn't play in Florida I what
- 10:06Speaker 6: I thought with the weather I thought for sure that
- 10:08Speaker 6: central Florida game was.
- 10:09Speaker 4: In Florida no I'm sorry I didn't write yeah no
- 10:11Speaker 4: that was in Pittsburgh.
- 10:12Speaker 6: How the hell did they completely imported Florida weather for
- 10:16Speaker 6: that game?
- 10:16Speaker 1: Yeah, it was weird, yeah. That was crazy.
- 10:18Speaker 4: Because I remember watching that game thinking, that field is
- 10:22Speaker 4: hosting Atlanta-Pittsburgh the next day. And I was watching like,
- 10:25Speaker 4: that's a hell of a rainstorm.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't realize that. Because that Pittsburgh field is
- 10:30Speaker 1: already going to be a mess.
- 10:31Speaker 6: I put Pittsburgh right around below Virginia. When I start
- 10:35Speaker 6: thinking of ACC contenders, and you're going to see, obviously Miami,
- 10:39Speaker 6: and then you're going to see a huge game tomorrow
- 10:41Speaker 6: at Louisville between SMU and Louisville, 3.30 tomorrow. And then
- 10:44Speaker 6: I go to Virginia, and then I put Pitt behind that.
- 10:48Speaker 6: I'm still not ready to break Pitt, you know, above
- 10:51Speaker 6: any into that primo area. But I do think they
- 10:55Speaker 6: are in that tier right behind Virginia. I think they're
- 10:57Speaker 6: knocking to try to get up in contention. They're also
- 11:00Speaker 6: streaky in both ways under... uh pat narducci they can
- 11:05Speaker 6: have the years where they they get off to great
- 11:07Speaker 6: starts and last year they did and then they faltered
- 11:09Speaker 6: down the stretch so pittsburgh often who they are the
- 11:12Speaker 6: beginning of the year good or bad may not be
- 11:14Speaker 6: who they end up being by the end of the
- 11:15Speaker 6: year it's off it's often good it feels like to
- 11:18Speaker 6: me am i wrong in saying that yeah that they
- 11:20Speaker 6: often get off to good starts six and oh last
- 11:22Speaker 6: year as well i think they were six and oh
- 11:24Speaker 6: last year and finished like yeah with seven wins it's
- 11:27Speaker 6: almost like the games are early or easy early in
- 11:30Speaker 6: the season for them and i guess It's almost.
- 11:32Speaker 1: Like that happens.
- 11:33Speaker 6: We've got to get to the off the field football
- 11:35Speaker 6: drama in college football. Unfortunately, it's not just in Baton Rouge.
- 11:40Speaker 6: It's again in Chapel Hill as well. Yesterday, we got this.
- 11:44Speaker 6: The news broke in our final hour of the show.
- 11:47Speaker 6: Talked about it a bit that Steve Belichick, when he
- 11:51Speaker 6: is done with his medical leave towards the end of
- 11:53Speaker 6: the month, He will resign at UNC. The investigation is over,
- 11:58Speaker 6: so nothing else is going to happen for now as
- 12:02Speaker 6: a result of this other than, and these are two
- 12:04Speaker 6: pretty big things, Bill Belichick's general manager and good buddy
- 12:09Speaker 6: Michael Lombardi resigning and his defensive coordinator and son having
- 12:13Speaker 6: to resign today. for whatever was going on there behind
- 12:18Speaker 6: the scenes. Talk about trusting people close to you with
- 12:23Speaker 6: very important jobs and they completely let you down. Like,
- 12:28Speaker 6: that is just, that's got to hurt Bill Belichick. I
- 12:31Speaker 6: don't know if the man has any emotional bones in
- 12:34Speaker 6: his body. I don't know if as a human being
- 12:36Speaker 6: he actually hurts. I don't know if he actually, Bone,
- 12:39Speaker 6: has emotions. But if he does, I would think this
- 12:43Speaker 6: would hit those a little bit. But he trusted these
- 12:47Speaker 6: two cats, and man.
- 12:49Speaker 1: It did not go well. And they let.
- 12:50Speaker 4: Him down very quickly into this operation as well, it appears.
- 12:54Speaker 4: I mean, they're not that far into it. And think
- 12:55Speaker 4: about the conversations, Mac and Finney. that Belichick had to
- 12:59Speaker 4: have with those guys when he was going over the
- 13:02Speaker 4: decision to go to college. There's no doubt that Lombardi
- 13:07Speaker 4: was an ear. He talked to his sons and his
- 13:10Speaker 4: family about it. He talked to these people about the decision,
- 13:14Speaker 4: and then he struggled in his first year, but yet...
- 13:18Speaker 4: The people that he trusted the most in that decision,
- 13:20Speaker 4: outside of Jordan Hudson, most likely, let.
- 13:23Speaker 1: Him down the most, right? She would never let him down.
- 13:26Speaker 4: The people that he trusted with his football ideals and
- 13:29Speaker 4: then with his own personal stuff, they let him down
- 13:33Speaker 4: the most there. And it's for a guy that was
- 13:35Speaker 4: in such control over what we thought of everything in
- 13:39Speaker 4: New England, couldn't even control those close to him.
- 13:41Speaker 6: The Steve Belichick thing, like, I know people are saying nepotism,
- 13:45Speaker 6: especially now after we find out that his other son, Brian,
- 13:48Speaker 6: is going to be calling the plays and has been
- 13:50Speaker 6: calling the plays. So I know people, I saw the
- 13:52Speaker 6: Twitter comments, nepotism, he's got to pick another one of
- 13:54Speaker 6: his sons, all that.
- 13:56Speaker 1: Steve Belichick actually, like, that made sense to me.
- 13:58Speaker 6: He was actually doing a pretty damn good job at Washington,
- 14:01Speaker 6: and he looked like he was worthy of that job.
- 14:03Speaker 6: The Michael Lombardi thing will never make sense. It is
- 14:06Speaker 6: one of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard Belichick have. Actually, Bone,
- 14:10Speaker 6: it's right up there with Matt Patricia switching sides of
- 14:13Speaker 6: the ball and becoming an offensive coordinator. That and hiring
- 14:16Speaker 6: Lombardi are the two stupidest things that Bill Belichick has
- 14:20Speaker 6: ever done.
- 14:21Speaker 1: I just I will never understand it. And we'll see.
- 14:24Speaker 1: We got a clip here because it sucks again.
- 14:27Speaker 6: And the good things the investigation's done, there's gonna be
- 14:30Speaker 6: nothing else in terms of all the investigations, drug use
- 14:34Speaker 6: and staffer relationships and all that stuff. And UNC in
- 14:37Speaker 6: their statement said this is isolated. It's not systemic. So
- 14:41Speaker 6: hopefully they move on from this. Now they've got to
- 14:44Speaker 6: play a huge football game tomorrow. But listen to this.
- 14:48Speaker 6: This is Stephen Godfrey who covers college football bone. This
- 14:52Speaker 6: is on, I believe, Yahoo Sports Daily. And this is,
- 14:55Speaker 6: he is still, even though the football's getting better, he
- 14:59Speaker 6: basically says this off the field stuff, you know, is
- 15:03Speaker 6: yet another reason why he thinks Belichick only, you know,
- 15:07Speaker 6: makes it two years.
- 15:08Speaker 9: It's a little bit more of the same. This is
- 15:10Speaker 9: not really a big deal. I know it sounds like
- 15:12Speaker 9: dramatic and all that. Steve Belichick was almost certainly not
- 15:15Speaker 9: going to come back to this program. Michael Lombardi, the GM,
- 15:18Speaker 9: has already been removed from this program. You're seeing the
- 15:22Speaker 9: core around Bill Belichick. leave north carolina at a time
- 15:26Speaker 9: where they're actually playing a little bit better college football
- 15:28Speaker 9: than we expected but this still leads me to you
- 15:31Speaker 9: know i just said this in the college football choir
- 15:32Speaker 9: i'll say it right here i had kind of like
- 15:35Speaker 9: a table setting conversation with the agents in the college
- 15:37Speaker 9: football community hey what are you thinking about the cycle
- 15:40Speaker 9: it's still kind of slow all that more so than
- 15:43Speaker 9: any other embattled coach that you could ask me about
- 15:45Speaker 9: fits including mike norvell or davo sweeney or anybody else
- 15:48Speaker 9: who's in a bad spot greg shiano at ruckers right
- 15:52Speaker 9: everybody expects Bill Belichick in North Carolina to move on in,
- 15:56Speaker 9: in the near future.
- 15:57Speaker 2: And this is just another sign of that.
- 15:59Speaker 1: See, how do you feel about that? Fitty is a
- 16:00Speaker 1: Tar Heel fan.
- 16:01Speaker 6: Like, do you like feel like this off the field
- 16:04Speaker 6: stuff makes, makes you think he's got to go regardless
- 16:09Speaker 6: or are you now? So are you hopeful? Like, Hey,
- 16:12Speaker 6: the football, it could be a good actual football season
- 16:15Speaker 6: this year.
- 16:16Speaker 1: Stop with his stuff.
- 16:18Speaker 7: I'll reference the interview we did with Andrew Jones and,
- 16:21Speaker 7: back before the Lombardi news broke late July. And you
- 16:25Speaker 7: asked him, outside of the football not improving, what could
- 16:29Speaker 7: cost Bill Belichick his job? And he answered very matter-of-factly,
- 16:33Speaker 7: if he continues to be an embarrassment to the university.
- 16:36Speaker 7: And Mac, right now, as much as I like what
- 16:40Speaker 7: this team has done in the first two games where
- 16:42Speaker 7: they're 2-0, they've got a really good chance to get
- 16:45Speaker 7: a big win tomorrow at Clemson. I don't think that
- 16:48Speaker 7: outweighs all the negativity that's been surrounding him for 21 months.
- 16:53Speaker 7: Because the investigation may be over today. And we may
- 16:58Speaker 7: have a resolution with what's happening with Lombardi, Belichick, so
- 17:02Speaker 7: on and so forth. Do I think that, Mac, when
- 17:04Speaker 7: we go into our bye week next week, there's not
- 17:05Speaker 7: going to be some negative headline around this program?
- 17:08Speaker 1: The answer is no.
- 17:09Speaker 7: Like, you're waiting for the next domino to fall. And
- 17:12Speaker 7: that's a real bad place to be as a fan.
- 17:15Speaker 7: And I can only imagine how the decision makers and
- 17:17Speaker 7: the powers that be at UNC feel. You know, a
- 17:23Speaker 7: lot of schools will deal with a lot of crap
- 17:25Speaker 7: if you're winning. He's 6-8 as a head coach at
- 17:28Speaker 7: the college level. That's not enough to justify... all the
- 17:32Speaker 7: negativity he has brought the program. So I thought we
- 17:35Speaker 7: took a really massive step with the C.J. Sadler decision,
- 17:38Speaker 7: not even waiting until Saturday to make a decision. No,
- 17:43Speaker 7: you got three traffic violations since August. You're not playing.
- 17:46Speaker 1: The Chapman thing, you're suspended indefinitely.
- 17:49Speaker 6: He has to get control of his program. Bone, the
- 17:52Speaker 6: Sadler thing, like, yes, it's his third. He was going
- 17:55Speaker 6: 16 of 35. So it's his third traffic violation. So
- 17:59Speaker 6: a kid that I think could be their second best
- 18:00Speaker 6: wide receiver, certainly eventually, if not already as a true freshman,
- 18:03Speaker 6: he's that good. He gets suspended for the Clemson game.
- 18:07Speaker 6: There is a little more to that. The report stated
- 18:11Speaker 6: that police received a report of a careless and reckless
- 18:15Speaker 6: driver driving the vehicle about an hour before the stop. Bone,
- 18:19Speaker 6: his teammate, obviously Chapman had a gun. and there was
- 18:22Speaker 6: weed in the car. Bro, what kind of judgment is that?
- 18:26Speaker 6: Why are you driving recklessly, bringing attention on yourself when you,
- 18:30Speaker 6: I don't know, did he know there was a gun?
- 18:32Speaker 6: Did he know his teammate had a gun? But you
- 18:33Speaker 6: got drugs in the car? Did he know there was
- 18:35Speaker 6: drugs in the car?
- 18:37Speaker 1: Like, it's just.
- 18:38Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's just, it's a young person mistake
- 18:42Speaker 4: all the way around there. But to Finney's point... Yeah,
- 18:47Speaker 4: it might be done in the moment, but there's no
- 18:49Speaker 4: proof right now in the Belichick UNC era so far
- 18:53Speaker 4: that it's ever going to be done with the drama.
- 18:55Speaker 4: And it feels like it's always multiple things. It's never
- 18:58Speaker 4: just one thing at a time. It's the player situation
- 19:01Speaker 4: you're talking about. It's Steve Belichick. Everything seems to happen
- 19:04Speaker 4: at once. 20% of the team has had traffic violations,
- 19:07Speaker 4: by the way.
- 19:08Speaker 6: They try to make a run for Georgia's driving title, man.
- 19:11Speaker 7: This is going to surprise you, Mac. I want to
- 19:14Speaker 7: get to a point when it comes to Carolina where.
- 19:17Speaker 1: We just talk football. Yeah, that'd be nice. That'd be nice.
- 19:19Speaker 1: Is that too much to ask? Apparently so when you
- 19:22Speaker 1: hire Bill Bell.
- 19:22Speaker 6: It's almost like maybe you should have told John Pryor
- 19:26Speaker 6: to shut the hell up and let Bubba Cunningham hire
- 19:29Speaker 6: an actual college football coach. There's also the question, too,
- 19:32Speaker 6: of how good does the season have to be on
- 19:35Speaker 6: the field, Bone?
- 19:36Speaker 1: To where they would bring Belichick back.
- 19:37Speaker 4: Eight wins.
- 19:38Speaker 1: Eight wins.
- 19:39Speaker 6: Is it more than that? Are they so ticked off
- 19:41Speaker 6: about all this? So that's an interesting question.
- 19:43Speaker 4: Wins and no more incidents or could it be what
- 19:46Speaker 4: if there's an incident along the.
- 19:47Speaker 6: Way and then the winds have to go up like
- 19:48Speaker 6: that's the that's a little balancing act i'm curious about
- 19:51Speaker 6: you have.
- 19:52Speaker 1: To add a win for every incident i.
- 19:53Speaker 4: Do 10 wins but a major incident is that gonna
- 19:56Speaker 4: be okay i don't know.
- 19:58Speaker 6: I do want to mention the drama in Baton Rouge.
- 20:00Speaker 6: We don't have time, Bone, for all of it. I mean,
- 20:02Speaker 6: it's ridiculous. It's absurd, and it's only going to get
- 20:07Speaker 6: more absurd. But the biggest one that you need to
- 20:11Speaker 6: know is last night. LSU upgraded Levitt to questionable from doubtful.
- 20:19Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Thank God. You were very worried.
- 20:22Speaker 4: I tweeted out, this is going to be, this is
- 20:23Speaker 4: a movie. This guy's comeback story. Greg Sankey hit him
- 20:26Speaker 4: with the fine. That was a, everybody knows now. There's no,
- 20:29Speaker 4: I don't think there's any injury. I don't know for sure,
- 20:31Speaker 4: but I don't think there's any injury. I think it
- 20:33Speaker 4: was just BS. And all of a sudden now he
- 20:35Speaker 4: gets moved to questionable. Have a suspicion he may play bone.
- 20:40Speaker 4: On Saturday night. And what a story this is of
- 20:42Speaker 4: just perseverance to overcome major injuries. To play the big game.
- 20:46Speaker 4: We come back. Speaking of injuries, we're going to go
- 20:47Speaker 4: through the Panthers-Falcons injury news. Avero talks accountability. A former
- 20:54Speaker 4: Panther questions Avero's scheme. While a national pundit stands up
- 20:59Speaker 4: for the Panthers' defense. Mac Bone, 50 Sports Radio, 92.7
- 21:01Speaker 4: on a football Friday.
- 21:18Speaker 1: Oh, man.
- 21:20Speaker 6: Just got some very upsetting news early this morning on
- 21:23Speaker 6: a football Friday when we're trying to get the vibes right.
- 21:26Speaker 6: We're playing the Dirty Birds. We need a W so badly.
- 21:29Speaker 6: And now we find out our man Panther Steve, a.k.a.
- 21:33Speaker 6: Panther Weenie, will not dance at Twin Peaks Concord when
- 21:39Speaker 6: he comes out to hang out, watch the game, say
- 21:41Speaker 6: hello to the WFNZ crew. We'll be out there on
- 21:45Speaker 6: Sunday doing countdown to kickoff from 11 a.m. to 1.
- 21:48Speaker 6: And that is his staple, man. That is his staple
- 21:51Speaker 6: or his dance moves. And he says it didn't work
- 21:56Speaker 6: last week. Panther got nowhere last Saturday or Sunday after
- 21:59Speaker 6: he danced. So now he is withholding his dancing services.
- 22:03Speaker 4: I got to tell you, Panther Steve, a.k.a. Panther Weenie,
- 22:06Speaker 4: you've done a lot of dancing and they've lost a lot.
- 22:08Speaker 4: Why are we shutting it down now? Also, he's just
- 22:11Speaker 4: figured it out. He has just figured out the way.
- 22:13Speaker 4: I talked to a close source in the television world
- 22:16Speaker 4: locally that he was so upset this summer that his
- 22:20Speaker 4: text name was changed to Panther Weenie. that he approached
- 22:24Speaker 4: a television reporter to share his story and wanted maybe
- 22:28Speaker 4: a little help in getting his name changed.
- 22:30Speaker 1: What, he wanted like a feature on TV? Like Panther Steve?
- 22:34Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 22:34Speaker 6: He just wants to be called Panther Steve in the
- 22:37Speaker 6: Boys of the Maggie Bone Show. For some reason, call
- 22:39Speaker 6: him Panther Weenie.
- 22:39Speaker 4: This Panther Weenie thing has really, really shook him up.
- 22:44Speaker 6: Oh my god come on baby come on there's worse
- 22:47Speaker 6: nicknames out there uh for listeners i just can't think
- 22:50Speaker 6: of any right now they're worse ones stevie come on
- 22:52Speaker 6: baby all right i've got a list let's talk panthers
- 22:56Speaker 6: y'all let's uh start with the injury news so There's
- 23:02Speaker 6: a little tease here with Pat Jones. Pat Jones was
- 23:04Speaker 6: limited yesterday with that back injury. So now I want
- 23:08Speaker 6: her bone. I kind of mentally counted him out for
- 23:10Speaker 6: this week. Thought it would be at least another week.
- 23:13Speaker 6: Now I wonder if we get Pat Jones back. That
- 23:15Speaker 6: would be a very nice addition on the edge. Jalen
- 23:18Speaker 6: Coker was limited again yesterday, but it kind of feels
- 23:21Speaker 6: like the way Canales was talking that tomorrow is, or
- 23:25Speaker 6: actually not tomorrow, today.
- 23:26Speaker 1: Today is Friday.
- 23:27Speaker 6: Today is the day they wanted to ramp them up.
- 23:30Speaker 6: The one that I am the most negative about is
- 23:34Speaker 6: Bobby Brown. Held out completely again. He's got that bulging
- 23:39Speaker 6: disc in his back. Gotta say it right. Can't have
- 23:42Speaker 6: a Steve Levy moment, y'all. It's feeling like he might
- 23:48Speaker 6: need to sit out. So, I don't know. What do
- 23:50Speaker 6: you think about that? Waller back, by the way, as expected.
- 23:53Speaker 6: Full practice.
- 23:54Speaker 1: Waller's in.
- 23:54Speaker 4: Coker, I think he's in. I'm not too worried about him.
- 23:59Speaker 4: They think he's going to be ready for Sunday. Bobby Brown,
- 24:02Speaker 4: it appears like he gutted it out last week, but
- 24:05Speaker 4: Maybe because he did, it's going to take him out.
- 24:07Speaker 1: For this week.
- 24:08Speaker 4: Pat Jones, I believe, will be the old have-to-listen-to-countdown-to-kickoff routine
- 24:13Speaker 4: here with Mack and KB. It's going to be a
- 24:16Speaker 4: game-time decision, I'm guessing. We'll see about today's status. But
- 24:19Speaker 4: to me, I've got no hope, really, for Bobby Brown. Coker,
- 24:24Speaker 4: I think he's in. Pat Jones feels like he's going
- 24:27Speaker 4: to be the one we monitor the most on Sunday morning.
- 24:29Speaker 1: The Atlanta injuries, there was some change there. The A.J.
- 24:33Speaker 1: Terrell injury.
- 24:35Speaker 6: A situation where we kind of hoped Atlanta would lose
- 24:38Speaker 6: another key defensive player. He was full practice with his
- 24:41Speaker 6: shoulder injury yesterday. The quarterbacks, it feels like it's either
- 24:46Speaker 6: Cooper Rush or Penix. They both were full practice. Tua's
- 24:49Speaker 6: not practicing right now. I heard Bailey play a clip
- 24:53Speaker 6: from Todd Haley on a podcast saying he thinks Tua's
- 24:57Speaker 6: about to retire. So that was kind of interesting.
- 25:01Speaker 4: That's interesting on both fronts, the Tua news and the
- 25:03Speaker 4: fact that we found Todd Haley.
- 25:05Speaker 1: Todd Haley was on a podcast.
- 25:06Speaker 6: Man, saying he thinks Tua might be exiting stage left.
- 25:11Speaker 6: Chris Lindstrom is still in the concussion protocol, but he
- 25:14Speaker 6: was upgraded to limited yesterday. They've got a new injury, though.
- 25:17Speaker 6: Offensive tackle Juwan Taylor, their right tackle, didn't practice yesterday.
- 25:22Speaker 6: So that's throw him into the mix there. So that's
- 25:25Speaker 6: their injury situation. Quarterback feels like Cooper Rush, but I
- 25:30Speaker 6: feel like you could say with total certainty it's at
- 25:32Speaker 6: least Rush or Penix.
- 25:34Speaker 1: Did you mention anything about Billy Bowman in there?
- 25:36Speaker 4: He was limited yesterday. He's another corner. Limited with an
- 25:40Speaker 4: Achilles injury. Their corners are kind of a mess right
- 25:42Speaker 4: now anyway. That's why I was wondering. He's the nickel guy, right?
- 25:45Speaker 1: So I was wondering.
- 25:46Speaker 4: Wondering about him, but yeah. Their safeties, I think, are
- 25:49Speaker 4: all right, but their corners without A.J. Terrell is a problem. Well,
- 25:53Speaker 4: Terrell's going to play, it sounds like. He was full practice.
- 25:57Speaker 4: I'm saying he wasn't playing.
- 25:59Speaker 1: That's a problem.
- 25:59Speaker 6: But his brother, Avian Terrell, is a guy that plays
- 26:02Speaker 6: a lot in the slot. Played 23 snaps in the
- 26:04Speaker 6: slot last week.
- 26:05Speaker 1: Talent, right? Clemson fans know that. But a rookie.
- 26:09Speaker 6: So I think that'll be one of the things we'll
- 26:10Speaker 6: talk about today is can you get T-Mac and Coker
- 26:13Speaker 6: on a rook?
- 26:14Speaker 1: And see if they can cook. You know?
- 26:17Speaker 6: I'm dropping bars, baby, this morning. There you go. What
- 26:22Speaker 6: do you think about the fact... I know we've got
- 26:23Speaker 6: to get to this audio and stuff. What do you think, Bone,
- 26:26Speaker 6: about the fact that we find out... Yesterday, we kind
- 26:29Speaker 6: of thought Cleveland was signing Jimmy Horn Jr. to the
- 26:34Speaker 6: active roster.
- 26:35Speaker 1: It's not. It's the practice squad. And I was reading.
- 26:38Speaker 6: It was either Darren Gane or Cassidy on Panthers.com, and
- 26:41Speaker 6: the way they basically wrote about it was... um he
- 26:44Speaker 6: chose the Browns practice squad over the Panthers practice squad
- 26:47Speaker 6: well interesting yeah wanted to reunite probably with this guy
- 26:50Speaker 6: Shador I guess uh interesting there yeah maybe also probably
- 26:54Speaker 6: because he feels like they play each other soon so
- 26:56Speaker 6: he's got opportunity in his mind to stick it to
- 26:59Speaker 6: the Panthers right away I'm trying to think of his
- 27:01Speaker 6: mind and what he's thinking well yeah does he have
- 27:03Speaker 6: some ill will that you know they just won you
- 27:06Speaker 6: know rough game and they just said Yeah, we're sending
- 27:09Speaker 6: you down and we're cutting you from the active roster.
- 27:12Speaker 6: Panthers signed in his place E.J. Williams, former Clemson and
- 27:17Speaker 6: Indiana wide receiver. Let's hear from the coordinators. And then
- 27:21Speaker 6: you're going to hear from two different media members, one
- 27:24Speaker 6: local former Panther player, one national about the Panthers defense.
- 27:29Speaker 6: We are going to but we're going to start with.
- 27:31Speaker 6: bone with Brad Idzik, who commented about Monroe Freeling. Had
- 27:35Speaker 6: a couple of rough moments, especially early, but kind of
- 27:37Speaker 6: settled in. And this was what Brad Idzik thought about
- 27:40Speaker 6: Freeling's first start.
- 27:42Speaker 1: Yeah, he doesn't blink.
- 27:43Speaker 5: He really doesn't. He learns from, you know, I wouldn't
- 27:46Speaker 5: say learning lessons that he's gotten over camp. He doesn't
- 27:50Speaker 5: make those twice. He doesn't make those mistakes twice. So
- 27:53Speaker 5: this guy's super mature. He doesn't bat an eye at
- 27:57Speaker 5: the moment. There was no like Welcome to the NFL. Like,
- 28:01Speaker 5: I don't know. Does this guy have the jitters moment?
- 28:04Speaker 5: He's played a lot of big-time football, and it shows.
- 28:07Speaker 5: And I think the guys around him, they don't view
- 28:10Speaker 5: him like, hey, that's a rookie making his first start.
- 28:12Speaker 5: They view him like, hey, just another one of the guys.
- 28:14Speaker 5: We expect him to make big plays for us, you know,
- 28:17Speaker 5: and road grade and get that defensive line moving so
- 28:21Speaker 5: our backs can accomplish some things. So I thought he
- 28:23Speaker 5: did a great job. There's always going to be some
- 28:25Speaker 5: little things that we can, you know, pick at and
- 28:28Speaker 5: make sure that he's getting better. But he's still a
- 28:31Speaker 5: young player, so he's going to have those moments throughout
- 28:33Speaker 5: the season, and we'll grow with him.
- 28:35Speaker 6: Now, on the other side, Bone, and I'm sorry to
- 28:37Speaker 6: Tracy Smith, due to time constraints, Bone, Tracy Smith will
- 28:41Speaker 6: not appear in this segment of Coordinator Audio.
- 28:43Speaker 1: But he did speak yesterday, y'all. I want to acknowledge him.
- 28:47Speaker 6: But Ajiro Avero, one of the things he was asked
- 28:50Speaker 6: about is that multiple players this week said that Avero
- 28:53Speaker 6: was accountable. When they talked in the meeting rooms, Avero
- 28:56Speaker 6: wanted to make it known, hey— I did this wrong. I,
- 28:59Speaker 6: you know, I wasn't, you know, I, I wasn't my
- 29:02Speaker 6: best either. And, um, he talked about the, he talked
- 29:05Speaker 6: about the importance of being accountable to your players.
- 29:08Speaker 3: Well, uh, I just think it's important that, um, we
- 29:12Speaker 3: don't separate ourselves just because we're coaches that we're above, uh,
- 29:15Speaker 3: what happens on the field. Uh, we play a big
- 29:17Speaker 3: part in it. Our hand is in it. And, uh,
- 29:20Speaker 3: I just want everybody to realize that we're all in
- 29:22Speaker 3: this together, um, through good, through bad. And, um, you know,
- 29:26Speaker 3: I just think it's the, uh, the, the best show
- 29:29Speaker 3: of leadership and sign of leadership is like, Hey, I'm
- 29:31Speaker 3: not always perfect. And I'm not going to get every call, right.
- 29:34Speaker 3: I'm not going to get every plan, right. But you know,
- 29:36Speaker 3: the effort's always going to be there. Um, I'm always
- 29:39Speaker 3: going to learn. And, uh, if I do things well,
- 29:42Speaker 3: you know, Hey, that's what I'm supposed to do. And
- 29:44Speaker 3: then when I don't do things, well, I got to
- 29:45Speaker 3: find a way to correct it just like them. And, uh,
- 29:48Speaker 3: when I show that, uh, when I show that humility,
- 29:51Speaker 3: I expect the same from them.
- 29:52Speaker 1: Right.
- 29:52Speaker 3: And, uh, And I think it's been a great way
- 29:55Speaker 3: of us working together.
- 29:56Speaker 6: So there you go, Bone. Do you think the players,
- 29:58Speaker 6: when Averro said, hey, a lot of that's on me, guys.
- 30:01Speaker 6: I got to be better, too. Do you think the
- 30:03Speaker 6: players responded with, I know, I've been listening to WFNZ.
- 30:07Speaker 6: I've heard their texting calls. Yeah, it pretty much was
- 30:11Speaker 6: all you, Coach.
- 30:12Speaker 4: We can talk about Averro's future and the mistakes and
- 30:16Speaker 4: all that stuff. But there's no doubt that he's going
- 30:19Speaker 4: to handle himself and say stuff the right way and
- 30:21Speaker 4: handle himself as the utmost professional. So we can question,
- 30:26Speaker 4: you know, the job at times that's being done, but
- 30:27Speaker 4: I'm never going to question that dude of who that
- 30:30Speaker 4: guy is as a person, though. because he's always going
- 30:33Speaker 4: to handle himself the right way.
- 30:34Speaker 8: 100%.
- 30:34Speaker 4: He's never going to throw his players under the bus
- 30:36Speaker 4: or anything like that.
- 30:37Speaker 1: No, and matter of fact, he says so little.
- 30:40Speaker 6: Like, I was listening to that presser, Fitty, and I
- 30:42Speaker 6: think I said this to you, but I feel like
- 30:44Speaker 6: Fitty was texting his sweetie, so I don't know if
- 30:45Speaker 6: he heard me.
- 30:47Speaker 1: Flatter was on the way into work.
- 30:48Speaker 6: No, he's actually got a real sweetie now.
- 30:51Speaker 1: I'm sorry. But you listen to Averro's presser.
- 30:56Speaker 6: There's no way you have any idea if they won, lost,
- 30:58Speaker 6: if they gave up 10 points or they gave up 59. Like,
- 31:02Speaker 6: it's just deadpan. He's never going to let you know that, oh,
- 31:06Speaker 6: that was terrible. He's also never going to let you know,
- 31:09Speaker 6: I thought that was really good. Like, it's just, and
- 31:12Speaker 6: as a result, Bone, they're kind of boring pressers.
- 31:14Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, no doubt.
- 31:15Speaker 6: But he's trying not to say anything. All right, let's
- 31:17Speaker 6: get a couple of pundits here on the defense. Al Wallace,
- 31:21Speaker 6: this must have, the Avero Eviscerator's Bone out there in Listerland.
- 31:26Speaker 1: Must have loved this. And I bet Walker did, too.
- 31:29Speaker 6: This was Al Wallace, former Panther player, talking about the
- 31:33Speaker 6: things that he doesn't like about Avero's scheme.
- 31:37Speaker 10: He needs to pop into 2026. As a philosophy and
- 31:41Speaker 10: as a scheme, the 3-4 works. But the 3-4 scheme
- 31:45Speaker 10: that Avero is running, it is an umbrella scheme. secondary
- 31:48Speaker 10: right we're going to play off coverage i know that's
- 31:50Speaker 10: a huge criticism but when you do that right think
- 31:53Speaker 10: vic fangio when you're able to do that is because
- 31:55Speaker 10: your defensive line your pass rush the blitz package is
- 31:58Speaker 10: so overwhelming all you have to do is not allow
- 32:01Speaker 10: the receivers to get behind you but when you don't
- 32:03Speaker 10: generate a pass rush like we've seen from the carolina
- 32:06Speaker 10: panthers over the last couple of years then it's just
- 32:08Speaker 10: picking a soft coverage apart on the back end it
- 32:10Speaker 10: is aggressive 54 blitz percentage against the chicago bears but
- 32:14Speaker 10: it's so soft on the back it's just wide open receivers.
- 32:18Speaker 6: I think Bone, and again, I'm pretty sure Al Wallace
- 32:21Speaker 6: has forgotten more football than I will never know. But
- 32:24Speaker 6: to me, there are two things here. One, I thought
- 32:28Speaker 6: they got a decent amount of pressure, close to 40%,
- 32:29Speaker 6: according to PFF. They just didn't bring the dude down.
- 32:34Speaker 6: So this week, if they can get the same pressure
- 32:36Speaker 6: this week, Bone... I think they're going to have more
- 32:38Speaker 6: success against a guy like Cooper Rush. And the other
- 32:41Speaker 6: thing is, too, the umbrella coverage is designed to keep
- 32:44Speaker 6: everything in front, make them have methodical long drives. And
- 32:47Speaker 6: maybe you turn the ball over. Maybe you force them
- 32:50Speaker 6: to kick a field goal, stuff like that. Last week,
- 32:52Speaker 6: they had eight plays of 22 yards or more. It
- 32:54Speaker 6: was a complete breakdown. They did not do like it's
- 32:57Speaker 6: one thing to dink and dunk us to death. It's
- 32:59Speaker 6: another thing, Bone. When you're playing umbrella coverage and you're
- 33:02Speaker 6: trying not to give up big plays and you still
- 33:04Speaker 6: give up a crap load.
- 33:05Speaker 4: That umbrella got taken with the wind, right? That umbrella coverage.
- 33:08Speaker 4: It got sucked up into the ether. There goes our umbrella.
- 33:12Speaker 4: It's floating away. I mean, bend but don't break, Matt,
- 33:14Speaker 4: can work, but unless it breaks and then it's a problem, right?
- 33:17Speaker 6: I mean, it was breaking before bending. That was the
- 33:19Speaker 6: complete opposite of what it's designed to do.
- 33:21Speaker 1: It was pathetic.
- 33:22Speaker 4: Look, I'm not John Madden here, the football mind, but
- 33:25Speaker 4: when you want to keep stuff in front of you,
- 33:27Speaker 4: you've got to actually keep the stuff in front of you.
- 33:29Speaker 6: And here's the thing, too. Umbrella coverage doesn't mean crap
- 33:33Speaker 6: if you give up 291 yards rushing. You know, like,
- 33:38Speaker 6: that's just, can I not let a man move me?
- 33:42Speaker 6: Can I get off a damn block? And can I
- 33:44Speaker 6: come up and actually make a tackle? And it's like,
- 33:46Speaker 6: that stuff wasn't happening. Let's get to Daniel Jeremiah. Now,
- 33:51Speaker 6: Mina Kimes, on her podcast, she had Daniel Jeremiah on
- 33:54Speaker 6: her podcast. She was going in on how terrible the
- 33:58Speaker 6: Panther defense looked, and she would not be lying one bit.
- 34:02Speaker 6: But Daniel Jeremiah believes there's a reason, Bone, to feel
- 34:05Speaker 6: like They're going to get this thing straightened out on
- 34:09Speaker 6: defense in Carolina.
- 34:11Speaker 2: Their personnel is better than that. I thought in this game,
- 34:14Speaker 2: the corners would be able to hold their own and
- 34:18Speaker 2: you'd see middle of the field games. I thought Loveland
- 34:20Speaker 2: would have a good game and Burden would have a
- 34:21Speaker 2: good game. They got Burden going early, but Loveland didn't
- 34:25Speaker 2: do a whole lot. And it was like, oh, they're
- 34:26Speaker 2: just going to run the ball down their throats. And
- 34:28Speaker 2: anytime Caleb wants to take off and give himself 20,
- 34:30Speaker 2: he can go get 20 himself as well.
- 34:33Speaker 1: Yeah, I.
- 34:35Speaker 2: I will say.
- 34:36Speaker 9: They can't be that bad, Mina.
- 34:40Speaker 2: Carolina can't be that. There are too many good players
- 34:42Speaker 2: on that defense for them to be that bad.
- 34:45Speaker 6: And don't you think we've said that this week? Buckner
- 34:50Speaker 6: said it this week. There's too much talent on this defense.
- 34:54Speaker 6: I'm not going out on a limb if I say
- 34:55Speaker 6: to give up 59 points every week. But you know
- 34:57Speaker 6: what I mean? I think it's... I think it was
- 35:02Speaker 6: the opponent. I think it was the timing. I think
- 35:04Speaker 6: it was getting used to each other. And look, Mac,
- 35:07Speaker 6: you say it a lot. Week one provides weird results.
- 35:11Speaker 6: Weird things happen.
- 35:14Speaker 4: I'm not saying that they don't have things to get
- 35:15Speaker 4: better at, and they have to, or it's going to
- 35:17Speaker 4: be a problem. But I would be surprised if we
- 35:20Speaker 4: don't see a much better Panther defense in the next
- 35:23Speaker 4: couple weeks. what's more like we thought against these two
- 35:26Speaker 4: opponents uh especially but just in a general sense i
- 35:30Speaker 4: have not downgraded from i think we're going to be
- 35:32Speaker 4: a top 10 defense preseason to i think we're the
- 35:35Speaker 4: worst defense in football now they're probably going to land
- 35:39Speaker 4: somewhere in between and the question is you got to
- 35:42Speaker 4: be a lot closer to that top 10 than the
- 35:45Speaker 4: bottom or else then averro has completely failed because they've
- 35:48Speaker 4: given him the most talent he has had here When
- 35:50Speaker 4: we come back, it's the Couch Potato Guide, your guide
- 35:53Speaker 4: to all the sports on TV this weekend. And I
- 35:55Speaker 4: don't know if Mac has seen this yet. We need
- 35:57Speaker 4: to mention, what has Cam Newton been up to this
- 36:00Speaker 4: week with the Atlanta Falcons quarterback job and his comments
- 36:03Speaker 4: on it?
- 36:03Speaker 1: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
- 36:29Speaker 11: Yeah, I think if you're wondering something about a guy
- 36:32Speaker 11: and you don't have enough, then you go back to
- 36:34Speaker 11: whatever you can get. You don't have to do that
- 36:37Speaker 11: in this case, in my opinion. You can see the
- 36:39Speaker 11: guy's arm, whether he's in the pocket or going out, scrambling.
- 36:43Speaker 11: You can see how tough he is as a runner.
- 36:45Speaker 11: You can see he's poised. Really good football player. Inexperienced
- 36:50Speaker 11: at the college level, yes, but he doesn't look gun-shy
- 36:53Speaker 11: at all. So we know we're up against a good
- 36:55Speaker 11: player at that position.
- 36:58Speaker 6: That is Dave Doran talking about going up against true
- 37:00Speaker 6: freshman quarterback Jared Curtis, the big five-star recruit, 6'3, QB,
- 37:06Speaker 6: rocket arm. You heard all about the physical attributes there.
- 37:09Speaker 6: But can DJ Elliott confuse the man a little bit,
- 37:12Speaker 6: throw him off a little bit? It is time for the–
- 37:16Speaker 6: we have two true freshman quarterbacks starting their first game
- 37:20Speaker 6: in games that we are looking at. You've got Curtis, obviously,
- 37:23Speaker 6: for Vanderbilt against NC State. And then you have Tate
- 37:27Speaker 6: Reynolds against Carolina. And they are both in the early
- 37:31Speaker 6: window on Saturday. I guess we should start the guide, Boney.
- 37:39Speaker 4: Not the TV Guide. That was a publication back in
- 37:41Speaker 4: the day. Yeah, that's copyrighted. This is the Couch Potato Guide.
- 37:43Speaker 6: Couch Potato Guide with Friday night, Miami at Wake Forest
- 37:49Speaker 6: tonight at 730.
- 37:50Speaker 1: Do the Deacs, can they make it interesting? Do they
- 37:52Speaker 1: have anything for the Canes?
- 37:53Speaker 4: Wake can show a lot in this game by just
- 37:57Speaker 4: being competitive for a long period of time, right?
- 37:59Speaker 1: They're not going to.
- 38:00Speaker 4: Win, but can Gio Lopez have a good game against
- 38:03Speaker 4: Miami like he's had to start the year? They can
- 38:05Speaker 4: gain something in here tonight. even against Miami, who may
- 38:09Speaker 4: end up winning by 20 still, nonetheless.
- 38:11Speaker 1: Yeah, the spread is what, like 21 or so? 21, yeah.
- 38:14Speaker 6: Yeah, I am a little worried about, I watched that
- 38:18Speaker 6: dude Ryan Brown throw for three, like 30 against Wake's defense.
- 38:24Speaker 6: What do we think Mensah can do, you know, in
- 38:26Speaker 6: Malachi time? I'm worried about this game tonight. We'll see
- 38:29Speaker 6: what happens. 8 o'clock on Fox, two ranked teams, No.
- 38:33Speaker 6: 13 Texas Tech against No. 22 Houston. Pretty interesting in
- 38:37Speaker 6: the Big 12. And then you get to Saturday. You've
- 38:41Speaker 6: got Carolina Clemson, ESPN at noon. You have State and Vanderbilt,
- 38:47Speaker 6: SEC Network at 1245.
- 38:50Speaker 1: And then you have.
- 38:52Speaker 6: Georgia's playing Arkansas tonight. The amount of points Georgia could put.
- 38:57Speaker 6: I think Arkansas bone is, like, butt nasty.
- 39:02Speaker 1: I'm sorry? I think that. I don't know if that
- 39:06Speaker 1: makes any sense. So that it's not a proper football term.
- 39:08Speaker 6: I think they're horrible. And Georgia is probably going to
- 39:12Speaker 6: go off on them. That's noon on ABC.
- 39:14Speaker 4: You don't get that with Joel Klatt and Gus Johnson.
- 39:17Speaker 5: Hey!
- 39:18Speaker 1: Joel Klatt!
- 39:19Speaker 4: Arkansas!
- 39:21Speaker 1: Arkansas!
- 39:22Speaker 6: But it would work well, though, the way you did
- 39:25Speaker 6: that voice. 11.30, if you can't wait to noon for football,
- 39:28Speaker 6: Coastal Carolina's at Delaware. CBS Sportsnet at 11.30. The 3.30 window,
- 39:34Speaker 6: you've got Florida State, Alabama on ABC. I have a
- 39:38Speaker 6: feeling Bama could get their revenge bone for last year.
- 39:41Speaker 6: You have this huge ACC game, SMU-Louisville-Denver. ESPN 2 at 3.30.
- 39:47Speaker 6: You've got Kentucky, Texas A & M. That is on
- 39:52Speaker 6: ESPN at 3.30.
- 39:54Speaker 1: And then you have.
- 39:55Speaker 6: Stanford, Duke at 4 on the CW. And what an
- 40:00Speaker 6: interesting game. Mississippi State, South Carolina. That one is at
- 40:04Speaker 6: 415 on the SEC Network. That's a window for you, Bone.
- 40:07Speaker 6: You're going to be intense.
- 40:08Speaker 4: That's my pants-off window right there, that 4 o'clock area,
- 40:12Speaker 4: both Duke playing and South Carolina. Duke-Stanford, that's the West–
- 40:15Speaker 4: we call that the West Bryant game of the week
- 40:18Speaker 4: right there. There you go. Also, all eyes on Nate
- 40:21Speaker 4: Shepard in that game. Does he continue, Mac, the ridiculous
- 40:24Speaker 4: start at running back for the mighty Duke Blue Devils?
- 40:29Speaker 4: I would predict yes, definitely. I would definitely think that
- 40:33Speaker 4: he does. The nighttime window, 6 o'clock ESPN Plus, Charlotte
- 40:39Speaker 4: at App State. I know a lot of you will
- 40:41Speaker 4: probably be in Boone, whether you're an App fan or
- 40:43Speaker 4: a Charlotte fan. But if not, ESPN Plus, 6 o'clock.
- 40:47Speaker 4: ECU's at Old Dominion. They need a win badly.
- 40:49Speaker 6: 6 o'clock ESPN Plus. And then you get into the
- 40:54Speaker 6: national TV games, Florida-Auburn. 7 o'clock ESPN, a very interesting game. LSU-Omiss,
- 41:01Speaker 6: you may have heard about this game. Lane Kiffin's return,
- 41:04Speaker 6: 7.30 ABC.
- 41:06Speaker 8: I've got some thoughts on that ball game if you
- 41:08Speaker 8: want to ping me up later on in the program.
- 41:10Speaker 1: Oh, we're going to interview you, Eddie. We're going to
- 41:12Speaker 1: interview you. You hang tight. My health now is good.
- 41:15Speaker 8: I'm getting better health-wise, and I'm going to watch two
- 41:17Speaker 8: programs I know well get after it down there in Mississippi.
- 41:24Speaker 6: Here in Charlotte, West Virginia versus Virginia. ACC Network, if
- 41:29Speaker 6: you're not going to be at that game.
- 41:32Speaker 4: Stop calling it khakis versus cousins. We're not doing that,
- 41:34Speaker 4: all right? We're not doing that to the people of
- 41:36Speaker 4: West Virginia, all right? We're not calling it that.
- 41:39Speaker 1: My Lord Almighty. But in a way, you just kind
- 41:41Speaker 1: of did, though. I told them not to do it. Okay, okay.
- 41:44Speaker 1: Let's see.
- 41:44Speaker 6: Maryland Virginia Tech, 730. Maryland, they're on the list bone
- 41:49Speaker 6: of schools that hate James Franklin. Here is the whole
- 41:52Speaker 6: list right here. It's three pages long. So that one's
- 41:56Speaker 6: kind of juicy. Franklin and Maryland coach Mike Loxley had
- 41:59Speaker 6: a moment when Franklin was at Penn State. That's 7.30
- 42:03Speaker 6: on FS1. 7.30, NBC, Michigan State, and Notre Dame. You
- 42:09Speaker 6: like that nighttime? Nighttime window obviously has the big one,
- 42:12Speaker 6: but it's kind of juicy.
- 42:14Speaker 1: I kind of like it. There's a few in there
- 42:15Speaker 1: I'm interested in.
- 42:16Speaker 4: Well, when you have a Charlotte app, LSU Ole Miss–
- 42:20Speaker 4: The game here between West Virginia, Virginia, which we'll certainly
- 42:24Speaker 4: have our eyes on, but you've also got Charlotte FC
- 42:27Speaker 4: plays tomorrow night and the Bristol race is tomorrow night
- 42:30Speaker 4: at the same time as well.
- 42:31Speaker 1: A lot happening. The football window's good.
- 42:34Speaker 4: You throw in those two things, and it is a
- 42:36Speaker 4: loaded-up window where I can see Mac trying to ask
- 42:39Speaker 4: the missus, we need one more TV in.
- 42:41Speaker 1: The Mac cave.
- 42:43Speaker 6: I know, because now that I use your YouTube on
- 42:46Speaker 6: Saturdays in college football season, because I love the way
- 42:49Speaker 6: they do the.
- 42:52Speaker 1: What the hell do they call it? Multi-view. Multi-view. I
- 42:53Speaker 1: was going to call it foreplay for some reason, but
- 42:55Speaker 1: that definitely is not it. No, I don't let you
- 42:58Speaker 1: borrow my foreplay.
- 42:59Speaker 6: And we know that ain't happening in the McLean house,
- 43:01Speaker 6: so we've been married over 20 years, y'all.
- 43:03Speaker 1: Happily, happily.
- 43:04Speaker 6: But anyway, the multi-view is four on the big one,
- 43:08Speaker 6: and then I have.
- 43:09Speaker 1: One TV on the side.
- 43:10Speaker 6: I was telling my wife I really could use a
- 43:13Speaker 6: six screen, and of course, she doesn't understand me. Wives
- 43:18Speaker 6: just don't seem to understand the need for the high
- 43:21Speaker 6: volume of screens this time of year, man.
- 43:23Speaker 1: I hate it.
- 43:24Speaker 4: I'm thinking about getting the third TV here pretty soon.
- 43:26Speaker 4: I think there's too many platforms.
- 43:29Speaker 1: I need one more. I need one more TV. Make
- 43:30Speaker 1: the move, Boney. Two's no longer enough. You don't have
- 43:33Speaker 1: any woman to answer to. You know what I mean?
- 43:35Speaker 4: Well, I've got Tara, Tara Barrett, Tara Massoud. But you
- 43:37Speaker 4: don't need to totally answer yet, though.
- 43:40Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Once you give that ring out,
- 43:43Speaker 1: I mean, you're done. You're done. My city's going to
- 43:45Speaker 1: do soon?
- 43:47Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
- 43:47Speaker 1: I wanted to do this during this segment.
- 43:49Speaker 6: By the way, Braves Houston series starts tonight and runs
- 43:51Speaker 6: through Sunday as well. Wanted to mention that. Now that
- 43:54Speaker 6: we got Fitty out of the room, he's pulling some
- 43:56Speaker 6: audio for us. I wanted him out of the room
- 43:58Speaker 6: because I wanted to start planning his bachelor party.
- 44:00Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Good point.
- 44:02Speaker 6: It really seems like he is such a smitty-fitty that
- 44:05Speaker 6: he is so smitten-bone that I am starting to wonder.
- 44:09Speaker 6: He's actually literally bringing up with this– A girlfriend of
- 44:12Speaker 6: his that he has gone out on five dates with.
- 44:15Speaker 6: He has literally on air brought up the wedding himself
- 44:18Speaker 6: without being asked about it. So I think, Bo, we
- 44:20Speaker 6: might want to start figuring out bachelor party plans.
- 44:23Speaker 4: Yeah, we've even had the idea is Flounder allowed to
- 44:27Speaker 4: bring Mama as a plus one to the wedding as
- 44:29Speaker 4: a date.
- 44:34Speaker 1: Oh, man.
- 44:34Speaker 4: What about Harris Cherokee Casino and Resort for the bachelor
- 44:38Speaker 4: party trip?
- 44:38Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. That could be a nice one there, though.
- 44:41Speaker 1: Not bad. That could be a damn.
- 44:43Speaker 4: Are you trying to work in not only the station sponsors, Matt,
- 44:45Speaker 4: but I think at some point you should work in
- 44:47Speaker 4: your own sponsors. Maybe you maybe you help them buy
- 44:51Speaker 4: a house with Mark Spain. You help him get a
- 44:55Speaker 4: loan for the house with Loan Pronto?
- 44:56Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 44:57Speaker 4: You can work at all your sponsors, man. That's a
- 44:58Speaker 4: good point. If he's feeling a little bit low-T-ish, he
- 45:00Speaker 4: can go to the low-T center. That's a good point.
- 45:02Speaker 6: If I see Mama limping at the wedding, that means
- 45:05Speaker 6: she has joint pain, so I'm going to get her
- 45:06Speaker 6: over at QC Kinetics.
- 45:08Speaker 4: What if you suggest for the wedding a little dollop
- 45:12Speaker 4: of daisy?
- 45:12Speaker 1: That's true. That's true.
- 45:14Speaker 6: That should be part of the fair.
- 45:16Speaker 1: Who's getting married? You are. Yeah, we've been planning your
- 45:19Speaker 1: bachelor party.
- 45:20Speaker 7: During the couch potato guy?
- 45:22Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
- 45:23Speaker 1: Well, that's a tail end.
- 45:24Speaker 4: Yeah, we're thinking about Mac and use all the sponsors
- 45:26Speaker 4: and get you some free goodies after you get married.
- 45:28Speaker 1: What would you think about Harris Cherokee Casino and report
- 45:31Speaker 1: for your resort? What the hell am I talking about?
- 45:34Speaker 1: Resort as your bachelor party place. Or do you? Are you?
- 45:38Speaker 1: You probably like a naughty bachelor party, though. You know?
- 45:42Speaker 8: Tassels.
- 45:45Speaker 1: Should we be talking about this?
- 45:46Speaker 7: No.
- 45:48Speaker 6: Fitness has been going on for four minutes now, by
- 45:49Speaker 6: the way. Actually, it just hit me. We probably shouldn't
- 45:53Speaker 6: be talking about this after five days.
- 45:54Speaker 1: Let me get this straight.
- 45:55Speaker 7: You kick me out of the room during my favorite
- 45:58Speaker 7: segment of Football Friday.
- 45:59Speaker 1: Yep.
- 46:00Speaker 7: And I come back in, and for four months you've
- 46:02Speaker 7: been planning my wedding?
- 46:03Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 46:05Speaker 4: Yeah, it got away from us a little bit there.
- 46:07Speaker 4: But you opened the door. You brought it up yourself yesterday.
- 46:11Speaker 1: How?
- 46:12Speaker 6: You said something about your wedding. So I thought that
- 46:15Speaker 6: opened the door for us to now talk about it.
- 46:17Speaker 6: I'm being told after five dates that this is not
- 46:20Speaker 6: a good idea by the text line.
- 46:22Speaker 1: Multiple texters, by the.
- 46:23Speaker 4: Way, suggesting that Granny be the dancer for Fitty's bachelor party.
- 46:29Speaker 1: Granny Pat.
- 46:31Speaker 4: Oh, you still got that in you? You still got
- 46:33Speaker 4: that sauce, Granny? Can I do a speech as Ed Orgeron,
- 46:37Speaker 4: if that's allowed? A little tap of the glass. You
- 46:42Speaker 4: two crazy kids, go Tigers.
- 46:43Speaker 1: Can I do that?
- 46:44Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's a good idea, too. What if
- 46:47Speaker 6: Eddie O's the best man in character? Somebody said they
- 46:51Speaker 6: love Eddie O and the accent, but they can't understand him.
- 46:53Speaker 1: They're upset. They want to know what he's saying. But
- 46:56Speaker 1: that might be the point, though. No, he's saying I've
- 46:59Speaker 1: got to mess it up more. He can't understand me.
- 47:01Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
- 47:01Speaker 1: He's saying he can't understand me. Oh, he can? Okay.
- 47:04Speaker 1: I was thinking, Matt.
- 47:05Speaker 4: You haven't gone far enough. One more NEO point before
- 47:07Speaker 4: we go to 7 o'clock hour. I was thinking, Matt,
- 47:09Speaker 4: this Saturday, my two programs that I know well, the
- 47:12Speaker 4: LSU and Ole Miss. We bury the hatchet postgame, and
- 47:17Speaker 4: we get out there on the field and do a
- 47:18Speaker 4: little seafood.
- 47:19Speaker 1: Boil after the game there. Get Lano out there. Get
- 47:22Speaker 1: Pete Golden out there.
- 47:23Speaker 4: We get the fish out there and the shrimp, and
- 47:26Speaker 4: we do all the boiling out there on the field.
- 47:28Speaker 6: Man, Eddie O, you are a peacemaker.
- 47:31Speaker 4: That would be heartwarming if you put that together. When
- 47:35Speaker 4: we come back, that hurt my throat that time. When
- 47:37Speaker 4: we come back, what do we feel good about versus Atlanta,
- 47:41Speaker 4: and how many matchups actually worry us?
- 47:44Speaker 1: Breakdowns of Panthers, Falcons, Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ.