Latest / Mac & Bone Podcast / Mac & Bone Show - Jim Szoke Interview
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- 0:14Speaker 1: It's a football Friday, Baby Sports Radio ninety two seven
- 0:18Speaker 1: w f n Z. It is a stay Resolute Friday
- 0:22Speaker 1: on the Mac and Bone Show. Panther fans Stay resolute. Now,
- 0:26Speaker 1: on another note, Bone, it was a freak out in
- 0:29Speaker 1: panic Wednesday and Thursday for me, all right, but I
- 0:31Speaker 1: have decided to be to show steely resolve in light
- 0:36Speaker 1: of the Nick scurt Us.
- 0:38Speaker 2: I want to point out Zoke that while we have
- 0:40Speaker 2: been a little bit down today, I did tell back
- 0:42Speaker 2: in fitty during to break thanks to our friend Chris Harmon,
- 0:45Speaker 2: we have Panther fan Fest ticket for next baby, and
- 0:48Speaker 2: these two guys couldn't say yes quick enough. Let's doll
- 0:50Speaker 2: you guys, our bag baby, Let's do it.
- 0:52Speaker 3: Man.
- 0:53Speaker 4: You guys know you could get credentialed, but they.
- 0:58Speaker 3: Got you had access. Then we got to be professionals.
- 1:01Speaker 2: Though you know, I hate that it feels good when
- 1:05Speaker 2: someone says I need to get these radio guys because
- 1:09Speaker 2: Chris Harmon plaid good money for.
- 1:10Speaker 3: Those look up for that you could drink beers in
- 1:13Speaker 3: that setting.
- 1:13Speaker 1: As I was gonna say, the fact that when your
- 1:16Speaker 1: credentialed drinking IP is frowned upon is a big thing
- 1:19Speaker 1: for there's nothing like cold.
- 1:21Speaker 3: He's watching practice.
- 1:22Speaker 4: Don't realize, like Matt Rule loved and we did that,
- 1:24Speaker 4: we would Matt Roll would like you guys probably weren't
- 1:27Speaker 4: there for that part of the season when Matt Rule
- 1:28Speaker 4: would be mad if the reporters, like you know, the
- 1:31Speaker 4: older sat on the sidelines. We had that little little
- 1:34Speaker 4: hill on the side because like they had laptops they
- 1:37Speaker 4: had to work on, so they were like sitting so
- 1:38Speaker 4: they could type outside on their laptops. Look at these
- 1:41Speaker 4: guys all sitting down over there while we're practicing, Like, well,
- 1:44Speaker 4: you're not holding a laptop and trying to type with
- 1:46Speaker 4: one hand.
- 1:47Speaker 1: The team coach also not on the team right. How
- 1:51Speaker 1: how he and that's not the only thing he we
- 1:53Speaker 1: talked about it. He cared about things that an NFL
- 1:56Speaker 1: head coach should not have cared about, like internally too.
- 1:59Speaker 2: He got mad one time camp you're going into year
- 2:02Speaker 2: two about the location of the flavors of the of
- 2:06Speaker 2: the gatorade that they were happening and.
- 2:09Speaker 3: That's why it didn't work out.
- 2:10Speaker 2: And that's when we knew, oh, this might be a problem.
- 2:14Speaker 4: I heard the name of John Harbaugh the script for
- 2:15Speaker 4: the New York Giants speech he did the other day.
- 2:19Speaker 5: Seven year planned though, all of that, you guys, would
- 2:21Speaker 5: have been been seven years, all the media standing up
- 2:23Speaker 5: in attention, it would have been.
- 2:24Speaker 3: The culmination almost. Is that about the math? Seven years?
- 2:27Speaker 3: I think we're right. I think we're right there.
- 2:29Speaker 1: What do you think man joke about the Nick s
- 2:32Speaker 1: Gordon injury? You were out there? I mean it sounds
- 2:36Speaker 1: like the scene was somber, which you would expect. What
- 2:39Speaker 1: was the scene like? And how devastating is this?
- 2:42Speaker 4: And you guys, you've been there, so you know you're
- 2:43Speaker 4: on that one side of the field where you come in.
- 2:45Speaker 4: And then there were the practice play was towards where
- 2:48Speaker 4: the new structure is going up in the back, and
- 2:50Speaker 4: so you saw, oh, a player went down, and then
- 2:52Speaker 4: you see a gathering of players and trainers around.
- 2:55Speaker 3: So there's that couple of minutes.
- 2:56Speaker 4: Where you're not even sure which player it is. And
- 2:59Speaker 4: then you see eleven be helped up and put under
- 3:01Speaker 4: the cart, you know, going oh man, and then they
- 3:04Speaker 4: put him on the golf cart and they bring him
- 3:06Speaker 4: by and you just see he's like kind of covering.
- 3:09Speaker 3: His face a little bit.
- 3:10Speaker 4: And then the players just lined up almost like the
- 3:13Speaker 4: scene where in Rudy where they're putting their jerseys on
- 3:16Speaker 4: coach Devine's desk.
- 3:17Speaker 3: I mean, just one after another, just lined up.
- 3:19Speaker 4: You're going they already know and of course you can't
- 3:22Speaker 4: report or say and speculate at that point, but it
- 3:25Speaker 4: was pretty obvious that it was. It was known on
- 3:27Speaker 4: the field what it was with the torn acl but
- 3:30Speaker 4: you see the camaraderie of that team first all on
- 3:33Speaker 4: Dave Canalis talked about that afterwards, the love they have
- 3:36Speaker 4: for each other as teammates and brothers, and it's just unfortunate.
- 3:39Speaker 3: And then there was just a little bit of practice.
- 3:40Speaker 4: They did a drill or so after that and there
- 3:42Speaker 4: towards the end of practice at that point anyway wrapped
- 3:44Speaker 4: it up and it was just like you said, like
- 3:46Speaker 4: the air was just taken out of that because you
- 3:49Speaker 4: hate it for anybody. You know, Nick obviously is a
- 3:51Speaker 4: guy that a lot was expected of this year. You
- 3:54Speaker 4: work so hard to get to this point coming off
- 3:56Speaker 4: a great rookie year. Are from a football standpoint, you know,
- 3:59Speaker 4: then you know pass rush was the biggest thing you're
- 4:01Speaker 4: kind of dressing this offseason, But you hated most of
- 4:04Speaker 4: the player and just all the work that he put in.
- 4:06Speaker 2: It's amazing as sports fans and guys that cover the team,
- 4:09Speaker 2: how quickly your feelings and things can change. I'm all
- 4:13Speaker 2: the way home yesterday, notification drops, scorting down cart it off.
- 4:17Speaker 2: Oh no, well maybe it's not a big deal. It's
- 4:19Speaker 2: not the Spartanburg heat like it used to be. But
- 4:22Speaker 2: maybe something's wrong. Next exit, they're hugging him on the car.
- 4:26Speaker 2: Oh no, the next excit, I'm calling Max saying I
- 4:28Speaker 2: think we just lost scoring for the season.
- 4:30Speaker 1: Terrible, Yeah, terrible. It's all about three minutes. And now
- 4:33Speaker 1: let's have an amazing phrase. He talked about leading with
- 4:36Speaker 1: love that this team he did, his team Lee, he
- 4:38Speaker 1: wants him to lead with love, which I thought was
- 4:40Speaker 1: an interesting phrase. It's the way I try to lead
- 4:42Speaker 1: around here, you know, to the young guys like Fitty
- 4:45Speaker 1: and Flound, they're all love.
- 4:47Speaker 3: Can you just shut the hell up? With all due respect?
- 4:49Speaker 4: I feel like I Fitty went down, like you would
- 4:51Speaker 4: just move the show to another studio and just keep
- 4:52Speaker 4: on doing the show.
- 4:53Speaker 5: And just leave goes down, and we carry him out
- 4:57Speaker 5: and put him right outside the studio and just start yapping.
- 5:00Speaker 1: Sorry, Fitty, We definitely wouldn't do that fit. Oh my goodness,
- 5:04Speaker 1: all right.
- 5:05Speaker 2: So it would be a great hug the teammate that's
- 5:08Speaker 2: injured guy so he can go take his job.
- 5:10Speaker 3: Oh man, hurry back, buddy, hurry back. You got those pads.
- 5:14Speaker 1: I can put those pads on all right anyway, So
- 5:18Speaker 1: it does sound like there was. It sounds like maybe
- 5:21Speaker 1: a couple of positives before that happened in practice. Uh
- 5:25Speaker 1: the brassle playing hell of a play by Mike Jack
- 5:27Speaker 1: two to knock out of bounce right, but he went
- 5:29Speaker 1: up and got it.
- 5:29Speaker 3: And then it sounds like Jonathan Brooks. It sounds like
- 5:31Speaker 3: a lot of you are.
- 5:32Speaker 1: Looking at him like, oh yeah, if he could stay healthy,
- 5:35Speaker 1: the burst is there?
- 5:36Speaker 3: What do you think? What'd you think?
- 5:37Speaker 4: We're still we still have not I'm assuming seeing full
- 5:40Speaker 4: speed Jonathan Brooks. But you'll just kind of talking and
- 5:42Speaker 4: watching drills on a sudden you'll see this twenty five
- 5:44Speaker 4: come bursting out and usually uh being kind of elusive
- 5:48Speaker 4: in terms of getting through the first line through there.
- 5:50Speaker 4: I think he's got the potential to really add another
- 5:53Speaker 4: dimension to this offense. And you think too about you know,
- 5:55Speaker 4: the pass catching aspect of that. Get him just again,
- 5:57Speaker 4: open space, those kind of things there, and again this
- 6:01Speaker 4: is a guy that's come back from a couple of those,
- 6:02Speaker 4: but he looks very fast for not being at full
- 6:05Speaker 4: game speed as far as what they're showing in these
- 6:07Speaker 4: practice sessions right now. And then you mentioned Brasl going
- 6:10Speaker 4: up and making that catch and high pointing it, kind
- 6:12Speaker 4: of leaning back and getting it and then Mike.
- 6:14Speaker 3: Jack forcing him out of bound.
- 6:16Speaker 4: So it wasn't a completion there, but you see the
- 6:18Speaker 4: speed in the athleticism of a six' four receiver and
- 6:22Speaker 4: we don't have that that dimension of a, tall speedy
- 6:25Speaker 4: receiver and if he could step. Up and WHEN i
- 6:28Speaker 4: was on With colin the other, DAY i was talking,
- 6:29Speaker 4: about you, know what's what are some of the battles
- 6:32Speaker 4: you're looking, for AND i, said really interesting because xavierlet
- 6:35Speaker 4: gets worked hard this. Offseason he was the number. Two
- 6:37Speaker 4: Jalen cocher took that from him obviously with the contract
- 6:40Speaker 4: extension as. Well so it's an interesting battle to see
- 6:42Speaker 4: who's like that third receiver as far as just a
- 6:45Speaker 4: pecking order of what that'll comes to be when they
- 6:47Speaker 4: have most of those three receiver, sets will it be
- 6:50Speaker 4: more brazsle more league gets so it'll be.
- 6:51Speaker 3: Interesting what are your thoughts On brazzle so? Far what
- 6:54Speaker 3: do you?
- 6:54Speaker 4: SEE i think he's going to be really. Good he's
- 6:56Speaker 4: going to be, tall he's going to be fast and.
- 7:00Speaker 3: Okay you're just talking about that was about Brasl, yeah
- 7:07Speaker 3: is this live recording? THIS i thought he was joking though.
- 7:13Speaker 3: Out oh my, goodness you literally left the. Room he's.
- 7:17Speaker 3: Out he's. Fitting, Now, hey what was the Bad bone just?
- 7:21Speaker 3: Left you're up? Fitting what was the bad rule? Thing
- 7:23Speaker 3: we had to run a? Lap what was it? Called
- 7:24Speaker 3: the acronym he had D o d B o d B.
- 7:27Speaker 3: O don't be. Ourselves the good thing Is. Bone we
- 7:31Speaker 3: can edit that. Out oh, yeah that's. Right we're. Live
- 7:33Speaker 3: it'll be great on the. Podcast now you see WHAT
- 7:36Speaker 3: i deal.
- 7:36Speaker 4: With that's WHY i think and that's WHY i Think
- 7:39Speaker 4: brassle could be a special player in THE.
- 7:41Speaker 3: Nfl it's a great question For bone to get that
- 7:43Speaker 3: answer out of. You it's. Accountability that's on. ME i
- 7:46Speaker 3: like The blaine mac for, that but that's on.
- 7:48Speaker 1: Me.
- 7:48Speaker 3: Yeah did you just run to the dB o sign
- 7:50Speaker 3: and come?
- 7:50Speaker 1: Back is that?
- 7:51Speaker 3: Random, Lincoln nebraska and turned?
- 7:52Speaker 2: Around oh my, GOD i KNEW i knew that you
- 7:54Speaker 2: were talking About. BROOKS i zoned, out and THEN i
- 7:56Speaker 2: was gonna ask About. Brazzle WHAT i.
- 7:58Speaker 5: Got you're on the phone with your, Girlfriend, honey what
- 8:02Speaker 5: do we need for our big?
- 8:03Speaker 3: WEEKEND i was telling her we got fan fast. Tickets
- 8:08Speaker 3: he's a. Giver take that phone, away fit he take
- 8:10Speaker 3: that away from. Bone she's impressed with things like.
- 8:13Speaker 2: That oh my, god this man not only is he a,
- 8:15Speaker 2: stud he gets free and.
- 8:17Speaker 3: Get the merch and the stuff that was.
- 8:19Speaker 1: Very important is to impress her immediately though it was
- 8:21Speaker 1: recording this. Segment all, right so let me not to
- 8:23Speaker 1: be a, downer but let's go back.
- 8:29Speaker 5: To.
- 8:29Speaker 3: Lead yes we, do don't. We guy had a little booboo,
- 8:33Speaker 3: There all, right that's.
- 8:34Speaker 1: Fine here's the thing about the scorting injury is it's
- 8:36Speaker 1: the second bad news of the. Week taylor moting with
- 8:39Speaker 1: the blood cloud and, again you, Know, god a heart
- 8:41Speaker 1: goes out to him personally and scorting. Personally but we
- 8:44Speaker 1: got to talk about the football. Ramifications how do you
- 8:47Speaker 1: Feel monroe freeling? YESTERDAY i love, it, says take me
- 8:50Speaker 1: about a couple of. Practices i'll be good to go
- 8:52Speaker 1: on the right like he just he's that young guy
- 8:54Speaker 1: fresh out of, COLLEGE i can attack. Anything how do
- 8:57Speaker 1: you feel about freeling being at that right side if
- 8:59Speaker 1: it has to be a few?
- 9:00Speaker 4: Games you, know, well there's a precedent In panthers history
- 9:04Speaker 4: of when a Young Jordan gross came on, board and
- 9:06Speaker 4: people may or may not remember he was the starting
- 9:09Speaker 4: right tackle his rookie year at The Super bowl thirty
- 9:11Speaker 4: eight and of course became a Great Pro bowl left.
- 9:14Speaker 4: Tackle AND i think you, Know Rashid walker's been a left.
- 9:17Speaker 4: Tackle he's been around the league for a long. Time
- 9:18Speaker 4: i'm sure he's capable of right. Tackle But monroe was
- 9:21Speaker 4: working on both sides of the line when he was
- 9:24Speaker 4: in the spring football with the mini, camp young athletic,
- 9:27Speaker 4: guy and now he's got a whole camp where he
- 9:29Speaker 4: can just kind of focus and work on, that AND
- 9:31Speaker 4: i think the success rate and that should be pretty.
- 9:33Speaker 4: HIGH i, mean obviously he's, smart, agile and he'll be
- 9:37Speaker 4: right next To Robert, hunt which doesn't. Hurt SO i
- 9:39Speaker 4: think there's a lot of positives about what he can
- 9:41Speaker 4: do for that period of. Time but you hope to
- 9:42Speaker 4: Get Taylor moton back sooner than. Later don't have a
- 9:44Speaker 4: timetable coach was asked about him among other players. Yesterday
- 9:48Speaker 4: so we don't know about When Taylor mouton will be,
- 9:50Speaker 4: back BUT i Think Monroe, freeling having this opportunity to
- 9:52Speaker 4: go through not only the reps in, practice but then
- 9:54Speaker 4: these preseason, games having the four preseason, games having a
- 9:58Speaker 4: chance to get all his live, reps should be up to.
- 10:00Speaker 3: Speed so nervous to talk.
- 10:02Speaker 2: AGAIN i, THOUGHT i THOUGHT i was gonna ask you
- 10:08Speaker 2: about you, know the the talk at camp is always
- 10:11Speaker 2: about the starting, quarterbacks, obviously but how concerned are you
- 10:15Speaker 2: kind of about the depth of the quarterback room that
- 10:20Speaker 2: where One bryce something happened to him From Kenny pickett
- 10:23Speaker 2: being the starting.
- 10:23Speaker 3: Quarterback.
- 10:24Speaker 4: YEAH i thought with the extra preseason, game and they
- 10:26Speaker 4: know a lot more about football than we, do that
- 10:27Speaker 4: they would bring in another quarterback just for pre just For,
- 10:30Speaker 4: august if nothing, else because you have the extra, game
- 10:32Speaker 4: all the reps in practice that will take place, there
- 10:35Speaker 4: and then maybe they will at some, point but right now.
- 10:36Speaker 3: That's not been the. Plans as it looks like they're
- 10:38Speaker 3: adding two.
- 10:39Speaker 4: PLAYERS i guess Cam gill looks like a possibility at
- 10:41Speaker 4: outside linebacker happening here one of the, quarterbacks of, course
- 10:44Speaker 4: an undrafted rookie who are has a lot to think
- 10:46Speaker 4: about In.
- 10:46Speaker 3: Haines king and Then Kenny pickett becomes the other.
- 10:49Speaker 4: Guy so, like how Much Kenny pickett are gonna get
- 10:51Speaker 4: like In canton and In buffalo and all these preseason.
- 10:54Speaker 5: Games Kenny pickett in The hall Of fame. Game, Now
- 10:59Speaker 5: i'm Not god hate to see a man. Fall we're
- 11:05Speaker 5: gonna have hum a little.
- 11:07Speaker 3: Joke he just.
- 11:07Speaker 1: There, anyway what DO i actually say? That you said
- 11:11Speaker 1: you're going to see a lot of him In, Canton
- 11:12Speaker 1: well you will the practice field outside.
- 11:15Speaker 3: The hall Of.
- 11:15Speaker 6: Fame he needs a ticket to get. IN i Te
- 11:20Speaker 6: bow's got tickets for. That if you want the famers
- 11:24Speaker 6: and his girlfriend about. IT i Think Will greer would
- 11:26Speaker 6: have probably played a lot of that.
- 11:27Speaker 4: Game and, uh again not not A hall Of, famer
- 11:29Speaker 4: but at the game In, Canton, ohio and uh and
- 11:32Speaker 4: now he's, not SO i Would, YEAH i, thought, maybe you,
- 11:35Speaker 4: know would you bring Back plumber at some point or
- 11:37Speaker 4: something In?
- 11:37Speaker 1: August AND i was surprised when he said there's not
- 11:40Speaker 1: gonna be another just.
- 11:41Speaker 4: Because of the amount of work that goes into this
- 11:42Speaker 4: time of. Year but, again roll of what we got
- 11:45Speaker 4: and you Know Bryce young is as far as his.
- 11:48Speaker 3: ABILITIES i, mean it just seems more.
- 11:49Speaker 4: Confident and just uh he's not even though he still
- 11:52Speaker 4: looks like a young. KID i mean he's got three
- 11:54Speaker 4: years under his belt. Now it's like time is flying
- 11:56Speaker 4: by in just the growth of what he's doing a.
- 11:58Speaker 1: Quarterback we talked About canals's lead With love, Saying, fitty
- 12:02Speaker 1: you got to queue Up Bryce Young's, hello how was your?
- 12:05Speaker 3: Summer to the?
- 12:06Speaker 1: MEDIA i love this AND i have you ever seen
- 12:08Speaker 1: anybody do, this come into a presser like he does
- 12:11Speaker 1: after a break and literally want to, know literally care
- 12:15Speaker 1: what did media members do.
- 12:16Speaker 3: Back to the?
- 12:17Speaker 4: Success at FIRST i thought it probably was he was
- 12:19Speaker 4: like filibustering just to fill the, time and and now
- 12:23Speaker 4: he actually.
- 12:23Speaker 1: Carest, people listen to this. You this Is bryce meeting
- 12:28Speaker 1: up with the media after the.
- 12:29Speaker 3: Summer.
- 12:30Speaker 7: Hello hello, Everyone it must be a first day of.
- 12:33Speaker 7: Camp good turnout, today definitely of, course miss you. Guys
- 12:39Speaker 7: anyone any? Updates anyone major, Life Miles, stones, anything uh
- 12:45Speaker 7: talk to? Congratulations congratulations anyone? Else empty? Master is that
- 12:52Speaker 7: a congratulations or is that a? Yeah fair?
- 12:56Speaker 3: Enough?
- 12:58Speaker 7: MEN i just have to be here.
- 13:01Speaker 3: And he gave. NOTHING i want to talk about.
- 13:04Speaker 1: Himself he's like that perfect date that doesn't want to
- 13:06Speaker 1: talk about himself but wants to talk about.
- 13:08Speaker 3: YOU i want to talk about you at this.
- 13:10Speaker 2: DATE i would love. It, HEY i got a. Girlfriend,
- 13:12Speaker 2: NOW i got a dog Named. MURPHY i went To.
- 13:14Speaker 2: NASHVILLE i have a lot to talk To bryce. About
- 13:17Speaker 2: you could have taken up three minutes with the Press
- 13:18Speaker 2: compee she was talking About.
- 13:19Speaker 1: Murphy i'm sure so. Zoke who Was joe person was
- 13:23Speaker 1: the one that Said i'm an empty?
- 13:24Speaker 3: Dester? Now who was the person who said they got?
- 13:26Speaker 3: Married Julian. Counsel Julian.
- 13:28Speaker 1: COUNSEL i didn't know he got. Married Congratulations. JULIAN i
- 13:30Speaker 1: didn't know, That, okay? COOL i WISH i wish all
- 13:33Speaker 1: of you would have had. SOMETHING i wish that thing
- 13:35Speaker 1: would have gone on for five. MINUTES i felt LIKE i.
- 13:36Speaker 4: Had breaking news BECAUSE i Knew julian was. Engaged but
- 13:39Speaker 4: we walked into the stadium from the practice field and
- 13:41Speaker 4: he talked about the wedding and their trip for their
- 13:44Speaker 4: their honeymoon and all that. Stuff SO i felt LIKE
- 13:46Speaker 4: i had breaking. News by DIDN'T i Go Adam. SCHEFTER
- 13:50Speaker 4: i Wanted Bryce young to have that at that. Opportunity all.
- 13:52Speaker 2: Right so you, know people are Selling FanFest tickets on
- 13:55Speaker 2: the secondary market up to nine hundred, dollars nine hundred.
- 13:58Speaker 2: Dollars there's a there's a bunch for ninety ninety one
- 14:02Speaker 2: hundred hundred hundred three. Hundred someone's. Trying someone's trying to
- 14:05Speaker 2: sell lower level for nine hundred and sixty five dollars for.
- 14:09Speaker 1: Fans let me tell you what ain't, happening all, Right
- 14:10Speaker 1: fitty's trying to get a date, too all, right let
- 14:12Speaker 1: me tell you what ain't happening two For?
- 14:14Speaker 3: Fiitty whatis actually don't know what is the price for Fan?
- 14:16Speaker 2: Fest and at five dollars there are, people a bunch
- 14:20Speaker 2: of people try to get extra money.
- 14:22Speaker 3: OFF i, mean you're just bad. People it's quite a.
- 14:24Speaker 3: Markup get a second, job, SIR i mean that's just
- 14:26Speaker 3: ain't working Fan. Fest And Luke comb's, like what's going?
- 14:28Speaker 3: On like a all? Right so you the man, baby all,
- 14:32Speaker 3: right