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Mac & Bone Hour 4: Dan Morgan Criticism Heats Up · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: It brings some veteran leadership, right? You got to think
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  Speaker 1: about it. Outside of Devin Lloyd, right, and Jalen Phillips,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of young guys. So he has some
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  Speaker 1: leadership and some things that he can talk and help
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  Speaker 1: guys walk through. Looks that he saw 10 years ago,
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  Speaker 1: you know, or seven years ago, you know, he's been,
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  Speaker 1: he's longer in the tooth. So he will be able
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  Speaker 1: to help these guys understand and see, and that will
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  Speaker 1: help them advance and play faster. You need a guy,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes he may be losing it athletically, but his ability
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  Speaker 1: to understand and help guys around him because his FBI,
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  Speaker 1: which is football intelligence, man, that comes with a price
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  Speaker 1: that you've got to be willing to pay.
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  Speaker 2: That's Agent 89, Steve Smith, the one and only. On
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  Speaker 2: with KB yesterday talking about Bobby Okereke. That edition made
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  Speaker 2: official yesterday by the Carolina Panthers' one-year deal. Veteran linebacker.
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  Speaker 2: Feels like he should be the starter boat. In week one, next,
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  Speaker 2: I know he's going to take a crash course on
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  Speaker 2: the defense, but feels like he should be right there
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  Speaker 2: next to Devin Lloyd in week one. And not only
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  Speaker 2: did they make that addition and make the addition via
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  Speaker 2: trade for T-Rod Edwards, who the film clips are very, very...
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  Speaker 2: That's a big fella that's strong and can get penetration,
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  Speaker 2: at least in preseason games, I'll say. But anyway, they
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  Speaker 2: add him. And then Tyrell Dotson, this one I don't
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  Speaker 2: think has been made official yet, Bone, or at least
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  Speaker 2: hadn't when we came on the air. But Tyrell Dotson's
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  Speaker 2: the guy that's going to go on our practice squad.
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  Speaker 2: He started almost 50 games for Miami, started all year
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  Speaker 2: last year, 120 tackles and five sacks.
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  Speaker 3: Four years in Buffalo for a really good team. Practice
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  Speaker 3: squad for him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like we got two linebackers. I would argue, Bone,
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  Speaker 2: I would argue there are second and third best linebackers.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's only a matter of time till Dodson
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  Speaker 2: plays a role. So, again, I'm not acting like we
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  Speaker 2: put the 86 Giants linebacking corps together. People were getting
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  Speaker 2: on me earlier. Are you hyping up these linebackers? It's
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  Speaker 2: so sad. It's so sad. But like what? I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what that voice was. But what I'm saying is
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  Speaker 2: they've upgraded that position. Was that the Cowardly Lion or
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  Speaker 2: Dick Vitale? Give me some courage.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so sad.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so sad.
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  Speaker 3: I need some courage. I need some courage to hype
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  Speaker 3: up these linebackers. By the way, I really want to
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  Speaker 3: name those Giants linebackers, but I want to move on.
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  Speaker 3: I really have an itch to name those linebackers.
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  Speaker 2: You love that? You love that team, Boney?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you were so young, though.
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  Speaker 3: But they also played into what I could, like LT,
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  Speaker 3: Carl Banks, Pepper Johnson. Gary Reasons. There you go, baby.
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  Speaker 3: How about those teams? Also, Martin, right?
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  Speaker 2: Was in the middle at one point.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Harvey Martin, right? And Harry Carson.
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  Speaker 2: Harry Carson, not Martin. Why did I say Martin?
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  Speaker 3: Harry Carson.
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  Speaker 2: How dare I disrespect Harry Carson? But anyway, all right,
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  Speaker 2: so let's— South Carolina State Hall of Fame. Yes, I
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  Speaker 2: should know. That's bad.
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  Speaker 3: That's bad.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, Brady Christensen went on the IR, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: to make room, and Zavala cut to make room. for additions.
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  Speaker 2: Corey Bullock's an offensive lineman. He'll probably be the backup guard,
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  Speaker 2: claimed off waivers from the Ravens. Let's talk about Dan Morgan.
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  Speaker 2: All I'm saying is, Bone, I feel like, and we'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about this more tomorrow, talk about how good we
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  Speaker 2: felt about the defense going into the preseason. How do
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  Speaker 2: we feel about it now? I just think it's three
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  Speaker 2: really good, clever, low-key moves that I'm not saying it
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  Speaker 2: moves you up from being the 12th best defense to
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  Speaker 2: the fifth or something crazy. But I just think he,
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  Speaker 2: I think Dan Morgan just improved this defense shrewdly at
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  Speaker 2: the end is all I'm saying, you know, with subtle moves.
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  Speaker 3: No one is, no one can downplay that there's been
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  Speaker 3: some misses in the draft, Matt, but I ask this,
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  Speaker 3: the overall job for Dan Morgan in the front office
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  Speaker 3: is to what? improve the football team, whether that's through
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  Speaker 3: the draft, free agency, whatever method you have to do
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  Speaker 3: to get the team better. That's the overall goal here. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he may have some misses in the draft. But I
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  Speaker 3: ask you this, if you put quarterback to the side
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  Speaker 3: because he inherited Bryce Young, we know that that's a
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  Speaker 3: separate there's a whole separate quarterback thing. In the tight
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  Speaker 3: end room, which they're still trying to figure out what
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  Speaker 3: that is exactly, what area of the team has not
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  Speaker 3: been made better with this Dan Morgan regime? Offensive line, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Running backs, yes. Dowdle was really good last year. We
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  Speaker 3: hope Brooks is the same, but remains to be seen.
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  Speaker 3: Wide outs, yes. Edges, yes. Interior defensive line, yes. ashaun
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  Speaker 3: robinson was good we think that there's enough there with
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  Speaker 3: derrick brown linebackers yes secondary yes he's made every area
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  Speaker 3: on this team act better than when he had it
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  Speaker 3: but quarterbacks over here in the tight end room remains
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  Speaker 3: to be seen but his job is to improve the
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  Speaker 3: football team and he's done that in just about every
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  Speaker 3: area of this team Most of his best work has
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  Speaker 3: been done free agent signings. The Mike Jack trade was
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  Speaker 3: tremendous to flip a seventh-round pick in Michael Barrett, linebacker
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  Speaker 3: that you didn't really need, and flip him for Mike Jack,
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  Speaker 3: who's turned into one half of an amazing corner tandem.
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  Speaker 3: But it feels like a lot of his best moves,
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  Speaker 3: TMAC draft pick, Scorton draft pick notwithstanding, have been picking
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  Speaker 3: up veterans. The 2024 draft class, if you're tuning in
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  Speaker 3: and wondering why Bone is passionately standing up for Dan Morgan,
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  Speaker 3: it's because the Trevin Wallace release, he's now with the Jets,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, claimed off waivers, because of that Wallace
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  Speaker 3: release and the fact that JT Sanders Bone might have
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  Speaker 3: been being shopped.
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  Speaker 2: On the trade market, there were reports of that. We're
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  Speaker 2: not sure if that was the case. But the 2024
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  Speaker 2: draft is coming back under fire again. That was Dan
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  Speaker 2: Morgan's first. I feel like we always have to say
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  Speaker 2: this for context, too. That was the one bone that
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  Speaker 2: he did with Fitterer's staff. There were a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: changes made to the scouting department and the personnel department
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  Speaker 2: after that draft. So I just want to say that
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  Speaker 2: and get that out there. We also have people trying
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  Speaker 2: to blame Dan Morgan for the draft of 2023, which
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  Speaker 2: only Bryce Young remains. Now that Zavala got released yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: only Bryce Young remains. That draft is stinky. There's no
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  Speaker 2: doubt about it. 2024 is teetering towards where it could
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  Speaker 2: be stinky. You can't blame Dan Morgan. Like a baby's
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  Speaker 2: blowout-infested diaper.
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  Speaker 3: There you go, baby.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. You can't blame Dan Morgan for Scott
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  Speaker 2: Fitterer's G. I know Dan was in the room. I've
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  Speaker 2: been told personally of some things Dan wanted to do, Bone,
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  Speaker 2: going into a couple of drafts. They never did them.
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  Speaker 2: They did what Scott Fitterer wanted. Or, in the case
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  Speaker 2: of the horrible D.J. Johnson draft pick, the word is
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  Speaker 2: that Scott Fitterer catered to what the coaching staff wanted.
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  Speaker 2: Defensive coaching staff wanted this guy. I'll draft him. No,
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  Speaker 2: you're in charge. It seems like he was swayed too
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  Speaker 2: easy there. So I just want to get to settle.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care if Dan Morgan was in the room bone.
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  Speaker 2: It was not. He was not the GM. He only
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  Speaker 2: had so much say back then.
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  Speaker 3: I had changed the scouting department also.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I was saying about from the 2024 draft.
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  Speaker 2: That one was with the fitters. That's got to be
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  Speaker 2: mentioned multiple. So as bad as it does look. That
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  Speaker 2: does need to be mentioned. So the question is, does
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  Speaker 2: Federer need to be dissed the way he is? um,
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  Speaker 2: because of this 2024 Morgan, Morgan need to be fit
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  Speaker 2: or definitely needs to be this. Does Morgan need to
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  Speaker 2: be dissed the way he is, or is it overall
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  Speaker 2: net positive? Because I know this bone, he took over
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  Speaker 2: a train wreck of an organization. I mean, an embarrassment
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  Speaker 2: of an organization. He took over his GM since then bone,
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  Speaker 2: they've done nothing but get better. I also think Dan
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  Speaker 2: Morgan deserves credit for hiring the coach. Dave Canales was
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  Speaker 2: his guy. It felt like David Tepper lent a lot
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  Speaker 2: of credence during that hiring to the fact that Dan
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  Speaker 2: Morgan wanted him. So I think the success that the
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  Speaker 2: organization has had under Dave Canales' culture, I think Dan
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  Speaker 2: Morgan deserves credit for that, too.
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  Speaker 3: My mindset, Mac, Bagel Guy is not giving in here.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, Bagel Guy!
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  Speaker 3: I'm asking, the team is improved under Dan Morgan. The
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  Speaker 3: path that they got there, is it via the draft?
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  Speaker 3: Not necessarily, but he improved the team. That's all I
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  Speaker 3: care about. Mac, look at the ramps. How many years, Mac,
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  Speaker 3: did the ramps not even have draft choices? And guess what?
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  Speaker 3: They won a championship. Are there members of that fan
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  Speaker 3: base that say, well... I'm glad that we had success,
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  Speaker 3: but I would have liked to have better draft choices
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  Speaker 3: in a championship. They don't care. They won a title.
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  Speaker 3: They got there their own way. So yeah, ideally, do
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  Speaker 3: you want to hit on every draft choice?
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 3: I just want the team improved. And if he's good at...
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  Speaker 3: Signing guys, finding gems like a Jalen Coker. As long
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  Speaker 3: as this team is improved, and they are in almost
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  Speaker 3: every area, that's what I care about. I want better drafting,
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  Speaker 3: of course, but I want this team better. I don't
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  Speaker 3: care necessarily about the path that gets there, but they're
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  Speaker 3: getting better. I want to give them credit for that.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: What do you say, Fit? I think the reason.
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  Speaker 5: Why fans are so critical about the drafting is is
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  Speaker 5: that's the easiest way to set yourself up for long-term
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  Speaker 5: success in the National Football League. I know that other
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  Speaker 5: teams like the Rams have won it with trades, with
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  Speaker 5: free agency.
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  Speaker 2: That's the exception, not the rule. But they are the exception.
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  Speaker 3: To the rule. I agree with that.
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  Speaker 5: So for a fan base that is starving to be consistent,
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  Speaker 5: that would.
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  Speaker 5: With that being said, I don't think we have as
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  Speaker 5: many questions about the 25 and the 26 draft class.
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  Speaker 3: As we had about the 24.
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  Speaker 2: 100%. I just think the jury's still out on his drafting.
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  Speaker 2: The 2024 draft looks dicey. Right now, you've got Wallace
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  Speaker 2: is gone. Sanders is teetering. Crummety's gone. Barrett, now, this
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  Speaker 2: needs to be mentioned. Michael Barrett's seventh-round pick, they flipped
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  Speaker 2: for Mike Jack. That's amazing business. Just ridiculous business.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: So that needs to be mentioned. What do you have left?
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  Speaker 2: You have Xavier Lee get who, you know, is obviously
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  Speaker 2: a question mark. Jonathan Brooks. He took him with the injury.
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  Speaker 2: He knew the injury history bone and took him anyway.
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  Speaker 2: So that's going to be a big Jonathan Brooks. Go
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  Speaker 2: be a big factor in how we view this draft.
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  Speaker 2: Shaw Smith, Wade's the starting nickelback. But he's a guy
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  Speaker 2: that we're going to watch moving forward. I would say Bone.
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  Speaker 2: And Coker was part of that. Coker's an undrafted. He's
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  Speaker 2: also done well with undrafted free agents. Found a kicker
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  Speaker 2: that way as well. So I just think your point is, Bone,
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  Speaker 2: there's more than one way to skin a cat, right?
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  Speaker 2: And that the team has improved on his watch. I
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  Speaker 2: will also say this. I wouldn't mess around and have
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  Speaker 2: too many drafts like 2024. I don't think we can
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  Speaker 2: get to the next level if you have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of drafts. To Fitty's point, the jury's still out. 2025,
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  Speaker 2: Skorton was looking really good. TMAC looked amazing. So that
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  Speaker 2: draft right there, Bone, I think already we feel better
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  Speaker 2: about than 2024. 2026, way too early. So I think
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  Speaker 2: for people that are jumping all over Dan Morgan saying
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  Speaker 2: he can't draft... The real 2025, 2026 is too early
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  Speaker 2: to really tell. There's some good returns in 2026 and
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  Speaker 2: the 2024 draft. He did not have a chance to
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  Speaker 2: put his personnel and scouting department together. So I just
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  Speaker 2: think it's, it's, it's way too early to be freaked out.
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  Speaker 2: And here's another thing to your point, bone, and it
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: goes with the Bryce criticism that broke out in a
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: non Bryce topic in the seven o'clock hour. Call that Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: Do y'all, do y'all, are y'all aware? that we won
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  Speaker 2: the division last year. Are y'all aware that we have
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: improved our record under Dave Canales by three wins each year?
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: are y'all aware that we are on an upward trajectory?
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  Speaker 2: Because the way our fans act sometimes is like, we
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: got a failure over there, a failure over there, failure
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  Speaker 2: at quarterback, failure at coach, failure at GM. We were
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  Speaker 2: failing under Frank Reich and Matt Rule. There was no denial.
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  Speaker 2: And Scott Fitterer is the GM. Let's rip them. This group,
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  Speaker 2: Dan and Dave Bone, have improved this team. Like, I just,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes I think y'all, y'all think you're still stuck back
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  Speaker 2: in 2022 or something?
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes I think there's a portion of the fan base,
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  Speaker 3: and maybe it's a focus of ours too much, but
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  Speaker 3: that just want to be negative no matter what's going on.
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 3: They just, they can't see the, they can't, what's the
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: old saying there about the, you got the, I forget
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  Speaker 3: what the saying was. Ha ha ha! What does it
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  Speaker 3: have in it? It's got the trees and the forest
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  Speaker 3: in it.
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  Speaker 2: You can't see the forest through the trees.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, Mac, apparently you called him Dave Morgan
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  Speaker 3: and Dan Canales twice this segment.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all know what I'm talking about, man. Dan and Dave,
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  Speaker 2: that's my bad, baby.
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  Speaker 1: That's my bad.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, again, I say this every week. You don't listen
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  Speaker 3: for accuracy, all right? Work with me, baby. Mac's going
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: to mess up names. I'm going to get you into
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  Speaker 3: a forest with trees and not know where to go.
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: It's not our job to finish our sentences.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. 704-570-9610. Joe and Raleigh says, Princeley looked
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: good in the preseason. Yeah, I think there's some encouraging
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  Speaker 2: stuff with Princeley, but to Fitty's point, 25-26 draft, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you certainly can't say that's bad. So we're talking about 2024.
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  Speaker 2: This dude says, Dan Morgan was here in the 2021 draft,
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: 2022 draft, 2023 draft. But again, he's not the shot caller. Like,
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  Speaker 2: why are you guys going out of your way to do, like,
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: you know, some sort of gymnastic routine, contorting yourself? Like
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: Herb Street's wife. Oh, dear God. See what you did, Herbie?
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: See what you did to the poor Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Herb Street? Respectful.
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: Sharing that story about, you know, about the bedroom. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: why are y'all going out of your way to find
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  Speaker 2: reasons to criticize Dan Morgan? This is, again, this is
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  Speaker 2: a GM who the team has improved dramatically on his watch.
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  Speaker 2: Is he perfect? Hell no. But I think there's more
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  Speaker 2: good than bad. You know?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: When we come back, we need some more positivity in
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: our world. Some more sunshine. And it's that time of
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: the week. Ashley Strohlein joins us for her weekly segment,
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: The Stroh Show. She's going to get the Fitty Dating Update.
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ. Sunshine. So good.
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  Speaker 2: You can.
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  Speaker 6: Do it in the heavens.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
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  Speaker 2: It's gotten fiery today, man.
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  Speaker 5: The Dave Doran talk, the Belichick talk.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: The Panthers talk. My Lord, some of y'all are coming
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: for Bryce Young and Dan Morgan. I thought at the
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: end of last season we were all happy about the
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: progress we had made over two straight seasons, going from
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  Speaker 2: two wins to five, five wins to eight in a
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: playoff bid, pushing one of the best teams in the
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: NFL in the playoff game at home, the crowd just
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: having an amazing time, Bo, and until, of course, the end.
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  Speaker 2: But I thought we had good vibes when the season ended.
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  Speaker 2: Why is everybody acting like we're back in the Matt
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Rule era? I shouldn't say everybody. I shouldn't say that.
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  Speaker 2: Why are so many of the texters really negative right now?
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  Speaker 2: Is it the Texans' joint practice? What has done this
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  Speaker 2: to you?
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  Speaker 3: I'll use an old reference here. Some of them, Mac,
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  Speaker 3: are liking the show Quantum Leap, and they've gone backwards,
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  Speaker 3: and they're still the Matt Rowe era. We've got a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of Scott Bakulas on the text line. It's crazy, man.
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  Speaker 2: Scott Fitter ain't walking through that door, man, to the
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  Speaker 2: draft war room. It's very odd to me. Where have
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: the good vibes gone? Did Daniil, I'm asking, did Will
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Anderson and Daniil Hunter just take your good vibes? Did
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  Speaker 2: they just snatch them?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: The injuries, is it the injuries?
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  Speaker 3: Some guy, first time text, Mitch in Pineville. It's a
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: perfect segue to Stro here. You guys are nothing but
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: sunshine pumpers. So you know what this guy's name is
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: going to be now, Sunshine Pumper.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, sir. There you go. I think we
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: all need a little sunshine in your life, which brings
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: us to our next guest, Ashley Strohlein. She's got the
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Sunshine theme song and everything, ladies and gentlemen. So if
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: you don't like Sunshine, sir, then I don't know. Then
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: maybe this isn't a segment for you. Ashley Strohlein joins
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: us here for The Stroh Show. And she certainly needs
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: to be told all about Fitty's second date with a
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: lovely lady last night. What's up, Stroh? What's going on?
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: Good morning, guys. Well, yeah, if you don't like sunshine,
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: you probably need to, you know, come back in about
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: 15 minutes or, you know, I don't know. This is not,
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: like you said, not the segment for you. So come on, Mitch,
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: get a little sunshine in your life there. But he
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: did tell me in the break, he said, quote unquote,
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: it's on with dating. And then, you know, so I
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: can't wait. Let's get to it.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Sro, do you, I'm sorry, I got to ask you
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: a sports question before that, though. I know you're excited.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: I know you're excited.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: Do you....
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Like, do you have any negative vibes? I mean, listen,
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: I get it, man. The injuries to the tackles, the
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: injury to Nick Skorton, the joint practice was ugly for
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: the offense. But, like, I still feel like this is
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: an organization that when we last left them in meaningful games,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: they were headed in the right direction. Like, do you feel–
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: how do you feel about the Panthers?
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: Well, I mean, injuries are just that unknown for any
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: team in any year, right? Like, that can't be a
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: reason to, like– be mad and hate on everybody. It
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: just is an unfortunate thing that happens. And then you
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: just hope that it, you know, season hasn't started yet.
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: So they figure out who's the next man up or
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: what free agent they want to bring in or, or
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: things like that. But no, I don't like when we
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: get all negative before we even play a real game.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: It's not, not my style. And I just think like always,
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: you have to wait until you get to the regular
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: season and then really see what, a full four quarter
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: performance looks like. I mean, we were mad about the
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: preseason game then. Okay.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: You got a good.
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: Preseason record, but does that count for anything? No, not really.
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: So I think we just got to wait, wait and see, like,
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: that's always my philosophy. You can, you can have the
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: perfect roster on paper, the perfect coaching staff, front office, everything. And,
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: and how many teams have we seen do that just
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: in any sport? And it still doesn't work. So you
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: just don't know until you get out there and play
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: some ball.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: I like it, Stroh.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I like it.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: That's enough sports there, Stroh. Let's get to the main event.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: We have the Fitty Date Update. So now we are
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: past two dates, and then we'll tell you what day
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: three is, which is a little concerning to Mac and
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: I of what Fitty's got himself involved in here for
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: the third day. Day one, Mac, we say he aced
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: the Mexican restaurant date, right, that we talked about last week.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, things went great. Vibes were high, man.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Then we had day... two last night, which Finney can
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: elaborate on. It was a McAllister's date. She chose that
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: because she's low maintenance and she doesn't care as long
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: as she's spending time with the Fit Doll.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: God, that's sweet. That is so sweet. Oh, man. Stro,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: you still there?
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: I was waiting.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: I thought we were going to keep you.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Stro wants more. We don't really have a lot of
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: info besides that.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: Okay, okay.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: So, Fit, give us the info. What was yesterday like?
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: You are buzzing over there. You are between the Tar
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Heel win. And this situation in your personal life, man,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: you're walking on sunshine over there, bro.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: And I still might be higher because of the Carolina win,
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: even though we've had two great.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Dates in the books. Oh my gosh!
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: Just gonna be honest with you guys. What the heck?
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: But no, it was a great time.
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: She was now in the position where I am, where
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: her co-workers have figured out she was going on dates,
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: was concerned that they were gonna show up at the
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: place of the restaurant, something I have to worry about
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: between you and And Sirloin. And then, most importantly, Stro,
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: before we even went on date two, date three got planned.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: And I found out the details of date three. I'm
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: going to a surprise birthday party for a friend of
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: hers where I was informed that not only is dancing required,
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: but there is an expectation that I get on the dance.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Floor and dance.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Man this is exciting.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Stro are you concerned that he's meeting the friends in
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: what's that stro silent are you are you concerned stro.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: Everything because i'm like wow that's a lot already meeting
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: we're being taken to a birth uh you know the
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: friend's birthday party by date three like do y'all know
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: each other's middle names and birthdays yet.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Actually we do not Speaker 0 7, I know what
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: text Vinnie's getting raised. Then what's your middle.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Name and your birthday? It's going well. Speaker 4 7,
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: when things.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: Go a little quick, I'm like, I don't even know
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: your middle name yet. So that's what I always say
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: to people. But I think that's a good thing. I mean,
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: I think anytime someone is excited enough about anybody that
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: they're dating, that they want, want them to be a
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: plus one to an event. That's a good thing, but
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: the pressure will be on because there's going to be
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: a lot of, you know, the friends asking questions and judging,
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: and then you got to break out the dance moves. So,
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's a lot of pressure.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: In my book.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: This is a pressure-packed date. This is playoff-type pressure. I
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: dated Tara most of 2026. I haven't met her friends yet.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: She said that she wants to keep me to herself, though.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: I'm so special. Not that I'm going to embarrass her
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: at all. I'm trying to worry her.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: No, that couldn't be it.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Stro, are you a little concerned, though, like I was? Like,
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: that is a lot of pressure on Finney to meet
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: the friends day three when you don't even really know
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: the person in full because they're going to ask you
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: questions that, quite frankly, you don't have enough time to
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: answer yet.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: You know, it would be a lot for me, I think, personally,
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: just because of how, like, I am. But I also think, like...
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: You know the vibes with this lady that you've been
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: on these dates with and the communication that you guys
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: have been having since you met. And so I also
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: think you kind of got to go off that. And
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: it also... Might be good because you might go and
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: be like, wow, I loved her friends and I can
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: see a little bit more of who she is around
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: the people that she's the most comfortable with in her life.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: And that could be good or bad.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: You never know. First of all, I think if we're
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: going to nitpick what Fitty's third date is like, it
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: would be like nitpicking how the Tar Heels won that
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: game on Saturday. UNC needed a win desperately. They got
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: a win. Let's be positive about it. Let's not nitpick
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: the run game didn't work bone. They only score 15 points,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: all that sort of stuff. Fitty needs this. We want
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: them to have success. Now, I will say this, Fitty.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I remember back right after I got out of college,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I had gone out on a couple of dates with
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: a young lady, and she told me to come over
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: to a gathering where her and her friends were hanging out.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: And I have to be honest, her friends weren't for me,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: and I don't think I was for them, and I
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: never saw the girl again in my life. But I
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: think it was part, Stro, of figuring out, are we
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: a match? You know what I mean?
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure. And I think, too, that's when people
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: let their guard down. When they're in situations they're the
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: most comfortable in, you get to see a little bit
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: more of who they are and their personality. I do
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: always say, you can't judge someone... by their friends. I
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: know that people are like, ah, birds of a feather.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Flock together, whatever.
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: But I, you know, I, I have some outliers. I
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: have people in my life who are, who grew up
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: very different than me, who have much different personalities than me,
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: but they have the best heart of anybody you're ever
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: going to meet. They might say something a little crazy
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: to you and you're like, wow, but they're great. They're
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: great people. And so I always kind of say like,
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: Usually for me, that's just when you get to see
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: the guard come down of the person that you're seeing.
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: So that's what I think for Fitty. But I will
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: say in the break when we were talking on the phone,
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: we know Tuesdays are not Fitty's favorite day of the week,
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: but he was pretty dang excited whenever we were talking.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Heck yeah.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: It's exciting.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: I'm excited for.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: How this goes. We're trying to keep Fitty a B here,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: but I will say a similar story to Max here.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: I remember about five years ago a– woman that i
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: talked to off and on here and there she invited
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: me out to whatever gathering it was at some bar
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: and i went there and it was like 25 people
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: i didn't know and i thought i was there to
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: see her and she introduced me to her boyfriend when
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: i came out.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Her boyfriend i have a strong feeling that will not
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: happen i got stuck at the table with these two
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: the whole time i'm thinking.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Self how did you land here now stro here's the
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: other concerning thing today.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: How about real quick bone kathy's text how about kathy's
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: text My husband met my friend's second date.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: We're married.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: It could be a good thing. So that's the thing. Like,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: I would say this, Bone. Like, if it's the right person,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: it's the right person. Like, we think I wouldn't be
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: married if I met my wife's friends on, like, the
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: third date or something. No, if it's the right person,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: it's the right person.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Here's the next text. It's Kathy's husband. Don't do it.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: I'm just kidding.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Stro, here's the concern.
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: No, but I love— I was just going to say,
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: I love when I get to meet friends and family.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: Because to me, that means something to me. If I'm
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: letting you meet Mama Stro, it means you're a great
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: friend of mine or you're someone that I'm interested in.
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: I care enough to let you meet the most important
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: people in my life. Same with my friends. And the opposite.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: I love when someone says... Let's go to dinner with
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: mom or we're going to go do something with my
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: friends or whatever it is, because I get to really
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: see what I feel is like an intimate part of
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: your life.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: So here's the concerning part to me. I think Mac
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: may be concerned, too. It's the Fitty dancing thing. I
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: came in this morning and he said, guys, she told
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: me I have to, quote, stop, drop and roll. And
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Mac and I looked at each other.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: What?
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: What is that? That's the old Smokey the Bear fire rule.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: This man is not 30 years old, and he got stop, drop,
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: and roll confused with pop, lock, and drop it.
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: When you guys said dance, I had a flashback to
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: the thong situation from last football season.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: So, you know.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Finney going to break out those victory dance moves. Hopefully
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: not the wardrobe. It's from the victory dance. Here's the thing, though, Finney.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: I got you, baby. I'm going to school you. I'm
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: going to give you a couple dance lessons. You're going
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: to be so ready to go for Saturday night.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: I appreciate that, Mac. We've also left out the most
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: important part. I am skipping Clemson LSU to do this.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: This is the first Saturday of the season.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: He wants like a badge of honor for this.
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: And my Saturdays are sacred. I sit there and watch
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: football all day with Flounder. I've never given this up.
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: And I'm giving this up on Saturday. So that's what
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: my main concern is because what if I miss an
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: all-time game?
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: He's missing mad games and he doesn't root for the teams.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: This is how I know you really like this girl, though.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: If you if you didn't if you weren't actually excited
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: about the possibility, you wouldn't be doing this. Because how
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: many times have I said you've got to give a
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: little bit, you know, and you're like, no, absolutely not.
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: But here you are. Look at you now.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is the same dude, Stroh, that if
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: UNC was playing a basketball exhibition, he wouldn't go out
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: on a date with a supermodel. You know what I mean? Like,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: so this is progress, Fitty, that you're opening yourself up.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: I just need to know, Fitty, do you not have
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: a way to record the game and watch it when
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: you get back from the day? I don't understand what
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: world you're living in where you can't just come home
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: at like 11 o'clock unless you're thinking you ain't going
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: to be going home.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Mama's got a VCR up there.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: VCR. Is there not a way where you can just
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: watch it when you get home?
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: My dad made me watch games so late after they
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: happened because he would pause them and record them. that
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: I vowed I'd never be that type of sports fan.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: I want to watch sports in the moment, be there
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: as they happen. But I told her last night, I'm
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: going to learn the power of the DVR.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: There you go, baby.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: There's a stroke.
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: There's a YouTube. There's like a 15 minute recap. So
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: you can skip all the bad stuff and just get
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: the main highlight.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Don't do that. Cause if he does that, we're going
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: to say he's not a football guy though.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: Oh, okay.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Can't do that.
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: Come on now.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: There's a theory back that this is all what's set
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: up and Finney's going to get jumped by a group
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: of state fans.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Did you see AC's text? He hopes
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: that she's a state fan. He hopes that gets revealed.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: I asked that last night.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: You've already... had the clear. See, Stro, he asked the
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: important questions. Not what your middle name is. Not what
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: your birthday is. Do you root for state? There you go. Oh,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: my God. That's hilarious.
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: I just need to know, like, where is this shindig
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: on Saturday? Like, where do you have to put on
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: these dance moves?
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: Somewhere on 601 is what I was told. I don't
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: know the name or the We're going to some event
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: bar or something like that.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, this could definitely be state fans jumping about in
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: some random location on 601. People are pointing out that
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Fitty's definitely not married or has never been close to
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: it when he's wanting credit. The thing, Mac, you know
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: when you're married, you don't really get credit for skipping
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: a game. You just kind of do it. You just
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: kind of do it and you deal with it. Although
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: I don't skip many games now. To be honest, my
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: wife's amazing. But anyway, yes, that's true. Well, do you
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: see what Lori said to him? Lori says, Fitty, welcome
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: to real life. No, but this is a big deal.
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: For Fitty because for so long, we have always heard
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: he would never, ever, ever, ever, ever miss a game
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: for a girl or a date or anything. So it
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: is a big step. We can give him credit.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: It's true. Multiple people worried about not Fitty Saturday night.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Someone asked... What is Flounder going to do now on
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: Saturday night? Oh, my God.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Flounder can't go over to the man cave?
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: I was going to ask if you told Flounder you
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: won't be there on Saturday.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Oh, man.
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: We've already had this covered. He's coming over. We'll watch
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: ECU Alabama, all the noon games. I told him I'll leave,
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: and he can sit there. I'm coming home.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: He gets to.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Stay in the man cave. Wait a minute. He's got
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: man cave solo privileges. It's a bar gathering. Why can't
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: Flounder go meet some ladies out there? Oh, your friend
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: meets their friend? That's the right idea. Why can't Flounder
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: go to this thing?
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Ha!
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: Listen, you cannot, if you are the person who is
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: invited to the party, you do not get to also
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: invite someone unless that offer is genuinely extended.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: That's a good point.
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: That's a party foul.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: That's a good point.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: And definitely with dating, yes. You don't, yeah, no.
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: You don't know these people.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: That's a very good point. Very good point. All right, Stroh,
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: you rock, Stroh. We appreciate it. Always good insight there.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: And I love your enthusiasm for the Fitty Date Love
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Life Story, Stroh. You know what I mean? I love
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: that genuine enthusiasm. We'll have another update next week. We'll
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: have more foot. It'll be Panther game week next week.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: So we'll talk to you, Stro. Be good.
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: All right. I'll see you guys soon.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: All right. There you go.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: That's Ashley Stro line. It's going to be funny games
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: until 50s at the bar. You tell someone, I think
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Dolly Parton's catalog is overrated.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: And the girl says, what did you yell out there
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: on 601, bro? Don't chop that one out. Can he
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: walk it home by himself? Oh, my gosh. Is this
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: lady a Dolly Parton fan, Fit?
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: Not really.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, you're safe there. You're safe there on that one.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: This dude says it's okay for Fitty to meet her friends.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: For God's sakes, don't let her meet Flounder this early.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Talk about a relationship ender. She already knows him? Yeah,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: they went to school together.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: Oh. Very familiar with the Flounder. How about that? He
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: should be in the building, man.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: Find More Deodorant says, oh, I know the building. I
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: do work there. Owner's name is Wally. What a small world.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: How did Find More Deodorant just know by 601 where
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Finney's going?
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's special mental abilities right there.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Well, if Wally owns it, it's got to be a
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: great place. Oh, my God, Mac. Look at Moody Panther
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: just said.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: Finney might be meeting all his cousins there on Saturday. Oh,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: stop that, Panther. Stop that, sir. As we continue to
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: try to get Flounder into this building on Saturday night,
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: we have the wrap-up coming up next. The Braves in
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: action tonight. Can they get a dub after last night's
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: disappointing loss? Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say it's my team. I would say it's
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: everybody's team. That everyone's put in so many hours, so
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: many hours of preparation, so much effort into this, so
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: many tears and sweat. And I think that putting in
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: just my team isn't right. I think everyone deserves to
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: be the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. It's not whoever's Georgia
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: Tech Yellow Jackets. We are the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, man, it runs in the family. That is Fernando
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Mendoza's brother, Alberto Mendoza, quarterback for Georgia Tech, starter this year,
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: and he is being asked, Bone, about leadership. Have you taken, like, leadership?
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Is this your team? And that's the answer a Mendoza
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: would come up with, man. Also has that same enthusiasm
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: as well, Bone.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Those breakfast table conversations with the Mendozas must have been just... Electric.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, the positive vibes in that family household, man. God,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: they must have been through the roof. Hey, Alberto, how's
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: your cereal? No, it's our cereal. And I want to
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: make sure you get some, too, because it's ours. Because
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: our parents paid for it, all right? But we're both
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: eating it right now, so I believe it's ours. It's
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: the Mendoza cereal. That's what it is.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: They're like two hyperactive Tim Tebows.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, I love it. I love it. I'm not sure
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Alberto's going to play like Fernando, though, Bone. I'm not sure.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: They lost Buster Faulkner, their O.C., at Georgia Tech, so
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: we'll see what ends up happening there. But then again, Bone,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: if I doubt you in 2026, based off week zero,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: you might have yourself some fun this football season.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: He initially committed to Signetti at James Madison. Then he
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: went to Indiana. Then his brother went there. He's actually
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: there first. He had 57 touchdowns, 12 picks. He had
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: a heck of a high school career. We'll see. I
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: don't know. It's going to be tough to replace Haynes King,
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: but I don't know. Interesting to watch, though, right? They
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: got Colorado Thursday night. That'll be an interesting one. Nearly
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: touchdown favorites at home with the new starting quarterback. Right
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: off the rip. That's going to be an interesting one.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: No doubt about it. All right. Let's set things up
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: here with the wrap-up. We've got... Braves and Giants tonight.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: Braves drop one. Losing streak stopped last night.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: They lose 7-3 to the Giants. They'll play them again tonight.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: We will not talk, Bone, about what's going on in
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: the AL wildcard situation.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I don't want to jinx what's going on.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Orioles half game out right now. Said we weren't going
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: to talk about it. Couser with an all-time catch last
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: night over the wall. Brought it back in. Beat the Rockies.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: We were looking at the schedules during the break today.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: How can Baltimore pull this off?
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: They're going to let me down, Bone. They're going to
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: lose three in a row at some point.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: It's a credit to Baltimore fighting and also back a
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: credit to the AL that that race is all teams
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: under 500.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Thank you for stinking everybody but the top five teams
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: in the American League. All right, anyway, let's get to
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: the text. Let's see what we have here. 704-570-9610. Somebody
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: says they got a hell of a running back at Georgia. Yeah,
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: they're going to ride Justice Haynes. They got multiple good backs.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: That is true.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's a Yellow Jacket fan out there.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Let's read some more of these texts here, Bone. This
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: text just says, Okay, now read Husky Pants to our text.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: What's he saying?
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: He said Dan Morgan knows LBs as in linebacker. It's
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: Fiddy knows LBs as in pounds. That's cold, baby. That
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: is cold. Then he said right after that, let's pick
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: our guy up here. He's the one that just knocked
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: him down.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: This texter says the Super Bowl is on Valentine's this year, Fiddy.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: That's the real test. How many men are going to
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: be tested? We talked about that a few weeks ago.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: The fact that the Super Bowl is on Valentine's Day,
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: how many men will be tested?
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: I don't know, because women get into that day, too.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: So that's going to be.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: So you think they'll be okay with just hanging out
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: like Super Bowl party type thing, probably?
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: A lot of... Saturday night days? Friday, Saturday, and celebrate
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: Monday's President's Day also. So you've got that day for lunches. Yeah.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: So I think people are going to... I think that's
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: one day where even... non-sports fans, women in your life
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: will say, yeah, they get that one because they'll be
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: wanting to watch it too. Yeah, you could be right.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: You go out the night before or whatever. I don't
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: think any female is going to say, oh my God,
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: you're watching the Super Bowl. We're not going to macaroni
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: grill or something.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Don't challenge them, Bone. Don't challenge them. There can't be
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: every woman. There are some people that don't care about
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, right?
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: That's when I go to McDonald's to see how real
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: that statement holds up.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: My girlfriend, Tara, doesn't want to be just Tara on
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: the air. She wants her own nickname, like the texters get.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: I said, you don't want anyone on this text line
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: trying to name you, all right? She chose the name
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Tara Masu for herself. I don't know what it means,
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: but that's what she wants to go by.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: So now I have to call her my girlfriend, Tara Masu.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Did you see? That's cute. That's very cute.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: My Lord Almighty.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Is she sweet like Tara Masu? Is that where that
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: comes from?
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: What time is it right now? Oh, of course. Absolutely.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Did you see what the texter said last week when
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: you said she wants her own nickname on the show?
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: What's that?
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: The texter said, woman we feel sorry for. I don't
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: know who it was. That's cold, though. That is cold.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Let's see. What else do we have going on here?
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: This texter wants to know, the big question is, is
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: this girl okay with Fitty discussing their love life on
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: the radio? I guess because Fitty said she wants her
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: own segment.
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, she actually checked in this morning wanting to get
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: the verdict on what y'all had to say.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Finney goes to Mac and says she wants her own segment.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: Mac's eyes lit up. Oh, this is amazing.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, we can get so many tales about what Fitz
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: like on these dates. Oh, my gosh. Let's see here.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: Did you hold the door for our McAllisters?
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Always.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: I'm a gentleman. Yeah.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: You go, Fitz. There you go, baby. You hold the
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: door in her car so she can get in.
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: No, not yesterday.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: She sped off. My wife's told me before, all right,
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: all right, enough with the gentleman stuff. She opens your door. No,
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: that is not how it works.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: But my wife is pretty low maintenance, which is probably
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: the only way, Bone, I could be seen as a
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: competent husband to a woman. As if she doesn't expect
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: a lot, doesn't need a lot.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: Monroe Lair is upset if she gets her own segment
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: before she does. Oh, Monroe Lair getting a little catty
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: out there. There's M-Dawg down there on the line. He
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: was involved in Fitty's love life, wasn't he? M-Dawg, the texter?
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: That's the guy that's mad at.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Fitty, right? Oh, he says Fitty ghosted him when he
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: had a woman to set. He said he had a
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: cougar to set Fiddy up with. He turned on the
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: radio and Fiddy's moved on. But he did it on
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: his own, M-Dog. Aren't you proud of him? He did
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: it on his own. Gas House Earl sent an amazing
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: text when we were talking about those two guys that
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: are in trouble for impersonating NFL players, killing the one guy, Bone,
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: that is accused of defrauding women out of $ 1. 3 million.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Gas House Earl says, is it bad that I once
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: had everybody on a cruise believing I was the sixth
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: member of New Edition?
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Ha!
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: I tell the story all the time about living in
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Fort Lauderdale when I was young. My buddy Johnny D
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: was 6'7, and we had women that worked at a
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: gentleman's club believing that he played for the Portland Trailblazers.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: And somehow, Bone, they believed that that guy that played
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: for the Portland Trailblazers was in South Florida a hell
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: of a lot. But we never said, let's try to
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: take money off of you. We might have tried to
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: get free drinks. Remember, we would tell the ladies, this
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: guy right here, his name is Chris Paul. He's going
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: to be in the NBA one day.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: And then turns out that didn't happen. Matt Gasol, again,
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: the weirdest thing is Matt opens the door for his
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: wife and then walks around and gets in the passenger seat.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: No, I do.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: That is true. That is true. Maybe that's why she said,
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: why are you doing this? Just go over and get
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: in your side. You're costing us time here. Oh, my goodness. Anyway,
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: earlier we told the story about somebody who has stole 50,000.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Is it 50,000 cans of PBR? 50,000 cans are missing,
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: but it's valued at $ 70, 000. This dude says 70,000. That's
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: about $ 150 worth of beer. PBR getting slammed, man. Getting slammed.
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Guarantee you can get a cold PBR at that place
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: you go to Saturday night on 601, Fit Dog.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: Guarantee you that. All right.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: We're out of here, everybody. Hopefully you enjoyed it. I'm excited.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: Young Fitty is blossoming. or Blossoming, right in front of
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: our very eyes. He's got Patty the Batty. I've got
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: Tara Masu.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, man. What a time to be alive. Aren't you guys?
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: What a world. What a world. All right, we're out
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: of here, y'all. We'll talk to y'all tomorrow on the
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Mac and Bone Show. We've got to get into week
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: one of college football on tomorrow's show.