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Mac & Bone Hour 2: How Does The CFP Picture Look Halfway Through The Season? · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been great. It's an amazing city, Charlotte, the
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  Speaker 1: Carolinas as a whole.
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  Speaker 2: The support, we all feel it.
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  Speaker 1: We rally around that. Being able to play at the
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: bank has become a special environment. We've had some special nights.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: Other nights, just the atmosphere, it's electric. But yeah, you
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: definitely feel it throughout the city. And for us, it's
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  Speaker 1: our job to continue that, to keep building. And we
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: rally around the city in the same way they rally
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: around us.
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: There you go, Bryce. That's sweet. We love you too, Bryce,
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  Speaker 2: except for about four dudes who wet their bed and
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: live with their mamas that are all over social media
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 3: A bunch of bed-wetting mamas boys on there. He's still
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  Speaker 3: not good. Look at the defenses he faced. He's still
• 0:55
  Speaker 3: not good.
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  Speaker 2: My God. Just enjoy it. Enjoy it, Charlotte. We got
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: ourselves a quarterback playing the best quarterback since Cam Newton
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: was in the city of Charlotte. Just enjoy it. Stop arguing.
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  Speaker 2: and stop trying to prove that you're right. Ah, quarterback's
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  Speaker 2: not good after all. I'd like to see him play
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  Speaker 2: against a good defense, because he played against Cleveland, and
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't as good as the other teams. Keep in mind,
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  Speaker 2: Cleveland had the fourth-ranked defense in the NFL last year.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I said it yesterday. The Bears have
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  Speaker 2: given up 26 points in the three games since we
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  Speaker 2: played them. Hell, Atlanta's defense has been better. Bryce Young, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Bryce Young put up 37. That's 11 more points than
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  Speaker 2: all three other Bears opponents have scored combined. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: but enough because I shouldn't do a show bone for
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  Speaker 2: the four bedwetting mama's boys. We should do the show
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  Speaker 2: for everybody else that is out there. And right now,
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  Speaker 2: the show that we're going to. Oh, my God. Bebop
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  Speaker 2: says he's been surprised by Bryce's play. There you go.
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: He's talking contract for Bryce now. There you go, baby. Oh,
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: my God. It's more like Gleebop than Bebop. Oh, what
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  Speaker 2: a world to live in. You know what? World peace
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  Speaker 2: is possible after all. World peace is possible. Finney's got
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: a girlfriend and Bob's praising Bryce. Did you see the
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  Speaker 2: guy that said, rather be golfing? The guy that texted
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  Speaker 2: in and said about the miracle it is, Bone. Don't
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: put nothing in the window, Tampa. You're 0-4. Get down
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  Speaker 2: the hallway. I can't believe Tampa Tammy can show her
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  Speaker 2: face around here. You should be armory crawling on the
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  Speaker 2: ground so we can't see you. You are the most embarrassing.
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  Speaker 2: When you embarrass the NFC South, you know you suck. Seriously.
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  Speaker 3: There's a last place meeting in the conference room right now.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. Big donut. Get her some Dunkin' Donuts
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  Speaker 2: to celebrate her team's zero wins. All right, anyway, what
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  Speaker 2: was I saying? Rather be golfing's text. Rather be golfing
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  Speaker 2: texted in to say, Bone, that it is basically hell
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  Speaker 2: is freezing over because all three of us have ladies
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  Speaker 2: at the same time in our life. Yeah. Are you distracted, Bone?
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  Speaker 2: Are you distracted? Right.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm not distracted at all. I'm saying, yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: then he's laughing back there. So, yeah, no, miracles do exist.
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  Speaker 3: Panthers are playing well. We're all in love with each other.
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  Speaker 3: Not each other. We have people that love us. We
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  Speaker 3: go home together. We don't go home together.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very distracted. You're doing well with this right now, Bone.
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  Speaker 2: Someone remove Tampa, Tampa. Can we get security to get Tampa,
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  Speaker 2: Tampa out of here? They're afraid of it. Let's talk
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: now about the topic that you tease, Bone. Let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about it. We're four games into the season, and we
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  Speaker 2: can start to draw some conclusions. It's certainly not perfect.
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  Speaker 2: I do want to remind all of us we're 2-2.
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  Speaker 2: That's NFC South good, but that's not good around the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the league. But there's been plenty of things,
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  Speaker 2: most of them on offense, that have been better than
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  Speaker 2: I think we expected. There's been things... some of them
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  Speaker 2: on defense, I would think, Bone, that had been worse
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  Speaker 2: than expected. Who is a player, coach, aspect of the team?
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  Speaker 2: What's the first thing you think of, Bone, in terms
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  Speaker 2: of being better than you thought it would be? Boy,
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  Speaker 2: this is high praise because we knew the guy was good.
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  Speaker 2: He was 27th.
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  Speaker 3: In the nfl top 100 he's an all pro but
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  Speaker 3: mac i there's another level of dominance that devin lloyd
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  Speaker 3: has that seeing him up close and how he impacts
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  Speaker 3: the game devin lloyd we knew was a big time
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  Speaker 3: signing but his presence and we saw when he's in
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  Speaker 3: there when he's not in there to me you talk
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  Speaker 3: about a guy well worth the money is devin lloyd
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  Speaker 3: no doubt are you distracted right now by what i'm
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  Speaker 3: saying I.
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  Speaker 2: Think I know what you're saying, Bone. How is she
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  Speaker 2: still out there with zero wins? All right, anyway. She's
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  Speaker 2: lasted longer than the bus season. It's like her college coach,
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  Speaker 2: Dabo Sweeney, but can't get rid of her. Anyway, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I think I know what you're saying about Devin Lloyd.
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  Speaker 2: You see the season he had last year. You hear
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  Speaker 2: all the accolades. You read all the different advanced metrics
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  Speaker 2: of what he was as a run defender, a pass rusher,
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  Speaker 2: and in coverage. But until you see it for yourself
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  Speaker 2: and watch it for a full game and he's playing
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  Speaker 2: for your team, you don't quite totally understand. And so
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  Speaker 2: I think I feel you. And that is good because
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was literally going to be all positives
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  Speaker 2: on offense and all negatives on defense. I'm just going
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  Speaker 2: to say the obvious. Bryce Young is playing at a
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  Speaker 2: level that I did not expect him to play at.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, he has the slow start trend. He
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  Speaker 2: and this team in general. So for him to get
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  Speaker 2: off to this kind of start, it bucks that trend. Secondly, Bone,
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  Speaker 2: it's just, I knew he was making a jump. This
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  Speaker 2: is not a jump. This is taking an elevator up
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  Speaker 2: like 10 floors.
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  Speaker 3: If we would have said Bryce will have MVP chatter
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  Speaker 3: four weeks in, people would have horse laughed at us.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: We probably would have said, all right, we're being sarcastic.
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  Speaker 3: But that's legitimate conversation, not just here, but there's national
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  Speaker 3: stuff about it.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing. I saw Josh Norris tweet. You know, Josh
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  Speaker 2: is still a Panther fan at heart, Boney. And he
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  Speaker 2: tweeted out one of those graphs. And it showed that
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  Speaker 2: Bryce Young has the lowest percentage of clean pockets of
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  Speaker 2: any quarterback in the NFL. And he said, how the
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  Speaker 2: heck does the quarterback with the lowest percentage of clean
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  Speaker 2: pockets lead the league in yards? It's what he is
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  Speaker 2: overcoming now. is remarkable. It really is. And then you go,
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  Speaker 2: the weapons being out, and obviously the O-line, and the
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  Speaker 2: run game has been some timey. A lot of times
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  Speaker 2: they haven't committed to it. They put it all on Bryce.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say another thing, because we're asking the question, through
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  Speaker 2: four weeks, if you're a Panther fan, what or who
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  Speaker 2: has been better than you expected, and what or who
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  Speaker 2: has been worse than expected? Brad Idzik. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: love the move to go to him. I think you did.
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  Speaker 2: I think we all did, Bone. But to see him
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  Speaker 2: hit the ground running, and I don't think he's been perfect.
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  Speaker 2: I still don't understand why T-Mac wasn't moved into the
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  Speaker 2: slot more to get him away from Denzel Ward in Cleveland.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm not nitpicking that. The majority of what Brad
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  Speaker 2: Izzik has touched has turned to gold. I mean, for
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  Speaker 2: him and all the national people, Bone, I hear what
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  Speaker 2: they're saying. A lot of the national people only saw
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  Speaker 2: the Panthers on Sunday. They haven't seen the three previous
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  Speaker 2: Panther games. So they think Brad Itzik's been doing this,
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  Speaker 2: get it out fast, RPO thing all season. No, the
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  Speaker 2: brilliance of that game plan is he has not been
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  Speaker 2: doing that. They have been wanting to get it downfield
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  Speaker 2: more and more, but he did that specifically because of
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  Speaker 2: the issues on the offensive line and the Lions defensive front.
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  Speaker 2: He has just been off to a brilliant start.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll say because he's doing such a great job,
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  Speaker 3: can I throw an element, Mac, of Dave Kanellis in here?
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  Speaker 3: Think about we are now four games in, and think
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  Speaker 3: about how much we analyze each game and each moment
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  Speaker 3: and each play. If I'm wrong, let me know. Have
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  Speaker 3: we had that many discussions about Dave Canales this year
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  Speaker 3: in game management? Handling games, timeouts, situational football? I feel
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  Speaker 3: like for a month into the season, we haven't had
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  Speaker 3: too many coaching things. We say, why did he do that?
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  Speaker 3: What did that do?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like Canales has been in control of the
• 7:56
  Speaker 2: game management stuff so far. Outside of Cleveland. The only
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  Speaker 2: thing I can think of is that fourth down from
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  Speaker 2: their own 40 against Cleveland.
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  Speaker 3: There's always going to be something, but there hasn't been...
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  Speaker 3: But that's just a decision we didn't like. There hasn't
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  Speaker 3: been some bungling of a half or the end of
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  Speaker 3: a game where we're like, oh, my God, what was that?
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  Speaker 3: They've been pretty tightened up here.
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  Speaker 4: You're right, Matt, because if they convert and they go
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  Speaker 4: down and score, how different is the narrative about double
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  Speaker 4: down day? We're coming up with a different nickname for them.
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  Speaker 4: But that's a good thing is that we're four games in.
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  Speaker 4: And there's only been one scenario that really comes to
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  Speaker 4: mind where, like, we didn't like how they didn't close
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  Speaker 4: the game out the other night. They'll learn from that.
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  Speaker 4: They'll grow from that. But, like, that wasn't on Dave Canales,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't think. We've seen the benefit of him no
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  Speaker 4: longer calling plays.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no doubt about it. How about the story he
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  Speaker 2: told about being able to go to a Caleb Evans,
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  Speaker 2: now it didn't really help, and Princely during the game
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  Speaker 2: and talk to them personally, like, hey, man, you know,
• 8:54
  Speaker 2: this is tough. You got to dig in. Like, he
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  Speaker 2: can't do that when he's not a head coach. It's
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  Speaker 2: two jobs. Like, I know many guys make it look
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  Speaker 2: easy to be a head coach and a coordinator, and
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  Speaker 2: they're special. But it's two jobs. And Dave Canales does one.
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  Speaker 2: Brad Idzik does the other. It's made both of those
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  Speaker 2: positions better for us. It really has. 7045, 709610, what
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  Speaker 2: do y'all or who are we not mentioning that has
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: been better than you think? What has been worse than
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  Speaker 2: we thought? I'll just say it. I know the O-line
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  Speaker 2: has been obviously worse than we thought it would be.
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  Speaker 2: We knew, Bone, that we didn't have Moten, we didn't
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  Speaker 2: have Icky. Rasheed Walker's pass protection has been quite a
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  Speaker 2: bit worse than I thought it would be. He was
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  Speaker 2: 11th in pass block win rate last year. Bone, he
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  Speaker 2: has six pressures, six pressures, and seven pressures allowed in
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  Speaker 2: the last three games. I like that noise. That's been
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: a bit appalling. I thought the pass protection was the
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  Speaker 2: strong part of his game. I was trying not to
• 9:54
  Speaker 2: interrupt your point, so apparently I just It did. Can
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: I go back to another offensive lineman? Can I go
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: to another offensive lineman there with Fortner? I'm not saying
• 10:05
  Speaker 2: I had... We know that Hecht is the future. I
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: thought Fortner could hold it down. I called him Fortner
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: Knox in the summertime. No one really acknowledged that I
• 10:14
  Speaker 2: said that, thank God. But I'm now wondering how long
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: until Hecht gets a look in there. Once he does.
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  Speaker 3: Much like Freeling on the left side, once he gets
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  Speaker 3: in there, it's going to be a long time until
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  Speaker 3: he's removed. But you just wonder how many bad outings
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  Speaker 3: until they say, hey, what the heck, let's put the—
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  Speaker 3: I didn't mean for the pun there, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: People are calling out Fortner right there.
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  Speaker 2: And it doesn't stop there. We have a Robert Hunt problem.
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  Speaker 2: Robert Hunt. Robert Hunt, I think, played his best game
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  Speaker 2: this past week, though. I think that is encouraging. I
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: hope so, because— Although he did have the penalty. He
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: didn't go too far downfield early. But yeah, Robert Hunt
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: is being mentioned on the text line. You can't deny
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: he is not playing as well as we would have
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  Speaker 2: all expected.
• 10:54
  Speaker 3: How about this for a surprise? Nick Scott getting some
• 10:58
  Speaker 3: love from Westside Randy and Merrick coming up as a
• 11:01
  Speaker 3: negative so far this year from a texter. Yeah, Merrick
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  Speaker 3: has not made... Based off expectation of who he is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what the question is, is who is performing
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  Speaker 2: better than you expected? What about this team is better
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  Speaker 2: than expected? And who or what is worse? And Merrick
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  Speaker 2: hasn't really made those difference-making plays at quite as much
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: bone as we remember him doing. Hell, he had a
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: chance to make a big difference-making play, sent on a blitz,
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  Speaker 2: gets cleaned through, and he can't take down Deshaun Watson.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's an example of it right there. Mac,
• 11:33
  Speaker 3: how about this for a point by Panthers 24-7? We'd
• 11:36
  Speaker 3: have to ask the offensive line experts or Buckner, who
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  Speaker 3: knows obviously line play, how much is Fortner's play affecting
• 11:43
  Speaker 3: Robert Hunt next to him right now? How much does
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  Speaker 3: Fortner not being good affecting the other guys?
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  Speaker 2: Robert Hunt is paid to not be affected by people
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: next to him. And he said the penalties? He's paid
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  Speaker 2: to actually be great and have a good effect on
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: people next to him. And there's been some times where
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: he's just been straight beat. Tons of penalties. To me,
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  Speaker 2: he looks old. Is it just the injury? Is it
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: the remnants of coming off the injury? Which would make
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  Speaker 2: a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 4: Like, Mac, that body's been, like his body and my body,
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  Speaker 4: been through a lot at the age of 30.
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  Speaker 2: Your body doesn't move. You go sit and eat. How
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: the hell's your body been through? High school sports? Church
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: league ball?
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  Speaker 3: Someone says, ask Mac what's it like to work with
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  Speaker 3: guys that aren't doing their job next to you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's cold. These boys bring it every day, baby.
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  Speaker 3: Don't talk about Phinney that way. These boys bring it
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  Speaker 3: every day. Guy's working his buns off back there.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what do you think about people bringing up Derrick
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: Brown has been... Less than we expect him to be.
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: First of all, he's got a very high standard. So
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: even a lesser Derrick Brown is better than most. I
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: didn't think he got off to his best start. He
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: had the penalty against Chicago, which was a problem. Although
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: I thought the other day... He had two against Chicago.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the other day I thought you started to see
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  Speaker 3: more of the old Derrick Brown. We haven't seen really...
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: The dominance that we're used to, just like chucking guys
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  Speaker 3: like pro wrestlers. But eventually, it's going to come around there.
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  Speaker 3: I trust him fully. Has it been his best year?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: But that doesn't mean he can't reach his potential still.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like his last two games, we've seen more
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  Speaker 3: of an impact. And listen, Derrick Brown's the type of guy, Bowen,
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  Speaker 3: that could be taking on two blockers, and that's what
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  Speaker 3: they wanted him to do on that play.
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  Speaker 2: So it's some of these positions for us.
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  Speaker 3: I guess football people would argue us talking about all
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  Speaker 3: these positions probably is not right.
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  Speaker 2: But like... You know, it does need to be said
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  Speaker 2: in the trenches about, you know, hey, he could be
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  Speaker 2: doing his job on assignments, on plays, and we're not
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  Speaker 2: smart enough to know it. I do think just in
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: terms of impact on the game, I feel like the
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: first two weeks were a little slow. I do feel
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: like he's gotten it going more the last couple of weeks.
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: Bone had five pressures against Cleveland, had the batted passes.
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  Speaker 2: against Detroit. I think we're starting to see a little
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: more impact. People bringing up Jalen Phillips. Again, edge rusher watch.
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: I don't, it's probably in all towns, not just this town,
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: but unless, you know, this dude has, you know, Buku Sachs,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like there's always going to be people texting
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  Speaker 2: in saying he's not doing his job. He's a great
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  Speaker 2: run defender. He's immensely improved our setting of the edge
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: and run defense. The pressure's bone. I think it's two
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  Speaker 2: sacks and how many pressures? 16 through four games? So
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: that's a pace for, I don't know, what's 17 times four? Well,
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  Speaker 2: 17 times two is 34. 68. 68. 71? 51. I
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: think it's 71. No, 72. I'm sorry. 72, right? And
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  Speaker 2: that'd be 18.
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  Speaker 4: 68.
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  Speaker 2: I thought 68 was 16. No.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, you're right.
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  Speaker 2: 17 times 4 is 68. Damn, he out-mathed me. God,
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: he out-mathed me. Score one for 50. Someone says Willie
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: P's cooking has been less seasoned than expected here in
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  Speaker 2: the 2026 season. Get out of here!
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: Out of the.
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  Speaker 2: Kindness of his heart. You are out of your freaking mind.
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  Speaker 2: We're not doing that today. Why does it not matter
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: what the topic is? Pete can catch a stray. We
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: could be talking about the government balancing the budget. Not
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: that we'd sound even more clueless then, obviously. But Willie
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: P would catch a stray.
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  Speaker 3: Has anyone ever thought I should say something nice about
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: Willie P today? Why didn't someone say something nice? Phinney,
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  Speaker 3: say something nice about Willie.
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  Speaker 5: That.
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  Speaker 2: He's got nothing. He's a hell of a play-by-play announcer. Inspired,
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: passionate goal calls are amazing. How about that? He's always
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: on time. Nice man. DeCathlete wants us to back up
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: the criticism of Rob Hunt. He's just now getting back
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: to football rhythm after the triceps injury. How many games
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: did he get last year after coming back? from the
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: injury plus four this season. He came back just for
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: the playoff game. That was it. Um, yeah, that's, that's
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: the thing. I think Fitty was the one going the
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: hardest on Rob Hunt. I would just like to cite,
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: I don't think he's looked his best. I thought he
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: played his best game of the season the other day.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: I just, I don't want, you know, we're, we're simply
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: having a conversation bone about dudes that are not or,
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: or aspects of the team that are as good or
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: not good. I don't believe Rob Hunt needs to be,
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: you know, treated and, you know.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: Thrown out of town. Only one person's brought up Jalen Phillips'
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: name on here. Oh, there's only one?
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Joe and Raleigh. I thought for sure there was more.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Joe and Raleigh.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Usually I thought there'd be more because I've seen more
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: on Twitter about him, but only one texter so far.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: That's an interesting development there. Joe and Raleigh does say, though,
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: Prince Lee had three sacks. It's a pleasant surprise so far. Yeah,
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: he had the horrible first game with the contain. The
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: lack of contain. It was a terrible game, I believe,
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: for him. But there's no doubt you see it. You
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: see the flashes. And we've always known Bone as a
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: pass rusher. He has an ability. He is a ridiculous
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: athlete with a quick get-off. and that spin move, and
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, like, that bend. Like, we've all known the
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: pass rusher that he is. Hell, just ask Jalen Phillips.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: He'll tell you. He says he's the best pure pass
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: rusher we got on this team. The questions I think
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: we've had about him, Bo, is maturity thing, right? You
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: have that with a lot of young players. And then
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: we've also questioned, can he hold up on rundowns? I
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: still have questions about, can he hold up on rundowns?
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: I still think against mobile quarterbacks, against Williams and Watson,
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: he's got a little more of a controlled rush. But
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: I said it last week. I said going into the game,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: he's going to have a big game because Jared Goff
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: ain't going to move from him. And he's been getting pressure.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: And that damn statue ain't getting away from him. And
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: I'll be damned if he didn't show up with six pressures.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: And they sacked. So I'm pretty happy with Prince Lee.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: There's still room to grow, too, but I'm happy with him.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: He's also got a lot more pressure on him than
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: we thought entering the season because of the scoring loss.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: So there has to be, I do believe, a little
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: more patience as he grows into that full-time gig there. Matt,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: we have shocking news. Willie P ended the segment upset
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: with Fetty Marlowe. Because Fiddy did not say something nice
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: about him. Now Willie's got his feelings hurt. How does
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: this always happen back on Wednesdays right before Willie comes
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: into the studio? It never fails, does it? I think
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: you set Fiddy up for that, I feel like. Although
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Fiddy won't be here when Willie gets here. Fiddy's going
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: to head over to ACC Timber.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: That's right. So there will not be a fist fight
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: that we were hoping to see. A couple of texts
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: coming in here. 704-570-9610 if you want to get in here.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Likes the paycheck. Said I'm disappointed in JJ. He hasn't
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: registered a tackle yet. But he's been explaining to Coach
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Canales all the different penalties, Bowen, that have been called.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: He's been doing that. JJ's got a lot of jobs
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: to do. Let's just lay off him, all right? Snapping
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: is just one of them.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: 704 number says, Mac just basically threw Fitty in front
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: of the bus or in front of a pulling guard.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Mac just basically said, Rob Hunt, if you're out there listening,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Fitty is the one really bashing you. I want to clarify.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: I don't like feeling that way about Big Rob. Like,
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: he's my favorite offensive lineman. We've got a chance to
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: talk to him the past couple years out of training camp.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: You know how much that guy cares.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: You know how.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Important he is to this offensive line. So I bet
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: he's eager to get it corrected. Mac, I'm just worried
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: and concerned because we've seen him look a different way.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: But.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: You know, that body. He's just been through a lot.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: So it makes a lot of sense. But with all
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: the other injuries, we need him to be the Rob
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Hunt that we're paying him to be. But it's still amazing.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: And it's a testament to Bryce. With all the issues
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: up front, what this offense is doing on a game-in,
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: game-out basis.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: It defies logic.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: It's also a credit to Brad Inzik and how quickly
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: they're operating and how much Bryce is moving the ball
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: quick now compared to what he used to.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: This past week, it was a brilliant game plan.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Old Bryce with his offensive line could have been a disaster.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: He has been slinging it. He still has the most
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: deep completions in the NFL, despite this offensive line that
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: has allowed the most pressure in the NFL. Those two
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: stats don't add up. They don't compute. It's crazy. I also,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know if anybody did it on the text line.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: The tight ends deserve a shout out. This tight end group,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: this is the best a tight end group has been, Bone.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Hell, since Greg Olson was the guy running the tight
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: end group. Like, I honestly believe that. And a lot
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: of it is Brad Itzik really embracing the bootleg stuff
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: to the tight ends and Bryce doing that so well.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: But Darren Waller's been such a good addition. And I
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: think Tremble's been good this year. And Mitchell Evans is solid.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: So I want to throw those guys some praise, man.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: When we come back, how is the college football playoff
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: picture looking as we near the halfway point?
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Mac, we're at the halfway point already?
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: How quickly does it come? We're near it, right? I
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: wouldn't say there, but five games in for teams?
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: But are we headed towards six SEC teams and one
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: ACC team? We'll discuss it. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: All right, y'all. Shout out to Smoke Ludwig, who is
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: under fire at this radio station because the man lost
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: our TV remote in the studio. Now, I guess Bone
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: says he claims that he left it here Sunday night.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: So he is saying there's a mysterious remote control thief
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: in our midst, Bone?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Is that his theory? He's got it down to the
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: minute that at 1.04 a.m. from Sunday night into Monday
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: that it was right here and now it's gone. So
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: that's also the night that Philly slept over. So there's
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: a chance that Fitty has packed up this remote in
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: his belongings? Think it's still wrapped up in his blankie? Also, Smoke,
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: very upset that you have not figured out until right
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: now that you can change the channel by hitting your
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: finger on the TV.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: It just occurred to me. I said, how did they
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: change the channel with no remote? Bone goes, you can
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: just press it with your finger. And you would think
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: my old ass can remember the non-remote days? Because there
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: was a non-remote day in this world.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: And I'm old enough to have lived through it. But
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: I completely have forgotten that was an option. But Smoke,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: don't change the subject, my man. You were the last
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: man to touch that remote control from the WFNZ staff.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: This is on you, bro. This is on you, Smokey.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: You're the most likable guy here, Smokey, but this is
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: not good to have on your resume, baby. He claimed it.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to throw a– I believe Smoke. The
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: whole station was looking for it during the pregame show
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: last night. Who would steal a remote here? Is it
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: like WBT? Did they lose their remote at WBT and
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: they need it to toggle between News Nation, Fox News,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: and whatever else they've got on over there?
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: All right, anyway, let's get to– College football here. If
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: anybody has seen our remote, please let us know. 7045709.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Now we have to figure out who's going to buy
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: a new one. This dude says, the fact that the
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: old guy at the station didn't know that you could
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: change the channel without a remote is classic. M-Dawg thinks
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Tampa Tammy came in here, bone to cause chaos.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: No.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: And distract from their 0-4 record. She doesn't want to
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: see NFL Network's Buccaneers coverage.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: And we finally have a.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Little bit of class and respectability back behind the board.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Fitty out to ACC Media Days now. Schrappi has come
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: in behind the board.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Schrappi's in, baby. Schrappi, you're a team player coming in early, baby. Yeah,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: I wish I felt better, sounded better, looked better. But, hey,
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: at least you don't have. Hey, you're on the right show.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Hey, if there's ever a show, Schrappi, you can just
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: kind of chill and not talk. It's on the magazine.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: I got you.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I got your reps.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: The good thing is that the studio will probably smell
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: a little bit better throughout the rest of the show here.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Thank you for that. That is true. Although those chicken
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: wings from this weekend still affected my tummy.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: No, Shrop.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: That's the bad news. All right, let's talk college football.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: So I was reading ESPN.com every week, Bone. They do
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: a look at the playoff picture. And again, we are,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: you know, once teams play their sixth game here, some
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: of them will play their sixth game this week, Bone.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: they'll be halfway through their season. So it is, this
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: season goes faster than any in sport. It's the shortest
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: in sports. It might be the best in sports and
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: it's moving. So let's talk about the playoff situation and
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: kind of how it looks right now and where maybe, Bone,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: we think it is headed. Now, the ESPN piece has
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: six teams in the SEC in the playoff as of
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: right now, Bone. Six teams.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: It's basically the SEC tournament.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Where is this at? Did I erase that? I will
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: have to look that up, who they've got in, because
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: I thought I copied and pasted. I did not. The
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Big Ten, they have two teams from the Big Ten,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Ohio State and Indiana. They have Oregon on the outside
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: looking in right now, Bone. The Big 12.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Which is a very unexpected development, what we thought the
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Big 10 was when the year began.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: And they have to be. That's part of the reason
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: why the SEC's got so many in there. The way
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: they played the first two, they have to be. Big
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: 12 won. It's BYU right now over Texas Tech. Obviously,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: they'll settle that. ACC only won. It's Miami. They do
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: put Duke and Pitt in the, quote, wrong side of
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: the bubble. They do at least mention them. as being
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: on the bubble. That's very nice of ESPN to acknowledge
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: more than just Miami.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: And I fully admit, Duke playoff talk, they've still got
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: a long way to go based off who they played
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: and what they had. That's a long way off before
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: I start touting that. Well, you don't have much room
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: for error in the ACC. You just don't.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: The SEC, I firmly believe there's a chance a three-loss team, Bone,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: could make it in. In the ACC, you probably get one. Now,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame is in there, obviously. And Boise is the,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: you know, group of six, the highest ranked group of
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: 16 will get a spot. Basically, we need to break
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: this down. We start trying to figure out, OK, how
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: many could the ACC get? Is the SEC really going
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: to get six, five? You got to start with there's
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: there's going to be 10 spots, Bone, for the four
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: power conferences because Notre Dame is going to go. And
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: if I jinx them, great. But I think everybody believes
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame will be there. And then you're going to
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: get one group of six teams there. Boise has the
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: best resume right now. So then it's 10 spots, Bone,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: for the other four power conferences. What do you think
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: the chances are at the ACC getting more than one?
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Not looking good right now. And part of that is
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: because SMU is the ranked team, right?
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: They're 24th.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: They have the close one over Florida State. They have
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: the loss to Louisville, which, by the way, looks worse
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: and worse. The 10-point loss is getting worse and worse.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: They beat Missouri State by 10. They beat BC by 9.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: They're stacking up some wins, but in terms of optics
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: and how they're looking, SMU does not appear right now
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: like they are a playoff team where they're going to
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: make it. So they may end up with a lot
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: of wins, but that resume might not be too impressive.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: And they've got Cal, they've got Stanford, they've got Syracuse.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: They've got some games coming up that aren't really going
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: to be helping their resume too much.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: That's my takeaway for SMU is there are losses coming.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Unless they pull off a miracle against Notre Dame at
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: the end of the year, then maybe that's different.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously, that's a game changer. And they play Wake also.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: That's a game changer. But just watching this team, Bone,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: I haven't been very impressed with them in any of
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: their games. No, you're right. Any of their games. They
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: were in a 10-point game.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Did it end up 10, Missouri State, you said?
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Missouri State was 34-24. It was a one-point game early
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: in the fourth against Missouri freaking State. They were down
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: 10-0 early in the game to Missouri freaking State. The
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Boston College game, I know the weather was bad, but
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: that wasn't necessarily pretty. I just don't think they're good enough.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? I think there are losses
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: coming for them. With one loss, they might be in
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: trouble based off who they're playing. They don't have the
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: SEC room for more losses. They're already in some trouble,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I think. I think the obvious best chance for the
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: ACC to get multiple teams is for Miami to beat
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame, go into the title game, the ACC title game,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: with no losses, and then someone beat them.
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: I think that's the obvious bone best chance for the ACC, right?
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Is to have somebody go in there, knock off Miami,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: get a spot as a conference champ. But Miami, if
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: they do beat Notre Dame, they're going to have enough
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: to get in. Now, if Miami were to get, even
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: if they lost close to Notre Dame, I still feel
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: like they might have a chance to get in when
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: an ACC conference title game loss.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Do we need to, do we need to analyze the
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: chances for Wake Forest? They have the only loss to Miami.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: They have road games coming up at State, at Cal, Virginia,
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: and then Mary Mac at home, at SMU, at Georgia Tech,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: and Duke. They have a great chance, Matt, to really
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: get a lot of wins there. I mean, if they
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: play Miami again and their only two losses are to Miami,
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: it's not the best resume, but would they be the
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: best hope to keep on winning and play Miami again?
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: The question is what will be their ranked wins, though.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? They have to have SMU
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: keep being ranked here. They need that. And I don't
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: know if i bet on that now can they get
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: duke ranked like that's that's the thing is more of
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: these acc duke's ranked in one of the polls we'll
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: see how the playoff poll in weeks plays out but
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: we're going to need the playoff committee and don't laugh
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: when i say this everybody don't wreck your cars dying
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: laughing we're going to need the playoff committee to rank
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: a few of these ACC teams outside Miami. And I
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: know it sounds funny because we're going to need actual
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: respect bone. And they may actually only be able to
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: rank like eight or nine SEC teams if they do that.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: So I don't know. I think Duke, maybe you're being
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: modest as a Duke fan. I think there's a lot
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: of wins on that Duke schedule. There is, you know,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: you mentioned wake. I think there's a lot of wins
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: on that Duke schedule.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: That Duke way game end of the year is that
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: that could be a, have massive implications. Mac, it's also
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: very ACC like Duke. that virginia tech loses on a
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: what looked to be a screw job field goal situation
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: so they have a loss but also in that win
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: pittsburgh who's been very good loses their star quarterback it's
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: a very acc thing star quarterback lost for the team
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: that wins and the team that lost well they could
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: have used that win because maybe they can gain some
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: and they may have won it because the kick might
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: have been good very very acc like uh ending hashtag
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: go acc man seriously what can go wrong will go
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: right I hate that Pittsburgh lost their quarterback because he,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: first of all, he's a stud quarterback.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: So good, man.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: And that's, I don't know what that's going to do
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: for them. I mean, they can probably still win a
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: number of games, but they were looking like they may
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: go for a 9 or 10 win season with Heichel
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: in there.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that really hurts, man. And we'll see. We're going
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: to talk about it this week. The Tar Heels have
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: a chance to pull an upset the next two weeks.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: They got Pitt and Duke the next two weeks. We
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: got to have a conversation. Carolina's been much more competitive recently.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: And without Heinzel, I wonder if Carolina's got a shot, Bone,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: to pull the stunner against Pittsburgh. But we'll talk about
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: that in the next couple of days. As far as
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: I want to come back and clean up, Bone, on
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: aisle two. Got minor spill, just a couple drops, though.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Nothing major, Bone. Just a paper towel. We don't need
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: to mop. Mop's out, mop's out, mop's out. I thought
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: just a little bounty would have done no Shrop, but I,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: I got on the air and thought I had all
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: the sec teams bone that the ESPN was putting in
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: the playoff right now. And I completely blew it. I
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: had nothing. So let me circle back to that would
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: be in if the playoff were today, according to, I
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: think this Heather Denich does this thing each week. Texas, Alabama, Georgia,
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Florida still, despite the route to Missouri, Ole Miss still,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: despite the route loss to Florida, and LSU, despite losing
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: to Ole Miss. They have on the wrong side of
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: the bubble Tennessee listed as wrong. But that's six right there.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: And could the SEC really get– I mean, five might
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: be the number I would bet. Like if you gave me–
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: bet on how many SEC teams in the playoff– Five.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Because the Big Ten bone, I guess Oregon could always
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: win out, you know, and get back in the picture.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: But there are teams in the Big Ten that were
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: expected to contend for the playoff that have not looked
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: great and have blemishes. Michigan, Southern Cal, Lord knows Penn
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: State's garbage. It ain't a playoff team. Washington. Is the
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Big Ten going to end up, Bone, with less? And
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: the SEC picks up an extra team than expected.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Do they have a fly in the ointment, though, in
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: UCLA who's starting to get some rave reviews? They play
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: at Oregon this week in a huge game. But, Mac,
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: after that, they play Wisconsin at home, Michigan State at home,
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Nevada at Minnesota, Illinois at Michigan, and UCLA to close
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: out the season. If UCLA can somehow pull off the
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: upset against Oregon... they're going to go on a run
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: here for a lot of wins. They might end up
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: in playoff contention.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Don't forget about the fighting PJ Flex either. If you're
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: trying to find a surprise Big Ten team, Minnesota's balling
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: right now, man. PJ Flex, that dude's a lunatic, but
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: that dude can coach, man. Like, he can flat-out coach.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: And they've got– Now, they got blown out by Mississippi
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: State in the non-con, but in the conference play, the
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Michigan win opened your eyes.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: Minnesota has coming up. Iowa, Indiana, UCLA, all ranked opponents
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: in a row. So that'll be– they got opportunity there.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Then they play– a lesser team in the big 10
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: after that and in penn state.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: My guess is way lesser like i'm talking about maybe
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: the worst in the conference i'm so down on penn
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: state right now what an embarrassing pathetic performance that was
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: again you let northwestern run for 413 on your heinies.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: That's another team that's balling too that's another team balling
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: offensively at chip kelly though my my.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Feeling like do you all these teams that we're saying
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: watch them watch them i feel like they all maybe
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: beat each other in the big 10 You know what
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: I mean? Do they all beat each other? Yeah. So, anyway,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know, man. This dude says, just call it
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: what it is, Mac. The damn sorry SEC invitational. Also, Nebraska.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: People trying to point out Nebraska bone with the fighting
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Matt rules. You know what I'm saying? We got the
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: court here. We got all the wins. You know what
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: I mean? We're excited. They get their first real test
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: this week against Indiana. So we'll see. We'll see a
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: little bit more about Matty Rule's boys. I'm worried about
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: that a little bit. I don't want to see Matt
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Rule get the big winning. I can't have that happen.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Husker Mike says about to beat Nebraska and be 6-0.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Matt Rule's brought that swag back. Was it the appearance
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: on Lanterns, the TV series? Is that what's got you
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: off the order 5-0 record? Oh, man. Anyway, JMU, Matt,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: pumping up Bob Chesney at UCLA. Says they're going to
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: go into Oregon and get the dub. If you need
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: a coach, you can't go wrong with just hiring a
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: guy at JMU. It's unbelievable. It's crazy. Signetti and him.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: When we come back, a new random crap is coming up.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: A new Bryce song has dropped and has another flair.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Betrayed the Carolina Panthers. It's been a while since a
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: flair heel turn happened. That is next. Sports Radio 92.7.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: Mack Bone and the Drop Dog.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: Random crap, random crap, Mac and Bone talk, random crap,
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: random crap, random crap, Mac and Bone talk, random crap, random,
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: random crap, random crap, random crap.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: What the deuce?
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, crap.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, crap.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: We stink like a baby's blowout infested diaper.
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: They talk about crap that is random.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: It's the Queen City's favorite born in tandem.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Mack and Bone. Random crap. Mack and Bone. All right,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: it is time for Random Crap. The P-Man is in
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: the building. He is doing his segment live coming up
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: at 8 o'clock. A little Willie's World, ladies and gentlemen.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Never heard anybody. And that's coming up at 8 o'clock.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: But let's get to Random Crap in the meantime. Have
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: a little bit of fun here, or will we? People
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: are already triggered about Charlotte Flair. We hadn't even gotten
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: into it yet. Wait until you hear the audio clip
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: from her. But anyway, let's start Panther Nation with this one.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: A brand-new Bryce song has dropped. I kind of like
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: this ditty. Now, who has done this song? We've got
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: to get proper credit. This is your guy, man, Richard Cannon,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: on Instagram. The cannon goes boom. All right. And he
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: has dropped this Bryce song, and I see Grammys in
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: this man's future. Listen to this.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: I'm Christopher Young.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, a Sunday night football was fire, 3-29 against the Lions,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Panthers won! Rise, Christopher Young! Two touchdowns in all black
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: and tire. It's the quickest thing I've ever done. Oh,
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Richard Cannon, you are a legend. God, he's hitting them
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: high notes.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: My God, you know the Panthers are heading in the
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: right direction when you start to see songs coming out
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: about the team. We're going to have one tomorrow by
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: the great Shaquan Bartle. There's a lot of Panthers song
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: content coming out there.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: He's got, I don't know, do you think Shake can
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: compete for a Grammy with our guy right there? That
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: was amazing. Lyrics, high notes, everything, man. Not to mention,
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: I never knew Bryce's middle name was Christopher. I learned
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: something during that song. I didn't know either. I didn't
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: know he had a fellow Chris there in Bryce Young.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: All right, now let's get to Charlotte. People are ripping
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: our guy Richard Cannon for some reason. Why are people
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: not liking that? Barron thought it was hilarious. Barron knows
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: parody songs. All right, let's see. Ears are bleeding. I
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: thought my man was nailing the high pitch. I liked it.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: I felt good about it. Saw his cannons went boom.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: I'd send him through to Hollywood, dog. I would. All right,
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: let's get to this. If you don't like that, you
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: really ain't going to like this, I don't think. So
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: Charlotte Flair was out there, Bone, to pound the key
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: pounding drum, the Charlotte native. to hit the key pounding
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: drum before the first huge game, mammoth game, first Sunday
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: night football game at home in 11 years. And then
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: she did an interview, Bone, where she told everybody, I
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: like the Panthers, but they're not my only favorite team.
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: Born in Charlotte, raised high school, then graduated NC State.
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: Wolfpack.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: I remember going to Panthers games when I was little.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: I actually cheered on the halftime shows when they had like, oh.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: The youth cheerleading teams come.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: But as I got older, then I became a Rams fan.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Thank goodness it's West-South, but I feel like you can be,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: you know, proud of both teams.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: You don't have to pick, like Charlotte will always be home,
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: but I love my Rams, but I will say, I
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: feel like I was a good luck charm for the
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Panthers that night because Bryce Young just killed it.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Well, if you keep showing up, they're going to end
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: up playing the Rams in the NFC Championship, Charlotte. You're
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: going to have to pick a side eventually.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Dude, they played them twice last year, and I was like,
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: I'm not going.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: I'm not picking sides. I can't go. Mac, I don't
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: blame her for this. You know why? I blame us.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: We trusted a flare.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Have we not learned something for the last 40 to
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: 45 years? Her father is known as the dirtiest player
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: in the game. That's on us for believing what we
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: saw with Starwood Flare.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: That's on us. We trusted a flare. We got to
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: own that one. But I don't know. It's not on us.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: It's on the Panthers.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: That's the only family with more teams than my own.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: It's on the Panthers.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: If they would have asked you probably on Friday, should
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: we do this? You probably would have told them you
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: can't trust a flare. Check her.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: Resume what your dad is or dad roots the entire
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: NFC West yeah people uh texter says it is in
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: her bloodline to be a turncoat.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Another texter says, as long as it's not a division team,
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: like when dad sold us out for the Falcons, I'm OK.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: But it's literally the team we played in the playoff game.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: And she said she didn't pick a rooting interest. Meanwhile,
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: how can somebody that did not definitively root for us
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: in the playoff game be a good choice to keep
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: pounding drum?
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: Meanwhile, she was at the game. Our truth was with
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: her fellow wrestler, diehard Panther fan. He should have been
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: still with here. He was up there with her watching
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: the game. Not necessarily as big a name as Flair,
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: but he should have done it there. Also, I didn't
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: laugh when Mike Tirico said, here's Charlotte Flair on the
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: key pounding drum. She's named for the city of Charlotte. Well, actually, Mike,
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: she's named Ashley. Her wrestling name is named after the
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: city of Charlotte. She wasn't actually bored, Charlotte, right? Get
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: that straight there.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Get that shocking that Mike Tirica might not have deep
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: knowledge of wrestling names. People are now mad at me.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Bone, you're the Ric Flair of Charlotte currently. No, I'm not.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: You do, yeah. You and him probably got similar amount
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: of squads. He's worse than I am. Willie's in studio
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: counting them over there right now. He's still going.
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: Stop.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: I don't have enough fingers. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Let's all celebrate that Finney's not here. Bone, did you
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: hear this story about the jersey? Her motto is sometimes pounding. Sometimes!
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: Did you hear the story about the under 10 or
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: the 10 year old youth baseball team in New Jersey
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: called the Jersey Hitmen? Have you heard this story? I
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: haven't heard this one. I got interested. So a bunch
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: of moms of these 10 year old baseball players on
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: the Jersey Hitmen. What a name, by the way, for
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: a kid's team, the Hitmen. Anyway, a bunch of moms
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: went together and had all these jackets made with the
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: team name on it and stuff. And they all showed
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: up kind of like the Canes wags did at Stanley
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: Cup final. They all showed up in their team gear, right?
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Their team mom gear. Well, the owner and I don't
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: really understand how there's an owner of a 10 year
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: old team, but the guy that owns the team. now
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: wants a 15% royalty restitution because somebody produced jackets with
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: the team name on it. And this dude is looking
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: for a cut. And not only is he just looking
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: for a cut, he has suspended every 10-year-old whose mom
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: bought one of these jackets.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: What?
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? Oh, my gracious. What a U
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: Sports in 2026 story this is.
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: Oh, my.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: That'll be a TV show. Oh, are you kidding me?
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: Oh, man.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Last but not least. Also, enough about me. That was
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: about Charlotte Flair. Now I'm under fire here.
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: Jeez.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Would you be? I wonder if they. Do you think
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: they'd let you hit the key pounding drum, or do
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: you have too many teams?
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: Why are you jumping in? They probably learned their lesson.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: Support your guy here. I'm under fire now. Someone just
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: called Willie P the dirtiest chef in the game.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: P-Man's in here, man, looking smooth, baby. Gosh, with a
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: blue blazer on?
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Looking smooth. You can tell he's got to go on TV.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: He would not dress like this for us. There's just
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: no way. Last but not least, Bone, I want to
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: shout out Niners linebacker Dre Greenlaw. You see what he
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: was up to during the game the other day, Bone? Oh,
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: I loved it. He was living a dream for all
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: of us. He is the latest person to MF Sean
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: Payton all over the place. The other day told him to,
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: he went Matt Ryan. He went Matt Ryan on him,
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: told him, get the F off his field to Sean Payton. Um, he,
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: he said he was asked what he was yelling at him.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: He said, I told him to get the F off
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: the field. That's it. Get the F off the field.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: He's angry bone about the way Sean Payton treated him.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: Remember he signed that deal with Denver. It didn't work out.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: He got injured. He says, once I got injured, Sean
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: Payton resented my presence because I couldn't help him and
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: couldn't play. So he would ignore me and literally not
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: talk to me once I was hurt. And he says,
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: I will never forgive that man for it. So, Bone,
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: we have now added, I think we're at one million
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: people that hate Sean Payton. And that may be a
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: conservative estimate. Hey, Smugly Do-Right, remember when you couldn't help
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: your team when you were suspended for a year? Everybody
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: ignore you and the Saints organization.
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: Mac, if you lined up all the people that want
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: to yell at Sean Payton, how long would that line go?
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: Just one after the other. Just wrap the whole way
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: around the earth, I believe. I think, Bone, it's hard
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: to bring America together during these times. We all have
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: our different opinions. People, unfortunately, choose sides all the time.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: I feel like if a candidate was to run on
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: Sean Payton as a jackass, I think they could unify
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: both parties. I really believe that. Except in Louisiana and Colorado.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: The other 48 states, I think you could unify the
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: parties together.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: He's the anti-Dolly Parton. Dolly Parton was loved by so many,
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: universally loved. He's universally hated, but Dolly Parton was loved.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: Except by Philly Marlowe, yeah. But, Mac, is he not
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: the opposite of Dolly Parton? He is.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: She was loved. Sean Payton hated. He's the anti-Dolly. And
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: there is no doubt about it. By the way, uniform
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: Ned had to weigh in, Bone, apparently, on the moms,
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: the 10-year-old baseball moms buying the jackets. Says, Mac, travel
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: baseball teams are a business at their core. And someone
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: or a few people own the brain. So clearly the
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: dude wants to be able to sell baseball. merch and
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: not have somebody else make it but god that's crazy
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: 20 that's just we we are no we are in
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: it i don't know boat have you ever noticed we're
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: in a money money hungry world i have.
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: Noticed that also someone sent us a link that drake
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: may doesn't believe the moon landing was real i'm gonna look.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah that's the thing i'm gonna look into that
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: story as well here that's the thing he's been talking
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: to aaron rogers they've been sharing conspiracy.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: Theories When we come back, a man that is not fake,
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: a man that is real, Willie P. of the Charlotte
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: FC Radio Network and many of a WFNZ postgame show,
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: all the shows here at WFNZ. Willie P. in studio next.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: Panthers and FC Talks, Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ.