Latest / Mac & Bone Podcast / Mac & Bone Show - Chris Marler Interview
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- 0:03Speaker 1: Oh, owen Mac and Foe on your radio.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Baby, listen to Marthe and Mack. Posh, come on posh
- 0:10Speaker 2: in marv riem tea bone? What's up the fun?
- 0:14Speaker 3: I can't go to work without listening to the Mack
- 0:17Speaker 3: and Bone.
- 0:18Speaker 2: Do a lot. Heay coach Chris Marler locked on Game Cocks.
- 0:31Speaker 2: Tennessee back on this. I like you.
- 0:33Speaker 3: I like you too.
- 0:34Speaker 2: Keep that good stuff up on social media.
- 0:36Speaker 4: I appreciate I saw that tweet about the Pop Parts
- 0:38Speaker 4: Bowl too.
- 0:38Speaker 2: Man, that's big time. We got to talk about that, Okayter,
- 0:40Speaker 2: for sure, I appreciate that. So Tennessee back on the schedule, yep.
- 0:44Speaker 1: And uh, last time they came to Williams Brice, you
- 0:47Speaker 1: scored so many points you.
- 0:48Speaker 2: Literally ran out of fireworks. Are you excited they're back
- 0:51Speaker 2: on the schedule for one?
- 0:52Speaker 1: But more importantly, did we up the budget for fireworks
- 0:54Speaker 1: this year?
- 0:55Speaker 2: All right? I saw the question that Kirby got about Tennessee.
- 0:57Speaker 2: Was that from you two? Okay? He said you said that,
- 1:00Speaker 2: not me? You said that not me?
- 1:05Speaker 4: My god, he's with Marl's withing my dream right. Well,
- 1:08Speaker 4: in a moment, Oh, you're so envious, Bone, would you
- 1:11Speaker 4: not if I had If I had a coach say
- 1:13Speaker 4: he saw one of my tweets, I don't know what.
- 1:15Speaker 2: I would do.
- 1:15Speaker 4: Maybe coach Now he doesn't follow me on Twitter, you too,
- 1:21Speaker 4: I think maybe he'll tell you that during camp. But
- 1:23Speaker 4: we are very proud to have a man who just
- 1:26Speaker 4: you know, we can tell you all his titles, right.
- 1:28Speaker 4: He is the host of locked on game Cocks. There's
- 1:31Speaker 4: definitely gonna be some good game cock talk. He is
- 1:34Speaker 4: the co host of the Fourth and Wrong podcast. He
- 1:37Speaker 4: does a lot of coverage too of LSU as well,
- 1:39Speaker 4: So we got a lot of juicy stuff to talk
- 1:41Speaker 4: to him about. But man, we got to talk to
- 1:43Speaker 4: him about being lame. Shane Beemer's favorite tweeter. He is
- 1:48Speaker 4: Chris Chris Marler, who joins us down on the Mac
- 1:51Speaker 4: and Bone Show live from Tampa.
- 1:53Speaker 2: Marlar, what a moment for you?
- 1:55Speaker 4: Man?
- 1:55Speaker 2: How you doing?
- 1:56Speaker 3: Always? What? What world are we living in? Right?
- 2:00Speaker 1: Know that, like you guys have known me through social
- 2:03Speaker 1: media since like twenty eighteen. Yeah, the fact I've said this,
- 2:07Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not saying this to like be like
- 2:11Speaker 1: braggy or arrogant like at all, but the amount of
- 2:14Speaker 1: people that have come to me here and they're like,
- 2:15Speaker 1: look in past, I would always say this if somebody
- 2:17Speaker 1: can't the public and they're here, are you Chris Marler, I
- 2:19Speaker 1: was like, I'm either about to get like love the podcast,
- 2:22Speaker 1: or like you're a douchebag and I'm gonna punch you
- 2:24Speaker 1: in the face.
- 2:25Speaker 3: And more than more often than not, it was the
- 2:27Speaker 3: second one.
- 2:28Speaker 1: And so first for a coach to be like, hey man,
- 2:31Speaker 1: love your Twitter.
- 2:32Speaker 3: Like what which one? I've lost so many? This current
- 2:35Speaker 3: version this is great?
- 2:36Speaker 1: Like that was that was a that I mean, that
- 2:38Speaker 1: was a really cool moment.
- 2:39Speaker 4: I thought, you, man, when I saw you were trending,
- 2:42Speaker 4: I thought you may have been kicked out like legend
- 2:45Speaker 4: for the job.
- 2:47Speaker 3: That's that's that the money should have been on.
- 2:49Speaker 1: I mean like like if it's if my name is
- 2:52Speaker 1: ever trending, I didn't know it was trending. I would
- 2:53Speaker 1: have had a panic attack first off, but that would
- 2:56Speaker 1: have been bad. That would be That's that's what the
- 2:58Speaker 1: logical explanation should have been.
- 3:00Speaker 4: That's classic, man, I didn't assume I'm honest knowing you
- 3:03Speaker 4: Chris for a long time, I didn't think this was
- 3:05Speaker 4: going to be a positive exchange.
- 3:06Speaker 2: I thought somewhat drastically wrong.
- 3:10Speaker 1: Track record that I've given everyone was that's very fair
- 3:13Speaker 1: as an assumption was that was a.
- 3:15Speaker 4: Fun moment I was watching that. I love that, all right,
- 3:17Speaker 4: So let's do this. Your host locked on Game Cocks.
- 3:20Speaker 4: You're now best buddies with Shane Beamer. So we got
- 3:22Speaker 4: to start with South Carolina Bone and I kind of
- 3:26Speaker 4: feel like a bounce back season is coming. They've been
- 3:30Speaker 4: kind of up and down right the last few years.
- 3:34Speaker 4: I kind of feel like I love the Briles, higher
- 3:37Speaker 4: love all the I love the fact they hammered the
- 3:39Speaker 4: O line additions. I think Sellers could bounce back again.
- 3:43Speaker 4: I'm talking like eight wins, maybe seven wins, But like,
- 3:47Speaker 4: what do you think is this a bounce back year
- 3:49Speaker 4: for the game Cocks?
- 3:51Speaker 3: A thousand percent? I think it is.
- 3:52Speaker 1: I think first of all, you need to look.
- 3:53Speaker 3: At like, let's look at a round what they have
- 3:57Speaker 3: brought back first with Retia, but the schedule an like that.
- 4:00Speaker 1: Sellers I think has a very high ceiling. And here's
- 4:02Speaker 1: the thing, we know what he's capable of doing in
- 4:05Speaker 1: an offense that has a capable and like I don't know,
- 4:09Speaker 1: not asleep at the wheel offensive coordinator like Mike Schula
- 4:12Speaker 1: was a season ago, and listen, I wanted Chewa to work,
- 4:15Speaker 1: but I mean, my god, like it's it's hard to
- 4:18Speaker 1: have a six three and forty pounds unicorn in your
- 4:21Speaker 1: backfield and figure out a way to have one point
- 4:23Speaker 1: eight yards per carry with him.
- 4:24Speaker 3: I mean, just it was really bad.
- 4:26Speaker 1: I think that the floor from my talent level has
- 4:28Speaker 1: been raised significantly, especially at the receiver positions. You know,
- 4:33Speaker 1: Matthew Fuller running back, I think will be good. And listen,
- 4:35Speaker 1: here's one thing I know that won't happen. Fuller has
- 4:37Speaker 1: that seventy yard touchdown. I can tell you last year
- 4:40Speaker 1: she would didn't give him the ball the rest of
- 4:41Speaker 1: the first half. I mean, then you talk about the
- 4:44Speaker 1: offensive line, I think they added several starters to get
- 4:47Speaker 1: Darius Gray, the former you know, fringe five star out there,
- 4:50Speaker 1: Jacari's Peak out there at left tackle.
- 4:51Speaker 3: I mean, like I.
- 4:53Speaker 1: Say this every year, I diden wrong to be fair,
- 4:55Speaker 1: but it's the offensive line can get worse. I do
- 4:57Speaker 1: think it will get better. I think last year not
- 5:00Speaker 1: only were they bad, but they were also injured. And
- 5:02Speaker 1: then you look at the defense man and it was
- 5:03Speaker 1: kind of funny because Shane Shane brought up a lot
- 5:05Speaker 1: of my talking points, like not not from me, but
- 5:07Speaker 1: just in general that it's like you know that other
- 5:10Speaker 1: people I think are starting to kind of take note of,
- 5:12Speaker 1: which is, you know, they have one hundred and ten
- 5:15Speaker 1: forced turnovers in the SEC in the last five years.
- 5:17Speaker 3: That's the most in the conference under Clayton White.
- 5:19Speaker 1: You put eight dbs in the league in the last
- 5:22Speaker 1: six years of toy and Gray. I think the secondary
- 5:23Speaker 1: is gonna be really good under him always. And a
- 5:26Speaker 1: couple of years ago, when you look at that roster
- 5:27Speaker 1: and the way it was constructed, you had really good
- 5:30Speaker 1: depths on the interior defensive line.
- 5:31Speaker 3: You finally have that again, and you had a really elite.
- 5:34Speaker 1: Edd dresser on one side and a form or five
- 5:36Speaker 1: star freshman on the right side getting to the quarterback,
- 5:39Speaker 1: and you have that all over again. So I look
- 5:42Speaker 1: at that and then I say, like, oh, the schedule,
- 5:43Speaker 1: the fanal is always tough for South Carolina, but it
- 5:46Speaker 1: feels like it's the easiest schedule they've had in the
- 5:48Speaker 1: last ten years. Seven of those ten opponents are breaking
- 5:50Speaker 1: in at least a new quarterback, most of them freshmen.
- 5:54Speaker 1: Some are breaking in new quarterbacks. OCS and head coaches,
- 5:57Speaker 1: they get a lot of their good games at home.
- 5:59Speaker 1: I look at the schedule and I say, there's two
- 6:02Speaker 1: games on there that I think are definite losses, Georgia
- 6:04Speaker 1: and Oklahoma. And then you can sell me on Alabama
- 6:08Speaker 1: A and M. Maybe Tennessee or Florida. But again, you
- 6:12Speaker 1: get Tennessee at A and M at home. And I
- 6:14Speaker 1: don't know how good Florida's going to be in your one.
- 6:16Speaker 1: As much as I love John Summer.
- 6:17Speaker 4: Yesterday, yeah, I said the same thing yesterday that my
- 6:19Speaker 4: only guaranteed losses. I'd say, we're oh, you and UH
- 6:23Speaker 4: and Georgia. But I'm Shane Biemer. Doesn't look at my
- 6:25Speaker 4: Twitter for you come. It's some pop tweets.
- 6:29Speaker 2: We love Beemer.
- 6:30Speaker 4: You call him Shane, I call him coach because I'm
- 6:32Speaker 4: not on that level. But there's no doubt that the
- 6:35Speaker 4: seed is warm here entering the season. If not hot,
- 6:39Speaker 4: is there a win total number you think he has
- 6:41Speaker 4: to reach here to uh to to put out the
- 6:43Speaker 4: I'm looking for a word to mag what's the word
- 6:45Speaker 4: to to squatch squatch the fire? You know, squatch a fire?
- 6:49Speaker 4: What am I looking for? What's a word to put
- 6:51Speaker 4: on a fire borrow? What does he have to do
- 6:54Speaker 4: keep going? Yeah, No, I don't know what SAEs you
- 6:58Speaker 4: have to do?
- 6:59Speaker 2: What is there not for more? Where he's gonna win? Here?
- 7:01Speaker 2: Please somebody out met. Yeah.
- 7:03Speaker 3: I think if he squatches at least six wins. No,
- 7:06Speaker 3: I'm kidding what.
- 7:11Speaker 1: I don't know, man, uh uh, I think I think
- 7:18Speaker 1: he's got to get to seven.
- 7:19Speaker 3: To be honest. Look, I think six you at least
- 7:22Speaker 3: you were winning.
- 7:22Speaker 1: You're going back to a bowl. And maybe if there's
- 7:24Speaker 1: like it's six and some things happened that you don't
- 7:26Speaker 1: want to happen, like you know, I don't I don't
- 7:29Speaker 1: want to say this, like somebody significant goes down or something.
- 7:32Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 7:33Speaker 1: But seven feels like it's it's what it has to be. Like,
- 7:35Speaker 1: I mean, the thing is like when you did what
- 7:39Speaker 1: you did this off season that was so great, was
- 7:40Speaker 1: you got all of this talent that you were able
- 7:43Speaker 1: to retain, Like can you think about it? Like as
- 7:44Speaker 1: soon as the season ended, he kind of he kind
- 7:47Speaker 1: of won so many different battles, Like his only loss
- 7:50Speaker 1: really up until recruiting was was losing Sterling Lucas to LSU,
- 7:54Speaker 1: and so he kept Stewart, he kept Lenoris, you got
- 7:57Speaker 1: Nick Harbor to come back, You got all these really
- 8:00Speaker 1: freshmen coming in, you know, like you were able to
- 8:03Speaker 1: go out and get some really good players from the portal.
- 8:05Speaker 1: I think that like they're in a unique situation because
- 8:09Speaker 1: I would say there's probably eight to ten million dollars,
- 8:11Speaker 1: probably closer to ten tether two those four players I
- 8:15Speaker 1: just mentioned, right, Peeke, Stewart, Harber.
- 8:19Speaker 3: And Sellers, and most likely all four of them are
- 8:22Speaker 3: going to be in the NFL next year.
- 8:23Speaker 1: So what you have is now, after this season, with
- 8:26Speaker 1: all this really good talent you've retained, that money is
- 8:28Speaker 1: going to be freed up and you can go right
- 8:30Speaker 1: back and start spending it on key pieces. It's one
- 8:32Speaker 1: of the reasons I think they got Josh Doobson and
- 8:35Speaker 1: we're able to go compute the ailtable for that.
- 8:38Speaker 3: They have a really good chance to lay.
- 8:39Speaker 1: A foundation of like success for the next couple of years,
- 8:43Speaker 1: especially with what they can have from a spending standpoint,
- 8:45Speaker 1: if they can win this year, and again I think
- 8:48Speaker 1: seven has to be the number because with everything that
- 8:51Speaker 1: you have and what you've done from a changing standpoint,
- 8:54Speaker 1: bringing in Briles.
- 8:55Speaker 3: I mean, how much longer.
- 8:56Speaker 1: Is Clayton might going to stage your DC because people
- 8:59Speaker 1: are starting to pick up on how great of a
- 9:00Speaker 1: four dinner he's been. So I think it's kind of
- 9:03Speaker 1: you have to win this year, and again I think
- 9:06Speaker 1: he will.
- 9:07Speaker 2: We're talking with Chris Marler.
- 9:09Speaker 4: You can follow him, just like Shane Biemer apparently does
- 9:12Speaker 4: at vern underscore fun Quist, and that is verned without
- 9:16Speaker 4: an e v r V e r hen underscore fun
- 9:20Speaker 4: Quist on Twitter, slash x whatever.
- 9:23Speaker 2: You call it. Marler, you do a lot.
- 9:25Speaker 4: By the way, I love that we're getting so many
- 9:27Speaker 4: text about words Bone could have used.
- 9:29Speaker 2: I know the word extinguished, Just say extinguished. You think
- 9:34Speaker 2: that is a word.
- 9:35Speaker 3: Well, yet the end.
- 9:40Speaker 2: He didn't, I think quite well. I don't know what
- 9:42Speaker 2: the hell is going on.
- 9:43Speaker 4: Quench works Apparently, I do believe you could squatch a
- 9:47Speaker 4: fire through. That's got to be a thing in the departments.
- 9:49Speaker 4: I made up a word. Apparently I made up quelch
- 9:51Speaker 4: Apparently that is not a word. So I think you're correct, Marlar. Anyway,
- 9:55Speaker 4: let's get back to football something.
- 9:57Speaker 2: Maybe we know a slate we've been about. He made
- 9:59Speaker 2: Martin how much smarter when he comes on.
- 10:01Speaker 3: That's crazy. Also again, what where are we living in?
- 10:04Speaker 3: I'm the best in vocabulary right now?
- 10:05Speaker 2: What a week you're having? What a week you're having.
- 10:08Speaker 2: Let's just cut this whole thing. Let's see now so
- 10:10Speaker 2: it does extinguish you fools? All right? Are you trying
- 10:13Speaker 2: to extinguish us? Now? All right, let's let's go to LSU.
- 10:16Speaker 4: I know you cover the Tigers a lot, and my god,
- 10:18Speaker 4: things are juicy and baton rouge.
- 10:20Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin will take to the podium today.
- 10:24Speaker 4: Jordan Rodgers said something I just find so crazy the
- 10:26Speaker 4: other day on SEC Network that if he does not
- 10:30Speaker 4: go to the national title game in his first year,
- 10:33Speaker 4: like it's a failure. And it's like I could see
- 10:35Speaker 4: you saying if he doesn't maybe win a title or
- 10:38Speaker 4: go to a title game in the next few years,
- 10:40Speaker 4: I could understand, but like what, like what what what
- 10:44Speaker 4: should be the goal for year one for Lane Kiffin?
- 10:48Speaker 1: I mean the goal should be a national title, but
- 10:51Speaker 1: the idea that it's national title or bus in a
- 10:54Speaker 1: season where you're going into the a nine game conference
- 10:59Speaker 1: schedule and you've got you know, I mean Plumston, Texas,
- 11:03Speaker 1: Damma A and m and Ole miss on that schedule,
- 11:05Speaker 1: like which which by the way some people have said
- 11:07Speaker 1: somehow is like an easy an easy schedule, you get
- 11:10Speaker 1: four or five at home. But I mean, like, I
- 11:12Speaker 1: think for me, you look at what he was given
- 11:15Speaker 1: out of the gates, the forty million.
- 11:17Speaker 3: Dollars for the roster, forty three million dollars for the roster.
- 11:20Speaker 1: I think that is a that is a pretty substantial
- 11:24Speaker 1: amount of like like you know, investment and resources into
- 11:27Speaker 1: year one.
- 11:29Speaker 3: I will also say that.
- 11:30Speaker 1: I don't think he has to win a national title
- 11:32Speaker 1: in in.
- 11:34Speaker 3: Year one or Buss.
- 11:35Speaker 1: Here's the thing too, This is not like it used
- 11:36Speaker 1: to be in college football, where it's like, well, you
- 11:39Speaker 1: got you got to have your window. You got to win,
- 11:40Speaker 1: and you know, find a way to win in this
- 11:42Speaker 1: window because you've got all these seniors one year like
- 11:45Speaker 1: a really good you know, first round, a couple of
- 11:47Speaker 1: first round picks, and when you're like you can go
- 11:49Speaker 1: out and get people in the portal every single year.
- 11:51Speaker 1: To say that it's national tylor Bus and your one
- 11:53Speaker 1: is pretty stupid.
- 11:54Speaker 3: I mean, like, I mean, I don't know, I like
- 11:56Speaker 3: Jordan Rodgers.
- 11:57Speaker 1: I don't know if Jordan Rodgers is like this innverse
- 12:00Speaker 1: or said something just in the moment that he did
- 12:02Speaker 1: only think through. But I mean that is that that's
- 12:05Speaker 1: a pretty stupid comment to make. I think that that
- 12:07Speaker 1: it's if you have you have to win a national
- 12:09Speaker 1: title ors of failure. I mean, this isn't like twenty
- 12:12Speaker 1: tens Alabama like that. That seems is really really stupid.
- 12:15Speaker 2: I don't think you've got.
- 12:16Speaker 4: To give him a few years to and if you
- 12:18Speaker 4: you know, to build to that, if you want to
- 12:20Speaker 4: say in his tenure he needs to that's one thing.
- 12:22Speaker 1: Right.
- 12:23Speaker 4: Maybe he's all shook he take the playoff. I think
- 12:26Speaker 4: so too that. I mean, he's the portal king. He's
- 12:28Speaker 4: brought in a ton of talent. Levit's health, I guess
- 12:31Speaker 4: is a big part of it. But I don't know
- 12:33Speaker 4: it's gonna be fun. Man, it's gonna be were you
- 12:35Speaker 4: Did you enjoy Pete Golding? As much like he gets applause,
- 12:39Speaker 4: he gets an ovation. The media doesn't usually applaud anything
- 12:43Speaker 4: other than the free food. Did you enjoy Pete Golding?
- 12:47Speaker 3: You shouldn't do that.
- 12:50Speaker 2: It was weird.
- 12:50Speaker 1: They also applauded John summerl when he walked in. It
- 12:53Speaker 1: was like, it was very odd. It was very odd.
- 12:57Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be the one that's gonna send here
- 12:58Speaker 1: and tell anyone how to be a profession journalist, because
- 13:00Speaker 1: that is not me. But it was very it was confusing.
- 13:03Speaker 1: I thought both of them on the day yesterday, I
- 13:05Speaker 1: thought they were great. I have a hot take with Golding.
- 13:08Speaker 1: I think Golding is going to be a better head
- 13:10Speaker 1: coach than than than coordinator because I one, I don't
- 13:13Speaker 1: think he was a great coordinator anybody that drops Will
- 13:16Speaker 1: Anderson back in coverage on third downs at Alabama.
- 13:19Speaker 3: In twenty twenty two against the Tennessee game. But you know,
- 13:21Speaker 3: listen world.
- 13:23Speaker 1: As a Tides fan, but I think I think that
- 13:26Speaker 1: his whole thing as a head coach. He gets the
- 13:28Speaker 1: CEO part very well and he's a very likable and
- 13:32Speaker 1: relatable person. And it's like I think, I think I
- 13:36Speaker 1: was most impressive yesterday and we'll see if it comes
- 13:38Speaker 1: through today. Is man he gave He gave Lane Kiffen
- 13:42Speaker 1: every single possible out to end or quelch this whole
- 13:47Speaker 1: thing in the offseason and not have it be a
- 13:51Speaker 1: huge issue anymore and not have it get brought back up.
- 13:54Speaker 1: And I hope that continues on today and he doesn't
- 13:57Speaker 1: step in it again.
- 14:00Speaker 3: But yeah, but I thought he was awesome. He Golding was.
- 14:03Speaker 1: I could sit here and listen to him just talk
- 14:05Speaker 1: ball about really anything all day.
- 14:06Speaker 3: He was fantastic.
- 14:07Speaker 4: Yeah, that's gonna be a fun one to follow. Although
- 14:09Speaker 4: Clemson fans aren't too fond of him right now, but
- 14:12Speaker 4: we we digress. It's sec media face, Hi, Chris and
- 14:16Speaker 4: Marlar and Clemson fans don't get me.
- 14:17Speaker 2: I feel like that. I feel like that. Well, well,
- 14:19Speaker 2: we really move things along here today, Marlin.
- 14:22Speaker 4: Of the ninety eight percent of the text Marler are
- 14:25Speaker 4: about words that can be used to describe putting out
- 14:28Speaker 4: a fire right now, not about football. All right, brother,
- 14:31Speaker 4: what hey, congrats, congrats, say hi to shame for us man,
- 14:34Speaker 4: and uh, keep up the good work. We had fun
- 14:36Speaker 4: with you man, Thanks for coming on.
- 14:38Speaker 3: All right, Thanks boys, I'll talk to you soon.