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Mac & Bone Hour 1: Tampa Bay Wins on TNF & Jake Delhomme Replay · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Bueno, como esta?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, oh, here's Mike and Bo.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are the most entertaining sports program in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Drop it, Bo. Drop it, baby. No, no, stop twerking.
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  Speaker 2: You and I are a couple eating, like, Lady and
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  Speaker 2: the Tramp. You're the lady on the tramp. Yeah, come on.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, baby. I wish I was Boopy. Boopy McClain, man.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great name. All aboard!
• 0:39
  Speaker 3: Good morning, Charlotte. Welcome aboard. It is Football Friday time.
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  Speaker 4: We aren't going to let a little week five bye
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  Speaker 4: week stop us from talking all kinds of football. We
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  Speaker 4: just upped your dosage of college football on the show today.
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  Speaker 4: We've got games involving teams in the Carolinas that must
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  Speaker 4: be discussed. We got some feedback like it's a damn
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  Speaker 4: Smashing Pumpkins concert for some reason. We also have... Panther
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  Speaker 4: conversation have. Do not think that we will just simply
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  Speaker 4: not talk Panthers. We don't take a day off. Even
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  Speaker 4: during bye weeks, baby, we ain't taking no time off.
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  Speaker 4: And we've got other stuff to talk about as well.
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  Speaker 4: On this radio show, it's a big week, too. In
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  Speaker 4: Charlotte for NASCAR, all three national series in action this weekend,
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  Speaker 4: including the cup race on Sunday, weather permitting. Obviously, we
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  Speaker 4: got ourselves some storms coming in this weekend, praying for
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  Speaker 4: everybody down there in the Gulf with the hurricane headed
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  Speaker 4: their way. And hopefully they can get the cup race
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  Speaker 4: in on Sunday because the fit.
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  Speaker 3: Dog will be back in the house. NASCAR Fitty returns.
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  Speaker 4: To the track, trying to keep his T-shirt puke-free on
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  Speaker 4: Sunday afternoon, Bo.
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  Speaker 2: What if his shirt's still laying there? He just picks
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  Speaker 2: it up and puts it back on. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: I think the negative feedback, Mac, was coming from me
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  Speaker 2: over here. I was turned all the way on over here.
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  Speaker 2: All the way up.
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  Speaker 1: On, up, down.
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  Speaker 2: I was all the way on over here.
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  Speaker 3: We're already getting negative feedback on the text line?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you mean the headphones.
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  Speaker 4: They're always reviewed by the texters. All right, baby. We're
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  Speaker 4: ready to go. We got things to do. We're going
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  Speaker 4: to get ourselves to a weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I am.
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  Speaker 4: I'm kind of... First of all, the Panthers are so
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  Speaker 4: injured bone that... That's your first thought about having the
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  Speaker 4: bye week is we really needed it.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And now we might be able to get, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a couple few guys back next week for the Eagle game.
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  Speaker 4: I am looking forward to, you know, kind of basking
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  Speaker 4: still in the glory for an extra week of the
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  Speaker 4: Lions win.
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  Speaker 2: Probably some Bryce chatter on some of the pregame shows,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest, the way he's been talking about all week.
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  Speaker 4: I have to tell you, Bryce and T-Mac are showing
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  Speaker 4: up on every show. I'm waiting for them to be
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  Speaker 4: on CNN and Fox News discussing the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 3: They are freaking everywhere, man.
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  Speaker 4: But last night, Bone, on the gridiron, it was all
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  Speaker 4: about Panther fans becoming rare birds, becoming Cowboy fans for
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  Speaker 4: the night. And the Cowboy fans completely let us down.
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  Speaker 4: You had one job, Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 4: You had one job, make the Bucs 0-5, beat them
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  Speaker 4: with their undrafted free agent rookie quarterback, and they couldn't
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  Speaker 4: do it. They tried to make it interesting at the end, Bone.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Ugliness on both sides of the ball from Dallas last night.
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  Speaker 2: Now I know why being a Cowboy fan for one night,
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  Speaker 2: now I know why the 90s are so important. My gracious,
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  Speaker 2: that's tough. Yeah, we would obsess over the 90s, too,
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  Speaker 2: if that's what you're putting out there. I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: try to trust Dallas for one night, Mac. One time.
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  Speaker 2: One time, kid. One shot, kid. And you can do it.
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  Speaker 2: To me, they almost got outrushed, by the way, by,
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  Speaker 2: what was it, 240 to 50? I think their rushing
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  Speaker 2: totals were. 241 to 50. Damn near two. Nine yards
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  Speaker 2: away from 200 yards difference. This is an obvious, we're
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  Speaker 2: taking Tampa Bay seriously game. They're coming off their big
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  Speaker 2: offensive game. a performance against their in-state rival, the Texans.
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  Speaker 2: Quick turnaround, bad team coming in with a rookie quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Dallas Mack, I don't think there's any doubt, Dallas got
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  Speaker 2: caught napping against Tampa Bay. And you can't nap on
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  Speaker 2: anybody in this league, and they got caught last night. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and why would they think they're good enough to nap
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  Speaker 2: on anybody? I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: This game ended with Dak having an argument with one
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  Speaker 2: of the workers in the back as he walked off
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  Speaker 2: the field last night.
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  Speaker 4: They're harassing him. The employees behind these scenes are harassing
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  Speaker 4: Dak Prescott.
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  Speaker 2: Jerry's going to tell that guy we don't harass people
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  Speaker 2: as members of the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 4: Dak ended up with 316 yards. And he ended up
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  Speaker 4: on with two picks. The one at the end is
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  Speaker 4: not on him. Jake Ferguson's got to catch that football
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  Speaker 4: bounces off of him. And they were driving down eight
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  Speaker 4: with a chance maybe to tie the game late as
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  Speaker 4: bad as they were for a while there. I thought
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  Speaker 4: Tampa gave Dallas a little life. I know they were
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  Speaker 4: right there at the one yard line. But you got
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  Speaker 4: a 14-point lead early fourth quarter. If you kick the
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  Speaker 4: field goal, it's a three-score game. You don't even know
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  Speaker 4: if Dallas can get three possessions.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't.
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  Speaker 3: They had two possessions after that point.
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  Speaker 4: I thought Tampa gave them a little life bone by
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  Speaker 4: going for it and not getting it.
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  Speaker 3: But you're right. The Bucs ran the hell out of football.
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  Speaker 3: Bucky Irving, 165.
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  Speaker 4: How do you let a team run the ball like
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  Speaker 4: that when they're playing with an undrafted rookie quarterback? How
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  Speaker 4: are you not putting damn near everybody in the box
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  Speaker 4: and saying, Jalen Daniels, throw the football downfield? Because he
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  Speaker 4: didn't have a whole lot of interest in throwing the
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  Speaker 4: ball down. Had the one long one, but other than that,
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  Speaker 4: didn't have much interest in throwing it downfield. It felt
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  Speaker 4: to me, Bone, like watching two teams that ain't that
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  Speaker 4: dang good playing football.
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  Speaker 2: Last night.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Personally.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that Dallas defense couldn't tackle worth a crap.
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  Speaker 2: No, it was bad. C.D. Lamb also leaves with a
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  Speaker 2: quad injury going on. So, C.D. Lamb, he came back, right?
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  Speaker 2: He was getting locked up, dude, by McCollum. He was
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  Speaker 2: not nearly what he was the previous game. That was
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  Speaker 2: a factor. Look, I was rooting for Dallas last night
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  Speaker 2: based off the Panthers of division needs. But it is
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  Speaker 2: kind of humorous. It's not lost on us. that it
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  Speaker 2: is funny that the Cowboys lost to that outfit. It
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  Speaker 2: is kind of humorous to me.
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  Speaker 4: As annoyed as I was, like, come on, Dallas, I
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  Speaker 4: want the Bucs 0-5.
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  Speaker 2: I still don't worry fully about Tampa, but Dallas losing
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  Speaker 2: is always kind of humorous. That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: As the game ended and the way it ended, they're
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  Speaker 4: driving and the ball goes off Ferguson, it's a pick.
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  Speaker 4: I could kind of appreciate that we can just laugh
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  Speaker 4: at Dallas.
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  Speaker 2: You know, what the hell? I will never not appreciate
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  Speaker 2: a Jerry Jones postgame presser trying to explain the loss either.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, seriously.
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  Speaker 3: He was mad. You see him pound the table on
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  Speaker 3: that interception?
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  Speaker 2: He was ticked up there in his cushy box. Could
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  Speaker 2: you imagine, Mac, if after every Panther loss, like, people
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  Speaker 2: get mad. People get mad at Tepper and he'll hide
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  Speaker 2: like the Wizard of Oz for most of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Could you imagine if Tepper Mac was doing the immediate
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  Speaker 2: pressers after every game by Jerry Jones? And then and
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  Speaker 2: then by Tuesday, he's on his radio show. Could you
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  Speaker 2: imagine if Tepper was doing all that? what people would
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  Speaker 2: say about it. Fans would get so agitated. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it'd be great for us because it would give us
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  Speaker 2: a lot of content-type stuff for what we do, but
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  Speaker 2: could you imagine just the fan reaction if that was
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  Speaker 2: the case?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no doubt, no doubt. And it's a circus, but
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  Speaker 4: Jerry loves himself a damn circus. Call him Barnum and Bailey, man.
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  Speaker 4: I thought about it. There's another thing I've been thinking
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  Speaker 4: about this week. Imagine if Tepper did it. Imagine if
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  Speaker 4: Tepper went Carly Ursae Gordon. on the sidelines and was
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  Speaker 4: taking notes and asking about play calls and just standing
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  Speaker 4: there for the whole entire game. Imagine if David Tepper
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  Speaker 4: did that, the reaction it would get here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's picking up more steam by the week because
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  Speaker 2: Bill Simmons went off on it the other day because
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  Speaker 2: we all saw in the, they were in that national
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  Speaker 2: window on Sunday morning. She was asking Mac someone on
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  Speaker 2: the sidelines. I'm not even sure exactly what his role is.
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  Speaker 2: But she had her notepad and her earpiece, and she
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  Speaker 2: was asking what seemed like a coach. Why did they
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  Speaker 2: run that play there? So she's asking directly what the
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  Speaker 2: play calls are.
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  Speaker 4: I have to be honest with you. I feel like
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  Speaker 4: she has gotten treated differently than if it was a
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  Speaker 4: male owner. I feel like any male owner would be
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  Speaker 4: ripped more than her. And you said Bill Simmons ripped her.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe people are going to start to call it out.
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  Speaker 4: But I feel like you go back to last year,
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  Speaker 4: she was doing this. I feel like there's been a
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  Speaker 4: hesitancy to call her out because she's a female.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's that. I don't think people want to
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  Speaker 2: come across as sexist pigs. I think that is a
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  Speaker 2: part of it, definitely. I also think it's because... Her
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  Speaker 2: dad died and she's down there now taking over for
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  Speaker 2: her dad. So at first it was like, oh, she's
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  Speaker 2: now the owner and she's trying to figure out what's
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  Speaker 2: going on. But the longer it goes on, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's going to get worse and worse. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 2: a part of it where you do appreciate it, right?
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  Speaker 2: She's trying to be the most informed as she can be.
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  Speaker 4: That it is feels a little like if she feels
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  Speaker 4: like a contender for you're doing too much segment yes
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  Speaker 4: you know what i mean it seems a little with
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  Speaker 4: a note.
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  Speaker 3: Taken in here it just seems a little um.
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  Speaker 2: Over the top texter just said mac 704-570-9610 a female
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  Speaker 2: bucks fan just drove by him 100 miles per hour
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  Speaker 2: down the highway that had to be taba tabi coming
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  Speaker 2: in to talk Oh, God.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Tampa Tammy. We're about an hour away.
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  Speaker 2: She could be out there dancing over one dang win
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  Speaker 2: over the sorry Cowboys. When I say she ran by
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  Speaker 2: the window yesterday, she actually ran by the window. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: she didn't have anything for us. She will have something today, though.
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  Speaker 2: She will think they just won a Super Bowl. She'll
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  Speaker 2: act like the Panthers got beat last night.
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  Speaker 5: First time she ran other than her mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, damn.
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  Speaker 3: God.
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  Speaker 2: Man. Morning, boys. Hey, Fitty. Was Fitty doing too much there,
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  Speaker 2: you think?
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  Speaker 4: I think about a fema co-worker in the building anyway
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  Speaker 4: all right she might deserve it though fitty after all
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  Speaker 4: the chat she talked she may deserve it.
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  Speaker 2: He is the human hr violation that is true and
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  Speaker 2: does he get hr violations if it's on the tv
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  Speaker 2: side we haven't figured that part out yet Yeah, he's
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  Speaker 2: not an actual co-worker.
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  Speaker 5: That answer is yes. Alice Giles has reported many a violation.
• 10:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay, okay. All right. Let's talk about Duke basketball, Bone.
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  Speaker 3: I know you're not going to argue with this.
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  Speaker 2: Dookie filth.
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  Speaker 4: They beat the Brakes off Belmont last night in their scrimmage.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, can I just apologize, Bone?
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  Speaker 4: My theory of why they called the difference between a
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  Speaker 4: scrimmage and an exhibition carries no weight whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: There were plenty of fans at this thing.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was going to be like a scrimmage,
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  Speaker 4: like nobody's there except the two teams, coaches and all
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  Speaker 4: that stuff, the refs.
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  Speaker 3: And all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So I really don't understand why that was not an
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  Speaker 2: exhibition and a scrimmage. It looked pretty packed last night.
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  Speaker 2: I was very confused also because I thought Matt's got
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  Speaker 2: to be right. There's no fans here. And it turns
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: out they were throwing the fake baby in the air.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. What are y'all doing?
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  Speaker 2: What's that girl doing out there throwing that baby? Getting
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  Speaker 2: practice reps?
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  Speaker 4: I love the passion of the Cameron Crazies. Sometimes they
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  Speaker 4: annoy me. The baby thing, I just don't like. I
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  Speaker 4: think I like Speedo Guy.
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  Speaker 2: More than the baby. The baby's one of the great traditions.
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  Speaker 2: You throw the doll baby in the air.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to be throwing that baby up in the
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  Speaker 2: air and catching it. You need to be an honorary
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: baby thrower one day. Try to set that up. I'd
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: like to ride that surfboard, too. Jay Bills gets to
• 11:22
  Speaker 2: ride the surfboard. Why does he get to ride it?
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  Speaker 2: I wonder. I wonder.
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  Speaker 4: I do like Duke's depth, though. Good luck trying to
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  Speaker 4: figure out how the rotation will play out as the
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  Speaker 4: season goes on because there is a competition for minutes
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  Speaker 4: going on that is unbelievable, Bone. I saw a tweet
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  Speaker 4: from one of the Duke blogs to try to put
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  Speaker 4: that in perspective. They said, oh, what a play by
• 11:44
  Speaker 4: Bryson Howard, right? The freshman that's been impressing everybody.
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  Speaker 2: They said there were times he was the best player
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  Speaker 2: in the summer. Gungba brought him up as the first
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  Speaker 2: guy he brought up when you asked about new guys. And, uh, and,
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  Speaker 2: and the tweet was, and he's about 11th on the rotation.
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  Speaker 2: Like they go, what is it? 13 deep with quality 12.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's going to be fascinating. Just the guards,
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  Speaker 2: just the guards alone, Foster Blackwell, Boozer Rippy. And, um,
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  Speaker 2: And Howard Rippey is another guy that's an immense talent
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  Speaker 2: that is probably more of a guy for the next
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  Speaker 2: year or two, more so. I mean, he's going to play.
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  Speaker 2: But when you've got Boozer, Foster, and then Blackwell is
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  Speaker 2: going to be more of the off guard. But this
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: is just– that's just the backcourt guys.
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  Speaker 3: Dude, boom chamber.
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  Speaker 2: Cameron Williams is a very high recruit in the frontcourt.
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  Speaker 2: He played like 12 minutes last night.
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  Speaker 4: They said he was coming off a virus where he
• 12:36
  Speaker 4: lost 14 pounds. Um, cause I, I mean, he was
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: like John Henson skinny. I think he's supposed to be
• 12:41
  Speaker 4: slightly above John, but he still made some plays, but yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he's trying to work his way back in, but he's
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  Speaker 4: a freakish talent. Like they don't need to force the
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  Speaker 4: freshmen out there, but this kid, boom, Jay, boom, Jay.
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  Speaker 2: This kid's all ACC.
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  Speaker 4: I expected there's been a lot of hype about him, Bone. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: Carolina wanted to get him. Duke ended up getting him
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  Speaker 4: and winning that battle. The kid that's played with Barcelona.
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  Speaker 4: I did not know we were getting that level of polish.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? I thought it was going
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  Speaker 4: to be more raw. What a polished offensive skill set. and, oh,
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  Speaker 4: by the way, rebounds his butt off and blocks shots and.
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  Speaker 2: Protects the rim, too. Yeah, two blocks, two steals. If
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: he's on the front line, Mac, with Dame, Sar, and
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: Big Pat, I mean, good luck offensively against that trio
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  Speaker 2: when they're out there. The thing about this team that,
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: you know, we've said for a long time, Duke amasses,
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: can amass a lot of talent, but forever it was leaving.
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  Speaker 2: When you look back at how deep this team is,
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  Speaker 2: guys like Rippy, Howard, Cameron Williams, the young guys, they're
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  Speaker 2: probably not, Matt, going to be able to put on
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  Speaker 2: maybe a full NBA showcase. And they're going to have to–
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: Boomshay Boomshay is already back for next year because he's
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  Speaker 2: a two-year guy. But there's depth and then there's– you
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  Speaker 2: look at it, yeah. I mean, in college basketball, it's
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  Speaker 2: hard to figure out who will be back. But Duke
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  Speaker 2: is able to build a team for now and for
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  Speaker 2: the future, it looks like. So that's big time there.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, Boomshay, Boomshay Mack, 17 years old, and he's
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  Speaker 2: already looking like he's a guy that's been around for
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  Speaker 2: four or five years because he played at such a
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: high level before. uh in spain yeah barcelona with dame
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  Speaker 2: yeah that's it yeah that's true star was great last
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  Speaker 2: night too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah he's you could see he's gonna there's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: an evolution there with him right still that defensive wing
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  Speaker 4: but also it's probably gonna get bring you more on
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  Speaker 4: offense so this team to me is fascinating they're loaded
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: it's gonna be a fun team to watch carolina takes
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: the floor tonight in their exhibition.
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  Speaker 2: That is not a scrimmage.
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  Speaker 4: That's an actual called an exhibition against USC and Greensboro.
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  Speaker 4: And that one, you don't have to go to ESPN
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  Speaker 4: Plus for that one like you did for Duke. That
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  Speaker 4: is on ACC Network tonight. Are you going to this game, Fitty? Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Hell yeah, Fitt. I like it, baby.
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
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  Speaker 5: Bought the tickets last night. Me and Flandre will Make
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: our way to the First Horizon Center, a.k.a. the Greensboro Coliseum,
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  Speaker 5: for the preseason premiere. USC is going to be a
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  Speaker 5: top 15 team in the preseason poll next week.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: So this is a hell of a test, man.
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: You can make the argument, depending on how some of
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: the teams that they play in the actual non-con fair,
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: because they do play Arkansas, they will play Kentucky. This
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: could be the best team Carolina plays before ACC play.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Could be.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: They play Indiana next Sunday.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: They play Charlotte in a few weeks.
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: But this could be the best team Carolina plays for
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: what they see, the likes of Duke, Virginia, and Louisville.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Because it's not completely loaded up in the non-conference, right?
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: No.
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: They've got some, but not the typical UNC non-con schedule.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: I think Mike Malone is probably trying to figure some
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: things out, and maybe in the future he'll probably load
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: it up a little more. I would guess year one
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: he's probably trying to ease in a little more than
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: he'd like to.
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'm looking forward to checking out the heels,
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: all those new pieces tonight. Looking forward to seeing those
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: three perimeter transfers play, man. Brown, Abel, looking forward to
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: seeing those boys.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: The law firm.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: I do want.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: To point out, Bone, the Carolina Hurricanes have now scored
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: 13 goals in their last two games. They followed up
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: the six from the other night, Bone, against Montreal with
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: seven last night at home against Vancouver.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Man, Scalco was yelling about extra points last night.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: They tacked on that extra point in the third. Stanky
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: with three goals, had a hat trick last night. Sean
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: Walker from the back line, four assists. And the Canes,
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: after losing their first two games, Bo, the Canes have
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: righted the ship and have turned into an offensive machine
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: the last two nights out.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Rob Rindemore saving that job early, isn't he? Saving
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: that job. Saving that job.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: Oh, man, maybe them Panther fans will shut the heck
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: up now, man. You know what I mean?
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Nah, they won't. They won't.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: I'm talking Florida Panther fans.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: I'm not talking Carroll. I've got to.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Straighten that out.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: I'm not slandering our own fan base. How about those
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Florida Panther fans? They didn't win a real title. We
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: weren't there in the playoffs. I don't know why that
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: sounded like Finney's Kyle Bailey impression there at the end.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Finney, what's your KB impression?
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: Come and do some.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Sports talk radio. Does he really do the... No.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: I like the caveman noises you make for him.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Sometimes on impressions, we throw things in that... Is it
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: exactly true? Like, sometimes Willie will throw words in that
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: we've just convinced ourselves he said, Finney, right?
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Palio!
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Palio's one that we said it maybe once, right?
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Not about yo. Do I say yo?
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: He texted to me now, though.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: So he gets mad at the on-air yo.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: He bought in.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: But he'll text.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: Me whenever he wants to get a one-liner in.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: You've programmed him. You've now programmed him. Shout-out to Cleveland.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: I'll call them the Guardians. I'll call them by their
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: correct name. I feel like they've earned it. They win
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: last night against the White Sox to force the decisive win.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: Game 5, Bone Man, in the ALDS. I said it yesterday.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: It felt like the White Sox are a team that
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: is still trying to figure out As a squad new
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: to the scene, had a closeout series, had a win.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: And that's why I felt like going into yesterday, despite
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: having the series lead, they might be in some trouble.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: How about the fact, Bone, that the Dodgers were all
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: whining about the Dodgers payroll, but over in the American League,
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: the three teams left are the three lowest payrolls in
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: the American League.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Is that not crazy?
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: So it's not all about money, you know, although the
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: money seems to be helping L.A., I feel like.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: I feel like it seems to help. Not helping the
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: two teams in New York. Not really looking forward to
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: watching the ALCS from the couch.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: Join me, because we're already on the couch. Fetty and
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: I have long since turned baseball off on the couch.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: Scoot over, fellas.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: When we come back, Bryce Young has a fun Saturday
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: lined up. We'll explain that. Clemson, UNC, Miami, and Florida
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: State get called out. And what did Jake DeLome have
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: to say about why Bryce Young is so improved? You'll
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: hear that interview also, Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. Shout out to App State Tick
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: on the text line.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Big Tick.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Who is all over it. Tick, go out and take
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: care of business against ODU. They've been getting mollywhomped in
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: the Sun Belt their first two games. Your boys take
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: care of some business. But he is taking care of business.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: He says, Mac.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: It's true the NFL is now more than ever a
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: week-to-week league. It's just about useless making predictions. True, but
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: we will try every week. Didn't think Tampa would come
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: close to beating the Cowboys. Just sit back and enjoy
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: the chaos. Yeah, and you see it in college football, too,
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: with some of these crazy results, right? The one everybody
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: keeps thinking of is Mississippi beating LSU. Florida routing Mississippi
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: and Mizzou routing Florida. But yeah, this NFL... Especially the
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: schedule they do now.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Sometimes those Thursday nighters aren't necessarily indicative of who the
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: better team is. It's just who prepared the best in
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: three days, who's the healthiest, who's not over... Those Thursday
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: games are... Tough to predict sometimes, also. That's a good point, too.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Like, it's already a week-to-week league, and then you throw
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: in that Thursday element that creates even more chaos, it
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: feels like.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: A lot of international games, too, where... Some teams handle
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: them well. There's a lot of variables right now in
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: the league that does make it a week-to-week league, right?
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Big time. Big time.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: And a lot of texters shouting out poor Johnny Mingo,
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: who had a chance to catch a touchdown pass in
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: the fourth quarter and Not surprisingly to anybody in Charlotte,
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: couldn't quite come up with it, Bone. They did score
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: after that on the same drive. But Johnny Mingo had
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: a moment that I believe we all noticed as Panther fans.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: So let's talk about a couple of the football headlines
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: before we get to this Jake DeLome story. He joined
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: us in the 9 o'clock hour yesterday. I want the
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: 6 o'clockers to hear Jake talking about Bryce and the Panthers.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Let's start with Bryce News.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Bryce Young, he went on McAfee a second time yesterday, Bone,
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: for the week to announce that he is the guest
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: picker on game day in Tuscaloosa for the Georgia-Alabama game tomorrow.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Makes sense, obviously, with him being an Alabama great and
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: a him being one of the it QBs in the
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: league right now, the national media cannot get enough Bryce young.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: And it's not in, it's not in the way that
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: they couldn't in his like rookie year. when they want
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: to go bash him and ask, is he a bust?
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: They are like fawning over Bryce right now.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: It's crazy.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: It's also the perfect timing of when he had the
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: big national spotlight game. The world was watching Sunday night football.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: He balls out. Then they have a bye week. So
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Bryce has a little more time to talk this week
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: and do these things. So it's the perfect storm back
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: for the Panthers and Bryce to get a lot of attention.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: And you know, We have not been in that spotlight
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: a lot, obviously, but it does make a difference. When
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: you perform in those Sunday night, Monday night, those NFL
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: standalone windows, you can become a darling pretty quickly.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's totally what it was.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: If they were playing at 1 o'clock and he did this,
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: people would notice, but people are like, holy crap!
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: I don't see Bryce Young every week. I don't get
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: to watch all his plays.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Holy crap.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: This guy's actually, that's the reaction.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: There's a chance.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: This guy actually can play.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Crap. Right.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: There's a chance we get invited back to these moments. Yes.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Now we do. That's true.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: We got two more prime times this year.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: As Shaquette brought up the other day, our Monday night
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: game is against Tampa and it is the first week.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: that they can flex out the Monday night game. So
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: if Tampa is really bad, I do wonder if that will...
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying we can't pick up more down the line,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: but I do wonder about that matchup. If Tampa's awful,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: does that get moved out of there? Oh, interesting. I
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: didn't think about that. How about Shaquette? That's the very
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: first week of the season they can flex out Monday night,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: week 12.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Did Shaquette bring a legitimate football point?
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Legit point, man. I didn't know that was ever a
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: thing that occurred. So I thought, yeah, you know what?
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: If Tampa is really... I mean, if they're still... I
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: doubt they're in the mix at all, but... Last night
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: they looked better. They should be getting Baker back soon. Although,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: in fairness, Baker did not look very good at all.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to freak out about it because I
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: do think the way Bryce performed on Sunday Night Football,
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: the hype they're getting, I think Bryce will pick up
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: some more Sunday Night, Monday Nights on the ball.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: You see Ishmael's text, Bryce will auction off the Bryce
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: Young booster seat built by Home Depot that he uses tomorrow.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: That's what Pete Samuels sits in. He says, I will
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: buy it for Finney to use on his dates. My God,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Ishmael just took out Bryce and Finney.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: Also need to mention this, Bone. This story with the... Coalition,
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: as they call themselves, the four ACC schools that are
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: trying to notify all their local house members to please
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: do not approve the Protect College Sports Act in the
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: House unless they alter the expansion portion of it. Wonder
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: what y'all are thinking, Clemson, Miami, Florida State, and UNC.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Wonder why you would want the limit of teams per
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: conference to be higher and why you would want the
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: probationary period of being an independent to be shorter than Uh,
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: when you transfer in this bill, well, they got called
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: out by Cody Campbell, the big money, big mouth booster
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: down there at Texas tech wrote this whole long thing bone, um, uh,
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: about the, uh, gang of four, he called them and
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: says they are threatening to tank. Uh, he says he
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: has heard that these four ACC schools are threatening that
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: they will tank the bill, uh, If they can't get
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: what they want, says they are says they're lobbying to
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: their House representatives is jeopardizing the Protect College Sports Act
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: passing in the House. And then he dropped this one
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: in that this ACC 14 gang of four, as he
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: calls them, is also bringing up the possibility of them
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: starting a Super League bone using private equity money.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: I don't really. Who's going to join them?
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Who's going to join the SEC and Big Ten are
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: rocking and rolling, right? These four, if they can, if
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: the Protect College Sports Act doesn't lessen the expansion rules,
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: that would make it easier for them to move in, Bo,
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: and everybody thinks 2030, right? the penalty fee to leave
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: the ACC lessons. Who's going to join them if they say, crap,
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: we'll take our ball and start a Super League? We'll
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: get a powerful Super League. The Big Ten and SEC
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: schools just going to roll out and join this thing?
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: No, no. It's just kind of weird to me. You
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: would get schools, but you're not getting anything to make a–
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: it's not going to be better than the ACC. I
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: don't know what you're doing also funding a league like that.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Do they have to sell back the Roy bus and
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: various articles and various objects to try to fund this league?
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Florida State's going to sell the– Some old James crab legs? Like,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: how's this whole thing going to operate?
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Dude, if they go to try to start their own
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: Super League, they will be the rest of y'all league
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: at that point in time.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: By the way, they called them a gang of four.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Not exactly the most vicious gang of all time. A
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: gang of four, baby. Intimidating. Not exactly MS-13 here.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: Tony Petitti, meanwhile, Big Ten Commission, saying we have no
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: interest in expanding Super even if the PCSA allows up
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: to 20 teams in the league, like the Gang of
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Four wants. So anyway, UNC, Clemson, Florida State, Miami, they
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: are rocking the boat when many people just want it
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: to be smooth when this Protect College Sports Act gets
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: to the house. Let's segue over, though, Bone Man, to— Thank.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: God, because I need to be distracted from Myron Goodman
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: right now before I maul him.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Well, this will play a recorded interview with Jake DeLome,
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: and you two can just sit there and debate college hoops.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Just go at it on the text line. Myron, do
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: yourself a favor. Do all of us a favor. Do
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: America a favor. Take a morning off. My God, he's
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: annoying me right now. We've all been annoyed by Myron,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: but right now it's me.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: While you two battle, the rest of y'all out there
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: are going to hear from Jake DeLome. He joined us yesterday,
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: Panthers legend, Panthers radio network, to talk really a ton
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: about Bryce and this thriving offense. And the first thing
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: he talked about is getting a win like that going
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: into the bye week.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: It always is. It's just that, I don't know, it's
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: just that sense of you never want to go on
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: that bad taste because you have to wait so long
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: to be able to play again. But going in and
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: how the atmosphere was Sunday night, the environment, down two
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: starting corners, we're missing the starting offensive lineman. We got
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: some guys kind of nicked during the game, and the
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: way we did it, I thought, was I don't know.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: The crowd affected Detroit's offense, I thought. I thought T-Mac
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: showed exactly what he is. I think Bryce is continuing
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: to show how he's playing. And just defensively, the Devin
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Lloyd addition, it's been remarkable, to be very honest. And
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Derrick Brown, you can look at the stat sheet all
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: you want, but I think he affects the game so
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: much more than a stat sheet. But it's just good
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: to go off of a win like that, try to
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: get some guys back. We'll see how that plays out.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: And then hopefully Philadelphia can kind of keep that the turmoil,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: I guess you could say that always seems to surround them.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: And then they're playing in London against a very good
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Jaguars team. So, you know, keep that momentum going and
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: see what we can do after.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: I know, man, I know I'm ready, but this bye
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: week did come at a good time. All right.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: So Jake, you're sitting there, you're, you're commentating on these
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: games and you're watching Bryce young play at such an
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: amazing level and doing it while being the most pressured
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: quarterback in the league, which is amazing to me. What
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: are you noticing from Bryce? Uh, that maybe he's improved at,
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: or maybe you're seeing things that are different than the
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: past years?
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: I think it's just, well, excuse me, owner. of the offense.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest thing. I just, there's complete
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: ownership and it's, he's never too high. He's never too low.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: And you watch, I'm a big believer in watching the
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: quarterback's eyes and it's never like this panic, this frightened
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: look in his eyes. And we have all these field
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: mics and we can hear the the checks that he
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: makes at the line of scrimmage. There's never, it's never frantic.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: It's never rushed. It's like, no, no, no, we're good.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: We're good. We're good.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: No, go here, go here. It's, it's constantly constant communication.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: There's never panic. It's never frantic. And he's just kind
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: of just in total control. And yes, he's getting pressured
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: a lot, but he's just dealing the football. I think
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: the biggest thing to me that I'm so impressed with,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: he's so compact. And what I mean by that, when
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: he catches the snap, it's like, he catches it. He's
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: compact and the ball's out immediately. And some of those
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: RPO games are, I don't even know if it was RPO.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I think it was PRO. It might've been fast read
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: option first, you know, he would take it and T-Mac,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: it just, he would just settle right away. He just knew, okay,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: let me just peek and look and boom, the ball's
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: on him. But even like over the middle, some of the, the,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: the crossing routes, we had a big third down on
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the game and Anish had said, okay, what are we
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: thinking here? I said, well, we're thinking two people, number
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: four and number 88. And he hit Waller coming across
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: the middle, but it's just the accuracy of the passes.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: He threw one to Tremaine coming left to right. Tremaine
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: split out on the left and coming in on the
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: in route and he layered the throw and he stuck
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: it on him. And that's the biggest thing. You want
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: to be a passer, not a thrower of the football.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: A thrower is someone who just kind of throws it
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: and hope they catch it. A passer, he kind of
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: talks to the player with the football, and I think
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: he's doing that. But it's just ownership. That's what I
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: just go back to. The receivers are kind of getting
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: on his level, and what I mean by that, we
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: got rid of his security blanket. I always say it.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Adam Thielen, after the 24th season, it was during the
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl in New Orleans. We were there, when I
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: say we, the Panthers or Jonathan Stewart and I, we
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: did shows weekly. We were hoping both Steve and Luke
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: would maybe get in the Hall of Fame, right?
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: And so we did a ton of interviews. Well, Bryce
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: came to sit down with us one day. And I
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: just noticed a different person. There was a confidence because
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: he finished 24 playing pretty well. And I just kind
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: of asked him off air about, hey, with feeling like,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: were you just going to throw to him? Like, what
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: was the deal? He goes, man, he goes, I just
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: had that trust with him and I just knew. And
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: that just kind of tells me it takes time for
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: a quarterback to trust some receivers.
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: And so you saw the coker situation. play out before
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: our eyes last year. There's a trust factor there. And
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: TMAC was making really good plays, but I think TMAC
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: even knew I can make so many more because you
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: saw it last year. Physically guys would really try to
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: get in his chest and things like that. Well, he
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: said so much of a bigger player this year, thickness
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: wise and strength wise, and the game's slowing down to
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: me and it's going to continue to slow down. But
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: those two are starting to kind of get on a
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: page and it takes time, man. It just, I keep
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: saying that to people. I think we grew together because
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: we were both... My first year in Carolina was year
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: three for him. But in essence, it's first year starting
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: as a receiver. But we grew together. We just like...
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: For whatever reason, we clicked.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: We just.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: We learned each other's body language and things like that.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: And then the next year, Steve gets hurt. We've won...
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: And so, yeah, certainly Moose was good, but you start
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: to develop a different rapport with Moose, knowing exactly, okay, hey, Jake,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: I really like this. Hey, if I have this, make
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: sure you throw it here. I just think that takes time.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: And you're starting to see Bryce kind of get that
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: development with his young receivers.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Jake, we had a quarterback question from a texter early
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: in the show, Panther Cliff, and we said we'd ask
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: you about it because it's more about something that we
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: couldn't answer about padding. I'll give Jake the advantage on
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: quarterback now. Slight advantage. He noticed or asked, is he
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: padding the ball less, and how much does that make
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: a difference when Bryce has the ball before he throws?
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the padding of the ball thing, I think certain
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks have certain ticks that they do. Joe Montana padded
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: it every time he threw. Yeah, some guys kind of
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: do that. I think Bryce is doing a great job,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: and I'll go back to the Atlanta game. He maneuvered
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: the defense with his shoulders. And what I mean by that,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: we have some play action faking. I don't know if
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: you remember the Atlanta game. We hit some deep corner outs,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: like wide open. And the corner would kind of– he'd
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: come up and there was this huge void. Well, Bryce
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: was manipulating the defense with his shoulders.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: He'd fake.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: He'd get his head around. And he'd kind of like
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: give that shoulder kind of turn thinking– and the DB's
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: reading that. They're going off first movement. And they're going
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: to drive that he's– okay, I'm going to the flat
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: with the football. And Bryce would just kind of maneuver
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: that way. And that's just starting to get that quarterback
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: play where you can kind of control– or somewhat control
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: what the defense is doing. It doesn't happen every week, obviously,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: but you just, I just think it's a rhythm, but
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: he does such a great job, even when he's stepping
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: up in the pocket about the two hands on the
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: ball and he hasn't run a ton this year. As
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: we've seen before, he's such a really good runner and
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: he doesn't take these massive hits. Certain people know how
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: to just not get hit and he knows how to
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: kind of just slide off and When he steps up
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: in the pocket, the eyes are downfield. They're not, okay,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: it's running. Let me just see what I can get.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: The eyes are downfield, and the ball comes out immediately
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: most of the time. So, listen, just love the overall play,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: but how old is Bryce? I should have known this.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: 25.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, so he just turned 25.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: He's still, like someone I heard this week, the narrative about, man,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: it's like his arm's gotten stronger. It's supposed to get stronger.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: He's 25. It wasn't like he's this big, mature kid.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I told someone the other day, I weighed 195 pounds
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: as a senior in college. Within two years, I was
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: up to 228 pounds. It wasn't due to the lifting
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: and things like that. It was, I shaved more than
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: once every two weeks. I started to grow up. Like
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: you just, you grow up. And I think he's, and
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know what his weight is. Certainly he's never
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: going to be a big person, but he's getting stronger.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Your body's getting stronger. That throw he made the TMAC
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: on the sideline with about three minutes left or two
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: and a half. That's just different. I mean, that's just,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: to step up in the pocket, like he did really
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: outside the pocket and to throw it in that location
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: and that catch. But I just think that's time. It
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: comes with time. Yeah. Yeah.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: No doubt. No doubt.
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: And then we all want to rush these guys, especially
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: when they're number one, overall picks, you know, we're.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: I get it. I understand it, but like, don't you
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: think what the Raiders are doing this year? I like,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to happen with Mendoza down
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: the line, but is that not the perfect situation? I mean,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: just think of John Kitten in Cincinnati. Carson Palmer, who was,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: if you want to draw up what a quarterback should
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: look like, it's Carson Palmer. Well, he sat the whole year.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: You think of Patrick Mahomes. And Patrick would say the
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: same thing. What made me great was watching Alex Smith.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: I learned how to prepare, so when it was my time,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: I took over. And I understand I heard Peyton say
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: it many times. Peyton was like, no, I need it
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: to play. And maybe so. But I just think given
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: some guys' time, sometimes it takes a little bit.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: There he is, the great Jake DeLum, always nice with
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: his time, always a very, very insightful interview. For more
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: of that, check out Apple, Spotify, wherever your podcasts are found.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: When we come back, it's our weekly staple, the Couch
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Potato Guide, your guide to sports on TV this weekend
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: on Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: All right, everybody.
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: Saturday night will be here before you know it. Friday
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: night's pretty good for sports watching as well. It is
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: time for your Couch Potato Guide, where we let you
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: know what's happening when, so you can inform the family
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: that during those times.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: You will be unavailable, if that's the way it works
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: in your household.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: It may not work in your household, but give it
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: a shot. Big Murph, no chewing shoes right now. We
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: got games on. He chewed my shoes yesterday while I
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: was wearing them, by the way, which is always a problem.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: All of a sudden, I felt a little ping on
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: the toesies, and I thought, uh-oh, he's got my foot
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: in his mouth.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: That's a different type of foot and mouth disease going
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: on over there at the house.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: He's warning, though. He's warning. All right.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: So here's what we got tonight. We mentioned it earlier.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: We'll start with basketball. The Tar Heels and USC playing
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: an exhibition to start the Mike Malone era. Unofficially, I guess.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: Seven o'clock. ACC Network. And then you've got three interesting
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: college football games tonight, Bone. Obviously the ACC one is
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: probably the most intriguing to most of us. Florida State
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: at Louisville. Every interesting spot for the Noles.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: But how about Iowa-Washington? Fox at 9 o'clock.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: And don't sleep on, actually I will sleep on this,
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: it's a 10-15, but figuratively don't sleep on it. Iowa
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: State at BYU. BYU has Notre Dame next week. Could
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: there be a look ahead? But BYU only scored 10
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: points last week. So I think all three of those
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: are interesting, though.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: I had BYU in a parlay last week, so I
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: watched most of that game. I was not not not like,
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: you know, too intently, but it was on. Not that impressed, though.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: with BYU. I think they're at some point here, they're
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: ripe for the pickings. I don't know if it's tonight,
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: but certainly Notre Dame, I think, has something for them.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: I don't think BYU is number eight good this year. No,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: I don't sense that. I would agree.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: And I don't think Texas Tech is near as good
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: as they were last year. And those are probably the
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: two best in the Big 12. Let's move to Saturday.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: What's on Saturday at noon? How about North Carolina-Pittsburgh? ESPN
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: at noon. And how about Wake and State at noon
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: on the CW Network from Raleigh? The Wes Bryant special
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: with Wes on the sidelines for this one. Indiana-Nebraska, very interesting.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: From a national perspective. Indiana battled Northwestern at home. I
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: do wonder if Nebraska has something for Indiana tomorrow.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: I'm just curious.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: This is a mammoth game for Matt Rule and the
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: entire state of Nebraska.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: This is mammoth, man.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: It's been seven years.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: I promise things. Nebraska has not beaten a ranked team
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: in a decade. Matt Rule is 2-25 in his college
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: career versus ranked teams. So they all, Matt, the whole state,
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: they all got something to prove. Texas A & M, Mizzou,
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: that's on ABC at noon tomorrow. Shortly after noon at 1245,
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: you get the South Carolina-Florida game on the SEC Network.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: And then Old Dominion, App State, ESPN Plus at 1 o'clock.
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: You know, it's a game-changer bone that they're starting to
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: include the ESPN Plus games online.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: With some of the streaming providers.
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: So I can now, on DirecTV Stream, record ESPN Plus games.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: That's awesome. Some people won't give a damn, but that's.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Kind of cool. For example, on YouTube TV last night,
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Duke Belmont was on YouTube TV instead of having to
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: go to the ESPN app and just watch Duke there.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: You could put it on the YouTube TV last night,
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: which is a huge deal rather than having to jump
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: around because Bucks Cowboys was also on. So having two TVs,
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: having that one there that could be on YouTube TV
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: is a huge deal. Plus, you can include them in multi-views. Yes, yes.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: So, like, if I want to watch the app game
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: as one of my multi-view, you can now do it.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: It doesn't have to be a separate device.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Because when it was just on the ESPN app, it
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: was a pain in the tuchus to have to jump
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: all around. Yeah, so I like that. Life is much
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: better when you're multi-viewing, baby. I like that little couch
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: potato tricks of the trade right there, baby.
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: All right, so late Saturday, window bone. Oklahoma, Texas, Red River, 330.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: That one, I expect kind of ugliness and a lot
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: of defense. in that game, and I expect Texas to
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: be less ugly.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: That game can sometimes be unpredictable, though. You never know
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: what may happen in that game sometimes. I think Texas
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: should handle business, but we've seen before that expect the
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: unexpected when those two teams get together.
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: Unexpected would be John Mateer not turning the ball over.
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: Are you getting that crazy?
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Good point.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: I think tight for a while, low scoring, but Oklahoma, man,
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: that offense is a mess. Texas' offense ain't great, Bone.
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: Their defense is at Oklahoma offense is a mess. UCLA, Oregon,
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: it's on CBS. Very interesting. Raiola starting for Oregon. No
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: Dante Moore. Ole Miss, Vandy, ESPN at 330. Then you
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: get to some more local interest games. Duke, Georgia Tech,
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: 330 on ESPN2, we think. But you shared a tweet
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: with me, Bone, from a weather person. It's going to
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: be nasty weather in Atlanta right around game time.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the hurricane effect could be there in Atlanta. So
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: we'll see what time that game actually does kick off.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: It is going to be raining. What is it, 40-mile-per-hour winds?
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: A lot of running, though, in that game, and that
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: will benefit Nate Shepard against Georgia Tech's defense. He may
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: run anyway, obviously. Georgia Tech's run defense is horrible, too,
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: one of the worst in the ACC. He could run
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: for 200 tomorrow. Definitely. Definitely.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: Virginia Tech, Cal at 330.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: The Hokies might not even have to play against JKS
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: in that game.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: He's questionable.
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: Charlotte, North Texas, ESPN Plus at 330.
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: I am currently saying a prayer.
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: For charlotte they are 28 point underdogs in this game
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: um and then let's get to tennessee arkansas 415 sc
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: network i don't know if you're a tennessee fan or
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: arkansas fan there you go and then saturday night you've
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: got um uh you've got george alabama obviously the showcase
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: 7 30 on abc you've got how about this sneaky
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: good game lsu kentucky interesting to me at seven o'clock
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: you got am i wrong to like kentucky in that game.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Probably.
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: Is that game in Lexington?
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: Probably, but it's interesting.
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: It's definitely interesting being at Kentucky, and they're hot right now.
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: But let's see. We've got Charlotte FC, FC Dallas tomorrow.
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: They're back in action after a week off. Canes tomorrow
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: night against Chicago as well. And feel free to watch
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: USC and Penn State. How is Penn State favored in
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: this football.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Game, Bone? Oh, I don't know. That's a good question.
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: I watched Penn State play.
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure they can beat Panther Boats, Purdue Boilermakers
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: right now. They have looked so terrible the last game
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: and a half.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: It is the whiteout game, right, for Penn State? So
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: obviously it's going to be a crazy environment. USC did
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: beat Washington last week in a very close game late,
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: despite having one of the worst tackling efforts on a
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: play I have ever seen in my life. But yet
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: USC did win last week. They basically escorted a player
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: to the end zone for Washington.
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not saying USC's great.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: At all, right?
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: I've been skeptical since the summer. I've been skeptical for
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: years of Lincoln Riley's USC, but I'm telling you, Penn
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: State looks god-awful. I hope they can show out for
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: the national audience. Do want to mention Sunday, obviously NFL,
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: but you've got the NASCAR Cup Series back on the Oval.
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: Very excited about that. You've got the Hurricanes playing Sunday night,
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: and you've got the Hornets hosting the Bucs And a
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: little Sunday night preseason action too, Bonesy.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: What a way to end your weekend with a little
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: preseason pregame action also. There you go, baby. Get to
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Bowman on a Sunday night. A little 6 o'clock pregame
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: from the Bone and KB. Set your clock like I'm
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: one of the 60 Minutes correspondents coming on.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: I like it. I like it.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: I'm morally safer. That's a good pull, man. Love that pull.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: I like that name, too. Morley Safer. Morley Safer. I
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: know a lot of the names back from when I
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: was a child, and I would see them come on
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: after football. Oh, you weren't actually watching it. You just
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: heard the names. No, I'm Morley Safer. I think there
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: was a guy. What was the guy's name? I was
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: going to say, not Ed O'Bannon. Who was the guy
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: on there? Ed Bradley. Ed O'Bannon. That was a UCLA player.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: When we come back here on the Mac and Bone
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: radio program on this football Friday, we're How many wins
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: are we expecting out of the bye in the first
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: four games after the bye? What can the Panthers do
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: in those games? We discuss Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.