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Mac & Bone Hour 4: Hornets Morale · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ this music was playing loud and
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  Speaker 1: proud on Saturday as the Heels got it done.
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  Speaker 2: Got a little scary there.
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  Speaker 1: Got a little.
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  Speaker 3: Dicey for the heels after they blow the 17-point lead.
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  Speaker 3: But they rally with a great clutch late drive. And
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  Speaker 3: they get the dub. They get the victory bell. And
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  Speaker 3: little Billy has beaten Duke. And Bone is very happy
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  Speaker 3: for Bill Belichick.
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  Speaker 1: I'm having a signal problem over here on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the room.
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  Speaker 2: Bone's been dreading this conversation all week.
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  Speaker 1: How about you talk to Jones and I talk to
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  Speaker 1: the guy that called me a baked potato on Twitter?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You deal with that guy it seems like you're into
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  Speaker 1: a nasty feud there on social media like that's like
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  Speaker 1: uh uh not a compliment who doesn't love big potatoes
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  Speaker 1: let's bring in jones angel who i think has probably
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  Speaker 1: been looking forward more to this conversation than you bone
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  Speaker 1: as we talk about the heels beating duke and now
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  Speaker 1: trying to go to five and two with a game
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  Speaker 1: against the cuse at home jones angel voice of the
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  Speaker 1: tar heels jones i'm guessing that was a fun one
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  Speaker 1: to call on saturday It.
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  Speaker 4: Was a fun one for sure. I've had this circled
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  Speaker 4: all week, Bone. I'm ready for this conversation. I'm excited
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  Speaker 4: for it. No, it was a great win for Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the game itself, I think, it shows both
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  Speaker 4: the good for Carolina and kind of where The Tar
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  Speaker 4: Heels still need to go. Had such a great start
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  Speaker 4: to the contest, led 17-0, as you referenced, 17-7 at halftime.
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  Speaker 4: But then, to Duke's credit, Blue Devils played a lot
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  Speaker 4: better in the second half, took advantage of a handful
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  Speaker 4: of Tar Heel mistakes, and then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 4: it was 20-17 with four and a half minutes to go.
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  Speaker 4: And so for Carolina to answer again like the Heels
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  Speaker 4: have done a couple of times now, with some key
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  Speaker 4: plays down the stretch to get the win, I think
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  Speaker 4: was impressive. Now, it also shows you that this team
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  Speaker 4: has still struggled a little bit to find that consistency.
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  Speaker 4: I think you can go through almost every game outside
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  Speaker 4: of the East Tennessee State game And you can go, man,
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  Speaker 4: there were some great stretches of play, and then there
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  Speaker 4: were some stretches of play that the Heels would like
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  Speaker 4: to have back. And so you hadn't really seen 60
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  Speaker 4: full minutes yet, even in a win, again, outside of
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  Speaker 4: an FCS opponent. And so the Tar Heels would like
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  Speaker 4: to continue on that path to gain that consistency. But
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  Speaker 4: absolutely nothing bad about the Heels getting that big win
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  Speaker 4: and being 4-2 and feel really good about what they've
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  Speaker 4: done through the first half of the season.
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  Speaker 1: Jones, first of all, good morning, Jones. I asked you
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  Speaker 1: about Jordan Shipp last week and his leadership, what he means.
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  Speaker 1: What about Jelani Thurman and his role and what he's
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  Speaker 1: done for this year's offense this year?
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  Speaker 4: Well, let me say one thing about Jordan. I thought
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  Speaker 4: you saw some of the leadership aspect of him because
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  Speaker 4: he had a mistake in this game. He had that
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  Speaker 4: fumble that dude picked up and ran in for a
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  Speaker 4: touchdown yesterday. that really got Duke kind of back in
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  Speaker 4: the neighborhood of the game when it looked like the
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  Speaker 4: Tar Heels might run away with this thing. And you
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  Speaker 4: saw Shipp immediately, you know, take accountability for it. And
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  Speaker 4: sometimes leaders, that's leadership. When you say, look, hey, I
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  Speaker 4: did something. I know that was a screw-up on my part.
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  Speaker 4: I own it. Now I'm going to fix it. Let's
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  Speaker 4: all move forward, and I'm going to help us get
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  Speaker 4: it back. And I think that's part of leadership, too.
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  Speaker 4: But to better answer your question about Thurman, he's just
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  Speaker 4: such a– He's just such a mismatch at that position.
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  Speaker 4: He is one of those tight ends that has good size.
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  Speaker 4: His improvement in the blocking side of things has been
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  Speaker 4: pretty dramatic. But he is just such a physical, difficult
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  Speaker 4: matchup for the other team. He's too fast for a
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  Speaker 4: lot of linebackers. He's too physical for a lot of safeties.
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  Speaker 4: And we know that Bill Belichick, number one, has had
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  Speaker 4: some great tight ends through his career in football. So
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  Speaker 4: he has a pretty good idea how to use guys
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  Speaker 4: like that. And Bobby Petrino has done a really good
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  Speaker 4: job in finding ways to get Thurman open and finding
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  Speaker 4: ways to get him mismatches within the game. Now, he
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  Speaker 4: didn't have his biggest game of the season. against Duke,
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  Speaker 4: but he did have that huge fourth down catch on
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  Speaker 4: the final drive that allowed that drive to continue and
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  Speaker 4: Carolina to eventually score a touchdown. So Thurman's been a
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  Speaker 4: huge part of what Carolina's doing and I would assume
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  Speaker 4: would continue to be a huge part of what they
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  Speaker 4: do the back half of the year.
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  Speaker 3: We're talking to Jones Angel, voice of the Tar Heels
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  Speaker 3: on the Tar Heel Radio Network. They play 7.30 on
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  Speaker 3: Saturday night, so 6.30 they'll be on the air on
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  Speaker 3: the Heels Radio Network, which are one of their affiliates
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  Speaker 3: here in Charlotte, down the hall, our sister station, WBT,
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  Speaker 3: if you want to tune in. What do you think
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  Speaker 3: about this team moving forward, Jones? As you were saying,
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  Speaker 3: there does feel like... you know, this team does have
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  Speaker 3: its limitations, right? I guess is the way I would
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  Speaker 3: put it, but you know, they found a way to win,
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  Speaker 3: you know, two games in a row that were there
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  Speaker 3: in the balance and you can see the culture and
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  Speaker 3: the vibes are improving. Like, what do you think this
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  Speaker 3: team is, is capable of moving forward?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I think if you look at, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: dangerous to do when there's still such a long way
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  Speaker 4: to go, but if you look at these six games
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  Speaker 4: in total, uh, And certainly Miami next weekend is going
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  Speaker 4: to be a heavy favorite against Carolina. They're the number
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  Speaker 4: one team in the country. They've had a terrific year.
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  Speaker 4: I think every other game is going to be almost
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  Speaker 4: a toss-up, including this week against Syracuse, where the Tar
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  Speaker 4: Heels might be a little better in some areas, the
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  Speaker 4: opposition might be a little better in some areas, but
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  Speaker 4: there's not this dramatic difference between the Tar Heels and
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  Speaker 4: any team that they play, again, outside of Miami, who
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  Speaker 4: I do think has proven to be one of the
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  Speaker 4: best teams in the country. So it comes down to
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  Speaker 4: the same stuff that Carolina's been talking about all year,
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  Speaker 4: and that's continuing to try to gain that consistency, continuing
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  Speaker 4: to play good, solid defense, try not to hurt yourself.
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  Speaker 4: I think Carolina has done that pretty well this past
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  Speaker 4: game against Duke. I thought it was one of the games, honestly,
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  Speaker 4: that the Tar Heels made the most mistakes with a
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  Speaker 4: couple of turnovers. They had that really strange play where
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  Speaker 4: they had the backup punter just straight up drop a
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  Speaker 4: snap in the fourth quarter. But they were able to
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  Speaker 4: overcome all that. And I think, guys, that's one of
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  Speaker 4: maybe the best qualities of this team. And you talked
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  Speaker 4: about the culture, the vibe. is that the Tar Heels
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  Speaker 4: just keep playing, whether it's good, whether it's bad, whatever's happened,
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  Speaker 4: they just keep playing. And I think that's been one
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  Speaker 4: of the real almost endearing parts about this team is
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  Speaker 4: that you can tell that they just keep going. And
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  Speaker 4: it's not always perfect, and they don't do everything right.
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  Speaker 4: but that doesn't automatically eliminate them from the game. And
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  Speaker 4: so I think that's been fun to watch is just
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  Speaker 4: their kind of dogged determination within the game to keep
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  Speaker 4: playing and try to keep advancing. And so I think
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  Speaker 4: that's been fun, and hopefully you continue to see that
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  Speaker 4: through the back half of the season.
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  Speaker 1: Jones, what do you think of the 2014 playoffs starting
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  Speaker 1: in 2027 as it pertains to the.
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  Speaker 2: Heels' future?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's such a complicated topic, right? I'm sure you
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  Speaker 4: guys have talked about it a bunch here over the
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  Speaker 4: last two weeks or so. I will say this, for
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  Speaker 4: a team like North Carolina, which has knocked on the
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  Speaker 4: door of the playoff a few times, that has knocked
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  Speaker 4: on the door of being in that conversation, expanding it
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  Speaker 4: certainly gives them a larger opportunity to be into that event.
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  Speaker 4: So I think from that angle, there is some excitement there,
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  Speaker 4: but I do think there's just so much more about this.
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  Speaker 4: There's the, yeah. How do you manage the regular season? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Do you really want teams that maybe have, you know,
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  Speaker 4: go eight and four, you know, do they deserve to
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  Speaker 4: be in a playoff to, to win a national championship? It's,
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  Speaker 4: I know everybody uses the basketball tournament as an example,
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  Speaker 4: but guys, you know, this is, If number one plays number,
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  Speaker 4: let's say, 25 in basketball, number one's going to win
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  Speaker 4: more often. But it's going to be 80% of the time, 75%
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  Speaker 4: of the time, whatever. In football, if number one plays
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  Speaker 4: number 25, number one's going to win over 90% of
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  Speaker 4: the time. It's just the nature of the game. There
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  Speaker 4: are fewer upsets in football, I think, than any other
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  Speaker 4: sport because of the physicality. And so there's just a
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  Speaker 4: lot of questions about adding this many teams. Are you
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  Speaker 4: actually adding teams that can win the tournament that can
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  Speaker 4: win the title? Or are you just adding teams so
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  Speaker 4: they can say they made it so that they can
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  Speaker 4: say that their investment has been worth it because they
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  Speaker 4: were the 22 seed in the, in the tournament. So
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  Speaker 4: I think on one hand it was, And when you're
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  Speaker 4: in it, maybe you feel differently where it's like, man,
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  Speaker 4: all right, you're playing. If you win this game, you
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  Speaker 4: get a playoff spot. And I'm sure that would be
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  Speaker 4: exciting when you're in that moment. But I do think
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  Speaker 4: there's some kind of global overarching questions to think about
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  Speaker 4: as you look at this and see where everything goes
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  Speaker 4: moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: Jones, that was a good, honest answer from Jones.
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  Speaker 2: Jones, you could have easily just said, hey, it would
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  Speaker 2: help the heels. Let's do it. You know, let's do it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I do think it would help the heels.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I think... Like Carolina has plenty of times
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  Speaker 4: lived in that 15 to 25 kind of ranking. Right.
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  Speaker 4: And where you've had a good year, but but you
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  Speaker 4: hadn't quite been good enough. And so there've been plenty
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  Speaker 4: of times, I mean, even back in 2023, certainly 2015,
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  Speaker 4: you know, some years here in the last 10 years
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  Speaker 4: or so where Carolina would have definitely been a playoff
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  Speaker 4: team and, in this particular format. And so, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: It's just a complicated issue, guys. A lot of different
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  Speaker 4: aspects to it.
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  Speaker 2: I think you nailed it, though.
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  Speaker 3: It's like you have these boosters being asked for more
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  Speaker 3: and more money for players, and I think they want
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  Speaker 3: to be able to tell him, like at schools across
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  Speaker 3: the country more often, hey, boosters, look where your money went.
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  Speaker 2: We're in the playoff.
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  Speaker 1: You know? But I, but I do wonder at some point,
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  Speaker 1: does it wear off bone where boosters are like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you made the playoff through two times in the last
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  Speaker 1: four years, but you lost by 25 and you were
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  Speaker 1: like the 22 seed, like Jones said, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean?
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, it's going to be fascinating watching moving forward. Jones,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for coming on, man. Everybody.
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  Speaker 3: If you're a heels fan, you know, the routine, turn
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  Speaker 3: the sound down on your TV, turn it up for Jones.
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  Speaker 3: and the crew Saturday night, 7.30 game against the Cuse.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Jones. We'll talk to you next week.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, guys. Always enjoy the time.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: That is Jones Angel, voice of the heels. So I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to ask you about this, Fitty, because we were
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  Speaker 3: talking about it in the side studio. We do our
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  Speaker 3: best work after the show. We also do some work.
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  Speaker 3: In a broom closet. We also do this pretty much
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  Speaker 3: a closet. But we all hang out.
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: We BS. There's a slight bit of work bone that
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  Speaker 2: goes in after the show.
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  Speaker 3: It would also have to be very censored if we
• 11:22
  Speaker 3: were trying to replay it on the air because we
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  Speaker 3: let loose.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway. Fitty's in there. Yes, true.
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  Speaker 1: Fitty really goes Fitty in that room, doesn't he?
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  Speaker 3: You get the full fit experience. But we were talking
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  Speaker 3: about this fit. Let's say Carolina wins this week or
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  Speaker 3: seven point favorite against the Q. So I'm not going
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: to act like it's a given, but they're favored to win.
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  Speaker 3: So if they win Saturday night, we already know they're
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  Speaker 3: playing 730 next Saturday, Halloween night against Miami.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Fit.
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  Speaker 1: Correct. So we just don't know, is it ESPN? Are
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  Speaker 1: they actually going to put it on ABC and make
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  Speaker 1: it the big ABC game? Do they have a shot
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  Speaker 1: at game day, too? Like, is that possible, you think?
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  Speaker 3: Because I know some Heels fans were asking about that
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  Speaker 3: earlier this week.
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  Speaker 2: There's some speculation.
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  Speaker 6: One thing that could complement it, or no, not complement it,
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  Speaker 6: complicate it would be the fact that the next week
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  Speaker 6: they could be at Miami.
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 6: And the weekend of all weekends for the college football year.
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  Speaker 6: But I do think.
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  Speaker 2: There's a chance.
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  Speaker 6: McAfee will tell you early on on Saturday. He'll tell
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  Speaker 6: you if Carolina wins tonight. I mean, he'll just come
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  Speaker 6: out and tell you where they're going to be because
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  Speaker 6: they don't really hide.
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  Speaker 2: Anything anymore with him on the show.
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  Speaker 6: But I think there's a chance because you had a
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  Speaker 6: 5-2 Carolina, undefeated No. 1 Miami on Halloween at night.
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  Speaker 6: Crazier things should happen. I think USC and Ohio State
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  Speaker 6: play that weekend. That game no longer as sexy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, back up QB. Florida-Georgia. Florida-Georgia is a possibility, too.
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  Speaker 1: Now, UNC-Miami's got a great chance, but like I was saying,
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  Speaker 1: the only thing that may complicate that is they don't
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  Speaker 1: often like to use teams back-to-back weeks, even though it's
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  Speaker 1: a different venue. Would they go Miami UNC to Miami
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame the next game?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Is Miami Notre Dame at Notre Dame?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: So that's an NBC game.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: You think they'd still go, though? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's so big. Although that's a big weekend because I think.
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  Speaker 1: There's a bunch of games. I think Georgia Ole Miss
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  Speaker 1: might be that weekend as well. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: games that weekend.
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  Speaker 2: It's the best weekend in the history of the sport.
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  Speaker 1: November 7th was one of those in the summer. Mark
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  Speaker 1: that date down. There's a lot of matchups there for
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  Speaker 1: that one. It was.
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  Speaker 3: I just think it's cool for the heels that we're
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  Speaker 3: talking about this, that it's even a possibility. Hey, could
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  Speaker 3: they be on game day? Could they be 5-2? I'm
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  Speaker 3: looking at the rest of their schedule. I think it's
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  Speaker 3: seven wins at least.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: I really do. What do we think about the texture from–
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember when this was. This might have been
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  Speaker 3: sent in Monday, but I'm just bringing it up now
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  Speaker 3: since we're talking about this emergence and improvement of the
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  Speaker 3: Tar Heels. The texter that said, Mac and Bone, when
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  Speaker 3: are you going to eat your words and admit you
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  Speaker 3: were wrong about Belichick?
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  Speaker 2: I'll never do it.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: There's your answer, sir. I'd rather eat my... Eat your undies?
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say celery. Nobody wants to do that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't eat celery, but you went undies.
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  Speaker 1: Can we make a bet that one of us has
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  Speaker 1: to take our undies off and eat them?
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  Speaker 2: No, absolutely not. Why would you want to make that?
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  Speaker 2: It was your track record event. Because I was picking
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  Speaker 2: out of y'all to have to do it. I was
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: picking out something I don't like, and you went undies.
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  Speaker 2: Was that weird?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Did I just get weird?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have some, like, Undie-eating fantasy Mac? I'm an
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: old man. I don't know what I'm saying. Let me
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: check your web browser, sir. Do we? Okay, let me
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  Speaker 2: move on from that right there. Can we, please?
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  Speaker 3: I am turning into Selenium, aren't I? Anyway, are we
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  Speaker 3: at that? I don't think we're at that point yet.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I will say this.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't... It looks like it's coming along better than
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  Speaker 1: I would have thought this year.
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  Speaker 2: It is, and I'm glad.
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy for Heels fans for that. Are we going
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  Speaker 3: to declare him bone? Oh, he's a success in college football. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: I think the jury's still out. I think the new
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: GM hire, I think, will be important. I think it's
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: trended in the right direction, but we won't sing the
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: I'm wrong song just yet, maybe.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: When we come back, the Hornets get an opening win
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: last night. Did it do anything to boost morale of
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: the fan base? Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
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  Speaker 7: I think the team asks me to, you know, of course,
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: be Brandon Miller.
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  Speaker 4: Whoa.
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  Speaker 7: I think it would be Brandon Miller, you know, whether
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  Speaker 7: that's being a two-way, guarding everybody on the floor or
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  Speaker 7: scoring a basketball or just getting everybody in action or
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  Speaker 7: getting everybody involved. You know, I feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 7: we do a great job of just, you know, playing
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  Speaker 7: with the pass, playing with each other. You know, sometimes
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  Speaker 7: I'm not really needed, but I'm still there to– help
• 16:17
  Speaker 7: out as much as I can and just make all
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: the winning plays.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: What are your expectations for this season?
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: Well, I'm always saying we're going to be a playoff team.
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: That's just always where I stand with what this team
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: is going to be. Our goal is, of course, the playoffs,
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: and we're going to do everything that we can to
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: get there.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: That is Brandon Miller, says the goal is still playoffs,
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: So Brandon Miller and Charles Barkleybone are all in for
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: the Hornets' playoff train.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: They are all in. for the Hornets' playoff train, baby.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: When Charles Barkley and Mac are on board, what could
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: possibly go wrong?
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: I haven't gone there, though. I've said 40 wins. Oh,
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Maybe play in. Wrong team, wrong sport.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if I've fully gone there. I
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: think we're going to be way more competitive than some
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: of the negative. There's some fans out there, man. Even
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: today after the win, and I get it, it wasn't
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: pretty necessarily, but there's some negative.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: You see that guy, Jack? Last Hornets, the Sam Farber interview.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: What's his last name? Because I can give him one.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Jack sent like 10 straight negative Hornets points.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Everything we said, he countered something positive. Oh, my God.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Seriously.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: We got to shout out a listener to the show, Elisa.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Is that right?
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: She is a diehard listener to the show, and it
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: bothers Brett Jensen, I feel like, severely.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Brett and her are seeing each other. He viewed it
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: as a red flag somehow. He's trying to figure out
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: what does this say about her? I want to know
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: what about her taste in men. If she hangs out
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: with Brett and listens to us, I want to know
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: about her taste in men.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: High quality. That's true. Good point. Good point.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Anyway, hello to her. We love broadcasters that are up
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: for awards. I don't think we win a lot of them.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: There you go. There you go. All right. So shout
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: out to Brett Jensen.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Shout out to Elisa out there listening. So we got
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: to talk more now, Bone, about the Hornets. Did last night,
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: and maybe I'm afraid to ask this, but we're going
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: to ask it. Did last night, again, it was ugly,
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: but again, we're without Khan, Kobe, and Grant. and we
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: still had depth where five guys scored 17 points, where
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: we could absorb Brandon scoring one point after the first
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: 15 minutes of the game when he had 17. We
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: could absorb that and still win, albeit against the Nets.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Do you feel— Hey, in this conference, in this league,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: I don't care who you're playing every night. These teams
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: are better. The Nets are better than they've been. Everyone's better,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: and everyone's trying this year, especially early. But the new
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: tanking rules, teams— Teams don't have reasons to be bad anymore. 100%.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Don't you think we just want to get a few
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: dubs early in the season and just kind of stand
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: our ground until we get the guys back?
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Who are we to complain about wins? That's the one
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: thing about it. Somebody even noted that earlier. Somebody said
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: that they're amused by the fact that Hornets fans now
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: complain when we win, and it just goes to show
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: the bar has been raised, or it's just the lamello
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: bitterness still.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Yeah. Do you think last
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: night will do anything?
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: To quell the kind of negative vibes, to get some
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: of those fans a little more excited about the post-Lamella
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: era or not really?
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: No, because they'll view it as the Nets.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: And if you're negative, you'll look at Brandon Miller and think,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: he had a great first half, one point second half.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I think we're going to need to see the team
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: in full with Kobe and Khan and the whole operation
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: before some people's moods get changed a little bit. then
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: they need to see the full thing. Yeah, I mean,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not on... I'm good. Because, again, I don't have
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: some grand expectation this year. I think they will be...
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: probably a little step back from last year, but I
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: think if you actually look at it big picture, it's
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: all right to maybe take a little step back to
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: go forward. Sometimes in life you've got to take a
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: little step back and go forward, right?
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Look at me, man. I took a lot of steps backwards.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Now look at me.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Look at the step back you took to work with us.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: You're still waiting for that forward step. I'm stepping back
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: like Mello gets Miami last night. Listen, I guess I
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: can't come on here after one. If I'm going to say, like,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: people were overreacting to Brandon's bad shooting night. And it's
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: a one game sample post-contract extension. So don't we need
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: a bigger sample?
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: I can't sit here and do the whole thing where
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: I demand, I start screaming at y'all and demand that
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: one game where they showed they toughed it out with
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: a depleted roster and all that. Like I can't act
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: like this means something great and you should completely change
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: your mindset. Like that would be hypocritical behavior. of me
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: to do that. I do think their depth was on display.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: I do think the fact that Jeff Peterson made some
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: good veteran acquisitions, I think was on display the way
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Schroeder took advantage of, uh, the nets plastering the shooters.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: And that's part of why Brandon Miller did not, you know,
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: hit one. The second half is they were all over
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: the shooters and Schroeder said, I'm just going to keep
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: this basketball and I'm.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Going to drive to the basket. And I love that
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: little drive.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: He's got bone where he takes it right off the
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: bounce and and extends that right on.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: That's hard to deal with. You talk about even, you're leaving.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: If he gets even with you, the way he gets
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: that up there like that so quick, that's good. I
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: also think Nas Reid's game, his all-around game, I think
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: is something that we're going to look at and say, man...
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: I didn't realize he was that much of an all-around
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: player with 2011 and 7. And then Grayson Allen. And
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: you and I have been talking about him, Bone, over
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks. This dude is a sniper
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: off the bench. He fits into the floor spacing and
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: the shooting that we want to do. He was huge
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: in the second. Him and Schroeder's offense in the second
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: half last night when Brandon was struggling. Those are good
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: signs to me for when we get Kobe and Khan back.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: We got depth, scoring depth.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: One negative last night, not defensively, and we know that's
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: his role, but Seon James was terrible from the floor.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: People are a little irritable about that.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Those shots weren't even close, and he was in a
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: good spot for some shots, Matt, because the guys in
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: the middle, like Nas Reid, was finding dudes in the corner, right?
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: cion james just couldn't knock him down i know that
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: help is on the way with more guys that can
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: knock those shots down but i do wonder if guys
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: were out for an extended period i do wonder if
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: those shots like that would be more apt to potentially
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: go to liam mcneely at some point in the lineup
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: he hit him in the preseason here's the thing though
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: you know what i mean like is because i was
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: reading was finding dude off from the middle of the
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: court cion james is a guy that is not out
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: there for his offense yes I mean, and here's, and
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: here's the thing. Uh, people are a couple of people
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: texted in and said, Michael Porter lit up Sion.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Dude, see, he was wearing Sion.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Like Sion was literally tucked in his shorts on those
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: jump shots.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: And that's what Michael Porter does. Unfortunately.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Now he does have a height advantage. So he was
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: able to shoot over Sion, but Sion was all over him. Um,
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: but we've gotten some complaints about Sion today and him
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: getting 27 minutes.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: And him starting.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I think him starting, first of all, I love the
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: move because if you put him off the bench, you
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: need a lead scorer in the bench unit. And because
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: of the injuries and everything right now, I feel like
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: you need Grayson Allen with that bench unit. Now, I
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: don't know what Charles Lee is going to do tomorrow.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: But it kind of makes sense to me to divvy
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: up your scoring a little bit from bench to starters.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: It was a little disappointing because it looked like Sion's
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: been working on his shot. In the preseason, it looked
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: like he'd been working on his shot. I will say this,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: and Walker brought this up. I was listening to Walker
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: on the Locked on Hornets when I was driving in
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: a little bit. And he brought up the fact that
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: a few of those were like end of shot clock, like.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Grenades.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: So, but anyway, it's, it's worth watching. I mean, Seon's
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: and to your point, bone, when you get Kobe back,
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: when you get con back and then Schroeder goes to
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: the bench and And, you know, you get Grant Williams
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: back on the bench. There is an interesting question of
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: how many minutes you give Sion. But this coaching staff
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: seems to always play Sion more than maybe the fans would.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? They appreciate the intangibles.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: He always seems to be higher in the rotation based
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: off what we project him to be.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Yes. Good point by Shaggy here. That was also brought
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: up earlier.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: You know, it's got to be mentioned that Brandon Miller
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: didn't play a lot this summer either. Just because he
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: signed the big contract the other day doesn't mean that
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: automatically his legs are there in full ready to go
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: October 21st. So this is a guy that was coming
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: off something there. And maybe, yes, the Nets defense focused
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: on him, but maybe his legs went a little bit, too.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: It is very, very early in the season last. No,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: that's possible, too. Now, Brandon, though— No, it's got to
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: get better. But, I mean, I'm not going to fully
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: judge the guy yet off that. So Brandon's polarizing, right?
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: They've got a microscope out looking at everything he does
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: because of the contract. Kevin says Brandon is not that dude.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Can't believe we signed him to a big contract. Kevin
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: only watched the second half last night. It wasn't pretty,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: but you do have to admit, that stretch bone where
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: he scored 17, bing, bang, boom, bing, boom, like quick—
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: That was a quick 17.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: What about his yam-o-am-a-ding-dong, you called it?
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God, that dunk over Mo Wagner, and it
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: couldn't happen to a better person because that dude is
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: like a gnat.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Could that be your call, the yam-o-am-a-ding-dong? Yeah.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Did I steal that for Everybody Loves Raymond? I feel
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: like that's similar to Everybody Loves Raymond. Wacky Go Jacky
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: or whatever.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: He's got going on? That's Ray Romano from SNL.
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: Oh, okay.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: It wasn't on Raymond. It was on SNL. Sweet Sassy Molassy.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: That's what it was. That's what it was. All right.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Let's talk about Brandon. He did some of the things
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: we want to see him do, Bone, in that stretch
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: where he scored 17 really quick. He, I want to say,
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: hit two mid-rangers off the bounce. He had the dunk
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: off the bounce. He had a really nice floater off
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: the bounce, and I'd love to see him work in
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: his repertoire. We are watching to see if he can
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: create offense. He only had one assist. We had a
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: texter say, I'd love to see him average three to
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: six assists. That's a great point. I'd like to see
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: the playmaking improve. So we're all watching these things, too.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: I thought he had a couple good defensive moments. I
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: thought I saw him D up on isolation a couple
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: of times. Like you want from him to be your
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: two way player. He had a great block that, that
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: ended up resulting in a goal 10, but challenged and
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: it wasn't a goal 10. The second half, he definitely disappeared.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: I just think it's one data point. I think we
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: got to keep watching this. I also think bone, they
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: signed Brandon Miller to play with con. And with Kobe,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: they did not sign Brandon Miller to like play with
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: who he played with last night. So I think we've
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: got to see those complimentary players with him. You know
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: what I mean? And then we got to see how
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: it is. I thought it was very easy for them
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: to kind of load up on Brandon double team every
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: time he came off a ball screen in the second half.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Here's something that stands out to me. They need to
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: get to the foul line more. Some individuals.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: How about this?
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Brandon Miller back one point from the foul line last night.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: One for two. Nas Reed was 0 for 1 from
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: the free throw line. Seon James, a starter. I know
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: that's not his game, but I'm just pointing it out.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: He had no free throw attempt. So three starters there
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: combined for one free throw attempt. I know that those
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: aren't all. You're missing some starters there. But especially Brandon
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Miller and Nas Reed, you've got to have more than
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: one foul shot combined with the roles.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: That you're playing. Especially Brandon Miller.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: That's where that has to play more physical, play through contact,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: to be the elite scorer, Mac. If he goes to
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the foul line last night, Mac, two or three more
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: times and he gets four points out of that, he's
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: at a 22, 23-point game last night.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's a good point. And again, it's going
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: to be one of the things with this team.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: This team, you know, we're going to be watching not
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: just Brandon, but the team, Con too, the team in general.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Can they get downhill? And can they get into the
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: paint and get.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: To the rack?
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Schroeder and Grayson got their combined, they had a combined
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: nine points from the line. They were nine for nine
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: from the line last night.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: That was big. We only shot 15 free throws. Minnesota
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: was on the line 10 more times than we were.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I just, listen, I thought it was good
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: to get the win. All I'm looking for is give
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: me a couple of wins here. Let's tread water until
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: we get Khan and Kobe back. And then let's see
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: what we got. I think that's still going to be
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: a pretty damn good offense. Although multiple people are pointing out,
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: can Kobe be the distributor and set up others the
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: way we want, the way LaMelo did? He's not going
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: to do it like LaMelo. LaMelo's passing and shot creation
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: for others is out of this world.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: It's elite.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: But can he kind of mix his scoring point guard
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: game with a little more facilitation?
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: I think that's possible. I do. Here's the thing, too,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: we got to say.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: We gave Brandon Miller $ 42 million a year, $ 41. 8 million
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: a year. We have a ton of assets. I'm sure
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: we're going to re-sign Kahn when we can re-sign Kahn.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I'm not ruling it out, Bone, that we use those
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: assets and we go after a player that is the
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: number one, and Brandon and Kahn are number two and
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: number three. That's the beauty of how this works. This
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: whole thing is set up right now. That's the thing.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Another texter says, Brandon ain't a number one, man. Why'd
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: we pay him?
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: When the cap goes up, That contract value, there's going
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: to be a lot of people that pass him. He's
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: like the 32nd highest paid player right now. Before you
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: know it, he'll be out of the top 40. That
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: contract will age well, Bone, as people spend and the
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: cap goes up. And I am not convinced, Bone. Like,
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: they want to see, can Brandon and Khan handle this thing?
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: But I am not, you know, I am not against
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: the belief that we don't end up acquiring a superstar
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: at some point.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: I agree with that.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Finney, update or are we not doing that? Oh, I
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: got to do, we got to do the giveaway. Okay,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: I thought he was. We got to do the giveaway.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I thought he was demanding the rock. It was for
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: the giveaway.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Finney's, yeah, Finney's updates have been bounced, Boney. They've been bounced.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: They've been kicked out of the club. And that ain't right, man.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: Finney's got a girlfriend to impress, y'all.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Sell some sponsorship for the Fit Daddy. Let's do a giveaway.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: All right. So, Finney, is it two tickets or four tickets?
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Give it away. Give it away now. How many are
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: we giving away for FC? It is two tickets, Mac. Okay.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Two tickets to the Charlotte FC Orlando game. which is
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: uh again halloween oh my god we had the last
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: hour had the hornets sixers halloween giveaway now we got
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: an afternoon halloween giveaway man oh this is beautiful son
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: this is how you spend the holiday all right with
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: free tickets for mac and bone and wfnz so it's
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: so it's next saturday halloween uh day at one o'clock
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: charlotte fc hosting orlando and orlando's playing pretty well right
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: now it's gonna be a big matchup they're starting to
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: close in behind us The keyword is Orlando.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Very simple.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Text the word Orlando to 704-570-9610. We will pick a
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: winner out of the hat here literally in about the
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: next 10 or 15 minutes. So get that text in quick.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: Text the word Orlando to 704-570-9610 if you want to
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: win a pair of tickets to the game next Saturday
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: at the bank.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: When we come back, it's the wrap-up. We get you
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: set for a very busy night in football, both locally
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: and in the NFL.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: There's some clips of you trash-talking.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Like, is that in your bag?
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: Are you a huge trash-talker?
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: Because you really went at Smith, like, with that.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I'm a Juco guy.
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: You know, I'm grimy. You know, I like to play physical. And,
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: you know, it's all love at the end of the day.
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: But, you know, I'm a competitive person, you know.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Like, I feel like you're.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: Out there to, you know, embarrass me. And I'm out there,
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: you know, to stop you from doing what you're supposed
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: to do. So, you know, at the end of the day, like,
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: I'm trying to eat. So, that's my goal.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: That is Will Lee. Shout out to the blanket, Will Lee, man.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I love this dude's attitude and fire. There is a
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: lot of people have pointed out, Boney, where's the 2-4 jersey?
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: There's some Josh Norman in this young buck, man. He
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: revels in the trash talk. He sent a dang blanket
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: to a rival wide receiver that he proceeded to then.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Cover up like a blanket and shut down in a
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: college game. So I like it. He's got some swag.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I like players like that, especially at that position. You
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: got to have that cockiness and confidence. If he keeps
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: playing that well, how long do they have a blanket
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: giveaway day at the bank?
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: I could see it in the future. Bone, you are–
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Bone with the marketing ideas.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Unbelievable.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: You know what, though?
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Will Lee, if he wants to do community work, what
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: if he gave away blankets in the wintertime for those
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: that need them?
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: How about that idea? That's a good idea. Man, Bone,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: you're brilliant with these ideas, Bone.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Brilliant. These ideas have made hundreds of dollars over the years.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Why does nobody take these ideas and steal them from Bone?
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: They're amazing. Because they come from me.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Remember, I thought of DoorDash before anybody else did. Many
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: years ago, I thought, why can't all places deliver food
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: like pizza places or Chinese places? But then all of
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: a sudden it showed up and it was DoorDash and
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: I missed out on it.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: You've got to capitalize on your brilliant ideas. You've got
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: to go forward and make the, you know what I mean?
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: You can be rich.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: You can be filthy rich. When I was a young kid,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I thought of sliders first. Did you think of this idea?
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: I thought of mini cheeseburgers when I was a kid.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Did you think of the idea for Miami before they
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: thought of it?
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Because apparently there's a report out there. that Miami, because
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: they're all kind of mad, Miami, Clemson, North Carolina, and
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Florida State are very upset that the language is not...
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Folks don't want to change the language to make you
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: wait to be able to join another conference and all
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: the restrictions on joining other conferences in the Protect College
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Sports Act. Miami is considering a move to become an independent. Yeah,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Ross Dellinger of Yahoo has a long-form piece out there
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: with the Miami president. This isn't one Mac where they're
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: hiding it. They're directly talking about how great they can
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: be independent and the ACC and leaving. This is not
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: one of those like, oh my gosh, there's rumors. No,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: they are directly talking about what they want to do. Now, again,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: in this landscape, there's a lot of platforms that you
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: can broadcast on more than before. But in terms of
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: the main networks, I don't know what... Would they have
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: their own like Miami network? How would they do this? Like,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: how would they operate?
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Do they think they're going to get a Notre Dame
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: type deal from one of the big networks?
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: There's only so many of those to go around. These
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: big networks are paying. Yeah, they're paying tons of money
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: to these conferences. They got enough money to pay Miami
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: to make it worth their while.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, again, it is ACC money they're passing up
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: and not SEC or Big Ten money. um i understand
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: their desire to get more money but i don't know
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: it's interesting um well who was the wasn't there a
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: college football guy that predicted like ohio state and someone
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: in michigan would go would go independent at some point
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: yep so i don't know is this something schools are
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: thinking of does it make sense financially i don't know
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: i don't i don't know about leaving the big 10
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: that's buko uh buku bucks Um, anyway, it's interesting.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Interesting.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Read about it.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: How much is from Ross Stalinger? How much is Buku?
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: By the way, do we know what that exactly? A lot.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: That's all I know. That's all I know.
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: Bone.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: I can't put a value. It is a lot. Buku
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: is what Brandon Miller got. By the way, Willie.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: P is of course, take it. Captain literal man to
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: the rescue.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, Willie. I know.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I didn't truly invent slider burgers.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: I get it. Well, he says White Castle predates your child.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: I wasn't being serious, Willie. My gracious.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Another texter, 704, said, Bone's full of crap. This just in.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you. Do you know that I
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: invented also stuffed crust pizza as well when I was younger?
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: I'm not serious.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: If Bone ever talks about this good stuff that he did,
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: it's not true. I'm going to let you in on something.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: It's sarcasm.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: My whole life has sucked. I've done nothing. I've accomplished nothing.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I've ridden this man's coattails for two decades. Let me
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: make bleep up. It's all I have is fake stories. Oh,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: by the way, this just in, Chris Paul might not
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: be my best friend.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, no. Now, don't say that now, Bone. Please. Don't
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: ruin that for all of us.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: He may not have answered my calls in 22 years.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Guess what? It's not serious.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: If you want me just to not be serious, I
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: got nothing to say. Oh, you know what you do
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: have going on?
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry. Go ahead.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: I got to speak out there. That was pretty funny, though.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: This is all I got. You do have day two
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: of the Twitter feud. With a guy that... Well, this
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: is a handoff. I was just trying to be funny
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: with the dude today, but... You tried to go back
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: and needle him, and now, what did he say?
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: He called me.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: A D-list celebrity that's shaped like a baked potato. And
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: who is going through a midlife crisis.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Then he came back and apologized again.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: Oh, gosh.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Y'all are... Let this poor guy off the mat, Bone.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: This guy's flailing. Why do you defend this guy? He's
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: flailing right now.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: He's desperate.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Why don't you jump on there and get me back
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: once in a while? I don't know if I want
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: to get involved. I don't know why I want Irish.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Those streets y'all are fighting on seem nasty right now.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, the stuff he said about Flounder, I don't
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: even want to repeat on a radio show. You're not
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: a great jumping to fight guy.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Are we allowed to say that? You're not a great...
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Foxhole brother.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: I don't want to get into foxhole. I might get
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: my nails dirty or something. I might get some dirt
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: under my nails or something. Did I tell you the typo?
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: The typo? That weatherman Mark had with me yesterday when
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: I asked him to come on the roundtable today? No, no.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: He said he's under the weather. I'm like, oh, man,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: that sucks. Everything all right? What you got going on?
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: He tried to say he just had a cold. But
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Weatherman Mark typed up, I have an old hole. Hey,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: pardon me.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Pardon me, sir.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: And then he didn't correct it for about two hours.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: I didn't know what he had going on.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: What was he trying? He was trying to say cold.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: He was just trying to say cold, but he said
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: he had an old hole. And I didn't really know
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: how to respond to that.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Weatherman. I hope you get that checked out. Oh God.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Anyway, um, big night of football tonight on the tube.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: Let's start with the local college teams in action. Seven
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: o'clock tonight.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: ESPNU unbeaten James Madison, a contender bone for the group
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: of five playoff group of six playoff spot at app
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: state at the rock tonight, kid Brewer stadium app state,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: 11 and a half point dogs.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: I think they can push them. I'm not saying winning.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: I think they can cover the spread tonight. We'll see.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: App fans that have texted in, it's only been a few.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: They have been very negative about this game tonight.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: We'll see.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens, too, with the quarterback situation. My
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: whole life is now being analyzed on the text line.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Is Boudreaux Boudreaux really your great-great-uncle? No, he's real. All
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: the uncles are real. I would not lie. Augie and
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Porky are real? Augie, Porky, they're all real. Who would
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: have thought Boudreaux Boudreaux was not real? Uncle Samson was real,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: but he's been... He's been banned from the family. All
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: the uncles are real.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Thank God. At least we can trust that. They're dumb cakes.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: They're all real. Okay, okay.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't lie about people that close to me. Now,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Boudreaux Boudreaux being in a war, that's just rumor and hearsay.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Rumor and hearsay. Also need to mention ECU tonight, ESPN
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: 2 at 730 at Memphis. They're 10.5 point dogs. So
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: they're up against it tonight, but I'm looking forward to
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: watching them. And then on Prime tonight, you've got the
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Patriots and the Bears. Hell of a young quarterback matchup tonight.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: Al Michaels might stay awake for that one tonight. And
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: it's interesting when you have a hell of a matchup.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: of a young quarterback to watch the other young quarterbacks.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: And how does your guy compare against two of his
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: guys that he's in the same neighborhood as, we think?
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: That's right. That's how we watch every young quarterback play.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: We're not watching back anymore. Oh, my God.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Why can't our guy do that? Our guy is doing
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: this now, right? Can I shout out whoever this is?
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Somebody sent in the grossest text of the day. We
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: were talking about eating underwear bats.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: He says, if the Panthers win a playoff game, Mac
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: has to eat Fitty's Panthers thong.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: What are you, Hannibal Lecter?
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: Shout out to our guy. I don't know who sent
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: this in. Shout out to somebody.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Hollywood or Hollywood.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Should I just wrap it up? Halloween is approaching. The
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Carolina Reaper is circling. Beware of the nightmare on Mint Street.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: All right, baby.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: All right. We want to leave on a serious note.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: We found out this morning that our former GM, when
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: we got to this building here, Matt Hanlon has unfortunately
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: passed away at.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: 63 years old.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: So he's a big reason why we're still here. Had
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: a major impact in his time here on the building.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: So we were sad to see the passing of our
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: former GM. Yeah, he was real supportive of us, man.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Very eccentric guy. Yeah, he was the most unique boss
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: we ever had.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Unique character. Almost like a.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Almost like you were in a sitcom, maybe, in Dunder
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Mifflin at times a little bit. But, man, certainly a
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: guy that had a big impact on us and this building.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: Bone did say, Michael Scott, we got Michael Scott, our boss.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: He had a soft spot for us, I feel like.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he did. He liked our craziness.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: They didn't have to take us over here, and he
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: was part of getting us over here.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: It's true.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: No doubt about it, man. Was reading about that. That's
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: sad as hell. Rest in peace. to Matt Hanlon, no doubt.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: All right, so Colin Hoggard, Charlotte Sports Today coming up next, everybody. Tomorrow,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: we did tons of Hornets today. Tomorrow is all about football. Panthers, Bucs,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: and the big college football games. We'll talk about them tomorrow.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Stay tuned, though, for Charlotte Sports Today, everybody.