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Mac & Bone Hour 2: Is Miller Worth the Money & Panthers Tackle Plans · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Honestly, another team that I really strongly considered is the
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  Speaker 1: team that you cover in Charlotte. I think that they
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  Speaker 1: probably just don't have enough on-ball juice this year. But
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  Speaker 1: in the way that the Celtics, obviously with Charles Lee
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  Speaker 1: coming from Boston, just continue to maximize every edge by
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  Speaker 1: maximizing three-point rate, crashing the offensive glass with guys like Diabate, Kalkbrenner.
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  Speaker 1: Now you add in Steinbach who can do the same.
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  Speaker 1: I think they just don't have enough offensive creation to
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  Speaker 1: but there's just a chance that Charles Lee's scheme, which
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  Speaker 1: is very similar to the Missoula ball ideal is so
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  Speaker 1: good that they might be a perennial, just like top
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  Speaker 1: 10 offense while he's there.
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  Speaker 2: That's Sam Vecini on his podcast. I mean, kind of
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  Speaker 2: complimenting the Hornets offense. He believes he's worried about the creation.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's a legit question without lamello bone.
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  Speaker 2: But I do think Kobe White's pretty dang creative in
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  Speaker 2: his own way. And I'm very curious to see Brandon Miller.
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  Speaker 2: The new $ 209 million man and Con Canipo take on
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  Speaker 2: added roles of creating things. I'm looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 3: Shot creation is going to be something they're going to
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  Speaker 3: have to figure out as the season goes along, and
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  Speaker 3: that's what makes the beginning of the year and the
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  Speaker 3: injuries kind of frustrating because you would hope that they
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  Speaker 3: got a little bit more used to Melo. I mean, yes,
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  Speaker 3: he missed a lot of time, but this particular group
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  Speaker 3: not having Melo out there in the preseason and the
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  Speaker 3: practices leading up to the season so they can start
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  Speaker 3: the season in a rhythm rather than try to get
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  Speaker 3: used to how this is going to look into the
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  Speaker 3: regular season. Yeah, no doubt. Because in the Eastern Conference, yes,
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  Speaker 3: it's a long season, But in this conference, it's going
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  Speaker 3: to get going right away. Every game's going to matter
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  Speaker 3: by the time we get to the end of this thing.
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  Speaker 2: And the last thing you want to do is dig
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  Speaker 2: yourself a hole like we did last year because of injuries.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what my fear is. And we're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about the season outlook, win numbers, and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Expectations tomorrow with the season opening for them tomorrow. We've
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  Speaker 2: got three. It's three tonight, right? The NBC tripleheader is
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  Speaker 2: the only game?
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  Speaker 4: Or am I wrong?
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  Speaker 3: It starts at 3 o'clock this afternoon i saw that
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  Speaker 3: i saw that i'll be watching the champions league i'm
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  Speaker 3: not gonna lie to you but that is an interesting
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  Speaker 3: little twist there for those that want to get the
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  Speaker 3: nba going early boston in the pistons at three celtic
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  Speaker 3: uh sixers nicks at seven okc san antonio 9 30
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  Speaker 3: so it's the uh It's they're trying to get the
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  Speaker 3: best matchups on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 5: I like it. I like it.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 5: So, and I'll be, I will be indulging that.
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  Speaker 2: I'd also be indulging in Duke and their exhibition against Tennessee,
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  Speaker 2: but I want to talk about Brandon Miller specifically right now, bone.
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  Speaker 2: They get the deal done right before last night, six
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  Speaker 2: o'clock deadline. If they didn't get it done, it would
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  Speaker 2: have to wait until the off season. He ends up
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  Speaker 2: getting $ 1 million more than Amen Thompson. That is what
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  Speaker 2: the Miller camp was kind of wanting. And the Hornets
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  Speaker 2: give in. His contract, new money value, five years, $ 209 million,
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  Speaker 2: is $ 41. 8 million a year. And I want to discuss
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Miller because I do think it's interesting. There are
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  Speaker 2: people out there. that, you know, feel like he's not
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  Speaker 2: worth it. They're worried about his health. I will say
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  Speaker 2: this about his health. First of all, does last year
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  Speaker 2: not prove that he is a dog with a pain
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  Speaker 2: tolerance and will play through things?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 2: Like, that shoulder problem that he had, we found out
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  Speaker 2: after the fact when he talked to Wes and Walker
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  Speaker 2: how much pain he really was in and how that
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  Speaker 2: thing was, like, popping out constantly, 10 out of 10 pain.
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  Speaker 2: And that dude went out there and put up 20
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  Speaker 2: points a game and shot 38% from three and was–
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  Speaker 2: I think him playing, I thought was the most important
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  Speaker 2: factor in our success.
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  Speaker 5: And I'll probably have to, I'll dig it up. But
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  Speaker 5: like our.
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  Speaker 2: Record bone, when he didn't play there early in the sea,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was night and day. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: think it was a coincidence. I also think when we
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  Speaker 2: look at his injury record, To me, Bone, in the
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  Speaker 2: 2026 NBA, he has played, in my opinion, enough games
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  Speaker 2: in two seasons out of three. Obviously, the second season
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  Speaker 2: when he only played 27, Bone, that obviously was a
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  Speaker 2: lost season for the most part for him. But to me,
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  Speaker 2: we can't be expecting these guys to play 80 anymore.
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  Speaker 2: It's just not the way the world works. Last year
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  Speaker 2: he played 65, which is the number you got to
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  Speaker 2: play to be eligible for awards. So I like any,
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  Speaker 2: any show grit playing through pain and playing well through pain.
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  Speaker 2: And then his rookie year, he played 70 plus. Like,
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  Speaker 2: so to me, you put up 65 plus seat game seasons, man,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to take that. I'm not as worried about
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  Speaker 2: the injuries as other people are. And I agree with
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  Speaker 2: what you said earlier. You said Brandon Miller is just
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  Speaker 2: scratching the surface, and I agree with you wholeheartedly on that, man.
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  Speaker 3: I have your numbers right here, Matt, to back up
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  Speaker 3: what you're saying. With Brandon Miller last season, they were 41-24, 63%
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  Speaker 3: win percentage, 117 points per game. Without Brandon Miller, they
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  Speaker 3: were 3-14, 112 points per game.
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  Speaker 5: So 41-24 with him.
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  Speaker 3: 3-14 without him. That's why this guy's important. And by
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  Speaker 3: the way, 41-24 with him when he was injured the
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  Speaker 3: entire time. That's why he got signed. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: No doubt about it.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, credit to him for playing through that.
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  Speaker 5: Never complained one time. Didn't go on social media.
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  Speaker 2: Nope. Didn't make excuses if he had a bad game, right?
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  Speaker 2: Not a single time.
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  Speaker 3: That guy is a dog. And dare I say, he's
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  Speaker 3: filled with Hornets DNA.
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  Speaker 6: 100%.
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  Speaker 5: Him and Khan both. I think those are the two
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  Speaker 5: guys that they want to trust in.
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  Speaker 2: Lamella, whether it was physical or whether it was just
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  Speaker 2: his game, they did not want to put the faith in. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: I admit there's a gamble to the Brandon Miller deal.
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  Speaker 2: He has to reach another level, Bone, I feel like,
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  Speaker 2: to validate this deal. But I feel like he can.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's ability to grow there. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: by all accounts, Bone, he hit the weight room hard,
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  Speaker 2: even with the shoulder surgery, and is taking it real
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  Speaker 2: serious to get stronger.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he is that he is the damn thin man.
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  Speaker 2: There's no doubt about it. And so I'm interested to
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  Speaker 2: see that part of it.
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  Speaker 3: Also, when when not only did they trade Mello, but
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  Speaker 3: Miles Bridges, who was the longest tenured Hornets, also gone.
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  Speaker 3: So when it comes to leadership, there's no longer going
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  Speaker 3: to be I don't want to step on the toes
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  Speaker 3: of the guy that's been here or. Mello's the all-star.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, he's up next.
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Miller's now the dude that is the leader with Con.
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  Speaker 2: And he has that in him. We've seen it. He
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  Speaker 2: has an intensity. He has, like, leadership material in him.
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  Speaker 2: I think Bone, the next level for him, I think... Two-way,
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  Speaker 2: more consistent two-way player. We see moments where it's like, oh, dude,
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  Speaker 2: he just locked that stud wing down on that. But
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  Speaker 2: I think getting stronger will help him with that. I
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  Speaker 2: also think getting stronger will help him bone. finish off
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  Speaker 2: the bounce finish through contact more so i'm very hopeful
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  Speaker 2: that he will add these things to the game maybe
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  Speaker 2: a little more playmaking i think can be there he's
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  Speaker 2: got to get rid of the turnovers though bone it's
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  Speaker 2: got like it's not get rid i mean it's to
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  Speaker 2: think someone's gonna have zero turnovers the whole season but
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  Speaker 2: you know i'm saying a record cut down some it
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  Speaker 2: would be cut down on the turnovers no doubt because
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna be asked to handle it.
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  Speaker 5: More we have two options here back i want you
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  Speaker 5: to guide me here Are the techs bothering you this morning, Bo?
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  Speaker 5: They are.
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  Speaker 3: Do I acknowledge they're bothering me or do I do
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  Speaker 3: something that I don't often do and just take the
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  Speaker 3: high road and move on? We're getting some text here
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  Speaker 3: that I just don't understand.
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  Speaker 6: 704.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all are feisty this morning, man. Playing injured is stupid.
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  Speaker 3: It's not tough. Well, yeah, I beg to differ on that,
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  Speaker 3: by the way. That was extreme toughness last year when
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  Speaker 3: he's playing at a 10 out of 10 pain tolerance. Hey, 704,
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  Speaker 3: what's your pain tolerance? I'm sure you stubbed your tongue.
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  Speaker 5: You call it a work.
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  Speaker 2: Is there any more proof than that text that pro
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  Speaker 2: athletes can't win? Because if you don't nut up and
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  Speaker 2: battle through injuries, you get called out, you're just about
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  Speaker 2: the money.
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  Speaker 5: You're soft.
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  Speaker 2: And then if you play 65 games with a severely
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  Speaker 2: messed up shoulder that's going to need surgery in the offseason,
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  Speaker 2: you get that criticism and called stupid? Like, I've noticed it, too,
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  Speaker 2: on the text line. It's not always like this. Y'all
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  Speaker 2: are really, like, feisty and, like, I don't know. What's
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  Speaker 2: the word for it?
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  Speaker 5: Annoying? Annoying.
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  Speaker 2: Like what's going on with y'all like overpaid didn't like
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  Speaker 2: where's some of these texts about overpaid like i just
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  Speaker 2: i don't understand the mellow and all that money's gone
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  Speaker 2: we don't have any players bone before this deal was
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  Speaker 2: signed didn't have any players that will account for more
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  Speaker 2: than 25 million next year on the cap we were
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  Speaker 2: 80 million dollars under the luxury tax for next year
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  Speaker 2: the writing was on the wall They made their decision.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to build around Brandon and Khan. And then
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  Speaker 2: ultimately they're going to use those assets. And in my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: there's a very good chance Brandon and Khan end up
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  Speaker 2: being two and three on this team because they have
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  Speaker 2: so many assets. But I just like, I don't, why
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  Speaker 2: do we have to, I mean, again, I guess I
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't lament the fact that people disagree, but.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Because that makes sports talk radio go red. But you're
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  Speaker 2: very snarky and fiery, y'all. That's what makes the world
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  Speaker 2: go round. But I feel like some people are. just
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  Speaker 2: disagreeing for the sake of i'm not seeing many actual
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  Speaker 2: yes the health is obviously a concern but there's some
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  Speaker 2: points in here of what's he proven yet what's he
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  Speaker 2: proven yet well i just gave you the numbers they're
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  Speaker 2: 41 and 24 with them last year 3 and 14
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  Speaker 2: without them does that not tell you the importance of
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  Speaker 2: this guy like what more do i need the season
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  Speaker 2: turned around when he came back we were done at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of the season without us what.
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  Speaker 5: More numbers than winning do you need to hear.
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  Speaker 2: About where's my man here um uh let's see mr
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  Speaker 2: research says the reason everybody is feisty this morning is
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  Speaker 2: because we're all still pissed off they traded lamello that's
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  Speaker 2: what you said now we're one bone we didn't want
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  Speaker 2: brandon over lamello we wanted lamello and they traded him
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  Speaker 2: the only player they had that would put butts in
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  Speaker 2: seats and make people believe in this team they got
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  Speaker 2: rid of okay so you said it in the first
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  Speaker 2: hour it's still the lamello deal Salty ass.
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  Speaker 3: It's more about that than Brandon. By the way, Kannapolis
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  Speaker 3: man wants a piece of the playing injured is stupid guy.
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  Speaker 3: Because he was in the military, Mac, for three years
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  Speaker 3: with a torn labrum. And it's one of the most
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  Speaker 3: painful things ever. Respect to Brandon Miller for playing a
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  Speaker 3: pro sport through that. Have to. So the guys, the
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  Speaker 3: Tori Labrum guys are stepping up.
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  Speaker 5: I relate to that way.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't relate to having Tori Labrum, but that's
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: the appreciation for Warrior. In this league, Bo, in this
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  Speaker 2: league where dudes sit out with a hangnail, Like, that's
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  Speaker 2: completely unfair to not praise him. If you're the same
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  Speaker 2: type of person that complains these guys always sit out
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  Speaker 2: in today's NBA and you don't give Brandon credit for
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  Speaker 2: last year and battling through, that's not fair. We did
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  Speaker 2: find our guy Joshy Joshbone. Josh from Charlotte comes through
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  Speaker 2: for us. Said, instead of reading negative texts, read this one.
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Miller will be an all-star this season.
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  Speaker 5: Book it.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of feel that, too. The way he played
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  Speaker 2: last year, I feel like if he would have been
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  Speaker 2: healthy for the entire season, If you flip it, let's
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  Speaker 2: just say, Bone, that we played in the first half
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  Speaker 2: the way we did in the second half, and Brandon
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  Speaker 2: Miller was healthy playing the way he was.
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  Speaker 5: I think there's a very good chance, Bone, he would
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  Speaker 5: have been an all-star last year. I really do. I agree. Matt,
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  Speaker 5: what a point by H.P.
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  Speaker 3: Brody.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think that's H.P. That's not our H.P. from... No,
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  Speaker 5: it's a different one.
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  Speaker 3: He says there's a difference in the fan base between
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  Speaker 3: Hornets fans... in the still hanging on to LaMelo fans
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  Speaker 3: within the franchise. That's an interesting point there, that are
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  Speaker 3: the Hornets fans more excited and thinking, yeah, they understand
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  Speaker 3: what Brandon does, but those LaMelo fans still are hanging
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  Speaker 3: on to, they're the negative ones.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that definitely could be a good way of looking.
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  Speaker 2: Lord knows he's that guy that people will choose him
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  Speaker 2: over team. You know what I mean? Even locally here. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: I was upset about the Lomelo trade. I was upset
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 5: I thought I.
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  Speaker 2: Wanted to keep building and let's see if we can
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  Speaker 2: stay healthy a full season. Let's see what that core
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  Speaker 2: can do together. They clearly, Bone, did not think that
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  Speaker 2: core was the group to get them to where they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to go because they literally want to be championship contenders.
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  Speaker 2: They're not just trying to squeeze into the playoffs, push
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  Speaker 2: a team in a seven-game series.
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  Speaker 5: And all that. And there's something to be respected for that.
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  Speaker 3: They also had to get Womelo through a regular season
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  Speaker 3: without getting injured. Think about how much more to be
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  Speaker 3: a title contending team you have to play. We're trying
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  Speaker 3: to get Melo to April. Never mind through the first
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  Speaker 3: round of the playoffs, May to June, and that's going
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  Speaker 3: to be what Minnesota has to deal with. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: saying it can't work between Edwards and Ball, but they're
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  Speaker 3: really going to have to hope Melo can go and
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  Speaker 3: play as much as he's ever played basketball before without
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  Speaker 3: getting hurt deep into the season.
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  Speaker 2: And they're already talking, by the way, Coach Finch about
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  Speaker 2: changing his shot selection.
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  Speaker 5: They're already talking about that.
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  Speaker 2: So, again, I just I just the more I thought
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  Speaker 2: about it, I just think I don't think they were
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  Speaker 2: necessarily keen on like somebody said he puts butts in seats.
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  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily think the brass over there. was a
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  Speaker 2: fan of maybe the shot selection, the turnovers.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: There was flair there, but I think they're looking for winning,
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  Speaker 2: and I think they've made a decision that he wasn't
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  Speaker 2: going to lead them to enough wins.
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  Speaker 5: Winning puts butts in seats also. So when games, people
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  Speaker 5: will show up.
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  Speaker 2: I still think you can look at Jeff Peterson and say,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, listen, the unbiased people in the media nationally,
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  Speaker 2: you can't find one of them to not rave about
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  Speaker 2: what Jeff Peterson's doing. But here locally, we're emotionally attached
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  Speaker 2: to LaMelo. But if you listen to people that have
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  Speaker 2: no emotional attachment to the team whatsoever, they all swear
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  Speaker 2: by what Jeff Peterson is doing. Josh in Fort Mill,
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  Speaker 2: the Joshes are coming to the defense of the Hornets today, man.
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  Speaker 5: The left... I always trust a good Josh. Damn straight.
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  Speaker 2: These are the Joshes that actually know the Hornets play
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  Speaker 2: basketball in Charlotte, other than Fitty Marlowe, who becomes a
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  Speaker 2: Hornets fan for two days each year and then quits them.
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  Speaker 5: Just like you with the Braves in baseball.
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  Speaker 2: I can give the Braves a good four days, baby, okay?
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  Speaker 2: I can give you the whole month of October if
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  Speaker 2: you keep winning, damn it. Josh and Fort Mill, the
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  Speaker 2: lack of maturity and leadership is crazy high with Lomelo
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  Speaker 2: and Ant. Yeah, Ant's not very mature. I do think
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  Speaker 2: there's a dog in there.
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  Speaker 5: We'll see.
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  Speaker 2: And another thing, too, is I hate the fact that
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  Speaker 2: this is what it's turning into, Bone. That it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be all about LaMelo with so many fans. And
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  Speaker 2: what does he do? Because I want to personally, I
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  Speaker 2: think he's a good-hearted kid. And maybe I shouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: calling him a kid anymore. But he's a good-hearted young man.
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  Speaker 2: And I want him to succeed. But I certainly want
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  Speaker 2: us to succeed more. But unfortunately, I get the feeling, Bone,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a running scoreboard.
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  Speaker 5: What's Lomelo doing?
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  Speaker 2: And if Lomelo does well, we can't be happy for
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  Speaker 2: him and say, hey, maybe this deal is going to
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  Speaker 2: work out for both sides. If Lomelo is doing well,
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  Speaker 2: you get the feeling the text line is going to
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  Speaker 2: use it against the Hornets.
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  Speaker 5: And I just that's kind of annoying. No, I agree.
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  Speaker 3: The thing about Mello, look, he was a great player.
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  Speaker 3: He was fun to watch. Did it always lead to
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  Speaker 3: winning here? That's what this franchise wants. They want a
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  Speaker 3: group that can go further and win. For as fun
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: as he was and as much as he did here,
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: he was an all-star player, did it necessarily translate to
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: where they want to go?
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: Didn't, did it? I don't think they felt. Never even
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: made a series.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think they saw that, and I didn't
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: think they felt like that was an indication.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: As a texter points out, there are some fans that
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: would rather just watch Melo and go nowhere than actually
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: put together a group, and not just this group, but
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: all the assets going forward and what they can do,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: a team that can actually win. They'd rather watch Melo
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: go to the play-in because they like.
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: Watching him play basketball.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I also think it's the step back thing. It
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: feels like maybe they've taken a slight step back, Bone,
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: in order to be better moving forward, in order to
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: have a better chance of being a championship franchise in
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: the future.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: And I can see why a lot of fans around here, Bone,
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: are like, really? Step back? Because we were captivated by
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: that team last year.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, we have not had that much fun as
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: basketball fans in Charlotte in a long-ass time. And I
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: think it was a bummer, like, oh, we're still doing this?
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Step back?
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: Thing.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? We're still doing this acquisitions
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: of assets thing. So I understand that there's no doubt
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: about it. Um, but I don't know. I still think
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: they've got the deepest damn group they've had. And I
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: still think they've got a fun group. It's just, here
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: we go again, bone. They got to get these dudes healthy, man.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: And to me, to me, yeah, they may not win
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: as many games as last year, but I'm looking at
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: the collection of assets and what they can be down
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: the line.
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: Not, I know not everyone will do that.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: But there's a reason, Mac, when you look at future
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: power rankings and assets and all that, they are very, very, very,
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: very high in what they have to work with going forward,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: and that's important. When we come back, what the bleep
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: stories in sports and in life that make us say
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: what the bleep on Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: We'll be right back. sports radio at.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: 92.7 wfnz mac and bone with you yeah we're gonna
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: have to talk through this bone before the season tips
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: off people are hot still i guess i thought most
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: people would just be like okay let's see what you
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: got lamellos traded i've come to terms with it let's
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: see what you got That's not the case.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: No, it's really not. It's not the case at all.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: I knew that to anger it. I get it, man.
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: I get it.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Last year was so much fun. I get it, man.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: I knew that the anger hadn't subsided. I didn't realize
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: it was still this fresh of a week.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: We did get a nice text from Rachel, though, in
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: her midst of wondering how this is going to go
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: and admitting to worrying about how it's going to go
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: with the Hornets post-Lomelo. She did drop in a congratulations
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: to Fitty for being promoted to boyfriend status. They are
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Facebook official, baby!
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Fitt! Thank you, Mac.
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: I played the audio for her yesterday. Of you saying
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: it was the best news on a Panther Monday. That
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: we were Facebook official. And it was the best part
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: of her day. So you somehow made my girlfriend's day.
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: I didn't make my girlfriend's day.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: You made her day.
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: Well, don't worry.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: It doesn't work that way with Mrs. Mack anymore. So
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: I'm glad it could work somehow. It's all fun and
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: games until the listeners start to send her friend requests.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: That already happened. Did it really?
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: Who was the first in? I forget the dude's name.
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: The bigger issue was, and God bless him because I
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: know he meant well. But Panther Steve's comment on the
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: post was just a little much.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: Awkward?
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Panther Steve's middle name is awkward.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: I had a listener send my mom a friend request
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: not long ago.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: She's like, why? Who is this person?
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: Can't they see that my mom and I have had
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: correspondence about their time in Tennessee together?
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: So the listeners, I was going to say that the
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Mac and Bone Show wags will usually get attention from
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: the listeners. But you're saying that extends to mothers on social.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: Media as well.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: So let's do this, y'all. It is time for a
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: little bit. of what the bleep let's laugh a little
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: bit and then we'll get back to um uh panther
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: conversations including who are our starting tackles when Monroe Freeling
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: comes back.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: And it sounds like it's going to happen pretty soon here.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: But anyway, we'll get into that in a minute.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Let's deal with what the bleep stories and sound bites
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: that make you say what the bleep. And I'm just
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: going to say right now, it will include clips from
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Matt rules, press conference yesterday, bone.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: He's doing it again, but anyway, go ahead. Bonesy. What
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: do you got, Mac?
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: We're going to go to Rufus King international high school
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where 23 year old former student, Amy Jones, uh,
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: was arrested after posing as a substitute teacher.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: This happened a month ago.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Jones told investigators she did it because she was bored,
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: hates children and just wanted to mess around. She allegedly
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: used profanity, made explicit and derogatory remarks, mocked students' weight
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: and appearance, played loud rap music and asked students if
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: they could.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: Give her their marijuana or their vapes.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Jones scouted the building a week earlier, blended in with students,
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: and later signed in. After overhearing staff discuss, someone was
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: out for the day, so she just walked to the
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: room and taught the class.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: She just wanted to take her frustrations out on those kids? Yes.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, man, what the bleep. I always wondered where to
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: get these substitutes from, Boney.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Well, I just wandered in and started teaching.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Never imagined that was a thing there. Never imagined that
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: would be the way it would play out.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: The students turned her in and I understand that she
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: was making, you know, remarks and she was mean to them.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: But if I'm in high school, I'm thinking, what a
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: day we're having here. We got to teach doing this work.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: This is high school kids like bring it on, lady.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: I know this is an elementary school.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Bring it on, lady.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Well, they had a substitute. They couldn't walk all over
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: and bully. And they were like, get her, get this
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: person out of here. They're bullying us. Isn't the way
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: it's supposed to work? Well, did I feel bad for
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: the substitutes? Because I was probably acting a clown, too.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: But anyway, in hindsight, I feel bad for substitutes. Now
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: that I'm a grown man. You know Willie P was
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: always helping out that sub. Substitute teacher's pet, you think?
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: I believe we're supposed to have a test today, sub. Oh, daddy, yes. Oh, man.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Can I get you some lunch? Some borscht and cheese.
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: Oh, man.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: All right, bone man. I have to. What the bleep?
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: A woman who was at the Rays-Guardians game last night,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Rays advanced to the World Series with the win. But
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: the real news to me is this picture of a
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: message on the scoreboard, Bone, that went viral. It was
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: a woman that sent a message out to a guy
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: named Derek and said, Hey, Derek, thanks for the tickets,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: but we really should just be friends.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Oh!
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: She didn't even have the courtesy to tell the man face-to-face,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: so were they at the game together? And did she
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: just say, hey, look at that scoreboard over there. There's
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: something I've been meaning to tell you. I haven't been
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: able to come up with the words to say face-to-face.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Not to mention, you couldn't just finish the date with
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: the man. This man bought you, took you, Paid for
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: the tickets, took you to the LCS clinching game. You
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: couldn't just have a nice time with him and they'd
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: break it to him with a.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Text afterwards or a call afterwards? What the bleep? This
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: is cold-hearted.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, it happened to me a lot. I'd get
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: tickets from somebody and they'd say we're just friends. I'd say,
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: all right, that's fine. I didn't go on the video board.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: That feels like I had to embarrass this man on
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: the video board, too.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: Oh, my gracious. Boneslick. Boneslick has happened to me all
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: the time.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: They can simply just break it to me another way
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: that is not public.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: There's a classy way to go about that. Oh, God,
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: that's crazy, man. Mac, we're going to go to.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to see where this was. It doesn't say
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: where this was. This is a viral video. of a
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Marriott hotel guest named Shauna Lynn. She went viral after
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: posting the story that she requested a baby crib and
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: received from the Marriott a Rubbermaid.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: Commercial laundry cart instead.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: The item delivered to the room was a large rectangular
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: rolling industrial bin with a heavy black liner stretched over
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: metal frames featuring a visible Rubbermaid commercial products logo on
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: the side. The hotel staff had tossed some standard baby
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: bedding inside the dirty linen bin and insisted this was
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: the crib they had to use.
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: What?
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: If you don't like it, lady, this is all we have. Man,
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: that's customer service right there, isn't it, baby?
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God, I'd be all kind of worked up.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Are you freaking kidding me? Sounds like something MFG would
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: do when he worked at a hotel.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: This will do right.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Remember they used to make MFG, Matt, go get the
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: guests that didn't check out on time?
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: MFG had to go get them out of their rooms.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: A victim. A victim from a hotel room. He had
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: to go knock on the door. He's time to go!
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: MFG had some jobs, too. And I mean jobs, because
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: he would get a new one every month. But he
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: had the security jobs where he would be security at night.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: He got sprayed by that skunk. That skunk sprayed him.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Didn't he fall asleep one time and somebody stole some stuff?
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he worked at a copper plant and he stole
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: the copper.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: Oh, God, MFG. God bless you, man. He also had
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: a lot of jobs, Mac, where he.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: was overnight security and his job was don't do anything
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: call the real security like don't move out of your
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: car just call the real people and he would never
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: call he'd just.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Do it on his own oh my god that's how
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: he got sprayed by a skunk oh gee you mentioned
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: overnight bone uh a great man once said it took
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: jay-z seven years to become an overnight success uh that
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: is matt rule and bone i don't know if you
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: noticed on your timeline yesterday and i don't know if
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: y'all did panther fans Matt Ruhle was trending on the timelines.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: He seems to be doing that thing again, Bone, where
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: he is babbling, he's excuse-making. He does this when he
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: feels the heat. And I believe after the last two
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: weekends of blown leads in the fourth quarter against Indiana
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: and Oregon, he is feeling the heat. So we put
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: a little montage together, Bone, of a what-the-bleep-worthy press conference.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: In the words of Smoke Ludwig, Matt Ruhle may have
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: had his Jay-Z moment Omaha edition, Bone, yesterday.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: Listen to this.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: I let the guys dance at the fourth quarter. I
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: will never do that again. Like I sat up and
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: I pulled them all up and they started running. I
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: was kind of like, and I was like, get back in.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: And part of our thing was like, UCLA did it.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: And I wanted, you know, coming off Indiana, I was like, hey,
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: we're going to play our tail off. It goes back
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: to what Coach Osborne said when he first got here. Like, hey,
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: you play physical for three quarters to win the fourth quarter.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: And I was like, we're going to be so physical
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: in the third quarter. First quarter, second quarter, third quarter.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Fourth quarter comes, they're going to try to intimidate you
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: with that song.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: Have fun.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: Enjoy it. Lock back in. And our guys got back in.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: We didn't win the fourth quarter. And that's not my DNA.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: And so I have to own that. I was sitting
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: out there. I was like, get in here. Let's go play.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: I believe, as we look at us as a football team,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: we're a team that's lost the last two weeks. And
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: that's unacceptable. And that's not okay. I also think we're
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: a team that's probably two plays away from being a
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: top 10 program, top 10 team. And both of those
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: can be true. You know, you can see the possibility
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: and see the opportunity that's there that, hey, we're going
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: to play each game away from being probably a top
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: 10 team versus two excellent opponents. At the same time,
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: we have failed. I have failed in each of those
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: last two games. And those both, both are true. I've
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: watched the last couple of years like, man, Coach Rule,
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: you don't win down the stretch. Well, I ain't the
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: one out there playing. Like, players, you want to win
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: down the stretch? You go win down the stretch. Don't
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: listen to anything outside.
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: Watch the tape.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: What the bleep, Matty? What the bleep, Matty? He's at
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: it again, dude. It's horrible.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: And Nebraska fans, many of them are furious at what
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: they're hearing. Like, we should be a top 10 team
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: if we're in for two plays. Like, this is the
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: stuff he does, Bone. I'm not the one out there playing.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: They got to finish gate. Like, This is the, I
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: shouldn't have let them dance. I let them dance to
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: the shout song. And in the third quarter, I'm never
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: letting them do it again. It's not in my DNA. Like,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: he starts being a bumbling buffoon when he feels the heat.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: When he starts to go Porky Pig mode, that's major
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: troubles ahead, right? When he starts doing that, he has no,
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: he doesn't go into the pressers with any plan.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: He's all over the place. A lot of coaches, Matt,
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: will go very generic.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: I'm going to say this, this. They think about it.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: When he was here, he'd get up there, and he'd
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: almost be surprised. You know, they, hey, why'd you go
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: for it on four down? Like, something that you should know.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: When you go, he would have no answers. Just rambling.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: They said that they asked him a question about the
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: bye week. Is this a good time for the bye week?
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: They said five minutes later. This is a Nebraska writer.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Five minutes later, they have no idea what he was
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: talking about. He just went on and on about different
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: topics for five minutes.
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: That.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Is rambling rule right there, baby. What the bleep rambling rule.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: You're still doing it.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Mac, we have a what the bleep here that's really sad,
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: but it's also what the bleep worthy. A Texas wedding
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: venue named Posey Meadows is facing widespread public backlash and
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: a legal battle after refusing to fund nearly $ 16, 000 to
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: a grieving fiancé. whose groom-to-be died seven months before the
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: wedding happened.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: Oh, my God. They're in court now because the bride
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: is saying, we're not having a wedding. He died.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: They're saying, no, you still owe us $ 16, 000.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: That's great customer service. Posey Meadows, what the bleep, man.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: What the bleep. And how do they think that works?
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: You're haggling over this money. Well, once this becomes a
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: news story, who's going to use your services in the future?
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: Seriously. Goodbye, Posey Meadows. You might have just killed your business.
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: Who wants to work with this company now?
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Posey Meadows also sounds like a Netflix show that I
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: would watch for multiple seasons. From the creators of Gilmore Girls.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: By the way, she sued them initially. They're countersuing her.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: So they're going back and forth.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Over this thing. This is not a good idea. This
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: is not good PR, Bone, I believe.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: Also, Posey Meadows, the groom unfortunately died.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: There's no wedding. What is she paying for now? what
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: what's what is she paying for that's brutal that is
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: brutal seven months to figure this out like what is
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: she it's not like look i mean he didn't die
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: like 10 minutes before the wedding he seven months ago
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: i gotta figure it out posy.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: I gotta what the bleep of the folks in uh
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: kilona british columbia bone that's canada what are they doing
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: up there in canada bone what are they doing They
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: just elected a man to the city council named Brady Rogers,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: whose whole advertising campaign was, I just want this job
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: so I can.
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: Pay my rent.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: I'm not qualified for this job. Do I enjoy politics?
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: No.
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: Do I know what I'm doing?
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: No.
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: But am I qualified? Also, no.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: This was his ad campaign. How hard could it be?
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Brady Rogers for city council. Bone, this campaign won.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: What?
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: What the bleep we doing now i don't know maybe i.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Should salute this guy because he is he is the
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: only person i have seen bone in the last i
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: don't know 10 years that has campaigned without slamming the
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: person they're running against so maybe i should salute him
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: but how does that silly campaign get.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: You elected Canada, do better.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: You can't run for office when you're not qualified. That
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: would never happen here in America. You'd never win here
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: in America if you're not qualified, could you? I thought
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: you were better than this, Canada.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: Oh, my goodness. Blame Canada, Bone. Blame Canada.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: That is what the bleep stories that make us say
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: what the bleep on a weekly basis. When we come back,
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: who should be the starting tackles when Monroe Freeling is healthy?
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: And what did Coach Canales say about this situation on Monday?
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: Mack, Bone, Finney, Sports Radio. 92.7 WFNZ.
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: There's a bunch of scenarios we're still working through. Timo
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: looked like Timo. Rasheed Walker played his best game. We'll
• 33:04
  Speaker 7: see where Monroe is at physically, and we'll go from there.
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: And so while this is a first-round pick for us,
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: this is a high-value player for us, we're going to
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: do what's best for the Panthers, and we're going to
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: put the best group, healthiest group out there. So that's
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: a good challenge for Monroe, to see how he responds
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: to the training, the treatment. and to see if he
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: shows us how ready he is to play and then
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: how do we play him. So all those questions we
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: have to figure out.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: All right, so there's Coach Canales talking about a little
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: positional intrigue, Boney, a little positional intrigue, baby, at the
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: tackle spot right now.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: It is a good problem to have.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: There's no doubt about it when you feel like, hey,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: we got three capable tackles. Heck, we got another one
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: in Icky. You know, we're wondering when, if ever, we're
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: going to get him back. But so there is an
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: element of, hey, having some depth here is a good thing.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: But that's Coach Canales talking about Monroe and when he
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: is healthy from this knee injury, what the plan is.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: I do want to shout out our texters real quick here, Bone,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: because there were a couple of tech themes that were
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: handled during that segment.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: The first one is about what the bleep. The first
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: one was the reason the dude in Canada won by
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: admitting I'm not qualified is it was finally an honest politician.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: People were just like, this dude's honest. No one else is.
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: You get my vote. And I can appreciate that.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: You had a what to believe filled with honesty because
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: you had the woman that said, Derek, thanks for the tickets,
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: but we're just friends.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm anti-honesty. Maybe I'm anti-honesty. Or those overly honest people, actually, right?
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: I would just like people to actually break up with
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: people in person. It feels like that's something that us
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: OGs had to do or had done to us. More
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: like it for me. And no one does it nowadays.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: You're a bunch of gutless weenie, you single folks now.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: I used to be, I mean, I was dumped in
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: every way possible.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: In person, on the phone, AOL Instant Messenger, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Telegram.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: Other people, other friends just tell him he's over.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Whisper down the lane. Tell him, let's get it down
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: the lane that he's been bumped.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: When her new boyfriend showed up on our date, that
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: was another sign that this was going elsewhere.
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: He wasn't going where I wanted to go. Oh, God.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: The other theme on the text was, hey, if this
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: poor woman has seven months, Bone, before the wedding was
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: supposed to happen, she should get in touch with Fitty
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: because Fitty and his sweetheart— could want to take that
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: wedding facility bone. This does kind of sound.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: It does kind of sound like a rom-com, though.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: Because as... Someone pointed out in the text... Gas House Earl.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: Gas House Earl said she has seven months to find
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: a new man. This is like a rom-com where she's
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: got to find a new man by a certain date
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: to get married. And it all works out because he
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: turns out being the man of her dreams anyway, right?
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: I can see it. I can see it. All right.
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: Can we get back to which tackles are the men
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: of our dreams? Who are the Bryce Young protectors of
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: our dreams? So.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: That was the first clip when Dave was asked about, hey,
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: what happens when Monroe comes back? It was interesting because
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Alex Zetlow says, what happens at right tackle? The real
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: question is, Bone, who are the starting tackles? Who's the
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: starting left tackle when Monroe's healthy? And let's just start here.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: I'm with you, bro. I don't think there's a right
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: tackle question. Not at all. Can we just cut to
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: the chase? I don't know how many people, Panther fans,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: would disagree. And if you do, that's fine. I just
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: don't see in any world that you take Taylor Moten
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: out of the lineup. Like he came backbone after doing
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: no football since the end of the season last year.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: And he looked like he never left. He just plugged
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: right back in. Taylor Moten came back as Taylor Moten.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: In what world would you take Timo out of the
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: damn lineup? The dude is a steadier on a unit
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: that needs a steadier.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: No, and also we talked about how much can he
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: help Robert Hunt maybe play at a higher level next to.
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: Him more so than Freeling was.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: So I know the other day it wasn't the best,
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: but over time, how much does Freeling help the other.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: Guys on that line also on that side? You're talking Timo. Timo, sorry.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Timo, for your next trick, Timo, I would like you
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: to grab Robert Hunt and pull him back. from going
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: too far downfield. I'd like you to do that in
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: addition to blocking. So to me, the battle is on
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: the left side. And Canales is right when he says
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Rasheed Walker played his best Panther game this past week.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: I think PFF had it with one pressure, and I
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: didn't even notice that one. I mean, it felt really
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: clean in pass protection. And I need to say this.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: They have had so much success running Chuba on his side,
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: outside left tackle, outside left end. The other day, they
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: did it again, over and over again. nine carries for
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: 66 yards to the left side. That's over seven yards
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: a carry. Now the tight ends got involved. The wide
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: receivers got involved, but he deserves some credit bone for
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: the success they've had all season running outside left. But the,
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: but I don't think there's any denying he was a
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: seventh round pick Rasheed Walker.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Monroe Freeling is your first round pick a top 20 selection.
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: He's the future.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: He is the more physically gifted dude. There is no
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: denying that. Who would you start at left tackle, Bo?
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: You know, Walker wasn't too bad the other day. I
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: would start Walker for the immediate and let Freeling get healthy,
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: maybe watch a little bit because he didn't get to
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: do that when the year began. But as soon as
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: Walker shows signs of, oh, this is going really bad,
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be opposed to putting Freeling in there, but
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: I'm probably going to wait a few more weeks before
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: I make that move. Eventually I may, but Walker was
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: okay the other day. Free wing is coming off the injury.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: Let him sit for a couple games, see how he's doing,
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: and then we'll see what happens. Yeah, I like what
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: you're saying. Let Walker have a meltdown, and then we'll
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: worry about it.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: I like what you're saying. I like what Kakalak is
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: saying on the text line as well. Kakalak says, and yes,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: I like saying Kakalak. He says, Monroe spent all of
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: camp and six weeks into the season running right tackle reps,
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: so he would never be taking Walker's spot immediately. Hopefully
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Monroe will now assume swing tackle responsibilities for the rest
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: of the season. I think that's a very good point
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: that he made and it jives with what you're saying.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Let's just talk about right tackle and left tackle are different, right?
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: It just feels different. How about getting him to the
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: point where maybe he's taking left tackle reps, but certainly
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: not the lion's share. And maybe you stick with the
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: veteran in Walker and you kind of just let this play.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Like I last year at the running back spot, I
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: thought when Rico was hot, you ride him. it then
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: shifted to where Rico wasn't hot and Chuba got hot.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: You're right.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: I feel like to your point, Bone, let Walker hold
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: the job down. But if you start to see those signs,
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: like we saw in the Detroit game and in the
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: Cleveland game, if we start, because I think it was
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: like 13 pressures in those two games combined. If you
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: start to see him struggle and when you watch Monroe,
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: maybe give Monroe, I don't know, 25% of the reps
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: in practice. If you start to feel like, okay, Monroe's comfortable,
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: he's back at his old home.
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: And he's healthy.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: He's back at his old home and left tackle. He's
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: healthy now. Maybe there's a time. It's one of those
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: things that maybe you'll know it when you see it. Okay,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Walker's struggling. Monroe's ready for this. So maybe play it
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: like that, you know?
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: Matt, should we check some text from QC Mechanical, your
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: local HVAC experts here?
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, what do we got going on? Someone wants to know.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: Can Robert Hunt wear the green dot instead of Bryce
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: so they can talk to him in his helmet?
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: Get back! Get back, Hunt! What he's wondering. It's a
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: hell of an idea.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: Also, Matt, poor Rachel on the text line. We're now
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: getting when people were dumped stories. Rachel was dumped in
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: the middle of a middle school basketball game by someone's
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: friend when told her during the game that she was
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: playing in, he broke up with you.
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: Oh, my God.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Couldn't even let her finish the game, for God's sakes?
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: She was working on a double-double. Y'all have some damn feelings.
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: I had one time broken with a girl in middle
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: school over a pack of crackers.
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: Over a pack of crackers?
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: What happened? I'm sorry?
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: Well, I had this girlfriend in sixth grade. Didn't want
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: to have a girlfriend anymore. And this dude said, I'll
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: give you a pack of crackers if you break up
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: with her. So I broke up with her and got
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: a pack of crackers.
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: Shocking that snack foods were involved in this whole deal.
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: Snacks over women. That tracks.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: That tracks for Finney. Some of the texters chiming in here.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: Line of Boy says, I thought Monroe played left tackle
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: in college.
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: He did.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: He played primarily, including his final year, the year that
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: got him drafted, was all left tackle. But I just,
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure there's a need to rush him over there.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: I think you got to play it and truly see, okay,
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: is he ready? Is Walker ready? And there'll probably be
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: a re-acclimation, I think is our point, from right tackle
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: to left tackle.
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: Not played in the pros yet.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: We have a, yeah, at this level. Yeah, I don't
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: think you need to rush it if Walker can play
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: like he did last week. But if Walker plays like
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: he had been previously, Monroe might be in there in
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: three weeks.
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: I think that's kind of the way you do it.
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: Let's see here.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: This texter says, you used a first-round pick on Monroe Freeling.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: You played the first-round pick. You don't pay the guy
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: you paid a couple of million dollars. What's your response
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: to that, Bones?
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: I think that Monroe Freeling was not always going to
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: necessarily be a pick for 2026. He's a guy that
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: is long-term. So the fact that he got to play
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: on the right side to start the year was great,
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: but this isn't a, you have to rush them in
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: their situation. So if he's ready, he's ready. If not,
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: we know that he's the future. So he's still going
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: to be there. So I, if he plays or not,
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: I'm still confident that he's the guy going forward. Yeah.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Let's go back to what the plan probably was. The
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: plan got expedited.
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: It's yeah.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: He was, I do not believe bone. He was supposed
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: to start. I believe it was supposed to be Walker
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: on the left and Timo on the right. So now
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: that all three are healthy again, and there should be
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: no question at right tackle, there was one of y'all
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: that said, why doesn't Freeling just take over right tackle?
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: It's like, again, it's an underappreciation some fans have for
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: Timo and how he stabilizes things up front and is just...
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: consistently good constantly but like just go back to the
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: initial plan and if it's time because walker's struggling or
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: freeling looks the part in practice they'll know it they'll
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: know it but it's a good problem to have bony
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: good problem to have.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: Absolutely uh more on rob hunt mad gas house earl
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: wants to know what are the rules for making rob
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: hunt an eligible receiver every play at guard Can you
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: make him eligible so he can go downfield and do
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: whatever he wants to do?
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: A lot of curiosity, Mag, with Rob Hunt right now. Oh, man,
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: did you see? Who ran that? Did y'all see the play?
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: Somebody ran a play the other day where they put
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: a dude, like, in the guard spot, but he was
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: off the line. So that meant he was an eligible receiver.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: He was back off the line. But they thought he
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: was lined up at guard. This dude runs a route
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: and gets a 25-yard pass play because no one covers
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: him right away.
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: Oh, I saw it the other day.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: Was it Houston that ran that? I think it was Houston,
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: if I'm not mistaken. I forget, but I saw something
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: Put it in the bag, Brad. We got you putting
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: Jalen in the backfield. Get me some Tommy Tremble looking
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: like he's the guard, baby. Or just to Bone's point
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: or the texter's point, just let Rob.
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: Hunt run the damn route. He wants to go down
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: there anyway. All right, we come back. J.J.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: Jansen, the record setter, the icon, the entertainer, joins us
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: next on Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.