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Mac & Bone Show - Adam Gold Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. Mack and Bone with you. Cruising
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  Speaker 1: through a Tuesday morning here on the aptly named Mack
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  Speaker 1: and Bone Show. Our boy Fitty is hanging as well
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  Speaker 1: as always, ladies and gentlemen. We've got a Bryce conversation
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  Speaker 1: to have. Of course we do, Bone, coming up at 8.45.
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  Speaker 1: We will get into it. How well is he playing?
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  Speaker 1: If we're being honest and not being total homers, maybe
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  Speaker 1: just being minor homers about it, how high up should
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  Speaker 1: he rank on the list of quarterbacks this year? And
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  Speaker 1: where does he fall in all the time with other
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Famers?
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  Speaker 2: Ha ha ha! Montana or Bryce? We will talk about
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  Speaker 2: it later. Joe Montana, is he a poor man's Bryce Young?
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  Speaker 1: But right now, let's bring in Adam Gold. He's a
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  Speaker 1: Bryce fan. I know he's going to enjoy talking about
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Young, who might have had his worst game of
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  Speaker 1: the season and still 91 quarterback rating, 281 yards. Two
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns and no picks. Adam Gold joins us. You know
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  Speaker 1: we've got college football to talk about after that wild
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  Speaker 1: weekend of college football. And you know we've got to
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  Speaker 1: talk about the Canes with Goldie. Adam Gold, 99.9 The
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  Speaker 1: Fan in Raleigh, and most importantly here in Charlotte. You
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  Speaker 1: can hear him weeknights, 7 o'clock on WFNZ. Goldie, how
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  Speaker 1: are you feeling this week, man?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel great.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to hear that. You sound great, Goldie. I know,
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  Speaker 2: you sound pumped up and ready. He said you're raring
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  Speaker 2: to go today. You were full of energy off the air.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: I like it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, are you enjoying Bryce?
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  Speaker 1: Because you had always been in Bryce's corner, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when people were bashing him and when he was having,
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  Speaker 1: you know, rough stretches. How much are you enjoying seeing
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  Speaker 1: him play the way he's playing and get the, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and get the press and the pub and the recognition
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  Speaker 1: and respect that he's now getting?
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  Speaker 3: From everybody not named Chris Sims, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Look, I don't take any personal, like, I
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  Speaker 3: told you so, because I'm not the expert. I'm just
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  Speaker 3: trying to read the room. And in his draft year,
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  Speaker 3: there were more people that were Bryce fans than C.J.
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  Speaker 3: Stroud fans. I didn't even realize when Bryce was playing
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  Speaker 3: at Alabama that he was small. I mean, not even
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  Speaker 3: a lot. I didn't realize that he was small. All
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  Speaker 3: I know is that he was good. And to me,
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't play like a small quarterback. I mean, Drew
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  Speaker 3: Brees was small. He was about six foot. Russell Wilson.
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  Speaker 3: I watched Russell Wilson for his whole career. He's 5'11.
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  Speaker 3: There's nothing that says that a small quarterback can't be successful. Nothing.
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  Speaker 3: And he does all the things that you want a
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  Speaker 3: great quarterback to do. And I actually thought that the
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  Speaker 3: I think the biggest problem that he had on Sunday
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  Speaker 3: was just that he was his timing was off with
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  Speaker 3: his receivers. I mean, he was probably more inaccurate than
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  Speaker 3: we've seen him all year. But I remember there was
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  Speaker 3: the one thing I'm a big Ross Tucker fan as
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  Speaker 3: an analyst. And I think it was right before the
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  Speaker 3: first half ended where he said, we're going to find
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  Speaker 3: out now how much they trust Bryce Young. And I
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  Speaker 3: love Ross, but he hadn't watched the Panthers, I guess,
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  Speaker 3: this year because they trust him. And, I mean, even
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  Speaker 3: in his own end zone, he dropped back and he
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  Speaker 3: threw that first down strike. to Ted Arroyo and McMillan
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  Speaker 3: was like third and 14. Like in years.
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  Speaker 2: Past, they would not have done that.
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  Speaker 3: They would have handed the ball off and punted the
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  Speaker 3: ball away. But man, I'm like, no, man, we got
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  Speaker 3: one of the best quarterbacks in the league right now.
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  Speaker 3: And to me, he has arrived as, you know, again,
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  Speaker 3: we have different categories and tiers of great quarterbacks. But
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  Speaker 3: he is a top 10 quarterback in this league, absolutely,
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  Speaker 3: right now. I think it bodes well for not only
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  Speaker 3: the short-term, but the long-term future.
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  Speaker 2: With that, what do you think we're looking at contract-wise
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  Speaker 2: with Bryce?
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  Speaker 3: A lot. Back to you, Mac. Well, you don't have
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  Speaker 3: to pay it. You're good.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. I'd be willing to, though, if they asked me.
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  Speaker 2: You go get up to $ 55 million, $ 60 million. I
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  Speaker 2: can help, but we can all help out. Pennies a day.
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  Speaker 2: You've seen the commercials.
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  Speaker 3: It could be more. It probably will be more than
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  Speaker 3: $ 55 million. Here's the thing. The cap is going to
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  Speaker 3: be about the same, whether the quarterback, whether he's making
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  Speaker 3: 62 or he makes 57. It's going to be about
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  Speaker 3: the same because they're going to, first of all, he's
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  Speaker 3: got the 50-year options already been picked up. That's part
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  Speaker 3: of it. Yeah, it is. That would be part of
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  Speaker 3: the contract.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the extension part would start after that, after that year.
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  Speaker 1: So that kind of helps a little bit, too. We're
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  Speaker 1: talking with Adam Gold from 99.9 The Fan in Raleigh.
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  Speaker 1: He knows a little something, Bone, about $ 60 million contracts,
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  Speaker 1: all right, in Raleigh.
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  Speaker 2: That's the rumor.
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  Speaker 1: That's the rumor I'm hearing.
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  Speaker 3: I have never had a contract. Do you know that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 3: Never. Never.
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  Speaker 1: Dang, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Goldie, they're paying you, right? It hasn't been a hobby
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  Speaker 2: now for 30 years, has.
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  Speaker 3: It? Yes. I'm an at-will employee.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Please don't tell them here that we can
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  Speaker 2: work without contracts. Don't tell them that's an option.
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  Speaker 3: Did that upset all you guys? Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 2: Uh-oh, yeah, keep that quiet.
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  Speaker 3: Goldie.
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  Speaker 2: You just signed out of an employee like two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: The college football weekend was freaking amazing. It was insane
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  Speaker 1: with the five top seven teams losing most of all
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  Speaker 1: time and just the drama and the way it was done.
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  Speaker 1: And Urban Meyer said something yesterday. I am very rarely
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  Speaker 1: agreeing with Urban Meyer, but he said to Colin Coward,
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  Speaker 1: he was like, man, I was wrong. He said, I
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  Speaker 1: thought this NIL thing with the portal was going to
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  Speaker 1: make the rich richer. He says it has created so
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  Speaker 1: much parody, and I just believe it has. I believe
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  Speaker 1: once we get past injunction, junction, and all that annoying
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  Speaker 1: stuff with the contracts and the court and the eligibility,
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  Speaker 1: I just believe the on-the-field product and the parody has
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  Speaker 1: made Saturdays even better.
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  Speaker 2: Do you agree with that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what we don't have are, I mean, super dominant–
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  Speaker 3: you know, teams that go two and three deep, like
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  Speaker 3: the old Alabama team. So when, if you go back
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  Speaker 3: and you look at the rosters of the Alabama team,
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  Speaker 3: the players that didn't play during that Saban era, just
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  Speaker 3: because they had, you know, future top 10 draft pick
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  Speaker 3: in their way at every position, those players are playing elsewhere. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there are problems. I was talking about this with one
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  Speaker 3: of my good friends. I know you've talked to him,
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  Speaker 3: Chip Patterson. And the rosters for college football teams now
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  Speaker 3: are a little thinner. They're still great, but they're a
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  Speaker 3: little thinner. So they don't have as much depth because
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  Speaker 3: that depth is playing elsewhere because people are going where
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  Speaker 3: the money is if they're going to get paid. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you can't get paid as the backup left, you know,
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  Speaker 3: left quarterback. You're going to go somewhere else and get paid.
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  Speaker 3: The third wide receiver isn't making, you know, a million
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  Speaker 3: and a half bucks to stay at Ohio State. That
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  Speaker 3: guy is going somewhere else. And, yes, so we've got
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  Speaker 3: parity everywhere. There's still a lot of good football, but
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  Speaker 3: it has made the field– bigger, which justifies, unfortunately, their
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  Speaker 3: 2014 stupid playoff. Have you guys seen the SEC shorts
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  Speaker 3: latest video? No, no. Oh, you've got to watch it.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to watch it because it's funny because it's
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  Speaker 3: all about this past weekend and it's a college football
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  Speaker 3: emergency room. It's so good. And it steps outside of
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  Speaker 3: the SEC, not for the first time, but it incorporates
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  Speaker 3: everybody who had struggles this weekend. The Miami part in
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  Speaker 3: the beginning is hysterical. Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: I saw the AI video where all the losing coaches
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  Speaker 2: were playing in a music group, Matt. We saw that
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  Speaker 2: one yesterday. That was impressive. Marcus Freeman's on the saxophone.
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  Speaker 3: That was very funny. By the way, I didn't realize
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  Speaker 3: that Marcus Freeman could play the sax. He's fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Unbelievable. What do you think of the 2014 playoff, though,
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  Speaker 2: and how does that fundamentally change what we're talking about?
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  Speaker 4: It changes it drastically because especially in– you know, the
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  Speaker 4: middle of October, you just, these, the results from.
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  Speaker 3: These games, they don't really mean anything but for seeding,
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  Speaker 3: but with a 12 team playoff, frankly, I was a
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  Speaker 3: 14 guy and I've said this a hundred thousand times.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't really like expanding it to 12, but I,
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  Speaker 3: I will grant you that last year was fun, and
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  Speaker 3: the year before was fun, and the year before that
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  Speaker 3: was fun, and this year will be fun. 24 is nuts,
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  Speaker 3: but what Saturday did was, in a 12-team field, that
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  Speaker 3: essentially eliminated some teams. Nobody got eliminated in a 24-team field.
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  Speaker 3: There's just no way. I keep having these conversations or
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  Speaker 3: monologues about the state of college football, the people who
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  Speaker 3: run it don't care about it. They only care about
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  Speaker 3: how much money they can pull from it. They don't
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  Speaker 3: care about the game. They don't care about the players.
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  Speaker 3: They don't care about anything except how much money they
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  Speaker 3: can generate. And that's ultimately the playoffs going to generate more,
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  Speaker 3: not dramatically more, but more. And that's all they care
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  Speaker 3: about is growing the pie. But we won't have a
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  Speaker 3: weekend like we just had with meaning that in a
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  Speaker 3: 2014 field. So that's the trade-off.
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  Speaker 2: It's also going to hurt the other bowl games. What's
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  Speaker 2: the weed-eating bowl? The Pullian weed-eating bowl? You worried about
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  Speaker 2: losing it? Yeah, I'm just saying, like the weed-eating bowl
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  Speaker 2: and the Thompson's water seal bowl, they're all going to
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  Speaker 2: be in trouble now.
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  Speaker 3: You know how long it took me to know what–
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  Speaker 3: The bad boy bowl, whatever that's called.
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  Speaker 2: Bad boy mowers.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want me to realize that it was a
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  Speaker 3: lawnmower company?
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 3: What will Lockheed Martin sponsor now? Because we want to
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  Speaker 3: go out and we want to buy all these military
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  Speaker 3: grade weapons.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, of course. I'm going to shop for some later today.
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  Speaker 2: I'm always wondering about that advertiser. Like, do we really
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  Speaker 2: want to? Do we need that on our every day? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to show you.
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  Speaker 1: You want to shop with me later? I'm online shopping
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  Speaker 1: for some later.
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  Speaker 2: Mac needs himself a bad boy mower.
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  Speaker 1: Goldie, what did you think? Bone is trying to filibuster
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  Speaker 1: so we don't talk about the victory bell. Going to
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  Speaker 1: Little Billy. Little Billy has finally achieved his lifelong dream
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  Speaker 1: of beating Duke. And it was, bro, it was dramatic, man.
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  Speaker 1: The way it looked like it was going to repeat
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  Speaker 1: 2024 with the big blown lead, only for them to
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  Speaker 1: kind of nut up and make that big drive for
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  Speaker 1: Edwards to make the throw on fourth down, McGill's run.
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  Speaker 1: That was a.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty damn good game.
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  Speaker 1: And the Heels got a little momentum. What do you
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  Speaker 1: think about it, Goldie?
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  Speaker 3: I think they're doing exactly what Bill Belichick does. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know that they were better than Duke. Actually, I
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  Speaker 3: think they were better than Duke. And I'm not sure
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  Speaker 3: they were better than Pitt, but Bill's going to keep
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  Speaker 3: his team in it. They play disciplined football. They play
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  Speaker 3: smart football. I don't know if the guttiness was going
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  Speaker 3: for it on fourth and five. I still can't figure out.
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  Speaker 3: If I'm Bill Belichick, let's just flip it for a second.
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  Speaker 3: If I'm Bill Belichick coaching Duke, is there a way
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  Speaker 3: on this planet that Jelani Thurman would have been left uncovered?
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  Speaker 3: On any planet, no way am I not focusing on,
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  Speaker 3: in my opinion, the Tar Heels' best player. There's no
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  Speaker 3: way he's open. I don't understand how he got open
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  Speaker 3: against Duke, but he did. But look, I said when
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  Speaker 3: Bill got the job, I have no idea if this
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  Speaker 3: is going to work. But if you give him comparable talent,
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  Speaker 3: doesn't have to be better, comparable talent, the best coach
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  Speaker 3: in the history of football is going to figure out
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  Speaker 3: a way to win more games than you would with
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  Speaker 3: the same talent. And that's what he's doing. This team
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  Speaker 3: is not a four and two football team based on
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  Speaker 3: the schedule that they have already played. But they are
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  Speaker 3: 4-2 because they have the best coach that ever wore
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  Speaker 3: a headset. No doubt about it. They know how to win.
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  Speaker 3: You know how hard it is to do what he
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  Speaker 3: did with the Patriots, even with Tom Brady? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they didn't have the best wide receivers, the best offensive line,
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  Speaker 3: the best– they didn't have the best. They had the
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  Speaker 3: best quarterback, but they didn't have the best talent on
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  Speaker 3: the field every year. But, hell, if they didn't win– 11,
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  Speaker 3: 12 games every year. That's impossible to do in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: The best coaches don't do that now. Kyle Shanahan had
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  Speaker 3: like a six-win season a few years ago. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: everybody takes a dip. Not built. Yeah. He's that good.
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  Speaker 2: Got to give him credit.
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  Speaker 1: And the progress is happening. I'm happy for Heels fans.
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  Speaker 2: Man, you see the progress.
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  Speaker 1: And another winnable game against Syracuse.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't locking anything up. But a chance to.
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  Speaker 3: They're a touchdown favorite.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: That's true, too. They have a great chance to go
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  Speaker 1: to 5-2. They really do.
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  Speaker 3: Goldie. They could win seven or eight games this year.
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  Speaker 1: And that would be a hell of a freaking season
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  Speaker 1: after last year.
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  Speaker 2: And they got rid of Lombardi. That's like three wins
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  Speaker 2: in itself. All right, Goldie.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get them right.
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  Speaker 2: You're the man, Goldie. We'll talk to you next week.
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  Speaker 3: Peace, fellas.