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Mac & Bone Hour 3: Pulse of Panther Nation · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, oh, oh, it's Mac and Bo on your radio, baby.
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  Speaker 2: This is my friend Matt. Posh, come on, Posh.
• 0:10
  Speaker 3: This is my friend T-Bone.
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: Let's have some fun.
• 0:14
  Speaker 3: I can't go to work without listening to Mac and Bone.
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: Do it live.
• 0:39
  Speaker 4: The whole week we talked about the movie The Gladiator.
• 0:42
  Speaker 4: We showed it on.
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  Speaker 2: The bus trip down, and we knew there was a lot.
• 0:46
  Speaker 5: Of outside noise, but we knew the men in the
• 0:49
  Speaker 5: arena would win the game.
• 0:50
  Speaker 4: And that's what we talked about all week.
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  Speaker 5: It was the great gladiators, the great warriors can control
• 0:56
  Speaker 5: the environment, and our guys played that way.
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: That is Dal Loggins.
• 1:01
  Speaker 6: For some reason, Bone, App State head coach, did a presser,
• 1:04
  Speaker 6: ECU postgame presser, from the sideline in the stadium with
• 1:09
  Speaker 6: a leaf blower being used in the background.
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  Speaker 2: So hopefully you can hear that okay. What's going on here?
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  Speaker 6: He said, we watched the movie Gladiator, and the theme
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  Speaker 6: this week was gladiator mentality. We're going on the road,
• 1:22
  Speaker 6: hostile environment. You know they're going to be all lubed up,
• 1:25
  Speaker 6: all liquored up.
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  Speaker 2: In Greenville.
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  Speaker 6: Hadn't lost a damn tailgate ever. And we went into
• 1:31
  Speaker 6: that hostile atmosphere and got the W. What a performance
• 1:34
  Speaker 6: for App State. It's Pumped or Pissed Monday. We want
• 1:38
  Speaker 6: you to either rave and brag about your team. App
• 1:41
  Speaker 6: State fans, y'all should brag so much. That's four in
• 1:43
  Speaker 6: a row. against the Pirates. And if you want to
• 1:46
  Speaker 6: come on the piss side of things, college football fans
• 1:50
  Speaker 6: that want to let loose, ECU fans, it's got to
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  Speaker 6: bother you that App has won four straight against you.
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  Speaker 2: It has to.
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  Speaker 6: Buckeye fans, I'm told there might be something you might
• 2:01
  Speaker 6: be upset about this morning.
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  Speaker 4: I can't imagine what that could be.
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  Speaker 5: 23-3.
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  Speaker 6: All right, all right, all right, all right. And we
• 2:10
  Speaker 6: got so much to get into on the show. Huge wins,
• 2:12
  Speaker 6: dramatic win for Wake with Gio Lopez connecting with Hernandez
• 2:16
  Speaker 6: on a fourth and 15 in double OT and then
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  Speaker 6: scoring the game, the touchdown to tie it, the two-point
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  Speaker 6: conversion to win it. Duke Boney with a big win.
• 2:28
  Speaker 6: They're on the revenge tour. They're non-conference revenge tour. They
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  Speaker 6: have avenged two of those non-conference losses from last year already.
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  Speaker 7: And right now they have a guy that started the
• 2:39
  Speaker 7: season as the hottest running back maybe in the sport.
• 2:43
  Speaker 7: He had a monster day against Tulane, that being Nate Shepard.
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  Speaker 7: He follows it up against the Illini on the road
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  Speaker 7: with a day both catching the football and running. He
• 2:53
  Speaker 7: ran for 147 in the score. He also had two
• 2:58
  Speaker 7: touchdowns through the year, 41 yards.
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  Speaker 2: No one at that spot right now.
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  Speaker 7: I know there's some guys that are really good, but
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  Speaker 7: Nate Shepard right now, Matt, is playing as well as
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  Speaker 7: anybody in the sport at the right back.
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  Speaker 6: Seriously, dude, he is ridiculous, man. His contact balance. He's
• 3:12
  Speaker 6: got to be a future first rounder, right? I don't
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  Speaker 6: know if it's first round. You know the value of
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  Speaker 6: running backs in this league, but that's a Sunday player, right?
• 3:19
  Speaker 6: That's a damn Sunday player.
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  Speaker 2: Because he catches the ball, too, right? Yeah, had two
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  Speaker 2: touchdown catches.
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  Speaker 6: He get 15 for 21, 206.
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  Speaker 2: Three TDs, no turnovers. When you have Nate Shepard, That's
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  Speaker 2: kind of what you expect from the quarterback. That was
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  Speaker 2: a huge bounce back. I loved it.
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  Speaker 6: Oklahoma State, Michigan, and EGET bounce back from week one, right?
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  Speaker 6: The narratives after week one don't have to be, and
• 3:42
  Speaker 6: this should apply hopefully to the Panthers. The week one narratives, Bone,
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  Speaker 6: don't have to be full season absolutes. A lot of
• 3:48
  Speaker 6: times we see week one, we think they're full season absolutes.
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  Speaker 6: So on Friday, we're talking about, you need to get
• 3:54
  Speaker 6: Mahan in there? Is EGET just not it? And it's
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  Speaker 6: just narratives can change, right? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: So we've got to remind ourselves of that, especially when
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  Speaker 6: we're freaking out about the Panthers.
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  Speaker 2: You can't say it.
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  Speaker 7: That defense can bounce back. Terrific hires by Duke and Wig.
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  Speaker 7: I know that Manny's got a year ahead of Dickert
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  Speaker 7: in year number three. but just terrific program hires. We thought, okay,
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  Speaker 7: what can Jake Dicker back do year two? Great year one. Well,
• 4:21
  Speaker 7: guess what? These coaches, Diaz and Dicker, are very, very good.
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  Speaker 2: I hope that the schools can retain.
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  Speaker 7: Those guys long-term because the doors are going to be
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  Speaker 7: knocked on here before long.
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  Speaker 6: No, those are both in good hands. Good hands, no
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  Speaker 6: doubt about it. I love the hire. Look at what
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  Speaker 6: Dicker did. Brings in Robbie Zell. and pairs them up
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  Speaker 6: with Gio Lopez. And they just start creating a South
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  Speaker 6: Alabama magic all over again. Like Gio's a completely different quarterback.
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  Speaker 6: Hernandez is a dog, man. I love that kid. If
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  Speaker 6: you're an App State fan, you've got to be so
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  Speaker 6: excited at the portal additions. Like we always talk about
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  Speaker 6: the group of six schools bone and woe is them.
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  Speaker 6: They get picked apart by the power four. They lose
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  Speaker 6: tons of players, right? Well, you're bringing in players too.
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  Speaker 6: And App State brought in Malachi Singleton. My God, does
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  Speaker 6: he not look good throwing for 267 the other day.
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  Speaker 7: And he's got a really good quarterback expert in Dow
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  Speaker 7: Loggins with him now. Yeah, he's got great coaching. But
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  Speaker 7: last year, as the season went on, the quarterback play
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  Speaker 7: didn't necessarily stay as strong. So hopefully Singleton will keep
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  Speaker 7: it going. But you look at other guys. Fugate, the
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  Speaker 7: tight end's a baller. Pickett, the wide receiver. All those
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  Speaker 7: wide receivers are portal guys.
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  Speaker 6: So I think if you're an app fan, you've got
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  Speaker 6: to be excited about the early returns with the portal guys.
• 5:41
  Speaker 6: I know it's early in the season, but just the
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  Speaker 6: symbolism of beating ECU again, when I think most people
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  Speaker 6: regard ECU's program as superior. Most people, they're in a
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  Speaker 6: superior conference. Blake Carroll was 14-5 coming into this season.
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  Speaker 6: And for App State to win that game again, Like,
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  Speaker 6: app fans got to be. I mean, if y'all were
• 6:03
  Speaker 6: in Rowdy Dowdy for that game and you're an app fan,
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  Speaker 6: that had to be tremendous, man.
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  Speaker 2: Big program win.
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  Speaker 7: There are wins that are wins and then wins that
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  Speaker 7: are big program wins for the long term.
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  Speaker 2: That was a big, hey, we're... We're closer.
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  Speaker 7: To reestablishing, I'm saying the App State mindset, closer to
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  Speaker 7: reestablishing the momentum that we had for so long. While
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  Speaker 7: ECU's thinking right now, what's happened to us? They're now 0-2.
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  Speaker 7: They're road underdogs at Old Dominion.
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  Speaker 2: So for as.
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  Speaker 7: Good as App fans are feeling about their program right now,
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  Speaker 7: ECU fans are probably, I'm sure they're probably at Supdogs,
• 6:39
  Speaker 7: but they're drinking right now trying to figure out, are
• 6:42
  Speaker 7: we headed towards 0-3? And Appalachia, by the way, has
• 6:45
  Speaker 7: Charlotte this week. Then we are two weeks away at
• 6:49
  Speaker 7: NC State. All of a sudden, that game's got a
• 6:52
  Speaker 7: lot of juice. We got some big ones coming up,
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  Speaker 7: no doubt about it. We also have, I'll say this, Bone,
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  Speaker 7: we also have fan bases that are checking in. The
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  Speaker 7: NC State fan said, is there a category on Pumped
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  Speaker 7: or Pissed Monday.
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  Speaker 6: For Confused for NC State fans? because they look so hideous. Obviously,
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  Speaker 6: the opponent's slightly different, but they went out, and it
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  Speaker 6: was almost like they took their frustrations out on little
• 7:13
  Speaker 6: old Richman on Friday night, 73-0, 49-0. Right out the gate,
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  Speaker 6: I think it was over. If you're a State fan,
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  Speaker 6: golf clap, as Mark Packer used to say, golf clap,
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  Speaker 6: and show me on Saturday at Vanderbilt. Show me on
• 7:28
  Speaker 6: Saturday at Vanderbilt. That's got to be the approach. But
• 7:32
  Speaker 6: I would also, Bone, put some other schools in the
• 7:34
  Speaker 6: confused category here. I would say Clemson. Defense played better,
• 7:39
  Speaker 6: but it was Georgia Southern.
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  Speaker 2: Little old Clemson.
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  Speaker 6: Tate Reynolds did a lot of good things when he
• 7:44
  Speaker 6: came on in the first half, but in the second half,
• 7:47
  Speaker 6: it wasn't so pretty for Tate. So you only won
• 7:50
  Speaker 6: by 15. It was a slog that second half. South Carolina,
• 7:54
  Speaker 6: I would throw in the confused. I thought Bone— Vikari Swain's ridiculous.
• 7:59
  Speaker 6: He runs two punts back. I thought Sellers in the
• 8:02
  Speaker 6: passing game was pathetic against Towson.
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  Speaker 2: Freaking little old Towson.
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  Speaker 7: Him and Bennett missed on one in the end zone
• 8:07
  Speaker 7: where they were mad at each other about it. Beamer
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  Speaker 7: had to answer that question after the game. Harper dropped
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  Speaker 7: two passes in the end zone back-to-back. Like, what the
• 8:15
  Speaker 7: hell was.
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  Speaker 2: Up with that?
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  Speaker 7: I wonder if there was a little bit of a
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  Speaker 7: look-ahead factor with SEC play starting this week. They got
• 8:21
  Speaker 7: a tough one. Mississippi State, by the way, looks— really
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  Speaker 7: good so far. They just housed Minnesota on the road.
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  Speaker 7: South Carolina's only three-point favorites. I do wonder, though, if
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  Speaker 7: that was one of those games before the game where
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  Speaker 7: they were just looking to get out of that game
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  Speaker 7: and they were kind of focused on the SEC opponent
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  Speaker 7: coming up. I mean, the defense was dominant. They certainly
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  Speaker 7: looked a lot better the week before.
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  Speaker 6: The defense was dominant up front, but that's the thing.
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  Speaker 6: Can sellers do it consistently? He started the game three
• 8:49
  Speaker 6: of tenth. He ended up 10 of 23.
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  Speaker 2: Now they ran.
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  Speaker 6: You could see their trench superiority, just like with Richmond
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  Speaker 6: and NC State. Like they ran for 401 South Carolina
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  Speaker 6: and they gave up like 12 yards rushing or something
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  Speaker 6: like that. So that's just the trench superiority. But they're
• 9:05
  Speaker 6: going to not be superior necessarily or that superior in
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  Speaker 6: the trenches against Mississippi State. And I know they're at
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  Speaker 6: home for that game. That is dangerous. This kid Taylor,
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  Speaker 6: who went to Minnesota and routed the crap out of
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  Speaker 6: the Gophers, Mississippi State is scary, bone.
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  Speaker 2: Scary as hell.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, but they've also got to deal with Sellers on
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  Speaker 7: the other side. That's a hell of a quarterback matchup there, Mac.
• 9:34
  Speaker 7: We have something going on here, Mac. Wake fans are
• 9:38
  Speaker 7: feeling frisky about Friday night. Now that's where my compliments stop.
• 9:43
  Speaker 7: Miami goes into Winston on Friday night.
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  Speaker 6: Bro, if Ryan Brown licks your hineys up on defense,
• 9:49
  Speaker 6: what the heck is Mensah going to do? I don't
• 9:52
  Speaker 6: mean to be mean because I really like watching his
• 9:54
  Speaker 6: Wake team play and I love Gio and the way
• 9:56
  Speaker 6: he's playing there, and I love Dickert. But come on, man.
• 10:00
  Speaker 6: I watched Ryan Brown shred y'all for like 330 or something.
• 10:03
  Speaker 7: People are asking, Mac, how did Picante do on his picks?
• 10:06
  Speaker 7: He went 3-0 again on the show. Picante went 3-0
• 10:09
  Speaker 7: on front. Dude, one of my friends, Andy, you met
• 10:14
  Speaker 7: him on what was that?
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: FanFest.
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  Speaker 8: FanFest.
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He played a Picante parlay.
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  Speaker 6: $ 10 Picante Picks Parlay and $ 175.
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: People are now making money off you, Picante. You are unbelievable.
• 10:27
  Speaker 6: Picante, I see why you got that pepper on your
• 10:29
  Speaker 6: Picks logo, baby, because you are red hot.
• 10:31
  Speaker 7: What is he now, seven and two for three weeks?
• 10:34
  Speaker 7: Just on the show, but the Picks you got to
• 10:36
  Speaker 7: pay for, I don't know what they are. Yeah, I
• 10:37
  Speaker 7: think he's selling Picks on his Instagram page.
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: No, he isn't. Is he trying to compete with Lee Sterling?
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: A little soon.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, my God. Anyway, so Picante... I got to tell you,
• 10:50
  Speaker 6: he wasn't lying to us, Bone. Sometimes people act like
• 10:52
  Speaker 6: they know what they're talking about. This man really knows it.
• 10:55
  Speaker 7: We get lied to a lot. By the way, good morning, Finney.
• 10:59
  Speaker 7: I got some intel on you yesterday, Fit Dog. I
• 11:02
  Speaker 7: got some intel on you, Big Dog. Finney Mack missed
• 11:07
  Speaker 7: the 4 o'clock games yesterday.
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: Was on a date again.
• 11:10
  Speaker 6: Fit Daddy! That's not bad news. That's good news right there.
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  Speaker 2: I was wondering why you didn't... I said I've got news.
• 11:15
  Speaker 2: I didn't say bad news.
• 11:16
  Speaker 6: I was wondering why you didn't watch any of the
• 11:18
  Speaker 6: NASCAR race, Fit Daddy.
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  Speaker 2: Look at you, baby. God, it's happening for Fit, our
• 11:22
  Speaker 2: little boy. Oh, my God. You skipped that cowboy game too, right?
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  Speaker 4: Watched the whole thing.
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  Speaker 9: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Well, because she felt bad because she took me away
• 11:32
  Speaker 5: from the four o'clock window.
• 11:34
  Speaker 4: That she wanted me to be back home so I
• 11:35
  Speaker 4: could watch.
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  Speaker 7: Did you reiterate to her that you don't need to
• 11:37
  Speaker 7: watch the Cowboys game because you're no longer a fan?
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  Speaker 2: Did you tell her that?
• 11:41
  Speaker 5: She's not aware of my past Cowboy fandom. She just
• 11:44
  Speaker 5: knows me as a diehard Panther fan. More importantly, guys,
• 11:48
  Speaker 5: when we got to the date, I left the frustrations
• 11:52
  Speaker 5: of 59 points behind.
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  Speaker 4: You would never have known.
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  Speaker 5: That I, three hours beforehand, was in that fishbowl with smoke.
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: There you go. I threw my hip out.
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  Speaker 5: Of place, complaining about the way we were playing. But
• 12:06
  Speaker 5: I toughed through it, played 18 holes of putt-putt last night.
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, you did the putt-putt date. I love that for you. Yeah,
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: we did the putt-putt date. I love that for you.
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  Speaker 7: And more importantly, Bone. I mean, why would you not
• 12:17
  Speaker 7: play 18 holes of putt-putt? I mean, it's not like
• 12:19
  Speaker 7: you're going to win. Only nine. It tires him out
• 12:21
  Speaker 7: after nine. Fit, you are becoming an adult, sir. You
• 12:25
  Speaker 7: are becoming an adult that doesn't let a bad sports
• 12:28
  Speaker 7: outcome ruin a poor relationship.
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: How did you throw your head out complaining, though? What
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: were you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, there was, I think it was on the Princely
• 12:35
  Speaker 5: play where he just got washed.
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  Speaker 2: Which one?
• 12:37
  Speaker 6: You got to be more specific. Oh, you're talking about
• 12:40
  Speaker 6: the big long run?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, because I couldn't believe that they let that mistake happen.
• 12:44
  Speaker 6: But again, Princely's probably not supposed to be, I don't
• 12:46
  Speaker 6: know if he can handle playing first down in this
• 12:48
  Speaker 6: league against a team that runs like that.
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 12:50
  Speaker 6: Like to both guys that should be in on first down.
• 12:53
  Speaker 6: instead of him are out with injury. Why are we
• 12:56
  Speaker 6: talking about this, by the way?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 12:58
  Speaker 6: What happened to Pumper Piss College football? Who cares about that?
• 13:01
  Speaker 6: I have a girlfriend.
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: A girlfriend? Are we official? Are y'all going steady?
• 13:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're official.
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  Speaker 2: Damn, Finn, baby.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, my God.
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: It's a miracle. Oh, my God. Finn, he's scoring like the.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: Bears, bro.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
• 13:18
  Speaker 6: That was disrespectful, Finny, to you and your steady girlfriend.
• 13:20
  Speaker 6: We've got to contain her, Finny. We can't let her
• 13:22
  Speaker 6: get outside and get loose and go find somebody else.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
• 13:27
  Speaker 7: That is big news, Finny. Did you just do the
• 13:30
  Speaker 7: three-pump dance celebration?
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: I just didn't let Hinkle McCringle, baby. Why were you
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: doing that while being Dick Vitale? I don't know. We're
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: just excited. Never heard such a thing before. When I
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: get excited, I become Dick Vitale. I don't know why.
• 13:42
  Speaker 6: Big Bane says Fit Dog is adulting. This guy Brian says,
• 13:46
  Speaker 6: who gives a damn about Finney's personal life?
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: My Clemson Tiger offense looks god-awful.
• 13:52
  Speaker 5: Well, Finney's about— And wait, and have you seen what Belichick— oh,
• 13:56
  Speaker 5: he's in the lab. He's going to make Tate Reynolds
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: look like the freshman quarterback he is.
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: I'm calling my shot. Monday, 8-17-07.
• 14:05
  Speaker 5: The North Carolina Tar Heels are going into the fake
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  Speaker 5: Death Valley. They're going to beat Dabo and the Clemson
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  Speaker 5: Tigers to improve to 3-0.
• 14:16
  Speaker 6: The game on, baby. It's only a three-point spread, and
• 14:19
  Speaker 6: you're right. Actually, to make Tate Reynolds look like a freshman,
• 14:22
  Speaker 6: you only have to make him look like his second
• 14:23
  Speaker 6: half against Georgia Southern. I mean, that was rough. His
• 14:26
  Speaker 6: first half was real good. They just couldn't finish drives.
• 14:28
  Speaker 6: They had to keep kicking field goals. They had to fumble.
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  Speaker 6: Reynolds fumbled it in the red zone. They barely moved
• 14:34
  Speaker 6: that damn ball in the second half. That is going
• 14:36
  Speaker 6: to be a game bone. That is going from a
• 14:38
  Speaker 6: game that last year was a complete embarrassment of the
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: Tar Heels to feeling like it is a legit highlight
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: of Saturday.
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  Speaker 7: The spread was 9.5 not long ago into the season,
• 14:48
  Speaker 7: and now it's down to 3.0. In Death Valley, Clemson
• 14:55
  Speaker 7: favored by three at Carolina. Who would have saw that coming?
• 14:58
  Speaker 7: And by the way, Mac, we're not that far into
• 15:00
  Speaker 7: the season.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like we went like a month or two
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  Speaker 2: in and all of a sudden the points.
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  Speaker 7: We are now only September 14th and Clemson's only three
• 15:07
  Speaker 7: point favorites over the Eagles. That's how quickly things have changed.
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  Speaker 7: So that means neutral side even.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: That means neutral side pick them. You know, getting three
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: points for being at home.
• 15:16
  Speaker 6: 704 number says, who's this idiot Clemson fan that doesn't
• 15:21
  Speaker 6: want to hear about Fitty's love life? You guys barely
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: beat Georgia Southern. Pardon me if I'd rather hear about
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: the Fit Dog.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: So there you go. Fit Dog Nation.
• 15:32
  Speaker 6: Is rising up. I think it's perfect that you got
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: called out by a Clemson fan. This sets the stage, Fitty.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: For Saturday.
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: How about Kannapolis Man says he's married with kids, but
• 15:41
  Speaker 7: this is right up there with the best day ever
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: of his life. Fitties in a relationship. He's got that
• 15:46
  Speaker 7: third behind his wife and his kids.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. Man. What kind of life is that, man?
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: I don't really know what's going on here. Oh, my goodness.
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: Buckeye fans, very quiet today. Very quiet today.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: Like their offense in the fourth quarter.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Holy crap. Where's our guy Charisma Supreme at today?
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: Is he on?
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: I can't keep up with the text line today. Is
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: he there? I'm going to answer no.
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: I'm going to say the Ohio State fans went into
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: the witness protection program, Boney.
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: We also had a first during this segment here as
• 16:17
  Speaker 7: we get ready to do Pulse of Panther Nation there.
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: We had a texter that says the Panthers' defense played
• 16:22
  Speaker 7: well yesterday. He blamed the offense for the turnovers yesterday
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: and thought the defense did a good job containing Caleb
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: Williams yesterday.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: What?
• 16:31
  Speaker 9: What?
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: Does your TV broken? Does his TV have a different
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: game on? Were you watching the 05 game where Smitty
• 16:36
  Speaker 7: went off?
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: Sir, we need to cut the game off after the
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: first drive for both sides.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: We need you to call up, sir. Yes, please.
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: You need to provide a different point of view in
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: Paul's Panther Nation. By the way, Buckeye fans, y'all's choke
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: job will be dealt with at 925. We got more
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: college football coming up at 925. Until then, we're just
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: going to bitch about the Panthers. Yeah, we come back.
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: It's the Pulse of Panther Nation. This is the phone
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: call segment for the audience. Get on.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: It.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: 704-570-9610.
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: A lopsided L for the Panthers in an opener. We
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: want to hear you vent next on Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNT. All right, Panther fans have been
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: texting like crazy. Lord knows y'all were screaming like hell
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: to Willie P on the postgame show yesterday. They have
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: a unit that we spend money on the offseason, Bone,
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: and many of us believe is going to be top
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: ten unit and the strength of the team.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: I don't care if it's the best offense in football.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: They may prove to be.
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: It's still embarrassing when you see Luke Geekly's number on
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: the scoreboard under visitor. That is freaking embarrassing, man. So
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: we've got to vent. We've got to hash this out.
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: How are you feeling today? And where are you directing
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: your anger? And I have a feeling it's going towards
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: a zero of arrow. And I think what's happening, Bone, well,
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: first of all, we gave up 59 points. There's no
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: defensive coordinator in America that ain't going to take some
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: heat when they give up 59. But I also think
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: you have a lot of people, Bone, we know it, right?
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: A lot of people that have wanted Averro out for
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: a while now. So you see them give up 59,
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: it's validation to you. Right?
• 18:37
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: You're thinking, I told you it was a problem.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: When in reality, last year, they jumped from 32nd to 16th.
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: They're looking at last year as not the norm. They're
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: looking at the year before as what they think of them,
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: not that they did a whole lot better last year.
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: I believe that Alvaro deserves credit. a vast majority of
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: the blame that he's getting, but I also think that
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: the players have to execute also. I don't think Averro-Mac
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: is teaching princely. Whether or not Mark is... texting me
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: about players and Averro's got to go because they don't
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: contain the edge. I don't think, Mac, they're teaching Princeley
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: to not contain the edge. Princeley has to execute what
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: the coaches are telling him. And that's where I think
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: there's a little bit of loss in translation here. Yeah,
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: Averro deserves blame for some stuff here and maybe lack
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: of adjustments along the way. But the players also have
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: to step up and just do basic stuff that they
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: know what they're supposed to do.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: It's everybody. But Averro chose to play Will Lee.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: He chose to, he could have gone Charles Smith Wade
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: in the slot and held off on this horn slot thing,
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: but he wanted to play Willie and get horn in
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: the slot. It sounded great to us in the preseason.
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: Does it still sound great now?
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Willie did. look quite ready for primetime.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: Um, Derek Brown, to your point though, as you're over, Oh,
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: didn't make him have those two dumb penalties. So it's just,
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: to me, it's a nuanced thing, but good luck finding
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: nuance in 2026. To me, it's everything. And to me,
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: you also need a bigger sample. If this defense looks
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: like hot garbage now through the bye week, we got
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: a situation. And then they got a decision to make
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: on Averro, but like.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: But that's the early set decisions coming down in week five.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: But listen, if you root for a football team that.
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: has so little conviction in their decision-making that they.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Fire a coach after one week. I'm sorry.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: That's a, that's an organizational problem. But yes, they better
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: pick it the hell up. Avero better find a way
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: to get these boys to pick it the hell up.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: But I want you to vent. How much did that
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: piss you off? And was it any consolation that Bryce
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: played the way he did? Or do you literally not
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: even care? Like Chris Harmon says, Avero's soft zone is
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: frustrating as hell. But Vic Fangio rode that same scheme, basically.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: Vic Fangio is his mentor. And Vic Fangio was number
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: one in defense in Philly two years ago, and they
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: won a Super Bowl. So it's like I'm getting a
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: lot of stuff here. The 3-4 defense sucks. I hate
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: the 3-4. But I heard Smoke say this yesterday on
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: the postgame show. The 3-4 defense has won Super Bowls
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: the last two years, Seattle and Philly. So it's just like,
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: it's not just blanket, like, that scheme's horrible. You've got
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: to play it well. Like, soft zones don't give up
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: 291 rush yards, y'all. Soft zones is getting your ass
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: kicked in the trenches. And that's missing a lot of
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: tackles also along the way, too. And getting blocked, getting blocked.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: You can't get off blocks and that sort of stuff. Anyway,
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: it's so embarrassing and it's so frustrating to have a
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: unit we believe, that I just believe so much in,
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: and they go out and do that?
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: And then we can't even celebrate the offense having its
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: best opener in eons and Bryce playing maybe his best
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: game ever because the defense was so bad. Like, it's
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: just beyond frustrating. What do you say we take some
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: calls here? Yeah, let's hear from some folks on this.
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: It's the Pulse of Panther Nation. What has you mad today? 704-570-9610.
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: And I'm sure now half of you are mad because
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: it's like, they're defending Averro too much. So anyway, let's
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: talk through this. Let's start with Mark, who will start
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: us off. Mark, what's going on, man?
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: Hey, good morning, gentlemen. I live over here in Fort Mill.
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: I lived in Chicago for a while and Minneapolis and
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: Jacksonville for 13 years. So I've seen this crap before.
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: You're well-versed in crap.
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: I am. But the only good news is everybody else
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: in the division lost. So, okay, let's go.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: That is true. Tied for first, baby.
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: Can I mention one other thing? I missed on the
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: college talk. I went to Ohio University and we played
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: Jacksonville State. Saturday night, we won by two points in
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: triple overtime in the pouring rain. And I'll tell you something, boys,
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: that was an awesome football game.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: I saw it.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: They showed it on, it was like, I think the opening,
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: like they always show a good ending on college football final.
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: And you guys were like the lead on college football final,
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: the way you ended that game. But Mark, I appreciate
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: the call. And at least one of your teams won
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: this weekend. I didn't know we'd have to go to Ohio, Bone.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: These multi-team guys always find a way to get wins.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: 704-570-9610.
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: Here's a man that's going to tell us what he
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: is mad about with his Carolina Panthers.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Gamecock Kevin is up next. Kevin, what do you got, man?
• 23:22
  Speaker 9: Well, I might surprise both of y'all. First of all,
• 23:25
  Speaker 9: good morning on this Panther Pump the Piss Monday.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Good morning, brother.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: All right, so.
• 23:34
  Speaker 9: I don't know how to feel, and here's why. The
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: offense came to play. Leggett still dropping passes. At the
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: end of the day, the offense did what they needed
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: to do, but overall, it was the defense. Now, there
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: was some opportunities that we had, like right before the
• 23:53
  Speaker 9: half when Jimmy Horn dropped that punt. Now, we got
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: to talk about certain things, man. When he dropped that punt,
• 24:00
  Speaker 9: it changed the momentum going into halftime. Now, A lot
• 24:04
  Speaker 9: of people want to get on here today and blame
• 24:05
  Speaker 9: a hero of their role. Here's where I'm taking it, Mac,
• 24:09
  Speaker 9: and this is my thought process. This is game one
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: of 17 weeks. My thought process is this. Guys, we
• 24:17
  Speaker 9: got a whole lot of new parts. That's happening right
• 24:21
  Speaker 9: now in this defense. Who's the Luke Keekly telling people, hey,
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: this is where you need to be. That's where you
• 24:26
  Speaker 9: need to be. And the question is, the people that
• 24:28
  Speaker 9: are being told that, do they trust the quote-unquote Luke Keekly?
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: A lot of people look at the defensive coordinator, Matt,
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: but it's more than just that. We have so many
• 24:38
  Speaker 9: different parts that are on this defense right now that
• 24:41
  Speaker 9: have not come together. And Derrick Brown did not play
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: in the preseason. Most of these guys didn't play together
• 24:46
  Speaker 9: in the preseason. So call me glass half full Gamecock Kevin.
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: But at the end of the day, my expectation is
• 24:54
  Speaker 9: that the offense keep doing that. We'll be 2-1 after
• 24:57
  Speaker 9: the next two weeks. And don't, not you, not you,
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: Mack and Bone, but don't none of y'all lame, you
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: know what, Panther fans call up talking about, I've seen
• 25:07
  Speaker 9: this all the time. I am the voice of reason
• 25:09
  Speaker 9: on this radio show this morning. And I'm telling both
• 25:12
  Speaker 9: of y'all, just give it time to come together. Chemistry
• 25:15
  Speaker 9: is a big thing in football. And I'm out on that.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Good point.
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: Good point on the, uh, I didn't see that call
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: on the defense. Cause that will be, or it is
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: Devin Lloyd, but he's his first game. And it's like,
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: to what he said, begin with, it is his first
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: game trying to get guys aligned. And they're all new.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: Gamecock, Kevin, dare I say, beautifully said kevin just so
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: rational instead of coming on let me tell you something
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: right now like oh that's sir loin why did i
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: do sir loin.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Not the same guy what is that.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: This texter says please tell me one of the callers
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: that's calling into this segment is going to blast our
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: own fan base how the hell in the season opener
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: coming off the first playoff berth in nine years did
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: the bears fans take the damn stadium over yeah that's
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: got to go on the table too bone we hadn't
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: talked about that i don't know how i don't know
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: how it sounded on tv or how it looked on TV,
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: but that was way too close to 50-50. I would
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: say probably 60-40. I slept on that. I forgot the
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: way the Bears fans roll. Yeah, I didn't even consider it,
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: to be honest. And I thought Panther fans would want
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: the damn tickets. The first game as we try to
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: follow up last year's season. That was– unfortunately, that's the routine,
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: but that was frustrating.
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I didn't really have that in my head a
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: whole lot because I just thought for week one it
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: wasn't going to be that, like, a normal takeover thing.
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: But then I guess I didn't really think about the
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: Bears fans traveling. I didn't really– I was more focused
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: on the game rather than the fan– attendance side of it,
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: but I guess we always have to be mindful of
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: that around here. All right, Ashby from Lancaster is up next. Ashby,
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: what do you think? Ashby, what do you say?
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I'm not afraid.
• 26:50
  Speaker 10: I'm excited. I'm excited for Bryce, man. The offense looked great.
• 26:55
  Speaker 10: I mean, defense ain't going to give up a 60
• 26:57
  Speaker 10: banger every week, so let's go ahead and say that. So,
• 27:00
  Speaker 10: I mean, what.
• 27:05
  Speaker 10: Other than T-Mac not getting going, Coker was amazing. I mean,
• 27:08
  Speaker 10: like I said, Ebro is Ebro. I mean, that's what
• 27:12
  Speaker 10: we expect from him. That defense, it is what it is.
• 27:16
  Speaker 10: But our offense was amazing, man. That's what I'm excited about.
• 27:19
  Speaker 10: Our defense is going to come together, bro. Like, our
• 27:22
  Speaker 10: offense is going.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: To be what.
• 27:24
  Speaker 10: Look, if we would have came out and dropped 10
• 27:27
  Speaker 10: points and then, you know, that's one thing. Well, we
• 27:29
  Speaker 10: dropped 37. We've beaten every other team other than probably
• 27:33
  Speaker 10: the Ravens.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: That's a good point. That's a good point.
• 27:35
  Speaker 10: Let's be positive here, bro. That's a good opener for us.
• 27:38
  Speaker 10: I don't care if we got beat by 20. I mean,
• 27:40
  Speaker 10: that's a good team. Caleb Williams had two crazy scrambles. And, bro, like,
• 27:45
  Speaker 10: what can we expect?
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: Bro, he played his tail off.
• 27:48
  Speaker 10: Like, we got beat.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I like it. I like it.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: Ashby, we appreciate you, but look at this. Measure calm callers.
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: What show am I on right now? How is this happening?
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: And, Bone.
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: Am I at Charlotte Sports today or am I on
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: the Back at Bone show? We've got callers that are
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: being simple and rational.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Let's see. This doesn't happen between six and ten a lot.
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: Y'all are actually feeling all right. And, Bone, you made
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: that point earlier. You said that defense will come around.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: We don't know how, you know, how far it comes around.
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: But the offense, if we have a new offense with
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: a new play caller and it performs anywhere near that,
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: we're going to be all right, especially in the NFC South.
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: Not that I want either side to struggle, but if
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: I had to choose one to come out slow and awful,
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: I'd rather it be the defense because I trust them
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: more long-term. Because they've got enough talent to turn around.
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: If they came out and scored 10 points and were awful,
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: I'd say, oh, boy, could they ever get it going?
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: But the fact that the offense came out— the way
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: they did. I know people don't want to hear hope today,
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: but that is a good sign.
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: Maybe they do. I can't believe we got two hopeful calls.
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: We can't go three for three. Mo, we'll see how
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: Mo's feeling.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Mo, how you feeling?
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I'm just as hopeful as everybody else, guys. Listen, our
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: defense will improve. Bar any type of injuries, the defense
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: will improve. Offensively, we put up 37 points in the
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: run game. We need to perform as good as we
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: hope they would. All right. Things are going to get better.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: That's all I got, guys. I'll take it off the radio.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Good stuff, Mo. I have not been this shocked.
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: You know how they always say, Bo, that a good
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: marriage is your spouse keeps surprising you. No matter how
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: long you've been married for, they keep surprising you. We've
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: been doing this thing for over 20 years, Mo, married
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: to our listeners. They are surprising me today.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they are. I didn't know y'all had this in
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: you today, man. It's interesting. The text line is different
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: than the callers are.
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the text line's always just, ah, ah, ah, Cujo
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: on the text line.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Or Murphy.
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: Brian says, Mac, Bone tried to say exactly what these
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: texters are saying. You told him, hold that damn thought, Bone,
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: until Wednesday or Thursday.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you told me to put that somewhere. And don't
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: bring it out.
• 29:56
  Speaker 10: I did.
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: I said I wasn't ready for it. But, Bone, credit
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: to you and the texters that are ready for it.
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: Maybe I shouldn't have told you, Bone, don't bring that
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: in here for a few days.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Maybe I should have said, all right, I like that.
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: You don't get that now until Tuesday or Wednesday. Now
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: you're going to make me wait.
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: My whole point was that, hey, for as bad as
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: the defense was, we have to still remember that the
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: offense was ten times better than we envisioned.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Let's go to one.
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: Guy says, are you guys picking out guys that are
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: saying good things?
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Don't we just take them as they come in? We
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: don't have any. We're doing the calls. How do we
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: know what they're going to say?
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: Here's a man that I don't think is going to
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: be happy.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Weatherman Mark. Weatherman Mark, what's going on, man?
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: I can appreciate the hopefuls, okay? Just hear me out,
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Bone and Mike and Kitty.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: By the way, I love you.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: I've got hope, but after 59 points, I think the– okay,
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: I'm going to give it to you straight.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Do it. Don't hold back.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Shiver me timbers. I believe the players are going to
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: get better. But you still got the bad defensive coordinator. Luke,
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: I was listening to the game yesterday. Luke Keekly was
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: calling him out. Not by name, but he was calling
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: the place. He says, you got to play the zone coverage.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: You can't be blitzing Caleb Williams.
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: They blitz 54% of the time.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they did. They blitz more than usual.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Let me finish.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: It depends on the situation. If you've got a quarterback,
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: that as fast like Caleb, you have got to play
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: contain with that zone. You cannot blitz so much. Keekly
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: was saying that, and Jake DeLong was confirming it. Evero
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: has got to go. I know it's not in the
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: authority to get rid of him right now.
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: No, you do not have to go ahead. I just
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: talked to my sources with the Panthers. You are not
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: allowed to hire and fire, all right? Is that so?
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Hey, Weatherman Mark, I wasn't sure of your.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: I thought I was ready to do the firing and
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: the hiring.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: You should be, though. In fairness, you probably should be.
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: Weatherman Mark, I wasn't aware of your take because I
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: didn't see it come through the text line 31 times
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: in a row yesterday.
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: Mark called Averro a fart knocker on the text line.
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: You can't walk that back. That's hurtful. I can't come
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: back from that. Oh, Mark.
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: Mark, did you notice that only one of us said
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: I love you back? Bone did not say he loves you.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: I understood that.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: That's sad.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: I guess I'm not loved anymore.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: That's sad.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I love you.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: I love you, Weatherman, Mark.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: I'll leave you guys with hope. Man, this offense is cooking.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: That's right, Mark.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Price Young haters, you got it. You're eating crow today,
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: and I'm loving it.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Damn straight.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Price Young is our franchise quarterback. I love Ed Sickman.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: Idzik is doing great.
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: Great start for him. I appreciate it, Mark. Appreciate your
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: special brand.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Of calling, Mark. We appreciate you right there. Someone say,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: get Eeyore off the line. Stop that.
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: We'll talk more about the Avero thing in the 9
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: o'clock hour because I know people want to talk through it, players, scheme,
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: all that stuff.
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: He's really trying to work that shiver me timbers in
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: every call, isn't he? He's making it happen, man. All right,
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: we come back here in the Mac and Bone Show.
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: Thank you to those that called in today. More Pulse
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: of Panther Nation next Monday.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: We come back.
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: How much praise do Bryce and the offense deserve for
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: their performance yesterday? It's going to be some positive offensive
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: talk on Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
• 34:05
  Speaker 11: Yeah, did the same thing he's been doing. Be consistent,
• 34:09
  Speaker 11: do a great job creating separation after the catch. A
• 34:12
  Speaker 11: lot of stuff that doesn't show up on the stat
• 34:14
  Speaker 11: sheet that he did a great job in and run
• 34:16
  Speaker 11: game and setting stuff up. That's the player he is.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: That's the guy he is. So none of that was
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: surprising at all.
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: That is Bryce Young giving praise to his partner in crime,
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: Jalen Coker. Shout out to our texter from the 917
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: area code that says, where is the Jalen Coker talk?
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: This dude went for undrafted free agent. He's becoming a star.
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: And here it is right now. And here is your
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: Bryce Young talk. Here's your Brad Idzik talk. I think
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: there needs to be some Chuba Hubbard talk. I thought
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: Shuba Hubbard, like, as quiet as it's kept this morning
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: because we're all freaking out about the defense, I thought
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: with 49 yards rushing on 10 carries and 38 receiving yards, Bone,
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: on three catches, I thought Shuba Hubbard.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Looked like he was back to 20-24-4.
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we had a texter call him trash today how
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: bad he is because he got 49 yards. I tried
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: to explain. Yeah, that's on 10 carries.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: 4.9 yards a carry. He had the receiving numbers, like.
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: If you extrapolate that out, Matt, to 20 attempts, he's
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: got 100 yards rushing probably yesterday. But it was a
• 35:19
  Speaker 7: game that when you give up 59 points running the football,
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: especially the second half, as I just spit on Matt
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: there by accident, the second half, you're not going to
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: run the ball nearly as much.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: You're throwing the football. Although, incidentally, they ran it better
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: in the second half. They did.
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: I thought maybe they were a little pass heavy in
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: the first half, Bone. I thought maybe they only ran
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: it eight times in the first half. But again, Bryce
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: at that point is tearing it up, and we have
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: 24 points. So I don't know how much you can
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: criticize that, though. But do we allow it to be
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: a track meet? Like, if we establish the run, can
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: we get our defense rest? I do think they definitely
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: wore down as the game went on in the heat.
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: like can if you run it more can you get
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: your defense more of a rest can you kind of
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: slow the game down allow yourself to take a breath
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: rather than go and track meet with the usain bolt
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: offense i do think there's a question there we ran
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: it much better in the second half but we ran
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: it for 5.7 yards of carry that's pretty damn good.
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: Thought waller what good almost had a touchdown there that
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: got called back that was that.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: Was an opi by that was a trash.
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: Call that call was lame. Don Waller did, did fine.
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: Jonathan Brooks back. He didn't really run it that much,
• 36:27
  Speaker 7: but how about the 48 yard catch that he had yesterday?
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: I love that play from Bryce extending the play. Unfortunately,
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: Caleb did that to us a lot, but extending the
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: play and then literally gesturing go, he told Brooks go
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: deep and he hit him.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: It was a dime, but.
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's, that's, that's what we kept talking about in
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: the off season with Brooks, the receiving stuff. He made
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: a catch like that at one of the practices I
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: was at bone. Like he, He gets downfield and catches
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: a ball while covered like a wide receiver. Like he
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: is special in that respect. He did have a nice
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: run bone that was called back on the Robert Hunt hold.
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: Real nice little bounce to the outside run. I'd like
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: to see us run more. But again, this is nitpicking.
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: We're nitpicking an offense that put up 37 points. So
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: I don't want to do too much of it. As
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: far as Jalen Coker goes, this is back-to-back games. If
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: you go back to the playoff game where he has
• 37:19
  Speaker 6: been absolutely ridiculous.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, absolutely. Eight for 138 and two tutties.
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: And this is fresh off the praise that Thielen gave
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: him last week on a podcast. Remember, Thielen said, what
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: do you call a coker?
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: A number one.
• 37:32
  Speaker 7: I'm forgetting. He said he's the best receiver on the team.
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: And then he goes out there yesterday.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: And I'll be damned.
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: He didn't look like it yesterday. He definitely did. And,
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: you know, T-Max came alive late, but he had the fumble.
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: And he had a much slower day. Coker was there
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: from the jump. That double move he put on Jalen Johnson,
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: the Bears' best corner on the first drive, was absurd.
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: I mean, and by the way, Coker slipped on the
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: double move and still roasted him. I just, there is,
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: and I was so, listen, I was pleasantly surprised, Bone,
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: to hear the texters last, or the callers in Pulse
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: of Panther Nation say, we're going to be all right.
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: This defense is going to improve. We've got talent there.
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: Let it get on the same page. But this offense
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: looks different. Now, this texter says, you guys need to
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: note the Bears' defense stinks. Pardon me if I want
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: to see a bigger sample size, Bone. What would you
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: say to that gentleman?
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, he ain't lying. Yeah, I
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: don't know. But that was.
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: But they looked like crap in the preseason. Mack, we
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: went to the joint practice where in two hours they
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: gained two first downs.
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: And up until the defense.
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: Just completely wiltered away, you know what that offense did yesterday?
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: They answered the call every single time. They actually gave
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: the defense a lead to play with. Defense forces a turnover.
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: You get a touchdown.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: You're down 21-7 with a first-time play caller.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: What do you do?
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: You come back. You tie the game. You're down seven
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: coming out of the half. What do you do?
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: You walk right down the field. You score a touchdown.
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: They did stuff that they have not done. in season
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: openers or in big games with Dave Canales the previous
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: two years. And they did that yesterday with Brad Inzik.
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: It's okay to be encouraged against a bad defense, what
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: you saw from Bryce in that offense.
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: And look at who they're playing next. They're going to Atlanta,
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: a place where Bryce goes off routinely. And then it's
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: Cleveland Mac who gave up $ 240 yards and four touchdowns
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: yesterday to Trevor Lawrence. So I thought Cleveland's defense might
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: be all right. They weren't yesterday. So to have a
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: great game, game one for Bryce, now maybe for the
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: first time we can get– some sustained success from Bryce
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: week after week. He has pockets of greatness, usually involving Atlanta,
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: but now can we go week one, week two, maybe
• 39:51
  Speaker 7: week three? it's all there's a chance for that.
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: Here uh 704 number says these bryce haters are annoying
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: as hell worried about what defense we're playing bryce young
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: is a historically slow starter and so is our offense
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: it's extremely notable he and they played like that in
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: week one it really is there's no doubt about it
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: and i want to see where this can go he
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: looks so calm and composed and poised Even when they
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: pressured him, man, his calm under pressure, always under control.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: I'll juke you. I'll juke you.
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: Oh, there's my man wide open. I mean, it was
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: just tremendous, man. It really was.
• 40:27
  Speaker 7: That throw to Coker on the 51-yard touchdown, you couldn't
• 40:30
  Speaker 7: place that anywhere.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Dime, baby. Dime.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: How about the throw to Brooks? On the move.
• 40:34
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: I mean, that was a dime, too. There were so many.
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: I mean, some of the throws on the move over
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: the middle of the field. The one where TMAC fumbled. Man,
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: Bryce is running right. Throw it back to the left.
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: hits him in stride so he can get yak. I mean,
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: it was real encouraging. I just, I want to see
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: us commit a little more to the run so it
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: doesn't become almost all Bryce. I want him to get
• 40:57
  Speaker 6: that balance, but it's a great start for Idzik too.
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: This texter says, Coker and Bryce deserve major praise, but
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: how about Brad Idzik?
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: It felt different on offense yesterday.
• 41:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah it did felt like it was more streamlined like
• 41:11
  Speaker 7: there wasn't a lot of waiting it felt like oh
• 41:13
  Speaker 7: definitely things were definitely things were running like a an
• 41:16
  Speaker 7: assembly line yesterday.
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: Definitely and that makes sense your play caller's not distracted
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: he's only a play caller i mean it's it's it
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: makes sense how about the bears as good as they
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: were on offense how the hell did they pull the
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: panthers and get a delay a game out of a timeout.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Willie P said, that's what the Panthers usually do. I said, yeah,
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: I can't argue with that.
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: And Caleb was whining because of the clock. It's like, dude,
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: you called timeout. Who gives a damn what the clock
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: is set to? You should be ready to go.
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: I hate that we couldn't even break a nail. We
• 41:46
  Speaker 6: couldn't touch Caleb Williams enough bone to even break one
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: of them damn pretty nails.
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: I wanted him crying with his mama on Friday, and
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: instead I was the one crying to my mama.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Karma.
• 41:57
  Speaker 7: Well, this is on my mom before we go to break. Fitty,
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: I ended up losing our Yankees-Mets bet, didn't I?
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: We got to check the run differential because.
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: We split the— 31-24 Mets this season. So what does
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: that mean? What do you got to do?
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: I was getting in a maid outfit.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. I got to wear a French maid
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: outfit at some point. Oh, dear.
• 42:15
  Speaker 7: I don't think the doghouse will allow that, but at
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: some point here, I'll have to be a French maid
• 42:19
  Speaker 7: from Fitty one day.
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: You still owe me a saucing, by the way.
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: You got to get your own— you got to sauce yourself here, pal.
• 42:25
  Speaker 7: You got to go get some spaghetti sauce.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: We're talking marinara sauce, everybody. I want you to know that.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: That sounded very weird.
• 42:32
  Speaker 7: You got to go get yourself a bunch of spaghetti
• 42:34
  Speaker 7: sauce and douse yourself.
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: I want Willie P to bake us some sauce.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: When we come back. He is the sauce boss.
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: When we come back on the Mac and Boat Show,
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: I will look for a French maid outfit. We have
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: another chat. There goes the positive Mac offensive talk.
• 42:47
  Speaker 9: Oh, yeah.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: That was fun.
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: We have another chat about Sunday's defensive debacle. What was
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: the biggest issue? Player execution.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: Or coaching.
• 42:56
  Speaker 7: The longest show in Mackinac history rolls off. Sports Radio 92.7.