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- 0:12Speaker 1: Oh my God. What happened to my studio? What happened
- 0:15Speaker 1: to my manly sports talk studio?
- 0:17Speaker 2: You ever think like a bro code, like keep it
- 0:19Speaker 2: within the house. What do you, why do you go
- 0:20Speaker 2: on the air right away and try to out us
- 0:22Speaker 2: on these things?
- 0:22Speaker 1: I just, I want to inform people of what's happening.
- 0:24Speaker 1: We're bringing them inside the studio. Finney leaves the WFNZ
- 0:30Speaker 1: studios brought to you by Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort. And
- 0:34Speaker 1: Schrapp is in here. Now, Schrapp is not feeling well.
- 0:37Speaker 1: He is gutting it out to be here for us.
- 0:39Speaker 1: So I do appreciate that. But I will still. Rather
- 0:42Speaker 1: than Fitty having his gut out. So I will still
- 0:46Speaker 1: spill the beans on a conversation. Schrapp says, hey, Mac,
- 0:49Speaker 1: what do you like more, pina coladas or strawberry daiquiris?
- 0:53Speaker 1: I informed Schrapp that I have never had a sip
- 0:56Speaker 1: of either drink in my entire life. Bone then jumps
- 1:00Speaker 1: in and is just giddily excited. Giddily? And they just
- 1:04Speaker 1: have themselves an amazing conversation about their passion over strawberry daiquiris.
- 1:09Speaker 2: It was remarkable. I love a good strawberry daiquiris. I'm
- 1:13Speaker 2: not afraid. I'm not afraid to say it. Who drinks
- 1:16Speaker 2: the beer in y'all's relationships? There are two people. There
- 1:18Speaker 2: are strawberry daiquiris fans and then liars.
- 1:22Speaker 1: Never. Why do you always try to embarrass me in
- 1:24Speaker 1: front of Dari also, by the way? I wonder which
- 1:26Speaker 1: way Dari goes. That feels to me. Where did that
- 1:28Speaker 1: question come from, by the way? Why did you ask
- 1:30Speaker 1: that question, Trav?
- 1:31Speaker 3: One of the ads in the break, she said something
- 1:33Speaker 3: about a pina colada, so it just came to mind.
- 1:35Speaker 1: I like the song about it.
- 1:36Speaker 4: Pina colada.
- 1:36Speaker 1: If you like pina colada and getting caught in the rain.
- 1:41Speaker 1: That's a pretty good rendition. I like that song.
- 1:43Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:43Speaker 1: But I have never had the drink in my life.
- 1:45Speaker 1: And you guys, maybe I'm missing out. That seems like
- 1:48Speaker 1: the drink when I go to order an IPA, I
- 1:50Speaker 1: have to ask for one of those for the missus.
- 1:53Speaker 1: Or you guys, if you're hanging out. Hey, Meg, I
- 1:55Speaker 1: have a question for you. What's that? Can we talk
- 1:56Speaker 1: to Darin? Yes, we can. We can do it, Bone.
- 2:00Speaker 1: I'm going to get myself a drink while you talk
- 2:02Speaker 1: to him. Get yourself a daiquiri over there, Bone. Kick back, baby.
- 2:05Speaker 1: Dari Noka joining us. The SEC Network to talk college
- 2:09Speaker 1: football and alcoholic beverages. Dari, do you go daiquiri or
- 2:14Speaker 1: pina colada ever?
- 2:16Speaker 4: Pina colada all day over a daiquiri. All day over
- 2:20Speaker 4: a daiquiri.
- 2:20Speaker 1: There you go.
- 2:22Speaker 4: On a vacation, somewhere around a pool or an ocean,
- 2:25Speaker 4: you know, but yeah, yeah, yeah. No Phoenix a lot
- 2:27Speaker 4: all day, man. I want to jump in on one
- 2:31Speaker 4: other thing. Whatever's going on in the studio, you're not
- 2:33Speaker 4: talking about like somebody making a mess, right? You're talking
- 2:36Speaker 4: about the conversation in the studio. Is that what you're
- 2:38Speaker 4: getting at? Cause I got my own story.
- 2:41Speaker 1: Oh, you got it. I need to hear your, I
- 2:43Speaker 1: need to hear your story.
- 2:44Speaker 4: So, So now I thought you, when you said what
- 2:47Speaker 4: happened to our studio, I thought somebody had made a
- 2:49Speaker 4: mess in the studio.
- 2:50Speaker 1: No, it actually stays messy, actually.
- 2:53Speaker 4: Okay. A little known fact here. And if he's listening,
- 2:56Speaker 4: he probably won't. He'll probably laugh if I say this.
- 2:58Speaker 4: Peter Burns, messiest guy I've ever known. I will walk
- 3:02Speaker 4: into our studio after he leaves the studio at the
- 3:05Speaker 4: FGC Network. There will be cups that are partially full
- 3:08Speaker 4: of water. There will be used, you know, those little
- 3:12Speaker 4: toothbrushy things or little dental floss things. There'll be sitting
- 3:15Speaker 4: on a little table there next to us. Man, we
- 3:18Speaker 4: joke about how we got to clean up after our guy,
- 3:20Speaker 4: Peter Burns. But knowing that you all live with a
- 3:23Speaker 4: messy studio, then everybody's to blame. So, you know, I
- 3:26Speaker 4: just took him under the bus.
- 3:27Speaker 1: You've got one specific violator.
- 3:29Speaker 2: I think I've seen your guy, Doreen, complaining about Burns
- 3:31Speaker 2: being messy on Twitter before.
- 3:33Speaker 4: Probably have, yeah. He's messy as hell, there's no doubt.
- 3:37Speaker 1: Dude, he's an LSU fan. You're lucky he doesn't leave
- 3:40Speaker 1: corn dog sticks all over the studio. You know what
- 3:42Speaker 1: I'm saying?
- 3:43Speaker 4: If we had corn dogs in the studio, he would.
- 3:45Speaker 1: All right, let's talk some college. College football here. We
- 3:49Speaker 1: talk drinks. We talk messy coworkers. Let's talk college football.
- 3:54Speaker 1: I was mentioning this earlier, Dari, ESPN. I think it's
- 3:57Speaker 1: Heather Dinich that does it like each week now. The
- 3:59Speaker 1: college playoff kind of like, you know, you know, projection
- 4:03Speaker 1: type thing. Right. And I get into the I know
- 4:04Speaker 1: it's way early. I get into this stuff. I can't
- 4:06Speaker 1: help myself. and it's got six SEC teams on there.
- 4:11Speaker 1: How do you feel when it's all said and done,
- 4:13Speaker 1: what would be your guess? Five was kind of my
- 4:16Speaker 1: stab at it. What would be your guess for SEC
- 4:18Speaker 1: playoff teams when it's all said and done?
- 4:20Speaker 4: I think four or five. Six seems really aggressive. I mean,
- 4:24Speaker 4: I think we're going to end up in a league
- 4:26Speaker 4: where we might have one team with one loss overall.
- 4:31Speaker 4: I think, you know, you two or three that have
- 4:34Speaker 4: two losses overall, I think if we get six, we're
- 4:37Speaker 4: going to get multiple three-loss teams, which seems unlikely, given
- 4:42Speaker 4: that we haven't had a three-loss team yet get into
- 4:46Speaker 4: the college football playoff. At least I don't think we
- 4:48Speaker 4: did last year. So I know Texas was close with
- 4:51Speaker 4: three losses. I know South Carolina a couple years back
- 4:54Speaker 4: was close, and Ole Miss was close. I don't think
- 4:56Speaker 4: anybody's gotten in. Heck, Vanderbilt didn't get in last year
- 4:58Speaker 4: at 10-2. But I think we've got a league, and
- 5:02Speaker 4: we've already seen it. You know, at the end of
- 5:04Speaker 4: this weekend, we're already going to have, at most, two
- 5:08Speaker 4: teams left without a conference loss. And it will be
- 5:11Speaker 4: October 10th. So, you know, we're seeing a world where
- 5:15Speaker 4: teams are beating everybody up, leading to probably more three-loss
- 5:18Speaker 4: teams than we would be comfortable with if we're thinking
- 5:21Speaker 4: we're going to get a half-dozen teams in the playoffs.
- 5:23Speaker 4: So I'd say four or five, Matt, probably.
- 5:26Speaker 2: Daria, a national question before some more SEC talk here,
- 5:29Speaker 2: because we're talking all about the SEC playoff teams and
- 5:32Speaker 2: the Big Ten. Well, we've also got Miami in the ACC,
- 5:35Speaker 2: Notre Dame Independent. Who have you been most impressed with
- 5:38Speaker 2: so far of those two teams right there to start
- 5:41Speaker 2: the year?
- 5:43Speaker 4: Neither has really played much of anybody. So it's hard
- 5:46Speaker 4: to make too much of a judgment, but I think
- 5:48Speaker 4: Darian Mensah and Malachi Toney, just you look at those
- 5:51Speaker 4: two alone. And then obviously what they, what they can
- 5:55Speaker 4: do on defense. I mean, only one team played them
- 5:57Speaker 4: even remotely close. And that was Wake Forest, who I
- 6:00Speaker 4: think is a pretty good football team. Notre Dame also
- 6:03Speaker 4: has been completely untested. I'm kind of trying to hold out.
- 6:07Speaker 4: too much judgment on either of those two until they
- 6:10Speaker 4: play one another. I think they're really good. I mean,
- 6:12Speaker 4: obviously they'll play each other later in the year. Notre
- 6:14Speaker 4: Dame has to go to BYU, which I think will
- 6:16Speaker 4: be an interesting test, but So far, neither has been tested,
- 6:20Speaker 4: but that's kind of been what should have been the
- 6:21Speaker 4: case given the schedule they played.
- 6:23Speaker 1: We're talking football with Dari Noka, ESPN, SEC Network. Dari, Georgia, Alabama.
- 6:29Speaker 1: This is freaking going to be amazing on Saturday night. Obviously,
- 6:35Speaker 1: Bama's had their success, but last time out in the
- 6:37Speaker 1: SEC title game, Georgia got them. What's your feeling on
- 6:40Speaker 1: this game?
- 6:42Speaker 4: My feeling is a hell of a game, Mac. My
- 6:44Speaker 4: feeling is, you know, and I think it depends. One, Georgia,
- 6:50Speaker 4: how well do you defend the big play? Because Keelan
- 6:54Speaker 4: Russell and his group of receivers, Lazier Brooks and Ryan
- 6:58Speaker 4: Coleman Williams, and you go down the list, that's a
- 7:01Speaker 4: big play waiting to happen. Keelan Russell's a star. I mean,
- 7:03Speaker 4: he's a star. I think most people thought he would
- 7:05Speaker 4: and were surprised that that competition went as late as
- 7:07Speaker 4: it did into the fall before he was named the
- 7:10Speaker 4: starter over Austin Mack. Not knocking Austin Mack. Keelan's just different.
- 7:14Speaker 4: And they have really, really made hay in the big play.
- 7:18Speaker 4: And that's what I, if Georgia can slow that down,
- 7:22Speaker 4: make Alabama have to beat them on the ground. And
- 7:24Speaker 4: Bama's a good run team, too. They're way impressed. Much
- 7:26Speaker 4: better this year than they were a year ago. But
- 7:29Speaker 4: that's Georgia's chance. For Georgia, I don't, I think they're
- 7:33Speaker 4: going to want to and have to really kind of
- 7:35Speaker 4: control things on the ground to some degree and hit
- 7:38Speaker 4: the occasional play through the air. But what they can do.
- 7:42Speaker 4: I think if this is a lower scoring game, I
- 7:44Speaker 4: would give Georgia the advantage. If the winner gets into
- 7:47Speaker 4: the high 20s or 30s, I think Alabama wins. I'm
- 7:50Speaker 4: leaning Alabama right now because I do think they'll be
- 7:54Speaker 4: able to hit one or two of those plays over
- 7:56Speaker 4: the top that kind of is the backbreaker for Georgia.
- 8:00Speaker 2: Daria, I don't think anyone takes any joy or pride
- 8:03Speaker 2: or anything in having to talk about Shane Beamer because
- 8:07Speaker 2: of the person that he is and how he represents
- 8:10Speaker 2: himself and all around him. But why do you think,
- 8:14Speaker 2: not just, we know he's on the hot seat, but
- 8:15Speaker 2: why do you think it's been such a struggle for
- 8:18Speaker 2: him to find consistency? There's been some great moments. There's
- 8:22Speaker 2: been some woe woes. Why is it so hard for
- 8:24Speaker 2: them to sort of find a middle ground at consistency? I, yeah,
- 8:29Speaker 2: I think he's going to be judged ultimately by the
- 8:33Speaker 2: lack of development of Lenore sellers and the lack of
- 8:38Speaker 2: development in that offense.
- 8:39Speaker 4: And the Mike Shula hire set him back a while away.
- 8:43Speaker 4: It was a bad hire. I think a lot of
- 8:45Speaker 4: people at the time thought it was going to be
- 8:47Speaker 4: a bad hire and it turned out to be the case.
- 8:51Speaker 4: You know, I, I do think Kendall Bryles is a
- 8:53Speaker 4: good hire, but we haven't seen the development of Lenore sellers.
- 8:57Speaker 4: And I, And in the end, to some degree, I
- 9:00Speaker 4: think Shane's going to be tied to Sellers because I
- 9:03Speaker 4: think you could make the case that, like, Lenore Sellers
- 9:07Speaker 4: should have been the best quarterback that has ever worn
- 9:09Speaker 4: that uniform, that has ever stepped through that, you know,
- 9:13Speaker 4: the gates of Williams-Rush wearing a Gamecock uniform. And it
- 9:17Speaker 4: just has not materialized. And I don't know what he'll
- 9:20Speaker 4: end up doing in the NFL or if he'll end up,
- 9:22Speaker 4: you know, doing anything in that league, but... His lack
- 9:25Speaker 4: of development, I think, ultimately is what has really hurt
- 9:28Speaker 4: Shane Beamer. And I hate to see that because he'll
- 9:32Speaker 4: get fired and he'll land somewhere on his feet, maybe
- 9:35Speaker 4: not as a head coach, but even if it's a
- 9:37Speaker 4: special teams coordinator, an offensive assistant or somewhere, he'll end
- 9:41Speaker 4: up on a big-time staff somewhere and he'll get a
- 9:44Speaker 4: chance somewhere else to coach. But I think ultimately you
- 9:48Speaker 4: look at that, just they could never really get that
- 9:50Speaker 4: offense going. And honestly, Bone... As great as that six-game
- 9:56Speaker 4: run was a few years ago where they blew the
- 9:58Speaker 4: doors off Tennessee. and they blew the doors off clemson
- 10:01Speaker 4: and you know two i guess it was what two
- 10:03Speaker 4: years ago um that set a really really high bar
- 10:07Speaker 4: that shane's never been able to get back to and
- 10:09Speaker 4: it might have been kind of leading to his own
- 10:11Speaker 4: demise I know this, Bone.
- 10:13Speaker 1: When you watch Settle In at 1245 SEC Network, there's
- 10:17Speaker 1: a plug for you, Dari. On Saturday, to watch South Carolina-Florida,
- 10:22Speaker 1: you need to have a daiquiri in hand. And you
- 10:24Speaker 1: might need a few, Bone. I have a feeling.
- 10:25Speaker 2: I'm going to be thinking about Peter Burns messing up
- 10:28Speaker 2: the studio now when I watch him on there.
- 10:29Speaker 1: Yeah, make sure you clean up after yourself. Don't go
- 10:31Speaker 1: full Burns on the house. Dari, I wanted to ask
- 10:35Speaker 1: you about Florida. They are the next opponent for the
- 10:39Speaker 1: Gamecocks in the Swamp. And it just feels like John
- 10:42Speaker 1: Summerall is going to be chewing those dudes a new
- 10:45Speaker 1: one all week and have them ready to take the
- 10:47Speaker 1: frustration out on someone else after the loss to Missouri.
- 10:50Speaker 1: How do you view Florida? Because we were kind of
- 10:53Speaker 1: guilty of crowning them last week. And we were very guilty,
- 10:58Speaker 1: as Willie P., the Missouri alum at the station, of...
- 11:01Speaker 1: bashing missouri and joining in with everybody that was saying
- 11:04Speaker 1: why are they ranked all the time they why are
- 11:06Speaker 1: they clinging in the top 25 and we were shocked
- 11:09Speaker 1: by last week when you look at florida now are
- 11:13Speaker 1: do you still view them as hey they're a playoff
- 11:15Speaker 1: caliber team or are you now wondering is it going
- 11:19Speaker 1: to be a good first year for summer all but
- 11:21Speaker 1: maybe not playoff caliber what do you think Yeah, I.
- 11:24Speaker 4: Think more magnetic is that. I think it's going to
- 11:26Speaker 4: be a good first year, but not playoff caliber. Preseason,
- 11:30Speaker 4: I had him fifth in the SEC, which was really
- 11:32Speaker 4: high compared to where most people had him. I just
- 11:35Speaker 4: like him, and I like the guys that stayed there
- 11:38Speaker 4: to play for him. But I think South Carolina is
- 11:43Speaker 4: running into something nasty Saturday, to be honest with you.
- 11:46Speaker 4: You know, when Missouri hammered Florida, Doring and I were
- 11:50Speaker 4: both texted back and forth with Drake, who's just a
- 11:53Speaker 4: friend of ours. And whether he's a pina colada or
- 11:55Speaker 4: a daiquiri, I don't know.
- 11:57Speaker 1: Let us know. Ask him. Let us know.
- 12:01Speaker 4: He was talking about how it's easy to coach a
- 12:03Speaker 4: team that's pissed off all week because they were pissed
- 12:06Speaker 4: off all week after what happened to Mississippi State. I
- 12:09Speaker 4: think John Sumrall's had a team this week that's pissed
- 12:11Speaker 4: off all week. And I would expect a similar type
- 12:15Speaker 4: of outing that they had put up against them last week,
- 12:19Speaker 4: this week when they faced South Carolina. I think it
- 12:22Speaker 4: spells trouble for Carolina. I hate that going into a
- 12:25Speaker 4: bye week for Carolina. Understanding what that could possibly mean
- 12:30Speaker 4: for Shane Beamer when that game is over at Florida.
- 12:34Speaker 4: I think Florida's really good. I think it's an eight
- 12:36Speaker 4: or nine win team that's really good. But I wouldn't
- 12:39Speaker 4: go playoff yet, but I think they're going to put
- 12:41Speaker 4: up a show Saturday afternoon.
- 12:44Speaker 2: John Summerall can't be a strawberry dad guy. I'm going
- 12:46Speaker 2: to say that right now. I'm not going to ask
- 12:49Speaker 2: him either. That's what I'm staying away from.
- 12:51Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think Peter Kalanis is type of thing either. Dari,
- 12:54Speaker 1: I got no time. I want you to know here.
- 12:56Speaker 1: I have no time for the dude on the text
- 12:59Speaker 1: line at a 980 number saying, that is trolling your
- 13:01Speaker 1: Sooners and wants to know how many daiquiris Mateer has
- 13:05Speaker 1: before he goes and throws those interceptions. I got no
- 13:07Speaker 1: time for that guy, Dory, all right?
- 13:11Speaker 4: Well, I like the interception better than the backward toss
- 13:14Speaker 4: there to nobody.
- 13:16Speaker 1: I would rather the ball move.
- 13:17Speaker 4: In a forward direction.
- 13:19Speaker 1: I think that's fair. I think it's a fair request.
- 13:21Speaker 1: I was all in on Mateer, too, man. I can't
- 13:23Speaker 1: say anything.
- 13:24Speaker 2: Hey, that game against Texas was always wild.
- 13:26Speaker 1: You never know what may happen this weekend. It wouldn't
- 13:28Speaker 1: shock me. Yeah.
- 13:29Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 13:30Speaker 4: Hey, is that 9-8-0? Who's your Oklahoma State listener, by
- 13:33Speaker 4: the way? Gotta give him some credit, man. Hit some props.
- 13:35Speaker 4: That team's good now. I'll admit that. That team's a
- 13:37Speaker 4: good football team.
- 13:38Speaker 1: That's a good shout from you. That's that dude likes
- 13:40Speaker 1: the paycheck. And yeah, they are. We can point out
- 13:44Speaker 1: the one fan of that team. I think there's two,
- 13:46Speaker 1: but likes the paycheck is a name I remember. Even
- 13:48Speaker 1: Dari's aware of your workout. out there likes the paycheck.
- 13:51Speaker 1: That team's fun to watch, man. No doubt about it.
- 13:54Speaker 4: Yes.
- 13:54Speaker 1: All right, brother. By the way, when my Nittany Lions
- 13:58Speaker 1: went out and got a coach, I know you don't
- 13:59Speaker 1: give a damn about my Nittany Lions, Dory. I understand it,
- 14:02Speaker 1: nor should you. But when my Nittany Lions go out, fellas,
- 14:05Speaker 1: and get a coach and bring half their team with us,
- 14:08Speaker 1: why couldn't we get the same results that they did
- 14:11Speaker 1: at Oklahoma State when they went and got North Texas'
- 14:13Speaker 1: coach and half the team? We got to Cyclones East
- 14:16Speaker 1: and we're getting our rear ends kicked. Yeah.
- 14:19Speaker 4: Well, but one of the things was that OSU had
- 14:22Speaker 4: a coach and staff in place on signing day. You
- 14:24Speaker 4: guys didn't even have a staff in place. Like, there
- 14:26Speaker 4: was no roster.
- 14:27Speaker 1: I know. That's because they whiffed on about 14 dudes, man.
- 14:30Speaker 1: I mean, they even tried to go out to BYU
- 14:32Speaker 1: and drag Satake. Anyway, this is not– no one cares.
- 14:36Speaker 1: Other than to laugh at me, no one cares about
- 14:38Speaker 1: my plight as a Penn State fan. Hey, tell Burns
- 14:40Speaker 1: to tighten up there, all right, Dory? Likes the paycheck.
- 14:43Speaker 4: Won't do any good, brother. Won't do any good.
- 14:44Speaker 1: Likes the paycheck. Has heard you, Dari. He's very flattered.
- 14:47Speaker 1: Very flattered by the attention. All right, brother. Thanks as always, man.
- 14:52Speaker 1: Appreciate you.
- 14:53Speaker 4: You got it, guys. Take care.
- 14:55Speaker 1: He deserves a pina colada after that interview.
- 14:57Speaker 2: Did you see the news of who's making his TV
- 15:00Speaker 2: studio debut on Saturday? On TNT, on their Big 12 games.
- 15:06Speaker 2: Mike Gundy makes his TV debut. Oh, that could be entertaining.
- 15:09Speaker 2: That definitely could be entertaining. That's probably where he's headed.
- 15:12Speaker 2: Not sure why it took a month, but that's where
- 15:14Speaker 2: he's going to be on Saturday. Your mulleted brother.
- 15:17Speaker 1: There we go. Can we get an I'm a man,
- 15:19Speaker 1: I'm 50 rant? Oh, you know he's going to do
- 15:21Speaker 1: something like that. picante now now you've got picante going
- 15:24Speaker 1: on the greatness of drew mestemaker why it's dory's fault
- 15:27Speaker 1: why did we do this he is balling though man
- 15:31Speaker 1: he is balling no doubt.
- 15:33Speaker 2: When we come back here on the mac and bone
- 15:35Speaker 2: radio show panther fan questions how much would you offer
- 15:38Speaker 2: bryce right now and do we worry already about brad
- 15:43Speaker 2: exit getting a head coaching job we ask those questions
- 15:46Speaker 2: sports radio 92 7 wfnz.
- 15:56Speaker 5: Shout out to Bryce Young, man.
- 15:57Speaker 1: MVP. Hand up.
- 16:01Speaker 5: I said repeatedly about that man. He cannot do it.
- 16:06Speaker 5: He's this big and he can't do it. And you
- 16:10Speaker 5: talk to people that would have games of theirs and
- 16:13Speaker 5: you'd sit and talk and it was just like he
- 16:16Speaker 5: was body language. Not how he carried himself, but you
- 16:21Speaker 5: just saw a man that was a shell of himself,
- 16:23Speaker 5: was lost, had never dealt with Failure. But he came
- 16:29Speaker 5: out clean on the other side, man. And I have
- 16:31Speaker 5: such respect for only four games. But the last game
- 16:37Speaker 5: they played last year, they made the Rams earn every
- 16:39Speaker 5: bit of it. And we know Scott's got a giant
- 16:42Speaker 5: blind spot for the Rams.
- 16:45Speaker 1: That is Scott Van Pelt on his SVP pod. Admitting
- 16:50Speaker 1: he was wrong, he was wrong, he was wrong, Boney,
- 16:53Speaker 1: about Bryce Young. SVP, you are a true man. You
- 16:58Speaker 1: are a real one. Admitting you were wrong, and he
- 17:01Speaker 1: is so right, man. It really is an awesome story,
- 17:04Speaker 1: a story of perseverance. by Bryce. It's awesome because he's
- 17:09Speaker 1: doing it for the Panthers. But I said it yesterday, man. Like,
- 17:13Speaker 1: you can point to Bryce Young. If your kid plays
- 17:15Speaker 1: sports and, you know, hey, it's a rough season or whatever,
- 17:19Speaker 1: or they're trying to battle back from injury or any adversity,
- 17:21Speaker 1: you can point to Bryce Young's benching. It's a great
- 17:24Speaker 1: lesson for the kiddos, even, man. And this is....
- 17:28Speaker 2: I know some people may not understand this fully and
- 17:31Speaker 2: think I'm hating on Cam, but I'm not. Matt, Cam
- 17:34Speaker 2: is the most, you've said it before, Cam was the
- 17:37Speaker 2: most important athlete. to ever enter our Charlotte sports realm
- 17:42Speaker 2: because of the attention that he brought and not only
- 17:46Speaker 2: the winning, but just the overall view that people can
- 17:49Speaker 2: now look at Charlotte as a major sports town. But
- 17:52Speaker 2: there's no doubt that Cam was a polarizing figure. Cam
- 17:55Speaker 2: had detractors, but Cam did stuff that he probably towed
- 17:59Speaker 2: that line where he knew he was going to do
- 18:00Speaker 2: stuff at times, the way he had a flair, the
- 18:03Speaker 2: way he played the game. He was not going to be,
- 18:05Speaker 2: everybody was not going to be a fan of Cam, right?
- 18:07Speaker 2: It was never going to happen. But then I look
- 18:09Speaker 2: at Bryce Young, though, and the way his story has
- 18:13Speaker 2: developed and the way he handles stuff. How does anyone
- 18:17Speaker 2: really not at least respect and within Panther Nation not
- 18:21Speaker 2: root for that dude?
- 18:22Speaker 4: Right.
- 18:23Speaker 2: How do you not how do you not use him
- 18:24Speaker 2: as a lesson like you're talking about and pull for
- 18:26Speaker 2: that guy?
- 18:27Speaker 1: But Bryce is easier to relate to for the average face. Oh,
- 18:31Speaker 1: my God. Look at this little dude out there overcoming that,
- 18:33Speaker 1: you know, size and everything. He had to work through it.
- 18:36Speaker 1: It wasn't easy. Cam stepped foot in the NFL through for,
- 18:38Speaker 1: he's this physical freakazoid that we all can't relate to.
- 18:41Speaker 1: And they threw for 400 yards the first game and
- 18:44Speaker 1: it was just an absolute physical menace for defenders from
- 18:47Speaker 1: there on out. Like, so I think Bryce just a
- 18:49Speaker 1: little easier to relate to. I will say this. I
- 18:53Speaker 1: certainly never, well, I guess, sadly, I guess I did
- 18:55Speaker 1: know why some people didn't like Cam Newton. It was pathetic.
- 18:57Speaker 1: But anyway, I I never understood why you would not
- 19:01Speaker 1: like your quarterback that won an MVP and took you
- 19:04Speaker 1: to a 17 and one season.
- 19:06Speaker 2: Like I just, I'm like those in the fan base
- 19:09Speaker 2: weren't rooting for the guy, but then the people that
- 19:11Speaker 2: also do that with Bryce, like I don't, I'm not, I'm.
- 19:14Speaker 1: Not understanding any of that. I don't get it either.
- 19:16Speaker 1: All right. So anyway, it's weird. And I also don't
- 19:19Speaker 1: like this text from 704 number Bryce young, pina colada
- 19:24Speaker 1: and daiquiri guy. I don't like that, sir. Sounds like
- 19:27Speaker 1: a chill guy. And if he chooses to drink those,
- 19:29Speaker 1: you know what? Go ahead and do it, Brycey. Go
- 19:31Speaker 1: ahead and do it. I think Bryce is a straight
- 19:33Speaker 1: bourbon man myself. I ain't going to lie to you.
- 19:35Speaker 1: He might be a full thorough good. A little one bourbon,
- 19:38Speaker 1: one shot, one beer. He might be the full thorough good.
- 19:42Speaker 1: There's a song for everything.
- 19:44Speaker 2: And it's usually an old song, Bo, that none of
- 19:46Speaker 2: the young people listening know. Maybe he goes full Russell Wilson.
- 19:49Speaker 2: big apple juice guy.
- 19:51Speaker 1: When does Bryce Young get his own Subway sandwich? There
- 19:55Speaker 1: we go. Oh, yeah. It's good old Dangerous. It should happen.
- 19:59Speaker 1: It's spicy.
- 20:00Speaker 2: It should happen, baby. It would be good humor, though,
- 20:02Speaker 2: if they named the smallest sub after Bryce Young. Yeah,
- 20:05Speaker 2: you get a little, yeah. He can't get the full footlong.
- 20:08Speaker 2: A little four-incher?
- 20:09Speaker 1: The 4-inch. I'm talking about sub, man. What you up
- 20:12Speaker 1: there laughing at? I'm talking about the sub. Shravi, I'm
- 20:15Speaker 1: glad you're here. This could be our last day as
- 20:17Speaker 1: a show.
- 20:17Speaker 4: Oh, God.
- 20:18Speaker 1: If Finney was over there.
- 20:19Speaker 3: It was nice to be part of it.
- 20:20Speaker 1: If Finney was over there during that comment, can you
- 20:22Speaker 1: imagine where this would end? All right. Anyway, let's ask
- 20:26Speaker 1: our Panther fan questions. The question is not what alcoholic
- 20:30Speaker 1: drink Bryce drinks. This dude said, if you think Bryce
- 20:33Speaker 1: has had a sip of alcohol in his life. In
- 20:35Speaker 1: his life, you're sadly mistaken. You could be right about
- 20:38Speaker 1: that also. You could be.
- 20:40Speaker 4: All right.
- 20:40Speaker 2: I'm going to ask AI, what is Bryce Young's favorite
- 20:43Speaker 2: alcoholic drink?
- 20:45Speaker 1: What's going to come up? His suit's had four inches.
- 20:49Speaker 1: Stop it. I understand what y'all heard. All right. Maybe
- 20:53Speaker 1: no one took you the wrong way. Let's ask a
- 20:55Speaker 1: couple of Panther fan questions. Let's start with the Bryce question.
- 20:59Speaker 1: If you were the GM of the Panthers, it's a
- 21:01Speaker 1: bye week. We got some time before they play again.
- 21:03Speaker 1: It's not a distraction. I'm asking you, Bone. I'm asking
- 21:07Speaker 1: everybody listening. What amount of... Says Bryce's favorite drink is Dr. Pepper.
- 21:11Speaker 1: That tracks. That tracks. Dr. Pepper and body armor. I mean,
- 21:16Speaker 1: Bryce probably spent some time in Fansville. You know what
- 21:20Speaker 1: I mean? What money per year would you offer Bryce
- 21:23Speaker 1: right now? What would you be willing to offer him
- 21:25Speaker 1: right now, Bone? Per year? Yeah. It's probably got to
- 21:29Speaker 1: be in that $ 50 million range, right? So roughly in
- 21:34Speaker 1: that neighborhood. So you're saying 50 on the dot.
- 21:37Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 21:37Speaker 2: I mean, obviously give or take a few, but yeah,
- 21:39Speaker 2: I'd say 50 to 55 million. I don't think Bryce
- 21:42Speaker 2: is going to want to talk about it right now,
- 21:44Speaker 2: but yeah, that's what I would offer. I think you
- 21:46Speaker 2: have to start at least, uh, poking the bear there
- 21:49Speaker 2: before because the way Bryce is trending right now, this
- 21:50Speaker 2: thing might get really high. Again, if everybody knows... And
- 21:53Speaker 2: I hope it does get high.
- 21:54Speaker 1: Everybody knows how negotiation starts, Bone. You would be a
- 21:56Speaker 1: bad GM if you came on here and said 62. Like,
- 21:59Speaker 1: you don't start up there, right?
- 22:01Speaker 2: No, no.
- 22:02Speaker 1: You're seeing the way he plays through four games and
- 22:04Speaker 1: Dan might not. Dan might say, I still want to
- 22:06Speaker 1: see the season. You know, he may say that. But
- 22:08Speaker 1: I think your point about Bryce is, I'm pretty sure
- 22:11Speaker 1: if you came with your offer, Bryce Young's agent would
- 22:14Speaker 1: hang up on you. You know what I mean? You'd
- 22:15Speaker 1: be like, can we go get Peter Collada? Because the problem...
- 22:19Speaker 1: And he would already be gone.
- 22:20Speaker 2: The situation there is, if Bryce says, yes, sign me
- 22:22Speaker 2: up right now, well then, Mac, what if this keeps
- 22:25Speaker 2: going the way it's going? What if Bryce, just hear
- 22:27Speaker 2: me out, what if Bryce did throw for 5,000 yards?
- 22:30Speaker 2: And he signed now, it'd be like, why did he
- 22:32Speaker 2: sign now?
- 22:33Speaker 1: There's no doubt that his camp is going to want
- 22:35Speaker 1: to ride this season out. I would offer $ 55 million
- 22:38Speaker 1: a year. $ 55 million a year. And keep in mind, Bone,
- 22:40Speaker 1: my last offer.
- 22:44Speaker 1: As if I'm making real offers, was the Darnold Mayfield,
- 22:47Speaker 1: $ 33 million a year. So this four-game stretch has upped
- 22:51Speaker 1: me by $ 22 million a year. I would offer him
- 22:55Speaker 1: the $ 55 million a year. Am I crazy, Schropp? Did
- 22:57Speaker 1: I just break my own rule and go too high?
- 23:00Speaker 1: I just told you you can't go too high. Did
- 23:02Speaker 1: I do that?
- 23:02Speaker 3: I think $ 55 million is fine.
- 23:04Speaker 1: That would be third highest paid, tied third highest paid
- 23:06Speaker 1: with a bunch of dudes.
- 23:07Speaker 3: There's a lot of dudes that get paid $ 55 million.
- 23:09Speaker 3: If you push $ 60 million, I think that's... He's got
- 23:12Speaker 3: to have a 5,000 yard.
- 23:12Speaker 1: You can't do that. I mean, maybe I went to,
- 23:14Speaker 1: maybe Bone's right more around 50, but again, he's not
- 23:17Speaker 1: taking 50. 55, I'm like, would he bite?
- 23:21Speaker 3: I feel like in another life, Mac, are you the
- 23:24Speaker 3: secret banker for Deal or No Deal to where you're
- 23:26Speaker 3: just throwing numbers out over there?
- 23:28Speaker 1: I wish, man. I wish I was involved in Deal
- 23:31Speaker 1: or No Deal. I wish you were Howie Mandel. You
- 23:34Speaker 1: would rather do the Howie and Bone show? Oh, I
- 23:37Speaker 1: love Howie. Anyway, he's more lovable than me. I'll give
- 23:41Speaker 1: you that.
- 23:41Speaker 4: Am I wrong?
- 23:41Speaker 1: That show.
- 23:43Speaker 1: Did you like that show, Shrop? Were you a big fan? Yeah,
- 23:46Speaker 1: I liked it.
- 23:46Speaker 3: I think people are always way too greedy, though.
- 23:48Speaker 2: I always got... The greed got the best of many.
- 23:52Speaker 2: That show was kind of complex. I kind of got
- 23:53Speaker 2: confused watching that show sometimes.
- 23:55Speaker 1: Got confused. All right, let me read some of these texters.
- 23:58Speaker 1: Myron Goodman, the good man, says... Good man. He says
- 24:00Speaker 1: $ 55 million a year, six years, $ 280. Turd Ferguson, $ 50
- 24:05Speaker 1: won't cut it. He deserves $ 70. Joseph says, if Mack
- 24:09Speaker 1: was the GM and gave Bryce $ 55 million a year
- 24:12Speaker 1: and he signed it... It would jinx Bryce Young, and
- 24:15Speaker 1: he would suck again. Is he making fun of me
- 24:19Speaker 1: or Bryce or both of us? Yes. Both of us?
- 24:22Speaker 1: This dude said, Mac, I'm offering him 50. 55 is crazy.
- 24:26Speaker 1: He's got to play more than four good games. Dude,
- 24:30Speaker 1: if you look at the last eight games from last year.
- 24:32Speaker 1: We know he's not a rookie, right, guys? You look
- 24:34Speaker 1: at the last eight games from last year. Yeah, we
- 24:36Speaker 1: got more sample. You look at the first four games
- 24:38Speaker 1: of this year. Hell, just look at his stats bone post-benching.
- 24:43Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking 50 something, you know, we're talking
- 24:45Speaker 1: like a. We're talking like 30-plus more touchdowns than interceptions.
- 24:51Speaker 2: 50-plus total touchdowns. It was 44 and 18 a couple
- 24:55Speaker 2: weeks ago, whatever it is now. From the benching, yeah.
- 24:58Speaker 2: I think we're in the 50 neighborhood. We're around 15 interceptions.
- 25:02Speaker 2: I mean, again, was it as consistent as we wanted, Bone?
- 25:06Speaker 2: You know, last year, no, it was not.
- 25:09Speaker 1: But, dude, he just put four good games in a
- 25:11Speaker 1: row after a good eight-game stretch last year. And it's
- 25:14Speaker 1: not just that. It's trusting your eyeballs. Like, watch him
- 25:18Speaker 1: in his comfort level, Bone, despite being the most pressured
- 25:20Speaker 1: quarterback with the least clean pockets in the NFL. And
- 25:24Speaker 1: he leads them in yards despite that. And his third
- 25:27Speaker 1: in touchdowns. And he's up there in so many other categories.
- 25:30Speaker 2: And one thing that's going on, Mac, when you're playing
- 25:32Speaker 2: at that level of quarterback, you're probably... going to get
- 25:35Speaker 2: your OC hired at some point. And that leads us
- 25:38Speaker 2: to our Brad Iggsdick question. Matt, ask the audience, are
- 25:42Speaker 2: we worried about Brad Iggsdick going for a head coaching
- 25:45Speaker 2: job at some point, courtesy of QC Mechanical, your local
- 25:49Speaker 2: HVAC expert? I just saw a piece, an Intel piece,
- 25:52Speaker 2: where all the ESPN insiders, Matt, covered various questions. And
- 25:56Speaker 2: one of the questions was, what coordinators are starting to
- 25:59Speaker 2: get some run as potential head coaching guys Maybe in January,
- 26:05Speaker 2: and Brad Idzik's name did come up along with.
- 26:08Speaker 1: Tommy Reese of the Atlanta Falcons. All right. First of all,
- 26:11Speaker 1: shout out Charlotte Mechanical Bone. All right. They are our
- 26:14Speaker 1: Ask the Audience sponsor. So both these questions, we got
- 26:16Speaker 1: to give them love, right? And they're bringing these questions
- 26:19Speaker 1: to you. I do want to know if Carolina Panther
- 26:21Speaker 1: fans are in this camp. There is way too much
- 26:25Speaker 1: of this going on, in my opinion. There is way
- 26:28Speaker 1: too much of, oh, my God, what if we lose
- 26:30Speaker 1: Brad Idzik? I see it online. I see it on
- 26:34Speaker 1: our text line. Like, we can't just have fun and
- 26:37Speaker 1: enjoy the offense. Like, we finally have an offense bone
- 26:41Speaker 1: that is competent and, hell, much more than competent. It's explosive.
- 26:46Speaker 1: it's fun to watch. Like we played on primetime football
- 26:49Speaker 1: in our offense and our quarterback and Brad's play calling
- 26:52Speaker 1: absolutely dazzled the nation. Like allow me to just, to
- 26:56Speaker 1: just enjoy this and not start stressing out with 13
- 27:00Speaker 1: games left to go in a season bone. If Brad
- 27:02Speaker 1: is going to leave, I don't know how you feel
- 27:04Speaker 1: about it. I just like, I guess I shouldn't be
- 27:07Speaker 1: a complete ass and not engage in, in the concern
- 27:10Speaker 1: that a lot of our fans have. Like I shouldn't
- 27:12Speaker 1: be like that, but just me as a fan, that's
- 27:15Speaker 1: not where I'm at right now, man. I just, I
- 27:17Speaker 1: want to see where this can go offensively. That means
- 27:20Speaker 1: it's not a negative thing. Yes.
- 27:22Speaker 2: You have to adjust without the OC, but that's what
- 27:25Speaker 2: good teams have to do. That's what well-run organizations do.
- 27:29Speaker 2: Someone steps up, you bring someone else in. When coaches
- 27:32Speaker 2: leave to become head coaches, that means your organization is
- 27:37Speaker 2: heading in the right direction and they're successful. I hope
- 27:40Speaker 2: Becky gets hired in January because that means Bryce Baldo.
- 27:45Speaker 1: All year long.
- 27:46Speaker 4: 100%.
- 27:46Speaker 1: I'm not really sure why I said balled out that way.
- 27:49Speaker 1: I personally think he could probably use another year of
- 27:52Speaker 1: seasoning as a coordinator. He's very young. It is his
- 27:56Speaker 1: first year. But Dave Canales was a coordinator for one
- 27:59Speaker 1: year and got a job. So, you know what I mean?
- 28:01Speaker 1: And like you said, some people are already pointing to
- 28:04Speaker 1: his name. And he is doing an amazing job with Bryce.
- 28:07Speaker 1: He is going to get on people's radars. Here's my
- 28:11Speaker 1: issue with it, Bone, is you're right to say that.
- 28:14Speaker 1: that it's a positive. They don't take, you know what
- 28:17Speaker 1: I mean? When our offense was dead last in the league,
- 28:19Speaker 1: they weren't coming around saying, let me get some of
- 28:21Speaker 1: them offensive coaches, right? So to your point, it's an
- 28:24Speaker 1: overall positive. And if you want to get where we
- 28:26Speaker 1: want to go as an organization, we're going to become
- 28:28Speaker 1: that sort of organization that loses coordinators again. I know
- 28:31Speaker 1: it's been a minute since that people have wanted our
- 28:33Speaker 1: coaches bone here in Charlotte. Here's what bothers me about
- 28:37Speaker 1: it is it's just no, it's not a fun way
- 28:40Speaker 1: to fan. Oh, my God. People turn it into a
- 28:43Speaker 1: negative bone. Oh, my God. I'm worried about Izzik leaving. Oh, no.
- 28:49Speaker 1: I'm worried about the quarterback being good and the offense
- 28:51Speaker 1: being successful. Oh, my God. I'm so worried. Yeah. Why
- 28:54Speaker 1: would you fan that way? Just enjoy it. And if
- 28:56Speaker 1: we lose him, I have a feeling they would probably
- 28:59Speaker 1: promote from within. Mike Bercovici bone they promoted so that
- 29:03Speaker 1: they didn't lose him. His name comes up sometimes. You've
- 29:06Speaker 1: got Will Harriger on that staff as quarterback coach. So
- 29:09Speaker 1: I kind of feel like they promote from within. like
- 29:12Speaker 1: i just i don't like that way of fanning like
- 29:15Speaker 1: let's just enjoy having this explosive offense mac you.
- 29:19Speaker 2: You mentioned you know how the text line operates here
- 29:21Speaker 2: and i don't approve of this but you mentioned uh
- 29:24Speaker 2: brad is it needing more seasoning and that led to
- 29:26Speaker 2: some uh willie p uh cooking jokes.
- 29:29Speaker 1: No uh p man stray i'm telling you can catch
- 29:32Speaker 1: in any segment bro Get out of here! Doesn't matter
- 29:34Speaker 1: what we're talking about. And I'm tired of reading them.
- 29:37Speaker 1: I can tell. I can tell, Bone, that it pains
- 29:39Speaker 1: you to do it. Now, here's another thing, too, Bone.
- 29:43Speaker 1: I just saw it on the text line. And I
- 29:45Speaker 1: heard KB talking about this yesterday. And we got a
- 29:47Speaker 1: text about this. People are bringing up Daryl Bevel's name, too,
- 29:49Speaker 1: on the staff, by the way. Yeah, he's on there too.
- 29:51Speaker 1: So you could, yeah, you could slide in an experienced
- 29:53Speaker 1: play call. That's a very good point. Very good point. Okay.
- 29:57Speaker 1: So let's deal with this one here, Bone, from a
- 29:59Speaker 1: 704 number. Cause I saw this earlier in the week
- 30:02Speaker 1: and KB got this. I don't know if it's the
- 30:03Speaker 1: same dude every time. Mac, I gotta be honest. I would,
- 30:08Speaker 1: I want to keep Idzik so badly. I would let
- 30:11Speaker 1: Canales walk and promote Idzik Joe Brady style. I don't
- 30:17Speaker 1: know if you've heard this kind of whole thing. This
- 30:19Speaker 1: is another, this is a, this is a like off
- 30:22Speaker 1: ramp of the previous. I've not heard this. Panther fan conversation.
- 30:27Speaker 1: What's your, I have a very strong answer to this.
- 30:29Speaker 1: What is your answer to this? So what was the,
- 30:31Speaker 1: what was the move again? We're doing what with Idzik?
- 30:33Speaker 1: If people want to take Idzik away, you essentially fire
- 30:36Speaker 1: Canales and you, you make Idzik the head coach is
- 30:38Speaker 1: essentially what this argument, again, I don't know. Is this
- 30:41Speaker 1: the same person getting to us in KB? I don't know.
- 30:43Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 30:44Speaker 2: I kind of like Canales as the current head coach
- 30:46Speaker 2: of the football team. I don't think he deserves to
- 30:47Speaker 2: be fired. So it's not like Canales is on the
- 30:50Speaker 2: hot seat here.
- 30:51Speaker 1: So, no, I don't. They think Idzik is such an
- 30:54Speaker 1: offensive whiz kid that you possibly can't lose him. I'm this.
- 30:58Speaker 1: This drives me insane. No, that's it. I'm going to
- 31:00Speaker 1: tell you this. I wanted to on purpose wreck my
- 31:03Speaker 1: car into a building yesterday when I heard this. with KB.
- 31:07Speaker 1: And it wasn't KB's fault. KB was reading the text
- 31:10Speaker 1: and talking about it. But I just, the whole thing is,
- 31:15Speaker 1: the whole thing is, Bone, we don't know if Brad
- 31:18Speaker 1: Idzik has the culture building, the overall full team leadership, the,
- 31:23Speaker 1: you know what I mean, that Dave Canales has. Appreciate
- 31:25Speaker 1: Dave Canales and the job he's doing. I feel like
- 31:27Speaker 1: he's a very underappreciated dude with the Panthers.
- 31:31Speaker 2: Also, that was a very specific situation in Buffalo because
- 31:34Speaker 2: McDermott was at the end of the line when he
- 31:36Speaker 2: just could not get them over the hump. Oh, yeah,
- 31:38Speaker 2: they gave him more than enough chances. It's a completely
- 31:40Speaker 2: different situation. More than enough chances. Canales literally is just
- 31:44Speaker 2: getting this rebuild going in the right direction.
- 31:47Speaker 1: Anyway, we got a little time to talk about that
- 31:49Speaker 1: because right now, Bone, we have finally, Bone, you are
- 31:52Speaker 1: joined by a Duke man on the radio show. You
- 31:56Speaker 1: had to tough it out through those Tar Heel interviews.
- 31:59Speaker 1: Why am I back here then? Jaron Stevenson laughed at
- 32:02Speaker 1: you when you told him he's a Duke fan. You
- 32:04Speaker 1: are finally talking to one of your own right now.
- 32:07Speaker 1: Big Pat, Patrick Gungba from your Duke Blue Devils, Bone,
- 32:11Speaker 1: is joining us right now live from ACC tip-off a
- 32:15Speaker 1: couple of miles away. Pat, what's going on, man? How
- 32:18Speaker 1: you doing?
- 32:19Speaker 6: I'm doing good.
- 32:20Speaker 1: I'm doing good.
- 32:21Speaker 6: How are you guys?
- 32:22Speaker 1: Doing good. What's up, Pat? Thanks for joining us.
- 32:24Speaker 2: What's it mean for you to be out there representing
- 32:28Speaker 2: Duke as now one of the leaders, one of the
- 32:31Speaker 2: veterans of the operation?
- 32:33Speaker 6: Oh, yeah. I mean, it definitely means a lot just
- 32:35Speaker 6: to be out here representing Duke. And, I mean, yeah,
- 32:40Speaker 6: it just means a lot, you know, so.
- 32:41Speaker 1: How much are you chomping at the bit? You've been
- 32:44Speaker 1: a part of the last couple teams that had ridiculously
- 32:47Speaker 1: good seasons, but man, in the tournament, one and done,
- 32:51Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Things happen. How much are
- 32:54Speaker 1: you chomping at the bit, hey, let's get another season
- 32:57Speaker 1: going here?
- 32:59Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
- 32:59Speaker 6: I mean, I can't wait for our first game tomorrow, actually,
- 33:05Speaker 6: versus Belmont. So, I mean, I just can't wait to
- 33:07Speaker 6: get out there with with my teammates and play somebody new.
- 33:10Speaker 2: So a lot of, a lot of new teammates out there,
- 33:13Speaker 2: big Pat, who is, uh, you can, there's probably a
- 33:15Speaker 2: lot of options, but who is someone that's caught your
- 33:18Speaker 2: eye where you say, Oh man, this guy, this guy
- 33:20Speaker 2: is going to be something for the Duke Blue Devils.
- 33:23Speaker 6: Um, I feel like, uh, uh, Bryson Howard. I mean,
- 33:26Speaker 6: I feel like, uh, he's, he's coming and, uh, uh, uh,
- 33:30Speaker 6: willing to learn, uh, I can shoot, uh, defend. And then, um,
- 33:35Speaker 6: I feel like, uh, Deron Rippey as well. I mean,
- 33:38Speaker 6: I feel like he comes in, guards, picks up full court,
- 33:45Speaker 6: gets to the paint whenever. So, I mean, I feel
- 33:47Speaker 6: like those two have definitely impressed me the most.
- 33:50Speaker 2: He could throw down, too, can't he? We saw him
- 33:52Speaker 2: at Countdown to Craziness, man, looking kind of like Derrick Rose,
- 33:55Speaker 2: wasn't he, a little bit? Yeah, yeah.
- 33:57Speaker 6: He definitely— has definitely jumped high so.
- 34:01Speaker 1: That's sweet man we got patrick gunga with us duke
- 34:04Speaker 1: blue devil big man he's right they're getting it started
- 34:06Speaker 1: this week with an exhibition against belmont um pat how
- 34:11Speaker 1: do you feel like it really looks like you guys
- 34:13Speaker 1: have a chance to be one of these teams that
- 34:16Speaker 1: has a mix between the young talent like the guys
- 34:20Speaker 1: you're talking about but also veterans you know, bringing Blackwell in, too,
- 34:24Speaker 1: along with the guys that have stayed there. How do
- 34:27Speaker 1: you feel about that mix of vets but also young,
- 34:30Speaker 1: hungry talent?
- 34:31Speaker 6: I mean, I feel like the mix that we have
- 34:34Speaker 6: is a great mix. And I feel like it's– I mean,
- 34:40Speaker 6: I feel like that's helped us on the court and, like,
- 34:44Speaker 6: our connection that we have.
- 34:46Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 34:47Speaker 2: How much does Caleb Foster mean to you in the program?
- 34:51Speaker 2: Because it's rare to have a guy in this day
- 34:53Speaker 2: and age, and you're one of those guys right now
- 34:54Speaker 2: as well. But Caleb Foster spending his whole career at Duke,
- 34:58Speaker 2: what does his leadership mean for you guys?
- 35:00Speaker 1: Seems like a really good dude, man.
- 35:02Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I mean, C-Foss, I mean, you know, I mean,
- 35:06Speaker 6: me and him, you know, we were here over the summer.
- 35:10Speaker 2: Rehabbing.
- 35:11Speaker 6: So, I mean, I spent a lot of time with him. And,
- 35:13Speaker 6: you know, I mean, I'm just very thankful for him,
- 35:16Speaker 6: you know, Um, and his leadership, I mean, I feel
- 35:19Speaker 6: like his, his, his leadership means a lot to, to
- 35:23Speaker 6: the team. I mean, I feel like, uh, you know, he's,
- 35:26Speaker 6: he's like the biggest voice on the team. So, I mean,
- 35:28Speaker 6: I feel like, uh, he's always, uh, leading with by,
- 35:32Speaker 6: by his voice and by example. So, I mean, I
- 35:33Speaker 6: feel like that always is. is is uh helping us.
- 35:37Speaker 1: So let's uh i gotta ask you about your coach
- 35:40Speaker 1: coach shire was a man in demand this offseason getting
- 35:43Speaker 1: wooed by the nba the mavericks and he admitted hey
- 35:46Speaker 1: i thought about it but i got more work to
- 35:48Speaker 1: do here at duke what is what makes coach shire
- 35:51Speaker 1: so special obviously people are noticing not just in college
- 35:55Speaker 1: basketball what what's the key to his success from from
- 35:58Speaker 1: your standpoint I.
- 36:01Speaker 6: Mean, I just feel like he, like, studies the game. And,
- 36:04Speaker 6: I mean, I feel like he's always bringing something new
- 36:07Speaker 6: to the table and something different. And, I mean, I
- 36:12Speaker 6: feel like that, like, kind of like him, like, changing
- 36:14Speaker 6: stuff up and whatnot. And I feel like that's, like, always–
- 36:17Speaker 6: good and keeps opponents on their toes and whatnot.
- 36:21Speaker 1: All right. We have a Duke fan that texted in
- 36:25Speaker 1: and said, does Pat have a problem sharing the spotlight
- 36:30Speaker 1: with the ACC champs in football? They're balling. Pat, they're balling.
- 36:35Speaker 1: Are you into supporting Duke football? Nate Shepard is legit, man.
- 36:38Speaker 1: What do you think?
- 36:39Speaker 6: Yeah, nah.
- 36:40Speaker 4: Yeah, nah.
- 36:40Speaker 6: I mean, I'm definitely a fan. And I've been to
- 36:46Speaker 6: a couple of games, but, you know, I would definitely
- 36:47Speaker 6: say I'm a fan.
- 36:48Speaker 1: Who's your NFL team? Who do you like?
- 36:51Speaker 6: I mean, I don't have a team, but, I mean,
- 36:52Speaker 6: I'd probably go with, like, my hometown team, the Commanders.
- 36:57Speaker 1: Okay. Oh, man.
- 36:58Speaker 6: We're not doing so good right now.
- 37:02Speaker 1: What about a few rough decades there, Pat? Yeah. What
- 37:05Speaker 1: about the Panthers, baby? You're in the state of North
- 37:08Speaker 1: Carolina now. Bryce Young balling out the other night. What
- 37:10Speaker 1: do you think?
- 37:11Speaker 6: I mean, I'm not too big on, like, the NFL. But,
- 37:16Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, so I didn't watch the game.
- 37:20Speaker 1: I'm trying to recruit you. I'm trying to recruit you.
- 37:23Speaker 1: I don't have any NIL to offer you, though, unfortunately.
- 37:25Speaker 2: Now, one of our hosts here, he's older than you,
- 37:27Speaker 2: but he went to the same high school you went
- 37:29Speaker 2: to way before you.
- 37:31Speaker 1: Our guy named Willie P., Will Palachuk.
- 37:33Speaker 2: He talks about what a great athlete he was at
- 37:37Speaker 2: your high school. Have you ever heard of him before?
- 37:39Speaker 2: And please tell us you've never heard of.
- 37:40Speaker 1: This guy before.
- 37:43Speaker 6: No, I haven't ever.
- 37:44Speaker 1: That's a good answer. We think he might be a fraud, Pat,
- 37:48Speaker 1: so I'm glad you told me that. Thank you.
- 37:50Speaker 2: He says that his name is like on the wall.
- 37:52Speaker 2: I smell a rat here.
- 37:55Speaker 1: Thank you, Pat. You've done a good job here. All right, Pat. Hey,
- 37:58Speaker 1: best of luck this year, man. Looking forward to seeing
- 38:01Speaker 1: you in the Devil's Hoop this year, man. Appreciate you.
- 38:03Speaker 4: Thank you.
- 38:04Speaker 6: Appreciate y'all.
- 38:04Speaker 1: All right, there you go. That is Big Pat, Patrick Gungba,
- 38:07Speaker 1: chatting with us live from ACC Tip-Off. Fitty's out there.
- 38:12Speaker 1: Being a team player, Bone, hooking us up, setting the
- 38:14Speaker 1: guys up, giving the guys a microphone and putting them
- 38:16Speaker 1: on the show with us. Later today, Wes and Walker
- 38:18Speaker 1: will be live. Well, I guess it'll just be Walker, right?
- 38:21Speaker 1: Walker and Flound. They'll be live from ACC Media Days,
- 38:24Speaker 1: and it includes, Bone, some good NC State stuff, some
- 38:27Speaker 1: Wake Forest guys, too, as well. Absolutely.
- 38:29Speaker 2: Come back on the Mac and Bone Show. It's the wrap-up.
- 38:32Speaker 2: Sports Radio 92.7.
- 38:49Speaker 1: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. If you are a College Hoops fan,
- 38:55Speaker 1: you may have listened to the interview with Pat Gungba there.
- 38:57Speaker 1: We talked to Jaron Stevenson and Coach Michael Malone from
- 39:01Speaker 1: the Tar Heels. We went equal time. We went both
- 39:03Speaker 1: shades of blue on this radio show today. Check out
- 39:06Speaker 1: the podcast of those conversations later. today. Fitty and Flounder
- 39:12Speaker 1: out there getting it done. Wes, Wes will be, I
- 39:14Speaker 1: keep saying Wes, he's off this week, right? Walker will
- 39:17Speaker 1: be out there later today at ACC tip off. And yeah,
- 39:20Speaker 1: the exhibitions are this week, right? The Duke Belmont is tomorrow, right? Bone.
- 39:24Speaker 1: And then Carolina USC Friday.
- 39:26Speaker 4: Yes.
- 39:26Speaker 1: Yes.
- 39:27Speaker 4: Sir.
- 39:27Speaker 1: It's on, baby. It's on. Hornets played last night, at
- 39:30Speaker 1: least for a little while.
- 39:31Speaker 2: Basketball season kind of sneaks up on us a little bit.
- 39:34Speaker 1: It does. It does.
- 39:35Speaker 2: I think it's also because we're in the football season.
- 39:38Speaker 2: When we get to football, we are dying for something new.
- 39:42Speaker 2: To get into our sports mind, we are begging for
- 39:45Speaker 2: football season. Then we get to football season and basketball
- 39:48Speaker 2: season just comes right after that. You know, kind of
- 39:50Speaker 2: just right there, all of a sudden, boom, basketball. No
- 39:53Speaker 2: doubt about it. Why am I talking like John Madden?
- 39:56Speaker 1: Bone Madden. You got football, then boom, basketball. You're a
- 39:58Speaker 1: better John Madden than Nick Cage. I'm going to give
- 40:00Speaker 1: you that. I'll give you that one right now.
- 40:04Speaker 2: He looks like he's playing the role for leaving Las Vegas,
- 40:08Speaker 2: but he's wearing a John Madden fat suit. There you go, shop.
- 40:15Speaker 2: There you go, baby. It's just Nick Cage. There's not
- 40:20Speaker 2: John Madden in that portrayal, I see.
- 40:23Speaker 1: It looks shaky. It really looks shaky, the trailer. P-Man's back, baby.
- 40:30Speaker 1: P-Man is back. Let's read something.
- 40:32Speaker 2: I tried to get some intel from Patrick Gumba about
- 40:35Speaker 2: your exploits, and he obviously didn't pay attention in school.
- 40:38Speaker 1: Said he's never heard of you for an all-time great
- 40:41Speaker 1: edge rusher in school history. You do realize he's like
- 40:43Speaker 1: 10 years younger than me.
- 40:44Speaker 2: But we thought your name was in the rafters.
- 40:46Speaker 1: Yeah, we thought maybe your jersey was retired in a
- 40:48Speaker 1: trophy case in the front of the lobby.
- 40:50Speaker 3: Let's be honest also, Will. He's far more than 10
- 40:53Speaker 3: years younger than you.
- 40:54Speaker 1: 15, 20 years younger than me. He's 21 years old, Willie. Well,
- 40:58Speaker 1: you know, those Duke guys, they actually stay longer than
- 41:01Speaker 1: one year now, so I didn't know. Thank you. There
- 41:03Speaker 1: we go, baby. There we go. P-Man, yeah, I can't
- 41:06Speaker 1: believe he caught a stray. I wasn't comfortable with that.
- 41:10Speaker 1: Someone did text in. You just read him, man. You
- 41:13Speaker 1: just read him, baby. Willie, here's the thing, though. Someone
- 41:15Speaker 1: did text in.
- 41:16Speaker 2: They liked Mac's joke about Willie P on the pregame
- 41:20Speaker 2: show the other night.
- 41:22Speaker 1: What did you say about him on the pregame show?
- 41:23Speaker 1: I can't even tell you. They all run together. Oh,
- 41:26Speaker 1: something about taking a late-night pee or something the other night. Oh, yeah,
- 41:28Speaker 1: I was just hyping up your show. Yeah, yeah, I
- 41:30Speaker 1: made a late-night pee joke, and then I called it
- 41:31Speaker 1: Late Night Willie. I had all kind of names. I
- 41:33Speaker 1: don't know if they're going to stick out. All right,
- 41:35Speaker 1: that's not straight. That's all right. I wanted you to
- 41:37Speaker 1: do a Jay Leno-type monologue to open up your late-night
- 41:40Speaker 1: show the other night. That's what I wanted. I was
- 41:44Speaker 1: taunting the Lions fans, telling them, oh, no, don't leave.
- 41:47Speaker 1: Don't leave. Please drink our beer. Please try our beer.
- 41:51Speaker 1: I love it, man. What a win that was.
- 41:52Speaker 2: We have a Granny Pat suggestion about what to do
- 41:55Speaker 2: with Dave Canales. My opinion, let Canulis go and hire
- 42:02Speaker 2: MC Demote.
- 42:04Speaker 4: Who?
- 42:05Speaker 1: Who?
- 42:06Speaker 2: Oh, I speak Granny Pat. Let me rephrase this. My opinion,
- 42:10Speaker 2: where can I always go and hire Sean McDermott?
- 42:12Speaker 3: McDermott.
- 42:13Speaker 1: But she spelled it MC Demote. MC Demote. Is that
- 42:16Speaker 1: a new hot rapper out there? MC Demote? Give me
- 42:18Speaker 1: a beatbox, Mac. MC Demote does need someone to beatbox
- 42:22Speaker 1: for him. Let me read some of these texts here.
- 42:26Speaker 1: Someone texted in and said, Willie just got dunked on
- 42:29Speaker 1: by Gungba. I feel like he just kind of went
- 42:32Speaker 1: where the past led him. I kind of went him
- 42:35Speaker 1: down the path. You lobbed it up, and he just
- 42:37Speaker 1: put it through the hoop, I feel like. We'll tip it.
- 42:39Speaker 1: Not to mention, Gumba, the campus is actually a different
- 42:43Speaker 1: campus now. He literally is not at the same building
- 42:46Speaker 1: that I was in. Maybe they left your retired jersey
- 42:50Speaker 1: at the other building. You mean the golden mic that
- 42:52Speaker 1: I used to use for the public address? Is that
- 42:54Speaker 1: where Keels, Roach, and Darren Harris also went? That's right.
- 42:57Speaker 1: How about that? How about that? A pipeline. Let's see.
- 43:00Speaker 1: Texter says, did Mac just make up a word on
- 43:02Speaker 1: the air? There is no way giddily is a real word. P-Man,
- 43:06Speaker 1: you have the best vocabulary at the station. Tell my
- 43:09Speaker 1: man that is 100% a word. Use it in a sentence.
- 43:12Speaker 1: Like Bone, I forget. I just said Bone giddily did something.
- 43:14Speaker 1: When I watch Blood Jack, I get giddily. No, it
- 43:18Speaker 1: isn't an adjective describing how you did something. Giddeley. Giddeley
- 43:23Speaker 1: did something. As in the adjective. Like you giddily skip
- 43:26Speaker 1: down the street. Yes. I can see that. It's 100%
- 43:28Speaker 1: a word. Step the hell off.
- 43:31Speaker 2: Giddeley is an adverb that means acting with silly, excited happiness.
- 43:36Speaker 2: Anything with an L-Y or an I-N-G is an adverb.
- 43:39Speaker 2: To be happy in a dizzy, unbalanced way.
- 43:41Speaker 1: Okay, my bad. Adverb. But it is a word. If
- 43:43Speaker 1: you go to an accredited university, you'll learn that. Mizzou
- 43:49Speaker 1: accredited and blowout winners. You a strawberry daiquiri or pina
- 43:53Speaker 1: colada guy, Willie? I'm the oldest land grade university in
- 43:55Speaker 1: the west of the Pacific. Okay, thank you. You a
- 43:57Speaker 1: daiquiri guy or are you going to put the listeners
- 43:59Speaker 1: to sleep? I'm not a pina colada guy. I'd rather
- 44:01Speaker 1: go strawberry daiquiri. There were a couple of daiquiris by
- 44:04Speaker 1: the pool when I was over in Wrightsville Beach over
- 44:06Speaker 1: the weekend. How about that? This texter says, Bone talking
- 44:09Speaker 1: about how fun the Hornets will be to watch. Sounds
- 44:12Speaker 1: like we'll be league pass darlings again. Never heard that
- 44:14Speaker 1: one before.
- 44:16Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 44:17Speaker 1: What do you want? That could be the label we get.
- 44:21Speaker 2: Do you want the alternative and they're horrible? I'm saying,
- 44:25Speaker 2: results aside, I do think this isn't going to be
- 44:28Speaker 2: like the past where they're getting run off the court.
- 44:30Speaker 2: They're going to lose some games, but I don't think
- 44:32Speaker 2: they're going to get their doors.
- 44:33Speaker 1: Blown off that often. They are, but I think fans—
- 44:35Speaker 1: Blown off or blown off? I think fans want— I
- 44:38Speaker 1: wouldn't go by what we saw last night. Put it
- 44:40Speaker 1: that way. Well, of course. They didn't have their best
- 44:43Speaker 1: three offensive players last night. Half their rotations on the shelf.
- 44:47Speaker 1: And as I said, Willie, that was outside of Mike L.
- 44:50Speaker 1: Brown Jr. That was the full Nets. That was their
- 44:53Speaker 1: actual team. Well, that doesn't make it any better, does it?
- 44:56Speaker 1: Michael Porter Jr. is involved. Yeah, I'm saying, my dad
- 44:59Speaker 1: was actually, they're playing their full roster. We're playing. He
- 45:02Speaker 1: played about as many minutes as Mizzou as I played
- 45:04Speaker 1: in high school football, so it's all good. See, I
- 45:07Speaker 1: can make those jokes, too. Okay, there you go. I
- 45:09Speaker 1: appreciate you jumping in on it. Let's see what else
- 45:12Speaker 1: we have here. This texter says, Willie's right. It was
- 45:16Speaker 1: a great crowd at the game the other night. Can
- 45:18Speaker 1: we just tell people to do chants when we're on defense?
- 45:22Speaker 1: and not on offense. How are we still dealing with this?
- 45:25Speaker 1: NSP would say the year of our Lord, 2026. How
- 45:27Speaker 1: are we still dealing with this? I think we need
- 45:29Speaker 1: to do with the old Montreal Expos used to do
- 45:31Speaker 1: with it. You know, we give them the rules on
- 45:32Speaker 1: the way in the state. Loud on defense, quiet on offense.
- 45:37Speaker 1: Like a Cameron crazy cheat sheet? Very much so. You
- 45:40Speaker 1: just hand it out?
- 45:42Speaker 2: We had a run-in, apparently, with the fit dog and
- 45:44Speaker 2: his enemy, Cameron Williams, of the Charlotte Post outside, Charlotte Post,
- 45:49Speaker 2: right at... ACC media days where they argued over Duke
- 45:53Speaker 2: and Carolina.
- 45:53Speaker 1: Please tell me this came to an end.
- 45:54Speaker 2: Cameron Williams said, the fit dog tried to bite, but his.
- 46:00Speaker 1: What a quote.
- 46:01Speaker 2: The fit dog tried to bark, but his nibbles hardly tickled.
- 46:07Speaker 4: Oh!
- 46:07Speaker 1: Murphy bites harder than Fiddy, apparently.
- 46:09Speaker 4: What a bar.
- 46:10Speaker 1: As somebody who has to deal with both people, if
- 46:13Speaker 1: you knew what each of them said about each other.
- 46:16Speaker 4: Oh!
- 46:18Speaker 1: T-Man's got the scoop. I could spill some tea that
- 46:21Speaker 1: would fill up Boston Harbor. So this is a real beat.
- 46:26Speaker 1: Arguing immediately about who can care. I love the way
- 46:29Speaker 1: they both go to Willie to talk crap about the
- 46:30Speaker 1: other two. I'm apparently the intermediary commissary. So Fitty's going
- 46:34Speaker 1: to come in hot tomorrow night with me. Bro, we
- 46:36Speaker 1: need to do an on-air summit. We have before, haven't we?
- 46:39Speaker 1: Cam Williams, Fitty. And Willie P, the middleman. That's right.
- 46:43Speaker 1: On-air summit here. And we all drink some daiquiris and
- 46:46Speaker 1: pina coladas. When did I turn into the Kofi Annan.
- 46:48Speaker 4: Of the side?
- 46:49Speaker 2: The fit dog tried to barf, but his nibbles hardly
- 46:52Speaker 2: take him. Put that on the quill board.
- 46:53Speaker 1: Somebody said, why is this guy talking about Fitty's nipples?
- 46:57Speaker 1: That's nibbles. Nibbles, sir. Who nibbles harder, the fit dog
- 47:01Speaker 1: or Murphy? Definitely Murphy. I've seen bone scratches and cuts.
- 47:06Speaker 2: We're working on it since the tootie season now. My
- 47:08Speaker 2: arms aren't getting destroyed as much anymore.
- 47:09Speaker 1: We got to get out of here. By the way,
- 47:10Speaker 1: Murphy could be with us at Harris Casino next week.
- 47:12Speaker 1: We're cutting into Willie's airtime right now, man. We got
- 47:14Speaker 1: to get out of here. Not the first time that's happened.
- 47:18Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I've cut into the airtime of every
- 47:21Speaker 1: co-worker at this station. And I apologize, fellas. You've cut
- 47:24Speaker 1: into Adam Gold's time, but he's at night. All right,
- 47:27Speaker 1: we're out of here, y'all. Good work out of Fitty
- 47:30Speaker 1: over there helping us out. Floundog helping us out over there.
- 47:32Speaker 1: Cam Williams, stay on, Fitty. Good work out of Bone,
- 47:36Speaker 1: the P-Man, Schropp filling in. We appreciate it. We'll talk
- 47:40Speaker 1: to y'all tomorrow. Willie P coming up next, everybody.