Latest / Mac & Bone Podcast / Mac & Bone Hour 3: Bryce Young, Dan Morgan and Jalen Coker
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- 0:03Speaker 1: Oh, owens, Mac and Foe on your radio.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Baby, this in my free and back Posh, Come on, posh,
- 0:10Speaker 2: this in my free and team Bone. What's the fun?
- 0:14Speaker 3: I can't go to work without listening to the Mac
- 0:17Speaker 3: and Bone.
- 0:18Speaker 2: To do it live. Welcome back, everybody. It is the
- 0:26Speaker 2: Mac n Bone Show, WFNZ Sports Radio ninety two seven.
- 0:30Speaker 2: We are live at Panther training camp. It is that
- 0:32Speaker 2: time again this year and we are lucky again this
- 0:35Speaker 2: season to catch up with QB nine Bryce Young Bryce.
- 0:38Speaker 2: How you doing man? What's going on?
- 0:39Speaker 4: I'm blessed, I'm doing well. Thanks so much for having
- 0:42Speaker 4: me on.
- 0:42Speaker 2: So does this feel different for you? It feels different
- 0:45Speaker 2: for us as fans like we are. We have some
- 0:47Speaker 2: swag man. Y'all want the division title that bade us
- 0:50Speaker 2: happy man with a playoff game that was battling one
- 0:53Speaker 2: of the league's best teams. Do you guys feel that too,
- 0:56Speaker 2: like kind of feel extra confidence?
- 0:59Speaker 4: You know?
- 0:59Speaker 5: I think for us, yeah, I mean we we we
- 1:02Speaker 5: for sure have belief in the building. Everyone plays with
- 1:05Speaker 5: for one another. We're excited, but I think we really
- 1:08Speaker 5: believe this is where that confidence is meant to be built.
- 1:10Speaker 5: You know, this is what training camp is for we
- 1:13Speaker 5: know that you know nothing about last season, Titus anything.
- 1:16Speaker 5: This year it's on us to work just as hard,
- 1:19Speaker 5: if not harder, this year, to go out there try
- 1:22Speaker 5: to accomplish our goals. But you know, right now during
- 1:24Speaker 5: training camp, it's not the time to think about any
- 1:26Speaker 5: of that. This is the time you developed that confidence,
- 1:28Speaker 5: developed that camaraderie, developed that identity, and obviously early on.
- 1:32Speaker 5: Now I've had a good, good few days to start,
- 1:34Speaker 5: still a lot of camp ahead, so we're excited for
- 1:37Speaker 5: that grind.
- 1:37Speaker 6: We always marvel at your clutched mindset and how at
- 1:40Speaker 6: the end of games you seem to deliver more times
- 1:42Speaker 6: than not. What what allows you to be like that
- 1:46Speaker 6: in that moment? Is that something learned over time? Is
- 1:49Speaker 6: it something you developed? What allows you in those moments
- 1:52Speaker 6: to compartmentalize and lead the team to victory as often
- 1:55Speaker 6: as you do?
- 1:56Speaker 4: Yeah, combination of things.
- 1:57Speaker 5: Faith for us first and foremost, you know, do just
- 2:00Speaker 5: just trust in God and all that out comes. No,
- 2:03Speaker 5: I know, however we're supposed to play out is how well?
- 2:06Speaker 5: And then on top of that's preparation, you know, not
- 2:08Speaker 5: just for myself but from us as a team. Banked reps,
- 2:11Speaker 5: knowing that I can go out there with with my
- 2:14Speaker 5: guys and knowing they.
- 2:15Speaker 4: Have my back as well. I'm super grateful for that.
- 2:17Speaker 5: We all have that mindset of knowing, you know, in
- 2:20Speaker 5: those moments, it's not anyone on anyone to rise to
- 2:24Speaker 5: be something they're not. It's people are going to fall
- 2:26Speaker 5: to who they are, you know, who they trained to be,
- 2:29Speaker 5: how they view themself, all that stuff. So again, we
- 2:31Speaker 5: have a great group of guys. We're excited, but at
- 2:33Speaker 5: the same time, again, nothing in the passing tells us anything.
- 2:36Speaker 5: It's on us to re establish it. We have to
- 2:38Speaker 5: keep working hard, so you know that that's the mindset.
- 2:41Speaker 2: Another big storyline that we're talking about at training camp,
- 2:44Speaker 2: like media and fans, is, of course Brad Dsick taken
- 2:47Speaker 2: over as the play caller. I heard Dave the other
- 2:50Speaker 2: day talk about he was kind of able to roam
- 2:51Speaker 2: around more at practice. Is anything different right now for you,
- 2:55Speaker 2: because I'm sure the playbook is similar, right, Like, I'm
- 2:58Speaker 2: sure play design similar. What's been different so far for
- 3:02Speaker 2: you other than maybe coach Canalis is at looking over
- 3:04Speaker 2: my shoulder every minute type?
- 3:06Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, the communication is it shifts a little bit
- 3:10Speaker 5: obviously still able to talk to Coach a bunch. You know,
- 3:13Speaker 5: last year it's the day, it's the you know, play
- 3:15Speaker 5: by play throughout the weekend, big picture stuff. Now it
- 3:18Speaker 5: kind of shifts to more of those big picture conversations
- 3:20Speaker 5: and culture stuff and you know all that. And then
- 3:24Speaker 5: with coach, you know, being having Brad out there, now
- 3:27Speaker 5: we get to go and really we're already having.
- 3:29Speaker 4: Those conversations, which is what was great.
- 3:31Speaker 5: Uh, he was doing so much behind the scenes that
- 3:33Speaker 5: from the outside, you know, you don't see, but for us,
- 3:35Speaker 5: he's he's always been a huge part of the offense
- 3:37Speaker 5: as he's been here, and then now it's you know,
- 3:40Speaker 5: having those conversations about, hey, well how do you see it?
- 3:42Speaker 5: You know, it's not the hypothetical, it's like, you know,
- 3:43Speaker 5: what are you thinking? And you know, we're kind of
- 3:45Speaker 5: growing into what that's going to look like. Starting to
- 3:47Speaker 5: have a couple of live call it periods, which is
- 3:50Speaker 5: great for just the flow for all of us, for Brad,
- 3:54Speaker 5: just to kind of start that filling out process what
- 3:56Speaker 5: it's going to be like, we get to go back
- 3:58Speaker 5: watch it, talk about it, get to hear what he
- 4:00Speaker 5: was thinking, just so I can kind of try to
- 4:02Speaker 5: be in his be in his head, and he's great
- 4:05Speaker 5: to work with.
- 4:06Speaker 4: So I'm super excited for the process.
- 4:07Speaker 6: What's it like to have Darryl Bevell here also in
- 4:09Speaker 6: his pedigree, his background, all he did in Seattle with
- 4:13Speaker 6: with Russell Wilson. What's it like to have him now
- 4:15Speaker 6: a part of this as well.
- 4:16Speaker 5: Yeah, he's been a great sounding board for for myself,
- 4:19Speaker 5: for everyone in QB room really for all of us
- 4:21Speaker 5: on the offensive side coming in, like you said, with
- 4:23Speaker 5: so much experience, haven't seen so much ball, coach so
- 4:26Speaker 5: much goodball. So just someone who's who's you know kind
- 4:30Speaker 5: enough Condor's Lenn that acknowledged us. He's familiar with the
- 4:33Speaker 5: system and also familiar with some other systems, which is
- 4:36Speaker 5: good to kind of get that fresh perspective. And then
- 4:38Speaker 5: someone that you know, after plays I can kind of
- 4:40Speaker 5: turn back to is like, hey, here's what I was thinking.
- 4:43Speaker 5: And it's nice, you know, you kind of get you know,
- 4:45Speaker 5: when you're in the system, you know, you see things
- 4:47Speaker 5: from one lens, and I know that, you know, I
- 4:49Speaker 5: know that Coach Harriger is like, all right, we're saying
- 4:52Speaker 5: the same way, but it's nice, like, hey, here's what
- 4:54Speaker 5: I was thinking, this is why I did this, Like,
- 4:56Speaker 5: what did you see with a kind of different lens?
- 4:59Speaker 4: And he's okay, I saw this. I saw this. You know, hey,
- 5:02Speaker 4: do you think about it this way? Stuff like that.
- 5:03Speaker 4: So it's just great to be able to have this conversation.
- 5:04Speaker 2: You've got a great support system behind you, for sure.
- 5:06Speaker 2: Really do Bryce Young talking about that support system now? Bruce?
- 5:09Speaker 6: Say about my team here, bru it's great supports.
- 5:11Speaker 2: We're just here to support you, make you look good man.
- 5:15Speaker 2: Do you know that if you have like a beard,
- 5:20Speaker 2: the fans reacting. Do you know that when you cussed
- 5:25Speaker 2: because you wanted to urge your teammates on in an
- 5:27Speaker 2: ota that we like people get into. Bryce has got
- 5:30Speaker 2: a beard and he just cussed at his team, Like,
- 5:32Speaker 2: do you know they're calling they're calling you dangerous out? Yeah,
- 5:35Speaker 2: they want to turn you into some bad bike or something.
- 5:38Speaker 3: Well, I'll be.
- 5:39Speaker 4: There for just uh.
- 5:40Speaker 5: I guess I don't want to disappoint any fans. I've
- 5:43Speaker 5: never intentionally trying to grow a beer. I just keep
- 5:47Speaker 5: getting too long in between haircuts. Yeah, eventually there will
- 5:51Speaker 5: be a time where that comes, but I think that's
- 5:52Speaker 5: still pretty far down down the road. But I mean,
- 5:55Speaker 5: I appreciate the support. I mean, I appreciate the love.
- 5:57Speaker 5: It's it's it's meant so much as being part of
- 5:59Speaker 5: the community. You know, we have the best fans in
- 6:02Speaker 5: the country, so you know, just just.
- 6:07Speaker 2: Humored by stuff like that.
- 6:08Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, of course again, I you know, there's
- 6:12Speaker 5: again it shows the passion that care and you know,
- 6:14Speaker 5: we feel that when we go out there. You know,
- 6:16Speaker 5: it's not just a fan base that uh whatever. You know,
- 6:19Speaker 5: you feel that when you come into the bank. You know,
- 6:20Speaker 5: other teams feel that it really helps us to create
- 6:23Speaker 5: the advantage. We feed off of that. So no, we're
- 6:25Speaker 5: I'm super grateful.
- 6:26Speaker 2: The home field advantage was back yest year. It was
- 6:28Speaker 2: back man, that was awesome.
- 6:29Speaker 6: What what makes your connection with jaln Cocher so special?
- 6:33Speaker 6: It feels like when you've been at your best. He's
- 6:35Speaker 6: often involved in that when he's out there and healthy
- 6:38Speaker 6: gets the big contract now for himself. What what makes
- 6:41Speaker 6: you guys just sort of right together?
- 6:44Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, he he's he's such a hard worker,
- 6:47Speaker 5: so versatile. He's able to do so much, whether it's
- 6:51Speaker 5: you know, helping in the run game, going uh short, intermediate, deep, passes,
- 6:56Speaker 5: whatever it is, his attitude when it comes to doing
- 7:00Speaker 5: all that, his approach, it's it's it's so great just
- 7:03Speaker 5: to have in the in the team, in the locker room. Uh,
- 7:06Speaker 5: he's a great guy. And then just obviously what he
- 7:08Speaker 5: what he brings from a football aspect, someone who can
- 7:11Speaker 5: run every route, big physical, but can also play with finess,
- 7:15Speaker 5: goes and uh attacks the ball.
- 7:17Speaker 4: Super friendly for a quarterback to throw to.
- 7:19Speaker 5: Yeah, having a guy like like that here and I
- 7:21Speaker 5: was so happy for him and and really happy for
- 7:24Speaker 5: us to be able to keep him and for him
- 7:26Speaker 5: know one is gonna be him here long term.
- 7:28Speaker 4: I mean that's huge. So yeah, he's a special guy.
- 7:31Speaker 2: Now fans, we were all happy for Cocher too. But
- 7:34Speaker 2: you know, the number one most talked about contract situation
- 7:37Speaker 2: is that over the quarterback. Everybody on the outside, you
- 7:41Speaker 2: probably have this stuff you probably want to you know, bignore,
- 7:44Speaker 2: but all the talk on the outside nationally, locally, it's
- 7:46Speaker 2: a big year for Bryce he could get the contract.
- 7:49Speaker 2: One is have your folks talked to Dan at all
- 7:52Speaker 2: or has that not been talked about? And then I
- 7:55Speaker 2: start with that one.
- 7:55Speaker 5: I guess, well, yeah, for for me, it's just about uh,
- 7:59Speaker 5: you know, letting go of trust. God obviously had the
- 8:01Speaker 5: agents in front office. That's the business side of it.
- 8:04Speaker 5: And you know right now, you know I'm in camp.
- 8:07Speaker 5: I'm a player. That's all that matters. You know, all
- 8:08Speaker 5: I care about is day to day. So that's all
- 8:11Speaker 5: that time out here.
- 8:12Speaker 2: You're like, I don't want to talk about it. I
- 8:13Speaker 2: just want to play. It is getting your head when
- 8:15Speaker 2: you play, though, Like, do you ever sit there you're
- 8:18Speaker 2: going to sleep at night? Are you ever thinking, man,
- 8:20Speaker 2: I can really get rich from this. That doesn't seem
- 8:23Speaker 2: like you're personnel.
- 8:24Speaker 3: You can't.
- 8:24Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't. You can't. That's the way I would
- 8:26Speaker 2: be right.
- 8:28Speaker 5: No, it's you gotta and coach talks all the time.
- 8:30Speaker 5: It's about the process. It's about the journey. You know,
- 8:33Speaker 5: when you get too caught up in end goals, and
- 8:35Speaker 5: that's not just with this but with with everything throughout
- 8:38Speaker 5: all aspects of life, even before being here. You know,
- 8:41Speaker 5: it's when you try to look however many years and
- 8:44Speaker 5: you know it's just hard. You lose track of the details.
- 8:46Speaker 5: So we're all process oriented here. That's how I believe
- 8:49Speaker 5: to operate. And I'm super super grateful for the process
- 8:52Speaker 5: I get to have.
- 8:53Speaker 2: There you go, We've gotten. We've gotten JJ.
- 8:55Speaker 6: Jansen resigned many times on our true do you ever
- 8:58Speaker 6: need We're good.
- 9:00Speaker 2: We'll get you for twenty years, although we only get
- 9:03Speaker 2: JJ one year deals. Yes, they won't go above that.
- 9:06Speaker 2: All right, we got to wrap this up, man, I
- 9:08Speaker 2: know you got things to do. I just want to
- 9:09Speaker 2: say this. You are probably the nicest quarterback in the
- 9:11Speaker 2: league because the way you come back from camp, see
- 9:14Speaker 2: the assembled media and truly ask them what did you
- 9:17Speaker 2: do this summer? Like I just I love it. We
- 9:19Speaker 2: play that on the show every time, and like it
- 9:21Speaker 2: seems like you actually care, whereas I feel like most
- 9:24Speaker 2: quarterbacks are like not them.
- 9:25Speaker 4: Again, you're humans.
- 9:29Speaker 5: We all got the same we all got the same
- 9:31Speaker 5: goal to do the same thing, just different.
- 9:34Speaker 2: Cruise Bryce, Oh yeah, he he didn't ask Gusta. I
- 9:38Speaker 2: got a puppy name Murphy. There you go. He was wondering.
- 9:44Speaker 2: You're genuine, man, You're easy to keep it up. Uh,
- 9:47Speaker 2: and we can't wait to see y'all this year.
- 9:49Speaker 4: Man. Thanks sure, you know, thank you for having me on.
- 9:51Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
- 9:51Speaker 2: Thanks Rush, Thank you to Bryce young quarterback of your
- 9:55Speaker 2: Carolina Panthers Here on the Mack and Bone Show. We
- 9:57Speaker 2: are at Bank America Stadium. We are in in one
- 10:00Speaker 2: of the sweets here. It's cool. We can see the Homer.
- 10:04Speaker 2: Is that what we're going with?
- 10:05Speaker 3: Man?
- 10:05Speaker 2: The Homer? Hangout? Baby? We moved from a hill.
- 10:07Speaker 6: Now look at us. We're inside the building. It's a
- 10:09Speaker 6: it's a cool vantage point.
- 10:12Speaker 2: Us. It's right here. If he liked us, he'd run
- 10:15Speaker 2: more air condition to know board. But anyway, I died,
- 10:17Speaker 2: I din I dig round you can you didn't kept daddy.
- 10:20Speaker 2: I'm sweating my old chubby ass off in here. Anyway
- 10:24Speaker 2: you want air? Am I asking for too much? I
- 10:28Speaker 2: also want to trade for Alex Highsmith? Can I not
- 10:31Speaker 2: get air in? And Alex Heismith?
- 10:32Speaker 3: Trade?
- 10:32Speaker 6: Is that two things that when you walked out of
- 10:35Speaker 6: the room, all the hot air wetland?
- 10:36Speaker 2: Oh? Is that what? Maybe it's me? Maybe it's me.
- 10:39Speaker 2: We got a great view. We're we're in these suits.
- 10:41Speaker 2: We're in the end zone, sweet area, right.
- 10:45Speaker 6: Uh.
- 10:45Speaker 2: They actually put us in our guy, David Raven's suite.
- 10:47Speaker 2: I know guy that we know. You didn't see too
- 10:50Speaker 2: thrilled about it? You does? David Raymond Mava take some
- 10:53Speaker 2: of those pernicious on my way out here. Just put
- 10:55Speaker 2: him in my bag. But anyway, you can see they've
- 10:58Speaker 2: got all the MLS signage and stuff for the All
- 11:01Speaker 2: Star festivities tonight. The pitch looks sweet out there, man,
- 11:06Speaker 2: And yeah, to have the Skills Challenge tonight and then
- 11:08Speaker 2: they will have the All Star Game tomorrow. We're getting
- 11:11Speaker 2: a lot of text about Bryce. We're also getting a
- 11:13Speaker 2: lot of texts about Ocho Cinco. Ocho Cinco is in town.
- 11:17Speaker 2: He is going to participate in the Skills Challenge tonight.
- 11:20Speaker 2: He's like a soccer nut, and then he is also
- 11:23Speaker 2: going to be at practice today. He has become a
- 11:25Speaker 2: Panther nut recently too, so Ocho Cinco has kind of
- 11:28Speaker 2: become We've almost adopted him. I know Cincinnati is like
- 11:32Speaker 2: his NFL home. I do feel like this is his
- 11:34Speaker 2: adopt adopted home, though. You know.
- 11:37Speaker 6: He had a bucket list of things to check off,
- 11:39Speaker 6: including meet J. C. Horn, get his autograph. He wants
- 11:43Speaker 6: to meet with the Panther wide receiver coach Rob Moore,
- 11:45Speaker 6: who he may actually know, I don't know their past,
- 11:49Speaker 6: and he wants to meet the Panthers kicker.
- 11:52Speaker 2: He also wants to know who he is. Come on,
- 11:54Speaker 2: put some respect on Fitzi's name, Baby, put some respect
- 11:57Speaker 2: on his name. What did you think about Bryce? We're
- 11:59Speaker 2: getting a lot of comments on the text line about Bryce,
- 12:03Speaker 2: and some of them are serious, some of them are not.
- 12:06Speaker 2: But I just feel like, and I felt like this
- 12:09Speaker 2: with Coach Canalis too, And maybe I'm reading too much
- 12:11Speaker 2: into just sitting here, you know, yapping or whatever, but
- 12:14Speaker 2: it just feels like they're both like if we can
- 12:17Speaker 2: kind of compare our interviews from past years to this one,
- 12:20Speaker 2: it feels like they both are just more comfortable, you
- 12:23Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like a little more light in
- 12:25Speaker 2: the interviews, and it just I think, Yeah, maybe I'm
- 12:28Speaker 2: reading too much in It just feels like maybe that
- 12:30Speaker 2: comes with comfort in their jobs. Here.
- 12:32Speaker 6: Yeah, they're putting some walls down, I guess is the
- 12:34Speaker 6: way to put it there. The first year with Canalis,
- 12:37Speaker 6: I remember we were outside. They didn't allow us into
- 12:40Speaker 6: the friendly confidence here, but we were outside and he
- 12:44Speaker 6: was nice as can be. But no matter what you
- 12:47Speaker 6: ask Canalis, you were getting a cliched answer. It didn't matter.
- 12:51Speaker 6: Everything was almost going through the checklist of ways toward
- 12:55Speaker 6: stuff from the coaches cliche book. I didn't feel that
- 12:58Speaker 6: way this time. We're out like he don't gonna tell
- 13:00Speaker 6: you everything. But I felt like he was trying to
- 13:03Speaker 6: have more conversations than he was before.
- 13:06Speaker 2: Definitely, And I think Bryce wants to have a little
- 13:09Speaker 2: more fun in the conversation himself, right. I feel like
- 13:11Speaker 2: it was a little lighter, feel like we made him
- 13:14Speaker 2: laugh a couple of times. I feel like our first
- 13:15Speaker 2: interview with him, there wasn't a lot of laughter. No,
- 13:17Speaker 2: well not many laughing. Remember the first time you tad
- 13:21Speaker 2: you had him in the woods? Oh it was one
- 13:23Speaker 2: on one over there by the Yeah, by the woods
- 13:25Speaker 2: over in Spartanburg.
- 13:26Speaker 6: Uh, there you feel Mac. Now tell me if I'm
- 13:28Speaker 6: wrong here. I think that Bryce looking a little bit taller.
- 13:32Speaker 6: Then I realized who was diting next to you? Think,
- 13:34Speaker 6: oh is that what?
- 13:35Speaker 3: It was?
- 13:38Speaker 2: Just Bryce got you? I mean, I think Bryce is
- 13:40Speaker 2: taller than me. Didn't we discover that when I reinterviewed him.
- 13:43Speaker 2: He's a giant. So for all the size jokes, I mean,
- 13:45Speaker 2: he's taller than probably a lot of us, a lot
- 13:47Speaker 2: of us, uh Texter buffet enforcer. On the text line,
- 13:51Speaker 2: Bone says that if I keep complaining about the air conditioning.
- 13:55Speaker 2: Jepper will send us back to Spartanburg to broadcast. Oh god,
- 13:59Speaker 2: you talk about air conditioning outside in Spartanburg with that humidity. Dude, Yeah,
- 14:05Speaker 2: I almost died in Spartan but I'm not. I don't think.
- 14:08Speaker 2: I don't think I'm gonna die earlier.
- 14:11Speaker 3: That's true.
- 14:11Speaker 2: This dude says, why don't you just run down to H.
- 14:14Speaker 2: David Tepper's meat locker down there on the practice field.
- 14:18Speaker 2: I am so tempted. Would it be frowned upon, Fitty
- 14:20Speaker 2: if we just walked into that area and just kind
- 14:22Speaker 2: of I know it's for the players, but would that
- 14:23Speaker 2: be frowned upon? Do you care? Not? Really? You gotta
- 14:29Speaker 2: make them say no, Fitty. You know what I mean.
- 14:30Speaker 2: You don't ask for permission, you ask for forgiveness. I'm
- 14:32Speaker 2: about to go jump in a cold tub. Could you
- 14:37Speaker 2: do an ice bath? Bone? That looks that looks too much,
- 14:40Speaker 2: that looks too extreme for me? Did y'all do an
- 14:43Speaker 2: ice bath? No chance? I think? So? How long you
- 14:46Speaker 2: how long you think you're sitting in an ice tub?
- 14:50Speaker 2: Fifteen seconds? I mean they sit in there for how long.
- 14:55Speaker 3: Time? Like?
- 14:56Speaker 2: Could you do you think you get used to it?
- 14:58Speaker 2: Because the initials to be like a cold pool, right, Like,
- 15:01Speaker 2: initially you get in there and it's like you feel
- 15:04Speaker 2: like you're probably gonna have a heart attack. But do
- 15:06Speaker 2: you get used to it? You think ice water. I
- 15:08Speaker 2: don't know. I got like an eighty two degree pool
- 15:10Speaker 2: water yesterday and I was freezing, So I don't know if, yeah,
- 15:12Speaker 2: you might not be the man for this job.
- 15:14Speaker 6: I deal with cold better than heat. Hot tubs sometimes
- 15:19Speaker 6: made me a little white headed, okay, if I'm in
- 15:21Speaker 6: there for too long, Yeah, yeah.
- 15:23Speaker 2: Okay, all right. I could see that with you. Yeah,
- 15:25Speaker 2: I could see that with you both. I mean, because
- 15:27Speaker 2: I saw you almost die at Spartanburg. Man, they had
- 15:30Speaker 2: they were getting carts out ready to wheel you. And
- 15:31Speaker 2: that's why I'm grateful. Even Newton was worried about it.
- 15:34Speaker 6: Why I'm grateful to be in here where it's nice
- 15:36Speaker 6: and uh, it's core and here that's Spartanburg. Mister Tapper Tanke,
- 15:40Speaker 6: you for the air you provide us.
- 15:41Speaker 2: The amount of shrinkage texts that are coming in right
- 15:44Speaker 2: now about the cold tub. Why am I not surprised?
- 15:47Speaker 2: Why am I not surprised? All right, let's do this.
- 15:50Speaker 2: Let's take a breath of Man. We got so much
- 15:52Speaker 2: more great stuff coming JJ Janssen at nine o'clock. Jalen
- 15:55Speaker 2: Cocher is gonna join us, coming up at eight forty five,
- 16:00Speaker 2: So stay tuned for all of that. But when we
- 16:02Speaker 2: come back the GM of your Carolina Panthers, I will
- 16:06Speaker 2: find a way maybe to request a trade for Alex
- 16:08Speaker 2: Highsmith from him Bone for edge help without getting him
- 16:12Speaker 2: in trouble for tampering somehow. The's got to be a
- 16:14Speaker 2: way to do this. We'll do that. We'll talk about
- 16:17Speaker 2: how things are coming together with this roster. It's Dan
- 16:20Speaker 2: Morgan live with us live from training camp at Bank
- 16:23Speaker 2: of America Stadium, Sports Radio ninety two to seven WFNZ
- 16:44Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety two seven WFNZ MACA and Bone with
- 16:48Speaker 2: the Fit Dog Live at Panthers training Camp. We love
- 16:51Speaker 2: this tradition, man, Whether it was all the years in Spartanburg,
- 16:54Speaker 2: all the times Bone I got lost trying to get
- 16:57Speaker 2: to Wafford, even though I was literally within a mile
- 16:59Speaker 2: every time I probably would get lost, to now the
- 17:02Speaker 2: days here in Charlotte, and I can't wait for the
- 17:04Speaker 2: day's next year, Bone, when the field house is done,
- 17:07Speaker 2: when they can have fans at it practice. It's gonna
- 17:09Speaker 2: be awesome. But we love doing these shows every year,
- 17:13Speaker 2: and we got plenty of fun to come. Dan Morgan's
- 17:14Speaker 2: gonna join us here in a couple of minutes. Jalen
- 17:17Speaker 2: Cocher at eight forty five. JJ Janssen at nine o'clock.
- 17:21Speaker 2: That's what we've got coming up here in the next
- 17:24Speaker 2: few minutes. All right, So you found this Bone. I
- 17:27Speaker 2: did not. I was not aware of this audio. And
- 17:31Speaker 2: it's interesting because Bill Simmons had been the guy that
- 17:34Speaker 2: had become like an honorary Hornets backer last year. He
- 17:37Speaker 2: had so much fun watching that team play. Well. I
- 17:41Speaker 2: heard that in the last couple of days Bone in
- 17:44Speaker 2: regards to the whole Steph Curry Charlotte talk, he actually
- 17:47Speaker 2: made a comment, Oh, Steph couldn't win there in Charlot.
- 17:49Speaker 2: They wouldn't win anything in Charlotte. So now it's is
- 17:52Speaker 2: he turning on the Hornets now? But Panther, Bill, Panther,
- 17:57Speaker 2: Bill has arrived. This is me Times and Bill Simmons
- 18:02Speaker 2: talking about the twenty twenty six Carolina Panthers.
- 18:06Speaker 7: Let's let's just wrap up the NFC snarer. Well, now
- 18:09Speaker 7: we got two more NFC South teams. Let's do the
- 18:10Speaker 7: Panthers here, Commanders versus Panthers.
- 18:13Speaker 8: I had the Panthers way above them.
- 18:16Speaker 7: Wow, okay, so what this is telling me is that
- 18:18Speaker 7: you're very low on the Commanders.
- 18:20Speaker 8: Is I'm low on the Commanders, but I actually the
- 18:24Speaker 8: Panthers I think are my favorite NFC South team. I
- 18:27Speaker 8: need to do more research on it.
- 18:28Speaker 7: Well, the defense should be good, right, I mean they
- 18:31Speaker 7: added like legit stars.
- 18:36Speaker 8: Here's the thing. I value playoffs in NBA and NFL
- 18:40Speaker 8: playoff performance. Did you show up? They played awesome against
- 18:43Speaker 8: the Rams like that matters they It wasn't like they
- 18:46Speaker 8: snuck into the playoffs. And then they actually like showed
- 18:50Speaker 8: up for that game. And I saw the Holy Cross
- 18:55Speaker 8: grad Jalen Coker. I saw him at the Bob Cousey thing.
- 18:59Speaker 8: We sat next to him that but they honored Bob
- 19:01Speaker 8: Coozy and was talking about it and not to talk
- 19:05Speaker 8: out of school, but he was just like, yeah, we
- 19:07Speaker 8: almost beat the Rams, like we were right there. We
- 19:09Speaker 8: should have beaten them. Like I'm still mad about it.
- 19:13Speaker 2: So there you go. Panthers. Bill, he's now doubting the Hornets,
- 19:15Speaker 2: but he's now on board the Panthers.
- 19:17Speaker 6: I've always thought that Jalen Coker, Bill Simmons, and Bob
- 19:20Speaker 6: Coosey will be quite a crew, the holy Cross crew.
- 19:23Speaker 2: I know Coker went to holy Cross up there in
- 19:25Speaker 2: New England, but I would have thought he'd be on
- 19:27Speaker 2: the Bob Coozy like honoring I don't know, invite list baby.
- 19:31Speaker 6: Maybe there's not a lot of guys that have beat
- 19:33Speaker 6: it from holy Cross recently.
- 19:34Speaker 2: Yeah, and the thing that stinks is Coker's You're gonna
- 19:36Speaker 2: hear from Cocher at eight forty five, but we take
- 19:38Speaker 2: the interview on Sunday. What I would do to be
- 19:41Speaker 2: able to ask him about, well, how was the Bob
- 19:43Speaker 2: Coozy appreciation night?
- 19:45Speaker 6: But I need to say something to you, Mac, and
- 19:47Speaker 6: you might get mad at me. And I should have
- 19:49Speaker 6: mentioned this there, even though Bill said he has them
- 19:52Speaker 6: way above the commanders because they're going through a power
- 19:55Speaker 6: rankings list. Twenty three did flash up though for the Panthers,
- 19:59Speaker 6: so Bill said, did have them right?
- 20:01Speaker 2: Number twenty That was that his rank? Or is that
- 20:02Speaker 2: like Mina's rank because it was Mina's podcast, right, I
- 20:05Speaker 2: think it was. It might have been Mina's rank, Yeah,
- 20:07Speaker 2: because she sounded like the one that was like when
- 20:09Speaker 2: he said I have them way over the Commanders. She
- 20:11Speaker 2: then spits out, man, you must be really down on
- 20:14Speaker 2: the Commanders. Yeah, not like wow, you're high on the Panthers.
- 20:18Speaker 2: So anyway, yeah, you're right. It was her podcast, so
- 20:20Speaker 2: it might have been hurt. It's funny sometimes like she
- 20:23Speaker 2: really she did it there. Sometimes she's really positive about
- 20:27Speaker 2: the Panthers defense and it seems like, man, she might
- 20:30Speaker 2: pick us this year. But then yesterday on NFL Live,
- 20:33Speaker 2: she and I forget who it was, Hell, it might
- 20:36Speaker 2: have been Adam Feelin. Felan made his NFL dead Not right,
- 20:38Speaker 2: it's not Ryan Clark. No, we do that, we can
- 20:40Speaker 2: we do process of elimination there. But Felan made his
- 20:43Speaker 2: NFL our debut yesterday, which was interesting. But Mina was
- 20:47Speaker 2: talking about how good the Saints offense is going to
- 20:49Speaker 2: be explosive, Jordan Tyson joining a lave and Tyler shuck
- 20:53Speaker 2: at the controls. You are we are going to hear,
- 20:56Speaker 2: I mean we've already heard it this offseason. You're gonna
- 20:58Speaker 2: hear so much hype. They brought in not etn h
- 21:04Speaker 2: Hn from Jacksonville at running back to go with Kamara.
- 21:08Speaker 2: Now and you're gonna hear so much hype about Tyler
- 21:12Speaker 2: Schuck in that Saints offense.
- 21:13Speaker 6: Man, here's my prediction. What's gonna make us mad? Because
- 21:16Speaker 6: there's some little bit of questions now, Mac, I think
- 21:20Speaker 6: about Tampa. Vite Veya wants out, Todd Bowles is under fire,
- 21:25Speaker 6: there's a Baker contract situation going on there. I wonder
- 21:29Speaker 6: if people are gonna start to question Tampa more. But
- 21:33Speaker 6: what's gonna make us mad? People are gonna start elevating
- 21:35Speaker 6: the Saints, aren't they during the prediction time coming up?
- 21:38Speaker 2: Oh, you can see it.
- 21:39Speaker 6: You're gonna see You're gonna see people start to put
- 21:41Speaker 6: them above all that. They might even become the most
- 21:43Speaker 6: popular choice to win the division because I get this,
- 21:47Speaker 6: I get this feeling they don't want to pick the
- 21:49Speaker 6: defending champs, like, for whatever reason, they can't allow themselves
- 21:52Speaker 6: to feel like we can do it again.
- 21:53Speaker 2: I don't know if it was the eight to nine record,
- 21:55Speaker 2: but it's the same division. I mean, it's it's a
- 21:57Speaker 2: nine to win this thing again this year, could win
- 22:00Speaker 2: this thing this year. I just they don't. I don't
- 22:02Speaker 2: know if it's the Bryce thing, but you saw Bryce
- 22:05Speaker 2: show out in that playoff game. Bryce did enough to
- 22:07Speaker 2: win that playoff game. Bone, He's got more game winning
- 22:10Speaker 2: drives than anybody since he came into the league. So
- 22:12Speaker 2: if it's a Bryce thing, I don't get it. You know,
- 22:17Speaker 2: Danny claus is coming in got bags of stuff, that's
- 22:21Speaker 2: got bags of gifts and it's all for him. No,
- 22:23Speaker 2: but there's three bags like it is boat be Oh my,
- 22:32Speaker 2: thank you sir. That is awesome. Wow. See everybody that
- 22:36Speaker 2: the lesson in life is you whine about stuff enough,
- 22:39Speaker 2: people will give you stuff just to shut you up.
- 22:41Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Dan Morgan putting on the
- 22:45Speaker 2: headset here to hang out with the Mac and Bone show,
- 22:48Speaker 2: a yearly tradition. We love this yearly tradition. We hope
- 22:50Speaker 2: you do, Dan. What's going on? Man?
- 22:52Speaker 3: Not much now? You just getting ready first day of pads.
- 22:55Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a good one. That's why we're here.
- 22:58Speaker 2: We show.
- 22:59Speaker 6: Yeah, it's coming out the practice. Yeah, baby, and you
- 23:02Speaker 6: need us out there? What it's not we'll be around.
- 23:04Speaker 6: What on earth could we do? Pick up jockstraps and
- 23:09Speaker 6: oh god, what hold some bags? I'm just saying I
- 23:15Speaker 6: didn't feel like we could be much help. But he
- 23:17Speaker 6: if he wanted to could you imagine if we held
- 23:19Speaker 6: a bag and Derek Brown hit the thing, we would
- 23:21Speaker 6: wed end up in gastonia. Oh man, So we were
- 23:28Speaker 6: talking about this early, I'll ask you right as a
- 23:30Speaker 6: GM of the team, we were kind of riffing earlier
- 23:32Speaker 6: on like who or what do we want to see
- 23:35Speaker 6: because they're in pads. We were out the other day,
- 23:37Speaker 6: but like we get excited like you do and the
- 23:39Speaker 6: guys do about being in pads. What the educated football
- 23:43Speaker 6: eye of you? And this is your team that you're
- 23:44Speaker 6: putting together, Like what are you what do you look
- 23:47Speaker 6: for today in a padded practice?
- 23:49Speaker 9: I think like in the non padded practices, the O
- 23:52Speaker 9: line D line, like you're always like you don't really
- 23:55Speaker 9: get a good look at that. So today, like out
- 23:58Speaker 9: there in pads. Usually when you're not in pads, the
- 24:01Speaker 9: defense really has the advantage. There's not a lot you know,
- 24:05Speaker 9: to hold on to the punch. So it's gonna be
- 24:08Speaker 9: fun to see those guys compete today.
- 24:11Speaker 6: Yeah, we had one of your your new star acquisitions,
- 24:14Speaker 6: Devin Lloyd on oh yeah, last hour. Seems like a
- 24:17Speaker 6: great guy. What drew you to him in free agency?
- 24:20Speaker 6: From your linebacker?
- 24:23Speaker 9: You know, I think you watched the tape obviously how
- 24:25Speaker 9: big and long he is, and he's fast as hell,
- 24:28Speaker 9: really good range, which is on display every day out there.
- 24:31Speaker 9: He's good in coverage, he can blitz, he can play
- 24:34Speaker 9: the run.
- 24:35Speaker 4: Uh.
- 24:36Speaker 3: And he's a great leader.
- 24:37Speaker 9: You know, he's one of the first guys in the
- 24:38Speaker 9: building every day, works his butt off. Is a really
- 24:42Speaker 9: good example for the young linebackers. So we're lucky to
- 24:46Speaker 9: have him.
- 24:46Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel we We had him on early. He's
- 24:49Speaker 2: all he is all business and you can see the
- 24:52Speaker 2: leadership he has, so I'm we're looking forward to that
- 24:55Speaker 2: so much. Let's talk about unfortunately the defensive line now
- 25:00Speaker 2: without Nick Scrton. I hate this man. He's a dog.
- 25:03Speaker 2: You said you wanted dogs. Yeah, I see why you
- 25:07Speaker 2: drafted him. Are we is this team? Okay? I know
- 25:10Speaker 2: you want to keep an open mind elsewhere. What do
- 25:14Speaker 2: you think about the edge group without him?
- 25:16Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel feel good about it.
- 25:17Speaker 9: Obviously, signing Jalen Phillips in the offseason that was huge
- 25:21Speaker 9: for us, a guy that we didn't think, you know,
- 25:24Speaker 9: was going to become available. So I think we were
- 25:27Speaker 9: really lucky to get him. Pat Jones, a veteran guy
- 25:30Speaker 9: who who plays good football. He got hurt last year.
- 25:34Speaker 9: We missed him when he was out, so getting him
- 25:36Speaker 9: back he looks good. And then young Princely, he's looking
- 25:40Speaker 9: really good out there. He's getting better every single day,
- 25:42Speaker 9: so we feel good about him. Hated about Nick. We're
- 25:46Speaker 9: obviously going to really miss him, just like the motor,
- 25:51Speaker 9: the play style, just who he is as a person
- 25:54Speaker 9: every single day out there on the field.
- 25:55Speaker 3: So definitely a big loss.
- 25:57Speaker 6: So injuries always seem unfair, no matter when they happen,
- 26:01Speaker 6: but it always seems like extra unfair Dad, when they happened,
- 26:04Speaker 6: like immediately in camp, all the work that goes into it,
- 26:07Speaker 6: from you guys, to the team to the individuals, it
- 26:09Speaker 6: always seems like it's the most unfair because then they
- 26:12Speaker 6: miss out, the player misses out on the whole entire
- 26:14Speaker 6: experience you guys are trying to go through.
- 26:16Speaker 9: Yeah, for sure, you know, I think you can look
- 26:19Speaker 9: at it, you know, a couple of different ways. You know,
- 26:22Speaker 9: obviously you never want them to tear it. But hey,
- 26:25Speaker 9: he's gonna be able to get back next year. He's
- 26:27Speaker 9: going to be fully healthy by the time the season
- 26:29Speaker 9: starts next year, as opposed to if he did it
- 26:32Speaker 9: late in the season, then we'd miss him for another year.
- 26:35Speaker 9: So you know there's a silver lining and everything things
- 26:39Speaker 9: happen for a reason. That's my job to you know,
- 26:43Speaker 9: have the roster right to where we have enough dept
- 26:45Speaker 9: to you know, take on those kind of things.
- 26:48Speaker 3: And you know, I think we do.
- 26:49Speaker 2: I do have a trade suggestion for you though.
- 26:51Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead, you know we only have so much money.
- 26:55Speaker 6: Yeah, there is a bruce he's got.
- 27:00Speaker 2: Just don't worry about it, Michael, get him in trouble
- 27:02Speaker 2: for tampering here. Yeah, you just can with this. Will
- 27:06Speaker 2: you get in trouble? Guy played at Charlotte, he plays edge.
- 27:10Speaker 2: You know where I'm going?
- 27:11Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I know where you're going.
- 27:15Speaker 2: Let me just ask the question this way. Instead of
- 27:16Speaker 2: being here's the gear back, Oh yeah, let's I don't
- 27:19Speaker 2: deserve this. Instead of being a goofball about all right,
- 27:21Speaker 2: let me ask you the question this way. Do you
- 27:24Speaker 2: view because in the past few years, I feel like
- 27:28Speaker 2: guy like scorting goes down. I feel like maybe you'll
- 27:30Speaker 2: add someone in free agency, but you'll keep letting the
- 27:33Speaker 2: young guys play and stuff like that. Your division champs now,
- 27:37Speaker 2: your owner said at the Momentum event, this is a
- 27:40Speaker 2: playoff team. So yeah, I'm sure you're like, Okay, it
- 27:44Speaker 2: better be. Is there a little more pressure to maybe
- 27:47Speaker 2: get a little more aggressive to replace Nick or No?
- 27:50Speaker 3: No, No, I don't know, so I don't think.
- 27:52Speaker 9: So, you know, I'm not gonna say that we're gonna
- 27:54Speaker 9: sit on our hands and not look and and I'll
- 27:57Speaker 9: talk about things. We're definitely gonna do that. We're gonna
- 27:59Speaker 9: be aggressed if we feel like we need to be aggressive.
- 28:02Speaker 9: But for right now we feel good. Does that mean
- 28:05Speaker 9: that we're not gonna do something as we get towards cut.
- 28:08Speaker 3: Down and in the season.
- 28:10Speaker 9: No, So you know, we're gonna keep an open mind
- 28:13Speaker 9: and we're always going to try to find ways to
- 28:14Speaker 9: make the.
- 28:15Speaker 2: Ross right now, it's about seeing what you have.
- 28:17Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, exactly. Hey, Bruce, Okay, we didn't talk about anybody.
- 28:25Speaker 2: I wanted to so bad.
- 28:27Speaker 6: If there's a fine can't pay. Jonathan Brooks exciting there
- 28:34Speaker 6: just kind of refresh us a little bit because he
- 28:35Speaker 6: has been out for a while. In your draft evaluations,
- 28:39Speaker 6: you trade it up for him, What drew you to
- 28:42Speaker 6: him as a player, and how much does he open
- 28:44Speaker 6: up things to this office?
- 28:45Speaker 9: Well, first of all, He's a great running back. He's
- 28:47Speaker 9: got breakaway speed, he's a big playability, catches the ball
- 28:51Speaker 9: really well out of the backfield, he can protect. I mean,
- 28:54Speaker 9: he's a he's an awesome back when he's healthy. He's
- 28:58Speaker 9: starting to look like the Jonathan Brook that we drafted
- 29:00Speaker 9: out there. And I'm myself, coach Canalis, the staff, everybody's
- 29:04Speaker 9: really fired up about him right now. He's had it
- 29:06Speaker 9: in a really good direction and you know, we'll see
- 29:09Speaker 9: where it goes.
- 29:10Speaker 3: So far, so good.
- 29:11Speaker 2: We were talking earlier in the week about guys on
- 29:16Speaker 2: this team that we think people sleep on on the outside, right,
- 29:19Speaker 2: or guys that we really love and maybe on the
- 29:22Speaker 2: outside world they don't really notice how good they are. Yeah,
- 29:25Speaker 2: is there a guy or two you think of like that, Like, man,
- 29:28Speaker 2: these guys can ball and no one people haven't noticed.
- 29:31Speaker 9: I mean, you know, I think people sleep on a
- 29:34Speaker 9: lot of our guys, to be honest with you. And
- 29:35Speaker 9: you know, we're, if you want to say, a smaller market.
- 29:39Speaker 9: You know, we haven't had a ton of national TV
- 29:42Speaker 9: games and a lot of exposures, so I think that
- 29:45Speaker 9: all plays into it a little bit. But you know,
- 29:47Speaker 9: the obvious one is Derek Brown. It's like to be
- 29:50Speaker 9: where he is on the NFL Top one hundred. Like
- 29:52Speaker 9: as much football as I watched, there is not many
- 29:55Speaker 9: better d tackles in the NFL than Derek Brown. Yeah,
- 29:58Speaker 9: to not make the Pro Bowl was I mean, yeah,
- 30:01Speaker 9: it's I don't know what goes into that. I mean
- 30:04Speaker 9: I do, but you know, sometimes it's a little a
- 30:06Speaker 9: little bit more like a popularity contest instead of like,
- 30:09Speaker 9: all right, who's who's really kicking ass on tape?
- 30:12Speaker 3: And Derek Brown does that?
- 30:14Speaker 2: Was he seventy nine? This year seventy eight? Go list say?
- 30:19Speaker 3: Yeah, in my opinion, there's not Yeah.
- 30:21Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike Jack.
- 30:23Speaker 6: We we love what he's done here, yep, so far
- 30:25Speaker 6: in his future? Is there anything there contract wise and
- 30:29Speaker 6: talks or is that table? Where do we stand right
- 30:32Speaker 6: now with Mike Yeah?
- 30:33Speaker 9: I mean, you know, we're in a good spot with
- 30:34Speaker 9: Mike Jack. Mike Jack knows where we stand with him.
- 30:37Speaker 9: Obviously we leave all the negotiation stuff, you know in between,
- 30:41Speaker 9: you know, between myself, Brandt and the agent and Mike Jack.
- 30:45Speaker 9: He knows where we're at. We know where we're at.
- 30:46Speaker 9: We're in a good spot. He's happy, and you know,
- 30:50Speaker 9: I think you know, at the right time if you know,
- 30:54Speaker 9: if that right times at the end of the season
- 30:56Speaker 9: or somewhere during the season, who knows.
- 30:58Speaker 3: But we're definitely gonna keep it open. Mind.
- 31:00Speaker 2: I noticed that we're not in the group that gets
- 31:02Speaker 2: looped in on the negotiat. Yeah, to wait for our name. Yeah,
- 31:06Speaker 2: things pretty simple to do that. Yeah, we just kidding back,
- 31:09Speaker 2: let's dang, I thought we had access, all right, So
- 31:13Speaker 2: while we're talking contracts, let's talk about Bryce Young and
- 31:16Speaker 2: I'll ask I mean we've asked. I don't know how
- 31:17Speaker 2: many times I've tried to get answers. And you've got
- 31:19Speaker 2: a job to do, right, Yeah, you give the Marty
- 31:21Speaker 2: Herni esque answers. He used to be the best at
- 31:23Speaker 2: GM speak ever. Yeah, but let's let me ask you
- 31:26Speaker 2: this way. Like with Bryce, when we talk about it,
- 31:29Speaker 2: it feels like the dilemma is, Okay, how much is
- 31:33Speaker 2: he how much cap money is he worth? Because you've
- 31:37Speaker 2: seen it, and we've seen it with quarterbacks that get paid.
- 31:41Speaker 2: Sometimes it's perfect, it works out. Yeah, Sometimes you weaken
- 31:46Speaker 2: the supporting cast around that quarterback and it turns out, man,
- 31:49Speaker 2: they weren't work you know what I mean, they weren't
- 31:51Speaker 2: work is that what you is that what you have
- 31:54Speaker 2: to ultimately do with Bryce? Like what percentage of the
- 31:58Speaker 2: cap is he really were? Is it is? That's Is
- 32:00Speaker 2: that a sort of thing that you that y'all have
- 32:02Speaker 2: been thinking.
- 32:03Speaker 9: I mean, there's there's a lot of you know, talks
- 32:06Speaker 9: and like there's a lot of things that go into
- 32:08Speaker 9: extending a player. And we've had good talks with Bryce
- 32:11Speaker 9: and his representatives and Bryce and again like same thing
- 32:14Speaker 9: with him, Like we communicate with our players, like we
- 32:17Speaker 9: don't sit up there and like keep them in the
- 32:19Speaker 9: dark about stuff. So we're in a really good place
- 32:22Speaker 9: with Bryce. He knows where he stands with us, which
- 32:26Speaker 9: is in a good spot. So we'll see where it
- 32:29Speaker 9: goes contractually. But we're in a good spot. We really
- 32:33Speaker 9: like where he's had it. He's looked great out here
- 32:36Speaker 9: in camp. He had a he had a day you know,
- 32:38Speaker 9: two days ago. He was he was dealing out there.
- 32:42Speaker 9: So we feel really good about where he's headed and
- 32:45Speaker 9: you know, we'll see where it goes.
- 32:47Speaker 6: He looked like the Alabama guy. He was moving, he
- 32:49Speaker 6: was throwing participation that one the that won the t
- 32:51Speaker 6: mat where they knew exactly where they were supposed to
- 32:54Speaker 6: be for each other.
- 32:55Speaker 2: Yeah, the connections growing. I mean it was good last year.
- 32:59Speaker 3: Well, you know, and I and I think that was part.
- 33:01Speaker 9: You know, we started, like the first five games, we
- 33:03Speaker 9: really struggled, you know, coming out of the gate. But
- 33:06Speaker 9: you know, a lot of people, you know, you remember
- 33:08Speaker 9: that there wasn't a lot of continuity out there. You know,
- 33:11Speaker 9: Jayalen was heard t Max a new wide out Xaviers
- 33:14Speaker 9: in his second year, So there wasn't a lot of
- 33:18Speaker 9: continuity out on that field.
- 33:19Speaker 3: So hopefully definitely we can.
- 33:20Speaker 9: Keep guys healthy and you know, really developed that continuity
- 33:24Speaker 9: which we saw a couple of days.
- 33:25Speaker 6: Yeah, we love the Blueprint show. It looks like you're
- 33:27Speaker 6: in your bag, like draft time is like.
- 33:29Speaker 2: Yeah, that looks fun. It does look fun. Tillis have
- 33:34Speaker 2: a special bond we do. What's it.
- 33:35Speaker 6: What's it been like to work for him in his
- 33:37Speaker 6: sort of like mad scientists role that he's got going on.
- 33:40Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I think that's a great thing about
- 33:43Speaker 9: what we have going on that everybody understands their role,
- 33:47Speaker 9: everybody in our front office, everybody in our coaching staff.
- 33:50Speaker 3: We just want to win. We don't care who gets
- 33:53Speaker 3: the credit.
- 33:54Speaker 9: We just want to win and the ultimate goals to
- 33:56Speaker 9: win a championship and bring it back here to Charlotte.
- 33:59Speaker 3: So we're gonna we got a really good thing going
- 34:02Speaker 3: on up there.
- 34:02Speaker 9: A lot of good uh chemistry, a lot of good
- 34:05Speaker 9: talks and communication up there. We're always talking, trying trying
- 34:09Speaker 9: to find ways to make this team better. So I'm
- 34:12Speaker 9: excited about where we're headed and I'm excited about the
- 34:15Speaker 9: long term future.
- 34:16Speaker 2: When he showed up to was it the twenty twenty
- 34:17Speaker 2: five draft in his Dan Morgan Jersey, Oh yeah, you were.
- 34:21Speaker 9: You like, I didn't know. I didn't know he was
- 34:23Speaker 9: going to do that. They kind of called me off
- 34:25Speaker 9: guard there for a second. Band's funny though.
- 34:27Speaker 2: We should have been in our dance what we should
- 34:29Speaker 2: have done Ben and our Dan boy last time JJ
- 34:31Speaker 2: Janssen Jersey. I tried to find them.
- 34:33Speaker 3: They sell those.
- 34:35Speaker 2: Uh yeah, somebody said a listener actually sent three to
- 34:38Speaker 2: us last really yeah again, but he bought him somewhere
- 34:42Speaker 2: on the store. You can do the number in the
- 34:44Speaker 2: It's not like specific like y'all are like putting JJ's
- 34:47Speaker 2: in the store.
- 34:48Speaker 6: Yesterday they had players Dan that you no longer have
- 34:51Speaker 6: on the roster in the store I forget there was
- 34:56Speaker 6: some players that I forget. It was like everybody's available
- 34:59Speaker 6: for the most part. But JJ was not disrespect Yeah,
- 35:05Speaker 6: we do. I feel like he has earned that in
- 35:06Speaker 6: his seventy eight years.
- 35:09Speaker 2: My girlfriend wants to know.
- 35:10Speaker 6: Can you give her a clear plastic bag they used
- 35:13Speaker 6: during the games of the bag for the Panthers.
- 35:15Speaker 2: Oh my god, now you're worse. You're taking over. He's
- 35:19Speaker 2: taking over my job. Can't fanny packs? This is what
- 35:22Speaker 2: I deal with, Bruce. You get specific requests his girlfriend's home,
- 35:27Speaker 2: like on the website right now. Oh my goodness. All right,
- 35:31Speaker 2: last question, because we didn't ask about Monroe Freeling. I
- 35:34Speaker 2: love this dude first of all, like his attitude, like
- 35:36Speaker 2: he's a fun kid, and he also was mad. I
- 35:39Speaker 2: know Jayaln Phillips handed it to him a little bit
- 35:41Speaker 2: the other day on Friday, but like he says, bring
- 35:44Speaker 2: it on. This is how I get better. Is is
- 35:48Speaker 2: he ready for this? So? I mean, I know can
- 35:50Speaker 2: Als basically said we were gonna make him prove it,
- 35:52Speaker 2: but now it's here. How ready is he technique wise
- 35:57Speaker 2: for this? Physically? Like is he ready for physically?
- 36:01Speaker 9: He's definitely ready, you know from a technique standpoint. You know,
- 36:05Speaker 9: that's why we're practicing right now, like we still have
- 36:08Speaker 9: a while into all our first game, So he's going
- 36:11Speaker 9: to get invaluable reps out there on the field every
- 36:14Speaker 9: single day.
- 36:15Speaker 3: You see him getting better and better.
- 36:16Speaker 9: With his technique and you know, kicking out from the
- 36:20Speaker 9: right side as opposed to the left side, hand placement,
- 36:23Speaker 9: all those little things that you know, they really matter
- 36:26Speaker 9: a lot.
- 36:27Speaker 3: So he's still getting used to that. But I have
- 36:29Speaker 3: full full confidence that he's going to be ready. Week one.
- 36:33Speaker 6: You were at the national title game, right, Miami, Indiana?
- 36:36Speaker 2: You're you?
- 36:36Speaker 3: I wasn't there.
- 36:38Speaker 2: Did you go to one of the playoff games? I
- 36:40Speaker 2: thought you were on that list? Olsen did, right, Yeah, No.
- 36:44Speaker 3: I was up in the draft room. We were loked
- 36:47Speaker 3: up there.
- 36:50Speaker 2: Yeah, I got that question there. That was me. I
- 36:53Speaker 2: thought you were there. Yeah, I thought you grabbed Michael's felt.
- 37:00Speaker 3: You know me, I'm not. I'm not like that. I'm
- 37:02Speaker 3: not doing it really exactly.
- 37:04Speaker 2: Do you get a kick out of him though? He
- 37:06Speaker 2: is funny?
- 37:07Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, he's Michael Irvin.
- 37:09Speaker 9: He's got a lot of energy, and you know, he
- 37:12Speaker 9: brings a lot of enthusiasm to the sideline, So I
- 37:15Speaker 9: think Crystal Ball really likes him.
- 37:16Speaker 2: When he kissed Crystal Ball, christ Baul did say it
- 37:18Speaker 2: media days, though.
- 37:19Speaker 3: He looked uncomfortable.
- 37:20Speaker 2: One of his goals is to avoid being kissed by
- 37:22Speaker 2: Michael Irvs.
- 37:23Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's a good goal.
- 37:25Speaker 2: That is all right, brother, hey man, thanks so much
- 37:28Speaker 2: for hanging with us. Thanks for the gifts we all
- 37:30Speaker 2: got gifts. I didn't even need to whine this year,
- 37:33Speaker 2: all right, brother, hey, best of luck man, appreciate it.
- 37:37Speaker 2: All right. There you go. That's Dan Morgan GM of
- 37:39Speaker 2: your Carolina Panthers. We come back. Jalen Coker of your
- 37:43Speaker 2: Carolina Panthers, one of those guys we talk about as
- 37:45Speaker 2: underrated on this team, joins us next. Welcome back, everybody.
- 37:59Speaker 2: Mack and Bow Show Live from Panthers training camp, hitting
- 38:02Speaker 2: this twenty twenty six season going and a man who
- 38:05Speaker 2: maybe I should ask him to take this out to dinner.
- 38:07Speaker 2: Bone to man paid in the offseason and fans were
- 38:11Speaker 2: genuinely excited and happy for him. He is Jalen Kocher. Congratulations, man,
- 38:15Speaker 2: I think everybody in Panther nation felt like you deserve that.
- 38:18Speaker 3: Man.
- 38:19Speaker 2: How you doing I'm doing good.
- 38:20Speaker 1: I'm doing good and yeah, you know, it's awesome opportunity.
- 38:24Speaker 1: So I'm really thankful.
- 38:25Speaker 2: That's cool, man, that is cool. What you really surged
- 38:28Speaker 2: late last year? I mean really and you saw you
- 38:30Speaker 2: did it in your in the first season too late
- 38:33Speaker 2: last year. Then the playoff game, do you kind of
- 38:35Speaker 2: feel some per I mean, the team has momentum, but
- 38:38Speaker 2: do you feel some personal momentum kind of coming into
- 38:41Speaker 2: this season like, man, I can really I got more
- 38:44Speaker 2: I can do?
- 38:45Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, of course, I mean especially going into the
- 38:48Speaker 1: third year. You know, kind of you got those two
- 38:51Speaker 1: behind you, kind of learned the ropes a little bit,
- 38:53Speaker 1: and now I feel like is the time to kind
- 38:54Speaker 1: of take that next step, you know. So yeah, I
- 38:57Speaker 1: think I have a ton to work on, of course
- 39:00Speaker 1: to elevate my game, but yeah, absolutely use last year
- 39:02Speaker 1: as a springboard for sure.
- 39:04Speaker 2: Would you sign the contract? Not long ago?
- 39:06Speaker 6: I stopped and thought, man, just not long ago. You're
- 39:09Speaker 6: thinking about what your football future may be. You go undrafted,
- 39:13Speaker 6: you have a great rookie year, and then all of
- 39:16Speaker 6: a sudden, two years later, you're getting the money and
- 39:18Speaker 6: you're a huge part of this team future. Do you
- 39:20Speaker 6: ever stop and think, man, that happened so fast from
- 39:24Speaker 6: being undrafted to now I get the contract. It just
- 39:27Speaker 6: feels like your wife changed so fast in just a
- 39:30Speaker 6: couple of years.
- 39:31Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think I agree for sure, But
- 39:33Speaker 1: you know, I feel like when my career is done,
- 39:35Speaker 1: I'll have time to kind of dwell on that and
- 39:37Speaker 1: think about that. I think right now, we're trying to
- 39:39Speaker 1: build something here and we're trying to get this job done,
- 39:41Speaker 1: So I think that's kind of what I'm focused on.
- 39:44Speaker 1: You know, the more and more you dwell on past accomplishments,
- 39:46Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to see the future. So
- 39:48Speaker 1: I'm just gonna continue to grow.
- 39:50Speaker 2: We liked it dwell on our accomplishment if we had anyway. Well,
- 39:54Speaker 2: all right, Jalen Cocher is will US wide receiver for
- 39:56Speaker 2: your Carolina Panthers. We are live from training camp. So
- 40:00Speaker 2: one of the things coach has said, you guys got
- 40:02Speaker 2: a new rookie edition in the receiving room and Chris
- 40:05Speaker 2: brasl and man, he is fast and he is tall.
- 40:07Speaker 2: We've already seen it in camp him getting deep and
- 40:10Speaker 2: Coach brought up t Mac playing more in the slot
- 40:13Speaker 2: to kind of make room for Brasle outside where he's comfortable.
- 40:16Speaker 2: Do you get the feeling and talk with the coaches
- 40:18Speaker 2: because you've had some success in that slot too, Like,
- 40:21Speaker 2: do you feel like that affects you where you'll be
- 40:24Speaker 2: more in the slot or not?
- 40:25Speaker 8: Not?
- 40:25Speaker 2: Really? What have those talks been Like?
- 40:27Speaker 1: No, No, not at all. I think you know, I
- 40:29Speaker 1: want to be a Swiss army knife. So wherever I'm
- 40:31Speaker 1: I'm on the field, I want to be able to
- 40:32Speaker 1: win from that position. So you know, if they put
- 40:34Speaker 1: Temac in the slot, that's fine, I'll go outside. If
- 40:36Speaker 1: he's outside, I'll go inside. It doesn't matter however it
- 40:39Speaker 1: shakes out. I'm good with whatever. I just want to
- 40:41Speaker 1: continue to win games.
- 40:43Speaker 6: What makes your connection with Bryce so special? What is
- 40:46Speaker 6: it about the vibe you guys have?
- 40:48Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think it just kind of stems
- 40:50Speaker 1: from you know, off the field stuff, you know, hanging out,
- 40:52Speaker 1: going you know, off season, hanging out, you know, just
- 40:55Speaker 1: and overall just kind of I feel like, you know,
- 40:57Speaker 1: I catch the ball a lot of the times when
- 40:58Speaker 1: he throws it to me, and that's how, you know,
- 41:00Speaker 1: you build that connection and build that relationship, that trust
- 41:02Speaker 1: starts to grow. So from the off the field stuff
- 41:04Speaker 1: and on the field. I think it's just kind of blossomed.
- 41:07Speaker 2: What was that playoff game? Like, you went off of
- 41:09Speaker 2: that playoff game and I thought you had the dang
- 41:13Speaker 2: game winning touchdown from Rice too and then the dang
- 41:16Speaker 2: MVP gets it away and drives them down. But how
- 41:19Speaker 2: did that feel that night? You're pretty chill, dude. You
- 41:22Speaker 2: know we could tell from talking to you and stuff.
- 41:24Speaker 2: Were you amped up that night? Man? Because the crowd
- 41:26Speaker 2: was going berserk after that touchdown? How did that night
- 41:29Speaker 2: feel for you?
- 41:29Speaker 6: Man?
- 41:30Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, I mean I was absolutely hiped. That
- 41:32Speaker 1: was incredibly special, you know, my first playoff game ever,
- 41:37Speaker 1: you know, as a professional, So definitely something that I'm
- 41:39Speaker 1: going to remember for a long time. But you know,
- 41:42Speaker 1: just credit to the whole team though. It wasn't just me,
- 41:44Speaker 1: you know, like on the big on the big dagger
- 41:47Speaker 1: to get me open, Jimmy Horns running his butt off
- 41:50Speaker 1: to peel open the coverage for me. So I think
- 41:52Speaker 1: there's there's a lot more pieces that go into it,
- 41:54Speaker 1: but it was awesome experience.
- 41:55Speaker 4: Here.
- 41:55Speaker 6: I was reading your high school basketball stats also in
- 41:58Speaker 6: your oh you were scouting you were a baller of
- 42:00Speaker 6: both most sports, right, So sixteen a game you went
- 42:04Speaker 6: over twenty a bunch. If you had to pick out
- 42:07Speaker 6: two other guys to play three on three with from
- 42:10Speaker 6: the Panthers roster, don't say ja Ja Jansen. Who are
- 42:13Speaker 6: you going with of your of your teammates? Who are
- 42:15Speaker 6: the best basketball players on this team?
- 42:17Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 42:18Speaker 1: I probably go t mac and and Bryce for sure
- 42:20Speaker 1: as the other two.
- 42:22Speaker 2: Rob won't.
- 42:25Speaker 3: I still got to see Rob on the.
- 42:26Speaker 2: Court first about it. He's talked about it. No, you haven't.
- 42:29Speaker 1: Actually I haven't seen it, but I believe it.
- 42:31Speaker 2: We got y'all got to make that happen. I need
- 42:33Speaker 2: you to report back to us all what it's like.
- 42:35Speaker 2: He take this quarterback out? Smart move? That is a
- 42:38Speaker 2: smart move, very smart moves Bryce. What's br is Bryce?
- 42:41Speaker 2: Like the point guard that distributes? Is there? Is he
- 42:43Speaker 2: a scoring point? What kind of baller is Bryce? No?
- 42:46Speaker 1: I mean I think he's kind of a jack of
- 42:47Speaker 1: all trades. He can pass it, he can shoot it.
- 42:49Speaker 1: You know. I think he's just all around, all around,
- 42:52Speaker 1: just a great player.
- 42:52Speaker 2: All right, Yeah, there we go. What Okay, So this
- 42:56Speaker 2: year we've talked a lot about your situation. You guys
- 42:59Speaker 2: come back as defending champs in the division, what are
- 43:03Speaker 2: your feelings about this season? And let's take a look
- 43:06Speaker 2: at the offense. Brad Edzig steps in as a play caller,
- 43:10Speaker 2: got a couple of new guys playing tackle, Like is
- 43:12Speaker 2: this how how confident you feel there will be a
- 43:15Speaker 2: jump offensively for you guys this year? Yeah?
- 43:18Speaker 1: I mean I have one hundred percent confidence in our group,
- 43:20Speaker 1: absolutely offensively and defensively. I think we picked up a
- 43:24Speaker 1: lot of pieces in the offseason, got a lot of
- 43:26Speaker 1: guys in the draft, you know, and the guys that
- 43:27Speaker 1: we already had are gonna just elevate from that added competition.
- 43:31Speaker 1: So I think it'll be an amazing jump for us.
- 43:33Speaker 1: And you know, again, I got us all the time,
- 43:36Speaker 1: so I think we're gonna be great.
- 43:37Speaker 2: How about that?
- 43:38Speaker 6: How does Bral open up things for you guys as well?
- 43:41Speaker 6: It just feels like a highlight guy waiting.
- 43:42Speaker 2: To have it right. Yeah.
- 43:43Speaker 1: No, I mean, big, fast, you know, strong at the
- 43:46Speaker 1: catch point. I think he does a lot of great
- 43:48Speaker 1: things for us, And like you guys said, he takes
- 43:50Speaker 1: the top off, So I think that's just something that
- 43:52Speaker 1: you know will utilize.
- 43:53Speaker 2: You're better deep than people give you credit for. You
- 43:55Speaker 2: want me to keep back quiet, but you know what
- 43:57Speaker 2: I mean. You made some big dang plays couple go
- 44:00Speaker 2: routes late in the season over to Tod like, yeah,
- 44:02Speaker 2: you got that in your arsenal too. No, I appreciate it.
- 44:05Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
- 44:07Speaker 2: Mack. Yeah, yeah, I know you didn't need to approve
- 44:09Speaker 2: of so schmuck on the radio. I know you didn't
- 44:11Speaker 2: need that. We need to say before we let you
- 44:13Speaker 2: go that our man had the most amazing offseason. Not
- 44:16Speaker 2: only did he get the bag and get paid, he
- 44:19Speaker 2: got the girl you're engaged to. Congratulations on that. So
- 44:22Speaker 2: now that everybody out there feels depressed because their summer
- 44:24Speaker 2: wasn't that good, congratulations man, and we hope you take
- 44:28Speaker 2: it to another level too, even on the field. Have
- 44:30Speaker 2: a great season, man. Thank you.
- 44:32Speaker 3: I appreciate you.
- 44:32Speaker 2: Appreciate thanks you. You go. Jalen Cocher, wide receiver for
- 44:36Speaker 2: your Carolina Panthers. As that interview is Airingbone, we get
- 44:42Speaker 2: an amazing text for a Texter named Anthony. I don't
- 44:45Speaker 2: think this is flounderbone because I'm not sure. I don't
- 44:48Speaker 2: know if Flounder has the AI game like this, and
- 44:50Speaker 2: he created an AI picture. We said Danny Claus was
- 44:53Speaker 2: bringing us our Panther presence. Yeah, it's uh Dan Morgan
- 44:57Speaker 2: in a Santa costume and I am s I'm sitting
- 45:00Speaker 2: on his lap. It is just remarkable artwork, the magic
- 45:04Speaker 2: of Ai. Man, it's remarkable. I'm uncomfortable. Why did he
- 45:09Speaker 2: have you on the other leg? It could have been
- 45:10Speaker 2: me on one leg you on the other one. I'm
- 45:12Speaker 2: gonna file. Where do I go for that? Oh? That's
- 45:16Speaker 2: so good man, That is so good? All right. Also
- 45:20Speaker 2: wanted to shout out another fan that deserves a shout
- 45:22Speaker 2: out Anthony deserves a shout out is our guy Peter,
- 45:26Speaker 2: who responded to you on Twitter. Oh yeah, I've got
- 45:29Speaker 2: to say this, yes, and talked about it. Sounds like
- 45:32Speaker 2: I may not be the worst have the worst curse
- 45:35Speaker 2: of the Panthers here in Charlotte. So he told you
- 45:38Speaker 2: on Twitter bone that he said, am I the problem?
- 45:42Speaker 2: He bought a Ikey I Kuanu Jersey literally the day
- 45:45Speaker 2: of the playoff game last year, and unfortunately Ikey gets
- 45:48Speaker 2: hurt in the playoff game. Then in the offseason he says,
- 45:50Speaker 2: I'm gonna buy a scurt In Jersey and Scrton gets
- 45:52Speaker 2: hurt in the first practice. This dude should be like
- 45:56Speaker 2: locked away for safety's sake.
- 45:58Speaker 6: Or by other NFC South that's true. I don't want
- 46:02Speaker 6: to say specifically, but just go buy other teams.
- 46:04Speaker 2: I don't want to say specifically either, but that Tyler
- 46:06Speaker 2: Shuck Jersey look good on you, bro. Seriously, we need
- 46:09Speaker 2: to stop all that hype immediately with this giant curse.
- 46:12Speaker 6: That's our show right there. I say, I'm not gonna
- 46:15Speaker 6: name a player Maxilla all.
- 46:17Speaker 2: I don't want them to get hurt. I just want
- 46:20Speaker 2: I just want Shuck to suck. That's all I want.
- 46:22Speaker 2: You know what I mean. I want him to throw
- 46:23Speaker 2: like as many interceptions as you throw in your college
- 46:26Speaker 2: football season. That's all I'm asking for. Yeah, alright, let's
- 46:29Speaker 2: go even the season that was three games. Oh yeah,
- 46:32Speaker 2: that's right. That's right, by the way, not a good
- 46:34Speaker 2: sign for app State, you know what I mean. That's
- 46:36Speaker 2: not I'm hoping Dal Loggins is better than that. I'm hoping. Man.
- 46:38Speaker 2: All right, anyway, Uh when we come back, Uh, well,
- 46:42Speaker 2: all the interviews have been leading up to this. The
- 46:44Speaker 2: man that runs this joint, Ladies and gentlemen, Carolina Panther,
- 46:48Speaker 2: iron Man long snapper JJ Janssen joins us Next, we're
- 46:52Speaker 2: live from training camp. Sports Radio ninety two seven WFNZ