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- 0:20Speaker 1: Yeah. I got great feedback from the guys following their conversations,
- 0:24Speaker 1: and you know, the offense are said they're comfortable with
- 0:27Speaker 1: a physical as we want to make the practice the defense.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Certainly that's the way they play. And so we had
- 0:33Speaker 1: an opportunity in the team meeting to just say, okay,
- 0:36Speaker 1: let's take the gray out of some of these situations.
- 0:38Speaker 1: And that falls on me. If there's gray area, that's
- 0:40Speaker 1: because I didn't define it well enough. So we took
- 0:42Speaker 1: some clips from practice that kind of led to the scuffles.
- 0:46Speaker 1: We looked at what it was that felt offensive that
- 0:48Speaker 1: might have brought you know, that frustration and kind of
- 0:51Speaker 1: brought it to a head. And so we just walked
- 0:53Speaker 1: the place together and we had an open forum conversation.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Guys talked about what they could do better if guy
- 0:59Speaker 1: wasn't didn't quite have the information. I said, here's how
- 1:01Speaker 1: I see this play playing out. So we just attacked
- 1:05Speaker 1: it that way. The one thing is these guys are
- 1:07Speaker 1: pushing each other. They understand we make us, We make
- 1:11Speaker 1: us better by everybody going as hard as physical as possible.
- 1:15Speaker 1: That brings out the best in each other. So we
- 1:17Speaker 1: need that. But there are moments where we could do
- 1:19Speaker 1: better and we improve that today.
- 1:22Speaker 2: I like that from coach Canalis got the whole team
- 1:25Speaker 2: together and they watched film Bony of the moments that
- 1:30Speaker 2: what he called gray areas where that we're leading to
- 1:33Speaker 2: the fights right where the defense thinks, hey, we got
- 1:36Speaker 2: you a good clean hit and Bryce Shung is like, bro,
- 1:39Speaker 2: you tell you what are you doing to my guy here?
- 1:41Speaker 2: And so they got together they talked through it as
- 1:43Speaker 2: a team offense and defense. To me, that's leadership from
- 1:46Speaker 2: coach Canalis. That's very productive. And he also pointed out, too,
- 1:51Speaker 2: we want this to be player led. He I'm sure
- 1:54Speaker 2: he loved that. Bryce, Mike Jack and Nick Scott immediately
- 1:58Speaker 2: got together and started hash out instead of like going
- 2:01Speaker 2: to the locker room and offense goes with offense behind
- 2:05Speaker 2: talks about the defensive guys behind their back. Those guys
- 2:08Speaker 2: go talk about break you believe Bryce Man, seriously, those
- 2:11Speaker 2: guys are soft on it. They didn't do that. They immediately,
- 2:14Speaker 2: you know, leaders on both sides got together, and then
- 2:16Speaker 2: coach got the team together. So listen, I know I'm
- 2:19Speaker 2: a panther homer bone. I know this is the time
- 2:21Speaker 2: of year where like everything in training camp we could
- 2:25Speaker 2: spin as some amazing positive that means we're going to
- 2:28Speaker 2: the super Bowl, But I just think I just think
- 2:31Speaker 2: things like that are good.
- 2:32Speaker 3: I think it's also a good sign because we often
- 2:34Speaker 3: think of the best players on teams or the highest
- 2:39Speaker 3: paid sometimes are your leaders. But Mack, that was the
- 2:42Speaker 3: quarterback for the team who's a leader, But that was
- 2:45Speaker 3: Nick Scott and Mike Jack. Mike Jack is not the
- 2:47Speaker 3: highest paid corner, Nick Scott is not the highest paid safety,
- 2:51Speaker 3: but yet they're there in leadership roles. So I think
- 2:54Speaker 3: the good teams MAC have leaders a bunch of them
- 2:57Speaker 3: all over the roster. And it's not just better player,
- 3:00Speaker 3: highest paid definitely one, Nick Scott and Mike Jack. My
- 3:02Speaker 3: Tack's a good player, for get me wrong. But when
- 3:04Speaker 3: they're involved in the leadership, that tells you that it's
- 3:07Speaker 3: not just the name brand guys that are leading this thing.
- 3:11Speaker 3: It's leadership mumping down the ross.
- 3:13Speaker 2: And I'm not comparing this team. It's twenty fifteen. Don't
- 3:15Speaker 2: don't don't go, uh, don't go, clip me, kids, don't go.
- 3:18Speaker 2: Say Mac is on here saying we're twenty fifteen all
- 3:21Speaker 2: over again. But Roman Harper, Kirk Coleman right. It wasn't
- 3:24Speaker 2: just the superstars on the team. They had got Charles
- 3:27Speaker 2: Tillman came in. They had guys that were leaders all
- 3:30Speaker 2: over the place on that team. Let's give the people
- 3:33Speaker 2: what they want, because what the people want is Darren
- 3:35Speaker 2: Waller talk. And let's give the people what they want.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Carolina Panthers reportedly signing Darren Waller the tight end to
- 3:43Speaker 2: a one year deal. Looks like Adam Schefter at ESPN
- 3:46Speaker 2: had it first. This one has implications for a certain
- 3:50Speaker 2: tight end on the roster, we think, and this one
- 3:54Speaker 2: certainly could have implications on this offense as a whole.
- 3:59Speaker 2: Do you view this? It seems like most fans are like,
- 4:02Speaker 2: really pumped about this. We had one guy bone when
- 4:06Speaker 2: I said, when I said earlier about us, the Panthers
- 4:10Speaker 2: want to be a running football team and Canalis has
- 4:12Speaker 2: to stick with the running game and all that sort
- 4:14Speaker 2: of stuff, and he said, no, not now we signed
- 4:17Speaker 2: Darren Waller. They want to be a vertical passing team.
- 4:20Speaker 2: I don't know if I go that far. Now that
- 4:21Speaker 2: we've turned into the greatest show on turf, I personally
- 4:25Speaker 2: believe the running game and a downfield passing game are
- 4:29Speaker 2: beautiful partners right, yes, run sets up the other. And
- 4:34Speaker 2: then we had somebody on the text line like one
- 4:36Speaker 2: negative dude saying, this guy gets hurt all the time,
- 4:39Speaker 2: this guy's old. I feel like the truth is somewhere
- 4:42Speaker 2: in between. We're not going to be you know what
- 4:45Speaker 2: I mean, like the greatest show on turf. But also
- 4:49Speaker 2: this is a move that God, if he can stay healthy,
- 4:53Speaker 2: he brings a dimension I'm not sure we have in
- 4:57Speaker 2: our tight end weaponry.
- 4:58Speaker 3: I have a vision for him. Magn Let me know
- 5:00Speaker 3: if you feel this too. Maybe it's not a ton
- 5:03Speaker 3: of catches, but maybe it's a number of touchdowns because
- 5:07Speaker 3: they view him as something they need in the red zone.
- 5:11Speaker 3: Or Bryce can can scramble around and all of a sudden,
- 5:13Speaker 3: Darren Waller, whether it's the back of the end zone,
- 5:15Speaker 3: can be a big target and can be a presence
- 5:18Speaker 3: in the red zone. Because I know Tremble had some
- 5:20Speaker 3: touchdowns last year. But I do wonder if they want
- 5:23Speaker 3: someone mac that can make something out of nothing, that
- 5:27Speaker 3: can find a spot in the end zone and be
- 5:29Speaker 3: a big target in the red zone. So I do
- 5:31Speaker 3: wonder if Darren Waller's got a number of touchdowns in
- 5:34Speaker 3: the bag because I think he might be the red
- 5:37Speaker 3: zone target they're looking for.
- 5:38Speaker 2: That's what we saw last year against US. That is
- 5:42Speaker 2: one out we saw a lot last year against US.
- 5:44Speaker 2: He had five catches for seventy eight yards and a tuddy.
- 5:47Speaker 2: Him and Jalen Walla destroyed US, especially early on in
- 5:50Speaker 2: that football game when they went up by seventeen and
- 5:53Speaker 2: WeGo down one off. Yeah, and Bryce brought the boys
- 5:56Speaker 2: back big fourth down play Rice to t mac and
- 5:58Speaker 2: they said giddy up. Anyway, Clearly the Panthers saw first
- 6:02Speaker 2: hand what Waller can do, so I think that's part
- 6:06Speaker 2: of it. Darryl Bevill, who's down on the Panther staff,
- 6:09Speaker 2: was the passing game coordinator in Miami, so he saw
- 6:12Speaker 2: what Waller can still do even though he's thirty three
- 6:15Speaker 2: getting ready to be thirty four and sat out twenty
- 6:18Speaker 2: twenty four with retirement before coming back last year to Miami.
- 6:22Speaker 2: But yes, red zone, that's one of the skills that
- 6:26Speaker 2: you that I think he can bring to this team
- 6:28Speaker 2: and be better than what we already have. Six touchdowns
- 6:31Speaker 2: in nine games. That's that's some that's some red zone work,
- 6:35Speaker 2: but also bone we didn't have and and maybe maybe
- 6:39Speaker 2: some of this is our offense right the play calling
- 6:43Speaker 2: as Frank Garcia Texan in the first hour. But we
- 6:46Speaker 2: did not have a tight end catch a deep ball
- 6:48Speaker 2: last year. Did not have one of our tight ends
- 6:51Speaker 2: catch a pass that traveled twenty air yards or more.
- 6:55Speaker 2: Darren Waller Bone played nine games last year because of injury,
- 6:58Speaker 2: that's part of this, and five of them like it's
- 7:02Speaker 2: just Tommy Tremble caught two passes that traveled ten yards
- 7:07Speaker 2: or more in the air last year. Mitchell Evans caught
- 7:09Speaker 2: two passes that traveled ten yards or more in the
- 7:12Speaker 2: air last year. Darren Waller caught thirteen in just nine games.
- 7:17Speaker 2: He's going he can catch the ball in the intermediate area.
- 7:21Speaker 2: He can catch you downfield. Now, to Frank's point, Bone,
- 7:24Speaker 2: they've got to call it. Bryce has to throw it.
- 7:26Speaker 2: But I do think between your red zone point and
- 7:29Speaker 2: the point I'm trying to make about his ability to
- 7:32Speaker 2: do things further downfield, he could bring stuff to this
- 7:37Speaker 2: team that our tight ends were not doing last year,
- 7:40Speaker 2: like Sanders. And this is where JT. Sanders. Fanny gets hot.
- 7:45Speaker 2: It feels like he is being brought in to compete
- 7:49Speaker 2: with JT. Are quite possibly cost JT. As job and
- 7:53Speaker 2: just snatch it away from him because those are the
- 7:56Speaker 2: things bone, the getting downfield stuff, that's the stuff at
- 8:00Speaker 2: Sanders they thought he would do when he came here
- 8:02Speaker 2: because of his athleticism. He didn't do it. Last year.
- 8:05Speaker 2: He averaged six plus yards a cat.
- 8:06Speaker 3: You you brought up the really uh important note in
- 8:10Speaker 3: the first segment. He was with Darryl Bevill in Miami
- 8:13Speaker 3: last year, so there's a tie in there.
- 8:16Speaker 4: Uh.
- 8:16Speaker 3: Someone asked, what was the injury? Uh, he suffered a
- 8:19Speaker 3: peck injury. With three different injuries last year. He had
- 8:22Speaker 3: a Uh, he had a peck in Week seven that
- 8:25Speaker 3: took him out, then he got activated in November, and
- 8:28Speaker 3: at the end of the year he had a he
- 8:29Speaker 3: had a groin injury. What was the third one? I
- 8:31Speaker 3: don't see in oh, Uh, I don't see the other
- 8:34Speaker 3: one on.
- 8:34Speaker 2: Hippen quad he missed. He missed the first on there
- 8:37Speaker 2: hippen quad in the preseason, missed the first three games,
- 8:39Speaker 2: came back and played four, then had a peck injury.
- 8:43Speaker 2: Then he missed games, and then he came back, played
- 8:46Speaker 2: four games that had a groin injury and went on IR.
- 8:48Speaker 2: So he was on i R twice last year. So
- 8:50Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't want to make this out to
- 8:52Speaker 2: be bone like. We're getting Kellen Winslow in his prime here,
- 8:55Speaker 2: Like I mean, guys already retired once it came back.
- 8:58Speaker 2: So but like, I think it shows that they want
- 9:01Speaker 2: more because this isn't this this to meet un saying
- 9:05Speaker 2: thing about trembula evans. Those guys bone block their their
- 9:09Speaker 2: fannies off, and those guys aren't in this role. Like
- 9:13Speaker 2: you said of the move tight end, the mismatch tight end,
- 9:17Speaker 2: the guy the tight end, we want to get down
- 9:18Speaker 2: the seam twenty yards. But JT Sanders, I think is
- 9:22Speaker 2: a guy that they had hoped would do that, and
- 9:25Speaker 2: it just reeks of me. Let's see if we can
- 9:26Speaker 2: get him in here, see if he's healthy, because we
- 9:30Speaker 2: think he can do those things better than JT.
- 9:32Speaker 3: Also, don't have to make perfect throws to him. He's
- 9:34Speaker 3: a big target, so Brightce doesn't have to be the
- 9:38Speaker 3: most accurate he need. Sometimes big targets are all right,
- 9:41Speaker 3: they make up for you know, a back throw. Whatever
- 9:44Speaker 3: you did say, Kellen Winslow in his prime meaning senior
- 9:47Speaker 3: right now.
- 9:47Speaker 2: Yeah, to the youngins out there, I'm talking about pops.
- 9:49Speaker 3: Not junior, the one who I can't say what he
- 9:51Speaker 3: did I'm talking about ended up at Boston Market that
- 9:54Speaker 3: one time. Kellen wins Kellen Winzow Junior, remember the whole thing.
- 9:58Speaker 2: What was he doing? He's doing something with some chicken.
- 10:01Speaker 3: Nah right, yeah, he got caught.
- 10:06Speaker 2: He's just leave it at deck.
- 10:07Speaker 3: He got caught the car by himself and the officers say,
- 10:09Speaker 3: what are you doing in here? And he said, I'm
- 10:10Speaker 3: looking for Boston More one of the all time excuses
- 10:14Speaker 3: ever made. How surprised videos used?
- 10:16Speaker 2: That anyway?
- 10:18Speaker 4: Good?
- 10:18Speaker 2: Anyway, move on, Mac, Let's go google it. If you
- 10:21Speaker 2: don't know the story, Google, We ain't going any deeper
- 10:23Speaker 2: than that. So I think this could bring us things
- 10:27Speaker 2: that Sanders has not been bringing us. Obviously, he's older,
- 10:31Speaker 2: he's gonna turn thirty four next month. But if they
- 10:35Speaker 2: punt on JT. Sanders, is anybody gonna feel bad for him?
- 10:39Speaker 2: I mean, I know he's had some injury issues in
- 10:41Speaker 2: his own ride bone, but I feel like he's in
- 10:44Speaker 2: his third year. He's in the same situation as Trevor Wallace.
- 10:48Speaker 2: Prove it or lose your gig, Like it's time third
- 10:52Speaker 2: year in it's time for it to be, prove it
- 10:54Speaker 2: or lose your gig. Excels another one. It's it's why
- 10:59Speaker 2: this twenty four draft class from Dan Morgan has so
- 11:03Speaker 2: many people looking at it saying, my god, what did
- 11:06Speaker 2: you do?
- 11:06Speaker 3: And that Sanders wooked was pre neck injury. He started
- 11:10Speaker 3: to really come into his own and then that scary
- 11:12Speaker 3: situation set him back, and honestly, unfortunately for him, he
- 11:16Speaker 3: hasn't really been the same since then, or what we
- 11:19Speaker 3: thought he was going to be since then starting to
- 11:21Speaker 3: whook the part and then he had the injury, and.
- 11:23Speaker 2: Yeah, he show the same. He did show flashes, There's
- 11:26Speaker 2: no doubt about it early on, and you and I
- 11:28Speaker 2: were big fans of him early on. But like, you
- 11:31Speaker 2: can't like use that neck injury excuse in your third
- 11:34Speaker 2: season when it happened in your first one though, right, Yeah,
- 11:37Speaker 2: like at some point you got to move on to
- 11:39Speaker 2: your career and be something, you know. Yeah, And so
- 11:43Speaker 2: I don't know this, Texter says, I think they're just
- 11:45Speaker 2: trying to light a fire under Sanders. I don't know.
- 11:48Speaker 2: Maybe it's like maybe it's competition made the best man win.
- 11:52Speaker 2: How does Waller look? Is he healthy?
- 11:55Speaker 3: You know?
- 11:55Speaker 2: I mean the one rub is this dude says, here's
- 11:58Speaker 2: the problem. You get rid of Sanders and Waller has
- 12:00Speaker 2: more injury problems, then you're then you're in trouble. Yeah,
- 12:05Speaker 2: another Texter. Can you keep four tight ends and keep
- 12:08Speaker 2: Sanders and Waller?
- 12:09Speaker 5: That means the bigger question back.
- 12:11Speaker 2: I think Felipe Franks will be the fourth tight end
- 12:14Speaker 2: on this fan, on this roster, no doubt so. Felipe
- 12:17Speaker 2: Franks brings you the special teams like insanity, the coverage ability,
- 12:22Speaker 2: the maniac you want running down there and hitting people.
- 12:25Speaker 5: Do you think this is an either or situation?
- 12:28Speaker 2: I definitely think it's either or. I don't think you
- 12:30Speaker 2: need both these guys. I also think you need guys
- 12:32Speaker 2: that do multiple things. Felipe Franks does multiple things.
- 12:35Speaker 3: I also assume that they're trusting Bevill here, who's probably
- 12:38Speaker 3: kept tabs with Waller knowing him definitely. I wonder if
- 12:41Speaker 3: they've been in contact. Hey, how you feel any good?
- 12:44Speaker 2: You want to?
- 12:45Speaker 3: I guarantee you Bevell has been the probably the go
- 12:47Speaker 3: between here between those that's true.
- 12:49Speaker 2: Are you psyched about this fitty because it feels like
- 12:52Speaker 2: some Panther fans think we just clinched the Super Bowl?
- 12:54Speaker 2: It feels like and some panther. This guy's like played
- 13:01Speaker 2: nine games, so we have a part time player. Some
- 13:03Speaker 2: fans are being I don't know, kind of stinky stinky
- 13:07Speaker 2: turds they're putting their wallers. What do you what do
- 13:10Speaker 2: you think? Fitty?
- 13:11Speaker 6: Well, obviously this was a room mac that I said
- 13:14Speaker 6: all off season, I want to I called him Mac Brown.
- 13:18Speaker 6: For some reason, I wanted Dan Morgan to address, like
- 13:22Speaker 6: you back to the draft process. I was a Sadik freak.
- 13:25Speaker 6: I wanted to draft Sadik in the first round. Then
- 13:27Speaker 6: after the draft, I wanted there to be some sort
- 13:29Speaker 6: of move in free agency, maybe a trade to upgrade
- 13:32Speaker 6: the room so I can I'm not gonna be not
- 13:34Speaker 6: excited about that. That would be let me just say
- 13:37Speaker 6: plum stupid on my part. What I questioned here is
- 13:41Speaker 6: is maybe the timing of this move is as in
- 13:45Speaker 6: regards to you saying it's either or. Had they had
- 13:47Speaker 6: had they brought them back in in March, and he
- 13:50Speaker 6: was here all off season and they've been battling through
- 13:53Speaker 6: you know, Ohca's mini camp. I can maybe see it
- 13:55Speaker 6: being an either or, but you're you signed this dude
- 14:00Speaker 6: or what four weeks away? From the season. I know
- 14:03Speaker 6: he has some familiarity with with with Bevil. I think
- 14:06Speaker 6: there's a chance that that they carry both. I don't
- 14:09Speaker 6: see j T.
- 14:09Speaker 5: Sanders getting cut this preseason.
- 14:11Speaker 2: Are you keeping five tight ends?
- 14:13Speaker 5: I would, I wouldn't keep Franks.
- 14:15Speaker 3: Well the Henry wide receivers are you taking then? Also no,
- 14:19Speaker 3: he said, but he said he's staying at four tight ends.
- 14:21Speaker 3: I Felipe Franks is more There's a very good chance
- 14:25Speaker 3: Felipe Franks is more valuable in j T. Sanders point
- 14:28Speaker 3: blank period.
- 14:29Speaker 6: That's a pretty bad indictment on the guy you drafted
- 14:31Speaker 6: to the third round.
- 14:32Speaker 2: I think the fact Darren Waller has been signed is
- 14:34Speaker 2: a bad indictment of j T. Sanders. But I think
- 14:37Speaker 2: you're undervaluing special teams or I mean, I think you're doing.
- 14:40Speaker 6: You know, we know how important thirteen personnel has become
- 14:44Speaker 6: in the National Football League. Are they wanting to get
- 14:47Speaker 6: more and you know that's what the Rams do a lot?
- 14:49Speaker 4: Uh?
- 14:49Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 14:50Speaker 6: Or they wanting to have two receiving tight ends with
- 14:52Speaker 6: your blocker.
- 14:54Speaker 5: So I don't know.
- 14:55Speaker 2: Sanders was a Day three pick, by the way, Fitty,
- 14:57Speaker 2: he's fourth round pick. There you go.
- 15:00Speaker 3: But still it's time. It's it's time to get to
- 15:05Speaker 3: step in fifty did that whole breakdown? Just to use
- 15:07Speaker 3: the word plumbing there also we will play we want
- 15:09Speaker 3: to scenic were out there to get it there.
- 15:11Speaker 2: I thought that was I thought that was a really
- 15:13Speaker 2: good joke, well played. I liked it. If people don't
- 15:16Speaker 2: know Darren Waller was married to Kelsey Plumb.
- 15:19Speaker 6: He's already fumbled the bag once, man, he can't fumble
- 15:21Speaker 6: it again, can he had?
- 15:23Speaker 2: I was just going to say, uh, and then Fiddy
- 15:26Speaker 2: went out and blurted it out and did it. I
- 15:27Speaker 2: was going to say, people in the text line are
- 15:29Speaker 2: trying to like analyze him as a football player based
- 15:32Speaker 2: on his divorce, and I'm not sure that's the way
- 15:34Speaker 2: it works.
- 15:36Speaker 3: Not sure that's the way it works. Analyze me as
- 15:39Speaker 3: a radio host because I'm divorced. That's true, man, that's true.
- 15:42Speaker 3: We can't hold that against you. So anyway, Walls wanted
- 15:47Speaker 3: to know, was that a Kelsey Plumb reference?
- 15:49Speaker 5: Here you go, damn straight?
- 15:50Speaker 2: Heck, yeah it was. You think Fitty's You think Fitty's
- 15:52Speaker 2: funnies are just coincidental? Hell no, Dennis Miller very cerebral,
- 15:59Speaker 2: hid it sense? Of humor.
- 16:02Speaker 3: The dog, it's more like Galagher with a mallet, and
- 16:05Speaker 3: Fitty's more like Dennis Miller here seven O four numbers
- 16:08Speaker 3: says Mac going here acting like Felipe Franks is a dude,
- 16:11Speaker 3: laughing my butt off. He is a dude in his
- 16:14Speaker 3: role that he plays. He's not a dude in the
- 16:17Speaker 3: passing game, but he is a very important guy in
- 16:20Speaker 3: special teams. I mean, Isaiah Simmons on special teams are
- 16:23Speaker 3: two absolute hound dogs.
- 16:25Speaker 6: Could you practice squad him or do you think Mac
- 16:27Speaker 6: if somebody practice squatch, someone like another NFL team would
- 16:30Speaker 6: pick him up.
- 16:31Speaker 2: I think somebody might pick him up. But again, I
- 16:33Speaker 2: have to be honest with you. If losing JT. Sanders
- 16:37Speaker 2: is going to make us cry in our beer, we
- 16:41Speaker 2: got issues like they have done this move because they
- 16:45Speaker 2: are they are not satisfied with j T. Sanders. I
- 16:47Speaker 2: think it's that simple, like honestly, and I don't think
- 16:51Speaker 2: we should, like you want me to go downgrade your
- 16:53Speaker 2: win total, Fitty if we end up cutting JT. Say
- 16:55Speaker 2: you seem shook by the notion that JT. Sanders could
- 16:57Speaker 2: be cut.
- 16:58Speaker 6: I just don't get why it took them this time,
- 17:01Speaker 6: this late into the offseason to hell in the preseason
- 17:04Speaker 6: to address the tight end route.
- 17:05Speaker 3: So you're saying this urgency back in March. Then go
- 17:09Speaker 3: through camp and he's not progressed like they thought.
- 17:11Speaker 2: So what Fitty says, I mean, I guess what Fitty's
- 17:13Speaker 2: saying makes some sense, right, Like, what you're saying is
- 17:16Speaker 2: that if this dude was ten training camp practices away
- 17:21Speaker 2: from you feeling like we need to replace him, then
- 17:24Speaker 2: why didn't you replace giving? Why didn't you bring in
- 17:27Speaker 2: a tight end in the offseason, in the free agency
- 17:30Speaker 2: of the draft? Pretty much? You know, I think that's
- 17:33Speaker 2: an interesting point. But my whole thing is these third
- 17:36Speaker 2: year guys. Fitty, I can't say it enough. Man, your
- 17:41Speaker 2: your scholarship is over. Like in the.
- 17:43Speaker 5: NFL, get the five or five rule.
- 17:45Speaker 2: Now in the NFL, you get did they have any
- 17:48Speaker 2: does he have eligibility back in college? Maybe like Trevin
- 17:51Speaker 2: Wallace too, you get into the third year and we
- 17:55Speaker 2: still don't know about you. It might be time to
- 17:59Speaker 2: say bye bye. That's all I'm saying. I'll give you
- 18:02Speaker 2: the first two years. Third year, I think I think
- 18:06Speaker 2: that's where we get it.
- 18:06Speaker 6: And the problem is, Matt, Look, how many guys in
- 18:08Speaker 6: that draft class Excel year three, we don't know what
- 18:10Speaker 6: he is. Jonathan Brooks injuries, we don't know what he is.
- 18:14Speaker 6: Trevin Wallace having to fight for his job with Claude
- 18:17Speaker 6: and Cherlist.
- 18:18Speaker 5: I don't like that. And then you got Jay.
- 18:20Speaker 2: That's four.
- 18:20Speaker 5: That's four guys in that draft class.
- 18:23Speaker 6: Like you know, we had the conversation days did a
- 18:25Speaker 6: really good job with what the roster was, whether he
- 18:28Speaker 6: inherited to where it is now. But a lot of
- 18:31Speaker 6: it has been through free agency. The jury is still
- 18:35Speaker 6: out on who Dan Morgan is as a as a drafter.
- 18:39Speaker 6: I know we drafted t mac and he was the
- 18:40Speaker 6: Rookie of the Year last year. But that first draft class,
- 18:44Speaker 6: oh buddy, yeah, we're gonna have to t it's a
- 18:46Speaker 6: chance that four of those guys could be gone next year.
- 18:48Speaker 2: We don't have to talk more about that draft class,
- 18:50Speaker 2: no doubt about it. And like, who do you believe
- 18:51Speaker 2: in still from that draft class? I looked it up
- 18:54Speaker 2: bone because we were talking about did J. T. Sanders
- 18:58Speaker 2: have only have no deep ball last yearly and only
- 19:03Speaker 2: two catches of ten yards or more last year because
- 19:06Speaker 2: of the offense or was it because of him? Same system.
- 19:10Speaker 2: He had three deep catches in his rookie year and
- 19:13Speaker 2: four catches in the intermediate, so seven catches between ten
- 19:17Speaker 2: ten yards plus he did He did it in his
- 19:20Speaker 2: rookie year. It didn't happen last year. So was he
- 19:22Speaker 2: not getting open when he ran those routes last year? So,
- 19:25Speaker 2: but Darren Waller did that stuff last year. So I
- 19:28Speaker 2: just think I think they're looking and they should be
- 19:31Speaker 2: for somebody bone that can get beyond ten yards and
- 19:35Speaker 2: can you know, play in the slot great missman, Like
- 19:38Speaker 2: they're looking for that role, right, we know what Tremble
- 19:41Speaker 2: and Evans are, but we're looking for that role. And
- 19:44Speaker 2: Waller did it last year and Sanders didn't. Something that
- 19:47Speaker 2: the defense has to be accountable for in the passing game.
- 19:51Speaker 3: Textan once you had during the break to rank your
- 19:53Speaker 3: all time Sanders former Cowboy Dion Sanders, JT Sanders or
- 19:57Speaker 3: Colonel Sanders.
- 20:00Speaker 6: Oh that's easy, d On one, JT two, Colonel Sanders three.
- 20:04Speaker 2: There he's still got JT over Colonel though. I gotta
- 20:08Speaker 2: be honest, fitting knowing your history with fast food, that
- 20:10Speaker 2: is the shocking development.
- 20:12Speaker 5: Not a big KFC guy, man.
- 20:13Speaker 3: Really, oh man, they not have enough salads for your liking.
- 20:17Speaker 2: First, he doesn't like Sloppy Joes yesterday. Now he doesn't
- 20:20Speaker 2: like KFC. He has food standards, know God.
- 20:25Speaker 3: Also, when we come back back, we're going to talk
- 20:28Speaker 3: to a member of the Clemson media. He hosts a
- 20:30Speaker 3: pre and post show for the Clemson Tigers. He's got
- 20:33Speaker 3: a podcast as well. It's his macam Bone debut. Grayson
- 20:36Speaker 3: Mann joins us next on Sports Radio ninety two seven WFNZ.
- 21:05Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety two seven WFNZ Mack and Bone show
- 21:10Speaker 2: with you. All right, I think most people fired up
- 21:13Speaker 2: at least intrigued by bringing in Darren Waller one year
- 21:16Speaker 2: deal for the Carolina Panthers. And there's another storyline, Bone, JT.
- 21:20Speaker 2: Sanders will be watching him on Saturday. All right, what's
- 21:23Speaker 2: you gonna do? What's your response to this move? I
- 21:25Speaker 2: wouldn't think Waller would be ready to play by Saturday,
- 21:28Speaker 2: but we'll see. We'll see. Right now, though, we gotta
- 21:30Speaker 2: switch it up, and we got to talk a little
- 21:32Speaker 2: college football. And for Clemson fans, Bone, that have been
- 21:35Speaker 2: wanting to hear from people from someone other than you
- 21:38Speaker 2: and me about Clemson. Yeah, they're tired of me right now,
- 21:41Speaker 2: they're probably tired. Sure what happened? They probably tired of
- 21:44Speaker 2: your takes about the Clemson Tigers. Well, allow us to
- 21:47Speaker 2: present you Clemson fans with the Man of your dreams,
- 21:51Speaker 2: Grayson Man, Ladies and gentlemen, is here. He sat on
- 21:55Speaker 2: if Fitny can make plumb jokes, I can make great
- 21:58Speaker 2: man jokes. Grayson Man covers Clemson athletics and recruiting for Clemson.
- 22:03Speaker 2: Tiger Net also hosts the Orange Crush podcast and the
- 22:07Speaker 2: Tiger pregame show on the Roar down there in South Carolina,
- 22:11Speaker 2: and Grayson Man joins us to talk about the twenty
- 22:14Speaker 2: twenty six Tigers. Grayson Welcome to the show, man. How
- 22:17Speaker 2: you doing.
- 22:18Speaker 4: I'm doing good, the Man of the Dreams. Man, you're
- 22:21Speaker 4: flattering me for the first introduction on y'all show.
- 22:24Speaker 2: Here you go. I can tell you're blushing. I can
- 22:26Speaker 2: tell you are blushing right now. Let's all right. So
- 22:30Speaker 2: we played a clip of Dabbo in the first hour
- 22:32Speaker 2: of the show, and I'm sure you know exactly which
- 22:35Speaker 2: one it was from a presser this week, the one
- 22:39Speaker 2: about we're a bunch of nobodies and they got to
- 22:42Speaker 2: go out there and these guys got to prove there
- 22:44Speaker 2: of somebody. Do you get the feeling and you're you're
- 22:47Speaker 2: covering him and you're listening to everything he's saying day
- 22:49Speaker 2: in and day out. Is this an indication that this
- 22:53Speaker 2: is kind of the motivation? Like strategy is just hey,
- 22:56Speaker 2: we're nobody, got we won seven games. We got to
- 23:00Speaker 2: prove what we are like? Is that what's going on
- 23:02Speaker 2: in that quote? Or am I reading too much into it?
- 23:05Speaker 4: It's certainly a different change up guys. And what's fascinating
- 23:09Speaker 4: about Sweeney is And this is the question I asked him,
- 23:13Speaker 4: was you try to get with anything that Dabo does.
- 23:16Speaker 4: He's a big cheerleader and is not short of optimism.
- 23:21Speaker 4: So usually when you ask hey, who so far on
- 23:23Speaker 4: campus getting out to you, he'll give you a five
- 23:26Speaker 4: or ten minute monologue about, oh, man, like these guys X,
- 23:30Speaker 4: Y and Z are standing out. You guys just don't
- 23:33Speaker 4: know it yet. Everyone makes fun of me for making
- 23:36Speaker 4: too much praise about these guys, and then yes, you're are.
- 23:40Speaker 2: I think it was Tuesday?
- 23:41Speaker 4: Excuse me? Rather, he just is like, Nope, we're just
- 23:44Speaker 4: a bunch of nobody and we are going to have
- 23:47Speaker 4: to have nobody's turning to somebody's on Saturdays, and I
- 23:50Speaker 4: think the fan base has respond well to it, where
- 23:52Speaker 4: they're sort of tired of the trademark optimism and they
- 23:56Speaker 4: want to see results after a seven to six campaign
- 23:59Speaker 4: from last year. So it definitely felt a little different,
- 24:03Speaker 4: very purposeful press conference from Sweeney on Tuesday, very tight lipped,
- 24:07Speaker 4: a little bit short with us with a scrimmage coming
- 24:10Speaker 4: up on Saturday, So definitely a little bit different Gabbo
- 24:14Speaker 4: than what we're used to.
- 24:16Speaker 3: The Zena taking over at quarterback for Club Nick. How
- 24:19Speaker 3: how has he worked so far? What's the word on
- 24:21Speaker 3: his camp and what do you think Grayson is a
- 24:24Speaker 3: fair expectation for a Zena year one as a starter.
- 24:29Speaker 4: Yeah, this has been the talk of the town with
- 24:31Speaker 4: him battling true freshman Tate Reynolds. Than our understanding is
- 24:35Speaker 4: is that the Zena has really taken over this fall
- 24:37Speaker 4: and made sure that this is a battle that I
- 24:40Speaker 4: think the gap is a little bit wider than maybe
- 24:42Speaker 4: the public has anticipated with how he's performed so far
- 24:46Speaker 4: as the first week and a half. And this is
- 24:48Speaker 4: someone that just when you gather from people inside the building,
- 24:52Speaker 4: this is someone that even before he was the guy
- 24:55Speaker 4: taking over even with Kate Clubbick in the building, this
- 24:58Speaker 4: was someone that everyone in that locker room was ready
- 25:00Speaker 4: to rally behind, specifically with what happened at the SMU matchup,
- 25:05Speaker 4: where he kind of gets thrust it in at the
- 25:07Speaker 4: last minute, throws three touchdowns, performs rather well, and you're
- 25:11Speaker 4: just sort of waiting for him to step out of
- 25:13Speaker 4: the shadows and become Clemson's next quarterback. So I think
- 25:17Speaker 4: an expectation is we still don't know what this is
- 25:21Speaker 4: going to look like. Obviously he had a great showing
- 25:24Speaker 4: against SMU, but SMU's pass defense, I think the three
- 25:28Speaker 4: of us could go out there and perform well against
- 25:30Speaker 4: that defense. Last year, I think it ranked at the
- 25:32Speaker 4: bottom of yes. So to say that it's going to
- 25:36Speaker 4: be the same against LSU and Death Valley, that certainly
- 25:40Speaker 4: may not be the expectation of everybody in the fan base.
- 25:43Speaker 4: I think we're all in wait and see mode. It
- 25:46Speaker 4: still feels very new and so a variety of things
- 25:49Speaker 4: can happen. But I do think under Chad Morris's offense,
- 25:51Speaker 4: he's going to be more of a point guard at
- 25:53Speaker 4: quarterback and just try to be the distributor. Don't make
- 25:56Speaker 4: the backbreaking turnover and if Clemson can just win that way,
- 26:00Speaker 4: They're gonna have to win a specific way this year,
- 26:02Speaker 4: but I think a lot of it's gonna be a
- 26:04Speaker 4: lot of It reminds me of Carson Beck and that
- 26:06Speaker 4: Miami playoff run where you just got to not screw
- 26:09Speaker 4: this up for us, and I think we can take care.
- 26:11Speaker 2: Of the rest. We're talking with Grayson Manny covers Clemson
- 26:14Speaker 2: for Clemson Tiger Net. We're talking Clemson. They're in camp
- 26:19Speaker 2: right now, obviously getting ready for that LSU opener. You
- 26:23Speaker 2: mentioned Chad Morris in the return. This one that's I'm
- 26:27Speaker 2: trying to figure this one out, Grayson, because like, obviously
- 26:29Speaker 2: he was great when they were there, and I do
- 26:31Speaker 2: think he's the type of guy that can commit more
- 26:34Speaker 2: to the run game and get that going again for them,
- 26:37Speaker 2: But also he hasn't exactly been killing it, you know,
- 26:40Speaker 2: since he left Clemson. What do you think about the
- 26:43Speaker 2: Morris return? Are there any early indications that give you
- 26:47Speaker 2: a gut feeling on whether this is gonna work.
- 26:52Speaker 4: Yeah, this is one that it's a little bit strange
- 26:56Speaker 4: to me.
- 26:56Speaker 2: Guys.
- 26:56Speaker 4: It was one I think I think in January it
- 27:02Speaker 4: was one that I was a little bit hesitant to
- 27:05Speaker 4: I wasn't as warmed up to it as I am
- 27:07Speaker 4: right now with the Morris higher, But I think overall
- 27:10Speaker 4: it's somebody that's coming and brought out different energy into
- 27:13Speaker 4: the building. And after a seven and six campaign, you
- 27:16Speaker 4: need a shot in the arm and the worst way possible,
- 27:19Speaker 4: and this guy has the trademark. He's kind of this
- 27:22Speaker 4: red bull guzzling maniac and is a football sicco in
- 27:26Speaker 4: all the right ways, and so that part of it
- 27:29Speaker 4: has certainly been a different change for Clempson. But this
- 27:32Speaker 4: is one it wasn't called plays in five years. So again,
- 27:35Speaker 4: like the quarterback, we don't know what this is going
- 27:37Speaker 4: to look like, and so there's a sense of apprehension
- 27:41Speaker 4: from Tiger fans across the country as how this is
- 27:44Speaker 4: going to look against LSU Week one. I think it
- 27:47Speaker 4: could take a while and maybe by October you'll see
- 27:49Speaker 4: a little bit more refined refinery on the offense. But
- 27:53Speaker 4: I think right now, again like the quarterback, we're in
- 27:55Speaker 4: waiting see mode with how this is going to look.
- 27:57Speaker 3: Speaking of Tiger fans, grace and take us into the
- 28:00Speaker 3: mindset of the Tiger fan here in twenty twenty six,
- 28:03Speaker 3: what what would make this a successful season in the
- 28:07Speaker 3: fans mind and make them happy for the future of
- 28:10Speaker 3: this program.
- 28:12Speaker 4: I use the word rebuild, guys, and it sounds weird
- 28:15Speaker 4: when you talk about it. Davosweeney Clemson led team because
- 28:18Speaker 4: the expectation has always been that it's a program competing
- 28:21Speaker 4: for national championships. But when you look at the last
- 28:24Speaker 4: several years and the body of work, I try to
- 28:27Speaker 4: remove what happened over a decade ago and really look
- 28:30Speaker 4: at what has Clemson done since twenty twenty two. Let's
- 28:33Speaker 4: just use that as an example. They won eleven games
- 28:36Speaker 4: in twenty two, but since then it's been nine wins.
- 28:39Speaker 4: You sneak into the ACC Championship and win ten games
- 28:41Speaker 4: and make the playoff, and then last year, in a
- 28:44Speaker 4: year that everyone figured Clemson was a showing for the playoff,
- 28:47Speaker 4: you win seven games. So for me, it's can you
- 28:50Speaker 4: have some semblance of progress? Can you get back to
- 28:53Speaker 4: let's say nine wins, maybe you get that ten winning
- 28:56Speaker 4: a bowl game. I don't think it's as simple as
- 28:58Speaker 4: playoff or bus for this program. I think it's they
- 29:02Speaker 4: got to show proof of progress to a fan base
- 29:04Speaker 4: that's just looking for something, and so when last year
- 29:08Speaker 4: you deemed some of those games as really I would
- 29:11Speaker 4: say the words sometimes came out as a competent from
- 29:14Speaker 4: our understanding. And so let's say they can take down
- 29:18Speaker 4: on LSU. Let's say they can compete with a really
- 29:20Speaker 4: great Miami team, go out and survive on Friday Night
- 29:23Speaker 4: against Cal and be in the conversation. I don't think
- 29:27Speaker 4: it's as simple as if they don't make the playoffs,
- 29:29Speaker 4: it's a failure. I think if this team has ten
- 29:31Speaker 4: wins by the end of it and can build into
- 29:34Speaker 4: twenty twenty seven, I think that's the right step for
- 29:36Speaker 4: this program that clearly lost its way last fall.
- 29:40Speaker 2: Last question I want to ask you is about the defense.
- 29:43Speaker 2: Last year's defense had all that NFL talent, and I
- 29:47Speaker 2: thought there'd be more production from the guys up front.
- 29:50Speaker 2: The past defense, my lord, that was brutal. I mean,
- 29:53Speaker 2: ask At Dabble will tell you. You know has told
- 29:56Speaker 2: you numerous times. Man, that's the worst I've seen our
- 29:58Speaker 2: past defense. Second year for Tom Allen, they still got
- 30:01Speaker 2: talent there is Do you think they're better on defense
- 30:04Speaker 2: this year? What do you think of that side of
- 30:06Speaker 2: the ball.
- 30:08Speaker 4: The phrase that I've gotten guys as additioned by subtraction,
- 30:11Speaker 4: which when you have the NFL draft picks that you had.
- 30:14Speaker 4: I think that in April a lot of people were
- 30:16Speaker 4: puzzled when they kept seeing the Clemson name pop up
- 30:18Speaker 4: on the draft park. They're like, how is this team
- 30:20Speaker 4: seven and six last year? When you got guys like
- 30:23Speaker 4: Peter Wood's going in the first round or TJ Parker
- 30:26Speaker 4: is the early second round the Buffalo Bills, And everyone's
- 30:29Speaker 4: scratching their heads, right, Avian Farrell going to the Falcons
- 30:33Speaker 4: that picked forty eight? How many games did this team
- 30:37Speaker 4: win last year? And I think that the big crux
- 30:40Speaker 4: of that, guys is I look at the secondary and
- 30:43Speaker 4: I think that's a unit, especially in the back end,
- 30:45Speaker 4: that got a lot better. You brought into transfer editions
- 30:48Speaker 4: and Corey Myrick and Jerome Parker that replaced I think
- 30:51Speaker 4: a really a secondary group. In the safety group last
- 30:55Speaker 4: year that was pretty terrible. They gave up a lot
- 30:58Speaker 4: of chunk plays. There were moments where the communication certainly
- 31:01Speaker 4: wasn't there. I think Terrell was fine and certainly did
- 31:05Speaker 4: enough to warrant the draft slot that he got, but
- 31:08Speaker 4: other than that, it was really it was a disaster. Frankly,
- 31:11Speaker 4: at times. So I think that the secondary's improved. There's
- 31:14Speaker 4: a little bit better communication up front, and you have
- 31:17Speaker 4: some addition by subtraction there from the building from last year.
- 31:21Speaker 4: So Tom Allen and this defense certainly feels like they've
- 31:23Speaker 4: got a better pulse on what they want to achieve.
- 31:26Speaker 4: You'd feel better if the Luke Farelli situation didn't happen.
- 31:29Speaker 4: He had a linebacker to co star with Sammy Brown.
- 31:33Speaker 4: So you're just sort of I think if you're a
- 31:34Speaker 4: Tiger fan, you're praying Sammy Brown stays healthy. Obviously at
- 31:38Speaker 4: that position, it's always a big if. But I think
- 31:42Speaker 4: the talent is still there. You may not be as
- 31:44Speaker 4: talented as last year, certainly, but I do think the
- 31:47Speaker 4: pieces make a more cohesive unit for Tom Allen a
- 31:50Speaker 4: year two.
- 31:51Speaker 3: I just noticed that your Twitter background photo, despite being
- 31:54Speaker 3: a clenchon alum, it's Drake May as a Patriot.
- 31:57Speaker 2: Are you a be honest he Are you a Patriot fan?
- 32:00Speaker 4: I am. My dad grew up in Boston, so I
- 32:03Speaker 4: was raised on the Patriots.
- 32:05Speaker 2: Yes, sir, it's go so well.
- 32:07Speaker 3: It was going so well for us well as a
- 32:10Speaker 3: as a you know, as a Jets fan myself.
- 32:12Speaker 2: Good luck to you there, Hey, good luck, good luck.
- 32:15Speaker 4: Yeah, fans are rooting for Kate Clubnick up there, man.
- 32:19Speaker 2: That's right, Kate Club Nick. Kate Club MC doing some
- 32:22Speaker 2: things up there in jets camp byes. All right, Grayson,
- 32:25Speaker 2: appreciate you brother, Thanks for all the information. Man, Clemson
- 32:29Speaker 2: fans at Gray Underscore man with two ends twenty one
- 32:34Speaker 2: on Twitter slash X. Thank you, brother, appreciate it.
- 32:38Speaker 4: You guys, take care of have a good one, all.
- 32:39Speaker 2: Right, duree you go, That is man Clemson tiger nets.
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- 33:50Speaker 6: some excuse me, some people that were happy yesterday to
- 33:53Speaker 6: see Russell Westbrook retire after an eighteen year career in
- 33:57Speaker 6: the NBA, a legendary run, the majority of the time
- 34:01Speaker 6: spent with the Oklahoma City Thunder. He's going to be
- 34:04Speaker 6: a first ballot Hall of Famer. But the brody called
- 34:09Speaker 6: it a career yesterday, after eighteen years in the NBA.
- 34:12Speaker 3: Growing up, my dad told me that all about Oscar
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- 34:20Speaker 3: Russell came along and said, here, hold this.
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- 34:26Speaker 2: especially all them old heads. I know I'm an old
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- 34:30Speaker 2: you that could happen. By the way, how about that
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- 34:36Speaker 2: bought that team bone ten months ago and is already
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- 34:43Speaker 2: Like there's a lot going on there. There's a lot,
- 34:46Speaker 2: there's something going on there. Man, But twelve point five
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- 34:52Speaker 2: when we come back. It's random crap.
- 34:54Speaker 3: Why is Bill Simmons just like Fitty Chick fil Ay
- 34:58Speaker 3: deserves some props. We have another reason why Peyton Manny
- 35:02Speaker 3: more than Tom Brady And get this back. We had
- 35:05Speaker 3: a huge upset in sports last night that you might
- 35:07Speaker 3: not be aware of yet. Sports Radio ninety two seven WFNZ.
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- 35:33Speaker 2: We stink like a baby's blowout infested diaper. They talk
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- 35:41Speaker 2: morning tandem, Mac and Bone, random crap, Mac and Bone.
- 35:49Speaker 2: All right, let's get into some random crap here, Bony.
- 35:51Speaker 2: Let's start with uh, with your story that you found.
- 35:54Speaker 2: I had no idea this happened, a major sports update.
- 35:58Speaker 3: What could this be well, tell the city of Charlotte,
- 36:01Speaker 3: bone Mac. You know Joey Chesnutt, he was here. He's
- 36:05Speaker 3: on a tour right now of different stadiums, mostly minor
- 36:08Speaker 3: league baseball stuff. He's doing various competitions, and last night
- 36:12Speaker 3: at a Lake Country Dockhounds game, Joey Chesnutt lost a
- 36:18Speaker 3: tater tot eating contest to two fans, and a lot
- 36:22Speaker 3: of people are wondering, Oh my god, is Chestnut starting
- 36:25Speaker 3: to lose it a little bit here? Or does this
- 36:27Speaker 3: happen often? And we just don't know when he loses
- 36:30Speaker 3: these things?
- 36:30Speaker 2: So this is like what this is similar to what
- 36:32Speaker 2: he did to Charlotte FC match Yah yeah, yeah, where
- 36:35Speaker 2: he did the hot dog eating contest with the two
- 36:37Speaker 2: random fans. This also could be a it could be
- 36:40Speaker 2: a scripted thing too, where they let the fans win
- 36:42Speaker 2: or something.
- 36:43Speaker 3: I don't you know what I mean. I think he
- 36:44Speaker 3: got the twitter the videos up. I quote tweeted it. Also,
- 36:49Speaker 3: the hound the mascot is in his face the entire time.
- 36:53Speaker 3: How can you consume that amount of tater tots with
- 36:56Speaker 3: this giant hound mascot yelling at you the entire.
- 37:01Speaker 5: Face?
- 37:01Speaker 2: Buddy? You think there was obstruction. There was obstruction, the
- 37:04Speaker 2: results should be thrown out.
- 37:05Speaker 3: I mean, he did losing some random people though it
- 37:07Speaker 3: wasn't like he was in the major eating circuit here.
- 37:09Speaker 2: I wonder if I wonder if this was WWB style scripted,
- 37:13Speaker 2: because clearly if the game Fitty and I were at
- 37:15Speaker 2: the Atlanta game, it was a whole scripted thing. Okay,
- 37:18Speaker 2: you know, so I don't know what they ever do
- 37:19Speaker 2: a script where he loses. I wouldn't think so.
- 37:22Speaker 3: But I'll tell you this though, if you're a Wisconsin
- 37:25Speaker 3: based minor league baseball and there.
- 37:27Speaker 2: Could be some big boys from Wisconsin, like former Wisconsin o'
- 37:30Speaker 2: lineman back in the day, that could just eat the
- 37:32Speaker 2: hell out of some tots. So I don't know, but
- 37:34Speaker 2: I know this, if you're those two guys, you're going
- 37:36Speaker 2: to brag about that for the rest of your life.
- 37:37Speaker 5: Good thing it wasn't a Beard Dricken con because I'd
- 37:40Speaker 5: have been Romo.
- 37:42Speaker 2: It's your own guy. I know, Fitty's done with it.
- 37:44Speaker 2: Fitty's trying to prove to us he's done with Romo. Man,
- 37:47Speaker 2: though he's like CBS, he's done with Romo. How about this?
- 37:51Speaker 2: You know, we always love the fast Food News. How
- 37:54Speaker 2: about Chick fil a Bone On August twenty fourth, they
- 37:58Speaker 2: will aren't selling nationwide their chicken and waffles sandwiches and
- 38:05Speaker 2: their s'mores shakes bony. Oh my god, I have more
- 38:10Speaker 2: interest in the first.
- 38:11Speaker 3: I mean, not that I wouldn't eat the second, but
- 38:13Speaker 3: the chicken and waffles sandwich really caught my eye. And
- 38:18Speaker 3: it is a make sure I got to write up
- 38:19Speaker 3: here correct. It is maple waffles, honey butter. Anytime honey
- 38:24Speaker 3: butter's at it, it goes up a level. Maple waffles,
- 38:27Speaker 3: honey butter, apple wood, bacon, and then of course the
- 38:31Speaker 3: fley of chicken there iMac For some reason, I'm not
- 38:33Speaker 3: sure why I've never had chicken and waffles together before.
- 38:37Speaker 2: I'm not sure why I had what. I don't know,
- 38:39Speaker 2: it's just it's a miss on my part. It's such
- 38:41Speaker 2: a great combo, isn't it fit?
- 38:42Speaker 3: But yet I look at sometimes I just google pictures
- 38:45Speaker 3: of them and I look at them, but.
- 38:46Speaker 2: I've never actually had them. And I need that syrup
- 38:48Speaker 2: to get on my chicken. Man, you know what I mean?
- 38:50Speaker 2: I need my chicken glazed with some syrup, don't we all? God?
- 38:54Speaker 3: That's good. I cannot wait for that sandwich. Oh, the
- 38:59Speaker 3: s'mores sounds really good too. They've also got some more
- 39:02Speaker 3: favorite coffee coming as well. Done, Matt, and not coffee drinker.
- 39:05Speaker 2: But to those of you that are, which is everybody
- 39:07Speaker 2: but me, go ahead and enjoy your summer.
- 39:11Speaker 3: It'll be so good. I'll last for some more. Oh man, oh,
- 39:14Speaker 3: look at you. I can't even keep track of all the.
- 39:17Speaker 2: Singers that are that are being thrown out here on
- 39:20Speaker 2: the radio airwaves right now. Now. We like eating, and
- 39:24Speaker 2: you can tell right we get text all the time. Mat,
- 39:26Speaker 2: all y'all talk about is food, food and football. Maybe
- 39:28Speaker 2: Sir give us that, but we have found somebody bone
- 39:32Speaker 2: that also likes some breakfast food. Listen to Tom Brady's
- 39:37Speaker 2: on Shack's podcast and Tom Brady tells a story about
- 39:41Speaker 2: training with Peyton Manning in the summer, and listen to this.
- 39:45Speaker 2: This made me like Peyton Manning even more and realize
- 39:51Speaker 2: that this is yet another reason why I like Peyton
- 39:54Speaker 2: Manning so much better than Tom Brady.
- 39:55Speaker 5: Listen to this.
- 39:56Speaker 8: This is like twenty ten, okay, And I was like, listen,
- 40:00Speaker 8: I've been in the league ten years. I called Peyton.
- 40:03Speaker 8: It was off season I was like, listen, I love,
- 40:05Speaker 8: let's let's me and you get together. I learned from
- 40:06Speaker 8: all the other quarterback coaches. Why don't me and you
- 40:09Speaker 8: sit down and talk football for three days. I was like,
- 40:11Speaker 8: he's like, let's do it. Come to my place in Tennessee.
- 40:14Speaker 8: I fly down to Tennessee. Peyton and I spent like
- 40:18Speaker 8: all the time. We work out together, we play golf together,
- 40:22Speaker 8: we ride jet skis together at his house and we
- 40:27Speaker 8: drop course for eating meals. So he sits down for
- 40:29Speaker 8: breakfast and I'm like, hey, you know so and so
- 40:30Speaker 8: and is bread. They're coming to this old cabin, mister Rady.
- 40:33Speaker 8: What do you want to eat? I'm like, I'll take
- 40:34Speaker 8: you know, oatmeal and you know, two scrambled eggs. And
- 40:38Speaker 8: I said, and they're like, Peyton, what do you want?
- 40:39Speaker 8: He's like, I want biscuits, gravy, three pancakes, six six bacons.
- 40:45Speaker 2: I want three sausages.
- 40:47Speaker 5: And I'm like, you.
- 40:48Speaker 8: Eat all that, you know, And I was like the
- 40:51Speaker 8: southern boy with all the good help and for the
- 40:54Speaker 8: comfort food. And then I was like a totally different
- 40:56Speaker 8: I don't even know was.
- 40:57Speaker 5: There any part of you that wanted to try that
- 40:59Speaker 5: in your three days.
- 41:00Speaker 2: No, that's the thing.
- 41:01Speaker 5: I don't have to.
- 41:01Speaker 8: I'm like, nah, I don't want the way I feel
- 41:04Speaker 8: after that.
- 41:04Speaker 5: Oh, he'll be sleeping the whole afternoon.
- 41:09Speaker 3: First of all, that's that's pretty cool that after three
- 41:11Speaker 3: Super Bowls tom Brady still was going to spentile his
- 41:15Speaker 3: rival to pick his brain.
- 41:16Speaker 2: So that part of it, that's cool for both of the
- 41:18Speaker 2: ball I love thing. It's pretty cool.
- 41:19Speaker 3: But Mac the common man, the man of the people.
- 41:22Speaker 3: Peyton Manning went again, I like to have some avocados
- 41:26Speaker 3: as done, some egg whites.
- 41:28Speaker 2: We can't relate to Tom Brady, and tom Brady is
- 41:30Speaker 2: like he's not even a human, like you have no
- 41:32Speaker 2: desire to eat anything like that. And Peyton Manning's chowing
- 41:36Speaker 2: down and still bawling out during the season. That's I
- 41:39Speaker 2: love that, You're right, that's more of a relatable man.
- 41:42Speaker 2: Shy Shaq was the one making noises in the background.
- 41:45Speaker 2: I was excited by the way. Speaking of being excited
- 41:48Speaker 2: about food details, multiple people texting about the Metro Diner
- 41:53Speaker 2: chicken and waffles that they say you should try, Boney,
- 41:56Speaker 2: I need to chicken and waffles with some hot sauce
- 42:00Speaker 2: and syrup. Interesting little sweet and hot going on the area.
- 42:04Speaker 3: I'm I'm not a hot sauce guy. I'm not a
- 42:06Speaker 3: hot sauce guy. But maybe I need to branch out
- 42:08Speaker 3: a little bit.
- 42:10Speaker 2: I need to try or at least at least to
- 42:12Speaker 2: get that syrup involved into chicken and waffles. Yeah, it's
- 42:14Speaker 2: good man, all right. Anyway, let's move along, Bone, Let's
- 42:19Speaker 2: move along, kid, shall we to Bill Simmons. I never
- 42:23Speaker 2: really thought of Bill Simmons and Fitty Bone as having
- 42:27Speaker 2: a lot in common, but yesterday a clip from Bill
- 42:30Speaker 2: simmons podcast went viral, and I'll be damned if him
- 42:35Speaker 2: and Fiddy might be the only two people Bone to
- 42:38Speaker 2: share this distinction in America. Listen to this.
- 42:41Speaker 8: Well, as you know from driving with me, I never
- 42:43Speaker 8: buckle it and I just wait a minute until it
- 42:46Speaker 8: stops doing the noise. Well, yeah, you don't buckle your
- 42:49Speaker 8: seatbell ever, man, Not really, that's a terrible I know,
- 42:53Speaker 8: I'm not proud of it.
- 42:54Speaker 2: I'm not proud of it.
- 42:55Speaker 4: I just don't like Honey, No, listen, I know I'll
- 42:59Speaker 4: get skewered.
- 42:59Speaker 2: I'm a bad example.
- 43:01Speaker 8: Sometimes I'll put him on if I'm going, like you know,
- 43:04Speaker 8: ninety five in the highway.
- 43:05Speaker 4: I might throw it down there, but.
- 43:06Speaker 2: I mean, that's a whole nother pun.
- 43:09Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- 43:13Speaker 2: Makes Fitty told us this recently that he never uses seatbelt.
- 43:18Speaker 2: I don't understand. I don't even notice it's there after
- 43:21Speaker 2: a few seconds. Why don't you get used to wearing it?
- 43:24Speaker 2: I remember way back in the day when it became
- 43:25Speaker 2: a law, and I'm like, okay, I gotta wear this
- 43:28Speaker 2: every time. At first, you kind of like, man, this
- 43:30Speaker 2: thing's annoying. But after a while, it's just it's like
- 43:33Speaker 2: you said, it's just there and you don't even know.
- 43:35Speaker 3: Before we get to the Fitty part of this, here's
- 43:37Speaker 3: here's what I'm concerned about.
- 43:38Speaker 4: Mac.
- 43:39Speaker 3: Do you remember the story of who Bill Simmons drove
- 43:42Speaker 3: from his house to the hotel at the All Star
- 43:44Speaker 3: break thirty minutes? Our man? Did he drive conkor nipple
- 43:48Speaker 3: with no seat going on? I'm telling you right now,
- 43:50Speaker 3: I bet Con better have been buckled up.
- 43:52Speaker 2: Con. I need to know did you follow your uncle
- 43:55Speaker 2: Bill and do what he did? Because he's not a
- 43:58Speaker 2: good example for you, young man. I need you buckling up.
- 44:01Speaker 2: Sherry ain't gonna let you not buckle. You can't have
- 44:03Speaker 2: Bill drive or Superstar around in him.
- 44:05Speaker 3: Now, Fitty, what's your reasoning behind I've never understood this,
- 44:10Speaker 3: this rationale.
- 44:11Speaker 5: Just the same as Bill Simmons. I don't care for it.
- 44:15Speaker 5: And my truck is old enough.
- 44:17Speaker 6: Like your newer vehicles, the seatbelt alarm is gonna buzz
- 44:22Speaker 6: until you have no choice but to click it in.
- 44:25Speaker 6: My truck is old enough that it only does it
- 44:27Speaker 6: after I go so far down the road and then
- 44:29Speaker 6: it just it disappears.
- 44:31Speaker 3: It also disappears when you buckle in, So I mean, unfortunately,
- 44:35Speaker 3: you may disappear if you drive around getting the wreck
- 44:37Speaker 3: without a seat belt.
- 44:38Speaker 2: Like I'm like worried about you, fiddy, let me be
- 44:40Speaker 2: worried about me. I try not to be like the
- 44:43Speaker 2: radio station dad to some of you guys. I try
- 44:45Speaker 2: to not to bring that energy. Plus, I got my
- 44:47Speaker 2: hands full enough with the two youngsters at the house.
- 44:50Speaker 2: You're on to dad progressive commercial. But like, don't you
- 44:52Speaker 2: feel like bone we need to do an intervention here,
- 44:55Speaker 2: like fit you gotta.
- 44:56Speaker 3: Buckle baby, it's there to help save your wife. Like
- 45:01Speaker 3: a little uncomfortable whatever I'm trying, uncomfortableness, uncomfortable, being uncomfortable
- 45:07Speaker 3: in a car like pales in comparison to get seriously hurt.
- 45:11Speaker 5: Well, drive safe and you don't have to worry about it.
- 45:14Speaker 5: That's my model.
- 45:16Speaker 2: Drive like crap. You know what I mean? Well, you
- 45:19Speaker 2: know does your dad know this?
- 45:20Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I was on the phone with I actually
- 45:22Speaker 6: got a ticket two years ago in front of this
- 45:25Speaker 6: is going to tie into a great story earlier.
- 45:26Speaker 2: Okay, in front of the Old.
- 45:27Speaker 6: Boston Market in Matthews, I got pulled over because I
- 45:31Speaker 6: have a seatbelt on. I got one hundred and eighty dollars. Fine,
- 45:33Speaker 6: you think I wear my seatbelt now? No, that's another thing.
- 45:37Speaker 6: You don't want it to cost your money. I know
- 45:39Speaker 6: where the cops are, baby, because Daddy fit not tell
- 45:41Speaker 6: you. You're a dumb ass.
- 45:43Speaker 2: You know where the cops are at all times.
- 45:45Speaker 6: I know where on the roads that I travel, I
- 45:49Speaker 6: know where they like to hang out.
- 45:50Speaker 2: And when I get close, I pop it on. I
- 45:53Speaker 2: am back passed by the spot right off. I'm begging
- 45:57Speaker 2: Mecklenburg County, Union County. Some boy he humbled his dude,
- 46:01Speaker 2: and get him all right. He thinks he's on to y'all.
- 46:03Speaker 2: He think he is onto y'all's game. Somebody get him.
- 46:06Speaker 2: I want all points bullet. Did those cops.
- 46:09Speaker 5: Humble the mellow Bone?
- 46:11Speaker 6: No, my goodness, you can. You can try to humble me,
- 46:14Speaker 6: it ain't gonna happen. There's no humbling the fit dog
- 46:17Speaker 6: when he starts.
- 46:18Speaker 2: Barking anyway, all right, so let me let me come clean.
- 46:20Speaker 2: Here's people are all over fitty. There's something yesterday, Bone
- 46:23Speaker 2: where people looked at me like I had an issue.
- 46:26Speaker 2: Yesterday the Panthers are playing. You know, a bunch of
- 46:29Speaker 2: different music at practice. A lot of it is rap music,
- 46:32Speaker 2: and I haven't really followed rap music Bone in a
- 46:35Speaker 2: couple of decades. You're a big Llo cool Jay guy.
- 46:39Speaker 2: I did like yellow Cool Jay back in the day,
- 46:41Speaker 2: but I didn't. I'm like, who's this guy's? Guy's got
- 46:45Speaker 2: a weird sounding voice, and it was Little Wayne. I
- 46:49Speaker 2: had never heard Lil Wayne rap in my life, and
- 46:52Speaker 2: everybody could not believe it is that bad? Is that lame?
- 46:56Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 46:56Speaker 2: That's not a good one, now? Did you that good?
- 46:59Speaker 5: Look?
- 47:00Speaker 2: That's what's worth that? Or when I called him with
- 47:02Speaker 2: the Wayne that one day, Yeah, that's right up there too,
- 47:05Speaker 2: But like so you could identify low Wayne.
- 47:08Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a different sound, but yeah, I could. Yeah,
- 47:10Speaker 3: it's definitely a weird sounding voice. I'm not like the
- 47:12Speaker 3: biggest fan, but I could. I could figure out who
- 47:15Speaker 3: he is. Is that like, is that an all time
- 47:17Speaker 3: old white moment for me?
- 47:18Speaker 2: Fitting?
- 47:18Speaker 6: Yeah, I would figure But what kind of music does
- 47:22Speaker 6: little Mac listen to?
- 47:24Speaker 5: Because I don't think Little Max.
- 47:25Speaker 2: You know, listen to much of how much a rap noise?
- 47:28Speaker 2: I know he does appreciate grunge drives noise, just.
- 47:32Speaker 6: At some point you would have gotten crumped to at
- 47:33Speaker 6: least one or two like six foot seven foot like
- 47:37Speaker 6: that was my eighth that's my seventh.
- 47:39Speaker 2: I listened to that dude's music. I can tell you
- 47:41Speaker 2: that right now.
- 47:42Speaker 5: Great text from Rachel.
- 47:44Speaker 6: She said, I cannot find a woman to take to
- 47:46Speaker 6: the bedroom across from my mama.
- 47:48Speaker 5: If I'm dead through a windshield.
- 47:50Speaker 2: There you go, Chel to sell your text lines trying
- 47:53Speaker 2: to tell you come on, fit, come on.
- 47:55Speaker 3: Maybe when you were on a date, you better and
- 47:58Speaker 3: you're driving you and she's with you, you better buckle up.
- 48:01Speaker 5: Oh no, I want her to know that she's dating
- 48:02Speaker 5: a badass.
- 48:03Speaker 2: God. We have specific officers, by the way that are
- 48:06Speaker 2: vowing to get fitty and teach them a lesson.
- 48:09Speaker 3: They've now got a bounty on them.
- 48:13Speaker 2: Oh god, ball man bounty, Oh man, We're gonna boom.
- 48:17Speaker 2: We're gonna radio parent this knucklehead. We're gonna teach this
- 48:20Speaker 2: when we come back.
- 48:21Speaker 3: After a recent study, the Panthers ranked seventeenth in a
- 48:25Speaker 3: fan optimism article. Does that feel right? Sports Radio ninety
- 48:31Speaker 3: two seven WFNZ