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Willie's World: Panthers Win, Charlotte FC & Swine of the Week · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Allow me to reintroduce myself my name.
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: Is i'm will pelagic all right it's time for the
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: p-man uh we have a texter i'll have to check
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: this out we have a texter that says sheena updated
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: the story And this poor guy, this poor Panther fan,
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: Craig Myersbone, just simply happy because his team won.
• 0:27
  Speaker 3: It just so happened to be at the place he
• 0:28
  Speaker 3: was working at, Mercedes Bryce Stadium, that they, Sheena updated
• 0:33
  Speaker 3: it and said that he can't come back to work.
• 0:35
  Speaker 3: They told him he can't come back to work.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: Huh.
• 0:39
  Speaker 3: Did they run that by the guy that owns the building,
• 0:41
  Speaker 3: Bryce Young? Because I have a feeling Bryce Young would
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: not approve of that. I was going to say, they
• 0:45
  Speaker 3: may tell Bryce not to come back anymore. Luckily, they
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: can't do that.
• 0:49
  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: But, yes, have they talked to the man who now
• 0:52
  Speaker 3: has the deed to Mercedes-Benz Stadium? Because I'm not sure
• 0:55
  Speaker 3: you can do that without his permission. That's Bush League, y'all.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: Go talk to the landlord about this.
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: That's Bush League. We got to do something for him.
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: Panthers got to do something for him, man. Can we
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: hire this guy here?
• 1:04
  Speaker 5: Move him here? Hire him here?
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: You going to pay him?
• 1:06
  Speaker 5: Let him stay with Fitty? Can we hire him to
• 1:08
  Speaker 5: replace you? No, I'm talking about Tep Daddy.
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Fitty, you've been an aggressive little tool today. Seriously, you
• 1:15
  Speaker 3: have been. Like, I've ignored most of them, but you
• 1:18
  Speaker 3: have been an aggressive, angry little dude.
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  Speaker 5: You found love, sir. You should be happier than this.
• 1:23
  Speaker 5: My goodness.
• 1:25
  Speaker 4: Anyway.
• 1:28
  Speaker 5: You did tell me last week, quote, let me smack
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  Speaker 5: that fat face.
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  Speaker 1: I did.
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  Speaker 3: I was angry at the time. But today it's just
• 1:34
  Speaker 3: been you needling and nothing in return. Like you are
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  Speaker 3: trying so badly to create some sort of dust up
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  Speaker 3: over there. all right anyway let's uh maybe we get
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: a dust up with willie p maybe we do that
• 1:45
  Speaker 3: right now maybe we do that right now um yeah
• 1:48
  Speaker 3: y'all we were friends on monday weren't we all right
• 1:50
  Speaker 3: let's get let's bring on willie p enough of that
• 1:52
  Speaker 3: let's bring on the p man it's time for willie's
• 1:55
  Speaker 3: world we got panthers talk about we got fc unbeaten
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  Speaker 3: through nine we got things happening the p man is
• 2:00
  Speaker 3: with us willie what's going on man i'm not falling
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: for fitty's bait today that he's putting out there man
• 2:05
  Speaker 3: what's going.
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  Speaker 6: On I'm a little worried because he said on the
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  Speaker 6: line with me before we came on that we're dying
• 2:11
  Speaker 6: to talk to you today, which either means one of
• 2:13
  Speaker 6: the two things. It means the three of you are
• 2:15
  Speaker 6: at odds or I'm about to be at odds with somebody.
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: I think Mac and I are vibing all right. I
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: think Finney and Mac have something going on here. I'm
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: not sure.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not doing anything. What's happening here? What's happening? Talk
• 2:28
  Speaker 3: to the needler over there. That's what I'm saying. Don't
• 2:30
  Speaker 3: yell at me. I'm saying you guys, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what it is.
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  Speaker 6: I really wanted to know what the unedited version of
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  Speaker 6: you little.
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  Speaker 4: blankety blank.
• 2:38
  Speaker 5: I really want to know what the, I know I
• 2:41
  Speaker 5: was so close to saying something.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, we have a texter here that says, Mac, if
• 2:46
  Speaker 3: you told the man, you're going to slap his fat face.
• 2:49
  Speaker 3: I have a feeling he is entitled to needle you
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. Yeah, but we've moved on from that.
• 2:54
  Speaker 3: We've moved on days ago. Um, what do you think
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  Speaker 3: P man of the bounce back performance? Not a bounce
• 2:59
  Speaker 3: back performance for Bryce in the offense. They've, they've done
• 3:02
  Speaker 3: it now two straight weeks, but the defense bouncing back,
• 3:05
  Speaker 3: the blowout of the Falcons, What were your biggest takeaways
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  Speaker 3: from that one?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I liked that they did bounce back. And the
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  Speaker 6: fact that you're looking at a team right now who
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  Speaker 6: comes in at one and one and has a really
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  Speaker 6: good chance to go.
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  Speaker 4: Two and one.
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  Speaker 6: I hope that the more real version of this defense
• 3:23
  Speaker 6: looks like it did on Sunday, as opposed to what
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  Speaker 6: it looked like against the bears. And I think it
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  Speaker 6: goes back to what I said last week. They executed
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  Speaker 6: a heck of a lot better. It's easier to execute
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  Speaker 6: when the quarterback is Cooper Rush and not Caleb Williams.
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  Speaker 6: But I think there's definitely a lot you can.
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  Speaker 4: Build off of.
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  Speaker 6: I think Devin Lloyd having the kind of game that
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  Speaker 6: he did, you know, he basically, he pulled out a
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  Speaker 6: Luke Hickley-esque game and really capped in that defense. You
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  Speaker 6: force turnovers, you get off the field when you need to.
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  Speaker 6: And I think the, the offense just keeps on churning.
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  Speaker 4: I love that.
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  Speaker 6: We're now looking at this version of Bryce young as
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  Speaker 6: maybe this is the normal, maybe this is what we're
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  Speaker 6: looking at and saying, this is, this is Bryce young
• 4:01
  Speaker 6: from here on out, because if that's Bryce young, I
• 4:04
  Speaker 6: think I was going to get a heck of a
• 4:05
  Speaker 6: lot of money here.
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  Speaker 4: Come the off season.
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  Speaker 5: Big time.
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  Speaker 1: Willie, do you now view Coker and TMAC as sort
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  Speaker 1: of one a and one B more so than a
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  Speaker 1: one and a two option?
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  Speaker 6: I think you have to just based on, you know,
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  Speaker 6: what we saw in the first week and Coker and,
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  Speaker 6: and how important he has been on third down. But
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  Speaker 6: I think that TMAC reminded you who he was too
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  Speaker 6: with the game on Sunday, because I think For whatever reason,
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  Speaker 6: Chicago made a choice to take him out of the game.
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  Speaker 6: And not that it was a bad strategy. They ended
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  Speaker 6: up winning the football game as a result of it.
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  Speaker 6: But I think that they really concentrated a lot of
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  Speaker 6: their coverage around Ted Roddick-Millen. And it led to Jalen
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  Speaker 6: Coker being open a lot. And as they shadowed their
• 4:47
  Speaker 6: coverage toward Coker, Bryce started to find T-Mac a little
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  Speaker 6: bit more in that first game. and a team like
• 4:53
  Speaker 6: TMAC took it upon himself to make sure he was
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  Speaker 6: a little bit more open. I mean, that one catch
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  Speaker 6: down the sideline, one of his best catches in his
• 5:00
  Speaker 6: young career. I think he had a really nice 1A
• 5:04
  Speaker 6: and 1B option, but the thing that I think was
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  Speaker 6: most encouraging is that one catch from Xavier Liget. I
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  Speaker 6: think that that was the big part where you look
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  Speaker 6: at it and say, man, oh man, we've been waiting
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  Speaker 6: on that one for three years. That looked very similar
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  Speaker 6: to the one that he messed up against the Philadelphia Eagles.
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  Speaker 6: If that kind of stuff starts happening for the Panthers,
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  Speaker 6: then you really start cooking with this offense.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's exciting, man. It really is.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't exactly been explosive offense central here for a while.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 5: And it is fun to see. And you're right, man.
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  Speaker 3: The performance like this, I said the other day, if
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  Speaker 3: he plays 12 games out of 17 like this, at
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  Speaker 3: this level, he is going to get the bag and
• 5:42
  Speaker 3: he's going to get a good amount of money. So
• 5:46
  Speaker 3: how do you feel about the team, Pete? The defense
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  Speaker 3: had just an embarrassing first game. They bounced back this week.
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  Speaker 3: But it does need, we do need the asterisk that
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  Speaker 3: they're playing against Cooper Rush and Jack Strand. Like, do
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  Speaker 3: you feel about the same way you did about this
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  Speaker 3: team before the season started?
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  Speaker 5: Better?
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  Speaker 6: Worse?
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  Speaker 5: What are you thinking?
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  Speaker 4: I'm about the same.
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  Speaker 6: I think I need to see more data. I think
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  Speaker 6: this upcoming week is probably in between.
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  Speaker 4: The Falcons and the Bears.
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  Speaker 6: When you think about the Browns, I'm not looking at
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  Speaker 6: them and saying that I'm ultimately scared by them, but
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  Speaker 6: Deshaun Watson looked competent for the first time in a
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  Speaker 6: while on Sunday in that game against the Buccaneers. I
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  Speaker 6: know that it took a rain delay and a bunch
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  Speaker 6: of other histrionics for them to win that football game,
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  Speaker 6: but it is something where I look at and say
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  Speaker 6: the Panthers have some opportunity here. And not, not that,
• 6:37
  Speaker 6: not that Detroit isn't a team that also scares you
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  Speaker 6: too in the following week, but they have not looked
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  Speaker 6: like themselves either. So this is maybe a more palatable
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  Speaker 6: stretch for the Panthers than we initially thought it could be. And,
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  Speaker 6: you know, If the Bears game stands out as an
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  Speaker 6: outlier and it is only an outlier, then this looks
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  Speaker 6: like a complete football team. And I understand that folks
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  Speaker 6: will still be somewhat gun-shy to say anything good about
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  Speaker 6: the defense. And believe me, I'm one of those people
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  Speaker 6: who usually is the ringleader at this scenario when it
• 7:08
  Speaker 6: comes to talking about a zero of arrow. But I
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  Speaker 6: more believe that what happened on Sunday is close to
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  Speaker 6: the level that we'd expect the defense to be.
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: Willie, when you look at Charlotte FC and potential playoff
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  Speaker 1: opponents along the way, who do you view as good
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: matchups for FC and who should they be trying to
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  Speaker 1: avoid matchup-wise?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think the two teams you want to avoid
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  Speaker 6: right now are Nashville and Miami. I think those are
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  Speaker 6: the two teams that you look at and say are
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  Speaker 6: probably the teams you want to avoid. And if Charlotte
• 7:41
  Speaker 6: finishes in third, then you do avoid them here for
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  Speaker 6: a little bit. You at least avoid them in the
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  Speaker 6: first round. But the other teams I look at, New
• 7:51
  Speaker 6: England is one that I feel like is still a
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  Speaker 6: palatable matchup even though they're playing well. Chicago at full strength.
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  Speaker 6: is a little bit scary because they've got Lewandowski, they've
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  Speaker 6: got Philip Zinkernagel, and they've got a bunch of young
• 8:04
  Speaker 6: rising talent. But outside of, you know, those three, Nashville, Miami, Chicago,
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  Speaker 6: I'm not really.
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  Speaker 4: Scared of anybody.
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  Speaker 6: I know Philadelphia is coming on strong, and they've been
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  Speaker 6: rather dangerous here lately. They're on a very long, unbeaten streak,
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  Speaker 6: and Calvin Sullivan is scoring goals for fun at age 17.
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  Speaker 6: So that part is a little bit weary, but, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I like the way they're playing right now, and I
• 8:25
  Speaker 6: like the way that Ashley Westwood put it. The fact
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  Speaker 6: that really nobody is really even talking about the kind
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  Speaker 6: of run they're on.
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  Speaker 4: It's just expected. It's become routine.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's eight in a row unbeaten and 12
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  Speaker 6: of the last 13. If not for what Philadelphia and St.
• 8:37
  Speaker 6: Louis are doing, it's one of the best runs in
• 8:40
  Speaker 6: MLS right now. So why not Charlotte FC?
• 8:43
  Speaker 3: How about that kid, Kevin Sullivan, who just turned 17?
• 8:48
  Speaker 3: Or actually, I think he turned 17 in a few days.
• 8:51
  Speaker 3: I think he's still 16. And his birthday is September 28th.
• 8:55
  Speaker 3: He already got a national team call up before his
• 8:58
  Speaker 3: 17th birthday. That'll be interesting over the next couple of weeks.
• 9:02
  Speaker 3: And you do know P-Man when he turns 18 where
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: he is headed.
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  Speaker 4: I know he said it to your homeland.
• 9:09
  Speaker 5: Manchester City Football Club, baby. Your homeland.
• 9:12
  Speaker 3: Homeland. He's going to York, Pennsylvania? All right. Anyway, no,
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: he's in Philadelphia right now.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
• 9:18
  Speaker 3: So, P-Man, let's see here. What are you thinking? I
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: got to ask you about your Mizzou Tigers, man. You
• 9:25
  Speaker 3: are six-and-a-half-point underdogs. against this Mississippi State team with Kamario Taylor.
• 9:32
  Speaker 3: Bone might be aware of them. What are you, are
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  Speaker 3: you like, are you feeling like we shouldn't be touchdown
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: underdogs to them? What do you, how are you feeling
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  Speaker 3: about that one?
• 9:42
  Speaker 4: I mean, we didn't look good against Troy. So, I mean,
• 9:45
  Speaker 4: at this point right now.
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't know who I'd pick us against after the
• 9:49
  Speaker 6: way we looked last week. They very much came back
• 9:51
  Speaker 6: down to earth. I think the game against Kansas provided
• 9:55
  Speaker 6: maybe a little letdown for them against Troy. It's a tough,
• 9:57
  Speaker 6: tough spot. They went down there a couple of years ago.
• 10:00
  Speaker 4: And won.
• 10:00
  Speaker 6: Eli Drinkwits kind of had some trash talking there at
• 10:04
  Speaker 6: the end that the Mississippi State Bulldog fans certainly remember
• 10:07
  Speaker 6: where he said, Hey, Mississippi State, quit woofing or I'm
• 10:10
  Speaker 6: going to score again.
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  Speaker 4: The game that we were blowing them out in.
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  Speaker 6: So there might be some extra motivation behind them this weekend.
• 10:16
  Speaker 4: I don't like the spot we're going into this weekend
• 10:19
  Speaker 4: in Stark Vegas.
• 10:20
  Speaker 5: They're going to be going crazy with them cowbells. Oh, yeah.
• 10:24
  Speaker 6: They're trying to set a cowbell ringing record, which is
• 10:27
  Speaker 6: definitely not what I want to hear.
• 10:29
  Speaker 5: Who holds the cowbell ring? How do they know they're saying,
• 10:34
  Speaker 5: I've got more questions than you have answers? How do
• 10:35
  Speaker 5: they not have it already? Where is there a larger
• 10:38
  Speaker 5: group of cowbell ringers? Keep your NC State jokes to yourself.
• 10:42
  Speaker 5: We don't need that around here. NC State. It does
• 10:47
  Speaker 5: make it difficult to watch them. Between them and.
• 10:50
  Speaker 6: The baseball, Vandy Whistler, I'm about done with noise-making.
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: I will say, it does make the viewing experience, though,
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: when you watch a Mississippi State game, it is a
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: little bit annoying after a while.
• 11:00
  Speaker 5: It is all right. Oh, we're not going to hate
• 11:02
  Speaker 5: on the Cowboys.
• 11:02
  Speaker 4: A little bit. A little bit.
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  Speaker 3: That's one of the best traditions and environments in college football.
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  Speaker 5: When you get married, Finney, we're ringing cowbells. Good thing.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, that would not seem right. Good thing, Bone, then,
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  Speaker 3: if you're so bothered by the cowbells, good thing y'all
• 11:18
  Speaker 3: weren't taking that L in Stark Vegas.
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  Speaker 5: You would have lost your mind. I want to smack
• 11:23
  Speaker 5: you in your fat face. Who said that before on
• 11:26
  Speaker 5: this show? By the way, that rooster noise... Mrs.
• 11:29
  Speaker 3: Mack, I don't think, had ever sat down with me
• 11:32
  Speaker 3: during a South Carolina game. She couldn't believe the amount
• 11:36
  Speaker 3: of times they go to the Rooster Noise at Williams-Brice.
• 11:40
  Speaker 4: They go to the Rooster Noise a lot at Williams-Brice Stadium.
• 11:43
  Speaker 5: That one's not exactly easy to deal with as well.
• 11:47
  Speaker 5: All right. Who am I talking to?
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  Speaker 1: Willie.
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  Speaker 5: Willie. I almost said pity. I almost said bone.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, guys.
• 11:55
  Speaker 5: The P-Man's here. Don't forget. P-Man, who is your uncultured
• 11:58
  Speaker 5: swine of the week?
• 12:00
  Speaker 6: People in this town cannot drive.
• 12:01
  Speaker 4: In the rain, man.
• 12:02
  Speaker 6: We had a little bit of rain, a little bit
• 12:04
  Speaker 6: of sprinkle. Colin Hoggard texted me. He said he has
• 12:07
  Speaker 6: not left Belmont. And he's been in traffic for an hour. So,
• 12:11
  Speaker 6: I mean, what's going on, guys?
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  Speaker 4: A little bit of a sprinkle. Let's get it going.
• 12:15
  Speaker 4: Let's get it going on a Wednesday. Come on, guys.
• 12:17
  Speaker 5: Pump them up, Pete. Pump them up, baby.
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: I've got to be honest. Sometimes when it's sunny outside,
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: people have trouble around here. Including myself.
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  Speaker 4: Not untrue.
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  Speaker 6: Not untrue.
• 12:27
  Speaker 5: All right, P.
• 12:28
  Speaker 3: You are the man, baby. Have a good call. Big
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: game against Chicago. Bunch of guys missing, unfortunately, in the
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: international break on both sides. But at the bank, head
• 12:36
  Speaker 3: to the bank. And if not, make sure you're tuning
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: in to Willie P. Even if you're watching it on Apple,
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: you can listen to Willie and Anna there as well.
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  Speaker 5: All right, P-Man. Appreciate you, brother.
• 12:47
  Speaker 6: Hey, Donnie Garbs, can we get a little postponement, you know,
• 12:49
  Speaker 6: because of the international window?
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, come on here. What are we doing here?
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: That'll be one of the best things about the change
• 12:56
  Speaker 3: in this calendar, right?
• 12:58
  Speaker 5: Is this stuff like this, man? Jeez.
• 13:00
  Speaker 6: It's supposed to be, you know.
• 13:02
  Speaker 4: It's supposed to be. I'll believe it when I see it.
• 13:04
  Speaker 5: All right, P-Man.