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Mac & Bone Hour 2: Reaction to Ejiro Evero Firing · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:22
  Speaker 1: I need these guys. And this is, as you can imagine,
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: you know, this is a very emotional, very hard day
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: for all of us. And we need to rally together.
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  Speaker 1: And we have a staff that is very capable. We
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: have a staff that's committed to doing things the right way.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: And I want them to feel that confidence for me.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: You know, they're here so that we can take the
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: next step together as a group and to find solutions.
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: And there's a lot of urgency around this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where we need to be. It's about this week.
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  Speaker 1: It's about right now. and as we build this thing,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to take that whole crew, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: group of guys that I really trust and that I'm
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  Speaker 1: counting on.
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  Speaker 2: Coach Canales on Friday talking about does this send a message.
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  Speaker 3: To the staff?
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  Speaker 2: Does this kind of rally the staff when you make
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  Speaker 2: a change like this?
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure everybody looks around, players too, and it's like, damn. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: They're not messing around. And I will say this about
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  Speaker 2: Coach Canales' bone. We can talk about the move. I
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  Speaker 2: want to hear what Panther fans think about the move.
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: We're going to get right back into college football. We
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  Speaker 2: have so much to talk about from the weekend. Big
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: wins for local teams. Good efforts and losses. Carolina and
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  Speaker 2: Charlotte both. I wanted those wins for y'all so bad
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. So we'll talk about it all. But I
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  Speaker 2: will say this before we get into it. Canales, well,
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: Panther Cliff's just saying the same thing. Panther Cliff says
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  Speaker 2: Canales looked like his puppy dog died. I was going
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: to say something similar. He looked like, I mean, he
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  Speaker 2: is Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Pep.
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  Speaker 2: And between the loss the night before, Bone, and having
• 1:59
  Speaker 2: to do this, you could tell it wore on him.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think the week in general probably wore on
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  Speaker 5: him because Tampa Bay on Sunday, trying to recover from
• 2:08
  Speaker 5: that quickly, get ready for Green Bay. You lose again,
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  Speaker 5: so you lose two games in five days, and you
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  Speaker 5: have to fire your D.C.
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  Speaker 3: After that. Who knows?
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  Speaker 5: Maybe he already knew that he had to do that
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  Speaker 5: because they wanted to wait on that move. So that's
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  Speaker 5: a heck of a long week, man, in the coaching world.
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  Speaker 5: That's got to feel like a 15-day week for Dave Canales.
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  Speaker 3: No doubt.
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  Speaker 5: You've got to really have a rough week to take
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  Speaker 5: the pep out of Dave Canales, by the way. I
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  Speaker 5: think it feels like a 15-day.
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  Speaker 3: Week for us.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I cannot believe, Bone, you look at our
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: attitude going into the Bucs game, riding high. Boosting up
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: expectations and think about where they were five days later.
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  Speaker 3: Like it's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: My whole like Panther ethos, like my whole like Panther
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  Speaker 2: fan mental state has been rocked in five freaking days.
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  Speaker 5: I can't believe how quickly things have turned. Doesn't even
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  Speaker 5: feel like Tampa Green Bay was in the same week.
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  Speaker 5: But it just feels like there was a lot that
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  Speaker 5: went on there. But, yes, it was the same week.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just glad, Mac, you didn't do what Finney's suggestion
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  Speaker 5: was and after the game say, Todd.
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  Speaker 3: Walsh got a new job. They're like, what? Todd, the
• 3:15
  Speaker 3: gooey needs more work.
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  Speaker 2: That tone might not have– gotten it done.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 2: Big country says, how will he look when David Moore retires?
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: This texter says, full disclosure, I am not a good
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  Speaker 2: looking man, the texter says.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry?
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  Speaker 2: But, and Dave Canales is, but has anybody noticed the
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: job is wearing on Dave? Gamecock Kevin sent me a
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  Speaker 2: picture of Canales bone. bags under his eyes, and I'm
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: just like, oh, that Panther job like it did to
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: Frank Reich.
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  Speaker 5: Matt Rule. Matt Rule, that Panther job, doing it again.
• 3:50
  Speaker 5: Panther coaches age like presidents.
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  Speaker 3: It's crazy. What do you think, Bone, about— It's amazing
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  Speaker 3: we look as young as we do still. What do.
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  Speaker 2: You think about the firing of Avero? Like, were you surprised?
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel like it could spark something? What do
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  Speaker 2: you think?
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  Speaker 5: I think sometimes head coaching fires spark something. There's a
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  Speaker 5: boot stop when head coaches get fired. We saw it
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  Speaker 5: a couple times. in college over the weekend. I don't
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  Speaker 5: know what this does in the immediate for the defense
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  Speaker 5: because it's going to be a lot of the same
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  Speaker 5: schematic stuff that Avera runs. It's his guys on the staff.
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  Speaker 5: The players are the same.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Todd Walsh, it's not like Todd Walsh had a great
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  Speaker 5: defensive front going and everything else was going wrong. It's
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  Speaker 5: still the same guy that coached those guys up. So
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  Speaker 5: I think I'm not shocked that Averro got fired. I
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  Speaker 5: just don't know what the boost will be in the
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  Speaker 5: immediate right now. I just don't, I don't know what
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  Speaker 5: it's going to be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I don't know if it's going to
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  Speaker 2: change a whole lot. I did not expect it at all.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to lie to you. I did not
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  Speaker 2: expect it all. Averro's name came up on Friday, but
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  Speaker 2: most fans defended Averro on Friday and an odd twist
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  Speaker 2: and said defense wasn't the problem. Defense hung in there
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  Speaker 2: pretty well with being down to your fifth, sixth, and
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  Speaker 2: seventh corners by the second half of that game. This
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  Speaker 2: is obviously not about Thursday. You said it. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of people do wonder, was a decision made? Willie P
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: brought up a good point. Was a decision made after
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  Speaker 2: the Tampa game? But hey, we got to let him
• 5:24
  Speaker 2: get us through this short week. I don't have any, like,
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  Speaker 2: you get your corners back and you get Phillips back
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  Speaker 2: and I think the defense will improve. Todd Walsh might
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  Speaker 2: get the credit for it when that happens, but I
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  Speaker 2: think it's that simple. I, I am not one of
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  Speaker 2: these people that ever, like I saw people celebrating Avero
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  Speaker 2: getting fired. I'm talking about media members too, that like
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  Speaker 2: really thought he was really bad. I never believed he
• 5:49
  Speaker 2: was this terrible doofus. Like, I just I never believed
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  Speaker 2: that was twenty twenty four hideous. Yes, it was all
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  Speaker 2: time bad hideous. But I think they just took Lou
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  Speaker 2: away from him. They just took Burns away from him.
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  Speaker 2: And Brown was lost for the season. The personnel in
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  Speaker 2: that twenty twenty four defense was was terrible. And Dan
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: Morgan said, hey, I got to get a better personnel.
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  Speaker 2: He got him better personnel and they improved last year.
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  Speaker 2: They got to middle of the pack. He was fourth
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  Speaker 2: in total defense his first year. It was the only
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  Speaker 2: thing that was worth the crap.
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  Speaker 3: They got no help from the offense at all in
• 6:17
  Speaker 3: Bryce's rookie year.
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  Speaker 2: I just feel like it's always been an up-and-down tenure,
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  Speaker 2: but I do understand Bone. It feels to me, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it was Dave's thinking, Tepper's thinking,
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  Speaker 2: but it feels, Morgan, I don't know who, but it
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  Speaker 2: feels to me like somebody thought, we got to send
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  Speaker 2: a message. We got to change something. And they're not
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  Speaker 2: going to change Izzik. That just happened, right? They were
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: good for the first five games. I don't think there's
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  Speaker 2: really anything anywhere else to go, Boney, with it other
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  Speaker 2: than a Giro Avero. And this year was shaping up.
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  Speaker 2: The injuries obviously are a big reason why. But this
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  Speaker 2: year was shaping up to be another disappointing year because
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  Speaker 2: we expected top 10 out of this damn unit. I mean,
• 7:02
  Speaker 2: he's too classy of a guy.
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  Speaker 5: He's too good of a person for me to sit
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  Speaker 5: here and celebrate that he lost his job. This is
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  Speaker 5: a guy that was easy to root for. Always said
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  Speaker 5: the right things, carried himself the right way. So from
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  Speaker 5: that standpoint, yeah, there's no celebrating here. Also, Mac, the
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  Speaker 5: timing of this, you know, Willie P brought up the
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  Speaker 5: point of, oh, maybe they already made the decision after
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  Speaker 5: Tampa Bay. You also wonder, they do have a mini
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  Speaker 5: bye week here in a way because of when they
• 7:26
  Speaker 5: played Green Bay to get ready for Denver. So is
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  Speaker 5: that part of it on the other end that they
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  Speaker 5: have time here for Todd Walsh? to get acclimated to
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  Speaker 5: be the D.C. So I wonder if that timing was
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  Speaker 5: also part of it, too.
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  Speaker 3: Could be. Definitely could be.
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  Speaker 5: So timing could have worked on both ends of it
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  Speaker 5: was after Tampa, but also there's a lot of time
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  Speaker 5: before they played Denver.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe that played a part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, definitely. I think that's obvious timing.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime anybody makes any kind of coaching change, I think
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  Speaker 2: you'll see a bye week or, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like you want them to have some extra time. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to act like, um, uh, Panther Bo says,
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  Speaker 2: are we sure Averro wasn't actually trying to get fired? Well,
• 8:03
  Speaker 2: remember after Frank Reich season, Averro tried to leave. David
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  Speaker 2: Tepper said, no, I'm holding you to your contract. You
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  Speaker 2: can't leave for an equal job. So like they, David
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  Speaker 2: Tepper wanted to keep him here and Canales then, you know,
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  Speaker 2: had him as his DC. And after 2024, when nobody
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  Speaker 2: would have really like, I thought it was obvious it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't coaching. why he went from the fourth defense total
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  Speaker 2: rank to last by a mile, but that could have
• 8:29
  Speaker 2: been an obvious firing spot. Canales stuck with him, says,
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  Speaker 2: I was hopeful. I knew what this scheme can do,
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  Speaker 2: and I was hopeful. I don't know. I just don't...
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  Speaker 2: The Averro slander, I'm not saying he was perfect. Were
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  Speaker 2: there key situations last year, New Orleans and the Rams
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs, where it's like, I would have liked
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  Speaker 2: a little more aggression? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I can't deny that, Bone. I.
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  Speaker 2: I saw it with Dan Orlovsky, who said he's a
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  Speaker 2: good football coach. I think he's a good football coach.
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  Speaker 2: I think teams wanted him for a reason to be
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  Speaker 2: a head coach or at least sniffed around him, including
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  Speaker 2: the Panthers. He got two interviews, Bone, when Wright got
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  Speaker 2: hired and when Canales got hired. He got interviews as
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  Speaker 2: a possible head coach. I understand them wanting to change
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  Speaker 2: something because David Tepper did flat out say this is
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  Speaker 2: a playoff team.
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  Speaker 3: And if they don't make the playoffs, it's a failure.
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  Speaker 2: Even with the injuries, Bowen, I'll have some sympathy because
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  Speaker 2: these injuries are ridiculous. But in this crappy division, if
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  Speaker 2: they don't make the playoffs, it's got to be deemed
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  Speaker 2: a failure, right?
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  Speaker 4: It does.
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  Speaker 5: I think he'll land on his feet. Maybe he goes
• 9:34
  Speaker 5: and he's up. secondary coach for a year. I think
• 9:36
  Speaker 5: he'll work his way back up. I think he's, I
• 9:39
  Speaker 5: think he's too good. And I think eventually we'll look
• 9:41
  Speaker 5: back and say, yeah, that maybe the time ran out
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  Speaker 5: here for him. But I think that guy still got
• 9:46
  Speaker 5: a lot of good football left in him as a coach.
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  Speaker 3: He's young.
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  Speaker 2: I think so too. I'm not so certain he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: get a coordinator job right away. He'll work his way
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  Speaker 2: back up.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He'll work his way back up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure he had like, we'll see. I had
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: no Fowler made a comment. He thinks he goes right
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: back into the DC pool or whatever. has a lot
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: of connections around the league. It just feels like they
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do something and they wanted to send a message.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't going to be on offense. So who's it
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  Speaker 2: going to be?
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  Speaker 4: Cooley.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like bone is just guilty by association that
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  Speaker 2: these two guys were tight. They were in LA together.
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  Speaker 2: Avero brought him here, you know, and, and Todd wash canal,
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  Speaker 2: you know, has the Canales ties.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't work with Avero in the past, but work with Canales.
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  Speaker 2: I just, I don't have, I feel like we get
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: healthier on defense. We'll get better on defense. I don't
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: necessarily feel like Todd wash is going to wave a
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  Speaker 2: magic wand that is your Avero didn't have.
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  Speaker 3: This makes me sad. All this makes me sad. It's
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: all unraveled so quickly. That's what I was saying. I
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: know we just talked about it.
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: Can you believe how quickly our mood has changed from
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: feeling so good about this team at three and two
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  Speaker 2: to this? Like, I cannot believe how our Panther world
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: has crumbled down in five days.
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  Speaker 3: It's just crazy. So what do y'all think about the firing? 704-570-9610.
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: Dan Galizak said the front office really didn't help him either.
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  Speaker 2: Is he talking about.
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  Speaker 5: like not doing, like not making a trade for a
• 11:09
  Speaker 5: corner here. Well, yeah, maybe it's the Burns-Luvu stuff you're
• 11:13
  Speaker 5: talking about as well. Maybe that's part of it. That's
• 11:15
  Speaker 5: way back when. That was before Dan Morgan was the GM.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no. Was that Dan's first offseason as GM? Dan's
• 11:22
  Speaker 2: first offseason. Yeah, because he was dealing with the Luvu,
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: and he was dealing with the Burns thing. As far
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: as right now, I've got sympathy. When you're dealing with
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: injuries this long, Like, this wave of injuries at the
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: same position. Like, we got a texter saying everybody deals
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: with injuries. Stop making excuses for Rivero. When you're down
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: to your fifth, sixth, and seventh corners and you're playing
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: Jordan Love and that pass offense, I don't understand how
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: you can't bring it up. Like, it's part of the context.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have your best pass rusher. And they did okay.
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  Speaker 3: Despite blitzing. And they did okay in the game.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, yes, Jordan Love certainly had a big game,
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  Speaker 5: but that wasn't like the other games where they got
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  Speaker 5: completely gutted and gave up, you know, 40 or 50 points.
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  Speaker 5: They actually held their own pretty well, all things considered,
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  Speaker 5: in that game. Yeah, held them to seven points in
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  Speaker 5: the second half. You've said it. The defense outside of
• 12:17
  Speaker 5: two games has held their own in a lot of
• 12:19
  Speaker 5: these games. That's my thing about this year. Like, they
• 12:21
  Speaker 5: have looked pretty good in five games.
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  Speaker 2: The two games, they have looked like they have no
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: business being on an NFL field defensively. So I just
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: want to put context in there. But then again, Bone,
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: the offense looked pretty good for five games. Where has
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  Speaker 2: all this got us?
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  Speaker 3: Three and four. But still in first place by ourselves, baby!
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: Who runs the South?
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: Scary Banana said, looked like Averro had an idea he
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: was getting fired with how he was blitzing with Lloyd
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: and Merritt over and over all night, even though they
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: weren't getting close to love but left voids in the
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: middle of the field and we got torched. So now
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  Speaker 2: Averro's blitzing too much. He blitz 51% of the time.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't getting home. And I will, but, and he
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  Speaker 2: has blitz bone.
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  Speaker 3: Way more.
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  Speaker 2: They're, I think, seventh in the league in blitz percentage
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  Speaker 2: this year. They are normally in the bottom third of it,
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: or the middle at most. And that had been a
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: criticism from people, if Arrow doesn't blitz enough. Well, this year,
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  Speaker 2: he made a cognizant effort to blitz more, and the
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: returns were all right in some games, but on the whole,
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  Speaker 2: not great. Like, and the other day, to not get
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: a sack and blitz 51% of the time, I forget
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: what the actual stat was. Joe Person had it. But, like,
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  Speaker 2: that is something that had not been done in a
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: long-ass time. is to blitz that much and not get
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: one sack in a football game and i think you
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: can say bone that the green bay offensive staff completely
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: had no problem with the blitzes and like that is
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: that is you know an element of getting out coached
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: i would say texter says matt the only reason that
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: you can't use the only game you can't use the
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: corner excuse for injuries is tampa bay we could have
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: had nobody playing corner and still lost the way that
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: we did but remember talking about that the run game
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: the horn and mike jack are great tackling corners and
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: buck said those corners were targeted like they were running
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: at those corners at those edges of course we didn't
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: have phillips.
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  Speaker 3: And we did better than atlanta did so.
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  Speaker 2: That is that is true tampa made me feel a
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: little better yesterday not having to complete a pass and
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: whooping whooping the falcons tampa's going straight army army on
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  Speaker 2: people 704. General Mayfield. Baker going to be running that
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: damn wing tee option before you know it. Hell, he
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: did have an option play. That was the one Bucky
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: fumbled at the one yard line. Like he got, he
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: turned it into an option. I don't think it was
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: designed that way, but he ended up just running the option,
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: pitching it to Bucky.
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  Speaker 5: It would have been worse. But he fumbled at the one.
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: Reminds me of when Nebraska was good.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: Baker's getting his Tommy Frazier on, baby.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: 704 says, my pushback, the rushing rankings have been poor
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: under his tenure.
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  Speaker 3: Week one happened with a healthy defense. Oh, it did.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, you can't deny that. And you can't
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: deny that we are in the... Fourth year overall of Arrow,
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: the third year with Canales, and, like, they should be
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: past those pathetic games. Like, yeah, it was only two,
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: and most of the other games were pretty darn good. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they should be past that. But I would
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: also say, Bone, this whole team should be past some
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: of the stuff I've seen. Like, year three of Condales,
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: we should be past the way we are looking recently.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: And it's hard to completely gauge because the injuries to
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: the O-line and injuries to corner specifically are just ridiculous, man.
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: Matt, can't say I've done this before going to break,
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: but we have an update from the Field of 68
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: opening day marathon. App State got going in hoops at
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: 6 a.m. this morning against Mary Mac. They lead by
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: 19 in the second half at the 15-minute mark.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: Time out.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: There you go. There you go, baby.
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: So that is your morning. Your rare hoops and eggs
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: update there. High point one, the game at midnight. Queens
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: and Winthrop coming up at 9 a.m.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: This morning.
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: Those games available on YouTube. We come back. College football conclusions.
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: What stuck out from the weekend, both locally and nationally? Mac, also,
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: where did the Ohio State fans go? Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ.
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: Really proud of our effort tonight, but unfortunately came a
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: little bit short. They're not disappointing. Miami's really good, really
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: good on offense. They've got two great players and a
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: lot of other good players. We obviously had a hard
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: time handling them, although I thought we actually defended them
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: pretty well. But, I mean, they made a couple of
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: great plays that you don't see too many people make.
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: So they're very good. Very good on offense. One score
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: back and forth game, and then they got the turnover,
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: and then that became a two-score game. Couldn't get the
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: onside kick, so that's pretty much the story of it.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Settle down, Bill.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: There you go, Bill Belichick, passionately recounting the game.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: It's just a game, Bill.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Saturday night afterwards, giving you his passionate breakdown of how
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: the game happened. I hate it for Carolina fans. That
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: was so close. I still think you should be, if
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: you're a Heels fan, invigorated by it. I still think
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: you should see the progress. Hell, even Syracuse went up
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: and beat SMU afterwards. Maybe that helped a little bit.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: But you could clearly see the progress that is being made.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: I actually want to see what Bill can do in
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: year three. I've actually reached that point, Boney. which I
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: never thought I would reach.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: He's much more comfortable. The team is built in a
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: way that resembles Belichick teams. Thurman is ridiculous. Shipp is incredible.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: But that voice you heard there talking back, that is
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: the voice that I can't say he's a broken-hearted man
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: because I don't know if he has a heart at all,
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: but if he had a heart, that's a broken-hearted man
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: right there.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: I'm not really sure of what the internal organs look
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: like for Bill Belichick, though.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Let's see here.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about a couple of things with Miami. What
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: do we think about the onside kick calls? Do we
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: think literally the ACC— it was not going to let
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Miami lose that game? Because I think when we watched
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Florida State and they called that lame holding on the
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: first Hail Mary they got, then when they didn't award
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: the double catch to the offense on the next Hail Mary,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: we got the feeling the ACC was not going to
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: let Miami lose the Florida State game. Do you have
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: the same feeling, Bone, after the onside kicks? I saw,
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: what is the dude's name that has worked with Levitard
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: that's a Tar Heel?
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Taylor... Taylor... Vipolis?
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Taylor Vipolis tweeted out.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: That they would have made Carolina do as many onside
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: kicks as it would have taken for Miami to have
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: the ball.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Do you agree with that? It's very interesting.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: I'm far from defending the heels here, but I'm getting
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: a little tired of it always feels like whenever these
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: situations happen, they always benefit Miami. The pass interference call
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: that Belichick went crazy on was egregious.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Now it worked out because.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: The Heels ended up scoring right afterwards, a couple plays after.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: So it wasn't that big of a deal per se.
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: But I just feel like Miami's always on a certain
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: side of these things, right? When's the last time, Mac,
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: we talked about Miami getting screwed? Does it ever happen
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: that way?
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: I can't imagine.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: They're always, whether or not, you know, we can say, well,
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: you know, I kind of get the call. It feels
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: like Miami is always on the side of us saying,
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: how did Miami get that call?
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: And it goes way back. It goes back a long way.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: And it just makes you wonder, because of their standing
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: in the ACC, do they benefit at times from that?
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: It's at least got to be asked. Oh, they obviously benefit.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: If Miami gets beat, look out.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: There's so many examples of the U getting away with
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: something or benefiting from something.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: So, Fitty, let's talk about the onside. I don't like
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: the fact that my heels had to deal with that
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: this weekend. Did they get screwed on the onside kick, Fitty?
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Either one.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: The second one to me, definitely, he hit him before
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: the ball went 10 yards.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: I saw it in a game earlier, too. I forget
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: which one it was.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Those, like, kicker up the middle onside kicks– They really are, like,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: those things, they can be effective. Like, I watched a
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: couple this weekend, but you can't hit them before it
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: goes 10 yards. The first one, though, is the one
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I might be pissed about. I can't tell. First of all,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: the guy they called it on, like, I don't even
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: think he was the offside guy. The guy out wide
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: would be, but I'm still not sure he was offside.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Almost like they were looking for something.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I didn't get that sense in the moment.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: But you start kind of processing this maybe after you
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: just get done dissecting the loss. And I thought there
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: was a more critical complaint about the first one than
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: the second one just because the guy that was offside
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: didn't impact the play. And that was, I guess, the
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: thing that I was really... Focused on, and then the
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: same thing happened against Clemson. Remember when we took Clemson
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: to the wire in the ACC championship game back in 2015?
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, y'all are scarred by this.
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: We were offside. The guy that was offside didn't impact
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: the play. I guess you gotta call it.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: I didn't even know he was offside. So you're conceding
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: he was offside? No, but... God, I hate it for y'all.
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: The way that McElroy, who I think has emerged as
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: the best analyst in the game, made me believe that
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: they got both those calls right.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: My bigger gripe was.
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: The pass interference call where Belichick in his year and
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: a half on the job showed as much animation as
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: he's done in his entire coaching career where he told
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: the official F you and F that.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: That's what you want from your coach, baby.
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: That to me I thought was more egregious because the
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: very next play they score, whereas you finally forced a
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: field goal.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: They were going to have to kick a field goal.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: The offsides one I was the one questioning because the
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: one that you could clearly see that he– that McDonald
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: hit the player before. That one was pretty simple to me,
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: that he hit the player blocking before the ball got there.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: The offside one, though, McIlroy was pretty sure about it,
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: like Finney. I didn't really see a great look at
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: that one. To me, it's like, are they looking for something?
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: All right, so we'll talk more because I want to
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: talk about the good side of it, how competitive Carolina was.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: We'll do that in Pumped or Pished. You know we
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: got to talk Gamecock win, Boney. You know we got
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: to talk about Wake Forest rolling again.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: But more conclusions.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: What like what stuck out to you, Bone, this weekend
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: in college football?
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: The Florida State situation with Mike Norvell, it's a huge buyout.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: But to me, that's going to be a fascinating hire,
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: not just for Florida State, but for the ACC, as
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: they're in there right now, of course. The conference needs
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: that program to be like what Miami has become, to
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: be near the top. That helps the conference in a
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: big way. Mack, who do you think they go and
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: target first? The name Deion Sanders is going to come
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: up a lot, despite it not going well in Colorado
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: right now. Yeah, that would be terrible. But he's such
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: a huge name. Is it possible we get Belichick, Rivers,
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: and Deion all in the ACC at the same time?
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: I think Deion, if they hire Deion, good luck. Although,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: you could say the same thing about NC State with
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Phillip Rivers. But I think it's going horribly for Deion
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Sanders at Colorado, outside of two players, outside of two
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: football players. I just think it's going horribly. I would
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: be very worried about Manny Diaz if I were you.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: And if I'm a weak fan, I'd be worried about
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Jake Dicker. Like those are two perfect candidates, man. What
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: could they do with a big budget? Both those schools
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: bone have very little money compared to the rest of
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: the ACC and they're kicking the ACC's fanny. It would
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: be very smart for FSU to be, and I don't
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: want this to happen. I don't want good coaches to
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: leave this state, but you can certainly understand why FSU
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: is like, we'll give them more running to build a
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: roster and we will win the conference.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Two things here about the Duke side of this. Number one, Mac,
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: what ties does Manny have to Florida anyway? Besides, his
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: dad was the mayor of Miami there for a while,
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: and he grew up in Florida. Besides that, there's nothing there. Also,
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to freak out about Manny Diaz if
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: he decides to go for more money. That's understandable. But
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: I trust the Duke coaching hires right now. They've done
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: a great job recently from Elko. to Manny Diaz, to
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: all the sports programs, to John Shire, how that worked out,
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: to Carol Lawson. Matt, the current AD does a great
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: job at hiring, so I just have to trust that
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: if Manny does leave, they'll find the next person in line.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: They're doing a great job of hiring coaches. That's definitely
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: a good point.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: That's why I'm not going to freak out about it.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: That's definitely a damn good point.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: I'm not a guy that freaks out about anything.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Somebody says Bone left out the fact Manny Diaz went
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: to Florida State.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: I think Bone wanted to leave that out on purpose.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: I think that was his whole point there. That was the.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: Whole point of what I was saying. Way to go.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: Over your head. All right.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I got to do a couple of college football conclusions, Bone,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: about plays I could not believe this weekend. First, the
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: feeble sorry onside kick attempt by Oklahoma. when they cut
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: it to 17, Bone, late in the game against South Carolina.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: And by the way, we'll talk about it during Pumped
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: or Pissed, y'all, but Gamecock fans, this is the sellers.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: This is the team that y'all expected to start the season.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Kendall Briles has been amazing. That O-line's been amazing.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: But anyway.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: Oh, by the way, Greg Venables, Dabo on line one.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: He might need you back there at some point. How
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: about that? They just gave him an extension, too, which
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: is crazy. How about that onside kick, Bone? That thing
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: went one inch. I have never seen an onside kick
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: go that little forward in my life. And I also
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: need to mention, and this is sad, but the kid
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: that got hurt and apparently broke his leg for ECU,
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: did you see that play?
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: I did, where the referee went... straight baseball sliding how.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Ridiculous is that like the referee slips i know he's
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: not trying to but he loses his footing slips right
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: into the poor kid the kid for ecu breaks his
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: damn leg because i've never seen that he just lost
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: his brakes freakish man i like i'm not gonna yell
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: at the ref for like just for slipping but i
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: what are the odds that happens and the injury ends
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: up that severe.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: The play was over, right? Yes, it was in between plays.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: He was running. Where was the referee running to? I
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: don't know where.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: He's headed wherever he's headed in between plays, and he
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: just lost his footing and slid right into him.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Jeez.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Freaking crazy. ECU won, but y'all know this, ECU fans.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: These games are ugly lately. Like, you got a defense,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: but man, that offense is struggling.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: Mack, what a weekend of college football coming up here.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: And this takes out, like, brand matchups that aren't as
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: big as we thought they would be. Oregon, Ohio State, Oklahoma,
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: Florida play. And that's way down the line because we have... BYU-Utah, Texas-Missouri, Bama-LSU, Kentucky-Tennessee,
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: Miami-Notre Dame, Georgia-Ole Miss, and the Kentucky-Tennessee, Miami-Notre Dame, Georgia-Ole
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: Miss game, those are all on at the same time
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: Saturday night. That is a Missouri-Texas ranked matchup. All those
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: are ranked matchups. Is it six ranked matchups? Is that
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: the number? Six ranked matchups. And if Northwestern would have
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: beat Oregon, that would have been a ranked matchup as
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: well because they're playing Iowa this weekend. Another game there
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: down the line. But, yeah, that's an absolutely ridiculously loaded
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: up college football weekend.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Hey, man, don't worry.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: We also got to mention once Oregon beats Ohio State
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: this weekend, Ohio State won't be ranked, Boney.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Get them out of the rankings. Buckeye fans, you arrogant, arrogant.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Leaving your crappy, pathetic state to come here for greener
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: pastures asses.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Your team ain't that damn good, man.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: And listen, does a lot of it have to do
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: with losing Julian saying it does, but what's up with
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: that defense giving up the big play to start the
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: game to Mosley?
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: How about tackling?
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: What about your attempts to tackle that freshman tight end? Made,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, Tommy Trimble could only dream of a hurdle
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: like that, Bone, pulling that off. The defense didn't necessarily
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: play its part either. Like, I thought the Fahey kid
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: was all right. Like, I didn't think he was terrible.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: They couldn't finish drives, though. Way too many field goals
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: kicked by the Buckeyes. But this team loses one more game, Bone.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: They are in severe danger of missing. Do you think they,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: are they out if they lose one more? Yeah, yeah,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: they're trending in that direction. Yeah, I think so.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Here's the thing. The Florida State rule has to apply, right,
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: from the committee?
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: That saying ain't coming back. So they have to be
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: judged on how they are with Fahey, a quarterback, right?
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: So I'm watching you, committee.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: And their schedule looks like they've got Oregon. They've got
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: Northwestern after this at Nebraska and Michigan. Northwestern is... Not easy.
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: Chip Kelly's doing some crazy things out there offensively, although
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: they lost the other day. Jeremiah Smith, you might want
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: to go pro right now. Just go ahead and say,
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: you know what?
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: I'm out of here.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I'm not dealing with this quarterback. I mean, he had
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: 10 catches, but they were for eight yards per.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Also, Matt, I know you're.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: Going to love this. Ohio State fans. It's been a while.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: Welcome to the Common Sector.
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: Been a while.
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: Welcome to the Common Sector. Welcome to Average Ohio State.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: Have a seat next to us. 704 says Buckeyes ain't
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: losing another game.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Book it. I mean, listen.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: They're uber-talented, right? They're about to uber out of the playoffs.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: If they find a way to win the rest of
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: those games there, I'm not totally shocked.
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: That's saying a lot about who Ryan Day is as
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: a coach, what has compromised as they've looked without Julian Sayen, who,
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: by the way, I think we need to give him
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: a little bit more credit. is a lot better than
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: just a guy that has great talent around him because
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: that offense has taken a step back since he's gotten injured.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: I don't see them running the table, though. They got
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: three out of four at home, though, and the road
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: game's at Nebraska, so I don't know. And here's the thing.
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: When they become a three-loss team, They're not– they would
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: not be the best three-loss team in college football. The
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: best three-loss team in college football, if they stay with
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: three losses, is South Carolina.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Look at Finney. Look at game. I got goosebumps. Look
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: at game. Goosebumps. Goosebumps.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: But– They'd be a three-loss team with a brand, though, Finney.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: They'd be a three-loss team. Do you really trust the committee?
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Gamecocks have to beat Georgia, by the way, for that.
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: That's why I said they've got to stay a three-loss team.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: One at a time. One at a time. Just A &
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: M first.
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: If South Carolina wins out, South Carolina's going to the playoffs.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: Look at Gamecocks finish. I'll find a team now. My
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: team just took number one to the wire, man.
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: I was very proud of my team on Saturday night.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: They played their asses off, man. Oh, God.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: Belichick's cussing out officials. We're back, baby. We're back.
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: Can I make one more observation, Matt? That's not college,
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: but it's pro-related, but it has to be said. Who
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: on earth decided in a CBS meeting that when they
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: do their in-game updates that Adam Schein is the voice
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: of the in-game updates? Who on God's name said the
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: most annoying man on the planet needs to be the
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: voice of the updates? He's not even, he's doing his
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: own routine. It's not even like, hey, the Bengals score,
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: they lead 20.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: He's doing his, oh, hey, thank you, Andrew Catalan. Well,
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: here we go with an update on, I can't.
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: I'm able to avoid them with the Panther stuff going
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: on and Red Sox. Adam Schein, who decided that that
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: Muppet is the voice.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Of the updates?
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: A very smart guy, Bone, decided to put me, Adam Schein,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: in the studio on Saturdays. What a cheesy announcer voice
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: that is. By the way, Husker Mike yapping, flapping his
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: gums as Nebraska loses another game this weekend to Washington
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: reminded me of the fact that the Nebraska buzzards are
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: circling on old Matty Roll. Scott Shanley, one of the
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: former players that has said something about it on Twitter.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: There was a media guy there. They are starting the
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: seven-year plan, Bo. is starting to get a little old
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: there in.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: Lincoln, Nebraska.
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: We need to check his audio for the rambling meter
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: to see how he's doing. There was definitely some stuttering
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: going on in that presser on Saturday night. When we
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: come back, a man that never stutters, that always has
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: the answer. Ashley Westwood, the captain of Charlotte FC, talks
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: about the win the other day. And, Matt, he's been
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: answering some questions about his own future on Sports Radio
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: 92.7 WFNZ.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: Two-man wall in front of Westwood. Just two steps shy
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: of the left corner of the box. West, he sends
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: it high into the area.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: Hit it out.
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: He scores! Henry Kessler, the dangerous man of the set pieces.
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: And Charlotte FC to the lead. Courtesy of set piece
• 33:08
  Speaker 8: magic from the crowd. How about that? The first of
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: four goals for Charlotte FC. Second resounding win in a row.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: And it's coming at a good time with just one
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: match left before we get the postseason going. Walker Kessler,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: that's a hell of a finish, Kessler. Hell of a
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: damn finish. You dunked on that man and put it
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: in the net. But let's talk about the ball. Let's
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: talk about the free kick from the captain. The touch
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: on that was beautiful. And the captain of Charlotte FC,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Ashley Westwood, is here. to celebrate the victory, hang out,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: and probably talk about a bunch of things that don't
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: have anything to do with anything as well, I'm sure.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Halloween candy's coming up.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Halloween candy could be talked about. Westy, congratulations, man. Beautiful
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: free kick, beautiful win, man.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: How you feeling?
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: Good morning again, lads. Yeah, it's good. We've had two
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: great results. We're fighting for top four.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: So you can do no worse than fifth. I'm not
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: telling you, Westy. I understand you probably understand the scenario,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: but I'm telling everybody out there. Charlotte FC can do
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: no worse than fifth. They can do no better than fourth.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: It's Charlotte FC in Chicago. We just got to sort out,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: based off the results Saturday, y'all play at Miami, whether
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: or not you'll have home field advantage or whether or
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: not they'll have home field advantage. What do you think
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: about just drawing Chicago as an opponent? They got some
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: dang talent on this team. What do you think about
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: them as an opponent in the postseason?
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's probably the hardest one to face. We're going
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: to come up against, I think, one of the most
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: similar to us. They're very, very organized. Obviously, they've got
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: a top-quality striker. So, no, it's not ideal. But if
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: we finish in the top four, I would fancy us
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: two games at home. That would be great. that's the
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: big difference and that's what we want.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: Westy for this club to have post-season success, what do
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: you think the biggest key or two will be to
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: not just be in the post-season, but to advance throughout it?
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: Just to do what we've been doing. I mean, we
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: obviously need, we need Maxie available. That's, it's my ideal last, last,
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: I think it was it last year we lost Wolf
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: to against New York. He was a big loss. And listen,
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: if you lose these caliber of players, it's, It's a
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: big boost to Phil, but we need players available. So
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: hopefully Max has only got one game and then he's
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: back for the playoffs.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: We got to talk about this maxi thing, Westy, because
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure this out. First of all, he
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: should not probably with a with a insurmountable lead. Westy's
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: laughing in the background with an insurmountable lead. You probably
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: if you're jawing with somebody, you should probably just laugh
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: in his face and not grab your goodies, for lack
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: of a better term, to show him how angry you
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: are at him. That resulted in a red card. Is,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: should that be a red card? Like Dean said, he
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: didn't think it should be a red card offense.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: I swear. Can't that just be a yellow? What do
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: you think about that?
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't know the rules. It's a lot, it's
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: a lot stricter out here. I think in England, you might,
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: you might get away with a, with a little bit,
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: but I don't know. It's listen, you can't, there's kids watching.
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: So you can't, you can't do that. Well, it'd be
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: better off punching him.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: That's the thing is we can't put it up there
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: with actual violence.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: That's a good point. This is deja vu, though.
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: It feels like every year, Westy, you mentioned it, but
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: every year at this point, you guys end up losing
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: somebody towards the end.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: It's crazy.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not me this time.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: You know what? We actually have to celebrate this.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Westy, the three dudes that have gotten themselves red cards
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: late either at the end of the regular season or
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: in the playoffs have all not been you.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: I give you credit.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: Thank you, mate. I can keep my mouth shut.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Westy's like, yo, teach those lads to do that crap
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: during the regular season or the league's cup or something
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: like that. Oh, man. Oh, God.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: So and Max here says that should be.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: A blue card and not a red or yellow card.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: All right. Hey, now.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: So, Westy, I don't know how I segue from what Maxie. Well,
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: you brought the kids. Kids don't need to see that, Maxie.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: And what were the kids doing here in Charlotte on
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Saturday night?
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: They were trick or treating.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Do you get into Halloween and trick or treating with
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: your kids?
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: Do you do you find that fun?
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, my wife's huge on Halloween, so that was another
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: reason why we come to America. It dropped off in England,
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: so I've got all my family over from the UK
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: as well, so they thought it was going to be
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: my last year.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: We've got to talk about that in a second.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Before we get to the real important headline stuff, which
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: you just tried to lead us to, I need to ask,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: I don't even know, do they trick-or-treat in England?
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Do they get into Halloween? You said it's not the same.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: No, it's nowhere near as big. I mean, a lot
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: of them are miserable, so they turn the lights off,
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: they close the curtains, they don't go to the house.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: It's amazing out here. We did some trick-or-treating. We had
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: a party at the house on Saturday night, so I've
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: still got a bad head.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: What's your go-to candy? What do you like the most?
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: I like the Sour Patch Kids. That's mine. Really?
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: You go sour? How about that?
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Interesting.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: Interesting.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Westy, are you like the fun guy everybody wants to
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: party with in the neighborhood?
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: Are you the fun dad?
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: I would like to think I am, but the kids
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: think I'm embarrassing.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: Mine, too. And, Bone, there's no way I'm really embarrassing, right?
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: No way. No, that's not possible.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: All right, so you hit us.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: You kind of went there in the press conference, and
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: now you kind of dropped a little hint there. So, Westy,
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: what is your status, are you thinking? It sounds like you...
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: thought this was going to be your last year with FC,
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: and now you're not sure. Where does that stand right now?
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, who knows? Listen, I had mentioned it to certain
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: people at the start of the year. I think this
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: was going to be my last one. I wanted to
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: finish on a high. I wanted to finish with the
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: legs still going. But no, I think, listen, who knows?
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: There's some conversations to be had. Hopefully, it's if the
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: club want me. So it's not my decision. I've got
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: an option. So the wives give me the go-ahead. She's
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: the boss. She does all the contract talk. So hopefully
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: there's a few more games left in the legs.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Okay. How are you feeling physically? Are you good at
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: this point in the season?
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: Well, I feel great. But apart from... I've got a
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: slight issue with my calf. So we need to get
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: that sorted this week. And then, yeah, I think the
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: body feels good. I'm still... I'm still running around. So, yeah,
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: I feel good.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're running. When they track the running, the Sunday match,
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: you're up there in the top, you know?
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: You can still move. It might not be as quickly
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: as you moved in the pad, but you're moving.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: I've never had that much speed anyway.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: That's true. If I were your agent, that's what I
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: would say. He's not fast. He never was fast.
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: We have a text, Westy, from the voice of FC,
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: Willie P. Ask Westy about his Jack Sparrow costume.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: He's rumbled me. He's rumbled me.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: Is this a real thing?
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow on Saturday night.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's good. God, you really are the fun dad, Westy.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I had to run out. I got a bit
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: carried away.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: That is amazing. That is so cool, man. Damn, I
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: wish I lived in Westie's neighborhood. I'd probably have to
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: make more money to live in Westie's neighborhood. Hey, if
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: he ends up retiring, buy his house.
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right. We're going to have to start about seven GoFundMes,
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: I have a feeling. Now, what do you.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: I don't want to do this, but I'm going to,
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: because you just said, Hey, I'd like to be around.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: I'd like the club to pick up the option and
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: have another year. But I'll just ask you anyway, like,
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: what are your thoughts about post-career like coaching? I could
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: definitely see that. Like what, what are you, have you.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: Thought about that?
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I've, I've spoke to, I've spoke to Zard and there's,
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: they will try and find something. I would love to
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: work in the academy, I think.
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: Working in the, trying to develop players. I want something
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: back to the game. My club in England was gone,
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: produced in young talent. So, I think that's where I'd
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: like to go. I think I would like to go
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: and help out in that, in that department over in
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: the help the Academy and hopefully produce a few, a
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: few players that can go on to bigger and better things.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah. That's awesome. That'd be cool.
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: Even Charlotte, man, you're not going to get rid of me. Okay.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, baby.
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: I like that. What we do on Wednesdays throughout the summer. Oh,
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: that is true.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: And now you're going to have so much time where
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: you're like, well, no, we're not doing this. Westy wants
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: to play another year.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. Sorry.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: Why am I doing this to you? Westy? What am
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: I trying to do to you? All right, brother.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Well, Hey, first and foremost, go down there, kick messy
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: a little bit for me. I just give him a
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: couple of kicks. Pleasure. And get the W. I'm sure
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: they'd never give you a yellow card for kicking him.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: You could probably breathe on him and get a red.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: But anyway, I digress. Good luck in my— Good luck
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: on Saturday in Miami and in the playoffs.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: We'll talk, man, before the playoffs, but appreciate you.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: Thank you, fellas. Thank you.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: All right, there you go. That is Ashley Westwood. Man,
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: he is a likable chap. As someone points out, the
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: new schedule, the sprint schedule. Oh, shoot, I should ask
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: him about that. I just thought of it now. The
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: new sprint schedule came out the other day for the first, what,
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: seven games of the season?
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: It's its own little season. It's a short little 14-game
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: season next year.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: 14-game season, sorry.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: And then they do that on February to May, and
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: then they start with the full season next in the
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: like august right because remember they're gonna mirror all the
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: other leagues and go yeah basically august through may but
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: yeah so they're doing like a little tiny season um
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: in the spring yeah next time we gotta ask them
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: about that
• 43:01
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• 43:03
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• 43:07
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• 43:12
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