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- 0:03Speaker 1: What's up, party people? Bueno, como estas?
- 0:07Speaker 2: Oh, oh, oh, it's Mike and Bo.
- 0:09Speaker 1: This is my friend, Matt. It's a beautiful work Wednesday, everybody.
- 0:14Speaker 3: This is my friend, T-Bone.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Did we ask for your opinion? He actually did. Oh,
- 0:20Speaker 1: did you? You guys are the best. Pony, pony, pony, pony.
- 0:24Speaker 1: They're the best. I love those guys. Are they going
- 0:26Speaker 1: to say nothing? Nothing there? All right, one time for
- 0:29Speaker 1: the one time.
- 0:31Speaker 4: Oh, man.
- 0:32Speaker 1: You're listening to the Mack and Bo Show on Mack
- 0:35Speaker 1: and Bo Radio. Good Wednesday morning, Charlotte. Welcome aboard.
- 0:46Speaker 2: It is Mack and Bo Radio Show time. We've got
- 0:48Speaker 2: four hours to do this thing, baby, to have ourselves
- 0:51Speaker 2: some fun, to talk some football. Carolina Panthers, college football,
- 0:56Speaker 2: and we've got to have some Hornets conversations. This Brandon
- 0:59Speaker 2: Miller contract stuff. continues to heat up is something eminent
- 1:03Speaker 2: it's something about to happen how much money should they
- 1:06Speaker 2: be giving him how much money does he reportedly want
- 1:09Speaker 2: we'll talk about all that stuff today on the mac
- 1:12Speaker 2: and bone show and you know we got to work
- 1:14Speaker 2: some random crap in on this show including a story
- 1:18Speaker 2: jerry jones told that is.
- 1:20Speaker 1: Weird that was cowboys didn't.
- 1:22Speaker 2: Don't really know why he told it and people think
- 1:25Speaker 2: he made the whole thing up now so we've got
- 1:27Speaker 2: jerry jones drama to discuss here on today's Mac and
- 1:33Speaker 2: Bone radio show.
- 1:34Speaker 1: The Bone Man is here.
- 1:36Speaker 2: The Fit Daddy is in the house as we get
- 1:39Speaker 2: ready to do a Wednesday show. I would call it
- 1:42Speaker 2: a work Wednesday, Bone. I'm not sure we're working. We're
- 1:44Speaker 2: just kind of in here yapping, man. We're doing our thing.
- 1:47Speaker 1: Keep it at Wednesday. It's also a big day. Good morning.
- 1:50Speaker 5: It's also a huge day in Charlotte, Mac. Wegmans opens
- 1:54Speaker 5: in Ballantyne today. Television's Joe Bruno is already on the
- 1:58Speaker 5: scene with the first people in line from Lexington, South Carolina,
- 2:02Speaker 5: wearing their Bills gear. They arrived at 5 p.m. yesterday, Mac,
- 2:07Speaker 5: and camped out overnight for the 9 a.m. grand opening
- 2:10Speaker 5: of Wegmans in Ballantyne.
- 2:11Speaker 1: All right, I'm turning it on to try to watch
- 2:13Speaker 1: our live Wegmans.
- 2:14Speaker 5: Joe's giving us all the inside scoops. This woman's got
- 2:16Speaker 5: her big... Buffalo, Bill's hat on. One of those things.
- 2:20Speaker 1: Hold on. They drove from? Lexington, South Carolina. Okay. All right.
- 2:24Speaker 2: So they're from up there. They have no Wegmans down here,
- 2:27Speaker 2: and this is the closest Wegmans they have got.
- 2:29Speaker 5: They live in Lexington, South Carolina, but they're from there,
- 2:31Speaker 5: moved to Lexington, drove here, camped out overnight, though.
- 2:35Speaker 1: Got here at 5 yesterday for the 9 a.m. opening of?
- 2:38Speaker 1: Check my notes. A grocery store. It's a Wegmans Wednesday, everybody!
- 2:42Speaker 5: This is where we miss MFG, just to go mess
- 2:45Speaker 5: with these people out in line.
- 2:46Speaker 2: People from New York State claim this thing is like,
- 2:50Speaker 2: I don't know, is it their Buc-ee's? I've seen it,
- 2:52Speaker 2: I've heard it compared to that.
- 2:54Speaker 1: It's like a Northern Buc-ee's, right?
- 2:56Speaker 2: Somebody tweeted out Wegmans, the grocery store, by the way,
- 3:00Speaker 2: if you don't know what it is, they've got a
- 3:03Speaker 2: location opening up today in Ballantyne. Somebody tweeted out that
- 3:07Speaker 2: Wegmans is Buc-ee's for rich people from the North. So
- 3:11Speaker 2: there you have it. If you're a rich person from
- 3:13Speaker 2: the North, head on over there.
- 3:15Speaker 1: I'm a little curious.
- 3:16Speaker 2: I'm a little curious to see now. I'm not curious enough, Bone,
- 3:18Speaker 2: to go there in the next, I don't know.
- 3:20Speaker 1: Two weeks? You know what I mean? I'm going to
- 3:23Speaker 1: let it settle down over there a little bit.
- 3:25Speaker 2: But I'm curious why a grocery store is getting hyped
- 3:28Speaker 2: up that much. I'm not a have-to-be-there-immediately guy. Like our
- 3:32Speaker 2: Whataburger open in Mooresville and people are out there right away.
- 3:35Speaker 2: It's still going to be there in a week or so.
- 3:37Speaker 2: So I can hold off on food or grocery for
- 3:41Speaker 2: a week. I don't need to– I'm not a big
- 3:43Speaker 2: line person either, so it doesn't tempt me to be
- 3:45Speaker 2: out there like that. Now, you can't care enough about
- 3:47Speaker 2: this Wegmans to drive all the way to Ballantyne, though,
- 3:49Speaker 2: can you?
- 3:50Speaker 1: No, no, no, no. Like, for me, I could just
- 3:52Speaker 1: hop off the exit 485, bing, bang, boom. No, no.
- 3:55Speaker 1: But for you, I'm like, I can't imagine. We have
- 3:57Speaker 1: one of these. It's called Costco. Really? Is that? You're
- 4:02Speaker 1: drawing a line. Don't let someone from Buffalo hear that. Oh,
- 4:05Speaker 1: my gosh.
- 4:06Speaker 2: A grocery store that has all these things. Yeah, we
- 4:09Speaker 2: call that Costco. Well, that's the thing. I mean, Costco
- 4:11Speaker 2: is an interesting choice of a comparison. But, like, I
- 4:15Speaker 2: have a feeling I'll get in there and I'll be like,
- 4:17Speaker 2: it's nice. It's a grocery store.
- 4:18Speaker 1: Very spacious. You know what I mean? Like, it's a
- 4:20Speaker 1: grocery store. But anyway.
- 4:22Speaker 5: Oh, they're saying that Mac is going to find a
- 4:23Speaker 5: Wegsman Subline. apparently their subs are good.
- 4:26Speaker 2: Yeah what's up y'all got oh i may want to
- 4:27Speaker 2: dabble i may want to check out the sub offerings
- 4:30Speaker 2: and see what they got it's a high bar teeter
- 4:32Speaker 2: sets a high bar i don't believe pub i don't
- 4:34Speaker 2: believe public's is as good i know a lot of
- 4:36Speaker 2: people hype up pub subs i prefer teeter but yeah
- 4:39Speaker 2: i'm willing to enter wegmans into the mac sub challenge
- 4:43Speaker 2: that's not a bad call there by the way.
- 4:44Speaker 5: Mac i created in my head this morning my own
- 4:47Speaker 5: uh a jingle for us to use When someone catches
- 4:51Speaker 5: a stray on the show, or their first stray of
- 4:54Speaker 5: the day, but I can't do it until I catch
- 4:58Speaker 5: a stray. So once I catch that stray today, I'll
- 5:00Speaker 5: drop in that jingle here early in the show. If
- 5:03Speaker 5: I catch one, of course. I don't know if the.
- 5:05Speaker 2: What about if Flown catches a stray or Fitty? Are
- 5:07Speaker 2: you still seeing it?
- 5:08Speaker 5: Well, it's got to be. I have to set it
- 5:11Speaker 5: out there first because I know what it is. And
- 5:13Speaker 5: then after that, then you guys do it. That's a
- 5:15Speaker 5: lot of pressure. We usually don't like making fun of
- 5:18Speaker 5: each other. You know what I mean? We're going to
- 5:20Speaker 5: have to change our game plan. I just hope I
- 5:21Speaker 5: catch a stray, Fitty.
- 5:24Speaker 1: Oh, he's trying to get us to give him a stray?
- 5:25Speaker 1: It's got to happen naturally, Fitty, doesn't it?
- 5:28Speaker 6: Yeah, I was trying to think of a way to
- 5:29Speaker 6: just insult you off the rip, but nothing really comes
- 5:32Speaker 6: to mind right now.
- 5:33Speaker 1: I know what happens. I'll drop it in. It's okay.
- 5:36Speaker 5: If you hear me randomly just start singing a song,
- 5:39Speaker 5: it's because I've been.
- 5:40Speaker 1: I've been straight on the old straight line. Okay.
- 5:43Speaker 2: All right. Stay around for that, everybody. Stay around for that.
- 5:48Speaker 2: But let's start with the heartwarming story. There's no strays here.
- 5:52Speaker 2: The heartwarming story of Taylor Moten being back on the
- 5:55Speaker 2: practice field. I don't want to ignore Turk Wharton being
- 6:00Speaker 2: back out there from the neck issues.
- 6:03Speaker 4: ETN.
- 6:04Speaker 2: HN being out there as well. And HN, his window
- 6:08Speaker 2: has been activated as well to return. And Canales has
- 6:11Speaker 2: flat out said HN is back this week. We have
- 6:14Speaker 2: not heard that in terms of playing this week in
- 6:16Speaker 2: the game for Timo and for Wharton. But those guys
- 6:20Speaker 2: were back at practice yesterday. And for what Timo went through, Bone,
- 6:24Speaker 2: this is the big deal. This is the biggest one.
- 6:27Speaker 2: All apologies to the other guys. Because I don't think
- 6:30Speaker 2: we quite understood what he was going through. And yesterday
- 6:34Speaker 2: he spoke to the media. And we need to get
- 6:37Speaker 2: this stuff fit. We need to play one of these
- 6:40Speaker 2: clips here. Because he was having blood clots in his lungs.
- 6:44Speaker 2: And yesterday, for the first time, he detailed Bone kind
- 6:49Speaker 2: of how he discovered the issue and what he was
- 6:52Speaker 2: really going through. And it sounds rough.
- 6:55Speaker 1: Well, it all.
- 6:55Speaker 7: Started when I came back home from Michigan. I had
- 6:59Speaker 7: a youth camp up there, and then I started shortly afterwards,
- 7:04Speaker 7: I started coughing up blood, and it was like a
- 7:07Speaker 7: lot of it, and I could start feeling it leaking
- 7:10Speaker 7: through my chest even, something really different. So after 15
- 7:13Speaker 7: or so minutes of that, I was like, yeah, I've
- 7:15Speaker 7: got to go to the hospital. I went to the hospital.
- 7:16Speaker 7: They were doing CT scans, ultrasounds, trying to find what
- 7:20Speaker 7: was going on, and that's when they found a, a
- 7:23Speaker 7: multitude of clots in my right lung. So, you know,
- 7:27Speaker 7: shout out to the medical team out in Belmont, and
- 7:30Speaker 7: then going to Pineville from there, and, you know, Dr.
- 7:33Speaker 7: Gritter for all her help, you know, diagnosing it and
- 7:37Speaker 7: figuring out a good game plan. So from there, they
- 7:39Speaker 7: put me on blood thinners, and other than that, I
- 7:43Speaker 7: was just been working. I just couldn't have contact on
- 7:46Speaker 7: the blood thinners because, you know, having contact on blood
- 7:48Speaker 7: thinners could lead to, you know, like a brain bleed
- 7:50Speaker 7: or what.
- 7:50Speaker 2: Have you, so.
- 7:52Speaker 7: things like that, but ultimately do anything I could to
- 7:54Speaker 7: just work and simulate football without the contact up until then.
- 7:59Speaker 5: Man, that sounds terrifying. You've said it, Matt, numerous times.
- 8:03Speaker 5: We don't hear from Moten a lot, but when you do,
- 8:07Speaker 5: it's always interesting to hear him talk. He's a first-class dude.
- 8:10Speaker 5: It's an easy guy to root for, and you've said
- 8:13Speaker 5: it multiple times, one of the most underrated Panthers of
- 8:16Speaker 5: all time.
- 8:17Speaker 2: He's such a steadying force. Now, coughing up A lot
- 8:22Speaker 2: of blood. Multiple clots of blood in his right lung.
- 8:28Speaker 2: He mentioned Dr.
- 8:28Speaker 1: Gritter there.
- 8:29Speaker 2: She is one of the doctors, the internist over with
- 8:31Speaker 2: the Panthers. That's who he's referencing there. And we'll hear
- 8:37Speaker 2: more from what he said yesterday, because this obviously supersedes football.
- 8:41Speaker 1: The Panthers could use him back really.
- 8:44Speaker 2: I don't know if we're going to get him, but
- 8:46Speaker 2: if Monroe Freeland can't go with the knee injury and
- 8:49Speaker 2: he was working on the side yesterday, I wonder if
- 8:52Speaker 2: he gets put out there. He said he's preparing Bone
- 8:55Speaker 2: like he is going to play this week, but only
- 8:58Speaker 2: time will tell on this one. But man, what he
- 9:02Speaker 2: went through, that's one of those where there's no guarantee
- 9:04Speaker 2: a guy wants to play football.
- 9:07Speaker 1: After all that.
- 9:10Speaker 5: Yeah, no, and it would be great if he plays,
- 9:13Speaker 5: but just him playing football again will be great after
- 9:17Speaker 5: what he described there. So whenever he gets back, we're
- 9:20Speaker 5: rooting for him. But there's no rush when it's something
- 9:23Speaker 5: that serious, right?
- 9:25Speaker 2: So he could not do contact for three– when you're
- 9:29Speaker 2: on blood– thinners he could not do any contact whatsoever
- 9:33Speaker 2: yeah so they were able to take him off that
- 9:35Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago now he's back getting ready
- 9:38Speaker 2: to do contact and you'll you'll hear him talk in
- 9:40Speaker 2: a little bit about um the decision to come back
- 9:44Speaker 2: and play football and like what you know what risk
- 9:46Speaker 2: is there trying to return from football i didn't i
- 9:49Speaker 2: i had forgotten about this but and i'm not sure
- 9:51Speaker 2: it was in the lungs though i don't think it
- 9:52Speaker 2: was in the lungs but remember when dj wanham had
- 9:55Speaker 2: the blood clot issue oh yeah remember when he he
- 9:57Speaker 2: couldn't even start his panther first panthers season until midway through.
- 10:01Speaker 1: That's right.
- 10:02Speaker 2: Um, so, but I don't think it was in the lungs.
- 10:05Speaker 2: That feels like that's another level of scary. Yeah, that's
- 10:08Speaker 2: life scary, not just football scary. But we got more
- 10:11Speaker 2: Panther news coming up this hour on the show. We
- 10:14Speaker 2: got a defensive player going on IR, and it's season ending, unfortunately.
- 10:19Speaker 2: So we got stuff to talk about.
- 10:20Speaker 5: And one of them was a result of the surgery
- 10:23Speaker 5: that he had from the quad tear. And then he
- 10:25Speaker 5: had MRSA after that. Oh, that's where that got scary.
- 10:28Speaker 5: That's where he came from. Because MRSA, you could lose
- 10:29Speaker 5: a damn limb. Yes. So anyway, that's where that one
- 10:32Speaker 5: got real scary.
- 10:33Speaker 1: All right.
- 10:34Speaker 2: So we'll talk about it here. The injury report comes
- 10:36Speaker 2: out today. It's one of these weird situations. And you're
- 10:39Speaker 2: going to hear also coming up in a few minutes,
- 10:41Speaker 2: Coach Canales explaining why they changed the practice schedule this week.
- 10:44Speaker 2: why they practice tuesday instead of wednesday and they're off
- 10:48Speaker 2: today but it's one of these weird situations bone when
- 10:51Speaker 2: teams do this um they put out an injury report
- 10:54Speaker 2: today it doesn't come out it doesn't go out yesterday
- 10:56Speaker 2: when they practiced and i and what they do is
- 10:59Speaker 2: they will kind of estimate if we were practicing today
- 11:02Speaker 2: this dude would be limited this dude would practice in
- 11:04Speaker 2: full so it's kind of it's kind of a weird
- 11:05Speaker 2: dynamic but our first look at an injury report or
- 11:08Speaker 2: an estimated injury report We'll be later today. Do want
- 11:13Speaker 2: to mention, Bone, that the ACC Hoops preseason media poll
- 11:19Speaker 2: is out. And I'm not sure Tar Heel fans will
- 11:23Speaker 2: be happy with the preseason media poll. Now, the good
- 11:26Speaker 2: news is these things don't mean squad douche once you
- 11:29Speaker 2: start playing games. Duke, no surprise there, is picked to
- 11:34Speaker 2: win the conference by the media that voted last week
- 11:37Speaker 2: here at ACC tip-off. Virginia is second, Louisville third. And
- 11:43Speaker 2: then it is Miami pick fourth, and then Carolina in
- 11:47Speaker 2: the fifth spot.
- 11:48Speaker 5: And it feels like Clemson loses Zach Foster yesterday to
- 11:52Speaker 5: a second-torn ACL. I know Florida State's getting a little better,
- 11:56Speaker 5: but it feels like, Mac, that there's five, and then
- 11:59Speaker 5: there's kind of a drop-off after that. So I can
- 12:02Speaker 5: solidly say that those five belong in the top five.
- 12:05Speaker 5: Miami's interesting because I saw someone write the other day
- 12:08Speaker 5: that they have Final Four potential because Malik Renu got
- 12:12Speaker 5: an extra year. Their leading scorer came back, so that's
- 12:15Speaker 5: kind of why they're... I mean, just recently he got
- 12:18Speaker 5: the injunction to play, so they're thinking that they're going
- 12:21Speaker 5: to be really, really good.
- 12:22Speaker 1: Is that permanent, or could there be an overturning?
- 12:24Speaker 5: Well, he got voted into the All-ACC lineup, so I
- 12:27Speaker 5: don't know what this means exactly. But yeah, I think
- 12:30Speaker 5: that's a solid five, and we'll see what happens after that.
- 12:33Speaker 1: But I think.
- 12:35Speaker 5: Look, Duke is, as deep as they've been, Virginia is
- 12:39Speaker 5: going to be a problem in this league.
- 12:41Speaker 1: I wouldn't be completely stunned if... They've got so many
- 12:43Speaker 1: dudes back. Virginia, I'm going to have an honest moment here.
- 12:45Speaker 5: Virginia may end up, could have a very, very similar
- 12:51Speaker 5: record to Duke this year. Man, so you had an honest...
- 12:53Speaker 5: Because in this day and age of college basketball, what
- 12:55Speaker 5: do they bring back? Four starters, another rotation guy? Virginia's
- 12:59Speaker 5: going to be ridiculous this year.
- 13:01Speaker 1: They are. They are, man.
- 13:02Speaker 2: So you had an honest moment there. Does that mean
- 13:04Speaker 2: you're normally not honest when you're talking about Duke?
- 13:06Speaker 5: No, normally I'm a filthy, dirty liar. Duke is filth.
- 13:10Speaker 5: It's funny the way you preface that. I think that
- 13:13Speaker 5: the gap between Virginia and Duke is not that great. Fitty,
- 13:18Speaker 5: does it annoy you, Fitty, that y'all are picked fifth,
- 13:20Speaker 5: or do you not care about this crap?
- 13:21Speaker 6: No, I had a little bit of an issue with it,
- 13:24Speaker 6: but the issue would have been I should have put
- 13:26Speaker 6: them fourth and Miami fifth.
- 13:27Speaker 3: I would have flip-flopped them.
- 13:30Speaker 1: Bone's right. All five of those teams are pretty damn talented.
- 13:32Speaker 3: But it's just because I know my team more than
- 13:34Speaker 3: I know Miami. Bone, tell me, am I wrong?
- 13:39Speaker 6: I want to see Miami kind of validate what they
- 13:41Speaker 6: did last year. In the portal era, you see teams
- 13:44Speaker 6: that look really, really good one year. They bring some
- 13:47Speaker 6: of it back, but the roster changes. Are they going
- 13:50Speaker 6: to be that good again? I don't know if they
- 13:52Speaker 6: have Final Four potential. And I also think, like, I
- 13:55Speaker 6: would have voted Duke to win the conference. I didn't
- 13:57Speaker 6: get a poll. Only 48 people got to vote in
- 13:59Speaker 6: the preseason stuff. But 45 first-place votes for Duke. And
- 14:04Speaker 6: then just one apiece for Virginia, Louisville, and Miami. I
- 14:09Speaker 6: would have thought Virginia would have garnered a lot more
- 14:11Speaker 6: first-place votes.
- 14:12Speaker 3: Than they did because I'm with Bone.
- 14:15Speaker 6: I do think they are going to push Duke to
- 14:17Speaker 6: win the ACC regular season title. The bigger surprise to me, Mac,
- 14:22Speaker 6: was that you see no North Carolina players on preseason
- 14:25Speaker 6: first or second team all ACC.
- 14:27Speaker 3: And for me, again, the surprise was more no second-teamers.
- 14:30Speaker 1: That was surprising. That surprised me also.
- 14:32Speaker 6: Like, you're bringing in Terrence Brown from Utah, 1,300 points
- 14:35Speaker 6: the last two years. We all saw what Neil Abdallah
- 14:38Speaker 6: was capable of doing in the win over USC last week.
- 14:42Speaker 6: I would have thought maybe one of those two guys
- 14:44Speaker 6: would have backdoored their way onto.
- 14:45Speaker 3: The second team.
- 14:46Speaker 1: That's a good point.
- 14:47Speaker 3: You know, it's just fuel and motivation.
- 14:50Speaker 5: One thing about Miami is they don't– there's not a
- 14:52Speaker 5: lot of– known guys that you would say oh yeah
- 14:56Speaker 5: he's a miami hurricane but shell and henderson's back as
- 14:58Speaker 5: a sophomore and they blame back renew so they're gonna
- 15:00Speaker 5: have one of the better one of the better different
- 15:03Speaker 5: molly renew plays but that's one of the better duos
- 15:05Speaker 5: i would say in the league though shell and henderson's
- 15:07Speaker 5: a monster at forward.
- 15:08Speaker 2: Yeah i'm not gonna lie and act like i know
- 15:10Speaker 2: who is on all the who these teams uh you
- 15:12Speaker 2: know rotations are and there's some i'm not gonna lie
- 15:14Speaker 2: about there's some transfers on there for miami with good
- 15:16Speaker 2: stats but i don't know like and louisville's got something
- 15:19Speaker 2: to prove I was watching the ACC hoops preview last night,
- 15:23Speaker 2: ACC Network.
- 15:23Speaker 1: It's like, okay, I get it. They brought in about six,
- 15:26Speaker 1: seven transfers. I get it.
- 15:27Speaker 5: Let's see it. Let's see it on the court. And
- 15:30Speaker 5: Pat Kelsey has something to prove against the better teams.
- 15:33Speaker 5: His record against the good teams is not good.
- 15:35Speaker 1: Big time. NC State, by the way, eighth in the media.
- 15:37Speaker 2: Clemson was sixth, but that's obviously before they lose Foster
- 15:42Speaker 2: for the season.
- 15:43Speaker 1: NC State eighth. Wake, I think, like 14th. if I'm
- 15:46Speaker 1: not mistaken, or somewhere in that neighborhood. Yes, they were 14.
- 15:50Speaker 2: Canes went again last night. They've now won six in
- 15:52Speaker 2: a row. When do we play the yappy Florida Panthers next?
- 15:57Speaker 2: Because they were very proud of themselves down there, those
- 16:00Speaker 2: Levitard Show Florida Panther fans, after winning the opening game
- 16:05Speaker 2: of the season, which was ugly, and you could tell...
- 16:08Speaker 2: Everybody was rusty. The Canes are on fire right now,
- 16:11Speaker 2: specifically Andrei Svechnikov. They went 4-2 over the Caps last night.
- 16:15Speaker 2: Svechnikov has scored six goals in his last five games,
- 16:18Speaker 2: and they don't even have Jarvis yet. They're leading goal
- 16:21Speaker 2: scorers in the last year. Jarvis should be back in
- 16:23Speaker 2: the very near future, too. They play January 21st down
- 16:27Speaker 2: there in Florida, then April 10th. They play three games
- 16:29Speaker 2: this year. I'm ready for it now, baby.
- 16:32Speaker 1: You want it tonight.
- 17:00Speaker 2: And a couple different scenarios of assistance elsewhere tonight to
- 17:04Speaker 2: clinch a playoff berth this season. They got six games
- 17:08Speaker 2: left to go. They're going, you know, I'm not, I
- 17:10Speaker 2: don't want to jinx it.
- 17:12Speaker 1: I'm sorry. But anyway, I'm not going to. You kind
- 17:14Speaker 1: of stopped short there. But y'all know what I'm thinking. Right.
- 17:16Speaker 2: Y'all know what I'm thinking. They are in very good shape.
- 17:18Speaker 2: It's all about seeding. But the formality of making the
- 17:22Speaker 2: playoffs again, which. We need more than that. Playoffs ain't
- 17:26Speaker 2: the standard. We need to freaking advance for the first
- 17:30Speaker 2: time in franchise history. But the formality can be accomplished tonight.
- 17:34Speaker 1: It's a new feature.
- 17:35Speaker 5: Mac starts a thought, then we just have to figure
- 17:37Speaker 5: out what Mac is talking about.
- 17:39Speaker 2: I was going to do something that could curse him,
- 17:40Speaker 2: so I just shut up. Can I say something?
- 17:43Speaker 1: What are you doing?
- 17:44Speaker 5: I know that Mac-tion has been a big deal midweek
- 17:48Speaker 5: for a while. I have gotten in, Mac, the last
- 17:50Speaker 5: couple weeks to the Conference USA– Tuesday night broadcast. Last
- 17:54Speaker 5: night I was watching FIU Jacksonville State. That was a
- 17:58Speaker 5: hell of a football game last night. Those Conference USA
- 18:00Speaker 5: games are not bad. They had Delaware, Middle Tennessee last night.
- 18:04Speaker 5: They have two on Tuesday, two on Wednesday. It's not bad.
- 18:07Speaker 5: Does that mean you had a bet on the game?
- 18:08Speaker 5: Absolutely I did. And by the way, for those that
- 18:11Speaker 5: are wondering, for those that are keeping score at home,
- 18:14Speaker 5: the bone, man, it's continuing right now.
- 18:17Speaker 1: You're still sizzling? Oh, my God. See, look. Look at
- 18:19Speaker 1: my arms. They're on fire right now. I'm so hot.
- 18:21Speaker 1: I see them, baby. I see them. I saw winning
- 18:22Speaker 1: Conference USA games. Look out. As we head to Harris
- 18:26Speaker 1: in the sports book on Thursday. Oh, my God. My
- 18:30Speaker 1: pants might catch on fire in that place.
- 18:32Speaker 2: Harris, you might just want to put a briefcase of
- 18:34Speaker 2: all cash, just thousands of dollars of cash, and just
- 18:36Speaker 2: hand it to the bone man when he goes in.
- 18:38Speaker 1: This is terrifying. Hot bum going to Harris. Look out, baby.
- 18:41Speaker 1: What could go wrong, y'all?
- 18:44Speaker 2: Yeah, we're doing our show at Harris Cherokee Casino Resort
- 18:46Speaker 2: on Friday. We're going to get there on Thursday and
- 18:48Speaker 2: stay the night. And we've already had a listener, and
- 18:50Speaker 2: I apologize to him because I forget what his name was.
- 18:53Speaker 2: We already had a listener text us and say, I'm
- 18:54Speaker 2: going to be up there Thursday night. What's that?
- 18:58Speaker 1: It was Dale. Okay, there we go.
- 19:00Speaker 2: So our guy Dale's going to be hanging out on
- 19:01Speaker 2: Thursday night as well. We got two football games to watch.
- 19:05Speaker 2: We got ECU playing against UAB. We've got the Denver-Seattle game.
- 19:11Speaker 2: We got ourselves a Thursday night, Bone.
- 19:12Speaker 1: They got sports bars. They got the sports book.
- 19:15Speaker 5: They got all this food, Mac, that we have a
- 19:18Speaker 5: voucher for, but not as much as we had before
- 19:20Speaker 5: because Finney ruined that apparently.
- 19:21Speaker 1: A lot of times it was there. We got things happening, baby.
- 19:24Speaker 1: We got things happening.
- 19:25Speaker 2: I guess I should mention, Bone, that Tampa Bay did
- 19:30Speaker 2: win yesterday.
- 19:31Speaker 1: They did. Last night. Was it 3-1? Was that the final?
- 19:36Speaker 1: I believe so, yes. It was TV2. TV2 last night
- 19:38Speaker 1: in my crib.
- 19:39Speaker 5: I had to sound up on that very important Jacksonville
- 19:42Speaker 5: State FIU game.
- 19:43Speaker 1: You were locked in on that. I was locked in.
- 19:44Speaker 1: Three to one. Three to one, you're right. I was
- 19:46Speaker 1: locked in. U.S.
- 19:47Speaker 2: Women's national team rallying against the number one team in
- 19:49Speaker 2: the world. Spain, for a 2-2 draw. And damn near
- 19:52Speaker 2: won it last night.
- 19:53Speaker 1: How about that? So that's what I was locked in
- 19:54Speaker 1: on last night.
- 19:55Speaker 5: When we come back, more from Timo on his health scare.
- 19:58Speaker 5: Dave Canales on why they changed the practice schedule last night.
- 20:01Speaker 5: for this week and Bryce talks about his whirlwind media
- 20:05Speaker 5: tour that I believe hit Raleigh yesterday as well on
- 20:07Speaker 5: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
- 20:30Speaker 7: Ultimately, I had to weigh the pros and cons of
- 20:35Speaker 7: getting off the blood thinners and then being able to
- 20:37Speaker 7: play ball again with a chance of happening. The chances
- 20:40Speaker 7: are relatively low right now after being on the blood
- 20:45Speaker 7: thinners for three months. I just decided to take those
- 20:48Speaker 7: risks and get back to it. I love the sport.
- 20:50Speaker 7: I love being in the locker room with the guys.
- 20:52Speaker 7: I love this organization, this city, and everything that they've
- 20:56Speaker 7: done for me. I'm just happy I could get back
- 21:00Speaker 7: to work and get back to what I love to do.
- 21:04Speaker 2: So there you go. That is Timo. Welcome back Timo. Hopefully, uh, bone,
- 21:09Speaker 2: there won't be any setbacks. He, you know, did have
- 21:11Speaker 2: to says he thinks it's a, he understands it's a
- 21:14Speaker 2: small chance of something bad happening, but he, I'm willing
- 21:19Speaker 2: to take the risk.
- 21:20Speaker 1: I love freaking football.
- 21:23Speaker 2: And these guys are willing to take a lot of
- 21:25Speaker 2: risk to play this game they love, man.
- 21:27Speaker 5: He's such an important guy for the leadership component, but
- 21:32Speaker 5: just the football itself right now, you know, Monroe Freeling's
- 21:38Speaker 5: been rushed back to play not only a different spot,
- 21:41Speaker 5: but maybe sooner than we thought. I know he's injured
- 21:44Speaker 5: right now anyway, and Rasheed Walker hasn't played well, so
- 21:47Speaker 5: Freeling might be the best option on his natural left
- 21:50Speaker 5: side anyway. But it wouldn't be the worst thing in
- 21:53Speaker 5: the world for Freeling to maybe step back and watch
- 21:57Speaker 5: for a few games and not have to have the
- 22:00Speaker 5: pressure as a rookie to be in there right now.
- 22:03Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 22:04Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 22:05Speaker 1: Again, if Rasheed Walker was balling, I'd agree with you 100%.
- 22:08Speaker 2: Well, that would be the ideal situation. I just don't
- 22:11Speaker 2: know Rasheed Walker. He has really struggled in pass pro,
- 22:16Speaker 2: and that was supposed to be his strong point.
- 22:19Speaker 1: But if Freeland can't play this.
- 22:20Speaker 2: Week, I'm starting to wonder if Moten really will go
- 22:25Speaker 2: right away. I'm not sure, Bone, to you talking about
- 22:28Speaker 2: what's ideal. I'm not sure it's ideal for Timo to
- 22:30Speaker 2: play right away.
- 22:31Speaker 1: That's true. But.
- 22:34Speaker 2: I have a feeling he might if Freeling can't go.
- 22:37Speaker 2: If not, it's Stone Forsythe at right tackle.
- 22:40Speaker 5: That's the scariest part of the matchup to me is
- 22:44Speaker 5: the strength of the Eagles is still their defense, specifically
- 22:48Speaker 5: what they have up front.
- 22:49Speaker 1: Interior, though. Yes. On the outside, I don't think the
- 22:54Speaker 1: edges are great.
- 22:55Speaker 5: But it's still a concern of the Panthers' interior offensive line.
- 22:58Speaker 5: That's why Lewis is so important to this. versus what
- 23:01Speaker 5: the Eagles have in the middle of their defensive line
- 23:02Speaker 5: right now.
- 23:03Speaker 2: Yeah, I think as far as tackles go, again, I'm
- 23:06Speaker 2: sure this could be a comment I regret. They have
- 23:08Speaker 2: two sacks from edges all season. Jalen Carter has three
- 23:11Speaker 2: sacks by himself on the inside. Jordan Davis is a
- 23:14Speaker 2: man and a half on the inside. Yeah, we're going
- 23:18Speaker 2: to find out today when the injury report comes out again,
- 23:20Speaker 2: even though they're not practicing, about D.
- 23:22Speaker 1: Lou.
- 23:23Speaker 2: Where does he stack up? Can he get back out there?
- 23:26Speaker 2: We'll get the thoughts on T-Mac or T-Mo. Uh, Wharton, uh,
- 23:31Speaker 2: it feels like again, HN, it sounds like canals has
- 23:34Speaker 2: said repeatedly, Hey, he's coming back. He's going to be
- 23:36Speaker 2: back out there. Uh, cam Jackson went to the IR bone, um,
- 23:41Speaker 2: did not realize he had a shoulder situation. He was
- 23:44Speaker 2: dealing with, and we know he had a knee situation.
- 23:46Speaker 2: It's had him on the injury report. He needs to
- 23:48Speaker 2: have shoulder surgery, and he is done for the season
- 23:51Speaker 2: on the defensive interior.
- 23:53Speaker 5: Yeah, a guy that I thought really flashed in camp,
- 23:56Speaker 5: but unfortunately his body has betrayed him here in the
- 23:59Speaker 5: first quarter of the 26th season.
- 24:01Speaker 1: They have three rosters.
- 24:02Speaker 5: That's also a man that's got giant shoulders, so hopefully the—
- 24:05Speaker 5: He got giant everything, man.
- 24:08Speaker 1: I mean, I don't mean to seem too graphic here. Apparently,
- 24:10Speaker 1: you know him individually. He got giant. I mean, he
- 24:13Speaker 1: makes DB look like little brother. It's crazy.
- 24:16Speaker 2: But anyway, we wish him the best. And again, I'm
- 24:18Speaker 2: not going to act like Bone. He was the factor
- 24:21Speaker 2: we thought.
- 24:21Speaker 1: He would be.
- 24:23Speaker 2: Back in camp, when he actually got listed on the
- 24:25Speaker 2: depth chart as the starter, but it's depth.
- 24:28Speaker 1: It's big.
- 24:29Speaker 2: Hog Molly's on defense depth. and you don't want to
- 24:32Speaker 2: lose those sort of guys. So it's not ideal. They
- 24:34Speaker 2: now have three roster spots open, and I don't know
- 24:36Speaker 2: if it's coincidentally, they have the three guys that could
- 24:41Speaker 2: be activated and back on the active roster in Timo, Wharton,
- 24:46Speaker 2: and HN. So we'll see if those three fill the
- 24:47Speaker 2: spots right away or not. Coker looked a lot better
- 24:51Speaker 2: on the video that the media was tweeting out during
- 24:54Speaker 2: the media portion of practice. He was moving bone like
- 24:56Speaker 2: somebody's grandpa. Two weeks ago? Like me this morning. He now, Bone,
- 25:04Speaker 2: it looks a lot better, and no one's really saying
- 25:06Speaker 2: anything yet. But I guess Canales did have something to say, Fit,
- 25:11Speaker 2: on Coker. Again, it's noncommittal, but he was asked about
- 25:16Speaker 2: Jalen Coker and what he looks like trying to come back.
- 25:19Speaker 8: Coker looked great. He had a really nice day today.
- 25:21Speaker 8: We'll see how he responds. Again, this is a high
- 25:24Speaker 8: load for him practice-wise coming off of. the quad and
- 25:28Speaker 8: the ankle. And again, we'll give specifics on the questionable, doubtful,
- 25:33Speaker 8: all that thing as we go into tomorrow.
- 25:36Speaker 1: There you go.
- 25:36Speaker 2: So work Wednesday will be a no work Wednesday, Bone,
- 25:38Speaker 2: but we'll get an injury report. Great time for the
- 25:41Speaker 2: bye week for a lot of guys, especially Coker. He's
- 25:43Speaker 2: had time to heal here from the game off to
- 25:47Speaker 2: the week off. So hopefully we get full Coker here. Yeah,
- 25:52Speaker 2: it feels good. Again, I don't want to Matt curse it,
- 25:55Speaker 2: but that one feels kind of good to me. But
- 25:58Speaker 2: we'll see the injury report later. Jalen Phillips was in
- 26:00Speaker 2: uniform yesterday. We'll see what the injury report says on him.
- 26:03Speaker 2: He's coming off the hamstring injury. Now, Tommy Tremble, who
- 26:06Speaker 2: got dinged up but kept playing bone against the Lions,
- 26:09Speaker 2: he was apparently working on the side with Monroe Freeling yesterday.
- 26:12Speaker 2: So we're going to now you can throw a tremble injury.
- 26:15Speaker 2: I got to be honest with you, man.
- 26:17Speaker 1: I'm injury. It's an injury overload. It's a damn injury overload.
- 26:21Speaker 5: ER has ran for 30 years and not had, or no,
- 26:24Speaker 5: excuse me, Grey's Anatomy.
- 26:25Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
- 26:26Speaker 5: Grey's Anatomy has ran for 30 years, Mac, and has
- 26:28Speaker 5: not had this much medical drama.
- 26:29Speaker 2: I mean, do I look, I know my name starts
- 26:31Speaker 2: with MC, but I'm not McDreamy or McSteamy.
- 26:34Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just tired. You're McWeenie. I'm tired. I
- 26:37Speaker 1: thought that was Panther Steve. I'm just kidding, Panther Steve.
- 26:41Speaker 1: Just kidding.
- 26:41Speaker 5: Mac, we do have our latest update from televisionist Joe Bruno.
- 26:45Speaker 5: That'll make you laugh about what's going on out there
- 26:47Speaker 5: at Wegmans on Twitter right now. He tweeted out, first
- 26:50Speaker 5: of all, a texter on our side works across the street, Featherneck.
- 26:56Speaker 5: He said there's heavy police presence now directing traffic outside
- 27:00Speaker 5: of Wegmans. Joe Bruno says the tailgating has began. People
- 27:04Speaker 5: are cooking breakfast in the parking lot of Wegmans.
- 27:07Speaker 1: Oh, my God. It's that big of a deal? Seriously.
- 27:12Speaker 1: So they need a big police presence. That tracks.
- 27:14Speaker 2: There's going to be a lot of obnoxious Yankees over
- 27:16Speaker 2: there at Wegmans today. Let them fire up obnoxious Yanks.
- 27:20Speaker 5: The chance that a Buffalo fan goes through this breakfast
- 27:22Speaker 5: table is about 98%.
- 27:23Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness.
- 27:25Speaker 3: Anyway.
- 27:26Speaker 1: What in the world? Tailgating.
- 27:27Speaker 5: You know, you guys can go in and get the food.
- 27:30Speaker 5: You don't have to eat outside. Go in and get
- 27:31Speaker 5: it when it opens. It's the Super Bowl. For people
- 27:33Speaker 5: that moved here from upstate New York, apparently it is
- 27:36Speaker 5: their damn Super Bowl.
- 27:39Speaker 2: Anyway, since Josh Allen can't get them to one, it's
- 27:41Speaker 2: their Super Bowl. I'm just making them all mad. I'm
- 27:44Speaker 2: making them all mad this morning. We can't because we can't.
- 27:46Speaker 1: They should put us on in the parking lot. We kid.
- 27:48Speaker 1: We kid because we care. All right.
- 27:50Speaker 2: Let's get to some more audio on the Panthers. Let's
- 27:53Speaker 2: hear from Coach Canales talking about the player's reaction to
- 27:59Speaker 2: having the beloved Taylor Moten back.
- 28:02Speaker 8: Yeah, they respond to him like a fun uncle. You know,
- 28:05Speaker 8: he's and he accepts and embraces that role. I don't
- 28:09Speaker 8: know where this came from. It was here when I
- 28:10Speaker 8: got here. But, you know, it's every other week. It's
- 28:13Speaker 8: happy birthday, Timo. So happy birthday, Timo. But It's just
- 28:18Speaker 8: that's the way he is. And, you know, as as
- 28:20Speaker 8: fun loving as he is, there isn't anybody that is
- 28:22Speaker 8: more conscientious about their fundamentals and their technique. And it's
- 28:25Speaker 8: why he's been able to be so successful for so long. And,
- 28:29Speaker 8: you know, he gets back out there practice and you
- 28:30Speaker 8: can just see how how technical he is with his footwork,
- 28:34Speaker 8: with his hand placement. And a great example for all
- 28:37Speaker 8: the guys, for Monroe, for all these guys to kind
- 28:39Speaker 8: of see how you go about your work and being detailed.
- 28:42Speaker 1: So there you go.
- 28:44Speaker 2: Apparently, it's a running gag in the locker room where
- 28:48Speaker 2: they say, happy birthday, Timo, like every couple of weeks.
- 28:50Speaker 1: Oh, OK. So that's the age thing, I'm guessing.
- 28:53Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 28:54Speaker 1: Oh, Timo's had another birthday. Yeah, there you go. But
- 28:56Speaker 1: he's a fun uncle over there. There you go. The
- 28:58Speaker 1: fun uncle.
- 28:59Speaker 5: I forgot back. I was looking up his bio yesterday.
- 29:03Speaker 5: It feels like, you know, he just got here, but
- 29:05Speaker 5: he's almost a decade into this thing here.
- 29:07Speaker 1: Nine years. And you remember who?
- 29:10Speaker 5: The pick that was used to select Moten was acquired
- 29:13Speaker 5: in a trade with the Patriots. You remember who Moten
- 29:16Speaker 5: was essentially traded for to New England? Coney Ely was
- 29:20Speaker 5: the guy sent out for Moten to come here. I
- 29:24Speaker 5: wouldn't have thought of that.
- 29:26Speaker 1: We traded Coney to New England for a draft pick?
- 29:29Speaker 5: The pick used to select Moten was acquired in a
- 29:31Speaker 5: trade with the Patriots in a trade that sent Coney
- 29:34Speaker 5: Ealy to the Patriots.
- 29:34Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I would have never guessed that one. I
- 29:37Speaker 2: would have never guessed that one.
- 29:38Speaker 5: Coney Ealy was almost, if the Panthers could have sealed
- 29:41Speaker 5: the deal, he was almost, Mack, one of the most
- 29:43Speaker 5: unlikely Super Bowl MVPs of all time.
- 29:45Speaker 1: Because he had a hell of a game that day.
- 29:47Speaker 2: He made more plays in that game than the rest
- 29:48Speaker 2: of his Panther career combined.
- 29:50Speaker 1: It was amazing.
- 29:52Speaker 2: Cody, Cody. Cody, Cody. It was amazing how he was
- 29:55Speaker 2: on fire. Bill's fan on the text line not happy
- 29:58Speaker 2: with me.
- 29:59Speaker 1: What? He's having fun with me. He says, good one, Mac.
- 30:02Speaker 2: That was almost as funny as the Panthers' chances of
- 30:04Speaker 2: making a Super Bowl with Bryce at the helm.
- 30:07Speaker 3: Touche, sir.
- 30:08Speaker 1: Maybe we'll see you there. Hey, maybe we'll solve it
- 30:10Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, baby. Hey, we'll do our part.
- 30:12Speaker 5: You do your part, sir. And you know what? We'll
- 30:15Speaker 5: settle this at Wegmans with a wing eating contest.
- 30:20Speaker 1: Can we win that one? Beer drinking contest.
- 30:23Speaker 2: This texter says the Wegmans tailgaters can do it because
- 30:26Speaker 2: they're currently collecting unemployment. Oh, my God.
- 30:28Speaker 1: Oh, man.
- 30:29Speaker 2: Anyway, this dude said, did Mac say something about a
- 30:31Speaker 2: gathering of obnoxious Yankees?
- 30:33Speaker 1: You would fit right in, sir. Gator Rube. I call
- 30:36Speaker 1: that the holidays.
- 30:37Speaker 2: I said that to Gator Rube on the text line,
- 30:39Speaker 2: and Gator Rube said, you are now from here.
- 30:42Speaker 1: Southern copycat. And I was damn near tearing up. I mean,
- 30:46Speaker 1: at what point? We have so many transplants. How many
- 30:48Speaker 1: years do you have to be here to be from here?
- 30:50Speaker 1: I am now. 20 years?
- 30:52Speaker 5: I feel like that earns you, right? I am 30
- 30:54Speaker 5: years Southern, 12 years Northern. So I think I'm more
- 30:58Speaker 5: Southern than Northern, except for grits. I'm never going to
- 31:01Speaker 5: be a grits guy.
- 31:02Speaker 1: When did I? Well, I moved to the South, then
- 31:03Speaker 1: I moved back up North and back to the South.
- 31:05Speaker 2: I can't do that. That's too much math. That's too
- 31:07Speaker 2: much math for me. You were in Florida, man? You
- 31:09Speaker 2: were a Florida man there? Jacksonville South.
- 31:11Speaker 1: When I lived in Fort Lauderdale, I'm not going to
- 31:13Speaker 1: even joke around and act like that's the South. That's
- 31:16Speaker 1: New York with palm trees. You're talking about obnoxious Yankees.
- 31:20Speaker 1: Forget about it! Anyway, I'm obnoxious, but I don't know.
- 31:25Speaker 1: Can I be obnoxious honorary Southerner now or no? Maybe not.
- 31:29Speaker 1: Let's be real here. No matter where this show....
- 31:32Speaker 5: Where we were born and raised, we were going to
- 31:35Speaker 5: be obnoxious no matter what was going on. Midwestern, West Coast,
- 31:40Speaker 5: we were going to be annoying anywhere.
- 31:42Speaker 2: So it didn't matter. This dude is from upstate New York.
- 31:44Speaker 2: He says, Buffalo, they're more Canadians than they are Yankees.
- 31:48Speaker 2: So there you go. All right, let's get back to Panthers.
- 31:50Speaker 2: A couple more audio clips here. As we celebrated our
- 31:54Speaker 2: very own special way, the Wegmans arrival in Ballantyne today.
- 32:00Speaker 2: So I'm sure a lot of people are wondering, why
- 32:02Speaker 2: are the Panthers practicing this week on Tuesday and taking
- 32:07Speaker 2: today off, taking Wednesday off? Coach Canales explained yesterday.
- 32:10Speaker 8: Yeah, so just friends around the league, different ways to
- 32:14Speaker 8: do things coming off of a bye. This is also
- 32:16Speaker 8: something teams do going into the season in the first week.
- 32:19Speaker 8: We didn't do it this year, but when we think
- 32:23Speaker 8: about it, you get it, you have a little bit
- 32:25Speaker 8: of a break. So yesterday we had, you know, some,
- 32:27Speaker 8: some movement, some workout stuff, uh, shorter meetings, get the
- 32:31Speaker 8: coaches back in there to get the game plan done.
- 32:33Speaker 8: Then getting out there on Tuesday earlier in the week,
- 32:36Speaker 8: you get a chance to really knock the rust off,
- 32:38Speaker 8: you know, and they haven't done football while, while the
- 32:40Speaker 8: guys have had opportunities to work out. I think one
- 32:43Speaker 8: of the days we had about 35 or 36 guys here, um,
- 32:47Speaker 8: last week on the bi-week, uh, which I haven't really
- 32:50Speaker 8: been a part of that. So the guys enjoy being here,
- 32:52Speaker 8: but Anyway, getting that first that first practice in on Tuesday,
- 32:56Speaker 8: the high intensities we padded up. It was a physical day,
- 32:59Speaker 8: giving them a day to recover tomorrow and then being
- 33:02Speaker 8: able to come back going Thursday, Friday, Saturday, all the
- 33:04Speaker 8: way through our normal routine. Just thought it gives us
- 33:07Speaker 8: an opportunity to really get after it and then to
- 33:09Speaker 8: just give a little break, knowing Thursday is going to
- 33:12Speaker 8: be a high miles day as well to take advantage
- 33:15Speaker 8: of the rest and take advantage of guys getting a
- 33:17Speaker 8: little bit of juice in their legs.
- 33:18Speaker 1: So there you go. Makes sense. I hope it works, Bone.
- 33:21Speaker 1: A couple of things. So it's a non-work Wednesday. It's
- 33:24Speaker 1: a non-work Wednesday.
- 33:25Speaker 2: He seemed confused when he got to the podium yesterday
- 33:28Speaker 2: and was very excited on what was a kind of
- 33:31Speaker 2: Wednesday practice on a Tuesday.
- 33:32Speaker 1: He didn't seem to know what to call it. No,
- 33:33Speaker 1: he didn't know what was going on. Didn't really know
- 33:34Speaker 1: what to call it. A couple of things here.
- 33:36Speaker 2: I think this is probably a tweak. You heard him
- 33:39Speaker 2: say he was talking to coaches around the league about
- 33:42Speaker 2: what they do coming off bye weeks. They're 0-2 off
- 33:45Speaker 2: bye weeks. Now, they've lost by a field goal in Canals' tenure,
- 33:50Speaker 2: I'm saying. They've lost by a field goal each time.
- 33:53Speaker 2: Lost to Kansas City off a bye week bone by three.
- 33:56Speaker 2: Very close to winning that game. Two years ago, last
- 33:59Speaker 2: year was a bad loss. It was the one at
- 34:01Speaker 2: New Orleans off the bye week. So I give him
- 34:04Speaker 2: credit for trying to maybe figure out, can we do
- 34:07Speaker 2: something a little differently? I also want to point out,
- 34:10Speaker 2: he mentioned teams sometimes do it in week one. The
- 34:14Speaker 2: Bears did it going into week one.
- 34:17Speaker 5: Seemed to work for them. From my memory, yes. I've
- 34:21Speaker 5: tried to bury that, but I do believe something worked
- 34:24Speaker 5: well for the Bears. Does that mean we're going to
- 34:26Speaker 5: put up 59?
- 34:26Speaker 2: All right, real quick, let's get to Bryce Young because
- 34:30Speaker 2: he was back yesterday. Of course, he was back yesterday
- 34:33Speaker 2: after the media tour, the bonanza of interviews. Heck, he
- 34:38Speaker 2: even ended up in Raleigh at a grand opening of
- 34:41Speaker 2: a new Dick's Sporting Goods store, Bone, where people were
- 34:45Speaker 2: camping out the night before.
- 34:46Speaker 1: There were 2,000 people.
- 34:48Speaker 2: And the line wrapped around the store in Raleigh to
- 34:51Speaker 2: see Bryce on Sunday. But Bryce did not seem, Bone,
- 34:55Speaker 2: all that excited about all the fun things he did.
- 34:59Speaker 4: Again, for me, I've just been, you know. doing the
- 35:03Speaker 4: same stuff. Obviously, it was cool being able to go
- 35:06Speaker 4: back for a little bit. That was fun. But outside
- 35:08Speaker 4: of that, again, I'm not social or anything, so I
- 35:12Speaker 4: don't really know the extent of stuff. But, again, it's
- 35:17Speaker 4: really nice to be back. You miss ball for the week.
- 35:21Speaker 4: I don't want to say you take it for granted,
- 35:22Speaker 4: but whenever you're able to have time away from it,
- 35:24Speaker 4: it just makes you appreciate it more. All I know
- 35:27Speaker 4: is I'm super excited to.
- 35:28Speaker 1: Be back for this week. There you go. He's worked
- 35:31Speaker 1: his first super in.
- 35:31Speaker 5: It's like he's running for office. He is on a
- 35:34Speaker 5: campaign tour. He's popping up in Raleigh and Charlotte and Greensboro.
- 35:38Speaker 5: Bryce will be at Wegmans today.
- 35:40Speaker 1: With a speech.
- 35:43Speaker 2: We did get a couple of texters saying Canalis gave
- 35:45Speaker 2: them off to go to the Wegmans opening.
- 35:48Speaker 5: I don't want to make this whole thing about Wegmans
- 35:51Speaker 5: all day, but I do have to point out, and
- 35:53Speaker 5: Spoiled Lettuce brought this up, Max, so I looked it up.
- 35:56Speaker 5: There is something called Cheese Island at Wegmans. They have
- 36:02Speaker 5: something called Cheese Island with 400 different types of cheeses.
- 36:05Speaker 5: 400 cheeses? I might be there from their cheese caves
- 36:10Speaker 5: in New York. to the Wegmans locations in their Cheese Island.
- 36:15Speaker 5: Does this have you intrigued, Bo? I would love to
- 36:17Speaker 5: vacation at Cheese Island. My sense of humor and my
- 36:20Speaker 5: love of cheese, I'd be great at Cheese Island. By
- 36:23Speaker 5: the way, Bryce Youngback is speaking today at Cheese Island.
- 36:27Speaker 5: Bryce is so tired of talking, isn't he? He just
- 36:30Speaker 5: wants to play ball now, doesn't he?
- 36:31Speaker 2: It's funny because I'm sure he had fun, especially down
- 36:33Speaker 2: there in Tuscaloosa until the PI wasn't called. But like, yeah,
- 36:38Speaker 2: all this fanfare. I mean, he does it. I'm sure
- 36:41Speaker 2: he makes the most out of it, but he doesn't
- 36:43Speaker 2: need that in his life. No, he wants to play football. Yeah,
- 36:45Speaker 2: he doesn't need it.
- 36:46Speaker 5: When we come back here on the Mac and Bone Show,
- 36:48Speaker 5: I'm sure we'll have a Wegmans update again here at
- 36:50Speaker 5: some point. We've got a lot of college stuff. Will
- 36:53Speaker 5: Wade gets testy with the media. Charlotte football makes a
- 36:57Speaker 5: staff change. And Winston-Salem State, 3-3-6, goes viral for the
- 37:03Speaker 5: wrong reason.
- 37:03Speaker 1: We'll explain. Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ.
- 37:05Speaker 5: 92.7 WFNZ, Mack and Bone with you on a Wakeman's
- 37:34Speaker 5: Wednesday as it opens over there in Ballantyne.
- 37:37Speaker 2: People are now giving us tips on what we need
- 37:39Speaker 2: to try over there. This dude's all about the cookies, Bone.
- 37:43Speaker 2: You have to build your own cookie box. I mean,
- 37:45Speaker 2: this is like a carnival.
- 37:47Speaker 1: There you go, man. You've got Cheese Island.
- 37:48Speaker 5: You've got the— They have a brisket area, Matt, where
- 37:54Speaker 5: Willie P probably is right now.
- 37:57Speaker 1: We are going to find out later.
- 37:59Speaker 2: He might be in line. He could be in line.
- 38:01Speaker 2: Is Willie P a Wegmans man? I feel like he
- 38:04Speaker 2: has mentioned it before. Well, he was Bucky, so we'll
- 38:07Speaker 2: see about this one. Yeah, you might get Willie P
- 38:11Speaker 2: live at Wegmans. We might have our own Joe Bruno
- 38:14Speaker 2: live at Wegmans situation. All right, let's talk some college
- 38:17Speaker 2: sports here, shall we, right now.
- 38:20Speaker 1: Will Wade.
- 38:21Speaker 2: My God, I want this dude to win zero games.
- 38:23Speaker 2: I mean zero. Zero, as Dabo would say. Will Wade
- 38:27Speaker 2: Bone yesterday had a back and forth with Pat Forty.
- 38:33Speaker 2: Pat Forty, now there's a history there. Pat Forty was
- 38:36Speaker 2: one of the reporters that originally reported on his whole wiretap,
- 38:40Speaker 2: strong-ass offer thing where he got busted for offering money
- 38:43Speaker 2: to recruits back in the day, way before NIL. Well,
- 38:48Speaker 2: now fast forward to yesterday. First of all, Will Wade
- 38:52Speaker 2: and the LSU folks could not get to basketball media
- 38:55Speaker 2: days yesterday for the SEC because of weather.
- 38:59Speaker 1: They were fogged in. Oh, God. His roster's fogged in
- 39:05Speaker 1: right now also. Seriously.
- 39:07Speaker 5: You ain't kidding. They're up to 10 now, apparently, though.
- 39:09Speaker 5: There's 10 players on the roster now.
- 39:10Speaker 2: They've made it to double digits, but they still have
- 39:13Speaker 2: six guys. whose eligibility is up in the air. So
- 39:17Speaker 2: Pat Forty came in asking questions about these guys, right? Hey,
- 39:21Speaker 2: what do we know about this guy? What do we
- 39:22Speaker 2: know about that guy? Will Wade accused him of asking
- 39:26Speaker 2: gotcha questions. So he, speaking of Dabo, he went Dabo. Yeah,
- 39:33Speaker 2: he went Dabo on him and called Pat Forty a
- 39:34Speaker 2: gotcha guy. So that got a little contentious yesterday. Apparently
- 39:37Speaker 2: it was a Zoom presser bone since he couldn't be
- 39:40Speaker 2: there live.
- 39:40Speaker 5: Yeah, and then last night Pat Forty did a long
- 39:43Speaker 5: form piece on Will Wade. So Pat Forty's responded with
- 39:46Speaker 5: a column now on Will Wade, and there's a lot of.
- 39:49Speaker 1: Scathing. Pretty scathing column, I will say.
- 39:52Speaker 5: And all the basketball media people, Mac, whether it's the
- 39:55Speaker 5: field of 68, Jeff Goodman, or Pat Forty in here,
- 39:58Speaker 5: not only is Will Wade a problem there, they don't
- 40:00Speaker 5: like Rick Stansbury either, the former Mississippi State coach who's
- 40:04Speaker 5: now the lead guy for Will Wade, so he gets
- 40:07Speaker 5: shredded too by these people.
- 40:08Speaker 1: He doesn't have a great reputation. No, he does not.
- 40:10Speaker 2: Which would be why Will Wade probably added him to
- 40:13Speaker 2: the staff. Two peas in a dang pod. So anyway,
- 40:18Speaker 2: I searched all over Bone to try to find audio
- 40:21Speaker 2: of this 40 versus Will Wade situation because it's juicy, right?
- 40:26Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't find it either.
- 40:27Speaker 2: And all they had up was a nine minute, 35
- 40:30Speaker 2: second portion of it, but it didn't include that.
- 40:32Speaker 1: Well, it's because the fog down there messed everything up.
- 40:34Speaker 1: It fogged up. The recording got fogged up, fogged out.
- 40:37Speaker 5: If Will Wade Mack had a Final Four-type roster and
- 40:41Speaker 5: they were ready to roll, do you think that he
- 40:43Speaker 5: would have been fogged in or found his way to
- 40:44Speaker 5: media days?
- 40:45Speaker 2: He didn't want to answer those gotcha questions in person, face-to-face.
- 40:49Speaker 2: Here's the thing. He says you're asking gotcha questions. If
- 40:53Speaker 2: it is gotcha questions to ask if your players will
- 40:56Speaker 2: be eligible when we've already started playing exhibitions... I believe
- 41:00Speaker 2: that's a problem right there. Like if you feel like
- 41:02Speaker 2: they're gotcha questions because you've got six players that we
- 41:06Speaker 2: don't know if they're going to play, that.
- 41:08Speaker 1: May be a you problem.
- 41:10Speaker 5: If you have seven players in purgatory October 13th, 14th, 15th,
- 41:15Speaker 5: then you are going to be asked questions about seven
- 41:20Speaker 5: players that may not be eligible.
- 41:21Speaker 2: Yes.
- 41:22Speaker 4: Seven.
- 41:22Speaker 1: Not one.
- 41:23Speaker 5: Seven.
- 41:24Speaker 1: Oh, so it's more than six. I was saying six.
- 41:26Speaker 1: It's seven total?
- 41:26Speaker 5: Well, I know that when Isaiah Trotter... did the CBSSports.com
- 41:34Speaker 5: piece on all the rosters. He had seven guys at
- 41:37Speaker 5: that moment a couple weeks ago that were going through
- 41:39Speaker 5: court stuff. So maybe it's down to six now.
- 41:41Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 41:42Speaker 5: Obviously, to have 10 people on their official team site roster,
- 41:47Speaker 5: it's more. But it was seven a couple weeks ago
- 41:49Speaker 5: that were going through injunctions and your whatnot.
- 41:52Speaker 2: We need to mention, Bone, Charlotte made a change in
- 41:56Speaker 2: their football staff. Their strength coach, Jacob Miller is now
- 42:02Speaker 2: gone from the program. I saw this from the agent
- 42:06Speaker 2: 49 account, which is a good account to like get
- 42:08Speaker 2: Niner information. Apparently football scoop.com wrote a story about it.
- 42:13Speaker 2: He was well compensated. He was the fourth highest paid
- 42:16Speaker 2: coach in the football operation behind Albin and the two coordinators.
- 42:21Speaker 2: Agent 49 said the football scoop article makes it seem
- 42:24Speaker 2: like he's almost a fall guy.
- 42:26Speaker 1: I was wondering if there was like an incident.
- 42:28Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 42:28Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 42:29Speaker 2: Or, like, is this your big change? Like, this is
- 42:32Speaker 2: going to change the football program around? I can't imagine that.
- 42:35Speaker 5: When you start to let go of staff members, like,
- 42:39Speaker 5: when you're this bad, this is when the desperation hits in. So,
- 42:42Speaker 5: first you start with a strength guy, then maybe it's
- 42:46Speaker 5: a coordinator, then eventually, Mac, you run out of guys
- 42:50Speaker 5: and your time is up. But I would assume that...
- 42:53Speaker 5: This is just the first one, and what is that
- 42:55Speaker 5: really going to do to make things better? I have
- 42:57Speaker 5: no idea.
- 42:58Speaker 1: That's an odd one.
- 42:59Speaker 2: You usually don't hear the strength coach as the guy
- 43:01Speaker 2: that's kind of like, things are really bad, someone must go.
- 43:04Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you're right.
- 43:05Speaker 2: What, all of a sudden, Bone, they're going to start
- 43:07Speaker 2: lifting weights back, and all of a sudden they're going
- 43:08Speaker 2: to be pushing guys around the trenches now?
- 43:10Speaker 1: I don't think guys— It's just kind of odd to me.
- 43:11Speaker 5: I don't think guys are all of a sudden stronger
- 43:13Speaker 5: at the end of games now because this guy's gone.
- 43:15Speaker 2: Yeah, so I don't know, man. We'll see what happens
- 43:18Speaker 2: for the Niners moving forward. I do want to mention,
- 43:21Speaker 2: shout out to Coastal Carolina. I don't know if I
- 43:23Speaker 2: really like these uniforms, but I respect the creativity. Coastal
- 43:28Speaker 2: will be playing App, and hopefully App can bounce back
- 43:31Speaker 2: on Friday night. from their ugly lost ODU. But they'll
- 43:35Speaker 2: be playing Friday night and Coastal is wearing like a
- 43:37Speaker 2: tribute to the 90s uniforms bone that I know take
- 43:41Speaker 2: you back in time. Those things are fluorescent. There's just
- 43:45Speaker 2: stuff everywhere on those uniforms.
- 43:47Speaker 5: Makes me want to go home and watch TGIF. They
- 43:50Speaker 5: were I as a child of the 90s.
- 43:52Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I loved it. I want to have to win,
- 43:55Speaker 1: but I did like the uniforms.
- 43:56Speaker 2: People were saying that they emulated some of the Saved
- 44:00Speaker 2: by the Bell stuff from the intro. I looked at
- 44:03Speaker 2: it and thought Miami Vice, which I don't know. That
- 44:05Speaker 2: might be more 80s and 90s, though.
- 44:08Speaker 1: It looked Miami. You remember when the Heat wore the
- 44:10Speaker 1: Miami Vice uniforms? That's what it kind of looked like
- 44:13Speaker 1: to me. One of the college teams wore Miami Vice
- 44:15Speaker 1: recently down there. I forget what it was, FIU?
- 44:17Speaker 5: I forget who it was, but one of the schools
- 44:19Speaker 5: wore them recently.
- 44:20Speaker 2: It kind of looked like that. With kind of 90s
- 44:23Speaker 2: symbols and 90s chaos. So anyway, looking forward. ECU plays
- 44:27Speaker 2: Thursday night. App plays Friday night. So looking forward to that.
- 44:31Speaker 2: We got to talk about Winston-Salem State. And I feel bad.
- 44:34Speaker 2: They're getting shamed. They're getting mocked on social media. First
- 44:38Speaker 2: of all, it's easy to understand why they're getting mocked.
- 44:41Speaker 2: I mean, if y'all have not seen the viral video,
- 44:45Speaker 2: there is a dude that is painting the little sideline
- 44:48Speaker 2: hash mark yard markers. And I mean, these things are crooked.
- 44:52Speaker 2: These things aren't like a yard apart. Like, it's not
- 44:56Speaker 2: a good look at all for Winston-Salem State. Their AD
- 45:00Speaker 2: had to put out a statement basically saying we've secured
- 45:03Speaker 2: extra field prep support. This isn't going to happen again.
- 45:05Speaker 2: We've got new checks to ensure that this doesn't happen again.
- 45:09Speaker 2: I guess Stephen A., who is an alum, Talked about
- 45:12Speaker 2: it and talked about the AD change there has not
- 45:15Speaker 2: helped and just all these different things. They don't have
- 45:17Speaker 2: funds there, man, at all. So it sounds like they're
- 45:20Speaker 2: in a dire situation. But, man, they were getting clowned
- 45:23Speaker 2: for that boat.
- 45:24Speaker 1: It was bad.
- 45:24Speaker 5: I mean, obviously, I don't know the guy that did it,
- 45:26Speaker 5: but I do feel kind of bad because he's probably
- 45:29Speaker 5: obviously not a very high-paid employee and who knows what
- 45:32Speaker 5: his experience was doing that. So, yeah, but not a
- 45:35Speaker 5: good look, Mac, for the city of Winston-Salem. It's the
- 45:38Speaker 5: most embarrassing thing since I came out of Winston-Salem. There's
- 45:43Speaker 5: a stray? Why couldn't I think of that? You've been
- 45:46Speaker 5: wanting a stray. You strayed yourself, Boney. Should I do
- 45:49Speaker 5: my jingle?
- 45:50Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
- 45:51Speaker 5: Loompa, loompa, doopity-doo. I caught a stray, but what about you?
- 45:56Speaker 1: All right, there we go, baby. There we go. I
- 45:59Speaker 1: watched Willy Wonka yesterday. How are we feeling?
- 46:02Speaker 2: Is that going to stick, Finny?
- 46:03Speaker 1: You guys going to stick there?
- 46:05Speaker 3: I think we can do better, but it's a starting point.
- 46:07Speaker 1: You tried there. You make a stray jingle, man. Say it.
- 46:12Speaker 3: I'll get in the lab and think of something.
- 46:15Speaker 1: What did I want to say? It's going to be
- 46:16Speaker 1: in your head, though. You'll be driving home today thinking, oop-a-loop-a-deep-a-doop.
- 46:21Speaker 6: Only because I catch the most strays of anyone on
- 46:24Speaker 6: the show, and at some point one of y'all are
- 46:26Speaker 6: bound to call me a bald-looking oop-a-loop-a.
- 46:28Speaker 5: That was kind of where I was headed with this.
- 46:33Speaker 5: I caught a stray, but what about you? I do
- 46:37Speaker 5: want to mention, is that a hit? Only time will tell,
- 46:40Speaker 5: I guess. Send in your text.
- 46:42Speaker 2: Yeah, the dude they sent out there to do it
- 46:44Speaker 2: was rough painting the field line. Kind of remind me
- 46:47Speaker 2: of myself out there in Indian Trail when they make me,
- 46:49Speaker 2: when I'm the one that paints the field line.
- 46:51Speaker 1: I'm the worst field line painter. I can't say squat, man.
- 46:54Speaker 2: I mean, you look down the line, you look down
- 46:56Speaker 2: the end line, man, it's like that thing just took
- 46:58Speaker 2: a left turn.
- 47:00Speaker 1: Mac, where do we stand?
- 47:01Speaker 5: I know we're doing a college thing right now, but
- 47:02Speaker 5: where do we stand on getting mad about power rankings
- 47:06Speaker 5: in the Panthers? Are we caring about power rankings? What's
- 47:10Speaker 5: your thoughts on it? Athletic moved them up three spots.
- 47:12Speaker 5: They didn't even play. They moved up to 15, baby,
- 47:14Speaker 5: in the Athletic. You're not going to believe what SI did.
- 47:17Speaker 5: SI dropped them six spots from last week.
- 47:19Speaker 1: Six spots for not playing. They were 14 last week. Mac,
- 47:22Speaker 1: they dropped them below the Lions and the Falcons. They're
- 47:26Speaker 1: now 20th. It's ridiculous.
- 47:28Speaker 5: Two teams that they've beaten? It says last week's ranking.
- 47:30Speaker 5: Two teams they've beaten. It says last week's ranking, 14.
- 47:33Speaker 5: Last week's result, idle. Yeah, that's a little weird.
- 47:35Speaker 1: You dropped them six spots for not playing after they
- 47:37Speaker 1: beat the Lions.
- 47:38Speaker 2: Listen, all those clown shows that were out there playing,
- 47:41Speaker 2: screwing up this weekend, they should have.
- 47:43Speaker 1: The Athletic had it right. Clown show. They should have
- 47:45Speaker 1: jumped some teams after last weekend. My God.
- 47:48Speaker 5: All right, when we come back here on the Mac
- 47:51Speaker 5: and Bone radio program, I try to maybe.
- 47:54Speaker 5: Sand off the rough edges by Oompa Loompa, Willy Wonka
- 47:58Speaker 5: thing there. Should we expect Bryce and the Panthers' offense
- 48:02Speaker 5: to keep up their touring pace so far this season?
- 48:06Speaker 5: We talk about that on Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.