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- 0:03Speaker 1: What's up, party people?
- 0:05Speaker 2: Bueno, como esta?
- 0:07Speaker 3: Oh, oh, oh, it's Mike and Bo.
- 0:09Speaker 1: This is my friend, Matt. I love a big old
- 0:12Speaker 1: sloppy whopper.
- 0:13Speaker 2: This is my friend, T-Bone.
- 0:16Speaker 1: On this Tuesday, I'm a swinger.
- 0:19Speaker 4: You guys are the best.
- 0:19Speaker 1: Pony, pony, pony, pony.
- 0:22Speaker 5: They're the best.
- 0:23Speaker 1: I love those guys. Big old gompers.
- 0:25Speaker 2: All right, what a great day.
- 0:26Speaker 5: All right, one time for the one time.
- 0:28Speaker 6: You're listening to the Mac and Bo Show on Mac
- 0:31Speaker 6: and Bo Radio.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Good Tuesday morning, Charlotte. Welcome aboard.
- 0:44Speaker 3: It is the Mac and Bone Show.
- 0:46Speaker 1: We're getting ready to do this thing.
- 0:48Speaker 3: We got ourselves some Braves playoff baseball today at 2 o'clock.
- 0:54Speaker 3: We've got ourselves some Canes hockey at 5 o'clock today.
- 0:58Speaker 3: The banner will be raised. in Raleigh before most of
- 1:02Speaker 3: you eat your dinner. We will talk about that today
- 1:06Speaker 3: on the show. Beautiful timing to have Adam Gold on
- 1:08Speaker 3: the show today to preview the start of their title
- 1:13Speaker 3: defense in Raleigh. Looking forward to that. And yeah, it's
- 1:16Speaker 3: another day and more bad news for the Carolina Panthers,
- 1:20Speaker 3: the J.C. Horn injury. Pretty serious, it sounds like. We'll
- 1:23Speaker 3: talk about that here in just a matter of seconds
- 1:27Speaker 3: on the Mac and Bone Show. Hornets Media Day yesterday.
- 1:29Speaker 3: We've got some cool interviews we did yesterday. Con Canipple
- 1:33Speaker 3: and Grayson Allen, both. They were both great, so you're
- 1:36Speaker 3: going to hear from that. We'll also do a kind
- 1:39Speaker 3: of Hornets segment here at 645. Catch you up on
- 1:42Speaker 3: what was said yesterday at Media Day. That was interesting.
- 1:46Speaker 3: Good injury news on the Brandon Miller front. So there
- 1:49Speaker 3: is actually some news. Good injury news in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- 1:54Speaker 3: We've got the bone man in the house, the fit
- 1:57Speaker 3: dog in the house, as we do this thing, as
- 2:00Speaker 3: we deal with Panther adversity yet again.
- 2:03Speaker 1: What's up, Boney?
- 2:05Speaker 7: No show's better equipped to deal with that than we are.
- 2:07Speaker 7: That's one of our specialties. You know, on news channels, Matt,
- 2:11Speaker 7: they bring in experts. We are the Panthers disaster experts
- 2:15Speaker 7: that you bring in to let you know how to
- 2:17Speaker 7: handle these situations.
- 2:18Speaker 1: A lot of experience.
- 2:19Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 2:20Speaker 1: For better or worse, actually, for worse. What an afternoon, though.
- 2:22Speaker 7: You mentioned there you got postseason baseball all day long.
- 2:27Speaker 7: Braves start at two. You get the Canes starting at five.
- 2:30Speaker 7: So it's the baseball stuff, man. I'm glad I get
- 2:32Speaker 7: to experience that with my two guys, man. I got
- 2:35Speaker 7: my bro DiMaggio right here in front of me, Chris McClain,
- 2:38Speaker 7: and I got our– Our slob euchre back here, Finney Marlow.
- 2:42Speaker 1: We're already in off-season mode.
- 2:45Speaker 3: We're already on to 2027 on our respective teams, Boney.
- 2:50Speaker 3: But it will be a treasure to watch two beloved
- 2:54Speaker 3: entities in the Red Sox and Yankees do battle tonight.
- 2:57Speaker 3: It will be absolute pleasure.
- 2:58Speaker 7: I'm just glad that those franchises finally get a little,
- 3:01Speaker 7: you know, primetime love.
- 3:02Speaker 1: I know.
- 3:03Speaker 3: People just ignore that rivalry. seriously i don't i don't.
- 3:07Speaker 7: Like playing the red socks in series like this it's
- 3:10Speaker 7: it's it's stressful this is only a three gamer i
- 3:14Speaker 7: don't i don't love this because it brings back memories
- 3:16Speaker 7: of i don't know if it's quite the same as
- 3:18Speaker 7: it used to be but it brings back memories of
- 3:21Speaker 7: the incident of 22 years ago i just i don't
- 3:24Speaker 7: want that i don't love this man it puts me
- 3:26Speaker 7: back in a Puts me in a vulnerable.
- 3:28Speaker 1: Spot emotionally, mentally. You do not want that.
- 3:31Speaker 3: By the way, Chris Sale, as you would expect, on
- 3:33Speaker 3: the mound today at 2 o'clock for the Bravos. Lozardo
- 3:37Speaker 3: pitching for the Phillies with the other guy's bone in
- 3:41Speaker 3: that rotation. It feels– the bullpen's really good. A lot
- 3:44Speaker 3: of these games go.
- 3:44Speaker 1: To the bullpen.
- 3:45Speaker 3: But it feels pretty important to get a dub today
- 3:48Speaker 3: for the Braves, not to mention what you said, three-game series.
- 3:50Speaker 1: I hate these three-game series. I know, man.
- 3:52Speaker 3: You play 162 games, and you could be out so quickly.
- 3:55Speaker 3: It doesn't bother me.
- 3:56Speaker 1: Two games, you'd be done. It doesn't bother me if
- 3:58Speaker 1: you're just watching them from afar. When your team is
- 4:00Speaker 1: in it, it sucks.
- 4:02Speaker 3: Yeah, I just don't think it's right in general. No, no.
- 4:07Speaker 3: And this just in, my team's not in it. I
- 4:09Speaker 3: know people are very surprised by that. The Orioles did
- 4:12Speaker 3: not make it. All right, let's talk about the J.C.
- 4:14Speaker 3: Horn injury. We can't push it off any longer, Bone.
- 4:17Speaker 3: We got to deal with this. And it didn't sound
- 4:19Speaker 3: good when Dave Canales talked after the game the other day.
- 4:22Speaker 3: He specifically said this one was bad and that J.C.
- 4:26Speaker 3: was nowhere close to going back in the game. So
- 4:29Speaker 3: that definitely got our attention. But then when you start
- 4:32Speaker 3: seeing some of the reports that came out, Bone, whether
- 4:34Speaker 3: it was, I think, Ian Rappaport, had one of the
- 4:38Speaker 3: original ones. Then Jeremy Fowler of ESPN jumped in. Rappaport
- 4:44Speaker 3: was talking about being out indefinitely. Then Fowler gets in with.
- 4:54Speaker 3: Six to 12 weeks being the injury estimate, which is
- 4:58Speaker 3: a huge variance there. I mean, just huge. Dare I
- 5:01Speaker 3: say it's six weeks difference. Six weeks at the end
- 5:03Speaker 3: of the season is a massive deal. Six weeks to
- 5:05Speaker 3: 12 weeks is big. Plus you have the angle of,
- 5:08Speaker 3: you know, some people are saying that this could be
- 5:13Speaker 3: a season ender as well. So this is bad news.
- 5:17Speaker 3: It's a severe injury. It's been reported to be a
- 5:19Speaker 3: torn quad injury. Dave Canales would not give away the secrets.
- 5:24Speaker 3: Of course, he told you to wait until Wednesday because
- 5:26Speaker 3: he's trying to get a second.
- 5:27Speaker 1: And third opinion on this, Bo.
- 5:29Speaker 7: Yeah, which when you're getting a second and a third opinion,
- 5:32Speaker 7: that tells you how rough the first one was, right?
- 5:35Speaker 7: We say that all the time. But when you're going
- 5:37Speaker 7: for a third opinion also potentially, that tells you they're
- 5:40Speaker 7: If you don't like the first two, you're not getting
- 5:41Speaker 7: the news you want to hear.
- 5:42Speaker 2: Is he already.
- 5:43Speaker 3: Anticipating getting bad news from the second opinion? He's already
- 5:45Speaker 3: scheduled a third one.
- 5:47Speaker 7: You don't often hear about the third opinion coming in
- 5:49Speaker 7: before you get the second opinion, but this is not good.
- 5:52Speaker 7: Not good with his injury history. We thought that he
- 5:55Speaker 7: had moved past these types of things. I know that he's–
- 6:00Speaker 7: you saw the Instagram post as well, or the Twitter post,
- 6:02Speaker 7: whichever one it was. He's obviously devastated by this whole
- 6:06Speaker 7: thing too. I feel bad that he feels like he–
- 6:10Speaker 7: You know, he let the fan base down, but dude's
- 6:12Speaker 7: not out there trying to get hurt.
- 6:13Speaker 1: You know, he's just unfortunate. What an attitude he has.
- 6:17Speaker 3: So you go through this injury, and yeah, as much
- 6:20Speaker 3: as you in your first three years struggle with injuries,
- 6:22Speaker 3: it's been way better the last two seasons before this one.
- 6:26Speaker 3: And you send out a post, and you're feeling like
- 6:28Speaker 3: you've got to apologize to fans. Now you apologize to fans, teammates,
- 6:32Speaker 3: everybody around him. But the fact, like, you don't have
- 6:34Speaker 3: to apologize, dude. We know you're playing as hard as
- 6:37Speaker 3: you can. I think there's a greater question here about
- 6:41Speaker 3: why the heck we had all these soft tissue injuries
- 6:45Speaker 3: on Sunday.
- 6:46Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 6:46Speaker 1: Jalen Coker, Mike Jack, and J.C.
- 6:49Speaker 8: Horn.
- 6:49Speaker 1: That's a great point.
- 6:50Speaker 3: All soft tissue injuries. And you're going to hear a
- 6:53Speaker 3: clip from Canales later talking about how they were having
- 6:57Speaker 3: an internal meeting yesterday to figure out what the F
- 6:59Speaker 3: is going on.
- 7:01Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 7:01Speaker 7: With the injuries right now. Very Hornets-like there almost. Dude,
- 7:05Speaker 7: it's ridiculous. I counted at least eight starters. If you
- 7:09Speaker 7: go back to Skorton and the two tackles. Eight starters.
- 7:12Speaker 7: Not to mention the other guys.
- 7:14Speaker 3: That have been injured brazel and other guys like this
- 7:17Speaker 3: feels extreme i know football is a savage game and
- 7:19Speaker 3: i realize you can look around the headlines yesterday bone
- 7:22Speaker 3: and see the injuries everywhere um i guess baker mayfield's
- 7:26Speaker 3: gonna be at least three weeks with that thumb uh
- 7:29Speaker 3: dislocated thumb bowl said but it feels like we have
- 7:32Speaker 3: been hit extraordinarily hard and it started early it literally
- 7:36Speaker 3: the injuries for this season literally started in the final
- 7:38Speaker 3: game of last season for god's sake yeah it's uh
- 7:41Speaker 3: It is absolutely wild.
- 7:43Speaker 1: And, you know, I feel like Horn Mac, you.
- 7:47Speaker 7: Don't because he's not really a he doesn't get thrown
- 7:51Speaker 7: to all that often. So sometimes he's one of those
- 7:54Speaker 7: great corners that. You don't hear from him sometimes, but
- 7:58Speaker 7: yet you feel the reaction or you feel the impact
- 8:02Speaker 7: when he's not in there.
- 8:03Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
- 8:03Speaker 7: It's one of those ones where sometimes you're watching a
- 8:06Speaker 7: game and you don't hear Horn's name all the time
- 8:08Speaker 7: because he's just shutting down the other guy. But when
- 8:10Speaker 7: he is not in there, you really start to feel
- 8:14Speaker 7: the massive impact of him not being in there. He's
- 8:16Speaker 7: one of the top guys on the team that you
- 8:18Speaker 7: can't afford to lose.
- 8:19Speaker 1: Yeah, and we've lost him. We've lost Mike Jack. We
- 8:22Speaker 1: don't know.
- 8:23Speaker 3: That was the one injury it felt like they didn't
- 8:25Speaker 3: get a comment from Canales on yesterday. But that's a
- 8:29Speaker 3: groin injury. And the way Canales was talking about who's
- 8:34Speaker 3: going to fill the void at corner, and he was
- 8:37Speaker 3: mentioning everybody on the roster. He was mentioning, hey, can
- 8:40Speaker 3: we call up Corey Thornton? Dan Morgan could look elsewhere.
- 8:44Speaker 3: It kind of felt like it was like, well, we're
- 8:46Speaker 3: not going to have both these guys.
- 8:47Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 8:48Speaker 3: And then you start. We've been playing. It's quite as
- 8:51Speaker 3: it's been kept. I was looking at Sumer Sports last night.
- 8:54Speaker 3: We have been playing way more man coverage this season.
- 8:57Speaker 3: Last year, we were right at the top or I
- 8:59Speaker 3: think right near the top. I think second in most
- 9:01Speaker 3: zone coverage. We're known as just a zone team. And
- 9:05Speaker 3: this year we have been playing a lot more man coverage.
- 9:08Speaker 3: And I would figure that probably is going to come
- 9:11Speaker 3: to a halt if we don't have both these guys.
- 9:13Speaker 3: And hell, it might come to a halt just not
- 9:14Speaker 3: having J.C.
- 9:15Speaker 7: Horn. Then I see some of the Twitter reaction from
- 9:20Speaker 7: Panthers Twitter and trying to figure out, is anybody out there?
- 9:23Speaker 7: Then the name Joey Porter Jr. comes up, who's in
- 9:27Speaker 7: a contract standoff situation with Pittsburgh. Matt, the problem with
- 9:32Speaker 7: trying to acquire a guy like that is it's going
- 9:35Speaker 7: to take at least one first-round pick, per what I've
- 9:37Speaker 7: been reading.
- 9:38Speaker 1: And then you've got to pay him.
- 9:39Speaker 7: Yeah, it's going to take at least one pick, maybe
- 9:41Speaker 7: more outside the first round. We're talking, who knows, if
- 9:45Speaker 7: it's second or third. And he's looking at a deal
- 9:47Speaker 7: that's valued in the $ 110 million range, $ 27.
- 9:51Speaker 1: Million a year.
- 9:52Speaker 7: That's the issue there. It's not that Pittsburgh is saying,
- 9:55Speaker 7: we don't want this guy for performance. They're not, he doesn't, he's,
- 9:58Speaker 7: it's a contract standoff situation.
- 10:00Speaker 1: With the way we're paying good.
- 10:01Speaker 3: We're paying horn 25 million a year. Um, by the way,
- 10:04Speaker 3: that 27 million is what the Steelers reportedly offered. And
- 10:07Speaker 3: he said no to, he wants 30 million or more.
- 10:10Speaker 3: It's not going to work. So like we're going to
- 10:12Speaker 3: pay two corners, a combined 55 million. I don't think
- 10:17Speaker 3: that's good cap management. It's just not going to work.
- 10:19Speaker 3: It's just not feasible. I don't think that's our answer here.
- 10:22Speaker 3: I think the answer is more of scrap heap type stuff.
- 10:26Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
- 10:27Speaker 3: And I think the answer for Rivero is fans always
- 10:30Speaker 3: want blitzing and man. And we've done more blitzing and
- 10:34Speaker 3: more man this year. And I'm not even sure all
- 10:37Speaker 3: the schematics experts out there have noticed.
- 10:40Speaker 1: It's amazing.
- 10:41Speaker 3: All the Averro critics and all the tacticians y'all are.
- 10:44Speaker 3: But like, I'm not sure you can do as much
- 10:47Speaker 3: of either with the corner injuries and without J.C.
- 10:51Speaker 8: Horn.
- 10:52Speaker 1: So we'll talk about it.
- 10:53Speaker 3: We'll let you hear what Canales said about JC and
- 10:56Speaker 3: what he means to the team. Canales also kind of— You've.
- 10:59Speaker 1: Got more man than a Kardashian birthday party. Kind of.
- 11:03Speaker 1: All right. All right there. Hey, now.
- 11:06Speaker 3: Kardashian stray early this morning. Been a while for a
- 11:09Speaker 3: good Kardashian stray.
- 11:10Speaker 2: Been a while.
- 11:11Speaker 1: Been a while for what? Felt good, you know?
- 11:13Speaker 9: Which is y'all's favorite Kardashian? This is a conversation me
- 11:15Speaker 9: and my girlfriend had last night.
- 11:17Speaker 2: Scott. I voted Kim.
- 11:19Speaker 7: I mean, this guy, Mac, this guy's now having conversations
- 11:22Speaker 7: about his favorite Kardashians. Yeah, you're in deep. Just propose now.
- 11:26Speaker 7: He told me today they're at the, now I've been
- 11:28Speaker 7: in this one for a while. I'm glad to be
- 11:30Speaker 7: part of this. He's in what documentary do we want
- 11:33Speaker 7: to watch mode right now with the girlfriend?
- 11:35Speaker 1: He is now, he is.
- 11:36Speaker 5: In deep now.
- 11:37Speaker 3: I've been married to my wife for over 20 years.
- 11:40Speaker 3: I'm lucky she hasn't left me. If we ever get
- 11:43Speaker 3: into a who's our favorite Kardashian conversation, I'm divorcing her immediately.
- 11:47Speaker 3: Don't be jealous. How are you supposed to like any
- 11:50Speaker 3: of these people? How can you have a favorite of this.
- 11:53Speaker 1: Group of individuals? That's ridiculous. And by the way, the
- 11:55Speaker 1: answer is corny. She does seem like the less diva, right,
- 12:00Speaker 1: of the ones. All right.
- 12:02Speaker 3: Due to time constraints, we're going to cut short our
- 12:05Speaker 3: Kardashian conversation. But this is an early runner for Ask
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- 12:22Speaker 1: the Audience. Finny, you are, y'all are in love, baby.
- 12:25Speaker 1: I can feel it. I shouldn't say that. Budding love.
- 12:28Speaker 7: Budding love, and it's exciting. Potential double date coming up
- 12:32Speaker 7: with me and Taro on the way also. Oh, that
- 12:33Speaker 7: could be big because Bone could get all the intel
- 12:35Speaker 7: on the dynamic. You could report back to us. We're
- 12:38Speaker 7: afraid you might join in.
- 12:40Speaker 9: Me?
- 12:40Speaker 1: You're afraid of? You might stop by and see what's
- 12:42Speaker 1: going on with these couples. That would require us to
- 12:44Speaker 1: leave the house.
- 12:45Speaker 3: I don't know if I could do all that, but
- 12:46Speaker 3: you get the knowledge for me, baby.
- 12:48Speaker 2: We were saying you and Mrs.
- 12:49Speaker 9: Mack, just you individually being the creepy guy three tables over,
- 12:53Speaker 9: eating a plate of chicken wings.
- 12:56Speaker 2: Trying to figure out what's going on.
- 12:57Speaker 1: So we weren't getting an invite. You just thought I
- 12:59Speaker 1: may barge in by myself. Okay, I got it. We're
- 13:02Speaker 1: trying to keep Willie out of this, too. Let's see.
- 13:05Speaker 3: Let's move along here, Bone Man. Let's go to the
- 13:07Speaker 3: Bears winning last night. Ben Johnson, how dare I question
- 13:13Speaker 3: the great Ben Johnson? If you don't think he's great,
- 13:14Speaker 3: just ask him. He'll tell you. But I looked at it, oh,
- 13:18Speaker 3: like Case Keenum, what are we going to expect? Why
- 13:21Speaker 3: did I think that? This is Ben freaking Johnson we're
- 13:24Speaker 3: talking about here, Bone. Case Keenum goes out and looks
- 13:27Speaker 3: amazing last night. 24-34, 247 yards, two touchdowns and no picks.
- 13:33Speaker 3: On the other side, Jalen Hurts throws for 153, six
- 13:36Speaker 3: yards in attempt, no touchdowns and one interception. And the
- 13:40Speaker 3: Bears stick it to the Eagles last night. 27-7 in
- 13:46Speaker 3: this game, Bone, man. Impressive performance. It was 10-7 at
- 13:50Speaker 3: the half. when the Eagles literally quarterback sneaked at the
- 13:55Speaker 3: buzzer of the first half. Amazing to get that playoff,
- 13:58Speaker 3: but it was all Bears. They outscored them 17-0 in
- 14:01Speaker 3: the second half. And this is one, Bone, where I
- 14:05Speaker 3: was wide awake, unlike Sunday night when there was a
- 14:07Speaker 3: great game and I couldn't stay awake. I was wide
- 14:10Speaker 3: awake watching the end of this game, and this game stunk.
- 14:12Speaker 7: Much like Sunday night, I kind of fell asleep early
- 14:14Speaker 7: last night in this game. So it was a complete
- 14:16Speaker 7: reversal from what I did the night before. No, that
- 14:20Speaker 7: is much more. Even with Case Keenum, you see the
- 14:23Speaker 7: brilliance of Ben Johnson and how they are much more
- 14:27Speaker 7: like the offense we saw against the Panthers than we
- 14:30Speaker 7: saw against Minnesota. I do believe Week 2, Mac, was conditions-wise.
- 14:35Speaker 7: And also the fact that they're facing a great defense
- 14:37Speaker 7: in Minnesota. Flores ain't messing around with that defense. No,
- 14:40Speaker 7: but that to me, you know, Caleb Williams is an
- 14:44Speaker 7: emerging star in the league. We saw it firsthand. But
- 14:47Speaker 7: I think that Ben Johnson's offense, they're going to be
- 14:49Speaker 7: able to win with a lot of different guys playing
- 14:52Speaker 7: quarterback just the way they operate. And that is much
- 14:55Speaker 7: more of the Bears that I think they are than
- 14:57Speaker 7: we saw a week ago.
- 14:57Speaker 3: I will say this, though, Bone. We do have to
- 14:59Speaker 3: tip our hat to Philly. They gave up 32 less
- 15:02Speaker 3: points to the Bears than we did. So I do
- 15:04Speaker 3: want to acknowledge that. But they scored seven. They scored.
- 15:09Speaker 1: I mean, we score 37.
- 15:10Speaker 3: They scored 30 less points than we did in our
- 15:14Speaker 3: game against the bears as well. How about Andy Dalton's
- 15:19Speaker 3: cameo appearance in this one? Dude goes in. This reminded
- 15:24Speaker 3: me of Derek Anderson playing for cam when cam didn't
- 15:27Speaker 3: wear a tie.
- 15:28Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. At the Seattle road trip. And Ron benched him.
- 15:32Speaker 3: And Derek Anderson threw a pick six on the first
- 15:34Speaker 3: only possession he played on. Andy Dalton comes in because
- 15:37Speaker 3: Jalen Hurts takes a shot, which was just a blatant
- 15:41Speaker 3: shot out of bounds. But they want independent medical doctor
- 15:44Speaker 3: flagged it and said, you got to take him to
- 15:46Speaker 3: the tent. Make sure he doesn't have a concussion. And
- 15:48Speaker 3: while he was in there, down there inside, like the
- 15:51Speaker 3: five yard line, Andy Dalton throws a pick.
- 15:54Speaker 7: I got up to get a drink, and the Eagles
- 15:56Speaker 7: were about to score. I came back, and the Bears
- 15:58Speaker 7: were about to score. And I said, what in the world? Oh,
- 16:00Speaker 7: Dalton happened. Andy Dalton happened.
- 16:02Speaker 1: That was bad. 0 of 1 with a pick with
- 16:04Speaker 1: a Blutarski.
- 16:06Speaker 3: A 0.0 quarterback rating.
- 16:09Speaker 7: He's lucky that's not a negative. Yeah, that was pretty
- 16:14Speaker 7: much it after that. That was pretty much ballgame for
- 16:17Speaker 7: the Eagles.
- 16:17Speaker 1: Well, they made it 10-7 at the half, and then....
- 16:21Speaker 3: Because Jalen Hurst got that last-second sneak-a-roo in there. That's true.
- 16:25Speaker 3: But after that, I mean, the second half was all Bears.
- 16:28Speaker 3: Is Troy Aikman kind of weird?
- 16:30Speaker 1: Yes.
- 16:30Speaker 3: Troy Aikman says weird things that just— I don't know.
- 16:34Speaker 1: He's different.
- 16:36Speaker 3: And he said something last night, Bone. I forget who
- 16:39Speaker 3: made the catch on a contested.
- 16:41Speaker 1: Ball up in the air.
- 16:43Speaker 3: And Troy Aikman says, Joe, he went up and, as
- 16:48Speaker 3: they would say, he high-pointed that one. And I've told
- 16:50Speaker 3: myself over the years I'd never say that, but that's
- 16:52Speaker 3: what he did. I've never seen that. Why did you
- 16:55Speaker 3: tell yourself you would never say high-point to football?
- 16:58Speaker 1: I have no idea. That was a weird one. That
- 16:59Speaker 1: stuck out to me.
- 17:00Speaker 7: You know, Joe Buck just signed the new $ 100 million
- 17:03Speaker 7: deal with ESPN for.
- 17:05Speaker 1: Monday Night Football. And maybe.
- 17:08Speaker 7: potentially baseball if they get back World Series, which they're
- 17:11Speaker 7: trying to get, or not get back, but they're trying
- 17:13Speaker 7: to get their rights to that on the way. Troy
- 17:15Speaker 7: Aikman's in a contract standoff right now, and there's talk
- 17:18Speaker 7: that it's not going well, and there's been some chatter.
- 17:22Speaker 7: Is Monday Night Football the potential landing spot for Greg Olsen?
- 17:27Speaker 3: There's no question, Joe, it's possible. I mean, these have
- 17:29Speaker 3: been tough talks. I'm trying to high point the bag
- 17:33Speaker 3: and they won't.
- 17:33Speaker 1: Give it to me.
- 17:34Speaker 7: Troy's also got the connection to the Dolphins now, too,
- 17:36Speaker 7: much like Brady with the Raiders.
- 17:38Speaker 3: So he's got that thing going on, too. So he's
- 17:40Speaker 3: got a lot going on there. There's no question, Joe.
- 17:43Speaker 3: There's no question. That's the extent of my Troy impression.
- 17:46Speaker 1: There's no question, Joe.
- 17:47Speaker 7: Well, he's got the new thing he did that Levitard
- 17:49Speaker 7: was going after a couple weeks ago.
- 17:51Speaker 3: Oh, has he stopped that since he got shamed? I
- 17:52Speaker 3: didn't notice him doing it, really. I think he got shamed. Apparently,
- 17:56Speaker 3: one of his crutches, and we all have them. Y'all
- 17:58Speaker 3: tell me all the time what my crutches are. I
- 17:59Speaker 3: hear all the time from my friends out there listening. But, like,
- 18:02Speaker 3: one of his crutches was to say he or they
- 18:06Speaker 3: are the best in the league at this or whatever.
- 18:09Speaker 5: Yes.
- 18:09Speaker 3: And Dan Levitar decided to count it. It was like
- 18:12Speaker 3: 20 different things in one half of football. The best
- 18:14Speaker 3: we have in this league, right? The best around, yeah, yeah.
- 18:17Speaker 1: You're the best around. It would be better if he
- 18:19Speaker 1: just sang that. Don't you think? Little Karate Kid. I
- 18:22Speaker 1: love a good singing Mac Day. Little Karate Kid, Bonesy.
- 18:26Speaker 3: Okay, let's get to the college football news real quick,
- 18:28Speaker 3: and then we're going to go Panthers coming up after
- 18:33Speaker 3: the break, whatever I'm trying to say. I can't even speak.
- 18:35Speaker 3: At least Troy Aikman can speak. Trying to find a crutch, Mac.
- 18:38Speaker 3: Protect College Sports Act. It took a while. They took
- 18:44Speaker 3: a while. I knew that was going. They as they're
- 18:49Speaker 3: apt to do in D.C., they delayed and delayed and
- 18:52Speaker 3: delayed the vote last night. But the Protect College Sports
- 18:55Speaker 3: Act has passed the Senate last night. So they have
- 19:01Speaker 3: voted it through with a couple of new amendments. And
- 19:05Speaker 3: it is now going to go. to the House. The
- 19:07Speaker 3: vote was 77 to 22 in the Senate. It's expected
- 19:11Speaker 3: to be a lot closer if it even passes at
- 19:14Speaker 3: all in the House. But of course, things take a while, Bone.
- 19:20Speaker 2: Takes a while.
- 19:21Speaker 1: There we go. In Washington, D.C.
- 19:25Speaker 3: So they are not scheduled to vote on any bills
- 19:28Speaker 3: until after November's midterm election. I don't know if anybody
- 19:31Speaker 3: has noticed that there are elections coming up. I don't
- 19:34Speaker 3: know if they've noticed listening to this station or watching TV.
- 19:37Speaker 7: Have they started airing television commercials yet? I haven't noticed yet.
- 19:40Speaker 3: I don't know if you've noticed that Roy Cooper apparently
- 19:44Speaker 3: kicks puppies. I don't know if you've seen any of
- 19:45Speaker 3: those ads. But anyway, so this is going to be
- 19:49Speaker 3: some time bonus. until they vote. And if they don't
- 19:52Speaker 3: get it through the House during the lame duck legislative
- 19:55Speaker 3: session before the new Congress takes over in January, the
- 19:59Speaker 3: full process will have to start from the beginning. That
- 20:02Speaker 3: would be a very D.C. thing to happen. So we'll see.
- 20:05Speaker 3: Hopefully it doesn't happen. Hopefully they can get a vote.
- 20:07Speaker 3: We'll see where it goes from here. I'm sure we
- 20:09Speaker 3: can watch game day and figure out what guests they
- 20:11Speaker 3: have on. That'll talk about it between.
- 20:13Speaker 8: Now and November.
- 20:14Speaker 3: Ted Cruz will be co-hosting. He'll be sitting on the
- 20:17Speaker 3: desk now just to try to get this thing passed. Also, Matt,
- 20:20Speaker 3: before we go to break, some sad news overnight. We
- 20:22Speaker 3: found out that Dennis Haskins, who famously played Mr. Belding
- 20:28Speaker 3: on Saved by the Bell, in the late 80s into
- 20:31Speaker 3: the 90s, has died at 75 years old. A show
- 20:35Speaker 3: near and dear to my heart as a child of
- 20:38Speaker 3: that era. I know, Mac, that you love that show.
- 20:40Speaker 3: Finney watched the show later on. So thoughts and prayers
- 20:43Speaker 3: to the great Mr.
- 20:44Speaker 1: Belding.
- 20:44Speaker 7: As you get older and you watch it a little
- 20:47Speaker 7: bit more, you stumble upon it, you realize Mr. Belding
- 20:50Speaker 7: wasn't the bad guy, Mac, that I thought he was
- 20:53Speaker 7: as a young child, that maybe Zach Morris was the
- 20:56Speaker 7: bad guy And Mr. Belding was just a man trying
- 20:59Speaker 7: to do his job.
- 21:00Speaker 1: The whole time. It's funny how perspective changes when you
- 21:02Speaker 1: get older.
- 21:03Speaker 3: It is.
- 21:03Speaker 1: And you're not a punk kid yourself rooting for Zach Morris.
- 21:07Speaker 1: That rivalry, Zach and Mr.
- 21:09Speaker 4: Belding.
- 21:09Speaker 7: That was fun. That was the foils of each other.
- 21:12Speaker 7: Great television back in the day. So rest in peace
- 21:15Speaker 7: to the great Dennis Haskins.
- 21:16Speaker 1: We come back. Dave Canales reacts. to the injuries for
- 21:21Speaker 1: Horn and Bryce. Did Bobby Brown give away a secret?
- 21:25Speaker 1: And did we get one good bit of injury news
- 21:28Speaker 1: at all? We'll talk about it. Sports Radio 92.7.
- 21:51Speaker 10: I won't get into specifics because we're still getting second
- 21:55Speaker 10: and third opinions to figure out what that timeline looks like.
- 21:58Speaker 10: That'll determine everything for us. But I will say it's
- 22:00Speaker 10: a significant quad injury. And we'll just take all that
- 22:03Speaker 10: information and make that decision as we get it.
- 22:08Speaker 3: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. So Dave Canales, he was playing
- 22:13Speaker 3: coy with all this injury news, and I bet you
- 22:15Speaker 3: can guess by.
- 22:16Speaker 1: What day did he tell the media? Wednesday! Wednesday!
- 22:20Speaker 3: Wonderful Wednesday! On Wednesday, on Wednesday, he will have the details.
- 22:26Speaker 1: J.C.
- 22:26Speaker 3: Horn, of course, with what is being reported as a
- 22:29Speaker 3: torn quad and canals wouldn't verify it. He's getting second
- 22:32Speaker 3: and third opinions.
- 22:33Speaker 1: We'll have the news.
- 22:34Speaker 3: I mean, right at this point, I mean, I can't
- 22:36Speaker 3: imagine he doesn't go on IR based on what the
- 22:38Speaker 3: reporting is. I mean, even Jeremy Fowler's best case scenario
- 22:41Speaker 3: was six weeks. And, of course, he said all the
- 22:44Speaker 3: way up to 12 weeks, potentially. So that feels like
- 22:49Speaker 3: an IR at the very least for a while here.
- 22:51Speaker 3: And you just hope you can get him back at all.
- 22:55Speaker 3: And maybe we don't.
- 22:57Speaker 7: And you hope that maybe you can get him back
- 22:59Speaker 7: in a time period where he's still, like, the season
- 23:03Speaker 7: still matters, right? I mean, there's always that case of,
- 23:07Speaker 7: or that chance of, the season gets away and there's
- 23:10Speaker 7: no sense in risking Horn back, but you hope that
- 23:14Speaker 7: they're still alive, they're still fighting for the NFC South,
- 23:17Speaker 7: leading the South, whatever it may be, that it makes
- 23:19Speaker 7: sense to bring Horn back if it's that.
- 23:21Speaker 1: Long into the season.
- 23:22Speaker 3: This is, so, and fans got more nervous after Bobby
- 23:26Speaker 3: Brown talked to the media at his locker, because listen
- 23:30Speaker 3: to what Bobby says here, Bone. Did he let the
- 23:33Speaker 3: truth out by mistake?
- 23:35Speaker 5: I think we're very well equipped, but at the same time,
- 23:38Speaker 5: you know, It's a next man up type of league.
- 23:41Speaker 5: Us losing J.C. especially for the season is a big loss.
- 23:44Speaker 5: He's one of the best in the game right now,
- 23:46Speaker 5: if not the best. But I think we still can
- 23:48Speaker 5: do our job and be a good defense.
- 23:51Speaker 3: Us losing J.C. especially for the season. Bobby, please tell me, Bobby,
- 23:54Speaker 3: you didn't have the correct intel. So that combined with
- 23:59Speaker 3: a lot of the media chatter out there, there's definite
- 24:02Speaker 3: fear we have as Panther fans, Bowen, that he will
- 24:04Speaker 3: not play at all this year, and I definitely hope
- 24:06Speaker 3: that's not the case.
- 24:07Speaker 7: It's that talk there from Bobby Brown and also the
- 24:11Speaker 7: amount of opinions that J.C. is getting on this injury.
- 24:14Speaker 7: So you tie it all together, and it doesn't seem
- 24:17Speaker 7: good right now. Not that the injury would seem good anyway,
- 24:19Speaker 7: but in terms of playing this season, I don't know.
- 24:22Speaker 7: This doesn't seem good. It's definitely significant. Is it season ending?
- 24:26Speaker 3: I guess we're going to find out soon, but it definitely,
- 24:28Speaker 3: I mean, if it is a torn quad and canal
- 24:31Speaker 3: has said it right after the game, that was, that
- 24:33Speaker 3: one was bad.
- 24:34Speaker 1: That one was worse than the others.
- 24:36Speaker 3: And the other soft tissue injuries were, of course, were Coker,
- 24:39Speaker 3: who is kind of questionable, I think, for this week.
- 24:42Speaker 3: Rappaport put it as. And then Mike Jack, who we're
- 24:45Speaker 3: not sure. We're going to have to wait until we're
- 24:48Speaker 3: screwed Wednesday. It's the new name of our Wednesday practices.
- 24:51Speaker 3: When Dave Canales reads off the list of all the
- 24:53Speaker 3: injuries on we're screwed Wednesday. freaking Wednesday.
- 24:56Speaker 1: God.
- 24:58Speaker 3: And can you imagine if he comes, you know, he
- 24:59Speaker 3: always steps to the podium on Wednesday. What a beautiful
- 25:02Speaker 3: work Wednesday. What if he says, Hey, it was a
- 25:04Speaker 3: horrible worst screwed Wednesday. I read off this injury list
- 25:08Speaker 3: for you. Maybe that reverses course. Maybe we're screwed Wednesday
- 25:12Speaker 3: is what we need. No one's playing.
- 25:14Speaker 1: We're all screwed.
- 25:15Speaker 2: And they all come back.
- 25:16Speaker 3: We did get some good news, though. Devin Lloyd did say,
- 25:19Speaker 3: now I know he said last week, I'm confident in playing,
- 25:22Speaker 3: but he said he was very close to playing and
- 25:25Speaker 3: they just kind of held off, you know, on Sunday.
- 25:28Speaker 3: But he basically said, I'm ready to roll. I'm playing
- 25:31Speaker 3: this week. So we did at least get that good news, Bone,
- 25:33Speaker 3: while we're sweating out all these other injury news. Dave
- 25:37Speaker 3: Canales mentioned this earlier, said something very interesting, Bone, about
- 25:42Speaker 3: a meeting they were having yesterday over there about all
- 25:45Speaker 3: these injuries when he was asked basically, how concerned are
- 25:50Speaker 3: you about the amount of injuries all at the same time?
- 25:54Speaker 8: Absolutely.
- 25:55Speaker 10: I mean, this is, you know, league-wide, this is to
- 25:57Speaker 10: be expected in the first four weeks. This is a
- 25:59Speaker 10: lot on one team and I can't really put my
- 26:02Speaker 10: finger on it, but all of us, all the directors
- 26:07Speaker 10: of every department, we're all putting our heads together. We've
- 26:09Speaker 10: got a meeting later on this afternoon just to kind
- 26:11Speaker 10: of look at what's going on, how we're doing things,
- 26:14Speaker 10: the whole thing.
- 26:14Speaker 2: We need to.
- 26:15Speaker 10: We need to just look at everything and just make
- 26:18Speaker 10: sure that the readiness is right and making sure the
- 26:21Speaker 10: preparation and recovery is right. So there's a balance of both, right?
- 26:24Speaker 10: You can overdo it and you can underdo it, and
- 26:27Speaker 10: you want to be right smack dab somewhere in that middle,
- 26:29Speaker 10: in that sweet spot. So we're looking at all that stuff.
- 26:32Speaker 7: Matt, the Panthers are so injured right now, even the
- 26:36Speaker 7: Hornets are like, what is going on over there right now.
- 26:37Speaker 1: With the Panthers? That's how bad this is.
- 26:41Speaker 7: The Hornets only lost two guys back right before training camp,
- 26:43Speaker 7: and they're like, what is going on over there?
- 26:45Speaker 3: Seriously, it was a bad injury week, and then you
- 26:47Speaker 3: throw in, the P-man would be upset at me if
- 26:49Speaker 3: I did not throw in Archie freaking Goodwin getting hurt
- 26:51Speaker 3: when we already don't have our striker in Toklamati for
- 26:54Speaker 3: Charlotte FC because of the international break. So it was
- 26:57Speaker 3: just a bad injury week in Charlotte, and I feel
- 27:00Speaker 3: like we've said this before. And I'm glad to hear
- 27:03Speaker 3: they're chatting about what is going on here. Because when
- 27:07Speaker 3: they had those three soft tissue injuries, it did make
- 27:12Speaker 3: me wonder, what's happening here? And this is serious. Like
- 27:18Speaker 3: I said, when you're up to at least eight starters
- 27:21Speaker 3: who are either out or could be out this week
- 27:23Speaker 3: because of injury, and you only just played your third.
- 27:26Speaker 7: Game, There are so many injuries around the league also.
- 27:30Speaker 7: Think about how many guys are hurt for the Panthers.
- 27:32Speaker 7: Roto-Wire Mac has an injury score tracker. They have a
- 27:37Speaker 7: system based off injured reserve, players injured type of injuries.
- 27:42Speaker 7: The Panthers, so in that scoring chart that they have,
- 27:45Speaker 7: the Panthers are tied for 13th right now in injuries
- 27:47Speaker 7: across the league with the Jets. They have a score of...
- 27:51Speaker 7: And I'm guessing it may update here, obviously, throughout the week.
- 27:53Speaker 7: But they have a score of 47 injury score. Think
- 27:56Speaker 7: about this. Think about how injured we think the Panthers are.
- 27:59Speaker 7: The 49ers have an injury score of 92 right now.
- 28:03Speaker 7: They have 17 players.
- 28:04Speaker 1: On IR right now. The 49ers. 17 players on IR?
- 28:08Speaker 1: That's what it says. Holy crap.
- 28:10Speaker 5: Yep.
- 28:11Speaker 1: And they're still balling. Still balling out. That's what it
- 28:14Speaker 1: says anyway. I had to double check.
- 28:15Speaker 7: Yeah, I had to check that out. Check out the
- 28:18Speaker 7: way they do this thing here. But yeah, that tells you, though,
- 28:21Speaker 7: that this league is very injured right now also.
- 28:23Speaker 1: It is.
- 28:24Speaker 7: It is.
- 28:24Speaker 3: And as fans, we don't really care about the other teams.
- 28:28Speaker 3: Matter of fact, I don't care at all. I don't
- 28:30Speaker 3: want anybody to be in pain, but it really doesn't
- 28:32Speaker 3: concern me. But what happens with our team severely concerns me.
- 28:35Speaker 3: There's also the question, too, of how much depth do
- 28:38Speaker 3: you have? You know, anybody that's watched football over the
- 28:40Speaker 3: years knows some teams can handle it. Some teams can
- 28:43Speaker 3: handle a bunch of injuries. Some teams can't, you know.
- 28:47Speaker 3: And Fitty and I were talking about this. We're going
- 28:49Speaker 3: to talk about this in the 8 o'clock. That number
- 28:50Speaker 3: might not be right on the Niners, by the way. Yeah,
- 28:52Speaker 3: that seems like a lot for IR. But I could
- 28:54Speaker 3: see them having 17 different injuries throughout the course so far,
- 28:58Speaker 3: you know. But Fitty and I were talking about this, Bo,
- 29:00Speaker 3: and we're going to talk about this at 8 o'clock.
- 29:02Speaker 3: There are some Panther fans already saying, Fitt, that— I
- 29:07Speaker 3: just think this might be one of those lost seasons.
- 29:10Speaker 1: You know, one of those seasons where you get so many.
- 29:12Speaker 3: Injuries you can't overcome them.
- 29:15Speaker 1: Already happening in week three, man.
- 29:17Speaker 2: It's week three. It's an 18-week marathon. It's not a sprint. And, Mac,
- 29:22Speaker 2: we started one in three a year ago.
- 29:23Speaker 9: Now, I get the precipice of how banged up we
- 29:26Speaker 9: are with the injuries that you got to J.C.
- 29:28Speaker 7: Horn.
- 29:29Speaker 2: Devin Lloyd's already missed a game. Coker got injured.
- 29:33Speaker 9: But I do think this roster's in a better spot
- 29:36Speaker 9: to handle that. Now, I know you mentioned yesterday that you,
- 29:40Speaker 9: kind of like eight starters, I guess, have been.
- 29:42Speaker 2: Injured at some point.
- 29:43Speaker 9: It's already dating back to what happened last year in
- 29:46Speaker 9: the playoff game, what happened in training camp in the preseason,
- 29:48Speaker 9: and where we are now.
- 29:50Speaker 2: But that's the NFL, man. And no one's going to
- 29:54Speaker 2: feel sorry for the little old Carolina Panthers. It's time to...
- 29:59Speaker 2: Time to strap up the helmet.
- 30:01Speaker 1: We're going full dabbo here on this one.
- 30:02Speaker 2: You know, tighten up that jockstrap and let's go play football.
- 30:05Speaker 1: Let's do it, baby.
- 30:06Speaker 4: Let's do it.
- 30:06Speaker 7: I don't feel like Finney had a lot of oom-pah
- 30:08Speaker 7: next to him. Save it for saying, we're just a
- 30:10Speaker 7: little old Panthers. Let's put on our jockstraps and go
- 30:12Speaker 7: play football.
- 30:13Speaker 3: Save it for 8 o'clock, the Fit Dog. Save your
- 30:15Speaker 3: emotion for 8 o'clock because we're going to thoroughly address
- 30:18Speaker 3: folks that are just like, man.
- 30:19Speaker 1: And I don't blame you. I don't blame your brain
- 30:22Speaker 1: for going there.
- 30:23Speaker 3: And by the way, that 8 is just guys that
- 30:26Speaker 3: are out now or are in doubt.
- 30:29Speaker 1: For this week. That doesn't include Devin Lloyd. That doesn't
- 30:31Speaker 1: include Pat Jones.
- 30:32Speaker 3: Doesn't include other guys that we've already, you know, have
- 30:35Speaker 3: missed time because Bobby Brown's another star. You start adding
- 30:38Speaker 3: that up, we're up to 11, you know? So anyway,
- 30:42Speaker 3: we'll see what happens with Damian Lewis. He's got an
- 30:44Speaker 3: elbow situation, Bone. He has been the Panthers. I mean,
- 30:48Speaker 3: Bryce Young's been pretty damn good. Jalen Coker, but pretty
- 30:53Speaker 3: damn good. T-Mac until the other day. I think Damon
- 30:56Speaker 3: Lewis has been the best offensive player on this football team. Yeah.
- 30:59Speaker 3: And he is just, he's so steady. No one ever
- 31:02Speaker 3: talks about him, but isn't that often the sign of
- 31:04Speaker 3: a great lineman?
- 31:05Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 31:05Speaker 1: And again, and that's another guy.
- 31:07Speaker 7: It's not, it's not only the amount of injuries, it's
- 31:11Speaker 7: who's getting injured. It's the names of these guys and
- 31:14Speaker 7: their value to the.
- 31:15Speaker 1: To winning.
- 31:16Speaker 3: 100%. All right, so let's keep it going here in
- 31:20Speaker 3: terms of what was being said yesterday by Coach Canales,
- 31:25Speaker 3: the Bryce Young one. Yeah, he seems kind of evasive, Bone.
- 31:28Speaker 3: He's about as evasive as Bryce is, facing pressure. This
- 31:31Speaker 3: is Dave Canales talking a little bit about Bryce's injury
- 31:35Speaker 3: from the other day.
- 31:36Speaker 10: Yeah, he was sore a little bit. I think he
- 31:38Speaker 10: took a cleat. I can't remember exactly where. So there
- 31:41Speaker 10: was some soreness. He battled through it, was able to finish.
- 31:45Speaker 10: We're looking at him, too. We're making sure that everything's right,
- 31:48Speaker 10: and we don't want to just assume that he's okay
- 31:50Speaker 10: because he finished the game. So we're going to take
- 31:52Speaker 10: a look at that, but I expect Bryce to be
- 31:54Speaker 10: playing this week.
- 31:56Speaker 3: All right, so he thinks Bryce is going to play.
- 31:59Speaker 3: They're going to do imaging just in case. Yesterday, thanks
- 32:03Speaker 3: to the sleuths on Twitter, Bone, we were able to
- 32:06Speaker 3: see how the injury happened because Dave Canale is not
- 32:09Speaker 3: going to tell you anything like that.
- 32:10Speaker 1: He doesn't even want to tell you where he got cleated.
- 32:12Speaker 1: He just wants to tell you that Wednesday is coming
- 32:14Speaker 1: up soon. Wednesday. We'll talk to you Wednesday.
- 32:17Speaker 3: But it was Rasheed Walker getting shoved back by the
- 32:21Speaker 3: guy he was blocking.
- 32:24Speaker 1: Multiple yards.
- 32:26Speaker 3: And he got shoved back so far that he stepped
- 32:28Speaker 3: on Bryce Young in the pocket on that play, on
- 32:31Speaker 3: that fourth down play where Bryce got sacked and got hurt.
- 32:33Speaker 3: So it ended up being freaking friendly fire. Yeah, so
- 32:36Speaker 3: it's not hard to figure out where Bryce is injured
- 32:39Speaker 3: on the lower body. He didn't get his head stepped on.
- 32:42Speaker 3: So we can figure out where and what happened thanks
- 32:45Speaker 3: to Panther's Twitter there. Mack, am I wrong that I'm
- 32:48Speaker 3: a little bit concerned about this offensive line versus Mr.
- 32:52Speaker 7: Hutchinson on Sunday night? Hell no, you're not. Are you
- 32:58Speaker 7: kidding me? I'm losing sleep over this one. DJ Wanham's
- 33:02Speaker 7: on the other side, too. I'm concerned about DJ Wanham
- 33:04Speaker 7: the way we looked on. Because the Browns' edges, and
- 33:06Speaker 7: I know I shouldn't have said that stat last week
- 33:09Speaker 7: over and over again. Jared Verse, he's off to a
- 33:11Speaker 7: slow start.
- 33:12Speaker 3: He only has one pressure, according to PFF, through two games. Like,
- 33:15Speaker 3: that just guaranteed he was going to have, like, the
- 33:17Speaker 3: six pressures he did or whatever. But, like, yeah, there's
- 33:19Speaker 3: no doubt. I'd be concerned, Bone, if the two great
- 33:23Speaker 3: defensive linemen from their schoolboy days— Willie P and Flounder
- 33:27Speaker 3: were lining up on the edges. I'd be concerned if
- 33:30Speaker 3: those two guys were rushing against our tackles, man.
- 33:33Speaker 1: They've had rough two weeks. They really have.
- 33:36Speaker 7: If they can beat our offensive line, we've got some
- 33:38Speaker 7: issues going on here. Those two stall workers. I think
- 33:42Speaker 7: that we should send them out to practice. Let them
- 33:43Speaker 7: get some reps against, against those guys. 7 0 4
- 33:47Speaker 7: 5 7 0 9 6 10. I mean, unfortunately injuries
- 33:50Speaker 7: are going to be the big part of the show
- 33:51Speaker 7: at seven o'clock. We're going to talk about what is
- 33:53Speaker 7: the fan attitude about the JC horn injury and how
- 33:57Speaker 7: much does this one affect defense? How does it affect
- 34:00Speaker 7: the defense? So that's where we're at today, man. And
- 34:05Speaker 7: at 725, we'll see how Conky Nipple's feeling.
- 34:08Speaker 1: Yes, we will.
- 34:08Speaker 3: We're actually going to do that in a few minutes, too,
- 34:12Speaker 3: coming up at 645. And the Hornets injury news, a
- 34:15Speaker 3: couple texters are pointing out. Where's this guy at here?
- 34:19Speaker 3: 704 number. You know the Panthers injuries are bad when
- 34:22Speaker 3: they make the Hornets injury situation look dandy.
- 34:25Speaker 1: And it's true. We got good news. We got good
- 34:27Speaker 1: news yesterday, Bone, on the Hornets front. I mentioned earlier.
- 34:30Speaker 2: I'm aroused.
- 34:31Speaker 1: Oh, Walker. All right, Walker. He really liked that news yesterday.
- 34:35Speaker 3: Or is that just because Walker was out there at
- 34:38Speaker 3: Hornets Media Day excited about a new season?
- 34:43Speaker 7: A lot of Hornets stuff when we come back. The
- 34:45Speaker 7: newest Hornets already gone. We say goodbye to Bob Dillingham.
- 34:50Speaker 7: We've got good Brandon Miller news. And Con Canipple displays
- 34:54Speaker 7: why he's such a fan favorite. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
- 35:21Speaker 3: It might not be up to you, but how much
- 35:24Speaker 3: will you lobby to be there on opening night?
- 35:30Speaker 6: I've I mean, I feel like we know that I
- 35:35Speaker 6: want to play in every game. And we saw that
- 35:38Speaker 6: last year. I had a pretty bad rolled ankle and
- 35:42Speaker 6: only missed one. Didn't miss any games in college or
- 35:45Speaker 6: high school. And so I'm going to do my best
- 35:48Speaker 6: to get myself prepared for that.
- 35:51Speaker 1: That's Khan to P-Man. Set him up.
- 35:54Speaker 3: The P-Man dished it like lamello bone. Sorry to bring
- 35:58Speaker 3: that up. Kicked it out to Khan and Khan nailed
- 36:00Speaker 3: the shot. Great answer. That is exactly what Hornets fans
- 36:04Speaker 3: want to hear. In an era of load management, this
- 36:08Speaker 3: dude openly tells you, I want to play every game.
- 36:11Speaker 3: And oh, by the way, that ankle injury last year,
- 36:13Speaker 3: I only missed one game.
- 36:15Speaker 1: It was severe.
- 36:16Speaker 3: And I only miss one game, so you can rest
- 36:18Speaker 3: assured I'm doing every damn thing I can to play
- 36:21Speaker 3: in the opener. We found out yesterday, and you're going
- 36:24Speaker 3: to hear our interview with Khan at 725 for Media Day,
- 36:28Speaker 3: and we talk about it a little bit here in
- 36:30Speaker 3: that interview, too, where he talks, Bone, about how it
- 36:33Speaker 3: was like two to three weeks ago that him and
- 36:35Speaker 3: Grant Williams, same day, opposite hamstrings, both suffered their injuries.
- 36:41Speaker 1: So it has been a while now. God damn.
- 36:45Speaker 2: Been a while. It hasn't been a while since I've
- 36:48Speaker 2: been a while.
- 36:49Speaker 1: We're on a pace today of, we're on a record pace.
- 36:52Speaker 1: We are. I never realized how many times I say
- 36:54Speaker 1: a while. I never realized it. It's been a while
- 36:56Speaker 1: since we've been on this pace.
- 36:58Speaker 2: Been a while.
- 36:59Speaker 1: What is worse?
- 36:59Speaker 2: It's been a while or six, seven.
- 37:03Speaker 1: Neither one is good. Let's just put it out there.
- 37:05Speaker 1: Neither one is good. I think this one's better, though.
- 37:08Speaker 1: This one makes six, seven.
- 37:10Speaker 3: I feel like by the time it got to our show,
- 37:12Speaker 3: the Unks started doing it, I feel like it was way,
- 37:14Speaker 3: way played out. So anyway, it seems like Bone, they've
- 37:18Speaker 3: already been healing for a while. Khan yesterday said, I
- 37:21Speaker 3: don't have any pain. It's all about strengthening that muscle again.
- 37:25Speaker 3: So I don't know. It seems like there's a chance.
- 37:28Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
- 37:28Speaker 3: By that point, it'll be weeks. It seems like there's
- 37:30Speaker 3: a chance they could both start the season.
- 37:32Speaker 7: Remember in summer league, Mac, he got busted open and
- 37:34Speaker 7: still kept playing. That's when we realized, oh, God, Khan
- 37:37Speaker 7: is a different breed there.
- 37:39Speaker 1: That's old school, man. He's a throwback. A lot of
- 37:41Speaker 1: times with.
- 37:42Speaker 7: Hornets injuries, I think, oh, yeah, this— Yeah, he's going
- 37:45Speaker 7: to make it to the first game. Well, with Khan,
- 37:47Speaker 7: I don't view him as normal. I think I'd be
- 37:49Speaker 7: more surprised, Mac, actually, if he didn't make it to
- 37:52Speaker 7: the first game because of this guy's want to and
- 37:55Speaker 7: the fight that he's going to put into playing the
- 37:57Speaker 7: first game. So I'd be more surprised if he's not
- 37:59Speaker 7: there in the first, if not the first game, at.
- 38:02Speaker 1: Least the second game.
- 38:02Speaker 3: After hearing that, you know, I think we're pretty confident.
- 38:06Speaker 3: Hopefully his legs aren't hurt, Mac, from when I latched
- 38:09Speaker 3: onto him yesterday when we saw him in person yesterday.
- 38:12Speaker 1: We were worried about that.
- 38:13Speaker 7: Did I handle myself well with class, though, with Khan
- 38:16Speaker 7: and Grayson?
- 38:17Speaker 3: I love the way you wore the Duke hat, and
- 38:19Speaker 3: that had to be on purpose, right? Like, I'm part
- 38:21Speaker 3: of the brotherhood. Khan talked to me about my Panthers hat. Said,
- 38:25Speaker 3: tough loss. Tough loss yesterday. Hey, Khan, worry about your Packers, Khan.
- 38:29Speaker 3: He's a Packer fan. I felt like saying, hey, Thursday
- 38:31Speaker 3: night looked a lot tougher, though.
- 38:33Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 38:33Speaker 1: But you can tell he's into the Panthers. Like, he's
- 38:35Speaker 1: watching them, too.
- 38:36Speaker 7: I thought you were going to make some snide remark
- 38:38Speaker 7: when I thanked Grayson for the championship yesterday. I thought
- 38:41Speaker 7: that might be a wicked bone over here.
- 38:43Speaker 1: I like that. I respect that, man. He's a childhood
- 38:45Speaker 1: hero of mine. I got to thank him for what
- 38:46Speaker 1: he did.
- 38:47Speaker 3: I respect that. He was your childhood role model. Anyway,
- 38:51Speaker 3: and Grayson Allen drops a quote on us. This interview
- 38:54Speaker 3: is not until 925, so if you can't listen live,
- 38:56Speaker 3: you got to go back and hear the podcast.
- 38:57Speaker 4: He was awesome.
- 38:58Speaker 3: Grayson Allen drops one of the greatest quotes a guest
- 39:00Speaker 3: has ever dropped on us in Mac and Bone history.
- 39:03Speaker 3: What he says is just amazing. So that's coming up.
- 39:07Speaker 3: I did want to mention Bone. So as we're driving
- 39:10Speaker 3: over to do our Media Day interviews yesterday at the arena,
- 39:14Speaker 3: Bone reads off a tweet.
- 39:15Speaker 1: I think it was probably the Richie Randall tweet.
- 39:16Speaker 3: I think he's the one that sent this out once
- 39:18Speaker 3: I got home and read all the tweets from Media Day,
- 39:21Speaker 3: where he quotes what Jeff Peterson said when asked about
- 39:26Speaker 3: Rob Dillingham, who the Hornets traded Buddy healed in cash
- 39:29Speaker 3: for the other day. And he basically, yeah, Rob's a
- 39:33Speaker 3: good career, Kentucky. Um, good player, Kentucky hickory native.
- 39:38Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 39:39Speaker 3: We wish him the best from, uh, you know, from
- 39:41Speaker 3: here on out. And once you hear that, you're like, Oh,
- 39:44Speaker 3: he is so waved. And yesterday afternoon he was waved.
- 39:47Speaker 3: So I guess all they wanted in that trade bone
- 39:50Speaker 3: by sending off buddy heel, by the way, so much
- 39:52Speaker 3: for our excitement over adding another shooter.
- 39:56Speaker 1: We almost can't even get too attached to these guys.
- 39:58Speaker 3: It's not even worth talking about who we add until
- 40:01Speaker 3: you should wait a week with Jeff Peterson to see
- 40:03Speaker 3: if he has any desire to keep the guy. But
- 40:06Speaker 3: all they wanted, I guess, out of that trade was
- 40:09Speaker 3: three million dollars in cap room that they added because
- 40:12Speaker 3: of the difference in the contracts. And another trade exception.
- 40:15Speaker 3: There was a report bone. There's like a nine million
- 40:17Speaker 3: dollar or so trade exception. My question is, do we
- 40:20Speaker 3: ever use these trade exceptions? Like, is that or is
- 40:23Speaker 3: that 40 million one going to be used or is
- 40:24Speaker 3: that thing goes sit on the shelf dusty?
- 40:27Speaker 7: You know, Mac, what's the what's the old song by
- 40:29Speaker 7: Robert Palmer? Addicted to love.
- 40:31Speaker 8: Yes.
- 40:31Speaker 7: There needs to be a song someone does about Jeff
- 40:33Speaker 7: Peterson addicted to moves.
- 40:36Speaker 1: Let's just face it. You're addicted to moves. It's crazy.
- 40:38Speaker 4: I wonder.
- 40:38Speaker 7: You sent me a great text to me that he
- 40:41Speaker 7: must be a handful in fantasy leagues.
- 40:42Speaker 1: Fantasy football leagues.
- 40:43Speaker 3: I don't know if y'all get bothered by constant trade
- 40:46Speaker 3: offer guy, but when I used to play fantasy football,
- 40:49Speaker 3: constant trade offer guy would drive me crazy.
- 40:52Speaker 1: And it's never a good offer.
- 40:54Speaker 3: The guy just thinks he's going to get you to
- 40:55Speaker 3: take the greatest deal ever for him and get swindled.
- 40:57Speaker 7: Can I get this guy while he's distracted and maybe
- 41:00Speaker 7: he'll say yes to it? Yes.
- 41:01Speaker 3: So anyway, is Jeff Peterson that guy in his fantasy
- 41:04Speaker 3: football league? We need to ask Charles Lee or somebody
- 41:07Speaker 3: over there. We need to play a game show called
- 41:09Speaker 3: Remember the Moves. Can we remember all the moves that
- 41:13Speaker 3: Jeff Peterson has made since the start of the offseason? Oh, shoot.
- 41:15Speaker 1: You know who can win that game is Walker Mayo, baby.
- 41:19Speaker 7: Because guys are going to pop up, and it's going
- 41:21Speaker 7: to be a thing long-term where on Wikipedia pages, Hornets
- 41:26Speaker 7: will pop up and we'll be like, that guy was
- 41:28Speaker 7: a Hornet? Oh, there's no doubt. Oh, yeah, he was
- 41:30Speaker 7: a Hornet for four days.
- 41:31Speaker 3: Ten minutes. Ten minutes he was a Hornet. This texter, 704,
- 41:36Speaker 3: Jeff Peterson is going to name his next child Trade Exception.
- 41:39Speaker 3: First name Trade, middle name Exception, Peterson. All right, let's
- 41:43Speaker 3: get to more audio, though. Speaking of Jeff Peterson.
- 41:45Speaker 1: Peterson. Having some fun with you, Jeff, on your trades, baby.
- 41:48Speaker 1: Got complete faith in you playing chess long-term.
- 41:51Speaker 3: All right, let's get to Jeff Peterson talking about Brandon Miller.
- 41:55Speaker 3: And Jeff did say he has cleared full go for
- 41:59Speaker 3: training camp.
- 42:00Speaker 11: Yeah, right now he's expected to be a full participant.
- 42:03Speaker 11: We will continue to monitor him throughout camp. But again,
- 42:09Speaker 11: really excited for him. Of course, he missed the previous
- 42:12Speaker 11: summer as well. So But proud that he hasn't let
- 42:17Speaker 11: this deter him. He's put in a ton of work.
- 42:20Speaker 5: So excited to see him go.
- 42:23Speaker 3: So there you go. That's certainly good news, man. We
- 42:25Speaker 3: don't have to worry about that.
- 42:26Speaker 11: It is.
- 42:27Speaker 1: The texter is right.
- 42:28Speaker 3: The Hornets injury news is surprisingly amazing, especially compared to
- 42:34Speaker 3: the Panthers.
- 42:34Speaker 1: Yeah, when you're going to the Hornets for upbeat injury news,
- 42:36Speaker 1: something's going on here.
- 42:38Speaker 3: It's a crazy world we're living in. All right, one
- 42:41Speaker 3: last clip. Speaking of Walker, man, Wes and Walker were
- 42:43Speaker 3: out there doing their show at Media Day after we
- 42:46Speaker 3: got done doing a couple of interviews that you'll hear
- 42:48Speaker 3: today with Khan and Grayson Allen. and one of the
- 42:52Speaker 3: interviews was with Brandon Miller, and this one is real
- 42:56Speaker 3: interesting because this one, Brandon kind of reveals Bone how
- 43:00Speaker 3: much better he thinks he's going to be after having
- 43:02Speaker 3: the surgery and how much of a struggle last year
- 43:04Speaker 3: was for him with the shoulder.
- 43:06Speaker 4: How do you feel now, and do you feel like a,
- 43:09Speaker 4: I guess, healthier last few weeks will contribute to rehabilitating
- 43:14Speaker 4: enough to have your most effective season yet? How good
- 43:17Speaker 4: do you feel now, I guess, compared to, this time
- 43:19Speaker 4: a year ago and so on and so forth.
- 43:21Speaker 8: Definitely. I feel a lot more confident with, you know,
- 43:24Speaker 8: going into the season with my shoulder. I feel like
- 43:26Speaker 8: last year was a lot of, there was a, you know,
- 43:28Speaker 8: a lot of times where my shoulder just wasn't, just
- 43:30Speaker 8: wasn't holding up. It always, you know, it was either
- 43:33Speaker 8: popping out of place or it was either feeling funny
- 43:35Speaker 8: or it was either just all pain, 10 out of
- 43:37Speaker 8: 10 pain. So I think now just, you know, limiting
- 43:40Speaker 8: that pain to zero out of 10, you know, shoulders
- 43:43Speaker 8: not popping out of place, it being stable and, I
- 43:46Speaker 8: think that can take my game to another level. And then,
- 43:49Speaker 8: of course, the weight room kind of helped it out. Well,
- 43:51Speaker 8: definitely helped it out a little bit just to, you know,
- 43:54Speaker 8: work out some of the smaller muscles in the shoulder.
- 43:57Speaker 8: You know, I try not to be beefy like a
- 44:01Speaker 8: football player, but more cut up and lean. So, you know,
- 44:05Speaker 8: having that going into the season, you know, been in
- 44:08Speaker 8: the weight room, I think that's going to help me
- 44:10Speaker 8: out a lot.
- 44:11Speaker 3: So he's been able to get out of 10 and
- 44:13Speaker 3: a guy was that effective. That crazy how well he played.
- 44:16Speaker 3: That's why I'm thinking, could we see a Brandon Miller breakout?
- 44:19Speaker 3: Plus he's going to have the ball in his hands
- 44:20Speaker 3: more without and creating more. I tell you, I'm mellow.
- 44:23Speaker 3: This team's depth, the style will play. I know there's
- 44:26Speaker 3: going to be the adjustment without mellow, but I can't
- 44:29Speaker 3: wait to see this team play. They're going to be
- 44:32Speaker 3: a fun brand to watch. We'll see what that means, Mac,
- 44:36Speaker 3: in the loaded East, because it's going to feel like
- 44:38Speaker 3: every night there's going to be a playoff contender outside
- 44:41Speaker 3: of maybe like the, you know, the Nets maybe, but
- 44:44Speaker 3: every other team, Milwaukee, maybe, I don't know. We'll see
- 44:46Speaker 3: what they have, but it feels like every team in
- 44:48Speaker 3: the East is going to go into the season outside
- 44:50Speaker 3: of a couple thinking they have a chance at the postseason.
- 44:53Speaker 3: This is going to be a fun season, both defensively
- 44:56Speaker 3: in how they do, but I think stylistically, this team
- 44:59Speaker 3: is going to put up a lot of shots, man.
- 45:01Speaker 3: They're going to be fun to watch. They are, and
- 45:03Speaker 3: I think they're going like... I remember, listen, I was
- 45:06Speaker 3: bummed after the Lomelo trade. This team's going to be competitive.
- 45:09Speaker 3: You mentioned how tough the East is and how deep
- 45:11Speaker 3: it is. So I don't know where we end up
- 45:12Speaker 3: or how many wins. And it's not even about it.
- 45:14Speaker 3: But this team is going to be competitive. They got deeper.
- 45:18Speaker 1: They did.
- 45:18Speaker 3: They lost Lomelo, but in bridges, to me, we upgraded
- 45:22Speaker 3: with Nas. Not even really mentioned that much. We upgraded
- 45:24Speaker 3: with Nas, but we got deeper. You can't deny that.
- 45:26Speaker 7: I think what's fun about it is, This isn't a
- 45:29Speaker 7: season where we say, oh, my God, we got to
- 45:31Speaker 7: go ahead and make all these moves afterwards. It's not
- 45:34Speaker 7: even about necessarily the now for the Hornets. They have
- 45:38Speaker 7: done such a great job in the front office with
- 45:42Speaker 7: assets and pegs and money that right now I'm not
- 45:45Speaker 7: saying it's a bonus year. But I don't think this
- 45:47Speaker 7: is the end-all, be-all. We want to see them be
- 45:49Speaker 7: competitive and maybe get to the postseason if they could.
- 45:53Speaker 7: But even if they don't, they're so well set up
- 45:55Speaker 7: for future assets that this is just the beginning of
- 45:57Speaker 7: a run.
- 45:58Speaker 1: Oh, heck yeah.
- 45:59Speaker 3: Heck yeah. That's what's good about this. Jeff Peterson going
- 46:00Speaker 3: to strike at some point. Finney, you got the first
- 46:04Speaker 3: cut that you made us laugh about Walker with?
- 46:06Speaker 1: You got that first cut? Because we got a text
- 46:08Speaker 1: about it.
- 46:09Speaker 2: I'm aroused.
- 46:10Speaker 3: There you go. Panther Steve says Walker gets... That happens
- 46:14Speaker 3: to Walker every time somebody says, We can't even play
- 46:18Speaker 3: when Musa walks into a room.
- 46:22Speaker 1: His antlers go up.
- 46:23Speaker 2: His antlers go up.
- 46:26Speaker 1: All-time booty mover. What is that? I never knew there
- 46:30Speaker 1: were so many music drops of Walker.
- 46:32Speaker 2: I had no idea.
- 46:32Speaker 1: This is a new segment called Dirty Walker. I would
- 46:35Speaker 1: love to.
- 46:36Speaker 2: Girl, you are so fine. Girl, you are so fine.
- 46:41Speaker 1: I could drink a tub of your bathwater. Male talk
- 46:46Speaker 1: when Walker gets dirty. Thirsty Walker.
- 46:49Speaker 3: Can we get Thirsty Walker talking to Willie P over
- 46:51Speaker 3: there on your soundboard? That would be, that's a bit
- 46:54Speaker 3: waiting to happen, those two chatting.
- 46:56Speaker 9: You know what the best part about the bathwater drop
- 46:58Speaker 9: I just played is? That was a letter he wrote
- 47:01Speaker 9: when he was in the fourth grade.
- 47:03Speaker 1: Oh, dang.
- 47:03Speaker 2: That got intercepted by a teacher.
- 47:06Speaker 5: Yeah!
- 47:07Speaker 2: Fourth-grade Walker.
- 47:08Speaker 1: Thirsty, baby, thirsty. Was that Pacer Walker to Rick Smith's
- 47:12Speaker 1: back and forth? What was going on there? Oh, God,
- 47:15Speaker 1: that's funny. That's funny.
- 47:16Speaker 7: All right, we come back here on the Mac and
- 47:18Speaker 7: Bone Show. How do fans feel about the horn injury news?
- 47:22Speaker 7: Is the defense doomed without them? We'll talk about that.
- 47:26Speaker 7: And also, don't forget, Conk and Ipple coming up 725
- 47:30Speaker 7: as well on Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.