September 4, 2025 • 45 mins
Mac & Bone start Thursday's show, talking about the return of the NFL, with the Eagles set to host the Cowboys to kick the season off, they get into more OL injuries for the Panthers, with Rob Hunt showing up on the injury report yesterday, and they talk about the ratings that the ACC drew in the first weekend of the season
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
When come on sty oh it is you guys are
the most entertaining sports program in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The Bone gob no, no, stop porking. You and I
are a couple eating a lady in the tramp. You're
the lady on the tree.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, come on, come on baby. I was Boopy Boopy
MacLean man. It's a great name, O the b.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Good morning, Charlotte, Welcome board. Is the Mac and Bone Show.
It's Thursday. It is Week one of the NFL. The
Cowboys will probably get house tonight. How can you not?
How can you not be feeling good?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
The Philadelphia'll be happy tonight probably I can. I can
handle that. The NFL joins the chat tonight, Ladies and gentlemen.
The Panthers just three days away from entering the football party.
The college football got going last week, so we are
here to celebrate that.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Today. We're here to tell you what's going on.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
There's a new offensive line injury for your beloved Carolina Panthers.
That's that's not what we needed to hear, so we'll
update you on that. Jacksonville is about as healthy as
you can be, too. We'll throw that in there as well,
and we'll talk about that. And we've got a crazy,
crazy story, as Pablo Toy has been finding out.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yet again, this.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Does not involve Bill Belichick's relationship. This involves the LA
Clippers potentially cheating and circumventing the salary cap with some
shady deals. And I'm sure you've heard about that story.
We will touch on that here out of the gate.
We will also welcome ESPN Radio two ninety two point
(01:57):
seven WFNZ. We're glad to have them on board with
us now as well. We got the bone Man on board,
we got Fitty on board as well. Fresh off of
date last night, what's a bone Man? What's happening?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Good morning? You said, who cares if Philadelphia is happy?
Even if they win tonight celebrating last year's championship, there's
no guarantee that Eagles fans will still be happy tonight.
That's that's going on on a whim. Remember that's true.
Let's say the last seventy eight, their last championship, they
opened against Atlanta, they didn't have a good first half,
and they boot them at halftime. So who knows what
(02:33):
happened tonight with Philadelphia fans. It's true, it's true. I'm
just saying I will take an Eagles win tonight. You
know what I'm saying, like I want Dallas misery more
than I want Philadelphia. Plus, who the hell cares whatever
happens to night? They got the Dann Lombardi. But I
get your point, too many if they don't look perfect,
they both parties could be angry. Both parties could be angry.
(02:55):
I'm also bad mouthing Dallas because I'm looking at Fitty,
Because in the past, when I would badmouth Dallas, phone
Fitty with tense up over there, Fitty would show the
anger on his face.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Might be a scoff or two.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
This man looks completely unaffected, completely unaffected, bone man by
the talk of the bashing of the Dallas Cowboys. So
now he's run out of the room though. Now yeah,
he's getting he's getting phone caused, probably from his Dallas friends.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Make sure he's okay this morning. You know what he did?
You know what he hasn't done?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I don't Why? Why do I know? Why do I
know what underwear he's wearing. It's very weird. I don't
think he's put the thong on yet. How do you.
How do you know, because he was pretty busy before
the show. Usually does it right before the show. So
I think, although, yeah, he is on the phone.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Do you think he's missing his.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Thong or something. You think his thong contact had to
call him up right now. Probably you can get a
second one brought in here. Probably his date. She's just
now telling him she can't make it. He thought she
was just a He thought she was just late. She'd
be there tonight. But she was just a day late anyway.
All right, So to fifty welcome back. We were saying
nice things. You had the thong on.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
There.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
You got my man, all's right with the world is now?
Bone gets.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
He just mooned med he Oh my goods, that was
aggressive fitty. Oh my god, that was an aggressive panther
thong check. Oh my, you might want to shave that
left cheek. By the way, you got a lot going
on back there.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
It does need a Brazilian wax.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I step outside called the rictator, cause you know, we
have a new format. I gotta check some things and
I'm getting ripped for USh up outside the studio and
you're like, I can't hear you, Like I got Jeff
in one ear, and I got Charles Loudmouse in the
other ear.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I don't know everything else said.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I don't think you can go full bar cheek right
at me though this feels like some sort of violation.
By the way, can I say some fitty that may
come across a meme, but I mean this has an observation.
Your backside does kind of resemble your head a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
What the heck? It's like it's it's a little hairy,
but not too hairy. All right?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Then, oh man, you took a deep loop there, didn't
you right up.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Here my kitchen. Have you got that right up in
your kitchen before like that?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I usually when I when I do it.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
When I checked, when I checked for the panther thong
this week, I just simply pool. I just I just
get a little look. He just literally said, let me
just aggressively show you. All right, let's get to football,
shall we. Football starting. Let's stop talking about the fact
that Fitty is in a panther song. It's very admirable.
He wants to be a part of this fan base.
Four straight days wearing the panther thong. All right, so
(05:44):
you got the we mentioned NFL starting tonight Dallas and
UH and the Eagles. I mentioned the offensive line injury situation.
You'll hear Dave Canalis talk about it here in a
couple of a couple of minutes. But ick, he's still
not practicing. He's on the side, just kind of doing
individual stuff. Sounds like Friday might be a day where
(06:06):
maybe he can take a step forward. But my vibe
is I just still feel the same way. I don't
think he's playing That video yesterday that I think Newton
had of him just walking around practice, it looked like
from that small video it wasn't like a lengthy video.
Looked like he was almost kind of limping while he
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walked a little bit still. He did not look like
a guy ready to play football in a couple of days.
He's limping from He didn't happen to me. He didn't
look like he was walking very well, however you describe it.
It didn't look like a guy that's I've not seen
the video. Yeah, I just didn't look like a guy
that you look at him and say, oh, he's ready
to play football. I just I just don't get the
vibe all along here. I just don't get the vibe
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that he is going to play. I hope I'm wrong.
And again Friday sounds like the day that they will
make a decision on it. But now we got Rob
Hunt injured, we have Damian Lewis back, we got Ikey
on the sidelines doing individual stuff, and now we got
Rob Hunt injured as well. There's a foot injury for him.
So now we got to throw that one into the mix.
(07:11):
And this is the strength of the team. This is
you know, I mean, I guess it could be worse.
Your biggest weakness could be getting guys hurt. I mean,
but these are the guys that you want to And
you got two wide receivers out right, well, I mean
one's gone, he's not out. But the way I see it,
two of our three best wide receivers from about ten
days ago will not be playing in this game.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
So what do you want to do?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
You want to run a bleep out of the damn
football And now you have two elite run blockers in
Rob Hunt and Ikey banged up. So it's not ideal.
The Hunt thing, hopefully is not anything major, but it's
it's just not ideal.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
But I'm handling it fine. Bone.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
It sounds like It's also two of the areas of
the team that we were praising the depth throughout the
entire offseason, and we get or right before Week one,
and the two concerns we now have are about the
depth of the wide receiver group and the offensive line.
It's a very panther Wi like start to the season
where two areas where we were confident in now at
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least for the beginning of the season, we have some
questions about the health and just overall depth of some
of those spots. We'll let you hear it in coach
Canalis's words, the left tackle situation and the Rob Hunt
injury which happened in practice yesterday. You'll hear it from
coach coming up here in a few minutes. I did
want to mention bone this Pablo Torre report. I mean,
(08:33):
he has all these d internal documents from this company Aspiration,
which was partially funded by Clippers owner Steve Balmer. They
have gone bankrupt, so it's this bankruptcy bone that has
led to basically all this stuff being available and being
out there. Pablo Torre starts digging like he's looking at
(08:55):
a ring camera from a from a house where Bill
Belichick is standing on the porch shirtless. So he's digging
into this thing and he finds essentially documents that show
that Kawhi Leonards LLC Bone was getting money or there
(09:16):
was an endorsement deal set up with this company, Aspiration
that where the money would go to the you know,
Kawhi Leonards LLC. And it's there's also an employee on record.
He's got one of those things Bone where they like,
did you see it? Are? They like black out the
person's face, yes, and then they.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Alter their voice so they sound like this.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
And it was an employee of this company, Aspire, that
came across this agreement to pay Kawhi Leonard twenty eight
million over four years. And he was told, don't worry
about that. He was told that's something the Clippers are
using to circumvent the salary cap. So he's got that
employee on record. The Clippers have nine that this has happened.
(10:02):
So uh, here we go. Man. But the last time
there was any kind of salary cap like circumvention stuff
or whatever was with Joe Smith and the Timberwolves in
two thousand and it cost them five first round draft picks.
It's three point five million dollars fine for Joe Smith.
(10:23):
Why did you feel the need to circumventd the cap
for a guy that played for check notes every team
in the league.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
At least Kawhi is a star.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
But uh yeah, And they're saying, I guess that Kawhi
basically did nothing for this company, but was just getting
twenty eight million a year over four years per this agreement,
but wasn't doing anything. They call it a no show
job for a fake tree planning company. Now this bone
is in addition, why does the show up for his
regular job? Why'd you showing up for the tree planning
(10:54):
I was just going there. You just beat me to it.
I had I had this one ready to go. Two
great comedic minds. Bone. Yes, I was gonna say, this
is an addition to the no show job he has
as a basketball player. How many times you call off
for that gig? So anyway, this is a huge deal
if it's true. Clippers are denying it. I know Mark
(11:15):
Cuban put out a message saying I'm team Balmer. I
don't Steve Ballmer's not dumb enough to do this sort
of thing. He would he says, he wouldn't let the
company go bankrupt because he knew this stuff would come out,
so he's defending Steve Balmer. At some point, you would
hope the the NBA they say they're aware of it.
At some point you would hope that they investigated themselves
(11:37):
Pablo Torre style and gets to the bottom of this.
But this is a major freaking deal, man, if they're
guilty of that. NBA writer Keith Smith was talking about
the punishments for the Timberwolves twenty five years ago, and
he does say in the tweet that recent punishment of
cap stuff has been the loss of second round picks,
so it's gotten much more. Adam Silver is not quite
(11:58):
the harsh penalizer in certain things that David Stern was,
so we will see what happens here. Interesting that you
mentioned Mark Cuban coming out with the staunch defense of
Steve Baumer. People were pointing out that you might want
to go look into what the Dallas Mavericks possibly did
with Dirt Noviski for many years, who kept re signing
for what we're in the market value over and over
(12:21):
and over and over. So they were questioning Mark Cuban, like,
what were you up to all those years with Dirk
and getting him back on those contracts. And then Pablo
Torre said yesterday on the same podcast, so this is
not good for a team that I root for. That
his next investigation will be Jalen Brunston and the New
York Knicks dunt duntu because Jalen Brunson signed for a
(12:44):
team friendly deal. Everyone thought, Oh, look at Jalen Brunson
doing what's best for the team. Pablo Tory has something
apparently on the Knicks next. So is he just targeting
anybody who looks like the player didn't take max money
they get. Yeah. He also has invited Mark Cuban on
the podcast. He saw that Cuban basically said he's full
of it. So now he's invited Cuban. This reminds me
(13:06):
of are they going to do like their version of
Simmons and Pablo. They had a d N exchange they're
working on. Oh, Cuban said on man check your DMS.
Oh there you go, there you go. So anyway, Nick's
are up next. I actually want him to go find
a coach's girlfriend and start investigating that.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Again.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I gotta be honest with you, this is great. This
Clipper Stufnd's great. I don't really care about Jayleen Brunson.
I'd like him to move on Bone. Then the more
fun stuff. Well, I think he's getting all of us.
He being Pablo Torre, He's getting all of us. I
think to just open up our secrets. I did this
yesterday on Twitter. I went to Bojangles twice in one
day recently, so I wanted that to be known there.
I want to get all my secrets out before Pablo
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comes knocking for my skeletons in the court.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
How dare you, by the way, you want to say
mac by the thing up too recently? Can you better
say it?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Because Pablo's gonna find out two bow Jangles trips in
a day?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Fitty calls out a slow day.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Actually, Ifinny wants to know what's wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Why are you starving yourself?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Oh man, Fitty has to own the record Bone the
Charlotte area record for most fast food visits in a
day and a week?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Is it today?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Scott too with no grocery store except one grocery store
tripping like a decade or say he's got to own that?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Is it today? McDonald's day? You moved to Thursday? Right, yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
But went by got my crispy chicken biscuit to hash
browns and a large sweet tea.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
I've been about your crispy chicken biscuit this morning.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Oh hey, now I've been to McDonald's too, So maybe
I shouldn't talk trash. But I had been starving myself
essentially for three days. I feel like I've earned it,
all right, all right, bone, all right, Well a segment, Baby,
there we go, We come back.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
We are coming back right pay.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
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Speaker 1 (15:04):
She's been taking a lot of reps there nightman, and
then also Brady has been taking reps at left and
right as always. So we're just kind of gonna take
it one day at a time, and it's cool, just
like you know, you hope that the competition is over
and you just kind of settle into your group. But
here we are, guys have another chance to compete for
that spot. What does if he need to do improve
(15:24):
to making confident that he's ready to go on Sunday.
He's got to have a great day on Friday, you know,
that's the goal. Right now. We had him out there running,
moving around a little bit today, Tomorrow he'll do a
little bit more, and then the hope is Friday to
get him into individual period. You know, see him getting
a stance, you know, move move around, hit some bags
and do some things to be able to make.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
That decision that is coach Canalis.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
So Friday is a day bone they gonna take a
look at Ikey and make a decision. Again, they're not
even talking about trying to throw him out there in
the team on Friday. They're talking about just individual, hit
some bags on your own and make a decision. So
I'm skeptical about it. I'm worried about it. He continues.
It continues to sound like yosh Nyman is first up
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at left tackle, which is not my preference. So and
by the ways, that is the side that josh Heinz
Allen roams on. Trayvon Walker ain't bad on the other side.
Matter of fact, Trayvon Walker had more sacks than a
last year. But to me, josh heines Allen is the
star pass rusher on that football team of the two
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and that is the man that yosh Nyman probably guess
and it's going to be him will most likely end
up blocking on.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Sunday.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
It's the perfect storm for not what you want against
Jacksonville because while their defense is not great, those two
edge rushers are where their bread can be buttered on
that team. So you don't want to be, you know,
compromised with Icky being out and the offensive line influx,
because I think they can do some things against the
Jacksonville defense. But the two things I worry about are
the guys we're talking about. We'll see what Travis Hunter does,
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but those two, those two edge rushers are what I'm
most concerned about with their defense. Yeah, heinz Allen played
last year ninety seven percent of his snaps on that side,
So that's who's That's who it's going to be most
of the time, except when he has taken a breather.
It'll be moting against Trayvon Walker most of the time
over on the other side, and that I feel fine about,
fine with, But yeah, that they've got to get Naeman
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some help.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Man.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
If that's how this plays out and he's the starter
over there, they're going to have to do some things
where they get him some help, because that is scary
There is no doubt about the news yesterday about Josh Heines,
Allen's son seven years old, being cancer free now after
seven months of this form of leukemia that he had.
So that was an awesome news piece out of Jacksonville yesterday.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
No, you gotta be happy for him, man, anybody anybody's
a parent, I mean, you can't even imagine what they
must have been feeling in these seven months.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
So I'm happy for him.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I'd still like to beat his heinee on Sunday, but man,
that puts a smile on your face to see that,
to see that story from down there in Jacksonville. Jacksonville,
by the way, bone has no starters on the injury report,
not a single starter, so throw that one into the mix.
It's just it's not I don't know, man, it's the balance,
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not saying we can't get the dub because it is Jacksonville.
We ain't playing the Philadelphia Eagles. But it's just things
like injuries and the feeling trade some of the and
Jacksonville not having one injured starter. Those things seem to
favor the Jaguars. Has this affected the points spread at
all or is it's still the same We checked on
that this week. I think I'm think it's still still
(18:43):
It's three and a half, so hasn't really moved the
nothing's really moved on that front.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
No, No, stayed the same, So there you go.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
But anyway, Yeah, the Jaguars have three guys on the
injury report bone but they're all backups, not a single
starter on the injury report. Now, yesterday we ended up
with another offensive lineman that had to go on the
your report.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
This is a new injury.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
This is right guard Rob Hunt, something that happened yesterday
in practice, and Dave Canalis was given the details on that.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
As far as Rob goes, you know, he went back in,
he had a little something in his foot. He went
back in, had a couple of plays. We decided to
shut him down for the rest of practice. We'll evaluate
him this evening, this afternoon, and we'll have more information
for you to clarify.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
He was today that, yes, it was today in practice.
He did not finish.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
He returned though, came back in for a couple of plays,
and we just thought, let's just shut him down, let's
evaluate it, let's make sure we're doing the right thing,
and then kind of move forward from there.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
So there you go. We'll see what happens today. Does
he get back out there today? Does sound like it
was kind of precautionary bone to get him back out
of there after he went back in. But I'm in
I don't know if you can tell I'm in a
very paranoid Panther fan mode. No, I completely get it.
I think that that's I'm right there with you. It's
just not an ideal lead up to the game, a
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game where we do have so much excitement and hope
and more hope than usual. But sometimes hope can take
a turn the closer you get to the season. So
I'm hopeful that they put on a good effort and
can win a football game, but they'll lead up to it.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
They're not winning that battle on the injury front, no doubt, No.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
No, you got stuff happen.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
And salesman says, what you said, two of our strengths,
the O line and wide receiver room, are now looking
like weaknesses. Yeah, yeah, it stinks, although I guess it
could be worse. You could be losing your frontline guys
of your week positions.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
That's that not doing it. Yeah, I mean I get
trying that's a way to look at it.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yeah, I'm trying to help you all out.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Man.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
There is some good injury news though. Bone tremble not
on the injury list or injury report, and score to
not on the injury report. So both those guys are
full tilt ready to go. Knock on wood obviously unless
something that happens the rest of the week. But those
two guys are good to go. So there's some actual
good news there as well. So I got that for you, Bony.
I'm writing a note to self sealth. Never bring up
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what areas of the Panthers are deep. Just don't ever
do it. And it's still right before week one. I
thought we could get to week one with some of
the areas of the team still being deep. I didn't
realize I was messing up for week number one. Do
you think this has something to do with me declaring
about ten days ago that man, we got through training
(21:22):
camp in good shape. Do you think that's Do you
think it was the Matt curse? Because I definitely said
that bone about ten days ago, Because didn't you think
that coming out of training camp, Like coming out of
training camp, you had Damian Lewis and tremble, but you
felt like they both were gonna come back. And dlu
by the way, was on the injury list as limited,
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but all signs point to him him going unless there's
a setback. But didn't you think that before this last
like eight day stretch where theeling was traded Coker got
hurt the icky thing, like, didn't you think that we.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Actually had a really good camp healthwise? Yes, yes we did.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
We're the only team mat that gets more injured during
the downtime before the first game than any other team. Well,
we got through camp. Okay, we didn't get through the
camp to the game portion of this. Almost we were fine.
We almost made it. Almost made it, man, all right.
A couple of tidbits here. David Tepper was at practice yesterday,
So Texters, do what you want with that. I uh,
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I do not think it's really worth texting it were
somebody will probably text it was a touching again. I
heard they were doing a walk through where they were
yelling at Tepper as a as Jacksonville fans to see
how he responded to that. In the in the in
the environment, he had a full cup of water and
he had to just hold it if he throws it,
they canals blows the whistle hot.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Let's run that back. That's pretty funny. That's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
So anyways, out there checking out the boys before the
first game.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
And yes, this is the scene of the crime.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
So if tep Daddy makes that road trip, as you
would expect he would, they are going to have to. Uh,
he's gonna have to show a little more restrainted last
time the text yesterday it was hilarious said in that
owner's visiting owner's box, you will find Scott Fitterer still frozen.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
No.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Scott Fitterer's reaction to that was just something, wasn't it. Yeah,
he didn't know what to do. It's like that one
day when Willie came in screaming at Fitty and we
just frozen.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Nick Henery reply, we called that Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I have to be more specific that the most recent
time he did. Yeah, the the ninety first time that
it happened.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Fitterer looked like bone and bone saw my cheek twenty
nine minutes ago.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
That's uh, I don't want to go back to that
moment twenty nine minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
You got have PTSD.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
You're gonna have prose traumatic stress disorder from that one, Bony,
all right, shout out to JJ Janssen. Bone and I
would like to claim some responsibility for this. We gave
JJ tons of radio reps here on the Mack and
Bone Show, so it's natural that NFL radio would want
JJ Janssen. So they announced a bunch of guys that
are kind of joining the team. Do you know what
(24:04):
the capacity is, Bony? I mean, I just saw he's
doing a show on Tuesday nights at seven with alec Ingold,
the fullback for the Dolphins, as like a player's like
a player's only type show. Oh, there you go, he'll
be Tuesdays, that's seven on his off day.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You know it's serious.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
You like JJ enough, Just make sure you give him
a lot of work to do so he doesn't take
guard jobs when he's done playing. Yeah, is there a
spot in the mornings when he retires? Want him to
go national? That's pretty cool though, Yeah, that is pretty sweet.
And he's just a natural. Added. I was listening to
some of him and KB doing the high school game
and high school games, and like, it's just a natural man.
He was pretty much co hosted with KB before the game.
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So yeah, he's mad. He's mad, But then again, I
also think he truly could be. He's very analytical minded. Yep,
like I could truly I could see him in the
front office. Hell, Dan Morgan said, if any of my
players gonna be a GM, but he's the most likely.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Also, I mean, he's he could do a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
If you're a fan of alec Ingold, you might not
hear them a whole lot on that player's only show.
JJ will probably be the lead guy with a guess
all right, The Athletic Bone did a put out a
ranking of which fan bases are the most optimistic one
through thirty two, and it's based off I guess, like
(25:22):
polls they did with fans and stuff like that. You
want to guess what number the Panther fans are at
where they rank and from one to thirty two in
terms of the most optimistic fan bases, I'm going to
say twenty nine, twenty third, twenty third, twenty third apparently
sixty percent positive, okay, forty percent negative, which higher than
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I thought, Which has you at twenty third. There are
some ones down there below us, Bone. There was one
at like three. I think the Saints for at like three,
percent or something. And that's just the guys who hostedid
High School podcast.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Those are the only ones.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Well, now, the heights, the podcasters and Drew Brees, did
they get.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Oh yeah, the reason did they get? Question in this fall.
Drew Brees is in there too, man.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
The Brees said, the NFC South is wide opening and
quitting the Saints. Oh my goodness, oh my goodness. All right,
so we get the gumbo beat out of you there, Drew,
Let's get the comb beat out of you. I wish
you played the Saints week one, although we played the Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
What am I saying? Why can't we play like we
drew some brutal opponent.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
You should be allowed to pick a division opponent you
want to play three times in a year. I'd love
to get the Saints three times this year. That'll be nice. Yeah,
that would be. That would be You want to petition
the league for that. Roger Gndot right now is hal
handling whether or not Taylor Swift will do the halftime show.
Once it gets done with that, he might be able
to deal with your requests.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
There.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Roger Goodell has all everybody all worked up because, uh,
he said, it's a maybe it's a maybe that Taylor
Swift could do the halftime show, which to me sounds
like it's probably a yes.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah, it wasn't. Oh, I can't.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
He would have looked on his face too, like he
was very proud of himself, Like we're reeling in Taylor.
I cannot wait for the meltdowns that happened on that night.
If Taylor Swift does the halftime show from you, what
if the Chiefs are playing? So what if the Chiefs
are playing and they show her six times in the
first half and then she gets a whole halftime show
and then they show her five times into second half.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Well, her boyfriend is winning a Lombardi.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
That would that would be a nightmare bone for Chiefs
and Taylor haters. That may break social media honestly, Like
you could actually just crumble and catch on fire. Fitty,
you don't look happy. Is that just the thong being
extra tight today or you got an issue?
Speaker 4 (27:38):
No, I was just trying to think of a clever joke,
Like right now, Mac, there's a blank space on the
form for who's going to perform the halftime show, and
I think his pitch is gonna be Taylor. It's just
a love story. Baby, say yes, as he tries to
convince her it's going to happen. And I think it
needs to happen, so we can just move on. Just
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have her perform. Let the Swifties lose their minds for
twenty five minutes.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
And where are we moving to? Though? Like, what do
you when you say move on? What do you mean?
Someone better? Who is your idea?
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Give me a little Luke Combs, maybe some Riley Green.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Luke Combs will come out and put a hat on
of every NFC South team here.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Don't word that, Rob Well, NFL had just kid Luke Combs.
All right?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Anyway, I don't know what Fitty's talking about over there.
One minute he is quoting her her lyrics. What is
your favorite Taylor Swift song? Next minute he's whining favorite tale.
I have not listened to Taylor. My daughter doesn't want
to hang out with me anymore, really, so I's not
Then for a while, she wanted to hang out with daddy,
so we were listening to it a lot together.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yeah, I have not listened to it in a while.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I'm gonna I would have to take some time because
I do have favorites.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
But I'm drying.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I got a blank space right now in my mind.
I suggest you shake it off and come back to it.
It's not shake it off. I'll give you an answer later.
I don't think you really care tear Drops on my Guitar? Guy,
So how are you hating on her? You know more
of her than I do. I don't even know that
you want to know a secret? Mac we I thought
country tete. I liked her country music. Are you one
of these people that's just mad that she went to pop?
(29:17):
You know what it is? Your country fined ass is
just mad?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Yeah, because I thought her country music was really really good.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Some of the pop stuff well at pops, But I thought,
you know, tear Drops on My Guitar was a really
good song. And I had a big crush on her,
like a two thousand and seven, And then she left
us for the different music world, and.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
You feel like, yeah, you feel like you should be
with her. You feel like she should be in country
and she should be on your arm instead, she's the
world's biggest pop star and she's with Travis Kelcey. That
could hit hard, don't you can't you see bone why
he's upset? Yeah, And she's being compared to like Elvis
and Michael Jackson for like cultural impact.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
But she's you know, he made she made the bad choices.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
I cause her fiance wear a thong and support. Like
if she was with me, I would wear it. I
would wear a thong and support. I think she would
beg you to not wear a thong, I think is
what she would say. All right, anyway, let's let's move
along here. Let's move along. Due to time constraints, we
have to move along here. In our radio show, Xavier
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lee Gets, the Panthers continue to know bone that xavierly
Get is marketing gold. We're still waiting to see if
he's wide receiving gold, but we know he's They know
he's marketing gold, so they put out this sandwich. I
really don't know what it has to do with a raccoon.
I guess XL says the bread looks like raccoon eyes
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or something. You'll hear it in the clip, but it
sounds like an awesome sandwich. It's this brisket sandwich.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
But this is a chef bone from Levy, you know,
the company that does all the food and all the
catering at Bank of America Stadium and Excel introducing you
to a sandwich that you can get this season.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
It sounds pretty good.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Ready utilized that, Jill. I got you out to smoke,
my man. I got the whisky ready, Mike, Now we're cooking.
Mon we're gonna make some coal sauce. Coas uh.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
We can have it over Phill name Jane everything, no onion,
no bell.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Pillows, no tomatoes.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Little South Carolina.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Dejon vinogradh uh oh got that.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
I really thought it was gonna be like the cow
sloe with the white saw something. It ain't bad? Can
I can I use that? That's turn that one though?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
It's so old.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I can't forget this.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
So clol it up. Don't they look like rac coon?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Now?
Speaker 5 (31:54):
I like that?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
On cool?
Speaker 2 (31:55):
With that?
Speaker 5 (31:55):
You can now m you can now grab them. Man's
Man of Sandwich here making America Stadiums.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
There you go, mad Man of Simwich, and they're going
to be good.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Bandit Sandwich, the masked bandit, the mask How do why
can't I say masks bandit masked bandit Sandwich.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
I like what he said. Cole Swaw, He's just funny.
Anything he does is just he kind.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Of a smoker. O't here we got the coleshwaw, I
love it. I love you would watch an Excel cooking
show for hours out there. I just had the thought
during that Willie p and Xcel do a cooking show. Bam,
you know what I mean? Hit automatic, hit fiddy? How
would that sound Willy Pee? Push him? Cooalshaw on the smoker?
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Do you want some peppery cordonnut sandwich there? Excel?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I don't know what he's talking about. Man, Just pull
brisker a little dry though, Man, how do you tell
you you can't talk about my brisk until you catch
the football? Willie pe? Can I get some water man,
because I need to dip this thing in some water? Man?
Tell n that sandwich sounds good. The only bad news
is boney probably is available for seventy nine dollars. Damn
(33:04):
that sounds good.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Yes it does, Yes it does.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
We come back here on the Mac and Bone Show,
UNC Quarterback Update, which ACC schools did big ratings in
week one and the Big twelve likes Dave Portanoy a
whole lot more than the Big ten did. We explained
Sports Radio ninety two sevenfanz.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Why are their balloons.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
They just got humiliated, embarrassed, hammered.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Is this a gender reveal or a birth announcement?
Speaker 6 (33:43):
What are we doing it?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
It's a boy. We call that blue. It's a boy.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
Why do we have celebratory balloons after a forty eight
to fourteen beatdown? And even if it was reversed and
they beat you forty eight to fourteen and they felt great,
why would that guy be up there with balloons?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
That guy of all guys balloons?
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Jim Rome the latest one to notice the blue and
white balloons behind Bill Belichick during the press conference where
Bill is miserable after a thirty four point beat down.
And I we talked about this the day after the
game a little bit. I don't think we focused on
this enough. Man and heels fans. I know you've been
through it the last couple of days, and hopefully you
(34:36):
can get this thing going in a better direction. But
the balloon thing is just comical, man, It's absolutely comical. Like,
how did somebody not realize, oh my god, Bill's gonna
be more miserable than usual and the balloons are set
up there, like how did they not have somebody moon?
(34:57):
How did they not have somebody go pop balloons in
the middle of the fourth quarter of that game.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Yeah, Jay, hud, go do something. They go pop those balloons.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
And I know, think yourselves useful for a change, girl,
And he told us they've done this for press conferences
in the past. It's still you got you can't do
what you did in the past for this guy. You've
got to change your protocols here. You got to abort
the midchip. So are you saying, Fitty that all the
press conference had balloons in the background.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
When Mac Brown came back, they made the press conference
where he hosted in the Keenan Center, it was dressed up.
So remember the presser when he talked to the media
after the game of seventy and he admitted to a public.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Were their balloons for that one? There were balloons?
Speaker 2 (35:37):
How do we do?
Speaker 3 (35:38):
How do we not notice that? Because the way that
the cameras zoom in, you don't.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
You don't.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
You only notice it if you ever watched the press
conference and you see like the wide shot before they.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Zoom in on the coach.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
So it's it's only noticeable if you like watch it
from like starting to finish or like me, you see
for people take photos of it.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
So there have been worst pressers that have been held
in that's and that's the one where Mac Brown quit
but didn't quit. Yeah, and there were guess what, there
were balloons there. This is what you get more media
attention though.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
They're going to notice things like this also, so there's
gonna be more people in there that say, hey, what
are these balloons? And all of a sudden, one photo
and there you go.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
It's corny. Man, it's corny.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
It's a press conference, it's you're right, it's not a
gender revealed, it's not a kid's birthday party.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
It's just goofy.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
And then when it's that miserable human being after that game,
it's just the comedy. The comedy is there. By the way,
Bill Belichick yesterday had a presser. Now, I don't think
there are balloons for this one. Fitty is the are
only balloons for game days?
Speaker 3 (36:37):
I think they stay up?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Oh really, yeah, don't don't they lose er. Someone's got
to redo to balloons at some point. They've made their
press conferences an event. So if someone gets fired and
they do, they did they take them down or they
always up?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
They're there?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Was it were they there when Mac Brown? Did Mac
Brown get a Yeah, he got a presser before he left, right, Yeah,
Mac Brown's talking about geting getting run out of there
was their balloons. Yes, they've got to really know the mood.
They read the room, actually read the room before you
put in the balloons. Any vet would Bill Belichick ever
want balloons, even if, like Jim Rome said, they could
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have won by seventy belongs. The balloons don't fit that
guy's moved. Do you think Jordan the baby shower for Jordan?
When a little Billy, when a little Billy the third
is get ready by Bourne, do you think then Bony,
then they're gonna have balloons.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
He has them on the beach while they're doing pilates together.
All right, anyway, let's focus on on some news here.
Can you see that meeting mac who? Who?
Speaker 5 (37:34):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (37:34):
We need to change these balloons. I'm not a bulloon guy.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
I'm surprise he didn't just go up and pop the ball.
Gim mesop. All right, anyway, real quick, let's do this.
Let's get to actual news. Gee, we we don't have news.
I guess we don't have news on the quarterback situation.
Bill's presser yesterday Bone was before they had even practiced
post TCU game, so he was able to use that hey,
we hadn't even practice yet. He did say that Geo
(37:59):
looks pretty good. So we've got no idea who the
starting quarterback is going to be for UNC against Charlotte. Charlotte,
on the other hand, we know they're sticking at least
at the outset of this game. With former tar Heel
player Connor Harreld. We're gonna talk about this even more
in depth Bone in the seven o'clock hour at seven
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twenty five. But I did want to mention the ratings
because his ties into the ACC and the ACC's formula
for distributing revenue. The ratings for college football were absolutely
through the roof this weekend. I mean, going into the weekend,
a lot of people said this is the best Week
one we've ever seen, and the ratings went out there, Bone,
and it was the most watched Week one in the
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history of the sport. And there were ACC teams included
in a lot of these games. Not the highest rated game,
highest rated game, Bone was the Ohio State and Texas game.
But the next I think next three or so, you
had Florida State, Alabama or no, you had Miami Notre Dame,
then you had Florida State Alabama, and then you had
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the UNC game was up there as well, pretty darn high.
And even the Virginia Sex South Carolina game you and
Seed did like six million viewers. Virginia Sex South Carolina
did four million, the Florida State and the Miami five
million for South Carolina? Was it five point four million?
Speaker 4 (39:18):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Okay, five point four the Uns, the Florida State, Miami,
they were over ten million. At Clemson two over ten million.
All three of those were ten eight, ten seven, ten four.
So the ACC had three games over ten million, and
they had two more over five million. That's ginormous. And
this is big for those schools bony because of the
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revenue distribution. It will factor in football ratings primarily, but
also basketball ratings, so those were the ratings matter in
terms of the money your school gets. It's it's a
big deal, man. It's not just bragging rights anymore. In
Georgia Tech Colorado on Friday night did three point seven million.
That beat Auburn Baylor. So that was a that was
a big win for those two for the Big twelve
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at ACC two non SEC Big ten programs. There they
beat a matchup with an SEC teams that was big
for those two teams as well.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Nice that.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
That is a signal to ACC teams with the revenue
distribution the way it is more money to go to
the schools to get higher ratings. Now it's an average,
but this is a great start for these schools. Play
these games. Play standalone games, right, yes, play standalone games
where you are the marquee game and maybe there's nothing else,
or you are you know, you're playing marque opponents like
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play games like this. ACC teams and I would have
to think they're all going to deduce that. That's a
great point because the highest rated one Notre Dame Miami
standalone game, TCU U n C six point one standalone game,
Virginia Tech South Carolina standalone game. Not all of them
were standalone games, but the ones that were did massive numbers.
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ACC should be trying to get it as many of
those games because now it's each individual ACC school should
because again, now your revenue distribution is attached to how
many people watch you throughout the season. LSU plays excuse me,
Clemson plays at LSU next year to open the season
as a rematch in Miami.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
South Carolina is going to be a Week one game
next year.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Dang, yes, So that's a good that's a inches a
juicy one right there, Bone Man, I like that. By
the way, word came out yesterday that brett or Mark,
the Big Twelve commissioner and all the Big Twelve ads
had a call with Dave Portnoy of Barstool and Fox Sports.
They offered him I'm reading the report here, Bone, they
offered him a blank canvas of engagement opportunities and full
(41:46):
support of working in barst integrating Barstool across league campuses,
and according to a report, he will be allowed on
the field pre game when Fox takes their show inside.
And if this happens, Bone, this basically to me catches
(42:07):
Ross Byork the idea of Ohio State in a lie.
If Dave Portinoy Bone on Saturday is part of the
set on the field when they move inside, and the
ad of Ohio State told us it was a Fox decision,
I bet he's a complete lie. I don't think it
was a Fox decision. I think it was a bit.
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And then we'll note when they go to the next
Big Ten school it's not Ohio State. We'll see how
they handle it. My sense is it might be a
Big ten thing. The word was a lot of the
Big ten schools did not like Portnoy being on here
because essentially they all, not just Ohio State, thought that
he would be clowning them. And you know, because he's
a Michigan guy that talks trash. Whereas Big twelve. You know,
(42:51):
Big twelve is embracing this is hey man, let's get
Barstool involved, like their Barstool College Football show will be there,
whereas they were banned last week. They were banned from Ohio. Also,
they were banned from Ohio State previous years. That goes
into what you're saying of Wait a minute, before Barstool
was even with Fox, you would not allow the Barstool
College Football show near.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
The Shoe.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
So there's president here where you didn't like him before
the Fox deal. This is where Brett, your mark is
very smart, and I think he does a lot of
smart things. Why on earth would you not want Barstool involved?
Why would you not the brand they bring? You talk
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about young college kids, I bet they're consuming a lot
of Barstool content, like it's only to me, and I
get it. It's easy for the Big twelve bone because
they don't really care that Portnoy's a Michigan fan, right yes,
but Portnoy also will take on the sec on behalf
of the Big Ten like he'll he'll often be a
homer for the conference too. You picked the Ohio State
(43:57):
to win the game last week, So like, I just
think they're in a boat, like they got their they
got their panties in a bunch in Big Ten country
and they're missing like promotional opportunity. There's a reason why
Fox has the barstool College Football show Mac right next
or they're when they're when they're doing it, it's right
next to the big Newon kickoff set up because the
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crowd that barstool attracts, they want that to flow right
over into the big Newon kickoff crowd. They know that
it's hard to get a game day like crowd, but
if they get the young barstool on campus crowd and
they move right over to the big So that's why
they want the barstool relationship. They are trying to get
the young people involved on the campus stuff as well.
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Absolutely one hundred percent away Mac, the Miami South Carolina
game next year. It's not a neutral site game. It's
a two year deal. The Game Cocks hosts Miami next
year and they go to Miami after that. So a
lot of people say, hey, these early season games are great,
but they want them on campus rather than the stero
environment of like what Atlanta was for the two games
(45:00):
last week. Game Cocks do host Miami next year. That's
pretty cool, man. I'm all next summer we got Game
Cock bone against the U. We're back boys. Oh yeah,
let's do it bone. I'm ready for that. I can't wait.
I have to worry about South Carolina State first, though.
You got a few games before that one when we
come back here on the mack In Bow Show, ESPN,
(45:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:41):
Good morning, Charlotte, Welcome board. Is the Mac and Bone Show.
It's Thursday. It is Week one of the NFL. The
Cowboys will probably get house tonight. How can you not?
How can you not be feeling good?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
The Philadelphia'll be happy tonight probably I can. I can
handle that. The NFL joins the chat tonight, Ladies and gentlemen.
The Panthers just three days away from entering the football party.
The college football got going last week, so we are
here to celebrate that.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Today. We're here to tell you what's going on.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
There's a new offensive line injury for your beloved Carolina Panthers.
That's that's not what we needed to hear, so we'll
update you on that. Jacksonville is about as healthy as
you can be, too. We'll throw that in there as well,
and we'll talk about that. And we've got a crazy,
crazy story, as Pablo Toy has been finding out.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yet again, this.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Does not involve Bill Belichick's relationship. This involves the LA
Clippers potentially cheating and circumventing the salary cap with some
shady deals. And I'm sure you've heard about that story.
We will touch on that here out of the gate.
We will also welcome ESPN Radio two ninety two point
(01:57):
seven WFNZ. We're glad to have them on board with
us now as well. We got the bone Man on board,
we got Fitty on board as well. Fresh off of
date last night, what's a bone Man? What's happening?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Good morning? You said, who cares if Philadelphia is happy?
Even if they win tonight celebrating last year's championship, there's
no guarantee that Eagles fans will still be happy tonight.
That's that's going on on a whim. Remember that's true.
Let's say the last seventy eight, their last championship, they
opened against Atlanta, they didn't have a good first half,
and they boot them at halftime. So who knows what
(02:33):
happened tonight with Philadelphia fans. It's true, it's true. I'm
just saying I will take an Eagles win tonight. You
know what I'm saying, like I want Dallas misery more
than I want Philadelphia. Plus, who the hell cares whatever
happens to night? They got the Dann Lombardi. But I
get your point, too many if they don't look perfect,
they both parties could be angry. Both parties could be angry.
(02:55):
I'm also bad mouthing Dallas because I'm looking at Fitty,
Because in the past, when I would badmouth Dallas, phone
Fitty with tense up over there, Fitty would show the
anger on his face.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Might be a scoff or two.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
This man looks completely unaffected, completely unaffected, bone man by
the talk of the bashing of the Dallas Cowboys. So
now he's run out of the room though. Now yeah,
he's getting he's getting phone caused, probably from his Dallas friends.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Make sure he's okay this morning. You know what he did?
You know what he hasn't done?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I don't Why? Why do I know? Why do I
know what underwear he's wearing. It's very weird. I don't
think he's put the thong on yet. How do you.
How do you know, because he was pretty busy before
the show. Usually does it right before the show. So
I think, although, yeah, he is on the phone.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Do you think he's missing his.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Thong or something. You think his thong contact had to
call him up right now. Probably you can get a
second one brought in here. Probably his date. She's just
now telling him she can't make it. He thought she
was just a He thought she was just late. She'd
be there tonight. But she was just a day late anyway.
All right, So to fifty welcome back. We were saying
nice things. You had the thong on.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
There.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
You got my man, all's right with the world is now?
Bone gets.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
He just mooned med he Oh my goods, that was
aggressive fitty. Oh my god, that was an aggressive panther
thong check. Oh my, you might want to shave that
left cheek. By the way, you got a lot going
on back there.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
It does need a Brazilian wax.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I step outside called the rictator, cause you know, we
have a new format. I gotta check some things and
I'm getting ripped for USh up outside the studio and
you're like, I can't hear you, Like I got Jeff
in one ear, and I got Charles Loudmouse in the
other ear.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I don't know everything else said.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I don't think you can go full bar cheek right
at me though this feels like some sort of violation.
By the way, can I say some fitty that may
come across a meme, but I mean this has an observation.
Your backside does kind of resemble your head a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
What the heck? It's like it's it's a little hairy,
but not too hairy. All right?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Then, oh man, you took a deep loop there, didn't
you right up.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Here my kitchen. Have you got that right up in
your kitchen before like that?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I usually when I when I do it.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
When I checked, when I checked for the panther thong
this week, I just simply pool. I just I just
get a little look. He just literally said, let me
just aggressively show you. All right, let's get to football,
shall we. Football starting. Let's stop talking about the fact
that Fitty is in a panther song. It's very admirable.
He wants to be a part of this fan base.
Four straight days wearing the panther thong. All right, so
(05:44):
you got the we mentioned NFL starting tonight Dallas and
UH and the Eagles. I mentioned the offensive line injury situation.
You'll hear Dave Canalis talk about it here in a
couple of a couple of minutes. But ick, he's still
not practicing. He's on the side, just kind of doing
individual stuff. Sounds like Friday might be a day where
(06:06):
maybe he can take a step forward. But my vibe
is I just still feel the same way. I don't
think he's playing That video yesterday that I think Newton
had of him just walking around practice, it looked like
from that small video it wasn't like a lengthy video.
Looked like he was almost kind of limping while he
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walked a little bit still. He did not look like
a guy ready to play football in a couple of days.
He's limping from He didn't happen to me. He didn't
look like he was walking very well, however you describe it.
It didn't look like a guy that's I've not seen
the video. Yeah, I just didn't look like a guy
that you look at him and say, oh, he's ready
to play football. I just I just don't get the
vibe all along here. I just don't get the vibe
(06:49):
that he is going to play. I hope I'm wrong.
And again Friday sounds like the day that they will
make a decision on it. But now we got Rob
Hunt injured, we have Damian Lewis back, we got Ikey
on the sidelines doing individual stuff, and now we got
Rob Hunt injured as well. There's a foot injury for him.
So now we got to throw that one into the mix.
(07:11):
And this is the strength of the team. This is
you know, I mean, I guess it could be worse.
Your biggest weakness could be getting guys hurt. I mean,
but these are the guys that you want to And
you got two wide receivers out right, well, I mean
one's gone, he's not out. But the way I see it,
two of our three best wide receivers from about ten
days ago will not be playing in this game.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
So what do you want to do?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
You want to run a bleep out of the damn
football And now you have two elite run blockers in
Rob Hunt and Ikey banged up. So it's not ideal.
The Hunt thing, hopefully is not anything major, but it's
it's just not ideal.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
But I'm handling it fine. Bone.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
It sounds like It's also two of the areas of
the team that we were praising the depth throughout the
entire offseason, and we get or right before Week one,
and the two concerns we now have are about the
depth of the wide receiver group and the offensive line.
It's a very panther Wi like start to the season
where two areas where we were confident in now at
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least for the beginning of the season, we have some
questions about the health and just overall depth of some
of those spots. We'll let you hear it in coach
Canalis's words, the left tackle situation and the Rob Hunt
injury which happened in practice yesterday. You'll hear it from
coach coming up here in a few minutes. I did
want to mention bone this Pablo Torre report. I mean,
(08:33):
he has all these d internal documents from this company Aspiration,
which was partially funded by Clippers owner Steve Balmer. They
have gone bankrupt, so it's this bankruptcy bone that has
led to basically all this stuff being available and being
out there. Pablo Torre starts digging like he's looking at
(08:55):
a ring camera from a from a house where Bill
Belichick is standing on the porch shirtless. So he's digging
into this thing and he finds essentially documents that show
that Kawhi Leonards LLC Bone was getting money or there
(09:16):
was an endorsement deal set up with this company, Aspiration
that where the money would go to the you know,
Kawhi Leonards LLC. And it's there's also an employee on record.
He's got one of those things Bone where they like,
did you see it? Are? They like black out the
person's face, yes, and then they.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Alter their voice so they sound like this.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
And it was an employee of this company, Aspire, that
came across this agreement to pay Kawhi Leonard twenty eight
million over four years. And he was told, don't worry
about that. He was told that's something the Clippers are
using to circumvent the salary cap. So he's got that
employee on record. The Clippers have nine that this has happened.
(10:02):
So uh, here we go. Man. But the last time
there was any kind of salary cap like circumvention stuff
or whatever was with Joe Smith and the Timberwolves in
two thousand and it cost them five first round draft picks.
It's three point five million dollars fine for Joe Smith.
(10:23):
Why did you feel the need to circumventd the cap
for a guy that played for check notes every team
in the league.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
At least Kawhi is a star.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
But uh yeah, And they're saying, I guess that Kawhi
basically did nothing for this company, but was just getting
twenty eight million a year over four years per this agreement,
but wasn't doing anything. They call it a no show
job for a fake tree planning company. Now this bone
is in addition, why does the show up for his
regular job? Why'd you showing up for the tree planning
(10:54):
I was just going there. You just beat me to it.
I had I had this one ready to go. Two
great comedic minds. Bone. Yes, I was gonna say, this
is an addition to the no show job he has
as a basketball player. How many times you call off
for that gig? So anyway, this is a huge deal
if it's true. Clippers are denying it. I know Mark
(11:15):
Cuban put out a message saying I'm team Balmer. I
don't Steve Ballmer's not dumb enough to do this sort
of thing. He would he says, he wouldn't let the
company go bankrupt because he knew this stuff would come out,
so he's defending Steve Balmer. At some point, you would
hope the the NBA they say they're aware of it.
At some point you would hope that they investigated themselves
(11:37):
Pablo Torre style and gets to the bottom of this.
But this is a major freaking deal, man, if they're
guilty of that. NBA writer Keith Smith was talking about
the punishments for the Timberwolves twenty five years ago, and
he does say in the tweet that recent punishment of
cap stuff has been the loss of second round picks,
so it's gotten much more. Adam Silver is not quite
(11:58):
the harsh penalizer in certain things that David Stern was,
so we will see what happens here. Interesting that you
mentioned Mark Cuban coming out with the staunch defense of
Steve Baumer. People were pointing out that you might want
to go look into what the Dallas Mavericks possibly did
with Dirt Noviski for many years, who kept re signing
for what we're in the market value over and over
(12:21):
and over and over. So they were questioning Mark Cuban, like,
what were you up to all those years with Dirk
and getting him back on those contracts. And then Pablo
Torre said yesterday on the same podcast, so this is
not good for a team that I root for. That
his next investigation will be Jalen Brunston and the New
York Knicks dunt duntu because Jalen Brunson signed for a
(12:44):
team friendly deal. Everyone thought, Oh, look at Jalen Brunson
doing what's best for the team. Pablo Tory has something
apparently on the Knicks next. So is he just targeting
anybody who looks like the player didn't take max money
they get. Yeah. He also has invited Mark Cuban on
the podcast. He saw that Cuban basically said he's full
of it. So now he's invited Cuban. This reminds me
(13:06):
of are they going to do like their version of
Simmons and Pablo. They had a d N exchange they're
working on. Oh, Cuban said on man check your DMS.
Oh there you go, there you go. So anyway, Nick's
are up next. I actually want him to go find
a coach's girlfriend and start investigating that.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Again.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I gotta be honest with you, this is great. This
Clipper Stufnd's great. I don't really care about Jayleen Brunson.
I'd like him to move on Bone. Then the more
fun stuff. Well, I think he's getting all of us.
He being Pablo Torre, He's getting all of us. I
think to just open up our secrets. I did this
yesterday on Twitter. I went to Bojangles twice in one
day recently, so I wanted that to be known there.
I want to get all my secrets out before Pablo
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comes knocking for my skeletons in the court.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
How dare you, by the way, you want to say
mac by the thing up too recently? Can you better
say it?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Because Pablo's gonna find out two bow Jangles trips in
a day?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Fitty calls out a slow day.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Actually, Ifinny wants to know what's wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Why are you starving yourself?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Oh man, Fitty has to own the record Bone the
Charlotte area record for most fast food visits in a
day and a week?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Is it today?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Scott too with no grocery store except one grocery store
tripping like a decade or say he's got to own that?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Is it today? McDonald's day? You moved to Thursday? Right, yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
But went by got my crispy chicken biscuit to hash
browns and a large sweet tea.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
I've been about your crispy chicken biscuit this morning.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Oh hey, now I've been to McDonald's too, So maybe
I shouldn't talk trash. But I had been starving myself
essentially for three days. I feel like I've earned it,
all right, all right, bone, all right, Well a segment, Baby,
there we go, We come back.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
We are coming back right pay.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
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Speaker 1 (15:04):
She's been taking a lot of reps there nightman, and
then also Brady has been taking reps at left and
right as always. So we're just kind of gonna take
it one day at a time, and it's cool, just
like you know, you hope that the competition is over
and you just kind of settle into your group. But
here we are, guys have another chance to compete for
that spot. What does if he need to do improve
(15:24):
to making confident that he's ready to go on Sunday.
He's got to have a great day on Friday, you know,
that's the goal. Right now. We had him out there running,
moving around a little bit today, Tomorrow he'll do a
little bit more, and then the hope is Friday to
get him into individual period. You know, see him getting
a stance, you know, move move around, hit some bags
and do some things to be able to make.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
That decision that is coach Canalis.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
So Friday is a day bone they gonna take a
look at Ikey and make a decision. Again, they're not
even talking about trying to throw him out there in
the team on Friday. They're talking about just individual, hit
some bags on your own and make a decision. So
I'm skeptical about it. I'm worried about it. He continues.
It continues to sound like yosh Nyman is first up
(16:10):
at left tackle, which is not my preference. So and
by the ways, that is the side that josh Heinz
Allen roams on. Trayvon Walker ain't bad on the other side.
Matter of fact, Trayvon Walker had more sacks than a
last year. But to me, josh heines Allen is the
star pass rusher on that football team of the two
(16:30):
and that is the man that yosh Nyman probably guess
and it's going to be him will most likely end
up blocking on.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Sunday.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
It's the perfect storm for not what you want against
Jacksonville because while their defense is not great, those two
edge rushers are where their bread can be buttered on
that team. So you don't want to be, you know,
compromised with Icky being out and the offensive line influx,
because I think they can do some things against the
Jacksonville defense. But the two things I worry about are
the guys we're talking about. We'll see what Travis Hunter does,
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but those two, those two edge rushers are what I'm
most concerned about with their defense. Yeah, heinz Allen played
last year ninety seven percent of his snaps on that side,
So that's who's That's who it's going to be most
of the time, except when he has taken a breather.
It'll be moting against Trayvon Walker most of the time
over on the other side, and that I feel fine about,
fine with, But yeah, that they've got to get Naeman
(17:24):
some help.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Man.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
If that's how this plays out and he's the starter
over there, they're going to have to do some things
where they get him some help, because that is scary
There is no doubt about the news yesterday about Josh Heines,
Allen's son seven years old, being cancer free now after
seven months of this form of leukemia that he had.
So that was an awesome news piece out of Jacksonville yesterday.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
No, you gotta be happy for him, man, anybody anybody's
a parent, I mean, you can't even imagine what they
must have been feeling in these seven months.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
So I'm happy for him.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I'd still like to beat his heinee on Sunday, but man,
that puts a smile on your face to see that,
to see that story from down there in Jacksonville. Jacksonville,
by the way, bone has no starters on the injury report,
not a single starter, so throw that one into the mix.
It's just it's not I don't know, man, it's the balance,
(18:20):
not saying we can't get the dub because it is Jacksonville.
We ain't playing the Philadelphia Eagles. But it's just things
like injuries and the feeling trade some of the and
Jacksonville not having one injured starter. Those things seem to
favor the Jaguars. Has this affected the points spread at
all or is it's still the same We checked on
that this week. I think I'm think it's still still
(18:43):
It's three and a half, so hasn't really moved the
nothing's really moved on that front.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
No, No, stayed the same, So there you go.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
But anyway, Yeah, the Jaguars have three guys on the
injury report bone but they're all backups, not a single
starter on the injury report. Now, yesterday we ended up
with another offensive lineman that had to go on the
your report.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
This is a new injury.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
This is right guard Rob Hunt, something that happened yesterday
in practice, and Dave Canalis was given the details on that.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
As far as Rob goes, you know, he went back in,
he had a little something in his foot. He went
back in, had a couple of plays. We decided to
shut him down for the rest of practice. We'll evaluate
him this evening, this afternoon, and we'll have more information
for you to clarify.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
He was today that, yes, it was today in practice.
He did not finish.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
He returned though, came back in for a couple of plays,
and we just thought, let's just shut him down, let's
evaluate it, let's make sure we're doing the right thing,
and then kind of move forward from there.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
So there you go. We'll see what happens today. Does
he get back out there today? Does sound like it
was kind of precautionary bone to get him back out
of there after he went back in. But I'm in
I don't know if you can tell I'm in a
very paranoid Panther fan mode. No, I completely get it.
I think that that's I'm right there with you. It's
just not an ideal lead up to the game, a
(19:59):
game where we do have so much excitement and hope
and more hope than usual. But sometimes hope can take
a turn the closer you get to the season. So
I'm hopeful that they put on a good effort and
can win a football game, but they'll lead up to it.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
They're not winning that battle on the injury front, no doubt, No.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
No, you got stuff happen.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
And salesman says, what you said, two of our strengths,
the O line and wide receiver room, are now looking
like weaknesses. Yeah, yeah, it stinks, although I guess it
could be worse. You could be losing your frontline guys
of your week positions.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
That's that not doing it. Yeah, I mean I get
trying that's a way to look at it.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yeah, I'm trying to help you all out.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Man.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
There is some good injury news though. Bone tremble not
on the injury list or injury report, and score to
not on the injury report. So both those guys are
full tilt ready to go. Knock on wood obviously unless
something that happens the rest of the week. But those
two guys are good to go. So there's some actual
good news there as well. So I got that for you, Bony.
I'm writing a note to self sealth. Never bring up
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what areas of the Panthers are deep. Just don't ever
do it. And it's still right before week one. I
thought we could get to week one with some of
the areas of the team still being deep. I didn't
realize I was messing up for week number one. Do
you think this has something to do with me declaring
about ten days ago that man, we got through training
(21:22):
camp in good shape. Do you think that's Do you
think it was the Matt curse? Because I definitely said
that bone about ten days ago, Because didn't you think
that coming out of training camp, Like coming out of
training camp, you had Damian Lewis and tremble, but you
felt like they both were gonna come back. And dlu
by the way, was on the injury list as limited,
(21:42):
but all signs point to him him going unless there's
a setback. But didn't you think that before this last
like eight day stretch where theeling was traded Coker got
hurt the icky thing, like, didn't you think that we.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Actually had a really good camp healthwise? Yes, yes we did.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
We're the only team mat that gets more injured during
the downtime before the first game than any other team. Well,
we got through camp. Okay, we didn't get through the
camp to the game portion of this. Almost we were fine.
We almost made it. Almost made it, man, all right.
A couple of tidbits here. David Tepper was at practice yesterday,
So Texters, do what you want with that. I uh,
(22:21):
I do not think it's really worth texting it were
somebody will probably text it was a touching again. I
heard they were doing a walk through where they were
yelling at Tepper as a as Jacksonville fans to see
how he responded to that. In the in the in
the environment, he had a full cup of water and
he had to just hold it if he throws it,
they canals blows the whistle hot.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Let's run that back. That's pretty funny. That's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
So anyways, out there checking out the boys before the
first game.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
And yes, this is the scene of the crime.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
So if tep Daddy makes that road trip, as you
would expect he would, they are going to have to. Uh,
he's gonna have to show a little more restrainted last
time the text yesterday it was hilarious said in that
owner's visiting owner's box, you will find Scott Fitterer still frozen.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
No.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Scott Fitterer's reaction to that was just something, wasn't it. Yeah,
he didn't know what to do. It's like that one
day when Willie came in screaming at Fitty and we
just frozen.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Nick Henery reply, we called that Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I have to be more specific that the most recent
time he did. Yeah, the the ninety first time that
it happened.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Fitterer looked like bone and bone saw my cheek twenty
nine minutes ago.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
That's uh, I don't want to go back to that
moment twenty nine minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
You got have PTSD.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
You're gonna have prose traumatic stress disorder from that one, Bony,
all right, shout out to JJ Janssen. Bone and I
would like to claim some responsibility for this. We gave
JJ tons of radio reps here on the Mack and
Bone Show, so it's natural that NFL radio would want
JJ Janssen. So they announced a bunch of guys that
are kind of joining the team. Do you know what
(24:04):
the capacity is, Bony? I mean, I just saw he's
doing a show on Tuesday nights at seven with alec Ingold,
the fullback for the Dolphins, as like a player's like
a player's only type show. Oh, there you go, he'll
be Tuesdays, that's seven on his off day.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You know it's serious.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
You like JJ enough, Just make sure you give him
a lot of work to do so he doesn't take
guard jobs when he's done playing. Yeah, is there a
spot in the mornings when he retires? Want him to
go national? That's pretty cool though, Yeah, that is pretty sweet.
And he's just a natural. Added. I was listening to
some of him and KB doing the high school game
and high school games, and like, it's just a natural man.
He was pretty much co hosted with KB before the game.
(24:44):
So yeah, he's mad. He's mad, But then again, I
also think he truly could be. He's very analytical minded. Yep,
like I could truly I could see him in the
front office. Hell, Dan Morgan said, if any of my
players gonna be a GM, but he's the most likely.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Also, I mean, he's he could do a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
If you're a fan of alec Ingold, you might not
hear them a whole lot on that player's only show.
JJ will probably be the lead guy with a guess
all right, The Athletic Bone did a put out a
ranking of which fan bases are the most optimistic one
through thirty two, and it's based off I guess, like
(25:22):
polls they did with fans and stuff like that. You
want to guess what number the Panther fans are at
where they rank and from one to thirty two in
terms of the most optimistic fan bases, I'm going to
say twenty nine, twenty third, twenty third, twenty third apparently
sixty percent positive, okay, forty percent negative, which higher than
(25:48):
I thought, Which has you at twenty third. There are
some ones down there below us, Bone. There was one
at like three. I think the Saints for at like three,
percent or something. And that's just the guys who hostedid
High School podcast.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Those are the only ones.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Well, now, the heights, the podcasters and Drew Brees, did
they get.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Oh yeah, the reason did they get? Question in this fall.
Drew Brees is in there too, man.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
The Brees said, the NFC South is wide opening and
quitting the Saints. Oh my goodness, oh my goodness. All right,
so we get the gumbo beat out of you there, Drew,
Let's get the comb beat out of you. I wish
you played the Saints week one, although we played the Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
What am I saying? Why can't we play like we
drew some brutal opponent.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
You should be allowed to pick a division opponent you
want to play three times in a year. I'd love
to get the Saints three times this year. That'll be nice. Yeah,
that would be. That would be You want to petition
the league for that. Roger Gndot right now is hal
handling whether or not Taylor Swift will do the halftime show.
Once it gets done with that, he might be able
to deal with your requests.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
There.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Roger Goodell has all everybody all worked up because, uh,
he said, it's a maybe it's a maybe that Taylor
Swift could do the halftime show, which to me sounds
like it's probably a yes.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah, it wasn't. Oh, I can't.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
He would have looked on his face too, like he
was very proud of himself, Like we're reeling in Taylor.
I cannot wait for the meltdowns that happened on that night.
If Taylor Swift does the halftime show from you, what
if the Chiefs are playing? So what if the Chiefs
are playing and they show her six times in the
first half and then she gets a whole halftime show
and then they show her five times into second half.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Well, her boyfriend is winning a Lombardi.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
That would that would be a nightmare bone for Chiefs
and Taylor haters. That may break social media honestly, Like
you could actually just crumble and catch on fire. Fitty,
you don't look happy. Is that just the thong being
extra tight today or you got an issue?
Speaker 4 (27:38):
No, I was just trying to think of a clever joke,
Like right now, Mac, there's a blank space on the
form for who's going to perform the halftime show, and
I think his pitch is gonna be Taylor. It's just
a love story. Baby, say yes, as he tries to
convince her it's going to happen. And I think it
needs to happen, so we can just move on. Just
(28:01):
have her perform. Let the Swifties lose their minds for
twenty five minutes.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
And where are we moving to? Though? Like, what do
you when you say move on? What do you mean?
Someone better? Who is your idea?
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Give me a little Luke Combs, maybe some Riley Green.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Luke Combs will come out and put a hat on
of every NFC South team here.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Don't word that, Rob Well, NFL had just kid Luke Combs.
All right?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Anyway, I don't know what Fitty's talking about over there.
One minute he is quoting her her lyrics. What is
your favorite Taylor Swift song? Next minute he's whining favorite tale.
I have not listened to Taylor. My daughter doesn't want
to hang out with me anymore, really, so I's not
Then for a while, she wanted to hang out with daddy,
so we were listening to it a lot together.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yeah, I have not listened to it in a while.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I'm gonna I would have to take some time because
I do have favorites.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
But I'm drying.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I got a blank space right now in my mind.
I suggest you shake it off and come back to it.
It's not shake it off. I'll give you an answer later.
I don't think you really care tear Drops on my Guitar? Guy,
So how are you hating on her? You know more
of her than I do. I don't even know that
you want to know a secret? Mac we I thought
country tete. I liked her country music. Are you one
of these people that's just mad that she went to pop?
(29:17):
You know what it is? Your country fined ass is
just mad?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Yeah, because I thought her country music was really really good.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Some of the pop stuff well at pops, But I thought,
you know, tear Drops on My Guitar was a really
good song. And I had a big crush on her,
like a two thousand and seven, And then she left
us for the different music world, and.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
You feel like, yeah, you feel like you should be
with her. You feel like she should be in country
and she should be on your arm instead, she's the
world's biggest pop star and she's with Travis Kelcey. That
could hit hard, don't you can't you see bone why
he's upset? Yeah, And she's being compared to like Elvis
and Michael Jackson for like cultural impact.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
But she's you know, he made she made the bad choices.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
I cause her fiance wear a thong and support. Like
if she was with me, I would wear it. I
would wear a thong and support. I think she would
beg you to not wear a thong, I think is
what she would say. All right, anyway, let's let's move
along here. Let's move along. Due to time constraints, we
have to move along here. In our radio show, Xavier
(30:14):
lee Gets, the Panthers continue to know bone that xavierly
Get is marketing gold. We're still waiting to see if
he's wide receiving gold, but we know he's They know
he's marketing gold, so they put out this sandwich. I
really don't know what it has to do with a raccoon.
I guess XL says the bread looks like raccoon eyes
(30:35):
or something. You'll hear it in the clip, but it
sounds like an awesome sandwich. It's this brisket sandwich.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
But this is a chef bone from Levy, you know,
the company that does all the food and all the
catering at Bank of America Stadium and Excel introducing you
to a sandwich that you can get this season.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
It sounds pretty good.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Ready utilized that, Jill. I got you out to smoke,
my man. I got the whisky ready, Mike, Now we're cooking.
Mon we're gonna make some coal sauce. Coas uh.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
We can have it over Phill name Jane everything, no onion,
no bell.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Pillows, no tomatoes.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Little South Carolina.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Dejon vinogradh uh oh got that.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
I really thought it was gonna be like the cow
sloe with the white saw something. It ain't bad? Can
I can I use that? That's turn that one though?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
It's so old.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I can't forget this.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
So clol it up. Don't they look like rac coon?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Now?
Speaker 5 (31:54):
I like that?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
On cool?
Speaker 2 (31:55):
With that?
Speaker 5 (31:55):
You can now m you can now grab them. Man's
Man of Sandwich here making America Stadiums.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
There you go, mad Man of Simwich, and they're going
to be good.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Bandit Sandwich, the masked bandit, the mask How do why
can't I say masks bandit masked bandit Sandwich.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
I like what he said. Cole Swaw, He's just funny.
Anything he does is just he kind.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Of a smoker. O't here we got the coleshwaw, I
love it. I love you would watch an Excel cooking
show for hours out there. I just had the thought
during that Willie p and Xcel do a cooking show. Bam,
you know what I mean? Hit automatic, hit fiddy? How
would that sound Willy Pee? Push him? Cooalshaw on the smoker?
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Do you want some peppery cordonnut sandwich there? Excel?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I don't know what he's talking about. Man, Just pull
brisker a little dry though, Man, how do you tell
you you can't talk about my brisk until you catch
the football? Willie pe? Can I get some water man,
because I need to dip this thing in some water? Man?
Tell n that sandwich sounds good. The only bad news
is boney probably is available for seventy nine dollars. Damn
(33:04):
that sounds good.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Yes it does, Yes it does.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
We come back here on the Mac and Bone Show,
UNC Quarterback Update, which ACC schools did big ratings in
week one and the Big twelve likes Dave Portanoy a
whole lot more than the Big ten did. We explained
Sports Radio ninety two sevenfanz.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Why are their balloons.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
They just got humiliated, embarrassed, hammered.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Is this a gender reveal or a birth announcement?
Speaker 6 (33:43):
What are we doing it?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
It's a boy. We call that blue. It's a boy.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
Why do we have celebratory balloons after a forty eight
to fourteen beatdown? And even if it was reversed and
they beat you forty eight to fourteen and they felt great,
why would that guy be up there with balloons?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
That guy of all guys balloons?
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Jim Rome the latest one to notice the blue and
white balloons behind Bill Belichick during the press conference where
Bill is miserable after a thirty four point beat down.
And I we talked about this the day after the
game a little bit. I don't think we focused on
this enough. Man and heels fans. I know you've been
through it the last couple of days, and hopefully you
(34:36):
can get this thing going in a better direction. But
the balloon thing is just comical, man, It's absolutely comical. Like,
how did somebody not realize, oh my god, Bill's gonna
be more miserable than usual and the balloons are set
up there, like how did they not have somebody moon?
(34:57):
How did they not have somebody go pop balloons in
the middle of the fourth quarter of that game.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Yeah, Jay, hud, go do something. They go pop those balloons.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
And I know, think yourselves useful for a change, girl,
And he told us they've done this for press conferences
in the past. It's still you got you can't do
what you did in the past for this guy. You've
got to change your protocols here. You got to abort
the midchip. So are you saying, Fitty that all the
press conference had balloons in the background.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
When Mac Brown came back, they made the press conference
where he hosted in the Keenan Center, it was dressed up.
So remember the presser when he talked to the media
after the game of seventy and he admitted to a public.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Were their balloons for that one? There were balloons?
Speaker 2 (35:37):
How do we do?
Speaker 3 (35:38):
How do we not notice that? Because the way that
the cameras zoom in, you don't.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
You don't.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
You only notice it if you ever watched the press
conference and you see like the wide shot before they.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Zoom in on the coach.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
So it's it's only noticeable if you like watch it
from like starting to finish or like me, you see
for people take photos of it.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
So there have been worst pressers that have been held
in that's and that's the one where Mac Brown quit
but didn't quit. Yeah, and there were guess what, there
were balloons there. This is what you get more media
attention though.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
They're going to notice things like this also, so there's
gonna be more people in there that say, hey, what
are these balloons? And all of a sudden, one photo
and there you go.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
It's corny. Man, it's corny.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
It's a press conference, it's you're right, it's not a
gender revealed, it's not a kid's birthday party.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
It's just goofy.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
And then when it's that miserable human being after that game,
it's just the comedy. The comedy is there. By the way,
Bill Belichick yesterday had a presser. Now, I don't think
there are balloons for this one. Fitty is the are
only balloons for game days?
Speaker 3 (36:37):
I think they stay up?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Oh really, yeah, don't don't they lose er. Someone's got
to redo to balloons at some point. They've made their
press conferences an event. So if someone gets fired and
they do, they did they take them down or they
always up?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
They're there?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Was it were they there when Mac Brown? Did Mac
Brown get a Yeah, he got a presser before he left, right, Yeah,
Mac Brown's talking about geting getting run out of there
was their balloons. Yes, they've got to really know the mood.
They read the room, actually read the room before you
put in the balloons. Any vet would Bill Belichick ever
want balloons, even if, like Jim Rome said, they could
(37:14):
have won by seventy belongs. The balloons don't fit that
guy's moved. Do you think Jordan the baby shower for Jordan?
When a little Billy, when a little Billy the third
is get ready by Bourne, do you think then Bony,
then they're gonna have balloons.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
He has them on the beach while they're doing pilates together.
All right, anyway, let's focus on on some news here.
Can you see that meeting mac who? Who?
Speaker 5 (37:34):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (37:34):
We need to change these balloons. I'm not a bulloon guy.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
I'm surprise he didn't just go up and pop the ball.
Gim mesop. All right, anyway, real quick, let's do this.
Let's get to actual news. Gee, we we don't have news.
I guess we don't have news on the quarterback situation.
Bill's presser yesterday Bone was before they had even practiced
post TCU game, so he was able to use that hey,
we hadn't even practice yet. He did say that Geo
(37:59):
looks pretty good. So we've got no idea who the
starting quarterback is going to be for UNC against Charlotte. Charlotte,
on the other hand, we know they're sticking at least
at the outset of this game. With former tar Heel
player Connor Harreld. We're gonna talk about this even more
in depth Bone in the seven o'clock hour at seven
(38:20):
twenty five. But I did want to mention the ratings
because his ties into the ACC and the ACC's formula
for distributing revenue. The ratings for college football were absolutely
through the roof this weekend. I mean, going into the weekend,
a lot of people said this is the best Week
one we've ever seen, and the ratings went out there, Bone,
and it was the most watched Week one in the
(38:41):
history of the sport. And there were ACC teams included
in a lot of these games. Not the highest rated game,
highest rated game, Bone was the Ohio State and Texas game.
But the next I think next three or so, you
had Florida State, Alabama or no, you had Miami Notre Dame,
then you had Florida State Alabama, and then you had
(39:04):
the UNC game was up there as well, pretty darn high.
And even the Virginia Sex South Carolina game you and
Seed did like six million viewers. Virginia Sex South Carolina
did four million, the Florida State and the Miami five
million for South Carolina? Was it five point four million?
Speaker 4 (39:18):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Okay, five point four the Uns, the Florida State, Miami,
they were over ten million. At Clemson two over ten million.
All three of those were ten eight, ten seven, ten four.
So the ACC had three games over ten million, and
they had two more over five million. That's ginormous. And
this is big for those schools bony because of the
(39:39):
revenue distribution. It will factor in football ratings primarily, but
also basketball ratings, so those were the ratings matter in
terms of the money your school gets. It's it's a
big deal, man. It's not just bragging rights anymore. In
Georgia Tech Colorado on Friday night did three point seven million.
That beat Auburn Baylor. So that was a that was
a big win for those two for the Big twelve
(40:00):
at ACC two non SEC Big ten programs. There they
beat a matchup with an SEC teams that was big
for those two teams as well.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Nice that.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
That is a signal to ACC teams with the revenue
distribution the way it is more money to go to
the schools to get higher ratings. Now it's an average,
but this is a great start for these schools. Play
these games. Play standalone games, right, yes, play standalone games
where you are the marquee game and maybe there's nothing else,
or you are you know, you're playing marque opponents like
(40:36):
play games like this. ACC teams and I would have
to think they're all going to deduce that. That's a
great point because the highest rated one Notre Dame Miami
standalone game, TCU U n C six point one standalone game,
Virginia Tech South Carolina standalone game. Not all of them
were standalone games, but the ones that were did massive numbers.
(40:57):
ACC should be trying to get it as many of
those games because now it's each individual ACC school should
because again, now your revenue distribution is attached to how
many people watch you throughout the season. LSU plays excuse me,
Clemson plays at LSU next year to open the season
as a rematch in Miami.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
South Carolina is going to be a Week one game
next year.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Dang, yes, So that's a good that's a inches a
juicy one right there, Bone Man, I like that. By
the way, word came out yesterday that brett or Mark,
the Big Twelve commissioner and all the Big Twelve ads
had a call with Dave Portnoy of Barstool and Fox Sports.
They offered him I'm reading the report here, Bone, they
offered him a blank canvas of engagement opportunities and full
(41:46):
support of working in barst integrating Barstool across league campuses,
and according to a report, he will be allowed on
the field pre game when Fox takes their show inside.
And if this happens, Bone, this basically to me catches
(42:07):
Ross Byork the idea of Ohio State in a lie.
If Dave Portinoy Bone on Saturday is part of the
set on the field when they move inside, and the
ad of Ohio State told us it was a Fox decision,
I bet he's a complete lie. I don't think it
was a Fox decision. I think it was a bit.
(42:29):
And then we'll note when they go to the next
Big Ten school it's not Ohio State. We'll see how
they handle it. My sense is it might be a
Big ten thing. The word was a lot of the
Big ten schools did not like Portnoy being on here
because essentially they all, not just Ohio State, thought that
he would be clowning them. And you know, because he's
a Michigan guy that talks trash. Whereas Big twelve. You know,
(42:51):
Big twelve is embracing this is hey man, let's get
Barstool involved, like their Barstool College Football show will be there,
whereas they were banned last week. They were banned from Ohio. Also,
they were banned from Ohio State previous years. That goes
into what you're saying of Wait a minute, before Barstool
was even with Fox, you would not allow the Barstool
College Football show near.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
The Shoe.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
So there's president here where you didn't like him before
the Fox deal. This is where Brett, your mark is
very smart, and I think he does a lot of
smart things. Why on earth would you not want Barstool involved?
Why would you not the brand they bring? You talk
(43:35):
about young college kids, I bet they're consuming a lot
of Barstool content, like it's only to me, and I
get it. It's easy for the Big twelve bone because
they don't really care that Portnoy's a Michigan fan, right yes,
but Portnoy also will take on the sec on behalf
of the Big Ten like he'll he'll often be a
homer for the conference too. You picked the Ohio State
(43:57):
to win the game last week, So like, I just
think they're in a boat, like they got their they
got their panties in a bunch in Big Ten country
and they're missing like promotional opportunity. There's a reason why
Fox has the barstool College Football show Mac right next
or they're when they're when they're doing it, it's right
next to the big Newon kickoff set up because the
(44:18):
crowd that barstool attracts, they want that to flow right
over into the big Newon kickoff crowd. They know that
it's hard to get a game day like crowd, but
if they get the young barstool on campus crowd and
they move right over to the big So that's why
they want the barstool relationship. They are trying to get
the young people involved on the campus stuff as well.
(44:39):
Absolutely one hundred percent away Mac, the Miami South Carolina
game next year. It's not a neutral site game. It's
a two year deal. The Game Cocks hosts Miami next
year and they go to Miami after that. So a
lot of people say, hey, these early season games are great,
but they want them on campus rather than the stero
environment of like what Atlanta was for the two games
(45:00):
last week. Game Cocks do host Miami next year. That's
pretty cool, man. I'm all next summer we got Game
Cock bone against the U. We're back boys. Oh yeah,
let's do it bone. I'm ready for that. I can't wait.
I have to worry about South Carolina State first, though.
You got a few games before that one when we
come back here on the mack In Bow Show, ESPN,
(45:20):
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