December 29, 2025 • 44 mins
In the final hour, Mac & Bone talk about the chances the Panthers can still win the NFC South, after missing out on clinching the division yesterday, the guys give their weekend conclusions outside of the Panthers loss, before previewing the night in sports, reading funny texts, & more
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
I do think you absolutely would rather face Carolina than
the Bucks.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The Bucks with.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Baker Mayfield, Let's say he does get hot and he
feels good, and he does have a game with a
healthy Mike Evans at Chris Godwent on the youth, you
get some of those pieces healthy. That is an offense
that could provide some problems that I don't think the
Carolina Panthers behalf there.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
You go, Danny Canel, when he's not playing the role
of acc man defending all things acc he kind of
annoys me. I gotta be honest with you, and I
believe you should sit this one out, Danny. I believe
you sit this one out. That is on CBS Sports HQ.
Thanks to a Texter for sending that because the TEXTA
said Mac. Apparently the national media doesn't agree with you
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guys that the Panthers are the better team than Tampa. Well,
Vegas doesn't either. Vegas has set Tampa as a three
point favorite. I feel like people are continuing to wait
bone for Tampa to turn back time and for the
Bucks to become that team bony that they were in
the four division title seasons. I don't think they're that
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team right now. And I don't want to tempt fate
too much and Matt curse this thing, but I just
think Tampa's defense stinks. And I think even when Baker
throws for yards like he did yesterday, he's going to
turn the ball over.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I just think they are so flawed. Also, there's nothing
sure they want to keep playing. The invincibility that and
the thoughts we had of Tampa are now gone like
that that team yesterday Mac showed me everything. They're trying
to play out to the end of the season. I
don't know if they've quit, if that's the right word,
but they just to snap their fingers and get it back.
(01:57):
Something is a miss there. I don't even know if
that he even wants to go to the postseason. The
Panthers need it, they want it. And if you thought
the Buccaneers were all of a sudden just gonna wake up,
yesterday kind of showed you. To lose to the Dolphins
with Quinn years, that's a problem for them.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
We lost to a team as thirteen to three we
walked about Super Bowl contender. I mean, just an elite
defense right gave it to us, And our offense has
to be able to actually handle. At some point in
our growth, we have to actually be able to hold
our own against an elite defense.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
That would be nice.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So I'm not saying that that's not embarrassing still, but
like we ain't getting that type of defense from Tampa
on Saturday. So now it's time to turn the page.
Bone we just mentioned, our lazy selves will be back
off taking holiday time off.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
And we will be back on Friday show.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
When we come back on Friday, I'm coming back in
this mother with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind. To quote
the Harballs, I'm telling you right now, I'm gonna be
so stoked. And I think Tampa is so ripe for
the picking. And I think the Panthers will show up,
the good Panthers will show up because you just said it.
I believe we are dying for a chance to play
in a game like this. I believe there are players
(03:07):
in that Tampa. What'd you say?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Bucky Irving sent out a tweet or something he said that,
What did you say about?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
What was the Bucky Irving tweet?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
I don't know if I can describe it on the air.
You gotta go watch what he tweeted out. But he
was basically taking shots at Todd Bowles. Okay, like they
are done with that, dude, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I've quit on him. I don't think they like each other.
I don't think they like the coach. I've heard Todd
Bowles go off on his team. I think he I
don't think he likes his team. I just think they
would rather go to Aruba than the playoffs. So there
could be a balls movement here soon. So this brings
me balls movement.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Check your DM. I just sent it to the group.
See what their defense looks.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Like right now? Moment? All right? So huge.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
So here it is, y'all. Did yesterday's loss? We have vented,
we have talked about it. We've tried to figure out
why does this offense have these games with a complete
inability to get it downfield with this offense? Why is
this offense in the last four losses average under eleven
points a game?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Why can teams just completely stemy our offense?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Now the question has to be, did yesterday's frustrating loss
change the way you feel about Saturday at four point
thirty when we play in Tampa.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
No, because I think it's more yesterday's more of a
problem for Tampa than the Panthers, because Tampa was waiting
to try to get an opponent mack where they could
get their confidence back, and they go and lose to Miami.
The Panthers, yeah, wasn't a great performance, of course not,
but they can sit here and say, we lost to
a team that might go ahead and win this whole
entire thing. Tampa Bay sitting there watching tape a losing
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to quinn Ewers and the Dolphins. I think yesterday was
a much more deflating loss for Tampa and trying to
get their big moBack than it is the Panthers, because
the Panthers Mac have had these moments all year where
they've been up and down, up and down, up and down.
The Buccaneers they've been nothing. But now now outside of
one game for two months, they lose against Arizona and
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they almost lost that game. They exactly at one by three.
They've lost four straight games, seven of eight. In those
four straight games, the Panthers are the only non losing
record team that they have lost to in this streak.
So it's not like good I like they're playing good teams.
They are so gettable. If we don't win this game,
I'm gonna lose my mind next Monday. I'm fully convinced
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of that, because, yes, we still have grown. But this division,
Tampa is begging.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Us to take their throne.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
They are putting it there, They're putting a pillow on it,
and they even have a little booster for Bryce to
step up on to get on the throne, on the
pillow on top of the throne.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
They are begging us. They don't want the throne, they
are begging us to take it.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
And if we don't take it, we have screwed up
royally a great opportunity. But I just I think that
yesterday's game means nothing for Saturday. It has not shook
my confidence on Saturday at all. I didn't think we'd
win the game yesterday. Quite frankly, now, I thought we'd
lose by four. I didn't think we'd lose the way
we did. But how can you be a Panther fan
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and think Sunday's result has anything to do with next
week's result. We've literally watched them bone go over two
months since October, back and forth with wins and losses.
It doesn't mean anything. As a matter of fact, when
they do lay an egg. I don't know whether it
refocuses them. I don't know what it does. I don't
know if it fires this team up. But this team
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responds this. I like this team coming off a loss
like that. There's something about them. So the Panthers, I
hope it doesn't mess with fans. Confident Panthers are inconsistent.
The Buccaneers are consistently back.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
We used to be. That's a different test. That's a
good one.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
You said you're coming in like a wrecking ball on Friday. Oh,
I'm like Miley Cyrus, so we could say now we're
panthering up on Friday, right like that?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh did I sit my hand?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I'm gonna do something now that's gonna make people mad.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
No not Galore no.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
No no, no, no, no no, no shuttle.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Down bone or was worried for?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
So please tell me you're traveling to the game and
I'm ordering the championship bell right now to celebrate with
after after Saturday.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I got I'm ordering it right now.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Oh no, no, look at pix State Bo don't do
these sort of premature.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Added to the cart. I'm calling my shot. This will
be like messy A calling the cup. I have lost
all confidence in this order.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Say it's getting ordered right now.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Credit card gets to climb. You're gonna wear this song
on Monday next Monday. You're ordering this right now. I'm
ordering this right now. We got the belt.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
There it is. You got it? God, this is a
bad idea.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Bone when we pre playing, nothing goes good, Nothing goes good.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Nothing.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Hey, wi me in the eyes, Trust me on this.
When's the last time I'll let you know I.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Can't trust you today?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Is there any way we could get Dave here with
a real weapon in the Carolina Reaper outced Monny Chance
take care of By the way, I got.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
A problem with Smoking one yesterday. He sent you a
text that is trying to get me to leave the
stadium yesterday, right, the curse on the team?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Where were Smoke yesterday at the game?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Okay, so you think he was the curse just saying
Smoke though as his stats, Smoke said he is eleven
and six when intended he said, what's bones winning percentage? Well,
it's not good lately, but there's there's more on the
record than just lately. But Smoke, you were there too yesterday.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
We also got other stats from Smoke. How about this
guy's Carolina is seventeen and thirteen all time in the
final week of the regular season. Even better, Mac away
from the Bank Carolina thirteen and seven. Here's the only problem.
They have not won in Tampa Bay since twenty seventeen.
So we're good in this in this setting historically. But
(08:32):
we got to win at a place we have at
one end almost a decade.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
I hope the field is wider in Tabas so XL
can figure out.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Just put a pitch of Gloria up in bows and
have them run at that target.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
The mental mistakes that they make is just that's the
that's the frustrating part of the time.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
It's just some of the basics.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
And it's a young team that's growing, but it's it's
Excel on the penalty yesterday. It's just it's those things
that your.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Mishel Smith Wade in New Orleans twice offside on a kick. Bro,
look at the ball, it's right there before he stabs it.
You stand on this side of it. But anyway, XCEL
got a warning for the ref. Canal has said still
didn't move.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
We're trying, if we're trying to talk good vibes about
this game on Saturdaybody else.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Says this opportunity. Ebody else says they order a six
XL bell for Fiddi. Oh ay, right man, that ain't right?
Seven four five, seven oh nine sixten. The game yesterday
was ugly offensively, but the defense sowd some grint Rico
seemed to be more effective four point nine yards of carry?
Can that be a precursor of what's going to happen
(09:36):
this week?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Have you lost any confidence in our ability to dethron
Tampa based off the game yesterday? Chef says, suspend Bone
for a month if we lose on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Oh no, a month off? I pretty much have that.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Now.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Let's see, Oh no, oh no, don't make me go
home for a month and not talk to back and
don't make me talk to Fitty Dark called about or.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Willie on Wednesday. Jeff, No, I'm so terrified.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Jeff from Shelby says, I still can't get past the
fact that this discussion would be completely different. We beat
the Saints one time, Yeah, we're gonna look back at it.
If we don't take care of business against Tampa, we're
gonna look and I would contend Bone that yesterday, we
ran into a better team, right, I know, I know
if if j C doesn't have the face mask, we
get it back, and we just scored and we get
(10:25):
it back. But that dry bone, like it just felt
could we do that again? It just felt like we
were like yeah too yards and a cloud of turf,
a cloud of turf, Like I just, I just I don't.
I think we ran into a team that we were
better than, or that we were worse then. And honestly,
I think we're gonna, if we get in the playoffs anything,
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run into.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
A team we're worse than. I just I think it's
part of the process. But the Saints games, it's like
you can't win one against them. So hopefully on Saturday,
not only do we win the division get in the playoffs,
but we can exercise those Saints demons and not have
us saying also, why couldn't we beat the Saints one
freaking time? It's the Saints game, and it's also week two.
Jacksonville now is a role win. So I look at
(11:07):
that and go, hey, you know, and Jacksonville's pretty good,
but Arizona also is one week two, right, think we
could have that game back again, we're beating areas.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
With the turnovers where we stopped them to play.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
We got back in the game, and it's like we
get Arizona back, because that's another one there where it's like,
that's so good.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Those three losses stink like Arizona, although I would attend
they were better than they've been later in the season.
They kind of they kind of gave up all on
the way, but Arizona and then the Saints. But look
at some of the losses we do have, Like we've
lost to two thirteen win teams. We've lost to New
England and Seattle, both with thirteen wins. We lost to
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a twelve win team in Jacksonville, who I promised everybody
the Monday after that game. I don't want to hear
that that team's some playoff team in the Macan this year.
And I know bald and then Buffalo they lost a
Heartbreakertster in a Philly great game, but they still got
eleven wins.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
We lost four half our games. Are the teams with eleven,
twelve or thirteen wins? Yeah, you know, but anyway, that
doesn't do us any good. If we don't beat a
team we should beat on on Saturday. What Vegas is
that some of the wins, like you know, Green Bay
and the Rams. Right, so they've they played a lot.
They played a lot of the best teams in the
league this year.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Let's say that they definitely have schedule hasn't change. They
played the and they played the Jets.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Also another another team that's just really just a force
a total tour to force. The schedule hasn't been easy,
but the division has been. Like that's another thing too,
This Bucks team, uh Ron brings up a point that's sobering,
but but legit, he says, Mac. Can you imagine the
frustration will feel if a Bucks team that had lost
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uh seven games out of the last eight ends up
still winning the division? What a blown opportunity that would be. Yeah,
that one, that one would be tough to take. They're
doing everything they can bone like I said, to give
us a division. If we don't snag the opportunity, that's
gonna hurt.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Can we also hurt?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Also, just maybe say that the Bucks are just not
good at all? Because Mac, they beat Arizona by three, right, Well,
what how they got their record to be good?
Speaker 6 (13:06):
This year?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
They beat Atlanta by three in a rally to start
the year. They beat Houston, which now looks like a
great win. But they beat Houston by one. They beat
the Jets by two. What's not forget they won a
lot of close games. If those games go the other way,
we're looking at a team that might win four or
five games this year. They they won those games bothough
in fairness, we're seven and two and one score games.
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It fits he misses a couple of lake kegs. But
we got six wins. I don't need. But no, there's
there's they they got by. They got by the the
skin of their of their chin chin, Harry chin, the
skin of their Harry chin chin. There early in the season,
they did have some good wins though, Seattle may Harry
chan Harry chin chin, Harry chin chin skin of the
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what's the old you get by the you get by.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
The uh this dude says, anybody else can Vince excel
is daydreaming about eating possum instead of focusing on football.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
It's all possible. It is all possible. He could have
his head slammed up a possum's rear end for all
I know. I mean, it's frustrating, and I love the guy.
He's a likable kid and he has been through it.
He lost both parents. Somebody brought that up earlier. He
lost both parents five years ago. He lost his pops.
That was after losing his mom four years before that.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
But it's just like, just because you're a nice guy,
doesn't mean you're supposed to be the third receiver on
an NFL team.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Try to be a playoff team.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
And I really wonder if David Moore could be back
this week active and could take those snaps away from Excel.
I didn't think we get to that point. But he
catches from a veteran, I hope. So it's a couple.
And you know, Canals trusts him too, right, He's definitely
he's gonna throw his ball. He's gonna throw the ball
his way a little bit, definitely.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Seven oh four says that you guys are discounting the
Falcons factor. The dirty Birds can win us this division
even if we lose. Yeah, for people that don't know
this scenario really is crazy to think that is a possibility.
You talk about an NFC Southway to win the NFC
South Bone. The Panthers could lose next week to Tampa.
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If Atlanta were to beat the Rams tonight. They're like
seven point dogs. They're a home against the Rams. And
if they were to beat New Orleans, who's hot as hell.
Don't look now, Tyler Schuck looks like a flatout bawler,
like a guy that is going to be a problem
for years, quite honestly.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
But anyway, if a Landa.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Could be the offensive Rookie of the year, now, yes,
I have a bad feeling to do anything yesterday, and
this guy goes with those were three buildings, he's bawling.
I have a feeling he may snag that award along
with those two games against us. But anyway, if Atlanta
wins out against the Rams and the Saints and we lose,
we still get in based off the three team divisional
tie at eight to nine and the tiebreaker, which is
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records of the three teams amongst each other, we would
have the best record.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
All we have to do back is trust Atlanta.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Right go wrong?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Here could go wrong? So do we even bother route?
I guess we got a root for Atlanta. I guess
is it going to all go to work out? And
then we have to make the Saints are going to
get us again for the third time. This year, it's
gonna come down to Atlanta. Yeah, yeah, that would be funny.
When we come back here on the Mac and Bone
Radio program on this non victory Monday weekend conclusions, we're
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gonna recap a busy sports weekend, including the Hornets with
a big w during our time off, but they also
lose connum on the Way Sports RADIOFZ.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
What Kate said, you see his admiration for you, as
respect for you.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
How important is it to you to pour into these
guys just as men, not just as football players as well?
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Yeah, I mean that's my calling in life. I mean,
that's my purpose. I mean, I know everybody wants me
to win football games, but it's more about how I win.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
That's what matters to me more than anything.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
Always has, It's never been anything different, never will be.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
You know, it's my purpose in life.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
Glorified God, be a great husband and father, and to
use this platform of football and education to build great
men through this game that we love. That's my calling,
that's my purpose in life. That's never changed, never gonna change.
And man, we've been purpose driven for a long long time.
We want a bunch of games, bunch of championships. More
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than most. We want a lot more than we've lost,
and we'll continue to win a lot more than we've lost.
But you know that's what it's all about to me.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
There you go, Dabo Sweeting after the penstripe.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Ball lost mind it not feisty red hot.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Knitney Lions, and then to seize on a four game
winning streak. But anyway, that was Dabo. Seems like he's
catching a little flak for that comment there not saying
it's not an outball too, you know what I mean?
Help young men, you know, develop into grown ass men
and great humans. Is he downplaying the winning part of
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it a little bit too much?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Then?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Can I tell you back this what the state of
the stat I don't want to be say the works
many times in right here, but the state of the
Palmetto State football teams right now, it is one coach
and Shane Biemer that never wants to look back. It
only wants to look ahead and tell you how good
the team's going to be in the future. And one
coach and Dabbo that never walks ahead and wants to
always look back on what they did for the past decade.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
They are in two different worlds. Aren't they.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
One is always going forward, and one always has his
Wikipedia page out to tell you what he's done.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah. Does he have his resume right there in his
hands so he can just go into reading it.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
And by the way, we want a lot of championships here.
Let me tell you how many in a second I'm scrolling.
But anyway, Yeah, I don't know. I feel like you're
there to win. I feel like it's college football is
essentially another version of pro football now, and I feel like, unfortunately,
we could say what's happened to this world? But unfortunately, Bone,
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I believe that your number one job is to win.
And if you don't do that, it doesn't matter if
you're molding men. You know what I'm saying. All these
colleges getting fired, twelve coaches getting fired in college football
by week eight, you think that's because they weren't molding
men exactly. By the way, it sounds like something you
say when you lost a lot of games. Some of these,
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you know, some of these ballgames, Matt can be very entertaining.
It's almost like game to game dependent. Some are very entertaining.
Penn State Clemston does not fit in that category of
entertaining ball games. First of all, I know you're rooting
for your team in that game, so you're into it.
But it felt like that game took about seven hours
to play the others. You know what it felt that
game was what the offenses were so bad. I thought
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the Panthers offense was having an intersquad scrimmage.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
That's how bad that damn game was. Offensively, weekend for
you back and your teams. You're watching kid headt Penn State, Clemson,
and then Panther.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
You're not fired up to drunk through for a career high.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Your guy, what's your guy's name? Drunken, drunken, trunking noodle.
That's what they're gonna call me on New Year's Eve.
Actually noodle. Actually I'm not. I'm gonna have four beers
and pass out at eleven twenty. But anywayunk Meyer, drunken Meyer, Yeah,
career high and Myers your cookie guy. But the Clemson
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offense looked terrible. Clubnic didn't even average five yards to pass.
There's an ugly way to go out offensively for cad Man.
I feel for Kate and I'm not even sure, like,
does he have a career in the NFL.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
At all. I don't think so, how's he getting drafted?
The intern back has maybe the favorite to win the
Heisman first round draft.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Pick, he's very similar to Quinn You weers right, he's
gonna be in the CFL. Yours was also a guy
that we thought was gonna be a first run. There
was a lot of these guys. Where's the stock of
Nutsmeyer right now?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Hour?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You know, Drew Allers another one, where's his stock? There's
a lot of these guys that we think are short
things at quarterback before the College Seeds it starts, and
then by the end of it, it's like, Okay, I'm
not really sure about him.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Did justsee Lane Kiffin, by the way, show up to
do his endgame interview and leave during the game.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yeah, it's about right. Yeah, he's good at leaving while
things are still going on. By the way, what was
Lane Kiffin doing? This is weekend conclusion, so like, we'll
get to the Hornets win, we'll get to the con injury. Unfortunately,
we'll get to the college football playoff games, like we'll
just bounce around. But since you run up Lane Kiffin,
what was he doing? Like is that just a comedy
routine for social media or did he really do this?
(21:39):
Did you see what he did coming back from the
grocery store the other day?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I didn't see that.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
He carried his food home in the grocery store basket
and he gets home and he tells whoever was running
the camera phone, Yeah, why did you bring that home?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
They charge it for bags? To hell with that.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I just I just I just took it into the
basket and brought it here. I ain't paying for any bags.
It's like, oh, you just signed a contract worth forty
eight gazillion bazillion patrillion.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, you already stayed a lot of money on that.
Please tell me that was a bit.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
It had to be a bit. But anyway, all right,
So what else? So Clemson going back does a bad
end to a brutal season. Man, they're at a crossroads,
There's no doubt about it. Trying to see who this is?
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Is it melk Kiper? Someone still has club the number
five quarterback in the in the U Really in the draft?
Speaker 8 (22:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Really, I don't know. I saw people know who that is?
Questioning what roundy would be drafted? Would he be drafted on?
Trying to see who this is? It doesn't say on
the article, but there you I need you.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
To close out on the belt tab. You're not ordering
that damn thing. Close it out?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
What this thing? It's been ordered already.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Oh no, you could go wrong Bone ordering celebratory panther
stuff before the game.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
But by about this though, I know how Fitty operates. Fitty,
you want to wear that naked? You know, Ida it'll
be a little cold, but you know, I did you
have the belt Fitty covering? Good?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Please tell me that is going to be strategically placed. Please,
problem is they don't have one on the backside though.
But let's see. Oh, APP fans want a little love
bad Sir Lloyd wants a little love for APP Birmingham
Bull today against a conference rival that they've already played.
Body very odd, but Georgia Southern and APP it's always
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a good you know, Yeah, it's always a good grudge
match when those two plays.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
That game got in right because of academics and other
teams didn't want to play. So this is how they
ended up in Birmingham. Yeah, that's what ended up happening there.
With little love to the South Carolina game Cocks. We
talked about with North Sellers back for them. They also
get Dylan Stewart back and Nick Harbor back, So there
are three star players that a guy like Nick Harbor
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needs to keep elevating. But their three star players are
all back next year. In the falls, each one of
them was with the easier schedule to start the year,
so hopefully, maybe you know, without the expectations of this year,
they can maybe have a much better year next.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Listen, that's big for them.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I don't want to be a total wise ass here,
but last season each one of them was good for
one point three to three wins, so you choose to
be a clown to that.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Actually, sorry, game cut, Kevin was bragging about it.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
I'm like, keV, you.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Realize you need a lot more than that to win
in the SEC. That's a start, though, those three guys
won your four games, bro Skate. Nick Harper's another guy
to maybe be an athlete but not a football player.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
He just like with Excel. Another guy I wondered about
the difference might be not Sellers and Harbor. It might
be Kendall Bryle's opening things up a little more in
the passing game, and maybe you just get Harbor straight
down the field throwing some bato. I'll better go get
some big nasties in that portal. That offensive line needs
to be upgraded a million and gazillion percent. Man, it
really does. That's Fitty's dating strategy, by the way, going
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to get some big nasties.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
In the portal.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Why am I laughing? Why am I encourging your shenanigans?
By the way, chef who bashed you earlier says, in
fairness though, Bones the funniest guy on the show, So
there you go.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
He does like you, Bob wants to be suspended, but
I'll the funniest guy in the show. You don't want
to laugh for a month. You're gonna have to deal
with just fiddianized jokes.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
If we suspended mondays, If I get suspended from what
DVR day, it takes my spot.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
That laugh though, makes me feel funny. He laughs at
everything I could say, Hey, Dave, how you doing?
Speaker 8 (25:19):
He was?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
He just started, there you go, he was.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
I gotta tell you one, Dave. He was passing out
business card just to just as the reaper.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Right. I didn't know Days had a job. He does.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
He's got one down back. Hopefully you can keep one.
I feel bad for him, but that he ran out
of him too, Like, that's how popular the Reaper was, dude.
He was passing him out to so many ladies. It's
kind of like they thought they thought he said reefer.
He was the Carowiner reefer. So they're like, oh, what's
the guy have here, and they realized, Oh.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
It's a Reaper.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I'm telling y'all, it's amazing. Fitty should take notes. Is
amazing how many women will talk to you when you
cover your face up. It really is amazing what Dave accomplished.
What do you think about the college football playoff? Bone
before we talk about the Hornets and the good and
the bad from the weekend, because freaking CON's hurt now
the last damn thing we wanted to have happened.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
But what.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
What do you think about the playoffs?
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Like?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
What game are you.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Most interested in? Why I'm not saying we're not all
watching all four of them? Well what games kind of
got you to most? You know, jacked up?
Speaker 5 (26:16):
The one?
Speaker 4 (26:17):
I gotta tell you this, This foursome here, they're all
intriguing in their own way. I mean, my god, even
Oregon Texas Tech, who would probably be the least of
the four, but Texas Tech average is forty four points
a game against the speed of Oregon. That's gonna be
a They're all very intriguing to me. Bama Indiana has
a lot of juice based off of Bama's tradition versus
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Indiana now being in usually where Bama is. But it's
probably I would say Miami Ohio State probably the most injurgue,
although you can make a case for any of them,
but I think Miami Ohio State to me, probably has
the most intrigue acc angle the defensive angle. There's the
Miami as an underdog. Ohio State play a ton of
(27:00):
tough games during the regular season. I think Miami Ohio
State to be probably and its first ball, which is interesting.
They are the that's the New Year's Eve game the
other three or tripleheader the next day. It's interesting because
that's the highest point spread. But I agree with you
one hundred percent, and I would like to introduce you
to a new persona for New Year's Eve. All right,
My wife says she didn't want to do that role
(27:21):
playing thing on New Year's Eve, but I'm sorry, honey,
I am going to role play as the football version
of kaneak Mac because it's.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
All about you.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's all about you, It's all about to you.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I'm attacking this game bone with Michael Irvin energy on
my couch on on.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Wednesday. Not quite that much energy.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
But I believe Miami has a chance to make this
an ugly defensive game, just like Indiana did when they
beat Ohio State. I think Julian Stayan has not played
many defenses as good as Miami, and when he did,
Indiana up thirteen easy points. I think Miami can make
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this a sloby knocker and be right there in the game.
I don't know if I have the guts to pick
them to win the game, but I think they're going
to be right there in the game.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I really do.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
Man.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Can I give you my game rankings of how I
think they're going to go in terms of interest level?
I think Miami Ohio State's won Bama Indiana for aforementioned
reasons too. I think Oregon Texas Tech is going to
be a really good game there. He was like a
coin flip. Ole Miss Georgia has potential to be good,
but eventually Mac does Ole. Miss feel the feel the
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loss of kif fit and all they've gone through, and
I feel like Georgia, that to me could be Georgia
separating easily from Ole Miss. Georgia is so improved. I
know they played a good game the first time that one.
I agree. I think that's a double digit game. I
think that could be like thirty four to seventeen Georgia.
So are the other one single digit? I think Oregon
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Texas Tech's definitely single digit right like they feel pretty
even Organ's at two a half point fame.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I don't know about Alabama Indiana because remember how the
RUSS got these teams last year. Every team that had
a buy lost last year. Yeah, I just I still
don't think Alabama's that good? Really, am I I like?
But do they come in and I know they showed.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Some heart rallying on the road, but I still think
it's ty Simpson on his own without much run game
on offense.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
But do they it's weird to say this for Bama,
and you may disagree. Do they come in? Pressure free
a little bit? Though?
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Where Indiana is the favorite. The pressure somehow now on
Indiana and de bor it's not like he's leaving now
for Michigan. Kyle winning amore on that momentarily has that job. Now,
does Bama come in a little bit looser than they
normally would and Indiana kind of feels it a little bit?
Speaker 3 (29:47):
I think that game might be pretty close Indiana Rust
maybe yeah, you know, n C Buckeye says, please pick Miami.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
I'm not gonna do that, sir. Matter of fact, Buck
guys win a tough one. The Buckyes show their grit
North Carolina. Buck guy, I'm Darren Damn tam By the way,
Buck guy, what does it matter to you?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
You were good?
Speaker 3 (30:05):
If y'all advance, you're gonna play your wife's Georgia Bulldogs.
He's the one with the Georgia bulldog wife, right, Yes,
you're gonna play your wife's Georgia Bulldogs, and she will
talk so much trash to you when y'all take that.
Hell anyway, maybe you're better off just losing to a
team you wife done root for.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Maybe that'd be easier on you and your household. Buck guys,
this could be a bad start to the year for
uh NT Buckeye. Just com predicting stuff here. By the way,
mag what'd you think of Kyle Whittingham sixty six years
old just spent thirty one years in the Utah program,
is now the head man at Michigan. He's now a
Michigan man. I actually thought, based off of what they need,
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they need someone in there to sort of, you know,
create a culture there a little bit away from the
chaos that they've had. I actually thought that was a
great hire for Michigan. I thought that was the right
guy to sort of I think that's a good especially
considering how dire it looks, right. I thought it was
the right guy to kind of stabilize what they need.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
You know what. I kind of feel the same about
as I do about Penn State's Matt Campbell. Higher, good,
solid higher, considering how it looked like you were in trouble, right,
and maybe you'd end up.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
For example, bif Pogy nice guy.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
I don't want to be too mean to him, but
bif Pogy was openly lobbying for that job, and I
started to wonder if he was gonna get the job,
Like to get a guy who's accomplished his winning hand, Like, yeah,
I think that's pretty damn solid.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
N C.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Buckeye says his wife will be watching that game outside. Oh, sir, sir,
you may not. The Reaper may visit you, sir, if
you try to pull that one.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Yeah, n C Buck guy, you might be watching that
game out the doghouse and not the one WFND sponsor.
I'm trying to think Bone of what would happen to
me if I told my wife she will have to
be outside for three and a half hours.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
I'm trying to that's not how it works, Bony. I
don't know about everybody else's household. Now, she can send
me out there, but I'm not sure it works that way.
This dude says, Max said, we're gonna talk about the Hornets.
Are we supposed to be happy because the Hornets are
actually playing good basketball? Or he's supposed to be sobbing
because Conn even conk Nipple is prone to the Hornets
(32:07):
injury bug. Maybe a little bit of both, although the
con thing doesn't seem that bad when like when Charles
Lee says he's lobbying to practice over the weekend, Like,
I get the feeling it's a not that severe b
Like this kid ain't gonna milk an injury. You get there,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Like you get the feeling this is the type of
guy that like will die to play in any game
he can play in. I don't think he needs ankles
the way he plays, He's not really jumping a whole lot,
you know, so you can move around a little bit.
I think Conn will be back relatively said, Yeah, I
don't think he's good. He's out tonight, but I don't
think he's gonna miss Hi much. The positive is, and
you said it earlier, They've got they've got some They're
playing some decent basketball, Like even a thirteen game sample,
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they're seven and six in the last thirteen.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
There's there's something happening over there. Yeah, I'm not saying.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Bonets to the level of the Panthers, or the Panthers
are playing for a division, but something's happening.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
And you you share this stat with us.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
The Panthers have a one thirty net rating one hundred
thirty points per one hundred possessions. Which hornets, hornet hornets?
How many times have I just misspoked like today like fifteen?
Speaker 2 (33:11):
You know, you know I'm gonna say something more than usual,
which is a lie. I'm yall, I'm rusting. I think
you need a day off.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
I do, Matt Fau, I'm gonna take three days off, y'all.
I'll talk to you on Friday. I wasn't trying to
be that guy, but I want to make sure people work.
Conshut By by the Panther's net rating on offense, it's
all good. So there's net rating is nothing. It's definitely
not one hundred and thirty something. So anyway they are
and their their net numbers are plus fourteen per one
hundred possession. When Con here's some trying to say I'm
(33:38):
trying to get to this thing, Kant, when con Mellow
and Miller on the court altogether, you're starting to see it.
You're starting to see it now. Then the guy we
didn't think we get hurt goes a kids hurt. So
you just got to shake your head at it. But
I think he'll be back sooner rather than later. Musa
continues to be a guy that helps you win. It
would be nice if we get one of the other
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centers back here at some point. He's so indersized and
Tjan Salon we talked about in the first half.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I find the guy's improvement, like he's doing what we
want Excel to do, like you know what I mean,
Like Xcel's role as a receiver, and like he ain't
cooking Solon. You see him coming together as a player.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
You really do.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Man, he's got seven turnovers in December, the whole month
he's been back. Think about the way he played before.
He'd have that in like eight minutes. So he's got
seven turnovers in the man zero point nine in a
game he started to figure it out just turn twenty.
By the way, he's not even that deep into his
his twentieth year of life. So think about where he
could be twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, and the
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way he's coming along there. Mag I kind of hope Con.
I don't want to rush him, but that'd be really
cool if Con is back by Wednesday, because he plays
against Steph Curry, so that would be the two bit
shooters in the league right now. That'd be a really
fun Mattene game. And then I want to see Con
hit one in Steph's eye and say I'm coming for
your record.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Then I want to see then I want to see
Draymond Green get Matten and leave the court. The other day.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
You've got a I would say one in about one
and two percent chance that occurs.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Draymond and Musa could have a run in Mussa want
to energy? Oh, Draymond a Salon too.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Draymond's got patience for Salon's French frenzy.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Oh he doesn't. He doesn't like the French based off
Go Beart's but the path with Go Bear. When we
come back weekend conclusions, we'll try to get back back
on Track Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
The the Well, Jake Paul, who is the guy I fought?
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (35:47):
And Anthony Joshua.
Speaker 8 (35:48):
Anthony Joshua, you got when you go to a fight
like that, you got to be very careful about where
you eat breakfast the next morning, because you can It
can leave you ill and give you difficulty in reaching
the locals where you are scheduled to be. But I digress,
(36:08):
speaking of locals where people might need to be.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Is that a false narrative? Fore you're perpetuating a false narrative.
Speaker 8 (36:15):
I'm just saying. I just wondered, is that what the
kids are calling at these days? Bed breakfast?
Speaker 6 (36:20):
Anyway? What's we're cast dispersions anywhere?
Speaker 2 (36:25):
That is for those are followed closely, you'll be able to.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
There's the voice of Ryese Davis talking about Johnny Manziel
I don't know if he's doing back there. That is
Reese Davis on Johnny Manzel missing college game. That's the
New York Butcher Shop cut of the day. Check them
out at Ny Butcher Wine Bar Instagram. Multiple locations in
the area of Fort Mill, indian Land. Cornelias Dilworth also
opened very very soon in Belma and opening carry as well.
(36:53):
Mag Reice Davis A little sassy there, boy, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
I like it. So that's Johnny's story. By the way,
I did not realize that he was at the Jake
Paul Anthony Joshua fight Bony the night before he was
supposed to be a game day for the Texas A
and M playoff game. They had to have Alex Caruso
of Oka see pinch hit another Texas A and M
man pinch hit for him on the spot. But I
didn't realize that he was at that fight and that
(37:17):
his story was that he had something that didn't agree
with him in practice.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Bro show me somebody that believes.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
That Johnny Football was not hungover and that wasn't the
reason he meant and I will show you a total
gullible buffoon.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Do you know what else Mac didn't agree with Johnny Manziel.
Professional football so true for some of the same reasons.
I have a feeling yes anyway, get him, reskin him.
That's Reees Davis on his podcast Don't Cross You said
during the break Reese has a little sassiness to him.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Mac, Who's that? Remind you of what reetz? Get sassy?
Speaker 3 (37:51):
The King of sass though at ESPN is Kirk Curve Street.
Though Kirk Curve Street is the king, he's the sassiest
of all the Sassars.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
He's even sassier than Macki Sasser former New York met Catcher.
That's not that funny at all. I didn't know where
that was going. See maybe bonus the funniest guy on
the show. That was about his accurate as one of
you should have said last seme, but you need a
day off. I think you need three peop Yeah, I've
got y'all. Well, let me take a few days off.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Man. My game is gonna be better on front tomorrow.
Guess what.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Fitty's gonna defend the honor of the Panthers against that
dastardly willy b Do you.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
What are you gonna do? Do you?
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Are you anticipating when you host with Willy tomorrow? Are
you because he was very negative yesterday, very beaten down.
Don't make a lunch date out of this. Sometimes sometimes
you make lunch dates out of it. He acted like
he thought the team was two and fifteen instead of
eight to eight. With a game coming up this weekend
for the for the division title, are you anticipating a
very feisty negative Willy Because if so, you gotta you
(38:47):
gotta punch back fitty.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
I mean, I hope not. He's sitting like a paragraph
talking about why he is the way that he is
in post game, but when he joins on Wednesdays, he's
a lot more reflective, has more time. I'm in thought.
I mean, look, it's it's okay to be disappointed and frustrated.
I was mad as hell yesterday. We still have everything
we want in front of us. Let's let's focus on that.
(39:10):
Let's put this game behind us. So hopefully not. I mean,
I love working with Willie. He's my favorite, uh you know,
he's my favorite guest host to work with.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Bone.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
I just hope it gets real ugly. I hope we
have some clips to play on Friday when.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
We come back. I'll say this about you, you will
be there in spirit.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Man.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
You need as you get you give us a call tomorrow.
We'll be here if you need us. I'll say this
about the P Man. It was when you call one
on vacation guy et. Yeah, definitely make sure bone's the
first call. I the P Man went after some j C.
Horn haters though, I mean he it was like Kojoe Man,
I know that's an old person's reference as an old
Stephen King movie by a crazy.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Dog former NHL goaltender. He went off.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
He went off after formal Timothy's call, hating on JC
Horn call him a liability.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
So the attack dog P Man got after it. Good.
But it's I did the whole a lot of the call.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Two.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
We're acting like it was a December game and we
just dropped it two and fourteen, like we got to
get our heads on straight.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Baby. It is there.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
The division title is there for us. I may have
to check out Tampa radio today too. What's going on
down there to Youah, you're gonna do a little scouting,
little little scout. They gotta be miserable as hell.
Speaker 6 (40:15):
Man.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
What is miserab they do? What is weather man? Mark
apologizing for what do you do yesterday? I don't know.
He's apologizing for the way he treated Willie yesterday? And
what is the weather man? Mark? Did you know? If
any I just want to apologize to Willie pet What
did he do? Well? Weather Man Marco will set a
little Mackey staffer to him, due don't Yeah, he does,
he does.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
He would giving you the business about taking days off
over the holiday. He was upset all the day after Christmas.
Now we still weren't on yet. All right, let's read
some of these texts here. Oh, we do need to
mention tonight in the World sports a Hornet's hosting Giannis
and the Bucks tonight. Unfortunately no con no Culch Brenner
or Mason Plumley still as well, But you do have
Lamello Miller and uh my man T John. I'm a
complete t Jon convert. Now, baby, are you gonna call
(40:55):
French still?
Speaker 6 (40:56):
Kit?
Speaker 3 (40:56):
I might have to might I might have to start
comparing him to the honest they play each other tonight.
I might have to do a Sam Farmer, start comparing
to me.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
Be honest, man, you're being accused of something here from
Squirrel meet Henderson. What's that sounds like Max trying to
start a flight between Willie and Fitty.
Speaker 5 (41:10):
It's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
Yeah, guilty, sir, guilty. But it doesn't feel like I
need to, Like, I feel like there's already gasoline port
on it.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
You gotta say straw, No, Fitty, you can't be, you know,
going out for pastrami afterwards here on this whole thing.
Sometimes you try to make food deals out of there.
You put Flounder in his place on that college football argument.
Flounder and the only person in America that doesn't want
the second round games to be on campus.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
And we had two big knockdown, drag out fights last week.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
Yeah, did Drake May? Bryce want? I can't really help
you with someone Someone got dumped right off the air.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
Yeah, yeah, Flounder had to get dumped twice last week
off the air.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Flounder's impulse control still not there yet.
Speaker 5 (41:48):
Day after Christmas, man was stropping at Christmas?
Speaker 2 (41:51):
What time was that?
Speaker 5 (41:52):
Think?
Speaker 2 (41:53):
What time was that?
Speaker 8 (41:54):
At?
Speaker 5 (41:54):
About eight thirty?
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Oh that's funny. Is pretty good holiday?
Speaker 4 (41:58):
Have you?
Speaker 8 (41:59):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (41:59):
Yeah this too?
Speaker 3 (42:00):
He said it got ugly over Drake May. Yeah, I
can't I like Bryce I ain't fighting that one, fitty
on your own.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
I fought it, man. I was like John Snow in
the Battle of the Bastards from the Jets.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Did a good job holding Drake May and check yesterday
he was on pace for ten touchdowns, only got five.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Somebody said, who did Bryce have more passing yards than
Drake May touchdowns yesterday? Get out of here, get out here, sir.
I had him beat by forty nine, sir in that category.
All right, we got to get out of here. Oh,
this text was great. NFC sALS should get its own
playoff like the group of five that was.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
That was well played. Well, Twayne, that was well played.
Speaker 4 (42:38):
This dude could be stopped calling Bryce the reaper more
like Jekyll and Hyde. Okay, all right, not sure if
that's funny, but okay, I gotcha. Rachel apparently adopted a
cat and named it JJ Jansen.
Speaker 5 (42:50):
There you go, oh man, that he was spectacular.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
Yes, we gave JJ his standing ovation in the crowd yesterday,
did we, Fitty, Yeah, great hustle to first guy on
the field.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
He had formation of snaps for money yesterday. Man, money.
So I was a little nervous, that is he. I
get nervous going to games back then.
Speaker 4 (43:07):
I'm gonna be at attendance when one goes awrye and
it's gonna all come back to me. I'm afraid that
a snap out. And every time he snaps the ball,
my please god them you could, Yeah, you'll jinxing the
whole thing on your president A curb moment I'm getting
up with the ball somehow that he snaps a rye.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
All right, we gotta get out of here, y'all, but
I am I am exhaust. Everybody, have a happy New year.
We also got app State in the bowl game today.
We also got our Falcons playing tonight.
Speaker 6 (43:31):
Got it?
Speaker 3 (43:32):
That doesn't sound right. Falcons can help plus themselves to
raise up. All right, they're gonna get They're gonna lose
by forty, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
All Right, we're out of here, y'all. We'll talk to
y'all on football Friday.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
You better bring that panther enthusday ast and you better
shelf that negativity. And I don't know why I sound
like halcokin. All Right, we're out of here. Good work
out of the bone man. The fit dog Fitty is
here the next two days. He's got you the next
two mornings, y'all,
I do think you absolutely would rather face Carolina than
the Bucks.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The Bucks with.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Baker Mayfield, Let's say he does get hot and he
feels good, and he does have a game with a
healthy Mike Evans at Chris Godwent on the youth, you
get some of those pieces healthy. That is an offense
that could provide some problems that I don't think the
Carolina Panthers behalf there.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
You go, Danny Canel, when he's not playing the role
of acc man defending all things acc he kind of
annoys me. I gotta be honest with you, and I
believe you should sit this one out, Danny. I believe
you sit this one out. That is on CBS Sports HQ.
Thanks to a Texter for sending that because the TEXTA
said Mac. Apparently the national media doesn't agree with you
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guys that the Panthers are the better team than Tampa. Well,
Vegas doesn't either. Vegas has set Tampa as a three
point favorite. I feel like people are continuing to wait
bone for Tampa to turn back time and for the
Bucks to become that team bony that they were in
the four division title seasons. I don't think they're that
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team right now. And I don't want to tempt fate
too much and Matt curse this thing, but I just
think Tampa's defense stinks. And I think even when Baker
throws for yards like he did yesterday, he's going to
turn the ball over.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I just think they are so flawed. Also, there's nothing
sure they want to keep playing. The invincibility that and
the thoughts we had of Tampa are now gone like
that that team yesterday Mac showed me everything. They're trying
to play out to the end of the season. I
don't know if they've quit, if that's the right word,
but they just to snap their fingers and get it back.
(01:57):
Something is a miss there. I don't even know if
that he even wants to go to the postseason. The
Panthers need it, they want it. And if you thought
the Buccaneers were all of a sudden just gonna wake up,
yesterday kind of showed you. To lose to the Dolphins
with Quinn years, that's a problem for them.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
We lost to a team as thirteen to three we
walked about Super Bowl contender. I mean, just an elite
defense right gave it to us, And our offense has
to be able to actually handle. At some point in
our growth, we have to actually be able to hold
our own against an elite defense.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
That would be nice.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So I'm not saying that that's not embarrassing still, but
like we ain't getting that type of defense from Tampa
on Saturday. So now it's time to turn the page.
Bone we just mentioned, our lazy selves will be back
off taking holiday time off.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
And we will be back on Friday show.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
When we come back on Friday, I'm coming back in
this mother with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind. To quote
the Harballs, I'm telling you right now, I'm gonna be
so stoked. And I think Tampa is so ripe for
the picking. And I think the Panthers will show up,
the good Panthers will show up because you just said it.
I believe we are dying for a chance to play
in a game like this. I believe there are players
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in that Tampa. What'd you say?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Bucky Irving sent out a tweet or something he said that,
What did you say about?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
What was the Bucky Irving tweet?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
I don't know if I can describe it on the air.
You gotta go watch what he tweeted out. But he
was basically taking shots at Todd Bowles. Okay, like they
are done with that, dude, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I've quit on him. I don't think they like each other.
I don't think they like the coach. I've heard Todd
Bowles go off on his team. I think he I
don't think he likes his team. I just think they
would rather go to Aruba than the playoffs. So there
could be a balls movement here soon. So this brings
me balls movement.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Check your DM. I just sent it to the group.
See what their defense looks.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Like right now? Moment? All right? So huge.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
So here it is, y'all. Did yesterday's loss? We have vented,
we have talked about it. We've tried to figure out
why does this offense have these games with a complete
inability to get it downfield with this offense? Why is
this offense in the last four losses average under eleven
points a game?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Why can teams just completely stemy our offense?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Now the question has to be, did yesterday's frustrating loss
change the way you feel about Saturday at four point
thirty when we play in Tampa.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
No, because I think it's more yesterday's more of a
problem for Tampa than the Panthers, because Tampa was waiting
to try to get an opponent mack where they could
get their confidence back, and they go and lose to Miami.
The Panthers, yeah, wasn't a great performance, of course not,
but they can sit here and say, we lost to
a team that might go ahead and win this whole
entire thing. Tampa Bay sitting there watching tape a losing
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to quinn Ewers and the Dolphins. I think yesterday was
a much more deflating loss for Tampa and trying to
get their big moBack than it is the Panthers, because
the Panthers Mac have had these moments all year where
they've been up and down, up and down, up and down.
The Buccaneers they've been nothing. But now now outside of
one game for two months, they lose against Arizona and
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they almost lost that game. They exactly at one by three.
They've lost four straight games, seven of eight. In those
four straight games, the Panthers are the only non losing
record team that they have lost to in this streak.
So it's not like good I like they're playing good teams.
They are so gettable. If we don't win this game,
I'm gonna lose my mind next Monday. I'm fully convinced
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of that, because, yes, we still have grown. But this division,
Tampa is begging.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Us to take their throne.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
They are putting it there, They're putting a pillow on it,
and they even have a little booster for Bryce to
step up on to get on the throne, on the
pillow on top of the throne.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
They are begging us. They don't want the throne, they
are begging us to take it.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
And if we don't take it, we have screwed up
royally a great opportunity. But I just I think that
yesterday's game means nothing for Saturday. It has not shook
my confidence on Saturday at all. I didn't think we'd
win the game yesterday. Quite frankly, now, I thought we'd
lose by four. I didn't think we'd lose the way
we did. But how can you be a Panther fan
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and think Sunday's result has anything to do with next
week's result. We've literally watched them bone go over two
months since October, back and forth with wins and losses.
It doesn't mean anything. As a matter of fact, when
they do lay an egg. I don't know whether it
refocuses them. I don't know what it does. I don't
know if it fires this team up. But this team
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responds this. I like this team coming off a loss
like that. There's something about them. So the Panthers, I
hope it doesn't mess with fans. Confident Panthers are inconsistent.
The Buccaneers are consistently back.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
We used to be. That's a different test. That's a
good one.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
You said you're coming in like a wrecking ball on Friday. Oh,
I'm like Miley Cyrus, so we could say now we're
panthering up on Friday, right like that?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh did I sit my hand?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I'm gonna do something now that's gonna make people mad.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
No not Galore no.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
No no, no, no, no no, no shuttle.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Down bone or was worried for?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
So please tell me you're traveling to the game and
I'm ordering the championship bell right now to celebrate with
after after Saturday.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I got I'm ordering it right now.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Oh no, no, look at pix State Bo don't do
these sort of premature.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Added to the cart. I'm calling my shot. This will
be like messy A calling the cup. I have lost
all confidence in this order.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Say it's getting ordered right now.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Credit card gets to climb. You're gonna wear this song
on Monday next Monday. You're ordering this right now. I'm
ordering this right now. We got the belt.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
There it is. You got it? God, this is a
bad idea.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Bone when we pre playing, nothing goes good, Nothing goes good.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Nothing.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Hey, wi me in the eyes, Trust me on this.
When's the last time I'll let you know I.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Can't trust you today?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Is there any way we could get Dave here with
a real weapon in the Carolina Reaper outced Monny Chance
take care of By the way, I got.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
A problem with Smoking one yesterday. He sent you a
text that is trying to get me to leave the
stadium yesterday, right, the curse on the team?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Where were Smoke yesterday at the game?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Okay, so you think he was the curse just saying
Smoke though as his stats, Smoke said he is eleven
and six when intended he said, what's bones winning percentage? Well,
it's not good lately, but there's there's more on the
record than just lately. But Smoke, you were there too yesterday.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
We also got other stats from Smoke. How about this
guy's Carolina is seventeen and thirteen all time in the
final week of the regular season. Even better, Mac away
from the Bank Carolina thirteen and seven. Here's the only problem.
They have not won in Tampa Bay since twenty seventeen.
So we're good in this in this setting historically. But
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we got to win at a place we have at
one end almost a decade.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
I hope the field is wider in Tabas so XL
can figure out.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Just put a pitch of Gloria up in bows and
have them run at that target.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
The mental mistakes that they make is just that's the
that's the frustrating part of the time.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
It's just some of the basics.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
And it's a young team that's growing, but it's it's
Excel on the penalty yesterday. It's just it's those things
that your.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Mishel Smith Wade in New Orleans twice offside on a kick. Bro,
look at the ball, it's right there before he stabs it.
You stand on this side of it. But anyway, XCEL
got a warning for the ref. Canal has said still
didn't move.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
We're trying, if we're trying to talk good vibes about
this game on Saturdaybody else.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Says this opportunity. Ebody else says they order a six
XL bell for Fiddi. Oh ay, right man, that ain't right?
Seven four five, seven oh nine sixten. The game yesterday
was ugly offensively, but the defense sowd some grint Rico
seemed to be more effective four point nine yards of carry?
Can that be a precursor of what's going to happen
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this week?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Have you lost any confidence in our ability to dethron
Tampa based off the game yesterday? Chef says, suspend Bone
for a month if we lose on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Oh no, a month off? I pretty much have that.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Now.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Let's see, Oh no, oh no, don't make me go
home for a month and not talk to back and
don't make me talk to Fitty Dark called about or.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Willie on Wednesday. Jeff, No, I'm so terrified.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Jeff from Shelby says, I still can't get past the
fact that this discussion would be completely different. We beat
the Saints one time, Yeah, we're gonna look back at it.
If we don't take care of business against Tampa, we're
gonna look and I would contend Bone that yesterday, we
ran into a better team, right, I know, I know
if if j C doesn't have the face mask, we
get it back, and we just scored and we get
(10:25):
it back. But that dry bone, like it just felt
could we do that again? It just felt like we
were like yeah too yards and a cloud of turf,
a cloud of turf, Like I just, I just I don't.
I think we ran into a team that we were
better than, or that we were worse then. And honestly,
I think we're gonna, if we get in the playoffs anything,
(10:46):
run into.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
A team we're worse than. I just I think it's
part of the process. But the Saints games, it's like
you can't win one against them. So hopefully on Saturday,
not only do we win the division get in the playoffs,
but we can exercise those Saints demons and not have
us saying also, why couldn't we beat the Saints one
freaking time? It's the Saints game, and it's also week two.
Jacksonville now is a role win. So I look at
(11:07):
that and go, hey, you know, and Jacksonville's pretty good,
but Arizona also is one week two, right, think we
could have that game back again, we're beating areas.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
With the turnovers where we stopped them to play.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
We got back in the game, and it's like we
get Arizona back, because that's another one there where it's like,
that's so good.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Those three losses stink like Arizona, although I would attend
they were better than they've been later in the season.
They kind of they kind of gave up all on
the way, but Arizona and then the Saints. But look
at some of the losses we do have, Like we've
lost to two thirteen win teams. We've lost to New
England and Seattle, both with thirteen wins. We lost to
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a twelve win team in Jacksonville, who I promised everybody
the Monday after that game. I don't want to hear
that that team's some playoff team in the Macan this year.
And I know bald and then Buffalo they lost a
Heartbreakertster in a Philly great game, but they still got
eleven wins.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
We lost four half our games. Are the teams with eleven,
twelve or thirteen wins? Yeah, you know, but anyway, that
doesn't do us any good. If we don't beat a
team we should beat on on Saturday. What Vegas is
that some of the wins, like you know, Green Bay
and the Rams. Right, so they've they played a lot.
They played a lot of the best teams in the
league this year.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Let's say that they definitely have schedule hasn't change. They
played the and they played the Jets.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Also another another team that's just really just a force
a total tour to force. The schedule hasn't been easy,
but the division has been. Like that's another thing too,
This Bucks team, uh Ron brings up a point that's sobering,
but but legit, he says, Mac. Can you imagine the
frustration will feel if a Bucks team that had lost
(12:41):
uh seven games out of the last eight ends up
still winning the division? What a blown opportunity that would be. Yeah,
that one, that one would be tough to take. They're
doing everything they can bone like I said, to give
us a division. If we don't snag the opportunity, that's
gonna hurt.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Can we also hurt?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Also, just maybe say that the Bucks are just not
good at all? Because Mac, they beat Arizona by three, right, Well,
what how they got their record to be good?
Speaker 6 (13:06):
This year?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
They beat Atlanta by three in a rally to start
the year. They beat Houston, which now looks like a
great win. But they beat Houston by one. They beat
the Jets by two. What's not forget they won a
lot of close games. If those games go the other way,
we're looking at a team that might win four or
five games this year. They they won those games bothough
in fairness, we're seven and two and one score games.
(13:29):
It fits he misses a couple of lake kegs. But
we got six wins. I don't need. But no, there's
there's they they got by. They got by the the
skin of their of their chin chin, Harry chin, the
skin of their Harry chin chin. There early in the season,
they did have some good wins though, Seattle may Harry
chan Harry chin chin, Harry chin chin skin of the
(13:49):
what's the old you get by the you get by.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
The uh this dude says, anybody else can Vince excel
is daydreaming about eating possum instead of focusing on football.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
It's all possible. It is all possible. He could have
his head slammed up a possum's rear end for all
I know. I mean, it's frustrating, and I love the guy.
He's a likable kid and he has been through it.
He lost both parents. Somebody brought that up earlier. He
lost both parents five years ago. He lost his pops.
That was after losing his mom four years before that.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
But it's just like, just because you're a nice guy,
doesn't mean you're supposed to be the third receiver on
an NFL team.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Try to be a playoff team.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
And I really wonder if David Moore could be back
this week active and could take those snaps away from Excel.
I didn't think we get to that point. But he
catches from a veteran, I hope. So it's a couple.
And you know, Canals trusts him too, right, He's definitely
he's gonna throw his ball. He's gonna throw the ball
his way a little bit, definitely.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Seven oh four says that you guys are discounting the
Falcons factor. The dirty Birds can win us this division
even if we lose. Yeah, for people that don't know
this scenario really is crazy to think that is a possibility.
You talk about an NFC Southway to win the NFC
South Bone. The Panthers could lose next week to Tampa.
(15:09):
If Atlanta were to beat the Rams tonight. They're like
seven point dogs. They're a home against the Rams. And
if they were to beat New Orleans, who's hot as hell.
Don't look now, Tyler Schuck looks like a flatout bawler,
like a guy that is going to be a problem
for years, quite honestly.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
But anyway, if a Landa.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Could be the offensive Rookie of the year, now, yes,
I have a bad feeling to do anything yesterday, and
this guy goes with those were three buildings, he's bawling.
I have a feeling he may snag that award along
with those two games against us. But anyway, if Atlanta
wins out against the Rams and the Saints and we lose,
we still get in based off the three team divisional
tie at eight to nine and the tiebreaker, which is
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records of the three teams amongst each other, we would
have the best record.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
All we have to do back is trust Atlanta.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Right go wrong?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Here could go wrong? So do we even bother route?
I guess we got a root for Atlanta. I guess
is it going to all go to work out? And
then we have to make the Saints are going to
get us again for the third time. This year, it's
gonna come down to Atlanta. Yeah, yeah, that would be funny.
When we come back here on the Mac and Bone
Radio program on this non victory Monday weekend conclusions, we're
(16:17):
gonna recap a busy sports weekend, including the Hornets with
a big w during our time off, but they also
lose connum on the Way Sports RADIOFZ.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
What Kate said, you see his admiration for you, as
respect for you.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
How important is it to you to pour into these
guys just as men, not just as football players as well?
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Yeah, I mean that's my calling in life. I mean,
that's my purpose. I mean, I know everybody wants me
to win football games, but it's more about how I win.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
That's what matters to me more than anything.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
Always has, It's never been anything different, never will be.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
You know, it's my purpose in life.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
Glorified God, be a great husband and father, and to
use this platform of football and education to build great
men through this game that we love. That's my calling,
that's my purpose in life. That's never changed, never gonna change.
And man, we've been purpose driven for a long long time.
We want a bunch of games, bunch of championships. More
(17:38):
than most. We want a lot more than we've lost,
and we'll continue to win a lot more than we've lost.
But you know that's what it's all about to me.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
There you go, Dabo Sweeting after the penstripe.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Ball lost mind it not feisty red hot.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Knitney Lions, and then to seize on a four game
winning streak. But anyway, that was Dabo. Seems like he's
catching a little flak for that comment there not saying
it's not an outball too, you know what I mean?
Help young men, you know, develop into grown ass men
and great humans. Is he downplaying the winning part of
(18:16):
it a little bit too much?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Then?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Can I tell you back this what the state of
the stat I don't want to be say the works
many times in right here, but the state of the
Palmetto State football teams right now, it is one coach
and Shane Biemer that never wants to look back. It
only wants to look ahead and tell you how good
the team's going to be in the future. And one
coach and Dabbo that never walks ahead and wants to
always look back on what they did for the past decade.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
They are in two different worlds. Aren't they.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
One is always going forward, and one always has his
Wikipedia page out to tell you what he's done.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah. Does he have his resume right there in his
hands so he can just go into reading it.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
And by the way, we want a lot of championships here.
Let me tell you how many in a second I'm scrolling.
But anyway, Yeah, I don't know. I feel like you're
there to win. I feel like it's college football is
essentially another version of pro football now, and I feel like, unfortunately,
we could say what's happened to this world? But unfortunately, Bone,
(19:09):
I believe that your number one job is to win.
And if you don't do that, it doesn't matter if
you're molding men. You know what I'm saying. All these
colleges getting fired, twelve coaches getting fired in college football
by week eight, you think that's because they weren't molding
men exactly. By the way, it sounds like something you
say when you lost a lot of games. Some of these,
(19:30):
you know, some of these ballgames, Matt can be very entertaining.
It's almost like game to game dependent. Some are very entertaining.
Penn State Clemston does not fit in that category of
entertaining ball games. First of all, I know you're rooting
for your team in that game, so you're into it.
But it felt like that game took about seven hours
to play the others. You know what it felt that
game was what the offenses were so bad. I thought
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the Panthers offense was having an intersquad scrimmage.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
That's how bad that damn game was. Offensively, weekend for
you back and your teams. You're watching kid headt Penn State, Clemson,
and then Panther.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
You're not fired up to drunk through for a career high.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Your guy, what's your guy's name? Drunken, drunken, trunking noodle.
That's what they're gonna call me on New Year's Eve.
Actually noodle. Actually I'm not. I'm gonna have four beers
and pass out at eleven twenty. But anywayunk Meyer, drunken Meyer, Yeah,
career high and Myers your cookie guy. But the Clemson
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offense looked terrible. Clubnic didn't even average five yards to pass.
There's an ugly way to go out offensively for cad Man.
I feel for Kate and I'm not even sure, like,
does he have a career in the NFL.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
At all. I don't think so, how's he getting drafted?
The intern back has maybe the favorite to win the
Heisman first round draft.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Pick, he's very similar to Quinn You weers right, he's
gonna be in the CFL. Yours was also a guy
that we thought was gonna be a first run. There
was a lot of these guys. Where's the stock of
Nutsmeyer right now?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Hour?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You know, Drew Allers another one, where's his stock? There's
a lot of these guys that we think are short
things at quarterback before the College Seeds it starts, and
then by the end of it, it's like, Okay, I'm
not really sure about him.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Did justsee Lane Kiffin, by the way, show up to
do his endgame interview and leave during the game.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yeah, it's about right. Yeah, he's good at leaving while
things are still going on. By the way, what was
Lane Kiffin doing? This is weekend conclusion, so like, we'll
get to the Hornets win, we'll get to the con injury. Unfortunately,
we'll get to the college football playoff games, like we'll
just bounce around. But since you run up Lane Kiffin,
what was he doing? Like is that just a comedy
routine for social media or did he really do this?
(21:39):
Did you see what he did coming back from the
grocery store the other day?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I didn't see that.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
He carried his food home in the grocery store basket
and he gets home and he tells whoever was running
the camera phone, Yeah, why did you bring that home?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
They charge it for bags? To hell with that.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I just I just I just took it into the
basket and brought it here. I ain't paying for any bags.
It's like, oh, you just signed a contract worth forty
eight gazillion bazillion patrillion.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, you already stayed a lot of money on that.
Please tell me that was a bit.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
It had to be a bit. But anyway, all right,
So what else? So Clemson going back does a bad
end to a brutal season. Man, they're at a crossroads,
There's no doubt about it. Trying to see who this is?
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Is it melk Kiper? Someone still has club the number
five quarterback in the in the U Really in the draft?
Speaker 8 (22:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Really, I don't know. I saw people know who that is?
Questioning what roundy would be drafted? Would he be drafted on?
Trying to see who this is? It doesn't say on
the article, but there you I need you.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
To close out on the belt tab. You're not ordering
that damn thing. Close it out?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
What this thing? It's been ordered already.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Oh no, you could go wrong Bone ordering celebratory panther
stuff before the game.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
But by about this though, I know how Fitty operates. Fitty,
you want to wear that naked? You know, Ida it'll
be a little cold, but you know, I did you
have the belt Fitty covering? Good?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Please tell me that is going to be strategically placed. Please,
problem is they don't have one on the backside though.
But let's see. Oh, APP fans want a little love
bad Sir Lloyd wants a little love for APP Birmingham
Bull today against a conference rival that they've already played.
Body very odd, but Georgia Southern and APP it's always
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a good you know, Yeah, it's always a good grudge
match when those two plays.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
That game got in right because of academics and other
teams didn't want to play. So this is how they
ended up in Birmingham. Yeah, that's what ended up happening there.
With little love to the South Carolina game Cocks. We
talked about with North Sellers back for them. They also
get Dylan Stewart back and Nick Harbor back, So there
are three star players that a guy like Nick Harbor
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needs to keep elevating. But their three star players are
all back next year. In the falls, each one of
them was with the easier schedule to start the year,
so hopefully, maybe you know, without the expectations of this year,
they can maybe have a much better year next.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Listen, that's big for them.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I don't want to be a total wise ass here,
but last season each one of them was good for
one point three to three wins, so you choose to
be a clown to that.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Actually, sorry, game cut, Kevin was bragging about it.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
I'm like, keV, you.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Realize you need a lot more than that to win
in the SEC. That's a start, though, those three guys
won your four games, bro Skate. Nick Harper's another guy
to maybe be an athlete but not a football player.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
He just like with Excel. Another guy I wondered about
the difference might be not Sellers and Harbor. It might
be Kendall Bryle's opening things up a little more in
the passing game, and maybe you just get Harbor straight
down the field throwing some bato. I'll better go get
some big nasties in that portal. That offensive line needs
to be upgraded a million and gazillion percent. Man, it
really does. That's Fitty's dating strategy, by the way, going
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to get some big nasties.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
In the portal.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Why am I laughing? Why am I encourging your shenanigans?
By the way, chef who bashed you earlier says, in
fairness though, Bones the funniest guy on the show, So
there you go.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
He does like you, Bob wants to be suspended, but
I'll the funniest guy in the show. You don't want
to laugh for a month. You're gonna have to deal
with just fiddianized jokes.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
If we suspended mondays, If I get suspended from what
DVR day, it takes my spot.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
That laugh though, makes me feel funny. He laughs at
everything I could say, Hey, Dave, how you doing?
Speaker 8 (25:19):
He was?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
He just started, there you go, he was.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
I gotta tell you one, Dave. He was passing out
business card just to just as the reaper.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Right. I didn't know Days had a job. He does.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
He's got one down back. Hopefully you can keep one.
I feel bad for him, but that he ran out
of him too, Like, that's how popular the Reaper was, dude.
He was passing him out to so many ladies. It's
kind of like they thought they thought he said reefer.
He was the Carowiner reefer. So they're like, oh, what's
the guy have here, and they realized, Oh.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
It's a Reaper.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I'm telling y'all, it's amazing. Fitty should take notes. Is
amazing how many women will talk to you when you
cover your face up. It really is amazing what Dave accomplished.
What do you think about the college football playoff? Bone
before we talk about the Hornets and the good and
the bad from the weekend, because freaking CON's hurt now
the last damn thing we wanted to have happened.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
But what.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
What do you think about the playoffs?
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Like?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
What game are you.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Most interested in? Why I'm not saying we're not all
watching all four of them? Well what games kind of
got you to most? You know, jacked up?
Speaker 5 (26:16):
The one?
Speaker 4 (26:17):
I gotta tell you this, This foursome here, they're all
intriguing in their own way. I mean, my god, even
Oregon Texas Tech, who would probably be the least of
the four, but Texas Tech average is forty four points
a game against the speed of Oregon. That's gonna be
a They're all very intriguing to me. Bama Indiana has
a lot of juice based off of Bama's tradition versus
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Indiana now being in usually where Bama is. But it's
probably I would say Miami Ohio State probably the most injurgue,
although you can make a case for any of them,
but I think Miami Ohio State to me, probably has
the most intrigue acc angle the defensive angle. There's the
Miami as an underdog. Ohio State play a ton of
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tough games during the regular season. I think Miami Ohio
State to be probably and its first ball, which is interesting.
They are the that's the New Year's Eve game the
other three or tripleheader the next day. It's interesting because
that's the highest point spread. But I agree with you
one hundred percent, and I would like to introduce you
to a new persona for New Year's Eve. All right,
My wife says she didn't want to do that role
(27:21):
playing thing on New Year's Eve, but I'm sorry, honey,
I am going to role play as the football version
of kaneak Mac because it's.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
All about you.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's all about you, It's all about to you.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I'm attacking this game bone with Michael Irvin energy on
my couch on on.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Wednesday. Not quite that much energy.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
But I believe Miami has a chance to make this
an ugly defensive game, just like Indiana did when they
beat Ohio State. I think Julian Stayan has not played
many defenses as good as Miami, and when he did,
Indiana up thirteen easy points. I think Miami can make
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this a sloby knocker and be right there in the game.
I don't know if I have the guts to pick
them to win the game, but I think they're going
to be right there in the game.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I really do.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
Man.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Can I give you my game rankings of how I
think they're going to go in terms of interest level?
I think Miami Ohio State's won Bama Indiana for aforementioned
reasons too. I think Oregon Texas Tech is going to
be a really good game there. He was like a
coin flip. Ole Miss Georgia has potential to be good,
but eventually Mac does Ole. Miss feel the feel the
(28:34):
loss of kif fit and all they've gone through, and
I feel like Georgia, that to me could be Georgia
separating easily from Ole Miss. Georgia is so improved. I
know they played a good game the first time that one.
I agree. I think that's a double digit game. I
think that could be like thirty four to seventeen Georgia.
So are the other one single digit? I think Oregon
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Texas Tech's definitely single digit right like they feel pretty
even Organ's at two a half point fame.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I don't know about Alabama Indiana because remember how the
RUSS got these teams last year. Every team that had
a buy lost last year. Yeah, I just I still
don't think Alabama's that good? Really, am I I like?
But do they come in and I know they showed.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Some heart rallying on the road, but I still think
it's ty Simpson on his own without much run game
on offense.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
But do they it's weird to say this for Bama,
and you may disagree. Do they come in? Pressure free
a little bit? Though?
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Where Indiana is the favorite. The pressure somehow now on
Indiana and de bor it's not like he's leaving now
for Michigan. Kyle winning amore on that momentarily has that job. Now,
does Bama come in a little bit looser than they
normally would and Indiana kind of feels it a little bit?
Speaker 3 (29:47):
I think that game might be pretty close Indiana Rust
maybe yeah, you know, n C Buckeye says, please pick Miami.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
I'm not gonna do that, sir. Matter of fact, Buck
guys win a tough one. The Buckyes show their grit
North Carolina. Buck guy, I'm Darren Damn tam By the way,
Buck guy, what does it matter to you?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
You were good?
Speaker 3 (30:05):
If y'all advance, you're gonna play your wife's Georgia Bulldogs.
He's the one with the Georgia bulldog wife, right, Yes,
you're gonna play your wife's Georgia Bulldogs, and she will
talk so much trash to you when y'all take that.
Hell anyway, maybe you're better off just losing to a
team you wife done root for.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Maybe that'd be easier on you and your household. Buck guys,
this could be a bad start to the year for
uh NT Buckeye. Just com predicting stuff here. By the way,
mag what'd you think of Kyle Whittingham sixty six years
old just spent thirty one years in the Utah program,
is now the head man at Michigan. He's now a
Michigan man. I actually thought, based off of what they need,
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they need someone in there to sort of, you know,
create a culture there a little bit away from the
chaos that they've had. I actually thought that was a
great hire for Michigan. I thought that was the right
guy to sort of I think that's a good especially
considering how dire it looks, right. I thought it was
the right guy to kind of stabilize what they need.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
You know what. I kind of feel the same about
as I do about Penn State's Matt Campbell. Higher, good,
solid higher, considering how it looked like you were in trouble, right,
and maybe you'd end up.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
For example, bif Pogy nice guy.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
I don't want to be too mean to him, but
bif Pogy was openly lobbying for that job, and I
started to wonder if he was gonna get the job,
Like to get a guy who's accomplished his winning hand, Like, yeah,
I think that's pretty damn solid.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
N C.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Buckeye says his wife will be watching that game outside. Oh, sir, sir,
you may not. The Reaper may visit you, sir, if
you try to pull that one.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Yeah, n C Buck guy, you might be watching that
game out the doghouse and not the one WFND sponsor.
I'm trying to think Bone of what would happen to
me if I told my wife she will have to
be outside for three and a half hours.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
I'm trying to that's not how it works, Bony. I
don't know about everybody else's household. Now, she can send
me out there, but I'm not sure it works that way.
This dude says, Max said, we're gonna talk about the Hornets.
Are we supposed to be happy because the Hornets are
actually playing good basketball? Or he's supposed to be sobbing
because Conn even conk Nipple is prone to the Hornets
(32:07):
injury bug. Maybe a little bit of both, although the
con thing doesn't seem that bad when like when Charles
Lee says he's lobbying to practice over the weekend, Like,
I get the feeling it's a not that severe b
Like this kid ain't gonna milk an injury. You get there,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Like you get the feeling this is the type of
guy that like will die to play in any game
he can play in. I don't think he needs ankles
the way he plays, He's not really jumping a whole lot,
you know, so you can move around a little bit.
I think Conn will be back relatively said, Yeah, I
don't think he's good. He's out tonight, but I don't
think he's gonna miss Hi much. The positive is, and
you said it earlier, They've got they've got some They're
playing some decent basketball, Like even a thirteen game sample,
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they're seven and six in the last thirteen.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
There's there's something happening over there. Yeah, I'm not saying.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Bonets to the level of the Panthers, or the Panthers
are playing for a division, but something's happening.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
And you you share this stat with us.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
The Panthers have a one thirty net rating one hundred
thirty points per one hundred possessions. Which hornets, hornet hornets?
How many times have I just misspoked like today like fifteen?
Speaker 2 (33:11):
You know, you know I'm gonna say something more than usual,
which is a lie. I'm yall, I'm rusting. I think
you need a day off.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
I do, Matt Fau, I'm gonna take three days off, y'all.
I'll talk to you on Friday. I wasn't trying to
be that guy, but I want to make sure people work.
Conshut By by the Panther's net rating on offense, it's
all good. So there's net rating is nothing. It's definitely
not one hundred and thirty something. So anyway they are
and their their net numbers are plus fourteen per one
hundred possession. When Con here's some trying to say I'm
(33:38):
trying to get to this thing, Kant, when con Mellow
and Miller on the court altogether, you're starting to see it.
You're starting to see it now. Then the guy we
didn't think we get hurt goes a kids hurt. So
you just got to shake your head at it. But
I think he'll be back sooner rather than later. Musa
continues to be a guy that helps you win. It
would be nice if we get one of the other
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centers back here at some point. He's so indersized and
Tjan Salon we talked about in the first half.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I find the guy's improvement, like he's doing what we
want Excel to do, like you know what I mean,
Like Xcel's role as a receiver, and like he ain't
cooking Solon. You see him coming together as a player.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
You really do.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Man, he's got seven turnovers in December, the whole month
he's been back. Think about the way he played before.
He'd have that in like eight minutes. So he's got
seven turnovers in the man zero point nine in a
game he started to figure it out just turn twenty.
By the way, he's not even that deep into his
his twentieth year of life. So think about where he
could be twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, and the
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way he's coming along there. Mag I kind of hope Con.
I don't want to rush him, but that'd be really
cool if Con is back by Wednesday, because he plays
against Steph Curry, so that would be the two bit
shooters in the league right now. That'd be a really
fun Mattene game. And then I want to see Con
hit one in Steph's eye and say I'm coming for
your record.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Then I want to see then I want to see
Draymond Green get Matten and leave the court. The other day.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
You've got a I would say one in about one
and two percent chance that occurs.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Draymond and Musa could have a run in Mussa want
to energy? Oh, Draymond a Salon too.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Draymond's got patience for Salon's French frenzy.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Oh he doesn't. He doesn't like the French based off
Go Beart's but the path with Go Bear. When we
come back weekend conclusions, we'll try to get back back
on Track Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
The the Well, Jake Paul, who is the guy I fought?
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (35:47):
And Anthony Joshua.
Speaker 8 (35:48):
Anthony Joshua, you got when you go to a fight
like that, you got to be very careful about where
you eat breakfast the next morning, because you can It
can leave you ill and give you difficulty in reaching
the locals where you are scheduled to be. But I digress,
(36:08):
speaking of locals where people might need to be.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Is that a false narrative? Fore you're perpetuating a false narrative.
Speaker 8 (36:15):
I'm just saying. I just wondered, is that what the
kids are calling at these days? Bed breakfast?
Speaker 6 (36:20):
Anyway? What's we're cast dispersions anywhere?
Speaker 2 (36:25):
That is for those are followed closely, you'll be able to.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
There's the voice of Ryese Davis talking about Johnny Manziel
I don't know if he's doing back there. That is
Reese Davis on Johnny Manzel missing college game. That's the
New York Butcher Shop cut of the day. Check them
out at Ny Butcher Wine Bar Instagram. Multiple locations in
the area of Fort Mill, indian Land. Cornelias Dilworth also
opened very very soon in Belma and opening carry as well.
(36:53):
Mag Reice Davis A little sassy there, boy, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
I like it. So that's Johnny's story. By the way,
I did not realize that he was at the Jake
Paul Anthony Joshua fight Bony the night before he was
supposed to be a game day for the Texas A
and M playoff game. They had to have Alex Caruso
of Oka see pinch hit another Texas A and M
man pinch hit for him on the spot. But I
didn't realize that he was at that fight and that
(37:17):
his story was that he had something that didn't agree
with him in practice.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Bro show me somebody that believes.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
That Johnny Football was not hungover and that wasn't the
reason he meant and I will show you a total
gullible buffoon.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Do you know what else Mac didn't agree with Johnny Manziel.
Professional football so true for some of the same reasons.
I have a feeling yes anyway, get him, reskin him.
That's Reees Davis on his podcast Don't Cross You said
during the break Reese has a little sassiness to him.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Mac, Who's that? Remind you of what reetz? Get sassy?
Speaker 3 (37:51):
The King of sass though at ESPN is Kirk Curve Street.
Though Kirk Curve Street is the king, he's the sassiest
of all the Sassars.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
He's even sassier than Macki Sasser former New York met Catcher.
That's not that funny at all. I didn't know where
that was going. See maybe bonus the funniest guy on
the show. That was about his accurate as one of
you should have said last seme, but you need a
day off. I think you need three peop Yeah, I've
got y'all. Well, let me take a few days off.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Man. My game is gonna be better on front tomorrow.
Guess what.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Fitty's gonna defend the honor of the Panthers against that
dastardly willy b Do you.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
What are you gonna do? Do you?
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Are you anticipating when you host with Willy tomorrow? Are
you because he was very negative yesterday, very beaten down.
Don't make a lunch date out of this. Sometimes sometimes
you make lunch dates out of it. He acted like
he thought the team was two and fifteen instead of
eight to eight. With a game coming up this weekend
for the for the division title, are you anticipating a
very feisty negative Willy Because if so, you gotta you
(38:47):
gotta punch back fitty.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
I mean, I hope not. He's sitting like a paragraph
talking about why he is the way that he is
in post game, but when he joins on Wednesdays, he's
a lot more reflective, has more time. I'm in thought.
I mean, look, it's it's okay to be disappointed and frustrated.
I was mad as hell yesterday. We still have everything
we want in front of us. Let's let's focus on that.
(39:10):
Let's put this game behind us. So hopefully not. I mean,
I love working with Willie. He's my favorite, uh you know,
he's my favorite guest host to work with.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Bone.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
I just hope it gets real ugly. I hope we
have some clips to play on Friday when.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
We come back. I'll say this about you, you will
be there in spirit.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Man.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
You need as you get you give us a call tomorrow.
We'll be here if you need us. I'll say this
about the P Man. It was when you call one
on vacation guy et. Yeah, definitely make sure bone's the
first call. I the P Man went after some j C.
Horn haters though, I mean he it was like Kojoe Man,
I know that's an old person's reference as an old
Stephen King movie by a crazy.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Dog former NHL goaltender. He went off.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
He went off after formal Timothy's call, hating on JC
Horn call him a liability.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
So the attack dog P Man got after it. Good.
But it's I did the whole a lot of the call.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Two.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
We're acting like it was a December game and we
just dropped it two and fourteen, like we got to
get our heads on straight.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Baby. It is there.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
The division title is there for us. I may have
to check out Tampa radio today too. What's going on
down there to Youah, you're gonna do a little scouting,
little little scout. They gotta be miserable as hell.
Speaker 6 (40:15):
Man.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
What is miserab they do? What is weather man? Mark
apologizing for what do you do yesterday? I don't know.
He's apologizing for the way he treated Willie yesterday? And
what is the weather man? Mark? Did you know? If
any I just want to apologize to Willie pet What
did he do? Well? Weather Man Marco will set a
little Mackey staffer to him, due don't Yeah, he does,
he does.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
He would giving you the business about taking days off
over the holiday. He was upset all the day after Christmas.
Now we still weren't on yet. All right, let's read
some of these texts here. Oh, we do need to
mention tonight in the World sports a Hornet's hosting Giannis
and the Bucks tonight. Unfortunately no con no Culch Brenner
or Mason Plumley still as well, But you do have
Lamello Miller and uh my man T John. I'm a
complete t Jon convert. Now, baby, are you gonna call
(40:55):
French still?
Speaker 6 (40:56):
Kit?
Speaker 3 (40:56):
I might have to might I might have to start
comparing him to the honest they play each other tonight.
I might have to do a Sam Farmer, start comparing
to me.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
Be honest, man, you're being accused of something here from
Squirrel meet Henderson. What's that sounds like Max trying to
start a flight between Willie and Fitty.
Speaker 5 (41:10):
It's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
Yeah, guilty, sir, guilty. But it doesn't feel like I
need to, Like, I feel like there's already gasoline port
on it.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
You gotta say straw, No, Fitty, you can't be, you know,
going out for pastrami afterwards here on this whole thing.
Sometimes you try to make food deals out of there.
You put Flounder in his place on that college football argument.
Flounder and the only person in America that doesn't want
the second round games to be on campus.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
And we had two big knockdown, drag out fights last week.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
Yeah, did Drake May? Bryce want? I can't really help
you with someone Someone got dumped right off the air.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
Yeah, yeah, Flounder had to get dumped twice last week
off the air.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Flounder's impulse control still not there yet.
Speaker 5 (41:48):
Day after Christmas, man was stropping at Christmas?
Speaker 2 (41:51):
What time was that?
Speaker 5 (41:52):
Think?
Speaker 2 (41:53):
What time was that?
Speaker 8 (41:54):
At?
Speaker 5 (41:54):
About eight thirty?
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Oh that's funny. Is pretty good holiday?
Speaker 4 (41:58):
Have you?
Speaker 8 (41:59):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (41:59):
Yeah this too?
Speaker 3 (42:00):
He said it got ugly over Drake May. Yeah, I
can't I like Bryce I ain't fighting that one, fitty
on your own.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
I fought it, man. I was like John Snow in
the Battle of the Bastards from the Jets.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Did a good job holding Drake May and check yesterday
he was on pace for ten touchdowns, only got five.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Somebody said, who did Bryce have more passing yards than
Drake May touchdowns yesterday? Get out of here, get out here, sir.
I had him beat by forty nine, sir in that category.
All right, we got to get out of here. Oh,
this text was great. NFC sALS should get its own
playoff like the group of five that was.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
That was well played. Well, Twayne, that was well played.
Speaker 4 (42:38):
This dude could be stopped calling Bryce the reaper more
like Jekyll and Hyde. Okay, all right, not sure if
that's funny, but okay, I gotcha. Rachel apparently adopted a
cat and named it JJ Jansen.
Speaker 5 (42:50):
There you go, oh man, that he was spectacular.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
Yes, we gave JJ his standing ovation in the crowd yesterday,
did we, Fitty, Yeah, great hustle to first guy on
the field.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
He had formation of snaps for money yesterday. Man, money.
So I was a little nervous, that is he. I
get nervous going to games back then.
Speaker 4 (43:07):
I'm gonna be at attendance when one goes awrye and
it's gonna all come back to me. I'm afraid that
a snap out. And every time he snaps the ball,
my please god them you could, Yeah, you'll jinxing the
whole thing on your president A curb moment I'm getting
up with the ball somehow that he snaps a rye.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
All right, we gotta get out of here, y'all, but
I am I am exhaust. Everybody, have a happy New year.
We also got app State in the bowl game today.
We also got our Falcons playing tonight.
Speaker 6 (43:31):
Got it?
Speaker 3 (43:32):
That doesn't sound right. Falcons can help plus themselves to
raise up. All right, they're gonna get They're gonna lose
by forty, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
All Right, we're out of here, y'all. We'll talk to
y'all on football Friday.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
You better bring that panther enthusday ast and you better
shelf that negativity. And I don't know why I sound
like halcokin. All Right, we're out of here. Good work
out of the bone man. The fit dog Fitty is
here the next two days. He's got you the next
two mornings, y'all,
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