WEBVTT - Mac & Bone Hour 4: Hornets Morale 0:00:13.700 --> 0:00:19.669 Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ this music was playing loud and 0:00:19.730 --> 0:00:23.540 proud on Saturday as the Heels got it done. 0:00:25.030 --> 0:00:26.029 Got a little scary there. 0:00:26.070 --> 0:00:26.590 Got a little. 0:00:26.430 --> 0:00:29.390 Dicey for the heels after they blow the 17-point lead. 0:00:29.750 --> 0:00:33.500 But they rally with a great clutch late drive. And 0:00:33.540 --> 0:00:36.520 they get the dub. They get the victory bell. And 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:40.660 little Billy has beaten Duke. And Bone is very happy 0:00:40.700 --> 0:00:41.680 for Bill Belichick. 0:00:41.820 --> 0:00:44.229 I'm having a signal problem over here on the other 0:00:44.270 --> 0:00:44.990 side of the room. 0:00:46.590 --> 0:00:48.870 Bone's been dreading this conversation all week. 0:00:48.909 --> 0:00:50.769 How about you talk to Jones and I talk to 0:00:50.790 --> 0:00:52.709 the guy that called me a baked potato on Twitter? 0:00:52.729 --> 0:00:52.830 Yeah. 0:00:52.909 --> 0:00:54.389 You deal with that guy it seems like you're into 0:00:54.430 --> 0:00:56.840 a nasty feud there on social media like that's like 0:00:57.050 --> 0:01:00.120 uh uh not a compliment who doesn't love big potatoes 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.900 let's bring in jones angel who i think has probably 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.760 been looking forward more to this conversation than you bone 0:01:06.180 --> 0:01:08.740 as we talk about the heels beating duke and now 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:10.780 trying to go to five and two with a game 0:01:10.819 --> 0:01:13.700 against the cuse at home jones angel voice of the 0:01:13.740 --> 0:01:16.360 tar heels jones i'm guessing that was a fun one 0:01:16.380 --> 0:01:18.750 to call on saturday It. 0:01:18.709 --> 0:01:20.810 Was a fun one for sure. I've had this circled 0:01:20.850 --> 0:01:23.670 all week, Bone. I'm ready for this conversation. I'm excited 0:01:23.730 --> 0:01:27.840 for it. No, it was a great win for Carolina. 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:32.950 You know, the game itself, I think, it shows both 0:01:33.010 --> 0:01:36.240 the good for Carolina and kind of where The Tar 0:01:36.260 --> 0:01:39.380 Heels still need to go. Had such a great start 0:01:39.420 --> 0:01:44.200 to the contest, led 17-0, as you referenced, 17-7 at halftime. 0:01:45.380 --> 0:01:47.660 But then, to Duke's credit, Blue Devils played a lot 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.680 better in the second half, took advantage of a handful 0:01:50.740 --> 0:01:52.520 of Tar Heel mistakes, and then all of a sudden 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.760 it was 20-17 with four and a half minutes to go. 0:01:55.860 --> 0:01:59.160 And so for Carolina to answer again like the Heels 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.680 have done a couple of times now, with some key 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.930 plays down the stretch to get the win, I think 0:02:05.330 --> 0:02:08.790 was impressive. Now, it also shows you that this team 0:02:08.830 --> 0:02:11.870 has still struggled a little bit to find that consistency. 0:02:12.490 --> 0:02:15.310 I think you can go through almost every game outside 0:02:15.340 --> 0:02:19.190 of the East Tennessee State game And you can go, man, 0:02:19.210 --> 0:02:21.400 there were some great stretches of play, and then there 0:02:21.410 --> 0:02:23.459 were some stretches of play that the Heels would like 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:27.040 to have back. And so you hadn't really seen 60 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.480 full minutes yet, even in a win, again, outside of 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.720 an FCS opponent. And so the Tar Heels would like 0:02:33.740 --> 0:02:36.500 to continue on that path to gain that consistency. But 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.940 absolutely nothing bad about the Heels getting that big win 0:02:40.020 --> 0:02:42.660 and being 4-2 and feel really good about what they've 0:02:42.690 --> 0:02:44.510 done through the first half of the season. 0:02:45.350 --> 0:02:48.239 Jones, first of all, good morning, Jones. I asked you 0:02:48.300 --> 0:02:52.020 about Jordan Shipp last week and his leadership, what he means. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:56.160 What about Jelani Thurman and his role and what he's 0:02:56.220 --> 0:02:57.739 done for this year's offense this year? 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.799 Well, let me say one thing about Jordan. I thought 0:03:01.820 --> 0:03:05.900 you saw some of the leadership aspect of him because 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:07.639 he had a mistake in this game. He had that 0:03:07.700 --> 0:03:09.970 fumble that dude picked up and ran in for a 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.090 touchdown yesterday. that really got Duke kind of back in 0:03:13.130 --> 0:03:15.070 the neighborhood of the game when it looked like the 0:03:15.130 --> 0:03:17.680 Tar Heels might run away with this thing. And you 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:21.739 saw Shipp immediately, you know, take accountability for it. And 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:25.800 sometimes leaders, that's leadership. When you say, look, hey, I 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.120 did something. I know that was a screw-up on my part. 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.430 I own it. Now I'm going to fix it. Let's 0:03:30.500 --> 0:03:32.669 all move forward, and I'm going to help us get 0:03:32.690 --> 0:03:35.110 it back. And I think that's part of leadership, too. 0:03:35.710 --> 0:03:38.670 But to better answer your question about Thurman, he's just 0:03:38.750 --> 0:03:42.690 such a– He's just such a mismatch at that position. 0:03:42.770 --> 0:03:45.910 He is one of those tight ends that has good size. 0:03:45.970 --> 0:03:49.710 His improvement in the blocking side of things has been 0:03:49.730 --> 0:03:54.220 pretty dramatic. But he is just such a physical, difficult 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:58.380 matchup for the other team. He's too fast for a 0:03:58.420 --> 0:04:01.720 lot of linebackers. He's too physical for a lot of safeties. 0:04:02.300 --> 0:04:06.060 And we know that Bill Belichick, number one, has had 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.320 some great tight ends through his career in football. So 0:04:09.380 --> 0:04:11.800 he has a pretty good idea how to use guys 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.860 like that. And Bobby Petrino has done a really good 0:04:14.900 --> 0:04:19.020 job in finding ways to get Thurman open and finding 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.580 ways to get him mismatches within the game. Now, he 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.220 didn't have his biggest game of the season. against Duke, 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.940 but he did have that huge fourth down catch on 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.530 the final drive that allowed that drive to continue and 0:04:30.570 --> 0:04:34.390 Carolina to eventually score a touchdown. So Thurman's been a 0:04:34.510 --> 0:04:37.730 huge part of what Carolina's doing and I would assume 0:04:37.810 --> 0:04:39.680 would continue to be a huge part of what they 0:04:39.690 --> 0:04:41.080 do the back half of the year. 0:04:41.830 --> 0:04:43.909 We're talking to Jones Angel, voice of the Tar Heels 0:04:43.950 --> 0:04:47.530 on the Tar Heel Radio Network. They play 7.30 on 0:04:47.990 --> 0:04:50.510 Saturday night, so 6.30 they'll be on the air on 0:04:50.540 --> 0:04:54.880 the Heels Radio Network, which are one of their affiliates 0:04:54.900 --> 0:04:57.960 here in Charlotte, down the hall, our sister station, WBT, 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.200 if you want to tune in. What do you think 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:05.740 about this team moving forward, Jones? As you were saying, 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.900 there does feel like... you know, this team does have 0:05:08.940 --> 0:05:11.030 its limitations, right? I guess is the way I would 0:05:11.070 --> 0:05:15.630 put it, but you know, they found a way to win, 0:05:15.910 --> 0:05:18.230 you know, two games in a row that were there 0:05:18.370 --> 0:05:21.609 in the balance and you can see the culture and 0:05:21.630 --> 0:05:24.630 the vibes are improving. Like, what do you think this 0:05:24.710 --> 0:05:27.589 team is, is capable of moving forward? 0:05:29.010 --> 0:05:29.170 Yeah. 0:05:29.190 --> 0:05:31.150 I mean, I think if you look at, and you know, 0:05:31.180 --> 0:05:33.700 dangerous to do when there's still such a long way 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.400 to go, but if you look at these six games 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.820 in total, uh, And certainly Miami next weekend is going 0:05:38.850 --> 0:05:41.089 to be a heavy favorite against Carolina. They're the number 0:05:41.150 --> 0:05:43.280 one team in the country. They've had a terrific year. 0:05:44.230 --> 0:05:48.890 I think every other game is going to be almost 0:05:48.970 --> 0:05:53.680 a toss-up, including this week against Syracuse, where the Tar 0:05:53.690 --> 0:05:55.860 Heels might be a little better in some areas, the 0:05:55.900 --> 0:05:58.740 opposition might be a little better in some areas, but 0:05:58.779 --> 0:06:03.160 there's not this dramatic difference between the Tar Heels and 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.060 any team that they play, again, outside of Miami, who 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.120 I do think has proven to be one of the 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.930 best teams in the country. So it comes down to 0:06:10.970 --> 0:06:14.029 the same stuff that Carolina's been talking about all year, 0:06:14.089 --> 0:06:17.710 and that's continuing to try to gain that consistency, continuing 0:06:17.730 --> 0:06:20.969 to play good, solid defense, try not to hurt yourself. 0:06:21.110 --> 0:06:24.030 I think Carolina has done that pretty well this past 0:06:24.050 --> 0:06:27.380 game against Duke. I thought it was one of the games, honestly, 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.940 that the Tar Heels made the most mistakes with a 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.800 couple of turnovers. They had that really strange play where 0:06:32.820 --> 0:06:34.919 they had the backup punter just straight up drop a 0:06:34.940 --> 0:06:38.240 snap in the fourth quarter. But they were able to 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.290 overcome all that. And I think, guys, that's one of 0:06:41.330 --> 0:06:44.740 maybe the best qualities of this team. And you talked 0:06:44.770 --> 0:06:48.909 about the culture, the vibe. is that the Tar Heels 0:06:48.930 --> 0:06:54.060 just keep playing, whether it's good, whether it's bad, whatever's happened, 0:06:54.420 --> 0:06:57.380 they just keep playing. And I think that's been one 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.780 of the real almost endearing parts about this team is 0:07:00.820 --> 0:07:04.159 that you can tell that they just keep going. And 0:07:04.220 --> 0:07:06.580 it's not always perfect, and they don't do everything right. 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:11.240 but that doesn't automatically eliminate them from the game. And 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.380 so I think that's been fun to watch is just 0:07:14.420 --> 0:07:18.290 their kind of dogged determination within the game to keep 0:07:18.350 --> 0:07:22.230 playing and try to keep advancing. And so I think 0:07:22.270 --> 0:07:24.590 that's been fun, and hopefully you continue to see that 0:07:24.890 --> 0:07:26.050 through the back half of the season. 0:07:26.670 --> 0:07:29.960 Jones, what do you think of the 2014 playoffs starting 0:07:30.100 --> 0:07:32.540 in 2027 as it pertains to the. 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:33.160 Heels' future? 0:07:35.020 --> 0:07:38.010 Yeah, that's such a complicated topic, right? I'm sure you 0:07:38.050 --> 0:07:39.890 guys have talked about it a bunch here over the 0:07:39.930 --> 0:07:43.310 last two weeks or so. I will say this, for 0:07:43.350 --> 0:07:48.470 a team like North Carolina, which has knocked on the 0:07:48.510 --> 0:07:51.470 door of the playoff a few times, that has knocked 0:07:51.530 --> 0:07:55.640 on the door of being in that conversation, expanding it 0:07:55.720 --> 0:08:01.400 certainly gives them a larger opportunity to be into that event. 0:08:02.370 --> 0:08:05.630 So I think from that angle, there is some excitement there, 0:08:05.950 --> 0:08:10.250 but I do think there's just so much more about this. 0:08:10.710 --> 0:08:14.940 There's the, yeah. How do you manage the regular season? Yeah. 0:08:15.340 --> 0:08:17.760 Do you really want teams that maybe have, you know, 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:21.300 go eight and four, you know, do they deserve to 0:08:21.340 --> 0:08:25.380 be in a playoff to, to win a national championship? It's, 0:08:25.540 --> 0:08:28.500 I know everybody uses the basketball tournament as an example, 0:08:28.580 --> 0:08:31.650 but guys, you know, this is, If number one plays number, 0:08:31.890 --> 0:08:35.880 let's say, 25 in basketball, number one's going to win 0:08:35.940 --> 0:08:40.260 more often. But it's going to be 80% of the time, 75% 0:08:40.260 --> 0:08:44.420 of the time, whatever. In football, if number one plays 0:08:44.460 --> 0:08:49.510 number 25, number one's going to win over 90% of 0:08:49.530 --> 0:08:52.530 the time. It's just the nature of the game. There 0:08:52.550 --> 0:08:55.390 are fewer upsets in football, I think, than any other 0:08:55.550 --> 0:09:00.219 sport because of the physicality. And so there's just a 0:09:00.380 --> 0:09:03.120 lot of questions about adding this many teams. Are you 0:09:03.179 --> 0:09:07.099 actually adding teams that can win the tournament that can 0:09:07.140 --> 0:09:09.580 win the title? Or are you just adding teams so 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.459 they can say they made it so that they can 0:09:11.500 --> 0:09:14.850 say that their investment has been worth it because they 0:09:14.950 --> 0:09:18.030 were the 22 seed in the, in the tournament. So 0:09:18.770 --> 0:09:22.390 I think on one hand it was, And when you're 0:09:22.490 --> 0:09:24.429 in it, maybe you feel differently where it's like, man, 0:09:24.470 --> 0:09:26.190 all right, you're playing. If you win this game, you 0:09:26.210 --> 0:09:28.330 get a playoff spot. And I'm sure that would be 0:09:28.390 --> 0:09:30.880 exciting when you're in that moment. But I do think 0:09:30.910 --> 0:09:34.559 there's some kind of global overarching questions to think about 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.760 as you look at this and see where everything goes 0:09:37.820 --> 0:09:38.380 moving forward. 0:09:38.980 --> 0:09:41.080 Jones, that was a good, honest answer from Jones. 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:42.900 Jones, you could have easily just said, hey, it would 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.280 help the heels. Let's do it. You know, let's do it. 0:09:45.660 --> 0:09:47.020 I mean, I do think it would help the heels. 0:09:47.260 --> 0:09:50.740 I mean, I think... Like Carolina has plenty of times 0:09:50.980 --> 0:09:54.010 lived in that 15 to 25 kind of ranking. Right. 0:09:54.390 --> 0:09:56.390 And where you've had a good year, but but you 0:09:56.429 --> 0:10:00.200 hadn't quite been good enough. And so there've been plenty 0:10:00.220 --> 0:10:04.280 of times, I mean, even back in 2023, certainly 2015, 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.010 you know, some years here in the last 10 years 0:10:06.070 --> 0:10:08.450 or so where Carolina would have definitely been a playoff 0:10:08.490 --> 0:10:12.610 team and, in this particular format. And so, I don't know. 0:10:12.630 --> 0:10:14.910 It's just a complicated issue, guys. A lot of different 0:10:14.950 --> 0:10:15.590 aspects to it. 0:10:15.610 --> 0:10:16.670 I think you nailed it, though. 0:10:16.690 --> 0:10:18.750 It's like you have these boosters being asked for more 0:10:18.770 --> 0:10:21.640 and more money for players, and I think they want 0:10:21.660 --> 0:10:23.699 to be able to tell him, like at schools across 0:10:23.740 --> 0:10:27.140 the country more often, hey, boosters, look where your money went. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:27.820 We're in the playoff. 0:10:28.140 --> 0:10:31.120 You know? But I, but I do wonder at some point, 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.870 does it wear off bone where boosters are like, yeah, 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:35.829 you made the playoff through two times in the last 0:10:35.870 --> 0:10:38.569 four years, but you lost by 25 and you were 0:10:38.610 --> 0:10:41.590 like the 22 seed, like Jones said, you know what 0:10:41.650 --> 0:10:41.810 I mean? 0:10:41.870 --> 0:10:45.330 So anyway, it's going to be fascinating watching moving forward. Jones, 0:10:45.550 --> 0:10:47.210 thanks for coming on, man. Everybody. 0:10:47.710 --> 0:10:50.329 If you're a heels fan, you know, the routine, turn 0:10:50.350 --> 0:10:52.770 the sound down on your TV, turn it up for Jones. 0:10:53.150 --> 0:10:56.699 and the crew Saturday night, 7.30 game against the Cuse. 0:10:56.780 --> 0:10:58.429 Thank you, Jones. We'll talk to you next week. 0:10:59.530 --> 0:11:01.010 Thanks, guys. Always enjoy the time. 0:11:01.410 --> 0:11:01.610 All right. 0:11:01.630 --> 0:11:01.950 There you go. 0:11:01.970 --> 0:11:04.449 That is Jones Angel, voice of the heels. So I 0:11:04.490 --> 0:11:07.490 wanted to ask you about this, Fitty, because we were 0:11:07.550 --> 0:11:09.890 talking about it in the side studio. We do our 0:11:09.929 --> 0:11:12.710 best work after the show. We also do some work. 0:11:12.730 --> 0:11:14.929 In a broom closet. We also do this pretty much 0:11:14.950 --> 0:11:16.590 a closet. But we all hang out. 0:11:16.630 --> 0:11:18.770 We BS. There's a slight bit of work bone that 0:11:18.809 --> 0:11:19.770 goes in after the show. 0:11:20.670 --> 0:11:22.460 It would also have to be very censored if we 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.780 were trying to replay it on the air because we 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:25.220 let loose. 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.180 But anyway. Fitty's in there. Yes, true. 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.130 Fitty really goes Fitty in that room, doesn't he? 0:11:29.460 --> 0:11:34.240 You get the full fit experience. But we were talking 0:11:34.260 --> 0:11:37.300 about this fit. Let's say Carolina wins this week or 0:11:37.340 --> 0:11:39.060 seven point favorite against the Q. So I'm not going 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.940 to act like it's a given, but they're favored to win. 0:11:41.980 --> 0:11:46.350 So if they win Saturday night, we already know they're 0:11:46.370 --> 0:11:50.290 playing 730 next Saturday, Halloween night against Miami. 0:11:50.370 --> 0:11:50.670 Right. 0:11:50.770 --> 0:11:50.949 Fit. 0:11:52.350 --> 0:11:54.790 Correct. So we just don't know, is it ESPN? Are 0:11:54.830 --> 0:11:56.530 they actually going to put it on ABC and make 0:11:56.570 --> 0:11:59.290 it the big ABC game? Do they have a shot 0:11:59.330 --> 0:12:02.910 at game day, too? Like, is that possible, you think? 0:12:02.929 --> 0:12:06.199 Because I know some Heels fans were asking about that 0:12:06.300 --> 0:12:07.100 earlier this week. 0:12:07.260 --> 0:12:08.579 There's some speculation. 0:12:09.460 --> 0:12:12.960 One thing that could complement it, or no, not complement it, 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.760 complicate it would be the fact that the next week 0:12:15.790 --> 0:12:16.950 they could be at Miami. 0:12:16.990 --> 0:12:17.510 Notre Dame. 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.720 And the weekend of all weekends for the college football year. 0:12:22.220 --> 0:12:26.860 But I do think. 0:12:25.100 --> 0:12:25.679 There's a chance. 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:29.520 McAfee will tell you early on on Saturday. He'll tell 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:31.900 you if Carolina wins tonight. I mean, he'll just come 0:12:31.940 --> 0:12:33.500 out and tell you where they're going to be because 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:34.340 they don't really hide. 0:12:34.220 --> 0:12:35.800 Anything anymore with him on the show. 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.970 But I think there's a chance because you had a 0:12:38.990 --> 0:12:43.570 5-2 Carolina, undefeated No. 1 Miami on Halloween at night. 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.579 Crazier things should happen. I think USC and Ohio State 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.620 play that weekend. That game no longer as sexy. 0:12:50.750 --> 0:12:55.190 Yeah, back up QB. Florida-Georgia. Florida-Georgia is a possibility, too. 0:12:55.210 --> 0:12:57.770 Now, UNC-Miami's got a great chance, but like I was saying, 0:12:57.790 --> 0:13:00.459 the only thing that may complicate that is they don't 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.120 often like to use teams back-to-back weeks, even though it's 0:13:03.140 --> 0:13:06.429 a different venue. Would they go Miami UNC to Miami 0:13:06.470 --> 0:13:07.650 Notre Dame the next game? 0:13:07.710 --> 0:13:10.450 I don't know. Is Miami Notre Dame at Notre Dame? 0:13:10.570 --> 0:13:10.910 Yes. 0:13:10.990 --> 0:13:12.230 So that's an NBC game. 0:13:12.270 --> 0:13:12.410 Yep. 0:13:12.870 --> 0:13:15.060 You think they'd still go, though? Yeah. 0:13:15.140 --> 0:13:17.520 It's so big. Although that's a big weekend because I think. 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:19.859 There's a bunch of games. I think Georgia Ole Miss 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:21.400 might be that weekend as well. There's a lot of 0:13:21.420 --> 0:13:21.920 games that weekend. 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:23.950 It's the best weekend in the history of the sport. 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.510 November 7th was one of those in the summer. Mark 0:13:26.530 --> 0:13:28.770 that date down. There's a lot of matchups there for 0:13:28.790 --> 0:13:29.510 that one. It was. 0:13:29.610 --> 0:13:31.890 I just think it's cool for the heels that we're 0:13:31.950 --> 0:13:34.790 talking about this, that it's even a possibility. Hey, could 0:13:34.809 --> 0:13:37.900 they be on game day? Could they be 5-2? I'm 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:39.960 looking at the rest of their schedule. I think it's 0:13:40.020 --> 0:13:41.200 seven wins at least. 0:13:41.340 --> 0:13:42.100 Yep. 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:46.430 I really do. What do we think about the texture from– 0:13:46.700 --> 0:13:48.220 I don't remember when this was. This might have been 0:13:48.260 --> 0:13:50.920 sent in Monday, but I'm just bringing it up now 0:13:50.980 --> 0:13:53.120 since we're talking about this emergence and improvement of the 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.990 Tar Heels. The texter that said, Mac and Bone, when 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:57.490 are you going to eat your words and admit you 0:13:57.510 --> 0:13:58.689 were wrong about Belichick? 0:13:59.230 --> 0:14:00.030 I'll never do it. 0:14:02.030 --> 0:14:02.390 Okay. 0:14:02.690 --> 0:14:05.530 There's your answer, sir. I'd rather eat my... Eat your undies? 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.599 I was going to say celery. Nobody wants to do that. 0:14:12.620 --> 0:14:14.760 I don't eat celery, but you went undies. 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.880 Can we make a bet that one of us has 0:14:16.900 --> 0:14:18.260 to take our undies off and eat them? 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.500 No, absolutely not. Why would you want to make that? 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.720 It was your track record event. Because I was picking 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:25.080 out of y'all to have to do it. I was 0:14:25.100 --> 0:14:27.100 picking out something I don't like, and you went undies. 0:14:27.140 --> 0:14:27.920 Was that weird? 0:14:28.260 --> 0:14:28.590 Yeah. 0:14:28.610 --> 0:14:29.610 Did I just get weird? 0:14:29.620 --> 0:14:29.690 Yes. 0:14:29.710 --> 0:14:33.320 Do you have some, like, Undie-eating fantasy Mac? I'm an 0:14:33.380 --> 0:14:34.800 old man. I don't know what I'm saying. Let me 0:14:34.820 --> 0:14:36.990 check your web browser, sir. Do we? Okay, let me 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.250 move on from that right there. Can we, please? 0:14:39.350 --> 0:14:42.810 I am turning into Selenium, aren't I? Anyway, are we 0:14:42.870 --> 0:14:44.830 at that? I don't think we're at that point yet. 0:14:44.850 --> 0:14:46.310 I mean, I will say this. 0:14:46.550 --> 0:14:50.580 I didn't... It looks like it's coming along better than 0:14:50.650 --> 0:14:51.760 I would have thought this year. 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:53.400 It is, and I'm glad. 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.980 I'm happy for Heels fans for that. Are we going 0:14:56.000 --> 0:15:00.860 to declare him bone? Oh, he's a success in college football. Absolutely. 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:05.970 I think the jury's still out. I think the new 0:15:05.990 --> 0:15:08.270 GM hire, I think, will be important. I think it's 0:15:08.530 --> 0:15:11.410 trended in the right direction, but we won't sing the 0:15:11.530 --> 0:15:13.430 I'm wrong song just yet, maybe. 0:15:14.370 --> 0:15:16.940 When we come back, the Hornets get an opening win 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.350 last night. Did it do anything to boost morale of 0:15:20.390 --> 0:15:22.230 the fan base? Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. 0:15:50.100 --> 0:15:53.160 I think the team asks me to, you know, of course, 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:53.880 be Brandon Miller. 0:15:53.900 --> 0:15:54.500 Whoa. 0:15:55.080 --> 0:16:00.020 I think it would be Brandon Miller, you know, whether 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.270 that's being a two-way, guarding everybody on the floor or 0:16:03.330 --> 0:16:05.369 scoring a basketball or just getting everybody in action or 0:16:05.410 --> 0:16:08.750 getting everybody involved. You know, I feel like, you know, 0:16:08.790 --> 0:16:11.050 we do a great job of just, you know, playing 0:16:11.070 --> 0:16:13.810 with the pass, playing with each other. You know, sometimes 0:16:14.250 --> 0:16:17.830 I'm not really needed, but I'm still there to– help 0:16:17.950 --> 0:16:19.510 out as much as I can and just make all 0:16:19.530 --> 0:16:20.110 the winning plays. 0:16:20.750 --> 0:16:24.250 What are your expectations for this season? 0:16:24.370 --> 0:16:26.170 Well, I'm always saying we're going to be a playoff team. 0:16:27.270 --> 0:16:29.500 That's just always where I stand with what this team 0:16:29.540 --> 0:16:32.440 is going to be. Our goal is, of course, the playoffs, 0:16:32.460 --> 0:16:33.660 and we're going to do everything that we can to 0:16:33.700 --> 0:16:33.980 get there. 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.330 That is Brandon Miller, says the goal is still playoffs, 0:16:40.390 --> 0:16:40.850 ladies and gentlemen. 0:16:40.870 --> 0:16:43.290 So Brandon Miller and Charles Barkleybone are all in for 0:16:43.310 --> 0:16:44.490 the Hornets' playoff train. 0:16:45.010 --> 0:16:48.610 They are all in. for the Hornets' playoff train, baby. 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:50.750 When Charles Barkley and Mac are on board, what could 0:16:50.790 --> 0:16:53.030 possibly go wrong? 0:16:53.110 --> 0:16:55.930 I haven't gone there, though. I've said 40 wins. Oh, 0:16:55.970 --> 0:16:58.670 I'm sorry. Maybe play in. Wrong team, wrong sport. 0:16:58.950 --> 0:17:00.930 Yeah, I don't know if I've fully gone there. I 0:17:00.970 --> 0:17:04.609 think we're going to be way more competitive than some 0:17:04.630 --> 0:17:07.460 of the negative. There's some fans out there, man. Even 0:17:07.500 --> 0:17:09.260 today after the win, and I get it, it wasn't 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.660 pretty necessarily, but there's some negative. 0:17:12.980 --> 0:17:16.119 You see that guy, Jack? Last Hornets, the Sam Farber interview. 0:17:16.140 --> 0:17:18.420 What's his last name? Because I can give him one. 0:17:19.140 --> 0:17:23.090 Jack sent like 10 straight negative Hornets points. 0:17:23.140 --> 0:17:25.830 Everything we said, he countered something positive. Oh, my God. 0:17:25.910 --> 0:17:26.390 Seriously. 0:17:26.670 --> 0:17:31.930 We got to shout out a listener to the show, Elisa. 0:17:32.010 --> 0:17:32.490 Is that right? 0:17:32.869 --> 0:17:35.550 She is a diehard listener to the show, and it 0:17:35.609 --> 0:17:37.750 bothers Brett Jensen, I feel like, severely. 0:17:37.770 --> 0:17:38.379 Yeah. 0:17:39.810 --> 0:17:42.290 Brett and her are seeing each other. He viewed it 0:17:42.350 --> 0:17:45.550 as a red flag somehow. He's trying to figure out 0:17:45.890 --> 0:17:48.419 what does this say about her? I want to know 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.439 what about her taste in men. If she hangs out 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.439 with Brett and listens to us, I want to know 0:17:53.460 --> 0:17:54.340 about her taste in men. 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.200 High quality. That's true. Good point. Good point. 0:17:58.300 --> 0:18:02.730 Anyway, hello to her. We love broadcasters that are up 0:18:02.750 --> 0:18:04.250 for awards. I don't think we win a lot of them. 0:18:04.270 --> 0:18:07.030 There you go. There you go. All right. So shout 0:18:07.070 --> 0:18:08.030 out to Brett Jensen. 0:18:08.090 --> 0:18:10.429 Shout out to Elisa out there listening. So we got 0:18:10.450 --> 0:18:13.750 to talk more now, Bone, about the Hornets. Did last night, 0:18:13.869 --> 0:18:15.330 and maybe I'm afraid to ask this, but we're going 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:18.320 to ask it. Did last night, again, it was ugly, 0:18:18.340 --> 0:18:21.420 but again, we're without Khan, Kobe, and Grant. and we 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.360 still had depth where five guys scored 17 points, where 0:18:24.380 --> 0:18:28.000 we could absorb Brandon scoring one point after the first 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:29.820 15 minutes of the game when he had 17. We 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.919 could absorb that and still win, albeit against the Nets. 0:18:33.660 --> 0:18:37.149 Do you feel— Hey, in this conference, in this league, 0:18:37.210 --> 0:18:39.450 I don't care who you're playing every night. These teams 0:18:39.530 --> 0:18:41.830 are better. The Nets are better than they've been. Everyone's better, 0:18:41.850 --> 0:18:45.250 and everyone's trying this year, especially early. But the new 0:18:45.290 --> 0:18:49.669 tanking rules, teams— Teams don't have reasons to be bad anymore. 100%. 0:18:49.670 --> 0:18:51.230 Don't you think we just want to get a few 0:18:51.270 --> 0:18:53.930 dubs early in the season and just kind of stand 0:18:53.970 --> 0:18:56.110 our ground until we get the guys back? 0:18:56.430 --> 0:18:59.550 Who are we to complain about wins? That's the one 0:18:59.590 --> 0:19:02.750 thing about it. Somebody even noted that earlier. Somebody said 0:19:03.230 --> 0:19:05.550 that they're amused by the fact that Hornets fans now 0:19:05.609 --> 0:19:07.670 complain when we win, and it just goes to show 0:19:07.710 --> 0:19:11.060 the bar has been raised, or it's just the lamello 0:19:11.100 --> 0:19:11.879