WEBVTT - Mac & Bone Hour 4: Talking Heads Talking Bryce 0:00:16.980 --> 0:00:19.560 Shout out to the folks over there at the Dilworth 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:23.150 Neighborhood Grill, Boney. They hit another home run with their 0:00:23.230 --> 0:00:28.370 weekly signs during Panther season. This one was beautiful. It 0:00:28.450 --> 0:00:31.390 says at the top, it's going to be a long season. 0:00:31.490 --> 0:00:33.269 And you're like, oh, shoot, what does this say? We 0:00:33.300 --> 0:00:33.800 just won. 0:00:34.220 --> 0:00:36.479 And then it says, for the Bryce haters. 0:00:37.940 --> 0:00:38.059 Ow! 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:43.500 That is well played, baby, right there. Well played. That 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:45.830 sign went over so well in the studio. Fitty has 0:00:46.060 --> 0:00:49.050 said maybe they're going to get one of his lunches 0:00:49.130 --> 0:00:50.090 out this week. 0:00:50.150 --> 0:00:53.050 Hey, when you get a Fitty lunch, y'all, you're going 0:00:53.070 --> 0:00:54.070 to be rolling in the dough. 0:00:54.290 --> 0:00:54.529 All right? 0:00:54.550 --> 0:00:55.930 There's going to be a lot of food orders. Because 0:00:55.990 --> 0:00:58.810 that's not a man that travels alone. He either has 0:00:58.850 --> 0:01:00.460 his woman or flounder with him at all times. 0:01:00.660 --> 0:01:03.600 Or pee. That Fitty pee lunch happens a lot. 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:05.759 He does owe me pastrami for my birthday. 0:01:05.860 --> 0:01:08.679 There you go, baby. There you go. Make it happen. 0:01:08.900 --> 0:01:12.340 Matt, quick note here while we're going to talk Panthers. 0:01:13.030 --> 0:01:15.290 I know it's not pressing in the immediate today, but 0:01:15.330 --> 0:01:19.550 Saquon Barkley is week to week. The Panthers' next opponent, 0:01:19.569 --> 0:01:22.610 we were asking yesterday, what's Barkley's status? Don't know about 0:01:22.670 --> 0:01:24.910 Barkley for the London game this week, but it's not 0:01:24.950 --> 0:01:27.730 a long-term thing. So keep that in mind as we 0:01:27.750 --> 0:01:30.530 get closer. It's a hamstring for him. So he's in 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:32.720 a similar boat to Jalen Phillips. He doesn't have a 0:01:32.740 --> 0:01:34.360 bye week, though, right, to get healthy. 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.840 But Jalen Phillips is a hamstring who Canales said he's 0:01:38.940 --> 0:01:42.470 hopeful can play, but not certain for the Philly game. 0:01:42.510 --> 0:01:46.289 Monroe Freeling, knee injury. He's hopeful he can play. And 0:01:46.330 --> 0:01:50.390 the best news, Bone, HN, Canales said, will be back 0:01:50.430 --> 0:01:54.240 for the Philly game. And Moten and Turk Wharton. It 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.120 sounds like they're getting close. They need medical clearance, right? 0:01:57.220 --> 0:02:00.860 Like Wharton for the contact with the neck injury and 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.230 Moten just for the doctor's blessing coming off a blood 0:02:03.250 --> 0:02:05.410 clot in the lung. But he says both those guys 0:02:05.430 --> 0:02:07.870 have been pushed really hard physically, and they're about there. 0:02:08.490 --> 0:02:12.510 Remember, we saw Turk at camp working hard. We thought, oh, man, 0:02:13.110 --> 0:02:15.030 he might not be far off from doing a lot 0:02:15.070 --> 0:02:17.490 of stuff when the season began. So it does make 0:02:17.530 --> 0:02:20.050 a lot of sense that after the bye week, we're 0:02:20.070 --> 0:02:23.000 starting to tread towards– his return as well 100 that's 0:02:23.060 --> 0:02:25.919 a nasty injury too though for that position to putting 0:02:25.940 --> 0:02:28.239 your head down and getting it that's a that's a 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:29.959 nasty thing to have to deal with is a neck injury. 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:31.580 Oh yeah you can't mess with that and you can't 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.620 mess with blood clots but it does sound like we're 0:02:33.660 --> 0:02:37.280 getting pretty damn close all right let's do it despite 0:02:37.340 --> 0:02:40.200 granny pat's issues with bryce young on the text line 0:02:40.580 --> 0:02:42.740 i thought she was happy a day ago what happened 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:44.200 to granny she says we're not. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.260 Giving enough love to the performance of what chuba and 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:47.790 t-mac did to make bryce really good. 0:02:47.690 --> 0:02:49.090 But They were both great, though, man. 0:02:49.110 --> 0:02:52.030 But Bryce is the most pressured quarterback in the NFL, 0:02:52.110 --> 0:02:54.470 and he's balling the hell out. And he's lost three, 0:02:54.570 --> 0:02:57.230 four offensive linemen, four by the end of the game. 0:02:57.810 --> 0:03:01.899 He is missing his second and third wide receiver. I mean, 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:02.220 come on. 0:03:02.419 --> 0:03:05.120 We can spread the love around. Granny, it's not an either-or. 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:07.540 Granny, get on your phone, make some phone calls, and 0:03:07.580 --> 0:03:09.100 go call Bebop if you want to be negative. 0:03:09.260 --> 0:03:11.660 All right, let's, by the way. Bebop, again, having car 0:03:11.700 --> 0:03:13.210 trouble today, so he can't text as much. It's a shame. 0:03:13.250 --> 0:03:15.070 It's a shame. Ashery, Ashery. 0:03:15.690 --> 0:03:19.570 Ashley Stroh with the Stroh Show coming up at 925. 0:03:19.570 --> 0:03:22.130 We'll have some fun and see what she thought of 0:03:22.169 --> 0:03:26.160 that primetime performance by Bryce, T-Mac, and Chuba and the boys. 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:30.480 But right now, Talking Heads Talking Bryce. The national media 0:03:30.860 --> 0:03:34.720 talking heads are loving the performance of Bryce Young, and 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.740 let's let you hear some of it. It starts with 0:03:36.780 --> 0:03:40.750 John Gruden on Wake Up Barstool raving about Bryce. 0:03:41.450 --> 0:03:43.730 I think Bryce Young deserves a lot of credit. I mean, 0:03:43.770 --> 0:03:45.450 if you want to pick the top two or three 0:03:45.490 --> 0:03:48.270 players in the NFL in the first month of the season, 0:03:48.290 --> 0:03:50.180 Bryce Young is one of them. That ball comes out 0:03:50.190 --> 0:03:51.880 of his hands. I mean, I don't even see it leave. 0:03:52.300 --> 0:03:56.200 He is playing incredibly for Carolina. I mean, he moves around. 0:03:56.220 --> 0:03:59.220 He can scramble. He sees the field. He's tough in 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:03.630 the pocket. And they're scoring. They got great receivers, great design. 0:04:03.690 --> 0:04:05.450 Canales is doing an excellent job. 0:04:06.610 --> 0:04:09.950 So he, so we say Boney's. That was really John Cruden, 0:04:09.990 --> 0:04:11.050 not Frank Caliendo, right? 0:04:11.590 --> 0:04:13.790 Every time I hear his voice and I'm not seeing him, 0:04:14.290 --> 0:04:16.770 it makes me think, is this an impression or a real, 0:04:17.230 --> 0:04:20.550 like he's one of those voices that gets impersonated. 0:04:19.710 --> 0:04:22.340 So much, but I'm like, is this the real one? Yes, 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:23.120 it's the real one. 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.880 You and I bone get ripped, get called homers, not 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:27.240 by a lot of you, but a few of you 0:04:27.700 --> 0:04:30.400 for like saying, we think he's playing top five quarterback ball. 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:32.900 John Gruden says he is one of the two or 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:34.700 three best players in the NFL season so far. 0:04:36.050 --> 0:04:38.550 So put that in your pipe and smoke it. That's 0:04:38.610 --> 0:04:41.850 a guy that knows more football than we... Slightly. He's 0:04:41.870 --> 0:04:44.470 forgotten more football than we'll ever know. Mac, it's not 0:04:44.529 --> 0:04:50.210 just the stats. It's the throws that he's making. We 0:04:50.230 --> 0:04:53.370 talked yesterday about that floater throw that he had that 0:04:53.410 --> 0:04:56.410 was just perfect touch. How about the tremendous throw on 0:04:56.430 --> 0:04:58.870 the sideline where T-Mac gets full credit for getting his 0:04:58.890 --> 0:05:01.470 feet down as well. But it's not just the numbers. 0:05:01.550 --> 0:05:04.570 It's the way that he's playing the game. in the 0:05:04.650 --> 0:05:07.310 throws that he's making i thought he was too i 0:05:07.330 --> 0:05:09.220 thought he was too small to make throws like that 0:05:09.260 --> 0:05:11.679 though are we not is that not a thing anymore 0:05:11.700 --> 0:05:14.659 what happened that 280 yards over the middle of the 0:05:14.700 --> 0:05:16.860 field we were told he can't throw over the middle 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.640 of the field because he's too small so he continues 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.540 to do things that skeptics said he could not and 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.180 now the only skeptics it appears are on the text 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.870 line bone or on twitter Because now you hear all 0:05:27.900 --> 0:05:29.180 these talking heads. 0:05:29.390 --> 0:05:30.570 Just raving about it. 0:05:30.610 --> 0:05:36.130 Dan Orlovsky also yesterday on multiple ESPN shows raving about Bryce. 0:05:36.610 --> 0:05:39.120 Listen to where he puts him, what category he puts 0:05:39.180 --> 0:05:40.260 him in so far this season. 0:05:40.890 --> 0:05:42.850 Progress, Dan, if you've seen, though, from Bryce Young. 0:05:42.870 --> 0:05:44.810 Well, he's been a top five quarterback in football through 0:05:44.830 --> 0:05:47.080 the first month. Number one, his arm is absolutely stronger 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:47.760 than when he came. 0:05:47.660 --> 0:05:48.220 Into the league. 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.960 That does not happen often. Arm has gotten stronger. I 0:05:51.420 --> 0:05:54.900 think two operational space. He owns the pocket right now 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.520 for a guy that is not your big prototypical six 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:58.640 foot four plus guy. 0:05:59.080 --> 0:05:59.880 And then windows. 0:06:00.020 --> 0:06:03.409 He's seeing them before they happen for a player that 0:06:03.470 --> 0:06:08.330 got benched. 14 months ago, his ability to see the defense, 0:06:08.810 --> 0:06:12.490 anticipate the window, throw it to the spot beforehand while 0:06:12.610 --> 0:06:16.270 also navigating just those small spaces in the pocket is 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.600 kind of rare. I think him and Brock Purdy right 0:06:18.660 --> 0:06:21.560 now are the two best quarterbacks in football when it 0:06:21.620 --> 0:06:26.400 comes to owning anticipation and owning the space in the pocket. 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.479 That is that three by three phone booth spot. 0:06:29.930 --> 0:06:31.550 The two smallest quarterbacks, right? 0:06:31.570 --> 0:06:32.670 We tell you right now are the best. 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:39.320 Ready, Mackers? Dan-o, Dan-o, Dan-o, Dan-o, Dan-o, Dan-o. Way better 0:06:39.339 --> 0:06:40.119 than his food tanks. 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.289 As I said to him on Twitter yesterday, we're sorry 0:06:42.330 --> 0:06:44.010 about what we said about the way we reached this 0:06:44.029 --> 0:06:48.330 pizza's cup. We were in a bad spot. Things were sad. 0:06:48.410 --> 0:06:49.940 We don't mean that, Dan-o. We also need you on 0:06:49.950 --> 0:06:50.500 the show, baby. 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:51.700 Definitely, definitely. 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.339 So I was told yesterday, Mac, by Bryce Hader on 0:06:55.380 --> 0:06:58.900 Twitter for many hours of my fight, Jordan Cork, that 0:06:59.260 --> 0:07:01.529 he knows more football than all these people. So keep 0:07:01.550 --> 0:07:03.530 that in mind that I have a guy out there 0:07:03.570 --> 0:07:04.770 claiming he knows more than. 0:07:04.790 --> 0:07:06.150 We need to get him here from him in the 0:07:06.190 --> 0:07:07.049 talking head segment. 0:07:07.070 --> 0:07:10.660 Maybe you can see plenty on Twitter. He studied the game, though, 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.220 in some some dungeon back in the early 2000s. How 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:17.120 about the interesting stuff in there about Orlovsky? And we 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.670 even got Chris Simms' praise on deck. That's amazing, isn't it? 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:21.190 But Orlovsky said. 0:07:21.510 --> 0:07:24.910 Top five quarterback right now, the way he's playing, he 0:07:24.950 --> 0:07:27.550 says his arm's gotten stronger since he came into the league, 0:07:27.570 --> 0:07:30.330 which is an interesting comment. And then the one that 0:07:30.370 --> 0:07:33.730 really got me is... the way in the phone booth bone, 0:07:34.190 --> 0:07:37.670 he commands by moving around in the pocket. It's not 0:07:37.750 --> 0:07:39.830 just when he hits the escape hatch like he did 0:07:39.930 --> 0:07:43.060 on the ran away outside to the right from Hutchinson 0:07:43.450 --> 0:07:46.080 and that dime to T-Mac who had the double toe 0:07:46.100 --> 0:07:49.880 drag swag. It's not just outside the pocket. Watch his 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:53.280 moving inside the pocket, just shifting a little bit here 0:07:53.300 --> 0:07:54.160 away from this guy. 0:07:54.180 --> 0:07:54.980 Let me step up. 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:55.600 Boom. 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.720 And then the arm angles like JJ was talking about earlier. 0:07:59.060 --> 0:08:00.820 Let me step up, slide here. Let me hit you 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:01.619 with a quiz and Barry. 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.720 You know what I mean? Like I just, man, he 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:06.580 is just an artist at work right now. 0:08:06.670 --> 0:08:10.220 He is. Is that too old school for people? You 0:08:10.780 --> 0:08:15.630 don't get that everywhere. Let me hit you with that Quisenberry. 0:08:15.710 --> 0:08:17.770 You went way old school. That might be too old 0:08:17.790 --> 0:08:20.050 for people. The old reliever to use to throw sidearm. 0:08:20.090 --> 0:08:21.710 I probably could have done more modern. I guess you 0:08:21.730 --> 0:08:23.350 got a little Chris Sale there a little bit. Got 0:08:23.370 --> 0:08:24.550 an arm slot there a little bit. Could have gone 0:08:24.570 --> 0:08:29.020 a little modern, maybe. Not quite as much as Quisenberry. Chris, 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.040 Chris Berry's just a fun name to say too, man. 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.860 Um, all right, let's go to, uh, Chris Sims, uh, 0:08:34.940 --> 0:08:38.640 PFT with Florio, uh, talking about what he saw from 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.780 Bryce and the Panthers offense on Sunday night football. 0:08:42.390 --> 0:08:43.270 They can run the ball. 0:08:43.309 --> 0:08:44.770 You heard early on in the game, right? 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.219 Collinsworth was kind of saying, he's kind of like a 0:08:47.300 --> 0:08:49.900 second baseman. So early on in the game, it's just 0:08:49.940 --> 0:08:53.140 these little short throws and like boom, boom, boom, boom. 0:08:53.500 --> 0:08:56.150 And they kind of just slowly pick you apart that 0:08:56.210 --> 0:08:58.310 way to then they get you to kind of creep up. 0:08:58.330 --> 0:09:00.130 And then all of a sudden it's like, oh, we're 0:09:00.150 --> 0:09:01.610 going to fake that. And we're going to hit you, 0:09:01.970 --> 0:09:04.540 you know, deeper down the football field than behind you now. 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:06.840 And that's where they're damn good. I mean, they got 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:10.359 a good offense. They really do. And he's playing really 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.900 damn good on top of that. He's got, like you said, 0:09:13.179 --> 0:09:14.980 I think what you're saying, he's just got great feel. 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.500 He's got great feel in how to slide and how 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.760 to move and where the launch point should be to 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.320 throw the football. You're not going to go, wow, what 0:09:23.380 --> 0:09:26.200 a laser. But there's so many throws that you just go, damn, 0:09:26.220 --> 0:09:29.020 that was a good throw. Damn, that was great touch. Damn, 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.040 that was great feel in the pocket to make that 0:09:31.100 --> 0:09:33.740 happen there. And that's where we're seeing Bryce Young grow 0:09:33.780 --> 0:09:36.090 right in front of our eyes. And then, damn, they 0:09:36.110 --> 0:09:37.920 got a damn good play caller, as we know. 0:09:39.290 --> 0:09:41.270 I bring this up all the time, and we're never 0:09:41.330 --> 0:09:44.130 really going to know because it feels like he's more 0:09:44.190 --> 0:09:48.490 in a stealth, behind-the-scenes role. But we've talked about Brad 0:09:48.550 --> 0:09:53.449 Idzik's play calling, how that affects Canales. We can't forget, like, 0:09:53.630 --> 0:09:56.590 what kind of work is Daryl Bevel doing with Bryce 0:09:56.610 --> 0:09:59.270 Young also? But the elements that we're seeing now, the 0:09:59.309 --> 0:10:02.480 confidence We said it during the way he's played well, 0:10:02.940 --> 0:10:05.500 the Russell Wilson elements to his game that we're kind 0:10:05.540 --> 0:10:08.560 of seeing there, the escapability, the eyes down the field, 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:10.939 the moon balls down the field. I do wonder how 0:10:11.020 --> 0:10:15.040 much impact Bevel's having just by his presence with Bryce Young. 0:10:15.059 --> 0:10:17.240 Definitely doesn't hurt to have an experienced guy on the 0:10:17.260 --> 0:10:19.640 staff that played with a quarterback that you think, hey, 0:10:19.660 --> 0:10:20.540 Bryce could be similar. 0:10:20.940 --> 0:10:22.120 You know, similar to that. 0:10:22.500 --> 0:10:25.100 I know that that throw bone where he escaped Hutchinson 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:28.710 and hit– I saw Russ do something similar to that 0:10:28.780 --> 0:10:32.050 here in Charlotte. And when he actually I forget the 0:10:32.090 --> 0:10:34.310 guy he hit on the sideline. He had David Moore 0:10:34.330 --> 0:10:37.089 for the game winner that day, unfortunately, with Seattle to 0:10:37.110 --> 0:10:39.569 beat the Panthers. But he just threw a prayer to 0:10:39.610 --> 0:10:42.550 the sideline pinpoint. The guy got his feet in and 0:10:42.590 --> 0:10:44.290 I was like, how do you stop that? And that's 0:10:44.309 --> 0:10:46.510 how Lions fans had to feel Sunday night. How do 0:10:46.530 --> 0:10:48.319 you stop that throw and catch? 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.660 Russell Wilson will throw a lot of those sideline passes 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.179 to those wideouts that will get their feet down. 0:10:53.340 --> 0:10:55.880 On the move and just pinpoint on the move. And 0:10:55.920 --> 0:11:00.300 Bryce has that ability, man. And the baseball analogy, Collinsworth 0:11:00.340 --> 0:11:01.810 said it. Sims agreed with it. 0:11:02.140 --> 0:11:05.090 J.J. brought it up. And J.J. actually told us today 0:11:05.470 --> 0:11:08.449 that Bryce comes out to practice. It was probably Tyler Lockett, 0:11:08.470 --> 0:11:09.790 by the way. Bryce, I think it was. I think 0:11:09.830 --> 0:11:10.110 it was. 0:11:10.370 --> 0:11:14.170 Bryce comes out to practice with a basketball. and messes 0:11:14.210 --> 0:11:17.429 around with the basketball before practice. But JJ said, dude, 0:11:17.470 --> 0:11:20.250 the way you throw different arm angles is like baseball. 0:11:20.270 --> 0:11:26.000 Like he made the Collinsworth point to Bryce. And Bryce said, no, man, basketball. 0:11:26.010 --> 0:11:29.320 I'm a point guard dishing the ball. So Bryce leans 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.340 into the whole point guard narrative. I know some people, 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.980 you know, some people don't love the point guard narrative, 0:11:35.020 --> 0:11:36.580 but there is a lot of truth to it. And 0:11:36.620 --> 0:11:39.080 Bryce literally sees himself that way, which I think is cool. 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.440 All right, Daniel Jeremiah is next up on his Move 0:11:42.460 --> 0:11:47.069 the Sticks podcast, raving about Bryce Young because why wouldn't he? 0:11:48.570 --> 0:11:50.689 You know, it's interesting. When I go back through and 0:11:50.710 --> 0:11:52.530 look at my notes on Bryce Young when he was 0:11:52.570 --> 0:11:54.890 coming out, one of the things I talked about was 0:11:54.950 --> 0:11:57.970 all the RPOs, how quick his hands are. And as 0:11:58.010 --> 0:12:01.470 a distributor, he's a point guard. He's a point guard quarterback. 0:12:01.530 --> 0:12:03.890 That's his style. And if you looked at my Tedaroa 0:12:03.910 --> 0:12:07.350 McMillan notes, talk about him being a power forward. you know, 0:12:07.370 --> 0:12:09.510 kind of how he plays and using his frame. And 0:12:09.530 --> 0:12:13.030 I'm like, this is the perfect compliment for Bryce's game. 0:12:13.270 --> 0:12:14.460 You know, a lot of the league's gotten away from 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.740 the RPO stuff. You see a lot of RPOs in 0:12:16.780 --> 0:12:19.140 this game because Bryce is so good at it. And 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:22.100 then you have such an inviting target, those little slant routes. 0:12:22.140 --> 0:12:25.100 He can take those anytime he wants them with McMillan 0:12:25.220 --> 0:12:27.920 off that ball action. And they are tremendous at it. 0:12:28.059 --> 0:12:30.900 They just kill blitzers. You want to blitz them. Bryce 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.319 Young's seeing the field so well right now. A lot 0:12:33.340 --> 0:12:35.270 of times, You'll see a blitz. As soon as you 0:12:35.290 --> 0:12:37.770 identify the blitz, you'll see quarterbacks who will speed up 0:12:37.809 --> 0:12:40.130 and hurry. And I want to beat the blitz. Go, go, go. 0:12:40.460 --> 0:12:42.500 But he's got such a quick release, even as a 0:12:42.620 --> 0:12:45.179 shorter player. He'll invite the blitz to get in a 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.260 little bit more and just give his receiver a little 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.120 bit more time to work so he can actually win 0:12:50.179 --> 0:12:52.320 and separate. And then not only are you getting a conversion, 0:12:52.340 --> 0:12:54.340 you can get a big play off of it. Bryce Young, 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.640 he's playing great, man. We've talked about it before, about 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.040 the guys really playing for their check in terms of 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.450 new contracts. He continues to be the leader of the 0:13:03.470 --> 0:13:04.990 pack of who's helping himself the most. 0:13:04.990 --> 0:13:11.260 88%– excuse me, 89% against the Blitz on Sunday night. 0:13:11.260 --> 0:13:14.320 153.2 rating versus the Blitz. He destroyed it. Number one 0:13:14.340 --> 0:13:17.780 in the league for this week. He destroyed it. Yeah. No, 0:13:17.900 --> 0:13:19.820 I need to step outside for a minute here. I'm 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:20.880 getting sweaty. What's happening? 0:13:21.990 --> 0:13:24.050 Go take a cold shower and settle yourself down. Do 0:13:24.070 --> 0:13:25.870 we have anything else? How many do we have? This 0:13:25.970 --> 0:13:28.150 Bryce love is intoxicating. I'm addicted. 0:13:28.290 --> 0:13:30.470 I want to do nothing but listen to guys praise 0:13:30.550 --> 0:13:33.860 Bryce for the rest of my afternoon. Honeydew list out 0:13:33.890 --> 0:13:36.520 the dang window. I'm just listening to people talk good 0:13:36.540 --> 0:13:37.020 about Bryce. 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:37.920 How many more do we have left? 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:39.240 God, it's beautiful. 0:13:39.820 --> 0:13:40.959 It's a never-ending vault. 0:13:40.980 --> 0:13:42.840 You want more, Boney? Are you feeling it? Give me 0:13:42.940 --> 0:13:44.020 one more. Give me one more hit. 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.660 You can't stop, can you? One more hit of that 0:13:46.740 --> 0:13:51.470 Bryce Praise, baby. I'm telling you right now, someone in 0:13:51.530 --> 0:13:54.090 Charlotte ought to name a new strain to Bryce Praise 0:13:54.290 --> 0:13:57.010 because that is some addictive stuff, Boney, that'll get you 0:13:57.050 --> 0:13:57.950 feeling good. 0:13:57.970 --> 0:14:01.010 All right, let's go, Fitty, to— Why did you say 0:14:01.030 --> 0:14:03.189 it that way? Do we go Ocho? Ocho's Mr. 0:14:03.230 --> 0:14:03.610 Panther. 0:14:04.130 --> 0:14:05.070 Let's go to Ocho. 0:14:05.090 --> 0:14:06.510 I don't think we can go Marshawn Lynch. 0:14:06.610 --> 0:14:09.550 Self-proclaimed. Oh, I don't even know. I didn't fit. Did 0:14:09.570 --> 0:14:10.510 you even get the Marshawn Lynch? 0:14:10.530 --> 0:14:11.130 No, we can't. 0:14:11.190 --> 0:14:11.570 We can't. 0:14:11.630 --> 0:14:12.349 We can't possibly. 0:14:12.370 --> 0:14:13.459 Did not fool Marshawn. 0:14:13.740 --> 0:14:15.650 What did he do? He cussed like 90% of the 0:14:15.700 --> 0:14:16.929 praise of Bryce. 0:14:17.050 --> 0:14:20.740 What he would really need in 45 seconds, 45 bleeps. 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.680 Marshawn, hey, we appreciate the sentiment. We can't use you 0:14:24.700 --> 0:14:25.420 on the air, though, bro. 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:29.340 All right, here's Chad Ocho Cinco on Nightcap talking about 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:30.140 Bryce Young. 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:31.739 You know he's excited about this. 0:14:32.550 --> 0:14:34.620 Hey, Chad, what did I tell you about them Panthers, Joe? 0:14:34.660 --> 0:14:35.640 They real. 0:14:35.660 --> 0:14:36.580 They real, Ocho. 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:37.840 They real. 0:14:37.860 --> 0:14:38.420 I know they real. 0:14:38.460 --> 0:14:39.720 And let me tell you, all y'all in the chat, 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:41.560 don't jump on the bandwagon now because I told you 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:43.900 last year. I told you last year they were my 0:14:43.940 --> 0:14:46.830 dark horse team along with Chicago. They played extremely well. Obviously, 0:14:47.110 --> 0:14:50.190 you saw what Chicago did once Ben Johnson got over there. 0:14:50.570 --> 0:14:52.930 And I told you, Bryce Young, once he got benched, 0:14:53.710 --> 0:14:54.970 once he got benched, I don't know. 0:14:54.910 --> 0:14:55.590 What happened to him. 0:14:55.630 --> 0:14:59.050 I don't know what prayer he said, but he been playing– 0:14:59.930 --> 0:15:03.400 Almost cursed. He's been playing extremely well football since that point. 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:05.160 And if Dave. 0:15:04.980 --> 0:15:08.580 Tepper had any inclination of not knowing who the quarterback 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:10.900 of the future was for the Carolina Panthers, the way 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:12.880 Bryce Young is playing right now, they might as well 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.680 sign that contract right now. They might as well get 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.120 that deal. Matter of fact, while the season going on, 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:20.200 because he's going to be the quarterback for the Panthers 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:21.460 for the foreseeable future. 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.640 Hell yes. Get those tepee bucks ready. 0:15:25.940 --> 0:15:28.920 Dave, get those tepee bucks ready because Bryce is earning 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:30.000 a lot of them, man. 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:32.760 I just see it right now. Dan Oroski woke up 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.280 this morning praising Bryce on Twitter. This guy couldn't sleep 0:15:35.300 --> 0:15:35.520 last night. 0:15:35.540 --> 0:15:35.780 Oh, my God. 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.100 They can't stop either. I can't stop listening to y'all. 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.760 Y'all can't stop talking. You know what I think it 0:15:40.900 --> 0:15:45.000 is that they... Um, uh, that some, somebody texted in 0:15:45.060 --> 0:15:47.870 and said, I think they love praising someone different. 0:15:47.900 --> 0:15:49.650 It's a different story. And there probably is some of that. 0:15:50.210 --> 0:15:51.870 I think when you hear a lot of these guys 0:15:51.910 --> 0:15:55.050 talk about his story bone of the benching and then 0:15:55.110 --> 0:15:56.970 his stats post benching. 0:15:56.810 --> 0:15:59.090 And how he responded to the benching, he didn't whine. 0:15:59.130 --> 0:16:00.720 He didn't complain. He didn't pitch a fit. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:04.020 It really is a lesson for how our kids playing 0:16:04.060 --> 0:16:06.640 sports can handle adversity. You get benched, you have a 0:16:06.660 --> 0:16:09.200 rough game, just keep your head down and keep working. 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:11.520 And that's what Bryce did. And I think a lot 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.340 of people like that story of redemption for Bryce Young. 0:16:14.380 --> 0:16:15.180 I think that might be. 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:16.700 Part of it, too. Remember, also, a lot of people 0:16:16.740 --> 0:16:19.020 like Bryce before the draft, and I think that they 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.200 probably got a lot of flack for the way he 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.000 performed early. So I think it's really the first time 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:29.400 in Fulmac that The Daniel Jeremiah's, the Orlovsky's, those that touted. 0:16:29.540 --> 0:16:32.150 I'm just using those for examples. But guys that touted 0:16:32.190 --> 0:16:36.230 Bryce pre NFL career can now finally say, oh, look 0:16:36.270 --> 0:16:38.110 what happens when you give a guy time to develop. 0:16:38.430 --> 0:16:38.609 Right. 0:16:38.950 --> 0:16:41.330 One hundred percent. A little bit of you said a 0:16:41.370 --> 0:16:44.570 lot about my talk about what they're thinking. A lot's 0:16:44.590 --> 0:16:47.250 been made about what I said about blank quarterback in 0:16:47.270 --> 0:16:50.390 the draft. But now look over time what that dude. 0:16:50.410 --> 0:16:52.660 So there's some of that going on. It's exciting, man. 0:16:52.700 --> 0:16:54.560 It is exciting. And I do feel like we have 0:16:54.620 --> 0:16:58.540 our franchise quarterback. I realize the text line is going 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.880 to say four games. And, you know, those defenses we 0:17:00.900 --> 0:17:03.080 played against and all that stuff. I just want to 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.700 say something about the Bears defense, because we got we 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.550 got Xavier. We got a couple, not many, but a 0:17:08.590 --> 0:17:10.870 couple other people saying, let's see him do it against 0:17:10.910 --> 0:17:14.469 good defenses. The Bears' defense stunk last year, and we 0:17:14.530 --> 0:17:16.909 expected them to stink when we put 37 on them. 0:17:17.270 --> 0:17:19.950 But since they played us, Bone, they have given up 0:17:19.950 --> 0:17:21.450 26 total. 0:17:21.230 --> 0:17:22.189 Points in three games. 0:17:22.310 --> 0:17:25.320