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The Bone Man for the first time this season, power ranks college football teams in the Carolinas.

And I'm sure no one's gonna be mad at him at all.

I'm sure that's not gonna happen.

Hasn't been exactly clean and perfect for too many teams in Carolina.

So we'll see how the Bone Man does that.

But in the meantime, you hear his music.

You hear the Man's entest music as walk up music, if you will.

The P Man is in the house.

Willie p has a big match to call on Saturday night as Charlotte FC tries to beat MESSI and make it nine in a row.

And he's gonna be He's on the air, a bunch of talking talking Panthers and and FC and everything.

The P Man is in the house, Willie pe.

What's going on?

How you doing?

Good morning, gentlemen?

How are we?

What's up?

Pas?

I don't know if I like that one?

All right, turn my mic off.

I did.

I kind of liked it.

Oh, work on my rankings while you guys are talking.

So, p man are you what's your schedule this week on the air, because you're on again Thursday?

Are you on today?

What's because I know you're on yesterday?

What's the p MANU hosting schedule?

Not on today?

Uh?

But I will be on tomorrow for Colin.

Collen's got some sort of training exercise he has to do with being one of those one of them, their leader boss men people.

So yeah, he's off tomorrow or off the show tomorrow, I should say.

Hight, good deal.

So I know you talked about this yesterday.

Hell, you talked about before we all.

Did you reacted on the postgame show like you do every week on the Panther Postgame Show?

Are you now that we're on Wednesday?

Are you are you getting yourself to the point where you're you're kind of like, okay, that's that was one game?

Or do you just find yourself thinking, Man, I'm afraid that's a sign that this team is not progressing the way we thought.

Like, how are you viewing Sunday?

Well, I'll say this, no team has needed Week two to get here more than the Carolina Panthers, because I do feel like there is this desire from all of us to say, hey, maybe this week one was an anomaly.

Maybe this was just, you know, hey, a blip on the radar.

Maybe you could account it to not being ready to play at the start of the season, and you needed that shock value from the start of the season coming to at least get the cobwebs out, as a lot of teams do, quite frankly in this stage of the NFL, when you know, teams don't necessarily play their guys during the preseason.

But it felt like there were a lot of things that just felt like repeated errors.

Things that we've seen before.

Bryce is footwork, not being on time, not getting to play in in time, the rush defense once again being a glorified Olay scheme, and also just missed opportunities after missed opportunities.

I'd like to think it's not something that's part of a trend, MAC, but the problem is we've seen too much evidence over the course of the Dave Canalis era to realize that, hey, they don't just pull themselves out of this at the turn of a dime.

It does need maybe a couple of weeks to get itself righted.

Hopefully it's right it in Arizona with a team that Carolina has had at least personal success against their in their history.

But at the same point in time, we always know that that doesn't really mean much in terms of individual team I know.

But I do want to use that stat this week, Bone fifteen wins, fifteen and six against the Cardinals all time.

How much I don't know what that means.

How much do you put on Bryce for what happened the other day.

I think a lot of it's on him.

I mean, I think it's a shared thing like that, Like that, the thing people try to do is they try to make a singular villain out for what happened on Sunday, And I thought it was a total organizational collective failure because while I don't think Bryce played well, I don't think he was given the right the right blueprint to play well.

I think that Dave Canalis let him down in a couple of situations.

From a play calling aspect, I really think that a lot of times too.

From the like I said before, from the operational standpoint, they weren't getting the playoff until at least you know, the final seconds of the play clock.

They weren't breaking the huddle until about eight to nine seconds, so they were very much behind the eight ball from a snap aspect, and that just gives the defense.

You know, a free reign doesn't even give you an opportunity to have a hard count.

And the snap also, you know from Boston Globe a couple of times didn't come in as accurately as he wanted to.

But at the same point in time, you know, I go back to what you guys talked about with the dani Rolofsky tape, and I thought that was a very well done breakdown.

I'll take dan Arrolofski's advice and anything as long as it's not food.

But from the standpoint of where it is is from a quarterbacking perspective, the footwork definitely is incredibly concerning.

And I go back to what Frank Reich said when he was here.

Look, they knew the footwork from Bryces Young was always going to be a development of the part of his game, to the point where they didn't even want to talk about it during his first year.

I thought that was very much a detriment to the first coaching staff that he had at the same point in time, though it still feels like they are bad habits that he brings up that keep him from having success.

I also don't think he trusted his protection enough quite frankly, because you definitely saw some rush throws.

You definitely saw some opportunities that he could have made very easy throws that he didn't trust the protection, and he also kind of ran for his life a little bit.

So I do feel like he's got to get more confidence, he's got to get more protection in front of him.

But I wouldn't say it's solely on him.

I think that there's a lot of contributing factors, and the coaching staff is definitely one of them.

All right, So I've been looking this up bone because he really opened up this avenue of positivity.

The panthers fifteen wins against the Cardinals are the most of any non NFC South team that we have played against, and it's the second best winning percentage seventy one percent is the second best winning percentage all time against any other opponent except for the Chargers.

We're six and two seventy five percent against the Chargers.

So the way I see it, we own these little birdies.

They're basically our pet birds at this point, bony pets.

Is that gonna help us Sunday?

Though?

I don't know.

Did I just waste time talking about this?

I know it felt good to me.

It fall good?

Will he right?

It sounds good?

I mean good.

I mean it's part of the victory formula that I know you guys are thinking about potentially.

Junkie, that's right, save that for tomorrow.

We're thinking about adjusting it to the hey can they be competitive formula and not get embarrassed formula?

Oh?

Man, is it my turf for a question?

Answer?

Is it?

I asked about Bryce?

Oh?

Yeah, I just chimed in with that.

That didn't suffice, though, did it?

I need to actually how long you got to.

Doing this together?

How now twenty years.

We've been doing it for a long time together.

How much we stopped counting?

How much does this change?

Like how not necessarily your win total projection?

But like how worried are you now that this could be another loss season again?

Well?

I think again, the biggest thing that I keep coming back to is not a win loss record.

You have to figure out whether or not Bryce Young is trustworthy At the end, of the season, and I always thought that this year from a win loss standpoint, that was always going to be the secondary part of it.

Obviously, with one out of eighteen data points, the first data point doesn't give you a lot of optimism.

But as we know, these things can shift, these things can turn.

I do think that there are some more favorable matchups during the early part of the schedule.

The problem is is that also coinciding with them trying to figure this out.

I find it interesting too.

Guys, we talked a lot about the preseason from from the standpoint of where the Panthers weren't from a wide receiver standpoint of having an embarrassment of riches.

Two guys going out has made us change completely differently, completely differently.

The feeling trade and the Cocher injury has completely changed our framework with how we think about this pass catching group, because right now it's Temac and what else.

I mean, you really can't have a lot of hope on Xavier Lea get right now, Hunter Renfro is still working his way back into football shape.

I know that people like David Moore, but but if that's like your second best option, that that's really a situation that's bereft of talent.

And that's the part of it that I think is incredibly discouraging.

Knowing that, you know, the Panthers didn't need to trade out and feel it, I still I'm mad about it.

Like I said the other night, I was rooting against the Minnesota Vikings, despite the fact that the Chicago Bears needed to be testy about the Brice trade from a couple of years ago.

I wanted the Vikings to lose because I don't I don't really want the Vikings fans who were, you know, felt felt like that out'm feeling was their God's given right now.

Was like to them, it was o to them because why would why would he?

Why would you want to waste his time last year in Charlotte come to Minnesota.

Yeah, Minnesota rank right up there in the quality of life rank.

He's get the heck out of here.

That made me mad and and and it still makes me y.

That annoyed me too.

I got petty, Remember how I said, bone, I get petty watching young quarterbacks because I don't want them to succeed.

If you're the struggle Richard Petty, it's so petty.

I I kind of didn't want Feeling to do anything you like, you.

Like that dropped me.

Yeah, he dropped that.

Then he caught the two point and like, all right, he's not a bad guy.

But I just I didn't like the way we catered to him so much.

Pe you know, and I and I and and I thought that that Dan Morgan, you know, while he said all the right things, it did seem like and again I don't want to put words in Dan were his mouth, but it did seem like Feeling approached him and said, hey, I want to go.

I would have been like Dan, I said, well, you're in the contract here, pal like, like, why did we sign here?

So, I mean, I don't know.

It's I understand that it's for a lot of people.

It might be sentimental and and its impact might be minimal.

But at the same point in time, I'm looking at Bryce's wide Receiving Corps and not feeling as comfortable about it going into going into Willie.

A Texter named smelly Cat thinks you sound like a celebrity.

Do you want to hear who?

Smelly Cat thinks you sound like?

Who's that fog horn leghorn?

What?

I don't get it.

I don't hear it?

I don't.

I'm just that's this is what we're doing here.

Does he does he think I sound like the South Carolina governor?

Or what?

That's the one I said?

I said, I said what I don't I get bothering me and I get no foghorn leghorn vibe.

Don't we're done at all?

Man?

I mean he's been clear and obviously an other cartoon character, but this one's this one's new p man.

We got to hurry up doing this before we get out.

We got to talk about Saturday night.

Bro.

Sure, this is huge.

Man.

On Saturday night, we had Bronico on early.

I've just and by the way, after watching the Panthers and other you know, local college teams play football and struggle, I appreciate what Charlotte FC is doing right now with eight straight wins so much more.

And man, what a statement it would be if you tie that record of nine straight wins.

You do it in your house, and I know that place is gonna be going crazy on Saturday, and then you do it against Leo Messi and company.

What's your vibes going into this game?

Do you how good do you feel about their their chances.

Of get in the W I think Charlotte should be favored.

I really do, And I know that that might sound silly, get with all the talent that's on the Miami side, but you know, not having Luis Suarez a significant loss for them.

I know that they might play Messy, which is obviously something you have to account for.

Twenty nine goal contributions on the season in just nineteen games.

He's definitely somebody who's a threat.

But the one thing that I keep coming back to with Miami is that when Messi plays, they are incredibly vulnerable defensively and they concede some confounding goals.

It's actually rather incredible how bad their defense is when Messi is in there.

When when Messi doesn't play, they're actually pretty defensively sound.

It's the weirdest thing.

But because of how forward they get, their defense is so poor that they can see a bunch of confounding chances.

So I think Charl's gonna have the opportunities to be in this game.

I do think that they're going to have to absorb a little bit, because you know, with Messi and Miami, they love the possests.

But at the same point, in time.

I do think that they will have their opportunities, particularly if pet Biel is back, and you know, I know that you would talk about that with Bran Bronago.

I'm going to be at training here in about forty five minutes.

We'll see whether or not pet Biel.

Is on the field.

But if Pep is back, that definitely changes the way Charlott of C plays and gives them a new dynamism offensively.

This is a very highly suspiated a game.

This This might be the most highly disicipated game outside of the decision day game we played against Miami two years ago or any of the playoff games, because a chance to tie the record, a chance to beat Messi, and a chance also to really see this team as close to whole as we've seen them from basically the early first nine games of the eaven They've been so injury ridden in Layden over the course of this season, it's felt like they've rarely been whole.

This is about as whole as they will have been if if Pepiel is back.

I don't know if Topfolo will be back or not, but if Pep is back, that's as whole as they've been since about Game nine of this season.

Love it.

That's the right time too, to start putting it all together, all RP man, let's wrap it up.

Who gets your uncultured swine of the week?

Well?

I did.

I did find it somewhat disappointing that it took MLS about two weeks to suspend Luis Suarez and he's the only one who gets any additional discipline, Like I would have thought Sergio Busquetz would have gotten at least something out of that suspension for you know, punching a dude, Maximiliano Falcone.

There's also somebody who got suspended from League Cup play.

Just I felt like this took a little bit long to actually get done, and I felt like they could have put some more amlescestensions.

But you know what, I'm okay that Miami's coming in somewhat full strength minus Buarez, because I hope we beat him on Saturday night at the Bank as opposed to full strength as they can be.

Because I want to see messy tears, and I don't want to see any pink jerseys in the stands either.

I want to see people wearing blue.

I wanted people booing messy when.

He touches the ball.

I don't like Messi.

I've been no secret about it.

I want us to beat him.

Let's beat him.

I like that, I like IRP.

You demand, baby, you de man.