August 4, 2025 • 38 mins
In the show's final hour, Kyle and Smoke react to some of the biggest storylines following the Panthers fan fest, and Mike Kaye previews a big week ahead for the Panthers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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in just a couple of minutes, Mike Kay Charlotte Observer.
Back in twenty five minutes. We had FanFest on Saturday night.
I took the family. I got there just in time
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to see the scrimmages, to see the excel the Xavier
League get touched down, the Lathan Ransom hit a couple
of missed field goals. We'll get to it in due time,
I promise you that. But caller Will in the previous
segment has lit a stick of dynamite on our FanDuel
text line. Right now, Will called in in sensed is strong,
(01:08):
but probably perplexed, and that feels a little weak. He
doesn't understand why we're talking about the braves. Why we
talk about the braves. And I've gotten this before, and
I didn't know that it would pop off the way
that it did again, But he said, don't we hate
Atlanta like we hate the Falcons, we hate the Hawks.
And I got to say, I don't know very many
people that care enough about the Hawks to hate him.
And sure, I'm just throwing that out there.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I mean, Trey Tree Young annoys me.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
He's annoying, he is hatable. But how much of your
you spend far more of your mental bandwidth hating the
Miami Heat And even that's irrational, Like, even that's somewhat
irrational comparatively speaking to like normal real life stuff. That's irrational.
I've never heard you spend a single moment talking about
the Atlanta Hawks or how much you hate them. So,
like I will say again, and I will revise the
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number a little bit. I'd say eighty five percent of
people on the text line thinks that Will is crazy.
He doesn't get it. The Atlanta Braves have controlled the
entire Southeast for a good long while. Now throw in
some Reds if you're like, if you're wondering why we're
talking about this, Braves and Reds, you know, the two
most prominent baseball fan bases in the region. Like especially
if you grew up more toward the Blue Ridge Mountain,
the Appalachian regions, you know of North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia.
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Big Red Machine, Big Red Machine. It was huge back
in the seventies. Like a lot of folks loved the Reds.
It was kind of like the Pittsburgh Steelers. They were
on TV all the time nationally, so they garnered a
huge fan base. But Will said, I hate them. I
don't know, why are we talking about him? It's the same. Well,
there is no baseball team here and people have rooted
for the Braves for a very long time. I had
dug not a Duke fan. Tell me or somebody said it,
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you know, nobody, Uh, who was it? Somebody said the Braves.
It was like ninety one. He's like, the people didn't
care that much about the Braves until about nineteen ninety one.
I mean I was I was like five that summer,
So I can't speak to it from a place of experience,
but like you know, Hank Aaron was around for a
long time. Hank Aaron was a big deal. And there
was no baseball team back here then either. The Braves
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really got consistently good in the nineties, There's no question
about it. And they were on TBS, a big superstation
that everybody got, but they oh, no, d Superstate the
super Well. WGN is a superstation too, like TBS, baby whatever,
it doesn't matter. So anyway, like that's that's where it
comes from. Most people are like, Will, shut up. There's
a reason for this. Everybody knows it. There are some
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people taking Will's side, though, Three three six numbers said,
I hate Atlanta and everything about it. I hate Luke
Combs for wearing a Falcons jersey. I hate you a
little bit for being a Braves fan. They are the enemy.
He was talking to me. Yes, no brace fan, Kyle Evan.
I already corrected him. It's fine, it's not a big deal.
And no Braves fan.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Evan Smoke Ludwig, the same Evan Smoke Ludwig who pisses
people off when he styes on nails, saying Andrew Jones
is better than Chipper Jones.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, I mean, Bryant said, I get why you talk
about it, but I do hate everything Atlanta. Uh let's
see is a bum says I hate all things Carolina
sport or I hate Atlanta sports. I don't cheer for
the Carolina Hurricanes. Either, that's confusing, is a bum You
might want to you might want to re send that
one if you could. I want to get a few
more of these. Let's see. It's just a lot of people.
(04:04):
So we also had a caller, That's what it was.
During the break, Smoke said, somebody called in and asked
why the Braves had never planted a minor league team
here in the Queen City. I don't have any idea
they've had him. I actually was looking this up. Was
this up because you mentioned in Matt from Greensboro asking
about this? Okay, so Matt from Greensboro. Oh, Matt was
the caller, Mat from Greensboro. He was asking about the ideas, like,
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don't really think there's been a Braves team around here
that actually is in North Carolina specifically?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
That actually is not true. And I completely forgot about this.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Where was it, Duram the Bulls throughout the eighties and nineties.
I feel really stupid too now, Yes, and they but
I said, Charlotte, So okay, I was thinking Charlotte. You
said North Carolina in general, North Carolina and general. Yeah,
oh okay, okay, because.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
You know you go up to the Tryaday area.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I remember my dad tell me, oh, yeah, I went
to go see Don Mattingly play when he was in
the minors in Greensboro with the Grasshoppers.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah whatever they were called at the time.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
So yeah, up until ninety seven and then they got
balled out by the Rays or Devil Rays. They've actually
been with the Devil Rays from the beginning. That's kind
of shocking that a team's been linked to a minor
league team since day one.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
That's interesting.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
But yeah, so when they were filming Bull Durham, they
were a Braves affiliates. Okay, yeah, Actually, now that you've
mentioned that, I didn't know that. So you got that one.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I know there were three separate ones, Like the Braves
had their Triple A team in Richmond, Virginia for like
forty or forty five years, Like they were the Braves
Triple A team before they moved back down to Georgia
and Gwinett. They were in Richmond for at least forty years.
I think they had an Appalachian League team in Pilaska.
They were the Pulaski Braves. I know that because Urban
Meyer played for them, and the Danville Braves also at
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Palachian League.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I think.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
So there were at least three that I know of
in the Commonwealth. You mentioned the Durham Bulls. They've had
at least I think two in the state of Georgia.
I don't know where the others were from. Yeah, the
Gwenett Braves now Gurnett's Ripers. I'm made a mistake when
I first saw the Quinnet name when they've rechanged a
couple of years ago. And I believe the Mississippi Braves
is your double A affiliate.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yeah, I think that's what it's been like. So I
kind of I know my teams and I know a
lot of the teams around here. Like I don't know
if you noticed, my dad used to have a massive
session before he got into coaching, of collecting minor league
baseball hats.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Oh, it's the greatest. I think Ryan McGee shout out
Ryan McGee at ESPN. I think he does that too.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And he still has it in his closet somewhere.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I wanted to do that for the longest time, but
I was way too broke, so I couldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah, and when I was ball parks.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Like I had, I think he went to countless games
at the Carolina Mudcats, and he had a beautiful Mudcats logo.
Hat of course, Hickory crawd ansl is the game I
went to, uhlive ads. Oh he had the Chattanooga Lookouts.
Still one of the best names in Minor league baseball,
so stuff like that. But yeah, I'm a lot of
teams have actually not been from around here, are not
close to the Braves. It's usually been the add the
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Rangers because he had to Gastony Rangers, Hickory crawd Ads
Pirates have been affiliated with a lot of these teams.
You go up more to the Triangle, tried to there's
a lot of I think the Ashfield Tours are now
with the Astros. You know, they've been affiliated with the
Astros for a couple of years. But yeah, not a
lot of local local teams really here out with the Braves.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
W F and Z comment or chastising Will the caller,
he said, Hey, the Braves have given me more as
a fan than the Panthers and Hornets combined. It's like, yeah,
I mean, how you can argue with that? You canna
argue with that?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Man?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
One baby, Yeah, nine to one, oh numbers said he's
chastising us too, or no, he's chastising us.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
He says, we're showing our ages because you brought up
the Durham Braves connection, and he is right about that.
You are showing your age. I did a brain fart,
But you also said, Charlotte, so I wasn't thinking about
Raleigh as someone who loves the movie Bull Durham. I
didn't know that, but yeah, I didn't think. I didn't
think of it when you brought it up. It's a
good point. He also points out the Great South Carolina
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had a Braves Farm club for many years. And I
just got a text. What was this, Richard Walker? Yeah, yeah,
shout out Richard Walker.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Baby.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
He just texted me on the personal line and pointed
out that Myrtle Beach was also with the Braves for
a while. That's the thing about minor league teams. They
change affiliations often all the time, like it is rare,
like a lot of these Triple A teams will stay
put for a long time, but a lot of the
others have just you know, well, that makes with the
Crawdads so weird because the Crawdads had been with the
Rangers since two thousand and nine and they're a high
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A affiliate.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah, sixteen years with one team as a high affiliate
is a long long time. Yes, it is so. And
I mean with the Knights, we haven't even gotten to
the fact that for the longest time that was a
Charlotte Oh's baby. You gotta see Kyl Reckon and Richard
Walker's gotten to see his favorite share of legends come
through Gaston County. Sammy Sosa, Jose Conseco, Pud Rodriguez all
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played for the Gastoni Rangers.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, yeah, good stuff. Text line's blowing up, yo. I
can't keep up with what you've got there, but I
have a few people backing me up. By the way,
different topic on the whole beanie wheenies aka beans and
whenies being a Southern staple. Smoke's never heard of it.
Smoke has never heard of beanie like you Just to
be clear here, you've never heard of beanie Whenie's I've
(09:15):
never had oh, because you made it seem like you
were not aware of the concept of beanie Whenie's.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
What I just don't I feel like it's one of
those things where two things don't match, you know what
I mean? But considering how many people have said it's
a good match, I might have to eventually try down
the line.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Do you like big beans?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Do you like hot dogs?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Okay, there's your answer.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
All right, Yeah, that's probably my answer.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I keep some hot dogs and put them in some
some beans.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
People are also like, didn't you ever live on a
college campus? And to those people, I say no, I
was a commuter student that was working here while going
to college.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, although there's one guy from Canada who said they
called him beanie Weenies up in Canada too awesome, but
they are cool. They also tend to like steal a
lot of Southern culture. And I don't mean that like
a in a bad way.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
You're going after the cowboy culture.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
They have, no, I mean they have. They got legit
cowboy culture up there on the planes, like in Saskatchewan
and stuff like that. Culture Wall, like Culture Wall is
a real cowboy guys like that. But like, there have
been a lot of great Southern rock songs that you
find out were written by Canadian bands. That's like, that's
what I'm talking about. They love them some Southern culture
up in Canada, parts of it anyway, all right? Seven
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oh four five seven ninety six ten. Hit us up
on the fan duel text line we love your thoughts
again Mike Case Charlotte Observer coming up here. In the
next segment, we got to talk about the Panthers and
this week of course Cleveland Brown's joint practice, preseason game
number one coming up on Friday, and fan Fest over
the weekend. And I've had a few people text in
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to say, KB, how did FanFest go with the kiddos
on Saturday? It was great. Not that everybody out there
cares about my personal life for dragging the kids to stuff,
but as a dad of young kids, like I want
to take my kids to stuff. My kids are finally
getting of age where I can take them to do stuff.
And my son turned three years old over the weekend.
He's had a Panthers jersey. He's been I won't say
he's been dying to wear it because he's three and
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he doesn't think that much about those things, but you know,
he was very excited to put it on. Then he
saw all the other kids wearing pants, so like it
was great from a dad's perspective. And then to get
into the stadium, the Panthers did a great job. You know,
with FanFest, I thought the atmosphere, the vibe was phenomenal
inside the stadium, everybody was having a good time. You
could tell every smoke. I saw the wave make seven
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laps around Bank of America Stadium, like legit wave. I'm
not talking about twelve stragglers keeping it alive in front
of you. The whole wave went around Bank of America
Stadium at least a half a dozen times on Saturday night.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Okay, so that happened at the Metallica concert too a
couple of months ago. Yeah, it happened about four or
five times. But I also think the libations were a
lot better and there was a more mature audience. Yeah,
that's great to hear. I remember I was at the
race at Rockingham. It somewhat tried to do to the wave.
It was one of the worst attempted waves I've ever
seen in my lifetime. He only got like two rows
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and then everyone stopped.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
It's like it's not cool anymore, and so it usually
gets half asked because most people in our are they
think the wave is lame, so they don't really want
to participate in it. But on Saturday night, that was
not the case. More importantly, though, you got some looks
at some starters. Xcel had a drop that bothered some people,
but he also had a touchdown catch, and it was
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one where Bryce was kind of drifting out to his right.
The play had to develop for a couple of seconds.
I joked earlier in the show that as the play
was developing, there were a handful of Panthers fans around
me screaming.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Throw the dam ball, throw the ball.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
And then he did and it turned into a touchdown.
They went from like screaming to cheerings. That's what football
fans do. But notable about that play is Excel showing
off his speed. That was what really stood out to
me on that play, not that we hadn't seen it,
but that for all the hand ringing about Xavier leg
Get and the drops last year and year two, you
were reminded on that play that that dude can flat
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out run people an open field. A sneaky fast wide receiver.
That's what we're going with, sneaky fast me and he is,
like you think, just I think more so because he's
six foot five.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
He's pretty tall for a wide receiver. You think four five,
four six, that's probably what you're going with. And that
was the conversation with tedor Roord this year. With a
four five four forty that he ran at his pro day.
Sounds right, but we a often forget zavierly Get had
like a four to three eight. Yes, that and I
know that's not the best of the best, but that's
top line speed for a wide receiver, especially at that measurement.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, when he got to galloping, he got up to
top speed about four steps maybe three, and he outran
the rest of the defense. So that was nice to see.
You know, you had Leith and Ransom. By the way,
we have Texters who sent us a link to the
video that I was asking for Leith and Ransom. I
still don't I got to pull up the Panthers roster here,
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but he lit up a wide receiver in the back
of the end zone on a throw from Andy Dalton.
And I don't think Dave Canalis could could really be
honest about how he felt about it.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
It was.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
It.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
You know, it was like last week when he said
he secretly loved JT. Sanders taunting the sideline. He secretly
loved JC Horn after a big play punting the football.
You know, with attitude things like that. He doesn't want
them to do it because they're dumb plays that will
draw penalties, but he loves the passion and fire that
they're playing with. Same kind of thing from Lathan Ransom,
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where I mean he just it wasn't It might have
been horned. You can't tell on the video and I
was seated too far away to see it. But Leathan Ransom,
there was a ball in the back of the end
zone up for grabs. Ransom timed it perfectly and could
have decapitated the wide receiver. He held back a little bit,
but it was still a hit that the entire stadium
went ooh right, And so Dave was asked about it
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after the fact. And it just ties into the last
week of theme surrounding this team, where a lot of
these guys are playing with an edge, they're playing with
an attitude, They're pushing the envelope in practice, in scrimmages,
and it makes me wonder if we're setting up for
a couple of training camp fights and joint practice fights
on Wednesday against the Cleveland Browns, because I think these
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Panthers are chomping at the bit to get after somebody
not wearing black and blue, and I can't wait for
Wednesday's practice because of it.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
God blessed show.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Flacco just might be his I need to retire moment
this weekend if they are as chippy as they have been. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm half joking, but I'm also not joking as another
sense too.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Sure. Nine eight numbers just said that hit was old
school safety style and I loved it. Yes, that's exactly right,
Josh and fort Mill. Ransom is the new Kirk Coleman.
You'll take that. Jack said his rants. Okay, Jack says
his ransom more, Sam Franklinard, Jamie Robinson. I'm not dignifying
that with a response, because you're hoping for better. All right, Well,
come back, we'll talk about all this. Mike Kay Charlotte observer,
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he was in the house. He covers the Panthers every day.
We'll talk to him next. Sports Radio ninety two to
seven wfn Z. All right, So, what I've learned on
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today's show is that we have a lot of people
that love Beanie Wheeney's aka Beans and Weeneyes. If you're
up north, maybe Franken Beans, although that's even in dispute
right now too. We've learned that I still got to
get back to what folks have deemed their most disappointing
sporting event experiences in life. After the debacle that was
the MLB Speedway Classic in Bristol this weekend, Brave's got
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to win. Everybody still got to see baseball, and I'm
sure tailgate and have a good time. But logistically it
was apparently a nightmare. So we got all those things
going on. Plus of course the Panthers and the Browns
this week in preseason on the heels of FanFest on Saturday,
and I was not there as a credentialed member of
the media. I was there as a dad letting my
three year old son take in his first NFL experience.
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So let's talk to a guy who was there in
the press box doing his job. He always does it well.
Mike Kay, Charlotte observer, Carolina Panthers beat writer is back
with us here on a Monday. Mike, I appreciate the time, brother.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
How are you, you know, hanging in there a little
sore from you know, standing but all this but uh,
you know you guys stretch okay before you watch practice.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
But yeah, we are getting old. So stretching is it's encouraged.
I agree with you. Now I have to point out
that Mike is uh, you know, Mike's not just good
at his job. Mike is diligent, Mike is patient, Mike
is kind. Mike is always standing there for the duration
of practice, watching these guys and taking it all in.
So let me start with the big picture stuff. Mike
as somebody who is both reliable and there every day,
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what would you tell the folks out there? How would
you characterize the training camp that the Panthers have had
to this point solid?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I mean, I don't think anybody of importance has been
particularly underwhelming. I think that that's a big positive. I think,
you know, te mac McMillan's kind of gone through what
most would consider, you know, rookie mistakes and like growing
pains getting to the NFL. I mean, he's going from
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the University of Arizona to the NFL. You know, there's
gonna be an adjustment. I think most of the draft
picks have flashed, including him. And you know, I think
the veterans for the most part, are competing at a
pretty high level. I mean, you know, the Center competition
and the care competition, were the only two like legitimate
starting competitions before training camp, and both of them seem
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pretty even. So I think it's been a pretty competitive,
you know, training camp. I know there are some minor injuries,
but for the most part, they've been largely unscathed, and
I think all of that is positive. If you're a
Panther span or if you're within the organization.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, i'd agree. You talked about McMillan there a second ago.
Let's stay there. Give me your your big picture thoughts
on the wide receiver room, but you know, also a
bit more on McMillan, because I know he's a top
ten pick, Mike, but you know, if he gets off
to a slow start, I won't necessarily be shocked by that.
Your thoughts on on both the room itself, but you know,
early expectations.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
For the rookie, well, I think with him, his floor
was always going to be high because his hands are
so dependable and he can bully guys that are smaller
than him. And in the NFL, even with guys that
are built like j. C. Horn, you know, there's like
seven of them, they can actually do it. At jcy
Horn's level, He's still going to be bigger than that.
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So I think there's he's got a high four. I
think he will be productive this year. Cow productive kind
of there's like kind of a weird long spectrum because
you know, he needs to do well as a route runner.
He needs to be able to separate. Well. Everything can't
be a contested catch. Because that's the case, then you're
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not probably not gonna get some big place you were
hoping for. And this team has lasted speed at wide
receiver for years and that was a concern of mind
heading into this you know draft. But we've also seen him,
seen him flash like he got opened a couple of
days ago on a post route where it looked like
he was running a four to three Like he looks
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like he's running fast when he runs, and he was
able to get a touched on about forty five yards untouched.
So I think you're gonna take the good with the bat.
He is a guy who's still learning. He doesn't his
elite trait is not something that he's gonna allow him
to get this kind of separation. But you will see
that he is able to break down the ball. I
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think the wide receiver room has been a pleasant surprise.
They had seven or eight Rosster or both players right now,
and I think, you know, guys are taking advantage of
their reps FanFest s. Eaven Moore had a really nice
night with Hunter Renfro Sideline. Hunter Rentro before he severed
a hamstring injury, was lighting up practices more productive than
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pretty much any other offensive player. And then I think,
like Adam Feeling has been really reliable, Jimmy Horn is
like impossible to cover one on one without pad with pads,
He's kind of been human, but it's still as we
saw him fan fat. If you've seen this guy correctly,
he can get open in a flash. And I think
they feel really good about where they're at. Plus Davior
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La Guet looks healthy and it's making play, so all's
good there.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mike Case Charlotte observer, he's with us
on the Bodyworks plus Guest hotline. Somebody earlier today described
bryce As training camp as not incredible but incredibly solid,
and I like that. I like that characterization myself. I
haven't seen as many practices as you have, but from
what I have seen, it's been a lot of good.
I haven't seen anything amazing, but I've seen a lot
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of good a lot of consistency. Friday, maybe the offense
didn't have its best day, But I get the sense
that over there Dave Canalis really is happy with what
he's saying from Bryce.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Is that what you think?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, and he's been fine. I think that's the takeaway.
Like we talk about, like you and I are both
baseball fans, If the team is winning a ton of
close games and they're at the height of height of
the variants, that's probably not sustainable. Like you remember when
the Vikings were winning all those games a couple of
years ago, and then they just completely bombed in the playoffs. Like,
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you want performances to be consistent and tangible. And I
think what's going on right now is Bryce is testing
himself in practice. I've seen people get a set over
interceptions in practice, and you know, tell me you haven't
you know, watched the training camp consistently without telling me that, Yeah,
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these guys are trying to test themselves. They're trying to
get away with stuff, They're trying to see what they
can get away with. They're trying to build chemistry. And
I'm not making excuses for Bright. He's had some you know,
lame moments, but I think for the most part he's
showing a very good command of the offense. I think
he is not getting rattled when he does make a mistake.
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What I liked about him consistently in practice, and what
I think he's done a very good job of is
recovering from bad plays. You know, off the top of
my head, I can think of maybe eight or nine
in receptions, but like probably in the plays after that,
five to six of them he's thrown really good balls.
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I think he is throwing as many dime throws as
he is you know, turnover worthy throws. So I think
he's been consistent, and I think you've got to feel
good about that. Consistency's more important than flash in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, no, I agree. Now, you know, football is not
about vibes, right. You can't win games on vibes, and
vibes are a lot of what you get from training
camp just because of the very nature of it, good
or bad. But I do you know between let's say
last week, J T. Sanders jawing with the defensive sideline,
j C. Horn with a pick and punting the football,
(24:11):
even Lathan Ransom that big hit Saturday night on the
undrafted wide receiver. Dave Canalis has pointed these things out
as mistakes that can't be made on game day, but
has acknowledged that he also kind of loves that stuff
because he feels like his team is playing with an edge, Like,
what is your take on that, how much edge, how
much attitude, how much how much you know need to
(24:32):
prove it is they're out there based on your observations.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
So I would say from the start of the Frank
Reich era to the Denver game last year, this team
came off exceptionally sw Yeah, and I think something clicked
when J. C. Corn went it Sean Payton in Denver.
That's when they started to kind of build momentum. That's
(24:58):
when they said, Hey, we're not going to take this anymore,
not going to be laughing stocks. And I think Dave's
ANALYSI deserves a lot of credit because he was always consistent,
He always showed the belief and something I talk about
a lot. I'm a guy who judges on process, not
necessarily production, and so I think what's going on is
(25:19):
they've taken the promise of those final seven or eight
games and they are trying to find fruit and right now,
I think they feel very good about where they're at
from a process standpoint. Now that could mean nothing when
it comes to the regular season, but I think the
guys are buying into the process. I don't remember who
said it early in training camps, but it was a
(25:41):
veteran who said it felt like they had gone from
being a team to a program. And I think for
a lot of these guys, a lot of these younger
guys feeling that we're coming from the SEC or coming
from nil at major schools in other conferences. They like
that they feel bad they are you know, I think
(26:02):
this team average is like twenty six years old. Like
they're bought into stuff that they've already seen be successful.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
A couple of things will let you go. Mike Case
Charlotte Observer, he's with us here hanging out recapping fan Fest,
looking ahead to Cleveland this week. What do you think
Dave tries to get out of this week of joint
practice in the game coming up on Friday. We know
the starters are going to play more, but like, what
areas of focus do you think will stand out based
on his week of preparation?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Well, one thing healthy.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Two.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I think this is a really good test for both
the offensive line and the front seven. So you know,
Nick Chubb's not in the backfield anymore. But they have
a pretty good stable of running backs. They have three
all Pro caliber offensive linemen and Joel Batonio, Jack Conklin
(26:51):
and Wyatt Teller, and I think they're going to push
the guys up front. They brought in all of these guys.
They brought and brought Bobby Brown, who's having a nice
camp since he got back on the field. They brought
in Turk Wharton who was having a pretty good training
camp as a pass rusher. You know, Derek Brown hopefully
(27:11):
can take part in team drills. Casin to this point,
I mean, they've got the new look linebacker Trevin Wallace
who's looked really good as a blitzer, and Christian rose
Boom has done well as a run defender. You want
to see next Ferry over and then you know Nick
s Gorton's dealing with a hamstring injury, but him, Princely
EuMon Meelan could get tested there. They have an offensive
(27:31):
tackle to name escaping me but he is like the
biggest tackle in the league basically, and there was a
picture of him just engulfing Miles Garrett the other day,
and I think offensive line wise, look, you want to
see Icky and Taylor Mowten be able to handle a
guy like Miles Garrett. And then internal, like in the interior,
(27:52):
you want to see how they do against Bason Graham,
who I've seen a lot of highlights on the practice
and he looks kind of like the player at Michigan
that everybody kind of fawned over. So I think it's
going to be a good test for the trenches of
both sides. What I'd like to see is have these
wide receivers and cornerbacks, all of which have seemingly either
(28:13):
overachieved or played well, do against you know, the corners
against Deontay Johnson and Jerry Judy, the wide receivers against
Denzel Ward and Greg Newsome. Like, I think there's a
lot to like about this matchup, and I think they're.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Going to get a lot out of it, all right,
real quick, last thing, the Panthers signed Chris Barnes, linebacker
played a lot in Green Bay Less, so the last
couple of years in Arizona they let go of to Aceividamora,
who they signed as a free agent out of Fresno State.
I would love your thoughts on that, but also just
big picture, you know, it seems like they're going to
(28:47):
go with the answers on the roster at a couple
of these positions as opposed to chasing free agents. You know,
is there another move, another position you would expect them
to add before Week one?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Well, first off, phenomenal nuncie a ship. Second off, I
do think they're going to keep an eye on the
linebacker group in the NFL. The free agency pile is
kind of a nightmare right now. Like Chris Bardines is
one of the few guys with like legitimate experience that
made senses is maybe like a cheap backup who can
(29:19):
perform throughout training camp. Them fighting Kim is more of
a threat I think the guys like Claude and Cherry
Lists and John Radigan than it is to pushing the charters.
But I think it's nice to have a third guy
that has experience who's proven to be relatively durable. I
think they're going to keep an eye on the linebacker market.
(29:42):
Brand Tillas said the other day that the waiver wires
and kind of what it used to be. Maybe they
look into you know, they have, like I said, seven
to eight rosterble of wide receivers, they've got probably about
ten to eleven rosterble offense. Why maybe they try to
flip one of those guys for another player. You know,
player for trades are kind of in vogue during training camp.
You know, one one team waiver wire fodder is another team,
(30:07):
you know, role player. So I could see that. I
think they feel really good about their cornerback group. I
think the last time I was on your show, I
said that they like their cornerback group a lot more
than we do. Now I'm kind of seeing why. I mean,
Corey Thornton's been terrific, Shamar Bartholomew is making plays, Shot
Smith Wade has been the best devinsive player in camp,
(30:28):
and I don't think that's arguable at this point that
from a consistency standpoint to play production standpoint. So like,
I think they feel fine about corner I mean, if
there's an injury, everything to go, you know, anywhere, And
I think offensively they like what they have, so barring injury,
I think linebacker's really the spot. I mean safety obviously,
Julian Blackman's side with the Saint Justin Simmons still lingers
(30:51):
out there. But if Justin Simmons was somebody that they
really wanted at the price that he wanted, he'd probably
be here already. And if he wanted to be here
instead of going to a contender, he probably have dropped
his money demand my gut. So we'll keep an eye
on it, But really, I think they feel good about
their internal solution.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
No doubt.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Mike ca Charlotte, observer, Panthers beat writer, hanging out with
us here on a Monday, Buddy. I always appreciate you.
I'll see you tomorrow and I cannot wait to spend
my Sundays with you starting very soon.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Play you know what I mean. There are better places
to be, but I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
See you tomorrow, buddy. Mike Kay Charlotte observer with us
hang it out on the hotline talking Panthers seven oh
four five seven ninety six ten. Hit us up and
let us know right now we go to smoke on
the headlines.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
All right.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
I think this would have caught some more headlines a
couple of weeks ago than it would have this past weekend.
But Pete Famill reported on Friday that Stanford is hiring
former Nike CEO John Donahue as the school's new athletic director.
Stanford covered in a non traditional candidate for the role,
and Ana hughes Hire delivers a season CEO with stints
(32:03):
at Nike Bain Company as well as eBay.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
All right, So we're no longer hiring career administrators. We
are hiring marketing and C suite executives to run to
run college athletics departments. That's what it sounds like there, Kyle, Yeah,
I mean it's changing times. It's a different, different world
we live in.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
What else you got, all right?
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Sen?
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Some big news this weekend for the NBA.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
We've seen a lot of deals get done over the
last forty eight to seventy two hours, I believe, first
thing on Saturday, just conveniently less than a week after
that Men's Fitness article dropped. Luka Doncics just got a
massive new pay day. Dearon Fox got an extension right
as is we started to show, and Mikail Bridges late
last week got a five year extension as well.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
So a lot of the core players.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Of somebody's championship contending teams or young teams that could
be attending getting paid over the last seventy two hours.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
All right, we'll come back wrap up this here radio
program Sports Radio wf and Z. Hey one final time
(33:18):
Sports Radio ninety two seven wfn Z, KB and Smoke
wrapping up the workday with you. You are probably long
gone and home by now, but if you're out there
and still grinding, have a good evening. We appreciate you
being with us. Don't forget Mack and Bone tomorrow live
from Panthers training camp. They're going to have the coach,
the quarterback, and the general manager, Dave Canalyst, Dan Morgan,
and Bryce Young all stopping by the Mack and Bone
(33:41):
Show tomorrow, So make sure to be there six to
ten am tomorrow morning, right here on wfn Z Cleveland,
Brown's in town. We'll get some great Cleveland guests in
this week. We'll talk about the game joint practice on Wednesday.
We'll see if there are some fisticuffs.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
In this one.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
I'm secretly hoping that we get some some fiery fight.
I don't want it to ruin the joint practice, but
like I kind of want to see some fiery you know,
extra curriculars on Wednesday, damn it, some Ballely. Who am
I wrong for asking for that? Because it's not a
good thing.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
As long as it doesn't go too far.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
All right, Okay, you're right, kind of like a hockey fight,
you know, I should rein it in some you're right
about that. All right, We got to catch you up
on what you've missed. It's time for the rewind and
we go back to Alburd Number one, The return of
Agent eighty nine. Steve Smith, Senior Panthers Legend NFL Network analyst,
stop by. He's been busy, he's been at Pittsburgh Training Camp,
(34:36):
Kansas City Training Camp, Tampa Bay Training Camp. But we
did talk some Panthers and here Steve Smith on what
he wants to see from rookie receiver ted a Roll
McMillan in the early portion of his rookie season.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
I don't have a problem with sek TAC camp play.
If you throw the football in the air and he's
in a facinity, he's.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Gonna catch it.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
My biggest question is I just want to see how
how much of explosiveness does he have to separate? And
that's a that's just a wide receivers analysis and nitpicking.
But it's only nitpicking until it becomes a problem. You
remember a couple of years ago we had some dynamic
football players and they were worse than the league with separation. Yeah,
(35:23):
so it all factors into things.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Later in the same conversation, more from Smitty on what
he makes of the NFC South outside of Carolina based on.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
What I'm looking at, it can be, but also Atlanta's
kind of creeping up in there as well. Michael Pennix
is really doing.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
A heck of a job.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
You know, I've been very critical of Baker Mayfield, but
you got to call a spade a spade, a pig
a pig, and my man is balmer. He's taking that
offense and he's really putting up numbers. Now, the New
Orleans Saints looked like regurgitated. He they're awful. They're gonna
be third Doodoo. And you have Michael pennantt who in
(36:07):
Atlanta they're running a they're running out pistol formation. He
loves to push the ball down the field. Small little nugget.
When Kirk Cousin was in the game, Drake Lundon is
only averaging forty you know, only being targeted twenty seven
percent below thirty percent of the of the targets of
the share of passing. Michael Pennance gets in there. He's
(36:28):
almost above forty.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Later in the show, David Teal, the Dan of acc
Sports writers back and we cover a lot mostly football.
But given the news of the day that NCUBA President
Charlie Baker's announced that any talks of NCAA tournament expansion
have been tabled until the twenty twenty seven season, here's
David Teal on what he thinks about that.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Because their TV partners are balking, they're paying more money,
and if the TV partners won't pay more money, they're
not going to expand because it's too to stage more
games and more venues, and nobody wants to take the haircut.
Everybody's trying to figure out how to compensate athletes and oh,
(37:10):
by the way, pay the back damages for the house settlement,
which the NCBLA is on the hook four and all
these schools to the tune. If you're a power for school,
you're looking at a million, million and a half a
year that you have to pay for back damages. So
that's the hold up, and I think it's the negotiations
(37:32):
with TV partners that will determine the fate of expansion.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
That's the rewind to look back into the show each
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Speaker 3 (37:59):
Smoke what you got.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Tip my Captain Steve Smith for regurgitated cheese and dirt
dodoo dirt doo dooo. Yeah, I could read your mind
on dirt donkey.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Dirt dirt doodoo is how he described the New Orleans
Saints in twenty twenty five. I'll tip my cap to
the Lake Norman Little Leaguers Southeast Regional down in one
of Robins, Georgia. I don't even think they've played today
because of the rain so far. It was supposed to
happen at eleven, but it got delayed. Yeah, and the
ladies too, They actually played today on the softball side.
Go get them, boys and girls, Go get them. We're
(38:30):
back tomorrow, looking forward to it. Until then for smoke
clud But I'm Kyle Bailey. Sports Radio ninety two seven
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in just a couple of minutes, Mike Kay Charlotte Observer.
Back in twenty five minutes. We had FanFest on Saturday night.
I took the family. I got there just in time
(00:47):
to see the scrimmages, to see the excel the Xavier
League get touched down, the Lathan Ransom hit a couple
of missed field goals. We'll get to it in due time,
I promise you that. But caller Will in the previous
segment has lit a stick of dynamite on our FanDuel
text line. Right now, Will called in in sensed is strong,
(01:08):
but probably perplexed, and that feels a little weak. He
doesn't understand why we're talking about the braves. Why we
talk about the braves. And I've gotten this before, and
I didn't know that it would pop off the way
that it did again, But he said, don't we hate
Atlanta like we hate the Falcons, we hate the Hawks.
And I got to say, I don't know very many
people that care enough about the Hawks to hate him.
And sure, I'm just throwing that out there.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I mean, Trey Tree Young annoys me.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
He's annoying, he is hatable. But how much of your
you spend far more of your mental bandwidth hating the
Miami Heat And even that's irrational, Like, even that's somewhat
irrational comparatively speaking to like normal real life stuff. That's irrational.
I've never heard you spend a single moment talking about
the Atlanta Hawks or how much you hate them. So,
like I will say again, and I will revise the
(01:51):
number a little bit. I'd say eighty five percent of
people on the text line thinks that Will is crazy.
He doesn't get it. The Atlanta Braves have controlled the
entire Southeast for a good long while. Now throw in
some Reds if you're like, if you're wondering why we're
talking about this, Braves and Reds, you know, the two
most prominent baseball fan bases in the region. Like especially
if you grew up more toward the Blue Ridge Mountain,
the Appalachian regions, you know of North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia.
(02:14):
Big Red Machine, Big Red Machine. It was huge back
in the seventies. Like a lot of folks loved the Reds.
It was kind of like the Pittsburgh Steelers. They were
on TV all the time nationally, so they garnered a
huge fan base. But Will said, I hate them. I
don't know, why are we talking about him? It's the same. Well,
there is no baseball team here and people have rooted
for the Braves for a very long time. I had
dug not a Duke fan. Tell me or somebody said it,
(02:36):
you know, nobody, Uh, who was it? Somebody said the Braves.
It was like ninety one. He's like, the people didn't
care that much about the Braves until about nineteen ninety one.
I mean I was I was like five that summer,
So I can't speak to it from a place of experience,
but like you know, Hank Aaron was around for a
long time. Hank Aaron was a big deal. And there
was no baseball team back here then either. The Braves
(02:58):
really got consistently good in the nineties, There's no question
about it. And they were on TBS, a big superstation
that everybody got, but they oh, no, d Superstate the
super Well. WGN is a superstation too, like TBS, baby whatever,
it doesn't matter. So anyway, like that's that's where it
comes from. Most people are like, Will, shut up. There's
a reason for this. Everybody knows it. There are some
(03:19):
people taking Will's side, though, Three three six numbers said,
I hate Atlanta and everything about it. I hate Luke
Combs for wearing a Falcons jersey. I hate you a
little bit for being a Braves fan. They are the enemy.
He was talking to me. Yes, no brace fan, Kyle Evan.
I already corrected him. It's fine, it's not a big deal.
And no Braves fan.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Evan Smoke Ludwig, the same Evan Smoke Ludwig who pisses
people off when he styes on nails, saying Andrew Jones
is better than Chipper Jones.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, I mean, Bryant said, I get why you talk
about it, but I do hate everything Atlanta. Uh let's
see is a bum says I hate all things Carolina
sport or I hate Atlanta sports. I don't cheer for
the Carolina Hurricanes. Either, that's confusing, is a bum You
might want to you might want to re send that
one if you could. I want to get a few
more of these. Let's see. It's just a lot of people.
(04:04):
So we also had a caller, That's what it was.
During the break, Smoke said, somebody called in and asked
why the Braves had never planted a minor league team
here in the Queen City. I don't have any idea
they've had him. I actually was looking this up. Was
this up because you mentioned in Matt from Greensboro asking
about this? Okay, so Matt from Greensboro. Oh, Matt was
the caller, Mat from Greensboro. He was asking about the ideas, like,
(04:26):
don't really think there's been a Braves team around here
that actually is in North Carolina specifically?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
That actually is not true. And I completely forgot about this.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Where was it, Duram the Bulls throughout the eighties and nineties.
I feel really stupid too now, Yes, and they but
I said, Charlotte, So okay, I was thinking Charlotte. You
said North Carolina in general, North Carolina and general. Yeah,
oh okay, okay, because.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
You know you go up to the Tryaday area.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I remember my dad tell me, oh, yeah, I went
to go see Don Mattingly play when he was in
the minors in Greensboro with the Grasshoppers.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah whatever they were called at the time.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
So yeah, up until ninety seven and then they got
balled out by the Rays or Devil Rays. They've actually
been with the Devil Rays from the beginning. That's kind
of shocking that a team's been linked to a minor
league team since day one.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
That's interesting.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
But yeah, so when they were filming Bull Durham, they
were a Braves affiliates. Okay, yeah, Actually, now that you've
mentioned that, I didn't know that. So you got that one.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I know there were three separate ones, Like the Braves
had their Triple A team in Richmond, Virginia for like
forty or forty five years, Like they were the Braves
Triple A team before they moved back down to Georgia
and Gwinett. They were in Richmond for at least forty years.
I think they had an Appalachian League team in Pilaska.
They were the Pulaski Braves. I know that because Urban
Meyer played for them, and the Danville Braves also at
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Palachian League.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I think.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
So there were at least three that I know of
in the Commonwealth. You mentioned the Durham Bulls. They've had
at least I think two in the state of Georgia.
I don't know where the others were from. Yeah, the
Gwenett Braves now Gurnett's Ripers. I'm made a mistake when
I first saw the Quinnet name when they've rechanged a
couple of years ago. And I believe the Mississippi Braves
is your double A affiliate.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yeah, I think that's what it's been like. So I
kind of I know my teams and I know a
lot of the teams around here. Like I don't know
if you noticed, my dad used to have a massive
session before he got into coaching, of collecting minor league
baseball hats.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Oh, it's the greatest. I think Ryan McGee shout out
Ryan McGee at ESPN. I think he does that too.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And he still has it in his closet somewhere.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I wanted to do that for the longest time, but
I was way too broke, so I couldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah, and when I was ball parks.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Like I had, I think he went to countless games
at the Carolina Mudcats, and he had a beautiful Mudcats logo.
Hat of course, Hickory crawd ansl is the game I
went to, uhlive ads. Oh he had the Chattanooga Lookouts.
Still one of the best names in Minor league baseball,
so stuff like that. But yeah, I'm a lot of
teams have actually not been from around here, are not
close to the Braves. It's usually been the add the
(06:56):
Rangers because he had to Gastony Rangers, Hickory crawd Ads
Pirates have been affiliated with a lot of these teams.
You go up more to the Triangle, tried to there's
a lot of I think the Ashfield Tours are now
with the Astros. You know, they've been affiliated with the
Astros for a couple of years. But yeah, not a
lot of local local teams really here out with the Braves.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
W F and Z comment or chastising Will the caller,
he said, Hey, the Braves have given me more as
a fan than the Panthers and Hornets combined. It's like, yeah,
I mean, how you can argue with that? You canna
argue with that?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Man?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
One baby, Yeah, nine to one, oh numbers said he's
chastising us too, or no, he's chastising us.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
He says, we're showing our ages because you brought up
the Durham Braves connection, and he is right about that.
You are showing your age. I did a brain fart,
But you also said, Charlotte, so I wasn't thinking about
Raleigh as someone who loves the movie Bull Durham. I
didn't know that, but yeah, I didn't think. I didn't
think of it when you brought it up. It's a
good point. He also points out the Great South Carolina
(08:01):
had a Braves Farm club for many years. And I
just got a text. What was this, Richard Walker? Yeah, yeah,
shout out Richard Walker.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Baby.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
He just texted me on the personal line and pointed
out that Myrtle Beach was also with the Braves for
a while. That's the thing about minor league teams. They
change affiliations often all the time, like it is rare,
like a lot of these Triple A teams will stay
put for a long time, but a lot of the
others have just you know, well, that makes with the
Crawdads so weird because the Crawdads had been with the
Rangers since two thousand and nine and they're a high
(08:30):
A affiliate.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah, sixteen years with one team as a high affiliate
is a long long time. Yes, it is so. And
I mean with the Knights, we haven't even gotten to
the fact that for the longest time that was a
Charlotte Oh's baby. You gotta see Kyl Reckon and Richard
Walker's gotten to see his favorite share of legends come
through Gaston County. Sammy Sosa, Jose Conseco, Pud Rodriguez all
(08:53):
played for the Gastoni Rangers.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, yeah, good stuff. Text line's blowing up, yo. I
can't keep up with what you've got there, but I
have a few people backing me up. By the way,
different topic on the whole beanie wheenies aka beans and
whenies being a Southern staple. Smoke's never heard of it.
Smoke has never heard of beanie like you Just to
be clear here, you've never heard of beanie Whenie's I've
(09:15):
never had oh, because you made it seem like you
were not aware of the concept of beanie Whenie's.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
What I just don't I feel like it's one of
those things where two things don't match, you know what
I mean? But considering how many people have said it's
a good match, I might have to eventually try down
the line.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Do you like big beans?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Do you like hot dogs?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Okay, there's your answer.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
All right, Yeah, that's probably my answer.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I keep some hot dogs and put them in some
some beans.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
People are also like, didn't you ever live on a
college campus? And to those people, I say no, I
was a commuter student that was working here while going
to college.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, although there's one guy from Canada who said they
called him beanie Weenies up in Canada too awesome, but
they are cool. They also tend to like steal a
lot of Southern culture. And I don't mean that like
a in a bad way.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
You're going after the cowboy culture.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
They have, no, I mean they have. They got legit
cowboy culture up there on the planes, like in Saskatchewan
and stuff like that. Culture Wall, like Culture Wall is
a real cowboy guys like that. But like, there have
been a lot of great Southern rock songs that you
find out were written by Canadian bands. That's like, that's
what I'm talking about. They love them some Southern culture
up in Canada, parts of it anyway, all right? Seven
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oh four five seven ninety six ten. Hit us up
on the fan duel text line we love your thoughts
again Mike Case Charlotte Observer coming up here. In the
next segment, we got to talk about the Panthers and
this week of course Cleveland Brown's joint practice, preseason game
number one coming up on Friday, and fan Fest over
the weekend. And I've had a few people text in
(10:46):
to say, KB, how did FanFest go with the kiddos
on Saturday? It was great. Not that everybody out there
cares about my personal life for dragging the kids to stuff,
but as a dad of young kids, like I want
to take my kids to stuff. My kids are finally
getting of age where I can take them to do stuff.
And my son turned three years old over the weekend.
He's had a Panthers jersey. He's been I won't say
he's been dying to wear it because he's three and
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he doesn't think that much about those things, but you know,
he was very excited to put it on. Then he
saw all the other kids wearing pants, so like it
was great from a dad's perspective. And then to get
into the stadium, the Panthers did a great job. You know,
with FanFest, I thought the atmosphere, the vibe was phenomenal
inside the stadium, everybody was having a good time. You
could tell every smoke. I saw the wave make seven
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laps around Bank of America Stadium, like legit wave. I'm
not talking about twelve stragglers keeping it alive in front
of you. The whole wave went around Bank of America
Stadium at least a half a dozen times on Saturday night.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Okay, so that happened at the Metallica concert too a
couple of months ago. Yeah, it happened about four or
five times. But I also think the libations were a
lot better and there was a more mature audience. Yeah,
that's great to hear. I remember I was at the
race at Rockingham. It somewhat tried to do to the wave.
It was one of the worst attempted waves I've ever
seen in my lifetime. He only got like two rows
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and then everyone stopped.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
It's like it's not cool anymore, and so it usually
gets half asked because most people in our are they
think the wave is lame, so they don't really want
to participate in it. But on Saturday night, that was
not the case. More importantly, though, you got some looks
at some starters. Xcel had a drop that bothered some people,
but he also had a touchdown catch, and it was
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one where Bryce was kind of drifting out to his right.
The play had to develop for a couple of seconds.
I joked earlier in the show that as the play
was developing, there were a handful of Panthers fans around
me screaming.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Throw the dam ball, throw the ball.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
And then he did and it turned into a touchdown.
They went from like screaming to cheerings. That's what football
fans do. But notable about that play is Excel showing
off his speed. That was what really stood out to
me on that play, not that we hadn't seen it,
but that for all the hand ringing about Xavier leg
Get and the drops last year and year two, you
were reminded on that play that that dude can flat
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out run people an open field. A sneaky fast wide receiver.
That's what we're going with, sneaky fast me and he is,
like you think, just I think more so because he's
six foot five.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
He's pretty tall for a wide receiver. You think four five,
four six, that's probably what you're going with. And that
was the conversation with tedor Roord this year. With a
four five four forty that he ran at his pro day.
Sounds right, but we a often forget zavierly Get had
like a four to three eight. Yes, that and I
know that's not the best of the best, but that's
top line speed for a wide receiver, especially at that measurement.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, when he got to galloping, he got up to
top speed about four steps maybe three, and he outran
the rest of the defense. So that was nice to see.
You know, you had Leith and Ransom. By the way,
we have Texters who sent us a link to the
video that I was asking for Leith and Ransom. I
still don't I got to pull up the Panthers roster here,
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but he lit up a wide receiver in the back
of the end zone on a throw from Andy Dalton.
And I don't think Dave Canalis could could really be
honest about how he felt about it.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
It was.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
It.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
You know, it was like last week when he said
he secretly loved JT. Sanders taunting the sideline. He secretly
loved JC Horn after a big play punting the football.
You know, with attitude things like that. He doesn't want
them to do it because they're dumb plays that will
draw penalties, but he loves the passion and fire that
they're playing with. Same kind of thing from Lathan Ransom,
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where I mean he just it wasn't It might have
been horned. You can't tell on the video and I
was seated too far away to see it. But Leathan Ransom,
there was a ball in the back of the end
zone up for grabs. Ransom timed it perfectly and could
have decapitated the wide receiver. He held back a little bit,
but it was still a hit that the entire stadium
went ooh right, And so Dave was asked about it
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after the fact. And it just ties into the last
week of theme surrounding this team, where a lot of
these guys are playing with an edge, they're playing with
an attitude, They're pushing the envelope in practice, in scrimmages,
and it makes me wonder if we're setting up for
a couple of training camp fights and joint practice fights
on Wednesday against the Cleveland Browns, because I think these
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Panthers are chomping at the bit to get after somebody
not wearing black and blue, and I can't wait for
Wednesday's practice because of it.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
God blessed show.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Flacco just might be his I need to retire moment
this weekend if they are as chippy as they have been. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm half joking, but I'm also not joking as another
sense too.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Sure. Nine eight numbers just said that hit was old
school safety style and I loved it. Yes, that's exactly right,
Josh and fort Mill. Ransom is the new Kirk Coleman.
You'll take that. Jack said his rants. Okay, Jack says
his ransom more, Sam Franklinard, Jamie Robinson. I'm not dignifying
that with a response, because you're hoping for better. All right, Well,
come back, we'll talk about all this. Mike Kay Charlotte observer,
(15:57):
he was in the house. He covers the Panthers every day.
We'll talk to him next. Sports Radio ninety two to
seven wfn Z. All right, So, what I've learned on
(16:20):
today's show is that we have a lot of people
that love Beanie Wheeney's aka Beans and Weeneyes. If you're
up north, maybe Franken Beans, although that's even in dispute
right now too. We've learned that I still got to
get back to what folks have deemed their most disappointing
sporting event experiences in life. After the debacle that was
the MLB Speedway Classic in Bristol this weekend, Brave's got
(16:42):
to win. Everybody still got to see baseball, and I'm
sure tailgate and have a good time. But logistically it
was apparently a nightmare. So we got all those things
going on. Plus of course the Panthers and the Browns
this week in preseason on the heels of FanFest on Saturday,
and I was not there as a credentialed member of
the media. I was there as a dad letting my
three year old son take in his first NFL experience.
(17:04):
So let's talk to a guy who was there in
the press box doing his job. He always does it well.
Mike Kay, Charlotte observer, Carolina Panthers beat writer is back
with us here on a Monday. Mike, I appreciate the time, brother.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
How are you, you know, hanging in there a little
sore from you know, standing but all this but uh,
you know you guys stretch okay before you watch practice.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
But yeah, we are getting old. So stretching is it's encouraged.
I agree with you. Now I have to point out
that Mike is uh, you know, Mike's not just good
at his job. Mike is diligent, Mike is patient, Mike
is kind. Mike is always standing there for the duration
of practice, watching these guys and taking it all in.
So let me start with the big picture stuff. Mike
as somebody who is both reliable and there every day,
(17:53):
what would you tell the folks out there? How would
you characterize the training camp that the Panthers have had
to this point solid?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I mean, I don't think anybody of importance has been
particularly underwhelming. I think that that's a big positive. I think,
you know, te mac McMillan's kind of gone through what
most would consider, you know, rookie mistakes and like growing
pains getting to the NFL. I mean, he's going from
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the University of Arizona to the NFL. You know, there's
gonna be an adjustment. I think most of the draft
picks have flashed, including him. And you know, I think
the veterans for the most part, are competing at a
pretty high level. I mean, you know, the Center competition
and the care competition, were the only two like legitimate
starting competitions before training camp, and both of them seem
(18:45):
pretty even. So I think it's been a pretty competitive,
you know, training camp. I know there are some minor injuries,
but for the most part, they've been largely unscathed, and
I think all of that is positive. If you're a
Panther span or if you're within the organization.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, i'd agree. You talked about McMillan there a second ago.
Let's stay there. Give me your your big picture thoughts
on the wide receiver room, but you know, also a
bit more on McMillan, because I know he's a top
ten pick, Mike, but you know, if he gets off
to a slow start, I won't necessarily be shocked by that.
Your thoughts on on both the room itself, but you know,
early expectations.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
For the rookie, well, I think with him, his floor
was always going to be high because his hands are
so dependable and he can bully guys that are smaller
than him. And in the NFL, even with guys that
are built like j. C. Horn, you know, there's like
seven of them, they can actually do it. At jcy
Horn's level, He's still going to be bigger than that.
(19:43):
So I think there's he's got a high four. I
think he will be productive this year. Cow productive kind
of there's like kind of a weird long spectrum because
you know, he needs to do well as a route runner.
He needs to be able to separate. Well. Everything can't
be a contested catch. Because that's the case, then you're
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not probably not gonna get some big place you were
hoping for. And this team has lasted speed at wide
receiver for years and that was a concern of mind
heading into this you know draft. But we've also seen him,
seen him flash like he got opened a couple of
days ago on a post route where it looked like
he was running a four to three Like he looks
(20:27):
like he's running fast when he runs, and he was
able to get a touched on about forty five yards untouched.
So I think you're gonna take the good with the bat.
He is a guy who's still learning. He doesn't his
elite trait is not something that he's gonna allow him
to get this kind of separation. But you will see
that he is able to break down the ball. I
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think the wide receiver room has been a pleasant surprise.
They had seven or eight Rosster or both players right now,
and I think, you know, guys are taking advantage of
their reps FanFest s. Eaven Moore had a really nice
night with Hunter Renfro Sideline. Hunter Rentro before he severed
a hamstring injury, was lighting up practices more productive than
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pretty much any other offensive player. And then I think,
like Adam Feeling has been really reliable, Jimmy Horn is
like impossible to cover one on one without pad with pads,
He's kind of been human, but it's still as we
saw him fan fat. If you've seen this guy correctly,
he can get open in a flash. And I think
they feel really good about where they're at. Plus Davior
(21:31):
La Guet looks healthy and it's making play, so all's
good there.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mike Case Charlotte observer, he's with us
on the Bodyworks plus Guest hotline. Somebody earlier today described
bryce As training camp as not incredible but incredibly solid,
and I like that. I like that characterization myself. I
haven't seen as many practices as you have, but from
what I have seen, it's been a lot of good.
I haven't seen anything amazing, but I've seen a lot
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of good a lot of consistency. Friday, maybe the offense
didn't have its best day, But I get the sense
that over there Dave Canalis really is happy with what
he's saying from Bryce.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Is that what you think?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, and he's been fine. I think that's the takeaway.
Like we talk about, like you and I are both
baseball fans, If the team is winning a ton of
close games and they're at the height of height of
the variants, that's probably not sustainable. Like you remember when
the Vikings were winning all those games a couple of
years ago, and then they just completely bombed in the playoffs. Like,
(22:30):
you want performances to be consistent and tangible. And I
think what's going on right now is Bryce is testing
himself in practice. I've seen people get a set over
interceptions in practice, and you know, tell me you haven't
you know, watched the training camp consistently without telling me that, Yeah,
(22:54):
these guys are trying to test themselves. They're trying to
get away with stuff, They're trying to see what they
can get away with. They're trying to build chemistry. And
I'm not making excuses for Bright. He's had some you know,
lame moments, but I think for the most part he's
showing a very good command of the offense. I think
he is not getting rattled when he does make a mistake.
(23:14):
What I liked about him consistently in practice, and what
I think he's done a very good job of is
recovering from bad plays. You know, off the top of
my head, I can think of maybe eight or nine
in receptions, but like probably in the plays after that,
five to six of them he's thrown really good balls.
(23:35):
I think he is throwing as many dime throws as
he is you know, turnover worthy throws. So I think
he's been consistent, and I think you've got to feel
good about that. Consistency's more important than flash in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, no, I agree. Now, you know, football is not
about vibes, right. You can't win games on vibes, and
vibes are a lot of what you get from training
camp just because of the very nature of it, good
or bad. But I do you know between let's say
last week, J T. Sanders jawing with the defensive sideline,
j C. Horn with a pick and punting the football,
(24:11):
even Lathan Ransom that big hit Saturday night on the
undrafted wide receiver. Dave Canalis has pointed these things out
as mistakes that can't be made on game day, but
has acknowledged that he also kind of loves that stuff
because he feels like his team is playing with an edge, Like,
what is your take on that, how much edge, how
much attitude, how much how much you know need to
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prove it is they're out there based on your observations.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
So I would say from the start of the Frank
Reich era to the Denver game last year, this team
came off exceptionally sw Yeah, and I think something clicked
when J. C. Corn went it Sean Payton in Denver.
That's when they started to kind of build momentum. That's
(24:58):
when they said, Hey, we're not going to take this anymore,
not going to be laughing stocks. And I think Dave's
ANALYSI deserves a lot of credit because he was always consistent,
He always showed the belief and something I talk about
a lot. I'm a guy who judges on process, not
necessarily production, and so I think what's going on is
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they've taken the promise of those final seven or eight
games and they are trying to find fruit and right now,
I think they feel very good about where they're at
from a process standpoint. Now that could mean nothing when
it comes to the regular season, but I think the
guys are buying into the process. I don't remember who
said it early in training camps, but it was a
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veteran who said it felt like they had gone from
being a team to a program. And I think for
a lot of these guys, a lot of these younger
guys feeling that we're coming from the SEC or coming
from nil at major schools in other conferences. They like
that they feel bad they are you know, I think
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this team average is like twenty six years old. Like
they're bought into stuff that they've already seen be successful.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
A couple of things will let you go. Mike Case
Charlotte Observer, he's with us here hanging out recapping fan Fest,
looking ahead to Cleveland this week. What do you think
Dave tries to get out of this week of joint
practice in the game coming up on Friday. We know
the starters are going to play more, but like, what
areas of focus do you think will stand out based
on his week of preparation?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Well, one thing healthy.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Two.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I think this is a really good test for both
the offensive line and the front seven. So you know,
Nick Chubb's not in the backfield anymore. But they have
a pretty good stable of running backs. They have three
all Pro caliber offensive linemen and Joel Batonio, Jack Conklin
(26:51):
and Wyatt Teller, and I think they're going to push
the guys up front. They brought in all of these guys.
They brought and brought Bobby Brown, who's having a nice
camp since he got back on the field. They brought
in Turk Wharton who was having a pretty good training
camp as a pass rusher. You know, Derek Brown hopefully
(27:11):
can take part in team drills. Casin to this point,
I mean, they've got the new look linebacker Trevin Wallace
who's looked really good as a blitzer, and Christian rose
Boom has done well as a run defender. You want
to see next Ferry over and then you know Nick
s Gorton's dealing with a hamstring injury, but him, Princely
EuMon Meelan could get tested there. They have an offensive
(27:31):
tackle to name escaping me but he is like the
biggest tackle in the league basically, and there was a
picture of him just engulfing Miles Garrett the other day,
and I think offensive line wise, look, you want to
see Icky and Taylor Mowten be able to handle a
guy like Miles Garrett. And then internal, like in the interior,
(27:52):
you want to see how they do against Bason Graham,
who I've seen a lot of highlights on the practice
and he looks kind of like the player at Michigan
that everybody kind of fawned over. So I think it's
going to be a good test for the trenches of
both sides. What I'd like to see is have these
wide receivers and cornerbacks, all of which have seemingly either
(28:13):
overachieved or played well, do against you know, the corners
against Deontay Johnson and Jerry Judy, the wide receivers against
Denzel Ward and Greg Newsome. Like, I think there's a
lot to like about this matchup, and I think they're.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Going to get a lot out of it, all right,
real quick, last thing, the Panthers signed Chris Barnes, linebacker
played a lot in Green Bay Less, so the last
couple of years in Arizona they let go of to Aceividamora,
who they signed as a free agent out of Fresno State.
I would love your thoughts on that, but also just
big picture, you know, it seems like they're going to
(28:47):
go with the answers on the roster at a couple
of these positions as opposed to chasing free agents. You know,
is there another move, another position you would expect them
to add before Week one?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Well, first off, phenomenal nuncie a ship. Second off, I
do think they're going to keep an eye on the
linebacker group in the NFL. The free agency pile is
kind of a nightmare right now. Like Chris Bardines is
one of the few guys with like legitimate experience that
made senses is maybe like a cheap backup who can
(29:19):
perform throughout training camp. Them fighting Kim is more of
a threat I think the guys like Claude and Cherry
Lists and John Radigan than it is to pushing the charters.
But I think it's nice to have a third guy
that has experience who's proven to be relatively durable. I
think they're going to keep an eye on the linebacker market.
(29:42):
Brand Tillas said the other day that the waiver wires
and kind of what it used to be. Maybe they
look into you know, they have, like I said, seven
to eight rosterble of wide receivers, they've got probably about
ten to eleven rosterble offense. Why maybe they try to
flip one of those guys for another player. You know,
player for trades are kind of in vogue during training camp.
You know, one one team waiver wire fodder is another team,
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you know, role player. So I could see that. I
think they feel really good about their cornerback group. I
think the last time I was on your show, I
said that they like their cornerback group a lot more
than we do. Now I'm kind of seeing why. I mean,
Corey Thornton's been terrific, Shamar Bartholomew is making plays, Shot
Smith Wade has been the best devinsive player in camp,
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and I don't think that's arguable at this point that
from a consistency standpoint to play production standpoint. So like,
I think they feel fine about corner I mean, if
there's an injury, everything to go, you know, anywhere, And
I think offensively they like what they have, so barring injury,
I think linebacker's really the spot. I mean safety obviously,
Julian Blackman's side with the Saint Justin Simmons still lingers
(30:51):
out there. But if Justin Simmons was somebody that they
really wanted at the price that he wanted, he'd probably
be here already. And if he wanted to be here
instead of going to a contender, he probably have dropped
his money demand my gut. So we'll keep an eye
on it, But really, I think they feel good about
their internal solution.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
No doubt.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Mike ca Charlotte, observer, Panthers beat writer, hanging out with
us here on a Monday, Buddy. I always appreciate you.
I'll see you tomorrow and I cannot wait to spend
my Sundays with you starting very soon.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Play you know what I mean. There are better places
to be, but I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
See you tomorrow, buddy. Mike Kay Charlotte observer with us
hang it out on the hotline talking Panthers seven oh
four five seven ninety six ten. Hit us up and
let us know right now we go to smoke on
the headlines.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
All right.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
I think this would have caught some more headlines a
couple of weeks ago than it would have this past weekend.
But Pete Famill reported on Friday that Stanford is hiring
former Nike CEO John Donahue as the school's new athletic director.
Stanford covered in a non traditional candidate for the role,
and Ana hughes Hire delivers a season CEO with stints
(32:03):
at Nike Bain Company as well as eBay.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
All right, So we're no longer hiring career administrators. We
are hiring marketing and C suite executives to run to
run college athletics departments. That's what it sounds like there, Kyle, Yeah,
I mean it's changing times. It's a different, different world
we live in.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
What else you got, all right?
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Sen?
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Some big news this weekend for the NBA.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
We've seen a lot of deals get done over the
last forty eight to seventy two hours, I believe, first
thing on Saturday, just conveniently less than a week after
that Men's Fitness article dropped. Luka Doncics just got a
massive new pay day. Dearon Fox got an extension right
as is we started to show, and Mikail Bridges late
last week got a five year extension as well.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
So a lot of the core players.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Of somebody's championship contending teams or young teams that could
be attending getting paid over the last seventy two hours.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
All right, we'll come back wrap up this here radio
program Sports Radio wf and Z. Hey one final time
(33:18):
Sports Radio ninety two seven wfn Z, KB and Smoke
wrapping up the workday with you. You are probably long
gone and home by now, but if you're out there
and still grinding, have a good evening. We appreciate you
being with us. Don't forget Mack and Bone tomorrow live
from Panthers training camp. They're going to have the coach,
the quarterback, and the general manager, Dave Canalyst, Dan Morgan,
and Bryce Young all stopping by the Mack and Bone
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Show tomorrow, So make sure to be there six to
ten am tomorrow morning, right here on wfn Z Cleveland,
Brown's in town. We'll get some great Cleveland guests in
this week. We'll talk about the game joint practice on Wednesday.
We'll see if there are some fisticuffs.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
In this one.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
I'm secretly hoping that we get some some fiery fight.
I don't want it to ruin the joint practice, but
like I kind of want to see some fiery you know,
extra curriculars on Wednesday, damn it, some Ballely. Who am
I wrong for asking for that? Because it's not a
good thing.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
As long as it doesn't go too far.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
All right, Okay, you're right, kind of like a hockey fight,
you know, I should rein it in some you're right
about that. All right, We got to catch you up
on what you've missed. It's time for the rewind and
we go back to Alburd Number one, The return of
Agent eighty nine. Steve Smith, Senior Panthers Legend NFL Network analyst,
stop by. He's been busy, he's been at Pittsburgh Training Camp,
(34:36):
Kansas City Training Camp, Tampa Bay Training Camp. But we
did talk some Panthers and here Steve Smith on what
he wants to see from rookie receiver ted a Roll
McMillan in the early portion of his rookie season.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
I don't have a problem with sek TAC camp play.
If you throw the football in the air and he's
in a facinity, he's.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Gonna catch it.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
My biggest question is I just want to see how
how much of explosiveness does he have to separate? And
that's a that's just a wide receivers analysis and nitpicking.
But it's only nitpicking until it becomes a problem. You
remember a couple of years ago we had some dynamic
football players and they were worse than the league with separation. Yeah,
(35:23):
so it all factors into things.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Later in the same conversation, more from Smitty on what
he makes of the NFC South outside of Carolina based on.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
What I'm looking at, it can be, but also Atlanta's
kind of creeping up in there as well. Michael Pennix
is really doing.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
A heck of a job.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
You know, I've been very critical of Baker Mayfield, but
you got to call a spade a spade, a pig
a pig, and my man is balmer. He's taking that
offense and he's really putting up numbers. Now, the New
Orleans Saints looked like regurgitated. He they're awful. They're gonna
be third Doodoo. And you have Michael pennantt who in
(36:07):
Atlanta they're running a they're running out pistol formation. He
loves to push the ball down the field. Small little nugget.
When Kirk Cousin was in the game, Drake Lundon is
only averaging forty you know, only being targeted twenty seven
percent below thirty percent of the of the targets of
the share of passing. Michael Pennance gets in there. He's
(36:28):
almost above forty.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Later in the show, David Teal, the Dan of acc
Sports writers back and we cover a lot mostly football.
But given the news of the day that NCUBA President
Charlie Baker's announced that any talks of NCAA tournament expansion
have been tabled until the twenty twenty seven season, here's
David Teal on what he thinks about that.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Because their TV partners are balking, they're paying more money,
and if the TV partners won't pay more money, they're
not going to expand because it's too to stage more
games and more venues, and nobody wants to take the haircut.
Everybody's trying to figure out how to compensate athletes and oh,
(37:10):
by the way, pay the back damages for the house settlement,
which the NCBLA is on the hook four and all
these schools to the tune. If you're a power for school,
you're looking at a million, million and a half a
year that you have to pay for back damages. So
that's the hold up, and I think it's the negotiations
(37:32):
with TV partners that will determine the fate of expansion.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
That's the rewind to look back into the show each
and every day as we wrap things up. As a
reminder to get us wherever you get your podcast to Apple, Spotify, Google,
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Speaker 3 (37:59):
Smoke what you got.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Tip my Captain Steve Smith for regurgitated cheese and dirt
dodoo dirt doo dooo. Yeah, I could read your mind
on dirt donkey.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Dirt dirt doodoo is how he described the New Orleans
Saints in twenty twenty five. I'll tip my cap to
the Lake Norman Little Leaguers Southeast Regional down in one
of Robins, Georgia. I don't even think they've played today
because of the rain so far. It was supposed to
happen at eleven, but it got delayed. Yeah, and the
ladies too, They actually played today on the softball side.
Go get them, boys and girls, Go get them. We're
(38:30):
back tomorrow, looking forward to it. Until then for smoke
clud But I'm Kyle Bailey. Sports Radio ninety two seven
wfn Z.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
You're gonna be dead in one hundred years. Anyway, live
dangerously
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