The Kyle Bailey Show: Nate Wimberly

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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Sports Radio ninety two seven WFNZZ five o'clockers, You made it, baby.
It's the weekend, and a big weekend at that. Hornets
and Bucks tonight from the Five Serve Forum. Hornets looking
to knock off the Bucks for the second straight time.
Although there's a little slight twist of this one, Giannis
is actually gonna play. It looks like so. The good
news is LaMelo will too. So can they cancel one

(00:35):
another out? We shall see. Can con Ka Nipple stay
on a tear to start his NBA career. Eight o'clock
tip from the five Serve Forum. Pregame here at seven,
Join me and Travis t Bone Hancock. It's night one
of the back to back. They're coming right back to
host the Oklahoma City Thunder tomorrow night at the Spectrum Center.
Panthers Falcons on Sunday, a whole lot of college football

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and we have the continuation of the high school football
playoffs tonight here in the state of North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
And we welcome in and welcome back Nate.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Wemberley of WBTV Sports Director Sports anchor.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
He's back for his Friday appearance. What's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Brother?

Speaker 2 (01:09):
How are you yo?

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yo?

Speaker 3 (01:09):
What's going on. What's going on?

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Before we get started, I want to give a shout
out to the Jossa State Smith Golden Bulls Lets go.
They will be playing in Durham tomorrow to SEEAA Championship game.
Their first appearance in the championship game since nineteen seventy two.
They won it in sixty nine, so it's been fifty
three years since they played for title. So congratulations to
Mary's Flowers and the guys, and a lot of those
guys they recruit within ninety minutes of the city, so

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a lot of the guys on our team played and
showed up.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
On Friday nights on football Friday Night.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
So it was just good to see them doing well
and playing for a championship tomorrow, no.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Doubt about it.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
I do need to point out we have a guy
on the text line called Sports Guys Shows. I'm pretty
sure that's your kid, right. He doesn't think that Nate
should be in studio this week, And he's texted me
this throughout the course of the show like one thousand times.
He's like, you had a Falcons guest on you yesterday,
do you have to bring Nate in today?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
All right?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Chakeed just again, I see you, all right, But I
bring that up because also the very next text from
back of Donut says, tell Nate that his segment last
week was spot on exactly. His real concern about how
the Panthers would show up against the Saints ended up
being the reality they were rising high from a win
they should have never had, and they weren't too far
away from playing really bad football the previous two weeks. Now,

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I don't know if you said it exactly like that.
He's giving a little bit more credit. But I told
you how it could possibly play out.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
I said, I loved the position that this team was
in because teams were going to start to take Rico
out the game, and this franchise and this fan base
needs to see Bryce be able to throw this team
to victories last week that didn't show up, and you're
gonna see if it's a copycat league.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Everybody's gonna try and take Rico out in the game.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
Now.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
I don't think the falcon is gonna be able to
do it because their rush defense has just got awful,
but everybody else is gonna try and take Rico out
the game, and Bryce has to show that he can
do it. He's got seven more games to do it,
will do it? Who knows? We're about to find out. No,
because nobody. The teams are not just gonna let and
especially the things like the Rams the Niners to see Hawks,
but they're not gonna let Rico just come in and

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just run through them. They're gonna make Bryce beat them,
and we're gonna We're gonna see now in these last
seven games, can he do it? And we'll have an
answer dan to whether he's gonna get an extension or
a big contract or are they gonna get a fifth year?

Speaker 3 (03:24):
What are they gonna do?

Speaker 1 (03:25):
We'll find out way give this replacement. Absolutely, there's so
people and I totally get it, all right. It's been
up and down, I know for me coming into this year,
I said, and I know there are some people out
there who do not like it when we reference the
last ten games of last year or whatever. It's like
now I get that, like it's only what have you
done for me lately? It's that, hey, okay, we saw

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that you can do it for me. It was going
into twenty twenty five. Can you do it consistently? Can
you do it? For seventeen games thus far? The answer
has been no. It's no, And so if I'm looking
for the answer to my own personal question coming into
the year right now, the answer is no.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
And I don't like that.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
I hate it because I'm so tired of this team
looking for quarterbacks. Not that we've had to do it
really recently, he's been now here for two and a
half years, but I'm so over the desperate search for
a quarterback. I would like for him to prove that
he can be the guy consistently, at least for a while.
And Buddy, I mean, you got to do it this weekend.
I know the Falcons are motivated and they've got it
on the wall that you beat him thirty to nothing

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here weeks ago, and that's gonna Dres's gonna fuel them.
And that's all well and good, but you better have
your own fuel after laying an egg in front of
your own fans against the one and eight football team.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah, yeah, Bryce should have his fuel now, this panther.
I mean, if there's one thing that the Falcons can do,
they can play defense, and most specifically, they can get
out to the quarterback. Twenty nine sacks, fifth best in
the NFL. They're gonna get after Bryce Young, But you
know he's gonna have his chances and his opportunity to
go out there and prove and throw this team to
a victory because you know, I think Rico's gonna get

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his I mean, like the Falcons just gave up two
hundred and forty something yards that yot the Taylor last week.
They're not going to stop them completely from running, but
they're going to sell out to try and stop to run.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Bryce is gonna have to throw.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
He's gonna have to have some meaningful completions this Sunday
for this team to win, period.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
I want you to react to some audio, by the way,
that we played earlier in the show. I think this
was from yesterday, uh six point eighty the fan down
in Atlanta, I know, you know the station I need too,
got a lot of friends down there. John Michaels, who's
a long time friend of ours, has spent some time
up here. Listen to what he said about this game.

Speaker 6 (05:21):
The last two coaches we've had have both been fired
after losses to the Carolina Panthers. We've already been boat
raced by and what if you get swept by the
Panthers this year?

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Do you just pull the plug on Monday. I don't
think so.

Speaker 6 (05:33):
I mean, cause you'd be three and seven, you're seeing
I mean the season's over anyway, You're really gonna be seasoned,
and then you're gonna be swept by Carolina, who changed
coaches the exact same day you do.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
We're not the same day, but the same offseason.

Speaker 6 (05:45):
They hired Dave Canalis when you did, and hired Raheem Morris.
But I don't want to go down this path. I
got a text from Big Travis Stroud. He said he
feels bad for Bjon Robinson. We're wasting a generational talent.
How many times does a generational talent.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Walk through your doors?

Speaker 6 (06:03):
How can you think about for the Falcons over the
last twenty five years, who are the generational talents that
have walked through here? Michael Vick, Matt Ryan Jones, Julio Jones,
b Jeon Robinson could throw Roddy.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Roddy was really close. I give a lot of credit
to Roddy, but that's it.

Speaker 6 (06:18):
Are you gonna waste Bjon Robinson another year? Do we
magically think this is gonna be fixed next year?

Speaker 2 (06:25):
If things aren't changed Before I get your reaction.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
The only real issue I took with that was I
have a problem calling Bijon generational. Okay, and it's because
I reserved that for the greatest of the great and
I think he's very, very, very very good. But generational
feels a little bit strong for a guy who's just
into his third year in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
Look, I think this season I went went wrong for
the Falcons when Raheie Morris called him the best player
in the league right before they played in the Panthers.
They hadn't been the same since then. I mean, they
don't know how to use them right now. Zach Robinson
is just terrible as Oh see, I don't know how
they're doing. I'll run the ball at all, but you know,
I don't even if they lose on Sunday. They're not

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pulling the plug on Rahee Morris. You know, Arthur Blank
loves Rahee Morris. He knows Robert he Morris. He rehired
Raye Morris. He's not gonna fire him unless they really
go out there and get blown out thirty to nothing. Again,
They're not doing that. The rest of the year will
be Rayie Morris. After this year, we'll talk about it,
but I think that's what it is. But you know, look,
the Panthers offense, I mean, the Falcons offense is just horrible,

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especially on third downs. The last two weeks. They are
one for eighteen on third down. They didn't even convert
a third down last week. So as a defense that
struggle last week for the Carolina Panthers, this is a
get right game for this Panthers defense. They can get
their mojo back by just going out there and just
smacking the Falcons around if they want to, because it's
it's there because right now they don't know how to
use the weapons that they got. And I do feel

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bad for Pennis because the coaches are felling him right now.
They're not coaching him up at all, and he's just
out there like like a chicken with his head cut off. So,
you know, this is a get right game for the
if the Carolina Panthers lose this game, but we're gonna
have some real conversations come Monday. You guys will be
having some real conversations come this one. There's no reason
why the Panthers should lose.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
If you lose a well played, you know, great football
game on the road. Okay, maybe we're having a slightly
different conversation. If you know, show if you play poorly
against a team that is horrible against the run, it's
worst defensive the worst defensive team on third down in
the league. Right now, you got have some splaining to
do come Monday. There's no doubt about that. All right,

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let's pivot quickly to high school football. Really big night
in the playoffs. Let's just get the if you have
a question for Nate on the high school front, seven
oh four or five, seven oh ninety six to ten,
or a game you wanted to touch on. It's not
a typical Friday with the regular season, not as many
games obviously, but some big games.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Where do you start tonight?

Speaker 4 (08:39):
Yeah, look, I'm gonna just hit it and just say
like this. We had thirty teams that had buys last
week from our area. They played tonight. Beware because they
are taking on some teams that are our own roles
and playing well, like Charlotte Catholic. They're taking on Ac Reynolds.
Acy Reynolds has won five of the last six games.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
You know.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
On the opposite end of that, Ao Brown eight and two,
they're eight and three. They're at eight and two. Reagan
up in the Greensborough area. Air Browns won five straight.
They're on the roll that they they're rolling while Reagan
is trying to figure some things out. You know, Lake
Norman is hosting East for Scythe Lake Norman lost a
heartbreaking game to More as well a couple of years,

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a couple of weeks ago. Now they're trying to have
to get this thing going against the East for SYFE
team that is balancing, that has won four five games,
And I think that's the thing that you got to
watch out for tonight. Those teams that had buys, but
they're taking on teams that played last week and they're
playing well. They figured something out and they're rolling at
the right time. There's gonna be three or four upsets tonight.
I'm just gonna go ahead and call my shot because

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those teams that just kind of sat last week, and
we've seen it in the past, it's happened in the past,
were higher seated teams, really higher seated teams have lost.
The teams that didn't have a buy and played that
last week, And I think we're gonna have three or
four pretty big upsets tonight.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
All right, Well, Okay, so a lot of questions come again,
Olympic and Sun Valley Tonight is pretty popular on the
text line. I'll say Olympics head coach Brandon Johnson got
a chance to chat with him early in the season
before the Ortho kickoff, really impressed by him. Wasn't sure
what kind of team he had to start the year,
But look at him now, nine and two.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Look, they're playing right They're playing well at the right time.
Chance Kateal the quarterback, came back after the injury, yep,
and they are rolling right now. But this Sun Valley team,
and both teams started zero to two this year, and
they're rolling right now. Some Valley has an outstanding defense.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Boyday.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
I saw him play against Charlotte Catholey and shut them out.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
And they're just rolling right now.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
With that defense and Noel Linberry, that's going to be
a pretty good game right there between them.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Two in the six A bracket.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
All right, let's see a few more of these seven
oh four, five, seven ninety six ten. We have Texters,
Independence and Page tonight. I think you hit on that one.
But what about this game in particular?

Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yeah, Page, they're they're they're eight and three they're playing well,
but man, Independence is four to oh since they lost
the wis Sharlotte thirty one to seven, and the defense
has stepped up in a big way. They're only giving
up four points per game during this winning streak. The
offense is averaging thirty eight points during this winning streak.
I expect Independence to roll to and even though both
teams have the same record, and you know that whole

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deal of Page played last week and Independence was off, well,
I'm just gonna throw that out because I think Independence
is on a mission right now.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Everybody's talking about all.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
These other teams in the area, but Independence is out
to say, hey, you know, we're ready to compete in
the seven eight playoffs.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Stuart Kramer Bandy's.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Tonight, we had a text seven O four numbers that
asked Nate about to turn around from Stuart Kramer, any
thoughts on.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
The new head coach, first year head coach. There. They're
playing well, but look beware once again Bandy's. They took
High Brighton to overtime in the regular season finale a
couple of weeks ago. They scored seventy one points last week.
You know, Kramer's playing well, but look don't let that
six and five record for Bandy's fool you. That's a
good football team. So you know it's been a great

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season for Cramer, but they better watch out tonight.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Well.

Speaker 7 (11:49):
In this show to Kyle Bailey show, we always root
and lest you're playing North Lincoln for one chasing Barnes
at Baties High School, we do yes, and he's it's
always a great day to be a ram.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
We didn't talk about this in the pre show meeting. Hey, hey,
JB's cool. I never signed up for any of that.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
JB's cool.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
He's badass. All right.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
My Lake Norman Wildcats are in the playoffs. I ain't
root for anybody else but my Lake Norman Wildcats and
the damn playoffs tonight. So when I know, I'm not
jumping on anybody else's bandwagon, No go Bandies, Baby go Trojans,
now whatever?

Speaker 2 (12:18):
All right?

Speaker 1 (12:19):
So a texture here asked about the West Cabaris Grimsley
game tonight. I do some high school football throughout the season,
mostly in the beginning of the year. We looked up
a couple of weeks ago. I had no clue. Brandon
Faison had not played since Week one. In that game
against West Charlotte and they're still ten.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
To zero injured hand. They had a freshman step in
and they won every game. They won nine straight with
a freshman quarterback. He tells you how good the other
parts on the machine are working, and they're working well.
And now you get fase on Brandon back. Grimsly is
gonna be a handful of folks, you know, winnington and Independence.
They're gonna have something to say about it. But as

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far as tonight, it's been a good season for coach Jenkins.
I believe it is his first year at West Comparison.
This year they've been they've been playing well. But it's
a different level. Yeah, Grimsley's a different.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Level, all right.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
If you have another one, send us in seven oh four, five,
seven ninety six ten. Did you hit Morriswell Butler? Did
you usually talk about.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
Those Morriswell Butler Butler. I was at the Butler game
last week. They had a great game between them and
Hope Well where Butler kind of they got their legs
under them twenty one to seven in the fourth quarter
to run away with it, but it was tied at
twenty one going into the fourth. Butler's just you know,
They've had some problems with their quarterback at the quarterback
position with injuries and throwing the ball. They threw it

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pretty well last week, but they're depending on the Mary
and Thomas right to run the ball. Morriswell is rolling
right now, Macombs at running back quarterbacks playing well. I
do believe morris Is gonna get this one tonight. But
you know it'll be close, I think in the half.
But in the second half, I think morris will turn
on the game.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
And I have to say, between Morriswell and Lake Norman,
I mean, I think that town needs to steal the
Moniker from rock Hill for Football City USA.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
I'm just throwing that out there. I'm just gonna put
that out there as possile building, that's what.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
They might have to put. They got to have put
a lot of players.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
Okay, fine, I'm stretching the I'm exaggerating a little bit,
but very good football out there.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
And yes it is, though it is.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Did you hit Mallard Creek West Forsyth, I'm.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Sorry I didn't.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
That's another That's another pretty good one where you know
Mala Creek was off, but West played last week. They're
on a six game winning streak. Uh, with more with
with Mally Creek, it's always about the quarterback. We know
the defense is gonna be good. How well is the
quarterback gonna play tonight against West frost Sife team that
is rolling once again? They played last week Mella Creek didn't.
They got to figure some things out. But uh, that's

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gonna be a tight game. That's that's the one in
the city that where I'm like the home team might
be in the Big Trump. You know that that's gonna
be a tight game depending on how the quarterback plays
for Mala Creek.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
All right, with what time we have left, let's talk
a little basketball for a second. Hornets are four and seven,
all right, They get the Bucks for a second straight
night tonight, not well, second straight game tonight, NBA Cup
Group Stage, fancy courts, you know across the NBA, and
then we get those those creamstickle orange Mint City edition
uniforms tomorrow night against Oklahoma City. Feel free to weigh

(15:05):
in on that, but you know, Conk Nipple.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Looks like the real deal.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
And Ryan Kalchbrenter, that guy went off Daddy Mussels showing
up a couple of nights ago, and they get LaMelo
back tonight.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
So the vibes are good right now.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
I think before the season you played a clip for
me about who said it. He was Yeah, maybe Bill
was onto something because playing the.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Ryan or Scillo still because they're buddies, right, They do
a lot of NBA podcasting together. Listen to it, Ryan
Rosillo this morning. Smoke's gonna grab it on his podcast.
The opening line of this alone is enough to make
you smile and chuckle. Smoke was the one that brought
it to me. He's trying to cue it up right now.
But like the sudden and overwhelming love for Conka Nipple
across the NBA media, escape has been just incredible to watch.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Over the last couple of days. People are taking notice.

Speaker 4 (15:51):
It's unbelievable. You know, one hundred and fifty points, thirty
three pointers in his first ten games of his career.
No one else, no one else in NBA history has
done that. Conk Nipple. I mean that makes me spead,
No Jordan, no Lebron put any person you want, first
ten games one hundred and fifty points and thirty may
three points.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
None of them. You're ready to go smoke. Here we go.

Speaker 5 (16:13):
This is just a bit of it. This is Ryan
Rossello Conk Nipple ten games in. He's perfect. Look his family,
so I guess his mom was the all time leading
score at her college. The dad was the all time
leading scorer at his college up until like a few
years ago. I've guesst a couple uncles, one that played overseas.
He was built in a basketball lab. Watching conk Nipple
play basketball and him understanding the game like this already. Yeah, sure,

(16:35):
it's it's seventeen six and three, forty five and forty
shooting splits. That's I didn't even care about that. I
watched that full Lakers game the other night, and it's
just the way he sees the game. And we saw
some of this a duke, even though there were so
many guys with the ball in his hands that you know,
like we had shyro on. It was like, yeah, you know,
there's probably more that he could have done, but the
team was stacked. And now he's a rookie on not

(16:59):
a great team and he doesn't he doesn't force anything.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
I mean, just there, you go, just stop it there
just raving about confident.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
It's spot on, though, I mean, like you know, I
mean the Cooper Flags on your team. What are you
gonna do. You're gonna, you know, hand it off to
Cooper Flag and let him do things. You know, LaMelo
Ball and Brandon Miller out here, you go, what can
you do with it? And so far he's showing up
and showing out. And I think I'm trying not to
be frustrated or angry about this, but it would be

(17:28):
so great and you get LaMelo back now to see
the full complement of this team.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
What is the potential of this team? Now?

Speaker 4 (17:33):
I do believe some of his some of these numbers
are gonna take a tick down because you've got Miller
and LaMelo Ball out there, But maybe his percentages go
up because he's gonna get some more open shots. He's
getting open shots now, He's gonna get more open shots.
So the frustrating thing for me now is not that
this team is hurting their losing. I want to see
this team be healthy and play together and what does

(17:54):
this basketball look like, because I think it's gonna be
winning basketball.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
That our biggest concern about this team coming in was
the five right. No, how the five spot does not
look like a liability. Absolutely, kan Ko Nupp was doing
this thing.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
Most of Diabate is just coming in and and and
and being a force on that second unit. Man, I'm
telling you, if they could just get healthy, and I
know we continue to say that say this, but if
they could just stay healthyre's those two LaMelo Ball Brandon
Miller can stay on the floor with these rookies and
the other complimentary pieces. But I don't think this team
is shown the best of what they can be just

(18:24):
quite yet. I don't think Trey Mann has showed the
best that he could be. Yeah, there's just so much
potential for this team if those guys could get on
the court and just stay healthy and just let this
thing just kind of grow. But it's just depending on
them being healthy. I mean, it looks good now. These
rookies look good now. I want to see them mesh
and play with those veterans. I'm with you, and I

(18:45):
think it's just gonna be something special if they could
ever get healthy.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah, Jack says it's mellow playing tonight. He's listed as probable,
So unless something catastrophic has happened in the last eight hours,
I'm hoping Sherry Knipple kept him overnight at her house.
And you know, he slept in in a sleeping bag.
They just let him relax all day. But it's looking
like he's going to play tonight.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
I just don't know how that duke team didn't win
the national championship.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
But we will come, we'll talk about we'll talk about
that a different day.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
Nate.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
It was great to see you, buddy. Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
Eleven twenty Tonight Football Friday Night on WBTV.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Watch him