December 23, 2025 • 41 mins
In the show's final hour, Will asks the question of what aspect with this Panthers team has surprised people the most in a positive light, and we take a look at what to expect from the Seahawks on Sunday.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
Will you p in for Kyle Bailey today and on
sports radio on ninety two seven WFNZ as we get
you ready for the week ahead. No shows on the
air tomorrow or Thursday. Local interest there, but we will
be back all on Friday. I'll be back along with Smoke.
I believe the Young Guns are back into on Friday,
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as Colin is as well, so it should be a
lot of fun as we get you ready for a
big weekend again. It almost kind of feels like the
appetizer as opposed to the main course. Knowing that this
game could mean everything for the Carolina Panthers, but in
all likelihood might not given the fact that Tampa plays Miami,
but it is one we will still take with the
utmost sincerity and seriousness because it could be a very
big litmus test with the Carolina Panthers. Is it take
(01:06):
on the Seattle Seahawks this weekend team coming West to East.
Brian Demhauser covers the Seahawks for his side. Hawk Blogg
already joins us on Sports Radio ninety two to seven
wfn Z.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Brian, what's going on? Thank you so much, Happy holidays.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
It's a lot of stuff going on, playoff football in
store for maybe both teams. So great to be with you,
and then thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I've won last five have the Seahawks, and nine of
the last ten a lot of the times also having
to do it via a type rope, so to speak.
What has been your assessment of the twenty twenty five
Seahawks at this point, Brian.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah, it's kind of interesting to hear that in the
sense that it's been anything but a tightrope for most
of this season. This is a team number one in
the NFL and point differential. They've had, you know, four
thirty point halfs in the season and really left a
lot of teams kind of in their dust. But you know,
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when when they've lost, it's been very close games. You know,
whether it was the first game of the season against
the forty nine ers, last second play against the Rams
where they threw four interceptions and still had a field
goal kick to potentially win it, or against the Bucks
who back then were playing a much different brand of
football than they've been playing lately, and even that came
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down to the very last minute. So this is a
team that's kind of complete in all phases, and the
only thing that's really kind of held them back from
being dominant in all phases has been their running game
on offense, and as of since Week ten, they're pretty
close to a top ten rushing offense, so they are
starting to address that as well. Unfortunately for them, the
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past game has slid a little bit at the same time,
and that's kind of.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Where I lead to when it comes to Sam Donald.
He's obviously somebody who we know very very well, and
I think at the end of the day, I think
he got a raw deal at the end of his
tenure here because I felt like he was playing very
very good football when the Panthers decided to kind of
make that change and go to Bryce Young but obviously
found a career renaissance in Minnesota and then obviously now
here in Seattle. What have you at least seen and
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liked from Sam?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah, I mean add me to the list of people
that was at least a little bit skeptical of how
this was going to go in Seattle and even you know,
maybe I'll lose all credibility here, but I thought it
was maybe going to be a downgrade from Geno Smith
and John Schneider. The GM is looking like a genius
after Sam Donald gets named to the Pro Bowl, after
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Geno Smith has traded away, and look at the beginning
of the season, Sam Donald was the best quarterback in football.
I mean pretty much by any metric, he was. And
then he ran into that Rams game and threw the
four picks and it was like all the nightmares kind
of flooded back. But to his credit, you know, he's
he's picked himself up off the mat and instead of
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just letting it spiral into you know, a lost season,
he's come back. And this last game against the Rams
is a perfect kind of microcosm of that storyline where
it looked like he was going to be the butt
of a lot of jokes and instead, you know, he
sent the Rams packing and put the Seahawks in position
to maybe be the number one seed of the NFC.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I think there's a lot of people who look at
the NFC as being a conference that comes in knowing
that there are some teams. But I think there's also
just a lot of I would say parody when you
think about the way that there are some teams that
have played very well, but it seems like any team
that ends uprising of that top ends up getting you know,
a bit by somebody. Think about the Panthers beating two
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teams like the Packers and the Rams in earlier parts
of the season when they both were first in the conference.
What do you feel like Seattle possesses that makes you
feel like they can not only be at the top
of this conference but also stay there.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yeah, it's a great point about you know, Carolina figuring
to play a large role in how this all plays out,
regardless of what goes on the next two weeks with
that win over the Rams. But the Seahawks, I mean,
I think they're built from the front to back on
the defense, that defensive line, first when they acquired Leonard
Williams and then when they drafted Bayer Murphy last year,
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and you know, they added DeMarcus Lawrence to that list.
They brought back Jaron Reid, and that is as physical
and uh, you know, really selfless of a group is
you're going to find on the defensive line. Those guys
don't chase stats. They are willing to sell out to
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stop the run. And you know, whoever gets the numbers,
they're they're happy to support that guy. And that's pretty rare.
You got a guy like boy Mafe, who's an edge
player in his you know, contract year, and he could
easily just be saying, you know, forget that, I'm going
to go get my SAX so i can get paid.
But he and others have just bought into this philosophy
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that's allowed them to be the best run defense in football,
and then that's allowed them to be one of the
best pass rushing teams in football with Mike McDonald, you know,
as kind of the mad scientist in the lab coming
up with new ways to make quarterbacks lives miserable.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Six Seattle Seahawks get to the Pro Bowl. Brian Darnold,
Jackson Smith and Jingba Witherspoon, Lawrence Williams, Shaheed these are
all household names, a lot of them. Any surprises that
either didn't make it from your your standpoint, or maybe
somebody who got in who maybe you were surprised by.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Yeah, I thought that Bier Murphy was a pretty wild
miss there. I think Bier Murphy has been, if not
the best defensive tackle in football this year. He's certainly
in the top couple. And this could be a situation
where a guy doesn't make the Pro Bowl but does
make the All Pro team. You know, he is certainly,
by pretty much any measure, been better than Jalen Carter
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this year. And you know he's still a young player,
still growing and you know, still building that reputation. But
I think that was the biggest from a Seahawks standpoint.
Jason Myers, the kicker, is another guy that that folks
at point two, has had a really good year and
might actually break the NFL record for most field goals
in the season. So those would be a couple. But
you know, Ernest Jones has been a guy that came
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over from the Rams and played really well too. You
could only have so many guys, and the Seahawks right
now their goal is to not have any of those
guys play, and if things go the way they they
they're hoping they go in the.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Playoffs definitely, So it's a good shot on Jones because
that was one I thought that I was I was
surprised to not see up there. Brian Emhauser, Hawk blogger
dot com joining us here on sports RDY onety two
seven WFNZ Panthers and Seahawks. Obviously, seating is up for
grabs this weekend, and I kind of the rest of
the way. Is there anybody who you feel like maybe
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that Seattle would be holding back on this week knowing
that not necessarily that the hay is one in the barn,
but that it is at least mostly on the way there.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Would you stay holding back? Say more about what.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
You in terms of just is is there anybody like
if the injury wise, they might try to stay away
from the IA.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
No, I don't expect that to be the case. I mean,
we'll get injury report. I just came back from the
Seahawks practice facility and they're just doing their first practice
of the week, so we'll get that later today. You know,
Kobe Bryant's the safety who hurt his knee in the
game against the Rams. Mike McDonald had said that might
be one that misses some time, and if that's the case,
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then you could see Tyo Kotta come back and be
the starting safety alongside Julian Love. Tyo Kotta had played
a lot of reps when Julian Love was out so
and he played pretty well and the team really didn't
miss that much of a step with him, So I
don't think that would be a big change Otherwise, No,
I think the Seahawks are looking at this as they
control their own destiny. They need every single game the
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rest of the way, and that's been the case for
a while in order to get that bye week to
start the playoffs. And this game against Carolina is absolutely
nothing to overlook. The way that Bryce Young has been
playing and the way that offensive line plays in the
run game. That's a team that you know absolutely is
going to bring everything they can, especially at home.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Talking of course, with Brian deb Hauser, you know you
mentioned that the past game maybe has slipped in the
last couple of weeks. I guess not to sit here
and sound like I'm leaving the witness, but where do
you see the Seahawks team being vulnerable?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Yeah? I mean I think where. The really interesting thing
about the Seahawks is they do some things that you
know you just don't want to do if you're going
to be a great team, and that's turn the ball over.
The Seahawks have a negative turnover differential and they have
the number one point differential in the positive, so that
is a rare feat. There have been some Super Bowl
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teams as recently as you know, twenty fifteen. I think
Broncos were a team that won the Super Bowl with
a situation like that. But it's not where you want
to be, and the Seahawks continue to turn the ball
over and so that's a vulnerability. And the Panthers I
think have been pretty good in terms of taking the
ball away. You know, I think they rank what was
its thirteenth in the NFL in takeaways and seventh in
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interception rate. And I'm sure Mike Jackson, the former Seahawks player,
would would love to return the favor to his former team.
So I think that would be the biggest thing, and
the other would be I mean, look, the Panthers bread
and butter as far as I'm concerned, is running the
football and those running backs in that offensive line. If
they're able to establish some sort of ground game against
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Seattle and take advantage of a mobile quarterback and Bryce Young,
those are things that could give make this game a
lot tougher for the Seahawks. So those are to be
the keys in my mind.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I'm glad you mentioned Mike Jackson, Ryan, just because I
wanted to ask you about him. I would say he's
had a very up and down year in the fact
that now you look at him last couple of weeks,
it's been very much up. Despite the one touchdown he
give up to Mike Evans, I think he had a
very admirable day. And he had the pick six also
earlier in the season, which is I think become a big,
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big part of what he can bring to the table
in terms of not only playing on the opposite side
of J. C. Horn, but what is your sense of
what he can bring to the table, because from the
standpoint of where the Panthers sit, that's a deal they
felt like might come out and look like a steal
at the end of the day.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Yeah, I mean, just on a personal level, I'm pretty
happy for Mike Jackson. You know, I remember when he
first kind of came on and late in the season
for the Seahawks, and he kind of showed up right
away as a guy that was physical and could make
plays on the ball and really fought his way onto
the field for reps. And you know, when the Seahawks
traded him last year, there just there was really no
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place for him on in the backfield given how much
talent they've got here in Seattle. And I think it
was best for Mike Jackson to get moved to Carolina
and get to get real playing time. And yeah, I
think he's a player that super physical, super you know, competitive,
and you know, a guy that can be a good
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run defender as well as really physical against the pass
in the air or making a play on the ball
in the air. But he also can be got sometimes.
He's someone who, you know, whether I don't think it's
necessarily gonna be a Mike Evans kind of situation, but
when you got a guy like JSN who can just
wrout people up, when you've got a guy like Rashid
Shaheed who can leave people kind of in his dust,
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I think those are tougher matchups for a corner like
Mike Jackson. And you know, I expect he'll be up
for the challenge, but I think the Seahawks probably feel
pretty good about their matchups regardless of who's the opposite
of those two players.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Find him on Twitter at hawk Blogger. You can also
look at his side as well hawk blogger dot com.
I know that We'll be doing a the other portion
of the home at home as I join you guys
tomorrow morning. But appreciate the time as always, Happy holidays
to you and thank.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You so much for the time.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Thank you, man, I appreciate it. Talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
That is Brian Nemhauser joining us hawk blogger dot com,
already seeing the text from people.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yes, he covers the Seahawks, and I think he also
is a little bit.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Much of a fan, so he seems to be pretty
happy about their chances.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
So, I mean, they are eleven and three, guys. I'm
not gonna sit here and tell you that he shouldn't
be happy about his team. They're the number one seed. Yeah,
they have one of the best defenses. Richie, Richie, Richie's angry.
There was a cocky nature to his to his life.
But again, you're eleven and three. They should be caught.
Number one seed, yeah, I mean, and you seamlessly transitioned
from one era to another, it looks like. So they
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like their head coach. Yeah, I mean, Baltimore definitely misses
him right now. I mean, Mike McDonald, that's like the
one defensive co coordinator that's really gotten to a head
coaching job, and it's really it feels like over the
last few years outside of it's him and Damiko Ryans two.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well, it's it's again.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
It's it's the you have to be able to embrace
the other side of the football, which is I think
again is something also that I'd like to see Dave
Canalis do more of from an offensive court because because
because it could happen both ways too. You could be
an offensive mind the head coach and just say, you
know what, let somebody else handle the defense.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
That doesn't work. You have to be able to embrace
both sides.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
That and they were bold enough to say, hey, Gino
is only going to get us so far. We'll let
him go and then we'll sign Sam to a deal
that doesn't Also, you know caps, you know strain us
cap lies in the long run, we can get out
of it if we need to. I don't think they're
going to get out of it. But I just you know,
really good team. And John Schneider not a good job
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as a gym.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
He's a good gyam. There's a reason he's been a
GM for over fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
And you know, luckily the second time they went to
the well of the John Snyder gmtree here in Carolina.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
It's looking like it's going better than the first try.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Now, Bibel guy did bring up Byron Murphy and the
fact that I did not bring up the Derek Brown
thing because I was trying to be respectful. But if
we're talking about who has a beef more of a beef,
I would say that Derek Brown greater, greater beef than
Byron Murphy if it's me personally. But that's again, I
was trying to be respectful. Trying to be respectful some
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one on four or five, nine to six, take a
time out, do some more panthers and kind of ask
some questions including could this be another opportunity just even
independent of what it means in the standings, it's an
opportunity for you to get up for a big game
or is it another Buffalo Redo? Sports Radio ninety two
to seven w FNZ.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
Pull my trick?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Love it blow your mind? Do you think I'm your pal?
The old the lane?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
We have to explain you say what you were saying
before we give them back to break because you were
making fun of me saying pal all the time to people.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I wasn't, but I also because I said something. I said, buckaroo,
because I was giving you a little bit of a
just a heads up about something for your trek and
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(16:12):
or as Walker Mell would say.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
The Wizards, the Wizards, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
But and I said, buckeroo, and I said, you know what,
we don't have a I kind of missed a way
of the old days or twenty years ago.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
There's an old phrase in a stop I need to
stuff on my head. Old days is doing a lot
of heavy lifting.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
But I you know, I kind of missed the days
of where people would say pal in such a condescending way.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Pal, pal buster, bro bro, Uh, can can we stop?
Is this a Southern? Can I give you the Is
this a Southern thing?
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
God?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Here?
Speaker 7 (16:52):
What?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
What's? What? What is it?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
When someone tries to call me buddy, like I don't
I think buddy, but buddy should not be Buddy, should
be reserved for the pre adolescents.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Okay, Like, Okay, who are the people that say that
to you?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Like, sometimes it might be somebody who was my contemporary,
but a lot of times it's somebody who was a
who was an elder. Elder gentleman usually will say, Buddy,
I've never gotten that. Like call me sir, darn it,
like you can call me sir. I have no problem
being one. You're old.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
You probably just don't think about doing it because it's
going on buddy. Usually in this it's usually in the
service industry. Okay, well, I haven't noticed that I get
buddy a lot. I guess it's because I'm just do
I it's because I have a youthful face? Is that
it do? I? You know, no offense, but I don't.
I don't put gray hair on your beard. I know,
(17:46):
I know, I know, I know someone goes Champ. How
about Champ? Yeah, Champ does kind of irk me when
you call an adult champions Like, unless you actually just
want a championship of some kind, Yeah, I'm not gonna
do it for me.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Seven four five? Oh, Chief was nothing wrong with Chief?
What's wrong with Chief? Chief is fine, that's nothing wrong
with Chief. She sounds badass, Jobbi Joe. If you don't
like Buddy, how do you feel about Boss or boss man?
I big, I've used Boss all the time. Oh that's awesome. Yeah,
I have no problem with Boss.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Kind of gives you a little bit of an ego,
Like it raises your ego a little bit, like, oh
you call me boss man?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Textra goes Yep, I agree with Willy.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Uh, I'm okay with Chief, I'm okay with Boss. I'm
not a I'm not a fan of Hoss. No, Hass
is not good.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Like if that's your nickname and you go buy it, like,
I'm fine with it. But like I don't call anyone hoss,
it's it's Boss.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
What up? Man?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
See Now, I would say buddy to like friends, like
old old school friends. Yeah, like like like like i'd
call somebody a buddy.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Because you're genuinely excited.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
But like, if I don't know you, you can't call
me buddy as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Oh there's from Huntersville. God, Yes, okay, guy, I don't
use that one. But if I don't remember you, I'm
just gonna say, what's up?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Man?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Just so I can save it. I just hope you
don't ask me about it. So we've got very very
good friends. We go to church with gentleman's given Christian
name is Guy and not like Gee where it's French
like Gie hey Bear, like he goes by Guy, it
goes Guy, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Like Guy at the area. Yeah, at least with that.
He's an incredible he's I love. I don't want to
say anything bad about him. He and his wife are fantastic.
You know, we love them. But I wow, that's a
hard one for me.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
You see CP mount Hawley apparently West of the Western
Walkers show does not like Boss Boss Man.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Oh uh.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Sport also is bad, big, big, big turn on sports
school sports.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Sport is not good.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Once you get in the middle school high school range,
it's like you can't use that one anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I say Powell because like it's a it's affectionate, and
I also think too it can be disarming in a
way for some people.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I'm not rating four labradoodles on the air. That's nice. No, No,
I was reading someone else.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I'm very disappointed with this whole pale guy conversation and
no reference to South Park.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Very good nice. That's that's that's very good. Uh Aiden
from Waxaw.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
I'm younger and say buddy all the time and definitely
using get called it by older people, though Paulie says,
you guys sound like insecure nerds.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
From Paul Paul Pauli from Lake Wiley.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I feel like the term buddy is something that someone
from New York called someone from the Deep South.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Now, I get it.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I get it from people who sound like, how do
I say this? How do I say this?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I get and yelled that people who's people who don't
sound like from there, they're from.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
New York, people who.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Say it okay, Like when I go to a place
where there's older people and they recognize me. Do you
have a problem when to call you if you're you know,
let's say thirty forty years older than you?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Do you have a problem with someone calls you sport?
Speaker 6 (21:08):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I mean I I'm not the biggest sport fan. I
think there are more offensive ones out there than sport.
Jobbi Joe goes, you guys have boss all wrong. It's condescending.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
About that depends on who says it and how they
say it. It can be condescending textually, goes, I thought
the last hour was all Panthers.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Okay, well you know who the boss made it is
for the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
That is Bryce Young. Hey, there you go. Let's go
to the phone. So a PSL second wants to talk Panthers.
What's going on?
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Pal?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
How are you well?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Remember I texted you I really wasn't going to talk Panthers.
And I don't want to get in trouble with the
just talk sports crowd.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I'm trying to throw you to the wolves here, sucker.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
When you're a story, your your conversation will put to
your mind of a very hilarious story about twenty five
thirty years ago. I was demonstrating a new procedural technique
on video. It was you did it under like a
local aandis teach demonstrate on video for about one hundred
sersons And I go to the patient. I go, okay,
this is gonna hurt a little bit my friend, And
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as I do it, the guy screams out on video,
you're not my friend.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That's funny, that's funny.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
It's kind of amusing. But anyway, I brought the house down.
I mean, I still hear about that to this day.
But what I wanted to talk about was your your
your your Christmas meal. Yes, I want to know how
you make a couple of questions. Number one, First of all, plagic,
what that Serbian?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Ukrainian? Rainian?
Speaker 5 (22:44):
What do you do make it with Arnia?
Speaker 7 (22:46):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
My my mother's Italian. My mother is McNally.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
So you know, okay, okay, okay, then you're allowed and
uh you're bowling a's do you put in wine?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
You put in cheese?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I don't I that all the time so it doesn't burn.
I know, I have to still have to stir it
in all the time.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I when I'm cooking just for me and my wife,
I'll throw a little glass of red wine in there.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
My parents don't drink, so I leave the wine out.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
But no, I just it's it's it's beef, sausage, veal,
a little onion, little garlic, lots of colic, lots of tomatoes,
and uh, you know, stir it, salt and pepper and
taste and stir it from until from last question?
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Are you the kind of Italian who does a lasagna.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
And a roast?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Do you just do lasagna? We're only six people this year,
so it's not gonna be okay. We actually my dad
is going to do a prime rib on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
I want to say, there you.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Go, We'll do We'll do, We'll do that.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I will say this about the Panthers, Are you like
you said in your postgame show? By my metric, this
has already been a successful season because every game I
wanted to except for two I left, it was it was.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Entertaining and it was competitive. Sure, and you know, you know, you.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Know, you score golf. When you start out you have
smiley face and frownie face. I would say for this season,
you got to give the Panthers a smiley face no
matter what ends up happening. Being there was fantastic this
year once again after so many years of wandering the desert.
And I really really really has always enjoyed.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
You and Smoke on that show.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
And Merry Christmas, dude, Thank you pal Mary, Christmas to
you too as well, say did pal again appreciate it?
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Jack is a sun is a bad one? I will
go with that. Y sun is bad? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Not.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I'm a fan of son. A hero. I don't know
what hero is what I have never been called that hero?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah, hero. Apparently a big dog is one from Mac
from Moresville. Oh that's awesome, Rob big dog or just dog?
Speaker 6 (25:02):
What do.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
What up?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Dog?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Hornets Ron goes, I say boss all the time. It's
offended one person and I apply to them to be offended.
Was okay, boss, that's great. Bub See now guy used
to cut my hair. His name was bub, so I couldn't.
I can't be angry at bub legend Really Captain was
(25:26):
another one that somebody just brought up.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Uh. The guy goes to fear from New York.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
I always hear someone with bum is that like the
worst and soul you can give someone up there?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Yep, but bum is, But but bomb is. Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
It's pretty much the lowest, the lowest form of lowest
form of insult.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I did.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I did want to ask a panther question during this
segment because I want to pay off on that promise.
What has been the most surprising thing about this Panther's
run to you?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
To me?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
It has I'm gonna I'm gonna say this is gonna
it's gonna shock people. I'm I'm really excited with what
I've seen from the run defense. I'm excited that it
doesn't seem like the run defense's damn has been broken
too many times this season, like Buffalo was one obviously,
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and there have been a couple of other you know,
market times. You know, Tampa did run it well despite
again losing the football game. They did run it well
against Carolina.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I was going to say that the average yards per
carrying that game it turned out to not be as
bad for Carolina as it looked like in the first half.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
No, it didn't.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
But at the same they both actually ran it around
five point one yards to carry. But I would I
would say the rush defense, and I would say.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Bryce's consistency.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Again, I know that it's maybe over a smaller over
a smaller sample of the season, and it's been an
ekg at times. But I think even in the losses lately,
you have seen good parts of Bruce. Bryce sh Youung
has not been the person who has kept them from winning,
(27:07):
absent from say the San Francisco game, the first New
Orleans game and Arizona Arizona. But again, oh again, Arizona
helped lead him back.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, I'll say the sand Fraan, even the sand Fraan
game I viewed at more as a play calling decision
on Dave Canalis, sure because a lot of you know,
the interception was Bryce's fault, but the second one, the
second interception he threw in that game, that was a
missed DPI in that situation, and there are a lot
of other passes that should have been caught. That was Honestly,
(27:44):
I'd say that was probably tedror Or's worst game. But
ever since the Saints debacle, I think Bryce has been
very good. I think, you know, ever since that Saints game,
he's for the most part, been good. The worst game
probably was the Same Frame game. Outside of that, he's
been really really good. And even if the Staft books
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don't show it, like I know, we had a lot
of people complaining about well only through for one ninety
one yards on Sunday, he was still really efficient and
really effective. And that doesn't even go into the last
two weeks. The ground game has actually been really good
for him. They ran a Reid option for Bryce Young
on Sunday that was unthinkable, inconceivable year and a half ago.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Texter brings up the it says big cat Dan. Actually,
he says, the patchwork offensive line getting it done. That's
a very good shout eleven different combinations in fifteen games.
I would also, though, say that Bryce's I'm going to
use the word again, his his elusiveness when it comes
to him escaping the pocket, knowing when he can and
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knowing how to do so effectively, has covered up a
lot of ills from that offensive line being a mix
and match operation over the over the balance of this season.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I would agree, and I think part of that is
just Brice getting more adjusted to the NFL and how
pockets collapse and move. But I'd also say just two
years ago they had about as the same amount of combinations,
albeit much lesser variety and much lesser talent, and Bryce
Young got sacked for a record sixty two times.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Aiden from Waxos says turnover forcing has become a lot
better under this team, and again that's one of the
things I said, I if you're going to play this
is zero varo defense, and again I'm clutching my pearls
every time I see this team give up as many
yards as they do between the twenties. But when you
play this defense with the scheme that they play, you
have to do a couple of things. Well, you have
to force turnovers, you have to be able to get
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off the field on third down when you need to,
and you need to make a lot of those red
zone stops that turn sevens into threes. If you can
do those three things, you can be effective with that
style of defense. And fortunately in last year they weren't
doing any of those three things.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
He was scoring on them at will.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
They couldn't turn the football over, and anytime you got
in the red zone, they couldn't get stops. Now, there
were times where we were able to get stops because
the short fields, but at the same point in time,
if the team you also you also have to have
kind of complimentary football where if you turn the football over,
it's not in your own end. Seven four, nine, six ten,
Sweet Cheeks goes. I am most shocked the Panthers will
(30:23):
have actually have a winning season. I was thinking seven
wins this year. A lot of people with you, Hunt well,
got to get one more to ensure a winning season.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, because you can still in this new day and age,
you can eight wins and it's still you can be
eight and nine.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
King McQueen goes Canalis cost Us, both Canalis cost us,
both Saints games.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Pal there you go. J. J. Rico might have saved
the season. The games where he was good got us
back on track. I still think he is. He's on
fumes right now. Oh yeah, most definitely. I mean, you know,
the last month specifically, I was wondering, hoping that maybe
the I would help, but it just hasn't done that.
(31:02):
But like, I mean, you're right if he isn't in
those games for Miami and Dallas, specifically Miami. I mean
I saw someone say if that fourth down conversion doesn't
hit for Carolina with Bryce Young where he rolled out
into the pocket and got it to tedor or in
the last second when the air down seventeen three, is
Carolina here?
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Big Kip goes, what about the word fam as a
as a nonverbal identifier or as a non specific identifying.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Because I think you're trying to be too hip.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
That's a big ick. Yeah, fam is an ick for me.
It's not necessarily an ick. It's just I don't want
to hear you say it when you're not actually a
part of my family or really close friend circle.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
So I'm okay with Bro, but don't call me Bra.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I have a friend. I have a very very good
friend of mine. He uses Bra all the time, I'm like, well,
you're also from He's not New York's used a lot
he's he's not from New York. He is from Chicago
by way of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Jeez, okay, well that changes a lot.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, he's It's time for our final look at the headlines.
What's spoke?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
All right?
Speaker 7 (32:17):
Bro?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
The Hornets injury report has been updated. Heading into this,
we knew that Grant Williams and Mason Plumley were going
to be out. Just to add on to the bad news,
Ryan Kaulfrinder was questionable. He is now downgraded to out,
So get the ice BAF ready for moves to diabat
because he is going to be working to midnight oil tonight,
(32:40):
trying to get through this game at center. But the
good news is Colin Sexton is probable, so now you
get all your guards back most likely. Josh Green also
was on the injury report, but he was probable with
a left achilles tendonopathy, so it looks like you gotta
be careful with him. But yeah, outside of the center,
(33:00):
looking good for the Hornets own the injury front. Willie
should be interesting name tonight.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
You know Alex sar is the only real big man
of note for them.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
So we'll see whether or not.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
His inclusion in the lineup, meaning Mousa's maybe changes the
way they do things a little bit off the bench
because they're gonna have to go with some small ball
five at some times.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
They did that a little bit last night with t John.
Maybe a little bit of Miles at the five two. Maybe,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
But the Wizards, as you said, the Wizard's not the
worst opponent to have this problem against. We'll close up shop.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
He gets ready for Hornets pre game as we were
continues ninety to seven WFZ. A couple of text to
finish shown on the FANDUL sex line. Wanted to give
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some love Joe and Concord wants to give some love
to Joe Gilbert on the offensive line. Dan went out
and paid for talent, but Joe Gilbert has coached the
online group well enough to extend to withstand a lot
of injuries. We were talking about which of the non
specific identifiers. I guess it's the best way to go
about what which of the not cerific identifiers do you
(34:16):
hate the most?
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I e.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Pal Bro, Hass, Boss, et cetera. Jack Go's chat is
an ick. The kids say what's up? Chat a lot,
and I'm kind of glad I missed that. Most of
the Jacker goes hey sparky j Max also saying in
Concord uh tomin and the island and you get Broda
(34:41):
Island version or brother for sure very much.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
So, yeah, I don't mind if you're from the islands,
you can do that. Do that wellus.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
It kind of sounds badass when you're from the islands
and do it. My buddy Philippe from high school used
to give me that all the time. Ironically, he doesn't
he didn't really speak like that, but he's Haitian, so
he's you know, yeah. He he had what I would
call some influence. I would say, what's the word, I'm
(35:09):
looking for, privilege? He had some island privilege or or island.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Street cred.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yes, that's what I was looking for. It was another
way that I was looking for. But I'm just gonna
just gonna walk away from that. Whosia Poppy goes, what
about bro Chaco Na?
Speaker 2 (35:23):
That one's bad? Wedding crash goes, what's pop and slime? Slime?
Is that is that a thing?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I think that's more of a recent one. Let me
look at the Urban Dictionary. I don't know if I
want that one. Be careful, you're on you want to
work computer? I know, big swoll okay, pop and slime
is apparently another way of saying what's up?
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Is it? Really? I mean, now we hear people call
you people twin? What up twin? Yeah? So what's what's
what's popping? Slope? Play the reward.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
We started out today talking to Nick Carboni of w
c NC Charlotte. I asked him on what is surprised
him the most about the Panthers this season.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
I think that the defense has a lot to do
with a lot of the wins, you know, game ceiling interceptions,
game feeling strip sacks. Obviously that was not the case
last season. It was a team that couldn't come up
with big plays and and you know, be opportunistic and
turn the ball over when it counted, and and obviously
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couldn't stop the run and had trouble stopping you know,
the pass as well. I mean, Steve Mike Evans kind
of limited to that one fantastic touchdown throw and catch.
But really that's that's the biggest amount of damage he
in that receiving corps. Did you know that that's big
values of how the defense is improved too.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
We talked to Carlon Gay, Sporting News NBA writer on
what the trade deadline looks like for the Charlotte Hornets.
Speaker 7 (37:12):
Say this, I don't expect the Hornets to be big
players in the draft or sorry, in the in the
coming trade deadline. I think you know, again, you have
to see what this team is as you're fully healthy,
and then you figure out, Well, the big question is
at the end of the years, you know whether or
not this is a LaMelo ball team going forward or not.
(37:32):
Right Like, that's the big, big question that you really
have to figure out. But you can't answer that question
until he plays a little bit more with this unit.
And then Oh, by the way, I think a lot
of people are going to be afraid to pull the
trigger on a trade around this deadline because I think
the draft is so good coming into this. You know
that the draft class is so good. I think in
the top ten players. If you end up anywhere from
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one to ten, you're not going to complain about who
you're going to be able to get to select out
of this year's college draft class. I really do believe that,
and even beyond that, some of the older college players
that are just going to be there, that are ready
and willing and able to just win coming out of
this year's classes. What are the specials?
Speaker 3 (38:10):
And of course a chance to look at our next
opponent this I'm sure we'll probably be featured to buy
our friends Mac and KB during their behind Enemy Line
segment during the countdown to kickoff. But Brian Nemhauser, who
joined us from hawkblogger dot com.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Pretty bracognosious about the seahawks chances this weekend, which we're
hoping to try and knock them down a peg a
little bit, despite the fact they come in with the
number one seed. We've done that before, no stranger to that,
But I asked him on the one place where he
feels the Seahawks are vulnerable.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
They do some things that you know you just don't
want to do if you're going to be a great team,
and that's turn the ball over. The Seahawks have a
negative turnover differential and they have the number one point
differential in the positive, so that is a rare feat.
There have been some Super Bowl teams as recently as
you know, twenty fifteen. I think Broncos were a team
that won the Super Bowl with a situation like that,
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but it's not where you want to be, and the
seat continue to turn the ball over it.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
That is the rewind the best audio we had over
the course of the day. Be sure, of course, also
to download the Kyle Bailey Show podcast wherever you get
your podcasts as you go throughout your holiday week. Had
a lot of fun today. We will do it all
again on Friday. Kyle will be back next week after
his R and R from New Hampshire. We hope wherever
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you are by the way, you have a safe and
merry Christmas or a happy holiday if you are celebrating otherwise.
This week, Smoke Ludwig our final opportunity to tip our caps.
It's brought to you by our friends and Neogenics. We're
all you have to lose is the pain.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Well one god, I might want to go to Neogenics
as Philip rivers, but tip of the cap to him
because I did not expect him to have a game
like you did last night, even in the losing efforts.
Apparently he's given a lot of old people a lot
of unneeded confidence because now we've got people like Steve
Young saying take a couple of snaps. Steve Young hasn't
played off a game of football this century. I'm a
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preemptive tip of the cap to Wilfred Zaha, who will
be representing his country the Ivory Coast for the first
time in a while in the African Cup of Nations
beginning tomorrow they play Mozambique. Those games are on Fubo
if you're interested but looking an opportunity forward to seeing
Zaja back on the field and also helping him stay
sharp for a Charlotte FC Big twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Merry Christmas to you and yours, wherever you may be.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
We will talk again on Friday, Boxing Day, getting you
ready for a football Friday with the Panthers and the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Should be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Merry Christmas, smoke, Merry Christmas, buddy. This is Sports Radio
ninety two to seven WFNZ Hornets pre game is next.
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Quarter back in five oh three in the Queen City.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Will you p in for Kyle Bailey today and on
sports radio on ninety two seven WFNZ as we get
you ready for the week ahead. No shows on the
air tomorrow or Thursday. Local interest there, but we will
be back all on Friday. I'll be back along with Smoke.
I believe the Young Guns are back into on Friday,
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as Colin is as well, so it should be a
lot of fun as we get you ready for a
big weekend again. It almost kind of feels like the
appetizer as opposed to the main course. Knowing that this
game could mean everything for the Carolina Panthers, but in
all likelihood might not given the fact that Tampa plays Miami,
but it is one we will still take with the
utmost sincerity and seriousness because it could be a very
big litmus test with the Carolina Panthers. Is it take
(01:06):
on the Seattle Seahawks this weekend team coming West to East.
Brian Demhauser covers the Seahawks for his side. Hawk Blogg
already joins us on Sports Radio ninety two to seven
wfn Z.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Brian, what's going on? Thank you so much, Happy holidays.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
It's a lot of stuff going on, playoff football in
store for maybe both teams. So great to be with you,
and then thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I've won last five have the Seahawks, and nine of
the last ten a lot of the times also having
to do it via a type rope, so to speak.
What has been your assessment of the twenty twenty five
Seahawks at this point, Brian.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah, it's kind of interesting to hear that in the
sense that it's been anything but a tightrope for most
of this season. This is a team number one in
the NFL and point differential. They've had, you know, four
thirty point halfs in the season and really left a
lot of teams kind of in their dust. But you know,
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when when they've lost, it's been very close games. You know,
whether it was the first game of the season against
the forty nine ers, last second play against the Rams
where they threw four interceptions and still had a field
goal kick to potentially win it, or against the Bucks
who back then were playing a much different brand of
football than they've been playing lately, and even that came
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down to the very last minute. So this is a
team that's kind of complete in all phases, and the
only thing that's really kind of held them back from
being dominant in all phases has been their running game
on offense, and as of since Week ten, they're pretty
close to a top ten rushing offense, so they are
starting to address that as well. Unfortunately for them, the
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past game has slid a little bit at the same time,
and that's kind of.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Where I lead to when it comes to Sam Donald.
He's obviously somebody who we know very very well, and
I think at the end of the day, I think
he got a raw deal at the end of his
tenure here because I felt like he was playing very
very good football when the Panthers decided to kind of
make that change and go to Bryce Young but obviously
found a career renaissance in Minnesota and then obviously now
here in Seattle. What have you at least seen and
(03:09):
liked from Sam?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah, I mean add me to the list of people
that was at least a little bit skeptical of how
this was going to go in Seattle and even you know,
maybe I'll lose all credibility here, but I thought it
was maybe going to be a downgrade from Geno Smith
and John Schneider. The GM is looking like a genius
after Sam Donald gets named to the Pro Bowl, after
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Geno Smith has traded away, and look at the beginning
of the season, Sam Donald was the best quarterback in football.
I mean pretty much by any metric, he was. And
then he ran into that Rams game and threw the
four picks and it was like all the nightmares kind
of flooded back. But to his credit, you know, he's
he's picked himself up off the mat and instead of
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just letting it spiral into you know, a lost season,
he's come back. And this last game against the Rams
is a perfect kind of microcosm of that storyline where
it looked like he was going to be the butt
of a lot of jokes and instead, you know, he
sent the Rams packing and put the Seahawks in position
to maybe be the number one seed of the NFC.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I think there's a lot of people who look at
the NFC as being a conference that comes in knowing
that there are some teams. But I think there's also
just a lot of I would say parody when you
think about the way that there are some teams that
have played very well, but it seems like any team
that ends uprising of that top ends up getting you know,
a bit by somebody. Think about the Panthers beating two
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teams like the Packers and the Rams in earlier parts
of the season when they both were first in the conference.
What do you feel like Seattle possesses that makes you
feel like they can not only be at the top
of this conference but also stay there.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yeah, it's a great point about you know, Carolina figuring
to play a large role in how this all plays out,
regardless of what goes on the next two weeks with
that win over the Rams. But the Seahawks, I mean,
I think they're built from the front to back on
the defense, that defensive line, first when they acquired Leonard
Williams and then when they drafted Bayer Murphy last year,
(05:15):
and you know, they added DeMarcus Lawrence to that list.
They brought back Jaron Reid, and that is as physical
and uh, you know, really selfless of a group is
you're going to find on the defensive line. Those guys
don't chase stats. They are willing to sell out to
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stop the run. And you know, whoever gets the numbers,
they're they're happy to support that guy. And that's pretty rare.
You got a guy like boy Mafe, who's an edge
player in his you know, contract year, and he could
easily just be saying, you know, forget that, I'm going
to go get my SAX so i can get paid.
But he and others have just bought into this philosophy
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that's allowed them to be the best run defense in football,
and then that's allowed them to be one of the
best pass rushing teams in football with Mike McDonald, you know,
as kind of the mad scientist in the lab coming
up with new ways to make quarterbacks lives miserable.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Six Seattle Seahawks get to the Pro Bowl. Brian Darnold,
Jackson Smith and Jingba Witherspoon, Lawrence Williams, Shaheed these are
all household names, a lot of them. Any surprises that
either didn't make it from your your standpoint, or maybe
somebody who got in who maybe you were surprised by.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Yeah, I thought that Bier Murphy was a pretty wild
miss there. I think Bier Murphy has been, if not
the best defensive tackle in football this year. He's certainly
in the top couple. And this could be a situation
where a guy doesn't make the Pro Bowl but does
make the All Pro team. You know, he is certainly,
by pretty much any measure, been better than Jalen Carter
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this year. And you know he's still a young player,
still growing and you know, still building that reputation. But
I think that was the biggest from a Seahawks standpoint.
Jason Myers, the kicker, is another guy that that folks
at point two, has had a really good year and
might actually break the NFL record for most field goals
in the season. So those would be a couple. But
you know, Ernest Jones has been a guy that came
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over from the Rams and played really well too. You
could only have so many guys, and the Seahawks right
now their goal is to not have any of those
guys play, and if things go the way they they
they're hoping they go in the.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Playoffs definitely, So it's a good shot on Jones because
that was one I thought that I was I was
surprised to not see up there. Brian Emhauser, Hawk blogger
dot com joining us here on sports RDY onety two
seven WFNZ Panthers and Seahawks. Obviously, seating is up for
grabs this weekend, and I kind of the rest of
the way. Is there anybody who you feel like maybe
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that Seattle would be holding back on this week knowing
that not necessarily that the hay is one in the barn,
but that it is at least mostly on the way there.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Would you stay holding back? Say more about what.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
You in terms of just is is there anybody like
if the injury wise, they might try to stay away
from the IA.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
No, I don't expect that to be the case. I mean,
we'll get injury report. I just came back from the
Seahawks practice facility and they're just doing their first practice
of the week, so we'll get that later today. You know,
Kobe Bryant's the safety who hurt his knee in the
game against the Rams. Mike McDonald had said that might
be one that misses some time, and if that's the case,
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then you could see Tyo Kotta come back and be
the starting safety alongside Julian Love. Tyo Kotta had played
a lot of reps when Julian Love was out so
and he played pretty well and the team really didn't
miss that much of a step with him, So I
don't think that would be a big change Otherwise, No,
I think the Seahawks are looking at this as they
control their own destiny. They need every single game the
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rest of the way, and that's been the case for
a while in order to get that bye week to
start the playoffs. And this game against Carolina is absolutely
nothing to overlook. The way that Bryce Young has been
playing and the way that offensive line plays in the
run game. That's a team that you know absolutely is
going to bring everything they can, especially at home.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Talking of course, with Brian deb Hauser, you know you
mentioned that the past game maybe has slipped in the
last couple of weeks. I guess not to sit here
and sound like I'm leaving the witness, but where do
you see the Seahawks team being vulnerable?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Yeah? I mean I think where. The really interesting thing
about the Seahawks is they do some things that you
know you just don't want to do if you're going
to be a great team, and that's turn the ball over.
The Seahawks have a negative turnover differential and they have
the number one point differential in the positive, so that
is a rare feat. There have been some Super Bowl
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teams as recently as you know, twenty fifteen. I think
Broncos were a team that won the Super Bowl with
a situation like that. But it's not where you want
to be, and the Seahawks continue to turn the ball
over and so that's a vulnerability. And the Panthers I
think have been pretty good in terms of taking the
ball away. You know, I think they rank what was
its thirteenth in the NFL in takeaways and seventh in
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interception rate. And I'm sure Mike Jackson, the former Seahawks player,
would would love to return the favor to his former team.
So I think that would be the biggest thing, and
the other would be I mean, look, the Panthers bread
and butter as far as I'm concerned, is running the
football and those running backs in that offensive line. If
they're able to establish some sort of ground game against
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Seattle and take advantage of a mobile quarterback and Bryce Young,
those are things that could give make this game a
lot tougher for the Seahawks. So those are to be
the keys in my mind.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I'm glad you mentioned Mike Jackson, Ryan, just because I
wanted to ask you about him. I would say he's
had a very up and down year in the fact
that now you look at him last couple of weeks,
it's been very much up. Despite the one touchdown he
give up to Mike Evans, I think he had a
very admirable day. And he had the pick six also
earlier in the season, which is I think become a big,
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big part of what he can bring to the table
in terms of not only playing on the opposite side
of J. C. Horn, but what is your sense of
what he can bring to the table, because from the
standpoint of where the Panthers sit, that's a deal they
felt like might come out and look like a steal
at the end of the day.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Yeah, I mean, just on a personal level, I'm pretty
happy for Mike Jackson. You know, I remember when he
first kind of came on and late in the season
for the Seahawks, and he kind of showed up right
away as a guy that was physical and could make
plays on the ball and really fought his way onto
the field for reps. And you know, when the Seahawks
traded him last year, there just there was really no
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place for him on in the backfield given how much
talent they've got here in Seattle. And I think it
was best for Mike Jackson to get moved to Carolina
and get to get real playing time. And yeah, I
think he's a player that super physical, super you know, competitive,
and you know, a guy that can be a good
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run defender as well as really physical against the pass
in the air or making a play on the ball
in the air. But he also can be got sometimes.
He's someone who, you know, whether I don't think it's
necessarily gonna be a Mike Evans kind of situation, but
when you got a guy like JSN who can just
wrout people up, when you've got a guy like Rashid
Shaheed who can leave people kind of in his dust,
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I think those are tougher matchups for a corner like
Mike Jackson. And you know, I expect he'll be up
for the challenge, but I think the Seahawks probably feel
pretty good about their matchups regardless of who's the opposite
of those two players.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Find him on Twitter at hawk Blogger. You can also
look at his side as well hawk blogger dot com.
I know that We'll be doing a the other portion
of the home at home as I join you guys
tomorrow morning. But appreciate the time as always, Happy holidays
to you and thank.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You so much for the time.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Thank you, man, I appreciate it. Talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
That is Brian Nemhauser joining us hawk blogger dot com,
already seeing the text from people.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yes, he covers the Seahawks, and I think he also
is a little bit.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Much of a fan, so he seems to be pretty
happy about their chances.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
So, I mean, they are eleven and three, guys. I'm
not gonna sit here and tell you that he shouldn't
be happy about his team. They're the number one seed. Yeah,
they have one of the best defenses. Richie, Richie, Richie's angry.
There was a cocky nature to his to his life.
But again, you're eleven and three. They should be caught.
Number one seed, yeah, I mean, and you seamlessly transitioned
from one era to another, it looks like. So they
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like their head coach. Yeah, I mean, Baltimore definitely misses
him right now. I mean, Mike McDonald, that's like the
one defensive co coordinator that's really gotten to a head
coaching job, and it's really it feels like over the
last few years outside of it's him and Damiko Ryans two.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well, it's it's again.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
It's it's the you have to be able to embrace
the other side of the football, which is I think
again is something also that I'd like to see Dave
Canalis do more of from an offensive court because because
because it could happen both ways too. You could be
an offensive mind the head coach and just say, you
know what, let somebody else handle the defense.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
That doesn't work. You have to be able to embrace
both sides.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
That and they were bold enough to say, hey, Gino
is only going to get us so far. We'll let
him go and then we'll sign Sam to a deal
that doesn't Also, you know caps, you know strain us
cap lies in the long run, we can get out
of it if we need to. I don't think they're
going to get out of it. But I just you know,
really good team. And John Schneider not a good job
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as a gym.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
He's a good gyam. There's a reason he's been a
GM for over fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
And you know, luckily the second time they went to
the well of the John Snyder gmtree here in Carolina.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
It's looking like it's going better than the first try.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Now, Bibel guy did bring up Byron Murphy and the
fact that I did not bring up the Derek Brown
thing because I was trying to be respectful. But if
we're talking about who has a beef more of a beef,
I would say that Derek Brown greater, greater beef than
Byron Murphy if it's me personally. But that's again, I
was trying to be respectful. Trying to be respectful some
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one on four or five, nine to six, take a
time out, do some more panthers and kind of ask
some questions including could this be another opportunity just even
independent of what it means in the standings, it's an
opportunity for you to get up for a big game
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Speaker 6 (15:31):
Pull my trick?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Love it blow your mind? Do you think I'm your pal?
The old the lane?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
We have to explain you say what you were saying
before we give them back to break because you were
making fun of me saying pal all the time to people.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I wasn't, but I also because I said something. I said, buckaroo,
because I was giving you a little bit of a
just a heads up about something for your trek and
two D Hornets pregame show which begins at six o'clock,
which begins right after the end of the Cale Bailey
Show at six pm, which is probably the way powered
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and home of the Hornets as they take on the Wizards,
(16:12):
or as Walker Mell would say.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
The Wizards, the Wizards, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
But and I said, buckeroo, and I said, you know what,
we don't have a I kind of missed a way
of the old days or twenty years ago.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
There's an old phrase in a stop I need to
stuff on my head. Old days is doing a lot
of heavy lifting.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
But I you know, I kind of missed the days
of where people would say pal in such a condescending way.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Pal, pal buster, bro bro, Uh, can can we stop?
Is this a Southern? Can I give you the Is
this a Southern thing?
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
God?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Here?
Speaker 7 (16:52):
What?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
What's? What? What is it?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
When someone tries to call me buddy, like I don't
I think buddy, but buddy should not be Buddy, should
be reserved for the pre adolescents.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Okay, Like, Okay, who are the people that say that
to you?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Like, sometimes it might be somebody who was my contemporary,
but a lot of times it's somebody who was a
who was an elder. Elder gentleman usually will say, Buddy,
I've never gotten that. Like call me sir, darn it,
like you can call me sir. I have no problem
being one. You're old.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
You probably just don't think about doing it because it's
going on buddy. Usually in this it's usually in the
service industry. Okay, well, I haven't noticed that I get
buddy a lot. I guess it's because I'm just do
I it's because I have a youthful face? Is that
it do? I? You know, no offense, but I don't.
I don't put gray hair on your beard. I know,
(17:46):
I know, I know, I know someone goes Champ. How
about Champ? Yeah, Champ does kind of irk me when
you call an adult champions Like, unless you actually just
want a championship of some kind, Yeah, I'm not gonna
do it for me.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Seven four five? Oh, Chief was nothing wrong with Chief?
What's wrong with Chief? Chief is fine, that's nothing wrong
with Chief. She sounds badass, Jobbi Joe. If you don't
like Buddy, how do you feel about Boss or boss man?
I big, I've used Boss all the time. Oh that's awesome. Yeah,
I have no problem with Boss.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Kind of gives you a little bit of an ego,
Like it raises your ego a little bit, like, oh
you call me boss man?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Textra goes Yep, I agree with Willy.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Uh, I'm okay with Chief, I'm okay with Boss. I'm
not a I'm not a fan of Hoss. No, Hass
is not good.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Like if that's your nickname and you go buy it, like,
I'm fine with it. But like I don't call anyone hoss,
it's it's Boss.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
What up? Man?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
See Now, I would say buddy to like friends, like
old old school friends. Yeah, like like like like i'd
call somebody a buddy.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Because you're genuinely excited.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
But like, if I don't know you, you can't call
me buddy as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Oh there's from Huntersville. God, Yes, okay, guy, I don't
use that one. But if I don't remember you, I'm
just gonna say, what's up?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Man?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Just so I can save it. I just hope you
don't ask me about it. So we've got very very
good friends. We go to church with gentleman's given Christian
name is Guy and not like Gee where it's French
like Gie hey Bear, like he goes by Guy, it
goes Guy, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Like Guy at the area. Yeah, at least with that.
He's an incredible he's I love. I don't want to
say anything bad about him. He and his wife are fantastic.
You know, we love them. But I wow, that's a
hard one for me.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
You see CP mount Hawley apparently West of the Western
Walkers show does not like Boss Boss Man.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Oh uh.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Sport also is bad, big, big, big turn on sports
school sports.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Sport is not good.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Once you get in the middle school high school range,
it's like you can't use that one anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I say Powell because like it's a it's affectionate, and
I also think too it can be disarming in a
way for some people.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I'm not rating four labradoodles on the air. That's nice. No, No,
I was reading someone else.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I'm very disappointed with this whole pale guy conversation and
no reference to South Park.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Very good nice. That's that's that's very good. Uh Aiden
from Waxaw.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
I'm younger and say buddy all the time and definitely
using get called it by older people, though Paulie says,
you guys sound like insecure nerds.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
From Paul Paul Pauli from Lake Wiley.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I feel like the term buddy is something that someone
from New York called someone from the Deep South.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Now, I get it.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I get it from people who sound like, how do
I say this? How do I say this?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I get and yelled that people who's people who don't
sound like from there, they're from.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
New York, people who.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Say it okay, Like when I go to a place
where there's older people and they recognize me. Do you
have a problem when to call you if you're you know,
let's say thirty forty years older than you?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Do you have a problem with someone calls you sport?
Speaker 6 (21:08):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I mean I I'm not the biggest sport fan. I
think there are more offensive ones out there than sport.
Jobbi Joe goes, you guys have boss all wrong. It's condescending.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
About that depends on who says it and how they
say it. It can be condescending textually, goes, I thought
the last hour was all Panthers.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Okay, well you know who the boss made it is
for the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
That is Bryce Young. Hey, there you go. Let's go
to the phone. So a PSL second wants to talk Panthers.
What's going on?
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Pal?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
How are you well?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Remember I texted you I really wasn't going to talk Panthers.
And I don't want to get in trouble with the
just talk sports crowd.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I'm trying to throw you to the wolves here, sucker.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
When you're a story, your your conversation will put to
your mind of a very hilarious story about twenty five
thirty years ago. I was demonstrating a new procedural technique
on video. It was you did it under like a
local aandis teach demonstrate on video for about one hundred
sersons And I go to the patient. I go, okay,
this is gonna hurt a little bit my friend, And
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as I do it, the guy screams out on video,
you're not my friend.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That's funny, that's funny.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
It's kind of amusing. But anyway, I brought the house down.
I mean, I still hear about that to this day.
But what I wanted to talk about was your your
your your Christmas meal. Yes, I want to know how
you make a couple of questions. Number one, First of all, plagic,
what that Serbian?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Ukrainian? Rainian?
Speaker 5 (22:44):
What do you do make it with Arnia?
Speaker 7 (22:46):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
My my mother's Italian. My mother is McNally.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
So you know, okay, okay, okay, then you're allowed and
uh you're bowling a's do you put in wine?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
You put in cheese?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I don't I that all the time so it doesn't burn.
I know, I have to still have to stir it
in all the time.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I when I'm cooking just for me and my wife,
I'll throw a little glass of red wine in there.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
My parents don't drink, so I leave the wine out.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
But no, I just it's it's it's beef, sausage, veal,
a little onion, little garlic, lots of colic, lots of tomatoes,
and uh, you know, stir it, salt and pepper and
taste and stir it from until from last question?
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Are you the kind of Italian who does a lasagna.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
And a roast?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Do you just do lasagna? We're only six people this year,
so it's not gonna be okay. We actually my dad
is going to do a prime rib on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
I want to say, there you.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Go, We'll do We'll do, We'll do that.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I will say this about the Panthers, Are you like
you said in your postgame show? By my metric, this
has already been a successful season because every game I
wanted to except for two I left, it was it was.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Entertaining and it was competitive. Sure, and you know, you know, you.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Know, you score golf. When you start out you have
smiley face and frownie face. I would say for this season,
you got to give the Panthers a smiley face no
matter what ends up happening. Being there was fantastic this
year once again after so many years of wandering the desert.
And I really really really has always enjoyed.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
You and Smoke on that show.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
And Merry Christmas, dude, Thank you pal Mary, Christmas to
you too as well, say did pal again appreciate it?
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Jack is a sun is a bad one? I will
go with that. Y sun is bad? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Not.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I'm a fan of son. A hero. I don't know
what hero is what I have never been called that hero?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah, hero. Apparently a big dog is one from Mac
from Moresville. Oh that's awesome, Rob big dog or just dog?
Speaker 6 (25:02):
What do.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
What up?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Dog?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Hornets Ron goes, I say boss all the time. It's
offended one person and I apply to them to be offended.
Was okay, boss, that's great. Bub See now guy used
to cut my hair. His name was bub, so I couldn't.
I can't be angry at bub legend Really Captain was
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another one that somebody just brought up.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Uh. The guy goes to fear from New York.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
I always hear someone with bum is that like the
worst and soul you can give someone up there?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Yep, but bum is, But but bomb is. Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
It's pretty much the lowest, the lowest form of lowest
form of insult.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I did.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I did want to ask a panther question during this
segment because I want to pay off on that promise.
What has been the most surprising thing about this Panther's
run to you?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
To me?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
It has I'm gonna I'm gonna say this is gonna
it's gonna shock people. I'm I'm really excited with what
I've seen from the run defense. I'm excited that it
doesn't seem like the run defense's damn has been broken
too many times this season, like Buffalo was one obviously,
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and there have been a couple of other you know,
market times. You know, Tampa did run it well despite
again losing the football game. They did run it well
against Carolina.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I was going to say that the average yards per
carrying that game it turned out to not be as
bad for Carolina as it looked like in the first half.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
No, it didn't.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
But at the same they both actually ran it around
five point one yards to carry. But I would I
would say the rush defense, and I would say.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Bryce's consistency.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Again, I know that it's maybe over a smaller over
a smaller sample of the season, and it's been an
ekg at times. But I think even in the losses lately,
you have seen good parts of Bruce. Bryce sh Youung
has not been the person who has kept them from winning,
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absent from say the San Francisco game, the first New
Orleans game and Arizona Arizona. But again, oh again, Arizona
helped lead him back.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, I'll say the sand Fraan, even the sand Fraan
game I viewed at more as a play calling decision
on Dave Canalis, sure because a lot of you know,
the interception was Bryce's fault, but the second one, the
second interception he threw in that game, that was a
missed DPI in that situation, and there are a lot
of other passes that should have been caught. That was Honestly,
(27:44):
I'd say that was probably tedror Or's worst game. But
ever since the Saints debacle, I think Bryce has been
very good. I think, you know, ever since that Saints game,
he's for the most part, been good. The worst game
probably was the Same Frame game. Outside of that, he's
been really really good. And even if the Staft books
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don't show it, like I know, we had a lot
of people complaining about well only through for one ninety
one yards on Sunday, he was still really efficient and
really effective. And that doesn't even go into the last
two weeks. The ground game has actually been really good
for him. They ran a Reid option for Bryce Young
on Sunday that was unthinkable, inconceivable year and a half ago.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Texter brings up the it says big cat Dan. Actually,
he says, the patchwork offensive line getting it done. That's
a very good shout eleven different combinations in fifteen games.
I would also, though, say that Bryce's I'm going to
use the word again, his his elusiveness when it comes
to him escaping the pocket, knowing when he can and
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knowing how to do so effectively, has covered up a
lot of ills from that offensive line being a mix
and match operation over the over the balance of this season.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I would agree, and I think part of that is
just Brice getting more adjusted to the NFL and how
pockets collapse and move. But I'd also say just two
years ago they had about as the same amount of combinations,
albeit much lesser variety and much lesser talent, and Bryce
Young got sacked for a record sixty two times.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Aiden from Waxos says turnover forcing has become a lot
better under this team, and again that's one of the
things I said, I if you're going to play this
is zero varo defense, and again I'm clutching my pearls
every time I see this team give up as many
yards as they do between the twenties. But when you
play this defense with the scheme that they play, you
have to do a couple of things. Well, you have
to force turnovers, you have to be able to get
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off the field on third down when you need to,
and you need to make a lot of those red
zone stops that turn sevens into threes. If you can
do those three things, you can be effective with that
style of defense. And fortunately in last year they weren't
doing any of those three things.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
He was scoring on them at will.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
They couldn't turn the football over, and anytime you got
in the red zone, they couldn't get stops. Now, there
were times where we were able to get stops because
the short fields, but at the same point in time,
if the team you also you also have to have
kind of complimentary football where if you turn the football over,
it's not in your own end. Seven four, nine, six ten,
Sweet Cheeks goes. I am most shocked the Panthers will
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have actually have a winning season. I was thinking seven
wins this year. A lot of people with you, Hunt well,
got to get one more to ensure a winning season.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, because you can still in this new day and age,
you can eight wins and it's still you can be
eight and nine.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
King McQueen goes Canalis cost Us, both Canalis cost us,
both Saints games.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Pal there you go. J. J. Rico might have saved
the season. The games where he was good got us
back on track. I still think he is. He's on
fumes right now. Oh yeah, most definitely. I mean, you know,
the last month specifically, I was wondering, hoping that maybe
the I would help, but it just hasn't done that.
(31:02):
But like, I mean, you're right if he isn't in
those games for Miami and Dallas, specifically Miami. I mean
I saw someone say if that fourth down conversion doesn't
hit for Carolina with Bryce Young where he rolled out
into the pocket and got it to tedor or in
the last second when the air down seventeen three, is
Carolina here?
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Big Kip goes, what about the word fam as a
as a nonverbal identifier or as a non specific identifying.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Because I think you're trying to be too hip.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
That's a big ick. Yeah, fam is an ick for me.
It's not necessarily an ick. It's just I don't want
to hear you say it when you're not actually a
part of my family or really close friend circle.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
So I'm okay with Bro, but don't call me Bra.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I have a friend. I have a very very good
friend of mine. He uses Bra all the time, I'm like, well,
you're also from He's not New York's used a lot
he's he's not from New York. He is from Chicago
by way of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Jeez, okay, well that changes a lot.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, he's It's time for our final look at the headlines.
What's spoke?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
All right?
Speaker 7 (32:17):
Bro?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
The Hornets injury report has been updated. Heading into this,
we knew that Grant Williams and Mason Plumley were going
to be out. Just to add on to the bad news,
Ryan Kaulfrinder was questionable. He is now downgraded to out,
So get the ice BAF ready for moves to diabat
because he is going to be working to midnight oil tonight,
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trying to get through this game at center. But the
good news is Colin Sexton is probable, so now you
get all your guards back most likely. Josh Green also
was on the injury report, but he was probable with
a left achilles tendonopathy, so it looks like you gotta
be careful with him. But yeah, outside of the center,
(33:00):
looking good for the Hornets own the injury front. Willie
should be interesting name tonight.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
You know Alex sar is the only real big man
of note for them.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
So we'll see whether or not.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
His inclusion in the lineup, meaning Mousa's maybe changes the
way they do things a little bit off the bench
because they're gonna have to go with some small ball
five at some times.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
They did that a little bit last night with t John.
Maybe a little bit of Miles at the five two. Maybe,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
But the Wizards, as you said, the Wizard's not the
worst opponent to have this problem against. We'll close up shop.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
He gets ready for Hornets pre game as we were
continues ninety to seven WFZ. A couple of text to
finish shown on the FANDUL sex line. Wanted to give
(33:55):
some love Joe and Concord wants to give some love
to Joe Gilbert on the offensive line. Dan went out
and paid for talent, but Joe Gilbert has coached the
online group well enough to extend to withstand a lot
of injuries. We were talking about which of the non
specific identifiers. I guess it's the best way to go
about what which of the not cerific identifiers do you
(34:16):
hate the most?
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I e.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Pal Bro, Hass, Boss, et cetera. Jack Go's chat is
an ick. The kids say what's up? Chat a lot,
and I'm kind of glad I missed that. Most of
the Jacker goes hey sparky j Max also saying in
Concord uh tomin and the island and you get Broda
(34:41):
Island version or brother for sure very much.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
So, yeah, I don't mind if you're from the islands,
you can do that. Do that wellus.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
It kind of sounds badass when you're from the islands
and do it. My buddy Philippe from high school used
to give me that all the time. Ironically, he doesn't
he didn't really speak like that, but he's Haitian, so
he's you know, yeah. He he had what I would
call some influence. I would say, what's the word, I'm
(35:09):
looking for, privilege? He had some island privilege or or island.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Street cred.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yes, that's what I was looking for. It was another
way that I was looking for. But I'm just gonna
just gonna walk away from that. Whosia Poppy goes, what
about bro Chaco Na?
Speaker 2 (35:23):
That one's bad? Wedding crash goes, what's pop and slime? Slime?
Is that is that a thing?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I think that's more of a recent one. Let me
look at the Urban Dictionary. I don't know if I
want that one. Be careful, you're on you want to
work computer? I know, big swoll okay, pop and slime
is apparently another way of saying what's up?
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Is it? Really? I mean, now we hear people call
you people twin? What up twin? Yeah? So what's what's
what's popping? Slope? Play the reward.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
We started out today talking to Nick Carboni of w
c NC Charlotte. I asked him on what is surprised
him the most about the Panthers this season.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
I think that the defense has a lot to do
with a lot of the wins, you know, game ceiling interceptions,
game feeling strip sacks. Obviously that was not the case
last season. It was a team that couldn't come up
with big plays and and you know, be opportunistic and
turn the ball over when it counted, and and obviously
(36:43):
couldn't stop the run and had trouble stopping you know,
the pass as well. I mean, Steve Mike Evans kind
of limited to that one fantastic touchdown throw and catch.
But really that's that's the biggest amount of damage he
in that receiving corps. Did you know that that's big
values of how the defense is improved too.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
We talked to Carlon Gay, Sporting News NBA writer on
what the trade deadline looks like for the Charlotte Hornets.
Speaker 7 (37:12):
Say this, I don't expect the Hornets to be big
players in the draft or sorry, in the in the
coming trade deadline. I think you know, again, you have
to see what this team is as you're fully healthy,
and then you figure out, Well, the big question is
at the end of the years, you know whether or
not this is a LaMelo ball team going forward or not.
(37:32):
Right Like, that's the big, big question that you really
have to figure out. But you can't answer that question
until he plays a little bit more with this unit.
And then Oh, by the way, I think a lot
of people are going to be afraid to pull the
trigger on a trade around this deadline because I think
the draft is so good coming into this. You know
that the draft class is so good. I think in
the top ten players. If you end up anywhere from
(37:52):
one to ten, you're not going to complain about who
you're going to be able to get to select out
of this year's college draft class. I really do believe that,
and even beyond that, some of the older college players
that are just going to be there, that are ready
and willing and able to just win coming out of
this year's classes. What are the specials?
Speaker 3 (38:10):
And of course a chance to look at our next
opponent this I'm sure we'll probably be featured to buy
our friends Mac and KB during their behind Enemy Line
segment during the countdown to kickoff. But Brian Nemhauser, who
joined us from hawkblogger dot com.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Pretty bracognosious about the seahawks chances this weekend, which we're
hoping to try and knock them down a peg a
little bit, despite the fact they come in with the
number one seed. We've done that before, no stranger to that,
But I asked him on the one place where he
feels the Seahawks are vulnerable.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
They do some things that you know you just don't
want to do if you're going to be a great team,
and that's turn the ball over. The Seahawks have a
negative turnover differential and they have the number one point
differential in the positive, so that is a rare feat.
There have been some Super Bowl teams as recently as
you know, twenty fifteen. I think Broncos were a team
that won the Super Bowl with a situation like that,
(39:01):
but it's not where you want to be, and the
seat continue to turn the ball over it.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
That is the rewind the best audio we had over
the course of the day. Be sure, of course, also
to download the Kyle Bailey Show podcast wherever you get
your podcasts as you go throughout your holiday week. Had
a lot of fun today. We will do it all
again on Friday. Kyle will be back next week after
his R and R from New Hampshire. We hope wherever
(39:29):
you are by the way, you have a safe and
merry Christmas or a happy holiday if you are celebrating otherwise.
This week, Smoke Ludwig our final opportunity to tip our caps.
It's brought to you by our friends and Neogenics. We're
all you have to lose is the pain.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Well one god, I might want to go to Neogenics
as Philip rivers, but tip of the cap to him
because I did not expect him to have a game
like you did last night, even in the losing efforts.
Apparently he's given a lot of old people a lot
of unneeded confidence because now we've got people like Steve
Young saying take a couple of snaps. Steve Young hasn't
played off a game of football this century. I'm a
(40:04):
preemptive tip of the cap to Wilfred Zaha, who will
be representing his country the Ivory Coast for the first
time in a while in the African Cup of Nations
beginning tomorrow they play Mozambique. Those games are on Fubo
if you're interested but looking an opportunity forward to seeing
Zaja back on the field and also helping him stay
sharp for a Charlotte FC Big twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Merry Christmas to you and yours, wherever you may be.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
We will talk again on Friday, Boxing Day, getting you
ready for a football Friday with the Panthers and the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Should be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Merry Christmas, smoke, Merry Christmas, buddy. This is Sports Radio
ninety two to seven WFNZ Hornets pre game is next.
You're going to be dead in a one hundred years anyway,
Live dangerously.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
The Dator Sago, the fatas pabom Da
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