August 6, 2025 • 39 mins
In the final hour of the show, the guys ask the audience whether Flounder should go to the Panthers preseason game or the Dierks Bentley concert, react to some of the best audio from around Panthers joint practice and walk it off with a little "Weird Al" Yankovic.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You were listening to the Wes and Walker show. This
is another box. Goodness, gracious it's Wes. Oh, it's multiple.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
We got a little soccer balls, we got rugby balls,
we got the basketball and Walker.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
These guys are happy stuffed balls.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This what they only on Sports Radio ninety two point
seven FM WFNZ.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Good lord, it's gonna be a drought.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
One more hour to goo on Western Walker talking Panthers
Brown's joint practice. Sports Radio ninety two to seven WFNZ.
We're getting you set for not only the NFL regular season,
but the game taking place this week. That's right, the
Carolina Panthers actually play an NFL game this week. It's
a preseason game, but those still count when you've been
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starved for football for quite some time. The game is Friday,
seven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Kick.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I'll be out there find Are you going to be
out at the preseason game on Friday?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Probably not, but I'll be watching it on TV.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Well, what was the side studio convo yesterday? Was it NASCAR?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Brad? Who invited you? Did somebody invite you?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Here's the thing I got to make the decision. Do
I want to go on Friday night to the Panther
game or NASCAR. Brad wants me to go on Saturday
to the Dirk's Bentley concert.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Derek's Bentley. I don't know a single song, but I
do know who Dirk Bentley is. He's okay, he's I'm
sure if you played some songs then I would know
who Dirk's is. But I don't know the songs at
the top of the drunk on a play. Ye, yes,
it that's all I needed.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I mean, he's all right, But like, I want to
do something, but I can't.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I can't afford both.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Well, that's a that's a great question for the fandal
text line. What do you find more entertaining a Browns
Panthers preseason game where the daughters are gonna play that
counts or a Dirk's Bentley concert seven oh four five
seven ninety six.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Well, and the thing is, like, I don't I don't
hate it if I have to be at home, because
I love I love evaluating games from the TV angle.
I think it's I think it's a great angle. Yeah,
it's you don't know where we're gonna sit in the stadium,
So if we get a seat that is, you know,
in an area that I don't love Yeah, then it
makes it a little bit tougher to analyze everybody.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
So I don't know, I'll have to decide.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Mitcheer Whine saying Dirk's Bentley. One Rob from Salisbury says,
nobody goes to a Dirk Bentley concert for the music,
but man, he sure does bring in the women to
those concerts.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Oh that's a fair you know what, That's a great.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Point, found dog.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, sir Lloyd Hater saying football Nascar, Brad, come on, flounder,
you can swing both. Let's go, and then he gives
you a flex emoji. You can do both. Just go
go live, Go live and have some fun. Man, go out.
Maybe you can go to a dive bar that we
were talking about.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I literally just cannot do. I just don't think I
have the money.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
This is this is a game that I want to play.
I don't have any answers.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
But the question I have for the people is if
you could find the equivalent, like what concert equivalent?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Would you say?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Is as I can't word it this well, if you
see the Browns and Panthers game, how would you compare
that in concert seven oh four five seven ninety six ten,
Like what concert is the Panthers Browns equivalent.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Preseason game starters are going to play, but only like
eight to twelve plays. Like what is that equivalent to
Fandel text line like I'm yeah. Jonathan from Gastonia says,
Walker can give you the money. I don't have enough money.
I know you guys say I gotta save it for Target.
Lennonhead Johnson said his concerts are great big guys, saying,
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founder do both. Chad from Harrisburg Zach Topp is greater
than Derk Spentley, and he's the opener.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
He is the opener. I know that. Yes, I do
like some of Zachtop's music for sure.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Heat fan says, who yeah, Panthers Browns all day is
where I would go. Everybody's telling you to ask me
for cash.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I gotta say for Target, I got you got anything?
You're willing to get me over there?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
You know, let me hit up West.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
That was weird.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Let me let me let me hit up West and
see seven oh four said a jaw Rule concert is
the equivalent to a Panthers brown preseason game job rules
God's I don't know man, we got to go somewhere
lower on that musical scale, Like, I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Job rule we're scrolling.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
King of the Marlin Militia says it's equivalent to going
to a Stevie Nicks concert, but in two thousand and five, nah,
I don't know. I feel like we got to go
lower on the totem pole than that, right. A two
eight says it's the equivalent of an Aerosmith tribute band. Okay,
tribute band.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I like it. I like that one.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Please.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
The preseason football is not real football. Tribute band is
not the real thing. I love where we took this, Yep,
no doubt.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
My parents went and saw the Pink Floyd.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Okay or yeah, and that can't that's better than preseason football.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I think I'd rather go to preseason football because I
if you're not the real thing, you can still like
the Eagles, for example, the Eagles. Not all the Eagles
are still alive, but they do have guys that fill in. Still,
you get most of the guys that you are hoping
to see in concert, so that's not that bad. When
it's a full tribute band, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Nine A zero says it's like going to a Jim
Jones concert. Now, if Wes was here, he would get
on you for that, because a big Jim Jones, a big,
huge Jim Jones guy. It's one of the oddest things
about Wes that he listens to so much music, specifically
of course hip hop.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
He likes all music. Just I know. Wes like to
clarify that all.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
The time, but he is in the ninety ninth percentile
of Jim Jones listeners. And I'm not even kidding. That's
an actual fact.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
And Jim Jones, uh, not a great guy, right.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Don't love Jim Jones myself. I don't know about any
of the off of the mic stuff. Oh okay, you're
just not a big fan of him. Well, he comes
at Push a t and I'm a big Push a
Tea guy, and they got beef. And so if you
got beef with Push, then you got beef with me.
That's how it is. Brian says it's equivalent to a
solo Sting concert. As much as I thought that was
as random as anything, Billy Joel and Sting coming to Charlotte,
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I just didn't envision Sting. I would say going to
a Sting concert would be much more worth my time.
Wall says it's equivalent to go into a Yo Yo
Ma Willie P.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
How dare you go immediately to boo?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
What are you taking a run of Blink one eighty
two next?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
What's your problem with the cello? Yeah, Yo Yo Ma.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Probably probably not gonna be on the top of everybody's
to do list here in the Queen City, But go go.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I'd go to a Yo Yoma concert. Would you go
to a cello.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Cover over the preseason game? Probably not that probably Yeah,
I guess you're right. Yeah, i'd probably be. I would
say i'd go to the preseason game.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
People are having fun with this one.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
No mo Play says preseason is like an NBA young
boy concert.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I'm with you. I like that one.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Say is that bad or you not not an NBA
young boy guy?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I am not.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
That's for the young ones. I can't tell. I'm sure
I've heard some of his music. I cannot tell you
at the top of my head any song that he's
come out with ever. No, I think my favorite so
far is an Aerosmith tribute band. Because it's fake, because
it's not the real thing. Preseason football it's not the
real thing. Tribute bands, same thing. But we all love football,
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we all love Arosmith. You get a little bit of
the real stuff there. You get the actual songs to Aerosmith.
I need to find out who said that real quickly,
because I think they win over all of these other
techs that are coming in being a gold text line
seven oh four five, seven oh ninety six ten. All right,
we were going to talk a little bit about more
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Panthers updates. We're almost out of time, but we'll try
to get maybe a little bit more of these topics in.
I'm looking at Dan Morgan and looking at all of
these rookies. We had this question earlier whether every rookie
was going to make the roster or not. We've had
a lot of back and forth on whether it be
Jimmy Horn or David Moore. That seems to be a
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big wide receiver debate. Kind of feels like a lock
at this point that Hunter Renfro is going to make
the team. I don't know if that's misguided, but it
does feel that way with the way that he's been performing.
If every rookie does make the roster and you have
a let's say Lathan Ransom play well, actually get a
lot of starting opportunity Nick Gordon once he comes back
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from this injury. Nick Gorton gets a lot of run.
Same thing with Princell U ma'am Yellen and of course
balls out. I do think Dan Morgan, with this specific
draft class, this is the one that is going to
keep the pressure off of him if everybody performs. Like
I really like Bagel Guy's question yesterday, and so I
reiterated it, how much is Dan Morgan's how much is
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he tied to T Mac? And I don't We both
said I don't think he's too tied to T Mac.
I do think he probably is tied to this specific
draft class more so than he was two draft classes ago,
because now we had a whole bunch of needs and
you bypassed an edge rusher in the first round for
a wide receiver, which puts the pressure on quite a bit.
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But then you've double dipped at edge rusher, and if
those guys don't work out, on top of T Mac
being maybe average or just being like a solid wide
receiver in the league, I think Dan Morgan is more
so tied to this entire draft.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Class than he is his first round pick.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, and I think you know last year's draft class,
there are way that you can tie him into that
for sure. I mean, if Shaw Smith Wade hits, then
that's a hit for Dan Morgan. That's one that you
can say works out for him. If Trevin Wallace doesn't hit,
or you know, if he does, regardless, it's tied to
Dan Morgan. Those are his draft picks, and I think
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you can give him credit or criticize him for that.
I do think you're right though this one he is
especially tied to because you're right he made the decision
not to go with edge rusher early and does that
come back to bite him because do they really sorely
need an edge rusher this year and instead you took
a wide receiver. It also depends how productive is ted
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he comes out puts up huge numbers, nobody's gonna complain
about it, even if there is questions at edge rusher,
and if you're struggling in that area, you come out
and put up a season where doesn't live up to
the expectations, you're under that one hundred target mark. Like
we said earlier, not a guy that you can really trust.
Then we're starting to have the conversation of did you
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actually make the right move?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Should you have gone with that?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
EDG.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Dresher a little bit earlier, especially if a guy like
Jayla Walker balls out.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Well, by the way, I need to look at a
few more tweets out of Atlanta's camp. But apparently James
Pierce Junior is just getting in fights every single day, which.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Is not necessarily shocking considering the red Flash.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
He's the Charlotte kid. He didn't go to Vance? Where
did he go?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Vance? Fans? Now Chambers?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Right?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Gotcha? I apologize. Yeah, so I was trying to remember
if he went to Chambers or not. But yeah, so
he went to Chambers and then goes to Tennessee. Awesome talent.
We thought about it here. I'm sure people remember our
conversations about him possibly being a panther. But the on
him was that he maybe didn't love football that much.
He had a terrible attitude, and I'm talking you heard
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some stuff about him just being downright, straight up uncoachable.
And I hate spreading those rumors because I think a
lot of the time it is smoke screen season. People
try to put stuff out there to scare teams away
from selecting certain players. It felt like there was a
lot of fire surrounding the James Pierce smoke. Whereas te
mac I think enough people were talking about some of
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the concerns the practice habits with him to where we
should acknowledge it. But at least you got fifty to
fifty discourse on him. In that regard with James Piers Junior, I.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Will say, remember we had Jedfish come out and say, nah,
that ain't te mac man. When I was there, he
was a guy that worked hard and all this stuff.
You did not hear Josh Sipel come out and say
that about James Pierce Junior.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
And I don't know if it's just because I wasn't
looking for it. I'm sure, I'm sure true. I'm sure
there are comments where he speaks to it. I just
don't remember, like Coach Fish came out and said, nah, man,
this is just flat out wrong. I don't remember that
soundbye going out. But anyways, some Falcons fans love it
because he's bringing the fire. Others don't because of the
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pre draft concerns. But I think that is happening down
in Atlanta. A lot of people had fun with that game.
If you had to describe Panthers Brown's preseason game in
a concert. What would that concert be? Let us know
what you're thinking seven oh four five seven h ninety
six to ten, Live Wire coming up next, ninety two
seven FM Weston walker Back Sports Radio, ninety two to
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seven WFNZ. I'm pleasantly surprised at how much this picked
up some steam here on the text line the question
of Brown's Panthers explained that a concert. Yeah, I love
that you guys understood the assignment on this one. We
were talking about it in the Chandler VAULTA Studios. Colin
Smoke all coming in. They love the idea of tribute
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band angle as well, and somebody wrote that Aerosmith tribute
band angle on the text line loved it.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
We talked about this.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Smoke I believe said, watching the Browns and Panthers in
a preseason game is kind of like watching a Guns N'
Roses tribute band somewhere in Hickory. I you know, maybe
maybe it doesn't have to be in Hickory, but it's
one of those things where you kind of you close
your eyes and you can kind of you can maybe
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hear the lead singer for the tribute band.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Here some Steven.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Tyler note, Okay, wait, that's not That's not really Steven Tyler,
is it.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
It's the same thing.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
You see a small quarterback possibly go out there for Carolina,
and then you have to squint like that. That's not
really Bryce, is it. It's not really Bryce? Kind of okay, no,
but I thought it was. It's almost the real thing,
except it's not. So other people writing in that world
Class Driver actually is defending an Aerosmith cover band. World
Class Driver says saw Pandora's box. It was eight dollars
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to go to that concert and it was awesome. Shout out,
shout out to world Class Driver defending the cover band
for Aerosmith. T Ray and fort Mill says, it's like
your favorite small time band opening for a cover band. Oh,
we're taking other levels to this. You get Bryce, you
get Sanders to start, then you can leave after they're
off the stage. I think these people understand the assignment
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quite well. These are all great ideas. We're scrolling. We're
scrolling for some more comparisons here in terms of concerts
we're scrolling. We're scrolling people also defending Dirk's Bentley nine
to one oh, says Dirk Bentley.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Actually really good concert. Dude knows how to entertain.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
So if you had to choose Flounder, it feels like
most people are saying Dirks Bentley is the concert toget.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Yeah, I'm shocked. I'm shocked that they're choosing Dirk. So regardless,
I think I will have to probably go with Dirks
because I need to be at home locked in watching
the Panthers. Plus I believe that that day I am
going to have to record a podcast at some point,
So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah, I don't know. I'll have to see. There's there's
too many decisions.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
You guys are so good at this.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I say, Okay, I've got I was gonna only try
to read the best ones. But here are all of
the text that I like. Cornelius Rob, it's equivalent to
a Will Smith tribute band. What it's like extra levels
of not cursing? Seven oh four says Nickelback. Of course,
damn big Rob says Panthers versus Brown's preseason is equal
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to Mini Kiss, which I love. They don't even have
their tongues out for many kiss right Like, it's not No,
it's not the same it's it's like poorly applied face
paint for Mini Kiss cover band, I love it for
Labradoodle says it's watching watching the Panthers Brown's preseason game
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is like going to see weird Al. Yeah, oh my god,
weird Al Yankovic.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I did think when when he was younger, I did
have some weird Al on the iPod.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Well the same You and I probably agree because we're
we have a I think.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Four year difference, three year difference between us.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So you and I probably grew up with his biggest
hit being White and Nerdy, right, and that had to
be on your iPod. That had to be on your
iPod where he had plenty of I guess parody hits
before that, But our time with weird Al, White and
Nerdy was his biggest hit had to be. So weird
Al is a great one. Were you laughing at something
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separate from weird Al?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Thenny Kiss is just taking me out.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Many kisses, hilarious.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I cannot believe that this is actually a real, a
real band, and I will tell you, okay that the
it is exactly what you think it is.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Dave Randa would be a huge fan of.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Oh I didn't even know we were going that route.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Oh no, I hear you. I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
It is a band of little people that dressed like
Kiss and play music like Kiss. I will tell you
that personally, person I am not a big Kiss fan.
I don't think their music's all that great. I actually
believe they're one of the most overrated bands of all time.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Okay, oh right, well, okay, that's it. I mean, but
I don't know how hot that is for it.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
That the more I've tested that out, people do agree
with that.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, I mean, I guess my question would be, if
you lose the allure of the tongues out and the
face paint and the cool logo, are people rocking to
Kiss in their car if you don't have the visual.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I don't think that's the thing that'll be on that.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I think that if you go to a concert for them,
they are entertainers, yep.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Are they necessarily great singers?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Problem is anybody nobody's praising Gene Simmons for being an
all time rock and roll great personality?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah? Personality.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I don't know why. I just sounded like our president there,
what great guy is?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
It's because you do the Trump impression all the time,
and so at some point, at some times, it just
kind of takes over your body, and it takes over
your soul. Has ad ginger wife does not like that.
Take blasphemy? You better stop. Who's your daddy's daddy says?
Their biggest hit when I was young was I'm fat?
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Is that true? Biggest hit where that is young was
I'm fat? Oh weird? I was like, what kiss were
you talking about? I'm fat? I'm fat?
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Oh yeah, oh yeah classic.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Wait are you a big fan of Weird now?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
No?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
No, I was.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I was, then I learned once I got older, Holy crap,
this is the nerdiest thing ever. And the music isn't great. Well,
I mean it's it's all. It's all a parody.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So I just.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
He did a really good job covering some of the
Michael Jackson songs.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I like the idea of you getting in your car
and listening to weird al on your way home.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I really hope that. I really wish that was.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
No, I can't, I can't do it. I can't do
it now today I'm I'm more lou Comb's You're Morgan Allen,
You're You're Yeah, You're why to go Morgan Wallen. I
don't know why I went Whalen.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Even I knew that was wrong, and I don't know
what happened one second of Morgan Wallen. I never listened
to it voluntarily ever, never in my entire life. Bryan said, agreed,
Flounder Kiss only has like five songs I'd really care about, though.
Their concert with the Australian Symphony is fantastic, exactly. Slink
shot kisses overrated. K tom Mafia after that Kiss take
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stick to sports. K towm Mafia not happy with it.
But this guy's Hammered says, Kiss is garbage. They try
to do a phase without the outfits and makeup, and
no one liked it, so they went back to the makeup.
Come on, guys, you gotta know what's best. Hey, Look,
the approval rating on your take is high. A lot
of people agree with you. Yep, so okay. English Paul
says he went to see Many Kiss in downtown Monroe
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a couple of months ago.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Really, I like, how about that?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, not a big Kiss fan myself, but they were
awesome and the crowd went crazy. Regards English Paul, I
love this sophisticated man who always says cheers or regards
in English, Paul say, he went to a mini kiss concert.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
That's amazing. It is regards. I went to a mini
kiss concert.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I love it. Oh my god. Okay, you're ready for
the live of our flounding? Yes, I accidentally had this
one of those times you say yes, but you're not
really ready for it.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Now I got it right now?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Can I believe you? Okay? All right?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
I had to pull in a spot because we were testing.
We were we were trying to figure something out.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
All right, now that the music is playing, which you
got for the people, all right.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Dave Canalis, the head coach of the Carolina Panthers, talking
about j. C. Horn earlier today and about the fact
that he will not be playing on Friday.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
I'm glad that jac was okay. He did have to
have a few stitches in his left thumb area, and
so they got that all cleaned up and sutured up.
He's day to day right now. We're just going to
kind of evaluate. It doesn't seem like anything else happened,
but you know that we're we're just gonna kind of
evaluate him each day. He'll be able to still do
some activity and running and all that, but he will
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not play this game. Hopefully we can get him turned
around so we can take advantage of an opportunity in Houston,
you know, for that game, which was kind of the
plan all along.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
All right, So, any concern for the star Corner with
the fact that he is out for Friday's game against
the Browns.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Say one more time. I was looking at more nickel
backslash mini kiss content. Are you ready?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I am ready now.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I apologize any concern for your corner that got banged
up today in a car accident.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
If you get stitches and you get sutured up, I'm
glad that he's okay, okay, but he was out there
as an observer and it looks like he avoided any
serious injury. Look, I apologize. I was getting so usually
I hate that as well. But at the same time,
do you really expect me to talk about anything other
than many kiss if people continue to provide pictures, it's
a good point. People are setting me pictures in of
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mini kiss and telling me about their mini kiss experience.
All I heard was the JC horns SoundBite from Dave Canalis,
and I didn't hear your question.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
By the way, I'm.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Looking up weird Al.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Did you know that Weird Al has a song called
Party in the CIA, which is the cover of Party
in the US.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I don't doubt it. I do not doubt it.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Why.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, I actually heard a really good interview with him
with Dan Lebtard like six months ago.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Quite good. You go check out South Beach Sessions.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
No, it does look good that JC Horn avoided any
really serious injury, So Dave providing the update there, the
fact that he's day to day, the fact that he
only quote unquote got a cut, And I say that
because I recognized that it could have been a lot
more severe, but it wasn't. Thank God for that. I'm
glad that as soon as it was reported that he
was in a car accident on his way to practice,
(23:37):
I'm just glad that really pretty soon afterwards, everybody said
he's going to be okay, and he was actually not
hospitalized and then went out to practice right away. So
I'm fine with him obviously not playing against Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I would expect him.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
To play in the second preseason game and still not
make up for it by playing in the third or whatever.
So JC Horn, He's one of those guys that I
don't care about playing a ton of snaps in the
preseason anyway, So I'm just glad that any real disaster
was avoided.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, of course. I mean it seems like everything is okay. Yeah,
you gotta get stitches, not the greatest thing in the world,
but it seems like he'll be perfectly fine. That's the
type of update that we wanted to hear coming out
of a car accident like that, right, you know, for
him to be back out there on the practice field
doesn't shock me at all.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
He seems like that type of guy. So he'll be
out there.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I would expect probably sometime next week. Ready to go now.
Dave Canalis had another very interesting comment. This one definitely
caught me when I saw it on social media, him
talking about how he's letting Brad Insit call the plays
in practice right now so that he can sort of
bounce around and do everything.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Preseason absolutely regular season could be. You know, I think
I still have a lot to give to our team
in terms of, you know, being able to have the
continuity and the you know, just kind of building off
of the first year, you know, but in the preseason,
absolutely a Gerald will do the same thing. You know,
with Pete Hanson, with Jonathan Cooley, these are guys that
we would love to develop. You know, we're a developmentally
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minded organization, and that's our players, but it's also our
coaching staff.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
You know.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
And and I think back to my time in Seattle,
and I got opportunities to call plays in scrimmages. I
got opportunities to call, not not to call any of
the preseason games, but when we would have moved the
ball periods and say the second or third group was up,
you know, they'd be like, here, give you the walkie talkie.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
And go for it. Here's you know.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
So I would like kind of prep the night before
and have a couple of thoughts, and it just kind
of got my juices going. And so that first time
I get a chance to be an offensive coordinator Tampa,
it's not the first time I've ever called plays through
a microphone with the delays and all that. So I
love that. I love, you know, having that opportunity for
those coaches to kind of think for the next step
in their careers.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
So what do you think about this mentality from Dave
Canalis to sort of get Brad igsick and and some
of the other coaches involved in calling the offense and
defense during the preseason.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
They're a developmentally minded organization and you can see that
not only with the players but also with the coaching staff.
So if Izac is getting a lot of looks here
to possibly be a play caller, I do like it.
I guess does it favor the Panthers or does it
favor brad Isack, Which I'm okay with Dave Canalis taking
(26:26):
care of his people. That's a big sign of respect
for me. I've got nothing but respect for that. But
in terms of who it helps the most, does it
help the Panthers?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I guess the way that it would help the Panthers
is if Dave Canalis didn't call plays at some point.
I don't, but I don't want Dave Canalis not calling plays.
If you have the offensive coordinator as the head coach
or the play caller as the head coach, then I
just want to have my Andy Reid. I want to
have my Sean McVay. That's ours in Dave Canalis. And
(26:58):
so this helps Brad Izack, which is still very cool.
I don't know how much it helps the organization as
a whole. And maybe there are some things that I'm
just not thinking of there, but I do really like
it for these guys, opportunities for Indick to possibly go
and be an outright play caller, possibly a head coach,
and parlay this into a dream job of his same
thing with some of the guys that are going to
(27:18):
be calling defensive plays for Jaro Rivero in the preseason.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Let's go to Bryce Young, the quarterback, talked after practice
today and he was asked about the number of targets
that were received by Ted McMillan today.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
I just wanted to do what we can to take
advantage with the defense gives I have all the conference
in the world, and him and the rest of their
receiving corps. You know, today, you know he probably got
a few more targets. And you know there's been practices
where it's been him, it's been Adam, Hey, whatever, it
may be, all all the way down. So's I went today.
You know, we want to make sure that we can
do whatever's best for a team again, take advantage of
(27:50):
the defense gave us.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
So that's just how it happened to be today, all right.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
So from what you saw out there at practice, do
you believe Bryce he or that really this was just
one of the days where they were trying to take
what was given to him, and Ted was what was
giving Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I do. I believe it.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
And for those that maybe enjoining us a little later,
I was asking this question throughout the first two hours,
how much is the target share for Team AC a
result of just trying to bring him up to speed,
and how much of it is a result of this
actually going to happen in twenty twenty five, that they're
practicing how they'll play in twenty twenty five. And I
believe Bryce it sounded genuine saying, Hey, we just threw
(28:25):
it to t MAC because that's what the coverage dictated,
and I wanted to take what the coverage was giving us.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
And I believe it too.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
So if you start to play around with that one
hundred to one hundred and fifteen target numbered that we hypothesized,
if you start to play around with it floundered. Maybe
a lot of those targets come via number one corners
being on somebody else and Team AC being moved around
to match up Hunt like you saw him, maybe on
the opposite side of Adam Thielen Vice versa whatever. There
(28:54):
are ways to hunt matchups. If you're Dave Canalis, there
are ways to get him open. And so perhaps it's
because it's just the better matchup overall for the team
because you have so much depth. And that's how he
starts winning as a rookie before he really hits the
ground running in twenty twenty six as a top flight
wide receiver, really showing you all of this ability he
(29:15):
has as a top ten guy. So I'm excited for
the year to come for him.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Yeah, I don't think there was anything forced to Tech today.
I thought everything that was thrown to him he was
relatively open, and I think that made a lot of
sense to throw the ball in his direction. So I
don't think they're forcing anything. I think it's just taking
what's given. I'd have to go to more practices, and
I hope too before the end of camp. But go
to some more practices and see is Bryce telling the
(29:41):
truth that some days it is steeling, some days it
is Xavier, some days it is Jalen Coker that are
receiving the bulk of the targets. I mean, hell, early
in the practice we were watching seven on seven. We thought, oh,
this could be a Coker day, This could be where
he's really looking for him most of the day and
then as we started going along, all of a sudden
it was tech.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
But I think it's perfectly fine.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I think they're not forcing anything to their number one
wide receiver, and like I said, as the season goes along,
I really do think you're going to see those target
numbers go up for him. I think theland will be
the go to guy early, but I do think as
the year goes along, you will see Teds start to emerge.
And the fact that he can handle that number of
reps and really did have a pretty solid day for himself,
(30:25):
I think is a good sign.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
We've seen it too much from other top ten picks.
We've seen it too much from other first round wide receivers,
where in the first month, first half, maybe it's not
even that things are coming along slowly. It's just a
nice mixed bag of production with these wide receivers, and
then you get to the second half and they really
take off. I think the example for that last year
(30:47):
was Lad McConkey, who wasn't a first round receiver but
was very good.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
And the talent of a first round receiver.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
And we considered him at the beginning of the second
round before the Panthers traded up to go get XL.
But in the second half mcacky just completely took over.
You see that quite a bit from some of these
talented rookie wideouts. Jack said, how did Deontay Johnson revenge
practice go? You know, it's funny. I didn't hear anything
about him, and I didn't see anything.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
I don't see anything about him having a day. I mean,
he is on their second string, so we'll probably see
him out there on Friday.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
But today, yeah, crickets.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yeah, crickets, and from me as well, I didn't hear
anything surrounding Deontay Johnson, which I think has become a
theme on Was.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
He out there is the question because it was raining
and last year he did not practice in the rain.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I'm good, I'm good. My hamstring hurts a little bit.
That'll do it for the Live Wire.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
We got one more segment to go coming up next
weston Walker sports Rady ninety two to seven WFZ.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Such a fussy young man.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Don't want that, Captain christ don't want no raising brands.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Well, don't you know that?
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Kids starving?
Speaker 3 (32:01):
It's a pall eat it, eat it.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Bagel Guy writes in that he's never heard of weird
Al or many kiss many kicks. I can understand many kisses,
understand fair enough, okay, but never heard of weird Al.
He also says, a great show. Thank you, Bagel Guy.
In fact, we used a question you asked on the
text line to help us out, So thank you for
producing a part of this great show. Never heard of
(32:26):
weird Al. That's a that's a wild one. I would Yeah, that's.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
That's one of the more stunning.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Like he was iconic in the nineties, like he was huge,
and you never heard a single song by him.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I did not expect to be looking up Weird Al
discography today, but that's what I'm looking up and looks
like is it his debut album that happened in nineteen
eighty eight, which I thought it would have been late.
Oh no, it was earlier. Oh no, no, no, early eighties.
My man has been doing it a lot longer than that.
And again, still the biggest hit for our age group
(32:59):
has to be white and nerdy. It just has to
be hey smoking, yeah, I play. Give me a thumbs
up on this or not really you can you can
hop on the mic because I know you are a
man of culture. White and Nerdy has to be the
biggest weird al hit and for our age group, like
within that seven year span or whatever.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah, I was trying to think. I think that's easily
the biggest.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I know.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
He came out with an album during my senior year
of high school about ten years ago. Uh, but yeah,
it was that one party in the CIA, that one
that's flounder is yeah one of course, I know, like
the original was because he had accordion. Was another one
rides the Bus.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yeah, I do remember another one rides the bus, you know.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Then he got big with the Michael Jackson songs you
and are You a big weird al fan smoke not
like massive, but I know all of his big hits
and Michael Jackson songs he had like eat it.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
It was just played on that. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
And then he had actually resurgence when he did a
cover of a cover of the Havana's Smells like teen Spirit,
because I think he was originally wanting to do Michael
Jackson's Black or White and Michael Jackson Yeah No, so
did he pivoted to Nirvana.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
You just rattled off a whole Wikipedia page of weird
Al in like a minute and a half, and I
love you for it. I knew you were the perfect
person to ask, and you just rattled off a bunch
of the hits. That is the perfect cliff notes version
of what weird Al has accomplished in his life. So
Almish Paradise too, Let's get and you know that's the one. No,
you're You're not wrong. People are writing in Amish Paradise, Yes,
(34:31):
if you had to ask me. And I need to
get all of the songs in front of my face
because I can't remember all of them at the top
of my head, but Amish Paradise and White and Nerdy
would be the ones that I remember the most.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
He did a lot of Lady Gaga covers.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
As well, did he really? I didn't know that because
I guess as old is he now? He's in his sixties.
I was about to say, man, if he was putting
out parodies in the eighties, all right, weird Al age
sixty five years old, Damn doesn't look sixty five. He
does not, and he still has his long, curly brown hair.
(35:04):
Never gonna get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
You can't. That's become your look. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
The only thing you can get rid of it was
that mustache, because that was extremely talking about white and nerdy.
That was the mustache. And a lot of people are
also writing in like a surgeon. Yeah, man, I think
I think Weird Now relates to a lot of people.
People are raising their hand on the text line saying
I'm a fan. These are the hits that I remember
(35:30):
remember and I did not. I did not realize that
there were this many fans of Weird Now.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
But it maybe me feel better about myself.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
I mean, and I don't even want to say I
didn't even want to say fans, because I knew he's popular,
but I don't know. I guess I didn't know if
he still played in twenty twenty five. That's surprising to me.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
Yeah, apparently he does do a lot of like concerts,
and he does a lot of his non cover songs
at some of his concerts too, because he's got.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
A pretty dedicated cult following.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Yeah, and I knew about the weird cult following, and
I totally get that. Seven oh four says he's an icon.
I actually agree with that, Like he is an icon.
I don't know how much of up for debate that is.
It's just weird for anybody that says, hey, if I
were to ask you who's your favorite artist and somebody
comes at you with weird aw, it's a little jarring
(36:17):
at first. Nobody says that, but a lot of people
are fans of weird Ol.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
Yeah, you say, hey, do you like weird Out, It's like, yeah,
God like weird That's how it goes.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
That's how that conversation goes every single time. It's like, oh, man,
I love and then you have three songs at most
that you actually somewhat listen to and remember the words
unless you're smoke and you give me a whole Wikipedia page.
But that's the conversation how I expected to go. Usually
when talking about him, My God, A lot of people
write again on weird Now I love this topic. I
apologize that we need to move on and talk about
(36:47):
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world of baseball. The Braves and Brewers at it again.
This should be the third game of the series. Seven
(37:07):
to fifteen. First pitch Tonight, Spencer Strider on the bump
for Atlanta. He is five and eight on the year,
three seven to one ERA for Spencer. And then Jose,
you're telling me he's still in the league, my former
White Sox Jose Quintana. A, oh, he's still going three
five yre very solid. That's he's always been that. If
you played fantasy nothing more, nothing more but very solid
(37:31):
for you. I think if you played fantasy baseball back
in the mid twenty tens, Jose Quintana was always the
guy that you would float as a streaming starter when
you would click on the best available pitchers. Nobody had
him rostered one hundred percent of the year. He was
probably sixty percent owned, but but he was always the
(37:53):
top guy that you would go to in the free
agent pool if you needed an extra start to squeak
out a win. That's how I think of Jose Quintana. Anyways,
eight and four, three five ra more than solid? Is
he graduating to the above average realm of starting pitchers
in the league. It's just interesting to still see his
name out there. Anyways, Braves, they sit at forty seven
and sixty five on the year. They have lost both
(38:15):
of their games against the Brewers. They lost their last
one seven to two. They lost the first game three
to one. All right, that'll do it. I agree with
Bagel Guy again, who's been a mainstay of the show.
He says, I can't wait to ask Wes if he's
a weird Al fan. It's a great question. Would love
to know. Wes's absolutely no shot.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Oh, I disagree.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
I think Wes fights against the notion of your stereotype
of his music choice, sometimes not yours, flounder specifically yours
in general. Like he tries to tell you he's a
big eighties guy, he wants people to know.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
I mean, he wore a Sting shirt the other day.
He tells people how much he likes Duran Durant. I
think that there are probably it's one or the other.
He either absolutely hates him and makes fun of anybody
for listening to him, or he sneakily likes like five
songs from Weird Aut. That'll do it.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Good lord, it's gonna be a drought.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
One more hour to goo on Western Walker talking Panthers
Brown's joint practice. Sports Radio ninety two to seven WFNZ.
We're getting you set for not only the NFL regular season,
but the game taking place this week. That's right, the
Carolina Panthers actually play an NFL game this week. It's
a preseason game, but those still count when you've been
(00:55):
starved for football for quite some time. The game is Friday,
seven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Kick.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I'll be out there find Are you going to be
out at the preseason game on Friday?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Probably not, but I'll be watching it on TV.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Well, what was the side studio convo yesterday? Was it NASCAR?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Brad? Who invited you? Did somebody invite you?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Here's the thing I got to make the decision. Do
I want to go on Friday night to the Panther
game or NASCAR. Brad wants me to go on Saturday
to the Dirk's Bentley concert.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Derek's Bentley. I don't know a single song, but I
do know who Dirk Bentley is. He's okay, he's I'm
sure if you played some songs then I would know
who Dirk's is. But I don't know the songs at
the top of the drunk on a play. Ye, yes,
it that's all I needed.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I mean, he's all right, But like, I want to
do something, but I can't.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I can't afford both.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Well, that's a that's a great question for the fandal
text line. What do you find more entertaining a Browns
Panthers preseason game where the daughters are gonna play that
counts or a Dirk's Bentley concert seven oh four five
seven ninety six.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Well, and the thing is, like, I don't I don't
hate it if I have to be at home, because
I love I love evaluating games from the TV angle.
I think it's I think it's a great angle. Yeah,
it's you don't know where we're gonna sit in the stadium,
So if we get a seat that is, you know,
in an area that I don't love Yeah, then it
makes it a little bit tougher to analyze everybody.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
So I don't know, I'll have to decide.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Mitcheer Whine saying Dirk's Bentley. One Rob from Salisbury says,
nobody goes to a Dirk Bentley concert for the music,
but man, he sure does bring in the women to
those concerts.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Oh that's a fair you know what, That's a great.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Point, found dog.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, sir Lloyd Hater saying football Nascar, Brad, come on, flounder,
you can swing both. Let's go, and then he gives
you a flex emoji. You can do both. Just go
go live, Go live and have some fun. Man, go out.
Maybe you can go to a dive bar that we
were talking about.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I literally just cannot do. I just don't think I
have the money.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
This is this is a game that I want to play.
I don't have any answers.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
But the question I have for the people is if
you could find the equivalent, like what concert equivalent?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Would you say?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Is as I can't word it this well, if you
see the Browns and Panthers game, how would you compare
that in concert seven oh four five seven ninety six ten,
Like what concert is the Panthers Browns equivalent.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Preseason game starters are going to play, but only like
eight to twelve plays. Like what is that equivalent to
Fandel text line like I'm yeah. Jonathan from Gastonia says,
Walker can give you the money. I don't have enough money.
I know you guys say I gotta save it for Target.
Lennonhead Johnson said his concerts are great big guys, saying,
(03:51):
founder do both. Chad from Harrisburg Zach Topp is greater
than Derk Spentley, and he's the opener.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
He is the opener. I know that. Yes, I do
like some of Zachtop's music for sure.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Heat fan says, who yeah, Panthers Browns all day is
where I would go. Everybody's telling you to ask me
for cash.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I gotta say for Target, I got you got anything?
You're willing to get me over there?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
You know, let me hit up West.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
That was weird.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Let me let me let me hit up West and
see seven oh four said a jaw Rule concert is
the equivalent to a Panthers brown preseason game job rules
God's I don't know man, we got to go somewhere
lower on that musical scale, Like, I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Job rule we're scrolling.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
King of the Marlin Militia says it's equivalent to going
to a Stevie Nicks concert, but in two thousand and five, nah,
I don't know. I feel like we got to go
lower on the totem pole than that, right. A two
eight says it's the equivalent of an Aerosmith tribute band. Okay,
tribute band.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I like it. I like that one.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Please.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
The preseason football is not real football. Tribute band is
not the real thing. I love where we took this, Yep,
no doubt.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
My parents went and saw the Pink Floyd.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Okay or yeah, and that can't that's better than preseason football.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I think I'd rather go to preseason football because I
if you're not the real thing, you can still like
the Eagles, for example, the Eagles. Not all the Eagles
are still alive, but they do have guys that fill in. Still,
you get most of the guys that you are hoping
to see in concert, so that's not that bad. When
it's a full tribute band, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Nine A zero says it's like going to a Jim
Jones concert. Now, if Wes was here, he would get
on you for that, because a big Jim Jones, a big,
huge Jim Jones guy. It's one of the oddest things
about Wes that he listens to so much music, specifically
of course hip hop.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
He likes all music. Just I know. Wes like to
clarify that all.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
The time, but he is in the ninety ninth percentile
of Jim Jones listeners. And I'm not even kidding. That's
an actual fact.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
And Jim Jones, uh, not a great guy, right.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Don't love Jim Jones myself. I don't know about any
of the off of the mic stuff. Oh okay, you're
just not a big fan of him. Well, he comes
at Push a t and I'm a big Push a
Tea guy, and they got beef. And so if you
got beef with Push, then you got beef with me.
That's how it is. Brian says it's equivalent to a
solo Sting concert. As much as I thought that was
as random as anything, Billy Joel and Sting coming to Charlotte,
(06:34):
I just didn't envision Sting. I would say going to
a Sting concert would be much more worth my time.
Wall says it's equivalent to go into a Yo Yo
Ma Willie P.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
How dare you go immediately to boo?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
What are you taking a run of Blink one eighty
two next?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
What's your problem with the cello? Yeah, Yo Yo Ma.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Probably probably not gonna be on the top of everybody's
to do list here in the Queen City, But go go.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I'd go to a Yo Yoma concert. Would you go
to a cello.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Cover over the preseason game? Probably not that probably Yeah,
I guess you're right. Yeah, i'd probably be. I would
say i'd go to the preseason game.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
People are having fun with this one.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
No mo Play says preseason is like an NBA young
boy concert.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I'm with you. I like that one.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Say is that bad or you not not an NBA
young boy guy?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I am not.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
That's for the young ones. I can't tell. I'm sure
I've heard some of his music. I cannot tell you
at the top of my head any song that he's
come out with ever. No, I think my favorite so
far is an Aerosmith tribute band. Because it's fake, because
it's not the real thing. Preseason football it's not the
real thing. Tribute bands, same thing. But we all love football,
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we all love Arosmith. You get a little bit of
the real stuff there. You get the actual songs to Aerosmith.
I need to find out who said that real quickly,
because I think they win over all of these other
techs that are coming in being a gold text line
seven oh four five, seven oh ninety six ten. All right,
we were going to talk a little bit about more
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Panthers updates. We're almost out of time, but we'll try
to get maybe a little bit more of these topics in.
I'm looking at Dan Morgan and looking at all of
these rookies. We had this question earlier whether every rookie
was going to make the roster or not. We've had
a lot of back and forth on whether it be
Jimmy Horn or David Moore. That seems to be a
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big wide receiver debate. Kind of feels like a lock
at this point that Hunter Renfro is going to make
the team. I don't know if that's misguided, but it
does feel that way with the way that he's been performing.
If every rookie does make the roster and you have
a let's say Lathan Ransom play well, actually get a
lot of starting opportunity Nick Gordon once he comes back
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from this injury. Nick Gorton gets a lot of run.
Same thing with Princell U ma'am Yellen and of course
balls out. I do think Dan Morgan, with this specific
draft class, this is the one that is going to
keep the pressure off of him if everybody performs. Like
I really like Bagel Guy's question yesterday, and so I
reiterated it, how much is Dan Morgan's how much is
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he tied to T Mac? And I don't We both
said I don't think he's too tied to T Mac.
I do think he probably is tied to this specific
draft class more so than he was two draft classes ago,
because now we had a whole bunch of needs and
you bypassed an edge rusher in the first round for
a wide receiver, which puts the pressure on quite a bit.
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But then you've double dipped at edge rusher, and if
those guys don't work out, on top of T Mac
being maybe average or just being like a solid wide
receiver in the league, I think Dan Morgan is more
so tied to this entire draft.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Class than he is his first round pick.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, and I think you know last year's draft class,
there are way that you can tie him into that
for sure. I mean, if Shaw Smith Wade hits, then
that's a hit for Dan Morgan. That's one that you
can say works out for him. If Trevin Wallace doesn't hit,
or you know, if he does, regardless, it's tied to
Dan Morgan. Those are his draft picks, and I think
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you can give him credit or criticize him for that.
I do think you're right though this one he is
especially tied to because you're right he made the decision
not to go with edge rusher early and does that
come back to bite him because do they really sorely
need an edge rusher this year and instead you took
a wide receiver. It also depends how productive is ted
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he comes out puts up huge numbers, nobody's gonna complain
about it, even if there is questions at edge rusher,
and if you're struggling in that area, you come out
and put up a season where doesn't live up to
the expectations, you're under that one hundred target mark. Like
we said earlier, not a guy that you can really trust.
Then we're starting to have the conversation of did you
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actually make the right move?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Should you have gone with that?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
EDG.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Dresher a little bit earlier, especially if a guy like
Jayla Walker balls out.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Well, by the way, I need to look at a
few more tweets out of Atlanta's camp. But apparently James
Pierce Junior is just getting in fights every single day, which.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Is not necessarily shocking considering the red Flash.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
He's the Charlotte kid. He didn't go to Vance? Where
did he go?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Vance? Fans? Now Chambers?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Right?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Gotcha? I apologize. Yeah, so I was trying to remember
if he went to Chambers or not. But yeah, so
he went to Chambers and then goes to Tennessee. Awesome talent.
We thought about it here. I'm sure people remember our
conversations about him possibly being a panther. But the on
him was that he maybe didn't love football that much.
He had a terrible attitude, and I'm talking you heard
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some stuff about him just being downright, straight up uncoachable.
And I hate spreading those rumors because I think a
lot of the time it is smoke screen season. People
try to put stuff out there to scare teams away
from selecting certain players. It felt like there was a
lot of fire surrounding the James Pierce smoke. Whereas te
mac I think enough people were talking about some of
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the concerns the practice habits with him to where we
should acknowledge it. But at least you got fifty to
fifty discourse on him. In that regard with James Piers Junior, I.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Will say, remember we had Jedfish come out and say, nah,
that ain't te mac man. When I was there, he
was a guy that worked hard and all this stuff.
You did not hear Josh Sipel come out and say
that about James Pierce Junior.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
And I don't know if it's just because I wasn't
looking for it. I'm sure, I'm sure true. I'm sure
there are comments where he speaks to it. I just
don't remember, like Coach Fish came out and said, nah, man,
this is just flat out wrong. I don't remember that
soundbye going out. But anyways, some Falcons fans love it
because he's bringing the fire. Others don't because of the
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pre draft concerns. But I think that is happening down
in Atlanta. A lot of people had fun with that game.
If you had to describe Panthers Brown's preseason game in
a concert. What would that concert be? Let us know
what you're thinking seven oh four five seven h ninety
six to ten, Live Wire coming up next, ninety two
seven FM Weston walker Back Sports Radio, ninety two to
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seven WFNZ. I'm pleasantly surprised at how much this picked
up some steam here on the text line the question
of Brown's Panthers explained that a concert. Yeah, I love
that you guys understood the assignment on this one. We
were talking about it in the Chandler VAULTA Studios. Colin
Smoke all coming in. They love the idea of tribute
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band angle as well, and somebody wrote that Aerosmith tribute
band angle on the text line loved it.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
We talked about this.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Smoke I believe said, watching the Browns and Panthers in
a preseason game is kind of like watching a Guns N'
Roses tribute band somewhere in Hickory. I you know, maybe
maybe it doesn't have to be in Hickory, but it's
one of those things where you kind of you close
your eyes and you can kind of you can maybe
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hear the lead singer for the tribute band.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Here some Steven.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Tyler note, Okay, wait, that's not That's not really Steven Tyler,
is it.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
It's the same thing.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
You see a small quarterback possibly go out there for Carolina,
and then you have to squint like that. That's not
really Bryce, is it. It's not really Bryce? Kind of okay, no,
but I thought it was. It's almost the real thing,
except it's not. So other people writing in that world
Class Driver actually is defending an Aerosmith cover band. World
Class Driver says saw Pandora's box. It was eight dollars
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to go to that concert and it was awesome. Shout out,
shout out to world Class Driver defending the cover band
for Aerosmith. T Ray and fort Mill says, it's like
your favorite small time band opening for a cover band. Oh,
we're taking other levels to this. You get Bryce, you
get Sanders to start, then you can leave after they're
off the stage. I think these people understand the assignment
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quite well. These are all great ideas. We're scrolling. We're
scrolling for some more comparisons here in terms of concerts
we're scrolling. We're scrolling people also defending Dirk's Bentley nine
to one oh, says Dirk Bentley.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Actually really good concert. Dude knows how to entertain.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
So if you had to choose Flounder, it feels like
most people are saying Dirks Bentley is the concert toget.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Yeah, I'm shocked. I'm shocked that they're choosing Dirk. So regardless,
I think I will have to probably go with Dirks
because I need to be at home locked in watching
the Panthers. Plus I believe that that day I am
going to have to record a podcast at some point,
So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah, I don't know. I'll have to see. There's there's
too many decisions.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
You guys are so good at this.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I say, Okay, I've got I was gonna only try
to read the best ones. But here are all of
the text that I like. Cornelius Rob, it's equivalent to
a Will Smith tribute band. What it's like extra levels
of not cursing? Seven oh four says Nickelback. Of course,
damn big Rob says Panthers versus Brown's preseason is equal
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to Mini Kiss, which I love. They don't even have
their tongues out for many kiss right Like, it's not No,
it's not the same it's it's like poorly applied face
paint for Mini Kiss cover band, I love it for
Labradoodle says it's watching watching the Panthers Brown's preseason game
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is like going to see weird Al. Yeah, oh my god,
weird Al Yankovic.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I did think when when he was younger, I did
have some weird Al on the iPod.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Well the same You and I probably agree because we're
we have a I think.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Four year difference, three year difference between us.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So you and I probably grew up with his biggest
hit being White and Nerdy, right, and that had to
be on your iPod. That had to be on your
iPod where he had plenty of I guess parody hits
before that, But our time with weird Al, White and
Nerdy was his biggest hit had to be. So weird
Al is a great one. Were you laughing at something
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separate from weird Al?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Thenny Kiss is just taking me out.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Many kisses, hilarious.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I cannot believe that this is actually a real, a
real band, and I will tell you, okay that the
it is exactly what you think it is.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Dave Randa would be a huge fan of.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Oh I didn't even know we were going that route.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Oh no, I hear you. I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
It is a band of little people that dressed like
Kiss and play music like Kiss. I will tell you
that personally, person I am not a big Kiss fan.
I don't think their music's all that great. I actually
believe they're one of the most overrated bands of all time.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Okay, oh right, well, okay, that's it. I mean, but
I don't know how hot that is for it.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
That the more I've tested that out, people do agree
with that.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, I mean, I guess my question would be, if
you lose the allure of the tongues out and the
face paint and the cool logo, are people rocking to
Kiss in their car if you don't have the visual.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I don't think that's the thing that'll be on that.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I think that if you go to a concert for them,
they are entertainers, yep.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Are they necessarily great singers?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Problem is anybody nobody's praising Gene Simmons for being an
all time rock and roll great personality?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah? Personality.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I don't know why. I just sounded like our president there,
what great guy is?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
It's because you do the Trump impression all the time,
and so at some point, at some times, it just
kind of takes over your body, and it takes over
your soul. Has ad ginger wife does not like that.
Take blasphemy? You better stop. Who's your daddy's daddy says?
Their biggest hit when I was young was I'm fat?
(19:12):
Is that true? Biggest hit where that is young was
I'm fat? Oh weird? I was like, what kiss were
you talking about? I'm fat? I'm fat?
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Oh yeah, oh yeah classic.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Wait are you a big fan of Weird now?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
No?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
No, I was.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I was, then I learned once I got older, Holy crap,
this is the nerdiest thing ever. And the music isn't great. Well,
I mean it's it's all. It's all a parody.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So I just.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
He did a really good job covering some of the
Michael Jackson songs.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I like the idea of you getting in your car
and listening to weird al on your way home.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I really hope that. I really wish that was.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
No, I can't, I can't do it. I can't do
it now today I'm I'm more lou Comb's You're Morgan Allen,
You're You're Yeah, You're why to go Morgan Wallen. I
don't know why I went Whalen.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Even I knew that was wrong, and I don't know
what happened one second of Morgan Wallen. I never listened
to it voluntarily ever, never in my entire life. Bryan said, agreed,
Flounder Kiss only has like five songs I'd really care about, though.
Their concert with the Australian Symphony is fantastic, exactly. Slink
shot kisses overrated. K tom Mafia after that Kiss take
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stick to sports. K towm Mafia not happy with it.
But this guy's Hammered says, Kiss is garbage. They try
to do a phase without the outfits and makeup, and
no one liked it, so they went back to the makeup.
Come on, guys, you gotta know what's best. Hey, Look,
the approval rating on your take is high. A lot
of people agree with you. Yep, so okay. English Paul
says he went to see Many Kiss in downtown Monroe
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a couple of months ago.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Really, I like, how about that?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, not a big Kiss fan myself, but they were
awesome and the crowd went crazy. Regards English Paul, I
love this sophisticated man who always says cheers or regards
in English, Paul say, he went to a mini kiss concert.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
That's amazing. It is regards. I went to a mini
kiss concert.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I love it. Oh my god. Okay, you're ready for
the live of our flounding? Yes, I accidentally had this
one of those times you say yes, but you're not
really ready for it.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Now I got it right now?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Can I believe you? Okay? All right?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
I had to pull in a spot because we were testing.
We were we were trying to figure something out.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
All right, now that the music is playing, which you
got for the people, all right.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Dave Canalis, the head coach of the Carolina Panthers, talking
about j. C. Horn earlier today and about the fact
that he will not be playing on Friday.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
I'm glad that jac was okay. He did have to
have a few stitches in his left thumb area, and
so they got that all cleaned up and sutured up.
He's day to day right now. We're just going to
kind of evaluate. It doesn't seem like anything else happened,
but you know that we're we're just gonna kind of
evaluate him each day. He'll be able to still do
some activity and running and all that, but he will
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not play this game. Hopefully we can get him turned
around so we can take advantage of an opportunity in Houston,
you know, for that game, which was kind of the
plan all along.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
All right, So, any concern for the star Corner with
the fact that he is out for Friday's game against
the Browns.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Say one more time. I was looking at more nickel
backslash mini kiss content. Are you ready?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I am ready now.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I apologize any concern for your corner that got banged
up today in a car accident.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
If you get stitches and you get sutured up, I'm
glad that he's okay, okay, but he was out there
as an observer and it looks like he avoided any
serious injury. Look, I apologize. I was getting so usually
I hate that as well. But at the same time,
do you really expect me to talk about anything other
than many kiss if people continue to provide pictures, it's
a good point. People are setting me pictures in of
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mini kiss and telling me about their mini kiss experience.
All I heard was the JC horns SoundBite from Dave Canalis,
and I didn't hear your question.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
By the way, I'm.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Looking up weird Al.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Did you know that Weird Al has a song called
Party in the CIA, which is the cover of Party
in the US.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I don't doubt it. I do not doubt it.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Why.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, I actually heard a really good interview with him
with Dan Lebtard like six months ago.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Quite good. You go check out South Beach Sessions.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
No, it does look good that JC Horn avoided any
really serious injury, So Dave providing the update there, the
fact that he's day to day, the fact that he
only quote unquote got a cut, And I say that
because I recognized that it could have been a lot
more severe, but it wasn't. Thank God for that. I'm
glad that as soon as it was reported that he
was in a car accident on his way to practice,
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I'm just glad that really pretty soon afterwards, everybody said
he's going to be okay, and he was actually not
hospitalized and then went out to practice right away. So
I'm fine with him obviously not playing against Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I would expect him.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
To play in the second preseason game and still not
make up for it by playing in the third or whatever.
So JC Horn, He's one of those guys that I
don't care about playing a ton of snaps in the
preseason anyway, So I'm just glad that any real disaster
was avoided.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, of course. I mean it seems like everything is okay. Yeah,
you gotta get stitches, not the greatest thing in the world,
but it seems like he'll be perfectly fine. That's the
type of update that we wanted to hear coming out
of a car accident like that, right, you know, for
him to be back out there on the practice field
doesn't shock me at all.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
He seems like that type of guy. So he'll be
out there.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I would expect probably sometime next week. Ready to go now.
Dave Canalis had another very interesting comment. This one definitely
caught me when I saw it on social media, him
talking about how he's letting Brad Insit call the plays
in practice right now so that he can sort of
bounce around and do everything.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Preseason absolutely regular season could be. You know, I think
I still have a lot to give to our team
in terms of, you know, being able to have the
continuity and the you know, just kind of building off
of the first year, you know, but in the preseason,
absolutely a Gerald will do the same thing. You know,
with Pete Hanson, with Jonathan Cooley, these are guys that
we would love to develop. You know, we're a developmentally
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minded organization, and that's our players, but it's also our
coaching staff.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
You know.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
And and I think back to my time in Seattle,
and I got opportunities to call plays in scrimmages. I
got opportunities to call, not not to call any of
the preseason games, but when we would have moved the
ball periods and say the second or third group was up,
you know, they'd be like, here, give you the walkie talkie.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
And go for it. Here's you know.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
So I would like kind of prep the night before
and have a couple of thoughts, and it just kind
of got my juices going. And so that first time
I get a chance to be an offensive coordinator Tampa,
it's not the first time I've ever called plays through
a microphone with the delays and all that. So I
love that. I love, you know, having that opportunity for
those coaches to kind of think for the next step
in their careers.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
So what do you think about this mentality from Dave
Canalis to sort of get Brad igsick and and some
of the other coaches involved in calling the offense and
defense during the preseason.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
They're a developmentally minded organization and you can see that
not only with the players but also with the coaching staff.
So if Izac is getting a lot of looks here
to possibly be a play caller, I do like it.
I guess does it favor the Panthers or does it
favor brad Isack, Which I'm okay with Dave Canalis taking
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care of his people. That's a big sign of respect
for me. I've got nothing but respect for that. But
in terms of who it helps the most, does it
help the Panthers?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I guess the way that it would help the Panthers
is if Dave Canalis didn't call plays at some point.
I don't, but I don't want Dave Canalis not calling plays.
If you have the offensive coordinator as the head coach
or the play caller as the head coach, then I
just want to have my Andy Reid. I want to
have my Sean McVay. That's ours in Dave Canalis. And
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so this helps Brad Izack, which is still very cool.
I don't know how much it helps the organization as
a whole. And maybe there are some things that I'm
just not thinking of there, but I do really like
it for these guys, opportunities for Indick to possibly go
and be an outright play caller, possibly a head coach,
and parlay this into a dream job of his same
thing with some of the guys that are going to
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be calling defensive plays for Jaro Rivero in the preseason.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Let's go to Bryce Young, the quarterback, talked after practice
today and he was asked about the number of targets
that were received by Ted McMillan today.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
I just wanted to do what we can to take
advantage with the defense gives I have all the conference
in the world, and him and the rest of their
receiving corps. You know, today, you know he probably got
a few more targets. And you know there's been practices
where it's been him, it's been Adam, Hey, whatever, it
may be, all all the way down. So's I went today.
You know, we want to make sure that we can
do whatever's best for a team again, take advantage of
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the defense gave us.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
So that's just how it happened to be today, all right.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
So from what you saw out there at practice, do
you believe Bryce he or that really this was just
one of the days where they were trying to take
what was given to him, and Ted was what was
giving Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I do. I believe it.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
And for those that maybe enjoining us a little later,
I was asking this question throughout the first two hours,
how much is the target share for Team AC a
result of just trying to bring him up to speed,
and how much of it is a result of this
actually going to happen in twenty twenty five, that they're
practicing how they'll play in twenty twenty five. And I
believe Bryce it sounded genuine saying, Hey, we just threw
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it to t MAC because that's what the coverage dictated,
and I wanted to take what the coverage was giving us.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
And I believe it too.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
So if you start to play around with that one
hundred to one hundred and fifteen target numbered that we hypothesized,
if you start to play around with it floundered. Maybe
a lot of those targets come via number one corners
being on somebody else and Team AC being moved around
to match up Hunt like you saw him, maybe on
the opposite side of Adam Thielen Vice versa whatever. There
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are ways to hunt matchups. If you're Dave Canalis, there
are ways to get him open. And so perhaps it's
because it's just the better matchup overall for the team
because you have so much depth. And that's how he
starts winning as a rookie before he really hits the
ground running in twenty twenty six as a top flight
wide receiver, really showing you all of this ability he
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has as a top ten guy. So I'm excited for
the year to come for him.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Yeah, I don't think there was anything forced to Tech today.
I thought everything that was thrown to him he was
relatively open, and I think that made a lot of
sense to throw the ball in his direction. So I
don't think they're forcing anything. I think it's just taking
what's given. I'd have to go to more practices, and
I hope too before the end of camp. But go
to some more practices and see is Bryce telling the
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truth that some days it is steeling, some days it
is Xavier, some days it is Jalen Coker that are
receiving the bulk of the targets. I mean, hell, early
in the practice we were watching seven on seven. We thought, oh,
this could be a Coker day, This could be where
he's really looking for him most of the day and
then as we started going along, all of a sudden
it was tech.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
But I think it's perfectly fine.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I think they're not forcing anything to their number one
wide receiver, and like I said, as the season goes along,
I really do think you're going to see those target
numbers go up for him. I think theland will be
the go to guy early, but I do think as
the year goes along, you will see Teds start to emerge.
And the fact that he can handle that number of
reps and really did have a pretty solid day for himself,
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I think is a good sign.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
We've seen it too much from other top ten picks.
We've seen it too much from other first round wide receivers,
where in the first month, first half, maybe it's not
even that things are coming along slowly. It's just a
nice mixed bag of production with these wide receivers, and
then you get to the second half and they really
take off. I think the example for that last year
(30:47):
was Lad McConkey, who wasn't a first round receiver but
was very good.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
And the talent of a first round receiver.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
And we considered him at the beginning of the second
round before the Panthers traded up to go get XL.
But in the second half mcacky just completely took over.
You see that quite a bit from some of these
talented rookie wideouts. Jack said, how did Deontay Johnson revenge
practice go? You know, it's funny. I didn't hear anything
about him, and I didn't see anything.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
I don't see anything about him having a day. I mean,
he is on their second string, so we'll probably see
him out there on Friday.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
But today, yeah, crickets.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yeah, crickets, and from me as well, I didn't hear
anything surrounding Deontay Johnson, which I think has become a
theme on Was.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
He out there is the question because it was raining
and last year he did not practice in the rain.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I'm good, I'm good. My hamstring hurts a little bit.
That'll do it for the Live Wire.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
We got one more segment to go coming up next
weston Walker sports Rady ninety two to seven WFZ.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Such a fussy young man.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Don't want that, Captain christ don't want no raising brands.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Well, don't you know that?
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Kids starving?
Speaker 3 (32:01):
It's a pall eat it, eat it.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Bagel Guy writes in that he's never heard of weird
Al or many kiss many kicks. I can understand many kisses,
understand fair enough, okay, but never heard of weird Al.
He also says, a great show. Thank you, Bagel Guy.
In fact, we used a question you asked on the
text line to help us out, So thank you for
producing a part of this great show. Never heard of
(32:26):
weird Al. That's a that's a wild one. I would Yeah, that's.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
That's one of the more stunning.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Like he was iconic in the nineties, like he was huge,
and you never heard a single song by him.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I did not expect to be looking up Weird Al
discography today, but that's what I'm looking up and looks
like is it his debut album that happened in nineteen
eighty eight, which I thought it would have been late.
Oh no, it was earlier. Oh no, no, no, early eighties.
My man has been doing it a lot longer than that.
And again, still the biggest hit for our age group
(32:59):
has to be white and nerdy. It just has to
be hey smoking, yeah, I play. Give me a thumbs
up on this or not really you can you can
hop on the mic because I know you are a
man of culture. White and Nerdy has to be the
biggest weird al hit and for our age group, like
within that seven year span or whatever.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah, I was trying to think. I think that's easily
the biggest.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I know.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
He came out with an album during my senior year
of high school about ten years ago. Uh, but yeah,
it was that one party in the CIA, that one
that's flounder is yeah one of course, I know, like
the original was because he had accordion. Was another one
rides the Bus.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yeah, I do remember another one rides the bus, you know.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Then he got big with the Michael Jackson songs you
and are You a big weird al fan smoke not
like massive, but I know all of his big hits
and Michael Jackson songs he had like eat it.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
It was just played on that. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
And then he had actually resurgence when he did a
cover of a cover of the Havana's Smells like teen Spirit,
because I think he was originally wanting to do Michael
Jackson's Black or White and Michael Jackson Yeah No, so
did he pivoted to Nirvana.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
You just rattled off a whole Wikipedia page of weird
Al in like a minute and a half, and I
love you for it. I knew you were the perfect
person to ask, and you just rattled off a bunch
of the hits. That is the perfect cliff notes version
of what weird Al has accomplished in his life. So
Almish Paradise too, Let's get and you know that's the one. No,
you're You're not wrong. People are writing in Amish Paradise, Yes,
(34:31):
if you had to ask me. And I need to
get all of the songs in front of my face
because I can't remember all of them at the top
of my head, but Amish Paradise and White and Nerdy
would be the ones that I remember the most.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
He did a lot of Lady Gaga covers.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
As well, did he really? I didn't know that because
I guess as old is he now? He's in his sixties.
I was about to say, man, if he was putting
out parodies in the eighties, all right, weird Al age
sixty five years old, Damn doesn't look sixty five. He
does not, and he still has his long, curly brown hair.
(35:04):
Never gonna get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
You can't. That's become your look. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
The only thing you can get rid of it was
that mustache, because that was extremely talking about white and nerdy.
That was the mustache. And a lot of people are
also writing in like a surgeon. Yeah, man, I think
I think Weird Now relates to a lot of people.
People are raising their hand on the text line saying
I'm a fan. These are the hits that I remember
(35:30):
remember and I did not. I did not realize that
there were this many fans of Weird Now.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
But it maybe me feel better about myself.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
I mean, and I don't even want to say I
didn't even want to say fans, because I knew he's popular,
but I don't know. I guess I didn't know if
he still played in twenty twenty five. That's surprising to me.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
Yeah, apparently he does do a lot of like concerts,
and he does a lot of his non cover songs
at some of his concerts too, because he's got.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
A pretty dedicated cult following.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Yeah, and I knew about the weird cult following, and
I totally get that. Seven oh four says he's an icon.
I actually agree with that, Like he is an icon.
I don't know how much of up for debate that is.
It's just weird for anybody that says, hey, if I
were to ask you who's your favorite artist and somebody
comes at you with weird aw, it's a little jarring
(36:17):
at first. Nobody says that, but a lot of people
are fans of weird Ol.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
Yeah, you say, hey, do you like weird Out, It's like, yeah,
God like weird That's how it goes.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
That's how that conversation goes every single time. It's like, oh, man,
I love and then you have three songs at most
that you actually somewhat listen to and remember the words
unless you're smoke and you give me a whole Wikipedia page.
But that's the conversation how I expected to go. Usually
when talking about him, My God, A lot of people
write again on weird Now I love this topic. I
apologize that we need to move on and talk about
(36:47):
What's on Tap. It's presented by twin Peaks. What's on
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world of baseball. The Braves and Brewers at it again.
This should be the third game of the series. Seven
(37:07):
to fifteen. First pitch Tonight, Spencer Strider on the bump
for Atlanta. He is five and eight on the year,
three seven to one ERA for Spencer. And then Jose,
you're telling me he's still in the league, my former
White Sox Jose Quintana. A, oh, he's still going three
five yre very solid. That's he's always been that. If
you played fantasy nothing more, nothing more but very solid
(37:31):
for you. I think if you played fantasy baseball back
in the mid twenty tens, Jose Quintana was always the
guy that you would float as a streaming starter when
you would click on the best available pitchers. Nobody had
him rostered one hundred percent of the year. He was
probably sixty percent owned, but but he was always the
(37:53):
top guy that you would go to in the free
agent pool if you needed an extra start to squeak
out a win. That's how I think of Jose Quintana. Anyways,
eight and four, three five ra more than solid? Is
he graduating to the above average realm of starting pitchers
in the league. It's just interesting to still see his
name out there. Anyways, Braves, they sit at forty seven
and sixty five on the year. They have lost both
(38:15):
of their games against the Brewers. They lost their last
one seven to two. They lost the first game three
to one. All right, that'll do it. I agree with
Bagel Guy again, who's been a mainstay of the show.
He says, I can't wait to ask Wes if he's
a weird Al fan. It's a great question. Would love
to know. Wes's absolutely no shot.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Oh, I disagree.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
I think Wes fights against the notion of your stereotype
of his music choice, sometimes not yours, flounder specifically yours
in general. Like he tries to tell you he's a
big eighties guy, he wants people to know.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
I mean, he wore a Sting shirt the other day.
He tells people how much he likes Duran Durant. I
think that there are probably it's one or the other.
He either absolutely hates him and makes fun of anybody
for listening to him, or he sneakily likes like five
songs from Weird Aut. That'll do it.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
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Coming up next, it's the Kyle Bailey Show alongside Smoke Ludwick.
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