August 6, 2025 • 10 mins
In this edition of the Live Wire, the guys react to some of the best sound from the Panthers after the joint practice with the Cleveland Browns.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You ready for the live are floundy? Uh?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Yes? I accidentally had.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
This one of those times you say yes, but you're
not really ready for it. Now I got it right now?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Can I believe you? Okay?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
I had to pull in a spot because we were testing.
We were we were trying to figure something out.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
All right. Now that the music is playing, what you
got for the people?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
All right?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
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 5 (00:31):
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
(00:54):
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 4 (01:02):
All right, So, any concern for the star corner with
the fact that he is out for Friday's game against
the Browns.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Say one more time. I was looking at more nickel
backslash mini kiss content. Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I am ready now.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I apologize any concern for your corner that got banged
up today in a car accident.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
If you get stitches and you get suitured 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.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Provide pictures, it's a good pool.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
People are setting me pictures in of 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 2 (01:49):
By the way, I'm looking up weird Al.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Did you know that Weird Al has a song called
Party in the CIA, which is the cover of Party
in the US.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I don't doubt it. I do not doubt it. Why, Yeah,
I actually heard a really good interview with him with
Dan Levittard like six months ago.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Quite good.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Did you go check out South Beach sessions? No, it
does look good that jac 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.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Thank God for that.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I'm glad that as soon as it was reported that
he was in a car accident on his way to practice,
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. I
would expect him to play in the second preseason game
(02:46):
and still not make up for it by playing in
the third or whatever. So jac 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 Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
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, and you know, for
him to be back out there on the practice field
doesn't shock me at all.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
He seems like that type of guy.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
So he'll he'll be out there, 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 5 (03:39):
Preseason absolutely, regular season could be you know, I think,
and I still have a lot to give to our
team in terms of, you know, being able to have
the continuity in the uh, 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. Uh, these
are guys that we would love to develop. You know,
(04:00):
we're a developmentally minded organization and that's our players, but
it's also our coaching staff.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
You know.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
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 2 (04:24):
And go for it.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Here's you know. 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
offense coordinator Tampa, it's not the first time I've ever
called plays through a microphone with the delays and all that.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
So I love that.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I love, you know, having that opportunity for those coaches
to kind of think for the next step in their careers.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
So what do you think about this mentality from Dave
Canalis to sort of get Brad Idzick involved and some
of the other coaches involved in calling the offense and
defense during the preseason.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
They're a developmentally minded organization and you can see that
not only with the players, but also with the coaching staff.
So if Zac 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 Izack, which I'm okay with. Dave Canal is
(05:16):
taking 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 (05:25):
Maybe?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I guess the way that it would help the Panthers
is if Dave Canalis didn't call plays.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
At some point.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
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
so this helps brad Insack, 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
(05:55):
just not thinking of there. But I do really like
it for these guys opportunities for it 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
be calling defensive plays for Jaro Rivero in the preseason.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
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 6 (06:19):
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 so I
went today. You know, we want to make sure that
we can do whatever is best for a team again,
(06:40):
take advantage of the defense gave us. So that's just
how it happened to be today, all right.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
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.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, I do I believe it for those that maybe
joining us a little later. I was asking this question
throughout the first two hours. How much is the target
share for TEAMAK 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's not a genuine saying, hey,
(07:15):
we just threw it to Te MAC because that's what
the coverage dictated, and I wanted to take what the
coverage was giving us.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
And I believe it too.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
So if you start to play around with that one
hundred to one hundred and fifteen target number that we hypothesized,
if you start to play around with it, flounder. 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
(07:45):
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
round running in twenty twenty six as a top flight
wide receiver, really showing you all of this ability he
(08:06):
has as a top ten guy.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
So I'm excited for the year to come for him.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Yeah, I don't think there was anything forced to Tet 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.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So I don't think they're forcing anything. I think it's
just taking what's given.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
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 truth that
some days it is feeling, 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
(08:45):
he's really looking for him most of the day. And
then as we started going along, all of a sudden,
it was Tet. I think it's I think it's perfectly fine.
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
(09:07):
the year goes along, you will see Ted start to emerge.
And the fact that he can handle that number of
reps and really did have a pretty solid day for himself,
I think is a good sign.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
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
(09:38):
was Lad mccaukey, who wasn't a first round receiver but
was very good.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
And the talent of a first round receiver.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And we considered him at the beginning of the second
round before the Panthers traded up to go get Excel.
But in the second half, lad mccacky 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?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You know, it's fun.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I didn't hear anything about him, and I didn't.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
See anything about him having a day.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I mean, he is on their second string, so we'll
probably see him out there on Friday.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
But today, yeah, crickets.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah, crickets, and from me as well, I didn't hear
anything surrounding Deontay Johnson, which I think has become a theme.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Once he out there is the question because it was
raining and last year he did not practice in the rains.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
So I'm good. My hamstring hurts a little bit.
You ready for the live are floundy? Uh?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Yes? I accidentally had.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
This one of those times you say yes, but you're
not really ready for it. Now I got it right now?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Can I believe you? Okay?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
I had to pull in a spot because we were testing.
We were we were trying to figure something out.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
All right. Now that the music is playing, what you
got for the people?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
All right?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
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 5 (00:31):
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
(00:54):
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 4 (01:02):
All right, So, any concern for the star corner with
the fact that he is out for Friday's game against
the Browns.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Say one more time. I was looking at more nickel
backslash mini kiss content. Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I am ready now.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I apologize any concern for your corner that got banged
up today in a car accident.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
If you get stitches and you get suitured 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.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Provide pictures, it's a good pool.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
People are setting me pictures in of 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 2 (01:49):
By the way, I'm looking up weird Al.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Did you know that Weird Al has a song called
Party in the CIA, which is the cover of Party
in the US.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I don't doubt it. I do not doubt it. Why, Yeah,
I actually heard a really good interview with him with
Dan Levittard like six months ago.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Quite good.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Did you go check out South Beach sessions? No, it
does look good that jac 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.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Thank God for that.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I'm glad that as soon as it was reported that
he was in a car accident on his way to practice,
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. I
would expect him to play in the second preseason game
(02:46):
and still not make up for it by playing in
the third or whatever. So jac 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 Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
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, and you know, for
him to be back out there on the practice field
doesn't shock me at all.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
He seems like that type of guy.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
So he'll he'll be out there, 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 5 (03:39):
Preseason absolutely, regular season could be you know, I think,
and I still have a lot to give to our
team in terms of, you know, being able to have
the continuity in the uh, 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. Uh, these
are guys that we would love to develop. You know,
(04:00):
we're a developmentally minded organization and that's our players, but
it's also our coaching staff.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
You know.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
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 2 (04:24):
And go for it.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Here's you know. 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
offense coordinator Tampa, it's not the first time I've ever
called plays through a microphone with the delays and all that.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
So I love that.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I love, you know, having that opportunity for those coaches
to kind of think for the next step in their careers.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
So what do you think about this mentality from Dave
Canalis to sort of get Brad Idzick involved and some
of the other coaches involved in calling the offense and
defense during the preseason.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
They're a developmentally minded organization and you can see that
not only with the players, but also with the coaching staff.
So if Zac 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 Izack, which I'm okay with. Dave Canal is
(05:16):
taking 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 (05:25):
Maybe?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I guess the way that it would help the Panthers
is if Dave Canalis didn't call plays.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
At some point.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
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
so this helps brad Insack, 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
(05:55):
just not thinking of there. But I do really like
it for these guys opportunities for it 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
be calling defensive plays for Jaro Rivero in the preseason.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
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 6 (06:19):
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 so I
went today. You know, we want to make sure that
we can do whatever is best for a team again,
(06:40):
take advantage of the defense gave us. So that's just
how it happened to be today, all right.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
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.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, I do I believe it for those that maybe
joining us a little later. I was asking this question
throughout the first two hours. How much is the target
share for TEAMAK 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's not a genuine saying, hey,
(07:15):
we just threw it to Te MAC because that's what
the coverage dictated, and I wanted to take what the
coverage was giving us.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
And I believe it too.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
So if you start to play around with that one
hundred to one hundred and fifteen target number that we hypothesized,
if you start to play around with it, flounder. 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
(07:45):
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
round running in twenty twenty six as a top flight
wide receiver, really showing you all of this ability he
(08:06):
has as a top ten guy.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
So I'm excited for the year to come for him.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Yeah, I don't think there was anything forced to Tet 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.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So I don't think they're forcing anything. I think it's
just taking what's given.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
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 truth that
some days it is feeling, 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
(08:45):
he's really looking for him most of the day. And
then as we started going along, all of a sudden,
it was Tet. I think it's I think it's perfectly fine.
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
(09:07):
the year goes along, you will see Ted start to emerge.
And the fact that he can handle that number of
reps and really did have a pretty solid day for himself,
I think is a good sign.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
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
(09:38):
was Lad mccaukey, who wasn't a first round receiver but
was very good.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
And the talent of a first round receiver.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And we considered him at the beginning of the second
round before the Panthers traded up to go get Excel.
But in the second half, lad mccacky 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?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You know, it's fun.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I didn't hear anything about him, and I didn't.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
See anything about him having a day.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I mean, he is on their second string, so we'll
probably see him out there on Friday.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
But today, yeah, crickets.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah, crickets, and from me as well, I didn't hear
anything surrounding Deontay Johnson, which I think has become a theme.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Once he out there is the question because it was
raining and last year he did not practice in the rains.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
So I'm good. My hamstring hurts a little bit.
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