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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You need to play some sound Floundy. Let's do it
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all right time now for the Live Wire with Floundy in.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
The West in the West, live wise guy. All right,
and we'll start with Brian Baldinger and I'll read this
just as it's written right here in the description of
the clip, talks about Derek Brown's incredible hulk like strength.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
If there's a better defensive tack on football, then Derek
Brown right now, I don't know who it is, Like
just the frisbee toss that he plays with right here,
you watch him anywhere, watch him split the double team,
like just come right through it and take down the
ball carrier, all right. Sometimes he's easier to go around
guys to go make the play that time on justin
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fields right now. You watch this right here, like this
is just a different type of strength, like the incredible
hulk type.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Strength, as he says it, hitting there multiple times, he
breaking down Derek Brown right there. Yes, mentioned this a
little bit yesterday, but you didn't get into it too much.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
So I'm interested.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Do you think that Derek Brown right now, the way
that he's playing, is the best defensive tackle in the
entire sport?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yeah, I would say so, man, And you know that
I've been a guy that felt like felt like he
was kind of one dimension and I wanted to see
more from him as far as impacting games. Even when
you look at the advanced metrics, he is two tenths
of a point off from being tied for the number
one the tackle in the league with the eighty nine
point six, and the top guy right now, Malie Collins
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of Cleveland, has an eighty nine point eight. But no,
I said, even though that was the worst offensive line
in the game, he was absolutely spectacular. His impact was
felt throughout that whole game. But it's been that way
the entire season, and obviously with the unit becoming better,
it highlights him all the more. But I like what
he's been doing in the passing game. He's batting down balls,
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he's getting to the quarterback, he's hitting a quarterback. He's
becoming that two dimensional defensive tackle that you want. I
like disruptors in my opinion. You know, you talk to
Warren SAPs and some of those greats that just get
it done both ways, Chris Jones. I mean, you name it,
Aaron Donald, those guys that are going to get to
the quarterback, they have value there, and they have value
in the run game. He is that guy right now,
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So yes, I would give him the crown.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I don't know who else would win it right now,
I would say it's Derek Brown. Brian Baldinger continues to
let us know every single week. I have to imagine
we're going to get another video next week about just
how great Derek Brown is. You said you thought that
was the best game you've ever seen him play, this
pass game against the Jets. I don't have any issue
with that. What I think speaks to his greatness is
you could go with a couple of other games if
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you wanted to. For instance, I thought he was destroying
guys against Miami, just tossing him like rag dolls. That's
where he was I think giving you some of his
best pass rush by beating the guy that was trying
to block him. I emphasize trying to block him. Beats
him off of the line scrimmage in point two seconds.
Boom immediately sacks to it, which is hard even if
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he's not been a very good quarterback. It's hard because
he does get the football out of his hand so quickly.
Derek Brown was able to get there in a hurry. Yeah.
I think Derek Brown, what he's doing with this football team,
I think it goes to show you, man, if you
put help around him, then he can be the stalwart
and the best player on what is a good defense,
a great defense. And if you put enough help around him,
now you can start to see he accentuates everybody else
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that is on that side of the line.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Fast thing. If you want to know, because I know
a lot of weight programs, now bench press isn't as
heavily you know, just heavily pushed as it once was.
But if you want to know why people bench press, yeah,
you can watch that footage because that's exactly what he does.
He comes up, he puts those hands in that chest,
he benches you off of him and then shed you.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
And he does that on a reguldule teams. There are
two guys trying to block him and he sheds them both.
And now it's just the running back. All he's these
as soon as he gets the football is Derek Brown
and nobody in between you and Derek Brown.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Because you drilled that as a defensive tackle, you divide
and conquer, You get rid of the first guy and
then you whooped the second guy, the explorer, Divide and conquer,
maybe a little bit coming in to do.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, absolutely destroying offensive lines is what Derek Brown is doing.
What else you got over there? Flown?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
All right?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
We go to Dave Canalis because he was talking to
the media yesterday talking about Andy Dalton and he mentioned
that Excel is a guy that may show up as
his favorite target, so be prepared.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Maybe his history, you know aj Green, you know, big
bodies thrown to those guys. You know, he had a
good group of receivers, tight ends in Cincinnati in his past,
you know, so maybe it's that comfort level, you know,
just seeing that big frame and just you know, getting
him getting a ball within his frame that he can
do something with. But I love that chemistry. I love
I love the fact that you know, even if I
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go back to last year, you know, Jalen Coker makes
our team because of the way that Andy was throwing
to Jalen during our our look team in our card offense,
really and showing what he could do and really allow
showcasing Jalen's ability. So and then you know, if he
goes out there and and it's Andy playing, you know,
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having an opportunity to play with t Mac and Cocher
and Xavier is pretty exciting, you know, in the group
that's growing.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
All right, So coming off of this week a very
successful game for Xavier Leguet, you think there's a chance
that he can build on it with AJ Green or
AJ Green excuse me, Andy Dalton liking receivers like AJ
Green on the outside.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
First, I'll say, I think that was the best comp
I had heard for tetor Roa when they compared him
to A J.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Golson.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I said, that is gadd on with how his body
looks and how he plays. But yeah, man, you gotta
be excited for XL.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Man.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I mean, nine catches for ninety two yards. This was
a guy that I thought was on his way to
being mingo status. But he's shown great football character by
bouncing back and doing what he's doing, and I think
his confidence should only be growing with the way that
he played career nine catches ninety two yards, you know,
in this game. And so for XL, yeah, man, I
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think he stands the chance to be able to benefit greatly. So, yeah, the.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Andy Dalton XCEL connection is interesting because you look at
the most targets Excel has ever received in a game.
Here you have the nine catches in this one against
the Jets. He also had ten targets only once last year.
That was actually in the game against Cincinnati, one of
Andy Dalton's starts. That's where he also had the touchdown catch.
He went for six receptions on sixty six yards. I
believe that was the high mark that he put yardage
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wise as well. Yeah, more targets, more receptions than any
other game. And also yeah, more targets receptions in yards
and now here he is doing it again with Andy
Dalton at QB. So there is a connection between those
two and Effectsale can use this as a launching pad
to then become a part of the rotation, more so
when Bryce Young isn't at quarterback than fantastic Jalen Coker
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comment is also interesting there where Bryce can spread it
around a little bit more. Hopefully we get more good
things to come for Excel, because you know how badly
I want it to work for him. A lot of
Panthers fans want it badly to work for him. Some
nice signs the last couple of weeks or so. What
you got over there forat all?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Right, let's go to head coach of the Charlotte Hornets,
a man I like to affectionately call Chuck Lee. It's
a badass name. I think it's great. I think he's
got the alter egos. We've talked about this before, but
here's Chuck talking about the two starter spots that are
still up for grabs.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
No, there's just three starters that are probably pretty clear
in everybody's minds, and then the other two spots you
have to hearn it, and it's going to be based upon.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
How you orm and how you earn it at practice.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
And how you aren't trust and the coaching staff and
the teammates and also, thank you some latch up type
of decisions today.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
So I think that the guys.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Have been to focused on mock damp from practice, practice.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
In the game and Selby attempany remain interesting?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
What about you and if there all right?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So you've got two starter spots that are up for grabs,
do you guys think that these will be solid early
on in the season or do you think this is
a debate that gets solved as we go later on
in the season. Of course, talking about the two guard
spot and the center spot.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Ooh, that's a good one. I think that it will
probably take I'm going to go with about a good
twenty twenty. Oh that's long. I would say within the
first ten to fifteen games, I think you might be
able to start to get some real answers on what
you want to do.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, the math people would tell you about twenty games
is when you start to understand things about your team. Yeh,
So I don't think twenty twenty five is all that bad.
To be honest with you, we did see Charles Lee
Chuck Lee. I do like Chuck Lee. By the way.
That's when he gets mad, if he starts yelling at dudes,
that's when you have brought out the chuckster in all
of it. I think he's going to experiment a little
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bit at five. It's going to be matchup based with
Musa Diabate not being nearly as big as Ryan Kalchbrenner,
Cawkbrenner playing a lot better the last couple of games
than he had in Summer League and what he had
in the first couple of preseas. So nice work there
from Kawkbrenner. Musa Diabate. All he does is astonish me.
That is a dramatic word. I mean every bit of it.
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He has been fantastic. I love this man so much.
Warning you jersey don't I'll get one. I don't wear
jerseys like that. I'll get a Musa's shirt something like
that because he's been amazing. Charles Lee loves him more
than I do. When Musa Diabate locks up Duce McBride
out there on the perimeter at the end of the
half in that Knicks game, what does Charles Lee do?
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Goes out there and hugs him before they go to
the locker room because he loved that defensive possession so much.
If Charles Lee is giving him that kind of praise,
Musa is starting to hit a little bit more of
his free throws.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
That's a nice sign.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
He's got that push shot going for him as well,
to get it over the trees that he's playing against
down low. I think Musa is going to end up
playing more minutes than Ryan Kaalkbrenner all throughout the season.
I don't know if that means he's going to get
more starts. I think Kawkbrenner against the trees probably will
get that starting spot. But because I think Musa Diabate
is going to allow the team to be a better
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basketball team when he's on the court compared to when
he's off of it. I just think the effort. I
think the zero percent body fat. I think the perimeter
defensive ability that he brings to the table. I think
just going all out for loose basketballs that leads to winning.
I think he'll play more minutes, but I think they'll
experiment on the fact zero fat. Well, I mean, nobody
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has zero percent, but he has. So when he was
measured at the combine, they give you body fat percentage,
he was like, by far the least fat person that
was measured at the combine. In fact, I'll get those
numbers for you because it's a hilarious statistic.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
But yet it fors that what his shoes on off.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I don't know. Have you seen the height discrepancies that
have been coming out for the Hornets.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I did.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It's really weird. I don't know what's going on. It
doesn't make any sense to me. This LaMelo ball sixty
seven stuff, which I don't I don't even want to
go there. I don't understand it. I'm old. It makes
me very uncomfortable. But the six to seven stuff with
now he's six six. No, we've seen LaMelo, We've been
next to him. He's taller than me. I am six
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six in shoes. I am six six, and he is
taller than me. LaMelo's six seven, straight up. Brandon Miller
is taller than LaMelo fixed seven. You can't help it either,
we're doing I have to say it right, we can't.
We can't even just talk about yeah, hip show. I
don't get the height stuff. Colin Sexton lost three inches,
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he went from six to.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
It's not best.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
It's not just Charlotte. Though Caleb Wilson was a guy
that was measured in at six ten. He then comes
in and apparently measures at Carolina at six seven.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
It doesn't make it.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
That's a mess, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
You?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
I'm pretty good at looking at a cat and knowing
how tall he is. And Caleb Wilson was every bet
six nine, six ten. But Wes, you might be right,
I'd be right. Yeah, I don't know what's going on.
I guess height is just a figment of our imagination.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Height.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
It's it's chaos. There is no height, there is It doesn't.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Exist, sounds like a philosophy, sounds like Jeff Goldbloom.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, you know nature as long as you're not seven,
all right, we're moving on.