September 11, 2025 • 16 mins
Today's Live Wire has a big focus on the NBA and the recent remarks made by Adam Silver. Also included is some Panthers audio of course!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Shopping. You know the deal time now for the live
Wire was shopped in the West and the West up
off down South live wise.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Well, for good reason. It's been pretty much all football today.
But there's audio clip I want to play for Adam Silver.
I think this has to be addressed. This has to
be addressed. So I'll just go ahead and let one
of the worst commissioners and sports go ahead and do
the talking here.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
There's a huge amount of our content that people can
essentially consume for free. I mean this is very much
a highlights based sport, you know. So you know Instagram, TikTok,
you know, Twitter, you name it, any service you know
the New York Times for that matter, the extent that
your content is not behind a paid firewall. There's an
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enormous amount of content out there YouTube. By another example
that people that is advertising based, that consumers can consume.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Is that one of the worst things that you could
ever hear a commissioner say is that we're just a
highlight league. Can watch that you watch like a dead
silight package on YouTube?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
All right, So was there truth to what he said?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Okay, yeah, there was a little bit of truth there,
all right, But that's like the approach of a lot
of the record labels now where they don't care about
artists making full bodies of work. They're like, if we
can get a couple of hit singles that end up
blowing up and getting placements, then that's what we're good with.
Because when you do, especially the younger generation like my
son's age and old and stuff. And I remember Matt
(01:26):
Barnes saying something to his kids about watching a game
or something like that, and they was like, well, Dad,
we're not worried about that. We'll just watch the highlights,
so we'll just catch it, like they said on the
tiktoks and on those YouTube shorts and stuff like that.
But for him, too, yeah, to come out and say
that it was not smart at all. And the thing
that kills me is that, all right, you're the NBA commissioner,
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but obviously you have some handlers too that help you
with press conferences and things like that, and what you're
gonna say? So who thought that it was okay for
him to come out there in a sport that has
been having controvert, in a sport that people already look at,
you know, miles behind the NFL, and you just want
to dismiss your product, especially when players complain about how
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long it is and the length of the season and
we got low management and all these things, and you
just dismiss it, and it's like, yeah, it's a highlight league.
Like nah, dog, that wasn't a good look. Even if
you think that, even if some of it is true, not.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
A good look. It's terrible. I'm with you, Troppy.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
I think it's one of the honestly, just it's a
weird thing for a commissioner to say about the league
that he commissions. You're creating the problem. So if the
problem is that there's not enough interest in the games anyway,
you're also creating it by saying stuff like this with
people who can't afford streaming services because you just have
to pile on for whatever you want to watch. There
are things that are going to go to the bottom
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of the barrel where NBA games might not be as
important as some of consumer's favorite shows, and so now
they got to make a decision. Instead of trying to
help them not have to make that decision and provide
a product that they can watch a little more easily. Instead,
what you say is, yeah, just go watch a two
minute clip on Twitter and check us out during the
meaningful games. That doesn't help bring money to the league. Yeah,
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and it continues to be short sighted. It goes back
to a point that I made when we were doing
the eighty two game schedule release schedule show here on WFNZ.
You look at all of the star players, they continue
to hold on for dear life on marketing, Lebron James
on marketing, some of the older players that are going
to be out of the league at some point. Soon
we can have all of the Lebron's going to play
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untill these forty five conversations that we want to At
some point it's going to end. How people become fans
of weird teams or just become fans of the league
is on these random nights watching Wednesday Night basketball, seeing
the Hornets take the court, falling in love with their jersey,
falling in love with the LaMelo ball behind the back
pass that happened on that specific night where a five
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year old was watching and deciding, you know what basketball
is for me, and I love LaMelo and that's how.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
You grow the freaking sport.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
But instead what you want to do is now funnel
all of your all of your viewership to Twitter and
highlights to where yet you get to see them behind
the back pass, but they don't have the same feeling
as watching it in real time where you caught something
it was organic, you went to a place. It's like
seeing an animal in the wild as opposed to seeing
it in the zoo. Man, I know what I'm going
to go see with these highlights. But watching it organically,
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now I had a meaningful relationship with that specific moment,
and that's what breeds fandom. And now what you're doing
is all of this short sided stuff that is contributing
to the problem. That's what I don't get, even from
a cynical standpoint, even just viewing that as man, you
guys don't understand that you're hurting yourselves here. How many
complaints do we get on the FanDuel text line saying
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I just want to watch Hornets games. Now you're actively
playing defense. You are Bill Lambier clotheslining consumers trying to
go to your product saying nope, go back to Twitter.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It makes absolutely no sense.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Like, really, even from a business standpoint, where is the
sensible It's sensible?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Excuse me?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
You got a sensible take for Adam Silver when he
says something like this, it's tone deaf as hell too, like, yeah,
go watch the highlights. I No, I have a huge
problem with it. I'm glad you brought it up because
it's it's an asinine take to have to tell your consumers. Nah, man,
you don't need to watch the games. Do advertisers like this?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Right? Well? I still like this. That's what I was
gonna say.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Seven or four number had a fantastic point saying, mind you,
they have a new TV deal with NBC. I'm sure
they were not happy about that response.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
And they like seeing a hell bend to Salamander. In
a while, I could go to the zoo.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
I think they have one in Ashboro if I'm not mistaken,
because they have a North American part of the zoo.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I've seen a hell bender there.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
It was cool, but not as cool as it will
be when I see one in Boone. Finally finding that
hellbender Salamander, you get another text I want to read
before I move on. Fig Newton hater saying extreamey, spread
the word, buddy, let me hold your hand whenever I
tell you this. I don't know if you missed the news. Well,
it looks like they they might be back. I saw
some other story that contradicted the FBI shutting that thing down.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
So maybe I'm wrong on this. So I don't know.
We'll see. Maybe there's great dry ass cooking.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I said the other day, I was like, I need
some sweet I said, I need some fig.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Really, Okay, I have not craved a fig Newton all
my life. Might have to make that stop.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Today I got called an uncultured savage by not a
last time I hated on fake Newton.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Man, I don't know what's wrong with you. Man, It's
not for me.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Also, my last thing with that from Adam Silver. If
it's a highlights based league, then why wasn't Why wasn't
Lamello in your old Star game? It's so like that's
a good fact. Yeah, yeahh no, it was a good point.
He just contradicts himself so much.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
I know you you called him the worst commissioner in sports.
He's certainly been trending that way in the last five years.
He used to be that way. There's a reason the
NFL went to Adam Silver to see if he would
be open to being the commissioner of the NFL because
Roger Goodell used to be this hated guy and that
was a thing that happened now. I mean, I think
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most people would put Roger Goodell ahead of what Adam
Silver has done. What a tone deaf comment, like, you
don't do yourself any favorite I see by miss.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
The Freeze because you know, he looks like mister Freeze
off Batman animated series.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Speaking of Hellbenders, he looks kind of like the Airbender. Sorry,
that's messed up. I apologize. What else you got, oh,
pile on?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
He kind of looks like a vampire, you know, if
you were to imagine one in a movie or whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
All Right, he does.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That's enough of that. Moving on to a little bit
of college football. One of our one of our favorite guys,
Paul Feinbaum, had some harsh words to say about Bill
Belichick in his first two games of the college football season.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Your assessment of the first two games of Bill Belichick's
collegiate coaching careers won.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
That's totally laughable.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
I just I want to be a fan of Bill Belichick,
but he makes it impossible. The first game was just
an absolute and total disaster on the biggest stage that
he probably not probably will ever have at North Carolina.
The second game meant nothing.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
I mean they're playing at.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Charlotte, I mean not exactly the bastion of college football.
I think he'll struggle. I think his comments this week
make it even more difficult. I mean, why do you
have to continue to be Bill Belichick? I guess maybe
because you're seventy three years old, But to say what
he did about locking the Patriots out, it's just downright stupid.
(08:37):
And by the way, we both saw the first game
against TCU. Did you see a single prospect on his
team that anybody would want to come visit?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I didn't.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
But in deference to your players, you can't say that
you want to open the doors. But Bill Belichick's always
been a petty, small minded man. But when you win
six Super Bowls and you're an assistant on two other ones,
you can get away.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
With so some harsh words, especially there at the end.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Did Paul find mom maybe go a little too far
or do you think he's justified with everything that he
said there?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I mean, you know, the biggest stages they're ever beyond.
I'm calling cap on that one, but I mean it's
Paul fine, bamb what else can you expect from him.
He's going to be bold every single time he steps
in front of a microphone, no matter how wrong he is.
And that's why he's in the spot that he's in.
He's not afraid to say the things that a lot
of people won't say. But yeah, I did think that
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that was a bit petty by Bill Belichick, especially for
a god that's priding his team as the thirty third
NFL team then, and also with phrases going in his
past circles like be a pro and things of that nature.
And yeah, regardless, you guys have some bad history, but
you should be a pro and let the Patriots come
in there and do their job and do what they
need to do. Because if I'm a parent and you're
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selling my child on going to the NFL, but yet
you have teams that you you want to black ball
because of your own personal grudges, yeah, that is not
a good look.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Look he says it a little harsher, because that's who
Paul Finebom is. I can't tell you I disagreed with
a lot of the stuff that he said. The thing
that I agree with the most is that Bill Belichick
is making it really hard to pull for him with
anything that he says, with getting destroyed by TCU not
beating Charlotte as much as they should have. Frankly, Charlotte
(10:28):
left some opportunities out there only to their doing. They
missed a touchdown pass because they dropped, or they dropped
a touchdown pass, the miss field goal. So I was
surprised to see Carolina not get it back on track.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
A little more. So he makes it hard.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
And then when you are asked in the postgame presser
about the Patriots being banned from your organization and not
being allowed to evaluate talent, and you said, yet, I'm
not welcome there.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
They're not welcome here.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Well, what did Ike Brabel do a guy that helps
you win a couple of Super Bowls on offense and defense.
Sorry for Panthers fans to have to relive that moment
of Rabel said, Bill Belichick is freaking welcome in New England, man,
Like we actually invited him for some of the things
that we did to celebrate some of the teams of
Super Bowls passed. He's bat In fact, I think he
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was back within the last couple of years. Like Rabel
just kind of brushing this off saying, I don't know
what he's talking about. Man, I don't get it. The
last thing I'll say too, Wes. I brought this up
with Flounder on Friday because we talked with Jeff Howe,
who had that report first. There's a little bit of
a North Carolina to New England pipeline when it comes
to some college football prospects. F U NC State guys
got drafted there. This was an NC State alum allegedly
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who did get turned away. Kyle Duggar from the North
Ryan got drafted by New England. And so, okay, it's
just one team out of thirty one other ones that
you could get drafted by. But I wonder if it
has a bigger impact because New England will come down
to the Carolinas and draft dudes quite a bit. And
you know how the scouting departments work. Everybody's got their
own area. Apparently they respect this scout a lot in
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order to draft dudes in this specific area. And yeah,
you're not allowing him to get Yeah, I don't know,
just yeah, he makes it hard to pull for him.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
All right, one more sound by?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Oh yeah, one more I have is actually pretty interesting
listening to Dave Canalis's press conference yesterday, when he was
asked if McMillan had an impact on the field outside
of catching passes.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
I didn't see huge adjustments by the defense taking him
into consideration. He had some good one on one ops,
he won most of them. You know, there was a
good opportunity down in the end zone, you know where
uh where the where the corner made a great play
on the post throw. But I think just in general,
you know, whether we move him around, put him in
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the single, he just give us an ability to have
another reliable target that attacks the ball like we've seen,
you know, so and then and then I just kind
of was feeling his energy going into the game, and
he was very confident beforehand. It felt like he was
prepared and he had a great date graded out, you know,
mentally in terms of knowing what to do and all
that pretty good too.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
So if the trend continues, obviously, defenses are gonna have to,
you know, be ready for McMillan. Do you think that
maybe over the course of the season, if he continues
to be the wide receiver one, we see his production
dip as he gets more of a focus put on
him by opposing defenses.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
He may take a little bit of a low because
he's going to have to figure out how he's gonna
adjust to what teams are doing to him, and his
coaching staff will have to try to figure that out
as well. That's why it is imperative that he finds
another running mate in that passing attack.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
It could be J. T.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Sanders, it could be Tremble, it could be anybody, but
they've got to find somebody to lessen the load on
him because the more the word gets out, the more
the tape gets out on the fact that he is
the guy and there's not really much else, it's going
to be very difficult for him and not to mention
for him individually.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
That's what the NFL is.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
They get that tape on you and they start to
figure out, Okay, what is he like?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
What does he not like to do?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
And we're gonna spend this whole game trying to make
him do what he doesn't like to do. So that's
also going to be a part of his learning curve too.
So yeah, that week one was able to come out
and enjoy some success, but now seems like and say, okay,
they like to do this with him.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
They like to do that, all right. He likes this,
He likes that.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
So they're not only going to try to take away
his tendencies and what he likes to do, but they're
also going to direct all that coverage to him until
somebody else steps up.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
It's up to Dave Canalis. It's up to t MAC
to stay ahead of that because you've got to be
countering what they might be countering. You have to have adjustments. Okay,
we're going to do this until it doesn't work. Once
it doesn't work, this is a nice counter to what
those answers might be to the first thing that we
were doing. So it's up to the offensive staff and
it's up to t MAC to continue that trend in
a positive direction. You're right, you are working against a
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couple of things. You are a rookie. Now you might
be the only target that is reliable, at least for
the next three weeks, so bracket coverage having to work
against that. We're going to try to move you around
and get the football in your hands. But if you
get the football in your hands five yards past the
line of scrimmage, can we scheme up some blocks for
you to be able to get some yak and if
you don't, then okay, maybe it's not going to be
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as productive as that Week one game against Jacksonville. So
learning what you are and you being the only reliable
target right now, it's a lot to overcome. I will
say on the on pace stats for t Mac, I
know I was talking about one hundred and forty targets.
The on pay stats are one hundred and fifty three targets,
eighty five receptions, eleven hundred and fifty yards, six touchdowns,
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which is going to be wonky all the way through.
Like on pay stats, we use those as jokes a
lot of the time. I actually don't think this is
really a show because if I were to ask you
who's going to get thrown to the most, we'd all
say Team Mac. Certainly, in the early going he had
nine targets in this game against Jacksonville. It didn't seem unsustainable.
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I really do think one fifty is probably a good
mark to go with saying that's how many targets he's
going to finish up with in a seventeen game season.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Well, see how he's on pace for thirty two touchdowns
and no picks. There you go. I saw that as well.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
That's true. That's where the jokes come in. With the
on pace stats. I stand corrected or are too chet
to say the very lead. One more segment to go,
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Shopping. You know the deal time now for the live
Wire was shopped in the West and the West up
off down South live wise.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Well, for good reason. It's been pretty much all football today.
But there's audio clip I want to play for Adam Silver.
I think this has to be addressed. This has to
be addressed. So I'll just go ahead and let one
of the worst commissioners and sports go ahead and do
the talking here.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
There's a huge amount of our content that people can
essentially consume for free. I mean this is very much
a highlights based sport, you know. So you know Instagram, TikTok,
you know, Twitter, you name it, any service you know
the New York Times for that matter, the extent that
your content is not behind a paid firewall. There's an
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enormous amount of content out there YouTube. By another example
that people that is advertising based, that consumers can consume.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Is that one of the worst things that you could
ever hear a commissioner say is that we're just a
highlight league. Can watch that you watch like a dead
silight package on YouTube?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
All right, So was there truth to what he said?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Okay, yeah, there was a little bit of truth there,
all right, But that's like the approach of a lot
of the record labels now where they don't care about
artists making full bodies of work. They're like, if we
can get a couple of hit singles that end up
blowing up and getting placements, then that's what we're good with.
Because when you do, especially the younger generation like my
son's age and old and stuff. And I remember Matt
(01:26):
Barnes saying something to his kids about watching a game
or something like that, and they was like, well, Dad,
we're not worried about that. We'll just watch the highlights,
so we'll just catch it, like they said on the
tiktoks and on those YouTube shorts and stuff like that.
But for him, too, yeah, to come out and say
that it was not smart at all. And the thing
that kills me is that, all right, you're the NBA commissioner,
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but obviously you have some handlers too that help you
with press conferences and things like that, and what you're
gonna say? So who thought that it was okay for
him to come out there in a sport that has
been having controvert, in a sport that people already look at,
you know, miles behind the NFL, and you just want
to dismiss your product, especially when players complain about how
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long it is and the length of the season and
we got low management and all these things, and you
just dismiss it, and it's like, yeah, it's a highlight league.
Like nah, dog, that wasn't a good look. Even if
you think that, even if some of it is true, not.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
A good look. It's terrible. I'm with you, Troppy.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
I think it's one of the honestly, just it's a
weird thing for a commissioner to say about the league
that he commissions. You're creating the problem. So if the
problem is that there's not enough interest in the games anyway,
you're also creating it by saying stuff like this with
people who can't afford streaming services because you just have
to pile on for whatever you want to watch. There
are things that are going to go to the bottom
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of the barrel where NBA games might not be as
important as some of consumer's favorite shows, and so now
they got to make a decision. Instead of trying to
help them not have to make that decision and provide
a product that they can watch a little more easily. Instead,
what you say is, yeah, just go watch a two
minute clip on Twitter and check us out during the
meaningful games. That doesn't help bring money to the league. Yeah,
(03:11):
and it continues to be short sighted. It goes back
to a point that I made when we were doing
the eighty two game schedule release schedule show here on WFNZ.
You look at all of the star players, they continue
to hold on for dear life on marketing, Lebron James
on marketing, some of the older players that are going
to be out of the league at some point. Soon
we can have all of the Lebron's going to play
(03:31):
untill these forty five conversations that we want to At
some point it's going to end. How people become fans
of weird teams or just become fans of the league
is on these random nights watching Wednesday Night basketball, seeing
the Hornets take the court, falling in love with their jersey,
falling in love with the LaMelo ball behind the back
pass that happened on that specific night where a five
(03:54):
year old was watching and deciding, you know what basketball
is for me, and I love LaMelo and that's how.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
You grow the freaking sport.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
But instead what you want to do is now funnel
all of your all of your viewership to Twitter and
highlights to where yet you get to see them behind
the back pass, but they don't have the same feeling
as watching it in real time where you caught something
it was organic, you went to a place. It's like
seeing an animal in the wild as opposed to seeing
it in the zoo. Man, I know what I'm going
to go see with these highlights. But watching it organically,
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now I had a meaningful relationship with that specific moment,
and that's what breeds fandom. And now what you're doing
is all of this short sided stuff that is contributing
to the problem. That's what I don't get, even from
a cynical standpoint, even just viewing that as man, you
guys don't understand that you're hurting yourselves here. How many
complaints do we get on the FanDuel text line saying
(04:44):
I just want to watch Hornets games. Now you're actively
playing defense. You are Bill Lambier clotheslining consumers trying to
go to your product saying nope, go back to Twitter.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It makes absolutely no sense.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Like, really, even from a business standpoint, where is the
sensible It's sensible?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Excuse me?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
You got a sensible take for Adam Silver when he
says something like this, it's tone deaf as hell too, like, yeah,
go watch the highlights. I No, I have a huge
problem with it. I'm glad you brought it up because
it's it's an asinine take to have to tell your consumers. Nah, man,
you don't need to watch the games. Do advertisers like this?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Right? Well? I still like this. That's what I was
gonna say.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Seven or four number had a fantastic point saying, mind you,
they have a new TV deal with NBC. I'm sure
they were not happy about that response.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
And they like seeing a hell bend to Salamander. In
a while, I could go to the zoo.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
I think they have one in Ashboro if I'm not mistaken,
because they have a North American part of the zoo.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I've seen a hell bender there.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
It was cool, but not as cool as it will
be when I see one in Boone. Finally finding that
hellbender Salamander, you get another text I want to read
before I move on. Fig Newton hater saying extreamey, spread
the word, buddy, let me hold your hand whenever I
tell you this. I don't know if you missed the news. Well,
it looks like they they might be back. I saw
some other story that contradicted the FBI shutting that thing down.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
So maybe I'm wrong on this. So I don't know.
We'll see. Maybe there's great dry ass cooking.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I said the other day, I was like, I need
some sweet I said, I need some fig.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Really, Okay, I have not craved a fig Newton all
my life. Might have to make that stop.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Today I got called an uncultured savage by not a
last time I hated on fake Newton.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Man, I don't know what's wrong with you. Man, It's
not for me.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Also, my last thing with that from Adam Silver. If
it's a highlights based league, then why wasn't Why wasn't
Lamello in your old Star game? It's so like that's
a good fact. Yeah, yeahh no, it was a good point.
He just contradicts himself so much.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
I know you you called him the worst commissioner in sports.
He's certainly been trending that way in the last five years.
He used to be that way. There's a reason the
NFL went to Adam Silver to see if he would
be open to being the commissioner of the NFL because
Roger Goodell used to be this hated guy and that
was a thing that happened now. I mean, I think
(07:13):
most people would put Roger Goodell ahead of what Adam
Silver has done. What a tone deaf comment, like, you
don't do yourself any favorite I see by miss.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
The Freeze because you know, he looks like mister Freeze
off Batman animated series.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Speaking of Hellbenders, he looks kind of like the Airbender. Sorry,
that's messed up. I apologize. What else you got, oh,
pile on?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
He kind of looks like a vampire, you know, if
you were to imagine one in a movie or whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
All Right, he does.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That's enough of that. Moving on to a little bit
of college football. One of our one of our favorite guys,
Paul Feinbaum, had some harsh words to say about Bill
Belichick in his first two games of the college football season.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Your assessment of the first two games of Bill Belichick's
collegiate coaching careers won.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
That's totally laughable.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
I just I want to be a fan of Bill Belichick,
but he makes it impossible. The first game was just
an absolute and total disaster on the biggest stage that
he probably not probably will ever have at North Carolina.
The second game meant nothing.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
I mean they're playing at.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Charlotte, I mean not exactly the bastion of college football.
I think he'll struggle. I think his comments this week
make it even more difficult. I mean, why do you
have to continue to be Bill Belichick? I guess maybe
because you're seventy three years old, But to say what
he did about locking the Patriots out, it's just downright stupid.
(08:37):
And by the way, we both saw the first game
against TCU. Did you see a single prospect on his
team that anybody would want to come visit?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I didn't.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
But in deference to your players, you can't say that
you want to open the doors. But Bill Belichick's always
been a petty, small minded man. But when you win
six Super Bowls and you're an assistant on two other ones,
you can get away.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
With so some harsh words, especially there at the end.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Did Paul find mom maybe go a little too far
or do you think he's justified with everything that he
said there?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I mean, you know, the biggest stages they're ever beyond.
I'm calling cap on that one, but I mean it's
Paul fine, bamb what else can you expect from him.
He's going to be bold every single time he steps
in front of a microphone, no matter how wrong he is.
And that's why he's in the spot that he's in.
He's not afraid to say the things that a lot
of people won't say. But yeah, I did think that
(09:34):
that was a bit petty by Bill Belichick, especially for
a god that's priding his team as the thirty third
NFL team then, and also with phrases going in his
past circles like be a pro and things of that nature.
And yeah, regardless, you guys have some bad history, but
you should be a pro and let the Patriots come
in there and do their job and do what they
need to do. Because if I'm a parent and you're
(09:56):
selling my child on going to the NFL, but yet
you have teams that you you want to black ball
because of your own personal grudges, yeah, that is not
a good look.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Look he says it a little harsher, because that's who
Paul Finebom is. I can't tell you I disagreed with
a lot of the stuff that he said. The thing
that I agree with the most is that Bill Belichick
is making it really hard to pull for him with
anything that he says, with getting destroyed by TCU not
beating Charlotte as much as they should have. Frankly, Charlotte
(10:28):
left some opportunities out there only to their doing. They
missed a touchdown pass because they dropped, or they dropped
a touchdown pass, the miss field goal. So I was
surprised to see Carolina not get it back on track.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
A little more. So he makes it hard.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
And then when you are asked in the postgame presser
about the Patriots being banned from your organization and not
being allowed to evaluate talent, and you said, yet, I'm
not welcome there.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
They're not welcome here.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Well, what did Ike Brabel do a guy that helps
you win a couple of Super Bowls on offense and defense.
Sorry for Panthers fans to have to relive that moment
of Rabel said, Bill Belichick is freaking welcome in New England, man,
Like we actually invited him for some of the things
that we did to celebrate some of the teams of
Super Bowls passed. He's bat In fact, I think he
(11:13):
was back within the last couple of years. Like Rabel
just kind of brushing this off saying, I don't know
what he's talking about. Man, I don't get it. The
last thing I'll say too, Wes. I brought this up
with Flounder on Friday because we talked with Jeff Howe,
who had that report first. There's a little bit of
a North Carolina to New England pipeline when it comes
to some college football prospects. F U NC State guys
got drafted there. This was an NC State alum allegedly
(11:34):
who did get turned away. Kyle Duggar from the North
Ryan got drafted by New England. And so, okay, it's
just one team out of thirty one other ones that
you could get drafted by. But I wonder if it
has a bigger impact because New England will come down
to the Carolinas and draft dudes quite a bit. And
you know how the scouting departments work. Everybody's got their
own area. Apparently they respect this scout a lot in
(11:57):
order to draft dudes in this specific area. And yeah,
you're not allowing him to get Yeah, I don't know,
just yeah, he makes it hard to pull for him.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
All right, one more sound by?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Oh yeah, one more I have is actually pretty interesting
listening to Dave Canalis's press conference yesterday, when he was
asked if McMillan had an impact on the field outside
of catching passes.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
I didn't see huge adjustments by the defense taking him
into consideration. He had some good one on one ops,
he won most of them. You know, there was a
good opportunity down in the end zone, you know where
uh where the where the corner made a great play
on the post throw. But I think just in general,
you know, whether we move him around, put him in
(12:36):
the single, he just give us an ability to have
another reliable target that attacks the ball like we've seen,
you know, so and then and then I just kind
of was feeling his energy going into the game, and
he was very confident beforehand. It felt like he was
prepared and he had a great date graded out, you know,
mentally in terms of knowing what to do and all
that pretty good too.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
So if the trend continues, obviously, defenses are gonna have to,
you know, be ready for McMillan. Do you think that
maybe over the course of the season, if he continues
to be the wide receiver one, we see his production
dip as he gets more of a focus put on
him by opposing defenses.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
He may take a little bit of a low because
he's going to have to figure out how he's gonna
adjust to what teams are doing to him, and his
coaching staff will have to try to figure that out
as well. That's why it is imperative that he finds
another running mate in that passing attack.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
It could be J. T.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Sanders, it could be Tremble, it could be anybody, but
they've got to find somebody to lessen the load on
him because the more the word gets out, the more
the tape gets out on the fact that he is
the guy and there's not really much else, it's going
to be very difficult for him and not to mention
for him individually.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
That's what the NFL is.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
They get that tape on you and they start to
figure out, Okay, what is he like?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
What does he not like to do?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
And we're gonna spend this whole game trying to make
him do what he doesn't like to do. So that's
also going to be a part of his learning curve too.
So yeah, that week one was able to come out
and enjoy some success, but now seems like and say, okay,
they like to do this with him.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
They like to do that, all right. He likes this,
He likes that.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
So they're not only going to try to take away
his tendencies and what he likes to do, but they're
also going to direct all that coverage to him until
somebody else steps up.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
It's up to Dave Canalis. It's up to t MAC
to stay ahead of that because you've got to be
countering what they might be countering. You have to have adjustments. Okay,
we're going to do this until it doesn't work. Once
it doesn't work, this is a nice counter to what
those answers might be to the first thing that we
were doing. So it's up to the offensive staff and
it's up to t MAC to continue that trend in
a positive direction. You're right, you are working against a
(14:37):
couple of things. You are a rookie. Now you might
be the only target that is reliable, at least for
the next three weeks, so bracket coverage having to work
against that. We're going to try to move you around
and get the football in your hands. But if you
get the football in your hands five yards past the
line of scrimmage, can we scheme up some blocks for
you to be able to get some yak and if
you don't, then okay, maybe it's not going to be
(14:58):
as productive as that Week one game against Jacksonville. So
learning what you are and you being the only reliable
target right now, it's a lot to overcome. I will
say on the on pace stats for t Mac, I
know I was talking about one hundred and forty targets.
The on pay stats are one hundred and fifty three targets,
eighty five receptions, eleven hundred and fifty yards, six touchdowns,
(15:19):
which is going to be wonky all the way through.
Like on pay stats, we use those as jokes a
lot of the time. I actually don't think this is
really a show because if I were to ask you
who's going to get thrown to the most, we'd all
say Team Mac. Certainly, in the early going he had
nine targets in this game against Jacksonville. It didn't seem unsustainable.
(15:39):
I really do think one fifty is probably a good
mark to go with saying that's how many targets he's
going to finish up with in a seventeen game season.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Well, see how he's on pace for thirty two touchdowns
and no picks. There you go. I saw that as well.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
That's true. That's where the jokes come in. With the
on pace stats. I stand corrected or are too chet
to say the very lead. One more segment to go,
it's the walk Off. Sports Radio ninety two seven wfn
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