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Speaker 1: You ready to play some sound? Let's do it. Time now for the live fire with flounder. All right. You can say, you can say, no, we need to dissect this.
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Speaker 2: I had a plan and unfortunately I was not on the right page.
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Speaker 3: Let's let's set up camp for a second. Do we chastise you on air for you to be ready to go? Do we say it's okay to be honest with us? How do we get this to where I ask you the question, you say yes, and you actually have the sound ready?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this was a swing and a miss by me.
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Speaker 1: Why did you say yes? What did you think was going to happen?
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Speaker 2: I had one that wasn't the live wire, because I'm going to do something here in this segment that we have done before, but... Then I thought, wait a second, we probably do need the live wire to enter the segment, and I thought that too late.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that's fine.
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Speaker 3: Just, if I ask you, you can say, hold on a second. Just hold on, just hold on, I'll do a read, I'll stall, I'll do something. And then we can get this thing cracking.
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Speaker 1: You can do a little hand gesture. Yeah, just a little like, you know, this is radio. This is radio.
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Speaker 2: We'll do the extend the play clock.
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Speaker 1: They can't see us. All right. Are you ready to play the first soundbite? Yes. Okay. It's your world now. You got it. What you got?
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Speaker 2: All right. Well, guys, we're going to go a little around the NFL audience. But we're going to start at home. We're going to start with Dave Canales because he did have a press conference yesterday. He was talking about a lot of different things. We told you some of the updates. Jalen Phillips, day-to-day. Will Lee, day-to-day. Could potentially be opening the 21-day window on XL and Jonathan Brooks. Now, he didn't seem as certain about that. Joe kind of pushed him on that just a little bit. And he said, we'll see. but he did say that they are opening up a 21-day window on somebody, and it is on the offensive line where he was asked, what exactly do some of these changes look like on the offensive line?
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Speaker 4: For the offensive line, that's something that we're still discussing. I don't really want to go into detail about what that looks like, but I will say this. Brady Christensen, we're going to open up his 21-day window to be able to see where he's at from a football standpoint.
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Speaker 1: He's healthy. He's strong. He's fit. He's ready to go.
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Speaker 4: But we've got to get some football under his belt here, so that'll be a good addition to the group to evaluate where he can help us potentially. But as far as the rest of the group goes, we know collectively as a group that from the coaching staff all the way through the quarterback position groups, the offensive line, working through some different things in the past game. That's something that we're really
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thinking about and working through right now.
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Speaker 2: All right, so the thing that's interesting about Brady Christensen is Brady Christensen has played literally every spot along the offensive line. So he could slot in just about anywhere. I would not downplay him potentially being the solution at center either. We didn't talk about that a lot yesterday, but I think that's on the table. Here's the ultimate thing. We talked yesterday about the guys that we want to see them actually put out there. Do you think that this is going to make enough of a difference to give this offense a chance to function, or is it going to be a lot of the same?
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Speaker 1: I think that you can make a slight improvement. I think that you can be a little bit better. So I think with some personnel switches along with some scheme stuff, and we talked about it yesterday, depth of target, different things like that. I think it can improve, and you're not going to play against some of the best pass rushes every single week. So there you have that. Tampa Bay has gotten really hot. Then when we talked about Green Bay, we talked about that before the game, how they force turnovers rushing just four or less. They get a lot of pressures, get a lot of sacks. That's a hell of a pass rush. So to me, it's got to be a little bit of a mixture of a lot of different things But those coaches, like I said, that's why they get paid the money they get paid, and that's why they're regarded as great offensive minds at what they do so that they can come up with solutions like that. But it's got to start, first and foremost, with guys fighting their tail off. It's got to start with that. Rasheed Walker, you got to go out there and you got to say, listen, We'll just say you're not whooping my ass today all day long, okay? It's got to start with that mentality where you say that. If you don't have that mentality when you walk out there on the field, it doesn't matter what protection I call, what I do, it's going to be a long day for BY9, the Carolina Reaper.
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Speaker 3: Mike Renner tweeted out that the Panthers currently have the league leader in pressures allowed at left tackle, center, and right guard.
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Speaker 1: 60% of the offensive line allowed.
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Speaker 3: Are atop or the bottom depending on how you want to look at it in pressures allowed that means if brady christensen comes in and isn't the absolute worst pass protector at his position then already things are improving already improving if you are just among the 40 percent of the players on this offensive line that isn't the worst as a pass protector and by the way monroe freeling Could be up.
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Speaker 1: There if he played all the games. Could be. That's the thing I wonder is where does the leakage stop? Where do you put a Brady Christensen, you know, on this line? Put him anywhere. That's why I said it's got to start.
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Speaker 2: And you play multiple positions at the same time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I said it's got to start with the mentality of the guys, man. You just got to have that want to that I'm not going to get beat because– I just don't know one guy stepping in when you have so many guys that are giving it up right now. Yeah. The tweet, the tweet is the comedy. I understood that the tweet is the.
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Speaker 3: Comedy, but also it's very real too, because if you're just looking at, all right, yeah. One player, Brady Christensen, he's going to be the Orlando pace that saves everything. No, but you don't got to be Orlando pace. I'm not even joking. Just don't be the worst pass protector at your position. If you give two less pressures up a game, that adds up over the course of however many games we're talking about. If you give up three less pressures per game, which is doable, by the way, some of the numbers that these players are giving up right now, three less pressures.
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Speaker 1: Wes, is that a completed pass? Is that a first down? Is that a touchdown?
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Speaker 3: Just a successful play, even run blocking. Brady was pretty good at that last year.
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Speaker 1: Does that mean that you get an extra couple of yards?
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Speaker 3: Like this is why football is so fun because one little mistake can make or break a winner loss on the schedule, which is why Brady Christensen entering the lineup or anybody playing average. I think that can really help Bryce young in this offense.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's go national here because guys, we had a huge game on Sunday, one o'clock window. traveling to cold Buffalo as the bills and Ravens, a potential AFC championship game preview. Uh, no, absolutely not. Why Lamar Jackson came in and played exactly one snap on the day. His head coach, Jesse mentor. What happened with Lamar Jackson?
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Speaker 5: You know, when you lose your quarterback early, uh, we lost him on the first play. That'll be a surgery deal. He'll go to IR, uh, You know, that's a tough deal. And then the next guy as well. I thought Joe came in, you know, to his credit, not really getting a lot of reps and preparation, you know, hung in there, did some good stuff. And so it's a short week. You know, it's an opportunity, again, to stick together, to work together, come together and You know, we'll figure out what we have, what we have available, and we'll try to put the best plan out there for this short week. So, questions?
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Speaker 1: Lamar's going on injury reserve. Is that season-ending injury reserve?
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Speaker 5: Potentially, but we'll see where it's at.
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Speaker 2: Now the hope is that this is basically the same injury that Baker Mayfield suffered. Baker missed four weeks. Maybe Lamar can eventually come back later on this season. There's also a chance that he doesn't play the rest of this year and then starts the off season talk of him potentially being moved on from there's a clause.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Where they can move on. Now, here's the thing. One, do you think that the Ravens should move on? And two, if they do, do you believe that the Panthers should potentially be interested in.
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Speaker 1: A more chance?
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Speaker 6: Oh, man.
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Speaker 1: There you go. There's the cocktail, the Molotov cocktail.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: So for one, you know, with Lamar, that injury is crazy because he had the highest QBR, if I'm not mistaken, in the league or quarterback rating, which one it was. He was leading like he was playing really good football before he went down.
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Speaker 3: And that well, that stat has always loved Lamar because he's a high turn. He's a high TD, low turnover guy. And QBR loves putting a lot of stock into that part of the staff.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so, I mean, I think that for Lamar, you know, this injury, obviously, it was one of those freakish injuries, man. You throw the ball, you hit your hand on something. You can't help that. But for Lamar, it's unfortunate. But, yeah, I think that to me, if I were to guesstimate where I think he's going to end up next year, I think it's going to be the Miami Dolphins. I think he's going to be their quarterback. But you say that, but they get him. They draft Jeremiah Smith. That's a completely different team next year.
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Speaker 2: Is Jeff Halfley a good NFL coach, though?
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Speaker 1: I mean, he got his first win last week with what he's working with, when a lot of people thought they would go winless. So, you know, but for Lamar, he has a no trade. He has a no. What's the thing that they what's the thing they put on the players? The franchise. Yes. No franchise tag and no trade causing his deal. So he made it that way for a reason. So. He's going to be able to get out there on the open market and he's going to get just a bajillion dollars out there from somebody. It all comes down to what Lamar wants.
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Speaker 3: Most of it, I should say, comes down to what Lamar wants.
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Speaker 1: No, I go back. All of it comes down to what Lamar wants.
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Speaker 3: Because if he does have the no-trade clause and Baltimore wants to get rid of him, fine enough.
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Speaker 1: But does he really want to go back home? He might.
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Speaker 3: Do you feel like you can be the answer to all of the problems Miami has? Maybe you feel like that. There's still a lot of work to be done. I like some of the young receivers that they have. I actually think they have a really interesting trio with Malik Washington, what they have in Caleb Douglas and Chris Bell, who just needs to get further and further away.
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Speaker 1: From that injury. I like three. I like all three of those guys.
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Speaker 3: So, There's an Devon HN comes back from the ACL, but he'll probably go down again.
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Speaker 1: I love him as a player. He's always injured.
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Speaker 3: All that to
say, do you want to go back home and you feel like there's enough talent at home? Or do you want to go to Atlanta? Do you want to go to another one of these teams you feel like has a better supporting cast? And then you would sign off on that trade because you do have control over.
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Speaker 1: Where you go. So really, I know people are going to run with Miami to make sense. He is from there. Maybe he does want to go back to Florida. But is Atlanta close enough? Well, and I think, too, part of it, in my estimation, is weather. I think he might be getting a little tired of playing that Baltimore cold and all those cold behind AFC North games at the end of the year. Like, he's proven that he's built for it. But I think him going back home to Miami, warm all the time, or him going to Atlanta, playing in the Dome. Plus, I mean, fast surface. I mean, Lamar in the Dome. Yeah. Don't go to Atlanta, please. Don't do that.
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Speaker 6: I don't.
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Speaker 3: And then if, if Carolina has to go after Lamar to stop Atlanta from getting Lamar, then maybe I do just want Lamar Jackson, you know, just pay two quarterbacks, $ 50 million a year.
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Speaker 1: Nothing goes wrong with that. Right. Speaking of the case that Atlanta is already in kind of one more soundbite, one more soundbite, what you got.
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Speaker 2: All right. Well, we had fallout yesterday from the Cowboys loss to the Arizona Cardinals. Well guys, it continued on first take. Stephen A., of course, he's going to have a strong opinion on this. But Michael Irvin probably topped him with just one of the more unbelievable sentences that can come out of somebody's mouth.
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Speaker 7: Call ESPN right now. Trying to pluck Rex Ryan from this job to get him on the sideline this damn weekend. I promise you, with four days preparation, that man will do a better job than what the hell we've seen the Dallas Cowboys doing all season long.
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Speaker 2: I'd bet my check on it.
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Speaker 1: Needless to say. It's an easy bet, Steve. It's a nice one. I don't like you think that's something big.
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Speaker 6: Anybody will bet they check on it because anybody.
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Speaker 1: Would you? I'm not sure about you. Anybody, man.
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Speaker 7: That's just right now.
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Speaker 1: Anybody right now. Tomorrow you'll probably be.
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Speaker 7: Making an apology for them.
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Speaker 6: There is no worse than you can be. There is no worse that you can be than they are right now. There is no such thing as lower than this or worse than this or not as good as this. They are the worst.
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Speaker 1: So anybody.
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Speaker 6: Anybody. My dad and mom can coach them better.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's a simple question. Was this too far for Michael Irving?
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Speaker 1: No, because first of all, that's his mama. So if he wants to get up there and say that about his mama, then okay. And that's barbershop talk. That's all that is. And I don't know why people were so taken aback. Like, she peplack. Like, she had never heard anything like that in her life before. That ain't nothing but barbershop, street talk, guys out there talking trash. about guys on the street or in the barbershop or wherever you may be and guys are gonna get super hyperbolic and that's what that was a super hyperbolic comment from Michael Irvin who's very passionate about his team and say my dead mother could do that people can say it about coaches people can say it about uh you know a lot of people that are deceased to make the joke to say oh they could coach Better than that, you've heard people say I could coach him better dead. You know what I'm saying? Stuff like that. So I didn't have an issue with that at all. That was just big trash talk.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Hilarious. It's his mom. Right. Of all the offended parties. That's what I'm saying. He's going to be offended.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: If Stephen A. Smith, they say your dead mother could cut, then yeah, that's a problem. But when Mike Irvin says it, that's my mama. Can you imagine if he said that.
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Speaker 3: Your dead mama could coach this team better? Is that a compliment? Maybe don't talk about her, but thank you. I wouldn't know what to do with that information. It didn't seem like Shay didn't know what to do with it. And It didn't seem like Stephen A. Smith knew what to do with it. His reaction was hilarious to this as well. He said, well, oh, goodness.
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Speaker 2: My favorite was Dan Orlovsky, who was just completely unaffected. Dan was like, I'm just here to.
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Speaker 1: Talk football, man. No, he's like, yeah, you're probably right, Michael.
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Speaker 3: That'll do it for the Live Wire. We come back with what's on tap coming up next. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
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Speaker 1: My dead mom can coach them better.