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03/12/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure.
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Speaker 4: Good morning, early risers, insomniacs and friends of the Huddle,
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Speaker 4: welcome into the Thursday edition of the program that you
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Speaker 4: finding out that you can't live without. Drew Wilson, Billy Schmid,
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Speaker 4: armand Sorry and bringing it to you live from headquarters today.
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Speaker 4: x and Facebook plenty to unpack today. But our long
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Speaker 4: national nightmare is over. We can eat pasta and pizza
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Speaker 4: again without regard. Because the Italian secure business last night, Yes,
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Speaker 4: and the United States well advents in the World Baseball Classic.
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Speaker 5: Thank you Team Pizon, A man, that was nasty, Vinnie Pascontino,
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Speaker 5: he can fire up that espresso machine and any visiting
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Speaker 5: clubhouse he wants. After that three tater game yesterday, that
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Speaker 5: was impressive and also more fun to just watch.
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Speaker 2: That team has themselves some fun now, if.
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Speaker 5: There's any joy, if there's any group that you do anticipate,
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Speaker 5: because Mark Durosa did say was just coming in.
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Speaker 2: A little slow this morning. They're creeping in here.
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Speaker 5: I imagine when you get some of the better guys
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Speaker 5: in all of ball in different groups that have never met,
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Speaker 5: but now they are putting together and putting it on
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Speaker 5: for one common goal. I assume there's a there's a
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Speaker 5: number of bottles of wine being taken down by Team
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Speaker 5: Bizon last night because I don't know if it was
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Speaker 5: a cal zone or a nice eighteen inch spin crust,
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Speaker 5: but they were able to celebrate right last night with
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Speaker 5: that offensive performance.
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Speaker 2: Maybe something would fired. They gotta be starting to believe.
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Speaker 3: I mean, man, the way they've they've been playing, the
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Speaker 3: way they've been winning and I think crisis averted would
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Speaker 3: be the best way to describe what's going on there
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Speaker 3: in that situation. They saved the US, and I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: imagine Mark Throws was sleeping a little easier last night
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Speaker 3: than he did the night before.
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Speaker 4: Oh did we ever get anything definitive? First of all,
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Speaker 4: did he show up on MLB network?
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Speaker 2: I don't think so, I don't. I don't believe so.
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Speaker 5: They completely scrubbed the video off any of any of
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Speaker 5: their their digital sites.
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Speaker 4: But I assume it'll be on this morning. Tell prob
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Speaker 4: this morning playing on Friday. Now they'll be playing on Friday,
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Speaker 4: they'll play tomorrow. So the US Advances kind of moon
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Speaker 4: walked in. But that's all right.
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Speaker 2: They're in. That's all that matter.
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Speaker 4: But if he indeed, like again, no one corrected him,
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Speaker 4: when did he know that they need us to win
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Speaker 4: because he played didn't play the front line guys, not
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Speaker 4: at all, not at all. They lost to Italy. And
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Speaker 4: were you thinking that we had already punched our ticket?
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Speaker 4: Did everybody think that? Did no one know their tournament rules?
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Speaker 5: I would just like to know if you're Mason Miller
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Speaker 5: out in the bullpen, you're you're arguably the best relief
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Speaker 5: pitcher in baseball, and you're just sitting there like, hey man,
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Speaker 5: all due respect to Ryan Yarborough and his family, but
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Speaker 5: shouldn't I be in here if we can't give up
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Speaker 5: any more?
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Speaker 2: Rise right? Maybe maybe don't we want to slam the
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Speaker 2: door a little bit?
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Speaker 5: And then once he gets kershop that might have been
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Speaker 5: the time for Andy Pettitt or something or David Ross again,
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Speaker 5: the only guy that's actually managed a big league game
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Speaker 5: is David Ross.
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Speaker 2: That's a good point.
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Speaker 5: And he's out in the bullpen, he's getting a call
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Speaker 5: like hero you sure, yeah, sure, you sure, Clayton. I mean,
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Speaker 5: we're already down five nothing. I don't know that we
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Speaker 5: need this to go to be worse.
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Speaker 3: I saw that being, you know, starting to be a
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Speaker 3: tentacle of the discussion after like, well, Mark's not really
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Speaker 3: a manager, you know, he's just a guy on TV.
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Speaker 2: Why did we put him in there in the first place?
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Speaker 2: And we started getting upset.
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Speaker 3: However, guys, and you know this, and it's true now
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Speaker 3: that they've kind of gotten through this little stumble, and
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Speaker 3: they go, okay, they caught a break. Okay, deep breath,
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Speaker 3: crisis averted. They go on now to win the whole thing.
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Speaker 3: We're never you know, we won't remember it. Well, we
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Speaker 3: might remember it, but it'll be the ending of the
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Speaker 3: story will be complete, and all that matters is winning
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Speaker 3: at all.
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Speaker 2: But we'll see what happens now.
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Speaker 3: I can guarantee you this, mister de Rose is gonna
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Speaker 3: be putting out the Navy seals lineup now.
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Speaker 2: Yea, there's no there's no more messing around. After what happened.
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Speaker 3: They're like, all right, everybody, and everybody's planning right now,
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Speaker 3: all the you know, all the arms of the world.
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Speaker 3: Take your you know, enjoy your gatorade, enjoy the uniform
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Speaker 3: putting on. You're not gonna be seeing the field much more.
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Speaker 3: It's your time's done, guys, all the all the walk ons.
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Speaker 3: Your time's done.
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Speaker 2: Me not walk on.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know what I'm saying, Your time's done. Yes,
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Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't imagine had David Ross is the manager,
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Speaker 3: experienced manager on that you know group. You know, he's
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Speaker 3: first sworn away from any of the decisions the man.
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Speaker 3: And that's the thing about it. Well, I wonder who's
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Speaker 3: getting closer now. It was like, all right, guys, draw
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Speaker 3: all your help.
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Speaker 2: Now, right.
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Speaker 5: David's gonna have to come on here in the bench,
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Speaker 5: coach R. Let's shift and then cut and crack and
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Speaker 5: let's let's crack baby, cut and crack.
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Speaker 4: That's all we do. So, of course, like the we
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Speaker 4: watched that game, and okay, what happened to Mexico? Are
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Speaker 4: they doing some soul search?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 2: I would think so.
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Speaker 3: Now this has got to be hard for them to
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Speaker 3: take because they take a lot of bride in their baseball.
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Speaker 2: He's a wagon.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, the itally moves on and and so they
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Speaker 5: also just they didn't pitchcall, they didn't hit well, and
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Speaker 5: Mexico and Cuba might have been the two most disappointing
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Speaker 5: groups in the World Baseball Classic. Luckily we can say that.
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Speaker 5: Luckily we get to say that because we sneaked right through.
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Speaker 5: And I don't know about you guys as well, while
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Speaker 5: you're While I was watching the game, it took me
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Speaker 5: a good inning and a half until I ultimately did
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Speaker 5: the math and I'm like, wait a second, Oh, this
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Speaker 5: is over, it's sick nothing. So there's no chance I
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Speaker 5: had that good settling moment when everybody else was already
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Speaker 5: celebrating outline for a good twenty five to thirty minutes
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Speaker 5: where the light bulb turned on.
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Speaker 6: Over.
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Speaker 4: It came to Billy that he catched the over, Like
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Speaker 4: you didn't realize that you were already in the group player.
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Speaker 4: Like you didn't. I mean most of the time your
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Speaker 4: computer is like, oh, we only needed a couple more like, oh,
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Speaker 4: I can't believe that you didn't register that.
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Speaker 5: Oh, the computer was malfunctioning yesterday quite a bit because
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Speaker 5: earlier in the day. Now it didn't matter because Venezuela
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Speaker 5: got Dominican later in the night. You want to talk
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Speaker 5: about a party, Yeah, that is an absolute party. Watching
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Speaker 5: the Dominican Republic team play baseball the most importantly hit
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Speaker 5: Those bats are different levels. But I did the wrong
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Speaker 5: math on the Puerto Rico Canada deal where all of
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Speaker 5: a sudden they raced by and one on the point
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Speaker 5: or the run differential is the tiebreaker for two teams
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Speaker 5: and had to head. But those two teams ended up
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Speaker 5: having themselves a battle with the three team time and
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Speaker 5: they turned into run differentially. I was like, wait a second, Oh,
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Speaker 5: I ended up losing that when I realized about five
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Speaker 5: hours later, So the computer was malfunctioning last night made
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Speaker 5: sense why we ended up catching a whole lot of l's.
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Speaker 5: They have to get better at it today by the
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Speaker 5: time we got down for the winning edge.
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Speaker 4: So your quarterfinals, Puerto Rico versus the Red Hot Italians.
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Speaker 2: The Italian's gonna be Venezuela Japan.
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Speaker 4: That's gonna be fun, sure boys, Uh Korea against the
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Speaker 4: Dominican and then the rematch of all rematches, United States
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Speaker 4: against Can we lose this one after it would be
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Speaker 4: payback for the hockey. They would be double dip in hockey.
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Speaker 4: And I mean Canada beats us at our own game.
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Speaker 4: It's a little bit like US winning in Gold Medals
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Speaker 4: twice correct well, and they're they're teams also better than
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Speaker 4: I thought.
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Speaker 2: It's pretty good. Yeah, it's a pretty decent, pretty decent squad.
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Speaker 5: Well when you started looking at now, it's not what
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Speaker 5: what Captain America and the Avengers are apparently bringing out here.
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Speaker 5: But uh, let's just make sure. I do wonder if
8:42
Speaker 5: the orange slices are done right, Like that's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 5: But we got some big time, Yeah, big time. He
8:47
Speaker 5: goes on that team right, Like, isn't part of the
8:50
Speaker 5: cell job? Hey, you know, if you're leaving your team
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Speaker 5: for two and a half weeks. We're gonna make sure
8:55
Speaker 5: it's worth your worth your while. We're gonna make sure
8:57
Speaker 5: you get your your running here, Gunner Henderson, and it
8:59
Speaker 5: might not be uh, Bryce Terrang and Bobby Wood Junior
9:03
Speaker 5: up the middle every single time. I just want I
9:04
Speaker 5: wonder if they got to do that, or if Bryce
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Speaker 5: Harper says, uh, hey, skip, I'm not missing anymore at bats.
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Speaker 5: All right, right, write me in in the three hole
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Speaker 5: and let's just forget about.
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Speaker 2: This for now, right. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And the thing about it is, you know, on paper,
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Speaker 3: you think, okay, you should beat these teams, but you
9:19
Speaker 3: guys know baseball works in a small short so there's
9:21
Speaker 3: all such thing as one game this and that, so
9:24
Speaker 3: you know, or or samples or rosters, it's one game.
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Speaker 3: So you're right, Billy, and uh, I don't know, man
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Speaker 3: with Justin Old, Justin Moore, no hitting coach for the
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Speaker 3: for that Canada roster, they got some guys, so it's definitely,
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Speaker 3: you know, obviously we all think we should win this one,
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Speaker 3: but Canada thought they should win hockey. So it's one
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Speaker 3: of those things where, yeah, you don't want them to
9:42
Speaker 3: have the victory lap now on this, I'm sure maybe
9:45
Speaker 3: there aren't as many eyes as there was on the
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Speaker 3: on the hockey final in the gold medal game, but
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Speaker 3: let's take care of business.
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Speaker 2: And hopefully that was Hopefully that was the spark under the.
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Speaker 3: Butt the USA Team USA needed to roll up here
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Speaker 3: and maybe put up like a ten spot or some
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Speaker 3: crooked numbers to take care of business.
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Speaker 4: Let's go good eight seven seven seven three your ticket
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Speaker 4: to interact with us. The comments already starting on the
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Speaker 4: YouTube stream, which we love little side discussions, and uh
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Speaker 4: yeah we went.
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Speaker 2: We made it eleven minutes. But it's counterbalanced.
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Speaker 4: The joy that we feel of the US advancing is
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Speaker 4: offset by the defeat suffered at Madison Square Garden by
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Speaker 4: Armin's beloved Marquette Golden Eagles.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 4: One of my kat was at the I mean our
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Speaker 4: arms at the Admirals game right presiding over the jumbo
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Speaker 4: tron and hanging out with Matt Miller, another friend of
10:36
Speaker 4: the program. And you guys, so you didn't get to
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Speaker 4: I imagine see it live. I watched it, Billy, I
10:43
Speaker 4: watched it unfold.
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Speaker 3: Yep, five thirty tip cut some at the uh just
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Speaker 3: a very very small sliverbit at Panolatami Sports Book it
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Speaker 3: will stop there before went down to the arena. Clut
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Speaker 3: some at the arena a little bit there, but wasn't
10:55
Speaker 3: able to lock in for two hours on it. But
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Speaker 3: I was able to catch some. But yeah, kind of
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Speaker 3: a bummer. They had shown a lot of growth in
11:02
Speaker 3: this calendar year. Obviously, I would say Marquette after the
11:06
Speaker 3: terrible start, you know, really played like a top maybe
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Speaker 3: fifty team the last month or two, had the big
11:12
Speaker 3: winn against Yukon, showed growth and you know, the great
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Speaker 3: news yesterday was Nigel James being named Freshman of the
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Speaker 3: Year and affirming his commitment to Marquette for the future,
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Speaker 3: which is a rare.
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Speaker 2: In this day and age. It is rare.
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Speaker 3: He a lot of dollars sign Definitely, the both teams
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Speaker 3: shot well, it was there. Both teams played offense well,
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Speaker 3: you know, and put up a lot of points. Even
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Speaker 3: a match squads a game it was tied, you know
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Speaker 3: with a minute ago market Yeah, it couldn't get it.
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Speaker 4: It was one of those games where Xavier just made
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Speaker 4: a couple more plays, hit some free throws. But I
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Speaker 4: also watch as much as there is to love about
11:44
Speaker 4: Nigel James junior, right, you live by the freshman. You
11:47
Speaker 4: die by the freshman. He made some plays, he kept
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Speaker 4: him in the game, the only reason they're in the game.
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Speaker 4: But then he made some plays, a couple of plays
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Speaker 4: down the stretch that got caught with this freshman showing
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Speaker 4: a little.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I was gonna say, eighteen nineteen year old was
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Speaker 5: definitely a last I mean, you can't be mad at.
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Speaker 4: It, right, but there was a couple of possessions that
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Speaker 4: you know, he a little bit the motor was going
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Speaker 4: a little little heavy.
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Speaker 5: And and you're right, and Drew, I also think like
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Speaker 5: that there's a good balancing act there, and you've seen
12:14
Speaker 5: it so much where the eyes are just going to
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Speaker 5: take over for a cat, and like you want to
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Speaker 5: see a young player have that kind of just insane
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Speaker 5: confidence and self belief. Yeah, there's there's some lessons to
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Speaker 5: be learned there.
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Speaker 4: And then luckily you'll a huge steal and then a
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Speaker 4: two on one and he makes a kind of a
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Speaker 4: lazy sort of pass. It gets great play, great played
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Speaker 4: by the defensive player. But it was like, all right,
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Speaker 4: we got to convert there. We can't can't turn that
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Speaker 4: one over. And that was a pivotal inflection point in
12:41
Speaker 4: a game that's going to come down to one or
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Speaker 4: two play. There were a couple of plays yeah, and
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Speaker 4: then you know, but again like the last possession, like
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Speaker 4: his last buckets one that he had and when he
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Speaker 4: turns the corner, he's he's something to watch and I'm
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Speaker 4: happy like that. You got him coming back, you got
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Speaker 4: optimism for the next year.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, dynamic, explosive player, and it was it was great
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Speaker 3: news for a lot of Marquette fans to hear that
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Speaker 3: because that been you know, the number one thing was
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Speaker 3: can you keep these guys together because they were the
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Speaker 3: bright spot this year.
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Speaker 4: That will uh, that will calm down at least some
13:14
Speaker 4: people might put aside the pitchforks and torches for Shaka.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would think so.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't think many really Adam, at
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Speaker 3: least around the program did. But there were some other
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Speaker 3: alas always some of the quarter folks.
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Speaker 4: I mean, again, it's uncharged territory to have a gap
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Speaker 4: year of the way they had to lose twenty sure.
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Speaker 4: I mean when when you see like number seven Marquette
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Speaker 4: on the screen, like seven and ten or like, you know,
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Speaker 4: you expect that to be.
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Speaker 3: The national ranking. It was definitely different than what market
13:43
Speaker 3: fans have been used to. But the one thing you'd
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Speaker 3: say is that, like if relationship business is what Shaka
13:47
Speaker 3: was in and he tried the whole deal with an
13:49
Speaker 3: O portal, this was the the you know, this is
13:51
Speaker 3: the fruits of that labor, right that you you do
13:54
Speaker 3: maintain a relationship with a guy he loves them.
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Speaker 5: Was the point that you're waiting for the fruit? Yeah,
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Speaker 5: well yeah, basically there's this is the time where you
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Speaker 5: got water the bamboo and you're not watching it grow
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Speaker 5: at all. Well, you got to be consistent with what
14:06
Speaker 5: you do. You can't necessarily break your style of hold
14:09
Speaker 5: because that fruit is not going to go right now.
14:12
Speaker 5: You're you're not gonna see anything good from that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, But I would say the advantage of what you
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Speaker 3: did is you have a guy like Nigel James and said,
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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna test the waters. I've enjoyed the program
14:21
Speaker 3: so much. I'm sure he's gonna get broken off in
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Speaker 3: an il. He's gonna get some money. Obviously, they're gonna
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Speaker 3: take care of him, and uh, you know that's where
14:28
Speaker 3: it's like, okay that that part of it paid off.
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Speaker 3: But you're right, Billy, now it's important for a mistake
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Speaker 3: consistent even through whatever portal additions they want to try
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Speaker 3: and make. So Marquette, you know, looking at the future,
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Speaker 3: it's gonna be him Stevens. You look at Royce par M,
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Speaker 3: you have a you have a foundation there for the future.
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Speaker 3: Like you said, kind of those growing pains as a
14:45
Speaker 3: young freshman, you saw some of them last night. But
14:48
Speaker 3: that's the future for Marquette right now, is that backcourt
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Speaker 3: and hopefully whatever additions they can make of the portal. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: So it's onward for for Marquette now and a very
14:57
Speaker 3: important offseason for them to look and try and figure out, Okay,
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Speaker 3: we get this thing turned around and back on track.
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Speaker 2: Do you think more teams are gonna have to be
15:04
Speaker 2: okay with the gap here in college sports? I think so.
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Speaker 4: I mean, like it's and not just like the Marquettes
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Speaker 4: of the world, but like the Alabama's and football like
15:14
Speaker 4: everybody's gonna have Like, all right, didn't go away, the
15:16
Speaker 4: cycle didn't because.
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Speaker 5: You're gonna miss on the amount of transfers that you're
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Speaker 5: bringing in, right, Like you're not always going to hit
15:22
Speaker 5: home runs on those guys coming in well even all right,
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Speaker 5: So look at say you're USC football or something like
15:28
Speaker 5: totally right, all right, we're losing.
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Speaker 4: It's like, oh, we got our fifth running back out
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Speaker 4: there because you need it's. They're they're getting to be
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Speaker 4: like pro teams, right, They're playing heavy schedules. They're getting
15:40
Speaker 4: to and where depth and attrition has to be baked in.
15:43
Speaker 4: You have to have like not just we always joked
15:46
Speaker 4: at Alabama, like the guys who were dressed and like
15:50
Speaker 4: we're wearing duplicate numbers were McDonald's all Americans and Americans
15:55
Speaker 4: and five star recruits, right, won the acc probably with
15:57
Speaker 4: their second but it's not Yeah, these days now it's
16:00
Speaker 4: getting spread out more. The cash is going to level
16:03
Speaker 4: the playing field in many, many ways, and so now
16:06
Speaker 4: there are I think, yeah, it's going to be baked
16:09
Speaker 4: in it's and good coaches are gonna have to have
16:13
Speaker 4: patients that they didn't have in the past thousand to
16:16
Speaker 4: develop the patients. Because why I throw it with Shaka,
16:20
Speaker 4: like allright, we lost twenty get him, get him out
16:22
Speaker 4: of here, or do you write it out and look
16:24
Speaker 4: at the total body of work and look at the
16:26
Speaker 4: culture that he's developed and then say, well, okay, that
16:29
Speaker 4: was a gap year and now with the scars that
16:31
Speaker 4: we took and the bullets we took this year will
16:33
Speaker 4: be better next year. It's going to take some vision
16:36
Speaker 4: in athletic offices and among boosters, yes and patients that
16:39
Speaker 4: hasn't existed at the highest levels of college sports in
16:42
Speaker 4: a long time.
16:43
Speaker 2: Which did The patience word is not in the dictionary for.
16:47
Speaker 5: They don't like it because to the point, like I mean,
16:50
Speaker 5: look at look at Alabama, and you're hearing so many
16:53
Speaker 5: people Alabama football say why I don't get it.
16:55
Speaker 2: I don't see it. Kaitlin de Bores is not going
16:57
Speaker 2: to be saving.
16:58
Speaker 5: Well holy I'm mind just and I think we should
17:02
Speaker 5: hit that reporting desk because you just can't hoard talent
17:06
Speaker 5: like you used to be able to to where if
17:08
Speaker 5: you had three guys go down, you didn't lose in
17:11
Speaker 5: football five games or so, you didn't lose fifteen games
17:14
Speaker 5: in college basketball. But you're just gonna see way too
17:17
Speaker 5: much volatility. Even with the Kentucky's and the blue Bloods
17:20
Speaker 5: all over the place. You're gonna see a Louisville miss
17:22
Speaker 5: tournaments left and right. You're gonna see different teams struggle
17:25
Speaker 5: I think year in and year out to have that consistence, and.
17:27
Speaker 3: You just can't count on guys growing with your program anymore.
17:30
Speaker 3: Might happen in certain cases, and you have to do
17:32
Speaker 3: things to make sure it happens. Like you know, re
17:35
Speaker 3: recruit them all the time, reinvest in them, obviously with money,
17:39
Speaker 3: but also with you know, your your time, your care,
17:43
Speaker 3: your coaching, the way the way that they're being managed
17:48
Speaker 3: when they're already on campus.
17:49
Speaker 2: You can't count on that anymore.
17:51
Speaker 3: So it used to be something you could always quote,
17:53
Speaker 3: you know, say, okay, freshman, so often these guys are
17:55
Speaker 3: gonna be here, They're gonna grow with the program.
17:57
Speaker 2: That's not a given anymore. So that's yeah, that's a challenge.
18:00
Speaker 3: But the problem is, I think there's less gonna be
18:03
Speaker 3: less patients amongst boosters and fan bases than ever before
18:07
Speaker 3: because the way they see it as look, we can't
18:10
Speaker 3: we shouldn't have any down years anymore because now we
18:13
Speaker 3: have the ability to improve our team every year with
18:15
Speaker 3: the portal, So there's no excuse to have a down year.
18:18
Speaker 3: There's no patience in a recruiting cycle, there's none of that.
18:21
Speaker 3: So I think figuring out that imbalance is gonna be
18:23
Speaker 3: one of the I agree the most interesting things going
18:25
Speaker 3: forward for college teams and fan bases because you made
18:28
Speaker 3: the joke about Saban, but you know he's not killing
18:30
Speaker 3: to Moore. But Alabama fans field, well, they should have
18:33
Speaker 3: the Nick Saban every year. They should have the best
18:34
Speaker 3: college coach, the best team, and the best program all
18:37
Speaker 3: the time.
18:38
Speaker 5: That's just the way they feel. Well, and the idea
18:39
Speaker 5: that like, you'll just pay the buyout, Drew and get
18:41
Speaker 5: them out of here. Guys, you said, lose twenty games,
18:44
Speaker 5: all right, Greeson, Let's get somebody else in here, now,
18:46
Speaker 5: it's all right. Instead of paying that eight million dollar buyout,
18:49
Speaker 5: what if we put the eight million dollars in to players.
18:53
Speaker 2: And then I'll sell.
18:54
Speaker 5: But that's the interesting part where you can do that,
18:58
Speaker 5: so can every other team, and a mayor doesn't mean
19:00
Speaker 5: everybody's doing it and doesn't mean the great team still
19:03
Speaker 5: won't be great. But I do think Drew it's gonna
19:05
Speaker 5: lean in even more on coaching, especially in basketball, where
19:08
Speaker 5: like Jerome Tang, they spent every single dollar possible at
19:12
Speaker 5: Kansas State, didn't matter because they still didn't have the
19:15
Speaker 5: five to eight guard that was hitting every single game
19:17
Speaker 5: winner that made him a bunch of money and got
19:19
Speaker 5: a bunch of boosters in. I still think it's gonna
19:21
Speaker 5: be the great coaches like Calvin Samson at Houston. Now
19:24
Speaker 5: they got resources, they got money, no doubt about it.
19:27
Speaker 5: They're always near the top five. It wouldn't surprise me
19:29
Speaker 5: if within the next two years they got a year
19:31
Speaker 5: where they're an eight seed, because it just doesn't break
19:34
Speaker 5: that way.
19:34
Speaker 4: That's right, And this is our first you know, we
19:38
Speaker 4: still got our training wheels on here with the huddle,
19:41
Speaker 4: and this is our first foray that we're done at
19:43
Speaker 4: eight am, and as we head into March madness and
19:46
Speaker 4: you've got basketball to watch in the afternoon. It's not
19:48
Speaker 4: the worst thing in the world, right, got the Badgers
19:50
Speaker 4: playing this afternoon in the Big Ten Tournament. But yesterday
19:53
Speaker 4: was that. Yesterday was my old man yells at cloud moment,
19:57
Speaker 4: like I got the Big East Tournament on. I'm like
19:59
Speaker 4: I found it out on Peacock and I want to
20:02
Speaker 4: switch around, like where are the other game?
20:04
Speaker 2: Shut that down?
20:06
Speaker 4: The other thing? Like it's jumping from app to app
20:09
Speaker 4: and making it a pain in the ass to be
20:11
Speaker 4: a fan.
20:12
Speaker 2: Why can't we have nice things?
20:14
Speaker 4: Why can't we have just one format where I can
20:16
Speaker 4: flip around and have it all be under you know,
20:19
Speaker 4: and I can hit the back button one game.
20:22
Speaker 2: Yes, that just sucks.
20:24
Speaker 4: So today, I guess a Badger's are on a big
20:25
Speaker 4: ten network, But that's speedway in between, like CBS or
20:29
Speaker 4: Fox or I don't even know, Like.
20:31
Speaker 5: Well, that's the different that's the tough part, Drew, like,
20:33
Speaker 5: at least when you know the conferences on one one channel,
20:37
Speaker 5: I can go appointment style on that one. I kind
20:40
Speaker 5: of forgot about the Big East on Peacock. I kind
20:42
Speaker 5: of thought it was gonna be on True TV or TNT,
20:45
Speaker 5: so that that messed me up. It took me about
20:48
Speaker 5: three months into the college basketball season to realize that
20:50
Speaker 5: the Peacock game gets aired on this super special NBC
20:54
Speaker 5: Sports net that I have on YouTube TV.
20:57
Speaker 2: Because I'm doing the exact same thing. Well, damn, I'm
20:59
Speaker 2: not even gonna watch this game right now.
21:01
Speaker 5: I'll see it over here on to the second screen
21:03
Speaker 5: and mute that bad boy until blue he has to
21:05
Speaker 5: get pulled off. But luckily, uh, it will be a
21:09
Speaker 5: little bit more singular time. But it does give you
21:12
Speaker 5: this is this is good two or three TV in
21:14
Speaker 5: the living room week. This this is when it pays off.
21:18
Speaker 4: Outside of when you don't have I've resisted that forever.
21:21
Speaker 4: I only I can only watch one game at a time.
21:23
Speaker 4: I only need one TV And yeah, it'll.
21:29
Speaker 2: Ruin your whole life.
21:31
Speaker 3: We're talking to my wife, Well, she'd love to save
21:34
Speaker 3: the theory on that now listen, the reality is.
21:39
Speaker 2: Can't we clean it out?
21:40
Speaker 3: Yeah? Well no, maybe because not everything looks like Instagram. Yeah,
21:45
Speaker 3: does your station need to have all of those wires
21:47
Speaker 3: sticking out of the.
21:50
Speaker 2: Yes, we are are not a showroom moment, you know what?
21:55
Speaker 3: A lot a lot of people relate to that, though
21:58
Speaker 3: it is frustrating to try and hand on those My
22:00
Speaker 3: workaround will be my second screen will be my phone
22:03
Speaker 3: and I'll find it on my food watch and then.
22:05
Speaker 4: But it's like, oh, watch this on Apple and then
22:07
Speaker 4: like Apple somehow is connected to peacock now and you
22:09
Speaker 4: can connect those two through.
22:11
Speaker 2: It's like there's there's all the weirdness.
22:13
Speaker 5: Well in one of the most frustrating things with YouTube TV,
22:16
Speaker 5: some subscribers will talk about on talking text line, you
22:18
Speaker 5: can do multiview on the TV and on your phone.
22:21
Speaker 2: You can on your laptop. Success, Yeah makes no sense.
22:26
Speaker 3: Listen, it all starts at ten am for me on
22:29
Speaker 3: ESPN Plus thankfully, so that's somewhat easy to find.
22:31
Speaker 2: It's Miami, Ohian. You mass trying to keep the dream alive.
22:34
Speaker 2: That's the big storyline. Sportsbook on that money line, jumping
22:39
Speaker 2: on it. Man, I don't know.
22:41
Speaker 4: We've we've done the cold plunge. We're awake, we are
22:45
Speaker 4: productive this morning. We're glad you're hanging out with us.
22:48
Speaker 4: And we've not yet talked about the NFL free agency
22:50
Speaker 4: and more stuff that the packers have. We will do
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23:26
Speaker 4: all of our smart, good looking listeners getting up early
23:28
Speaker 4: with us and hanging out. We've been talking about the
23:30
Speaker 4: World Baseball Classic UW. I mean USA moon walks its way.
23:35
Speaker 5: In saves their bacon, did Vinnie Pasquintino those three bombs
23:39
Speaker 5: in d Italy?
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Speaker 4: Fantime for time, for some ZD for everybody's great And
23:44
Speaker 4: then Marquet's lost in the Big East Tournament not shocking.
23:48
Speaker 2: It would be nice to see.
23:49
Speaker 4: Them play another game and have some milkshakes, but they
23:51
Speaker 4: are done. Their time in New York is done.
23:55
Speaker 3: You know, you, as a sportsman, you find a way
23:57
Speaker 3: to get to commence yourself that little dream that wow,
24:00
Speaker 3: they win this one, maybe there's a way they can
24:02
Speaker 3: win the next one.
24:03
Speaker 2: Then go all the way and win it all and
24:05
Speaker 2: have a miracle run. You always had that little side
24:07
Speaker 2: inside of you that dreams.
24:09
Speaker 4: When that season where dreams are realizing, dreams are dashed,
24:12
Speaker 4: like we got high school high school girls at Rush
24:14
Speaker 4: Center this week and boys are reaching sectionals.
24:17
Speaker 5: I saw an ousperg game winner last night on a
24:20
Speaker 5: video fifty fifty three three right at the Horn.
24:23
Speaker 4: The Mad Dreams March, Madness of March as usual as
24:28
Speaker 4: this is a college basketball month, right, March Madness. It's
24:31
Speaker 4: right in the name March Madness. And as usual, the
24:35
Speaker 4: greedy bastard who run the NFL try to try to dominate,
24:40
Speaker 4: trying to take over the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, trying to
24:43
Speaker 4: take over the Friday at Black Friday, trying to take
24:45
Speaker 4: over Christmas Day from the NBA, and they're trying to
24:48
Speaker 4: take over March with their free agency and the frenzy
24:51
Speaker 4: that has happened this week with the start of the
24:53
Speaker 4: league year and the trades and the free agency, and
24:57
Speaker 4: the Packers of course shuffling the decks some more. Made
25:00
Speaker 4: an acquisition yesterday. What did we talk about yesterday? The
25:02
Speaker 4: big need for the Packers defensive tackle. They went out
25:06
Speaker 4: and got themselves defensive tackle.
25:08
Speaker 5: Insert another thirty plus year old addition as well through
25:12
Speaker 5: at defensive tackle in Javon Hargrave, who's been a force
25:16
Speaker 5: in his career. Dude, I mean, he was phenomenal with
25:20
Speaker 5: that forty nine Ers team in twenty three and twenty four,
25:23
Speaker 5: played his last couple of years with the Vikings, was
25:26
Speaker 5: with the Eagles for a number of years as well
25:28
Speaker 5: with Jonathan Gannon.
25:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
25:29
Speaker 4: So he's reunited with Jonathan Gannon, had very productive years
25:32
Speaker 4: with Jonathan Gannon. Did Jonathan Gannon recruit him here? Is
25:35
Speaker 4: that the reason is that can we can we make
25:37
Speaker 4: that connect those dots or he s out of the
25:39
Speaker 4: picture in Minnesota a free agent could have gone back
25:42
Speaker 4: to Philly.
25:42
Speaker 5: Could have but I think I think there's a clear
25:46
Speaker 5: reach out because he probably had his most productive years
25:50
Speaker 5: in twenty one twenty two with Gannon there in Philadelphia.
25:53
Speaker 5: It was the first time that he made the Pro
25:54
Speaker 5: Bowl in twenty twenty one with seven and a half
25:56
Speaker 5: sacks and eleven there in twenty two.
25:58
Speaker 4: All Right, so if he had what summer saying, and
26:01
Speaker 4: again I don't put a lot into the pro football
26:03
Speaker 4: focused stuff. Correct, Yeah, this year was down last year,
26:06
Speaker 4: but like we, I think justifiably say that Brian Flores
26:10
Speaker 4: gets a lot out of his defense and is a mastermind.
26:13
Speaker 5: So so he was.
26:17
Speaker 4: I saw some of the people Vikings, Fancay, and he
26:18
Speaker 4: was basically a speed bump. He was their worst run defender.
26:22
Speaker 4: He's kind of like DeVante White and then he gets
26:23
Speaker 4: pressure and push against the past, but he can't gobble
26:26
Speaker 4: up a double or triple team to make room for
26:28
Speaker 4: linebackers to make plays. Like, what is your take on that, Billy?
26:31
Speaker 4: I Like you said, when he played in Philly, I
26:34
Speaker 4: remember him just making plays. And when you when you
26:36
Speaker 4: hear about a defensive tackle, you know, he calls himself
26:39
Speaker 4: the grave digger on social I mean, let's let's let's
26:42
Speaker 4: follow Gilbert. Let's do the lineage our buddy Gilbert Brown.
26:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's gonna be a little bit more.
26:47
Speaker 5: And I think this is gonna be the interesting part, Drew,
26:49
Speaker 5: because we talked so much about how and what kind
26:52
Speaker 5: of style of the Packers gonna play. Are They're gonna
26:54
Speaker 5: be more of a three traditional three four or four
26:57
Speaker 5: to three. No one's really in base that much, but
26:59
Speaker 5: you do have principles into what you kind of like
27:02
Speaker 5: body style and body size wise. He's not like an
27:05
Speaker 5: early down nose tackle three hundred and forty pounds. They
27:07
Speaker 5: signed Jonathan Ford back, who is probably that beef. They'll
27:11
Speaker 5: probably draft guy fifty one or two, I would assume.
27:15
Speaker 5: And this doesn't preclude them from taking anybody in the draft, right,
27:18
Speaker 5: Like this incentivizes you to do that with Hardgrave, but
27:23
Speaker 5: he just he can get after the quarterback inside and
27:26
Speaker 5: I think that's one of the that was what they
27:28
Speaker 5: missed the absolute most when Parsons was on the field
27:31
Speaker 5: for those first twelve or odd games or so was
27:35
Speaker 5: Wyatt was able to feast on it because he was
27:37
Speaker 5: getting interior pressure. But you weren't on the other side
27:40
Speaker 5: when Micah would force quarterbacks to step up after two
27:43
Speaker 5: seconds because he wins around the edge. You didn't have
27:46
Speaker 5: that other guy on third and medium, third and long
27:49
Speaker 5: to be able to take over and account four on
27:52
Speaker 5: the inside. That's Jamon Hargrave, that's him. So I think
27:55
Speaker 5: this is more of a pass rush one. He did
27:58
Speaker 5: mention though, Brian Flores uh when he was potentially being
28:02
Speaker 5: released or he sorry reposted a tweet which is now,
28:07
Speaker 5: how you you know, throw shade potentially you just repost
28:10
Speaker 5: the tweet that you're in. Kevin Seffert covers the Vikings
28:12
Speaker 5: for ESPN. He said, add Jonathan Allen to the list
28:14
Speaker 5: of the veteran players who will be departing the Vikings.
28:17
Speaker 5: He was kind of wrong on this one, including Aaron
28:19
Speaker 5: Jones and Jamon Hargrave because Aaron Jones is now back
28:22
Speaker 5: with the Minnesota Vikings on a reduced salary contract.
28:26
Speaker 2: Pay cut that he took with the Vikings that he
28:28
Speaker 2: didn't take with the Packers the second time.
28:30
Speaker 5: But Hargrave responds and to or somebody quote tweets it
28:34
Speaker 5: and says, if your D line, if you're a D
28:36
Speaker 5: lineman and want to get to the quarterback, Brian Flores's
28:40
Speaker 5: system is not for you. That tweet reposted by Jon Hargrave.
28:47
Speaker 5: So there was there's a little bit more to They
28:50
Speaker 5: had a conflict of personal beliefs and interest, and I
28:53
Speaker 5: think interest.
28:54
Speaker 2: Is the bigger rule. It wasn't just a speed bump, right,
28:56
Speaker 2: He's he still hasn't lost his.
28:58
Speaker 5: He's more he's more of a pass rush defensive tackle,
29:00
Speaker 5: but he's not a big run stuff for the first
29:03
Speaker 5: and ten and short yard.
29:04
Speaker 3: You're not gonna get a perfect player at this point.
29:06
Speaker 3: He needed somebody and maybe there's a strength or weakness,
29:08
Speaker 3: but throws.
29:09
Speaker 2: Plus plus and again that's one of the we talked
29:12
Speaker 2: about yesterday.
29:13
Speaker 4: The Elton Jenkins story arc undercovered and underregard as like
29:16
Speaker 4: Davonte Wyatt has been brittle.
29:18
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, yes, very much so.
29:20
Speaker 4: And I like what I see when he plays, but
29:21
Speaker 4: to me, he needs to play more, needs to play more,
29:24
Speaker 4: get on the field. More man because everybody, everybody who
29:27
Speaker 4: squawks in if you've called Christian Watson injury prone and
29:31
Speaker 4: and like you know, made out of glass, well you
29:33
Speaker 4: better say something like that about Devonte Watt because he's
29:36
Speaker 4: played probably what as many if.
29:38
Speaker 5: He's only played a full season in twenty three, he
29:42
Speaker 5: missed h he missed three games in twenty four, and
29:44
Speaker 5: then he missed uh seven games here in twenty twenty five,
29:48
Speaker 5: and and this is the most catastrophic injury that he's had.
29:51
Speaker 5: But he's also this is the first year Drew that
29:53
Speaker 5: he was actually a starter, right, This is the first
29:56
Speaker 5: year that he was listed there instead of playing kind
29:59
Speaker 5: of behind Kenny in company. So you started to see
30:02
Speaker 5: a little bit more of it, but it was inconsistent
30:04
Speaker 5: to be on the field this year to where you
30:06
Speaker 5: got to grow from it. I think you pair him
30:09
Speaker 5: with somebody like Hargrave on third and longs, you're gonna
30:13
Speaker 5: have a This also doesn't make you have to put
30:16
Speaker 5: in Baron Surrell and Lucas Vans on the inside in
30:20
Speaker 5: pass rush downs. You actually have more pass rush defensive
30:23
Speaker 5: tackles where I think this and we saw it a
30:26
Speaker 5: lot against Baltimore, depending on who you had to throw out.
30:31
Speaker 5: Teams were just looking at and saying, yeah, we'll run
30:32
Speaker 5: against that on third and six. We're not that worried
30:35
Speaker 5: to run against that on third and seven one because
30:37
Speaker 5: we're gonna play four downs. We're gonna go for it
30:39
Speaker 5: on fourth down if it's inside of three yards. But
30:42
Speaker 5: what we're seeing out there is not going to have
30:44
Speaker 5: any chance against what we're trying to do. Offensively. We're
30:47
Speaker 5: gonna run right at you. And you saw teams, especially
30:50
Speaker 5: later into the year, really take advantage of that. So
30:53
Speaker 5: I think this is you'll still see one to two
30:56
Speaker 5: guys though, and it potentially is early that they go
30:58
Speaker 5: in on defensive tackle.
31:00
Speaker 4: Should we appreciate the fact that a Viking is heading east,
31:04
Speaker 4: it's coming to Green Bay because the trend has been
31:07
Speaker 4: for the Vikings too willingly and with open arms, welcome.
31:12
Speaker 2: Packers cast offs.
31:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I've been kind of distracted by Bears fans
31:15
Speaker 3: over the last year, but it's always Vikings fans in
31:18
Speaker 3: my ire and on the Vikings Nation and in my
31:22
Speaker 3: cross here. So it is nice to take one of
31:23
Speaker 3: their guys and watch them try and argue away why
31:26
Speaker 3: they don't care about it.
31:27
Speaker 2: So that's always fun to watch.
31:28
Speaker 4: During this crazy season where guys are changing teams. We
31:31
Speaker 4: always talk about in baseball like that used to be
31:34
Speaker 4: the hot stove and guys, guys would always back in
31:37
Speaker 4: the day, not anymore than the things have changed. The
31:39
Speaker 4: calendar has been pushed back, but it guys would always
31:41
Speaker 4: want to be settled and know who their new team
31:44
Speaker 4: was a couple of weeks before Christmas so they could
31:46
Speaker 4: buy all the gear and the kids could get the gear,
31:48
Speaker 4: and like they could have Christmas presents of the gear
31:50
Speaker 4: of the new team and stuff. Well, Jamon Hargrave's son
31:54
Speaker 4: was the star of social media yesterday.
31:58
Speaker 5: And a grave Digger ninety seven on Instagram is where
32:03
Speaker 5: the video came from. Uh, it's pretty safe to say
32:05
Speaker 5: that young Hargrave, Javon Hargrave's son was excited that he's
32:09
Speaker 5: gonna be.
32:09
Speaker 6: Wearing green and gold Alena Falcons, No, what is it cheesy?
32:18
Speaker 6: A Green Bay packer is.
32:24
Speaker 2: Yes, the best is right there at the end, right
32:28
Speaker 2: as he vinished, he goes, I needed that. Yeah, that's personality.
32:35
Speaker 4: Kid is going to be a star. And it's just
32:37
Speaker 4: like you think about that, the guy who has kids
32:39
Speaker 4: that age, I can appreciate her into it. I mean,
32:42
Speaker 4: how amazing would that be? What he's got big old
32:45
Speaker 4: g on his chest walking Yeah, like walking into the
32:49
Speaker 4: house and say, you know, hey, young Carson, we're no
32:53
Speaker 4: longer going to be following the Brewers.
32:54
Speaker 2: We're now a Cubs family. He'd probably want to fight
32:56
Speaker 2: you your kid. You know this and Carson expir And
33:00
Speaker 2: it's true for all of us.
33:01
Speaker 3: You have your favorite team, but it's super fun just
33:04
Speaker 3: to follow all the teams in the different logos and
33:06
Speaker 3: uniforms and colors, and it becomes kind of like a
33:09
Speaker 3: carnival to say, oh, what team are we going to next?
33:11
Speaker 3: And it's the team that you thought was interesting because
33:14
Speaker 3: you like their jersey or colors or whatever it is
33:16
Speaker 3: and their logo, and like, oh, it's just like it's
33:19
Speaker 3: just fun. It's like it's almost like you're in probably
33:22
Speaker 3: in like Chuck E Cheese and you get to play
33:24
Speaker 3: all the games.
33:25
Speaker 2: You know, it's like, oh, wow, we're the Packers next.
33:26
Speaker 2: We get to learn what that's like.
33:28
Speaker 3: And I love the energy head you know for Packers,
33:31
Speaker 3: because you don't know how kids are gonna react. They
33:33
Speaker 3: might worry they're gonna have to move, or they they
33:35
Speaker 3: made friends or something like that, or they don't know
33:36
Speaker 3: where Green Bay is. But he's fired up, Billy.
33:39
Speaker 2: He's like you said, yeah I need this, Yeah, I
33:41
Speaker 2: needed this.
33:41
Speaker 5: It's also right towards the end of the school year
33:44
Speaker 5: where you are gonna be able to talk quite a
33:46
Speaker 5: bit of stuff. My dad's a packer. Now, I don't
33:49
Speaker 5: know buy Green Bit Packers. I do wonder if he's
33:52
Speaker 5: gonna be rocking the g going to school. I definitely
33:55
Speaker 5: hope he does for the next couple of days. But
33:57
Speaker 5: you mentioned my young youngster. He would be saying, no, Daddy,
34:01
Speaker 5: I bet on the Packers. That's right, I'm really yesterday,
34:05
Speaker 5: right away we're cheering for team Cuba. I pick Canada, Dad,
34:12
Speaker 5: I picked Canada. I told you, well, what does that mean?
34:14
Speaker 2: What does that mean? That means that you shut your
34:16
Speaker 2: mouth and you start cheering for who I am, so listen.
34:19
Speaker 2: Then they drive the house, they drive the bus.
34:21
Speaker 5: But to be able to get that video yesterday, I
34:24
Speaker 5: think a decent amount of Packers fans that felt the
34:26
Speaker 5: same way.
34:27
Speaker 2: We'll see Drew.
34:28
Speaker 5: I don't know if there were a lot of people
34:30
Speaker 5: that I also channeled young the youngster's energy when I
34:35
Speaker 5: read Adam Schefter's post and I know you kind of
34:38
Speaker 5: mentioned it in there. NFL trying to figure out how
34:40
Speaker 5: we take over blackout Wednesday before Thanks.
34:43
Speaker 2: It's funny, it's it's not surprising at all.
34:48
Speaker 3: I knew that they keep trying to do this and
34:51
Speaker 3: be excited in another Wednesday game and.
34:53
Speaker 2: Then mates, how do you do it? Logistically?
34:56
Speaker 3: Though?
34:56
Speaker 4: Do those teams have to play they have to play
34:59
Speaker 4: the Saturday before. Do they have to come off a
35:01
Speaker 4: bye to play on a Wednesday? You can't play Sunday
35:03
Speaker 4: and Wednesday very much could come off a bye, so
35:05
Speaker 4: they have to be coming off It would be right
35:07
Speaker 4: near the end of the years of bar.
35:09
Speaker 2: Or if you play on a Thursday, you could play
35:10
Speaker 2: on a Wednesday.
35:12
Speaker 5: That's a turnaround that you could play the previous Thursday Wednesday.
35:17
Speaker 2: But so logistically it's going to be how they like?
35:20
Speaker 2: Why why? I mean, come on, Billy would love this.
35:23
Speaker 1: But know why?
35:24
Speaker 2: We know everyone's at home. Why would you not be
35:26
Speaker 2: watching everyone's at home?
35:27
Speaker 4: It's the biggest night for bar No one, it's the
35:31
Speaker 4: biggest night.
35:31
Speaker 3: Last time you went to the bar on Wednesday night
35:33
Speaker 3: before Thanks? You mean every year for that?
35:36
Speaker 2: Right?
35:37
Speaker 5: But uh, I listen guess what they got TV's and bars,
35:40
Speaker 5: and I got bad news for you. People want to
35:42
Speaker 5: find a reason to go to the bar. People aren't
35:44
Speaker 5: just going to the bar to go to the bar
35:46
Speaker 5: as much anymore.
35:47
Speaker 2: I agree.
35:47
Speaker 5: But the mau Ivitational finals on yeah, like three in
35:51
Speaker 5: the afternoon.
35:52
Speaker 3: I know, there's MAUI on Feast Week. They screwed that
35:56
Speaker 3: thing up royally. Listen, I mean, I'm not surprised, and
35:59
Speaker 3: it probably is gonna work for them. They're gonna get
36:02
Speaker 3: they're gonna get viewers. People are gonna watch wherever they are.
36:04
Speaker 3: It's the NFL and another Wednesday and another daily calendar.
36:07
Speaker 3: That's all theirs.
36:08
Speaker 2: But listen, I mean, we're not really all theirs. They play.
36:13
Speaker 5: They're gonna play on one Wednesday. You can calm down
36:17
Speaker 5: because the.
36:17
Speaker 2: Other one Wednesday the Gateway Drug. We're gonna give you
36:19
Speaker 2: a little taste and then we're gonna think about how amazing.
36:22
Speaker 5: This ten day stretches full college football, full NFL Monday
36:25
Speaker 5: Night Football match, and Tuesday Night NFL game, three NFL
36:29
Speaker 5: games on Thanksgiving, another college football Saturday Rivalry game on
36:34
Speaker 5: Black Friday, and NFL game Rivalry Week on Saturday.
36:37
Speaker 2: NFL Slate Monday Night Football. Yeah, I mean that's cool,
36:42
Speaker 2: is just right? Oh my god, that's three.
36:49
Speaker 4: Let's all have the energy of Javon Hargrave's son, and
36:51
Speaker 4: let's get after it. It's the Huddle. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
36:55
Speaker 6: Alana Falcons. You know what is it?
36:59
Speaker 3: Cheesy?
37:03
Speaker 6: A green Bay Packer?
37:06
Speaker 3: What good?
37:09
Speaker 6: Yes?
37:10
Speaker 3: I need this with the Green Bay Packers A two year,
37:14
Speaker 3: twenty three million dollar deal in giving thirteen million guaranteed.
37:18
Speaker 2: So he goes from Minnesota to green Bay. A big
37:21
Speaker 2: deal with the Packers. Quick reaction, huge, huge for green Bay.
37:25
Speaker 2: That was a massive hole for their football team and
37:28
Speaker 2: their defense.
37:28
Speaker 4: Defensive interior, defensive tackle.
37:30
Speaker 2: Very good addition, hardgarat still good player, mean a quick Yeah.
37:33
Speaker 4: I just love when teams makes signs like this that
37:35
Speaker 4: give them a little bit more flexibility in the draft.
37:37
Speaker 2: Obviously don't have a lot of picks either, but Dan's wright.
37:39
Speaker 4: This was a huge need for Green Bay, so I
37:42
Speaker 4: do think this makes a ton of sense for them.
37:45
Speaker 4: The panel on ESPN likes the Packers edition of Javon Harger.
37:50
Speaker 4: Why wouldn't they? It seems like on paper and no brainer.
37:53
Speaker 4: The question though a friendly members of the Huddle here
37:57
Speaker 4: on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin is who are you and
38:00
Speaker 4: what have you done with Brian gudokuins All these people
38:02
Speaker 4: said he'll never sign anybody, He'll never sign anybody over thirty.
38:05
Speaker 4: Here is that he's collecting thirty year olds, Billy thirty
38:08
Speaker 4: year old, thirty three year old. Let's go the time,
38:11
Speaker 4: maybe the window and maybe it's the end of the
38:14
Speaker 4: era of the Packers being the youngest team in the NFL.
38:16
Speaker 5: Well, and I think the other part of it is
38:18
Speaker 5: Drew like there had been a ringing conversation and a
38:22
Speaker 5: narrative that you had heard from Goody where he's like,
38:24
Speaker 5: we want to bring in consistent competition every single year,
38:27
Speaker 5: and it felt like they believe the best kind of
38:29
Speaker 5: competition you were going to get are young, unproven, unpaid,
38:34
Speaker 5: right kind of unmade guys in the NFL. And instead
38:40
Speaker 5: that can work, no doubt about it. But you also
38:42
Speaker 5: do need a little bit of the guys that are
38:43
Speaker 5: still fighting to hold on to not only just the
38:46
Speaker 5: relevancy the dominance that they had. I mean, you got
38:48
Speaker 5: former guys that were Pro bowlers and stalwarts on teams
38:52
Speaker 5: to say, I still know that I'm a productive player
38:56
Speaker 5: and I can do that here. I think that it's
38:58
Speaker 5: a different kind of competition to bring in and you
39:01
Speaker 5: can't just go he talks about it being a talent
39:04
Speaker 5: acquis acquisition as a three sixty five business. You can't
39:08
Speaker 5: just There's more than one way to build a team.
39:11
Speaker 5: And I think that they've gone sometimes too far on
39:13
Speaker 5: one end of the teeter totter. They there's there's nothing
39:17
Speaker 5: really sexy about what they do when they draft, develop,
39:21
Speaker 5: and then give the guy a second contract.
39:23
Speaker 2: Not as exciting, You don't get. It's like people like
39:26
Speaker 2: new they want the new tuition. Yep.
39:28
Speaker 4: And they you know, it's not like the Packers tried
39:31
Speaker 4: to have the youngest roster, but they did. And now
39:34
Speaker 4: they're sprinkling guys in thinking maybe little veteran leadership, maybe
39:37
Speaker 4: a little veterans might be able to help us, you know,
39:40
Speaker 4: avoid the five.
39:40
Speaker 2: Game losing streak to end the season.
39:42
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you also maybe not even just the five
39:45
Speaker 5: game losing streak in the season drew, but maybe they
39:48
Speaker 5: can slow the role of the title wave in the
39:51
Speaker 5: avalanche going down the mountain that we saw a number
39:54
Speaker 5: of different times this year where when went wrong, they
39:58
Speaker 5: did not adapt. One they were not good at being
40:02
Speaker 5: able to counter punch the flow of momentum on the
40:06
Speaker 5: other side. And I think that's where experienced players, guys
40:09
Speaker 5: that have been through a lot of fires and have
40:11
Speaker 5: seen it with a lot of different organizations. You talk
40:13
Speaker 5: about it, and we say it a lot on Packer's
40:15
Speaker 5: ot you got to learn how to win each year. Well,
40:19
Speaker 5: these guys have now learned how to win with like
40:20
Speaker 5: four or five different teams. Well, yeah, and now you're.
40:23
Speaker 4: You're this is the fourth year of Jordan Love as
40:25
Speaker 4: your starter. Yep, he's twenty eight. It's time.
40:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the this is the prime Micah.
40:33
Speaker 3: Eight.
40:33
Speaker 4: This is like you got your two guys on each
40:35
Speaker 4: side that you know, your your cornerstones, and now it's
40:39
Speaker 4: as as a famous assistant coach once said on the
40:42
Speaker 4: sideline of Super Bowl, it's time. It is they So
40:45
Speaker 4: they are and they're doing what needs to be done.
40:48
Speaker 4: And I know there's a lot of people who are
40:49
Speaker 4: pretty harsh on Goody, including you know, our buddy Reeg's
40:52
Speaker 4: and others who don't look at the fails like I
40:56
Speaker 4: happen to think he's you know, upper echelon does a
40:58
Speaker 4: pretty good job, but they haven't won the big one
41:00
Speaker 4: I will allow. And now this roster construction, he's showing
41:04
Speaker 4: that it's not everybody thinks that you're you can't adapt
41:08
Speaker 4: and that you that's just the way he is. He's
41:10
Speaker 4: only gonna draft and develop. He's never gonna pay anybody,
41:12
Speaker 4: never gonna go get free agent as well, except for
41:14
Speaker 4: Josh Jacobs and Xavier McKinney and Hobbs and and Banks
41:17
Speaker 4: maybe didn't work out. Banks's jury still out, Hobb's gone.
41:21
Speaker 4: But now he's he's doing it. And I think he
41:23
Speaker 4: did this at the end of the Rodgers tenure too, didn't.
41:26
Speaker 4: I Like, we gotta gotta win now because Rogers has ready,
41:29
Speaker 4: Like Rodgers is running out of time. We got to
41:31
Speaker 4: win now.
41:31
Speaker 2: So he's not locked in.
41:33
Speaker 4: People want to ascribe to him that he's just tunnel
41:35
Speaker 4: vision on his way. Now it's like he's evolving and adapting.
41:39
Speaker 5: I actually thought what his shift from the end of
41:42
Speaker 5: the Rogers era to the start of the Jordan Love
41:46
Speaker 5: regime was one of the biggest changes you had seen
41:49
Speaker 5: anybody go through in their same position. Rarely you're able
41:53
Speaker 5: to go like full fundamental shift where they were the
41:55
Speaker 5: oldest team in football to the youngest team in football
41:57
Speaker 5: in two years.
41:57
Speaker 2: And I think that's where the if.
41:59
Speaker 4: It was fifteen games, no, and instead that's like people
42:04
Speaker 4: just discount that because.
42:05
Speaker 5: They became the youngest team in football with the oldest
42:08
Speaker 5: quarterback I think at the time, right in his last year,
42:10
Speaker 5: So there was a there was a sudden shift. I
42:13
Speaker 5: think this is where then the evening out comes to Drew.
42:16
Speaker 5: Right where they were the oldest, now the youngest. Now,
42:18
Speaker 5: let's see how we can try to splice it together.
42:21
Speaker 5: And I also think, like to your point here of now,
42:25
Speaker 5: let him see if he can prove it right, because
42:27
Speaker 5: while he doesn't do this well, he never goes out
42:30
Speaker 5: and spends big. Well, they spent as the players you mentioned.
42:32
Speaker 5: Also did trade a first round pick for the first
42:34
Speaker 5: time in forty years, the first time in forty years
42:38
Speaker 5: the team has gone into the offseason without their first
42:40
Speaker 5: round pick. That's a significant change. Now you got to
42:44
Speaker 5: see if it pays out and give him some time.
42:47
Speaker 5: I think the mena point though, of what it doesn't allow.
42:49
Speaker 5: It allows them to be really best player available in
42:53
Speaker 5: the draft. It's flexible. It allows you to still just
42:57
Speaker 5: go after the guy you think Drew can be the
43:00
Speaker 5: best player ultimately, because you might need him in the linebacker.
43:04
Speaker 5: You might need him in the corner. You might need
43:05
Speaker 5: him a tight end. Hell with Marshawn Lloyd, you might
43:08
Speaker 5: need him at running back. You never know.
43:09
Speaker 2: You can go out and get the best player available.
43:11
Speaker 4: Packers are. I don't think they're done yet. I think
43:14
Speaker 4: they got two more moves in them. I think they're
43:16
Speaker 4: gonna come quick. I think so as well. We will
43:18
Speaker 4: stay tuned for that.
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Speaker 2: It's the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin,