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01/28/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Their chances against the Sixers, they'll slow it down, turn
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Speaker 1: mismatch Maxi double, Cortos, swing, Rollins three, bi.
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Speaker 2: Goes Noah Eagle on the call on NBC.
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Speaker 1: Milwaukee loses at Philadelphia one thirty nine to one twenty two,
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Speaker 1: despite thirty one points from Miles Turner college hoops. The
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Speaker 1: Badgers host Minnesota tonight, starting at eight.
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Speaker 2: Last night in.
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Speaker 1: Milwaukee, it was Marquette mauling Creighton eighty six to sixty
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Speaker 1: two on the ice. The Admirals beat Rockford five to
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Speaker 1: three on the next skate at Iowa on Friday night,
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Speaker 1: and the Brewers have invited nine minor leaguers to major
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Speaker 1: league camp. It includes number three overall MLB prospect Jesus
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Speaker 1: Mo Day, as well as newly acquired Jed Williams and
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three first round pick Brock Wilkin. Camp opens
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Speaker 1: up in just over two weeks. Our two of the
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Speaker 1: Huddle starts now. I'm Doug Russell on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
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Speaker 3: Good morning with Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 2: To run this play in the hour we're got to do.
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Speaker 2: Let's all, let's go on a ticky track from what
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Speaker 7: What you're doing, ye god yeah, and make it play
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Speaker 3: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 2: It's the middle of the week. Time to make your adjustments.
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Speaker 2: Time to start making plans for the weekend.
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Speaker 8: Time to you know, really grind on the Penske file
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Speaker 8: so you can clear the decks for Thursday and Friday,
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Speaker 8: put the landing gear down, and then slide.
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Speaker 2: On into the weekend. We're gonna get.
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Speaker 8: Halftime of our show and a half hour. Scott Dolphin's gonna.
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Speaker 2: Help us, but we're glad you're hanging out with.
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Speaker 8: Us on this chilly Wednesday in the good Land. Drew Wilson,
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Speaker 2: It is a hot take hump day.
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Speaker 6: It is and Drew, you you put something out there
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Speaker 6: and I kind of confirm something that I've thought for
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Speaker 6: a long time. I think Wednesday might be the most
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Speaker 6: productive day outside of potentially for procrastinators like myself, Friday,
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Speaker 6: right like the most.
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Speaker 2: It's Monday because you're buried and catching up, and then Wednesday.
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Speaker 6: But but you know there's Monday, there's gonna be baked
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Speaker 6: in at least like an hour or two where you
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Speaker 6: kind of just find a way to take a little map.
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Speaker 2: Right, it's Monday, You're gonna have to survive. I got
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Speaker 2: the rest of the week.
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Speaker 6: I got plenty of time to be able to do
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Speaker 6: that if you have something that has to get done
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Speaker 6: throughout the week. Wednesday, I feel like, is the one
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Speaker 6: where maybe at the end of Tuesday you didn't do
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Speaker 6: as much as he thought, and you're laying in bed saying,
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Speaker 6: all right, I'm really gonna I'm really gonna get after it,
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Speaker 6: really get after it. Tomorrow morning and then potentially Wednesday
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Speaker 6: afternoon comes and you hit a happy hour and you're like,
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Speaker 6: all right, well we'll push.
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Speaker 2: It off to Friday. We'll figure it out because Thursday,
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Speaker 2: you know, you're not doing anything. It's Thursday. Thursday, you
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Speaker 2: can't be thurs Thursday. Afterday, it's Friday.
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Speaker 8: Junior on Wednesdays, we holster up our hottest of hot takes.
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Speaker 8: You can share yours at eight seven seven, seven nine
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Speaker 8: up with us, we get it. Maybe your alarms set
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Speaker 8: for six, you know, maybe you're lucky for us that
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Speaker 8: would be sleeping in.
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Speaker 2: But if you're getting up at six, that's true.
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Speaker 8: You missed, uh, you missed our hot takes in our
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Speaker 8: discussion about the Bill Belichick Hall of Fame news that
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Speaker 8: came out yesterday. He will not be inducted on the
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Speaker 8: first ballot, his first try with this committee of coaches,
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Speaker 8: veterans and contributors. He will not be uh, he will
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Speaker 8: not be wearing the gold jacket and canton this summer,
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Speaker 8: which some think is a travesty and it's called into
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Speaker 8: question the entire process. And it's uh, it's quite the category.
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Speaker 2: Five bleep storm. Oh it's fun, it's it is fun.
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Speaker 8: But we we've talked about that, and if you would
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Speaker 8: like to share hot take about that, feel free.
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Speaker 2: But it's hot.
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Speaker 8: Teke humpte arm and we need some snoop or we
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Speaker 8: need some buster Poindexter.
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Speaker 2: We need some little background music to tell people about
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Speaker 2: hot tea.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we do.
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Speaker 9: Now I use Snoop Lack this week, right is that?
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Speaker 8: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Snoops a man. All right, So your hot takes.
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Speaker 8: Hot takes are are your best opinions, something that's on
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Speaker 8: your and now this can be. It can be about
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Speaker 8: you know Arman and his Olympic hot take, and be
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Speaker 8: about the Australian Open. Maybe the Arman thinks that tennis
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Speaker 8: is one of the undercovered, underappreciated great sports that we
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Speaker 8: have on.
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Speaker 9: Our on the menu, one of the last great athletic
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Speaker 9: defeats left in this uh sports world week, one of
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Speaker 9: the last great individual athletic glories.
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Speaker 5: It can be about sports or non sports.
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Speaker 8: In sports, we've had some great hot take comp days
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Speaker 8: with people talking about snack chips like crunchberry.
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Speaker 9: Now wife captain crunch when crunchberries are right there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, that's.
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Speaker 5: A hot take.
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Speaker 2: Exactly.
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Speaker 5: Don't trust anyone does avoids crunchberries.
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Speaker 2: Get us your hot takes and I'll open the bedding
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Speaker 2: Flora's mind. I will say that.
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Speaker 8: And I said this jokingly last week, but the Bucks
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Speaker 8: lost last night at phil They're like three and twelve
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Speaker 8: Without Giannis, they're five hundred.
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Speaker 2: With Yannis. I was really glad we started the Hall
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Speaker 2: of Fame conversation.
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Speaker 8: My hot take is that I was I said it jokingly,
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Speaker 8: but now i'm I'm this is not a joke anymore.
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Speaker 2: The Bucks should shut Yanis down for the rest of
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Speaker 2: the year. Mm hmmmm hmmm.
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Speaker 8: And then if you're gonna trade him the offseason, you
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Speaker 8: don't want him risking because what's happened to guys.
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Speaker 2: Calf strain is the new oblique. It's the new sports hernia.
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Speaker 8: It's the it's the injury in It's in vogue right now,
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Speaker 8: calf strains, and it's sometimes Dame Lillard, Yes, KD sometimes
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Speaker 8: leads to Achilles leaves is something else. Connetic chain is
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Speaker 8: screwed up, Jannish take the year, go to Greece. Let's
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Speaker 8: figure this out, and then I would want Gianis around.
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Speaker 8: I want you around. The team can still work out.
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Speaker 8: You're not gonna play anything over this year because we're
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Speaker 8: gonna suck with you or without you, it doesn't matter.
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Speaker 8: And then Yannis, like we'll start thinking about the future
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Speaker 8: of the storty bring him in and like let him
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Speaker 8: what should we do with Doc, you will you watch
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Speaker 8: Doc and watch the team and see if Doc deserves
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Speaker 8: to stay, and then bring him in and like show
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Speaker 8: him film of all the guys we're looking at in
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Speaker 8: the draft, because Bucks might have a top five pick potentially, right, they're.
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Speaker 2: Actually gonna get pick and they're actually gonna be able
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Speaker 2: to use it.
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Speaker 8: Bring you on us in as kind of the management consultant, like,
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Speaker 8: don't worry about playing this year, big fella, we got this.
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Speaker 2: We'll just go quiet quitting, we'll tank well.
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Speaker 6: And the thing is Drew if you do start tankthon
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Speaker 6: which I'm with you, I think right now it is
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Speaker 6: the best option.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: The big part of it is you can and I
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Speaker 6: don't know how exactly you're able to sell him on it,
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Speaker 6: but the biggest deal is this is about.
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Speaker 2: You and your long term health.
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Speaker 6: Like if you want to be able to make your
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Speaker 6: next chapter of your career excellent and Hall of Fame
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Speaker 6: caliber and live basically two Hall of Fame careers, which
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Speaker 6: a lot of Hall of famers kind of do, right,
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Speaker 6: Like if you slice their career and have be like
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Speaker 6: that would get into the Nasmith Hall of Fame. This
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Speaker 6: one would too. You cannot have a lingering calf issue
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Speaker 6: that has now kind of plagued him for the better
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Speaker 6: part of what the last two years.
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Speaker 2: Now I don't know exactly which one it is.
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Speaker 6: And there was the super secret special way that we
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Speaker 6: were describing it. I continually botched the name of it
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Speaker 6: last year. He struggled with his calf calves the last
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Speaker 6: couple of years. And I think the going to Grease
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Speaker 6: part is phenomenal. Get away, go and potentially go on
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Speaker 6: a Kobe Bryant like excursion and find a couple of
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Speaker 6: different ways to potentially enhance your overall health with your
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Speaker 6: calfs because it's a lot more legal over there, and
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Speaker 6: every player's been doing it for a long long time.
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Speaker 6: Go over and get healthy, and then you can exactly
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Speaker 6: what you did lay out the vision of you help
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Speaker 6: us figure out how to get to this championship level,
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Speaker 6: or if indeed there's no chance and we've we've completely
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Speaker 6: severed this and you want to go somewhere else, well not,
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Speaker 6: We're far enough away where it'll be a lot easier
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Speaker 6: for everyone to be able to.
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Speaker 2: Go their separate way.
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Speaker 8: Let let Giannis take this gap year, and then the
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Speaker 8: way I pitch it to him, is like time too.
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Speaker 8: All right, look, we suck. The draft is coming ye.
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Speaker 8: Like I said, you can't tank with the honest because
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Speaker 8: he won't allow it. He's gonna play his ass off
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Speaker 8: and be pissed and it's just going to add to
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Speaker 8: the frustration of the situation. So you position it to
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Speaker 8: be honest is like, all right, we want you to
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Speaker 8: start ramping up and taylor your workouts to get ready
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Speaker 8: to play in the summer in Greece like you have been,
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Speaker 8: and use that as like the start of your training
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Speaker 8: camp for next year.
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Speaker 6: Well, and Doc said it yesterday in the one and again,
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Speaker 6: he's kind of be the one that's facing.
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Speaker 2: All the music.
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Speaker 5: He's taking all the arrows.
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Speaker 6: That probably not right. Well, he's not gonna be here.
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Speaker 6: They might have the magic Johnson deal where he's like, listen,
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Speaker 6: you're not going to tell these guys not to play.
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Speaker 6: Arman and I have debated this one for years. Drew,
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Speaker 6: is it right? I guess nothing is right wrong or
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Speaker 6: fair right. The world's not fair, But when one side
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Speaker 6: is paying you almost sixty million dollars, I think it
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Speaker 6: is very fair for them to put some kind of
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Speaker 6: restrictions on how much you're doing on the outside. But
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Speaker 6: if you want a player like this, you're not going
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Speaker 6: to be able to say, hey, you can't go play,
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Speaker 6: you can't do it because the quickly you won't have
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Speaker 6: said player. But it bears question to say that is
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Speaker 6: so important to him, he's not going to stop it.
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Speaker 6: So you build that into the calendar and the ramp
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Speaker 6: up and say this is where you start being your
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Speaker 6: best and then we roll through. And also, I don't
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Speaker 6: when when do the summer play tournaments work in Greece.
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Speaker 6: I think it could also play into you see how
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Speaker 6: much better he is and how good he's playing overseas,
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Speaker 6: and might also aid to whatever sweepstakes you potentially spark.
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Speaker 2: Up through in the middle of July.
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Speaker 9: It helps the equity of the of the trade in theory,
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Speaker 9: if you are going to have that, yeah, i'd have
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Speaker 9: to agree with you.
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Speaker 5: The big question there.
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Speaker 9: For me though, is if this is what he wants,
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Speaker 9: is he okay with it?
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Speaker 5: Is he okay with the gap?
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Speaker 2: Yar?
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Speaker 5: Is he okay with Because if he's okay with that,
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Speaker 5: then that's fine.
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Speaker 6: Well I don't know that anybody's okay with it. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: but they're eighteen and twenty seven.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, but if he's gonna say like I'm not when
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Speaker 9: he comes back in three in a month, yeah, like
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Speaker 9: they're going to be so buried.
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Speaker 2: I agree.
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Speaker 5: I don't think this team's making the playoffs at this point.
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Speaker 2: They're not going to win any games without him, No,
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Speaker 2: not gonna come clomb.
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Speaker 9: But I also don't want to say, you do take
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Speaker 9: a gap year, you're good, and then he decides, you
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Speaker 9: know what, I'm never going to play for you again,
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Speaker 9: then that's the thing.
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Speaker 5: I work, but.
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Speaker 6: He's but I think that that decision is going to
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Speaker 6: be made either way.
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Speaker 5: That's yeah, not based on the gap year deal?
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Speaker 2: Is that yah know?
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Speaker 8: And and you the risk of further injury and like
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Speaker 8: uh huh, or or like what's his value right now?
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Speaker 2: You're gonna trade for him? Right now?
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Speaker 8: The trade deadline is gonna come and pretty quick, like
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Speaker 8: you're gonna trade for him if you don't know if
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Speaker 8: he's gonna help you. And we all think that every
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Speaker 8: team would want Giannis, Is that really the case? At
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Speaker 8: what price?
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Speaker 5: Is the question?
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Speaker 6: Well?
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Speaker 2: At what price?
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Speaker 8: And are you ready to compete with a guy who
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Speaker 8: for five years and commit to the max contract that
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Speaker 8: you're gonna pay him? When his calfs are bad, and
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Speaker 8: when he's you know, missing games and at this point
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Speaker 8: of the career, when the health thing starts to be
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Speaker 8: a question.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, he's not full Anthony Davis style here that Rich
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Speaker 6: Paul is still trying to sell everybody that he's a
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Speaker 6: top ten player in the NBA. But like for for
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Speaker 6: Yiannis's health and overall state. That's why the drum beat
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Speaker 6: over the last couple of days drew I, I firmly
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Speaker 6: believe has been from other teams getting the conversation out
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Speaker 6: to say, hey, we'll still we'll still trade for him
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Speaker 6: because we think he's gonna be ready by the playoffs. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: and that's why you're making a move for Giannis, and
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Speaker 6: we'll be able to build out our team and have
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Speaker 6: everybody watch and assimilate through the last you know, six
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Speaker 6: weeks in the regame season.
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Speaker 8: I My position on this the whole time has been,
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Speaker 8: this is never gonna be a one team. You know,
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Speaker 8: Buck's dealing with one team, sure this for that, it's
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Speaker 8: got to.
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Speaker 2: Be a six team.
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Speaker 8: Bangs shot with you know this expiring going here, and
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Speaker 8: these picks going here and a pick swap here, and
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Speaker 8: it's gonna be six teams involved in some fashion of
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Speaker 8: a trade of this magnitude, and those are hard to
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Speaker 8: put together on the fly in the season.
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Speaker 2: You also do it in the offseason a little bit easier.
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Speaker 6: You can in the offseason, and then at that point
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Speaker 6: true in the offseason, you can identify what what draft,
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Speaker 6: what target where you're trying to attack and get the
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Speaker 6: most assets. Because as much as i'd like to see,
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Speaker 6: say you're gonna get VJ. Edgecombe right from like the
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Speaker 6: seventy six ers or whatever, a lot of it is
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Speaker 6: gonna be. You're gonna have to identify a young player
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Speaker 6: or you know, a draft ahead and say, twenty twenty
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Speaker 6: eight is clearly the talent richpool that we want, and
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Speaker 6: that's the.
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Speaker 2: One that we're going to try to go grab as
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Speaker 2: many assets.
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Speaker 8: As it stands right now, the only guy who really
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Speaker 8: plays a major role for the Bucks who was drafted
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Speaker 8: by the Bucks is Giannis.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the only.
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Speaker 8: Other guy who was drafted by the Bucks is Anthony
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Speaker 8: Jackson Junior. Well, the Bucks have I think the sixth seventh, fifth,
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Speaker 8: sixth seventh oldest roster in the league and needs a
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Speaker 8: whole overhaul. It's need an overhaul for a while they playing,
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Speaker 8: while it was in the air, and it didn't work
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Speaker 8: with Giannis as now all of a sudden, like the
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Speaker 8: oldest guy on the team, where last year is we
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Speaker 8: need to get so much younger and all the younger
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Speaker 8: doesn't always mean better, Uh, the other part of the
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Speaker 8: three and twelve without Gianni's there's just such a disappointment
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Speaker 8: last night in the best Miles Turner game you're probably
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Speaker 8: gonna get in twenty twenty five, twenty six.
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Speaker 6: He as much as we've watched Miles Turner, last night
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Speaker 6: might be the best you're gonna be able to see
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Speaker 6: and you still lose by almost twenty and let Joe
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Speaker 6: ellen Bead of all people be the one celebrating and
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Speaker 6: clowning like that was a very very tough pill to
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Speaker 6: swallow last night. Out of individual I really don't like.
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Speaker 6: In the NBA, that would be one very much top.
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Speaker 9: Of like, you know, two teams you thought were going
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Speaker 9: to go certain directions. There was a while when this
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Speaker 9: we thought the Sixers would go because this is kind
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Speaker 9: of the year they had last year, We'll go this direction,
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Speaker 9: and all of a sudden they were re surging.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, So I agree that was tough to Swatow.
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Speaker 6: Your boy Nick Nurse is going to have that possibly
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Speaker 6: in the plays logo will be back in the playoffs apparently,
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Speaker 6: maybe he'll sell some shirts.
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Speaker 5: I doubt it, but maybe it's possible. Yeah, I just
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 9: I don't I don't know if the request would offend
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Speaker 9: you so much that doubt upset him.
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Speaker 5: That's the only thing, because I know winning is important
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Speaker 5: to him.
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Speaker 2: But but what what what's gonna make him happy?
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Speaker 5: I don't know, And the Bucks have to do what
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Speaker 5: they best for them.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, at some point, I don't know that you're gonna
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Speaker 6: be able to operate with just making him happy because
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Speaker 6: I don't know at this point he's ever gonna be happy.
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Speaker 5: Well, he's got to.
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Speaker 2: I totally agree.
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Speaker 9: He's get healthy somehow and in long term healthy, not
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Speaker 9: having the calf issues. John's hot take, the eurostep is
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Speaker 9: causing the calf issues.
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Speaker 5: Proved me wrong, hot take.
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Speaker 2: I can't prove you wrong. And that's not my that's.
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Speaker 5: Not my orthopedis.
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Speaker 9: I will say this, maybe it's true, maybe it's not,
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Speaker 9: But that's a weapon in the arsenal for.
15:01
Speaker 5: Any basketball player.
15:02
Speaker 9: That's like saying, well, I think you know, I think
15:04
Speaker 9: the shoulder problems for this guy causes his big is
15:07
Speaker 9: caused by him thrown one.
15:08
Speaker 5: Hundred miles an hour.
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Speaker 9: Well yeah, but that's kind of like important to what
15:11
Speaker 9: he does, so I think that's kind of part of
15:13
Speaker 9: the package.
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Speaker 5: Like it might be true that like if he never euro.
15:16
Speaker 9: Steps again, he his cap wouldn't hurt, but then again
15:18
Speaker 9: he might not be his value. That's It's like, you know,
15:21
Speaker 9: I bet if you had if you took the hammer
15:23
Speaker 9: away from the carpenter, he wouldn't hit it hit stuff,
15:26
Speaker 9: Like yeah, that's true, but then he wouldn't be able
15:28
Speaker 9: to hit anything.
15:28
Speaker 5: And he's a carpenter, Like yeah, that's what he does.
15:30
Speaker 6: Yeah, So all right, let me see how the how
15:33
Speaker 6: I do that on this hot take deal. The Wisconsin
15:36
Speaker 6: football schedule came out in earnest last night. Yes, it's
15:39
Speaker 6: all the dates and the big ten roster. I could
15:42
Speaker 6: see them going drew out of this nine and three?
15:46
Speaker 2: Whoa how about that? Could I also see them going
15:49
Speaker 2: four and seven or four and eight? Maybe? Maybe?
15:53
Speaker 6: But I don't know because if I look at this
15:55
Speaker 6: schedule right out of the gate, and as tough as
15:58
Speaker 6: it will be to joy and make a full damn
16:02
Speaker 6: nation on one game given the Wisconsin Badgers to cover
16:06
Speaker 6: whatever that number is at lambeau Field against Notre Dame
16:08
Speaker 6: to start.
16:09
Speaker 2: Notre Dame will also be playing with CJ. Card, their
16:11
Speaker 2: second year quarterback.
16:12
Speaker 6: Badgers will be coming in with the all new Colton
16:14
Speaker 6: Joseph ready to rip up lambeau Field on the Sunday
16:18
Speaker 6: of Labor Day weekend. Then you get two easy ones
16:21
Speaker 6: into the max schedule, Western Illinois Eastern Michigan. Get yourself
16:26
Speaker 6: feeling good for what a start to Big Ten play
16:30
Speaker 6: where they go to Beaver Stadium, which very much could
16:33
Speaker 6: be a night game, and I would be surprised if
16:36
Speaker 6: NBC doesn't try to advocate for that to be kind
16:39
Speaker 6: of like Matt Campbell's first Big Ten game at night
16:43
Speaker 6: on their air.
16:44
Speaker 2: That's a hell of a way to start.
16:45
Speaker 6: But Drew, they start out with three first time Big
16:49
Speaker 6: Ten coat or new coaches in the Big Ten at
16:52
Speaker 6: Penn State with Matt Campbell's coming from Iowa State. Then
16:54
Speaker 6: they host Michigan State as Pat Fitzgerald takes over that program.
16:59
Speaker 6: Then they go to Ula after their bye they're bringing
17:03
Speaker 6: in a new head coach. Then you get USC late
17:06
Speaker 6: stages of October could be disgusting outside. Lincoln Riley's team
17:10
Speaker 6: gonna be playing well in that. That's where you could
17:12
Speaker 6: see a run of all the sudden holy smokes.
17:16
Speaker 2: Badgers are six and one.
17:17
Speaker 5: I like this.
17:17
Speaker 9: I like the way you're building it out here, really
17:19
Speaker 9: like bad We're cooking with absolute gas rolling into Iowa
17:22
Speaker 9: City on Halloween night, buzzsawn, even.
17:27
Speaker 6: Though I don't want to admit it, I'm gonna do
17:29
Speaker 6: it before Scott Dolphin walks in here. Might be a
17:32
Speaker 6: buzzsaw might not be able to win in Kennicott Halloween night.
17:35
Speaker 6: I'll can see that one beating the Brakes off Rutgers,
17:38
Speaker 6: which has to be homecoming at Maryland got something for them,
17:42
Speaker 6: at worst, Lafayette got something for them. Home game against
17:46
Speaker 6: Minnesota for the Acts and potentially a New Year's dab ble.
17:49
Speaker 2: That's nine and three right there, and that.
17:51
Speaker 6: Feels like an easy way to be able to build
17:54
Speaker 6: all the excitement right back up for Wisconsin football. Love it,
17:57
Speaker 6: Love it, Keep the hot takes coming.
17:59
Speaker 2: Eight seven to seven, four one ninety seven to three.
18:02
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Speaker 8: Badger's schedule. We're gonna dive deeper into that because there's
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Speaker 8: this they ran a gauntlet this year and next year
19:04
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Speaker 8: nine to twenty, Milwaukee, ten seventy in Madison, Drew, Billy
19:31
Speaker 8: and Armon and we welcome to the program.
19:32
Speaker 2: Our halftime reporter. It is Scott Dolphin. Hello, Dolph, Hey Drew, are.
19:36
Speaker 4: You talking about like the halftime adjustments of the Bears
19:38
Speaker 4: made against the Packers and just every game?
19:40
Speaker 5: Really, I'm just saying it was staggering. How many weeks
19:45
Speaker 5: has it been.
19:46
Speaker 4: It was staggering. The tale of two halves in those
19:48
Speaker 4: three football game.
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Speaker 5: You know, it.
19:51
Speaker 2: Gets hot takes since they happened.
19:53
Speaker 8: But the Bears and Ben Johnson beat Packers two out
19:56
Speaker 8: of three games this year and Matt Lafleur, I'll coach
19:58
Speaker 8: Ben Johnson in all three of the games.
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Speaker 2: Think so you think so you don't.
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Speaker 8: First half is the coaches half, and they dominated the
20:05
Speaker 8: first half. Second half is kind of the players half,
20:07
Speaker 8: like this kind of flukeish.
20:08
Speaker 2: What happened? Was it? Great coaching?
20:10
Speaker 8: Did did they draw up that play when Caleb ran
20:13
Speaker 8: around and I mean that.
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Speaker 5: Throat?
20:17
Speaker 2: Did they draw that up? Why did everybody want Matt
20:20
Speaker 2: Lafleur's head after the seat.
20:22
Speaker 6: Because people get emotional, you know, because we need to
20:24
Speaker 6: hold people account We need our old accountable around here.
20:30
Speaker 2: We have, damn it.
20:32
Speaker 8: But I guess I mean, well have with the lead?
20:36
Speaker 8: Did they take a snap with the lead in three games?
20:38
Speaker 2: No?
20:38
Speaker 6: And and that's where I guess my didn't take an
20:41
Speaker 6: offense off in three games?
20:43
Speaker 2: They didn't take an offensive snap holding the lead in.
20:45
Speaker 6: The game, if I'm not mistaken, And then it's crazy.
20:50
Speaker 2: So that's I'm saying. You look at those games like, okay.
20:53
Speaker 2: The only.
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Speaker 6: The counter I would have to to that one, Drew
20:58
Speaker 6: is like, however, you're able to get the team to
21:01
Speaker 6: play finish the finish line is a part of the results.
21:05
Speaker 2: It definitely is the first half, coaches, second half. Players.
21:07
Speaker 2: I agree with that the.
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Speaker 4: First game, the Bears were dead, they couldn't do anything,
21:13
Speaker 4: and the second half they dominated the game.
21:15
Speaker 2: The dominated The line of the second game was.
21:18
Speaker 4: The miracle right the December twentieth throw, and the third
21:21
Speaker 4: came again they played liked all three games.
21:23
Speaker 2: It was just a tail of two half.
21:25
Speaker 5: No, that's absolutely true. I mean it really was was.
21:29
Speaker 6: A tale of you know, three quarters and then one
21:31
Speaker 6: where all the complete wheels fall off.
21:33
Speaker 4: So the first half is the coaches happened, the second.
21:35
Speaker 2: Half is not. The whole game is the coach, right,
21:38
Speaker 2: I mean they're responsible for.
21:39
Speaker 8: This, But yeah, the swife starts with me, the scripted
21:42
Speaker 8: stuff in the first eighteen. But again, you played three
21:46
Speaker 8: games and didn't take an offensive staff with the lead,
21:49
Speaker 8: you won too.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if I like the oposite of that.
21:53
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's repeatable. Well, this whole year
21:55
Speaker 4: was crazy. I would agree with that with the Bears,
21:57
Speaker 4: and yeah, it was the miracle season and the.
21:58
Speaker 2: Comebacks to Billy.
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Speaker 8: Did you see the meme with the Patriots schedule this year?
22:04
Speaker 8: This guy pos out of what they did. Week one,
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Speaker 8: fired coach, Week two, fired coach, Week three, fired coach,
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Speaker 8: Week four NFC South Lucky Week five, fired coach, Week six,
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Speaker 8: NFC South Week seven, fired coach, Week eight, fired coach,
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Speaker 8: Week nine, fired coach, Week ten, NFC South Week eleven,
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Speaker 8: Jets Week twelve, Bengals Week thirteen, fired head coach, fired
22:23
Speaker 8: head coach, fired head coach, Jets fired head coach.
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Speaker 2: So they you know, these coaches were fired after the season.
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Speaker 6: You can argue the two guys that kept their jobs
22:30
Speaker 6: are the guys that should have gotten fired.
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Speaker 2: I would say the biggest win of the schedule was
22:35
Speaker 2: probably at Buffalo. Yeah right, Oh, it was impressive. Bills, Dolphins,
22:39
Speaker 2: and Raiders all fired their coach. You can only win
22:41
Speaker 2: the games that are on your schedule.
22:42
Speaker 6: And I know armandun't like this because he had the
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Speaker 6: Chargers plus three and a half, I did two, and
22:48
Speaker 6: the Patriots just just pants them right.
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Speaker 5: Well, they weren't on the schedule. The Chargers never showed up. Bumps. Sorry,
22:54
Speaker 5: But at what point do you get credit for doing
22:56
Speaker 5: that day? You have to do it, You have to
22:57
Speaker 5: get credit.
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Speaker 9: I mean the ninety one Washington Red can get credit,
23:00
Speaker 9: even though we never think about that team.
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Speaker 6: At what point do they get credit for forcing four
23:04
Speaker 6: turnovers in the first half?
23:06
Speaker 2: On CJ.
23:07
Speaker 6: Stroud and just I mean bludgeoning them and then also
23:10
Speaker 6: getting some mental gymnastics from Sean Payton yesterday to the
23:13
Speaker 6: point where he calls the plays and fired the offensive
23:16
Speaker 6: coordinator because their offense didn't do enough.
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Speaker 2: And a dude that's been with him for what twelve years?
23:20
Speaker 6: Uh huh, that's a long time. Joe Lombardi has been
23:23
Speaker 6: at the side of Sean Payton.
23:24
Speaker 4: I saw the same when you look at New England,
23:26
Speaker 4: I mean clearly they they were given the advantage of
23:29
Speaker 4: playing a bad NFC South. The guild of their division
23:32
Speaker 4: is bad, but still there.
23:35
Speaker 6: The Packers played the NFC South this year, right, they
23:39
Speaker 6: played a couple of teams from it, they did, and
23:41
Speaker 6: we played the NFC East, which had one team go
23:44
Speaker 6: to the playoffs and and didn't do enough.
23:45
Speaker 5: With some teams get it done, something don't. That's absolutely true.
23:49
Speaker 4: And every team has that one or two games they think, oh,
23:52
Speaker 4: but for the grace of God, go I right. I mean,
23:53
Speaker 4: like look at the Rams, I mean that was a
23:55
Speaker 4: difference of one game where they would have had home
23:57
Speaker 4: field at so far.
23:58
Speaker 5: Right on at this league, I mean the Margins, the.
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Speaker 2: Packers, Cleveland and I bet they wish they had that
24:03
Speaker 2: game back.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely well, then look at the Packers leading Denver on
24:07
Speaker 8: the road by two scores at halftime when Parsons got hurt,
24:09
Speaker 8: and then they didn't win a game the rest of
24:10
Speaker 8: the year.
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Speaker 6: Yes, I'm still thinking about Drew's statement of the players
24:14
Speaker 6: half and the coaches half, and and this Dolph is
24:16
Speaker 6: where Armin and I got really into it right after
24:18
Speaker 6: the game where drew to that point. That's why I
24:21
Speaker 6: said the better team won the game, right like the
24:23
Speaker 6: better team in the NFC Wild Card game won the
24:26
Speaker 6: game on the field, because I think the players decided
24:28
Speaker 6: enough of it. When you played a full sixty minutes,
24:31
Speaker 6: that game got beaten, got played, and in Game one,
24:34
Speaker 6: the offensive line for Chicago took back over the football
24:37
Speaker 6: game and in the second half the.
24:38
Speaker 2: Defense for the Bears.
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Speaker 8: Chicago, the Bears took over the football game because the
24:42
Speaker 8: Packers went three and out, three and out, three and out,
24:44
Speaker 8: four and out, like that was pretty awful.
24:46
Speaker 6: Well, I'm but they also went thirteen plays, fourteen plays,
24:49
Speaker 6: fourteen plays.
24:49
Speaker 8: Yeah, I agree, but got shired as the Packers were
24:53
Speaker 8: tired because of their away a complete meltdown as well.
24:55
Speaker 4: That's what Billy would tell you because they weren't sleeves.
24:59
Speaker 6: I would say, well, I would say it's because one
25:00
Speaker 6: team played better and was a better football team in
25:02
Speaker 6: twenty twenty five, like I don't and that doesn't mean
25:06
Speaker 6: that they will be for sure going forward. But they
25:09
Speaker 6: played better in all of those games, a full sixty minutes,
25:12
Speaker 6: way more than Green Bay evidence.
25:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, what we were talking about, how much do you
25:15
Speaker 2: think of it? Join the participation?
25:17
Speaker 8: Okay, With the Bears have won those two games that
25:19
Speaker 8: they won without Caleb Williams, well they don't play them
25:22
Speaker 8: without them. Yeah, With the Packers have won those games
25:25
Speaker 8: with Michael Parsons though they played one. They I'm saying,
25:29
Speaker 8: would they won the two they lost if Michael Parsons played?
25:31
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I got it. Yeah, you do you
25:35
Speaker 2: think so?
25:35
Speaker 4: I don't know because as a Bears fan, obviously the
25:38
Speaker 4: first game went down to the wire. If Caleb Williams
25:39
Speaker 4: doesn't underthrow Cole Comet, the Bears win that game. And
25:43
Speaker 4: Michael Parsons, yeah he was on played that game. Yeah,
25:45
Speaker 4: he was on the field. No sacks, won tackle. He
25:46
Speaker 4: did have two quarterback hurries in that and.
25:48
Speaker 6: Got some the close ones Like again, I love the
25:51
Speaker 6: idea of it, but like the fact is they deserve
25:55
Speaker 6: the credit and the flowers.
25:56
Speaker 2: They won the games.
25:57
Speaker 6: Like and as much as we we can like to
25:59
Speaker 6: not give them credit, they got a much better football
26:02
Speaker 6: team than they ever have down there in the last
26:03
Speaker 6: fifteen Yeah, thanks, I got We'll see if it's repeatable.
26:09
Speaker 6: What's what they're repeatable? So again, what you're saying is sure,
26:13
Speaker 6: but let's see it again. Yeah they beat you twice? Yeah,
26:16
Speaker 6: how many more times do you want to lose that?
26:18
Speaker 6: I thought they lost all those games.
26:20
Speaker 2: Every year is.
26:20
Speaker 8: Its own story and its own threat. The Bears played
26:22
Speaker 8: an entire season and no one in their rotation got hurt.
26:24
Speaker 8: I mean, no one in the offensive line really got hurt, right,
26:26
Speaker 8: They didn't really till the till the repeatable lost.
26:32
Speaker 2: Everybody though, and the Bears. What do we see with turnover?
26:34
Speaker 8: What the Packers do from turnovers one year on defense
26:37
Speaker 8: to the next. Like the Packers Xavier McKinney had eight
26:40
Speaker 8: interceptions himself and then the next season they had seven
26:43
Speaker 8: to three of them.
26:44
Speaker 2: That is that repeatable?
26:46
Speaker 8: Like do you bank on well, we're gonna get eight
26:48
Speaker 8: for Xavier McKinney, who put that down is the Bears,
26:50
Speaker 8: they were so lopsided with giveaways that market can correct.
26:54
Speaker 6: It's regression to fifty two percent completion percentage, just that
26:58
Speaker 6: repeatable that could get better.
26:59
Speaker 2: It could.
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Speaker 5: Yep, there's a lot we don't know. That's why there.
27:03
Speaker 8: If one of the offensive linemen or two of those
27:05
Speaker 8: guys gets dinged and you're playing with lesser players, that goes.
27:07
Speaker 6: They play in the back half of the year with
27:09
Speaker 6: like two of their wide receivers out as well, like
27:11
Speaker 6: I mean, and and their tight ends were dinged for.
27:13
Speaker 2: A decent amount of time to their top three linebacker.
27:15
Speaker 2: Injuries are baked in.
27:17
Speaker 8: That's why it's so unpredictable it is. And then they're
27:20
Speaker 8: gonna be a first play schedule again. That's so that
27:22
Speaker 8: was gonna be my max question.
27:23
Speaker 4: How much in the NFL do you read into the
27:25
Speaker 4: first place schedule conversation? Is it because things change so
27:30
Speaker 4: rapidly in the NFL.
27:32
Speaker 2: And that's by design, it's baked in.
27:33
Speaker 8: That's why they have this like the waiting of the
27:35
Speaker 8: schedules and like you're supposed to play and but year
27:37
Speaker 8: to year again, it's hard to repeat.
27:39
Speaker 2: I guess it. I guess it.
27:41
Speaker 6: Helps to have the last play schedule, but there's a
27:43
Speaker 6: reason why those teams go worse to first because they
27:45
Speaker 6: get markedly better going forward.
27:48
Speaker 2: So I don't read that much into it. Three games, right,
27:51
Speaker 2: Is that what it is? Or is it four?
27:52
Speaker 6: It's ultimately three games, it's it's where you ranked well
27:56
Speaker 6: four because you can also include the one through seventeen
27:58
Speaker 6: on the AFC side, where you get the seventeenth game
28:01
Speaker 6: that is determined by how good you are. It's your
28:03
Speaker 6: seed line. So the Bears will play the two seed
28:06
Speaker 6: from the AFC the Patriots next year. Like, I think
28:09
Speaker 6: it means a little bit, but I think a lot
28:11
Speaker 6: of it is, Uh, you're you're gonna be able to
28:14
Speaker 6: use it as an excuse if you think that.
28:15
Speaker 8: As Wayne says, though, it's not who you play, it's
28:18
Speaker 8: when you play when you play them, true, absolutely, So that's.
28:20
Speaker 9: A lot of that you don't know, and you don't
28:21
Speaker 9: know who we think we know is going to be
28:23
Speaker 9: good and bad. We never do in the NFL. And
28:25
Speaker 9: that's out the other part of it too. Yeah, I'll
28:26
Speaker 9: say this, if it's three games. The thing is with
28:29
Speaker 9: the NFL that the schedule is so small, Every game
28:32
Speaker 9: is so meaningful that you know that if the tide
28:34
Speaker 9: ticks one way or the other with a couple of
28:36
Speaker 9: tougher games, that could change the whole season.
28:38
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, Kansas City's gonna be playing a third
28:40
Speaker 2: place schedule, so.
28:41
Speaker 9: Maybe they'll actually, you know, win games. Again, I don't know,
28:43
Speaker 9: but you don't know. They have like many games in
28:45
Speaker 9: the last seven decade or so.
28:46
Speaker 6: I like this one from wit is is Billy becoming
28:49
Speaker 6: a Bears fanl No, I think this is the important part.
28:52
Speaker 6: You can't just allow certain good things to cloud what
28:56
Speaker 6: ultimately was the case.
28:58
Speaker 2: You were the second best team in the division this year,
29:00
Speaker 2: right like.
29:00
Speaker 6: You You you lost those games on the field because
29:03
Speaker 6: you simply couldn't make enough plays. You got to identify
29:06
Speaker 6: how much better you are able to make this football team,
29:08
Speaker 6: and the Bears did that last year, So now you
29:09
Speaker 6: got to be able to catch up. I like having
29:11
Speaker 6: something to shoot for because they did well, being able
29:14
Speaker 6: to shoot at towards the Lions. Going to and identify.
29:17
Speaker 2: One thing Romeo Dobbs catching it on sidekick.
29:20
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a that's.
29:25
Speaker 6: Like, okay, what a player's game. And players make the plays.
29:29
Speaker 6: And so it was the team that made the plays better.
29:31
Speaker 6: I want to go back and let's get the research
29:33
Speaker 6: department on this. Let's see in the last ten years
29:37
Speaker 6: the team that led in plus minus and takeaways what
29:40
Speaker 6: they do.
29:41
Speaker 2: Then I'm not doing mass studies.
29:42
Speaker 8: What because it's I bet it's I bet it's a
29:46
Speaker 8: different team every You can say, oh, this defense like this,
29:48
Speaker 8: the corodner is so good, they take the ball, But
29:50
Speaker 8: I bet it's it's different every year because turnovers are
29:52
Speaker 8: the it's the it's.
29:53
Speaker 2: The lifeblood of defenses in football.
29:56
Speaker 8: And yet that ball bounces because it's a weird shape
29:58
Speaker 8: and it's a lot of that is I.
30:00
Speaker 5: Mean, it definitely hurt the Packers this year.
30:02
Speaker 8: Last number one thing with the Packers this year was
30:05
Speaker 8: that to me was like the lack of takeaways.
30:06
Speaker 2: Oh, they were so good with the takeaways the year ago.
30:09
Speaker 2: They got pants in the playoff game by the end
30:11
Speaker 2: by the Super Bowl champion Eagles. They got they got
30:13
Speaker 2: beat up in that game.
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Speaker 6: So like, sure, the bounts can go your way and
30:17
Speaker 6: you still can have the same result.
30:18
Speaker 2: It doesn't guarantee games. I'm just saying like that, that
30:21
Speaker 2: is the key to this whole thing is like the takeaways,
30:24
Speaker 2: and I don't know if that's repeatable or not. We'll see.
30:27
Speaker 6: Well.
30:27
Speaker 2: I mean, so the Bears got career years out of
30:30
Speaker 2: guys I'd never heard of before.
30:31
Speaker 4: Nay Sean Wright. Where did he come from? Never heard
30:33
Speaker 4: of the guy before this season? Just a kind of
30:35
Speaker 4: a career backup. I don't know how many he was.
30:38
Speaker 4: He kicked around with a few different teams. I think
30:40
Speaker 4: he came from. Was it the Dolphins or something. I
30:42
Speaker 4: don't even know. So, yeah, guys like that came out
30:44
Speaker 4: of nowhere and and performed.
30:47
Speaker 9: Just like the Packers at Devondre Campbell one year have
30:49
Speaker 9: a great year. That was it, right, but it could
30:52
Speaker 9: but it could be Zach Bond where it's totally sustainable
30:54
Speaker 9: and he becomes his great player. You know, guys you
30:57
Speaker 9: don't expect to be good or teams are moments you
30:59
Speaker 9: don't expect progress.
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Speaker 6: You signed that guy to a fifty million, fifty million
31:04
Speaker 6: dollar contract?
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Speaker 2: Do you do it?
31:05
Speaker 9: I mean that's the top part that teams had to
31:07
Speaker 9: deal with, because the last thing they put in the field.
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Speaker 5: Was, hey, this guy was the best in the league.
31:11
Speaker 2: Brown deer right that Yeah, that was absolutely Hey, Dolph,
31:15
Speaker 2: we were right. The speculation was right. Hawkeye's Badgers Halloween
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Speaker 2: Halloween ween Knight, Yeah, on the road. What do you
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Speaker 2: think of that schedule?
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Speaker 4: I've read this morning where somebody had it ranked as
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Speaker 4: the easiest schedule in the Big Ten, which is a
31:27
Speaker 4: good thing for the team they were trying to Last
31:30
Speaker 4: year they played ten teams. Well, he can't even really
31:32
Speaker 4: stay bowl games are that important anymore because you can.
31:34
Speaker 2: Beat five college football playoff team.
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Speaker 8: So they played four teams that were to the college
31:39
Speaker 8: football Playoff and this year on the schedule none, yeah.
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Speaker 6: And none and uh, Dolph, I would like you to
31:44
Speaker 6: know I did concede Halloween night when I just win
31:48
Speaker 6: lost the schedule during hot Te coump Day?
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Speaker 2: Did you really and put the Badgers at potentially nine
31:53
Speaker 2: and three? Now?
31:54
Speaker 6: Could I see them going four and eight and matching
31:56
Speaker 6: this year's record?
31:57
Speaker 2: Absolutely? So, wheels fall off against notreed.
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Speaker 6: Matt Campbell actually does what Penn State probably should have
32:03
Speaker 6: done this year if they're a college football playoff team,
32:05
Speaker 6: Penn State cyclones and all the.
32:07
Speaker 2: All the sudden.
32:08
Speaker 6: Michigan State is Northwestern with resources and really really good No,
32:13
Speaker 6: just to my mind, some buzzsaw games. You travel out
32:16
Speaker 6: to the Rose Bowl, Hey, man, wild things can happen
32:18
Speaker 6: out West. There's ways I can see it. But I
32:22
Speaker 6: mean win or loss against Notre Dame, who knows what's
32:24
Speaker 6: going in there. I'll just concede that being a loss,
32:27
Speaker 6: you go and hand Matt Campbell and welcome him into
32:29
Speaker 6: the Big Ten with a dub off two bye week games.
32:32
Speaker 6: I could very much see the Badgers rolling in there
32:34
Speaker 6: with one loss against Iowa Halloween night.
32:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, very possible. You're looking at that schedule the games.
32:41
Speaker 4: I see that you mentioned Michigan State. I find that intriguing.
32:44
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's going to be this year,
32:46
Speaker 4: but Fitzgeral will get them on the right side up again.
32:49
Speaker 4: Too good of a coach, not too great coach. A
32:51
Speaker 4: lot of people want an m He chose Michigan State.
32:54
Speaker 4: That's an interesting game. You're right though. They play a
32:57
Speaker 4: lot of teams with you know, you talk about Matt Campbell.
32:59
Speaker 4: You cla has a new coach Minnesota. I didn't realize
33:02
Speaker 4: it won four straight, four straight. I think that's where
33:07
Speaker 4: you got to start. You got to you gotta start winning.
33:08
Speaker 2: The rivalry games again. Yes, well they did.
33:11
Speaker 6: That was the goal this year and and did a
33:14
Speaker 6: did a more did a really good job of not
33:16
Speaker 6: doing it. So we got to make sure that we
33:18
Speaker 6: actually execute that plan this year because we planned on
33:21
Speaker 6: being able to win both of the rivalry games, and
33:23
Speaker 6: the one was thirty seven to zero.
33:25
Speaker 2: Never easy going into Beaver Stadium.
33:26
Speaker 8: But is the toughest opponent on the slate right now
33:29
Speaker 8: in the Big Ten for the badgerses at USC?
33:31
Speaker 2: I think so, Yeah, I think I think so.
33:32
Speaker 6: Talent wise, they're probably the best team drew, but you
33:36
Speaker 6: just never know what Penn State like, I mean.
33:38
Speaker 2: Rather be playing USC at camp when it's cold.
33:40
Speaker 6: Out, yeah, right, like October twenty fourth, You're you're hoping
33:43
Speaker 6: all of a sudden we get a random sleep, Yeah,
33:46
Speaker 6: forty degrees and something driving within.
33:48
Speaker 4: Sixty and you know, and they're finding out the reality
33:50
Speaker 4: of the Big Ten and the travel schedule too, I
33:52
Speaker 4: guess right, because this year they were ranked high for
33:56
Speaker 4: a while and then tapered off at the end of
33:58
Speaker 4: the season, you know, playing cold games in conference at
34:01
Speaker 4: Illinois where they got beat.
34:03
Speaker 2: That Illinois game is the one I think of. Yeah,
34:05
Speaker 2: the Illinois game is the one I think of.
34:06
Speaker 6: And that was a great game back and forth in
34:08
Speaker 6: both teams kicked field goals late to take the lead.
34:10
Speaker 6: But that Michigan State one, I'm I'm pretty sold on
34:13
Speaker 6: is going to be the Toyota turning point of the season.
34:18
Speaker 6: It's an early turning point, Big ten open, it's the
34:20
Speaker 6: Big ten opener. That's a that's a tough way to
34:23
Speaker 6: slate the entire schedule. But you mentioned how many people
34:27
Speaker 6: wanted Fitzgerald. I think there's a lot of Badgers fans
34:29
Speaker 6: that had their wandering eye when they also had their
34:33
Speaker 6: axe in the other hand ready to chop off the
34:35
Speaker 6: coaching staff saying bringing Fitzgerald and this is clean cut.
34:39
Speaker 6: He comes in here and rolls you with the spartans,
34:41
Speaker 6: there will be a h there will be some very
34:43
Speaker 6: very angry Brethren's so hard to tell anymore.
34:46
Speaker 4: With with the portal you got, how many new guys
34:49
Speaker 4: you got coming in, You.
34:50
Speaker 9: Just nobody knows. You just hold stability. Yeah, you hope
34:53
Speaker 9: they gel.
34:53
Speaker 4: You hope that these guys get together in spring camp
34:56
Speaker 4: and they get along and they merge and everything's good
34:59
Speaker 4: by fall.
35:00
Speaker 6: Hard to telling him they're going to be fishing. They're
35:01
Speaker 6: gonna be hunting, fishing, loving every day of the summer.
35:04
Speaker 2: That's right. Hanging out all summer long with the boys,
35:07
Speaker 2: no doubt.
35:08
Speaker 8: Hey, Dolph, we had a winner yesterday and the guy
35:11
Speaker 8: did not know and he just took a wild ass guest.
35:13
Speaker 8: The Luke Bryan trivia was which mascot did he kiss
35:16
Speaker 8: on college game day?
35:17
Speaker 2: And it was Uga the Bulldog.
35:20
Speaker 8: Of course, this guy pulled it out of his arse
35:22
Speaker 8: and just guessed, and he was, Wow, I think he's
35:24
Speaker 8: from Georgia.
35:24
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna say a University of Georgia like brilliant.
35:27
Speaker 2: That's brilliant because.
35:28
Speaker 9: I don't think it's any other SEC mascots you'd kiss,
35:31
Speaker 9: except maybe a volunteer whatever that is.
35:32
Speaker 6: What about the Longhorn, he requested Bevo, I said, good
35:38
Speaker 6: luck at the Crimson Tide like you might.
35:40
Speaker 2: But I've seen.
35:43
Speaker 8: The Ram mascot, which for the Tarhels. I don't know
35:46
Speaker 8: what that Ram mascot is, but ramses.
35:48
Speaker 2: The guy, Yeah, I don't.
35:51
Speaker 4: Sometimes it's hard to figure out how teams come upon
35:53
Speaker 4: their mascot, like TarHeels. A Ram Stanford is a treat. Yeah,
35:59
Speaker 4: I would state where I got there. They're the Cyclones.
36:02
Speaker 4: They have a cardinal, Yeah, Bicyclone. He's a cardinal.
36:06
Speaker 6: He is a wild card is not said games an time.
36:11
Speaker 9: You don't understand that you couldn't come up with a
36:13
Speaker 9: tornado suit for a cyclone?
36:16
Speaker 5: Why does he have to be a bird? Absolutely right,
36:18
Speaker 5: because got to fly away from cyclone? I guess so.
36:21
Speaker 5: And we still a little more what Purdue Pete is.
36:24
Speaker 5: We still don't know.
36:24
Speaker 2: He's a boilermaker. What are you talking about?
36:26
Speaker 5: Fake head? But human feet and arms? Come on, it's weird.
36:30
Speaker 2: It's creepy, big inflatable one they have there at Purdue.
36:33
Speaker 5: No, well, they have the big drum too. They love that.
36:36
Speaker 2: The big drum is the act. Let's be honest, it
36:40
Speaker 2: is nothing is classic, legendary, absolutely classic.
36:42
Speaker 8: All right, Dolph on the way out, your quick take
36:44
Speaker 8: on Bill Belichick getting snubbed.
36:47
Speaker 4: I think it's ridiculous, I mean take away. So, I
36:51
Speaker 4: guess it's because of the flake gate and what was
36:53
Speaker 4: the other one?
36:54
Speaker 5: We don't know? My gate?
36:56
Speaker 2: Yeah?
36:56
Speaker 4: So does that we don't know? Is that worth two
36:59
Speaker 4: super Bowls? He's doill wins four five?
37:01
Speaker 5: I mean he has eight rings total.
37:04
Speaker 8: There were either a fair amount of protest votes or
37:07
Speaker 8: guys that just I'm voting for the three players that
37:10
Speaker 8: I've been voting for the last couple of years.
37:12
Speaker 4: I saw a quote today where Bill Pollion said he
37:14
Speaker 4: should be have to wait at least one year for
37:16
Speaker 4: what he did.
37:17
Speaker 6: And then Bill Pollion said, I don't I don't remember
37:20
Speaker 6: doing that.
37:22
Speaker 5: People were saying it, but I didn't.
37:23
Speaker 2: Feel this quote.
37:25
Speaker 6: Dolph is that he is ninety five percent sure he
37:28
Speaker 6: voted for Bill Belichick. Ninety five percent sure I took
37:34
Speaker 6: the garbage out last year. But here's a tweet from
37:37
Speaker 6: five percent slap me in the to go take it out.
37:40
Speaker 2: Jarret Bell.
37:40
Speaker 8: Just for the record, I voted for Belichick, and I'm
37:42
Speaker 8: stunned and embarrassed for our selection committee. At least eleven
37:46
Speaker 8: people from the fifty member panel voted against Bill Belichick.
37:48
Speaker 8: At the very least, they should reveal themselves, as this
37:50
Speaker 8: begs for transparency.
37:52
Speaker 2: Don't lump us all together.
37:53
Speaker 9: If you vote, if you voted for him, you're getting
37:55
Speaker 9: out there now and telling people to resist the online
37:58
Speaker 9: barrage of the trolls, which is next.
38:00
Speaker 2: That's what this is all about.
38:02
Speaker 5: People.
38:02
Speaker 9: We're gonna hunt them down the docks, whoever didn't vote
38:05
Speaker 9: for him, the Reddit, whatever it takes, they will be
38:07
Speaker 9: hunting these guys down.
38:08
Speaker 5: That's what this is about.
38:09
Speaker 2: True.
38:09
Speaker 4: You know there's guys being voting for Major League Baseball.
38:12
Speaker 4: All these guys just refused on principle to put a
38:15
Speaker 4: guy in.
38:15
Speaker 2: On first bat. Yep.
38:17
Speaker 6: I don't think there's that element of it. I like
38:19
Speaker 6: Buster only your boy. He said, what if we just
38:22
Speaker 6: do this? What if you just vote yes or no?
38:25
Speaker 6: What if you just get somebody they ask you, hey,
38:27
Speaker 6: is this guy a Hall of Famer?
38:28
Speaker 2: You get to say yes or no?
38:30
Speaker 6: That sounds like Brian, it's way too simplistic, way too
38:33
Speaker 6: that sounds way too easy.
38:35
Speaker 8: Because there are guys on the ballot for ten years
38:37
Speaker 8: agin like their stats got better when they were retired.
38:39
Speaker 9: But we're also we're also not trying to curate a
38:41
Speaker 9: system where everybody's aways one hundred percent either. I think
38:43
Speaker 9: that's a tough thing. I think we think that way
38:45
Speaker 9: in our world and we don't want to do that,
38:46
Speaker 9: and that's what we tend to do now.
38:48
Speaker 8: Like I say, in this day and age, we couldn't
38:50
Speaker 8: get fifty people to agree that thing.
38:52
Speaker 2: Dropping.
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39:11
Speaker 8: Pittsburgh fans will warm up to the idea of coach
39:14
Speaker 8: mcpositive being their coach. Grew up five miles from the stadium.
39:17
Speaker 8: He won some people over yesterday by crying in the
39:19
Speaker 8: first two minutes of his press conference. And my hot
39:23
Speaker 8: take is, although it would be great for us to
39:27
Speaker 8: watch from afar, ain't gonna be no reunion between Aaron
39:31
Speaker 8: Rodgers and Mike McCarthy.
39:32
Speaker 6: Yeah, Drew, I'm with you on that plate, not that
39:36
Speaker 6: hot plate. You can bring right over here and I'll
39:37
Speaker 6: share that dish with you. I just I struggle to
39:40
Speaker 6: think he's going to put his third head coaching eggs
39:45
Speaker 6: in the basket of a forty three year old Aaron Rodgers,
39:47
Speaker 6: who you know whether or not their relationship is good now,
39:51
Speaker 6: I think it is too well documented to not know
39:53
Speaker 6: there were some serious rifts between the two at one
39:56
Speaker 6: particular point in time. But also, you get this job
39:59
Speaker 6: to you lay a foundation, right a foundation of success foundation, and.
40:04
Speaker 2: You don't do that with somebody that's going to be
40:06
Speaker 2: there for a year.
40:07
Speaker 6: I think Aaron Rodgers was from all accounts, the teammate
40:11
Speaker 6: that nobody wants to admit that. He was a good one,
40:14
Speaker 6: one that everybody said was super positive, uplifting in the building.
40:17
Speaker 6: But you two things to be true at the same time.
40:20
Speaker 6: He was great for you last year, but for them
40:23
Speaker 6: to be best going forward, you gotta you gotta go
40:26
Speaker 6: with somebody else. You got to try and have something
40:29
Speaker 6: sustainable unless your goal is to do exactly what they've
40:33
Speaker 6: done just before, which is win nine games, which kind
40:35
Speaker 6: of does seem like what the ownership wants. They want
40:38
Speaker 6: to be relevant, They want to be good enough to
40:40
Speaker 6: be in the mix and see if they can strike gold.
40:43
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson didn't work, Aaron Rodgers did it work, didn't
40:47
Speaker 2: really go for veterans? Does for them?
40:49
Speaker 8: Is it Will Howard and Mason Rudolph and or did
40:52
Speaker 8: they draft a guy or that's the thing.
40:53
Speaker 9: That's the thing. Where does the young quarterback come from?
40:56
Speaker 9: Are they gonna draft one? Arena is not the year
40:58
Speaker 9: to draft one. That's that's why maybe a bridge.
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Speaker 2: Forward or Rudolph or a combination there. I think McCarthy
41:05
Speaker 2: can cobble something together and get them to win again.
41:08
Speaker 6: I think they can win seven games with those guys. Now,
41:10
Speaker 6: I think the interesting one from what I had heard.
41:11
Speaker 6: And now, maybe this is just some lip service because
41:13
Speaker 6: he's on the team, and generally you don't bury guys
41:15
Speaker 6: that are on your team unless.
41:17
Speaker 2: You're the Buffalo Bills and and your name's Kean Coleman,
41:20
Speaker 2: and you just get thrown right up under the tires.
41:22
Speaker 2: But I don't.
41:24
Speaker 6: Necessarily know if they actually think Will Howard can be
41:28
Speaker 6: a player. That was the reports yesterday. They're like they're
41:30
Speaker 6: intrigued with him. He's obviously from Ohio State, won a
41:34
Speaker 6: national title there, played a bunch of college games, big
41:36
Speaker 6: strapping young lad. Maybe he can be maybe he can
41:39
Speaker 6: be a guy, but he also big mic won games
41:42
Speaker 6: with Cooper Rush. Like I expect their offense is gonna
41:45
Speaker 6: be much much better than it has been, and that
41:49
Speaker 6: Drew will have some Steelers fans warm up because their
41:52
Speaker 6: defense it's too high priced to not be decent. Exactly,
41:56
Speaker 6: I think their offense is what needs to be adequate,
41:58
Speaker 6: and it just hasn't been righted lately.
42:01
Speaker 8: So we're gonna continue hot take hump Day and we
42:03
Speaker 8: will maybe Malik Willis take him, will gonna end up somewhere.
42:09
Speaker 6: That would be a fascinating spot for him as much
42:11
Speaker 6: as they want around the football.
42:13
Speaker 2: Mike said that I make it easy on quarterback. We
42:15
Speaker 2: gotta be able to lead to football.
42:17
Speaker 8: Yeah, one are the similarities in the games between Dak
42:20
Speaker 8: and maleak.
42:22
Speaker 2: Uh.
42:23
Speaker 6: Dak from seven years ago was a lot more normal
42:25
Speaker 6: what I'm saying, a lot, a lot closer to yes,
42:28
Speaker 6: hundred percent, and the competitiveness is something that Big Mike's
42:32
Speaker 6: gonna love for sure. I like that he said we're
42:34
Speaker 6: starting the Super Bowl parade from number seven right there
42:36
Speaker 6: on Crew fill Up and that's so much.
42:38
Speaker 2: Just the beautiful, beautiful moment last night. Love it.
42:42
Speaker 8: We are locked and loaded and we were headed into
42:44
Speaker 8: the final hour.
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