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02/27/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 3: And I see you getting in there too, I did.
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Speaker 2: I responded that Dobbler asked a question. I responded he
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Speaker 2: was asking about the clock.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: We go a little longer with Dolf there, and we
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Speaker 2: make that last segment shorter but I figure it's worth it,
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Speaker 2: right Dolphins.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's blocking and tackling. You know, it's the end
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Speaker 3: of the week. I got to do a better job
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Speaker 3: as the quarterback, the point guard. I got to get
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Speaker 3: us a break around.
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Speaker 2: Either way, it's the same total amount of content. You're
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Speaker 2: not losing the content.
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Speaker 3: On us up front. Need to block better.
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Speaker 4: We need to be we need to be cleaner on
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Speaker 4: the execution to be able to make sure that everything
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Speaker 4: can go Dobblers.
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Speaker 3: Grades will be coming out later on, you know, Okay,
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Speaker 3: they'll be released, so that's great. Yeah, we've been talking
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Speaker 3: about grades because of the nfl PA grades that leaked
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Speaker 3: with the Packers dropping from seventh to twenty first.
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Speaker 4: Twenty first, twenty first, large portion because of the training
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Speaker 4: room and Drew last year also, head coach went a
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Speaker 4: full letter grade down, went from an A Hey, congratulations
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Speaker 4: all team owners that are listening to us here today.
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Speaker 3: You got an A minus though, Yeah, yeah, you got
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Speaker 3: all of you.
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Speaker 4: Well, I was thinking all the owners, I was thinking
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Speaker 4: all the fans and shareholders, the shareholders that are listening
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Speaker 4: to us, got you guys got an a minus.
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Speaker 2: The minus is funny, like Charles and Arkdale didn't do
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Speaker 2: a good enough job.
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Speaker 4: Well listen, I think there were a few booze going
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Speaker 4: into halftime when maybe you could be sporting the program,
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Speaker 4: well you could be about to cast, so that that
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Speaker 4: could be one of them. Maybe some the ticket resale
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Speaker 4: is what dropped that from n A to an A.
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Speaker 4: Minus the training room, though Drew and I think we
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Speaker 4: asked it a couple of times. It felt like the
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Speaker 4: Packers had more times this year than ever before where
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Speaker 4: a player was a question mark going into the game,
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Speaker 4: played in the game, and then didn't make it through
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Speaker 4: the game. Right, thinking Zach Tom in Cleveland when he
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Speaker 4: clearly was still hampered, and like the Brandon McManus kicking situation,
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Speaker 4: keeping him off of I R and having him roll
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Speaker 4: with Haver sec and he's clearly maybe not still healthy,
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Speaker 4: but he wants to be able to play. He's not
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Speaker 4: necessarily talking to Matt Lafleur figuring it out. I thought
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Speaker 4: maybe that had something to do. But they didn't lose
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Speaker 4: their trainer, they lost the team physician. But it's the
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Speaker 4: most change they've had in the medical department quite some
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Speaker 4: time up there.
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Speaker 3: That's true. Everybody loves Flea in those everyone loves flea.
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Speaker 3: So I can't figure out what that would be, but
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Speaker 3: you're right, that is that's something to think about, like
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Speaker 3: that when you're cleared to play, and that or they
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Speaker 3: were saying they were hinting that Zac Tom could play, yeah,
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Speaker 3: like not even clothes.
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Speaker 4: Well, and I remember there being something too, and I
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Speaker 4: have to go check the exact quote that Lafleur had,
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Speaker 4: but he had said something of we lean on the
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Speaker 4: players to let us know how they're feeling, what they
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Speaker 4: actually think they're going to be able to do. And
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Speaker 4: and maybe that was more than there had been in
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Speaker 4: years past. Maybe that put them more in a bind,
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Speaker 4: and then maybe guys felt like that was a part
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Speaker 4: of it, or it's the again the call to action is.
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Speaker 4: I think they're redoing the entire training room right now
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Speaker 4: and updating their recovery spas and pods and cold and
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Speaker 4: hot tubs and all the different infrared saunas to be
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Speaker 4: able to have h It's an impressive operation to be
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Speaker 4: able to continually put money into the program. But it's
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Speaker 4: you also see these guys coming from absolute meccas like
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Speaker 4: it's not an excuse. I think this is more of
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Speaker 4: an explanation. This is at all different levels. The Badgers
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Speaker 4: are going to build an absolute palace right now at
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Speaker 4: the Kelendar Center that they're putting together next to Camp
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Speaker 4: Randall Stadium. These football departments that these kids are playing in,
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Speaker 4: if you're in the SEC Big ten, acc are disgustingly good.
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Speaker 4: And that was one of the biggest advertisements other than
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Speaker 4: paying players to be able to get there. And in
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Speaker 4: the NFL, they're like, hey man, you can go and
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Speaker 4: you can make your backyard really really nice with the
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Speaker 4: money we're paying.
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Speaker 3: Yet that's a great point perspective, is changing the locker
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Speaker 3: room at the Cardinals training center might not be up
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Speaker 3: to Arrowhead High.
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Speaker 4: School standards, that might not be Arrowhead basketball, but listen,
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Speaker 4: that's another hill that we can get. So if you're
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Speaker 4: ranking teams, football would still appreciate one. But I'm not
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Speaker 4: gonna it's zero some if you're ranking team.
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Speaker 2: So if all facilities are getting better and there still
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Speaker 2: has to be a number twenty seven, this has to
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Speaker 2: be a number twenty five. It doesn't mean these guys
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Speaker 2: are living and playing an absolute squalor. So it is
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Speaker 2: kind of an role for me a little bit though.
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Speaker 3: And it's interesting too because the Packers and in a way.
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Speaker 3: It'll be like with this with the Brewers as well.
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Speaker 3: Like if you've only played for one team, you don't
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Speaker 3: really have a measure the frame of guys coming in
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Speaker 3: like Josh Jay GB, Xavier McKinney, you guy guys coming
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Speaker 3: in from other plates, Nate Hobbs, you know Banks, guys
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Speaker 3: who have been at other places, like you know, Aaron
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Speaker 3: Rodgers played his entire career in Green Bay and he
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Speaker 3: was used to a level, and then he goes to
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Speaker 3: the Jets and the Steelers. Yeah different. I think now
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Speaker 3: he's looking back, going I had it pretty good, being
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Speaker 3: competitive and the way I was treated, and like he
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Speaker 3: now he knows like that, you know how how good
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Speaker 3: it could be.
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Speaker 4: And now also like you, you say, what do these
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Speaker 4: report cards matter well to a perspective free agent that
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Speaker 4: does have enough of the pelts on the wall and
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Speaker 4: everything else is pretty much even where do I want
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Speaker 4: to choose? If I'm going to choose from a team
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Speaker 4: that's sitting in the twenties or you know, maybe you
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Speaker 4: mentioned the Aaron Rodgers one the Minnesota Vikings.
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Speaker 3: It is two options this.
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Speaker 4: Year are the Steelers Vikings, which it kind of seems
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Speaker 4: like it might be he's seen what the outhouse might
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Speaker 4: look like if you're reading into the minus the thirty
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Speaker 4: second rank for the Steelers.
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Speaker 3: Just it's an interesting part of that dynamic. Wouldn't you
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Speaker 3: like to be a fly on the wall of the
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Speaker 3: cell phone conversation between Micah Parsons and Trayvon Diggs and say,
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Speaker 3: you know, what's it like there? What's different here?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: What you know? Yep? And then you know the guy
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Speaker 3: we know and these things are the grades at the NFLPA.
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Speaker 3: It's it's on the facilities, the nutrition and the training,
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Speaker 3: the weight room. It ain't about the city and the
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Speaker 3: restaurants and bars. Yeah, you know, nightlife, Yeah, availability of
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Speaker 3: female companionship, Yeah, direct flights in and out to say
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Speaker 3: I don't know Miami. Yeah, it's not about Atlanta connections.
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Speaker 3: And then like with travel, and that was one of
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Speaker 3: the things the Brewers have leaned into too when they
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Speaker 3: do recruit free agents and stuff, is that you know,
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Speaker 3: our travel isn't as bad as you know. You want
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Speaker 3: to go play in l a great, that's a great one.
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Speaker 3: Go fly to Miami, New York, Atlanta, Like those are
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Speaker 3: long ass flights. You spent a lot of time in
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Speaker 3: planes and it takes a toll on your body, whereas
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Speaker 3: the Brewers have to sit here nestled in the middle
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Speaker 3: of the country. Uh huh. And you're you know, much
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Speaker 3: shorter travel days.
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Speaker 4: Well, and I don't know necessarily if the travel is
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Speaker 4: gonna get better, because I do believe that the Packers
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Speaker 4: are gonna play one of their international games this year, right.
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Speaker 3: So will it be against the Lions? I think it's
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Speaker 3: talking about that because the rumor they are going to
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Speaker 3: go to Germany, and now the Lions have been announced
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Speaker 3: in Germany, And would they take that game away from
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Speaker 3: the fan bases here?
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Speaker 2: Uh?
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Speaker 4: I think they might. Now it's also the Lions home game.
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Speaker 4: That's one of the biggest reasons why the Packers would
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Speaker 4: get the nine home games. Talk about a built in
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Speaker 4: advantage where you get nine home games six true road games,
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Speaker 4: because I think that one's gonna be kind of a
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Speaker 4: split atmosphere and one of the or seven true road games,
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Speaker 4: and one of them that would be your toughest one
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Speaker 4: in ford Field. Being international would be crazy hard for me.
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Speaker 3: To imagine the Packers playing an international game where they
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Speaker 3: didn't have the advantage in supporters. Yeah, I would agree. Basically,
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Speaker 3: any worldwide fans.
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Speaker 4: The only reason the Lions would have any is the
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Speaker 4: German connection with maybe if there's too many Amanas Saint
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Speaker 4: Brown fans there because.
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Speaker 3: He speaks German, that would be the only reason I
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Speaker 3: could think that could be, Like he might win the
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Speaker 3: neutral people. Yeah, those. I always wonder if the way
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Speaker 3: Capa Kate went over some German people to cheer for
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Speaker 3: the US and women's hockey.
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Speaker 2: Well, you're it's for usually reasons like that when you
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Speaker 2: pick a fan, uh fan loyalty, like you're wearing the
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Speaker 2: Tottenham shirt today. It makes me think Drew Billy, Like
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Speaker 2: do NFL fans overseas pick their teams the way American
9:22
Speaker 2: fans pick their English Premier League teams?
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Speaker 3: It's like for usually random reasons. It's just one player.
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Speaker 2: They liked Jersey, saw game they saw, or someone they
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Speaker 2: just glom onto and all of a sudden become like
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Speaker 2: passionate loyal fans like they grew up in Liverpool, Like
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
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Speaker 4: So there was a cool uh twelve or thirteen minute
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Speaker 4: video that the NFL put out, uh Ca Huzano was
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Speaker 4: a part of it, of like.
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Speaker 3: Some Newcastle fans.
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Speaker 4: I want to say they came to the Packers Bears
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Speaker 4: game and it was it was kind of just like
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Speaker 4: they seemly adopted the Packers as their American football.
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Speaker 3: Dan Wheland just visit there.
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Speaker 4: Danny Whelan was was rolling through the Ireland areas, Like
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Speaker 4: there's there's some outreach program really to it, But like
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Speaker 4: I do think some of it is they'll identify a
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Speaker 4: city that's kind of similar to THEIRS program that might
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Speaker 4: have something similar to the fan or the team that
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Speaker 4: they pull for. But I do think it might just
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Speaker 4: be because it's cool, right and and having a game.
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Speaker 2: And we talked a lot about the last couple of
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Speaker 2: years really quick. But it's like it's the it's the
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Speaker 2: community ownership. It's more relatable to fans overseas. They had
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Speaker 2: that brand. So there's a lot to that.
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Speaker 3: I wonder do Gooty and Matt Lafleur have a player's
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Speaker 3: executive Player Leadership Council because that should be regular. I
10:34
Speaker 3: think you got to do that. And I know with Murph,
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Speaker 3: I think that's Yelich. It might be a one man
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Speaker 3: is like yeah, Yelli, should we You know, what do
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Speaker 3: you think do you think pro football today or what.
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Speaker 2: You think pro football GM's coaches executives want their teams
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Speaker 2: to be run like that, though the culture of football
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Speaker 2: seems to be more militaristic.
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Speaker 3: I think it's got to be more collaborative than that,
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Speaker 3: and it's got gotta be like input and stupid stuff
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Speaker 3: like well now that the packer can like park underneath
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Speaker 3: and the little amenities like that. Sure to me, it
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Speaker 3: is just flabbergasting that they haven't developed some kind of
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Speaker 3: kids room. You'll get people lining up to shovel snow
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Speaker 3: we can find qualified childcare people, and some of the
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Speaker 3: people like maybe I don't know, I don't know the
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Speaker 3: dynamics of it because I'm not a pro athlete. But
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Speaker 3: if you are a player with kids, you're of a
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Speaker 3: certain age, right you have you're a Vetroan player and
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Speaker 3: you have young kids, you might very likely have a
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Speaker 3: nanny around that takes care of the kids while your
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Speaker 3: wife goes to road games or whatever. You might have
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Speaker 3: a person a nanny. So then does the nanny go
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Speaker 3: as a guest to the game, sitting in the suite
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Speaker 3: and have some vodka Sodi's and watch the game, or
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Speaker 3: is the nanny watching the kids during the game. Either way,
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Speaker 3: whether the club provides you know, nannies daycare or you
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Speaker 3: bring your own they have nannies, but you go down
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Speaker 3: there and watch as well. Yeah, I don't know, that's
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Speaker 3: what I don't know, but it seems to me like
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Speaker 3: that is the it should have been fixed the first
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Speaker 3: time it showed up on the surface liability, because I
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Speaker 3: think it can't be. The Brewers have this room and
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Speaker 3: right here when I walk by it all the time
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Speaker 3: and see the little kids playing it, and it is
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Speaker 3: especially with the games where the you know, the games
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Speaker 3: that go late or night games, the kids they might
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Speaker 3: have a little nap pods or stuff or like you
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Speaker 3: know kids like you said, Sunday day games. I don't
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Speaker 3: way Capri sons and they're running around and juice boxes
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Speaker 3: in there. You know, at least they get ten.
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Speaker 2: Don't want to bring the kids to a game. It's
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Speaker 2: harder at Lambell than a baseball game because it's cold.
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Speaker 2: It's tighter, like to put them out in the bowl.
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Speaker 2: You're not going to do that right in the cold
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Speaker 2: winter games. So maybe it's just a matter of having
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Speaker 2: a place to have them stay. Like even if it's
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Speaker 2: not having the actual childcare coordinators or whatever, it's just
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Speaker 2: having a place where they can be even with their
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Speaker 2: own parents, you know, or with whoever it is, Grandma, mom,
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Speaker 2: whatever it is. I would think because it's a lot
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Speaker 2: because not all the players have suites and stuff like that,
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Speaker 2: it's easy to say, I'll put them in the suite,
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Speaker 2: well one or two, add that right, well, right, And.
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Speaker 4: It's also easy to say, well just build out a
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Speaker 4: sweet well, okay, if we're selling three of them and
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Speaker 4: we're gonna blow up one of them, that's the greatest
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Speaker 4: thing that we're gonna watch little wayneton one of them
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Speaker 4: and all that stuff. Yeah, so you gotta be you
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Speaker 4: gotta work that out a little bit.
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Speaker 3: You gotta be. Another thing. And I don't know if
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Speaker 3: this is part of it or not, but another thing
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Speaker 3: that's really important for teams is alumni relations. Mm hmm,
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Speaker 3: like send guys, swags, keep that thing, keep the bond going.
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Speaker 3: Bruce do a pretty good job of that. I don't
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Speaker 3: know if the packers are. They do have a suite
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Speaker 3: for guys and they let them come. I know their
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Speaker 3: packers alumni suites always bumping. Yeah, they have a lot
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Speaker 3: of guys come. Isn't that something we've always done well?
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Speaker 3: The packers with alumni. I think, like alumni weekend and
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Speaker 3: like the you know, the opening day or.
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Speaker 4: Picture Tom Crabtree got on her this year. Is one
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Speaker 4: of the members of the championship team. Yeah, his kid
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Speaker 4: gets to be there with him and see him run
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Speaker 4: out part of things of it. Yeah, that's part of it.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, flabbergassing.
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Speaker 3: And then when it comes to the training room and like,
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Speaker 3: oh I don't like the strength coach, or or maybe
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Speaker 3: this guy's riding me for being a fat ass in
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Speaker 3: the off season. You don't know. Everybody's got their own
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Speaker 3: agenda when they it's.
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Speaker 4: Very much injured here on my sprained angle because I
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Speaker 4: think that I should have There can always be These
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Speaker 4: grades are very much like back in the day when
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Speaker 4: you talk to a hitting coach, he's like, you know,
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Speaker 4: a third of the guys love me, third of the
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Speaker 4: guys hate me, and a third guys are neutral.
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Speaker 3: And it's like it's and it's based on the ven diagram.
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Speaker 3: Is like who's having a good year they love me,
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Speaker 3: who's having a bad year they think I'm an idiot.
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Speaker 3: And the guys who are doing what they always do
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Speaker 3: just are neutral and don't care. So it's like yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's it's reflective of that in some way.
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Speaker 4: It's also the again, like Arman said it, and the
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Speaker 4: is any are these really really bad grades? Well, listen,
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Speaker 4: if the Green Bay Packers are going to be title
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Speaker 4: town and that's what you're gonna hold yourself to, average
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Speaker 4: is not good enough. Average point average can be as
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Speaker 4: good as enough, but there's no f minuses like I
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Speaker 4: saw certain teams getting graded for on their ownership or coaching.
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Speaker 4: And also, I mean, listen, I'm not trying to throw stones.
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Speaker 4: I'm not trying to say my guys better than your guy,
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Speaker 4: or our guys better than their guy. Aaron Glenn got
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Speaker 4: an a and was literally falling asleep yesterday.
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Speaker 3: And National Time.
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Speaker 4: So I mean, like we're saying this stuff. You can
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Speaker 4: see some of it and you can laugh. You can
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Speaker 4: also look at some of it and say, hey, good understanding.
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Speaker 4: We appreciate the feedback. This is the real life suggestion box.
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Speaker 4: It is what workplace do people actually go in and
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Speaker 4: open the suggestion box, dig something up and say oh
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Speaker 4: Arman and Armin and Broadcasting said, uh, we need more
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Speaker 4: selection of pop tarts in Vendo world.
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Speaker 3: Great one, okay, cool? Who cares? Right?
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Speaker 4: Like so at least now you'll see that this gets
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Speaker 4: taken under invisement.
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Speaker 3: Maybe something happens.
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Speaker 2: Good point, I wouldagine, especially when it becomes public and
15:35
Speaker 2: you're right about that, when you hear like the fan
15:38
Speaker 2: base and it becomes the outcry on social media, I
15:41
Speaker 2: would imagine now the Packers are going to put in
15:43
Speaker 2: a childcare facility just because of this.
15:47
Speaker 3: Last year.
15:47
Speaker 2: I'd be totally shocked if they just said, no, we
15:49
Speaker 2: still don't need to do it, and we don't care
15:51
Speaker 2: if people clown us for it. That's not the way
15:53
Speaker 2: the Packers do business. So to me, that's gonna be
15:56
Speaker 2: part I. There might be a maybe there's a liability
15:58
Speaker 2: reason or something that we don't think.
16:00
Speaker 3: About it, but I don't.
16:01
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't think so either now. But I'm just
16:02
Speaker 2: trying to think, like, would there be a reason not to?
16:04
Speaker 3: So, Yeah, this is an ed policy thing though, because
16:07
Speaker 3: it's like these are the this is the punch listuff.
16:09
Speaker 2: You see some of those mats on the ground. You
16:10
Speaker 2: get those mats and everyone's.
16:11
Speaker 3: It's there there. I bet the give me like kid
16:14
Speaker 3: Katie in there. Yeah, we'll work it out. A big
16:17
Speaker 3: old jungle gym in there. It's gonna be better than
16:19
Speaker 3: you ever imagine a foam pit. K're still playing in
16:21
Speaker 3: the in the phone ball pit? Is that still of thing? Plastic?
16:25
Speaker 3: I remember? I remember Jaden and haven Field to run
16:28
Speaker 3: around the clubhouse. Is little everywhere? They're playing in bad
16:30
Speaker 3: playing organization. Oh yeah, and uh Jermichael Finley's little son,
16:35
Speaker 3: you know, remember him with the curly hair, the good
16:37
Speaker 3: looking kid when he was real little. He's committed the
16:39
Speaker 3: Notre Dame. Now he's gonna play. Yeah, and he's in college.
16:42
Speaker 4: And I yesterday dug up because my little guy is
16:45
Speaker 4: in the phase where if we're playing sports, we both
16:48
Speaker 4: have to be wearing jerseys.
16:49
Speaker 2: That's what he wants you on the field, on the field, field,
16:52
Speaker 2: full uniform, full participation.
16:54
Speaker 3: You have some football jerseys I got, I got at yeah,
16:58
Speaker 3: so I know that by now.
17:00
Speaker 4: Well, so I had to open up the box and
17:01
Speaker 4: I had to dig up and through all of the
17:03
Speaker 4: different jerseys.
17:04
Speaker 3: That I had.
17:04
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, those and how about a rude one of
17:07
Speaker 4: my wife's saying, why is that so skinny?
17:11
Speaker 3: Oh? Shots fired emotion.
17:15
Speaker 4: I thought this for the emotional damage your boys still
17:17
Speaker 4: put it on. Was able to squeeze in as she
17:20
Speaker 4: goes fit. It doesn't look as tight as I thought
17:23
Speaker 4: it was going to.
17:24
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I was rudin on.
17:28
Speaker 3: Did you keep any witnew jerseys? I hope you did.
17:31
Speaker 3: I always asked for him.
17:32
Speaker 2: Back, and they're like, we're gonna find you and we're
17:34
Speaker 2: gonna charge your parents.
17:36
Speaker 3: I think sat your limitations up. I think I had both.
17:39
Speaker 4: I think I kept both good, one of which was
17:42
Speaker 4: hanging in a friend of mine's college house. So I
17:45
Speaker 4: do think I got that one back. I don't know
17:47
Speaker 4: exactly why that one stayed in the carroll he played
17:50
Speaker 4: for the.
17:50
Speaker 3: Name on the front. They didn't have your name on
17:52
Speaker 3: the back. Not on the back. No, not on the back.
17:54
Speaker 3: We keep that one right there on the on the front.
17:56
Speaker 4: But uh, speaking to Michael Finley, all of a sudden,
17:58
Speaker 4: I was digging through and realized that, I, how did
18:00
Speaker 4: your Michael Finley number eighty eight?
18:01
Speaker 3: Pretty cool? Pretty cool. I wish I would have known
18:04
Speaker 3: that when he was sitting with us at Radio Row
18:06
Speaker 3: last year. Kids are gonna be like some of my
18:07
Speaker 3: annoying friends growing up in the Wooded Hill subdivision back
18:10
Speaker 3: in the day. Oh yeah, we'd be playing like in
18:12
Speaker 3: the summer. It's like, all right, we're playing baseball, and
18:14
Speaker 3: you play a couple hours and nobody's in right field
18:16
Speaker 3: if you hit the right field automatic out and then
18:18
Speaker 3: like dude would have on his like Brewers T shirt
18:20
Speaker 3: or something, and then ah, this, we're tired of this,
18:22
Speaker 3: Let's go shoot some hoops. Wait, I gotta go put
18:24
Speaker 3: on my basketball jersey. I gotta switch them up, like really,
18:28
Speaker 3: oh yeah, really, oh yeah, that's see. I was a
18:31
Speaker 3: cynic as a kid. I'm like, why would you have
18:32
Speaker 3: to do that? You're delaying us, Like you got to
18:34
Speaker 3: go home and change.
18:35
Speaker 4: Like, well, thank you, Drew. And how about yesterday? I
18:37
Speaker 4: thought I totally cracked the code. What do you put
18:39
Speaker 4: on in that situation? Because we have a kid doing
18:41
Speaker 4: this Dean Sanders jersey? Yeah, because you can play there
18:44
Speaker 4: you go, sweet football. That's not spine blown faddy, No.
18:48
Speaker 3: That's football. That's a football jersey. There's no buttons on
18:51
Speaker 3: that one.
18:52
Speaker 4: All right, take that son of a gun off, put
18:54
Speaker 4: the bob uker on, and get yourself back over here
18:57
Speaker 4: and put the right switches.
19:00
Speaker 3: Were sick and tire of this, Yeah, that's that's awesome.
19:02
Speaker 2: Well it wasn't as bad as like, you know, there
19:05
Speaker 2: were There was like kids that wanted to wear cleats
19:07
Speaker 2: playing football in the backyard, like we.
19:10
Speaker 4: Don't need to play foot Yeah, we don't need cleats
19:11
Speaker 4: on for Haales Corners Park Saturday morning.
19:14
Speaker 2: I might have been the guy that had a jersey
19:16
Speaker 2: ready if we switched to basketball, I might have been
19:18
Speaker 2: that guy, all right, But I was not going to
19:20
Speaker 2: let that Cole's discount Sean Westberg Jersey Bucks jersey go
19:24
Speaker 2: to waste.
19:25
Speaker 4: I like that, Yeah, I like that was a five
19:27
Speaker 4: dollars specially there was there were a couple of the park.
19:30
Speaker 4: The Sunday footballs we did Saturday eight am was was
19:33
Speaker 4: the one that turned into a very very physical game
19:36
Speaker 4: over at Hales Corners Park. When I was in middle school,
19:38
Speaker 4: there were times when you had we picked teams earlier
19:41
Speaker 4: in the week. You guys are gonna be in the
19:42
Speaker 4: white jerseys. We're one of your ways. You guys wear
19:45
Speaker 4: a colorers, so then we know exactly who's on the
19:47
Speaker 4: same team. You can't go shirts and skins when you're
19:49
Speaker 4: playing in the middle of October. That one's not gonna work.
19:52
Speaker 4: Clearly as well, not going to.
19:53
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20:53
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20:58
Speaker 3: to one of the better analogs threads of this year's
21:01
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21:04
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21:21
Speaker 3: the Friday edition of The Huddle, Drew, Billy and Armon
21:24
Speaker 3: bringing it to you on what's gonna be a glorious weekend,
21:28
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21:31
Speaker 3: Nicks gonna be a funnel. I'm excited for Bucks next.
21:35
Speaker 3: I guys, maybe I'm just a fool.
21:37
Speaker 4: Maybe I'm just excited. Maybe I'm just optimistic. I was
21:40
Speaker 4: just kind of hoping tonight was gonna be the night
21:41
Speaker 4: Yannis is gonna come back, right.
21:43
Speaker 3: Like I kind of had it circle. Maybe this would
21:46
Speaker 3: be the time getting close. I know he's getting close.
21:48
Speaker 3: We've heard it being close. He said it all Star Break.
21:51
Speaker 3: He's one hundred percent. He's like, I'm ready, he wants
21:53
Speaker 3: to go. You can tell. I just I thought maybe
21:55
Speaker 3: tonight would be the time.
21:56
Speaker 2: But uh, she doesn't see him like it, so says
21:58
Speaker 2: when you see this team winning, it's got to get
22:00
Speaker 2: him his competitive uses flowing, Ben saying, all right, they
22:02
Speaker 2: got something going here, let me jump.
22:03
Speaker 3: In and we'll keep winning games.
22:05
Speaker 4: You know well, and maybe also since they're winning, Drew,
22:07
Speaker 4: it's the thought of, hey, you guys, keep doing this.
22:09
Speaker 4: I'm gonna make sure as as one hundred percent of
22:12
Speaker 4: that possibly can be and then run it as much
22:14
Speaker 4: as we can and hopefully be as healthy into the
22:16
Speaker 4: playoffs as he's been in.
22:18
Speaker 3: Years, as fresh as you can. Absolutely, all right, So
22:21
Speaker 3: Combine's going on. It will wrap this weekend. For some
22:23
Speaker 3: it's already wrapped. Some have yeah, definitely, some are already
22:26
Speaker 3: getting out of it. But nagt turn me onto the
22:29
Speaker 3: thread from Lindsay Rhods. Did you see that? Uh Lindsay
22:32
Speaker 3: Roads analysis along thread above or NFL known she's leaving
22:35
Speaker 3: the Yeah, she's leaving the Combine.
22:38
Speaker 4: Uh.
22:38
Speaker 3: First impression this draft class is underwhelming at the top.
22:43
Speaker 3: The best guys at premium positions are mostly thought to
22:45
Speaker 3: be guys who wouldn't have been the top guys in
22:47
Speaker 3: other draft classes. That's going to make for some interesting
22:50
Speaker 3: decisions for teams at the top of the draft. If
22:52
Speaker 3: the best guy is an above average starter rather than
22:55
Speaker 3: a blue chip, you know, Pro Bowl, All Pro guy,
22:58
Speaker 3: is it worth spending a high pick on that guy,
23:00
Speaker 3: or do you pivot to a higher end guy at
23:02
Speaker 3: a position that's not as highly valued like running back, linebacker, safety.
23:07
Speaker 3: There will be a lot of positional value conversations inside
23:11
Speaker 3: front offices this season.
23:13
Speaker 4: That's a fascinating part of it. And I think Brett
23:16
Speaker 4: Veach was the one that also said at the microphone,
23:18
Speaker 4: he's like, probably about twenty five percent of our top
23:22
Speaker 4: one hundred players decided to go back to school, right Like,
23:25
Speaker 4: He's like, there was a huge amount of them that
23:27
Speaker 4: all decided they were going to go back to school
23:28
Speaker 4: a lot at those exact premium positions because you're getting
23:32
Speaker 4: the most guaranteed money to stay in college at those spots,
23:36
Speaker 4: like outside of the pass rusher and left tackle. She
23:39
Speaker 4: is right, I know, wide receiver is very very high.
23:42
Speaker 4: People really really enjoy a lot of the talent there.
23:46
Speaker 4: That also seems like it's a yearly thing. Drew right,
23:48
Speaker 4: Everybody loves the wide receiver talent because there's so many
23:50
Speaker 4: good ones coming out. But the fact that you might
23:54
Speaker 4: see a running back, safety, and linebacker. The three positions
23:57
Speaker 4: she mentioned right there, all taken in the top ten.
24:01
Speaker 4: That speaks volumes in a twenty twenty six football that's
24:05
Speaker 4: all predicated on metrics and things like that.
24:07
Speaker 3: The other thing about this draft and the combine, there's
24:09
Speaker 3: no smoke. There's no there's no even like you know,
24:12
Speaker 3: hemming and hawing or couching. It's like Mendoz is going
24:15
Speaker 3: it seems like it.
24:17
Speaker 2: The closest thing was Danie Orlowski put a tweet out
24:19
Speaker 2: that said, I watched his tape and it wasn't what
24:21
Speaker 2: I thought.
24:22
Speaker 3: But he's it. But nobody's even like if the Raiders
24:25
Speaker 3: take him, it's like they're taking it. That's the way.
24:27
Speaker 2: Brady seems to be falling in love with them. Don't
24:29
Speaker 2: you think you knew he would?
24:31
Speaker 4: And he's standing there today and they just he's talking
24:35
Speaker 4: actually right now. And they gave a an aerial shot
24:38
Speaker 4: of the two poor guys that they put right next
24:40
Speaker 4: to Fernando Mendoza in the interview room. But there's nothing there.
24:45
Speaker 4: There might be a conversation who ends up being the
24:47
Speaker 4: second guy, but Drew it's kind of like last year
24:49
Speaker 4: where even though it doesn't warrant it, we still only
24:53
Speaker 4: want to talk about quarterbacks and there might be two
24:55
Speaker 4: tid like yeah, so yeah, and then they all have
24:59
Speaker 4: their are like you know, plus is and even Mendoza's
25:02
Speaker 4: guys definite limitations, yep, limitations there. So it's gonna be like, oh,
25:05
Speaker 4: we have this guy valued higher than this guy, and
25:07
Speaker 4: then in three years we'll decide who made the better pick.
25:10
Speaker 3: Who's the best player overall in this draft? Because Mendoza
25:13
Speaker 3: is number one, but he might not be the best player.
25:15
Speaker 3: He's gonna be close. Jeremiah loves the best player. Jeremiah
25:18
Speaker 3: Love and Caleb Downs are in the discussion.
25:19
Speaker 4: I think those two are those two would be the
25:21
Speaker 4: best ones and Downs that people are are just loving
25:24
Speaker 4: in the interviews. Knew they would. He another incredible story
25:28
Speaker 4: of a guy that started at Alabama, he left when
25:31
Speaker 4: Saban left, went to Ohio State and continued being dominating force.
25:38
Speaker 4: But Love is also, you know, running backs not what
25:41
Speaker 4: people want to put near the top of the draft.
25:43
Speaker 4: It doesn't work out very well for some of the
25:45
Speaker 4: teams that take one right Bjon Robinson's amazing hasn't sniffed
25:49
Speaker 4: the playoffs. Saquon Barkley gets drafted in the top five
25:51
Speaker 4: with the Giants, makes the playoffs one time, and wins
25:54
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl once he's a free agent. But Love
25:57
Speaker 4: is kind of in that discussion where he feels to
25:59
Speaker 4: me like he could be the McCaffrey kind of playmaker
26:03
Speaker 4: with the ball in his hands in the past game
26:05
Speaker 4: and the run game.
26:06
Speaker 3: Don't let him go to Kansas City. Lindsay Roads goes
26:08
Speaker 3: on to say that there could be a run based
26:09
Speaker 3: on the way the game is going on tight ends
26:11
Speaker 3: and safeties, because they're the cat and mouse with the
26:13
Speaker 3: heavy packages with multiple tight ends, and then you need
26:16
Speaker 3: safeties to combat that. And so that whole chess match,
26:20
Speaker 3: if you will, makes people say, well, not only do
26:23
Speaker 3: we need one good tight end, not two, we might
26:25
Speaker 3: need three three because we're going to go three.
26:27
Speaker 2: And then every action personnel and to your point, the
26:30
Speaker 2: safety every action as an opposite reaction in the market.
26:33
Speaker 2: It's the inefficiency of the market where you know, everyone
26:35
Speaker 2: started getting excited about receivers ten years ago, and now
26:38
Speaker 2: every kid came up as a receiver. Now there are
26:40
Speaker 2: so many good receivers available. Therefore, the supplies there do,
26:43
Speaker 2: so where does the value come from? And it might
26:45
Speaker 2: be those positions or even running backs. Now if you
26:47
Speaker 2: see like a Jamier Gibbs play so well, and I'm
26:50
Speaker 2: you know, I've always been a guy that said don't
26:51
Speaker 2: invest in running backs. But if the economy of the
26:54
Speaker 2: markets of position markets changes a little bit and you
26:57
Speaker 2: can see, well he made an impact on this Yeah,
27:00
Speaker 2: in this team, if.
27:00
Speaker 3: You get the right guy.
27:01
Speaker 2: Again, it's always about identifying the right talent guy and
27:05
Speaker 2: not just a positions.
27:06
Speaker 4: Are gonna validate loves drafts position right, because Jeremiah Love's
27:10
Speaker 4: gonna go in that top twelve and Jamier Gibbs is
27:13
Speaker 4: the exact case in point of now he can be
27:15
Speaker 4: exactly that kind of player.
27:16
Speaker 2: Now, I don't know if if you got that with
27:18
Speaker 2: Ashton Genty. I think maybe the Raiders thought they were
27:20
Speaker 2: gonna get that type of guy with Gent and didn't
27:22
Speaker 2: make the pop they wanted. So it will be interesting
27:25
Speaker 2: to see what happens in that regard. We focus so
27:27
Speaker 2: much on positions, but I always go back and forth
27:29
Speaker 2: with the draft over years and thinking is it more
27:32
Speaker 2: important to have quality depth and finding the right guys
27:35
Speaker 2: over time? The packers have been done a pretty good
27:37
Speaker 2: job of that mid rounds. Or is it really about
27:39
Speaker 2: finding as many great players as possible? Really the game changers,
27:43
Speaker 2: the top end guys. Yeah, that's the second one.
27:44
Speaker 4: You got to try to find as many of them,
27:46
Speaker 4: and the most important is how you can find them
27:48
Speaker 4: at positions of value and get the guaranteed money and
27:53
Speaker 4: they can become significant players for you on a minimum contract.
27:57
Speaker 4: You bring up the tight end spot. Though everybody follows
27:59
Speaker 4: the leader, everybody follows McVeigh. They ran more thirteen personnel
28:03
Speaker 4: than anybody all year long. They had three legit dudes.
28:06
Speaker 4: Tyler Higbee probably was the name people remembered the most.
28:09
Speaker 4: He wasn't the best fantasy producer. And then they had Ferguson,
28:12
Speaker 4: the rookie from Oregon who caught like two touchdowns in
28:15
Speaker 4: the final eight games and was a force. I saw
28:17
Speaker 4: somebody saying yesterday online like tight end's a sneaky position
28:22
Speaker 4: of need for the packers.
28:23
Speaker 3: No, it's a position of need for the packers.
28:25
Speaker 4: Right, Like you know, it is a position of need
28:28
Speaker 4: for the packers. As much as Tucker Craft might be
28:30
Speaker 4: an all pro, you need another one. As much as
28:33
Speaker 4: I like Josh Wiley what he did at the end
28:34
Speaker 4: of the year last year. You're not going to bank
28:36
Speaker 4: on that. And Luke Musgrave is a massive question mark.
28:39
Speaker 4: It still is a huge question mark and coming up
28:42
Speaker 4: on the time where he's gonna be up for a contract.
28:44
Speaker 4: So you want to get younger and you can maybe
28:47
Speaker 4: get better at that spot now because that one continues
28:50
Speaker 4: to churn out better and better player.
28:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, just because you have one great it's football. You
28:53
Speaker 2: need depth. Just because you have one great player at
28:55
Speaker 2: a position. You know, it's better than that having too,
28:58
Speaker 2: like you know, it's like water in pizza.
29:00
Speaker 3: And versatility. Another thing she talks about is a trend
29:03
Speaker 3: as the power slot receiver. The guy could be a
29:05
Speaker 3: number one target that plays out a stop, that can
29:07
Speaker 3: go inside and outside. And that made me think, like, okay,
29:10
Speaker 3: Jane Reid was, you know, leading receiver and like playing
29:13
Speaker 3: that way, but Jane Reid, Matthew Golden, could they go outside?
29:17
Speaker 3: Do they have that versatility? That's what teams are looking for.
29:19
Speaker 3: Those unicorn type guys used to be you're the outside
29:22
Speaker 3: guy or you the slot. You know, I remember ran
29:24
Speaker 3: the top Jeordy like you know, now it's like you
29:27
Speaker 3: got to be able to move around well. And how
29:29
Speaker 3: about Chritian Watson.
29:29
Speaker 4: I think a couple of his biggest highlights came when
29:31
Speaker 4: he was the inside number three on the slot on
29:35
Speaker 4: a trips package, right where he would be considered like
29:38
Speaker 4: six foot four, six foot five. And for how much
29:40
Speaker 4: you're you gonna run outside Drew, you need somebody to
29:42
Speaker 4: be able to block like that on the perimeter. So
29:46
Speaker 4: I think Reid has the biggest opportunity to pop comparatively
29:52
Speaker 4: to what he did this year. Right, Obviously, he missed
29:54
Speaker 4: so much time with the injury, but I think there
29:56
Speaker 4: was still the belief that he was just gonna come
29:58
Speaker 4: back and be at the peak of his power. Included
30:01
Speaker 4: I thought I thought he was going to come back
30:02
Speaker 4: and be an absolute jolt to lightning round. Just didn't
30:04
Speaker 4: have to built in trust, uh with with love from
30:08
Speaker 4: the year that he needed. But I think he's gonna
30:11
Speaker 4: be a much better addition this year, and wide receivers
30:15
Speaker 4: stocked up. They got a bunch of options this year.
30:18
Speaker 4: I don't know the Packers are going to take one.
30:19
Speaker 4: I also didn't think they were going to take two
30:21
Speaker 4: in the first three picks last year, so I wouldn't
30:22
Speaker 4: be surprised.
30:23
Speaker 3: So the mechanics of this draft though, if this if
30:27
Speaker 3: is indeed true, where there's there's talent, but there isn't
30:31
Speaker 3: talent a lot of talent at the premium positions, So
30:34
Speaker 3: then you got to adjust your board and do you
30:37
Speaker 3: you calibrate that because of the first round money and
30:39
Speaker 3: the contract stuff that you got to give the first rounders,
30:42
Speaker 3: does that mean well, we're not going to take that
30:44
Speaker 3: guy or that position at this juncture. That has a
30:47
Speaker 3: weight on it too.
30:48
Speaker 4: It kind of does, and I think the true I
30:50
Speaker 4: think the Packers maybe do it more than other teams,
30:53
Speaker 4: right Like, I think they've taken more swings with their
30:56
Speaker 4: first round picks, always at those premium positions. Even if
30:59
Speaker 4: a Jordan Morgan was a question mark like oh, maybe
31:01
Speaker 4: can play guard, They're like, no, we're gonna try him
31:03
Speaker 4: at left tackle because that's where there's more value for
31:06
Speaker 4: us to have him on a on a rookie contract
31:08
Speaker 4: for two years potentially, or corner, and they've tried a
31:11
Speaker 4: lot of times at corner. I think they'll they'll still
31:15
Speaker 4: be taking swings at that spot just because you desperately
31:18
Speaker 4: have to. But I mean, you need good players everywhere right,
31:21
Speaker 4: you need good players wherever they end up being. I
31:26
Speaker 4: just think this is where we're really starting to see
31:28
Speaker 4: rubber meeting the road of nil and the NFL starting
31:32
Speaker 4: to have a little bit of conflict if players are
31:35
Speaker 4: still coming in more ready than ever before to perform
31:38
Speaker 4: once they get to the NFL, league's not going to
31:40
Speaker 4: care about it. But I do bet there's some front
31:43
Speaker 4: office members drew there saying, I really wish X, Y
31:46
Speaker 4: and Z came out this arman Olsen here at Houston University.
31:50
Speaker 4: Why the hell did he not come out? We wanted
31:52
Speaker 4: to take him at.
31:53
Speaker 3: Fifty two exactly. Yeah, you were locked in that long
31:57
Speaker 3: sid I'm all in. I mean, you know, you know
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Speaker 3: MEAs our own notes, the premium positions quarterback, edge, tackle, receiver, receiver, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and maybe corner.
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Speaker 4: Corner is definitely the last one in there because it's
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Speaker 4: I think it's the second hardest position to play in
32:12
Speaker 4: the game.
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Speaker 3: Which is funny because we're talking about tight ends. Yeah,
32:16
Speaker 3: but those are the so now Yeah, so tight end
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Speaker 3: might be a premium position this year, might be a.
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Speaker 4: First round well, and you know we say edge rusher,
32:23
Speaker 4: it's pass rusher and over the last couple of years
32:25
Speaker 4: Aaron Donald crazily enough breaking the role. Everyone most important
32:30
Speaker 4: edge rush might be coming from the three tex So
32:33
Speaker 4: it's it's guys that can get after the quarterback. But
32:35
Speaker 4: those are the spots, the ones that make the most
32:37
Speaker 4: money are a lot of times the premium positions and
32:39
Speaker 4: the ones you just named right there. Thirty plus mil
32:43
Speaker 4: for the top players at that position.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but then again, you see the stat floating around
32:48
Speaker 2: that all the top paid receivers amounted to one playoff
32:51
Speaker 2: game win or one playoff win the top ten. So
32:53
Speaker 2: you don't know sometimes and sometimes those are the ways
32:56
Speaker 2: that just happens in the playoffs. It doesn't necessarily correlate
32:59
Speaker 2: to a reason for it, but it doesn't causation, but
33:01
Speaker 2: it's just the way it goes. So yeah, but those
33:03
Speaker 2: are usually when you see the highest paid guys, those
33:05
Speaker 2: usually the positions.
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Speaker 3: Yeah eightee seven.
33:10
Speaker 4: I mean you talk about your causation and correlation thing.
33:13
Speaker 4: Just wait for the Darnolds conversation. Now, listen, he's the
33:17
Speaker 4: quarterback and he only made thirty million. So if you
33:19
Speaker 4: actually want to win, you can't take these fifty million
33:22
Speaker 4: dollars contracts.
33:22
Speaker 2: Were copycats in this league in terms of that it's
33:24
Speaker 2: whoever won had the playoff success super Bowl the year before,
33:27
Speaker 2: that's gotta.
33:28
Speaker 3: Be the way to do it. It was before.
33:29
Speaker 4: You gotta draft the rookie and you gotta have him
33:31
Speaker 4: on a rookie contract as well. Mahomes is the only
33:33
Speaker 4: one that ultimately kind of did. And then the Hurt's
33:35
Speaker 4: got one and they're like, well, you're gonna pay the guy,
33:37
Speaker 4: but you gotta do it in a different way.
33:39
Speaker 3: You gotta pay him a little bit less.
33:42
Speaker 4: We'll see, we'll see if that ultimately changes it up
33:44
Speaker 4: or if we're gonna continue to do business the way
33:46
Speaker 4: we're doing it in the NFL. Caps still going up
33:50
Speaker 4: every single year, and these teams are still finding themselves
33:52
Speaker 4: more and more money to play with Drew. So I'm
33:54
Speaker 4: excited for free agency coming up here in three weeks,
33:56
Speaker 4: which feels crazy that it's already almost here, already upon us.
33:59
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, great Twitter account vital Vegas. It always be
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Speaker 2: speaking to people are saying, you know what, Vegas is dying.
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Speaker 3: Okay, the sleep caation.
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Speaker 4: More Americans are choosing to take sleep cations, then adventure caations.
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Speaker 4: This from the Huffington Post. Uh, with travel dupes and
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Speaker 4: which is running amuck on TikTok and Instagram. However, they
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Speaker 4: take the polar opposite of the approach of running yourself ragged,
37:17
Speaker 4: going and sight seeing, and as Tanner Saunder's senior hotel
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Speaker 4: reporter of The Points Guy said, and it's true, it's
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Speaker 4: pretty simple. You take vacation with the intention of getting
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Speaker 4: a good or few good nights. Sleep can be as
37:30
Speaker 4: simple as checking into a hotel in your own city
37:32
Speaker 4: with a sleep package of enhanced ways to get a
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Speaker 4: great night's sleep, like a fancy bed, advanced technology, sound machines,
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Speaker 4: or from sleep enhancing supplements, or as full on sleep retreat. Now,
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Speaker 4: this isn't an Aaron Rodgers darkness retreat.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we just talked about that.
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Speaker 4: But sky Scanner's twenty twenty four Travel Trends said nearly
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Speaker 4: fifty percent of Americans travel travelers were surveyed saying they're
38:01
Speaker 4: more mindful of their sleep health now and that sleeping
38:05
Speaker 4: top the list of US travelers' main activities for their
38:09
Speaker 4: next vacation, out ranking shopping, sight seeing, nightlife or wildlife spotting.
38:15
Speaker 4: You know, I want to get my head on a
38:16
Speaker 4: pillow and I want to sleep.
38:18
Speaker 2: It is interesting, but like I guess I'm gonna ask
38:21
Speaker 2: the question anyone can ask, can't you just do that
38:23
Speaker 2: at home? Take a day off into a staycas or
38:26
Speaker 2: do if they go to a hotel. But I'll say this,
38:29
Speaker 2: I did read that more people are taking days off
38:32
Speaker 2: just to sleep. So what does that say about us
38:34
Speaker 2: and the demands we have this society and our workplace,
38:38
Speaker 2: the changing you know, times of like twenty four hour
38:41
Speaker 2: access in like the demands on a twenty four.
38:43
Speaker 3: Hours Oh grind now before AI replaces us all, I guess,
38:46
Speaker 3: But it's kind of sad. But then again, we should
38:48
Speaker 3: be getting more sleep. Here's the thing. Though I spent
38:51
Speaker 3: many many nights in hotels. I can sleep in hotels.
38:56
Speaker 3: Other people have trouble. Some people look forward to it.
38:58
Speaker 3: The blackout curtains is hilario because I remember my pal
39:02
Speaker 3: Pat Hughes Hall of Fame Voice and the Cubs was
39:04
Speaker 3: with the FS. He always carried in his suitcase duct
39:07
Speaker 3: tape because there was always that gap in the curtains. Wow,
39:11
Speaker 3: take the curtains. Oh yeah, he had the workaround to
39:15
Speaker 3: get that. The sleep stuff, and it's true. Now here's
39:19
Speaker 3: the thing, though, you guys, you'll probably sleep great on vacation.
39:21
Speaker 3: When I was in Mexico, there were some nights when,
39:23
Speaker 3: thanks to this schedule of ours and daily routine and
39:26
Speaker 3: being in the sun and going a happy hour and dinners,
39:28
Speaker 3: I was in bed by nine o'clock on vacation, which
39:31
Speaker 3: is great up early. But the thing is with you, guys,
39:35
Speaker 3: you could do the staycation, send the kids. Exactly why
39:40
Speaker 3: can I do this at home?
39:41
Speaker 4: Because I have a ten month old's foot in my
39:44
Speaker 4: ear recent night, I get it.
39:45
Speaker 3: But if you're going to Disney with the kids, you're
39:47
Speaker 3: not getting that. It's the same situation when I got woken.
39:51
Speaker 4: Up with daddy. Why why why is your shirt wet?
39:55
Speaker 4: While it's the same reason why your pants are wet?
39:56
Speaker 4: Thank you very much, jockingly that that changes it up.
39:59
Speaker 4: So I have never seen felt more scene in this
40:02
Speaker 4: one because, as I was asked earlier this month, guys,
40:06
Speaker 4: and it's coming up this summer, I'm gonna be the
40:08
Speaker 4: best man in my best friend's wedding and we're gonna
40:11
Speaker 4: be a bachelor party up in Escanaba. And when the
40:16
Speaker 4: assignments the story the itinerary came out, there was something
40:21
Speaker 4: about Sharon Beds and I said, listen, I appreciate it.
40:24
Speaker 4: We're over thirty and this isn't Sleepway camp. More importantly,
40:30
Speaker 4: I got two kids, and the most important thing. I
40:33
Speaker 4: appreciate the golf. I appreciate the casino. I appreciate what
40:36
Speaker 4: might be in the parking lot of the casino which
40:38
Speaker 4: you might be able to spark up. You know, what
40:40
Speaker 4: I'm also really gonna appreciate is the fact that I'm
40:43
Speaker 4: gonna roll around in my own bed and I'll pay
40:46
Speaker 4: the extra money if it means that I'm not bunking
40:49
Speaker 4: with somebody else because we're over thirty.
40:50
Speaker 3: And I need to get that night's sleep.
40:52
Speaker 4: Drew, I had never felt more seen when I read this,
40:55
Speaker 4: because I'm definitely dreaming of a sleep cation just about
40:58
Speaker 4: every single night.
40:59
Speaker 3: Point. I'm not gonna lie.
41:01
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I'm gonna be Vegas in about a
41:04
Speaker 2: month and I'll be making sure to sleep in. Although
41:06
Speaker 2: the times they'll do mess you up, but then you're
41:08
Speaker 2: too excited.
41:08
Speaker 3: When you're there.
41:09
Speaker 2: However, you're right, I mean, it is gonna be nice
41:11
Speaker 2: now that we work't this shift to know we don't
41:13
Speaker 2: think it up.
41:13
Speaker 3: But now, can you guys explain what you what you
41:16
Speaker 3: think this one is?
41:17
Speaker 4: You know, Malibu Beach in in southern California features two
41:20
Speaker 4: designated sleep sweets. You know Blackout Curtain is probably part
41:24
Speaker 4: of that. And then the Four Seasons resort on Hawaii's
41:28
Speaker 4: Big Island offers an eighty minute quote sweet Dreams massage
41:35
Speaker 4: treatment to promote a good night's rest.
41:38
Speaker 3: The what the sweet Dreams treatment? Sweet Dreams treatment? Can
41:44
Speaker 3: I sign up for ninety seconds to get at this?
41:45
Speaker 3: Come the Armin's always looking for? Was just thinking they
41:49
Speaker 3: were reading a bedtime story. I didn't. What are you
41:52
Speaker 3: talking about? I'll come up with my own.
41:55
Speaker 2: It's called watching youtubes of people making sandwiches, and that's'll
41:58
Speaker 2: put you to sleep.
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Speaker 3: It puts me to sleep every night. Love that, Love
42:02
Speaker 3: that been a great week. We've made it through February.
42:06
Speaker 3: We're on to March. We're gonna see you at five
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Speaker 3: am on Monday. Matt Lapey is going to join the party.
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Speaker 3: He'll be back in the state. We're gonna have a blast.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for hanging out with this week. We'll see
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Speaker 3: you Monday. Peace.