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Talking Vikings/Parckers with The Rookie from WDUZ FM in Green Bay! · Sports Done Wright w/ Vince Wright

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  Speaker 4: All right everybody what is happening vince right the sports
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  Speaker 4: a great show sports done right the best podcast coming
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  Speaker 4: out of minnesota lots going on lots to cover first
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  Speaker 4: off Big, big interview tonight with my main man, the
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  Speaker 4: one and only, the rookie from WDUZ FM.
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  Speaker 2: In Green Bay. We're talking border battle. Week one, baby.
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  Speaker 2: Green Bay, Minnesota. Skull time. We're going to get into it.
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  Speaker 2: But before we get to that interview and what an
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  Speaker 2: interview it is, shouts out to 7th Avenue Pizza for
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  Speaker 2: them very much. And definitely make sure you get you
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  Speaker 2: some of the best frozen pizza in Minnesota. And, folks,
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  Speaker 2: first off, a couple things I want to get to
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  Speaker 2: here because, obviously, week one NFL, we're going to get
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  Speaker 2: into Vikings-Packers. But Big Ten and, you know, coming off
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  Speaker 2: that Michigan debacle last week with Western Michigan getting hosed.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Michigan, huge game, huge game for the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Huge game for the program post-hardball there as Oklahoma comes
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  Speaker 2: to town 12 noon. And Oklahoma, number 11 in the country. Michigan,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, tumbled out of the rankings. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in that game, man, you just feel bad for Western.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to spend a lot of time on it.
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  Speaker 2: It was last week. But we all know Western Michigan
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  Speaker 2: should have gotten that victory, deserved that victory. Don't give
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  Speaker 2: me this clock BS nonsense. This one had a second
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  Speaker 2: on it. What I saw didn't have any time on it,
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  Speaker 2: but okay, whatever. Penn State, they're in Philadelphia. They're at Temple.
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  Speaker 2: Mississippi State and Minnesota we're going to talk about in
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  Speaker 2: a quick second. The other game coming up, the battle
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  Speaker 2: for the state south of us, Iowa State, the Cyclones.
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  Speaker 2: Cy Hawk winners last year. See if they can go
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  Speaker 2: down to Iowa City, number 21 ranked Iowa Hawkeyes. That
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  Speaker 2: game's on NBC tomorrow night, 7.30. As is Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: and Texas, man. College football is back. And I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to be locked and loaded to both of those games. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: I know a lot of Iowa people. Shout out Andrew Hayes.
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  Speaker 2: He actually invited me to this game, but I got
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  Speaker 2: some family stuff popping off this weekend. So I will
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  Speaker 2: stay put, but... I'm telling you, man, Iowa State, one
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  Speaker 2: of the best rivalries out there in college football. If
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  Speaker 2: you get a chance to partake in that game, definitely
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  Speaker 2: do it. And Ohio State, Texas, I mean, come on.
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  Speaker 2: Number one Ohio State. Number one Ohio State, but nobody
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  Speaker 2: really talking about Ohio State. That's the thing. Well, Arch
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  Speaker 2: Manning coming to town. and we're going to see if
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  Speaker 2: he can redeem himself. He started off slow last year,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, by the end of the season, Manning
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  Speaker 2: was playing some ball down there in Texas. So very
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  Speaker 2: excited to see that game as well. And of course,
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota hosts Mississippi state and that is on CBS. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you something, man, very excited. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Mississippi state has not had a lot of success post
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  Speaker 2: Mike Leach, uh, rest his soul. Um, And Mississippi State,
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  Speaker 2: they're in a tight pickle because if they lose this game,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be hard for their fan base to
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  Speaker 2: kind of get behind what that coach is trying to
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  Speaker 2: do down there. I think they've been 8-18 the past
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  Speaker 2: couple years. And Minnesota, same thing. See, that's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: Both of these teams played teams that just really didn't
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  Speaker 2: matter last week as we saw. Eastern Illinois for the Gophers, great,
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  Speaker 2: 57 points. Mississippi State. with Camario Taylor, and we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about him at quarterback for Mississippi State here in a second. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you can't really take anything away, and that's
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  Speaker 2: why this game is really intriguing. I was talking about
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  Speaker 2: this with the rookie before we taped our interview that
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  Speaker 2: you're about to hear here in a moment. But this
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  Speaker 2: game can really go any ways. We just don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You know, personally, I'd like to see this year Drake
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  Speaker 2: Lindsey open it up downfield a little bit more. I
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  Speaker 2: want to see if we can get some of those
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  Speaker 2: long strikes. Darius Taylor in the backfield. Keep them healthy.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see if we can get them runs back. But
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  Speaker 2: you just don't know. And the same thing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like my boy Thor Nystrom calls him on his show,
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  Speaker 2: Super Camario Taylor. You know, phenomenal game. Obviously, last week,
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  Speaker 2: I think they played Louisiana Monroe. But yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you just can't tell because of who you were playing.
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  Speaker 2: And so... Tomorrow, we're going to get some answers for
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  Speaker 2: both programs. Can Mississippi State kind of find their, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to say signature win, but a much needed
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  Speaker 2: win over a school in the top conference or one
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  Speaker 2: of the top two, obviously, conference. This is along with
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  Speaker 2: the SEC that they're in. And I'm going to tell
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  Speaker 2: you something. It's a very interesting game. And it's hard because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, people go, well, what's your prediction? You know,
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  Speaker 2: And you can go either way with this because you
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  Speaker 2: just don't know. So I consider and say, Hey, I
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  Speaker 2: think the Gophers win by seven to nine points, which
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  Speaker 2: is kind of how I'm feeling. But Gophers have also
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  Speaker 2: had issues containing quarterbacks like Camario Taylor as well and have,
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  Speaker 2: you know, let some of these quarterbacks do a lot
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  Speaker 2: of damage to the Gophers. So I'm very interested to
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  Speaker 2: see this Gophers defense. Um, See what they can do.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to be glued to the TV tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't going to lie. It's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: college football Saturday in all its classic glory. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm very, very, very excited to see what
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  Speaker 2: is going on with these top 25 teams. I am
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  Speaker 2: very excited for tomorrow. I just love college football. What
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  Speaker 2: can I say? And real quick, give you the AP
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  Speaker 2: top 10. Ohio State 1, Georgia 2, Notre Dame number 3,
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  Speaker 2: Texas 4, Indiana 5, Oregon is 6, Miami 7, LSU 8,
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  Speaker 2: Ole Miss 9, and 10 is Texas A & M.
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  Speaker 2: So there's your top 10. And let's do this. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: real quick. LSU, for real, all the stuff. Dabo Sweeney,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to have to figure it out or he's
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  Speaker 2: going to have to move on because you can't keep
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  Speaker 2: living on what was. And I give Dabo Sweeney and
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  Speaker 2: Clemson all his props and his flowers. Two national championships
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  Speaker 2: in an era where it was hard to do it.
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  Speaker 2: I get all that, but He is very late to
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  Speaker 2: the game in NIL, and Clemson is just suffering. And
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, Clemson, they just don't even seem
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  Speaker 2: to matter anymore in the ACC, let alone national talk anyway.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's get to it here. My interview with
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  Speaker 2: the rookie. What can I say, man? The rookie's married
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  Speaker 2: to a dear friend of mine over there in Green Bay.
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  Speaker 2: Good dude, good at what he does. Tremendous show. Go
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  Speaker 2: to the WDUZ FM website. Check out the Bill and
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  Speaker 2: Rookie Experience. Do a very good job there. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: always honored when he takes time to join us here
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  Speaker 2: on the Sports Done Right podcast. So let's get to
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  Speaker 2: it here. This is a longer interview. We went a
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  Speaker 2: little long here as we were having so much fun.
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  Speaker 2: About 45 minutes. And it's all things Vikings, Packers. And
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  Speaker 2: we get into some other Wisconsin sports too. All right, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: You know him, you love him. He's the voice of
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  Speaker 2: Northeastern Wisconsin sports coming to you from Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: He's been on the show before. He's married to a
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  Speaker 2: dear friend of mine. And one thing about the rookie
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  Speaker 2: that before we get into all this football talk and everything,
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  Speaker 2: stellar dude, stand up guy, and you're not going to
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  Speaker 2: meet a greater person. So Rook, What is up? Thanks
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  Speaker 2: for joining us again on the Sports Done Right podcast
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  Speaker 2: to talk about that border battle with the Pack.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Vince, thanks for having me back. It's hard to
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  Speaker 5: believe football season is here. We're a couple of.
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  Speaker 3: Games in already. But, yeah, we're kicking it off with
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  Speaker 3: the border battle. What a great way to start.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, man. Well, I'm over here, and if I turn
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  Speaker 2: this way, I'm looking at the pool here at the
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  Speaker 2: complex and some bikinis that are still out. but yet
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  Speaker 2: it's football season, like you said. So, uh, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: the rookie joins us from 107.5 WDUZ FM over in
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  Speaker 2: Green Bay, Wisconsin. And before we get into the border battle,
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  Speaker 2: I did want to talk to Rook about the Wisconsin Badgers.
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  Speaker 2: Now Rook, nobody expected them to be, you know, Notre Dame. I,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's safe to say, but this very, very proud, um,
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  Speaker 2: you know, team and the memories and the Barry Alvarez
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  Speaker 2: memories and everything that's gone back almost 40 years here
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  Speaker 2: for Wisconsin football to where they are now, obviously what's
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  Speaker 2: the vibe over there in Wisconsin. I mean, if Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 2: let's just say another lackluster season is fickle out of there.
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  Speaker 2: Can they buy them out? Do they want to buy
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  Speaker 2: them out?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's a buyout of about $ 20 million after this year,
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  Speaker 5: if they do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, Look, he's hanging by a thread, right? I mean,
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  Speaker 5: it hasn't been very good since he's been here at Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you referenced that Notre Dame game. You know,
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  Speaker 5: they put up their Dukes for the first half, right?
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  Speaker 5: And you thought, oh, this is kind of an interesting game.
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  Speaker 5: A couple of breaks here, a couple of breaks there,
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  Speaker 5: and they could have been leading at halftime. But I
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  Speaker 5: think what disappointed everybody was the way the second half unfolded, right?
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  Speaker 5: Then they got run over by a truck. They make
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  Speaker 5: questionable decisions. You know, you're down a couple of scores
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  Speaker 5: and you're punting on fourth down rather than going for
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  Speaker 5: it and things of that nature. And so the decision-making is,
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  Speaker 5: you know, questionable as well. You know, you talked about
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  Speaker 5: the history of the Badgers and Barry Alvarez. And even
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  Speaker 5: after that, you know, you know, when you had Brett Bielema,
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  Speaker 5: you know, he carried on the tradition. And even to
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  Speaker 5: a certain degree, Paul Chris, when he came back, it's
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  Speaker 5: funny you talk about that because I was having lunch
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  Speaker 5: with a friend actually today, and we were talking a
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  Speaker 5: little bit about the Badgers.
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  Speaker 3: And, and fickle.
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  Speaker 5: And we're like, you know, college football has changed so
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  Speaker 5: dramatically in the past couple of years with NIL and,
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  Speaker 5: and the Badgers are behind in that department.
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  Speaker 3: And you have to have a checkbook these days and,
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  Speaker 3: and they don't have it right now. And we were
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  Speaker 3: just talking about it.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I said to my friend, I said, man,
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  Speaker 5: do you think the Badgers will ever capture what they did?
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  Speaker 5: You know, recently is probably 10 years ago when the
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  Speaker 5: season is, um, highly ranked and maybe have a shot
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  Speaker 5: at making the playoffs or whatever, if the, if the schedule.
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  Speaker 3: Broke right for him.
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  Speaker 5: And I mean, when you go away, when you fade away,
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  Speaker 5: like they have so far, it's hard to get back.
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  Speaker 5: And we were talking about this. I mean, just think
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  Speaker 5: about like Nebraska. Oh, we're recovered from the Tom Osborne
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  Speaker 5: era and the Frank solo care of solar chariot era.
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  Speaker 3: Nebraska has never come back.
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  Speaker 5: You could probably say the same thing about Michigan state
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  Speaker 5: to a certain degree.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they haven't come back.
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  Speaker 5: And there are other teams and other conferences that were
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  Speaker 5: once somebody that have kind of faded and have never
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  Speaker 5: recaptured that.
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  Speaker 3: Glory or whatever you want to call it, that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: never climbed back to the top of the mountain.
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  Speaker 5: And there's a lot of things that have to happen
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  Speaker 5: right for the Badgers.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we talk about, Bill and I.
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  Speaker 5: Somewhat on my morning show, that, you know, Who knows
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  Speaker 5: where college football is trending? There might be the best
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  Speaker 5: teams in the country might break off into like their
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  Speaker 5: own super conference or just fans from the NCAA in
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  Speaker 5: general and do their own thing. And 10 years ago,
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  Speaker 5: Wisconsin would have been included in that group of teams,
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  Speaker 5: schools that would maybe break off. But if they broke
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  Speaker 5: off right now, Wisconsin would be on the outside looking
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  Speaker 5: in probably.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's the thing. You know, the game
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  Speaker 2: has changed so much. I mean, you know, when you
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  Speaker 2: were talking about Wisconsin, I also was picturing USC. Yeah, UCLA.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I was just watching, again, the Reggie Bush,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the documentary on them in Texas and the
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  Speaker 2: championship game there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And realizing before that, you know, USC in that Texas game,
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  Speaker 2: they were coming off back-to-back championships.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and it's just like– and nowadays, obviously, again,
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  Speaker 2: another big-name coach. the, you know, the ground is shifted
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  Speaker 2: underneath everybody. And, you know, I was, that's why I
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  Speaker 2: was glad you were on. And we, you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: able to talk to you because, you know, growing up,
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  Speaker 2: you know, going to school at the university of Minnesota,
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  Speaker 2: obviously with the battles we had with the Badgers and everything,
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  Speaker 2: and then to just see that yet once pro proud program,
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  Speaker 2: just kind of go down to where it is now. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's, it's really amazing what's going on in college football
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 5: Rookie.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and, you know, look, it's not a good thing.
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  Speaker 5: Look, coaches are getting out. They'd rather not coach than
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  Speaker 5: deal with NIL and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Nick Saban, exactly.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Jeff Halfley, who's now the coach of the
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  Speaker 5: Miami Dolphins, was the head coach at Boston College a
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  Speaker 5: couple of years ago when he came to Green Bay
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  Speaker 5: to be the defensive coordinator. And one of the first
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  Speaker 5: questions asked of him in the press conference was, well,
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  Speaker 5: why did you give up a head coaching gig in
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  Speaker 5: college to come here and And part of it was NIL.
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  Speaker 3: Part of it was, you know, not only.
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  Speaker 5: Do you have to attract kids to come to your
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  Speaker 5: school and want to play at your college now, but
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  Speaker 5: then you have to essentially recruit your kids there to stay.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. It's an every year process now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And so when you see schools, schools, colleges are hiring
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  Speaker 5: general managers and stuff, you know, it's, it's just crazy.
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  Speaker 3: And, and, Look, Nick, who.
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  Speaker 5: Doesn't think Nick Saban wouldn't still be coaching at Alabama
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  Speaker 5: if it weren't for NIL and all the nonsense going on?
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And he's pretty much said that, too. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the deal with all the nonsense you got to right now,
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to do it if I didn't have to,
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  Speaker 2: if I had, you know, the stats that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he has and can call it a day and be
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  Speaker 2: happy and still get paid to do some ESPN stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 5: But now, I mean, now it's just become– too big
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  Speaker 5: of a headache and you're not even really going into
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  Speaker 5: recruits living rooms and sitting down with the kid and
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  Speaker 5: mom and dad and trying to convince him to come
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  Speaker 5: to your school because a, you're going to get a
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  Speaker 5: great education and B we produce offensive linemen to go
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  Speaker 5: to the NFL and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Now you just got to go in there and you.
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  Speaker 5: You're going there with your checkbook and you go, all right,
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  Speaker 5: how much am I writing this checkout for, you know?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, speaking of paying athletes, supposedly we're going
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  Speaker 2: to talk a little pro football here. I think college
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  Speaker 2: is pretty much pro at this point.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Again, the host of the Bill and Rookie Experience over
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  Speaker 2: there in Green Bay. The rookies joining us here to
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  Speaker 2: talk about this border battle. Rook, let me ask you this,
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  Speaker 2: and I got some questions here written down on the
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  Speaker 2: old phone, but let me ask you. If you had
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: to tell the Packer fans one thing about the team
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: this year that's going to surprise them, what would the
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: rookie tell those Green Bay Packer fans?
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: What's going to surprise them? I think what would surprise
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: them is maybe you're going to have a top ten,
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: top five passing offense.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: I really like the way their offense for the aerial
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: attack is going to set up.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: I really like that.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: I hope, I've been preaching it on my show, that
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: I hope they let Jordan Love cook. I hope they
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: sling it all over. Throw the football. And this would
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: even be if Josh Jacobs was playing. Because in his
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: three years as a starter, since taking over for Aaron Rodgers,
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: the best he's played was the second half of his
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: rookie season when at the time they were 2-5, something
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: like that, if I remember. And they made that miraculous
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: run and made the playoffs and then nearly pulled off
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: an upset on the road in the playoffs. And Jordan
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: Love had these ridiculous numbers with touchdown passes, no interceptions, yards.
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: And I think if they let him cook a little bit,
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: they've got the talent at the pass-catching positions to do that.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: I think you could see a very prolific passing game.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Very interesting because that leads into question number two about
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: the quarterback, obviously, Jordan Love. Do you think he's capable
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: of really taking Green Bay to that Super Bowl status,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: not just a playoff appearance? but to really take your
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: team deep into the playoffs?
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Not yet.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: I think he has that potential. It's one, it's, it's
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: something I always say in my show and you know,
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: it's so different because when, when you had Brett Favre
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: here and you had Aaron Rogers here, you were always.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: In the mix.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: You always had an opportunity to win the game or
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: go to the Superbowl because of those guys.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: I don't feel like they're there with Jordan Love.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: I say all the time, you can win a lot
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: of games with Jordan Love, but you're not necessarily going
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: to win a lot of games because of Jordan Love.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: The difference is you knew that Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers, A,
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: two minutes left on the clock. Was there any other
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: quarterback that you'd want to have the ball in the hands?
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Maybe Tom Brady and couple of others but you know
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: I don't feel that way about Jordan Love you know
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: if you've got if you got two minutes on the
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: clock and you need to go the length of the
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: field for a game-winning touchdown where's your confidence level with
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: Jordan Love you know I mean I don't really like
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: my chances.
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: Per se but right well Rook let me ask you
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: this then what are you looking for specifically from Jordan
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: Love to improve on this year for over last season
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: well you know Better decision.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: Again, this is a great question because Bill and I
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: were actually talking about this this morning on our show,
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: and we were talking about the matchup of the game
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: and things that Jordan Love has to do to take
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: his game to the next level. Because this is interesting, Vinny.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: Matt LaFleur was asked yesterday, I think it was Thursday,
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: what does Jordan Love need to do to become an
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: elite quarterback? And Matt was like, man, I just, he's like,
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: I don't still understand this question. I don't, I don't
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: get what you guys, why you do this is I'll
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: let you guys decide because he believes Jordan loves already
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: an elite quarterback, which I think a lot of people
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: throw that term around pretty loosely. There's like two or
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: three quarterbacks in the national football league that are elite.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: Now here's my take on that. Jordan love is on
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: the bubble of being a top 10 quarterback in the NFL.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: If you ask me, so what does he need to
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: do to be a solid top 10, maybe a, top
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: seven quarterback in the NFL.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: He has to make better decisions when he has the opportunity.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: And the one that stands out to us the most
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: is last year in the playoffs against Chicago. When he
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: had an opportunity to run for about 10 or 15
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: yards when he needed to, and the game was on
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: the line, he threw the ball down for it down.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: And you're like, what are you doing? You got to
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: take that yardage. You have to take what's given to you.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: That was the first down that he totally screwed up,
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: totally messed the bed on that. So you got to
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: make better decisions in that situation. And then I think
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: he needs to be more consistent with his deep ball.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: He's got to be more accurate more often. And if
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: he can do those couple of things, your numbers go up,
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: your success rate.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Goes up in terms of maybe winning tight ball games
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: or whatever.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: And then he climbs into, then he is a solid
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: top 10 quarterback. He's a seven or eight top quarterback.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: He's not better than Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomes,
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: You're not better than Lamar Jackson.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: So he's not a top five quarterback in the NFL.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: Sometimes, you know, sometimes the numbers and sometimes everybody always
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: wants to look at the numbers. Well, the numbers say
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: he was fourth in touchdown passes, seventh in yards. Well,
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: that's not, that's easy to look at the stats, but
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: what are some of the intangibles and what are some
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: of the other things that you do that make you
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: a better quarterback than even your numbers may indicate? And
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: I don't think he's there yet, but I think he
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: has some, I think he has the possibility and the
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: potential to do that, but I don't know if he'll
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: ever be like a top five quarterback in the league,
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: but you're, you're, you're the best of the best of your.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Top five quarterback during your generation. Right.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: But I mean, if you can be a top seven,
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: top eight quarterback, there's nothing wrong with that, man. That's good.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: No. And I think people need to understand that as well.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: You know, people, if, It's just the way it is
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: nowadays with all the media overhype and stuff. The top
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: 10 quarterback is just fine as well.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: You'll win a lot of football games with a top
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: 10 quarterback, but you need a.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: Better team, a better supporting cast around that guy if
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: you really want to get to the Super Bowl and
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: the promised land. That's kind of where Jordan Love is
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: right now. He's going to win you a lot of
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: football games. He's going to keep you in some football
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: games and But you've got to have the defense, and
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: you've got to be able to run, and you've got
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: to be able to do these other things and not
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: make mistakes and not turn it over if you want
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: to actually get to the Super Bowl.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: All right. Again, talking with the rookie. Border battle, Vikings-Packers
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: this Sunday. And Rook, how's that offensive line? And the
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: reason I asked, Minnesota Vikings got a lot of young
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: faces on the defensive side of the ball, the defensive
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: line in particular, a lot of youth, a lot of
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: big dudes excited to get started there. Can you tell
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: me a little bit about the offensive line? Because I
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: think if the Vikings can find a way to get
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: to that quarterback of yours early, obviously that will help
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: them because our defense is so young, despite obviously the
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Harrison Smith coming back and resigning here a couple of
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: days ago. No, no shock here. We were right. Exactly. Yeah, exactly.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: But yeah.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: And that's what I'm really looking for this weekend in
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: terms of, you know, the Vikings fan in me is
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: to see kind of, I don't want to call it
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: a new look defense, but in a sense, kind of
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: a new look defense and to see what kind of
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: pressure they can get on Jordan.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: Well, that's, that's a great observation because that is, really
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: kind of the starting point, I think for this game
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: on Sunday, you know, the offensive line for the Packers,
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: they were not very good last year. And, and it showed,
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: and a lot of that was instability and, and, and,
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: and some poor play and they'd move things around and,
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: you know, Sean Ryan had to go in at center and.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: I forget the guy's name.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: Now I did, I even did a radio show with him,
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: the center Jenkins, Milton Jenkins, you know, was hurt and,
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: And then he's moved on.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Sorry about that, Elton. Yeah, you're fine. Last year was
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: kind of a mess, and it showed.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: So when training camp began this year, you pretty much
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: went into training camp knowing who the offensive line was
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: going to be. It was going to be Jordan Morgan
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: at left tackle, Aaron Banks at left guard, Sean Ryan
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: at center, Anthony Belton, a second-year player, is going to
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: be right guard, and Zach Bakabuwele, who changed his name,
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: used to be Zach Tom, was going to be your
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: right tackle.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Well, guess what?
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: That got derailed in a hurry because Aaron Banks can't
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: stay healthy and Zach Bakabuwele can't stay healthy. And Anthony
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: Belton hasn't performed.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Up to expectations.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: So Belton got kicked out to right tackle while Baca
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: Bueli was injured. They played a little bit of Jagger Burton,
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: a rookie, and Jacob Monk, who's been around for a
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: couple of years, at left guard and right guard. And,
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: you know, so they haven't had the continuity. And Coach
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: addressed that this week as well. And so nobody knows...
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: how healthy they'll stay. Aaron Banks may start at left guard,
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: Zach Baca, but while he may start at right tackle,
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: probably will both.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Those guys, but will they finish the game? Right. You know,
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't bet on it, you know?
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: And so what we thought was going to be a
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: better offensive line and has some stability actually has a
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: lot of question marks right now. And then you're going
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: up against a Brian Flores defense, right? That likes to
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: bring pressure and everything that you're talking about. And we'll
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: see what happens. Right now, because again, Here's the thing.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Vikings fans, you know, we're so excited. And then we
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: get to this quarterback issue of ours.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: And, you know, I mean, you.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Know, Kyler, you know, we'll see how it goes, obviously.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: I've never been a big fan of his when he
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: was in Arizona. I never liked him from day one
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: when he was drafted and all that.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: I've never been a big fan. And then I know.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: You know, you guys went out and got him in
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: the offseason. I'm not I'm not impressed, but tell me
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: I'm wrong. I don't know.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Well, I wish I could. And I think that's how
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: a lot of Vikings fans and Vikings nation rookie are
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: feeling right now, because, you know, here I'm going to
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: keep glancing down. I'm looking here at the lineup or
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: at least the depth chart as of right now, you know,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: so with Kyler. Aaron Jones. And then, you know, we
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: got these wide outs, Juwan Jennings, Jordan Addison, and obviously
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: the big JJ over there as well, who, you know,
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: in a sense, even though he did the last game,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: get a thousand seasons, he kind of wasted a season
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: last year. And that's also, you know, kind of on
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: pins and needles. If we have another down year this year,
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: when does JJ start asking to get out of here
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: as well? But You know, I'm looking at our offense and,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: you know, obviously beyond the quarterback issues, we feel pretty
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: good about it. But yeah, I mean, you know, I
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: was thinking about it today, Rook. We have a coach
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: that's called the quarterback whisperer.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: But yet, you know, if you Google the number of
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: quarterbacks and, you know, beyond KOC up here, but I
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: think it's like 25 quarterbacks we've had in the past
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: 30 years or something like that. It has just been nuts. And,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: you know, I'm not going to sit up here. Obviously,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: I want the purple to win and all that stuff.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: But you notice the sports governor this year, not sitting
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: up here all. boasting and bragging and stuff I'm actually
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: very interested for this afternoon game on Sunday and I'm
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: kind of on pins and needles because I am very
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: excited to see what Kyler can do with a much
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: improved offense and And I agree with you. You know,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: it wasn't my first choice, but it is what it
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: is at this point. But let me ask you this,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: you know, just to transition here into the Packers defense,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: you know, what are you expecting to see from them
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: game one and as the season progresses?
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Well, from the Packers defense, I mean, we really don't know.
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: And the reason why we really don't know is we
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: don't know what Jonathan Gannon is really going to bring
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: to the table and what he's going to do defensively,
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: because They really don't show you anything in training camp
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: too much.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, and, Rookie, let me interrupt you real quick because
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: you mentioned Jonathan Gannon. Folks, Jonathan Gannon comes from Arizona.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: And he knows our quarterback like the back of his hand. And, again,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: another reason, Rookie, that I'm very interested to see this
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: game Sunday.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but, you know, Kyler Murray knows what he likes
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: to run defensively. There's a little counter there, so we'll
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: see how that plays out. We expect an aggressive defense.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: We think they're going to be physical. Evan Williams, one
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: of the cornerbacks during the offseason program, talked about how
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: some of the corners are playing closer to the line
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: of scrimmage, and it sounds like he's going to be
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: a little more involved. And I said, one of the
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: things I noticed right away during the offseason program was
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: Evan Williams comes in and his thighs and his legs
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: are huge.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: You can tell he's put on some muscle.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: So during the OTAs, I'm like, all right, Evan, I
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: don't want this to sound weird, but I've noticed that
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: you've gotten a lot bigger and, you know, put.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: On some muscle.
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: And he explained that, you know, he's, he's expecting to
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: be playing closer to the line of scrimmage, kind of
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: getting his nose in there a little bit more. And
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: I'm like, man, you, I mean, you're going to get
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: down there where it sounds like you're going to be
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: down to.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: Where you get dirty, right? You get your nose dirty.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: And he's like, yeah. And so he put on some
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: weight and some muscle. So we think they're going to
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: be aggressive.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: I don't know if they're going to blitz more, um,
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: they're going to play a little bit freer. I think
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: they have, they have a little bit more latitude to
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: not be as rigid. Um, but I mean, we'll see
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: because we really don't know, right. You watch preseason and
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: it's so vanilla, you don't do anything. They don't like
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: to tip their hands. You can only go by what they,
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: they say, you know, I do like the upgrades that
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: they've made. Um, you know, I know Zaire, uh, Zaire
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: Franklin had a really poor season last year in Indianapolis,
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: but they're trying, they're hoping that he finds his game
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: that he had in 22, 23, 24, where he had
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: 130 tackles plus, you know, and quarterback hits and things
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: of that nature.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Um, so they hope they find.
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: A little bit of that Quay Walker is good, but
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: he was, he wasn't really a good team guy. Um,
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: I like what they've done up front with some of
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: the guys, you know, look, let's be honest with the
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: Packers defense.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: The big question is Micah Parsons, right?
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: They haven't won a game without Micah Parsons since he,
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: he blew out his knee in Denver last year. And
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: I asked Javon Bullard yesterday, I said, I asked him,
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: I said, I know it's a new season and you
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: start from scratch and everything, but I mean, how bad
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: do you guys just need a win in general?
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Because you guys.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: Haven't won since your team leader, and has gone down
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: with an injury. And, you know, and everybody points their
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: fingers at the defense and it's not necessarily all their
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: fault because, but they've lost leads late in games, right?
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: They've lost that playoff game to Chicago late when that
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: thing should have been sewn up. And, you know, if
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: you're losing late leads, you can say, well, if we
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: would have got one more first down from the offense
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: or something like that, you run out the clock, you
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: win the football game.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: But nobody remembers that. Nobody cares.
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: All they remember is the defense was on the field
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: when the other team scored the winning points. late in
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: the ball game. And so whether it's fair or not,
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: the defense gets scrutinized to get looked at, to get blamed.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: And I said, man, just a win. You guys haven't won.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: They haven't won since December 7th. Wow.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: I know a good chunk of that isn't football season.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: But it doesn't matter. You guys haven't won a game
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: since December 7th.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: That sounds like a long time, rookie.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. It is.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: That's why we love talking with the rookie, man. He
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: gives it to you. Straight shooter, man.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Love it.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: All right, Rook, a couple minutes here. We'll let you go.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: But before I let you go, I think the Vikings
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: and listen, man, you know, I'm going to ask you
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: for your prediction for the game. You know, it's the
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: first game. Nobody I'm not holding you to anything. I
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: think maybe. And that is probably the purple just talking
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: out of me. I think the Vikings eke out a
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: close one. I could see one of them 21-17, 21-19
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: type of games. I could also see that going the
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: opposite way just as easily, but obviously decked out for
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: your appearance here, so I got to go with the purple.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: But before I end with you, Bob, give me your
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: prediction for Sunday. Well, I'll go with the Packers eek
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: one out. Right, Bob.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: Look, it's a what? A one-point game? It's essentially a
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: pick-em game, right?
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: So it can go either way.
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: I'll say the Packers eek one out, but if they lose,
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: I won't be surprised.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Ditto. Yep, exactly the same, obviously. But, I mean, look,
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: it's a pretty important game.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: I don't know how I feel about opening up with
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: division ballgames.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: You know, I'd rather– they're so important. They're so important.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: To me, division ballgames, that I don't think you should
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: play a division ballgame until at least– a month into
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: the season for a couple of.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Well, the main reason is because... To me, the first
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: month of the regular season is like the new preseason, right?
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially... Right, yep. With the new way that the
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: preseason was structured this year, too. Exactly.
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: I mean, regular players play a handful of snaps in
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: the preseason, and that's about it.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Does that really get you ready for a season? So,
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: to me, you ought to be playing.
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: intra-conference or cross-conference games for the first month. And then
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: once everybody kind of gets their feet under them, you
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: start playing divisional games because they're so important. You know
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: what I mean? And I mean, look at the game.
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: I mean, they weren't, they weren't divisional games. Well, I
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: guess Thursday night's game was a divisional game, but I was,
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: I was referencing the Seattle, New England game on Wednesday night, a.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Rematch of the Superbowl. I think it was a dog.
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: No, that was a dog of a, You know, did
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: that look like a rematch of the Super Bowl? And
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: even that game in Australia, you know, maybe travel had
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: something to do with that.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: You know, that thing was a dog of a game, too.
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: And I think you should let teams get into the
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: flow of things and kind of get their feet under
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: them and then start playing divisional games because they're so
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: doggone important.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: You know, Rookie, I'm glad you brought that up because
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be honest with you. I never, ever
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: thought about that the way you just put it before,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: or just now, excuse me. And that really does it
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: to me. It makes a whole bunch of sense. I'm
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: sure to a lot of other people, it makes sense.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: But I think, man, this juggernaut of the NFL is
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: just out the box now to the point, you know,
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: we're talking about a kickoff game in Australia.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: And I was listening. There was a video came across
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: the Facebook feed earlier today.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: Stephen A.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Smith, I guess, was on his show this morning. talking
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: about how the NFL basically is going to be and
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: wants to be the number one sport in the world.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: You know, and they're, and honestly, they're well on their way.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, but yeah, that set up yesterday with the stadium.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, the fans, they were like 70 yards away.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: It's horrible.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: Just horrible. Exactly.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: And tell me, I mean, look, if I'm, what was that?
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: A Rams home game? Yeah, that too. Could you imagine?
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: I mean, what is the NFL doing taking that divisional game, A,
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: making it week one, and B, putting it in Australia?
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: I mean, I know, look, I know there aren't a
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: whole lot of Rams fans, and when you go play
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: in L.A., that a lot of other teams' fans take
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: over the place.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: But that's ridiculous.
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: It's just ridiculous to take a divisional game and put
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: it overseas. Could you imagine– you know, if they were
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: playing this game Sunday between the Packers and the Vikings
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: over in Germany or, or just.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: Take it overseas, it's a joke.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: No, I agree. And cause the, well, here's the funny thing.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: There would be tons of fans there, tons of Vikings
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: and Packers fans cause they would go, but I agree
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: with that premise that look, man, these games are important.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: They're home, you know, divisional games, um, teams are losing
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: out on revenue. Uh, I don't know, man, but it's,
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: it's just too, it's too big of a beast. I'm
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: afraid right now, rookie that you're not going to stop it.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: No, not at all.
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: You know, you know, and they've, you know, they've talked
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: about wanting to get an entire division over there and look,
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: they've been, they've been.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: I gotta be honest with you.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: I'm, I'm a little surprised that they haven't kind of
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: sped up the process of getting a team, a division
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: over there because, you know, they've, they've taken baby steps.
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: It was a, A game over there, here and there.
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: And then, you know, more games.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: Okay, well, they're selling. People are interested.
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: And then you try to– and then now we're going
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: to do back-to-back games at the same stadium. Let's see
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: if they can sell out two weeks in a row.
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: Now we're going to leave a team over there for
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: a couple of weeks to play back-to-back games. So they've
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: kind of taken baby steps to see the process and
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: how it would work out. And I'm a little surprised
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: that they've slow rolled it as much as they have and.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Haven't been in the process, to be honest with you,
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: because they're a bunch of greedy bastards. Yes, yes.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: And I agree with you 100%. All right, Rook, before
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: I get you out of here, and again, I thank
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: you for your time, my friend.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: Thanks for having me, man.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Of course, of course. But, you know, we got to
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: talk a little bit of hockey.
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: Before you ask your last question, I want all your
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: fans to know that I asked the sports governor to
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: come on my show Earlier this week.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: He did.
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: And he declined. Oh. He declined. I wanted equal opportunity,
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: equal time.
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: I wanted to have Vinny and the sports governor, the
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: guy that knows all sports, Minnesota, on my show.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: And he said no.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: It wasn't so much that I said no, Rook. The
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: job that pays the bills took precedent, unfortunately. with a
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: couple early morning meetings that, yeah, needed the attendance of
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: the sports governor. We'll try to do it later in
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: the season. Yeah, let's do it real soon, of course.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: But let me ask you this, you know, hockey, hockey
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: right around the corner, man. We got preseason games coming
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: up for the Wild next week.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: Dude, I'm reffing on Sunday morning.
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: High school fall league starts out here on Sunday, and
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: I have a 1030.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: Game to reff. Wow.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, let's talk about it here. You're a
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Colorado Avalanche guy. You know, the wild, the division, hockey's back.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: My Blackhawks continue to suck with no improvement whatsoever, it seems.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. You can bring the caner back all you want.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: It ain't going to make a hell of a beans
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: of a difference, unfortunately. But real quick, just kind of
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: give me some of your hockey thoughts on our division,
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: your team, the Avalanche. and anything you're looking for this
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: season in the.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: NHL. Look, our hockey, we're a hockey family. Just love it.
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: I'm an old Minnesota North Stars fan, and then he
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: moved to Dallas, and I could never forgive Norm Green
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: on all that stuff. I'm just kind of a hockey vagabond,
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: to be honest with you. I don't really hitch my
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: wagon to any particular team. Past couple of years, the
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: family's had flex tickets for the Wilds.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: We've been going over to St.
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: Paul to watch a handful of games a year. You know,
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: really look out just coming from a wild perspective.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: Everybody's just kind of waiting on Quinn Hughes, right? And
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: you're going to be able to get the deal done
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: with Quinn Hughes. I don't know.
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: It sounds, you know, I think that everybody is pretty
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: optimistic about it during the regular season. And Quinn was
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: talking about how much he loved the wild and being
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: in Minnesota, but I don't know. It sounds like it's
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: going to be a difficult deal to get done now.
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's, you know, the off season, he's hanging
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: out with his brothers. We really wants to play without
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: New Jersey. It's, I don't know, but that's really, that's
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: really the big story.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: And then, and then who's going to, who's going to,
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: you know, be in, in the, who's going to get
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: the starting gig in the pipes.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Well, that's always the question too.
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: Because they made a big playoff switcheroo, you know, uh,
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: Last year when the playoffs rolled around, you know, the
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: Gus busts under contract through 2030, I think.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, geez.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Is it 2030, Gus?
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: I think.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, boy. That makes it interesting. I did not know
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: that because, yeah, if that is the case, I mean,
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: if Gus is in the round, wow.
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: But, I mean, you can always make a trade, right?
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: I mean, that's– that's the big thing.
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: You know, you can always trade a guy if you want.
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: And that was kind of, uh, that was kind of
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: the rumors last year. I think at the trade deadline that, uh,
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: maybe Minnesota would, would trade one of the two. And
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: I think really the one that they were, um, talking
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: about trading was, um, Wallstead, I think is the one
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: that they were really thinking about trading.
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: But, um, I mean, I think that was a little
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: bit of a.
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: Surprise when the, when the class rolled around it, they,
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: they put the Gus bus on the bench and, and
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: wrote Jesper.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, I get it. You know, you try and
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: make something happen, but man, yeah, that was very interesting.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: And obviously both of those goalies started out so well.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, the wall of San Paul and Gus and everybody. And,
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, and you know, granted
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: the wild did get that playoff series victory.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: In advance to the next round, but boy, it got
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: shut down pretty quick.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: They got, they got, I mean, man, they, uh, they
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: got run and worn out.
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: I think, you know, they're playing, you know, you're playing
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: a long series and, and, and what that series means
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: a couple of crazy games, right?
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the thing about playoff hockey. You're always
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: going to get, you know, two or three crazy games
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: endings in these series. And I think also just the
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: pressure of the Minnesota wild getting to get out of
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: the first round.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, I mean, Let's be honest, too.
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: The format for the NHL playoffs blows, right?
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: Garbage. Garbage.
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: The top three teams in the conference last year are, what, Colorado, Dallas,
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: and Minnesota, right?
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: Am I remembering that correct?
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: I believe so.
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: And one of them is getting knocked out right away,
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: and then another one is getting knocked out before you
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: can get to the conference finals. I mean, it's a
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: load of BS. Go back to the one through eight
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: like it should be.
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: Thank you. You know, and rather than trying to have
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: all these.
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: Divisional, like you play division games during the regular season
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: and now you want to, you know, try to, you know,
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: have divisional playoff series before.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: It's stupid. Rookie.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: And it goes across all sports. I mean, we were
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: just talking about with the football. Everybody's tinkering with their
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: stuff just because they can. Or, you know, obviously to
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: try and make yet another dollar and stuff. But that
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: playoff seeding garbage last year was just awful. And, yeah,
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: it took a lot out of the playoffs in terms
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: of me watching it. Because I was like, exactly what
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: you just said. We have these top teams playing each
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: other already.
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: And, man, get out of here with that.
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: I mean, they could have at least probably won. They
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: could have probably made it to the conference finals with
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: that whole road.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know what the playoff.
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: A one through eight and how it'll play it out.
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: But they certainly probably would have had a better chance
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: to at least get to the conference finals. Had it
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: been a, a better playoff format. I know that's you're
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: shedding tears over that, but I mean, well, it's just stupid,
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: you know?
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: No, exactly.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: Well, good things for the NHL, you know, eons ago
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: when he became the commissioner, but it seems like he's,
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: stayed as welcome to, you know, too long and that
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: they need some baseball did, you know, when they went
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: to Fred Manfred, you know, he did some things to
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: baseball that Pierce didn't like, you know, pitch clock and
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: stuff like that. But no, you go a couple years
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: later and everybody there's a, you know, about the only
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: thing I can think of that he instituted that people
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: may not like, um, Right now it's still like the
• 47:15
  Speaker 5: ghost runner, you know, on second base. That's about the
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: only thing that I hear people complain about that they
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: don't like. But all these other things that they added
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: in baseball, and he did pitch clock and things of
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: that nature, you know, everybody fought back to begin with.
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: But they're going, hey, oh, that's a pretty good idea.
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: Baseball games are moving. They've got a lot quicker pace. And,
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: you know, they probably need some of that in hockey
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: in terms of, a little more vision going forward than
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: a guy that's been there for so many years that
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: did good things at the beginning when he.
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: Got the job. Hey, Rookie. I know, I'm just the
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: radio guy in Green Bay.
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: Be quiet. The Rookie knows all. He is the man.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: And let me get you out of here on this.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Since we're talking baseball, I guess I got to digress
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: to the city down south of you there. Good thing
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: the Cubs gear isn't on right now, but the Milwaukee Brewers.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: And it was kind of interesting because I– You know,
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: as I was working today, listening to some of the
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: national sports radio, the Brewers came up a couple of times.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: What is it going to take, in your opinion, for
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee to get a World Series run in them? I mean,
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: they've had some really stellar teams. The crowd's phenomenal. Very impressive.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: You know, as a Cubs fan, I got to admit
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: what they're doing. But what is it going to take
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: for them to get that deep, deep playoff run, if
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: not World Series title? Yeah.
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: Probably power hitting in the postseason.
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: You know, I think, you know, when you get to
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: the playoffs, right, you are facing the best pitchers of
• 48:54
  Speaker 5: each team, right?
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: One, two, three.
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: I don't know how often they even go to a
• 48:59
  Speaker 5: fourth starter anymore. Or then you're facing really good bullpens.
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: And the Brewers have picked up the power. Lately, over
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: the past two, three weeks, I haven't looked at the
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: numbers lately, but for the longest time during the regular season,
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: they were like.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: Second to last, third to last in Major League Baseball
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: and home runs.
• 49:18
  Speaker 5: And when you get to the playoffs and you're facing
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: the best pitchers, it's hard to string together three, four hits, right?
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: You know, small ball, driving in a run here, driving,
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: you know, all that stuff. You need to somehow get
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: a guy or two on, whether it be a base hit,
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: an air walk, whatever it may be. And then with
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: one Swing of the bat, you need to be able
• 49:40
  Speaker 5: to put three runs on the board. And last year,
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: when they lost to the Dodgers in the NLCS, they
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: scored one run in all four games, I believe it was.
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: The Dodgers hit home runs. Obviously, the Brewers didn't. And
• 49:54
  Speaker 5: I think that's a big deal. I think they've got
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: the makeup that they can make a run. I certainly
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: think they got the pitching with Miz and with Logan Henderson,
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: who's been unbelievable.
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: Kyle Harrison is incredible. Since he came back from injury,
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: he has struggled a little bit.
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: But if I'm Pat Murphy, I would not pitch Kyle
• 50:15
  Speaker 5: Harrison on the road in the playoffs. He'd only pitch
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: at Miller Park or Amphat, I should say, because he's
• 50:22
  Speaker 5: a sub-two ERA at home and over six on the road.
• 50:26
  Speaker 5: It's just dramatic what it is, his numbers at home
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: versus on the road.
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: So I'd only pitch him at home. And then they've
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: got a lot of good young players. I mean, they're
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: going to be.
• 50:38
  Speaker 5: They're going to have bites of the apple for a
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: long time because they've got a lot of young guys
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: under club control.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: They've got a lot of depth coming up to fill
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: guys or to make moves if they want to.
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: I'm glad I was totally against the Scooble trade at
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: the deadline because of what they would have had to
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: give up if they could have gotten somebody back with
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: a little club control as well.
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: No problem.
• 51:03
  Speaker 5: I'm not against giving up pieces. I just don't want
• 51:05
  Speaker 5: to give up a lot for a rental player. So,
• 51:10
  Speaker 5: and I thought, I always thought they had pretty good pitching.
• 51:12
  Speaker 5: I didn't think Scooble, you know, the Dodgers were the
• 51:15
  Speaker 5: favorites to win the world series before Scooble was even traded.
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: And I always pose this question to my, my listeners.
• 51:22
  Speaker 5: I said, okay, the Dodgers are the favorite to win
• 51:24
  Speaker 5: the world series. Scooble has is on the Tigers. If
• 51:28
  Speaker 5: the Brewers trade for Scooble, do they suddenly become the
• 51:31
  Speaker 5: favorites to the, to win the.
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: World series or are the Dodgers still the favorites? And
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: to me, the Dodgers would still be the favorite. Yeah.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: you know, done what you need, but they're going to
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: be around for a while.
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: I love the, I love the Brewers. I did not
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: grow up with major league baseball in, in Denver. They only,
• 51:46
  Speaker 5: only had minor league baseball. So I've, I've never had a.
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: Sure, you know, favorite.
• 51:53
  Speaker 5: The Brewers are kind of my favorite now because I've
• 51:55
  Speaker 5: been over here in Wisconsin for 30 years. But when
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: I was working in Minnesota, I went to twins games
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: all the time. I went to the 87 world series
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: as a fan. I went to the 91, uh, World Series,
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: working in the media. I always enjoyed the twins of
• 52:08
  Speaker 5: that era. You know, Kent Herbeck, Gary Gaiety, you know,
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: Jack Morris, all those guys. Tom Kelly is the manager.
• 52:19
  Speaker 5: Really enjoyed that group of twins, you know. And now
• 52:23
  Speaker 5: being over in Milwaukee for 30 years, I've.
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: Really latched on to the Brewers. And they're a really
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: good organization. They're well run.
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: They do a fantastic job, and Pat Murphy's going to
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: get screwed out of being the manager of the year
• 52:34
  Speaker 5: for the third year in a row because nobody's won it,
• 52:38
  Speaker 5: and you can't convince me that anybody deserves to be
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: manager of the year in the National League more than
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: Pat Murphy, but I think they're talking about Walt Weiss
• 52:46
  Speaker 5: over in Atlanta, but they've tapered off a little bit,
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: and then they're talking about Don Mattingly with Philadelphia who's
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: turned that team around.
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: But to me.
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: Pat Murphy should be the manager of the year, but
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: I know they won't vote him that because nobody's won
• 53:01
  Speaker 5: it three years in a row, and baseball's kind of
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: like that.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: No, exactly. All right, rookie, thank you for your time.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: I really need you out of here. Ladies and gentlemen.
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: I don't want to go.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: Let's talk more. No, we need to hang out in person,
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: like you said. I will make time for the show.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: If you can give me a 24-hour heads up, I'll
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: make it happen. You're coming over for the Michigan game.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: And that too. Yes, yes. We need to hang out
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: in person.
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: Let all your viewers know my son Jackson is at
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: the U. He's a freshman.
• 53:33
  Speaker 5: He's working in the Gopher football department in the equipment room.
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: And he's loving it. Can I tell you one funny story?
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: Of course. Is that all right? Are you out of time?
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: No, no.
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: Go ahead. So Jackson's over in the equipment room.
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: And he's the only freshman equipment manager, student equipment manager.
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: All the others are upperclassmen.
• 53:55
  Speaker 5: So he goes in there and he doesn't really know
• 53:57
  Speaker 5: what's going on. to expect and what's going on. And
• 54:00
  Speaker 5: as you know, they've got like 17 or 18 student
• 54:03
  Speaker 5: equipment managers and you know, there's what 125 kids on
• 54:08
  Speaker 5: a college football team or whatever.
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: So I love getting the stories from him.
• 54:11
  Speaker 5: Cause he's telling me stories that I don't even know
• 54:13
  Speaker 5: from like at, at the Packers behind the scenes with
• 54:18
  Speaker 5: equipment and stuff. So this goes back a few weeks ago.
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: He goes, dad, we had a, uh, gopher player draft
• 54:29
  Speaker 5: which was essentially they call it the helmet draft and
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: it's where you draft players and then those are your
• 54:38
  Speaker 5: drafts everybody drafts seven players and those are the seven
• 54:42
  Speaker 5: players who you are in charge of their helmet for
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: the year.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: To make it all buffed up after a game get.
• 54:49
  Speaker 5: All the steps off make it nice and shiny make
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: sure all the decals are not ripped all that You
• 54:55
  Speaker 5: got to change out the face mask depending on what
• 54:58
  Speaker 5: look they're going with, right?
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: You got to make sure the gun straps on and everything, right?
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: You're in charge of that player's helmet for the season.
• 55:06
  Speaker 5: So they have a helmet draft and you get these
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: seven guys helmets that you're in charge of, as I said. Well,
• 55:12
  Speaker 5: the object is to draft for the first people you
• 55:16
  Speaker 5: draft are the guys on the.
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: Team that don't play or play very little because their
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: helmets never get scuffed. Right.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: Kind of the opposite mentality you're thinking.
• 55:27
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: So it's kind of funny.
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: So he doesn't know this. He's trying to, I'll draft
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: this guy and I'll draft that guy. Cause he's the,
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: he's the stud guy here and the stud guy there.
• 55:37
  Speaker 7: And all the other, all the other upperclassmen are drafting,
• 55:40
  Speaker 7: you know, helmets of kids that don't play or play
• 55:44
  Speaker 7: very little because there's very little work to do on
• 55:46
  Speaker 7: them because they're never scouted up and ripped and all that.
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: When he was telling me this story, I said, Oh,
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: please tell me you didn't draft a lineman. You know, Right.
• 55:54
  Speaker 5: He goes, I think I got the starting right guard.
• 55:58
  Speaker 5: And I'm like, Oh, it's pretty funny. I think that's
• 56:01
  Speaker 5: kind of a funny story, kind of the fun stuff
• 56:03
  Speaker 5: that they do. And, and he's having a ball working
• 56:06
  Speaker 5: with the gopher program and, and, and good time.
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: So anyway, Well, Brooke, thank you again for your time,
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: my friend. It is very much appreciated. We will see
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: you in person soon. Yes, please definitely get together on
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: that Michigan weekend as well. I mean, yeah, Yeah, Michigan,
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: there's a game to watch tomorrow with Oklahoma coming up north.
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: There's a couple of good ones. A couple of good
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: ones this weekend.
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: All right, Rook, I'll let you go. Give my best
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: to Lisa, of course.
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: I will.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: I really appreciate the time, my friend. Take care.
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: I always love being on with you, Vinny. All right, buddy.
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: See ya.
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: All right, ladies and gentlemen, the one and only rookie
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: joining me on the Sports Done Right podcast. And with that,
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: we will end the show. Thank you very much for
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: tuning in. We will be back next week. Thank you
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: for the support. One love to you all. Peace.
• 57:01
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• 57:05
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