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08/20/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Blowing through a Thursday in the good Land. It's the
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Speaker 1: huddle Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin, Drew Olsen, Bill schmid Arman,
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Speaker 1: through the six pm or six am hour, six pm
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Speaker 1: six am hour here at headquarter is going to be
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Speaker 1: a lovely day Brewers Mariners today at one.
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Speaker 2: O'clock and a good day to be on the first
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Speaker 2: base side right like this is the this is the
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Speaker 2: ticket selection day where if you if you go to
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Speaker 2: a day game at American Family Field, you definitely want
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Speaker 2: somebody experienced picking out the Picking.
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Speaker 1: Up seventy eight degrees on the third base side will
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Speaker 1: feel like one hundred and ten.
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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. You'll think that you're an old town
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Speaker 3: scottste feels like temperature will be intense there.
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Speaker 2: And you always believe, Drew, the sun is moving like you.
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Speaker 2: You will convince yourself sitting in one twenty seven, like, hey,
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Speaker 2: I think we're gonna get shade by about the fifteens.
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Speaker 4: It'll last.
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Speaker 3: I think it's gonna move over, and I think we're
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Speaker 3: gonna be good. Narrator. You were never good. You were
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Speaker 3: in the.
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Speaker 1: Between the third base dugout and home plate you start
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Speaker 1: and then it quickly does move.
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Speaker 3: But it's pretty wild.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and say right by the press box that one.
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Speaker 2: You will get a little bit in that they do.
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Speaker 3: They manipulate the roof a little bit. You'll move around. Yeah, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: that's gonna be Ryan Braun's gotta be happy about that
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Speaker 3: big time. If anybody, if anybody wants configuration.
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Speaker 2: He looks at it and smiles and sh I had
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Speaker 2: I had some significantly.
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Speaker 1: I yeah, that was his lasting impact on the on
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Speaker 1: the current. I'd make real other things. But all right,
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Speaker 1: eight seven seven seven nine to the Nicola Lot dot
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Speaker 1: com talk and text one. We were just talking about
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Speaker 1: possible concerns and just like there's observations about Cooper Pratt,
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Speaker 1: Luis Lara, the two rookies last night didn't come through
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Speaker 1: in situations where they had chances. Now, it could happen
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Speaker 1: to anybody, and then there are other players slumping and
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Speaker 1: it's just one little thing, but it may made me think,
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Speaker 1: all right, well, what if that pops up in the
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Speaker 1: postseason and will that be one of the narratives and
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Speaker 1: that will will that be possible?
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Speaker 3: Now as I.
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Speaker 1: Shift my eye doesn't shift my gaze two hours north
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Speaker 1: of our perch certainly looks like Billy and there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of ballgame left in camp, but it certainly looks
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Speaker 1: like Brandon ces is going to be starting when against
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Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson and company in week one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't look like it looks like baptism by
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Speaker 2: fire for the young man, because while we were up
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Speaker 2: there on Tuesday rotating through and I know, practice yesterday
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Speaker 2: pretty much the exact same deal it was, Brandon cis
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Speaker 2: and then let everybody else rotate in on the other
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Speaker 2: side and figure out that side, because number two is
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Speaker 2: gonna lock down half of the field. And whether or
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Speaker 2: not Drew he walks in and is an all pro,
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Speaker 2: whether he walks in and is a competent NFL starter,
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Speaker 2: there's no better training for pro football than going up
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Speaker 2: against the guys that he's going to go up against
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Speaker 2: in the first four or five weeks. I mean, like
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Speaker 2: Wayne and I went through the list of players. Obviously
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Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison the headliner that might be the
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Speaker 2: best wide receiver duo in the division for sure. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: best one right behind Pooka and Adams in the NFC, right,
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Speaker 2: Like I mean, Cooper Cuppen JSN and Seattle extremely good
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Speaker 2: like that. That's a tough one where Coop sat in
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Speaker 2: his career, maybe different, but you're gonna go up against
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Speaker 2: Garrett Wilson in week number two, No slouch, thirty million
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Speaker 2: guy for a real reason in a multiple time thousand
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Speaker 2: yard dude. Drake London just got paid as one of
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Speaker 2: the best wide receivers in football, rightfully so. And Meccha
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Speaker 2: Buka and Chris Godwin's made a bunch of Pro Bowls
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Speaker 2: and Buka last year Week five or six, people thought
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Speaker 2: he was gonna walk away with Offensive Rookie of the
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Speaker 2: Year before he slid down. And then you get maybe
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Speaker 2: a little bit of a reprieve front with week number
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Speaker 2: five in Chicago. They love those weapons over there with
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Speaker 2: Burden and the DUNSA and I mean they basically gave
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Speaker 2: ship Dj Moore out to give those guys more reps.
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Speaker 2: And then it's Ceedee Lamb and George Pickens. I'm on,
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Speaker 2: Ross Saint Brown and Jamison Williams like that. That is
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Speaker 2: a legit run of wide receivers that you're facing off
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Speaker 2: with in the first six weeks, six seven weeks, and
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Speaker 2: it's gonna be You're gonna learn a hell of a
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Speaker 2: lot about the young man, but it appears they've learned
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Speaker 2: enough right now, you know, he's one of their best
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Speaker 2: options and now we're gonna figure out the other side.
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Speaker 5: And that's the thing when you when you think about
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Speaker 5: how stacked that position group is these days in this
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Speaker 5: era of football, especially in the NFC, and you know,
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Speaker 5: when you look back on it, if you win an
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Speaker 5: All Pro and not at that position, you're gonna have
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Speaker 5: to really have done something in this era because I
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Speaker 5: think it started, you know when when receivers started to
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Speaker 5: be in vogue so much, five, ten, fifteen years ago,
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Speaker 5: and then you started to see so many talent rich
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Speaker 5: draft classes coming through with receivers. You're seeing the results
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Speaker 5: of that now, so so many great players in that league.
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Speaker 5: But then it's that every action has an opposite reaction
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Speaker 5: and and it's always been that. To your mention the
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Speaker 5: cornerbacks and how important those guys have been in that
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Speaker 5: position because you're stopping and you always say it, Billy,
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Speaker 5: the most expensive connections in the NFL. So CSA's development
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Speaker 5: is going to be super important for this team. And
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Speaker 5: there's no you know, there's no time for always and
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Speaker 5: all that Packers are going to need help in that position.
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Speaker 5: They're hopefully getting it with him because you know, the
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Speaker 5: lightning rout of Kishawn Nixon, all those things going on,
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Speaker 5: you know, So there's always gonna be times when you
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Speaker 5: get beat as a cornerback in this league, with this
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Speaker 5: type of quarterbacks and receivers and the way football is
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Speaker 5: clockwork these days, for offenses, it's gonna look bad sometimes.
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Speaker 5: Just can you contain the madness? That's the goal for
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Speaker 5: cornerbacks well.
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Speaker 2: And for for this group and the three playing for
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Speaker 2: one spot of Saint Jus Valentine and the aforementioned Kishaw
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Speaker 2: Nixon Drew. I don't know who Packers fans want to
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Speaker 2: win the job, but it definitely appears they don't want
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Speaker 2: Kishan Nixon. But if he's the best option out of
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Speaker 2: those three, that's gonna be an interesting thing to grapple with.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, is Keishawn Nixon better than Character and Valentine?
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Speaker 3: I think think.
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Speaker 2: I think he's shown that he can. I think he's
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Speaker 2: shown that he is. Yeah, and there's a reason why
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Speaker 2: he was above him on the depth chart the last
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Speaker 2: three years. Yeah, So it's like and but that.
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Speaker 3: Does mean he won't get beat.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes there is there any like, you know, is there
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Speaker 1: any distinction when when you're starting corner, you're a starting corner,
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Speaker 1: But it's like he's the number one corner. It's like,
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Speaker 1: you know, like we say with he's an ace, he's
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Speaker 1: a number one? Do we say that because like packers
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Speaker 1: traditionally have not used a corner to the shadow the shadow,
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Speaker 1: they don't. They just do you play your side up there?
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Speaker 3: You're playing one side or the other. Yeah, So is
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Speaker 3: there that distinction? I think that there will be. Maybe.
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Speaker 2: I think in the player's minds there is, right, because
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Speaker 2: everybody's always ranking each other, right, everybody's doing it, whether
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Speaker 2: it's in in preps and in seventh and eighth grade
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Speaker 2: when somebody first comes out with their preseason rankings of
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Speaker 2: players in AAU or high school in college, everybody's trying
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Speaker 2: to Uh. But for for where they play now, I
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Speaker 2: will say, you've seen c s lineup on both sides,
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Speaker 2: So I don't know, Maybe Drew, they're finding which one
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Speaker 2: they'll be most comfortable with. Maybe Gannon does want to
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Speaker 2: follow a little bit more than others, and maybe he
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Speaker 2: feels like that's more of an advantage. But the tough
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Speaker 2: thing about following is then you're clearly indicating where you
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Speaker 2: believe you are weakest at and where you are most susceptible.
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Speaker 2: And if you're going to follow, teams now are so
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Speaker 2: good schematically that you're giving away a lot of what
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Speaker 2: you're doing on defense. And for a team that wants
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Speaker 2: to disguise a lot, I just don't think they're gonna
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Speaker 2: do that. I also believe that the not wanting to return.
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Speaker 2: I want to focus on special I want to focus
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Speaker 2: on corner. I want to I'm going to be the
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Speaker 2: number one corner, so I need to play cornerback.
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Speaker 6: Uh.
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Speaker 2: There's everything that has come out of Kishawn Nixon's mouth
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Speaker 2: right or wrong, has aggravated fans right and is rubbed
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Speaker 2: fans the wrong way. So the key, the cornerback one
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Speaker 2: is the tag that everybody has. There's not a lot
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Speaker 2: of starting corners that are returning kicks in the NFL,
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Speaker 2: Like I've gone back to that consistently. There's just not
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Speaker 2: that guy around the league. Maybe there's one or two
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Speaker 2: that I'm forgetting about in New England, but like their
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Speaker 2: number one guy, Christian Gonzalez, is not returning kicks, so
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Speaker 2: they'll put that in the mind, he's not gonna be
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Speaker 2: returning kicks. He'll be focusing on defense and he needs
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Speaker 2: to because he's he's in a battle. I think Valentine
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Speaker 2: is an intriguing option. They've liked him for a while.
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Speaker 2: Remember seventh round rookie drew that all of a sudden
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Speaker 2: so that the Chiefs game at Lambeau that he really
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Speaker 2: burst onto the scene. And coincidentally, so Keishaw Nixon was
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Speaker 2: the one that came up with a big interception in
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Speaker 2: that Sunday night came against Kansas City. So I'll be
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Speaker 2: interested to see if something changes significantly before they play
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Speaker 2: in Minnesota. But the biggest one is I don't believe
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Speaker 2: they're ever set like any anything that breeds comfortability with
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Speaker 2: the players and complacency as to where you're at. Matt
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Speaker 2: Lafleour is gonna shake that thing up. I think they're
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Speaker 2: gonna rotate at offensive line. I don't think they're gonna
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Speaker 2: set five and just forget about it. As much as
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Speaker 2: people would like them to. They've rotated every single year
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Speaker 2: at least one of the spots, and I think that
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Speaker 2: for the first few weeks there's gonna be a number
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Speaker 2: of different groupings that happen in that cornerback room on
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Speaker 2: the field, and maybe Nixon's getting the large majority of snaps,
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Speaker 2: maybe Valentine sneaking in for some but it seems like
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Speaker 2: both I think are going to.
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Speaker 3: Play at some how.
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Speaker 1: Would this conversation be different if the Packers had held
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Speaker 1: on to Trayvon Diggs, who yesterday signed with Seattle because
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Speaker 1: they know that well Terry and Arnold's gonna have some
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Speaker 1: problems for a couple of weeks and games, but they
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Speaker 1: signed him. The Super Bowl champs took a flyer. Now
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Speaker 1: the Packers took a flyer and decided not to What
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Speaker 1: did they see that they didn't like?
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Speaker 3: What did they it? Was it a chemistry thing?
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Speaker 2: Was it a I think the biggest one that they
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Speaker 2: I think the biggest one they didn't like was him
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Speaker 2: backpedaling away from the tackle in in Chicago on the
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Speaker 2: tunnel screen.
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Speaker 3: But I just I think that a few of those,
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Speaker 3: but it's not exclusive.
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Speaker 2: I think he was the Trayvon Diggs pairing was probably
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Speaker 2: gone when they brought in Saint just right like, I
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Speaker 2: think that was their vet to give a shot to
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Speaker 2: and see because I think you did see the legs
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Speaker 2: are probably a little gone on Trayvon Diggs.
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Speaker 1: Like twenty seven, he had the peak of his powers,
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Speaker 1: but he looks like he's cooked.
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Speaker 3: It's funny. A lot of football though, right, I mean
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Speaker 3: played a lot of ball, and that's the other thing.
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Speaker 3: Drew he played under Sabin in college.
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Speaker 2: Like so that I've I've struggled often with guys that
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Speaker 2: do train in the secondary room under Nick Saban of like, hey, man,
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Speaker 2: if anybody's gonna tap all the potential out of you, yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's probably gonna be the greatest guy of all time.
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Speaker 1: He's kind of like a college baseball coach burning out
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Speaker 1: pictures because I don't care what I don't care what
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Speaker 1: they do after.
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Speaker 3: I don't care what you're doing.
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Speaker 2: But then, I mean, then Pat Tartan is the best
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Speaker 2: corner in football, so like it can work both ways.
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Speaker 2: I just I would be I think there's a reason
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Speaker 2: why he stuck around and was out there so long.
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Speaker 2: That the Seahawks are rather desperate at corner. And I
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Speaker 2: didn't realize that, Like, I didn't realize how desperate they
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Speaker 2: were after they let Reek Woolan walk to the Eagles
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Speaker 2: during free agency, who played a bunch of ball for
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Speaker 2: them but you just think of Devin Witherspoon and they'll
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Speaker 2: figure it out elsewhere. But they've been grabbing anybody off
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Speaker 2: the street to try to come up in there and
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Speaker 2: play defense.
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Speaker 5: And I'm sure a lot of teams feel that way.
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Speaker 5: I mean, that's just the air of this league. A
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Speaker 5: lot of conversations that we're having are probably ones that
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Speaker 5: fan bases are having on the league of while we
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Speaker 5: need more depth of corner, are our corner is gonna
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Speaker 5: be good enough? Because in your mind you want shutdowns
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Speaker 5: all the time, and the way passing offenses go, you're
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Speaker 5: not gonna see that on fit. You know, you're not
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Speaker 5: gonna watch that. You're not gonna see it happen on
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Speaker 5: your TV or even if you're laughing, a game or
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Speaker 5: passes will be completed like like, And so that's just
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Speaker 5: the way it is. So I wonder if a lot
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Speaker 5: of fan bases are having the same conversation. But yeah,
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Speaker 5: Seattle is a good point, Like there's probably teams across.
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Speaker 3: The league that are looking for those guys.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, looking that they're looking for the third corner and
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Speaker 1: it's Terry and Arnold.
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Speaker 3: Well might he might miss a while, but.
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Speaker 1: We'll take him at well just in case and then
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Speaker 1: to get it to bite our time until he is available,
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Speaker 1: Let's take a look at Trayvon Diggs well. And the
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Speaker 1: other one is for what happens in at corner, how
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Speaker 1: much of it is drew for like who's rotating in
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Speaker 1: and who's going to be getting snaps. However, healthy Javon
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Speaker 1: Bullard is going to be is a factor, and as
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Speaker 1: Katano Ldappo played his way into, like, hey, if we
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Speaker 1: feel at certain groupings and certain matchups, we'll send him
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Speaker 1: in before we send in a third corner like that,
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Speaker 1: they'll they'll weave things around where they they have a
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Speaker 1: lot of guys in the back end that they feel
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Speaker 1: somewhat comfortable in coverage, but more of them are safeties
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Speaker 1: than corners. And I think that safety room there might
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Speaker 1: be even more bodies in there than at the end
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Speaker 1: of the day there are in the cornerback room. That's
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Speaker 1: going to be an oddity around baseball or around football.
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Speaker 1: Part of me, Yeah, like you said, I'm looking at
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Speaker 1: this Matt Tugboat Wilkerson and I'm thinking he's a football player,
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Speaker 1: but he's actually a pitcher for the Giant.
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Speaker 4: The Giant I love that name. They even put it
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Speaker 4: up in the vote, quote, tug boat.
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Speaker 2: My man is massive over here from the left side.
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Speaker 2: That's phenomenal.
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Speaker 5: Not to get us too off, tops, I apologize, No,
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Speaker 5: it reminds me of the days back in the early
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Speaker 5: aughts and the nineteen hundreds where every guy in baseball
12:52
Speaker 5: had a great nickname.
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Speaker 3: You know, you look up those old basil you.
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Speaker 5: Know, like high Pockets and Lefty and Crazy Crazy Jones
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Speaker 5: and Big Marbles McGee and all these guys.
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Speaker 4: Man, we need a couple of tugboats.
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Speaker 2: And you know you had a couple of real chemps
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Speaker 2: in there, and then fired in Lefty.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, left he's pretty basic. I guess ye. Listen, you
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Speaker 3: gotta have a single in there in the midst of
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Speaker 3: a bunch of home you can do it.
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Speaker 5: I mean you can look up any nineteen hundreds MLB reference.
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Speaker 3: Lineup and find them. Well.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's a talk about might be the new uh
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Speaker 2: nickname for Paul Skins if he continues to slide on
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Speaker 2: the velocity. There's a lot of nicknames though, that people
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Speaker 2: have for Keisha on Nixon, none of them glowing online Drew.
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Speaker 3: None of them glowing what where?
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Speaker 2: When you see coming up this weekend because they're going
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Speaker 2: to have a number of those guys are going to play, right,
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Speaker 2: like the c is going to play, I would assume
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Speaker 2: with maybe it matters, maybe it doesn't. I wonder if
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Speaker 2: he gets reps with Nixon on the other side, with
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Speaker 2: Valentine on the other side, if they rotate through all
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Speaker 2: of those guys with the ones h But you can
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Speaker 2: color me shocked as somebody as it's expected that Love
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Speaker 2: and more of the first teamers are going to go
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Speaker 2: coming up on Friday night. I did think that they
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Speaker 2: were gonna punt this one and wait for the joint practice.
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Speaker 3: I thought.
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Speaker 2: But here we are, you know, some thirty six hours away,
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Speaker 2: thirty eight hours away from kickoff, and it sounds like
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Speaker 2: there's gonna be some real dudes out there for the
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Speaker 2: Packers coming up tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: Done. They got to get to their thirty snaps, right,
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Speaker 3: They got got to get to those thirty reps, which
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Speaker 3: I do. Somebody's got to be.
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Speaker 2: Able to give me where that where that data came from,
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Speaker 2: because the NFL is amazing at being able to find
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Speaker 2: data when it helps them out. I mean, like when
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Speaker 2: when it means get our players on the field and
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Speaker 2: make the television product a little better, drew that stuff
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Speaker 2: gets expedited to a lot of it boxes pretty quickly
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Speaker 2: ate it.
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Speaker 5: There are certain guys that want to see just because
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Speaker 5: it's been fun to watch, Like Matthew Golden like has
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Speaker 5: been really good. Obviously want to see him. Certain guys
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Speaker 5: that want to see because we haven't But then like
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Speaker 5: I don't want to see because I get nervous.
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Speaker 4: Marsha On Lloyd's that guy.
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Speaker 5: Like marsh On Lloyd you want to see play because
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Speaker 5: you haven't gotten a chance to see it much, so
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Speaker 5: you're anxious to see what he could do, and that
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Speaker 5: might be a very important guy. The way things shake
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Speaker 5: off for the Packers this year in the running back,
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Speaker 5: But isn't it feel like we're we're getting away with
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Speaker 5: it every time he gets back up?
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 5: I still feel that way about Marshawn Lloyd, So it
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Speaker 5: makes me nervous in a way that I'm like, well,
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Speaker 5: I don't want him out there then because I don't
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Speaker 5: want chances of him getting hurt.
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Speaker 4: But then I'm like, you can't look at it that way.
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Speaker 2: You gotta look around the league and see all of
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Speaker 2: the teams that are dropping guys out Like yesterday, Jaydon Higgins,
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Speaker 2: a second year wide out for the Tyrop doses ACL out.
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Speaker 3: He's done for the year.
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Speaker 2: Tyler Warren went down in practice for the Colts earlier
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Speaker 2: on this week, and there's been a number of teams
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Speaker 2: that are losing significant players. Former Badger Tyler Biattish was
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Speaker 2: the was a big signing this offseason, Yeah west and
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Speaker 2: and he's now out indefinitely with damage to the acl
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Speaker 2: not not necessarily a fully but damage to the ACLU
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Speaker 2: and additional injuries because of the joint practice with the
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Speaker 2: forty nine ers. Somebody's got to tell me where that
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Speaker 2: joint practice was.
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Speaker 3: Was it in San Francisco? Was it in Santa Clara
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Speaker 3: over by that substance? Oh, that's where you're going. I
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Speaker 3: was like, wait a minute, wait a minute, now, I
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Speaker 3: don't know. Somebody let me know where that one was,
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Speaker 3: because I would like to. I would like Tyler Biadis
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Speaker 3: to be healthy and playing football, and that's just something
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Speaker 3: that cannot be happening. We need to get that place
16:13
Speaker 3: up out of here.
16:14
Speaker 5: A lot of injuries, it seems like, or maybe we're
16:15
Speaker 5: just paying attention to it because they are all significant, but.
16:18
Speaker 2: Well they're all significant players aren't right, like, I mean
16:20
Speaker 2: those are. That's the thing that a lot of these
16:22
Speaker 2: guys are, our prime dudes. That teams were banking on
16:25
Speaker 2: playing a bunch for them, and you got to figure
16:28
Speaker 2: out how you're going to be able to get yourself
16:30
Speaker 2: ready for the year while also trying to make sure
16:32
Speaker 2: that you're as healthy as humanly possible.
16:34
Speaker 3: The two things do not always go together. And yeah,
16:38
Speaker 3: very rarely.
16:40
Speaker 5: Never any conundrum for teams, how much do we risk,
16:42
Speaker 5: how much do we prepare, how much we risk?
16:45
Speaker 3: It's like it's always that balancing act. Priest Hall got
16:47
Speaker 3: paid a couple of weeks ago, he's down with a
16:49
Speaker 3: groin strain.
16:50
Speaker 5: These teams just want to get through this period. They
16:51
Speaker 5: just want to get through preseasons exactly. They just want
16:54
Speaker 5: to get some games that matter and then put their
16:56
Speaker 5: guys out there. I think goal number one, because.
16:58
Speaker 3: That's the thing about it.
16:58
Speaker 5: And maybe it doesn't make sense, but maybe it does
17:01
Speaker 5: that for us for some reason, in the way our
17:04
Speaker 5: minds work, our pathology, we can rationalize it if they're
17:07
Speaker 5: hurting games that matter, even though it really shouldn't matter,
17:10
Speaker 5: because if you hurt, your hurt.
17:11
Speaker 4: But if they got hurt in the game that mattered.
17:14
Speaker 3: Well, so be it.
17:15
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, But it's like when you when you
17:17
Speaker 2: fill up on the Brett at Texas Roadhouse.
17:19
Speaker 3: I didn't get my best meet.
17:20
Speaker 2: I didn't get the best part of the meal yet,
17:22
Speaker 2: although even though you're fully there, what that honey cinnamon butter?
17:25
Speaker 2: It might hey and I have a run at being
17:27
Speaker 2: the best part of the meal. One of the things
17:28
Speaker 2: that I will be watching for Drew. We talked about
17:30
Speaker 2: drama yesterday. We talked about drama and Packers camp, drama
17:33
Speaker 2: in the NFL, drama in college football. I am dialed
17:36
Speaker 2: in on seeing these guys trying to potentially go back
17:40
Speaker 2: to school. There's some number of players that are in
17:43
Speaker 2: camps right now, some playing well in preseasons that are saying,
17:46
Speaker 2: wait a second, this court ruling is allowing guys to
17:49
Speaker 2: have a fifth year of college. I'm going back to school.
17:52
Speaker 2: I took a pay cut to go to the NFL.
17:54
Speaker 2: Why can't I go back to the Big ten or
17:56
Speaker 2: the SEC. There's gonna be some rulings over the next
17:59
Speaker 2: couple of days at our rather groundbreaking in football.
18:02
Speaker 3: It is gonna be very interesting.
18:03
Speaker 5: Well, let's be fair, all of you people out there,
18:06
Speaker 5: your first your first job out of college, are sitting
18:09
Speaker 5: in a cubicle. He said, Man, I wish I could
18:11
Speaker 5: go back to college, grad school. You're all out there
18:14
Speaker 5: and you wish you could just go back to college
18:16
Speaker 5: for one more, two more years.
18:18
Speaker 3: Three more too funny, four more. I was gonna say
18:22
Speaker 3: three decades. I'd go for there you go.
18:25
Speaker 1: I love it all right. We have reached halftime of
18:28
Speaker 1: today's edition of The Huddle. That means a visit from
18:30
Speaker 1: Scott Dolphins in the country station down the hall FM
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Speaker 1: one six.
18:34
Speaker 3: I like when the show becomes award winning, we will indeed, yeah,
18:37
Speaker 3: no doubt whatever.
18:38
Speaker 1: Dolph enters ever, Dolphiners are gonna say that we can. Yes,
18:41
Speaker 1: bring on the Marconi's. Dolph is next here in the Huddle.
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin, huddled up on a Thursday drebellion
18:49
Speaker 1: arm and happy to be joined by our palace Scott Dolphin.
18:52
Speaker 1: Our halftime corresponded from F on six Country station on
18:55
Speaker 1: the hall. Hello Dolph, Hi boys, Happy Thursday Friday evening.
18:59
Speaker 1: As my partner Santon.
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Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, Billy calls it that too. That's what the
19:02
Speaker 3: kids say. That's where she got it. There's nothing better.
19:04
Speaker 3: I mean, like the Thursday.
19:05
Speaker 2: Thursday was always a tag, but then it feels like
19:07
Speaker 2: you have to go out and party. If you don't,
19:09
Speaker 2: then you feel like you're not doing it right. Friday
19:11
Speaker 2: Junior just gives you that nice little sentiment when you
19:13
Speaker 2: wake up in the morning and.
19:14
Speaker 3: Give you abriddy good tag.
19:15
Speaker 6: That's why I prefer to take Mondays off if I'm
19:17
Speaker 6: taking a day off during the week, because Thursday you're excited.
19:20
Speaker 6: Because Friday's right around the corner. Sunday, that sense of
19:23
Speaker 6: dread starts creeping in that you have to go back
19:25
Speaker 6: to work tomorrow. So I always prefer taking Monday off.
19:28
Speaker 3: He's a vet, he's so smart. That is such a
19:30
Speaker 3: good call.
19:31
Speaker 1: That is because you know, Monday is the day you're
19:33
Speaker 1: digging out, and Friday's the day you're licking a stamp
19:36
Speaker 1: and mailing it in.
19:39
Speaker 3: You're already gonna fool them at some boy, you might
19:42
Speaker 3: as well do it that way. Everybody does it.
19:44
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, and then I mean everyone really
19:46
Speaker 2: starts hitting the ground running at work on Tuesday. Anyway,
19:48
Speaker 2: It's not like you're much Everyone's going to try to
19:51
Speaker 2: find ways to hang around the water cooler, even longer
19:53
Speaker 2: on Monday to talk about the game and figure out
19:55
Speaker 2: a way.
19:55
Speaker 3: To you know, true, I'm just our boy. Mike Heller
19:58
Speaker 3: loves him some mondays, yeah, and I've been trying to
20:01
Speaker 3: talk him out of that for a long time, but
20:04
Speaker 3: apparently it's locked in now. It seems like it might
20:07
Speaker 3: be kind of his thing.
20:08
Speaker 6: I I have still not gotten to his uh the
20:11
Speaker 6: wine bar that he and car And apparently there's bourbon
20:15
Speaker 6: there too, right, Oh yeah there is?
20:19
Speaker 3: Oh wow? Well, no, I just you gotta I do.
20:23
Speaker 3: I do been there. I don't get to Wanakee often.
20:25
Speaker 3: It's hard, I agree. Have you been there for a
20:27
Speaker 3: non station sanctioned event.
20:30
Speaker 4: Well, come on, I mean you can't get that. You
20:32
Speaker 4: can't get that in it.
20:33
Speaker 5: Picked No, okay, no, I haven't. Well, you know, unless
20:39
Speaker 5: we're in the Madison area, it's hard to just swing.
20:42
Speaker 1: It's hard to get this well, with these hours, it's
20:44
Speaker 1: hard to get to anything, even local. I didn't go
20:45
Speaker 1: to the Milwaukee night Market last night.
20:47
Speaker 3: I wanted to. Yeah, they block off Wisconsin Avenue. Vibe.
20:50
Speaker 3: It's a cool, it's really fun. I didn't go.
20:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought I thought the same thing I saw
20:56
Speaker 2: all the stands right popped up with the tents and I'm.
20:59
Speaker 3: Like, oh, Drew is going to be rolling through that
21:01
Speaker 3: place last night, But it is.
21:03
Speaker 2: It is a great vibe to be able to catch
21:05
Speaker 2: and last night was a decent night for it.
21:07
Speaker 6: Yeah, they had to cancel last month because the severe
21:09
Speaker 6: weather rolling through. Uh are you guys into Milwaukee zoo
21:12
Speaker 6: a la carte that starts tonight.
21:14
Speaker 4: That used to be one of my favorite That's another
21:16
Speaker 4: good one.
21:16
Speaker 6: Thirty thirty local food vendors plus Yeah, National Entertainment lovely
21:20
Speaker 6: the band is there tonight?
21:22
Speaker 4: Was playing one.
21:22
Speaker 3: Jim Blossoms is there one year?
21:24
Speaker 6: Yeah, Chris Lane, who's had five or six number one
21:26
Speaker 6: country hits, is there tomorrow night. Let's go along with
21:28
Speaker 6: the band Jack Rabbit out of California.
21:30
Speaker 3: You know who. That's Dermot Mulroney's band. Hey underrated actor.
21:34
Speaker 6: I loved him as Dirty Steve and young Guns.
21:38
Speaker 3: He'll draw the ladies.
21:39
Speaker 6: Yeah, he had a nice stint on Friends too, as
21:41
Speaker 6: uh as Rachel's one time love of love interest in
21:44
Speaker 6: Boss Gavin hold On. He was Dermot mulroney.
21:49
Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, man, man, you you knew some good connections
21:53
Speaker 4: with this one.
21:54
Speaker 3: Well, I knew Dirty Steve.
21:55
Speaker 6: I love those Young Gun movies because I was at
21:57
Speaker 6: that age that was with you know, Charlie Sheen and
21:58
Speaker 6: Emilia Svez and Keifer Sutherland and and uh Lou Diamond Phillips,
22:03
Speaker 6: great cast of young cowboys, you know, trying to tame
22:05
Speaker 6: the West.
22:06
Speaker 2: Now, is this the guy that said that we were
22:07
Speaker 2: pulling a rachel Or was that Brad Pitt when he
22:09
Speaker 2: was on There and Friends, Armon.
22:11
Speaker 3: That's a good question. Say that one more time.
22:13
Speaker 2: Was this the Was this the guy that came to
22:15
Speaker 2: dinner and talked about that was.
22:18
Speaker 3: That they hated each other? Okay, they each other.
22:21
Speaker 5: And that was a funny bit because at the time
22:22
Speaker 5: they were dating. Yeah, so they just like just couldn't
22:25
Speaker 5: stand each other in the show.
22:27
Speaker 4: But Gavin, okay.
22:28
Speaker 6: Yeah, so there you go. That's tomorrow night at Zoeallikhart.
22:31
Speaker 6: I didn't know he had a band. They've had it
22:35
Speaker 6: for a long time. They call it like Cali Country, uh,
22:37
Speaker 6: and it's and it's Tim and his brother and they
22:39
Speaker 6: do you know, California when it comes to country music,
22:41
Speaker 6: has that distinct sound and has since the Bakersfield sound, right,
22:45
Speaker 6: Buck Owens.
22:46
Speaker 3: Merle Haggard.
22:46
Speaker 6: You know then later years Dwight Yoakam and now you
22:49
Speaker 6: still have a good California connection to country music now
22:53
Speaker 6: with guys like John Party and Nate Smith.
22:55
Speaker 1: Best actor musician because hey for Sutherland and he's done
23:01
Speaker 1: shows at Shank he.
23:02
Speaker 3: Did hold on, Jack Power's a musician.
23:04
Speaker 6: Now. Yeah, he gave us like a couple hours of
23:06
Speaker 6: his time. Were you here in the building that day
23:08
Speaker 6: when he was here he was hanging out? Yeah, it
23:10
Speaker 6: was awesome. It was awesome.
23:11
Speaker 3: We had like thirty listeners and he did a Q
23:13
Speaker 3: and ad he rip anyone's fingernails off?
23:15
Speaker 6: He didn't, but he brought up being uh, he brought
23:19
Speaker 6: up being heavy in movies and when he decided to
23:21
Speaker 6: stop do it. Do you remember the movie Hand that
23:23
Speaker 6: Rocks was not hand Rocks Cradle. It was an Eye
23:26
Speaker 6: for an Eye that he did with Sally Field, and
23:28
Speaker 6: he played this horrible character, child murderer, and he said
23:32
Speaker 6: that movie, that role affected him, disturbed him in such
23:35
Speaker 6: a way he vowed he would never be a villain.
23:38
Speaker 4: Wow against Wild his job, I mean you drop a knowledge.
23:43
Speaker 3: Different level of it.
23:44
Speaker 6: And then Designated Survivor was a good show that was
23:46
Speaker 6: that ran for several seasons, right, but you're not the
23:49
Speaker 6: top twenty four.
23:50
Speaker 3: He's damnit, Chloe, I need those code now.
23:52
Speaker 2: And that was the one show that I'd watched in
23:54
Speaker 2: my folks where you knew I was probably a tick
23:57
Speaker 2: too young to be watching the show, especially when they'd start,
23:59
Speaker 2: I mean just gouging someone's eyes out to be able
24:01
Speaker 2: to get the information.
24:02
Speaker 3: I'm just sitting there.
24:03
Speaker 6: I learned so much about national security and the football.
24:06
Speaker 6: You know, this is the briefcase through that show twenty four.
24:09
Speaker 6: You remember who the president was? It was Serrano from.
24:14
Speaker 3: From Major League. Dennis Haysburg was the president on twenty.
24:18
Speaker 2: I was gonna say I was trying to piece it
24:19
Speaker 2: together because it does feel like the president got killed
24:21
Speaker 2: almost every Yeah, you're right in that show.
24:23
Speaker 3: That's a good point that was because that's.
24:25
Speaker 4: A major League. He got big on the insurance commercial
24:28
Speaker 4: all State.
24:29
Speaker 1: Yeah right, Let's put together a music festival of actors
24:32
Speaker 1: who play who have bands, because it's the Bacon brothers,
24:35
Speaker 1: Kevin Bacon and yeah brother they do.
24:37
Speaker 3: What about Jamie fox I was.
24:39
Speaker 4: Jamie Foxx is a pretty good musician. Nicholas who was
24:42
Speaker 4: Henry Rolling Gardner.
24:43
Speaker 6: Yeah, thirty seconds to mars Letto, Jared leto Lett, that's
24:51
Speaker 6: Reeves was in a band, Dog Star, That's right.
24:54
Speaker 1: Who else say we're putting together a music festival of
24:56
Speaker 1: all these people?
24:57
Speaker 3: Billy Bob Thornton, Oh yeah, that's right. Billy's he's the
25:00
Speaker 3: it a couple of times. I think.
25:01
Speaker 6: I think he still does the Great West or something
25:04
Speaker 6: like that. Uh, they played Summerfest last year. He's not anymore.
25:07
Speaker 6: But Jason Schwartzman Schwartzman, Yeah, that band out of thank Yeah.
25:14
Speaker 5: Wow.
25:15
Speaker 3: So was j lo an actress first or a musician?
25:17
Speaker 3: I don't even she was a musician musician? What about?
25:20
Speaker 3: What about Hillary Duff, who your co host just went
25:23
Speaker 3: and so popular right now?
25:25
Speaker 2: Very popular right now. Lizzie Maguire now got.
25:28
Speaker 4: Queen Latifa, Okay, Queen LA's got music coming out, both Iced.
25:32
Speaker 3: Tea and Ice Q. She was a rapper basically what
25:36
Speaker 3: I think?
25:37
Speaker 6: Yeah, probably before she acted, right, Oh yeah her that.
25:41
Speaker 3: I gotta be finding. Some of this goes both ways.
25:44
Speaker 4: Russell Crowe as a band, did you guys mention.
25:46
Speaker 3: That Russell crow definitely does. Steve chevy Chase was.
25:51
Speaker 4: In that you Can Call Me Al video with Paul.
25:54
Speaker 1: Jack Black Jack Black Notorious D yeahs D.
26:01
Speaker 5: What about uh? What about loone the Island guys, Samberg.
26:06
Speaker 5: That's well talking dropped a good point there. So you
26:10
Speaker 5: could put an all star lineup together. This would be
26:13
Speaker 5: a pretty good man. Ken Reeves, Yeah, we got that one.
26:16
Speaker 5: That was a good one.
26:16
Speaker 3: Wow.
26:17
Speaker 4: Johnny Depp in the Hollywood Vampires as Derek.
26:19
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's a great point. Hollywood Vampire back in
26:22
Speaker 1: the day and not now. But Bruce Willis was a
26:25
Speaker 1: front man in a band. I remember him singing the
26:27
Speaker 1: Seagram Golden Wine cooler's commercial.
26:29
Speaker 3: It was, yeah, it was.
26:30
Speaker 1: It was usually a mismatch when he was handed a
26:32
Speaker 1: microphone to sing.
26:33
Speaker 5: Derek and Whitewater. Pc A played the kid in the
26:36
Speaker 5: Deliverance using that's a joke. Wait a minute, Yeah, that's.
26:39
Speaker 4: A joke.
26:41
Speaker 3: On the banjo. Yeah, that's mean, mean, even for pc
26:46
Speaker 3: that's mean.
26:46
Speaker 5: You see that guy yesterday. By the way, Dolph p
26:49
Speaker 5: c A no hitting overs and signing autographs for kids.
26:52
Speaker 2: Signing autographs for a jerk, Wow, It's it's pretty impressive, howllo,
26:57
Speaker 2: these guys.
26:57
Speaker 3: Will go autographs for kids.
27:00
Speaker 2: Kids.
27:01
Speaker 3: Our friend Maggie and Georgia throwing out Luke Grimes.
27:04
Speaker 6: Oh, there's a good one now. Now he's really serious
27:07
Speaker 6: about his country music career. By the way, Luke Grimes
27:10
Speaker 6: from Yellowstone and now has the US Marshall's or Marshall's
27:13
Speaker 6: Show on CBS on on Sunday night. Very good actor.
27:17
Speaker 6: Shades are gray too. He was in fifty Shades, a great,
27:20
Speaker 6: very good actor. I think the verdict is still out
27:23
Speaker 6: on his country music career.
27:24
Speaker 3: But he's he's a.
27:25
Speaker 6: He's diving fully in He's diving fully in Midwest roots.
27:29
Speaker 3: I believe he grew up in Ohio.
27:30
Speaker 2: I think from especially with all the folks and all
27:32
Speaker 2: the very rich and famous flooding to Nashville. I mean,
27:35
Speaker 2: we see it with McFee spending however, millions of dollars
27:37
Speaker 2: to be able to produce vercas play country music out Ye.
27:41
Speaker 2: I'll be interested to see how many different ones do
27:43
Speaker 2: try to say I got I'm friends with Chase Rice.
27:46
Speaker 2: Now I think I can sing a little bit, I'm
27:49
Speaker 2: gonna try. I wonder how many will try to find
27:52
Speaker 2: different ways so flood because they're around all these very
27:56
Speaker 2: rich and famous countries.
27:57
Speaker 6: You know, you know who's friends with Chase Rice? Yeah,
28:00
Speaker 6: everyone from Ben Johnson hig school classmates and teammates, and uh,
28:06
Speaker 6: Chace Rice was a hell of a linebacker at North Carolina. Well,
28:09
Speaker 6: I wouldn't say hell of it, but he started he
28:11
Speaker 6: was he was he six four fifty.
28:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a.
28:14
Speaker 2: Big son of a gun. Like you started seeing a
28:16
Speaker 2: strapping young lad. Like when he was standing there on
28:18
Speaker 2: The Bachelor.
28:18
Speaker 3: Who do you think the cool one was there? Chase Rice? Oh?
28:21
Speaker 3: I think it was Chase Rice.
28:22
Speaker 4: Who do you think had the friend zone in which
28:24
Speaker 4: one got?
28:25
Speaker 3: Yeah?
28:26
Speaker 4: He played the Bears just a dork man.
28:28
Speaker 6: He played halftime with the Bears Rams playoff game and
28:31
Speaker 6: it was you know, twenty below Windshill and he and
28:34
Speaker 6: on stage he ripped his shirt off.
28:35
Speaker 5: That's pretty It's pretty wild when you hear about the
28:37
Speaker 5: guys that looked like that.
28:38
Speaker 3: I'd never wear a shirt. Oh gosh, I know when
28:40
Speaker 3: you hear.
28:41
Speaker 5: About the guys that went to school together and the
28:42
Speaker 5: ones that knew each other. I mean, how many times
28:44
Speaker 5: we hear about Stafford and Clayton Kershaw All.
28:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, guys, lifelong friendship that played I.
28:48
Speaker 4: Mean the Johnny Rockets was coached by Murphy's kid.
28:51
Speaker 3: What was it played travel ball against Murphy's.
28:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was the best player on a team that
28:56
Speaker 1: ended up with some future Hall of famers on our.
28:59
Speaker 2: Really player Yeah yeah, yeah, the Kershaw one is fine.
29:02
Speaker 2: Could you imagine being like the third starter on that
29:05
Speaker 2: one on that rotation?
29:06
Speaker 1: Oh god, well no, like Kershaw was, Stafford was his
29:10
Speaker 1: catcher and Stafford quarterback in Kershaw was a was.
29:15
Speaker 3: A wide receiver. Yeah.
29:16
Speaker 2: Now, Jack Flarity had a run there too, where they
29:20
Speaker 2: had like four or five different starters all in their
29:23
Speaker 2: rotation in high school that all ended up being big
29:25
Speaker 2: league players all there in that California cluster. You almost
29:28
Speaker 2: get forget about how many of them.
29:31
Speaker 3: Interesting. Yeah, it's pretty nuts nuts.
29:33
Speaker 6: Could you could probably do that with most major league rosters, right,
29:35
Speaker 6: especially with all those California guys. Yeah, the guys who
29:37
Speaker 6: played in like the area code games are now travel
29:40
Speaker 6: ball or these days, and it's in basketball especially, like
29:43
Speaker 6: guys know each other growing up.
29:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, I play against him when I was thirteen. You know.
29:47
Speaker 2: Now Max Freed and Lucas Giolito and Jack Flaherty all
29:50
Speaker 2: in the same high school rotation.
29:52
Speaker 3: That's not bad. Particular, that might have been tough. That
29:54
Speaker 3: might have been tough to go up against.
29:56
Speaker 5: Wow Joseph of North Carolina saying Walkee's own Jacob Latimore, Yeah,
29:59
Speaker 5: musician had some albums.
30:00
Speaker 3: I don't know about his.
30:01
Speaker 5: Athletic career whatever, But I've always been a pretty accomplished
30:05
Speaker 5: singer and dancer actor, So that's pretty good.
30:07
Speaker 1: Hear my claim to famous. I've played in the same era,
30:10
Speaker 1: in the same conference as Paul Wagner.
30:13
Speaker 3: Did you face him?
30:14
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, we played and played hoops against him, play baseball,
30:17
Speaker 1: ja make out. I don't recall. I don't remember he
30:21
Speaker 1: he did smoke us in basketball. He had like I
30:23
Speaker 1: think he scored thirty against us.
30:24
Speaker 3: I didn't knows had games in hoops the oops.
30:28
Speaker 4: Good ask guys, if you're an athlete, you were good
30:30
Speaker 4: in high school.
30:30
Speaker 3: That's great point.
30:31
Speaker 4: Well, I remember John Navari slicing us up when and Greenfield?
30:34
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, John Navar.
30:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's back when guys would play all those sports
30:39
Speaker 4: you know.
30:39
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Well that was yeah, and you didn't get
30:41
Speaker 2: you know, chastised for it. Like when when when I
30:44
Speaker 2: was in high school and uh, Joel Stabby was getting
30:47
Speaker 2: close to committing to Wisconsin.
30:49
Speaker 3: He was on the basketball team.
30:51
Speaker 2: He was probably one of the best players and then
30:52
Speaker 2: ultimately it was in the middle, in the middle of
30:54
Speaker 2: the year, it was like, hey, how about you never
30:56
Speaker 2: do that again? How about you a let's not worry
31:00
Speaker 2: about that ever again. Zach Bond from Great Basketball Player,
31:07
Speaker 2: Great Basketball Player, also a disgusting high school football player
31:10
Speaker 2: quarterback Man.
31:11
Speaker 3: Billy, had an audience with him at a media day
31:13
Speaker 3: at the Super Bowl. Also, he was a wood Woodland
31:15
Speaker 3: Conference legend. Uh, there's there's a number of those. But
31:18
Speaker 3: that's the tough thing.
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Speaker 2: Like, you see the best players right now, still all
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Speaker 2: of them ended up playing multiple sports, but it almost
31:25
Speaker 2: feels like you have to be one of like the
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Speaker 2: best athletes for the for groups and coaches to be like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: you can definitely go to basketball practice and miss out
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Speaker 2: on baseball open gym five months away from when we're playing,
31:36
Speaker 2: I think it will be okay.
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Speaker 5: It's like it's like you have to pick a sport
31:39
Speaker 5: now when you're sick. Well, I think we've been told.
31:41
Speaker 6: That for years, where you know, with AAU and travel
31:44
Speaker 6: leagues and stuff, you're you're gonna see fewer and fewer
31:47
Speaker 6: kids playing multi sports, but you still do.
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Speaker 3: You still see them kids excelling.
31:51
Speaker 6: Like you just said, Man if you're a good athlete,
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Speaker 6: you're probably gonna be the at a small school. You're
31:55
Speaker 6: gonna be the quarterback in the football team, you're gonna
31:56
Speaker 6: be a pitcher on the base.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 5: But if you're told you're special, aren't your pressured to specialize?
32:01
Speaker 3: Then at that point.
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Speaker 6: Maybe, but you're still seeing multiple sport athletes.
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Speaker 3: I'm happy to hear that across the changes.
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Speaker 1: You want to endear yourself to Luke Fickle, go out
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Speaker 1: for wrestling.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll be instantly on the radar. You'll be on
32:14
Speaker 2: the radar there. Okay, all right, sweet, let's bring him in.
32:17
Speaker 2: Let's have a conversation that gets to the whole bigger
32:19
Speaker 2: picture thing. In this era of the high school recruiting thing,
32:23
Speaker 2: do do major universities and the Power five conferences spend
32:27
Speaker 2: more of the time combing the high schools or just
32:29
Speaker 2: looking for transfer portal guys and using using the ball
32:33
Speaker 2: states and max schools and tinner schools as their feeder system.
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Speaker 3: And it sucks in the minor league, it really sucks.
32:38
Speaker 3: I bet I bet they spent way.
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Speaker 1: Less time working with high school coaches and just developing
32:43
Speaker 1: those relationships.
32:44
Speaker 2: Well, in that that way, you probably put it a
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Speaker 2: little more delicately, uh than first brush when Luke Fickle
32:50
Speaker 2: kind of frustrated a lot of folks at the Wisconsin
32:53
Speaker 2: High School Coaches Clinic when he mentioned it that way,
32:55
Speaker 2: like where we're at right now, Yeah, we definitely want
32:58
Speaker 2: to bring in high school kids because you do need
32:59
Speaker 2: to guys that are you know, program guys and you
33:02
Speaker 2: have them for four years and they care about it more.
33:05
Speaker 2: But like they brought in thirty transfers because they needed
33:08
Speaker 2: fifteen starters, right like, so you're instantly gonna go and
33:11
Speaker 2: come through. Trinidad Shamble is a great example. Played at
33:14
Speaker 2: the Fairist State, won a national title, sat for a year,
33:17
Speaker 2: and now he's the greatest thing since sliced bread in
33:20
Speaker 2: the SEC and you're gonna see a lot more of
33:23
Speaker 2: those guys. The other one is the groupings that are
33:25
Speaker 2: coming right like rock o'beck and Matt Campbell at Penn State.
33:30
Speaker 2: The cat that he's gonna be our awaken. Big story
33:32
Speaker 2: here by the way, the Oklahoma State head coach. Great
33:35
Speaker 2: story about Eric Norris coming out earlier on, but he
33:38
Speaker 2: went from North Texas, brought their quarterback and it's no
33:41
Speaker 2: longer just like hey, you're gonna be our coach.
33:44
Speaker 3: What kind of program are you going to instill?
33:46
Speaker 5: You know?
33:46
Speaker 3: And there was what fifteen starters are you bringing with us?
33:48
Speaker 3: Because we need to flip this thing around instantly.
33:50
Speaker 6: And before Neil there was always that question mark of well, sure,
33:53
Speaker 6: you know he was through sixty touchdowns at this school.
33:56
Speaker 6: But this is this is big time for this. We
33:58
Speaker 6: found these guys. If you're a winner, you're winner. I mean, right,
34:01
Speaker 6: I go to basketball at Iowa. You know Ben McCollum
34:03
Speaker 6: brings Bennett starts with him from Northwest Missouri State and
34:08
Speaker 6: can he played the Big Ten?
34:09
Speaker 3: Yeah?
34:09
Speaker 6: He was with the eighteenth overall pick in the NBA
34:11
Speaker 6: draft this year. Signettey brought a bunch of guys with him.
34:16
Speaker 6: How about right there wins the national championship and we
34:20
Speaker 6: were talking. I was actually chatting with Matt Lape yesterday
34:22
Speaker 6: and like they might have brought in the kid from TCU,
34:25
Speaker 6: mightd up having a better.
34:26
Speaker 2: Season than he might end up being better than They got.
34:29
Speaker 3: The best free agent quarterback on the market. They went
34:32
Speaker 3: and got him.
34:32
Speaker 2: Because Signetti also does this where he had the you
34:34
Speaker 2: know I win google me.
34:36
Speaker 3: He also one of his best statements is h.
34:38
Speaker 2: I've had a first team All Conference quarterback every team
34:40
Speaker 2: that I've been head coach of.
34:41
Speaker 6: I love. I just love how he backs up what
34:44
Speaker 6: he says. He throws shade at the SEC. It's just
34:48
Speaker 6: he's just a smack.
34:50
Speaker 3: When he walked in and said Produce sucks it, let's go.
34:57
Speaker 3: Let's right.
34:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were chatting also just to bring a all
35:00
Speaker 1: around like Billy Edwards Junior, who we got to hang
35:02
Speaker 1: out and eat wings with at Buffalo Wild Wings in Madison.
35:05
Speaker 1: He's now he might be the last starting quarterback for
35:07
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick in his career playing at North Carolina. And
35:11
Speaker 1: like his gear, he's got gear from wake Forest, Maryland,
35:14
Speaker 1: Wisconsin and North Carolina with all the colors covered a
35:18
Speaker 1: J Store. There's a run of good wills that have
35:20
Speaker 1: gotten a lot of number five figures. Dropped store has
35:23
Speaker 1: got another one. Yeah, you know that Billy Edwards was
35:26
Speaker 1: headed to like put on a headset and be a coach,
35:28
Speaker 1: But now he's got another year to go play.
35:30
Speaker 2: Hey man, one more year where you can get a
35:32
Speaker 2: some money. They're not giving coaches, you might as well
35:34
Speaker 2: do it.
35:34
Speaker 3: Arm and Crip trivia question. Give us all all of
35:36
Speaker 3: AJ store schools.
35:37
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I can't do it. Yeah, MG, Bishop Gorman, No, no,
35:42
Speaker 4: not high school, just college. Just college. I'm sorry.
35:45
Speaker 5: Yeah, Saint John's Wisconsin, Kansas.
35:51
Speaker 4: Obviously he's at Where was he last year?
35:55
Speaker 3: Yeah? You got it? Ole miss and now was there?
35:57
Speaker 3: Why miss? Though? Did you think so that's it? Yeah?
35:59
Speaker 3: You got all Billy help me. I'm impressed you started
36:02
Speaker 3: ripping off high school so though. Yeah, he went right
36:03
Speaker 3: for the jugular. I just saw the tweet.
36:06
Speaker 5: By the way, Tommy and San pre also know that
36:07
Speaker 5: Jack Peterson DeVante Adams were high school football teammates.
36:11
Speaker 3: And Jack senior year. Are you serious?
36:13
Speaker 4: Yeah, Palo Alto High School.
36:16
Speaker 3: That's Peterson, Texas Rangers.
36:18
Speaker 5: Now right, I'll watch a little documentary on Devanta on
36:21
Speaker 5: a plane ones. Wow, he's like I was from the
36:23
Speaker 5: other side of the tracks in Palo Alto.
36:24
Speaker 6: I wasn't from that, from from the down on the
36:27
Speaker 6: farm side over it by Stanford.
36:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, doll, thanks for popping by. Always a treat.
36:32
Speaker 1: We will talk at you tomorrow on the real Friday,
36:35
Speaker 1: not just Friday, Junior. I'm the real one, the huddle
36:38
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Speaker 1: to you on this Thursday in the good Land. We've
36:44
Speaker 1: got a Brewise matine today. Hunter Bombgart's gonna join us
36:48
Speaker 1: about twenty five minutes. Talk about that.
36:50
Speaker 3: And calm down.
36:51
Speaker 2: Everybody freaking out about Dustin may please Hunter, Yeah maybe
36:55
Speaker 2: maybe will he will see.
36:56
Speaker 5: I mean, he's good and he's been good. But with
36:59
Speaker 5: his history, there's gonna be starts like that. You know,
37:01
Speaker 5: he's gonna have traffic, He's gonna have those moments.
37:05
Speaker 1: Funky thing about the Brewers right now is they're entering
37:08
Speaker 1: a Cub stretch without playing the Cubs. They have three
37:10
Speaker 1: straight home day games.
37:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a weird oddity in the schedule, and then
37:14
Speaker 2: a Sunday night or.
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Speaker 1: Three tomorrow, it is bizarre, and then one ten on
37:18
Speaker 1: Saturday so they can fly to Williamsport to play in
37:21
Speaker 1: that Little League World Series showcase on Sunday night against
37:24
Speaker 1: the Brave Brewers home game. But they have to travel
37:26
Speaker 1: to Williamsport, which isn't easy.
37:28
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I don't think there's a whole
37:30
Speaker 2: lot of direct flights and a lot of great landings
37:32
Speaker 2: landing strips there for a team plane. But I will say, Drew,
37:36
Speaker 2: I'm fired up that the Brewers are a part of it,
37:39
Speaker 2: like watching the spectacle that the Field of Dreams thing
37:42
Speaker 2: is on Netflix, the the Williamsport game with all the
37:45
Speaker 2: kids that are going to be there in the Little
37:47
Speaker 2: League World Series busting you know, busting the seal yesterday
37:50
Speaker 2: and having some great games, a thriller as Nicaragua and
37:54
Speaker 2: the Dominican Republic. We're having an absolute battle and kid
37:57
Speaker 2: throws a seed from the from right field to be
38:00
Speaker 2: able to give Nicaragua the lead. I'm excited to be
38:03
Speaker 2: able to see the kids enjoy it. I like that
38:06
Speaker 2: the Brewers are going to be featured on it, but uh,
38:08
Speaker 2: it is an oddity in the schedule, that's for sure.
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Speaker 3: Is a Williamsport Regional Airport.
38:11
Speaker 1: There is east of downtown Williamsport in Montoursville, Pennsylvani.
38:16
Speaker 3: I'm looking at it.
38:17
Speaker 4: Actually funny, right, you can get in a direction.
38:22
Speaker 3: Shut and will fly right in.
38:24
Speaker 1: Otherwise the biggest the biggest nearby airport would be University Park,
38:28
Speaker 1: State College, Pennsylvania.
38:30
Speaker 5: That might make more in our west well, because the
38:32
Speaker 5: problem is how big the runways are for the planes
38:34
Speaker 5: and stuff. It depends if they don't have big jets
38:36
Speaker 5: coming in that off, and you can't necessarily just land
38:38
Speaker 5: anywhere or wilkes.
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Speaker 1: Bury, which is in sixty seven miles east, those Harrisburg,
38:43
Speaker 1: which is seventy four miles.
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Speaker 4: I would think those are all more likely options than you.
38:46
Speaker 3: Just bust it out. I think you have to bust
38:47
Speaker 3: an hour. Yeah, it's just the wide bodies building this
38:50
Speaker 3: whole thing. Don't worry. But as it is cool that
38:52
Speaker 3: two things are true.
38:53
Speaker 1: It is cool that the Brewers are playing in that game,
38:56
Speaker 1: but it's also the travel thing and off the road
39:00
Speaker 1: it's kind of a pain in the.
39:01
Speaker 2: Urse well, and especially because they travel for like the
39:03
Speaker 2: one day and then they play the Mets for three
39:06
Speaker 2: games and then they come right back, right and then
39:08
Speaker 2: they go back out on the road early.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then they come.
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Speaker 1: Back for three and it'll be a quick commute, and
39:12
Speaker 1: they have a day off Monday, so it'll be a
39:14
Speaker 1: quick commute from Pennsylvania to New York and gets spent
39:17
Speaker 1: an off day New York, which isn't the worst.
39:18
Speaker 3: Thing, not a bad day off. But then I'll and
39:20
Speaker 3: then you come back and then you're right back home.
39:22
Speaker 3: And then they start that tournament against the Cubs.
39:24
Speaker 2: And they're right onto the road and it really kicks
39:26
Speaker 2: in Man and the month of September is going to
39:29
Speaker 2: be so fun, definitely, with the games that you have,
39:32
Speaker 2: the matchups you have, Like even the Baltimore series, you
39:35
Speaker 2: can circle up. They were left for dead. They're right
39:38
Speaker 2: in the thick of it in the al and they're
39:41
Speaker 2: playing really well. There are no slouches on this schedule
39:44
Speaker 2: on the back end unless you face schemes.
39:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, they reprieve.
39:48
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe you can break, maybe you can get the
39:50
Speaker 2: lily break there on like September sixteenth.
39:53
Speaker 3: For sure.
39:54
Speaker 4: Well, Baltimore's pissed last night. Well, we'll get to that.
39:56
Speaker 3: We'll get to that. We'll get to that.
39:57
Speaker 1: Hunter's going to join us at seven to twenty five
39:59
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