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01/23/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 2: look on. Let's go on God yeah, and they can
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Speaker 2: play be right all the way outside?
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Speaker 4: Why left bake three ninety sick bag be in se park?
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Speaker 2: Is that long enough for you? Want you to be
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Speaker 2: party of professional?
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Speaker 3: It's a great professional about damn playing this ball game
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Speaker 3: like I know you can play it.
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Speaker 1: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, this man's been out all night.
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Speaker 1: Armand sorry, don't get skinned.
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Speaker 2: Were ready?
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin is on the air.
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Speaker 2: God yourself a welcome in to.
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Speaker 3: The huddle, smart, good looking huddlers broadcasting live from headquarters
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Speaker 3: on this Friday in the good Land, Drew Billy Armand
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Speaker 3: it's O five hundred and the O s answer, Oh
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Speaker 3: my god, it's early, and oh my god, it's cold
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Speaker 3: out there. Welcome into our subarctic edition of the program.
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Speaker 3: Much of the state of Wisconsin shutdown today, schools, businesses, Uh.
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Speaker 2: We're here for you.
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Speaker 3: We are your cure me entertainment right, where are your
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Speaker 3: cure for cabin fever? And as I was driving in today,
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Speaker 3: I'm full disclosure. Stately olsen Manor has heated underground parking
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Speaker 3: in my car.
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Speaker 2: I'm in winters never.
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Speaker 3: It's it's the coldest it gets in my garage is
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Speaker 3: like sixty right, got to work me? So I leave
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Speaker 3: my door, and I don't have to put my coat
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Speaker 3: on right away. I do, but I don't have to.
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Speaker 3: And as I'm driving here to the megaplex, do this
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Speaker 3: powerhouse program that we have planned for the people out
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Speaker 3: there today. I just watched the I just watched the
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Speaker 3: thing plunge from sixty degrees down to all of a
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Speaker 3: sudden it's twenty and it's like zero.
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Speaker 2: What are you doing for us? Can take right, let's sink.
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Speaker 3: And as it got to as I was pulling into
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Speaker 3: the megaplex today, it was it got to the lowest
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Speaker 3: of minus eleven. And that ain't win chill. That's straight
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Speaker 3: up temp. That's real temp, not like when not this
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Speaker 3: made up? That's not that's not a bunch of hohoey.
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Speaker 5: Right, No, this is like the Arctic, the polar plunge
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Speaker 5: for your car though, because like the shock of it,
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Speaker 5: like it comes out of the heated garage, which is nice,
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Speaker 5: don't get me back, Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: No, I don't know how cars worker, if it's good
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Speaker 2: or bad.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is what it is, right, and it's as
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Speaker 3: long as my battery starts on the way home, which
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Speaker 3: is the important part.
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Speaker 2: That's the important one. Yet But I was.
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Speaker 3: I was just struck by one overwhelming thought today because
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Speaker 3: as I was getting ready at home, I see that
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Speaker 3: today is the anniversary of the Patriots comeback in a
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Speaker 3: Super Bowl against the Colts.
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Speaker 2: That happened in what year? Billy twenty eight to three?
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Speaker 4: Oh, in twenty sixteen?
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Speaker 2: Falcons Falcons thirteen. Wasn't it? I was say, yeah, it
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Speaker 2: was it?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, wait it was Oh wait it might have been
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Speaker 3: another Brady comeback. Sorry, oh Brady against the Patriot in
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Speaker 3: two thousand and four. I appear thousand and four was
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Speaker 3: the first time they ever got back when they first
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Speaker 3: got to the Super Bowl against it.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I was just.
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Speaker 3: Thinking this, like, okay, so there's you know, there's football
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Speaker 3: this weekend. It's championship weekend. And there's just one question
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Speaker 3: I have for people today. If the Packers were playing
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Speaker 3: in an NFC championship game in this these conditions today,
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Speaker 3: would you go.
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Speaker 2: A little close to it? At ninety it was what
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Speaker 2: was it?
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Speaker 5: Grow up?
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Speaker 3: We had a grasshopper dreaming about playing a game like today,
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Speaker 3: freezing frozen tons of lambeau fell.
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Speaker 2: That's what you want to be. I'm glad I'm in
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Speaker 2: the one.
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Speaker 1: It's a nice looking day here today. It's currently three
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Speaker 1: degrees the wind out of the west at ten miles
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Speaker 1: per hour, and seventeen degrees is the wind chill factor,
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Speaker 1: that's hardly anything at all.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was kind of warm compared to this. I
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Speaker 2: knew that was.
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Speaker 4: That was warm compared to the two thousand and seven
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Speaker 4: NFC Title Game, which was much colder when they played
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Speaker 4: the Giants.
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Speaker 5: I believe the ad zero I think for that game
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Speaker 5: in terms of temperature or maybe negative.
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Speaker 4: So again, thrower and at night, which also is the
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Speaker 4: biggest part, right because as somebody that was at that
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Speaker 4: game with my dad against the Giants, that was the
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Speaker 4: coldest I had ever been for a sustained period of time,
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Speaker 4: where you are driving up in the sunshine, thinking, man,
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Speaker 4: it'd be a hell of a lot better if we
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Speaker 4: were playing this game at two o'clock instead of five forty,
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Speaker 4: when the sun's gonna be down for an hour plus
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Speaker 4: and those handwarmers have already been exhausted for about two
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Speaker 4: and a half hours.
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Speaker 3: The eight NFC Champions Game one of the coldest. Giants
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Speaker 3: packers minus four degrees minus twenty four degrees wind chill.
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Speaker 3: Now when it gets to be below zero. Does wind
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Speaker 3: chill really matter that much to you? Coldest cold right,
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Speaker 3: it's minus forty or minus sixty now, granted it feels colder.
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Speaker 2: Winner's wind out.
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Speaker 3: And I was walking the dog the other day and
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Speaker 3: it was I think it was in the twenties, but
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Speaker 3: it was kind of sunny and there was no wind.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, this is almost pleasant, but it's still it's
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Speaker 3: my brain is so warped. Yeah, but still. The Ice
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Speaker 3: Bowls regarded as the coldest game ever and that was
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Speaker 3: third teen. So I pulled into the megaplex. It was
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Speaker 3: minus eleven, so we're two degrees up on the Ice
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Speaker 3: Bowl and I was.
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Speaker 2: Played in the sun. Though, does it matter?
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Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know Billy's point about the night though,
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Speaker 5: I think it is true a little bit, because when
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Speaker 5: it is darker, you know, and it's getting it's getting
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Speaker 5: colder as the game goes. But you're right, I mean,
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Speaker 5: it would be pretty brutal to be out there, but
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Speaker 5: then to be able to tell people you were there
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Speaker 5: is the epic part.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing. Or yeah, I mean I call
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Speaker 3: myself a hero. But we did walk from our cars
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Speaker 3: to the to the megaplex.
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Speaker 2: I walked all the way inside. Yeah, I did, walked
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Speaker 2: like you know, ten yards.
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Speaker 4: Well, and you walked further than than you normally would
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Speaker 4: have because armand Sarian decided today was the fakes of
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Speaker 4: fake hustle decks, right, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Because he usually parks in that spot.
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Speaker 3: He has chastised human beings forever fathoming parking in his
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Speaker 3: parking spot, in my spot. But today he said, you
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Speaker 3: know what, I don't even need to be a spot.
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Speaker 3: I need to be as close to the door closely possible.
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Speaker 2: I did, I roll? I did that make it so
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Speaker 2: much better? I mean, did you say those eight steps?
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Speaker 2: Was that was that worth it? Well? I was happier
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Speaker 2: to walk shorter. I mean, I wasn't gonna try and
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Speaker 2: walk farther out in that cold today than I had
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Speaker 2: a too.
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Speaker 5: However, it was a little bit okay, But if I
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Speaker 5: parked all the way in the corner, Billy and just
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Speaker 5: did it just to prove something to somebody, then I'm
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Speaker 5: being like fake tough right by doing that, isn't it?
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Speaker 2: Like?
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Speaker 5: Okay, you're just being fake tough farm by trying to
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Speaker 5: let the guys walking out in pregame with shirts off, like.
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Speaker 4: Isn't it you're already admitting that you're doing something completely different,
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Speaker 4: that you're you're breaking your rhythm and your routine, like
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Speaker 4: the Packers did in a two thousand and eight title game.
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Speaker 4: The Giants came out and say, you know what, we're
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Speaker 4: on wear sleeves. We don't care. We're coming out here
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Speaker 4: and preparing for the cold. We'll practice outside, we'll prepare
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Speaker 4: for the cold, and we'll be ready for it. And
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Speaker 4: then when you start breaking norms like you did today,
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Speaker 4: you start to you start to get out of your sorts,
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Speaker 4: you start to think you're doing too much, you're doing
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Speaker 4: something way better, and actually you're failing. You know, preparing
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Speaker 4: to fail is when you fail to prepare. It's and
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Speaker 4: you deciding that today was the day that you were
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Speaker 4: gonna change up everything about your process routine. In the process,
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Speaker 4: you allowed the weather to get in your head. And
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Speaker 4: now you're already four steps back. And that's where I
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Speaker 4: think we a lot of times need to just take
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Speaker 4: a deep breath and realize we live in this stuff
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Speaker 4: every single year. I know it might be four degrees different,
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Speaker 4: So like you said, Drew, once it hits zero, does
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Speaker 4: it really.
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Speaker 2: Damn well difference?
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Speaker 4: I mean I think we've lived through three or four
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Speaker 4: days every single year where you're like, I'm gonna I'm
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Speaker 4: gonna probably stay inside, and this would be one of
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Speaker 4: those days where you enjoy yourself a beautiful Friday in
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Speaker 4: the good Land.
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Speaker 2: And hang out inside, and you know what, maybe you
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Speaker 2: find a reason.
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Speaker 4: To fire up one of those old movies that you've
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Speaker 4: been waiting on series you know it's you got I mean, well,
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Speaker 4: we got the Badgers from last night.
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Speaker 3: You got to watch the Badgers last night. Put some
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Speaker 3: whoop pass on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt.
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Speaker 4: They busted that thing out really early and uh and
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Speaker 4: ran away and then made that thing not an interesting
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Speaker 4: game at the rec center that we're gonna be talking
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Speaker 4: about with Matt Lapay at seven thirty.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we have Bucks Nuggets tonight at five serve
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Speaker 3: am I correcting.
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Speaker 4: That, And I imagine that's another eight to thirty tip.
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Speaker 4: I imagine that will be one that is going to
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Speaker 4: be struggling to get attendance for with no Yokic on
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Speaker 4: the other side.
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Speaker 2: Eight thirty tip.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there are fifteen hours and twenty minutes away from
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Speaker 3: you know whatever. From tip off there eight thirty tip
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Speaker 3: Bucks Nuggets Nuggets played last night, bucks are rested, but
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Speaker 3: the Bucks are bad.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, and again like if I was gonna see
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Speaker 4: if I was going to be able to see Yokic
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Speaker 4: on the other side against Giannis, Oh, I would brave
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Speaker 4: the elements for that one.
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Speaker 2: That one.
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Speaker 3: This one might be a little bit different. I think
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Speaker 3: this one might be a little bit a cheaper ticket
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Speaker 3: on that secondary mind.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a prime video game too.
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Speaker 3: Believe this is my first week back in the mornings.
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Speaker 3: I don't know how I'm gonna be at like eight
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Speaker 3: thirty tonight.
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Speaker 2: Would I be? And you know, it depends.
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Speaker 4: You might be right down the center of the line
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Speaker 4: on like a fifty milligram happy place going very well,
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Speaker 4: that might be the best, like the perfect sweet spot
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Speaker 4: where you get a natural buzz rolling.
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Speaker 2: I gotta say, yeah, that's the thing.
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Speaker 3: A couple of beers at the game, or just stay
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Speaker 3: home and maybe watch check in on TVC if it's
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Speaker 3: worth watching, and then leave. I don't know game time decision,
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Speaker 3: whether I go to the five Surf tonight.
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Speaker 2: I like that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I might go check it out, like it was
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Speaker 3: a circle the Calendar game. But now I know Jokic
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Speaker 3: and the Bucks stink and.
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Speaker 4: It makes it a little bit tougher. Yeah, it makes
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Speaker 4: it makes it a little bit tougher to get up
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Speaker 4: for the Saturday for the Friday night. However, you're also
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Speaker 4: gonna have a good viewing party on on the couch
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Speaker 4: because you're gonna be able to watch that five o'clock
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Speaker 4: Milwaukee Admirals game playing outdoors.
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Speaker 2: My god, you want to talk. That's brave at the elements.
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Speaker 4: Those boys are going to be battling tonight out there
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Speaker 4: at Hastings, Minnesota.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. I saw some highlights of them coming out skating
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Speaker 5: on the ice, testing it out a little bit. They're
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Speaker 5: layering up, no doubt, but I think a lot of
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Speaker 5: those guys are used to it. I saw Rech Japers
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Speaker 5: getting around. He's from Norman, Alberta. I mean, those guys
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Speaker 5: are just smiling, having a good time. So it looks
10:48
Speaker 5: pretty cool.
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Speaker 3: That's question one is if the Packers were playing a
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Speaker 3: game today, would you go and sit outside at lambeau Field.
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Speaker 3: I know it's like we're tough, We're hardy. It's the Packers.
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Speaker 3: Of course I would. It's an advantage.
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Speaker 2: I just I'm soft.
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Speaker 3: I admit it. Billy, you've been to those cold games.
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Speaker 3: My cutoff is like there, I've spent my life in
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Speaker 3: press boxes at cold games. It's my cutoff is about
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Speaker 3: thirty degrees. Well, that's the first sitting outside bowl.
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Speaker 4: And I also think that that's not unfair because it's
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Speaker 4: like asking somebody that has lived in the NFL version
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Speaker 4: of Florida for.
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Speaker 2: Their entire life.
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Speaker 3: When you're up in the press box, you get the
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Speaker 3: halftime brought, which is always a beautiful endeavor that that
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Speaker 3: we we're gonna make sure is going to be a
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Speaker 3: part of the festivities. And when you're outside braving the elements,
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Speaker 3: like that two thousand and eight NFC title game against
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Speaker 3: the Giants, you couldn't get ketchup on the sausage because
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Speaker 3: the lines were frozen. When you went and tried to
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Speaker 3: get something during halftime. The hot chocolate was actually being
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Speaker 3: sold more than beer, and they ran out in the
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Speaker 3: second quarter. So there was a lot more people that
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Speaker 3: I think got drunker than they had anticipated in certain
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Speaker 3: spots during that in that stadium because of the lack
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Speaker 3: of amenities, but it the the advantage part, I think
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Speaker 3: is the interesting one.
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Speaker 4: I've been to a number of these cold ones. This
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Speaker 4: one the forty nine ers tilt in the wild card
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Speaker 4: round in twenty thirteen, where Micah Hyde doesn't intercept the
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Speaker 4: pass from Kaepernick and Gold walks them off. That was
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Speaker 4: right near the freezing mark.
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Speaker 2: We went with the whole family for that game. Fox
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Speaker 2: point point ends up being.
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Speaker 4: More of a memory than anything, because again, once it's
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Speaker 4: cold and you're bundled up, you'll be all right and
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Speaker 4: it's gonna be cold. But if you've viewed in person
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Speaker 4: so many games from indoors, then it is harder to
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Speaker 4: harder stay out in the elements. And one of my
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Speaker 4: favorites armament is when we walk in, Drew starts thinking of, Yeah,
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Speaker 4: about one hundred bucks for me to stand outside for
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Speaker 4: this game.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you started thinking about what it would cost, what
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Speaker 5: it would cost, not what you paid to get in cost.
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Speaker 5: And the thing is, I think fans think that way
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Speaker 5: in terms of how long have I been waiting for
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Speaker 5: this game? I think that's why the NFC Championship in
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Speaker 5: ninety six was so exciting for so many people and
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Speaker 5: so much of not even a worry of like, yeah,
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Speaker 5: three degrees in the sun, We're definitely going to that
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Speaker 5: because people have been waiting for a game like that
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Speaker 5: for three decades. People have been waiting for that for
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Speaker 5: three years. I mean, Brett Farber said that was our
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Speaker 5: Ice Bowl. We felt like that was our crowning achievement
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Speaker 5: to win a game like that in those type of elements,
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Speaker 5: I think it matters to fans how long they've been
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Speaker 5: waiting for a game like that.
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Speaker 2: But if you're a.
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Speaker 5: Perennial playoff team the Packers had been for a long time,
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Speaker 5: and you get a wildcard game in this weather, I
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Speaker 5: wouldn't be surprised when people start trying to ditch those tickets.
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Speaker 5: The thing is, it used to be a source of
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Speaker 5: pride though back in those games in the nineties, that
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Speaker 5: there was.
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Speaker 2: No unused tickets, that no one.
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Speaker 5: They would do news stories on local news in the nineties,
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Speaker 5: Drew you remember about the two people that missed their flight.
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Speaker 2: What two tickets went unused? We tracked them down and
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Speaker 2: Mouston or whatever. It was like that.
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Speaker 5: So Jeff and Fox point on the text line, did
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Speaker 5: note that that twenty thirteen NFC game against the Niners, Billy,
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Speaker 5: and I was freezing. The only way I could warm
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Speaker 5: up in the stands and the heated Lambeau bathroom is
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Speaker 5: to stand in there excuse me for a short period
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Speaker 5: of time. Yeah, that's definitely would have been an armine
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Speaker 5: move to try and go huddle up and warm up
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Speaker 5: in the bathroom. Run from the grind a little bit.
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Speaker 5: Jason o' walkershaw said that January first, twenty twelve, the
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Speaker 5: Mad Flynn sixth Tuddy game against the Lions was cold,
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Speaker 5: and he's he's the longlane listener. Thank you Jason and
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Speaker 5: Walkershop for chiming in on that one.
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Speaker 4: Well, there was one body that we had with us
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Speaker 4: for the game in the NFC title game, as my
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Speaker 4: dad and I and then one of like our family
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Speaker 4: friends drove up with us. He had a single ticket
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Speaker 4: and he got his hand warmers and feet warmers.
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Speaker 2: When people are shuffling in, oh, excuse me, sorry, excuse me, sorry, excuse.
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Speaker 4: Me sorry, started shuffling in his bag of handwarmers that
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Speaker 4: he had brought, you know, in the little pick and
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Speaker 4: say bag underneath him, got kicked about six or seven
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Speaker 4: spots down the row. Oh boy, so we're sitting there wondering, like, hey, man,
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Speaker 4: where's Paul.
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Speaker 2: Where's Paul.
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Speaker 4: Thirteen year old Billy's tears just freezing down his face,
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Speaker 4: and my dad's like, it's.
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Speaker 3: A okay, it's okay. They'll get another shot. Brett's not retiring.
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Speaker 3: That's not the last time you'll see him play.
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Speaker 4: And as we're getting to the car and just starting
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Speaker 4: to unthaw, we're still trying to figure out where our
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Speaker 4: guy is. He had been sitting and doing the Jeff
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Speaker 4: and Fox point in the bathroom in the stall after
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Speaker 4: the game. Once the Lawrence Tynes field goal went through,
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Speaker 4: he found the handwarmers, said I'm not waiting to get warm.
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna go sit in the bathroom for a good
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Speaker 4: thirty minutes after and I think every stall was being
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Speaker 4: used because people are like, I'm gonna use this heater.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, gather enough strength.
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Speaker 4: Then we're running out to the car because this is
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Speaker 4: gonna be this is gonna be hellish again. Let's make
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Speaker 4: sure that my feet are no longer icicles and I'm
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Speaker 4: not stepping in breaking them feeling like they're asleep every
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Speaker 4: single step.
15:43
Speaker 2: And then we'll run this thing to the car.
15:45
Speaker 3: Definitely a shock to the system for sure, no man,
15:48
Speaker 3: and that this weather and I just does it lend
15:51
Speaker 3: itself to foot I love watching it, but in terms
15:54
Speaker 3: of the experience for the people and the players, like,
15:56
Speaker 3: does it lend itself to good football? Should be you know,
16:00
Speaker 3: tied for the second it's two and two a this weekend,
16:04
Speaker 3: championship weekend? Most important games of the year. Should they
16:07
Speaker 3: be comported in conditions that are just overwhelmingly like just
16:12
Speaker 3: you know again, it's like it's a battle of attrition
16:15
Speaker 3: and who wins the game? Is it the best team
16:17
Speaker 3: that wins these games? Or is it the team that
16:18
Speaker 3: handles the cold the best, that's it toughest?
16:21
Speaker 4: But also I think that's part of the NFL playoffs, Yeah, right,
16:23
Speaker 4: Like is how do you handle the conditions? How do
16:26
Speaker 4: you handle injuries? How do you handle the adversity? More
16:29
Speaker 4: one hundred percent? Does it mean was the best football
16:33
Speaker 4: on display? Maybe against the Bears and Rams last weekend?
16:36
Speaker 4: Probably not? But I think the toughest team and the
16:39
Speaker 4: best team ended up getting out of the elements because
16:41
Speaker 4: they made it less of a problem.
16:42
Speaker 3: The most compelling games sometimes yeah, oh yeah, the entire
16:46
Speaker 3: country is getting lambasted this well, yeah, right.
16:49
Speaker 2: And the center of the country.
16:51
Speaker 3: And you know, you don't think, Okay, Texas, right, They're
16:54
Speaker 3: not going to get like a lot of snow, but
16:55
Speaker 3: they're gonna get freezing rain, which is in some cases worse.
16:58
Speaker 3: I was in Dallas the Packers last Super Bowl, and
17:01
Speaker 3: it was an ice storm.
17:02
Speaker 2: That was the worst week.
17:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, schools were closed, like the kids were out of
17:06
Speaker 3: school for like a week.
17:07
Speaker 2: They don't have the equipment down there and trucks, they're
17:09
Speaker 2: not prepared. It was. It was awful like then, and
17:12
Speaker 2: there was a cab strike.
17:14
Speaker 3: And the only good day and the only hard to
17:16
Speaker 3: get weatherwise was the game day.
17:18
Speaker 2: And this was like a.
17:23
Speaker 3: Saturday a little bit because we did a little pepper
17:25
Speaker 3: rally at at a bar somewhere.
17:27
Speaker 2: I just think my favorite was just the falling ice
17:29
Speaker 2: off the stadium.
17:30
Speaker 3: Everyone was talking about the falling ice and that was
17:32
Speaker 3: becoming dangerous. But you're right, there was a cab strike
17:34
Speaker 3: and if I remember this was pre uber so that
17:38
Speaker 3: I was walking across.
17:39
Speaker 2: This, it's hard to get around. It was a huge story.
17:41
Speaker 2: And uh, but you're right, it is more.
17:43
Speaker 5: Sometimes the football is less less, you know, well, theatrical,
17:47
Speaker 5: but it's more it's more of compelling, you know, people
17:50
Speaker 5: forget the Ice Bowl was a dreary game for most
17:52
Speaker 5: of the second half. Nothing was happening until the final
17:55
Speaker 5: couple of a couple of drives because nobody could move
17:57
Speaker 5: in those type of games.
17:58
Speaker 2: So it does become that way.
17:59
Speaker 3: HEFC Championship Game is the early game in Denver. It's
18:03
Speaker 3: the first time the AFC Championship Game has been in
18:05
Speaker 3: Denver in ten years, twenty sixteen, last time, last time
18:08
Speaker 3: they played it, twenty sixteen, forty six degrees, gorgeous day
18:14
Speaker 3: between the Patriots and bronnover and then conditions for Sunday benine.
18:20
Speaker 3: The early forecast high temp of thirty one, thinking down
18:25
Speaker 3: to a low temp of twelve, but that'll be at
18:26
Speaker 3: night after the game, and so it'll be below freezing
18:31
Speaker 3: but not horrible. And the lowest temperatures won't happen until, guys.
18:35
Speaker 4: Until no And I think the night game in Seattle
18:39
Speaker 4: is exactly what you think of Seattle and exactly what
18:41
Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys saw the video that
18:43
Speaker 4: the Seahawks put out of Mike McDonald's first prescott or
18:46
Speaker 4: first team meeting when he gets the job. Last April.
18:49
Speaker 4: He goes, all right, I want to fast forward nine months.
18:51
Speaker 4: It's thirty something out, it's rainy, it's a night five
18:56
Speaker 4: thirty five, forty and we're running out of the tunnel
18:59
Speaker 4: for the NFC title game. And it's hell for them,
19:01
Speaker 4: and it's just right for us. Sole little marve Lea
19:04
Speaker 4: in there just demolished it.
19:06
Speaker 2: Now he missed it by a year. He was a
19:09
Speaker 2: year early.
19:10
Speaker 4: On it, but all of a sudden he set that
19:11
Speaker 4: culture and now they're doing the exact same thing.
19:13
Speaker 3: Weather forecast high temperature on Sunday forty five, low of
19:17
Speaker 3: thirty four with a slight chance of rain before ten o'clock.
19:22
Speaker 2: But will that intersect with the game? That's all be awesome.
19:25
Speaker 3: It's a tough one because that is a that's like, well,
19:28
Speaker 3: isn't got a three thirty kickoff there?
19:31
Speaker 2: That sounds right five thirty here?
19:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, So yeah, it's not going to be a factor.
19:37
Speaker 3: It's everywhere in the country. People are gonna be hunkered
19:39
Speaker 3: down watching the game.
19:40
Speaker 2: See, you don't even need that to build all these domes.
19:42
Speaker 3: You'll be fine off to build all these domes for
19:44
Speaker 3: the championship weekend. I just I almost wish they were
19:48
Speaker 3: playing Saturday, but then again, Billy and I have a
19:50
Speaker 3: gig on Saturday.
19:51
Speaker 2: Correct, Yeah, we're.
19:52
Speaker 3: Gonna tell you about that as we would look out
19:54
Speaker 3: our first appearance here on the news station, The Huddle
19:58
Speaker 3: of Fox Sports Radio Whiske nine twenty Milwaukee ten seventy
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Speaker 3: in Madison, Powerpack show for you today. After Dolph rolls in,
20:06
Speaker 3: we're going to talk to Matt Miller about the Oscar nominations.
20:08
Speaker 3: Andy Kilbride's going to join us, former Badger talk about
20:11
Speaker 3: the Howard Moore documentary out and then uh, Matt Lapey
20:15
Speaker 3: fresh as a daisy coming back from from state college.
20:18
Speaker 4: Yeah, he said, as long as he's thawed off of
20:21
Speaker 4: the tarmac from last night.
20:22
Speaker 2: But uh probably warmed up after that.
20:24
Speaker 3: When he scored ninety eight on the road and Badger's
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Speaker 3: win ninety eight seventy one. We're gonna have some fun today,
20:30
Speaker 3: So grab yourself a comfortable chair and maybe a warm
20:33
Speaker 3: beverage today and hang out with us. It's the Huddle
20:37
Speaker 3: on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. It's the Huddle off Fox
20:54
Speaker 3: Sports Radio Wisconsin. Drew, Billy and Arman bringing it to
20:57
Speaker 3: you on this coldest day of the year. It's down
20:59
Speaker 3: to minus thirty team at the Megaplex right now. It's beautiful, beautiful.
21:04
Speaker 4: I'm excited for the for my sun rise coming up
21:06
Speaker 4: here in about an hour and ten minutes or so.
21:09
Speaker 2: It's happening.
21:10
Speaker 4: It'll be it'll be a quick it'll be a quick one,
21:12
Speaker 4: but it'll be one where you can almost see the
21:14
Speaker 4: ice in the air.
21:15
Speaker 2: It's gonna beautiful, It's gonna be there. Can't wait. Yes, Uh,
21:18
Speaker 2: we have Powerpack Show today.
21:20
Speaker 3: Scott Dolphin's gonna join us, Matt Miller talking Oscars, Andy Kilbride,
21:23
Speaker 3: former Badger and teammate of Howard Moore, talking about the
21:26
Speaker 3: Howard Moore doc.
21:28
Speaker 2: And Uh. Then the voice of the Badger's Matt Leapey,
21:30
Speaker 2: gonna hang out with us.
21:33
Speaker 3: We're looking forward to the championship games, Bucks Nuggets tonight.
21:36
Speaker 3: Badgers on a roll winning streak on the Hoops program.
21:38
Speaker 3: We'll get to that with Matt Lapey.
21:40
Speaker 4: Uh.
21:40
Speaker 3: But it's you know, the NFL is dominating and we
21:43
Speaker 3: have another another coaching vacancy, which is uh had been
21:48
Speaker 3: filled the Ravens for the first time in franchise s.
21:50
Speaker 3: Hisstory went and got a defensive guy.
21:52
Speaker 4: Isn't that crazy? And you kind of thought, see mint
21:55
Speaker 4: you kind of think Harbaugh, well defensive, actually special, special
21:59
Speaker 4: scenes and just kind of fit into the CEO role.
22:02
Speaker 4: Mintor was one of the most in demand guys. He
22:05
Speaker 4: interviewed for every single one of these jobs. I don't
22:07
Speaker 4: know that he got the Buffalo interview in because I
22:11
Speaker 4: don't know that they've interviewed anybody that hasn't been you know,
22:13
Speaker 4: Josh Allen's best friend.
22:14
Speaker 2: But they serious.
22:18
Speaker 4: That might be one of the more embarrassing situations in football,
22:20
Speaker 4: But you see what they're rolling with there in Baltimore.
22:25
Speaker 4: They kind of wanted what they almost had, and Mike
22:28
Speaker 4: McDonald was in that building a couple of years ago.
22:31
Speaker 4: Mintor took over the defense that McDonald had at Michigan.
22:36
Speaker 4: Mintor's been like right behind McDonald at every single stop,
22:39
Speaker 4: whether it was Michigan and now at Baltimore. And it's
22:43
Speaker 4: one of these weird spots where I think, you know,
22:45
Speaker 4: some Packers fans maybe let themselves get there and probably
22:48
Speaker 4: heard Jeff Haffley yesterday with his core values and at
22:51
Speaker 4: the minute twenty six video that was making the rounds
22:53
Speaker 4: and getting everybody six to midnight in the football world.
22:56
Speaker 4: But Minter has big shoes to feel because everybody's still
23:01
Speaker 4: in Baltimore feels like chasing the fact that McDonald, who
23:04
Speaker 4: two years into his head coaching run, is a game
23:08
Speaker 4: away from the super Bowl and is a favorite to
23:09
Speaker 4: go win it. They're they're kind of almost seemingly chasing
23:13
Speaker 4: their tail. I think Mint is a great coach, He
23:15
Speaker 4: was a great candidate, but this one in Baltimore, they
23:18
Speaker 4: were thorough. They found their guy, and Jesse Mincher was
23:21
Speaker 4: gonna get one. He had worked there under Harball.
23:23
Speaker 3: He his first NFL job was a defensive assistant under
23:25
Speaker 3: Harbaugh and so he was at the he was on
23:28
Speaker 3: their list. Now again it broke with tradition because they
23:30
Speaker 3: went and got a defensive guy for the first time.
23:32
Speaker 3: But it also from the time they fired Harbaugh. It
23:35
Speaker 3: took them eighteen days to name him. I think sixteen
23:39
Speaker 3: or eighteen days. That sounds about right, and you know,
23:41
Speaker 3: after an exhaust so they were it was an exhaustive search, right,
23:44
Speaker 3: I guess, But like this is but it's also a guy,
23:48
Speaker 3: and he was the leading Candida along.
23:50
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean in you know, the eighteen days,
23:52
Speaker 4: that'll start looking different when the Browns finally named their guy,
23:55
Speaker 4: and the Raiders do.
23:56
Speaker 2: And the funny the Browns are going to do a
23:57
Speaker 2: Friday news dump. You just know, well, I mean.
24:00
Speaker 4: They're also sitting around saying, all right, who are we
24:02
Speaker 4: going to pick because a lot of our guys are
24:04
Speaker 4: not going here? I mean, Mentor the Raiders apparently put
24:08
Speaker 4: the full court press on him and he's like, yeah, thanks,
24:11
Speaker 4: no things.
24:12
Speaker 5: Especially Baltimore, when you have a lot of booths at
24:15
Speaker 5: the fair. You know, when you have a lot of
24:16
Speaker 5: games to play, there's a lot of teams out there
24:18
Speaker 5: with open jobs. And you talked about it, Billy Uh
24:21
Speaker 5: a few weeks ago, this this offseason, this coaching cycle,
24:25
Speaker 5: there weren't a lot of those hot assistants, those you know,
24:28
Speaker 5: the ben Jonson's of the world and all those different
24:30
Speaker 5: names that were seemingly up in Jesse. Mintor was the
24:33
Speaker 5: one guy that some people were like, Okay, you know
24:35
Speaker 5: he's the top leading or or a top the guy
24:38
Speaker 5: you heard about.
24:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the guy you heard about the most.
24:40
Speaker 2: He was the guy. So if you had that type
24:42
Speaker 2: of cash in the cycle, if you're the au Hano
24:44
Speaker 2: Suarez of this cycle, well you.
24:46
Speaker 5: Know, your name gets propped up just because of the situation,
24:49
Speaker 5: you have your pick of teams.
24:51
Speaker 2: I think I'm going to Baltimore too, over over the
24:53
Speaker 2: Raiders or somewhere else.
24:54
Speaker 3: Baltimore interviewed sixteen guys, and three of them a lot
24:58
Speaker 3: of flighting Mintor got second interviews. The other guys who
25:02
Speaker 3: get second interviews were Anthony Weaver DC in Miami, and
25:07
Speaker 3: then Joe Brady from.
25:08
Speaker 4: The Bills well and then to a Weaver also was
25:10
Speaker 4: I believe in Baltimore at one particular point in his career.
25:13
Speaker 4: So guys that they had familiarity with second So it
25:16
Speaker 4: was a second interview and they went defense. And that's
25:18
Speaker 4: the first time in franchise history they've gone defense because
25:20
Speaker 4: it was Ted marsh bro to Billick and then Harbaugh right,
25:23
Speaker 4: So yeah, and Billick was an offensive guy, and it
25:26
Speaker 4: makes it's a different course than a lot of teams
25:29
Speaker 4: usually go. When you have an MVP quarterback, right, the
25:32
Speaker 4: thought is we need to get this guy offensive, play caller,
25:34
Speaker 4: run it through. Lamar is so different though, because he
25:37
Speaker 4: doesn't get kind of treated in that way. I don't
25:40
Speaker 4: feel like it's ever been talked that way. I'll be
25:43
Speaker 4: interested to see who Minter brings in to call plays
25:46
Speaker 4: for Lamar and what they're able to get out of
25:47
Speaker 4: him because he was just not the same player he
25:50
Speaker 4: was this year. And for Buffalo, a lot of people
25:54
Speaker 4: would shy away from going with a defensive guy because
25:56
Speaker 4: they just hired one, but so many the offensive guys
25:59
Speaker 4: are are gone. You're hiring a thirty year old Davis
26:02
Speaker 4: web has been coaching for like three years, or Yudinsky
26:07
Speaker 4: in Cleveland. Again, I'm not saying a thirty year old
26:09
Speaker 4: can't be a great coach. I do believe though, when
26:12
Speaker 4: we start chasing Sean McVay from a decade ago, you
26:15
Speaker 4: find yourself with a lot of guys that used to
26:18
Speaker 4: be NFL head coaches. I mean, if we're thinking, like
26:20
Speaker 4: the only way to lock in somebody that's gonna be
26:22
Speaker 4: great is sub thirty five, that's a tough pool, tough.
26:26
Speaker 2: To be hunting in.
26:27
Speaker 4: And it seems like that's where we just go so
26:30
Speaker 4: much in the copycat side on this league, that so
26:32
Speaker 4: many people are all the way over on that side
26:34
Speaker 4: of the spectrum.
26:35
Speaker 2: And I think it's gonna be.
26:35
Speaker 3: Miser's forty two and he is the fifth coach hired
26:38
Speaker 3: in this cycle, so half the openings are still there,
26:40
Speaker 3: and it's Harbaugh, Stefanski went to the Falcons, Sala to
26:44
Speaker 3: the Titans, halfway to the Dolphins. So two defensive well
26:48
Speaker 3: three defensive guys, but two guys that have never coached
26:51
Speaker 3: in the NFL before. Hey, the guys are kind of
26:53
Speaker 3: retreads obviously. Harbaugh long tenure, Stefanski two time Coach of
26:57
Speaker 3: the Year, and Sala the Jets didn't work jetson.
27:00
Speaker 4: And the interesting one is Matt Naggy, who still is
27:03
Speaker 4: out there without one.
27:05
Speaker 2: It seemed like he was gonna get the Titans one.
27:07
Speaker 4: He was the only guy that felt like a hot
27:09
Speaker 4: candidate or name that you heard about so much. Is
27:13
Speaker 4: he really if they just already hired a new offensive
27:15
Speaker 4: coordinator there in Kansas City and he hasn't taken a job.
27:19
Speaker 2: I'm listening to it. I was laughing yesterday with the
27:22
Speaker 2: Enemy Deal game.
27:23
Speaker 4: Through, like, oh, so, Matt Naggy better hope he gets
27:26
Speaker 4: one of these head coaching jobs because he doesn't have
27:28
Speaker 4: anywhere to come back to there in Kansas City and
27:30
Speaker 4: people are talking about hiring Jim Schwartz and it's like,
27:32
Speaker 4: you know, we'll.
27:33
Speaker 2: Get in the I like that. I love that move
27:38
Speaker 2: for them.
27:38
Speaker 5: I think when you think about though, when people always
27:40
Speaker 5: say it's not my job to figure out who to hire,
27:43
Speaker 5: it's not fans job to do it. It's the team's job.
27:45
Speaker 5: But this are the situations you get in. It's gonna
27:47
Speaker 5: be somebody's job. And if there's not a lot of
27:49
Speaker 5: great candidates out there, and you make a decision, sometimes
27:52
Speaker 5: emotionally looking at Pegoula to fire somebody, you better make
27:55
Speaker 5: sure you have somebody out there in mind that you
27:57
Speaker 5: think might be a better coach. And if you don't,
28:00
Speaker 5: you just threw away a better option for and you're
28:02
Speaker 5: searching for one that might be better, and you're often
28:04
Speaker 5: not gonna get it, So you have to be careful
28:06
Speaker 5: that sometimes.
28:07
Speaker 3: So now Jim Harbaugh needs two coordinators. He's got McDaniel
28:12
Speaker 3: coming in allegedly. That hasn't been announced yet, but it's
28:14
Speaker 3: been reported he's going to get that gig and now
28:16
Speaker 3: they need a new DC with the Chargers and Chargers
28:19
Speaker 3: defense was no joke Connors Stallions good Chargers Defense was
28:24
Speaker 3: no joke. It was not at all pretty good outfit.
28:26
Speaker 3: They did a pretty good job. But when Minter was
28:29
Speaker 3: in Baltimore, he did cross paths with Lamari. They were
28:33
Speaker 3: overlapped a little bit, got some walking in, got some familiarity.
28:37
Speaker 3: But he's forty two and he's rolling in and gets
28:39
Speaker 3: a five year deal. And this is where the Lafleur
28:41
Speaker 3: thing comes into more stark relief. Like if you're the Packers,
28:47
Speaker 3: and this is again if you're an anti Laflour person,
28:49
Speaker 3: you have to set aside your feelings for a second.
28:51
Speaker 3: But when these new guys come in and guy like
28:54
Speaker 3: Minter never coached before, you have a seven you have
28:56
Speaker 3: a seven year track arger with the floor six playfforms.
28:58
Speaker 3: This guy who has no track record is gonna get
29:01
Speaker 3: a five year deal and he's gonna make more money
29:03
Speaker 3: than our coach. Isn't that kind of embarrassing? It's crazy
29:05
Speaker 3: And that's the market. That's what we've been talking about,
29:07
Speaker 3: and people like, oh la Flour's getting a raise for what, Well,
29:10
Speaker 3: it's the market. It's the you know it's again when
29:13
Speaker 3: you freaked out because Jordan Love was the highest paid
29:15
Speaker 3: quarterback in the NFL for about ten minutes, I don't
29:18
Speaker 3: mean the next guy got a contract and it's like
29:20
Speaker 3: now he's not. And then in a couple of years,
29:21
Speaker 3: Jordan Love's gonna be underpaid.
29:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Pat.
29:24
Speaker 4: Mahomes, I don't think he's even in the top ten
29:26
Speaker 4: of highest paid quarterbacks in football because he signed his
29:28
Speaker 4: like five years ago with ten years, four hundred million.
29:33
Speaker 2: You can't do that all. Actually, it'll work out actual
29:36
Speaker 2: saving money.
29:36
Speaker 4: The funny one about the coaching contracts is, and I
29:39
Speaker 4: don't mean this towards a shot, it counts. The NFL
29:43
Speaker 4: salaries have done exactly what Craig Council dreamed they would
29:45
Speaker 4: do in Major League Baseball for managers when he took
29:49
Speaker 4: the Cubs job.
29:49
Speaker 2: It's actually done the exact opposite.
29:50
Speaker 4: Somebody just signed a one year deal to manage an
29:53
Speaker 4: MLB team this year, and the NFL contracts have just soared.
29:57
Speaker 4: When before you were making five six million as a
30:01
Speaker 4: head coach first timer, last year, guys were making triple that.
30:05
Speaker 4: And and when he was in demand he had three
30:07
Speaker 4: different gigs that were praying to take him again. I
30:11
Speaker 4: think the Raiders we were doing anything they could to
30:13
Speaker 4: get Mentory. He was able to kind of name his
30:15
Speaker 4: price and roll it up a little bit bigger. And
30:17
Speaker 4: now I still have five gigs out there, two of
30:20
Speaker 4: them pretty solid jobs.
30:22
Speaker 2: When you think of the Pittsburgh job.
30:23
Speaker 4: The roster's not that good after their frontline players who
30:26
Speaker 4: are all going to age out here in you know,
30:28
Speaker 4: twelve games. But the other one has Josh allenha I
30:32
Speaker 4: mean like and some fascinating holes still to plug. This
30:37
Speaker 4: isn't just pause, This isn't just the Raiders and Browns,
30:41
Speaker 4: the ones that nobody can fathom taking.
30:43
Speaker 2: There's one of them would be.
30:45
Speaker 4: The gig that if anybody would and if I'm a
30:48
Speaker 4: Kyle Shanahan, I would maybe say, hey, man, I get
30:51
Speaker 4: my agent to call over there. Let me see what
30:53
Speaker 4: what would potentially happen if I have to go coach
30:57
Speaker 4: Josh Allen and Buffalo like, that would be the one
30:59
Speaker 4: that I would think think current head coaches would be
31:01
Speaker 4: intrigued to go and see if they at the opportunities.
31:04
Speaker 4: If there would be one that you would pull a
31:06
Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin for in the NFL, it would be the
31:09
Speaker 4: Buffalo job in mind.
31:10
Speaker 2: And tell they think about their future bosses who they
31:12
Speaker 2: might be.
31:12
Speaker 3: Sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I mean new stadium
31:16
Speaker 3: for fan base, like you know, Rabbit.
31:20
Speaker 4: Stadium, MVP candidate in the prime of his career, not
31:23
Speaker 4: even thirty yet. I mean that's a that to me,
31:26
Speaker 4: be one if I'm Shanahan and I don't think that
31:28
Speaker 4: I'm getting over the hump in San Francisco, which I mean,
31:31
Speaker 4: I don't know, you're not. You been to two super Bowls,
31:33
Speaker 4: lost both because he had a double digit lead in
31:35
Speaker 4: the fourth quarter and lost. So I don't know. Now,
31:37
Speaker 4: maybe going to the conference that Mahomes is in, the
31:40
Speaker 4: one that has beaten them in both of those super Bowls,
31:42
Speaker 4: might not be advantageous, but I would I would consider it.
31:46
Speaker 2: Or Kevin O'Connell, that might be a great idea. Get
31:49
Speaker 2: out of town. Kevin all right.
31:50
Speaker 5: J McCarthy, forget that. You don't want that deal he
31:54
Speaker 5: already used to call weather. The other advantage I think
31:56
Speaker 5: that really competitive guys have and obviously coaches in the
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Speaker 5: NFL ours that you have a chance to really make
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Speaker 5: history in Buffalo, like they've never been able to do it,
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Speaker 5: They've never gotten the super Bowl, all these things. If
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Speaker 5: you're the one to do it, you're a hero forever.
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Speaker 5: You're the one guy that did something nobody did. And
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Speaker 5: and we know this at an ultracompetitive level, these coaches
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Speaker 5: kind of get off on that stuff.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I agree with you, billy. We'll be interesting
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Speaker 2: to see that.
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Speaker 5: And I'm sure that's what the what mister Pagula was
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Speaker 5: thinking right when he's like, I'm gonna get I bet
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Speaker 5: everybody want this job. You know, I'm gonna have all
32:23
Speaker 5: kinds of candidates. It's sort of like, and it's true,
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Speaker 5: but it's sort of like the the delusion that like
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Speaker 5: the Indiana Hoosiers basketball brass fan base always has, don't worry,
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Speaker 5: everybody and their mother will come out and want this
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Speaker 5: job once it's open. We are Indiana, so I don't
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Speaker 5: know if they're thinking that, but it sure does look attractive.
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Speaker 5: It's just hard when the market is so saturated with
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Speaker 5: jobs right now to get the right candidate. But you know,
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Speaker 5: to your guys point, it just the market dictates it,
32:48
Speaker 5: and the market dictates the.
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Speaker 2: Money as well. So you're right.
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Speaker 5: I think that that comes from just the prevailing thought
32:54
Speaker 5: that NFL head coaches are much more important than and
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Speaker 5: it'll be managers.
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Speaker 2: Whether or not that's fair or not, just the reality.
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Speaker 2: I'm telling you.
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Speaker 4: When Kurtzuzuki signed the one year deal this year and
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Speaker 4: managing Anaheim, I think, oh my gosh, I don't mean
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Speaker 4: to tell me a state again.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, what an hell?
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Speaker 4: Like we thought that was going to totally flip it
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Speaker 4: around and major league managers instead that the owners are like, yeah,
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Speaker 4: I still got a bunch of guys that want this job.
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Speaker 4: I still have five guys that I technically might tangentially employed.
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Speaker 4: That's MISP with all my minor league managers, they would
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Speaker 4: love to have this gig. I'll bring them up here
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Speaker 4: for a million and a half and you getting go
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Speaker 4: enjoy Biloxi.
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Speaker 3: The jobs that are open, Vegas, Cleveland, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and
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Speaker 3: Arizona the city I'd want to live in the most.
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Speaker 2: It's the worst job. Totally forgot about.
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Speaker 3: Arizona hasn't haven't won a playoff game in ten years,
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Speaker 3: had one winning season in ten years. Bad ownership, bad facility,
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Speaker 3: and underachieving quarterback who's got thirty six.
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Speaker 2: Million on the book.
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Speaker 4: That you can't Other than that, let's take it get rid,
33:55
Speaker 4: but you get but it's you can play golf in January.
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Speaker 2: So in Scott stand still say that's the job. Man.
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Speaker 4: Actually, I'd live in Peoria Glen Nice area there on
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Speaker 4: the one side, when you got that kind of glue though,
34:08
Speaker 4: Paradise Valley is calling.
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Speaker 2: That's fair.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's very very good, doctor the cart. But you
34:14
Speaker 5: know what, Pittsburgh is nice in the summer, that's what
34:16
Speaker 5: they say.
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Speaker 2: It's beautiful. Pittsburgh's a great say they tell me.
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Speaker 4: I'm kind of surprised Big Mike's not getting a look
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Speaker 4: in Buffalo. I mean, I know, I know he's got
34:23
Speaker 4: his site set on a pitch pot job.
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Speaker 2: I'm surprised. Yeah, you would think. And we won't call
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Speaker 2: the Belichick at all. I mean he is he ain't
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Speaker 2: ain't ringing, dude. It's that it's over, okay, Joe.
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Speaker 5: They think Robert Salad is a better option, and Jim
34:39
Speaker 5: Schwartz and all.
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Speaker 2: These chick is a joke. That's not happening, all right,
34:44
Speaker 2: Buffalo joke.
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Speaker 3: You you think you'd hire a thirty year old Grant
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Speaker 3: Udinsky over a guy that is well and the way
34:52
Speaker 3: if it was breaking time, would you.
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Speaker 5: Would you feel this way if it wasn't for Jordan's
34:58
Speaker 5: I mean, is it about Jordans? I mean that's what
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Speaker 5: that's part of the equation of small part. But what
35:02
Speaker 5: did he do at the end of New England? Like
35:04
Speaker 5: has this game passed him by?
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Speaker 2: The playoffs?
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Speaker 3: At first, what did he do with the North Carolina
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Speaker 3: that he was gonna be so good?
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Speaker 4: And yeah, yeah, we can be we can be mad
35:15
Speaker 4: with that one, but I don't. I wouldn't take his
35:18
Speaker 4: one year at North Carolina and so he can't coach
35:20
Speaker 4: in the NFL. He's got seven he's got six rings.
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Speaker 4: The games passed him by. Sorry, we look at.
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Speaker 2: Some of these guys that you're hiring, though.
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Speaker 4: I mean, like, if you're saying he's to not even
35:30
Speaker 4: call him to me is malpractice to not even interview.
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Speaker 3: Him, seventy one year old coach, And it's why don't
35:36
Speaker 3: we get Marv Levy back.
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Speaker 2: For two years? He's the quarterback's best friend. That's why
35:43
Speaker 2: he's Josh's best friend. That's why we need to hire
35:46
Speaker 2: around there.
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Speaker 3: You go, that's so much better eight seven seven seven
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Speaker 3: nine four seven three. Yeah, this is in twenty sixteen, chicks,
35:55
Speaker 3: that's the trend. Yeah, go against the trend. I guess absolutely.
35:59
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