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012326 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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