Transcript

10/19/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
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Speaker 2: We know exactly what we got to do.
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Speaker 4: All right?
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Speaker 2: Let's go out and kick some shit.
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Speaker 4: One, two, three.
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Speaker 2: We got some big plays coming.
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Speaker 3: What the hell's going on?
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Speaker 2: Yellow Weasel! Quit calling the f * * * ing.
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Speaker 5: Plays, all right?
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Speaker 4: It is time.
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Speaker 6: What do you think you are?
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Speaker 1: I am!
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Speaker 3: With Drew Olsen. When he spoke, he commanded your attention
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Speaker 3: and he commanded your respect. Bill Schmidt.
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Speaker 2: That son of a gun is thick. And Armin Sarian.
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Speaker 2: Daddy Sarian.
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Speaker 3: Welcome to the huddle. Melton in motion to the right.
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Speaker 3: Half-loaded shotgun. Snap the lob. Looking left. Throws.
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Speaker 1: Middle. End zone.
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Speaker 3: Goal! Touchdown! Back line of the end zone! And a
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Speaker 3: Lambeau leap to the north end zone stand from Matthew Golden.
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Speaker 3: They beat Amir Speed. Third down Dallas. Snapped to Prescott.
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Speaker 3: Clean pocket. Fires to middle.
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Speaker 7: Intercepted.
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Speaker 2: Intercepted by the Packers.
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Speaker 3: And back the other way across the 15-yard line. The
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Speaker 3: interception made by Evan Williams. And the Packers take over
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Speaker 3: the Green Bay 21. Snap. Placement. Swing of the right leg.
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Speaker 3: To the uprights. The kick is good. Slot right. Single receiver.
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Speaker 3: Left snap.
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Speaker 8: The deck.
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Speaker 3: Prescott throws. Left side. Falling down on the play with
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Speaker 3: CeeDee Lamb. Pass is intercepted by Brandon Cisse. He circled
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Speaker 3: route to his left. To the 20 and is out
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Speaker 3: of bounds. At the 23-yard line on the far side.
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Speaker 3: Second interception of the game for the Packers. Cisse with
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Speaker 3: the pick. And Brandon Cisse's first career interception. Wow. Jordan Love, quarterback.
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Speaker 3: There we go. Up the middle. Lunges to the end zone.
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Speaker 3: A touchdown, Green Bay. It is 16 to nothing, Packers.
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Speaker 2: That's what we like to see.
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Speaker 3: Orbit motion by Kraft to the left. Snap to Love. Looking, waiting. Throws.
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Speaker 3: Left side, Tucker Kraft.
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Speaker 2: Got it.
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Speaker 3: Down the sideline. First down across the 40. falls over
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Speaker 3: a defender across the 35 and down he goes near
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Speaker 3: the 30-yard line of Dallas swing to the right leg
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Speaker 3: kick to the uprights and it is good Prescott waits
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Speaker 3: for the snap here it is rush on rolls left
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Speaker 3: throws left side it's broken up incomplete broken up by
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Speaker 3: Bullard oh my goodness I'll tell you what this has
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Speaker 3: been one of the weirdest officiated games I have ever
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Speaker 3: seen signals being called here is the Smith placement made
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Speaker 3: and the kick is up and it's right through the
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Speaker 3: upright center cut as we would say on the golf
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Speaker 3: course talk to the referee and now oh you gotta
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Speaker 3: be kidding me Evan Williams Oh my God. How is
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Speaker 3: he supposed to stop? I mean, he came in on
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Speaker 3: the pass rush and he's up in the air. And
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Speaker 3: here they come. Prescott, lofts, middle, end zone. And he
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Speaker 3: overshot everybody incomplete. No flags.
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Speaker 2: Green Bay takes over.
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Speaker 3: And there is your dagger.
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Speaker 5: Nothing like reliving a glorious victory by the Green Bay Packers,
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Speaker 5: 23-13 over Dallas on Sunday Night Football at Lambeau Field.
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Speaker 5: Drew Wilson, Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian, huddled up with you
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Speaker 5: on a victory Monday, and we are happy to be
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Speaker 5: joined by the voice of the Green Bay Packers, the
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Speaker 5: voice you just heard on those calls, our friend Wayne
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Speaker 5: Larive is with us.
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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Wayne.
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Speaker 3: Good afternoon, guys. How you doing? Good afternoon.
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Speaker 4: We are great better after wins like that and better
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Speaker 4: Wayne better with a defense like this. You and I
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Speaker 4: sit up on the perch during training camp and prognosticate
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Speaker 4: and guess and hope that a lot of things can happen.
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Speaker 4: But when we looked at this safety trio and thought
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Speaker 4: might be the best grouping in the league that they have.
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Speaker 4: And Evan Williams seems like he's primed for a breakout year.
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Speaker 4: Him maybe turning into the best safety in the league
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Speaker 4: and us seeing it last night is one of the
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Speaker 4: biggest reasons why this team has kind of survived the
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Speaker 4: turbulent waters and maybe come out of it on the
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Speaker 4: other side.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and Billy, the cornerbacks have played better than we expected.
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Speaker 3: There's no doubt about that. Keyshawn Nixon, I think, is
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Speaker 3: having a very good year. And Brandon Cisse, we saw
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Speaker 3: it in training camp when he earned the job. You know,
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Speaker 3: he's really lived up to billing. He's playing like a
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Speaker 3: first-round draft choice. I know he's a number two, but,
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Speaker 3: you know, hey, they've gotten some good mileage out of
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Speaker 3: those cornerbacks. That defense is playing well. Gannon does a
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Speaker 3: great job. We talked about it all summer, about how
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Speaker 3: he's going to disguise his coverages, that kind of thing,
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Speaker 3: bring pressure from different sources. And that's what they've done.
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Speaker 3: You know, their pressure rate, has been way up this
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Speaker 3: year compared to where it was at the end of
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Speaker 3: last year.
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Speaker 5: I don't want to be an Eeyore because that's Armand's
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Speaker 5: job on the show. But I'm watching this defense play,
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Speaker 5: and I'm thinking to myself, let's enjoy Jonathan Gannon while
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Speaker 5: he's here because he's probably going to get a job
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Speaker 5: being somebody's head coach in the next cycle.
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Speaker 2: And it happened with Halfley. It took two years. What
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Speaker 2: do you think, Wayne? Is the clock ticking for Jonathan
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Speaker 2: Gannon to get another head coaching job?
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Speaker 3: Well, selfishly, because I know him a little bit now,
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Speaker 3: and I'm really appreciative of what he's doing with his
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Speaker 3: personnel and the strategy and everything else he weaves into it.
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Speaker 3: But I, I really like him. He's a, he's a
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Speaker 3: great guy. I'm hoping he's here for a while. No,
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Speaker 3: that may not be in the plan for him, but
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Speaker 3: I'm hoping he's here for more than two years, but
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Speaker 3: we'll see. You know, they've really done a tremendous job.
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Speaker 3: I think on that side of the ball, what are
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Speaker 3: they giving up less than 20 points in each of
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Speaker 3: the last three games. And really Dallas had only seven
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Speaker 3: points last night. It went, They got a touchdown in
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Speaker 3: garbage time that didn't mean anything. But no, I'm just
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Speaker 3: really pleased with what they've been able to do defensively
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Speaker 3: with the injuries they've had, with Micah Parsons not back yet.
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Speaker 3: There's a lot to look forward to here.
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Speaker 2: And without Edger and Cooper.
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Speaker 5: Wayne, is it that revolutionary when you have three good
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Speaker 5: safeties to get them on the field together at the
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Speaker 5: same time? Because Billy was saying he did that in Arizona,
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Speaker 5: and he said when he came in, I don't have
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Speaker 5: a scheme. Well, that's a scheme that he's used in
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Speaker 5: the past, and it seems like a smart business decision
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Speaker 5: to put those three guys on the field and let
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Speaker 5: them play as much as you can.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Drew, we're seeing over the last three years across
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Speaker 3: the NFL more of a tendency for that slot-covered corner
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Speaker 3: to be a safety type, maybe a safety-slash-cornerback, a hybrid-type player.
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Speaker 3: And with Bullard, you get both. You get the safety,
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Speaker 3: the toughness and physicality of a safety, but you get
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Speaker 3: some coverage ability that a cornerback would have He made
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Speaker 3: a great play in that ball game last night in
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Speaker 3: pass defense. So we're seeing more and more of this
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Speaker 3: across the league, but it's exactly what Jonathan Gannon hoped
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Speaker 3: to do. And I think when he came here, you know,
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Speaker 3: one of the things he mentioned early, maybe it was
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Speaker 3: in OTAs or minicamp, that he felt he had the
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Speaker 3: personnel to be able to run his scheme on the roster.
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Speaker 3: So it was a little different than when Dom Capers
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Speaker 3: came here. and they switched from a 4-3 to a 3-4.
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Speaker 3: They really didn't have the personnel that first year, and
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Speaker 3: it took them a while until that second year to
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Speaker 3: where they had people in place and could go and
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Speaker 3: play that scheme to its fullest.
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Speaker 4: Wayne, when you start looking at what they did in
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Speaker 4: the offseason, it is fascinating to see it play out
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Speaker 4: in real time, where I think the number came out
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Speaker 4: that Matthew Golden has six drops most in the league.
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Speaker 2: He also has over 500 receiving yards.
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Speaker 4: And yesterday played 84% of the offensive snaps. The only
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Speaker 4: other guy that played more that wasn't a quarterback or
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Speaker 4: the offensive line was Christian Watson, Tucker craft right around
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Speaker 4: there as well. When they, when they trimmed out the
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Speaker 4: room and made it hopefully streamlined to get these guys,
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Speaker 4: the football, could they ever have fathom that they produce
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Speaker 4: this quickly? And when you look at golden, they, Where
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Speaker 4: are you at of the excitement being buoyed by the
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Speaker 4: disappointment of he's having a phenomenal start here to his
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Speaker 4: second year, but my goodness, he can be leading the
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Speaker 4: league and receiving hearts. If you hold on to half
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Speaker 4: of these drops last night, two touchdowns, because it's a
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Speaker 4: heck of a start. And there's so much still out
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Speaker 4: for him in this past game.
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Speaker 3: You know, Billy, the biggest surprise I have is that
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Speaker 3: Matthew golden leads the league and drop passes. Cause I've
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Speaker 3: said this all along. Ever since he came here as
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Speaker 3: a rookie, I think he has the best hands on
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Speaker 3: the team, but he's dropped the ball. And Christian Watson
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Speaker 3: dropped a touchdown pass yesterday as well, or last night.
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Speaker 3: Tucker Kraft has had some drops, I believe three on
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Speaker 3: the season. The Packers lead the league with a drop
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Speaker 3: rate of 7.2%. Now think about that. Okay. They also
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Speaker 3: lead the league in most penalties and penalty yardage, and
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Speaker 3: they have four wins in In each of those games,
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Speaker 3: they rushed for well under 100 yards. Nobody in the
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Speaker 3: league has ever done that, I don't think, leading those
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Speaker 3: dubious categories and still having four wins in six games.
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Speaker 3: So there's a lot more to be gotten out there.
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Speaker 3: You know, the sense I had listening to you guys,
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Speaker 3: listening to the interviews, which I think is really great,
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Speaker 3: you guys were all those interviews with Jordan Love and
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Speaker 3: Matt LaFleur and some of the other players during your
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Speaker 3: postgame show. But you get a real feel for the
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Speaker 3: locker room and what it might have been like and
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Speaker 3: what the feeling was. And you get the feeling even
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Speaker 3: with the win last night, the Packers kind of felt like, boy,
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Speaker 3: there was a lot more we left out there. And,
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Speaker 3: you know, they felt like they could have played better.
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Speaker 3: And if you hold on to a couple of those passes,
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Speaker 3: especially two or more touchdown passes, this game is a blowout.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's not even competitive. You know, that's the
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Speaker 3: only thing that was keeping Dallas in the game.
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Speaker 5: the last two weeks jordan love's been on a bit
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Speaker 5: of a heater as we like to say when when
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Speaker 5: i'm at the blackjack table or when billy's got his
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Speaker 5: parlay cards out he's been on a heater And I
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Speaker 5: don't want to take it for granted what he's doing
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Speaker 5: because I'm old enough to remember when people said, oh,
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Speaker 5: he doesn't have an accurate deep ball. And now he's
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Speaker 5: connecting on some serious haymakers. Is this the best stretch
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Speaker 5: we've seen of him? I mean, can he get better?
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Speaker 5: He'll get better when receivers hang on to the ball.
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Speaker 5: But in terms of commanding and moving around the pocket,
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Speaker 5: is this as good as we've seen Jordan Love in
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Speaker 5: his career?
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Speaker 3: You know, and over the course of three weeks, and again, folks, again,
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Speaker 3: I know the stats. I understand what the stats say.
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Speaker 3: But football's not a game you can read a stat
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Speaker 3: sheet and understand what happened in the game. Football's a
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Speaker 3: game you have to see the game to understand it.
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Speaker 3: Jordan Love was sharp last night. He was exceptionally sharp.
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Speaker 3: I think his, what, completion percentage was around 50%. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: he had five or six dropped passes. I wouldn't be
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Speaker 3: surprised if LeFleur comes out today and says, we counted
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Speaker 3: six or seven dropped balls, passes that should have been caught.
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Speaker 3: And in several of them, guys, I mean, the ball
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Speaker 3: was right on the hands. It's that old cliche. You say, well,
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Speaker 3: he hit him in a bad place. The hands.
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 3: So I thought he was really sharp last night. Very sharp. And,
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Speaker 3: you know, he got more pressure last night. The offensive
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Speaker 3: line in the last week or so seemingly has kind
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Speaker 3: of regressed a little bit. Certainly last night they regressed
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Speaker 3: a little bit. But then again, and Larry McCarron and
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Speaker 3: I talked about this, Kenny Clark's lost a step. But
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Speaker 3: not last night. No, no, no. He wasn't going to
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Speaker 3: lose a step. He was going to play big last night.
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Speaker 3: And he did. Rashawn Gary, the Dallas people, I was
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Speaker 3: on their pregame show. And they were saying, you know,
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Speaker 3: are you surprised that we're disappointed that he's not more
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Speaker 3: of a factor? And I said, no. He's exactly, out
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Speaker 3: of the tape I watched, he's exactly what he was here.
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Speaker 3: He's going to get close. He's rarely going to close
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Speaker 3: the deal. He was close a lot last night. He
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Speaker 3: played well last night. But my point is this, you know,
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Speaker 3: Jordan Love is really playing well. His receivers have to
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Speaker 3: catch some of these passes, and when they do, he's
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Speaker 3: going to throw for 300 yards a week and, you know,
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Speaker 3: probably three or four touchdown passes a game.
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Speaker 4: What did you say, top three? He's third right now
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Speaker 4: in passing yards. Despite the drops.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they left 100 yards on the table last
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Speaker 2: night with the drops.
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Speaker 3: Easily. Oh, easily. And maybe, Drew, I mean, objectively– Conservatively,
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Speaker 3: maybe two touchdowns, right?
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Speaker 2: At the most conservative eight points. And Wayne, you're right.
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Speaker 4: The in and out of the pocket ability we're getting
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Speaker 4: even more of. And maybe it shouldn't be surprising, but
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Speaker 4: I wonder how much of this is him being the
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Speaker 4: healthiest he's been throughout the year. We talked about it
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Speaker 4: again during the summer of this was the first off
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Speaker 4: season that he didn't have the contract being a first
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Speaker 4: year starter being dinged up during camp with the thumb.
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Speaker 4: And now he's had a full runway here. and Tyrod
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Speaker 4: Taylor in that quarterback room, and you are seeing a
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Speaker 4: really aggressive blend of Love being outside the pocket and
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Speaker 4: trying to hunt as many deep shots as possible.
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Speaker 2: And doing it without a running game.
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Speaker 3: Drew, you took the words right out of my mouth. Exactly.
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Speaker 3: Doing this without a running game. I mean, this is
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Speaker 3: a historically, from a statistical standpoint, it's kind of historic,
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Speaker 3: isn't it, this running game? I mean, you know, and
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Speaker 3: you hope that, okay, when Josh Hips comes back, but
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Speaker 3: you know, going back and watching that game and Watching
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Speaker 3: it through the field glasses last night, Billy, there's not
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Speaker 3: a lot to be had out there, okay? I understand
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Speaker 3: these backs aren't real experienced, okay? And they don't always
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Speaker 3: make the right read. But there's not a whole lot
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Speaker 3: being blocked out there in the running game. I'm sorry.
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Speaker 3: I'm not seeing it. I'm a layman. I understand Larry
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Speaker 3: McCarron is the expert in our booth on offensive line play.
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Speaker 3: But as a layman, I don't see a whole lot
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Speaker 3: out there that they're missing on the ground. They're just
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Speaker 3: not getting it done up front for the most part.
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Speaker 3: But I think it's getting better. And, you know, Josh
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Speaker 3: and Larry has always said this. A good back can
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Speaker 3: make a line look better. He really can. So maybe
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Speaker 3: if and when they get Josh back, and I don't
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Speaker 3: know what the status is going to be this week.
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Speaker 3: It's a little early. But when they get him back,
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Speaker 3: I think that'll improve things. And that should... allow that
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Speaker 3: passing game to grow even more.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, Billy, just really quick.
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Speaker 8: I was going to talk about the run game having
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Speaker 8: an impact on third down efficiency. And the Packers were
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Speaker 8: one of the worst teams coming in. They were great
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Speaker 8: last night on third down. A lot of third and longs,
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Speaker 8: you know, mostly thanks to Jordan Love converting. Can that
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Speaker 8: be a trend going forward? Or is it still that
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Speaker 8: hard to stay behind the sticks that much and convert
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Speaker 8: those third downs, Wayne?
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Speaker 2: Is that a concern?
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Speaker 3: I don't have the numbers in front of me, Armand,
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Speaker 3: but the Packers going into last night's game, were among
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Speaker 3: the league leaders in third downs, converting third and six
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Speaker 3: or more, third and long. On that opening drive last night,
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Speaker 3: I'm just off the top of my head now, they
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Speaker 3: had third and six, they converted, third and 13, third
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Speaker 3: and 13, third and five. Four third down conversions that were,
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Speaker 3: you know, third and long. Five yards to go is
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Speaker 3: third and long to me in the NFL. I know
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Speaker 3: six yards is generally what the statisticians consider third and long. But,
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Speaker 3: you know, hey, yeah, but what you don't want, When
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Speaker 3: they get third and three, I'm sitting here saying, oh, man,
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Speaker 3: this should be a slam dunk, you know, compared to
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Speaker 3: what they've been trying to overcome throughout the ballgame on
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Speaker 3: third downs. But I think that really, you know, a
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Speaker 3: running game that can be a little more productive on
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Speaker 3: first and second downs is going to help a lot
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Speaker 3: in that regard.
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Speaker 4: They print out all these super cool stats and information, Wayne,
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Speaker 4: that we have. The one that I liked here was
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Speaker 4: after last night's game, the Packers down the last 13 meetings,
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Speaker 4: including the playoffs, are 11-1-1. against the Dallas Cowboys. You've
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Speaker 4: been around, you're a historian of this game. How impressive
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Speaker 4: is that? Most against any non-division team of any NFL
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Speaker 4: team in that span.
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Speaker 3: Billy, it's incredibly impressive. And you go back to the
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Speaker 3: 90s when the Cowboys dominated the Mike Holmgren Packers. And,
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Speaker 3: you know, with Troy Aikman and that group that won, what,
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Speaker 3: two or three out of four years, they won the
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Speaker 3: Super Bowl, something like that. And the Packers succeeded them
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Speaker 3: in the NFC. You know, although that year in 96,
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Speaker 3: even that year, they lost to the Cowboys in Dallas,
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Speaker 3: the Super Bowl season. So and, you know, I go
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Speaker 3: back as a kid and in the game that captured
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Speaker 3: my imagination in the book that Jerry Kramer wrote, Instant Replay,
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Speaker 3: the Ice Bowl. I mean, it's still my son got
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Speaker 3: it out last Christmas. We're here. And my eight year
16:47
Speaker 3: old grandson at the time. And Scott pulls up the
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Speaker 3: ice bowl on his phone and we did put it
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Speaker 3: on the TV. The NFL films on the 30th anniversary,
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Speaker 3: put all of their tape together and recreated the broadcast.
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Speaker 3: They even had Ray Scott doing the call over the,
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Speaker 3: you know, voiceover on the call and the whole bit.
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Speaker 3: It was great, but we showed him that and said, Hey,
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Speaker 3: this is, this is where the Packers and Cowboys, this
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Speaker 3: is what it's all about. It's really where it got started.
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Speaker 3: So a lot of history between these two franchises and, But, Billy,
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Speaker 3: in my time in Green Bay, the Packers have gone
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Speaker 3: to Dallas on numerous occasions, faced a much heavily favored
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Speaker 3: Cowboys team, and came out on top. And so this
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Speaker 3: has been going on now for well over a decade, and,
17:33
Speaker 3: you know, hopefully it won't let up any time soon.
17:35
Speaker 4: It's a fun one to live in. I'll tell you,
17:38
Speaker 4: it's always great being the Chicago Bears. We already know that.
17:40
Speaker 4: But something about the star on the helmet and Dak
17:43
Speaker 4: Prescott running up that visiting tunnel as quickly as possible yesterday–
17:47
Speaker 4: It is something that warms the cockles of your heart.
17:49
Speaker 2: It's just a beautiful thing, Drew. It absolutely does.
17:51
Speaker 5: All right, Wayne, we had some IT issues and we
17:54
Speaker 5: had some people crawling around here today and we've set
17:56
Speaker 5: up a blocker that they can't stream this show in
17:58
Speaker 5: Park Avenue in New York. So I want to ask
18:00
Speaker 5: you about the officiating. I'll put a quarter in. It's getting,
18:05
Speaker 5: it's getting frustrating. I had a couple of people texting
18:07
Speaker 5: me during the game last night saying this is borderline
18:09
Speaker 5: unwatchable the way they're calling games.
18:11
Speaker 2: And we've talked about it before.
18:13
Speaker 5: I think the game would be improved if they would
18:14
Speaker 5: reduce the penalties by 30%.
18:16
Speaker 2: We'd still get a pretty good version of football.
18:19
Speaker 5: What's your take on what we saw last night in
18:20
Speaker 5: big picture? Cause I was watching the earlier games yesterday
18:23
Speaker 5: and everybody's going through it.
18:26
Speaker 3: Yep. I I've not seen it quite like this. I
18:28
Speaker 3: I've seen the, um, flag fest, like for the first
18:32
Speaker 3: three weeks of the season, maybe two weeks of the
18:34
Speaker 3: season where they get the guys, you know, on the
18:36
Speaker 3: same page. Okay. This is what, how we're going to
18:38
Speaker 3: officiate it. So don't do this, that type of thing.
18:41
Speaker 3: But this is way beyond that guys. This is the
18:44
Speaker 3: interpretation of what roughing the quarterback is. There's no common
18:48
Speaker 3: sense to it. If, if a certain thing happens, the
18:51
Speaker 3: flag has to be thrown. I don't blame the guys
18:54
Speaker 3: on the field. Okay. The guys on the field, if
18:57
Speaker 3: they see an infraction, even though nobody gained an advantage
19:02
Speaker 3: or whatever, if it technically is an infraction, they throw
19:05
Speaker 3: the flag. Why? Well, because if they don't, they will
19:09
Speaker 3: be downgraded during the week by New York, okay? So
19:13
Speaker 3: let's understand something. The bigger problem is what happens every March.
19:18
Speaker 3: The competition committee gets together. They adjust the rule book
19:21
Speaker 3: by two or three little things. Everybody says, well, that's
19:24
Speaker 3: not much of an adjustment. Yeah, but put 49 years
19:27
Speaker 3: of those things together. And what you have is a
19:29
Speaker 3: game that really is difficult to officiate, extremely hard to
19:33
Speaker 3: understand how they're officiating it. And then you need replay
19:38
Speaker 3: and you need the TV crews all have a former
19:41
Speaker 3: head of officials who tells you why they called a
19:45
Speaker 3: certain thing or agrees or disagrees with the call on
19:47
Speaker 3: the field. Um, it, it just shouldn't be this complicated
19:52
Speaker 3: as larry says time and time again there are too
19:54
Speaker 3: many rules in this game and the one way you
19:57
Speaker 3: can really obscure and and i think ruin this beautiful
20:01
Speaker 3: game of pro football is by doing exactly what the
20:05
Speaker 3: nfl is doing now this um laundry of flags on
20:09
Speaker 3: every game. Not just the Packers games. Hey, Packers lead
20:13
Speaker 3: the universe. Got it. And penalties accepted against them. Had
20:16
Speaker 3: 11 last night. But that game last night, 22 accepted penalties.
20:21
Speaker 3: There were more. There were other flags on the field
20:23
Speaker 3: that either were picked up or, you know, maybe offsetting
20:28
Speaker 3: penalties or declined. But there were 22 penalties between these
20:32
Speaker 3: two teams for 204 yards.
20:33
Speaker 2: Terrible product to watch.
20:36
Speaker 1: Yeah.
20:36
Speaker 2: I mean, that's really just ridiculous.
20:38
Speaker 3: And that was a long game. Guys, it was a
20:41
Speaker 3: long night. It really was. It took forever to play
20:44
Speaker 3: that game.
20:44
Speaker 8: And the thing about the roughing the passer is, like,
20:47
Speaker 8: if you're going to call it that way, that's one thing.
20:49
Speaker 8: But it doesn't feel consistent. Jordan hasn't been the beneficiary
20:52
Speaker 8: of one roughing the passer call all year. And it
20:54
Speaker 8: keeps happening to the Packers on the other side, and
20:56
Speaker 8: I just don't get it. He's been sacked how many times,
20:58
Speaker 8: been under pressure all year. It just feels like if
21:01
Speaker 8: you're going to call it that ticky-tack, he should get some, too.
21:03
Speaker 8: Maybe I'm a homer, so be it.
21:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, Jordan also has been hit more
21:07
Speaker 3: than any quarterback in the league by far.
21:10
Speaker 8: How can you tell me it's even then if he's
21:12
Speaker 8: not getting any calls? If they're just brushing a guy
21:15
Speaker 8: and getting a call, I don't know. It's frustrating to me.
21:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Van Ness one was frustrating to me. Yeah,
21:22
Speaker 3: a little push. Yeah, but I mean.
21:24
Speaker 2: We're grown men out here, Wayne.
21:25
Speaker 3: It's not like you shoved him hard to the ground. Hey, listen,
21:29
Speaker 3: I understand the official has to throw the flag. New
21:32
Speaker 3: York will downgrade him if he doesn't. But, you know,
21:35
Speaker 3: we need a little more common sense in some of
21:37
Speaker 3: these calls, and I think that has to start at
21:40
Speaker 3: Park Avenue in New York. I think somebody's got to
21:42
Speaker 3: wake up over there, Roger or one of his lieutenants,
21:46
Speaker 3: and you've got to say, wait a minute, this is
21:47
Speaker 3: not the product we're selling.
21:50
Speaker 2: Well, my man Rolstad was having a tough night last night.
21:53
Speaker 4: When he announced the review and then said by video
21:57
Speaker 4: review it was reversed, wait a second, hold on one second.
22:00
Speaker 3: No, nevermind.
22:01
Speaker 4: We're going back to the original one. That's where you
22:03
Speaker 4: knew all hell was breaking loose, Wayne. And I thought
22:05
Speaker 4: you guys were doing a really good job of explaining
22:07
Speaker 4: like on the field. It's one of the reasons why
22:10
Speaker 4: the game got so chippy at the end was because
22:12
Speaker 4: of how poorly it was officiating, how herky jerky it
22:15
Speaker 4: was all night.
22:17
Speaker 3: I think you're right, Billy. There was another case and
22:19
Speaker 3: I was talking to Ben Lieber, the Viking sideline guy
22:23
Speaker 3: who was doing the national radio analyst for Westwood one.
22:27
Speaker 3: And I saw him at halftime and said, there was
22:28
Speaker 3: a point right in this late second quarter where there
22:31
Speaker 3: was a penalty and they were going to market like
22:33
Speaker 3: at the 40 something yard line. And then the next
22:35
Speaker 3: thing you know, it's at the 20 something yard. And
22:38
Speaker 3: you're sitting and saying, nobody could understand what happened there.
22:41
Speaker 3: I thought I totally missed something. I thought I blacked out,
22:43
Speaker 3: missed something, you know, 30 seconds or whatever. And it
22:46
Speaker 3: was just like, these guys were really hard to follow
22:49
Speaker 3: just spotting the ball. So no, I don't think this
22:53
Speaker 3: was a great officiating crew, but I also sympathize with
22:56
Speaker 3: what officials in the game today have to do and
22:59
Speaker 3: how they have to call these games.
23:00
Speaker 2: And coaches adapt quickly.
23:02
Speaker 5: I think what the Packers need to do is if
23:03
Speaker 5: they're going to run golden and Watson to the left
23:06
Speaker 5: side of the field, I want Tucker craft to find
23:08
Speaker 5: the nearest defender on the right side of the field
23:09
Speaker 5: and just run into him and get that illegal contact
23:11
Speaker 5: play when you need a first down, because it's 40
23:14
Speaker 5: yards from the play, but they're calling it.
23:16
Speaker 2: So you might as well try to get it, try
23:17
Speaker 2: to milk it.
23:18
Speaker 3: Right, sir. Exactly. And you know, there's several situations like, um,
23:23
Speaker 3: Pass interference, some of the hand fighting going on. And,
23:25
Speaker 3: you know, one of the reasons you call pass interference
23:28
Speaker 3: is because somebody grabbed or somebody got an advantage one
23:32
Speaker 3: way or the other. And you make the call then.
23:34
Speaker 3: But a lot of times it's just hand fighting and
23:37
Speaker 3: they pick a side to call a penalty on. And
23:40
Speaker 3: it's like nobody had an advantage in that situation. And
23:43
Speaker 3: they throw a flag on the defender, not nine times
23:45
Speaker 3: out of 10.
23:46
Speaker 2: It's been rough to watch.
23:47
Speaker 5: Well, hey, it's easier to watch when the Packers win,
23:50
Speaker 5: as they did. Big game coming up. A lot of
23:52
Speaker 5: ramifications on Sunday at Ford Field. We'll talk to you
23:55
Speaker 5: about that on Friday, Wayne. Have a great week. Thanks
23:58
Speaker 5: for hanging out with us.
23:59
Speaker 3: All right, guys. Take care. We'll talk to you Friday.
24:01
Speaker 4: All right.
24:02
Speaker 5: Wayne Larrabee, voice of the Green Bay Packers, brought to
24:04
Speaker 5: us by Miller Lite by Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
24:06
Speaker 2: We'll be there Thursday with Wayne Larrabee, as a matter
24:08
Speaker 2: of fact. Wayne Larrabee is with us Thursday.
24:10
Speaker 5: And we're going to have Bon Jovi tickets to give away.
24:13
Speaker 5: You have to be there to win. So we'll have
24:15
Speaker 5: a pair of Bon Jovi tickets to see that at
24:18
Speaker 5: Soldier Field coming up July 21st. That'll be epic. And yeah,
24:23
Speaker 5: so we get You get the voice of the Packers.
24:25
Speaker 1: Yeah.
24:26
Speaker 4: And there's this little baseball game that we're going to
24:27
Speaker 4: be getting excited for and getting ready for coming.
24:29
Speaker 2: Up there on Thursday.
24:31
Speaker 4: I like the shout outs last night at Lambeau Field.
24:34
Speaker 4: If you weren't in the crowd, they let the crowd
24:36
Speaker 4: know a lot of different times how fired up.
24:38
Speaker 5: They were for the crew. That never used to happen.
24:41
Speaker 5: The church and state, we never had the Packers. The
24:44
Speaker 5: Brewers have always done that. When they play on Sunday,
24:46
Speaker 5: they'll put the Packers score up if they're at the
24:48
Speaker 5: same time, and they'll get a big pop.
24:50
Speaker 2: The Packers never used to do that. They've softened in that.
24:52
Speaker 3: I like it.
24:53
Speaker 8: And Larry had a nice minute on the broadcast last
24:56
Speaker 8: night congratulating the Brewers, talking about their process and how
24:58
Speaker 8: it's been great.
24:59
Speaker 2: It's been fantastic. It's been fantastic.
25:01
Speaker 5: All right, so when we come back, Matt LaFleur at
25:03
Speaker 5: the podium up at Green Bay, we'll see what he
25:04
Speaker 5: said about the things that we're talking about and the
25:07
Speaker 5: things that we saw. When we watched the game and
25:09
Speaker 5: rewatched it, you're in the huddle Fox sports radio, Wisconsin.
25:17
Speaker 5: And drew billion arm and bringing it to you on
25:19
Speaker 5: this Monday in the good land. Victory Monday, victory chicken
25:21
Speaker 5: Monday Packers beating the Cowboys 2313. We just spoke to
25:25
Speaker 5: the voice of the Packers, Wayne Larrabee. And as we
25:28
Speaker 5: were chatting, Matt Lafleur was meeting with reporters, answering some
25:31
Speaker 5: of the questions that we've been asking.
25:34
Speaker 2: So let's take you there.
25:36
Speaker 5: Let's go to, uh, Matt LaFleur's presser up at 1265
25:40
Speaker 5: right here on the huddle.
25:42
Speaker 3: Anybody else sleepy in here?
25:46
Speaker 6: Those night games take a lot out of you. I
25:53
Speaker 6: tried to get out of here at a decent hour,
25:56
Speaker 6: but then, you know, typically there's emotions after a game.
26:00
Speaker 6: It's hard to kind of decompress. So I was up
26:05
Speaker 6: pretty late, a lot later than I wanted to be.
26:13
Speaker 6: May have been some of that.
26:14
Speaker 3: Yes. You know, I think.
26:17
Speaker 6: Just in regards to all that stuff at the end
26:21
Speaker 6: of the day, you just want it to be called
26:24
Speaker 6: both ways. So if they're going to call it one way,
26:26
Speaker 6: it should be called for the other team as well.
26:29
Speaker 6: And I feel like there's been a lot of times
26:31
Speaker 6: when Jordan's taken some, some close to potential roughing calls and,
26:39
Speaker 6: He's not getting the calls.
26:40
Speaker 1: Do you think he's a victim of being as good
26:42
Speaker 1: as he is when he's getting hit? I don't know.
26:45
Speaker 6: I think he needs to be more of an a-hole
26:48
Speaker 6: to the officials or lobby for some of those calls.
26:53
Speaker 6: You see some guys do it, and it works.
26:57
Speaker 9: I asked three of your players actually to be on
26:59
Speaker 9: my side about it because it seems like it's on
27:02
Speaker 9: the rise around the league.
27:04
Speaker 3: I don't know if there was a– and I've talked about.
27:06
Speaker 8: This with you week one.
27:08
Speaker 3: The rest are here. where the new emphasis is on
27:11
Speaker 3: things like that.
27:11
Speaker 9: I mean, there's a definition of it, but it looks
27:15
Speaker 9: like it's pretty hard to execute.
27:17
Speaker 3: Well, here, here's what I can tell you.
27:19
Speaker 6: We can only control what the thing, our actions out there,
27:23
Speaker 6: you know, and there were a couple of hits. Like
27:27
Speaker 6: you cannot go high on a quarterback. You've got to
27:30
Speaker 6: make sure that you're going in the strike zone. And then, obviously,
27:35
Speaker 6: if you do have them wrapped up, you've got to
27:38
Speaker 6: make sure you don't land on them with your body weight.
27:40
Speaker 6: As far as some of those other calls, you know,
27:45
Speaker 6: I thought Van Ness's wasn't– what's the definition? You get, like,
27:54
Speaker 6: a step before you have to hit the quarterback, and
27:57
Speaker 6: I didn't think it was a forceful hit to the quarterback.
27:59
Speaker 3: Was the ball out of his hands? It was.
28:03
Speaker 2: It was out of his hands.
28:04
Speaker 3: It's 6-0.
28:05
Speaker 7: I'm roughing the passer calls. I mean, like in the NBA,
28:08
Speaker 7: you hear the coaches, they work the referees during the game,
28:12
Speaker 7: they work them during press conferences.
28:14
Speaker 6: You're saying I'm not working them good enough?
28:16
Speaker 1: I don't know.
28:17
Speaker 3: I guess that's part of it.
28:17
Speaker 7: Is there anything you can do to put the.
28:19
Speaker 6: I'm going to make sure.
28:20
Speaker 3: I'm going to make sure.
28:21
Speaker 6: I'm going to tell them next week, guys, that Bill
28:23
Speaker 6: Huber told me that I need to get on you guys. Huh?
28:27
Speaker 8: Is that what he's right?
28:27
Speaker 3: And you still....
28:39
Speaker 9: What do you tell them about you don't want the
28:41
Speaker 9: 15-yard penalty, but it wasn't high, you didn't.
28:43
Speaker 1: Land on him, it wasn't late?
28:45
Speaker 2: What do you tell them?
28:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
28:48
Speaker 6: You just keep it moving. So, I mean, after every
28:52
Speaker 6: game we'll send those in. We'll see what they say.
28:54
Speaker 6: And then I obviously can't tell you guys about what
28:58
Speaker 6: they say. But it helps us educate our players. And
29:04
Speaker 6: at the end of the day, that's our job. We've
29:06
Speaker 6: got to educate them on what they can and cannot do.
29:09
Speaker 6: and make sure that we try to coach them up.
29:11
Speaker 6: And they've got to control themselves in the moment.
29:13
Speaker 9: So for Lucas and Carl, do you just keep playing
29:16
Speaker 9: that way and.
29:17
Speaker 3: Hope that it's all right?
29:19
Speaker 6: Well, I thought Carl's, I mean, it did look like
29:23
Speaker 6: body weight. So that's one where you have to peel
29:28
Speaker 6: off them as best you can. I know there was
29:31
Speaker 6: some discussion amongst that play with the staff in regards
29:35
Speaker 6: to whether or not it was roughing. So I think
29:37
Speaker 6: some guys saw it one way, some guys saw it
29:39
Speaker 6: another way.
29:41
Speaker 9: No, he started a go and he said he saw
29:43
Speaker 9: the official walking in calling for the ball, but like.
29:58
Speaker 6: I said, well, that's going to be a great one
30:00
Speaker 6: to learn from for all of us. If you don't
30:02
Speaker 6: hear a whistle, I don't care who's calling for the ball.
30:05
Speaker 6: You take it to the house because, I mean, they
30:07
Speaker 6: gave him the progress where he gave the ball up,
30:10
Speaker 6: but certainly missed out on a touchdown right there. Oh, no,
30:20
Speaker 6: it was more than that.
30:21
Speaker 3: Yeah.
30:21
Speaker 6: He got like 10 yards after.
30:23
Speaker 1: No.
30:29
Speaker 3: They didn't touch him down.
30:30
Speaker 6: I'm sure every team in the league will be showing
30:33
Speaker 6: that clip. You've got a rookie right there that didn't
30:38
Speaker 6: tag the guy down. That's something that we always stress
30:41
Speaker 6: to especially our younger players. You've got to tag that
30:44
Speaker 6: guy down.
30:46
Speaker 9: You talked a lot about that no flinch quality.
30:49
Speaker 3: Is that something that he came into the NFL with?
30:52
Speaker 3: Just being able to hang in the pocket and take
30:54
Speaker 3: those hits?
30:54
Speaker 6: Or has that developed over the I think that's something
30:59
Speaker 6: that I know when we're scouting quarterbacks and we're evaluating them,
31:06
Speaker 6: to me that's a prerequisite. Now, not to say that
31:10
Speaker 6: you can't overcome that, but usually the old chuck and
31:13
Speaker 6: duck isn't too good for anybody. You always try to
31:19
Speaker 6: find guys that will stand in there and deliver in
31:22
Speaker 6: the face of pressure. It's hard to find pockets like
31:27
Speaker 6: that in college football. So what we like to do
31:31
Speaker 6: is take a lot of the clips where you see
31:33
Speaker 6: a muddy pocket or you see guys blitzing the quarterback
31:38
Speaker 6: and just see how they react to those. Because that's
31:42
Speaker 6: almost every play in the National Football League. That was
31:45
Speaker 6: the plan for Jacobs this week? He'll be out of
31:49
Speaker 6: practice on Wednesday and he'll get a full week of practice.
31:53
Speaker 3: With what he has been able to do, Well, I.
32:02
Speaker 6: Think that's to be determined. We feel like he's in
32:05
Speaker 6: a pretty good spot. He's been training, but he's missed
32:11
Speaker 6: the exposure to football.
32:14
Speaker 7: Can Josh get the running game going again? Based on
32:16
Speaker 7: the entire big picture of what's.
32:26
Speaker 6: Well, I think he's an elite level back. He's certainly
32:29
Speaker 6: not going to hurt it. So I think he can
32:33
Speaker 6: provide a spark. I think that's what I said last night.
32:35
Speaker 9: Is it possible to put him out there on like
32:38
Speaker 9: a limited snap count or touch count in Detroit, or
32:40
Speaker 9: would you rather him be fully ready to go, no
32:44
Speaker 9: limitations before he's on the field?
32:47
Speaker 6: I think that's going to be determined throughout the course
32:49
Speaker 6: of the week, see where he's at, see how he's feeling,
32:51
Speaker 6: and then we'll make a decision.
32:54
Speaker 9: Has the run blocking gotten better since the line stabilized
33:00
Speaker 9: or is that still kind of a working problem?
33:02
Speaker 6: I think there were some moments where it was good
33:05
Speaker 6: and then there were some moments where it wasn't as
33:08
Speaker 6: good and then there were some moments where quite frankly
33:11
Speaker 6: the concepts had no chance based on different front structures
33:15
Speaker 6: that they were presenting to us and they did a
33:18
Speaker 6: good job. I think any time that you go into
33:21
Speaker 6: a game and the opposition has a little longer to
33:25
Speaker 6: prepare for that. I think there's some unscotted looks that
33:28
Speaker 6: can come up and certainly they caught us in a
33:31
Speaker 6: couple of those looks where we didn't have good plays
33:34
Speaker 6: for what they were showing.
33:36
Speaker 2: What did you see from.
33:37
Speaker 3: Your third down offense? You guys were efficient, but you
33:40
Speaker 3: also had a lot of third and six, seven plus.
33:43
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that, I mean, that's a key is
33:45
Speaker 6: you need third and shorts and third and medium. That,
33:50
Speaker 6: And we were able to convert on a lot of those.
33:53
Speaker 6: I think the first half we were 9-10. So it
33:55
Speaker 6: was really good in the first half. I thought there
33:57
Speaker 6: was a couple opportunities in the second half. They brought
34:00
Speaker 6: some heat a couple times and we didn't pick it up.
34:03
Speaker 6: But obviously staying in front of the, in those manageable
34:08
Speaker 6: situations leads to better success, typically.
34:12
Speaker 9: Three game winning streak with the same offensive line. There's
34:16
Speaker 9: also obviously issues.
34:22
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's something that you take it one
34:26
Speaker 6: day at a time and you try to evaluate for
34:28
Speaker 6: each day and we're going to try to put the
34:31
Speaker 6: five out there that we believe can go execute consistently
34:36
Speaker 6: and give us the best chance to win.
34:38
Speaker 3: I'm sure you've been working at it. What more can
34:41
Speaker 3: you do.
34:43
Speaker 7: Monday through Saturday to get the run game going?
34:47
Speaker 6: Well, you've got to keep working. I mean, there's no
34:50
Speaker 6: simple solution, simple fix. We have some ideas on things
34:55
Speaker 6: that we can do. I'm going to keep that internally
34:58
Speaker 6: in terms of just how we present and how we
35:03
Speaker 6: rep and some of the concepts that we're running that
35:07
Speaker 6: I think that we can get some improvement in that regard.
35:11
Speaker 3: Matt, was there a miscommunication between Love and Golden on
35:13
Speaker 3: the interception? It looked a little off as far as
35:16
Speaker 3: where the ball was being thrown.
35:20
Speaker 6: Well, so that was an option route.
35:22
Speaker 3: We call it a lookie.
35:24
Speaker 6: And he's got the option to slant inside and cross
35:27
Speaker 6: the backer's face, or he basically runs a stick route.
35:31
Speaker 6: And if there's nobody there, then he can just sit
35:36
Speaker 6: down and spot up. But, you know, just looking at it,
35:41
Speaker 6: you know, again, option routes, the timing's not always great,
35:46
Speaker 6: but would have liked to see him try to, pry
35:50
Speaker 6: it open inside and we also had a bust on
35:52
Speaker 6: the other side in regards to one of the routes
35:55
Speaker 6: that would have helped open up that window because they
35:59
Speaker 6: were in a shell defense and you really want to
36:01
Speaker 6: get the mic away from where the read is and
36:04
Speaker 6: the mic was sitting right in the middle.
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Speaker 9: Are the strengths of the running backs make it what
36:10
Speaker 9: plays they probably are more successful in make it harder
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Speaker 9: to make some of those calls or are they different?
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Speaker 3: Is one play a I.
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Speaker 6: Think there's some of that that can go into play.
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Speaker 6: And I think you've got to be cognizant of that
36:24
Speaker 6: as the play caller and then just make sure you've
36:27
Speaker 6: got the back in there that you want. And that's
36:30
Speaker 6: something that we'll tag from time to time. Sure.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 6: I think those are tendencies that you've got to look
36:42
Speaker 6: at and seeing who's in the game. That's what the
36:47
Speaker 6: defense is looking at. You know, they want to know.
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Speaker 6: And just, I mean, being on the headsets, they know
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Speaker 6: what could be coming based on a certain back, a
36:56
Speaker 6: certain tight end, if a certain wide out gets in
36:59
Speaker 6: the game. So you just got to be cognizant of
37:02
Speaker 6: what you put on tape.
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Speaker 3: He will not.
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Speaker 9: So with a short week next week, you don't really
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Speaker 9: practice that.
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Speaker 3: Are we looking at possibly the earliest he would get.
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Speaker 9: On the field for practice this week?
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Speaker 6: Well, I think that's going to be to, to be
37:19
Speaker 6: determined as well. Um, in regards to, I think there's
37:25
Speaker 6: things that you could do on a short week. If
37:28
Speaker 6: you got a guy like that, that you're trying to
37:30
Speaker 6: get primed and ready to go, but he's got a, again,
37:32
Speaker 6: he's got to clear some, some hurdles yet before we
37:35
Speaker 6: get to that point.
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Speaker 9: Obviously he couldn't practice and he obviously couldn't play in
37:42
Speaker 9: games the last six weeks.
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Speaker 3: What have you had him doing?
37:45
Speaker 2: Has he been to some meetings?
37:48
Speaker 9: What has his connectivity been like for.
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Speaker 3: These six weeks?
37:52
Speaker 6: Yeah, so he could go to meetings. He could lift
37:56
Speaker 6: with our strength coaches and condition with them. He couldn't
38:01
Speaker 6: go to any of the team activities, the practices and whatnot.
38:04
Speaker 6: So he's been engaged and he's been working out.
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Speaker 2: So he's obviously not like Zeitler, right?
38:21
Speaker 9: For him to hit the ground running?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 6: I think that's possible. But, again, we've got to go
38:26
Speaker 6: through the week and just see where he's at.
38:27
Speaker 2: Speaking of Zeitler, is he ready to go?
38:31
Speaker 6: He's getting better, yeah. He's gotten better. He's getting more comfortable.
38:34
Speaker 6: He's moving better. I think he's feeling more comfortable with
38:38
Speaker 6: the scheme. So, again, it's kind of going to be
38:42
Speaker 6: a day-by-day thing.
38:43
Speaker 9: I don't want to speak out of turn, but I'm
38:44
Speaker 9: guessing that you have to. No, we I mean, we
38:49
Speaker 9: handled it like I didn't know what was going to happen.
38:53
Speaker 9: So you just handled it like, you know, he's going
38:57
Speaker 9: to be a part of it and until they made
38:59
Speaker 9: a decision.
39:16
Speaker 5: Interesting stuff from Matt Lafleur, live from Lambeau Field. Micah
39:20
Speaker 5: Parsons not practicing this week. Josh Jacobs will get a
39:23
Speaker 5: full week of practice and sounds to me like he's
39:25
Speaker 5: training towards playing on Sunday.
39:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that one's going to be a quick insertion.
39:29
Speaker 4: The thing for the return for Micah, it continues to
39:32
Speaker 4: get more and more muddy, Drew, in this Thursday night
39:35
Speaker 4: game after Detroit throws another big wrench into the plan.
39:40
Speaker 4: It's looking like it's later and later. Middle of November
39:43
Speaker 4: looks like the timeline.
39:44
Speaker 2: I'm thinking that LA game on Thanksgiving Eve. Blackout Wednesday.
39:50
Speaker 2: Micah Parsons. Listen. Blackout Wednesday.
39:53
Speaker 4: It might be good night Wednesday for the LA Rams
39:57
Speaker 4: by the time we get to LA. I thought that
39:59
Speaker 4: game was going to be for control of the NFC. Drew,
40:01
Speaker 4: they might be fighting for their playoff lives when we
40:03
Speaker 4: get there. I thought they were going to be having
40:05
Speaker 4: an undefeated record by that.
40:06
Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. Oh, yeah. Clown show.
40:09
Speaker 3: You're in the huddle.
40:10
Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew Billion Arman. Victory Monday in
40:19
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40:20
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40:22
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40:25
Speaker 5: game balls and kicks to the balls, because we're going
40:26
Speaker 5: to have to do that in the next hour, along
40:28
Speaker 5: with Who's Hot, Who's Not, and the current electric superhero
40:32
Speaker 5: of the day. Plus, we're going to give away a
40:34
Speaker 5: pair of tickets to see Bon Jovi at Soldier Field.
40:37
Speaker 5: Tickets don't go on sale until next Friday. You can
40:40
Speaker 5: win them before you can buy them, and they'll be
40:42
Speaker 5: much cheaper than World Series tickets, but still a great show.
40:45
Speaker 2: July 21st, Soldier Field, Bon Jovi. playing.
40:48
Speaker 5: We'll have a pair of tickets to give away today,
40:50
Speaker 5: and then a pair of tickets at the Thursday Night
40:52
Speaker 5: Huddle at Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
40:54
Speaker 2: Let's go.
40:55
Speaker 4: Bon Jovi, my first ever concert I ever went to.
40:57
Speaker 2: That's a good one. Where was it, Billy? Over at
40:59
Speaker 2: the Amphitheater, Summerfest Ground.
41:01
Speaker 3: That's a good one.
41:02
Speaker 2: That's a cool band to say that you saw early.
41:04
Speaker 4: Went with my mom, and I do remember a moment
41:07
Speaker 4: where I looked at my mom and said, so are
41:10
Speaker 4: we going to stand this whole time?
41:12
Speaker 2: And she said, what? Yeah!
41:14
Speaker 4: That's kind of what we came for. I wonder if
41:18
Speaker 4: that's going to be any folks that go to the
41:20
Speaker 4: World Series.
41:21
Speaker 3: Wait.
41:23
Speaker 4: Spent $ 4, 000 for this seat in 129. Are we really
41:26
Speaker 4: going to stand this whole time? Probably, as long as
41:29
Speaker 4: the whole team gives you a reason to.
41:31
Speaker 2: Young Billy asking his mama, are we there yet?
41:33
Speaker 3: And she's like, we're halfway there.
41:37
Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, 100%.
41:38
Speaker 2: Arm and nail on that one.
41:39
Speaker 5: Hey, we're also going to have a special guest in
41:41
Speaker 5: the 4 o'clock hour of the program. Hunter Baumgart's going
41:43
Speaker 5: to drop by because he is hosting a little special
41:46
Speaker 5: baseball program.
41:46
Speaker 2: He's doing it all week.
41:47
Speaker 5: 5 o'clock hour is going to be Hunter Baumgart.
41:52
Speaker 2: So that's going to be sweet.
41:53
Speaker 4: It is so cool to just think about all that
41:56
Speaker 4: Hunter was able to experience, see out there, Drew, and
41:59
Speaker 4: then to be able to tell the stories for, I mean,
42:01
Speaker 4: this week. As Brewer's Fever, I mean, I know the song,
42:04
Speaker 4: I said, be a believer in Brewer's Fever. I have
42:08
Speaker 4: seen more people that would laugh in my face if
42:12
Speaker 4: I would have suggested to turn on a Brewers game
42:14
Speaker 4: in the middle of July.
42:15
Speaker 3: I know, right?
42:16
Speaker 4: Talking about how dialed in they've been on all... It
42:19
Speaker 4: is sweeping the state, no doubt about it. Going across
42:22
Speaker 4: the state this weekend and driving around, I saw more
42:26
Speaker 4: Brewers hats than anything else and more than I've ever
42:30
Speaker 4: seen across state, man. It is really, really cool what
42:33
Speaker 4: this team has been able to do galvanizing this crew.
42:36
Speaker 2: It really.
42:38
Speaker 5: It messes with your time-space continuum, kind of.
42:42
Speaker 2: It's a great call.
42:43
Speaker 5: Because that Churrio hit against the Padres was two weeks ago.
42:48
Speaker 2: Wow, two weeks.
42:49
Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 8: Doesn't that feel like that was the biggest moment in Brewers?
42:52
Speaker 8: And then we've had money more since.
42:54
Speaker 1: Yeah.
42:54
Speaker 2: And now they're not going to play another game for
42:56
Speaker 2: another five days. It is kind of weird to lay off. Although,
42:59
Speaker 2: I do like Bask in the Glory. I don't, however,
43:02
Speaker 2: like the record of the team that wins.
43:04
Speaker 8: The record since 09, the team that won the LCS
43:06
Speaker 8: first is not good, so I'm not thinking about that.
43:08
Speaker 2: Don't think about it. I'm thinking about it. I was
43:10
Speaker 2: going to say, it sounds like you're thinking about it. No,
43:12
Speaker 2: we won the pennant. Let's go.
43:13
Speaker 5: It just doesn't matter. But yeah, it seems wild. We're
43:20
Speaker 5: in heady times here. It's going to be a big week. Oh,
43:22
Speaker 5: by the way, meanwhile, back here among the tire and
43:24
Speaker 5: strip club ads, the Bucs begin their season on Wednesday night.
43:26
Speaker 2: Holy cats. Home opener Friday at 3 p.m. We're green
43:30
Speaker 2: and growing. Come on now. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Classic.
43:35
Speaker 2: We live in interesting times. You're in the huddle. Fox
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