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09/22/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Locked and loaded, ready for a Tuesday in the good land.
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Speaker 2: It's the Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison.
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Speaker 2: and YouTube. I'm Drew Olson, joined by Bill Schmid.
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Speaker 3: What's going on, fella?
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Speaker 1: And we got Armin Sarian back behind the glass.
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Speaker 3: Morning, boys.
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Speaker 1: 5 o'clock, clubbers. Let's celebrate.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be a great day today. We'll talk
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Speaker 2: to Hunter Baumgart about the Brewers, who just enjoyed their last...
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Speaker 2: off day of the 2026 championship season.
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Speaker 3: Get, get the rest and relaxation and what a couple
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Speaker 3: of Philly cheesesteaks or is that not on the menu
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Speaker 3: and on the diet for this? I would think it
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Speaker 3: should be.
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Speaker 1: I mean, why not? A couple of cheesesteaks.
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Speaker 3: Got to, there's nothing else to do in Philly.
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Speaker 2: And then maybe start thinking about when we're going to,
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Speaker 2: Do we have one more celly for the number one
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Speaker 2: overall seed, or is it just a toast and move on?
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Speaker 3: That's going to be one of the tough things to
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Speaker 3: figure out. And listen, these champagne problems, seriously, are good
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Speaker 3: ones to have and to figure out how you toast
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Speaker 3: it because they definitely need to celebrate it. Best team
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Speaker 3: in Brewers history in the regular season still has a
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Speaker 3: chance to be able to do things that they've never
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Speaker 3: done in the postseason. You got to at least enjoy
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Speaker 3: the wins, right? There's too many dads on that team, Drew.
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Speaker 3: Celebrating dad wins is a big deal nowadays. Social media
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Speaker 3: loves dads celebrating their dubs. So you might as well
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Speaker 3: enjoy it when you can. Yeah, I agree. And if
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Speaker 3: you can get to 100 too, I don't know if
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Speaker 3: it's going to be a crazy celebration. You're not going
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Speaker 3: to pop bottles for it. But I think it'd be
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Speaker 3: fun to do something to commemorate it. You know, I
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Speaker 3: don't know if it's like the Will Chamberlain style 100.
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Speaker 3: Everyone holds up maybe just a social media thing for
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Speaker 3: social media. Hold up a little... handwritten signs in the
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Speaker 3: clubhouse for the 100, something funny like that. But I
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Speaker 3: think that the home field, you know, it might not
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Speaker 3: be a wild celebration, but it would be nice to
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Speaker 3: commemorate it some way because you're right, Billy, you have
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Speaker 3: to appreciate the moments when you get them. You know,
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Speaker 3: you don't want to let them pass. If you only
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Speaker 3: wait for the one, one greatest moment, you might be
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Speaker 3: waiting forever. So, hey, I mean, it's about enjoying the journey, right?
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Speaker 3: It's about enjoying the road to get there. That's what
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Speaker 3: Mike Holmgren used to say.
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Speaker 1: Enjoy the journey.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You know what else you can enjoy?
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Speaker 3: What's that, Drew?
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Speaker 1: Every once in a while, the sports gods smile upon
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Speaker 1: you and give you something that makes you chuckle, like
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Speaker 1: a full day of Caleb Williams memes yesterday. Oh, my gosh.
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Speaker 3: What a banger of a day. Sometimes the internet gets
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Speaker 3: out of its toxic world, and we can just go
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Speaker 3: back to why we love it. And that was yesterday
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Speaker 3: for the Caleb Williams memes. I mean, I love that
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Speaker 3: that wasn't a toxic because I agree. It was it
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Speaker 3: was never ending the stream and it was funnier.
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Speaker 1: Each one was funnier. It was like that was kudos Internet.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Internet gets the gets the Jeter kid hat
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Speaker 3: to hat tip for me. And the best thing was
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Speaker 3: pretty universally. It was hate. Now that we don't have
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Speaker 3: to be worried about him having a serious injury.
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Speaker 1: What are we doing? Let's carve on him.
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Speaker 3: Will Compton was one of the first ones with just the,
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Speaker 3: now we got to have the conversation. And it seemed
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Speaker 3: like everybody was not only well holstered for the conversation,
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Speaker 3: but had been having the conversation quietly before they felt
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Speaker 3: like it was allowed to out loud because it was
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Speaker 3: instant of the flood of, well, not only our friend,
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Speaker 3: you know, Armin Sarian firing out Jordy Nelson walking off
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Speaker 3: the field with a torn ACL, but more of... That
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Speaker 3: was a dirty trick by me. That was kind of rude.
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Speaker 3: That was kind of rude, but I enjoyed that you
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Speaker 3: did it. I just posted a video. That's all I did.
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Speaker 3: I just posted a little perspective. But then when you
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Speaker 3: realized that stubbing your toe was going to mean getting
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Speaker 3: carted off and giving a couple of fist bumps. Man,
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Speaker 3: stepping out of Lego is a tough deal. If that
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Speaker 3: was the case, maybe I do get carted off. But
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Speaker 3: I was starting to realize I probably could get carted
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Speaker 3: off for a lot of daily things that happened to me.
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Speaker 3: You could. And the reality is, I know some people
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Speaker 3: are like, hey, you don't know what it feels like.
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Speaker 3: And maybe hamstring does feel pain and this and that.
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Speaker 3: And there was a wild day yesterday on the Internet.
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Speaker 3: And I think also because the algorithms just got everyone
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Speaker 3: in that. It seemed like everything on social media was
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Speaker 3: a Caleb Williams meme. And so, you know, so be it.
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Speaker 3: And It was a funny thing to look at just
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Speaker 3: because it presented itself so easily. I'm sorry. I mean,
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Speaker 3: when you take that hero's walk off like you're Kobe
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Speaker 3: with the Achilles pumping the fist and stuff like that,
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Speaker 3: and it turns out to be a grade one hamstring,
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Speaker 3: the jokes write themselves. But the reality is, and someone
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Speaker 3: said like this, don't bring your hot takey sports radio
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Speaker 3: stuff to real life. And then I had a moment
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Speaker 3: and I said, my perspective has helped there. I said,
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Speaker 3: you know what? Twitter is not real life, okay, man?
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Speaker 3: So we are allowed to have fun on this app.
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Speaker 1: That's a great realization.
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Speaker 3: We are allowed to enjoy it. We are allowed to
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Speaker 3: have the meme. We are allowed to joke around with
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Speaker 3: it a little bit while not really wishing anyone injury
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Speaker 3: and major injury and things like that. But I think
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Speaker 3: we do get caught up in thinking so much sometimes.
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Speaker 3: That's the social media lives we live our real life.
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Speaker 3: And it's not, let me tell you, having to take
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Speaker 3: my hiatus because of my hack, and it's old news now,
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Speaker 3: as you guys know, last summer, you get a little
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Speaker 3: bit of perspective. But it was nice to feel vintage
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Speaker 3: again yesterday. It was like when Devontae Adams had that
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Speaker 3: game last night, two tutties, and looking like the Devontae
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Speaker 3: Adams of old, he reached back for that moment. That's
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Speaker 3: what it felt like yesterday, having a banger of a
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Speaker 3: tweet in this kind of moment.
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Speaker 1: Devontae and Aaron Donald, old guys unite. Stafford presiding over it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, if you had some Caleb stuff on social media,
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Speaker 3: the engagement you got, it felt like the old days
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Speaker 3: before it was Jackson Dart with an injury, a real one,
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Speaker 3: a real injury that could keep him out for weeks.
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Speaker 2: Now, interesting study in contrast, because in the very city
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Speaker 2: in which Caleb William plays, and I can't wait for
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Speaker 2: Dolph to get here to talk about the, the, the.
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Speaker 1: Because he was a witness to it.
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Speaker 3: He was there, yeah.
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Speaker 2: But in the very same city in which Caleb Williams cavorts,
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Speaker 2: Alex Bregman took a foul ball to the face.
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Speaker 3: A real injury.
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Speaker 1: And suffered multiple facial fractures.
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Speaker 2: And he's not going to have surgery and he's going
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Speaker 2: to try to get back and play for the postseason.
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Speaker 3: I was going to say he's going to try to
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Speaker 3: be back next week from the way that I read that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he wants to play in the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: Kudos to him, dude. I don't know. Listen, it would
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Speaker 3: also be easier, Drew, maybe psychologically if it wasn't if
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Speaker 3: it didn't happen in the box. Now, granted, these guys
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Speaker 3: have taken so many at bats. But when if you've
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Speaker 3: taken if you take a ball off the face. in
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Speaker 3: the batter's box. I got to imagine psychologically, you might
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Speaker 3: need a minute. You might need a second. Maybe not.
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Speaker 3: These guys are built differently if you're making 30-some million
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Speaker 3: dollars to play baseball. But I guess I can always
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Speaker 3: stand somewhere else in the on-deck circle and tell myself
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Speaker 3: that I'm safer. I can do something to camouflage my
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Speaker 3: nervousness if I'm him getting right back in there. Now,
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Speaker 3: can they go full cage here? Or is he just
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Speaker 3: going to raw dog it walking up there with the
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Speaker 3: same flap?
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Speaker 1: Probably got to go cage just out of The abundance,
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Speaker 1: the high side of caution.
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Speaker 3: Anything could bump you. I think I would, but there's
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Speaker 3: also a culture involved there. I remember when they first
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Speaker 3: added the flap in baseball when guys were getting, you know,
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Speaker 3: a couple guys got hit in the face, so they
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Speaker 3: added the flap. Could they do the cage? It's like
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Speaker 3: a little league thing, but they have added it in hockey.
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Speaker 3: So you could do that, but yeah, kudos to him.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you've got to be tough to be able
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Speaker 3: to do that mentally and physically. to take one off
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Speaker 3: the face like that. I remember it was 91 playoffs
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Speaker 3: in the NBA. Larry Bird broke an orbital bone during
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Speaker 3: the game in a game five situation for the Celtics.
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Speaker 3: Came back to play. They won that game. He smacked
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Speaker 3: his face off the parquet, although not the same situation, obviously,
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Speaker 3: when you're getting a 100-mile heater right in front of
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Speaker 3: your eyes like that. That's the other thing. You got
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Speaker 3: to worry about the different types of injuries involved, eyesight,
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Speaker 3: things like that. You got to give him credit on
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Speaker 3: that one. It is a mark in contrast a little
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Speaker 3: bit Walk out there with the old 78 Dave Parker
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Speaker 3: football mask that he had. I like that. Yeah, there
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Speaker 3: you go. That would be good. So we'll see. You
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Speaker 3: got to give him credit. He's trying to play through it.
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Speaker 3: So now here's a question for you. If you're the Bears,
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Speaker 3: if you're Caleb, I mean, when you got a quarterback
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Speaker 3: who paints his nails already. the opposing fan bases are
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Speaker 3: kind of lying in wait for a moment. Oh, yes. 100%.
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Speaker 3: People have been waiting.
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Speaker 2: Bears fans, you know, it's the city of broad shoulders,
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Speaker 2: the Windy City. They consider themselves, you know, hardier than
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Speaker 2: the average Midwesterner. They're like tougher, the big city tough, right?
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Speaker 2: And then to, you know, have him be the face
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Speaker 2: of your franchise, which comes with the position.
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Speaker 3: For sure.
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Speaker 1: And then have him do this.
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Speaker 2: It makes me wonder, is it better for everyone involved
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Speaker 2: Even if Caleb Williams is kind of healthy and good
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Speaker 2: to go, that they sit him Monday night against Philadelphia
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Speaker 2: next week for his own good, for his own image protection,
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Speaker 2: or do they run him out there and just let
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Speaker 2: the memes come flying again? Now, if it was in Philadelphia,
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Speaker 2: I would manufacture a reason to say that flying would
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Speaker 2: be harmful for the hair.
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Speaker 3: Yes. And I would keep him in Chicago. Keep him
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Speaker 3: in Chicago. There would be no way I'm letting him
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Speaker 3: go anywhere close.
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Speaker 1: It's a big game.
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Speaker 3: Altitude.
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Speaker 1: If he's ready to play. But, oh, I don't know, man.
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Speaker 3: I struggle to think that they put him out there
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Speaker 3: just because, I mean, I know there's different feelings on him. Talent-wise,
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Speaker 3: he's A1. And if there's any bit of long-term belief
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Speaker 3: that they can be a contender, I think they got
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Speaker 3: to err on the highest side of caution and at
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Speaker 3: least keep him out for a week. That being said,
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Speaker 3: I also could see them just saying and leaning fully
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Speaker 3: into it and the guy be full go at practice tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: They just say, you know what, actually, God bless my hamstring.
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Speaker 3: It was pretty incredible stuff. They saved me, the hand above,
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Speaker 3: held me down, locked it up, did not rip it apart,
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Speaker 3: actually healed it immediately as my boys were carrying me
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Speaker 3: off the field. I just decided to start rehab instantly.
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Speaker 3: I wasn't going to do any more problems to it
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Speaker 3: and was healed. I would just lean fully into it
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Speaker 3: and have them full go at practice. Now, some of you,
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Speaker 3: sort of like Reggie in 95 against the Saints, some
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Speaker 3: of you might remember that when he was out for
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Speaker 3: the year and then God healed him and all of
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Speaker 3: a sudden he played. I would be surprised if he
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Speaker 3: played again right away this week. Just because of the
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Speaker 3: way he was carrying on about the pain. I know
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Speaker 3: what hamstrings can do in the NFL. We've talked about it.
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Speaker 3: Some guys are out for a long time with it,
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Speaker 3: but you're right, Billy. Maybe because he wants to prove
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Speaker 3: himself as being tough because he's going to feel that
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Speaker 3: kind of all the smoke he's getting this week and
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Speaker 3: it's going to burden him in that sense. He's like,
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Speaker 3: I'm going to prove everyone wrong and show them how
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Speaker 3: tough I am because he's going to feel self-conscious about
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Speaker 3: the way he's being treated right now. I could see
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Speaker 3: it too. I don't think it'll happen because I think
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Speaker 3: the Bears want to protect him from himself in that sense.
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Speaker 3: But It also kind of makes him look worse if
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Speaker 3: he plays right away, doesn't it? Imagery because of the
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Speaker 3: way how serious he made the injury look. And it
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Speaker 3: was like not even a one-week injury.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: These are just the ways I think about it. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: but at some point, you've already looked weird. You've already
10:56
Speaker 3: looked bad at some point. So you might as well
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Speaker 3: just go full in. You might as well just jump
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Speaker 3: all the way into the deep end and be cool.
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Speaker 3: But Drew, you did explain a lot of friends of
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Speaker 3: mine that I have from college that are Bears fans
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Speaker 3: in the... surrounding Illinois area where you can convince yourself
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Speaker 3: Elgin and New Lenox are Chicagoland. Very much enjoyed the
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Speaker 3: banter that I had with them yesterday. And I'd just
11:20
Speaker 3: like you to know, at least you have an arm
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Speaker 3: wrestler son as your quarterback again. Thank God, man. Like,
11:27
Speaker 3: I just, I can't stand this guy every once in
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Speaker 3: a while, dude. Like, it's incredible. It goes well, so good.
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Speaker 3: But I just, I can't stand the painted nails, man.
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Speaker 3: And that's just what's going to happen. Page has been
11:36
Speaker 3: better anyway. I think Page has been better anyway. And
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Speaker 3: Ben Johnson can cook with anybody. So it's going to
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Speaker 3: be fine. It's going to be fine. Wow. I did
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Speaker 3: throw a lot of firecrackers into their minds yesterday. It
11:46
Speaker 3: was a good time. I know you, Billy. I know
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Speaker 3: what you did, throwing those lobs in there and seeing
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Speaker 3: what would happen. Now, the pin and nails thing is
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Speaker 3: one thing. I know that bothers some people. It bothers
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Speaker 3: a lot of people. It does. But does it bother
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Speaker 3: him more than when he cried with his mom at
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Speaker 3: the USC game? That's, I think, where a lot of
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Speaker 3: it started for people, is when he was crying with
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Speaker 3: his mom on the sideline after that loss. Everyone's like,
12:08
Speaker 3: what are you, serious type of thing? I mean, guys
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Speaker 3: have worn different... You know, weird things, hairdos, things like that.
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Speaker 3: They've in sports before. So I wonder if that's where
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Speaker 3: it really started for people. But yeah, you're right. It
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Speaker 3: does bother people. And they have a decent backup. I mean,
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Speaker 3: obviously Tyson Bajan, a lot of people have a respect for.
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Speaker 3: You got the decent backup contract in there. So. I
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Speaker 3: don't know what you're cooking up, Bill. You're cooking something up. No,
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Speaker 3: I was trying to figure out what parts of some
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Speaker 3: of these messages I could read that I got. Wait,
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Speaker 3: it was just pulled? Well, you know the Madden curse
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Speaker 3: is real. So at least they have that one dialed in.
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Speaker 3: That one's still preordained. But I know hot take hump
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Speaker 3: day is tomorrow. But since it's a short week, everything
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Speaker 3: might have to get a little bit microwaved. I think
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Speaker 3: the real question would be... Micah Parsons... And Caleb Williams,
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Speaker 3: week five, Lambeau Field. Guarantee one, none, or both play.
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Speaker 1: I like that.
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Speaker 3: I'm guaranteeing, and this would be the hottest take, both
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Speaker 3: play week five at Lambeau. Wow.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: Oh, it's a buy or sell. How about that? Oh,
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Speaker 3: good one. Buy or sell. Buy or sell.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, why not?
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Speaker 3: Because if indeed you line it up and you would
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Speaker 3: think a couple of weeks injury just to be as
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Speaker 3: safe as possible. These are franchise quarter. That could be
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Speaker 3: a six, $ 700 million hamstring. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, that
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Speaker 3: could be one... Well, he definitely does. Yes. So, again,
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Speaker 3: and at some point, you're going to have to... There's
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Speaker 3: a player relationship here in the organization, and you're not
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Speaker 3: going to put the guy out there until he 1,000%
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Speaker 3: is ready to go and feels confident in going. So,
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Speaker 3: I think there's... High side of caution for both teams.
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Speaker 3: Packers have clearly wanted to be more cautious with Micah Parsons.
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Speaker 3: Today in this week would be the window in which
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Speaker 3: he'd be eligible to start practicing. Maybe he gets delayed
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Speaker 3: because the Packers aren't really practicing today. Right? Like the
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Speaker 3: short week actually could mess them up and mess him
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Speaker 3: back into his return. But week five, I think both
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Speaker 3: teams have had it circled. I know he's had week
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Speaker 3: six circled. Week five, both teams might be the biggest
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Speaker 3: game of the young season, and they both might need
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Speaker 3: it after the way they're going to walk in there.
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Speaker 3: I think both are going to be on the field
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Speaker 3: coming up there on October 11th.
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Speaker 1: I like it.
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Speaker 2: Weigh in your thoughts about Caleb Williams. NFL players are
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Speaker 2: tougher than we are, and they take a pounding every week,
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Speaker 2: and they could get hurt at any time. And you
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Speaker 2: don't want to make light, but it is funny that
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Speaker 2: now that he's not hurt, Seriously.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: He's getting the Paul Pierce treatment.
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Speaker 3: He should be a little bit. I mentioned Pete when
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Speaker 3: we watched him go off the field. I did wonder
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Speaker 3: if indeed when he was getting carried off, just in case,
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Speaker 3: this thing goes to overtime. What if all of a
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Speaker 3: sudden he just trots out there ready to roll with
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Speaker 3: a fresh pair of pants? wild. He could have. I mean,
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Speaker 3: it was muddy. He might have thought that that was
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Speaker 3: what happened. Now, that's a perfect cover. Nobody could tell. Oh,
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Speaker 3: this is mud. That's true. If Pierce was playing outside,
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Speaker 3: he might not have had to go to the locker room.
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Speaker 3: It was indoor in the white Celtics jersey. Okay, I
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Speaker 3: get it. Yeah, no chance you're covering that one. We're
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Speaker 3: talking about the outdoor and the mud and all these things. Although,
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Speaker 3: I don't know. Yeah, it's real grass still at Soldier Field, right?
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Speaker 3: Because of the Parks District stuff. So, you could have
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Speaker 3: done that for sure. Johnny Krimmage says, you're not serious.
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Speaker 3: Not playing due to memes. Internet fear? I don't know
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Speaker 3: if you're saying because I said that. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I think guys think about- Johnny, that was sarcastic. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I don't want to speak for you, but I will
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Speaker 3: say I think that was- It was. I'm firmly planted
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Speaker 3: in cheek. It was, but I do think it's in
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Speaker 3: the back of the mind of athletes now is what
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Speaker 3: kind of smoke they're going to get on the internet
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Speaker 3: or what kind of shade they're going to get. I
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Speaker 3: do think it's in the back of their mind. more
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Speaker 3: than it used to be it used to be the
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Speaker 3: ire was at what they would say about them in
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Speaker 3: the paper like newspaper reporters this is like generations ago
15:58
Speaker 3: yeah now i think it's like i mean guys are
16:01
Speaker 3: wearing chains when they don't when they get 100 on
16:03
Speaker 3: their madden score like they care about stuff like that
16:05
Speaker 3: this isn't the same but i'm just saying it's a
16:07
Speaker 3: different um it's a different psyche these days and getting
16:10
Speaker 3: smoke on the internet does caring for what people say
16:14
Speaker 3: about you online and then sitting out an nfl game
16:17
Speaker 3: because you don't want people to make fun of you
16:19
Speaker 3: online or to They're two different things. A little different things. Yeah,
16:23
Speaker 3: two different things. But I could see someone saying, you know,
16:25
Speaker 3: I got to prove myself now to people. I got
16:27
Speaker 3: to get out there and really got to push through
16:28
Speaker 3: this and show them I'm tough. But I do think
16:31
Speaker 3: it's still a stretch. I would agree with that. But
16:34
Speaker 3: it's a crazy time. I would say in the end,
16:36
Speaker 3: it just depends on how he feels. If he believes
16:38
Speaker 3: he can play well, because now it'll be scrutinized how
16:41
Speaker 3: he plays when he comes back. It's like, so if
16:44
Speaker 3: the pain is going to prevent him from playing well,
16:46
Speaker 3: I think he's going to have to sit out, which
16:48
Speaker 3: you would think with a hamstring injury, it's very common
16:51
Speaker 3: in the NFL. But if he feels good and thinks
16:53
Speaker 3: he can have a great game against the Eagle, I mean,
16:55
Speaker 3: it could totally repair what all the things that have
16:58
Speaker 3: happened this week to him and it could repair the
17:00
Speaker 3: reputation a little bit. According to, I was listening to
17:03
Speaker 3: Colin Coward yesterday, according to Colin Coward, he's the Michael
17:06
Speaker 3: Jordan of the bears and he affects the mood of
17:08
Speaker 3: Chicago more than anybody. So Colin loves him some Caleb
17:11
Speaker 3: Williams and he thinks it's totally fine that he showed
17:14
Speaker 3: emotion and that this guy's going to be a hero.
17:16
Speaker 3: So I'm curious to see how this all plays out
17:19
Speaker 3: because there's no question of his talent. We've talked about
17:21
Speaker 3: that and Billy, you're right. He has talent and he
17:23
Speaker 3: could be that guy down the road. Um, to be
17:27
Speaker 3: the long-term investment for the Bears. So then it becomes, well,
17:30
Speaker 3: you have to also watch out for his health if
17:32
Speaker 3: you're the team. So that's where the whole protecting him
17:34
Speaker 3: from himself things come. That's where it comes from. YouTube,
17:39
Speaker 3: Caleb acted like he needed a leg amputation, the most
17:41
Speaker 3: comical injury action in NFL history. Yeah, I think a
17:44
Speaker 3: lot of people feel that way, and that's why he
17:46
Speaker 3: was getting made fun of all over the internet. My
17:48
Speaker 3: favorite one was, you know, all the memes of when
17:51
Speaker 3: he was pumping his fist on the way out, and
17:53
Speaker 3: it was the one that said, wow, I... How I
17:56
Speaker 3: act when I slept on the couch in the hospital
17:59
Speaker 3: room when my wife gave birth. My wife gave birth, dude.
18:01
Speaker 3: That's probably the best. It's a difficult thing. Yeah. I
18:03
Speaker 3: think my favorite was, I just saw it too, of
18:06
Speaker 3: a big, huge pit bull, Drew. And poochers, you know.
18:11
Speaker 3: And nails getting trimmed can be one or two things.
18:14
Speaker 3: Especially if there's not peanut butter there, they're not going
18:16
Speaker 3: to be very happy. Oh, baby. And this thing just
18:18
Speaker 3: howling to the night. Caleb Williams whenever he gets his
18:23
Speaker 3: leg wrapped up. I can only imagine. I mean, if
18:25
Speaker 3: that was as painful as it was when the injury happens,
18:28
Speaker 3: I can only imagine I was going to be howling
18:30
Speaker 3: when they wrapped that thing up to get him out there.
18:32
Speaker 3: Did enjoy, though. Somebody did just post a video of
18:35
Speaker 3: Jack Youngblood playing in the Super Bowl with a broken leg. Yeah.
18:38
Speaker 3: I don't know how that happened. Just for context.
18:42
Speaker 1: I did find out that Kyler Murray is going to
18:45
Speaker 1: play against the Buccaneers.
18:47
Speaker 3: Back in the purple. I guess nine points probably not
18:50
Speaker 3: enough to make sure that you keep the job if
18:52
Speaker 3: you're Carson Wentz. But he's undefeated.
18:54
Speaker 1: But he's unbeaten. He's their Malik Willis. Malik Willis.
19:01
Speaker 3: I missed this one yesterday, guys. He threw a touchdown
19:06
Speaker 3: pass to a kid that had his first TD in
19:07
Speaker 3: the NFL and somebody after the game. They got throttled,
19:10
Speaker 3: by the way. I don't know if anybody was surprised.
19:14
Speaker 3: Were you happy for Ryan getting that touchdown? He goes,
19:15
Speaker 3: I was happy for Ryan. I was sad for the
19:17
Speaker 3: Miami Dolphins. No, I haven't had a lot of people.
19:19
Speaker 3: I'm sad for the Miami Dolphins. I think there's going
19:21
Speaker 3: to be a lot of days, Malik, where you're going
19:22
Speaker 3: to be sad for the Miami Dolphins this year. You
19:24
Speaker 3: might as well get in line. I haven't had the
19:26
Speaker 3: Malik Willis should have been our starter conversation. I haven't
19:29
Speaker 3: heard that lately from a lot of people. I don't
19:30
Speaker 3: know where. It's a little bit quiet. We haven't heard
19:32
Speaker 3: from Charles in Arkdale lately. I hope he's doing good.
19:34
Speaker 3: We usually hear from him on Packers OT. He used
19:36
Speaker 3: to be carrying that flag. And people, it proves that
19:40
Speaker 3: you do well for putting guys in the right role
19:43
Speaker 3: when you got people clamoring for them to be the
19:44
Speaker 3: starter because Malik was so good as a backup. He
19:47
Speaker 3: was perfect in that role. But, man, I don't hear
19:49
Speaker 3: anybody lately saying, we should have gone with Malik over
19:51
Speaker 3: Jordan Love. I was hearing that a little bit last year.
19:53
Speaker 1: Got the shooting shirts off.
19:54
Speaker 3: 877-794-1973.
19:54
Speaker 1: When we come back. I got one that's going to
19:59
Speaker 1: hit Armand in the feels a little bit.
20:01
Speaker 2: I got a question for you guys regarding something that
20:03
Speaker 2: was a question inspired by last evening's proceedings.
20:07
Speaker 3: Beautiful.
20:07
Speaker 2: So we'll just leave it at that. We're going to
20:09
Speaker 2: have some fun today. Hunter Baumgart joins us at 725.
20:12
Speaker 2: Scott Dolphin, an hour from right now when we reach halftime.
20:16
Speaker 2: We've got to find out his thoughts about the Bears
20:17
Speaker 2: and the Caleb Williams memes.
20:19
Speaker 1: You are in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. But
20:23
Speaker 1: now it doesn't look like he can play anymore.
20:24
Speaker 3: Felt like he was in the back leg. Got the
20:26
Speaker 3: captain's seat patched on.
20:27
Speaker 1: Did you notice that?
20:29
Speaker 3: Got the seat on the chest. Same guy, not the
20:31
Speaker 3: same body or maybe left foot.
20:32
Speaker 2: And last night made me think, it's not necessarily a
20:35
Speaker 2: position of glaring need, but among active players, if you
20:39
Speaker 2: could bring back a former Packer, is it still Devontae?
20:42
Speaker 1: Because like Aaron Rodgers, cooked.
20:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.
20:46
Speaker 2: It's not a position need because we love Christian Watson.
20:49
Speaker 1: Although, you know, Reid might be out for a little bit.
20:51
Speaker 3: I would take that depth there, though, all the time.
20:53
Speaker 3: Devontae is... I mean, he's elite.
20:54
Speaker 1: I mean, Watson's fine, but he's not Devontae. Devontae is...
20:58
Speaker 1: one of the best of all time.
20:59
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he still has the, he still strikes ridiculous
21:03
Speaker 3: fear in opponents, right? Like Watson, I know teams will
21:07
Speaker 3: game plan around and for just because of the speed,
21:10
Speaker 3: but he doesn't stress you the same way that Devante
21:12
Speaker 3: would and does on every single down. I'm just trying
21:18
Speaker 3: to rack my brain for anybody to add into the conversation.
21:21
Speaker 3: For a long time, it would have been Micah Hyde. Yeah,
21:24
Speaker 3: good one. And I think they desperately needed him for
21:28
Speaker 3: quite some time. Devontae would be the A1. Last year,
21:31
Speaker 3: and I'd throw this one in... I haven't seen him
21:35
Speaker 3: in the first two weeks of this season. Eric Stokes
21:38
Speaker 3: had a big year last year. Stokes did have a
21:41
Speaker 3: retribution year. I don't know what he's been doing this year,
21:43
Speaker 3: but it was at least a retribution type year. His
21:46
Speaker 3: team's 2-0, though. Yeah, they did. I would say Aaron
21:49
Speaker 3: Jones just because you need a running back right now.
21:51
Speaker 3: I don't know if he'd be the guy.
21:53
Speaker 2: Aaron Jones, again, just the way we talked about him
21:55
Speaker 2: after the Vikings game because he's... He's still productive and solid.
21:59
Speaker 3: You just love him. Packer people up and down. You
22:01
Speaker 3: just love his vibe. Everything about him is Packer people.
22:04
Speaker 2: He hums at a frequency that other guys gravitate towards,
22:07
Speaker 2: and he lifts guys.
22:09
Speaker 1: If he's not even playing, he's still that presence. You
22:13
Speaker 1: want him around.
22:14
Speaker 3: We were fully stocked at that position still. I don't
22:17
Speaker 3: know if I'd say it.
22:18
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of this because.
22:20
Speaker 2: I was, as I was telling Billy off the air,
22:22
Speaker 2: you rewatch the Packers game. It was like, they don't
22:23
Speaker 2: miss Rashawn Gary at all. Cause deny Dennis Sutton.
22:25
Speaker 1: It looks like he's going to be better than Gary
22:27
Speaker 1: and it's like walking in the door right now. And
22:31
Speaker 1: Rashawn Gary's can play for Dallas and he might even
22:33
Speaker 1: put up a decent season, but he's not going to
22:35
Speaker 1: be missed.
22:35
Speaker 3: I don't think one person in the world is thinking about,
22:38
Speaker 3: about that ex-girlfriend there.
22:39
Speaker 1: So that's not a guy.
22:40
Speaker 3: Kenny Clark at all. Maybe I'm out.
22:43
Speaker 1: Rogers, Kenny Clark. Well, yeah.
22:46
Speaker 2: Cause I'm looking for Wyatt to do a little more and,
22:48
Speaker 2: Kenny Clark would bust through some double teams and make
22:51
Speaker 2: you notice him.
22:52
Speaker 3: Maybe would. He was coming off a down year or two, though, remember,
22:55
Speaker 3: when they got rid of him, and he wasn't great
22:57
Speaker 3: necessarily a year ago.
22:59
Speaker 1: You do remember guys at their peak.
23:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they had seven defensive tackles this year, so
23:03
Speaker 3: you wouldn't think that would be.
23:04
Speaker 1: Is there anybody O-line-ish that you would bring back?
23:07
Speaker 3: Cole Van Lannen. There you go. Seventh-round pick who ended
23:10
Speaker 3: up getting... It just didn't wait long enough. Didn't wait
23:12
Speaker 3: long and turned himself into a really, really good player
23:15
Speaker 3: with Jacksonville, and he's been there starting left tackle for
23:17
Speaker 3: a long time now.
23:19
Speaker 1: That would be one.
23:20
Speaker 3: You watched another one last night, John Runyon Jr. Most
23:23
Speaker 3: people just kind of bypassed him. Three years, $ 30 million
23:26
Speaker 3: when he went to the Giants. They were trying to
23:27
Speaker 3: give his job away in his final year. Yeah, they
23:30
Speaker 3: moved on from those two guys. And it's like, ooh,
23:32
Speaker 3: maybe they picked the wrong horses to move forward with.
23:35
Speaker 3: Josh Myers didn't necessarily have a great day against Jonathan
23:38
Speaker 3: Ford this week. Because I thought Jonathan Ford was pretty good.
23:41
Speaker 1: He wasn't a guy that you missed that much.
23:43
Speaker 3: But for the center problems that they had over the
23:46
Speaker 3: last couple of years, that would be one.
23:48
Speaker 1: I saw Lucas Patrick get signed, and he's still getting
23:50
Speaker 1: a check.
23:50
Speaker 3: 11 years in the league. 11 years in like seven
23:52
Speaker 3: different teams. He's a mauler, man.
23:54
Speaker 1: He's a solid, you know. He's not going to embarrass you.
23:58
Speaker 3: No, and it shows where offensive line play is in
24:00
Speaker 3: the NFL right now. It's so difficult to get back.
24:04
Speaker 3: It's tougher to get better early on in your career
24:07
Speaker 3: because you just don't have as many opportunities in practice
24:11
Speaker 3: to play. You don't have as many reps. At some point,
24:13
Speaker 3: you got to be able to play to develop. And
24:16
Speaker 3: Patrick's a great example of sometimes the intelligence allows you
24:20
Speaker 3: to develop even more because you're on the football field more.
24:25
Speaker 3: And there's not as many great offensive linemen to keep playing.
24:29
Speaker 3: guys off of the field if that makes sense you're
24:32
Speaker 3: going to get your chance and then depends on how
24:34
Speaker 3: you perform you can hang around for a long time
24:36
Speaker 3: with davante i'm just watching it it's like okay you
24:39
Speaker 3: have a really nice pretty new like you know two
24:42
Speaker 3: three-year-old kia telluride in the in the in the driveway
24:46
Speaker 3: but the range rover that we used to have like
24:49
Speaker 3: five years ago yeah it's a little older.
24:50
Speaker 1: Man that was a sweet ride that was a sweet
24:54
Speaker 1: ride and it had the It just, it was, it
24:57
Speaker 1: was lifted a level and that's kind of the way
24:59
Speaker 1: I feel with Devante, but he is not a position
25:02
Speaker 1: to need per se, but you'd still take him back.
25:04
Speaker 1: Cause he's like so much fun to watch. There's still
25:06
Speaker 1: a reason why he's still elite.
25:08
Speaker 3: There's a reason why people were dreaming about it when,
25:10
Speaker 3: when he went to the Rams that they could possibly
25:14
Speaker 3: go there. And I throw another name out there and
25:16
Speaker 3: somebody that they, I mean, I'm not going to say
25:18
Speaker 3: that they ditched him like a bad habit. I mean,
25:21
Speaker 3: they flipped a fourth round or a fifth round pick
25:23
Speaker 3: into a fifth round pick, but Dontavion Wicks having a
25:25
Speaker 3: nice start to his.
25:27
Speaker 1: Yeah. He's going to pop for them.
25:29
Speaker 3: And he's kind of settled into their wide receiver tour.
25:31
Speaker 3: I think he had like five catches last week.
25:32
Speaker 1: He's going to pop.
25:33
Speaker 3: The thing about him is I, I still don't know.
25:36
Speaker 3: I mean, when they let him go, I kind of
25:38
Speaker 3: was like, cause I was always intrigued by his talent.
25:40
Speaker 3: I know he had the dropsies for a while, but
25:42
Speaker 3: he would get open so much. So he could have
25:44
Speaker 3: a good career here. That might be one we're looking at.
25:46
Speaker 3: That's a good point. All right.
25:46
Speaker 2: So if we took this exercise to the other teams
25:49
Speaker 2: with the Brewers, um, Would it be Hayter? Corbin Burns
25:54
Speaker 2: isn't exactly chucking it yet. He's not at full strength.
25:56
Speaker 2: But if you could bring back one former brewer, it
25:58
Speaker 2: wouldn't be Adamas.
25:59
Speaker 3: No, it wouldn't be Adamas. For the prospect lovers, it
26:02
Speaker 3: would probably be like a Tristan Peters. I don't even
26:06
Speaker 3: know what deal they left him in.
26:09
Speaker 1: You're mad at the world on that one. He's playing
26:11
Speaker 1: for the Savannah Bananas.
26:12
Speaker 3: I mean, come on. You're just praying to be able
26:14
Speaker 3: to have one in there. There are many you can
26:16
Speaker 3: think of, and that's to the talent of the Brewers
26:18
Speaker 3: for an office, what they've done. Yes. Well, Hayter would
26:21
Speaker 3: be one. Hayter would be the one.
26:22
Speaker 1: Hayter would be the guy because that's the back-end guy
26:25
Speaker 1: that makes those other guys slip down a roll. You
26:28
Speaker 1: would dominate between Ashby, Uribe, McGill, and Hayter.
26:34
Speaker 3: Oh, sure.
26:34
Speaker 2: If you had Hayter now at the back end of
26:36
Speaker 2: that as the Howitzer coming out, like, good luck.
26:39
Speaker 3: No, that would be as untouchable. It's a five-inning game.
26:42
Speaker 3: Five-inning game with a flamethrower like Mizorowski and then Henderson
26:46
Speaker 3: on the other side.
26:46
Speaker 2: That would be a tough, tough one to beat. To
26:48
Speaker 2: have those guys at full strength. So, yeah, then Hayter
26:51
Speaker 2: makes it. And then with the Bucs, we have to
26:52
Speaker 2: suspend it because you have to just say, well, anybody
26:54
Speaker 2: but Giannis.
26:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, can't do it.
26:55
Speaker 1: Can't have Giannis. It's going to be Giannis.
26:57
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of fans, Drew, that just
26:59
Speaker 3: sentimentally would like to see Drew Holiday back on the Bucs.
27:03
Speaker 3: I think there's people that would just enjoy watching him
27:05
Speaker 3: play basketball again. Because, I mean, I for one, and
27:09
Speaker 3: we all watched what happened against Jimmy Butler in the
27:11
Speaker 3: Miami Heat, right? That did happen with our own eyes.
27:14
Speaker 3: And we all know that he was supposed to be
27:16
Speaker 3: your defensive specialist. And he got 50 dropped on his head,
27:18
Speaker 3: like three out of five games. Tough scene. But offensively,
27:22
Speaker 3: he's still got a little bit more juice than I
27:24
Speaker 3: thought he did. And we saw that at least with
27:26
Speaker 3: Portland last year. But- The Bucs are a tough one, too,
27:30
Speaker 3: because I don't know anybody is looking at the win-loss
27:34
Speaker 3: total unless you go to the Pottawatomie Sportsbook and join
27:37
Speaker 3: us for the Thursday Night Huddle and lay down that
27:39
Speaker 3: super sweet 26.5 on the over for the win total.
27:43
Speaker 3: I don't know anybody's caring too much about how the Bucs'
27:45
Speaker 3: results end up throughout. Yeah, and I think the NBA
27:48
Speaker 3: is different because in a lot of ways, you know, you...
27:51
Speaker 3: a lot of people, fans are looking to give away
27:53
Speaker 3: talent to get picks back and, and transition to rebuilding.
27:56
Speaker 3: So it is kind of weird. I mean, there will
27:58
Speaker 3: be guys that are productive around the league still, um,
28:02
Speaker 3: You know, you could even, yeah, I guess some people
28:04
Speaker 3: would have said Drew just for vibes and things like that,
28:06
Speaker 3: but you're right. I think that's kind of one that's
28:09
Speaker 3: hard to compare to. Man, you know, Hayter really has
28:11
Speaker 3: had probably the best year of his career. I mean,
28:13
Speaker 3: as good as he was in Milwaukee, the numbers he's
28:16
Speaker 3: thrown up are just crazy. Sub one ERA, sub 0.7 whip.
28:21
Speaker 3: I mean, you have to give him credit. I mean,
28:23
Speaker 3: he's had, so yeah, that's super obvious. We'll have to
28:26
Speaker 3: ask that to Hunter too. See what he thinks about
28:28
Speaker 3: that with former Brewers. I like this exercise though. It's
28:30
Speaker 3: a lot of fun.
28:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's like, you know, the glaring position of
28:35
Speaker 1: need is offensive line right now. But the Devontae thing
28:40
Speaker 1: is he's just so good. He's so good, dude.
28:42
Speaker 3: He's probably Hall of Famer. I mean, I think he is.
28:46
Speaker 3: It's hard to say no to him.
28:48
Speaker 1: You watch him, and it's like watching Jerry Rice. He's
28:50
Speaker 1: just like... unstoppable.
28:52
Speaker 3: Yeah he's now he now for sure is and now
28:55
Speaker 3: i think he's just he's just uh trimming down the
28:58
Speaker 3: wait time that he has post-career yeah but like everything
29:00
Speaker 3: that he does i think will will minimize it and
29:02
Speaker 3: if he gets a ring then he's gonna be as
29:04
Speaker 3: locked in as anybody played with uh rogers and stafford
29:08
Speaker 3: two hall of fame quarterbacks right and just man and
29:11
Speaker 3: they're both they're both gonna like you know rave about
29:14
Speaker 3: oh for sure and then all of a sudden uh Wait,
29:17
Speaker 3: is that Derek Carr's music? All of a sudden, you'll
29:19
Speaker 3: start hearing Derek Carr's name again, and he'll talk about
29:21
Speaker 3: how amazing of a human being he was, and you'll
29:23
Speaker 3: hear even more about it. It is a difficult one
29:26
Speaker 3: to watch because at some point when somebody wants to go,
29:30
Speaker 3: you just got to let them go. Devontae wanted to
29:33
Speaker 3: go because it feels like they gave him too many
29:36
Speaker 3: opportunities to. Gave him gave him a reason to and
29:39
Speaker 3: that went all he needed was one reason and then
29:42
Speaker 3: quickly shut the door on it even told the stories
29:45
Speaker 3: like i told my agent don't even tell me what
29:46
Speaker 3: the number is because i don't want to have the
29:48
Speaker 3: thought of maybe going back just send me somewhere else
29:51
Speaker 3: i don't want to think about it you pay him
29:53
Speaker 3: a year early who knows what could have happened. Yeah.
29:56
Speaker 3: He was out on touchdowns.
29:57
Speaker 1: Jordan love could have been thrown to him.
29:59
Speaker 3: He basically decided he was out and he wasn't going
30:01
Speaker 3: to be a reunion either. I don't know. Some people
30:02
Speaker 3: were open for that. And, uh, It does sting. I
30:05
Speaker 3: think he, I would have liked to see him be
30:07
Speaker 3: a Packer for life. And he's showing you, showed you
30:09
Speaker 3: last night when he's still the number one guy with
30:11
Speaker 3: target share, you know, when they had their guys out,
30:13
Speaker 3: I mean, he's absolutely, he's still good enough to be
30:16
Speaker 3: that guy. I mean, he was awesome last night and I,
30:18
Speaker 3: I still believe, listen, that would have been, it would
30:21
Speaker 3: have been great to have him in a Packer uniform forever,
30:23
Speaker 3: you know? And yeah, so that's an obvious one. Still
30:26
Speaker 3: love to have him. If you have, no, it seems
30:27
Speaker 3: like it. 877-794-1973.
30:27
Speaker 1: You can weigh in on that. or in that discussion,
30:34
Speaker 1: I should say. Who would you, if you could magic
30:39
Speaker 1: wand it, who would you have back?
30:41
Speaker 3: Justin and jacksonville right away john runyon jr i believe
30:43
Speaker 3: he's better than what we got maybe not burton a
30:46
Speaker 3: lot of love for jagger burton drew i don't know
30:48
Speaker 3: what you saw in the rewatch i thought his pass
30:49
Speaker 3: blocking was maybe a tick better than some people thought
30:52
Speaker 3: yeah there's there's room to go there with jagger burton
30:55
Speaker 3: that's for sure who who do you trust on that
30:58
Speaker 3: because like if pro football focus says he was good
31:00
Speaker 3: and the other sites say he wasn't good I mean,
31:04
Speaker 3: did he allow any blatant pressures? He was in mostly,
31:07
Speaker 3: they were passing. I was going to say, in mostly
31:09
Speaker 3: and passing, he's much more of a run blocker, and
31:12
Speaker 3: I think that's why they still were trying to run
31:13
Speaker 3: the football as much as they were. Much to the
31:16
Speaker 3: chagrin of most of us watching and trying to figure
31:19
Speaker 3: out why on earth you're running it for second down
31:22
Speaker 3: on second and six at the 15, but... There's at
31:26
Speaker 3: least room to get better. And at some point, you're
31:29
Speaker 3: going to have to start looking for the biggest room
31:31
Speaker 3: for improvement. Because right now, the floor is too low
31:34
Speaker 3: to just be living with what you got for 15 weeks.
31:37
Speaker 3: You got to give yourself an opportunity and a runway
31:39
Speaker 3: to get better.
31:39
Speaker 1: No question. No question. We are off and running.
31:42
Speaker 3: It's a buy or sell Tuesday. Get your propositions ready. 877-794-1973.
31:44
Speaker 1: Hunter is coming up at 725. Scott Dolphin at 625.
31:45
Speaker 1: You're in the huddle. Oh, forgot.
31:53
Speaker 2: And this show was already going to be awesome. But
31:55
Speaker 2: we have a pair of Metallica tickets to give away.
31:57
Speaker 3: Talk about it. Huge show at camp. One pair only.
32:01
Speaker 1: Camp, Randall. One pair.
32:03
Speaker 2: Show is June 12th. The M72 World Tour with Limp
32:06
Speaker 2: Bizkit and Avatar. Yeah, that's right. You're going to win
32:09
Speaker 2: Metallica tickets from us today.
32:11
Speaker 1: You're in the house.
32:12
Speaker 3: Beautiful honor. You appreciate it. It's one of those that
32:16
Speaker 3: I wish I could just like put the card back
32:18
Speaker 3: in the bag and not let anybody know that you
32:20
Speaker 3: have it. Because then it just becomes you're like the
32:22
Speaker 3: fallback guy of, hey, can you do this? I mean, yeah,
32:25
Speaker 3: I can.
32:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't want to pay somebody. So can you
32:27
Speaker 1: do it?
32:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can. Would I like to be drinking Miller Lights?
32:31
Speaker 3: Because legendary moments start with a light at like one
32:34
Speaker 3: o'clock instead of four o'clock when the thing happens? Potentially, yes.
32:38
Speaker 3: Maybe we can do that one of these times and
32:40
Speaker 3: then find somebody else to do it. But listen, we
32:43
Speaker 3: appreciate whenever anybody asks you to- Help them in that
32:47
Speaker 3: beautiful bond.
32:47
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
32:48
Speaker 3: Man, hugely appreciate it. Hugely appreciate it. But there's a
32:51
Speaker 3: lot of pressure that comes with it. I mean, these
32:53
Speaker 3: are special days for people. And even more so than ever,
32:56
Speaker 3: you don't want to mess up anything because it's going
32:57
Speaker 3: to be taped. It's going to be. So when you
32:59
Speaker 3: bring everybody out on the dance floor, let's hear it
33:01
Speaker 3: for the bride and groom. Like, you know what I mean?
33:03
Speaker 3: You don't want to mess up the name. You don't
33:04
Speaker 3: want to mess up mother-in-law's name. Did you have it
33:06
Speaker 3: phonetically written out? Well, if I didn't know the name,
33:09
Speaker 3: I made sure if I was ever wondering that I
33:12
Speaker 3: would be clear on pronunciation from the family and get
33:15
Speaker 3: it written out. I mean, I've only done it three times,
33:17
Speaker 3: I think, total. Three or four, maybe. Where I've just done, like,
33:19
Speaker 3: Grand March introduction or something like that. Not full-on DJing.
33:23
Speaker 3: With your voice, you should be doing cameos for that. Brother,
33:27
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. Maybe you're right. I should find a
33:29
Speaker 3: revenue stream to do something like that. Yeah, really. I
33:31
Speaker 3: can just tape it. Are you kidding me? I got
33:34
Speaker 3: the idea at our wedding when I... Drop somebody an MP3.
33:37
Speaker 3: They play it right there. They don't even know the difference.
33:40
Speaker 3: We had a DJ, but Laura and I were talking like,
33:41
Speaker 3: who do you want to introduce us? And she's like,
33:44
Speaker 3: I don't know this. And I'm like, man, I wish
33:45
Speaker 3: I could just do it. I'm like, wait a minute.
33:46
Speaker 3: I can just tape it. And I taped ours. See, Billy,
33:50
Speaker 3: I didn't know you yet. I would have invited you
33:52
Speaker 3: to the wedding. Dang, man. I didn't know you when
33:54
Speaker 3: you got married. It's fine. I didn't know you well enough. No,
33:56
Speaker 3: it's good. It's all good. It's all good. We weren't, like,
33:58
Speaker 3: working together for a long time yet and close enough yet,
34:00
Speaker 3: but I should have because I taped it myself, and
34:03
Speaker 3: I'm like, I should just start doing that for people,
34:05
Speaker 3: you know? I think you stumbled upon the exact business.
34:10
Speaker 3: This is right there for you. You can't mess that
34:12
Speaker 3: up either. You, you tape it ahead of time. You
34:14
Speaker 3: make sure it's right. It's like a podcast. You don't
34:17
Speaker 3: like what you had. You just cut out what you did,
34:18
Speaker 3: what you didn't like. It makes it a lot easier
34:21
Speaker 3: than this show. I won't stop in the middle. Would
34:23
Speaker 3: you have cut out yesterday where you learned about the
34:25
Speaker 3: 21st night of September? That was a podcast. I was great.
34:27
Speaker 3: I was authentic.
34:29
Speaker 2: It's point though, Billy, when you're asking a friend to
34:31
Speaker 2: do something, there's pressure there, but it's also like, you know,
34:35
Speaker 2: it's more, Professional, like hire somebody, pay somebody to do it.
34:40
Speaker 2: And then, you know, the pressure to perform isn't like
34:44
Speaker 2: a strain on the friendship.
34:45
Speaker 3: Well, and that's the thing. Like, listen, I know I'm
34:48
Speaker 3: going to perform. There is an understanding of when the
34:52
Speaker 3: lights are on, the boy is going to be good.
34:53
Speaker 3: The boy will be okay. Didn't you ever see Billy
34:55
Speaker 3: at the Admirals game? Oh, of course. However. I don't
34:59
Speaker 3: get nervous for a lot of different things that I
35:01
Speaker 3: do speaking into the microphone. But when I got the
35:04
Speaker 3: opportunity to fill in for Drew on Big 12 Sports Saturday,
35:07
Speaker 3: that's a lot of pressure. A lot of pressure.
35:08
Speaker 1: Big shoes to be filling. TV cameras.
35:10
Speaker 3: More than anything, Drew. Blazers. I talk into the big microphone.
35:14
Speaker 3: This one feels a lot comfortable. A lot more comfortable.
35:17
Speaker 3: It's a lot safer. I feel at home in this. Man,
35:20
Speaker 3: when they get that little tiny mic on you and
35:21
Speaker 3: they wave it through the jacket and they put it
35:23
Speaker 3: right here, man, that is when I feel like the
35:25
Speaker 3: pressure starts coming on. Sure. Sure. So when all of
35:28
Speaker 3: a sudden that gets miked up for the wedding and
35:30
Speaker 3: I'm sitting there and looking at the iPad that I've
35:32
Speaker 3: totally changed the script for every time. Yeah. Totally have
35:36
Speaker 3: changed the process and the couple of jokes that I
35:39
Speaker 3: have written in there. That is when I start sweating thinking, hey,
35:42
Speaker 3: I really wish I could just be sitting here in
35:44
Speaker 3: the third row, but we'll figure it out.
35:47
Speaker 2: This job and these shows that we do every morning
35:50
Speaker 2: are preparing you more for TV because we're streaming and
35:52
Speaker 2: you can see yourself if you look straight ahead. And
35:55
Speaker 2: that's the thing about being on TV is you have
35:57
Speaker 2: to get over that feeling of being creepy and seeing
35:59
Speaker 2: yourself and knowing that people are watching you. That's like
36:02
Speaker 2: the number one thing is like, put that out of
36:03
Speaker 2: your mind and just, you know. It definitely did feel more,
36:08
Speaker 2: I felt more comfortable looking at myself than I did
36:11
Speaker 2: looking at Steph while I was filling in for you.
36:13
Speaker 3: I felt a little bit more comfortable.
36:14
Speaker 1: All right, if I don't, if I do this. If
36:16
Speaker 1: I don't slouch.
36:16
Speaker 3: Then I know I'm not looking like an idiot as
36:19
Speaker 3: long as I'm confirming it the whole time. Totally get it.
36:23
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah.
36:24
Speaker 1: I don't know, man.
36:25
Speaker 3: It is weird. You're right. It is cringy. It is
36:27
Speaker 3: like hearing yourself on the radio while Drew and I
36:30
Speaker 3: drive up to... Oh, yeah. We can hear ourselves. Generally,
36:33
Speaker 3: whenever that happens, let's flip that thing over. Let's be honest.
36:36
Speaker 3: There's nothing that gets mom and dad excited when you're
36:38
Speaker 3: on TV. We could be on YouTube every day, but
36:40
Speaker 3: when I tell her I'm on the Dennis Krause roundtable,
36:43
Speaker 3: she's calling everybody. That's mostly because she's excited to see Dennis.
36:45
Speaker 2: But that's anything outside of your genre. Because when I
36:48
Speaker 2: was writing for the newspaper every day, I'd have a...
36:51
Speaker 2: story that people are reading on sunday morning and the
36:54
Speaker 2: circulation's a half a million and then but it's like
36:57
Speaker 2: you do you pop in the background of a locker
37:00
Speaker 2: room shot and somebody i saw you on tv yeah
37:03
Speaker 2: doing my job congratulations that's really not my job to
37:06
Speaker 2: be seen on tv but it's my job to like
37:07
Speaker 2: write the story that you read this morning that you
37:09
Speaker 2: didn't talk about.
37:10
Speaker 3: Well, really quick, I mean, you'll remember, Drew, in Chicago
37:13
Speaker 3: in the 80s and 90s, there was a show, The
37:14
Speaker 3: Sports Writers on TV. Oh, yeah. That was like the
37:16
Speaker 3: original podcast. And they sat around the table talking about sports.
37:19
Speaker 3: But they would be wearing whatever and smoking and drinking
37:22
Speaker 3: their coffee. And that felt like an authentic experience. It
37:25
Speaker 3: wasn't like TV set suits and stuff like that. So
37:28
Speaker 3: that was the lighter version of the sports reporters.
37:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was more casual. And it was like.
37:35
Speaker 3: It walks what could run. Let's say that.
37:36
Speaker 1: It was a little bit precursor to PTI.
37:39
Speaker 3: Yes. In some ways. They'd argue about a topic and
37:42
Speaker 3: move on. But it was super. You got to watch
37:44
Speaker 3: some old ones. I got to check that out. Especially
37:46
Speaker 3: if they got heaters rolling in there. I'll get you
37:48
Speaker 3: some links, Billy.