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09/11/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Drew Billion-Armond huddled up on a Friday in the good land.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome in Fox Sports 920. Milwaukee 1070 Madison. Everywhere on
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  Speaker 1: sunrise this morning. Hope everybody's enjoying it.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up nicely.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome 6 o'clock clubbers. And welcome to the NFL season.
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  Speaker 1: We're in the teeth of it now. Sunday we enter
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  Speaker 1: the belly of the beast. Packers play at U.S. Bank Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: 325 kickoff.
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  Speaker 3: It is beautiful to be here, Drew, on the first
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  Speaker 3: official full Football Friday of the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Here we are. We made it. We made it.
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  Speaker 1: Be careful what you wish for because the first two
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  Speaker 1: games haven't been great, but we're back. You know what's
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  Speaker 1: even better?
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  Speaker 3: NCAA is getting them out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: We got our court case conversation from yesterday. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now somewhat almost. Now we're doing our college football. Now
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  Speaker 3: we're almost into all games. Now we got two games underway,
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  Speaker 3: 270 to play, and dreams to be had.
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  Speaker 1: And then he dashed. Now that the jet lag ball
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  Speaker 1: is over, we don't have to hear about travel for
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  Speaker 1: a while? That's true, yes. Now it's just the normal travel,
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  Speaker 1: pretty much?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: We'll still hear about it.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say, I think, is there a
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  Speaker 3: Rio game potentially coming up in a couple of weeks?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: There's so many now we can't even keep track.
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  Speaker 1: There's a couple coming up. Until week six or something.
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  Speaker 1: London games are like old hat now. No big deal. Oh, London?
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  Speaker 3: Wow. Whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. Not a big deal. But we want
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  Speaker 1: you to share your thoughts. 877-794-1973. Packers a one and
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  Speaker 1: a half point underdog at this juncture heading into their opener.
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  Speaker 1: And not one that I'm all that surprised about.
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  Speaker 3: I think that there's reason to be optimistic like many are,
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  Speaker 3: or just maybe intrigued is the better word, about what
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  Speaker 3: Minnesota brings. And you mentioned the Bill Barnwell piece earlier on, Drew,
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  Speaker 3: of predicting the NFL season and who was going to
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  Speaker 3: make the playoffs, who was going to miss the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: He had the Packers missing the playoffs. Part of it
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  Speaker 3: was the thought that they're almost grasping at the health
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  Speaker 3: straws already rolling into week one.
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  Speaker 1: Fair criticism when you.
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  Speaker 3: Look at what the Packers are potentially rolling out at
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  Speaker 3: some important positions. You keep four pass rushers because you
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  Speaker 3: feel confident enough in what you have. You're not going
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  Speaker 3: to have Josh Jacobs, obviously Parsons, but The secondary, we
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  Speaker 3: talked about it a lot last night. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 3: it a lot coming up on Sunday for Packers OT.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously when Wayne Larrabee joins us coming up at
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  Speaker 3: 725 before he embarks to the mall capital of the world.
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  Speaker 3: But damn, this Packers secondary is going to have its
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  Speaker 3: hands full coming up this weekend with whatever Kyler Murray
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  Speaker 3: is excited to do in the pass game. Because Drew,
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  Speaker 3: you got to imagine that not only do they have
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  Speaker 3: plenty of things that they've been waiting to unleash, but
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  Speaker 3: But Justin Jefferson's probably licking his chops knowing that he
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  Speaker 3: gets some new meat to be able to welcome to
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  Speaker 3: the NFL on the other side and Brandon Cisse coming
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  Speaker 3: up this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed. What's your prediction for the Packers' record? I got
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  Speaker 1: them at 11 wins. All right, I like that. That
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  Speaker 1: sounds about where I would go, too.
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  Speaker 3: Because, Drew, again, and I'm not just placating off everything
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  Speaker 3: that we had last year, but they were a 9-3-1 team,
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  Speaker 3: and they still.
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  Speaker 3: Should have, if you watch those games transpire, probably should
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  Speaker 3: have won at least two of those games on the
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  Speaker 3: way out without Parsons and Tom.
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  Speaker 1: It does seem like the perception of the Packers, because
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  Speaker 1: of Parsons and Jacobs, that there's this perception that they're
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  Speaker 1: careening off the road. They're on a windy mountain road
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  Speaker 1: with one flat tire, and they're just hanging out. They're
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  Speaker 1: still really good. The talent is still really good. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of their players would start on other teams, and
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  Speaker 1: it's like That receiver room and love. Love is underregarded
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  Speaker 1: as a quarterback. Definitely put him where you want, but
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  Speaker 1: we know he's going to perform like a top 10
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  Speaker 1: guy and for a pop seven guy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And for what it does feel like is somewhat
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  Speaker 3: of a put up or shut up kind of year.
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  Speaker 3: They have selected the guys that they believe that they're
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  Speaker 3: going to be able to win with, especially like in
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  Speaker 3: the past catching room. Drew, like we had talked about
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  Speaker 3: the narratives, the scrolls, the bottom thirds on ESPN. I
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  Speaker 3: also read one of those bottom thirds in the offseason
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  Speaker 3: was a key addition to the Cowboys defense was Rashawn Gary.
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  Speaker 1: How's that going to work?
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of Packers fans that thought
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  Speaker 3: that was the key departure from what you watched in
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  Speaker 3: the back end of the year. So there is, I think,
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of a separation from perception and reality
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  Speaker 3: of who and how talented the Packers can be.
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  Speaker 1: You got to put the proof on paper. I understand.
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  Speaker 3: But it's a great opportunity to do it coming up
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday at U.S. Bank, where it is a tough
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  Speaker 3: place to play. But you go in there and win,
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  Speaker 3: and you'll get a lot more of that conversation quickly
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  Speaker 3: back into your camp.
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  Speaker 5: The thing is, and we talked about it, too, last
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  Speaker 5: night on the Thursday Night Huddle down at Palo Alto Sportsbook,
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  Speaker 5: by the way, down there. Great spot, great time last
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  Speaker 5: night with you guys. We talked about how sometimes a
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  Speaker 5: road division game can be an advantage to lead off
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  Speaker 5: the season just because the historical trend is that a
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  Speaker 5: lot of times you do well on the road at
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  Speaker 5: least against the spread or you know in this sense
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  Speaker 5: that's almost a pick them game it's a one and
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  Speaker 5: a half point spread but you do well in those
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  Speaker 5: type of games and if you can get out of
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  Speaker 5: the way and get a win on your belt on
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  Speaker 5: the road in the division it can be an advantage
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  Speaker 5: to start the year because early in the year sometimes
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  Speaker 5: those things can happen so in that sense you have
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  Speaker 5: a kind of a positive look toward this game saying
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  Speaker 5: all right if the Packers can put it together there's
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  Speaker 5: a lot of people probably that say well Packers are
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  Speaker 5: more talented than the Vikings, right? Like, shouldn't they win
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  Speaker 5: this game? Is that number surprise you? But you get why,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, going on the road in Minnesota is never easy,
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  Speaker 5: but that could be an advantage. So I think in
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  Speaker 5: that sense, you had to be hopeful for the Packers going.
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  Speaker 1: Into week one.
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  Speaker 5: On the other hand, you know, you don't want to,
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  Speaker 5: you don't want to drop an early game here in
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  Speaker 5: the division. You don't want to, it's easy to, to,
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  Speaker 5: to get super high or super low based on the
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  Speaker 5: results of week one. And, and that's what's just the
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  Speaker 5: way it's going to be. That's what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 5: But A lot of the story to be told even
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  Speaker 5: after this week one when it happens, when it's complete.
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  Speaker 5: But it will tell a lot in how this thing
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  Speaker 5: starts off because it would be nice to go 1-0.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm kind of with you guys on the 11 wins.
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  Speaker 5: I think maybe 10. But you can look at this
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  Speaker 5: a couple ways. With all the games you felt like
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  Speaker 5: the Packers lost and should have won. On one hand,
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  Speaker 5: you're like, boy, those are all games you should have won.
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  Speaker 5: So this team can be much better. They should be
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  Speaker 5: much better. They should have 12, 13 wins. But on
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  Speaker 5: the other hand, that's just life in the NFL. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of times you will lose close games. You
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  Speaker 5: will lose games you don't expect. And unless a team
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  Speaker 5: consistently proves to you they can take care of business
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  Speaker 5: and never step on a rake and never, you know,
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  Speaker 5: let a game get away late, you have to allow
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  Speaker 5: for the reality that.
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  Speaker 3: Some of those will happen. So I think that's where
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  Speaker 3: I fall in love. Especially when you stepped on a
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  Speaker 3: rake consistently last year.
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  Speaker 1: Consistently.
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  Speaker 5: Like they couldn't stop doing it to themselves all the
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  Speaker 5: way through the end of the season. And the playoffs,
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  Speaker 5: you know, they kept fumbling those type of wins away,
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  Speaker 5: literally almost in some ways.
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  Speaker 1: And throwing them. Yeah. And letting them get blocked. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that one ended up being a tie.
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  Speaker 3: But the amount of games that you were unable to
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  Speaker 3: be consistent in, and that's where, Drew, I still think
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  Speaker 3: the next step for Love, like you mentioned, perform at
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  Speaker 3: the top 10 level. I saw Jason McCourty apparently pick
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  Speaker 3: the Packers to win the division and love to win
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  Speaker 3: the MVP. The next step is you win this division,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to be in that conversation. How good the
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  Speaker 3: division will be, and the one that we watched last
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  Speaker 3: night will be in the same breath. I think they
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  Speaker 3: had three teams win 12 games. The three best records
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  Speaker 3: in the NFC all came from the NFC West last year.
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  Speaker 3: You win one of those two divisions, you're going to
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  Speaker 3: be right there into the thick of it, but you
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  Speaker 3: can't have two weeks where you score a combined 20
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  Speaker 3: points like they did at home last year against Carolina
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  Speaker 3: in Philadelphia. Hard to predict when that lull comes in
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  Speaker 3: the schedule, but the guys that are in that conversation
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  Speaker 3: haven't had those.
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  Speaker 1: Look at where the schedule lines up.
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  Speaker 3: It's back half of the year where maybe the defenses
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  Speaker 3: stack up a little bit tougher, but right now you
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  Speaker 3: get to figure out where you're at on a measuring
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  Speaker 3: stick and then go get fat against the directional school
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  Speaker 3: in the New York Jets. This is your Notre Dame opener,
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  Speaker 3: and then you get to circle, all right, sweet, we
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  Speaker 3: get Eastern Michigan coming up next week in the New
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  Speaker 3: York Jets.
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  Speaker 1: That works out well.
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  Speaker 5: And this is also that game where, okay, there's a
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  Speaker 5: pressure in that, okay, now you don't want to blow
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  Speaker 5: that game. We said the same thing with the Browns
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  Speaker 5: last year, which I get, and the Jets should be that,
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  Speaker 5: but you can't lose games like that. So there's a
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  Speaker 5: double-edged sword there when we think about a team like,
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  Speaker 5: at least for me, when we walk into a game
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  Speaker 5: like that, saying, all right, This is our, yes, our
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  Speaker 5: directional school. This is a game where we should win.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to get a win. But, like, what if
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  Speaker 5: you don't? And then that becomes a big L, a
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  Speaker 5: big failure.
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  Speaker 1: Huge L.
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  Speaker 5: Well, hopefully it is. I mean, hopefully that's a win. Like,
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  Speaker 5: hopefully you're right, Billy. Like, you get that win against
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  Speaker 5: the Vikings, great. Wow, we won on the road. Boom,
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  Speaker 5: we start 2-0. Like, that's the idea. That's the plan.
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  Speaker 5: So let's make it work.
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  Speaker 1: Hit us up. Let us know your thoughts as we
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  Speaker 1: get ready for Packers-Vikings and the key matchups, if you will.
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  Speaker 1: We got Wayne Larvey coming on to talk about that
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  Speaker 1: at 725 today.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting one here from ThisIsSteve. Hey, guys, I think one
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  Speaker 3: of the reasons people are a little leery on Green
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  Speaker 3: Bay this year is how they sent it down their
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  Speaker 3: leg in the final games last year and where they
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  Speaker 3: were winning handily in that playoff game against the Bears
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  Speaker 3: and then fell apart at the end. I don't necessarily
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  Speaker 3: trust that that problem has been fixed. So hopefully we
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  Speaker 3: see it on Sunday that they put the pedal to
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  Speaker 3: the metal and finish the damn game. Until they show
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  Speaker 3: me that, I'm going to be nervous. I do wonder
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  Speaker 3: how much of the scars of last year will just
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  Speaker 3: continue to exist until that happens. But we kind of
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  Speaker 3: got a chance to see one of them in the
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  Speaker 3: preseason or in the joint practice, Drew. They're kind of
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  Speaker 3: dominating the Arizona Cardinals throughout the day. pushing them around.
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  Speaker 3: Jordan Love looking phenomenal in the joint practice to start.
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  Speaker 3: Packers defense swarming, flying around. Then they hit the two-minute
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  Speaker 3: in the final stanza of practice and went 0-4. So
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  Speaker 3: maybe it hasn't fully solved itself. We're talking about practice, man.
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  Speaker 3: We talk about talking about practice, but practice makes perfect. And,
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  Speaker 3: and this would be one where you had the point
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  Speaker 3: of emphasis all year long. Let's see if you're actually
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  Speaker 3: able to, you can put it on a t-shirt. You
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  Speaker 3: can put it on the board in the weight room
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  Speaker 3: all year long.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: But unless it actually gets put onto the football field,
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  Speaker 3: it isn't too much. Good.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see you finish. I actually, I like the Packers
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  Speaker 1: to win this game because of the Kyler Murray effect
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  Speaker 1: and Jonathan Gannon and the whole, you know, Vikings might
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  Speaker 1: be tougher to face five weeks from now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And especially that Vikings defense as well. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Harrison Smith is coming off of the couch
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  Speaker 1: and still the guy who scares me, their whole defense
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  Speaker 1: and Flores, their whole defense has been around him. He's
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  Speaker 1: been like the quarterback of it and the whole focal
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  Speaker 1: point of it. He's like the full, like the arm
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  Speaker 1: extension onto the field of it. They still have some
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  Speaker 1: corner issues and stuff. I think, Love and the Packers'
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  Speaker 1: weapons are going to have a big day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think the biggest part is, Drew, you've
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  Speaker 3: got to be able to stay away from the man
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  Speaker 3: in the middle. And Minnesota gets, rightfully so, Van Ginkle
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  Speaker 3: gets a lot of pub. I think he's one of
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  Speaker 3: the more underrated guys in the league. But defensively for
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  Speaker 3: the Vikings, they were a whole lot different last year
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  Speaker 3: when Blake Cashman was on the field. And people ran
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  Speaker 3: at him and continued to get tested, and it didn't
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  Speaker 3: work out very well. The other guy that's in the
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  Speaker 3: middle of that defense that's an interesting piece throughout, who
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  Speaker 3: ended up taking over one of the starting spots, our
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  Speaker 3: old friend Eric Wilson. I mean, he was a special
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  Speaker 3: teams guy a couple of years ago for the Packers,
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  Speaker 3: and he's found a home in that Flores defense. If
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  Speaker 3: you can, and I think they'll be able to, with
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  Speaker 3: their speed, drag right across and right behind that linebacking core,
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  Speaker 3: there's going to be some open area for Jaden Reed
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  Speaker 3: and company to run.
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  Speaker 5: I would think that. I mean, we're going to have
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  Speaker 5: some chances. I mean, hey, everybody's open, right? Like the
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  Speaker 5: old Brett Favre thing. But I would think there's a
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  Speaker 5: chance for the Packers to move the ball through the air.
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  Speaker 5: Hopefully they can execute when those opportunities are there. That's
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  Speaker 5: what it's going to come down to. I mean, being
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  Speaker 5: able to run to pass to complete them. Because the
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  Speaker 5: chances will be there. You just got to make those plays.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. The special teams, I think, will be a revelation
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  Speaker 1: for us. Packers are going to get some positive yards
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  Speaker 1: out of the return game.
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  Speaker 5: I'd love that for once to be the case.
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  Speaker 3: Those hidden yards. Field position will be better. Scott Moore
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  Speaker 3: is one of the best returners in football a year ago.
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  Speaker 3: And he's going to get. Plenty of chances in the
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  Speaker 3: punt game and the kick game. And in the punt game,
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  Speaker 3: we saw at least a flash of it in the preseason.
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  Speaker 3: Much different than the preseason flash of your punt return
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  Speaker 3: that you brought in a year ago. Because we thought
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  Speaker 3: McCole Hardman was all set in stone. And then that
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  Speaker 3: ball clanked off of his.
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  Speaker 1: Chest on night one.
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  Speaker 3: And we all looked at each other in the press
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  Speaker 3: box and said, ooh, back into the saddle again into
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  Speaker 3: the problem chair. But I think this one's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a much different conversation. How excited slash frustrated will
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  Speaker 3: you anticipate the talking text line will be after like
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  Speaker 3: the third Skymore jet sweep of the day?
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the new Savion Williams A-gap run? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: More for Jaden Reed, I think, yeah. I think he's
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  Speaker 3: taking over that one for the swerving Tyler Irvin would
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  Speaker 3: be the name that got brought up a couple of
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  Speaker 3: years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we do love that in our offense.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, Matt LaFleur has always loved that kind of
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  Speaker 5: illusion of complexity and faking it and then running it.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe Sky Moore's that guy. I don't mind the call.
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  Speaker 5: I just, guys get banged up doing that. Jaden Reed
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  Speaker 5: used to get just hammered all the time doing that.
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  Speaker 5: But it does work sometimes. Christian Watson's run it with
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  Speaker 5: success early in his career.
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  Speaker 1: But you're right, Billy. I think we'll see it. I
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  Speaker 1: think we'll see that play. Jayden Reed seems to me
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  Speaker 1: to be like the forgotten man.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's projecting a big breakout for Golden. Watson's the number one.
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  Speaker 1: Jayden Reed's rookie numbers were crazy. Jayden Reed is like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that guy. Just because he was hurt. Get him the
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  Speaker 1: ball in space and let him do some stuff. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's definitely the injury variety.
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  Speaker 3: You just forgot about who he was after all of
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  Speaker 3: the injuries he had last year and came back and
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  Speaker 3: just wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: The same guy.
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  Speaker 3: Came back and wasn't the same guy after foot and
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  Speaker 3: collarbone surgery, not surprisingly. But he also all preseason last
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: year was dealing with the foot injury and had a
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  Speaker 3: nice game one. So I'm with you, Drew, and they
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  Speaker 3: paid him for a reason, right? They paid him early
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  Speaker 3: for a reason because I think much like Watson, understandably.
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  Speaker 3: So you paid him a bigger check. I think they're
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  Speaker 3: expecting both of these guys to outprice that contract after
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  Speaker 3: year one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And, and read across the middle against this secondary. And
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: that's a lot of Josh Metellus that.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: He's going to draw. And there's going to be open
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: area to run.
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: You would assume again, right behind that second, right behind
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: that linebacking core where they brought in, in the late
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: stages of training camp, Jamal Adams sent him out there
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: in Seattle and, And he quickly sent himself right to IR.
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: So they had holes in the middle of that defense
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: that they tried to rectify early in camp, weren't.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Able to do it. That's right.
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: And he's the one guy that can always break and
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: tame and make explosive plays out of things. And Watson's
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: good at that, too. And the Packers value that. They
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: value that, and they show it in the way they operate.
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: They want explosives. And Reid's been good at that throughout
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: his career early on. So hopefully that continues.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: That's what we need. That's what helps you win games.
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: I think so. I think explosive plays do help you.
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: Every piece of data should do. Every piece of data
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: show it, yeah.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: We got Jim Nance and J.J. Watt, right? The number
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: one team on CBS.
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: CBS.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: Still weird. Packers on CBS. Thank you. Okay. In a
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: divisional game.
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: Packers, Vikings.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: Aaron tried to, Nags tried to big time it yesterday
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: where he's like, but listen, actually, real ball knowers know
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: that the first package that CBS had Was the NFC.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Way back before Fox.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: Can we just be a proper society and put the
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: NFC package back on Fox? Can we just get ourselves
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: to that point? But we all need to be able
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: to make money. We all want to be able to
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: have the boys. I'm excited, though, to actually get to
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: enjoy J.J. 's first and consume J.J. 's first call
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: on the main broadcast, on the top one. I mean,
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: he's breaking a number of molds. He's going to be. Non-quarterback, non-cowboy.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: That's a tough thing to be.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: Able to get. And, well, another Wisconsin guy and calling
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: a Packers game. People will be hyper, he hates the Packers.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: I can just hear it now. Oh, they got to
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: come on. Oh, yeah, that's right. They got to fire
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: in a couple of them. Tracy Wolfson is on the
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: sidelines for them. The great Kevin Harlan has got the
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Chargers home game against Arizona.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Did you see our boys' cam of him on Wednesday night?
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: It was incredible.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: Is there any human being that loves games more than
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Kevin Harlan? He is incredible. He's just amazing.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Why, Job? They did it again!
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: It's just so great to watch. It's so amazing.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: The broadcaster cams are here to stay, and I'm glad
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: that we're... Hopefully we got one on Wayne coming up
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: this weekend, too.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: If the Packers had been on Fox, they would have
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: gotten Burkhart and Brady and Aaron Andrews and Tom Rinaldi.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: And plenty of people would have been upset about that one.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: They have Commander's Eagles. That's not a sexy game to me.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: It's like the Eagles are a sexy team for a
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: lot of folks, but commanders.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: I was going to say last year, they were everyone's
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: pick to click.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: They were the bears of last year, right? Exactly. I mean,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: everybody couldn't get enough of them. That might be.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Another little peg in your board of regression theory for
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: the Chicago bears.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: That's why. Yeah. And that's, that will be interesting. And
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: that's part of the reason that's one of the things
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: to factor in with the bears again. Like I understand
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: that they're talented and they're good and, but damn, They
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: had a lot of health fortune a year ago as well.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: As it happens, our resident Bears fan is going to
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: be dropping by next. It also happens to be his birthday. Whoa.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Scott Dolph and the birthday boy. Oh, man. I would
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: have brought Glazer. I get some Pop-Tarts from the world.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: He is going to be rolling in next to talk
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: to us about just that. Fire up a pizza for Dolph.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Do we? I mean, we haven't even talked about this yet.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: If the Packers win, do we dust off the chalice
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: of tears? Do we have the chalice of Vikings fans' tears? Oh,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: I've got to have it somewhere. I know we do.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Hunter still has all those. I mean, it's been a tradition.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: A tradition unlike any other, I would say. We should
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: probably have a referendum.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I think that's got to make a comeback.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: I think that's got to make a comeback. Are we
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: getting a montage?
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: I'll be honest with you. It might be tough with
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: the turnaround. With some of these games might be tough,
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: but maybe I can get a little something going. It
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: might be a chalice or it might be like a
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: mini montage, maybe like a mini montage or maybe not.
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: Maybe like the, uh, the, you know, doyce die off
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: ski masterpiece, 900 page novel, but we'll definitely get some
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: short form reading in there.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Does that make sense? Yeah. I don't want to run
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: from the grind, but I want to be realistic about expectations.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Did you say Doya Stajofsky? You didn't want to run
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: from the grind, but you brought it up right out
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: of the game. Well, how many pages of War and Peace?
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I did. I want to set expectations.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: How many pages of War and Peace?
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: You just threw a couple extra syllables into his name. Well,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Okay.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Doya Stajofsky. Doya Stajofsky.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Whatever.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Driving a Hyundai.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: One of those deals.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Dolph is up next. We will talk to him. Halftime
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: has arrived on the Friday edition of the Huddle Fox
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio Wisconsin.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: Whatever.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Back on the huddle, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin, Drew Billy
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: and Armand. We welcome our halftime correspondents, all-around good egg
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: and birthday boy, Scott Dolph.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Thanks, boys.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Used to be, hey, Dolph, when's your birthday?
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: 9-11.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, and now it's, when's your birthday?
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: 9-11. Oh.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: But, c'est la vie. Happy birthday, Dolph.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: We're happy to celebrate with you.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I love the Toby Keith.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I figured it would fit in.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: And 9-11 always hits for people who were around, and
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: you see the memories and stuff. And now it's a
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: round number, and we always make a bigger deal. Like
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: that always, one of the things that I was always
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: confused me, why is it a bigger deal if something's
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the 10th anniversary as opposed to the 11th or the ninth? Right.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: We like round number anniversary.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: We do.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: So this is one that people will be reflecting on it.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: And you know, where were you? It's our Pearl Harbor, Billy,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: you're probably- very young. Seven years old. Wow, man. It
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: was very young. And my interesting 9-11 story is like,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: where were you in 9-11 when it happened? I was
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: in this building. I didn't even work here. Oh, wow.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: But Jerry bought like, he must've seen something in the
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: young kid that was doing stuff with Bob and Brian.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: So I've filled in a couple of times with, it
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: was Weber and Dolan back in the day on ISN.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Bob Dolan, the brother of the former archbishop and now
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: the Cardinal of New York.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Cardinal of New York.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Bob Dolan was on vacation. He took a lot of vacations,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: probably going to visit his brother or something. And they
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: needed somebody to sit in. So I was sitting in
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: with Jay and I had to leave. I saw it
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: come down and like, well, this is a, I think
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to get to my day job.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: And we were trying to have fun and stuff like
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: that on a fun day.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: So I left that day and went into, I was
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: covering the brewers at the time. I was in this
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: building as well. Yeah.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Right across from the hall from where we sit, which
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: is now like a phone junk room. That was the
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: FM 106 studio on September 11th of 2001, right across
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: the hall from this room we're in right now. Yeah.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: And it was just a surreal day. I mean, it
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: was just. So you and Mike Heller share that. Well,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: yours came late because 25 years ago, your birthday became,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: you know, quite. infamous, Mike Heller was born on the
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: day that Kennedy was assassinated.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: That's right. That day. No kidding. Wow, that is crazy.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Mike Heller was born on that day. One of the
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: darkest days in American history. Mike Heller was born. Not related.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Punctuation is key there. On one of the darkest days
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: in American history, Mike Heller was born.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: It is incredible, though, now as more and more time
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: passes and we get more and more footage of not
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: necessarily the situation that happened, but the coverage of it.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: stumbled upon like a eight hour YouTube cut up that
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: somebody did of WFAN all throughout that day. And it's like,
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: you don't, it's hard to fathom when something shuts down
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: the world and changes every conversation like that, especially when,
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, they had people that were across the Brooklyn
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: bridge looking at it and like live on the, it's just,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: it's a surreal one to see. Cause I can only
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: remember a couple of things of it. And I remember
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: the awkward conversation of our principal coming in and telling
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: us about.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: You know, sometimes there's people that don't like everybody.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: A very, very seven-year-old conversation of it where everybody else
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: in the school got a much different conversation.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Since you were home from school early that day, huh?
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, actually, the weird one is I ended up
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: staying a little longer because my mom was the secretary.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: So we were just sitting there.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Waiting, wondering why everybody was crying for me as the
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: youngest kid, just trying to figure out what was happening.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: I think my daughter was also seven at that time, Billy.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: And I remember they gave us the option. in Milwaukee too.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: If you want to come pick up your kids, you
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: can do that. Otherwise, you know, they're being taken good
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: care of. So I, I think we, I think she
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: stayed in third grade or whatever it was, second grade
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: at the time. And, um, and, and they did, they did,
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: they turned it into like an education lesson about the
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: same thing that you just mentioned that.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: And in fact, they probably had that same quote.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: I mean, I was in high school and it was
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: very weird because I remember it was, it coincided. I
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: remember we were, we were locked down in the school
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: and then we, we still went on with classes, but
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: then not really. And then we, they canceled after school.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: I believe I had practice canceled. It coincided with a
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: changing media landscape in America too. And that's the thing
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: that I always remember from it is the way people
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: were getting news and getting messages and getting the word was,
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: was about to change as well.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: In our society. This was happening.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: And, You were hearing about it, and then a couple
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: of the teachers still had those roller TVs in their rooms.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: So that's where people were hearing about it, seeing it
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: in the hallway as they walked by.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: And you thought that roller TV coming into the classroom
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: was a good thing.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Well, it used to be.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: You thought that, man. Holy cow. A teacher tied one
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: on on Friday, Jr. last night.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: We're about to have ourselves a good third period. No,
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: there's no doubt when you grew up in the 90s,
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: that TV meant things.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: That meant good things. It did.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: But then like some teachers had a radio, but then
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: like teachers had computers in the room and some were
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: hooked up to the internet and some weren't because it
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: was like technology was still changing in our old building.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: And you would see some, you know, you could use
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: the internet to, you know, look up websites, news websites.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: It was different than now. Social media wasn't there. Cell
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: phones were for some people, but you weren't texting on them. So,
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: you know, people were calling on the flip phone. It was,
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: but no kids had cell phones yet. So it was
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: just a different changing time immediately media landscape where everyone
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: gathered to the legacy news to watch in the evening. And,
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: and like you said, the learning experience, I remember being
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: in a current affairs class and part of our job
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: was to bring in a news article every day. And
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: someone said that, that they're someone's news thing was, A
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: plane had just crashed.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: I'm like, wait, what are you talking about?
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: When did that happen? I didn't hear about that.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: And then it was all happening all at once, and
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: it's an unbelievable thing to think that it's been so
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: many years, but if you live through it, it just
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: still feels like yesterday. If you live through it with
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: a semi-consciousness of becoming an adult and I was in
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: that weird phase, it was so surreal to everybody.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: The day was a blur.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: What I'll always remember about that time, though, was like
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: a month later, This was incredible. Midwest Express, which was
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: still thriving in those.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Days in Milwaukee.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: It was still doing very well.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, airlines were taking a bath because nobody wanted
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: to fly. Everybody was freaked out. Everything was shut down.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Midwest Express got every morning show and some of the
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: afternoon shows in the city of Milwaukee. They put us
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: all on a plane, and we flew to New York
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: like a month after 9-11. And I will never forget this.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: We circled Ground Zero, and it was still smoking. October 11th, 15th,
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: whatever it was. Right, for a month, for a month.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: But then we got to LaGuardia. We got in cabs.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: We drove around.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: They just wanted to show that it was safe to travel,
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: especially to places like New York City. And I'll just
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: remember being on that plane with Bob and Brian.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Dave and Carol and Reitman. Everybody was there. It was
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: a surreal trip, but it was pretty unifying. And that's
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: kind of like the way the country was then. It's
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: something we can learn today in these fractured times we live.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: This country was so damn unified during 9-11.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: It was at that point, and sports helped bring it back. Oh,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: my God. With the Jack Buck poem before the game.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Chris Gizzi running the flag out of the tunnel.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I was never a Mets fan, obviously, but when Piazza
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: hit that homer.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Piazza Homer, that was unforgettable. And then that whole World Series.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I was just going to say the World Series. It
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: was the Diamondbacks-Yankees World Series that year. The Yankees run
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: that year was incredible. It was. I was there for that.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: And the security for that. What next level, huh? If
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: you've ever been to an event where the president is,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: you know what the security is like. Well, now imagine
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: that a couple weeks after 9-11. I can't imagine. Unbelievable.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: The 30-for-30 short on Bush throwing the first pitch out
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: and things like that, which was ironic because when Miller
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: Park had just opened, right, that season, and President Bush
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: threw out the first pitch of the first game here.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: He did.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: And I remember thinking, wow, he just had him here
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: and he's there now, but under totally different circumstances.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: It was so wild. He was at the CMA Awards
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: that year, too. That was the year we won our
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: first award in 2001. And in those days, it was
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: still at the Grand Ole Opry. Much smaller venue. And
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: every other year at the CMA Awards, if you win
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: a broadcast award, they do it at 6.30. The telecast
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: doesn't start until 7 o'clock. Well, that year, because the
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: president was going to be in the house, the place
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: was basically on lockdown from the Secret Service. Everybody had
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: to be in their seats. So we got to get
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: our awards and do our acceptance speeches in front of
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: every damn buddy, the who's who of country music. Wow.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: It was pretty surreal. Yeah, that whole year is just
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: a freaking blur right now.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: You bring up that World Series, though, Drew. That is
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: one of the absolute best, one of the ones that
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: I think of all the time. You do remember it.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: For me, little bits and pieces of it, I just
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: remember the massive American flag logos that continue.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: To pop up throughout it.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: And I was actually at the Chris Gizzy game with
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: my dad, and it's, again, just one of the little
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: things that's burned into the memory bank.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: And for the longest time... who on earth is Chris Gizzy?
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: And then you realize all the ties that he had
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: in the moment. It's a, it's an incredible, incredible story
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: to be the.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Air Force Academy. The thing, it was one of the military.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: And for that to be the first Monday night game,
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: like you just realize how quick, how quickly, you know,
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: you turn the page, even though it was a week
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: or a half week plus before they played everything.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Right. That Martina McBride national Anthem too. I think it
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: was that got everybody just in tears and.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Remember a lot of, a lot of tears around.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: You better believe it.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: They waited at least a week, and it might have
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: been longer.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: You're right, Billy. Martina McBride, emotional 9-11 national anthem. That
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: was at the Packer game.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Pretty sure. September 24th. So, yeah, a little bit, a
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: week and a half away. Okay.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: That is.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: There was a different.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: I mean, my grandpa died three months after that, and
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: that's when I flew for the funeral.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: And it was a weird experience.
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: It was an eerie experience because that was, like, some
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: of the first time, some of the precautions... And it's
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: ironic because I just saw the news story. I was
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: telling you, Drew, some of the TSA things are going
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: to start being, some places are rolling those back now,
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: 25 years later, like going through a gate.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Before you, you know, if you didn't have a ticket
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: going through a gate and being able to.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Hey, if you've ever seen Friends, Ross goes right up
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: to the gate to get Rachel. Get off the plane.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Get off the plane.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: That's what it was before 9-11.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: You could take anybody you wanted right to the gate
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: and send them off or you could meet them at
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: the gate. This is, this is the world we lived
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: in before TSA and 9-11.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: That all changed.
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: They had a lot more random, they had a lot
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: more random checks and you were, you were just aware
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: of everything. You were aware of, I remember let's look
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: in the cockpit and like these pilots have a big
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: job and you just think differently.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: You know. You got your little arm and wings that
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: they would give you I was, yeah.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: If there was a free thing on that plane, my
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: boy Armand was great. You were appreciative.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: You said this is going to be difficult to be
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: here at this airport for these employees. You were appreciative
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: of everybody doing what they had to do to get
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: people through and get.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: People through safely.
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: And to your point, to restore confidence that people had
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: to be able to live that way again, to be
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: able to travel safely, to be able to believe in
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: our institutions and things. And we did, we believed in
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: the strength of our institutions and what we could do
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: together going forward. If we, if we united, you know,
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: and that was the one thing that came out of that.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Yep. Can't believe it's been a quarter century. I just, yeah,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: there's going to be all kinds of shows tonight and stuff.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: And I wonder if like, I'm sure I bet baseball
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: does a moment of silence and all that tonight.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: And, you know, the Brewers game. Well, and they did
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: one yesterday before the, uh, before the game in Australia.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: And it was kind of weird as I was listening
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: to it, realizing, Oh wait, it is September 11th there.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: That's true. They said today marks the day. And I'm like,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: all right. It was 10 30 this morning. Yeah. 10
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: 30 this morning. And I'm like, okay, wait, sorry, Alan Roach.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: I apologize. I was unfamiliar with your game. Good call.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: They just, they're going to be a lot of, a
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: lot of, uh, really unique. So, but they did a
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: drone show of two, all the, you know, 2,600, uh,
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: drones for, remember all the people that passed away this
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: week and lit up that sky in New York city,
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: like a nobody, no other way.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: It was incredible.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: You mentioned the Fiatza home run, uh, MLB network is
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: doing a special, uh, that I saw snippets of the
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: other night and they talked to everybody cause they were
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: playing the Braves that night and they talked to, you know,
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: Smoltz was in the bullpen and they just talk about
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: that moment and what an incredible atmosphere it was to
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: be a part of.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Bobby Valentine said biggest home run in Mets history.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: I would say so. It's got to be.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, when you consider everything. It's funny that Bush
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: first pitched that 30 for 30. I covered that World Series,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: but I was not at that game because my boss
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: at the time, Gary Howard, I think it was me
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: and Hardercord and maybe a columnist. That's the way we
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: used to roll. They sent three guys to the marquee events.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: And he's like, hey.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: What?
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan was making his debut for the Wizards. Oh, man.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: It was at Madison Square Garden. He goes, I got
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: your credential to go to the Garden and cover Jordan's
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: first game back with the Wizards. I'm like, so you're
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: peeling me off the World Series? Okay. All right, I guess.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I get it. I mean, that's a big story. I
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: was in the city. He's like, go ahead. So I
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: covered that. And you already grabbed the hat. Yeah. I
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: got him his hat. I got him that. I'm going
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: to work out there. But yeah, so that was my,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I got to see Jordan in the middle of that.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Jordan come back and play his first game with the Wizards.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, I'll play. I think he
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: had 19 points that night. They lost. It didn't look great, though.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: He looked kind of heavy.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: There's a certain group of people. That's the only Jordan
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: that we remember. He was 38 years old at the time.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: I get people mad when I say that.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you should. You should not say that.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: His numbers weren't that bad as first Wizards here.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: 20 points. We don't have to do this.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Maybe we shouldn't do this in this segment.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Tyler Hero averages 20 a night. We got the birthday
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: boy here, and we got to ask Dolph, because you
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: get to experience your team playing a meaningful game before
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: we do. Cause the bears play the Panthers at noon.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Whereas, you know, we have to wait till three 25.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: How do you feel about the game in Carolina? The opener.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: I feel pretty good about that game. Although the Panthers,
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: a playoff team last year.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Go football team division champion last year. Champ.
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Asterisk. Right. Right. I mean, nine. Yeah. Maybe eight, nine asterisk.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: I mean, I, I I'm hoping the bears can take
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: care of business. I mean, it's always tough winning in
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: the NFL, any given Sunday. And especially when you're on
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: the road, but you know, I don't know what you
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: base it on. I mean, you can't really base it
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: on camp anymore, can you?
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: No. Not fully, but listen, Ben Johnson did say they're
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: trying to be the best offense in NFL history. They're
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: trying to be the best offense in NFL history. Going
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: to be a good test because that Carolina defense is
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: a feisty bunch, especially up the middle. They are not
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: an easy team to run against. We learned that last year.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think you're going to see a lot
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: of the guys, the weapons you saw last year. It
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: looks like Roma Dunze is playing, which is good news.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's been dinged up most of camp. He's
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: been dinged up most of his career.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Burden has been dinged up all of camp. He looks
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: good to go. So, you know, I like the Bears
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: in this one. It might be tight, but I like
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: them to win. What about you, Mr.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Sportsbook? I like the three points.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: I like the Panthers catching some points, but I told
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: these boys last night on the Thursday night huddle that
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: I think the Bears offense is going to be pretty elite.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: I think they're going to have one of the best
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: offenses in football. I don't know that their defense is
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: going to be able to keep... They might learn a
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: little bit of the Joe Burrow pain.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Every game is going to be 42-35. The life Dak
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Prescott's had to live. We scored four touchdowns and lost.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: That's what it's turning towards.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: That defense is going to have to find some diamonds
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: in the rough for some kids that they're high on
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: a couple of these late draft picks they have this year,
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: but you're right. They didn't really address the pass rush,
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: what they needed for the bookend for Sweat.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: And can't say I expected Kyler Gordon to just not
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: play at all.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, so that drama is not a good look right now,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: by the way. That's a tough one. That's a tough scene.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: And that's got to affect the locker room, I would think,
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: with all the attention it's getting.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: I'm with you, Dolph.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: There's just no way that just flies under the radar
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: and nobody feels any sort of way.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: But we'll see.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: I do like Malik Muhammad that they brought in the
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: draft this year, so he's got a chance later on.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: And then they had the tough luck losing Kobe– Kobe Bryant.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: I are right away.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: And he's pretty much toast for the year.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: No, he did.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: That was a bad injury for sure.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: So I am interested to see how Ben Johnson's prediction
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: of the best offense of all time is going to
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: come through with all these issues.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: What did his offense in Detroit land as best offenses
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: of all time? They were in the top five. Were they?
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: They were in the top five, I believe, in scoring.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Not all time.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: All time?
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Really? In the league. Really?
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: I know it was a good year. I didn't know
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: that they, okay. In 2024, I think they put up
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: 52 or three times. Yeah, twice on the Bears, I think.
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Well, I didn't know.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: I didn't know all the time if that's what it
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: was or if you meant.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: No, I'm just wondering. I didn't know because, you know,
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: he used to be an IT guy. So I don't
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: know if he's actually going to be a good coach yet.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: We'll see. Dolph, birthday plans? What do you got planned for?
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Going out with the family tonight for some dinner. And
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: then what's going on? The rest of the weekend, probably
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: watching a lot of football. There you go. Hawkeyes against
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Iowa State tomorrow. Cy Hawk. You can't miss that. Yeah,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: the Cy Hawk game. And then, you know, Bears and Packers.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Doubleheader on Sunday. Doubleheader. We will chat with you on Monday.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Sounds good, boys. Happy weekend. Scott Dolphin, our halftime correspondent.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: and Armin bringing it to you. Friday edition of the huddle.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Football Friday. We love alliteration here. Come on now. Football Friday. Wow.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: We should use that. Use that. Somebody should be doing that, Drew.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Come on now. Let's go. And then in three weeks,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: we'll flip to Rocktober.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: It's rocked over. Written in the stars.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: I do love the old statement that you and KB
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: would have.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: If you stole something from us, you've stolen it twice.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: It's been stolen twice.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: How many times has Football Friday somebody thought that somebody
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: stole it from them? Oh, God, yeah.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: We had that. For sure. What are you talking about?
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: We came up with that. Sure you did, bud.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: That's intellectual property. Well, wherever there's a hit, there's a writ.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: Isn't that what they say in music?
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: You like that?
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I heard that somewhere once. See, that was even copied. See,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: if you're going to do something and claim it's proprietary,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: make it stupid, like Guess My Soup or 420 What
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Are You High. No one can ever come back with
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: that one. No one can say that they had that first.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Or I'm thinking of a fish. Too stupid. What up, KB?
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking of a fish. That was awesome, KB. That
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: was great. Billy's got a little interest for us because
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: last night, if you missed the memo, we were at
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: the Huddle Live. the 5 o'clock club moved to 5 p.m.,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: and we were at Pottawatomie Sportsbook in the Annex. It
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: was a great time. We're going to be there every
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Thursday that the Packers don't play or if it's not
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: a holiday. But, Billy, you got a little investment advice
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: for us today?
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: We got an on-the-line as the Green Bay Packers go
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: to the Minnesota Vikings. It is a 325 kickoff. You're
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: going to hear the game right here on your home
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: for Green Bay Packers football. And also, if you missed
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: our little announcement of some significance yesterday, Green Bay Packers
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: football will remain... on 95.7 Big FM and Fox Sports
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: 920 in Milwaukee is your AM home as iHeartMedia and
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: the Green Bay Packers announced a multi-year extension of our
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: broadcasting of Green Bay Packers games and Pottawatomie Sportsbook, a
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: great partner there as well with the Green Bay Packers.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: The Packers partnering at plus 102 on the money line
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: and a plus one and a half on the point spread.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: That means this game ends 24-23. Well, you took the
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: green and gold. You're walking away victorious at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Why is the line sitting where it is? Well, I
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: had a friend of ours on the talking text line
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: mention and ask, do they still give out three points
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: for the home team? Iowa, it's still three points for
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: the home team. Most institutions, it's closer to one and
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: a half, too. Most places, it's now been shrunken down
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: in certain places. It's maybe a half point at best.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: Some don't even get a home field advantage anymore, and
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: it's not as much the stadium, the travel.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Getting out of your own environment, moving around. This U.S.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: Bank Stadium, a full 2.5 points at most sportsbooks as
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: the home field advantage. So a legit home field advantage.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: That would tell you maybe folks think it's a very
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: even game, very even split. My favorite play of the
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: weekend for the Green Bay Packers, score first and win,
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: plus 225. That means you throw one smooth $ 20 bill
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: on that, that they'll give you back $ 65 when the
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Packers score first, go down, score a touchdown.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's Jaden Reed.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: Maybe it's Tucker Craft scoring that first touchdown in his
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: first game back at plus $ 10.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: 50.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: But they score first, they win the game. You're going
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: to get yourself $ 65 back for score first and win.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: Mention that plus $ 102 on the money line.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: On the line!
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: $ 50 gets you back $ 101.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: When they hand it back to you at the window.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Pottawatomie Sportsbook, the best sportsbook in the Midwest, and reservations
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: filling up fast. So you can go to pottawatomie.com forward
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: slash sportsbook. Reservation tab right there, Drew. That's where you
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: get the reservations for folks to be able to go
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: to the sportsbook for either the noon slate or the
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: Packers game. Potentially want to be there for the Packers
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: game because Packers scored touchdowns. They give out shots. That
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: feels like a good reason to be at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: The payment is just a food and beverage minimum. That
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: is a credit to your table when you buy food,
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: buy drinks. It's already prepaid for you to enjoy at
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: the Pottawatomie Sportsbook. Your sport, their stadium.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Outstanding. How was that fried chicken last night, Billy? Spicy.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: I got the spicy bread in. He said, I want
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: four pieces.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: I didn't realize it was going to come in a bucket.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: It was amazing. Love it.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Love it.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Love it. Hey, we'll talk to Wayne Larrabee coming up
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: at seven 25, the voice of the green Bay Packers.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: You are enjoying the huddle on Fox sports radio, Wisconsin.