Transcript

08/24/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Rolling through the Monday in the good Lands the Huddle
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin Drew Wilson, Arman, Sarry and Billy's
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Speaker 1: headed for Green Bay. Wayne Larvy's gonna join us in
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Speaker 1: about twenty five minutes, give or take. We want your input.
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Speaker 1: Eight seven seven seven nine seven three. This being Monday,
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Speaker 1: let's entertain some game balls and kicks to the balls,
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Speaker 1: shall we? Let's get it. Let's do you know the drill?
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Speaker 1: It's the post game. Everybody's celebrating. You're standing in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the room and you get to bestow a
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Speaker 1: game ball for a job well done today. I'm the huddle.
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Speaker 1: This is a game ball or what you could.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't great audio, but it was Trevor McGill, you'all
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Speaker 2: want any gatorades or what for buying gatorades for a
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Speaker 2: bunch of kids. It was just perfect for the old
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Speaker 2: game ball gets a free gatorade of the game. I
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Speaker 2: know the audio is not great, but I couldn't That's.
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Speaker 1: Okay, you couldn't resist. That's funny. Conversely, kick to the
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Speaker 1: Huevos for somebody who needs to refocus and needs to
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Speaker 1: do better at their job today on the program, this
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Speaker 1: is a kick to the balls. It's falling in the back.
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Speaker 1: Actually was the head.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I appreciate you at the times you couldn't tell,
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Speaker 2: but yeah, when you get when you get plunked in
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Speaker 2: the head. Although it turned out to be a heads
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Speaker 2: up play for the Brewers, you know, and worked out.
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Speaker 1: But there you go. You get hit literally in the well,
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Speaker 1: not in the in the head, helmet helmet shot. So
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Speaker 1: eight seven seven seven nine one seven three game balls
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Speaker 1: and kicks. I'll get a start at first game ball.
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Speaker 1: He had so much There was just so much hand
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Speaker 1: ringing earlier this summer. But trace Mack or what y'all
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Speaker 1: want a gatoraider?
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 2: Uh?
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Speaker 1: Just answering the call. I knew you'd have a long kick.
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Speaker 1: They would give him a chance for a long kick.
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Speaker 1: He nailed another one, and one of the things he's
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Speaker 1: been perfect in the two preseason. He's one of those guys.
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Speaker 1: Maybe not a practice guy, right, yes, in college basketball,
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Speaker 1: you know, not an afternoon guy. He's a ninth time guy,
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Speaker 1: prime time player. That But trace Mack, what I like
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Speaker 1: about him is these kicks that he's making. Not only
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Speaker 1: are they like center, cut down the middle, splitting the uprights,
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Speaker 1: if you will, he hasn't missed an extra point. No,
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Speaker 1: those are as important as the long field as long
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Speaker 1: field goals are nice and all, and they're three points,
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Speaker 1: but you gotta make the extra points.
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Speaker 2: That was really that was really Anders Carlson Carlson's problem
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Speaker 2: more than the field goals. If you look go back
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Speaker 2: and looking at Andres Carlson's field goal percent it's not terrible.
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Speaker 2: But it was those extra points he was consistently missing
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Speaker 2: or unreliable on that were a problem because you got
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Speaker 2: to make those at a ninety plus high percent rate
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Speaker 2: or else it's just not worth having you a round.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, Tray Smac absolutely, Billy Butch, but but sorry
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Speaker 2: kicking the balls from me? Drew, Yeah, thirty eight, I know,
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Speaker 2: but he's done everything he needs to do once the
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Speaker 2: lights turn bright to make us feel better about it,
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Speaker 2: and he's crushing them in a league now, Drew, where
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Speaker 2: you have to do it just you want to make
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Speaker 2: another rule to ban the game, but like the way
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Speaker 2: we want to, but they shouldn't. Like do you want
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Speaker 2: field goals as long as this the way the world too?
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Speaker 2: I don't know, but the reality is the league's getting better.
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Speaker 2: I mean everyone's looking for a big leg and everyone's
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Speaker 2: looking for a guy that can be a weapon from
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Speaker 2: from fifty plus sixty plus and looking good for the
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Speaker 2: Packers early with Tray Smack because he's doing the opposite
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Speaker 2: of what Brett Conway did in ninety seven through there's
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Speaker 2: a throwback reference for you, uh Packers draft back Brett Conway.
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Speaker 2: He struggled all through preseason and his understudy shine A
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Speaker 2: Benton named by a man by the name of Ryan Longwell,
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Speaker 2: and the rest is history.
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Speaker 1: So there you go, yep, eight seven seven seven, give
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Speaker 1: us your game balls and kicks.
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Speaker 2: Uh Bikowski Alex Baikowski here on YouTube. My game ball
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Speaker 2: goes to Hamilton for the space blast off double plate turn.
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Speaker 1: That was a great one. Oh man, Yeah that was
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Speaker 1: that was uh a top ten I think it was seven. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that was a play. Yeah that the five to three
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Speaker 1: double play at second base. That yeah, I mean that
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Speaker 1: shows you how athletic he is. And that's what the
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Speaker 1: Birds like about him, that play.
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Speaker 2: Brewers will play good defense in general this year. I know,
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Speaker 2: maybe it's one of those things everyone else Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 2: of course armor obviously, but I don't think it goes
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Speaker 2: under state underrated the way they found wins without hitting
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Speaker 2: a lot of you know, home runs and things like that.
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Speaker 2: In one of that's one way, like great defense this
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Speaker 2: year from.
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Speaker 1: The talking text line Phil and Greenfield game Ball to
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Speaker 1: sal Bando Junior. He's the new head coach at Ripon
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Speaker 1: College baseball program there, and it kicked to the huevos
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Speaker 1: from Phil in Greenfield to the w I a A
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Speaker 1: forgetting sal Bando removed from his job at Marquette High.
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't know the backstory there, do you, Drew?
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Speaker 1: I don't remember. Yeah, it was because he had what
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Speaker 1: an affiliation with one of those academies that players were using,
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Speaker 1: and they thought it was improper contacts and like coaching
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Speaker 1: out of season and stuff. I think that was the deal.
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Speaker 1: So he and yeah, he ended up resigning. Someone dropped
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Speaker 1: the dime and probably somebody, we were saying, probably somebody
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Speaker 1: whose kid wasn't playing as much as they wanted to.
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Speaker 1: It was, yeah, one of the money situation. Also murky
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Speaker 1: situation at West Allas Hill with their football program. They
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Speaker 1: got stomped in their opener, like my ConA, I think, yeah,
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Speaker 1: awkward situation. Seven coaches resigned, right, Yeah, that was all
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Speaker 1: some internal junk. Nothing like criminal at all. Criminal, which
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Speaker 1: is kind of what we didn't know initially.
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Speaker 2: I know Billionaire were kind of talking about it off
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Speaker 2: the air, but didn't know it first, and then that
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Speaker 2: came out, so.
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Speaker 1: Him on the talking text line kick to the balls
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Speaker 1: to Mondays and yeah, only Mike Keller loves Mondays. Everybody
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Speaker 1: else dreads it and just kind of grits through it.
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Speaker 1: He said, game ball to us, or for making the
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Speaker 1: start of Mondays go quickly. We like that that but
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Speaker 1: both of them both ways.
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Speaker 2: I know we just touched on it, but I did
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Speaker 2: want to well, I was planning on giving the kick
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Speaker 2: to the Huavos for to Sean Watson on his Oh yeah.
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Speaker 2: The funniest thing about the oldest Sean Watson thing to
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Speaker 2: me was when he goes, I think everyone knows it's
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Speaker 2: not about performance, like why, I think it's a lot
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Speaker 2: about performance.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, no offense.
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Speaker 2: Don't take this the wrong way sports fans, but we
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Speaker 2: are a group that will overlook a lot of nonsense
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Speaker 2: if you're playing well in a winning for our team.
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Speaker 2: I mean we we are just how we are as
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Speaker 2: sports fans. If you're doing well for our team, we'll
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Speaker 2: overlook a lot of stuff. Maybe not everything. Not everyone forgets,
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Speaker 2: but I mean, like, well it's Todd Golden. There's plenty
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Speaker 2: of examples. Now, Swan Watson's not playing well and he's
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Speaker 2: also a jerk.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 1: When Kristian Yelich is playing well like he did like
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Speaker 1: last year, right, he was like twenty nine and a
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Speaker 1: hundred or something like that, nobody brings up how much
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Speaker 1: money he makes. Right when he struggles like this year,
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Speaker 1: it's a big deal. It's the number one topic. Funny
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Speaker 1: how that works, right, None of the Dodgers fans bitch
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Speaker 1: about Otani making a lot of money, but they don't
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Speaker 1: because he performs. And the thing is, Shaun Watson, they
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Speaker 1: gave you like the richest contract that it's all guaranteed,
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Speaker 1: it's a sunk cost, and you're not playing well and
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Speaker 1: he got hurt two years ago and yeah, and they
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Speaker 1: booed you then, so.
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Speaker 2: And it's just like he's like, I think it's personal
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Speaker 2: at that point. Ah, you think, well, like obviously.
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Speaker 1: That's the thing though, is like he had this one
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Speaker 1: like this was uh, someone picked up the scab and
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Speaker 1: it wasn't. It was a general question, but sure he
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Speaker 1: had kind of been bottling that up. Clearly it was
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Speaker 1: bothering him. I mean, it bothered him that he got
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Speaker 1: booed when he ruptured his achilles on the field and
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Speaker 1: people were booing him.
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Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not like trying to invalidate his emotions
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Speaker 2: in that you're getting booed when you're when you're having
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Speaker 2: a very devastating injury. Okay, but you have to understand
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Speaker 2: a little bit of like you reap what you so
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Speaker 2: I don't think if you didn't do the things you did,
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Speaker 2: and and and and you are responsible and accountable for
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Speaker 2: those actions, people are gonna boo you for getting hurt.
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Speaker 1: Now, some places they might.
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Speaker 2: I mean there was a famous uh Jim or rant
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Speaker 2: amongst the many Jim or rants where they were he
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Speaker 2: was getting on the fans and New Orleans were booing
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Speaker 2: and the injured player, and he said, they're mentally sick,
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Speaker 2: mentally sick, mentally.
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Speaker 1: Like it was a great rant.
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Speaker 2: But I mean maybe in Philadelphia or some place like that,
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Speaker 2: like they'll boo you for just getting hurt if you're
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Speaker 2: a generally good guy. But I mean, come on, I
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Speaker 2: mean that's not the only reason, Like you have to
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Speaker 2: be aware of what you've done and the actions you
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Speaker 2: have to be accountable for if you're Deshaun Watson, and
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Speaker 2: if you're not, you're just gonna look more and more
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Speaker 2: out of touch and more and more like unself aware.
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Speaker 2: If that makes any sense, I don't know. It's just
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Speaker 2: and and you know you're gonna get the money, Deshaun.
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Speaker 1: You're lucky. It's not worse for you.
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Speaker 2: And you're also one of the worst quarterbacks in football
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Speaker 2: by many numbers, starting wise, where once upon a time
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Speaker 2: you were and you were paid as such, and the
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Speaker 2: team took a big risk on you, and everybody in
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Speaker 2: the league wanted him for a while. If you remember
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Speaker 2: that when he came out of Clemson, he was like
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Speaker 2: choir boy, poster child. You thought everyone liked him. He
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Speaker 2: was playing well in the NFL. It is what it is, DeShawn.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you have to be accountable for those things. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's just funny to me that he's like it is
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Speaker 2: it's just, uh, I.
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Speaker 1: Think it's personal at this point. Well, no, no, crap,
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Speaker 1: it's personal. Yeah, of course, it's like, what do you
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Speaker 1: came with? Baggage? The whole arc of it is just
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Speaker 1: and you're playing terribly.
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Speaker 2: That doesn't help. You're making a lot of money, and
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Speaker 2: like Chie, you generally were offensive to a lot of people. Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I just I think it's funny to hear them like
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Speaker 2: get upset about I'm with you.
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Speaker 1: Is it even worth kicking to the juevos and as
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Speaker 1: Cantor deal showing up at a w NBA game and
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Speaker 1: creating a disturbance and getting into it like that guy's
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Speaker 1: a clown and the whole w nb A thing has
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Speaker 1: become a traveling cultural culture war circus more than it
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Speaker 1: is about athletic competition anymore. It's a culture war football.
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Speaker 1: And I know a lot of people.
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Speaker 2: I heard the w NBA commissioner getting mad about it,
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Speaker 2: and they've done some things.
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Speaker 1: They need they need to nip it. What are they
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Speaker 1: going to do with that? Well, at one point they
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Speaker 1: I think they were kind of allowed knowing stuff because
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Speaker 1: it was bringing eyeballs and the you know, the old
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Speaker 1: Any publicity is good publicity, and like if it's good
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Speaker 1: for ratings, like let's track it and how are we doing?
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Speaker 1: But at a certain point, but in as Cantor, I mean,
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Speaker 1: go away.
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Speaker 2: Well, he's obviously never like he's obviously got angenda nout
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Speaker 2: like this is an emotional and divisive topic for a
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Speaker 2: lot of people, So it's kind of like what do
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Speaker 2: you say?
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Speaker 1: But it's like, yeah, I mean he got close to
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Speaker 1: the court there. What was the deal there? Did he
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Speaker 1: buy the ticket and walk down there or did they
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Speaker 1: give him? I don't know. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: The best thing you could probably do in a situation
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Speaker 2: if you're a player playing is ignore it, which they
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Speaker 2: did the opposite. They made they made him the spectacle
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Speaker 2: by responding on the court.
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Speaker 1: I am not wrong and saying that. So I don't know.
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Speaker 2: There when you when you have something like this, like
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Speaker 2: you're right, it's a traveling culture war now and it's
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Speaker 2: going to be that for a lot of people who
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Speaker 2: really aren't interested in the sport.
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Speaker 1: There's really no way around it now.
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Speaker 2: And then it's just it's exhausting because there's going to
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Speaker 2: be no conclusion.
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Speaker 1: It's just going to be a a show.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what exactly say about it. You're
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Speaker 1: not winning hearts and mind.
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Speaker 2: It's obviously like yeah, it's obviously something where it's is
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Speaker 2: a an emotional and divisive topic for a lot of people,
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Speaker 2: and that's going to be that. But it's not like
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Speaker 2: anyone's trying to come to some sort of earnest conclusion
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Speaker 2: by having earnest dialogue and something, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's just trying to make to create their own position
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Speaker 2: on the agenda and make a stamp name for themselves.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: That's what it seems like to me. So a lot
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Speaker 1: of it, it's like I just shake my head and
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Speaker 1: walk away. You know, canter Head, I mean his arc
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Speaker 1: when he was against U. I love that stance. Obviously, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he got his Turkish passport revoked, and you know they
11:46
Speaker 1: were you know, he was his father faced ramifications. His
11:51
Speaker 1: father was a professor in Turkey face ramifications. Right now,
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Speaker 1: that was like more noble and this is clout chasing
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Speaker 1: and stupidity.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like he's got to Obviously, he has
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Speaker 2: a his agenda and he's got a career in all
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Speaker 2: these things.
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Speaker 1: Citizen now like he's using his oh you know, you
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Speaker 1: got first Amendment right to do what you want to do.
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Speaker 1: But you're also selling tickets to the clown show.
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Speaker 2: And for some people, Drew he's they pretend he's he's
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Speaker 2: their hero.
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Speaker 1: Today.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what else to say about it, other
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Speaker 2: than there's a lot of people that feel emotional about
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Speaker 2: this topic. I understand your point totally, but I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I just it is interesting how this thing has enveloped
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Speaker 2: a w n B A you know. Yeah, for a
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Speaker 2: while it was just the Caitlin Clark debate.
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Speaker 1: And for a while there are no trans players in
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Speaker 1: the NBA, I mean the in the w NBA. It's
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Speaker 1: like we're inventing a controversy, right, Well, that's what some people.
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Speaker 1: I saw people saying that as well.
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Speaker 2: I haven't really gotten way into this thing, but I
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Speaker 2: guess I was curious how close Why God, he got
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Speaker 2: so closely to the floor. Yeah, that was a little
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Speaker 2: a little surprising for me, Like I didn't know. It
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Speaker 2: was almost like you looked like he had a media
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Speaker 2: passed or something because he was walking around like the court.
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Speaker 2: He wasn't like in a seat or maybe he wasn't.
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Speaker 2: I didn't see how it went.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, Yeah, I just you know. Meanwhile, speaking
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Speaker 1: of basketball, game ball today, to Reggie Miller or what
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Speaker 1: wasn't popular in these parts when he played more popular
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Speaker 1: now that he's an announcer. For some he's always been
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Speaker 1: an announcer, and they don't remember as a player, but
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Speaker 1: that Olive Oil guy could really shoot it. He's sixty
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Speaker 1: one years old today, Happy birthday, Reggie.
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Speaker 2: I didn't like it as a player, but I had
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Speaker 2: my own personal biases and reasons for that. But I
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Speaker 2: do like you now. On the second stage. He was
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Speaker 2: Bron's neighbor. Remember that when he would come in Brewers games, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and cheer for Bron because there were neighbors in Malibu.
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Speaker 1: Wasn't there a deal there? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I think so, And that was kind of cool. And uh,
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Speaker 2: you know, looking back, I didn't like him because I
13:47
Speaker 2: thought he got away with some dirty soub but it
13:48
Speaker 2: was really like a Bucks villain because he the Pagers
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Speaker 2: would beat the Bucks in those early two thousands. But
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Speaker 2: I do remember when he was wearing the Superman T
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Speaker 2: shirt at Grand Avenue, remember that, and then he.
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Speaker 1: Wore a pre o Oh yeah, he bought it a
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Speaker 1: Grand Yeah. Kind of that was kind of funny.
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Speaker 2: You know, you don't have like personality like looking back,
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Speaker 2: you don't have kind of personality like that anymore. And
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Speaker 2: that storyline was fun at the time. He was a
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Speaker 2: good villain at the time, and stuff like that. The
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Speaker 2: thing I like about Reggie is how thoughtful is he
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Speaker 2: is a broadcaster, how much he enjoys the game, and
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Speaker 2: on some of the podcasts he really loves talking about
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Speaker 2: his history and in the NBA and the old days,
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Speaker 2: Like I love the way he eloquates about it. It's
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Speaker 2: really awesome. So he's always a guy that's enjoyable for me.
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Speaker 1: So he brought up the neighbor story and then it
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Speaker 1: ties into Derek and Madison hit us up earlier when
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Speaker 1: we were talking about that Matt Moore game when Matt
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Speaker 1: Moore played for the Chiefs. He said, I played golf
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Speaker 1: against Matt Moore and a member guest golf tournament in
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Speaker 1: Corvallis a couple of years ago. Nice guy around the
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Speaker 1: campfire after the round, he mentioned that he bought Mark
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Speaker 1: Paul Gosselar's Zach Morris's house in California, and many interesting
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Speaker 1: stories resulted.
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Speaker 2: That's amazing. Oh see, now this is what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 2: This is my kind of story.
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Speaker 1: This is where you'll love this army because that reminded me.
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Speaker 1: It's like, oh, you bought you know, Zach Morris's house. Sure, Mark,
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Speaker 1: And he did other things too, he was like NYPD Blue, right,
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Speaker 1: didn't he?
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Speaker 2: Oh, he's done a lot of stuff. Mark Paul Gosler
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Speaker 2: has been a great actor that most people.
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Speaker 1: Don't really Yeah, well, I don't know a great no. I
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Speaker 1: think he's had a really good career. Drew, Well, I'm sure. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's not just like Zach Morris, child Star Saved by
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Speaker 1: the Bell one of Armad's favorite shows. Uh, but that
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Speaker 1: reminded me. You talk about famous neighbor stories. Bruce had
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Speaker 1: a picture Glendon Rush Absolutely here's the Mets in the
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Speaker 1: company with the brus for a little bit, and he
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Speaker 1: told us that his neighbor who would come over and
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Speaker 1: shoot hoops in the driveway and stuff was Tony Danza.
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Speaker 1: How random is that? How amazing is that? Who's the
15:41
Speaker 1: boss Tony Danza coming on shoot hoops? Yeah? Did he
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Speaker 1: bring the.
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Speaker 2: Vand with that with that team song coming at the
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Speaker 2: time for love and a time.
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Speaker 1: To take it to that is so cool. He had
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Speaker 1: some stories about Tony Danza being his neighbor.
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Speaker 2: I love when Drew this whole thing. I love when
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Speaker 2: art imitate life and life imitates art. I've always thought
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Speaker 2: that's just something in my mind. I always thought that
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Speaker 2: was a cool thing. So something like that is hilarious. Oh,
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Speaker 2: I gotta say this all right, Well, I still have
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Speaker 2: a chance and we're getting away next.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a kicking the balls or
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Speaker 1: a game ball for me.
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Speaker 2: Okay, But I realized something over the weekend when I
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Speaker 2: saw Gary Sheffield interviewed on the field about the.
16:21
Speaker 1: Little League World Series.
16:22
Speaker 2: And he was at the Little League event and the
16:24
Speaker 2: Little League thing, and he played in the League World Series.
16:26
Speaker 2: And he's another guy I've enjoyed in his retirement, eloquent
16:30
Speaker 2: about the game, thoughtful, he's got a cool vibe about him,
16:33
Speaker 2: obviously had a great career. And I realized, Drew, I've
16:36
Speaker 2: held on to my hate for way too long for
16:38
Speaker 2: Gary Sheffield. Where I'm all about personal growth, I'm all
16:41
Speaker 2: about trying to you know, forgiveness is powerful.
16:44
Speaker 1: I think it's once and.
16:45
Speaker 2: For all time for me to release myself of this
16:48
Speaker 2: kind of pain I've had for Gary Sheffield.
16:50
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, you know, early in.
16:52
Speaker 2: His Brewer's career it ended ugly and he left on
16:55
Speaker 2: those circumstances and he threw airs on purpose, and he
16:59
Speaker 2: was young guy, I was only eight years old. I
17:02
Speaker 2: really held a hatred in my heart for Gary Sheffield
17:05
Speaker 2: for so long because we used to boom as kids.
17:07
Speaker 2: I hereby am saying, Drew, I'm I'm gonna move past that,
17:11
Speaker 2: get over it. I'm gonna release I'm gonna release myself
17:14
Speaker 2: from the burden of my distaste for Gary Sheffield.
17:18
Speaker 1: I'm forgiving you, Gary Sheffield.
17:19
Speaker 2: This is a big moment for me. I think it's
17:21
Speaker 2: finally time for me to let go of that. We
17:24
Speaker 2: moved on enough. Gary Sheffield. I forgive you for your
17:27
Speaker 2: Brewers transgressions earlier in your career. I wish your great,
17:30
Speaker 2: great career was with the Brewers. It wasn't meant to be.
17:34
Speaker 2: You went somewhere else and had a great career. You
17:36
Speaker 2: went to San Diego to all these places. So that's it, Drew.
17:40
Speaker 2: I don't want to have I don't want to have
17:41
Speaker 2: any more pain in my heart for Gary Sheffield.
17:43
Speaker 1: I'm forgiving him. All right, there you go. I love it.
17:46
Speaker 1: It's very cathartic for you. This is a cathartic declaration.
17:49
Speaker 1: It's amazing. Tell you something. It feels good, So forgive
17:52
Speaker 1: something to everybody. It feels good to do that. Today.
17:55
Speaker 2: I'm forgiving Gary Sheffield officially, are you writing it down
17:59
Speaker 2: for the rehab like Drew's taking a note?
18:01
Speaker 1: Amazing, I'm writing a note like Arman has officially. August
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Speaker 1: twenty fourth, twenty twenty six, at seven nineteen am Gary
18:11
Speaker 1: it's okay, armand sorry and says it's okay to Gary.
18:14
Speaker 2: And for any of you one day, one day, Yas
18:16
Speaker 2: is going to be back. For any of you who
18:18
Speaker 2: still holding that in your heart, I want you to
18:20
Speaker 2: remember this be back first we did it for it's
18:23
Speaker 2: going to be back for something, either he plays or
18:26
Speaker 2: what a ceremony. Well, he'll be absolutely for a ceremony,
18:29
Speaker 2: a reunion of the championship team something.
18:32
Speaker 1: Don't don't rob yourself of that.
18:33
Speaker 2: Great moment by keeping the pain in your heart right,
18:35
Speaker 2: It's almost say epic.
18:37
Speaker 1: It's like Wayne, we have Wayne coming up next.
18:39
Speaker 3: We do.
18:39
Speaker 2: Indeed, they did that eventually for uh, for Jim Boughten
18:43
Speaker 2: in Yankee Stadium, they will finally the track one.
18:46
Speaker 1: He was banned for years and years because of the
18:48
Speaker 1: ball four. I know that was that was unjust, and
18:51
Speaker 1: I agree, but his son wrote a letter and got
18:54
Speaker 1: him kind of got that ball rolling in and Mickey
18:57
Speaker 1: never held it against him never did. Nope, No fantastic.
19:00
Speaker 1: All right, Armin has forgiven Gary Sheffel. That's the breaking
19:03
Speaker 1: news sit Today, we're gonna talk to Wayne Levy, the
19:06
Speaker 1: voice of the Packers, friend of the program, is going
19:08
Speaker 1: to join us. Next. You're in the Huddle, Fox Sports
19:11
Speaker 1: Radio Wisconsin, oh Continuing the Monday edition of The Huddle.
19:16
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin nine to twenty, Milwaukee ten seventy,
19:18
Speaker 1: Madison everywhere on the iHeart appts Drew and Arman. Today,
19:21
Speaker 1: Billy is on his way to Green Bay for the Packers.
19:24
Speaker 1: Big practice Today is gonna be a robust practice heading
19:27
Speaker 1: into the joint practice Wednesday against the Arizona Cardinals, and
19:31
Speaker 1: Billy will be joined on training camp live by the
19:34
Speaker 1: great Wayne Larvie, voice the Packers, who joins us now, Good.
19:36
Speaker 3: Morning, Wayne, Good morning guys. How you doing.
19:39
Speaker 1: We are spectacular. We are big weekend in sports, Big
19:43
Speaker 1: Brewers weekend, and of course Packers setting the tone on
19:46
Speaker 1: Friday night in Denver. And Wayne, you don't want to
19:48
Speaker 1: get too excited about preseason results, but that was a
19:52
Speaker 1: pretty crisp outing and there's plenty to chew on from
19:54
Speaker 1: that game.
19:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought too, Drew offensively, they did some nice
20:00
Speaker 3: things those first couple of drives. I thought defensively they
20:03
Speaker 3: were pretty stout. Now people will say, well, the Broncos
20:07
Speaker 3: first ring offense scored on each of their first two
20:10
Speaker 3: drives of the game, and they did. But you have
20:12
Speaker 3: to understand something about this, and this goes both ways. Now,
20:16
Speaker 3: in preseason, defenses don't game plan or scheme for the
20:20
Speaker 3: offense they're facing like they do during the regular season.
20:23
Speaker 3: And Jonathan Gannon was pretty vanilla. And oh, by the way,
20:27
Speaker 3: you know, matter of fact, Jonathan told us that he
20:30
Speaker 3: wont he would be intentionally vanilla in that game because
20:33
Speaker 3: he wanted to see how individuals performed against their top players.
20:39
Speaker 3: And so the Denver offensive line is the best in
20:42
Speaker 3: the league, and boy, they were good the other night.
20:43
Speaker 3: They came out, they were firing bow Knicks, his first
20:47
Speaker 3: game action since the divisional playoff game. I thought he
20:50
Speaker 3: was very good for Denver. But you know, I really
20:53
Speaker 3: what encouraged me was what I saw from Green Bay,
20:56
Speaker 3: and I saw the Packers come out play a very
20:58
Speaker 3: good game. I thought they met Denver's physicality, which is
21:02
Speaker 3: the thing I think Matt Lafour wanted to see and
21:05
Speaker 3: The big thing about it was, you know, they came out,
21:08
Speaker 3: they played physical, and they played fast, and that's what
21:10
Speaker 3: the coaching staff wanted to see.
21:12
Speaker 1: Oh fantastic, Arman. Well, Arman is back there like looking
21:15
Speaker 1: at knobs and buttons because Wayne's audio is not as
21:18
Speaker 1: crisp as it. Arms pushing a bunch of buttons here
21:22
Speaker 1: trying to fix it. But yeah, well, I don't know
21:24
Speaker 1: what Army did. We can soldier on though, and Wayne,
21:28
Speaker 1: what we mentioned, you guys got probably a pretty crisp
21:31
Speaker 1: and robust practice today and then Wednesday will be the
21:34
Speaker 1: last time that the starters get to test themselves and
21:38
Speaker 1: then put them in bubble wrap for Friday, because we
21:41
Speaker 1: don't expect a lot of starters to see action on Friday,
21:44
Speaker 1: do we.
21:45
Speaker 3: I don't know if you'll see any starter to see
21:47
Speaker 3: action on Friday. I think what has done has gotten
21:50
Speaker 3: it starts plenty of time in preseason games one and two.
21:54
Speaker 3: In the third game, but the Packers have generally done
21:57
Speaker 3: It's used that game and this goes way back. Use
22:00
Speaker 3: that game for the players trying to make the roster
22:02
Speaker 3: and give them one last shot, one last long look.
22:05
Speaker 3: And it's one of the reasons why I think free
22:07
Speaker 3: agents college free agents tend to go to Green Bay
22:10
Speaker 3: because they know they're going to get a good shot
22:13
Speaker 3: to make the roster, or at least put something on
22:15
Speaker 3: tape as a resume tape for other teams down the road.
22:19
Speaker 1: All right, Arm, should we try to reconnect with Wayne?
22:21
Speaker 1: What do you say?
22:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's give it a shot. I'm not wait, I'm
22:24
Speaker 2: gonna drop it and reconnect. We're going because I don't
22:27
Speaker 2: know what it is.
22:27
Speaker 1: Wayne is awesome, but the sound isn't as good as
22:29
Speaker 1: it usually is.
22:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, that is about the uconnect. We want
22:35
Speaker 2: to make sure it's a positive of listening experience everybody.
22:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're in charge of audio. Yeah, we're working on that.
22:40
Speaker 1: So and most of the time it just sounds a
22:42
Speaker 1: little scratchy, you know. Sometimes it's like that, right sure,
22:46
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's like yeah, oh yeah. Sometimes shot here the Gremlins, thankfully. Well,
22:50
Speaker 1: the important stuff is the broadcasts, like the games, right
22:54
Speaker 1: those are those have been good? I think. So we
22:56
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about no hitters in the dugout,
22:58
Speaker 1: but we're two for two so far. Yeah, I know,
23:00
Speaker 1: please love any better?
23:01
Speaker 3: Wayne?
23:02
Speaker 2: How you doing Wayne out there?
23:03
Speaker 1: How amazing? Crystal clear. Yeah, you're scratchy. Sometimes you just
23:08
Speaker 1: gotta drop it and call back. That's right that the
23:11
Speaker 1: world we live in, unplug it and plug it back in.
23:13
Speaker 2: It went just like, Uh, it seemed like all Trace
23:16
Speaker 2: Mac needed was the bright lights.
23:18
Speaker 1: Wayne, How's ever? Tra But like you know, there.
23:21
Speaker 2: Was so much of our of our nervousness and concentrating.
23:23
Speaker 2: But since he's been in these games, he's just been incredible.
23:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, he really took advantage of that mile high altitude there. Boy.
23:31
Speaker 3: He hit some great shots again on Saturday, and he's
23:35
Speaker 3: got to be in a good headspace right now, and
23:37
Speaker 3: that's great going into the season. You know the thing
23:41
Speaker 3: that Good mentioned, Brian Goodecones mentioned when they drafted him.
23:44
Speaker 3: They said, you know his his ball doesn't move. You
23:48
Speaker 3: know a lot of times kickers will curve a kick
23:50
Speaker 3: or it moves left and right, that kind of thing.
23:53
Speaker 3: This kid kicks it pretty straight. And that's the thing
23:55
Speaker 3: I've noticed as well, whether he makes it or misses,
23:58
Speaker 3: the ball's going pretty straight. It's not moving up and down,
24:01
Speaker 3: back and forth, you know that kind of thing.
24:02
Speaker 2: What I think is interesting too, Wayne, is this seemingly
24:05
Speaker 2: I don't know about strategy but this shift in the
24:08
Speaker 2: kicker culture in the NFL where now you know, they
24:12
Speaker 2: look everyone's looking for guys that can boom it close
24:15
Speaker 2: to sixty. And the way these kickers are coming out now,
24:17
Speaker 2: I saw a guy this weekend hit a sixty nine
24:20
Speaker 2: yard or in preseason. It seems like the threshold is
24:23
Speaker 2: higher for success for kickers than ever before. And you
24:26
Speaker 2: have to have a guy that can potentially give you
24:29
Speaker 2: that type of you know, used to be a fifty
24:32
Speaker 2: yard plus was a novelty. Now it's like, if you
24:34
Speaker 2: can't do it, that's the baseline for kickers.
24:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, and any It's like people are expecting these days
24:40
Speaker 3: anything under fifties and automatic, you know what, right, it's unrealistic,
24:44
Speaker 3: but that's what people are thinking about. That's what you know.
24:47
Speaker 3: You miss a forty three yard field goal, well, wow,
24:49
Speaker 3: the wind and everything else, and no, you got to
24:52
Speaker 3: make that. You know you're fifty plus. You can go
24:54
Speaker 3: five or ten, but you better make everything inside of
24:58
Speaker 3: forty and so our inside fifty. But that's just the
25:02
Speaker 3: reality we live in. In your right arm. And these
25:04
Speaker 3: kids are better now coming out of college as kickers,
25:07
Speaker 3: much more talent available there. And this tray Smack is
25:11
Speaker 3: just an example of that.
25:13
Speaker 1: Wayne. It's funny because we named Trace Mack our player
25:16
Speaker 1: of the game by sponsor by Great Clips on the
25:19
Speaker 1: postgame show, and then Sean Payton came out and said, well,
25:22
Speaker 1: I guess that rookie kicker is the player of the
25:23
Speaker 1: game the night. So we felt validated when Sean Payton
25:27
Speaker 1: said that. But when we look at this roster and
25:29
Speaker 1: the battles and the things we're gonna be focusing on
25:31
Speaker 1: this week and especially Friday night, Wayne at Lambeau, I'm
25:35
Speaker 1: fascinated by Pierre Strong. That sixty eight yarder was like
25:38
Speaker 1: the turning point of that game. That return, it was
25:40
Speaker 1: great to see, and I'm thinking to myself, Oh, he's
25:42
Speaker 1: really making a statement. But will they keep an extra
25:45
Speaker 1: running back? Do they have to because of Josh Jacobs.
25:48
Speaker 1: Did he cement his case or is he gonna be
25:50
Speaker 1: one of those guys that we just fell in love
25:52
Speaker 1: with during camp and falls drifts off to the practice
25:54
Speaker 1: squad or a waiver wire.
25:56
Speaker 3: Well, I tell you what's gonna be interesting to see,
25:59
Speaker 3: And you're right, Drew, And I was surprised he was
26:00
Speaker 3: even back there returning a kick like that. I shouldn't
26:04
Speaker 3: have been, but I was. You know, I just didn't
26:06
Speaker 3: expect it. And here he goes sixty eight yards. When's
26:09
Speaker 3: the last time the Packers had a kickoff returning that long?
26:11
Speaker 3: Seems like forever. I'm sure it's not, but it seems
26:14
Speaker 3: like it, doesn't it. Yeah, yeah, you know, I've liked
26:18
Speaker 3: what I've seen of him since OTA's in Mini caamp.
26:23
Speaker 3: He is just a tough, physical runner. He fills that
26:27
Speaker 3: Emmanuel Wilson role in my mind, you know. And I've
26:31
Speaker 3: talked to Ben Sermons, the running backs coach, about this,
26:33
Speaker 3: and he was saying, you know, yeah, maybe he could
26:35
Speaker 3: fill that role. I don't know, but right now, you
26:39
Speaker 3: got to figure Josh Jacobs, Okay, Marshaun Lloyd, Chris Brooks
26:44
Speaker 3: is the guy they trust in third down. So he's
26:46
Speaker 3: gonna make the football team. I'd be surprised if he doesn't.
26:49
Speaker 3: And by the way, we will be surprised next weekend
26:52
Speaker 3: with cuts. We'll be well. Four or five guys were
26:54
Speaker 3: just sitting there saying, Wow, I didn't see that coming.
26:56
Speaker 3: Happens every year. Yeah, but you know, will you keep
27:00
Speaker 3: keep an extra running back? I don't know, Boy, You've
27:02
Speaker 3: got to keep an extra wide receiver. You would think too,
27:04
Speaker 3: wouldn't you? Where do you cut? You know, maybe the
27:07
Speaker 3: tight end room is not quite as deep as you'd
27:10
Speaker 3: like it to be. Maybe you go two or three,
27:12
Speaker 3: maybe you go three tight ends. But you know, with
27:15
Speaker 3: all the two tight end formations they play in the
27:17
Speaker 3: NFL today, and I know Matt likes to play that
27:19
Speaker 3: twelve personnel quite a bit. One running back, two tight ends,
27:22
Speaker 3: two wide receivers. You know, it's hard to keep only
27:26
Speaker 3: two or three tight ends. You got to keep at
27:28
Speaker 3: least three or four, you know what I mean. So
27:30
Speaker 3: it's hard to figure out where they're going to cut
27:31
Speaker 3: this team and how they're going to cut it.
27:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, it always is. That's why they make the big money.
27:35
Speaker 1: Get into fifty three is going to be a chore here,
27:37
Speaker 1: because you got some good options. Anthony Campbell's the guy
27:41
Speaker 1: that I feel like, Okay, he can make the team.
27:42
Speaker 1: But then there are people saying, well, in order for
27:44
Speaker 1: him to make it, they'll have to cut in a zero
27:46
Speaker 1: stackhouse and trade Carl Brooks And there's all kinds of
27:50
Speaker 1: there's drama on the defensive line that I didn't expect.
27:53
Speaker 3: And Chris McClellan perhaps stood out more than anyone on
27:56
Speaker 3: that defensive line. The other night in Denver, he got
27:59
Speaker 3: a long tour, but the rookie really stepped up, and
28:02
Speaker 3: you know, he's a power kind of player. Jonathan Gannon
28:05
Speaker 3: was talking about him to us that morning of the
28:07
Speaker 3: game about, you know, how impressed he was with the
28:10
Speaker 3: fact that this kid, this is a big kid who
28:12
Speaker 3: can move and he's not just a run stopper. He
28:15
Speaker 3: can threaten the quarterback a little bit too. And with
28:18
Speaker 3: Devandre DeVante Wyatt next to him, that's that could be
28:23
Speaker 3: a very good combination you might see often early in
28:25
Speaker 3: the season.
28:26
Speaker 2: Wayne brandon Cis has been so exciting ever since he
28:30
Speaker 2: you know, he started. We started getting a look at
28:32
Speaker 2: him the first round or the first pick for the
28:33
Speaker 2: Packers that first round, but first pick for the Packers
28:36
Speaker 2: had it was a little dinged up in that game
28:38
Speaker 2: against Denver, it seems like he was okay, I think
28:41
Speaker 2: we think that, but he's he's really been a revelation
28:44
Speaker 2: as well.
28:45
Speaker 3: He has Arman. You know, he he seems very mature
28:49
Speaker 3: in terms of not only his personality but the way
28:52
Speaker 3: he plays the game out there. He never really panics
28:54
Speaker 3: a whole lot I think he had a great cover
28:56
Speaker 3: on Courtland Sutton, the Denver number one receiver the other night.
29:00
Speaker 3: And you know, these are things you look for. Little
29:03
Speaker 3: individual plays here and there in the preseason can tell
29:06
Speaker 3: you a lot. I think he's pretty well cemented a
29:11
Speaker 3: starting role. We'll see when the season gets here, but
29:14
Speaker 3: he seems to have cemented his place. And now the
29:17
Speaker 3: other side is where the competition is. And I still
29:20
Speaker 3: think Keyshawn Nixon it's his job to lose.
29:23
Speaker 1: Wait, we mentioned Pierre Strong's kick return. Sky Moore had
29:27
Speaker 1: a sixteen yard punt return that was pretty nifty, and
29:30
Speaker 1: I think that would have been the second longest punt
29:32
Speaker 1: return for the Packers last season. Should we be raising
29:36
Speaker 1: our expectations for that facet of the game? Cam acrd
29:39
Speaker 1: is doing his job.
29:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, it's amazing. I kept thinking
29:45
Speaker 3: about this the other night during the game and said,
29:46
Speaker 3: if they have you know, and sky Moore can provide
29:49
Speaker 3: you both kicks returns and putt returns. But if they can,
29:52
Speaker 3: you know, if they have a return game, okay, and
29:55
Speaker 3: they've got a kicker, you know they have a punter.
29:57
Speaker 3: You know, the coverage units are pretty good. Wow, special
30:02
Speaker 3: teams could this could be the best Well I shouldn't
30:04
Speaker 3: say this, folks, but I'll say it anyway. This could
30:07
Speaker 3: be the best special teams we've seen in Green Bay
30:10
Speaker 3: since Nolan Cromwell was the special teams coach back in
30:13
Speaker 3: the mid ninety Now, that goes way back.
30:16
Speaker 1: Oh, what a great, what a great, that's a great reference. Yes,
30:19
Speaker 1: it has been, it's been. It's funny because we talk
30:22
Speaker 1: we've talked about it in the last several years, and
30:24
Speaker 1: Aaron Nagler gave it, gave us the lines like all
30:27
Speaker 1: I want is competence. I just want the league average.
30:31
Speaker 1: That's all we're asking for. We're just don't be at
30:33
Speaker 1: the bottom of these categories, be league average. And it
30:35
Speaker 1: looks like they might be better than that.
30:37
Speaker 3: Now yeah, yeah, well we'll see, well, we'll see. Group
30:41
Speaker 3: will be in the pudding and there'll be plenty of
30:42
Speaker 3: putting coming up, eighteen weeks of it.
30:44
Speaker 1: But that's true. We haven't played yet, that's true.
30:46
Speaker 3: Yeah.
30:47
Speaker 1: Well that's the other thing. Okay, So Wayne Anohing I
30:49
Speaker 1: want to ask you, is we're watching that first series,
30:51
Speaker 1: we hyper focus on that because that's the only look
30:54
Speaker 1: you get at Love and Company. And then put them
30:56
Speaker 1: in bubb wrapp and there they'll play on Wednesday against
30:59
Speaker 1: the Cardinals up, but then they're done. They probably won't
31:01
Speaker 1: play Friday. But am I detecting a trend of him
31:05
Speaker 1: being under center more and more under center, play action,
31:08
Speaker 1: rollout type stuff. It seems like is that am I
31:12
Speaker 1: reading too much into that? Because it seemed like that
31:14
Speaker 1: first series I saw a lot of that, and I'm like, Oh,
31:16
Speaker 1: is that what we're going to see more of this year?
31:19
Speaker 3: Yeah? You know, I've said that, Drew and I said
31:21
Speaker 3: that on the Family un I telecast and somebody said, well,
31:23
Speaker 3: they were really good under center last year. Yeah, but
31:25
Speaker 3: they weren't under center as much as you thought they
31:28
Speaker 3: should be. Maybe, And I think Lafloor is going to
31:30
Speaker 3: have more under center work going on. I think this
31:33
Speaker 3: involves not just the passing game and the play action
31:35
Speaker 3: passing game is much more effective when your quarterback's coming
31:38
Speaker 3: from under center, but also in terms of the running game,
31:41
Speaker 3: and I think it's short yardage too. I just remember
31:44
Speaker 3: that drive in Chicago right before halftime in the division
31:48
Speaker 3: or the wildcard playoff game where the Packers are on
31:51
Speaker 3: the goal line and they're trying to run out of
31:52
Speaker 3: shotgun and not getting it done and finally had to
31:56
Speaker 3: resort to a fourth down pass to Romeo Dobbs to score.
31:59
Speaker 3: But I think more under center is what we're going
32:02
Speaker 3: to see because of two things. Number One, I think
32:04
Speaker 3: it's what Lafleur hopes to do in his offense. But
32:07
Speaker 3: also they were effective under center when they were under
32:10
Speaker 3: center last year. I don't think you're wrong to think
32:12
Speaker 3: they'll be under center more as the season gets underway.
32:15
Speaker 1: Was some of that related to Jordan Love having that
32:17
Speaker 1: left thumb issue that you know, like it seemed like
32:21
Speaker 1: early on especially that they.
32:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, it could have been a little bit. I don't
32:25
Speaker 3: think a huge amount, but that could have been part
32:28
Speaker 3: of it. But you know that. I just think they're
32:30
Speaker 3: going to be under more under center this year offensive,
32:33
Speaker 3: I think, And we'll see how that pans out.
32:34
Speaker 1: Well, I know you guys are going to see a
32:36
Speaker 1: pad rattling practice today. I feel like this will be
32:38
Speaker 1: the one. Then they'll take it easy tomorrow and then
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Speaker 1: what what's it going to be like on Wednesday? Like
32:43
Speaker 1: usually these joint practices, there's fights and skirmishes and conflagrations. Well,
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Speaker 1: the Lafleur brothers have a pact here and make it
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Speaker 1: like so that doesn't happen, or can they even control that.
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Speaker 1: What's the tenor going to be like Wednesday?
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Speaker 3: I think it'll be ramped up a little bit. I
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Speaker 3: think the brothers will try, you know, they'll try to
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Speaker 3: make sure they have an agreement as to how the
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Speaker 3: practice is going to be conducted and everything else. I'm
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Speaker 3: sure that's all been well planned. But you know, these
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Speaker 3: are athletes on the field, and once the ball is snapped,
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Speaker 3: they you know, they're not worried about a plan, They're
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Speaker 3: worried about making the play. And so I think when
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Speaker 3: you have these it's one of the reasons why they've
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Speaker 3: gone to one instead of two days in a row.
33:21
Speaker 3: I think Minnesota and Baltimore scrimmage for two days before
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Speaker 3: they played the preseason game, and they had all kinds
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Speaker 3: of skirmishes and fights and everything else. And that's you know,
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Speaker 3: I mean, we as fans as observers, we kind of
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Speaker 3: like that spice, don't we like to see them mix
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Speaker 3: it up like that. Yeah, let's get some pushy and cheving,
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Speaker 3: let's get some fun. Yeah, But it's counterproductive to what
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Speaker 3: they're trying to do. As a coaching staff and as
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Speaker 3: a team on that particular day.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember James Jones was saying, I'm Packer's preview
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Speaker 2: or but that he found that unproductive because everyone was
33:52
Speaker 2: trying to act tough to the Bears. But hey, it would
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Speaker 2: be interesting to see if the brothers would start something up.
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Speaker 2: I mean, there's no there's no fighting like brother So
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Speaker 2: I don't know, Wayne, I don't know if we expect it,
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Speaker 2: but that would be something.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it'll be pretty professional. We'll see. Anything
34:08
Speaker 1: could happen, but I think it'd be it'd be pretty professional.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: One more thing win.
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Speaker 2: I know you're gonna be on later with uh Billy,
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Speaker 2: But Yankees are three games back of the race. How
34:16
Speaker 2: do you feel does the al still run to the
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Speaker 2: Bronx so they have a chance to still win the East?
34:22
Speaker 3: Well, I tell you something. John Carlos Stanton, how about
34:25
Speaker 3: that news he's probably not coming back? Go figure? Or
34:30
Speaker 3: where did that come from? My gosh, what a total waste.
34:33
Speaker 3: Derek Jeter traded John Carlos Stanton when Jeter was involved
34:37
Speaker 3: with the Marlins to the Yankees, and it was just
34:39
Speaker 3: like a death pill. It was an absolute death pill,
34:43
Speaker 3: all right, and then the Yankees took him out and
34:45
Speaker 3: he's been nothing but injured ever since. So that's not
34:48
Speaker 3: gonna happen. But Bellinger came back yesterday. Cody Bellinger and
34:53
Speaker 3: Aaron Judge will come back in September. If the Yankees
34:56
Speaker 3: get any kind of hitting in September, they'll win. They'll
34:59
Speaker 3: win the I love it.
35:01
Speaker 1: I love the confidence. That's amazing. That's amazing. Wayne. I
35:04
Speaker 1: woke up this morning and there's this like I start
35:06
Speaker 1: to feel that crispness in the air. It's right around
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Speaker 1: the corner. We're getting close now. The thing is, we
35:12
Speaker 1: got the cuts this week, we got the last game
35:14
Speaker 1: the cuts, and then we got this long wait to
35:16
Speaker 1: get the season started. But we're getting closer.
35:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like true, it's like almost a month.
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Speaker 1: Crazy, we're three weeks out.
35:24
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, exactly all right to talk about. I
35:28
Speaker 3: guarantee you.
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Speaker 1: I guarantee you. Thanks for joining us, Wayne, appreciate it,
35:31
Speaker 1: Safe travels, and have fun with Billy today. We'll be listening.
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Speaker 3: All right. We'll talk to you Friday, guys.
35:35
Speaker 1: All right, Wayne Larry, voice of the Packers, fread of the program.
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Speaker 1: I had one holstered up and I called an audible
36:54
Speaker 1: because it was memory Lane. It's not an anniversary or anything.
36:58
Speaker 1: And this was before your but it happened during the
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Speaker 1: summer of nineteen eighty two when we were all focused
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Speaker 1: on the brewers. July second, nineteen eighty two, a truck
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Speaker 1: driver from California named Larry Walters, thirty three years old
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Speaker 1: from San Pedro, flew sixteen thousand feet into the sky
37:16
Speaker 1: on a lawn chair. What did he create his own?
37:20
Speaker 1: Larry Walters dreamed of flying his whole life, and he
37:23
Speaker 1: bought forty two eight foot helium weather balloons, tied them
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Speaker 1: to a sears lawn chair. Oh my gosh, strapped down
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Speaker 1: a parachute, packed a bb gun to pop balloons to
37:33
Speaker 1: help his descent. He had a Cebee radio, sandwiches, and
37:37
Speaker 1: a six pack of beer.
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Speaker 2: I love that he's thinking about eating and drinking beer
37:40
Speaker 2: at this time. You know you're floating around. Ye, no idea,
37:43
Speaker 2: what's going to happen here?
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Speaker 1: He expected to float a few hundred feet above his backyard,
37:49
Speaker 1: but he cut the rope and he shot up like
37:52
Speaker 1: a rocket. He went to sixteen thousand feet. Oh my gosh,
37:56
Speaker 1: that he drifted cruising. He drifted directly into the approach
38:00
Speaker 1: path for lax Or. Two pilots radio the tower that
38:03
Speaker 1: they just passed a man in a lawn chair holding
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Speaker 1: a gun, which he did. He had to be begun
38:08
Speaker 1: for forty five minutes. He floated over Los Angeles, freezing cold,
38:12
Speaker 1: too scared to shoot the balloons because he was afraid
38:14
Speaker 1: he might fall fall quickly. Finally, he just decided, I'm
38:18
Speaker 1: gonna have to do it, so he started popping the
38:20
Speaker 1: balloons one by one, and slowly he descended. He landed up.
38:25
Speaker 1: He landed tangled in power lines in Long Beach, causing
38:28
Speaker 1: a blackout. When police arrested him, they asked why he
38:31
Speaker 1: did it, and he said, quote, a man can't just sit.
38:34
Speaker 2: Around, Actually he can. That's literally what he was doing.
38:38
Speaker 2: That is so amazing.
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Speaker 1: FAA find him four thousand dollars. He became a national
38:43
Speaker 1: folk hero named lawn Chair Larry. You're not gonna like
38:46
Speaker 1: that the fa Yeah, that's yeah. Oh my goodness, this
38:50
Speaker 1: this story inspired the movie Up the more you know,
38:54
Speaker 1: you know what?
38:55
Speaker 2: I never knew this, and it reminds me of the scam,
38:58
Speaker 2: the balloon boy scam, remember when they tried to create
39:01
Speaker 2: this thing. I think my reaction to this is it's
39:04
Speaker 2: rare that you come up with the hair brained idea
39:06
Speaker 2: like this that works better than what you think.
39:09
Speaker 3: Usually at the.
39:09
Speaker 2: Opposite, it doesn't work. This worked better than he ever imagined.
39:12
Speaker 2: He floated way up, up, up and away. It's how
39:16
Speaker 2: did he stay on the lawn chair? Like, didn't the
39:18
Speaker 2: atmosphere push him around? Maybe you get a seat?
39:22
Speaker 1: He did have a parachute in case, but right, man,
39:25
Speaker 1: don't you think you'd be a little nervous to see
39:27
Speaker 1: if that actually worked? Like? What am I going to do? Now?
39:29
Speaker 2: He was up there thinking like, well, now what? Yes,
39:32
Speaker 2: did he get the beers in? Or like at least
39:34
Speaker 2: did he eat the sandwiches? That is a crazy thing.
39:37
Speaker 2: I never really realized the origin story freezing cold. I mean,
39:41
Speaker 2: people don't really think about that, but when you get
39:44
Speaker 2: high up in the atmosphere, you must have gotten some
39:46
Speaker 2: sort of frostbite or something, even if it was summer
39:49
Speaker 2: in La right, I mean, I don't know.
39:53
Speaker 1: That's an amazing, amazing story. Imagine social media if that
39:56
Speaker 1: happened Drew, Yeah, he would have been crazy on Twitter
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Speaker 1: that day. People would have been talking about it. You'd
40:02
Speaker 1: have been live streaming it. On the ground for sure.
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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
40:05
Speaker 2: Isn't there a guy in the summer of seventy seven
40:07
Speaker 2: in New York that like climbed the World Trade Center Tower? Yeah,
40:10
Speaker 2: that's where everyone was following that too. Yeah, that's nice
40:13
Speaker 2: thing about what social media would react. Wow, well that's crazy.
40:15
Speaker 2: How about that?
40:16
Speaker 1: Just nuts? All right, we've covered a lot of ground today.
40:20
Speaker 1: No Brewers game tonight. They're in New York Baseball pregame show.
40:25
Speaker 1: They'll take a day off. They can all get some
40:27
Speaker 1: corn beef and some pizza and rest up and we'll
40:31
Speaker 1: have that for you tomorrow. Tomorrow on the program, we
40:32
Speaker 1: will be joined by our pal Hunter Bombguart will be
40:34
Speaker 1: with us live at seven and we'll talk Brewers. We'll
40:39
Speaker 1: get the lay of the land, and then obviously we'll
40:41
Speaker 1: get reaction from what happens at practice today with Billy.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out, Thanks for the great Wayne, Larvivy
40:46
Speaker 1: for joining us. We'll see you tomorrow at Fiveace