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02/03/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: So the Packers of old are the Steelers of today,
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Speaker 1: it seems, at least in the staff. In Pittsburgh, coach
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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy has hired a bunch of friends from his
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Speaker 1: days entitled town to help him with his new club.
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Speaker 1: So far, among his new staff offensive line coach James
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Speaker 1: Campen also Jerry Evans is the assistant offensive line coach.
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Speaker 1: He's spent his final season playing for McCarthy in Green Bay.
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Speaker 1: Frank Signetti, junior Packers quarterbacks coach in twenty eighteen, is
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Speaker 1: also headed to the Steel City as an offensive assistant.
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Speaker 1: Signetti the brother of Indiana's national championship coach Kirk Signetti.
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Speaker 1: Former Packers linebackers coach Patrick Graham. He's been hired, as
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Speaker 1: has Jason Simmons. Scott McCurley as the inside linebackers coach.
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Speaker 1: He's spent all thirteen seasons in Green Bay and another five.
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Speaker 2: With McCarthy in Dallas.
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Speaker 1: There could be one more horn Packers and Badger's quarterback
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Speaker 1: Scott Tolzen as an offensive coordinator candidate to basketball.
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Speaker 2: The Bucks host the Bulls tonight, starting at seven.
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Speaker 1: The huddle starts now, I've Doug Russ Loott Fox Sports
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Speaker 2: Drew, Billy and Arma.
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Speaker 4: It's by or some Tuesday, but it's also a giveaway Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: The bosses have let us know that we will have
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Speaker 2: some tickets to give away in seven o'clock.
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Speaker 2: Away for the boys here. I like this.
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Speaker 5: They're interusting us with the announcements, and I liked the
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Speaker 5: little bit of a tease as to where we get
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Speaker 5: to go and then who we get to send somebody
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Speaker 5: to potentially coming up in the seven o'clock hour, and
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Speaker 5: as we get one day closer to a ceasefire in
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Speaker 5: the Yiannis trade discussions, or maybe we've just fully shifted
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Speaker 5: drew because late overnight I guess there was somebody doing
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Speaker 5: some research on the gentlemen's establishments outside of Cleveland, Ohio
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Speaker 5: number number near the Intuit Center, because I can only
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Speaker 5: imagine Number one is gonna want to know where he
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Speaker 5: can be going in the Cleveland area. If that's where
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Speaker 5: the NBA trade winds have shifted here a couple hour
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Speaker 5: days before the deadline. Oh, I'd like the James Harden
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Speaker 5: Honeybun establishment. That's what I'm wondering, what Gary Payton establishments.
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Speaker 5: Is that those type of establishments say yeah, okay, all right,
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Speaker 5: that's what.
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Speaker 2: We're looking at.
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Speaker 4: The Harden, Hard and Yanis have some beef, right, They're
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Speaker 4: not buds, not buds at all.
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 4: Harden's like, why is he getting all this run? I
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Speaker 4: need some talk about man. But the Clippers have been
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Speaker 4: playing well. It's like that's that's like a they need him.
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Speaker 4: He's been actually Hard has been playing really.
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Speaker 5: Well, playing well and insteads as the Tailor's Old at
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Speaker 5: Time as a great uh movie one saying and rang
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Speaker 5: a song that played for generations, Tale's Oldest Time. Uh.
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Speaker 5: This man will never be happy, but James Harden will.
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Speaker 5: It'll never cease. He cease to amaze me how angry
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Speaker 5: he can be with success and how frustrated he can
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Speaker 5: be and disappointed he can be a good point when
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Speaker 5: he starts playing well, his team starts playing well and
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Speaker 5: realizing that no, now I need to push the accelerator
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Speaker 5: down and get mine and be upset about an additional
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Speaker 5: eighty million that he's potentially making. You're right, Clippers are
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Speaker 5: playing well Instead, now he's saying, wait, I'm not gonna
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Speaker 5: get my extension, get me up out of here. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: he's thirty six, thirty seven, So I was always for
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Speaker 5: him to approach the era of his career where he
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Speaker 5: was starting to become like, you know, have a little
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Speaker 5: more gratitude and be like the funny, wily old vet
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Speaker 5: that was enjoying the process. And it looks like there's
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Speaker 5: a few guys that will never get there. He's one
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Speaker 5: of them, maybe Kawhi, But we don't really know because
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Speaker 5: he doesn't really release anything about his personality. But you know,
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Speaker 5: Draymond Green obviously is constantly going to be upset and
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Speaker 5: grieved about stuff.
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Speaker 2: So that's just the way it is.
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Speaker 5: I mean that that kind of marked the personality of
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Speaker 5: that era of players a little bit. Always constantly upset
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Speaker 5: about having to make a lot of money playing basketball.
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Speaker 2: That's what's just what it seemed like to me. So
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Speaker 2: could not agree more.
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Speaker 4: Hilarious one for him and Harden is he's one of
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Speaker 4: those guys that is confounding because you can't look at
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Speaker 4: him and look at his record in the stats and
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Speaker 4: not say he's a great player. Oh god, yeah in
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Speaker 4: the ring culture and just in culture culture, like what's
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Speaker 4: he done? He just hasn't had it? Oh my, oh
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Speaker 4: my goodness.
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Speaker 5: And he is the epitome Drew of what most people
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Speaker 5: would say of just a sheer regular season player. His
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Speaker 5: numbers during his MVP candidacies are are a one.
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Speaker 2: Like his scoring run, he.
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Speaker 5: Had like thirty consecutive games of thirty five plus point games.
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Speaker 5: If it were just six points a game year, what
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Speaker 5: it was incredible the kind of numbers he was putting up. However,
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Speaker 5: his game seven numbers are the greatest barometer of being
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Speaker 5: able to shrink to the nth degree to the temperatures
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Speaker 5: we saw last week to type shrinkage in game sevens
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Speaker 5: for James Harden, and he does it every single time.
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Speaker 5: And it's a beauty and a beautiful part of the
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Speaker 5: NBA Playoffs is that it seemingly always happens. You can
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Speaker 5: set your clock to Harden is going to get into
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Speaker 5: a Game seven and luckily the Bucks were only one
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Speaker 5: beneficiary of it back in the run against the Nets,
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Speaker 5: because he decided that he was going to play on
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Speaker 5: that pulled hamstring and do a James Harden Game seven
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Speaker 5: and help you out by not allowing a healthy player
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Speaker 5: to go out there for the Nets and potentially change
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Speaker 5: the tide he is. It is a beautiful mystery, Drew,
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Speaker 5: because his talent is accept But even when they were
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Speaker 5: on that Oklahoma City team and understandably Saw wanted to
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Speaker 5: be more than a sixth man, was not happy going
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Speaker 5: to the NBA Finals and growing with two of the
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Speaker 5: better young players of all time and Russell and Durant.
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Speaker 2: It's a hilarious, hilarious NBA life.
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Speaker 4: It would probably shock people because you know, James Harden,
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Speaker 4: because of his lack of success and titles and parades
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Speaker 4: and stuff like that. People think he's not that great, right,
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Speaker 4: he just passed. He just moved into the top ten
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Speaker 4: all scoring. He has Shaq and Carmelo Anthony. Now Carmelo
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Speaker 4: is another guy that sure would say was he that great?
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Speaker 4: But it's funny because we who was the who's the
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Speaker 4: current quarterback?
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Speaker 2: Great quarterback? Great quarterback without a title?
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Speaker 4: Like Josh Allen is the guy that zipp and if
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Speaker 4: you're an MVP level player and don't have a title,
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Speaker 4: because in the NBA, I think of Josh and Lamar
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Speaker 4: the two right now, Josh and Lamar I got and
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Speaker 4: they're and they're at like the peak of their powers.
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Speaker 4: They're not done yet by any stretch. And I'm old
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Speaker 4: enough to remember Elway didn't win till the last two years.
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Speaker 4: The closest thing to somebody who's alone one of the
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Speaker 4: all time greats never won a title. Obviously, Russell Westbrook
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Speaker 4: and Hardened, two of the greats of their generation. Dominant
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Speaker 4: forces are unstoppable, never won a title. Barkley's in that
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Speaker 4: discussion too. Yikes. It's just wild amount guys that go ahead.
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Speaker 4: But there's a lot of the guys that were blocked
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Speaker 4: during that era.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, in this this era, will you look back
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Speaker 5: on the guys that got blocked by two dudes Steph
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Speaker 5: and Labrov right one on the east and one in
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Speaker 5: the West. And the only guys that ultimately got the
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Speaker 5: titles like KD.
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Speaker 2: Were the ones that went and joined them and.
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Speaker 5: Were able to play alongside. Because there it's in. It's
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Speaker 5: a sport that's always been predicated on dynastic runs and
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Speaker 5: four to five year stretches of just sheer dominance. And
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Speaker 5: that's where I think the landscape is adjusting right now
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Speaker 5: to what is it, seven consecutive seasons with a new
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Speaker 5: NBA champion, Eight consecutive years with a new NBA champion,
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Speaker 5: But I think only one of them, the Lakers, after
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Speaker 5: they won it in the Bubble, have even gone back
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Speaker 5: to the conference finals in their title defense.
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Speaker 2: So there's a.
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Speaker 5: Reason and an understandable question in I think the landscape
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Speaker 5: of the NBA to be like, we need to find
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Speaker 5: somebody to be that team. We need to find somebody
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Speaker 5: that's going to go and make that one move to
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Speaker 5: put them over the top. And that's where the Giannis
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Speaker 5: conversation I think Drew has had such a drum beat
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Speaker 5: in like the teams like Oklahoma City, but they're building
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Speaker 5: them a different way and you're seeing, i think, another
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Speaker 5: shift away from how teams were built in the twenty tens.
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Speaker 4: Harden was a big part of.
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Speaker 5: That because it was just like, you know what, actually,
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Speaker 5: not good here, I gotta go somewhere else. Not good here,
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Speaker 5: I gotta go somewhere else. And it feels like the
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Speaker 5: league is swinging that pendulum completely along the other side
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Speaker 5: where teams just aren't as complicit in it as much. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: and there's a probably little more parody.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 5: For a while, it was the super team era where
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Speaker 5: you load this many stars as you can on one team,
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Speaker 5: and I think the Apron changed all that. So then
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Speaker 5: it's like hobby rebuild in a different way. The Thunder
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Speaker 5: have been a blue good blueprint obviously, and getting you know,
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Speaker 5: the star plus a bunch of really young, good, talented
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Speaker 5: pieces that are you know that in the aggregate are
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Speaker 5: all really good. I don't know what the efficiency guys
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Speaker 5: right in the analytics here, right, they know how to
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Speaker 5: three and D, they know how to you know, defensive efficiency,
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Speaker 5: all those things, and it's not just like let's find
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Speaker 5: as many stars as we can to slam out of
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Speaker 5: the court with the most points.
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Speaker 2: Per game next to their name.
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Speaker 4: You know, the old do you win more titles with
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Speaker 4: James Harden or Peyton Pritchard.
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Speaker 5: That's it right there, as Kitlyn Clark crab about that one,
10:37
Speaker 5: but that's that's part of it.
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Speaker 4: Or TJ McConnell.
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Speaker 5: Well in they players like the guys that are are
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Speaker 5: legitimate role players that you're paying fifteen to eighteen million
10:46
Speaker 5: dollars a year, two twenty million a year or two
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Speaker 5: who are like the middle class of the sport. And
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Speaker 5: the salaries changed when you talked about the aprons Arman
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Speaker 5: where the ability to just put three perennial All Star
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Speaker 5: together and just figure it out with the rest of
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Speaker 5: the roster doesn't work as much anymore. And that I
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Speaker 5: thought that was a really really quick and sudden change
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Speaker 5: to the CBA rules where all of a sudden, you
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Speaker 5: saw after that Celtics title, right after the Bucks fell
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Speaker 5: short in their title defense, drew that that was the
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Speaker 5: last team that was really just gonna be able to
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Speaker 5: stockpile contracts and still add to it come deadline time.
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Speaker 4: It's funny because the way stuff has processed that again
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Speaker 4: with the ring culture, Like think of your favorite players
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Speaker 4: who have never never won a championship in baseball and
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Speaker 4: in basketball. There's a lot of guys in football. If
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Speaker 4: guys don't win titles, we don't talk about them as.
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Speaker 2: Much, and they're not their quarterbacks. Yeah, quarterbacks for sure.
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Speaker 4: And because I always that was my rant back in
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Speaker 4: the day, I always people talk about Eli Manning being great.
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Speaker 4: I'm like, what's ray Lewis's playoff record? Well, I don't
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Speaker 4: know about five hundred? Yeah, little, Well what is it?
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Speaker 5: Like?
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Speaker 4: Well, but why is that hung with any quarterback? But
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Speaker 4: you don't have the other star on the other side.
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Speaker 4: We just saw with the Packers how important, like losing
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Speaker 4: Michael Parsons was like losing a starting quarterback. It didn't
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Speaker 4: win without him. It was that was exactly like no one's.
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Speaker 5: Gonna talk about like Jonathan Taylor never getting a title. Well,
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Speaker 5: it's a great running back.
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Speaker 2: But like, okay, what people do.
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Speaker 4: This, Mike Trout is you know a generational great counting
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Speaker 4: stat guy? Yeah, no, ring not not even like every
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Speaker 4: playoff game, not even a sniff of the playoff success. Right,
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Speaker 4: But in the NBA, you could feel a really great
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Speaker 4: team of some of your favorite posters on the wall,
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Speaker 4: like Barkley, going back to Barkley, Karl Malone, the Mailman
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Speaker 4: with the Big truck, Harden Westbrook, MVP's triple doubles average,
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Speaker 4: the triple double, Yeah, Vince Carter another good one, Patrick
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Speaker 4: Ewing McGrady.
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Speaker 2: There's a ton of guys.
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Speaker 4: There's a ton of guys in the NBA who had
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Speaker 4: shoe lines and were massive stars.
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Speaker 2: Didn't have to win a title.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Dominique, all these guys were stars. You can do it.
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Speaker 4: I guess it's just a different it's processed differently.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. And the other one, you know, the one that
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Speaker 5: came here in chase of it was Dame a couple
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Speaker 5: of years ago. And it does feel, though, like we
13:06
Speaker 5: try to discuss it, maybe it's just more at the
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Speaker 5: national level Drew and hammer home the titles because there's
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Speaker 5: so much more impact that just one individual player can.
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Speaker 2: Have on it.
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Speaker 5: But I also think it speaks to the greatness of
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Speaker 5: the guys that all of those dudes right that we
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Speaker 5: just mentioned, that's like three guys, and they're all time
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Speaker 5: generational runs that blocked those teams from getting in, whether
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Speaker 5: it was Lebron and Cleveland and Miami or Golden State
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Speaker 5: with Steph and then obviously Jordan in the nineties just
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Speaker 5: was continually batting down the Ewings and Barkley's of the
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Speaker 5: world in the stock that Malone like, there's just there's
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Speaker 5: been runs and I mean we throw Kobe and Shack
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Speaker 5: in there as well, but there's just so few. Steve
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Speaker 5: Nash is a phenomenal player that was ultimately never able
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Speaker 5: to get home, right, and he was never on that
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Speaker 5: Dallas team that ultimately got there with Newitzky. Yeah, kid
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Speaker 5: was on that team, Yeah, but it wasn't.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, generational starts.
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Speaker 4: I'll take that team of like Nash and Dame and
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Speaker 4: Barkley and Malone and.
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Speaker 5: Well they'd have a chip on their shoulder. Can you
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Speaker 5: imagine that Charles will.
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Speaker 2: Be the captain.
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Speaker 4: It's funny too because Charles has to wear it and
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Speaker 4: every once in a while. Yeah, but he's there, and
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Speaker 4: it's like who had the better career. Who's a better player,
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Speaker 4: Charles or Kenny Smith. Kenny Smith's got rings and he
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Speaker 4: just drops that like a mic drop and there's nothing Charles.
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Speaker 5: And then Charles says, the keeam drug you up and
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Speaker 5: down the floor and they make the jokes right, But
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Speaker 5: I do like how Barkley has almost he wears it,
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Speaker 5: but he brings it up like that to me is
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Speaker 5: like Arman talking about how many fights he gets into
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Speaker 5: with Bears fans. When then Arman will also wind up
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Speaker 5: and say, hey, you know who is I think a
14:46
Speaker 5: really mediocre quarterback in the NFL is Kleb Williams. Like
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Speaker 5: so he'll ask for a lot of the euros, but
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Speaker 5: Barkley also just says he's like, I'm not at that table.
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Speaker 5: He'll he'll talk about it rather openly, maybe now more
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Speaker 5: than ever, accepts it and accepts it where he's like,
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Speaker 5: you know what, Kim Olajuan's at a different spot.
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Speaker 2: He was talking about it.
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Speaker 5: What Dan Patrick about the Hall of Fame of there's
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Speaker 5: certain by the way dan Patrick number one rated national
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Speaker 5: morning show, national radio, that's nice that he closes for us,
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Speaker 5: and nice that he closes for us, and for how
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Speaker 5: he closes for us.
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Speaker 2: Leave.
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Speaker 5: I saw number two rated national radio show comes on
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Speaker 5: right after Dan Patrick crazy that we're good hell of
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Speaker 5: the lineup to be a part of fellas hell of
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Speaker 5: a line up to be.
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Speaker 2: A part of. I like that, But he.
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Speaker 4: Mentioned Drew that like there's always gonna be sub sections
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Speaker 4: of the Hall of Fame and whether I think the
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Speaker 4: conversation did spark from the Belichick deal, but from Barkley
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Speaker 4: it's like, yeah, we're.
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Speaker 2: All in there.
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Speaker 5: However, just like fans do, we also look around and say,
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Speaker 5: I'm better than that guy. But he's got a couple
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Speaker 5: of rings because I probably so, I probably can't say
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Speaker 5: anything to him.
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Speaker 4: I definitely would have owned him eleven to nothing and
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Speaker 4: make it take and he wouldn't have even touched the rock.
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Speaker 2: However, that's a good point.
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Speaker 4: He's got two rings and he was a role player,
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Speaker 4: and I can't say anything.
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Speaker 2: I can't say much.
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Speaker 5: But Charles does seem the most comfortable in his own
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Speaker 5: skin of all those guys, because I think he knows
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Speaker 5: his status in the game, even though he never won
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Speaker 5: a title, and it will always kind of bother him.
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Speaker 5: But you're right, Billy, he kind of accepts it and
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Speaker 5: sometimes weaponizes it as well, like more than like a Marino,
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Speaker 5: who I think never really like like Dan Marino, never
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Speaker 5: was comfortable with the topic of talking about it as
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Speaker 5: not never getting a ring, that type of player, that
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Speaker 5: type of you know, career without.
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Speaker 2: A ring, as much as Barkley was.
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Speaker 5: I think it meant a lot to Barkley to be
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Speaker 5: on the Dream Team and knowing in the era of
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Speaker 5: all those great players, he was the best player on
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Speaker 5: that team during that time. I mean, he averaged the most,
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Speaker 5: he was their most productive player. So I think part
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Speaker 5: of that is sad to that wound when he starts
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Speaker 5: to think about that. I also think when when you
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Speaker 5: flip it over to the NFL and in this week
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Speaker 5: with Super Bowl sixty on the horizon, it's almost you
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Speaker 5: shifted where in the NBA you think more of the
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Speaker 5: guys that don't end up winning a title. In the NFL,
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Speaker 5: you almost feel worse for the guys that just never
16:54
Speaker 5: get to experience this, right, like all of what last
16:57
Speaker 5: night was. I think of Philip Rivers, who was in
16:59
Speaker 5: the title game maybe once or twice in his career,
17:02
Speaker 5: never got back.
17:03
Speaker 2: Julius Pepper's one of my favorite players.
17:05
Speaker 5: Of all time, and when he got to come to
17:08
Speaker 5: Green Bay, you were an eyelash away twice and he
17:11
Speaker 5: played in a Super Bowl, I want to say, in
17:13
Speaker 5: his second year in Carolina, played almost twenty years and
17:16
Speaker 5: never got back. So it's that to me in the NFL.
17:20
Speaker 5: It's almost getting to this point is the first part
17:23
Speaker 5: of the pinnacle. Everyone remembers you a lot differently if
17:26
Speaker 5: you win this one, but at least you get to
17:28
Speaker 5: experience what this week is like. And apparently what you
17:32
Speaker 5: know media night in a convention center is fellas. We
17:36
Speaker 5: lucked out being at Super Bowl opening.
17:38
Speaker 2: Night last year right in the stadium.
17:41
Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, did you see any of the shots
17:43
Speaker 5: in the sterileness of what they were doing yesterday in
17:46
Speaker 5: the San Jose Convention Center. I mean, you thought we
17:49
Speaker 5: were tight nuts to butts last year, bouncing around on
17:53
Speaker 5: the outskirts of the field. Tough look for the folks
17:58
Speaker 5: that drove the nearly two hours to get out.
18:00
Speaker 2: For the convention center.
18:02
Speaker 5: For me, yeah, so we had a good We definitely
18:05
Speaker 5: did have a pretty good man.
18:07
Speaker 2: So I like to think about that. It just wasn't
18:08
Speaker 2: the same vibe, was it.
18:10
Speaker 5: I mean, not only that, from what I saw about
18:12
Speaker 5: the lack of stuff I saw, it didn't look like
18:13
Speaker 5: there was much audio or video like that floating around.
18:16
Speaker 5: I thought it'd be a bigger deal because I don't
18:17
Speaker 5: know that a lot of people were able.
18:18
Speaker 2: To bounce around exactly exactly.
18:21
Speaker 4: The like where Radio Row was the media center.
18:25
Speaker 5: I saw multiple people posting pictures of their ubers or
18:29
Speaker 5: their ways happ screenshots. I was taking them like an
18:32
Speaker 5: hour and forty five minutes, two hours to get over there,
18:35
Speaker 5: So I don't even know if they ended up making
18:36
Speaker 5: it as much for a decent amount of the festivities
18:39
Speaker 5: last night.
18:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've seen quite an anniversary. You know, this is
18:43
Speaker 2: the week. I was thinking about it because February third,
18:45
Speaker 2: I wasn't around.
18:46
Speaker 4: I'm not that old, but February third is the day
18:49
Speaker 4: of the Buddy Holly Big Boppa, Richie Vallen's plane crash
18:52
Speaker 4: in clear Lake, Iowa, the day the music died oh Man, historically,
18:56
Speaker 4: And then I'm like, I do remember, Like we're like,
18:58
Speaker 4: this is the week packers in Dallas. The anniversaries coming
19:02
Speaker 4: up February sixth, Yeah, we're gonna have to watch that
19:06
Speaker 4: coming up.
19:06
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, on Thursday. Definitely do a Super Bowl rewatch.
19:10
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, I think you got to. I
19:11
Speaker 5: think that Super Bowl rewatch might have to happen during
19:13
Speaker 5: the show. Super Bowl forty five rewatch. I'm a big
19:15
Speaker 5: fan of doing that, and I have when I've seen
19:19
Speaker 5: the third quarter again Drew. I just like to think
19:22
Speaker 5: about what on earth I'm miked up with Harmon Sari
19:25
Speaker 5: and would have been like it, that's.
19:26
Speaker 2: Just terrified, terrified. Where did you watch that game? Buddy's house?
19:30
Speaker 5: We were all together for every Playoff game that run,
19:32
Speaker 5: and it was twenty one to three if you remember
19:33
Speaker 5: the lead, So that twenty one of three is now
19:36
Speaker 5: obviously burned into my memory branded for different reasons. But
19:39
Speaker 5: that was twenty one three, and I said, I don't
19:41
Speaker 5: I don't know how I'm ever gonna be able to
19:42
Speaker 5: get over losing a game with the lead like that
19:45
Speaker 5: in this calibrino a super Bowl, And I was kind of,
19:48
Speaker 5: you know that that sinking feeling that might not be
19:50
Speaker 5: to be until that men in All fumble happened, which
19:53
Speaker 5: I think started to turn things around again momentum wise.
19:55
Speaker 5: But it's fun to watch old games and to a
19:59
Speaker 5: real real lize yeah, well yeah.
20:01
Speaker 2: Just to stop pause, right, it's.
20:03
Speaker 5: Fun to watch old games and realize what.
20:05
Speaker 2: Some of us have other hobbies.
20:07
Speaker 5: But no, no, you know, let's remember all right, No,
20:10
Speaker 5: that's good, I get it.
20:11
Speaker 2: Fun to watch old game what else? Yeah, that's it.
20:13
Speaker 5: That should be on my tombstone.
20:15
Speaker 2: Will army.
20:17
Speaker 5: Here lies arm and it was fun to watch what
20:18
Speaker 5: he loved watching the tape of the nineteen eighty three
20:21
Speaker 5: Eastern Conference Finals. Yeah, but my point was it's fun
20:25
Speaker 5: too your lives n.
20:29
Speaker 2: That's right, that's absolutely right.
20:30
Speaker 5: We'll talk about game six, but basically my point is
20:34
Speaker 5: it's interesting to see what you remember what you don't like,
20:37
Speaker 5: Like you watch a playing like why why didn'tn't I
20:39
Speaker 5: remember this play? This is an impactful moment. Oh yeah,
20:41
Speaker 5: factful thing. That's stuff that's interesting.
20:44
Speaker 4: Algo, just gave me some stuff with it from that,
20:46
Speaker 4: and you're always gonna see the Kevin Green, right, yeah,
20:49
Speaker 4: may he rests Green.
20:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Jennings.
20:52
Speaker 4: Coming back to the bench talking about what the corners
20:54
Speaker 4: were doing. It's like the corners gonna be wide open,
20:55
Speaker 4: gonna be wide open. And he set that up, called
20:57
Speaker 4: his shot and Rogers delivers him a PA right there.
21:00
Speaker 2: That was amazing.
21:01
Speaker 5: And that's the NFL film stuff we didn't see till after, right,
21:04
Speaker 5: But like the plays like the third and ten that
21:06
Speaker 5: he hit the Jennings that was probably one of the
21:08
Speaker 5: biggest plays of the year. On that final drive with
21:10
Speaker 5: the second and final drive.
21:11
Speaker 4: So one of the players I probably cursed the most
21:14
Speaker 4: in his Packers' lifetime. In my fandom was a guy
21:18
Speaker 4: that we hung out with in the shadows of lambeau
21:20
Speaker 4: Field at Buffalo Wild Wings and might be the coolest,
21:23
Speaker 4: nicest guy you'll ever meet in your entire life. Jarrett
21:26
Speaker 4: Bush makes one of the biggest plays of the Super Bowl,
21:29
Speaker 4: sure jumping the route now, maybe maybe being in the
21:32
Speaker 4: wrong spot, maybe not covering the same the guy that
21:35
Speaker 4: he's supposed to. Hey, happy accidents and Bob Ross painted
21:39
Speaker 4: a beautiful one that day. Plenty to get to this week,
21:41
Speaker 4: shooting shirts are coming off. Oh, Sean McVay gets an
21:44
Speaker 4: extension along with less neat. How about that multi year
21:47
Speaker 4: I imagine that's gonna be rather fat the clarion call
21:50
Speaker 4: of TV. He's just going to stay on the grind
21:53
Speaker 4: and stay as the coach. Shocking how a trip to
21:55
Speaker 4: the NFC title game makes that decision a little easier
21:58
Speaker 4: than being five and ten or whatever it was five
22:00
Speaker 4: and twelve a couple of years ago.
22:02
Speaker 2: We are off and running.
22:03
Speaker 4: We are gonna do some buying and selling in the
22:05
Speaker 4: seven o'clock hour. We'll have a concert announcement as well.
22:08
Speaker 4: Six o'clock hour we'll do some buying or selling and
22:10
Speaker 4: a concert announcement and giveaway in the seven o'clock hour
22:13
Speaker 4: of the program. Where else would you rather be? You're
22:15
Speaker 4: hanging out in the huddle lot of Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
22:19
Speaker 4: It's the huddle Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. True billion arman
22:22
Speaker 4: bringing it to you, you early risers out there. We
22:24
Speaker 4: appreciate it so much, Associate Paths.
22:26
Speaker 2: When we're waiting for the health club to open up
22:28
Speaker 2: at five am.
22:29
Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of our listeners that are
22:31
Speaker 4: doing that.
22:31
Speaker 2: There's a lot of us right now. Yeah, these guys
22:35
Speaker 2: are full of it. What do they know?
22:36
Speaker 5: And Outsider forty five twenty coming in with the most
22:39
Speaker 5: common question I've gotten in the last two weeks. And
22:42
Speaker 5: I'm sure you guys have gotten this a lot too.
22:44
Speaker 5: So you getting used to the start time arment, You
22:47
Speaker 5: getting used to waking up early? You guys get used
22:49
Speaker 5: to it. So you guys get used to that early
22:51
Speaker 5: alarm clock. How many times you gotten that question? Outsider
22:54
Speaker 5: forty five twenty. By the way, cool name man, That
22:57
Speaker 5: is a sweet name. Much cool than like gouts sat
23:00
Speaker 5: in forty four to thirty. You know, yeah, not as
23:02
Speaker 5: cool as you know, fifty four or twenty, But you
23:05
Speaker 5: don't get used to it. You just learn to manage
23:06
Speaker 5: it better. Is that the right way to turn it?
23:08
Speaker 4: That's That's what I'm getting to right now.
23:11
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I don't know that you necessarily are
23:14
Speaker 5: getting used to the three thirty or three forty alarm.
23:16
Speaker 2: However, I'm really.
23:19
Speaker 5: Digging the nine to thirty back at home deal and
23:24
Speaker 5: being able to work through the rest of the day.
23:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, and to aggregate and get enough stuff. Sorry, that's
23:29
Speaker 2: a bad word nowadays.
23:30
Speaker 5: I agree, grab as much stuff to be able to
23:33
Speaker 5: bring in for the next day and have a clean slate.
23:37
Speaker 5: I really enjoy knowing that we're the first folks on
23:41
Speaker 5: the air, right that there's the there's the sick part
23:43
Speaker 5: of sure, like the Sikos that are waiting outside the
23:46
Speaker 5: why that's it. You can have that little bit of
23:50
Speaker 5: pride and say I'll here before you. It feels like
23:53
Speaker 5: the fan of the alt indie band I was here
23:55
Speaker 5: before you.
23:56
Speaker 4: I What people don't get is that when you adopted
24:00
Speaker 4: this lifestyle of ours and the alarm goes off at
24:03
Speaker 4: what for me, it's like three forty eight in the
24:05
Speaker 4: first alarm.
24:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, very similar, mind I was trying to front with
24:07
Speaker 2: the three three thirty before that's okay, you like extra
24:11
Speaker 2: couple of minutes.
24:11
Speaker 5: It was like it was like it was like a
24:13
Speaker 5: ten pounds in the high school football.
24:17
Speaker 2: It's all good.
24:18
Speaker 4: What what sucks is that little thing that everybody else
24:21
Speaker 4: looks forward to the weekend. You have a great turn
24:25
Speaker 4: your life upside down. It's like, if we just did
24:27
Speaker 4: this every day, it'd be more manageable than having those
24:29
Speaker 4: two days where you try to flip upside down and
24:32
Speaker 4: try to stay up past nine thirty or ten at
24:34
Speaker 4: night and have a life. It's so great, and it's like, wow,
24:37
Speaker 4: if it wasn't for that, because if you stayed on
24:39
Speaker 4: the same routine, okay, but who's going to do that?
24:42
Speaker 2: Like you got to live a.
24:42
Speaker 5: Life, right, so least even if you stand the same
24:45
Speaker 5: routine and you extend it out like three hours, I
24:48
Speaker 5: was still Saturday morning, wide awake at six am, like
24:52
Speaker 5: obviously everyone else in the house is sleeping. I'm like,
24:54
Speaker 5: all right, I say I'm awake at four I'm just
24:58
Speaker 5: saying I got I'm sorry, So go back to cutting
25:00
Speaker 5: some potatoes or doing something or like should I make
25:03
Speaker 5: the coffee wall? My wife won't be up Gordon Ramsey
25:06
Speaker 5: with come out. I'm like, what's on TV? Like, I'm
25:09
Speaker 5: watching Forensic Large? What have you been doing watching Forensic
25:12
Speaker 5: first forty years? I'm roasting potatoes? What are you doing?
25:15
Speaker 5: I mean, like, I've been up for an hour and
25:17
Speaker 5: a half, which is great, until it's like, oh, this
25:20
Speaker 5: is great. You know, it's nine pm. Let's see what's
25:22
Speaker 5: on TV and all this. Let's see what's on Netflix,
25:25
Speaker 5: you know, and I'm drooling on the pillow.
25:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, when it's nine thirty in the morning and you've
25:28
Speaker 4: been up for an entire day almost that's.
25:31
Speaker 5: When the sinking feeling goes. Man, I really wish I
25:34
Speaker 5: would have been able to go right back to me.
25:35
Speaker 5: You feel like this day's lasting forever. She goes, No,
25:38
Speaker 5: it's eleven. One of the things.
25:41
Speaker 4: Here's one of the things boys, and we're gonna have
25:44
Speaker 4: to find you know. I know nobody from our sales
25:47
Speaker 4: team over in Thailand is up at this hour, right,
25:50
Speaker 4: but if they might be.
25:51
Speaker 2: What we need is we need to get.
25:53
Speaker 4: On like the early bird train, because I have found
25:56
Speaker 4: one of the keys to getting good sleep when you
25:57
Speaker 4: work these hours is to eat dinner early, earlier you
26:01
Speaker 4: try to eat, and if you eat at seven thirty
26:03
Speaker 4: and go to bed at eight thirty, your body is
26:06
Speaker 4: working to digest and you stay it's warmer.
26:09
Speaker 2: You're supposed to be cool when you go to sleep.
26:11
Speaker 2: Your body's like warming and working through that digestion process.
26:14
Speaker 4: And then they say you should eat, like the last
26:16
Speaker 4: thing you should eat be three maybe four hours before
26:19
Speaker 4: you go to bed. Well what does that put you?
26:21
Speaker 4: Like at four o'clock the Early Bird Special? Yeah, well
26:24
Speaker 4: listen And the best thing is, I'm just fat. So
26:26
Speaker 4: I've always tried to eat dinner at four. I've like
26:28
Speaker 4: always tried to as soon as possible because I'm so hungry.
26:32
Speaker 4: That's however, I do feel like it fits more now.
26:36
Speaker 4: I said it to my wife Yesterday'm like, actually, I
26:38
Speaker 4: don't feel bad asking you at three forty, hey, when
26:40
Speaker 4: should I start making dinner to be able to But
26:43
Speaker 4: the problem is Drew, you know the potential eight o'clock
26:47
Speaker 4: pul of ice cream, and all of a sudden you
26:49
Speaker 4: look at Oh yeah, Drew.
26:50
Speaker 2: Said, I got a cool down, and I was like,
26:52
Speaker 2: I got I got to cool down a little bit.
26:53
Speaker 4: Why don't I go and check this toll house steal owed,
26:55
Speaker 4: maybe throw a little bit of cookie.
26:56
Speaker 2: Don't see what's.
26:57
Speaker 5: Up when you start looking in the pantry like you're
27:00
Speaker 5: you're a kid looking at the toy store, like, well,
27:02
Speaker 5: what a god there?
27:02
Speaker 2: What's that cinnamon? Life? What do we got? What do
27:04
Speaker 2: we got it?
27:05
Speaker 5: There?
27:05
Speaker 2: Christ's And I think.
27:07
Speaker 5: That there's a dangerous dealing once you get a Costco
27:11
Speaker 5: membership to whenever you go to realize you do need
27:14
Speaker 5: to go through every single one of the snacks.
27:16
Speaker 2: You got to you got to.
27:17
Speaker 5: I got Thanks for funny and someone's got eat these funians.
27:19
Speaker 5: Let's here for Tony Jabbroni up here on the on
27:23
Speaker 5: the YouTube comments, Guys, this is the first time I've.
27:26
Speaker 2: Been up early enough to catch the show. I dig it?
27:28
Speaker 2: All right, Well we did? We did? You digging it?
27:31
Speaker 2: Tony Jabroni, thank you appreciate that. I like that.
27:33
Speaker 4: Yes, eight seven seven seven nine seven three. Someone hit
27:38
Speaker 4: us up, Jason and Waukeshaw.
27:39
Speaker 2: What's up, Jason.
27:41
Speaker 4: We were talking about great guys who've never won a
27:43
Speaker 4: title in the Because James Harden's now on the block,
27:46
Speaker 4: we'll talk about that momentarily. But Jason Watshaus said Clyde
27:49
Speaker 4: Drexler instructors. Drexler wont up a title.
27:51
Speaker 5: He won the title with the ninety five Rockets, so
27:54
Speaker 5: instructive that you don't remember that right because you think
27:56
Speaker 5: of a game and all these guys. He was on
27:58
Speaker 5: the second Rockets team. He's kind of it was an
28:02
Speaker 5: important part of the team, but he kind of jumped on,
28:04
Speaker 5: you know, to I don't want to say ring. I
28:05
Speaker 5: guess that's the early version of ring chasing. Sure, but
28:08
Speaker 5: he was part of that team. But he didn't win
28:10
Speaker 5: when he was driving the bus in Portland because he
28:12
Speaker 5: got blocked in ninety by the Pistons and then the
28:15
Speaker 5: Bulls in ninety two. But Clyde did win in ninety five.
28:18
Speaker 5: So I got one, all right, that one right.
28:20
Speaker 4: Back in the town where he couldn't win in college.
28:22
Speaker 4: That's a great point because Pajama and beat him.
28:26
Speaker 2: Right, and they so close.
28:28
Speaker 5: Thinking you want to talk about the trivia question, Oh
28:30
Speaker 5: my gosh, my youngster asked, who won the basketball championship
28:34
Speaker 5: last year?
28:35
Speaker 2: That's a great question. Let me look it up, and
28:38
Speaker 2: then let me look it up. Who ended up? Are
28:40
Speaker 2: impossible and then.
28:41
Speaker 5: Realized that it was an all I forgot that it
28:43
Speaker 5: was an all time great game between Florida and Houston.
28:46
Speaker 5: It had sixty seven sixty five comeback. I'm like, buddy,
28:49
Speaker 5: that was a great one. That's the tough part about
28:52
Speaker 5: all this sudden eleven months later not remembering anything.
28:54
Speaker 4: That asked me from eighty two to ninety and I
28:56
Speaker 4: can tell you asked me last year in the last final.
28:59
Speaker 5: I know that crazy, but I think it's to your
29:02
Speaker 5: point about the.
29:02
Speaker 2: Crucible sports fandom.
29:04
Speaker 5: You, just like Carson, will remember everything that happened in
29:07
Speaker 5: the next ten years for the rest of LA in
29:09
Speaker 5: terms of sports, because when he grows up through it,
29:11
Speaker 5: you know your son. But I think there's a point there,
29:13
Speaker 5: and it is pretty interesting. But yeah, I mean, if
29:16
Speaker 5: it wasn't for the Blue Jays, nobody came closer to
29:18
Speaker 5: winning a title without than that. He was the Calvin
29:20
Speaker 5: Samson Houston teams. I mean, they've come as close as
29:23
Speaker 5: you can get. So that's brutality right there. I guess
29:26
Speaker 5: maybe those Shanahan forty nine ers he silas won the
29:28
Speaker 5: Super Bowl.
29:29
Speaker 4: So so in a way, the sports gods smiled at
29:32
Speaker 4: us last night and into this morning, and they said,
29:35
Speaker 4: here's James Harden to talk about and give the rest
29:37
Speaker 4: of the NBA media industrial complex, something to churn on
29:41
Speaker 4: other than just beat this Yannis thing. Oh my goodness, Yeah,
29:44
Speaker 4: it's a poor horse that's just sitting in the corner
29:47
Speaker 4: saying really again, like do we really have to do
29:50
Speaker 4: this again for the next four days before we get
29:52
Speaker 4: to the deadline. It also, Drew felt like maybe there
29:55
Speaker 4: was a shift last night from Shams of saying, I
29:57
Speaker 4: do need to find something else to discuss.
30:00
Speaker 2: When these people bring me up every night. Yeah, because
30:02
Speaker 2: it was the honest thing.
30:04
Speaker 4: And now the interesting thing was that the one thing
30:07
Speaker 4: I heard from Shams and I think maybe Ramona Shelburne stuff,
30:10
Speaker 4: is that there's an undercurrent that even if you're honis
30:13
Speaker 4: if the Bucks don't trade jan Us and two o'clock Thursday,
30:16
Speaker 4: we'll know. But I don't think it's gonna happen right
30:19
Speaker 4: now for all the reasons we've been talking about. Yeah,
30:21
Speaker 4: it's gonna First of all, there's a chance he might stay,
30:23
Speaker 4: but there's also that six it's gonna take a sixteen
30:25
Speaker 4: bank shot. And then Shams is saying, well, the Bucks
30:27
Speaker 4: will lose leveraging because Giannis will be able to more
30:29
Speaker 4: dictate where he wants to go, because that's whoever trades
30:32
Speaker 4: for him is gonna want to sign him to an extension.
30:34
Speaker 4: If somebody's going to trade for me, like I'm not
30:35
Speaker 4: going to play there for a long time, then it
30:37
Speaker 4: reduces his value. Okay granted, but they they're like, they'll
30:41
Speaker 4: see more control to Giannis And I'm just like, well,
30:43
Speaker 4: he's kind of driving this thing now, isn't he a
30:45
Speaker 4: little bit?
30:46
Speaker 5: Yeah? What what do we see get control the app
30:49
Speaker 5: while he's driving the bus?
30:50
Speaker 4: But that that can't be the bucks concern?
30:53
Speaker 2: And what to?
30:54
Speaker 4: The Bucks ow it to him to send him where
30:55
Speaker 4: he wants to go?
30:56
Speaker 2: No, the Bucks? What to?
30:58
Speaker 4: The Bucks have paid honest, almost three hundred million dollars
31:01
Speaker 4: already and they want to give him two hundred and
31:03
Speaker 4: seventy five more. Why do they owe him where they
31:06
Speaker 4: send him? I mean it's a courtesy, I guess, but
31:10
Speaker 4: in that way, And if you're running your organization that way,
31:14
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's the right way to approach it.
31:16
Speaker 5: And you I think you can run your organization that way, Drew,
31:19
Speaker 5: And I guess I would urge. And you see teams
31:21
Speaker 5: do it like the Lakers where you're in a position
31:25
Speaker 5: perennially to acquire whatever disgruntled star athlete there is. Right,
31:31
Speaker 5: whatever disgruntled star becomes available, they always want to play
31:35
Speaker 5: for the Lakers. God bless any one of them that
31:38
Speaker 5: wakes up and calls his agent and says, you know
31:40
Speaker 5: where I really want to play Milwaukee, wiscond I'm only
31:44
Speaker 5: thirty one. I don't think it's happened in my lifetime,
31:47
Speaker 5: and I bet a sizeable and potentially uncomfortable amount of
31:50
Speaker 5: money that it's not going to happen. So you do
31:53
Speaker 5: need to operate in a spot where, sure it's nice
31:56
Speaker 5: to do what's nice but good by the player. But
31:59
Speaker 5: I don't think you're bet fitting and earning any goodwill
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Speaker 5: with the rest of the players of the players Association
32:04
Speaker 5: by sending him to Miami or Orlando.
32:07
Speaker 2: You send him wherever you get the best pack at
32:08
Speaker 2: at all.
32:09
Speaker 4: But then the other layer of this is that there
32:11
Speaker 4: reporting they're starting to be turned that if Giannis isn't traded,
32:13
Speaker 4: he wants to come back from this cap strain and
32:15
Speaker 4: play this season, and it's like, well, that's not part
32:18
Speaker 4: of the blueprint.
32:19
Speaker 2: Then we might win games and not get a.
32:21
Speaker 4: Good pick, Like what are you doing you're hurting the
32:23
Speaker 4: operation by playing. That's why I said, bubble wrap, go
32:26
Speaker 4: to grease, sit on the bench, relax, give you an
32:29
Speaker 4: assis your minutes.
32:30
Speaker 5: See sounds like has been listening to the show and
32:33
Speaker 5: he's he called up. He's like, GA, they're thinking about
32:36
Speaker 5: shutting you down. We need to throw something. We need
32:39
Speaker 5: to throw a wrench into that idea. I get it
32:40
Speaker 5: that he does want to play, because what or that
32:42
Speaker 5: he's going to want to play. However, it's paramount that
32:46
Speaker 5: if you're going to do this thing right and that
32:48
Speaker 5: he doesn't play outside of maybe five to ten games
32:51
Speaker 5: at the end to make everybody see that he's okay.
32:54
Speaker 5: The benefit of that is very very low, very low,
32:57
Speaker 5: and the risk is rather high. Traphic Achilles pop and
33:01
Speaker 5: he's out for a year. But if it gives you
33:03
Speaker 5: a sliver of a chance to sign him in October,
33:05
Speaker 5: I think you do it. Yeah, right, sliver of a
33:08
Speaker 5: chance to sign him well, and it will allow yourself
33:11
Speaker 5: to actually go in this two to five year window
33:14
Speaker 5: that you tried to sell him on. I think it
33:16
Speaker 5: might be worth it.
33:16
Speaker 4: Then again, there slide into the abyss during this window
33:20
Speaker 4: where he's out is so arm and word incoming arm
33:23
Speaker 4: and word precipitous. Yes, that he's gonna there's gonna be
33:28
Speaker 4: so buried. They were only five hundred with him and
33:32
Speaker 4: it's it was And when he comes back, it's still
33:34
Speaker 4: gonna be turtastic and Doc is still calling the shot.
33:37
Speaker 2: So it's not gonna be great when he comes back.
33:40
Speaker 4: But so how much will it really hurt their their
33:43
Speaker 4: draft positioning? They already have a pick swap, so they
33:45
Speaker 4: can only go so hot, but it's gonna be a
33:47
Speaker 4: lottery pick, right, extra pos So the idea that well,
33:52
Speaker 4: they're gonna screw up and Giannis is going to lead
33:54
Speaker 4: them to the playing game, Like.
33:55
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's a worry.
33:57
Speaker 5: I think we're gonna be so far gone patient. Actually
34:00
Speaker 5: the debt's not gonna matter. That's also the fact that
34:03
Speaker 5: maybe the hottest team in the NBA is the Fighting Nipples,
34:07
Speaker 5: the Killer Bees, and they're potentially just gonna make that
34:11
Speaker 5: too far of a run for you to be able
34:13
Speaker 5: to get back into the play.
34:15
Speaker 4: Or is LaMelo Ball moving into the SGA of the
34:18
Speaker 4: future role where it's like build around this guy and
34:20
Speaker 4: like make him the hub of everything. They're interesting there
34:24
Speaker 4: that that team is interesting. There's no doubt about it
34:26
Speaker 4: when you think about what those guys can do together.
34:28
Speaker 2: But and it's systemic.
34:29
Speaker 4: You mentioned all the new championships, and like, after what
34:32
Speaker 4: six years of Warriors calves in a row, we now
34:36
Speaker 4: have the opposite of that. And the people who bitched
34:39
Speaker 4: about the same teams being in the files over here
34:41
Speaker 4: are now like, well, this sucks. Like there's no dynasties anymore.
34:44
Speaker 4: It's everybody's gotta be pissed about something.
34:47
Speaker 2: It wouldn't be.
34:48
Speaker 5: Why'd you say the national pastime is bitching. We're good
34:52
Speaker 5: at it because we've done it for a long long time,
34:54
Speaker 5: playing about everything. But don't worry. We might have it
34:57
Speaker 5: in the NFL. We might have it in the NFL.
34:59
Speaker 5: And one of our favorite ones to hate is just
35:03
Speaker 5: running out of the darkness on that beautiful horse like
35:06
Speaker 5: Paul Revere in the night and the Pats are coming,
35:11
Speaker 5: and the Bostonians are coming, and the massholes might be coming,
35:14
Speaker 5: and it might be a great opportunity for us to hate.
35:17
Speaker 2: Somebody once again in the beautiful world of sports.
35:19
Speaker 4: Yes, never thought I'd be in a position where I'm
35:22
Speaker 4: rooting for Seattle's.
35:24
Speaker 2: I think I did to that point, but great point
35:27
Speaker 2: we're at that. We'll talk about that picked me up yet, Ah,
35:30
Speaker 2: we'll talk about that conundrum as we move forwar.
35:32
Speaker 4: We're gonna do some buying or selling after seven o'clock
35:34
Speaker 4: concert announcement, I mean buying, are selling after six o'clock
35:36
Speaker 4: concert announcement? After seven and a giveaway today we're Billy
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Speaker 4: Trivia for you to grab that comfortable chair, cold drink
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Speaker 4: or if you're on the elliptical. Thanks for sweating with us.
35:48
Speaker 4: It's the Huddle on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin and yours truly,
35:53
Speaker 4: Drew Wilson. We're talking about Giannis and the gift we
35:55
Speaker 4: got from the sports gods that James Harden now in
35:58
Speaker 4: the rumor churn, but Darius Garland and Cleveland in LA
36:03
Speaker 4: and now suddenly NICs like moved down in the pecking
36:06
Speaker 4: order of stuff that they're churning out today. Well, and
36:09
Speaker 4: I do wonder, Drew, how much of this you know?
36:12
Speaker 5: It's we're still two days away from the deadline, where
36:16
Speaker 5: we're a full forty eight plus hours away. By the way,
36:18
Speaker 5: the deadline is two o'clock on Thursday, two o'clock on
36:21
Speaker 5: Thursday PM, you know, afternoon, So okay, and when did
36:24
Speaker 5: the baseball one go to five o'clock? When did they
36:26
Speaker 5: decide that?
36:27
Speaker 4: I remember like midnight Eastern it was the worst for
36:30
Speaker 4: newspaper deadlines.
36:31
Speaker 2: And then finally they were like it was.
36:33
Speaker 4: Like three in the afternoon and it was perfect. You
36:35
Speaker 4: can set this whenever you want. It's like an arbitrary show.
36:39
Speaker 4: Was this isn't a national holiday?
36:40
Speaker 2: Thousand?
36:42
Speaker 4: I say that, And I've had this conversation with my
36:44
Speaker 4: wife because she's in the business world, in the real world.
36:47
Speaker 2: And then it's like.
36:48
Speaker 4: End of quarter and trying to get stuff done by
36:50
Speaker 4: the end of the year, and trying to get stuff
36:52
Speaker 4: done by Christmas, and it's like, well, we have to
36:54
Speaker 4: have these deals done, and I'm like, okay, so why
36:58
Speaker 4: not just like slide the deadlin And I know that's
37:00
Speaker 4: not how it works because everybody tries to push and
37:03
Speaker 4: wait and stuff, like you're setting the deadline.
37:05
Speaker 2: We're a world of procrastinators.
37:07
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, so why doesn't Why doesn't you, just as
37:09
Speaker 4: as a company just say all deals for the next
37:12
Speaker 4: year have to be completed by December twenty third, Like
37:17
Speaker 4: make that the deadline, because your point so that extra week,
37:20
Speaker 4: it's like you set the deadline as New Year's even,
37:23
Speaker 4: like the calendar sets it for you set it yourself.
37:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like, well now, because.
37:27
Speaker 4: Then people will want to push it like why, oh
37:29
Speaker 4: I thought I thought you were going to get the
37:31
Speaker 4: answer of, well, that's how we always did it. Well,
37:33
Speaker 4: that's my least favorite answer in the part all I've
37:37
Speaker 4: done it's always been screwed up. You're a that is
37:41
Speaker 4: my whole professional life was you know, well that's how
37:44
Speaker 4: we always done it, because we always did it at
37:46
Speaker 4: the thirty first, right at this time of year with
37:48
Speaker 4: Hardercourt and I would go into a meeting with the
37:49
Speaker 4: bosses and be like, okay, well, how what are your
37:51
Speaker 4: plans for covering spring training? How you gonna do it?
37:53
Speaker 4: And we always had ideas of stuff we were going
37:55
Speaker 4: to do, and then they're like, all right, when do
37:56
Speaker 4: you start that position by position series? We're like, well,
37:58
Speaker 4: we had thought about not doing that this year and
38:00
Speaker 4: moving away from it, like, well, but our readers have
38:04
Speaker 4: come to expect that because we give it to him
38:05
Speaker 4: every year.
38:06
Speaker 2: Let's give them something different they can come to expect that. Well, No,
38:08
Speaker 2: we want the position by position series because then we
38:10
Speaker 2: can tease the next day, like today, was Catcheres.
38:13
Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, so I'm gonna write my sixth
38:15
Speaker 4: straight story about left field being Jeff Jenkins for the
38:17
Speaker 4: six year old I've already interviewed his sixth grade in
38:19
Speaker 4: kindergarten teachers. What new angle do you guys have for
38:22
Speaker 4: me that you want to know about the guy that
38:24
Speaker 4: we write about every year.
38:24
Speaker 2: That's been in the left field. They're like, at some point,
38:27
Speaker 2: you know that the football guys still do it.
38:30
Speaker 4: Oh, for sure, ildest time. I think it started with
38:33
Speaker 4: Bob McGinn. Oh, that guy do it, and then we
38:37
Speaker 4: would do it. But then like every year, but when
38:40
Speaker 4: you don't have turned.
38:45
Speaker 2: Tackles like.
38:47
Speaker 5: I can't wait for the I haven't been a walk
38:50
Speaker 5: to the newspaper box and buy one on Edgerton and
38:54
Speaker 5: then take two because it's already open.
38:56
Speaker 2: They have a big.
38:57
Speaker 5: Battle at second base. They're doing that tomorrow. I gotta have.
39:00
Speaker 4: My thing was that over the course of the spring,
39:02
Speaker 4: we're going to write about everybody anyway, so why do we.
39:05
Speaker 2: Have to have this packaged?
39:06
Speaker 4: And in some ways it was like it was like
39:08
Speaker 4: plug and play was locked in, so it took some
39:11
Speaker 4: of the brain work out of like but also stimied.
39:14
Speaker 2: I thought stimied creativity well tact to the news. I
39:18
Speaker 2: mean I didn't. I didn't know the business back then.
39:20
Speaker 2: So it's like, okay, that.
39:23
Speaker 5: We got Jerald Williams, and therefore we will win the
39:25
Speaker 5: World series.
39:25
Speaker 4: If something broke, though, if something broke, that was more important,
39:28
Speaker 4: and it's like, well, we have to keep that short
39:30
Speaker 4: because we're running your got This might be a little
39:34
Speaker 4: bit more pertinent, it might be a little bit better
39:35
Speaker 4: of a story.
39:36
Speaker 2: But the best thing.
39:37
Speaker 5: Is true is saying that he was that he wanted
39:41
Speaker 5: what all.
39:41
Speaker 4: You know, a lot of teachers I feel like, for
39:43
Speaker 4: a long time had asked us to do, especially once
39:45
Speaker 4: you get to college.
39:46
Speaker 5: It's they want you to be a freethinker. They want
39:48
Speaker 5: you to come up and have some creativity, come up
39:51
Speaker 5: with your own idea.
39:51
Speaker 2: You just say, well, what's the rule? Break though? Yeah,
39:54
Speaker 2: what what do you want? What we have to do?
39:59
Speaker 4: So I hear, hey, we're gonna be positioned by position?
40:01
Speaker 4: Oh sweet, all right, Monday, So I know exactly what
40:03
Speaker 4: I have to do that. But that is a difference
40:07
Speaker 4: of when you're in it and you've done it for
40:09
Speaker 4: so long, you see how many different stories there are
40:11
Speaker 4: to tell. We want to be able to move around
40:13
Speaker 4: a little bit. And I also like this guy saying,
40:15
Speaker 4: but yeah, but uh, but but what are you gonna
40:18
Speaker 4: write about the shortstop?
40:19
Speaker 5: Then? Yeah, because they got ss over here, so we
40:22
Speaker 5: need that story right. Well, well, part of that, you know, Drew,
40:25
Speaker 5: was our only hope was like the minor leaguers coming
40:28
Speaker 5: up in the future, like will this guy, you know,
40:31
Speaker 5: will Kyle Peterson be any good?
40:33
Speaker 2: And those he wasn't he the picture? Yes he was.
40:36
Speaker 5: That was part of it, you know, so you were
40:37
Speaker 5: kind of hoping like maybe Bob Hamlin will push first baseman.
40:41
Speaker 2: Like you know, all those type of guys.
40:43
Speaker 5: I enjoy it from the from the Super Bowl angle
40:45
Speaker 5: because you know that there's certain people, especially.
40:47
Speaker 4: Last night, you see a lot of different ones. One
40:49
Speaker 4: guy asked Mike Rable, is this a must wing game?
40:51
Speaker 4: That's awesome?
40:52
Speaker 2: Things like ever gamest wing games. That's while we're trying.
40:55
Speaker 4: But see like that, even that, you can't shock people
40:58
Speaker 4: with dumb questions anymore.
41:01
Speaker 2: Everyone's ready for it. Everyone's got something hole up for it.
41:04
Speaker 2: That's something we learned last year.
41:05
Speaker 5: You realize just how different everyone's job covering the game.
41:10
Speaker 5: This game is because some people are writing a story
41:14
Speaker 5: potentially drew like I think in the business they call
41:16
Speaker 5: it what the page one where it's just like you
41:18
Speaker 5: have to write this for people that did not know
41:20
Speaker 5: that a football is oblong, and they call it a
41:23
Speaker 5: pig skin.
41:24
Speaker 2: Oh.
41:24
Speaker 4: I wrote a story one time and they put it
41:27
Speaker 4: on page one A and they they newsified it just
41:30
Speaker 4: to your point where they someone I said something about
41:34
Speaker 4: the super Bowl. They're going to be playing in the
41:36
Speaker 4: super Bowl, and someone put the super Bowl comma A
41:39
Speaker 4: game contested every year for the championship of the National
41:41
Speaker 4: Football League. And I'm like, I get that this is
41:46
Speaker 4: for non sports fans, but can we start from the
41:49
Speaker 4: baseline that most Americans know what the super Bowl?
41:53
Speaker 2: The term super Bowl is for.
41:55
Speaker 5: The kids now they had that it's called the Nickelodeon broadcast.
41:58
Speaker 4: Right, let's not insult too mech people's intelligi A game
42:02
Speaker 4: contested every year for the championship of the National Football League.
42:05
Speaker 2: Thanks for that.
42:06
Speaker 4: And then they totally ruined the pros and the rhythm.
42:10
Speaker 5: What I was trying to say, Nothing nothing solved my
42:12
Speaker 5: imposter syndrome immediate quicker. Last year when I saw everybody
42:15
Speaker 5: and their their other podc Butt Scratch Podcast. I'll run
42:19
Speaker 5: around doing this sticking videos, just playing like yo yo's
42:23
Speaker 5: with the players.
42:23
Speaker 2: We needed to get one of those stick mics.
42:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, we needed to get one of those stick cameras
42:28
Speaker 5: who look so much cooler.
42:29
Speaker 2: At least I got a collar shirt on it.
42:31
Speaker 4: We gotta talk about that moving forward as well. Oh baby,
42:34
Speaker 4: we're gonna be buying or selling in the next hour
42:36
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