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09/22/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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