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09/08/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Dominating a Tuesday in the good land. It's the huddle
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Speaker 1: Fox sports radio, Wisconsin drew billion Armin bringing it to you. Hello.
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Speaker 1: Seven o'clock clubbers. Welcome in water is fine. Welcome in
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Speaker 1: the water is fine. We're glad that you're with us.
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Speaker 1: What are we talking about today? Everything college football, Badgers,
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame brewers, Cubs. Oh, Packers Vikings, which by the
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Speaker 1: way is inching ever closer. We have NFL professional tackle
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Speaker 1: football on Wednesday and Thursday this week as the appetizer
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Speaker 1: and then and then the Packers and the Vikings at U.S.
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Speaker 1: Bank Stadium on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: It gets it only gets better from here, Drew, because
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Speaker 2: we also then on Thursday night, five to seven, get
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Speaker 2: the first Thursday night huddle live from the annex of
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Speaker 2: the Pottawatomie Sportsbook. And there will be so much to
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Speaker 2: talk about, not only the games that you mentioned, the
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Speaker 2: one that will happen on Wednesday night that will kick
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Speaker 2: off the season as we start up with a rematch
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Speaker 2: of the Super Bowl from a year ago. But then
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Speaker 2: on Thursday, now we get the expedited news, potentially some
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Speaker 2: little bits of news on the Josh Jacobs thing as
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Speaker 2: he got his court date, his initial court date moved
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Speaker 2: up from November to September 10th. So potentially a little
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Speaker 2: bit of news in that standpoint, too.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of news, what will we know and when will
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Speaker 1: we know Who's starting for the Packers on the offensive line?
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Speaker 1: Because yesterday's answer from Matt LaFleur was kind of noncommittal.
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Speaker 1: Rather vague, wasn't it? Aaron Banks and Zach Baco-Buele.
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Speaker 2: I want to say that we would know by Thursday
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Speaker 2: or Friday, Drew. But.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you'd hope.
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Speaker 2: From last year, they were very honest and always talked about,
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Speaker 2: we'll give it right up until game time, right until
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Speaker 2: game time. Especially with two dudes that are more veteran, right?
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Speaker 2: And guys that have been there, done that. But for
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Speaker 2: Zach in particular....
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Speaker 1: I wonder what's going to change from now until Sunday.
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Speaker 1: That's the question, right? Like, is it that you get
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Speaker 1: a whole lot more comfortable.
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Speaker 2: And confident or swelling possibility be a thing or I
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Speaker 2: don't know.
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Speaker 1: So what's the tentative plan? Where do they slide in
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Speaker 1: Belton Monk and, you know, Jagger Burton? Or will they
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Speaker 1: all play in some form or fashion as the game
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Speaker 1: rolls along?
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Speaker 2: So I think Burton was going to play regardless, right?
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Speaker 2: Like I think there's a, they were going to find
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Speaker 2: a way for Burton to get snaps, whether that was
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Speaker 2: going to be rotating in at some point with Jacob
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Speaker 2: Monk at right guard, whether it was at left guard
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Speaker 2: with Aaron Banks at some point, maybe banks doesn't play
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Speaker 2: the whole game. He looked fine hanging out on Sunday
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Speaker 2: night at a Lambeau field for the game. He was
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Speaker 2: out one of the many, many Packers that they are
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Speaker 2: former Packers either way. that they celebrated with the Wisconsin
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Speaker 2: Notre Dame game Belton being kicked out to tackle while
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Speaker 2: mostly because of the guard competition. I think this is
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Speaker 2: one that maybe they saw in, you know, in the distance,
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Speaker 2: a possibility that you would want to have somebody dedicated
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Speaker 2: to backup Tom or maybe dollar in the jar at
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Speaker 2: that point if indeed so you didn't have to mix
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Speaker 2: in match and move three four guys around so I
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Speaker 2: think that was a intended consequence of that like an
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Speaker 2: intended goal was to have an isolated backup and right tackle.
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Speaker 2: If in case you had to start somebody there, Anthony
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Speaker 2: Belton didn't bring a ton of confidence at right tackle,
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Speaker 2: how he played in the preseason, but I think he'll
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Speaker 2: be your right tackle. If indeed Zach Baco Buel is
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Speaker 2: unable to go. And that's a, that's a scary proposition
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Speaker 2: going up against Andrew Van Ginkle and Dallas Turner.
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Speaker 1: That is kind of scary. So, and I have no
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Speaker 1: expectation that Jacobs will play.
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Speaker 2: No, I would one, but I do think he gets
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Speaker 2: the court date moved up to Thursday and I think
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Speaker 2: there's a much more, we're going to have an answer
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Speaker 2: within the next couple of weeks.
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Speaker 1: A plea deal of some kind. Yeah, I would think
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Speaker 1: there will be an answer within the next couple of weeks.
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Speaker 1: Then we can lock it in. I'm banking on six
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Speaker 1: games for him until proven otherwise. Yeah, four to six
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Speaker 1: games I think is right there.
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Speaker 2: But to be able to move it up, that means
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Speaker 2: that the number one thing that's going to have to
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Speaker 2: happen for him to come off the exempt list, I
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Speaker 2: don't think it's necessarily a case being closed in the court.
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Speaker 1: It's Roger Goodell needs to see that video. Roger Goodell's
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Speaker 1: got his... Got his extension now. Four-year extension. That's right.
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Speaker 1: I thought he was going to retire.
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Speaker 2: After this one. Four years for what, $ 2 billion? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: he said he was going to retire after this one.
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Speaker 1: Do you think he just want to spend more time
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Speaker 1: with the family? Yeah, get a hind down, eat some
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Speaker 1: more peanut M & Ms? I mean, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a tough job. You know, being commissioner,
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Speaker 1: raking in, what, a million a week? Right. What's his
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Speaker 1: new deal worth? I mean, it was like $ 50 million
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Speaker 1: a year last time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's $ 60 million a year with a full access
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Speaker 2: to a private jet the last time.
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Speaker 1: So we'll get the full details on this next one
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Speaker 1: coming up. Well, full access to a jet like you
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Speaker 1: can for one. That's like Bud Force One. I just,
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's nice.
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Speaker 2: I could afford one, but why would I pay for
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Speaker 2: it when somebody else is going to pay for it?
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Speaker 1: That was one of the greatest exchanges ever. When the
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Speaker 1: Prince of Darkness, Tom Hardcourt said to Bud Seely after
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Speaker 1: he was stepping down and became commissioner mayor to say, Bud,
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Speaker 1: you're going to have to learn how to fly commercial again.
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Speaker 1: He's like, Tom, I'm keeping the plane. I like that.
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Speaker 1: I'm keeping the plane. I'm keeping the plane. Are you nuts?
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Speaker 1: Come on. Of all the salaries. You got me messed up.
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Speaker 1: You think I'm losing the plane. The unwashed.
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Speaker 3: Of all the salaries in sports that people think are wild,
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Speaker 3: Goodell gets $ 60 million a year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but. Think about that weekly check. He makes billions
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Speaker 1: for the owner.
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Speaker 2: Shit.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't do it. The league makes it. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he doesn't. He's done it. He's done a good amount.
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Speaker 1: That's his main job is to inflate franchise. Any commission.
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Speaker 1: I know it's his job. Franchise values. Has he done that?
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Speaker 1: Did they sell the Seahawks for 10 billion? I'm saying
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Speaker 1: he could sit back and it would happen. That's all
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. I understand. Somebody's got to make this. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think I do hear what you're saying, Armin. He
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Speaker 1: does shepherd the process.
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Speaker 2: I think he's done an exceptional job of catapulting it
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Speaker 2: to another level.
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Speaker 1: Was it going to continue to get better? Just more
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Speaker 1: and bigger. Sure, but he keeps going more and bigger.
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Speaker 2: And let's be honest, he has stretched the calendar, which
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Speaker 2: I think a lot of fans maybe don't like.
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Speaker 1: You know who does like it?
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Speaker 2: Owners. Because it crowbars out another opportunity for you to
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Speaker 2: sell a standalone game for $ 50 million.
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Speaker 1: I just watched moving the draft around.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That one in just, I mean, come on in and.
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Speaker 2: Of itself, but taking it to streamers and getting Netflix
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Speaker 2: to pay you 40 to $ 50 million per game.
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Speaker 1: That, that works out too. Now, interesting one.
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Speaker 2: I saw some people online frustrated with the good Dell
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Speaker 2: situation because he will be 72 at the expiration of
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Speaker 2: this contract. And Mark Murphy had to step down at
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Speaker 2: 70 years old. At what point does the NFL put
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Speaker 2: it in an age? Well, or will this now actually be.
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Speaker 1: His last year?
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Speaker 3: Written on our bylaws originally, which makes us the greatest
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Speaker 3: sports entity of all time because the Packers, once again,
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Speaker 3: they had it written in perfectly. But you're right, it's
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Speaker 3: a good question. I mean, how long should he be
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Speaker 3: able to do it? Should there be an age limit
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Speaker 3: at all? I mean, if what we're saying is true
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Speaker 3: and he does all these things well for the owners,
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Speaker 3: what do they care?
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Speaker 2: I don't think there would be, but I think that
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Speaker 2: there would be– Maybe a part of this one is, hey,
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Speaker 2: let's make sure by the expiration here in 2030, we
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Speaker 2: know exactly who we're handing it off to.
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Speaker 3: The decision to work four more years when you're 68
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Speaker 3: has got to be a tough one. And I think
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Speaker 3: most people would say, well, I don't want to do that.
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Speaker 3: But you know what? If you're going to make $ 240
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Speaker 3: million at the end of that four years, I'm sure
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Speaker 3: it's a little bit easier to decide.
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Speaker 2: That would be a lot easier to do. And it's
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Speaker 2: not like you can't do whatever he wants. Speaking of commissioners,
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Speaker 2: Kathy Engelbert. Oh, stepping down. Go figure. They're at the WNBA.
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Speaker 2: That would be an example, Armin, that the league was
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Speaker 2: going to flourish. The league was going to get better
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Speaker 2: when Caitlin Clark walks into it, right? Like it was
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Speaker 2: going to get a sizable kick in terms of public
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Speaker 2: conversation and perception when a game, but you can also
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Speaker 2: be the commissioner.
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Speaker 1: That's there. Seize the growth.
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Speaker 2: But still not be the reason why it's growing or
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Speaker 2: the good part of the growth.
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Speaker 1: That's true.
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Speaker 3: But I mean, some leagues are in a different stage
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Speaker 3: of like development. Like when, like when Stern took over
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Speaker 3: the NBA and maybe the WNB now there is like
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Speaker 3: sort of like, okay, it's got to grow. It's got to,
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Speaker 3: I just think the NFL is so turnkey now, but
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Speaker 3: maybe good out a big part of that too.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you could just get in that train.
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Speaker 3: That's the thing. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: What, what more could they have done or could somebody
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Speaker 1: have driven it into the ditch? We'll never know. Cause
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Speaker 1: you don't know. I think it's possible.
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Speaker 3: I guess like boxing used to be the number one
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Speaker 3: sport in this country. Like, you know, anything is possible.
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Speaker 1: But I mean, how do you construct that alternate reality?
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Speaker 1: And if they had been somebody else besides taking over
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Speaker 1: after Tagliabue, right.
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Speaker 2: Then how do we, Yeah, the interesting one is what
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Speaker 2: you're able to avoid.
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Speaker 1: What you're able to have the league be able to
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Speaker 1: go through.
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Speaker 2: They were able to survive the concussion conversation that's happened
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Speaker 2: over the last 15 years.
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Speaker 1: It's a big one.
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Speaker 2: Sizable domestic violence conversation, right? The Ray Wrights thing was
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Speaker 2: under there. The TV rights deal is one. But also,
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Speaker 2: it's like, what problems do you make go away?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And he's done a very, very good job of being
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Speaker 2: able to silence some of those problems. Outside of the
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Speaker 2: guys like us that make jokes about Robert Kraft every
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Speaker 2: once in a while, we don't talk about that very much.
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Speaker 2: The Jed York conversation got real quiet here. Now the
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Speaker 2: games are going to start and the games will be awesome.
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Speaker 3: And he also has the advantage of an audience, an
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Speaker 3: American public that's willing to overlook all those things as
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Speaker 3: long as they get to watch football.
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Speaker 1: As long as we get to watch football and your
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Speaker 1: team wins. That's right.
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Speaker 3: Unless the United States government outlaws the game one day,
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Speaker 3: I don't see any other way around how this is
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Speaker 3: going to.
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Speaker 1: I really don't.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you could say the culture shifting about the
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Speaker 3: concussion and Unfortunately, we saw the bread for our video.
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Speaker 1: Some of us.
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Speaker 3: I don't think it matters to people. They want to
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Speaker 3: watch football. They want to watch this game and they
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Speaker 3: want to gamble on it. They want to play fantasy
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Speaker 3: football and do all those things. It's an American ritual.
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Speaker 3: And I don't think that's going to change, you know,
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Speaker 3: but but who knows? So things always do.
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Speaker 1: Your argument, Armin, is equivalent to what people say. Like,
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Speaker 1: you know, what is the first base coach do or
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Speaker 1: was the hitting coach do?
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Speaker 3: There are things, obviously Goodell is more aggressive with international stuff.
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Speaker 3: He pushes boundaries, like you said, by having all the
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Speaker 3: networks battle each other.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you could be a lot less games on streams, playing,
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Speaker 1: expanding the highlights, spent different days of the week. international play,
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Speaker 1: got a freaking game in Australia. You're not losing money
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Speaker 1: on that. Someone could have pushed the envelope a lot
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Speaker 1: less and say, you know what? We like our regular networks.
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Speaker 1: But then would the sport be as profitable? It wouldn't
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Speaker 1: be as profitable, probably, by the bottom line. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: it's all about franchise values because that's what the commissioner's
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Speaker 1: job is to increase the values of franchises And take
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Speaker 1: all the bullets for all the owners so that they
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Speaker 1: don't get the heat.
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Speaker 2: Because in the words of Tony Soprano, we're running a
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Speaker 2: business here. We're running a business here. We're running a
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Speaker 2: business here.
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Speaker 3: And it's a good time to get into pro sports.
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Speaker 3: As we know, every property equity guy wants to get
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Speaker 3: in and get out and make the money.
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Speaker 1: But is it also a bubble? It's a great question.
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Speaker 1: You've got to think this. Based on what's happening with
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers and the Lakers and the whole. You've got
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Speaker 1: to think at some point. Partner investigation.
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Speaker 2: At some point there's a cap, right? Like at some
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Speaker 2: point you think that there would be a ceiling.
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Speaker 1: People said that when Babe Ruth made $ 1, 000 a week. True.
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Speaker 1: It's like, how can we pay one man $ 1, 000 a week?
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Speaker 2: I can only imagine the conversations when Brett Favre signed
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Speaker 2: the first $ 100 million contract. Now we had a corner
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Speaker 2: last night signed for $ 100 million guaranteed.
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Speaker 1: Robin Yount was the first $ 3 million player in baseball
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Speaker 1: in the small market. Herb Cole bought the Bucs for what?
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Speaker 1: $ 14 million? $ 14 million?
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Speaker 3: $ 18 million or whatever in 85, and then he sold
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Speaker 3: it for $ 5. 50.
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Speaker 1: Wow. And then the next, I mean, then what happens?
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Speaker 1: And then gave him $ 100 million. Adonacio bought the Brewers
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Speaker 1: 25 years ago, right? For $ 225 million or something like that?
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Speaker 1: It's just crazy the rate of increase of the values.
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Speaker 1: And now it's worth, what, $ 2 billion? Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 2: And what will it be worth when Mike sells it? Right,
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Speaker 2: like when the sun sells it potentially, then what will
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Speaker 2: it be worth?
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Speaker 3: I can't imagine a number, and no number is too crazy,
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Speaker 3: because if that's decades down the road, there's no way,
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Speaker 3: I mean, when he sells it, we don't know, but
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Speaker 3: it could be decades, could be, I can't imagine a
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Speaker 3: number that's too crazy.
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Speaker 1: Because the rate of increase.
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Speaker 2: Listening to, and now this is a very different conversation,
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Speaker 2: but listening to the way Mark's talked about it, I
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Speaker 2: think it would be a tough thing for Mike to
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Speaker 2: have to give up, right? Like, you're seeing now, as
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Speaker 2: difficult as it is for the Buss family, right, like, Dr.
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Speaker 1: Bus loved the Lakers. He did totally loved the Lakers.
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Speaker 2: That, that era of pro sport owner that loves the team,
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Speaker 2: the family ownership, that's going to be, that's totally out of,
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Speaker 2: out of the conversation is getting to be gone. Too
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Speaker 2: big of assets for it to be a luxury project.
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Speaker 3: And it's rare that if you do get a guy
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Speaker 3: like that, he'll have such an emotional connection that he
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Speaker 3: won't want to sell and make the, you know, not
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Speaker 3: look at it as a business, but Mark's been that guy.
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Speaker 3: Like we're lucky to have him. I keep saying it
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Speaker 3: because of that. And hopefully that becomes family ownership. You know,
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Speaker 3: that we get somewhat stable. Because if it's not, then
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Speaker 3: what's going to happen? Because you need a little bit
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Speaker 3: of family ownership that's got some money behind them.
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Speaker 1: It would be nice. They do have some money behind them.
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Speaker 1: Not a ton. Because this team doesn't make a lot
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Speaker 1: for owners.
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Speaker 3: And that's the reality that people don't like to admit
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Speaker 3: a lot of times.
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Speaker 1: You make a lot more money when you sell it. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: And this is not a revenue driver in Milwaukee. We
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Speaker 1: know that. We've had this discussion a million times. So, yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I can't imagine the number. Is it a bubble?
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Speaker 1: All those questions.
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Speaker 3: Very interesting for the sports business crowd.
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Speaker 1: You guys want to hear us talk about some money
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Speaker 1: as well.
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Speaker 2: A lot was made about the Minutemen of Massachusetts coming in,
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Speaker 2: cashing that check, and then laughing at Greg Shiano and
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Speaker 2: Rutgers as they got their $ 1. 5 million. They were not
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Speaker 2: the only ones to be able to grab some big cash.
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Speaker 2: This from Front Office Sports. A couple of teams that
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Speaker 2: cashed in big on their BUY games. Idaho State went
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Speaker 2: to Utah State. I didn't know Utah State was throwing
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Speaker 2: 400 racks to try to grab a job in week
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Speaker 2: number one.
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Speaker 1: Idaho State said.
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Speaker 1: Utah State was paying. They're paying.
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Speaker 2: Utah State's paying money to come and get flapped by
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Speaker 2: Idaho State. The potatoes rolled through, grabbed $ 400, 000 for it.
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Speaker 1: Tarleton State went to Bowling Green.
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Speaker 3: Come on now.
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Speaker 1: Stand up, Tarleton State. Sorry, Bowling Green.
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Speaker 2: $ 360, 000 goes to FCS Tarleton State.
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Speaker 1: Now, Tarleton State in Texas.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: They are the Texans, I believe. That's going to be
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Speaker 2: good football. I mean, good football. If you're playing there
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Speaker 2: in Texas.
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Speaker 3: That is the epitome of brutality though, getting paid to
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Speaker 3: lose or paying someone to lose even better.
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Speaker 2: When the joke team of all joke teams, like the
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Speaker 2: punchline of all college sports, the one that I use
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Speaker 2: all the time, just throw the Citadel on the schedule.
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Speaker 1: Oh baby.
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Speaker 2: They got $ 305, 000 to.
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Speaker 1: Go win maybe the game of the weekend. That extra five, man.
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Speaker 1: Maybe the game of the weekend. Charlotte against the Citadel.
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Speaker 1: Come on now. 14 and a half point dogs came
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Speaker 1: in and won outright. Wow. In triple overtime.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 1: 43 to 41 over Charlotte. Man, that is crazy. The Citadel. Now,
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Speaker 1: don't worry.
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Speaker 2: The Charlotte 49ers were able to dig up that gold
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Speaker 2: and find that $ 305, 000 to.
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Speaker 1: Pay the Citadel. Or $ 305, 000.
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Speaker 2: But I always say, just line up the Citadel. The
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Speaker 2: Citadel said, yeah, put $ 60, 000 on the clock. Put $ 60, 000
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Speaker 2: on the clock and let's see what happens.
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Speaker 1: Somewhere Travis Jervia is smiling. Citadel alum. That's true. You
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Speaker 1: just had to get that reference in. You were itching to.
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Speaker 1: I had to. Yep. Well, I got my Chris Wanky
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Speaker 1: one in. And then what's next? Travis Jervie and what?
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Speaker 1: What's he known for? The lion, the pet lion. Nala,
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Speaker 1: the pet lion. Gilbert told me he didn't want to
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Speaker 1: get close to it ever. Even better. You want the
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Speaker 1: final capper?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: What else?
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Speaker 2: Do you think you could name the head coach of
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Speaker 2: the Citadel? Former Packers assistant.
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Speaker 1: Oh, come on now. I'm trying to think. Oh, man. Okay.
15:44
Speaker 1: Not Sylvester Croom. Former Packers coordinator. Wait a minute. Coordinator. Oh, well, thanks.
15:53
Speaker 1: My thing fell. I'm trying to think. I can't think
15:56
Speaker 1: of one. The special teams guy. It's not Passaccia.
15:58
Speaker 3: Zook?
15:58
Speaker 2: No. No.
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Speaker 1: Versace, Zook. Man. Who was the assistant to the assistant?
16:07
Speaker 1: You're right on it. You're thinking of it. You're thinking
16:10
Speaker 1: of it.
16:11
Speaker 2: You're thinking of that 2021 49ers game.
16:14
Speaker 1: Oh, no. It's Mo Drayton. It's the coach Drayton. Mo Drayton.
16:18
Speaker 2: The head coach of the Citadel comes in and wins.
16:24
Speaker 1: How about that? That's crazy. What a redemption arc. Holy cow.
16:28
Speaker 2: Special teams assistant coach from 18 to 20.
16:32
Speaker 1: Special teams coordinator in 21.
16:33
Speaker 2: Then went to be the assistant with the Raiders head
16:37
Speaker 2: coach at the Citadel since 2023. And the Bulldogs go
16:42
Speaker 2: out and pull off the stunner of the weekend.
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Speaker 1: Wild. That's hilarious. Good job. That is a hero arc.
16:50
Speaker 1: That's a heck of a redemption. Heck of a redemption.
16:53
Speaker 1: Now Bulldogs head coach. Wow, that's amazing. How many times
16:56
Speaker 1: do you think he thinks of that blocked punt? That's
16:59
Speaker 1: a great question. I mean, he's come out of it
17:01
Speaker 1: pretty good. He's got a head coaching job. It worked
17:03
Speaker 1: out pretty well for him. Yeah, it worked out pretty
17:05
Speaker 1: well for him. Maybe he doesn't. Maybe he's trying to
17:06
Speaker 1: put it behind him. I mean, I haven't, but I
17:11
Speaker 1: hope he.
17:13
Speaker 3: Has.
17:13
Speaker 2: Buddy Palin Kenosha. Pete Roselle built the hot rod. Tagliabue
17:17
Speaker 2: kept the tank full and oil changed. Goodell painted it
17:19
Speaker 2: pink and loaned it to his European cousin. That would
17:23
Speaker 2: just not be the case. The amount of money that
17:26
Speaker 2: they have now been able to garner because of it.
17:29
Speaker 2: And don't think Paul Tagliabue wasn't thinking and planting the
17:31
Speaker 2: seeds to move over to Europe.
17:33
Speaker 1: Wasn't he the one that started a league? He did.
17:37
Speaker 2: And Paul Tagliabue have been in charge when they tried
17:39
Speaker 2: to fire up NFL Europe.
17:40
Speaker 3: Yeah. He probably deserves credit as much as a lot
17:42
Speaker 3: of these guys. I mean, Roselle did it. Well, obviously
17:44
Speaker 3: what he did, he was a revolutionary. So they've all
17:47
Speaker 3: pushed forward in their own way.
17:48
Speaker 1: And here's the thing. They're all going to be in
17:50
Speaker 1: the hall of fame. Yeah. I mean, that's just what they're.
17:52
Speaker 2: All going to be celebrated and they're all going to
17:54
Speaker 2: be always revered in what they've done for the NFL
17:58
Speaker 2: because it is the juggernaut.
18:00
Speaker 1: Of all sports. That one's not changing. Are all commissioners
18:04
Speaker 1: like that in every sport? Not really.
18:06
Speaker 3: I don't think every commissioner has the rosy history of
18:09
Speaker 3: every sport.
18:11
Speaker 1: But in the NFL, I mean, they do.
18:13
Speaker 3: What was the MLB commissioner, Drew, that got pushed out?
18:17
Speaker 3: Faye Vincent or something? So there are some that have endings.
18:22
Speaker 3: There's coups. There's coups for sure.
18:25
Speaker 2: We got a little bit of a sudden change here.
18:28
Speaker 2: Our boy Hunter Baumgart has fallen ill. So he is
18:31
Speaker 2: not going to be able to join us coming up
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Speaker 2: here on the other side. But I think maybe we
18:36
Speaker 2: spin through his recap of the game.
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Speaker 1: Let's do that again. Yeah, absolutely. Feel better, Hunter. Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed.
18:42
Speaker 1: We can call the audible for sure. All right. 877-794-1973.
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Speaker 1: Get in. You'll hear from Hunter next on the huddle.
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy, and Armin in the huddle.
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19:03
Speaker 1: up early and hanging out with us. No Hunter Baumgart
19:05
Speaker 1: this segment. He's brought to us by Import Minded. He's
19:08
Speaker 1: not feeling well this morning. He's got to rest up
19:10
Speaker 1: and get ready for the baseball pregame show tonight.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Brewers Cubs. What is this? Is it round two of
19:17
Speaker 1: this series and round what?
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Speaker 2: Around 12 of the overall fight that goes down, but
19:26
Speaker 2: it does. This would be the deciding game, right? This
19:29
Speaker 2: would be game six. Brewers with a 3-2 lead trying
19:32
Speaker 2: to knock out the Cubs in six. Brewers in six
19:34
Speaker 2: doesn't have the same ring to it.
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Speaker 1: But we'll take it. But I would definitely take it.
19:38
Speaker 1: I'll take it for sure. You're right. It doesn't flow
19:40
Speaker 1: the same, though. It doesn't flow the same. Let's listen
19:44
Speaker 1: to Hunter's recap from yesterday's proceedings at American Family Field.
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Speaker 4: Thanks, guys. Another thrilling game between the Brewers. Brewers and
19:50
Speaker 4: the Cubs yesterday. It seems like every single one of
19:52
Speaker 4: these is a thriller between these two. And the Brewers
19:55
Speaker 4: come out victorious 4-3. Of course, the ninth inning defense
19:59
Speaker 4: ended the game on a Quite a high note, right?
20:02
Speaker 4: You've got Luis Lara with the catch against the wall,
20:05
Speaker 4: Jackson Churio with a sliding catch to end the game.
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Speaker 4: Christian Yelich talked about how difficult that Luis Lara catch was,
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Speaker 4: even though Lara makes it look so easy.
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Speaker 1: They've been awesome all year, especially Lara. He makes that
20:16
Speaker 1: play at the wall look really, really.
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Speaker 4: Easy, and it's not an easy play, especially in right
20:20
Speaker 4: field because of kind of how it slants in and
20:23
Speaker 4: goes back and just like a.
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Speaker 1: Funky area over there. He makes it look easy. That's
20:28
Speaker 1: a huge play, obviously. If he doesn't make it, then
20:31
Speaker 1: potentially a tight ball game and may still be out there.
20:33
Speaker 1: So big defensive plays and really just a great team
20:37
Speaker 1: win today.
20:37
Speaker 4: And Garrett Mitchell was in center field for that ninth inning.
20:40
Speaker 4: He gives his perspective on the Lara catch.
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Speaker 1: What an incredible catch.
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Speaker 4: My perspective on it was I saw the ball up,
20:47
Speaker 4: thought I had a chance, and when I looked over,
20:48
Speaker 4: I saw him starting to track it, and I know that.
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Speaker 1: I could see his eyes. I was like, oh, okay,
20:54
Speaker 1: this is going to be a close one type play.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, it was awesome.
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Speaker 4: So, how about this? The Brewers' last four wins against
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Speaker 4: the Chicago Cubs have all been come-from-behind victories, and those
21:05
Speaker 4: can be a little sweeter, can't they? Brewers are eight
21:07
Speaker 4: games up with 17 to play game two of the series.
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Speaker 4: Jacob Mizorowski on the mound tonight, 640 first pitch. I'll
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Speaker 4: have you for the baseball pregame show at 530 this
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Speaker 1: Back to you guys. Thank you, Hunter. Thank you, Import Minded.
21:32
Speaker 1: Sorry we couldn't have Hunter live. Hopefully he's feeling better
21:35
Speaker 1: for tonight. Well, he has to.
21:37
Speaker 3: I mean, really, sorry, Billy, but I was just going
21:39
Speaker 3: to mention he's got to rest up for tonight because
21:40
Speaker 3: he's got to be up there, you know. And when
21:43
Speaker 3: Hunter's in the press box, everybody wants an audience with him.
21:45
Speaker 3: And it's hard because he's got to talk to everybody
21:48
Speaker 3: and do the reports. Oh, he's holding court? He's holding court,
21:52
Speaker 3: and his popularity is growing. The amount of times people
21:54
Speaker 3: ask me, you know, Hunter Baumgart, I like him a lot.
21:57
Speaker 3: I'm like, I know, he's awesome. Yeah, he's doing a
21:59
Speaker 3: great job. So his popularity is growing and growing, so
22:02
Speaker 3: he's got to rest up to make sure he's good
22:03
Speaker 3: to hold court tonight in the press box, you know?
22:07
Speaker 2: I didn't realize that he was... I was going to say, Drew,
22:09
Speaker 2: I didn't realize that he was the dean of the
22:11
Speaker 2: press box. Somebody had to take over for Tom.
22:15
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if he's there officially yet, but
22:17
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, he's getting there. I mean, my buddy's
22:19
Speaker 3: uncle at the draft is like, you know that Hunter?
22:21
Speaker 3: I like Hunter Baumgard. I'm like, yeah, I like Hunter
22:24
Speaker 3: a lot, too. And his reports are really getting popular.
22:28
Speaker 2: And just think, if you didn't have that in-person draft
22:32
Speaker 2: that probably took, what, four.
22:33
Speaker 1: To five hours? That's what I'm trying to say. Four hours?
22:35
Speaker 1: Great draft. You would have never had that interaction. Great food. Hey,
22:38
Speaker 1: I would never have that interaction, by the way.
22:40
Speaker 2: How would you have lived without that fun and frivolity
22:43
Speaker 2: that you're able to enjoy?
22:44
Speaker 3: I just want to say, we did debate that a
22:46
Speaker 3: little bit earlier. Dan from Wausau, Billy. Dan from Wausau
22:50
Speaker 3: greets Mike Witt.
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Speaker 1: Billy, I'm with Armin. Sorry, Billy. Charles Miller. You don't
22:54
Speaker 1: have to apologize.
22:55
Speaker 2: I apologize to Mike having to sit through the in-person draft.
22:58
Speaker 1: In-person draft.
22:59
Speaker 3: Shake dice and dice horse race gamble between rounds, says
23:02
Speaker 3: Johnny Kribich.
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Speaker 1: Then what are we there for, Johnny? To hang out
23:05
Speaker 1: with your buddies.
23:06
Speaker 2: Then let's go and hang out and let's do something.
23:10
Speaker 2: Let's hang out and have some beers. If I'm here
23:12
Speaker 2: for a fantasy draft, let's do the draft that we're doing.
23:16
Speaker 2: Not sit around and wait for somebody to go to
23:18
Speaker 2: the bathroom and then all of a sudden you're... But
23:20
Speaker 2: you need five minutes in one round.
23:23
Speaker 1: Let's roll this thing through. I'm with you.
23:25
Speaker 3: But sometimes you need an excuse to get together. And
23:27
Speaker 3: not just that it's the weekend anymore. You know, once
23:30
Speaker 3: upon a time. Yeah, your buddies, you get together every weekend.
23:32
Speaker 3: But sometimes you go.
23:33
Speaker 1: It's harder. You need an excuse. You need something to say. Like, oh,
23:36
Speaker 1: I got to go over there.
23:37
Speaker 3: Why?
23:37
Speaker 1: Well, it's our fantasy draft. All right. Well, are we
23:39
Speaker 1: trying to win or are we just trying to hang out?
23:42
Speaker 1: I think you can do both. We're going to put
23:43
Speaker 1: this up for some money. I'm trying to win.
23:46
Speaker 2: Like Dobler said, I think Billy's jealous, and I can
23:49
Speaker 2: hear it coming through, picking on Armand's fantastic fun with
23:53
Speaker 2: his friends.
23:53
Speaker 1: I got your back. Billy's not jealous of that.
23:55
Speaker 2: I am far, far from jealous. Far from jealous. But
24:00
Speaker 2: I will say... Ran through a number of different fantasy
24:03
Speaker 2: drafts this weekend. I could have done all of them
24:06
Speaker 2: in the time frame that it would have taken one
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Speaker 2: live draft.
24:10
Speaker 1: That's why. It takes way too much time. That's true.
24:12
Speaker 1: You can get it done now.
24:13
Speaker 2: And all the information is right here online, not on
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Speaker 2: some guy that prints off 18 different spreadsheets.
24:19
Speaker 1: Hold on one second. How about the guys that build
24:22
Speaker 1: their own apps? Hold on one second. I got to
24:23
Speaker 1: look at my trade calculator here. Yeah, yeah. No, no, no.
24:27
Speaker 2: It says this is bad value for me to take
24:29
Speaker 2: Travion Henderson here. I should probably take a long snapper.
24:32
Speaker 2: I can't handle that. No, and you said J-Love. Is
24:35
Speaker 2: that Jeremiah or Jordan Love? No, I wanted Jeremiah. You
24:37
Speaker 2: said J-Love. You said J-Love. All right, let's put it
24:40
Speaker 2: up for a vote. What do we believe he said?
24:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, but then you don't have the problem of so-and-so's
24:44
Speaker 1: internet going out.
24:46
Speaker 3: Or a guy that just puts it on auto draft
24:48
Speaker 3: because he didn't make that happens, Billy.
24:50
Speaker 1: Good. Go on auto draft. Figure out who you're picking.
24:54
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, if you're in person, you don't have
24:56
Speaker 2: to guess what the computer will probably pick better.
24:58
Speaker 1: Than he would have. That's the problem. That's true. That's
25:02
Speaker 1: the problem. How many people are using AI for their draft,
25:05
Speaker 1: and it's like, well, that's just auto-draft.
25:07
Speaker 2: It's just auto-draft, yeah. It's been doing that forever. Chad
25:09
Speaker 2: CBT's got me. Oh, okay, ESPN.com probably would have been
25:12
Speaker 2: okay at it, too.
25:13
Speaker 1: I'll agree with you, Billy, on this one. I do
25:16
Speaker 1: eye roll.
25:17
Speaker 3: If you roll up to the draft saying you built
25:19
Speaker 3: your own algorithm, and you built your own, like, AI,
25:22
Speaker 3: or you built your own thing, and then it ranks
25:25
Speaker 3: everyone's draft after, and it gives you your own draft. Well,
25:28
Speaker 3: of course, your own app that you claim you built
25:31
Speaker 3: gives your draft an A because it told you who
25:33
Speaker 3: to draft. So that doesn't mean much to me, all right?
25:36
Speaker 3: So these draft grades are a little nonsense when you
25:39
Speaker 3: build your own. Hey, I built my own thing this year.
25:41
Speaker 3: And then you draft somebody, and everyone kind of looks,
25:44
Speaker 3: trying to make that little snortle, that little chortle of
25:46
Speaker 3: a laugh. Snortle?
25:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, whatever, snortles. So I'll agree that gets a little annoying. Right.
25:52
Speaker 1: But overall, I'm happy about it. Overall, I'm happy. Armand's
25:57
Speaker 1: going to die on that hill.
25:58
Speaker 2: Yes. Yes.
26:00
Speaker 3: Indeed.
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Speaker 1: Indeed. Eight, seven, seven, seven, nine, four, one 97. I
26:03
Speaker 1: thought we had a text from a buddy pal in Kenosha. No,
26:06
Speaker 1: I'm reading this from him.
26:07
Speaker 2: He's talking about, and in response to the Roger Goodell
26:10
Speaker 2: changing up with the NFL, he said, I'm glad everybody's
26:13
Speaker 2: making more money. Capitalism is superior. With that being said,
26:15
Speaker 2: I'm not getting paid by the NFL. So I don't
26:17
Speaker 2: care about Europe expansion, play 60 flag football, et cetera.
26:20
Speaker 2: What was so wrong with the product in 2009, 10, 11,
26:24
Speaker 2: something is off now. I'm sure I'm completely wrong though.
26:28
Speaker 2: I don't know that you're wrong. It's definitely different. And
26:31
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily know that there was anything necessarily wrong
26:34
Speaker 2: with the product in 2009, 10 or 11. What definitely
26:38
Speaker 2: changed in that time that he's referencing is the CBA.
26:43
Speaker 2: And at that point, the CBA completely changed after the
26:46
Speaker 2: lockout in 2011 to the point where you were able
26:49
Speaker 2: to go from having two-a-day practices, like the old school
26:53
Speaker 2: night practice that Mike McCarthy would have, 13 weeks, I
26:56
Speaker 2: believe in the OTAs that led up into the off
27:01
Speaker 2: season program that got cut down to eight weeks. Like the,
27:04
Speaker 2: the calendar changed so much. I think more than anything
27:07
Speaker 2: that he's talking about, the football definitely changed at that
27:10
Speaker 2: point because the team's probably got a little less good, right?
27:12
Speaker 2: Like the, the ability to team build and player development
27:17
Speaker 2: at that time did change. What also changed was the,
27:21
Speaker 2: The salaries changed exponentially. And when somebody went from in 2011,
27:26
Speaker 2: being a really, really good slot receiver, making $ 4 million
27:29
Speaker 2: to now him making 14 million, there's a different level
27:33
Speaker 2: of care that teams are going to take. And just
27:37
Speaker 2: caution with those guys, either one getting ramped up to
27:40
Speaker 2: play and the players as well being like, well, I'm
27:44
Speaker 2: worth this kind of money right now. I'm not going
27:45
Speaker 2: to be burning off reps. that aren't necessarily going to
27:48
Speaker 2: be making us more money. Yeah.
27:49
Speaker 3: I was going to mention, there's a certain amount of
27:50
Speaker 3: power that players will feel because of that. They know
27:53
Speaker 3: that they're the product and that they had that power
27:55
Speaker 3: in some sense. So I get it. But the logic
27:57
Speaker 3: is like, you could use that same logic. What was
27:59
Speaker 3: wrong with the game in 0-9-0-10? To your point, Billy,
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Speaker 3: nothing wrong. It's just a matter of pushing it forward.
28:04
Speaker 3: I could say what was wrong with the game in 1994.
28:06
Speaker 3: You know, I mean, that's what I enjoyed, but it
28:09
Speaker 3: doesn't mean that the game is necessarily worse if you
28:12
Speaker 3: change it, but it means it does push forward. So,
28:15
Speaker 3: um you know he says something's off now i'm just
28:17
Speaker 3: things change i think your perspective changes i don't think
28:20
Speaker 3: it's a big i don't think it's a big political
28:22
Speaker 3: statement but i mean that's what he goes to but
28:25
Speaker 3: he goes to but that's okay um yes everybody's making
28:29
Speaker 3: more money now well owners are that's for sure but
28:32
Speaker 3: that's true of most sports that's true of most companies
28:35
Speaker 3: i would assume if they're successful if they have a
28:37
Speaker 3: lot of people patronizing the company so i would say so.
28:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, if your business is more popular than it's ever
28:44
Speaker 2: been and making more money, the last thing you'd want
28:46
Speaker 2: to do is bring.
28:47
Speaker 1: In new ownership.
28:49
Speaker 2: At that point, new management is not what you're exactly
28:53
Speaker 2: hoping for on your restaurant.
28:54
Speaker 3: In the sense that I don't care about Europe, play 60. Okay,
28:57
Speaker 3: you might not care about that, but those are the
28:59
Speaker 3: things that they're going to do to try and push
29:01
Speaker 3: the game forward into new avenues of eventually revenue. I
29:06
Speaker 3: know a lot of people were very vocal that they
29:07
Speaker 3: don't want games overseas. There might be a Super Bowl
29:10
Speaker 3: overseas one day. You had to accept that. Okay, there's
29:13
Speaker 3: a game in Australia. The Packers played in Brazil. You
29:16
Speaker 3: still got to watch it as a regular football game.
29:18
Speaker 3: Maybe it looked a little different. It was a different audience.
29:21
Speaker 3: If it bothers you that much to have people watching
29:24
Speaker 3: the game in other countries, I hate to tell you,
29:25
Speaker 3: that's only going to get more prevalent. I mean, we
29:29
Speaker 3: saw that when we went to the Super Bowl, the
29:30
Speaker 3: amount of international fans the Packers had.
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Speaker 1: For sure.
29:32
Speaker 3: So, I mean, you have the right to not like it,
29:34
Speaker 3: but I don't know that it's going to change much.
29:37
Speaker 3: I think it's a more popular game, and because of that,
29:40
Speaker 3: it's going to grow in popularity.
29:41
Speaker 1: Across the world commissioners made a billion dollars over the
29:43
Speaker 1: last 25 years that's.
29:44
Speaker 2: Why and that's why they they re-upped them that's why
29:46
Speaker 2: they found it like him saying that there's going to
29:50
Speaker 2: be a international super bowl at some point or the
29:52
Speaker 2: franchise he's not just throwing that out of midair You're
29:56
Speaker 2: not just pulling that out of the back of his head.
29:58
Speaker 2: Somebody's been wanting to push that, and they've been having
30:00
Speaker 2: some conversations about it. So, like, he's done a great
30:03
Speaker 2: job with the mouthpiece of being able to do it,
30:06
Speaker 2: and he's definitely their friend in that regard. I am
30:10
Speaker 2: fascinated to see how much more money they could make, though. Like,
30:13
Speaker 2: does it really... how much more can we go how
30:17
Speaker 2: much further can we go than the seahawks the team
30:18
Speaker 2: that just won the super bowl getting sold for 10
30:21
Speaker 2: billion dollars like.
30:22
Speaker 3: What is there a cap to any of it and
30:24
Speaker 3: there's a sense where they feel teflon because of all
30:26
Speaker 3: the things you mentioned last segment true about all the
30:28
Speaker 3: things they survived and bill you said it too not
30:30
Speaker 3: to mention we never mentioned the the um you know
30:34
Speaker 3: the like whatever you want to call it the colin
30:36
Speaker 3: kaepernick that that whole era of like You know, people
30:39
Speaker 3: saying the NFL is going woke and everyone claiming they
30:41
Speaker 3: were going to stop watching.
30:42
Speaker 1: Nobody stopped watching. I mean, nobody did. And the NFL
30:44
Speaker 1: knows that.
30:45
Speaker 3: So you could there's a segment of fans that say,
30:48
Speaker 3: I don't want like that much change.
30:50
Speaker 1: I don't want to go international. I don't like that.
30:53
Speaker 3: But Goodell knows the NFL knows they're going to play
30:55
Speaker 3: chicken with fans to see how much they'll tolerate. If
30:57
Speaker 3: you think you don't like it because they know you'll
30:59
Speaker 3: still watch and they know it'll still be the most
31:01
Speaker 3: popular product.
31:02
Speaker 1: And the reality is it will.
31:03
Speaker 2: Night one uh before we take a quick time i
31:06
Speaker 2: want to give a game ball to our old friend
31:07
Speaker 2: matt schneidman.
31:09
Speaker 1: Oh okay what up matt let's go this kid is.
31:13
Speaker 2: A star uh very cool story he put up at
31:15
Speaker 2: the athletic uh about tucker craft and his uh remarkable
31:19
Speaker 2: rise to the nfl stardom from timber lake to title
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Speaker 2: town and uh when the uh when the line is
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Speaker 2: from timber lake south dakota and goes through a bunch
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Speaker 2: of different conversations with Tucker's family, people that he grew
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Speaker 2: up with, some great investigative reporting, and our boy Matt
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Speaker 2: Schneidman gassing up the car and getting himself to Timberlake,
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Speaker 2: South Dakota.
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Speaker 1: He what?
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Speaker 2: Video of him standing outside of the eight-man football field
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Speaker 2: in South Dakota. Nobody does that anymore. So, game ball
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Speaker 2: to our friend Matt Schneidman.
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Speaker 1: That's amazing.
31:51
Speaker 2: And also, game ball to Schneid's for the video. The
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Speaker 2: hair looks phenomenal in the video. That's an eight-and-a-half-hour drive
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Speaker 2: and a perfectly coiffed hairdo in that video.
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Speaker 1: Well done by our boy Schneidman.
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Speaker 3: And that is a long drive to the Dakotas, and
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Speaker 3: there's not much going on in that drive.
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Speaker 1: So, you have to cross Minnesota.
32:10
Speaker 2: Well done.
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Speaker 1: Well done. Sadly, you don't have to go through Iowa
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Speaker 1: and Nebraska. Yeah, it's fair. That's the only way it
32:14
Speaker 1: could be worse.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: The only thing that would make it worse. Minnesota is
32:19
Speaker 2: a tough state to get through, but it's at least
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Speaker 2: a little hilly. At least there's something to be able
32:23
Speaker 2: to see. You go through Iowa.
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Speaker 1: Oh, sweet. Boredom center. More corn. Yeah. More corn. Hey, look,
32:29
Speaker 1: there's some more corn. Truck stop. Sorry, Dolph. Love it,
32:33
Speaker 1: love it, love it. Dolph is not with us today.
32:36
Speaker 1: He'll be back on, what, Thursday? Thursday. Veteran move by Dolph.
32:39
Speaker 1: No doubt. Hook it over and make it a super
32:42
Speaker 1: long week. That was very, very well done. Good call
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Speaker 1: on his part.
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Speaker 3: He knows.
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Speaker 1: All right. When we come back, we'll close up shop.
32:47
Speaker 1: We'll tie up any loose ends. Covered a lot of
32:49
Speaker 1: ground today, which is good. Keeping an eye on everything
32:52
Speaker 1: that's happening. We've got the smashing together of the seasons.
32:55
Speaker 1: Before you know it, the Bucs are going to be
32:56
Speaker 1: in camp. The Admirals will be dropping the puck. It's
32:58
Speaker 1: going to be like, you know. It is going to
33:01
Speaker 1: be very quick. You're right. All of a sudden, wait
33:03
Speaker 1: a second, hockey and basketball started? Summer's over, and it
33:06
Speaker 1: makes me feel sad, but someone pointed out that we
33:08
Speaker 1: had the longest summer possible because Memorial Day was as
33:12
Speaker 1: early as it could be, and Labor Day was as
33:15
Speaker 1: late as it could be, so we had the longest...
33:17
Speaker 1: I like that. We got to enjoy it. Made it
33:19
Speaker 1: the best summer ever. Yeah. It felt short for me.
33:22
Speaker 1: It did, man. Well, that's it. It feels like we
33:24
Speaker 1: got cheated. It always does. I feel like we got cheated. Well,
33:26
Speaker 1: the yellow jackets are still out. If you want to
33:28
Speaker 1: feel like summer. Yeah, that's true. You get your booty
33:30
Speaker 1: stung by those yellow jackets out there, man. Be careful.
33:34
Speaker 1: Love it. All right. Be careful. Be careful. Be careful.
33:39
Speaker 1: All right. Back to close up shop next year in
33:42
Speaker 1: the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew Billion-Armond, time to
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Speaker 1: wrap things up on a Tuesday that feels like a
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Speaker 1: Monday as we are heading headlong into this delicious season
33:55
Speaker 1: of baseball wrapping up and football just dawning the new season.
34:00
Speaker 1: Getting in there, baby. Packers-Vikings coming up on Sunday at U.S.
34:04
Speaker 1: Bank Stadium. It's getting close, Billy, but it still seems
34:07
Speaker 1: far away.
34:08
Speaker 2: I was going to say, now this is the worst,
34:10
Speaker 2: but this is like December 21st.
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Speaker 1: The longest week of the year.
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Speaker 2: Where now you just have to sit here and wait
34:15
Speaker 2: and wait and wait, and you know those presents are
34:17
Speaker 2: already wrapped, and you just can't wait to rip them open.
34:20
Speaker 1: You get the snacketizers because of the Wednesday and Thursday games,
34:23
Speaker 1: which means Red Zone won't be that compelling, or as
34:26
Speaker 1: compelling as it would be the initial foray into the
34:28
Speaker 1: red zone. Cause we lost a couple of games. Scott
34:30
Speaker 1: Hanson's day is a little lighter there on Sunday.
34:33
Speaker 2: No, this is almost like the, almost like the Thanksgiving
34:36
Speaker 2: slate with how many of their, and they get knocked
34:38
Speaker 2: off there.
34:38
Speaker 1: It's a good point.
34:39
Speaker 2: Yeah.
34:39
Speaker 1: So Bill and I are just chatting off the air,
34:41
Speaker 1: a last minute kick to the balls. Cause we do
34:43
Speaker 1: kick to the balls on days when we don't have
34:44
Speaker 1: a Monday show to ESPN and they're talking head. Great
34:48
Speaker 1: council is pacing in the Cubs dugout because now that
34:52
Speaker 1: they're no longer in business with the big 10, every
34:56
Speaker 1: panelist I've seen, has gone scorched earth on the end
34:59
Speaker 1: of the Western Michigan game. The greatest travesty that we've
35:01
Speaker 1: ever seen. But when they were cashing checks and in
35:05
Speaker 1: business with the Big Ten, they never would have said that.
35:07
Speaker 1: It would have been mums the word. It's crazy. It's
35:09
Speaker 1: crazy what money will do, huh? How it just turns
35:12
Speaker 1: the tide.
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Speaker 3: People know where their bread is buttered. I mean, and
35:14
Speaker 3: this is a situation, too, where they know they're going
35:16
Speaker 3: to have a lot of support. You know, they have
35:18
Speaker 3: a plausible case. Well, of course, it's a hot button.
35:23
Speaker 1: Where everybody loves the under, even if you don't care
35:25
Speaker 1: about Michigan, like, Ohio State fans predisposed to squawk. But
35:30
Speaker 1: if you don't care about Michigan at all, you're just
35:32
Speaker 1: going to cheer for the underdog, and the underdog got screwed. Yes,
35:35
Speaker 1: and you watch it, and you can't believe that that happens.
35:37
Speaker 2: Right, and then this one, it's, well, listen, this is
35:40
Speaker 2: the biggest affront that any organization has ever put out there.
35:44
Speaker 2: I think Orlowski called it the most embarrassing win of
35:47
Speaker 2: all time yesterday. So they try to make the mark
35:51
Speaker 2: on it. I just, I can't fathom how you found...
35:56
Speaker 2: the second, but it's crazy what you can find when
35:58
Speaker 2: you're looking for it, right? Like, I mean, it's almost
36:01
Speaker 2: like when, you know, somebody maybe takes somebody else's phone
36:04
Speaker 2: and amazingly, you're going to find the message on there
36:07
Speaker 2: that broke the camel's back. And now we're going to
36:10
Speaker 2: break up because he was texting her or she was
36:12
Speaker 2: texting him. You were the one looking in there. You
36:15
Speaker 2: were looking for something. They started, they went and started
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Speaker 2: reviewing that while the celebration is already happening on the field.
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Speaker 1: They were finding something. Those folks in the back were
36:24
Speaker 1: finding something. Hey, I think we can, hold on.
36:27
Speaker 2: All i got it i got a canva premium account
36:29
Speaker 2: so what we can do is we can just crop
36:32
Speaker 2: two pictures next to each other and it'll totally look
36:34
Speaker 2: like the game clock that we actually have and the
36:38
Speaker 2: guy who just touches out of bounds boom perfect put
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Speaker 2: a second on the clock and one.
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Speaker 1: More chance we got it we have it finally.
36:45
Speaker 2: What a what a frustrating frustrating game however great way
36:49
Speaker 2: for college football to start yeah i mean.
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Speaker 3: It was a big big explosion of of entertainment gotta.
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Speaker 1: Have some controversy to start.
36:57
Speaker 3: It up and honestly like you thought that game would
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Speaker 3: give you nothing so it was nice that you got
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Speaker 3: something from it it's like there were there were some
37:03
Speaker 3: really awful games all weekend i mean let's be honest
37:06
Speaker 3: there were some real um you know terrible matchups and
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Speaker 3: terrible like a lot of 55 to threes and stuff
37:12
Speaker 3: like that so hey, you got something out of that
37:15
Speaker 3: one you didn't think you were going to get.
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Speaker 1: Which was talking points, entertainment, controversy, excitement.
37:21
Speaker 3: The thing that'll keep Western Michigan up at night, and
37:23
Speaker 3: I'm sure it does, is they know all that stuff, notwithstanding,
37:27
Speaker 3: they still could have won if they stopped the Hail Mary,
37:29
Speaker 3: and they couldn't do it.
37:30
Speaker 1: And that's going to That's going to keep you up.
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Speaker 3: At night because that was your shot to have the
37:37
Speaker 3: all-time win, have the picture up in the athletic department,
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Speaker 3: have the story.
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Speaker 1: Have the reunion. Oh, you put that picture up in
37:44
Speaker 1: the athletic department.
37:45
Speaker 3: When you're Western Michigan, if you beat the U at
37:49
Speaker 3: one point, that's an all-time moment.
37:51
Speaker 1: Do you put the.
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Speaker 2: I put a picture of it up in the facility
37:55
Speaker 2: because I'm having the conversation about it every time a
37:58
Speaker 2: recruit comes in.
37:59
Speaker 1: Could they declare themselves victors like us? Like South Florida
38:03
Speaker 1: or Central Florida?
38:03
Speaker 2: Central Florida did. The Mac tried to. The Mac's commissioner
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Speaker 2: kind of came out and like, no, this is an injustice.
38:10
Speaker 1: Like, all right, bud, sorry. We'll watch on Tuesday and Wednesday.
38:14
Speaker 1: We consider ourselves.
38:15
Speaker 2: This will be the last we talk about Western Michigan
38:17
Speaker 2: until you watch him in a great Tuesday night class.
38:20
Speaker 3: I do miss the days of college football where you
38:22
Speaker 3: could claim things. We claim national titles. Yeah, right.
38:26
Speaker 1: In the Big Ten, Rutgers debacle, Michigan near debacle. Everything
38:30
Speaker 1: else kind of went chalky. Very chalky. Yes. And that's,
38:34
Speaker 1: you know, like Purdue beating Indiana State. Like teams took
38:36
Speaker 1: care of business. That's what I want to see Wisconsin do.
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Speaker 1: Beat down.
38:40
Speaker 2: You don't want to have the Boise state Oregon deal, right?
38:43
Speaker 2: Like you can't be in a struggling halftime.
38:46
Speaker 1: No sweating. No, you can't be, but the big 10
38:50
Speaker 1: didn't drape itself in glory at Wrigley field over the
38:52
Speaker 1: weekend either. Ooh, not necessarily. No, not much. Nah, they
38:56
Speaker 1: had a whole bunch of volleyball action holstered up and
39:00
Speaker 1: 40,000 people. And then I can't play it way to go.
39:04
Speaker 1: Wrigley way to be able to reschedule that. Thanks for coming.
39:08
Speaker 1: Remind you of Marquette going on a cruise ship to
39:10
Speaker 1: play or a battleship.
39:11
Speaker 3: Marquette was going to play on the, on the carrier
39:13
Speaker 3: against Ohio, San Diego or something like that.
39:16
Speaker 1: It was in Ohio state.
39:17
Speaker 3: And the court was too slippery. It was too slippery.
39:20
Speaker 3: The condensation. Now, at least there's an explanation there.
39:23
Speaker 1: That was a unique setting. Obviously. I mean, you can, yeah, sure.
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Speaker 3: Totally. Yeah.
39:28
Speaker 1: You can defend that. i mean it's not a it's not.
39:31
Speaker 3: A boat speaking of what about this one i mean.
39:34
Speaker 1: Condensation though it was funny watching kind of a neutral
39:37
Speaker 1: site game at lambo with both teams appearing to slip
39:40
Speaker 1: around and Not getting the right cleats. Matt LaFleur not
39:42
Speaker 1: happy about it. Not happy about the wear and tear
39:45
Speaker 1: on the field. Like, well, yeah, but why didn't you
39:48
Speaker 1: give him a heads up of what cleats to wear?
39:50
Speaker 1: Because you see that every night game at Lambeau with
39:54
Speaker 1: the opposing team switching cleats and slipping around on key plays.
39:57
Speaker 2: You got to help the boys out. You got to
39:59
Speaker 2: send that thing over to Coach Fick. You got to
40:00
Speaker 2: have that one dialed in. I will say the most
40:03
Speaker 2: excited reaction on postgame was, I don't know if you
40:08
Speaker 2: guys noticed, No vest from Coach Fickle.
40:11
Speaker 1: I noticed that we buried the lead on that one.
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Speaker 1: No vest.
40:14
Speaker 2: We did have team written on the sleeve.
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Speaker 1: I think that was a lot more subtle, a lot
40:20
Speaker 1: better for T-E-A-M. But no vest. That's big news. No vest. Big.
40:24
Speaker 1: A lot of people thought that was why they had
40:25
Speaker 1: a chance in the first half. That was huge. Huge.
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Speaker 1: It was huge. Huge for the program. I actually missed that.
40:31
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good observation. Yeah, pretty good.
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Speaker 3: All right.
40:33
Speaker 1: We covered so much ground today. We're a day closer
40:35
Speaker 1: to Packers-Vikings. Miz tonight will be talking about that. tomorrow
40:39
Speaker 1: as well we had a perfect game in triple a
40:42
Speaker 1: thanks to everybody who hung out with us today getting
40:43
Speaker 1: back after it getting into the routine now of uh
40:47
Speaker 1: you know having interesting things to talk about on the
40:50
Speaker 1: daily back into school then come on now we'll see
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Speaker 1: you tomorrow at five peace