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04/15/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: and we have a special guest up with us. Early
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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. I refer to early risers, insomniacs, and sociopaths.
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Speaker 1: But what about draft nerds, ladies and gentlemen. Years ago
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Speaker 1: we enlisted to the help of our pal Rob Rieger
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Speaker 1: to be on the geek squad to follow the draft
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Speaker 1: so I wouldn't have to. And now we all follow
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Speaker 1: the draft and nobody does it as intently as Rob Rieger.
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Speaker 1: And he's back with us. Riegs. Welcome to the program.
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Speaker 1: Good to have you, my friend.
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Speaker 2: What is up?
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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me guys. This is the ten year anniversary,
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Speaker 3: Drew that we've been there. I know, ten ten years
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Speaker 3: of the draft coverage from me, So I'm very very
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Speaker 3: happy to be back, and uh really really fired up.
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Speaker 2: I was almost a week.
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Speaker 1: Away so we were raving about your work and everybody involved.
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Speaker 1: let's just we're a week and a half away. Billy
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Speaker 1: and I have talked about how our enthusiasm for the
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Speaker 1: draft has dampened a little bit with the Packers not
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Speaker 1: having a first round pick. I know that doesn't affect you,
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Speaker 1: but we look at the draft through the prism of
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Speaker 1: the Packers. So given the team's needs, given where it's at,
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Speaker 1: what should we be focusing on. What should we be
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Speaker 1: thinking about the draft? What are the Packers' goals? What
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Speaker 1: should they accomplish beginning when they make their pick ostensibly Friday.
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Speaker 3: You know, you know what's funny is that when I
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Speaker 3: start to think about this stuff, it usually happens that.
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Speaker 2: When I give up on one thing is when they
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Speaker 2: actually do it.
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Speaker 3: So I'd kind of given up on the Packers picking
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Speaker 3: a wide receiver in round one and just thought it
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Speaker 3: wasn't going to happen. And then I was sitting there
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Speaker 3: in the crowd last year and they picked Matthew Golden
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Speaker 3: in Round one. So I'm going to go out there,
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Speaker 3: and I've kind of given up the fact that they
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Speaker 3: think that they need cornerbacks because the last three drafts
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Speaker 3: the only time that they've addressed it is in the
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Speaker 3: seventh round and a little bit in free agency like
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Speaker 3: Saint just this year. So I'm going out in a
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Speaker 3: limbit thinking that they're gonna go cornerback in round two.
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Speaker 3: And let me tell you, this is a great draft
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Speaker 3: to need a cornerback. There's about fifteen guys that I
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Speaker 3: really really like. There's studs, you know, all across the
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Speaker 3: board at corner I think it's a really really deep position.
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Speaker 3: It's hard to rank those guys because it really depends
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Speaker 3: on what you're looking for. But I'd be shocked if
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Speaker 3: the Packers don't pick a cornerback and an edge rusher
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Speaker 3: in rounds two and rounds three this year.
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Speaker 4: Well, and it seems like also defensive tackle is a
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Speaker 4: spot where you could make some hey, maybe a little
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Speaker 4: bit more into the middle there. Stay with the corners
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Speaker 4: because Ponds is a name that is right circulating near
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Speaker 4: them riagues, and obviously his size is one thing that
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Speaker 4: generally would take him off of the Packers board. On
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Speaker 4: the hype factor when you run a four to three
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Speaker 4: to one. You can't teach that. You can't coach that.
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Speaker 4: It's hard to not the physicality and the big playmaking
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Speaker 4: jump off of the tape.
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Speaker 1: But you mentioned like corners and all these positions.
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Speaker 4: It's different because you have the testers and then you
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Speaker 4: got guys like Lee Hunter. I'm talking defensive tackles who
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Speaker 4: just puts good stuff on tape, but he looks he
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Speaker 4: doesn't look exactly the part. How do you blend those together?
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Speaker 4: Because the Packers love the relative athletics score. For a
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Speaker 4: long time, they were hell bent on certain standards on
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Speaker 4: size and height and weight.
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Speaker 1: But it feels like they've been a little bit.
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Speaker 4: More amendable if the guy can really go athletically.
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Speaker 1: At one of their.
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Speaker 3: Spots, Man he brought up to guys that I love
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Speaker 3: D'Angelo pons is number one.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 3: I feel that he's a dog man and I'm a
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Speaker 3: big believer with the way that Jonathan Gannon's gonna want
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Speaker 3: to play his defense. He is sort of zone heavy
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Speaker 3: with a lot of the stuff that he does, but
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Speaker 3: there are instances where he's gonna want guys right up
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Speaker 3: in people's faces. They signed Saint Jus in the offseason.
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Speaker 3: He's more of an outside corner. They could maybe put
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Speaker 3: him in as like a slot corner, a small guy.
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Speaker 3: I know that traditionally don't really like those smaller corners,
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Speaker 3: but you're right, they've kind of veered away from that
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Speaker 3: little bit.
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Speaker 2: Lee Hunter is a guy, another guy.
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Speaker 3: I personally, this is just my opinion is I'm not
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Speaker 3: a big fan of taking a defensive tackle, one of
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Speaker 3: those run stuffer type of defensive tackles too early in
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Speaker 3: the draft because I always feel that there's guys later
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Speaker 3: on fourth, fifth round that you can pick.
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Speaker 2: Up that can actually fill that role.
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Speaker 3: So kind I just released last week kind of my
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Speaker 3: take on what's the best way to draft a team,
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Speaker 3: and I always said, unless you have a defensive tackle
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Speaker 3: like an Aaron Donald, a guy or a Jalen Carter,
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Speaker 3: a guy that's actually an impact player that can get
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Speaker 3: into the backfield quickly, you're better off just waiting third round,
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Speaker 3: fourth round, fifth round. And those guys I like Lee Hunter.
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Speaker 3: I think he's a great player. I just think they
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Speaker 3: might be a little bit rich for the place that
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Speaker 3: the Packers are drafting. And they did just pick up
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Speaker 3: Javon Hargrave, so they.
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Speaker 2: Mean they do have. They do need a defensive tackle
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Speaker 2: for sure, but I'm not sure if second round is
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Speaker 2: the best place to do that.
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Speaker 4: No, and they'll have plenty of options later into three,
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Speaker 4: four and five when you've looked at other positions here
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Speaker 4: and look at your top ten lists on all the
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Speaker 4: different spots. One of the sneaky positions that I've thought
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Speaker 4: that they've kind of needed in the last couple of weeks.
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Speaker 1: Is I think they need to add at tight end.
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Speaker 4: And obviously Tucker Kraft is going to be your mainsday,
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Speaker 4: is gonna be your number one guy when he comes
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Speaker 4: back in full go. The Luke Muskrave experiment is one
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Speaker 4: that has happened and I think is potentially going to
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Speaker 4: be going away. But the way that the league has
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Speaker 4: transitioned robin a lot of thirteen personnel from the Rams,
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Speaker 4: and everybody's gonna copy whatever Almighty McVeigh was doing at
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Speaker 4: some particular point the guys from that tree. Do you
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Speaker 4: anticipate that's a spot because it seems like there's a
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Speaker 4: bunch there into the middle rounds.
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Speaker 3: It's interesting that you say that, because tight end is
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Speaker 3: one of the positions that I feel that you can
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Speaker 3: pick up a solid backup or like you had mentioned
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Speaker 3: in those two tight end sets, there are a couple
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Speaker 3: guys out there like Jolly from NC State, I like
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Speaker 3: Max Claar from Ohio State, or two guys that really
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Speaker 3: stand out.
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Speaker 2: I think that I have raked a little bit ahead.
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Speaker 2: And one thing, when I do my rankings, I don't
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Speaker 2: look at anybody else's rankings until mine. They're done, and
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Speaker 2: then I kind of like, after I release mine, I
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Speaker 2: kind of go and look at how it compares to
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Speaker 2: everybody else. So I've kind of gotten the field. There's
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Speaker 2: certain guys.
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Speaker 3: Sam Rouche out of Stanford is a guy that I
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Speaker 3: feel it can be his quality tight end. It's interesting
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Speaker 3: to bring that up because I do feel it tight
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Speaker 3: end is in need of the Packers with the way
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Speaker 3: that they play. I think that their ideal, what they
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Speaker 3: wanted originally is they wanted to have Tucker Kraft and
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Speaker 3: Luke Muskray working together.
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Speaker 2: It just hasn't really worked out. They haven't been able
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Speaker 2: to get both of them in the field at the
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Speaker 2: same time. But I think that in a perfect world,
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Speaker 2: they'd have two ten tight ends on the field A
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Speaker 2: lot more often.
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Speaker 1: We're talking to Rob Rieger our draft go to guy,
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Speaker 1: part of the geek squad we assembled ten years ago.
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Speaker 1: He is deep into the draft and has been. It's
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Speaker 1: a passion of his. He wrote for the Cheeshead TV
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Speaker 1: Draft Guide, which you need to pick up because it's fabulous.
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Speaker 1: Rieg's people are allowing the Packers for getting picks for
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Speaker 1: Don Tavian Wicks, for getting a pickback for Don Tavian Wicks.
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking, what are they saying in Indy where they
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Speaker 1: had a seventh round linebacker become a defensive captain and
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Speaker 1: now he's traded for Kolbe Wooden and the ramification of
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Speaker 1: that trade, Well, the Packers you might think, oh, they're
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Speaker 1: done with linebacker, Like that's solid because I got tire Franklin.
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Speaker 1: Will they look at linebackers? Is this a talented linebacker
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Speaker 1: crew for them to choose from.
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Speaker 3: I feel that that's another position, and you guys are
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Speaker 3: bringing up some great, great points here that that's another
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Speaker 3: position that can be addressed. My favorite guy there is
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Speaker 3: Harold Perkins out of LSU. He's a little undersized as
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Speaker 3: an inside linebacker, but he's one of those guys He
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Speaker 3: kind of reminds me of Editor and Cooper to be
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Speaker 3: to be quite honest, he just doesn't quite get the
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Speaker 3: hype because he's not as big. He's about twenty pounds
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Speaker 3: lighter than him, but you can always put on weight
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Speaker 3: at the NFL level.
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Speaker 2: The thing of going back to the Wicks thing that
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Speaker 2: was kind of perplexing to me.
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Speaker 3: I did feel that, you know, they've lost Romeo Dobbs,
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Speaker 3: that that could be a position that he could step
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Speaker 3: into and kind of take on an increased role. But
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Speaker 3: I think he has mentioned it yesterday that he may
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Speaker 3: have also been one of those guys that have been
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Speaker 3: kind of disgruntled with their role with the team, and
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Speaker 3: maybe they're trying to clear the deck of those guys
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Speaker 3: that they said, look, you know, the team chemistry wasn't
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Speaker 3: great last year, so those guys that maybe were complaining
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Speaker 3: kway Walker might have been a guy that necessarily his role,
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Speaker 3: but maybe just the team in general, it might have
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Speaker 3: been one of those guys. So it kind of seemed
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Speaker 3: to me that they kind of wanted to clear Romeo
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Speaker 3: dobs even clear the deck of some of those guys,
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Speaker 3: and now they just want to kind of start fresh,
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Speaker 3: maybe with some new blood in there.
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Speaker 5: Do you think there's any chance as well that you know,
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Speaker 5: I know a lot of people worry after a trade
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Speaker 5: like that that there was more potential to be tapped
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Speaker 5: from a guy like that. I think, at least for me,
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Speaker 5: that was my first instinct was well, do we get
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Speaker 5: everything we could? Is there another ceiling he's going to reach?
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Speaker 5: Because he did splash that potential? But then you do remember,
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Speaker 5: like he was a mid round guy, right, he was
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Speaker 5: a fifth round guy, and a lot of times, you know,
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Speaker 5: everyone has that dream of finding that diamond in the
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Speaker 5: rough that that becomes this great, great all pro player,
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Speaker 5: but it just doesn't happen for that position much in
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Speaker 5: that in those mid rounds.
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Speaker 1: Right, So do you think there's any chance that.
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Speaker 5: He will we'll reach higher, you know, planes that he
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Speaker 5: just didn't get the opportunity or is that a sua?
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Speaker 1: Is that the right time a little bit sure? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah?
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Speaker 5: Or is it just like hey, got an extra pick
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Speaker 5: for a guy that gave you some service time, Armen.
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Speaker 3: I have and it's great to hear you from you again, Arman.
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Speaker 3: I think originally when we started, you're you're with, You're
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Speaker 3: with the show when.
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Speaker 5: Originally all the way back man and what comes home again?
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Speaker 5: You know that's about life.
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Speaker 2: You know, that's awesome. But I'll give you a stat
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Speaker 2: for you. Okay, So since you're twenty twenty, okay, this
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Speaker 2: is I'm gonna blow your mind with this one. Okay,
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Speaker 2: since you're twenty twenty, there have been eighty eight receivers
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Speaker 2: drafted between the rounds three and five. Okay, so this
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Speaker 2: is like six drafts worth of players between three and five. Okay,
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Speaker 2: how many I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you real quick, Armen.
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Speaker 2: How many guys do you think have reached eight hundred
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Speaker 2: yards in one season, which is less than fifty yards
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Speaker 2: with you know, fifty yards per game? Yeah, season, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: this season?
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Speaker 1: Okay, I'll say maybe.
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Speaker 5: Twelve to fifteen percent, say like maybe ten guys.
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Speaker 2: What do you guys? Anybody any other guesses?
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Speaker 1: No clue? Yeah, no idea?
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Speaker 2: Okay, the answer is five. So there's eighty eight receivers
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Speaker 2: that are drafted between the rounds three and five since
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five of reach eight hundred yards. The obvious
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Speaker 2: ones are Puka and Amanra. I mean, that's that's the
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Speaker 2: exceptions to that, and Nico Collins is another guy. So
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Speaker 2: that's three out of the five. The other two gave
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Speaker 2: Davis and Darnell Mooney, and those were the only five
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Speaker 2: guys out of eighty eight. So this whole pipe dream
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Speaker 2: that you're gonna draft a guy in like rounds four
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Speaker 2: or five, three, and you're gonna get these stud star receivers.
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Speaker 2: In general, if you look at all the best receivers
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Speaker 2: taking out Puka on Am giving them a pass, they're
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Speaker 2: the exception. Almost all the other best receivers in the
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Speaker 2: league are first and second round players, almost all of
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Speaker 2: them across the board, And we look at touchdown it catches,
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Speaker 2: but we look at all those things. So if you're
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Speaker 2: not going to address that position early, you might as
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Speaker 2: well just take a flyer on a guy in the
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Speaker 2: sixth and seventh round that has high athletic upside that
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Speaker 2: maybe you could develop into that place.
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Speaker 1: It could be a special team or too right, and
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Speaker 1: you have a couple.
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Speaker 3: Of right they're usually fast, I mean, I mean, that's
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Speaker 3: where I like in the sixth and seventh throngs.
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Speaker 2: I like those high ra guys there.
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Speaker 1: All right, So is this your way of throwing a
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Speaker 1: wet blanket on us having any hopes at all for
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Speaker 1: save On Williams being a contributor this year, because.
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Speaker 5: Well we're talking about talk about receiving. He runs a gap,
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Speaker 5: so he's fine. Well, yeah, I don't know, I said.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday, like the Wicks trade, I hope somebody placed the call,
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Speaker 1: whether it's a position coach or Goody himself to Matthew
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Speaker 1: Golden said, you're up man, Like the runway is clear.
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Speaker 1: We're going to actually use you now you showed a
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Speaker 1: little bit late.
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Speaker 2: You're going to get that.
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Speaker 1: You're getting the ball. And I saw somebody, I think
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Speaker 1: one of our friends Elliot and green Bay did an
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Speaker 1: interview with Randall Cobb and they were asking about Matthew Goldens,
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Speaker 1: like I went through the same thing, GEORDI went through
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Speaker 1: the same We all, Davante, we all had that rookie
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Speaker 1: year where we didn't get as much run as we thought,
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Speaker 1: as much burn and as we thought we would. And
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Speaker 1: they all worked out.
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Speaker 4: And the position just continue gets continues to get played
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Speaker 4: at a higher level, right like wide receiver and quarterback
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Speaker 4: just continues to get better. The players continue to get better.
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Speaker 4: They're being trained rob right as like sixth and seventh
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Speaker 4: graders on the AAU circuit basically of college football with
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Speaker 4: the seven on seven, one guy at the receiving spot
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Speaker 4: that you have ranked higher than everybody else. And I'm
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Speaker 4: so glad he did because I got to watch the
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Speaker 4: guy and he was the best player on the field,
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Speaker 4: and he was hurt and actually got carted off at
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Speaker 4: one particular point in time. Denzel Boston from Washington, that
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Speaker 4: dude is a dog. I love watching him play all
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Speaker 4: year long, not only because he played for the Dogs,
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Speaker 4: but he was phenomenal and he's.
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Speaker 1: A true big bodied guy.
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Speaker 4: I think somebody is going to get a steal laid
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Speaker 4: in the round one. I know that's not a Packers player,
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Speaker 4: but I'm looking at a number of these guys and
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Speaker 4: you have a different grouping a little bit higher than
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Speaker 4: other people have had. He's just a player that I
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Speaker 4: watched all year long in college football, dominate every single game.
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Speaker 4: Feels like that can translate, Robbie. It's tough when sometimes
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Speaker 4: we get caught up in the minutia instead of just
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Speaker 4: watching how good a player was all year.
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Speaker 2: Well, one thing that I look for is I look
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Speaker 2: for like what the game plan dictates. So for example,
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Speaker 2: like Jordan Tyson Denzel Boston are my top two receivers.
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Speaker 2: There are guys a defensive coordinators game planned against every
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Speaker 2: single game, but they're still able to deliver. You brought
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Speaker 2: up Boston. It's a great point. I love him. He's
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Speaker 2: a big body receiver, he gets open, he's a great
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Speaker 2: I mean high points the ball. He has everything that
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Speaker 2: you want from an NFL standpoint. And I see some
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Speaker 2: of those other guys and we can go on and
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Speaker 2: probably don't have time today. But like guys like mackay Lemon,
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Speaker 2: I'm not a big fan of his. I'm way lower
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Speaker 2: on him than most people are.
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Speaker 3: But I'm looking at when the defensive corner sits down
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Speaker 3: and they're like, okay, so who do we have to
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Speaker 3: stop with this week. Jordan Tyson, Denzel Boston are guys
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Speaker 3: that they say, Okay, these are the guys we have
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Speaker 3: to stop no matter what, and then they devise game
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Speaker 3: plans to try to stop them. And when they can't
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Speaker 3: do it, that tells me a lot about that particular player.
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Speaker 4: I'm fascinated where Skyler Bell ends up too. But before
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Speaker 4: we get out here, let's talk about the position people
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Speaker 4: actually care about. Let's talk about what people really need
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Speaker 4: to know about guards centers.
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Speaker 1: Arman.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, now you have you have Logan Jones, which again correctly,
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Speaker 4: so much higher than other people do. I think the
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Speaker 4: guy seems like a ten year vet, like he just
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Speaker 4: seems like he's going to be able to walk in
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Speaker 4: and play in the NFL right away. I don't know
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Speaker 4: that he's available in round three. I've seen a lot
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Speaker 4: of a sliding scale though, in a bunch of different mocks.
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Speaker 4: Where do you see that center spot? Because he's ahead
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Speaker 4: on your board? Uh, same with mine. Over guys you know,
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Speaker 4: like Hecton Slaughter and even the Jennings dunker who's getting
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Speaker 4: the Callvers story right now on ESPN dot com.
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Speaker 3: Man that you've done your over today, Billy, I'm I'm impressed, man,
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Speaker 3: one of Wow.
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Speaker 2: Man, I'm impressed.
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Speaker 3: But Logan Jones is a four year starter at IOWA
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Speaker 3: and that does not happen very often. We heard for
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Speaker 3: years and years and years that Lucas van Ness was
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Speaker 3: never a starter at IOWA because they only start upper classmen. Well,
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Speaker 3: Logan Jones with a four your starter at center for Iowa.
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Speaker 3: So yes, he's undersized, for sure, he is going to
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Speaker 3: get pushed around by some of those bigger nose tackles
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Speaker 3: at the point of attack. That will happen, but he's
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Speaker 3: very quick out of his stance. He can get to
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Speaker 3: the second level. He's great on screens. There's so many
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Speaker 3: different skills that he's really really strong in. Will they
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Speaker 3: have to put on weight. Of course, they can get
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Speaker 3: him on a nutrition plant, they can do whatever they
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Speaker 3: need to do. They try to get up to three ten,
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Speaker 3: three point fifteen in that range so he can hold
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Speaker 3: up at the point of attack. But the bottom line
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Speaker 3: is is at center is a position that I feel
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Speaker 3: that the packers need. You know, I know that you
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Speaker 3: know they have a center, but you know, is he
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Speaker 3: really the best that they can do?
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Speaker 2: So a guy like Logan Jones, Jake Slaughter or Sam Heck.
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Speaker 2: These are guys that I really wanted to tick an eye.
15:42
Speaker 2: And the other thing about the center that people don't
15:44
Speaker 2: realize that for the most part, if you don't make
15:46
Speaker 2: it at center, they can move you over. Centers and
15:49
Speaker 2: guards are pretty interchangeable, so it's very it'd be very
15:52
Speaker 2: difficult for a guy who's a strong center to not
15:54
Speaker 2: be able to move over if push comes to shove.
15:56
Speaker 2: So you look at that position versatility for some of
15:59
Speaker 2: those guys. I'm put on weight, yes, but at the
16:02
Speaker 2: end of the day, they probably need some interior offensive
16:04
Speaker 2: alignment as well.
16:05
Speaker 1: All right, Riggs on the way out. I got to ask,
16:08
Speaker 1: because you know, I'm old enough to remember when Ron
16:11
Speaker 1: Wolf would take a quarterback every year basically and flyer
16:15
Speaker 1: fifth six round like every draft, you knew he's going
16:17
Speaker 1: to take a quarterback. Packers haven't done that in a while.
16:20
Speaker 1: Is this a year and is there a late round
16:22
Speaker 1: sleeper that you like that could maybe hold a clipboard?
16:26
Speaker 1: And for Jordan Lovin, maybe Desmond Ritter or whoever the
16:29
Speaker 1: backup is, what do you think.
16:31
Speaker 3: Man North Dakota State, My man Cole Payton is the
16:35
Speaker 3: guy I'm telling you right now. He only started for
16:37
Speaker 3: one year there, but he is an athlete supreme. He's
16:41
Speaker 3: a guy that if he gets put into a developmental
16:43
Speaker 3: system and he gets into that program, I feel that
16:47
Speaker 3: he has the same potential that like a guy like
16:49
Speaker 3: Malik Willis has, where you know it's a guy that
16:51
Speaker 3: you look at their skills and you're like, Wow, this
16:52
Speaker 3: guy's really talented.
16:53
Speaker 2: He's raw. Don't be fooled by the North Dakota State.
16:56
Speaker 2: He's an elite athlete. I believe his rascor is like
16:58
Speaker 2: in a nine to five I don't have it offhand,
17:00
Speaker 2: but I think it's a nine to five plus. He
17:02
Speaker 2: ran like a four or five forty. He's a lefty,
17:05
Speaker 2: which is a little bit odd, but he's a guy
17:08
Speaker 2: that when I looked at this tape and I watched
17:10
Speaker 2: because I write for the Cheese, a TV draft guy
17:12
Speaker 2: to do the quarterbacks as my position. So I watched
17:15
Speaker 2: every snap that he played, and that dude, anytime it's
17:18
Speaker 2: third down, anytime it's fourth down, I.
17:19
Speaker 3: Call him the gotta have it plays. Whenever it's a
17:22
Speaker 3: got to have it play. He delivered time and time again.
17:24
Speaker 3: He made the right decision. He either ran it himself
17:27
Speaker 3: or he passed it. They did up Bryce Lance, which
17:30
Speaker 3: is a nice addition at the receiver position there, but
17:33
Speaker 3: he was able to basically make the right decision, right time,
17:36
Speaker 3: right read, and make it happen. So if they got
17:39
Speaker 3: a guy like Cole Payton as their backup quarterback, I
17:41
Speaker 3: feel it would be very very effective for the factors.
17:43
Speaker 1: All right, guys can put it in your memory. Banks
17:45
Speaker 1: col Peyton, you I'm liking it.
17:47
Speaker 4: He's everyone's favorite. People are loving him, but let's let's
17:51
Speaker 4: be honest. He's going to Denver. There's going to play
17:54
Speaker 4: for Sean Payton Taysom Hill two.
17:58
Speaker 1: By the way, Starting in nineteen ninety two, round Wolf
18:01
Speaker 1: drafted Ty Detmer. Then the next year Mark brunell I
18:04
Speaker 1: got Jay Barker, fifth rounder, Kyle Wackholtz. That's an awesome name.
18:08
Speaker 1: Ronnie Makaida, Matt Hasselbeck, and Aaron Brooks. Guys, I'm still fascinated.
18:14
Speaker 1: Who's gonna get Drew Aller?
18:15
Speaker 4: Like you, you couldn't have had a worse close to
18:17
Speaker 4: your college career leagues, But you want to talk about
18:20
Speaker 4: all the talent in the world. He's got all of
18:22
Speaker 4: the physical traits, but lord knows he likes throwing the
18:25
Speaker 4: ball to the other team too.
18:28
Speaker 2: I'm not a huge fan. I'll be honest with you.
18:30
Speaker 2: He's a he's a physical freak. But I mean that's
18:33
Speaker 2: that's about it. I mean, you have to have it
18:35
Speaker 2: between the years to play quarterback, and I love it.
18:37
Speaker 1: We've broken the seal Riegs. Thanks for joining us. You've
18:40
Speaker 1: wet our whistles a little bit. The draft is a
18:43
Speaker 1: week and a day away, although for the Packers it's
18:45
Speaker 1: the weekend two days away. More likely than not that
18:48
Speaker 1: they will not trade up into the first round, but Riegs,
18:50
Speaker 1: we appreciate your input. Man, have a great day.
18:52
Speaker 2: Awesome guys.
18:53
Speaker 1: Thanks all right, So Rob Riger getting up early with
18:55
Speaker 1: us our draft geek. Oh my goodness, Billy's fired up.
18:58
Speaker 1: He know, you know, Billy, you're not even closeted. But
19:00
Speaker 1: comes the drafts if you prepare for the draft when
19:02
Speaker 1: you watch college football also every second.
19:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's the thing. I don't put out mock drafts.
19:07
Speaker 4: I don't put up top one hundred lists. I just
19:09
Speaker 4: get excited when I see the guys that I either
19:11
Speaker 4: won money or lost money on all Saturdays be the
19:15
Speaker 4: point of conversations. And man, Cole Payton is a is
19:19
Speaker 4: a fascinating name. There's gonna be a lot and he
19:21
Speaker 4: mentioned Bryce Lance, brother of Trey Lance, also North Dakota
19:25
Speaker 4: State guy. He's gonna go a lot earlier than people anticipate.
19:28
Speaker 4: So we're gonna have a lot of fun coming up
19:31
Speaker 4: next week Thursday night seven to ten, Friday night six
19:34
Speaker 4: to eleven, Saturday, just for kicks and just for the
19:37
Speaker 4: Sikos in the fourth, fifth and sixth round eleven to four, Drew,
19:41
Speaker 4: We're gonna have it locked and loaded on the draft
19:43
Speaker 4: coverage coming up it'll be awesome.
19:44
Speaker 1: We've reached halftime of both the week and the program.
19:48
Speaker 1: Scott Dolphin will be in next and we'll be talking
19:51
Speaker 1: to him about one of the big stories in sports.
19:54
Speaker 1: People love salacious. It's my fan and he's retirement. Her
19:58
Speaker 1: resignation letter came in. We'll talk to Dolph. He's next.
20:02
Speaker 1: It's the Huddle, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin, rolling through a
20:14
Speaker 1: Wednesday in the good Land. The Huddle, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin,
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Speaker 1: Drew Billy and Arman bringing it to you. Halftime has arrived,
20:22
Speaker 1: every body. Scott Dolphin is here. Dolphin. The number one
20:24
Speaker 1: question for you is how's the basement at the manor?
20:27
Speaker 1: Everything good? Everything ship shape, It's good. I'm near the
20:29
Speaker 1: airport's south side of Milwaukee, and we kind of got skirted. Yeah,
20:33
Speaker 1: last night, you know, everything was north at ninety four
20:36
Speaker 1: for the most part. Later storms came through the south side.
20:38
Speaker 1: We got rained like everybody else in thunder and lightning,
20:40
Speaker 1: but we didn't get anything like they got in that
20:43
Speaker 1: stretch between like Watertown, Beaver Dam over to Menominee Falls
20:47
Speaker 1: and they how did non stop Sussex had tornadoes And yes,
20:51
Speaker 1: we got really lucky where I live basically, it's okay
20:53
Speaker 1: as of right now, and it's supposed to rain again
20:55
Speaker 1: this afternoon. We're saturated. We had enough other nature. I
20:58
Speaker 1: know what's happened. Only then were gonna get a break.
21:00
Speaker 1: Its supposed to be dry Thursday and Friday, let's hope anyway.
21:03
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, let's see, because it feels like we're riding
21:05
Speaker 5: in the Santa Maria here.
21:06
Speaker 1: Okay, dodge and squalls every five minutes.
21:08
Speaker 5: At the right term, when Columbus right, the Santa Maria
21:11
Speaker 5: and the Santa Mariasion Armenians stick together.
21:18
Speaker 1: I should have I should have found that drop his
21:20
Speaker 1: home run call.
21:21
Speaker 5: It's one of the best, obviously, But I've always wondered,
21:23
Speaker 5: you know, you mentioned living by the airport. Do you
21:25
Speaker 5: get the indication of like how bad the weather is
21:27
Speaker 5: by if there's the same amount of flights going up
21:29
Speaker 5: and down, or they've delayed everything or grounded or is
21:32
Speaker 5: that just a nerd in me that thinks about something.
21:35
Speaker 1: So the first house we bought in Milwaukee was where
21:38
Speaker 1: like a writer right around the Lake park Way at
21:39
Speaker 1: Howard Avenue, and we were in the flight path. Man,
21:42
Speaker 1: you could see what was on their trade table as
21:44
Speaker 1: they came over my house. That's how that's how low
21:46
Speaker 1: they come in. Now west of the airport, we don't
21:48
Speaker 1: get air traffic over icy Okay, it's nowhere north and south. Yeah.
21:53
Speaker 1: Other than that, I know it's as the wind blows.
21:54
Speaker 1: You know, they have to they have to take off
21:56
Speaker 1: in the direction of the wind. But no, we're pretty lucky.
21:58
Speaker 1: I don't really hear the planes. I've never lived really
22:01
Speaker 1: close to the airport. I lived in Bayview. That's not
22:04
Speaker 1: really you would see them coming over, come over once
22:08
Speaker 1: in a while. But I did sit next to Harder
22:11
Speaker 1: Court for like ten years, and you know, he was
22:14
Speaker 1: like he and his NonStop commentary stuff. One time somebody
22:16
Speaker 1: asked me, how do you how do you manage that?
22:18
Speaker 1: How do you handle that? I'm like, it's like living
22:19
Speaker 1: by the airport, you don't even notice the plane. It
22:23
Speaker 1: just was like.
22:25
Speaker 2: Seven.
22:26
Speaker 1: It's true with it. So, speaking of Bayview, when you
22:28
Speaker 1: come in, did you see the Welcome to Cleveland sign
22:30
Speaker 1: that the dude painted. Oh yeah, that's well known. That's awesome.
22:33
Speaker 1: That's pretty funny on his roof Welcome to Cleveland. You
22:36
Speaker 1: still see it. I assumed the great one of the
22:38
Speaker 1: best original trolls. You know, so Dolph, it is hot
22:41
Speaker 1: te humpty, if you have a hot take eight seven
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Speaker 1: seven seven nine four one ninety seven three. But one
22:45
Speaker 1: of the hottest stories sports has been this Diana Russini
22:47
Speaker 1: Mike Rabel dalliance if you will, and Diana Rossini submitted
22:52
Speaker 1: her resignation, made a public she said, that's all I
22:54
Speaker 1: have to say about that couple of things. She was
22:56
Speaker 1: the highest paid, highest paid employee at the New York Times,
23:00
Speaker 1: which owns the athletics. She's making a million dollars a
23:03
Speaker 1: year to be an insider. And then so she's walking
23:06
Speaker 1: away from that. Her contract was up June thirtieth, so
23:09
Speaker 1: it's like a premptive strike. They weren't going to renew
23:11
Speaker 1: it properly. And so whatever she she was, she resigned,
23:15
Speaker 1: maintaining her innocence that she did nothing wrong and still resigning,
23:19
Speaker 1: which I don't know. You you know this story, Where's
23:22
Speaker 1: where's your BS detector on this? And well, I think
23:27
Speaker 1: there's definitely BS there. But I I'm disappointed because I
23:30
Speaker 1: really enjoy her work. I've always liked Diana radio hits
23:34
Speaker 1: and stuff. Yeah somewhere, but she will but you know,
23:38
Speaker 1: I mean, then then people are talking about the double
23:41
Speaker 1: standard of you know, what's Rabel's penalty? Like nothing right,
23:44
Speaker 1: It's true, that's truly and and you know, and I
23:46
Speaker 1: get why she's denying everything, but I mean because it
23:50
Speaker 1: calls into question all the recordings she's done in her
23:54
Speaker 1: and that's the problem, you know. And her initial cover
23:59
Speaker 1: story did not did not did not serve her well
24:03
Speaker 1: it probably like you know that that made her probably
24:06
Speaker 1: get fired. All she said, I was on a girl's trip.
24:09
Speaker 1: Where are the pictures of the girls? You have ever
24:10
Speaker 1: seen women to get together and not take a selfie
24:12
Speaker 1: and not take pictures of the dinner they're eating and
24:15
Speaker 1: the salads that they're eating and the hike that they're
24:17
Speaker 1: on in the red rocks point great point and also
24:20
Speaker 1: a great point. Why is he not penalty will get
24:24
Speaker 1: a fine for their detrimentally things? But yeah, like number
24:27
Speaker 1: one thing, he's just staying away from everything.
24:30
Speaker 5: So obviously their respective jobs have different stakes and implications.
24:34
Speaker 1: Hers is based on that. It gets to patriots, it
24:40
Speaker 1: gets tawdry because of the because of the sex thing
24:43
Speaker 1: and the cheating thing. They're both married with kids and stuff,
24:46
Speaker 1: so it gets tawdry. But I'm old enough to remember
24:49
Speaker 1: when there was that letter that was unearthed with Adam
24:51
Speaker 1: Schefter basically sending a story to the commanders and saying,
24:57
Speaker 1: is this okay, mister? You know you gotta any changes
25:00
Speaker 1: for me, which is as big a breach of ethics
25:03
Speaker 1: as you can have. Sure, you don't run a story
25:05
Speaker 1: past a source, but public you know, you might ask
25:08
Speaker 1: for comment on a story like I'm going to run
25:10
Speaker 1: this story. Do you have comment? But you don't say
25:12
Speaker 1: should I make any changes? That's absurd And he didn't.
25:15
Speaker 1: Nothing happen to him. Does that tell you just how
25:17
Speaker 1: powerful the NFL is that you don't want to piss
25:18
Speaker 1: anybody off. But it tells me that our whole culture,
25:21
Speaker 1: and we were talking about this the other day, that
25:22
Speaker 1: our insiders have become personalities and characters, and that they're
25:26
Speaker 1: like you used to just report the news. You're not
25:28
Speaker 1: the news. You report the news. Right now, it's like
25:31
Speaker 1: they're the news. They have brands, all these guys, they
25:33
Speaker 1: pay shams, like they pay these insiders, and that's what
25:36
Speaker 1: they do. The insiders are you know, I'm not saying
25:40
Speaker 1: I'm just saying a lot of the stories that get
25:42
Speaker 1: broken by a rabbitport yeah, or Schefter they have the
25:46
Speaker 1: same agent as the guys that they're writing about in coverary.
25:49
Speaker 1: Just who can competenate exactly. But if you're sometimes you're
25:52
Speaker 1: fed stuff by an agent who you share a relationship with,
25:55
Speaker 1: and it's very incestuous. And we've created this soup where
25:59
Speaker 1: they it's they've sold their souls in some ways. It's
26:02
Speaker 1: I would say it's incestuous. Wasn't the word I was
26:05
Speaker 1: coming up with, But you're right, yeah, that's yeah. What
26:07
Speaker 1: do you do? I mean, it's it's too late to
26:10
Speaker 1: what do they say? The cows are out of the
26:11
Speaker 1: barn now? In a situation like that, I don't know
26:13
Speaker 1: how you. I don't know how you fix that. But
26:15
Speaker 1: especially in the social media agent, which we.
26:17
Speaker 4: And the tough thing is and this is this is
26:19
Speaker 4: where you can get into a completely different conversation. The
26:21
Speaker 4: NFL doesn't really want them to, Like I don't I
26:23
Speaker 4: don't think the NFL really wants them to now. Granted,
26:25
Speaker 4: obviously with ESPN owning a stake of the NFL, they
26:29
Speaker 4: definitely don't want to. There's a reason why this hadn't
26:32
Speaker 4: come up on any of the Four Letter Network shows
26:34
Speaker 4: outside of Diana saying all of these shows, various media
26:37
Speaker 4: engaged in self feeding speculation that is simply unmarred from facts. Well,
26:42
Speaker 4: the facts are that you're standing in the on top
26:45
Speaker 4: of a twenty one hundred dollars.
26:46
Speaker 1: A night bungalow with the head coach of the Patriots,
26:49
Speaker 1: say it was Ai. That's not me, man, somebody it's
26:52
Speaker 1: Ai AI.
26:53
Speaker 4: Right now, I can interlock fingers. I think I could
26:56
Speaker 4: hold hands.
26:57
Speaker 2: I don't know.
26:57
Speaker 1: All the guys got that personal touch, look for those
27:00
Speaker 1: little uh irregularities. Yeah, and of course everybody's jumping on
27:04
Speaker 1: the story. But to the point, like she's talking about
27:06
Speaker 1: the media, the media, like who social media? I think
27:09
Speaker 1: the media has been kind of soft guy. ESPN has
27:12
Speaker 1: done nothing on the story because and that's the other thing.
27:15
Speaker 5: That used to be the media, but now we think
27:17
Speaker 5: of media and social media.
27:19
Speaker 1: But that's true. But ESPN basically is the NFL. Now
27:23
Speaker 1: where's one end and the other, Like they are intertwined
27:27
Speaker 1: to the point where anything that happens, like they're they
27:30
Speaker 1: buried this story, which again is a story and it's
27:33
Speaker 1: it's period interest or whatever, but it's it's a story.
27:37
Speaker 1: They're ignoring. It's like the biggest story in the NFL
27:39
Speaker 1: this week is the Rabel and Diana Rossi anything. And
27:42
Speaker 1: that's the one people want to see. The Oh people
27:44
Speaker 1: get excited when the exactly well and again like the
27:47
Speaker 1: guy coached in the super Bowl two months ago, and
27:49
Speaker 1: again that that's different. Again if you were the coach
27:52
Speaker 1: of no disrespect to Stephen Ross and the guy that
27:55
Speaker 1: just paid twelve million dollar valuation for our billion dollar
27:58
Speaker 1: valuation for part of the stake the back of the
28:00
Speaker 1: Dolphins who won five games, or the head coach of
28:03
Speaker 1: the Falcons. He is the guy that was just standing
28:05
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl that everybody was talking about three
28:08
Speaker 1: months ago as the greatest thing send sliced bread.
28:11
Speaker 4: This has got to be the goal. You got to
28:13
Speaker 4: go former player with the organization vested interest. That's where
28:16
Speaker 4: you also can go into the ramifications or the dealings
28:21
Speaker 4: that he's going to have. I mean, more than anything,
28:24
Speaker 4: Robert kraftm I just look at him and say, you
28:25
Speaker 4: spent twenty one night, Hey, I spend seventy dollars for
28:29
Speaker 4: the seventy house feet or Consavasia.
28:32
Speaker 1: Yeah you kidding me. There's a pattern here Title game
28:35
Speaker 1: with Patriot coaches. It's like Belichick and his twenty something
28:37
Speaker 1: girlfriend and the attention that drew at Carolina. But okay,
28:41
Speaker 1: so you can say what you want about the affair
28:43
Speaker 1: that happened all the time happens, if politics happens and
28:45
Speaker 1: business happens everywhere, and what Rabel did morally wrong, what
28:51
Speaker 1: she did ethically wrong. Yeah, and that is like she
28:54
Speaker 1: broke a rule like it's almost like a player the
28:56
Speaker 1: number one rule professional gambling, like don't gamb ac and
29:00
Speaker 1: that's when you see it posted don't gamble, And she
29:03
Speaker 1: was right up to the table. She broke a rule
29:06
Speaker 1: of getting too close to someone that you cover and
29:08
Speaker 1: that traffic information with can't have that relationships has the
29:11
Speaker 1: first time we've seen that, right, No, I mean, but
29:14
Speaker 1: this is probably you know, it's highest prof because in
29:17
Speaker 1: the fact that they're both married, they both have children.
29:19
Speaker 1: But this has happened before where coaches have got together.
29:22
Speaker 5: Samantha Steele married NFL quarterback I mean Samantha Ponders. So
29:27
Speaker 5: I think if you get married, maybe if you get
29:28
Speaker 5: married in the relationships real people with this, Yeah.
29:31
Speaker 4: And she was doing more college game Day at the
29:33
Speaker 4: time reported and you've seen like Jenny Jenny Dell's another
29:38
Speaker 4: one like when Will Middlebrooks was a member of the
29:40
Speaker 4: Red Sox. Now that they're married and they have kids,
29:42
Speaker 4: and she's continued on in a great sideline reporter doing
29:44
Speaker 4: college football for CBS Sports, like you can.
29:47
Speaker 1: You can absolutely have careers after this.
29:49
Speaker 4: The tough part is and Drew, guys, this is where
29:51
Speaker 4: it all stems from. The cover up was so much worse, like,
29:55
Speaker 4: don't insult people's intelligence.
29:58
Speaker 1: Maybe just be honest.
29:59
Speaker 4: Hey, you know what, I got a three year old
30:01
Speaker 4: and the two year old, and my life's crazy right now,
30:04
Speaker 4: and things got away from us, and I'm sorry. You
30:07
Speaker 4: know people, Okay, there's an ethical part that will still
30:10
Speaker 4: get still be subject to maybe work again a little
30:14
Speaker 4: bit sooner than going through lying to your bosses having
30:17
Speaker 4: them start continuing to go through the cover up.
30:19
Speaker 1: Like if you would have.
30:20
Speaker 4: Just been honest with it, this all might have actually
30:23
Speaker 4: done what she thought it was going to do and
30:25
Speaker 4: went away.
30:26
Speaker 1: She didn't have to get more oxy. It's the lying.
30:28
Speaker 1: It's the lying. Yeah, we just don't see that anymore,
30:32
Speaker 1: whether it's Hollywood, politics, sports, people just don't fess up
30:36
Speaker 1: to it.
30:36
Speaker 5: But there are, but there are still to this day.
30:38
Speaker 5: I mean, yes, like Scott Fletcher's daughter is a brook.
30:42
Speaker 5: I think she works for the Socks as a sideline reporter.
30:44
Speaker 5: She's married to Jay Cornamworth, like she's married doing an
30:47
Speaker 5: MLB player, she's covering MLB games. There is a little
30:51
Speaker 5: more gray area in that. So I think on the
30:53
Speaker 5: other side it just you know, you play Devil's advocate.
30:55
Speaker 5: Someone like Diana could say, look, this is a double standard.
30:58
Speaker 5: People do this all the time. But I agree to
31:00
Speaker 5: what you're saying, Billy. I think it's the fact that
31:03
Speaker 5: the dishonesty of it is what is what gets people
31:05
Speaker 5: a lot, Like it's not the open it's not something
31:07
Speaker 5: you're you're open and honest about, like this is my life.
31:10
Speaker 1: If you cover the city hall beat, you can't sleep
31:12
Speaker 1: with the mayor, right, correct, Right.
31:14
Speaker 5: There's a level you can't say, there's level of separation
31:17
Speaker 5: saying absolutely, it's a core principle, and female reporters have
31:22
Speaker 5: it tough.
31:23
Speaker 1: It's come a long way since nineteen seventy eight, and
31:25
Speaker 1: they had the sou to get access to the locker rooms.
31:27
Speaker 1: They are almost equally. You don't go to any locker
31:29
Speaker 1: room or any game now and not see women covering right, Right,
31:32
Speaker 1: It's come a long way, but there's always that cloud,
31:35
Speaker 1: and people there are some knuckle dragging portions will say, oh,
31:38
Speaker 1: she's sleeping with guys to get stories, and that's not
31:41
Speaker 1: the case most of the time, but when it is
31:44
Speaker 1: the case, it you know, it continues to perpetuates perceptions
31:49
Speaker 1: hurdle that they have to jump over, and it sucks.
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Speaker 1: It sucks for all the hard working ones who don't
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Speaker 1: who keep it, keep it real. So I'm glad we
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Speaker 1: talked about this for eleven minutes because I figured you'd
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Speaker 1: bring up Kirk Farrens having to vacate four Iowa wins.
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Speaker 1: Did you see that story yesterday? They know you're talking
32:09
Speaker 1: about the Hawks.
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Speaker 4: Here, I'm talking about how Logan Jones might just be
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Speaker 4: an easy ten year vet lay up right down the fairway.
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Speaker 1: Not going to stop it with the Iowa guys.
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Speaker 4: Come on, we want him now, the Jennings hunger. They
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Speaker 4: can keep him at Calvers. I think he's a phenomenal player,
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Speaker 4: great out of air. We'll go with Logan Johns.
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Speaker 1: You had your chance with with Cooper Degen and we're not.
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Speaker 2: Gonna get you.
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Speaker 1: Why you got to that scab open. I'm wondering now,
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Speaker 1: like what is a recruiting violation. Remember when it's ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: Remember when you could give a recruit, you could give
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Speaker 1: him a bagel, but not cream cheese. Oh yeah, it
32:41
Speaker 1: was ridiculous. Yeah, it was like it was to that level,
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Speaker 1: like you can't buy a kid of hot dog during
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Speaker 1: his visit or buy him a bottle of water when
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Speaker 1: you're walking around campus on a ninety degree day, because yeah,
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Speaker 1: you couldn't do it.
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Speaker 5: Marquet's famously had itself report a hot dog I believe
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Speaker 5: once in and then Jan Anderson got brewered tickets and
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Speaker 5: a free T shirt or something and they had to
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Speaker 5: suspend him for.
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Speaker 1: A game in the era where you're paid players and
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Speaker 1: it's basically become professional, Like, how quaint to have a
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Speaker 1: recruiting violation? Yeah, I know, I mean it's just stupid.
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Speaker 5: Well, while John Blackwell's on the basically like the celebrity
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Speaker 5: tour of trying to give baskets, and basket tour is
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Speaker 5: what it is, and poor Kirk is getting, but the
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Speaker 5: NCAA is trying to wield any bit of power.
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Speaker 1: Hay's still back at Is he back in first place
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Speaker 1: for a little bit now or what?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 1: No, I think Kurt Still, that's a great point. They
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Speaker 1: self reported the violation and they suspended him and former
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Speaker 1: Badger John Budmeyer, who actually did the phone call to
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Speaker 1: uh Kate McNamara, who was still at Michigan at the time,
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Speaker 1: hours before they were allowed to do it. And so
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Speaker 1: they had to vacate four wins in that twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: four wins and one loss. And isn't that true? A
33:45
Speaker 1: good point, brutal is that because Kate McNamara sucked. I
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Speaker 1: mean he was. He was terrible for iowable I know
33:51
Speaker 1: he won a playoff game with Michigan. Was a great
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Speaker 1: quarterback at Michigan, but yeah, he was just he had
33:58
Speaker 1: concussions and all kinds of injuries at Iowa, and sadly
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Speaker 1: he ended up going to East Tennessee State, left the
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Speaker 1: Big Ten for East Tennessee State and.
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Speaker 4: Then my man, my man Deacon Hill played linebackers as
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Speaker 4: as quarterback.
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Speaker 1: Hey, God blessed Deacon Hill. He had never started a
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Speaker 1: game in his life, and uh, he got a handful
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Speaker 1: of wins that year be Wisconsin. That's right, that's right,
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Speaker 1: he Wisconsin. I was there front and center. Oh, that's right.
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Speaker 1: I remember that line forms of the rear.
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Speaker 5: You just I didn't. He stumbled on, like the biggest
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Speaker 5: coaching hact. Though, when you're not doing well, you just
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Speaker 5: vacate losses and therefore your records. A minute, right, John,
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Speaker 5: that's a great point, vacate losses, Doug. Doug Gottlieb violated
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Speaker 5: all kinds of rules his first year at Green Bay.
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Speaker 1: We got to vacate all those games. The n is
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Speaker 1: the parent where the sports watch Doug Gottlieb's career and
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Speaker 1: improve his record by vacating those losses, and then the
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Speaker 1: in the two games they won as well them all
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Speaker 1: out the entire season is vacating vacant love, hang a
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Speaker 1: banner for that.
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Speaker 5: You're the parent and your kids like twenty in a
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Speaker 5: twenties and you're still trying to like impose like discipline
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Speaker 5: and ground him, and like that's what the NCAA is now.
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Speaker 5: It's like trying to that last vestige of influence.
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Speaker 1: True, It's true. You wonder if the Big ten and
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Speaker 1: the sec are gonna form it. C DOUBLEA is like
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Speaker 1: has a dad who's trying to be the disciplinarian and
35:15
Speaker 1: Mom's like, you guys can drink at the party as
35:17
Speaker 1: long as no one drives. Yeah, okay, just don't leave
35:20
Speaker 1: the basement. And as long as no one drives, you
35:22
Speaker 1: guys can have.
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Speaker 4: It's like ra Arman on move out week, trying to
35:24
Speaker 4: make sure everybody else is being safe and sound inside
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Speaker 4: the dorm.
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Speaker 1: Safety first. I'm glad you said safety, it's out. It's
35:31
Speaker 1: for there. ARM would have routed all the kids out
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Speaker 1: of their dorm rooms last night and had them down
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Speaker 1: in the basement for sure.
35:37
Speaker 4: Guys, it's trure. It is within fifteen miles and there
35:40
Speaker 4: is a tornado warning. We all need to get into
35:42
Speaker 4: the base. Their safety becomes my priority.
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Speaker 1: You were the by the book guy at the sn RA,
35:47
Speaker 1: weren't you, Armand I just was looking out for the
35:49
Speaker 1: best interest of the kids. Did you have any basketball
35:51
Speaker 1: players and you're doing wrote the No. No, no, they were.
35:54
Speaker 1: They wouldn't stay in our dorm. No, my daughter had
35:56
Speaker 1: a lot of basketball players and when she was all
35:58
Speaker 1: right at Marquette really yeah, yeah, lost Jumfrey Hall he
36:01
Speaker 1: was no.
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Speaker 5: They stated regular dorms at for a while they wanted
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Speaker 5: to do that, and then they went back for this
36:08
Speaker 5: is the whole thing we can get into, but we.
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Speaker 1: Will talk about it, hopefully Dolph, Thanks for coming bay
36:11
Speaker 1: for halftime. We appreciate it's halftime of the show, halftime
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Speaker 1: of the week. We're halfway through hot take hump Day.
36:16
Speaker 1: We got Matt Miller coming up at seven o'clock talk
36:17
Speaker 1: about Milwaukee Film Festival, the Ucher doc premiering, and then, uh,
36:21
Speaker 1: we've got John Greenberg Alfe talking puck the playoff bound
36:24
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Admirals, maybe getting some reinforcements from Nashville which was eliminated.
36:28
Speaker 1: We'll talk to El Hafe as well. It's the huddle
36:30
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin Drew, Billy and Armon huddled up
36:40
Speaker 1: on a Wednesday. Shout out to Dolph, shout out to
36:42
Speaker 1: Rob Rieger. We got Matt Miller and John Greenberg warming
36:45
Speaker 1: up in the bullpen for the seven o'clock hour. For
36:47
Speaker 1: you still taking your hot takes. We need some more
36:48
Speaker 1: hot takes. Burr's bullpen melts down yesterday they lose their
36:52
Speaker 1: sixth straight game. Come on now, guys, can't have this.
36:56
Speaker 1: They lost four to open last year, four in a
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Speaker 1: row to open the season, so this is a blip.
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Speaker 5: M I will say this though, it is like clockwork.
37:05
Speaker 5: I'm seeing a lot of the same stuff. I saw
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Speaker 5: last April. Well, this team was just the one that's
37:09
Speaker 5: finally gonna crumble. This team wasn't good. Well things were
37:12
Speaker 5: well you know, we said the same thing last year. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: but this was this seems actually not good. Like, okay,
37:17
Speaker 5: all right, I get it, Like eventually you want to
37:20
Speaker 5: wait for something better? Are we getting the critiques on
37:22
Speaker 5: this team doesn't have as much fun?
37:26
Speaker 4: You had?
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Speaker 5: No personality was the although I want to give really
37:29
Speaker 5: quick credit to somebody who said that they had more
37:31
Speaker 5: vigor the hitting and overall vigor was better.
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Speaker 1: Kevin Doherty, all right, Kevin, all right, Okay, I like
37:36
Speaker 1: so plenty of candidates for who's hot and who's not.
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Speaker 1: Who's not Trevor McGill and the Burwers bullpen, But Donovan
37:42
Speaker 1: Jorgenson is our go to for who's hot and who's not. Billy,
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Speaker 1: what do you got?
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Speaker 4: And they're always hot? I drove bim saw him over
37:48
Speaker 4: on Greenfield Avenue yesterday. They are potentially be doing some
37:51
Speaker 4: robust business coming up here. How about Gary Sanchez guys
37:54
Speaker 4: twenty six at bats if my math is correct. Now
37:58
Speaker 4: on the young season for him, he has now matched
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Speaker 4: his overall home run output for all of twenty twenty
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Speaker 4: five in those twenty seven at bats with a bomb
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Speaker 4: last night, unable to deliver the big hit late into
38:11
Speaker 4: the game, but he was part of the comeback as well. Yesterday.
38:14
Speaker 4: Bryce Terrain continues his hot run. He was three or
38:16
Speaker 4: six last night in the not category. Guys, we're gonna
38:19
Speaker 4: have to throw our friend Joey Orties over four last
38:21
Speaker 4: night and closes out with the bases loaded.
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Speaker 1: Had he won the game yesterday, would the conversation be
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Speaker 1: totally different. Oh, people were so excited too, and all
38:30
Speaker 1: the you know what, one of that's so bad.
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Speaker 4: Let's give some credit to the win and the crowded
38:36
Speaker 4: amfam still going with the Joey chance as he was
38:39
Speaker 4: coming up. Now, they're a faint because I do believe
38:42
Speaker 4: there are some people that were saying it is Joey
38:44
Speaker 4: Ortiz and I'm not setting myself up for this nonsense,
38:47
Speaker 4: but Joey, Joey, Joey Ortiz hitless in his last five appearance.
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Speaker 1: It did feel like they're hotter than Renhifo or sorry,
38:55
Speaker 1: that was Renny, that was Renhefoh. I apologize.
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Speaker 4: Renhifoh hitless in his last five and yeah, that is
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Speaker 4: that's an experiment that it's really really difficult to be
39:04
Speaker 4: rolling at Well, Lockart's tied it up with the double.
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Speaker 4: You did get that sort of sense like, oh, yes,
39:09
Speaker 4: here we go again. We're gonna get that magic.
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Speaker 5: It's gonna happen because the Brewers, to their credit, have
39:14
Speaker 5: done it so much to make us believe that. You
39:16
Speaker 5: just had that feeling like, all right, we're gonna find
39:18
Speaker 5: a way to come back and snatch victory from the
39:19
Speaker 5: jaws of defeat. But unfortunately it wasn't to be.
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Speaker 4: You know, the other one that I was gonna give
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Speaker 4: guys Brewers number twelve ranked prospect Luis Lara. He was
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Speaker 4: one of the guys that we were kind of thinking
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Speaker 4: of might be getting the call instead.
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Speaker 1: Is Greg Jones.
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Speaker 4: Now Greg Jones is having a phenomenal run down at Nashville.
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Speaker 4: But Lara just had his fourth three hit game in
39:39
Speaker 4: the first fourteen games of the season.
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Speaker 2: Is that good?
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Speaker 1: That's really good? That good?
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Speaker 5: Can't wait till he comes up so I can get
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Speaker 5: my wife a jersey with her name on it.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Well, you're gonna have a couple opportunities.
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Speaker 4: This one is awesome because Luis Laura was tearing it
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Speaker 4: up during spring training and I was having a ton
39:52
Speaker 4: of fun watching him there.
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Speaker 1: Who's not hot into the can now?
39:55
Speaker 4: Some people would say that I think Diana Rossini's career
39:59
Speaker 4: would be yeah, not hot category because drew as much
40:04
Speaker 4: as I've tried to think about it, and we were
40:05
Speaker 4: just talking about it last segment, there's ways that your
40:08
Speaker 4: career can turn around. Here difficult though, if you're thinking
40:12
Speaker 4: you're gonna be back in the million dollar range of
40:14
Speaker 4: the insider game to be.
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Speaker 1: Thinking that's gonna be the case.
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Speaker 4: Maybe Diana could get a job at Donovan Jorgenson because
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Speaker 4: they are the state's largest employee owned HVAC heating and
40:23
Speaker 4: cooling company in the community, serving for over forty years.
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Speaker 1: They're always hired. Donovan Jorgan's there. You go check them out.
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Speaker 1: When we come back, Matt Miller's going to join the party.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk to about the Milwaukee Film Festival. The Uker
40:34
Speaker 1: doc is the highlight of the opener tomorrow night, and
40:38
Speaker 1: there's all kinds of good stuff there and Matt will
40:40
Speaker 1: have some sports takes as well. It's the Wednesday edition
40:44
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