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10/09/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Final hour of the week final hour for us as
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  Speaker 1: a morning show welcome in it's the huddle fox sports
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  Speaker 1: radio wisconsin 920 milwaukee 1070 madison everywhere in the iron
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  Speaker 1: arman it's the last dance wayne larvey is going to
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  Speaker 1: join us at 7 25 ish 7 30 uh we'll
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  Speaker 1: get his thoughts about packers bears we're gearing up for
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  Speaker 1: brewers dodgers no badgers this weekend can't lose college football
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fun uh to be had as far
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  Speaker 1: as watching but yeah this is our uh our farewell
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  Speaker 1: thank you to everybody who's been hanging out with us
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  Speaker 1: in the mornings since january 20th.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was our first day is that right
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  Speaker 2: that sounds right yes and uh just got it just
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  Speaker 2: got one of our uh tweet in here from uh
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  Speaker 2: fishers of men said hey guys five o'clock clubber thanks
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  Speaker 2: for waking up with me for my 5 a.m walks
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  Speaker 2: and i'll be a listener i've been a listener all
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  Speaker 2: the way back with all the guys and Now I'll
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  Speaker 2: be tuning in at 2 next week. Nice to know that, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we strolled with you at 5. Now you can walk
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  Speaker 2: with us at 2. And for a lot of folks, Drew,
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  Speaker 2: now it just becomes an even happier moment because we
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  Speaker 2: wake and bake at 7.50.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of a hard thing to celebrate.
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  Speaker 2: 4.20 feels a little bit more appropriate.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's coming back. Games and hijinks will be back
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  Speaker 3: for us.
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  Speaker 4: That's right. So a lot of those exciting things on
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  Speaker 4: the horizon. Thanks, everyone, for reaching out and saying how
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  Speaker 4: much we meant to you in the morning. You meant
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  Speaker 4: a lot to us. Appreciate that.
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  Speaker 5: Mary Goldbeck on YouTube.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, fellas. I'm a full-time RVer. We'll catch you
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  Speaker 4: in the afternoon. We're going to start our migration of
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  Speaker 4: warmer weather today. Best wishes on your new time slot.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Best wishes to you on your trip there. Have a
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  Speaker 4: good time. Enjoy the scenery on the ride. Sandy, good morning, guys,
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, Smurf. Great hearing from you.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Thank you, Smurf.
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  Speaker 3: Great hearing from Smurf.
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  Speaker 6: 877-794-1973.
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  Speaker 1: Hit us up with your thoughts while we tell you
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  Speaker 1: who's hot and who's not. Brought to us by Donovan Jorgensen.
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  Speaker 1: Heating and cooling. Billy, who's hot, who's not?
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  Speaker 3: Who's hot?
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Daniels, hot last night. Not only a spectacular victory
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  Speaker 2: for the young man, but they showed his mother star
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  Speaker 2: Daniels later on during the game. Kind of a rude deal.
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  Speaker 2: They showed her in the middle of the third quarter
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  Speaker 2: while she was eating nachos. Mom having a great moment
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  Speaker 2: watching her son get a dub in her second NFL start.
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  Speaker 2: on the road at Dallas stadium. Like, come on now,
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  Speaker 2: what are we doing? We paying the camera to her
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  Speaker 2: at a better time. So Jalen Daniels said, mom. You
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  Speaker 2: become the star on the desk of prime video after
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  Speaker 2: the game pulls his mother on set. They had a
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  Speaker 2: great moment. Great interview. She sat down with all the guys.
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  Speaker 2: Whit helped her up onto the set. Vita Vea was
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  Speaker 2: going to pull out his chair. Ryan Fitzpatrick said, no, Mrs. Daniels,
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  Speaker 2: you please take mine, take my microphone. And then she
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  Speaker 2: became the star of the show. So Jalen Daniels got
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  Speaker 2: to win last night on the game during the game.
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  Speaker 2: And then one post game, he had said, my mom
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  Speaker 2: worked two jobs for me to get here.
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  Speaker 3: She needs to be here to enjoy it.
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  Speaker 5: I love that. What a great moment.
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  Speaker 4: And that's a great story that we might not have
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  Speaker 4: ever known if Baker hadn't got hurt. So that's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: And with a name like Star, you know she's going
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  Speaker 4: to have a great personality, right? And she was the
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  Speaker 4: star of the show. That's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Also, a lot easier to get a win, Drew, as
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  Speaker 2: an undrafted rookie free agent quarterback. When he got Bucky Irving,
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  Speaker 2: who's hot, 21 carries for a buck.
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  Speaker 3: 65 last night.
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  Speaker 5: And it's honey. What a great night for him.
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  Speaker 3: And the, um, the run game and two catches for
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  Speaker 3: 10 yards in there. That works out.
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  Speaker 1: He was celebrating an early Halloween in his Bijan Robinson costume.
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  Speaker 3: Where are the seven?
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  Speaker 5: You're right.
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  Speaker 3: Just in it.
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  Speaker 5: Good man.
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  Speaker 4: And on the other, the flip side of that, not
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  Speaker 4: the Dallas rushing attack. You know, you, when you people
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  Speaker 4: think what you should and shouldn't be on paper, uh,
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  Speaker 4: Being in the trenches, and you can attest to this, Billy,
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  Speaker 4: changes a lot of that. If you can dominate the
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  Speaker 4: run game and stop the run, that changes a lot
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  Speaker 4: of the flow of the game, and Dallas could not
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  Speaker 4: run the ball.
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  Speaker 5: Javante Williams, 12 carries with 45 yards.
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  Speaker 4: They had 13 total as a team carries, and Tampa
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  Speaker 4: Bay tripled that with 39 carries. That's an indication of
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  Speaker 4: how the game's going, I think, if you see numbers
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  Speaker 4: like that. Well, in the first drive, Dallas looked unstoppable.
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  Speaker 4: They did run it pretty well. They had a 21-yarder.
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  Speaker 4: They popped in there as well. Williams had the touchdown
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  Speaker 4: run to start the game. And then it's a 15-play
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  Speaker 4: drive that the Bucs had to answer it. They got
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  Speaker 4: gifted a couple of first downs on the drive. And
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  Speaker 4: then it was not hot for Thursday Night Football.
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  Speaker 3: Punt, punt, punt, punt, punt, punt. Field goal. Touchdown interception.
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  Speaker 3: Touchdown fumble. Field goal.
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  Speaker 2: The second half picked up, but that first half, goodness gracious,
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  Speaker 2: if you were staying up late on Tuesday and Wednesday
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  Speaker 2: night for Brewers playoff baseball, that second quarter might have
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  Speaker 2: put you to sleep there at the back end.
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  Speaker 3: Who was also hot, Drew?
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  Speaker 6: Um.
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  Speaker 3: Jose Ramirez is pretty good, huh?
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  Speaker 1: He's pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Jose Ramirez is very good.
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  Speaker 2: Last night, his swing put the Guardians up 3-2 in
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  Speaker 2: the fifth after Morikami's walk with the bases juiced in
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  Speaker 2: the third gave the White Sox the lead. They got
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  Speaker 2: a sack flat, have a 2-0 lead. And then quickly,
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  Speaker 2: the scoreboard kind of flipped. That fifth inning was wild.
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  Speaker 2: The Guardians took the lead. The White Sox snapped shit
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  Speaker 2: right back. And then in the sixth inning, the Guardians
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  Speaker 2: put up six. and booked themselves a flight right back
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  Speaker 2: to Cleveland for game number five. A crazy one, but
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  Speaker 2: Ramirez was two for five with three ribbies. That homer
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  Speaker 2: to flip the scoreboard at the moment and had a
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  Speaker 2: good moment later into the game when they were trying
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  Speaker 2: to chant bleep you, Jose. And then the, you know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe like five or ten different Cleveland fans were able
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  Speaker 2: to change it up, and Ramirez got a good pop
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  Speaker 2: and a good celly into the dugout there. Final one, Drew,
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  Speaker 2: for who's hot. LeBron James, who's hot? First game is
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  Speaker 2: a 76er last night.
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  Speaker 3: Who's not? Joel Embiid.
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  Speaker 2: 24 minutes. You're playing 24 minutes of a preseason game?
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  Speaker 3: Joel Embiid? How many regular season games have you played
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  Speaker 3: 24 minutes in?
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's a good point.
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  Speaker 4: And not only that, he's had to already push back
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  Speaker 4: a controversy, right? There was a rumor, or he's called
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  Speaker 4: it untrue, that the report that LeBron's got on him
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  Speaker 4: for being late for practice, he said that wasn't true,
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  Speaker 4: and it's unfortunate people making stuff up.
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  Speaker 5: Trying to find the exact specifics.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there was somebody that had to apologize for that.
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  Speaker 4: He called himself an easy target, and the report is
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  Speaker 4: not true about LeBron getting on him about being late
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  Speaker 4: to practice and causing the wonder why he was always
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  Speaker 4: the subject to outside scrutiny.
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  Speaker 5: Quote, it sucks, but what can you do? It's unfortunate.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know where that came from. It never happened.
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  Speaker 4: I think we just got to focus on ourselves. There's
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  Speaker 4: going to be a lot of outside noise now to
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  Speaker 4: pull us apart from what we're supposed to be and
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  Speaker 4: what we're supposed to accomplish. It's important we stay together
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  Speaker 4: and keep our head down. You know, that is something.
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  Speaker 4: The season hasn't started yet, and there's already some controversy.
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  Speaker 2: The regular season hasn't started. Preseason started last night. Somebody
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  Speaker 2: should tell Joel Embiid. 24 minutes, six points, one of five.
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  Speaker 3: From the floor.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't have three rebounds and three assists. I mean, pair
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  Speaker 2: that with eight turnovers, and that's a pretty nice night.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Eight turnovers, six points, one of five from the floor,
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  Speaker 2: Joel Embiid in mid-season form. That is who's hot, who's not.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Aja Wilson as well.
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  Speaker 4: We mentioned three same repeats, five total, and she's not
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  Speaker 4: doing the pregame ceremony to stay focused.
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  Speaker 5: I know there's a lot of people out there that
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  Speaker 5: love that. That's stupid.
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  Speaker 4: I'm kind of with you on that, but I know
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of people that do like that energy.
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  Speaker 4: Five-time MVP, right?
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  Speaker 3: Now, if that's the case, she's like, Guys, I've kind
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  Speaker 3: of done it already. Been there, done that.
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  Speaker 2: They actually just send it in the mail after your
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  Speaker 2: third one. They don't even hand it to you in person.
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  Speaker 2: So if that was the case, I'd be fine. The
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  Speaker 2: stay focused thing, no, that you can miss me with.
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  Speaker 2: But I do like it.
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  Speaker 4: I love the fans, but I will not be doing that.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be warming up with my team. Everyone in this
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  Speaker 4: room knows how much of a competitor I am, and
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  Speaker 4: that's what my main focus is.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there you go, Asia. False hustle, but who's to argue?
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  Speaker 1: Five MVPs. Five time, you can kind of make your
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  Speaker 1: own rules. Just don't point at her.
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  Speaker 5: They're trying to bring a championship trophy to the Strip
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  Speaker 5: in Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't they win it like the last two years?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, she's got goals and she wants more. That's fair.
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  Speaker 1: Well, she could be our superhero of the day. It's
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  Speaker 1: working for her. Or my thought for superhero of the
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  Speaker 1: day is Caleb Johnson.
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  Speaker 3: I like it. Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: For his honesty, this is so funny. He demonstrated to
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  Speaker 1: reporters yesterday that he switched shoulder pads at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the year. He had the ProGear shoulder pads, the
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  Speaker 1: old ones. Thin leather strip with metal fasteners. Rib cage
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  Speaker 1: and armpits are bare. Then this year he switched to
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  Speaker 1: some doper, softer, more padded shoulder.
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  Speaker 3: Pads, more comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: Then he started fumbling for the first time in his
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  Speaker 1: football career.
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  Speaker 3: Get these things up off me.
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  Speaker 1: So he has switched back.
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  Speaker 5: Smart.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that he's walking people through and showing them
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  Speaker 1: the difference, the padding created this little thing like when
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  Speaker 1: he was, his old shoulder pads being a little more
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  Speaker 1: bare bones, he could feel the ball against his skin.
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  Speaker 3: Five points of contact.
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  Speaker 1: The little pad created a little window, just a little
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  Speaker 1: crack there where opponents could punch and he wasn't able
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  Speaker 1: to secure the ball. So that's in his mind. So
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  Speaker 1: he switched pads. Now, And you would think he's showing
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  Speaker 1: the reporters this and look, and now I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: stop fumbling. Well, he could still fumble.
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  Speaker 3: Very much could.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: But while this is like a cool thing to do
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  Speaker 1: with reporters and it's like being very honest. He did
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  Speaker 1: say that he did not mention it to Matt LaFleur
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  Speaker 1: and the coaches because he didn't want them to think
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  Speaker 1: he was making an excuse. He's just taking care of
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  Speaker 1: this himself, and he's going to dedicate himself to not fumbling.
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  Speaker 4: But he's like, no, I didn't tell the coaches about that.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want them thinking I'm making excuses.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 5: It's the same type of energy. I don't want to
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  Speaker 5: make excuses.
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  Speaker 1: That is superhero energy to me. The fact that you're
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  Speaker 1: doing that. It's like, yeah, I'm not doing this. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not trying to, oh, that's why he's fumbled a couple times.
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  Speaker 5: Coach, don't worry.
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  Speaker 3: I got these new pads. It's all good.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be good now. I figured it out now.
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  Speaker 4: The fact that he's figured out the problem. Coaches will
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  Speaker 4: find out through the media, but nonetheless, I love that
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  Speaker 4: part of it. Because you know there's someone thinking, well,
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  Speaker 4: don't blame something else for your own fumbling, but it
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  Speaker 4: might be legitimate. And the fact that he's showing everybody
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  Speaker 4: about it, I do love that.
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  Speaker 2: If we're going to be in, and that is superhero energy,
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  Speaker 2: superhero of the day, callcurrent.com, the place to go to
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: get your house ready for winter. Make sure that you
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  Speaker 2: get their winter upgrade special. And get yourself ready to
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: roll for the winter. Potentially save $ 200 when you go there.
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  Speaker 2: If we're going to change out shoulder pads, Drew, for
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  Speaker 2: the running backs, let's just go back to the 1980s
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  Speaker 2: pads where you can actually deliver some power.
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  Speaker 3: Goodness.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know how they'd fit today's slender, slim fit jerseys
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  Speaker 2: over them.
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  Speaker 1: They never would.
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  Speaker 5: But we're going.
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  Speaker 3: To be punishing people. Let's bring those things back.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: If you're going to do throwback unis, they should go
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  Speaker 1: to the big pads and the tearaway jerseys because you're right.
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  Speaker 1: These things are so form-fitting now you can't get a
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  Speaker 1: hand on a defensive lineman. You can barely hold because
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  Speaker 1: the jerseys are so tight.
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  Speaker 3: So tight.
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  Speaker 2: That's where if you go throwbacks, it's got to be
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  Speaker 2: old-school Boz. Cut off the practice jersey, very mesh-y.
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  Speaker 1: Mesh-y, yeah. That's what you need to work with. They
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  Speaker 1: used to have tearaway jerseys, literally. If you're a skill
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  Speaker 1: position guy, you'd have a bunch of jerseys on the
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  Speaker 1: sideline because they'd tear it away.
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  Speaker 3: I'm through that thing. Let me put a new one on.
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  Speaker 4: I saw a little mini doc about that tearaway jersey.
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  Speaker 4: It might have been the Buccaneers, or I don't think
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  Speaker 4: it was Earl Campbell, but it could have been, where
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  Speaker 4: the jersey just kept ripping.
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  Speaker 5: I was a Browns player. They had like 10 of
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  Speaker 5: them for the game.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, this is crazy the way they used to
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  Speaker 4: rip away like that, those tearaway jerseys. And those guys
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  Speaker 4: would be running in shards of jersey and be coming
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  Speaker 4: off and just in pads.
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  Speaker 5: Also, pads have gotten so much smaller over the years.
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  Speaker 4: It's just interesting to look at the difference when you
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  Speaker 4: go look back. All right, I like that he identified
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  Speaker 4: the problem. That's huge for us. Listen, you've got to
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  Speaker 4: identify the problem to be able to make it better.
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  Speaker 4: That is heroic right there.
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  Speaker 5: That is heroic.
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  Speaker 1: That is the basics, the equipment. And guys don't wear
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  Speaker 1: knee pads or any of that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: They definitely don't wear knee pads. They don't wear pants.
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  Speaker 2: They wear shorts. They used to. What's your thought process?
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  Speaker 2: You think he's the first one up coming up this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited to ask Wayne when he joins us in
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  Speaker 2: a couple of minutes. That's a great question because Pierre
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  Speaker 2: Strong being added to the roster. And strong was Wayne's
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  Speaker 2: guy during the camp. He's got some carries. He's got,
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  Speaker 2: he's carried the ball in games before. He's got more
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  Speaker 2: carries than, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, then I think potentially both of them combined, maybe
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, right? Like the thing is, Johnson clearly
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  Speaker 1: has some pop.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a little bit of juice, but you just,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be hard to forgive and forget dropping
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  Speaker 2: the ball at the one yard line.
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  Speaker 3: Now, shame on you for the first one.
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  Speaker 5: Shame on me.
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  Speaker 2: If you continue to hand the ball over and as
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  Speaker 2: Matt Lafleur said, after the game, Bench is a great teacher.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see if he stays off of the bench.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of think they give him one more pop
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  Speaker 2: at it. We were talking about it, me and Aaron
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  Speaker 2: Nagler on carry the G radio, the podcast that I
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  Speaker 2: think he's still the first one out this week, but
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  Speaker 2: not going to be very close to a break glass
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  Speaker 2: in case of emergency. And then strong, I would assume
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  Speaker 2: pretty quick after that in the first and second down,
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 1: They still will roll with Lloyd. Cause you saw at
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  Speaker 1: least a little bit of his wiggle drew on the
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  Speaker 1: outside in the past game. That's what I want to see.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to be really tested, I would assume, in
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  Speaker 2: the blocking department in the past game if Chris Brooks
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  Speaker 2: ends up being out here today.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the thing is, he fumbled too. I mean, he
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  Speaker 4: just didn't lose it. He fumbled it on the bounce.
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  Speaker 4: So if everyone's fumbling, someone's got to carry the ball.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we might be frustrated about the fumbling, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure the coaches are, but they've got to give
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  Speaker 4: it to somebody. And if Brooks is out, like you said, Billy,
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  Speaker 4: it's going to be one of these guys. Or maybe
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  Speaker 4: Pierre Strong will get all the work. I doubt it,
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  Speaker 4: but you never know with this backfield. There's really nothing
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  Speaker 4: predictable about it.
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: How many snaps do Zeitler get and Mekhi Becton, if any?
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: Are they up?
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: I think Zeitler plays, and maybe he catches a blow
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: at some point if they go on a long run,
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: but I kind of think if he's going to play,
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: he's going to play. I would struggle to think that
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: he's not ready to roll. The amount of pictures and
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: stuff in videos that we're getting through practice, looks like
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: this week he's doing everything during the team portions to
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: prepare himself to be the, be the guy. If he
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: doesn't go though, drew for the first time all year,
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: I feel somewhat okay with the replacement.
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: Like Glover played well enough.
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: Where I'm not shaking in my boots, thinking that Travis
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: Glover goes back out there the way you were after
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: the watching the Donovan Jennings experience, Jacob monk for three games,
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: even Jagger Burton, uh, was had some nice plays, but
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: overall that wasn't good. So the, Glover had the most
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: consistent performance that we've seen out of anybody outside of
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: the new guys. So I think Becton is still probably
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: a couple other couple more weeks.
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: And the unique, the unique spot with McKay Becton is
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: do they really want to play him?
• 14:42
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: Like I think in all reality, your best case scenario,
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: Anthony Belton is good enough at right tackle where he
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: continues to get better and you leave him there. Your
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: hope is their second-round pick. There's still a lot of
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: development there. And in his second year, all of a sudden,
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: you're like, whoa, we got a right tackle over here.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: And now, if in case Zach is unable to come
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: back off of this second injury, then maybe that answer's
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: right there. Their goal, I believe, is not to have
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: to go to Makai Becton. But for now, you actually
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: have some depth that you don't feel. You're not terrified
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: it has to go into the football game.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of interesting questions going into this Bears game.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Pivotal game, and we mentioned it last night on the
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Thursday night huddle at Pottawatomie. a sports book in the annex,
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: a pivotal four-game stretch for the Packers. It's a season-defining stretch,
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: and it's not hyperbole because you've got the Bears, then
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys on Sunday night, then at the Lions, and
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: then the Panthers.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's who you play in that run, right?
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: You've got two divisional games, all four against the NFC,
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: all four teams that you would think you're going to
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: try to get to the playoffs. Those are all the
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: teams that you're going to be scrapping with. Even though
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Dallas didn't look great last night, they're right there with
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: you at 2-3 or 3-2.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: That's going to be a problem.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Detroit has shown, I think, the ability on offense to
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: put up points with anybody and the inability on defense
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: to stop anybody. They could win any game and lose
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: any game that they play. I think they're going to
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: be right there in the mix. Obviously, the Bears won
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: the division last year. They're the one to which to
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: shoot for. That four-game this second quarter of the season,
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: if you break it down in the quarters, Drew... You
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: were planning on not playing the first quarter without Parsons.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Now it's looking more and more like you're playing the
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: first half without Parsons. This becomes the most important stretch
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: of games.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: Yep, I'm with you.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: And it starts on Sunday at noon. Packers against the
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Bears at Lambeau Field. The whole day of programming, but
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Billy and I will be helming Packers OT and then
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: getting back for game one of the NLCS.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Perfect time. Right in time for the captain. to hit
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: a two-run double to put the Brewers up 2-0 in
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: the third. You're manifesting now.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm feeling it. Feeling that one pretty good.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: That's, you know, that's pretty good. Those lives would be
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: pretty solid, huh? That and like seven, maybe one or
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: two hit innings from Mizorowski would set a tone, right?
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: That Scooble-Mizorowski duel right out of the gates. Again, series-defining
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: matchup right there in the front end. The guy you
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: thought you wanted, now he ends up being with the
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: other team that you had. You thought that was going
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: to be the double up? Instead, it's the head-to-head matchup. Man,
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: it writes itself.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Scooble, Yamamoto, Snell against Mizoroski, Henderson.
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: Have they announced?
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Because I wonder if they'd go. I haven't seen if
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: they were going to go Yamamoto game three.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: I thought they wanted to go right, left, right.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, that would make some sense.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: And then because Yamamoto pitched so good there last year
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: I think people are just assuming they will.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: He pitched here and it went complete game. So I
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: thought maybe they'd bring him right back here. Unlike Snell
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: was bad here. That was pretty good. Zell had a
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: great start.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: Now, he's had struggled with pitch counts and things like that,
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: so I think he's a little more gettable. And Otani's
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: not throwing, so that's another factor, how they want to
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: line this thing up.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: I'm not even going to jinx it and talk about
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: how Otani's hitting.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't even.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Not even going to jinx it.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Don't say anything. Keep him quiet, just the way they
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: did with Machado and Tatis for the most part. All right,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: when we come back, Our pal Wayne Larrabee is going
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: to join the party here. Our last time in the morning,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: the voice of the Packers previewing Packers Bears.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Does it get any better than that on a Friday? No,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: it does not.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: I think not.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: You're in the huddle.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. It's the final morning edition of
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy, and Armin. Monday,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: we move to our shiny new time slot from 2
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: to 5 p.m. And one of the things we will
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: do and we will carry over for sure is conversations
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: with our pal Wayne Larrabee, the voice of the Green
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Bay Packers, who joins us on this Friday before Packers-Bears week. Wayne,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: no matter how long you're in this game, Packers-Bears hits
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: different every time, doesn't it?
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it really does. And, of course, the rivalry now
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: has really been stoked. The Bears have won three of
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: the last four games in the rivalry. You know, Coach
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: Johnson down there in Chicago has offered salvo after salvo
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: And I think we'll see a pretty intense game between
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: two teams who really don't like each other a whole lot.
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: And there's a lot to play for, obviously, in this
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: early season matchup.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Wayne, teams that don't like each other, fans that definitely
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: don't like each other. You've seen it on both sides.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Maybe nobody better than you to talk Bears-Packers for being
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: able to talk about both ends of it. Have you
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: ever seen it this... fierce and, and frankly, just downright
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: like mean and nasty, right? Maybe it's just who we
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: are as people nowadays in 2026, but it feels like
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: it is more intense now, at least in my lifetime
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: than it has ever been.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: This is like Charles Martin level.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Billy, I would agree. You know, you go back
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: to the mid 2000s, 2005, 2006, when the PAC were
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: trying to get out of the Mike Sherman situation and
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: into the Mike McCarthy era, uh, the Packers were down,
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: the bears were up. They went to a Superbowl in 2006. So,
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: you know, there was a lot of, uh, you know,
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: the rivalry picked up there, but for some reason, uh,
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: It didn't last that long. By 2010, the Packers were
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: dominating again and they dominated for the next 15 years. So,
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: but no, I, and I go back to Chicago in
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: the mid eighties when the Packers were, you know, Forrest
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: Gregg really stoked the fires of this thing. And, but
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: I still don't remember the vitriol that we're hearing now,
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: especially from Chicago. I don't remember anything quite like this level.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: The other day, I'm watching– what game was I watching? Oh,
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: the opener in Carolina. I'm watching the Bears score 59 points.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: And there were a lot of Bears fans down there.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: And they got into a collective Green Bay you-know-what. Is
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: this still a family show in the morning?
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: I think we– It's true.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: So, anyway, but you know the saying, and they were
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: screaming that in the middle of a game that they're
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: not going to play the Packers for another five weeks. So, yeah,
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: this is really– This is intense outside. It's intense on
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: the field. But I will go so far as to
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: say this. Maybe I'm totally wrong and people could get
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: all upset with me. I think it's more intense in
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: the stands than it is on the field. And it's
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: pretty damn intense on the field. I'm not downplaying that
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: at all. These players are going after this game Sunday.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: The way fans get into it and the fact that
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Bears fans have felt like, I think for decades now
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: that the Packers have been beating them down, the team,
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: they're ready to kind of fight back.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: I think there's an aspect of that in that sense.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: That's what we're feeling.
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no doubt about it. The history's a big.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Part of it.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Wayne Larive joins us. Thanks to our friends at Miller Lite.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Legendary moments start with a light by Pottawatomie Sportsbook. We
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: were there last night. It was so good. So good.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: And by Wisconsin Concrete Coatings. All right, Wayne, what can
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: we expect? What do the Packers have to do? It
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: seems weird to phrase a question this way, but what
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: do they have to do to pull off the upside
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: at home against the Bears? And Billy and I were wondering,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: as the revamping of the offensive line continues and the
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: addition of Pierre Strong as a guy that you like
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: during camp, what are those things going to do to
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the Packers' offense?
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I like Pierre Strong because he's a veteran, because
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: he's been there, done that. And I think he can
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: add to this ground game. Now, is he going to
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: rush for 2,000 yards? No. Love him to, but I
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: don't think so. But he can be a nice, steadying
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: force back there. I'm a little surprised, to be honest
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: with you, that he wasn't called up earlier. But he
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: is now, and we're going to get a look at
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: professional running back. I think deciphering where the holes are,
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: that kind of thing, and I think he'll really help
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: the Green Bay offense. But, Drew, the number one thing
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: the Packers have to do this year in this matchup
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: with the Bears, I think, is stop the run. Chicago,
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: this is as weird a stat as I've ever seen
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: in 49 years in the NFL. The Packers have rushed
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: for 232 yards in four games this season. The Bears
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: rushed for 232 yards in four quarters against the Jets
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: last Sunday. I'm afraid to tell you what I think
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: that means.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: And each Menungi and Swift would be, they have more
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: yards than the Packers do by what?
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Almost 100 each.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: I think Menunga's hit like 312 and Swift, right, 330
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: or something. They're both almost 100 yards more than you
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: on the ground.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: They run the football, and they run it effectively behind
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: a very good offensive line. Now, what they will do
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: is they will put it on the carpet, and Tyson Bajent,
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: the backup quarterback, will throw you an interception or two,
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: or as he did with the Jets, three. Now, they
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: dropped three of them, but two of them nonetheless. You've
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: got to catch the ball when you get those opportunities.
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: You've got to recover the fumble when Swift coughs it up.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: those are the things you have to do if you're
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: the Packers to have a chance in this game. But
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: number one, you must contain the run, I believe. And
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: then you go from there and see if Tyson Bajan
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: can beat you through the air.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more, Wayne. It all
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: starts there. And weirdly, with the Edren Cooper injury, you
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: are significantly worse with Edren Cooper not on the field.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: That was as deflating of an injury as I can
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: remember off a win that a team has had.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: But to stop the run, I will say.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Isaiah McDuffie is a nice option to have if you're
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: trying to slow down the run. Nobody is going to
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: be Edron Cooper. And as much as Tyron Hopper and
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Isaiah McDuffie will be able to help out in the
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: run game will be a part of it. But I
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: do believe they'll be stacking up probably a lot of
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: those guys to be able to slow this thing down.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: Isn't it?
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I had the same thought, Billy. And isn't it a
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: fact that you don't replace Edron Cooper? You don't have
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: anybody in the roster. There aren't many in the league
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: that can replace him. The way to offset that. is
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: to have Devontae Wyatt, Carl Brooks, and Javon Hargrave make
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: more of an impact than they've made in the first
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: couple games and improve that way. Is my logic flawed
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: on that, Wayne?
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: No, I think you're right. I think the big guys
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: up front will have to be largely responsible for keeping
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: those linebackers clean and allowing them to get flow to
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: the football. That's going to be big. Devontae Wyatt's had
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: a quiet start. We laymen all think that these guys
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: are just going to come back off of these season-ending
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: injuries the next year and be a hundred percent what
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: they were when they left. And it just doesn't work
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: that way. And it's taken the big guys take longer
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: to come back from these major injuries than the other guys.
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: All right. So it's taking Devante a while to make
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: an impact. It's time it's time right now. And I'm
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: starting to see a little bit more of him up front.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: I thought he had a better game in Tampa. Um,
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: you know, Tucker craft is coming back and he's not
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: back yet. He's playing, but he's not back yet, but
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: I've seen signs as we go through the season. He's
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: becoming more and more a factor in the passing game,
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: and I think that that's going to help. But you're
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: right about the injuries, and it's not the number of injuries.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: It's who went down. Bako Bilwele, best offensive lineman. Jaden Reed,
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: subtle key to the passing game. It doesn't look like
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: it did before without him. And the two guys that
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: they have out there, Bo Melton and Sky Moore, God
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: bless them. They're good players in their own right, but
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: they're not Jaden Reed. And the passing game is different,
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: and it will have to be different because they don't
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: have that subtle key. and then you lose Edger and Cooper,
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: a budding star on your defense. The Packers only get
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: good players injured. A lot of teams get injuries, and
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: they're not very good players, and they don't factor. The
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: Packers only get good guys injured, it seems like, and
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: as a fan, you can tell I'm a little frustrated,
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: not at the Packers or at the player, but just
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: at the circumstances. You have a team, you think a
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: team is good, and then You get these kinds of
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: injuries and it changes everything.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Especially that one.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: As demoralizing as that one was, they're coming on a blitz.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: You do feel there's a personal side to this. When
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Cooper looks back, that's about as deflating of a moment
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: as I've been able to see. You get a sack.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: You're feeling good. You're going to get off the field.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: You just brought the house and Xavier McKinney gets in
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: and you look back like, Wait a second.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: No, him? No, him?
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: That's a lot to be able to come back from, Wayne.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: In New York, they had to come back from two
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: guys getting carted off in the first series. You talk
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: about being able to be at least resilient. I know
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: I'm grabbing at some stuff to be able to try
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: to pluck some positivity. That is handling some incredible, incredible
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: adversity for that they didn't do very well a year ago,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: handling adversity and being able to put that to the side.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: I do think that's maybe a tick of a difference
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: that we're seeing here in 2026 than in 25.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I hope.
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: You're right, and I think you're right. Based on what
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: I've seen, yeah, they've been resilient. The two games they've
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: won on the road, they've played opponents who were really
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: desperate to win. And the Jets have felt very good
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: about itself coming off a win. And in Tampa Bay,
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: a team that was very desperate to get a win
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: And they finally did last night against the Cowboys. But,
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: you know, I think the Packers have shown more resilience
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: this season. And I understand people say, well, they gave
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: up the lead in Minnesota. I get that. I understand. But,
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: you know, hey, listen, this is a process, folks. And
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: this team is still trying to find its way. And
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: the injuries only extend that experimental period of finding your way,
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: figuring out how you're going to go about winning football
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: games this year. But, you know, and again, my frustration, Billy,
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: as an observer, as a fan, and I certainly, like you,
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: feel for the people. You know, they put, these athletes
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: pour so much into it. We see Sunday. You don't
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: see what goes on the rest of the time. The OTAs,
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: the minicamps, the personal training, the private workouts, everything they
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: do to get ready for a season. And then they
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: go down this early, especially a player of that caliber.
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: You feel for the player. You really do. Yeah. Um,
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: but at any rate, Hey, listen, there's nothing you can
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: do about it. You have to go forward, but I
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: will say this next man up is not better than
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: the man that went down in nine out of 10 cases.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Wayne, as long as we're talking about frustration as a theme,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: I have to ask about the recent stories of the
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: proliferation of flags and penalties, its impact on the game.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: We're having a record number of accepted penalties. Penalties in
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: the red zone are up off the charts. They're just
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: a lot more flags and the game's being officiated more
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: closely and And some say it's choking the flow. I
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: know you guys hate it when a big play is
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: just immediately deflated by a flag on the field. What
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: are your thoughts about that? Where are we? Where is
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: this league headed in that front?
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: Well, Drew, we always see more flags early in the year,
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: and the players supposedly will adjust to this, but hopefully
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: the officials will too. There's too much laundry. And forget
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: about the Packers games, okay? By the way, I think
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: the Packers still, they're second to Cleveland. Somebody's committing more
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: penalties than the Packers than the Cleveland Browns are. So
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: the Packers have moved up to second most penalties in
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: the league instead of leading the university. But so that's
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: a positive, by the way.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: But anyway, no.
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: And we always see it early in the year. A
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: lot of penalty flags. Players adjust. Then officials adjust. But
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: this seems a little different to me. And I'm not
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: forget about the Packers games. I'm watching games across the league.
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: And my goodness, the product. This is one way. This
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: is a great game. The one way they can screw
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: this game up is by over officiating. And right now,
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: that's exactly what they're doing. And I read where actually
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: penalties called are down slightly from last year, but accepted
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: penalties are up from last year. Doesn't matter. There are
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: way too many flags. There are way too many rules
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: in this game. And we all know why. It goes
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: back to March each year. When they tweak the rule book,
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: they add a little something here and there every year.
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: And you say, well, that's no big deal. Well, 49
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: years of tweaks here and there, and all of a
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: sudden you've got a rule book that cannot be officiated.
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: You need all kinds of help. You need replay. We
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: have to have former heads of officiating in television broadcast
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: booth to explain the rules to everyone. And it's gotten
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: way too wordy from an officiating standpoint.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: I also think the, the backend part of what you
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: said there, Wayne is a, is a massive part of it. Really,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: really good officials said, wait a second, I get paid
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: more money. I get to be on television and I
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: just get to say that these guys are right or wrong.
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: I'm going to do that.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: There were a lot of guys that feels like retired
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: earlier and took the money in broadcasting instead.
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: Mike Pariah, the guy at Fox, the former head of
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: NFL officiating, is an outstanding guy. I got a chance
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: to visit with him a couple years ago. He's just outstanding.
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: And he spent a long time in officiating and ran
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: the league officiating effort. He feels it's a public service.
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: And you know what? The fact we need this as
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: a public service tells you we've got a few too
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: many rules. And it's a little too complicated. I feel
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: for the guys on the field. If they don't call
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: those penalties, they will get reprimanded during the week by
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: the league office. You missed this. You missed this. And,
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: you know, I just wish there was a little more
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: judgment on some of these things. Like there's an interception
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: on one side of the field and, you know, something
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: happens totally away from the play on the other side
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: of the field and they have to call that penalty.
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: Maybe it was an illegal contact. Maybe it was a hold.
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: But it had nothing to do with where the play went.
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: and you wish they could pick up that kind of
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: a flag.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Have you, in all your years in the NFL, have
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: you ever seen an official tell somebody on one of
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: the teams themselves?
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: You ever see that? Goodness gracious, we finally saw some reprimands.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, Adrian Hill was ready to fight Eric Wilson.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: I don't like anybody in purple, but I think Eric
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Wilson's a nice guy from his time here in Green Bay.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: They're also feeling themselves in the stripes, Wayne. That's the
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: other part is there's a little bit of– a complex
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: feeling like people are there to watch the stripes.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: We are not there to watch the officials fellows. Let's
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: lock it up.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: No.
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: And like I said, the only way they can screw
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: up this beautiful game is by over-officiating. And it's exactly
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: what I've seen across the league, not just the Packers games,
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: mind you, but across the league. And even last night,
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: I mean, tons of it. Every time there was a
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: big play, you were, you were waiting for that flag
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: thing to flash on the screen over the score bug,
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: you know, Flag. Oh, boy. Here we go. But, you know,
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: I think and I understand there was some talk at
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: the league office about, okay, guys, we got to figure
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: out a way to officiate the game correctly, but let's
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: not impact it the way we're impacting it at the moment.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: My least favorite, and I don't know how you avoid
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: calling it, the pre-snap things, the illegal formations and illegal,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: you know, false starting and illegal motions and stuff like that.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Those are drive killers, and it's just momentum killers. But
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: my other thing, and I don't have any stats. I'm
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: pulling this out of my arse. I'm making it up,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: but it seems like 60% of exciting kick returns end
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: in a flag and being negated.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: I'd say 86%, I believe you.
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: It does.
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah. And you know why? We've talked about that in
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: the past, guys. You know what happens on kick returns.
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: One return man starts upfield, and then he zags left
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: or zigzags right. Somebody who was in legal blocking position
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: all of a sudden, because the play behind him changed
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: and went a different direction. All of a sudden he's
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: now in an illegal block position. And that's something I wish, officiating-wise,
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: they would take a look at and maybe modify.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Loosen it up a little bit. Loosen it up a
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: little bit. Wayne, we're looking forward to a great weekend.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Packers are the hors d'oeuvre.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: We'll be settled in to watch the Brewers play the
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Dodgers in Game 1 of the LCS. Life is going
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: to be good in the good land.
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: We've got it again, guys. Isn't this what you wanted, though?
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: You know what I mean?
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: Where else would you rather be than right here right now?
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Exactly. Bring them on.
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: Exactly, Marv Levy.
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: Marv is still around, by the way, but he's a
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: Cubs fan.
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: I just think back, guys, in 1996, when the Packers
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: were going to the NFC Championship game, who did you
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: want to see? You didn't want to see the Carolina Panthers.
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: Who the hell were they? Some expansion team. You wanted
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: to see the Dallas damn Cowboys, right? Absolutely. That's the
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: team the Packers couldn't get through. Well, the Cowboys got
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: upset the week before the championship game in Carolina, and
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: Dom Capers, who became a good friend of mine over
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: the years, brought his Carolina Panthers up to Green Bay.
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: It didn't matter. The Packers won, and that's all that matters.
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: But wouldn't it have been poetic justice?
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: Huh? Subdue the Cowboys and Lambeau and finally get over
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin and all those guys, Emmitt
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: Smith and the whole bunch. That would have been poetic justice.
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: It didn't happen. Same thing with the Bears in 85.
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: You know, that Super Bowl shouldn't have been to England.
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: That Super Bowl should have been Miami to Chicago. Yes.
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: You know, that's the game we all wanted, and we
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: didn't get it. But now, this is what we've been
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: kind of leaning to all year. Brewers, Dodgers, this is it.
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: If the Brewers are going to get to the World Series,
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: you want them going right through the Dodgers and knocking
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: off that dynasty. And that's, I hope, God bless them.
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: Hope they get it done. That would be awesome.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: It starts this weekend. Slay the Dragon. We love it.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Wayne.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: Appreciate it. We'll see you at 2.30 on Monday.
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: Have a good one, guys. See you Monday afternoon.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see you Sunday at Lambeau and Monday afternoon, 2.30.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: All right, closing ceremonies coming up. The final morning edition
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: of The Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: This is it.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Final time we slide down the back of the dinosaur
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: at 8 a.m.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: What a ride it's.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Been from January 20th to today, our last day in
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: the mornings as we shift to 2 to 5 p.m.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: afternoon drive. We're beginning on Monday.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: We can't thank everybody enough for waking up early, and
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: we apologize to those that aren't going to be able
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: to make the shift with us, but just know we're
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: going to be there because there's going to be a time.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Maybe you take PTO.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Maybe you're off.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Maybe all of a sudden there's a sweet day that
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden the boss says, you know what?
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: I would take off a little early. Maybe it's Monday
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: because it's game two on four o'clock. And Lord knows
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: the boss wants to get home in time for the
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: game and maybe get some brats on the grill before
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: first pitch.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: Sends you out. Just know we'll be there. We'll be there.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: If it's not a part of your plan, just know
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: that you can always plan and give us a call.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: I don't care if you call us last. I got
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: the call.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: I got the call. John Cruz, it's been a blast.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: Going to miss you in the morning. Let's go Brewers
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: and Packers.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: Going to miss you all, but we'll be here.
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: So if you want to join us in the afternoon,
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: we'll be happy to talk to you again because Jake
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: with the glasses says see you Monday. You get to
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: be part of the Brewers pregame. Indeed, we're excited to
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: be in those waking hours. Hayden, great run in the morning, boys.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: Can't wait to shift over to the afternoons next week.
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: We can't either.
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: And thank you guys. Just to echo Billy's thoughts, thank
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: you all so much. You kind of bridged our gap
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: through our time, so we'll never forget the love you
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: showed us.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: That's for sure.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: For sure.
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be fun. We'll just hopefully drag
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: some folks with us and then meet some new folks who–
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: We turn on the radio in the afternoon.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: You're right. We'll pick up some along the way.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Like our friend Derek in Whitewater, he stumbled upon us
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: on the morning show by happenstance from the draft show
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: that Wayne and I were doing.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: I didn't even know you guys were on. See, so
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: we are able to pick some folks up. I'm excited
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: for the folks that don't even know that we're rolling here.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: All of a sudden, they're going to turn on 1070
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: AM in Madison or 920 in Milwaukee and be like.
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: Wait a minute. Wait a second, those guys?
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: I recognize that kazoo-sounding dude.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Is that Armin? Wait, that's Drew. Oh, that's Billy's cackling laugh.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Holy cow, I know these guys. And then they're going
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: to be swatted up with us going forward. I'm excited
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: about it. I'm really excited for this weekend to flare up.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Can you, Drew, tell me that this is real? Sarah
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Lang stats, they're always real, right?
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: Pretty much.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Dodgers-Brewers, only the sixth LCS between a pair of 100-win teams.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: First time since the ALCS in 2019 between Houston and
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: New York, the Yankees, ALCS in 18 Astros and Red Sox.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Then the 77 ALCS, Yankees and Royals. 76 NLCS, Phillies
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: and Reds. And the 71 ALCS of Baltimore and Oakland. Wow,
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: that surprises me just because of.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: All the old days of the two-division matchups. So you
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: would have thought there were a lot more 100-win-plus matchups.
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: So how about that? That's remarkable. Well, you have powerhouses.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: It's nice to see the powerhouses get together.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: And I mean, if the, dare I say, if the
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: baseball season would shrink like they just proposed, this could
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: be the last LCS of a pair of 100-win teams
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: going at it.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: Could be a good one to win.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: It could be.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: It has been fun. We look forward to what is
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: to come, and that is 2 o'clock. Set your clocks.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Like I said on Monday when we announced this, we're
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: getting ahead of daylight saving time.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: Yes, we're just jump-starting it.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: We'll fall back. We'll fall back asleep tonight and into
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: next week. We'll see you at 2 o'clock on Monday.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: We're really looking forward to the new chapter. We'll come
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: up with some new bits and some new stuff for
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: you to keep it fresh.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Fresh opens, fresh montage, same good stuff.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: And we don't have to do too gimmicky because we're
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: going to have a lot on our plate with Packers, Bears,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: and Dodgers. We will see you at 2 o'clock on
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Monday afternoon.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: Have a great weekend, everyone.
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: Peace.