Transcript

09/24/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Rolling through a Monday in the good land. It's the
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Speaker 1: huddle Fox sports radio, Wisconsin, Drew Olson, Armin Sarian, Billy's
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Speaker 1: headed for green Bay. Wayne Larvey is going to join
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Speaker 1: us in about 25 minutes. Give or take. We want
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Speaker 1: your input. 877-794-1973. This being Monday. Let's entertain some game
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Speaker 1: balls and kicks to the balls. Shall we? Let's get it.
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Speaker 1: Let's do it. You know, the drill it's the post game.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's celebrating. You're standing in the middle of the room,
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Speaker 1: and you get to bestow a game ball for a
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Speaker 1: job well done today. On the huddle, this is a
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Speaker 1: game ball.
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Speaker 2: Y'all want any Gatorades or what?
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Speaker 3: It wasn't great audio, but it was Trevor McGill. Y'all
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Speaker 3: want any Gatorades or what? Buying Gatorades for a bunch
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Speaker 3: of kids. It was just perfect for the old game ball.
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Speaker 3: Gets a free Gatorade for the game. I know the
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Speaker 3: audio's not great, but I couldn't resist.
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Speaker 1: That's okay. You couldn't resist. That's funny. Conversely, kick to
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Speaker 1: the huevos for somebody who needs to refocus and needs
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Speaker 1: to do better at their job. Today on the program,
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Speaker 1: this is a kick to the balls. It's Vaughn in
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Speaker 1: the back. It's Vaughn in the back. It actually was
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Speaker 1: the head.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate it at the time. You couldn't tell.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, when you get, when you get plonked in
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Speaker 3: the head, although it turned out to be a heads
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Speaker 3: up play for the Brewers, you know, it worked out.
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Speaker 1: But there you go. You get hit literally in the, well,
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Speaker 1: not in the clay balls, but in the head helmet.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Helmet shot. So 877-794-1973 game balls and kicks. I'll get
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Speaker 1: a start at first game ball. He had so much,
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Speaker 1: there was just so much hand-wringing earlier this summer. But
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Speaker 1: Trace Mack.
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Speaker 3: Y'all want a Gatorade or what?
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Speaker 1: Y'all want a Gatorade or what? Just answering the call,
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Speaker 1: I knew he'd have a long kick. They would give
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Speaker 1: him a chance for a long kick. He nailed another one.
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Speaker 1: And one of the things, he's been perfect in the
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Speaker 1: two preseason games. He's one of those guys, maybe not
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Speaker 1: a practice guy, right?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: In college basketball, you know, not an afternoon guy. He's
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Speaker 1: a nighttime guy, primetime player. Love that. But Trace Mack.
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Speaker 1: what I like about him is these kicks that he's making.
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Speaker 1: Not only are they like center cut dead down the middle,
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Speaker 1: splitting the uprights, if you will, he hasn't missed an
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Speaker 1: extra point. And those are as important as the long field.
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Speaker 1: Long field goals are nice and all, and they're three points,
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Speaker 1: but you got to make the extra points. That was really,
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Speaker 1: that was really Anders Carlson, Carlson's problem more than the
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Speaker 1: field goals. If you look, go back and look at.
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Speaker 3: Anders Carlson's field goal percentage, it's not terrible, but it
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Speaker 3: was those extra points. He was consistently missing or unreliable
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Speaker 3: on that were a problem because he You got to
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Speaker 3: make those at a 90-plus high percent rate, or else
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Speaker 3: it's just not worth having you around.
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Speaker 1: But, yeah, Trey Smack, absolutely. Butch. Butch.
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Speaker 2: Butch.
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Speaker 1: Sorry. Kicking the balls for me.
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Speaker 2: Drew.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. 51, 59, 43, and 38. Yeah, I know.
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Speaker 3: But he's done everything he needs to do once the
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Speaker 3: lights turn bright to make us feel better about it,
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Speaker 3: and he's crushing them. In a league now, Drew, where
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Speaker 3: you have to do it, just you want to make
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Speaker 3: another rule.
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Speaker 1: To ban the game, but.
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Speaker 3: like the way we want it, but they shouldn't LA.
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Speaker 3: Do you want to feel goals this long? Is this
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Speaker 3: the way the world too?
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: But the reality is the league's getting better. I mean,
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Speaker 3: everyone's looking for a big leg and everyone's looking for
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Speaker 3: a guy that can be a weapon from, from 50
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Speaker 3: plus 60 plus and looking good for the Packers early
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Speaker 3: with trace Mac, because he's doing the opposite of what
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Speaker 3: Brett Conway did in.
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Speaker 1: 97 through there's a throwback reference for you. Packers draft back,
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Speaker 1: Brett Conway.
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Speaker 3: He struggled all through preseason and, And his understudy shine,
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Speaker 3: a man by the name of Ryan Longwell, and the
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Speaker 3: rest is history.
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Speaker 1: So there you go. Yep. 877-794-1973. Give us your game
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Speaker 1: balls and kicks. Bykowski, Alex Bykowski here on YouTube.
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Speaker 3: My game ball goes to Hamilton for the space blast
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Speaker 3: off double play turn.
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Speaker 1: That was a great one.
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Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was, that was a top 10. I think
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Speaker 1: it was seven. Yeah, that was a play. Yeah, the
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Speaker 1: 5-3 double play at second base. Yeah, I mean, that
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Speaker 1: shows you how athletic he is, and that's what the
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Speaker 1: Brewers like about him, that play. Brewers have played good
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Speaker 1: defense in general this year.
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Speaker 3: Maybe it's one of those things everyone, okay, yeah, of course, Armand, obviously,
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Speaker 3: but I don't think it goes understated, underrated, the way
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Speaker 3: they've found wins.
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Speaker 1: Without hitting a lot of home runs and things like that.
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Speaker 1: That's one way. Great defense this year. From the talk
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Speaker 1: and text line, Phil in Greenfield. Game ball to Sal
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Speaker 1: Bando Jr. He's the new head coach at Ripon College.
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Speaker 1: Baseball program there. And a kick to the huevos from
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Speaker 1: Phil in Greenfield. To the WIAA for getting Sal Bando
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Speaker 1: removed from his job at Marquette High. You know, I
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Speaker 1: don't know the backstory there. Do you, Drew? I don't remember. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was because he had. What, an affiliation with one
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Speaker 1: of those academies that players were using and they thought
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Speaker 1: it was improper contacts and, like, coaching out of season
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Speaker 1: and stuff. I think that was the deal. Oh, I see.
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Speaker 1: So one of those. So he ended up resigning. Someone
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Speaker 1: dropped a dime. Probably somebody. We were saying probably somebody
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Speaker 1: whose kid wasn't playing as much as they wanted to. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: One of those situations. Muddy situation. Also murky situation at
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Speaker 1: West Dallas Hill with their football program. Absolutely. They got
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Speaker 1: stomped in their opener by Kekona, I think. Yeah, awkward situation.
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Speaker 1: Seven coaches resigned, right? Yeah, and that was all because
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Speaker 1: of some internal junk. Nothing criminal at all.
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Speaker 3: Nothing criminal, which is kind of what we didn't know initially.
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Speaker 3: I know Billy and I were kind of talking about
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Speaker 3: it off the air, but.
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Speaker 1: Didn't know at first, and then that came out. Him
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Speaker 1: on the talking text line, kick to the balls to Mondays.
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Speaker 1: It's Vaughn in the back. Yeah, only Mike Heller loves Mondays.
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Speaker 1: Everybody else dreads it and just kind of grits through it.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: He said game ball to us. Go where your dinner
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Speaker 1: is or what? For making the start of Mondays go quickly.
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Speaker 1: We like that. Appreciate that.
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Speaker 3: Both of them in both ways. I know we just
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Speaker 3: touched on it, but I did want to, well, I
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Speaker 3: was planning on giving the kick to the huevos for
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Speaker 3: Deshaun Watson on his comment.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Spawn in the back.
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Speaker 3: The funniest thing about the whole Deshaun Watson thing to
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Speaker 3: me was when he goes, I think everyone knows it's
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Speaker 3: not about performance.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I think it's a lot about performance.
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Speaker 1: I mean, no offense. Don't take this the wrong way.
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Speaker 3: Sports fans, but we are a group that will overlook
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Speaker 3: a lot of nonsense. If you're playing well and winning
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Speaker 3: for our team. I mean, we, we are just how
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Speaker 3: we are as sports fans. If you're doing well for
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Speaker 3: our team, we'll overlook a lot of stuff. Maybe not everything.
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Speaker 3: Not everyone forgets, but I mean, like Todd golden, there's
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Speaker 3: plenty of examples.
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Speaker 1: Now Watson's not playing well and he's also a jerk,
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Speaker 1: you know? When Christian Yelich is playing well, like he
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Speaker 1: did last year, right? He was like 29 and 100
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Speaker 1: or something like that. Nobody brings up how much money
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Speaker 1: he makes.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: But when he struggles like this year, it's the number
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Speaker 1: one topic. Funny how that works, right? None of the
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Speaker 1: Dodgers fans bitch about Otani making a lot of money.
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Speaker 1: Because he performs. And Deshaun Watson, they gave you the
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Speaker 1: richest contract. It's all guaranteed. It's a sunk cost. And
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Speaker 1: you're not playing well. And he got hurt two years ago,
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Speaker 1: and yeah, and they booed you then. And it's just like,
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Speaker 1: he's like, I think it's personal at that point. You think? Well, like, obviously.
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Speaker 1: That's the thing, though, is like, he had this one, like,
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Speaker 1: this was, someone picked at the scab, and it wasn't,
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Speaker 1: it was a general question, but he had kind of
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Speaker 1: been bottling that up. Clearly, it was bothering him. It
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Speaker 1: bothered him that he got booed when he ruptured his
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Speaker 1: Achilles on the field and people were booing him.
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Speaker 3: I'm not like trying to invalidate his emotions in that
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Speaker 3: you're getting booed when you're having a very devastating injury, okay?
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Speaker 3: But you have to understand a little bit of, like,
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Speaker 3: you reap what you sow. I don't think if you
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Speaker 3: didn't do the things you did and you are responsible
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Speaker 3: and accountable for those actions, people are going to boo
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Speaker 3: you for getting hurt.
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Speaker 1: Now, some places they might.
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Speaker 3: I mean.
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Speaker 1: There was a famous Jim Moore rant amongst the.
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Speaker 3: Many Jim Moore rants where they were, he was getting
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Speaker 3: on the fans in new Orleans for booing an injured player.
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Speaker 1: And he said, they're mentally sick, mentally sick, mentally.
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Speaker 3: Like it was a great rant, but I mean, maybe
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Speaker 3: in Philadelphia or someplace like that, like they'll boo you
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Speaker 3: for just getting hurt. If you're a generally good guy,
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Speaker 3: but I mean, come on. I mean, that's not the
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Speaker 3: only reason like you have to be aware of what
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Speaker 3: you've done and the actions you have to be accountable for.
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Speaker 3: If you're Deshaun Watson and if you're not, You're just
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Speaker 3: going to look more and more out of touch and
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Speaker 3: more and more unselfaware, if that makes any sense.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. You're going to get the money, Deshaun.
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Speaker 3: You're lucky it's not worse for you, and you're also
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Speaker 3: one of the worst quarterbacks in football by many numbers, starting-wise,
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Speaker 3: where once upon a time you were, and you were
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Speaker 3: paid as such, and the team took a big risk
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Speaker 3: on you, and everybody in the league wanted him for
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Speaker 3: a while, if you remember that. When he came out
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Speaker 3: of Clemson, he was like, choir boy poster child. He
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Speaker 3: thought everyone liked him. He was playing well in the NFL.
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Speaker 3: It is what it is, Deshaun. I mean, you have
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Speaker 3: to be accountable for those things. It's just funny to
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Speaker 3: me that he's like.
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Speaker 1: It is. It's just... I think it's personal. Well, no crap.
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Speaker 1: It's personal. Yeah, of course. It's like You came with baggage.
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Speaker 1: The whole arc of it is just... And you're playing terribly.
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Speaker 3: That doesn't help. You're making a lot of money. You
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Speaker 3: generally were offensive to a lot of people. I think
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Speaker 3: it's funny to hear him get upset about that.
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Speaker 1: Is it even worth kicking to the huevos Inez Cantor? Well,
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Speaker 1: that's a wild deal. Showing up at a WNBA game
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Speaker 1: and creating a disturbance and getting into it. That guy's
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Speaker 1: a clown. And the whole WNBA thing has become a
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Speaker 1: traveling culture war circus. That's it. More than it is
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Speaker 1: about athletic competition anymore. It's a culture war football. I
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Speaker 1: know a lot of people. I heard the WNBA commissioner
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Speaker 1: getting mad about it. And they've done some things. They
9:54
Speaker 1: need to nip it. They need to nip it. What
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Speaker 1: are they going to do, though? Well, at one point,
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Speaker 1: I think they were kind of allowed. stuff because it
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Speaker 1: was bringing eyeballs, and the old any publicity is good publicity,
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Speaker 1: and if it's good for ratings, let's track it, and
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Speaker 1: how are we doing? But at a certain point, and
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Speaker 1: as Cantor, I mean, go away. Well, he's obviously trying.
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Speaker 1: I've never liked the guy. He's obviously got an agenda.
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Speaker 3: Now, this is an emotional and divisive topic for a
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Speaker 3: lot of people, so it's kind of like, What do
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Speaker 3: you say? But it's like, yeah, I mean, he got
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Speaker 3: close to the court there. What was the deal there?
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Speaker 3: Did he buy the ticket and walk down there or
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Speaker 3: did they give him?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: The best thing you could probably do in a situation
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Speaker 3: if you're a player playing is ignore it, which they
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Speaker 3: did the opposite. They made they made him the spectacle
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Speaker 3: by responding on the court. Am I wrong in saying that?
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Speaker 3: So I don't know. When you when you have something
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Speaker 3: like this, like you're right, it's a traveling culture war now.
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Speaker 3: And it's going to be that for a lot of
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Speaker 3: people who really aren't interested in the sport. There's really
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Speaker 3: no way around it now. And then it's just, it's
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Speaker 3: exhausting because there's going to be no conclusion.
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Speaker 1: It's just going to be a, a show, you know?
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Speaker 1: I don't know what else to say about it. You're
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Speaker 1: not winning hearts and minds. It's obviously like, yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: obviously something where it's, is, is a, an emotional and
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Speaker 1: divisive topic for a lot of people.
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Speaker 3: And that's going to be that, but, it's not like
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Speaker 3: anyone's trying to come to some sort of earnest conclusion
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Speaker 3: by having earnest dialogue and stuff.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 3: Everyone's just trying to make, to create their own position
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Speaker 3: on the agenda and make a stamp name for themselves.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. That's what it seems like to me.
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Speaker 3: So a lot of it, it's like, I just shake
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Speaker 3: my head and walk away.
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Speaker 1: You know, Cantor had, I mean his arc when he
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Speaker 1: was against, uh, Erdogan, Turkey. I love that stance, obviously. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he got his Turkish passport revoked and, you know, they were,
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Speaker 1: you know, he was, his father faced ramifications. His father's
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Speaker 1: a professor in Turkey, faced ramifications.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: You know, that was like more noble and this is
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Speaker 1: clout chasing and stupidity. Yeah, it seems like he's got a.
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Speaker 3: Obviously, he has his agenda, and he's got a career
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Speaker 3: and all these things.
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Speaker 1: He's a U.S. citizen now, but he's using his... You know,
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Speaker 1: you've got a First Amendment right to do what you
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Speaker 1: want to do, but you're also selling tickets to the
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Speaker 1: clown show.
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Speaker 3: And for some people, Drew, he's... They pretend he's their
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Speaker 3: hero today. I don't know what else to say about it,
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Speaker 3: other than there's a lot of people that feel emotional
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Speaker 3: about this topic.
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Speaker 1: I understand your point totally, but I don't know. I just.
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Speaker 3: It is interesting how this thing has enveloped the WNBA,
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Speaker 3: you know?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: For a while, it was just the Caitlin Clark debate,
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Speaker 1: and for a while, it just became this. There are
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Speaker 1: no trans players in the NBA. I mean, in the WNBA.
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Speaker 1: It's like we're inventing a controversy, right?
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Speaker 3: Well, that's what some people, I saw people saying that
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Speaker 3: as well. I haven't really gotten way into this thing,
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Speaker 3: but I guess I was curious why it got so
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Speaker 3: close to the arena.
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Speaker 1: To the floor.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That was a little surprising for me. I didn't know.
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Speaker 1: It was almost like he looked like he had a
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Speaker 1: media pass or something because he was walking around like
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Speaker 1: the court. He wasn't like in a seat. Or maybe
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Speaker 1: he was and I didn't see how it went.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I just, you know. Meanwhile, speaking of basketball, game ball
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Speaker 1: today to Reggie Miller. Wasn't popular in these parts when
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Speaker 1: he played. More popular now that he's an announcer. For some,
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Speaker 1: he's always been an announcer, and they don't remember as
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Speaker 1: a player, but that olive oil guy could really shoot it.
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Speaker 1: He's 61 years old today. Happy birthday, Reggie.
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Speaker 3: I didn't like you as a player, but I have
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Speaker 3: my own personal biases and reasons for that. But I
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Speaker 3: do like you now on the second stage. He was
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Speaker 3: Braun's neighbor. Remember that when he would come to Brewers games?
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Speaker 1: Yeah. And cheer for Braun because they were neighbors in Malibu.
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Speaker 1: Wasn't there a deal there? Yeah, I think so. And
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Speaker 1: that was kind of cool.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You know, looking back, I didn't like him because I
13:47
Speaker 1: thought he got away with some dirty stuff.
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Speaker 3: But he was really like a Bucks villain because the
13:50
Speaker 3: Pacers would beat the Bucks in those early 2000s. But
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Speaker 3: I do remember when he was wearing the Superman T-shirt
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Speaker 3: at Grand Avenue.
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Speaker 1: Remember that? And then he wore it pregame. Oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: he bought it at Grand Avenue. Yeah, I remember that.
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Speaker 3: That was kind of funny. You don't have, like, personality. Like,
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Speaker 3: looking back, you don't have kind of personality like that anymore.
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Speaker 3: And that storyline was fun.
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Speaker 1: At the time. He was a good villain at the
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Speaker 1: time and stuff like that. The thing I like about
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Speaker 1: Reggie is.
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Speaker 3: how thoughtful he is as a broadcaster, how much he
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Speaker 3: enjoys the game. And on some of the podcasts, he
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Speaker 3: really loves talking about his history in the NBA in
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Speaker 3: the old days. I love the way he eloquates about it.
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Speaker 1: It's really awesome. So he's always a guy that's enjoyable
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Speaker 1: for me. So you brought up the neighbor story, and
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Speaker 1: then it ties into Derek and Madison hit us up
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Speaker 1: earlier when we were talking about that Matt Moore game
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Speaker 1: when Matt Moore played for the Chiefs. He said, I
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Speaker 1: played golf against Matt Moore in a member guest golf
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Speaker 1: tournament in Corvallis a couple years ago. Nice guy. Around
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Speaker 1: the campfire after the round, he mentioned that he bought
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Speaker 1: Mark Paul Gosselaar's, Zach Morris's house in California.
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 1: And many interesting stories resulted. That's amazing. Oh, see, now
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Speaker 1: this is what I'm talking about. This is my kind
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Speaker 1: of story. This is where you'll love this, Armand, because
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Speaker 1: that reminded me. It's like, oh, you bought, you know,
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Speaker 1: Zach Morris's house.
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Speaker 2: Sure.
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Speaker 1: And he did other things, too. He was like NYPD Blue, right?
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Speaker 1: Didn't he? Oh, he's done a lot of stuff. Mark
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Speaker 1: Paul Gosselaar's been a great actor that most people don't realize. Well,
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Speaker 1: I don't know about great. No, I think he's had
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Speaker 1: a really good career, Drew. Well, I'm sure he has.
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Speaker 1: It's not just like a one-shot party. Zach Morris, child star,
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Speaker 1: Saved by the Bell, one of Armand's favorite shows. But
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Speaker 1: that reminded me, you talk about famous neighbor stories. Brewers
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Speaker 1: had a pitcher, Glendon Rush, years ago. Absolutely, yeah. He
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Speaker 1: was with the Mets and the Cubs. He was with
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Speaker 1: the Brewers for a little bit. And he told us
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Speaker 1: that his neighbor, who would come over and shoot hoops
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Speaker 1: in the driveway and stuff, was Tony Danza.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Like, how random is that? How amazing is that? Who's
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Speaker 1: the boss? Tony Danza. Can you imagine Tony Danza coming
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Speaker 1: on Shoot Hoops? Yeah. Did he bring the van with
15:46
Speaker 1: that theme song coming? There's a time for love and
15:49
Speaker 1: a time for me. Take a chance. That is so cool.
15:54
Speaker 1: He had some stories about Tony Danza being his neighbor.
15:56
Speaker 3: I love when, Drew, this whole thing. I love when
15:59
Speaker 3: art imitates life and life imitates art. I've always thought
16:03
Speaker 3: that's just something in my mind. I always thought that
16:05
Speaker 3: was a cool thing. So something like that is hilarious. Oh,
16:08
Speaker 3: I got to say this.
16:09
Speaker 2: All right.
16:09
Speaker 1: Well, I still have a chance and we're getting away next.
16:11
Speaker 3: I don't know if there's a kick in the balls
16:13
Speaker 3: or a game ball for me.
16:15
Speaker 2: Okay.
16:16
Speaker 3: Okay. But I realized something over the weekend when I
16:17
Speaker 3: saw Gary Sheffield interviewed on the field about the Little
16:21
Speaker 3: League World Series and he was at the Little League
16:23
Speaker 3: event and the Little League thing and he played in
16:25
Speaker 3: the Little League World Series and he's another guy I've
16:28
Speaker 3: enjoyed in his retirement.
16:29
Speaker 1: Eloquent about the game. Thoughtful.
16:31
Speaker 3: He's got a cool vibe about him. Obviously had a
16:34
Speaker 3: great career. And I realized, Drew, I've held onto my
16:36
Speaker 3: hate for way too long for Gary Sheffield, where I'm
16:39
Speaker 3: all about personal growth. I'm all about trying to, you know,
16:42
Speaker 3: forgiveness is powerful. I think it's once and for all
16:45
Speaker 3: time for me to release myself of this kind of
16:48
Speaker 3: pain I've had for Gary Sheffield.
16:50
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, you know, early.
16:52
Speaker 3: In his career, it ended ugly and he left on
16:55
Speaker 3: those circumstances and he threw errors on purpose.
16:59
Speaker 1: And he was a young guy. I was only eight
17:01
Speaker 1: years old.
17:02
Speaker 3: I really held a hatred in my heart for Gary
17:04
Speaker 3: Sheffield for so long because we used to boom as kids.
17:07
Speaker 3: I hereby am saying, Drew, I'm going to move past that,
17:11
Speaker 3: get over it. I'm going to release myself from the
17:14
Speaker 3: burden of my distaste for Gary Sheffield. I'm forgiving you,
17:18
Speaker 3: Gary Sheffield. This is a big moment for me. I
17:21
Speaker 3: think it's finally time for me to let go of that.
17:24
Speaker 1: We've moved on enough.
17:26
Speaker 3: Gary Sheffield, I forgive you for your Brewers transgressions earlier
17:28
Speaker 3: in your career.
17:29
Speaker 1: I wish your great, great career was with the Brewers.
17:32
Speaker 3: It wasn't meant to be. You went somewhere else and
17:35
Speaker 3: had a great career. You went to San Diego, then
17:37
Speaker 3: all these places. So that's it, Drew. I don't want
17:41
Speaker 3: to have any more pain.
17:42
Speaker 1: In my heart for Gary Sheffield. I'm forgiving him. All right,
17:45
Speaker 1: there you go. I love it. That's very cathartic for you.
17:48
Speaker 1: This is a cathartic declaration. That's amazing. I got to
17:50
Speaker 1: tell you something.
17:51
Speaker 3: It feels good. So forgive something today, everybody. It feels
17:54
Speaker 3: good to do that today. I'm forgiving Kerry Sheffield officially.
17:58
Speaker 1: Are you writing that down for the rehab? Like, well,
18:00
Speaker 1: Drew's taking a note. Amazing. I'm writing a note. Like,
18:03
Speaker 1: Armin is officially August 24th, 2026 at 719 a.m. Gary,
18:11
Speaker 1: it's okay. Arman's sorry and says it's okay to Gary.
18:14
Speaker 3: And for any of you, one day, one day, Yas
18:16
Speaker 3: is going to be back. For any of you still
18:19
Speaker 3: holding that in your heart, I want you.
18:20
Speaker 2: To remember this.
18:21
Speaker 1: Be back for what? It's going to be back for something.
18:25
Speaker 1: Either he plays or what, a ceremony? Well, he'll be
18:28
Speaker 1: absolutely for a ceremony, a reunion of the championship team, something.
18:32
Speaker 3: Don't, don't rob yourself of that great moment by keeping
18:34
Speaker 3: the pain in your heart. Right.
18:35
Speaker 1: That's all I'm going to say. Epic. It's like, wait,
18:37
Speaker 1: we have Wayne coming up next. We do indeed.
18:40
Speaker 3: They did that eventually for, uh, for Jim Boughton at
18:43
Speaker 3: Yankee stadium.
18:44
Speaker 1: They finally let him back one day. He was banned
18:46
Speaker 1: for years and years because of the ball four. I
18:49
Speaker 1: know that was, that was unjust.
18:51
Speaker 3: I agree.
18:52
Speaker 1: His son wrote a letter and got him kind of
18:55
Speaker 1: got that ball rolling. And Mickey never held it against him.
18:58
Speaker 1: Never did.
18:58
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, no.
18:59
Speaker 1: Fantastic.
19:00
Speaker 2: All right.
19:01
Speaker 1: Armin has forgiven Gary Sheffield. That's the breaking news. That's
19:03
Speaker 1: it today. That's over. We're going to talk to Wayne Larrabee.
19:06
Speaker 1: The voice of the Packers, friend of the program, is
19:08
Speaker 1: going to join us next. You're in the huddle. Fox
19:11
Speaker 1: Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Continuing the Monday edition of the Huddle,
19:16
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison, everywhere on
19:19
Speaker 1: the iHeart app. It's Drew and Armin today. Billy is
19:22
Speaker 1: on his way to Green Bay for the Packers. Big
19:25
Speaker 1: practice today. Going to be a robust practice heading into
19:28
Speaker 1: the joint practice Wednesday against the Arizona Cardinals. And Billy
19:32
Speaker 1: will be joined on training camp live by the great
19:34
Speaker 1: Wayne Larravee, voice of the Packers, who joins us now.
19:36
Speaker 1: Good morning, Wayne.
19:38
Speaker 2: Good morning, guys. How are you doing?
19:39
Speaker 1: We are spectacular. We are as big weekend in sports,
19:43
Speaker 1: big Brewers weekend. And of course, Packers setting the tone
19:46
Speaker 1: on Friday night in Denver. And Wayne, you don't want
19:48
Speaker 1: to get too excited about. preseason results, but that was
19:52
Speaker 1: a pretty crisp outing and there's plenty to chew on
19:54
Speaker 1: from that game.
19:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought so too, Drew. Offensively, they did some
19:59
Speaker 2: nice things. Those first couple of drives, I thought defensively,
20:03
Speaker 2: they were pretty stout. Now, people will say, well, the Broncos'
20:07
Speaker 2: first-ring offense scored on each of their first two drives
20:10
Speaker 2: of the game, and they did. But you have to
20:12
Speaker 2: understand something about this, and this goes both ways now.
20:16
Speaker 2: In preseason, defenses don't game plan or scheme for the
20:20
Speaker 2: offense they're facing like they do during the regular season.
20:23
Speaker 2: And Jonathan Gannon was pretty vanilla. And, oh, by the way,
20:27
Speaker 2: you know, matter of fact, Jonathan told us that he
20:30
Speaker 2: would be intentionally vanilla in that game because he wanted
20:34
Speaker 2: to see how individuals perform against their top players. And
20:39
Speaker 2: so the Denver offensive line is the best in the league. And, boy,
20:42
Speaker 2: they were good the other night. They came out. They
20:44
Speaker 2: were firing. Bo Nix's first game action since the divisional
20:48
Speaker 2: playoff game, I thought he was very good for Denver. But,
20:52
Speaker 2: you know, really what encouraged me was what I saw
20:55
Speaker 2: from Green Bay. And I saw the Packers come out
20:58
Speaker 2: and play a very good game. I thought they met
21:00
Speaker 2: Denver's physicality, which is the thing I think Matt LaFleur
21:03
Speaker 2: wanted to see. And the big thing about it was,
21:06
Speaker 2: you know, they came out, they played physical, and they
21:09
Speaker 2: played fast. And that's what the coaching staff wanted to see.
21:12
Speaker 1: Oh, fantastic. Armin, well, Armin is back there, like, looking
21:15
Speaker 1: at knobs and buttons because Wayne's audio is not as
21:18
Speaker 1: crisp as it usually is. Yeah, I don't know what
21:19
Speaker 1: it is here. Armin's pushing a bunch of buttons here.
21:22
Speaker 1: Trying to fix it. Yeah, well, I don't know what
21:25
Speaker 1: Army can do. We can soldier on, though. And, Wayne,
21:28
Speaker 1: we mentioned you guys got probably a pretty crisp and
21:31
Speaker 1: robust practice today, and then Wednesday will be the last
21:34
Speaker 1: time that the starters get to test themselves and then
21:39
Speaker 1: put them in bubble wrap for Friday because we don't
21:42
Speaker 1: expect a lot of starters to see action on Friday,
21:44
Speaker 1: do we?
21:45
Speaker 2: I don't know if you'll see any starters see action
21:47
Speaker 2: on Friday. I think what Matt has done is gotten
21:50
Speaker 2: his starters plenty of time in preseason games one and
21:54
Speaker 2: two in the third game what the Packers have generally
21:57
Speaker 2: done is use that game and this goes way back
22:00
Speaker 2: use that game for the players trying to make the
22:02
Speaker 2: roster and give them one last shot one last long
22:05
Speaker 2: look and it's one of the reasons why I think
22:07
Speaker 2: free agents college free agents tend to go to Green
22:10
Speaker 2: Bay because they know they're going to get a good
22:12
Speaker 2: shot to make the roster or at least put something
22:15
Speaker 2: on tape as a resume tape for other teams down
22:18
Speaker 2: the road.
22:19
Speaker 1: All right Armin should we try to reconnect with Wayne
22:21
Speaker 1: what do you say.
22:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's give it a shot. Wayne, I'm going to
22:24
Speaker 3: drop it and reconnect here. We're going to try and
22:26
Speaker 3: find something there.
22:27
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. Wayne is awesome, but
22:28
Speaker 1: the sound isn't as good as it usually is. Yeah,
22:31
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. We'll drop and reconnect.
22:34
Speaker 3: We want to make sure it's a positive listening experience
22:37
Speaker 3: for everybody.
22:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're in charge of audio. Yeah, we're working on that.
22:41
Speaker 1: And most of the time, it just sounds a little scratchy.
22:44
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes it's like that, right, Drew? Sometimes it's
22:46
Speaker 1: like that.
22:47
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
22:47
Speaker 1: Give it one more shot here. The Gremlins, thankfully, well,
22:50
Speaker 1: the important stuff is the broadcasts, like the games.
22:54
Speaker 2: Right.
22:54
Speaker 1: Those have been good. I think so. We don't want
22:56
Speaker 1: to talk about no hitters in the dugout, but we're
22:58
Speaker 1: two for two so far.
22:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
23:00
Speaker 1: Please don't jinx me. Any better, Wayne? How are you doing, Wayne,
23:02
Speaker 1: out there?
23:03
Speaker 2: How does it sound now? Amazing.
23:06
Speaker 1: Crystal clear. Yeah, you're a little scratchy. Sometimes you just
23:08
Speaker 1: got to drop it and call back. That's right. Isn't
23:11
Speaker 1: that the world we live in? Unplug it and plug
23:12
Speaker 1: it back in when in doubt.
23:14
Speaker 3: Just like it seemed like all Trace Mack needed was
23:17
Speaker 3: the bright lights. Wayne, how's that for Trace? But like,
23:20
Speaker 3: you know, there was so much of our nervousness and consternating,
23:23
Speaker 3: but Since he's been in these games, he's just been incredible.
23:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, he really took advantage of that mile-high altitude there. Boy,
23:31
Speaker 2: he hit some great shots again on Saturday, and he's
23:35
Speaker 2: got to be in a good head space right now,
23:37
Speaker 2: and that's great going into the season. You know, the
23:41
Speaker 2: thing that Gutekunst mentioned, Brian Gutekunst mentioned when they drafted him,
23:44
Speaker 2: they said, you know, his ball doesn't move. You know,
23:48
Speaker 2: a lot of times kickers will curve a kick or
23:51
Speaker 2: it moves left and right and that kind of thing.
23:53
Speaker 2: This kid kicks it pretty straight, and that's a thing
23:55
Speaker 2: I've noticed as well. Whether he makes it or misses,
23:58
Speaker 2: the ball's going pretty straight. It's not moving up and down,
24:01
Speaker 2: back and forth, you know, that kind of thing.
24:02
Speaker 3: What I think is interesting, too, Wayne, is this seemingly,
24:05
Speaker 3: I don't know about strategy, but this shift in the
24:08
Speaker 3: kicker culture in the NFL where now, you know, everyone's
24:12
Speaker 3: looking for guys that can boom it close to 60,
24:15
Speaker 3: and the way these kickers are coming out now, I
24:18
Speaker 3: saw a guy this weekend hit a 69-yarder in preseason.
24:22
Speaker 3: it seems like the threshold is higher for success for
24:24
Speaker 3: kickers than ever before. And you have to have a
24:27
Speaker 3: guy that can potentially give you that type of, you know,
24:31
Speaker 3: used to be a 50 yard plus was a novelty.
24:33
Speaker 3: Now it's like, if you can't do it, that's the
24:35
Speaker 3: baseline for kickers.
24:37
Speaker 1: Yeah.
24:37
Speaker 2: And any, it's like people are expecting these days, anything
24:40
Speaker 2: under fifties and automatic, you know what I mean? It's unrealistic,
24:44
Speaker 2: but that's what people are thinking about. That's what, you know,
24:47
Speaker 2: you miss a 43 yard field goal. Well, wow, the
24:49
Speaker 2: wind and everything else. And no, you got to make that,
24:53
Speaker 2: you know, you're 50 plus, you can go five for 10,
24:55
Speaker 2: but you better make everything inside of 40. And so
24:59
Speaker 2: are inside of 50, but that's just the reality we
25:02
Speaker 2: live in. And you're right. Armin, these kids are better
25:05
Speaker 2: now coming out of college as kickers, much more talent
25:09
Speaker 2: available there. And this trace Mac is just an example
25:12
Speaker 2: of that.
25:13
Speaker 1: Wayne, it's funny. Cause we, we named trace Mac, our
25:16
Speaker 1: player of the game. sponsored by great clips on the
25:19
Speaker 1: post game show. And then Sean Payton came out and said, well,
25:22
Speaker 1: I guess that rookie kicker is the player of the
25:23
Speaker 1: game tonight. So we felt validated when Sean Payton said that.
25:28
Speaker 1: But when we look at this roster and the battles
25:30
Speaker 1: and the things we're going to be focusing on this week,
25:32
Speaker 1: and especially Friday night, Wayne at Lambeau, I'm fascinated by
25:36
Speaker 1: Pierre strong. That 68 yarder was like the turning point
25:38
Speaker 1: of that game, that return. It was great to see.
25:40
Speaker 1: And again, I'm thinking to myself, oh, he's really making
25:43
Speaker 1: a statement, but will they keep an extra running back?
25:45
Speaker 1: Do they have to because of Josh Jacobs? Did he
25:49
Speaker 1: cement his case, or is he going to be one
25:50
Speaker 1: of those guys that we just fell in love with
25:52
Speaker 1: during camp and falls, drifts off to the practice squad
25:55
Speaker 1: or a waiver wire?
25:57
Speaker 2: Well, I tell you what, it's going to be interesting
25:58
Speaker 2: to see, and you're right, Drew, and I was surprised
26:00
Speaker 2: he was even back there returning a kick like that.
26:03
Speaker 2: I shouldn't have been, but I was. I just didn't
26:06
Speaker 2: expect it. And here he goes, 68 yards. When's the
26:09
Speaker 2: last time the Packers had a kickoff return that long?
26:11
Speaker 2: Seems like forever. I'm sure it's not, but it seems
26:14
Speaker 2: like it, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah. You know, his, I've
26:18
Speaker 2: liked what I've seen of him since OTAs and minicamp.
26:23
Speaker 2: He is just a tough physical runner. He fills that
26:27
Speaker 2: Emmanuel Wilson role in my mind. You know, and I've
26:31
Speaker 2: talked to Ben Sermons, the running backs coach about this.
26:33
Speaker 2: And he was saying, you know, yeah, maybe he could
26:35
Speaker 2: fill that role. I don't know, but right now you've
26:39
Speaker 2: got to figure Josh Jacobs, Marshawn Lloyd, Chris Brooks is
26:44
Speaker 2: the guy they trust in third downs. He's going to
26:46
Speaker 2: make the football team. I'd be surprised if he doesn't.
26:49
Speaker 2: By the way, we will be surprised next weekend with cuts.
26:52
Speaker 2: We'll have four or five guys who are just sitting
26:54
Speaker 2: there saying, wow, I didn't see that coming. It happens
26:57
Speaker 2: every year. But, you know, will you keep an extra
27:00
Speaker 2: running back? I don't know, boy, you've got to keep
27:03
Speaker 2: an extra wide receiver. You would think too, wouldn't you?
27:05
Speaker 2: Where do you cut? You know, maybe the tight end
27:08
Speaker 2: room is not quite as deep as you'd like it
27:10
Speaker 2: to be. Maybe you go two or three, maybe you
27:13
Speaker 2: go three tight ends, but you know, with all the
27:15
Speaker 2: two tight end formations they play in the NFL today.
27:17
Speaker 2: And I know Matt likes to play that 12 personnel
27:20
Speaker 2: quite a bit, one running back, two tight ends, two
27:22
Speaker 2: wide receivers. You know, it's hard to keep only two
27:26
Speaker 2: or three tight ends. You've got to keep at least
27:28
Speaker 2: three or four, you know what I mean? That, So
27:30
Speaker 2: it's hard to figure out where they're going to cut
27:31
Speaker 2: this team and how they're going to cut it.
27:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, it always is. That's why they make the big money.
27:35
Speaker 1: Getting to 53 is going to be a chore here
27:37
Speaker 1: because you got some good options. Anthony Campbell's a guy
27:41
Speaker 1: that I feel like, okay, he can make the team.
27:42
Speaker 1: But then there are people saying, well, in order for
27:44
Speaker 1: him to make it, they'll have to cut Nazir Stackhouse
27:46
Speaker 1: and trade Carl Brooks. And there's all kinds of, there's
27:50
Speaker 1: drama on the defensive line that I didn't expect.
27:53
Speaker 2: And Chris McClellan perhaps stood out more than anyone on
27:56
Speaker 2: that defensive line the other night in Denver. He got
27:59
Speaker 2: a long tour, but the rookie really stepped up. And,
28:02
Speaker 2: you know, he's a power kind of player. Jonathan Gannon
28:05
Speaker 2: was talking about him to us that morning of the
28:07
Speaker 2: game about, you know, how impressed he was with the
28:10
Speaker 2: fact that this kid, this is a big kid who
28:12
Speaker 2: can move. And he's not just a run stopper. He
28:15
Speaker 2: can threaten the quarterback a little bit, too. And with
28:18
Speaker 2: Devontae Wyatt next to him, that could be a very
28:23
Speaker 2: good combination you might see often early in the season.
28:27
Speaker 3: Wayne, Brandon Cisse has been so exciting ever since we
28:30
Speaker 3: started getting a look at him, the first pick for
28:33
Speaker 3: the Packers.
28:34
Speaker 1: Not first round, but first pick for the Packers.
28:36
Speaker 3: It was a little dinged up in that game against Denver.
28:39
Speaker 3: It seems like he was okay. I think we think that,
28:42
Speaker 3: but he's really been a revelation as well.
28:45
Speaker 2: He has. Armin, you know, he seems very mature in
28:49
Speaker 2: terms of not only his personality, but the way he
28:52
Speaker 2: plays the game out there. He never really panics a
28:54
Speaker 2: whole lot. I think he had a great cover on
28:56
Speaker 2: Cortland Sutton, the Denver number one receiver the other night. And,
29:01
Speaker 2: you know, these are things you look for. Little individual
29:04
Speaker 2: plays here and there in the preseason can tell you
29:06
Speaker 2: a lot. I think he's pretty well cemented a starting role.
29:12
Speaker 2: We'll see when the season gets here. But he seems
29:15
Speaker 2: to have cemented his place. And now the other side
29:17
Speaker 2: is where the competition is. And I still think Keyshawn Nixon,
29:21
Speaker 2: it's his job to lose.
29:23
Speaker 1: When we mentioned Pierre Strong's kick return, Sky Moore had
29:27
Speaker 1: a 16-yard punt return that was pretty nifty. And I
29:31
Speaker 1: think that would have been the second longest punt return
29:33
Speaker 1: for the Packers last season. Should we be raising our
29:36
Speaker 1: expectations for that facet of the game? Cam Acorn is
29:39
Speaker 1: doing his job.
29:41
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, you know, it's amazing. I kept thinking
29:45
Speaker 2: about this the other night during the game and said,
29:46
Speaker 2: if they have, you know, and Sky Moore can provide
29:48
Speaker 2: you both kicks returns and punt returns, but if they can,
29:52
Speaker 2: you know, if they have a return game, okay. And
29:55
Speaker 2: they've got a kicker, you know, they have a punter,
29:57
Speaker 2: you know, the coverage units are pretty good. Wow, special
30:02
Speaker 2: teams could this could be the best. Well, I shouldn't
30:04
Speaker 2: say this, folks, but I'll say it anyway. This could
30:07
Speaker 2: be the best special teams we've seen in Green Bay
30:10
Speaker 2: since Nolan Cromwell was the special teams coach back in
30:13
Speaker 2: the mid 90s. Now that goes way back.
30:16
Speaker 1: Oh, what a great name. That's a great reference. Yes,
30:19
Speaker 1: it absolutely is. It's funny because we've talked about it
30:23
Speaker 1: the last several years, and Aaron Nagler gave us the line.
30:26
Speaker 1: He's like, all I want is competence. I just want
30:29
Speaker 1: the league average. That's all we're asking for. Just don't
30:33
Speaker 1: be at the bottom of these categories. Be league average.
30:35
Speaker 1: And it looks like they might be better than that now.
30:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we'll see. We'll see you. Proof will be
30:41
Speaker 2: in the pudding and there'll be plenty of pudding coming
30:43
Speaker 2: up 18 weeks of it.
30:44
Speaker 1: That's true. We haven't played yet. That's true.
30:46
Speaker 2: Yeah.
30:47
Speaker 1: Well, that's the other thing. Okay. So Wayne, another thing
30:49
Speaker 1: I want to ask you is we're watching that first series.
30:51
Speaker 1: We hyper-focus on that because that's the only look you
30:54
Speaker 1: get at love and company and, and put them in
30:56
Speaker 1: bubble wrap and they're, they'll play on Wednesday against the
30:59
Speaker 1: Cardinals and stuff, but then they're done. They probably won't
31:01
Speaker 1: play Friday, but am I detecting a trend of him
31:04
Speaker 1: being under center more and more under center play action and,
31:08
Speaker 1: rollout type stuff. It seems like, is that, am I
31:12
Speaker 1: reading too much into that? Cause it seemed like that
31:14
Speaker 1: first series, I saw a lot of that and I'm like, Oh,
31:16
Speaker 1: is that what we're going to see more of this year?
31:19
Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, I I've said that drew and I
31:21
Speaker 2: said that on the family night telecast and somebody said, well,
31:23
Speaker 2: they were really good under center last year. Yeah. But
31:25
Speaker 2: they weren't under center as much as you thought they
31:28
Speaker 2: should be maybe. And I think the floor is going
31:30
Speaker 2: to have more under center work going on. I think
31:33
Speaker 2: this involves not just the passing game, And the play
31:35
Speaker 2: action passing game is much more effective when your quarterback's
31:38
Speaker 2: coming from under center. But also in terms of the
31:41
Speaker 2: running game, and I think it's short yardage, too. I
31:43
Speaker 2: just remember that drive in Chicago right before halftime in
31:47
Speaker 2: the division or the wildcard playoff game where the Packers
31:51
Speaker 2: are on the goal line and they're trying to run
31:52
Speaker 2: out of shotgun and not getting it done and finally
31:55
Speaker 2: had to resort to a fourth down pass to Romeo Dobbs.
31:58
Speaker 2: to score. But I think more under center is what
32:01
Speaker 2: we're going to see because of two things. Number one,
32:04
Speaker 2: I think it's what LaFleur hopes to do in his offense,
32:07
Speaker 2: but also they were effective under center when they were
32:09
Speaker 2: under center last year. I don't think you're wrong to
32:12
Speaker 2: think there'll be under center more as the season gets underway.
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Speaker 1: Was some of that related to Jordan love having that
32:17
Speaker 1: left thumb issue that, you know, like it seemed like
32:21
Speaker 1: early on, especially that they.
32:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, it could have been a little bit. I don't
32:25
Speaker 2: think a huge amount, but that could have been. part
32:28
Speaker 2: of it but you know that i just think they're
32:30
Speaker 2: going to be under more under center this year offensively
32:33
Speaker 2: and we'll see how that pans out well i know you.
32:35
Speaker 1: Guys are going to see a pad rattling practice today
32:37
Speaker 1: i feel like this will be the one then they'll
32:38
Speaker 1: take it easy tomorrow and then what what's it going
32:41
Speaker 1: to be like on wednesday like usually these joint practices
32:44
Speaker 1: there's fights and skirmishes and conflagrations will the lafleur brothers
32:48
Speaker 1: have a pact here and make it like so that
32:50
Speaker 1: doesn't happen or can they even control that what's the
32:53
Speaker 1: tenor going to be like wednesday.
32:55
Speaker 2: I think it'll be ramped up a little bit. I
32:58
Speaker 2: think the brothers will try to, you know, they'll try
33:00
Speaker 2: to make sure they have an agreement as to how
33:03
Speaker 2: the practice is going to be conducted and everything else.
33:05
Speaker 2: I'm sure that's all been well planned. But, you know,
33:08
Speaker 2: these are athletes on the field. And once the ball
33:10
Speaker 2: is snapped, they, you know, they're not worried about a plan.
33:12
Speaker 2: They're worried about making the play. And so I think
33:15
Speaker 2: when you have these, it's one of the reasons why
33:18
Speaker 2: they've gone to one instead of two days in a row.
33:21
Speaker 2: I think Minnesota and Baltimore scrimmage for two days before
33:25
Speaker 2: they played the preseason game. And they had all kinds
33:27
Speaker 2: of skirmishes and fights and everything else. And that's, you know,
33:30
Speaker 2: I mean, we, as fans, as observers, we kind of
33:33
Speaker 2: like that spice, don't we? We like to see them
33:35
Speaker 2: mix it up like that. Yeah. Let's get some pushing
33:37
Speaker 2: and shoving. Let's get some fun. Yeah. But it's counterproductive
33:41
Speaker 2: to what they're trying to do as a coaching staff
33:43
Speaker 2: and as a team on that particular day. Yeah.
33:47
Speaker 3: I remember James Jones was saying on Packers preview or
33:49
Speaker 3: by that he, found that unproductive because everyone was trying
33:52
Speaker 3: to act tough to the veterans. But hey, it would
33:54
Speaker 3: be interesting to see if the brothers would start something up.
33:57
Speaker 3: I mean, there's no fighting like brotherly fighting, right?
34:01
Speaker 1: So I don't know, Wayne. I don't know if we
34:02
Speaker 1: expect it, but that would be something to see. Yeah,
34:05
Speaker 1: I think it'll be pretty professional. We'll see. Anything could happen,
34:08
Speaker 1: but I think it'll be pretty professional. One more thing, Wayne.
34:11
Speaker 3: I know you're going to be on later with Billy,
34:14
Speaker 3: but Yankees are three games back of the race.
34:16
Speaker 1: How do you feel? Does the AL East still run
34:19
Speaker 1: for the Bronx? Do they have a chance to still
34:21
Speaker 1: win the East?
34:22
Speaker 2: Well, I tell you something, Giancarlo Stanton. How about that news?
34:26
Speaker 2: He's probably not coming back. Go figure. Boy, where did
34:30
Speaker 2: that come from? My gosh. What a total waste. Derek
34:34
Speaker 2: Jeter traded Giancarlo Stanton when Jeter was involved with the
34:37
Speaker 2: Marlins to the Yankees. And it was just like a
34:40
Speaker 2: death pill. It was an absolute death pill. All right.
34:43
Speaker 2: And then the Yankees took him out, and he's been
34:46
Speaker 2: nothing but injured ever since. So that's not going to happen.
34:49
Speaker 2: But Bellinger came back yesterday, Cody Bellinger, and Aaron Judge
34:54
Speaker 2: will come back in September. If the Yankees get any
34:57
Speaker 2: kind of hitting in September, they'll win the American League.
35:00
Speaker 1: I love it. I love the confidence. That's amazing. That's amazing. Wayne,
35:04
Speaker 1: I woke up this morning, and I'm starting to feel
35:07
Speaker 1: that crispness in the air. It's right around the corner.
35:10
Speaker 1: We're getting close. Now the thing is we got the
35:12
Speaker 1: cuts this week. We got the last game, the cuts,
35:15
Speaker 1: and then we got this long wait to get the
35:16
Speaker 1: season started, but we're getting closer.
35:18
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's like true. It's like almost a month.
35:23
Speaker 1: We're three weeks out. Oh my goodness.
35:26
Speaker 2: Exactly. All right. We'll find something to talk about. I
35:28
Speaker 2: guarantee you.
35:29
Speaker 1: I guarantee you. Thanks for joining us, Wayne. Appreciate it.
35:31
Speaker 1: Safe travels and have fun with Billy today. We'll be listening.
35:34
Speaker 2: All right. We'll talk to you on Friday, guys. All right.
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Speaker 1: Good that we got the audio ironed out. It sounded immaculate.
35:41
Speaker 1: Good job, Armin. That was a relief. Gold star. I'll
35:43
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Speaker 1: I called an audible because it was memory lane. It's
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Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
36:57
Speaker 1: I was going to say, there's got to be something good.
36:58
Speaker 1: And Armin, this was before your time, but it happened
37:00
Speaker 1: during the summer of 1982 when we were all focused
37:03
Speaker 1: on the Brewers.
37:04
Speaker 3: Right.
37:05
Speaker 1: July 2nd, 1982, a truck driver from California named Larry Walters,
37:10
Speaker 1: 33 years old from San Pedro, flew 16,000 feet into
37:15
Speaker 1: the sky on a lawn chair.
37:18
Speaker 2: What?
37:19
Speaker 1: Did he create his own? Larry Walters dreamed of flying
37:22
Speaker 1: his whole life. And he bought 42 eight-foot helium weather balloons,
37:26
Speaker 1: tied them to a Sears lawn chair. Oh, my gosh.
37:29
Speaker 1: Strapped down a parachute, packed a BB gun to pop
37:32
Speaker 1: balloons to help his descent. He had a CB radio, sandwiches,
37:37
Speaker 1: and a six-pack of beer.
37:38
Speaker 3: I love that he's thinking about eating and drinking beer
37:40
Speaker 3: at this time.
37:41
Speaker 1: You know, you're floating around. You have no idea what's
37:43
Speaker 1: going to happen. Let me just grab a cold one.
37:44
Speaker 1: Here's the thing.
37:45
Speaker 2: Yeah.
37:46
Speaker 1: He expected to float a few hundred feet above his backyard,
37:49
Speaker 1: but he cut the rope and he shot up like
37:52
Speaker 1: a rocket. He went to 16,000 feet. Oh, my gosh.
37:56
Speaker 1: That's like half the cruising. He drifted directly into the
37:59
Speaker 1: main approach path for LAX. And two pilots radioed the
38:03
Speaker 1: tower that they just passed a man in a lawn
38:05
Speaker 1: chair holding a gun, which he did. He had a
38:08
Speaker 1: BB gun. For 45 minutes, he floated over Los Angeles,
38:11
Speaker 1: freezing cold, too scared to shoot the balloons because he
38:14
Speaker 1: was afraid he might fall. Fall quickly. Finally, he just decided,
38:18
Speaker 1: I'm going to have to do it. So he started
38:20
Speaker 1: popping the balloons one by one, And slowly he descended.
38:24
Speaker 1: He landed up. He landed tangled in power lines in
38:27
Speaker 1: Long Beach, causing a blackout. When police arrested him, they
38:31
Speaker 1: asked why he did it. And he said, quote, a
38:33
Speaker 1: man can't just sit around. Actually, he can. That's literally
38:37
Speaker 1: what he was doing. That is so amazing. The FAA
38:41
Speaker 1: fined him $ 4, 000. He became a national folk hero named
38:44
Speaker 1: Lawn Chair Larry. They're not going to like that, the FAA. Yeah,
38:47
Speaker 1: that's great. Oh, my goodness. This story inspired the movie Up.
38:53
Speaker 1: The more you know.
38:54
Speaker 2: You know what?
38:55
Speaker 3: I never knew this, and it reminds me of the scam,
38:58
Speaker 3: the Balloon Boy scam. Remember when they tried to create
39:01
Speaker 3: this thing? I think my reaction to this is it's.
39:04
Speaker 1: Rare that you come up with a harebrained idea like
39:06
Speaker 1: this that works better than what you think. Usually it's
39:09
Speaker 1: the opposite. It doesn't work.
39:11
Speaker 3: This worked better than he ever imagined. He floated way up, up,
39:14
Speaker 3: up and away. It's just, how did he stay on
39:16
Speaker 3: the lawn chair? Like, didn't the atmosphere push him around?
39:20
Speaker 1: Maybe he had a seatbelt buckled up and he did
39:22
Speaker 1: have a parachute in case, but right, man, don't you
39:26
Speaker 1: think he'd be a little nervous to see if that
39:27
Speaker 1: actually worked? Like, what am I going to do now? He,
39:30
Speaker 1: was up there thinking, like, well, now what? Yes.
39:32
Speaker 3: Did he get the beers in? Or at least did
39:34
Speaker 3: he eat the sandwiches? That is a crazy thing. I
39:37
Speaker 3: never really realized the origin story. Imagine how cold it
39:40
Speaker 3: would have been.
39:40
Speaker 1: Freezing cold. I mean, people don't really think about that.
39:43
Speaker 1: But when you get high up in the atmosphere, you
39:45
Speaker 1: must have gotten some sort of frostbite or something. Even
39:48
Speaker 1: if it was summer in L.A., Right? I mean, I
39:51
Speaker 1: don't know. That's an amazing story. Imagine social media if
39:56
Speaker 1: that happened, Drew. Oh, yeah. He would have been live
39:58
Speaker 1: streaming it.
39:58
Speaker 2: We would have gone.
39:59
Speaker 1: Crazy on Twitter that day. People would have been talking
40:01
Speaker 1: about it. He'd have been live streaming it on the
40:03
Speaker 1: gram for sure. Oh, my goodness.
40:05
Speaker 3: Isn't there a guy in the summer of 77 in
40:07
Speaker 3: New York that climbed the World Trade Center tower?
40:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Everyone was following that, too.
40:11
Speaker 3: Yeah.
40:13
Speaker 1: I just think about what social media would have reacted.
40:14
Speaker 2: Wow.
40:15
Speaker 1: Well, that's crazy. How about that? Just nuts. All right.
40:18
Speaker 1: We've covered a lot of ground today. No Brewers game tonight.
40:22
Speaker 1: They're in New York. No baseball pregame show. They'll take
40:25
Speaker 1: a day off. They can all get some corned beef
40:28
Speaker 1: and some pizza and rest up. And we'll have that
40:31
Speaker 1: for you tomorrow. Tomorrow on the program, we will be
40:32
Speaker 1: joined by our pal, Hunter Baumgart, who will be with
40:34
Speaker 1: us live at 725. Right. And we'll talk Brewers. We'll
40:39
Speaker 1: get the lay of the land. And then, obviously, we'll
40:41
Speaker 1: get reaction from what happens at practice today with Billy.
40:44
Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out. Thanks for the great Wayne Larrabee
40:46
Speaker 1: for joining us. We'll see you tomorrow at 5. Peace.