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05/05/26 - HOUR 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 4: I'm Doug Russell.
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Speaker 5: We start in Saint Louis, where the Brewers lost on
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Speaker 5: Monday night, but there was at least one silver lining and.
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Speaker 2: A fly ball to left center field.
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Speaker 4: This has hit a ton It is back and it is.
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Speaker 2: Off the wall. Jackson Turio digs into second base and
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Speaker 2: welcome back jack Jackie.
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Speaker 4: He's got a double.
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Speaker 5: Jeff Levering on the call on Brewers TV. Jackson Surio
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Speaker 5: and Andrew Vaughn, both activated. Still didn't help them win
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Speaker 5: in the Gateway City, though six to three the final
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Speaker 5: score of the Cardinals win Game one over the Brewers.
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Speaker 5: Game two is tonight, first pitch at six forty five.
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Speaker 5: Brandon Sprote. We'll take on Andre Belante. Two games in
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Speaker 5: the NBA Playoffs.
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Speaker 4: Last night.
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Speaker 5: It was the next, taking apart the seventy six ers
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Speaker 5: in Game one one thirty seven to ninety eight Minnesota
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Speaker 5: in the West one o four to one oh two
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Speaker 4: The worm and a long day ahead. However, the club
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Speaker 4: always goes up on a Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: We got a fun one for you here today off
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Speaker 1: a couple of playoff games off our first hearing from
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Gannon off a return for the Ages for Jackson Surio. Arman,
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Speaker 1: it was a good night, albeit without a w last night.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that anybody could have anticipated the return
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Speaker 1: in Saint Louis went as well for Jackson Surio as
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Speaker 1: it did.
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Speaker 4: My man, goes four for four felt like a.
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Speaker 1: Wendy's there with two doubles now and two singles in
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Speaker 1: the land of Carl's Junior and Hardy's. He was phenomenal
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Speaker 1: to start in returning yesterday. Oh man, that was that
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Speaker 1: was wonderful.
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Speaker 4: I get how do you expect me to not be
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Speaker 4: able to just take a breath after that beautiful metaphor?
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Speaker 4: That was two doubles and two singles. That was as
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Speaker 4: good as it gets? Are you kidding me? Unfortunately the
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Speaker 4: end did to get a little frosty for the brus
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Speaker 4: as they took the album Yea turned into an in
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Speaker 4: and out on that one that was Boom and You're
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Speaker 4: on Fire. That was a bummer. Couldn't get the win, unfortunately,
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Speaker 4: Chad Patrick couldn't couldn't get the big outs when when
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Speaker 4: it came down to it. So the Brewers were playing
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Speaker 4: catchup all night, but no point intended, but they couldn't
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Speaker 4: mustard up some runs late, they did get the the
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Speaker 4: Bryce terrang homer, which was nice to see. What a freeing,
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Speaker 4: easy swing. I was talking with our man Dave gasp
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Speaker 4: but this morning about it just look like, you know,
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Speaker 4: a casual fly out to the center field. Oh wait,
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Speaker 4: that's a home in a dead center. So nice to
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Speaker 4: see Bryce get his fifth of the year, but couldn't
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Speaker 4: get the opener in Saint Louis, which is you know,
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Speaker 4: continuous continuing to surprise some people. Billy nice young players
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Speaker 4: for them that well, Jordan Walker starting to fulfill his
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Speaker 4: a little bit of his potential that they didn't wait
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Speaker 4: here for. Yeah yeah, yeah, So I don't know. I mean,
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Speaker 4: maybe they can keep it up, maybe not, but right
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Speaker 4: now they're getting it done. Twenty one and fourteen. The
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Speaker 4: Cardinals are kind of surprising some people, even though even
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Speaker 4: though there's some signs that they might be a paper tiger.
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Speaker 4: But I can't roll up here on a toody morning
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Speaker 4: after they just beat my Brewers and say that, so, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, I wouldn't have the numbers in front of me.
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Speaker 1: Much like I don't have the number in front of me.
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Speaker 1: Of like you get a kickoff return for a touchdown,
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Speaker 1: I think odds are you went about eighty five to
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Speaker 1: ninety percent of those games you get a three RBI
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Speaker 1: bases clearing double after an intentional walk. I don't have
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Speaker 1: the numbers in front of me, but I feel like
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Speaker 1: you win most of those games, like at the the energy,
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Speaker 1: the letdown, the vibe into the dugout where you come
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Speaker 1: through while obviously questioned and dogged at that moment. They
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Speaker 1: had a big moment for Herrera in that fourth inning
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Speaker 1: off of Patrick, the last batter he ends up facing,
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Speaker 1: DL Hall gets him out of the mess and they
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Speaker 1: stay in the game so much somewhat at six to one,
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Speaker 1: but like you mentioned, you get the big fly from
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Speaker 1: Bryce Terrang which is nice, but four for four and
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Speaker 1: Surio returns with thunder. I mean that ball is putting
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Speaker 1: a dent in the center field wall and at twenty
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Speaker 1: two years old made it. We all feel okay yesterday,
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Speaker 1: that is the one to wake up with and feel
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Speaker 1: okay knowing that sure you dropped the opener. However, you
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Speaker 1: get a hundred more games of that dude, because you've
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Speaker 1: missed thirty three of them to start. That's a heck
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Speaker 1: of a welcome back and something that is really amazing
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Speaker 1: to see them get Vaughn and Schurio back and then
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Speaker 1: realize that the whole thing is still right ahead of
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Speaker 1: them in a division that seems as loaded as it's
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Speaker 1: ever been.
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Speaker 4: Really does. I mean, it's really funny how that works.
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Speaker 4: It's like a loss can feel better or a win
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Speaker 4: can feel worse. We kind of felt that when the
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Speaker 4: Brewers won games with the woody situation and then the
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Speaker 4: night that Miz had this scare, like you were happy
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Speaker 4: to win both games, but you're wondering what the situation
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Speaker 4: was with both last night obviously it was a bummer lose,
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Speaker 4: but you're right, this silver lining's always there, and that's
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Speaker 4: as good as it feels after a loss when you
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Speaker 4: get the return of those guys, and obviously Jackson Suria
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Speaker 4: looking so good. So yeah, two doubles both that could
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Speaker 4: look like Homer's to me for for a while, Like
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Speaker 4: I first went off the bat, I though I was
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Speaker 4: clean out of the park, so made it to the
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Speaker 4: wall on both. So obviously a good si for the
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Speaker 4: Brewers to get an important bat like that important centerpiece,
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Speaker 4: like that, swinging well, picking up where he left off.
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Speaker 4: It felt like it felt like I'm blanking if it
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Speaker 4: was last year when it was when he came back
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Speaker 4: from injury, he had another big start, like catching up
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Speaker 4: and stuff like that. I know they talked about it
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Speaker 4: a little bit on the broadcast. Felt like he's playing
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Speaker 4: catch up. So pretty awesome to see him back hitting
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Speaker 4: the ball well, stinging it and hopefully now that's going
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Speaker 4: to be a trend. That's a centerpiece the Brewers sorely
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Speaker 4: needed in their lineup to get some production in the outfield,
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Speaker 4: and hopefully they can come back and get a win
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Speaker 4: against the Cardinals now tonight and even the series up.
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Speaker 1: You almost forgot about it in the playoffs last year
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Speaker 1: when he returns. He missed a few odd games before
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Speaker 1: the playoffs, right, and then comes in and gets the
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Speaker 1: double right out of the gates to start on the
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Speaker 1: three straight doubles against the Cubs. After the bush solo
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Speaker 1: shot to start the game, are like, okay, sweet, we'll
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Speaker 1: be okay. Second time around the or or whatever it was,
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Speaker 1: third or fourth time through the order, he comes up
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Speaker 1: laying with the hammy and you're like This is exactly
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Speaker 1: what you cannot have. That dude might have to be
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Speaker 1: in the protected all costs category. And if you're in
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Speaker 1: that spot, that's a desperate one to make sure that
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Speaker 1: he is in the lineup. And I got a good
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Speaker 1: feeling that Jackson Curio is gonna be all right, and
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Speaker 1: I think the Brewers are gonna be all right as
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Speaker 1: they go back at the Cardinals later on here today,
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Speaker 1: six forty five, again for the first pitch, our friend
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Speaker 1: Dave Gasper is in the studio, and Dave Gasper believe
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Speaker 1: is gonna be in for the baseball pregame show again
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Speaker 1: here tonight. Maybe potentially, maybe I know that I know
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Speaker 1: our guy A Hunter is still potentially on the il,
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Speaker 1: on the injured list. But more than anything, somebody's gotta
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Speaker 1: be right. No, it's not load management. He is returning
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Speaker 1: from an injury. There is a difference in this, like
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Speaker 1: the return from an injury last night for Anthony Edwards.
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Speaker 1: He is not in the load management category in the NBA.
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Speaker 1: On the other side, the San Antonio Spurs with a
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Speaker 1: twenty two year old ridiculous weapon, we're load managing Victor
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Speaker 1: Weminyama all year long. Anthony Edward comes off the bone bruise.
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Speaker 1: There was thoughts that he wasn't gonna play at all
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Speaker 1: throughout the series. Then the last couple of days it's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: at some point you can expect Anthony Edwards.
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Speaker 4: Shams goes on ESPN yesterday and like, I gotta tell
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Speaker 4: you guys, I think he's gonna play.
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Speaker 1: And when you see certain guys become the super nova star,
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Speaker 1: there are certain times in certain things like this was
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Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards spectacular last night. The satellite wouldn't indicated. I
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Speaker 1: think he took ten shots and ended up with eighteen points.
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Speaker 1: They go to San Antonio, he plays two weeks off
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Speaker 1: of a bone bruise where people thought he wasn't gonna
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Speaker 1: play for damn near a month, and they go in
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Speaker 1: and steal game one.
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Speaker 4: He has eleven in the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 1: It feels like we have wanted at least definitely the
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Speaker 1: NBA is desperately wanted Arman for that guy to be
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Speaker 1: like the face of the.
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Speaker 4: League going forward.
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Speaker 1: When you start doing some stuff like this and playing
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Speaker 1: on an injury like that and getting wins like that
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, people are gonna take notice. It's not
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Speaker 1: like Anthony Edwards is a new found commodity. They've been
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Speaker 1: in the Western Conference Finals each in the last two years,
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Speaker 1: but that was one of the incredible performances last night,
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Speaker 1: albeit in a modest stat line. I don't think anybody
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Speaker 1: who's given them a shoot a puncher chance in hell
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Speaker 1: to win that series and they go in and steal
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Speaker 1: game one in a game that Wenby sets the blocks
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Speaker 1: record in the playoffs.
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Speaker 4: Crazy.
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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody would have anticipated that on the
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Speaker 1: Bengo card as a dub for Minnesota.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good point. A lot of people, what
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Speaker 4: do we latch onto right with our with our stars
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Speaker 4: in America? Right like, are you getting it done and
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Speaker 4: crunch time, you know, playoff time? Are you kind of
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Speaker 4: fighting through injury? Are you showing the willingness to lead
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Speaker 4: with a little bit of flair and a little bit
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Speaker 4: of personality, which is what Anthony Edwards does? And you're right, Billy,
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Speaker 4: they played it safe off the bench twenty five minutes,
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Speaker 4: but he optimized that kind of that runtime eight I
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Speaker 4: think he is eight at thirteen, I think eighteen points.
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Speaker 4: And also he provided the offensive boosts a night where
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Speaker 4: neither team could really score efficiently efficiently. I think that
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Speaker 4: was another thing, and that's kind of a trend when
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Speaker 4: the playoffs start in the NBA. Now we notice that
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Speaker 4: more and more. Like the regular season in the NBA,
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Speaker 4: playoffs are totally different sports, and it's just gets harder
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Speaker 4: and harder to score because everyone's what shockingly playing hard,
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Speaker 4: and you've.
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Speaker 1: Got to be able to be one on one. You've
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Speaker 1: got to be able to take guys one on one
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's the guy to do it right, and
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Speaker 4: he's been able to do it so fairly efficient. You know,
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Speaker 4: you would take that all the time. Eight for thirteen.
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Speaker 4: We'll see now if he can ramp up, like listen,
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Speaker 4: eight days ago his need been back, okay, like you know,
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Speaker 4: and we remember that those things around here, and you know,
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Speaker 4: the scary moments when you see whatever you call it
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Speaker 4: hyper extensions they called a deep bone bruise, but pretty impressive.
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Speaker 4: Definitely kind of an emotional lift for that team as well.
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Speaker 4: And obviously you got the buckets they needed and held
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Speaker 4: off the late charge. Spurs had a chance to win
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Speaker 4: in there at the end, but couldn't get it, and
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Speaker 4: I think they were shocked. Me, we were all shocked.
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Speaker 4: A little bit. I think I told you I thought
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Speaker 4: they would kind of, you know, after an emotional series
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Speaker 4: went over the Nuggets where they clearly have an approach
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Speaker 4: to the Nuggets where they look like that to them,
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Speaker 4: like their arrival, I thought there might be a little
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Speaker 4: emotional letdown. Didn't know if they were gonna have ant obviously,
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Speaker 4: and I'm like, all right, well, the Spurs are really talented.
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Speaker 4: We know what they can do. They've been ready to go.
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Speaker 4: They're at home, and give the Wolves credit, they rolled
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Speaker 4: up and took Game one. Pretty impressive. That should be
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Speaker 4: a good series, Billy. If we're gonna get any time,
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Speaker 4: you know, dorees a matchup interesting matchup problems. I think
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Speaker 4: for the Spurs, you get a guy like Julius Randall
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Speaker 4: can kind of be that bumper boat bully. Maybe the
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Speaker 4: way he plays, maybe can knock Wemby around a little bit.
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Speaker 4: I'm not sure I expected to win this series totally,
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Speaker 4: but it made me think differently.
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Speaker 1: I didn't expect him to win the last series, and
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden they went in a dog walk
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Speaker 1: point for and the other part you mentioned Julius Randall,
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Speaker 1: what I am aligned guy in his career and he
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Speaker 1: sees the New York Knicks having the success that they're having.
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Speaker 1: There was a time and place where everybody that watched
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Speaker 1: New York Knicks basketball I was like, well, that guy's
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Speaker 1: just not a winning player. Well, he's been to two
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Speaker 1: conference finals and he seems like he is exactly what
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Speaker 1: you want. How you just described him as the bumper boat.
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Speaker 1: I think that's my favorite way I've ever heard it.
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Speaker 1: But like he can be physical while maneuver through and nowhere,
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Speaker 1: he's got to go to his spot perfect playoff player,
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Speaker 1: And I think you're seeing a lot of teams having
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Speaker 1: it slapped again in their face as we do every year.
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Speaker 1: Like this shouldn't be a new revelation once we get
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Speaker 1: to the playoffs, but it always is because the difference
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Speaker 1: and the separation between regular season in postseason. I don't
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Speaker 1: think it's ever been bigger. The discrepancy has never been wider,
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Speaker 1: and the different kind of player in style of game,
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Speaker 1: emphasized with what Boston has done over the last couple
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Speaker 1: of years, just is so vastly different. Now, does that
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Speaker 1: mean that they need to have radical rule changes because
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Speaker 1: they need both of them to look totally different and
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Speaker 1: or totally the same, I don't necessarily think so.
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Speaker 4: I think they need a lot of rule changes for
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Speaker 4: a lot of different reasons.
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Speaker 1: However, like you, we could have all thought that the
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Speaker 1: games were gonna get a lot more fun when everybody,
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Speaker 1: as you said, and we've joked about, start playing, and
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Speaker 1: when you get some of the best players and a
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Speaker 1: number of different I mean, we saw it with that
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Speaker 1: Detroit Orlando series that was a twenty twenty one and
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two first round number one overall picks. I
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Speaker 1: believe last night you get Anthony Edwards number one overall pick,
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Speaker 1: Victor Webbin Yama number one overall pick, Dylan Harper number
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Speaker 1: two pick from this past year, like you got top
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Speaker 1: flight young players coming in and having their moments. It's
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Speaker 1: gonna be a it's gonna be a chaotic postseason, and
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Speaker 1: I'm excited. But that one last night, uh hand raised
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Speaker 1: an air. Just watch the recap, so it is a
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Speaker 1: little fresh in the mind, sure, because these games starts
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Speaker 1: so late. But dude, when min Yama goes off for
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Speaker 1: eleven blocks and he had a stat line that I
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Speaker 1: think you only hear about in dumb gambling, means my
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Speaker 1: man had eleven blocks last night.
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Speaker 4: Crazy man. And he's such a triple double without assists, yeah,
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Speaker 4: which is amazing. It's like the old David Robinson quadruple
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Speaker 4: double stat line if I remember, like can you get
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Speaker 4: it with blocks? Like, he's such a supernova of the talent.
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Speaker 4: And I think it's interesting because we latch on the
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Speaker 4: stars in the NBA and it seems like, you know,
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Speaker 4: there's a lot of meat. You guys love Wemby. Everyone
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Speaker 4: loves Wemby's is an interesting player, interesting talent. He's been
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Speaker 4: able to fulfill that early his career. A super gnob
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Speaker 4: of a talent physically, the way he plays, the way
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Speaker 4: he looks. Jade McDaniel said, l as that on the Timberwolves,
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Speaker 4: he's gonna give blocks. Look, he's the tallest guy in
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Speaker 4: the world. It's just the way it is. You got
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Speaker 4: to attack, you just you got it. Pretend he's not there,
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Speaker 4: which is hard to do because he is there. But
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Speaker 4: it's interesting because for a while we were looking at
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Speaker 4: and I think we still do look at Anthony Edwards
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Speaker 4: like that, And then it gets in the whole American
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Speaker 4: stars versus European stars. But is this gonna finally be
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Speaker 4: Anthony Edwards moment? Where he still has had moments to
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Speaker 4: take control of being that kind of star that we
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Speaker 4: latch onto. I mean, the Jordan comparisons were crazy early on.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and he's only twenty fee he's still super young,
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Speaker 4: and the way he plays with personality is body type.
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Speaker 4: So I think that's an interesting, you know, undercurrent of
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Speaker 4: this series, the storyline, but obviously it's so much more.
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Speaker 4: You know, you've got to be efficion this time. In
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Speaker 4: the playoffs, Billy Wemby and de Aaron five all he
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Speaker 4: did with the blocks and still had good stats. The
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Speaker 4: counting stats are fine, but Wemby and Dearreon Fox were
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Speaker 4: ten for thirty one shooting that's not good enough, not
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Speaker 4: fishing enough, and twelve from down to the threes. You
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Speaker 4: gotta make threes obviously, and you got to score points.
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Speaker 4: So it's gonna be a good series. I think san
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Speaker 4: Antonio is gonna have something for him in game two,
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Speaker 4: gonna figure it out. Probably. I don't see him losing
16:11
Speaker 4: Bull at home, but if they do, they're in big trouble.
16:13
Speaker 4: It could. Pressure's kind of on them now a little bit.
16:16
Speaker 4: But this is gonna be an interesting series. I think
16:18
Speaker 4: it's gonna be a lot of fun and maybe the
16:21
Speaker 4: maybe the Timberwolves are the right type of matchup for them.
16:23
Speaker 4: It's really hard to say if it's gonna continue this way,
16:26
Speaker 4: if they can sustain this, or if they can keep
16:28
Speaker 4: you know, yeah, if Wenby and Dear and Fox are
16:31
Speaker 4: gonna make threes at some point.
16:32
Speaker 1: But have you adopted a team to kind of root
16:36
Speaker 1: for during the playoffs or will you just not do that?
16:38
Speaker 1: Since this is like the first year in a decade,
16:40
Speaker 1: it's just hard. We haven't had any rooting interest in
16:42
Speaker 1: the NBA players.
16:43
Speaker 4: I know some people can do that, and I understand
16:45
Speaker 4: that there's fun storylines to watch. Sportsbook also helps with
16:48
Speaker 4: futures bets. But yeah, well yeah, if you have, if
16:51
Speaker 4: you have a little bit of investment on Billy, But
16:54
Speaker 4: it's hard when you you know, as a Bucks fan.
16:56
Speaker 4: In our world, at least, it just revolves around the
17:00
Speaker 4: and it's like it's just this depression that we're not
17:03
Speaker 4: in the playoffs competing, you know what I mean. This
17:05
Speaker 4: mean I'm not gonna watch the At least it's at
17:08
Speaker 4: least it's a compelling playoffs where it's wide open, especially
17:10
Speaker 4: in the East because the Bowser Super Team era, you
17:14
Speaker 4: kind of knew what was gonna happen. It's like, why
17:15
Speaker 4: am I watching? You know, it's like feeding the dog
17:18
Speaker 4: and watching a poop. You know, this was the late
17:19
Speaker 4: twenty tens.
17:20
Speaker 1: I'd be with you, like the twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen
17:22
Speaker 1: when you knew it was gonna be Lebron and the Warriors. Yeah,
17:25
Speaker 1: it would be a much tougher watch here during May.
17:28
Speaker 1: But there's definitely storylines to watch. Like you watched the
17:31
Speaker 1: Knicks last night, You're like, Wow, they're really rolling? Are
17:34
Speaker 1: these Knicks? Are they actually gonna go to the finals,
17:36
Speaker 1: Like it's a big it's a big deal. When the
17:37
Speaker 1: Knicks are making deep runs like that, will they actually
17:40
Speaker 1: go to the finals or where they falter somewhere again?
17:43
Speaker 1: You know, So stuff like that is interesting to watch
17:45
Speaker 1: to see if But I can't say they're my team,
17:47
Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
17:48
Speaker 4: Now, there's definitely teams that root against. But the Pacers
17:51
Speaker 4: are out all right now. I don't like Philly that much,
17:54
Speaker 4: so I'm fine if New York beats Philly, Like I'm
17:57
Speaker 4: kind of.
17:57
Speaker 1: In the On the complete other side, I don't think
18:00
Speaker 1: that I could stand watching, uh that fake celebrity row
18:05
Speaker 1: Ben Stiller wasn't there full series. I don't know that
18:09
Speaker 1: I can handle Jimmy Fallon standing up in the bright
18:12
Speaker 1: traffic barrel orange sweater standing up, clapping and Jalen Brunson
18:17
Speaker 1: dropping twenty seven in the first half.
18:18
Speaker 4: And I don't know I can handle the Knicks going
18:20
Speaker 4: to the final. You know, it's funny because in the
18:22
Speaker 4: eighties with the Lakers, they had celebrity row there with
18:25
Speaker 4: Jack Nichols. That made it interesting for people. Look at
18:27
Speaker 4: all these celebrities. Now the Knicks cut of had they
18:30
Speaker 4: want they want to think to be the forum. Oh
18:33
Speaker 4: we got Tracy Morgan, we got Tina Fey, we got
18:36
Speaker 4: I think, Oh yeah, Tina fat has been there. Oh yeah,
18:39
Speaker 4: and I know and Ben Stieler wasn't there, which was
18:42
Speaker 4: a big story. Oh big, he went to the met
18:44
Speaker 4: Gala but instead, so that was a big story. It's like,
18:47
Speaker 4: are you a dog or not? Are you a real
18:49
Speaker 4: fan or not?
18:50
Speaker 1: Have Ben stillers on like Nick's chat rooms too? That
18:52
Speaker 1: surprises me. So you know that had to have been working.
18:56
Speaker 1: That's well, that's what I'm saying. He's kind of the
18:58
Speaker 1: you know, kind of a job.
18:59
Speaker 4: He's got to be part of Hollywood, But like my
19:01
Speaker 4: thing is, okay, you have that kind of storyline, but
19:04
Speaker 4: it can get a little bit of a like I
19:06
Speaker 4: like when it was Spike Lee because you can tell
19:08
Speaker 4: you he's a real fan. I like when I know
19:09
Speaker 4: they're real fans, they're not just there for some FaceTime Billy.
19:12
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean that's that was from Law and
19:15
Speaker 1: Order that I saw there last year on one of
19:16
Speaker 1: the Sunday Mattinees.
19:18
Speaker 4: Come on, what are we doing here? We understand who
19:20
Speaker 4: the real was when the fans of the celebrities, like
19:21
Speaker 4: the Clipper Darrels of the world, you know, like when
19:24
Speaker 4: the when they're celebrities because they're fans, it's a lot better,
19:27
Speaker 4: not just like they're there because they're famous and they're
19:29
Speaker 4: gonna be you celebrity Fansas Oklahoma City has well that's
19:33
Speaker 4: the thing. They don't have any So does that make
19:35
Speaker 4: it less and more interesting? And they need something because
19:37
Speaker 4: there's nothing else, you know, going on there, So you
19:41
Speaker 4: know that's the thing. Oklahoma Ceate doesn't have that, So
19:43
Speaker 4: does it make it more or less interesting? So you're
19:45
Speaker 4: you're telling me you're cheering for Philly in the series.
19:48
Speaker 1: That I did not say that I did not say
19:50
Speaker 1: that it is a by ourself shoesday and we'll get
19:52
Speaker 1: into a lot of them.
19:52
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, a lot. I can't. I don't know that
19:54
Speaker 4: I'm saying that. That's again where it is.
19:56
Speaker 1: I'm struggling to find anybody I'm enjoying because even last
20:01
Speaker 1: night in Minnesota, I love watching Anthony Edwards.
20:03
Speaker 4: I don't know that I can.
20:04
Speaker 1: Really find it in my in my soul Minnesota to
20:07
Speaker 1: be cheering for any team. So it's just it's a
20:11
Speaker 1: difficult balance right now, and I'm finding my way through it. However,
20:14
Speaker 1: the Potawatami Sportsbook will probably help.
20:16
Speaker 4: On any given night, I would say, if you had
20:18
Speaker 4: a team, I guess your team is? Is your team?
20:20
Speaker 4: Cleveland is?
20:21
Speaker 6: Like?
20:22
Speaker 4: Are you kind of like a Calves? Guys? I'm not
20:24
Speaker 4: mad at I do have. I do have a couple
20:26
Speaker 4: of future investments on the Cavaliers. I'm not yes, like
20:29
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be mad at Cleveland if they found a way.
20:31
Speaker 4: I mean, Detroit is okay, but again Detroit watching Game
20:36
Speaker 4: seven and just hoping Game seven Harden happens, like I
20:40
Speaker 4: just I'm in Maybe I have just transitioned to a
20:43
Speaker 4: weird spot in my life. And Drew would like this
20:45
Speaker 4: where I'm just rooting for the wild story at this point. Yeah,
20:48
Speaker 4: I get that. I got into the boring journalist life
20:51
Speaker 4: side of life, like seeing like it would James Harden
20:54
Speaker 4: Ever hoist the championship trophy? Like, Am I in a
20:56
Speaker 4: fever dream like stuff like that?
20:57
Speaker 8: Am I doing that?
20:58
Speaker 4: You want to you want to try and see something
21:00
Speaker 4: you haven't seen before, like you want to see like
21:03
Speaker 4: you know, you know, can I see Bigfoot? Can I
21:06
Speaker 4: see James hard Warrens Championship? Like something that rare would
21:09
Speaker 4: be crazy and we'll see if actually that it emerges
21:11
Speaker 4: from the from the forest. I don't know.
21:13
Speaker 1: I think I still bet the ender on that. But
21:14
Speaker 1: you want to talk about things that we haven't seen yet,
21:16
Speaker 1: things that we hadn't seen yet. We hadn't seen Jonathan Gannon,
21:19
Speaker 1: We had not heard from Jonathan Ganna, but we're here
21:22
Speaker 1: from Jonathan Gannon coming up on the other side as
21:25
Speaker 1: he is introduced to.
21:26
Speaker 4: The Green Bay media.
21:27
Speaker 1: We want to see some aggression, some fire, some anger
21:31
Speaker 1: from the Packers defense. Maybe we're gonna get that, Mike
21:34
Speaker 1: definitely not going to get it from Jonathan Gannon. But
21:36
Speaker 1: we did get to hear from the Packers new defensive
21:39
Speaker 1: coordinator yesterday, and as Arman said, Packers press corps is
21:43
Speaker 1: gonna dig down deep.
21:44
Speaker 4: We're gonna get into it right out of the gates.
21:46
Speaker 1: So our friend Matchney had been off the Athletic and
21:48
Speaker 1: the Tundra podcast ripped the band aid off right away.
21:51
Speaker 1: What's a Jonathan Gannon defense gonna look like?
21:55
Speaker 8: Jonathan Gannon defense looked like here I'll find out. I'm excited.
22:02
Speaker 9: You know, I'm really big into play style as Matt is,
22:06
Speaker 9: and the game is about the ball, so you know,
22:10
Speaker 9: you've got to find ways to take it away. And
22:13
Speaker 9: our job is to get Jordan back on the field
22:16
Speaker 9: as quick as we can. So schematic and technical execution
22:21
Speaker 9: and play fast.
22:24
Speaker 7: You sure do you stand up your edges all the time?
22:28
Speaker 7: And what qualities do you like to see in those guys?
22:31
Speaker 7: Are will you sacrifice some pass rush to get a
22:34
Speaker 7: two hundred and sixty five pound guy out there? Are
22:36
Speaker 7: you okay with guys in their two forties each?
22:39
Speaker 8: That's a little bit player dependent, honestly. I mean our guys.
22:45
Speaker 9: Be able to affect the passer from a rush standpoint,
22:49
Speaker 9: be able to set a firm.
22:50
Speaker 8: Edge and a little bit of drop when we need
22:53
Speaker 8: him to, but stance that can be predicated on the
22:56
Speaker 8: guy and by call.
22:58
Speaker 9: Honestly, I do like standing our guys up at times
23:02
Speaker 9: because it gives them some vision, but it would be
23:04
Speaker 9: kind of player dependent. You got the players in the
23:08
Speaker 9: building now, But what have the last couple of months
23:10
Speaker 9: been like for you learning about the skill sets and
23:12
Speaker 9: then also getting your defense familiaris with the coaches. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
23:17
Speaker 9: it's been a fun process.
23:19
Speaker 8: It really has.
23:21
Speaker 9: Matt's been awesome, you know, having to go through that
23:24
Speaker 9: process with him, but a lot of new coaches. Obviously
23:27
Speaker 9: some coaches were here, so just the hiring and onboarding
23:31
Speaker 9: of those guys, putting the kind of the playbook together
23:35
Speaker 9: has been.
23:36
Speaker 8: A really cool thing.
23:37
Speaker 9: And then just studying our players, you know, and I think,
23:40
Speaker 9: you know, we've done a pretty good job.
23:42
Speaker 8: Matt.
23:42
Speaker 9: I love how he did kind of the off season,
23:44
Speaker 9: Like we watched all the tape and it's like, just
23:47
Speaker 9: look at each guy and see what one or two
23:49
Speaker 9: things they can get better at that we want him
23:52
Speaker 9: to be mindful of as they get back in the
23:54
Speaker 9: building now, as we go through Phase two and OTAs,
23:58
Speaker 9: and that's.
23:58
Speaker 8: What the game is about improving the players, you know.
24:01
Speaker 9: So it's been a it's been a fun, cool process,
24:03
Speaker 9: a lot of a lot of energy, that's for sure.
24:07
Speaker 9: So we'll see what's We finally got into grass today
24:10
Speaker 9: with them, which was cool.
24:12
Speaker 8: So we got three weeks of that and just keep
24:14
Speaker 8: it day by day.
24:16
Speaker 6: For you what's it like to walk into a building
24:18
Speaker 6: and know you have Micah Parsons to work with. Then
24:21
Speaker 6: at the same time, no, you probably won't have them
24:23
Speaker 6: for a little bit and you don't get to play
24:24
Speaker 6: with that toy just yet.
24:26
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm excited about working with all our players, honestly.
24:28
Speaker 9: Obviously Mica is, you know, a really good player, and
24:33
Speaker 9: that's that's going to be fun. But uh, we've got
24:36
Speaker 9: a lot of good players, so it's been uh, you know,
24:38
Speaker 9: just take it day by day and you know, we're
24:41
Speaker 9: trying to improve all our players and we're fitting it
24:43
Speaker 9: in and it's been cool, I think for them. You know,
24:45
Speaker 9: it's it's new for everybody, you know, and you know,
24:49
Speaker 9: the questions in the meeting rooms and on the grass
24:51
Speaker 9: is it's really cool to see that.
24:53
Speaker 8: That said, are you planning to be super creative with Micah?
24:57
Speaker 6: Have you spent a lot of time designing things that
24:59
Speaker 6: you want to with different personnel because.
25:01
Speaker 8: You have Mica.
25:02
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think you know part of you know, if
25:05
Speaker 9: you guys, if you talked about scheme, it's like, I
25:08
Speaker 9: believe in who do you have and who you're playing
25:11
Speaker 9: and try to align your people to affect the game
25:14
Speaker 9: in a positive way. So he's obviously a piece that
25:17
Speaker 9: we're going to be mindful of when we're putting together,
25:20
Speaker 9: you know, the scheme, and especially when you get to
25:22
Speaker 9: game planning. Joeral speaking of scheme of reading the story
25:26
Speaker 9: when you got to Philly or Siriani asked you what
25:30
Speaker 9: your scheme was, and you told him, I don't have
25:32
Speaker 9: a scheme.
25:33
Speaker 8: That's very true.
25:34
Speaker 3: It is what it obviously, you know, I plenty of ideas,
25:39
Speaker 3: But what what was kind of the point It sounds
25:41
Speaker 3: like that's.
25:41
Speaker 8: Kind of yeah, the point is that Matt, same thing. Honestly.
25:46
Speaker 9: The point is is the games at it adapts right,
25:50
Speaker 9: and I don't really get caught up into four three
25:53
Speaker 9: three four like it's we're an NFL style defense hopefully right,
26:00
Speaker 9: And I just believe that you've got to be you
26:03
Speaker 9: got to continually every year try to adapt and solve
26:07
Speaker 9: problems and really with your guys in mind, right, So
26:11
Speaker 9: this is a whole new crew for me that we're
26:13
Speaker 9: just getting to learn all new different players, you know.
26:16
Speaker 8: So that's kind of what I mean by that.
26:19
Speaker 9: But yeah, there's some principles that you know, there's some
26:23
Speaker 9: things that I like to do, but it's only if
26:25
Speaker 9: our players.
26:25
Speaker 8: Can do it.
26:26
Speaker 9: I told them the other day, I was like, if
26:27
Speaker 9: we if we're not good at this just because I
26:30
Speaker 9: like it, we're not going to do it, you know.
26:31
Speaker 9: So that's our job. We got to put them in
26:33
Speaker 9: the best positions possible that they feel comfortable that they
26:36
Speaker 9: can go out and play the game. And you know,
26:39
Speaker 9: before scheme, I truly believe it's not what you play,
26:44
Speaker 9: it's how you play.
26:45
Speaker 8: And that goes into Matt calls it play style. I
26:47
Speaker 8: love that.
26:48
Speaker 9: So that's been cool with our guys that define that form.
26:51
Speaker 9: Here's the expectation, here's what you're accountable for. We're all
26:54
Speaker 9: accountable for it because I think that's what a good
26:58
Speaker 9: defense looks like. A fast violence phy is team that
27:00
Speaker 9: takes the ball away aback.
27:03
Speaker 8: But no, he probably laughed.
27:05
Speaker 9: He says you better get one, you know, But no,
27:08
Speaker 9: it's obviously a really good relationship with Nick.
27:12
Speaker 8: But that's what I meant by that.
27:13
Speaker 10: Along those same lines, when you got the Arizona job,
27:15
Speaker 10: I was on the ASPA Jason just that.
27:16
Speaker 8: But you also said that you don't have a playbook.
27:18
Speaker 7: I'm sure that you'll probably do a playbook, but I
27:21
Speaker 7: guess I should assume you do a playbook, right, I mean,
27:24
Speaker 7: you let.
27:24
Speaker 8: You give the players we developed the playbook when we
27:28
Speaker 8: get here.
27:29
Speaker 9: I told the players that this, you know, I said,
27:31
Speaker 9: this is going to be a little different for him because,
27:35
Speaker 9: you know, as we're teaching them things, I mean, they're
27:37
Speaker 9: going to see tape of Philly, Minnesota, Arizona, Green Bay,
27:42
Speaker 9: San Francisco, Buffalo, Alabama, Georgia. Like that's I don't really
27:47
Speaker 9: get caught up in you know, if you said, this
27:50
Speaker 9: is my playbook, here's what we're going to run. What
27:52
Speaker 9: I just said to you guys earlier is kind of
27:54
Speaker 9: full of you know what, right, because you're really not
27:57
Speaker 9: adapting your.
27:58
Speaker 8: Scheme to the players.
27:59
Speaker 6: You have.
27:59
Speaker 8: This is just what we do. Well, if this guy
28:01
Speaker 8: can't do that, what are you going to do? We're
28:02
Speaker 8: just going to do That doesn't make sense to me,
28:04
Speaker 8: so it truly.
28:06
Speaker 9: Is it really is the truth when I tell you
28:09
Speaker 9: guys like this is going to be a new system
28:12
Speaker 9: this year, it's the Green twenty twenty six s Green
28:15
Speaker 9: Bay Packers, you know, and it's it's awesome to me.
28:19
Speaker 8: It's fun.
28:20
Speaker 4: So it seems like.
28:20
Speaker 8: That's a lot.
28:22
Speaker 4: Is it a lot like the players?
28:25
Speaker 8: Is it going to be like a credit bload to learn? No,
28:29
Speaker 8: because it's our job to make it simple. I think
28:31
Speaker 8: that you know, the beauty of simplicity.
28:35
Speaker 9: There's long a lot of long, hard work and thought
28:37
Speaker 9: that goes in to make it simple when they walk
28:39
Speaker 9: in here.
28:40
Speaker 8: That's our job. But we're not going to have a
28:44
Speaker 8: bunch of stuff.
28:45
Speaker 9: We're going to play staples, have some bullets, and again,
28:48
Speaker 9: I'm more concerned on our play style.
28:51
Speaker 8: That's the first thing I'll look at. I'm sure.
28:53
Speaker 7: I think experience as a head coach that you take
28:56
Speaker 7: with you, the element yourself about coordinator, you.
28:59
Speaker 9: Know, just I think nothing really obviously, I learned a
29:02
Speaker 9: lot being a head coach for three years, and then
29:06
Speaker 9: you know, when I got here, it's been really cool
29:08
Speaker 9: talking to Matt about certain things. Sees how I get
29:10
Speaker 9: to see how he kind of does things and he's uh,
29:14
Speaker 9: he's very inquisitive, bounces some things off of me, everybody
29:17
Speaker 9: you know on the staff, and and he's got a
29:21
Speaker 9: he's got a good way about him. I really do
29:23
Speaker 9: think that, and that was appealing coming here, you know,
29:27
Speaker 9: getting to work for him. But as he would say,
29:29
Speaker 9: work with him, I call him the boss man.
29:32
Speaker 8: He's the boss. But uh, yeah, you learn a lot,
29:35
Speaker 8: you know.
29:35
Speaker 9: But there's staples of anything, you know, it's a responsibility, accountability.
29:40
Speaker 8: You got to perform at a high level.
29:42
Speaker 3: Many people say you'd like to have size up front,
29:45
Speaker 3: like you need three hundred founders of Bregon. Luther And
29:48
Speaker 3: said down when he drafted his third round or that
29:51
Speaker 3: he wanted to get you more size up front. Is that, uh,
29:56
Speaker 3: you know, relationship to stopping him run? Is that a
30:00
Speaker 3: part of being maybe a hybrid type of defense four
30:03
Speaker 3: three three four or you know where's.
30:05
Speaker 9: That a little bit of both, you know. But I
30:08
Speaker 9: mean there are great players come in all shapes and sizes.
30:11
Speaker 8: I believe that.
30:13
Speaker 9: I do think it's a big man's game, especially late
30:17
Speaker 9: in the year. I think that that matters. So you
30:20
Speaker 9: have to have enough size if a team wants to
30:23
Speaker 9: get big and try to pound you a little bit.
30:25
Speaker 8: You you know, you can't be smarter than them all
30:28
Speaker 8: the time.
30:28
Speaker 9: But I think ultimately, you know, it's it's our job
30:33
Speaker 9: to take the players that we have, put them in
30:35
Speaker 9: the right positions as much as we can and let
30:38
Speaker 9: them go play fast and violent.
30:40
Speaker 8: And I always say too, like.
30:42
Speaker 9: You know, I think any call you call, anything that
30:46
Speaker 9: comes them out of my mouth, like, there's a the
30:49
Speaker 9: players need to know this, Like there's a time when
30:51
Speaker 9: it's going to be called situation. Uh, there's a strength
30:55
Speaker 9: of the call. Who's where's the strength of the call?
30:57
Speaker 9: Why am I calling this right? And then there's a
31:00
Speaker 9: stress of the call. You know, there's we got some
31:03
Speaker 9: good coverages. And after we install coverage, Matt comes up,
31:06
Speaker 9: He's like, this route, this route, this route, this route. Yeah,
31:09
Speaker 9: I know that's a that's the stress of that coverage,
31:11
Speaker 9: you know what I mean. So you know, no call
31:15
Speaker 9: is going to take away everything. I don't believe that.
31:19
Speaker 9: But the strength of the call needs to be the
31:22
Speaker 9: strength of the call.
31:23
Speaker 11: John, what was appealing about this job? I'm sorry, what
31:26
Speaker 11: was appealing about this opportunity to come to Grimby? I
31:29
Speaker 11: know you're Midwest, Yeah, from Cleveland. The organization.
31:35
Speaker 9: You know, being in the NFL for you know, however
31:37
Speaker 9: many years, you just see the stability of this place
31:42
Speaker 9: and that that kind of catches your eye in a
31:44
Speaker 9: league that's so much turnover, you know, so really like
31:49
Speaker 9: Ed Gouty Russ, you know, the you know, it's it's
31:54
Speaker 9: obviously an iconic, you know, franchise, the Green Bay Packers.
31:59
Speaker 9: You know, when you're a little kid, you learn about
32:01
Speaker 9: the Green Bay Packers and no matter where you are
32:03
Speaker 9: in the country, I think. And then obviously Matt, you know,
32:07
Speaker 9: I really haven't known him for a little bit of time,
32:12
Speaker 9: competed against them for a decent amount of time.
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Speaker 8: It was really cool. I got the opportunity to come
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Speaker 8: link up with him.
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Speaker 4: And you talked.
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Speaker 1: And Jonathan Gannon continued talking about Matt Lafleur and discussing
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Speaker 1: the interview that he had with Lafleur and said that
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Speaker 1: in the midst of wanting to come and play or
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Speaker 1: coach with Mattlafleuur goes I'm really big into play style
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Speaker 1: as well and needing to be fast and physical, mentioned
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Speaker 1: the interview that he had talked about how much he
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Speaker 1: enjoyed it known him for a little bit of time.
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Speaker 1: I think MATTSI savant. He can go from topic to
32:46
Speaker 1: topic to topic, and you got to be pretty wired
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Speaker 1: up or you'll fall behind pretty quick. That interview was intense.
32:52
Speaker 1: I was sweating. I was in a coat and tie,
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Speaker 1: and I think I was sweating a little bit.
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Speaker 4: It was fun though. It was fun.
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Speaker 1: I got off the plane and told my wife Gina,
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Speaker 1: this is where I want to go. There you go,
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Speaker 1: and a new defensive coordinator for your green Bay Packers likes.
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Speaker 4: The What was the term he used. It was a
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Speaker 4: stalwart place or longevity place in green Bay, not really sure,
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Speaker 4: but he liked that part of it. I guess that
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Speaker 4: it was a main state that was a touchdown franchise
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Speaker 4: that didn't have a whole lot of turnover. Now he
33:17
Speaker 4: did governor Arizona, where they do like firing people. They do,
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Speaker 4: and but the Packers have had their fair share of
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Speaker 4: defensive coordinators in the last how many years.
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Speaker 1: So the fourth one under Mount lafleor Matt Lafloor, is
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Speaker 1: going into his ninth season. So that's a but you know,
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Speaker 1: you have to produce, and I think he knows that.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting. He kept mentioning that he
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Speaker 1: doesn't have his own style.
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Speaker 4: That his style is going to be whatever works with
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Speaker 4: the players and the talent they have, and whatever the
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Speaker 4: situation calls for. So maybe not something great to latch
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Speaker 4: onto it and say this guy runs this or this
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Speaker 4: guy runs this. But he will have a playbook. We
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Speaker 4: established that, which was good, good to hear. So he
33:53
Speaker 4: will have a playbook and he will adjust to what
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Speaker 4: the players can do and what they want to do
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Speaker 4: in every situation. And we'll talk a little bit more
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Speaker 4: about that.
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Speaker 1: We're in a time where they're not doing anything of
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Speaker 1: a ton of significance on the field in Green Bay. However,
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Speaker 1: it's the NFL, So what do we care about the
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Speaker 1: National Football League? And when you got two new coordinators?
34:13
Speaker 1: Cam Accord all apologies not as headline news on the
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Speaker 1: special teams, even though he's gonna coach every player on
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Speaker 1: the team. Oh sure, almost every player on the team.
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Speaker 1: I got a good feeling. Jordan Love's not gonna play
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Speaker 1: a lot of special teams, but he's gonna be coaching
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Speaker 1: just about every player on the team. So he's a
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Speaker 1: very very important guy. But Jonathan Gannon, we've been waiting
34:32
Speaker 1: to find out, waiting to hear from this man, he's
34:34
Speaker 1: a mysterious cat. We haven't heard outside of the Hard
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Speaker 1: Knocks clip of him asking who took a bus or
34:39
Speaker 1: an uber to the facility. That's all that anyone's ever
34:43
Speaker 1: been judging people what to think or what they would
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Speaker 1: hear from him. And then he stepped up to a
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Speaker 1: microphone yesterday and for the better part of a half
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Speaker 1: hour said exactly what I think you've read about him throughout.
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Speaker 1: He is very much more about the play style than
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Speaker 1: at all what a scheme or what a style of
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Speaker 1: defense is gonna look like. And in a he as
35:05
Speaker 1: you mentioned in Evolving NFL, it absolutely is. I think
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Speaker 1: there's some beautiful awe shucks in there of like, there's some.
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Speaker 4: Stuff I like to do. Especially at the start of
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Speaker 4: this thing, it was, yeah, some stuff I like, you
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Speaker 4: know what technical, technical, proficient and proficiency and execution and
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Speaker 4: stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, there's gonna be some some very core
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Speaker 1: fundamental principles of the defense that are not going to
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Speaker 1: change that you're gonna see go from stop to stop
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Speaker 1: to stop. But also, as he mentioned in the conversation,
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Speaker 1: in one of the last answers that we had of
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Speaker 1: when Matt Lafleur was going up here talking about the
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Speaker 1: four or five different routes that you can beat with discoverage. Here,
35:43
Speaker 1: perfect offense beats perfect defense every time. That's a love
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Speaker 1: that he pointed that out every time, no play caff
35:49
Speaker 1: especially in the NFL, where almost every rule that they
35:52
Speaker 1: add in year in and year out. Wayne Larvy says
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Speaker 1: it perfectly. He's been calling NFL games. I believe this
35:58
Speaker 1: year will be Wayne's forty nine, their fiftieth year, calling you.
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Speaker 4: Crazy, amazing, amazing, what a legend man.
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Speaker 1: So he's been in the NFL for almost a half
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Speaker 1: a century. They don't take rules out. They add two
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Speaker 1: or three every year, and seemingly over the last twenty
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Speaker 1: five years, every single one that they've put in or
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Speaker 1: damn near ninety percent of them have favored the offense.
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Speaker 1: So perfect offense is going to beat perfect defense every time.
36:23
Speaker 1: And that's not only in this sport. That's in pretty
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Speaker 1: much every sport outside of baseball is so damn hard
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Speaker 1: to hit that baseball, But in the NBA, perfect offense
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Speaker 1: beats perfect defense. In football, there's only going to be
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Speaker 1: so much that you can in the first two seconds
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Speaker 1: of a play pre snap, take away. I like the
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Speaker 1: fact that you lean in on what your players do best,
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Speaker 1: because that's what, ultimately I believe coaching is. Yeah, it
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Speaker 1: is take what you have and make the absolute best
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Speaker 1: out of it. Find what these guys do best, and
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Speaker 1: then put them in advantageous positions to be successful. All
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Speaker 1: also allows you armand to be a little more fluid
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Speaker 1: and be a little bit more surprising two opponents. Now
37:07
Speaker 1: people are gonna say, maybe this scheme didn't work all
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Speaker 1: that well, well, they went four games yet last year
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Speaker 1: in Arizona.
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Speaker 4: Believe I believe. I believe four games last year in Arizona.
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Speaker 4: So maybe we get a scheme and we win four
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Speaker 4: teen games.
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Speaker 1: Well, it was the same defensive coordinator that helped that
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Speaker 1: Eagles team go to the Super Bowl, albeit on the
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Speaker 1: strength of the offense.
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Speaker 4: So I'm excited to see it. They took the ball
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Speaker 4: away a ton when he was in Philly.
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Speaker 1: I think that is at the top of everybody's priority
37:35
Speaker 1: list in Green Bay because they mentioned that it's about
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Speaker 1: the ball every single year, and last year I think
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Speaker 1: they went their first six games without a forced fumble.