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10/09/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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