Transcript

01/21/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the hut. I'm all
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Speaker 1: for someone huddling if you have something to.
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Speaker 2: Say right into the street.
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Speaker 1: It's time to wake up and talk about the teams
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Speaker 1: you love. No matter what, nobody work with the guys
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Speaker 1: you love.
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Speaker 3: It's just about getting the group together. I need you,
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Speaker 3: you need me.
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Speaker 4: Today, Let's keep touching each other.
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Speaker 5: Let's make sure we feel each other.
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Speaker 1: Let's make sure we smell each other for a watch
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Speaker 1: us on you do.
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Speaker 6: You need fifteen or twenty huddles to correlate with a
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Speaker 6: number of cameras.
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Speaker 7: Take the cameras off the field and be no huddle.
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Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
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Speaker 7: Let's left lunch.
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Speaker 5: We twink we watch it on one ready to learn
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Speaker 5: from what.
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Speaker 2: If it looks like man cover, I'll check, I'll go
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Speaker 2: you order, get you gotta cutt and prack now I'm
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Speaker 2: cutting crag run right eighteen by one one.
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Speaker 1: Ready cut you look at this play.
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Speaker 2: What we're trying to get is a seal here and
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Speaker 2: a seal here, and to try to run this play
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Speaker 2: in the holley.
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Speaker 5: Hold that dot's let's go out at your contare.
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Speaker 3: And they can play be.
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Speaker 5: Right all the way outside?
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Speaker 1: Why left?
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Speaker 5: Thanks three ninety sick bag be hand buck?
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Speaker 7: Is that long enough for it? It?
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Speaker 1: Drew Olds, mythical legendary figure Bill Schmid. My god, this
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Speaker 1: man's been out all night.
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Speaker 5: And armand sorry, Yes.
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Speaker 2: Don't get skinned, says ready, Welcome to the Huddle.
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Speaker 3: Welcome board, Day two of the Huddle on Fox Sports
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Speaker 3: Radio Wisconsin.
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Speaker 4: Drew Wilson, Bill Schmid, armand sorry. And when we launched
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Speaker 4: this year program yesterday, we made history, the first show
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Speaker 4: of what will be many. Yes, I made an analogy
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Speaker 4: that being back on in the mornings, you know you
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Speaker 4: got fresh powder.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 4: That's an interesting one because I don't ski. I've lived
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Speaker 4: in Wisconsin my entire life. I've avoided ever going on
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Speaker 4: a mountain and ever tried the snowboard, never snow snow tubing, No,
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Speaker 4: very rarely do I do anything recreational in the winter.
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Speaker 2: Didn't go to Crystal Ridge, didn't there again to Ridge
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Speaker 2: as a kid, didn't go.
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Speaker 4: To Little Switch, didn't go to Mount Horp, didn't go anywhere,
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Speaker 4: never skied, don't particularly ice skate, ice fish, or do
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Speaker 4: anything that involves.
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Speaker 5: Winter other than curse winter.
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Speaker 4: But I made the fresh powder analogy, and then today
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Speaker 4: it's like I manifested that and today with two to
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Speaker 4: five inches falling over the good land this morning beginning
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Speaker 4: like in the midnight hours, we had to drive home
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Speaker 4: today and it was it was a bit of a
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Speaker 4: white knuckle ride that will wake you up. Oh yeah, well,
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Speaker 4: driving thirty five and some guy in the Silverado's going
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Speaker 4: past you like fifty six and then he's fishtailing as
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Speaker 4: he's trying to keep his ass d from going over
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Speaker 4: you know, a guard rail and off of a bridge. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: it was a white knuckler and I was thinking to myself, Man,
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Speaker 4: this is brutal, this is awful.
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Speaker 5: We're out in front of the plows. But we got here.
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Speaker 4: We're safe and sound, ready to do a show for
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Speaker 4: many people who are driving around right now, or.
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Speaker 5: The people plows that are going to be doing that
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Speaker 5: exact spot.
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Speaker 3: The sociopaths who are waiting to get into the y
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Speaker 3: when they open it five.
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Speaker 2: Oh, those guys are no matter what time we start
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Speaker 2: this show, those guys are there.
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Speaker 3: They're waiting outside of Crunch Fitness.
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Speaker 1: I mean it's like each.
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Speaker 5: Other, you know. Momentarily we'll talk about that.
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Speaker 4: But uh, I had a flashback as I was driving
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Speaker 4: in and I'm fish tailing and I'm driving slow and
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Speaker 4: visibility is compromised, and I'm thinking, man, this is the
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Speaker 4: worst drive I've been on since Billy Schmid drove me
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Speaker 4: home from a Packers game and a flood.
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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, that feels like yesterday. It doesn't.
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Speaker 2: That was the first preseason game of the year, and
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Speaker 2: I remember Albata was here at the station. I was like,
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Speaker 2: nervous for you guys.
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Speaker 1: Well, I know, and then I was.
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Speaker 3: Driving us through pond well and the best thing is
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Speaker 3: as uh. And in the midst of that moment, I
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Speaker 3: wish I could have been there to help you out
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Speaker 3: like you did me. Where the pause, uh, the the
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Speaker 3: steadying force of just yeah, I just go slow right
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Speaker 3: down the middle. Just given slow and give it right
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Speaker 3: down the middle. And it was like that, buddy, when
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Speaker 3: you're at the tea box, knowing that there's water on
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Speaker 3: the right and a big old woods on the left,
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Speaker 3: and the only thing that you're going to do is
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Speaker 3: not hit it where you're supposed to.
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Speaker 5: I would just keep it.
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Speaker 3: Slowing right down the middle to see if this thing
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Speaker 3: can be safe.
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Speaker 5: It is gonna be a ride.
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Speaker 3: This morning, And this is one of those moments, Drew,
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Speaker 3: where I realized I still got a lot of maturing
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Speaker 3: to do, because your boy still has to figure out
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Speaker 3: that he's got to look at the weather.
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Speaker 5: Was supposed snow like this.
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Speaker 1: Come on, yeah, you gotta look at that app.
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Speaker 5: I knew that there was gonna be a little cold dusting.
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Speaker 5: I knew it was gonna be cold.
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Speaker 3: I think I didn't realize that there was gonna be
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Speaker 3: measurable amounts that was gonna have Silverado's trying to show
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Speaker 3: off to Drew Olsen on the drive in here from
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Speaker 3: the third ward to show, hey, just so you know,
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Speaker 3: my jacked up tires are gonna be able to rip
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Speaker 3: through this stuff.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, I think the cold did distract
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Speaker 2: some people from the actual snow that came last night,
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Speaker 2: because everyone knows the upcoming cold snap is coming.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I saw Luke's AMPI sweet that it's gonna be a
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Speaker 2: sixty hour negative stretch.
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Speaker 4: We're already kind of inn't that. But when it's below twenty,
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Speaker 4: the salt doesn't really work that well on the roads,
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Speaker 4: so then you get the double whammie of snow covered
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Speaker 4: and slick. Right, It was not a great recipe.
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Speaker 3: So drive safely out there, arrive alive, folks, and great
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Speaker 3: work on.
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Speaker 4: Our guys are out there working a lot of those
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Speaker 4: guys listen to us and text us a lot.
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Speaker 5: You can get us on the nicolay.
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Speaker 4: Lo dot com talking text one eight seven seven seven
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Speaker 4: ninety four one ninety seven three.
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Speaker 5: You can also don't text when you're driving in the snow.
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Speaker 3: Although if you're a plow in your texting, I'm I'm
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Speaker 3: not going to advocate to However, that's badass. If you're
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Speaker 3: able to what's gonna be really impressive dealings, you're able
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Speaker 3: to equipment. You know, you know your own body, you
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Speaker 3: know your own ability. It's not like they're going to
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Speaker 3: get stuck, right, So that's fair. Yeah, they're like, well,
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Speaker 3: I'll be okay to drive home from Lambeau. Billy had upgraded.
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Speaker 3: We upgraded now our ride. We driving the luxury of
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Speaker 3: a big old pick up, a station vehicle. And if
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Speaker 3: it wasn't for the F one fifty Excel Extended cab,
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Speaker 3: whatever jacked up version.
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Speaker 5: We would have been floating. We would have been in
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Speaker 5: the Milwaukee room.
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Speaker 3: Because he got really bad around I forty three at
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Speaker 3: about Bay Shore I was like, oh boy, just after
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Speaker 3: just south of the town center, in between like Hampton
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Speaker 3: and Silver Spring, there's a little bit of a ravine
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Speaker 3: and we're stopped, and there's two cars that are just
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Speaker 3: kind of offset of each other parked just on the
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Speaker 3: freeway looking at this big old puddle.
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Speaker 5: I'm like, dang, what are we gonna do here? What
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Speaker 5: are we gonna do? And as.
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Speaker 3: About to be about to be arming, And then as
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Speaker 3: one brave soul who has parked alongside of us, said
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Speaker 3: all right, beleeve it, I'm going And as he started
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Speaker 3: to roll through, we saw the construction barrels wash away
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Speaker 3: as if it was rock on a cascating mountain. And
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Speaker 3: I'm like, you know what, I think we're only gonna
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Speaker 3: have a couple of minutes here. I think we're gonna
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Speaker 3: get as close behind this bad boy as we possibly
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Speaker 3: can and roll through. Now, stay a little bit behind
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Speaker 3: the salt truck because you don't want that thing hitting
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Speaker 3: your front end. No, exactly, keep it straight and roll
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Speaker 3: right through the middle there, and you should be able
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Speaker 3: to stene either. It's like a good locker. It's like
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Speaker 3: a good running back and a tailback in the I formation.
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Speaker 3: Drew follow your block, follow that it's going to roll
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Speaker 3: you right through that hole.
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Speaker 2: You'd be more levy on bellish, let the blocks patient,
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Speaker 2: let the blocks develop in front of you. So that
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Speaker 2: is like the first Olympic though of the year, Like
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Speaker 2: the winter Olympics are coming, you know, but it's like
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Speaker 2: trying trying to navigate the trucks and the plows and everything,
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Speaker 2: but trying to go fast enough where your wheels don't
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Speaker 2: stop and you have to keep going, but you have
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Speaker 2: to slow down enough where you're not out of control.
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Speaker 2: That's like the first Olympic, like Olympics and Olympic that's
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Speaker 2: happening right now out there.
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Speaker 1: So ever, wouldn't be safe.
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Speaker 3: Because Armond was comparing the Olympic sports drew to him
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Speaker 3: firing up that snowblower later on here, I got.
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Speaker 2: I put gas in that bad boy last night, like
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Speaker 2: a real try hard listen, honey. I would do the dishes,
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Speaker 2: but I have to go out and make sure there's
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Speaker 2: gas in the snowblower for tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what are you doing out there, arman? I'm putting
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Speaker 1: gas in.
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Speaker 5: There, fumes. Hey.
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Speaker 2: I made sure that I figured out how to get
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Speaker 2: the gas cap open and everything like that, that's you
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Speaker 2: got the child proof one where you to pull it
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Speaker 2: back and.
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Speaker 5: Absolute yeah, oh my goodness. So hopefully it'll get better
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Speaker 5: throughout the day.
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Speaker 4: I'm just saying and uh yeah, slashing back to that
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Speaker 4: memorable drive home from it.
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Speaker 5: Which exhibition game was it? Who did they? I don't
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Speaker 5: remember who they played? It was the first game, first
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Speaker 5: preseason game, thanks, maybe it was.
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Speaker 3: It was the first game, first game at Lambeau and
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Speaker 3: it was the flood that night, and yeah, it was.
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Speaker 1: It was a forgettable It was a forgettable game.
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Speaker 4: I remember the Brewers played that night too, and people
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Speaker 4: were getting out and the cars were like, you know,
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Speaker 4: wasn't it during State Fairs?
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Speaker 3: It was during State Fair and then many people got
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Speaker 3: kind of flooded out of State Fair. And when we
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Speaker 3: talked to people at Pottawadame, they're like.
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Speaker 5: Yet, well we got we got flooded out of u
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Speaker 5: of State Fair.
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Speaker 3: So we came to Potawatame and they're like, well, that
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Speaker 3: was not a great decision because sadly our parking structure
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Speaker 3: was We went to the Brewers game the next day.
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Speaker 3: Drew The next day actually was uh it was my
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Speaker 3: birthday and it was one of those where we had
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Speaker 3: the whole like both.
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Speaker 5: Families come in, big event, are they gonna do this thing?
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Speaker 3: And they took it right up to the wire as
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Speaker 3: to when they potentially had to postpone that I was.
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Speaker 3: I was actually scoring that game, that's right, I remember,
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Speaker 3: And it was like I was wondering if they were
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Speaker 3: gonna have it, like if we're even gonna be able
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Speaker 3: to get to the ballpark.
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Speaker 5: But we did. We rolled merrily along and it's just wild.
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Speaker 5: But hey, little snow.
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Speaker 3: We lived in Wiscontland's walk off after being down what
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Speaker 3: five or six that game and the Packers lost the
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Speaker 3: Jets last night that night.
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Speaker 4: I remember now it was the Mets and Jets weekend.
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Speaker 4: We were talking about that about how you know, New
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Speaker 4: York there's a lot of people with divided loyalties, but
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Speaker 4: generally speaking, if you meet someone who likes the New
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Speaker 4: York Metropolitans as their baseball team over the Yankees, they
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Speaker 4: also prefer the Jets over the Giants.
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Speaker 5: Yankees, Giants, Jets, Mets.
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Speaker 4: It's like that's generally And I checked this with Mike
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Speaker 4: Vesali's mediation, who grew up a Jets fan in that region,
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Speaker 4: and he said Yeah, that's pretty much Jet on.
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Speaker 2: Jets, Mets, Devils, Nicks and the Nets, right, Nick's Ranger.
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Speaker 5: No one's actually a fan of the Nets. Yeah, no
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Speaker 5: one's actually, but that'll be interesting.
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Speaker 3: Then we'll get a few Giants fans that come in
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Speaker 3: here when the New York Yankees follow or take on
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Speaker 3: the Brewers in the middle of May, when they make.
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Speaker 5: You a judge again, you're gonna take the little one
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Speaker 5: to see him.
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Speaker 3: Funny you said, actually, just yesterday made the plans for
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Speaker 3: it because it is it's actually Mother's Day as well
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Speaker 3: as my pop seventieth birthday on that Sunday of that
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Speaker 3: task that series.
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Speaker 5: So we're gonna have figure out a way to be
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Speaker 5: a celebrate.
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Speaker 4: Eight seven seven seven ninety seven three gets you in.
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Speaker 4: We're streaming all over the place Facebook x and of
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Speaker 4: course the YouTube's hunter has this set up and forcing
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Speaker 4: stuff out on social forest all throughout today. Hey, thanks
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Speaker 4: to everybody who reached out yesterday. Don't know about you guys,
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Speaker 4: but awesong was blowing up all day. People say, hey,
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Speaker 4: I congratulations, love the first show. Thanks a lot, And
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Speaker 4: it's like I felt like it was just a normal
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Speaker 4: day because being with you guys, is so comfortable. I
10:56
Speaker 4: was like, well, just another day at the office. But
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Speaker 4: people responded, they reached out thank you to all our
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Speaker 4: friends in and out of the media who said, hey, thanks, congratulations.
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Speaker 3: Dude, couldn't agree more, and you said it like being
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Speaker 3: able to do as many packers of t shows as
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Speaker 3: we have and all three of us have done, and
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Speaker 3: then different shows around the station. It did feel very comfortable.
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Speaker 3: And it was funny when we did the first twelve
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Speaker 3: minutes and we did a sports show, how about the
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Speaker 3: about the championship game the night before, and all of
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Speaker 3: a sudden, I was like, wait a second, this is
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Speaker 3: the first show that was pretty good, So hopefully it
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Speaker 3: continues to get better. And I did hear from a
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Speaker 3: couple of people that were obviously frustrated that we did
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Speaker 3: not right away on our first show, Drew campaign and
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Speaker 3: grab the pitchforks to say, why on earth is Rich
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Speaker 3: Pasacian not fired in Green Bay? How on earth are
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Speaker 3: you guys defending the Matt Lafleur extension that we'll hear
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Speaker 3: more of. So luckily that immediately is right back into
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Speaker 3: the huddle. We're huddling up and throwing sports opinions. Back
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Speaker 3: and forth. That means that we're settling in quickly. That's
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Speaker 3: right here, Absolutely are.
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Speaker 4: Your opinions eight seven, seven, seven nine, four ninety seven three.
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Speaker 4: A lot of people are like, how can they keep Pisacia.
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Speaker 4: It's like, do you know that they are? We haven't
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Speaker 4: heard anything.
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Speaker 3: There's a lot of time and a lot of ballgame
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Speaker 3: left on that front. Yeah, and that's the interesting one. Now,
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Speaker 3: last night Danny Smith goes from the Steelers obviously dismissed
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Speaker 3: with the entire staff. When when Tomlin steps down, uh,
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Speaker 3: he gets hired last night special teams guru to Tampa.
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Speaker 5: And I think that was just the moment where.
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Speaker 3: Fans were like, wait a second, hey, hey, hey, we
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Speaker 3: haven't heard about him yet.
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Speaker 5: I'm yeah, that's true. That was a flashpoint.
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Speaker 3: But I'm old enough to remember when the hottest special
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Speaker 3: teams coach on the market.
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Speaker 5: Did come to Green Bay, Naserich, Paci the highest and
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Speaker 5: coach everybody.
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Speaker 4: These are the things that conveniently just fall off the
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Speaker 4: road into the ditch when people are trying to say
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Speaker 4: that the Packers just want mediocrity and they're just trying
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Speaker 4: to suck money out of people.
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Speaker 5: They don't care about winning.
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Speaker 4: The team that traded for Micah Parsons, the team that
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Speaker 4: drafted that broke a twenty year trend and drafted not
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Speaker 4: only a wide receiver in the first round, but two
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Speaker 4: in the first three rounds. The first three rounds. Yes,
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Speaker 4: but it's like they're they're not serious. They're not serious.
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Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, the guy that you want to run
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Speaker 4: out as a special teams coordinator was the bell of
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Speaker 4: the ball a couple of years ago when they hired
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Speaker 4: him at the top of the market. But this isn't
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Speaker 4: a serious team. They don't care about winning. They're not
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Speaker 4: even trying. They just want to suck money out of
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Speaker 4: That's the narrative. And it wasn't that he want to
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Speaker 4: say that Lafleur doesn't deserve another crack in seven years
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Speaker 4: and he's hit the ceiling. You can make the case
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Speaker 4: and I will listen to it, and there are things
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Speaker 4: I agree with you.
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Speaker 5: M hmm right that he needs to gett right.
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Speaker 4: It's not our it's not our stamp of approval that
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Speaker 4: we're yes men for the organization.
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Speaker 5: It's just that we looked at the landscape.
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Speaker 4: Analytically and said, I don't know that they can do
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Speaker 4: much better than Matt Lafleur and the effect that he's
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Speaker 4: had on Jordan Love is the most important relationship, the
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Speaker 4: most important.
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Speaker 5: Thing about the football team. And let's keep that going
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Speaker 5: and fix the rest of the stuff.
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Speaker 4: Is easier than starting new and bringing in a guy like,
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Speaker 4: you know, a Kevin Stefanski.
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Speaker 5: Who's never, like you know, gonna win him. He hasn't
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Speaker 5: won a Super Bowl.
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Speaker 3: Yet, won one playoff game that he was in his
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Speaker 3: basement watching his special teams coordinator win.
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Speaker 5: Because he had coaches, he had COVID.
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Speaker 3: So it is like, in a two time coach of
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Speaker 3: the year, what does that mean you're most likely to
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Speaker 3: get fired as a coach.
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Speaker 5: Of the year. But so if you want to make
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Speaker 5: that case.
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Speaker 4: But I bristled, and I was caping up against the
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Speaker 4: people who go to the spot that say, oh, obviously
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Speaker 4: they just don't care. They paid Lafleur like almost top
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Speaker 4: of the market. He deserved to raise after seven years
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Speaker 4: of it's just the evolution. It's like when people.
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Speaker 3: Bitch that Jordan Love became the highest paid quarterback for
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Speaker 3: ten minutes and then the next guy got the biggest mile.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the market. It's what it is.
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Speaker 4: And it's not your money, and it's not a lifetime contract.
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Speaker 4: If Matt Lafleur goes oh and four and they look
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Speaker 4: like crap next.
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Speaker 3: Year, he gone, yeah, that was the part of it's
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Speaker 3: forgotten about this multiple times?
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Speaker 6: Why is that?
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Speaker 4: So I get it and you can kick and scream
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Speaker 4: and people are still kicking screaming about Luke fick Will
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Speaker 4: still being in Madison. But it's it is what it is,
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Speaker 4: and we're just looking at it and this carousel. I
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Speaker 4: don't know that they could have done better this cycle,
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Speaker 4: like you just want. I was thinking about this as
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Speaker 4: McDaniel takes the job to work with Harbaugh mm hmm
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Speaker 4: and Justin Herbert, and.
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Speaker 5: I like that decision.
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Speaker 4: Mike McDaniel. I think he's gonna be a good fit there.
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Speaker 4: He's kind of a whiz kid. There were people who
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Speaker 4: wanted him. And now I happen to my buddy Johnny Vegas.
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Speaker 4: You guys know a friend of the program, my oldest
15:10
Speaker 4: friend is he's a big Dolphins fan and he's just like,
15:14
Speaker 4: this guy's a clown.
15:15
Speaker 5: Like they came. They couldn't wait to get rid of McDaniel.
15:18
Speaker 5: They literally did.
15:18
Speaker 3: A shot sheet and a full mashup of his ums
15:23
Speaker 3: and ahs at press conferences, like the Craig Council sniffles.
15:27
Speaker 4: The Capri pants and the whole out there vibe and stuff.
15:31
Speaker 5: It was great.
15:32
Speaker 3: So I've just in my brain I went around to
15:34
Speaker 3: the fact that it's not that people loved Mike. They
15:36
Speaker 3: just want different They want a different result, so they
15:39
Speaker 3: think that the way to get that is to have
15:41
Speaker 3: a different guy.
15:42
Speaker 1: And what was it about baseball managers, Drew?
15:44
Speaker 2: I heard this once that that fans want to vacillate
15:47
Speaker 2: from what it was either like you had the Loop,
15:49
Speaker 2: Panella Bombastic and Bill Martin.
15:51
Speaker 3: I always got a guy players like, so he's a
15:55
Speaker 3: players guy, he's too soft, and we got to bring
15:57
Speaker 3: in the disciplinarian and.
15:58
Speaker 5: Who whatever, a drill sergeant.
15:59
Speaker 4: Just the back and forth, like very much like the
16:05
Speaker 4: pendulum of this. So it wasn't And so again the
16:08
Speaker 4: official position I think of our shaw wasn't that we
16:11
Speaker 4: we didn't say, oh, it's gleeful, Like I can see
16:14
Speaker 4: the case that Matt Lafleur could have been gone, especially
16:16
Speaker 4: after that Bears game and the way the season folded.
16:18
Speaker 4: You can also say that ed Policy has been watching
16:20
Speaker 4: him every day interact with Brian Good. He said, I
16:23
Speaker 4: got two guys that know what they're doing. We're going
16:25
Speaker 4: to ride this out. And it wasn't just.
16:27
Speaker 3: Well, let's just keep things the same so that no,
16:30
Speaker 3: you can can can you to just make the playoffs
16:33
Speaker 3: and play one game and never not even at home,
16:35
Speaker 3: and then get no, but come to the sledding hill
16:37
Speaker 3: so we can be able to make it for more cash,
16:39
Speaker 3: which I also heard. I think the other part of it,
16:41
Speaker 3: Drew is and and you hit it on the head
16:44
Speaker 3: talking bringing Fickle into the conversation.
16:46
Speaker 5: Uh at u w as well.
16:48
Speaker 3: You I don't believe, and we can all have different
16:51
Speaker 3: opinions on and I think we all do. I don't
16:54
Speaker 3: think you can look at it in a vacuum. I
16:56
Speaker 3: don't think you can just look at well, what the
16:59
Speaker 3: job did here is you need to move on.
17:01
Speaker 5: And that's just the case.
17:02
Speaker 3: I do believe you have to take into account the
17:05
Speaker 3: rest of the landscape. And I mean last night Baker
17:08
Speaker 3: Mayfield and Kevin Stefanski sold the soap opera version of
17:12
Speaker 3: the NFL headlines when Kevin Stefanski and the Cleveland Browns, well,
17:17
Speaker 3: Kevin Stefanski was being shot at up by former Milwaukee
17:20
Speaker 3: Journal Sentinel writer De Orlando. He had put out Kevin
17:25
Speaker 3: Stefanski had a dumpster fire at quarterback in Cleveland, Baker
17:28
Speaker 3: Mayfield and Deshaun Watson failed, which started a chain reaction
17:32
Speaker 3: of eleven plus starters. Baker Mayfield quoted that by saying,
17:35
Speaker 3: failed to quite failed is quite a reach. Their pal
17:39
Speaker 3: still waiting on my caller text from him after I
17:41
Speaker 3: got shipped off like a piece of garbage. Can't wait
17:44
Speaker 3: to see it twice a year, coach. So, if that's
17:46
Speaker 3: the dude that you wanted to bring in and he
17:47
Speaker 3: was the number one cat in Kevin Stefanski, I don't
17:50
Speaker 3: know that that's.
17:50
Speaker 5: A glowing recommendation.
17:52
Speaker 3: And to see how you would have been able to
17:55
Speaker 3: make the best part of your team better. The two
17:58
Speaker 3: most important individuals on the foot team and probably at
18:01
Speaker 3: twelve sixty five Jordan Love and Michah Parsons. Ye, And
18:06
Speaker 3: which one in what avenue are you going to get
18:09
Speaker 3: the most out of those two players? Is it by
18:12
Speaker 3: bringing in Joe Brady to run the offense? I guess
18:16
Speaker 3: you could make that case. I believe it's with a
18:18
Speaker 3: top ten play caller in the game, a top ten
18:20
Speaker 3: head coach in the game top fifteen if you really
18:22
Speaker 3: want to brustle with it. Now, ten of them are
18:24
Speaker 3: different this year. But I think that's been proven time
18:26
Speaker 3: and time again, and your better opportunity is playing your
18:30
Speaker 3: same numbers at this roulette wheel then all of a sudden,
18:33
Speaker 3: just spinning something completely different because it hasn't worked here
18:36
Speaker 3: in the last seven roles.
18:37
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and you know that's what we think. You're welcome
18:42
Speaker 4: to your opinions. Share them eight seven seven, saram nine
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Speaker 4: to four one ninety seven three. The idea that we
18:47
Speaker 4: silence people are talking.
18:48
Speaker 3: To on people now, this is a it's the arena
18:51
Speaker 3: step in sap up.
18:53
Speaker 4: Let's go like, tell us we're wrong. Well, I mean also,
18:56
Speaker 4: I can take it. But my thing is Billy, And
18:58
Speaker 4: it's this is where being old is an advantage, because
19:01
Speaker 4: I cover the Brewers when they weren't good. Every night
19:03
Speaker 4: I watched these guys play and it was like Varsity
19:05
Speaker 4: against the JV.
19:06
Speaker 5: And people say, oh, the burst their coaches must suck.
19:08
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it's not that they suck. The players aren't
19:11
Speaker 5: any good.
19:11
Speaker 4: I'm old enough to remember when Mike McCarthy got the
19:14
Speaker 4: job in Green Bay and everybody said, they went and
19:17
Speaker 4: got the offensive coordinator of the worst ranked offense in
19:19
Speaker 4: the league.
19:20
Speaker 5: What are they doing?
19:21
Speaker 3: And I'm like, yeah, but yeah, but you might not
19:24
Speaker 3: have had the horses that team they might have had,
19:26
Speaker 3: or out there might not have been that good.
19:27
Speaker 5: Let's give the dude a chance. He won a Super
19:29
Speaker 5: Bowl and last night immediately I'm Thomas, but I'm like,
19:33
Speaker 5: give the guy a chance. Just because he had bad
19:35
Speaker 5: players doesn't mean he's a bad coach.
19:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, show me a good coach with bad players. You
19:39
Speaker 3: know what, I'll show you a bad coach as you
19:42
Speaker 3: look at last night as well. A certain name that
19:45
Speaker 3: immediately everybody tagged is bad for a possible defensive coordinator.
19:49
Speaker 3: One that's interviewing for the Green Bay Packers here today.
19:52
Speaker 3: You want to talk about, show me a bad, bad
19:54
Speaker 3: coach with good players. Jonathan Gannon's an interesting name and
19:57
Speaker 3: very interesting name that surfaces about.
19:59
Speaker 4: Him as we move forward. See who do you want
20:02
Speaker 4: is the defensive coordinators? The next thing up, next man up,
20:05
Speaker 4: next coach to be hired.
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Speaker 5: We'll talk about that.
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Speaker 3: We got some hot takes to unfurl today in the
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Speaker 3: six o'clock hour.
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Speaker 4: We're with you until eight o'clock, you know, keep them
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Speaker 4: the program. Course, today is Wednesday, Hot take hump day
21:08
Speaker 4: upon us. We'll talk to our buddy Scott Dolphin. John
21:11
Speaker 4: Greenberg's gonna join as president of the Milwaukee Admirals, and uh,
21:15
Speaker 4: we got to talk to him.
21:16
Speaker 5: We got to rehash what happened Friday at EMO Night.
21:18
Speaker 4: I want to know no night details about Emo Night.
21:20
Speaker 4: We talked to it when I was on the Afternoons.
21:23
Speaker 4: We talked to LFE about Emo Night and it was
21:25
Speaker 4: a funny setup.
21:27
Speaker 5: And you guys were on the jumbo tron for it.
21:29
Speaker 5: So we'll talk about one of us looked amazing. We'll
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Speaker 5: talk to.
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Speaker 2: You.
21:34
Speaker 1: Were in great shape, Bear with that that wig.
21:36
Speaker 4: We talked about our treacherous the roads were for us
21:38
Speaker 4: on the way in we skiing through fresh powder.
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Speaker 7: Uh.
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Speaker 3: And we put out the call and we have Jamie
21:44
Speaker 3: and Reiedsburg who is driving a plow right now that
21:47
Speaker 3: Jay and Jamie welcome to the huddle.
21:50
Speaker 6: Good morning, guys. I'm so glad you guys just strole
21:52
Speaker 6: them there by the way.
21:53
Speaker 5: Thank you you're listening. We appreciate your brother.
21:57
Speaker 6: Anyways, about Matt Lafloor and stuff, I heard this stat yesterday. Uh,
22:04
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty two, I believe there is ten head
22:06
Speaker 6: coach openings and only three of those coaches are still
22:09
Speaker 6: uh at their current job that they got hired for
22:12
Speaker 6: four years ago. So the one thing I appreciate about
22:17
Speaker 6: the Packers is a little bit of stability and not
22:21
Speaker 6: just I'm gonna say I'm gonna throw the Raiders under
22:23
Speaker 6: the bus. I'm looking for a new coach, a new
22:25
Speaker 6: quarterback every three years. It's kind of you know that
22:27
Speaker 6: that's just a joke in the NFL. So we have Well,
22:34
Speaker 6: I appreciate.
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Speaker 3: It, yeah, and Jamie, I appreciate it because there's actually
22:38
Speaker 3: there's the one call that we've been waiting for for
22:39
Speaker 3: somebody that appreciated the consistency, because right now consistency has
22:45
Speaker 3: been replaced with a different C word in the conversation
22:48
Speaker 3: and it's only complacency. And and I think there's some merit.
22:54
Speaker 5: To both sides.
22:56
Speaker 3: But so what Jamie said right there I think is
22:59
Speaker 3: not necessary early and absolute. But look at like Matt Walker,
23:02
Speaker 3: people were very, very excited to celebrate and remember and
23:05
Speaker 3: think fondly of the UW River Falls football team that
23:09
Speaker 3: just won the national title. My man has been there
23:11
Speaker 3: fifteen years, yep, fifteen years, and in the have.
23:15
Speaker 5: They ever won the title? No, I don't believe they
23:17
Speaker 5: have over won the conference. So at some.
23:22
Speaker 3: Build crew and to be able to build something that
23:26
Speaker 3: ultimately you can be proud of stuff. I'm not saying
23:28
Speaker 3: that that's the only way to do it. I'm not
23:30
Speaker 3: saying the only way to end up getting to the
23:34
Speaker 3: mountaintop is by going through a bunch of trials and
23:36
Speaker 3: tribulations and a bunch of l's before. But I think
23:40
Speaker 3: you've seen a number of different times you can absolutely
23:44
Speaker 3: point to teams that go from Tony Dungee to John
23:47
Speaker 3: Gruden and win the Super Bowl. There's a couple and
23:50
Speaker 3: it's it's gonna be on generally one hand that you
23:53
Speaker 3: counted on. There's a lot more Lovey Smith handoffs, right,
23:56
Speaker 3: there's a lot more Jim Caldwell to Matt Patricia handoff
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Speaker 3: where we're gonna go from good to great. Now we're
24:02
Speaker 3: gonna add in this guy that has seen what championship
24:04
Speaker 3: culture is like in New England and in three years
24:07
Speaker 3: all he's done is in sult media guys for sitting
24:10
Speaker 3: up or not sitting up in a press conference and
24:12
Speaker 3: losing a bunch of games.
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Speaker 5: Where you had to do that was going to the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that all you can do is
24:19
Speaker 3: want to go to the playoffs.
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Speaker 5: I don't believe that's the case here.
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Speaker 3: But when you huddle up after the season and look
24:25
Speaker 3: at how close you were time and time again, you
24:28
Speaker 3: try to decide are we going to be closer to
24:31
Speaker 3: that mountaintop or are we gonna be a lot closer
24:33
Speaker 3: to base camp where we're gonna have to build and
24:35
Speaker 3: run this climber all.
24:36
Speaker 5: The way back up.
24:37
Speaker 4: It is interesting because the LA floor haters will say, oh,
24:40
Speaker 4: he blew all those second half you know, leads, he
24:42
Speaker 4: blew double digit leads in the second half. Okay, who
24:45
Speaker 4: was coach and who was calling the place when they
24:46
Speaker 4: built those leads? Right, and they build the leads because
24:49
Speaker 4: who was in charge? Then oh well then he sucked,
24:53
Speaker 4: but only after he didn't suck.
24:55
Speaker 3: The other one is and and this is gonna be
24:58
Speaker 3: a fascinating part of the defensive coordinator higher here, guys,
25:03
Speaker 3: is if they're reverting back to a little bit of
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Speaker 3: the Vic Fangio Joe Berry kind of scheme with a
25:09
Speaker 3: couple of these interviews that they've had potentially, because I mean,
25:13
Speaker 3: you look at in all totality, the Joe Berry led
25:16
Speaker 3: defensive numbers against the Jeff Haffley defensive led numbers, they're
25:20
Speaker 3: quite similar. But one guy made you feel a whole
25:22
Speaker 3: lot differently. He had a press conference tale talked a
25:26
Speaker 3: lot differently and got a whole lot different belief.
25:29
Speaker 5: He also had a very very different player in Mike Partners.
25:32
Speaker 3: So I mean, it's it's a it's a different it's
25:35
Speaker 3: a real double edged sword. But the one part of
25:37
Speaker 3: this has been you've consistently put up points to give
25:40
Speaker 3: yourself chances to win games.
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Speaker 5: And that's a lot because of the offense.
25:45
Speaker 4: Indeed, eight seven seven seven three gets you into the
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Speaker 4: nicolay Law dot com talk and text line. All right,
25:51
Speaker 4: So Jonathan Gannon's name popped up for the Packers defensive
25:55
Speaker 4: cordator last night. Fascinating dude, as you said, yes, because
25:59
Speaker 4: he when they came in with Arizona this year, they
26:03
Speaker 4: stymied the Packers.
26:05
Speaker 1: All kinds of problems. Yeah.
26:07
Speaker 4: Now, and it's funny because, Okay, he's out. Why is
26:10
Speaker 4: he out? Because the defense was bad? Well, they weren't
26:11
Speaker 4: good this year, but did they have bad players? Like
26:14
Speaker 4: Kyler Murray hasn't been good and I just mean.
26:16
Speaker 3: Like even on defense, like the Cardinals defense wasn't great,
26:18
Speaker 3: but did they have good players?
26:20
Speaker 2: No, they also lost a lot of games early that
26:22
Speaker 2: were like ridiculously bad in terms of.
26:26
Speaker 5: Four consecutive one one score.
26:28
Speaker 2: Game the bumble goal line, like sometimes you can't recover
26:32
Speaker 2: from laws.
26:33
Speaker 5: Is like, is Gannon a Fangio guy?
26:35
Speaker 3: Because I think they ran that in Philly, But it
26:37
Speaker 3: wasn't like his I thought he was doing what Sirianni
26:40
Speaker 3: wanted with they You know, there's definitely a little bit
26:42
Speaker 3: of this what Sirianni wanted to do.
26:45
Speaker 5: Now, the Gannon's like came up under Zimmer and some
26:47
Speaker 5: other guys.
26:48
Speaker 3: Yeah. And the interesting part for for Gannon also is
26:52
Speaker 3: like when he left Philadelphia, their defense was definitely one
26:56
Speaker 3: of the reasons why they ended up getting to the
26:57
Speaker 3: Super Bowl in their clothes and their finished wards of
27:00
Speaker 3: the year. But he was escorted to the Arizona job
27:05
Speaker 3: kind of by the fans as they felt, like, as
27:08
Speaker 3: the kids like to say these days, he sold Oh yes,
27:11
Speaker 3: getting the new job. Quiet quit, Yeah, I quit a
27:14
Speaker 3: nice quiet quit down in Arizona where he was going
27:16
Speaker 3: to take the Cardinals job. They were playing the super
27:19
Speaker 3: Bowl in their stadium, and I don't know, maybe he
27:21
Speaker 3: had like three or four in person interviews with the
27:23
Speaker 3: Bidwells during that week there down in Arizona, so maybe
27:26
Speaker 3: he didn't handle that one properly. I don't believe they
27:29
Speaker 3: were ever destined for success in Arizona.
27:32
Speaker 5: I don't know that anybody actually will be or can be.
27:35
Speaker 1: Well. That's like Cleveland sometimes, right, very much.
27:37
Speaker 2: It's a tough situation, and you know, you do have
27:39
Speaker 2: things like facilities and you have some structure, but it's
27:42
Speaker 2: like you need the players right and you need the
27:43
Speaker 2: organizational support right.
27:45
Speaker 3: But he's been and he's he's coached under Like you said,
27:49
Speaker 3: Mike Zimmer, there's a little bit of time that he
27:51
Speaker 3: spent in and around Matt eber Flus while he was
27:55
Speaker 3: with the Indianapolis Colts. So he's got an interesting track record.
27:59
Speaker 3: But everybody that has been around Gannon and everybody in
28:03
Speaker 3: the coaching profession speaks extremely highly of him as a coach.
28:08
Speaker 3: Just didn't seem like a very very good head coach,
28:11
Speaker 3: but he also was one of these cats that you drew.
28:13
Speaker 5: I question it a lot, and.
28:15
Speaker 3: It's the same thing in the Lafleur conversation when you
28:18
Speaker 3: want to take away the play calling from him, Well,
28:20
Speaker 3: then what are you doing here? Because Jonathan Gannon was
28:23
Speaker 3: a defensive play caller, then decided he was going to
28:26
Speaker 3: be CEO, macho man guy on the sidelines and I'm
28:29
Speaker 3: just going to delegate to everybody else. At some point,
28:32
Speaker 3: you got to be validating your existence with your side
28:35
Speaker 3: of the football, and I think that was one of
28:36
Speaker 3: the reasons also why I ended up being out.
28:37
Speaker 5: I think so too.
28:39
Speaker 4: It is interesting watching this coaching cycle, the head coaching cycle,
28:43
Speaker 4: the carousel turning around.
28:46
Speaker 5: By the way, have we had any churn lately of Salah.
28:49
Speaker 3: Officially announced it, because it's like we're having a lot
28:51
Speaker 3: of reports, but not a lot of.
28:52
Speaker 5: Official announcements and press conferences yet.
28:55
Speaker 3: No, we had the John Harbaugh press conference yesterday, which he.
28:58
Speaker 1: Knocked out of the park.
29:00
Speaker 2: I mean absolutely absolutely killed that one.
29:01
Speaker 5: You knew that one will kill it in Miami.
29:07
Speaker 3: But we haven't gotten anything super official outside of a
29:12
Speaker 3: couple of the sweet graphics that teams are putting out
29:15
Speaker 3: of the official interview interview coaching interview.
29:18
Speaker 4: I kind of like the transparency of that, but it's
29:21
Speaker 4: all right. So but the thing is, as you look
29:23
Speaker 4: at the landscape right now, someone's going to walk into
29:25
Speaker 4: a job and they're gonna have Josh Allen as their quarterback.
29:28
Speaker 5: Someone's gonna walk into a job they're gonna have Lamar
29:29
Speaker 5: Jackson as their quarterback.
29:31
Speaker 4: More often, when you walk into a job, you inherit
29:34
Speaker 4: to a tongue of hello or Kyler Murray underachieving, Shador Sander,
29:39
Speaker 4: some other underachievement.
29:40
Speaker 5: Because that's where you know the problems lie.
29:42
Speaker 4: That's why there's a coaching vacancy, because we didn't get
29:44
Speaker 4: that figured out right Then, I'm flashing back to when
29:46
Speaker 4: Matt Lafleuur got to Green Bay, he inherited Aaron Flippin' Rodgers, right,
29:51
Speaker 4: but Rogers hadn't been as good as he was under
29:54
Speaker 4: La Floor. La Floor kind of molded him the same
29:56
Speaker 4: way McCarthy reigned in far at the end of his
29:59
Speaker 4: career when they got a little lax in their habits
30:01
Speaker 4: and stuff, and he got him rained in, focused and
30:04
Speaker 4: got two MVP seasons out of him, then developed Jordan
30:07
Speaker 4: love to what you know, to the point where he's
30:10
Speaker 4: now considered a top flight, top ten at least, if
30:13
Speaker 4: not higher quarterback.
30:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, And the development part of that is a massive
30:18
Speaker 3: feather in the capitol of floor. And one of the
30:20
Speaker 3: parts as to why he would be quickly regarded with
30:23
Speaker 3: somebody else, I'm trying to.
30:24
Speaker 4: Think of cycle, did anybody else nobody else inherited something
30:27
Speaker 4: like that. So it is fascinating because not always is
30:30
Speaker 4: there like an MVP in waiting, no, or a former
30:33
Speaker 4: MVP that you get as your quarterback.
30:35
Speaker 3: Well, and and Lafleur got that with Rogers. However, there
30:39
Speaker 3: were massive questions if he could be that again, and
30:42
Speaker 3: even into the first year when they started winning. Uh,
30:44
Speaker 3: there was that, you said, Lamar Jackson. There's there's the
30:47
Speaker 3: thought that you get Josh Allen absolutely as your quarterback
30:49
Speaker 3: in Buffalo. There's also the question as if if Mike
30:53
Speaker 3: McCarthy can get this job in Pittsburgh, which it sounds
30:56
Speaker 3: like he's a very real candidate for he's gonna get
30:58
Speaker 3: the in person interview today and that might keep Aaron
31:01
Speaker 3: Rodgers around from the way that the people have been
31:04
Speaker 3: talking about it in the building, and it's, Uh, what
31:07
Speaker 3: do I get or who can I keep in the
31:09
Speaker 3: building for my first couple of years to be able
31:11
Speaker 3: to keep ourselves somewhat relevant.
31:13
Speaker 2: That is interesting because I remember once upon time when
31:15
Speaker 2: everyone thought there was this feud between McCarthy, Rogers and out.
31:18
Speaker 1: It's like, I want there always is.
31:22
Speaker 2: When good relationships though, you know what I mean that
31:24
Speaker 2: that's just the way things go. So I would think McCarthy,
31:27
Speaker 2: if he's like turning down overtures for other jobs, does
31:31
Speaker 2: have a good idea that he might be a strong
31:32
Speaker 2: candidate or this is the one he wants.
31:34
Speaker 1: You could be selective as it.
31:35
Speaker 5: I think it's very clear that they would be the
31:36
Speaker 5: one he wants.
31:37
Speaker 3: It also, uh, sounded like in one report that I
31:41
Speaker 3: read yesterday, I think it was Connor Hughes, who was
31:44
Speaker 3: kind of all over the Rogers deal when he was
31:46
Speaker 3: in New York, called back to mentioning when he was
31:50
Speaker 3: leaving the Jets. You know, depending on where Mike ends up,
31:53
Speaker 3: that could be a possibility, depending on where Mike ends up.
31:56
Speaker 2: So Mike ends up in his spot, and this makes
31:59
Speaker 2: it a little bit easier, come right out of the darkness.
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Speaker 2: And I played one more year a man out here
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Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh, one more year at low cash or you know.
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Speaker 3: Probably some lower cash. Yeah, probably some lesser money.
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Speaker 2: Than It doesn't matter, he said, he doesn't. It's not
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Speaker 2: about the money. I'd played for What do you say
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Speaker 2: at ten am, I've played for ten million? Who cares
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Speaker 2: about money? Play for tens What wouldn't that be nice
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Speaker 2: to not worry about money? Where he'll just take ten million?
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Speaker 2: I guess sure, just put it in my whatever, you know,
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Speaker 2: no big deal, you know, just I'll play for that.
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Speaker 3: You know, I'd love to be at that spot eight
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Speaker 3: seven seven, seven nine four one nine seven three. A
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Speaker 3: couple of texts here, David Monona said, well, now I
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Speaker 3: understand why Matt matt le failure is considering the Arizona
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Speaker 3: defensive coordinator for the job. He doesn't want anybody that's
32:41
Speaker 3: had more success than.
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Speaker 5: Him on the on the staff.
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Speaker 3: How did Jonathan Cannon do as a defensive coordinator?
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Speaker 5: Went to a Super Bowl? Yeah? Went? When went to
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Speaker 5: a Super Bowl?
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Speaker 3: Mike and Montello, I'm so grateful you guys are still
32:53
Speaker 3: in the here. I really want to see the defense
32:54
Speaker 3: and special teams play step up next season.
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Speaker 5: And and that's that's very, very true.
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Speaker 3: And I think that's that's mostly the goal here for
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Speaker 3: all involved, is for them to be able to play better.
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Speaker 3: The real question is, however, are you giving them the
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Speaker 3: proper we know monetary.
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Speaker 5: Resources on the special team side.
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Speaker 3: How are you going to be better in terms of
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Speaker 3: personnel at the most important spots.
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Speaker 5: In the special team? Right? Was not the answer? Well,
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Speaker 5: he wasn't.
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Speaker 3: Ntil He wasn't until I actually had to throw him
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Speaker 3: the football and then realized where it ended up. But
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Speaker 3: like the defense at times, was one of the reasons
33:35
Speaker 3: why they were considered a favorite to go to the
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Speaker 3: Super Bowl. So and and a lot of those pieces
33:40
Speaker 3: are still going to be there. The the attacking mindset
33:43
Speaker 3: of the next defensive coordinator one part of the hiring
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Speaker 3: of Halfley. From the statements that Lafloor continually made, that
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Speaker 3: was the one that actually paid off.
33:54
Speaker 5: We want to really.
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Speaker 3: Attacking mindset, and we want to be as as to
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Speaker 3: the ball as possible and as many swarming hats to
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Speaker 3: the football as we can. At very many times at
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Speaker 3: times throughout the year, it was very much that. Also,
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Speaker 3: when you're not having success, it's a little bit difficult
34:13
Speaker 3: to inspire that kind of run, but that that style
34:18
Speaker 3: of defense, that style of coordinator, there's multiple of them,
34:22
Speaker 3: and I think Gannon's defense that he put most recently
34:24
Speaker 3: out in Philadelphia would inspire that kind of thought. Packers
34:28
Speaker 3: had a hard time getting two hundred yards against the Cardinals,
34:31
Speaker 3: so maybe you know it took that fourth quarter drive
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Speaker 3: with a couple of fourth fourth down conversions right though
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Speaker 3: deep one to Tucker Craft on the corner.
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Speaker 1: That was a rescue game.
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Speaker 5: Otherwise, that game was a massive l of a huge question.
34:42
Speaker 2: One of many peculiar games the Packers had this year,
34:45
Speaker 2: you know, and some may survive, some they didn't. But
34:47
Speaker 2: that is one that we tend to forget because they
34:49
Speaker 2: ended up getting the win. But that was going to
34:50
Speaker 2: be Browns or Panthers three point zero basically this year.
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Speaker 3: me that today rolling in is January twenty first, which
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Speaker 5: So now I may fun of them.
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Speaker 3: I call them the sociopaths who have to be at
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Speaker 3: the club when it opens at five o'clock.
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Speaker 5: But hey, the dedication, the club.
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Speaker 4: I respect it, Yes, I respect it because there's there's
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Speaker 4: a YMCA not a half mile from the megaplex, and
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Speaker 4: we drive by it on our way in and it's like,
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Speaker 4: look at those people, like they're banging on the door
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Speaker 4: to get in and get their sweatd they can't wait.
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Speaker 5: But the tourists are starting to drizzle lot of the gym.
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Speaker 3: If you go to the gym, it's like, yeah, it's
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Speaker 3: like three weeks in after the new year. The first week,
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Speaker 3: first two weeks packed. You can't get a stair mask,
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Speaker 3: you can't get a treadmill, can't you know?
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Speaker 5: There you go, it's a club.
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Speaker 1: That's that's it goes up on a Tuesday.
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Speaker 5: The club, it goes up.
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Speaker 2: Now I read that it takes nine days for well,
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Speaker 2: I said the average of nine days. I read somewhere
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Speaker 2: is when people drop off, they start dropping.
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Speaker 3: They start to but it's now definitely worth three weeks in,
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Speaker 3: so was there.
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Speaker 5: You guys make it a week though you guys make
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Speaker 5: any resolutions.
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Speaker 3: I tend to not do those because it's like, why
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Speaker 3: do I have to wait till the new year?
36:52
Speaker 5: What's magical about that? You could start today or something?
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Speaker 5: Right now? I'm glad you as I'm glad you try.
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Speaker 1: It was the start a new show. I don't know
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Speaker 1: by Yeah, there.
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Speaker 5: You go, dominating that one right out of the game
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Speaker 5: when I started.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Billy, you had something right.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: My my New Year's resolution this year was to be
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Speaker 3: a little more handy around my house. What it was
37:13
Speaker 3: was to figure some stuff out and you know, working
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Speaker 3: my hands more self sufficient and and did not have
37:19
Speaker 3: to ask my dad for advice on absolutely every thing.
37:25
Speaker 5: So we're trending in the right direction now.
37:28
Speaker 3: However, the water softener is the battle right now that
37:31
Speaker 3: we're dealing with. Pops did get a look at it.
37:34
Speaker 3: Pops did give an idea of what could be. You
37:37
Speaker 3: need to get eyes on it before you get some
37:40
Speaker 3: get some good. A second opinion is never a bad
37:43
Speaker 3: deal when you got a medical problem. Right, let's the
37:48
Speaker 3: sad walk right in. Uh So, we had a little
37:51
Speaker 3: bit of a salt bridge we believe, uh water was
37:54
Speaker 3: water was real hard in that place, no pause, so
37:57
Speaker 3: we had to figure we had to figure that out.
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Speaker 5: I think it's been rectified.
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Speaker 3: So three weeks in and I've already fixed what I
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Speaker 3: believe is a core household appliance that's huge without calling
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Speaker 3: somebody for somebody to fix it. That's a big step.
38:12
Speaker 3: So I think I'm already. It's a little like an
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Speaker 3: opening day. Though now you have to keep living up.
38:17
Speaker 5: That's true.
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Speaker 4: Yes, if you need a positive affirmation though for your
38:21
Speaker 4: you want to give yourself a kudo for sticking to
38:23
Speaker 4: that resolution, feel free. I still have my uh continuing
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Speaker 4: my I'm over a thousand days of practicing my Spanish,
38:30
Speaker 4: let's go.
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Speaker 1: That's at one learning a language.
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Speaker 4: Trying to work on my Spanish every day, and that's
38:36
Speaker 4: it's getting to the point where I need to start
38:40
Speaker 4: using more of than AI interactive apps to actually speak
38:43
Speaker 4: because I'm getting a point where I can understand it
38:45
Speaker 4: but not speak it sure, and it's like, okay, that's
38:47
Speaker 4: not ideal.
38:48
Speaker 5: You should be speaking more Drew. The tough part is listening.
38:51
Speaker 3: In being in clubhouses, you've probably then found yourself like
38:55
Speaker 3: knowing what is being said, thinking, oh, I would like
38:58
Speaker 3: to be able to throw in a quick eye no
39:00
Speaker 3: doubt not going to be able.
39:01
Speaker 5: To one of my big professional regrets.
39:03
Speaker 4: And I would tell people if you want your interested
39:05
Speaker 4: in cover baseball, learn learn Spanish. There's a guy at
39:08
Speaker 4: the La Times that I know that learn Japanese because
39:10
Speaker 4: of all the Japanese.
39:11
Speaker 5: End up being a pretty good idea.
39:13
Speaker 4: Yes, they head, but I had some friends early in
39:15
Speaker 4: my beat writing career that invited me to go with them.
39:17
Speaker 4: They went to Guatemala during the winter for a month
39:20
Speaker 4: and went to an immersion school and came back basically
39:23
Speaker 4: pretty fluent.
39:24
Speaker 5: I should have done that well.
39:25
Speaker 3: And we see locally, Sophia Minnert it just do such
39:29
Speaker 3: a good job with it. And I know somebody that
39:31
Speaker 3: you talk very very fondly of and me growing up
39:35
Speaker 3: loving the game and following it more of the sports
39:37
Speaker 3: media game as well as the baseball side of it.
39:39
Speaker 3: But was Pedro Gomez was the first guy that I
39:42
Speaker 3: had seen do it on a national television level where
39:45
Speaker 3: he's like, yeah, this is the conversation, and then all
39:48
Speaker 3: of a sudden you hear him ask a question in
39:51
Speaker 3: Spanish and be able to bring it right back into
39:53
Speaker 3: the conversation, like wow, that is amazing. And then you
39:55
Speaker 3: get to see Sofia do it on a night in
39:58
Speaker 3: night out. Basis your spot on it is say it
40:00
Speaker 3: is a hell of a weapon to be able to
40:02
Speaker 3: find if that's the goal for you to be able
40:04
Speaker 3: to go in and cover in baseball. I know in
40:06
Speaker 3: the middle now every Super Super Bowl Sunday since Pedro
40:11
Speaker 3: passed on Super Bowl Sunday heart attack, and it was
40:13
Speaker 3: just so crushing, and I think about him every Super
40:15
Speaker 3: Bowl now, I just I can't. At some point during
40:18
Speaker 3: the day it's like, uh yeah, Super Bowl Sunday, and
40:23
Speaker 3: it's just one of the one of the all time
40:24
Speaker 3: my favorite people in the media. Getting to hang out
40:26
Speaker 3: with him was an absolute treat. Everything you hear about
40:29
Speaker 3: Pedro grim Is being a great guy is absolutely true.
40:31
Speaker 1: It's awesome.
40:32
Speaker 5: Yeah.
40:32
Speaker 1: Now, I remember when sorry, go ahead.
40:34
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, Army, you love this story because
40:36
Speaker 3: the Birds were playing in October. They're playing a playoff
40:39
Speaker 3: game and Pedro was in town and I had I
40:42
Speaker 3: had some duties after the game, and then I wanted
40:45
Speaker 3: to meet him out.
40:47
Speaker 5: I remember.
40:47
Speaker 4: I remember somehow he was with a young producer from ESPN,
40:51
Speaker 4: and I don't know if the guy had Marquete ties
40:53
Speaker 4: or something, but they were at Caffrey's on the Marketeah.
40:55
Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah. You don't just end up the way. There's
40:58
Speaker 2: a reason you go Pedro. No, unless you're a student.
41:00
Speaker 2: I love Caaffrey's is a great campus bar, but you
41:02
Speaker 2: don't just you know one of the reasons Armon, Yeah,
41:04
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, you know, Jeff Jenkins was.
41:07
Speaker 5: There one night.
41:07
Speaker 3: They must they must be racing. So so there are
41:10
Speaker 3: Caffrey's and he's like, yeah, I'm at this place. It's
41:12
Speaker 3: over near I think it's near Marquees somewhere downtown. It's
41:15
Speaker 3: like it's called Caffrey's. I'm like, I'll be there five absolutely,
41:19
Speaker 3: I know where it is.
41:19
Speaker 5: And I roll in.
41:20
Speaker 3: And he used always joke that I was like the
41:22
Speaker 3: mayor of Milwaukee because I know a lot of everybody. Yeah,
41:24
Speaker 3: and he's like, he's like, yeah, I didn't even have
41:26
Speaker 3: to tell you where this is.
41:27
Speaker 4: It's like Pedro, it's not that big a city.
41:30
Speaker 5: It's okay.
41:30
Speaker 4: But we go in there and a bunch of dudes
41:32
Speaker 4: like recognize him from the baseball to night and all
41:35
Speaker 4: that stuff, and he ends up just telling stories and
41:37
Speaker 4: buying drinks and taking photos with a bunch of Yahoo guys.
41:40
Speaker 4: Like I didn't envision spending my night at a Marquette bar. Yeah,
41:44
Speaker 4: but there I was. But it was Pedro was being
41:46
Speaker 4: in his orbit and he loved it. And somewhere I
41:49
Speaker 4: was in the back of the you know, somewhere. I
41:50
Speaker 4: was in the back ass and the girl she wanted
41:52
Speaker 4: to use the Papa shot machine.
41:53
Speaker 3: You know, yeahore one hundred and fifty feet away from
41:56
Speaker 3: you guys.
41:57
Speaker 2: No, I'm not wasn't doing that thing. That's just getting
42:00
Speaker 2: my nails done. I'm not great memory though.
42:01
Speaker 5: You know.
42:02
Speaker 2: The funny funny thing is when I remember when Sophia
42:04
Speaker 2: early on was doing the sideline reporting and doing the translations.
42:09
Speaker 2: It was fantastic. But I remember Uni Asky Bettencourt answering.
42:13
Speaker 2: She asked me a question spanage and he answered English.
42:16
Speaker 2: Yet he didn't do it right. You know.
42:23
Speaker 4: Now we got into where every team's got to have
42:24
Speaker 4: a translator on for the Latin guys, and they have
42:27
Speaker 4: officially well again nutritions and stuff. But yes, Pedro Goma
42:31
Speaker 4: and Pedro Gomes. Oh man, I got a couple of
42:33
Speaker 4: world serious stories I can tell you guys off the air.
42:35
Speaker 4: Oh god, it's a little rebald, but it's Pedro. Miss
42:39
Speaker 4: him every year especially, uh. Speaking of Pedro, he was
42:42
Speaker 4: a great baseball guy.
42:44
Speaker 5: That was. He was always a ball writer. He was
42:46
Speaker 5: always a beat guy.
42:46
Speaker 4: I even when he became a columnist in Arizona and
42:48
Speaker 4: then a TV face on ESPN. Was always a beat
42:50
Speaker 4: guy and big day for the Beat guys in the
42:52
Speaker 4: Hall of Fame voting announced last night. We're going to
42:55
Speaker 4: talk about that as we move forward. Yes, actually people
42:59
Speaker 4: welcomes Belts and Andrew Jones.
43:01
Speaker 5: And finally we'll.
43:03
Speaker 4: Talk about a little surprising finish regarding number eight for
43:06
Speaker 4: the Milwaukee Brewers, Ryan Brown. He's not going to remain
43:09
Speaker 4: on the ballot. He didn't get the five percent necessary.
43:12
Speaker 4: He got more votes than I thought he would, way
43:14
Speaker 4: more votes than I thought he would.
43:16
Speaker 3: And there was one individual that i've that is gonna
43:19
Speaker 3: hang on the ballot and needs to get a little
43:20
Speaker 3: bit more respect, needs to get a little bit more
43:23
Speaker 3: love that's on that ballot, A form a brewer that's
43:25
Speaker 3: in that Metfillion.
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Speaker 1: You know, this is one of my favorite topics every year.
43:28
Speaker 1: So I can't wait to.
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Speaker 7: Get the.
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Speaker 3: Put the drawbridge up shop. Scott talk about us in
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Speaker 3: the next hour of the program. Scott Dalbin's gonna hang around,
43:38
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