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04/27/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: I'm Doug Russell. It was a Sunday Funday for the Brewers.
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Speaker 2: That'll do too face hit into seven.
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Speaker 3: Here comes Bowers, build fires to the plate and Bowers
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Speaker 3: for a.
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Speaker 4: Bell five, two out of the ice single for Luis
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Speaker 4: red heat Fall.
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Speaker 1: Play by play courtesy of Brewers TV. Milwaukee blanks Pittsburgh
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Speaker 1: five to nothing at American Family Field to salvage one
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Speaker 1: game of the weekend three game set. The story in
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Speaker 1: this one from Milwaukee was lefty Kyle Harrison. He strikes
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Speaker 1: out twelve and six innings of one hit, shutout ball.
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Speaker 1: The Brewers are off today. They'll welcome in the Diamondbacks
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Speaker 1: to Amfam Field tomorrow. NBA playoffs on Sunday, it was
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Speaker 1: the Celtics taking a three to one series lead over
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Speaker 1: the seventy six ers, Boston winning on the road one
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Speaker 1: twenty eight to ninety six. The Raptors and Cavaliers tied
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Speaker 1: up at two games apiece. Toronto wins ninety three to
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Speaker 1: eighty nine. Also, the Spurs beat the Trailblazers one fourteen
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Speaker 1: to ninety three, Rockets down the Lakers one fifteen to
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Speaker 1: ninety six. The huddle starts now, I'm Doug Russell on
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
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Speaker 4: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure.
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Speaker 2: Schmid, Oh my god, this man's been on all nine.
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Speaker 2: Because before we even fired up today, people were waiting
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Speaker 3: It's a good place to get to, Drew, where it's
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Speaker 3: appointment viewing, appointment listening, and you're setting agendas to I
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Speaker 3: gotta be at the treadmill, dialed in with the huddle
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Speaker 3: to huddle.
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Speaker 2: Up with the boys.
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Speaker 3: Great weekend to discuss, and a full one at that
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Speaker 3: before we get into what turns into just the uh,
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Speaker 3: let's be honest, a little bit of the sports abyss.
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Speaker 2: As we get into the summer. That's true. It'll be
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Speaker 2: low tide soon, which is why your boy is taking
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Speaker 2: vacation next.
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Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 2: Ye took me all these years of doing this that
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Speaker 2: I realized, Hey, maybe I should take the week of
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Speaker 2: the All Star Game in Major League Baseball off, and
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Speaker 2: I should take the week after the draft off. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: week after the week after the draft. Well, you used
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Speaker 2: to use all those weeks for summer fest, Drew. Now
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Speaker 2: that's true, straight shadow, Yeah, that's true. That is true.
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Speaker 2: Always you know, ganged up in there dispensing with dispensing
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Speaker 2: with tradition on the show. Usually when we have like
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Speaker 2: a daily feature by our cell or you know, te
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Speaker 2: hump Day and game balls and kicks of the balls,
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Speaker 2: we can fire up the game balls. Right now, I'm
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Speaker 2: talking about the first thing I want to do. There's
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Speaker 2: a ward a game ball to my man Bill Schmid
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Speaker 2: and to Wayne Larvie for anchoring our draft coverage because
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Speaker 2: I listened to it and you boys were on fire.
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Speaker 2: The entire weekend was thank you, and it was spectacular.
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Speaker 2: It was no better listen than listening to you guys
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Speaker 2: chop it up during the draft. It was like it
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Speaker 2: was like being at a bar, you know it is
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Speaker 2: when you're at a bar watching a game and then
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Speaker 2: some nozzles next to you and spouting dumb opinions and
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Speaker 2: saying stupid things and that, Like this was the opposite
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Speaker 2: of that. Like I didn't want to pull myself away
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Speaker 2: from the broadcast that you guys were doing. It was
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Speaker 2: so good. So we haven't officially started game balls and
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Speaker 2: kicks with the sound effects, but I just wanted to
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Speaker 2: get that out there. Well, thank you.
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Speaker 3: And I have been that guy that goes to the
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Speaker 3: bar with a you know, a binder full of sports
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Speaker 3: stats to make sure.
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Speaker 2: That we can fire up a conversation. But man, it
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Speaker 2: is uh.
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Speaker 3: It's one of the true joys of doing this is
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Speaker 3: to sit back in one of those times where I
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Speaker 3: kind of laughed, like how how stud But is this
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Speaker 3: life that I'm able to sit back and watch all
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Speaker 3: three days of the NFL Draft, eat ribs, donuts and
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Speaker 3: Julie Larvie cookies with Wayne Larvie drink pots of coffee
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Speaker 3: late onto a Friday night, and also just to be
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Speaker 3: able to see how that whole party and whole event
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Speaker 3: continues to grow. And then this year, how different it
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Speaker 3: is year to year for the football team. We've done
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Speaker 3: years now where they have taken twelve players and being
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Speaker 3: on the radio this year we made five of the
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Speaker 3: six picks, the fewest classes ever had in Packers history.
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Speaker 2: That's been around a long time.
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Speaker 3: So you see how different the drafts are, and then
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Speaker 3: you kind of get validated and you feel vindicated in
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Speaker 3: your opinions when ultimately the team might think a little
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Speaker 3: bit how a lot of people did say this draft
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Speaker 3: wasn't worth maybe taking eight, nine, ten players, get six
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Speaker 3: that you think can help your football team and get out.
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Speaker 3: And I love the fact as well, guys, that the
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Speaker 3: last pick will be the one that we discuss by
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Speaker 3: far the most out of this twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 5: NFL draft, And your favorite things to discuss always, right
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Speaker 5: is kicker. A kicker name smack is something you gotta love, right,
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Speaker 5: talking it all the time.
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Speaker 2: But hey, the reality is it was.
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Speaker 5: A fantastic wen and you're right if it did feel
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Speaker 5: light to you as it might have if you were
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Speaker 5: casually viewing, said, well, we're the rest of the packers' picks.
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Speaker 2: It didn't seem like a lot. That was true. It
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Speaker 2: was it a lot. So I was stunned that they
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Speaker 2: went down to six from eight and not up to
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Speaker 2: eleven twelve because you know Goody's history, but hey, man,
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Speaker 2: it this was There's a song from the like the
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Speaker 2: seventies you guys might not be aware of, by a
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Speaker 2: band called Super Tramp. I always hating the songs on
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Speaker 2: the radio all the time. It's called the logical song.
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Speaker 2: And that's what I kept thinking about this draft was
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Speaker 2: logical chef boxes. They got guys that, well, that's the
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Speaker 2: best guy at the spot they needed. Well, that was
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Speaker 2: because that was logical pick. Now are they going to work?
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Speaker 2: We don't know, and we won't know for a couple
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Speaker 2: of years. But everything was checked and it's like, in
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Speaker 2: terms of process, I think they had like a perfect draft,
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Speaker 2: Like who can quibble with what they did unless you
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Speaker 2: just hate Goody and what they want to say. You know,
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Speaker 2: you want to be contrarian and plant your flag that
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Speaker 2: this draft's gonna suck one hundred percent.
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Speaker 3: Andrew also like the interchangeably from the names identifying the
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Speaker 3: positions that you had to improve bringing guys in. Were
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Speaker 3: you gonna be able to fix your depth in this draft?
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Speaker 3: Probably not because of the caliber player that was actually
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Speaker 3: coming out, and every single time on the board you
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Speaker 3: might have changed the name. But I find it hard
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Speaker 3: pressed to believe that people didn't look at their defense
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Speaker 3: and say that needs to be where the majority of
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Speaker 3: these draft picks are. Everybody likes there to be competition
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Speaker 3: on special teams when a guy who helps you helps
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Speaker 3: you lose a playoff game, and then on the offensive line,
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Speaker 3: you can never have too many, especially when there are
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Speaker 3: spots up for grabs. I thought Goody said it really
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Speaker 3: well last night or on a Saturday night when he
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Speaker 3: was wrapping everything up, asked of you know what players
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Speaker 3: you added this weekend? Do you believe that you are
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Speaker 3: now closer to winning the Super Bowl? Kind of like
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Speaker 3: pauses and all due respect to the question, if you
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Speaker 3: think that you're adding five players to go to the
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Speaker 3: in the draft to win that year's Super Bowl, that
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Speaker 3: ain't happening.
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Speaker 2: That just has never happened.
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Speaker 3: Really, there have been many teams in many classes where
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Speaker 3: you can flip around your organization feel a lot better.
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Speaker 3: One of the best examples would be the New Orleans
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Speaker 3: Saints a number of years ago, where they got the
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Speaker 3: offensive Rookie of the Year and defensive.
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Speaker 2: Rookie of the year. They lost in the divisional round. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you don't win this year's super Bowl.
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Speaker 3: These next three or these last three days, however, you
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Speaker 3: can really add to guys that are going to be
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Speaker 3: high caliber players for the next couple of years.
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Speaker 2: And especially denied Dennis Sutton.
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Speaker 3: They had talked about trying to trade up for him
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Speaker 3: and trade back into the third round on Friday night.
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Speaker 3: He ends up falling right into their lap on Saturday afternoon.
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Speaker 3: Hard to say that anything worked out better than that.
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Speaker 3: I saw one of the ESPN right saying he was
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Speaker 3: their favorite value pick of that round. Should be able
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Speaker 3: to help the packers immediately.
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Speaker 2: But you're right.
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Speaker 5: It is sort of the dad conversation you have to
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Speaker 5: have with a lot of fans who if you see
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Speaker 5: around this space and around the online, you hear a
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Speaker 5: lot of the a lot of the voices, a lot
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Speaker 5: of people following the draft, hardcore fans or even in
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Speaker 5: the fifth, sixth, seventh round talking about which player is
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Speaker 5: gonna help us this year.
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Speaker 2: Like, brother, that's not how this thing is gonna work.
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Speaker 5: Like, you're not gonna get the Super Bowl help, you're
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Speaker 5: not one player away in the seventh round and being
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Speaker 5: pushed over, like, well, what was the thing? Why did
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Speaker 5: we lose in the playoffs last year? We gave up
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Speaker 5: this touchdown pass? So we need a corner in the
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Speaker 5: seventh round that will put us over the top. That's
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Speaker 5: just not how it works.
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Speaker 2: Although there are a lot of fans that want to
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Speaker 2: believe that that's how works. That's just not real. It's
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Speaker 2: not reality. It's not at all. Yeah, if you consider
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Speaker 2: yourself a super Bowl contender, like the draft is, like
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Speaker 2: you want guys that can contribute, sure, but it's not
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Speaker 2: about that. It's absolutely uh you know, the one guy
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Speaker 2: from the draft's not gonna put you over and get
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Speaker 2: you the ring. No, it's not gonna happen now. Could
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Speaker 2: a depth piece is sure? Yeah, guys that you know
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Speaker 2: the last time the Packers won a Super Bowl, they
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Speaker 2: had a bunch of injuries and a bunch of the
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Speaker 2: guys who who came in and played ended up out
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Speaker 2: performing and overperforming what the guys that they replaced did,
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Speaker 2: which is why they won the Super Bowl. They hit
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Speaker 2: the inside straight. It's every year is different, every draft
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Speaker 2: is different, every season, and every team makeup is different. Uh,
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Speaker 2: it's the roller coaster. But they got good guys. It
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Speaker 2: looks like they got good guys. Now, Uh, say what
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Speaker 2: they took because it seemed to me and Billy I
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Speaker 2: was listening to guys, but it seemed to me like,
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Speaker 2: all right, they looked at the board and they could
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Speaker 2: have taken McClellan in that same spot because they liked
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Speaker 2: him enough. But they thought, well, there's and there's not
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Speaker 2: that many corners left like that. We like to get
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Speaker 2: picked over. We're going to take the corner now and
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Speaker 2: then get the because it was a deeper position. But again,
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Speaker 2: when you're I've talked about this before when I look
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Speaker 2: at the draft as a block of players, and I
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Speaker 2: don't focus on the rounds that much because if you
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Speaker 2: get a Hall of Famer in the fifth round, you
10:52
Speaker 2: had a good on the first way, and you can
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Speaker 2: you know, the first guy, the first round guy can
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Speaker 2: be a bust if you get if you counterbalance it.
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Speaker 2: So these guys, it's like, well that guy could have
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Speaker 2: been a second, could have been a third, like they
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Speaker 2: could have jumbled the rounds around, because that's how it is.
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Speaker 2: Like it's all subjective when you especially when you get
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Speaker 2: past the first ten to fifteen guys. Yeah, and ultimately
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Speaker 2: good players.
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Speaker 3: And I say this with in business, a good idea comes,
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Speaker 3: it doesn't matter where a good idea comes.
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Speaker 2: A good idea is a good idea.
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Speaker 3: Good player is a good player, and wherever you end
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Speaker 3: up grabbing him, it doesn't matter how you get there.
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Speaker 3: Find somebody that can contribute and you'll be able to hit.
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Speaker 3: Find two guys out of this six pair person draft
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Speaker 3: class that you signed two second contracts and that's a
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Speaker 3: huge win. So I struggle with identifying and ranking it
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Speaker 3: over the top with certain guys, but you know, understandably,
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Speaker 3: so first round pick has a ton of value. Maybe
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Speaker 3: not this year though, and I think almost further validated
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Speaker 3: thinking about it in hindsight this weekend and yesterday, Man
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Speaker 3: really was a good year to be trading your first
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Speaker 3: trading your first round pick prior to the year where
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Speaker 3: you got twelve Grant games of production there Obviously, coming
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Speaker 3: off the injury, we'll see how Mike is able to respond.
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Speaker 3: But the twentieth pick in this year's draft that was
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Speaker 3: a major crap shoot. And there's a lot of people
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Speaker 3: that think you weren't getting even a first round caliber
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Speaker 3: player in that spot when you rank the board horizontally,
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Speaker 3: as they like to say in the industry, which I
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Speaker 3: still don't necessarily know that. I mean, I still don't
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Speaker 3: fully think I understand, but I like to use it
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Speaker 3: to make it sound like we understand it.
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Speaker 2: But to your point, you're right.
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Speaker 5: I mean, a lot of people did think this was
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Speaker 5: a thinner draft in that sense, and then the prevailing
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Speaker 5: notion I kept having throughout that first round wondering who
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Speaker 5: the Packers take and we get something that will help
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Speaker 5: was obviously needed corner help was Man, I'm so glad.
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Speaker 5: I'm much rather would have Micah Parsons than any of
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Speaker 5: these guys. And I think that's what a lot of
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Speaker 5: teams worth, at least that's the Packers were thinking last year.
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Speaker 5: So as much as we covet and a lot of
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Speaker 5: teams covet those draft picks, sometimes it is better to
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Speaker 5: get the bird in the hand, and the Packers did
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Speaker 5: have it in a draft this year. Unless you love
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Speaker 5: tight ends, If you love tight ends, this was your draft.
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Speaker 2: This was your day to eat.
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Speaker 5: This was your day to be seen because there was
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Speaker 5: a lot of tight end. It was a trench heavy
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Speaker 5: draft as you and Billy, which was a thought. But
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Speaker 5: the Packers did need help at corner and that's where
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Speaker 5: they went early in the draft.
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Speaker 3: And then they also took the lottery ticket at corner
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Speaker 3: in Demani Jackson, which I think is like the perfect
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Speaker 3: swing for the fence guy. He can probably help you
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Speaker 3: on special teams as a gunner right away, Drew and
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Speaker 3: then ye former five star recruit, you know, modern day
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Speaker 3: high school guy, so like he's been competing and playing
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Speaker 3: with some of the best players for his entire life.
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Speaker 3: Once he gets to the NFL, we'll see if he's
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Speaker 3: able to stay in the same spot. But you can't
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Speaker 3: fake that speed and you can't teach that. And then again,
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Speaker 3: you know, you get a kicker named Trey, that's a
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Speaker 3: good that's one good sign figure Also like if you
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Speaker 3: have a good three point shooter named Trey, that's just
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Speaker 3: gonna work out, especially when he's smacking hopefully game winners.
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Speaker 3: I like the fact that they added to it and
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Speaker 3: listening to the floor and gudakuns, you could tell there
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Speaker 3: was maybe some conversation leading up. All Right, I don't
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Speaker 3: know if it's gonna be on the twenty six during
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Speaker 3: the draft or after. We're figuring out some way to
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Speaker 3: push Brandon McManus, because those seven points on the board
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Speaker 3: that they left there in Chicago seem to have haunted
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Speaker 3: those guys all off season.
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Speaker 2: Launch Huge eight seven, Nicolay Lottock, I'm talking text on
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Speaker 2: what's your draft grade? Draft gids are got dumb because
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Speaker 2: you don't know, but you can grade the process. And
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Speaker 2: in terms of the process, like I said, it's so
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Speaker 2: logical that I don't see how you can give lower
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Speaker 2: than like a B plus. Like you know, it's like
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Speaker 2: it was, Oh, they needed that guy, they took that position.
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Speaker 2: They needed that position. They took that. Now, Okay, did
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Speaker 2: they still need a backup running back? Sure?
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Speaker 5: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 2: Undrafted free agents they are going to be. They're gonna
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Speaker 2: be scouring the market, yep. And the fact that they
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Speaker 2: took well, I guess like four defenders, one special team
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Speaker 2: or and one offensive player is uh for some might
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Speaker 2: be like, wow, what the hell? You know you didn't
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Speaker 2: get enough offensive line help you Well, you know they
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Speaker 2: needed more on defense. Yeah, and that's what they addressed.
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Speaker 3: And and if you've looked at how they've moved throughout
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Speaker 3: the offseason, they've been building towards their best players and
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Speaker 3: their core players right now on offense being more heavily involved.
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Speaker 3: And it felt like that was the sentiment and the
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Speaker 3: takeaway from Lafleur after of we know the guys that
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Speaker 3: we have, we need to find more ways to get
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Speaker 3: them opportunities. And as nice as it is to have
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Speaker 3: a ton of options, it doesn't always work out in
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Speaker 3: your best interest to not be feeding your best players
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Speaker 3: at not saying that you have to force feed the
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Speaker 3: football all throughout the game to a Christian Watson or
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Speaker 3: a Jade Reid, but it's nice to be able to
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Speaker 3: know that you have a focus on getting those guys
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Speaker 3: the ball five, six, seven times a game. It felt
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Speaker 3: like that was one of the cleanest takeaways Drew of
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Speaker 3: how they've discussed and how they're trying to move forward,
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Speaker 3: of they had a lot of options, and it sounded
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Speaker 3: really good, and I think they worked maybe harder than necessary,
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Speaker 3: harder than you had to to try to keep everybody happy.
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Speaker 3: Now it's we've found the guys that we believe are
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Speaker 3: the best ones. Now let's go try to win.
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Speaker 2: Something right of the guys that they took, like and
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Speaker 2: you're talking about it, who's gonna help them, Who's gonna
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Speaker 2: have the media impact? I think, well, there's gonna be THEA.
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Speaker 2: Is gonna be a rotational guy, You're gonna play, They're
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Speaker 2: all gonna they're gonna see the field. But I think
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Speaker 2: McClellan's the guy given the position. And to me and Billy,
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Speaker 2: I might be talking out of my arse, but it's
16:14
Speaker 2: like to be that big dude and to suck up
16:16
Speaker 2: double teams and to just like be the you know,
16:18
Speaker 2: first and second down guy against the run. It seems
16:21
Speaker 2: like he's plug and play and there is the learning curve.
16:24
Speaker 2: These will improve so much between like right now and
16:27
Speaker 2: three years from now. It's gonna be ridiculous. But I
16:30
Speaker 2: don't know that you have to have that. You know
16:32
Speaker 2: McClellan's gonna get. Is he gonna get bigger and stronger.
16:34
Speaker 2: He's already big and strong. Yeah, he will learn the
16:37
Speaker 2: nuances of the position, for sure. But I think that's
16:39
Speaker 2: where you can get immediate help from that guy. And
16:42
Speaker 2: I'm like, Okay, that's their third round pick, and I
16:44
Speaker 2: think he's gonna be the guy this year that gets
16:46
Speaker 2: the most burned. Is my logic flawed? No, I don't
16:49
Speaker 2: think it's flawed.
16:49
Speaker 3: I think him and Sutton are gonna play the most
16:52
Speaker 3: because right right off of the first brush, whether or
16:55
Speaker 3: not Parsons misses the first three to four games in rehab,
16:59
Speaker 3: then ident is sud is going to play a punch.
17:01
Speaker 2: And I still don't. We haven't seen.
17:03
Speaker 3: Uh, maybe it's it'll be different under his fourth defensive
17:07
Speaker 3: coordinator in his nine years as the head coach of
17:09
Speaker 3: the Packers, But uh, Lafleur has never focused or never
17:13
Speaker 3: tried or eight years of the Packers never wanted his
17:16
Speaker 3: guys playing more than seventy percent of the snap sixty
17:19
Speaker 3: five percent of the snaps. So that third and fourth
17:21
Speaker 3: edge rusher is gonna play and and Dennis Sutton looks
17:24
Speaker 3: right away to at least be a king Kings leannbarre
17:29
Speaker 3: fill in right out of the gates. But McClellan's going
17:31
Speaker 3: to be able to play up and down. But to
17:34
Speaker 3: start on first and second down in the middle, like
17:36
Speaker 3: you said, is pretty impactful because they desperately need somebody
17:41
Speaker 3: that can move up and down and his versatility on
17:44
Speaker 3: the defensive line is going to keep him on the
17:46
Speaker 3: field more than it's gonna take him off.
17:47
Speaker 2: Hark Grave is not necessarily like a nose tackle person,
17:51
Speaker 2: and he's thirty it will be much more on the outside.
17:53
Speaker 2: And he's thirty three, and that Wyatt two so and
17:57
Speaker 2: why it's got to stay healthy. But that very so
18:00
Speaker 2: to me, that was the pick that Okay, that's the
18:02
Speaker 2: guy that will contribute right away. And yeah, to your point,
18:06
Speaker 2: it Deny is going to be the same kind of
18:07
Speaker 2: deal where he's he's getting burned. And now you know
18:10
Speaker 2: what is is that a message to Lucas Vaness or
18:13
Speaker 2: is it a message to you know partially?
18:15
Speaker 3: I mean the funniest message to Lucas Vaness is the
18:19
Speaker 3: fact that none of us really brought him up at all.
18:21
Speaker 3: Like as we were going as I was going back
18:24
Speaker 3: kind of thinking about it, you know, burning through the
18:26
Speaker 3: tape of Wayne and I doing the draft show, I
18:28
Speaker 3: don't know that we really mentioned Lucas vans at all.
18:31
Speaker 3: In trying to see where their needs stacked up. We
18:34
Speaker 3: talked about filling the gap of an agbar who would
18:37
Speaker 3: be able to step up, and it was it almost
18:39
Speaker 3: just went to write Baron Surrell. Well, my man, Brenton
18:42
Speaker 3: Cox finally be able to take the full red shirts
18:45
Speaker 3: off and be an NFL player. I think he's I
18:47
Speaker 3: think he's good enough to be. He hasn't necessarily shown
18:50
Speaker 3: a ton of it. But Vaness almost just got passed
18:52
Speaker 3: right over. So his his productivity not only I mean,
18:57
Speaker 3: I know I'm talking the most obvious of statements here,
19:01
Speaker 3: but if he doesn't produce here, his career is right
19:04
Speaker 3: into the right into the into the abyss. I mean,
19:07
Speaker 3: there is a massive question. This is the career year,
19:11
Speaker 3: in a contract year for van Ness. But I still
19:13
Speaker 3: can't get over the fact that when when you ask
19:15
Speaker 3: who's going to play the most for him? The one
19:17
Speaker 3: that's going to play the most for him and I
19:18
Speaker 3: can almost guarantee you Week one is a starter as
19:21
Speaker 3: Trace mac.
19:22
Speaker 5: Chrace mack it might be the one. That's the first
19:24
Speaker 5: thing I thought Billy as well. It's like, you don't
19:26
Speaker 5: you don't use a pick on that guy and use
19:29
Speaker 5: a pick on that guy to leave him, just to
19:31
Speaker 5: leave him.
19:31
Speaker 2: So that's the thing I thought, is like, what kind
19:33
Speaker 2: of cap relief do they get if McManus isn't on
19:36
Speaker 2: the team.
19:37
Speaker 3: A couple million Bucks maybe yeah, and which could be
19:39
Speaker 3: a rotational player, which is your backup running back you're
19:42
Speaker 3: looking for or like you know, So they're going to
19:44
Speaker 3: do some shopping and in the free agent market, street
19:47
Speaker 3: guys and undrafted free agents which they've had success with
19:50
Speaker 3: in the past. And there's a number of those guys
19:52
Speaker 3: that I still think can win help you win games.
19:55
Speaker 3: And to you know, echo Goody's point of not winning
19:58
Speaker 3: this year's Super Bowl in these last three days, I
20:01
Speaker 3: think those players of a Cam Jordan or a Kalais Campbell,
20:05
Speaker 3: if you can convince him, like my man Aaron Nagler said,
20:07
Speaker 3: like Keith Jackson, he didn't want to come play in
20:09
Speaker 3: Green Bay, convince him to have the one last run
20:12
Speaker 3: and go win something like I think those guys, the
20:15
Speaker 3: backup running backs that are available now, some of the vets,
20:17
Speaker 3: are gonna be more additive to you winning it this year.
20:20
Speaker 3: And they invested a third round pick in Marshawn Lloyd.
20:24
Speaker 3: They're gonna give him every opportunity they have, and they're
20:28
Speaker 3: gonna give hi one lad to see if he can
20:31
Speaker 3: cash in on this thing. So like they doubled down
20:34
Speaker 3: on some of the guys in their own locker room,
20:37
Speaker 3: which I think were the best parts. Now you have
20:39
Speaker 3: to see if they get paid off for that and
20:42
Speaker 3: if they can stay healthy. Like it's it's one of
20:45
Speaker 3: the worst ways to discuss a football team. But what
20:48
Speaker 3: was the worst part of the twenty twenty five season
20:51
Speaker 3: the fact that they get blew too many leads and
20:54
Speaker 3: blew too many knees out.
20:55
Speaker 2: Injuries. Yeah, I mean, that's what it is. And that's the.
20:58
Speaker 5: Challenge with that is it's not necessarily something you can
21:01
Speaker 5: control when you're talking about NFL teams because obviously the
21:04
Speaker 5: injury rated one hundred percent in a lot of ways, right.
21:06
Speaker 5: Injuries are part of the game, especially in this game,
21:08
Speaker 5: but when it's the one thing that you feel is
21:10
Speaker 5: holding you back or one of the main things holding
21:12
Speaker 5: you back, it is a frustrating thing to sort of
21:15
Speaker 5: deal with. So pretty interesting guys. Drafted kickers and packer history.
21:19
Speaker 2: Is a mixed bag.
21:21
Speaker 5: And Carlson say what you will, Bret Conway disaster, Mason
21:25
Speaker 5: Crosby fantastic, So we'll see how it goes with Tray
21:28
Speaker 5: s Meg Long well drafted too, he was undrafted, undrafted,
21:32
Speaker 5: he was the understudy for Brett Conway took his job
21:34
Speaker 5: and Brett never saw a snap took his job in
21:37
Speaker 5: that preseason.
21:37
Speaker 2: Basically, doesn't Smack have the same kicking coach that Mason
21:41
Speaker 2: Crosby did. He's from Baltimore. Yeah, I sure hope so.
21:45
Speaker 3: More than anything, I love the celebrations from Trey Smack
21:49
Speaker 3: into it. They got a guy that you want to
21:53
Speaker 3: see out there. Definitely needs some moxie out there.
21:56
Speaker 2: I want my kicker to be rolling up bones like
21:58
Speaker 2: Rebay after a hundred.
22:01
Speaker 5: When you have a nickname like Trey is a kicker,
22:03
Speaker 5: like you automatically have like some sort of street cred
22:06
Speaker 5: James Trey James.
22:08
Speaker 1: Yeah.
22:08
Speaker 5: So like like, you guys aren't call I know, I'm
22:10
Speaker 5: a kicker and it is still a football opera in
22:12
Speaker 5: the Billishchmids of the world. Want to give me no
22:13
Speaker 5: street cred, But you guys aren't call me James. You're
22:16
Speaker 5: calling me Trey, and I'm Smack And let's go and
22:18
Speaker 5: we're gonna do some some fun things like this. I'm
22:21
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say I'm hopeful for him. I'm I'm hopeful
22:23
Speaker 5: for the best SEC kicker. Let's make it happen, and
22:26
Speaker 5: I'm hoping this turns out to be very well, with
22:29
Speaker 5: the end up having to carry two again like they
22:31
Speaker 5: did for a while practice squad.
22:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's a possibility.
22:36
Speaker 3: I think the one the one thing is that this
22:38
Speaker 3: probably eliminates the opportunity for UH any of the international
22:42
Speaker 3: Pathway players to be kickers. I think this might this
22:45
Speaker 3: might take that this one away. Also some players from
22:48
Speaker 3: the state going. Billy Schroth was sweet. He went right
22:53
Speaker 3: after Max Brettison Arrowhead High School, former quarterback turned fullback
22:57
Speaker 3: and tight end at Michigan.
22:58
Speaker 2: A walk on to a round pick was pretty sweet.
23:01
Speaker 3: Reed Breckheimer, tight end from the Carroll University getting a
23:05
Speaker 3: rookie camp try out with the Miami Dolphins.
23:08
Speaker 2: Pretty cool.
23:08
Speaker 3: We like seeing that, Hey, maybe his way on. Yeah,
23:11
Speaker 3: well for the first time since I think the seventies
23:14
Speaker 3: and know wiscons Spider's taking that. Yeah, we'll talk about
23:16
Speaker 3: that and the passion that.
23:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the path Now sixty percent of the guy's
23:21
Speaker 2: chosen over the weekend played in the SEC and the
23:23
Speaker 2: Big ten. Yeah, it was like next to no fbs
23:27
Speaker 2: and next to no like it's and has the influence
23:30
Speaker 2: it's yeah, it's about it was about fifteen guys.
23:32
Speaker 3: Dudey did a really nice job of seeing you know what, No,
23:35
Speaker 3: I mean we we we had some small school guys
23:37
Speaker 3: on our board that we were really intrigued with.
23:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, we totally sure, sure, yeah, we totally all right.
23:43
Speaker 2: We're off and running, shooting shirts, coming off, watch your
23:45
Speaker 2: input game balls and kicks, the balls in the offing
23:48
Speaker 2: Today a special edition of the Huddle. We'll be talking
23:51
Speaker 2: to Bill Schroeder from Brewers Tom Now he's going to
23:54
Speaker 2: join us at seven thirty. Him and Ba were amazing yesterday.
23:58
Speaker 2: A great weekend for them. That's a great for the Brewers.
24:00
Speaker 2: But it was a great game yesterday. And this is
24:03
Speaker 2: Juse Harrison was alombre he was. And your song here
24:06
Speaker 2: drew in the way out the last Yeah, super Tram
24:08
Speaker 2: had a banger man. I heard the song coming out
24:10
Speaker 2: of radios a lot, No, no, never one of my favorites.
24:14
Speaker 2: We're off and running. It's the Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
24:30
Speaker 2: What's it through? From fifty four yards out?
24:40
Speaker 3: Arman with his kicking crush already, only the excitement Joe
24:43
Speaker 3: Tessa Tour can provide may smack it works out perfectly,
24:51
Speaker 3: hitting trays and smacking kicks. And maybe also if he
24:54
Speaker 3: can hit a little bit. I mean, like if he
24:56
Speaker 3: gets like one tackle, you just got smacked, Like that's
25:00
Speaker 3: gonna be a phenomenal one to be able to fire
25:02
Speaker 3: out if indeed he has to be the security blanket
25:05
Speaker 3: on special team indeed, And and the kids are already
25:07
Speaker 3: saying he has aura not.
25:08
Speaker 5: I think it's just based on this like one picture
25:11
Speaker 5: of him with like shades on and a mustache holding
25:14
Speaker 5: the football out.
25:14
Speaker 2: I'm not really sure. And it's like swaggy on that.
25:17
Speaker 5: Now they're putting it with like fireballs in the back,
25:19
Speaker 5: and I gotta say it is a little bit of
25:21
Speaker 5: like if Magic Snyman was ai in that picture, a
25:25
Speaker 5: little bit of Madge Snyman, Like I'd watch out.
25:27
Speaker 3: I'd watch out on the Schneinmann takes he's doing. He's
25:30
Speaker 3: doing get behin the scenes and influencer. Now if you're
25:33
Speaker 3: doing get me get ready with me videos here coming
25:35
Speaker 3: on pretty soon.
25:36
Speaker 2: I watched out.
25:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me taking over the internet. But I did see, uh,
25:41
Speaker 3: seven to one five said, I really hope that it's
25:44
Speaker 3: an actual kicking conference.
25:45
Speaker 7: Uh.
25:45
Speaker 3: I surely hope the kicking competition is truthful and Smack
25:48
Speaker 3: gets a chance, because that's definitely one position that bid
25:51
Speaker 3: us last year. I think it's pretty clear and obvious
25:54
Speaker 3: he's gonna get more than a chance to go in here.
25:57
Speaker 3: Rarely is the rookie the guy that you for sure
26:00
Speaker 3: want to win the job. They absolutely want him to
26:02
Speaker 3: win the job. And it's not just because they don't
26:05
Speaker 3: like Brandon McManus or they didn't appreciate the way that
26:08
Speaker 3: he responded last You draft a kicker, you're damn well
26:12
Speaker 3: hoping that that guy is the player that you anticipate
26:14
Speaker 3: being for the next ten years, trying to finally rectify
26:18
Speaker 3: the fix the position since Crosby left five years ago.
26:22
Speaker 2: No doubt, you know.
26:23
Speaker 5: And and the thing is McManus obviously, you know, filled
26:26
Speaker 5: the role for a time, but did struggle there at
26:27
Speaker 5: the end of the year. And I would think the
26:29
Speaker 5: only thing you hate more as a GM and a
26:31
Speaker 5: team staff like that with a kicker missing kicks in
26:34
Speaker 5: big games is one that's also costing you more money
26:36
Speaker 5: than a rookie kicker would like. I would imagine that
26:39
Speaker 5: doesn't make you very happy. So yeah, without it, without
26:42
Speaker 5: it goes without saying I think it's obviously going to
26:44
Speaker 5: be a competition.
26:45
Speaker 2: In fact, I would almost say Smack is a leg up,
26:47
Speaker 2: no pun intended, he's got he's got a definite better footing.
26:52
Speaker 2: Well done, Yeah, his is it his to lose or
26:55
Speaker 2: I mean I would say so, Drew like, I mean yeah,
26:58
Speaker 2: it's almost like yeah McMahon.
27:02
Speaker 4: Yeah.
27:03
Speaker 3: And we've seen this now last four or five years
27:06
Speaker 3: that there's been a legit kicking competition in Green Bay
27:10
Speaker 3: during training camp, and it will be one of the
27:12
Speaker 3: most tracked things because it's one of the only things
27:14
Speaker 3: that you actually can track during training camp and none
27:17
Speaker 3: of it ultimately matters. Like Justin and Jacksonville said, I
27:20
Speaker 3: hope Tray can kick in the cold. Uh, well, we're
27:22
Speaker 3: not gonna know that until he's already made the team
27:24
Speaker 3: and he's kicking the most important kicks of the season.
27:28
Speaker 3: It's the toughest part of that job. And I thought
27:31
Speaker 3: Goody said it really well after the draft on Saturday,
27:35
Speaker 3: where he was like, yeah, we understand that there's gonna
27:37
Speaker 3: be growing pains. Tough thing is when a left guard
27:39
Speaker 3: goes through growing pains, we can still break a twenty
27:42
Speaker 3: yard gain and win the play, lose the game when
27:45
Speaker 3: this is the guy. But you got to be able
27:46
Speaker 3: to find some kind of patients with it, and I
27:49
Speaker 3: think they're going to have more than enough patients there.
27:51
Speaker 3: I also think Mike went on the YouTube comments has
27:53
Speaker 3: a good point. Best thing they did this weekend was
27:56
Speaker 3: extending Jayden Reid, especially for the number that they got
27:59
Speaker 3: read locked in at Drew. I thought three years, fifty million,
28:03
Speaker 3: twenty of it guaranteed. We'll see exactly how it breaks down, uh,
28:08
Speaker 3: with the economics of it, but that's a dude that
28:11
Speaker 3: in a contract for a second to third wide receiver
28:15
Speaker 3: is incredibly bargain basement if he can be the player
28:20
Speaker 3: that you thought he was going to be after his
28:21
Speaker 3: rookie year, and it's been some catastrophic injuries for him,
28:25
Speaker 3: especially this year. But he also got hurt on one
28:27
Speaker 3: of the sickest plays for the Packers in twenty twenty five,
28:30
Speaker 3: that touchdown touch that ended up getting called back against
28:32
Speaker 3: the Commanders in week number two.
28:34
Speaker 2: My goodness, you can get us, get your opinions, your
28:37
Speaker 2: thoughts eight seven, seven, seven, nine four three broke the
28:39
Speaker 2: seal on the game balls and kicks the balls because
28:41
Speaker 2: I wanted to give one to Billion Wayne for their
28:43
Speaker 2: coverage and of course supported by Arman and Hunter. Yes,
28:46
Speaker 2: and Hunter was an MVP as always a ballpark again
28:49
Speaker 2: give him fact. In the next segment of the program,
28:52
Speaker 2: we'll be hearing Hunter's recap, presented by import minded of
28:55
Speaker 2: the Brewers victory yesterday. Now interestingly, I like that we're
28:59
Speaker 2: recapping now one. Interestingly, Yeah, we didn't uh like that
29:03
Speaker 2: we didn't get the the scheen Scheens shoving on Friday
29:06
Speaker 2: night and then the disappointment of Saturday. Yikes, extra innings.
29:11
Speaker 5: They get salvage one though, you know that mark? Yeah, well,
29:14
Speaker 5: I used to hear the mark of good teams that
29:16
Speaker 5: they don't get swept.
29:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know the reverberations because you know, here
29:21
Speaker 2: the Red Sox cleaned house with their manager and coaches,
29:25
Speaker 2: where the guy regard as one of the best at
29:27
Speaker 2: highest paid managers, halfway through a three year deal for
29:30
Speaker 2: alex Core. He gets greased and meanwhile like they stink
29:35
Speaker 2: on ice and the young pitcher that Matt Arnold fleest
29:39
Speaker 2: out of them truck out twelve guys yesterday.
29:41
Speaker 3: But we got to fire the manager and the coaches
29:44
Speaker 3: because you know that's the reason we're not winning. I
29:46
Speaker 3: love that the GM at the table in the press
29:50
Speaker 3: conference goes, uh, yeah, it's it's my fault, okay, but
29:54
Speaker 3: you're the one that keeps your job.
29:55
Speaker 2: I don't know exactly. I'm not fired myself that well,
30:00
Speaker 2: I'm not firing myself. But give it a year, a
30:02
Speaker 2: year and a half, and I'll be fired as well.
30:05
Speaker 2: Gave your money, bro, That's that's insane, right, Careful what
30:07
Speaker 2: you wish for?
30:08
Speaker 5: Well, just think of to think of the markets and
30:10
Speaker 5: the kind of touchstone franchises that are having frustrations and
30:13
Speaker 5: troubles in April right now. Talking about Phillies Mets Red Sox. Obviously, man,
30:18
Speaker 5: that's a cavalcade of angry fan bases.
30:20
Speaker 2: So that's twelve fifteen or something like that.
30:23
Speaker 5: Which is you know, I mean, and we it's only
30:26
Speaker 5: still April, and I'll keep saying that. You guys know
30:28
Speaker 5: how I love Flag Day. But the old ad is
30:31
Speaker 5: you can lose a division in April. I mean, maybe
30:34
Speaker 5: those that's what these teams are facing. There is time
30:37
Speaker 5: for all of them to turn around, which is why
30:38
Speaker 5: maybe that move has been made. But man, that that
30:41
Speaker 5: is some tough sledding for those three teams so far.
30:44
Speaker 3: I also love the that John Henry has just can
30:47
Speaker 3: become the most despised human being in Boston Sports. I
30:52
Speaker 3: mean their ownership group has just been continually carved up
30:57
Speaker 3: in the media for cutting costs, not necessarily Portland Trailblazers as,
31:03
Speaker 3: but I mean they're just slicing into salaries and operating
31:07
Speaker 3: like a small market team. It seems like you're in
31:09
Speaker 3: one of the biggest markets in the Army said want
31:11
Speaker 3: to touchdown franchise in.
31:12
Speaker 2: The sport they are for sure. It's a buster only
31:15
Speaker 2: called it like a Game of Thrones thing for the
31:17
Speaker 2: last several years, where they're just like Grease and GMS.
31:20
Speaker 2: I gotta fire this guy to keep my job and
31:22
Speaker 2: I gotta go, Which is interesting because on one hand,
31:25
Speaker 2: you can make the argument while we're doing it in
31:27
Speaker 2: the guys that we need to make moves to win
31:29
Speaker 2: to quote unquote what's our favoritability. Hold people are com
31:32
Speaker 2: hold people accountable, cut guys.
31:34
Speaker 5: Because when there's a frustration of losing, the pitchforks are out. Obviously,
31:38
Speaker 5: the torches and stuff about, hey, hold this guy connable,
31:41
Speaker 5: fire somebody, fire somebody. The more you do that, the
31:43
Speaker 5: more you're digging your hole deeper. And it's like quicksand
31:45
Speaker 5: so there's a couple of ways to look at it.
31:46
Speaker 5: But you're right, it's the cost cutting aspect of it.
31:48
Speaker 5: It's like, well, are we trying to win?
31:50
Speaker 2: Are we not?
31:51
Speaker 4: Or is this just you know?
31:54
Speaker 5: I always feel like when guys are when when when
31:56
Speaker 5: private equity and the like owns teams, Now it's us
32:00
Speaker 5: about this was our hometown ownered, this is our hometown team.
32:02
Speaker 5: It's more like, no, we're gonna run this thing. We're
32:04
Speaker 5: gonna run this shop like we do all of our
32:06
Speaker 5: other businesses. We're gonna try and cut the fat off
32:08
Speaker 5: and we're gonna try and win, but also do it
32:10
Speaker 5: with the right price and make the most money. And
32:13
Speaker 5: now that's gonna be a thing that fan bases are
32:14
Speaker 5: gonna have to reckon with even in the big markets.
32:17
Speaker 2: All right, So fan base is here like a heat check.
32:19
Speaker 2: On April twenty seventh, my boy Dan Needles posted the
32:23
Speaker 2: other time that was a good post.
32:24
Speaker 7: Yeah.
32:24
Speaker 2: The He is the sports director emeritus from wis On
32:27
Speaker 2: twelve in Milwaukee, spent many years here, Needles said. In
32:31
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety one, Packers were four and twelve. The Bucks
32:33
Speaker 2: began a thirty one and fifty one season. The Brewers
32:36
Speaker 2: finished fourth. He doesn't mention it, but they also ended
32:38
Speaker 2: up firing their manager and having a regime change. The
32:41
Speaker 2: Badger's football team was five and six. The UW hoops
32:44
Speaker 2: and Marquette basketball teams both missed the NCAA tournament that
32:47
Speaker 2: was nineteen ninety one. Said with that in mine, this
32:50
Speaker 2: current run isn't so bad. But in the last few months.
32:52
Speaker 2: The Packers made the playoffs but lost their last five games.
32:54
Speaker 2: The Bucks were abysmal. Badger's football team won four games
32:57
Speaker 2: and had no players drafted. Marquette was off. The UNWA
33:00
Speaker 2: basketball team had a nice season but lost to noted
33:02
Speaker 2: powerhouse High Point in the first round of the NCAA tournament,
33:06
Speaker 2: and the injury plag Brewers are in last place in
33:09
Speaker 2: late April. Maybe they can stop the twenty two eighty
33:11
Speaker 2: six run of Mah or maybe it'll be the Packers.
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Speaker 2: I would prefer not to revisit nineteen ninety one in
33:17
Speaker 2: Wisconsin sports. We've been spoiled by an amazing run. Yeah,
33:21
Speaker 2: he's not lying, definitely has definitely has a hit of
33:24
Speaker 2: skids here in twenty twenty sess and the Badger's not
33:28
Speaker 2: getting a player drafted is I mean, I guess it
33:31
Speaker 2: shouldn't be shocking because of the way you looked at it,
33:33
Speaker 2: but it is shocking.
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Speaker 1: It is.
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Speaker 3: It's really really stunning when it actually happens true, And
33:38
Speaker 3: I think Nick Brucewitz ran down the ramp on Saturday
33:41
Speaker 3: to defend the motion w and we appreciated that as well.
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Speaker 2: He mentioned it as well.
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Speaker 3: I think it's the first time ever in three consecutive
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Speaker 3: years they haven't had somebody drafted in the first two days,
33:53
Speaker 3: and it just it does show. It's again, it's not
33:56
Speaker 3: surprising because we all watched him go four and eight
33:59
Speaker 3: and we watched the lack of explosiveness from veteran players
34:04
Speaker 3: onto the team. But I really thought Mason Rger was
34:07
Speaker 3: going to get drafted at some particular point time.
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Speaker 2: I thought he was gonna go early in day three.
34:11
Speaker 2: He ends up not going on day three.
34:13
Speaker 3: I thought Eli heidenright, they're showing that celebration of the
34:16
Speaker 3: Navy kid getting drafted by the Steelers at two thirty.
34:19
Speaker 3: I thought he was going to go in the fifth.
34:20
Speaker 3: So it's always going to vary once you leave it
34:23
Speaker 3: up at that point. But I think the most frustrating
34:26
Speaker 3: one for a lot of Badgers fans is the guys
34:29
Speaker 3: that were former Wisconsin Batchers that have gotten drafted over
34:33
Speaker 3: the last couple of years, right like Jim Raydk goes
34:36
Speaker 3: fourth round and then is a first team Hall Pro
34:39
Speaker 3: returner in his first year in the NFL. You watch
34:43
Speaker 3: Skyler Bell, who was a third wide receiver at best
34:46
Speaker 3: at Wisconsin all of a sudden become a twelve hundred
34:50
Speaker 3: yard guy at Yukon and a fourth round pick. And
34:53
Speaker 3: Riley Nowakowski didn't necessarily know what his prospects would be
34:58
Speaker 3: ever touching the football, goes a national title and Indiana
35:02
Speaker 3: and was one of my favorite guys in the draft.
35:03
Speaker 3: So that part is even more frustrating when you see
35:07
Speaker 3: they've had talent, they have identified it, they did a
35:11
Speaker 3: decent job developing it, and then that talent at the
35:14
Speaker 3: end of the day said, you know what, I'm not
35:15
Speaker 3: gonna waste my last year's here. I'm gonna make some
35:18
Speaker 3: money and go somewhere else. That's that's a grave one,
35:21
Speaker 3: and especially for a team that is desperately needing some leadership,
35:26
Speaker 3: those guys all probably could have provided it. But Colton
35:29
Speaker 3: Joseph's ready. The Colton Joseph slinging the pill there in
35:33
Speaker 3: camp Randall. We got Mason Posa and Cooper Catalano right
35:37
Speaker 3: there anchoring the inside of the defense.
35:39
Speaker 2: Not gonna get drafted over the next couple of years.
35:41
Speaker 2: They got a couple more years in Madison, so we
35:43
Speaker 2: get some young players that are rolling through and the
35:45
Speaker 2: commitment from Jack Sorgy the legacy, right, so there you go.
35:49
Speaker 3: Don't look now, but their high school recruiting class is
35:52
Speaker 3: unbelievable for twenty twenty seven right now in almost all
35:55
Speaker 3: in state kids.
35:56
Speaker 2: Which is important.
35:57
Speaker 5: Right just to the point you made really quick, Billy,
35:59
Speaker 5: not just the guys that were at Wisconsin and drafted,
36:02
Speaker 5: but the guys from the state. Right there was a
36:03
Speaker 5: There was a decent amount of guys from the state
36:05
Speaker 5: of Wisconsin drafted, but they weren't Badgers. I think that's
36:08
Speaker 5: the first thing people like, wait, know the Wisconsin guy great, Yeah,
36:11
Speaker 5: and then's the that let down him, Like why wasn't
36:14
Speaker 5: the a major Badger used to be the best players
36:16
Speaker 5: That town was always in state.
36:17
Speaker 3: So okay from Greenfield High School got drafted this weekend.
36:20
Speaker 3: I also was remiss to uh shout out a couple
36:22
Speaker 3: other my d three guys in the state, uh ca
36:25
Speaker 3: Leb Bla, the quarterback from River Falls Gotta is getting
36:29
Speaker 3: a try out with the New Orleans Saints, and the
36:30
Speaker 3: Packers brought in your boy, Dane Walter from uw L.
36:34
Speaker 3: Now I can only imagine that might have been Goody's
36:36
Speaker 3: favorite call, bring bring in another lacrosse.
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Speaker 4: Go.
36:40
Speaker 3: He's gonna walk right by the by Gooty's office up there.
36:44
Speaker 3: Maybe he never actually gets up there and outside of
36:47
Speaker 3: the worst day of camp, but see that UWL helmet
36:50
Speaker 3: right there in the in the office, and know that
36:52
Speaker 3: he's got a good chance, Know that he's got at
36:54
Speaker 3: least a little bit of a leg up.
36:55
Speaker 2: Speaking of youw lacrosse, Hunter Baumgart matriculated there, and he
36:59
Speaker 2: is gonna give us his birwers recap broad est by
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Speaker 2: import mindor we're gonna spin through that as we before
37:04
Speaker 2: a good day at the ballpark. I Kyle Harrison shoved shouts,
37:08
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. We will cover that and more as
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Speaker 2: we move forward and get ready game balls and kicks.
37:13
Speaker 2: The balls firing up. Just after six, it's the huddle.
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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
37:22
Speaker 7: Started talking and stuff. Build a great relationship, no great
37:25
Speaker 7: due to talk to, but we're just talking. Talked a
37:27
Speaker 7: lot about football at the end of the day in
37:29
Speaker 7: his thought process of heise's the game and stuff. So
37:32
Speaker 7: there's really encouraging. So when you get a guy like that,
37:35
Speaker 7: he's a good player, but you're also able to talk
37:38
Speaker 7: ball and get a feel for him, it makes you
37:41
Speaker 7: even more comfortable with the guy.
37:43
Speaker 2: Packer scout Mike going on Brandon Ceesay, the first pick
37:46
Speaker 2: taken by the Packers at fifty two, cornerback South Carolina.
37:50
Speaker 3: You hear a lot, go Cox, You hear a lot
37:52
Speaker 3: about the do You hear a lot from a lot
37:55
Speaker 3: of different people during the draft. Mike Ohen was one
37:58
Speaker 3: of my favorites. My man's sounded awesome into a microphone.
38:02
Speaker 3: He needs more mic going. Oh, he's got potentially great pipes,
38:05
Speaker 3: great presence up at the at the front of the room.
38:08
Speaker 3: But I like the fact that kind of goes a
38:10
Speaker 3: little bit more into who the guy was and the
38:13
Speaker 3: recruitment and finding out who these guys are is Drew
38:16
Speaker 3: that ends up being so much of this. It's not
38:19
Speaker 3: just the the player and the athlete. All of these
38:22
Speaker 3: dudes are athletic, all of them are crazy twitchy, and
38:24
Speaker 3: all of them have skill sets that should translate. But
38:28
Speaker 3: it's what is in between the ears and what's in
38:30
Speaker 3: the chest that ultimately I think the finds who ends
38:32
Speaker 3: up being guys in the NFL totally.
38:34
Speaker 2: And he says like it doesn't seem like looking at
38:37
Speaker 2: his social and stuff, he's not lacking confidence, that's for sure. No,
38:41
Speaker 2: definitely you can't. But you need that. I want some.
38:44
Speaker 3: Bravado, especially at that position because you're gonna you're you're
38:47
Speaker 3: you're going to get burned more times than not.
38:51
Speaker 2: But you have to be able to have irrational confidence
38:54
Speaker 2: at that.
38:54
Speaker 5: Position, especially going up against the guys that had the
38:56
Speaker 5: biggest egos with your wide receivers.
38:58
Speaker 2: So it's ego on ego.
38:59
Speaker 3: You gotta give it back to it make a lot
39:01
Speaker 3: of times the most money is right, I mean, you're
39:02
Speaker 3: breaking up a seventy to eighty million dollars connections uncertainly,
39:06
Speaker 3: So that's a big part of it.
39:08
Speaker 2: That's right, all right? Eight seven seven seven three. Draft
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Speaker 2: was a big story. I think we'll get a Taylor
39:12
Speaker 2: Jenkins press conference at some point this week. Now we're talking,
39:15
Speaker 2: come on now, I'm excited for that. Brewers off again
39:18
Speaker 2: tonight today. But at least they get to sit on
39:20
Speaker 2: a victory because they beat the Pirates on Ghetaway Day. Yesterday,
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Speaker 2: Kyle Harrison shoved twelve strikeouts for the lefty Let's go
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Speaker 2: to our recap, our Brewers recap from Hunter Bomber at
39:29
Speaker 2: the hardest working man in sports journalism, Hunter Bombgart pride
39:32
Speaker 2: of UW at Lacrosse, and he was at the ballpark
39:35
Speaker 2: after producing much of the draft coverage and then dipping
39:39
Speaker 2: out of here uh to get to the on Saturday
39:42
Speaker 2: to get the ballpark, and then Sunday Here's Hunter's recap,
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Speaker 6: Thanks guys, Kyle Harrison was the story of Sunday afternoon
39:51
Speaker 6: and a five nothing Brewers who in over the Pittsburgh
39:52
Speaker 6: Pirates to snap their four game losing streak. He through
39:56
Speaker 6: six shutout innings, struck out twelve. That's the most strikeouts
39:59
Speaker 6: by Brewers left handed. You're in a game since Aaron
40:01
Speaker 6: Ashby back in twenty twenty two, and just one strikeout
40:03
Speaker 6: away from the most strikeouts in a game by a
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Speaker 6: left handed pitcher in Brewers franchise history. Can you name
40:08
Speaker 6: the two that have the record. They're tied with thirteen strikeouts.
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Speaker 2: I'll let you.
40:12
Speaker 6: I'll let you it's Teddy Higera and Eric Lower tied
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Speaker 6: for the franchise record by a left handed pitcher with
40:18
Speaker 6: strikeouts at thirteen. But Kyle Harrison told us what was
40:21
Speaker 6: working on Sunday afternoon for him.
40:23
Speaker 7: You know, it's tough to say, but I think just
40:24
Speaker 7: fastball command, you know, starting out and then as the
40:27
Speaker 7: Indians went on, I think it was just mixing the
40:29
Speaker 7: good amount of changeups.
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Speaker 2: I mean showed it early, so that was huge, just
40:33
Speaker 2: to let him go and thrown into his own And yeah, I.
40:36
Speaker 7: Thought the slider took a step four today and was
40:37
Speaker 7: able to east sixpand out of his own dead So yeah,
40:40
Speaker 7: tunneling was a little bit better today.
40:42
Speaker 6: And on the offensive side, five runs in the fourth
40:44
Speaker 6: inning was more than enough. David Hamilton his first extra
40:47
Speaker 6: base hit of the season, a double in that inning.
40:49
Speaker 6: They got five hits total in that fourth inning, and
40:51
Speaker 6: then the bullpen held it down as well. Trevor McGill,
40:54
Speaker 6: Aaron Ashby Abner ribe shutting out the Pirates. The Brewers
40:57
Speaker 6: are off today before they're back in action coming up
40:59
Speaker 6: to tomorrow night, so they host the Diamondbacks for a
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Speaker 6: three game series starting at six forty tomorrow night. This
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Speaker 2: Back to you guys, all right, thank you Hunter.
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna need more trivia every time. That was Fantasticler,
41:16
Speaker 5: she went the whole hold hole.
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Speaker 2: Eric, great. So my initial thought was Higera.
41:22
Speaker 5: But the other dominant left you I thought was easy
41:24
Speaker 5: and I got that one wrong, so that was pretty good.
41:26
Speaker 5: The other one I thought it was Mike Callwell possibly,
41:28
Speaker 5: but he was a sinker ball guy, right, drew a
41:30
Speaker 5: lot of ground balls, a lot of contacts for not
41:32
Speaker 5: a lot of strikeoups.
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Speaker 2: Brewers. They're thirteen and twelve, twenty five games in sound
41:37
Speaker 2: about right or fourteen fourteen, fourteen, thirteen, fourteen to thirteen,
41:41
Speaker 2: so they're above the equator. They're looking up at the division,
41:45
Speaker 2: but that's early. Nothing's getting away from him yet. Maybe
41:48
Speaker 2: the second in the in the NL East. Yeah, don't
41:50
Speaker 2: worry about that. With all the injuries too that they've
41:52
Speaker 2: had and they've gone seven games without leaving the yard.
41:56
Speaker 3: It's drew their Their lack of slug is a extremely
42:00
Speaker 3: evident right now.
42:01
Speaker 2: Not a small market rallies like that five run out
42:04
Speaker 2: burst was the Stinkers and like jam shots and seeing eyes.
42:08
Speaker 5: Which is okay, but obviously he got it at some point,
42:10
Speaker 5: have some slug and you know he concerned about that billy,
42:13
Speaker 5: you know so.
42:14
Speaker 3: Well, and all their slug is on the il. So
42:16
Speaker 3: I'll see if there's anything that can can fully rectify it.
42:19
Speaker 3: But I mean they need somebody to be able to
42:20
Speaker 3: step on a couple here, and if that's William Contreras
42:23
Speaker 3: or Bryce Trang important, But drew the Harrison trade when made,
42:29
Speaker 3: obviously people thought about it more as the Caleb Durban trade.
42:32
Speaker 3: That's gonna go down as the Kyle Harrison trade. Yes,
42:34
Speaker 3: it is a former number one overall prospect in baseball
42:40
Speaker 3: doesn't really get dealt that much, right it don't. It
42:43
Speaker 3: feels like that when you when you get one of
42:44
Speaker 3: those tags, it's hard for people to kind of shed it.
42:48
Speaker 3: And uh, I mean, he's been a grinder and a
42:51
Speaker 3: highly highly regarded dude for a long time. But for
42:55
Speaker 3: them to be able to get him in a mix
42:57
Speaker 3: of players either one is just uh, an oversight by
43:01
Speaker 3: two different teams that moved off of them in a
43:03
Speaker 3: couple of different trades. And also I think the Brewers
43:07
Speaker 3: and Matt Arnold are firmly becoming that team for different
43:11
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball squads. When all of a sudden the
43:13
Speaker 3: four one four number pops up, I'd be pretty worried
43:16
Speaker 3: about who they're asking for.
43:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean a little bit reticent to.
43:19
Speaker 3: Be dealing with anybody that the Brewers are identifying as
43:22
Speaker 3: a guy that they like.
43:23
Speaker 2: Red Sox fans are reeling because they fired Alex Corr,
43:27
Speaker 2: who people liked, you know, and they didn't think it
43:29
Speaker 2: was it was scapegoat season, right, so he gets greased,
43:32
Speaker 2: and it's like, why don't we look at the guy
43:34
Speaker 2: who traded away Quinn, Priester and Kyle Are.
43:38
Speaker 3: There's no way if I'm Craig Bresloy i'd ever answer
43:40
Speaker 3: on Matt Arnold. Yeah, And like David Hamilton's had some
43:43
Speaker 3: good moments for the Brewers as well. I'm probably more
43:46
Speaker 3: than Durban has had Durbin Homer the other day, Yeah,
43:49
Speaker 3: probably more than what Anthony, Yeah, my goodness.
43:53
Speaker 2: And Shane drawing drawn looks pretty good. I was gonna say,
43:55
Speaker 2: both pitchers look like they can plays like he can pitch.
43:58
Speaker 3: And the Brewers couldn't stop talking more about David Hamilton
44:00
Speaker 3: coming back, and David Hamilton almost ended that long ball
44:03
Speaker 3: streak yesterday.
44:05
Speaker 2: A lot of warning track power on this team right now,
44:07
Speaker 2: but he took.
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Speaker 7: It to it.
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Speaker 2: We're off and running. It's the Monday edition of the
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