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09/25/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Rolling through a Friday in the good land. It's the
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Speaker 1: huddle Fox sports radio, Wisconsin. You're a friendly three musketeers,
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Speaker 1: drew Billy and Armin bringing it to you. No sleep.
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Speaker 1: Who needs it? We're talking about the Packers. We're talking
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Speaker 1: about the Brewers. We're talking about whatever you want to
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Speaker 1: talk about on the, uh, Nicolay law.com. Talk text line. Eight, seven, seven, seven, nine, four,
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Speaker 1: one 97, three Packers getting to, to coin a phrase.
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Speaker 1: They got debacled last night.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. That's well put, uh, drew.
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Speaker 3: As well put.
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Speaker 1: They're 0-2 with an option. They could have been 0-3.
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Speaker 1: They went to overtime to beat the Jets and had
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Speaker 1: to come from behind to do it. They've been carved
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Speaker 1: up by Carson Wentz, Geno Smith, and now Michael Penix Jr.
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Speaker 1: in his first game back in, what, almost a year?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, 317-odd days it had been since he had played
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Speaker 4: a football game, Drew. And instead, he puts up 35 points,
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Speaker 4: the most allowed in a home season opener by the
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Speaker 4: Packers since 1971. And they've now also what in those
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Speaker 4: two games, Minnesota and Atlanta, an average of 37 points.
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Speaker 4: The only one that you're able to keep under 20
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Speaker 4: is the jets. And with those kinds of numbers, it's
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Speaker 4: going to be really, really difficult. to ever claim once again,
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Speaker 4: that this is a really, really good defense and that
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Speaker 4: they're going to win a lot of games because of them.
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Speaker 2: I would point out this, this is an oddity.
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Speaker 4: Probably the third game with each having 150 scrimmage yards,
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Speaker 4: unless ESPN is lying. That's the most by any duo
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Speaker 4: in NFL history. of Bijan Robinson and Drake London. I
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Speaker 4: don't know that that equates to winning because they haven't
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Speaker 4: done any of that in their career, but it sure
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Speaker 4: as hell worked last night. I mean a buck 94
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Speaker 4: a piece and it was systematic. The 10 targets and
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Speaker 4: nine catches for Drake London drew. I'm not going to
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Speaker 4: say it was room service, but But he was he
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Speaker 4: felt like a quick trip in Belgium that we stop
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Speaker 4: at on 43.
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Speaker 2: Always open.
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Speaker 5: Always, always, always making plays. Well, the thing is, there
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Speaker 5: was obviously, you know, you knew those were the talented
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Speaker 5: skill guys in their offense.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, Bijan.
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Speaker 5: Right. But I think it's the extreme to which you
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Speaker 5: had trouble with them. That was frustrating. We talked about
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Speaker 5: earlier in the first hour, you thought this defense was
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Speaker 5: going to be better equipped to stop the run the
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Speaker 5: way they had done it. Okay, the first two weeks
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Speaker 5: of all the problems the Packers have had, that wasn't
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Speaker 5: one stopping the run. So you're like, Bijan's talented, okay.
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Speaker 5: But did I think he's going to start touching cloth
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Speaker 5: on 200?
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Speaker 3: I didn't.
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Speaker 5: I just wasn't expecting that. Drake London, last thing you saw,
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Speaker 5: the Falcons receiving core yelling at fans, fighting with people
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Speaker 5: because they couldn't get the ball at all, talking about
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Speaker 5: why just absolutely a mess on the sideline. Next thing
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Speaker 5: you know, he goes out and shows people why he
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Speaker 5: has all that talent, but it's like You had to
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Speaker 5: let him dominate that much that easy, just running free
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Speaker 5: all over the place. And that was the frustration about
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Speaker 5: it is, you know, the Falcons were the team that
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Speaker 5: you think the Packers are going to come back after
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Speaker 5: that Jets game. Maybe your home home opener. You just
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Speaker 5: get that win. OK, now we circle the wagons. Now,
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Speaker 5: now we see the chicken soup team a little bit
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Speaker 5: or what you thought was that. this is the team
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Speaker 5: that should show the energy, show the fight, be prepared,
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Speaker 5: have energy, you know, be organized, maybe establish a game
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Speaker 5: in the trenches.
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Speaker 2: And it was the opposite.
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Speaker 5: It was the Falcons that were energized, the Falcons that
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Speaker 5: came back from their debacle and their own to start
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Speaker 5: and put the debacle on us. And I think that
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Speaker 5: was the, that was the part that was confusing, frustrating,
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Speaker 5: and hard to make sense of. Could I have seen
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Speaker 5: the Packers lose last night? Yes, of course, but not
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Speaker 5: like that.
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Speaker 2: I didn't see that.
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Speaker 1: No, not to be, completely overmatched and basically uncompetitive as
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Speaker 1: they were. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Um, here's one for you. This is, uh, comes via
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Speaker 1: Twitter from a fellow named Mike Renner. Billy familiar with
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Speaker 1: his work.
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Speaker 3: I'm familiar with his work on the bachelor.
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Speaker 1: CBS sports, NFL draft analyst, Reiner bowl scout. He replied,
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Speaker 1: he was a quote, Twitter, Rob Demofsky.
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: He was, that's cool. Um, He wasn't scamming people on
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Speaker 1: fantasy leagues or anything.
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Speaker 3: Was he?
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Speaker 2: No, not that I remember. I don't think he, I
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Speaker 2: don't think he was good enough.
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Speaker 1: Drew.
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Speaker 4: I think he tried to talk like all 22 with
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Speaker 4: her and she's like, yeah, I'm so sorry.
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Speaker 2: I'm not interested.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: He wouldn't be the first one that went from a
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Speaker 5: bachelor to a football analyst career.
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Speaker 2: All right, go ahead, Drew. Sorry.
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Speaker 1: He had a first guest last night. Cause Rob Domofsky
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Speaker 1: tweeted out the Packers offensive line, the starting offensive line.
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Speaker 1: Cause we weren't sure which way they were going to
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Speaker 1: go until they did. but it was Jordan Morgan at
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Speaker 1: left tackle Jagger Burton at left guard, his first start
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Speaker 1: Sean Ryan at center. And then they had Jacob Monk
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Speaker 1: at guard and Anthony Belton at right tackle on the
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Speaker 1: right side. Domofsky pointed it out. And Mike Renner replied
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Speaker 1: and said, the Packers have a guard playing center, two
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Speaker 1: centers playing guard and two guards playing tackle. Now that's
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Speaker 1: in the eyes of a draft guy, but is that a,
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Speaker 1: Billy is that a legitimate point that he made? Cause
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Speaker 1: those guys have dabbled at those positions.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of.
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Speaker 4: I mean, listen, I don't know where like Burton played
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Speaker 4: all over the place in college. I think some people
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Speaker 4: thought though that he would probably play center and maybe
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Speaker 4: guard just to get on the field. Monk was playing
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Speaker 4: center pretty much exclusively in college. played summit guard just
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Speaker 4: before he took over that job. But then, you know,
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Speaker 4: I still believe tackle is the most natural position for
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Speaker 4: Belton and Morgan. Now it's tough to see the way
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Speaker 4: Belton played it last night. It's hard to see that's
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Speaker 4: the full natural one. But I think with time, Morgan's
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Speaker 4: going to continue to improve.
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Speaker 2: I get it.
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Speaker 3: It's his third year in the league. It is his
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Speaker 3: third start there.
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Speaker 4: Like there's going to be, you have to give some
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Speaker 4: kind of time to be able to grow into the player.
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Speaker 4: You'll be that being said, drew these guys got to
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Speaker 4: grow up real quick, especially with like, and there's a
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Speaker 4: lot of conversation back and forth. Jerry and a plow
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Speaker 4: truck listed out all the top picks. that have, you know,
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Speaker 4: maybe been swings and misses some that are good. Some
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Speaker 4: that are not for, for Brian Gutekunst, like this is
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Speaker 4: a Matt Lafleur or Brian Gutekunst problem. Who is the blame?
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Speaker 4: It can be a yes. All things can be true,
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Speaker 4: but the only way that they're going to get out
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Speaker 4: of it is some of these ending up hitting and
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Speaker 4: Jagger Burton last night, wild tough to watch at times.
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Speaker 4: did have a couple of nice moments and you're going
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Speaker 4: to have to look and they're going to have to
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Speaker 4: try and grasp at the slight positives because the thing
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Speaker 4: is like a lot of people want you to go
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Speaker 4: in their scorched earth and this guy's going to get
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Speaker 4: ripped up and then they're going to bring in four
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Speaker 4: new players if they had four new players on the
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Speaker 4: waiver wire to be able to grab that would be
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Speaker 4: markedly better they would all be on rosters you're going
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Speaker 4: to have to now somehow be able to work through
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Speaker 4: and around your offensive line problem. And it can be
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Speaker 4: like driving a car with a bad engine. There's just
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Speaker 4: going to be days where that thing is not going
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Speaker 4: to rev up. And if you rev it once, it's
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Speaker 4: going to be hard to rev it again. It's going
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Speaker 4: to be a very, very hot and cold and very
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Speaker 4: streaky unit.
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Speaker 1: Because we were driving back, Billy, we didn't have time
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Speaker 1: as some of our crazy colleagues have already watched the
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Speaker 1: all 22. They've rewatched this game. It's not going to
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Speaker 1: get any prettier.
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Speaker 2: No way.
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Speaker 1: It was hideous in real time, both because we were
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Speaker 1: watching it in person, kind of on TV. We had
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Speaker 1: a good setup last night because of the Amazon thing.
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Speaker 1: For some reason, the delay wasn't as stark and you
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Speaker 1: could watch a play live. And as they were, as
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Speaker 1: they're unpiling the players, you look and it's the plays
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Speaker 1: unfolding on the laptop in front of me.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So it was kind of like double vision.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: We didn't have like a 20 second delay, but someone
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Speaker 1: on the talk and text line and I can't find it.
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Speaker 1: And I apologize because it's, you know, just general fatigue
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Speaker 1: and sluggishness. Someone had said, I were discounting the emotional
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Speaker 1: damage to use Armand's favorite phrase, emotional damage of the
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Speaker 1: blocked field goal. And yeah, you would have liked to
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Speaker 1: have had three points there, but then you say it's
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Speaker 1: going to be even more emotionally damaging when you watch
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Speaker 1: the film and see that Atlanta had 10 players on
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Speaker 1: the field and blocked the kick with 10 guys on
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Speaker 1: the field.
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Speaker 4: 10 guys on the field, unless they have some kind
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Speaker 4: of miracle dude that's standing in the back, trying to
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Speaker 4: Nathan Vasher the thing and take it back for 109 yards. No,
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Speaker 4: they had, they had 10 guys on the field and
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Speaker 4: just jumped right through your gap and maybe shoved your
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Speaker 4: face into the dirt.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: It was Marcus in Iowa. We underestimated the demoralizing factors.
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Speaker 4: He had a couple of good ones in here as well.
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Speaker 4: And It added to what was the most frustrating part
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Speaker 4: of the night where I did, even though when we
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Speaker 4: did on the line, I had picked the Packers and
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Speaker 4: I thought that they would cover the four and a half.
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Speaker 4: I did like that number. And I also liked the
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Speaker 4: under the Falcons damn near covered it by themselves. I
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Speaker 4: thought when they went for two drew to go up, 35, 14,
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Speaker 4: if they punched another one and they might just go
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Speaker 4: for it, they might just say, Matt gay, you're going
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Speaker 4: to take the rest of the night off. We, we
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Speaker 4: see you haven't been warmed up. We're just going to
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Speaker 4: go for two and just embarrass these cats. You did
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Speaker 4: realize that special teams can still be very much a
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Speaker 4: work in progress, even though it felt like it had
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Speaker 4: been fixed. The defense that you thought you were hanging
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Speaker 4: your hat on was a massive problem. The things that
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Speaker 4: you knew about were going to be a struggle were
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Speaker 4: but the ones that you counted on me maybe being
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Speaker 4: at least a little bit of a calling card ended
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Speaker 4: up being a wart last night good lord.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely and when things have gone bad for this team
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Speaker 5: they've gone bad at the worst opportune times through three
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Speaker 5: games i mean such momentum shifters uh the roughing the
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Speaker 5: you know you're up seven nothing it was like a
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Speaker 5: deja vu that viking opener where you get the three
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Speaker 5: and out you're about to get off the field. Okay,
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Speaker 5: we can get the ball back. We had offensive momentum.
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Speaker 5: Let's build on our lead. Boom, you know, they're roughing
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Speaker 5: the passer. And then the big run ripped off right
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Speaker 5: away by Bijan. Okay, you're trying to circle the wagons.
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Speaker 5: He gets back to 10-7. We can tie it here.
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Speaker 5: The block kick the worst opportune times. And the concerning
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Speaker 5: part seems to be when these adverse things happen, this
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Speaker 5: team is let, let it crush them. You can kind
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Speaker 5: of see it emotionally. And maybe that's, you know, the,
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Speaker 5: just the way we're feeling and we, and we pass
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Speaker 5: it on to them, but. it just feels like these,
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Speaker 5: they crush this team.
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Speaker 2: Is it how we're feeling Armin?
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Speaker 4: Or is it how, you know, and this is, I
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Speaker 4: think a fair criticism and a fair critique of, of Lafleur.
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Speaker 2: Is it how the coach feels?
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Speaker 5: Yeah. And it passes on. Yeah. Right.
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Speaker 4: Like, I mean the, the, the pucker factor that can
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Speaker 4: be felt in, you know, section one 20 last night,
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Speaker 4: drew when they go down 17, seven, I think is
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Speaker 4: quite probably palpable on the sideline as well for a
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Speaker 4: team that kind of runs a little hot and cold.
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Speaker 5: I saw Micah trying to coach harder than anybody last night.
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Speaker 2: Not listening.
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Speaker 1: Well, and, To Armand's point, it got so bad that
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Speaker 1: we had the body language police like Jordan Love should
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Speaker 1: be getting in his teammates' faces and not sitting with
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Speaker 1: a towel.
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Speaker 5: Over his head. Yeah, here we go with that stuff now, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, and Jordan Love, he has to play better.
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Speaker 1: He's not playing well. He's not playing up to the
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Speaker 1: standard that he has set even in recent years. But
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Speaker 1: he's also never been hurried, and he's got a historically bad,
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Speaker 1: or through three games anyway, we think, offensive line in
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Speaker 1: front of him. 15 quick pressures last night, 17 in Minnesota.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Billy, you made a great point on Packers OT last
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Speaker 1: night about the fact that LeFleur can't win because when
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Speaker 1: they had quick changes and when they've had opportunities and
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Speaker 1: when they've had drives that, okay, let's go, he'd run
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Speaker 1: the ball twice, get nothing, and then be third and long. Well,
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Speaker 1: last night there were a couple of times when he
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Speaker 1: threw the ball in first and second down incomplete and
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Speaker 1: still in third and long.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, still in turn.
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Speaker 4: I mean, they get the pick last night right at
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Speaker 4: midfield and you think boom dial up shot play.
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Speaker 2: Well, they hit Tucker craft for a short gain.
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Speaker 4: He was a check down because they couldn't block up
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Speaker 4: for the shot play and they had another incomplete pass
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Speaker 4: because they couldn't necessarily block up for the shot play
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Speaker 4: and then another incomplete pass and boom three and out
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Speaker 4: and you're punting it right back and you're not able
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Speaker 4: to capitalize. And again, your defense is right back on
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Speaker 4: the field. And at that, that was the three possessions
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Speaker 4: that it felt like you were holding your own. All right,
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Speaker 4: let's get to some, some comments here. Mad city brew.
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Speaker 4: It started before the block field goal, the BS call
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Speaker 4: on the cube hit on the QB. Then the score
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Speaker 4: that changed the game for Atlanta. That was our turning
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Speaker 4: point last night. Absolutely crushing. But again, unable to withstand the, the,
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Speaker 4: the blow is devastating. biggest problem and unable to play
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Speaker 4: somewhat of complimentary football. They've now, whether fair or foul,
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Speaker 4: been called for the most penalties in football. I believe
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Speaker 4: the most. personal foul penalties in football and they've had
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Speaker 4: a crushing one that again gives them a first down
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Speaker 4: twice last night when Atlanta didn't need any help getting
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Speaker 4: their 25 first.
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Speaker 5: Downs and I know I sound like a homer but
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Speaker 5: I think they're getting picked on a little bit I
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Speaker 5: mean it was so stark to see like Jordan Love
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Speaker 5: get hit sandwiched right after they called the one on
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Speaker 5: us now maybe it wasn't the same you go back
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Speaker 5: and look with a clear head you say okay maybe
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Speaker 5: there's a point there but It sure feels like a
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Speaker 5: frustrating thing for the Packers to deal with these personal fouls.
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Speaker 2: Will on YouTube. Will D, good morning, fellas.
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Speaker 5: In three games, the Packers have 146 rushing yards total
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Speaker 5: as a team. Bajon Robbins in 194 in one game
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Speaker 5: against the Packers on the road. Oh, he has emotional
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Speaker 5: damage right there when you put it that way.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 5: 17 yards is not going to cut it. That's the
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Speaker 5: other thing about a passing game. It's very difficult to
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Speaker 5: establish your passing attack when you can't protect and you
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Speaker 5: can't run.
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Speaker 2: And those.
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Speaker 5: things are pretty stark right now for the green Bay Packers.
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Speaker 5: Do they have to commit to the run more or
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Speaker 5: is it just, it doesn't work. So you don't do it.
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Speaker 5: It's a frustrating spot as a play caller.
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Speaker 2: I would imagine. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Well, in, I mean, It's also just going to be
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Speaker 4: tough to be able to get anything rolling drew with
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Speaker 4: your offense and, and any bit of your offensive line.
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Speaker 4: If you can't have some kind of a change up
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Speaker 4: in these safeties, aren't going to respect anything. They can
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Speaker 4: play cover to knowing that they can stop the run
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Speaker 4: with six guys. That's a really tough way to throw
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Speaker 4: the ball.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: There's a, there's a screen grab out there of a
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Speaker 1: Jordan love drop back where the Packers have seven offensive
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Speaker 1: players protecting love against five rushers and yet four of
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Speaker 1: the blockers are occupied by trying to stop two of
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Speaker 1: the defenders and then the the on the fringes there
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Speaker 1: are guys locked up in one-on-ones and one guy's just
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Speaker 1: running absolutely free unabated to the quarterback.
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Speaker 4: Barreling down on him before you i never played offensive
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Speaker 4: line and i've never coached the offensive line it's not ideal.
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Speaker 1: But that screen grab says to me something's screwed up
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Speaker 1: here Yeah. That was like as bad as it can.
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Speaker 4: Look that in and don't go. If that's a tough
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Speaker 4: one to watch, don't go and watch the fourth and
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Speaker 4: one down inside the 10. Cause again, it's either miscommunication
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Speaker 4: on the slide where Sean Ryan passes off to his
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Speaker 4: left thinking Jagger Burton's coming around. He's locked up with
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Speaker 4: a defensive tackle alone. And my man rips through come
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Speaker 4: Scott free and chases love into the decision to throw
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Speaker 4: the ball right at the face of Watson and the defender.
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Speaker 4: So every time that they needed to at least get
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Speaker 4: a couple of seconds of reprieve for love at the
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Speaker 4: top of his drop, it was a quick pressure. And
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Speaker 4: it did feel like every time that the offensive line
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Speaker 4: did hold up partially adequately. Again, I don't think it's
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Speaker 4: unfair to say, know that it's going to happen to him,
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Speaker 4: but love was so sped up that it felt like
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Speaker 4: he could barely even take advantage. This is Steve has
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Speaker 4: a couple of good ones on the talking text line.
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Speaker 4: Hey guys, talking about that hundred loss season for the
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Speaker 4: Brewers and now a hundred wins gives me hope that
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Speaker 4: our crappy Packers could turn it around a little sooner
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Speaker 4: rather than later. I don't see it happening this year,
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Speaker 4: but hopefully in one year, boom, go pack, go let's
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Speaker 4: go Brewers, but let's keep this going all the way
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Speaker 4: to the world series. He also did mention here and
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Speaker 4: maybe a good one, especially for our friends that are
16:14
Speaker 4: going to have uh you know family across the border
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Speaker 4: armin sarian with some of that as well yeah i
16:19
Speaker 4: know there's always holidays that are celebrated with people from
16:23
Speaker 4: illinois unfortunately yeah well before the season i was looking
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Speaker 4: forward to uh thanksgiving even christmas day now maybe not
16:30
Speaker 4: so much holidays might be right.
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Speaker 5: There were a couple times not many that we've had
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Speaker 5: to put our head in our hands a lot of
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Speaker 5: ball game left but there is i mean and there's
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Speaker 5: if you need some sort of hope I'd say there's
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Speaker 5: recent history in the NFL to give it to you.
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Speaker 5: Not the way this team's playing right now, but the
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Speaker 5: fact that things do change quickly in this league. And
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Speaker 5: they have changed quickly. Just a few years ago, the
16:49
Speaker 5: Packers were, what, 2-5, Billy, or 3-6? Turn this whole
16:53
Speaker 5: thing around. It looked pretty bleak. And then they figured
16:57
Speaker 5: some things out.
16:58
Speaker 2: They got better.
17:00
Speaker 5: Went out, had a, you know, had a great end
17:02
Speaker 5: of the year, got a big playoff win, almost went farther.
17:05
Speaker 5: So I know hope is not a strategy, but I
17:08
Speaker 5: always say it is for fans. Like that's the strategy
17:11
Speaker 5: we have. I'm not coaching. I'm not personnel guy. I'm not,
17:14
Speaker 5: you know, going to be on the sidelines. I'm not
17:16
Speaker 5: going to be in the Donald Hudson center. I'm going
17:17
Speaker 5: to be doing what we do. So hope is my strategy.
17:20
Speaker 3: All right.
17:21
Speaker 5: So things do turn around quick in this league. That's
17:24
Speaker 5: all I'm going to say. I mean, they turned around
17:25
Speaker 5: quick for the Falcons in four days. Um, All you
17:30
Speaker 5: can do is say, Hey, maybe the Packers can figure
17:32
Speaker 5: something out somehow, some way. Yeah.
17:34
Speaker 1: You're not wrong. There's a lot of ball game left.
17:37
Speaker 1: And I don't think just based on the first three
17:39
Speaker 1: weeks that anybody in the North is going to be
17:41
Speaker 1: reeling off 13 or 14 wins.
17:44
Speaker 2: Good point.
17:44
Speaker 5: Yeah.
17:44
Speaker 3: I think it's going to remain rather competitive.
17:47
Speaker 4: Drew, our friend, Aaron Nagler, captain of at a ball
17:52
Speaker 4: game or a lot of ball game left did mention
17:55
Speaker 4: the last night at the moment. That kind of sounds
17:58
Speaker 4: like a threat.
17:59
Speaker 1: It is daunting.
18:02
Speaker 2: Like a lot of ball game left.
18:03
Speaker 4: Generally that gives you some confidence that it can get better.
18:07
Speaker 4: Maybe that just is a painful reminder that you got
18:09
Speaker 4: to watch it 14 more times.
18:11
Speaker 1: Charles Robinson, formerly of a Charles Robinson, formerly of Yahoo
18:16
Speaker 1: sports now writes for NFL blue book.com. Oh, we'll be
18:19
Speaker 1: groomsmen by the way.
18:21
Speaker 2: Oh, nice.
18:22
Speaker 1: He said, he points out that last season, the floor
18:24
Speaker 1: of the Packers were nine, three, and one since then,
18:27
Speaker 1: including the playoffs, they're one and seven. And their next opponent,
18:30
Speaker 1: we don't know what's going to happen in between, but
18:32
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles of the Buccaneers was 6-2 last season and
18:36
Speaker 1: is 2-9 since.
18:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're struggling too.
18:38
Speaker 3: That's not the place.
18:39
Speaker 2: I want to go.
18:40
Speaker 1: You combine those two teams' records, they were 15-5-1 last season.
18:44
Speaker 1: And since then, they're combined three and 16. Something's got
18:48
Speaker 1: to give it Raymond James.
18:49
Speaker 4: That's what I'm talking about. Something's got to give bowl.
18:52
Speaker 4: That's where you can shine. Cause I thought to myself,
18:55
Speaker 4: like nothing, nothing good.
18:56
Speaker 5: Even with our best teams, nothing as good as happened
18:58
Speaker 5: to us going to Dan Tampa. But I'm like, you
19:01
Speaker 5: know what? Maybe this is the, or something good has
19:03
Speaker 5: to happen. Cause it's not going good already here. So yeah,
19:06
Speaker 5: let's turn this thing around and hopefully it starts next week.
19:10
Speaker 1: Turn this thing around the longest day of the year.
19:14
Speaker 1: not in terms of sunlight or daylight, but in terms
19:16
Speaker 1: of our work day, we'll continue. And Scott Dolphin is
19:19
Speaker 1: going to join us next. We'll get a little relief.
19:21
Speaker 1: Our halftime correspondence can be, or we'll get his thoughts.
19:23
Speaker 1: And what do you think the bears thought when they
19:25
Speaker 1: watched that?
19:26
Speaker 2: They just laughed. They're happy.
19:28
Speaker 3: Just laugh for three hours.
19:29
Speaker 1: Play the Packers in 17 days. They probably just can't wait.
19:33
Speaker 2: Such chance in their living room.
19:34
Speaker 3: Yeah. They enjoyed that one last night.
19:36
Speaker 1: Yeah. That hate watch was very Scott Dolphin joins us.
19:38
Speaker 1: Dolphin joins us next. You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
19:44
Speaker 1: Fire your agent Friday.
19:47
Speaker 5: We like to call it.
19:49
Speaker 1: That's because... We're working. We're wheeling around the clock for folks.
20:13
Speaker 1: You know, I don't like to use the term hero.
20:14
Speaker 1: We're not going to name ourselves current electric superheroes of
20:17
Speaker 1: the day, but we'll consider the candidacy of Scott Dolphin
20:19
Speaker 1: from the country station on the hall who joins us
20:21
Speaker 1: to add some energy to our halftime program here.
20:24
Speaker 2: Hello, Dolph. I'm not worthy, Drew, but thank you for
20:26
Speaker 2: the nomination.
20:27
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. It's a pleasure just to be nominated.
20:30
Speaker 5: I'm going to nominate Billy. This day is already looking up.
20:32
Speaker 5: Billy fired up a pizza, so he made all of
20:35
Speaker 5: us feel a little better here.
20:36
Speaker 2: Thank you. I mean, it's still, it is still smoking hot.
20:39
Speaker 4: I was going to say, man, Dolph, that's a, that
20:41
Speaker 4: is a brave, brave move. You jumped on that thing.
20:45
Speaker 4: And I saw, I saw wiping the hands quickly. So
20:49
Speaker 4: that indicated you went up for the first bite, realized
20:53
Speaker 4: how scolding hot it was and said, ah, maybe I
20:56
Speaker 4: wait one more second.
20:57
Speaker 6: When I see pizza in front of me, I jumped
20:59
Speaker 6: because we don't eat it, you know, at home, you know,
21:01
Speaker 6: it's just the wife and I know the kids are
21:03
Speaker 6: long gone.
21:03
Speaker 2: So we don't eat a lot of pizza anymore.
21:05
Speaker 6: In fact, a couple weeks ago, I brought home those
21:07
Speaker 6: little bubbly crusts, and we made our own pizzas.
21:10
Speaker 2: That's a fun thing to do with the kids. That's
21:12
Speaker 2: the first time we've had pizza in probably a month
21:14
Speaker 2: or two.
21:14
Speaker 5: Do you have a place you go to down there
21:16
Speaker 5: where you're at normally to order, to pick up?
21:19
Speaker 2: Not really.
21:20
Speaker 6: I'm on the south side. There's one on Howell and Howard.
21:23
Speaker 6: I think it's MKE Pizza or something like that. It
21:25
Speaker 6: used to be Pepe's, and now it's like MKE. It's
21:28
Speaker 6: been there for 1,000 years. It's just a carryout.
21:30
Speaker 2: You just go in. It's a counter. You get your pizzas,
21:32
Speaker 2: and you carry out. There's no place. It's not a
21:34
Speaker 2: dining room or anything.
21:35
Speaker 7: Yeah.
21:36
Speaker 2: That's probably the one I go to most.
21:37
Speaker 5: It feels like you got to have something, you know,
21:39
Speaker 5: when you're wherever you're living, everyone's got their carryout spot
21:41
Speaker 5: or yeah, absolutely.
21:43
Speaker 1: It's funny how that goes in cycles. You might have
21:45
Speaker 1: like pizza once a week for three months and then
21:48
Speaker 1: not have it for a while.
21:49
Speaker 5: Yeah.
21:50
Speaker 1: It's a streaky food.
21:51
Speaker 2: Yes, it is.
21:51
Speaker 4: And it's, that's why whenever it gets brought up as the, well,
21:55
Speaker 4: I could, could you go the rest of your life
21:57
Speaker 4: without pizza? If you're in that one binge where you
21:59
Speaker 4: haven't had it in a month, you're like, yeah, yeah,
22:02
Speaker 4: I could. And then it, when you're living on it,
22:04
Speaker 4: like during football season, probably twice a week on a,
22:07
Speaker 4: on a Palermo's.
22:07
Speaker 2: Yeah.
22:08
Speaker 3: And there's no chance I'll give up.
22:09
Speaker 6: It's still the one everybody says, you know, well, if
22:12
Speaker 6: that's the only thing I could eat for the rest
22:13
Speaker 6: of my life, they're picking pizza because you can diversify
22:16
Speaker 6: so much. I mean, if you want a vegetarian pizza,
22:18
Speaker 6: I don't know why you would, but I mean, if,
22:20
Speaker 6: you know, just to, you know, cut down on your
22:21
Speaker 6: cholesterol or whatever, but then you can go back to
22:23
Speaker 6: the three meat lovers or whatever.
22:26
Speaker 4: I like that little breakfast pizza. You can tell yourself
22:28
Speaker 4: that that's good.
22:29
Speaker 5: But you have to know your go-tos. I feel like,
22:30
Speaker 5: you know, it's sort of like when you're a quarterback,
22:33
Speaker 5: you have to know your hot routes. You have to
22:34
Speaker 5: know your go-to pizza pickups in your area because that's
22:37
Speaker 5: like the go-to when you're really in need of something.
22:40
Speaker 5: And when you're moved somewhere, it's hard to really get, get,
22:44
Speaker 5: you know, accustomed to that. Like Laura moved up here
22:47
Speaker 5: when we got married and she wasn't aware of the people,
22:49
Speaker 5: but she had like, was going to order something. I'm like, Well,
22:51
Speaker 5: why'd you order from Ned's? I mean, that's so far
22:54
Speaker 5: down 27th Street. But she had no idea. She ordered
22:57
Speaker 5: from Marco's, but not Marco's World Famous Original on.
23:01
Speaker 2: 27th and College.
23:02
Speaker 5: She ordered from the Marco's chain, so I went to
23:03
Speaker 5: the wrong Marco's. So you have those moments.
23:06
Speaker 2: But it's okay.
23:07
Speaker 5: You get through them. That's what it's all about. And
23:08
Speaker 5: then you learn the pizzas in your area. So it
23:11
Speaker 5: is kind of, you know, it's one of those things
23:13
Speaker 5: you get used to.
23:13
Speaker 2: Sounds like you're a little hurt from that one. Go ahead.
23:16
Speaker 2: It's a memory. It's a memory that I shared here.
23:18
Speaker 3: It was a choice.
23:19
Speaker 5: Dolph.
23:19
Speaker 1: Adolfo, I want you to get in the DeLorean for
23:22
Speaker 1: us here and tell us, because Packers are sitting at
23:25
Speaker 1: 1-2 and they got debacled last night in their home opener. Uncompetitive, unprepared, incompetent, inept,
23:32
Speaker 1: whatever adjectives you want to use. Is my memory right?
23:35
Speaker 1: Did the Bears open last season? 1-2, they were 0-2,
23:38
Speaker 1: and then they went and got a win?
23:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got clocked by the Lions.
23:43
Speaker 6: They had a very disappointing home loss to the Vikings
23:46
Speaker 6: on Monday Night Football to start the season.
23:48
Speaker 2: And they got J.J. McCarthy.
23:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, they got J.J.
23:51
Speaker 2: McCarthy.
23:51
Speaker 6: And then and then and then, you know, Detroit embarrassed him.
23:54
Speaker 6: And you're thinking, oh, my God, this is going to
23:55
Speaker 6: be a four win campaign again. And hopes are so high.
23:59
Speaker 6: But they turned it around and and turned into a
24:01
Speaker 6: pretty nice season, Drew.
24:03
Speaker 1: I'm looking for silver linings here.
24:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one.
24:06
Speaker 1: And two last year and then won the division. there's
24:09
Speaker 1: a lot of ball game left.
24:10
Speaker 3: A lot of ball game left.
24:11
Speaker 4: And, and there were moments there when they went to
24:14
Speaker 4: Detroit where it looked like there was no chance that
24:16
Speaker 4: it was going to get better. So I'd like where
24:17
Speaker 4: you're going with that. And there was at that point,
24:21
Speaker 4: they weren't running the football for, for six touchdowns on
24:24
Speaker 4: the crowd.
24:24
Speaker 3: Like they did in week one here.
24:25
Speaker 4: It is, it's, It's a wild difference from where you
24:30
Speaker 4: were a little more than 365 days ago.
24:33
Speaker 3: We were up there for a Thursday night game.
24:35
Speaker 4: It was the second game of the year last year, Dolph.
24:37
Speaker 4: And the Packers played the Commanders four days after kind
24:41
Speaker 4: of beating up the Lions, who were still at that
24:45
Speaker 4: moment the class of the NFC and the class of
24:47
Speaker 4: the division. The Commanders had just played for the right
24:50
Speaker 4: to go to the Super Bowl, and you kind of
24:52
Speaker 4: pants them and expose Jane Daniels.
24:55
Speaker 3: I mean, people were maybe not.
24:56
Speaker 4: Booking rooms, but just looking at what prices were going
24:59
Speaker 4: to be like in Santa Clara. And now the furthest
25:02
Speaker 4: thing from your mind could be Los Angeles, let alone
25:05
Speaker 4: the playoffs.
25:06
Speaker 6: Last night was not encouraging. I can tell you that
25:09
Speaker 6: as an outsider looking in. I mean, you know, my
25:11
Speaker 6: friends had said, oh, you know, they hated the Jets game.
25:15
Speaker 2: It was an ugly win.
25:16
Speaker 6: They didn't deserve to win and they didn't have high
25:19
Speaker 6: hopes for the season, but they thought they would take
25:21
Speaker 6: care of the Falcons and And Atlanta comes out looking
25:24
Speaker 6: like the Super Bowl hopeful from the NFC. I mean,
25:26
Speaker 6: my God, you talk about the best running. You can
25:30
Speaker 6: argue this if you want. That's the best running back
25:31
Speaker 6: in the NFL right there in B.
25:33
Speaker 2: John Robinson.
25:33
Speaker 6: I mean, the moves he made last night were ridiculous. Now,
25:37
Speaker 6: like you said, they were unprepared on defense for it, Drew.
25:40
Speaker 6: And there's no excuse for that. But that kid is
25:43
Speaker 6: freaking amazing to watch. And, you know, barring injury, he's
25:47
Speaker 6: going to be the best running back in the NFL
25:49
Speaker 6: this year.
25:50
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's a pretty good one, two punch.
25:52
Speaker 5: Yeah.
25:52
Speaker 2: The Robinson brothers, right?
25:54
Speaker 1: Yeah.
25:54
Speaker 5: Yeah.
25:55
Speaker 1: And we, we talked about that penalty on Brenton Cox,
25:58
Speaker 1: the questionable roughing the passer. And we made it our
26:00
Speaker 1: Toyota turning point on the Packers OT program. Here's a
26:04
Speaker 1: stat for you going into that play. The Packers had
26:07
Speaker 1: allowed 50 yards and had a takeaway in the first
26:09
Speaker 1: 12 defensive plays. First 12 plays for the Falcons offense.
26:14
Speaker 1: The play immediately after that was like a 55 yard
26:16
Speaker 1: run by Bijan in the 54 plays after that penalty.
26:21
Speaker 1: the Falcons gained 448 yards, an 8.2-yard average per play.
26:27
Speaker 6: It was like arena football out there at times between
26:29
Speaker 6: Robinson and Drake London. I mean, it was like, even
26:32
Speaker 6: when the Packers got a little momentum, okay, they scored
26:34
Speaker 6: a touchdown, here we go.
26:35
Speaker 2: And it was a minute and a half later and
26:37
Speaker 2: Atlanta was down on your eight yard line.
26:38
Speaker 3: And it was just, it was, it was easy pickings.
26:42
Speaker 4: The Drake London phenomenon last night, I thought they were
26:46
Speaker 4: going to get him 10 targets. I didn't know it
26:48
Speaker 4: was going to be nine catches and it was going
26:49
Speaker 4: to feel like room service. The one against Bullard on,
26:52
Speaker 4: on what, I mean, some kind of similar to like
26:54
Speaker 4: a skinny post up the seam. where he's the second
26:57
Speaker 4: of the trip's formation. They put him in the slot
26:59
Speaker 4: a bunch. They got him in good, advantageous positions, but
27:02
Speaker 4: he turned him around quickly, and he's just such a
27:05
Speaker 4: big target. You put it anywhere near him, and he's
27:08
Speaker 4: going to be cooking. The other part for Penix is
27:12
Speaker 4: he had played in big games before. You almost forget
27:14
Speaker 4: that he played in the national title a couple of
27:15
Speaker 4: years ago. He's the one that's still starting from that
27:18
Speaker 4: national title game.
27:19
Speaker 6: He's a guy you want to root for when you
27:21
Speaker 6: think about when he was at Indiana, and then he
27:23
Speaker 6: had the catastrophic injury. And then he goes to the
27:26
Speaker 6: Huskies and almost wins a natty. And, you know, so
27:28
Speaker 6: it's a guy that, you know, it's a, it's a
27:30
Speaker 6: nice story.
27:31
Speaker 4: He was at Indiana when it wasn't cool to say
27:33
Speaker 4: that's true before they were good.
27:35
Speaker 2: That's true.
27:35
Speaker 6: But he was putting up big numbers there too. And
27:37
Speaker 6: that's the reason he got the ride at Washington. But
27:40
Speaker 6: you didn't expect him to do that last night. We
27:41
Speaker 6: were talking, I went to, you know, we played a
27:43
Speaker 6: little golf yesterday and then we're watching the Brewers and
27:45
Speaker 6: Packers last night. We were talking, you know, can you,
27:47
Speaker 6: who is your, who's your favorite left-handed quarterback? When we
27:50
Speaker 6: watched Michael Pennix last night, And a lot of names
27:52
Speaker 6: popped up.
27:52
Speaker 2: You guys have one. I always think old school, you know,
27:54
Speaker 2: like Kenny Stabler, guys like that.
27:56
Speaker 5: Well, Steve Young is the one.
27:57
Speaker 2: Steve Young is probably the gold standard. Yeah.
27:59
Speaker 5: Boomer Esiason was another one. Brunel was my personal because
28:03
Speaker 5: he was a packer. Sure. Well, Larry pointed out that
28:06
Speaker 5: they had a left-handed operation. Left-handed center and left-handed quarterback,
28:09
Speaker 5: which is pretty weird. Yeah, how about that?
28:11
Speaker 6: A left-handed center. So is it like in baseball with
28:15
Speaker 6: first base? Do you have to get a special hiking
28:18
Speaker 6: glove when you're a left-handed center?
28:20
Speaker 4: You just got to get all the left-handed footballs. I
28:23
Speaker 4: would potentially... No, I can't say potentially it's a guarantee
28:27
Speaker 4: for me. Best left-handed quarterback. My favorite one of all time.
28:31
Speaker 4: Rest in peace to the hefty lefty Jared Lorenzo.
28:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure.
28:34
Speaker 4: That would definitely still be the number one that anytime.
28:38
Speaker 2: I see the Southpaw delivery back there, I think a 13.
28:40
Speaker 6: Armand played game time with us a couple of weeks ago,
28:42
Speaker 6: and that was one of his trivia questions. I gave
28:44
Speaker 6: him sports nicknames, and he nailed the hefty lefty right
28:46
Speaker 6: off the bat.
28:47
Speaker 5: I just remember when it was Arena League where he
28:49
Speaker 5: was running around like that.
28:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, people with the Northern Kentucky River Monsters.
28:53
Speaker 2: That's what it was.
28:54
Speaker 5: It was some crazy uniform.
28:57
Speaker 4: The Owensboro Rage, dude. He was putting up huge numbers
29:02
Speaker 4: in 13. Just unreal.
29:03
Speaker 5: You got me thinking about lefty quarterback.
29:05
Speaker 2: Stabler is a great one. The snake. Obviously, we soon
29:07
Speaker 2: mentioned Vic. Oh, that's right. Yeah.
29:10
Speaker 1: Yeah. Especially when a, there's a guy wearing number seven
29:13
Speaker 1: running rough shot over you.
29:15
Speaker 2: It brought back to 2001 or 2002.
29:17
Speaker 5: Yeah. And how many people had to post the, you know,
29:21
Speaker 5: the highlighter imagery of the playoff wildcard loss. That was the,
29:26
Speaker 5: that was in 2000 and a what three.
29:28
Speaker 2: Is that what it was?
29:29
Speaker 5: That one of the Packers.
29:30
Speaker 2: Lost the Falcons at Lambeau in the wildcard.
29:32
Speaker 3: And I had to watch that all week.
29:34
Speaker 5: Yeah. Bad mojo, you know, so just not agree.
29:37
Speaker 3: Well, the Falcons called upon it. They put it out.
29:39
Speaker 1: Yeah.
29:40
Speaker 3: Yesterday before the game. And, and it was exactly that.
29:43
Speaker 4: The other thing about Robinson and just how dominant he
29:48
Speaker 4: was on the ground. He did a lot of that
29:49
Speaker 4: at Texas, but it was also for a team that,
29:53
Speaker 4: before they kind of got good before sark really got
29:55
Speaker 4: there had a lot of empty calories people wondered if
29:57
Speaker 4: he was going to be able to do that in
29:59
Speaker 4: the nfl or if he was going to be kind
30:01
Speaker 4: of cooked because of how much they gave it to
30:04
Speaker 4: him in college uh flies in the face of the
30:08
Speaker 4: workload being an issue for.
30:09
Speaker 6: Him yeah that backfield by the way had three running
30:12
Speaker 6: backs that are now in the nfl i know rashaun
30:14
Speaker 6: johnson was part of that he's a backup for the
30:16
Speaker 6: bears now there's a kid at carolina too but I mean,
30:19
Speaker 6: the Falcons knew right away he wasn't damaged goods, and
30:22
Speaker 6: they snapped him up early, and boy, is it going
30:24
Speaker 6: to pay off. I mean, God, it was ridiculous watching
30:27
Speaker 6: him last night. It was almost like he was going
30:29
Speaker 6: against high schoolers out there, the moves he was making.
30:32
Speaker 2: Guys weren't even close to getting a hand on him.
30:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, it looked like Kingston Allen. Yeah, and he's playing
30:39
Speaker 4: for Notre Dame prep. So that might be the worst
30:44
Speaker 4: deal that it looked like Friday night football.
30:46
Speaker 5: But see, you said guys were going to, I think
30:48
Speaker 5: he's making a lot of guys miss, but I also
30:49
Speaker 5: think he was running through some guys too. And that
30:52
Speaker 5: was the thing about it is like he was just
30:54
Speaker 5: battering and.
30:55
Speaker 2: Bruising, you know, demoralizing.
30:57
Speaker 5: When you impose your will physically on a team, Right, Billy?
31:00
Speaker 5: There's nothing worse. When you're on the line, you're getting
31:02
Speaker 5: your will imposed on physically. I mean, that's what it
31:04
Speaker 5: felt like. There haven't been very many fun days for
31:07
Speaker 5: the Atlanta Falcons. Last night was probably the most fun
31:11
Speaker 5: you can.
31:11
Speaker 4: Have playing football if you're an offensive lineman.
31:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you mentioned, Armand, imposing your will.
31:16
Speaker 6: Speaking of the offensive line, that was a huge difference
31:18
Speaker 6: in the game, obviously, last night. It's a stark contrast
31:21
Speaker 6: between those two offensive lines.
31:23
Speaker 4: So, Dolph, is the Iowa offensive line going to be
31:26
Speaker 4: able to impose their will against this machine? I mean,
31:30
Speaker 4: I kind of pained Drew on the ride home last
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Speaker 4: night to listen to a bunch of different college football
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Speaker 4: previews getting ready for the weekend.
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Speaker 5: Oh, yes.
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Speaker 3: And there were not.
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Speaker 2: Drew, I don't know.
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Speaker 4: There weren't many very favorable conversations on the pod you
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Speaker 4: listened to last night about Dolph's Hawkeyes going into the
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Speaker 4: big house tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: It's going to be a slog.
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Speaker 2: Both, I mean, Michigan's defense is scary good.
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Speaker 3: They're both top 10, I think, in the country right
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Speaker 3: now through three games.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Iowa's competition probably a little less.
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Speaker 6: Obviously, Michigan played Western Michigan, which is pretty good.
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Speaker 2: And then you've got Oklahoma. We're not sure how good
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Speaker 2: they are.
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Speaker 3: Their offense might be directional school good.
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Speaker 6: Iowa's got a good offensive line. They're going to be
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Speaker 6: a candidate for the Joe Moore Award this year. But
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Speaker 6: that Michigan defensive line, I think, is superior. This is
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Speaker 6: going to be a 13-9 game or something like that
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Speaker 6: because Iowa's defense is also very good, and they're going
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Speaker 6: to give Michigan trouble on offense.
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Speaker 3: Drew, this is the game where you get the Iowa
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Speaker 3: t-shirt that just said punts.
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Speaker 2: Punting is winning.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Bust that bad boy.
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Speaker 3: Out for this one, and you'll enjoy the game.
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Speaker 5: It's a culture there.
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Speaker 2: It's a culture.
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Speaker 5: Punting is a culture.
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Speaker 6: Every time I see Torrey Taylor punt for the Bears,
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Speaker 6: it brings back fond memories of his days in Iowa
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Speaker 6: City where he was like the team MVP.
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Speaker 3: I was five inside the five.
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Speaker 2: It was unreal.
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Speaker 5: I always tell you, Dolph, I have a good friend
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Speaker 5: in Des Moines, and he's not from there, but he's
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Speaker 5: been living there long enough to get in the Iowa culture,
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Speaker 5: and he's been the most mad about the Packers not
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Speaker 5: taking the points on these field goal decisions.
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Speaker 2: He's like, in Iowa, we take the points available.
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Speaker 1: That's great.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. They do.
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Speaker 6: There'll be a lot of field goal opportunities tomorrow between them,
33:04
Speaker 6: but what about the game out in Happy Valley?
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Speaker 5: Come on now.
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Speaker 2: Talk about it.
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Speaker 6: Bucky's got some big-time mo after that win against Eastern Michigan.
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Speaker 2: They scored some points.
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Speaker 4: I think there's, I think there's reason to be, to
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Speaker 4: be optimistic and excited.
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Speaker 2: And now do I think they're going to win the
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Speaker 2: football game? I don't know.
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Speaker 4: I think they are going to put forth a, a strong,
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Speaker 4: strong effort. And frankly, I don't know how good Penn
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Speaker 4: state is, but this is, and I told drew last
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Speaker 4: night and we said it a little bit before it's sneaky.
33:33
Speaker 4: One of the most important games in Luke fickles tenure,
33:37
Speaker 4: because you're, You're going up against new head coaches in
33:40
Speaker 4: the big 10 for the first three games in the
33:43
Speaker 4: big 10. And you got to make decisions a lot
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Speaker 4: earlier on coaches than you used to. This is going
33:48
Speaker 4: to be a really telling game as to where you
33:50
Speaker 4: can kind of.
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Speaker 2: Start measuring up three straight new coaches.
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Speaker 4: Matt Campbell with Penn State, Pat Fitzgerald with Michigan State,
33:57
Speaker 4: and handsome Bob Chesney out there in UCLA.
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Speaker 2: He is handsome.
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Speaker 6: He is a handsome son of a gun. And he
34:04
Speaker 6: came from JMU, right?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: 15 of the Dukes. College football playoff last year.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the MO. And Matt Campbell did it.
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Speaker 4: They're going to face a lot of them, Drew. They're
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Speaker 4: going to have these well-built, transported teams in college football.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be wild. It's going to be a
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Speaker 1: fun slate. And Sunday for us is going to be
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Speaker 1: absolutely rapturous.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: We could just sit on the couch and consume the
34:27
Speaker 1: league like civilians do.
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Speaker 6: You know, inside I have the Brewer game because they'll
34:32
Speaker 6: probably be playing mostly bench guys, I would assume.
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Speaker 2: Although you don't have many bench guys in September like
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Speaker 2: you used to.
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Speaker 3: No, you get a little Miz on Sunday, too.
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Speaker 2: That's true. A little taster there, which would be nice.
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Speaker 1: However long he's going to throw.
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Speaker 6: The Padres clinched a playoff spot. last night. The Phillies
34:50
Speaker 6: are going to. They need to win or it's a
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Speaker 6: loss by the Diamondbacks.
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Speaker 2: Is that what it is?
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Speaker 3: Diamondbacks are making it tough on them, though.
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Speaker 4: They've been battling here in these last couple of days
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Speaker 4: and definitely going to make it interesting. But the Padres
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Speaker 4: were able to dismantle the Dodgers clubhouse last night. I
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Speaker 4: think they probably took a lot of enjoyment in that one.
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Speaker 4: You bet they did.
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Speaker 2: That's a team I don't want to see in the
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Speaker 2: first round of the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: No chance.
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Speaker 2: San Diego.
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Speaker 1: No question. No question. Dolph, thanks for popping in, man.
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Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Have a great weekend. Go Hawkeyes, I guess.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess.
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Speaker 1: Thanks, Drew.
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Speaker 2: See ya.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I'm a disinterested observer, just like Dolph is when he
35:27
Speaker 1: watches the Packers play the Falcons. He's like, I just
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Speaker 1: want to watch the game and see what happens.
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Speaker 3: And I'm excited to hate watch his Bears coming up
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Speaker 3: on Monday night. But you're right.
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Speaker 1: Oh, we're all going to be on that on Monday night.
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Speaker 3: Full belly up Sunday, Drew, before that ends.
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Speaker 2: We need something.
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Speaker 1: That's right. That's right.
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Speaker 2: We need something.
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Speaker 1: Line Folks are opining about the Packers' defense, their offense,
36:20
Speaker 1: the offensive line, the special teams allowing a blocked kick
36:23
Speaker 1: with the opponent having 10 men on the field. Everything
36:25
Speaker 1: under the sun. One thing we have not talked about yet,
36:27
Speaker 1: Tucker Kraft's post-game comments. Surprised to be booed in the
36:32
Speaker 1: home opener. You knew around here? There's a standard. He
36:37
Speaker 1: made a comment that is going to be dissected, and
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Speaker 1: I think he's going to be on a rotisserie for
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Speaker 1: a couple of days. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And again, I just like it. One comment will not
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Speaker 4: make or break a young man. It can be a
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Speaker 4: tough one. Drew, there's no, uh, in a world where
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Speaker 4: sports betting, uh, in the conversation is robust and maybe
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Speaker 4: to a dangerous level. One very, very dangerous thing you
37:01
Speaker 4: talk about in sports wagering is a guaranteed bet. The
37:04
Speaker 4: only guaranteed bet is you say something negative about the
37:08
Speaker 4: fan's option or opportunity or right to do something. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: you're going to lose that one. You instantly lose that battle.
37:18
Speaker 4: And Tucker's probably wearing it a little bit. Not maybe
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Speaker 4: his best moment.
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Speaker 3: But I do.
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Speaker 4: And I wonder how Armin feels about this because I
37:27
Speaker 4: know he firmly stands against booing. I don't think his
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Speaker 4: premise is wrong.
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Speaker 2: Yes. But when you say it and you say that
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Speaker 2: out loud.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you do put yourself right on the rotisserie and
37:39
Speaker 4: they cook it up to 350 and let it roll.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you said it, Billy.
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Speaker 5: That's exactly how I felt. Well, I think he has
37:44
Speaker 5: a good point, and I've always kind of said I
37:45
Speaker 5: think booing is kind of productive. I totally understand why
37:49
Speaker 5: it happens. The fans are emotional. And the last thing
37:51
Speaker 5: I'm going to do is expect him to go over
37:54
Speaker 5: well when you're trying to explain that to fans. Like,
37:56
Speaker 5: there's just certain things you can't say. Like, you know,
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Speaker 5: I don't think my– maybe if I don't think my
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Speaker 5: in-laws should load the dishwasher that way, but I'm not
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Speaker 5: going to talk about it like that. Let's get the
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Speaker 5: audio just so people can hear it if they didn't
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Speaker 5: hear the cut of him talking about the booze.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty tough. You know, like everyone.
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Speaker 7: Pictures Lambeau Field and the– not booze. I don't picture booze.
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Speaker 7: I picture my home stadium.
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Speaker 2: That's tough. It's pretty disappointing.
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Speaker 1: Especially for a home opener. Especially for a home opener.
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Speaker 2: It's pretty disappointing. It's not going to help us win.
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Speaker 7: I don't know what people think that's going to rally
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Speaker 7: us or something like that. We're growing men. We're mentally
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Speaker 7: strong enough, capable enough to get back on the field
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Speaker 7: and play ball. But probably much easier with the 70,000
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Speaker 7: people behind us rather than opposing us.
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Speaker 5: Hey, there it is guys. And like, like you said,
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Speaker 5: it's not that it's illogical. It's just, you just know
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Speaker 5: how people are going to react to it. And especially
39:02
Speaker 5: when it's Tucker craft, we're talking about the guy that
39:04
Speaker 5: we've always joked about, like came out as the Packer
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Speaker 5: fan favorite.
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Speaker 1: And it's like, I said that, I said that if
39:11
Speaker 1: you want to create a Packer out of a lab,
39:13
Speaker 1: he'd be pretty close to a guy from a town
39:15
Speaker 1: of 600 people in pigs, knuckles, South Dakota.
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Speaker 5: And he's, I mean, he said it, I think is
39:22
Speaker 5: also going to.
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Speaker 1: Be plays hard, comes back from injury, plays without a
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Speaker 1: contract extension, then gets one and then rips the fans who.
39:30
Speaker 1: kind of pay his salary through their largesse. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was, it was inartfully spoken, I would say. And
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Speaker 1: then Christian Watts is like, yeah, we're in the entertainment business.
39:40
Speaker 1: You know, we weren't going to get better. Like he
39:42
Speaker 1: kind of balanced it out a little bit, the way
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Speaker 1: to handle it. Also, there was a weird moment with
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Speaker 1: the floor, uh, presser when someone said are you considering
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Speaker 1: any changes on your staff and he said i'm not
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Speaker 1: going to answer that.
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Speaker 3: I'm not even going to answer that question well answer
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Speaker 3: that question.
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Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you just say man i love the guys
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Speaker 1: i love i love our staff we're going to get
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Speaker 1: together as soon as i get out of here we're
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Speaker 1: going upstairs to break down get better and damn it
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Speaker 1: we're going to give tampa everything they can handle like
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Speaker 1: it doesn't take that much to say that No, it
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Speaker 1: can be. It sounds murky to say, oh, I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to answer that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds weird.
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Speaker 4: It sounds like not as scared as maybe a too
40:19
Speaker 4: simplistic word, but like just you're right, Drew. The easiest
40:23
Speaker 4: thing is to give the 12 second vote of confidence,
40:26
Speaker 4: even if that goes out of the window. You saying
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Speaker 4: I'm not going to answer it only leads to many
40:31
Speaker 4: more legitimate questions about it.
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it's like you wanted to convey that it's
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Speaker 1: the furthest thing from your mind. Well, why don't you
40:40
Speaker 1: just say that then? That's the last thing. Just say,
40:43
Speaker 1: I like the staff. We're going to work together. We're
40:46
Speaker 1: all going to get out of this together. Players, coaches,
40:48
Speaker 1: equipment guys, trainers, everybody's in it.
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Speaker 5: I think in his mind, he might be thinking, this
40:53
Speaker 5: is such a dumb question. It's so disrespectful. I'm not
40:55
Speaker 5: going to even respect it by answering it. But I
40:57
Speaker 5: like the way you were going to handle it better
40:59
Speaker 5: if it was just up to me as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, it's not that hard. It's not his
41:04
Speaker 1: first rodeo. He's been facing these for eight years. And
41:06
Speaker 1: the questions are only going to get more and more
41:07
Speaker 1: direct and more pointed because... if this trend that we
41:11
Speaker 1: saw last night continues, someone's losing a job.
41:15
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And if it were, and, and, and that's not something
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Speaker 4: that Matt has been, uh, comfortable doing and very willing
41:21
Speaker 4: to do very often.
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Speaker 1: See, uh, Drayton slash Maurice, take a quick break. You're
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