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02/25/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 3: We got a theme today. We don't usually do themes
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Speaker 3: on Hot Take Humpday. This is impressive of a wherever,
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Speaker 3: but it's was the State of the Union last night.
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Speaker 3: We avoid politics on the show, but the State of
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Speaker 3: Wisconsin Sports Union is a perfect topic for a Wednesday
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Speaker 3: at the end of February. Coming off of Bucks victory
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Speaker 3: Badgers are rolling in basketball. The combine is underway. We
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Speaker 3: had We're gonna listen to Goody momentarily, but get us
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Speaker 3: your hot takes eight seven seven seven three. Do you
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Speaker 3: guys have any We've been talking about most disappointing athletes
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Speaker 3: in our athletes and coaches. I guess yeah, So it's
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Speaker 3: we came up with Miles Turner, Brandon McManus for Shan
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Speaker 3: Gary Doc Rivers.
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Speaker 9: Doc Rivers would be there and and I did see
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Speaker 9: reports and I hope people are actually.
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Speaker 5: Possibly going tonight depending on listen.
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Speaker 9: We were naughty yesterday, so I don't know if I
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Speaker 9: don't know if we're deserving a Bucks game the three
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Speaker 9: year old. I don't know if we've earned the trip
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Speaker 9: to go see the Beard tonight that we were planning
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Speaker 9: on going and having and watching the Bucks.
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Speaker 5: Strit take down the Cavs.
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Speaker 9: But somebody online said that they're not even announcing Doc
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Speaker 9: before the game, but they designed with the boots.
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Speaker 5: They like, we're just gonna not do that.
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Speaker 8: We're gonna joke. Let Eric just roll right into tip off.
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Speaker 8: Let's just not know of that.
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Speaker 9: So I have to confirm that for myself, So I
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Speaker 9: need to be able to hear that, and that wasn't
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Speaker 9: just one individual potentially missing it, but Doc Rivers would
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Speaker 9: probably be right there in the other top of the list.
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Speaker 9: And Drew we said it like, I don't think it's
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Speaker 9: just gonna it's gonna be a magic elixir if you
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Speaker 9: move Darvin Ham over one seat. But he did win
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Speaker 9: the one game that he was into the chair, and
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Speaker 9: I think they kept through. They keep zooming in on
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Speaker 9: Darvin Ham with the with the pen and the paper
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Speaker 9: right there, and I think, uh, I think o Ham
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Speaker 9: Sandwich might be doing a little bit more on the
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Speaker 9: bench than most lead assistants.
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Speaker 5: Damn slam Wich. That was my guy man for for
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Speaker 5: a short minute there.
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Speaker 3: You're thinking about venturing out tonight. I thought you'd be
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Speaker 3: hard to down watch in the NHL with Washington and Philadelphia, Tampa.
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Speaker 8: Tampa back in action against the Toronto.
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Speaker 5: That quiver Hey now, hey.
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Speaker 9: Come on now, yeah, Vegas golden nice though they returned
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Speaker 9: to the ice later on tonight, so I got until
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Speaker 9: thirty I.
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Speaker 3: Was getting smoke and I somehow I'm always like getting
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Speaker 3: the friendly fire and armans mentions and people are and
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Speaker 3: people are me. I'm sorry about somebody was mad at
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Speaker 3: my take about like the just it wasn't even I
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Speaker 3: wasn't dumping on her. There was no I don't know,
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Speaker 3: but it was somebody who was upset because I told you, like, oh,
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Speaker 3: it's not really going to be this flashpoint for the
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Speaker 3: NHL surge, right. It's like I'm old enough to remember
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Speaker 3: when Caitlin Clark dominated the NC double A and they
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Speaker 3: got higher ratings than the men, and like everybody was
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Speaker 3: all fired up and then it went away. It was like,
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Speaker 3: does anybody watch like definitely doesn't hurt. How old she
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Speaker 3: gets hurt? Yeah, yeah, but I just mean like an
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Speaker 3: NC double A women's game, like when she wasn't playing anymore,
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Speaker 3: the ratings went back to where they were, and it's like, yes,
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Speaker 3: there will be a temporary spike. It's a sugar rush,
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Speaker 3: it's a little dopamine hit. But it's like and it's
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Speaker 3: I've seen this before many times. We talked about it
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Speaker 3: with uh with Dolph, Like Brandy Chestain scored this goal
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Speaker 3: for the women's World Cup. Every World Cup people are like, oh, soccer, soccer, soccer,
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Speaker 3: and then the World Cup goes away, like huh.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I get it.
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Speaker 8: I totally do.
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Speaker 9: I know I know we've seen it in time, but
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Speaker 9: I don't. I don't think it's just like wishing upon
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Speaker 9: a star, that all the sudden people are looking for
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Speaker 9: this belief that you just are are birthrighted into your
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Speaker 9: spot in the sports hierarchy. I think we see sports
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Speaker 9: get knocked down pegs all the time, and and it
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Speaker 9: ebbs and flows. Again, does this mean that all the
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Speaker 9: sudden hockey is going to be the number one sport
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Speaker 9: in America? No, However, like you, you start seeing the
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Speaker 9: attention towards it, and I get it, is it going
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Speaker 9: to be the same? But you say, we've seen it before.
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Speaker 9: We've we've saw it once forty six years ago where
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Speaker 9: the majority of the people that are now watching into
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Speaker 9: the demographic weren't either alive or sports conscious at the time.
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Speaker 9: The games and the ability to be able to watch
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Speaker 9: the players that are in there, and that ended up,
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Speaker 9: you know, walking down the aisle last night at the
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Speaker 9: State of the Union. Those guys then end up being
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Speaker 9: on television for the next four to six, four to
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Speaker 9: six weeks drew where those guys there are half those
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Speaker 9: guys went to play college and you maybe saw me
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Speaker 9: if you were in that spot, like it's a very
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Speaker 9: different climate that you're dropping into right now. And I
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Speaker 9: think to compare it to the eighties, like, sure we can,
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Speaker 9: we can compare it to twenty or twenty ten or
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Speaker 9: whatever hot soccer one is.
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Speaker 5: But that's also soccer goes right up against the NFL.
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Speaker 9: This is going up against the NBA where half the
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Speaker 9: teams are actively trying to lose.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but the thing is this is and people people
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Speaker 3: who are beating the drums saying that the NBA's should
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Speaker 3: be on life support. Well, again, the look, they're revenues,
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Speaker 3: their TV deals are locked in for like eleven years.
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Speaker 5: There. It is what it is, but it's just the
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Speaker 5: dopamine hit of it.
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Speaker 3: And someone it was someone saying like, oh, the the
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Speaker 3: ranks are full and there's all these high school teams,
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Speaker 3: Like okay, so.
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Speaker 8: Where does it grow from there?
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Speaker 5: He said it was big in Lake Country as well.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I'm.
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Speaker 3: Sure sure it is that there's a lot of money
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Speaker 3: in a country that growth. No, but that doesn't inicate growth,
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Speaker 3: And like, hey, the rinks are.
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Speaker 9: How does how does it not indicate growth when over
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Speaker 9: the last thirty years you've seen the sport continue to
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Speaker 9: become more into the sports.
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Speaker 3: How is the gold medal going to be a flashpoint
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Speaker 3: when there's already the rinks are already full and like
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Speaker 3: the people, maybe there will be a few NASA.
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Speaker 5: That's the thing.
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Speaker 9: The twelve year olds who their buddies are playing hockey
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Speaker 9: and they're front trying to figure out am I going
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Speaker 9: to go off for the basketball team. I'm probably I
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Speaker 9: might get cut, i might do wrestling. Maybe I'll play
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Speaker 9: hockey because three of my friends are doing it and
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Speaker 9: I just watched the NHL. Like that doesn't happen to
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Speaker 9: ten to twelve year olds. I don't understand how we
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Speaker 9: say it.
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Speaker 3: But again, if you're not skating from the time you're
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Speaker 3: like six, to say I'm gonna start playing hockey and
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Speaker 3: strap on.
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Speaker 5: Those, it's just it's a bit of a leap.
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Speaker 3: It's not just it's not like going out for wrestling
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Speaker 3: or track where you've never done it.
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Speaker 8: There's a there's a barrier.
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Speaker 3: And I'm not even talking about participation again, I'm saying
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Speaker 3: it's just not gonna We've seen it before. Like they
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Speaker 3: tried to tell me the X Games was going to
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Speaker 3: be the thing, and it never was. They tried to
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Speaker 3: tell me that the gaming and people are gonna go
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Speaker 3: to phil stadiums to watch people play video games.
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Speaker 8: That hasn't really happened, like there are but there are
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Speaker 8: tournaments and stuff. It's popular, but it's not I'm saying
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Speaker 8: that it'll stay in its lane.
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Speaker 3: You get that that little bit of a dopamine hit.
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Speaker 3: Every time there's a World Cup, people like this was
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Speaker 3: a make this incredible? It happens every year in the NHL. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: but we never have been in the World Cup, but
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Speaker 3: every year in the NAG When when did the men
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Speaker 3: win in the World But people live through it, and
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Speaker 3: then they have exciting games when the US does win
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Speaker 3: and they want to.
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Speaker 9: US sixteen none that we bear the gold medals, Yeah,
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Speaker 9: but to get to the knockout round, I don't know
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Speaker 9: that week you could bear that.
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Speaker 3: Let's say the US wins the Men's World Cup for
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Speaker 3: the first time ever, shocks the world. Is that going
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Speaker 3: to cause a surge and spike in soccer ratings and participation.
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Speaker 3: It's already really a pretty robust right. That's what I'm saying,
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Speaker 3: is like, it's not we found our level on it.
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Speaker 9: But I think you're I think you're trying to judge
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Speaker 9: this in like an I saw somebody say, oh, it
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Speaker 9: really worked that four nations face off. Okay, I guess
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Speaker 9: if we're going to judge it in a twelve month
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Speaker 9: in twelve months, stable size of how much people are playing. Sure,
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Speaker 9: but like what we're talking about is the growth of
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Speaker 9: a sport that's gonna be a generation's time, that's gonna
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Speaker 9: be twenty to thirty.
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Speaker 8: To forty years next day.
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Speaker 5: I know, like we're in a spot.
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Speaker 9: Where we need to be able to be right and
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Speaker 9: know it right away. Yeah, this one's gonna take some
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Speaker 9: time to breathe, and it's it's easy to just say, well,
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Speaker 9: this is how it's always been. I mean there's also
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Speaker 9: people that said, there's no way that we're ever not
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Speaker 9: going to be watching boxing, and instead the only thing
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Speaker 9: that's drawing people to that sport is a retired guy
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Speaker 9: to see if he's gonna get knocked out by a
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Speaker 9: YouTuber exactly Like I mean, like, but to say, like,
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Speaker 9: you just sit here at this spot, I don't think
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Speaker 9: that's the case for SCR level.
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Speaker 8: And we go through this every year when there's a
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Speaker 8: great NHL.
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Speaker 3: If a Stanley Cup goes Game seven and goes over
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Speaker 3: time and then people talk about how great the handshake
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Speaker 3: line is and how this is amazing. NHL playoffs are
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Speaker 3: so great. Hear that every year. Does that mean people
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Speaker 3: are gonna watch you know, Tampa and Toronto on a
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Speaker 3: Wednesday night.
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Speaker 9: But Drew, that's also the end, right, Like, what you're
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Speaker 9: describing is the last game, and what I'm saying is
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Speaker 9: this is where and what you're what you're also saying
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Speaker 9: are two teams, so two fan bases are genuinely invested.
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Speaker 9: Everybody else watching with a very passive interest. This is
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Speaker 9: the first time in almost fifty years, almost a quarter
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Speaker 9: a half a century wherever everybody has had a victorious
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Speaker 9: one team and then that team then has those stars
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Speaker 9: go and play in the sport for the next two
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Speaker 9: to three months. So like again comparing it to the
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Speaker 9: end of a Stanley Cup final where it ends in
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Speaker 9: game seven and then you don't see the game for
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Speaker 9: three months and you roll into summer where you're excited
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Speaker 9: and you're going swimming and you have vacations, Like, we're
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Speaker 9: still gonna be watching sports for the next two to
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Speaker 9: three months and the NHL is going to beyond. So
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Speaker 9: I think this is the timing of it is why
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Speaker 9: it has the chance to be bigger than the other ones,
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Speaker 9: not just because the sport is way better than everything
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Speaker 9: else that you're gonna be able to watch, but it's
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Speaker 9: because of the excitement and it's then going to beyond.
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Speaker 9: It has not had that part of the lightning strike,
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Speaker 9: I don't believe.
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Speaker 3: But when they're not wearing the US jersey, I can't
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Speaker 3: wait to watch Connor Hellibook play for the Jets.
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Speaker 5: It's gonna be awesome. I can't wait to see that reaction.
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Speaker 10: Well, I think that's where you judge, like, what do
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Speaker 10: we mean by it? That's why I keep saying it's
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Speaker 10: a sliding scale. Popular it could increase, but I don't.
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Speaker 10: Just because it doesn't take the NFL doesn't mean it
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Speaker 10: We talked.
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Speaker 5: To God that it doesn't win.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it doesn't mean that it's not good.
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Speaker 10: So Milwaukee, it might not hit the same way because
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Speaker 10: we don't have a lot of AHL and people have
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Speaker 10: said that.
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Speaker 3: Talked to Greeney every Wednesday, and I'm sure hopefully that
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Speaker 3: this will spark some tickets for the admiralst People want
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Speaker 3: to go see some puck.
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Speaker 5: I hope, I hope that happens. Yeah. My point though,
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Speaker 5: is like you.
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Speaker 10: I think the growth indicate is from a new a
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Speaker 10: news group of kids that would be into it, or
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Speaker 10: like fans that more.
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Speaker 3: People like you know like this say like oh your
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Speaker 3: boys age like can we skate?
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Speaker 8: I want to skate, I want to play hockey?
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Speaker 3: Like yeah, well, and that's where you know, Troy says,
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Speaker 3: maybe we're seeing the boom from eighty the eighty gold
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Speaker 3: where their kids, kids are playing where it's they were
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Speaker 3: watching and maybe they were drew like you said, thirteen fourteen,
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Speaker 3: and it was too late for me to skate. But dang,
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Speaker 3: when I get a boy, when I get my daughter,
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Speaker 3: we're gonna get outside.
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Speaker 8: We're going to skate.
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Speaker 9: And you are starting to see a little bit of
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Speaker 9: the growth that people probably did enjoy the sport, maybe
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Speaker 9: got introduced to it at that point, and then their
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Speaker 9: kids are coming through like this is generations and again,
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Speaker 9: this isn't gonna be something that happens.
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Speaker 8: I do expect their numbers to be really, really good.
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Speaker 9: I expect the NHL Playoff numbers they'll get up to
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Speaker 9: be phenomenal this year, and then you'll see if it
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Speaker 9: absolutely doubles in. But like this, this is the timing
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Speaker 9: of it. Is the reason why I think it's great.
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Speaker 9: Eight seven seven seven three.
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Speaker 3: We've got Mike in Shorewood on the nicolay Law dot
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Speaker 3: Com talk and textall good more than Mike.
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Speaker 8: Welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 7: So fellas, Yeah, just want to give my quick status
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Speaker 7: of the teams in Milwaukee here, start with the Brew Crew.
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Speaker 7: To me, I think the Brew Crew legit title contenders.
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Speaker 7: But unfortunately for them, and you see this in all sports,
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Speaker 7: there's a generational team that's the roadblock for every other team.
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Speaker 7: Unfortunately for them, the Dodgers have built that the best
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Speaker 7: team money can buy in a generational all timer and
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Speaker 7: Otani's so as great as they may be in their
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Speaker 7: worst series contenders, maybe just may come up short because
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Speaker 7: they run into that team, the Packers. The pressure is on, man,
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Speaker 7: There's no excuse. Seattle was great, incredible defense. Donald was
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Speaker 7: an all time leater last in this during the Super
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Speaker 7: Bowl run. But to me, the Packers and before are
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Speaker 7: on the clock. You have everything you need. You should
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Speaker 7: be as a tattle contector. You had no business lead
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Speaker 7: losing either of those games to the Bears, and I
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Speaker 7: think things are gonna change everybody. All these Bear fans
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Speaker 7: getting hyped they're gonna have a first play schedule and
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Speaker 7: things flatten out. You're not gonna have eight fourth quarterback
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Speaker 7: come back wins. Say they had an all time, all
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Speaker 7: time fourth quarter last year. As far as the most
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Speaker 7: disappointment to me is definitely the Bucks. I thought the
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Speaker 7: way horse pulled off a rapid out of his hat
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Speaker 7: after the buckle of Damon pulling his achilles, pulling off
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Speaker 7: Miles Turner acquiring him, he's been such a major disappointment.
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Speaker 7: I thought he would be a hell of a team
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Speaker 7: coming off an NBA Finals run was great down the
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Speaker 7: stretch for the Pacers, and he's been a non factor.
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Speaker 7: And him and let's face the guy Doc Rivers, I
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Speaker 7: think he's on the hot seam man because he's been
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Speaker 7: a bus too. So in order, I think the Bucks
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Speaker 7: have been the most disappointing, and especially Miles Turner above
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Speaker 7: McManus or even Rashad Garry my mind, thanks for sign
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Speaker 7: bellis all.
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Speaker 5: Right, dynamite as just tremendous. Rack them up, line them up,
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Speaker 5: and shut them down. The Brewers won. I want to
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Speaker 5: start there.
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Speaker 9: The generational team, I guess I don't know that we've
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Speaker 9: fully embraced the thought that that could potentially be the case.
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Speaker 9: Maybe it's just the thought that you don't want to
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Speaker 9: I don't necessarily know Utah Jazz fans, you guys will
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Speaker 9: be able to tell me that. Did they Like in
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Speaker 9: the midst of it just be like, wow, shucks, you know,
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Speaker 9: we're going up against Mike, We're going up against the Bulls.
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Speaker 5: It is what it is.
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Speaker 10: Like, there's there's a lot of the sentence, but I
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Speaker 10: think they believe they were gonna beat them both of
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Speaker 10: those teams.
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Speaker 9: In the next five to ten years, we may look
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Speaker 9: back at this Dodger run as one of the most
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Speaker 9: dominant runs in pro sports, like because we are kind
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Speaker 9: of grouping them in and I do it sometimes of
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Speaker 9: like the twenty eighteen team kind of the same. Well, no,
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Speaker 9: that one didn't have the greatest player that's ever played
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Speaker 9: the sport. It hasn't had the guy who actually hit
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Speaker 9: three home runs and struck out ten guys in a
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Speaker 9: clinching game to go to the World Series.
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Speaker 8: Now, sadly that happened against you, right, So, like.
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Speaker 9: There is the moment where Mike is is pinpointing it
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Speaker 9: as bad as it sound, and maybe it's a loser mentality.
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Speaker 8: You're kind of running into that team.
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Speaker 10: That's why I said that time, and that's why at
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Speaker 10: the time I said to beating the Cubs was a
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Speaker 10: generational series win, and I was I was made fun
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Speaker 10: of it at the time by some But the reality is,
15:13
Speaker 10: I think we'll look back at history that way saying,
15:15
Speaker 10: you know, we weren't going to beat the Dodgers, But
15:17
Speaker 10: the fact that we did beat the Cubs in that series,
15:19
Speaker 10: and we did get the playoff series win against the
15:22
Speaker 10: Cubs in Game five, in some way validated that sort
15:25
Speaker 10: of era that run in a lot of ways, because
15:27
Speaker 10: we might look at it the history saying, well that
15:30
Speaker 10: that was the Dodgers in the twenty twenties. So give
15:32
Speaker 10: me a break, you know, just like you're kind of judged,
15:35
Speaker 10: like you said, believe in the NBA in the nineties,
15:36
Speaker 10: up did you make the finals against Mike in some ways,
15:39
Speaker 10: you know, except the rockets when he was out, But
15:41
Speaker 10: it was like, have Charles made the finals?
15:43
Speaker 5: Carl and John made the finals?
15:44
Speaker 8: That type of yeah, okay, so as we do.
15:47
Speaker 3: And again the state of the state here on the
15:49
Speaker 3: hot take hump day, the Bucks won a title within
15:53
Speaker 3: five years ago, so it's.
15:55
Speaker 8: Like, you know, you expect them to at least make
15:57
Speaker 8: another final.
15:58
Speaker 3: You expect them to, right, and we don't know where's
16:03
Speaker 3: the Bucks windows that open air closing depends on thirty four.
16:05
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, don't know this juncture, don't know.
16:09
Speaker 3: But the Brewers still have this kind of it's still
16:13
Speaker 3: kind of fresh to us having the Brewers win the
16:15
Speaker 3: division and having the Brewers like you know, opt out
16:18
Speaker 3: of a series getting used to them by Yeah, at
16:22
Speaker 3: what point is that like I'm still in the hey man,
16:24
Speaker 3: they're in the playoffs? This is great? At what point
16:27
Speaker 3: is that not good enough? Because what the Packers are
16:29
Speaker 3: beyond that point? And like Packers have been for thirty
16:31
Speaker 3: years where it's like if you don't win the super Bowl,
16:33
Speaker 3: it's not even worth seas.
16:34
Speaker 5: A lot of fans that feel that right now.
16:36
Speaker 10: I'm sure about both teams, the Brewers, I said, I
16:38
Speaker 10: think the Brewers like the Brewises.
16:40
Speaker 3: It's it's an everyday thing in the summer, like we
16:42
Speaker 3: talked about. And you look back at the Adamauseio comments
16:46
Speaker 3: that pissed everybody off.
16:47
Speaker 5: He's not wrong, dude.
16:48
Speaker 3: You want them to be good, like you talked about
16:51
Speaker 3: the Bucks game last night, and not having the is
16:54
Speaker 3: there juice or buzz around the bucks and they've won
16:56
Speaker 3: seven to ten. It's nice, but it's not like a
16:59
Speaker 3: rider die thing right now, because being hurt against sucks
17:02
Speaker 3: some of the life out of it. But so far
17:04
Speaker 3: as you go there every night, you know it's gonna
17:05
Speaker 3: be entertaining, that it's gonna be thirty five thousand people there,
17:07
Speaker 3: it's gonna be hopping. It's there's a there's a juice
17:10
Speaker 3: there that comes and when does that go away? Because
17:13
Speaker 3: they don't win in the on the big stage, Like,
17:16
Speaker 3: can you just can you still enjoy April to October.
17:20
Speaker 8: And then and then and then again.
17:24
Speaker 3: Let October happen and then let the chips fall or
17:27
Speaker 3: is it October or bust?
17:28
Speaker 5: Like that's an interesting psychology thing, Drew.
17:31
Speaker 9: I think the big like the greatest determining factor with her,
17:34
Speaker 9: Like the greatest comparison to it would be the Badger's
17:36
Speaker 9: basketball team, right Like, I mean, they're there with you
17:39
Speaker 9: throughout the entire winter, right right now, they're older out
17:42
Speaker 9: on the West coast. Promps to anybody making it, props
17:46
Speaker 9: everybody making tip off, everybody making tip off.
17:49
Speaker 8: Not I see that. I will not see a second
17:50
Speaker 8: of that the second of it.
17:52
Speaker 3: I am going to cueue up the Varsity app and
17:54
Speaker 3: see if I wake up to Butchery and Matt. Pretty
17:56
Speaker 3: I'm excited to see if I wake up to Butchery
17:59
Speaker 3: and Matt at some point. But yeah, good, great game,
18:03
Speaker 3: sounded great.
18:04
Speaker 9: But like to be able to live with the team
18:08
Speaker 9: for four to five months, see them grow, see the
18:10
Speaker 9: ebbs and flows, see the development of players, the stories
18:13
Speaker 9: that you didn't necessarily see. I mean, if any team
18:16
Speaker 9: in the state is going to give you a Brewers
18:18
Speaker 9: s score story like a Caleb Durban, it would be
18:21
Speaker 9: the Badgers basketball team where all of a sudden, nine
18:23
Speaker 9: of the eleven players that are factoring and are kind
18:25
Speaker 9: of different, and then you get to March and you
18:27
Speaker 9: kind of have to let it be. I think Badgers
18:29
Speaker 9: fans have more of the heat on it because they
18:31
Speaker 9: got this close and Brewers fans haven't in that time.
18:34
Speaker 9: But Drew, I do think there's there's fewer like the
18:38
Speaker 9: three of us in this room that are still enjoying
18:40
Speaker 9: the Brewers just being in that conversation, being good every
18:43
Speaker 9: single night, and there's some that are ready to turn
18:46
Speaker 9: that time meaningful.
18:47
Speaker 3: Baseball in September is so much better than being eliminated
18:50
Speaker 3: from playoff contention when the first cream puff is sold
18:53
Speaker 3: at fair.
18:53
Speaker 9: One of my favorite things is knowing that we can
18:56
Speaker 9: go to training camp have all of this excitement of
19:00
Speaker 9: what's going to happen at practice throughout the day. But
19:03
Speaker 9: still the number one thing that we are talking about
19:05
Speaker 9: and that we want to talk about is the Brewers
19:07
Speaker 9: last night.
19:08
Speaker 8: Like that's one of the sweetest things.
19:10
Speaker 9: Into September, the first four weeks of the NFL season,
19:13
Speaker 9: when the action is as hot and heavy good. Yeah,
19:15
Speaker 9: and they're good and one team's trying to push to
19:17
Speaker 9: the playoffs and one team's trying to run to the
19:19
Speaker 9: super Bowl and started Badgers hoops having a nice season.
19:21
Speaker 3: Okay, so where are we where? Where's the gauge? Like,
19:25
Speaker 3: is it if they don't make the second weekend? Oh
19:27
Speaker 3: well it is for some people.
19:30
Speaker 10: I think it is for some people based on all Right,
19:33
Speaker 10: you know it's been since twenty seven teen made the
19:35
Speaker 10: Sweet sixteen, and you know it's always bull Ryan was
19:38
Speaker 10: the final four guy. Yeah, the last couple of years
19:40
Speaker 10: he was. It doesn't mean he was there every year,
19:42
Speaker 10: But I don't think you can you can intellectually, honestly
19:46
Speaker 10: look at this program in the way Greg Guard runs it,
19:48
Speaker 10: and the way he's navigated new eras, and the way
19:50
Speaker 10: he's navigated the portal, and the situation with changing ads
19:54
Speaker 10: and and money situations, and not say he's done a
19:56
Speaker 10: tremendous job every year, finding a way to balance and
20:00
Speaker 10: program guys versus transfers, identifying the right guys, innovating with
20:04
Speaker 10: offense when he had when he had Kirk come in
20:07
Speaker 10: and redo the offense, and they're doing it again.
20:08
Speaker 5: They get better every year. You know, he's on a
20:10
Speaker 5: coach to suit all those things.
20:12
Speaker 3: So they don't make it to the second weekend.
20:16
Speaker 8: Though, did we waste our time? Is something that it's
20:18
Speaker 8: not validated, It's not it's you know.
20:20
Speaker 5: It's a great question.
20:21
Speaker 8: Something I'm trying to figure out.
20:22
Speaker 10: Like some Badger's fans feel that way, because there are
20:24
Speaker 10: some people that will only look at March success. But
20:26
Speaker 10: I don't believe that. I mean, he's done. I think
20:28
Speaker 10: he's done a fantastic job this year. And I think
20:30
Speaker 10: whether or not the ball tips your way sometimes, you know,
20:33
Speaker 10: in the round of thirty two doesn't necessarily justify or
20:36
Speaker 10: not justify the season, but in the reality of it,
20:39
Speaker 10: it does because people will judge how you do during
20:41
Speaker 10: tournament time.
20:42
Speaker 5: All right, that's the fact of the matter.
20:43
Speaker 3: And Marquette is kind of on a reset gap year.
20:45
Speaker 3: Perhaps year tournament just may be better next year. Are
20:50
Speaker 3: they going to have to go shopping and spend some
20:52
Speaker 3: loot on some transfers.
20:53
Speaker 5: Well, you hope so.
20:54
Speaker 10: And then and then it seems like they've admitted that
20:56
Speaker 10: that they should have done that, or at least that
20:57
Speaker 10: they've admitted their mistake. And that's one thing I think
21:00
Speaker 10: to give them credit for is on the first hand,
21:02
Speaker 10: they tried to, you know, adhere to principles in the
21:04
Speaker 10: program and say, we're gonna try and stick with program, guys,
21:07
Speaker 10: we're gonna try and do it the old school way
21:08
Speaker 10: and see how it works. And listen, they had four
21:10
Speaker 10: great years with a great group of guys led by
21:12
Speaker 10: a transfer led that's true. But he wasn't a portal transfer.
21:16
Speaker 10: But you're right, he was a transfer, that's fair to say.
21:18
Speaker 10: And they they said we're gonna give it a shot. Obviously,
21:21
Speaker 10: it's been a disaster this year. To their credit, they've
21:23
Speaker 10: you know, how many programs, how many coaches say we
21:26
Speaker 10: were wrong.
21:27
Speaker 5: We're gonna reverse arm mistake.
21:28
Speaker 10: We're gonna cut our losses and we're gonna we're gonna
21:30
Speaker 10: reinvest in the portal.
21:31
Speaker 5: And that's kind of what they've been saying.
21:32
Speaker 10: That's been the messaging the last couple of weeks is
21:35
Speaker 10: Marquette will Will kind of a skew the old idea
21:38
Speaker 10: of not doing the portal.
21:39
Speaker 8: Shock out for it.
21:40
Speaker 5: One year of loss losing was enough for everybody.
21:43
Speaker 8: Now your system thrown out that.
21:44
Speaker 9: I like that shot is gonna go study at the
21:46
Speaker 9: Dabo Sweeney School of Portaling.
21:48
Speaker 5: True.
21:49
Speaker 9: I wonder if he's gonna go full Dabbo, who apparently
21:52
Speaker 9: like they actually had a nice little portal class there
21:54
Speaker 9: at Clemson as they first decided to this year. But
21:56
Speaker 9: he has like complained about it at every stop. It's
21:59
Speaker 9: kind of like the dad that gets into the pool
22:01
Speaker 9: and he's like, ah.
22:03
Speaker 8: Oh I hate this. Oh it's so cold. This is terrible.
22:05
Speaker 9: That was like, oh my god, people are negotiating against
22:08
Speaker 9: teams and there's bad faith and there's poaching.
22:11
Speaker 5: This is terrible.
22:11
Speaker 9: Why are you guys doing this, buddy, We've been in
22:13
Speaker 9: here for four years. Get you up, Welcome to Welcome
22:16
Speaker 9: to the show. We all know what this is.
22:17
Speaker 10: And that's the one thing that Mark he and Chakov
22:20
Speaker 10: said that, hey, we're gonna try this without the portal.
22:22
Speaker 10: We're gonna try and invest in our own guys and
22:23
Speaker 10: build it that way. But he's also not been a
22:25
Speaker 10: guy that's constantly been complaining about the system either and
22:28
Speaker 10: made himself, you know, vocal about it. He just said,
22:31
Speaker 10: I'm not gonna do it. It's just like, we're gonna try
22:33
Speaker 10: this way. We believe in this way. I wish some
22:36
Speaker 10: people would say, look, a lot of people complain about
22:38
Speaker 10: the new age of kids getting money in the portal
22:41
Speaker 10: and their things, but unless your team is winning, nobody
22:44
Speaker 10: actually wants to stick to a.
22:45
Speaker 8: Point which your guy would get more credit.
22:47
Speaker 5: I like that, that's exactly what it is.
22:48
Speaker 10: I wish you'd get a little more credit for saying,
22:50
Speaker 10: we're gonna at least try.
22:51
Speaker 5: To do this. Give you some time.
22:53
Speaker 3: Halftime is upon us, boys, Scott Dolphin's about to come in.
22:56
Speaker 3: Let's make our adjustments, let's having let's have a little
22:59
Speaker 3: uh uncross stable perhaps, I think I think Dona Dolf's
23:02
Speaker 3: got a Dolphins out. Yeah, he's got he's got a
23:04
Speaker 3: little something today.
23:05
Speaker 8: So what's right?
23:05
Speaker 5: So we Actually, we've got some open time here.
23:07
Speaker 8: We have all the time, you know, we got to do.
23:08
Speaker 8: We've got to hear from Goody.
23:09
Speaker 9: We was gonna say we got some Goody and we
23:11
Speaker 9: got a couple more good hot takes here, some on
23:12
Speaker 9: Badger's basketball, which will be excellent, excellent State of the
23:15
Speaker 9: Sports Unit.
23:16
Speaker 3: I forgot that Dolph wasn't with us today because he
23:18
Speaker 3: was in the Billy He made Arma's coffee. I remembered
23:19
Speaker 3: five minutes ago.
23:23
Speaker 10: But it's still halftime even without Yeah Goody, we had
23:26
Speaker 10: a lot to talk about.
23:27
Speaker 5: I mean, we got we do.
23:28
Speaker 3: Mattlet Flure blew off, Aaron Andrews. So we won't be
23:30
Speaker 3: getting a halftime report today.
23:34
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25:00
Speaker 3: the big story out of the combine except for, you know,
25:02
Speaker 3: people eating the flaming hot cocktail sauce at Saint Elmos
25:07
Speaker 3: as they do religiously every year during the combine.
25:09
Speaker 8: What's the big story out of the combine so far?
25:11
Speaker 9: Anything, Drew, I'd love to say that there seems like
25:13
Speaker 9: there's a ton of it. It doesn't seem like there's
25:15
Speaker 9: a lot of great smoke right now. The confirmation was
25:18
Speaker 9: Ian Cunningham, new general manager of the Atlanta Falcons, yesterday
25:22
Speaker 9: said that Kirk Cousins will be released on the first
25:25
Speaker 9: league day of the year.
25:26
Speaker 8: We kind of knew that one.
25:27
Speaker 5: Was joined Brandon Ayuka on the unemployment line.
25:29
Speaker 8: It was shockingly isn't that crazy?
25:31
Speaker 9: That's one of the greatest stories to be able to
25:32
Speaker 9: discuss all year long, But it's right now.
25:35
Speaker 8: It's a lot of posturing.
25:36
Speaker 9: There was the fact that they're not going to try
25:39
Speaker 9: to take out the push push this year.
25:40
Speaker 8: They're gonna let the UFL do it.
25:42
Speaker 9: And then see, ay, look they took it out and
25:45
Speaker 9: the amount of head injuries on fourth down plays that
25:48
Speaker 9: were inside of a yard went down substantially, So now
25:50
Speaker 9: we have to institute it. So they're utilizing the UFL
25:54
Speaker 9: as triple A for major League Baseball. So congratulations for
25:57
Speaker 9: the NFL finally realizing that they can do that. But
26:00
Speaker 9: do you're you're in a spot where no one really
26:03
Speaker 9: is saying a whole lot yet Sean Payton's giving up
26:05
Speaker 9: play calling duties, Yeah, didn't have to play calling duties
26:08
Speaker 9: news after he fired his offensive coordinator after his offense
26:12
Speaker 9: put up seven points in.
26:13
Speaker 10: Then there seems to be sort of a disagreement in
26:16
Speaker 10: Arizona about if Kyler Murray's talked to the Cardinals since
26:20
Speaker 10: the years ended. That's the only other thing I saw.
26:22
Speaker 10: He says they there's a source that says he hasn't
26:24
Speaker 10: even had any communication with them, and they have said
26:28
Speaker 10: that they that he has. General manager Monty osen Ford
26:31
Speaker 10: said he has talked with Kyler. So I don't know
26:33
Speaker 10: how that there's a gray area there, But.
26:35
Speaker 9: Hey, yeah, I think I think the conversation is either
26:38
Speaker 9: yes or a no, unless it's like we've talked with
26:40
Speaker 9: his representation.
26:41
Speaker 5: You know, does that count is talking with him? Well,
26:43
Speaker 5: maybe they texted and didn't FaceTime.
26:45
Speaker 8: Maybe you have to call him on FaceTime.
26:47
Speaker 10: Texted, didn't call back, Maybe got tagged or got a
26:50
Speaker 10: text liked?
26:51
Speaker 5: Does that count?
26:52
Speaker 8: Is talking?
26:52
Speaker 5: That's knowledge area. So that's the other story, all right.
26:56
Speaker 3: The story yesterday was Brian Goodcouz met with national reporters
26:59
Speaker 3: and then had a gaggle with the local reporters. Let's
27:02
Speaker 3: take a listen to the local gaggle, yes, and see
27:05
Speaker 3: if that's anything media that we can chew in on
27:06
Speaker 3: this hot take hump day, hit it arm.
27:08
Speaker 8: Here's Brian good.
27:09
Speaker 11: Yesterday's draft prospects this week, but even more pressing two
27:13
Speaker 11: weeks to free agency, as you decide on players to retain,
27:16
Speaker 11: to have more contracts to or to release and move
27:19
Speaker 11: on from. Over the years, the Packers have done a
27:21
Speaker 11: pretty good job with deciding when to move on from players.
27:23
Speaker 11: I mean, Mike Haida had a great career in Buffalo,
27:25
Speaker 11: but a lot of times you've made the right decisions.
27:27
Speaker 11: Why do you think, organizationally, both in your tenure employee
27:30
Speaker 11: were under ted.
27:32
Speaker 2: Have you been able to do that? That's a good question.
27:34
Speaker 2: I think, you know.
27:37
Speaker 4: I think one of the things we do is I
27:38
Speaker 4: think we're very honest with ourselves and the evaluation process.
27:41
Speaker 2: Of our own football team.
27:42
Speaker 4: We spend a lot of time on that as to
27:45
Speaker 4: where guys are and their kind of career are and
27:48
Speaker 4: understand that that you know and that and that decision
27:53
Speaker 4: making process. You can't be too sentimental.
27:58
Speaker 6: Bran, what a bridge give you now, especially since you
28:01
Speaker 6: know you guys have outward support for it.
28:05
Speaker 2: Yeah.
28:05
Speaker 4: Again, losing to him is tough just because of what
28:07
Speaker 4: he brought to our football team. But I think there
28:09
Speaker 4: were just other opportunities that he wanted to pursue. He's
28:11
Speaker 4: coached a long long time in the National Football League
28:14
Speaker 4: and as you know that it can be a grind,
28:16
Speaker 4: and I think he had some other opportunities that he
28:18
Speaker 4: was that he was looking at really good coach and
28:21
Speaker 4: wherever he ends up that the place is going to
28:23
Speaker 4: be better for it.
28:25
Speaker 11: Simoy picks in the cost of signing free agents that
28:28
Speaker 11: Arch Street eight free agents.
28:30
Speaker 2: But another layer to that as well.
28:32
Speaker 11: Is if you restructure contracts to make space to side
28:34
Speaker 11: free agents, you'd lose out of the possibly compensatory and
28:37
Speaker 11: then kick the can down the road for paying later on.
28:39
Speaker 11: How do you evaluate whether that's worth it? This week's big,
28:43
Speaker 11: of course, to figure out maybe who might be out
28:45
Speaker 11: there in free agent where could I take it?
28:46
Speaker 2: Yeah?
28:47
Speaker 4: So the most important thing I think is the twenty
28:49
Speaker 4: twenty six season and how we're going to trace the championship.
28:51
Speaker 2: That's the most important thing that will never change.
28:54
Speaker 4: You do have to balance it to make sure that
28:56
Speaker 4: you can be competitive year in a year out. So again,
29:00
Speaker 4: you don't want to, you know, pile up that credit
29:02
Speaker 4: card a little too much that you can't.
29:04
Speaker 2: Be competitive down the road.
29:05
Speaker 4: But the most supporting thing right now is how do
29:07
Speaker 4: we put out the best team we can in twenty
29:10
Speaker 4: twenty six.
29:11
Speaker 12: Ryan, when we look at special teams, obviously with Rich
29:13
Speaker 12: here there were you know, statistically improvement, but you know,
29:15
Speaker 12: at highs and lows. Moving forward, you know, what do
29:18
Speaker 12: you want to see from the group to you know,
29:19
Speaker 12: take that next step and you know what do you
29:21
Speaker 12: want to see in room?
29:22
Speaker 2: You know, how the new coordinator coaches that group?
29:24
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think again you're working through the process of
29:26
Speaker 4: a new courtator now once we have a chance to
29:29
Speaker 4: make that higher getting with that that that coach and
29:32
Speaker 4: making sure that we you know, from a personnel perspective,
29:34
Speaker 4: we talked a little bit about it earlier as far
29:36
Speaker 4: as the new kickoff or how many more kickoffs there
29:38
Speaker 4: are and the body types we're looking for. But to me,
29:41
Speaker 4: it's just consistency. It's always about consistency and making sure
29:44
Speaker 4: that we're we're ready for whatever situation that comes up
29:46
Speaker 4: in a football game and ready to play winning football
29:49
Speaker 4: in that situation.
29:50
Speaker 2: How big up?
29:51
Speaker 6: How big are special teams just in general incredibly important?
29:55
Speaker 2: You know, not only from a field position.
29:58
Speaker 4: As part of the game, but you know, all these
30:00
Speaker 4: games are coming down to.
30:02
Speaker 2: A kick or you know you've got a couple of.
30:05
Speaker 4: Points, so everything matters, the details matter, and that's a big.
30:08
Speaker 2: Part of winning a football game.
30:11
Speaker 7: Right.
30:12
Speaker 3: There's more out there's account of the freemas if you
30:14
Speaker 3: kind of looking back in the last season.
30:15
Speaker 2: Stuff like that.
30:16
Speaker 13: In the neal era, are the players a little more
30:19
Speaker 13: ready for this level and with what you guys have done.
30:23
Speaker 2: They they're very aware of the packers, like what the
30:25
Speaker 2: standard is? Something that is it? Is it harder? Is easier?
30:28
Speaker 2: Is that would stress these interviews?
30:29
Speaker 4: And yeah, I think NIL has changed some things. I
30:33
Speaker 4: don't know whether it makes it easier or harder. As
30:35
Speaker 4: far as the players go, I think there are certainly
30:37
Speaker 4: more educated about the business part of this.
30:42
Speaker 2: But as far as their development and you know, moving
30:44
Speaker 2: around I'm not sure yet.
30:45
Speaker 4: I'm not sure, you know how that's a fact. I
30:47
Speaker 4: think it's very individual. Some guys have gone from lower
30:50
Speaker 4: levels to higher levels. That's helped them tremendously in their development.
30:54
Speaker 4: But at the same time, the lack of connuity sometimes
30:56
Speaker 4: it's hurt guys.
30:56
Speaker 2: So I think it's really individual and nature.
30:59
Speaker 4: But the business part, they're very well versed now in
31:02
Speaker 4: that part of it.
31:03
Speaker 11: In announcing extensions for you, Ed talked about the collaboration
31:06
Speaker 11: that you've done with Matt and Russ to try to
31:09
Speaker 11: improve and enhance what you've already accomplished and not just
31:12
Speaker 11: run it back. What has that collaboration been like as
31:14
Speaker 11: you attacked trying to find a way to not have
31:17
Speaker 11: the end.
31:17
Speaker 2: Of the season that you had this past season.
31:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously, Matt, Russ and I have been working on
31:21
Speaker 4: the football thing for a long time now. It's kind
31:23
Speaker 4: of part of that as well, since Mark retired, and
31:26
Speaker 4: it's been really really good.
31:27
Speaker 2: And it's really very consistent.
31:28
Speaker 13: You know.
31:29
Speaker 4: I think the thing that I enjoyed most about the
31:31
Speaker 4: process is just, you know, no one's we're not hiding
31:34
Speaker 4: from anything. You know, we're very very you know, realistic
31:38
Speaker 4: about where we are and what our team looks like,
31:40
Speaker 4: what we need to do.
31:41
Speaker 2: So you know, again, this is a big week for us.
31:43
Speaker 4: The next few weeks are very important for us, and
31:46
Speaker 4: you know, I think we're excited about what we can
31:48
Speaker 4: do to help the football team next year.
31:50
Speaker 6: Do you have continuity with your scouting and your personnel
31:53
Speaker 6: and your evaluation Johnny Oric, how was you leaving? But
31:56
Speaker 6: people understand the continuity of view and Matt and Russ
32:00
Speaker 6: in this week and this part of the game.
32:02
Speaker 4: Yeah, excited for John Eric and his opportunity with the
32:04
Speaker 4: Dolphins and as very well earned and have halfway with him,
32:08
Speaker 4: is I think exciting for them and certainly a loss
32:10
Speaker 4: for us. But at the same time, we've had a
32:12
Speaker 4: pretty big staff. We're fortunate to have a big staff
32:14
Speaker 4: and a lot of experience on our staff, so I
32:16
Speaker 4: really don't expect us to skip a beat. There's so
32:19
Speaker 4: much crossover between the guys that we have in college
32:22
Speaker 4: and pro and how we handle.
32:23
Speaker 2: Things, and they've been around for a long time.
32:26
Speaker 4: So the new areas that they may jump into because
32:30
Speaker 4: John Eric's not here there they probably already have to
32:32
Speaker 4: some extent and they're very well.
32:34
Speaker 2: Burst in that probably will rend and get under here.
32:37
Speaker 4: Our bunch of our college scouts had been through what
32:40
Speaker 4: it was l s U or Auburn where he's been
32:42
Speaker 4: working and had a relationship there.
32:45
Speaker 2: You know, they were very high, you know, spoke very.
32:47
Speaker 4: Highly of him, and he was gonna, regardless, going to
32:51
Speaker 4: do some stuff with us this spring. And then it
32:55
Speaker 4: just kind of as as as he did, it just
32:57
Speaker 4: kind of, you know, made some sense to bring him in.
33:00
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be a really good asset to
33:01
Speaker 2: our to our group.
33:02
Speaker 10: Did you look at this draft us?
33:04
Speaker 2: What position groups do you see? Or there's a lot
33:06
Speaker 2: of strength, a lot of death. Yes, still working.
33:08
Speaker 4: Through it a little bit, but you know, the numbers
33:10
Speaker 4: in the offensive line seemed to be up quite a bit.
33:13
Speaker 4: I think this this particular and we saw a little
33:16
Speaker 4: bit last year. We'll probably see a little bit next year.
33:17
Speaker 4: But through the end of the COVID years and the
33:20
Speaker 4: and the transfer portal, we got a lot. We're kind
33:23
Speaker 4: of finishing up a lot of the five, six, seven
33:25
Speaker 4: year guys. So some of the bigger man positions. There's
33:29
Speaker 4: just a bunch of guys that have developed, maybe didn't
33:32
Speaker 4: play their first three years and played the last two
33:34
Speaker 4: or three.
33:34
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, some older guys in that group.
33:36
Speaker 4: So certainly in the offensive line, the defensive line, we've
33:39
Speaker 4: seen some of that. But the numbers across the world
33:42
Speaker 4: are pretty good. I think it's a good draft. Certainly
33:45
Speaker 4: there's gonna be a number opportunities to help us when.
33:47
Speaker 2: It comes to international games.
33:48
Speaker 11: What did you think of what the Vikings did last
33:50
Speaker 11: year with like a doubleheader of Ireland to London. Would
33:52
Speaker 11: the Packers ever be open to Germany and the London
33:55
Speaker 11: or something like that.
33:56
Speaker 4: I don't know if we have a whole lot of
33:57
Speaker 4: choice in that, but no, I think, and I think
34:00
Speaker 4: I've talked about it before.
34:02
Speaker 2: As an organization, we have to be, you know, really
34:04
Speaker 2: really good at at traveling abroad and playing those games.
34:06
Speaker 4: You know, I don't think we've had a ton of
34:08
Speaker 4: success over there, so we have to get back to that,
34:11
Speaker 4: or not back. We have to get to a point
34:12
Speaker 4: where were really really comfortable going over there and winning
34:14
Speaker 4: football games. And so you know, for me, that just
34:17
Speaker 4: means you've got to be excited about it, and you know,
34:20
Speaker 4: you have to make sure that your process is tight
34:22
Speaker 4: and continuing to evolve, because it's not.
34:24
Speaker 2: I think it's just gonna be more.
34:26
Speaker 14: You know, Ring you mentioned Jink Joe Drumo, because we
34:30
Speaker 14: have and stuff like that. How much you grove been
34:32
Speaker 14: comfortable team, whether it's like a or Tucker or guys
34:35
Speaker 14: like that that are true leaders.
34:36
Speaker 2: On your team.
34:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's I mean, our twenty twenty six will be
34:40
Speaker 4: defined mostly by that, right the guys that we are
34:42
Speaker 4: that are already here and what they do to get
34:45
Speaker 4: better and better our football team. And I'm excited about
34:48
Speaker 4: that because I really do like the group of guys
34:50
Speaker 4: we have in that locker room. There's some guys that
34:52
Speaker 4: are really you know, they're coming into the best years
34:55
Speaker 4: of their career. You know, they've got a lot of
34:56
Speaker 4: experience into their belt. Now we're a season team and
35:00
Speaker 4: I think right now what we have to do is
35:01
Speaker 4: we have to be able to get in those moments
35:03
Speaker 4: that we struggle with the last two years and finish
35:05
Speaker 4: them off.
35:05
Speaker 2: And I'm excited about that. What is Mike naming off
35:08
Speaker 2: in h We'll get that.
35:13
Speaker 13: But they're both doing well as far as what you
35:15
Speaker 13: can see and what you can tell with right, absolutely Okay.
35:18
Speaker 2: Brench and scouting first round guys even without the first
35:21
Speaker 2: round pick.
35:21
Speaker 3: If for nothing, else for down road, if there was
35:24
Speaker 3: someone that you came across it you really coveted this
35:26
Speaker 3: year you expected to go in that range, would you
35:28
Speaker 3: be willing to make a move to get back up
35:30
Speaker 3: in there?
35:30
Speaker 2: Do you have what it takes to do?
35:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think it would take a significant
35:34
Speaker 4: amount of resources to get back up and you know,
35:37
Speaker 4: to the first round. But if that player was available
35:40
Speaker 4: and that made sense to us, yeah, we would never
35:42
Speaker 4: shy away from that.
35:44
Speaker 2: I wouldn't expect that to happen.
35:46
Speaker 4: Usually, you know, the areas of the first round we
35:49
Speaker 4: could get into would be more towards the back half,
35:52
Speaker 4: and so I wouldn't expect it.
35:53
Speaker 2: But if the right player felled, then we'll be aggressive
35:55
Speaker 2: about it.
35:55
Speaker 11: And said with the draft, if you have to wait
35:57
Speaker 11: till fifty two, when he's watching all you're watching all
35:59
Speaker 11: these players go the board. You also reflect on, hey,
36:02
Speaker 11: we got Micah that's like six months ago this week,
36:05
Speaker 11: as you think back on that trade and how it's
36:07
Speaker 11: all progressed, what are your thoughts on that and the
36:09
Speaker 11: opportunity costed.
36:11
Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously he didn't end the way we wanted to
36:13
Speaker 4: with the injury, but he couldn't be happier with making
36:15
Speaker 4: that move and what Mike had brought to our football
36:17
Speaker 4: team not only on the field and the way he
36:19
Speaker 4: disrupted offenses and then tilted the field in our favor,
36:22
Speaker 4: but he was an excellent addition to our locker room
36:24
Speaker 4: as well, and that's important to us, and I'm excited
36:28
Speaker 4: for what the years to come.
36:30
Speaker 2: With him are going to look like.
36:31
Speaker 6: Brian, as you think back over combines past, do you
36:34
Speaker 6: remember guys making big moves up this particular week.
36:38
Speaker 2: In your mind and your evaluation.
36:40
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, players don't really move up and down
36:42
Speaker 4: the board with the common And this is the main thing,
36:45
Speaker 4: is the medical and then getting me to meet these players.
36:47
Speaker 4: The testing is awesome because we have them all here
36:49
Speaker 4: and it's it's nice to kind of compare.
36:51
Speaker 2: Apples to apples, so to speak.
36:52
Speaker 4: But this is an information gathering time for us, and
36:57
Speaker 4: there are times that you know, whether it's a face
36:59
Speaker 4: to face interview, whether it's something they did physically, maybe
37:02
Speaker 4: it's a medical thing that we had to clear up
37:04
Speaker 4: that it does change the course of where we might
37:07
Speaker 4: see that player.
37:08
Speaker 2: But so again, it's really really important.
37:11
Speaker 4: But yeah, I think the you know the headlines of
37:15
Speaker 4: a guy ran really fast, and that just shoots him.
37:16
Speaker 2: Up the board.
37:17
Speaker 4: You know, I think most of the time, particularly now
37:19
Speaker 4: with all the GPS data and the things that we have,
37:21
Speaker 4: that's that that doesn't usually happen like that.
37:24
Speaker 13: Bran.
37:25
Speaker 14: I know you guys want competition at every position, but
37:27
Speaker 14: when you look at, you know, your team specifically at
37:30
Speaker 14: certain positions, where do you feel like you guys need.
37:31
Speaker 4: More competition than Yeah, I think throughout quite frankly, but
37:36
Speaker 4: certainly in the secondary. I think we're gonna need to
37:38
Speaker 4: add some competition, probably inside linebacker, you know, throughout, you know,
37:45
Speaker 4: throughout the offense.
37:46
Speaker 2: And but I mean there's to me, it's it's more
37:49
Speaker 2: it's not.
37:49
Speaker 4: About positionally, it's more about our entire football team because how.
37:52
Speaker 2: We're gonna play. We have a new defensive coordinator. There's
37:56
Speaker 2: so many things that are undetermined right now.
37:57
Speaker 4: But to me, if you get enough well rounded for
38:00
Speaker 4: ball players that can beat at any.
38:01
Speaker 2: Level, the better you're going to be.
38:06
Speaker 11: Rashaan Gary, what do you make of the season he
38:08
Speaker 11: had in the career so far with the injury and extension.
38:12
Speaker 11: Seven and a half sacks, sixty pressures you pointed out,
38:14
Speaker 11: but no sacks last ten games.
38:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and then sometimes with pass rushers there's an
38:18
Speaker 4: ebb and flow to that, you know, as far as
38:20
Speaker 4: the production goes, it was with Sacks, but he was
38:23
Speaker 4: he was impactful towards the second half of the season.
38:26
Speaker 4: You know, maybe not as much as he was in
38:27
Speaker 4: the first, but he was impactful. And Rashawan's got all
38:31
Speaker 4: the talent of the world and he's produced at a
38:33
Speaker 4: high level for us since he's been here, and you know,
38:35
Speaker 4: we would expect that next year as well.
38:39
Speaker 3: Ryan goodakouts, general manager. What expect Thatckers, what expect that?
38:44
Speaker 3: We won't have to see it right like that. There's
38:46
Speaker 3: a nice little out there. There's a nice little spot there, right, Drew,
38:49
Speaker 3: Like you said, we just need to pick up on
38:51
Speaker 3: the code words and I'm trying to figure them out,
38:52
Speaker 3: trying to crack the code absolutely, cut and crack, Cut
38:55
Speaker 3: and crack. It's the Huddle, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin, The Huddle,
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Speaker 3: seven seven nine four seven three. Been spinning through the
39:14
Speaker 3: UH you know, the state of the union in Wisconsin, sports,
39:18
Speaker 3: everything that we like and watch. We want your opinions
39:21
Speaker 3: on that. We just heard Brian goodakoutz H what stood
39:24
Speaker 3: out to you the most, like the Bisachia thing like
39:27
Speaker 3: that was the local section and yeah also did so.
39:30
Speaker 3: He did like forty minutes of Q and A, which
39:32
Speaker 3: is a good availability because he's.
39:33
Speaker 8: Not usually generally available. Probably the most that we're going
39:35
Speaker 8: to get a couple.
39:36
Speaker 3: Of windows who availability is pretty good. Yeah, pretty good.
39:39
Speaker 3: So what stood out to you from the conversation, Billy?
39:41
Speaker 9: The the Gary thing does again you can read in
39:45
Speaker 9: between the lines, it's pretty clear and evident that they're
39:47
Speaker 9: gonna they're going to be moving on. I did love
39:49
Speaker 9: the statement of the biggest step for our or the
39:52
Speaker 9: biggest story of our twenty twenty sixteen, or the biggest
39:54
Speaker 9: leap that we're gonna take from the twenty twenty sixteen
39:56
Speaker 9: in this year is going to be internal improvement. Right, Like,
40:00
Speaker 9: as much as we always get fascinated and excited with
40:03
Speaker 9: what's next, what can they bring in?
40:04
Speaker 8: Who do they need to add?
40:06
Speaker 9: Ultimately, their best players need to play their best in
40:09
Speaker 9: their biggest games. Now, a lot of their best players
40:11
Speaker 9: were not available in their biggest games, right, So like
40:13
Speaker 9: health and availability laid into the year is huge. But Drew,
40:17
Speaker 9: this team is gonna go as far as Christian Watson
40:20
Speaker 9: and Matthew Golden on the outside continue to ascend to right,
40:22
Speaker 9: and how far Jordan Love continues to ascend. As much
40:26
Speaker 9: as we'd love to completely revamp their entire offensive line,
40:29
Speaker 9: they're probably gonna have three to five, three.
40:31
Speaker 5: To four guys new on there.
40:33
Speaker 9: Ye, you can't fire everybody, So Aaron Banks probably gonna
40:36
Speaker 9: be on the team, Gonna have to play better.
40:38
Speaker 3: Their biggest steps four are gonna be internal improvement, gonna
40:41
Speaker 3: draft of center or find a free agent. So now,
40:43
Speaker 3: and the other thing is, you're coming off of Xavier McKinney,
40:46
Speaker 3: Josh Shabs awesome, Nate Hobbs or Banks not so awesome?
40:51
Speaker 8: Yeah, not so awesome.
40:52
Speaker 3: So then do you go back into the pool or
40:54
Speaker 3: do you like or are you stung or your gun shy?
40:56
Speaker 3: Or do you say, all right, let's go get us
40:57
Speaker 3: a center, Let's go get us a defensive tackle.
40:59
Speaker 9: Man, if you can get yourself Lindabaum from from the Ravens,
41:02
Speaker 9: then then maybe you're in the conversation, right, but he
41:05
Speaker 9: ain't going like they're not getting him out of the building.
41:07
Speaker 9: You're gonna have to draft one and develop him or
41:09
Speaker 9: maybe again internal improvement. I'm gonna we're gonna do carry
41:12
Speaker 9: the g Radio the podcast with Aaron Eagler later on
41:15
Speaker 9: today which has now started to turn into the Jacob
41:18
Speaker 9: Monk Love Show. He might be your starting center and
41:20
Speaker 9: that's an internal improvement. Developed guys so like that. I
41:24
Speaker 9: do think they might try to drew but their big
41:27
Speaker 9: Day one swing. I do think they might take that
41:30
Speaker 9: year off. They might take the year off of having
41:32
Speaker 9: the big shocker there in the first hour and a
41:35
Speaker 9: half of free agency that blows our socks off like
41:37
Speaker 9: the last two years.
41:38
Speaker 8: I'm with you, and we'll see.
41:40
Speaker 3: There might be a couple of those cats, but they
41:41
Speaker 3: got some holes to fill, and they might get rid
41:43
Speaker 3: of some guys who are making pretty good glues making
41:45
Speaker 3: some Yeah, so they might have more money to play
41:48
Speaker 3: with than we think. And this one has got to
41:50
Speaker 3: be tough for Goody because he is a Ted Thompson
41:52
Speaker 3: guy scout at hard Combine does change a little bit
41:55
Speaker 3: when you don't have a first round pick for the
41:56
Speaker 3: next two years.
41:57
Speaker 5: But I'm excited to watch Michah.
41:59
Speaker 9: Parsons highlights every single time the Packers time on the
42:02
Speaker 9: clock would come up. So at twenty, just play the
42:05
Speaker 9: video of Micah Parsons chasing down Jared Goff and you'll
42:08
Speaker 9: feel a little bit better about your first round Picklac Absolutely.
42:11
Speaker 8: All right, Green, he's gonna join us at seven thirty.
42:14
Speaker 3: Talk a little puck, talk a little bit at Olympics,
42:16
Speaker 3: Talk a little bit about Hawaiian Night and the charity
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