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09/18/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: time for our who's hot, who's not brought to us
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Speaker 1: by Donovan Jorgensen, heating and cooling the HVAC experts employee
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Speaker 1: owned since 1985.
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Speaker 2: Billy's got some good ones.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a couple of good ones here. How
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Speaker 3: about in the not category? Now, a scary situation that
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Speaker 3: happened in New York last night as a Mets player
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Speaker 3: was taken off the field with a collision.
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Speaker 2: Nolan McLean.
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Speaker 3: Runs into I believe it was the first baseman last
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Speaker 3: night right young who had to get carted off the
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Speaker 3: field concussion symptoms however the CT scans were negative after
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Speaker 3: the night manager Andy Green acting manager Andy Green said
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Speaker 3: that he had full use of his extremities terrifying moment
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Speaker 3: on the baseball field as Green said but took him
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Speaker 3: a while to come to really scary collision that not
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Speaker 3: The reason why the Mets are in the not category
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Speaker 3: here tonight, this morning in who's hot, who's not. No,
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Speaker 3: it actually comes from a couple of days ago and
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Speaker 3: drew video evidence now coming out of more from the
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Speaker 3: Pete Alonzo 300th home run the other night and celebration
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Speaker 3: at city field in what was a game tying home run.
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Speaker 3: I believe in the ninth inning by Pete Alonzo that
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Speaker 3: gave him his 300th home run. Well, video is now
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Speaker 3: coming out of not only the stands. but the owner's
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Speaker 3: box and owner Steve Cohen standing up, applauding and urging
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Speaker 3: a standing ovation for the rest of city field as
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Speaker 3: Pete Alonzo rounds, the base is celebrating and honoring his
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Speaker 3: 300th home run. Then also digging into the mentions. Cause
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Speaker 3: if you're in, if you're in this world of private equity,
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Speaker 3: owning sports teams and Gone are going to be the
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Speaker 3: days of Steve Cohen guys. They're not going to be
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Speaker 3: a whole lot of Steve Cohen's that love the team.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 3: Got true bundles of cash and does not care where
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Speaker 3: his money goes. As long as it's going to New
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Speaker 3: York Mets incorporated.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'm not going to say winning because they're not
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Speaker 3: doing much.
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Speaker 2: They're not doing a whole lot of winning right.
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Speaker 3: Now, but he fan of team claps back at a boy, uh,
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Speaker 3: David Lemon, baseball columnist for Newsday, who joined foul territory
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Speaker 3: guys to say that David Stearns had been seen around
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Speaker 3: city field. He not even around in the clubhouse and
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Speaker 3: dugout hanging around during the game. He's not in the
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Speaker 3: press box. And Stephen Cohen said, that's strange. commented on
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Speaker 3: the video at foul territory. I was in the pregame
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Speaker 3: in the dugout pregame with him on Monday with a
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Speaker 3: guy that looked a heck of a lot like David Stearns.
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Speaker 3: Was it an imposter who I was talking to? I
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Speaker 3: love the fact that their baseball team might be warm cheeks,
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Speaker 3: but their owner hot on the keyboard. He is not
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Speaker 3: letting anything go and he's going to defend himself right here.
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Speaker 3: That was littered with different videos off. said Mets owner
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Speaker 3: going and standing and applauding for the game tying home
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Speaker 3: run against his former team for a guy that he
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Speaker 3: would not pay the $ 175 million for.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, man.
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Speaker 2: That's been an interesting situation.
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Speaker 5: The whole Pete Alonzo thing and Mets fans are arguing
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Speaker 5: with each other about what they should and shouldn't do.
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Speaker 2: Oh, man, that is funny.
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Speaker 5: I thought for a second you were going to go
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Speaker 5: with the other not crew in New York, which was apparently,
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Speaker 5: I don't know if you guys saw this.
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Speaker 2: Big man Laz Diaz. Well, that too. I thought you
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Speaker 2: were going to go with the EMS crew.
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Speaker 5: That was stretching my man off because apparently they were
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Speaker 5: getting some negative run on the internet there was the
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Speaker 5: video of the ems crew working the stretcher and things
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Speaker 5: like that they were kind of fumbling and bumbling around
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Speaker 5: with this thing um people are calling them the three
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Speaker 5: stooges and things like that it's not a funny situation
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Speaker 5: now they didn't quite drop uh.
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Speaker 3: Not a funny situation while i laugh.
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Speaker 5: At well they didn't quite drop him like if you
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Speaker 5: remember mike mcdonald i think you remember drew remember that
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Speaker 5: mike mcdonald was being stretchered off into an ambulance.
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Speaker 3: Once and they dropped him I remember that straight out
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Speaker 3: of pro wrestling. It's just like they're kind of that
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Speaker 3: happens weekly.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, this is kind of and I saw some people EMS.
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Speaker 5: It's kind of like a painful thing there. So I
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Speaker 5: thought that's where you're going there. But check that video
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Speaker 5: out if you can. It's scary situation, obviously. Like you said,
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Speaker 5: New York, I think concussion symptoms.
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Speaker 2: But oh, yeah, he got rocked.
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Speaker 3: He got he got hit so hard that even Alec
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Speaker 3: Boehm on the other side, he was at third base.
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Speaker 2: He's like, wait a second. Yeah, I'm not running. I'm
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Speaker 2: going to make sure this guy's okay.
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Speaker 3: So luckily he came to much better, doing much better
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Speaker 3: this morning, and hopefully we'll be all good. But the owner,
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Speaker 3: he's not happy with what's happening right now and not
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Speaker 3: happy with people making him the clown of the entire
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Speaker 3: situation because he said, I'm not the reason. One guy
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Speaker 3: that was the reason for some delay last night. Drew,
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Speaker 3: what does a beat writer hate more than the non-pitch
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Speaker 3: clock era? Oof. Would extra innings be right there at
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Speaker 3: the top of the list?
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Speaker 2: Extra innings is up there, yeah.
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Speaker 3: What's worse than extra innings? Having five calls overturned in
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Speaker 3: the extra inning. Las Diaz last night had five calls
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Speaker 3: overturned in the 10th inning of the Angels and Twins game.
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Speaker 3: No umpires had more than three calls overturned in a
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Speaker 3: game's extra innings. This is the third time that five
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Speaker 3: calls have been overturned, though. in a single inning in
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Speaker 3: year one of the abs challenge system oh my i'm
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Speaker 3: trying to check and see that's so maybe laz diaz
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Speaker 3: is one of the guys that has decided to let
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Speaker 3: everybody know that he's hanging it up at the end
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Speaker 3: of the year there are a number of veteran umpires
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Speaker 3: that said hey by the way guys i'm out i'm
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Speaker 3: out of here not dealing with this nonsense ever again
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Speaker 3: had enough might be last yes as well might be
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Speaker 3: last diaz after that performance a night ago He also,
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Speaker 3: earlier on in the season, had a situation similar to,
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Speaker 3: who was our guy, C.B.
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Speaker 2: Buckner?
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Who missed Jake Bauer stepping on the base. Laz Diaz
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Speaker 3: did the exact same thing two weeks ago with Matt Olsen.
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Speaker 2: My goodness.
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Speaker 3: Would have been the last out of Chris Sale's complete
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Speaker 3: game shutout. Ultimately, he did it the next day. So,
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Speaker 3: not category for some of the refs, but hot category
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Speaker 3: for NBA fans. NBA preseason is going to start in
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Speaker 3: one week from today. Or one week from today, they'll
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Speaker 3: be the first NBA training camps opening up across the NBA.
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Speaker 3: That is a crazy deal to think of how quickly
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Speaker 3: this is going to jump on you. One person that
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Speaker 3: will not be in attendance.
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Speaker 2: Steve Ballmer. That's right. That's true. Competitive consequences. But he said,
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Speaker 2: case closed. We'll accept the problems. We're okay. I understand.
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Speaker 2: We might have messed up.
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Speaker 3: And finally, one more in the not category, Jack Campbell
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Speaker 3: last night, the all-pro linebacker for the Detroit Lions. Drew,
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Speaker 3: we talked about their defense. It's a tough deal, not
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Speaker 3: being able to stop anybody. Well, number 46 was drawn
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Speaker 3: almost to tears last night. After the game, Jack Campbell
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Speaker 3: holding back emotion, as the write-up says. His voice cracking said,
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Speaker 3: every time I lace up my cleats, I'm going 100%.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, put it on me.
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Speaker 3: I played terrible. I've got to be better, especially for
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Speaker 3: the offense and for all these guys in the locker room.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to be honest with you. Hats off to them,
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Speaker 3: but I played terrible. That's a tough deal. Tough day
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Speaker 3: for Jack Campbell because it wasn't just him. The entire
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Speaker 3: Lions defense played awful. They had one great moment, and
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Speaker 3: it would have been a great moment if they would
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Speaker 3: have fallen on the football when Aiden Hutchinson strip-sacked Josh Allen,
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Speaker 3: I think, on the fourth play of the game last
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Speaker 3: night inside of Buffalo territory. Buffalo pounces on it and
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Speaker 3: never looked back. They scored five touchdowns in their first
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Speaker 3: six drives. yesterday in that game against the Detroit Lions
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Speaker 3: and their beautiful new ballpark.
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Speaker 2: Here's some of that Jack Campbell audio if you want to.
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Speaker 5: Hear it here.
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Speaker 2: We don't see you at games like this very often.
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Speaker 1: Was there any sense of this coming in that it
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Speaker 1: didn't feel right today?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 2: I mean, every time I lace up my clothes, I'm
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Speaker 2: going 100%.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, put it on me.
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Speaker 3: I play terrible, so I got to be better, especially
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Speaker 3: for the offense and for all these guys in.
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Speaker 2: The locker room.
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Speaker 3: That is some real stuff. That's some real accountability. We
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Speaker 3: just want people to be held accountable. There it is
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Speaker 3: right there.
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Speaker 2: Holding himself accountable. I saw some reporters on Twitter.
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Speaker 5: Saying, hold them accountable and everyone's accountable. You call them,
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Speaker 5: let them know you are accountable to me.
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Speaker 2: Our team would win more if the media would just
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Speaker 2: hold people accountable. Just hold people accountable. So maybe that's
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Speaker 2: what that means, having people cry at postgame. Is that
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Speaker 2: what that means? Maybe that's what it means.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it might be.
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Speaker 2: Because I've been trying to figure out what.
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Speaker 5: Hold them accountable means for a long time, and no
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Speaker 5: one can really tell me.
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Speaker 1: It means I want you to be as mad and
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Speaker 1: upset when you ask a question as I am on
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Speaker 1: my couch.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Now, don't just ask it. Ask it in a crazy,
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Speaker 2: angrily manner, I guess. Is that what it is? Because
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Speaker 2: not even the question, that's enough for people. You've got
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Speaker 2: to be accountable. You've got to be accountable.
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Speaker 1: I'm waiting for Armand to find the Frank Costanza. How
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Speaker 1: could you trade Jay Buhner?
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Speaker 2: Jay Buhner. Ken Phelps bet. I'll find that one for you.
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Speaker 2: Baseball people told me Ken Phelps. Ken Phelps.
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Speaker 3: Rob Domofsky had a awesome post earlier on this week
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Speaker 3: in response to people asking if they.
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Speaker 2: Would just hold people accountable. He was answering a troll.
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Speaker 3: Answering a troll of like all the different questions that
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Speaker 3: were asked. The questions are going to get asked. But
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Speaker 3: like you said, Drew, the biggest thing is it's not
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Speaker 3: going to have the tone or the tenor that people
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Speaker 3: necessarily want it to because you can't. That kind of bluntness,
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Speaker 3: or honestly, it's more just frustratedness, comes from the fan
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Speaker 3: side where you ask the question, But somebody that's not
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Speaker 3: a fan of the team, it's not going to sound
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Speaker 3: the same way that it does for a lot of
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Speaker 3: people listening at home.
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Speaker 2: That's right. And these guys aren't fans. They get paid.
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Speaker 1: They show up every day, win or lose. They gotta
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Speaker 1: ask the questions they don't care they just want good
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Speaker 1: quotes and you know.
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Speaker 3: Like the good quote games like the good quote sean
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Speaker 3: ryan gave him last night what's the plan versus the
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Speaker 3: jets bleeping protect jay love and bleeping move the ball
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Speaker 3: keep it simple and keep it easy well there you
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Speaker 3: go i love that that's the kind of quote you're
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Speaker 3: looking for now we're talking right that's good strategy right.
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Speaker 1: I will say though like my favorite athletes to cover
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Speaker 1: were the guys who just owned it Like the throw
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Speaker 1: in Samoan, Mike Federer's Brewers closer, when he coughed up
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Speaker 1: a save, didn't happen often, but when he did, they'd
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Speaker 1: open the door to let the media into the clubhouse.
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Speaker 1: He'd be standing right there waiting for us. Waiting for you.
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Speaker 2: Waiting for you. Like, let's go. It's on me. I sucked.
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Speaker 1: It felt like I had two left feet, like I
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Speaker 1: put my uniform on backwards. I will be better tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: I will shove it up there, boom, boom. And if
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Speaker 1: they give me the ball and I sucked, I cost
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Speaker 1: this game.
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Speaker 2: It's on me. Don't ask anybody else anything. It's on me. Like,
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Speaker 2: how do you rip a guy when that's the quote?
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. The easiest way to get is get out in
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Speaker 2: front of it.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And that's what he would do. Just like a crazy idea,
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Speaker 3: the easiest thing to do is tell the truth. Right,
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Speaker 3: like as honestly as you can. It's a radical position today.
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Speaker 3: This is what happened. Boom, we lost mostly because of me.
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Speaker 3: I've been meaning to ask you, they've kind of changed
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Speaker 3: it up in the Brewers clubhouse feel. Do you like
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Speaker 3: the fact that they're bringing the guys to the front
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Speaker 3: area where they're talking? Because that's much different than it
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Speaker 3: always had been. It is different because it was always like,
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Speaker 3: because it was hard. you thought maybe you were getting
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Speaker 3: a one-on-one and then there's the swarm, you know, people
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Speaker 3: would swarm you. And it's the same way in the
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Speaker 3: Packers clubhouse when it's potluck like that.
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Speaker 2: For sure.
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Speaker 1: But with the Brewers, there's usually three guys that you
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Speaker 1: need to talk to after a game that had pivotal roles.
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Speaker 1: And my thing was always, okay, well, there's a whole
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Speaker 1: group of guys around the pitcher who pitched seven shutout innings.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to like, wait for that crowd to thin
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Speaker 1: out and I'll go talk to the catcher.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 2: How was his warmup?
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Speaker 1: What'd you guys do? How did you, you know, did
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Speaker 1: you feel like he had it right away? What pitches
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Speaker 1: were working? What was the sequence on that at bat
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Speaker 1: to Bill Schmidt in the third inning? And then I'd go,
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Speaker 1: but work my way back over the picture. Now it's like,
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Speaker 1: the thing is if those guys do their time in
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Speaker 1: front of the backdrop that they've set up, are they
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Speaker 1: then off limits or can you still grab them and
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Speaker 1: get a little side question? Cause that's the thing that,
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Speaker 1: I'm not in that ecosystem anymore.
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Speaker 3: Because then you actually get a different quote. The other
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Speaker 3: thing is then you have nine quotes that everybody's writing.
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Speaker 2: And that's the other thing.
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Speaker 3: That goes into maybe more of the deep conversation of
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Speaker 3: the competitiveness of it.
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Speaker 1: That was always the Sports Illustrated advantage because the guys
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Speaker 1: like Raducci and stuff, they would work the room.
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Speaker 2: And they'd be around for those gaggles.
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Speaker 1: And then the gaggle would go away, and they'd get
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Speaker 1: the guy one-on-one.
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Speaker 2: And a couple of good ones.
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Speaker 1: When he's not on stage anymore and a little bit relaxed,
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Speaker 1: and they would get better quotes just because they had
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Speaker 1: the time to do that when the other slaps were
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Speaker 1: going upstairs to file on deadline.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it always felt like it would be also
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Speaker 3: a little different when you can give the little, hey,
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Speaker 3: I apologize if you answered this before, but let me
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Speaker 3: lean it in this way, a little different twist.
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Speaker 2: You have to twist it a little bit. You can't
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Speaker 2: just ask the rote questions. You have to go deeper.
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Speaker 3: Because for the audio lover in me, I appreciate the
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Speaker 3: fact that it feels like we get cleaner sound, cleaner video,
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Speaker 3: but I don't know that you're getting the best reaction
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Speaker 3: throughout the entire game, if that makes sense.
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Speaker 1: You can make the case that if they're going to
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Speaker 1: do that, why not just bring them across the hall?
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Speaker 2: Go to a podium, yeah. But then there's like this
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Speaker 2: last bastion, like the players... In all.
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Speaker 1: Sports, especially the NFL in the last CBA, they wanted
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Speaker 1: to ban reporters from the locker room.
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Speaker 3: Once they did it in COVID, I'm kind of surprised
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Speaker 3: a lot of teams still do, certainly.
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Speaker 2: It should be a sanctuary and things like that.
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Speaker 1: I remember Reggie White didn't want the females in there
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Speaker 1: because of the Christian thing and seeing guys naked and
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Speaker 1: buy everybody robes and stuff if you want to. It's
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Speaker 1: better when you have that access. In the playoffs, you
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Speaker 1: don't have pregame clubhouse access.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that's true.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: All it's only one, three players they bring there. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And if you have a relationship, we can stop guys
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Speaker 1: on the dugout or something, or they can choose to
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Speaker 1: hide or blow you off or something. But so it
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Speaker 1: does change in the playoffs and it's different. And the
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Speaker 1: flip side of that is usually they have more guys
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Speaker 1: that they bring in to hang around and work out
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Speaker 1: and stuff.
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Speaker 5: So.
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Speaker 1: There's more players, but less media traffic. And the players
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Speaker 1: say that that's like relaxing and helps them focus.
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Speaker 2: Oh, sure. So then a lot of them will be like,
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Speaker 2: why don't we do this all year? Every day.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Well, because I've also started seeing it with, I mean,
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Speaker 3: like the James Franklin video that everybody was enjoying this weekend.
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Speaker 3: That is, I'm guessing, still a Zoom coaches press conference.
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Speaker 3: There's a lot of teams that are still doing it.
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Speaker 3: Todd Munkin, I think, does almost every single one of
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Speaker 3: his for the Cleveland Browns on Zoom, where it just,
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Speaker 3: that was how it went. And then once COVID got,
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Speaker 3: change and once that was done it felt like there
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Speaker 3: were some teams that were going to lock it in
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Speaker 3: and some have maneuvered it but it doesn't feel as
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Speaker 3: locked in this is what you have to do this
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Speaker 3: is when you have to be available because we do
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Speaker 3: still get some great audio and some great clips but
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Speaker 3: there's some that packers.com doesn't necessarily have in the locker
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Speaker 3: room because you have the freedom to kind of move
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Speaker 3: around and get different guys.
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Speaker 1: Yeah it's a double-edged thing guys are on stage and
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Speaker 1: their guard is up at the podium and it's not
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Speaker 1: you know plus the the world can watch it used
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Speaker 1: to be when you know Back in the olden times,
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Speaker 1: they didn't televise and stream pressers. It was like, you know,
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Speaker 1: we heard it, and then the TV cameras might have
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Speaker 1: been rolling.
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Speaker 3: Well, and I wonder, you see it now with, just
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Speaker 3: from offensive line play, as somebody that watches it and
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Speaker 3: enjoys every bit of the All-22, and I'm one of
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Speaker 3: the guys that's sitting there and can't wait to hit
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Speaker 3: P on the next play or whatever, but there's so
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Speaker 3: much media to it and so much conversation about it
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Speaker 3: that it's a difficult conversation day in age in the
15:23
Speaker 3: NFL to just get better throughout the season, especially that
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Speaker 3: position where there's so it's so loud. There's so much
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Speaker 3: accessibility to the content that, I mean, there are 45
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Speaker 3: different podcasts of guys breaking down film where there might've
15:38
Speaker 3: been four guys that had the opportunity to 25 years ago.
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Speaker 3: And they would just be talking to their guys, the
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Speaker 3: water cool. And they'd be like, okay, Joe, we got it.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 2: We get it. You watch the game again.
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Speaker 3: Now it's like, Everybody has to watch it four or
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Speaker 3: five different times and come out of it with eight
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Speaker 3: different hot takes.
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Speaker 5: And everyone has to pretend that they know how to
15:58
Speaker 5: break down film better than every GM.
16:00
Speaker 2: I mean, you're right.
16:00
Speaker 5: Unless you're the TV copy on VHS once upon a time,
16:03
Speaker 5: you weren't getting all 22 to try and cosplay as
16:07
Speaker 5: a great football coach, which is a lot of people
16:09
Speaker 5: do on the internet.
16:10
Speaker 3: It's just a weird balancing act because it feels like
16:12
Speaker 3: we have more media now than ever before, but less.
16:17
Speaker 2: Access and availability to it.
16:20
Speaker 5: The interesting part, and you said it, Drew, about being
16:23
Speaker 5: on stage, but you always make this point, Billy, and
16:25
Speaker 5: it's true, but when those guys get in their podcast setting,
16:28
Speaker 5: it's a totally different feel. They totally feel more comfortable
16:31
Speaker 5: to talk more, I don't know what the right word is,
16:34
Speaker 5: authentically or naturally or filterless, but in their traditional media setting,
16:41
Speaker 5: they still don't, and they see that as adversarial. Whereas
16:44
Speaker 5: a lot of times these guys enjoy being on podcasts
16:46
Speaker 5: to talk about themselves.
16:47
Speaker 2: So it is an interesting time we're in, in that sense,
16:51
Speaker 2: no doubt. Yeah, it continues to evolve. And then players
16:55
Speaker 2: have their own, you know, they can, their own social
16:58
Speaker 2: media accounts.
17:00
Speaker 6: Oh, right.
17:00
Speaker 2: I mean, their own statements. They got a lot of ways.
17:02
Speaker 2: There was, who am I thinking of? Warriors. Draymond.
17:07
Speaker 3: He was the first one to walk up to the
17:09
Speaker 3: press conference and be like, hey, by the way, guys,
17:10
Speaker 3: I'm going to give you the actual statements on my podcast.
17:13
Speaker 2: Sorry, man.
17:14
Speaker 3: I don't necessarily know that's exactly how this works.
17:18
Speaker 2: I don't think that's exactly how this goes.
17:20
Speaker 3: I don't know that we just get to blow it
17:21
Speaker 3: off and say, hey, but just so you know, make
17:23
Speaker 3: sure you like and subscribe to get the real stuff
17:25
Speaker 3: coming up in an.
17:26
Speaker 2: Hour and a half. But who's ever holding those guys accountable, Billy?
17:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, who's holding them accountable?
17:32
Speaker 2: Way to spit it right back in their arm. That's
17:34
Speaker 2: what we want to know. Be accountable.
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17:44
Speaker 7: He was so young. How could this have happened? Well,
17:47
Speaker 7: he'd been logging some pretty heavy hours. First one in
17:49
Speaker 7: in the morning, last one to leave at night. That
17:51
Speaker 7: kid was a human dynamo. Are you sure you're talking
17:53
Speaker 7: about George?
17:55
Speaker 2: You are, Mr. and Mrs. Costanza. What the hell did
17:58
Speaker 2: you trade Jake Unifor?
18:00
Speaker 4: He had 13 home runs and over 100 RBIs last year.
18:03
Speaker 3: He's got a rocket for an arm.
18:06
Speaker 6: You don't know what the hell you're doing!
18:08
Speaker 7: Well, Keno was a good prospect, no question about it.
18:11
Speaker 7: But my baseball people love Ken Phelps, Matt. They kept saying,
18:13
Speaker 7: Ken Phelps, Ken Phelps.
18:17
Speaker 2: We are huddled up on a Friday in the good land.
18:19
Speaker 1: Drew Billion-Armond bringing it to you from headquarters, 920 Milwaukee,
18:22
Speaker 1: 1070 Madison. Football Friday continues. You got your Badgers playing
18:28
Speaker 1: at Camp Randall. Packers heading to the Meadowlands, the swamps
18:32
Speaker 1: of Jersey, to face the Jets at MetLife Stadium. And
18:36
Speaker 1: joining us now on the NicoletLaw.com talk and text line,
18:38
Speaker 1: our pal, the voice of the Packers, Wayne Larvey, who
18:40
Speaker 1: just left us at Pottawatomie, the sports book for a
18:43
Speaker 1: Thursday night huddle.
18:44
Speaker 2: And he's back with us on Friday morning. Good morning, Wayne.
18:47
Speaker 6: Good morning, guys. How you doing?
18:48
Speaker 2: We're fantastic. Much better now, Wayne.
18:51
Speaker 3: Always better when you join us and always better after
18:55
Speaker 3: a night spent at the Pottawatomie sports book, especially one where, man,
18:59
Speaker 3: that Buffalo Bills offense, Wayne, is real. But I came
19:03
Speaker 3: out of that wondering... Was that Bill's offense just that good?
19:06
Speaker 3: Or those Lions, the Motor City Kitties got some questions
19:09
Speaker 3: on that defense that are going to be hard to
19:11
Speaker 3: answer coming up.
19:13
Speaker 6: Yeah, Bill, that's what I took away.
19:15
Speaker 4: Detroit's got issues on defense, and they don't appear to
19:19
Speaker 4: be getting any better. They were missing their top two safeties,
19:22
Speaker 4: and that certainly hurts on the back end, and Josh
19:25
Speaker 4: Allen took advantage of that. But, boy, Detroit's gotten torched.
19:28
Speaker 4: There was a point in time at the end of
19:30
Speaker 4: the Saints game last week And the start of the
19:33
Speaker 4: Bills game last night where they gave up like, I
19:35
Speaker 4: don't know, touchdowns on four out of six possessions by
19:39
Speaker 4: their opponent, something like that.
19:41
Speaker 6: It was, yeah. But, you know, give them credit.
19:44
Speaker 4: I mean, like a Dan Campbell team, they kept fighting
19:46
Speaker 4: back and kind of made a game of it in
19:48
Speaker 4: the end.
19:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, they kind of did.
19:50
Speaker 1: Did we were talking earlier the nfl's becoming like the
19:53
Speaker 1: nba where an early 20 point lead is yeah you
19:56
Speaker 1: know can't really put your feet up yet no.
20:00
Speaker 6: No and we know that all too well here don't we.
20:03
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely you know We've seen it.
20:05
Speaker 4: That's the way it is in the NFL. I mean,
20:07
Speaker 4: you get a big lead on somebody. I guarantee you
20:09
Speaker 4: that team's going to make a comeback against you. They're
20:12
Speaker 4: not going to lay down. And when that happens, when
20:15
Speaker 4: the momentum turns, how you handle that, and Buffalo handled
20:19
Speaker 4: it fine last night, But how you handle that determines
20:21
Speaker 4: whether you win the game or not, even though you
20:23
Speaker 4: had the 20-point lead.
20:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, Wayne, the number that you're looking at, they had
20:27
Speaker 3: seven touchdown drives in nine drives by the opponent given
20:31
Speaker 3: up from when they take the 21-0 lead against the Saints.
20:35
Speaker 3: to the end of the first half with the bills,
20:38
Speaker 3: four straight touchdowns on four drives. The only drives they
20:40
Speaker 3: didn't give up touchdowns was a missed field goal to
20:43
Speaker 3: try to win the game at the end of regulation
20:45
Speaker 3: and a made field goal by the saints. So it
20:47
Speaker 3: just shows they were giving up a lot of points
20:49
Speaker 3: in a crazy amount of bunches and you're a branch
20:52
Speaker 3: and Joseph out in the backend is a part of it.
20:55
Speaker 3: But Wayne, they seem to have a very much aging,
21:00
Speaker 3: quickly defensive line. I mean, DJ Wanham had been a
21:03
Speaker 3: nice player with his time in Minnesota, but I don't
21:05
Speaker 3: know that we've heard of him in a while. It
21:07
Speaker 3: feels like they got old kind of quick, especially on
21:10
Speaker 3: that side of the ball.
21:11
Speaker 4: Yeah, Lee McNeil didn't get much done in the middle,
21:14
Speaker 4: and he's really a peacock on that defensive front. He
21:17
Speaker 4: wasn't getting much done last night. So, yeah, I mean,
21:20
Speaker 4: everybody's got issues. And here's the other thing. I told
21:23
Speaker 4: you guys last week, Minnesota was a tough spot for
21:26
Speaker 4: the Packers to start in. And not just because of
21:29
Speaker 4: the arena, but because of the type of defense they
21:31
Speaker 4: would face and where they were with the offensive line.
21:34
Speaker 6: Same thing last night for Detroit.
21:35
Speaker 4: Dan Campbell knew that going into that game last night,
21:38
Speaker 4: the head coach of the Lions. You know, he said, hey,
21:40
Speaker 4: this is going to be tough to hang with these
21:41
Speaker 4: guys in a new building on a short week early
21:44
Speaker 4: in the season. So there are some certain games early
21:47
Speaker 4: in the season when as an investor, Bill, as you are,
21:50
Speaker 4: you would sit there and say, that's a tough spot.
21:52
Speaker 4: I may lay off of that game.
21:53
Speaker 1: Well, garbage time can be deceiving because the bills are 2-0,
21:57
Speaker 1: but they've given up 62 points in two games.
21:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Goff had four touchdowns last night. That's a
22:01
Speaker 2: reason for concern as well. It's just this league. Things
22:04
Speaker 2: are shaking out.
22:06
Speaker 1: Wayne, when you watch the Jets, we talked about it
22:07
Speaker 1: last night and what Frank Reich's impact on this game
22:10
Speaker 1: is going to be. I didn't realize until I watched
22:13
Speaker 1: the Jets had a 19-play drive.
22:18
Speaker 2: Yeah.
22:20
Speaker 1: With 17 runs, though 15 were designed and there were
22:22
Speaker 1: a couple scrambles. But it was 11 minutes and 38 seconds,
22:27
Speaker 1: but they only got a field goal. Is that a
22:29
Speaker 1: win for the defense or are you demoralized that you
22:31
Speaker 1: couldn't get off the field? I'm wondering what the psychology
22:34
Speaker 1: is of that.
22:35
Speaker 4: You know, if you talk to Jonathan Gannon, he would say,
22:37
Speaker 4: you know, that's dying a slow death by a thousand
22:40
Speaker 4: paper cuts, you know, and he doesn't want to do
22:43
Speaker 4: that either. So, no, as a defense, you want to
22:45
Speaker 4: get off the field so you might try something. But,
22:48
Speaker 4: you know, the Jets are a team that, I think
22:53
Speaker 4: they have to play that way. They've got a really
22:55
Speaker 4: good running back tandem. Obviously, Braylon Allen, we know all
22:59
Speaker 4: about him. But when you look at their running back situation,
23:04
Speaker 4: Brees Hall is as good as it gets in many respects.
23:07
Speaker 4: Doesn't get a lot of recognition because the Jets haven't
23:10
Speaker 4: won much lately, but that's a good running back tandem.
23:13
Speaker 4: They have an emerging offensive line that really started to
23:15
Speaker 4: put it together late last year and getting off to
23:19
Speaker 4: a great start in Tennessee last This year they were
23:21
Speaker 4: moving people off the line of scrimmage in that game
23:24
Speaker 4: last week. The Jets are a ball control kind of
23:27
Speaker 4: team under Frank Reich, and with their quarterback, who's a
23:30
Speaker 4: very accurate passer over the course of his career, Geno Smith,
23:34
Speaker 4: this is how they have to play, and they protect
23:36
Speaker 4: that defense a little bit by doing that. They dominated
23:39
Speaker 4: the game in Tennessee.
23:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Wayne, you've seen so many games, and now
23:43
Speaker 3: it just feels like such a rush to, if you're
23:45
Speaker 3: not going to be the odds-on favorite to win the
23:47
Speaker 3: Super Bowl, Well, then just tank and go find the
23:50
Speaker 3: next quarterback and go three and 14, and then we'll
23:53
Speaker 3: figure it out and build it up from there. The
23:55
Speaker 3: Jets have been in that cycle, it feels like, for
23:57
Speaker 3: a long time. And it appears with just some of
24:00
Speaker 3: the moves they made this offseason, the young pieces they have,
24:02
Speaker 3: you mentioned it, they raised the floor with Geno Smith,
24:05
Speaker 3: who can come in, be a veteran. People say bridge.
24:09
Speaker 3: I also think there's levels to it of like, We
24:12
Speaker 3: just don't want to be the worst team in football
24:14
Speaker 3: every single year. And as much as some people think
24:16
Speaker 3: that's a defeatist mindset, there used to be a building
24:19
Speaker 3: block of, hey, now we're just not going to win
24:21
Speaker 3: four games. Now we're going to try to, I don't know,
24:24
Speaker 3: be competitive in all 17 and maybe win seven. It
24:27
Speaker 3: feels like a step that not a lot of teams
24:30
Speaker 3: are trying to do right now, but the Jets just
24:32
Speaker 3: decided this offseason, we're going to raise the floor and
24:34
Speaker 3: try not to be the laughingstock of the league anymore.
24:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, Billy, I think they had all
24:40
Speaker 4: these draft picks. They had kind of Daryl Moogie, their
24:44
Speaker 4: general manager, cleaned house at the trading deadline last year,
24:47
Speaker 4: and they added all these draft picks, and they've got
24:50
Speaker 4: many more coming up in the next couple of years,
24:53
Speaker 4: multiple first-round picks. But they've really decided, okay, we're going
24:56
Speaker 4: to build this thing. We don't have a quarterback yet.
24:58
Speaker 4: We don't have a long-term answer at that position yet,
25:01
Speaker 4: but we'll build the rest of the roster here, and
25:03
Speaker 4: we'll try to find that quarterback as we go along.
25:06
Speaker 6: This team is a lot better than it was a
25:08
Speaker 6: year ago.
25:09
Speaker 4: I wish the Packers were playing last year's Jets team,
25:11
Speaker 4: but This one's a much different team. And as Aaron
25:14
Speaker 4: Glenn mentioned before the start of the season, and they
25:17
Speaker 4: had changed some coaches too. I mean, you mentioned Frank
25:19
Speaker 4: Reich on that staff.
25:21
Speaker 6: They'd made several.
25:22
Speaker 4: Coaching changes and brought in some veteran players in addition
25:25
Speaker 4: to the rookies they have. Um, you know, Aaron Glenn said,
25:28
Speaker 4: we now have adults at the table, you know? So
25:31
Speaker 4: I think sometimes it takes two years to three years
25:34
Speaker 4: to build a good coaching staff, but that's what they're
25:36
Speaker 4: trying to do.
25:36
Speaker 3: Especially on that defense, the adults that you're looking at
25:39
Speaker 3: Harrison Smith or Harrison Phillips been around a long time.
25:42
Speaker 2: We watched him in Minnesota.
25:43
Speaker 3: I think he's a real player and he gets to
25:44
Speaker 3: play alongside, uh, to Andre sweat who they grabbed from Tennessee,
25:48
Speaker 3: who is an absolute, he's a biscuit shy of three 50.
25:51
Speaker 2: He's a big son of a gun.
25:53
Speaker 3: Bring into Mario Davis, who's been one of the best
25:55
Speaker 3: inside linebackers in football for a long time. And you
25:58
Speaker 3: kind of forget they even have Mink if it's Patrick. Now,
26:00
Speaker 3: I don't know that he's going to be able to
26:01
Speaker 3: go doubtful right now in the back end, Wayne. But
26:04
Speaker 3: those are some that's that do just give you some calming,
26:08
Speaker 3: calm nature at each level of the defense.
26:11
Speaker 2: And they got young players.
26:13
Speaker 3: But this defensive line with McDonald, Phillips, Sweat and Bailey,
26:17
Speaker 3: the number two overall pick from last year.
26:19
Speaker 2: That's no joke.
26:20
Speaker 3: That's not going to be an easy front four to
26:21
Speaker 3: go up against all night.
26:22
Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree with you wholeheartedly. And again, they brought
26:25
Speaker 6: veterans in. Why?
26:26
Speaker 4: Well, because those guys kind of know how to win.
26:29
Speaker 4: They know what it takes to win. And there's nothing better.
26:31
Speaker 4: You can coach all you want, but you need players.
26:34
Speaker 4: Teams really excel and become great teams from within. It's
26:39
Speaker 4: not just about coaching. Coaching can put you in the
26:41
Speaker 4: right spots. But those players on that team have to
26:45
Speaker 4: understand how to work together and win. And that's what
26:48
Speaker 4: veteran leadership that the Jets brought in, especially on the
26:51
Speaker 4: defensive side.
26:52
Speaker 6: Can do for you. And I, I think, you know,
26:54
Speaker 6: you can have a lot of young.
26:55
Speaker 4: Players, but if you don't have a few veterans who
26:58
Speaker 4: can show those guys how to do it, like a
27:00
Speaker 4: Charles Woodson showing a couple of young defensive backs, like
27:03
Speaker 4: Tremont Williams and Nick Collins, how to watch film, you
27:06
Speaker 4: know what I mean? How to do it as a
27:07
Speaker 4: pro without that, the Packers don't win the Superbowl 45.
27:11
Speaker 6: So that's what the jets are getting at.
27:13
Speaker 4: Hey, it's great to be the youngest team of the league,
27:15
Speaker 4: but if you don't have veteran leadership on that team,
27:18
Speaker 4: where are you going?
27:19
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27:37
Speaker 1: out jersey so the packers get to sport the green
27:40
Speaker 1: oh all right which i think is cool and that
27:43
Speaker 1: made me think okay so if all the jets fans
27:45
Speaker 1: are wearing white packers fans are going to stand out
27:47
Speaker 1: more than normal. People who are traveling with their white
27:49
Speaker 1: jerseys pick the wrong ones to wear.
27:51
Speaker 2: That's true.
27:52
Speaker 1: But Wayne, when the Packers, we know Packers fans are everywhere.
27:55
Speaker 1: Packers everywhere, tailgate parties. How do they like to travel
27:58
Speaker 1: to New York? Is there one city where you see
28:01
Speaker 1: Packers fans more? I would think it would be the
28:02
Speaker 1: warm weather cities, but New York is New York. Always
28:05
Speaker 1: fun to visit New York. Where do Packers fans travel
28:07
Speaker 1: the best?
28:09
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, it's been a, I'm trying to think.
28:11
Speaker 4: I mean, last time we were out there and played
28:12
Speaker 4: the Giants, I think it might've been a Monday night
28:15
Speaker 4: game or something like that.
28:17
Speaker 6: They travel well.
28:18
Speaker 4: I mean, the thing about it is if you're a
28:19
Speaker 4: Packers fan or a Steelers fan or a Cowboys fan,
28:22
Speaker 4: and you're going to a game on the road, you're
28:25
Speaker 4: not alone. Same thing with the Yankees in baseball and
28:29
Speaker 4: that kind of thing. You're not alone in those stadiums ever.
28:33
Speaker 4: So yeah, they travel well. The one place I don't
28:36
Speaker 4: think people really want to go to is Philadelphia. You know,
28:40
Speaker 4: just to put up with that in Philadelphia is just,
28:43
Speaker 4: you know, that's, That's probably, as a fan, the last
28:46
Speaker 4: place I'd want to go as an opposing fan.
28:48
Speaker 2: It also has to be something.
28:50
Speaker 3: We had a conversation, Armin Sarian, getting harassed in Philadelphia
28:53
Speaker 3: as a youth earlier on here today, Wayne. I think
28:56
Speaker 3: it's just people being upset that they live in Philly.
28:58
Speaker 3: It's a problem with their own lot in life. I
29:00
Speaker 3: think that comes to it. There's some folks that are
29:02
Speaker 3: very upset with this football team.
29:04
Speaker 2: They're a lot in life.
29:04
Speaker 3: They're feeling like the Cleveland Browns. 0-1 is a tough
29:07
Speaker 3: spot to be in. However, you talked to us last
29:11
Speaker 3: night at the Thursday Night Huddle. I think talked some
29:13
Speaker 3: Packers fans off the ledge on where this team is
29:16
Speaker 3: right now, especially on the offensive line. The week one
29:19
Speaker 3: to week two improvement is always something that coaches will
29:23
Speaker 3: hammer home. Biggest improvement comes week one to week two.
29:26
Speaker 3: But do you think that there's some movement around that
29:29
Speaker 3: offensive line or the biggest jump in week one and
29:32
Speaker 3: week two is just the continuity that they try to
29:34
Speaker 3: roll with up there?
29:35
Speaker 4: Well, Bill, I mean, they can go a couple of
29:36
Speaker 4: different ways, but I think what they'd like to do
29:38
Speaker 4: is get Aaron Banks out there, you know, and he's
29:40
Speaker 4: practicing a little bit this week.
29:42
Speaker 6: Will he be ready for Sunday?
29:44
Speaker 4: You hope so, because I think he's kind of a
29:46
Speaker 4: subtle key and he played well down the stretch last year,
29:49
Speaker 4: according to most accounts. And, you know, that would be
29:53
Speaker 4: big if they could get him out there on the field.
29:55
Speaker 4: But I agree with you. I think that really This
29:59
Speaker 4: offensive line, I can guarantee you this, those coaches are
30:03
Speaker 4: hammering in them in the prep work and practice and
30:08
Speaker 4: that type of thing to step up to the next level.
30:10
Speaker 4: I mean, that was not a good performance. Let's not
30:14
Speaker 4: sugarcoat it or anything like that. That was not, as
30:17
Speaker 4: Steno said, Adam Stanovich, the offensive coordinator, that was not
30:20
Speaker 4: up to standard, not by any stretch of the imagination.
30:23
Speaker 6: The performance in Minneapolis.
30:25
Speaker 4: They're facing a team that has some good pass rush people,
30:28
Speaker 4: some good defensive line people.
30:30
Speaker 6: But, hey, this line has to step up.
30:32
Speaker 4: And I think you'll see big improvement in the offensive
30:35
Speaker 4: line from week one to week two for the Green
30:38
Speaker 4: Bay Packers.
30:39
Speaker 6: And let's be honest, they.
30:40
Speaker 4: Better be better because otherwise Jordan Love is in jeopardy.
30:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean.
30:46
Speaker 1: he can't be taking 13, 14, 15 shots.
30:50
Speaker 2: As Steno said, actually 18. He was like, I'm counting
30:53
Speaker 2: them up. We had way too many in this week.
30:55
Speaker 3: Especially for one that we watched Aaron Glenn blitz a
30:58
Speaker 3: ton in Detroit. Now, did he blitz as much as
31:00
Speaker 3: Brian Flores?
31:01
Speaker 2: Maybe not. But, Wayne, he's going to bring heat.
31:04
Speaker 3: And as a former corner, I think there's also a
31:07
Speaker 3: little bit of thought in the back of your mind of,
31:09
Speaker 3: I'm going to test these guys on the outside, and
31:11
Speaker 3: I think that we can hold up if we bring
31:13
Speaker 3: six almost every single time.
31:15
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think the tape is powerful in
31:19
Speaker 4: the NFL. And what the Vikings did, well, teams blitz
31:23
Speaker 4: like that 75%, 80% of the time, no. But they're
31:27
Speaker 4: going to test the Packers with their different blitz packages.
31:30
Speaker 4: Whatever the Jets have for a blitz package, you're going
31:32
Speaker 4: to see it on Sunday.
31:33
Speaker 6: That's a given.
31:35
Speaker 4: So, you know, they're going to test the Packers like
31:40
Speaker 4: the Vikings did or tried to. And it's up to
31:42
Speaker 4: the Packers now to answer that. This is the chess
31:44
Speaker 4: match that goes on. Season to season in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be fun. It's going to be fun
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Speaker 1: to watch the chess match. Hey, Wayne, for folks who
31:52
Speaker 1: listen to the Beyond the Booth podcast with Wayne Larrabee.
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Speaker 2: And if you're not, what are you doing? You should.
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Speaker 1: We spoke to Pete Doherty and we were wondering if
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Speaker 1: he was going to make the cut as a Hall
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Speaker 1: of Fame selector.
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Speaker 2: He did.
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Speaker 1: They knocked it almost in half. They went from like
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Speaker 1: 50 to 28. And I think Pete Doherty made the cut,
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Speaker 1: which is good to have local representation. They're changing that process.
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Speaker 1: And it does seem like a reaction to Bill Belichick
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Speaker 1: getting snubbed and Napoleon and Dungy, the circle out quickly
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Speaker 1: on that happened gone, but Pete Doherty did make the cut.
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Speaker 1: So we will have a local representation, which I think
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Speaker 1: is a good thing. And Pete deserves it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely. Good to see that happen. And that was
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Speaker 6: an interesting list.
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Speaker 4: Those who were cut, some of those names had been
32:34
Speaker 4: there for a long time and were very instrumental in
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Speaker 4: the hall of fame selection process. So, obviously the Hall's
32:42
Speaker 4: looking at a different situation.
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Speaker 2: Some legendary guys like Rick Gosselin and John McClain.
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Speaker 3: Rick Gosselin has done so much in terms of special
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Speaker 3: teams and understanding and quantifying how good teams are.
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Speaker 2: That's a wild decision. The Cleveland Riders, I'm blanking on
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Speaker 2: the names, but you mentioned the Cleveland Riders. Mary Kay
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Speaker 2: Cabot and Tony Grossi. They're out too.
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Speaker 4: I was really surprised to see Rick and Mary Kay
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Speaker 4: Not on that list of people they retain because those
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Speaker 4: are really respected NFL voices.
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Speaker 2: Legendary names.
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Speaker 1: Wayne, it was great hanging with you last night and
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Speaker 1: this morning. Safe travels. We can't wait to hear the call.
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Speaker 1: And Billy and I will be listening as we get
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Speaker 1: ready for Packers OT.
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Speaker 6: Sounds good, guys. Take care. Thanks, Wayne. Have a great Monday.
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Speaker 2: Cause that means we're scoring a lot of points. Oh,
33:57
Speaker 2: that'd be amazing.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I will take that. All right.
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Speaker 2: I got a couple of nominees.
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Speaker 3: One would be future Wisconsin Badger, Kingston Allen. Now, Kingston's
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Speaker 3: going to have himself an opportunity to potentially be this
34:39
Speaker 3: Every week, every single week, he's going to have a
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Speaker 3: chance to potentially be that.
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Speaker 2: But he put up.
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Speaker 3: Last night in the first half on just seven carries quick,
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Speaker 3: 122 yards and five TDs, five TDs in the first
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Speaker 3: half on seven carries for Notre Dame Academy. The future
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Speaker 3: Badger running back feels like as much can't miss as
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Speaker 3: he can have last week.
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Speaker 2: His numbers.
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Speaker 3: 15 carries 229 yards and six TDs through the first
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Speaker 3: two weeks. My man for the first two weeks, he
35:12
Speaker 3: had 84 carries 916 yards and 12 touchdowns. Wow. The
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Speaker 3: two games prior to yesterday, 21 carries 365 yards and
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Speaker 3: nine TDs. He then plays a half and puts up
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Speaker 3: five touchdowns on seven carries. People online are just saying like, listen,
35:32
Speaker 3: Luke Fickle and the Badgers can't even mess this guy up.
35:35
Speaker 3: There's just no way you can mess up that kind
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Speaker 3: of production.
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Speaker 2: We'll see. He might be a superhero of the day.
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Speaker 3: The other one I would go would be Calvin Shepard
35:43
Speaker 3: for completely ruining the Lions defense. I just saw this
35:47
Speaker 3: stat pop up of their last 14 possessions as we
35:50
Speaker 3: were talking about with Wayne Larrabee just a couple of
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Speaker 3: minutes ago and how brutal the Lions stretch since they
35:57
Speaker 3: went up 21-0 was on the New Orleans Saints. In
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Speaker 3: the last 14 drives, they've given up 10 touchdowns, one
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Speaker 3: made field goal, one missed field goal, and just two punts.
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Speaker 3: That's about as bad as a defense can be. And
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Speaker 3: thank you, Calvin Shepard, for doing it. We appreciate you
36:15
Speaker 3: ruining that defense. And also, Ben Johnson for leaving and
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Speaker 3: now giving Detroit. Maybe, I don't know, Shane Gillis is
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Speaker 3: their head coach. The AI edits of the Detroit Lions
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Speaker 3: coach since Ben Johnson walked out, pretty wild here today.
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Speaker 3: I saw Shane Gillis' head on him. I saw McAfee's
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Speaker 3: head on him. I saw a homeless guy on him, which, again,
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Speaker 3: that would be a properly jacked homeless guy if he
36:39
Speaker 3: was standing in for Dan Campbell.
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Speaker 2: Well, you never know.
36:44
Speaker 3: Doing the chest exercises that Bill Belichick would be at
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Speaker 2: Call current.com. Kingston Allen. You mentioned it, Billy can't miss.
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Speaker 5: And, you know, you never really know when a guy
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Speaker 5: gets the next level, what he'll do, but he does
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Speaker 5: look like something special.
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Speaker 2: Going to the Badgers.
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Speaker 5: You know, I don't know if I'm going to say, like,
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Speaker 5: there's been a lot of great running backs at Wisconsin
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Speaker 5: in Badgers history.
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Speaker 2: A lot of great running backs.
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Speaker 5: But is he etching his name into Wisconsin high school
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Speaker 5: history as well?
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Speaker 2: Like, where do we get on that? Like, what's the
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Speaker 2: stratosphere there?
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Speaker 5: Because when I think about legendary, you know, running backs
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Speaker 5: in high school history, you know, Melvin Gordon was at Bradford.
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Speaker 5: And I remember John Clay was dominant at Racine Park.
37:49
Speaker 2: Brent Moss. Brent Moss was another one. Brent Moss was
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Speaker 2: on Racine Park. Racine schools and always... Michael Bennett, Bradley Tack? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: from Tack. Is he going to be in that stratosphere?
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Speaker 5: It sure seems like he can't do much more than
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Speaker 5: scoring a touchdown every play.
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Speaker 2: It seems like what he does. Kingston Allen. So it
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Speaker 2: seems like he might be in that mix at some point.
38:07
Speaker 2: He will be for sure.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it is also one of those where the
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Speaker 3: ones that you remember a lot more, obviously they end
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Speaker 3: up going to Wisconsin. John Clay is a great example
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Speaker 3: for it. Vontae Jackson is one that you forget about,
38:19
Speaker 3: but he was the guy at Bradford with Melvin Gordon.
38:23
Speaker 3: And Jackson was actually the one that committed to Wisconsin first.
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Speaker 3: He had a couple of really devastating knee injuries and
38:29
Speaker 3: never ended up being able to play at the next
38:31
Speaker 3: level to that caliber. But there have been so many
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Speaker 3: good ones in the state. And, yeah, Allen definitely seems
38:37
Speaker 3: to be on that pace. But it also comes into
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Speaker 3: the same time that they've got five offensive linemen from
38:44
Speaker 3: the state coming in, the twins from Sussex, Cole from
38:48
Speaker 3: Germantown being a part of it, Ethan McIntosh coming in
38:52
Speaker 3: from Verona. So they've got a lot of in-state guys,
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Speaker 3: but he will be the one that gets a lot
38:58
Speaker 3: of the pub, especially if you're scoring that many touchdowns.
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Speaker 5: I probably shouldn't forget, disrespect the great Alan Amici. He's
39:03
Speaker 5: someone out there who's going to get mad at me.
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Speaker 2: Of course. Get him in there.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be a soggy Saturday at Camp Randall,
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Speaker 1: like rain expected. 1130 kick on Peacock. Badgers against Eastern Michigan.
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Speaker 1: Those Eagles are one and two. And they lost to
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Speaker 1: Michigan State 35-7. So that's the bar. Badgers are favored
39:22
Speaker 1: by 24-25, depending on what you're looking at. But that's
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Speaker 1: the bar. 35-7 Michigan State beat Eastern Michigan last week.
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Speaker 3: But just take a deep breath to the 35-7 because
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Speaker 3: it was 14-7 at half. And I think that's going
39:36
Speaker 3: to be the interesting part here. Just like Drew, Notre
39:38
Speaker 3: Dame fans were a little frustrated with that first half
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Speaker 3: against Wisconsin.
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Speaker 2: They're like, wait a second. Wait a second.
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Speaker 3: Everyone's got us in the national championship and we're 13-10? Well,
39:48
Speaker 3: Notre Dame's a boa constrictor. You got to try to
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Speaker 3: be that to this group, but get some explosive plays,
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Speaker 3: especially in the QB run game.
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Speaker 2: That would be the nice thing to be.
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Speaker 1: I know there were a lot of empty seats for
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Speaker 1: the opener last weekend against Western Illinois. If it's soggy
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Speaker 1: and rainy, the Darties are going to be moved inside,
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Speaker 1: and that might hurt the attendance.
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Speaker 5: When I grew up, we had a bunch of ponchos
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Speaker 5: in the stands. So bring your poncho and get to
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Speaker 5: the game.
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Speaker 2: You like that?
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Speaker 6: All right.
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Speaker 3: When was the last time you sat out in the
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Speaker 3: rain for anything?
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Speaker 5: I remember being at a game once with a poncho.
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Speaker 2: It might have been a Brewers game.
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Speaker 1: Hey, you're going to take your daughter outside and play
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Speaker 1: with her on Saturday in the rain. Put some rain
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Speaker 1: boots on her and go splash in some puddles.
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Speaker 2: Or you can stay inside. I think we'll stay inside. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I expect that. Shocker.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Way to be consistent, Armin. That's well done.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to Wayne Larrabee for joining us. Thanks to Hunter
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Speaker 1: Baumgart for his great work in Pittsburgh. We will do
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Speaker 1: it again. Billy's going to have the postgame for the Badgers.
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Speaker 1: I will team up with Billy for Packers OT, and
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Speaker 1: we'll see you Monday at 5 a.m.
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Speaker 4: Peace.