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03/13/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 2: of weather, basketball, the oscars and the tail end, the
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Speaker 2: burning embers of NFL free agency and the new league year.
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Speaker 2: And yet we have all right, So Nate Hobbs goes
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Speaker 2: to San Francisco with godspeed.
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Speaker 3: And deal up to four and a half million dollars.
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Speaker 3: The language always good here, Drew. That sounds like a
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Speaker 3: base deal of week. Got water Sean Gary's numbers. Everybody's like, wow,
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Speaker 3: they paid him that, holy cow? Then added how many
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Speaker 3: voy years? Six years? Oh my goodness.
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Speaker 2: Then we saw that the defect the world champion Seahawks
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Speaker 2: are replacing the MVP with Emmanuel Wilson.
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Speaker 1: The interesting one interesting one.
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Speaker 2: Packers running back Manuel Wilson goes to Seattle and somehow,
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Speaker 2: some way, Rashid Walker still doesn't have a home.
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Speaker 3: Camping out and I'm wondering every single day he keeps
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Speaker 3: popping up on you know, one of the Insiders breakdowns
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Speaker 3: as they you know, you mentioned it, like the little
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Speaker 3: embers of NFL free agency. All these insiders are just
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Speaker 3: doing is grabbing any paper possible, just trying to fan
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Speaker 3: the flames of that thing. Get that thing woken up
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Speaker 3: so we can get some more views, get some more place.
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Speaker 2: Once Kyler Murray signed and it was just about don
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Speaker 2: just about them.
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Speaker 3: But when they post the script of like the best
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Speaker 3: free agents still available, Druy's been there all week, then
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Speaker 3: I start wondering how many teams have him as one
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Speaker 3: of the best free agents available.
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Speaker 2: He's gonna play at twenty six this season, athletes peak
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Speaker 2: at twenty seven and play. He's got experience, he's he's
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Speaker 2: pretty good.
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Speaker 3: One of the most important positions, and he's above average
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Speaker 3: at that position, right Like, so I wonder how much
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Speaker 3: maybe out of whack there his request would be or
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Speaker 3: you know I again, I've now, as much as I
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Speaker 3: love the position, I've been wrong so much on what
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Speaker 3: the Packers were going to do at offensive line. I
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Speaker 3: thought Josh Myers was going to get himself a pretty
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Speaker 3: decent contract when he walked in free agency. He got
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Speaker 3: one year, three million bucks. Now, I did get extended
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Speaker 3: in the middle of his first season and bought two
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Speaker 3: more years of fully guaranteed money with the Jets. But
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Speaker 3: then I also thought Drew that. I mean, he was
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Speaker 3: benched in October. He didn't get the bump that definitely
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Speaker 3: could have been pushed through if the Packers wanted to
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Speaker 3: find him eight more snaps. A couple of years ago,
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Speaker 3: I thought Sean Ryan was definitely ticketed for an exit
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Speaker 3: in free agency, and they grab him back for eleven
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Speaker 3: million guaranteed over three years. This one, I would think
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Speaker 3: there's still no way he returns.
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Speaker 1: Right Like you as an.
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Speaker 3: Organization, as goody, you want to get some fruits from
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Speaker 3: your first round pick. You want to see if Morgan
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Speaker 3: can play, and at some point you have to just
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Speaker 3: give him the keys and see if he can drive it.
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Speaker 3: But man, if you're value hunting, it would feel like
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Speaker 3: this might be the value that you'd.
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Speaker 4: Have to take.
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Speaker 2: Is he being blocked at all by Taylor Decker, who's
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Speaker 2: older and he's no longer in Detroit?
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Speaker 1: Could be? It could be.
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Speaker 2: Is that where the bidding war goes comets?
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Speaker 1: They have different markets, That's what I mean.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Decker is like a one year on year guy. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: some some teams should go get Decker and Kevin Zeitler
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Speaker 2: and let them play and then you know, sign them
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Speaker 2: for cheap ring chasing deals. Kevin Zeitler should be a
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Speaker 2: packer in my book, Kevin Zeiler should have been a
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Speaker 2: packer a number of years ago.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you.
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Speaker 2: Should could still be this year. I think he's still serviceable.
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Speaker 5: It does make you wonder, though, I mean, is the
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Speaker 5: market what we always thought it was for Rashid Walker
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Speaker 5: or is it not? And is there as much strong
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Speaker 5: interest as we initially thought? I mean, it is hard
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Speaker 5: to analyze what gms are thinking sometimes and and to
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Speaker 5: your billy, and we don't know what the requests are.
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Speaker 5: If he's asking for more money or more years, I mean,
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Speaker 5: someone's gonna pick him up. It's just a matter of
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Speaker 5: what what the price is and what the situation is.
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Speaker 2: And for Joey Bosa to still be out there even
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Speaker 2: you know, there's the name Stefon Diggs, Joan.
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Speaker 5: A lot of names are the guys, Aaron Rodgers, You
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Speaker 5: understand some of those guys, right, Like Aaron Rodgers age
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Speaker 5: Stefon Diggs off the field like it makes sense, right,
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Speaker 5: why some of those guys? Yeah, Bosa, you know, but
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Speaker 5: Rashid Walker would seem to be a guy you'd want. Now,
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Speaker 5: maybe they thought that and they're asking for a crazy number.
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Speaker 3: So the only Vievo Samuel I was gonna say, Deebo
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Speaker 3: Samuel is another name that immediately jumps off page. Keenan
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Speaker 3: Allen's the skeletal remains the the tackle market also still
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Speaker 3: hasn't necessarily jumped off the page, right Like, so a
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Speaker 3: lot of the offensive linemen have gone, but they've been
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Speaker 3: a little bit more of the interior offensive lineman. Uh
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Speaker 3: Rashid was was out there as one of the top guys.
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Speaker 3: Then it ended up being uh Juwan Taylor who got
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Speaker 3: caught by the Kansas City Chiefs. There weren't a ton
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Speaker 3: of names out there, so maybe they're all just trying
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Speaker 3: to hold off on the price.
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Speaker 1: And wait, wait, wait, but I do think Drew.
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Speaker 3: The closer you get to the draft, the more and
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Speaker 3: more teams will also start finding themselves more intrigued by
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Speaker 3: offensive linemen in the draft and say, well, we can
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Speaker 3: coach this guy up and pay him twenty million less
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Speaker 3: and then see if.
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Speaker 1: We have to extend him.
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Speaker 3: The play is universally down across the league. So I
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Speaker 3: wonder if the acceptance of average offensive line play is
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Speaker 3: a little bit where more teams are sitting in They're like,
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Speaker 3: we won't spend what we could right now on that
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Speaker 3: spot and just try to get by and see if
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Speaker 3: we can hit lightning in a bottle with a fourth
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Speaker 3: or fifth rounder.
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Speaker 2: Do the Packers retain Trayvon Diggs.
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Speaker 1: I still think that's a I still think that's possibility.
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Speaker 2: I might think that's effect. Yeah, I still think that
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Speaker 2: could happen later and then get a full camp and
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Speaker 2: get the whole thing and try to that because there's
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Speaker 2: a dude that's twenty seven's played some football.
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Speaker 3: Because would you rather have him as a reclamation product
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Speaker 3: project or like Marshawn Lannimore, Right like, I think I
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Speaker 3: think they're kind of.
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Speaker 1: I think they're kind of in the same wheelhouse, right like.
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Speaker 3: And that's those are a lot of the players that
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Speaker 3: you're still looking at that are that are available right now.
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Speaker 3: Right like Cam Jordan, who I wanted initially when the
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Speaker 3: first moments.
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Speaker 1: Of free agency.
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Speaker 3: You know, I would love that as a veteran, Yes,
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Speaker 3: I would take him. You pair him a side on
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Speaker 3: the other side of Micah Parsons later into games. The
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Speaker 3: dude that continues to just put up big numbers at
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Speaker 3: ten and a half sacks last year.
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Speaker 2: Still yeah, long in the tooth, but hey, still chasing it.
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Speaker 2: Still a great specimen, Still still a specimen. Bobby Wagner,
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Speaker 2: Bobby Wagner is still available. I like that one a lot. Well,
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Speaker 2: and then then you look at they already got their
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Speaker 2: line back, they got theirs, and but Bobby Wagner would
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Speaker 2: be a good addition to one of those ring chasing guys,
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Speaker 2: would be a great addition, especially if you're looking for,
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Speaker 2: you know, elder statesmen in the locker room.
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Speaker 3: Well, and it kind of is a different vibe because
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Speaker 3: we haven't thought that for a while, right, Like, it
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Speaker 3: didn't seem like they were open to that. Now, when
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Speaker 3: you trade for a thirty year old sign a thirty
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Speaker 3: three year old, it would appear that you'd be.
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Speaker 1: Open to it.
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Speaker 3: I also think Kalaias Campbell's name is still interesting. I
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Speaker 3: know we're starting to see the people matriculating out of Arizona.
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Speaker 3: There was a rumor of Josh Sweat yesterday. You probably
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Speaker 3: missed me with that one, But like if indeed there
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Speaker 3: are a certain Cardinals that want Cardinals that want to
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Speaker 3: pair up with Jonathan Gannon, maybe he was a little
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Speaker 3: bit more dynamic in the locker room than in that
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Speaker 3: speech of you know, he took a lot here.
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Speaker 1: The uber took a lot of heat because the way
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Speaker 1: one clip was edited.
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Speaker 5: I mean that you could probably edit sha Eddy clip
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Speaker 5: that guys just don't respond to, probably because they're not
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Speaker 5: supposed to jump out of their chair all the time.
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Speaker 1: I didn't think it was all that bad, but he's
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Speaker 1: been getting a lot of heat on it.
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Speaker 5: And you're right, Billy, you don't know the way players
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Speaker 5: felt about a guy just based on one little thing
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Speaker 5: like that. So yeah, I'm kind of with you and
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Speaker 5: the way for fans at least, it's differentiating that the
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Speaker 5: name you know and the name you've heard and what
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Speaker 5: you know he's done in the past versus what he
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Speaker 5: can still be in the future, right, I mean you're
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Speaker 5: a guy like Marshawn Lattimore or one of these guys
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Speaker 5: might be like, Wow, well that's a guy.
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Speaker 1: I mean, man, they used to be really good. They've
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Speaker 1: had really good years.
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Speaker 5: That sounds like because you know the name and you
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Speaker 5: recognize the name and you fall in love with what
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Speaker 5: they've done in the past. That doesn't mean they're a
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Speaker 5: better option than a guy you haven't you know that's younger,
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Speaker 5: maybe that you haven't seen as much tapeo, or we'll
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Speaker 5: have a better career going forward.
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Speaker 1: And I think.
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Speaker 5: That's where a lot of fans get trapped tripped up
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Speaker 5: in that situation.
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Speaker 3: It's also tough to like a baseball free agency or
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Speaker 3: when you acquire a guy. I think talked about it
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Speaker 3: with certain players. You see their numbers. Oh sweet, thirty
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Speaker 3: three home runs, two seventy five. Oh, this guy's gonna
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Speaker 3: be awesome. He's never gonna go through a two for
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Speaker 3: forty eight stretch.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's definitely.
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Speaker 2: Not going to go for a stretch where he doesn't
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Speaker 2: hit a home run for six weeks. Chance.
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Speaker 3: All I've seen are his greatest hints and all of
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Speaker 3: his highlights. There could be some some slide here, but
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Speaker 3: like you're you're shopping in a different Ben Joey Bosa
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Speaker 3: is up there. As you mentioned example projection of one
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Speaker 3: year eleven million bucks. He had five sacks a year ago.
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Speaker 3: The guy I mentioned, Cam Jordan, you know, the projection
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Speaker 3: would be maybe a slight bit less. He's like five
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Speaker 3: or six years older. But I mean, but I'm ten
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Speaker 3: and a half sacks a year ago. Like there's there
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Speaker 3: can always be a varying degree of real production once
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Speaker 3: you get later into those years. But I kind of
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Speaker 3: bank on guys that have been there, done that, and
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Speaker 3: Ben in locker rooms, Drew that have won. There's another
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Speaker 3: name that would be interesting pass rushers, Bide von Miller.
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Speaker 1: Oh still getting a check though, nine sacks a year ago?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and then quietly right I think, don't realize he's
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Speaker 5: still playing, but he did. But then the question is
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Speaker 5: that there's always a risk with that age is when
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Speaker 5: is the when's the edge gonna fall?
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Speaker 3: Drew and I had that that great moment in the
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Speaker 3: press box where you and I looked at each other
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Speaker 3: and said, wait, von Miller's on Washington.
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Speaker 1: What we're looking through that we're looking through the big
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Speaker 1: card And oh, right.
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Speaker 3: Oh he's active, Okay, Oh, he's he's playing, and he's
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Speaker 3: out there and he's chasing around Jordan Love a little bit.
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Speaker 5: You know, there are some guys that are outliers, you know,
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Speaker 5: you think of Kalais, the guys that are really good
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Speaker 5: those positions later into.
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Speaker 1: Their years, right well, and the guys that we named
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Speaker 1: are Hall of famers. That's like I mean.
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Speaker 3: And if indeed you're gonna take the swing as you
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Speaker 3: just did with the Nate Hobbs and and obviously came
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Speaker 3: up uh snake guys, you might want to see if
10:14
Speaker 3: you can hit box cars with a guy who has
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Speaker 3: pedigree and and I think that's I think that's a
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Speaker 3: swing that might be worth taking for one or two
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Speaker 3: more guys. Hey, Leonard Floyd, Aaron Rodgers in here, he
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Speaker 3: could play there. He could be a member of the
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Speaker 3: Green Bay Packers. Leonard Floyd three and a half sacks
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Speaker 3: a year going, No thanks, But there's there's a number
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Speaker 3: of different secondary players and offensive linemen still on the board.
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Speaker 3: So maybe Rashid Walker finds his new home today. But sure,
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Speaker 3: the longer this goes, the longer I think he might
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Speaker 3: just be sitting here waiting or he's got a lot
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Speaker 3: of offers that he's just kind of combing through and
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Speaker 3: trying to figure out.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, low key back burner need. There's a
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Speaker 2: couple of tight ends that you wouldn't mind have.
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Speaker 5: Well, that's a position you brought up Billy earlier, like
10:57
Speaker 5: don't sleep on tight end just because you have Tucker Crab.
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Speaker 5: You know, the position of value in the league. Something
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Speaker 5: they're doing more and more used them a lot.
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Speaker 3: I really wanted David and Joku at at the trade
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Speaker 3: deadline because that was after you found out about the
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Speaker 3: Craft injury, after you knew that that was gonna be
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Speaker 3: a significant loss, and he was going to be playing
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Speaker 3: in Cleveland for the rest of the year. Right now,
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Speaker 3: he's one of those guys that's available right behind uh Goddard.
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Speaker 3: You're probably not spending that kind of cash on it,
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Speaker 3: but older player at that spot. I think Bill Huber
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Speaker 3: reported that they're bringing back our guy Josh Wiley, So
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Speaker 3: we do have the chance to still have a two
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Speaker 3: bubble set with Wiley on the field along with Savion Williams.
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Speaker 3: Our triple triple bubble trips formation is no longer going
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Speaker 3: to be available with Romeo Dobbs not on the team,
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Speaker 3: but I like that we're gonna that we're gonna get
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Speaker 3: at least one more run because I think Wiley with
11:47
Speaker 3: Kraft could be a.
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Speaker 2: Nice little pack j Smith would be like John Smith too.
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Speaker 2: That's a nice name.
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Speaker 5: I think Mo Cox is a free agent still right,
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Speaker 5: Cox is a free I just say I'm just trying
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Speaker 5: to think of the available tight ends.
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Speaker 2: JOHNA. Smith would be a you know, he's a good
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Speaker 2: catch guy.
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Speaker 3: And then there was Uh, there was also Jelanie Woods
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Speaker 3: who almost had a game winning touchdown against the Packers
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Speaker 3: in the preseason last year. He was on the he
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Speaker 3: was on the open market. You're looking at the second
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Speaker 3: or third tight ends, yeah, Moali Cox, I.
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Speaker 1: Do I is it that funny of an idea just
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Speaker 1: the name?
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Speaker 3: No, I just I had not. I'm gonna be honest
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Speaker 3: with you. I haven't thought about mom Aley Cox in
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Speaker 3: quite some while.
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Speaker 5: I'm just thinking of the tight ends out there. I'm thinking,
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Speaker 5: is he on his team?
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Speaker 1: I mean, you have thirteen catches last year. It's not good,
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Speaker 1: but I don't know what his role was with the
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Speaker 1: snaps all those things.
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Speaker 5: Like you said, Billy, you're looking for third tight ends
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Speaker 5: at this point, I mean, you're not gonna get you know,
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Speaker 5: you're not getting like Hall of famers in their prime
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Speaker 5: right now.
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Speaker 1: This is not the situation.
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Speaker 2: When if you had decide here we are. We're in
12:48
Speaker 2: the prediction markets today, like how much snow are we
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Speaker 2: gonna get? It's gonna happen? Will Miami get in as
12:53
Speaker 2: one of the playing games and stuff? Uh, what's your prediction?
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Speaker 2: When will we have a determination about whether Aaron Charles
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Speaker 2: Rogers laces him up for another season?
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Speaker 5: I mean really, in the fifties or six people just
13:08
Speaker 5: forget this. Kirk Cousins, Russell Wilson, Yeah, will he come back?
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Speaker 5: But what date will we know Rogers's decision? Because is
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Speaker 5: it his decision? The league tells you when it's time
13:18
Speaker 5: to retire. Minnesota not interested in Kyler? He got the guy,
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Speaker 5: where else could I mean, he's not going to go
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Speaker 5: somewhere to be a backup.
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Speaker 2: So unless he comes back with Big Mike and places
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Speaker 2: at Pittsburgh, He's running out of options, isn't he?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: And I think you should hang it up. I think
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Speaker 3: I think you should go out on a very very
13:35
Speaker 3: good year. Although you know, maybe he doesn't want his
13:38
Speaker 3: last pass to be an interception and a pick six.
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Speaker 2: But but his never gonna hear last hurrah was getting
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Speaker 2: them into the playoffs. Yes, owning that game at home,
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Speaker 2: which was in essence for me, a playoff game winner,
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Speaker 2: go home in week seventeen, you won that got the interviews.
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Speaker 2: That was your moment.
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Speaker 3: You got to give tom got Tomlin the blow the
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Speaker 3: kiss moment as he walked off, and.
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Speaker 2: Then you walk off with Tomlin. And as much as
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Speaker 2: you know people, you've meant offensive with Mike McCarthy, No
14:06
Speaker 2: need to go out there.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, but as a fan, this's a chance to see
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Speaker 5: him on the sideline with Mike McCarthy.
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Speaker 1: One more Jordan.
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Speaker 2: He's Jordan with the Wizards. At this point, he's a
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Speaker 2: Michael Jordan guy. Aaron Rodgers idolized Michael Jordan, and you
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Speaker 2: remember him with the Wizards. No one does. That's where
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Speaker 2: you're at well.
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Speaker 3: And sadly, Drew, you start getting into a point where
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Speaker 3: I only remember Michael Jordan at the Wizards, right, Like
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Speaker 3: people don't like this, like that's the that's the only
14:29
Speaker 3: Jordan I ever watched.
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Speaker 1: And you don't. Yeah, and you don't want people to
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Speaker 1: remember that.
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Speaker 3: You don't want people to have that in a certain
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Speaker 3: vinteage of people only remembering you, Like there's certain people
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Speaker 3: that remember Brett Farr mostly as a Viking.
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Speaker 1: I would be in the.
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Speaker 3: Spot of let's just let's be done with this, be
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Speaker 3: be proud and go often apparently just have a bunch
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Speaker 3: of it. Sounds like he is just like an absolute
14:53
Speaker 3: rabbit from what I've heard. Uh, well, he's trying to
14:56
Speaker 3: be and his wife that's why I'm working out because
14:59
Speaker 3: I want do it all the time. He wants her
15:01
Speaker 3: to want to do it all the time. He didn't
15:03
Speaker 3: say he was, did he or something like that? And
15:06
Speaker 3: they've been getting he.
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Speaker 5: Tell you that's his goal, and you know he's been
15:09
Speaker 5: you know, there's been a lot of uh, a lot
15:12
Speaker 5: of name at the stalker issue. He's saying he's not
15:14
Speaker 5: living at the beach anymore. But he gets out of
15:16
Speaker 5: he gets out a football drew.
15:17
Speaker 3: He could go over to game day Men's Health and
15:19
Speaker 3: they could probably help him out with trying to get it.
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Speaker 2: Up in the moment there you go.
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Speaker 3: I mean, like there's a lot of there's a lot
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Speaker 3: of different science that you can they can help you
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Speaker 3: out later into life.
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Speaker 2: If he starts, if he just hangs up. Then clean,
15:30
Speaker 2: there is absolutely so, and.
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Speaker 5: He's gonna try and figure it out. Remember, he wants
15:33
Speaker 5: to wants to go away, he doesn't want to.
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Speaker 2: Let's say that Rogers hangs it up. No one, the
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Speaker 2: phone doesn't ring for Russell Wilson Flacco on the end
15:42
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16:00
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17:59
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18:02
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18:07
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18:09
Speaker 2: live from Chicago. As it's another game day for the
18:13
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18:16
Speaker 2: with us. We appreciate it.
18:17
Speaker 4: Happy to do it.
18:18
Speaker 7: Yeah, game day barely it almost slipped away, but they
18:21
Speaker 7: figured it out in the end.
18:23
Speaker 3: Well, at what point after Butchy gives the uh Matt
18:26
Speaker 3: the only thing that the only thing that happened in
18:28
Speaker 3: that five minutes is that the Badger's three point shooting
18:30
Speaker 3: percentage went down, because I think it was like an
18:32
Speaker 3: eighteen point lead to a sixteen point lead all of
18:34
Speaker 3: a sudden, it's a two point lead under a minute
18:37
Speaker 3: to Gould, when did you start feeling the uh the
18:40
Speaker 3: energy in the arena shift? Because I feel like that's
18:42
Speaker 3: one of those things in a lot of tournament games.
18:45
Speaker 3: There's obviously a lot of red in there, but the
18:47
Speaker 3: folks that might not be from Washington and might just
18:49
Speaker 3: be casual observers tend to start cheering for the upset
18:52
Speaker 3: once they feel Mother Mo start blowing.
18:54
Speaker 7: H Yeah, generally with America's jinks, Brian Butch starts to
18:57
Speaker 7: sound like the thing's over.
18:58
Speaker 5: So he just, you know, incredible, is really really good
19:04
Speaker 5: at that for some reason. Yeah.
19:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a gift. It's a gift that he is.
19:08
Speaker 4: He is pretty sect giving.
19:09
Speaker 6: So yeah, but three variants is a thing, right, Yeah,
19:14
Speaker 6: they no doubt and they were red, I mean absolutely
19:18
Speaker 6: on fire in the second half.
19:21
Speaker 7: You know, slow start shooting, then they got hot, and
19:24
Speaker 7: then maybe they got a little I don't know if
19:26
Speaker 7: complace is the right word, but it seemed like the
19:29
Speaker 7: offense wasn't moving quite as well and they were missing shots.
19:31
Speaker 7: I mean, it's just their splits are so obvious. When
19:33
Speaker 7: they win games, they're right around forty percent for three.
19:36
Speaker 7: When they lose games, it's about twenty seven twenty eight percent.
19:40
Speaker 7: They went through a stretch and that's what they were doing.
19:42
Speaker 7: And Washington, to their credit, they're undermanned, seven scholarship players,
19:47
Speaker 7: a walk on available as well, but they were just
19:49
Speaker 7: letting it rip. And and I think yesterday to Washington's
19:54
Speaker 7: ability to hit the offensive glass, Hannes Steinbach is one
19:57
Speaker 7: of the best players that people don't know a bunch about,
20:00
Speaker 7: probably in this part of the country. The guy averaged
20:03
Speaker 7: a double double in the Big Ten. He was third
20:05
Speaker 7: team All Big Ten, So think about that for a minute.
20:09
Speaker 7: But he was he was getting a ton of rebounds
20:11
Speaker 7: and not having Nolan Winter, I think it kind of
20:14
Speaker 7: showed maybe you can make that argument yesterday, and that's
20:17
Speaker 7: what makes today more challenging. When they're playing the tallest
20:20
Speaker 7: team in the country in Illinois. You know, not having
20:23
Speaker 7: Nolan Winter out there. You know, they they've won two
20:27
Speaker 7: games without him, but you could kind of see that
20:29
Speaker 7: the work on the glass. They miss a guy who
20:32
Speaker 7: in his own right is close to averaging a double
20:34
Speaker 7: double per game.
20:35
Speaker 2: It's going to be a factor today. Matt Lapaye joining
20:38
Speaker 2: us live from Chicago. The onions category. Andrew Roady hitting
20:43
Speaker 2: those free throws, man, like that was your senior. That's
20:46
Speaker 2: where you got that guy with the experience. And I
20:48
Speaker 2: was wondering when he went in and when he calmly
20:51
Speaker 2: hit that first one, It's like, okay, game on.
20:54
Speaker 7: It's kind of amazing what led to that, because there
20:57
Speaker 7: was a maybe a rookie moment. Wiscon is up one,
21:01
Speaker 7: Alexis Bilowskas has the ball in the baseline and and
21:04
Speaker 7: Steinbach fell.
21:06
Speaker 4: So you will not have.
21:07
Speaker 7: A more clear path to the basket in that situation
21:10
Speaker 7: then than Alexis had.
21:13
Speaker 4: But you got to you know, you're a rookie. You're
21:15
Speaker 4: gonna make this decision.
21:16
Speaker 7: Are you trying to burn time or you know, you
21:18
Speaker 7: go get the bucket your back up three again. He
21:20
Speaker 7: instead passes it back out to burn off maybe two
21:24
Speaker 7: or three more seconds. But those were the only two
21:26
Speaker 7: points that that rody had. He had early foul trouble,
21:29
Speaker 7: picked up a couple of quick ones in the first
21:31
Speaker 7: half of the game, and for him to it seemed
21:35
Speaker 7: like a while that he was waiting to shoot those
21:37
Speaker 7: those free throws was a one and one as well.
21:40
Speaker 4: So yeah, a lot of credit to him.
21:42
Speaker 7: Sometimes it's not how many points is when you get him,
21:45
Speaker 7: And there's a prime example of that.
21:46
Speaker 2: When that rookie passed up to dunk. In that moment,
21:49
Speaker 2: I thought, here's what goes through my mind. I'm like, well,
21:52
Speaker 2: just don't hang on the rim, because it's like that
21:54
Speaker 2: to be the only way you could screw this up
21:55
Speaker 2: and getting attack of some kind of it was a
21:59
Speaker 2: path to it. And I'm like, oh, here, oh you're passing. Yeah, okay,
22:04
Speaker 2: But he was.
22:05
Speaker 7: He was actually good for these guys. He had eight points,
22:07
Speaker 7: nine rebounds. He did a really good job on the
22:09
Speaker 7: offensive glass. But yeah, those are the kind of as
22:12
Speaker 7: butch he said, and he was spot on with it.
22:15
Speaker 4: Every now and then he says something that makes it
22:17
Speaker 4: it works.
22:17
Speaker 7: Actually a lot of the time, he said, make that
22:20
Speaker 7: mistake this week, not next. So well, as much as
22:23
Speaker 7: you want to win this conference tournament, if it lays
22:25
Speaker 7: out for you get yourself ready for next week. And
22:29
Speaker 7: there there was a pretty valuable teaching moment there for
22:32
Speaker 7: a freshman.
22:33
Speaker 5: Well, and that goes into what I was thinking too
22:35
Speaker 5: in general, and we've talked about this before, but conference
22:37
Speaker 5: tournaments and how to manage them and the importance of
22:40
Speaker 5: them is always difficult, right man, because as competitors, you
22:43
Speaker 5: want to win every game every tournament you're in, and
22:45
Speaker 5: you want to compete. But sometimes there is this idea
22:48
Speaker 5: while loss isn't the worst thing because you get the rest,
22:50
Speaker 5: you kind of recalibrate. It's it's always a difficult thing
22:55
Speaker 5: this time of the year, isn't it.
22:56
Speaker 7: It is in the moment you can see the competitive
23:00
Speaker 7: nature of all of these teams out here, but in
23:04
Speaker 7: you know, doing this for a while, and this conference
23:06
Speaker 7: tournament in the Big Ten started in nineteen ninety eight,
23:08
Speaker 7: so it doesn't really have the history that the ACC
23:12
Speaker 7: or you know, the Big East and all the tradition there.
23:16
Speaker 7: You know, talk to people and other programs where if
23:19
Speaker 7: they lose on quarter final Friday or even Saturday, you're
23:23
Speaker 7: disappointed in the moment, but you're okay. Is if you're
23:27
Speaker 7: one of those safely in the field kind of teams
23:30
Speaker 7: like you get yourself rested, recovered, and then get ready
23:34
Speaker 7: for the big tournament. But it is, you know, it's
23:39
Speaker 7: just the weirdest thing, Armon, because I've seen some of
23:41
Speaker 7: the better, more entertaining Wisconsin basketball games in my time doing.
23:46
Speaker 4: This in the Big Ten Tournament.
23:48
Speaker 7: But it's just it's a strange dynamic because if you
23:52
Speaker 7: get the Sunday and if the confetti's falling for you
23:54
Speaker 7: or not, a half hour later, you're finding out where
23:56
Speaker 7: you're going, what seed you got, and when you're playing
23:59
Speaker 7: your NCAA tournament.
24:00
Speaker 3: Game, Yeah, the Big Ten Tournament, when everybody's asking about
24:03
Speaker 3: the relevancy and the longevity of conference championship games in
24:06
Speaker 3: college football, they're like, hey, hold our beer, all right,
24:09
Speaker 3: we're still making money. We'll figure it out. There's inventory
24:11
Speaker 3: and team and television stations need more of it. But
24:14
Speaker 3: it is it's a strange feeling because like Rody those shots,
24:17
Speaker 3: he shoots what twenty seven file shots all year long,
24:21
Speaker 3: and he waited all year but kind of his whole
24:24
Speaker 3: life is a brickfield guy. To be able to have
24:25
Speaker 3: him and Matt, You're right, so many great games happened
24:29
Speaker 3: this week. I think a lot of basketball fans and
24:31
Speaker 3: peers love this week, some almost maybe more than next week,
24:34
Speaker 3: just because of the ultra damnation that's gonna be made
24:38
Speaker 3: on your season after next week's tournament that comes up.
24:42
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's so much drama this week. And this is
24:44
Speaker 7: all the you know, all the pre tournament talk. You know,
24:47
Speaker 7: Miami losing yesterday thirty one and one. What does that
24:51
Speaker 7: mean is the macatoo bid league? You would think, so
24:55
Speaker 7: like we'll find out together on Sunday. And then you know,
24:58
Speaker 7: Auburn for some reason, and Auburn still in the conversation at
25:02
Speaker 7: what are they seventeen and sixteen or so seventeen to
25:06
Speaker 7: fifteen or something like that. So yeah, there's all of
25:08
Speaker 7: that that goes on, and there's the anticipation. Is this
25:12
Speaker 7: is why people love March madness, because what do these
25:15
Speaker 7: conference tournament games mean in regards to seating? Does a
25:18
Speaker 7: bubble team play its way in or finish playing itself out?
25:23
Speaker 7: There is the intrigue of it, but these I mean,
25:25
Speaker 7: we all know why these conference tournaments exist. It's inventory,
25:29
Speaker 7: it's money and for the conference. Going back to when
25:31
Speaker 7: Jim Delaney was the commissioner. He just felt it was
25:34
Speaker 7: really important for the Big Ten to play the final
25:37
Speaker 7: conference championship game that leads into the selection show. There
25:41
Speaker 7: would probably be some coaches who would beg to differ
25:43
Speaker 7: with that, but it's one of those traditions that the
25:46
Speaker 7: league has viewed as very important, so it's probably not
25:49
Speaker 7: changing any time.
25:50
Speaker 3: So get the tradition of the pinwheel back, then please
25:52
Speaker 3: that game. Put that at center court. Then we need
25:55
Speaker 3: that thing, especially with all with the extra teams in there.
25:57
Speaker 3: The flag and the colors would be so much better.
25:59
Speaker 1: You know, the Mountain what not? The Mount West.
26:01
Speaker 5: The Big Sky is still using that logo that's kind
26:03
Speaker 5: of got all those like little little stripes. It's kind
26:05
Speaker 5: of like the old Blazers log like the trail Blazer's logo.
26:08
Speaker 5: But I agree, pinwheel we want the pinwheel bag.
26:10
Speaker 2: Would be nice.
26:11
Speaker 7: Well, anything, anything's better than what the Big twelve tried.
26:14
Speaker 7: Like correcting some of those geniuses over there. They got
26:18
Speaker 7: what these people can do this. They do a great
26:20
Speaker 7: job of screwing up a nice event.
26:22
Speaker 1: It's pretty incredible.
26:23
Speaker 4: To have his brainstorm about the floor.
26:27
Speaker 1: Are you watching back? Nothing and everything's fine now. I
26:29
Speaker 1: was just looking for.
26:30
Speaker 3: Were you trying to find the definition of automatic qualifiers?
26:33
Speaker 4: Again?
26:33
Speaker 1: Was the board?
26:36
Speaker 2: So, Matt, I remember a couple of weeks ago asking
26:38
Speaker 2: you when the John Blackwell explosion was going to happen.
26:41
Speaker 2: There was that yesterday because he looked it looked pretty
26:44
Speaker 2: much vintage John Blackwell.
26:46
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he was really good against Purdue to last Saturday.
26:49
Speaker 4: So he's just, uh, you know.
26:51
Speaker 7: Just kind of letting it rip again and you never
26:53
Speaker 7: know what guys, you know, this team has had. They
26:55
Speaker 7: don't talk about it a lot, but they had a
26:58
Speaker 7: pretty good little flu deal that went through the various
27:02
Speaker 7: members of the team and then how they felt and
27:05
Speaker 7: you could just you know, Greg Gardman made the statement
27:07
Speaker 7: yesterday in his press conference that you can see a
27:11
Speaker 7: look in John's eyes when he's really dialed in, and
27:13
Speaker 7: you can see the other look as well. Coaches are
27:15
Speaker 7: better than the rest of us probably at reading if
27:18
Speaker 7: it's body language or just a look that you get.
27:21
Speaker 7: I know, bo Ryan talked about that all the time.
27:24
Speaker 7: He did in a recent pod with Butchy. He he'd
27:26
Speaker 7: look at everybody coming into practice and you can get
27:28
Speaker 7: an idea of what that day was going to be
27:31
Speaker 7: like for him. But John has had the good look
27:33
Speaker 7: here and he's healthy and he's he's just so locked
27:38
Speaker 7: in right now with what he did thirty four points,
27:40
Speaker 7: most ever by a Badger in the Big Ten tournament.
27:42
Speaker 7: It's his personal high. And Nick Boyd had nine assists.
27:45
Speaker 7: We think about his ability, his speed with the basketball,
27:49
Speaker 7: his ability to go to his left and everybody in
27:51
Speaker 7: the world knows he loves to go to his left,
27:54
Speaker 7: but he's still able to do it.
27:55
Speaker 4: But he had nine.
27:56
Speaker 7: Assists in the game as well. But I mean, this
27:59
Speaker 7: back court, if if they keep playing like this, you know,
28:03
Speaker 7: this week you hope and next week you really hope
28:06
Speaker 7: that if they continue to click the way they have been,
28:09
Speaker 7: then this team could be hanging around the tournament for
28:11
Speaker 7: a while.
28:12
Speaker 3: And for those Badger fans down going to the United
28:14
Speaker 3: Center right now, twenty eight to one to make the
28:16
Speaker 3: final four.
28:16
Speaker 1: Are the Badgers at certain institutions. Well, we talked to
28:19
Speaker 1: Butchi earlier in the week.
28:21
Speaker 3: He had mentioned Boyd's playmaking ability right there, and the
28:24
Speaker 3: nine assists are maybe the easiest way of showcasing it.
28:27
Speaker 1: How cool is it to.
28:28
Speaker 3: Be able to see them defer is almost the wrong
28:31
Speaker 3: way of putting it, But John's stroking it like he
28:35
Speaker 3: was no pause from from downtown yesterday, Like you're going
28:37
Speaker 3: to continue to roll the hot hand. But it doesn't
28:40
Speaker 3: seem like they hold back and take turns. That that's
28:42
Speaker 3: a pretty mature way of being able to play.
28:46
Speaker 7: Yeah, and it I think they would tell you it
28:48
Speaker 7: took a while to gel. I mean they were, you know,
28:51
Speaker 7: they're very competitive guys. They went up against each other
28:53
Speaker 7: a lot in the summer drills, and you know, John's
28:56
Speaker 7: the veteran, he's the junior, he's the you know, the
28:58
Speaker 7: emerging star. And then here comes Nick Boyd in the
29:02
Speaker 7: portal as a one year guy, been to a final
29:05
Speaker 7: four at FAU. People knew, you know, in the game,
29:09
Speaker 7: knew his reputation. You know, he's gonna have the ball
29:12
Speaker 7: in his hands a lot. He's a really good playmaker,
29:14
Speaker 7: and it made sense it was going to take some time.
29:16
Speaker 7: John had some really good scoring games early and then
29:19
Speaker 7: there was a stretch where you could tell like this
29:21
Speaker 7: isn't you know, they're not quite as connected as you
29:24
Speaker 7: would want. But that seems to have been corrected obviously
29:29
Speaker 7: of late. I mean it's just I just remember watching
29:33
Speaker 7: went into summer practices, went to a few of them
29:37
Speaker 7: this past summer when Nick Boyd was there, and not
29:39
Speaker 7: the first time I went in there. I was talking
29:42
Speaker 7: to one of the staffers, and the staffers said, the
29:45
Speaker 7: bigs better be ready, like everybody better be ready because
29:48
Speaker 7: it's coming. You're going to get a fastball and you
29:50
Speaker 7: better be ready to catch it and then get your bucket.
29:53
Speaker 7: And not two minutes after that, that exact thing happened.
29:57
Speaker 7: I mean, Boyd can score it, and he can hit
30:00
Speaker 7: the three as we saw yesterday, and he can drive
30:02
Speaker 7: to the bucket. But I think what helps to Billy
30:04
Speaker 7: is that, you know, we talk about the team's inability
30:09
Speaker 7: most of the time, not all the time, but most
30:11
Speaker 7: of the time to defend Boyd, even when you know
30:13
Speaker 7: he's going to his left. But you've got to play
30:15
Speaker 7: him relatively honestly, because there are so many other good shooters.
30:18
Speaker 7: There's Blackwell, Rap can get hot. You know, everybody on
30:21
Speaker 7: the floor, it seems, has an ability to shoot the
30:24
Speaker 7: ball from the three point line. So and Boyd knows that,
30:28
Speaker 7: and he's taking advantage of that, either going hard to
30:30
Speaker 7: the rim or being able to drive and spray it
30:34
Speaker 7: out so that the people around him have been a
30:36
Speaker 7: big help.
30:37
Speaker 5: Facing Illinois, and obviously this is in Chicago. Do you
30:40
Speaker 5: expect there to be a partisan crowd? I mean, obviously
30:42
Speaker 5: a little bit. Or is it is that gonna be
30:44
Speaker 5: a little overstated because it's still neutral environment, Wisconsin's close,
30:47
Speaker 5: all those things.
30:48
Speaker 7: What do you think about it? Yeah, I think it'll be.
30:51
Speaker 7: It'll it'll feel more like a home game for Illinois.
30:54
Speaker 7: I mean there'll be Badger fans here but for sure,
30:56
Speaker 7: and there were yesterday, but this is when Illinois is playing.
31:00
Speaker 4: Particularly when it's good. Yeah, it is this season.
31:02
Speaker 7: Playing in Chicago. I think this this will probably this
31:05
Speaker 7: will be the first day with genuine energy. You know
31:08
Speaker 7: it was it was decent yesterday, I guess, but uh,
31:11
Speaker 7: this will be the day with with the energy. And
31:13
Speaker 7: you've got the top eight teams. Yes, this is got
31:16
Speaker 7: oh State, Michigan, Wiscontin, Illinois, Purdue, Nebraska, U C l A,
31:20
Speaker 7: Michigan State, You've got you got the big hitters in
31:24
Speaker 7: the league playing. But you know, I think of the games,
31:28
Speaker 7: the second one could have the most energy because, as
31:31
Speaker 7: I said, Badger fans will be there, but it'll be
31:33
Speaker 7: a lot a lot of orange, orange of blue in there.
31:36
Speaker 1: As well, any wigs.
31:40
Speaker 4: That's a good that's a good point. That's I forgot
31:43
Speaker 4: about that. Yeah, lap one.
31:46
Speaker 2: All right, so love to see put it on in
31:49
Speaker 2: closing here there's no iron t media starts with me,
31:51
Speaker 2: so I have to ask Matt being a one thirty
31:55
Speaker 2: tip again today yesterday. That's kind of like working a
31:57
Speaker 2: Brewers Cubs game at Wrigley You yeah, you got your choice.
32:01
Speaker 2: You can get into places early. Did you go for
32:03
Speaker 2: a nice stak? Did we go to Gino's East? Where
32:05
Speaker 2: did you and Butcher? What did you paint the town?
32:06
Speaker 2: Because I would probably just be leaving the lodge right
32:09
Speaker 2: now it was me, you know, or at least would
32:13
Speaker 2: have been out till five and then just getting in.
32:15
Speaker 2: And here you are, rested and ready to call a
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Speaker 2: game at one thirty.
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Speaker 4: True confessions.
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Speaker 7: I did that very thing back in the day, a
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Speaker 7: long time ago. The games were truly an interruption to
32:26
Speaker 7: the social component of the Big Ten tournament. The lodge
32:29
Speaker 7: was visited many, many times. But now my bride is here, Butch,
32:33
Speaker 7: he's got his family with so Bride night went out
32:36
Speaker 7: to dinner, shout out Shaw's Crabhouse. Great job, right, and
32:39
Speaker 7: we will be We will be dining again in the
32:42
Speaker 7: city tonight and Butchy uh you know, I think I
32:45
Speaker 7: think he got to go to like only half is
32:47
Speaker 7: going to tell him take the kids to the pool
32:49
Speaker 7: and get out of my way. One of one of
32:52
Speaker 7: those kind of deals. You got a few options down here.
32:54
Speaker 7: That's for tomorrow, Saint Patti's Day.
32:57
Speaker 4: Oh gosh, French green.
32:59
Speaker 7: Yeah, cocktail hour starts at like six am. So it's
33:03
Speaker 7: it has all the makings of a rough weekend.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure it is.
33:06
Speaker 5: And I think I heard a train in the back
33:07
Speaker 5: und earlier, so I know they got you guys in
33:09
Speaker 5: a great spot right there, probably by by the Union
33:12
Speaker 5: station or something like that. Listen, don't get Billy's favorite,
33:15
Speaker 5: which is a deep dish, I mean lasagna. You know.
33:21
Speaker 4: Quads.
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Speaker 2: You gotta go there once a year with rock.
33:25
Speaker 4: Yeah, a given, given, that is a given. I thought
33:29
Speaker 4: the same thing.
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Speaker 7: Drew when you you men, you those times that Yep,
33:31
Speaker 7: this is this is a three game set at Wrigley Field.
33:34
Speaker 4: You know, out of there, the night is yours, You.
33:37
Speaker 2: Cover a day game and then you get back to
33:38
Speaker 2: the hotel and the USA today is in front of
33:40
Speaker 2: your door. That's a pretty good days.
33:45
Speaker 4: What a good one.
33:46
Speaker 1: You can't get a paper.
33:47
Speaker 2: Those were the days.
33:48
Speaker 1: I want the paper really all right?
33:50
Speaker 2: Appearing in the lodge until five am? Yes, yeah, those
33:54
Speaker 2: were the day. Good stuff, that was good. I can't
33:56
Speaker 2: stay up till five pm this deal. Times have changed.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, back in the day they used to have the
34:01
Speaker 7: media hospitality where they took care of you and you
34:04
Speaker 7: get you know, various beverages for free. So there were
34:07
Speaker 7: times that the night out started around e left started
34:10
Speaker 7: around eleven o'clock. And these days I'm out, I'm gone. Yeah,
34:15
Speaker 7: well before love, well before well.
34:17
Speaker 3: And luckily you guys were the you guys were the
34:19
Speaker 3: ot game instead of the game before you because otherwise,
34:22
Speaker 3: But would we have what we have heard maybe like
34:23
Speaker 3: an hour and forty five minute pregame show that we
34:26
Speaker 3: would have.
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, that we've done that before. Did it at
34:29
Speaker 7: the tournament last year? Remember Wwaukee a few years ago?
34:32
Speaker 7: I know Loosters when he would Chris get a game
34:36
Speaker 7: with Butchy. Yeah, that's one of the reasons that we
34:39
Speaker 7: don't really need to do an hour pregame here, do
34:41
Speaker 7: we know, Let's go a half hour.
34:42
Speaker 4: So we were we were, we were in good shape.
34:45
Speaker 7: I was very grateful that the kid from iowall miss
34:47
Speaker 7: that shot at the horn, so we weren't We weren't
34:50
Speaker 7: waiting an extra fifteen to twenty minutes.
34:52
Speaker 1: When we had losters on.
34:53
Speaker 3: During the Olympics, I mentioned that same thing as we
34:55
Speaker 3: got to know each other really well, really well. You
34:59
Speaker 3: have to know each other really really well. Nobody needs
35:01
Speaker 3: overtime in a conference. Oh god, maybe till the championship game.
35:04
Speaker 1: Get a ghost run in there.
35:06
Speaker 2: Enjoy the call today, man, Thanks for hanging out with us.
35:08
Speaker 4: We appreciate it, all right, boys, take care.
35:10
Speaker 2: Thanks matm man pay the voice of the Badgers. He'll
35:12
Speaker 2: be courtside with Butchy Illinois. Tip is at one today
35:16
Speaker 2: inside Ohio Stateium.
35:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, and still court side in college hoops. That's the
35:20
Speaker 3: one beauty of college basketball is that they are still
35:23
Speaker 3: court side.
35:24
Speaker 1: Damn. I don't know there's like one or two teams
35:27
Speaker 1: in the NBA that still put any of the Yeah,
35:29
Speaker 1: they're not perched up anymore like the NBA.
35:32
Speaker 2: Guys are so right, gonna take a quick break. It's
35:35
Speaker 2: our last one of the week. Let's make it a
35:36
Speaker 2: good one.
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Speaker 1: Can't wait. It's the huddle.
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Speaker 3: Well, I got a couple of hots uh that Donovan
35:46
Speaker 3: Jorgensen would be doing on the heating side of the
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Speaker 3: heating cooling. Well, Michah Parsons man, while MICHAEH. Parsons is
35:53
Speaker 3: rehabbing from that torn a cl drew. My man's having fun.
35:56
Speaker 3: He's out here living his life. He's having himself a
35:59
Speaker 3: damn season. Was out watching the Edmonton Oilers last night
36:04
Speaker 3: and had himself a jersey swap with h connor Mcjesus
36:08
Speaker 3: Connor McDavid over here, Packers jersey and McDavid's hand. Uh,
36:12
Speaker 3: nice little puck. I like that, you know, a big
36:15
Speaker 3: hockey fan. He was at the Badger's Penn State hockey game.
36:18
Speaker 3: But drew maybe in the not category on this on
36:21
Speaker 3: this jersey swap, and and maybe we need a ruling here.
36:24
Speaker 3: I can't zoom all the way in. It kind of
36:26
Speaker 3: looks like Micah signed it to McDavid. How do we
36:29
Speaker 3: feel about that rolling it to McDavid on the addressing
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Speaker 3: of the lake that description potentially potentially or just just
36:41
Speaker 3: that's how we talked about it.
36:42
Speaker 1: One name. We do use last names in sports a lot,
36:46
Speaker 1: but usually in jersey swap it is the first I want.
36:48
Speaker 3: Everything's McDavid's the guy's name definitely definitely doesn't.
36:52
Speaker 1: But I just I thought it was hilarious when I
36:54
Speaker 1: read it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw enough people laughing about it, like, uh,
36:57
Speaker 3: that's an interesting way of doing the jersey swap.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is. That's pretty funny. So Mica is enjoying himself.
37:04
Speaker 2: He's hot. John Blackwell's hot as hot hot?
37:08
Speaker 1: Who's not?
37:09
Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys saw and what your
37:10
Speaker 3: guys priest's wrist, Yeah, Quinn Priester's wrist is very much
37:14
Speaker 3: not hot. Nice try of the It was a good
37:17
Speaker 3: explanation by Murph to try to get everybody up to
37:22
Speaker 3: speed on on what it all was. Nerve, impingement and
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Speaker 3: that there are a lot of medical terms in there, Drew.
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Speaker 3: That just went right over my head and trap nerve.
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Speaker 2: How do we not have that? How do we not
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Speaker 1: Well, they always say what happens in Vegas days in Vegas.
38:33
Speaker 5: Well that's actually not the marketing anymore, but it used
38:35
Speaker 5: to be the marketing for Las Vegas and another thing
38:38
Speaker 5: it was another was a great one. Oh, another situation
38:41
Speaker 5: in a long line of Las Vegas stories that hasn't
38:43
Speaker 5: had the best you know, reputation. Recently, another Las Vegas
38:48
Speaker 5: hotel guest says she was stung by a scorpion while
38:50
Speaker 5: staying at the off strip resort Silver Seven's Way Offstrip there,
38:54
Speaker 5: so on the flight the next morning, her foot swelled up,
38:57
Speaker 5: leading nearly five hundred medical bills. Now you might remember
38:59
Speaker 5: there were as a guy that got stung during in
39:02
Speaker 5: his sleep by a scorpion as well, recently within last year.
39:06
Speaker 5: That one hit him right in the downtown business district.
39:08
Speaker 5: So he's had bigger problems than that. This one is
39:10
Speaker 5: just a foot. But in a tradition unlike any other,
39:13
Speaker 5: the hotel waved a room charge but did not wave
39:16
Speaker 5: the resort fee.
39:16
Speaker 1: So there you go.
39:17
Speaker 5: You want to get rid of those resort fees in Vegas.
39:19
Speaker 5: You can't even use the I got stung in the
39:22
Speaker 5: foot by a scorpion excuse. You might have some medical bills,
39:25
Speaker 5: you might have all kinds of things going on, and
39:26
Speaker 5: you will also be paying the resort fee, So watch
39:28
Speaker 5: out when you're out there. I don't think it's common,
39:30
Speaker 5: but yes, it is still a desert.
39:32
Speaker 3: Right now, I wonder what would get you the resort
39:34
Speaker 3: fees wave waves?
39:35
Speaker 4: Right?
39:36
Speaker 5: I did get one night waved once when the fire
39:38
Speaker 5: alarm went off at three in the morning.
39:40
Speaker 1: I success, Well, Larre successfully argued for that. But it's not.
39:43
Speaker 5: Easy now, you know, getting the getting the room charge
39:46
Speaker 5: wave but not the resort fee does seem kind of
39:48
Speaker 5: funny to me. It's always like, no, this resort fees
39:50
Speaker 5: our tradition. Now nothing can stop it.
39:52
Speaker 1: You know, did.
39:53
Speaker 2: Anybody ever sue them for false advertising? What happens in
39:56
Speaker 2: Vegas stays in Vegas? Well, explain the std that I
39:59
Speaker 2: had to get treated.
40:01
Speaker 1: Some something's come home, come home.
40:04
Speaker 3: That stuff will come back with it, including a swollen
40:06
Speaker 3: foot because of a swollen.
40:08
Speaker 2: Foot, that itch that comes and goes. And then the uh,
40:12
Speaker 2: of course, the regret and the shame that you drag
40:16
Speaker 2: out of.
40:16
Speaker 3: There, as well, bank statements and the receipts on gratefulness.
40:21
Speaker 5: If you're saying it's silver seven's, I'm sorry, I mean
40:24
Speaker 5: that spot that's the old terribles be Causino that used
40:27
Speaker 5: to give.
40:27
Speaker 1: A chance to win you.
40:29
Speaker 5: Yeah, that spot all right?
40:32
Speaker 2: What a powerpack day we had heading into snow mcgeddon
40:35
Speaker 2: selection Sunday. On Monday, we'll catch up with Matt Miller
40:39
Speaker 2: about the Oscars, which people will be watching as they're
40:41
Speaker 2: hunkered down snowed in. So it should be a wonderful
40:44
Speaker 2: weekend of sports and spectacle. As always, a lot of
40:49
Speaker 2: snow Angels in the future. Thanks for folks for getting
40:52
Speaker 2: up early with us. We will see at five a m.
40:54
Speaker 2: On Monday.
40:55
Speaker 1: We hope
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Speaker 6: Zo