Transcript

08/24/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Rolling through the Monday in the good Lands The Huddle
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin Drew Wilson, Arman, Sarry and Billy's
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Speaker 1: headed for Green Bay. Wayne Larvy's gonna join us in
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Speaker 1: about twenty five minutes, give or take. We want your
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Speaker 1: input eight seven seven seven nine seven three. This being Monday,
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Speaker 1: let's entertain some game balls and kicks to the balls,
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Speaker 1: shall we?
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Speaker 2: Let's get it.
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Speaker 1: Let's do you know the drill? It's the post game.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's celebrating. You're standing in the middle of the room
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Speaker 1: and you get to bestow a game ball for a
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Speaker 1: job well done today. I'm the huddle. This is a
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Speaker 1: game ball.
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Speaker 3: What you can It wasn't great audio, but it was
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Speaker 3: Trevor McGill, you'all want any gatorades or what for buying
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Speaker 3: gatorades for a bunch of kids. It was just perfect
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Speaker 3: for the old game ball gets a free gatorade of
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Speaker 3: the game.
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Speaker 1: I know the audio is not great, but I couldn't lose.
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Speaker 1: That's okay, you couldn't resist. That's funny. Conversely, kick to
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Speaker 1: the Huevos for somebody who needs to refocus and needs
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Speaker 1: to do better at their job today on the program,
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Speaker 1: this is a kick to the balls. It's falling in
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Speaker 1: the back.
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Speaker 2: Actually was the head.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I appreciate you at the times you couldn't tell,
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Speaker 3: but yeah, when you get when you get plunked in
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Speaker 3: the head. Although it turned out to be a heads
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Speaker 3: up play for the Brewers, you know, and worked out,
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Speaker 3: But there you go.
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Speaker 2: You get hit literally in the well, not in the
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Speaker 2: in the.
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Speaker 1: Head, helmet helmet shot. So eight seven seven seven nine
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Speaker 1: one seven three game balls and kicks. I'll get a
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Speaker 1: start at first game ball. He had so much There
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Speaker 1: was just so much hand ringing earlier this summer. But
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Speaker 1: trace Mack, what y'all want a gatoraider?
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Speaker 3: What? Uh?
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Speaker 1: Just answering the call. I knew you'd have a long kick.
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Speaker 1: They would give him a chance for a long kick.
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Speaker 1: He nailed another one, and one of the things he's
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Speaker 1: been perfect in the two preseason.
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Speaker 2: He's one of those guys.
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Speaker 1: Maybe not a practice guy, right, yes, in college basketball,
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Speaker 1: you know, not an afternoon guy. He's a ninth time guy,
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Speaker 1: prime time player. That But trace Mack, what I like
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Speaker 1: about him is these kicks that he's making. Not only
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Speaker 1: are they like center, cut down the middle, splitting the uprights,
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Speaker 1: if you will, he hasn't missed an extra point. No,
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Speaker 1: those are as important as the long field as long
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Speaker 1: field goals are nice and all, and they're three points,
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Speaker 1: but you gotta make the extra points.
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Speaker 3: That was really that was really Anders Carlson Carlson's problem
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Speaker 3: more than the field goals. If you look go back
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Speaker 3: and looking at Andres Carlson's field goal percentage, it's not terrible.
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Speaker 3: But it was those extra points he was consistently missing
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Speaker 3: or unreliable on that were a problem because you got
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Speaker 3: to make those at a ninety plus high percent rate
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Speaker 3: or else it's just not worth having you a round.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, Tray Smac absolutely, Billy, but but but sorry
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Speaker 3: kicking the balls from me Drew H.
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Speaker 2: Thirty eight.
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Speaker 3: I know, but he's done everything he needs to do
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Speaker 3: once the lights turn bright to make us feel better
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Speaker 3: about it, and he's crushing them in a league now, Drew,
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Speaker 3: where you have to do it just you want to
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Speaker 3: make another rule to ban the game, but like the
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Speaker 3: way we want to, but they shouldn't. Like do you
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Speaker 3: want field goals as long as this the way the
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Speaker 3: world too? I don't know, but the reality is the
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Speaker 3: league's getting better. I mean everyone's looking for a big
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Speaker 3: leg and everyone's looking for a guy that can be
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Speaker 3: a weapon from from fifty plus sixty plus and looking
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Speaker 3: good for the Packers early with Tray Smack because he's
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Speaker 3: doing the opposite of what Brett Conway did in ninety
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Speaker 3: seven through there's a throwback reference for you Packers draft.
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Speaker 2: Back Brett Conway.
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Speaker 3: He struggled all through preseason and his understudy shine A
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Speaker 3: Benton named by a man by the name of Ryan Longwell,
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Speaker 3: and the rest is history.
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Speaker 2: So there you go.
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Speaker 1: Yep, eight seven seven seven, give us your game balls
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Speaker 1: and kicks.
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Speaker 2: Uh Bikowski Alex Baikowski here on YouTube.
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Speaker 3: My game ball goes to Hamilton for the space blast
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Speaker 3: off double play turn.
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Speaker 2: That was a great.
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Speaker 1: One, oh man, Yeah that was that was uh a
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Speaker 1: top ten I think it was seven. Yeah, that was
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Speaker 1: a play. Yeah that uh the five to three double
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Speaker 1: play at second base. That yeah, I mean that shows
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Speaker 1: you how athletic he is, and that's what.
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Speaker 2: The Birds like about him.
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Speaker 1: That play.
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Speaker 2: Brews will play good defense in general this year.
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Speaker 3: I know, maybe it's one of those things everyone else Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 3: of course armor obviously, but I don't think it goes
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Speaker 3: under state underrated the way they found wins without hitting
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Speaker 3: a lot of you know, home runs and things like that.
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Speaker 3: In one of that's one way, like great defense this
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Speaker 3: year from.
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Speaker 1: The talking text line Phil and Greenfield game Ball to
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Speaker 1: sal Bando Junior. He's the new head coach at Ripon
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Speaker 1: College baseball program there, and it kicked to the huevos
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Speaker 1: from Phil in Greenfield to the w I a A
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Speaker 1: forgetting sal Bando removed from his job at Marquette High.
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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know the backstory there, do you, Drew?
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Speaker 2: I don't remember.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was because he had what an affiliation with
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Speaker 1: one of those academies that players were using, and they
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Speaker 1: thought it was improper contacts and like coaching out of
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Speaker 1: season and stuff. I think that was the deal. So
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Speaker 1: he and uh, yeah, he ended up resigning. Someone dropped
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Speaker 1: the dime and probably somebody, we were saying, probably somebody
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Speaker 1: whose kid wasn't playing as much as they wanted to.
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Speaker 1: It was, yeah, one of the money situation. Also murky
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Speaker 1: situation at West Allas Hill with their football program. They
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Speaker 1: got stomped in their opener like ConA I think.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, awkward situation. Seven coaches resigned.
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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that was all some internal junk. Nothing like
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Speaker 1: criminal at all.
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Speaker 2: Criminal, which is kind of what we didn't know initially.
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Speaker 3: I know Billionaire were kind of talking about it off
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Speaker 3: the air, but didn't know it first.
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Speaker 2: And then that came out.
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Speaker 1: So Tim on the talking text line kick to the
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Speaker 1: balls to Mondays and yeah, only Mike Keller loves Mondays.
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Speaker 1: Everybody else dreads it and just kind of grits through it.
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Speaker 1: He said, game ball to us for making the start
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Speaker 1: of Mondays go quickly.
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Speaker 3: We like that that but both of them both ways.
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Speaker 3: I know we just touched on it, but I did
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Speaker 3: want to well. I was planning on giving the kick
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Speaker 3: to the Huavos for Sean Watson on his Oh yeah,
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Speaker 3: the funniest thing about the oldest Sean Watson thing to
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Speaker 3: me was when he goes, I think everyone knows it's
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Speaker 3: not about performance, like why, I think it's a lot
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Speaker 3: about performance.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, no offense.
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Speaker 3: Don't take this the wrong way sports fans, but we
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Speaker 3: are a group that will overlook a lot of nonsense
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Speaker 3: if you're playing well in a winning for our team.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we we all know just how we are
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Speaker 3: as sports fans. If you're doing well for our team,
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Speaker 3: we'll overlook a lot of stuff.
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Speaker 2: Maybe not everything.
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Speaker 1: Not everyone forgets, but I mean, like, well it's todd Golden.
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Speaker 3: There's plenty of examples. Now Watson's not playing well and
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Speaker 3: he's also a jerk.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 1: When Kristian Yelich is playing well like he did like
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Speaker 1: last year, right, he was like twenty nine and a
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Speaker 1: hundred or something like that, nobody brings up how much
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Speaker 1: money he makes. Right when he struggles like this year,
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Speaker 1: it's a big deal. It's the number one topic. Funny
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Speaker 1: how that works. Right, None of the Dodgers fans bitch
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Speaker 1: about Otani making a lot of money, but.
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Speaker 2: They don't because he performs.
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Speaker 1: And the thing is, Shaun Watson, they gave you like
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Speaker 1: the richest contract that it's all guaranteed, it's a sunk
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Speaker 1: cost and you're not playing well and he got hurt
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Speaker 1: two years ago and yeah, and they booed you then so.
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Speaker 3: And it's just like he's like I think it's personal
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Speaker 3: at that point. Ah, you think, well, like obviously.
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Speaker 1: That's the thing though, is like he had this one
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Speaker 1: like this was uh someone picked up the scab and
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Speaker 1: it wasn't it was a general question, but sure he
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Speaker 1: had kind of been.
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Speaker 2: Bottling that up. Clearly it was bothering him.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it bothered him that he got booed when
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Speaker 1: he ruptured his achilles on the field and people were
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Speaker 1: booing him.
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Speaker 3: I'm not not I'm not like trying to invalidate his
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Speaker 3: emotions in that you're getting booed when you're when you're
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Speaker 3: having a very devastating injury. Okay, but you have to
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Speaker 3: understand a little bit of like you reap what you
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Speaker 3: so I don't think if you didn't do the things
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Speaker 3: you did, and and and and you are responsible and
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Speaker 3: accountable for those actions, people are gonna boo you for
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Speaker 3: getting hurt.
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Speaker 2: Now, some places they might.
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Speaker 3: I mean there was a famous uh Jim or rant
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Speaker 3: amongst the many Jim or rants where they were he
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Speaker 3: was getting on the fans and New Orleans were booing
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Speaker 3: and the injured player, and he said, they're mentally sick,
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Speaker 3: mentally sick, mentally Like it was a great rant. But
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Speaker 3: I mean maybe in Philadelphia or some place like that,
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Speaker 3: like they'll boo you for just getting hurt if you're
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Speaker 3: a generally good guy. But I mean, come on, I
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Speaker 3: mean that's not the only reason, Like you have to
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Speaker 3: be aware of what you've done and the actions you
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Speaker 3: have to be accountable for if you're Deshaun Watson, and
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Speaker 3: if you're not, you're just gonna look more and more
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Speaker 3: out of touch and more and more like unself aware.
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Speaker 2: If that makes any sense. I don't know. It's just
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Speaker 2: and and you know you're gonna get the money, Deshaun.
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Speaker 2: You're lucky. It's not worse for you.
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Speaker 3: And you're also one of the worst quarterbacks in football
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Speaker 3: by many numbers, starting wise, where once upon a time
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Speaker 3: you were and you were paid as such, and the
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Speaker 3: team took a big risk on you, and everybody in
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Speaker 3: the league wanted him for a while. If you remember
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Speaker 3: that when he came out of Clemson, he was like
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Speaker 3: choir boy, poster child. You thought everyone liked him. He
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Speaker 3: was playing well in the NFL. It is what it is, DeShawn.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you have to be accountable for those things. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's just funny to me that he's like it is
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Speaker 3: it's just, uh.
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Speaker 2: I think it's personal at this point. Well, no, no.
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Speaker 1: Crap, it's personal. Yeah, of course, it's like what do
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Speaker 1: you you came with baggage? The whole arc of it.
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Speaker 3: Is just and you're playing terribly. That doesn't help. You're
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Speaker 3: making a lot of money, and like Chie, you generally
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Speaker 3: were offensive to a lot of people. Okay, yeah, I
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Speaker 3: just I think it's funny to hear them like get upset.
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Speaker 1: About I'm with you. Is it even worth kicking to
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Speaker 1: the juevos and as Cantor, wild deal showing up at
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Speaker 1: a w NBA game and creating a disturbance and getting
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Speaker 1: into it like that guy's a clown and the whole
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Speaker 1: w NBA thing has become a traveling cultural culture war
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Speaker 1: circus more than it is about athletic competition anymore.
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Speaker 2: It's a culture war football. I know a lot of people.
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Speaker 1: I heard the w NBA commissioner getting mad about it,
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Speaker 1: and they've done some things they need they need to
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Speaker 1: nip it.
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Speaker 2: What are they going to do with that? Well, at
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Speaker 2: one point they.
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Speaker 1: I think they were kind of allowed knowing stuff because
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Speaker 1: it was bringing eyeballs and the you know, the old
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Speaker 1: Any publicity is good publicity, and like if it's good
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Speaker 1: for ratings, like let's track it and how are we doing?
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Speaker 1: But at a certain point, but and as Cantor, I mean, go.
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Speaker 3: Away, well he's obviously he's obviously got angenda nout like
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Speaker 3: this is an emotional and divisive topic for a lot
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Speaker 3: of people, So it's kind of like what.
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Speaker 2: Do you say?
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Speaker 3: But it's like, yeah, I mean he got close to
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Speaker 3: the court there. What was the deal there? Did he
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Speaker 3: buy the ticket and walk down there or did they
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Speaker 3: give him I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. The best thing you could probably do
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Speaker 2: in a situation.
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Speaker 3: If you're a player playing is ignore it, which they
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Speaker 3: did the opposite. They made they made him the spectacle
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Speaker 3: by responding on the court.
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Speaker 2: I am not wrong and saying that. So I don't know.
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Speaker 3: There when you when you have something like this, like
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Speaker 3: you're right, it's a traveling culture war now, and it's
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Speaker 3: going to be that for a lot of people who
10:51
Speaker 3: really aren't interested in the sport. There's really no way
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Speaker 3: around it now. And then it's just it's exhausting because
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Speaker 3: there's going to be no conclusion.
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Speaker 2: It's just going to be a a show. You know,
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Speaker 2: I don't know what exactly say about it.
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Speaker 1: You're not winning her mind.
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Speaker 3: It's obviously like yeah, it's obviously something where it's is
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Speaker 3: a an emotional and divisive topic for a lot of people,
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Speaker 3: and that's going to be that but it's not like
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Speaker 3: anyone's trying to come to some sort of earnest conclusion
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Speaker 3: by having earnest dialogue and something, you.
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Speaker 4: Know what I mean.
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Speaker 3: Everyone's just trying to make to create their own position
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Speaker 3: on the agenda and make a stamp name for themselves.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: That's what it seems like to me. So a lot
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Speaker 2: of it, it's like I just shake my head and
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Speaker 2: walk away.
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Speaker 1: You know, canter Head, I mean his arc when he
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Speaker 1: was against U.
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Speaker 2: I love that stance.
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Speaker 1: Obviously, Yeah, he got his Turkish passport revoked, and you
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Speaker 1: know they were you know, he was his father faced ramifications.
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Speaker 1: His father was a professor in Turkey face ramifications. Right now,
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Speaker 1: that was like more noble and this is clout chasing
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Speaker 1: and stupidity.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems like he's got to Obviously, he has
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Speaker 3: a his agenda and he's got a career in all
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Speaker 3: these things.
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Speaker 1: Citizen now like he's using his oh you know, you
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Speaker 1: got First Amendment right to do what you want to do.
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Speaker 1: But you're also selling tickets to the clown show.
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Speaker 3: And for some people, Drew he's they pretend he's he's
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Speaker 3: their hero.
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Speaker 2: Today.
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Speaker 3: I don't know what else to say about it other
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Speaker 3: than there's a lot of people that feel emotional about
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Speaker 3: this topic. I understand your point totally, but I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I just it is interesting how this thing has enveloped
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Speaker 3: a w n B A you know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for a while it was just the Caitlin Clark debate.
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Speaker 1: And for a while there are no trans players in
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Speaker 1: the NBA, I mean, the in the w NBA. It's
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Speaker 1: like we're inventing a controversy, right.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's what some people. I saw people saying that
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Speaker 2: as well.
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Speaker 3: I haven't really gotten way into this thing, but I
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Speaker 3: guess I was curious how close Why God, he got.
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Speaker 2: So close to the arient, to the floor. Yeah, that
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Speaker 2: was a little a little surprising for me, Like I
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Speaker 2: didn't know. It was almost like you looked like he
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Speaker 2: had a media.
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Speaker 3: Passed or something because he was walking around like the court.
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Speaker 3: He wasn't like in a seat, or maybe he wasn't.
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Speaker 3: I didn't see how it went. I don't know, I
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Speaker 3: just you know.
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, speaking of basketball, game ball today, to Reggie Miller,
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Speaker 1: what wasn't popular in these parts when he played more
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Speaker 1: popular now that he's an announcer. For some he's always
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Speaker 1: been an announcer, and they don't remember as a player,
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Speaker 1: but that Olive Oil guy could really shoot it. He's
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Speaker 1: sixty one years old.
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Speaker 2: Today, Happy birthday, Reggie.
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Speaker 3: I didn't like it as a player, but I had
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Speaker 3: my own personal biases and reasons for that. But I
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Speaker 3: do like you now. On the second stage. He was
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Speaker 3: Bron's neighbor. Remember that when he would come in Brewers games, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and cheer for Bron because there were neighbors in Malibu.
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Speaker 2: Wasn't there a deal there? Yeah? I think so, And
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Speaker 2: that was kind of cool.
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Speaker 3: And uh, you know, looking back, I didn't like him
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Speaker 3: because I thought he got away with some dirty soub
13:48
Speaker 3: but it was really like a Bucks villain because he
13:50
Speaker 3: the Pagers would beat the Bucks in those early two thousands.
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Speaker 3: But I do remember when he was wearing the Superman
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Speaker 3: T shirt at Grand Avenue, remember that, and then.
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Speaker 1: He wore a pre o oh yeah, he bought it
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Speaker 1: a Grand Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Kind of that was kind of funny.
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Speaker 3: You know, you don't have like personality like looking back,
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Speaker 3: you don't have kind of personality like that anymore. And
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Speaker 3: that storyline was fun at the time. He was a
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Speaker 3: good villain at the time and stuff like that. The
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Speaker 3: thing I like about Reggie is how thowtful is he
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Speaker 3: is a broadcaster, how much he enjoys the game, and
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Speaker 3: on some of the podcasts he really loves talking about
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Speaker 3: his history and in the NBA and the old days.
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Speaker 3: Like I love the way he eloquates about it. It's
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Speaker 3: really awesome. So he's always a guy that's enjoyable for me.
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Speaker 1: So you brought up the neighbor story and then it
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Speaker 1: ties into Derek and Madison hit us up earlier when
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Speaker 1: we were talking about that Matt Moore game when Matt
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Speaker 1: Moore played for the Chiefs. He said, I played golf
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Speaker 1: against Matt Moore and a member guest golf tournament in
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Speaker 1: Corvallis a couple of years ago. Nice guy around the
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Speaker 1: campfire after the round, he mentioned that he bought Mark
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Speaker 1: Paul Gosselar's Zach Morris's house in California and many interesting
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Speaker 1: stories resulted.
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Speaker 3: That's amazing. Oh see, now this is what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 3: This is my kind of story.
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Speaker 1: This is where you'll love this army because that reminded me.
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Speaker 1: It's like, oh, you bought you know, Zach Morris's house. Sure, Mark,
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Speaker 1: And he did other things too. He was like NYPD Blue, right,
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Speaker 1: didn't he?
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Speaker 2: Oh, he's done a lot of stuff. Mark Paul Gosler
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Speaker 2: has been a great actor that most people don't really Yeah, well,
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Speaker 2: I don't know about great.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 2: I think he's had a really good career.
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Speaker 1: Drew, Well, I'm sure. Yeah, it's not just like Zach Morris,
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Speaker 1: child Star Saved by the Bell one of Armad's favorite shows. Uh,
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Speaker 1: but that reminded me. You talk about famous neighbor stories.
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Speaker 1: Bruce had a picture Glendon Rush Absolutely here's the Mets
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Speaker 1: in the company with the brus for a little bit,
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Speaker 1: and he told us that his neighbor who would come
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Speaker 1: over and shoot hoops in the driveway and stuff was
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Speaker 1: Tony Danza.
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Speaker 2: How random is that? How amazing is that?
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Speaker 1: Who's the boss Tony Danza coming on shoot hoops?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Did he bring the.
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Speaker 3: Vand with that with that team song coming at the
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Speaker 3: time for love and a time.
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Speaker 2: To take it to that is so cool.
15:54
Speaker 1: He had some stories about Tony Danza being his neighbor.
15:56
Speaker 3: I love when Drew this whole thing. I love when
15:59
Speaker 3: art life and life imitates art. I've always thought that's
16:03
Speaker 3: just something in my mind. I always thought that was
16:05
Speaker 3: a cool thing. So something like that is hilarious. Oh
16:08
Speaker 3: I gotta say this all right, Well, I still have
16:10
Speaker 3: a chance and we're getting away next.
16:12
Speaker 2: I don't know if there's a kicking the balls or
16:14
Speaker 2: a game ball for me.
16:15
Speaker 3: Okay, But I realized something over the weekend when I
16:17
Speaker 3: saw Gary Sheffield interviewed on the field about the Little
16:21
Speaker 3: League World Series.
16:22
Speaker 2: And he was at the Little League.
16:23
Speaker 3: Event and the Little League thing, and he played in
16:25
Speaker 3: the League World Series. And he's another guy I've enjoyed
16:28
Speaker 3: in his retirement, eloquent about the game, thoughtful, he's got
16:32
Speaker 3: a cool vibe about him, obviously had a great career.
16:35
Speaker 3: And I realized, Drew, I've held on to my hate
16:37
Speaker 3: for way too long for Gary Sheffield. Where I'm all
16:39
Speaker 3: about personal growth, I'm all about trying to you know,
16:42
Speaker 3: forgiveness is powerful.
16:44
Speaker 2: I think it's once and.
16:45
Speaker 3: For all time for me to release myself of this
16:48
Speaker 3: kind of pain I've had for Gary Sheffield.
16:50
Speaker 2: I mean, yes, you know, early in his Brewer's career
16:54
Speaker 2: it ended ugly and he.
16:55
Speaker 3: Left on those circumstances and he threw airs on purpose,
16:59
Speaker 3: and he was young guy, I was only eight years old.
17:02
Speaker 3: I really held a hatred of my heart for Gary
17:04
Speaker 3: Sheffield for so long because we used to boom as kids.
17:07
Speaker 3: I hereby am saying, Drew, I'm I'm gonna move past that,
17:11
Speaker 3: get over it. I'm gonna release I'm gonna release myself
17:14
Speaker 3: from the burden of my distaste for Gary Sheffield.
17:18
Speaker 2: I'm forgiving you, Gary Sheffield.
17:19
Speaker 3: This is a big moment for me. I think it's
17:21
Speaker 3: finally time for me to let go of that. We
17:24
Speaker 3: moved on enough. Gary Sheffield. I forgive you for your
17:27
Speaker 3: Brewers transgressions earlier in your career. I wish your great,
17:30
Speaker 3: great career was with the Brewers. It wasn't meant to be.
17:34
Speaker 3: You went somewhere else and had a great career. You
17:36
Speaker 3: went to San Diego, to all these places. So that's it, Drew.
17:40
Speaker 3: I don't want to have I don't want to have
17:41
Speaker 3: any more pain in my heart for Gary Sheffield.
17:43
Speaker 2: I'm forgiving him. All right, there you go. I love it.
17:46
Speaker 2: It's very for you. This is a cathartic declaration. That's amazing.
17:50
Speaker 2: Tell you something.
17:51
Speaker 3: It feels good, So forgive something to everybody. It feels
17:54
Speaker 3: good to do that today. I'm forgiving Gary Sheffield.
17:56
Speaker 4: Officially.
17:58
Speaker 2: Are you writing it? Down for the rehab.
18:00
Speaker 1: Like Drew's taking a note amazing, I'm writing a note
18:03
Speaker 1: like Arman has officially August twenty fourth, twenty twenty six,
18:08
Speaker 1: at seven nineteen am Gary, it's okay, armand sorry and
18:13
Speaker 1: says it's okay to Gary and.
18:14
Speaker 3: For any of you one day, one day, Yas is
18:17
Speaker 3: going to be back. For any of you still holding
18:19
Speaker 3: that in your heart, I want.
18:20
Speaker 2: You to remember this be back first we did it
18:22
Speaker 2: for it's going to be back for something, either he
18:25
Speaker 2: plays or what a ceremony.
18:27
Speaker 1: Well, he'll be absolutely for a ceremony, a reunion of
18:30
Speaker 1: the championship team something.
18:32
Speaker 3: Don't don't rob yourself of that great moment by keeping
18:34
Speaker 3: the pain in your heart right, It's almost say epic.
18:37
Speaker 2: It's like Wayne, we have Wayne coming up next.
18:39
Speaker 4: We do.
18:39
Speaker 3: Indeed they did that eventually for uh, for Jim Boughten
18:43
Speaker 3: in Yankee Stadium, they will finally the track one.
18:46
Speaker 2: He was banned for years and years because of the
18:48
Speaker 2: ball four.
18:49
Speaker 1: I know that was that was unjust, and I agree,
18:52
Speaker 1: but his son wrote a letter and got him kind
18:55
Speaker 1: of got that ball rolling in and Mickey never held
18:57
Speaker 1: it against him, never did. Nope, No, fantastic all right,
19:01
Speaker 1: Armin has forgiven. Gary Sheffel, that's the breaking news sit Today.
19:05
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to Wayne Levy, the voice of the Packers,
19:07
Speaker 1: friend of the program, is going to join us.
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Speaker 2: Next.
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Speaker 1: You're in the Huddle, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin, oh continuing
19:14
Speaker 1: the Monday edition of The Huddle. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin
19:17
Speaker 1: nine to twenty, Milwaukee ten seventy, Madison everywhere on the
19:19
Speaker 1: iHeart appts Drew and Arman. Today, Billy is on his
19:22
Speaker 1: way to Green Bay for the Packers. Big practice Today
19:25
Speaker 1: is gonna be a robust practice heading into the joint
19:28
Speaker 1: practice Wednesday against the Arizona Cardinals, and Billy will be
19:32
Speaker 1: joined on training camp live by the great Wayne Larvy,
19:35
Speaker 1: voice the Packers, who joins us Now, Good.
19:36
Speaker 4: Morning, Wayne, Good morning guys. How you doing.
19:39
Speaker 1: We are spectacular. We are big weekend in sports, Big
19:43
Speaker 1: Brewers weekend, and of course Packers setting the tone on
19:46
Speaker 1: Friday night in Denver. And Wayne, you don't want to
19:48
Speaker 1: get too excited about preseason results, but that was a
19:52
Speaker 1: pretty crisp outing and there's plenty to chew on from
19:54
Speaker 1: that game.
19:56
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought too, Drew offensively, they did some nice
20:00
Speaker 5: things those first couple of drives. I thought defensively they
20:03
Speaker 5: were pretty stout. Now people will say, well, the Broncos
20:07
Speaker 5: first ring offense scored on each of their first two
20:10
Speaker 5: drives of the game, and they did.
20:11
Speaker 4: But you have to understand something about this, and this
20:14
Speaker 4: goes both ways.
20:15
Speaker 5: Now, in preseason, defenses don't game plan or scheme for
20:20
Speaker 5: the offense they're facing like they do during the regular season.
20:23
Speaker 5: And Jonathan Gannon was pretty vanilla. And oh, by the way,
20:27
Speaker 5: you know, matter of fact, Jonathan told us that he
20:30
Speaker 5: was he won. He would be intentionally vanilla in that
20:33
Speaker 5: game because he wanted to see how individuals performed against
20:37
Speaker 5: their top players. And so the Denver offensive line is
20:41
Speaker 5: the best in the league, and boy, they were good
20:43
Speaker 5: the other night. They came out, they were firing bow
20:45
Speaker 5: Knicks his first game action since the divisional playoff game.
20:49
Speaker 5: I thought he was very good for Denver. But you know,
20:53
Speaker 5: I really what encouraged me was what I saw from
20:56
Speaker 5: Green Bay, and I saw the Packers come out play
20:58
Speaker 5: a very good game. I thought they met Denver's physicality,
21:02
Speaker 5: which is the thing I think Matt Lafour wanted to see.
21:04
Speaker 5: And the big thing about it was, you know, they
21:07
Speaker 5: came out. They played physical and they played fast, and
21:10
Speaker 5: that's what the coaching staff wanted to see.
21:12
Speaker 1: Oh fantastic, Arman. Well, Arman is back there like looking
21:15
Speaker 1: at knobs and buttons because Wayne's audio is not as
21:18
Speaker 1: crisp as it arms pushing a bunch of buttons here
21:22
Speaker 1: trying to fix it.
21:23
Speaker 2: But yeah, well, I don't know what Army did.
21:25
Speaker 1: We can soldier on though, and Wayne, what we mentioned,
21:29
Speaker 1: you guys got probably a pretty crisp and robust practice
21:32
Speaker 1: today and then Wednesday will be the last time that
21:34
Speaker 1: the starters get to uh test themselves and then put
21:39
Speaker 1: them in bubble wrap for Friday, because we don't expect
21:42
Speaker 1: a lot of starters to see action on Friday, do we.
21:45
Speaker 5: I don't know if you'll see any starter to see
21:47
Speaker 5: action on Friday. I think what has done has gotten
21:50
Speaker 5: it starts plenty of time in preseason games one and two,
21:54
Speaker 5: in the third game, but the Packers have generally done
21:57
Speaker 5: It's used.
21:58
Speaker 4: That game and this goes way back.
22:00
Speaker 5: Use that game for the players trying to make the
22:02
Speaker 5: roster and give them one.
22:03
Speaker 4: Last shot, one last long look.
22:05
Speaker 5: And it's one of the reasons why I think free
22:07
Speaker 5: agents college free agents tend to go to Green Bay
22:10
Speaker 5: because they know they're going to get a good shot
22:13
Speaker 5: to make the roster, or at least put something on
22:15
Speaker 5: tape as a resume tape for other teams down the road.
22:19
Speaker 1: All right, Arm, should we try to reconnect with Wayne?
22:21
Speaker 1: What do you say?
22:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's give it a shot. I'm not wait, I'm
22:24
Speaker 2: gonna drop it and reconnect. We're going because I don't
22:27
Speaker 2: know what it is.
22:27
Speaker 1: Wayne is awesome, but the sound isn't as good as.
22:29
Speaker 2: It usually is.
22:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, that is about the unect.
22:34
Speaker 2: We want to make.
22:35
Speaker 1: Sure it's a positive of listening experience every Yeah, you're
22:38
Speaker 1: in charge of audio.
22:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're working on that.
22:40
Speaker 1: So and most of the time it just sounds a
22:42
Speaker 1: little scratchy.
22:44
Speaker 2: You know. Sometimes it's like that, right, sure, Sometimes it's.
22:46
Speaker 1: Like yeah, oh yeah sometimes shot here the Gremlins thankfully. Well,
22:50
Speaker 1: the important stuff is the broadcasts, like the games.
22:54
Speaker 2: Right those are those have been good? I think.
22:56
Speaker 1: So we don't want to talk about no hitters in
22:57
Speaker 1: the dugout. But we're two for two so far.
22:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. Please love that? Don any better?
23:01
Speaker 4: Wayne?
23:02
Speaker 1: How you doing Wayne out there?
23:03
Speaker 2: How amazing? Crystal clear? Yeah, you're scratchy. Sometimes you just
23:08
Speaker 2: gotta drop it and call back. That's right, that the
23:11
Speaker 2: world we live in, unplug it and plug it back in.
23:13
Speaker 3: It went just like, uh, it seemed like all Trace
23:16
Speaker 3: Mac needed was the bright lights.
23:18
Speaker 2: Wayne, how's ever? Tra But like you know, there was
23:21
Speaker 2: so much.
23:21
Speaker 3: Of our of our nervousness and concentrating. But since he's
23:24
Speaker 3: been in these games, he's just been incredible.
23:27
Speaker 5: Yeah, he really took advantage of that mile high altitude there.
23:31
Speaker 4: Boy.
23:31
Speaker 5: He hit some great shots again on Saturday, and he's
23:35
Speaker 5: got to be in a good headspace right now, and
23:37
Speaker 5: that's great going into the season. You know the thing
23:41
Speaker 5: that Good mentioned, Brian Goodecones mentioned when they drafted him.
23:44
Speaker 5: They said, you know, his his ball doesn't move. You
23:48
Speaker 5: know a lot of times kickers will curve a kick
23:50
Speaker 5: or it moves left and right, that kind of thing.
23:53
Speaker 4: This kid kicks it pretty straight.
23:54
Speaker 5: And that's the thing I've noticed as well, whether he
23:57
Speaker 5: makes it or misses, the ball's going pretty straight.
23:59
Speaker 4: It's not moving up and down, back and forth, you
24:02
Speaker 4: know that kind of thing.
24:02
Speaker 3: What I think is interesting too, Wayne, is this seemingly
24:05
Speaker 3: I don't know about strategy, but this shift in the
24:08
Speaker 3: kicker culture in the NFL where now you know, they
24:12
Speaker 3: look everyone's looking for guys that can boom it close
24:15
Speaker 3: to sixty. And the way these kickers are coming out now,
24:17
Speaker 3: I saw a guy this weekend hit a sixty nine
24:20
Speaker 3: yard or in preseason, it seems like the threshold is
24:23
Speaker 3: higher for success for kickers than ever before. And you
24:26
Speaker 3: have to have a guy that can potentially give you
24:29
Speaker 3: that type of you know, used to be a fifty
24:32
Speaker 3: yard plus was a novelty. Now it's like, if you
24:34
Speaker 3: can't do it, that's the baseline for kickers.
24:37
Speaker 5: Yeah, and any It's like people are expecting these days
24:40
Speaker 5: anything under fifties and automatic. You know, right, it's unrealistic,
24:44
Speaker 5: but that's what people are thinking about. That's what you know,
24:47
Speaker 5: you missed a forty three yard field goal, Well, wow,
24:49
Speaker 5: the wind and everything else, and no, you got to
24:52
Speaker 5: make that.
24:53
Speaker 4: You know, you're fifty plus.
24:54
Speaker 5: You can go five or ten, but you better make
24:57
Speaker 5: everything inside of forty and so our inside fifty.
25:00
Speaker 4: But that's just the reality we live in in your
25:03
Speaker 4: right arm.
25:03
Speaker 5: And these kids are better now coming out of college
25:06
Speaker 5: as kickers, much more talent available there. And this trace
25:11
Speaker 5: smack is just an example of that.
25:13
Speaker 2: Wayne.
25:14
Speaker 1: It's funny because we named trace Mack our player of
25:17
Speaker 1: the game by sponsor by Great Clips on the postgame show,
25:20
Speaker 1: and then Sean Payton came out and said, well, I
25:22
Speaker 1: guess that rookie kicker is the player of the game
25:23
Speaker 1: the night.
25:24
Speaker 2: So we felt validated when Sean Payton said that.
25:28
Speaker 1: But when we look at this roster and the battles
25:30
Speaker 1: and the things we're gonna be focusing on this week
25:32
Speaker 1: and especially Friday night, Wayne at Lambeau, I'm fascinated by
25:36
Speaker 1: Pierre Strong. That sixty eight yarder was like the turning
25:38
Speaker 1: point of that game.
25:39
Speaker 2: That return.
25:39
Speaker 1: It was great to see and I'm thinking to myself, Oh,
25:42
Speaker 1: he's really making a statement. But will they keep an
25:45
Speaker 1: extra running back? Do they have to because of Josh Jacobs?
25:48
Speaker 1: Did he cement his case or is he gonna be
25:50
Speaker 1: one of those guys that we just fell in love
25:52
Speaker 1: with during camp and falls drifts off to the practice
25:54
Speaker 1: squad or a waiver wire.
25:56
Speaker 5: Well, I tell you what's gonna be interesting to see?
25:59
Speaker 5: And you're right, Drew, And I was surprised he was
26:00
Speaker 5: even back there returning a kick like that. I shouldn't
26:04
Speaker 5: have been, but I was you know, I just didn't
26:06
Speaker 5: expect it. And here he goes sixty eight yards. When's
26:09
Speaker 5: the last time the Packers had a kickoff returning that long?
26:11
Speaker 5: Seems like forever. I'm sure it's not, but it seems
26:14
Speaker 5: like it, doesn't it. Yeah, Yeah, you know, I've liked
26:18
Speaker 5: what I've seen of him since OTA's in Mini caamp.
26:23
Speaker 5: He is just a tough, physical runner. He fills that
26:27
Speaker 5: Emmanuel Wilson role in my mind, you know. And I've
26:31
Speaker 5: talked to Ben Sermons, the running backs coach, about this,
26:33
Speaker 5: and he was saying, you know, yeah, maybe he could
26:35
Speaker 5: fill that role. I don't know, but right now, you
26:39
Speaker 5: got to figure Josh Jacobs. Okay, Marshaun Lloyd, Chris Brooks
26:44
Speaker 5: is the guy they trust in third down.
26:46
Speaker 4: So he's gonna make the football team. I'd be surprised
26:48
Speaker 4: if he doesn't.
26:49
Speaker 5: And by the way, we will be surprised next weekend
26:52
Speaker 5: with cuts, We'll be well. Four or five guys were
26:54
Speaker 5: just sitting there saying, wow, I didn't see that coming.
26:56
Speaker 5: Happens every year. Yeah, but you know, will you keep
27:00
Speaker 5: keep an extra running back? I don't know, Boy, you've
27:02
Speaker 5: got to keep an extra wide receiver. You would think too,
27:04
Speaker 5: wouldn't you Where do you cut? You know, maybe the
27:07
Speaker 5: tight end room is not quite as deep as you'd
27:10
Speaker 5: like it to be. Maybe you go two or three,
27:12
Speaker 5: maybe you go three tight ends. But you know, with
27:15
Speaker 5: all the two tight end formations they play in the
27:17
Speaker 5: NFL today, and I know Matt likes to play that
27:19
Speaker 5: twelve personnel quite a bit. One running back, two tight ends,
27:22
Speaker 5: two wide receivers. You know, it's hard to keep only
27:26
Speaker 5: two or three tight ends. You got to keep at
27:28
Speaker 5: least three or four, you know what I mean. So
27:30
Speaker 5: it's hard to figure out where they're going to cut
27:31
Speaker 5: this team and how they're going to cut it.
27:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, it always is. That's why they make the big money.
27:35
Speaker 1: Get into fifty three is going to be a chore here,
27:37
Speaker 1: because you got some good options. Anthony Campbell's the guy
27:41
Speaker 1: that I feel like, Okay, he can make the team.
27:42
Speaker 1: But then there are people saying, well, in order for
27:44
Speaker 1: him to make it, they'll have to cut in a zero
27:46
Speaker 1: stackhouse and trade Carl Brooks and there's all kinds of
27:50
Speaker 1: there's drama on the defensive line that I didn't expect, and.
27:53
Speaker 5: Chris McClellan perhaps stood out more than anyone on that
27:57
Speaker 5: defensive line. The other night in Denver, he got a
27:59
Speaker 5: long tour, but the rookie really stepped up, and you know,
28:02
Speaker 5: he's a power kind of player. Jonathan Gannon was talking
28:05
Speaker 5: about him to us that morning of the game about,
28:08
Speaker 5: you know, how impressed he was with the fact that
28:10
Speaker 5: this kid, this is a big kid who can move
28:14
Speaker 5: and he's not just a run stopper. He can threaten
28:16
Speaker 5: the quarterback a little bit too. And with Devandre DeVante
28:20
Speaker 5: Wyatt next to him, that's that could be a very
28:23
Speaker 5: good combination you might see often early in the season.
28:26
Speaker 3: Wayne brandon Cis has been so exciting ever since he
28:30
Speaker 3: you know, he started. We started getting a look at
28:32
Speaker 3: him the first round or the first pick for the
28:33
Speaker 3: Packers that first round, but first pick for the Packers
28:36
Speaker 3: had it was a little dinged up in that game
28:38
Speaker 3: against Denver, it seems like he was okay, I think
28:41
Speaker 3: we think that, but he's he's really been a revelation
28:44
Speaker 3: as well.
28:45
Speaker 5: He has Arman. You know, he he seems very mature
28:49
Speaker 5: in terms of not only his personality but the way
28:52
Speaker 5: he plays the game out there. He never really panics
28:54
Speaker 5: a whole lot. I think he had a great cover
28:56
Speaker 5: on Courtland Sutton, the Denver number one receiver the other night,
29:00
Speaker 5: and you know, these are things you look for. Little
29:03
Speaker 5: individual plays here and there in the preseason can tell
29:06
Speaker 5: you a lot. I think he's pretty well cemented a
29:11
Speaker 5: starting role. We'll see when the season gets here, but
29:14
Speaker 5: he seems to have cemented his place. And now the
29:17
Speaker 5: other side is where the competition is. And I still
29:20
Speaker 5: think Keyshawn Nixon it's his job to lose.
29:23
Speaker 1: Wait, we mentioned Pierre Strong's kick return. Sky Moore had
29:27
Speaker 1: a sixteen yard punt return that was pretty nifty, and
29:30
Speaker 1: I think that would have been the second longest punt
29:32
Speaker 1: return for the Packers last season. Should we be raising
29:36
Speaker 1: our expectations for that facet of the game?
29:38
Speaker 2: Cam acrd is doing his job.
29:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, it's amazing.
29:44
Speaker 5: I kept thinking about this the other night during the
29:46
Speaker 5: game and said, if they have you know, and sky
29:48
Speaker 5: Moore can provide you both kicks returns and putt returns.
29:51
Speaker 5: But if they can you know, if they have a
29:53
Speaker 5: return game, okay, and they've got a kicker, you know,
29:57
Speaker 5: they have a punter, you know the coverage units are
29:59
Speaker 5: pretty good. Wow, special teams could this could be the
30:03
Speaker 5: best Well I shouldn't say this, folks, but I'll say
30:06
Speaker 5: it anyway. This could be the best special teams we've
30:09
Speaker 5: seen in Green Bay since Nolan Cromwell was the special
30:12
Speaker 5: teams coach back in the mid ninety Now, that goes
30:15
Speaker 5: way back.
30:16
Speaker 2: Oh, what a great, what a great, that's a great reference. Yes,
30:19
Speaker 2: it has been. It's been.
30:21
Speaker 1: It's funny because we talk we've talked about it the
30:23
Speaker 1: last several years, and Aaron Nagler gave it, gave us
30:26
Speaker 1: the lines like all I want is competence. I just
30:29
Speaker 1: want the league average. That's all we're asking for. Just
30:32
Speaker 1: don't be at the bottom of these categories. Be league average.
30:35
Speaker 1: And it looks like they might be better than that.
30:37
Speaker 4: Now. Yeah, yeah, well we'll see, well, we'll see.
30:40
Speaker 5: Troup will be in the pudding and there'll be plenty
30:42
Speaker 5: of putting coming up, eighteen weeks of it.
30:44
Speaker 2: But that's true. We haven't played yet, that's true.
30:46
Speaker 4: Yeah.
30:47
Speaker 2: Well that's the other thing.
30:48
Speaker 1: Okay, So Wayne anohing I want to ask you, is
30:50
Speaker 1: we're watching that first series, we hyper focus on that
30:52
Speaker 1: because that's the only look you get at Love and
30:55
Speaker 1: Company and and put them in bubb wrapp and there
30:58
Speaker 1: they'll play on Wednesday against the Cardinals up, but then
31:00
Speaker 1: they're done. They probably won't play Friday. But am I
31:03
Speaker 1: detecting a trend of him being under center more and
31:06
Speaker 1: more under center, play action, rollout type stuff. It seems
31:10
Speaker 1: like is that am I reading too much into that?
31:13
Speaker 1: Because it seemed like that first series I saw a
31:15
Speaker 1: lot of that, and I'm like, Oh, is that what
31:16
Speaker 1: we're going to see more.
31:17
Speaker 2: Of this year?
31:19
Speaker 4: Yeah?
31:19
Speaker 5: You know, I've said that, Drew and I said that
31:21
Speaker 5: on the Family un I telecast and somebody said, well,
31:23
Speaker 5: they were really good under center last year. Yeah, but
31:25
Speaker 5: they weren't under center as much as you thought they
31:28
Speaker 5: should be. Maybe, And I think Lafloor is going to
31:30
Speaker 5: have more under center work going on. I think this
31:33
Speaker 5: involves not just the passing game and the play action
31:35
Speaker 5: passing game is much more effective when your quarterback's coming
31:38
Speaker 5: from under center, but also in terms of the running game.
31:41
Speaker 5: And I think it's short yardage too. I just remember
31:44
Speaker 5: that drive in Chicago right before halftime in the division
31:48
Speaker 5: or the wildcard playoff game where the Packers are on
31:51
Speaker 5: the goal line and they're trying to run out of
31:52
Speaker 5: shotgun and not getting it done and finally had to
31:56
Speaker 5: resort to a fourth down pass.
31:57
Speaker 4: To Romeo Dobbs to score. But I think more.
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Speaker 5: Under center is what we're going to see because of
32:03
Speaker 5: two things. Number One, I think it's what Lafleur hopes
32:06
Speaker 5: to do in his offense. But also they were effective
32:08
Speaker 5: under center when they were under center last year. I
32:11
Speaker 5: don't think you're wrong to think they'll be under center
32:13
Speaker 5: more as the season gets underway.
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Speaker 1: Was some of that related to Jordan Love having that
32:17
Speaker 1: left thumb issue that you know, it seemed like early
32:21
Speaker 1: on especially that they.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it could have been a little bit.
32:25
Speaker 5: I don't think a huge amount, but that could have
32:27
Speaker 5: been part of it.
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Speaker 4: But you know that.
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Speaker 5: I just think they're going to be under more under
32:31
Speaker 5: center this year offensive, I think, And we'll see how
32:33
Speaker 5: that pans out.
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Speaker 1: Well, I know you guys are going to see a
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Speaker 1: pad rattling practice today. I feel like this will be
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Speaker 1: the one. Then they'll take it easy tomorrow and then
32:40
Speaker 1: what what's it going to be like on Wednesday? Like
32:43
Speaker 1: usually these joint practices, there's fights and skirmishes and conflagrations.
32:47
Speaker 2: Well, the Lafleur brothers have a pact.
32:49
Speaker 1: Here and make it like so that doesn't happen or
32:51
Speaker 1: can they even control that. What's the tenor going to
32:53
Speaker 1: be like Wednesday, I.
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Speaker 4: Think it'll be ramped up a little bit.
32:58
Speaker 5: I think the brothers will try, you know, they'll try
33:00
Speaker 5: to make sure they have an agreement as to how
33:03
Speaker 5: the practice is going to be conducted and everything else.
33:05
Speaker 5: I'm sure that's all been well planned. But you know,
33:08
Speaker 5: these are athletes on the field, and once the ball
33:10
Speaker 5: is snapped, they you know, they're not worried about a plan.
33:12
Speaker 5: They're worried about making the play. And so I think
33:15
Speaker 5: when you have these it's one of the reasons why
33:18
Speaker 5: they've gone to one instead of two days in a row.
33:21
Speaker 5: I think Minnesota and Baltimore scrimmage for two days before
33:25
Speaker 5: they played the preseason game, and they had all kinds
33:27
Speaker 5: of skirmishes and fights and everything else. And that's you know,
33:30
Speaker 5: I mean, we as fans as observers, we kind of
33:33
Speaker 5: like that spice, don't We like to see them mix
33:36
Speaker 5: it up like that. Yeah, let's get some pushy and cheving,
33:38
Speaker 5: let's get some fun. Yeah, but it's counterproductive to what
33:41
Speaker 5: they're trying to do as a coaching staff and as
33:44
Speaker 5: a team. On that particular day.
33:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember James Jones was saying, I'm Packer's preview
33:49
Speaker 3: or that he found that unproductive because everyone was trying
33:52
Speaker 3: to act tough to the Bears. But Hey, would be
33:54
Speaker 3: interesting to see if the brothers would start something up.
33:57
Speaker 3: I mean, there's no there's no fighting like brother So
34:01
Speaker 3: I don't know, Wayne, I don't know if we expect it,
34:03
Speaker 3: but that would be something.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it'll be pretty professional. We'll see. Anything
34:08
Speaker 2: could happen, but I think it'd be it'd be pretty professional.
34:10
Speaker 4: Yeah.
34:10
Speaker 2: Well, one more thing win.
34:11
Speaker 3: I know you're gonna be on later with uh Billy,
34:14
Speaker 3: But Yankees are three games back of the race. How
34:16
Speaker 3: do you feel does the al still run to the
34:19
Speaker 3: Bronx so they have a chance to still win the East?
34:22
Speaker 5: Well, I tell you something, John Carlos Stanton, how about
34:25
Speaker 5: that news he's probably not coming back? Go figure? Or
34:30
Speaker 5: where did that come from? My gosh, what a total waste.
34:33
Speaker 5: Derek Jeter traded John Carlos Stanton when Jeter was involved
34:37
Speaker 5: with the Marlins to the Yankees, and it was just
34:39
Speaker 5: like a death pill.
34:41
Speaker 4: It was an absolute death pill, all right.
34:43
Speaker 5: And then the Yankees took him out and he's been
34:46
Speaker 5: nothing but injured ever since. So that's not gonna happen.
34:49
Speaker 5: But Bellinger came back yesterday. Cody Bellinger and Aaron Judge
34:54
Speaker 5: will come back in September. If the Yankees get any
34:57
Speaker 5: kind of hitting in September, they'll win. They'll win the
35:00
Speaker 5: I love it.
35:01
Speaker 2: I love the confidence. That's amazing. That's amazing. Wayne.
35:04
Speaker 1: I woke up this morning and there's this like a
35:06
Speaker 1: start to feel that crispness in the air.
35:08
Speaker 2: It's right around the corner. We're getting close now.
35:11
Speaker 1: The thing is, we got the cuts this week, we
35:13
Speaker 1: got the last game the cuts, and then we got
35:15
Speaker 1: this long wait to get the season started. But we're
35:17
Speaker 1: getting closer.
35:18
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like true, it's like almost a month.
35:22
Speaker 2: Crazy, we're three weeks out.
35:24
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, exactly all right to talk about. I
35:28
Speaker 4: guarantee you.
35:29
Speaker 1: I guarantee you. Thanks for joining us, Wayne, appreciate it.
35:31
Speaker 1: Safe travels, and have fun with Billy today.
35:32
Speaker 2: We'll be listening.
35:34
Speaker 4: All right. We'll talk to you Friday, guys.
35:35
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Speaker 1: This wagon bank story, I had one holstered up and
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Speaker 1: I called an audible because it was memory Lane. It's
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Speaker 1: not an anniversary or anything, and this was before your
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Speaker 1: but it happened during the summer of nineteen eighty two
37:02
Speaker 1: when we were all focused on the brewers. July second,
37:05
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two, a truck driver from California named Larry Walters,
37:10
Speaker 1: thirty three years old from San Pedro, flew sixteen thousand
37:14
Speaker 1: feet into the sky on a lawn chair.
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Speaker 2: What did he create his own?
37:20
Speaker 1: Larry Walters dreamed of flying his whole life, and he
37:23
Speaker 1: bought forty two eight foot helium weather balloons, tied them
37:27
Speaker 1: to a sears lawn chair. Oh my gosh, strapped down
37:30
Speaker 1: a parachute, packed a BB gun to pop balloons to
37:33
Speaker 1: help his descent. He had a Cbee radio, sandwiches, and
37:37
Speaker 1: a six pack of beer.
37:38
Speaker 3: I love that he's thinking about eating and drinking beer
37:40
Speaker 3: at this time. You know you're floating around. You no
37:43
Speaker 3: idea what's gonna happening.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he expected to float a few hundred feet above
37:48
Speaker 1: his backyard, but he cut the rope and he shot
37:51
Speaker 1: up like a rocket. He went to sixteen thousand feet.
37:55
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that he drifted the cruising He drifted
37:59
Speaker 1: directly into the approach path for lax Or. Two pilots
38:02
Speaker 1: radio the tower that they just passed a man in
38:04
Speaker 1: a lawn chair holding a gun, which he did. He
38:07
Speaker 1: had to be begun for forty five minutes. He floated
38:10
Speaker 1: over Los Angeles, freezing cold, too scared to shoot the
38:13
Speaker 1: balloons because he was afraid he might fall fall quickly. Finally,
38:17
Speaker 1: he just decided, I'm gonna have to do it. So
38:19
Speaker 1: he started popping the balloons one by one, and slowly
38:23
Speaker 1: he descended. He landed up. He landed tangled in power
38:26
Speaker 1: lines in Long Beach, causing a blackout. When police arrested him,
38:31
Speaker 1: they asked why he did it. He said, quote, a
38:33
Speaker 1: man can't just sit.
38:34
Speaker 3: Around, Actually he can. That's literally what he was doing.
38:38
Speaker 3: That is so amazing.
38:40
Speaker 1: FAA find him four thousand dollars. He became a national
38:43
Speaker 1: folk hero named lawn Chair Larry.
38:46
Speaker 2: They're not gonna like that the fa Yeah, that's yeah.
38:48
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, this this story inspired the movie Up
38:53
Speaker 1: the more you know, you know what? I never knew this,
38:56
Speaker 1: and it reminds me of the scam, the balloon boy scam,
38:59
Speaker 1: remember when they tried to create this thing.
39:02
Speaker 2: I think my reaction to this is it's rare that.
39:05
Speaker 3: You come up with the hair brained idea like this
39:07
Speaker 3: that works better than what you think. Usually at the opposite,
39:10
Speaker 3: it doesn't work. This worked better than he ever imagined.
39:12
Speaker 3: He floated way up, up, up and away. It's how
39:16
Speaker 3: did he stay on the lawn chair? Like, didn't the
39:18
Speaker 3: atmosphere push him around? Maybe you get a seatbelt.
39:22
Speaker 1: He did have a parachute in case, but right, man,
39:25
Speaker 1: don't you think you'd be a little nervous to see
39:27
Speaker 1: if that actually worked? Like?
39:28
Speaker 2: What am I going to do? Now?
39:29
Speaker 3: He was up there thinking like well, now what? Yes,
39:32
Speaker 3: did he get the beers in? Or like at least
39:34
Speaker 3: did he eat the sandwiches? That is a crazy thing.
39:37
Speaker 2: I never really realized the origin story freezing cold.
39:41
Speaker 3: I mean, people don't really think about that, but when
39:43
Speaker 3: you get high up in the atmosphere, you must have
39:45
Speaker 3: gotten some sort of frostbite or something, even if it
39:48
Speaker 3: was summer in La right, I mean, I don't know.
39:53
Speaker 1: That's an amazing, amazing story.
39:55
Speaker 2: Imagine social media if that happened Drew, Yeah, he would
39:58
Speaker 2: have been crazy on Twitter that day. People would have
40:01
Speaker 2: been talking about it.
40:02
Speaker 1: You'd have been live streaming it on the ground for sure.
40:04
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
40:05
Speaker 3: Isn't there a guy in the summer of seventy seven
40:07
Speaker 3: in New York that like climbed the World Trade Center Tower?
40:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where everyone was following that too.
40:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's nice thing.
40:13
Speaker 3: About what social media would react. Wow, well that's crazy.
40:15
Speaker 3: How about that?
40:16
Speaker 2: Just nuts?
40:17
Speaker 1: All right, we've covered a lot of ground today. No
40:20
Speaker 1: Brewers game tonight. They're in New York Baseball pregame show.
40:25
Speaker 1: They'll take a day off. They can all get some
40:27
Speaker 1: corn beef and some pizza and rest up, and we'll
40:31
Speaker 1: have that for you tomorrow. Tomorrow on the program, we
40:32
Speaker 1: will be joined by our pal Hunter Bombguart will be
40:34
Speaker 1: with us live at seven.
40:38
Speaker 2: And we'll talk Brewers.
40:39
Speaker 1: We'll get the lay of the land, and then obviously
40:41
Speaker 1: we'll get reaction from what happens at practice today with Billy.
40:44
Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out. Thanks for the great Wayne, Larvivy
40:46
Speaker 1: for joining us. We'll see you tomorrow at five.
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Speaker 2: Peace,