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09/11/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Drew Billion-Armond huddled up on a Friday in the good land.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome in Fox Sports 920, Milwaukee 1070, Madison. Everywhere on
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• 0:12
  Speaker 2: sunrise this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Hope everybody's enjoying it. Coming up nicely.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome 6 o'clock clubbers and welcome to the NFL season.
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  Speaker 2: We're in the teeth of it now. Sunday, we enter
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  Speaker 2: the belly of the beast. Packers play at U.S. Bank Stadium,
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  Speaker 2: 325 kickoff.
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  Speaker 3: It is beautiful to be here, Drew, on the first
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  Speaker 3: official football Friday of the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Here we are. We made it. We made it.
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  Speaker 1: Be careful what you wish for because the first two
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  Speaker 1: games haven't been great, but we're back.
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  Speaker 3: You know what's even better? NCAA is getting them out
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  Speaker 3: of the way. We got our court case conversation from yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now somewhat almost. Now we're doing our college football. Now
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  Speaker 3: we're almost into all games. Now we got two games underway,
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  Speaker 3: 270 to play, and dreams to be had.
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  Speaker 1: And then he dashed. Now that the jet lag ball
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  Speaker 1: is over, we don't have to hear about travel for
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  Speaker 1: a while? That's true, yes. Now it's just the normal travel,
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  Speaker 1: pretty much?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: We'll still hear about it.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say, I think, is there a
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  Speaker 3: Rio game potentially coming up in a couple of weeks?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. There's so many now we can't even
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  Speaker 1: keep track. There's a couple coming up. Until week six
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  Speaker 1: or something. London games are like old hat now. No
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  Speaker 1: big deal. Oh, London?
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever. You know, you're right. Not a big deal. But
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: we want you to share your thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Eight, seven, seven, seven, nine, four, one, ninety, seven, three Packers,
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  Speaker 2: a one and a half point underdog at this juncture
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  Speaker 2: heading into their opener.
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  Speaker 1: And not one that I'm all that surprised about.
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  Speaker 3: I think that there's that there's there's reason to be
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  Speaker 3: optimistic like many are or just maybe intrigued is the
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  Speaker 3: better word about what Minnesota brings. And you mentioned the
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  Speaker 3: Bill Barnwell piece earlier on, Drew, of predicting the NFL
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  Speaker 3: season and who was going to make the playoffs, who
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  Speaker 3: was going to miss the playoffs. He had the Packers
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  Speaker 3: missing the playoffs. Part of it was the thought that
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  Speaker 3: they're almost grasping at the health straws already rolling into
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  Speaker 3: week one.
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  Speaker 1: It's fair criticism when you.
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  Speaker 3: Look at what the Packers are potentially rolling out at
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  Speaker 3: some important positions. You keep four pass rushers because you
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  Speaker 3: feel confident enough in what you have. You're not going
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  Speaker 3: to have Josh Jacobs, obviously Parsons, but The secondary, we
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  Speaker 3: talked about it a lot last night. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 3: it a lot coming up on Sunday for Packers OT.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously when Wayne Larrabee joins us coming up at
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  Speaker 3: 725 before he embarks to the mall capital of the world.
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  Speaker 3: But damn, this Packers secondary is going to have its
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  Speaker 3: hands full coming up this weekend with whatever Kyler Murray
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  Speaker 3: is excited to do in the pass game. Because Drew,
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  Speaker 3: you got to imagine that not only do they have
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  Speaker 3: plenty of things that they've been waiting to unleash, but
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  Speaker 3: But Justin Jefferson's probably licking his chops, knowing that he
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  Speaker 3: gets some new meat to be able to welcome to
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  Speaker 3: the NFL on the other side. And Brandon Cissé coming
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  Speaker 3: up this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed.
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  Speaker 5: What's your prediction for the Packers record? I got him
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  Speaker 5: at 11 wins.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I like that. That sounds about where I
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  Speaker 1: would go to.
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  Speaker 3: Because Drew, again, and I'm not just placating off everything
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  Speaker 3: that we had last year, but they were a 9-3-1 team,
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  Speaker 3: and they still.
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  Speaker 3: Should have, if you watch those games transpire, I should
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  Speaker 3: have won at least two of those games on the
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  Speaker 3: way out without Parsons and Tom.
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  Speaker 2: It does seem like the perception of the Packers because
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  Speaker 2: of Parsons and Jacobs, that there's this perception that they're
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  Speaker 2: like careening off the road there. They're on a, a
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  Speaker 2: windy mountain road with one flat tire. And like, they're
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  Speaker 2: just like, and they're just hanging out. Like, yeah, they're
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  Speaker 2: still really good. The talent is still really good. Like
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  Speaker 2: a lot of their players would start at other teams,
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  Speaker 2: you know? And it's like, That receiver room and Love.
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  Speaker 2: Love is underregarded as a quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely.
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  Speaker 2: Put him where you want, but he's going to perform
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  Speaker 2: like a top 10 guy. Top 7 guy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and for what it does feel like is somewhat
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  Speaker 3: of a put up or shut up kind of year,
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  Speaker 3: they have selected the guys that they believe that they're
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  Speaker 3: going to be able to win with. especially like in
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  Speaker 3: the past catching room drew, like we, we had talked
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  Speaker 3: about the narratives that are in the scrolls, the bottom
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  Speaker 3: thirds on ESPN. I also read one of those bottom
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  Speaker 3: thirds in the off season was a key addition to
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  Speaker 3: the Cowboys defense was Rashawn Gary.
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  Speaker 1: How's that going to work?
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of Packers fans that thought
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  Speaker 3: that was the key departure from what you what you
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  Speaker 3: watch in the back end of the year. So there is,
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  Speaker 3: I think, a little bit of a separation from perception
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  Speaker 3: and reality of who and how talented the Packers can be.
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  Speaker 1: You got to put the proof on paper. I understand.
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  Speaker 3: But it's a great opportunity to do it coming up
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday at. us bank where it is a tough
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  Speaker 3: place to play, but you go in there and win
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  Speaker 3: and you'll get a lot more of that conversation quickly
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  Speaker 3: back into your, into your camp.
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  Speaker 5: The thing is, and we talked about it too last
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  Speaker 5: night on the Thursday night huddle down at Palo Alto
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  Speaker 5: me sports book, by the way, down there.
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  Speaker 1: Great spot. Great time.
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  Speaker 5: Last time with you guys, we talked about how sometimes
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  Speaker 5: a road division game can be an advantage to lead
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  Speaker 5: off the season just because the historical trend is that
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  Speaker 5: a lot of times you do well on the road
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  Speaker 5: at least against the spread or you know in this
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  Speaker 5: sense that's almost a pick them game it's a one
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  Speaker 5: and a half point spread but you do well in
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  Speaker 5: those type of games and if you can get out
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  Speaker 5: of the way and get a win on your belt
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  Speaker 5: on the road in the division it can be an
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  Speaker 5: advantage to start the year because early in the year
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  Speaker 5: sometimes those things can happen so in that sense you
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  Speaker 5: have a kind of a positive look toward this game
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  Speaker 5: saying all right if the Packers can put it together
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  Speaker 5: there's a lot of people probably that say well Packers
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  Speaker 5: are more talented than the Vikings, right? Like, shouldn't they
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  Speaker 5: win this game? Is that number surprise you? But you
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  Speaker 5: get why, I mean, going on the road in Minnesota
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  Speaker 5: is never easy, but that could be an advantage. So
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  Speaker 5: I think in that sense, you had to be hopeful
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  Speaker 5: for the Packers going into week one. On the other hand,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you don't want to, you don't want to
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  Speaker 5: drop an early game here in the division. You don't
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  Speaker 5: want to, it's easy to, to, to get super high
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  Speaker 5: or super low based on the results of week one.
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  Speaker 1: And, and that's what's just the way it's going to be.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 5: But A lot of the story to be told even
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  Speaker 5: after this week one when it happens, when it's complete.
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  Speaker 5: But it will tell a lot in how this thing
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  Speaker 5: starts off because it would be nice to go 1-0.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm kind of with you guys on the 11 wins.
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe 10.
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  Speaker 5: But you can look at this a couple ways with
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  Speaker 5: all the games you felt like the Packers lost and
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  Speaker 5: should have won. On one hand, you're like, boy, those
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  Speaker 5: are all games you should have won. So this team
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  Speaker 5: can be much better. They should be much better. They
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  Speaker 5: should have 12, 13 wins. But on the other hand,
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  Speaker 5: that's just life in the NFL. I mean, a lot
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  Speaker 5: of times you will lose close games. You will lose games.
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  Speaker 1: You don't expect.
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  Speaker 5: And unless a team consistently proves to you, they can
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  Speaker 5: take care of business and never step on a rake
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  Speaker 5: and never, you know, let a game get away late.
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  Speaker 5: You have to allow for the reality that some of
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  Speaker 5: those will happen. So I think that's where I fall.
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  Speaker 5: Especially when you stepped on a rake consistently last year, consistently,
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  Speaker 5: like they couldn't stop doing it to themselves all the
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  Speaker 5: way through the end of the season. And playoffs, you know,
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  Speaker 5: they kept fumbling those type of wins away, literally almost
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  Speaker 5: in some ways.
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  Speaker 1: And throwing them. Yeah. And letting them get blocked. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that one ended up being a tie.
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  Speaker 3: But the amount of games that you were unable to
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  Speaker 3: be consistent in, and that's where, Drew, I still think
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  Speaker 3: the next step for love, like you mentioned, perform at
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  Speaker 3: the top 10 level.
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  Speaker 1: I saw Jason McCourty apparently pick the Packers to win
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  Speaker 1: the division and.
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  Speaker 3: Love to win the MVP. The next step is you
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  Speaker 3: win this division, you're going to be in that conversation.
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  Speaker 3: How good the division will be and the one that
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  Speaker 3: we watched last night will be in the same breath.
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  Speaker 3: I think they had three teams win 12 games. The
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  Speaker 3: three best records in the NFC all came from the
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  Speaker 3: NFC West last year. You win one of those two divisions,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to be right there into the thick of it,
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  Speaker 3: but you can't have two weeks where you score a
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  Speaker 3: combined 20 points like they did at home last.
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  Speaker 1: Year against Carolina in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 3: Hard to predict when that lull comes in the schedule,
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  Speaker 3: but the guys that are in that conversation haven't had those.
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  Speaker 1: Look at where the schedule lines up.
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  Speaker 3: It's back half of the year where maybe the defenses
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  Speaker 3: stack up a little bit tougher. But right now you
• 7:49
  Speaker 3: get to figure out where you're at on a measuring
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  Speaker 3: stick and then go get fat against the directional school
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  Speaker 3: in the New York Jets. That is this is this
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  Speaker 3: is your Notre Dame opener. And then and then you
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  Speaker 3: get to circle.
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  Speaker 1: All right, sweet.
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  Speaker 5: We get Eastern Michigan coming up next week in the
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  Speaker 5: New York Jets. And this is also that game where, OK,
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  Speaker 5: there's a pressure in that. OK, now you don't want
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  Speaker 5: to blow that game either. We said the same thing
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  Speaker 5: with the Browns last year, which I get. And the
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  Speaker 5: Jets should be that. But you can't lose games like that.
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  Speaker 5: So there's a double edged sword there. When we think
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  Speaker 5: about a team like these for me, when we walk
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  Speaker 5: into a game like that, saying, all right, this is
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  Speaker 5: our yes, our directional schools, the game we're should win.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to get a win. But, like, what if
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  Speaker 1: you don't? And then that becomes a big L, a
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  Speaker 1: big failure. Huge L. Well, hopefully it is.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, hopefully that's a win. Like, hopefully you're right, Billy. Like,
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  Speaker 5: you get that win against the Vikings, great. Wow, we
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  Speaker 5: won on the road. Boom, we start 2-0. Like, that's
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  Speaker 5: the idea. That's the plan. So let's make it work.
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  Speaker 2: Let us know your thoughts as we get ready for Packers, Vikings,
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  Speaker 2: and The.
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  Speaker 1: Key matchups, if you will.
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  Speaker 2: We got Wayne Lerby coming on to talk about that
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  Speaker 2: at 725 today.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting one here from this is Steve.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, guys, I think one of the reasons people are
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  Speaker 3: a little leery on Green Bay this year is how
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  Speaker 3: they sent it down their leg in the final games
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  Speaker 3: last year and where they were winning handily in that
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  Speaker 3: playoff game against the Bears and then fell apart at
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  Speaker 3: the end. I don't necessarily trust. that that problem has
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  Speaker 3: been fixed. So hopefully we see it on Sunday that
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  Speaker 3: they put the pedal to the metal and finish the
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  Speaker 3: damn game until they show me that I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: be nervous. I do wonder how much of the scars
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  Speaker 3: of last year will just continue to exist until that happens.
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  Speaker 3: But we kind of got a chance to see one
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  Speaker 3: of them in the preseason or in the joint practice, Drew.
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  Speaker 3: They're kind of dominating the Arizona Cardinals throughout the day.
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  Speaker 3: pushing them around. Jordan Love looking phenomenal in the joint
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  Speaker 3: practice to start. Packers defense swarming, flying around. Then they
• 9:44
  Speaker 3: hit the two-minute in the final stanza of practice and
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  Speaker 3: went 0-4. So maybe it hasn't fully solved itself. We're
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  Speaker 3: talking about practice, man. We talk about talking about practice,
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  Speaker 3: but practice makes perfect. And, and this would be one
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  Speaker 3: where you had the point of emphasis all year long.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see if you're actually able to, you can put
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  Speaker 3: it on a t-shirt.
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  Speaker 1: You can put it on the board in the weight
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  Speaker 1: room all year long. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: But unless it actually gets put onto the football field,
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  Speaker 3: it isn't too much.
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see you finish.
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  Speaker 2: I actually, I like the Packers to win this game
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  Speaker 2: because of the Kyler Murray effect and Jonathan Gannon and
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  Speaker 2: the whole, you know, Vikings might be tougher to face
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  Speaker 2: five weeks from now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And especially that Vikings defense as well.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Harrison Smith is coming off of the couch and.
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  Speaker 2: Still the guy who scares me, their whole defense and Flores,
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  Speaker 2: their whole defense has been around him. He's been like
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback of it and the whole focal point of it.
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  Speaker 5: He's like the full, like the arm extension onto the
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  Speaker 5: field of it. They still have some corner issues and stuff.
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  Speaker 5: I think, Love and the Packers weapons are going to
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  Speaker 5: have a big day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the biggest part is, Drew, you got
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  Speaker 3: to be able to stay away from the man in
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  Speaker 3: the middle. And Minnesota gets the rightfully so. Van Ginkle
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  Speaker 3: gets a lot of pub. I think he's one of
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  Speaker 3: the more underrated guys in the league. But defensively for
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  Speaker 3: the Vikings, they were a whole lot different last year
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  Speaker 3: when Blake Cashman was on the field. And people ran
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  Speaker 3: at him and continued to get tested. And it didn't
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  Speaker 3: work out very well. The other guy that's in the
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  Speaker 3: middle of that defense, that's an interesting piece throughout. who
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  Speaker 3: ended up taking over one of the starting spots, our
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  Speaker 3: old friend Eric Wilson. I mean, he was a special
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  Speaker 3: teams guy a couple of years ago for the Packers,
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  Speaker 3: and he's found a home in that Flores defense. If
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  Speaker 3: you can, and I think they'll be able to, with
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  Speaker 3: their speed, drag right across and right behind that linebacking core,
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  Speaker 3: there's going.
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  Speaker 1: To be some open area for Jaden Reed and company
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  Speaker 1: to run.
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  Speaker 5: I would think that. I mean, we're going to have
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  Speaker 5: some chances. I mean, hey, everybody's open, right? Like the
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  Speaker 5: old Brett Favre thing. But I would think there's a
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  Speaker 5: chance for the Packers to move the ball through the air.
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  Speaker 5: Hopefully they can execute when those opportunities are there. That's
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  Speaker 5: what it's going to come down to. I mean, being
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  Speaker 5: able to run to pass to complete them because the
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  Speaker 5: chances will be there. You just got to make those plays. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: the the special teams, I think, will be a revelation
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  Speaker 5: for us. Packers are going to get some positive yards
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  Speaker 5: out of the return game. I'd love that for once
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  Speaker 5: to be the case.
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  Speaker 1: Those hidden yards field position will be better.
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  Speaker 3: Sky Moore is one of the best returners in football
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  Speaker 3: a year ago, and he's going to get. Plenty of
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: chances in the punt game and the kick game. And
• 12:12
  Speaker 3: in the punt game, we saw at least a flash
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  Speaker 3: of it in the preseason. Much different than the preseason
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  Speaker 3: flash of your punt return that you brought in a
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  Speaker 3: year ago. Because we thought McCole Hardman was all set
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  Speaker 3: in stone. And then that ball clanked off of his.
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  Speaker 1: Chest on night one.
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  Speaker 3: And we all looked at each other in the press
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  Speaker 3: box and said, ooh, back into the saddle again into
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  Speaker 3: the problem chair. But I think this one's going to
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: be a much different conversation. How excited slash frustrated will
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: you anticipate the talking text line will be after like
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  Speaker 3: the third Skymore jet sweep of the day?
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the new Sabian Williams a gap run? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: More for Jaden Reed. I think. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I like, I think, I think he's taken over that
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  Speaker 3: one for the swerving. Tyler Irvin would be the name
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  Speaker 3: that got brought up a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we do love those that in our offense.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, Matt LaFleur has always loved that kind of
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  Speaker 5: illusion of complexity and faking it and then running it.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe Sky Moore's that guy. I don't mind the call.
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  Speaker 5: I just, guys get banged up doing that. Jaden Reed
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  Speaker 5: used to get just hammered all the time doing that,
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  Speaker 5: but it does work sometimes. Christian Watson's run it with
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  Speaker 5: success early in his career. I mean, but you're right, Billy.
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  Speaker 5: I think we'll see it. I think we'll see that.
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  Speaker 5: Jayden Reed seems to me to be like the forgotten man.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's projecting a big breakout for Golden. Watson's the number one.
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  Speaker 1: Jayden Reed's rookie numbers. I mean, we're crazy.
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  Speaker 5: Jayden Reed is like that guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Just because he was hurt. I think he had
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: him the ball in space and let him do some stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's definitely the injury variety.
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  Speaker 3: You just forgot about who he was after all of
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  Speaker 3: the injuries he had last year and came back and
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: just wasn't the same guy, right? Like came back and
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: wasn't the same guy after foot and collarbone surgery.
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: Not surprisingly. You're right. Exactly.
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: But he also all preseason last year was dealing with
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: the foot injury and had a nice game one.
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: So I'm with you, Drew. And they paid him for
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: a reason, right?
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: They paid him early for a reason because I think
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: much like Watson, understandably. So you paid him a bigger check.
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: I think they're expecting both of these guys to outprice
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: that contract after year one.
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: And, and read across the middle against this secondary. And
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: that's a lot of Josh Metellus that he's going to draw.
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: And there's going to be open area to run. You
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: would assume again, right behind that second, right behind that
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: linebacking core where they brought in, in the late stages
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: of training camp, Jamal Adams sent him out there in
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: Seattle and And he quickly sent himself right to IR.
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: So they had holes in the middle of that defense
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: that they tried to rectify early in camp.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Weren't able to do it. That's right.
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: And he's the one guy that can always break, contain,
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: and make explosive plays out of things. And Watson is
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: good at that, too. And the Packers value that. They
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: value that, and they show it in the way they operate.
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: They want explosives. And Reid's been good at that throughout
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: his career early on. So hopefully that continues.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: That's what we need. It's what helps you win games.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: I think so.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: I think explosive plays do help you with every piece
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: of data.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: Every piece of data show it. Yeah. We get, we
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: got Jim Nance and JJ watt, right? The number one
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: team on CBS CBS. Still weird. Packers on CBS. Thank you. Okay.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Cause in a divisional.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Game, Aaron tried to next tried to big time at
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: yesterday where he's like, but listen, actually real ball knowers
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: know that the first package that CBS had, was the
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: NFC right way back.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Way back.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: Cause I'm like, can we just be a proper society
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: and put the NFC package back on Fox? Can we,
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: can we just get ourselves to that point? But we
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: all need to be able to make money. We all
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: want to be able to have the boys. I'm excited though, for,
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: to actually get to enjoy JJ's first and consume JJ's
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: first call on the main broadcast on the top one.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, he's breaking a number of molds. It's
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: going to be non quarterback, non Cowboy. That's a tough
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: thing to be able to get.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: And, well, another Wisconsin guy and calling a Packers game.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: People will be hyper. He hates the Packers. I can
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: just hear it now. Oh, they got to come on. Oh, yeah,
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: that's right. They got to fire in a couple of them.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: Tracy Wolfson is on the sidelines for them.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: The great Kevin Harlan has got the Chargers home game
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: against Arizona.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Did you see our boys, Cam, on Wednesday night? It
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: was incredible.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: Is there any human being that loves games more than
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: Kevin Harlan? He is incredible. He's just amazing.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Why, Job? They did it again! It's just so great
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: to watch. It is so amazing.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: The broadcaster cams are here to stay, and I'm glad
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: that we're... Hopefully, we got one on Wayne coming up
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: this weekend, too.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: If the Packers had been on Fox, they would have
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: gotten Burkhart and Brady and Aaron Andrews and Tom Rinaldi.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: And plenty of people would have been upset about that one.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: They have Commander's Eagles.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: That's not a sexy game to me. It's like the
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Eagles are a sexy team for a lot of folks,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: but commanders.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: I was going to say last year, they were everyone's
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: pick to click.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: They were the bears of last year, right? Exactly.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, everybody couldn't get enough of them. That might
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: be another little peg in your board of regression theory
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: for the Chicago bears.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: That's why. Yeah.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: And that's, that will be interesting. And that's part of
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: the reason. That's one of the things to factor in
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: with the bears again. Like I understand that they're talented
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: and they're good and, but damn, They had a lot
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: of health fortune a year ago as well. As it happens,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: our resident Bears fan is going to be dropping by next.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: It also happens to be his birthday.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Whoa. Scott Dolph and the birthday boy.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, man.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: I would have brought Glazer. I get some Pop-Tarts from
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: the world.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: He is going to be rolling in next to talk
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: to us about just that.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Fire up a pizza for Dolph. Do we?
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, we haven't even talked about this yet. If
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: the Packers win, do we dust off the chalice of tears?
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Do we have the chalice of Vikings fans' tears?
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, I got to have it somewhere. I know we do.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Hunter still has all those. I mean, it's been a tradition.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: A tradition unlike any other, I would say. That's definitely
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: going to have to happen. We should probably have a referendum.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: I think that's got to make a comeback. I think
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: that's got to make a comeback. Are we getting a montage?
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: I'll be honest with you. It might be tough with
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: the turnaround. with some of these games might be tough,
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: but maybe I can get a little something going. It
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: might be a chalice or it might be like a
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: mini montage, maybe like a mini montage or maybe not.
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: Maybe like the, the, you know, do I stay off
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: ski masterpiece, 900 page novel, but we'll definitely get some
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: short form reading in there.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Does that make sense?
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I don't want to run from the grind, but
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: I want to be realistic about expectations.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Did you say Doya Stajofsky? You didn't want to run
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: from the grind, but you brought it up right out
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: of the game. Well, how many pages of War and Peace?
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I did. I want to set expectations. How many pages
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: of War and Peace? You just threw a couple extra
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: syllables into his name. Well, I don't know. Okay. Doya Stajofsky.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Doya Stajofsky. Whatever. Driving a Hyundai. One of those deals.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Dolph is up next. We will talk to him.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Halftime has arrived on the Friday edition of the Huddle
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: Whatever.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Back on the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, Drew, Billy,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: and Armin. We welcome our halftime correspondents, all-around good egg
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: and birthday boy, Scott Dolph.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Thanks, boys. Used to be, hey, Dolph, when's your birthday?
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: 9-11.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, and now it's, when's your birthday? 9-11. Oh. But,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: c'est la vie. Happy birthday, Dolph. We're happy to celebrate
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: with you. I love the Toby Keith... I figured it
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: would fit in.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: And 9-11 always hits for people who were around, and
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: you see the memories and stuff. And now it's a
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: round number, and we always make a bigger deal. Like
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: that always, one of the things that I was always
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: confused me, why is it a bigger deal if something's
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: the 10th anniversary as opposed to the 11th or the ninth?
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Right. We like round number anniversary.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: We do.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: So this is one that people will be reflecting on it.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: And you know, where were you? It's our Pearl Harbor, Billy,
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: you're probably.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Very young. Seven years old.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Wow, man. It was very young. And my interesting 9-11
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: story is like, where were you in 9-11 when it happened?
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I was in this building. I didn't even work here.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: But Jerry bought, like, he must've seen something in the
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: young kid that was doing stuff with Bob and Brian.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: So I've filled in a couple of times with, it
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: was Weber and Dolan.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Back in the day on, on, uh, ISN. Yeah.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Bob Dolan, the brother of the, uh, former archbishop and
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: now the Cardinal of New York.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Cardinal of New York.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Bob Dolan was on vacation. He took a lot of vacations,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: probably going to visit his brother or something. And they
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: needed somebody to sit in. So I was sitting in
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: with Jay and I, I had to leave. I saw
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: it come down and like, well, this is, uh, I
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: think I'm going to have to get to my day job.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: And we were trying to have fun and stuff like
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: that on a fun day.
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: So I left that day and went into, I was
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: covering the Brewers at the time. I was in this
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: building as well. Yeah.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Right across from the hall from where we sit, which
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: is now like a phone junk room. That was the
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: FM 106 studio on September 11th of 2001, right across
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: the hall from this room we're in right now. Yeah.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: And it was just a surreal day. I mean, it
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: was just.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: So you and Mike Heller share that. Well, yours came
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: late because 25 years ago, your birthday became, you know, quite. infamous,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Mike Heller was born on the day that Kennedy was assassinated.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Born that day. That day. No kidding. Day in a year, yeah. Wow,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: that is crazy.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Mike Heller was born on that day, one of the
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: darkest days in American history. Mike Heller was born.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Not related. The punctuation is key there. Happened to be there.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: On one of the darkest days in American history, Mike
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Heller was born.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: It is incredible, though, now as more and more time
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: passes and we get more and more footage of not
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: necessarily the situation that happened, but the coverage of it.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: stumbled upon like a eight hour YouTube cut up that
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: somebody did a WFAN all throughout that day. And it's like,
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: you don't, it's hard to fathom when something shuts down
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: the world and changes every conversation like that, especially when,
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, they had people that were across the Brooklyn
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: bridge looking at it and like live on the, it's just,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: it's a surreal one to see. Cause I can only
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: remember a couple of things of it. And I remember
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: the awkward conversation of our principal coming in and telling us.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: About, You know, sometimes there's people that don't like everybody.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: A very, very seven-year-old conversation of it where everybody else
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: in the school got a much different conversation.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: From the principal that day.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, actually, the weird one is I ended up
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: staying a little longer because my mom was the secretary.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: So we were just sitting.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: There waiting, wondering why everybody was crying for me as
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: the younger kid, just trying to figure out what was happening.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: I think my daughter was also seven at that time, Billy.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: And I remember they gave us the option. in Milwaukee too.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: If you want to come pick up your kids, you
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: can do that. Otherwise, you know, they're being taken good
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: care of. So I, I think we, I think she
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: stayed in third grade or whatever it was second grade
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: at the time. And, um, and, and they did, they did,
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: they turned it into like an education lesson about the
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: same thing that you just mentioned that.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: And in fact, they probably had that same quote.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: I mean, I was in high school and it was
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: very weird because I remember it was, it coincided. I
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: remember we were, we were locked down in the school
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: and then we, we still went on with classes, but
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: then not really. And then we, they canceled after school.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: I believe I had practice canceled. It coincided with a
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: changing media landscape in America too. And that's the thing
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: that I always remember from it is the way people
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: were getting news and getting messages and getting the word was,
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: was about to change as well in our society.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: This was happening.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: And, You were hearing about it, and then a couple
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: of the teachers still had those roller TVs in their rooms.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: So that's where people were hearing about it, seeing it
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: in the hallway as they walked by. And you thought
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: that roller TV coming into the classroom was a good thing.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Well, it used to be. You thought that, man. Holy cow.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Teacher Tide went on on Friday Junior last night. We're
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: about to have ourselves a good third period.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: No, there's no doubt when you grew up in the nineties,
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: that TV meant that meant good.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: It did.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: But then like some teachers had a, had a radio,
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: but then like teachers had computers in the room and,
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: and some were hooked up to the internet and some work.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Cause it was like, technology was still changing in our
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: old building. And, and, And you would see some, you know, you,
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: you could use the internet to, you know, look up websites,
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: news websites. It was different than now. Social media wasn't there.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: Cell phones were for some people, but you weren't texting
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: on them. So, you know, people were calling on the
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: flip phone. It was, but no kids had cell phones yet.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: So it was just a different changing time and media
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: media landscape where everyone gathered to the legacy news to
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: watch in the evening. And, and like you said, the
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: learning experience that, I remember being in a current affairs class,
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: and part of our job was to bring in a
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: news article every day, and someone said that someone's news
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: thing was a plane had just crashed.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, what are you talking about? When did
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: that happen? I didn't hear about that.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: And then it was all happening all at once, and
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: it was just an unbelievable thing to think that it's
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: been so many years, but if you live through it,
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: it just still feels like yesterday. If you live through
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: it with a semi-consciousness of becoming an adult and I
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: was in that weird phase... It was so surreal to everybody.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: The day was a blur.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: What I'll always remember about that time, though, was like
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: a month later, this was incredible. Midwest Express, which was
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: still thriving in those.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Days in Milwaukee. It was still doing very well.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, airlines were taking a bath because nobody wanted
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: to fly. Everybody was freaked out.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Everything was shut down.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Midwest Express got every morning show and some of the
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: afternoon shows in the city of Milwaukee. They put us
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: all on a plane, and we flew to New York.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: like a month after 9-11. And I will never forget this.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: We circled Ground Zero, and it was still smoking October 11th, 15th,
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: whatever it was.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Right, for a month, for months. But then we got
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: to LaGuardia. We got in cabs. We drove around.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: They just wanted to show that it was safe to travel,
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: especially to places like New York City. And I'll just
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: remember being on that plane with Bob and Brian.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Dave and Carol and Reitman. Everybody was there. It was
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: a surreal trip, but it was pretty unifying. And that's
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: kind of like the way the country was then. It's
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: something we can learn today in these fractured times we live.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: This country was so damn unified during 9-11.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: And sports helped bring it back. With the Jack Buck poem.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Chris Gizzy running the flag out of the tunnel.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: I was never a Mets fan, obviously, but when Piazza
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: hit that homer.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Piazza homer, that was unforgettable. And then that whole World Series.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I was just going to say the World Series.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: It was the Diamondbacks-Yankees World Series that year. The Yankees
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: run that year was incredible.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: It was. I was there for that. The security for that.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: Imagine next level.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: If you've ever been to an event where the president is,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: you know what the security is like.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Well, now imagine that a couple weeks after 9-11. I
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: can't imagine. It was Unbelievable.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: The 30-for-30 short on Bush throwing the first pitch out,
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: you know, and things like that, which was ironic because
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: when Miller Park had just opened, right, that season, and
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: President Bush threw out the first pitch of the first
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: game here.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: He did.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: And I remember thinking, wow, we just had him here
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: and he's there now, but under totally different circumstances.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: It was so wild.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: He was at the CMA Awards that year, too. That
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: was the year we won our first award in 2001. Yeah,
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: and in those days, it was still at the Grand
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: Ole Opry. Much smaller venue. And every other year at
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: the CMA Awards, if you win a broadcast award, they
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: do it at 6.30. The telecast doesn't start until 7 o'clock. Well,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: that year, because the president was going to be in
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: the house, the place was basically on lockdown from the
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Secret Service. Everybody had to be in their seats. So
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: we got to get our awards and do our acceptance
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: speeches in front of every damn buddy, the who's who
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: of country music.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: It was pretty surreal. Yeah, that whole year is just
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: a frickin' blur right now. Trippy.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: You bring up that World Series, though, Drew. That is
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: one of the absolute best, one of the ones that
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: I think of all the time.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: And you do remember it. Just, like, for me, little
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: bits and pieces of it. I just remember the massive
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: American flag logos that just continue to pop up throughout it.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: And I was actually at the Chris Gizzy game with
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: my dad.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: And it's, again, just, like, one of the little things
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: that's burned into the memory bank.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: And for the longest time... who on earth is Chris Gizzy?
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: And then you.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Realize all the ties that he had in the moment.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: It's a, it's an incredible, incredible story to be the.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Air Force Academy. The thing, it was one of the military.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: And for that to be the first Monday night game,
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: like you just realize how quick, how quickly, you know,
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: you turn the page, even though it was a week
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: or a half week plus before they played everything.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Right. That Martina McBride national Anthem too. I think it
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: was that got everybody just in tears and.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Remember a lot of, a lot of tears around.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: You better believe it. They waited at least a week,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: and it might have been longer.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: You're right, Billy.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Martina McBride, emotional 9-11 national anthem. That was at the
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Packer game.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Pretty sure.
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: September 24th. So, yeah, a little bit, a week and
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: a half away.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Okay. Wow. That is... There was a different.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: I mean, my grandpa died three months after that, and
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: that's when I flew for the funeral.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: And it was a weird experience.
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: It was an eerie experience because that was, like, some
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: of the first time, some of the precautions.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: And it's ironic because I just saw the news story.
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: I was telling you, Drew, some of the TSA things
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: are going to start being, some places are rolling those
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: back now, 25 years later, like going through a gate.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: Before you, you know, if you didn't have a ticket
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: going through a gate and being able to.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Hey, if you've ever seen Friends, Ross goes right up
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: to the gate to get Rachel. Get off the plane.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Get off the plane. That's what it was before 9-11.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: You could take anybody you wanted right to the gate
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: and send them off or you could meet them at
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: the gate. This is the world we lived in before
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: TSA and 9-11.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: That all changed.
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: They had a lot more random checks, and you were
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: just aware of everything.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: You were aware of... I remember just looking.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: In the cockpit, and, like, these pilots have a big job,
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: and you just think differently, you know.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: You got your little arm and wings that they would
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: give you I was, yeah. Of course.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: If there was a free thing on that plane, my
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: boy Armand was great.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: You were appreciative.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: You said this is going to be difficult to be
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: here at this airport for these employees. You were appreciative
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: of everybody doing what they had to do to get
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: people through and get people through safely. And to your point,
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: to restore confidence that people had to be able to
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: live that way again, to be able to travel safely,
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: to be able to believe in our institutions and things.
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: And we did, we believed in the strength of our
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: institutions and what we could do together going forward. If we,
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: if we united, you know, and that was the one
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: thing that came out of that.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Yep. Can't believe it's been a quarter century.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: I just, yeah, there's going to be all kinds of
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: shows tonight and stuff. And I wonder if like, I'm
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: sure I bet baseball does a moment of silence and
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: all that tonight.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: And, you know, the Brewers game. Well, and they did
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: one yesterday before the, uh, before the game in Australia.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: And it was kind of weird as I was listening
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: to it, realizing, Oh wait, it is September 11th there.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: That's true. They said today marks the day. And I'm like,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: all right. It was 10 30 this morning. Yeah. 10
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: 30 this morning. And I'm like, okay, wait, sorry, Alan Roach.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: I apologize. I was unfamiliar with your game. Good call.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: They just, they're going to be a lot of, a
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: lot of, uh, really unique. So, but they did a
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: drone show of two, all the, you know, 2,600, uh,
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: drones for remember all the people that passed away uh
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: this week and lit up that sky in new york
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: city like a nobody no other way it was.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: Incredible you mentioned the fiatza home run uh mlb network
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: is doing a special uh that i saw snippets of
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: the other night and they talked to everybody because they're
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: playing the braves that night they talked to you know
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: smoltz was in the bullpen and they just talk about
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: that moment and what an incredible atmosphere it was to
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: be a part.
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: Of bobby valentine's the biggest home run in meds history Yeah,
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: I would say so.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: It's got to be. I mean, when you consider everything.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: It's funny that Bush first pitched that 30 for 30.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: I covered that World Series, but I was not at
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: that game because my boss at the time, Gary Howard,
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: and I think it was me and Hardcore to maybe
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: a columnist. That's the way we used to roll. They
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: sent three guys to the marquee events.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: And he's like, hey, what? Michael Jordan was making his
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: debut for the Wizards. Oh, man.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: It was at Madison Square Garden. He goes, I got
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: your credential to go to the Garden and cover Jordan's
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: first game back with the Wizards.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: I'm like, so you're peeling me off the World Series? Okay.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: All right, I guess that. I get it. I mean,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: that's a big story. I was in the city. He's like,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: go ahead. So I covered that. And you already grabbed
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: the hat. Yeah.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: I got him his hat. I got him that. I'm
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: going to work out there. But yeah, so that was my,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: I got to see Jordan in the middle of that.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Jordan come back and play his first game with the Wizards.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, I'll play. I think he
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: had 19 points that night. They lost. It didn't look great, though.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: He looked kind of heavy.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: There's a certain group of people. That's the only Jordan
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: that we remember. He was 38 years old at the time.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: I get people mad when I say that.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you should. You should not say that.
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: His numbers weren't that bad as first Wizards here.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: We don't have to do this.
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: Maybe we should do this in a second.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Tyler Hero averages 20 a night.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: We got the birthday boy here, and we got to
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: ask Dolph, because you get to experience your team playing
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: a meaningful game before we do. Cause the bears play
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: the Panthers at noon.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Whereas, you know, we have to wait till three 25.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: How do you feel about the game in Carolina? The opener.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: I feel pretty good about that game. Although the Panthers,
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: a playoff team last year.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Go football team division champion last year. Champ.
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Asterisk. Right. Right. I mean, nine. Yeah. Maybe eight, nine asterisk.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: Right. Yeah.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: I mean, I, I I'm hoping the bears can take
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: care of business. I mean, it's always tough winning in
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: the NFL, any given Sunday. And especially when you're on
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: the road, but you know, I don't know what you
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: base it on. I mean, you can't really base it
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: on camp anymore, can you?
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: No. Not fully, but listen, Ben Johnson did say they're
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: trying to be the best offense in NFL history. They're
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: trying to be the best offense in NFL history. Going
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: to be a good test because that Carolina defense is
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: a feisty bunch, especially up the middle. They are not
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: an easy team to run against. We learned that last year.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think you're going to see a lot of,
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: you know, the guys, the weapons you saw last year.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: It looks like Roma Dunze is playing, which is good news.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's been dinged up most of camp. He's
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: been dinged up most of his career. Burden has been
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: dinged up all of camp.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: He looks good to go. So, you know, I like
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: the Bears in this one. It might be tight, but
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: I like them to win. What about you, Mr.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Sportsbook? I like the three points.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely I like the Panthers catching some points,
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: but I told these boys last night on the Thursday
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: night huddle that I think the I think the Bears
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: offense is going to be.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Pretty elite.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: I think they're going to have one of the best
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: offenses in football. I don't know that their defense is
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: going to be able to keep... They might learn a
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: little bit of the Joe Burrow pain. Every game is
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: going to be 42-35. The life Dak Prescott's had to live.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: We scored four touchdowns and lost. That's what it's turning towards.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: That defense is going to have to find some diamonds
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: in the rough for some kids that they're high on
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: a couple of these late draft picks they have this year,
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: but you're right. They didn't really address the pass rush,
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: what they needed for the bookend for Sweat.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: And can't say I expected Kyler Gordon to, like, just
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: not play at all. Okay, so that drama is not
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: a good look right now, by the way.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: That's a tough one. That's a tough scene.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: And that's got to affect the locker room, I would think,
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: with all the attention it's getting.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: I'm with you. I'm with you, Dolph.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: Like, there's just no way that just flies under the
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: radar and nobody feels any sort of way.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: But we'll see.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: I do like Malik Muhammad that they brought in the
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: draft this year, so he's got a chance later on.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: And then they had the tough luck losing Kobe– Kobe Bryant.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant. I are right away. And he's pretty much
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: toast for the year. No, he did. That was a
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: bad injury for sure.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: So I am interested to see how Ben Johnson's prediction
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: of the best offense of all time is going to
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: come through with all these issues.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: What did his offense in Detroit land as best offenses
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: of all time? They were in the top five. Were they?
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: They were in the top five, I believe, in scoring.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Not all time. All time? Really? In the league.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: I know it was a good year. I didn't know
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: that they, okay. In 2024, I think they put up
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: 52 or three times. Yeah, twice on the Bears, I think. Yeah. Well,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I didn't know.
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: I didn't know all the time if that's what it
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: was or if you meant. No, I'm just wondering. I
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: didn't know because, you know, he used to be an
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: IT guy. So I don't know if he's actually going
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: to be a good coach yet.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: We'll see. Dolph, birthday plans? What do you got planned for?
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Going out with the family tonight for some dinner. And
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: then what's going on? The rest of the weekend, probably
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: watching a lot of football. There you go. Hawkeyes against
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Iowa State tomorrow. Cy Hawk. You can't miss that. Yeah,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: the Cy Hawk game. And then, you know, Bears and Packers.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Doubleheader on Sunday. Doubleheader. We will chat with you on Monday.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Sounds good, boys. Happy weekend. Scott Dolphin, our halftime correspondent.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: and Armin bringing it to you. Friday edition of the huddle.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Football Friday. We love alliteration here. Come on now. Football Friday. Wow.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: We should use that. Use that. Somebody should be doing that, Drew.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Come on now. Let's go. And then in three weeks,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: we'll flip to Rocktober. Yeah. It's rocked over. Written in
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: the stars.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: I do love the old statement that you and KB
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: would have. If you stole something from us, you've stolen
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: it twice.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: It's been stolen twice.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: How many times has Football Friday somebody thought that somebody
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: stole it from them?
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, God, yeah. For sure. What are you talking about?
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: We came up with that. Sure you did, bud.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: That's intellectual property. Well, wherever there's a hit, there's a writ.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: Isn't that what they say in music?
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: You like that?
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I heard that somewhere once. See, that was even copied.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: See, if you're going to do something and claim it's proprietary,
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: make it stupid. Like, guess my soup or 420. What
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: are you?
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Hi. No one can ever come back with that one.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: No one can say that they had that first. Or
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking of a fish. What up, KB? I'm thinking
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: of a fish. That was awesome, KB. That was great.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Billy's got a.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Little interest for us because last night, if you missed
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: the memo, we were at the Huddle Live. the 5
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: o'clock club moved to 5 p.m., and we were at
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Pottawatomie Sportsbook in the Annex. It was a great time.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: We're going to be there every Thursday that the Packers
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: don't play or if it's not a holiday. But, Billy,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: you got a little investment advice for us today?
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: We got an on-the-line as the Green Bay Packers go
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: to the Minnesota Vikings. It is a 325 kickoff. You're
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: going to hear the game right here on your home
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: for Green Bay Packers football. And also, if you missed
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: our little announcement of some significance yesterday, Green Bay Packers
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: football will remain on on 95.7 Big FM and Fox
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: Sports 920 in Milwaukee is your AM home as iHeartMedia
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: and the Green Bay Packers announced a multi-year extension of
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: our broadcasting of Green Bay Packers games and Pottawatomie Sportsbook,
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: a great partner there as well with the Green Bay Packers.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: The Packers partnering at plus 102 on the money line
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: and a plus one and a half on the point spread.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: That means this game ends 24-23. Well, you took the
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: green and gold. You're walking away victorious at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Why is the line sitting where it is? Well, I
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: had a friend of us, a friend of ours on
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: the talking text line mentioned and asked, do they still
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: give out three points for the home team? Iowa is
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: it's still three points for the home team. Most institutions.
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: It's closer to one and a half to most places.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: It's now been shrunken down in certain places. It's a,
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: you know, maybe a half point at best. Some don't
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: even get a home field advantage anymore. And it's not
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: as much the stadium, the travel.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Hmm.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Getting out of your own environment, moving around this U
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: S bank stadium, a full two and a half points
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: at most sports books as the home field advantage. So
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: a legit home field advantage that would tell you, maybe
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: folks think it's a very even game, very even split.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: My favorite play of the weekend for the green Bay
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Packers score first and win plus two 25. That means
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: you throw a one smooth $ 20 bill on that, that
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: they'll give you back 65 bucks. When the Packers score first,
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: go down, score a touchdown.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's Jaden Reed.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: Maybe it's Tucker craft scoring that first touchdown in his
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: first game back at plus 10 50, but they score first.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: They win the game.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: You're going to get yourself $ 65 back for score first
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: and win mentioned that plus one or two on the
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: money line on the line. $ 50 gets you back $ 101.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: When they hand it back to you at the window.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Pottawatomie Sportsbook, the best sportsbook in the Midwest, and reservations
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: filling up fast. So you can go to pottawatomie.com forward
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: slash sportsbook. Reservation tab right there, Drew. That's where you
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: get the reservations for folks to be able to go
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: to the sportsbook for either the noon slate or the
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: Packers game. Potentially want to be there for the Packers
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: game because Packers scored touchdowns.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: They give out shots.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: That feels like a good reason to be at the
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Pottawatomie Sportsbook. The payment is just a food and beverage minimum.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: That is a credit to your table when you buy food,
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: buy drinks. It's already prepaid for you to enjoy at
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: the Pottawatomie Sportsbook. Your sport, their stadium.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Outstanding. How was that fried chicken last night, Billy? Spicy.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: I got the spicy bread in. He said, I want
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: four pieces. I didn't realize it was going to come
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: in a bucket. It was amazing. Love it. Love it.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Love it.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Hey, we'll talk to Wayne Larrabee coming up at seven 25,
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: the voice of the green Bay Packers.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: You are enjoying the huddle on Fox sports radio, Wisconsin.