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01/20/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Let's make sure we feel each other. Let's make sure
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Speaker 1: we smell each other for a.
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Speaker 2: Watch us on you do you need fifteen or twenty
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Speaker 1: Take the cameras off the field and there's been no hubble.
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Speaker 1: Now gather around because it's time to huddle up.
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Speaker 3: Let's left lot.
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Speaker 1: We watch Sick on one, ready to be lurking. If
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Speaker 1: light eighteen bob on one ready cut up. You look
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Speaker 1: at this play.
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Speaker 2: What we're trying to get is a seal here and
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Speaker 2: a seal here, and to try to run this play
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Speaker 2: in the alleys.
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Speaker 4: Let's go hard, trick, We're good.
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Speaker 1: Keep doing what you're doing, God, and make you play
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Speaker 1: ay right all the way outside?
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Speaker 3: Why left Banks three.
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Speaker 1: Ninety Sick Bag be hen j Buck. Is that long
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Speaker 1: enough for you? It Drew Olds, mythical legendary figure Bill Schmid.
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Speaker 1: My god, this man's been out all night and armand sorry, yes,
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Speaker 1: don't get skinned. It says we ready welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 4: Got yourself?
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Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin, Drew, Billy and armand bringing it
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Speaker 2: to you our maiden voyage today off to a rock
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Speaker 2: and start. Thanks to everybody who's reaching out to us
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Speaker 2: on the YouTube and on the nicolay LOADA co'm talking
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Speaker 2: text line eighty seven seven seven nine four one ninety
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Speaker 2: seven three. Robust conversation about Indiana the improbable, the unfathomable
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Speaker 2: run to the national title, as they are the first
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Speaker 2: team since Yale in eighteen ninety four?
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Speaker 1: Armor, is that the eighteen ninety four Oh yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was somewhere the Gilded Age?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, bag, you know, when they played football for
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Speaker 2: the love of the game and because there was nothing
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Speaker 2: else to them.
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Speaker 1: We'll do at Yale but no World Wars yet. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well that's a good point, Armand yeah, that's a really
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Speaker 1: good point.
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Speaker 2: All our best boys were still playing ball, everybody was,
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Speaker 2: and you do start looking through the age of college football,
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Speaker 2: and I do that a lot, especially, and you see
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Speaker 2: it a lot more into the South. You realize just
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Speaker 2: how many war leaders were college football coaches, head vice versus, Hey,
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Speaker 2: you can organize troops. Why don't you figure out a
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Speaker 2: wing tea and let's figure out how we can score
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Speaker 2: a little bit on offense. But Drew to also have
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Speaker 2: our friends like Mike Witt waking up with us right
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Speaker 2: out of the gates morning boys, eating biscuits and gravy
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Speaker 2: and watching my favorite morning show and the greatest morning
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Speaker 2: show of all time.
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Speaker 1: And you're saying it, thank you, Michael. It's pretty good
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Speaker 1: work for an hour and what was our four second
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Speaker 1: it's quick. Yeah. But also I'm this is the fun
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Speaker 1: part of the huddle.
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Speaker 2: And in day one of the New Venture is we're
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Speaker 2: gonna be able to bring a lot of the fun
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Speaker 2: stuff you and Drew, you guys did on the Drew
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Speaker 2: and KB Show, a lot of our fun bits that
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Speaker 2: we had, and now you get welcomed into one of
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Speaker 2: the best bits that we had rolling on Noyes in
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Speaker 2: hour two of day one, when Eric in a dump
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Speaker 2: truck says, I know Arman despises us blue collar working guys.
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Speaker 2: But as a dump truck driver, I really appreciate you
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Speaker 2: guys starting your show. And I'm firing up the truck
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Speaker 2: in the morning.
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Speaker 3: And listen, listen. I did use the snowblower less last week.
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Speaker 3: I'll probably have to use it again the night. So,
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Speaker 3: you know, I do like to think to myself, I
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Speaker 3: do I put on my bright orange patagonia you know
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Speaker 3: what I mean, hating the working man.
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Speaker 1: I don't see it exactly. This is absolutely false.
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Speaker 3: Yes, these accusations, these accusations are totally unfounded.
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Speaker 1: It just comes to with his uh, you know, rather
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Speaker 1: blanket assessment of road construction. One time I lit up
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Speaker 1: the road construction.
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Speaker 2: Guys disappointment and how long it takes for his you know,
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Speaker 2: uh real Christmas tree to get picked up off the
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Speaker 2: uh the front lawn. Figure out exactly how long it
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Speaker 2: takes for the construction to happen on the loomis what.
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Speaker 1: Do you have? What do you have against public works employees?
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Speaker 1: I have nothing against them.
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Speaker 3: I don't know why the trucks aren't driving over to
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Speaker 3: my house and up the stuff getting the way of.
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Speaker 2: You know, him grabbing his sausage egg McMuffin over at
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Speaker 2: at quick trip in the morning because the reflecting vest
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Speaker 2: gets in the way.
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Speaker 3: I like to think we're all there together, you know,
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Speaker 3: when we talk about hard, the assault of the earth,
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Speaker 3: blue collar you know workers, I keep this place going.
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Speaker 3: It's the construction guys, you know. In the summer you
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Speaker 3: get the tree cutting guys. You have all these guys
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Speaker 3: and us, you know, the sports radio workers of America
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Speaker 3: that are all there together the same you know, kind
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Speaker 3: of we're the same kind of guy.
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Speaker 1: You know, we're both picking up the same type of stuff,
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Speaker 1: you know, and and coffee.
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Speaker 3: And energy drinks, and we're getting We got that look
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Speaker 3: in our eyes when we see each other.
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Speaker 1: We kind of both know like yep, yep, we're We're
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Speaker 1: the ones, you know, so it's us.
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Speaker 2: We know he brought his lunch box to work. It
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Speaker 2: looked like I see no long John's on that guy.
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Speaker 2: I know he's not working hard today in the cold.
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Speaker 2: And we appreciate all you that are grinding through the cold.
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Speaker 2: All the different It's gonna be a while.
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Speaker 3: All they do they have like the steel toe boots,
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Speaker 3: I got, the the whitefoot brooks.
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Speaker 1: It's a little bit there that's a little different. Eight
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Speaker 1: seven seven seven to Nicolay Lotta com talking text like, oh,
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Speaker 1: the Packers made a little news over the weekend.
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Speaker 2: They couldn't do it like for our last day on
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Speaker 2: Friday of what was the game Network when we put
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Speaker 2: that to bed, couldn't give us that news. But we
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Speaker 2: do have this buffalo to feast done, which is Matt
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Speaker 2: Lafuur's contract extension. Don't know the years, don't know the money,
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Speaker 2: don't know that we'll ever know the money ever for sure.
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Speaker 1: But they did it.
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Speaker 2: Harbaugh sign And as a chronology here, we were all
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Speaker 2: sitting there last week, We're all suffering through this, like
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Speaker 2: what's happening? Why was it taking so long? What's the deal?
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Speaker 2: He must be asking for more money than they want
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Speaker 2: to give or more years. And then we find out
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Speaker 2: that they met on Monday and it was made clear
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Speaker 2: we want you all back individually.
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Speaker 1: Nothing's changing. It was Russ Ball.
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Speaker 2: And Matt Lafleur each met individually on Monday with ed
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Speaker 2: policy and then they met.
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Speaker 1: The first time they negotiated was like Friday, and the
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Speaker 1: deal was done in a day.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Drew, I think it's one of those situations where,
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Speaker 2: understandably so, they've seen the success of the team and
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Speaker 2: said more important than us faiguring out the numbers and
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Speaker 2: dollars and cents, that's an easy deal for us to
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Speaker 2: figure out. You work on figuring out why we finished
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Speaker 2: the season on the five game losing streak and blew
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Speaker 2: five different leads of nine plus points. The exit meetings
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Speaker 2: in the process as to figuring out why the losses
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five transpired, and figuring out ways to
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Speaker 2: be able to get better. I think that was smartly
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Speaker 2: and acutely identified as, Hey, this is the most important
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Speaker 2: thing for us to winning a title, not just us
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Speaker 2: flirting with the idea of bringing in John Harbaugh is
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Speaker 2: going to take us closer to a title. It's us
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Speaker 2: figuring out what went wrong and how our process can
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Speaker 2: get better. Rolling into twenties, my set, that's right now.
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Speaker 2: I never heard from people who wanted the floor gone,
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Speaker 2: and there were plenty and a lot of people are
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Speaker 2: still that visceral reaction to the way the season ended,
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Speaker 2: the five losses, the method in which they lost those games,
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Speaker 2: blowing double digit leads down the art form that it
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Speaker 2: was raised an art form. But I never really heard
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Speaker 2: anybody really say I want this guy right, and because
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Speaker 2: I want to know who that guy is or was
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Speaker 2: now because Lafleur is coming back, but who was it? Like,
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Speaker 2: who tripped your trigger? Robert sala is going to get
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Speaker 2: the Titans job? How successful was he with the Jets?
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Speaker 2: What guarantee is there that he's going to get you
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Speaker 2: in the platform? And then Okay, so the narrative, we're reacting.
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Speaker 1: To the reaction. And I see the reaction.
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Speaker 2: People who were pissed about lflour You knew they were
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Speaker 2: going to be mad. And other people are like, ah,
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Speaker 2: it is what it is. Some people were mad after
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Speaker 2: the Bears loss, and then they, you know, a couple
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Speaker 2: of days went by and they're like, yeah, you know
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Speaker 2: what Lafloor does.
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Speaker 1: Do a good job. Look at what he did with
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Speaker 1: Malik Willis.
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Speaker 2: Look what he did with Jordan Love, grooming that guy
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Speaker 2: into a serviceable, championship caliber quarterback. There's a lot of
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Speaker 2: good things going on here, and we're not throwing out
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Speaker 2: the baby with the bathwater. We're absolutely going to keep going,
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Speaker 2: but we need to tweak some things. They're going to
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Speaker 2: get a new DC. It's Jeff Haffley's now headed to Miami.
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Speaker 2: But the narrative that the Packers are now happy to
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Speaker 2: be mediocre and that they sit around saying, well, we
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Speaker 2: can get money out of these roubs and get them
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Speaker 2: to come to title Town, and we can still, but
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Speaker 2: we don't have to worry about winning. Did I miss
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Speaker 2: like this is the team that traded for Micah Parsons
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Speaker 2: traded too.
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Speaker 1: They're not all in there, obviously.
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Speaker 2: This is a sign that they're just accepting mediocrity and
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Speaker 2: they never want to win a Super Bowl?
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Speaker 1: I what am I missing? Well and Drew?
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Speaker 2: I think that the one for me is when when
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Speaker 2: did I miss them making the move that said we're
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Speaker 2: being too accepting of mediocrity.
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Speaker 1: We need to be shooting for more championships.
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Speaker 2: Was this Dan Devine getting a contract extension or Lindy
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Speaker 2: and Fonte getting a massive contract extension?
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Speaker 3: Like this?
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Speaker 1: Was this? Was you in an age over the last
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Speaker 1: thirty years?
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Speaker 2: What if they had five coaches and the arguably most
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Speaker 2: successful one was traded because he wanted a bigger opportunity
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Speaker 2: in a bigger job, and the other one It took
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Speaker 2: two losing seasons and seemingly everybody in the organization despising
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Speaker 2: one another by the end of it, for them to
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Speaker 2: move off him, So there hasn't been this rash decision
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Speaker 2: making process that well, nine to eight to one is
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Speaker 2: just clearly good enough. You do need to be holding
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Speaker 2: ourselves to a higher standard. I appreciate, and the title
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Speaker 2: town thing is a very much fact and it is
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Speaker 2: a reality, and the expectation is to be competing for championships.
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Speaker 1: But nowhere in the history of the Green Bay Packers.
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Speaker 2: And I can't say I read all of Chris Cliff
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Speaker 2: Crystal's books, but I think I have a good idea
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Speaker 2: as to how the processes have been made, how the
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Speaker 2: decisions have been made, and very rarely have they been
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Speaker 2: super reactionary. And has going to the postseason and losing
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Speaker 2: in the first round not been quote unquote good enough.
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Speaker 2: That's to me the crazy one where the immediate reaction
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Speaker 2: to the decision, because I fall in line a little
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Speaker 2: bit more drew with the latter part of you describing
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Speaker 2: when we came in here on Monday morning, I did
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Speaker 2: wonder how you come back from blowing an eighteen point
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Speaker 2: lead on the road, Having three different games this year
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Speaker 2: in which you blow a double digit lead in the
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Speaker 2: final five minutes, let alone the fourth quarter, five minutes
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Speaker 2: of a football game, something you hadn't you've done one
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Speaker 2: time in thirty years, you do it three times in
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Speaker 2: a season.
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Speaker 1: How do you come back from that?
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Speaker 2: But as cooler heads prevail, and I think there's a
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Speaker 2: similarity to the situation in Wisconsin as it is in
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Speaker 2: Green Bay.
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Speaker 1: You do have to look at the client pool.
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Speaker 2: You do have to look at the applicants that are
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Speaker 2: coming in here saying I got a bunch of retreads
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Speaker 2: in a bunch of thirty five year old offensive coordinators
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Speaker 2: that I have no clue know how to lead a
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Speaker 2: football team. I have pretty good evidence this guy is
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Speaker 2: pretty dang good at it, and we're gonna be a
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Speaker 2: lot safer and a lot better off rolling back what
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Speaker 2: we have. Safer is the keyword there, because a lot
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Speaker 2: of people think they're not taking the big swing again.
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Speaker 2: The same team that traded two first round picks to
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Speaker 2: get Micah Parsons. Yeah, like that to me, that's going
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Speaker 2: all in and now this move Okay, Like who was
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Speaker 2: that guy that was going to be a guaranteed win
10:52
Speaker 2: and you're in a win now window and Jordan Love
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Speaker 2: just finished his third year as a starting quarterback. You're
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Speaker 2: gonna win. You have him and Michael Parson at their peak.
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Speaker 2: This is the time do you really want to regime
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Speaker 2: change in a new system coming in?
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Speaker 1: And will?
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Speaker 2: Is there anybody better with Jordan Love than Matt Lafleuur
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Speaker 2: right now? Like just look at his body work. He
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Speaker 2: got Aaron Rodgers had become kind of Brett Junior who
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Speaker 2: was calling his own shots and stuff, and then Lafluur
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Speaker 2: comes in, range him in, gets him to two MVPs.
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Speaker 1: He's a quarterback whisperer. Look what he did with Malik Willis.
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Speaker 2: You know, and turn him into a guy who's gonna
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Speaker 2: make a lot of money and be competing first starting job.
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Speaker 1: So that part of it is button up. That's the
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Speaker 1: most important thing, isn't it?
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Speaker 2: Like the rest of it, timeouts, clock management, stuff that
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Speaker 2: pisses people off that can be.
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Speaker 1: Fixed and clearly needs to get better.
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Speaker 2: And I also think some of that is drew something
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Speaker 2: that happens similarly to what we saw with the Bears
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Speaker 2: in their string of miraculous fourth quarter comebacks. It's something
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Speaker 2: that you kind of get into a rhythm with, right
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Speaker 2: the decision making process at the end of games and
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Speaker 2: with clock management things. And we also still see a
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Speaker 2: lot of the best coaches in football struggling with it.
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Speaker 2: Andy Reid is no wizard when it comes to clock
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Speaker 2: manage either, no doubt. And Andy Reid is the name
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Speaker 2: I've been bringing up this whole during this whole time,
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Speaker 2: is that Andy Reid in Philadelphia was there twice as long,
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Speaker 2: like thirteen years, as opposed to the floor's got seven
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Speaker 2: in and everybody like, ah.
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Speaker 1: We can never win. He's never gonna get us over
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Speaker 1: the hump, He's never gonna win a big game for us.
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Speaker 2: Well, he went to the Chiefs and did and Chip
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Speaker 2: Kelly was the hot guy. Goy have Chip Kelly chill
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Speaker 2: that two year detour that delayed them. And then Peterson
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Speaker 2: wins one, Syriana wins one. Okay, but the new thing,
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Speaker 2: the sexy new thing, feels good at the time, But
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Speaker 2: is it like is it? Is there something to be
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Speaker 2: said for conwity. We just had Tomlin shuffle off after
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Speaker 2: what eighteen nineteen nineteen years yep, which is incredible.
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Speaker 1: And the turnover.
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Speaker 2: We have a buffalo changing coaches, which is a tough
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Speaker 2: deal to take. So I would have been a piece
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Speaker 2: with either decision because I realized it. It's kind of fraught,
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Speaker 2: and it's ed policies, first move, and everybody, Oh, he's
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Speaker 2: just you know, he's a company man.
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Speaker 1: He's been there ten years, he's seen it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so anybody who expected him to be like a
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Speaker 2: big cowboy, I put my stamp on things like. I
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Speaker 2: don't think that's the way the Packers operate in general. No,
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Speaker 2: but the narrative that they're not trying. First of all,
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Speaker 2: this contract that matted the floor. The coaches contracts don't
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Speaker 2: count against the cap. They can fire him at any time.
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Speaker 2: If they go ohero and five to start next season,
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Speaker 2: he's fired. Yeah, that's webbing on the money, right, So
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Speaker 2: what's the commitment? Why is there such a and a
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Speaker 2: lot of people would have said, okay, let him coach
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Speaker 2: out his contract. In essence, that's kind of what they're
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Speaker 2: doing right. NFL stands for not for long. Correct, he
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Speaker 2: could be fired if he starts zero to five next year.
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Speaker 2: So let's just sit back and see who's the new DC.
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Speaker 2: What happens to change the culture a little bit, those
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Speaker 2: the losses that they had. I don't think that's much
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Speaker 2: like Armine's gonna go in on some Bears fans. I
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Speaker 2: don't think what the Bears did is necessarily sustainable or repeatable,
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Speaker 2: and neither.
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Speaker 1: Is the Packers.
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Speaker 2: Losing all those close games and blowing double digit leads.
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Speaker 2: It was just like one of those fluke things. The
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Speaker 2: injuries that they had come on. Losing Michaeh. Parsons is
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Speaker 2: like losing a starting quarterback, absolutely, so for them to
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Speaker 2: go off the rails the way they did once he
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Speaker 2: went down in Denver, it's like, Okay, well, is it
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Speaker 2: fair to have Is it the coach's fault that he
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Speaker 2: got hurt? Is it the coach's fault that Romeo Dobson
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Speaker 2: catch an on sidekick, coach's fault that we dropped a
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Speaker 2: bunch of interceptions? Coaches fault? Like at some point there's
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Speaker 2: a mix there of accountability. Special teams has been really bad,
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Speaker 2: and let's hope that they make a move there.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if they will or not.
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Speaker 2: With Bisacia, that's the interesting one that I thought you
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Speaker 2: would have heard from by now, But we also haven't
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Speaker 2: heard from any of them at twelve sixty five.
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Speaker 1: And injury.
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Speaker 2: You said the other part that is very very fascinating.
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Speaker 2: When it comes to contracts, there's no cap in terms
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Speaker 2: of contracts or support staff, right, so assistant coaches. How
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Speaker 2: much are you ultimately paying the assistant coaches? And this
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Speaker 2: is going to be one of those years that we're
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Speaker 2: probably gonna see it tested because there's like fourteen or
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Speaker 2: fifteen teams that are going to need an offensive coordinator,
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Speaker 2: and with Jeff Hafley going to Miami, you very might,
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Speaker 2: very well might be one of them. Ye if Stenovich
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Speaker 2: goes with him to go call the plays. And I
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Speaker 2: don't necessarily know that's going to be the case. There's
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Speaker 2: also all of these spots available that maybe he gets
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Speaker 2: that opportunity, go go somewhere else and put his mark
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Speaker 2: down that teams are going to be competing against each
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Speaker 2: other in a little bit of a bidding warm. Maybe
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Speaker 2: we start hearing some of those, But it's not different
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Speaker 2: than other sports either, Like Pat Murphy could sign a
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Speaker 2: contract extension three months ago because we don't know otherwise
15:22
Speaker 2: he's rolling into his lame duck year. He signed a
15:25
Speaker 2: three year contract when we first started. You can't tell
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Speaker 2: me there's been somebody that's been more successful other than
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Speaker 2: Dave Roberts. So it's it's a really slippery slope. And
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Speaker 2: we had a message here from Chaos talking on the
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Speaker 2: YouTube comment.
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but it's not.
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Speaker 2: It's the GM's job to fire a coach or to
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Speaker 2: find a new coach, not a fans job. Understand that, however,
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Speaker 2: it is a part of the process. So when we
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Speaker 2: do fire the coach, it's also not the fans job
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Speaker 2: to fire the coach, but we take that.
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Speaker 1: We do that anyway. We take that opportunity, but we
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Speaker 1: don't hire the next guy.
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Speaker 2: You do need to find somebody at the end of
15:57
Speaker 2: the day, and that hire is more important than the
16:00
Speaker 2: firing in my estimation.
16:02
Speaker 3: And the thing is, for me, there aren't a lot
16:05
Speaker 3: of great candidates out there, and there's a lot of
16:06
Speaker 3: jobs to be filled, so you have to be kind
16:08
Speaker 3: of aware of that in the process. This was kind
16:10
Speaker 3: of surprised the Bills made the move they did with McDermott,
16:12
Speaker 3: because you know, at least on the naked eye, there
16:15
Speaker 3: aren't a bunch of great candidates that we think of
16:18
Speaker 3: as the next that are going to be filling all
16:20
Speaker 3: these open There's a lot of seat fillers in these
16:22
Speaker 3: open jobs.
16:23
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, there really is.
16:24
Speaker 3: And the reality is we have no idea if they're
16:26
Speaker 3: gonna be good or not, but the backers are going
16:28
Speaker 3: to have their own seat to fill the defensive coordinator. Billy,
16:30
Speaker 3: you brought the possibility up they might lose an offensive coordinator.
16:33
Speaker 1: You know, it's the emotion after the game.
16:35
Speaker 3: It's the frustration after the game that's so high and
16:38
Speaker 3: so intense and ratchet up to such level to say
16:41
Speaker 3: we after losing a game like that, there has to
16:43
Speaker 3: be a change. There has to be a change, right,
16:45
Speaker 3: And then you know the the you know, the luxury
16:48
Speaker 3: of the week of time of being able to let
16:50
Speaker 3: the emotion fade away a bit and your judgment to
16:53
Speaker 3: be less clouded. You look at it more objectively and
16:55
Speaker 3: you come to the conclusion. I think that you just
16:57
Speaker 3: had Drew and Billy that this is probably the right
16:59
Speaker 3: guy to keep them forward with. And look, there's going
17:01
Speaker 3: to be a change. The Packers have been given the
17:03
Speaker 3: opportunity by the Dolphins to have to hire a new
17:07
Speaker 3: defensive coordinator at least, so we'll see what happens to
17:09
Speaker 3: the resident there. But there's just a lot of jobs
17:11
Speaker 3: open and not a lot of great candidates as it is, And.
17:14
Speaker 2: That's the thing, and so how do you square that circle?
17:16
Speaker 2: The Packers are idiots? They just want mediocrity. They're complacent.
17:20
Speaker 2: And then the same people who say that will allow
17:22
Speaker 2: intellectually that if Matt Lafleur had moved on from Green Bay,
17:26
Speaker 2: he'd have been right behind Harbaugh as the number one
17:28
Speaker 2: guy people wanted. So what does that say about the
17:30
Speaker 2: rest of the league wants him? But he's he can't
17:32
Speaker 2: you know, you know more than the rest of the league. Yeah, well,
17:35
Speaker 2: and somebody's going to answer this for me, because you know,
17:38
Speaker 2: David Monona comes back with only this generation, we're gonna
17:41
Speaker 2: go six and six and be rewarded with a Bowl game.
17:43
Speaker 2: They've that rule has been in for a long time,
17:45
Speaker 2: the same mistakes and same coaching results.
17:48
Speaker 1: You get an extension. Only this generation.
17:50
Speaker 2: You're rewarded with multiple years of bringing it back after
17:52
Speaker 2: going to the playoffs and going one and done. We
17:54
Speaker 2: wonder why society is bringing up this generation a lack
17:57
Speaker 2: of respect and accountability here, Vince Lombardi would be rolling
18:00
Speaker 2: over in his grave. My question is when have the
18:02
Speaker 2: Packers operated differently? When did they fire the all right
18:07
Speaker 2: Ray Roads eight eight eight one time, one time? Right
18:11
Speaker 2: one time?
18:12
Speaker 1: They also had a three time MVP quarterback and a
18:16
Speaker 1: team that had just won a championship three years ago.
18:19
Speaker 1: You don't have that here.
18:20
Speaker 2: So if that's gonna be the standard that you're holding
18:22
Speaker 2: of that one individual, that's the massive outlier. It would
18:26
Speaker 2: be the one hundred plus years of evidence that the
18:29
Speaker 2: Packers wouldn't operate under that pretense, and that that way
18:34
Speaker 2: of thinking that would say that has been the standard
18:37
Speaker 2: of continuity and consistency is gonna outride whatever we're hearing
18:43
Speaker 2: online and trying to make a rash decision to try
18:46
Speaker 2: to fire, to rehire and get better.
18:49
Speaker 1: Like I said, nothing is permanent. Matt Leaflour got an extension.
18:52
Speaker 2: Okay, great, but it's not like they're it's not like
18:54
Speaker 2: iron clad that he has to coach for the next
18:56
Speaker 2: five years.
18:57
Speaker 1: He might coach five games. That's the NFL.
19:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, the statement of on a longer term commitment, Well,
19:03
Speaker 2: the longer term is yeah, we'll give you a four
19:06
Speaker 2: year contract, but we can also buy you out of
19:08
Speaker 2: it whenever we're.
19:09
Speaker 1: Gonna go, and we'll look at some history.
19:11
Speaker 2: I think this, uh, this this cycle at ten jobs
19:13
Speaker 2: open now, is that ten of them ten of them
19:15
Speaker 2: eight thirty changing coaches.
19:17
Speaker 1: Well eight currently and also Drew. This is the other part.
19:20
Speaker 1: I know we're going to a break.
19:21
Speaker 2: Sorry, seven of them because Jeff Hafley just got hired yesterday,
19:23
Speaker 2: and maybe six now because of Tennessee going to Sala.
19:26
Speaker 2: But the two best candidates went off the board first.
19:32
Speaker 2: If you're not first, your last, as Ricky Bobby One said,
19:35
Speaker 2: you're not getting Harbaugh. You're not getting Kevin Stefanski, who's
19:40
Speaker 2: a two time Coach of the Year. I don't think
19:42
Speaker 2: you're getting Tomlin because he's hanging out at Georgia Gymnastics events.
19:45
Speaker 1: I don't think he's.
19:46
Speaker 2: Running to go coaching TV. And McDermott now comes on
19:50
Speaker 2: here as the winningest coach. Everyone says he's no good.
19:54
Speaker 2: So where do you start rolling here? And who is
19:56
Speaker 2: the elevator? Who's the Dare I say Ben Johnson or
20:01
Speaker 2: Mike Vrabel that nobody can miss on that you can't
20:04
Speaker 2: wait to hire this Sean Payton.
20:06
Speaker 1: There really isn't one right now.
20:07
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Speaker 2: We're dominating a Tuesday in the good Land. It's the
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Speaker 1: We'll be read one of the first thing let's go
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Speaker 1: win red Await miss Jackson good Man. It's the Huddle
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Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
20:28
Speaker 2: Drew, Billy and Arman bringing it to your bright eyed,
20:31
Speaker 2: bushy tailed or as close as we can come.
20:35
Speaker 1: We welcome special guests here in the studio. Our pal
20:37
Speaker 1: Scott Dolphin has dropped by, Dolph. How you doing, Drew?
20:40
Speaker 2: This is like old time for you. I remember when
20:42
Speaker 2: you were in this building early morning. It seems like
20:44
Speaker 2: a thousand years ago. Now it was like eight or
20:46
Speaker 2: nine years ago. Yes, indeed in this spot. I like mornings, man,
20:50
Speaker 2: I do. I like it better than afternoon.
20:51
Speaker 1: It's fresh powder for us.
20:52
Speaker 2: Drew and I always had this, uh, this back and
20:54
Speaker 2: forth because I was This was also in the years
20:56
Speaker 2: before I had kids. So the afternoons, Dolph, were the
21:00
Speaker 2: sweetest time high school. Andrew's like, uh, what are you
21:03
Speaker 2: talking about? This is the worst time is allowed to
21:05
Speaker 2: be able to have.
21:05
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Billy.
21:06
Speaker 2: When I was on the West Coast, I did afternoons
21:10
Speaker 2: and uh, you know for sixty minutes thingle guy. After Yeah,
21:15
Speaker 2: only on the West Coast. Sorry that your adjustment to
21:19
Speaker 2: live it out there was eleven o'clock news and watching
21:22
Speaker 2: college football at nine am. But it was awesome doing
21:25
Speaker 2: afternoons three to seven. I'd sleep till ten thirty.
21:28
Speaker 1: It was great.
21:29
Speaker 2: But then once you have a family, have kids, and
21:30
Speaker 2: you you become more established in life.
21:32
Speaker 3: You're right, it's also harder to convince everyone at home
21:36
Speaker 3: that your day's done at you know, when you're in
21:38
Speaker 3: the mornings, you're like, okay, your day, your work days done.
21:40
Speaker 3: It's hard to come home and be like, yeah, I'm
21:42
Speaker 3: done with work today. No, this is great, this is great,
21:45
Speaker 3: You're done. You can do all these things around.
21:46
Speaker 2: That's interesting, Army, because I did already hear that I
21:49
Speaker 2: got three things to.
21:50
Speaker 1: Do, and I get sure you got all the time
21:52
Speaker 1: all day.
21:53
Speaker 2: Don't want you to look at the water softener. I'm
21:55
Speaker 2: in charge of dinner from now on. You know that's
21:57
Speaker 2: going to be rough. So but in my career when
22:00
Speaker 2: I started the newspaper, there was I was at the
22:02
Speaker 2: old Milwaukee Journal was an afternoon paper, so we had
22:04
Speaker 2: these weird hours and there was times when I had
22:06
Speaker 2: to work midnight to eight oh on the desk, like
22:09
Speaker 2: on the sports that's getting the because our deadline was
22:11
Speaker 2: in the.
22:11
Speaker 1: Morning for the Bulldogs. That was Bulldog was the that
22:14
Speaker 1: was the after that was out north. That was all
22:17
Speaker 1: but no.
22:17
Speaker 2: So I had work midnight to eight, and then some
22:19
Speaker 2: shifts were four to noon four am to noon. So
22:21
Speaker 2: I've worked every incarnation the morning. But when I worked
22:24
Speaker 2: the midnight to eight thing, I lived downtown, single guy
22:28
Speaker 2: and I had this apartment off a cast in Kilbourne
22:31
Speaker 2: and it was right by Northwestern Mutuals headquarters. So people
22:34
Speaker 2: be parking a couple of blocks away walking to the
22:36
Speaker 2: Northwestern mutual It's eight thirty in the morning. I'm holding
22:39
Speaker 2: a beer and cooking a steak outside and people are
22:41
Speaker 2: walking by, like, what is going on with this?
22:44
Speaker 1: Dude? Hey, I'm done with my day. This is my
22:46
Speaker 1: happy hour. It's it's like factory towns around here. Man.
22:49
Speaker 2: That third shift gets off and the bars are open
22:51
Speaker 2: at six. Doubt people did a where we were going
22:54
Speaker 2: to do any like remotes. I mean, let us know,
22:57
Speaker 2: I mean, kIPS in would be a possibility. If there
23:00
Speaker 2: are some east Side or there's some there's some spots.
23:02
Speaker 2: We got a couple of really good possibilities. I was
23:04
Speaker 2: gonna say, there's a breakfast spot at Potto that we
23:07
Speaker 2: might have to hit. That's what I'm talking about, and
23:09
Speaker 2: also hopefully the Brewers do the exact same thing they
23:11
Speaker 2: did last year so we can go to a webs
23:13
Speaker 2: we're burying the lead here. We got Dolph in the
23:15
Speaker 2: studio and I want to know how you're processing the
23:17
Speaker 2: loss of the Rams.
23:18
Speaker 1: Are you over it is?
23:19
Speaker 3: This?
23:20
Speaker 2: Was it truly house money where your guts ripped out
23:22
Speaker 2: like Packers fans were a week Have you.
23:24
Speaker 1: Saw it yet? You know what? My guts were not
23:26
Speaker 1: ripped out.
23:27
Speaker 2: I was disappointed, obviously with the loss, but up until
23:29
Speaker 2: that moment, it was an incredible experience to be at
23:32
Speaker 2: Soldier Field. And my buddy Russell has been a season
23:34
Speaker 2: ticket older for over twenty five years, who I went with,
23:36
Speaker 2: said he's never been to a Bears game where everybody
23:39
Speaker 2: stood the entire time.
23:41
Speaker 1: Everybody was standing at lamba. People tell you to sit down, right, Yeah,
23:44
Speaker 1: it was. It was nuts. And I've been to many
23:45
Speaker 1: games of.
23:46
Speaker 2: Soldier Field where you most people sit. You know, you
23:48
Speaker 2: get up for certain things, but uh, it was nuts.
23:51
Speaker 2: It was an incredible atmosphere. Sure it was cold, but
23:53
Speaker 2: everybody was bouncing around and you know, the snow is flying.
23:56
Speaker 2: It was just it was cool to be a part
23:57
Speaker 2: of it up until the game winning fields over the
24:01
Speaker 2: drone shots were insane of the stadium up it looked
24:05
Speaker 2: amazing in the lights and you could tell the energy
24:08
Speaker 2: in there was it was rocket. It was also different
24:11
Speaker 2: because for the last you know, three months, lived on
24:14
Speaker 2: such a razor's edge of having to come back, and
24:18
Speaker 2: for throughout the game while it's tied, you almost felt
24:20
Speaker 2: like the Bears were kind of in control of the
24:22
Speaker 2: game because the Rams offense couldn't do anything well. Matthew
24:24
Speaker 2: Stafford was said he kind of sucked. No touchdowns. He
24:28
Speaker 2: was much better when they lost to Philly in the
24:30
Speaker 2: playoffs last last year. Yeah, touchdowns, but they did enough.
24:34
Speaker 2: Credit the Rams. That defensive line is legit, and you know,
24:38
Speaker 2: the Bears they had some rushing airs, but they really
24:40
Speaker 2: couldn't establish it consistently. And I think that was the difference,
24:43
Speaker 2: you know, with Caleb of throwing the picks. This Stafford
24:45
Speaker 2: Darnold matchup's gonna be pretty fascinating, ye wild well, and
24:48
Speaker 2: they played maybe the game of the year a couple
24:50
Speaker 2: of maybe what a month month and a half ago,
24:53
Speaker 2: And if it goes the other way, where the Rams
24:55
Speaker 2: had a thirty to sixteen thirty to fourteen lead in
24:59
Speaker 2: the fourth or that game's in La instead it's in Seattle,
25:03
Speaker 2: and it's a totally different, totally different deal. What was
25:06
Speaker 2: the vibe on the drop back on the fourth down
25:10
Speaker 2: when Caleb Williams starts scrambling back? Sends it from the
25:13
Speaker 2: Bear's logo Because I've seen so many shots and if
25:16
Speaker 2: you haven't seen Stacey Dale's video of it, she has
25:19
Speaker 2: a sideline end zone camera. I'll check that out, just
25:22
Speaker 2: on her iPhone. Cole Comet yells into her iPhone when
25:26
Speaker 2: she really catches the touchdowns. Amazing content.
25:30
Speaker 1: Is one of the greatest videos you've ever seen.
25:32
Speaker 2: And if Apple hasn't bought the video to sell it
25:34
Speaker 2: as an ad for the iPhone seventeen.
25:36
Speaker 1: They should.
25:37
Speaker 2: But it goes from the eeriest silence to an explosion
25:41
Speaker 2: of energy. Nothing will surprise me with Caleb Williams anymore.
25:44
Speaker 2: And I was so disappointed that that looked like it
25:46
Speaker 2: was a broken play. I'm thinking, oh man, this is
25:49
Speaker 2: how the season's going to end.
25:50
Speaker 1: Right here.
25:51
Speaker 2: It happened in the other end zone from where we were,
25:54
Speaker 2: but we had a great shot of it from behind him,
25:56
Speaker 2: and I just thought he was gonna get steamrolled by
25:58
Speaker 2: those three defensive players.
26:00
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it.
26:00
Speaker 3: It was one of those situations where he's made so
26:02
Speaker 3: many plays now and that even that one, I'm like,
26:05
Speaker 3: this is going to be absurd.
26:06
Speaker 1: There's no way. Did you throw what? I almost didn't like?
26:10
Speaker 1: What is?
26:11
Speaker 3: Uh?
26:11
Speaker 2: Which was the more impressive individual play that passed by
26:14
Speaker 2: Kayleb Williams or.
26:15
Speaker 1: Mister Mendoza's quarterback draw? Yeah? Both pretty spectacular. Yeah, I mean,
26:21
Speaker 1: and he took a beating last night.
26:23
Speaker 2: Yeah the way still career defining plays though, Oh big god? Yeah,
26:28
Speaker 2: I mean is it a given he's the number one
26:29
Speaker 2: pick in the draft?
26:30
Speaker 1: Right? Got to be? I think so? And if the
26:32
Speaker 1: Raiders don't screw it up, are they going to get him?
26:34
Speaker 3: Or?
26:35
Speaker 1: Oh yeah?
26:35
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well they brought the whole crew out there.
26:37
Speaker 2: You see you see Tom in the Sweet Vegas hoodie
26:39
Speaker 2: last night? Oh oh you have the Vegas Raiders.
26:42
Speaker 3: You know. Tom loves him because he's about that same stuff,
26:44
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. He's about the stuff he
26:46
Speaker 3: thinks he's about. So he's like Mendoza is about this
26:48
Speaker 3: stuff too. He thinks he's about what. Oh no, you
26:52
Speaker 3: caught that here?
26:53
Speaker 1: It is Drew. They just showed it. Wow, what a play. Yeah,
26:57
Speaker 1: arm arm the low luckiest of all time. I'm just saying,
27:01
Speaker 1: he's gonna love a guy like Mendoza.
27:03
Speaker 2: And I was on the train with you know, maybe
27:05
Speaker 2: Mendoza will do the avocado ice cream too. The tough
27:08
Speaker 2: thing is this is gonna be a great test for
27:10
Speaker 2: you because Mendoza is your guy.
27:12
Speaker 1: Arman. Last year when Mendozah cries in the was it
27:16
Speaker 1: last year? Two years ago?
27:17
Speaker 2: At Cal they have a huge they drive down the
27:20
Speaker 2: field and he's crying into the camera like.
27:23
Speaker 1: It's going ninety four yards with the boys, and all
27:25
Speaker 1: we were thinking about was doing it for for the
27:27
Speaker 1: love of my teammates. And we couldn't have done it
27:29
Speaker 1: without the grace of God and the fight and the
27:31
Speaker 1: Cal Bears and arms like this is the greatest human
27:34
Speaker 1: being that's ever been birthed.
27:36
Speaker 3: Oh.
27:36
Speaker 1: Now for him to have to go play for Tom
27:39
Speaker 1: Brady's Las Vegas Raiders painful? For Does Mendoza have the goods?
27:45
Speaker 1: Is he gonna be a Tim Tebow? Is he gonna
27:47
Speaker 1: Is he gonna star on Sundays? Well, he's call wise.
27:50
Speaker 2: I don't know that he's number one pick guy, but
27:53
Speaker 2: the process and what he's done throughout, he had the intangibles.
27:57
Speaker 1: He has to go number he's.
27:59
Speaker 2: I think he throws a better ball than Tbo though
28:01
Speaker 2: doesn't he Definitely his ball is pretty damn smooth, and
28:05
Speaker 2: we saw it, you know, throwing those back shoulder tosses
28:07
Speaker 2: again last night. I think he'll be a much better
28:11
Speaker 2: quarterback in the NFL than Tim Tebow.
28:12
Speaker 1: I think so too. But it's a tough division to
28:14
Speaker 1: roll into. That is that's a tough division to roll into.
28:17
Speaker 2: You have everyone's golden boy who's apparently never done anything
28:20
Speaker 2: wrong except play horribly in every playoff game he's ever
28:23
Speaker 2: played in, justin Herbert Pat Mahomes, as well as Bo Nicks,
28:27
Speaker 2: who went this weekend to the toughest sobs I've ever watched.
28:31
Speaker 2: You want to talk about the the incredible intestinal fortitude
28:35
Speaker 2: playing on Finnish in the game on a broken angle.
28:37
Speaker 1: That's a tough division that he's going to roll into
28:39
Speaker 1: there at.
28:39
Speaker 2: Good point, you know, and the Raiders need help. The
28:41
Speaker 2: great thing is it's the NFL, and you can turn
28:43
Speaker 2: this thing around in a year.
28:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody can be Indiana in the NFL. It's true.
28:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, or the Bears or the Bears no, like you said,
28:50
Speaker 2: they make a divisional playoff realm when they stunk on
28:53
Speaker 2: ice the last several years.
28:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's gonna be fascinating move forward. How does uh,
28:58
Speaker 1: how do the Bears Bears Nation feel about Matt Lafleur
29:01
Speaker 1: getting extended and keeping the rivalry alive and more drive
29:04
Speaker 1: by handshakes? The ones I've talked to, they said it
29:06
Speaker 1: was expected.
29:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so funny because his Q rating is in
29:10
Speaker 2: every other market, it's way higher than Green Bag. Yeah yeah,
29:13
Speaker 2: drive by handshakes, yes, yeah, yeah, that's gonna be an
29:17
Speaker 2: interesting sidebar to this rivalry moving forward. These two coaches,
29:20
Speaker 2: and I saw somebody document it the Bears Packers hate
29:24
Speaker 2: and the stuff that's going on, especially on the side
29:26
Speaker 2: of Ben Johnson.
29:26
Speaker 1: And they talked about the.
29:27
Speaker 2: First drive by was Matt Lafleur when the Packers won
29:30
Speaker 2: in early December. He kind of on the shoulder in
29:34
Speaker 2: two weeks, right, yeah, yeah, and now it's obviously it's
29:37
Speaker 2: been it's been Ben Johnson, but they documented everything going
29:39
Speaker 2: back to you know, Clay Matthews, you know, with the
29:41
Speaker 2: Bears still suck at the draft and so on and
29:43
Speaker 2: so forth.
29:44
Speaker 1: I love it, which I totally forgot about.
29:46
Speaker 2: But I actually forgot about the Clay Matthews thing at
29:49
Speaker 2: the draft, which was, I mean, chef's kiss on an
29:51
Speaker 2: absolute beauty.
29:53
Speaker 1: But it has ignited the rivalry a little bit more so.
29:56
Speaker 2: I imagine even though some very very sad Bears fans
30:00
Speaker 2: who are bearing down down they were they were down Bears,
30:03
Speaker 2: and they're down bad walking out of Soldier Field, but
30:06
Speaker 2: I still imagine there are a lot of green Bay
30:07
Speaker 2: sucks chance through the tunnels after the game, Before the game,
30:10
Speaker 2: that's just a tradition. It doesn't matter if it's a
30:12
Speaker 2: preseason game in early August. Green Bay sucks every tunnel.
30:18
Speaker 2: Top of mind from I really enjoyed that hate watch
30:20
Speaker 2: on SAT Sunday and Armon, I would say top of
30:23
Speaker 2: mine for Packers fans too, because I've been to non
30:25
Speaker 2: Bear games at lambeau Field where as I'm walking down
30:28
Speaker 2: the Spirals walkway at the end, I hear Bear skill suck.
30:33
Speaker 3: Which is funny because I haven't, so maybe I'm not
30:35
Speaker 3: the last five I haven't been a lot of.
30:37
Speaker 1: Green Bay sucks. It's true.
30:42
Speaker 2: It's just kind of become the fun people who don't
30:44
Speaker 2: say that. Are Blackhawks fans. I don't think they care, no,
30:46
Speaker 2: but I was glad they brought the Blackhawks. Uh anthem
30:50
Speaker 2: singer there, That dude is incredible. Heights were pretty impressive
30:54
Speaker 2: throughout that way. Cornelia Jim corn and he just doesn't
31:00
Speaker 2: mess around. It's a short anthem, but it's very powerful
31:03
Speaker 2: and he always ends with you know. And the flag
31:06
Speaker 2: was still any points hit the big flag up in
31:08
Speaker 2: the corner. It's a great theater. And uh, I was
31:12
Speaker 2: even watching the Rams bitch and they're like, okay, yeah,
31:14
Speaker 2: they were.
31:15
Speaker 1: Vibing with it a little, Yeah they were. The handshake
31:17
Speaker 1: was tough. They didn't show it on NBC. Yeah, everyone
31:21
Speaker 1: was mad about that. They didn't show it on NBC.
31:23
Speaker 2: Luckily, some intern or some really really smart guy working
31:28
Speaker 2: for NFL Film said that's the shot we need and
31:31
Speaker 2: got the close up of the Johnson McVeigh hands. You
31:34
Speaker 2: see it, because otherwise, Dolf, we wouldn't have made. I
31:37
Speaker 2: tweeted out, I'm like, wait a second, crazy.
31:39
Speaker 1: This whole building.
31:39
Speaker 2: We weren't going to be able to watch the climax linger.
31:42
Speaker 2: They lingered a little bit, they did a little bit.
31:44
Speaker 2: It was it wasn't just a drive by. It was like, oh, congratulations.
31:47
Speaker 2: It was like and I wondered if mcveig said, oh,
31:49
Speaker 2: Matt Lafleur says, hey.
31:51
Speaker 1: Baby, the amount of cameras that are on the field
31:55
Speaker 1: ad for a game you got. Someone had to get it.
31:57
Speaker 3: There's like forty five cameras in those vests with VOT
32:00
Speaker 3: only in one on the back. Like someone had to
32:02
Speaker 3: get it. But I was like, where is this thing?
32:04
Speaker 3: Everyone wanted wanted to see it, but they.
32:06
Speaker 2: Showed Johnson walking all the way up and then cut
32:09
Speaker 2: the camera view, and I'm just, what are we doing?
32:13
Speaker 1: NBC?
32:13
Speaker 2: You produced the phenomenal game until that. But they rectified
32:17
Speaker 2: did they take his shirt off in the locker room
32:19
Speaker 2: or not? I didn't see pants off all right, but the.
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Speaker 1: Ram social media count had a lot of victory lit
32:28
Speaker 1: them up. Okay, god, hey.
32:30
Speaker 2: You should you should. You're onto the next round, You're
32:32
Speaker 2: onto the championship game.
32:33
Speaker 1: Good good, better rest. I was like, oh, I wish
32:37
Speaker 1: I would have thought.
32:37
Speaker 2: You know, Chase Rice, the country singer, played halftime out
32:40
Speaker 2: in the cold, and he tore his shirt off at
32:42
Speaker 2: the end of his At the end of his performance,
32:45
Speaker 2: and he and Ben Johnson were high school football teammates.
32:48
Speaker 2: Didn't they room together at Chapel Hill to They may
32:50
Speaker 2: have because they boss played for the Heels. Uh And
32:53
Speaker 2: and Chase Rice talked about the whole good, better, best
32:56
Speaker 2: thing because that was their high school coaches. Well, I'm
32:59
Speaker 2: interested to know if if Sean McVay is going to
33:01
Speaker 2: get a little bit of a backlash too, because I
33:03
Speaker 2: heard his body mouth in that in that postgame locker room,
33:06
Speaker 2: and then I do know that there are a lot
33:07
Speaker 2: of people that are very upset.
33:09
Speaker 1: Ben Johnson said the F word. Wow. Sean McVay said
33:12
Speaker 1: a lot of efforts in that postgame prescott or pro
33:15
Speaker 1: s game locker room and put it in front of
33:16
Speaker 1: it a number of different times in the NFL. We'll
33:18
Speaker 1: see if people don't you dropped one.
33:20
Speaker 3: Come on, well, Bears fans shouldn't have a problem sort
33:22
Speaker 3: of the thicker kicker in the post game, which NBC
33:25
Speaker 3: did a great job by the way with their I
33:27
Speaker 3: think it's AI. It's profanity manipulation where the AI can
33:32
Speaker 3: recognize the profanity.
33:33
Speaker 1: So on Peacock you heard it, but on NBC you didn't.
33:36
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys were realizing Is that
33:37
Speaker 1: why it sounded like digitized?
33:39
Speaker 3: Yes, but on Peacock I was watching on Peacock, I
33:41
Speaker 3: heard it. I'm trying to be a streamer.
33:43
Speaker 1: I heard it all the way.
33:44
Speaker 3: Yeah.
33:45
Speaker 1: So number nine, I forget his name. They call him
33:47
Speaker 1: a thicker thicker kicker, Yeah, beabs so Harris.
33:51
Speaker 3: So there's worked and didn't work last night for the Mendoza,
33:54
Speaker 3: which I think is But you won't hear any problems
33:56
Speaker 3: from Bears fans who had no problems with the pro
33:58
Speaker 3: clubch They called me a pro club sure for having
34:00
Speaker 3: a problem with the swearing. So the Bears fans want
34:02
Speaker 3: have a problem with right, Let's keep it real, right,
34:04
Speaker 3: that's what we're supposed to do, right.
34:06
Speaker 1: So I don't think Bears fans had any problem, Thank you.
34:08
Speaker 1: That's fine. They should keep the energy, that's all I'm saying. Yeah,
34:11
Speaker 1: that's awesome. What else you got doff? Anything else on
34:13
Speaker 1: your plate? Go through it?
34:15
Speaker 2: Well, let's see, did you give Mark Kennedy love for
34:18
Speaker 2: armand this morning? How about the freshman a little bit point?
34:22
Speaker 3: He's he's really good deserved, he's the one is the
34:24
Speaker 3: one bright light in the season of storms.
34:27
Speaker 1: Well, Arm's next child being named Nigel or James. I'm
34:30
Speaker 1: not sure we'll be named.
34:33
Speaker 3: It will be named let's go to the portal soon
34:36
Speaker 3: we can't start getting some wins, all right.
34:38
Speaker 1: That will be the first name of my next child.
34:40
Speaker 1: Let's go to the portal. That's no.
34:43
Speaker 3: I love a principal coach, and that's what Chaka is.
34:46
Speaker 3: But market fans that we're starting to get tired of losing.
34:49
Speaker 3: But important win last night because we needed something and
34:52
Speaker 3: we got one.
34:53
Speaker 2: So it's important now you know, the focus is on
34:55
Speaker 2: your guys and the Badgers, and now it's it's college basketball, right.
34:59
Speaker 2: I mean we still the NFL playoffs for a couple
35:01
Speaker 2: of weeks, but now more and more of the focuses
35:03
Speaker 2: on college hoops. No, especially the Badgers, and Arman has
35:06
Speaker 2: a long standing hatred of Providence.
35:09
Speaker 1: Yes, if we could get one, I'm glad we got them.
35:11
Speaker 3: We couldn't close, We couldn't close out to Paul you
35:13
Speaker 3: hate the great to Paul Blue.
35:14
Speaker 2: Do you hate Providence more than you hate Cincinnati and
35:17
Speaker 2: all the rivals of.
35:17
Speaker 1: Yr you hate?
35:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, Louisville was the one twenty years ago that was
35:20
Speaker 3: up in my eye when they kept hitting buzzer beaters.
35:22
Speaker 3: Our old friend Jerry Smith got one on us Rees Kanes,
35:25
Speaker 3: Francis le Gercy, but now it's it's Providence and a
35:28
Speaker 3: lot of that's because of the internetss.
35:30
Speaker 1: Kane's a local kid, right, local kid, as well as
35:32
Speaker 1: Jerry Smith.
35:33
Speaker 3: So those were the ones catching my ear in the
35:34
Speaker 3: old Conference to USA original Big East days. But uh,
35:38
Speaker 3: now Marquette's biggest enemy is themselves and holding leads. But
35:41
Speaker 3: they did last night find a way to get it
35:43
Speaker 3: done over time, and that was good to see. And
35:45
Speaker 3: at least it was against Providence.
35:46
Speaker 2: So I see those local love seeing those local kids
35:49
Speaker 2: do big things out the national like last night Brady No.
35:54
Speaker 1: University high School. Yeah, touchdowns or if somebody would have
35:57
Speaker 1: had that one. They said, he has two touchdowns this year?
36:00
Speaker 1: Is that what it won against the Badgers and championship?
36:04
Speaker 2: They were getting him that touchdown against the Badgers. Yeah
36:06
Speaker 2: that was that was later into the game, like we
36:08
Speaker 2: got to make sure we get thirty seven at a score.
36:10
Speaker 1: There is no doubt, no doubt.
36:12
Speaker 2: So when are we going to learn all the details
36:14
Speaker 2: of Goody and Matt Lafleur. The question we might never know,
36:18
Speaker 2: the money.
36:19
Speaker 1: We might never know.
36:20
Speaker 2: Probably career did kind of leak. He's like fifteen sixteen
36:25
Speaker 2: million dollar range on the Dan Patrick Show. Hell of
36:29
Speaker 2: a raise, big time raise, but it's it's the appropriate
36:32
Speaker 2: raise when you start ranking him in terms of other
36:35
Speaker 2: head coaches. And uh, that's where it was an easy
36:38
Speaker 2: deal to make. Whenever they decided to just let everybody know,
36:42
Speaker 2: right what's already getting.
36:43
Speaker 1: The official word, like when they finished Goody and Russ
36:45
Speaker 1: balls deals or what? I wonder if they're going to
36:47
Speaker 1: wait for the new DC.
36:49
Speaker 2: Oh that could be right, I mean, are they going
36:51
Speaker 2: to wait for the new DC hire to ever talk
36:53
Speaker 2: because we still haven't had goodies end of the year presser?
36:56
Speaker 1: Who announces this? Is it gooty or is it ed policy?
36:59
Speaker 1: Does that policy step to the microphone? Well?
37:01
Speaker 2: And I think that also we're all wondering about the mechanics. Yeah,
37:04
Speaker 2: that's a great question. I mean, and you would think
37:06
Speaker 2: it would happen soon, right once the head coaching By
37:08
Speaker 2: the way, ten openings this year, is that a record.
37:12
Speaker 1: Or is it close to the close to its close?
37:15
Speaker 2: We're going to run through some of those hires and
37:17
Speaker 2: it's really the class of twenty two didn't fare very well. Yeah,
37:20
Speaker 2: it's really close now, Arman and I did a week
37:22
Speaker 2: and a half ago say, I just don't think there's
37:25
Speaker 2: gonna be that many jobs.
37:25
Speaker 3: Bill.
37:26
Speaker 2: There's only six, six guys that got fired here, six guys.
37:29
Speaker 2: L wait two weeks and h the Bills one is
37:33
Speaker 2: the most fascinating of them all.
37:35
Speaker 1: I think that's the most fascinating higher of them all.
37:38
Speaker 2: It was kind of a fascinating fire by time. Which
37:41
Speaker 2: job is better? But Baltimore, you're rolling in with a
37:43
Speaker 2: quarterback who's ready to go. Yeah, I think I'm gonna go. Buffalo.
37:47
Speaker 2: You got a new stadium, that fan base is always
37:51
Speaker 2: lots of excitement going on in Buffalo, despite the fact
37:53
Speaker 2: they made that firing.
37:55
Speaker 1: I like Lamar though I like Lamar not the.
37:57
Speaker 2: Likely because I also but you know, I said Josh
38:01
Speaker 2: has been better in the playoffs.
38:04
Speaker 1: This weekend. Then I watched this weekend. He's getting kind of.
38:07
Speaker 2: A crazy pass by the way. Four turnovers and that
38:10
Speaker 2: missed the Dawson Knox.
38:12
Speaker 1: But when the biggest one was it really a turnover?
38:15
Speaker 3: I don't know.
38:17
Speaker 1: I don't know. We got we got. We'll dive into
38:19
Speaker 1: that and thank you for driving me, boy. I appreciate you.
38:22
Speaker 1: Congratulations on the new show. Thank you very much. This
38:24
Speaker 1: is gonna be fun.
38:25
Speaker 2: Still has that new show smell it does? I can
38:27
Speaker 2: and I like that Dolphins up being our halftime entertainment
38:30
Speaker 2: here on.
38:30
Speaker 1: That's the point. We're halfway home. That's right.
38:32
Speaker 2: I love that deal, love it by all right, it's
38:37
Speaker 2: the huddle, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
38:46
Speaker 4: We've had the offense, We've done everything. It would be funny,
38:53
Speaker 4: could have done the summer to being down, having a
38:56
Speaker 4: close game. This has to be the most special moment.
38:59
Speaker 1: In my life to do.
39:03
Speaker 2: Oh my back on the huddle, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin,
39:05
Speaker 2: Drew Wilson, Billy Schmid, and Arman. Sorry and bringing it
39:09
Speaker 2: to your shout out to Scott Dalphin for popping by
39:11
Speaker 2: for halftime. Can't wait for the south Point to corrupt
39:14
Speaker 2: that young man. So I don't think about it south Point.
39:19
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be excess at win or one
39:21
Speaker 3: of those spots are on Little Darlings.
39:22
Speaker 1: I doubt it's gonna be. Yeah, the you know Green
39:25
Speaker 1: Delly stations. I just can't see him in the Spearmint
39:27
Speaker 1: Rhino now loo. I sure hope hope not. I hope that.
39:31
Speaker 2: I hope that consists because that young man needs to
39:33
Speaker 2: be protected at all costs. And I do wonder if
39:36
Speaker 2: you get into an NFL locker room, if that's like
39:38
Speaker 2: the thing, if he becomes everyone's little brother, kind of
39:41
Speaker 2: like Pat where you're like, hey, we're gonna go out,
39:43
Speaker 2: don't you don't you? Don't you mess with Nando? Oh
39:45
Speaker 2: one of those Yeah, you and Pugh don't get to
39:47
Speaker 2: mess with Fernando. Kind of like I think Jacob Mazarowski
39:50
Speaker 2: became in the Brewers locker room this year. Well, he's
39:52
Speaker 2: opening baseball card packs. He's excited. Watch him Pokemon card.
39:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, screaming.
39:58
Speaker 2: They're like, you guys can mess with twenty five guys
40:00
Speaker 2: on the team, not this guy. You mess with him,
40:02
Speaker 2: we're all gonna have problems.
40:03
Speaker 1: Eight seven seven seven nine Nicolay Law dot Com talk
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Speaker 1: and text line. Yes, we're back on.
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Speaker 2: Good to be back on in Milwaukee and Madison, streaming
40:12
Speaker 2: worldwide on the iHeartRadio app as well as YouTube x
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Speaker 2: and Facebook. All right, So there's now ten openings in
40:18
Speaker 2: the National Football Ye correct six. Ten new coaches will
40:22
Speaker 2: go into twenty twenty six. Six current shots still available.
40:25
Speaker 2: There was a lot of excitement, a lot of turnover
40:27
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two when there were nine and Todd
40:30
Speaker 2: Bowles took over for Brazarians midseason.
40:32
Speaker 1: So it's nine and a half in Tampa. But here's
40:35
Speaker 1: the murderer's row of hires from the twenty twenty two cycle.
40:38
Speaker 2: Everybody's excited, everybody has their press conference, everybody's a new start,
40:41
Speaker 2: everyone wins the press conference. The Bears hired Matt Eberfliss, yikes, okay.
40:45
Speaker 2: The Broncos hired Nathaniel Hackett. Hot start, that's a hot
40:48
Speaker 2: oh for two start. Houston Texans hired Lovey Smith, whoa Okay,
40:52
Speaker 2: now we're getting into Brad Nelson territory.
40:54
Speaker 1: Jacksonsville Jaguars hired Doug Peterson. Okay, hey, he won a
40:58
Speaker 1: playoff game, won a playoff game. Raiders hired Josh McDaniels.
41:03
Speaker 1: Didn't work out, but it was another flavor. That was
41:06
Speaker 1: the flavor of the Monday in Miami.
41:09
Speaker 2: That was after he reportedly took a dropped a deuce
41:12
Speaker 2: on the US one head coaching interview with the Colts
41:15
Speaker 2: and they said, get him out of here.
41:17
Speaker 1: That guy had more chances than anybody not named Robert Sala.
41:20
Speaker 1: Are you sensing a theme here? Dolphins hired Mike McDaniel.
41:23
Speaker 1: That cycle.
41:24
Speaker 2: Now you want to talk about winning the press conference,
41:26
Speaker 2: No doubt they won a lot of press conference. Had
41:28
Speaker 2: a little dude there too. Minnesota hired Kevin O'Connell. He's
41:32
Speaker 2: still employed. Congratulations, Kevin O'Connell. You're the head of the
41:34
Speaker 2: delta pledge class. That's the best one in the class.
41:37
Speaker 2: New Orleans Saints Dennis Allen promoted from DC Yike coach.
41:40
Speaker 2: He's now a DC New York Giants. Brian day Ball,
41:44
Speaker 2: oh my gosh. And then Todd Bowles who took over
41:46
Speaker 2: for Bruce arians mid season. So look at all those guys.
41:49
Speaker 1: Who were hired and fired since twenty two. So there's
41:53
Speaker 1: two guys.
41:53
Speaker 2: Tells me it's not for long, and that's why people
41:55
Speaker 2: freaking out about the floor. It's not forever. They can
41:58
Speaker 2: pay him to leave the way Charlie Sheen used to
42:01
Speaker 2: with his entertainers, right, correct, You pay him to leave
42:04
Speaker 2: if it comes to that, and NFL team specialized in that.
42:07
Speaker 2: Drew and I think that that's the other part of
42:09
Speaker 2: the decision and the wording of the release, right because
42:13
Speaker 2: the messaging in all of this has been what I've
42:15
Speaker 2: been trying to pay attention to and I do believe
42:18
Speaker 2: the longer this would have dragged out if if they
42:21
Speaker 2: wouldn't have beaten the I thought the Friday news dump
42:25
Speaker 2: was coming right right around four thirty four to forty five.
42:28
Speaker 1: Instead, they won uped it.
42:30
Speaker 2: They waited until halftime of the of the first playoff
42:32
Speaker 2: game and released the news.
42:34
Speaker 1: They didn't release the news. It broke. It broke, that's fair, broke,
42:38
Speaker 1: that's true. Peers still haven't released anything.
42:40
Speaker 2: They haven't released anything, and maybe they will, maybe they won't,
42:43
Speaker 2: but for it to come out that way. The longer
42:47
Speaker 2: this leaked, the more conversation and the more realness. I
42:50
Speaker 2: thought there was some speculation, but it was clear and
42:54
Speaker 2: obvious that they said, we're gonna give you a as
42:57
Speaker 2: Tom Pelsaro I think said in his and Tom Pelisara,
43:00
Speaker 2: straight from either an agent or assistant general manager's text
43:05
Speaker 2: generally goes right into the tweet. He said, on a
43:08
Speaker 2: longer term commitment. So sure the money and the years
43:12
Speaker 2: are all in front of you, and that means that
43:14
Speaker 2: you know, maybe for the first five weeks, if we
43:16
Speaker 2: go one and four, we're not gonna make a move.
43:18
Speaker 2: But this stuff does stand as you said, for not
43:20
Speaker 2: for long, for long, and there's only going to be
43:22
Speaker 2: one to two probably more chances unless there's significant progress,
43:26
Speaker 2: and that means winning playoff games. As we move forward
43:28
Speaker 2: on the program, we're going to be doing a little
43:30
Speaker 2: buying and selling, and we're gonna talk about Billy's dreams
43:33
Speaker 2: for the Packers defensive quarter, which they now need because,
43:35
Speaker 2: as expected, Jeff Hafley got a job and it happens
43:38
Speaker 2: to be with a former Packers front office guy as
43:40
Speaker 2: the GM.
43:41
Speaker 1: And who's he gonna take with him? Does Malik Willis
43:44
Speaker 1: go to Miami?
43:45
Speaker 2: That one makes a lot of sense, And does is
43:47
Speaker 2: Matt LeFleur the kind of guy that you can say
43:49
Speaker 2: no to and get a second chance. We're gonna find out.
43:52
Speaker 2: We might find out a good question. We might find out.
43:55
Speaker 1: We just might find out. So, yeah, who do you gotten? Well?
43:58
Speaker 2: What will happen first the press conference to announce the
44:01
Speaker 2: coaching and GM extensions or the press conference to announce
44:05
Speaker 2: the new defensive coordinator?
44:06
Speaker 1: Will they be concurrent?
44:07
Speaker 2: Or does Matt Lafleur's contract extension get announced before Pat
44:10
Speaker 2: Murphy's ooh?
44:13
Speaker 1: Or does Murph have one who knows that's a good
44:15
Speaker 1: question too. That's saying no, well, we still have some
44:18
Speaker 1: time before pitchers and catchers report that's fair, which is
44:20
Speaker 1: coming out pretty quick. Yes, absolutely, it's the