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04/22/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Twelve runs. None of them came via the long ball.
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Speaker 1: They did get a Big Fellow triple.
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Speaker 2: Though Sanchez left center on the run is bias.
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Speaker 3: It's over his head and off the wall that Sanchez
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Speaker 3: can run for a while.
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Speaker 2: He's hit second, he turns, he's tried for three, and
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Speaker 2: a big boy is able to slide.
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Speaker 4: It's a triple for Sanchez.
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Speaker 1: Jeff Levering on the call on Brewers TV. The Big
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Speaker 1: Fellow with a three bagger and maybe some oxygen later.
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Speaker 1: The Brewers clover the Tigers twelve to four. Seam two
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Speaker 1: teams again tonight, starting at five forty three games in
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Speaker 1: the NBA playoffs. Last night, the Sixers upset the Celtics
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Speaker 1: won eleven to ninety seven Portland a one oh six
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Speaker 1: to one oh three winner. At San Antonio, the Lakers
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Speaker 1: beat the Rockets one on one to ninety four. The
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Speaker 1: Admiral start their Calder Cup playoff run there at Manitoba.
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Speaker 4: Tonight.
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Speaker 1: The final hour of the Huddle starts now. I'm Doug
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Speaker 1: Russell on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 2: You gotta cutt and prack now cutting prack run ride
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Speaker 5: You'll look at this play. What we're trying to get
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Speaker 5: try to run this play in the hour talking.
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Speaker 6: Let's all the more.
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Speaker 4: All let's go on a kicking track.
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Speaker 6: Were good.
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Speaker 7: You do what you're doing.
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Speaker 5: And make it play be.
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Speaker 6: Right all the way outside, Why left.
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Speaker 3: not long.
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Speaker 4: Enough for you watching to be party of professional. It's
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Speaker 4: a great professional. Go out there and play this ball
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Speaker 4: game like I know you can play it.
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Speaker 3: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 4: Wednesday edition of The Huddle, Rockin' en Rolling Drew, Billy
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Speaker 4: early risers, insomniacs and well now early Risers is seven
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Speaker 4: o'clock early, it used to be for me anymore. Now
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Speaker 4: it's late. Now it's late sleeping in. It's late in
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Speaker 4: our show. It's the final hour. But we're going to
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Speaker 4: break the tape strong for you on a hot take
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Speaker 4: comp day. Get us your hot takes eight seven, seven,
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Speaker 4: seven ninety four one ninety seven three, Get you in.
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Speaker 2: I got a hot take here right out of the
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Speaker 2: gates in the seven o'clock hour before we hear some
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Speaker 2: some more draft conversation, guys, hot take, and this might
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Speaker 2: also be a game ball, So I'm looking at a
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Speaker 2: bunch of pictures of Packers' first round pick here in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven.
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Speaker 4: Micah Parsons.
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Speaker 2: Last night he was hanging out at Lakers and Rockets
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Speaker 2: Rockets fan. He was loving up on KD after the game, saying,
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Speaker 2: I know some boys back home that would be able
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Speaker 2: to give Katie some more help than what I'm and
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Speaker 2: Thompson and folks were doing for him last night. But
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Speaker 2: he pulled up, tapped up Matthew Stafford in company. But
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Speaker 2: hot take, and this one comes thanks to Kelly Stafford.
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Speaker 2: She's rocking the Kobe Lakers jersey. Hot take, you are
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Speaker 2: the coolest person on celebrity row if you wear a
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Speaker 2: jersey and not a cool sweet branded logoed shirt. Shout
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Speaker 2: out Kelly Stafford for actually rocking Lakers stuff at the
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Speaker 2: Lakers game. And Drew, I remember the old conversation we've
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Speaker 2: had of the basketball jersey with no shirt undernderneath tough
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Speaker 2: tough look for middle aged guy.
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Speaker 4: Tough look, tough look, bad tough look.
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Speaker 2: Not a bad look for Kelly Stafford, right, I did
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Speaker 2: for a very very good look once we get into
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Speaker 2: the playoffs for celebrities rocking actual teen gear and jersey's
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Speaker 2: court side instead of just sweep get them.
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Speaker 8: You look like you're a sports fan that you know
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Speaker 8: ball other than just you know how people are. It's like, well,
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Speaker 8: you're just you're just Matt Stafford's wife. No, she look
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Speaker 8: a sportsman that actually cares and knows ball. I don't
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Speaker 8: listen to her pos.
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Speaker 4: She's paying more attention to the game from all that
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Speaker 4: than Matt.
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Speaker 8: Right, So that's pretty cool, I think. And clearly you
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Speaker 8: were the jersey. It's like, Wow, we're going to the
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Speaker 8: Lakers game. I'm wearing my Kobe jerseys. You probably grew up.
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Speaker 8: I like that, Billy. That's a pretty good one.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, hot take hump Day dovetails with Who's Hot?
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Speaker 4: I got you covered on this one, Billy, because who's
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Speaker 4: hot is John Blackwell? Big time man? What are these
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Speaker 4: paid going to Durham? It had to be north of
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Speaker 4: a million and a half because that's what Illinois was
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Speaker 4: gonna pony up at least, so he's between one and
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Speaker 4: a half and two.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Drew, it made sense when I saw that
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Speaker 2: gift basket Tour that he was on, that the price
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Speaker 2: was going up, and yet we see it in all
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Speaker 2: pro sports deadline spur actions. Yeah, that deadline of the
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Speaker 2: transfer portal closing seem to get a lot of deals
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Speaker 2: done yesterday across college basketball.
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Speaker 4: Huh.
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Speaker 8: And a hot take, you shouldn't be upset at John
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Speaker 8: Blackwell as a Badger fan. You can be disappointed, and
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Speaker 8: you could be sad that he's gone, but you know,
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Speaker 8: this is a guy that never had a chance to
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Speaker 8: really be highly highly highly recruited, and he's gonna he's
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Speaker 8: gonna take life changing money and play at Duke.
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Speaker 4: What are you supposed to do? Like not do that?
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Speaker 8: I can't really blame him. This is the way the
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Speaker 8: system is now. You know, it's kind of a bummer
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Speaker 8: if you like the guy and everything like that.
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Speaker 4: I get it.
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Speaker 2: But yes, and no, I think you can hate somebody
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Speaker 2: for going to a school that you hate that much, right,
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Speaker 2: And Duke is the adjacent conference, non conference hated team,
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Speaker 2: most hated team for Badgers.
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Speaker 8: But everybody's rival in that sense just because it's Duke,
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Speaker 8: I mean, or just because of one.
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Speaker 2: Game I was gonna say, but not every team lost
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Speaker 2: to in a National Championship today.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, but if you did, I mean, Duke's giving a
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Speaker 8: lot of l's out on the tournament.
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Speaker 4: So that's my only point.
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Speaker 2: Blackwell, the National Championship game is a little different than
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Speaker 2: the second round though, affair.
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Speaker 4: I guess Blackwell's only a two school guy too, so
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Speaker 4: they've got to have a measure of respect for that.
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Speaker 2: But for sure, I mean, it's not like you Sho
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Speaker 2: did shop around his services last year a little bit
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Speaker 2: when he mentioned He's like, I did put my name
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Speaker 2: into the portal.
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Speaker 4: Just to know my worth.
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Speaker 2: I did did business in college hoops, and you made
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Speaker 2: good business in this point.
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Speaker 4: Kudos again did Greg Garden staff for finding him and
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Speaker 4: developing him, because I went to him, all right, So
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Speaker 4: who are they competing against in the John black to
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Speaker 4: get into the John Blackwell business when he went to Wisconsin. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: his other offers were from VCU, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Oakland,
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Speaker 4: Cleveland State, Rhode Island, Toledo, and Northern ilandic exactly. So
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Speaker 4: the Badgers like lost him to Duke Well. If he
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Speaker 4: had been recruited recruited by Duke coming out of high
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Speaker 4: school in Michigan, they would have been in on.
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Speaker 2: It, right, Yeah, can you look at it a little
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Speaker 2: almost like Brewers fans watching somebody then go and you
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Speaker 2: know at some point we're going to see him go
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Speaker 2: to the Yanks.
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Speaker 8: It's the same thing, absolutely, it's the second thing watching
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Speaker 8: these days you came to be frustrated, frustrated the system
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Speaker 8: or thankful for his time, and you're in your staff
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Speaker 8: that actually got a good certain, good player and good
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Speaker 8: service out of him. But neither of them, to me,
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Speaker 8: should be mad at John Blackwell. I know a lot
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Speaker 8: of people really deep down aren't mad at John Blackwell.
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Speaker 8: So maybe I'm building up, maybe I'm building a straw man,
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Speaker 8: but I just feel.
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Speaker 2: Like, so what do you think of what do you
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Speaker 2: make of all the Marquette fans that were mad at
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Speaker 2: the freshman red shirt guy that.
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Speaker 8: Yes, Sheek Pearson is out like. And now the thing is,
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Speaker 8: Sheek Pearson didn't play a minute for Marquette, So it
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Speaker 8: was hard because you didn't build a relationship with him
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Speaker 8: as a player, and maybe he just knows he wasn't
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Speaker 8: gonna get playing time because they are better guards than
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Speaker 8: front of him.
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Speaker 4: I'm not sure.
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Speaker 8: I thought it was kind of odd, but I didn't
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Speaker 8: I didn't. Blackwell was great at Wisconsin for three years. Okay,
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Speaker 8: Sheek Pearson didn't play for Marquette, so I didn't really,
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Speaker 8: But you know what you had relationship? Well, yeah, so
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Speaker 8: did uh? And so did you know Adrian's Stevens and
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Speaker 8: Uh and Nigel. So it's like those guys were so
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Speaker 8: they probably were gonna pay him much to stay around.
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Speaker 8: If you want to shop his services around. No, it's
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Speaker 8: just it's reality.
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Speaker 4: I don't.
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Speaker 8: It's it doesn't hurt me as much. Sam Bowser hurt me.
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Speaker 8: For instance, that that would hurt a lot because he's
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Speaker 8: a he was a market player for three years, put
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Speaker 8: a lot into the program, had some big moments.
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Speaker 4: Then he transfers.
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Speaker 8: That would hurt some more because you know of the
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Speaker 8: of the equity he had in the program.
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Speaker 4: Chie Pierson didn't have it.
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Speaker 2: So what about in the Hot Hot variety, Nolan Winter,
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Speaker 2: Nolan Winter returning to the Badger just underneath the wire?
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Speaker 4: Now, the the Who's Not Hot would be your New
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Speaker 4: York metropolitans. Man, I've been waiting for the Williams and
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Speaker 4: Who's Not category all day.
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Speaker 5: Troe.
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Speaker 4: They've lost twelve in a row. They are reeling. They
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Speaker 4: get their seven hundred and eighty five million dollar man
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Speaker 4: back tonight. But they've lost twelve year old. Life is
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Speaker 4: miserable and the jokes are just rolling. Like you know,
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Speaker 4: mister mister Met and missus Met are sleeping in separate beds.
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Speaker 2: Dude, man, they're staying together, the kids. They're staying together
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Speaker 2: for the Triple A prospects. It is so bad, I
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Speaker 2: feel terror. Have we gotten more status supports? On Frank
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Speaker 2: the Tank Now, Frank the Tank a much smaller tank
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Speaker 2: these days. He is he lost like two hundred pounds.
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Speaker 2: Shout out, Frank the Tank, big fan of that and
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Speaker 2: halo top.
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Speaker 4: Well, you know what, he's gonna switch back to full leg.
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Speaker 4: He's going right to Bettet. Jerry's watching this Mets team.
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Speaker 2: If there's anything that gets you to pour some hot
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Speaker 2: fudge and marshmallow topping on that halo top and be
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Speaker 2: watching your team.
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Speaker 4: Loose twelve now when you're looking up like last night's loss,
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Speaker 4: drop was a twelfth in row, and it dropped the
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Speaker 4: Mets into a tie with Kansas City for the worst
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Speaker 4: record in ball, which.
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Speaker 8: Kind of surprised eight and sixteen because the Phillies lost
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Speaker 8: a bunch of a row too, so.
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Speaker 4: They're right down there and like, okay, I guess actually
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Speaker 4: technically the Phillies are I mean, the Rows are slightly ahead,
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Speaker 4: but they're looking up at the Rockies right now. That's bad,
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Speaker 4: real bad. The Rockies are nine and fifteen and they've
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Speaker 4: lost two in row, and the Mets are seven and sixteen.
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Speaker 8: Was it last year the Mets had a late search too, like,
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Speaker 8: so to me, this is like it's bad now, but
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Speaker 8: it's also April.
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Speaker 4: Is this really sustained? But you know, you can take
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Speaker 4: a hole for yourself. Worst record in ball with that payroll. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: that's the thing, the payroll up. So that's who's hot,
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Speaker 4: who's not? Brought to just by Donovan Jorgenson heating and
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Speaker 4: cooling employee, owned for forty years, doing the work, doing
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Speaker 4: great work.
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Speaker 2: And and they can cool down a house with their
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Speaker 2: HVAC systems, and then I don't know that they can
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Speaker 2: cool down my man, Frank the tank.
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Speaker 4: The video that I'm seeing right now is Drew's got
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Speaker 4: to bat in his hand. It is just he's got
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Speaker 4: he's got it. He's got to bat in his hand.
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Speaker 4: We need to get the bat out of Frank's hand.
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Speaker 2: Frank put down the bat, Put down the bad Frank,
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Speaker 2: It's okay. Donovan Jorgenson's on their way. They're gonna help
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Speaker 2: you out. They're an employee owned HVAC company, largest in
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Speaker 2: the state of Wisconsin. No reason to freak out, No
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Speaker 2: reason to go down to your furnace and start hitting
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Speaker 2: it with a baseball bat. You start turning on the
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Speaker 2: ac because it hits seventy degrees this week. It's not working.
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Speaker 2: No reason to hit it with baseball bats. Called Donovan Jorgenson.
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Speaker 2: They'll figure it out. Got that all right?
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Speaker 4: Should we spin through some nags audio with you? Uh,
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Speaker 4: let's let's do that.
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Speaker 2: Let's do it and uh a little separation potentially in
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Speaker 2: the midst with some with some lightning strike that came
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Speaker 2: into a hot conversation. But Aaron Nagler and myself Billy
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Speaker 2: Schmid yesterday chopping some stuff up about the NFL drafts
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Speaker 2: and previewing potentially the biggest guest in She'shead TV history.
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Speaker 2: Later on tonight on Packers Transplants, when Packers president Ed
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Speaker 2: Policy joins the show, here's Max, as you hear him say,
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Speaker 2: cutting and crack him. Huddle up, It's time to join
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Speaker 2: us inside the Huddle Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. I kicked
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Speaker 2: Drew and Arman out of the room here because all
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Speaker 2: they were gonna do is laugh at us nerding out
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Speaker 2: on the NFL Draft. I'm Billy Schmid and there from
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Speaker 2: Cheesehead TV. You're seeing them on YouTube and on x
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Speaker 2: Aaron Nagler of cheese Head TV. Hey, welcome to your
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Speaker 2: inaugural stop into the huddle. What's going on?
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Speaker 4: Brother, Thanks so much for having me.
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Speaker 7: I can't leave. I'm up this early. Oh wait, I'm
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Speaker 7: not because we're recording. Thank goodness. Man, y'all need to
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Speaker 7: re examine, reassess this early morning nonsense. Man, it's some
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Speaker 7: that's some. That's some deep travel right there. When you're
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Speaker 7: up at five am or whatever it is, you guys
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Speaker 7: do well.
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Speaker 2: And the best part is you start learning a lot
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Speaker 2: more about nature. You know, next time, I'm a sunset guy.
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Speaker 2: Now I see it. I see deer every single day.
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Speaker 2: I'm one with nature now. Being up early in.
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Speaker 4: The year, So that says we'll go with that. There's
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Speaker 4: positives to it. There's positives to it. The biggest positive.
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Speaker 2: Is the development of Packers Transplants going to be having
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Speaker 2: the president and do I say, Acting Chairman, just leave
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Speaker 2: it at president Ed Policy joining you later on on Wednesday,
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Speaker 2: later on tonight. How excited are you? How did this transpire?
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Speaker 2: How did this all connect with ED Policy joining Cheesehead
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Speaker 2: TV for one night only day before the NFL draft.
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Speaker 7: Well, you know, the Packers clearly need to get the
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Speaker 7: message out. They are bereft when it comes to ability
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Speaker 7: to get their message to a wide audience. I could,
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Speaker 7: of course. I don't know, really, I don't know how
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Speaker 7: this happened. I think at one point Corey Banky ran
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Speaker 7: into Ed at some function or somewhere out there in
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Speaker 7: the place there in Green Bay, and they started talking
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Speaker 7: and apparently hit it off. And now ED Policy's going
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Speaker 7: to be on Packer Transplants live on she said, TV
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Speaker 7: on our podunk little YouTube channel. Who would have thunk it?
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Speaker 2: The best thing is he's gonna look over and be like, wow, Corey,
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Speaker 2: how do you have a better.
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Speaker 4: View of the facade than I do? This isn't right.
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Speaker 4: Something means to get rectified.
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Speaker 2: But when talking not like ed didn't make any news
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Speaker 2: this year, there's plenty to discuss, not only just like
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Speaker 2: coaching staff wise, but the business of football in the
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Speaker 2: NFL has never been more. As he laid out next,
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Speaker 2: everyone jumped on the naming rights comment, But I think
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Speaker 2: the sentiment of public private equity being infused into the
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Speaker 2: NFL this is a real thing, and if you start
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Speaker 2: looking at it from the thirty thousand foot view or
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Speaker 2: three to five years down the line, like he's doing
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Speaker 2: right now, you do forecast it to be an interesting
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Speaker 2: business climate going forward, no doubt about it. So that's
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Speaker 2: a fascinating part of it for him.
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Speaker 7: I think the conversations he had at the owners meetings
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Speaker 7: a couple weeks after that interview with the local Beat,
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Speaker 7: where he coined the phrase healthy paranoia, I think is
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Speaker 7: spot on. How you want the president and CEO of
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Speaker 7: the Green Bay Packers to look at this right and
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Speaker 7: to kind of approach where the league is headed. To
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Speaker 7: your point, you know, private equity now being allowed to
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Speaker 7: take stakes in these NFL teams and enable ownership groups
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Speaker 7: to kind of generate untold amounts of cash right off
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Speaker 7: of one small investment it's just an area where the
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Speaker 7: Packers can't participate, right, So you see where it's headed.
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Speaker 7: You see the kind of the exponential growth that's coming
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Speaker 7: to kind of each NFL, every single NFL program, but
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Speaker 7: most of them, a lot of them. And if you're
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Speaker 7: the Green Bay Packers and you do sit in a
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Speaker 7: very unique situation ownership wise, yeah, you got to be
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Speaker 7: at least a little ahead of the game. You have
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Speaker 7: to be thinking long term. You have to be talking
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Speaker 7: about how can we find, you know, new and innovative
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Speaker 7: ways to generate revenue. And that doesn't mean it's not
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Speaker 7: going to look like the Green Bay Packers or be
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Speaker 7: the Green Bay Packers, but it's certainly going to need
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Speaker 7: to be, like I said, a little creative and a
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Speaker 7: little bit forward thinking. And like you said, I know
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Speaker 7: everyone harped on the naming rights kind of quip that
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Speaker 7: he put in there, which is funny because his actual
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Speaker 7: quote was, We're not going to do this anytime soon,
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Speaker 7: but I do think eventually, maybe ten, fifteen to twenty
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Speaker 7: years down the road, it's probably going to be a conversation.
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Speaker 4: It's probably gonna have to be.
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Speaker 7: And that doesn't mean that, you know, in the meantime
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Speaker 7: that they're not going to do anything and everything in
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Speaker 7: their power to make sure that they're quote unquote keeping
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Speaker 7: up with the Joneses. But at some point, yeah, there
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Speaker 7: are gonna be some hard conversations, most likely in Green Bay,
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Speaker 7: around this franchise and his job. Not unlike Bob Harlan
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Speaker 7: when he saw where the league was headed, the need
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Speaker 7: to renovate lambeau Field, you know, which you know a
16:14
Speaker 7: lot of people, probably younger folks, forget that was a
16:17
Speaker 7: hard battle. That was not easy. I mean, he was
16:20
Speaker 7: walking door to door, he was answering phones, he was
16:22
Speaker 7: calling people, he was doing everything the leg work day
16:25
Speaker 7: in and day out, and he still only just barely
16:29
Speaker 7: passed the referendum that was needed. You know, It's it's
16:32
Speaker 7: not easy work. But like I said, I think where
16:36
Speaker 7: Ed is and where he purports to be as far
16:38
Speaker 7: as looking ahead and again having some healthy paranoia about
16:42
Speaker 7: the organization, I think that's a very good thing.
16:45
Speaker 4: If you're a green Bit Packers fan.
16:46
Speaker 2: It's funny you say that of like a certain fan
16:49
Speaker 2: of a certain age. I'm right there in the line
16:52
Speaker 2: of it, like I was at the big the big
16:55
Speaker 2: rebirth of a legend, the big ceremony finished, and I
16:58
Speaker 2: remember going to a game with the green facade. That's
17:01
Speaker 2: about it, Like I don't and it's it's at the
17:04
Speaker 2: same time of like I don't remember the battle really
17:06
Speaker 2: to get American Family Field. I don't really remember the
17:09
Speaker 2: door to door battle there, but luckily so it can
17:13
Speaker 2: be out of sight, out of mind because of what
17:14
Speaker 2: they did there where teams had been what fifteen years
17:18
Speaker 2: ago the last time the Packers did the stock sale
17:20
Speaker 2: or after they win the championship they do the.
17:22
Speaker 4: Stock sale, and I think it was Jerry Jones like, huh,
17:25
Speaker 4: must be.
17:26
Speaker 2: Nice, must be nice to just get a couple of
17:28
Speaker 2: million bucks and sell a couple of pieces of paper,
17:31
Speaker 2: and instead, like that was looked at as an inequity
17:35
Speaker 2: around the League of why can the Packers just do
17:36
Speaker 2: this now in the real dollars because it.
17:39
Speaker 4: Looks like absolute chump chains.
17:41
Speaker 2: I mean, it's peanuts compared to what you can get
17:43
Speaker 2: when the what one hundred and twenty five million dollars
17:46
Speaker 2: the Dolphins got for one percent share in all of
17:49
Speaker 2: the sports holdings or you know, Wellington Marrow might not
17:52
Speaker 2: have been breaking off shared of New York Giants.
17:54
Speaker 4: His kids doing it and in finding ways to be able to.
17:56
Speaker 2: Do it there grand kids doing it because you gotta
17:59
Speaker 2: be able to keep up. And it's, uh, it's a
18:01
Speaker 2: fascinating world to be in. And that's all outside of
18:05
Speaker 2: All people really care about is how are you finding
18:08
Speaker 2: a way to win? And he had again, I don't
18:12
Speaker 2: want to steal anything or lead into what all we're
18:15
Speaker 2: talking about here and building into it, but I'm fascinated
18:18
Speaker 2: as to you and I have had the conversation on
18:21
Speaker 2: the podcast a couple of times of like, wonder if
18:24
Speaker 2: you get a Mulligan walk into that tea box the
18:26
Speaker 2: first time out, would you maybe not have made the
18:29
Speaker 2: same comments of I don't like lame duck. So it's
18:33
Speaker 2: I'm fascinated. I'm very excited. I'm really mostly just excited
18:36
Speaker 2: to see what Banky fires up, because.
18:39
Speaker 7: Now, I mean, you know, I'm gonna be asking about
18:42
Speaker 7: what we're talking about here, but you know, Corey Bank's
18:44
Speaker 7: gonna ask some nonsense about some ordnance in Green Bay
18:46
Speaker 7: that the packers have ignored and they need to address.
18:49
Speaker 7: And I don't I never know it's gonna come out
18:52
Speaker 7: of Banky's mouth, but yes, it's gonna be a great conversation,
18:54
Speaker 7: really excited for it. Definitely.
18:55
Speaker 2: Do you do you have a stress toy underneath the
18:57
Speaker 2: table as whatever the banking us comes up there.
19:00
Speaker 7: I used to I used to have packer Man, you know,
19:02
Speaker 7: one of those dolls that you can rip apart when
19:04
Speaker 7: you're frustrated, like if the Packers false start on a
19:06
Speaker 7: very important third down and how they have to punt.
19:08
Speaker 7: You know, like you have that packer Man, the doll
19:10
Speaker 7: that you can rip apart. Right, That's what I used
19:12
Speaker 7: to have, But now Banky took it back to Green Bay.
19:14
Speaker 7: I'm in New York, and so I have to kind
19:16
Speaker 7: of just like, you know, hold my.
19:17
Speaker 4: Breath, get a mouth guard. You can get those teeth exactly.
19:25
Speaker 2: Okay, you'll Aaron Nagler, she said TV hanging out with
19:29
Speaker 2: us here on the huddle. Okay, so we're huddling up
19:31
Speaker 2: a day before the NFL Draft, the day before the
19:34
Speaker 2: first round of the NFL Draft, two days before the
19:36
Speaker 2: Packers make.
19:37
Speaker 4: Their first selection. There's a number of different ways to go.
19:40
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna ask you who is Aaron Nagler taking
19:42
Speaker 2: it fifty to But like the tough thing is consensus
19:46
Speaker 2: wise corner defensive tackle, linebacker, edge. There's all these groups
19:52
Speaker 2: of positions that people have identified of well, that's clearly
19:56
Speaker 2: where they're gonna go. They clearly need corners, so they're
19:59
Speaker 2: gonna draft one with their first, second, and third pick.
20:01
Speaker 4: Where do you fall in line?
20:02
Speaker 2: Because the way the board would fall would shake out
20:05
Speaker 2: and the best player available, it's best player available at
20:08
Speaker 2: a position of need. You really look at the roster
20:11
Speaker 2: rather critically, kind of like we did on last week's
20:14
Speaker 2: core episode of Carry the G Radio. You start realizing
20:18
Speaker 2: that there's a lot of depth spots available and it
20:21
Speaker 2: does feel like the best player available is where.
20:24
Speaker 4: They end up going with fifty two.
20:25
Speaker 7: You know, it's interesting because as we're recording this, Brian
20:28
Speaker 7: Goudiicumz just spoke to the media and his pre draft presser,
20:31
Speaker 7: which is always a fun exercise and how can I
20:34
Speaker 7: say as much as possible without saying all hell of
20:36
Speaker 7: a lot. But much like he did at the combine,
20:40
Speaker 7: when he was asked about positions where he saw the
20:43
Speaker 7: need for competition or the most need for competition, he
20:47
Speaker 7: once again, somewhat and almost kind of unprompted, talked about
20:51
Speaker 7: cornerback needing competition and or bodies or a number of
20:56
Speaker 7: players needed to be added at that spot. You know,
21:00
Speaker 7: this is a bit of a theme now throughout the
21:02
Speaker 7: offseason where he's somewhat admitted, even though the very first
21:06
Speaker 7: post season presser he said, well, it's not like the
21:08
Speaker 7: cornerback room needs an overhaul or anything. I think some
21:12
Speaker 7: people would have welcomed an overhaul to the cornerback room. However,
21:15
Speaker 7: I get what he's saying there, like, certainly you want
21:17
Speaker 7: to build on whatever you've done. But I gotta say, now,
21:21
Speaker 7: between the Combine quip and what we heard today, yeah,
21:25
Speaker 7: I think there's a decent chance that cornerback gets a
21:27
Speaker 7: hard look and possibly a number of additions doubling up,
21:32
Speaker 7: maybe even tripling up. Now, I say all that last
21:37
Speaker 7: year we were going into the draft saying not the
21:39
Speaker 7: exact same thing, but we certainly talked about the need
21:42
Speaker 7: for a cornerback edition, maybe even multiple cornerbacks. And you
21:46
Speaker 7: come out the first three picks and you've got two
21:49
Speaker 7: wide receivers in an offensive lineman. You know, So I
21:52
Speaker 7: do think some of it. Obviously, each and every season
21:54
Speaker 7: is predicated on how the board falls. You don't want
21:57
Speaker 7: to just take a position because you need that position
22:00
Speaker 7: and while there are players who are much better at
22:02
Speaker 7: other positions available to you. But yeah, it's going to
22:06
Speaker 7: be very, very surprising if they come out of this
22:08
Speaker 7: draft without some kind of significant assessment of Okay, yes,
22:14
Speaker 7: we finally realized that after essentially ignoring this position for
22:20
Speaker 7: much of Goody's tenure, it's time to make another kind
22:23
Speaker 7: of reinvestment there, because I mean, outside of Jayiro, Alexander
22:27
Speaker 7: and Eric Stokes, they have done precious little as far
22:29
Speaker 7: as trying to inject, you know, decent or primary assets
22:35
Speaker 7: into the cornerback group, and I think that has somewhat
22:37
Speaker 7: been reflected with their play on the field.
22:40
Speaker 2: They've done it so much Nags where it feels like
22:43
Speaker 2: position positional value has mattered in the first round and
22:47
Speaker 2: the fourth.
22:48
Speaker 4: Round right like where they're all. It seems like they
22:50
Speaker 4: always go and go for more of the premier positions
22:53
Speaker 4: than those ones you think.
22:53
Speaker 2: It's that Tom tackle, even depending on where people actually
22:56
Speaker 2: thought he was going to go pass Russia, They've gone
22:58
Speaker 2: there a number of different times, and corner is one
23:02
Speaker 2: that it's either been boom or bus.
23:03
Speaker 4: It's felt like it's been.
23:04
Speaker 7: High, they've taken the and then everything has been late
23:08
Speaker 7: day three. Everything's been way late on Day three and
23:11
Speaker 7: or even undrafted guys. So I just think it's it's
23:15
Speaker 7: gotta be time for them to make some kind of
23:17
Speaker 7: significant investment to replenish that room. And again I'm just
23:21
Speaker 7: using Gudikunt's own words. Between the combine and his presser,
23:26
Speaker 7: I gotta think that, yeah, there's going to be a
23:28
Speaker 7: concerted effort to improve at least, if nothing else, the
23:32
Speaker 7: talent floor in the cornerback round.
23:34
Speaker 2: What do we have any draft crushes in that cornerback spot?
23:37
Speaker 2: Because Mohammed kid us, I'm a big fan of Rodriguez
23:40
Speaker 2: from San Diego or the kid from San Diego State
23:44
Speaker 2: was going to be swimming in their pool.
23:46
Speaker 4: Butg's way too many people have been watching way too
23:48
Speaker 4: much film, and now that's what happens right now.
23:50
Speaker 2: He might go back in first round or early day two.
23:52
Speaker 2: So do we have some Aaron Aglar draft crushes there
23:55
Speaker 2: in the spot?
23:56
Speaker 7: Each and every year I do my draft crush video
23:58
Speaker 7: for the Cheese at TV YouTube, and for a long time,
24:02
Speaker 7: if I made a guy a draft crush, that meant
24:05
Speaker 7: he was never getting selected by the Green Bay Packers.
24:07
Speaker 4: However, however, the last two drafts.
24:10
Speaker 7: They've taken guys who I had draft crushes on, and
24:14
Speaker 7: this offseason signed one and Sky Moore, who I really
24:17
Speaker 7: liked coming out a couple of years ago. So yeah,
24:20
Speaker 7: at the cornerback spot this year, I got Dalen Evert
24:22
Speaker 7: from Georgia. I think I understand some of the knocks
24:25
Speaker 7: on his game, but I do love his ability to compete.
24:29
Speaker 7: He's physical as hell. He's a good boundary corner, which
24:32
Speaker 7: is where they need the help. Without question, I just
24:36
Speaker 7: see a guy who is not afraid to compete. Not
24:39
Speaker 7: only does he have really good instincts in coverage, but man,
24:42
Speaker 7: he is a willing tackler. He's a guy who really
24:45
Speaker 7: brings the fight to the ballcarrier. Again, not a perfect prospect,
24:49
Speaker 7: none of them are, but I really like his game
24:51
Speaker 7: and I'm I think he'll most likely be available while
24:54
Speaker 7: the Packers are picking there in the second round, so
24:57
Speaker 7: I think there's a chance there they pull the trigger
24:59
Speaker 7: on it.
25:00
Speaker 2: So but Nagg's the Ponds kid though from Indiana, right
25:03
Speaker 2: like I thought he was one of and I do
25:05
Speaker 2: believe he's one of the more talented corners in the game. However,
25:09
Speaker 2: people have watched him tackle and you're gonna know that
25:12
Speaker 2: he's gonna.
25:13
Speaker 4: Fly up boards even though he's five to nine. You
25:15
Speaker 4: run a four to three one.
25:16
Speaker 2: He would have been one of those guys that typically
25:19
Speaker 2: never gonna take a guy of that size, but the
25:21
Speaker 2: game and the tape would have predicated I thought he
25:23
Speaker 2: was gonna be definitely a possibility there. But these up
25:27
Speaker 2: and down movements here a couple of days away from
25:29
Speaker 2: the draft, I think it really has affected the cornerback
25:32
Speaker 2: room maybe more than anything. Yeah, I mean, is the
25:34
Speaker 2: one that there's only a couple that I think are
25:36
Speaker 2: worth anything?
25:37
Speaker 5: Oh?
25:37
Speaker 7: Yes, I think running back is a spot where they
25:39
Speaker 7: will probably maybe surprise some people. I think they could
25:43
Speaker 7: potentially pull the trigger, probably earlier than I'd like them to,
25:46
Speaker 7: but I wouldn't be surprised if they did. The thing
25:49
Speaker 7: I remember, though, is a lot of this movement, so
25:51
Speaker 7: to speak, is very kind of public, but not behind
25:54
Speaker 7: closed doors. At twelve sixty five, right, they've been working
25:56
Speaker 7: on this stuff for over a year. Each and every
25:59
Speaker 7: draft class is like, you know, kind of grown together.
26:02
Speaker 7: I don't doubt for a moment that they'll have that
26:05
Speaker 7: they've had these types of discussions that the public is having,
26:09
Speaker 7: But you know those discussions were had months ago, right.
26:12
Speaker 7: I think their board for the most part definitely set now.
26:16
Speaker 7: It's probably been set for a bit. And I just
26:20
Speaker 7: the Ponds thing is interesting because I would be surprised
26:23
Speaker 7: just because of his size, and we do know that, yes,
26:25
Speaker 7: they have at times gone against some of their traditional thresholds,
26:28
Speaker 7: but for the most part they have stayed pretty true
26:31
Speaker 7: to that that kind of thing. But I'm with you
26:34
Speaker 7: on running back. I think for me, the one I
26:36
Speaker 7: would love to see is Washington out of Arkansas. But
26:40
Speaker 7: I do think they would need to probably pull the
26:43
Speaker 7: trigger a little bit earlier than I would like for
26:45
Speaker 7: a running back. But man, they've you know, he used
26:48
Speaker 7: the second round pick on AJ Dillon. I can't imagine
26:50
Speaker 7: that this Washington kid, who I think is a lot
26:53
Speaker 7: more dynamic, wouldn't tempt them at least to maybe make
26:56
Speaker 7: that selection right now.
26:58
Speaker 2: Twenty to one at the Automny Sportsbook First Player Draft
27:02
Speaker 2: that the position of the first player drafted by the
27:04
Speaker 2: Packers is running back. It's my favorite, my favorite gong
27:07
Speaker 2: shot on draft night because of what you just said, Like,
27:09
Speaker 2: if you're gonna get one, you gotta grab one early.
27:11
Speaker 4: It's Washington.
27:13
Speaker 2: No one lost enough games to get love, but it's
27:15
Speaker 2: Washington and his backup price, and then I think.
27:18
Speaker 4: That the floor just really drops off. I agree those guys.
27:22
Speaker 4: Meggs can't thank you enough.
27:23
Speaker 2: Thanks for battling through a little bit of a a
27:26
Speaker 2: little bit of a snaffoo with me. As listen, you
27:29
Speaker 2: never know when the conversation is gonna be so hot
27:31
Speaker 2: the lights go.
27:31
Speaker 4: Out, So I appreciate.
27:32
Speaker 7: Look, look, you just got to keep balling, you know,
27:35
Speaker 7: whatever happens, whatever is thrown at you, overcoming adversity. That's
27:39
Speaker 7: a hallmark of Bill Schmid. And that's that's all I
27:41
Speaker 7: can do, is aspire to your level.
27:44
Speaker 2: As they say, nothing bad happens on game day, but
27:47
Speaker 2: Draft day it'll go haywire. Meggs, appreciate it, brother, Thanks
27:52
Speaker 2: for the time, man, Thanks so much.
27:54
Speaker 4: Talk about Fomo. I missed out being that conversation with
27:57
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Speaker 4: we come back, we'll catch up with El Hafe. He's
28:46
Speaker 4: north of the border getting ready for the Admirals playoffs
28:48
Speaker 4: and win a peg. That's next to the huddle. Fox
28:51
Speaker 4: Sports Radio, Wisconsin, good Land. It's a hot Ta comp day.
29:10
Speaker 4: It's hockey night in Winnipeg, Hockey night for Admirals fans.
29:14
Speaker 4: Admirals playing Winnipeg in the the opener of a series.
29:17
Speaker 4: And as it happens, our pel John Greenberg, president of
29:20
Speaker 4: the Admirals, l hefe himself on the line live from Manitoba.
29:24
Speaker 4: Good morning, Greeny, Thanks for getting up early with us.
29:27
Speaker 5: Absolutely good to talk to you guys, and I excited
29:30
Speaker 5: to get going here.
29:31
Speaker 4: Playoffs hit different, don't they. Yeah? What's the playoffs hit different?
29:37
Speaker 4: Don't they? You?
29:38
Speaker 5: Oh?
29:39
Speaker 6: Yeah, no question.
29:41
Speaker 5: Yeah, the energy level here is is very different than
29:44
Speaker 5: it was, you know, last week. And yeah, we didn't
29:47
Speaker 5: finish the regular season playing very well, but you know,
29:52
Speaker 5: it seemed like everybody was just kind of trying to
29:54
Speaker 5: get through it at that point. I would tell you
29:57
Speaker 5: that the practice here yesterday was was very different, and
30:01
Speaker 5: you know, the kind of the energy level and the
30:04
Speaker 5: focus on the plane on the way here was you
30:06
Speaker 5: could feel that and so excited to see what we
30:09
Speaker 5: can do here in the next couple of games.
30:12
Speaker 4: Greeney.
30:12
Speaker 2: I appreciated coach Taylor's answer to Aaron on I think
30:16
Speaker 2: it was Friday night after the Grand Rapids games, like,
30:19
Speaker 2: is there any positive conple from this? No, right, it's
30:23
Speaker 2: a moment to say, yeah, we're gonna get something better
30:25
Speaker 2: out of it.
30:26
Speaker 4: But you mentioned it right there.
30:27
Speaker 2: It's tough to be able to mimic and replicate that desperation.
30:34
Speaker 2: Once you get the X next to the name, you
30:37
Speaker 2: mentioned the focus on the plane and the skate yesterday.
30:40
Speaker 2: How it always marvels me at pro athletes ability to
30:44
Speaker 2: put something in the rear view mirror. How quickly did
30:47
Speaker 2: it feel like there was a re refocusing after what
30:52
Speaker 2: the NHL season's done. Now the second season and the
30:55
Speaker 2: most important one starts of do you think it's a
30:58
Speaker 2: meeting or just an understanding the boys and we worked
31:00
Speaker 2: too hard to let three games that don't matter here
31:04
Speaker 2: impact these next three.
31:06
Speaker 5: Yeah. I think the message right after the game on
31:09
Speaker 5: Sunday in Chicago in the room was all right, that's done.
31:13
Speaker 5: Now we're gonna, you know, take care of this business.
31:16
Speaker 5: We have a mission here ahead of us, and everybody
31:19
Speaker 5: come ready to go. So it was a good off
31:22
Speaker 5: day for the guys on Monday to just kind of,
31:26
Speaker 5: you know, get all that out and put you know,
31:28
Speaker 5: don't even look in the rear view mirror. Everything is
31:31
Speaker 5: now in front of us. So yesterday, when you know
31:34
Speaker 5: it was time to get on the plane, you could
31:37
Speaker 5: really sense the guys we're ready to start a playoff
31:41
Speaker 5: journey that will hopefully last us till the end of June.
31:44
Speaker 4: What it's springtime like in Manitoba. I've never been to
31:47
Speaker 4: Manitoba in this February.
31:51
Speaker 5: No. Actually, they just thanked us for bringing the weather
31:55
Speaker 5: we had done in Milwaukee the last few weeks. That
31:58
Speaker 5: not the tornadoes. We didn't bring those. But it's it's
32:02
Speaker 5: gonna be seventy five degrees here today, so uh, and
32:07
Speaker 5: I don't mean that celsius either. So it's gonna be. Uh,
32:11
Speaker 5: it's gonna be nice today and tomorrow and then uh,
32:14
Speaker 5: it'll get back to normal. On Friday here it'll be forty.
32:17
Speaker 5: So the people here are grateful for a few days
32:21
Speaker 5: to to walk around and in short sleeves, which I
32:24
Speaker 5: can tell you is not real pretty after a whole
32:25
Speaker 5: winter in Winnipeg.
32:26
Speaker 6: But it's, uh, you know.
32:29
Speaker 5: It's gonna be. Yeah, it's gonna it's gonna be, you know,
32:33
Speaker 5: a nice beautiful day today. And I will say that
32:36
Speaker 5: you can tell it was just winter here. There's sand
32:38
Speaker 5: all over the road and that's how they treat their
32:41
Speaker 5: roads here up here, so you know, if you're looking
32:44
Speaker 5: for a beach, it's pretty much on the corner right
32:47
Speaker 5: outside of our hotel.
32:49
Speaker 4: On Canada.
32:50
Speaker 2: To do things weirdly, I say, as they're walking to
32:51
Speaker 2: Tim Horton's with SBF fifty on shirtless, trying to make
32:54
Speaker 2: sure that they cover it up there on the sidewalk.
32:58
Speaker 4: Now you talked about the energy. Yeah, now you talk
33:00
Speaker 4: about the energy change.
33:01
Speaker 8: But of course at this level, you know the way
33:04
Speaker 8: the HL works with the NHL and the Preedza being in,
33:07
Speaker 8: you can get some players and it feels like, you know,
33:09
Speaker 8: even though the end of the season was what it was,
33:11
Speaker 8: now all the players being reassigned to the Admirals, it
33:13
Speaker 8: feels like that scene when like Ritchie and Potzi were
33:16
Speaker 8: getting pushed around a little bit, but then Fonzi.
33:18
Speaker 4: Showed up with the Falcons.
33:19
Speaker 8: Time to pick on some of your own side, like all, like,
33:22
Speaker 8: the Falcons are back, So Brady Martin not to mention
33:25
Speaker 8: Zach Laruel Reed Schaeffer, Jokim kemel Cole, Aaron Ryan Ufko.
33:29
Speaker 8: So the cavalry has come back for the Admirals and
33:31
Speaker 8: a big infusion of talent back on the eyes for
33:33
Speaker 8: the Admirals.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right, and I love that reference. I'm going
33:37
Speaker 5: to have to remember that one, no problem. But yeah,
33:43
Speaker 5: it is great to have all the guys back, and
33:45
Speaker 5: you know, the guys that were up in Nashville for
33:47
Speaker 5: the last you know, anywhere from a week to a
33:51
Speaker 5: month and a half to three months. Are all excited
33:54
Speaker 5: to be here.
33:55
Speaker 6: Uh.
33:55
Speaker 5: They take a lot of pride in that uniform. You
33:59
Speaker 5: know when they put the Abril's colors on. I still
34:01
Speaker 5: remember Marked ol.
34:02
Speaker 6: Guizo doing that when he was here, Like he we won.
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Speaker 5: A game and he was immediate like I playing for
34:09
Speaker 5: the logo on the front of the uniform. I love
34:11
Speaker 5: this place. And you can hear that same message from
34:14
Speaker 5: all the guys who just came back here. They want
34:17
Speaker 5: to be part of this and they love our fans
34:19
Speaker 5: and want to be able to get some home games
34:21
Speaker 5: back to Milwaukee next week. So it's important that we,
34:24
Speaker 5: you know, win two here this week so we can
34:26
Speaker 5: come home and get ready for the next round.
34:28
Speaker 4: The next round would be Grand Rapids, Is that correct,
34:31
Speaker 4: the winner of the series?
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Speaker 6: That is correct.
34:33
Speaker 4: Yes, that's what I thought. Yes, you've had good success,
34:35
Speaker 4: and you've had good success in the past and the
34:38
Speaker 4: playoffs against Manitoba in the last few years. Right, I
34:40
Speaker 4: seem to remember some some knockdown, drag out series with
34:43
Speaker 4: these guys.
34:45
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure, and some quirky things have happened in
34:48
Speaker 5: those games where you know, I still remember the famous
34:53
Speaker 5: Spencer Staffney goal from a couple of years ago where
34:56
Speaker 5: two of the Manitoba defensemen ran into each other or
35:00
Speaker 5: two players ran into each other, was on with the
35:02
Speaker 5: puck and led to a two on almost like a
35:05
Speaker 5: two on nothing, and the pass got made to spend
35:09
Speaker 5: their staff even it's one of Aaron's great calls. And
35:12
Speaker 5: we also had a game with them where there was
35:15
Speaker 5: gonna be a delayed penalty and they were trying to
35:17
Speaker 5: clear the puck pat to their back to the point
35:19
Speaker 5: and the guy missed the pucket.
35:21
Speaker 6: It went all the way together ended into the nets.
35:23
Speaker 5: So it was you know, some crazy stuff has happened.
35:26
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure it's up in their locker room on
35:29
Speaker 5: their bullet and board. We're not losing to these guys again,
35:32
Speaker 5: but we'd be happy to, you know, send them home
35:36
Speaker 5: for the summer.
35:37
Speaker 2: That's gonna be fun. It's gonna be very very fun.
35:39
Speaker 2: And send them home for the summer. That's nice of you.
35:41
Speaker 2: It really still has to be close to winter up
35:43
Speaker 2: there in Manitoba. But you mentioned the weather, Greeney, I
35:47
Speaker 2: got to say and give kudos in a shout out
35:49
Speaker 2: to how it was handled on Friday night, obviously fan
35:52
Speaker 2: appreciation night. The last thing you think is a shelter
35:54
Speaker 2: in place, warning is going to have to be issued.
35:58
Speaker 2: How quickly? How proud were you of the staff to
36:00
Speaker 2: being able to keep everybody well one out, get the
36:03
Speaker 2: beers sold to them during the intermission so people could
36:07
Speaker 2: listen to the shelter in place, get out off the concourse,
36:10
Speaker 2: and enjoy some more hockey. Because that was that was
36:12
Speaker 2: as full as the bowl has been in quite some time.
36:15
Speaker 5: I think, well that was a first for me. I
36:19
Speaker 5: you know, I've worked as forts now for over forty years,
36:22
Speaker 5: and you know, certainly when you have an out side
36:24
Speaker 5: stadium and there's a chance for subseuvior weather, you kind
36:27
Speaker 5: of get everybody out of the seating area and into
36:29
Speaker 5: the concourse. This one is get everybody off the concourse
36:33
Speaker 5: and away from the glass, from the windows and everything
36:36
Speaker 5: else that into the seating area. You know, our building
36:40
Speaker 5: was built in nineteen fifty as a bomb shelter in
36:42
Speaker 5: addition to an arena, so it is about the safest
36:45
Speaker 5: place you could possibly be. And so you know, we
36:48
Speaker 5: had a good plan in place with the Pieta Arena staff,
36:51
Speaker 5: and as soon as they hit the you know we're
36:55
Speaker 5: having we're doing this. It was immediately everybody get out
36:58
Speaker 5: of the concourse and tell everybody to go take a seat.
37:00
Speaker 5: And I was, I really am grateful to our fans
37:02
Speaker 5: who heeded the warning. And you know, I had to
37:06
Speaker 5: walk around and get people out of concession lines, which
37:10
Speaker 5: is I was just some people are waiting for a
37:12
Speaker 5: bit to get their concession and all of a sudden
37:14
Speaker 5: you got to go sit down for your own safety.
37:16
Speaker 5: And people were great about it. I knew it would
37:19
Speaker 5: only last fifteen or twenty minutes and then we get
37:21
Speaker 5: back to normal.
37:22
Speaker 6: But it was a little bit of a you know,
37:24
Speaker 6: a freaky thing, and I care not.
37:25
Speaker 5: To do that again.
37:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, once in a lifetime occurrence. It's like, so now
37:29
Speaker 4: you know that if you're at a hockey game, it's
37:33
Speaker 4: like when you're on a flight and there's turbulence and
37:35
Speaker 4: you see the flight attendants strap themselves in and seat
37:38
Speaker 4: belt themselves in. When you see the concessionaires into the
37:41
Speaker 4: seating bowl, you know, it's seriously, you know, it's it's
37:44
Speaker 4: it's we're not messing around tonight.
37:47
Speaker 8: But hey, there's that's why the team president out there,
37:49
Speaker 8: because you have boots on the ground in the concourse Greening.
37:51
Speaker 8: Nobody else does that, and I'd be remiss if I
37:53
Speaker 8: did the same. No, I'm just saying, well, okay, Billy,
37:57
Speaker 8: that's funny, but when we expect many more home games
38:00
Speaker 8: this year, great playoff run coming, But be remissive.
38:02
Speaker 4: I didn't say.
38:03
Speaker 8: I was for fun looking up the old attendant stats
38:06
Speaker 8: as far as I could go, which was about one
38:08
Speaker 8: to find any I believe, if I'm not mistaken, this
38:11
Speaker 8: is the highest average attendants in the last twenty five years.
38:14
Speaker 8: If I'm mistaken there, let me know, Greeney. But congrats
38:16
Speaker 8: to you and your entire staff on a great regular
38:18
Speaker 8: season in that regard.
38:20
Speaker 5: Oh thanks, arm and I really appreciate that. It was
38:23
Speaker 5: our largest average attendant since the two thousand and two
38:27
Speaker 5: thousand and one season. It's our third straight year over
38:31
Speaker 5: six thousand, third straight year with attendance growth. So you know,
38:36
Speaker 5: our staff works really hard to put on great promotions,
38:39
Speaker 5: works hard to sell tickets, works hard to do all
38:42
Speaker 5: of the different parts of our operation here, and they
38:46
Speaker 5: deserve a ton of credit and grateful to our fans
38:48
Speaker 5: who've allowed us to do this since December thirteenth, which
38:53
Speaker 5: you know this kind of rord. Obviously, you guys all
38:55
Speaker 5: know Christmas is kind of the green light for the season,
38:58
Speaker 5: but it actually started for us before that. We averaged
39:02
Speaker 5: nearly seven thousand fans a game since December thirteenth, So
39:06
Speaker 5: thank you for saying that, and thank you to our fans.
39:09
Speaker 4: Greedy, best of luck tonight. The best way to win
39:11
Speaker 4: the short series is win the opener in game one.
39:14
Speaker 4: Wins one. So this is a This is a pivotal
39:17
Speaker 4: inflection point this evening. Best of luck to you man.
39:21
Speaker 5: Thanks a lot, and make sure everybody gon't tune in
39:23
Speaker 5: tonight here on the Big nine twenty. Come to a
39:25
Speaker 5: viewing party at Major Goolsby's or Standings Lake Country watch
39:29
Speaker 5: with other Admirals fans. It's going to be a really
39:31
Speaker 5: fun fun way to watch the games, and we're gonna
39:34
Speaker 5: do our best done deal.
39:35
Speaker 4: Reason to go get a ham and cheeseburger. I was
39:37
Speaker 4: just gonna say burgers and wings it both locations. It Greenil,
39:43
Speaker 4: thanks guys, bet John Greenber, president of the Admirals in
39:45
Speaker 4: Action tonight against Winnipeg the Manitoba Moose.
39:50
Speaker 2: You bring up wings from Major Goolsby's and listen. I
39:54
Speaker 2: want them to be playing hockey all the way until
39:56
Speaker 2: the big gig. But I immediately think of Goolesby's wings, Drew,
39:59
Speaker 2: I just think of the big bucket of Summerfest wings.
40:02
Speaker 2: So walking around and it just got me so excited.
40:04
Speaker 2: For you've got a clip oh oh, and you're just
40:06
Speaker 2: strolling around with a bucket of chicken.
40:08
Speaker 4: Can't side between the major cheeseburger and the bucket of
40:11
Speaker 4: chicken wings. That those wings are so good they hit
40:13
Speaker 4: the spot.
40:13
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable and it's definitely that's my favorite thing to
40:16
Speaker 2: be buying.
40:17
Speaker 4: There at the end of then you wash it down
40:19
Speaker 4: with the Sas sampler platter. You there you go, correct, Yes, fantastic, fantastic.
40:23
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40:27
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40:28
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41:10
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41:14
Speaker 2: and it's far from just Waken. But you watch it
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Speaker 2: and you think you might be baked when you realize
41:19
Speaker 2: that this is a real deal. That the Buffalo Buffalonians
41:24
Speaker 2: that how I pronounce it, Man, they're a special breed,
41:28
Speaker 2: special breed of individuals, special breed sports fan. Buffalo Sabers
41:31
Speaker 2: have not been good for quite some time. Have you
41:33
Speaker 2: guys seen what they have concocted In the streets outside
41:36
Speaker 2: of the arena before the game. They found a beautiful
41:41
Speaker 2: old school punching bag and a punching dummy. A boxing dummy, yeah,
41:47
Speaker 2: dressed in a Boston Bruins uniform, specially made so fans
41:51
Speaker 2: can go in and get their licks on a Bruin
41:54
Speaker 2: right before the game, and it's seemingly the only videos
41:58
Speaker 2: you're finding are of eight to ten year old kids
42:01
Speaker 2: going out there and just beating the bleep out of
42:03
Speaker 2: this boxing dummy. But the best part is, and the
42:07
Speaker 2: one where I really smiled, was when I saw in
42:10
Speaker 2: the video yesterday that Bleacher Report Open Ice sent out
42:13
Speaker 2: and some young lady named Gretchen Bayer had a phenomenal
42:16
Speaker 2: video of it. Emmy winning sports reporter on News four
42:19
Speaker 2: in Buffalo was a father and son taking in the
42:23
Speaker 2: ass whooping of this.
42:24
Speaker 4: Boxing tummy right in front of the game. He's holding
42:27
Speaker 4: the young son.
42:27
Speaker 2: Saying, son, just think in three years you're gonna be
42:31
Speaker 2: old enough to go out there and punch that boxing
42:33
Speaker 2: dummy right in the face right before we walk in
42:36
Speaker 2: and watch the Savers get roundhoused by the Bruins. They
42:40
Speaker 2: thought that they couldn't get much worse when they brought
42:42
Speaker 2: out the radio announcer's wife to beat the drum. They
42:44
Speaker 2: all wanted Josh Allen. They got Josh Allen, He slammed
42:48
Speaker 2: a beer and then they lost.
42:50
Speaker 4: Wow, that's a tough way to follow it up.
42:52
Speaker 2: Now, that's a tough way to follow up the celebration
42:54
Speaker 2: there in Buffalo, but they're used to the scars.
42:57
Speaker 4: Fourteen years with no playoffs. It could be worse. It
43:00
Speaker 4: could be worse it used to be.
43:01
Speaker 2: It could be worse. You could be the Sabers. Now
43:03
Speaker 2: it could be worse. You could be the Jets.
43:04
Speaker 4: It'll be a long series. Tomorrow on the program, will
43:06
Speaker 4: catch up with Hunter Bombgart with a Brewers report. Brewers
43:10
Speaker 4: will have a getaway game tomorrow against the t grays
43:13
Speaker 4: Day Detroit, see if they can grab it. And uh,
43:16
Speaker 4: it's Draft Day. Can't wait, can't wait. There's a chance
43:20
Speaker 4: that Wayne Learvy might pop by tomorrow.
43:21
Speaker 2: And a chance that you always know on Draft Day,
43:23
Speaker 2: there's a chance of gas masks.
43:25
Speaker 4: Absolutely, thanks for hanging out with us. We'll see tomorrow
43:27
Speaker 4: at five am. Thanks for listening to the huddle.
43:29
Speaker 5: Peace,