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09/04/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Huddled up on a Friday, Drew, Billy, and Armin bringing
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: it to you. That's right.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: It's Friday going into Labor Day weekend. Brewers-Cubs is in
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: the rear view, at least for now. We get three
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: days in Cincinnati and three games in Cincinnati to rest
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: up for the matinee coming up on Labor Day.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: Brewers-Cubs matinee on Monday.
• 0:19
  Speaker 3: The one matinee in the series when you play four
• 0:22
  Speaker 3: night games at Wrigley Field, one of the biggest oddities.
• 0:25
  Speaker 3: But hey, Labor Day Monday is going to be a
• 0:27
  Speaker 3: good day to be in the ballpark. And then Tuesday,
• 0:29
  Speaker 3: Wednesday would be good days if the Brewers do win
• 0:30
  Speaker 3: those games. And Brewers inching closer to clinching everything they
• 0:33
  Speaker 3: need to clinch, starting with a playoff berth, then the division,
• 0:36
  Speaker 3: and then hopefully the number one seed. That all lies
• 0:38
  Speaker 3: ahead in the final 21 games of the 2026 championship season.
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: Badgers firing it up Sunday night against... Notre Dame. Billy
• 0:47
  Speaker 3: will be there helming the postgame show once again.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: I cannot wait. Badgers, listen.
• 0:52
  Speaker 3: The whole season is not going to come down on
• 0:55
  Speaker 3: Sunday night, but just best better believe for the folks
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: listening on WIBA and Madison on the Badgers radio network
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: when I fire that bad boy up with a Ford
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: Tough postgame show with my friend Lance Allen. If the
• 1:06
  Speaker 3: Badgers rip off a 17, 16 victory, we're talking about
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: a completely different look at this season, right? It's going
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: to be insufferable on that drive home from Lambeau field
• 1:15
  Speaker 3: for you.
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: So just so you know, that is, that is queued
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: up and ready.
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: If indeed it goes by the five to 10%, but
• 1:23
  Speaker 3: everybody understandably. So rightfully so is loving themselves. Some Notre Dame,
• 1:29
  Speaker 3: the golden domers have a phenomenal squad. They got a
• 1:32
  Speaker 3: great coach. They have a Heisman Trophy candidate quarterback. They
• 1:37
  Speaker 3: got a ton of dudes returning. They've got probably, what,
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: three or four bags worth of chips on their shoulder
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: from last year, how the season ended for them not
• 1:46
  Speaker 3: going to the college football playoff when they felt like
• 1:47
  Speaker 3: they should have gone and instead decided that they were
• 1:50
  Speaker 3: just not going to play in a bowl game. They're
• 1:51
  Speaker 3: going to be primed and ready to roll, but they're
• 1:54
  Speaker 3: playing this bad boy in the hornet's nest that is
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: Lambeau Field in front of probably more Notre Dame fans
• 1:59
  Speaker 3: than Wisconsin fans, but that does not matter because crazy
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: things can happen.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: In the sport of college football. I'm building it up.
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: It's going to be tough. They're 20 and a half
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: point dogs for a reason.
• 2:07
  Speaker 4: I understand they're big dogs, but what we love about
• 2:09
  Speaker 4: sports is that you never know when something special is
• 2:12
  Speaker 4: going to happen. And that could be this weekend. Something
• 2:16
  Speaker 4: special could happen. There could be the upset you've been
• 2:19
  Speaker 4: waiting for. There could be that moment you've been waiting for.
• 2:22
  Speaker 4: You just never know in sports. And that hope... That's
• 2:25
  Speaker 4: what we're addicted to. We're addicted to that hope. We're
• 2:27
  Speaker 4: addicted to dreaming, and that's what makes life worth living
• 2:29
  Speaker 4: when you're a sports fan. So let's dream for some
• 2:31
  Speaker 4: hope here and get a big dub, right?
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: What did they say about hope in Ted Lasso? It's
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: the hope that kills you. Now, that's the only problem.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: That's the only problem that it is the hope that
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: kills you. But when my man Abu Sama is running
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: up and down.
• 2:46
  Speaker 3: That field on the Golden Domers, and there may be
• 2:50
  Speaker 3: potentially top three ranked defense in all of college football,
• 2:52
  Speaker 3: we'll see. It's a heck of a way to start
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: up the season. But there's a couple of things to
• 2:58
  Speaker 3: be excited about, Drew. There is a listed fullback on
• 3:03
  Speaker 3: the Badgers roster.
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: Oh my. And a listed fullback.
• 3:07
  Speaker 3: We are, we are, we are back. There will be
• 3:10
  Speaker 3: under center in some short yardage plays. We heard from
• 3:13
  Speaker 3: a lot and coach from Luke fickle. They're gonna run
• 3:15
  Speaker 3: the football a ton. Colton. Joseph's going to run it
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  Speaker 3: a lot. Let's get him to big 10 play healthy
• 3:21
  Speaker 3: primed up. They got two, they got two easy games,
• 3:24
  Speaker 3: hopefully coming up against Eastern Michigan in company in the,
• 3:28
  Speaker 3: in the easy slate, Western Illinois, but yeah, Make it
• 3:31
  Speaker 3: through on Sunday night and give yourself some reason to
• 3:33
  Speaker 3: be optimistic because that Notre Dame team very much might
• 3:37
  Speaker 3: not lose a game. Their win total, I believe, is
• 3:40
  Speaker 3: 11.5 for a reason. It's a really good roster. They're
• 3:44
  Speaker 3: as good as advertised. This is thought to be a
• 3:46
  Speaker 3: little bit of a layup on an easy schedule. Put
• 3:49
  Speaker 3: some shock into them. But also, if you don't, just know.
• 3:52
  Speaker 3: Just know we're coming to Happy Valley. Just know the
• 3:54
  Speaker 3: Badgers are rolling to Penn State in a couple of
• 3:57
  Speaker 3: weeks to really welcome Matt Campbell into the Big Ten.
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: And don't underestimate the magic of Lambeau Field.
• 4:03
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: It's a magical place. It was a magical place at
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: that LSU game. It was. There you go. Things can
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: happen there, so don't underestimate that.
• 4:11
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go out on a limb here and
• 4:14
  Speaker 3: say there's probably not going to be as much beer drank, though,
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  Speaker 3: for this one as there was that LSU game.
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: Not that Notre Dame fans don't want to tie one on.
• 4:23
  Speaker 3: Not that there won't be a good party rolling on
• 4:26
  Speaker 3: at Stadium View Sports Bar, but it's rather legendary the
• 4:30
  Speaker 3: amount of drinking that was going on between the LSU
• 4:32
  Speaker 3: people and the Wisconsin folks at that Tigers-Badgers game. So
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: that's going to be a tough one to top, but
• 4:38
  Speaker 3: we'll see. We'll see what they can all do on Sunday.
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: More collared shirts probably, though. Definitely more quarter zips. Quarter zips,
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: collared shirts.
• 4:45
  Speaker 2: I was in the house for that September 3rd, 10
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: years ago, September 3rd.
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: 2016. I remember that one, yeah. And I was in
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: the house for that. It was a great atmosphere. It
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: was a fun game. Badgers rolled it up. But I
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: will always remember it as Josh Sitton Day. Josh Sitton Day, yeah.
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: Because we're sitting in the press box waiting for the
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: inactives and stuff.
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: It's like, the Packers cut Josh Sitton. Three-time Pro Bowl guy.
• 5:05
  Speaker 3: What?
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: What?
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: That was the shocking cut. And everybody in the press
• 5:10
  Speaker 2: room was looking at each other like, what?
• 5:13
  Speaker 3: And instead of going down to potentially talk about the
• 5:16
  Speaker 3: extension that a lot of people thought that sitting was
• 5:18
  Speaker 3: potentially in line for instead, he ends up getting released.
• 5:21
  Speaker 3: That was, that will same similarly for me, Drew B
• 5:25
  Speaker 3: every time I see the Packers and Patriots lineup at
• 5:27
  Speaker 3: Lambeau field, I'll think of the time when we're up
• 5:29
  Speaker 3: there in the press box in our first year of
• 5:31
  Speaker 3: doing Packers OT week three or week four, I had
• 5:34
  Speaker 3: just done the pregame or the post game show with
• 5:36
  Speaker 3: Doug in Madison the day before and We're sitting there
• 5:39
  Speaker 3: in the middle of the first quarter, and Paul Chris
• 5:41
  Speaker 3: got fired. And immediately, our guy Jim Polzin was doing
• 5:44
  Speaker 3: a live in the closet in the third quarter to
• 5:48
  Speaker 3: discuss this and roll in for the press conference. So
• 5:50
  Speaker 3: there have been some very interesting cross-pollinations between the two.
• 5:55
  Speaker 3: But there's a lot of college football people, hardcore college
• 5:59
  Speaker 3: football people, that don't love that these games are in
• 6:02
  Speaker 3: NFL stadiums.
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: A lot of people don't love the fact that. Cause
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: they think it should be in their stadium.
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  Speaker 3: Because these are two of the better home environments in
• 6:10
  Speaker 3: college football.
• 6:11
  Speaker 5: Fair, right?
• 6:12
  Speaker 3: Like these are two, these are two of the top
• 6:14
  Speaker 3: venues to go to in college football. But I mean,
• 6:17
  Speaker 3: even the Josh Pates of the world say, if you're
• 6:19
  Speaker 3: going to play an NFL stadium, play at Lambeau, right?
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, don't go and play at Everbank stadium. That's right.
• 6:24
  Speaker 3: Don't play at M and T go and play at Lambeau.
• 6:27
  Speaker 3: It's not like you're playing in Cleveland.
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. This is Lambeau field. It's a special place.
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: It's the Mecca. It's got the most college-type feel. I
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: get it.
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  Speaker 4: You're talking about legendary college environments, so maybe that's part
• 6:38
  Speaker 4: of it, but it'll be a great matchup. It'll be
• 6:40
  Speaker 4: a great venue. It'll be a great spectacle. And hopefully
• 6:43
  Speaker 4: it'll be an enjoyable game. That's what we're hoping for.
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: And our friend Maggie in Georgia says her brother will
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: be there on Wisconsin. Let's go, Maggie.
• 6:49
  Speaker 4: By the way, the text line filled up. Janney and Appleton,
• 6:52
  Speaker 4: we're throwing out kind of our prayers up in Appleton.
• 6:55
  Speaker 4: It's like the Janney backyard is full of water, and
• 6:58
  Speaker 4: it looks like they really got deluged in the last
• 7:02
  Speaker 4: couple hours. So hopefully you guys got all your sun
• 7:05
  Speaker 4: pumps working and the power is still on up there.
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: It looks bad up there. Randy in Dallas wants to know,
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: what was the point spread when the LSU played the Badgers.
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: Let me check that out. I'm looking.
• 7:14
  Speaker 3: It was not as readily listed, but I will have
• 7:19
  Speaker 3: that for you in a matter of moments.
• 7:21
  Speaker 4: I remember Leonard Fournette being a problem. That was within
• 7:23
  Speaker 4: a touchdown or something, I thought. I can't find it
• 7:26
  Speaker 4: here for some reason. I think LSU is favorite. Eight
• 7:28
  Speaker 4: and a half point favorite is what I'm seeing here. Really?
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: LSU opened as a 10.5 point favorite over Wisconsin. Went
• 7:34
  Speaker 3: to 8.5. Our line opened at 8.5, went to 10.5. Oh, okay.
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: Steadily moved up as more action came in on the
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: Tigers is what this one said.
• 7:40
  Speaker 4: Brandon Harris only went 12 for 21. I remember there
• 7:43
  Speaker 4: was a big Leonard Fournette thing. It was like, well,
• 7:45
  Speaker 4: give him the ball more. I'm like, well, he did
• 7:46
  Speaker 4: get 23 carries. I think he had 170-some scrimmage yards.
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: I remember that.
• 7:50
  Speaker 4: It's like they were able to beat LSU with Leonard
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  Speaker 4: Fournette doing his thing.
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  Speaker 1: So it felt like, okay, this Badger team could be
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: pretty good.
• 7:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 7:57
  Speaker 3: So.
• 7:58
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• 8:01
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• 8:04
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• 8:17
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• 8:19
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• 8:22
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• 8:26
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• 8:29
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• 8:45
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• 8:48
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• 8:50
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• 8:52
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• 8:54
  Speaker 3: Or if you looked at your electrical bill this summer
• 8:58
  Speaker 3: and you're like, my goodness, am I running this thing
• 9:00
  Speaker 3: all night long?
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: You know what would be really nice? Maybe some solar panels.
• 9:03
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• 9:05
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• 9:07
  Speaker 3: But you know what is... It's not October. It is September.
• 9:12
  Speaker 3: We're getting close to spooktober. And Boo, your superhero of
• 9:15
  Speaker 3: the day, said Boo and jumped out at some folks yesterday.
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right.
• 9:19
  Speaker 3: Boo Carter is your superhero of the day. He's the
• 9:21
  Speaker 3: young man that scooped up and blocked the field goal
• 9:25
  Speaker 3: last night for the Colorado Buffaloes.
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: And a man named Boo running through.
• 9:30
  Speaker 3: Untouched almost off the edge to be able to block
• 9:33
  Speaker 3: that son of a gun, take it back, and then
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: rip that helmet off in celebration, running down the field.
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: Boo Carter, number six from the Colorado Buffaloes, helps cap
• 9:42
  Speaker 3: off a 14-13.
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: Victory last night. He is your superhero of the day because.
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: Colorado fans, he was a superhero to them, and instead
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: a real supervillain to the Yellow Jackets of Georgia Tech.
• 9:53
  Speaker 3: I know Armin said it's a hot run for Yellow
• 9:55
  Speaker 3: Jackets right now.
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're peaking right now. Apparently they're peaking right now.
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: They definitely weren't. in Atlanta last night. Okay, I guess not.
• 10:04
  Speaker 3: Poor Fernando Mendoza's younger brother, Alberto Mendoza. His start as
• 10:08
  Speaker 3: a Georgia Tech starter, not exactly what he was hoping for.
• 10:11
  Speaker 4: 17-13.
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: Got sacked three times, lost 22 yards on those, and
• 10:15
  Speaker 3: lost the football game 14-13. I guess he's not going
• 10:17
  Speaker 3: to go undefeated like his brother did.
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: I thought Billy was going to pick a superhero from
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: the Arrowhead Catholic Memorial clash. That was a good one
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: last night, wasn't it? Come on now.
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: Played at Carroll? At Carroll University. Would potentially be offensive
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: coordinator Kyle Burlingame, former Carroll pioneer, offensive coordinator for the
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: state champion Arrowhead Warhawks. That would be probably a pretty
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: good opportunity to be able to as he got to
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: go home. That's a great venue to be able to
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: watch some high school football.
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: Apparently some Catholic Memorial players, including some of our Iron
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: Jock buddy, Isaac Miller, were saying some stuff. They were
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: chirping a little bit.
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and as the Arrowhead tweet came out, it said,
• 10:55
  Speaker 3: let our pads do the talking on the 34-14 victory.
• 10:59
  Speaker 3: I didn't see as much of the rallying up, but
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: I did hear that it got a little hot there
• 11:04
  Speaker 3: for a while.
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: Well, the trash talk in high school. That's a good
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: old school rivalry, though, Arrowhead and Catholic Memorial.
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: Apparently, your boy Matt, they put the quotes up on
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: the scoreboard during practice.
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: At Duraska Stadium to fire the boys up. Come on,
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: Matty Harris. Everybody's rival. That's according to the Journal Sentinel account.
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: Come on, Matt. You might want to look 20 years
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: ago at... Mr. Schmidt's Facebook. Maybe he had some trash
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: talking when he was a young 16-year-old.
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: Those memories will pop up, and yeah, I did say
• 11:33
  Speaker 3: some outlandish stuff on Facebook.
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, I did, although I wasn't playing.
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: I said it from the bench in volleyball, but that's
• 11:39
  Speaker 4: part of the high school rivalry.
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: A little bit of a rival reaction. 34-14 last night,
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: Arrowhead prevailing. Thumping.
• 11:45
  Speaker 4: 27 to nothing run after being down in the second quarter.
• 11:48
  Speaker 4: 27 to nothing run. They can come back and bite you.
• 11:50
  Speaker 4: You know those words.
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: And they didn't throw a pass in the second half because.
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: They wanted to make a statement. Hand it off to
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: the right. Hand it off to the left. A little
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: Jabari to the left. A little Devin Craig to the right.
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: Works out pretty well.
• 12:02
  Speaker 4: Hey, by the way, when you had the young man Boo,
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: that's an underused nickname. I missed the nickname Boo. Reminds
• 12:08
  Speaker 4: me of Boo Wade, the old badger. We needed more
• 12:10
  Speaker 4: of those.
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: Yes. Needed more of those coming out here. Reminds me
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: of Boo Wade.
• 12:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: Good player. 030405, I think. Maurice Boo.
• 12:19
  Speaker 4: Milwaukee guy. I think he went to Vincent, right? That's true, yeah.
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: See, but I got to see, maybe on his college
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: football reference page, it'll let me know exactly, but it's
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: Orlando Boo Carter.
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: I had to think.
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: That probably couldn't have been a drop-in of the name Boo,
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: because if that's on your birth certificate, that's a hat
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: tip to the parents.
• 12:35
  Speaker 4: I think Boo's a nickname, and you can use it
• 12:37
  Speaker 4: with any first name. That's what's good about Boo. It's
• 12:40
  Speaker 4: sort of like, you know, I'm Scataboo buddy.
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 12:42
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: You can fire that one out with just about anybody
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: that does need to be Scataboo's nickname.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: Of course, either that or I, cause right now he's
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: just a bad flip it back. Flip an idiot. He
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: should be like the coon. He should get booed every time. Boo.
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: That's a good one.
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: I did have a, some of my wife asked me
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: if they were booing Cooper Pratt with the base hit.
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: It's like, no, that's just how many Brewers fans were.
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: There over the weekend.
• 13:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 13:02
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: Decent amount of Brewers fans taken in that four game
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: set over the week. And as much as, you know, we,
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: we mentioned it earlier and we were kind of going
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: back and forth drew, I feel pretty good at this
• 13:13
  Speaker 3: lot in life that the Brewers have had. Most importantly,
• 13:16
  Speaker 3: out of the series, love what Luis Lara and Cooper
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: Pratt were able to do. I mean, missing some playoff
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: preview kind of type series earlier on in the year.
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: Get them a little taste of that action and that environment.
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: That's going to go a long way once you potentially
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: either got to go to Atlanta, Philly, L.A., whatever it is,
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: wherever your path ends up taking you. I think these
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: games are going to serve them well for that performance
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: that they put up today.
• 13:37
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• 13:41
  Speaker 3: And listen, you're going to be more than thankful for
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: what they do to your place because of the great
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: hardworking people showing up to your door. And also their
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: blue truck looks like a superhero truck.
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: It does.
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: That's the other call current. They'll get you stuff. I like, well,
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: I like seeing those in the road. Hey, I want
• 13:56
  Speaker 4: to give a really quick shout to this is Steve
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: in the text line for maybe an honorable mention for
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: a superhero. Cause you were talking about, you don't want
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: to miss game seven when the Brewers win the world series, right?
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: That was a good one. He said, we're going to
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: win it in six. Don't worry.
• 14:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: He did shut me up on that one. That was a,
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: that was a shut the box.
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: Steve.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: Great work. This is Steve. That was a good one.
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: Cause it is true.
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: And you know, we get a lot of good interaction
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: on the talking text line throughout here. He also, Steve
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: also did fire it in about, he almost feel bad
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: for how good of a game Logan Henderson pitched last night,
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: but after the bats pick up Jacob Mizorowski on the
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: shortest start of his season, you were probably due for
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: one of those. And the market just corrects the next
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: night where nobody can get a hit. Nobody can score.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: They flashed up the graphic in the eighth inning. There
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: were what, like 40 something combined runs in the first
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: three games.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: And a combined three in the finale. I think there were,
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: I think they blew their wad in the first three.
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: You know what, where the Brewers are, the split is fine.
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: A split is absolutely fine. That was a successful series
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: for the Brewers this weekend. Um, Phillies and Braves have
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: seven games left against each other.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: So they have... We have to be Phillies fans?
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: And the Cubs play the Braves a lot, I think.
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: And the Marlins play everybody, it seems like. So we
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: have an interesting month of matchups here.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Ooh, I want to hear.
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: So you think we should be leaning more Phillies on
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: this one?
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would think. Try to all combine that, muddle
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: that deal up a little bit? Okay, I like that.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: I like where your head's at, Drew. Well, you guys
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: were asking about magic numbers. If my.
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: If I'm correct here, my research, which a lot of
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: times I'm not, the Brewers' magic number for a playoff
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: spot is nine. So if you want to root for
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: that to go down, for just a playoff spot, you
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: can root for the Astros to beat the Diamondbacks or
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: the Yankees to beat the Padres tonight because that's where
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: that magic number goes down, the end of the wild card,
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: or the Brewers to win, obviously.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Brewers, by the way, need to go 13-9 to win
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: 100 games.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're right at that percentage pace. They're right there
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: at 100.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: And then.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: The magic number for clinching the buy in the number.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: One seed is 19. 19. That's incredible. It's 14 to
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: win the Central.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: And now this would go down with the magic number
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: for the bye would go down with the Braves losing
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: here because I think the Dodgers jumped them last night maybe,
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: or they're right in line there. They're right there, yeah.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: The Otani first day off happened last night. I don't
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: know if you noticed that. Dave Roberts said, we're sitting
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: them down for a couple of weeks. We're sitting them
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: down for a couple of days. He's got to calm
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: his head down a little bit. And then all of
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: a sudden the Dodgers go in. I mean, it helps
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: when Scooble's on the mound. against the cards. So that
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: one's tied up at three and a half. I'm with
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: you then. Let's go Phillies for the night because they
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: have the exact same deal, right? The seven games in
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: 10 days where they'll play four at Citizens Bank. They'll
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: do the super special Friday to Monday four-gamer, Houston in
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: the middle, and then back into Atlanta for that one.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Philly has been a hot bet that a lot of
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: people have been trying to throw down at the Pottawatomie
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Sportsbook and other institutions.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Try to come back and maybe win that division. Yeah,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: it could happen.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, if there's a team that would be able
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: to flip it, four games a lot different than eight
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: when you're walking into that back end in that seven-game
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: and 10-day run.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: For sure.
• 17:05
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• 17:08
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• 17:14
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  Speaker 2: this weekend, Iron Jock's the way to go.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: The way to go.
• 17:22
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• 17:39
  Speaker 3: I had to get me a couple new polos, Drew,
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: because more than anything, I'm going to be rocking them
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: into the press box for the games.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Look professional, right? Yeah.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: That's as much of a collared shirt as I can get.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: But it's the best one because I will sweat.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I am a sweater. I won't look bad. But I also,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: you know, you can't wear the same one because otherwise
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: people are going to start looking.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: True. Does this guy have four shirts? Well, you could,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: but you've got to rotate, yeah. Then you've got to
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: know the rotation, and that takes a lot of thought.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: A lot of thought. A lot of thought that I
• 18:07
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• 18:09
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• 18:11
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: When we come back, the voice of the Packers, Wayne Laramie,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: friend of the program, will join us. He's brought to
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• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Let's get into the weekend with Wayne O.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Wayne Larravee is next. You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: It's the Friday edition of the huddle leading into Labor
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Day weekend. Drew Olson, Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian bringing it
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: to you from headquarters. We are happy to be joined
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: by our pal, the voice of the Green Bay Packers,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Wayne Larravee. He's brought to us by Miller Lite. Legendary
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• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Wayne, welcome to the program. Thank you for joining us.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: How do you intend to spend this last weekend of
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: freedom before the season starts, before the madness? How are
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: you going to unwind and get ready?
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: Well, we're seeing some family down in Chicago a little
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: bit and then play around a golf or two, and
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: that's it. Then it's up for the grind, you know?
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: Summer's over, Drew.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: You know, you were mentioning Miller Lite. I've always... Why
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: is this in my head now, except that I'm dating myself?
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: I am trying to figure out who won the argument
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: between Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner. Less filling, great taste,
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: less filling. Who won that argument?
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Famous commercial.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Did George win that by firing Billy four or five times?
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: That's a good one.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I think that was the reason he fired him the
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: third time was because they couldn't settle the debate.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Well, I think at the end of the commercial, George
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: just fires him for disagreeing. So I guess you could
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: say George won it.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: I always thought the less filling thing was always a
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: bit of a misnomer because... you know how you can
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: get like beer logged, water logged with beer.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: It happens either way to me.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: It'll happen to you. It does taste great. It tastes great.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it is. Is it really less filling?
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: I think it tastes great. It does.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: It's crisp and cold, and I think it's the best
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: tasting light beer out there.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: It's definitely less filling than when I pour up a
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: couple of Guinness. That's definitely the one where all of
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: a sudden that stuff will fill you up pretty quick
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: after about two or three.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I'm a high-life man by trade, but when I do
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: drink Miller Lights, I love those.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Those aluminum pints.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: The aluminum pint with the resealer ones, that's the game changer.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Especially with young kids because then when they slap that
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: son of a gun down, you don't lose all the
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: good stuff.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Well, there's no data to prove this.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: But when they went back to the retro white can,
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: you know, because they had the blue can for a
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: while and the newer logo. But when they went back
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: to that light logo, that old logo with the white can,
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: it just tasted better.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: That's your nostalgia talking. It is my nostalgia talking.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: It's colder and better, you know. Here's a reach for you.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: We were thinking about this, Wayne, and you've covered a
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: lot of Cubs games in your days. Brewers just finished
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: this big series with the Cubs. They split it, which
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: is not a surprise. but it was four games in
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: the middle of the week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday at
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Wrigley all at night.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: That was weird.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: And I'm wondering, it's like, is that the new norm
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: for big series for the Brewers in August, September? And
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: then I thought to myself, I remember when the Packers
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: used to play a lot of noon and three o'clock
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: games and that's not the case anymore.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: So. Yeah. You know, I think it's, it's interesting that
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: in Wrigley, they played four straight night games during the
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: week or whatever it was. And, That's just strange. It
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: still sounds a little strange to me, but I know
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: they've loosened the rules out there and down there. And,
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: you know, it was a great series. I'll tell you what,
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: just an outstanding series. Those are two good baseball teams.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: And I was thinking about how the National League is
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: just loaded, it seems to me. And I'm thinking there
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: is one good team in the entire American League, the
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Tampa Bay Rays. They might be the only really good team.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: Are they getting the entire league?
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Are they getting judge back at all here at some
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: point for the, for the Yanks?
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Or is that just, is he going to be 27 proposition?
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: Billy, I will say it and go to my grave saying,
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: and I want it on my tombstone way too much
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: swing and miss in that lineup with, or without judge
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: will judge help. Yeah. Way too much swing and miss.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Now their pitching has been great, but their offense just
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: really inconsistent. I mean, the other night they could barely
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: scratch a run against the angels in Anaheim. I mean,
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: come on. I know the Angels were celebrating the ouster
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: of Artie Moreno.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: But come on.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: They had more wind in their sails then for the
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: last 20 years.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Artie Moreno is going to go down as one of
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: the worst owners in memory. He's up there, yeah.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: They had Otani and Mike Trout and couldn't make a playoff.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: At the same damn time. Yeah.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: How do you not win? And here's the other thing
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: that's happening right before our eyes. The New York Mets
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: and that ownership group, How much money can you spend
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: and not make the playoffs?
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: It's just amazing. Yeah, that's really bad.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: I mean, you should at the very least, like you said,
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: be a wildcard team, but that type of talent, or
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: at least on paper, money, resources, all that stuff, that's
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: definitely a failure on their part.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: You know, and when we say this to groups and
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: people look at you like you're just spewing some kind
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: of company line, it's not about talent, boys and girls.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: It's about the right talent in any sport, any of
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: these sports, the right talent. That's the hard part. You
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: and I can put together talent. We can see talent, right?
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: But putting the right talent together to win a championship,
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: that's difficult.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: And it's really difficult, Wayne, to know and to have
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: the balancing act of giving it time to now nurture
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: and see if it's the right talent or get off
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: of the asset and then go and try to acquire
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: some new ones. We were talking all training camp. Now
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: this is when the team can actually come together. This
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: is now you know who you have to go forward
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: and But the first four weeks of NFL football will
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: surprise and confuse and confound a lot of people because
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: it is now almost an extension of the preseason where
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: you're learning so much. When do you feel like you
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: start fully learning about who a team is in the
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: NFL as we wait here eight days or so until
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: they kick off the first one?
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: I think it takes three to four games at least,
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: three to four games. And by then, you know what
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: kind of luck you're having with injuries, at least at
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: the outset of the season. But, you know, the other
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: thing is this, and I was thinking about this also.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: I understand most teams, like the Packers now, have played
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: their starters in two preseason games and given them, I
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: don't know, anywhere from 10 to 12, 15 snaps per
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: game and getting up to that 30-snap level that people
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: say you have to have in order to be conditioned
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: for September. But you're really not conditioned for September. How
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: could you possibly be? Because now in September, when you
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: start the season a week from Sunday, You're going four
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: quarters of tackle football. You haven't played four full quarters
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: of tackle football since last year. So this is the
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: whole league. It's not just the Packers. This is everybody
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: around the league. And so I think that's why it's
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: so hard to predict how a game is going to go,
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: how a team is going to go in the early season,
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: because I don't think they know really what they have. Oh,
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: on paper, the Rams are prohibitive Super Bowl favorites on paper.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: They've already been crowned, haven't they? I think we should
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: go on to 2007. I don't think there's anything to
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: debate about, right? The Rams, that's all. Yeah, right. You know,
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: who was the team last year that everyone thought was
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: going to do it again? And, you know, that didn't happen.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: So I think it's interesting, but teams evolve. And you're right, Billy,
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: and I've heard some of the comments in the locker room.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: This is when, you know, like the receiver group, Jaden
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: Reed was saying, this is when we kind of come
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: together and start to really feel it. You know, this
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: two weeks before the season begins. Because you're right, and
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: we talked about it during camp. In training camp, folks,
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: people are trying to make the damn team. The team
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: hasn't been made yet. There is no team yet. But
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: once you get to the regular season, once you get
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: to that two-week period after training camp, they've cut the roster,
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: they've finally settled on the people they've got, that's when
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: you come together. Or you don't. And a lot of
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: times you don't.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Or you don't.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Wayne, as we start to shift, we're going to watch
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: the Badgers play at Lambeau on Sunday night and then
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: shift into Vikings mode. The matchup that no one's talking
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: about that I want to talk about and turn into
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: a narrative is the matchup between Kyler Murray and Jonathan Gannon.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Packers defensive coordinator against his former quarterback.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: And.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I thought it was an interesting wrinkle coming out of
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Miami with Halfley revealing that he heard from an assistant.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: He heard from Philadelphia that they had all his pressures
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: in the first game. Cause they watch, they had filmed
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: from training camp. They're watching videos from you.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Guys at the perch.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: People are videotaping the pressures and that they, he knew
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: that was fascinating to me, but for, for Jonathan Gannon
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: to coordinate his first game as Packers DC as against
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: his former quarterback, I can't get enough.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Get me the popcorn.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: Drew, you're exactly right. That is one of the underlying
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: storylines to this game coming up, and a fascinating one.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: And everyone's wondering, what kind of quarterback will Kyler Murray
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: be for Minnesota? Will we really find out in week one?
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: I mean, Jonathan Gannon probably knows him as well as anybody.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: He's crafted his defense, gone against him in practice all
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: those three years. Boy, it could be really interesting to see.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: But from a Packers standpoint, I certainly hope Jonathan Gannon
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: has something, knows the kryptonite of Kyler Murray and can
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: exploit it in this opener.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Get him to throw a couple of those punts that
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: he's so patented for. He throws that son of a
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: gun higher than he does far. That's when you know
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: you're in a good spot for the defense. And hopefully
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Xavier McKinney is waiting there in the wings. Wayne, when
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: they put out the roster and they go with four–
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: edge rushers. And we saw it throughout the season. They
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: have a lot of inside backers. Then I Dennis Sutton
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: gets to play in that last preseason game. I think
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: he showed out well enough that that probably gives you
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: some confidence. He's going to be able to play once
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: he gets his full, you know, conditioning underway after the
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: heat related illness. But do you think that's a little
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: bit of a tell as to what we may have seen?
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: I know we don't want to be given anything away.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Like Jeff Halfley said on some pressure looks, but we
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: saw Edron Cooper an awful lot during training camp.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: On the line of scrimmage, moving up and down the line.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Do you think that's some of how they mitigate the
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: loss of Micah Parsons for the first few weeks?
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Is a heavy dose of Edger and Cooper there?
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't agree with you more. Absolutely. I think
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: we're going to see Edger and Cooper probably get into
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: the offensive backfield more than we saw in training camp.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: And we saw some of it in training camp. Did
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: not see it in the regular season, or I should
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: say in the preseason, folks. But we're probably going to
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: see a lot of that. You know, the edge rushers
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: are your primary pass rushers, obviously, but in a lot
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: of defenses like Brian Flores in Minnesota, like what we're
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: going to see here in green Bay, uh, pressure comes
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: from many different sources. And I think that's what we're
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: going to see. I think you're going to see a
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: lot of pressure up the a gap that we didn't
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: see so much in the past few years. So, um,
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: I do think they'll be creative in how they'll pressure
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: the quarterback and hopefully those rushes will get home.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Um, Part of the problem, well, one of the things
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: that was stark last year was the Packers drop off
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: in takeaways under Halfley.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: And some of those were dropped interceptions. We talked about
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: dropped passes a lot.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: We should have been focusing on dropped interceptions because those
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: dropping a pass on third down and dropping interception, I
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: think they're equally horrible.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: It works out the exact same way.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: You know, guys, I think Xavier McKinney, by some metrics,
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: led the league in dropped interceptions. I don't know how
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: accurate that is, but we've got a metric for every
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: You know, read any story. You'll read about metrics in football. But,
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: you know, yeah, there were some situations where interceptions were
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: made the year before and they weren't last year. And
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: it's a huge difference. You know, I looked at Chicago.
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: I was doing some work on them last night. And
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: they have 38 takeaways. But in three games against the Packers,
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: the Packers only committed two turnovers against the Bears defense.
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: And they moved the football quite well against the Bears.
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: That really wasn't the problem. Scoring points, moving the ball
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: against the Bears. The problem was closing out those games.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: But nonetheless, I think that's a big factor in most
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: defenses in the NFL today. It's not a matter of
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: shutting teams down, giving up 80 yards, rushing a game
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: and 150 yards passing. That's not how the game is
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: played today. And the offensive skill people are too good. Today,
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: the game is played. You're going to give up yardage,
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: but you take the ball away. And that is your defense.
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: That's a big part of defense, a big component of it.
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: And for the longest time last year, the Packers had
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: none of that. Most egregious was the fact, I think
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: they went the first six weeks without a fumble recovery
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: in that season. So just amazing when you think about it.
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: And as you know, I do think, Takeaway, sure. There's
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: coaching involved. There's skill involved in the players. But I
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: think primarily turnovers are the residue of luck, the bounce
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: of that oblong ball.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot of randomness to it, and it
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: could be a good sign because the Packers are in
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: position to make the plays.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: They just didn't squeeze the ball last year enough.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: Then they could be in line for a boom defensively
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: if they start to pick up some of those takeaways
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: that they should have gotten.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: So maybe that's a good sign.
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely. Boy, I tell you what, if the Bears
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: get half of the takeaways they got last year defensively,
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: they'll be doing real well, but it won't be anything
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: like last year. If they don't take the ball away,
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: who do they stop? Absolutely no one.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Great point, Wayne.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that defense is not stopping a sieve, especially with
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: Kobe Bryant out for a while and Kyler Gordon as
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: MIA as he was during the preseason.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: We've got time for Week 5.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Week 1 is the interesting one, and I had a
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: good back-and-forth with our friend Aaron Nagler yesterday. and we
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: joked about it on the podcast of Wayne. People keep
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: hyping up, and I'm very excited. We talked about it
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: a little bit. Brandon C. Say, hey, welcome to the NFL.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: There's Justin Jefferson on the other side. Welcome to the NFL.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: There's Jordan Addison on the other side. Thinking about it
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: more and more, the much maligned Keyshawn Nixon, I still believe,
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: is going to get a large number of the targets.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: I wonder how much the Vikings actually do throw towards
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Brandon C.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: Say.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: It's not like they're going to avoid the young man.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: It's playing his first NFL game. But I still would
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: be surprised if the majority of those targets don't go
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: the way of whoever Keyshawn Nixon is defending over on
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: the other side. It's going to be a potent passing game,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: but I'm excited to see how this secondary rises to
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: the occasion because Keyshawn was tested and mocked and ridiculed
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: all offseason long. Now his first chance to really put
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: some proof on tape.
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree. I know he's highly motivated. That's never
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: been a problem with Key. Very much a motivated athlete
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: who's played his career with a chip on his shoulder
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: because he's always been. underestimated. He's always been second-guessed, but
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: I can guarantee you there's no question about his intent. Now,
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: will his performance equal what we're hoping for? Yeah, I
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: hope so, but the one thing that I've seen, areas
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: of improvement on defense, they are a little deeper and
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: a little better at cornerback than they were a year ago.
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: They are deeper at interior defensive line and tackle than
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: they were a year ago. They're much stronger there than
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: they were a year ago. So, um, I think those
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: are two areas that we can look at defensively where
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: they're stronger. And I think that's going to help.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: One last, this is just a tease. Cause we've got
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: all next week to look ahead to the Vikings, but Wayne,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: which newcomer has the bigger impact early John who Smith
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: or Caleb Johnson.
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: Wow. I would have to go with the running back
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: only because if Tucker craft is healthy, uh, John who
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: Smith may not get as many touches as it would
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: take to win that little, uh, uh, comparison you're, you're
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: dreaming up. But, um, I think Caleb Johnson may get
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: some touches early. They're going to run the football. They're
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: going to, you know, how effective they'll be remains to
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: be seen, but, um, that's a big, they ran the
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: football almost 29 times a game a year ago. And
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: I think that's what Josh Jacobs banged up. I still
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: think they're going to run the football and try to
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: run it effectively, uh, And that'll be a big key.
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: And I think that Johnson will get some carries because
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: they've got to be careful with Marshawn Lloyd, especially early.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Johnson's a third round pick. What do we know?
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: What's the book on him as a pass protector? Because
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: I was wondering if he would take snaps away from
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Chris Brooks, who's a really good pass protection guy that
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: they love using on third down. But if Caleb Johnson
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: is capable in that regard, they could use him back then.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, he certainly has the body for it,
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: it looks like to me. I haven't seen enough of
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: him and seen enough of his game to know what
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: kind of a pass protector he would be. I think
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: early on, though, Drew, they'll stick with Chris Brooks. Coaches
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: are going to go with people they trust, and at
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: least early on, they know what Chris Brooks is and
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: what he can do, especially on third down.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to compare him to the guy, but
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: I remember Nick Saban tells a great story of when
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Derrick Henry first got to Alabama, and he's just getting
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: reamed at and roasted by these coaches and class protection.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: He goes, coach.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: I never knew nothing about no pass for blocking.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: You guys are going to have to give me some time.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: I'll figure it out. They just told me, take the
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: ball and run that way. And that's all I did.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: So I'll, I'll take some time.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: He's body size is it, but Wayne, I think half
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: that in pass blocking is just your willingness and want to. And, uh,
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: that that's something that Chris Brooks definitely has in the backfield.
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no doubt. And Caleb Johnson, you know, I guess
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: what you're hoping for is a Ryan grant effect, right?
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: They picked up Ryan Grant before Labor Day one year,
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: and he went on to lead the team in rushing
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: and was a potent running back on a team that
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: eventually got to the Super Bowl and won it. That's
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: what you're kind of hoping on. I know the Packers
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: liked Caleb Johnson. It didn't work out for him in
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: Pittsburgh last year, but he's got an opportunity here, a
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: fresh start.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Change of scenery. It's going to be good. Wayne, enjoy
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: the holiday weekend. We look forward to talking to you
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: next week. It's on. It's game on. This is it.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Squeeze in as much R & R as you can
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: because it's on to the grind.
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: You got it. All right, guys. Have a great weekend.
• 36:17
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• 37:01
  Speaker 2: We're going to be back with closing ceremonies.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Wrap up any loose ends. Give you a little wake
• 37:05
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• 37:07
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• 37:11
  Speaker 5: You know, a lot of people think Billy and I
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: argue all the time. Actually, we agree on just about everything. Right, Bill?
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: You betcha, George. We even drink the same beer. Light
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: beer from Miller. Light's got a third less calories than
• 37:21
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• 37:22
  Speaker 4: And it's less filling.
• 37:23
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• 37:25
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• 37:28
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• 37:32
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• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, George.
• 37:33
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• 37:41
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• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Closing ceremonies on a Friday. Heading into a holiday weekend, Drew, Billy,
• 37:46
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• 37:47
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• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Thank everybody for hanging out with us all week. 5
• 37:50
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• 37:52
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• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Thanks to Wayne Larravee for dropping by the program today.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Love catching up with the voice of the Packers. He's
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: an absolute legend. Time to wrap things up. Billy, what's
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: a good wake and bake story? Send us in the weekend.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: So I got a couple.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: First off, I found out about Hamburger University today, and
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: that is one of them. But Ryan Glasspegel is somebody
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: that I follow quite often from front office sports. Badger,
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: Wisconsin guy, big Brewers fan, lives in the Chicago area.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: He frequented a couple of the games, but he put
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: this out on the show one of these days. We
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: have to put him.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: He put this out a couple of days ago and said,
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: if I go to the Wisconsin Notre Dame game at
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Lambeau on Sunday, and execute the seven-step order of operations
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: to get my kids taken care of. The Badgers are
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: going to kick me in the balls. They've done this
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: too many times. But if I stay home, they're going
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: to pull off the upset of the year that puts
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: them on a feasible path to go to the college
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: football playoff, and I'll have FOMO for the rest of
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: my life.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: I'm damned either way.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: So he took in, you know, 40, 50 different responses,
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: thoughts of what he should do. Well, Ryan put it
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: out a couple of minutes ago that I have some
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: personal news. Immediately somebody puts that out there, what do
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: you go to?
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Just new job. New job.
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: Fired.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Downsized. Got a new one. Personal. Involuntary separation.
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: Divorce.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Some personal news.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: I forgot to cancel my luxurious Motel 6 stay on
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Sunday night before the deadline. So I will be embarking
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: on this journey. Take the Irish by 20 and a half.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: That's a tough deal. That's a tough deal.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: You think that you've set yourself up and then all
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: of a sudden you realize, oh, it's not 24 hours.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: It's 70.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: They do the two night minimum. Like they do for
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Packers games at the hotels.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: I got to think they might have fired that one
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: in there.
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: He could just do a little staycation in the motel
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: six and, and stay and watch it in the hotel room.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: That's an option.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: And, you know, maybe go down and get some free
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: coffee at the pool or something as a free, I
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: don't know, continental breakfast or something.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: But I love the first comment is call, change the
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: date to a few weeks out, then cancel.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll do that. That would be a possibility. That
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: could work. Or you just, as my man Matt said,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: I'll see you at the game. Go Badgers. Go Badgers.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: All of a sudden you realize your plans are made
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: for you. Sometimes your own mistake ends up being a
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: great win for you.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: The Notre Dame game won't make or break the Badgers season.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: I'm more interested in the next two weeks, but it
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: is going to be an interesting measuring stick.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: I just.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Make it a competitive game into the second half, into
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: the fourth quarter if possible.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: They're not going to do jump around, but make it
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: a game at jump around. Have it be a game
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: at the end of the third quarter and you'll live
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: with the rest of the crowd.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Will the crowd mostly be Badger fans or 50-50 or
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: what are we looking at?
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: I think it's going to be a lot of Notre
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: Dame fans. It's technically a Notre Dame home game. Their
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: season ticket holders, I think, got first dibs at all tickets.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: So it should be somewhat split, but I would plan
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: on a lot of Notre Dame fans.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Okay. Not liking my postgame show on the way home
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: after the Badgers upset.
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: Come on now. All right.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: We're off on Monday. We'll see you on Tuesday. We'll
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: be talking Brewers-Cubs again, round two, Packers-Vikings, and Badgers-Notre Dame.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Have a great holiday weekend.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: See you Tuesday.
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: Peace.