Latest / The Huddle / 09/29/26 - Hour 1
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Night that he wanted to watch the whole game in
- 0:02Speaker 1: its entirety and then process it and take the morning off.
- 0:07Speaker 2: And we broke glass in case of emergency. And Dobie
- 0:11Speaker 2: Maxwell has joined the party for us. Hello, Dobe. Hello, gentlemen.
- 0:14Speaker 1: One doesn't just stumble into a huddle. One comes on purpose, ready,
- 0:19Speaker 1: loaded for bear. Lots to talk about today.
- 0:21Speaker 3: That's right.
- 0:22Speaker 2: Plenty to talk about.
- 0:22Speaker 1: It's a baseball palooza playoff quadruple header. It's going to
- 0:27Speaker 1: be epic. We're just watching because we're waiting to see
- 0:30Speaker 1: who the Brewers are going to play. We hate-watched the
- 0:33Speaker 1: Bears last night, but they pounded Philadelphia, which was a
- 0:36Speaker 1: bit of a surprise. The 2-0 Eagles looked almost as
- 0:39Speaker 1: hapless as the Packers last night.
- 0:42Speaker 2: Is that possible? Well, maybe not.
- 0:43Speaker 3: Unfortunately, I mean, I don't know.
- 0:45Speaker 2: Maybe not. Shawano High School looks better than Texas.
- 0:47Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 0:49Speaker 1: That was a tough one to process, but hey, with
- 0:52Speaker 1: a backup quarterback, 38-year-old Case Keenum. You know, I'm getting
- 0:55Speaker 1: in my feels, and Armin, this is going to hit
- 0:57Speaker 1: you right where Armin's of the age.
- 0:59Speaker 2: I'm ready.
- 0:59Speaker 3: Let's go. I'm ready at 5 a.m., yeah.
- 1:01Speaker 2: Well, we just saw Justin Verlander say goodbye.
- 1:04Speaker 3: Oh, that was great.
- 1:05Speaker 2: With his daughter running out to the mound. You see
- 1:07Speaker 2: that pitch he tossed? She fired one in there.
- 1:09Speaker 3: It was just an amazing moment, and we went over
- 1:12Speaker 3: it yesterday and everything. His daughter running out.
- 1:14Speaker 2: And these guys are about your age.
- 1:16Speaker 3: Right.
- 1:16Speaker 2: They are, unfortunately.
- 1:18Speaker 1: Last night, Case Keenum plays football for the first time
- 1:21Speaker 1: in like a thousand days, 38 years old. He runs
- 1:25Speaker 1: out of the tunnel as the starting quarterback when no
- 1:27Speaker 1: one on the planet thought there was a chance of
- 1:29Speaker 1: that happening with Williams and Bajan ahead of him on
- 1:33Speaker 1: the depth chart.
- 1:33Speaker 3: And not even him.
- 1:34Speaker 1: And he goes out and balls out in front of
- 1:37Speaker 1: his kids. His young kids got to see him play.
- 1:41Speaker 1: There are many guys who they play pro sports and
- 1:44Speaker 1: their kids are too young to notice it or remember,
- 1:47Speaker 1: and then they're done.
- 1:48Speaker 3: Or nonexistent, right?
- 1:49Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 1:50Speaker 3: And you've been around a lot of covering for years, Drew,
- 1:53Speaker 3: pro athletes, but that's usually not a thing. I mean,
- 1:56Speaker 3: there are some exceptions. Obviously, Prince Fielder had kids young,
- 1:59Speaker 3: and his kids were around, and there are some exceptions,
- 2:01Speaker 3: but most of the time, these guys are too locked
- 2:03Speaker 3: into their careers to start families early, or if they do,
- 2:07Speaker 3: like you said, they're very young and not of consciousness, right?
- 2:10Speaker 3: Is that the right way to put it? So there
- 2:11Speaker 3: are small exceptions, or some exceptions, but mostly... You don't
- 2:15Speaker 3: get that chance, right? So this is kind of, these
- 2:18Speaker 3: unique situations are rare occurrences. And then you hear guys
- 2:21Speaker 3: will say every now and then, oh, do you want
- 2:23Speaker 3: to play? Oh, enough to my kids remember me that
- 2:25Speaker 3: I did this.
- 2:26Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 2:26Speaker 3: You hear that too sometimes. But it would have been
- 2:29Speaker 3: a great story if it was anyone else but the Bears.
- 2:31Speaker 3: It's very funny.
- 2:32Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 2:33Speaker 3: You know what I mean? It was just hard for
- 2:34Speaker 3: me to really enjoy it. But it does hit you
- 2:36Speaker 3: in the feels when they're like, yeah, around your age.
- 2:38Speaker 2: There's something cute when they're little like that. Totally, totally.
- 2:41Speaker 1: Because I've heard Bruce Springsteen say many times, like, no
- 2:44Speaker 1: kid wants to see a stadium full of people cheer
- 2:47Speaker 1: their parents.
- 2:49Speaker 2: Good point.
- 2:49Speaker 3: Right?
- 2:49Speaker 1: And he's like, it's just his kids.
- 2:52Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
- 2:52Speaker 1: They were like, he's like, they had like, it's his job.
- 2:56Speaker 1: And they like living in a nice house. I bet
- 2:58Speaker 1: they do.
- 2:59Speaker 2: With horses. Allowance. Yeah, allowance.
- 3:01Speaker 3: And, you know.
- 3:02Speaker 1: But he's like, yeah, they weren't into it and stuff.
- 3:06Speaker 1: Now they look back and appreciate it and fond memories
- 3:08Speaker 1: of being backstage and playing with the other band members'
- 3:11Speaker 1: kids and stuff.
- 3:13Speaker 2: But in the moment. But there's something about sports where
- 3:15Speaker 2: it's like, yeah, daddy plays.
- 3:17Speaker 1: Now, the flip side of that is what if your
- 3:19Speaker 1: kids are cognizant, six, seven, eight, nine-year-olds, And you play
- 3:24Speaker 1: and you suck.
- 3:25Speaker 2: People are booing you.
- 3:27Speaker 1: At school, the kids are saying your dad sucks. That's
- 3:30Speaker 1: the thing. Or, well, what's it like? LeFleur's kids. When
- 3:34Speaker 1: you're coaching and your team's not doing good.
- 3:37Speaker 3: Or just assume that they... Or you're an assistant coach.
- 3:39Speaker 3: That coach, right. My dad says your dad doesn't know
- 3:43Speaker 3: how to call plays. Like, well, your dad's bank account's
- 3:47Speaker 3: probably not the same.
- 3:48Speaker 2: Yeah, your dad delivers pizza.
- 3:50Speaker 3: Right, and that's the other thing. I do remember, I mean,
- 3:52Speaker 3: when I was working... You know, early years at Miller
- 3:55Speaker 3: back then, Miller Park at the store, the fans on
- 3:59Speaker 3: the call team store. Now, a lot of the players
- 4:01Speaker 3: wives would come in or some of the families. And
- 4:03Speaker 3: there was rare occurrences where there were kids old enough.
- 4:05Speaker 3: But Brian Shouse's daughter, I think, was old, was like
- 4:08Speaker 3: a teenager because Brian Shouse, the lefty reliever, you remember?
- 4:11Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 4:11Speaker 3: And I remember her being kind of bored with baseball.
- 4:14Speaker 3: Like there was like two younger kids and then the
- 4:16Speaker 3: mom would come in. but she was kind of like bored.
- 4:19Speaker 3: But then we were, you know, we were kind of
- 4:21Speaker 3: like 16, 17. I think she was close to the
- 4:23Speaker 3: age and she was like, wanted to like, you know,
- 4:26Speaker 3: do teenager stuff, like, you know, gossip and walk around
- 4:29Speaker 3: the stadium and like eat, like wanted to talk to
- 4:31Speaker 3: like the kids working there because she was like, not
- 4:34Speaker 3: really excited to watch baseball. Very nice family. I remember,
- 4:37Speaker 3: but it was kind of a funny scenario. It's like, yeah.
- 4:39Speaker 3: How rare is it to have a major leaguer with
- 4:42Speaker 3: a teenage child like that? But every now and then
- 4:45Speaker 3: it happens, but, You're right. You didn't want to be bothered.
- 4:48Speaker 3: That reminded me when you said that, Drew, about like
- 4:50Speaker 3: didn't want to be bothered with like watching your parents work.
- 4:53Speaker 3: Like that's what it is. It's like take your kid
- 4:55Speaker 3: to work day. Oh, big deal. Oh, your parents are majorly.
- 4:58Speaker 2: Yeah, OK.
- 4:58Speaker 3: My dad's in the bullpen. You know what I mean?
- 5:00Speaker 3: It's kind of it's kind of funny to think about that.
- 5:03Speaker 3: I mean, it's something you probably appreciate as years go on. Right,
- 5:07Speaker 3: but you think of when Woodruff made his return a
- 5:10Speaker 3: couple years ago. Not this year. It was like his
- 5:12Speaker 3: kids were in the stands. It was in Florida. That
- 5:14Speaker 3: was a big deal. He could hear his daughter because
- 5:15Speaker 3: it was in Tampa, I think, or Miami. He could
- 5:18Speaker 3: hear his daughter yelling because nobody else was there, but
- 5:21Speaker 3: that was an exciting thing. So it's got to be
- 5:24Speaker 3: a cool experience for your kids to see you play.
- 5:26Speaker 2: Absolutely.
- 5:26Speaker 1: Yeah, so we got that with the Case Keenum, and
- 5:29Speaker 1: it was, you know, the Eagles roll in. They're 2-0
- 5:31Speaker 1: facing a third-string quarterback, Monday Night Football, and they just
- 5:35Speaker 1: get stomped.
- 5:35Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 5:36Speaker 1: They got in their own way. They put the ball
- 5:38Speaker 1: on the ground, threw picks, penalties. Jalen Hurts wasn't great.
- 5:43Speaker 1: They fell into the trap that everybody does, and you
- 5:47Speaker 1: would think a Super Bowl-winning pedigree coach would have bigger
- 5:50Speaker 1: huevos than Nick Sirianni did last night because Saquon.
- 5:55Speaker 2: Barkley is still a dude. Stud. And he's getting six,
- 5:58Speaker 2: seven yards of carry.
- 6:00Speaker 3: He's running all over the Bears.
- 6:01Speaker 1: And then when the Bears scored early in the third quarter,
- 6:03Speaker 1: they just decided, well, we're going to have to start throwing.
- 6:05Speaker 1: And it was just chuckapalooza. They're like, what are you doing?
- 6:09Speaker 1: Just hand the ball to the big dude. He's a
- 6:11Speaker 1: home run threat. He can go 80 yards on any carry.
- 6:15Speaker 1: Just keep gashing him for five to seven yards of
- 6:18Speaker 1: play and let the chips fall.
- 6:20Speaker 2: But nobody can do that in the modern NFL. We
- 6:22Speaker 2: got to get back in it. We got to abandon. That's,
- 6:24Speaker 2: you know. we've been saying variations of that with Matt
- 6:27Speaker 2: LaFleur forever. Yeah.
- 6:29Speaker 1: Like if the Packers, the Packers, I don't think they're
- 6:32Speaker 1: going to win if Jordan Love throws 50 passes, especially
- 6:35Speaker 1: with Swiss cheese offensive line. And yet that's where they are.
- 6:40Speaker 1: It's like, well, we can't, you know, runs not working.
- 6:42Speaker 1: Let's just keep throwing it. And that's, you know, you
- 6:45Speaker 1: have to stay the course. You have to keep running.
- 6:48Speaker 1: Even if it's not working, I, I get it. Yeah,
- 6:51Speaker 1: I get it. But there's just weird stuff going on.
- 6:53Speaker 3: There was an inflection point last night in the game.
- 6:55Speaker 3: And there's a couple of things. I don't know how
- 6:56Speaker 3: you guys thought of it, but like it felt like,
- 6:59Speaker 3: you know, the Eagles kind of rolled in there expecting
- 7:02Speaker 3: it to be an easier time, especially on defense. I
- 7:04Speaker 3: think they expected the Bears to kind of turtle and
- 7:07Speaker 3: not want to throw much and stick with the run
- 7:09Speaker 3: because it's a case Keenum situation. And Ben Johnson, to
- 7:12Speaker 3: his credit, didn't do that. He threw a lot, and
- 7:13Speaker 3: he probably caught them off guard. I think he did, yeah.
- 7:16Speaker 3: But then once, I think once the Eagles recalibrated, I mean,
- 7:19Speaker 3: because you had, okay, then they're up 7-0. Bears get
- 7:22Speaker 3: the ball back. They have a fourth and goal or
- 7:24Speaker 3: fourth and two or something in the red zone. They
- 7:27Speaker 3: go for it and miss. So I'm like, all right, well,
- 7:29Speaker 3: this is the chance for the Eagles because Ben Johnson
- 7:31Speaker 3: took the risk, didn't get it. By the way, I
- 7:33Speaker 3: don't know where the take the points crowd was. They
- 7:35Speaker 3: were out from the floor. where they take the points crowd.
- 7:38Speaker 3: I guess if it works out, it's fine, but the
- 7:40Speaker 3: Eagles get the ball. They marched down with Barkley and
- 7:42Speaker 3: then it was a, then, and then Hertz gets in
- 7:44Speaker 3: the blue medical tent. So they give it to Saquon
- 7:47Speaker 3: a couple of times in the goal line. He can't
- 7:49Speaker 3: score from the two or the one. And then Dalton
- 7:51Speaker 3: through the pick. And I think that's where they panicked
- 7:53Speaker 3: through and stopped. They kind of abandoned the run, which
- 7:56Speaker 3: they didn't have to because they were ripping off. Like
- 7:59Speaker 3: you said, a lot of yard chunk yards with Saquon
- 8:01Speaker 3: Barkley and they had their chance to do it. But,
- 8:04Speaker 3: in those inflection moments, they couldn't, you know, they didn't
- 8:07Speaker 3: say Quan couldn't get it in the goal line a
- 8:09Speaker 3: couple of times. And then they fell panic and third
- 8:12Speaker 3: and goal Dalton throws the pick. I don't know what
- 8:13Speaker 3: he's looking at. And that changed the entire game. That
- 8:16Speaker 3: was it right there. Very good at an analyzation. Yes. Well,
- 8:20Speaker 3: too much because it was honestly annoying to me. Like
- 8:22Speaker 3: I'm sitting there hoping the bears are going to lose
- 8:24Speaker 3: this game. Oh, we all were one and two. And
- 8:27Speaker 3: I see the Eagles doing all these dumb things. And
- 8:29Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm very annoyed by this result. I do
- 8:32Speaker 3: not want this to happen.
- 8:33Speaker 1: Was it harmonious at your house? Now, I know your
- 8:36Speaker 1: wife attended Purdue. She likes the Boilermakers.
- 8:38Speaker 3: Yeah, she's big, big Purdue.
- 8:40Speaker 2: She's a Cubs fan.
- 8:41Speaker 3: Cubs and Bulls.
- 8:42Speaker 2: And she's a Bulls fan. That's love if you could
- 8:44Speaker 2: be in the same house.
- 8:44Speaker 3: Does she like the Bears?
- 8:45Speaker 2: Does she like the Bears as well? Does she bear down?
- 8:46Speaker 3: She doesn't really like the Bears, like care about the
- 8:49Speaker 3: Bears much. And that makes it a lot easier. Let
- 8:51Speaker 3: me tell you, it makes it a lot. Bears were
- 8:53Speaker 3: never her thing for some reason. I think football was
- 8:56Speaker 3: never her thing as much until the Taylor Swift, Kelsey
- 8:58Speaker 3: stuff started. So now she's all in on the Chiefs.
- 9:01Speaker 3: And the Packers just for my own, you know, they
- 9:04Speaker 3: say happy wife, happy life. Happy arm and happy, I
- 9:07Speaker 3: don't know, it doesn't rhyme.
- 9:08Speaker 2: Happy farm.
- 9:09Speaker 3: But I think she's more, no, she really doesn't, you know,
- 9:12Speaker 3: care about the Bears.
- 9:13Speaker 1: But in a way, and Scott Dolphin, our resident Bears fan,
- 9:16Speaker 1: people are like, why do you talk about the Bears
- 9:17Speaker 1: so much? Well, Dolph's a Bears fan. It's the rival
- 9:20Speaker 1: next door. They're in the division. It's hard not to
- 9:22Speaker 1: talk about them. We didn't talk about them for 30 years.
- 9:25Speaker 1: And now we got to talk about them because they're good.
- 9:28Speaker 2: Right.
- 9:28Speaker 1: And so they won with their third string quarterback. But
- 9:31Speaker 1: they're mercurial. They score 59 in week one. They score
- 9:35Speaker 1: three in week two. And now they roll up a
- 9:37Speaker 1: team that everybody thinks is like back to being a
- 9:39Speaker 1: Super Bowl contender. So go figure. The NFL is designed
- 9:43Speaker 1: to bring chaos into your life. That's why we watch it.
- 9:47Speaker 1: So it's funny because the NFL, while the NFL was
- 9:50Speaker 1: putting that game forward. And by the way, if you're
- 9:52Speaker 1: looking forward to Thursday night when we do the huddle
- 9:54Speaker 1: at Pato, we'll be there from 5 to 7 p.m.
- 9:57Speaker 1: So the 5 o'clock club is what we opened Thursday.
- 10:00Speaker 1: at Dobie's suggestion for our early risers, insomniacs, and those
- 10:04Speaker 1: sociopaths outside the Y waiting for it to open at 5.
- 10:08Speaker 1: They can't just sit in their cars because there's nothing
- 10:11Speaker 1: really good on the radio before we hit the air.
- 10:14Speaker 1: So they can't just sit in their cars. So they
- 10:16Speaker 1: go into that airlock foyer and just wait.
- 10:19Speaker 2: You see them leaning. Some of them are looking at
- 10:20Speaker 2: their phones. I see that. I'm fascinated by it every morning.
- 10:23Speaker 1: I'm going to get to the health club at 10
- 10:26Speaker 1: to 5 and stand there and wait for the doors
- 10:28Speaker 1: to open so I can sprint in and get my
- 10:29Speaker 1: workout now.
- 10:30Speaker 2: You're a guy who walks every morning.
- 10:32Speaker 3: I do.
- 10:32Speaker 1: Generally at this time. So thank you for coming in.
- 10:34Speaker 1: Did you get the steps in yet already?
- 10:36Speaker 2: I got a few in.
- 10:37Speaker 3: Yeah. Add them up. That makes sense.
- 10:39Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean, I get out early enough. I
- 10:41Speaker 1: try to get it done before noon if I can.
- 10:43Speaker 1: And you'll be out of here in plenty of time.
- 10:44Speaker 1: Plenty of time.
- 10:46Speaker 2: But those people. So we fire up the 5 p.m.
- 10:49Speaker 1: Club on Thursdays at Pottawatomie Sportsbook in the annex from
- 10:51Speaker 1: 5 to 7.
- 10:52Speaker 2: And we get ready for Thursday night football. Thursday night
- 10:55Speaker 2: football this week.
- 10:56Speaker 1: Is the Browns, the suddenly resurgent Browns against the Aaron
- 10:59Speaker 1: Rodgers Steelers.
- 11:01Speaker 2: Oh, something's got to give. So that's the game. Rivalry there.
- 11:04Speaker 2: That would be getting ready. Oh, that's a classic rivalry.
- 11:06Speaker 2: That's Packers-Bears-esque. And they're both amazingly 2-1, so there's something,
- 11:10Speaker 2: there's some juice to it.
- 11:11Speaker 1: Like, you looked at that matchup early on, you go, ew,
- 11:13Speaker 1: hold your nose and watch that on Amazon Prime. No,
- 11:16Speaker 1: go to Pottawatomie, hang out with us, get some swag
- 11:18Speaker 1: and enjoy some delicious food.
- 11:21Speaker 2: And that's what we'll be doing on Thursday, Billy. We'll
- 11:23Speaker 2: be back for that.
- 11:24Speaker 3: But.
- 11:25Speaker 2: The Packers-Bears thing, the Bears are good, and meanwhile the
- 11:29Speaker 2: Packers are looking up the– they're on Hinge and Tinder,
- 11:34Speaker 2: if there is such a thing, for offensive linemen.
- 11:36Speaker 3: Swiping, swipe, swipe, swipe left, swipe left. They got a couple.
- 11:40Speaker 3: Swipe left.
- 11:40Speaker 2: Is Josh sitting? Anybody have his number? Yeah, well, they
- 11:42Speaker 2: get Lakin Tomlinson and Mekhi Becton.
- 11:46Speaker 1: So in case of emergency break glass, just like Dobie's
- 11:49Speaker 1: our relief pitcher, they got relief linemen coming in. because
- 11:52Speaker 1: they're just so brutal right now. How does that happen?
- 11:55Speaker 1: I think we all get to a point in our
- 11:56Speaker 1: lives sometimes, it's like, how did I get here?
- 11:59Speaker 2: That's so true. Seriously.
- 12:01Speaker 1: You got a $ 50 million quarterback, and you don't protect him?
- 12:04Speaker 2: Isn't that football 101, protect your quarterback?
- 12:06Speaker 1: Well, the Packers have done a good job historically of
- 12:08Speaker 1: when they let guys go, they do it at the
- 12:11Speaker 1: right time, and they have replacements, and they have a
- 12:14Speaker 1: pipeline and a flow of replacements.
- 12:16Speaker 2: So they made some bets. They made some bets on.
- 12:20Speaker 2: Jordan morgan and anthony belton with.
- 12:22Speaker 1: High draft picks banks obviously with the money aaron banks
- 12:24Speaker 1: with the money that they stay on the field it's
- 12:27Speaker 1: not patenting out sometimes it just doesn't work out and
- 12:29Speaker 1: the guys that they've let go including billy brings up
- 12:32Speaker 1: this guy cole van lanen who never got a shot
- 12:34Speaker 1: he was from like bayport right from wisconsin.
- 12:36Speaker 3: He's a local guy i don't know yeah exactly.
- 12:38Speaker 1: From wisconsin and that dude is now playing with jacksonville
- 12:41Speaker 1: which is like a super bowl team and he's got
- 12:43Speaker 1: some big a big money deal they didn't have room
- 12:45Speaker 1: for him they let him go Well, okay, but then
- 12:48Speaker 1: the guys that they stayed with aren't good, and they
- 12:51Speaker 1: don't have depth, and suddenly you realize how crucial it is,
- 12:54Speaker 1: and a big part of their success over the years,
- 12:56Speaker 1: over the 30 years that we were talking about when
- 12:58Speaker 1: they went from Favre to Rodgers into Love, yeah, they
- 13:01Speaker 1: had good quarterback play, but.
- 13:02Speaker 2: They also had good offensive line play.
- 13:03Speaker 3: Yeah, underrated players.
- 13:04Speaker 2: Very good. Absolutely. Like the guy you met in Sitton, Lang, Bakhtiari,
- 13:08Speaker 2: they've had some really good lines. What made Bakhtiari so good?
- 13:10Speaker 2: He stood out among all of them, though. He really did.
- 13:12Speaker 2: He really did.
- 13:12Speaker 1: It was a fourth-round pick came in and just had
- 13:14Speaker 1: great feet and stud.
- 13:17Speaker 3: Yeah, the technical specifics about why he's good, Billy's good
- 13:20Speaker 3: at answering that, but the fact that he was... you
- 13:22Speaker 3: know a fourth rounder so right didn't really expect necessarily
- 13:26Speaker 3: a star coming from that that um position or that
- 13:29Speaker 3: draft position and also he played left tackle you know
- 13:32Speaker 3: big important spot also he had long let's be honest
- 13:34Speaker 3: the long hair i mean there's something about these yeah
- 13:37Speaker 3: these long hair guys with that with you know the
- 13:39Speaker 3: bill schmidt's of the world on the offensive line that
- 13:41Speaker 3: just makes him a little more intimidating and a little
- 13:43Speaker 3: more funny well when the when the offensive line first
- 13:46Speaker 3: appeared on what movie was that? Pitch Perfect 2 or
- 13:48Speaker 3: something like that. And Bakhtiari was young and sitting and
- 13:51Speaker 3: laying raw. And then I'm like, all right, we've got
- 13:53Speaker 3: a group that knows how to have fun. Like, this
- 13:55Speaker 3: is pretty good. But it's interesting when you say that
- 13:58Speaker 3: because it's true because the Packers are always a draft
- 14:01Speaker 3: and develop team, especially with offensive linemen. So when they
- 14:04Speaker 3: go out midseason and make two pickups in the line,
- 14:06Speaker 3: you know things are bad.
- 14:07Speaker 2: Red flag. Yeah.
- 14:08Speaker 1: But listen, sometimes you have to pivot in life. That's
- 14:11Speaker 1: why I like it. This is my favorite Packers season.
- 14:14Speaker 1: I know that sounds absolutely crazy. I kind of get it, right?
- 14:17Speaker 1: My life is in a panic and a red flag
- 14:19Speaker 1: like that. So I'm thinking, okay, let's see what the
- 14:20Speaker 1: Packers are going to do. Oh, fire him on the floor. Okay,
- 14:23Speaker 1: who are you going to bring in? He got to
- 14:25Speaker 1: a point where he was an NFL head coach. He
- 14:27Speaker 1: did something right.
- 14:28Speaker 3: Sure, sure.
- 14:28Speaker 2: You got yourself in it. Get yourself out. Good and coots, too.
- 14:31Speaker 3: Yeah, and Dobie, you relate to that more than anybody.
- 14:35Speaker 3: I kind of thought about that this morning a little
- 14:36Speaker 3: bit when I was thinking about the situation. It's like...
- 14:38Speaker 3: you know sometimes you things aren't always going to be
- 14:41Speaker 3: what you expect but you got to pivot and the
- 14:43Speaker 3: Packers are trying to make the best of the situation
- 14:45Speaker 3: yep I mean you make Mekhi Becton right is a
- 14:48Speaker 3: guy that's had talent obviously won a Super Bowl yeah
- 14:50Speaker 3: he did yeah talk about Lake and Tommy and they
- 14:52Speaker 3: might have something cooking there the problem is offensive line
- 14:56Speaker 3: plays you guys know is all about chemistry about you
- 14:58Speaker 3: know playing together for a while and being used to
- 15:01Speaker 3: each other and they're not going to have that opportunity
- 15:03Speaker 3: you know they have to jump in mid-season and and
- 15:06Speaker 3: see what happens. But I don't want to say desperate
- 15:08Speaker 3: times called, but they're one and two and they don't
- 15:10Speaker 3: look very good. So there's a lot of football.
- 15:12Speaker 1: I know that sounds like Tony Robbins asking, but it
- 15:14Speaker 1: really does.
- 15:15Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 15:15Speaker 2: And there, and there is, like I said, this league
- 15:17Speaker 2: is designed for chaos.
- 15:19Speaker 3: Every week's different. Look at week three in the NFL.
- 15:21Speaker 3: It's been crazy. Yeah.
- 15:22Speaker 2: It was, I don't know what, I don't remember. Wasn't
- 15:25Speaker 2: Seattle or somebody, one of the Super Bowl teams, won
- 15:27Speaker 2: in two last year at the beginning or something?
- 15:29Speaker 3: That makes sense. I have to go back and look,
- 15:32Speaker 3: but it sounds right.
- 15:33Speaker 1: And no one had that matchup of Seahawks and New
- 15:38Speaker 1: England last year.
- 15:39Speaker 2: No one had that in week three.
- 15:40Speaker 1: So, yeah, buckle up. Now, the thing is, today, the
- 15:44Speaker 1: thrust of today's program, not the Bears. We will talk
- 15:47Speaker 1: to Dolph about it. Oh, by the way, here's a
- 15:48Speaker 1: glaring stat for you. I love these stats. Eagles are
- 15:50Speaker 1: the first team. The only team in the Super Bowl
- 15:54Speaker 1: era to have a game with less than 50 offensive plays.
- 15:57Speaker 1: That sounds familiar because the Packers have been running a
- 16:00Speaker 1: few plays because they've been threeing out a lot. Less
- 16:03Speaker 1: than 250 total yards, 10 or more penalties, three or
- 16:06Speaker 1: more turnovers, no.
- 16:09Speaker 2: Takeaways on defense, and no sacks.
- 16:13Speaker 1: In the entire Super Bowl era, which is now we're
- 16:15Speaker 1: entering Super Bowl 61 this year, no team has had
- 16:18Speaker 1: that combination of bad numbers.
- 16:20Speaker 2: So horrible night for the Eagles. They'll be back. They
- 16:23Speaker 2: were 2-0 going in. They're talented.
- 16:25Speaker 3: You'd expect more from them.
- 16:26Speaker 2: They'll be back. We expected way more now.
- 16:28Speaker 1: Sean Mannion, who has some roots in Green Bay, is
- 16:30Speaker 1: their offensive coordinator, still trying to find his mojo. But
- 16:33Speaker 1: I think you're right, Armand. I think the whole Case
- 16:34Speaker 1: Keenum thing, they didn't know what really to expect. And
- 16:37Speaker 1: I poo-poo the whole idea of unscouted looks and all that.
- 16:39Speaker 1: But it's kind of true because with Case Keenum, what
- 16:42Speaker 1: are you going to do? Go back and watch tape
- 16:44Speaker 1: of him playing for Houston?
- 16:45Speaker 3: Right. There was no chance for them to actually get
- 16:47Speaker 3: a beat on him.
- 16:48Speaker 1: There was nothing they could do. And Ben Johnson, we know,
- 16:51Speaker 1: a savvy player. offensive mind. So there were, it wasn't
- 16:55Speaker 1: on Scott and you're right. They thought he was just
- 16:57Speaker 1: going to hand the ball off to the two backs,
- 17:00Speaker 1: but they ended.
- 17:01Speaker 2: Up slinging it.
- 17:02Speaker 3: And well, the one thing is case is a perfect storm.
- 17:05Speaker 3: I think he started for seven different teams. He's been
- 17:07Speaker 3: in this role before. Absolutely. It's been years since he's
- 17:09Speaker 3: done it. So, but it's.
- 17:10Speaker 2: Muscle memory and it's like old man knowledge.
- 17:13Speaker 1: Like, you know, you play against the fat old guy
- 17:16Speaker 1: and pick up and the guy scores 20 on your
- 17:18Speaker 1: game slows down.
- 17:19Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. And that's what he had.
- 17:21Speaker 3: And the thing is, you know, that works usually in
- 17:23Speaker 3: the short term a lot better than like, could he
- 17:25Speaker 3: do it for a whole season? I don't know if
- 17:27Speaker 3: he could be that effective for a whole season, but
- 17:29Speaker 3: in short spurts in the right moment, you know, we
- 17:31Speaker 3: saw Malik do it as a backup last year. And
- 17:34Speaker 3: the thing is, he talked a lot about how he's
- 17:36Speaker 3: been kind of in a coach player role. Like, even
- 17:38Speaker 3: though he's been quarterback three, it's been a lot of
- 17:41Speaker 3: coaching in the meetings. Caleb, you know, he's the same
- 17:43Speaker 3: age as a lot of the coaches. He's been, he's been,
- 17:46Speaker 3: you know, helping Caleb along here as a coach and,
- 17:50Speaker 3: So he's been locked into the game plan. So if
- 17:52Speaker 3: nothing else, he was going to be able to be smart.
- 17:53Speaker 3: And I guess you have to get Ben Johnson credit
- 17:56Speaker 3: because you put him in the right position. I'm still
- 17:58Speaker 3: waiting for someone to start lobbying the system quarterback accusation.
- 18:02Speaker 2: Now, Kayla Williams.
- 18:03Speaker 3: Oh, look, anybody can do it. I remember when Matt
- 18:04Speaker 3: Flynn came and had his big game, that six touchdown game,
- 18:07Speaker 3: filling in for Rogers and everyone started wondering is Rogers
- 18:10Speaker 3: just a system quarterback. Is it the system that goofy stuff,
- 18:14Speaker 3: but yeah, What was the old, you know, we'll ask
- 18:18Speaker 3: Dolph about the Toby Keith line. I'm not as good
- 18:20Speaker 3: as I once was, but I'm good once as I
- 18:22Speaker 3: ever was. So Case did it. I mean, and it
- 18:24Speaker 3: was a night for him to remember. Whether or not
- 18:26Speaker 3: he could do it in a stretch, I'm not sure.
- 18:28Speaker 3: I bet he can't sit on the toilet this morning.
- 18:29Speaker 3: He's so sore. That's a good point. How he's going
- 18:31Speaker 3: to feel today is different.
- 18:32Speaker 1: He did joke about having to get in an ice
- 18:34Speaker 1: tub right after the game because he's not used to it.
- 18:37Speaker 3: I also saw a quote about him talking about how
- 18:40Speaker 3: preparation this week And, you know, this is something we
- 18:44Speaker 3: roll our eyes with, Drew, is like the tough guy
- 18:46Speaker 3: speak where he's like, I studied 16 hours a day
- 18:49Speaker 3: this week. I turned off my phone and didn't even
- 18:51Speaker 3: talk to my kids or my wife. Okay, great. Yeah,
- 18:53Speaker 3: you're really cool.
- 18:54Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 18:54Speaker 3: But that's like a badge of honor a lot of
- 18:57Speaker 3: times for people like in football. They say, I slept
- 19:01Speaker 3: at the facility. I didn't talk to anybody. It was,
- 19:03Speaker 3: you know, tunnel vision.
- 19:05Speaker 2: I'm divorced, but I'm two and one.
- 19:06Speaker 3: Right. Right. Love it. Listen, it paid off. I mean,
- 19:10Speaker 3: it paid off for him and the Bears to have
- 19:13Speaker 3: a good performance as much as it's hard to swallow. And, Dobie,
- 19:17Speaker 3: you were always around the southern part of the state,
- 19:19Speaker 3: so you were always interacting with the Bears. Oh, yeah.
- 19:21Speaker 2: I'm on the border. I see it all the time. Well,
- 19:22Speaker 2: we're going to talk about that because it's Baseballpalooza today.
- 19:25Speaker 1: And the existential question, as we shift our attention now
- 19:29Speaker 1: from watching the Bears dominate Monday Night Football, existential question
- 19:34Speaker 1: in the good land right now, is who do you
- 19:37Speaker 1: want the Brewers to face if you can pick your opponent?
- 19:39Speaker 1: San Diego, which is the hottest team in baseball, or
- 19:42Speaker 1: the always hated but never feared Cubs. Who do you
- 19:44Speaker 1: want the Brewers to face come Saturday when they fire
- 19:47Speaker 1: up game one of the NLDS at American Family Field?
- 19:50Speaker 1: Who do you want Miz to face down? There's a
- 19:52Speaker 1: lot of layers to that question. The Brewers won 103 games.
- 19:56Speaker 1: The champions fear no one. But if you had a choice,
- 20:00Speaker 1: who would you pick?
- 20:00Speaker 2: This is the armonizing question because armonizing, For a long time,
- 20:03Speaker 2: you were afraid of that playoff matchup against the Cubs.
- 20:05Speaker 2: It was glorious last year.
- 20:06Speaker 1: That was the Brewers World Series was vanquishing the Cubs
- 20:10Speaker 1: last year. But we'll talk about that and give that
- 20:13Speaker 1: some attention as the baseball playoffs fire up today. Also, yesterday,
- 20:17Speaker 1: Billy and I were hanging out at Bucs Media Day.
- 20:19Speaker 1: We can talk a little bit about that. It's a
- 20:21Speaker 1: new start, totally new start for the Bucs. First time
- 20:24Speaker 1: in 13 years, no Giannis at Media Day. I saw
- 20:26Speaker 1: Giannis on TV in a heat uniform at Puckard.
- 20:30Speaker 2: Yeah, really hard to see. It's tough.
- 20:32Speaker 3: It's weird.
- 20:33Speaker 2: It's a new... Different number, too.
- 20:34Speaker 1: It's a whole new ballgame. Yeah, he wanted to keep
- 20:36Speaker 1: 34 for the Milwaukee. He keeps talking about the iguanas
- 20:40Speaker 1: in Miami.
- 20:40Speaker 2: And shelve it.
- 20:41Speaker 3: So they're in that honeymoon phase with him now. Of course.
- 20:44Speaker 3: Not that he... I mean, he's... Listen, I know he left,
- 20:46Speaker 3: but I'm not going to jilted lower this. He's still funny.
- 20:48Speaker 3: I still enjoy him when he's... He's talking about the
- 20:50Speaker 3: iguanas and how he doesn't like... He needs to call exterminators.
- 20:53Speaker 3: But it's just funny to see Miami media and fans
- 20:56Speaker 3: going through what... The honeymoon phase with Giannis now.
- 20:59Speaker 2: You can't hate him, okay? I don't want you to... No,
- 21:02Speaker 2: you can't. Build the statue. It's okay. We're off and running.
- 21:07Speaker 1: Dobie Maxwell's in for Billy today and again tomorrow when
- 21:11Speaker 1: Hunter will be in for Armin tomorrow. Hunter joins us
- 21:14Speaker 1: at 725 to talk about the Brewers. Whoever the Brewers play,
- 21:18Speaker 1: Hunter's going on the road. He's traveling. He's covering the playoffs.
- 21:22Speaker 1: He's all in, full boat. He's making reservations and And
- 21:25Speaker 1: making plans. We'll talk to that kid. Our boots on
- 21:28Speaker 1: the ground when it comes to baseball. He'll join us
- 21:30Speaker 1: at 725. Dolph will be here for halftime. We want
- 21:32Speaker 1: to hear from you. It's Buy or Sell Tuesday, 877-794-1973.
- 21:36Speaker 1: To the NicoletLaw.com talk text line. Check in with us.
- 21:40Speaker 1: Ask us a Buy or Sell prop. And just say
- 21:41Speaker 1: hi to Dobie.
- 21:43Speaker 2: Hey, hey. Dobie's here. You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
- 21:50Speaker 3: Oh, baby.
- 21:52Speaker 1: Drew and Dobie with Armin Sarian bringing it to you.
- 21:54Speaker 1: Dobie's in for Billy today. Billy enjoying a couple of
- 21:57Speaker 1: days off in this Indian summer. Although, I feel bad
- 22:00Speaker 1: because if he had anything planned with the kids today,
- 22:02Speaker 1: I think it's going to rain this afternoon.
- 22:03Speaker 2: That's what I hear.
- 22:05Speaker 3: Yeah, I should have had the genius idea to, you know,
- 22:07Speaker 3: cut the grass yesterday.
- 22:09Speaker 1: Oh, you clearly weren't watching the weather because they did say...
- 22:12Speaker 1: You might be able to do it... Are you going
- 22:13Speaker 1: home after the show or do you have to work
- 22:14Speaker 1: another show.
- 22:15Speaker 3: In the afternoon?
- 22:15Speaker 2: No, I'll go home. Well, then you got to cut it.
- 22:17Speaker 2: You better cut it right when you get home.
- 22:19Speaker 3: It's really funny because... You know, they always talk about
- 22:21Speaker 3: chasing points when it comes to maybe sports wagering or
- 22:24Speaker 3: fantasy football. If a guy has a good week the
- 22:27Speaker 3: week before, you pick him up. It's like, I didn't
- 22:30Speaker 3: think about it. The weather was great yesterday, so I
- 22:32Speaker 3: thought of all the things I was going to do yesterday.
- 22:34Speaker 3: I could have done. I'm going to do them today.
- 22:35Speaker 3: And then it's not going to happen.
- 22:38Speaker 2: When is the last cut of the year?
- 22:40Speaker 3: That's the thing. Great question, because the weather is still
- 22:44Speaker 3: pretty good, and the rain is raining, and it's still growing.
- 22:47Speaker 3: You have to keep cutting through. For my neighbor, it's May.
- 22:51Speaker 2: It looks like a jungle. I love it.
- 22:54Speaker 3: You don't enforce the ordinance like a North Shore Nancy
- 22:56Speaker 3: or something like that, like a NIMBY?
- 22:58Speaker 2: That's funny. Well, yeah, Armin, you got to have that.
- 23:00Speaker 2: And then the last cut, and then you got to
- 23:01Speaker 2: put down some weed and feed. Yeah, I guess so.
- 23:04Speaker 2: Clean the mower. Leaf removal.
- 23:05Speaker 3: We also have a lot of, yeah, I was going
- 23:07Speaker 3: to say a lot of leaves that are about to fall. Yeah.
- 23:09Speaker 3: You know, we have some nice trees, but it's like,
- 23:12Speaker 3: get the wheelbarrows out. The leaves are going to be crazy.
- 23:14Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
- 23:15Speaker 3: So it is what it is. It's part of life,
- 23:17Speaker 3: you know.
- 23:18Speaker 2: All right.
- 23:19Speaker 1: Reach us, 877-794-1973. Obviously, we're still processing that the Bears
- 23:23Speaker 1: won a game last night.
- 23:25Speaker 2: They could still flop, too. Don't lose hope. Oh, they
- 23:28Speaker 2: absolutely can.
- 23:28Speaker 3: Remember, the Vikings have to. I can't deal with the
- 23:30Speaker 3: Vikings and Bears being combined five and more.
- 23:32Speaker 2: Well, Lions are starting off, too.
- 23:34Speaker 3: Yeah, what's up with that? Mike Witt on YouTube is, yes,
- 23:37Speaker 3: what's up, guys? Part of the 5 o'clock club. Bought
- 23:40Speaker 3: two tickets for the Badgers game Saturday. Beats the party.
- 23:42Speaker 2: How about that?
- 23:43Speaker 3: How about that? So there you go. I mean, maybe
- 23:45Speaker 3: the Sparty, the Bucky energy is going to keep increasing
- 23:48Speaker 3: after that win. Pink Flamingo, the Aaron Banks decision, still hurting,
- 23:52Speaker 3: or insane, still hurting. Injured going into the preseason. Good morning, fellas.
- 23:56Speaker 3: Paul from Kenosha. And P. Chang as well. Happy Taco Tuesday, fellas.
- 24:00Speaker 3: So all the 5 o'clock clubbers are rolling in.
- 24:03Speaker 2: Taco Tuesday is still a thing, huh? You guys got
- 24:05Speaker 2: a good Taco Tuesday place?
- 24:07Speaker 3: Yeah, it's called My Kitchen.
- 24:10Speaker 2: I'll be over about 5.30. Drew and his lovely bride, Barb,
- 24:13Speaker 2: will come over, too.
- 24:15Speaker 3: Let's go. No, I do have a great Taco Tuesday place.
- 24:18Speaker 3: It's called the $ 7 Box at Taco Bell.
- 24:20Speaker 2: Oh, that's good.
- 24:21Speaker 3: You know?
- 24:21Speaker 1: There's a place, as you said, Paul, from Kenosha's List,
- 24:24Speaker 1: and I live in Bristol, and there's a place in
- 24:26Speaker 1: Trever called, I can't think of the name of it
- 24:29Speaker 1: right now, but it's right in the corner of C
- 24:31Speaker 1: and 83, and they've got awesome tacos Tuesday.
- 24:34Speaker 2: It's cheap. It's good.
- 24:35Speaker 1: Shrimp, beef, chicken, the whole thing. It's not a paid spot,
- 24:37Speaker 1: but it's an awesome taco truck.
- 24:39Speaker 3: True. Taco trucks are all the rage these days. Everyone's
- 24:41Speaker 3: got a taco truck.
- 24:42Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
- 24:43Speaker 3: That's true, too. I like that.
- 24:45Speaker 2: Yeah. Me, too. Everyone's got a spot. All right.
- 24:49Speaker 1: 877-794-1973 gets you in NicoletLaw.com talking text line. We mentioned
- 24:52Speaker 1: it's the baseball palooza today. This is a day, and
- 24:55Speaker 1: this is a day that our buddy Mike Heller and
- 24:57Speaker 1: I used to argue about this because Mike Heller- He
- 24:59Speaker 1: was always aghast that they play MLB meaningful playoff games,
- 25:03Speaker 1: first-round playoff games during the day.
- 25:05Speaker 3: During the day. And they take kind of the approach
- 25:08Speaker 3: that the NFL would like to take, but a lot of,
- 25:13Speaker 3: you know, instead of having four games at once, they
- 25:15Speaker 3: want to stretch all the games out so to get
- 25:18Speaker 3: a possible audience all day and to have 10 hours
- 25:21Speaker 3: of baseball. And I get the theory. The question is,
- 25:23Speaker 3: who's going to be able to sit down and watch
- 25:24Speaker 3: every game, though? You know?
- 25:26Speaker 1: Invalids.
- 25:27Speaker 3: But it is good if you want the opportunity to
- 25:30Speaker 3: not miss a game, right?
- 25:31Speaker 2: Yeah, and he talked about that. Why would they have these?
- 25:34Speaker 2: Why can't they put them at night? Well, there's a
- 25:36Speaker 2: lot of games to squeeze in. Baseball is a sport
- 25:40Speaker 2: where they play every day, and teams are playing at
- 25:42Speaker 2: the same time all the time. But my thing was, oh, Mike,
- 25:45Speaker 2: then you must hate March Madness that first day. They
- 25:48Speaker 2: fire up at noon.
- 25:50Speaker 3: That's a good point.
- 25:51Speaker 1: Well, that goes all day, and they play during the day.
- 25:53Speaker 1: That's their biggest marquee event. It's during the day. it's
- 25:58Speaker 1: two days. That's kind of what this is too, right?
- 26:00Speaker 1: It all used to be during the day. When we
- 26:03Speaker 1: get to the next round, you'll be seeing more night
- 26:05Speaker 1: games and stuff.
- 26:06Speaker 3: Let's be honest. People can watch now these days. It's
- 26:08Speaker 3: not like you used to have to be home to
- 26:10Speaker 3: watch on your TV set. Like, OK, it's appointment viewing.
- 26:13Speaker 3: We're home. People didn't watch things. But there's every office
- 26:16Speaker 3: in America. Everybody has a TV at work. I mean, like,
- 26:19Speaker 3: let's be honest. Or, you know, on their computer, on
- 26:21Speaker 3: their phone, on their laptop. I think that the notion
- 26:24Speaker 3: that people can't watch TV during the day if they're
- 26:27Speaker 3: working is sort of gone in that sense. And that's
- 26:29Speaker 3: probably why it makes it more palatable.
- 26:31Speaker 1: Armin, are you of a certain vintage that you listen
- 26:34Speaker 1: to baseball games in class in grade school?
- 26:37Speaker 3: We did. I would try to sneak it in if
- 26:40Speaker 3: I could.
- 26:41Speaker 1: No, no, I'm talking about the whole class. We did
- 26:44Speaker 1: on opening day, we did a unit where the teacher
- 26:47Speaker 1: taught us how to keep score.
- 26:48Speaker 2: Beautiful.
- 26:49Speaker 3: What kind of class was that?
- 26:51Speaker 2: It was cool. He taught us how to keep score,
- 26:53Speaker 2: and then we listened to the first couple innings on
- 26:56Speaker 2: opening day, and we kept score.
- 26:58Speaker 3: Beautiful.
- 26:59Speaker 2: That sounds like a great school district. We learned how
- 27:01Speaker 2: to score bowling in grade school. We did that. I
- 27:04Speaker 2: think we did, too. Yeah, come to think about it.
- 27:06Speaker 2: I come to think about it.
- 27:07Speaker 3: It's an important skill when you grew up in Wisconsin.
- 27:09Speaker 3: It is. It felt like if you wanted to be
- 27:10Speaker 3: part of the social fabric of Wisconsin, you had.
- 27:12Speaker 2: To be able to score bowling. Well, they taught square
- 27:14Speaker 2: dancing and sheep's head.
- 27:16Speaker 3: Yeah, right, exactly.
- 27:17Speaker 1: Not sheep's head. I still don't know how to play
- 27:20Speaker 1: sheep's head. I did as a kid, and I forgot.
- 27:22Speaker 1: My grandpa taught me. I don't play cribbage, sheep's head.
- 27:26Speaker 1: That's a Michigan game. No, I don't play any of
- 27:28Speaker 1: that stuff. I guess because we never really went up
- 27:31Speaker 1: north as a family. We stuck around. We stayed local.
- 27:34Speaker 3: You can't play sheep's head. You can't score bowling. Boy,
- 27:37Speaker 3: you're going to be a social outcast in Wisconsin.
- 27:39Speaker 2: Move to Minnesota. I can binge drink. I can overeat.
- 27:42Speaker 3: All right, you're in.
- 27:43Speaker 2: I can overeat. I can binge drink. Other than that, hey, look,
- 27:46Speaker 2: Wisconsin plates.
- 27:47Speaker 3: You know like the great sommeliers in France? They can
- 27:51Speaker 3: taste the dirt of a region in France, and they
- 27:53Speaker 3: can tell what kind of wine it is. It's like, well,
- 27:56Speaker 3: you can have one smell. Is it a Polish sausage,
- 27:59Speaker 3: an Italian sausage? I can do a blind cheese test.
- 28:02Speaker 2: Oh, that's Swiss. Steve on the talk and text line
- 28:05Speaker 2: has a thought.
- 28:05Speaker 1: Now, again, the existential question is, do you want to
- 28:07Speaker 1: face the Cubs in the first round for the Brewers
- 28:09Speaker 1: come Saturday? That would mean they're hot because they would
- 28:12Speaker 1: have just dispatched the Padres. And the Padres are the
- 28:16Speaker 1: hottest team of all, playing at home, which is sneaky.
- 28:20Speaker 1: Petco Park, sneaky, one of the best environments in baseball.
- 28:22Speaker 2: A tough place.
- 28:23Speaker 1: The Brewers went there and got their asses waxed.
- 28:25Speaker 3: Yep, sure did.
- 28:26Speaker 2: And then they went to L.A.
- 28:28Speaker 1: And kind of had the turning point of their season,
- 28:30Speaker 1: like winning three out of four from the Dodgers right
- 28:32Speaker 1: after that. And Billy and I, that was the first
- 28:34Speaker 1: Packers preseason game when the first night of that Dodgers series,
- 28:38Speaker 1: and because we were on late.
- 28:39Speaker 2: We were watching it unfold, and the Brewers had a
- 28:42Speaker 2: snatchback win in that first game on a Thursday night
- 28:44Speaker 2: of a four-game series.
- 28:45Speaker 3: Kind of a turning point type win.
- 28:46Speaker 2: Absolutely, an inflection point of the season. Who started there?
- 28:50Speaker 1: They put their foot in the ground, and then from
- 28:52Speaker 1: there on, they barely lost a series after that.
- 28:54Speaker 2: They were really good. So the Padres are legit.
- 28:59Speaker 1: But if the Padres come to Milwaukee, they're not bringing
- 29:02Speaker 1: 20,000 fans with them.
- 29:05Speaker 2: So the atmosphere will be decidedly different.
- 29:07Speaker 1: The secondary ticket price market will drop too, because right
- 29:10Speaker 1: now tickets for game one and game two, Saturday and
- 29:13Speaker 1: Sunday are looking pretty expensive, but that's because there's a
- 29:17Speaker 1: lot of Cubs projection going on, right? There's like a
- 29:20Speaker 1: lot of prospecting going on. So champions here, no one,
- 29:23Speaker 1: the Brewers can beat anybody. They can lose anybody. Let's
- 29:25Speaker 1: let it roll. We've been talking about this and like dope.
- 29:28Speaker 1: You know, you're of a vintage where we're not used
- 29:30Speaker 1: to this, and it'll never be old with the Brewers
- 29:32Speaker 1: having the best record in baseball. ever the milwaukee braves
- 29:35Speaker 1: went to two world series winning one they never won
- 29:38Speaker 1: 100 games and they were a excellent team never had
- 29:41Speaker 1: a losing season in 12 years never had a losing
- 29:43Speaker 1: season but never won 100 games winning 100 games is
- 29:45Speaker 1: a statement that's a sure that's remarkable it's as hard
- 29:48Speaker 1: to do as losing losing 100 basically and which they've
- 29:51Speaker 1: in their entire history they've done each once now it's
- 29:54Speaker 1: balanced out i'll take this yeah i'll take this and
- 29:58Speaker 1: we had this.
- 29:58Speaker 2: Like bait on TV.
- 29:59Speaker 1: To me, it wasn't much of a debate, but it
- 30:02Speaker 1: was like my cohorts, Steph Sutton and Dario Melendez, were
- 30:06Speaker 1: saying like, if the Brewers, yeah, it's great and all,
- 30:08Speaker 1: but if they don't win the World Series or even
- 30:09Speaker 1: make it to the World Series, it's just a waste
- 30:11Speaker 1: and it's still a failed season.
- 30:13Speaker 2: I'm like, you can't fail the season.
- 30:15Speaker 1: On the show, I say that 90% of being a
- 30:17Speaker 1: sports fan is getting kicked in the nuts. Well, 90%
- 30:21Speaker 1: of baseball is the regular season. Less than 10% is
- 30:25Speaker 1: barely the.
- 30:27Speaker 2: Is the playoffs.
- 30:28Speaker 1: If you could only watch one, you can't watch any
- 30:32Speaker 1: regular season, but you can dial into the playoffs, or
- 30:34Speaker 1: you can watch the regular season, but then miss the
- 30:36Speaker 1: playoffs and have to read about it and hear about
- 30:38Speaker 1: it secondhand. I think I'm in for the 162. It's
- 30:42Speaker 1: my companion throughout the summer. That's sustaining six months as
- 30:46Speaker 1: opposed to four weeks. I am wearing a Brewer's cap,
- 30:49Speaker 1: which you gave me, and I wear it proudly. It's
- 30:52Speaker 1: amazing to me. People come up to me when I
- 30:54Speaker 1: was just in Las Vegas. I was going to mention that.
- 30:56Speaker 1: I was going to ask about that. Oh, yeah, you
- 30:58Speaker 1: guys got to talk about that.
- 30:59Speaker 3: I'm glad you brought it up.
- 31:00Speaker 2: But they come up to you, are you from Milwaukee?
- 31:02Speaker 2: Are you a Brewers fan?
- 31:02Speaker 3: Oh, how's it going?
- 31:03Speaker 2: Oh, I'm just cheering for that team. They're amazing. It's
- 31:05Speaker 2: like a magnet. It's unbelievable. Yeah, I want the Brewers
- 31:08Speaker 2: to win and all that, but it's not, you can't say, well,
- 31:11Speaker 2: it was a failed season. They won 103 games. And
- 31:14Speaker 2: I was trying to express to them, like, you can't,
- 31:17Speaker 2: it's impossible to win the World Series between March and October.
- 31:22Speaker 2: but you can put yourself in position to do it.
- 31:24Speaker 2: And the Brewers have done that. If they win the
- 31:26Speaker 2: most games in the major leagues and get the first
- 31:28Speaker 2: round by every year, if they do that five years
- 31:30Speaker 2: in a row, they're damn sure going to stumble into
- 31:32Speaker 2: a World Series championship. You would think. And that's the
- 31:35Speaker 2: better route than being the wild card and having to
- 31:37Speaker 2: claw through.
- 31:38Speaker 3: And that's kind of the idea of Bites of the Apple, right?
- 31:40Speaker 2: That is exactly it. And that's what people didn't like about, oh,
- 31:44Speaker 2: Bites of the Apple, you're never going to win.
- 31:45Speaker 3: Sure, sure, sure.
- 31:46Speaker 1: But you have to do this. You can't put yourself
- 31:49Speaker 1: in a better position. And this year, for whatever reason,
- 31:52Speaker 1: I might come back and look at this segment and go,
- 31:55Speaker 1: you were an idiot.
- 31:56Speaker 2: But it feels different.
- 31:57Speaker 3: You can't get.
- 31:58Speaker 2: It feels different with this team. They've been through it.
- 32:00Speaker 2: They went to.
- 32:01Speaker 1: They were a series away from... They were four wins
- 32:03Speaker 1: away from the World Series last year and got stomped
- 32:06Speaker 1: by the Dodgers, who played their best four-game window in
- 32:08Speaker 1: those four games of the entire season. The Dodgers never
- 32:11Speaker 1: looked stronger and more indomitable because they almost lost the
- 32:14Speaker 1: damn World Series in Game 7.
- 32:16Speaker 2: So the Brewers ran into a buzzsaw. Okay, that happens.
- 32:19Speaker 1: Baseball has the most random postseason because in a three-game
- 32:22Speaker 1: series like we're seeing, you can be the biggest underdog
- 32:25Speaker 1: in a three-game series. You win Game 1... You got
- 32:27Speaker 1: a really damn good chance. And winning one game in baseball,
- 32:30Speaker 1: not that hard. The A's won a couple. It's the
- 32:37Speaker 1: most random of the postseasons. Now you hope that it
- 32:40Speaker 1: equals out over a five or seven game series. You
- 32:43Speaker 1: hope that the best team prevails. Doesn't always happen. But
- 32:46Speaker 1: the thing is, the Brewers can do nothing else.
- 32:48Speaker 2: And in the past, Chris Hook said it best, like
- 32:50Speaker 2: last year, it was just like, all right, we're going
- 32:51Speaker 2: to go Freddy Peralta and then we'll figure it out.
- 32:54Speaker 1: Well, now it's Miz, Henderson... gas or mate, then we'll
- 32:59Speaker 1: figure it out. There's a little bit more depth there.
- 33:02Speaker 1: And again, if the bats go silent the way they
- 33:05Speaker 1: did in past post-seasons, it can get ugly early.
- 33:10Speaker 2: But they're in the best position. There's nothing else they
- 33:12Speaker 2: could have done. The season, the regular season right now,
- 33:14Speaker 2: A +.
- 33:17Speaker 3: Clearly.
- 33:17Speaker 2: How do you beat it?
- 33:18Speaker 3: You can't beat it. You can't.
- 33:19Speaker 1: You had the best record in ball, 103 wins for
- 33:21Speaker 1: the first time. Everybody's pretty healthy. A-plus for the regular season. Now,
- 33:27Speaker 1: If they lose in the first round, the playoffs is
- 33:30Speaker 1: an F. To me, that's still at least a C.
- 33:33Speaker 1: I'd grade it even higher because, again, the preponderance of it,
- 33:36Speaker 1: the majority.
- 33:37Speaker 2: Of it was awesome. Compounded months of ecstasy. Exactly.
- 33:41Speaker 3: Exactly.
- 33:42Speaker 2: Hey, Maggie in Georgia said, always great to hear Dobie.
- 33:44Speaker 2: Thank you, guys. Maggie in Georgia, big fan of Dobie Maxwell,
- 33:47Speaker 2: who's in with us today. That's one, two. Yeah, let's go.
- 33:49Speaker 2: Thank you. We'll build it fan by fan. I want
- 33:51Speaker 2: to get double figures before the end of the year.
- 33:53Speaker 2: All right, Armin and Dobie, we've got to compare notes
- 33:55Speaker 2: on Vegas. Yeah, I was excited for you when I
- 33:57Speaker 2: saw you play there. Few people enjoy Las Vegas in the.
- 34:01Speaker 1: Armin even loves Las Vegas when he's not there and
- 34:03Speaker 1: he's reading about it and looking for deals and looking.
- 34:05Speaker 2: For, you know.
- 34:06Speaker 3: I know. I like the weird stuff about it.
- 34:08Speaker 2: The shrimp and stuff. Yeah, exactly.
- 34:10Speaker 3: Right. The little stories and stuff. It's fun.
- 34:12Speaker 2: We'll take a quick break. Your thoughts, though. Who do
- 34:14Speaker 2: you want to face? Does it matter to you? Will
- 34:16Speaker 2: you hate watch the Cubs? Do you cheer against the
- 34:18Speaker 2: Cubs even now?
- 34:19Speaker 1: Or do you say, well, bring them on and let
- 34:21Speaker 1: them come to Milwaukee on Saturday and get their ass kicked?
- 34:24Speaker 2: I can go either way. I'm kind of agnostic on it.
- 34:27Speaker 1: It will be a different atmosphere in the ballpark, though,
- 34:29Speaker 1: because the Padres don't bring 20,000 fans.
- 34:32Speaker 2: Period. Full stop. I'm just glad the Brewers are in it. Yeah,
- 34:35Speaker 2: me too. You're in the huddle.
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- 34:43Speaker 1: huddled up on a Tuesday in the good land. Reach
- 34:45Speaker 1: us at 877-794-1973. Love the 5 o'clock club members. You
- 34:51Speaker 1: early risers, insomniacs, sociopaths waiting for the health club to open.
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- 34:57Speaker 1: Or if you're joining us on YouTube, Facebook, and X
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- 35:00Speaker 1: the whole show no matter when you listen to it.
- 35:02Speaker 3: A lot of people do that, I think.
- 35:04Speaker 1: A lot of comments on the side rail of the
- 35:06Speaker 1: chat on YouTube. We'll read the comments there as well
- 35:10Speaker 1: as at 877-794-1973. Steve is asking a question that I've
- 35:14Speaker 1: gotten before. He said, hey, if the Phillies happen to
- 35:17Speaker 1: beat the Braves, would we still play the Cubs or
- 35:20Speaker 1: the Padres even though they're the lowest seed wild card?
- 35:23Speaker 2: Yeah, the bracket is the bracket.
- 35:25Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't do a reseeding.
- 35:26Speaker 2: They don't do a reseed. The bracket is the bracket.
- 35:29Speaker 1: And the thought is that, you know, number three should
- 35:32Speaker 1: beat number six. So number one or number two should
- 35:35Speaker 1: play number three. If you follow my thinking.
- 35:38Speaker 2: Yeah. Because the Dodgers are the number two seed. Like
- 35:40Speaker 2: the NCAA tournament, basically. Yeah.
- 35:42Speaker 1: The Brewers shouldn't be forced to face like the Braves
- 35:45Speaker 1: in the, you know, first round because they have the
- 35:48Speaker 1: top seed. So that would be the, that would fall
- 35:50Speaker 1: to the Dodgers.
- 35:51Speaker 3: They assume chalk and. Although this year it's kind of
- 35:54Speaker 3: weird because the NL is so strong. Pick your poison
- 35:57Speaker 3: in a lot of ways. I don't know who you'd
- 35:59Speaker 3: even pick. If you're a fan of the Brewers, and
- 36:01Speaker 3: that's part of your question, Drew, obviously. If you're a
- 36:03Speaker 3: fan of the Brewers and you had a choice, there's
- 36:05Speaker 3: no Astros or White Sox or something that you would
- 36:07Speaker 3: just cherry pick and say, oh, that's the team to play.
- 36:10Speaker 2: No. And even then, that's not really how baseball works.
- 36:13Speaker 3: It's not.
- 36:13Speaker 2: It's not. But I think you'd still choose that. I mean,
- 36:17Speaker 2: I thought going in last night that the Phillies would
- 36:19Speaker 2: boat race the Bears.
- 36:21Speaker 3: Or the Eagles.
- 36:23Speaker 1: The Philadelphia would. So we shall see. But yeah, I
- 36:28Speaker 1: think the Brewers just took the Phillies too. And in
- 36:32Speaker 1: games that the Phillies had to win, the Brewers stomped them.
- 36:37Speaker 2: What does that mean in the playoffs?
- 36:38Speaker 3: Not much.
- 36:38Speaker 1: Because the Brewers stomped the Dodgers a year ago and
- 36:40Speaker 1: then met them in the playoffs and got rolled. That's
- 36:44Speaker 1: the randomness that is baseball. The karma points, you've got
- 36:47Speaker 1: to think it's the Brewers' turn.
- 36:49Speaker 2: Yeah, it sure feels that way.
- 36:52Speaker 3: God.
- 36:52Speaker 1: Although I said that the last couple of years, too. No,
- 36:55Speaker 1: this year more so. I feel it.
- 36:58Speaker 2: Last year it was like, eh, Freddie, and we'll figure
- 37:00Speaker 2: it out. We'll hope and a prayer and let's go.
- 37:03Speaker 1: I hope so. It feels more solid. Didn't last year,
- 37:09Speaker 1: didn't they have some George Webb-threatening streaks?
- 37:13Speaker 3: We got it last year.
- 37:15Speaker 1: Yeah, the stat this year is that they're the only
- 37:17Speaker 1: team to win 100 games and never have a winning
- 37:19Speaker 1: streak of more than five games.
- 37:20Speaker 3: Right, it's more consistent.
- 37:21Speaker 1: So they didn't have those high highs like they did
- 37:24Speaker 1: last year. It was more consistent throughout. Now look what happens.
- 37:30Speaker 1: Man Arnold and Murph on the same page. Goody and
- 37:35Speaker 1: LeFleur not.
- 37:36Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 37:37Speaker 1: Our batteries and gear, man. It's the Brewers are just
- 37:39Speaker 1: on a fire. They're going to do it. It's the
- 37:42Speaker 1: old trade-off thing. Like, okay, so the Bucs had their
- 37:45Speaker 1: media day yesterday. That's complete turnover with that team.
- 37:49Speaker 3: Fresh start and everything like that.
- 37:50Speaker 2: And no expectation whatsoever.
- 37:52Speaker 3: Right.
- 37:53Speaker 2: I think they're going to sneak up on people.
- 37:54Speaker 1: I think if you play hard and Taylor Jenkins will
- 37:57Speaker 1: get them to play hard, you can win 30 games
- 37:58Speaker 1: in the NBA just by playing hard and showing up
- 38:00Speaker 1: every night. Maybe they'll sneak into that play. If they
- 38:03Speaker 1: make the playoffs, it'd be huge. Even as a play-in,
- 38:06Speaker 1: it would be huge, like the 10th team, right? But,
- 38:09Speaker 1: you know, again, there's no expectations there. The Packers are
- 38:13Speaker 1: not meeting expectations. But all of this, the Badgers had
- 38:17Speaker 1: a great win, but we'll see what they do Saturday
- 38:20Speaker 1: against Sparty in homecoming because if they lose that game,
- 38:22Speaker 1: kind of negates what happened in Happy Valley Saturday. But
- 38:24Speaker 1: all this is a way of saying, I think most
- 38:27Speaker 1: people around here, I don't think I'm speaking out of school,
- 38:29Speaker 1: would trade all of it to have the Brewers win
- 38:31Speaker 1: the World Series.
- 38:32Speaker 3: Oh.
- 38:33Speaker 2: A lifetime memory. I mean, your children, they're a little young, right?
- 38:37Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Not old enough for consciousness, but I'll tell everybody.
- 38:41Speaker 2: You'll tell everybody.
- 38:42Speaker 3: I will keep every piece of information and make.
- 38:45Speaker 2: Sure to teach the next generation.
- 38:46Speaker 1: If the Brewers, I don't know, you were in the
- 38:48Speaker 1: building when the Bucs won their championship.
- 38:50Speaker 3: In the building.
- 38:51Speaker 1: Would you be in the building for the Brewers to
- 38:53Speaker 1: win a series at home if it was possible, or
- 38:54Speaker 1: would you have Lena on your lap watching it?
- 38:57Speaker 3: Well, if the Brewers went to the World Series, I
- 38:59Speaker 3: would try and make it to one of the games.
- 39:01Speaker 3: I think it'd be hard to not. I mean, it'd
- 39:03Speaker 3: be hard to let that opportunity pass, right, if the
- 39:06Speaker 3: Brewers made it to a World Series. And I went
- 39:07Speaker 3: to game four of the Bucs series. I thought that'd
- 39:09Speaker 3: be the only one. Turned out we were able to
- 39:11Speaker 3: go to six as well. But I don't know if
- 39:14Speaker 3: I'd be able to buy more than one ticket for
- 39:16Speaker 3: that situation. Oh, yeah. She's passed two, so you have
- 39:19Speaker 3: to get the extra ticket.
- 39:20Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
- 39:21Speaker 3: Ah, yeah.
- 39:22Speaker 2: No, but I mean, she'd be on your lap on
- 39:23Speaker 2: the couch watching you.
- 39:24Speaker 3: Oh, on the couch. I thought you meant the stadium. No, no. Couch.
- 39:27Speaker 3: I mean, definitely. Are you kidding me? I don't know
- 39:29Speaker 3: if she'd pay attention running around.
- 39:31Speaker 2: Daddy, I want popcorn. Daddy, I want soda.
- 39:35Speaker 3: No, but it's one of those things, yeah. She won't remember,
- 39:39Speaker 3: but you will.
- 39:40Speaker 2: Kids know enough. Bruni. Bruni Brewer. Bruni.
- 39:46Speaker 3: Baseball. She always says it. Baseball.
- 39:49Speaker 2: Oh, that's funny.
- 39:49Speaker 1: My daughter's first words, I think, were daddy ball.
- 39:52Speaker 3: I love that.
- 39:52Speaker 2: Because daddy's at the game.
- 39:53Speaker 1: So every sport on TV until she was about three
- 39:56Speaker 1: was daddy ball.
- 39:56Speaker 3: You know, we're running out of time, but the funny
- 39:58Speaker 3: thing is the logo helps. Like, she understands what a
- 40:00Speaker 3: baseball looks like, and the Brewers have a baseball logo
- 40:02Speaker 3: and a glove. So she recognizes, like, oh, baseball, you know? Oh,
- 40:06Speaker 3: my goodness. And when you were a kid with that logo.
- 40:07Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Billy's son is three, and he's about ready to
- 40:10Speaker 2: host the show. He was going to fill in today.
- 40:12Speaker 2: He knows everything. He knows everything. He knows all the players.
- 40:15Speaker 2: He knows everything.
- 40:15Speaker 3: He's a savant.
- 40:16Speaker 2: It's insane. Insane.
- 40:18Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, Dolph's going to join us, yes,
- 40:21Speaker 1: at 625. We'll talk to him about his beloved Bears.
- 40:24Speaker 1: They were impressive last night with a third-string quarterback.
- 40:28Speaker 2: And then we'll get after it.
- 40:29Speaker 1: Hunter's going to join us at 725 to think about
- 40:31Speaker 1: the Brewers and where they lay out as we get
- 40:33Speaker 1: ready to watch a buffet of baseball today.
- 40:35Speaker 2: You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.