Latest / The Huddle / 10/19/26 - Hour 1
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- 0:24Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
- 0:27Speaker 3: We know exactly what we got to do.
- 0:29Speaker 2: All right? Let's go out and kick some tape.
- 0:31Speaker 3: All right? There you go.
- 0:32Speaker 1: One, two, three.
- 0:33Speaker 2: We got some big plays coming.
- 0:34Speaker 4: What the hell's going.
- 0:35Speaker 2: On out here? Yellow Weasel. Quit calling the plays, all right?
- 0:40Speaker 3: It is time.
- 0:41Speaker 4: Who do you.
- 0:41Speaker 1: Think you are? I am.
- 0:43Speaker 2: With Drew Olsen. When he spoke, he commanded your attention
- 0:46Speaker 2: and he commanded your respect. Bill Schmidt.
- 0:49Speaker 4: That son of a gun is thick.
- 0:51Speaker 1: And Armin Sarian.
- 0:52Speaker 2: Daddy Sarian.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Welcome to the huddle.
- 0:58Speaker 3: Melton in motion to the right, half-loaded shotgun, snap to Love,
- 1:01Speaker 3: looking left, throws, middle, end zone, Golden!
- 1:04Speaker 5: Touchdown!
- 1:05Speaker 2: Back line of the end zone!
- 1:07Speaker 3: And a Lambeau leap to the north end zone stand
- 1:11Speaker 3: from Matthew Golden, they beat a mere speed! Third down, Dallas,
- 1:15Speaker 3: snap to Prescott, clean pocket, fires to middle! intercepted intercepted
- 1:20Speaker 3: by the Packers and back the other way across the
- 1:23Speaker 3: 15 yard line the interception made by Evan Williams and
- 1:27Speaker 3: the Packers take over the Green Bay 21 snap placement
- 1:31Speaker 3: swing to the right leg To the uprights, the kick
- 1:34Speaker 3: is good. Slot right, single receiver, left snap to Dak Prescott.
- 1:37Speaker 3: Throws left side, falling down on the play with TD Lamb.
- 1:40Speaker 3: Pass is intercepted by Brandon Cisse. He circled roots to
- 1:43Speaker 3: his left to the 20 and is out of bounds
- 1:45Speaker 3: at the 23-yard line on the far side. Second interception
- 1:49Speaker 3: of the game for the Packers. Cisse with the pick.
- 1:54Speaker 3: And Brandon Cisse's first career interception.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Wow. Jordan Love, quarterback. Up the middle.
- 2:01Speaker 3: Lunges to the end zone. A touchdown, Green Bay. It
- 2:04Speaker 3: is 16-0 Packers.
- 2:07Speaker 2: That's what we like to see.
- 2:08Speaker 3: Orbit motion by Kraft to the left. Snap to Love.
- 2:11Speaker 2: Looking, waiting.
- 2:11Speaker 3: Throws. Left side, Tucker Kraft.
- 2:13Speaker 2: Got it. Down the sidelines. First down across the 40.
- 2:16Speaker 3: Bowls over a defender across the 35 and down he
- 2:21Speaker 3: goes near the 30-yard line of Dallas swing to the
- 2:23Speaker 3: right leg kick to the uprights and it is good
- 2:27Speaker 3: Prescott waits for the snap here it is rush on
- 2:29Speaker 3: rolls left throws left side it's broken up incomplete broken
- 2:33Speaker 3: up by Bullard oh my goodness I'll tell you what
- 2:36Speaker 3: this has been one of the weirdest officiated games I
- 2:40Speaker 3: have ever seen. Signals being called. Here's the snap. Placement
- 2:44Speaker 3: made and the kick is up. And it's straight through
- 2:48Speaker 3: the upright. Center cut as we would say on the
- 2:50Speaker 3: golf course. Talk to the referee and now... Oh, you've
- 2:55Speaker 3: got to be kidding me. Evan Williams. Oh, my God.
- 3:00Speaker 3: How is he supposed to stop? I mean, he came
- 3:03Speaker 3: in on the pass rush, and he's up in the air.
- 3:06Speaker 3: And here they come. Prescott, loft, middle, end zone, and
- 3:10Speaker 3: he overshot everybody incomplete. No flags.
- 3:13Speaker 2: Green Bay takes over.
- 3:15Speaker 3: And there is your dagger.
- 3:23Speaker 2: A nice little montage brought to us by Armin Sarian,
- 3:26Speaker 2: who's on the ones and twos. Welcome in to the
- 3:28Speaker 2: Monday edition.
- 3:29Speaker 3: No.
- 3:29Speaker 2: The Victory Chicken Monday edition of The Huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin,
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- 3:38Speaker 2: and the YouTubes. It doesn't suck these days around here.
- 3:41Speaker 2: Packers are riding the ship in quite a slog of
- 3:45Speaker 2: a game, as Wayne pointed out. The weirdest officiated game
- 3:47Speaker 2: you're going to see. That's basically now par for the
- 3:50Speaker 2: course in the National Football League. It's World Series week
- 3:53Speaker 2: in the good land. Opponent to be determined possibly as
- 3:57Speaker 2: soon as this evening. at the trop. It very much
- 4:01Speaker 2: could be.
- 4:02Speaker 4: And it could be a site where there would be a, well,
- 4:04Speaker 4: like tens of fifteens of, uh, Tampa Bay rays fans,
- 4:07Speaker 4: if it was a road game, but there might be
- 4:09Speaker 4: tens of thousands of brewers fans descending upon there. If
- 4:12Speaker 4: they get one more win and drew, how about a
- 4:14Speaker 4: former brewer getting the ball for the rays? to try
- 4:16Speaker 4: to send his team against his former club to the
- 4:18Speaker 4: World Series.
- 4:19Speaker 2: They got the plastic ready to drape it over the lockers,
- 4:21Speaker 2: and we just sit and wait.
- 4:24Speaker 5: They could probably let all their fans into the locker room, too,
- 4:26Speaker 5: judging on what I saw in that watch party the
- 4:28Speaker 5: other day.
- 4:29Speaker 2: Oh, come on. That was awesome.
- 4:30Speaker 5: Hey, there were more people there at my surprise 17th
- 4:32Speaker 5: birthday party that mom and dad threw in the backyard.
- 4:36Speaker 2: Pretty good turnout for the birthday party. Oh, are you
- 4:37Speaker 2: kidding me?
- 4:38Speaker 5: I had half the Greenfield High School.
- 4:40Speaker 2: That's true. Prom King. What was I talking about? Prom King.
- 4:42Speaker 2: What are you thinking? Dad was making burgers. We got down, man.
- 4:45Speaker 2: It was great. What are you thinking? So the Packers
- 4:48Speaker 2: take care of business. There's still some glaring issues. The
- 4:52Speaker 2: lack of a run game, drops, penalties, some of the
- 4:56Speaker 2: same bugaboos. But much like your Milwaukee Brewers, who we're
- 4:59Speaker 2: also following because we have the ability to multitask here,
- 5:04Speaker 2: The Packers are to the point where they're overcoming their mistakes.
- 5:07Speaker 2: They don't need to play a perfect game. They still
- 5:09Speaker 2: haven't come close yet to playing. I would agree. The
- 5:12Speaker 2: bears game was close, but then trace Mac missed a
- 5:14Speaker 2: bunch of games. It's always something, but the bottom line
- 5:18Speaker 2: is they've held the, they've held the, the fort. They're
- 5:22Speaker 2: four and two. You've, They're in second place within striking
- 5:26Speaker 2: distance of the team that.
- 5:28Speaker 4: I don't think a whole lot of people fully believe in,
- 5:30Speaker 4: in the Vikings. And Drew, you've somewhat weathered the most
- 5:34Speaker 4: turbulent part of a storm that you could have. And
- 5:37Speaker 4: now at worst, when you come out of the second
- 5:42Speaker 4: quarter of your season at the absolute worst, you're going
- 5:44Speaker 4: to be four and four. And very much in the
- 5:47Speaker 4: thick of anything that's going to happen in the NFC.
- 5:50Speaker 4: And as much as people laughed when we're on Packers
- 5:53Speaker 4: OT celebrating as much as you could. the win against
- 5:57Speaker 4: the Jets in overtime where you run 50 offensive plays.
- 6:01Speaker 4: They ran 39 offensive plays in the first half last night.
- 6:04Speaker 4: They ran 50 in an overtime win. And why you
- 6:08Speaker 4: celebrate that kind of a win, why you celebrate the
- 6:10Speaker 4: win against the first undrafted quarterback to start in the
- 6:14Speaker 4: first weekend in October since the merger is because now
- 6:18Speaker 4: it allows you to work through some of those words
- 6:21Speaker 4: with W's and not be looking up at a massive
- 6:24Speaker 4: hill to climb.
- 6:25Speaker 2: Like, I don't know.
- 6:26Speaker 4: The two and four Los Angeles Rams. A lot of
- 6:30Speaker 4: these teams that did not steal a couple of those
- 6:32Speaker 4: wins drew when they were up for the taking against
- 6:35Speaker 4: bad teams. And then you put yourself even further behind
- 6:38Speaker 4: the eight ball right now. It feels like the Packers
- 6:41Speaker 4: have absolutely turned a corner and thank goodness. They turned
- 6:44Speaker 4: to Jonathan cannon. When Jeff Halfley went and got that
- 6:47Speaker 4: job down in South.
- 6:48Speaker 2: That's tremendous. It was all about getting wins that first month.
- 6:51Speaker 5: It's all about just trying to put some wins and
- 6:53Speaker 5: keep yourself afloat because you don't know how you're going
- 6:54Speaker 5: to play it. So you see how he turned around,
- 6:56Speaker 5: but you're exactly right, Billy. It was all about giving
- 6:58Speaker 5: yourself a chance to right the ship in a place
- 7:00Speaker 5: where it mattered. And now what it does is you're
- 7:02Speaker 5: sitting 4-2, which is kind of amazing. Think about all
- 7:04Speaker 5: the struggles the Packers had in the first month that
- 7:06Speaker 5: this team is sitting 4-2. But whatever this team has
- 7:09Speaker 5: in front of them, if they can figure out their issues,
- 7:11Speaker 5: if they can improve as the season goes on and
- 7:13Speaker 5: make the run, you'll never remember that first month.
- 7:15Speaker 2: All you can remember is how it ended. That's how
- 7:17Speaker 2: it goes. Josh Jacobs, they're not really practicing today. It's
- 7:22Speaker 2: a film day and a massage day. Victory Monday. But Wednesday,
- 7:26Speaker 2: he'll be, we assume, practicing. Don't know if he'll tote
- 7:29Speaker 2: the rock on Sunday in Detroit. I would bet the
- 7:31Speaker 2: over on that. I would think he'd at least get
- 7:33Speaker 2: a lather going.
- 7:34Speaker 4: Drew, Josh Jacobs not having run a competitive snap in
- 7:39Speaker 4: nine months, still got to be light years better than
- 7:41Speaker 4: the run game the Packers have trotted out there for
- 7:43Speaker 4: six weeks.
- 7:43Speaker 2: That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. And so, yeah,
- 7:46Speaker 2: the Gannon thing, he's not getting enough flowers because... They
- 7:51Speaker 2: were bracketing Pickens and CeeDee Lamb and Prescott. That's a
- 7:54Speaker 2: high-octane offense for the Cowboys. Their defense is leaky, but
- 7:58Speaker 2: that's a high-octane offense. And they had them seeing ghosts,
- 8:01Speaker 2: like Dak Prescott was, you know. And that was a
- 8:05Speaker 2: team that was coming off a 10-day rest?
- 8:07Speaker 4: That's exactly it, Drew. A rested team coming off a
- 8:10Speaker 4: moment where their quarterback is being called, being yelled at
- 8:14Speaker 4: by a staffer, saying they're getting embarrassed at home. Then
- 8:17Speaker 4: they went out and played maybe more embarrassingly here on
- 8:20Speaker 4: Sunday Night Football.
- 8:21Speaker 2: Yeah, the pressure got to him. He had some hits.
- 8:23Speaker 2: Got the wind knocked out of him by Evan Williams
- 8:25Speaker 2: at one point.
- 8:26Speaker 4: And Baldy had a great breakdown online of one of
- 8:29Speaker 4: the Evan Williams plays. The Evan Williams interception is almost
- 8:32Speaker 4: the exact same mugged up look that they ran a
- 8:36Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago against Tampa Bay to finish the
- 8:39Speaker 4: game on the final play where Williams comes. Williams drops.
- 8:42Speaker 4: And ends up robbing Prescott right near the goal line.
- 8:45Speaker 4: And they manufacture a lot of pressure. That's another part
- 8:50Speaker 4: of this where you're four and two. You far from
- 8:54Speaker 4: played your best ball because as much as you've gotten pressure,
- 8:58Speaker 4: you really haven't been able to do it consistently at
- 9:00Speaker 4: all with four guys. Seems like that will get a
- 9:03Speaker 4: little bit better whenever Micah Parsons joins the party. And
- 9:06Speaker 4: as much as Josh Jacobs' return is the one that
- 9:09Speaker 4: you're looking forward to, we're all still thinking that number
- 9:12Speaker 4: one is going to be the biggest acquisition anybody makes in.
- 9:14Speaker 2: The NFL this year.
- 9:16Speaker 4: So there's a lot of things that can be pointing
- 9:18Speaker 4: upward for where you sit right now because you gave
- 9:21Speaker 4: yourself a chance with a couple of those early wins
- 9:23Speaker 4: that felt like remedial wins.
- 9:26Speaker 2: If we can overlook the drops... Matthew Golden is emerging.
- 9:30Speaker 2: He's awesome. I mean, he's playing great.
- 9:32Speaker 3: Right.
- 9:33Speaker 2: I mean, he's got to collect those balls as much
- 9:35Speaker 2: as possible. Pause, pause. Yes, pause.
- 9:37Speaker 5: But the fact that he's consistently open, consistently threatening, I mean,
- 9:41Speaker 5: he's getting a lot of yards, but they don't even
- 9:43Speaker 5: add up the yards.
- 9:43Speaker 2: And he's forcing pass interferences.
- 9:46Speaker 5: You know, the drops are something that takes care of itself,
- 9:48Speaker 5: I think, in the end. But the important thing is
- 9:51Speaker 5: he's talented, he's getting open, and he's getting confident, and
- 9:54Speaker 5: those plays are coming.
- 9:55Speaker 2: So it's extremely exciting to see.
- 9:57Speaker 5: That happen because– The fact that there's meat on the
- 10:00Speaker 5: bone left is a great level of optimism.
- 10:03Speaker 2: I think Golden has the look of a number one
- 10:06Speaker 2: receiver and it's a little silly to quibble like they're
- 10:08Speaker 2: one in one a and Watson creates opportunity for Golden
- 10:12Speaker 2: because of the attention he has to draw because of
- 10:14Speaker 2: his skill set and his size and speed. But You
- 10:17Speaker 2: got two guys that you could say, I don't know
- 10:19Speaker 2: which one's going to end up catching more balls and
- 10:21Speaker 2: more receiving yards, but those are two guys that you
- 10:24Speaker 2: got a game plan for.
- 10:25Speaker 4: Well, in the last three years, you haven't had a
- 10:27Speaker 4: thousand yard receiver and people wondered, well, will they have
- 10:31Speaker 4: one this year? Will they be able to have one? Well,
- 10:33Speaker 4: they might have both. And right now it's almost going
- 10:35Speaker 4: to be disappointing if both of them aren't. For the
- 10:38Speaker 4: path that they've set. And you're right, Drew, what Watson
- 10:41Speaker 4: opens up for golden, he's got, he's got to be
- 10:43Speaker 4: able to continue to capitalize on, which is a lot
- 10:45Speaker 4: of the across the middle stuff where the drops are
- 10:48Speaker 4: even more frustrating. He has shown the ability to, and
- 10:53Speaker 4: Wayne Larrabee is going to join us voice of the
- 10:54Speaker 4: Packers coming up when they needed to find somebody to
- 10:58Speaker 4: take over the Jaden Reed across the middle route. Well,
- 11:01Speaker 4: it seems like they're realizing Matthew Golden can do a
- 11:03Speaker 4: lot of that.
- 11:03Speaker 2: He's that guy.
- 11:04Speaker 4: It feels like Golden can do a lot of that.
- 11:06Speaker 4: And a lot of that works because they can both
- 11:09Speaker 4: take the top off the defense and people have to
- 11:11Speaker 4: be able to respect what Watson does on the outside consistently.
- 11:15Speaker 5: And it was also interesting to see Savion Williams get
- 11:17Speaker 5: involved early in his first game.
- 11:19Speaker 2: Right away.
- 11:19Speaker 5: You know, factor on some of the running plays as well. Obviously,
- 11:22Speaker 5: he's getting some catches. That's another one. Like, you know,
- 11:25Speaker 5: you didn't think about him much, but there's a guy
- 11:28Speaker 5: that had great moments as a young player, and he
- 11:30Speaker 5: still is, obviously, and now he's, you know, going to
- 11:33Speaker 5: get in the mix after the injury. That could be
- 11:35Speaker 5: another factor, another weapon that the Packers desperately need when
- 11:38Speaker 5: they have the injuries, obviously.
- 11:40Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the plan with him, it seems like
- 11:42Speaker 2: he's sliding into the Sky Moore role, who slid into
- 11:45Speaker 2: the Jayden Reed role, the orbit motion and the stuff
- 11:47Speaker 2: like that, and Yeah, so it's, again, there's a lot
- 11:52Speaker 2: to like about the Packers, what they're doing, and there's
- 11:54Speaker 2: a lot to say, hey, they've got to clean that up.
- 11:56Speaker 2: This is, come on, it's got to be better. Rob Demoski,
- 11:59Speaker 2: friend of the program, just posted that they lead the NFL,
- 12:01Speaker 2: according to ESPN Analytics, in drops with 16 and drop
- 12:05Speaker 2: rate at 7.2. And yet they're fifth in passing in
- 12:09Speaker 2: yards per game, and Jordan Love is third in the
- 12:10Speaker 2: league in passing yards. Make that make sense.
- 12:14Speaker 4: And make that make sense that there's not a potential
- 12:18Speaker 4: for this to be the best offense in the league.
- 12:20Speaker 2: That's the thing. And when you add Jacobson in the mix,
- 12:23Speaker 2: that's going to be even more difficult on opposing defenses.
- 12:28Speaker 2: And Golden leads six drops. Yikes.
- 12:33Speaker 4: Leads the league with six drops. Yeah, and what, two
- 12:36Speaker 4: or three of them last night. And the one, now
- 12:38Speaker 4: the one he said got hit out of his hand,
- 12:39Speaker 4: so maybe not a drop.
- 12:42Speaker 2: Felt like one.
- 12:42Speaker 4: The other one, he's lost in the lights. The one
- 12:44Speaker 4: that Watson drops, again, you can quibble with it. It
- 12:48Speaker 4: hits him in both hands. It is tipped right before
- 12:50Speaker 4: it gets to his hand, so it's going to change
- 12:51Speaker 4: up the movement, this, that, and the third. Love is
- 12:54Speaker 4: putting the ball wherever he damn well wants to. And
- 12:58Speaker 4: the play that Winters makes last night on the interception
- 13:01Speaker 4: and the one that Bland almost makes on the sideline,
- 13:03Speaker 4: those are two great plays.
- 13:04Speaker 2: Are they risky throws? Absolutely.
- 13:07Speaker 4: But, Drew, they're throws that you kind of have to
- 13:08Speaker 4: make when you and your offense is asking you to
- 13:13Speaker 4: be that somewhat superhuman every single week. They're asking him
- 13:18Speaker 4: to be an MVP candidate each week every And so far,
- 13:21Speaker 4: he's lived up to the hype and lived up to
- 13:23Speaker 4: what their expectation and asking for.
- 13:26Speaker 2: With a clean pocket, he's devastating. And when the pocket's
- 13:29Speaker 2: breaking down, he's still good. Like, he still stands in there.
- 13:32Speaker 2: He takes hits. He took a lot yesterday. A lot
- 13:35Speaker 2: of shots. But he's delivering the ball with the traffic
- 13:38Speaker 2: around him. He's been extraordinary this year. If you look
- 13:44Speaker 2: at the box score, again, partially because of the drops,
- 13:45Speaker 2: but if you look at the box score, it's like, eh,
- 13:47Speaker 2: he's kind of mid. Eh, he's okay.
- 13:49Speaker 1: Eh.
- 13:50Speaker 2: But then when you watch and you watch the games,
- 13:52Speaker 2: you're like, look at that throw. Holy cow.
- 13:54Speaker 4: Yeah, the eye test didn't give a 74 quarterback rating
- 13:57Speaker 4: or whatever it was yesterday. And I think Travis Glover
- 14:00Speaker 4: has played well in the middle so far in his
- 14:05Speaker 4: three games. But I do think that that's going to
- 14:07Speaker 4: even improve once Zeitler comes into the mix. He's going
- 14:10Speaker 4: to be in the mix, right? They brought him in
- 14:13Speaker 4: for a reason. And I also think that maybe helps
- 14:15Speaker 4: with the ground game. But we've seen teams win... with
- 14:20Speaker 4: bad run games before, right? Like now the last team
- 14:23Speaker 4: to win it, I think with the worst run game
- 14:24Speaker 4: in the league, then go back all the way to
- 14:27Speaker 4: like the 2011 giants, maybe good enough to beat this organization.
- 14:30Speaker 2: So we saw that that can happen.
- 14:32Speaker 5: Did you bring that up?
- 14:33Speaker 4: But like you you've seen teams be able to do it.
- 14:38Speaker 4: And right now with this kind of defense, I think
- 14:41Speaker 4: there's going to be a lot of things that are
- 14:42Speaker 4: going to be possible.
- 14:44Speaker 2: Deny Dennis Sutton.
- 14:45Speaker 4: The biggest problem that he has is the taunting penalty
- 14:47Speaker 4: yesterday for screaming at a guy that's holding him around
- 14:50Speaker 4: the neck. Again, that's a guy that I'll go to war.
- 14:53Speaker 4: I'll go to battle with drew and we'll live with
- 14:55Speaker 4: the mistake. Once shame on you. Second time, shame on me.
- 14:59Speaker 4: Now we'll figure out ways to be able to calm
- 15:01Speaker 4: him down, but that's, that's a player right there. And
- 15:05Speaker 4: Evan Williams yesterday was a man possessed and he's playing
- 15:09Speaker 4: like the best safety in the league. One of the
- 15:12Speaker 4: other top safeties in the league might be the two
- 15:14Speaker 4: guys playing right alongside of him and Xavier McKinney and
- 15:18Speaker 4: Javon Bullard, where again, you go back to the Jonathan
- 15:21Speaker 4: Gannon thing where we talked about a couple of minutes ago.
- 15:25Speaker 4: What a way of identifying who your best and most
- 15:28Speaker 4: talented players on defense are and trying to, I know
- 15:32Speaker 4: Jonathan Gannon was very proud to say, I don't have
- 15:35Speaker 4: a scheme. He kind of had in Arizona a real
- 15:39Speaker 4: hybrid three safety look that was kind of their calling card,
- 15:44Speaker 4: and that's exactly what this defense is. was going to
- 15:47Speaker 4: be best running, and now they're able to do it
- 15:48Speaker 4: a ton. And he's got three good ones, I think.
- 15:50Speaker 2: You've got three good ones, and you've got them on
- 15:51Speaker 2: the field, which is great. What I love about what
- 15:55Speaker 2: they're doing defensively is that they're playing with an edge,
- 15:58Speaker 2: with a nasty a little bit, without Parsons and without
- 16:01Speaker 2: Edger and Cooper. Two guys who provide a lot of that.
- 16:04Speaker 2: The two most electric guys. Sideline, one for the year,
- 16:08Speaker 2: one coming back. But they're playing with that. The corners
- 16:11Speaker 2: aren't getting enough, probably, enough flowers. Definitely not. Keyshawn's having
- 16:15Speaker 2: a pretty good season so far. You mentioned the safeties,
- 16:19Speaker 2: gotta like them. Devontae Wyatt's starting to get healthy and
- 16:21Speaker 2: have an impact like we've seen him in the past.
- 16:23Speaker 2: He's starting to get back to his old ways. And
- 16:26Speaker 2: I think Zaire Franklin's a great addition, just as a
- 16:28Speaker 2: dog and a guy that gets guys lined up right
- 16:31Speaker 2: and a steadying force.
- 16:33Speaker 4: And he was one of the main guys being able to,
- 16:35Speaker 4: at least as much as he talks a lot of smack,
- 16:37Speaker 4: he was one of the only guys being able to
- 16:39Speaker 4: calm down the situation yesterday where it got chippy because
- 16:42Speaker 4: the referees lost complete control of the game. Whether or
- 16:46Speaker 4: not it was too many roughing the passers, they lost
- 16:50Speaker 4: complete control of the game because nothing was coherent and
- 16:53Speaker 4: consistent throughout the game. Late into that game, there was
- 16:57Speaker 4: a possibility where that got real chippy. It started to.
- 17:01Speaker 4: I thought Kuhn on the radio broadcast shouted it out
- 17:05Speaker 4: a couple of times because he could feel it on
- 17:07Speaker 4: the sidelines. That's where Zaire Franklin came in.
- 17:11Speaker 2: Huge.
- 17:11Speaker 4: They're going to be able to they're not going to
- 17:15Speaker 4: completely cover up for the loss of Edron Cooper. Nobody
- 17:18Speaker 4: is going to be able to completely fill that in.
- 17:21Speaker 4: But that little battle they got going with Hopper and
- 17:23Speaker 4: McDuffie last night, Drew, you leaned over to me midway
- 17:26Speaker 4: through the third quarter. You're like, oh, okay, that was
- 17:28Speaker 4: the McDuffie series. He had a PBU, he had a TFL,
- 17:32Speaker 4: stuff right at the line of scrimmage, and then Hopper
- 17:34Speaker 4: was making plays on the next series. So that tandem
- 17:37Speaker 4: and that little platoon they got rolling so far Ride
- 17:40Speaker 4: the hot hand and see how long you can ride it.
- 17:42Speaker 4: I think they got talent, and you've been waiting to see,
- 17:45Speaker 4: especially on Hopper's side, you've been waiting to see more
- 17:47Speaker 4: of that athleticism that played a lot in the SEC.
- 17:51Speaker 2: I think it's going to be able to play here.
- 17:52Speaker 5: And get all these guys building confidence for when Micah
- 17:54Speaker 5: does come back. I mean, that's the other thing that's
- 17:56Speaker 5: exciting about it. Obviously, when he's in the soup, it
- 17:58Speaker 5: makes everyone better. But, you know, Wes Hotkowitz had said
- 18:01Speaker 5: it really well yesterday on Packers.
- 18:03Speaker 2: Preview on the network.
- 18:05Speaker 5: During his segment, he said, you know, it's going to
- 18:08Speaker 5: be more important. You'd rather have him, you know, some
- 18:11Speaker 5: of us hope he'd be back for this game, but
- 18:13Speaker 5: you'd rather have him for the later games in the
- 18:15Speaker 5: year that he missed than the earlier ones that he
- 18:16Speaker 5: played with and then eventually got hurt.
- 18:18Speaker 2: You know, the Packers were 9-3-1 when he got hurt.
- 18:20Speaker 5: Well, if he's going to be healthy for the games,
- 18:22Speaker 5: the later games in the year, then you kind of
- 18:24Speaker 5: take that trade off.
- 18:25Speaker 2: That's when you really want him healthy.
- 18:26Speaker 5: So you get all these guys, hopefully now, hopefully to
- 18:30Speaker 5: continue to stay healthy for what you have left. You've
- 18:32Speaker 5: had to deal with injuries, getting confident, understanding their role,
- 18:36Speaker 5: starting to thrive in it more and more as a defense,
- 18:38Speaker 5: and then you add Mike into that mix for the stretch,
- 18:40Speaker 5: I think that's ideally what you're looking for. That's the
- 18:43Speaker 5: hope of how this thing could possibly be going. Lucas
- 18:46Speaker 5: Van Ness got a sack last night. Wasn't anything crazy,
- 18:49Speaker 5: but another one for him. Having a nice year, I'd say.
- 18:53Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, they're showing signs of being a pretty
- 18:56Speaker 2: good team, but they're also showing signs that when you
- 19:00Speaker 2: lead the league in both drops by wide receivers and penalties,
- 19:04Speaker 2: that's not great. It's definitely not usually a team that
- 19:06Speaker 2: sits at four and two. No, but I think to me,
- 19:08Speaker 2: that's like, well, then there's obvious room for improvement. Yeah,
- 19:12Speaker 2: no question.
- 19:12Speaker 5: So you think to yourself, well, at least maybe then
- 19:14Speaker 5: you have a lot of potential there for improvement.
- 19:16Speaker 4: Well, yeah, but room for improvement also doesn't mean that
- 19:19Speaker 4: you're going to capitalize on it. So you do have
- 19:20Speaker 4: to be able to be about it and you have
- 19:22Speaker 4: to be able to clean it up. The penalties last night,
- 19:25Speaker 4: a lot of them of the roughing the passer variety
- 19:28Speaker 4: and the unsportsmanlike after the.
- 19:30Speaker 2: Flag, some of those, I mean, I don't know, Drew.
- 19:33Speaker 3: Mr.
- 19:34Speaker 2: Robleski, come on.
- 19:35Speaker 4: I do have two young boys, and to just be
- 19:37Speaker 4: flexing and staring at somebody, I don't know if that's
- 19:40Speaker 4: the precedent that Matthew Golden should be setting for young children.
- 19:43Speaker 2: Come on.
- 19:44Speaker 4: We need to be very, very classy in sports. John
- 19:48Speaker 4: Mara said it.
- 19:49Speaker 5: People don't want to watch that. People don't want to
- 19:51Speaker 5: watch people. Fans don't like that. That's what they don't.
- 19:54Speaker 2: He knows what fans want.
- 19:57Speaker 5: And somebody tried slapping the rule book on me on
- 20:00Speaker 5: Twitter yesterday saying, well, it's in the rule book.
- 20:02Speaker 2: You can't flex at a player. My problem is.
- 20:04Speaker 4: That I better not see freaking Josh Allen flexing on
- 20:07Speaker 4: somebody on any Monday night football promo.
- 20:11Speaker 2: Every single play and the promo. Good point. It's the
- 20:13Speaker 2: promo marketing. It's the marketing aspect of it. And my
- 20:17Speaker 2: problem is to market jacked up until.
- 20:21Speaker 5: What is at somebody really mean in theory, there's people
- 20:24Speaker 5: all over the place. So in any general direction, he
- 20:27Speaker 5: wasn't bending down and doing it to him. I don't
- 20:30Speaker 5: think he wasn't, it wasn't some obvious step over. Give
- 20:33Speaker 5: me that play, too, by the way, when old boy,
- 20:36Speaker 5: I'm blanking who it is now, Porter, is doing all
- 20:40Speaker 5: kinds of stuff after a pass breakup.
- 20:42Speaker 2: All kinds of stuff yesterday. So, I don't know. Kevin
- 20:45Speaker 2: Porter Jr. had himself a night. Oh, Joey. Joey. Yeah, Porter.
- 20:50Speaker 2: I was confused.
- 20:52Speaker 5: And not to even mention the roughing the passers.
- 20:56Speaker 2: Which I don't want to open that game. Yeah, that's
- 20:58Speaker 2: a point of emphasis. You hate that. It's funny because
- 21:00Speaker 2: you guys are Probably a couple years away, I remember
- 21:03Speaker 2: one of my daughter's first homework assignments, kindergarten, first grade.
- 21:07Speaker 2: I had to ask everybody in the family what their
- 21:09Speaker 2: favorite animal was and draw it. And I love the
- 21:12Speaker 2: family dog and stuff, but I wanted to be different.
- 21:13Speaker 2: I'm trying to think, like, what's my favorite animal? I said,
- 21:15Speaker 2: I like polar bears. Nice. So polar bear is my
- 21:18Speaker 2: favorite because they're cute in the Coke commercials. They're badass
- 21:21Speaker 2: in real life on the National Geographic. They're about as
- 21:24Speaker 2: badass as it is. They're majestic. They're huge. That's a
- 21:27Speaker 2: good one. I like the polar bear, right? No one's
- 21:29Speaker 2: ever said, yeah, my favorite animal is the zebra. I
- 21:33Speaker 2: guess unless you're into it. It gets no love.
- 21:35Speaker 4: It gets no love. The giraffe gets a lot of
- 21:37Speaker 4: love because it's tall. You walk by it at the zoo, Drew,
- 21:39Speaker 4: and you're like, wait a second. That's just a weird donkey?
- 21:43Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 21:44Speaker 2: Paint that one? Weird donkey. Weird donkey.
- 21:46Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 21:47Speaker 2: That's a great point. They were acting like donkeys in
- 21:50Speaker 2: the zebra outfits last night, I'll tell you that much.
- 21:52Speaker 2: Maybe in the movie Madagascar you watch that and maybe
- 21:54Speaker 2: you'll say, oh, well, okay, I like the zebra. But
- 21:56Speaker 2: for the most part, ain't nobody's favorite animal is a
- 21:58Speaker 2: zebra and ain't nobody's favorite thing about football is the referees.
- 22:02Speaker 4: Their moms were watching last night. They were making sure
- 22:04Speaker 4: that they were a part of Sunday night football. Goodness gracious.
- 22:06Speaker 4: But if you watch Badgers and Bruins on Saturday night,
- 22:10Speaker 4: the referees.
- 22:10Speaker 2: Set the tempo.
- 22:11Speaker 4: They set the temperature for what the weekend was going
- 22:14Speaker 4: to be like. Luke Fickle said earlier today, Drew, they
- 22:17Speaker 4: limit you to 10 plays that you can send in.
- 22:19Speaker 2: So I tried to limit it. I could only limit
- 22:22Speaker 2: it to 17. Wow. Officiating is at an all-time something.
- 22:26Speaker 2: It's rough.
- 22:27Speaker 4: Rough.
- 22:28Speaker 3: All right.
- 22:28Speaker 2: It's a great Monday. It's Victory Monday. Packers beating the
- 22:31Speaker 2: Cowboys 23-13 on Sunday Night Football. Big game lurking Sunday
- 22:36Speaker 2: in Detroit. Who's going to be playing for the Packers?
- 22:38Speaker 2: We'll see. Will it be Josh Jacobs? Will it be
- 22:41Speaker 2: Kevin Zeitler? Might get some answers later on today. We
- 22:45Speaker 2: might find some stuff out. Wayne Larvey, the voice of
- 22:47Speaker 2: the Packers, is going to join us next. Get yourself
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- 23:19Speaker 2: to the NicoletLaw.com talk and text line. This one comes
- 23:22Speaker 2: from Rhonda in the 715. And I find this one
- 23:26Speaker 2: very interesting. Hi, guys. I was wondering if guys are
- 23:29Speaker 2: slipping more these last couple years than they used to
- 23:31Speaker 2: on the field at Lambeau. And if so, did they
- 23:34Speaker 2: change the makeup of that real-slash-synthetic makeup?
- 23:38Speaker 5: Hmm.
- 23:39Speaker 2: Help them, Rhonda. Help them, Rhonda. Yeah, well, Billy, we
- 23:42Speaker 2: talked about that as the game was unfolding because we
- 23:44Speaker 2: see it every damn game. Every week.
- 23:47Speaker 4: And you consistently see road teams doing it. You consistently
- 23:50Speaker 4: see the Green Bay Packers being able to mostly keep
- 23:53Speaker 4: their footing. And a lot of it is because... They
- 23:55Speaker 4: know that the drill in cleats got to go with
- 23:57Speaker 4: the seven studs. Like you hear sideline reporter John Kuhn
- 24:01Speaker 4: say every single week on the Packers radio network. It's true.
- 24:04Speaker 2: That part is consistent. That's a constant.
- 24:05Speaker 4: They have not changed the blend of Kentucky bluegrass woven
- 24:10Speaker 4: in with some synthetic part.
- 24:12Speaker 2: I don't know all of the ergonomics, but I do
- 24:15Speaker 2: know that.
- 24:16Speaker 4: Unlike a lot of fields in ball, theirs does potentially
- 24:21Speaker 4: get a little slick when it.
- 24:23Speaker 2: Gets dewy at night. Especially night games, yeah, the dewy.
- 24:25Speaker 2: And Rodgers was a big guy on that, too. And
- 24:30Speaker 2: Kuhn always says that players, they're stubborn, and they want
- 24:33Speaker 2: to wear, they wear the mold, they call them the
- 24:35Speaker 2: molded plastic kind of cleats because they feel like those
- 24:37Speaker 2: are faster. You feel faster on those. But if you
- 24:40Speaker 2: wear the ones that you screw in, the seven studs,
- 24:42Speaker 2: you get a better footing and you slip less. Now,
- 24:44Speaker 2: you'll see Packers players slip occasionally. but nowhere near as
- 24:47Speaker 2: often as opposing players do. It's like they can't figure
- 24:49Speaker 2: it out. And we've seen trainers on the opposing sideline
- 24:53Speaker 2: changing guys all the time, mid-game. Like, we've got to
- 24:56Speaker 2: do something about this. You go through warm-ups. You see it.
- 25:00Speaker 2: Once you've played there, it's not the Cowboys' first visit
- 25:03Speaker 2: to Lambeau. No, and it's definitely not their only one
- 25:06Speaker 2: in primetime.
- 25:07Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 25:07Speaker 2: Once you've played there, and especially in primetime, you'd think,
- 25:09Speaker 2: all right, well, that's the place where I've got to
- 25:11Speaker 2: wear these cleats. It happens every week. Good observation, Rhonda,
- 25:14Speaker 2: because we were talking about it last night. You saw
- 25:16Speaker 2: a couple guys slip. CeeDee Lamb slipped.
- 25:18Speaker 4: Yes, and especially, Drew, like that, when it is vets,
- 25:21Speaker 4: when you know that they've played there before, it's a
- 25:23Speaker 4: shame on you kind of thing. This is not changing.
- 25:26Speaker 4: This has not changed, and I don't believe it will.
- 25:28Speaker 4: The tail is old as time. Guys are going to
- 25:30Speaker 4: go down because these dudes are so fast and explosive,
- 25:34Speaker 4: and when you're playing on the outside, and this is
- 25:36Speaker 4: where Keyshawn Nixon and Brandon Cisse deserve some credit, they
- 25:40Speaker 4: also have to be able to keep their balance and
- 25:41Speaker 4: footing better than most, realizing that that guy knows where
- 25:45Speaker 4: he's going, and I'm adjusting to him. Hey, got to
- 25:49Speaker 4: give some flowers to the way Nixon has played, especially
- 25:51Speaker 4: the way they played last night. Nixon got lamb on
- 25:54Speaker 4: the ground. Most of the time, whenever he was there,
- 25:57Speaker 4: eight solo tackles was a big reason why, you know,
- 25:59Speaker 4: most of their production came in garbage time.
- 26:02Speaker 2: It's interesting because Aaron Rogers, when he played in Green Bay,
- 26:05Speaker 2: he liked the surface there and raved about it. And
- 26:08Speaker 2: he wore the right cleats and that helped him. But
- 26:11Speaker 2: that now. Basically, everywhere he goes on it. He always
- 26:14Speaker 2: hated it at Soldier Field. He was ripping it at
- 26:15Speaker 2: Raymond James. Frying him yesterday, yeah. Frying the people about
- 26:19Speaker 2: the turf at Raymond James. Well, it almost took out
- 26:21Speaker 2: his head coach. His best friend.
- 26:23Speaker 3: That's right.
- 26:24Speaker 2: He likes to have a boogeyman, too. I don't think
- 26:26Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers is particularly fond of the Accresure Stadium surface, either,
- 26:30Speaker 2: because that gets pretty beat up by Pitt Panthers and
- 26:34Speaker 2: high schoolers and stuff like that. Every game at Pittsburgh,
- 26:37Speaker 2: the city of Pittsburgh has a finding.
- 26:39Speaker 5: I remember early in his career, he admitted and sent
- 26:42Speaker 5: shockwaves that he'd prefer turf over grass because he liked
- 26:45Speaker 5: his turf shoes that he was wearing at the time.
- 26:47Speaker 5: I remember that was a big deal for people. You
- 26:49Speaker 5: don't like playing outside in Lambeau and grass?
- 26:51Speaker 2: I haven't Having done a deep dive into Rogers, I
- 26:55Speaker 2: don't really care that much about the Steelers and his exploits,
- 26:58Speaker 2: but is he still wearing that old antiquated helmet that
- 27:01Speaker 2: he wore that he had this favorite helmet that's been...
- 27:03Speaker 2: Let me check on that.
- 27:04Speaker 4: No, he's got one of the new Zenith ones. They
- 27:06Speaker 4: did not let him wear the old chute one that
- 27:09Speaker 4: got outlawed. So he's got one of the new position
- 27:12Speaker 4: specific ones, I believe. He was like one of the
- 27:14Speaker 4: last men standing. And one of the only good players
- 27:17Speaker 4: to ever wear a shit helmet.
- 27:18Speaker 2: I'm old enough to remember when they mandated helmets in
- 27:23Speaker 2: the National Hockey League, there was a couple guys, including
- 27:26Speaker 2: the great Craig McTavish of the Edmonton Oilers, who didn't
- 27:29Speaker 2: wear one. If you were a grandfather of a certain age,
- 27:31Speaker 2: you didn't have to. And so we're like a couple
- 27:33Speaker 2: of the last guys standing to not have a helmet
- 27:36Speaker 2: in the National Hockey League. And that's what Rogers wanted
- 27:38Speaker 2: to be that last guy to use.
- 27:40Speaker 4: I mean, well, and listen, maybe he'd be in a
- 27:43Speaker 4: great class of a rarefied air of the other guy
- 27:46Speaker 4: that went, you know, all hell bent on not being
- 27:48Speaker 4: able to play with his helmet on. I think it
- 27:50Speaker 4: was him and Antonio Brown were the two loudest that.
- 27:52Speaker 4: We're very frustrated about the changing of the helmet regulation. Well,
- 27:56Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers and Antonio Brown, you can start a lot
- 27:58Speaker 4: of sentences like that.
- 27:59Speaker 2: It is still a, is it should? I thought it
- 28:01Speaker 2: was shut.
- 28:02Speaker 3: Should?
- 28:02Speaker 2: I never played football, Billy.
- 28:03Speaker 3: You did.
- 28:04Speaker 5: He does wear a different model that's compliant by that company, though.
- 28:08Speaker 2: Air XP. The one with the air holes up the
- 28:11Speaker 2: middle of it.
- 28:11Speaker 5: Yeah, he criticized it to its bulkier, rounder appearance comparing
- 28:15Speaker 5: to a spaceship.
- 28:16Speaker 2: But you're right. He liked the Air XP Pro Q11 LTD.
- 28:20Speaker 5: It failed the official NFL laboratory safety testing and was
- 28:22Speaker 5: banned by the league prior to the 25 season.
- 28:24Speaker 4: They were giving that to the kid that you knew
- 28:26Speaker 4: was never playing. When you're going through equipment handout, Drew,
- 28:32Speaker 4: and all of a sudden they'd be like, oh, sweet,
- 28:34Speaker 4: the cool revolution. The one that Peyton Manning used to
- 28:36Speaker 4: wear with the little holes right through here. That kid,
- 28:39Speaker 4: Drew Olsen's getting that helmet. Hey, we got.
- 28:42Speaker 2: Any shut helmets? Let's go. bouncing on the ground a
- 28:47Speaker 2: couple of times. All right, here you go, kid. We'll
- 28:48Speaker 2: be all good.
- 28:48Speaker 5: Remember one of the first things I remember talking to
- 28:51Speaker 5: Billy years ago, I first met him and it was
- 28:53Speaker 5: one of the first like conversations. I remember him getting like,
- 28:56Speaker 5: we were talking about helmets and I was trying to
- 28:57Speaker 5: think of like the other one besides where I dealt
- 28:59Speaker 5: and you were making fun of those shit helmets for
- 29:01Speaker 5: like 10 minutes.
- 29:02Speaker 2: They just look so goofy.
- 29:04Speaker 4: They just look so goofy with the razor up the top. Again,
- 29:08Speaker 4: there are little aesthetic things that throw you off in sports.
- 29:12Speaker 4: One thing that didn't throw you off. The views last
- 29:15Speaker 4: night at Lambeau Field. My goodness, Drew. We said it
- 29:18Speaker 4: a couple of times on Packers OT. That was a
- 29:21Speaker 4: postcard night at Lambeau. I know the secondary ticket market,
- 29:25Speaker 4: I don't know what it did with folks trying to
- 29:28Speaker 4: change up and hold back their entertainment dollars maybe for
- 29:31Speaker 4: what's going on this week down at American Family Field.
- 29:34Speaker 4: But the folks that were in attendance last night were
- 29:36Speaker 4: treated to a marvelous night at Lambeau.
- 29:39Speaker 2: It was spectacular. Absolutely spectacular. And I'm not usually a
- 29:43Speaker 2: uniform guy. Here we are talking about helmets. Well, let's
- 29:45Speaker 2: get it going. I love this. Watching the Packers and
- 29:47Speaker 2: the Cowboys in their proper non-gimmicky, non-highlighter, non-rivalry, something was
- 29:55Speaker 2: perfect about that. It was. That's one of the best
- 29:57Speaker 2: uniform matchups you can have on a night game on
- 30:00Speaker 2: primetime is those two iconic uniforms.
- 30:03Speaker 4: The fact that you could have played a lead-in from...
- 30:06Speaker 4: the final sneak at the ice bowl to that and
- 30:09Speaker 4: see the same logos and the same helmets.
- 30:11Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. When Jordan Love plunged in, I'm like, oh, man,
- 30:14Speaker 2: that's probably what those people experienced in the ice bowl.
- 30:17Speaker 2: That's what it was. Almost the exact spot. Of course,
- 30:21Speaker 2: plus 60 degrees. Yeah.
- 30:24Speaker 4: I don't know if they had the big cans of
- 30:25Speaker 4: Miller Lite back then. They were probably only slamming 12
- 30:28Speaker 4: ouncers then. They were loading up those 24 ouncers.
- 30:31Speaker 2: Last night, Drew. There was a lot of good beer
- 30:33Speaker 2: being drank.
- 30:34Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 30:34Speaker 2: It was a spectacular night all around. And I think, again,
- 30:40Speaker 2: there's two reasons to be, I think, totally bullish about
- 30:42Speaker 2: the Packers. Like, you know, anything can happen. And yeah,
- 30:46Speaker 2: a lot of ballgame, they might go lay an egg
- 30:48Speaker 2: at Ford Field. We don't know. But at this point,
- 30:51Speaker 2: Jordan Love and Jonathan Gannon have given me hope that
- 30:54Speaker 2: what we saw and the malaise that kind of hung
- 30:57Speaker 2: over them early in the season was just that. That
- 31:00Speaker 2: was my question to Billy last night. as we're trying
- 31:02Speaker 2: to process what we saw and what we've seen these
- 31:04Speaker 2: last couple games, what the hell happened in that home
- 31:06Speaker 2: opener against Atlanta?
- 31:07Speaker 3: Oh, geez.
- 31:08Speaker 2: Who were those guys? Like, how were they that bad?
- 31:11Speaker 2: And on defense? Yes, on defense. And, like, now the
- 31:14Speaker 2: defense is, like, rejuvenated and Jonathan Gannon, but who was
- 31:16Speaker 2: coordinating the defense and who was playing? Who were the
- 31:18Speaker 2: imposters out there in that home opener when they looked
- 31:21Speaker 2: so inept? And that defense had Edron Cooper. That defense
- 31:24Speaker 2: had Cooper running sideline to sideline. What is... It's just
- 31:28Speaker 2: hard to figure this league out. I was going to say,
- 31:29Speaker 2: is it just one of those, like, everybody's going to
- 31:31Speaker 2: have an absolute abomination of a game, one or two
- 31:34Speaker 2: a year, where you just don't have it? Is that
- 31:37Speaker 2: the one? Because I can't square the circle of them
- 31:40Speaker 2: looking as good as they did against Dallas, which is
- 31:42Speaker 2: a pretty good offense. I probably think that the Dallas
- 31:45Speaker 2: offense may be a little bit better than... Obviously, they
- 31:47Speaker 2: didn't have Bijan, but on terms of the guys outside.
- 31:50Speaker 4: On paper, it looks like I like them more than
- 31:52Speaker 4: I like Atlanta's offense and Atlanta's offense dog walked them.
- 31:55Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 31:55Speaker 4: And Atlanta looked like a team that coming in was
- 31:58Speaker 4: the worst team in football came out of it. Like, wow,
- 32:01Speaker 4: that team might be odds on to win their division.
- 32:03Speaker 4: And so much of it is the, the week to
- 32:06Speaker 4: week nature. And yes, a quarterback play changes a ton
- 32:09Speaker 4: of it. But last night, the way that you were
- 32:11Speaker 4: able to make Prescott look very much pedestrian was, It
- 32:16Speaker 4: shows that, Drew, you should be able to do that
- 32:18Speaker 4: against anybody. I don't know why you weren't able to
- 32:20Speaker 4: do it against Michael Penix in his first game in
- 32:22Speaker 4: almost a full year.
- 32:23Speaker 5: And why they struggled against the Bears, who the Packers
- 32:26Speaker 5: just dominated. That's just this league.
- 32:28Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it is. That wasn't hard to explain. I
- 32:31Speaker 2: don't think.
- 32:32Speaker 4: Caleb Williams walked in there, laid that thing on the table,
- 32:34Speaker 4: went 10 for 10, and he looked pretty damn good.
- 32:36Speaker 4: That was pretty clear how that one changed. I thought
- 32:39Speaker 4: Pijama would get more than 60 yards. I don't think.
- 32:43Speaker 2: Brian Schottenheimer's not an idiot, and he's like... For him
- 32:49Speaker 2: to have 10 days to get ready for this game
- 32:52Speaker 2: and put that out there and not have any answers...
- 32:56Speaker 2: it's like stunning to me. It's like, well, he might
- 32:58Speaker 2: not finish the season now the way things are going. Yeah.
- 33:01Speaker 4: That, that, that Dallas team looks like it is ripe
- 33:03Speaker 4: for turnover and it didn't feel like Brian Schottenheimer was
- 33:07Speaker 4: going to be their main choice when he got the job.
- 33:10Speaker 2: Originally a year and a half ago. This is a
- 33:11Speaker 2: team that a year ago put a 40 on the
- 33:13Speaker 2: Packers and that was with a healthy Cooper.
- 33:16Speaker 4: And that was one of the games that you thought, okay,
- 33:19Speaker 4: this will be their clunker. This defense looks significantly better
- 33:22Speaker 4: than that one. But now that one also had two
- 33:25Speaker 4: games with Micah Parsons looking all world against Washington. My, my,
- 33:30Speaker 4: how two weeks can change your opinion on anything. And
- 33:32Speaker 4: Dallas walked in last night as one of the worst
- 33:34Speaker 4: rushing defenses.
- 33:35Speaker 2: And the Packers could not run the ball. They might
- 33:38Speaker 2: not be able to run on Notre Dame Academy. Well, yeah,
- 33:41Speaker 2: I mean, it's. That's the thing. Josh Jacobs will help,
- 33:45Speaker 2: but how much? How much?
- 33:47Speaker 4: I'd love to say, and I love to be a
- 33:50Speaker 4: defender of what's going on up front.
- 33:52Speaker 2: There were a couple of lanes last night. Maybe not
- 33:55Speaker 2: a ton. Now, Josh Jacobs has made a lot of
- 33:57Speaker 2: chicken salad in his life.
- 33:58Speaker 3: He has.
- 33:59Speaker 4: He's going to have to put his chef hat on
- 34:01Speaker 4: because he's.
- 34:03Speaker 2: Going to have to cook with what they got going on.
- 34:04Speaker 2: That's where does Zeitler get rotated in? Is that like
- 34:08Speaker 2: in the car? I'm fascinated by him because I wonder, like,
- 34:10Speaker 2: he's just standing there. like wondering why'd they bring me in? Like,
- 34:13Speaker 2: I'm just going to stand here and get barbecue for guys. Uh,
- 34:17Speaker 2: Lake and Tomlinson in the Packers OT shared with us that,
- 34:20Speaker 2: you know, Billy asked him, what's the best thing you've
- 34:22Speaker 2: eaten since you've gotten a green beer? Like, Oh, it's
- 34:24Speaker 2: like they're catered in barbecue for us. And it was amazing. Like, okay.
- 34:28Speaker 2: That's a strong vet move, by the way.
- 34:30Speaker 4: I I'm glad to know that the, uh, MLB version,
- 34:33Speaker 4: when you go down to the minors seeps into the
- 34:36Speaker 4: offensive line rooms, you walk in, what's the easiest way
- 34:38Speaker 4: to make everybody like you?
- 34:40Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to bring barbecue. Bring food. That'll work.
- 34:42Speaker 2: Bring food.
- 34:43Speaker 4: Bring food and fat guys will be a fan of you.
- 34:45Speaker 4: And they're staying at the same hotel, which just cracks
- 34:47Speaker 4: me up, too. I struggle, Drew, to think he's not
- 34:49Speaker 4: a part of the solution. And as much as I
- 34:52Speaker 4: have loved the way that Travis Glover has played, our
- 34:55Speaker 4: friend Charles in Arkdale called last night. He wants to
- 34:57Speaker 4: move him back out to right tackle and move Belton
- 34:58Speaker 4: back inside. Well, if he's moving out to tackle, which
- 35:01Speaker 4: I don't think he's doing, it's because they're finding a
- 35:04Speaker 4: way to get Kevin Zeitler into the game. The one
- 35:06Speaker 4: we talked about, Lake and Tomlinson, last night, I don't
- 35:09Speaker 4: know how you take him out of the game because
- 35:11Speaker 4: the way him and Jordan Morgan has played since he
- 35:13Speaker 4: was inserted in, I agree.
- 35:15Speaker 2: It's the steadying tide. So I want one more vet
- 35:19Speaker 2: in there.
- 35:19Speaker 4: And I do think, I think this week against the
- 35:22Speaker 4: team in a place that he's played before, he's very
- 35:25Speaker 4: familiar with Ford field. I think this in a division
- 35:28Speaker 4: game is the time that you finally get to see him.
- 35:30Speaker 2: That's right. We have not connected with Wayne Larry, but
- 35:32Speaker 2: we will. We're efforting. We'll track him down. We're efforting.
- 35:36Speaker 2: We will track him down. Probably busy watching film. And
- 35:38Speaker 2: coming up after 3 o'clock, we'll fire up the old
- 35:40Speaker 2: game balls and kicks to the balls. Plenty, plenty of
- 35:43Speaker 2: fertile territory because since we last spoke to our smart
- 35:47Speaker 2: and good-looking listeners, well, not on Packers OT last night,
- 35:49Speaker 2: but on this year's program, well, Billy was off on Friday,
- 35:53Speaker 2: and we were chopping it up, and we had a
- 35:57Speaker 2: Badger game since then. We've had a... A completely remarkable, like,
- 36:02Speaker 2: holy cow weekend in college football.
- 36:03Speaker 4: Historic weekend in college football. We got a lot to
- 36:06Speaker 4: unpack from that as well. The Edgers are on big
- 36:08Speaker 4: noon kickoff. Oh, my goodness.
- 36:11Speaker 2: Goodness. We are going to cover all of that for
- 36:13Speaker 2: you as we move ahead. You're in the huddle, Fox
- 36:15Speaker 2: Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Chicken Monday. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness.
- 36:21Speaker 2: We're having some fun today.
- 36:22Speaker 3: I had mine.
- 36:23Speaker 2: Reach us, 877-794-1973, nicolaylaw.com, talk and text line. Golden chicken.
- 36:30Speaker 2: That's where I go. Man, that's good. That's a good spot.
- 36:33Speaker 2: I love me some chicken. I mean, I love it.
- 36:36Speaker 2: Quick Trip's got chicken. Everyone's got chicken. Pick and Save's
- 36:38Speaker 2: got great fried chicken.
- 36:38Speaker 3: They do.
- 36:39Speaker 2: Pick and Save does have really good fried chicken. I
- 36:40Speaker 2: get that all the time. We had some good chicken
- 36:42Speaker 2: in the press box last night. Oh, it was really good, yeah.
- 36:44Speaker 4: We had some real good chicken in the press box
- 36:46Speaker 4: last night. I might just have to go to a buffet, though,
- 36:48Speaker 4: because they have the broasted chicken and the chicken wings.
- 36:51Speaker 4: Then you obviously have to have a little chicken tender, but.
- 36:53Speaker 2: A little broasted.
- 36:55Speaker 4: The broasted broiled chicken, that's a tough deal. It's a
- 36:58Speaker 4: tough one to figure out which one I want to
- 36:59Speaker 4: go with. KFC used to have the buffet way, way back.
- 37:02Speaker 4: If I'm going to KFC, there's no way I'm getting
- 37:05Speaker 4: anything other than that bowl.
- 37:07Speaker 2: That's a good bowl. That little famous bowl.
- 37:09Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
- 37:10Speaker 2: I remember that.
- 37:10Speaker 4: That's got to be one of the best fast food
- 37:12Speaker 4: items that I couldn't tell you the last time I've eaten.
- 37:15Speaker 2: And they're switching from Pepsi to Coke. I just saw
- 37:17Speaker 2: that news. I'm up on the fast food news, I guess.
- 37:19Speaker 2: I don't know why I got that alert. I'm not
- 37:21Speaker 2: there yet. Sorry, Drew.
- 37:22Speaker 5: I'm sure you had something more important here to talk about,
- 37:24Speaker 5: like Brewers World Series.
- 37:26Speaker 2: No, Brewers World Series. We will chat about that. We're
- 37:29Speaker 2: going to get to game balls and kicks to the balls.
- 37:30Speaker 2: And again, we might find out as soon as tonight
- 37:33Speaker 2: if the Rays are going to punch their ticket and
- 37:36Speaker 2: play the Brewers for the World Series championship beginning Friday
- 37:39Speaker 2: at American Family Field.
- 37:40Speaker 4: Well, I got to figure it out because like many,
- 37:43Speaker 4: many individuals out there, Drew, I think there's a lot
- 37:46Speaker 4: of Brewers fans that have resigned themselves to the fact
- 37:48Speaker 4: they're probably not going to a World Series game. at
- 37:51Speaker 4: American family field. But I think there's a decent amount
- 37:53Speaker 4: that are looking at the two AL venues saying that
- 37:56Speaker 4: feels like a much more realistic shot. And some who
- 38:00Speaker 4: think already are planning on trying to go down to
- 38:01Speaker 4: Tampa Bay.
- 38:02Speaker 2: That's absolutely.
- 38:03Speaker 5: I don't know if that's happening. I've already planned that.
- 38:06Speaker 5: And my man Hunter was going through it today, booking
- 38:08Speaker 5: his travel. I was like, Hey, Cleveland could come back.
- 38:11Speaker 5: They're only down three, two, but I definitely agree. I
- 38:14Speaker 5: think if we play Tampa, I'm using we yeah. If
- 38:18Speaker 5: we play Tampa, it is going to be AmFam South.
- 38:21Speaker 2: I really believe that. And I know there's some people saying, well,
- 38:23Speaker 2: are people really going to travel? Well, that's the thing.
- 38:25Speaker 2: The Rays, their best nights of the season are when
- 38:30Speaker 2: they play the Mets or the Yankees or the Red
- 38:32Speaker 2: Sox because of all the snowbirds and the Jays. And
- 38:35Speaker 2: I would assume they're going to open up that tarp
- 38:36Speaker 2: in the top, right? Yeah, I would imagine. Yeah, for sure.
- 38:39Speaker 2: I would imagine. I wonder if they. Had to send
- 38:41Speaker 2: a guy in to turn on all the faucets and
- 38:43Speaker 2: flush the toilets and make sure that they all work
- 38:45Speaker 2: up there. And make sure everything's running.
- 38:46Speaker 4: Well, they've even hit the dynamic pricing there, where at
- 38:50Speaker 4: certain spots, like in the bleachers, I know when we
- 38:52Speaker 4: looked last week, they're like $ 440. Now, in the very
- 38:57Speaker 4: top corner, I think they've almost doubled to upwards of $ 780.
- 39:02Speaker 2: Here's the thing. We're all looking at it, and everybody's
- 39:05Speaker 2: going to the sites, whether it's whatever your favorite is,
- 39:08Speaker 2: if it's StubHub or TickPick or whoever you got. You
- 39:14Speaker 2: get sticker shock and you're like, holy cow, that's ridiculous.
- 39:17Speaker 2: Those tickets are listed at that. How many are selling?
- 39:20Speaker 2: That's the better question. That's what the market should decide.
- 39:22Speaker 2: Who do you know who has popped down like four
- 39:25Speaker 2: grand to sit in the upper deck, in the 400s,
- 39:28Speaker 2: in the terrace?
- 39:30Speaker 3: Level?
- 39:31Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, they're all listed at that,
- 39:32Speaker 2: but then will it come down? The market can be
- 39:35Speaker 2: elastic that way. Will they start to work their way down?
- 39:38Speaker 2: You know, and I was thinking about this too.
- 39:40Speaker 4: I feel like they will, Drew, at least a little
- 39:42Speaker 4: closer towards the game.
- 39:43Speaker 2: But it's done the opposite so far. Well, and the
- 39:45Speaker 2: Packers tickets are kind of baked in, and the Bears
- 39:48Speaker 2: have already visited. Like, what's the hottest ticket at Lambeau
- 39:52Speaker 2: on the remaining home schedule, Billy, would you say? Like,
- 39:55Speaker 2: what would it be? I would say Buffalo. Their fans travel,
- 40:00Speaker 2: and that's a bucket list-y thing for them. It's a
- 40:02Speaker 2: rare game. And they have a new stadium, so they'd
- 40:04Speaker 2: probably want to go see the old Lambeau. Once every
- 40:06Speaker 2: eight years.
- 40:06Speaker 4: Well, and it's also, I mean, don't discredit it. It's
- 40:09Speaker 4: a Josh Allen effect. That would be the superstar, and
- 40:12Speaker 4: we want to go see him. But otherwise, Drew, to
- 40:15Speaker 4: your point, yeah, I don't know a whole lot of
- 40:16Speaker 4: people that are lining up to go see the Houston
- 40:18Speaker 4: Texans on Monday Night Football in January.
- 40:21Speaker 2: Or the Carolina Panthers on a Thursday. Or even the
- 40:24Speaker 2: Lions have been there, done that now. Vikings, it's always steady.
- 40:28Speaker 2: Always got juice. But there's not going to be a jump.
- 40:30Speaker 1: Nope.
- 40:31Speaker 2: You're right. So I'm thinking, once the World Series is over,
- 40:35Speaker 2: the toughest ticket in our little universe is going to
- 40:38Speaker 2: be Giannis' return with the Heat to play at Fiserv. Yeah,
- 40:43Speaker 2: you're not wrong. That's going to be the big one.
- 40:45Speaker 3: Not wrong.
- 40:45Speaker 2: I don't know, but I don't think it's going to
- 40:46Speaker 2: cost three grand to get in the door. No.
- 40:50Speaker 4: That might be three grand to get in the BMO club.
- 40:52Speaker 2: There will be a brisk demand for that game that
- 40:55Speaker 2: people want to see his return. Yeah, because the Bears
- 40:58Speaker 2: game had a ton of luster.
- 40:59Speaker 4: I know people that were paying $ 1, 000 a ticket for
- 41:02Speaker 4: that Bears game. Now, luckily, most of them are Bears fans,
- 41:05Speaker 4: so I'm glad that they put a lot of money
- 41:07Speaker 4: and hopefully some Packers fans in season ticket holders' pockets
- 41:09Speaker 4: and paid for some packages for the year.
- 41:11Speaker 3: But.
- 41:14Speaker 4: It is the once-in-a-lifetime tag. People are utilizing it very,
- 41:20Speaker 4: very much so during this run of, hey, I don't
- 41:23Speaker 4: know how many more 44-year runs I got left, so
- 41:26Speaker 4: I don't want to miss it and I want to
- 41:28Speaker 4: be able to take advantage. I'm very excited for the
- 41:31Speaker 4: folks that are going to be able to be at
- 41:33Speaker 4: every one of these games and the memories that are
- 41:34Speaker 4: going to be made. I also am very excited for
- 41:37Speaker 4: the amount of content that we're getting right now with
- 41:39Speaker 4: people that are kind of hoping and throwing it out
- 41:42Speaker 4: there like, hey, If you got some extra World Series tickets.
- 41:47Speaker 2: Which we all do, right? Just laying around. Generally speaking.
- 41:50Speaker 2: Kind of like how Bucks tickets used to be laying
- 41:51Speaker 2: around at Wendy's. Yeah, right. Those days changed.
- 41:54Speaker 1: You know.
- 41:56Speaker 2: Little Johnny really would like to go to the world series.
- 41:58Speaker 2: Like who's going to have the best sob story.
- 42:00Speaker 4: It's almost, it's almost like the internet now is the
- 42:04Speaker 4: middle of the section. When you catch the foul ball
- 42:06Speaker 4: and people are like, you're really not going to give
- 42:08Speaker 4: it to the little kid.
- 42:09Speaker 2: You're really not going to give it to hell. You got,
- 42:12Speaker 2: you got four world series.
- 42:13Speaker 4: And you're not going to, you're not going to take
- 42:15Speaker 4: this nice eight year old boy that loves the Milwaukee brewers.
- 42:18Speaker 5: And I'm sorry, you're going to need something more than
- 42:20Speaker 5: my kid likes the brewers. Everyone's kid likes the Brewers.
- 42:23Speaker 5: Everyone's been watching for 50.
- 42:25Speaker 2: Everyone's been a lifelong fan. Everyone's wanting to go to
- 42:28Speaker 2: the World Series.
- 42:28Speaker 5: They're dead. That's the thing people aren't understanding about this.
- 42:31Speaker 5: It's like you're not the only main character in this story.
- 42:34Speaker 5: This whole state's been waiting for this. So that's what's
- 42:37Speaker 5: driving a lot of this reality. And we all want
- 42:40Speaker 5: to go. So, yeah, I mean, that is kind of.
- 42:44Speaker 5: There's going to be pressure to give it to this one, right?
- 42:46Speaker 5: I'm just excited.
- 42:47Speaker 4: Well, and the best thing is the one person that
- 42:50Speaker 4: knows somebody that does have tickets and then just comments
- 42:53Speaker 4: that person's name on it. This is mostly on Facebook, right?
- 42:56Speaker 4: Most of these things are trafficking around on the good
- 42:59Speaker 4: marketplace sites. Being able to find some folks like.
- 43:02Speaker 2: Hey, I know Cindy's got tickets. You guys should talk
- 43:04Speaker 2: to her.
- 43:04Speaker 5: And what's the price? There's a price for everyone. You know,
- 43:07Speaker 5: the price of, no, I'm willing to part with these.
- 43:10Speaker 5: I want to go to the World Series. I bought
- 43:11Speaker 5: a strip and I was ready to go. And then
- 43:13Speaker 5: someone put $ 10, 000 in cash in front of him.
- 43:15Speaker 2: Like, what's the price? I mean, there is a price.
- 43:18Speaker 4: Ted DiBiase said it well. Everybody's got a price for
- 43:21Speaker 4: the million-dollar man. He walks up with that wad of
- 43:24Speaker 4: cash in front of you, it's going to be hard
- 43:25Speaker 4: to say no.
- 43:26Speaker 5: That's what I think, and you guys can tell me
- 43:27Speaker 5: if you think I'm wrong, but if and when the
- 43:30Speaker 5: Brewers open up American Family Field for the road games
- 43:33Speaker 5: and you go, that's where, like, 60 years down the road,
- 43:36Speaker 5: you'll tell everyone you're at the World Series.
- 43:38Speaker 2: No one's going to fact-check that.
- 43:39Speaker 5: Just tell everybody you were at the World Series, at
- 43:42Speaker 5: the game.
- 43:42Speaker 2: People saying they were at the Ice Bowl. Exactly. Or
- 43:45Speaker 2: Robin Young's 3,000th hit. Here's me and your great-grandpa at
- 43:50Speaker 2: the stadium, you know, 40 years down the road. Here's
- 43:53Speaker 2: another question. Logistically, and the prices will go up as
- 43:57Speaker 2: the series would build, but right now, if you're going
- 44:02Speaker 2: to buy tickets, are you plunging for one and two
- 44:03Speaker 2: to make sure you see a World Series game, or
- 44:05Speaker 2: are you buying six or seven with the hopes that
- 44:06Speaker 2: you could see the World Series game? The champagne celebration.
- 44:12Speaker 2: That's a tough one. Can't win the series on game
- 44:14Speaker 2: one or two. No, you can win it in game
- 44:16Speaker 2: six or seven.
- 44:18Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 44:18Speaker 2: Oh, wow. That's a great question.
- 44:20Speaker 4: Cause as somebody that did have tickets to game seven
- 44:23Speaker 4: for that exact scenario, sitting out here into the gold,
- 44:27Speaker 4: not going that. So that's a tough thing to be
- 44:29Speaker 4: able to bet on the come drew. I thought they
- 44:30Speaker 4: were going six or seven games with the Dodgers for sure.
- 44:34Speaker 4: I think if it's a brewer's raise series, I think
- 44:36Speaker 4: both of these teams are going to, beat the heck
- 44:38Speaker 4: out of each other, and I think it's going to
- 44:39Speaker 4: be a great knockout-dragout series.
- 44:41Speaker 2: Yeah, could be. But I don't know that I want
- 44:43Speaker 2: to risk it. That's just it. I want to risk it.
- 44:45Speaker 2: That's the old bird in the hand, and you speculate.
- 44:47Speaker 2: And if you own six and seven, and it's a
- 44:50Speaker 2: potential clincher, then you've got to weigh the, do I
- 44:52Speaker 2: cash in and watch it on TV and go on
- 44:55Speaker 2: a nice vacation? Hawaii's always been nice. Looks like we'll
- 45:00Speaker 2: have Wayne next segment if you guys want. He's in
- 45:01Speaker 2: the window. We do. We also have Bon Jovi tickets
- 45:05Speaker 2: for you. We're going to give those away on the
- 45:07Speaker 2: program today. Bon Jovi playing Soldier Field July 21st. We
- 45:11Speaker 2: got a pair of tickets for you. You can win.
- 45:12Speaker 2: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.