Latest / The Huddle / 10/09/26 - Hour 2
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- 0:00Speaker 1: It's the farewell voyage of the huddle Fox Sports Radio
- 0:03Speaker 1: Wisconsin 920 Milwaukee 1070 Madison everywhere on the iHeart app
- 0:07Speaker 1: Facebook X and YouTube for the streaming folks welcome in
- 0:10Speaker 1: to the final six o'clock club the memo went out
- 0:13Speaker 1: Monday we are moving this show to afternoons we'll be
- 0:16Speaker 1: sleeping in and fire it up from two o'clock to
- 0:19Speaker 1: five o'clock p.m.
- 0:21Speaker 2: Beginning on Monday.
- 0:24Speaker 3: It is going to be a change that drew is
- 0:26Speaker 3: frankly a long time in the process in, in, in
- 0:29Speaker 3: coming in, but it's cool to be able to make.
- 0:33Speaker 4: Also, it just happens. that's such a perfect time.
- 0:36Speaker 3: I mean, now the four o'clock club on Friday, on
- 0:40Speaker 3: Monday will also be the first pitch crew.
- 0:42Speaker 2: When that's right.
- 0:43Speaker 3: Brewers and Dodgers fire up in the NLCS. We do
- 0:47Speaker 3: this for an opportunity to get out in front of
- 0:49Speaker 3: the people, get to you and have some conversation and
- 0:52Speaker 3: be around humans during times that you like to go
- 0:55Speaker 3: frequent places and patronize our favorite places.
- 0:58Speaker 4: And I think we get to do that coming up
- 0:59Speaker 4: on Monday.
- 1:00Speaker 2: Indeed.
- 1:00Speaker 1: It's going to be pretty sweet. So eight, seven, seven, seven, nine, four.
- 1:03Speaker 1: 197.3 NicoletLaw.com. Talking text line.
- 1:06Speaker 2: Farewell. A farewell performance. A lot of melancholy. 5 o'clock clubbers.
- 1:11Speaker 1: Again, special shout out for the folks who are with
- 1:13Speaker 1: us at 5. Amen. We welcome everybody because we know
- 1:17Speaker 1: people get up. Your alarm might go off at 6.
- 1:18Speaker 1: You turn us on and you're going about your day.
- 1:20Speaker 1: If you're a 7 o'clock riser, that's going to be great.
- 1:22Speaker 1: I don't know yet. I don't know what the early
- 1:26Speaker 1: odds are at the Bill Schmidt Sportsbook of what time
- 1:29Speaker 1: will my normal wakening time be once we settle into
- 1:32Speaker 1: doing the show at 2 o'clock.
- 1:33Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to guess you're going to be right
- 1:35Speaker 3: around the 7.30 mark. I'm guessing, yeah.
- 1:38Speaker 2: That's probably about it.
- 1:39Speaker 4: I think you're going to be right around the 7.30 mark.
- 1:40Speaker 4: I would say, yeah, between 7 and 7.30. But it'll
- 1:42Speaker 4: take a couple weeks.
- 1:44Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:44Speaker 4: I just think the body's not going to read. I
- 1:46Speaker 4: don't know.
- 1:46Speaker 5: We'll know this Saturday. We'll know this Saturday by how
- 1:49Speaker 5: we get up, because I don't know about you guys,
- 1:51Speaker 5: but I get up early on the weekends, and I
- 1:52Speaker 5: have a headache. I know. I know.
- 1:54Speaker 2: I'll be getting up, yeah, while we're heading to Lambeau
- 1:56Speaker 2: for a noon game, Billy, on Sunday.
- 1:58Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 1:58Speaker 5: Body's... Getting up at 7, your body's asking, where's my coffee?
- 2:02Speaker 5: I'm expecting it.
- 2:03Speaker 4: Four hours ago.
- 2:04Speaker 2: Well, Armand's already been frying up potatoes. I was going
- 2:08Speaker 2: to say.
- 2:08Speaker 3: You've got to get something. Early riser and a grinder
- 2:10Speaker 3: like him. He's already got breakfast made. Lara's a lucky lady.
- 2:14Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, say that again. No question.
- 2:16Speaker 1: All right, so I wanted to ask, because I go
- 2:19Speaker 1: to the socials to see what's up, the pulse of things.
- 2:23Speaker 1: And one of the things that popped up, and I thought, oh,
- 2:26Speaker 1: maybe it's A.I., It's footage of Nick Saban benching Jalen
- 2:30Speaker 1: Hurts in the 2017 National Championship game.
- 2:36Speaker 4: And they were sitting on this for nine years.
- 2:39Speaker 1: This popped on the first installment of the Saban documentary,
- 2:42Speaker 1: the six-parter.
- 2:43Speaker 3: The first episode released last night. And I freaking fell asleep.
- 2:49Speaker 3: I did not get it. I did not wire it
- 2:51Speaker 3: up last night. But this one has been rumored. I'm
- 2:53Speaker 3: glad they fired it in right away. They've been talking
- 2:56Speaker 3: about it, and he's been doing a lot of good
- 2:58Speaker 3: press for it. First off, Nick Saban is a G
- 3:00Speaker 3: on television. I agree with that. He's phenomenal on television.
- 3:04Speaker 2: Really good.
- 3:05Speaker 5: And you've been waiting for this documentary, Billy, like looking
- 3:07Speaker 5: at a buffet. Like, this is like for you. How
- 3:09Speaker 5: excited were you for the last dance documentary?
- 3:11Speaker 4: It's very similar.
- 3:12Speaker 2: Yep.
- 3:12Speaker 5: It's very similar to that. Just a bit outside. It's
- 3:15Speaker 5: a very similar thing. Where it's like, you see that
- 3:17Speaker 5: and you're like, this is up my alley. I would
- 3:21Speaker 5: put it much different than the Just a Bit Outside.
- 3:23Speaker 5: That was also, what, the 20th version.
- 3:25Speaker 2: Of the 1982 documentary?
- 3:26Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fair. We knew the story already. And it's
- 3:29Speaker 3: also a one-parter, right?
- 3:30Speaker 2: Oh, sure.
- 3:31Speaker 3: The last dance that MJ won was the volume of footage,
- 3:34Speaker 3: the years that they were going to.
- 3:35Speaker 4: Encapsulize it with. And at that time.
- 3:38Speaker 3: I don't know that we're ever going to watch sports
- 3:40Speaker 3: television that way ever again because there were no games on.
- 3:43Speaker 3: But for this to then get dropped in the meat
- 3:46Speaker 3: of college football season right ahead of Georgia-Alabama coming up
- 3:49Speaker 3: this weekend, Kirby on the other sideline there, Kirby being
- 3:53Speaker 3: one of his guys, and that being one of the
- 3:57Speaker 3: five greatest games that we've seen over the last three
- 4:00Speaker 3: or four decades, it's pretty insane. And for them to now,
- 4:04Speaker 3: at this point in their NFL careers, Drew... Whose career
- 4:08Speaker 3: would you rather take? If anybody said to a tongue
- 4:11Speaker 3: of Iowa, I would laugh at you at that moment.
- 4:15Speaker 3: Nobody thought Jalen hurts was going to be winning a championship.
- 4:17Speaker 3: No doubt at the NFL level. That'll be its own documentary.
- 4:22Speaker 3: The paths that these two guys took and what it
- 4:24Speaker 3: was like in that moment.
- 4:25Speaker 2: And then going forward.
- 4:27Speaker 3: Oh, a thousand percent. And, and that night when he
- 4:29Speaker 3: pulls them. the move, how well to a plays. And
- 4:34Speaker 3: then the story to the next year come full circle
- 4:39Speaker 3: and to a go down in the sec title game
- 4:41Speaker 3: and hurts come in after staying for the whole year. Again,
- 4:45Speaker 3: different time in college football right now, Jalen hurts is
- 4:48Speaker 3: going and playing somewhere else.
- 4:49Speaker 2: He's on the first thing smoking out of town.
- 4:51Speaker 4: And I know Saban had mentioned it in the doc.
- 4:53Speaker 3: He talks to Halen Jalen the next day. He's like,
- 4:56Speaker 3: this is where you can't run from it. He's like,
- 4:58Speaker 3: There's things we need to work on in your game
- 5:01Speaker 3: that will make you better. He stays, helps them win
- 5:03Speaker 3: the SEC title, and then goes to Oklahoma the year after,
- 5:07Speaker 3: and damn near wins the Heisman. That story arc, you're right,
- 5:11Speaker 3: is a documentary in and of itself, but you could
- 5:13Speaker 3: do five different Saban docs, but I'm glad they actually
- 5:17Speaker 3: are doing one.
- 5:18Speaker 4: There's not a whole.
- 5:18Speaker 3: Lot of folks that you get to do this while
- 5:21Speaker 3: they like being on television, and they're good at it.
- 5:23Speaker 4: And nothing writes art like real life.
- 5:26Speaker 5: And I always say that about sports and about these
- 5:29Speaker 5: documentaries they show up. But real life gives us the
- 5:32Speaker 5: script that art could never come up with. And that's
- 5:34Speaker 5: so true about when you look at Jalen Hurts and
- 5:36Speaker 5: Tua and how their careers have intersected and cross-cutting fortunes and.
- 5:40Speaker 4: Their years in the NFL.
- 5:42Speaker 5: It's just such an amazing, amazing real-life script.
- 5:46Speaker 2: I watch.
- 5:47Speaker 1: You know, when you see Saban and you see him
- 5:49Speaker 1: now on doing panels and stuff and dropping knowledge on people,
- 5:55Speaker 1: I always had this thing, like, people have a vibe, right?
- 5:57Speaker 1: They helm at a certain frequency. And you approach them
- 6:01Speaker 1: as like, oh, this is a good guy. Like, Armin's
- 6:02Speaker 1: this ball of energy, gregarious, outgoing, like, you know, organizing
- 6:07Speaker 1: games and stuff.
- 6:07Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
- 6:08Speaker 1: And other people, like, with Saban, I always got the
- 6:11Speaker 1: feeling that his vibe is that he's been steeped in for, what,
- 6:16Speaker 1: the 40, 50 years being a small, let's say 35
- 6:19Speaker 1: year run as being a successful damn football coach in
- 6:24Speaker 1: the deep South.
- 6:26Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
- 6:26Speaker 1: And he has that kind of like regal. He radiates
- 6:29Speaker 1: like this. I'm the King and you are all my subjects.
- 6:31Speaker 1: And like he radiates that vibe. It's got this glow
- 6:34Speaker 1: about him like that. And then you see him and
- 6:36Speaker 1: you see what he, obviously the record speaks for itself,
- 6:39Speaker 1: brilliant executive and a motivator and all this stuff. And
- 6:42Speaker 1: you start to learn, about the stuff behind what made
- 6:45Speaker 1: him that way. And then he's on, I think it
- 6:48Speaker 1: was Theo Vaughn. Yes, on the Theo Vaughn podcast. When
- 6:51Speaker 1: he talked about how when he retired, he finally slowed down.
- 6:56Speaker 1: He said, when I retired, I don't know if I
- 6:57Speaker 1: share this with anybody, in 50 years of my life
- 6:59Speaker 1: being in a hurry, I spent 50 years of my
- 7:01Speaker 1: life being in a hurry and I didn't know it.
- 7:05Speaker 1: So he said, I retired and the cars are backed
- 7:07Speaker 1: up on the bridge and it goes down to one lane.
- 7:10Speaker 1: In the old days, I'd be the guy that passed
- 7:12Speaker 1: all the cars and cut in at the last minute
- 7:14Speaker 1: right in front of somebody. He said, I sat there
- 7:17Speaker 1: with Miss Terry in the car and she said, you
- 7:19Speaker 1: mean you're not going to pass everybody illegal and illegally
- 7:22Speaker 1: and cut it?
- 7:23Speaker 2: And I said, we're not in a hurry. We're not
- 7:25Speaker 2: in a hurry.
- 7:26Speaker 1: But it's the first time when I retired, I realized
- 7:28Speaker 1: I wasn't in a hurry and I was in a
- 7:29Speaker 1: hurry for 50 years.
- 7:31Speaker 4: It's so good, dude.
- 7:32Speaker 1: He said, you're always hurrying to the next thing, solve
- 7:34Speaker 1: the next problem, go to the next thing. You talk
- 7:36Speaker 1: about relieving stress. That relieves stress better than anything. I
- 7:38Speaker 1: just noticed in that circumstance, not cutting into traffic and
- 7:42Speaker 1: waiting my turn.
- 7:43Speaker 2: Just waiting my turn. Your whole life comes to you
- 7:45Speaker 2: in that one moment. It's like, oh.
- 7:48Speaker 4: Oh, sorry, Nick Saban cut me off. Dude, Nick Saban
- 7:51Speaker 4: cut me off today. It was amazing.
- 7:53Speaker 5: It's so poignant, and it's so interesting to hear someone
- 7:56Speaker 5: that is smart enough and sort of intelligent enough to
- 7:59Speaker 5: talk about life like that. And there have been certain
- 8:02Speaker 5: figures we love because of their observations, their way to
- 8:06Speaker 5: understand humanity and life. And that is one thing, just
- 8:09Speaker 5: something small that he realized about himself. that it's just
- 8:12Speaker 5: so fascinating.
- 8:13Speaker 2: You know? Well, most of us don't speak to a
- 8:15Speaker 2: documentary crew, you know?
- 8:16Speaker 4: Right.
- 8:17Speaker 2: Okay.
- 8:18Speaker 3: We've been doing it on the, the joking tick tocks
- 8:20Speaker 3: where you sit down to tell one, but most of
- 8:21Speaker 3: them don't get that deep into it. His daughter posted
- 8:25Speaker 3: a picture, maybe three weeks after he retired of him
- 8:29Speaker 3: on the beach, just like walking super slowly and casually
- 8:34Speaker 3: and take it in all the breaths and people like,
- 8:36Speaker 3: Oh my God, This guy's living life. This guy's living
- 8:39Speaker 3: life for the first time in a long time.
- 8:42Speaker 4: It's amazing to see.
- 8:43Speaker 1: And all those people at that level, across sports, the
- 8:47Speaker 1: most successful people all have a level of insanity in them.
- 8:50Speaker 2: To be driven to get to that point.
- 8:53Speaker 4: Yes.
- 8:54Speaker 1: Tom Izzo is now your grandpa. He's a personable guy,
- 8:57Speaker 1: but he's got it. They all really do. I just
- 8:59Speaker 1: was listening to a podcast on the way in. about
- 9:03Speaker 1: Giannis is not this cuddly guy.
- 9:05Speaker 2: He's a killer.
- 9:06Speaker 1: And with his teammates and stuff, he's demanding. And if
- 9:09Speaker 1: you're not playing hard, he's going to get in your grill.
- 9:12Speaker 5: And I was thinking about this recently, actually, is how
- 9:14Speaker 5: we've celebrated those figures in American sports for that reason.
- 9:19Speaker 5: We almost recognize that the ones that don't have a
- 9:22Speaker 5: good work-life balance, the Belichicks of the world early in
- 9:24Speaker 5: their days, Jordan is famous for people always talk about
- 9:28Speaker 5: his obsession with And, you know.
- 9:30Speaker 4: Maybe Tom Brady's another good example.
- 9:32Speaker 5: We celebrate that as a virtue almost in so much
- 9:35Speaker 5: in sports that even if it has negative effects in
- 9:37Speaker 5: their personal life, which a lot of times it has,
- 9:39Speaker 5: I mean, like at Brady's, you know, like personally, sometimes
- 9:42Speaker 5: the divorces and things like that. And, but we sell,
- 9:45Speaker 5: we celebrate that sort of obsession with. the perfection of
- 9:49Speaker 5: the job, you know, the perfection of the motivation of competition,
- 9:52Speaker 5: those things so much.
- 9:54Speaker 4: It makes you stop and wonder, do they do those guys.
- 9:56Speaker 5: In their own mind ever wonder if they regret it?
- 9:58Speaker 5: Or is that just part of who they have to be?
- 10:00Speaker 4: Ray Adams talked about that. Sorry, really quick.
- 10:03Speaker 5: The lonely pursuit of greatness, it's a lonely obsession you
- 10:07Speaker 5: have to deal with.
- 10:10Speaker 2: Yeah, I get this.
- 10:12Speaker 3: I agree that it gets celebrated partially, but now I
- 10:15Speaker 3: almost think that it gets looked at in different realms.
- 10:18Speaker 4: Well, we might be evolving on that, right? Yeah, I mean,
- 10:21Speaker 4: I think.
- 10:21Speaker 3: There's a lot of people that look at that and
- 10:24Speaker 3: judge it rather harshly without necessarily being in that spot. Like,
- 10:29Speaker 3: it's hard to fathom that kind of pressure without living it, right? Like,
- 10:34Speaker 3: I mean, as much as you can be, you can
- 10:37Speaker 3: think about it, these guys are, and it gets discussed
- 10:40Speaker 3: and it is factual, Nick Saban for 25, 30 years
- 10:43Speaker 3: was the highest paid state employee in whatever state he
- 10:45Speaker 3: was working in.
- 10:46Speaker 2: Louisiana, Alabama.
- 10:48Speaker 3: And those are, that is an immense amount of pressure
- 10:50Speaker 3: as much as we look at it with the buyouts
- 10:52Speaker 3: and being like, well, that must be a nice way
- 10:54Speaker 3: of life when you're doing it right. And you are
- 10:56Speaker 3: dominating at it. You live in that pressure cooker and
- 10:59Speaker 3: it's a lot different beast.
- 11:01Speaker 4: Totally different.
- 11:01Speaker 5: I don't think any of us can really understand what
- 11:03Speaker 5: it's like to live that life, to be in that
- 11:05Speaker 5: crucible with those expectations, with that pressure and to try
- 11:09Speaker 5: and achieve some sort of balance with, When, I don't know,
- 11:11Speaker 5: for me at least, I've seen people so many times
- 11:14Speaker 5: rip on that. Whenever you see if someone's taking a
- 11:17Speaker 5: vacation or on social, maybe because they see it now,
- 11:20Speaker 5: and there'll be a lot of, and maybe I'm just
- 11:22Speaker 5: responding to the loudest noises, but it's, well, why is it,
- 11:26Speaker 5: you know, you shouldn't be doing this.
- 11:27Speaker 4: You know, so-and-so wouldn't have done this. He would have
- 11:29Speaker 4: been in the gym practicing.
- 11:30Speaker 5: So-and-so wouldn't have taken any time off.
- 11:32Speaker 4: You know, I remember people would, like, just rip on
- 11:35Speaker 4: anyone for anything. Now, you're right, Billy. I think that
- 11:38Speaker 4: may be evolving.
- 11:39Speaker 2: As we go forward.
- 11:40Speaker 1: The false hustle of coaches like, yeah, we work 22
- 11:42Speaker 1: hours a day and, you know, we sleep in the
- 11:44Speaker 1: facility and like, okay, we'll get your work done in
- 11:47Speaker 1: eight to 10 hours and go home.
- 11:48Speaker 4: Be more efficient and be better at it.
- 11:50Speaker 5: Which Cignetti has said, for instance, and he's like, you know,
- 11:52Speaker 5: these guys that have done this, it's kind of like,
- 11:54Speaker 5: but the guys that wear that as a badge, I mean,
- 11:56Speaker 5: how many times have people ripped on? Jokic wants to
- 11:58Speaker 5: be great, but all he wants to do is go
- 11:59Speaker 5: home and play with his horses. He doesn't really have
- 12:01Speaker 5: a passion for being the greatest they're ever... Well, maybe
- 12:04Speaker 5: that's what you want for him. You know, maybe he's just.
- 12:06Speaker 4: Perfectly fine winning championship and multiple MVPs. I don't know.
- 12:10Speaker 5: I think it's interesting, but I can't wait to watch
- 12:12Speaker 5: this as well. Billy, the Saban doc, I think he's
- 12:14Speaker 5: one of the more fascinating sports figures of our generation
- 12:18Speaker 5: and to be able to, you know, to get in
- 12:20Speaker 5: touch with him.
- 12:20Speaker 1: Do you think this story is a work? It's a
- 12:22Speaker 1: banquet story is a, is a yarn. Or do you
- 12:25Speaker 1: think this really happened when Saban said his first season
- 12:28Speaker 1: in Tuscaloosa, he didn't have any gas. He stopped at
- 12:31Speaker 1: the service station. And he was wearing his LSU National
- 12:33Speaker 1: Championship ring that he used to wear.
- 12:35Speaker 5: Oh, no.
- 12:36Speaker 1: And the guy said, well, what's that? He said, it's
- 12:37Speaker 1: the National Championship ring. We're going to do the same
- 12:39Speaker 1: thing here. And the guy looked up and he said,
- 12:41Speaker 1: not as long as Nick Saban's the coach.
- 12:43Speaker 2: That's hilarious. God, I hope that's true.
- 12:49Speaker 1: If it's true, it's amazing. If it's a work, it's
- 12:52Speaker 1: still a great story. You could see a Roll Tide fan.
- 12:55Speaker 1: A thousand percent.
- 12:56Speaker 2: Yes, of course. This clown's the coach.
- 12:59Speaker 3: You see, he lost to Louisiana Monroe in his first year.
- 13:02Speaker 4: That guy's an awful coach. We love those stories. And
- 13:05Speaker 4: whether or not they're true.
- 13:05Speaker 2: It's a great banquet story.
- 13:07Speaker 3: That's like the home grin walking down the grocery aisle
- 13:10Speaker 3: and the little old lady pushes the car.
- 13:12Speaker 4: She's wearing up with me. And I move mine a
- 13:14Speaker 4: little bit to the right.
- 13:16Speaker 2: She moves in front. A little to the left. She
- 13:17Speaker 2: moves it.
- 13:18Speaker 3: A great one if you're able to put it together.
- 13:21Speaker 3: I'd like to know how it's evolved over time.
- 13:23Speaker 4: That's the thing, though.
- 13:24Speaker 3: Because even if it's true or not, Drew, you know
- 13:26Speaker 3: that fish story has grown significantly since.
- 13:29Speaker 4: And we're only getting those more with the podcast.
- 13:31Speaker 5: I mean, every time I hear a former athlete in
- 13:33Speaker 5: a podcast now, there's so many of these old heads
- 13:36Speaker 5: that are telling stories that you know can't be true.
- 13:38Speaker 4: And people always go back and look up box. I
- 13:40Speaker 4: don't know why you're talking about Maxwell. No, no. Mad Max.
- 13:44Speaker 5: I actually believe because you might be crazy enough for
- 13:46Speaker 5: all these stories to be true. But there are there
- 13:48Speaker 5: are exaggerations and fish stories. But I guess that's sort
- 13:51Speaker 5: of the fun of oral history and storytelling. However, that
- 13:55Speaker 5: would be amazing if that's true. But like you said,
- 13:57Speaker 5: I can believe Alabama fans would say that. That's the
- 14:00Speaker 5: fan base you definitely can believe. Not if Saban's our coach.
- 14:04Speaker 5: That's hilarious.
- 14:05Speaker 4: It's amazing.
- 14:06Speaker 1: 877-794-1973. All coaches need one of those self-deprecating moments.
- 14:12Speaker 2: You've got to have one. We need a story on
- 14:14Speaker 2: the banquet circuit. You've got to have it.
- 14:16Speaker 3: Yeah, you said banquet, and immediately you've put yourself into
- 14:19Speaker 3: the Lions Club conversation. You definitely need something to be
- 14:23Speaker 3: able to tell that group. Marcus in Iowa, hey, we
- 14:25Speaker 3: solved it. Why old people drive slow? They've got no
- 14:28Speaker 3: place to be. It might just be it. Not in
- 14:32Speaker 3: a hurry. I know I sit that way. Now, tonight,
- 14:35Speaker 3: or tomorrow night, if I'm potentially getting down to the
- 14:37Speaker 3: Milwaukee Admirals game and your boy doesn't time it up
- 14:39Speaker 3: very well, I'll.
- 14:40Speaker 2: Have to debate.
- 14:41Speaker 3: Am I going to be Nick Saban pre-retirement or post-retirement?
- 14:46Speaker 3: Am I going to take that thing all the way
- 14:48Speaker 3: down to the V on the construction on 894?
- 14:50Speaker 4: Or do you sit there and just wait your turn?
- 14:53Speaker 4: Just wait your turn. I like that.
- 14:56Speaker 3: I'm not just going to illegally cut everybody off. Well, yeah,
- 14:58Speaker 3: I might not have the same squeeze, Mr.
- 15:00Speaker 2: Terry.
- 15:01Speaker 4: He is a psycho, though. Eating the same honey bun
- 15:04Speaker 4: every single day, 6.30 a.m. You like what you like.
- 15:07Speaker 5: 6.30 a.m.
- 15:07Speaker 2: I guess. I love it.
- 15:08Speaker 3: Go for my mile and a half walk, have my
- 15:11Speaker 3: honey bun, come back, one cup of coffee, and then
- 15:13Speaker 3: we go in and start up the day.
- 15:15Speaker 4: Do a good one.
- 15:16Speaker 5: God.
- 15:17Speaker 4: He is just, he is something, something else. Your Nick
- 15:19Speaker 4: Saban's on par with your Mike McGivern.
- 15:22Speaker 3: I do love the fact that he has been now
- 15:25Speaker 3: every time a great school relieves a coach. And there
- 15:29Speaker 3: are going to be a number here coming up, Drew,
- 15:30Speaker 3: probably in the next week and a half, two weeks,
- 15:32Speaker 3: because this is going to be coach gets fired season
- 15:34Speaker 3: in college football.
- 15:35Speaker 4: Now it's well, what have we just called same? Give
- 15:39Speaker 4: him a call.
- 15:39Speaker 3: Just call Saban and see. Yeah, you can call. That
- 15:42Speaker 3: one's going to go to voicemail. He is way too
- 15:45Speaker 3: good on television and looks like he is way too
- 15:49Speaker 3: happy to ever be stepping back in there.
- 15:51Speaker 2: Absolutely.
- 15:52Speaker 1: Because he doesn't have to worry about losing games, but
- 15:55Speaker 1: he's still treated like royalty.
- 15:57Speaker 2: Everywhere he goes now. So he is even more.
- 15:59Speaker 1: And now fan bases that used to hate him are
- 16:01Speaker 1: tolerating him and like, oh yeah, okay, well, I guess
- 16:04Speaker 1: he's okay. And he's winning over people at levels so
- 16:07Speaker 1: I mean, if ever anybody's ego was going to run
- 16:09Speaker 1: amok or he was going to leave a five-cent tip
- 16:11Speaker 1: on a bill or something, he's.
- 16:14Speaker 2: Got that path available to him. Don't know if he'll
- 16:16Speaker 2: take it.
- 16:17Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right.
- 16:18Speaker 2: That path to be a real D-bag is there.
- 16:20Speaker 3: He also then did find a chance to be like,
- 16:23Speaker 3: you know what? I know I'm going to be loved everywhere.
- 16:26Speaker 3: I might as well be hated somewhere. When they went
- 16:29Speaker 3: to Tennessee a couple of weeks ago, My man took
- 16:32Speaker 3: every opportunity to dig into the orange fans.
- 16:36Speaker 2: It was beautiful.
- 16:37Speaker 3: It was like he was walking down the ramp and
- 16:39Speaker 3: he had Vince McMahon next to him on the amount
- 16:41Speaker 3: of times that he just twisted the knife on these
- 16:44Speaker 3: Vols fans.
- 16:45Speaker 4: He goes, wait a second. You know why I really
- 16:47Speaker 4: like cigars? Cause we smoked 16 to 17 when we
- 16:51Speaker 4: came down here and beat your ass every year. It
- 16:54Speaker 4: was ruthless.
- 16:55Speaker 2: The kind of stuff he was saying.
- 16:56Speaker 4: It was awesome. That was hilarious.
- 16:58Speaker 2: I love it.
- 16:58Speaker 3: And miss Terry's just sitting over there being like, Nick,
- 17:00Speaker 3: we got to get out of here. We still got
- 17:03Speaker 3: to get on the plane.
- 17:03Speaker 4: All right.
- 17:04Speaker 2: That's going to be fine.
- 17:04Speaker 4: Don't worry about it.
- 17:05Speaker 2: It's going to be fine.
- 17:06Speaker 4: Oh my goodness. Now this would have been the right song, right?
- 17:10Speaker 2: Alabama.
- 17:11Speaker 5: I'm in a hurry and I don't know why that
- 17:13Speaker 5: would have been the right song for that scene. I
- 17:15Speaker 5: wasn't the art director on this documentary.
- 17:17Speaker 3: That is some very, very strong next-level directing. That's why
- 17:22Speaker 3: you are the executive producer.
- 17:24Speaker 2: That's right.
- 17:25Speaker 4: Green Bay Packers Radio Network. That's what I'm talking about.
- 17:28Speaker 4: Hell yeah.
- 17:29Speaker 1: Hey, keep the applause rolling because Scott Dolphin's rolling in
- 17:33Speaker 1: for his final appearance with us in the morning.
- 17:35Speaker 4: We're going to miss Dolph as part of our show.
- 17:37Speaker 4: I'm not clapping for that Bears fan this week.
- 17:38Speaker 1: Our halftime correspondent heading into the Bears-Packers rematch of the
- 17:45Speaker 1: Famous in storied rivalry.
- 17:46Speaker 2: Perfect day to talk to Dolph.
- 17:48Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the nicest I've been to a Bears
- 17:50Speaker 3: fan this close to a Packers-Bears game in a long,
- 17:52Speaker 3: long time.
- 17:53Speaker 2: That is a really good point. I like that. Dolph
- 17:55Speaker 2: is next. You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
- 17:59Speaker 1: Drew, Billy, and Armand bringing it to you on this,
- 18:02Speaker 1: our final Voyage Friday edition of the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
- 18:08Speaker 1: This is our final edition as a morning show. We
- 18:10Speaker 1: move to the afternoons coming up on Monday. You'll hear
- 18:12Speaker 1: us between 2 and 5 on these here same airwaves, interwebs.
- 18:16Speaker 1: Anywhere you are, you'll hear us from 2 to 5.
- 18:19Speaker 1: And we welcome for the final time as our halftime
- 18:21Speaker 1: correspondent of the huddle, our buddy Scott Dolphin from the
- 18:23Speaker 1: country station down the hall, FM 106.
- 18:26Speaker 2: Dolphin, we got tears in our eyes. Fellas, if it's okay,
- 18:29Speaker 2: I'm still going to come in here Monday morning and
- 18:30Speaker 2: just hang out, just sit here. There might be a
- 18:33Speaker 2: laser left. Take that, Bears fan. Take that, Bears fan.
- 18:39Speaker 1: Billy was just saying he's been more cordial to you
- 18:41Speaker 1: than he has to any other Bears fan this close
- 18:43Speaker 1: to the kickoff of a Packers-Bears game.
- 18:45Speaker 2: I appreciate that, Billy.
- 18:46Speaker 3: But I did stop it, Drew, just after that statement
- 18:50Speaker 3: to you because I tried to, I don't know, maybe
- 18:53Speaker 3: a little bit of a power move.
- 18:54Speaker 4: I just boxed Dolph out. Dolph's the coffee guy in
- 18:56Speaker 4: the building.
- 18:56Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
- 18:57Speaker 4: Nobody makes better coffee than Scott Dolphin.
- 18:59Speaker 2: Well, I feel bad this morning because I was late
- 19:02Speaker 2: getting out of my studio, so I didn't make a
- 19:04Speaker 2: pot like I normally do before I come in here.
- 19:05Speaker 3: But as I got over there, grabbed the filter, put
- 19:08Speaker 3: it over there. Dolph walked over it very nicely, kind
- 19:10Speaker 3: of like leaned in. Dolph was definitely going to rip
- 19:13Speaker 3: the bag open and make the special Dolph concoction. I
- 19:16Speaker 3: was hip in just like a good box out. Not
- 19:19Speaker 3: like Ben McCollum teaches there for the Hawkeyes. I step
- 19:22Speaker 3: in there, get a nice little box out. He's going
- 19:24Speaker 3: to have to drink Green Bay Packer coffee coming up
- 19:26Speaker 3: here in about five or 10 minutes.
- 19:27Speaker 2: I don't know if I want that. We'll see. I'm
- 19:29Speaker 2: going to go back there. And as long as you
- 19:31Speaker 2: didn't interrupt the disrupt the flow, sometimes I'll do that
- 19:34Speaker 2: where if you're in a hurry and you kind of,
- 19:35Speaker 2: The pot's still brewing, and you take some of the
- 19:37Speaker 2: strong stuff from the bottom.
- 19:38Speaker 3: That's one of my favorite things, and it is one
- 19:40Speaker 3: of the things that drives this man crazy. So I
- 19:44Speaker 3: do it every opportunity, only if he's in there.
- 19:46Speaker 5: Well, you might drip it on the burner, and then
- 19:48Speaker 5: we have our problems. Then we have our problems. I'm
- 19:51Speaker 5: pretty good at it.
- 19:52Speaker 4: All right, now the Bears.
- 19:53Speaker 5: Let's see what they do now with expectations. That's what
- 19:56Speaker 5: I want to know. That's what I'm curious about. Now
- 19:58Speaker 5: they have expectations. Oh, you're supposed to.
- 20:00Speaker 2: Beat the Packers.
- 20:01Speaker 4: I'm just trying to gas myself up thinking there's a way.
- 20:03Speaker 2: They had expectations before the season, right? A lot of
- 20:05Speaker 2: people picked them to win.
- 20:06Speaker 4: The division again.
- 20:07Speaker 5: Bears always fans always put expectations on themselves. I mean,
- 20:10Speaker 5: how many off seasons have I heard about? This is
- 20:12Speaker 5: the Bears time to overtake the Packers now.
- 20:14Speaker 4: This is it. And it hasn't come to fruition.
- 20:16Speaker 2: Now they are playing for last year. Well, right. But.
- 20:20Speaker 4: Yes, and it ended up being that way in the
- 20:23Speaker 4: late games, yes.
- 20:24Speaker 5: But I just feel like so many years I've heard
- 20:27Speaker 5: the hype, like Trubisky's, this is Trubisky's division now.
- 20:30Speaker 4: This is Justin Fields' division now.
- 20:31Speaker 2: Hey, don't crack on Mitch. You know, Mitch was there
- 20:34Speaker 2: three years, and the Bears went to the playoffs two
- 20:36Speaker 2: of those three years with Mitchell at quarterback.
- 20:38Speaker 4: Yeah. The problem was he wasn't like he was a reach.
- 20:41Speaker 2: Obviously, they they they gave up a lot to get me.
- 20:44Speaker 4: Well, they're good defenses.
- 20:45Speaker 5: But my point is, I think that now people are
- 20:49Speaker 5: looking at the Bears and they're looking at their situation
- 20:51Speaker 5: with Ben Johnson saying, OK, now this is their time.
- 20:53Speaker 2: I think it is.
- 20:54Speaker 4: Well, let's see.
- 20:55Speaker 2: And I'm a I'm as much of a pessimist Bears
- 20:57Speaker 2: fan as you'll find. But I think it is their
- 20:59Speaker 2: time with Ben Johnson. I think it is.
- 21:01Speaker 5: Well, he's definitely showing himself to have a good offense
- 21:03Speaker 5: with whatever quarterbacks in there. Yeah.
- 21:05Speaker 4: We were talking about that.
- 21:06Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, he's got that running game
- 21:09Speaker 2: going right now.
- 21:09Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 21:10Speaker 2: They got so much tougher, you know, up front.
- 21:13Speaker 3: And they grabbed two great guards. Joe Tooney has been
- 21:16Speaker 3: a phenomenal pickup. Jonah Jackson's been just as good. Now
- 21:19Speaker 3: both are on the injury report. I think both will
- 21:21Speaker 3: end up going this week. And I mean, they just
- 21:24Speaker 3: they do a lot of what they did in Detroit.
- 21:26Speaker 2: And if you.
- 21:29Speaker 3: I had thought that Dan Campbell was going to leave
- 21:31Speaker 3: or that Ben Johnson was going to leave. And Dan
- 21:33Speaker 3: Campbell was going to show amazing. Might not just be
- 21:36Speaker 3: some big dummy. He might know some offense. I know
- 21:39Speaker 3: something worked for Sean Payton. Didn't get play calling duties
- 21:42Speaker 3: from Sean Payton. And apparently that only, that's only a
- 21:44Speaker 3: four week job as, as we just learned. Um, but
- 21:48Speaker 3: when he left, I thought that there was going to
- 21:49Speaker 3: be some, some loss of the Moxie that you had instead.
- 21:53Speaker 3: It was Dan Campbell that got a space jammed and
- 21:56Speaker 3: all his powers have gone away.
- 21:57Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Ben Johnson obviously has a great offensive mind.
- 22:00Speaker 2: And you mentioned Jonah Jackson. Man, he was a great
- 22:03Speaker 2: player with the Lions. He has been all pro this
- 22:06Speaker 2: year for the Bears. I think they knew what they're
- 22:08Speaker 2: getting with Joe Tooney. I mean, that guy's been a
- 22:10Speaker 2: winner wherever he's been. Packers hoping to tap some of
- 22:14Speaker 2: that with the local kid.
- 22:15Speaker 3: Yeah, and I mean, they paid him. Jonah Jackson was
- 22:19Speaker 3: making a bunch of money because I think they traded
- 22:20Speaker 3: for him to the Rams maybe. And he was making
- 22:23Speaker 3: a significant amount of cash. Hadn't stayed healthy there. stays
- 22:26Speaker 3: healthy here. That is a lot of it comes up
- 22:28Speaker 3: to luck of the draw and how much and how
- 22:31Speaker 3: lucky you can stay there. It is.
- 22:33Speaker 2: I mean, you know, when you look at the teams
- 22:35Speaker 2: that have been decimated by injuries this year and then,
- 22:37Speaker 2: you know, how they doing, that's right, right towards the
- 22:39Speaker 2: top of whether or not you're going to be successful
- 22:41Speaker 2: or not, especially with the skill position. Although the bears
- 22:44Speaker 2: have found a way to buck that tram without their
- 22:46Speaker 2: QB without QB one. Yeah.
- 22:48Speaker 1: I thought their defense would be a much shakier after
- 22:51Speaker 1: week one, but they've settled in.
- 22:53Speaker 3: Yeah, and they still haven't been great, right, Dolph? I mean,
- 22:55Speaker 3: their defense has been okay. And there's still struggles. There's
- 22:58Speaker 3: still some there. They're going to bring a lot of heat, though,
- 23:01Speaker 3: I would assume. That was the only way they flipped
- 23:04Speaker 3: the fortunes in that playoff game.
- 23:05Speaker 2: Devin Bush was kind of an under-the-radar signing. He has
- 23:08Speaker 2: played great the last couple weeks. I mean, we all
- 23:11Speaker 2: knew what kind of talent he had when he got drafted.
- 23:13Speaker 2: He's been nice. He's been a nice player. Because the
- 23:15Speaker 2: pass rush has been the number one thing that's been lacking.
- 23:17Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
- 23:18Speaker 2: Other than Montez sweat.
- 23:19Speaker 3: And there's not a whole lot of teams that have
- 23:21Speaker 3: the success they did and then completely remake their linebacker room.
- 23:24Speaker 4: Like right.
- 23:25Speaker 5: Right.
- 23:25Speaker 3: And Tremaine Edmonds was a really, really good player for
- 23:27Speaker 3: them for a while. And they lost a lot of interceptions.
- 23:30Speaker 3: When you look at the back end of their secondary,
- 23:33Speaker 3: they've been able to hold up for now. This will
- 23:36Speaker 3: be a case read the staff from a next gen
- 23:38Speaker 3: stats last night.
- 23:38Speaker 4: Dolph. I want you to want you to be able
- 23:40Speaker 4: to chew on this one.
- 23:41Speaker 3: Jordan Love has a 113.2 passer rating against the Bears,
- 23:45Speaker 3: including playoffs in his career.
- 23:46Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
- 23:47Speaker 3: Highest in NFL history against Chicago ahead of Aaron Rodgers,
- 23:52Speaker 3: Tom Brady, and Russell Wilson.
- 23:53Speaker 2: Wow. So let's get that going here.
- 23:56Speaker 3: And that's how we can manifest some positivity as an
- 23:59Speaker 3: underdog for the first time.
- 24:01Speaker 2: In 20 years. He's got the hopium. I'm trying.
- 24:04Speaker 4: The AP, their headline bears have the opportunity to show again.
- 24:08Speaker 4: They've gained the upper hand in their rivalry with the Packers.
- 24:11Speaker 4: That's the storyline.
- 24:13Speaker 1: It's the point where I'd be happy if they keep
- 24:14Speaker 1: it in with two scores. If they're, you know, It
- 24:16Speaker 1: could be the 9 or 10 in the fourth quarter.
- 24:18Speaker 2: It's got a pretty low line, right? Was it 2.5?
- 24:20Speaker 2: It's 2. So it went down some heavy money on
- 24:23Speaker 2: Green Bay.
- 24:24Speaker 4: I'm not going to be happy if we keep it
- 24:25Speaker 4: within two scores.
- 24:26Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Drew. This is what I'm expecting. It'll be
- 24:29Speaker 2: a change from what I expect.
- 24:30Speaker 4: I'm not necessarily... Listen, the way the Packers.
- 24:32Speaker 5: Have played and the mistakes they've made and the issues
- 24:34Speaker 5: they've had, I agree that I'm not really... My expectations
- 24:38Speaker 5: have diminished, but I still have hope that they'll be
- 24:40Speaker 5: a little bit.
- 24:40Speaker 4: Better than that.
- 24:41Speaker 1: I think it's that... Is 31-21... Like that's, you know,
- 24:46Speaker 1: in my mind, it's all possible. I'm saying, but is that,
- 24:49Speaker 1: is that a success? That's not success. So you have
- 24:52Speaker 1: hope that that's what I'm hoping is like something like
- 24:54Speaker 1: that is, you.
- 24:55Speaker 2: Know, as opposed to a blowout or a, you know, well,
- 24:57Speaker 2: it depends.
- 24:59Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 24:59Speaker 4: I mean, it is bears Packers though.
- 25:00Speaker 2: Yeah. That won't be right.
- 25:01Speaker 3: I mean like that, that's the other part of whenever
- 25:04Speaker 3: this game does look like it, it will be a
- 25:06Speaker 3: much more lopsided affair.
- 25:08Speaker 4: Generally they're entertaining games.
- 25:09Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it'll be close.
- 25:10Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 25:10Speaker 2: I think it'd be close. I mean, I do the
- 25:12Speaker 2: last four or five games. They've all come down to
- 25:15Speaker 2: the wire right now.
- 25:16Speaker 3: Drew, if it is to that point where it's, you know, 31,
- 25:21Speaker 3: 21 or 34, 27, and the bears have the ball
- 25:24Speaker 3: with four and a half minutes to go. Do I
- 25:26Speaker 3: think they're going to throw a play action deep shot?
- 25:28Speaker 2: Yes.
- 25:29Speaker 5: Right.
- 25:29Speaker 4: Like if there's a chance to make that a one
- 25:32Speaker 4: score game, a two score game later, I a thousand
- 25:36Speaker 4: percent believe that the bears would twist the knife. I
- 25:38Speaker 4: don't know that the Packers would do the same. I
- 25:40Speaker 4: don't know which is necessarily the better one.
- 25:42Speaker 3: I do know that there's many people that want some
- 25:44Speaker 3: more twisting of the knife nowadays.
- 25:46Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, I think the pressure's on Matt
- 25:47Speaker 2: LeFleur to twist the knife a little bit because what's
- 25:50Speaker 2: been one of the biggest criticisms of him over the
- 25:52Speaker 2: last couple games in this series is play calling, conservative
- 25:55Speaker 2: play calling.
- 25:56Speaker 3: Well, and some of it, too, is just backing down
- 25:58Speaker 3: right now to what is clearly the challenge across the
- 26:01Speaker 3: way of the head coach. Like, one has made it
- 26:03Speaker 3: abundantly clear, does not like it, and does not have
- 26:06Speaker 3: a problem letting everybody know about it. And there's two
- 26:08Speaker 3: ways of operating. And I don't know that one gives
- 26:12Speaker 3: you a massive leg up, but I do know that
- 26:15Speaker 3: the team does hear it. And at some point they,
- 26:18Speaker 3: they got to answer for it too. So whether or
- 26:20Speaker 3: not it inspires and brings better play from the guys,
- 26:24Speaker 3: it might in enhance some focus throughout the week of
- 26:27Speaker 3: knowing our asses are in the jackpot here coming up
- 26:29Speaker 3: this week.
- 26:30Speaker 4: Cause we put it there squarely.
- 26:31Speaker 2: I enjoy the back and forth, you know, started by
- 26:34Speaker 2: Ben Johnson. Now you see a lot of Packers players
- 26:37Speaker 2: talking back.
- 26:38Speaker 4: Oh, he's definitely likes to stoke those fires.
- 26:39Speaker 2: Maybe would like a little more.
- 26:41Speaker 3: I maybe would like a little bit more from our side.
- 26:42Speaker 3: I told, like, as a Bears fan, you got to
- 26:45Speaker 3: be loving it. They're 1,000% up on the absolute top
- 26:51Speaker 3: of the Ferris wheel.
- 26:52Speaker 4: We just got to get that thing spinning right back.
- 26:53Speaker 2: I love the fact that the Bears are relevant in
- 26:55Speaker 2: this rivalry again. Yeah, that's exciting for me.
- 26:58Speaker 4: Yeah, it's frustrating.
- 26:58Speaker 2: You know, I'm old enough to remember when the Bears dominated, what,
- 27:01Speaker 2: eight or nine games in a row back in the 80s?
- 27:04Speaker 2: None of them were close. And so, you know... And
- 27:08Speaker 2: then things turned with Brett Favre, obviously. And since then,
- 27:10Speaker 2: it's been a ridiculously lopsided affair.
- 27:13Speaker 1: If the Packers are to win and have the same
- 27:15Speaker 1: record as the Bears after five games, I'd be like, whoa,
- 27:18Speaker 1: that'd be.
- 27:18Speaker 4: Yeah, well, that's it.
- 27:19Speaker 3: That's the other part of what last week it didn't
- 27:22Speaker 3: look like much. But you win and all you do
- 27:25Speaker 3: is give yourself a chance to have another chance because
- 27:28Speaker 3: you're one not to steal Todd Bowles line.
- 27:31Speaker 4: Well, we might be on four, but we're one game
- 27:33Speaker 4: out of first place.
- 27:34Speaker 3: You win this week, you're going to be right there
- 27:36Speaker 3: in the midst of it, right there in the driver's seat.
- 27:39Speaker 4: This is the NFL. You always have a chance to
- 27:41Speaker 4: make your way back and to believe.
- 27:42Speaker 1: How stunned would you be if the game of Packers-Vikings
- 27:45Speaker 1: is for first place when they roll around to it?
- 27:47Speaker 2: Because, you know, it'd be like, ooh.
- 27:48Speaker 3: At the moment, surprised, but I can't say that it's impossible.
- 27:54Speaker 4: No, especially after how Dallas looked last night.
- 27:56Speaker 2: Well, just look at the Packers' last two opponents, the
- 27:58Speaker 2: Buccaneers and Falcons. Both looked pretty good this past weekend.
- 28:02Speaker 5: I think that gives you a little hope, although looking
- 28:04Speaker 5: at common opponents is always a dangerous thing in the NFL.
- 28:06Speaker 5: It is. of how different every week is and all,
- 28:09Speaker 5: you know, all the, you know, specifics of things, but Hey,
- 28:12Speaker 5: I mean, you have to hold on to something.
- 28:15Speaker 4: And the way that the Packers have looked at times.
- 28:17Speaker 5: These first two weeks, if they're two and two, and
- 28:20Speaker 5: at least a heads above water a little bit in
- 28:22Speaker 5: that sense, you had to hold onto that hope that
- 28:23Speaker 5: things will change.
- 28:24Speaker 1: Billy, what's the secondary market. You're going up to Lambeau.
- 28:27Speaker 2: Right, Dolph? No, I'm going to AmFam. Well, you could
- 28:32Speaker 2: do both. I wonder how many people are actually considering that.
- 28:35Speaker 1: That's the thing. I think there's going to be a
- 28:37Speaker 1: decent amount. It's a Milwaukee game for the gold package game, right?
- 28:42Speaker 2: You're going to have to haul ass right out of
- 28:43Speaker 2: there and hope to be in the parking lots by
- 28:46Speaker 2: six or so.
- 28:47Speaker 3: Get in price for the Murphy boxes that I'm seeing
- 28:50Speaker 3: up here would be.
- 28:51Speaker 4: About $ 440. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. In the bowl,
- 28:55Speaker 4: about 500 or 600.
- 28:56Speaker 1: The psychology of the Chicago fan, if you want the
- 29:01Speaker 1: Bears to lose, we love Dolph, but if you want
- 29:02Speaker 1: the Bears to lose and their fans to be miserable,
- 29:04Speaker 1: the fans who are fans of both the Bears and
- 29:07Speaker 1: the Cubs will be an extra level of misery.
- 29:10Speaker 5: Sure.
- 29:10Speaker 4: Right?
- 29:10Speaker 5: Sure.
- 29:11Speaker 2: Because they're watching the Brewers succeed. Big time. Whereas White
- 29:14Speaker 2: Sox fans, they're. White Sox Bears fans, their mood will
- 29:17Speaker 2: be dictated by what happens Saturday night in Cleveland now.
- 29:20Speaker 2: I'm so curious about that. Tough one last night for
- 29:22Speaker 2: the Sox, man. Yeah. They can't win at home.
- 29:24Speaker 4: That's the funny thing about it.
- 29:26Speaker 2: Can't win at home. Pope Leo's hometown.
- 29:27Speaker 4: I mean, come on, man. Well, did he even show up?
- 29:30Speaker 3: No.
- 29:31Speaker 4: See, now maybe if we wanted to channel something, he
- 29:33Speaker 4: would have been able to help him move on. No,
- 29:35Speaker 4: but the nun was there.
- 29:36Speaker 5: I don't know.
- 29:37Speaker 4: Oh, okay. So he sent his assistants.
- 29:40Speaker 5: No, there's like a famous nun that likes the socks
- 29:42Speaker 5: who did like the arm up with the ball, the ball.
- 29:45Speaker 4: Trick with her arm.
- 29:46Speaker 2: Sister Jean's sister?
- 29:47Speaker 4: I was going to say, what are we talking about here?
- 29:48Speaker 2: She threw out her first pitch once.
- 29:50Speaker 4: She rolled up a ball on her arm. Come on, dude.
- 29:53Speaker 4: The holy person that we're talking about here. Come on, dude.
- 29:55Speaker 4: It's 630. Come on. Come on.
- 29:56Speaker 2: Sister Jean's no longer with us, right?
- 29:58Speaker 4: No, sadly not. And actually passed one year ago today.
- 30:01Speaker 2: Oh, wow. One year ago today.
- 30:04Speaker 4: Otherwise, she definitely would have been thrown on the first pitch.
- 30:06Speaker 2: Right. Although Loyola Marymount Northside, maybe she was a Cubs fan.
- 30:10Speaker 4: I don't know. Well, that's my thing.
- 30:11Speaker 5: You have to be careful when you start talking about
- 30:13Speaker 5: Chicago because there's some people that are like, you don't
- 30:15Speaker 5: dare to call me a Sox fan or a Cubs fan.
- 30:17Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
- 30:18Speaker 4: It was Sister Mary Jo Soblek. All right.
- 30:23Speaker 5: And she threw the first pitch out in 18 and
- 30:26Speaker 5: she threw a dime.
- 30:27Speaker 4: I mean, she's a ballplayer. You can tell. So she
- 30:29Speaker 4: was there last night. It definitely wasn't enough.
- 30:31Speaker 2: I can tell you going through Catholic grade school until
- 30:34Speaker 2: sixth grade when we play kickball. So it didn't matter.
- 30:37Speaker 2: Sister Linnaeus was the best athlete on the field. She
- 30:39Speaker 2: ran circles around us.
- 30:41Speaker 4: You know, when you have the power of the spirit,
- 30:43Speaker 4: you know.
- 30:44Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it was the power of the Holy Spirit.
- 30:47Speaker 4: You throw that Trinity slider, and you don't know what
- 30:49Speaker 4: is happening. And we'll be caught around the field before
- 30:51Speaker 4: the game here.
- 30:52Speaker 2: Here we go.
- 30:53Speaker 4: Holy Spirit sinker. We know you're watching.
- 30:56Speaker 2: Let's go.
- 30:57Speaker 5: Give it up.
- 30:58Speaker 3: Do your best.
- 30:58Speaker 4: Let God do the rest. Let's bring it home. All right.
- 31:02Speaker 4: All right. I'm going to start using that in a
- 31:05Speaker 4: hype speech there.
- 31:06Speaker 2: Do the best. Let God do the rest. Let go.
- 31:08Speaker 4: Let God.
- 31:09Speaker 5: Unfortunately, the power wasn't in the bullpen last night for
- 31:13Speaker 5: the Sox.
- 31:14Speaker 4: The bullpen looks tired. That's been their strength in a
- 31:16Speaker 4: lot of ways.
- 31:17Speaker 2: That's true. Well, they got a little itchy early, right?
- 31:19Speaker 2: They yanked their starter after in the first inning.
- 31:21Speaker 4: Which I get. You know, you're trying to clinch things.
- 31:23Speaker 4: You're trying to do things. And that ended up working
- 31:24Speaker 4: at the time. They shut down the first three. They
- 31:26Speaker 4: got the lead. I don't know.
- 31:27Speaker 5: This has been a fascinating series. We were blessed to
- 31:30Speaker 5: get one game five at least.
- 31:32Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 31:32Speaker 5: I know.
- 31:33Speaker 1: But then whatever's left of the winner of this series,
- 31:36Speaker 1: they dry the champagne and fire up the ALCS.
- 31:39Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 31:40Speaker 1: It's a rested Rays team in a cauldron of a
- 31:43Speaker 1: tough place to play.
- 31:43Speaker 2: Yeah, go see what happens. Rays are just so good, too.
- 31:45Speaker 1: So, Dolph, you get to kick off this Bears-Packers weekend
- 31:48Speaker 1: with the Hawkeye night game, right?
- 31:50Speaker 2: Oh, God, I forgot all about that, Drew. Yeah, tonight. Huskies. Yeah,
- 31:53Speaker 2: short turnaround for the Hawks without their starting quarterback, by
- 31:56Speaker 2: the way. They head out west to Seattle.
- 31:57Speaker 4: No Hank?
- 31:58Speaker 2: No Hank. No Hank. Well, he was listed as doubtful yesterday.
- 32:01Speaker 2: I don't know what it is now.
- 32:02Speaker 4: I don't like that.
- 32:03Speaker 2: He got dinged up against the Buckeyes. So this would
- 32:06Speaker 2: be a tough one for the Hawks. I think their
- 32:09Speaker 2: record is horrendous going to the Western time zone over
- 32:12Speaker 2: the last several years. I know they lost to USC.
- 32:17Speaker 2: and UCLA in the last couple years. So we'll see
- 32:19Speaker 2: what happens against them.
- 32:21Speaker 4: That is one of the most underrated, difficult places to play.
- 32:25Speaker 2: In Seattle? Husker Stadium in Seattle. Yeah, I love the
- 32:28Speaker 2: fact they said a third of the fans that come
- 32:30Speaker 2: there take a boat. The sailgating is real. Sailgating is
- 32:33Speaker 2: a real deal.
- 32:34Speaker 5: Really?
- 32:34Speaker 2: I didn't know about that.
- 32:35Speaker 5: Oh, it's gorgeous.
- 32:35Speaker 2: The stadium's unbelievable. Puget Sound, and they roll right up
- 32:39Speaker 2: in their boats, and they go right through the turnstiles.
- 32:41Speaker 2: That's why that Minnesota dub was big there. Oh, yeah.
- 32:43Speaker 4: It was impressive.
- 32:44Speaker 1: The Minnesota dub there was probably more impressive than the
- 32:46Speaker 1: Badgers dub at Penn State.
- 32:49Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be. It's close.
- 32:52Speaker 3: Yeah, one wasn't down 17-0. Well, I'm just saying that
- 32:55Speaker 3: in terms of winning.
- 32:56Speaker 2: Yeah. It's hard to say. I mean, Penn State ran
- 32:58Speaker 2: into a buzzsaw last week against a very scary Northwestern team.
- 33:01Speaker 3: Hey, you want to talk about what seems like a
- 33:03Speaker 3: tough place to play? That Ryan Field looks.
- 33:06Speaker 2: Well, yeah, my brother read it when you run the
- 33:08Speaker 2: ball like they did. Oh, my God.
- 33:09Speaker 4: That wall looked insane. I'm trying to get there for
- 33:12Speaker 4: a game. I got a ticket hookup.
- 33:14Speaker 2: Trust me.
- 33:14Speaker 4: I can't think it's hard to get tickets. Is Wisconsin
- 33:16Speaker 4: still there?
- 33:18Speaker 2: Iowa goes there in a couple weeks. I don't think
- 33:20Speaker 2: they're there this year.
- 33:21Speaker 5: So I was looking at that, trying to get one.
- 33:24Speaker 3: So it does look like a really nice team. No,
- 33:26Speaker 3: they don't get David Braun's squad this year. And David
- 33:28Speaker 3: Braun's got.
- 33:28Speaker 4: A good team.
- 33:29Speaker 2: David Braun, a grad of?
- 33:31Speaker 4: Kettle Moraine.
- 33:32Speaker 2: Kettle Moraine High School. Oh, here we go.
- 33:33Speaker 4: I love a local connection.
- 33:35Speaker 2: Love that.
- 33:35Speaker 4: I love that.
- 33:36Speaker 2: Pretty wild. Yeah, he got brought in as Fitz's, was
- 33:38Speaker 2: it defensive coordinator? Defensive coordinator.
- 33:41Speaker 4: And I don't believe coordinated a game until he became
- 33:44Speaker 4: the head coach.
- 33:45Speaker 2: Very quickly, all of a sudden, they're like, hey.
- 33:48Speaker 4: Hey, you're here. You're going to be our new interim
- 33:50Speaker 4: head coach.
- 33:51Speaker 2: That turned out okay. Okay, sounds good. It did turn
- 33:53Speaker 2: out okay for him. That's amazing. Well, Dolph, we'll miss you.
- 33:56Speaker 2: We'll still be around. You'll still see us. It has
- 33:58Speaker 2: been an honor.
- 33:58Speaker 4: A lot of fun. Who was on the text line?
- 34:01Speaker 4: I want you to call in.
- 34:01Speaker 1: If you're awake and can call in on Monday after
- 34:05Speaker 1: the Bears game, that'd be fun.
- 34:06Speaker 2: But we'll be on. The door's always open. Well, I
- 34:09Speaker 2: will be tailgating, I would assume, at that time. I
- 34:12Speaker 2: was going to say. We're on two to five. We'll
- 34:15Speaker 2: be at the ballpark. We're going to that one, too.
- 34:17Speaker 2: Going to game two. Game two is 4 p.m. first pitch,
- 34:20Speaker 2: so we'll probably be in the lots by 1, I
- 34:22Speaker 2: would think. Perfect.
- 34:23Speaker 3: So we will get boots on the ground at American
- 34:26Speaker 3: Family Field calling Dolph on Monday.
- 34:28Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about.
- 34:29Speaker 4: The party never stops, right?
- 34:31Speaker 2: Oh, that would be awesome.
- 34:32Speaker 4: Perfect. It was Maggie and Georgia. And I'm going to
- 34:35Speaker 4: leave this one, Marcus, in Iowa. This is too good.
- 34:38Speaker 4: Hankless in Seattle.
- 34:39Speaker 2: Hankless in Seattle.
- 34:40Speaker 4: I love it. That's going to be tough, dude. I
- 34:42Speaker 4: don't like that they're going to be Hankless in Seattle.
- 34:44Speaker 2: So they're going to their gunslinger, Jeremy Heklinski, who's the backup,
- 34:48Speaker 2: who's never started the college game.
- 34:49Speaker 4: Is he from Iowa?
- 34:52Speaker 2: He came in from Wake Forest. I believe he's a
- 34:55Speaker 2: Georgia boy.
- 34:56Speaker 4: Okay.
- 34:57Speaker 3: Listen, all I know is after what we did last night,
- 35:02Speaker 3: we need 42 points. Somehow we need 42 points. I
- 35:05Speaker 3: was really liking Hank Brown rolling out to the West Coast.
- 35:08Speaker 3: Now I don't like that as much.
- 35:09Speaker 4: So Hawkeyes, Kirk, let's roll that football. Let's not punt
- 35:12Speaker 4: as much here tonight.
- 35:13Speaker 2: Hank was in Seattle.
- 35:14Speaker 4: I love that.
- 35:14Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
- 35:15Speaker 5: Thanks, boys.
- 35:16Speaker 2: As always, we'll take a quick break. You're in the huddle.
- 35:18Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
- 35:21Speaker 1: Huddled up on our final morning broadcast on this Friday
- 35:25Speaker 1: in the good land.
- 35:25Speaker 2: Drew, Billy, and Armin.
- 35:27Speaker 1: Starting next week, we will be going from 2 to
- 35:29Speaker 1: 5 p.m. Same channels, same stream, same everything. Same dudes,
- 35:36Speaker 1: different time of the day.
- 35:37Speaker 4: Same dudes.
- 35:37Speaker 1: We're going from 2 to 5 p.m. rather than 5
- 35:40Speaker 1: to 8. So, again, our farewell.
- 35:42Speaker 2: Journey here in the morning hours.
- 35:46Speaker 1: Everybody, if you shopped on Prime Day, did you guys
- 35:49Speaker 1: buy anything on Prime Day?
- 35:51Speaker 2: I didn't.
- 35:52Speaker 4: I know the house did. That's exactly what I was
- 35:54Speaker 4: going to say. I missed it. I don't really. I'm
- 35:58Speaker 4: not locked in on Prime Day, but I know, Laura.
- 36:01Speaker 4: I know there's going to be a decent amount of
- 36:03Speaker 4: Amazon packages being delivered.
- 36:05Speaker 5: Especially with it being Halloween season coming up.
- 36:07Speaker 4: Some Halloween stuff has been popping up around the house.
- 36:10Speaker 4: Lena's got a new little pumpkin bag.
- 36:12Speaker 1: The Prime Day deals are good or bad, depending on
- 36:14Speaker 1: your outlook. But there are deals to be had in
- 36:16Speaker 1: the bid on Milwaukee. auction let's go that is happening
- 36:20Speaker 1: next week starts wednesday go to bid on milwaukee.com you
- 36:24Speaker 1: can't find they have these categories there and you pop
- 36:26Speaker 1: up and you see these deals these companies offer great
- 36:28Speaker 1: deals and you you they call it an auction but
- 36:31Speaker 1: you're just purchasing that right you're just kind of like
- 36:33Speaker 1: i'll take that at that price perfect lock it in
- 36:36Speaker 1: so it's not complicated at all it's easy transactions and
- 36:38Speaker 1: it's great stuff you can't find a category that you're
- 36:42Speaker 1: not interested in or have just recently purchased and you
- 36:46Speaker 1: want to, Oh, I could have got this for a
- 36:47Speaker 1: better deal. Like you go look at the bid on
- 36:49Speaker 1: milwaukee.com auction. They have their stuff on there already, you know,
- 36:54Speaker 1: vacations like golf excursions, like health club membership, hot tubs, spas,
- 36:59Speaker 1: home improvements, auto, like it's all there, different categories, surf
- 37:04Speaker 1: around and check out the bid on Milwaukee auction, and
- 37:07Speaker 1: then get ready to do some deals coming up Wednesday
- 37:09Speaker 1: and Thursday.
- 37:10Speaker 2: It goes live on Wednesday. So check it out.
- 37:13Speaker 4: You can get, like, lawyer services. Some of us need that.
- 37:16Speaker 4: I'm looking at that Mississippi River two-day cruise.
- 37:18Speaker 2: To be honest with you right now.
- 37:20Speaker 1: Basically, everything you got on there starts at, like, half
- 37:22Speaker 1: off the normal price. So it's all very good. If
- 37:24Speaker 1: not more than half off, yeah. Car detailing packages, like,
- 37:27Speaker 1: you don't know. That's a pampering.
- 37:29Speaker 2: I tell you. All guys should get a pedicure, and
- 37:31Speaker 2: once a year, you should get your car detailed.
- 37:32Speaker 3: Because you will feel like that is so true, Drew.
- 37:36Speaker 3: You feel like an absolute legend going into that new
- 37:39Speaker 3: car smell.
- 37:39Speaker 5: They also have something I've been thinking about, not really
- 37:42Speaker 5: for now, but maybe one day, because I saw someone
- 37:44Speaker 5: else have something similar.
- 37:46Speaker 4: It's these Lawn Bots, the robotic lawnmowers.
- 37:48Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
- 37:49Speaker 4: What do you think about these things? I mean, is
- 37:50Speaker 4: that fake hustle?
- 37:51Speaker 2: You got a Roomba in your house. You can have
- 37:53Speaker 2: a lawn bot.
- 37:54Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 37:54Speaker 3: See, and we just got a Roomba dropped off. I
- 37:57Speaker 3: used a Roomba from the, from the in-laws.
- 37:59Speaker 4: Oh, that's nice. I don't know how I feel about
- 38:00Speaker 4: the Roomba. I'm just like, if you've got a dog
- 38:04Speaker 4: or a cat, I could see being heaven.
- 38:06Speaker 2: We got a little, we got a blind dog.
- 38:08Speaker 4: All right. First off, I, and he can't see me.
- 38:11Speaker 4: There's no way he's seeing the room. That's fair.
- 38:14Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 38:15Speaker 3: I not 2020 vision. When I had my contacts in,
- 38:17Speaker 3: they tell me it is. I can't see the dog
- 38:20Speaker 3: half the time. I can't see the Roomba. Your boy
- 38:23Speaker 3: almost trips and goes down yesterday. It was almost a
- 38:25Speaker 3: cataclysmic event in the back room. So the one on
- 38:29Speaker 3: the lawn, though, be better because then you can watch
- 38:33Speaker 3: it just cutting your grass.
- 38:34Speaker 4: Watch somebody else do the work for you. And you
- 38:36Speaker 4: could be drinking the beer while it's doing that. And then, like,
- 38:39Speaker 4: you know, let's be honest. You want your neighbor to
- 38:41Speaker 4: see it, too.
- 38:42Speaker 5: Like, hey, you guys are wasting your time cutting the grass.
- 38:44Speaker 4: I got a lawn robot. What are you guys doing?
- 38:46Speaker 4: I'm hanging out. Armin's calling his neighbors to make sure
- 38:50Speaker 4: that they're outside and seeing the lawn bot rolling through.
- 38:54Speaker 4: They congregate in the middle of the cul-de-sac. All the dads.
- 38:58Speaker 3: I'm still telling you, you said the vacations, which is
- 39:02Speaker 3: an absolute hitter. That walleye excursion, if you've been thinking
- 39:07Speaker 3: about with the boys and you've been talking about trying
- 39:09Speaker 3: to get a group of guys to go out for
- 39:10Speaker 3: a trip, that is a six-person event that is one
- 39:15Speaker 3: that you are getting a ridiculous screaming deal. And again,
- 39:18Speaker 3: you look at getting it over, you know, half off
- 39:21Speaker 3: for most of this stuff. It's pretty impressive. I am
- 39:23Speaker 3: trying to figure out where I'm going to put this
- 39:24Speaker 3: sauna though.
- 39:27Speaker 1: It's like walking through the exhibit hall at State Fair.
- 39:30Speaker 1: It's like, okay, here's estate planning, and here's a sauna
- 39:32Speaker 1: and a hot tub.
- 39:33Speaker 4: Oh, and a 30-foot underground pool.
- 39:36Speaker 2: Sweet.
- 39:37Speaker 5: Home improvement, stuff like that.
- 39:41Speaker 2: Carpet cleaning.
- 39:42Speaker 4: Put it in the garage, Billy. You can finally have
- 39:44Speaker 4: a hot box in the garage.
- 39:46Speaker 3: That happens all the time. I'm trying to figure out
- 39:48Speaker 3: where the better one would be. I think I got
- 39:51Speaker 3: enough clearance in the basement.
- 39:53Speaker 4: Yeah, probably. I actually don't know. I mean, maybe you do.
- 39:57Speaker 3: I'm just telling you, that's the new thing. And I
- 39:59Speaker 3: hated the cold plunge. I hated the ice bath. I
- 40:02Speaker 3: love the sauna. And to know that there's not going
- 40:05Speaker 3: to be somebody that is 10 years post-retirement age laying
- 40:09Speaker 3: brain in the sauna while I'm trying to enjoy might
- 40:12Speaker 3: be a little bit better.
- 40:12Speaker 2: Might be better. Having your own deal. That'd be pretty sweet.
- 40:16Speaker 2: All right. Hit us up. 877-794-1973.
- 40:20Speaker 1: Again, it's our last foray into the mornings. We're shutting
- 40:25Speaker 1: down the 5 o'clock club coming up next week, Monday,
- 40:28Speaker 1: when we move from 2 to 5.
- 40:30Speaker 2: You're enjoying The Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.