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09/25/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Well, what happened was that second game, we got our
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Speaker 1: ass kicked. The second half, we just got our ass
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Speaker 1: totally kicked. We couldn't do diddly-poo offensively. We couldn't make
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Speaker 1: a first down. We couldn't run the ball. We didn't
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Speaker 1: try to run the ball. We couldn't complete a pass.
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Speaker 2: We sucked.
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Speaker 1: The second half, we sucked. We couldn't stop the run.
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Speaker 1: Every time they got the ball, they went down and
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Speaker 1: got points.
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Speaker 3: We got our ass.
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Speaker 1: Totally kicked in the second half. That's what it boiled
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Speaker 1: down to. It was a horseshit performance in the second half.
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Speaker 4: Horseshit.
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Speaker 1: I'm totally embarrassed and totally ashamed. Coaching did a horrible job.
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Speaker 1: The players did a horrible job. We got our ass
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Speaker 1: kicked in that second half.
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Speaker 5: It sucked.
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Speaker 3: It stunk.
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Speaker 6: That was not Matt LaFleur.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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Speaker 6: Following the Packers 35-14 loss.
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Speaker 2: But one of the all-timers, right? One of the all-time
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Speaker 2: Jim Mora. I think he summed it up well.
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Speaker 3: I was going to say somehow summed it up perfectly
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Speaker 3: for what we just watched last night.
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Speaker 6: I think folks might have been comforted to hear Matt
1:00
Speaker 6: LaFleur say that. He did not, of course. Irish cricket
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Speaker 6: to everybody who watched that game last night, especially those
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Speaker 6: of you who hung around with us on Packers OT,
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Speaker 6: which wrapped up at 1 a.m. at Lambeau Field. We've
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Speaker 6: been here since 5, bringing it to you. We're going
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Speaker 6: to be here for another hour. Wayne Larive joins the
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Speaker 6: party coming up at 7.30, 7.35, somewhere in that neighborhood.
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Speaker 6: We'll be talking to the voice of the Packers. Sources
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Speaker 6: post my situation confirmed. that the sun did rise in
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Speaker 6: the East this morning.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 6: It's a little cloudy out there. The sun did come
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Speaker 6: up despite the Packers best efforts.
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Speaker 4: Billy always looks for himself to make sure like, you know,
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Speaker 4: it's like I went out there and checked a couple
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Speaker 4: of times, but verify after that nice harvest waxing gibbous
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Speaker 4: moon last night or whatever they were calling it like
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Speaker 4: last night. So yeah, the sun did come up. It's
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Speaker 4: out there.
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Speaker 3: Most in a road game since 2008 rushing for the
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Speaker 3: Atlanta Falcons of 242. 17 rushing yards, third fewest in
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Speaker 3: a game for the Packers since 1933. And again, I
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Speaker 3: still think the craziest thing is that that team in
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Speaker 3: the 30s didn't run for more than 17 yards. I
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Speaker 3: don't think they were throwing forward passes.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to check.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know how many forward passes
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Speaker 3: they actually threw in those games. So that might somehow
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Speaker 3: be more demoralizing. But Drew, I mean, it is.
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Speaker 5: You're right.
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Speaker 3: The sun did rise in the east. And luckily for
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Speaker 3: some folks, they maybe had B. John Robinson or Drake
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Speaker 3: London throw on their fantasy team. So at least they
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Speaker 3: got somewhat of that emotional hedge from last night, but
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Speaker 3: it's tough to be forecasting through and not feeling the
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Speaker 3: overwhelming sentiment from what we heard from Jordan love last night,
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Speaker 3: which was just simply frustrated because I think as you
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Speaker 3: counted it up last night in his what nine minute
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Speaker 3: post game briefing after the game with the media, he
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Speaker 3: dropped the word frustrated, frustrated, frustrating, It's going to continue
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Speaker 3: to frustrate us somewhere 10 to 12 times, a dozen
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Speaker 3: times those nine minutes.
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Speaker 2: And I think it was a pretty good encapsulation of
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Speaker 2: what we saw.
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Speaker 6: That's pretty appropriate.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I did find the box score, though, from that game.
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Speaker 4: If it makes you want to feel better, that was
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Speaker 4: the worst game, I'd say, in 1933 than this one.
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Speaker 4: That was the old. Who did they play, the Portsmouth Lions?
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Speaker 5: Close.
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Speaker 2: They played the Boston Redskins in that game.
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Speaker 4: The Boston Redskins. The Portsmouth Spartans, I think, by that time.
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Speaker 4: That was the opener. You know, Arnie Herber, you guys
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Speaker 4: know the name. He was a quarterback, so we know
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Speaker 4: that name. Yeah. He had, he had two runs for
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Speaker 4: negative 15 yards. So that kind of skews it a bit,
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Speaker 4: but yeah, your boy Hank Bruder had 12 attempts for
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Speaker 4: three yards and Hurtis McCrary had five for eight.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Hurtis. Then you had a.
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Speaker 4: Lot of guys trying to run Clark Hinkle ran 15
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Speaker 4: for 42, but you had Wart.
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Speaker 2: I'm not even kidding. W U E R T. I
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Speaker 2: don't know how you say that name. You think some
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Speaker 2: names are weird now. Wartmeister. Wart Engelman. who ran three
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Speaker 2: times for a negative 21, brother, get back on the bus.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 4: And that's so there you go. That was the worst
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Speaker 4: game I'd say. So we can take solace in that,
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Speaker 4: that it was worse than 1933.
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Speaker 2: Right guys. I mean, that makes you feel better for
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Speaker 2: a little bit.
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Speaker 6: we've been talking about the postgame comments and Tucker craft
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Speaker 6: kind of saying, well, I didn't expect to get booed
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Speaker 6: at our home opener by our own fans. I don't
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Speaker 6: think of booing at Lambeau field. Well, it's happened before, right? Billy,
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Speaker 6: we've been there. It's it's happened, happened last year when
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Speaker 6: they played the Ravens plenty of times.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I know Tucker craft was hurt, but I mean, it's
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Speaker 6: happened before Matt LaFleur's refusal to, to even entertain the
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Speaker 6: question of whether he's going to make staff changes. He
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Speaker 6: didn't stand by his guys. He just said, I'm not
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Speaker 6: going to answer that, which is not the best answer
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Speaker 6: you can give in that situation. Sometimes a no comments,
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Speaker 6: the best answer you can give. But in this case,
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Speaker 6: I think he just should have said, we're all going
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Speaker 6: to work together. The staff, I love my staff. We're
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Speaker 6: all going to work together. We're going to get after this.
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Speaker 3: Saying I'm not going to answer the question was a
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Speaker 3: weirder way of answering the question.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 2: While not answering the question answered it.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to talk about it.
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Speaker 3: Because I'm definitely going to go up there and start
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Speaker 3: screaming at some folks and maybe some folks jobs will
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Speaker 3: be on the line sooner than you want to think.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: So we got that working for us against the backdrop of, again,
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Speaker 6: like this isn't a new thing and we can go
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Speaker 6: back to last year. Cause we still have PTSD from it.
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Speaker 6: I'm doing all those losses in a row, Billy from
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Speaker 6: December on. And it was a nice ray of sunshine
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Speaker 6: when the Packers beat the jets in overtime, but that
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Speaker 6: the value of that win is, And the grit that
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Speaker 6: it took to win on the road in the rain
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Speaker 6: and all that stuff is now kind of the goodwill
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Speaker 6: that they built up is gone because now I'm looking
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Speaker 6: at this team and they're definitely closer to oh, and
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Speaker 6: three than they are even two and one.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Let the rain come in, come, come in clean and
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Speaker 3: washed away everything for it. I mean, that was a
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Speaker 3: wash away of the wind, kind of like the washout
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Speaker 3: that you saw at Tampa in that stands. Cause yeah,
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Speaker 3: you can very easily be camouflaged with success. So we
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Speaker 3: say it a lot of times that winning is a
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Speaker 3: definite cure-all and it can mask.
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Speaker 2: A lot of the, not necessarily problems. We all saw it.
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Speaker 3: We all talked about it throughout the week, but at
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Speaker 3: some point kind of convinced yourself that maybe the worst
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Speaker 3: is behind you. I got asked last night on postgame, Drew,
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Speaker 3: does it get worse before it gets better? And If
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Speaker 3: it does, it's to Liz's question here. Good morning, guys.
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Speaker 3: If the Packers only get five wins, does anyone stay
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Speaker 3: or does everyone stay? I don't know exactly. how on
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Speaker 3: earth everybody can stay. If you only win five games
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Speaker 3: in a football season, cause it's going to get late
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Speaker 3: real quick. And if it gets worse before it gets better,
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Speaker 3: it's going to be very, very late. Got a lot
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Speaker 3: of texts in here, rolling through Josh and the falls.
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Speaker 3: If Matt Lafleur would have went on a Mora S
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Speaker 3: post-game tirade, I would have been leading the charge to
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Speaker 3: keep him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think fans would want to hear that.
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Speaker 3: But he would never even entertain the idea of saying
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Speaker 3: something like that. Instead, we get the weekly, we got
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Speaker 3: to be better, and it starts with me, which is
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Speaker 3: the equivalent of patting your chest and saying, my bad.
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Speaker 3: We know it's your bad, so Matt LaFleur can go now.
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Speaker 2: Thanks, bye. I will....
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Speaker 3: Drew and I, we did talk about it on the
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Speaker 3: way home last night and we had talked about it
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Speaker 3: after the game against the bears a year ago in
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Speaker 3: the playoffs or a little less than a year ago
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Speaker 3: that the easiest time, if that was going to be
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Speaker 3: the decision drew was about six months ago and they
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Speaker 3: kind of doubled down and I would struggle to see
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Speaker 3: anything being a Huge seismic shift this quickly. It's definitely
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Speaker 3: not happening this quickly, but if it only gets worse
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Speaker 3: from here and more times than not, you're seeing your
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Speaker 3: $ 220 million quarterback peeling his backup off the turf.
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Speaker 2: There's going to be a lot of questions that got
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Speaker 2: to get answered.
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Speaker 3: And the unique part of what happened with the contract
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Speaker 3: extensions this year is and somebody can correct me if
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Speaker 3: I'm wrong, but I don't believe I am. There was
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Speaker 3: a little bit more of a shift back to the
8:21
Speaker 3: old way of doing business where there was one man
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Speaker 3: kind of in charge of football. And that man is
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Speaker 3: kind of Brian Gutekunst. And if indeed he would make
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Speaker 3: the decision that it's not the roster's fault that he's
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Speaker 3: put together in the offensive line that he's put together,
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Speaker 3: it's the development of those pieces that they've brought in.
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Speaker 3: It could get into a very interesting power struggle over
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Speaker 3: the next, uh, next three to four months if it
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Speaker 3: doesn't get better very quickly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Winning is great deodorant. So we'll have a completely different conversation.
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Speaker 3: We all need one here today because I don't know
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Speaker 3: that everybody's wearing their iron jock after a game like
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Speaker 3: last night.
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Speaker 5: That's true.
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Speaker 2: There's too much sweat.
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Speaker 6: Paul Hanson, who I'm sure was miffed at the proceedings.
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Speaker 6: How can you not be?
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Speaker 2: That was embarrassing.
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Speaker 6: Here's how bad it is for the Packers right now.
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Speaker 6: Jets fans are like, how'd we lose to those stiffs?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Jets fans are saying that.
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Speaker 4: It's almost amazing to think that we had a lead
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Speaker 4: on the Vikings right now. Like for me, that's who
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Speaker 4: score leading.
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Speaker 2: You know, that's kind of like, yeah.
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Speaker 4: And that's what makes this league so weird. And like,
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Speaker 4: cause you saw what the Falcons were like last week.
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Speaker 4: Now they had a new quarterback, but you're like, this
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Speaker 4: is a totally different team. And the Packers could have
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Speaker 4: beat the Vikings and lost to the jets. This is
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Speaker 4: just a weird league. And it feels like right now
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Speaker 4: the Packers won't ever win again after what we saw
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Speaker 4: last night, but we know that's not going to happen
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Speaker 4: and it might come next week. That's what's weird about
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Speaker 4: this league.
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Speaker 3: I can, I got a couple of good more texts
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Speaker 3: to make sure that we get to it. Love this
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Speaker 3: one from Eric, the, superintendent. I've learned over the years
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Speaker 3: that it's never as bad as Dan Needles makes it
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Speaker 3: seem or as optimism Armin can make it seem.
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Speaker 2: I'm not helping today, am I?
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Speaker 3: We had bad, bad Packers years before this will get
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Speaker 3: better or things will drastically change, but Hey, go crew.
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Speaker 6: Incredible.
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Speaker 2: I do like that.
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Speaker 3: We get our two friends on the opposite ends of
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Speaker 3: the spectrum. You get, it's never going to be as
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Speaker 3: bad as maybe needles can let it known. And it's
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Speaker 3: never going to be a sunshine roses, puppy dogs and
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Speaker 3: ice cream as we might make it seem by Armin.
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Speaker 3: Even you haven't been able to bust out the puppy
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Speaker 3: dogs and ice cream last.
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Speaker 2: It's hard. It's hard.
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Speaker 4: The only thing I can, the only kind of optimism
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Speaker 4: I see is that, you know, maybe like, like I've
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Speaker 4: said it multiple times already, things change quickly into the NFL.
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Speaker 2: Like you think, you know, what's going to happen and
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Speaker 2: you don't.
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Speaker 4: And that's a very uncomfortable, comfortable thing now, but it's like, well,
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Speaker 4: maybe it's It'll turn around, but they, I don't know. I, they,
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Speaker 4: they cannot survive doing this without running the ball better.
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Speaker 4: I just don't see how you, you can't sustain offense.
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Speaker 4: And if your passing game is your hallmark, that's fine,
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Speaker 4: but you have to have a threat of run these days.
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Speaker 4: to keep teams honest, because if they're in that too
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Speaker 4: high and you can't run on it, it's very, very
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Speaker 4: hard to be successful. And that's kind of that. That's
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Speaker 4: the real bugaboo I see right now is how that's
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Speaker 4: going to get fixed. And if it can get fixed and, and,
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Speaker 4: and what's the way to do it, is it to
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Speaker 4: stick to Caleb only Marshawn only back by committee or
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Speaker 4: just give them more time to get more reps.
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Speaker 6: And we've been talking about the defense. I mean, we're
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Speaker 6: talking about the offense, the defense faltered again last night
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Speaker 6: and it rains it pours because didn't they give up
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Speaker 6: like 22 or 24 unanswered points against 22 in minnesota
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Speaker 6: and like 24 last night and maybe what 17 against
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Speaker 6: the jets.
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Speaker 3: Those are all those are all correct numbers can't stop
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Speaker 3: the bleeding.
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Speaker 6: Yeah that's the thing is like you can't get a
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Speaker 6: stop and make a play and there were times early
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Speaker 6: on they were getting pressure but the pressure that um
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Speaker 6: Michael Penix Jr. faced was mostly in his first two series,
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Speaker 6: and after that it was clean sheet because they were
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Speaker 6: running the ball so well. There's nothing that the Packers
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Speaker 6: could do scheme-wise to slow him down.
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Speaker 3: No, and even trying to bring up Evan Williams in
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Speaker 3: run support, I think, Drew, on the 55-yarders I'm watching
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Speaker 3: right here, that's exactly what the thought is. We're going
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Speaker 3: to bring Williams down in the box, try to slow
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Speaker 3: this thing down. Instead, that hesitation... And that burst that
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Speaker 3: Bajon Robinson was showcasing last night, it was a.
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Speaker 2: Man amongst boys.
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Speaker 3: There's a moment while Evan Williams is cutting inside to
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Speaker 3: come into run support and you see him almost realize
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Speaker 3: in stride that dude's fast, fast.
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to catch him.
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Speaker 3: The realization happens through real quickly. Maybe I'm like the
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Speaker 3: second step, kind of like me as a fat kid,
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Speaker 3: seeing the, the interception. You're like, I'm totally tracking this
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Speaker 3: guy down with a proper pursuit angle. And you fall
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Speaker 3: on your face about 35 yards away. He ends up
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Speaker 3: being a part of the tackle inside the five, but
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Speaker 3: took far too long to be able to come anywhere
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Speaker 3: close to it.
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Speaker 6: That is hilarious. When we come back, we've got a
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Speaker 6: couple awards to give away, and we're going to clear
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Speaker 6: the deck to talk to the voice of the Packers,
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Speaker 6: Wayne Larrabee, coming up in about 20 minutes from right now.
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Speaker 6: You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
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Speaker 6: You can reach us in the NicoletLaw.com talk and text line.
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Speaker 6: And many of you are at 877-794-1973. Drew, Billy, and
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Speaker 6: Armin bringing it to you on this day after a
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Speaker 6: Packers debacle, the home opener at Lambeau Field. Brewers won
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Speaker 6: their 100th game. If I had my bell, I would
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Speaker 6: ring it. But I don't have my bell because I'm
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Speaker 6: at State Leal.
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Speaker 5: Come on.
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Speaker 6: So that's positive. And they wrapped up home field advantage throughout,
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Speaker 6: not just the world series, but through the NLCS, they
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Speaker 6: did it in reverse order.
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Speaker 2: I love that.
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Speaker 3: That is one of the funniest things they hear. And
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Speaker 3: then as you say it, it makes you chuckle every
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Speaker 3: single time that that's just how dominant the NL has
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Speaker 3: been this year and was, and man, it sets up
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Speaker 3: for a fascinating October. I know that you got, there's
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Speaker 3: work to do, Drew, before you get to the series
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Speaker 3: that everybody still has circled.
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Speaker 2: But Man, L.A. seems to be rolling right now.
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Speaker 3: You seem to be playing decent, albeit maybe a little
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Speaker 3: slow on the offense this past road trip. But, man,
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Speaker 3: gritty wins. And in October, hopefully to remember on the
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Speaker 3: horizon coming up.
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Speaker 6: On the one hand, we're looking at the Packers being
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Speaker 6: one and two and saying, well, it can get better.
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Speaker 6: I mean, the Bears were one and two last year.
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Speaker 6: They won the division. Teams have done it before.
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Speaker 3: In fact, the Bears.
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Speaker 6: 1-2 and 0-3 have been their default setting for the
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Speaker 6: last 30 years.
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Speaker 3: Texans were 0-3 last year, ended up having a lead
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Speaker 3: in the divisional round and probably should have won that
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Speaker 3: game against the Patriots if they had any semblance of
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Speaker 3: quarterback play.
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Speaker 2: The flip side.
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Speaker 6: Of that coin is the Brewers are the first 100-win
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Speaker 6: team in the National League since the Cubs in 2016.
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Speaker 6: They won the World Series that year.
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Speaker 2: But the last Three years since there was, yeah, several.
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Speaker 6: The last several 100-win teams have not fared well in
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Speaker 6: the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 6: Outside of that.
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Speaker 4: The Dodgers had a lot of 100-win years before they
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Speaker 4: finally broke through to win the World Series. But it
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Speaker 4: was sort of like them. The Braves did it a
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Speaker 4: lot and didn't win the World Series. They did win
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Speaker 4: with other teams. So it's kind of a weird thing.
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Speaker 4: There's no doubt about it. I mean, winning 100 games
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Speaker 4: is great. It shows your dominance, but it guarantees nothing
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Speaker 4: for the playoffs.
15:57
Speaker 3: I will say the one guarantee that I would have
15:59
Speaker 3: for the playoffs is Pat Murphy is going to have
16:03
Speaker 3: one move, Drew, that everybody's going to be talking about.
16:06
Speaker 2: Last night, walking out.
16:08
Speaker 3: And yanking your all-star catcher for not running out a
16:11
Speaker 3: ground ball in the fourth, the last regular season game.
16:14
Speaker 3: Might as well just pitch a cheerio on his day
16:17
Speaker 3: off and Let him go yard.
16:19
Speaker 6: Spectacular. And let him go yard, yeah. Jackson Trujo, who
16:23
Speaker 6: is in the 2020 club, right? And he's been fantastic.
16:29
Speaker 6: He can be one of our superheroes of the day.
16:31
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Call Current.com. Current Electric. They're always superheroes. Because you
16:35
Speaker 2: know what, Drew? Last.
16:38
Speaker 3: Hold on. We deal with facts here. I don't want
16:40
Speaker 3: to give out misinformation on this program. Yes, Current Electric
16:43
Speaker 3: has never given up 200-plus rushing yards in a game.
16:46
Speaker 6: That's amazing.
16:47
Speaker 3: Current Electric, superheroes on defense, because they are going to
16:50
Speaker 3: help you go on the offensive against.
16:53
Speaker 2: Your home if, indeed, there's issues.
16:56
Speaker 3: Safety precautions and a safety inspection is how you play
16:59
Speaker 3: a little offense, being defensive in your home. You want
17:02
Speaker 3: to make sure that your home is safe and sound
17:04
Speaker 3: and ready for the fall and for the winter. Home
17:07
Speaker 3: safety inspection is Add current electric is the way to
17:09
Speaker 3: do that. Call current.com to get yourself on the list
17:12
Speaker 3: and go talk to those current electric superheroes.
17:14
Speaker 6: Not, not many Packers worthy of superhero conversation. Although Matthew
17:18
Speaker 6: golden scored his first regular season touchdown, first Lambeau field
17:21
Speaker 6: touchdown at five catches for a hundred yards. And he
17:24
Speaker 6: was getting, it wasn't his fault that they lost, but.
17:26
Speaker 2: He couldn't even Lambeau leap.
17:28
Speaker 5: Oh yeah. You're right.
17:29
Speaker 2: That's the thing.
17:30
Speaker 3: I mean, you could even tell he started to go
17:32
Speaker 3: into like a muted celebration drew.
17:35
Speaker 2: And then he's like, you know what?
17:37
Speaker 4: Yeah.
17:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did actually look at the scoreboard. All right,
17:39
Speaker 2: here's the ball.
17:39
Speaker 6: It's a tough situation.
17:41
Speaker 2: It was smart, actually. It's a tough.
17:43
Speaker 4: I remember in the playoff game against the Giants, the
17:45
Speaker 4: Packers were down big in the divisional. The driver scored,
17:48
Speaker 4: and he didn't leap. He pointed to the fans, but
17:50
Speaker 4: he's like, I'm not doing it now. You've got to
17:52
Speaker 4: be judicious about it, but Matthew Golden's been getting open
17:55
Speaker 4: a lot, and he's been the mismatch deep he was
17:57
Speaker 4: last night. He's an example of one of my favorite
18:00
Speaker 4: takes that There should be some sort of statistical credit
18:04
Speaker 4: for receivers for the PI yards they get, although it
18:07
Speaker 4: won't happen, obviously, because he's been drawing a lot of
18:10
Speaker 4: them this year, and he's been, obviously, because he's been
18:13
Speaker 4: getting past guys. So that's the bright spot, I'd say,
18:16
Speaker 4: from last. And Watson, too, I thought was decent. Kraft
18:19
Speaker 4: was disappointing last night.
18:20
Speaker 2: Too many drops. Hey, you want to know one positive
18:24
Speaker 2: from last night?
18:24
Speaker 5: I do. Please.
18:26
Speaker 3: Fox 11 putting out. No arrests made during the Packers
18:31
Speaker 3: home opening loss.
18:32
Speaker 6: It's one of the good sides of being hammered the
18:36
Speaker 6: way they were and having people leave early.
18:39
Speaker 3: The team got hammered so much that we couldn't.
18:41
Speaker 6: And it was a school fight. I bet there are
18:44
Speaker 6: fewer arrests on Sunday nights and Thursday nights than there
18:46
Speaker 6: are at other games.
18:48
Speaker 2: A hundred percent, Drew.
18:49
Speaker 3: Even though last night you and I mentioned it, if
18:53
Speaker 3: you had tickets and you woke up and you checked
18:57
Speaker 3: out the weather, and you walked outside yesterday, and you
18:59
Speaker 3: were in the Green Bay area, Appleton, surrounding areas. Maybe
19:02
Speaker 3: you were driving in from a ways away, the valley.
19:06
Speaker 3: Maybe you were coming in from Madison, God's country out
19:09
Speaker 3: near La Crosse or so. You woke up, you checked
19:12
Speaker 3: out the forecast, and you said, I'm taking all of
19:16
Speaker 3: the day off.
19:17
Speaker 2: I'm getting there as early as possible. And the tailgating
19:19
Speaker 2: was live last night. Like you can tell the.
19:22
Speaker 3: Tailgating was up early and that was why it made
19:26
Speaker 3: it probably easier for that third quarter beer nap to happen.
19:29
Speaker 3: How quiet it got because everybody had too much fun
19:32
Speaker 3: on the postcard.
19:33
Speaker 2: Perfect night last night.
19:34
Speaker 5: It did.
19:34
Speaker 6: Speaking of fun, a runner up for current electric superhero
19:38
Speaker 6: of the day is Ian Happ, who may have been
19:40
Speaker 6: playing his final game. at Wrigley Field as a member
19:42
Speaker 6: of the Cubs, who celebrated their punching their ticket to
19:45
Speaker 6: a wildcard berth yesterday with a champagne celly as they're
19:48
Speaker 6: headed to Boston to try to beat the Nor'easter. But
19:51
Speaker 6: Ian Happ threw a ball into the bleachers with $ 300
19:53
Speaker 6: in cash, rubber banded to it, and said, go buy
19:56
Speaker 6: yourself some drinks.
19:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.
19:59
Speaker 4: I think it's cool, but I don't like giving any
20:03
Speaker 4: cub like here are the days.
20:04
Speaker 2: I'm going to try and come up with a creative way. Okay,
20:06
Speaker 2: who's hot? Who's not? No, who's hot? Can we allow him?
20:10
Speaker 2: Can we allow him a little bit of a hot?
20:12
Speaker 6: Armand, I said he was a runner up.
20:14
Speaker 2: I just want to come up with.
20:17
Speaker 4: Let me try and make a creative way for me
20:19
Speaker 4: to make him a villain for.
20:20
Speaker 5: This, please.
20:20
Speaker 2: I mean....
20:22
Speaker 3: The only way it would have been is if there
20:24
Speaker 3: was an Armin Sarian in the crowd, Drew, that would
20:27
Speaker 3: have gotten the ball, saw the $ 300 in cash, and said,
20:30
Speaker 3: I'm going on the blue line.
20:32
Speaker 2: I'm getting out of here. And nobody's seeing a dime
20:35
Speaker 2: of this.
20:35
Speaker 6: There's no doubt.
20:37
Speaker 2: With gas prices these days. But you know what?
20:39
Speaker 4: I mean, what did he say? He said, you know...
20:43
Speaker 4: buy beer money with this? How dare he say what
20:45
Speaker 4: you should do with your money? Or how dare he
20:47
Speaker 4: tell fans what to do with their money?
20:50
Speaker 6: Maybe the NFL, maybe Roger Goodell can find him the
20:52
Speaker 6: way they did Kyle Juszczyk for pretending to have a juice.
20:57
Speaker 2: The No Fun League has really been striking hard. Pantomiming.
21:01
Speaker 6: They thought he was trying to chug a beer and like,
21:03
Speaker 6: We're going to discuss this when we get back after
21:05
Speaker 6: this message from Budweiser.
21:06
Speaker 2: The official beer. God forbid he'd drink a beer.
21:10
Speaker 6: Come on.
21:11
Speaker 3: I was going to say, with any more signage. Oh,
21:13
Speaker 3: and by the way, Budweiser signage all over still in
21:15
Speaker 3: the Padres celebration.
21:17
Speaker 2: So, yeah, we'll see how that one fuddles through. Insanity.
21:21
Speaker 6: Insanity. Who's hot, who's not is brought to us by
21:23
Speaker 6: Donovan Jorgensen, heating and cooling. Billy, who do you got
21:26
Speaker 6: for who's hot, who's not?
21:26
Speaker 3: Well, I was going to put the San Diego Padres
21:29
Speaker 3: in the hot category because they have been hot for what?
21:31
Speaker 3: The last four months? I mean, they've been white hot
21:35
Speaker 3: for the last four months. And frankly, it all kind
21:37
Speaker 3: of started with one of their, their two best guys
21:40
Speaker 3: are three best guys. I'd throw Merrill Machado and the
21:42
Speaker 3: biggest one, Fernando Tatis in that group. He would two
21:46
Speaker 3: for three last night on base. Three times drove in
21:49
Speaker 3: a run in their victory against the Dodgers to clinch
21:51
Speaker 3: their spot. They've now gone three straight times to the playoffs.
21:55
Speaker 3: I believe that's the first time in their franchise's history.
21:58
Speaker 3: They put out that they have been three consecutive years
22:01
Speaker 3: to the playoffs. And Tatis has been a huge part
22:03
Speaker 3: of it. My man didn't hit a bomb in the
22:05
Speaker 3: first two months of the year. And now all of
22:08
Speaker 3: a sudden you look up and he's a two, two
22:10
Speaker 3: 90 hitter, 25 homers and an eight 20 OPS player.
22:15
Speaker 3: He can, he can carry you for long stretches and
22:17
Speaker 3: definitely has and is right now for, for San Diego
22:21
Speaker 3: rolling through. How about the Chicago white socks and Munataki Murakami.
22:27
Speaker 3: Now I've, Murakami comes over for the five-year contract with
22:31
Speaker 3: the white socks and he is celebrating like nobody's business yesterday.
22:37
Speaker 3: Brooke Fletcher asks him on the broadcast inside the locker room.
22:42
Speaker 3: How do you feel on a scale of one to 10?
22:44
Speaker 3: He said a hundred. I'm a hundred. I'm a hundred.
22:48
Speaker 2: And later on, she asked him one more question. He's like,
22:50
Speaker 2: I'm Japanese. I don't even know what's happening right now.
22:52
Speaker 2: I'm having way too.
22:53
Speaker 3: Much fun and way too much of a celebration. That
22:56
Speaker 3: felt like every delirious White Sox fan yesterday. Congratulations to them.
22:59
Speaker 3: Two years ago, right? Two years ago, they were the
23:01
Speaker 3: historically worst team baseball I'd ever seen.
23:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty impressive. And now they're into the postseason.
23:06
Speaker 2: That's pretty cool. Credit to Hunter.
23:07
Speaker 4: He was working hard yesterday and he found it and
23:10
Speaker 4: it's paying off for him. Murph said earlier this year
23:13
Speaker 4: when the Brewers played the White Sox and struggled, that
23:15
Speaker 4: they have a better team than people think, and they
23:17
Speaker 4: were going to be a team to be reckoned with
23:19
Speaker 4: in the division.
23:20
Speaker 2: Hunter found that audio. He posted it. So you can
23:22
Speaker 2: check it out on Hunter Baumgartner's Twitter account.
23:25
Speaker 6: Way to go, Hunter. And the Brewers did answer a question. First, again,
23:30
Speaker 6: we're talking a lot of Packers because that's what happened
23:32
Speaker 6: most recently, but the Brewers winning two out of three
23:35
Speaker 6: in Philadelphia when Philadelphia has played for their lives is impressive.
23:39
Speaker 6: Hostile environment, all that, and you're playing a team with
23:42
Speaker 6: something at stake where the Brewers kind of could have
23:44
Speaker 6: just coasted. How did the Brewers celebrate that? No champagne, Selly.
23:49
Speaker 2: 100 wins.
23:51
Speaker 6: If you want a shot, they had a high-end tequila
23:53
Speaker 6: and some Pappy Van Winkle.
23:55
Speaker 2: Of course.
23:55
Speaker 6: Take a shot. Toast. Shot. Let's get to work and
23:58
Speaker 6: beat the Cardinals.
24:00
Speaker 2: That's workmanlike.
24:01
Speaker 3: That is blue collar. That is blue collar with very
24:04
Speaker 3: white collar taste.
24:05
Speaker 2: Well, I was going to say.
24:06
Speaker 5: And budget.
24:07
Speaker 2: Not that blue collar budget with some of those. Well, no,
24:09
Speaker 2: not a blue collar budget, but a blue collar town.
24:12
Speaker 2: Taste and towns.
24:13
Speaker 1: Yeah.
24:13
Speaker 2: Well, whiskey.
24:14
Speaker 1: Yeah.
24:14
Speaker 6: I'm talking. And, oh, did we even mention, we talked
24:17
Speaker 6: about who's hot, but who's not hot for Donovan Jorgensen,
24:19
Speaker 6: the entire Packers offensive line, entire Packers organization, because it
24:23
Speaker 6: is not hyperbole right now to say the Packers are
24:25
Speaker 6: the worst team in the national football league.
24:27
Speaker 2: They'll be right in the conversation. They'll be right there
24:30
Speaker 2: in the conversation.
24:31
Speaker 6: Statistically, they're at the bottom of the barrel. They won
24:33
Speaker 6: a game.
24:34
Speaker 2: I don't know how.
24:34
Speaker 3: 30 second in third down percentage. Just about every possible
24:39
Speaker 3: stat that you can look at. They're going to be
24:41
Speaker 3: right near the bottom, if not the last.
24:44
Speaker 1: Yep.
24:44
Speaker 6: Fantastic.
24:45
Speaker 2: That's a tough way to go out. Okay.
24:47
Speaker 5: All right.
24:47
Speaker 6: That's a tough way to go out. When we come back,
24:50
Speaker 6: we'll catch up with the voice of the Green Bay Packers.
24:53
Speaker 6: We'll close up our show and we'll catch up with
24:55
Speaker 6: the voice of the Green Bay Packers. Wayne Laramie joins
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Speaker 6: the party. Next, you're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
25:30
Speaker 6: bringing it to you on fire your agent friday closing
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Speaker 6: ceremonies are upon us is our last segment of the
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Speaker 6: week of the program and of the week and we
25:39
Speaker 6: get to spend it with our pal wayne larry the
25:40
Speaker 6: voice of the packers and wayne between packers ot and
25:44
Speaker 6: the show this morning bill and billy and i have
25:46
Speaker 6: spent more time talking about this packers game than you
25:49
Speaker 6: and larry did describing it while it happened And we
25:52
Speaker 6: still haven't scratched the surface of how ugly it was.
25:54
Speaker 6: Can you help us?
25:56
Speaker 5: Oh, I don't think so, Drew, but it was a
25:58
Speaker 5: tough watch. There's no doubt.
26:00
Speaker 7: I was driving back last night, listening to you guys
26:02
Speaker 7: and thinking that, oh, my gosh, you guys, along with Armin,
26:06
Speaker 7: are going to have to get up early in the
26:07
Speaker 7: morning and do this show. And yeah, I tell you what,
26:12
Speaker 7: just not the way you'd like to open the season
26:14
Speaker 7: at home. That's for sure, to say the least.
26:17
Speaker 3: Wayne, I think one of the most frustrating parts of
26:20
Speaker 3: it in the proceedings last night, all of it is frustrating.
26:23
Speaker 3: But when you start the game the way they did,
26:27
Speaker 3: and Drew kind of hit it on the head last week,
26:31
Speaker 3: and you realize it when it's happening again. of they
26:35
Speaker 3: haven't even handled success very well I've been mentioning they
26:39
Speaker 3: haven't handled failure very well and you know when the
26:42
Speaker 3: avalanche of momentum goes on the other side they haven't
26:45
Speaker 3: had any defense to it like the 55 yard run
26:48
Speaker 3: last night kind of spirals out of control but you
26:50
Speaker 3: get an interception on the fourth play of the game
26:53
Speaker 3: and now two out of three games you started the
26:56
Speaker 3: game forcing an interception and you've gotten a combined three
27:00
Speaker 3: points off of it. And both of those drives started
27:02
Speaker 3: right around midfield. That is just the biggest example of
27:06
Speaker 3: any kind of complimentary football has just been out the
27:09
Speaker 3: window in these first three games.
27:11
Speaker 5: Yeah.
27:11
Speaker 7: And, and, you know, that first drive after the interception
27:16
Speaker 7: by McKinney passing, it was all, I think three passes
27:21
Speaker 7: and then a punt, right?
27:22
Speaker 5: I mean, yep. That kind of told.
27:24
Speaker 7: You where they were, where they are in the running game,
27:26
Speaker 7: both with backs and the offensive line. So, but the,
27:32
Speaker 7: you know, the loss of Josh Jacobs can't be underscored
27:37
Speaker 7: enough in my opinion, because he is your running game.
27:40
Speaker 7: It's obvious now. And you've got guys who are relatively inexperienced.
27:44
Speaker 7: Chris Brooks is not, but the other two guys trying
27:46
Speaker 7: to run the football are Marshawn Lloyd and Caleb Johnson. So,
27:51
Speaker 7: it's tough in that regard because, as we saw, you
27:55
Speaker 7: need to be able to run the football in this
27:57
Speaker 7: league to win. I thought the 55-yard run late, a
28:01
Speaker 7: little over three minutes ago in the first quarter by
28:03
Speaker 7: Bijan Robinson, that run, to me, changed the complex of
28:09
Speaker 7: the game, the complexion of the game. And it never
28:11
Speaker 7: really changed anything. It never really reverted back. They didn't
28:15
Speaker 7: score on that run. They scored a few plays later.
28:20
Speaker 7: But that run itself, you could see it injected confidence
28:23
Speaker 7: in that Atlanta sideline, and it never left.
28:27
Speaker 6: Talking to Wayne Levy, voice of the Packers, brought to
28:28
Speaker 6: us on the program by Miller Lite, Wisconsin Concrete Coatings,
28:31
Speaker 6: and of course, Pottawatomie Sportsbook, where we hang out on
28:34
Speaker 6: Thursdays when the Packers aren't playing or it's not a
28:36
Speaker 6: major holiday. Wayne, I was flashing back to the Baltimore
28:41
Speaker 6: game in December when Derrick Henry and company just ran roughshod,
28:45
Speaker 6: and the Packers had no answer.
28:48
Speaker 2: And it felt very similar.
28:49
Speaker 6: Yesterday, but the whole game itself, I felt like more, maybe,
28:54
Speaker 6: I don't know, recency bias or something. I felt more
28:56
Speaker 6: downtrodden and hopeless after last night than I did in December.
29:00
Speaker 6: What do you think?
29:01
Speaker 7: Well, I thought they're similar in that the Packers are
29:05
Speaker 7: giving up large chunks of yardage on the ground. It
29:07
Speaker 7: seemed like the tackling last night. Now you have to
29:10
Speaker 7: understand Bijan Robinson forced over a hundred missed tackles a
29:14
Speaker 7: season ago. He had 16 missed tackles forced in the
29:17
Speaker 7: first two weeks.
29:18
Speaker 5: Of the season. coming into this game. It seemed like
29:21
Speaker 5: he forced a number of them last night.
29:24
Speaker 7: I thought the tackling was a little spotty, to say
29:26
Speaker 7: the least, for the Packers. I attribute it in many
29:29
Speaker 7: respects to the fact that sometimes when you're playing on
29:32
Speaker 7: a short week like this, you do get a situation
29:35
Speaker 7: where you're not tackling very well, mostly because you haven't
29:38
Speaker 7: really even wrapped anybody up. You've done walkthroughs all week.
29:41
Speaker 7: But both teams were playing under the same circumstances, and
29:45
Speaker 7: I didn't see Atlanta miss as many tackles. And so
29:48
Speaker 7: the Packers certainly won't use that.
29:50
Speaker 5: As an excuse.
29:50
Speaker 7: But, you know, it was that back, and I said
29:55
Speaker 7: this on the air, he's the best back they'll see
29:57
Speaker 7: all year. He's the best all-around back in the league.
29:59
Speaker 7: You can talk about Saquon Barkley all you want. He
30:02
Speaker 7: can't catch the ball. He can't make plays in the
30:04
Speaker 7: passing game that this guy can't. And by the way,
30:07
Speaker 7: this guy is the best runner in the league, in
30:09
Speaker 7: my opinion, as well. McCaffrey's the closest to him. I
30:13
Speaker 7: think this guy is better than Christian McCaffrey right now.
30:16
Speaker 7: He's the best they will see all year.
30:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm with you, Wayne. And they've done a
30:20
Speaker 3: really good job bottling up Gibbs. I think one of
30:23
Speaker 3: the reasons is because he doesn't run in between the
30:25
Speaker 3: tackles and outside the as well as Robinson does. And,
30:29
Speaker 3: and that, that jump cut was disgusting last night. I mean,
30:32
Speaker 3: it was human joystick. Didn't do it justice for how
30:36
Speaker 3: quickly he's able to stop and start. It's it's, it's silly.
30:39
Speaker 3: He made some of the, even their best tacklers look
30:42
Speaker 3: silly looking on that 55 yard run. You can tell
30:45
Speaker 3: the explosiveness and acceleration caught Evan Williams by surprise.
30:50
Speaker 2: One of the, the most frustrating ones.
30:52
Speaker 3: And, and obviously the, Pretty much all of the 37
30:55
Speaker 3: minutes Atlanta had the football was frustrating, but there's a
30:58
Speaker 3: sequence near the goal line that the Packers look like
31:01
Speaker 3: they might be getting a stop. And it's on the
31:04
Speaker 3: Austin Hooper touchdown, Wayne, where I think that one puts
31:07
Speaker 3: them up 17, seven, and you are close to being
31:11
Speaker 3: able to get a stop. Looks like you've been able
31:13
Speaker 3: to put together a couple of plays where at least
31:15
Speaker 3: you've bottled up and been able to capitalize on his
31:19
Speaker 3: patience and And there's miscommunication feels like the call gets
31:22
Speaker 3: in late. And there's a lot of looking in and
31:26
Speaker 3: hands pointing around the miscommunication. We're talking about it a
31:29
Speaker 3: lot up up front, but it wasn't great on defense
31:32
Speaker 3: last night as well, which I think was really surprising
31:35
Speaker 3: to see.
31:35
Speaker 2: Yeah.
31:36
Speaker 5: It seemed like a belly at times.
31:38
Speaker 7: And certainly on that play, there was miscommunication and he
31:42
Speaker 7: popped wide open and that's not supposed to happen in
31:46
Speaker 7: that coverage. But, The overriding thing that I take from
31:51
Speaker 7: the game last night, obviously defensively getting literally run over
31:55
Speaker 7: by Bijan Robinson and Brian Robinson had some nice runs
32:00
Speaker 7: as well for Atlanta. But the overriding thing is the
32:03
Speaker 7: continued struggles on the offensive line to protect Jordan Love.
32:07
Speaker 7: Now you can say, well, they only got one sack. Yeah,
32:10
Speaker 7: but they had 12 quarterback hits in that game. And
32:14
Speaker 7: Love has been taken to the ground 34 times. in
32:17
Speaker 7: the first three games of the season. I thought Jordan
32:19
Speaker 7: was a little bit inaccurate last night, and there's a
32:22
Speaker 7: reason for that. I think it's the residual impact that
32:25
Speaker 7: happens to a quarterback when he's getting hit like this
32:28
Speaker 7: consistently week after week. And, you know, late in the game,
32:32
Speaker 7: I mentioned this because I was thinking about it in
32:35
Speaker 7: the fourth quarter. You know, Jordan Love, a lot of
32:39
Speaker 7: times you'll pull the starting quarterback at that point in
32:41
Speaker 7: time and, you know, get your backup some work, that
32:44
Speaker 7: type of thing. And Matt LaFleur mentioned it at the podium.
32:47
Speaker 7: They were just trying to get some momentum, just trying
32:50
Speaker 7: to get a few good things to happen offensively at
32:53
Speaker 7: the end of the game. You're not going to win
32:54
Speaker 7: the game, but get a few things you can at
32:55
Speaker 7: least build on going forward.
32:57
Speaker 5: And they were unable to do that for the most part.
33:01
Speaker 6: Wayne, Jordan was inaccurate, and he dirted a couple of balls,
33:05
Speaker 6: but there were also some drops. And in terms of
33:08
Speaker 6: the execution, I mean, it's one thing they're not getting
33:10
Speaker 6: anything going on in the running game, but there were
33:12
Speaker 6: a couple pass plays where I think it had to
33:15
Speaker 6: be screw ups because receivers were right next to each other.
33:17
Speaker 6: There was one on the near sideline towards us with
33:20
Speaker 6: Tucker craft and Watson almost colliding. And then there was
33:23
Speaker 6: another one on the far sideline. It's like that doesn't
33:26
Speaker 6: and shouldn't happen. It doesn't happen when the offense is
33:28
Speaker 6: flowing well, but here we are.
33:31
Speaker 5: Yeah, here we are. And you're right. Some of that's
33:34
Speaker 5: the product of the short week.
33:35
Speaker 7: You know, when your team doesn't look good on a
33:38
Speaker 7: Thursday night, it's largely because they haven't had a chance
33:41
Speaker 7: to rehearse the game plan. At least not physically. They've
33:44
Speaker 7: done some of the walk-through stuff and all that. And
33:47
Speaker 7: the whole week is about just getting your body right
33:50
Speaker 7: so you can go out and play a football game.
33:52
Speaker 7: It's all mental in that regard. But, boy, when things
33:56
Speaker 7: snowball like they are on the Packers at the moment,
33:59
Speaker 7: those things show up.
34:00
Speaker 5: And, Drew, you're right.
34:01
Speaker 7: They make a big impact on the game. But, you know, hey, listen–
34:09
Speaker 7: both teams are playing on a short week.
34:11
Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
34:11
Speaker 7: It's not like one had a buy going in. So, um,
34:15
Speaker 7: you know, the, uh, the Packers will make no excuses
34:18
Speaker 7: about that.
34:18
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34:20
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34:29
Speaker 3: You mentioned the offensive line, Wayne, uh, Jagger Burton gets
34:32
Speaker 3: the start yesterday. Uh, Jacob Monk goes down at one point,
34:36
Speaker 3: Aaron Banks, uh, out again and Zach Paco Buele obviously
34:40
Speaker 3: now out for the rest of the season. It's going
34:44
Speaker 3: to be a difficult balancing act. And I think it's
34:46
Speaker 3: now maybe would be the time that if there'd be
34:50
Speaker 3: some new blood, maybe it's the Volson guy that they
34:52
Speaker 3: have on practice squad or something. You have at least
34:55
Speaker 3: a little bit of a runway. You mentioned the short week.
34:57
Speaker 3: The payoff is you get now about 10 days before
35:01
Speaker 3: you play again. Feels like if you're going to come
35:03
Speaker 3: out of this, you're going to have to give an
35:05
Speaker 3: offensive line and a grouping some run to go with.
35:09
Speaker 3: But would you expect to maybe see a little shakeup
35:12
Speaker 3: up front and then a run of hopefully three or
35:14
Speaker 3: four games to see if you can build some continuity?
35:17
Speaker 1: Yeah.
35:17
Speaker 7: And Sean, Sean Ryan was getting checked over after the
35:20
Speaker 7: game last night for a hand injury. So yeah, it's,
35:24
Speaker 7: you know, that's, this is an opportunity, I guess, from
35:27
Speaker 7: his time standpoint to be able to incorporate maybe a
35:30
Speaker 7: new offensive lineman, and they're a veteran, that kind of thing.
35:33
Speaker 7: It'll be very interesting to see the Bolston guy, I think,
35:35
Speaker 7: is going to factor in here at some point. He
35:38
Speaker 7: started 48 games for Cincinnati, including a Super Bowl. So,
35:42
Speaker 7: you know, I still think there's an opportunity. Maybe they
35:45
Speaker 7: bring a tackle on at some point. But boy, it's
35:49
Speaker 7: been a tough situation for the young guys in there
35:53
Speaker 7: who have gone in and started. And You know, we
35:56
Speaker 7: knew with Jagger Burton starting at left guard last night,
35:58
Speaker 7: there will be good plays and bad plays. That's the
36:01
Speaker 7: way it is with a young offensive lineman. And that's
36:04
Speaker 7: become a very young line right now. And, you know,
36:08
Speaker 7: Jordan Love, they're just too often there are free rushers
36:12
Speaker 7: at the quarterback. And that's making it very difficult for
36:15
Speaker 7: him to fundamentally step into throws.
36:19
Speaker 2: Well, we had to find some hope somewhere. Tell me, oh, sorry, Drew.
36:23
Speaker 6: Oh, go ahead.
36:24
Speaker 4: Tell me there's some hope somewhere. Things change quickly in
36:26
Speaker 4: this league. We know that about the NFL. Maybe these
36:29
Speaker 4: three days can help the Packers regroup a little bit
36:31
Speaker 4: and surprise us when they travel to Tampa.
36:34
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so, Armand. I mean, it's a week-to-week league.
36:36
Speaker 5: You know how that is.
36:38
Speaker 7: You know, we don't like the trends we're seeing, obviously.
36:41
Speaker 7: The Packers don't like them either. But they do have
36:44
Speaker 7: some time to regroup here. It's a week-to-week type of situation.
36:48
Speaker 7: There are a lot of teams in the same boat
36:49
Speaker 7: the Packers are in trying to figure out who they
36:52
Speaker 7: are in the early season and where they go from
36:54
Speaker 7: here and how they can compete successfully. What is it
36:59
Speaker 7: they can hang their hat on? And the offense, as
37:02
Speaker 7: Larry mentioned several times last night, Larry McCarron seems disjointed.
37:07
Speaker 7: And it's hard to hang, when you don't have something
37:09
Speaker 7: to hang your hat on, at least offensively, it can
37:12
Speaker 7: be tough. And right now they're trying to find that.
37:15
Speaker 7: But 53 passes. I don't think Matt LaFleur feels that's
37:18
Speaker 7: the way to go. They've got to somehow cobble together
37:21
Speaker 7: some kind of a running game.
37:22
Speaker 6: 53 passes, 28 total pressures on the quarterback.
37:27
Speaker 1: Yikes.
37:29
Speaker 5: What is it? Nine running attempts, 17 yards.
37:31
Speaker 3: Nine rushes for 17 yards. Four apiece for Johnson and Lloyd.
37:37
Speaker 6: And Wayne, the Packers, it ended up getting flushed down
37:41
Speaker 6: the river. But when they got the kick blocked, when
37:44
Speaker 6: Trace Mack's field goal was blocked, that was bad. It's
37:47
Speaker 6: never good. And then you see on the film that
37:50
Speaker 6: the Falcons blocked the kick with only 10 men on
37:52
Speaker 6: the field. And you think, oh, boy.
37:54
Speaker 5: I didn't realize that. They only had 10 men on
37:56
Speaker 5: the field.
37:56
Speaker 6: They had 10 men on the field and blocked the kick.
37:59
Speaker 6: And one of his extra points, they almost got a
38:01
Speaker 6: paw on it. So that's going to be an area
38:03
Speaker 6: of concern, too. I guess when it rains, it pours, right?
38:06
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, you've got to tighten that up. And I
38:08
Speaker 7: know Cam Acord will, you know, but yeah, that blocked.
38:12
Speaker 7: kick yeah i still think the game turned on bijan
38:16
Speaker 7: robinson's 55 yard run i just do and people say
38:19
Speaker 7: well it was early it was late in the first
38:21
Speaker 7: quarter how could that happen well lombardi said it best
38:24
Speaker 7: a game a football game of pro football can change
38:27
Speaker 7: on any play and it doesn't have to be in
38:30
Speaker 7: the fourth quarter it could be in the first quarter
38:32
Speaker 7: it could be in the second quarter that game to
38:34
Speaker 7: me I sensed it changed. The complexion of that game
38:37
Speaker 7: changed on that run. That's where Atlanta said, okay, we
38:41
Speaker 7: can take over the line of scrimmage. We've got a
38:45
Speaker 7: back they can't bring down. That's the feeling I had,
38:49
Speaker 7: they had, that Atlanta had on the sideline and certainly
38:52
Speaker 7: in the game.
38:53
Speaker 6: Of course, that run was preceded by the penalty.
38:57
Speaker 3: By a third and 11 roughing the passer penalty, that's questionable.
39:01
Speaker 3: But again, you put yourself in the situation, you get close.
39:05
Speaker 3: And a third straight week, you get burned that way.
39:08
Speaker 5: Yeah.
39:09
Speaker 7: And you're exactly right. That run doesn't happen if they
39:11
Speaker 7: don't call that penalty. I thought it was a little
39:13
Speaker 7: bit questionable. I really did watching the replay on it
39:17
Speaker 7: in all honesty. And, but those are the things early
39:20
Speaker 7: in the season, officials are calling that real tight, especially
39:23
Speaker 7: around the quarterback. And I've seen that across the league.
39:27
Speaker 7: But I think, you know, in a month from now,
39:29
Speaker 7: that probably doesn't get called.
39:31
Speaker 3: Sean Smith's crew might be calling it because my man's
39:34
Speaker 3: voice was cracking there waiting last night. I don't know,
39:36
Speaker 3: primetime Sean Smith. He was a little bit nervous, it
39:38
Speaker 3: sounded like, on there. It wasn't phenomenal there.
39:40
Speaker 2: For the stripes.
39:41
Speaker 6: Jordan Love took some shots that could have been flagged
39:43
Speaker 6: as well, I thought.
39:44
Speaker 2: We're getting picked on that.
39:45
Speaker 5: I thought so, too. I thought so, too. But, you know,
39:48
Speaker 5: and again....
39:51
Speaker 7: The 34 hits in the first three games of the season,
39:53
Speaker 7: 34 quarterback hits against the Packers, that's tough. It's hard
39:57
Speaker 7: to run offense when that's happening.
39:59
Speaker 6: It's messing up the timing. Wayne, thank you for joining us.
40:02
Speaker 6: We appreciate it. Enjoy the weekend off. Enjoy your Sunday
40:06
Speaker 6: watching the rest of the league.
40:07
Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll be watching. That's for sure. Thanks, guys.
40:10
Speaker 2: Have a good weekend.
40:11
Speaker 1: See you, man. You bet.
40:12
Speaker 6: Wayne Larrabee, the voice of the Packers, friend of the program,
40:15
Speaker 6: brought to us.
40:16
Speaker 5: Bye.
40:16
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Speaker 3: for premium and concrete coatings. Drew, I think everybody needs
40:28
Speaker 3: and probably deserves a couple of cold Miller Lites after
40:31
Speaker 3: that performance. But listen, I don't know.
40:35
Speaker 2: I don't know exactly.
40:36
Speaker 3: If we crack one open right now, it would be apropos.
40:39
Speaker 3: We've basically been up for 29 straight hours. But at
40:42
Speaker 3: some point, I think.
40:43
Speaker 2: Well, we should.
40:44
Speaker 3: I don't know how exactly it would work. Might get
40:46
Speaker 3: looked at strangely, but I don't really care at this point.
40:48
Speaker 2: Well, they don't have to know.
40:50
Speaker 6: There's a couple highlights in the fridge in my office.
40:52
Speaker 6: You guys want to help yourselves. I'll have one here.
40:55
Speaker 2: You have one there.
40:56
Speaker 3: Well, Billy already made a pizza. We saved you a
40:58
Speaker 3: slice of pizza. You want us to put it in
41:00
Speaker 3: the fridge?
41:01
Speaker 6: No, just let it sit congealing on the console, and
41:04
Speaker 6: I'll just get it on Monday morning because that's how
41:06
Speaker 6: we roll.
41:07
Speaker 2: Well, Billy's ribs are so good.
41:08
Speaker 6: If we have any week-old glazers we can have, I'll
41:10
Speaker 6: have a whole meal. That'd be amazing.
41:12
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I'll try and eat it.
41:14
Speaker 6: That'll be amazing.
41:15
Speaker 3: All right.
41:16
Speaker 6: So Billy looking for, we got the Badgers this weekend.
41:20
Speaker 6: You'll be on the post game duties there. We're going
41:22
Speaker 6: to have Sunday clear with Ms. Pitching. And then there's
41:26
Speaker 6: going to be some conflicts. There's going to be some
41:28
Speaker 6: games where the Badgers and Packers are likely to be
41:30
Speaker 6: right up against the Brewers. I think it's going to
41:32
Speaker 6: be fun. Let's enjoy it. Maybe we need a diversion
41:34
Speaker 6: instead of watching the Packers.
41:36
Speaker 2: Can't wait. It needs to happen soon.
41:39
Speaker 6: Absolutely. Thanks for hanging out with us. You have been
41:42
Speaker 6: listening to and enjoying.
41:43
Speaker 2: The Huddle.
41:43
Speaker 6: We'll see you at 5 a.m. Monday, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
41:46
Speaker 4: Peace!