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10/26/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle. It's time
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the teams you love with the guys
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  Speaker 1: you love.
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  Speaker 4: You are looking live.
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  Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
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  Speaker 5: We know exactly what we got to do.
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 2: Let's go out and kick some shit.
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  Speaker 3: One, two, three. We got some big plays coming.
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  Speaker 2: What the hell's going on out here?
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  Speaker 6: Yellow Weasel.
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  Speaker 5: We're calling the plays.
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  Speaker 3: All right? It is time.
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  Speaker 5: What do you think you are?
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  Speaker 1: I am.
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  Speaker 5: With Drew Olsen. When he spoke, he commanded your attention
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  Speaker 5: and he commanded your respect. Bill Schmidt. That son of
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  Speaker 5: a gun is thick.
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  Speaker 1: And Armin Sarian.
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  Speaker 5: Daddy Sarian.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the huddle.
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  Speaker 5: In the touchdown to snap to Jordan Love.
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  Speaker 3: He steps up.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah. Scrambles right. Going to take it himself. Throws
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  Speaker 6: right side of the end zone. Got Tucker Kraft. Tumbling grabs.
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  Speaker 5: Touchdown.
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  Speaker 6: But did he come across? The line of scrimmage on
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  Speaker 6: the throw. Apparently, I don't see a flag.
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  Speaker 2: It's a touchdown, Green Bay.
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  Speaker 4: 3-2.
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  Speaker 7: Runner takes off.
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  Speaker 5: It's a hit and run to perfection.
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  Speaker 3: Milwaukee's on the board, and.
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  Speaker 5: Guess who's done it?
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  Speaker 7: William Contreras comes through again, and he says, of course
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  Speaker 7: I did. On the 3-2 pitch, Mitchell strokes a base
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  Speaker 7: hit to right center field.
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  Speaker 6: It's 4-2. They've cut it in half. 12, handoff to Gibbs,
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  Speaker 6: up the middle, accelerates. Gibbs covered up, ball came loose.
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  Speaker 6: It's up for grabs and a pileup inside the 10
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  Speaker 6: near the 8-yard line.
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  Speaker 2: It's Green Bay football.
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  Speaker 6: The Packers recover.
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  Speaker 7: Ground ball to fresh, through the legs of Aranda. Everybody's
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  Speaker 7: safe and it's 4-3. Behind the runner, he's safe too.
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  Speaker 7: Here comes Hicks. He doesn't run well at all. And
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  Speaker 7: it's no question he's out at.
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  Speaker 4: Home.
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  Speaker 3: Mmm, boy. I'll tell you what. I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: you've seen it. I'm just seeing it right now. That
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  Speaker 3: was awful. That's an awful, awful call.
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  Speaker 6: He just kind of ran into Goff and not even
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  Speaker 6: run into him.
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  Speaker 3: He was getting up off his knees.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's how much force he put into it.
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  Speaker 3: That's brutal.
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  Speaker 6: Third down in a tight pocket, throws the left side,
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  Speaker 6: and he's got his man down the left sidelines. Jacobs
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  Speaker 6: breaking a tackle inside the 10, but he stepped.
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  Speaker 1: Out of bounds.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, and they call it a touchdown. It is a touchdown.
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  Speaker 6: Goff looks it over, takes the snap, hands it off
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  Speaker 6: to Gibbs.
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  Speaker 5: Yes!
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  Speaker 7: He's tackled on the play.
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  Speaker 6: Gibbs hit by Keyshawn Nixon.
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  Speaker 2: And also in on that play, Jordan Riley.
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  Speaker 7: It's served into right, and it's Milwaukee in front.
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  Speaker 5: They've turned game two upside down.
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  Speaker 3: Daniel Whelan down on one knee.
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  Speaker 6: Snap.
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  Speaker 5: Placement.
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  Speaker 2: Swing to the leg and it is no good.
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  Speaker 3: No good.
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  Speaker 6: And the Lions rejoice at the sideline below us.
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  Speaker 2: 35-yard field goal.
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  Speaker 3: No good.
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  Speaker 6: Here it is.
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  Speaker 5: Placement.
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  Speaker 3: Kick is up.
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  Speaker 5: And it is good.
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  Speaker 6: And the Detroit Lions have defeated the Green Bay Packers
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  Speaker 6: here at Ford Field 20-17.
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  Speaker 5: On to St. Pete, indeed. Mixed emotions. Frustrating Packers finish
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  Speaker 5: at Ford Field. Kind of tempered what was otherwise a
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  Speaker 5: glorious sports weekend in Wisconsin with the Brewers winning a
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  Speaker 5: pair of games. Against the Rays to take a 2-0
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  Speaker 5: lead into the World Series. Game 3 tonight. We'll talk
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  Speaker 5: to Bill Schmidt live from St. Pete coming up in
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  Speaker 5: about 20 minutes. Hunter Baumgart joins us an hour and
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  Speaker 5: 25 minutes from now. Drew Olsen, Armand Sarian holding it
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  Speaker 5: down at headquarters. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison.
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  Speaker 5: Everywhere on the iHeart app. Streaming live on Facebook, X,
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  Speaker 5: and YouTube. Here in the huddle. Wanted to shift gears to...
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  Speaker 5: the Brewers and just talk about what's going to happen
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  Speaker 5: tonight and where we're at as a fan base. But
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  Speaker 5: we have news from Green Bay. We wondered if there
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  Speaker 5: would be offensive line shuffling. Well, there is today already
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  Speaker 5: officially announced. The Packers have placed Jacob Monk on injured
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  Speaker 5: reserve with a quad injury. and signed Mekhi Becton to
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  Speaker 5: the active roster from the practice squad to take his place.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's been a lot of talk about Zeitler, Mekhi Becton,
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  Speaker 4: the other one that we were wondering about for a while,
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  Speaker 4: so I guess.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Zeitler's been active and is on the roster. He's
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  Speaker 5: been active, right. Becton wasn't really.
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  Speaker 4: Now, the Packers, you could say, have covered themselves, picking
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  Speaker 4: up these three linemen, you know, obviously, including Lakin, and
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  Speaker 4: they've had a slew of injuries, and they continue at
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  Speaker 4: that position.
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  Speaker 5: So, Drew... The big ticket, and he is a large
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  Speaker 5: human being.
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  Speaker 4: Big old boy, as I used to say, yeah. The
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  Speaker 4: big ticket is on the 53. Jacob Monk is on IR.
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  Speaker 4: Is that Mackay's nickname? I should have known that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Big ticket?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I like that. That's the breaking news. So big ticket,
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  Speaker 5: hot rod. Stay tuned for others. So, yes, as a
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  Speaker 5: matter of fact, good launching point for our little Monday tradition,
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  Speaker 5: game balls and kicks to the balls.
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  Speaker 4: Indeed, Drew.
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  Speaker 5: On the program. It's a tradition unlike any other. You
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  Speaker 5: can call us at 877-794-1973 or text thenicolaylaw.com. Text line.
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  Speaker 5: Tell us who'd you like to give a game ball to.
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  Speaker 5: That's for a job well done. And that is for
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  Speaker 5: an attaboy. It's a kudo. A little bonus. Something from
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  Speaker 5: the petty cash drawer. Go out and give your wife.
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  Speaker 5: Take your wife out for a nice dinner. A little
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  Speaker 5: game ball action. Put it on the mantle. Have it forever.
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  Speaker 5: Today in the huddle. A game ball sounds like this.
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  Speaker 7: What a start to the World Series in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 5: I couldn't turn that call down. Joe Davis. All right. Conversely,
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  Speaker 5: if someone needs a performance improvement plan, looking at you, Zebras.
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  Speaker 5: If you'd like to give them a well-placed, well-meaning, hopefully
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  Speaker 5: constructive kick to the huevos. Constructive. It sounds like this.
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  Speaker 3: That's an awful, awful call.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's pretty much perfect. I had so much layer
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  Speaker 4: to pick from. It was an embarrassment of Rich's. I
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  Speaker 4: really did, but that's the one I went to.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and obviously, well, I'll open the bidding because you've
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  Speaker 5: got to give the referees in yesterday's Packers-Lions game a
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  Speaker 5: kick to the balls.
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  Speaker 3: That's an awful, awful call.
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  Speaker 5: We don't allow too much griping about referees, and the
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  Speaker 5: Packers could have won the game despite some awful, awful calls.
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  Speaker 5: And there were a lot, but it's the subjectivity of it.
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  Speaker 5: I just saw a side-by-side. Wes Hodkowitz was getting into
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  Speaker 5: it with somebody, and someone did a side-by-side of the
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  Speaker 5: intentional grounding call on Jordan Love. when he's trying to
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  Speaker 5: find Tucker Kraft in the flat, and he is being
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  Speaker 5: dragged down, and the ball went, I don't know what
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  Speaker 5: the line of scrimmage was, but it went to about
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  Speaker 5: the 14-yard line. It did not look like grounding. Tom
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  Speaker 5: Brady almost threw up. And then there's a play where
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  Speaker 5: Jared Goff had a similar play, and he was in
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  Speaker 5: between the tackles, not outside the tackles, and he threw
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  Speaker 5: the ball, and he just ditched it, and it was
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  Speaker 5: way more egregious.
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  Speaker 1: Way more.
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  Speaker 5: It looked more like grounding. than what Jordan Love did.
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  Speaker 4: The inconsistency is what's frustrating. And that's a crippling penalty,
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  Speaker 4: loss of down. It was one of those that, at first,
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  Speaker 4: the referee, when he announced it, the mic wasn't on.
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  Speaker 4: And then it seemed like on the TV copy, Kevin
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  Speaker 4: Burkhart and Tom Brady were like, what'd they call it?
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  Speaker 5: Was it an extra guy in the huddle? Brady was apoplectic. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: they're like, what was that?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 5: And that's what we're seeing. And we mentioned with Wayne, okay,
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  Speaker 5: so by the letter of the law, Brandon Cisse committed
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  Speaker 5: pass interference on a play that he got an interception.
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  Speaker 5: Didn't really affect Amon Rice-St. Brown that much, but all right,
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  Speaker 5: letter of the law. Took an interception off the board.
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  Speaker 5: Packers penalties have been so costly, but the fact that
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  Speaker 5: you have to rack your brain and it's an incredibly
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  Speaker 5: tough decision. Which call in terms of refereeing was the
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  Speaker 5: worst that went against the Packers? Because the two roughing
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  Speaker 5: the passer penalties were horrific.
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  Speaker 3: Just.
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  Speaker 5: So horrific. Carl Brooks is like, and Dean Blandino said,
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  Speaker 5: that's teach tape. Teach tape. That's a teach tape. That's
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  Speaker 5: how they tell people. And then the pat a cake,
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  Speaker 5: two hand touch to the stomach that golf oversold was
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  Speaker 5: also awful.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that was more, that was more acting than
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  Speaker 4: you'll see on Broadway. My, well, I don't understand drew
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  Speaker 4: is the inconsistency of that. It just, you can't convince
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  Speaker 4: me with all the hits Jordan loves been taking because
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  Speaker 4: of our issues line that we can't warrant one call.
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  Speaker 4: He has not been called one time all year for running.
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  Speaker 5: It's eight to nothing. The Packers have eight, eight.
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  Speaker 4: And all of them have been, I don't want to
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  Speaker 4: say all been important. They've all felt like really important place.
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  Speaker 4: And they've all been sort of like your side. I,
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  Speaker 4: and it's like, well, what is really going on here?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, some of these, you know, the, the, the,
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  Speaker 4: the falling with the weight thing is what really frustrating
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  Speaker 4: because that's been happening a lot. It really feels like
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  Speaker 4: the Packers have done their best to avoid it on
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  Speaker 4: most of those. you have to have some sort of
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  Speaker 4: judgment in some of these calls. And these, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's just mind-boggling the inconsistency of what these officials are seeing.
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  Speaker 4: And it seems to be consistent against the Packers.
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  Speaker 5: That's right. Share your game balls and kicks, 877-794-1973.
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  Speaker 4: Nick told me on Facebook really quick, he said, why
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  Speaker 4: is no one talking about targeting of Tucker Kraft? Absolute
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  Speaker 4: cheap shot, no penalty. Well, there's too many, Nick. We're
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  Speaker 4: trying to get all.
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  Speaker 5: Of them in there. If the CSA thing was a penalty...
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  Speaker 5: Matthew Golden was running in the open field with a
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  Speaker 5: back judge looking right at the play, and a guy
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  Speaker 5: held his arm down. It wasn't just normal hand fighting.
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  Speaker 5: A guy held his left arm. It was basically pinned,
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  Speaker 5: and he was forced to try to make a one-handed catch.
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  Speaker 4: Brian Branch, you know, I mean, was the one that
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  Speaker 4: launched into craft. Now, Brian Branch has been a dirty
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  Speaker 4: player this league. If anyone should get picked on, it
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  Speaker 4: should be him. He should get the Ahmaud Carroll treatment.
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  Speaker 4: They should be looking for every time he plays to
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  Speaker 4: get a penalty.
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  Speaker 5: But then, like, and I know each game is kind
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  Speaker 5: of its own entity, but we're not living in a vacuum.
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  Speaker 5: Wayne had said it too. If you watch the entire league,
• 10:52
  Speaker 5: the Dolphins got caught. Well, first of all, Cam Scott,
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  Speaker 5: a bow got called for what might've been the worst
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  Speaker 5: penalty in the history of the league yesterday, a running
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  Speaker 5: back with an unnecessary roughness for running too hard into
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  Speaker 5: a defender. I, you know what?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't get a chance to get a good look
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  Speaker 4: at that one. I just saw people griping about it, but.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Armin, we just call it up right now. Is
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  Speaker 5: that you're good at looking things up during the show.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: I give you permission to do that right now. Because
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  Speaker 5: what you saw is an unnecessary roughness. Like, did he
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  Speaker 5: drop his helmet and run into a, I just, I can't.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, that's, and that's what I'm talking about. The
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  Speaker 5: Dolphins got called. Yeah, that's bizarre.
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  Speaker 4: That's what they called him for, for truck sticking the guy?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he truck stick the guy. Isn't this football? Unnecessary roughness. That,
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  Speaker 5: it's absurd. What would they have called on Christian Akoye
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  Speaker 5: if that was, or Eddie Fullback? And what are you
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  Speaker 5: supposed to do? And like the Amon Ross St. Brown,
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  Speaker 5: when he got suplexed by Devontae Wyatt and the ref
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  Speaker 5: got kicked in the stomach and threw the flag from
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  Speaker 5: his back, that to me was like the worst one
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  Speaker 5: of the day because that's not a penalty. And the
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  Speaker 5: other guy should have told him to take that flag
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  Speaker 5: and put it in his pocket.
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 5: But that one was bad. And there's just a couple.
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  Speaker 5: And when Matthew Golden gets a penalty for taunting in
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  Speaker 5: the end zone for flexing with an opponent in the foreground,
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  Speaker 5: but mostly at the crowd, and then the entire... Rams
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  Speaker 5: defensive line and everybody there. I mean, offensive line does everything.
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  Speaker 5: a Fortnite dance party. That was the craziest thing.
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  Speaker 4: And pointing at Carl Brooks in his head and touching
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  Speaker 4: his helmet to point at him, and that's not taunting?
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  Speaker 5: What are we doing?
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  Speaker 4: I understand some holding calls or some pass interference calls
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  Speaker 4: can go both ways, but when you have something like that, okay,
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  Speaker 4: letter of the law, taunting, you just called it on
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  Speaker 4: us for flexing to the crowd, which is stupid, egregious.
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  Speaker 4: Now you're not going to call for them for a choreographed, multi-person, multi-player,
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  Speaker 4: multi-level performance. multi-scene act performance by eight guys in the field.
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  Speaker 5: That should have been eight of them right there, Drew.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It's just hard to make sense of.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Hard to make sense of. That's just what I meant. Matt,
• 13:04
  Speaker 5: Dan Campbell's decision to go for it on fourth down,
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  Speaker 5: which would have been the story had the Packers won.
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  Speaker 5: they'd be beating the drums for his firing in Detroit
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  Speaker 5: had the Packers won that game. Because under five minutes left,
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  Speaker 5: you're at your own 25, you go for it on
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  Speaker 5: fourth down, don't get it. He's the only coach in
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  Speaker 5: the country that goes for that there.
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  Speaker 4: Right, although I saw Tomlin defending it last night.
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  Speaker 5: Tomlin defended it, said it was legit. And you can maybe,
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  Speaker 5: but my friend who's an Alliance fan, Andy in West Bend,
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  Speaker 5: shout out to Andy, was saying he was upset. And again,
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  Speaker 5: it goes to the nuts and bolts of the referees.
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  Speaker 5: He was upset, and the second down spot was pretty bad,
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  Speaker 5: he thought, and advantageous to the Packers that made the
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  Speaker 5: third down longer and then the fourth down. And they're
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  Speaker 5: not even spotting the ball right. It's one thing to
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  Speaker 5: get pass interference wrong or be a little too rough
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  Speaker 5: in the passer, but we're seeing problems. We saw it
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  Speaker 5: in the last Packers home game against Dallas where they're
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  Speaker 5: having trouble spotting the ball. Yeah, Wayne talked about that
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  Speaker 5: a lot. And it's become, even the mechanics. Now, I
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  Speaker 5: know there's, there's some crying again. I hate to, I
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  Speaker 5: know it feels good. And people think, well, it's a joke.
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  Speaker 5: They're the only major pro league that doesn't have full-time officials.
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  Speaker 5: And these guys are, you know, high school principals.
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  Speaker 4: And Billy and I go back and forth on it.
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  Speaker 5: And my thing is, okay. So does making 300 grand
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  Speaker 5: a year, which for some of these guys who are
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  Speaker 5: attorneys and stuff, it would be a pay cut probably. But,
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  Speaker 5: and then having them be your, your LinkedIn says NFL
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  Speaker 5: official full-time. as your main gig, does that make their
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  Speaker 5: eyesight better? Does it make them the guys, these guys
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  Speaker 5: who are weak, the weekend warriors that they are that
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  Speaker 5: have fake hips and fake knees. Does it make them
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  Speaker 5: like more physically fit? Like, Oh, they'd have more time
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  Speaker 5: to work out. Yeah, sure. There's no evidence. It was,
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  Speaker 5: there's no evidence. It's going to help ostensibly. Would it
• 14:52
  Speaker 5: give him more time to study the rule book and
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  Speaker 5: look at film? Okay. But does that make it better?
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  Speaker 5: Because to me, and Wayne said it, Wayne said it best.
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  Speaker 5: It's the ecosystem of officiating right now where they get
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  Speaker 5: graded on everything and the all 22 and things. And,
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  Speaker 5: I just think there's this ethos now that they're searching
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  Speaker 5: for penalties. They're writing tickets for guys who are going
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  Speaker 5: 57 and a 55. Sure, exactly. It's more litigious. It's
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: a more litigious game. And so making them full-time and
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  Speaker 5: then spending all their time thinking of penalties they can call,
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: does that make it better? I don't know that it
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: makes it better. I'm all for it, and the league
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  Speaker 5: has the money to have full-time officials, and you can
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: say if you want that it's a joke that they don't.
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  Speaker 3: But.
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  Speaker 4: To me, it's like, does it make it better? Does
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: it address the root of the issue? I don't know
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: that it does. A lot of it starts with people
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: wanting incorrect calls that they saw in replay over the
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: years changed, and they wanted what they saw as an
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: injustice corrected.
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  Speaker 5: Right, righted.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: The problem is, I think we have to accept that
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: this will never be a game of equitable justice.
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: I mean, that's never going to happen. There's no utopia.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: I think that's where we started getting to different levels
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: of replay, Drew, is because when big calls that everyone
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: saw that were wrong didn't get overturned or whatever and
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: said there has to be a system in place. Because
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: on one side, we complain about all the officiating being
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: bad and so many flags, but on the other side,
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: once something happens, we'll say there has to be a
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: system in place to right this wrong. You really can't
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: balance those two things. In my opinion, I think as
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: time goes on, you think you can, but you can't.
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: And that's part of the problem.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: And I think that's, that would be my take for the,
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: the full-time officials thing is what you're saying. Your logic
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: isn't flawed. Would it actually help them see better or
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: perform better?
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: I don't know. All I know is we had a grow.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: We had a, racks of callers last night saying they
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: have to do something. It's easy to say you have
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: to do something, but what is that thing that they
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: actually can do to fix this? I think that's where
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: I disagree with most people. I don't think there's much
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: you can do. So making them full-time would only serve
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: the NFL to throw meat to hungry wolves, angry people, fans, media, commentators, observers,
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: that want something done. And there is nothing else actionable
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: you can really do except saying you guys have to
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: be better.
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: Well, that's not really working. That's not working, exactly.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, unless they're trying to be bad, which I
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: doubt they are, but now I wonder. People are wondering that, right?
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: A lot of people are saying that.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, of course.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: And again, that's... You get down that road, right? That's
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: the leap, and that's a logical leap for people to
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: make with the league in bed with DraftKings. They're making
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: that leap. Oh, they're all on the take. That's always
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: been an undercurrent, but you're not doing yourself any favors. No,
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: it doesn't really follow it. This replay review brought to
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: you by DraftKings. I mean, and hey... But a lot
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: of me sports book, we are the sports gambling. Part
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: of it is there's that's Pandora's box is open. It's
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: never going, getting stuff back in the toothpaste, not going
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: back in that tube, but that adds to the shadow
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: of doubt. And when, when you doubt the basics of the,
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: of the officiating, the fundamentals of the game, integrity of
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: the game, integrity, it's a crisis and it's getting to
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: be a crisis. And not only that it's diminishing everyone's enjoyment,
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: because even when there's an electric play made by these
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: incredible athletes that we want to watch every Sunday and
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: You're looking around for the flag, waiting for the rug
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: to get pulled, waiting for Lucy to pull the football away.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: Sure, and it definitely is annoying and not enjoyable. But
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: someone has to prove to me that it's actually going
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: to hurt the game because I don't see them making
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: less money.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: I don't see people watching less. I don't see people
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: being less interested.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: I start to think the NFL is just Teflon these
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: days and that nothing will kill the product.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: Well, here's the other thing. How about a public disclosure?
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: And they started to do this a little bit, but
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: with the calls that were missed, give us the report
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: card for the referees. Like some people do it with
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: the umpire and the, you know, ABS challenges and stuff.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: And because it seems like this crew last night, there
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: was an, it was an awful performance by them, but
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: just about any measure. Blandino said it, Brady said, it's
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: not just us Packers fans, even lions fans admit it
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: was brutal, right? And this was America's game. It was
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: in the national window. But they're not going to face
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: anything for it, at least publicly, whereas Xavier McKinney is
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: going to get a FedEx from the commissioner's office telling
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: me he's going to get fined probably $ 25, 000 for expressing
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: his dismay with the officiating. That's crap.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: Do you think if there was some sort of punishment
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: or admonishment by the officials to this crew, people would.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: Want to know about that? I would think so. So
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: I don't know. Maybe there is, and we just don't
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: know about it. I think they absolutely should. Hey, you
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: got marked down. You got downgraded. I think this crew
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: has a reputation, and they shouldn't have been doing the
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: game in this spotlight between division rivals anyway. That's another question.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: Send that to Carolina-Tampa. Exactly.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: But it doesn't make it better for that product. I
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: understand what you're saying about this one. I know. But
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: my point is, if fans and observers at least saw
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: that that league cared and agreed and validated their feelings
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: and was doing something, then they would be a little
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: bit more satisfied. But everyone is saying the same thing.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: They have to do something, but what can you do?
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: No one can give that answer. Something to remember with
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: the Packers. I still think goal one is always to
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: win the division. It got incrementally harder Not quite impossible,
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: but harder with the loss yesterday, right?
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Because the Packers now have two division losses. It's going
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: to be difficult. So do the Bears.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: Yes, but their record's better.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Their record's better, but the Bears, both of their losses
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: came against division opponents. I mean, the Vikings and Lions
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: are probably in better shape. So the Vikings are in
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: the best shape and are now prohibitive favorites to win.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: I think their team's still the worst. But there's two
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: things that are true. I think in order for the
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: Packers to win.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: The division... They might need a tie between Minnesota and Detroit.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: Oh, boy.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: You're going that deep. I love this. But if the
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: playoffs started today, all four teams in the NFC North
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: would be in. How about that? I think it's 94.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: I feel like 94 over again. We're the entire Central,
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: except for the Buccaneers, made the playoffs.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: Outside of the division. This division is not losing unless
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: they play each other. Outside of the division, the NFC
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: North is a combined 15-3. Yeah. It's just incredible. The
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: only three losses outside the division, well, the Packers lost
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: to the Falcons, and the Lions lost to the Bills
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: and the Panthers. So 15-3 against the rest of the world.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: It's amazing.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: This division, unless they play each other, will not lose.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: But when we go to break, we're going to get
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: to Billy. Kurt Schwenke's got my walk-off on YouTube. Hey,
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Angel Hernandez is a full-time mom, and.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: He was still awful. Good point. That's a good point.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Love it.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: This is like, what if we saw the Eric Gregg
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: game in a game like tonight? How would baseball fans
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: react to that?
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: They wouldn't be because ABS changed it, right? Our buddy
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: the barrister, the mayor of Shorewood, said all the other
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: three American League National Leagues play. between 82 and 162 games.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: They have to have full-time refs. Yeah, that's a full-time job.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: Did you ever see the ref schedule for college basketball refs?
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: It's insane.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: They fly 30 times a month to go to games,
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: and they make money. They don't have to study these.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: That's probably the worst of it. But you need refs
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: for all these games.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: In the NFL, you don't. When we come back, we're
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: going to swing it to Florida. Billy Schmid is in
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: Florida to attend the game tonight. He's going to be
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: tailgating and having a blast. We'll check in with him next.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. We are
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: huddled up. Drew and Armin from headquarters having us some
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: fun on this, well, kind of Victory Monday, Victory Monday
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: for the Brewers. Game three tonight. We're picking the pieces
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: of the Packers. Who better to join us than our
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: pal Bill Schmidt, live from the Suncoast, Tampa, St. Pete. Billy,
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: what was it like getting up in the morning? Did
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: you flash back to our 5 a.m.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Club?
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, fellas, it wasn't too difficult.
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: Now, the 4.30 wake-up was at least a little bit
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: more forgiving than what we used to have, but at
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: least I was well-trained for it, and it all made
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: it a lot easier when you landed in this Tampa sun, fellas.
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: It is one of the greatest days you possibly could
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: have weather-wise, and The folks that came from Wisconsin are
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: enjoying all of it.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it looks like the weather doesn't suck, Billy.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Did you see a large brewer contingent at the airport?
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: In all reality, Armin, you haven't been able to go
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: 25 feet without seeing Brewers fans. I'm walking by another
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: one right here. Where I parked, there were about 25 cars.
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: The lots opened about an hour ago. All of them
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: were Brewers fans, and all of them had chairs set up.
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: They started tailgating. I don't know that many people understood
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: what they were doing here. They didn't have any place
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: to dump your hot coals, but I think they're going
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: to figure it out. Guys, it is a wild contention
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: of Brewers fans. I ran into two of my old
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: high school football coaches down here at an establishment. There
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: was a group of about 25 people that my wife
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: ran into that she knew that she went to high
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: school with. it is going to be an impressive showing
• 23:59
  Speaker 8: for the four one four down here in Tampa.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: It seemed like we understood the assignment here. No, no doubt.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: I don't know. And I don't remember from watching how
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: big the Packers contingent was earlier in Tampa, but I
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: will say that this, you know, based on, it could
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: be like 40% or higher of Brewers fans tonight.
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: Potentially or higher drew. And, and I want to give,
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: I want to give the raise fans at least a
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: little bit of credit. because they're also been very, very nice,
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: very hospitable. They've given you the nice little gentle ribbing,
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: the nice little trash talk, but, uh, they understand where
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: the series is at. And the, the most hazing I
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: got was when I had my one hour and a
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: half layover in Philly, I got booed walking off the plane.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: So they've been very hospitable.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: And the plane was full. I think there are about
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: 25 people. I counted that I've seen at the sports
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: bar across the street where everyone is congregating right now. Uh,
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: that were on the plane that flew down there. There
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: were a couple of different flights, one to Sarasota that
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: people were catching.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: So it's going to be.
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: An impressive showing of people that flew down today and yesterday.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: And let's be honest, guys, there's a.
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: Lot of people down here that live here that are
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: cheering for the right squad, hopefully tonight.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Well, that's not a good point, Billy. You know, people
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: that might never have been going to Brewers games, but say, Hey,
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: you know what? They're in town world series. The ticket
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: market's cratering, cratering.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Why not?
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: And I would think the way the ticket market there
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: has dropped, maybe, you know, if the Brewers win, even
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: if they don't, there might be.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: Some that say, you know what?
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: I can stick around an extra day and pick up
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: game four tickets, even though we were planning on game three.
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: That's interesting that you mentioned that because I was thinking
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: about it on the drive over. Generally, Armin, the hardest
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: flight to catch is the one from Harry Reid International Airport.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: The hardest one, yeah.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: The hardest one.
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: Tomorrow morning, 6 o'clock on Southwest, will be the hardest,
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: especially if there's a Brewers win here tonight because it
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: does feel like... I spoke to a number of people
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: that were coming down here, getting here today, going to
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: Game 4, and they're like, yeah, we understand the assignment.
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: We're probably going to hang around for Game 5 and
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: go at that point, too, if the clinch takes an
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: extra day in a gentleman's suite. Because it feels like
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: there are most people that are coming down here for
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: a celebration.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: Billy Schmidt joining us live from St.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Pete.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: Getting ready to go into the game. Game three of
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: the World Series starting tonight at 7 o'clock. Hunter Baumgart
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: joins us an hour from now. And Hunter's going to
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: have a two-hour pregame show beginning at 5 o'clock. Just saying.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: But my pal Tyler Kepner from The Athletic just posted
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: a picture of a guy and his wife on the waterfront.
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: He's wearing a Euchre jersey. And he said, unscientific survey,
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: but based on everywhere you look in St. Pete today,
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: There will be lots of Brewers fans at the Trop tonight.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: There's a ton. I mean, there's another family that I'm
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: walking by. I can't see them that far away in
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: the camera.
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: They've got three Brewers flags, a Packer.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: One here as well. It's going to be.
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: This is going to be, Drew, this generation's ice bowl
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: if they clinch this championship in Tampa.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: That you're going to.
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: Talk to 150 to 200,000 people in the year 2050
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: that we're all down here in Tampa for this clinch.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's interesting.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Now, Billy.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: We got Gasser against Fastball Freddy tonight. Obviously a matchup.
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: Brewers fans have a special place in their hearts for
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: Freddy Peralta. Maybe not tonight, but in general. And then
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: Gasser's been, arguably, has he been their most effective starter
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: in the postseason? I mean, the numbers might say that.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the numbers would indicate it, Drew.
• 27:20
  Speaker 8: He's definitely had their longest start of five innings out
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: in Los Angeles. The other part about Gasser's game that
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: I think is kind of contrary to everybody else you're
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: facing now, he's not reliant on velocity uh it's not
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: like he's out here throwing 92 but he's gonna live
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: around 93 94 and i think that kind of subtle
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: change you know logan henderson's not lighting up the radar
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: gun that they just saw a night ago but it
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: is a he's been a steadying force in a rotation
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: that was desperately needing a third guy we talked about
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: dustin may right uh threw out a number of different
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: names i don't know gasser's name kyle harrison ever really
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: came up and here he has been up logan henderson's
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: last two starts have been nothing to engender a ton
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: of confidence robert gasser's definitely been your most reliable guy.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah i think so too i think it is interesting
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: speaking on that you know change of pace you know
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: the one thing you would get concerned about i mean
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: obviously it seems like the brewers are are you know,
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: they have an advantage in bullpen, but the thing you
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: do get concerned about is if you show these guys
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: the same pictures too many times, will they be able
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: to pick up on it? But yeah, you mix in
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: a gas or you mix in maybe some other guys
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: you haven't used yet. You know, you think about, you know, Hey,
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: maybe Woodruff, you never know that it might, it might
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: serve you well to show them something different.
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: It's, it's fascinating. I know you guys probably talked about
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: it today. Still trying to figure out drew what the
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: best Woodruff spot is. The opener makes some sense. Yandy
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: Diaz is a real dude. Junior Caminero is a real dude.
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: I'm one of your first three hitters. I saw him
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: facing Jackson Churio in the simulated game, so it wasn't
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: like he was going up there against the skeletal remains
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: of Josh Donaldson a couple of years ago and Felipe Lopez.
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: But you're out here going up against some of the
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: best that the American League has to offer. I don't
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: know that that's a first-inning guy. Maybe they are just
• 29:12
  Speaker 8: holding around for the perfect time. One of these games
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: gets out of hand. Maybe you're up, say, 8-2, and
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: then you let the old bulldog go out there and
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: enjoy the last run.
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: I just said that's my dream scenario now is that
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: whenever the Brewers are on the cusp of clinching, they
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: lead like 8-2 or 10-3 and Woodruff gets the last
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: three outs and is on the field as a payoff
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: for his 10 years of service. He's on the field
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: when the whole thing goes down.
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: And that's what Drew, he was talking about being the
• 29:39
  Speaker 8: dream that he was cooking up during the rehab. For
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: that to turn out, it would be the stuff of movies.
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: And we know how many movies they made about the
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: 82 Club. They're two wins away from doubling that, if
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: not more. And that would be one of the best
• 29:52
  Speaker 8: stories about it.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: I find myself, you know, that's the problem I'm having
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: right now is I find myself thinking and dreaming too
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: much about every aspect of winning. like what it would
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: look like, what it would feel like, who would be
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: hugging who, who would be in what situation. And that's
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: a scary, you know, cookies theory and all that.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: It's scary.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: When the Bucs won, Billy, we were down 2-0. And
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: so you weren't really thinking about that until maybe game
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: four or game five.
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: You know, you weren't dreaming like that.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: But there's full-on, all-the-way-rocked-up dreams going on right now for
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: Brewers fans, right? There's no question about it.
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah, everybody is that American Eagle meme, just straight up
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: to the moon. And rightfully so. This club means a
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: lot to a lot of people. Drew wrote about a
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: team that lost over 100 games and a couple other
• 30:37
  Speaker 8: ones that probably could have lost close to them. And
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: the amount of people that showed up year in and
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: year out wasn't just for something to do. It's because
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: this club means something, and there's a special relationship with
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: the state of Wisconsin, the people that follow the Brewers.
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: And this baseball club. So I understand what it's going
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: to mean to a lot of people, Armin. And I'm
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: glad that it's a different course than what you saw.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations. Good luck.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Good luck. They're going to need it.
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  Speaker 8: But you're in the midst of potentially a generation-defining sports moment.
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  Speaker 2: And it's cool to be able to dream about it.
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: Instead of being on the other side, just laughing at
• 31:17
  Speaker 8: LeBron James talking about how Chris Paul's two wins away
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: from greatness that he never ended up getting.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's the thing. I mean, you'd rather be
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: on this side of it, no question. All right, so Billy,
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: what's got.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: That was a mean stray that I just threw to
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Chris Paul.
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: He didn't deserve that at all. He won't hear it.
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: What's got the locals more excited? The prospect of the
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: Rays trying to win their first game in the series tonight?
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: And what is, in essence for them, an elimination game?
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: Or the euphoria of the Buccaneers pantsing the Panthers who
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: are coming to Lambeau on Thursday night?
• 31:45
  Speaker 8: You know, Drew, I saw a couple of Buccaneers jerseys,
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: so I wonder if there's still some folks riding the
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: high of yesterday's game. I mean, that was an absolute beatdown.
• 31:52
  Speaker 8: You watch some more of the highlights of it. They
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: ran right over and right through the Panthers. The tough
• 31:59
  Speaker 8: thing is I've watched the Packers' opponent three of the
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: last four weeks be similar in games leading up and
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: the Packers not be able to capitalize. But there was
• 32:08
  Speaker 8: some definite buzz as they saved their season off life
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: support football-wise.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: They tried to do the same with the baseball team tonight.
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what's going to happen. In essence, it is
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: an elimination game for them. And, I mean, your winning
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: quarterback yesterday, Baker Mayfield, was 7 for 11 for 64 yards.
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: Because they ran the ball 49 times.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: They didn't have to do anything on the air, through
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: the air.
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: It was Sean Tucker right, left, and Bucky Irving twice
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: before everybody even sat down. Like Jackson Turio's home run
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: in Game 3, Marquez D'Anassio didn't even get into his
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: seat at Dodger Stadium. That was Bucky Irving into the
• 32:43
  Speaker 8: end zone yesterday. So that win against the Bucs a
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: couple of weeks ago could turn out to be even
• 32:50
  Speaker 8: bigger later on you get into the year.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: All right, so on the way out here, Billy, a
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: couple of notes for you. First of all, Packers-wise, Jacob
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: Monk on IR, Mekhi Becton active and up. If you
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: had to pick, they're going to have like 10 offensive
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: linemen to choose from. Who does Bill Schmidt have starting
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: Thursday night at Lambeau?
• 33:11
  Speaker 8: Well, Jordan Morgan, Tomlinson, and John Williams are the surest
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: of things. Next to John Williams, who I thought really,
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: really played well. Drew, I watched a decent amount of
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: it on the flight down today. In the rewatch, I
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: thought it was even more validating than what we saw live.
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: I thought he was really good in sporadic duty and
• 33:32
  Speaker 8: being thrown into the fire.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Something's going to have to happen with Kevin Zeitler, whether.
• 33:37
  Speaker 8: He's not fully prepared yet, and his body's not ready
• 33:40
  Speaker 8: for the rigors of going into an NFL game. Or
• 33:44
  Speaker 8: I would wonder if he starts getting frustrated with the
• 33:46
  Speaker 8: lack of an activation and you start hearing something. It's
• 33:50
  Speaker 8: difficult for me to think, Drew, though. He gets his
• 33:53
  Speaker 8: first start without any practice. So my maturation would still
• 33:57
  Speaker 8: probably have Travis Glover as the right guard and then
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: Anthony Belton on the right tackle.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: But I got to.
• 34:02
  Speaker 8: Think it's starting to get close to where that right side.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Gets another shakeout.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: The other news that we have is the Brewers lineup
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: is out for game three. And, you know, it's pretty
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: much what we've been seeing. Churio, Bowers, Yelich, Contreras, Terang, Mitchell, Pratt, Freelick, Hamilton.
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: No changes there. Yeah, there you go. Going with what works.
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: Roll with it and you have options on the bench there, obviously.
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: By the way, Adam McAlvey just tweeted that Jake Bowers
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: turned down the AC in his hotel room to 60
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: degrees last night and got 13 hours of sleep. Okay,
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: that's how we recover. Let's go. That's how it works.
• 34:41
  Speaker 8: Man, no other dads all across the city are saying, wow,
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: do I wish that I could get 13 hours of
• 34:46
  Speaker 8: sleep in a hotel room at 60 degrees.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: That would be incredible.
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: That would be incredible. Oh, baby, 13 hours.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: Are we going to see Andrew Vaughn once this series?
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: I still think there's going to be an Andrew Vaughn
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: moment that he's going to really.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: I was just thinking about that. You know, we haven't
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: seen him yet, obviously. A lot of ballgame left, Armand.
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: A lot of ballgame left.
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: And a lot of, a lot of ball game and
• 35:05
  Speaker 8: a lot of lefties. I mean, you saw him in
• 35:07
  Speaker 8: game two out of that Tampa bullpen. You got to
• 35:10
  Speaker 8: think it's going to be against the lefty out of
• 35:11
  Speaker 8: the pen when Vaughn gets his first taste, but I'm
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: with you, Armand.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: I want to see that bat at some point appear
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: during this series.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: If Mitchell Hamilton and Freela keep hitting home runs off lefties,
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: there's less need for him, but they haven't needed it yet.
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: Just saying, just saying, Billy, go have yourself some cocktails.
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: Enjoy the day, the afternoon. You've earned this trip. represent,
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: plant your Brewers flag, and come back tomorrow with a
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: bunch of stories for us.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: I've got the Brewers flag in the pocket, guys.
• 35:36
  Speaker 8: I brought, there's a little bit of new Glarus in
• 35:39
  Speaker 8: the hand, and there's a lot of Brewers fans around,
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: so we'll have some fun.
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: Outstanding. All right, represent, brother.
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: Enjoy.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: See you guys.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: Bill Schmidt. He is our third Musketeer here on the huddle,
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: and he is enjoying himself on the Suncoast. Pretty damn cool.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: I was wondering, you know, with all the everyone going
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: on the same flights down there, which one of these
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: goons would try and put a mini grill in the
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: overhead on the.
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: Plane to tailgate? It's so funny.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: All right. Hunter's going to join us in about 45
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: minutes live as well. He's in the ballpark doing interviews
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: and getting ready for Game 3 of the World Series,
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: as is the entire city. If you're going to the
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: watch party, we got a text earlier from a smart,
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: good-looking listener who was tailgating or pre-gaming. It was Jerry
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: in a plow truck pre-gaming at his house and then
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: going to pre-game games you know, to tailgate at the
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: watch party outside and then going into the game. That's
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: a pretty good day. Time is a flat circle. That's
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: a pretty good day. How much pre-gaming does it take
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: for it to be post-game?
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Right. All right.
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: We'll take your game balls and kicks. We're going to
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: spin through who's hot, who's not brought to us by
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: Donovan Jorgensen. That's coming up next here in the huddle
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: Fox sports radio, Wisconsin. Huddled up on a Monday, Drew
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: and Armin bringing it to you. We just heard from Billy.
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: We're going to hear from our other correspondent in the Suncoast.
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: Hunter Baumgart joins us in about 30 minutes from right now.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: Team coverage. Time for a little Who's Hot, Who's Not.
• 37:10
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• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Well.
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: Who's not hot? The Oklahoma City Thunder.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, boy, yeah.
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: Jalen Williams out. The lower leg injury likely for the
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: season after last night. They won against the Clippers. A
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: little brutal, too.
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: I didn't see it, but I know they took some
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: special measures to cover it up and stuff.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Not great, Bob. Not great. So for them, that's,
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: I mean, they're still a good club, but that's a
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: devastating loss.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: No, yeah.
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: That's supposed to be good.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: That's not.
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: The Miami Heat.
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: They're also not hot. I mean, how about that? And
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: people were getting on bam, but it looks, uh, you know,
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: a lot of people obviously with shot and Freud jumping
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: on the honest thing here, but.
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: Three games in the heat have the same record as
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: your Milwaukee bucks. He could have done that. Here's what
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: everyone's saying. Now we'll see how this thing turns out.
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: Long season, obviously 79 more games left drew, but, uh,
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: a tough start for the Miami heat who are trying
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: to put something together with Giannis and bam and clay.
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: Uh, yeah, the, the heat and bucks, um, At the
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: bottom of the league, the Brooklyn Nets, the New York Knicks,
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: the world champion New York Knicks also not had their
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: 0-3 out of the chute.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: Now that can't continue, I would think. But maybe there's
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: a little bit of a championship hangover.
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: Well, the Pelicans, Warriors, and Kings are 0-3 on the West,
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: and the 0-3 teams in the East are the Nets, Bucks, Knicks,
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: and Heat. And you know what? It is what it is.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, a lot of people won't be paying attention
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: for a month or two, but it is interesting to.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: See that, yeah.
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: Who's hot? Is there anybody hotter on the planet than
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: Aaron Ashby right now? Mr. Rexpex? It's hard to find somebody.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: And it's not that he's, you know, he's worked around
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: trouble too, which I think is impressive about what he's done.
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: Lead off doubles.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: He had man on third with one out, I think,
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: two or three times in that Dodgers game. So, you know,
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: you expect perfection out of him. But he's been awesome.
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's just been the key. The question is,
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: can you overuse him, Drew? It's hard to say that
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: in a short series because... He's so good, and he's
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: been so effective, and you need these performances and these wins.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: But I was pretty.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: Sure, and I was like, Murph's rolling with Ashby in
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: game two. He'll go with whatever works, and McGill was
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: ready and rested. McGill hasn't been as consistently sharp, and
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: I was like, he's going with Ashby, and he did.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: Now the day off should help Ashby, so I would
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: imagine he's available for game three.
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: I don't know what you think about that, but he's
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: used a lot. He's used to that. The Rays, interestingly,
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: the Brewers have the significantly higher payroll. They spend about
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: $ 40 million more than the Rays do. And the Rays'
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: top two starters both debuted in the big leagues with
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: the Brewers. Freddie Peralta tonight, Drew Rasmussen in game two.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: And Freddie was just like a scrappy pickup. The Brewers'
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: NLCS MVP, Jake Bowers, used to be a Ray. Matt
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: Arnold worked with the Rays. You know, it's kind of wild.
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: The Brewers' most common trade partner in the last five
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: years has been the Rays. Yeah, kind of wild. The
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: parallels are pretty wild. No doubt. There is an incestuous
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: nature there.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: And both of these ball clubs, much has been made
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: about how similar they are, how they're looking in the
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: mirror to each other. And I think that's true, although
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: I think our bullpen so far has been the difference.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: But these have both been close games. And I'll tell
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: you what. I think the Rays would tell you that
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: they probably think they could have gotten both games. Especially
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: with the lead, but the fact that they had so
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: many blunders, they drop in a pop-up and the ground
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: ball first. You got to be vigilant that everything matters
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: right now.
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: Everything does matter. Absolutely.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: That's Who's Hot, Who's Not brought to us by Donovan Jorgensen.
• 41:00
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• 41:02
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• 41:05
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• 41:10
  Speaker 4: He.
• 41:11
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• 41:13
  Speaker 5: 5 o'clock right after we get off the airwaves and interwebs.
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: So be on Hunter Watch. He's on a great run here,
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: and I hope the kid gets to see another champagne celebration.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, be good.
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: It would warm the cockles for us to see him
• 41:25
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• 41:28
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