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11/06/26 - Hour 3 · 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: gather around because it's time to huddle up.
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Speaker 2: 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 tape.
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Speaker 3: All right?
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Speaker 2: One, two, three. We got some big plays coming.
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Speaker 4: What the hell's going.
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Speaker 2: On out here?
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Speaker 4: Yellow Weasel.
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Speaker 2: Quit calling the plays, all right? It is time. Who
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Speaker 2: do you think you are? With Drew Olson.
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Speaker 4: When he spoke, he commanded your attention and he commanded
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Speaker 4: your respect.
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Speaker 2: Bill Schmidt. That son of a gun is thick.
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Speaker 1: And Armin Sarian.
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Speaker 2: Daddy Sarian. Welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 5: Welcome to the huddle as we get you ready for
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Speaker 5: a weekend in the good land.
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Speaker 2: One week removed from the Brewers' celebration of all celebrations.
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Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 5: Packers playing on Sunday afternoon, 325 kick in Foxborough against
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Speaker 5: the Patriots. We'll be talking to Wayne Larrabee about that
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Speaker 5: in about 20 minutes. We have a Badgers first up though,
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Speaker 5: against Rutgers in a salute to service game. Always a
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Speaker 5: good moment. And in addition to watching the new true
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Speaker 5: freshman quarterback, which I've been advocating for that for a while.
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Speaker 5: If you're the Badgers, get a freshman in there and
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Speaker 5: let him play for a while until he's ready to
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Speaker 5: jump to the NFL.
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Speaker 2: Let him rip a little bit. See, we'll see what
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Speaker 2: you got.
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Speaker 3: The last one drew that they gave a real extended
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Speaker 3: runway to was a young man that came in after
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Speaker 3: Tanner Mordecai, a Braden lock. Now didn't work out, but
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Speaker 3: in his first two game, his first game down in
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Speaker 3: Illinois had a huge game through for 240 yards or so.
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Speaker 2: And you're like, sweet. That'll work.
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Speaker 3: Let them roll a little bit. So get them, get
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Speaker 3: them a soft landing spot. Again, worst place to make
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Speaker 3: your first start probably would have been Kinnick stadium. Maybe
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Speaker 3: your best place to start your first game.
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Speaker 2: At home against Rutgers. At home, yeah. That might be
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Speaker 2: the perfect way to be able to launch in, hopefully.
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Speaker 2: Forecast good for tomorrow? Decent? I think it's going to
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Speaker 2: be nice. A little chilly, right? November forecast.
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Speaker 3: You got to have a little bit of a chill
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Speaker 3: in the air. But for the folks that are going
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Speaker 3: to be out at Camp Randall, I think the biggest thing, frankly,
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Speaker 3: always is, is going to stay dry.
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Speaker 2: That's the heat. And it should.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: You know, it should be mid to high 40s. Should
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Speaker 2: be some sun. Depends.
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Speaker 3: I won't be there long with a 315 kick. But
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Speaker 3: no rain is always the best thing. So it's November football, baby.
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Speaker 3: It's going to feel like it. It's going to be
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Speaker 3: a good time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Maybe.
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Speaker 3: And you'll see a lot of these on sidelines and
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Speaker 3: on fields tonight for high school football.
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Speaker 2: Good time for the.
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Speaker 3: the head gear over, you know, that, that full on
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Speaker 3: top that used to like be the old ski mask
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Speaker 3: that kids are now where that dudes wear it.
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Speaker 2: When it's 90 degrees because they think it looks cool.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I don't think it looks all that cool. A lot
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Speaker 2: of them in the stands coming up this week. Cause
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Speaker 2: you're going to need that.
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Speaker 6: Oh yeah.
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Speaker 3: Keep that all that heat stays up on that noggin
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Speaker 3: and then you're all good.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Form follows function except when you are.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: If you're playing it's it's form follows whatever's cool looking.
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Speaker 2: I remember asking one of our kids say, why are
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Speaker 2: you wearing that? It's 90 degrees.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Coach.
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Speaker 3: Swag don't come cheap. I can't argue with that. I
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Speaker 3: can't argue with that, I guess. I can't argue with
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Speaker 3: that logic. It looks good. Dripping with swag. There's a
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Speaker 3: lot of it. There's going to be a lot of
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Speaker 3: swag being showcased coming up this week. Drew, you mentioned
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Speaker 3: one week since the celebration. One week, probably what? Almost
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Speaker 3: to the hour. A couple hours earlier when Sal Frehlich
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Speaker 3: made his proclamation. Oh, yeah. That he was going to
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Speaker 3: drink 100,000 beers. People are doing the math on it,
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Speaker 3: how many he'd have to drink in a year or
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Speaker 3: 10 years. He said he had 20 people the next
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Speaker 3: day at breakfast offering him beer. He's not going to
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Speaker 3: be able to. But how long do you think it
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Speaker 3: would take the city of Milwaukee? How long did it
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Speaker 3: take the city of Milwaukee to drink 100,000 beers? Was
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Speaker 3: there 100,000 beers drank that day? Because I'm seeing all
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Speaker 3: these numbers from Ferg's and all these exciting... It felt
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Speaker 3: like more Miller Lights than the 84,000 that we were
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Speaker 3: being told about.
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Speaker 2: Well, I don't think drinking 100,000 beers is hard for
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Speaker 2: a crowd at the parade, Fred. Right, but I'm saying
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Speaker 2: what is that?
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Speaker 5: At the Brewers Rally at the Summerfest Grounds, they estimated
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Speaker 5: 250,000 beers sold.
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Speaker 3: So in an hour, we could have cleaned that out.
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Speaker 3: So we just need to crowdsource it. We can help
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Speaker 3: Sal out with that. He's not going to be able to,
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Speaker 3: but I do think we just have one day where
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Speaker 3: we all drink a beer. We could have all toasted
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Speaker 3: it right there. Everyone slammed 100,000 down at one moment.
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Speaker 3: That would be a cool community moment.
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Speaker 6: And just to keep celebrating something together. We can't do
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Speaker 6: a whole parade again, obviously, but if everyone said... You know,
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Speaker 6: we're all going to drink the a hundred thousand beers.
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Speaker 2: At 9 AM. Everyone crack at the same time or
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Speaker 2: maybe not 9 AM. I would have thought maybe three
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Speaker 2: in the afternoon. Well, no, if we want to get
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Speaker 2: started early and get done early. Okay, fine. Maybe not
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Speaker 2: nine in the morning, but okay. 5 PM. Everyone's out
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Speaker 2: of work. How's that? 5 PM. That was a lot.
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Speaker 2: It's five o'clock somewhere is the statement for a reason.
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Speaker 6: We can all crack it at the same time and, and, and,
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Speaker 6: We'll all drink at the same time, and then we'll
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Speaker 6: be good.
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Speaker 2: Pick a day. January 26th, Euchre's birthday. We'll do the toast.
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 6: January 26th is toast day. 5 p.m. on Euchre's birthday,
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Speaker 6: January 26th. Everyone get a beer at 5 p.m. and
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Speaker 6: crack it open.
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Speaker 2: Tremendous. That deserves. Unless you're driving. Don't do it in
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Speaker 2: the car. Unless you're driving.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: But that'd be a day to rally around. That is
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Speaker 5: a perfect one to be able to celebrate. Or the
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Speaker 5: anniversary of the Brewers winning the World Series.
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Speaker 2: How about both? They, they both play. They both play.
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Speaker 2: They both play. I mean, it's, there's never a bad
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Speaker 2: reason to celebrate. Let's hear from you out there.
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Speaker 5: If you're going to crack one that day, but just,
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Speaker 5: I think we could start our own and make it
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Speaker 5: a tradition. Could also do it on, uh, April 14th, four, one, four, uh,
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Speaker 5: That's always a good day.
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Speaker 3: That's always a Milwaukee day. I like your thought, though,
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Speaker 3: on Euchre's birthday. Honor Euchre.
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Speaker 2: I like the honoring Euchre.
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Speaker 3: It would be like the three-month celebration a couple of
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Speaker 3: days later on the 28th. That would be the celebration.
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Speaker 3: But now they can't do the on-deck event, right? If
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Speaker 3: they're in a lockout, they can't have players there. They
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Speaker 3: can't celebrate that way. So that's a difficult one to
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Speaker 3: be able to have. So that's why Euchre's birthday on
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Speaker 3: a Tuesday seems like a great day to be able
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Speaker 3: to cheers and crack one open. Brewers on deck has
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Speaker 3: been shelved anyway.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Definitely not. Nobody's having anything this year.
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Speaker 3: Now, is there a restriction on what can be sold from...
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Speaker 3: the team with their players and stuff like that?
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Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think they can still sell
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Speaker 2: player merch. But they have to take all the stuff
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Speaker 2: off the website, correct? I'm not sure what that.
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Speaker 3: They sent out that whole manifesto a week and a
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Speaker 3: half before the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: They won't slow down commerce, though, because Players Association, they
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Speaker 2: get a rake from that, so no one wants to stop.
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Speaker 3: That's a good point. Listen, we're going to shelve our business.
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Speaker 3: But we're not going to completely kill it. We're going
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Speaker 3: to just shut it down for a while, but we're
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Speaker 3: going to still let people buy a couple of different things.
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Speaker 2: I like that deal. The other thing that's interesting.
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Speaker 5: Is though spring training could be shortened this year or delayed,
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Speaker 5: the minor leagues are still fired up. If you're not
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Speaker 5: on the 40-man roster, you're still going about it as normal.
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Speaker 2: It's the big league. Oh, wow.
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Speaker 5: So the minor league camps will open. And they'll get probably,
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Speaker 5: you know, Murph will be down there coaching those guys.
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Speaker 5: So your whole AA and AAA will get a good run.
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Speaker 5: A lot of those guys, well, the guys who aren't
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Speaker 5: on the 40-man aren't subject to it.
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Speaker 3: Well, a lot of good young players for the Brewers
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Speaker 3: that are going to get some good hands-on work. That
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Speaker 3: would be a Jesus Made, a Blake Burke, Andrew Fisher,
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Speaker 3: a lot of young cats that you hope at some
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Speaker 3: point you're going to be playing with.
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Speaker 2: Well, that was what was so unique about this team
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Speaker 2: this year.
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Speaker 6: You're talking about the best team in baseball basically all year,
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Speaker 6: and we were talking about the minor leaguers, the prospects
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Speaker 6: as much, especially the ones that came up, as much
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Speaker 6: as the actual team on the field. It was the
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Speaker 6: most unique thing most of the year, and it was
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Speaker 6: a great thing because those guys helped them win the
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Speaker 6: World Series, a couple of them, and more hopefully are
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Speaker 6: coming to help this thing become a dynasty, so Yeah,
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Speaker 6: that would be pretty good. I know fans would be interested.
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Speaker 6: Fans will take any morsel of anything Brewers right now.
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Speaker 6: You asked if they were popping up in the wild,
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Speaker 6: the victory tour. There was, by the way, an Instagram
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Speaker 6: post by Trevor McGill, and I think I saw it
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Speaker 6: on Reddit, that he popped up at a deli in Waukesha.
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Speaker 2: Looks like the Rochester deli. He went in there to
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Speaker 2: have a sandwich. So there you go.
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Speaker 5: I mean, there's some hot rod place to in Pewaukee
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Speaker 5: sightings in the wild.
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Speaker 2: There you go.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: He's been around.
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Speaker 6: I never been to the Rochester deli, but I mean,
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Speaker 6: I will go and get a sandwich there.
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Speaker 2: Apparently they're good.
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Speaker 4: Ruben.
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Speaker 1: Apparently.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: It's a good place to hang out. He popped up.
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Speaker 6: So anytime anyone spots a brewer in the wild and
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Speaker 6: the next, you know, it's going to keep happening and
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Speaker 6: it's going to keep being a big deal, which is exciting.
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Speaker 4: It is.
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Speaker 2: There'll be a buzz. There'll be a buzz.
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Speaker 6: One.
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Speaker 3: Austin Simmons, quarterback at Mizzou. He re-signed today, Drew.
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Speaker 6: Isn't that funny to say?
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Speaker 2: He re-signed?
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Speaker 3: Re-signed.
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Speaker 2: Re-signed. Right. For the 2027 season.
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Speaker 3: Just wanted to let everybody know one of the breakout
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Speaker 3: stars of college football has re-signed with the Tigers. However,
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Speaker 3: does not guarantee that he'll return with his final year
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Speaker 3: of college eligibility. Right now, he's the fifth-rated quarterback.
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Speaker 2: We're going into November... He turns 21 on Sunday.
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Speaker 3: The former Ole Miss transfer has been a stud, throwing
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Speaker 3: 16 touchdowns, two picks. The lefty is fourth in the
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Speaker 3: SEC in passing. Got his Tigers to a 6-2 record,
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Speaker 3: 18th in the college football playoff. But by resigning early,
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Speaker 3: Simmons gives Missouri a chance to build the momentum from
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Speaker 3: this season heading into 2027 as a majority of Missouri's
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Speaker 3: top skill players have additional eligibility. This is like a
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Speaker 3: signing day that we're doing in the middle of college
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Speaker 3: football season.
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Speaker 2: So weird. I mean, it really is. Resigns. We have
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Speaker 2: super cool graphics for quarterbacks that are on the team.
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Speaker 2: Let you know. No, don't worry guys. I'm not going
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Speaker 2: to leave in a month and a half.
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Speaker 6: But the one thing we still is as weird as
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Speaker 6: this is the one thing we still don't know is
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Speaker 6: how much they're making.
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Speaker 3: Right?
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Speaker 1: Billy.
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Speaker 2: We still don't know. You're right. We still don't know
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Speaker 2: how he's making. We don't know what they're making and
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Speaker 2: we got to know at some point you think we would.
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Speaker 3: The other nominees that were up there here today, and
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Speaker 3: I don't know that there's a lot of great ones
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Speaker 3: in the case, but it is a week away, a
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Speaker 3: week since. I don't know that it ever is going
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Speaker 3: to go bad saying the Milwaukee Brewers are superheroes of
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Speaker 3: the day for one week ago being able to celebrate
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Speaker 3: and throw the best party the city may have ever
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Speaker 3: seen in the World Series Championship Parade. I don't know
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Speaker 3: anybody's going to argue with that naming of a superhero
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Speaker 3: of the day. You know I like giving mine. I'd
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Speaker 3: always love to give one to Trevor Lawrence. But 16-26
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Speaker 3: and a touchdown last night, Drew. Wasn't great. The suspense
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Speaker 3: was gone before halftime. Was that the least entertaining football
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Speaker 3: game we will watch all year?
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Speaker 6: I was like, Laura, you can change this if you want.
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Speaker 6: Because the tough thing is, you can change it. She's like,
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Speaker 6: don't you need to? I'm like, I've seen all there
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Speaker 6: is to see. It's the end of the third quarter
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Speaker 6: of this game. There's nothing left to see in this game.
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Speaker 3: The thing is, you look at the numbers and the
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Speaker 3: rating that that'll pull, it'll be beat probably.
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Speaker 2: Most of the NBA finals games from this past year.
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Speaker 2: That is wild. That's the thing.
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Speaker 3: It's a cat from Yukon starting a quarterback for the
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Speaker 3: home team that the home fans, I think, were booing
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Speaker 3: their offense when the game started.
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Speaker 2: Didn't stop booing them throughout.
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Speaker 3: And I think the only boo that got louder was
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Speaker 3: Al Michaels in the third and fourth quarter booing the game.
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Speaker 3: He was very much done with the game once Al
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Speaker 3: Michaels decided to tell you the 10-minute story of how
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Speaker 3: the Jaguars got their name.
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Speaker 2: That's all we had last night, I guess.
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Speaker 3: Guys, I got time. I got a bedtime story for you.
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Speaker 3: That's how he front-sold it. I have a bedtime story.
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Speaker 3: He knocked quite a few out last night in that
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Speaker 3: 33-10 decision.
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Speaker 6: There was an anti-hero last night. New Mexico State women's game.
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Speaker 6: She put a blip in her own basket in the
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Speaker 6: final 20 seconds, trilling by one point.
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Speaker 2: That's not good.
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Speaker 6: I have not looked to see if they ended up
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Speaker 6: losing the game, but that's an anti-hero right there.
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Speaker 4: Hold on.
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Speaker 1: What?
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Speaker 2: Yes. Let me see here. I'm trying to get the
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Speaker 2: name here. I just see the video.
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Speaker 3: She scored against her team to give the opponent the lead.
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Speaker 6: So I guess you're a hero no matter who you are.
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Speaker 6: Depending on who you are, what side of it it
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Speaker 6: is on. Trying to get the rest of the story here.
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Speaker 6: But yes, I mean, that's pretty bad. Well, they survived.
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Speaker 6: They won on a last second game winner. I'm watching
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Speaker 6: right here. That's an impressive finish there for New Mexico State.
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Speaker 2: It absolved her, I guess. I wonder if it was
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Speaker 2: the same player. That would be pretty interesting. Man, isn't
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Speaker 2: that a wild one? Yes, it was Emma Cristiano. There
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Speaker 2: you go. Emma Cristiano and Lady Demons Jr. Karma win. Well, Karma.
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Speaker 2: I'm writing names. So there's an anti-hero for you.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the real superheroes. And they won't score in their
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Speaker 3: own basket. They are going to make your home feel
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Speaker 6: Boss Dobler on YouTube. Hell yes, minor league baseball for
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Speaker 6: the win. I'm all set for Nashville at Gwinnett. It's
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Speaker 6: going to be a great season for the Sounds next year.
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Speaker 6: He's a big, big minor league guy for the Brewers,
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Speaker 6: big Sounds guy. He loves watching those guys down there.
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Speaker 6: I think he lives close to Georgia, I want to say, right?
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Speaker 2: So, all right, Dobbler, I like that. Good to see.
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Speaker 5: It was funny because someone told me, oh, it was yesterday,
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Speaker 5: here at the Megaplex, one of our coworkers from over
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Speaker 5: in Thailand, the sales department, was saying that her feed
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Speaker 5: is all full of Brewers' wives and girlfriends.
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Speaker 6: Really?
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Speaker 4: Interesting.
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Speaker 5: I've been consuming all the parade content, and they've been
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Speaker 5: putting out a lot of it, so I've been thrown
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Speaker 5: the same thing.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 5: I'm not a WAGS guy, but it's all front and center.
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Speaker 3: And they probably had better perspectives and better viewpoints than
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Speaker 3: any of us did.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. There's some good shots from up on
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Speaker 2: those buses, I got to assume. I did see while
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Speaker 2: Rock and some others posted the stuff where they mustered
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Speaker 2: at the Baird Center and where they got the parade
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Speaker 2: was staged inside the Baird Center.
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Speaker 3: I got to say, I don't know that we talked
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Speaker 3: enough about how cool it was that Sophia was in
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Speaker 3: Euchre's convertible.
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Speaker 2: Pretty cool.
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Speaker 3: Drew is somebody that had been there for so many
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Speaker 3: different games. And I know that was his latest that
15:20
Speaker 3: he had. He had a number of different good rides
15:23
Speaker 3: that rode in there. But seeing that thing parked inside
15:26
Speaker 3: the dock and then seeing that ride around on the
15:30
Speaker 3: victory parade.
15:31
Speaker 2: That had to have been a cool moment. That was
15:32
Speaker 2: pretty cool. No question.
15:34
Speaker 3: Because he had a very unique relationship, it felt like,
15:38
Speaker 3: as well as Sophia. Yuki had a good relationship with
15:41
Speaker 3: seemingly everybody.
15:42
Speaker 2: Yeah. But Sophia, that was a very, very cool and
15:45
Speaker 2: a special one to be able to see. I loved that. Yep,
15:47
Speaker 2: for sure.
15:48
Speaker 5: And yeah, Yuki had that way about him. But walking by...
15:52
Speaker 5: And seeing that vet there, you know, oh, the Uke's here.
15:55
Speaker 4: All right. There we go.
15:55
Speaker 2: It's going to be a special day. It's going to
15:56
Speaker 2: be a fun day to be able to be in here.
15:58
Speaker 2: Especially towards the end when he wasn't doing every game.
16:00
Speaker 3: You see the car, you're like, all right. All is
16:02
Speaker 3: right with the universe. Everything's good here today. No spot on.
16:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, fantastic.
16:06
Speaker 5: And he'd get there early and do his swimming workout
16:08
Speaker 5: and stuff, and he's always going to have a locker
16:10
Speaker 5: in that clubhouse.
16:11
Speaker 2: It's amazing. Those swimming workouts are stuff of legend. Legendary.
16:15
Speaker 2: Legendary stuff. Legendary. Yeah, no question. All right, keep them coming.
16:19
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16:22
Speaker 5: To the NicoletLaw.com talk and text line. There's a big
16:25
Speaker 5: NBA game tonight, I guess, if you're into big NBA
16:27
Speaker 5: games in November.
16:28
Speaker 2: NBA Cup stuff? Okay, come on, Drew. Sixers trying to
16:31
Speaker 2: go to 9-1 playing the Cavs. Great start for the Sixers, yeah.
16:34
Speaker 2: In Cleveland, okay. Off to an incredible start there. Yeah,
16:37
Speaker 2: I mean, people expected it, but they're doing it. They are.
16:39
Speaker 5: It hasn't been a, oh, we've got to figure this
16:41
Speaker 5: out and get this all-star team ironed out and stuff.
16:44
Speaker 2: Well, it's working out okay.
16:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Tyrese Maxey's just been good. He's been really,
16:48
Speaker 3: really good leading the charge. Anytime LeBron goes back to Cleveland,
16:52
Speaker 3: I'll sign up to watch. I'm always in for that deal.
16:54
Speaker 3: ESPN's all over that game. And then, obviously, we have
16:57
Speaker 3: a lot of high school playoff games here, Billy. A
16:59
Speaker 3: lot of good ones coming up here tonight. Tonight is
17:01
Speaker 3: like the night. Hopes will be dashed.
17:04
Speaker 5: And dreams will be fulfilled, and it's going to be
17:07
Speaker 5: both agony of victory and the thrill of victory and
17:10
Speaker 5: the agony of defeat will be on display tonight.
17:12
Speaker 3: Yes, and this is also when everybody's been able to
17:14
Speaker 3: prepare without the backdrop of the Brewers. Could you imagine
17:18
Speaker 3: the consternation as a high school football coach last week
17:22
Speaker 3: when that little Friday parade was going on and all
17:24
Speaker 3: the kids were off school?
17:25
Speaker 4: Oh, man.
17:26
Speaker 3: I mean, you want to know everybody's dialed in, let
17:30
Speaker 3: alone off their feet, not hanging out in swarms of people.
17:35
Speaker 3: I made a couple of jokes and texted a couple
17:36
Speaker 3: of my friends that are coaching. How many of your
17:38
Speaker 3: guys do you think are out at the parade? Because
17:40
Speaker 3: I don't even want to guess the percentage, but probably
17:43
Speaker 3: 70 plus.
17:44
Speaker 2: It's time for you guys to not be selfish and
17:46
Speaker 2: be selfless. Remember what's most important. What's most important here?
17:49
Speaker 2: This team. Yeah, this team. Be ready to go for
17:51
Speaker 2: this team. Sorry, coach.
17:53
Speaker 6: I think me being at this parade is actually a
17:55
Speaker 6: bigger deal in my life right now. I don't think
17:57
Speaker 6: I'm going to the NFL. Oh, with that attitude. It's
18:00
Speaker 6: a very high school football coach thing. It's like this
18:03
Speaker 6: is the most important thing right now in your life.
18:05
Speaker 6: Sit at home and prepare.
18:07
Speaker 2: Hudson at West DePere. That might attract some Packers players. Dude,
18:11
Speaker 2: that's going to be a good one. West DePere is
18:13
Speaker 2: a wagon and has been for a while. Same case
18:15
Speaker 2: at Muskego. Should be fun. They've played in the playoffs
18:18
Speaker 2: like three of the last four years, I think. Arrowhead, Sussex, Hamilton...
18:21
Speaker 2: Writes itself. The game in the area. And then Wanakee
18:24
Speaker 2: at Bayport. It's a travel day for Wanakee.
18:28
Speaker 3: I was going to say, Drew, that's got to be
18:30
Speaker 3: in the conversation. Hudson-Westapier, ridiculous track.
18:34
Speaker 2: Bayport-Wanakee, ridiculous track.
18:36
Speaker 3: And if Arrowhead gets through against Hamilton, which is no
18:39
Speaker 3: small task, Hamilton is legit. A couple of guys going
18:43
Speaker 3: to the Badgers on that offensive line. You could have
18:46
Speaker 3: a rematch of the state title game from last year
18:48
Speaker 3: with Bayport and Arrowhead.
18:50
Speaker 2: Sorry, Billy.
18:50
Speaker 6: Wanakee to Bayport, two hours, 18 minutes. It's 218, or
18:55
Speaker 6: 145-mile jaunt. Yeah, not even close to the West of
18:57
Speaker 6: Pierre Hudson one. What about do Brookfield to New Richmond?
18:59
Speaker 2: I'll have to check that one out, yes.
19:01
Speaker 1: My goodness.
19:01
Speaker 5: Central's playing at New Richmond. They've been the road warriors
19:04
Speaker 5: this year. Grafton at Monona Grove, Pulaski at Notre Dame,
19:07
Speaker 5: and West Bend West at Union Grove.
19:10
Speaker 2: Ooh, that's a good one.
19:12
Speaker 5: West Bend West, a newcomer. In their last year of existence,
19:15
Speaker 5: before they become West Bend. Before it just becomes all
19:17
Speaker 5: West Bend?
19:17
Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
19:18
Speaker 3: Also, shout out, as you start seeing more and more
19:21
Speaker 3: folks being able to celebrate, you mentioned it, the Brookfield
19:26
Speaker 3: Central Lancers going up to New Richmond. Joel Ellis, former Badger,
19:30
Speaker 3: he was named the Packers High School Coach of the Week.
19:35
Speaker 2: So awesome. All right, Armin, how far is Brookfield to
19:38
Speaker 2: New Richmond? That's the longest. Four hours, 26 minutes, and
19:41
Speaker 2: 300 miles. Wow. For some reason, I didn't think it
19:45
Speaker 2: was that long, but it is, obviously. That's a two-night
19:47
Speaker 2: hotel stay.
19:48
Speaker 3: Because that's, I mean, that's... is the furthest corner that
19:51
Speaker 3: you're going to get to. That's end-to-end.
19:55
Speaker 2: 300 miles. Eisenhower Pewaukee, Catholic Memorial at Whitefish Bay. Those
19:59
Speaker 2: aren't long jaunts. Plymouth at Port Washington, not a long jaunt.
20:02
Speaker 3: Eisenhower Pewaukee used to be a conference game. Fox Valley
20:04
Speaker 3: Lutheran at La Crosse Logan, that's across the state. Well,
20:06
Speaker 3: the bus driver has to stop for gas.
20:08
Speaker 2: I mean, that is. Yeah.
20:10
Speaker 3: I mean, think about that. That's never happened, right? Catholic Memorial,
20:14
Speaker 3: Whitefish Bay, that's going to be a good game. Catholic
20:16
Speaker 3: Memorial just got by New Berlin West a week ago.
20:19
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20:20
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21:47
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22:04
Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Wayne.
22:06
Speaker 4: Good afternoon, guys. How you doing?
22:07
Speaker 2: We are phenomenal. How are you doing? Is this a
22:11
Speaker 2: homecoming game for you? That's true, yes. Is this going east,
22:14
Speaker 2: going to Massachusetts, your home state?
22:17
Speaker 4: No. You know, I've been away so long, it's not really–
22:20
Speaker 4: nobody remembers I was even there.
22:23
Speaker 5: You're not going to drive by the old neighborhood or
22:25
Speaker 5: your old high school or something?
22:26
Speaker 2: Come on.
22:27
Speaker 4: No, I grew up in the western part of the state.
22:29
Speaker 4: That's about two hours from Boston. So, no, there won't
22:33
Speaker 4: be any homecoming like that.
22:35
Speaker 3: I just thought Emerson would have some kind of– celebration
22:38
Speaker 3: for the distinguished alumni coming back. This is an interesting game, Wayne,
22:42
Speaker 3: where you got two teams that are in the midst of.
22:47
Speaker 2: Years and months where they kind of save their seasons.
22:51
Speaker 3: But the Patriots start was very frustrating and Drake may
22:55
Speaker 3: couldn't stop throwing interceptions.
22:57
Speaker 2: We already know what happened in the first three.
22:59
Speaker 3: Weeks for the Packers, but both had big time Octobers
23:03
Speaker 3: and feels like a collision course that they're on here
23:05
Speaker 3: for the three 25 kick.
23:07
Speaker 4: Yeah, Billy, I mean, they seem to be very similar teams,
23:10
Speaker 4: except that New England offensively is better balanced. And Drake
23:15
Speaker 4: May is playing terrific football since the fourth week of
23:18
Speaker 4: the season, as is Jordan Love. And these are two
23:21
Speaker 4: of the best downfield passers in the game today. And
23:24
Speaker 4: I'll submit to you, Drake May, that's impressive because he
23:27
Speaker 4: doesn't have a whole lot to throw to downfield. Not
23:30
Speaker 4: guys you've heard about anyway. You know, A.J. Brown's not
23:33
Speaker 4: going to play this week. Mack Hollins may be back.
23:37
Speaker 4: I wouldn't call him a tremendously well-known deep threat. But nonetheless,
23:43
Speaker 4: he's a very good receiver. And if he gets back
23:46
Speaker 4: off IR this week, that'll help. But, you know, Drake
23:49
Speaker 4: Mays done a heck of a job with the cast
23:52
Speaker 4: he has around him. And they've kind of cobbled a
23:55
Speaker 4: good offense together.
23:56
Speaker 2: They've also turned it over a fair amount, Wayne.
23:59
Speaker 5: And that's something the Packers have been good at this
24:01
Speaker 5: year is taking the ball away after not doing it
24:03
Speaker 5: very often last year.
24:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, and 15 giveaways for the Patriots this year. But
24:08
Speaker 4: as Billy pointed out, a lot of them came in
24:10
Speaker 4: the first three weeks of the season. They've been very
24:13
Speaker 4: solid in the last four games. You know, they're very
24:15
Speaker 4: similar to the Packers. Both teams start one and two.
24:18
Speaker 4: Both teams have won four of their last five.
24:21
Speaker 3: And you're spot on when we say it way in
24:22
Speaker 3: a number of different times, that turnovers, a lot of
24:25
Speaker 3: it is luck. You can find yourself into fortunate situations
24:29
Speaker 3: where they've come. The Packers have also just forced the
24:31
Speaker 3: hand a lot, and we were talking about it a
24:33
Speaker 3: little earlier. We're seeing so many teams, and last week
24:37
Speaker 3: being able to watch the whole league, you noticed that
24:39
Speaker 3: it's not just Jonathan Gannon and the Packers. These six
24:42
Speaker 3: guys walked up on the line of scrimmage, sometimes seven
24:45
Speaker 3: guys mugged up on the line of scrimmage. It's forcing
24:48
Speaker 3: quarterbacks to make really quick, instinctual decisions. And I wonder
24:53
Speaker 3: if the Packers are able to force May into a
24:55
Speaker 3: couple of mistakes here because he's a really, really good scrambler.
24:58
Speaker 3: You heat him up, that might be a way to
25:00
Speaker 3: counteract his ability to get him out of the pocket.
25:02
Speaker 4: Chicago tried to do that, Billy, and really didn't have
25:05
Speaker 4: a whole lot of success doing it a couple of
25:07
Speaker 4: weeks ago. But the fact is, the thing that's impressive
25:11
Speaker 4: about Drake May, guys, is how he's able to buy
25:14
Speaker 4: time with his legs, and he's very accurate on the
25:17
Speaker 4: move outside the pocket. So, yeah, you can heat him up.
25:20
Speaker 4: But he's also a big guy. I mean, he's what, 6'5, 225?
25:24
Speaker 4: I've seen him shake off a lot of would-be sacks
25:27
Speaker 4: and turn those plays into winning plays downfield in the
25:31
Speaker 4: passing game. This is going to be a tough guy
25:33
Speaker 4: to corral, but I think the number one thing the
25:35
Speaker 4: Packers have to do, make sure you contain him.
25:38
Speaker 3: The next-gen stat, Wayne, is that he's apparently scrambled to
25:41
Speaker 3: run 26 times. Pick up 13 first downs and a touchdown.
25:46
Speaker 3: I mean, those are really effective runs. And, I mean,
25:49
Speaker 3: you know, those are just backbreakers for a defense, especially
25:51
Speaker 3: when you feel like you're about to be getting off
25:53
Speaker 3: the field.
25:54
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt about it. And he leads the league
25:56
Speaker 4: in scramble yardage. So, you know, this is a guy
26:00
Speaker 4: who presents a lot of problems. Very impressed with him, Billy.
26:03
Speaker 4: I mean, he's got the big arm. I think he's
26:05
Speaker 4: very accurate. He's playing at an extremely high level as
26:09
Speaker 4: he was last year now. They've come through a bit
26:12
Speaker 4: of a gauntlet in their schedule. This is going to
26:14
Speaker 4: be an interesting ballgame in Foxborough, where the Packers, by
26:17
Speaker 4: the way, haven't won since 2002.
26:19
Speaker 5: The Patriots came back to beat the fight in Jeff
26:24
Speaker 5: Halfleys at Hard Rock Stadium. What did you glean from
26:27
Speaker 5: the tape there, Wayne? What jumped out at you the
26:30
Speaker 5: most from that comeback win that they had?
26:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, the Patriots, once Hunter Henry, their starting
26:35
Speaker 4: tight end, went down with a foot injury in the
26:37
Speaker 4: first half. They seem to have very little, especially in
26:40
Speaker 4: the passing game. But this is where May was really outstanding,
26:44
Speaker 4: I thought, in the second half. It didn't start well
26:46
Speaker 4: in the early third quarter, but by midway through the
26:48
Speaker 4: third quarter, he began to heat up. They began to
26:51
Speaker 4: get a handle on the pass rush, and they started
26:53
Speaker 4: making plays downfield with guys like DeMario, Pop, Douglas, Kyle Williams,
27:02
Speaker 4: a guy by the name of Efton Chisholm. I mean,
27:07
Speaker 4: who are these guys? Have you seen them anywhere but
27:09
Speaker 4: on the side of a milk carton?
27:10
Speaker 2: No.
27:11
Speaker 4: I mean, you're wondering about that, but they make plays,
27:13
Speaker 4: and they're very good players, and he makes them good.
27:16
Speaker 4: And that's the sign of a really good quarterback. I mean,
27:19
Speaker 4: Brett Favre made millions of dollars for a lot of
27:22
Speaker 4: mediocre wide receivers over the course of his career.
27:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Drake May is a really tantalizing talent, right? Wayne,
27:30
Speaker 3: you mentioned he's so big and physical. He comes from
27:32
Speaker 3: a incredibly athletic family. His brother, Luke may hit one
27:36
Speaker 3: of the biggest shots in North Carolina basketball history, but
27:40
Speaker 3: four brothers, he's the youngest one and competitive as hell.
27:43
Speaker 2: That kind of like intangible thing.
27:45
Speaker 3: You don't always hear as much anymore about, but you
27:48
Speaker 3: can see it in the kind of playground style. He
27:51
Speaker 3: almost thrives in that ball to Williams this past weekend.
27:54
Speaker 3: That's a casual step up in the pocket, 45 yard
27:58
Speaker 3: bomb with the flick of a wrist.
27:59
Speaker 2: Not everybody can make that throw.
28:02
Speaker 4: No, you're exactly right. Williams has great speed. DeMario Douglas,
28:06
Speaker 4: I was kidding about their receivers. Douglas is an excellent
28:09
Speaker 4: slot receiver, guys. Very quick. He uncovered on a big
28:12
Speaker 4: play last week in Miami. And they did all of
28:15
Speaker 4: this in a torrential rain in the second half of
28:17
Speaker 4: that ballgame. And they had to move the ball through
28:19
Speaker 4: the air downfield. And they did it without Hunter Henry,
28:23
Speaker 4: who's their leading receiver. So this is an interesting football team.
28:27
Speaker 4: they've been banged up with injuries, especially on the offensive line,
28:31
Speaker 4: as have the Packers. So these two teams mirror one another.
28:35
Speaker 4: These two quarterbacks are going to be fun to watch,
28:37
Speaker 4: especially if we get a clear good day in New England.
28:41
Speaker 5: The Patriots game, the Patriots are going to face, they're
28:45
Speaker 5: going to Munich after this, right, Billy?
28:47
Speaker 2: Face the Lions.
28:48
Speaker 5: They just came off of two road games, home against Packers,
28:51
Speaker 5: and then going to Munich. That's not an easy stretch
28:52
Speaker 5: for them.
28:53
Speaker 1: No.
28:54
Speaker 5: But the Packers now, they're looking after Sunday, they've got
28:58
Speaker 5: the Vikings, Rams, Saints, and Bills. So we were talking
29:01
Speaker 5: about the stretch for the Packers being pretty pivotal for
29:04
Speaker 5: both teams. Is that just this time of year, Wayne,
29:07
Speaker 5: or is this like a four-game stretch where you're going
29:09
Speaker 5: to find out what you're made of?
29:11
Speaker 4: Yeah, it really is for the Packers. It's just the
29:13
Speaker 4: way the schedule broke through. I mean, the Patriots had
29:16
Speaker 4: a lot of tough teams early on in the season,
29:19
Speaker 4: as did the Rams and the Seahawks and And you
29:22
Speaker 4: find that those teams have some blemishes, obviously, on their records.
29:26
Speaker 4: But for the Packers, I think this is a real
29:29
Speaker 4: crucial stretch. If they can win two of these next
29:32
Speaker 4: three games, and that would take them through Thanksgiving, and
29:35
Speaker 4: get to a what seven and four record with, you know,
29:39
Speaker 4: six games to go, they would be in a position
29:42
Speaker 4: to make a playoff run, but this is going to
29:44
Speaker 4: be easier said than done starting this weekend in new England, where,
29:47
Speaker 4: as I mentioned, they haven't won in two decades.
29:51
Speaker 3: It's tough to be counting losses already this early, Wayne,
29:54
Speaker 3: but it does feel like it's going to be seven
29:56
Speaker 3: teams for five spots, the East and South. Somebody is
29:59
Speaker 3: going to win those divisions. And then the everybody, but
30:03
Speaker 3: Arizona in the West and everybody in the NFC North
30:06
Speaker 3: is right in it. Watching Chicago on Monday night. I
30:09
Speaker 3: got to say. That was a tough hate watch, Wayne.
30:13
Speaker 3: I was excited to be able to watch and see
30:15
Speaker 3: Seattle roll the Bears and make that offense look a
30:20
Speaker 3: little more pedestrian. We haven't seen anybody dice up that
30:23
Speaker 3: McDonald offense other than McVay than Caleb Ben Johnson and
30:29
Speaker 3: the Bears. That seems like a real outfit that the
30:31
Speaker 3: Packers are going to have to be competing with here
30:33
Speaker 3: at the end of the day.
30:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you're right, Billy. We won't have to
30:37
Speaker 4: worry about them until Christmas Day, but that's going to
30:40
Speaker 4: be an interesting ball game down the road, depending on
30:43
Speaker 4: where these two teams are by then. I mean, it
30:45
Speaker 4: could be drastically different for both teams by then. Bears
30:49
Speaker 4: were so impressive in that Seattle game because that Mike
30:52
Speaker 4: McDonald defense is for real now. They've got some problems offensively,
30:56
Speaker 4: do the Seahawks, and Sam Darnold has kind of reverted
30:59
Speaker 4: a little bit. He's regressed from his last two seasons.
31:03
Speaker 4: But nonetheless, that defense is for real. Caleb Williams and
31:07
Speaker 4: the Bears went into Seattle, and they had their way.
31:11
Speaker 4: Dare I say, they're the best team in the division
31:13
Speaker 4: right now, and the other team that's playing really good
31:15
Speaker 4: football right now are the Detroit Lions.
31:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, they might be one of the best teams in
31:19
Speaker 3: the NFC. Right now, it feels like they might be
31:22
Speaker 3: playing some of that best ball. Wayne, you mentioned who
31:25
Speaker 3: you are and what these teams are. How different have
31:28
Speaker 3: the Packers been, or have they not really missed as
31:31
Speaker 3: much of a beat without their two inside linebackers. Feels
31:34
Speaker 3: like McDuffie and Hopper have filled in exceptionally well, better
31:37
Speaker 3: than I would have anticipated when you lose Franklin and
31:40
Speaker 3: Cooper in less than three weeks.
31:42
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think the key there is Hopper. All
31:46
Speaker 4: of us knew he had athletic ability, and we saw
31:49
Speaker 4: it on special teams coverage. There's no doubt about that.
31:52
Speaker 4: But you wondered if he was in there at linebacker,
31:54
Speaker 4: could he make the plays? Could he cover? Could he
31:56
Speaker 4: rush the passer? Could he make things happen? and he's
32:00
Speaker 4: done all of that. He did all of that against Carolina,
32:02
Speaker 4: and I just think that's the big key right there. Now, McDuffie,
32:06
Speaker 4: we know about him, and he went in for Zaire Franklin.
32:09
Speaker 4: He's running the defense. He's got the communication dot on
32:11
Speaker 4: the helmet. That is no surprise, but I think the
32:14
Speaker 4: Hopper contribution is a bit of a surprise. We all
32:17
Speaker 4: knew he had ability, but he's not edgering Cooper. However,
32:21
Speaker 4: he stepped up and filled the void so far.
32:24
Speaker 2: Another guy who stepped up, Wayne, Brenton Cox. Big time.
32:27
Speaker 2: He's been playing pretty well.
32:30
Speaker 4: In the last month, Drew, he's among the league leaders
32:33
Speaker 4: in quarterback pressures. Brenton Cox has just been outstanding. You know,
32:37
Speaker 4: when you look at him and deny Dennis Sutton and
32:40
Speaker 4: now Hopper, you've got some playmakers in the front seven
32:44
Speaker 4: of that defense, and you haven't even added Michael Parsons yet.
32:50
Speaker 2: Well, and that's the thing.
32:51
Speaker 3: I mean, Deny Dennis Sutton, Brenton Cox, and what they
32:53
Speaker 3: have in the back end, Brandon Cisse gets named Rookie
32:56
Speaker 3: of the Month defensively, Wayne. And we could see it
32:59
Speaker 3: early on in camp that he was going to be
33:02
Speaker 3: ready for the challenge. I don't know that I anticipated
33:04
Speaker 3: he would be this good and this consistent already eight
33:07
Speaker 3: games in.
33:09
Speaker 4: Well, and Evan Williams, the safety, has been named NFC
33:12
Speaker 4: Defensive Player of the Month. So, you know, hey, these
33:15
Speaker 4: guys have really stepped up. And furthermore, Jonathan Gannon the
33:18
Speaker 4: other day was saying that You know, if you look
33:20
Speaker 4: at Keyshawn Nixon and he gets a lot of gruff
33:23
Speaker 4: from the fans, but he's played at a starter's level.
33:25
Speaker 4: He has been solid. He's been very good this season
33:29
Speaker 4: on a consistent basis, which they needed him to be.
33:32
Speaker 4: So the secondary, I've got to tell you guys, the
33:35
Speaker 4: Packers secondary, we all knew the safeties were good, but
33:38
Speaker 4: the corners have been a little better than I think
33:39
Speaker 4: we expected. And that's been a big boon to this defense.
33:43
Speaker 4: And outside of the first couple of weeks now, this
33:45
Speaker 4: defense has settled in and played very good football.
33:48
Speaker 2: It'd be interesting to see how they go against the
33:50
Speaker 2: depleted receiver core. Yeah, no doubt about it.
33:53
Speaker 3: There's not a whole lot of guys there for the
33:55
Speaker 3: Patriots to be thrown to. One thing that the Patriots
33:58
Speaker 3: do really well, Wayne, stop the run.
34:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, they do, don't they? 92 yards a game.
34:03
Speaker 3: This is not going to be the week to maybe
34:05
Speaker 3: try to find a run game, although we desperately are
34:07
Speaker 3: trying to look for one and would love to be
34:09
Speaker 3: able to see if anybody's handing one out. What do
34:11
Speaker 3: you make of Josh Jacobs' return to the lineup? We
34:15
Speaker 3: did a, what are we not talking enough about? And
34:17
Speaker 3: a friend of ours said 21 carries for 39 yards
34:20
Speaker 3: against the Panthers, who are like the worst run defense
34:22
Speaker 3: in football. Do you see it being a Jacobs thing,
34:25
Speaker 3: an offensive line combination of the both?
34:27
Speaker 2: What have you noticed in his return so far?
34:28
Speaker 4: Well, it's football, so it's probably a combination of the both.
34:31
Speaker 4: We all want it to be one thing. It's never
34:33
Speaker 4: quite one thing. But I think for the most part,
34:35
Speaker 4: it's a line. You know, on the touchdown run he
34:39
Speaker 4: had against Carolina, that kind of jump cut he made
34:42
Speaker 4: to get into the end zone was an electric kind
34:45
Speaker 4: of move. Nobody's talking about that. But that tells you
34:47
Speaker 4: Josh Jacobs is fine. He's 100%. I think that offensive
34:52
Speaker 4: line is the issue. People have been clamoring for Goody
34:55
Speaker 4: to make a trade for a running back. Maybe he will.
34:57
Speaker 4: Maybe he won't. If he doesn't, it pretty much tells
35:00
Speaker 4: you what they think, that it's not a back problem.
35:03
Speaker 4: It's a line problem, and that's harder to solve. If
35:06
Speaker 4: the line is real good and all you needed was
35:09
Speaker 4: a running back, you can go out and get a
35:10
Speaker 4: running back. But when you've got to get a new
35:13
Speaker 4: offensive line or find some cohesion in the offensive line,
35:16
Speaker 4: put something together week to week. It's been a lot
35:19
Speaker 4: of combinations. Patriots are in the same boat. As the
35:22
Speaker 4: Packers in that regard, their line has performed much better
35:25
Speaker 4: than Green Bay's. But I really think the problem in
35:27
Speaker 4: the running game has more to do with the line
35:29
Speaker 4: than it does with the back.
35:31
Speaker 2: You think there'll be any changes on the line?
35:34
Speaker 4: We've been waiting. I can't wait to see the walkthrough
35:38
Speaker 4: tomorrow morning because that's when I'll know for sure. But
35:42
Speaker 4: you know what? It wouldn't surprise me. And this is
35:45
Speaker 4: just me talking off the top, all right? It wouldn't
35:48
Speaker 4: surprise me to see that they decide to go with, okay,
35:52
Speaker 4: Let's put Tomlinson back at left guard. Let's put Zeitler
35:54
Speaker 4: in a right guard and let's go. Let's see where
35:57
Speaker 4: we are with these two veteran, uh, guards. But as
36:00
Speaker 4: you know, there's a business aspect to football and, um,
36:04
Speaker 4: you know, I, I know they want to get big
36:06
Speaker 4: Aaron banks in there and get them going. Uh, didn't
36:08
Speaker 4: go so well last week. Maybe it will go better
36:11
Speaker 4: this week, a second week in there if they decide
36:13
Speaker 4: to go that route. But, um, you know, I think
36:16
Speaker 4: Tomlinson performed solidly at left guard. They moved them over
36:20
Speaker 4: to the right side. Um, You know, he admitted didn't
36:23
Speaker 4: go quite as well over there. But Zeitler is a
36:26
Speaker 4: right guard, has been his whole career. If he's ready
36:29
Speaker 4: to go, I think your best five might be Tomlinson,
36:32
Speaker 4: a left guard, Zeitler, a right tackle. In my humble opinion,
36:35
Speaker 4: I'm not the coach. I'm not the GM. So don't
36:38
Speaker 4: hold me to it.
36:40
Speaker 2: It's the one thing you haven't seen yet.
36:42
Speaker 3: We've seen how good or the lack thereof all of
36:45
Speaker 3: it's been before.
36:46
Speaker 2: Doesn't feel like it hurts to try.
36:49
Speaker 5: I just have to go back and watch old film
36:52
Speaker 5: back when Packers offensive linemen used to get to the
36:54
Speaker 5: second level and hit linebackers because it's been a while.
36:56
Speaker 2: Since I've seen that.
36:58
Speaker 5: They haven't gotten past the first group, the first wave.
37:02
Speaker 4: You know what, guys? Billy, you kind of remarked on it.
37:06
Speaker 4: New England's good against the run. Why are they good
37:08
Speaker 4: against the run? Well, their three interior defensive tackles are outstanding. Really,
37:15
Speaker 4: Milton Williams, the free agent from Philadelphia two years ago,
37:19
Speaker 4: Christian Barmore, high second round draft choice number of years ago.
37:22
Speaker 4: I was really impressed in the Miami game with Corey Durden,
37:26
Speaker 4: who I had never heard of. And apparently I talked
37:28
Speaker 4: to some friends in New England. He hadn't done anything
37:31
Speaker 4: till the Miami game, but my God, he looked like
37:33
Speaker 4: a Lee McNeil in that Miami game. He was dominant.
37:36
Speaker 4: And then the two inside linebackers, Christian Ellis, who began
37:40
Speaker 4: his career primarily as a special teams guy has developed
37:43
Speaker 4: into a very good run-stopping linebacker, and I think a
37:46
Speaker 4: complete linebacker. I saw him defend against the pass. He
37:49
Speaker 4: was effective on the blitz. And the other guy is
37:52
Speaker 4: Robert Spillane inside. They make a lot of plays, guys.
37:55
Speaker 4: This is a defense well-built from within the middle part
37:59
Speaker 4: of the defense to the second level. Very good.
38:01
Speaker 3: And Spillane is just a gamer. Everywhere he goes, he produces,
38:05
Speaker 3: and he's been on a number of different teams, Drew.
38:07
Speaker 3: And everywhere he goes... Just flies around and makes tackles.
38:10
Speaker 3: He is going to be a pest, no doubt about it.
38:12
Speaker 2: It's going to be fun.
38:12
Speaker 4: This is a defense, Billy, that doesn't have a great
38:15
Speaker 4: deal of star power to it, save for Christian Gonzalez,
38:19
Speaker 4: the cornerback, and he is a shutdown corner. But beyond that,
38:23
Speaker 4: the beauty of this defense, they play together. They're well coached.
38:27
Speaker 4: They're never out of position. this is going to be
38:30
Speaker 4: a tough one to crack. They're not going to give
38:32
Speaker 4: you anything.
38:33
Speaker 3: No, and you're going to have to be really patient.
38:35
Speaker 3: You're going to have to take what's there and take
38:37
Speaker 3: a lot of checkdowns. Some of the Packers haven't always
38:39
Speaker 3: been good at doing.
38:40
Speaker 2: That's true.
38:40
Speaker 4: They play their safeties deep. They play a lot of
38:43
Speaker 4: man coverage. I believe they're second in the league in
38:46
Speaker 4: terms of amount of time spent in man coverage defensively.
38:50
Speaker 4: I always like that with the matchups with Golden and
38:53
Speaker 4: Watson against tight man coverage. But again, what New England
38:56
Speaker 4: does a lot of is they keep at least one
38:58
Speaker 4: and mostly defensively two safeties deep to try to keep
39:01
Speaker 4: things in front.
39:02
Speaker 2: Wayne, have yourself a great weekend in New England.
39:05
Speaker 5: Enjoy a lobster roll and a Sam Adams in our honor,
39:07
Speaker 5: because that's what we would be doing.
39:08
Speaker 2: Oktoberfest season, right? They still got it out there?
39:10
Speaker 4: Oktoberfest. One of my favorites.
39:12
Speaker 2: Giddy up.
39:13
Speaker 4: Thanks, Wayne. Have a good weekend, guys. We'll talk to
39:15
Speaker 4: you Monday.
39:15
Speaker 2: You bet. We'll talk to you Monday.
39:16
Speaker 5: Wayne Leary, the voice of the Packers, brought to us
39:18
Speaker 5: by Miller Lite. Legendary moments start with a light. Sal
39:21
Speaker 5: Frelick's only got 95,500 more to go. Something like that,
39:24
Speaker 5: I was going to say. He's getting close. He's getting close.
39:30
Speaker 5: to us by Pottawatomie Sportsbook. We were there last night
39:32
Speaker 5: for the huddle, Thursday Night Huddle in the Annex. We'll
39:35
Speaker 5: be there again next Thursday. And by Wisconsin Concrete Coatings.
39:38
Speaker 5: Be back to wrap things up here in the huddle.
39:40
Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Time to close up shop for
39:49
Speaker 5: the week. Of course, there's not much rest for us.
39:52
Speaker 5: Billy will be helming the Badgers-Rutgers coverage tomorrow. You'll be
39:57
Speaker 5: in the booth at Camp Randall. You'll be hosting the
39:59
Speaker 5: postgame show.
40:01
Speaker 3: Roaming around on the field, too, trying to get some
40:03
Speaker 3: sights and sounds. Not necessarily just because Armin's girl, Brooke Fletcher,
40:08
Speaker 3: is down there because he is very excited about that.
40:10
Speaker 2: But I like going and hanging out with.
40:13
Speaker 3: Madison's own Jocko down on the sidelines.
40:15
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. He's a trip.
40:16
Speaker 3: Every once in a while, too. You know, you just
40:18
Speaker 3: get dapped up by the player after they score a touchdown.
40:20
Speaker 3: Because the first person they go and celebrate with, not
40:22
Speaker 3: the cheerleaders, not Bucky. It's generally Jocko.
40:24
Speaker 2: It's Jocko.
40:25
Speaker 1: Yeah.
40:25
Speaker 5: So you'll be doing that. And then Sunday, we've got,
40:27
Speaker 5: of course, Packers Patriots, Packers OT. Armin will be working.
40:31
Speaker 5: I got Big 12 Sports Saturday. We work seven days
40:34
Speaker 5: a week around here. Might not work a full day.
40:37
Speaker 5: We work seven days a week.
40:38
Speaker 3: I was going to say, it might not be a
40:39
Speaker 3: full day, but we work a lot.
40:41
Speaker 2: We work a lot.
40:41
Speaker 3: Holy cow, Big 12 Saturday. You guys got the slate
40:44
Speaker 3: this weekend on ABC.
40:46
Speaker 2: About that. I mean, the college football on ABC is unreal.
40:49
Speaker 2: Starts with the Holy War early on. Early, yeah. LSU, Bama.
40:53
Speaker 2: Hopefully they get up out of the way so you
40:55
Speaker 2: guys get the... No, no. We'll be out. Come on now.
40:58
Speaker 2: Let's get them out of there. Come on.
40:59
Speaker 5: We'll be on the app for the... Live on the
41:01
Speaker 5: app and then taped after the... But we get you
41:03
Speaker 5: after the game, right?
41:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. After the late night game, which is... Listen,
41:07
Speaker 2: for some of us coming back, that's our favorite game.
41:09
Speaker 5: Mario and Pat will be live from Foxborough and I'll
41:12
Speaker 5: be just sitting at the desk Doing occasional pot shots,
41:15
Speaker 5: and I'm just standing by in case the equipment goes down.
41:18
Speaker 2: I was going to ask somebody to fill in. Somebody's
41:20
Speaker 2: got to be the designated survivor. Pretty much. That's an
41:22
Speaker 2: important spot. That's pretty much it.
41:23
Speaker 6: It's going to be an amazing weekend of college football, though.
41:26
Speaker 6: We talked about it last night.
41:27
Speaker 4: We did.
41:27
Speaker 5: A lot of good games. A lot of good ball
41:30
Speaker 5: to be played. And, of course, the high school side.
41:32
Speaker 5: And someone pointed out in the talk and text line, Whitewater-Platteville.
41:35
Speaker 2: Is it tomorrow? Whitewater-Platteville tomorrow.
41:37
Speaker 3: And just coming across the wire, I should have known
41:40
Speaker 3: about this, about the Continental Football League. that apparently a mill,
41:45
Speaker 3: the Milwaukee silverbacks who are going to be the new
41:48
Speaker 3: team in the continental football league.
41:50
Speaker 2: And let me guess, Gilbert Brown, welcome their new head coach,
41:53
Speaker 2: Gilbert Brown today.
41:54
Speaker 4: Oh man.
41:55
Speaker 2: How many leagues has he coached?
41:57
Speaker 1: Of course.
41:57
Speaker 5: He's gotta be seven or eight league arena to lingerie
42:00
Speaker 5: football league, lingerie to even.
42:03
Speaker 3: Better of the kind of football league, a little, even
42:05
Speaker 3: more Packers flair.
42:07
Speaker 2: Who is Gilbert Brown's offensive coordinator? Armin Sarian.
42:11
Speaker 6: I mean, off of Edgar LeBroy or no, it wouldn't
42:14
Speaker 6: be the offensive Edgar.
42:15
Speaker 2: There is a bad. Bad Moon rising in the Continental
42:20
Speaker 2: Football League. Oh, Dre. He forgot about the Bone Crushers, Drew. Oh,
42:24
Speaker 2: that's right. The three games he coached him. Yeah, that
42:27
Speaker 2: was the other one. Bad Moon checking in. And Keith
42:29
Speaker 2: McKenzie as the defensive coordinator. Oh, yes. All Packers all
42:32
Speaker 2: the time. I'm going to text him.
42:33
Speaker 5: I'm going to get a Silverbacks jersey now.
42:35
Speaker 2: I was just going to say, there's going to be
42:37
Speaker 2: some gear bought there. That is great.
42:39
Speaker 3: And you'll get it faster because I can't imagine Fanatics
42:41
Speaker 3: is ruining that one.
42:43
Speaker 2: That's a good call. That's a good call.
42:44
Speaker 5: It has been a fun week here, you know, kind
42:47
Speaker 5: of basking in the reflected glow of the Brewers. And
42:50
Speaker 5: hopefully on come Monday, we'll have a Packers victory to
42:53
Speaker 5: talk about.
42:54
Speaker 4: Yes.
42:54
Speaker 5: The gap between six and three and five and four
42:57
Speaker 5: is pronounced. And we will talk about it either way
43:01
Speaker 5: when we reconvene at two o'clock on Monday.
43:03
Speaker 2: We'll see you then. Peace.