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09/29/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Night that he wanted to watch the whole game in
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: its entirety and then process it and take the morning off.
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: And we broke glass in case of emergency. And Dobie
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Maxwell has joined the party for us. Hello, Dobe. Hello, gentlemen.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: One doesn't just stumble into a huddle. One comes on purpose, ready,
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: loaded for bear. Lots to talk about today. That's right.
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: Plenty to talk about. It's a baseball palooza playoff quadruple header.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: It's going to be epic. We're just watching because we're
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: waiting to see who the Brewers are going to play.
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  Speaker 1: We hate-watched the Bears last night, but they pounded Philadelphia,
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: which was a bit of a surprise. The 2-0 Eagles
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  Speaker 1: looked almost as hapless as the Packers last night.
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  Speaker 2: How annoying.
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  Speaker 1: Is that possible? Well, maybe not. Unfortunately, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe not. Shawano High School looks better than... Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That was a tough one to process. But, hey, with
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  Speaker 1: a backup quarterback, 38-year-old Case Keenum, You know, I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: in my feels, and Armin, this is going to hit
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: you right where, Armin's of the age. I'm ready. Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready at 5 a.m., yeah. Well, we just saw
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  Speaker 1: Justin Verlander say goodbye. Oh, that was great. With his
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  Speaker 1: daughter running out to the mound. You see that pitch
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  Speaker 1: she tossed? She fired one in there.
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  Speaker 2: It was just an amazing moment, and we went over
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  Speaker 2: it yesterday and everything, his daughter running out.
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  Speaker 1: And these guys are about your age. Right. They are, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: Last night, Case Keenum plays football for the first time
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  Speaker 1: in like a thousand days, 38 years old. He runs
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  Speaker 1: out of the tunnel as the starting quarterback when no
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  Speaker 1: one on the planet thought there was a chance of
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  Speaker 1: that happening with Williams and Bajan ahead of him on
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  Speaker 1: the depth chart. And not even him. And he goes
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  Speaker 1: out and balls out in front of his kids. His
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  Speaker 1: young kids got to see him play. There are many
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  Speaker 1: guys who they play pro sports and their kids are
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  Speaker 1: too young to notice it or remember, and then they're done.
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  Speaker 1: Or nonexistent, right? Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And you've been around a lot of covering for years, Drew,
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  Speaker 2: pro athletes, but that's usually not a thing. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there are some exceptions. Obviously, Prince Fielder had kids young
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  Speaker 2: and his kids were around, and there are some exceptions.
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  Speaker 2: But most of the time, these guys are too locked
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  Speaker 2: into their careers to start families early. Or if they do,
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  Speaker 2: like you said, they're very young and not of consciousness, right?
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  Speaker 2: Is that the right way to put it? So there's
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  Speaker 2: small exceptions or some exceptions, but mostly you don't get
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  Speaker 2: that chance, right? So this is kind of these unique
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  Speaker 2: situations are rare occurrences. And then you hear guys will
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  Speaker 2: say every now and then, oh, do you want to play? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: enough to my kids remember me that I did this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you hear that too sometimes. But it would have been
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  Speaker 2: a great story if it was anyone else but the Bears.
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  Speaker 2: It's very funny.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: It was just hard for me to really enjoy it,
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  Speaker 2: but it did, it does hit you in the feels
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  Speaker 2: when they're like, yeah, around your age.
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  Speaker 1: There's something cute when they're little like that. Totally. Totally.
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  Speaker 1: Because I've heard Bruce Springsteen say many times, like no
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  Speaker 1: kid wants to see a stadium full of people cheer
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: their parents. Good point. Right. And he's like, it's just
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  Speaker 1: his kids. Oh yeah. They were like, it's, he's like,
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  Speaker 1: they had like, it's his job and they like living
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  Speaker 1: in a nice house. I bet they do with a,
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  Speaker 1: with horses and allowance and, you know, but they, he's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't, they, they weren't into it and stuff. Now
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  Speaker 1: they look back and appreciate it. And fond memories of like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being backstage and playing with the other, the
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  Speaker 1: other band members, kids and stuff, but in the moment,
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  Speaker 1: but there's something about sports where it's like, yeah, daddy plays.
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  Speaker 1: And now the flip side of that is what if
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  Speaker 1: your kids are cognizant seven, six, seven, eight, nine year olds,
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  Speaker 1: And you play and you suck. People are booing you.
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  Speaker 1: At school, the kids are saying your dad sucks. That's
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  Speaker 1: the thing. Or, well, what's it like? LeFleur's kids. When
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: you're coaching and your team's not doing good. Or just
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  Speaker 1: assume that they... Or you're an assistant coach.
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  Speaker 2: My dad says your dad doesn't know how to call plays.
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  Speaker 1: Like, well, your dad's bank account's probably not the same. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: your dad delivers pizza. Right, and that's the other thing.
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  Speaker 2: I do remember when I was working at... You know,
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  Speaker 2: early years at Miller, well, back then Miller Park at
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  Speaker 2: the store, the fan zone, they call it team store now.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the players' wives would come in or
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  Speaker 2: some of the families. And it was rare occurrences where
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  Speaker 2: there were kids old enough. But Brian Shouse's daughter, I think,
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  Speaker 2: was old, was like a teenager. Because Brian Shouse, the lefty.
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  Speaker 1: Reliever, you remember? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember her being kind of bored with baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Like there was like two younger kids and then the
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  Speaker 2: mom would come in. but she was kind of like bored.
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  Speaker 2: But then we were, you know, we were kind of
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  Speaker 2: like 16, 17. I think she was close to the
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  Speaker 2: age and she was like, wanted to like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: do teenager stuff, like, you know, gossip and walk around
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  Speaker 2: the stadium and like eat, like wanted to talk to
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  Speaker 2: like the kids working there because she was like, not
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  Speaker 2: really excited to watch baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Very nice family. I remember, but it was kind of
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  Speaker 1: a funny scenario. It's like, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: How rare is it to have a major leaguer with
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  Speaker 2: a teenage child like that? But every now and then
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  Speaker 2: it happens, but, You're right. You didn't want to be bothered.
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  Speaker 2: That reminded me when you said that, Drew, about like
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to be bothered with like watching your parents work.
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  Speaker 1: Like that's what it is. It's like take your kid
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  Speaker 1: to work day. Oh, big deal. Oh, your parents are
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  Speaker 1: major league. Yeah, okay. My dad's in the bullpen. What
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  Speaker 1: am I going to do? You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of funny to think about that. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's something you probably appreciate as years go on, right?
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  Speaker 2: But you think of when Woodruff made his return a
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  Speaker 2: couple years ago, not this year.
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  Speaker 1: It was like his kids were in the stands. It
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  Speaker 1: was in Florida. That was a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: He could hear his daughter because it was in Tampa,
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  Speaker 2: I think, or Miami. He could hear his daughter yelling
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  Speaker 2: because nobody else was there. But that was an exciting thing.
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  Speaker 2: So it's got to be a cool experience for your
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  Speaker 2: kids to see you play.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yeah. So we got that with the Case Keenum.
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: And it was, you know, the Eagles roll in. They're
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: 2-0 facing a third-string quarterback, Monday Night Football. And they
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: just get stomped. They got in their own way. They
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: put the ball on the ground and threw picks. They
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: had penalties. Jalen Hurts wasn't great. they fell into the
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: trap that everybody does. And you would think a Super
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: Bowl-winning pedigree coach would have bigger huevos than Nick Sirianni
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  Speaker 1: did last night because, you know, Saquon Barkley is still
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: a dude.
• 5:57
  Speaker 2: Stud.
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  Speaker 1: And he's getting six, seven yards of carry. He was
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: running all over the Bears. And then when the Bears
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  Speaker 1: scored early in the third quarter, they just decided, well,
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: we're going to have to start throwing. And it was
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  Speaker 1: just chukapalooza. They're like, what are you doing? Just hand
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  Speaker 1: the ball to the big dude. He's a home run threat.
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  Speaker 1: He can go 80 yards on any carry. Just keep
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  Speaker 1: gashing him for five to seven yards of play and
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  Speaker 1: let the chips fall. But nobody can do that in
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  Speaker 1: the modern NFL. We got to get back in it.
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  Speaker 1: We got to abandon. That's, you know. We've been saying
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  Speaker 1: variations of that with Matt LaFleur forever. Yeah. Like if
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  Speaker 1: the Packers, the Packers, I don't think they're going to
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  Speaker 1: win if Jordan Love throws 50 passes, especially with Swiss
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  Speaker 1: cheese offensive line. And yet that's where they are. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: we can't, you know, runs not working. Let's just keep
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  Speaker 1: throwing it. And that's, you know, you have to stay
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  Speaker 1: the course. You have to keep running. Even if it's
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  Speaker 1: not working, I, I get it. I get it, but
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  Speaker 1: there's just weird stuff going on.
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  Speaker 2: There was an inflection point last night in the game,
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  Speaker 2: and there's a couple things. I don't know how you
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: guys thought of it, but it felt like the Eagles
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: kind of rolled in there expecting it to be an
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  Speaker 2: easier time, especially on defense. I think they expected the
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  Speaker 2: Bears to kind of turtle and not want to throw
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  Speaker 2: much and stick with the run because it's a Case
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  Speaker 2: Keenum situation. And Ben Johnson, to his credit, didn't do that.
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  Speaker 2: He threw a lot, and he probably caught them off guard.
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  Speaker 2: I think he did, yeah. But then once, I think
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  Speaker 2: once the Eagles recalibrated, I mean, because you had, okay,
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  Speaker 2: then they're up 7-0. Bears get the ball back. They
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  Speaker 2: have a fourth and goal or fourth and two or
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  Speaker 2: something in the red zone. They go for it and miss.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm like, all right, well, this is the chance
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  Speaker 2: for the Eagles because Ben Johnson took the risk, didn't
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  Speaker 2: get it. By the way, I don't know where the
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: take the points crowd was. They were out from half
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  Speaker 2: a floor. where they take the points crowd. I guess
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  Speaker 2: if it works out, it's fine. But the Eagles get
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  Speaker 2: the ball, they marched down with Barkley and then it
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  Speaker 2: was a, then, and then Hertz gets in the blue
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  Speaker 2: medical tent. So they give it to Saquon a couple
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  Speaker 2: of times in the goal line. He can't score from
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  Speaker 2: the two or the one. And then Dalton through the pick.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's where they panicked through and stopped.
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  Speaker 2: They kind of abandoned the run, which they didn't have
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  Speaker 2: to because they were ripping off. Like you said, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of yard chunk yards with Saquon Barkley and they
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  Speaker 2: had their chance to do it. But, in those inflection moments,
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  Speaker 2: they couldn't, you know, Saquon couldn't get it in the
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  Speaker 2: goal line a couple times, and then they fell panic
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  Speaker 2: on third and goal. Dalton throws the pick. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what he's looking at, and that changed the entire game.
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  Speaker 2: That was it right there.
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  Speaker 1: Very good analyzation. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, too much, because it was honestly annoying to me. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sitting there hoping the Bears are going to lose
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  Speaker 2: this game. They're going to go one and two, and
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  Speaker 2: I see the Eagles doing all these dumb things, and
• 8:29
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm very annoyed by this result. I do
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  Speaker 2: not want this to happen.
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: Was it harmonious at your house? Now, I know your
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: wife attended Purdue. She likes the Boilermakers. Yeah, she's big,
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: big Purdue fan. She's a Cubs fan. Cubs and Bulls.
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: And she's a Bulls fan. That's love if you could
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: be in the same house. Does she like the Bears
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  Speaker 1: as well? Does she bear down?
• 8:46
  Speaker 2: She doesn't really like the Bears, like care about the
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  Speaker 2: Bears much. And that makes it a lot easier. Let
• 8:51
  Speaker 2: me tell you, it makes it a lot easier. Bears
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  Speaker 2: were never her thing for some reason. I think football
• 8:56
  Speaker 2: was never her thing as much until the Taylor Swift,
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  Speaker 2: Kelsey stuff started. So now she's all in on the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 2: And the Packers just for my own, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: say happy wife, happy life.
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: Happy arm and happy, I don't know, it doesn't rhyme.
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  Speaker 1: Happy farm.
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  Speaker 2: But I think she's more, no, she really doesn't care
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  Speaker 2: about the Bears.
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  Speaker 1: But in a way, and Scott Dolphin, our resident Bears fan,
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  Speaker 1: people are like, why do you talk about the Bears
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  Speaker 1: so much? Well, Dolph's a Bears fan. It's the rival
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  Speaker 1: next door. They're in the division. It's hard not to
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  Speaker 1: talk about them. We didn't talk about them for 30 years.
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  Speaker 1: And now we got to talk about them because they're good.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And so they won with their third string quarterback. But
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  Speaker 1: they're mercurial. They score 59 in week one. They score
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: three in week two. And now they roll up a
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: team that everybody thinks is like back to being a
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl contender. So go figure. The NFL is designed
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: to bring chaos into your life. That's why we watch it.
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: So it's funny because the NFL, while the NFL was
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: putting that game forward. And by the way, if you're
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: looking forward to Thursday night when we do the huddle
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: at Pato, we'll be there from 5 to 7 p.m.
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: So the 5 o'clock club is what we opened Thursday.
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: at Dobie's suggestion for our early risers, insomniacs, and those
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: sociopaths outside the Y waiting for it to open at 5.
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: They can't just sit in their cars because there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: really good on the radio before we hit the air.
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: So they can't just sit in their cars. So they
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: go into that airlock foyer and just wait. You see
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: them leaning. Some of them are looking at their phones.
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: I see that. I'm fascinated by it every morning. I'm
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: going to get to the health club at 10 to
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: 5 and stand there and wait for the doors to
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: open so I can sprint in and get my workout now.
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: You're a guy who walks every morning. I do. Generally
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: at this time. So thank you for coming in. Did
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: you get the steps in yet already? I got a
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: few in. Yeah. Add them up. That makes sense. Yeah,
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: but I mean, I get out early enough. I try
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: to get it done before noon if I can. And
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: you'll be out of here in plenty of time. Plenty
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: of time. But Dope came in. But those people. So
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: we fire up the 5 p.m. club on Thursdays at
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: Pottawatomie Sportsbook in the annex from 5 to 7. And
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: we get ready for Thursday night football. Thursday night football
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: this week. is the Browns, the suddenly resurgent Browns against
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: the Aaron Rodgers Steelers. Oh, something's got to give. So
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: that's the game. Rivalry there. That would be getting ready. Oh,
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: that's a classic rivalry. That's Packers-Bears-esque. And they're both amazingly 2-1,
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: so there's something, there's some juice to it. Like, you
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: looked at that matchup early on, you go, ew, hold
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: your nose and watch that on Amazon Prime. No, go
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: to Pottawatomie, hang out with us, get some swag and
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: enjoy some delicious food. And that's what we'll be doing
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: on Thursday, Billy. We'll be back for that. But, The
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: Packers-Bears thing, the Bears are good, and meanwhile the Packers
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: are looking up the– they're on Hinge and Tinder, if
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: there is such a thing, for offensive linemen. Swiping. Swipe, swipe.
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: Swipe left. Swipe left. They got a couple. Swipe left.
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: Is Josh sitting? Anybody have his number? Yeah, well, they
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: get Lakin Tomlinson and Mekhi Becton. So in case of
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: emergency break glass, just like Dobie's our relief pitcher, they
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: got relief linemen coming in. because they're just so brutal
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How does that happen? I think we all get to
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: a point in our lives sometimes. It's like, how did
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: I get here? That's so true. Seriously.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You don't need, you got a $ 50 million quarterback and
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: you don't protect them. Isn't that football one-on-one protect your quarterback? Well,
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: the Packers done a good job historically of when they
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: let guys go, they do it at the right time
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  Speaker 1: and they have, and they have replacements and they have
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: a pipeline and a flow of replacements. And usually the guy,
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: so they made some bets. They made some bets on, uh,
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: Jordan Morgan and Anthony Belton with high draft picks. And Banks, obviously,
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: with the money. Aaron Banks with the money that they spent.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: Injury can't stay on the field. And it's not panting out.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it just doesn't work out. And the guys that
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: they've let go, including Billy brings up this guy, Cole
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: Van Lannen, who never got a shot here. He's from
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: like Bayport, right? From Wisconsin. He's a local guy. I
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, exactly. He's from Wisconsin. And that dude
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: is now playing with Jacksonville, which is like a Super
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: Bowl team. And he's got some big, a big money deal.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't have room for him. They let him go. Well, okay,
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: but then the guys that they stayed with aren't good,
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: and they don't have depth, and suddenly you realize how
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: crucial it is, and a big part of their success
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: over the years, over the 30 years that we were
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: talking about when they went from Favre to Rodgers into Love, yeah,
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: they had good quarterback play, but they also had good
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: offensive line play. Yeah, underrated players. Very good. Absolutely. Like
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  Speaker 1: the guy you met in Sitton, Lang, Bakhtiari, they've had
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  Speaker 1: some really good lines. What made Bakhtiari so good? He
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: stood out among all of them, though. He really did.
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  Speaker 1: He really did. It was a fourth-round pick came in
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  Speaker 1: and just had great feet and stud.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the technical specifics about why he's good, Billy's good
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  Speaker 2: at answering that, but the fact that he was.
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  Speaker 1: you know, a fourth rounder.
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  Speaker 2: So people didn't really expect necessarily a star coming from that,
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  Speaker 2: that position or that draft position. And also he played
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: left tackle, you know, big important spot. Also he had long,
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: let's be honest, the long hair. I mean, there's something
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: about these, these long hair guys with the, with, you know, the,
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: the Bill Schmitz of the world and the offensive line
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: that just makes them a little more intimidating and a
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: little more funny when the, when the, Offensive line first
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: appeared on what movie was that? Pitch Perfect 2 or
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: something like that. And Bakhtiari was young and sitting in
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: the laying room. And then I'm like, all right, we've
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: got a group that knows how to have fun. This
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: is pretty good. But it's interesting when you say that
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: because it's true. Because the Packers are always a draft
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: and develop team, especially with offensive linemen. So when they
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: go out midseason and make two pickups in the line,
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: you know things are bad.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: Red flag. Yeah. But listen, sometimes you have to pivot
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: in life. That's why I like it. This is my
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: favorite Packers season. I know that sounds absolutely crazy. I
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: kind of get it, right? My life is in a
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: panic and a red flag like that. So I'm thinking, okay,
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: let's see what the Packers are going to do. Oh,
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: fire him on the floor. Okay, who are you going
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: to bring in? He got to a point where he
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: was an NFL head coach. He did something right. Sure, sure.
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: You got yourself in it. Get yourself out. Good and coots, too.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Dobie, you relate to that more than anybody.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: I kind of thought about that this morning a little
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: bit when I was thinking about the situation.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: It's like.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: You know, sometimes things aren't always going to be what
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: you expect, but you've got to pivot. And the Packers
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: are trying to make the best of the situation. I mean,
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: you make, Mekhi Becton, right, is a guy that's had talent, obviously.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: Won a Super Bowl. Yeah, he did. Talk about Lake
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: and Tommy, and they might have something cooking there.
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: The problem is offensive line plays, you guys know, is
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: all about chemistry, about, you know, playing together for a
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: while and being used to each other, and they're not
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: going to have that opportunity. You know, they have to
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: jump in midseason and and see what happens. But I
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: don't want to say desperate times called, but they're one
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: and two and they don't look very good. So there's
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: a lot of football.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: I know that sounds like Tony Robbins asking, but it
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: really does.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: And there, and there is, like I said, this league
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: is designed for chaos. Every week's different. Look at week
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: three in the NFL. It's been crazy. Yeah. It was,
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know what, I don't remember, wasn't Seattle or somebody,
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: one of the Super Bowl teams, won in two last
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: year at the beginning or something?
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: That may mean, I wouldn't, that makes sense. I have
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: to go back and look, but it sounds right.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: That sounds right, but it's, and no one had that
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: matchup of us Seahawks in New England last year. Nobody
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: had that in week three. So yeah, buckle up. Now
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: the thing is, today, the thrust of today's program, not
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: the Bears, we will talk to Dolph about it. Oh,
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: by the way, here's a glaring stat for you. I
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: love these stats. Eagles are the first team The only
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: team in the Super Bowl era to have a game
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: with less than 50 offensive plays. That sounds familiar because
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: the Packers have been running a few plays because they've
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: been threeing out a lot. Less than 250 total yards,
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: 10 or more penalties, three or more turnovers, no takeaways
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: on defense, and no sacks. In the entire Super Bowl era,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: which is now we're entering Super Bowl 61 this year,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: no team has had that combination of bad numbers. So
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: horrible night for the Eagles. They'll be back. They were
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: 2-0 going in. They're talented. You'd expect more from them.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: They'll be back. We expected way more now. Sean Mannion,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: who has some roots in Green Bay, is their offensive coordinator,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: still trying to find his mojo. But I think you're right, Armand.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: I think the whole Case Keenum thing, they didn't know
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: what really to expect. And I poo-poo the whole idea
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: of unscouted looks and all that, but it's kind of
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: true because with Case Keenum, what are you going to do?
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Go back and watch tape of him playing for Houston?
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: There was no chance for them to actually get a
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: beat on him. There was nothing they could do. And
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, we know, a savvy player. offensive mind. So
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: there were, it wasn't on Scott and you're right. They
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: thought he was just going to hand the ball off
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: to the two backs, but they ended up slinging it.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: And well, the one thing is case is a perfect storm.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: I think he started for seven different teams. He's been
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: in this role before.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. It's been years since he's done it. So, but
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: it's muscle memory and it's like old man knowledge. Like,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: you know, you play against the fat old guy and, and,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: and pick up and the guy scores 20 on you.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Game slows down. Yeah, exactly. And that's what he had.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: And the thing is, you know, that works usually in
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: the short term a lot better than like, could he
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: do it for a whole season? I don't know if
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: he could be that effective for a whole season, but
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: in short spurts in the right moment, you know, we
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: saw Malik do it as a backup last year. And
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: the thing is, he talked a lot about how he's
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: been kind of in a coach player role. Like, even
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: though he's been quarterback three, it's been a lot of
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: coaching in the meetings. Caleb, you know, he's the same
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: age as a lot of the coaches. He's been, he's been,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: you know, helping Caleb along here as a coach and,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: So he's been locked into the game plan. So if
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: nothing else, he was going to be able to be smart.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: And I guess you have to get Ben Johnson credit
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: because you put him in the right position. I'm still
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: waiting for someone to start lobbying the system quarterback accusation
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: now at Caleb Williams. Oh, look, anybody can do it.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I remember when Matt Flynn came and had his big game,
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: that six touchdown game.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, I love that.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Filling in for Rogers and everyone started wondering, is Rogers
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: just a system quarterback?
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Is it the system? That goofy stuff.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: But yeah, What was the old, you know, we'll ask
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Dolph about the Toby Keith line. I'm not as good
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: as I once was, but I'm good once as I
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: ever was. So Case did it. I mean, and it
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: was a night for him to remember whether or not
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: he could do it in a stretch.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I bet he can't sit on the
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: toilet this morning. He's so sore. That's a good point.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: How he's going to feel today is different. He did
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: joke about having to get in an ice tub right
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: after the game because he's not used to it.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I also saw a quote about him talking about how
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: preparation this week is And, you know, this is something
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: we roll our eyes with, Drew, is like the tough
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: guy speak where he's like, I studied 16 hours a
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: day this week. I turned off my phone and didn't
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: even talk to my kids or my wife.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Okay, great. Yeah, you're really cool for doing that.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: But that's like a badge of honor a lot of
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: times for people like in football. They say, I slept
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: at the facility.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I didn't talk to anybody. It was, you know, tunnel vision.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I'm divorced, but I'm two in one.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Love it. Listen, it paid off.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, it paid off for him and the Bears
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: to have a good performance as much as it's hard
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: to swallow. And Dolby, you were always around the southern
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: part of the state, so you were always interacting with
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: the Bears.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. I'm on the border. I see it all
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: the time. Well, we're going to talk about that because
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: it's Baseballpalooza today. And the existential question, as we shift
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: our attention now from watching the Bears dominate Monday Night Football,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: existential question in the good land right now, is who
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: do you want the Brewers to face if you can
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: pick your opponent? San Diego, which is the hottest team
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: in baseball, or the always hated but never feared Cubs.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Who do you want the Brewers to face come Saturday
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: when they fire up game one of the NLDS at
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: American Family Field? Who do you want Miz to face down?
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of layers to that question. The Brewers
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: won 103 games. Champions fear no one. But if you
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: had a choice, who would you pick? This is the
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: armonizing question because armonizing, For a long time, you were
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: afraid of that playoff matchup against the Cubs. It was
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: glorious last year. That was the Brewers World Series was
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: vanquishing the Cubs last year. But we'll talk about that
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: and give that some attention as the baseball playoffs fire
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: up today. Also, yesterday, Billy and I were hanging out
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: at Bucs Media Day. We can talk a little bit
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: about that. It's a new start, totally new start for
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the Bucs. First time in 13 years, no Giannis at
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Media Day. I saw Giannis on TV in a heat
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: uniform at Puckard. Yeah, really hard to see. It's tough.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: It's weird. It's a new... Different number, too. It's a
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: whole new ballgame. Yeah, he wanted to keep 34 for
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee. He keeps talking about the iguanas in Miami.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: And shelve it. So they're in that honeymoon phase with
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: him now. Of course. Not that he.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's... Listen, I know he left, but I'm
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: not going to jilted lover this. He's still funny. I
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: still enjoy him when he's... He's talking about the iguanas
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: and how it isn't light. He needs to call exterminators.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: But it's just funny to see Miami media and fans
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: going through the honeymoon phase with Giannis now.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: You can't hate him, okay? I don't want you to. No,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: you can't. Build the statue. It's okay. We're off and running.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Dobie Maxwell's in for Billy today and again tomorrow when
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Hunter will be in for Armin tomorrow. Hunter joins us
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: at 725 to talk about the Brewers. Whoever the Brewers play,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Hunter's going on the road. He's traveling. He's covering the playoffs.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: He's all in, full boat. So he's making reservations and
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: making plans. We'll talk to that kid. Our boot's on
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: the ground when it comes to baseball. He'll join us
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: at 725. Dolph will be here for halftime. We want
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: to hear from you. It's Buy or Sell Tuesday, 877-794-1973
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: to the NicoletLaw.com talk text line. Check in with us.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Ask us a Buy or Sell prop. And just say
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: hi to Dobie. Hey, hey. Dobie's here. You're in the huddle.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, baby.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Drew and Dobie with Armin Sarian bringing it to you.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Dobie's in for Billy today. Billy enjoying a couple of
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: days off in this Indian summer. Although I feel bad
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: because if he had anything planned with the kids today,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I think it's going to rain this afternoon. That's what
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I hear. Yeah, I should have had the genius idea to,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: you know, cut the grass yesterday. Oh, you clearly weren't
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: watching the weather because they did say you might be
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: able to do it. Are you going home after the
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: show or do you have to work another show? I'll
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: go home. So then you got to cut it. You
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: better cut it right when you get home.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: It's really funny because, you know, they always talk about
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: chasing points when it comes to maybe sports wagering or
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: fantasy football. If a guy has a good week the
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: week before you pick him up. It's like I didn't
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: think about it. The weather was great yesterday. So I
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: thought of all the things I was going to do. Yes,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: I could have done. I'm going to do it today.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: And then it's not going to happen. When is the
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: last cut of the year? That's the thing. Great question.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Because the weather, if it's still pretty good and the
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: rain is raining and it's still growing, you have to
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: keep cutting through.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: For my neighbor, it's May. It looks like a jungle.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: You don't enforce the ordinance like a North Shore Nancy
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: or something like that?
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Like a NIMBY? That's funny. Well, yeah, Armin, you got
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: to have that. And then the last cut, and then
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: you got to put down some weed and feed. Yeah,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I guess so. Clean the mower. Leaf removal. We also
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: have a lot of, yeah, I was going to say
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: a lot of leaves that are about to fall. Yeah.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: You know, we have some nice trees, but it's like,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: get the wheelbarrows out. The leaves are going to be
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: crazy this year. So it is what it is. It's
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: part of life, you know.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: All right. Reach us, 877-794-1973. Obviously, we're still processing that
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the Bears won a game last night. They could still flop, too.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Don't lose hope. Oh, they absolutely can.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Remember, the Vikings have to. I can't deal with the
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Vikings and Bears being combined five and more.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Well, Lions are starting off, too. Yeah, what's up with that?
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Mike Witt on YouTube is, yes, what's up, guys? Part
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: of the 5 o'clock club. Bought two tickets for the
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Badgers game Saturday.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Beats the party. How about that? How about that? So
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: there you go. I mean, maybe the.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Sparty, the Bucky energy is going to keep increasing after
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: that win. Pink Flamingo, the Aaron Banks decision, still hurting,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: or insane, still hurting, injured going into the preseason.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Good morning, fellas. Paul from Kenosha. And P. Chang as well.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Happy Taco Tuesday, fellas. So all the 5 o'clock clubbers
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: are rolling in.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Taco Tuesday is still a thing, huh? You guys got
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: a good Taco Tuesday place? Yeah, it's called My Kitchen.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: I'll be over about 5.30. Drew and his lovely bride
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Barb will come over too. Let's go.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: No, I do have a great Taco Tuesday place.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: It's called the $ 7 Box at Taco Bell. Oh, that's good.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: There's a place, as you said, Paul from Kenosha's List,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and I live in Bristol, and there's a place in
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Trever called, I can't think of the name of it
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: right now, but it's right in the corner of C
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: and 83, and they've got awesome tacos Tuesday. It's cheap.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: It's good. Shrimp, beef, chicken, the whole thing. It's not
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: a paid spot, but they're awesome taco trucks.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: True. Taco trucks are all the rage through these days.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Everyone's got a taco truck.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. That's true, too. I like that. Yeah. Me, too.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Everyone's got a spot. All right. 877-794-1973 gets you in
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: NicoletLaw.com talking text line. We mentioned it's the baseball palooza today.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: This is a day, and this is a day that
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: our buddy Mike Heller and I used to argue about
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: this because Mike Heller- He was always aghast that they
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: play MLB meaningful playoff games, first-round playoff games during the day.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: During the day.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: And they take kind of the approach that the NFL
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: would like to take, but instead of having four games
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: at once, they want to stretch all the games out
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: to get a possible audience all day and to have
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: 10 hours of baseball.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: And I get the theory. The question is, who's going
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: to be able to sit down and watch every game, though?
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Invalids.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: But it is good if you want the opportunity to
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: not miss a.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Game, right?
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he talked about that. Why would they have these?
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Why can't they put them at night? Well, there's a
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: lot of games to squeeze in. Baseball is a sport
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: where they play every day, and teams are playing at
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: the same time all the time. But my thing was, oh, Mike,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: then you must hate March Madness that first day. They
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: fire up at noon. That's a good point. Well, that
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: goes all day, and they play during the day. That's
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: their biggest marquee event. It's during the day. It's two days.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: That's kind of what this is too, right? It all
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: used to be during the day. When we get to
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: the next round, you'll be seeing more night games and stuff.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Let's be honest. People can watch now these days.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: It's not like you used to have to be home
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: to watch on your TV set.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Like, okay, it's appointment viewing. We're home.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: People didn't watch things. But there's every office in America.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Everybody has a TV at work. I mean, like, let's
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: be honest. Or, you know, on their computer, on their phone,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: on their laptop. I think that the notion that people
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: can't watch TV during the day if they're working is
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: sort of gone in that sense. And that's probably why
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: it makes it more palatable.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Armin, are you of a certain vintage that you listen
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: to baseball games in class in grade school?
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: We did.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I would try to sneak it in if I could. No, no,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the whole class. I did, yeah. We
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: did on opening day, we did a unit where the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: teacher taught us how to keep score. Beautiful. What kind
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: of class was that? It was cool. He taught us
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: how to keep score, and then we listened to the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: first couple innings on opening day, and we kept score. Beautiful.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: That sounds like a great school district. We learned how
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: to score bowling in grade school. We did that. I
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: think we did, too. Yeah, come to think about it.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I come to think about it. It's an important skill
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: when you grew up in Wisconsin. It is.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: It felt like if you wanted to be part of
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: the social fabric of Wisconsin, you had.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: To be able to score bowling. Well, they taught square
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: dancing and sheep's head. Yeah, right, exactly. Not sheep's head.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I still don't know how to play sheep's head. I
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: did as a kid, and I forgot. My grandpa taught me.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: I don't play cribbage, sheep's head. That's a Michigan game. No,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I don't play any of that stuff. I guess because
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: we never really went up north as a family. We
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: stuck around. We stayed local.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: You can't play sheep's head. You can't score bowling. Boy,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: you're going to be a social outcast in Wisconsin.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Move to Minnesota. Move to UP. I can binge drink.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I can overeat. All right, you're in. I can overeat.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: I can binge drink. Other than that, hey, look, Wisconsin plates.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: You know like the great sommeliers in France?
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: They can taste the dirt of a region in France,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: and they can tell what kind of wine it is.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: It's like, well, you can have one smell. Is it
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: a Polish sausage, an Italian sausage?
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: I can do a blind cheese test. Oh, that's Swiss.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Steve on the talk and text line has a thought. Now, again,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: the existential question is, do you want to face the
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Cubs in the first round for the Brewers come Saturday?
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: That would mean they're hot because they would have just
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: dispatched the Padres. And the Padres are the hottest team
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: of all, playing at home, which is sneaky. Petco Park, sneaky,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: one of the best environments in baseball, a tough place.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: The Brewers went there and got their asses waxed. Yep,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: sure did. And then they went to L.A. and kind
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: of had the turning point of their season, like winning
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: three out of four from the Dodgers right after that.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: And Billy and I, that was the first Packers preseason
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: game when the first night of that Dodgers series, and
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: because we were on late... We were watching it unfold,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: and the Brewers had a snatchback win in that first
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: game on a Thursday night of a four-game series. Kind
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: of a turning point type win. Absolutely, an inflection point
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: of the season. Okay, set game. Who started there? They
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: put their foot in the ground, and then from there on,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: they barely lost a series after that. They were really good.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: So the Padres are legit, but if the Padres come
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: to Milwaukee, they're not bringing 20,000 fans with them. So
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the atmosphere will be decidedly different. the secondary ticket price
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: market will drop too, because right now tickets for game
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: one and game two, Saturday and Sunday are looking pretty expensive,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: but that's because there's a lot of Cubs projection going on, right?
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: There's like a lot of prospecting going on. So champions here,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: no one, the Brewers can beat anybody. They can lose anybody.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Let's let it roll. We've been talking about this and
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: like Dobe, You're a vintage where we're not used to this,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: and it'll never be old with the Brewers having the
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: best record in baseball. ever the milwaukee braves went to
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: two world series winning one they never won 100 games
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and they were a excellent team never had a losing
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: season in 12 years never had a losing season but
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: never won 100 games winning 100 games is a statement
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: that's a sure that's remarkable it's as hard to do
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: as losing losing 100 basically and which they've in their
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: entire history they've done each once now it's balanced out
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: i'll take this yeah i'll take this and we had
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: this like debate on TV. It wasn't, to me, it
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: wasn't much of a debate, but it was like my,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: my cohorts, Steph Sutton and Dario Melendez were saying like, Oh,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: if the Brewers, yeah, it's great and all, but if
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: they don't win the world series or even make it
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: to the world series, it's just a waste. And it's,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: it's still a failed season. I'm like, you can't fail
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: the season on the show. I say that 90% of
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: being a sports fan is getting kicked in the nuts.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Well, 90% of baseball is the regular season.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Less than 10% is, you know, barely the 90%. is
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. If you could only watch one, you can't
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: watch any regular season, but you can dial into the playoffs,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: or you can watch the regular season, but then miss
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the playoffs and have to read about it and hear
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: about it secondhand. I think I'm in for the 162.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: It's my companion throughout the summer. Throughout the summer, six months.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: That's sustaining six months as opposed to four weeks. I
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: am wearing a Brewer's cap, which you gave me, and
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: I wear it proudly. And it's amazing to me, people
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: come up to me when I was just in Las Vegas.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I was going to mention that. I was going to
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: ask about that. Oh, yeah, you guys got to talk
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: about that. I'm glad you brought it up. But they
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: come up to you, are you from Milwaukee? Are you
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: a Brewers fan? Oh, how's it going? Oh, I'm just
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: cheering for that team. They're amazing. It's like a magnet.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. Yeah, I want the Brewers to win and
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: all that, but it's not, you can't say, well, it
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: was a failed season. They won 103 games. And I
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: was trying to express to them, like, you can't, it's
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: impossible to win the World Series between March and October.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: but you can put yourself in position to do it.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: And the Brewers have done that. If they win the
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: most games in the major leagues and get the first
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: round by every year, if they do that five years
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: in a row, they're damn sure going to stumble into
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: a World Series championship. You would think. And that's the
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: better route than being the wild card and having to
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: claw through. And that's kind of the idea of Bites
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: of the Apple, right? That is exactly it. And that's
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: what people didn't like about, oh, Bites of the Apple,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: you're never going to win. Sure, sure, sure. But you
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: have to do this. But you might win. You can't
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: put yourself in a better position. And this year, for
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: whatever reason, I might come back and look at this
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: segment and go, you were an idiot. But it feels different.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: It feels different with this team. They've been through it.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: They were a series away from, they were four wins
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: away from the World Series last year and got stomped
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: by the Dodgers, who played their best four-game window in
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: those four games of the entire season. The Dodgers never
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: looked stronger and more indomitable because they almost lost the
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: damn World Series in Game 7. So the Brewers ran
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: into a buzzsaw. Okay, that happens. Baseball has the most
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: random postseason. Because in a three-game series like we're seeing,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: you can be the biggest underdog in a three-game series.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: You win game one, you got a really damn good chance.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: And winning one game in baseball, not that hard. The
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: A's won a couple. It's the most random of the post-seasons.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Now you hope that it equals out over a five
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: or seven-game series. You hope that the best team prevails.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Doesn't always happen. But the thing is, the Brewers can
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: do nothing else. And in the past... Chris Hook said
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: it best. Last year, it was just like, all right,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: we're going to go Freddy Peralta, and then we'll figure
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: it out. Well, now it's Miz, Henderson, Gasser, May, and
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: then we'll figure it out. There's a little bit more
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: depth there. And again, if the bats go silent the
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: way they did in past postseasons, it can get ugly early.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: But they're in the best position. There's nothing else they
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: could have done. The season, the regular season right now,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: A +. Clearly. How do you beat it? You can't
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: beat it. You can't. You had the best record in ball,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: 103 wins for the first time. Everybody's pretty healthy. A
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: plus for the regular season. Now, if they lose in
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: the first round, the playoffs is an F. To me,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: that's still at least a C. I'd grade it even
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: higher because, again, the preponderance of it, the majority of
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: it was awesome. Compounded months of ecstasy. Exactly. Exactly. Hey,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Maggie in Georgia said, always great to hear Dobie. Thank you, guys.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Maggie in Georgia, big fan of Dobie Maxwell, who's in
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: with us today. That's one, two. Yeah, let's go. Thank you.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: We'll build it fan by fan. I want to get
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: double figures before the end of the year. All right.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Armin and Dobie, we've got to compare notes on Vegas because... Yeah,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: I was excited for you when I saw you play there.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Few people enjoy Las Vegas and the... Armin even loves
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Las Vegas when he's not there and he's reading about
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: it and looking for deals and looking for, you know.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I like the weird stuff about it. The shrimp and stuff. Yeah, exactly. Right.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: The little stories and stuff. It's fun. We'll take a
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: quick break. Your thoughts, though. Who do you want to face?
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Does it matter to you? Will you hate watch the Cubs?
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Do you cheer against the Cubs even now? Or do
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: you say, well, bring them on and let them come
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: to Milwaukee on Saturday and get their ass kicked? I
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: can go either way. I'm kind of agnostic on it.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: It will be a different atmosphere in the ballpark, though,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: because the Padres don't bring 20,000 fans. Period. Full stop.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: I'm just glad the Brewers are in it. Yeah, me too.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew Wilson,
• 34:42
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• 34:44
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• 34:49
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• 34:53
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• 34:55
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• 34:58
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• 35:00
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• 35:01
  Speaker 1: when you listen to it. A lot of people do that,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: I think. A lot of comments on the side rail
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: of the chat on YouTube. We'll read the comments there
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: as well as at 877-794-1973. Steve is asking a question
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: that I've gotten before. He said, hey, if the Phillies
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: happen to beat the Braves, would we still play the
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Cubs or the Padres even though they're the lowest seed
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: wild card? Yeah, the bracket is the bracket. Yeah, they
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: don't do a reseeding. They don't do a reseed. The
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: bracket is the bracket, and the thought is that number
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: three should beat number six, so number two should play
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: number three, if you follow my thinking. Yeah. Because the
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Dodgers are the number two seed. Like the NCAA tournament, basically. Yeah.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: The Brewers shouldn't be forced to face the Braves in
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: the first round because they have the top seed, so
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: that would fall to the Dodgers.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: They assume chalk and... Although this year it's kind of
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: weird because the NL is so strong. Pick your poison
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: in a lot of ways.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know who you'd even pick.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: If you're a fan of the Brewers, and that's part
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: of your question, Drew, obviously. If you're a fan of
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: the Brewers and you had a choice, there's no Astros
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: or White Sox or something that you would just cherry
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: pick and say, oh, that's the team to play.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: No, and even then, that's not really how baseball works.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: It's not, but I think you'd still choose that. I
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: thought going in last night that the Phillies would boat
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: race the Bears.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Wrong. Eagles, yeah.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, Eagles, yeah, Eagles. Philadelphia would. So we shall see. But, yeah,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I think the Brewers just took the Phillies too. And
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: in games that the Phillies had to win, the Brewers
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: stomped them. Yeah. What does that mean in the playoffs?
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Not much because the Brewers stomped the Dodgers a year
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: ago and then met them in the playoffs and got rolled.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: That's the randomness that is baseball. Well, the karma points,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: you've got to think it's the Brewers' turn. Yeah, it
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: sure feels that way. God.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Although I said that the last couple of years, too.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: No, this year more so. I feel it. Last year
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: it was like, eh, Freddie, and we'll figure it out.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: We'll hope and a prayer and let's go. I hope so.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: It feels more solid. Didn't last year, didn't they have
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: some George Webb-threatening streaks? We got it last year. Yeah,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: the stat this year is that they're the only team
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: to win 100 games and never have a winning streak
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: of more than five games. Right, it's more consistent. So
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: they didn't have those high highs like they did last year.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: It was more consistent throughout. Now look what happens. Man
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Arnold and Murph on the same page. Goody and LeFleur not. Yeah.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Our batteries and gear, man. The Brewers are just on
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: a fire. They're going to do it. It's the old
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: trade-off thing. Okay, so the Bucs had their media day yesterday.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: That's complete turnover with that team. Fresh start and everything
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: like that. And no expectation whatsoever.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: I think they're going to sneak up on people. I
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: think if you play hard and Taylor Jenkins will get
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: them to play hard, you can win 30 games in
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: the NBA just by playing hard and showing up every night.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe they'll sneak into that play. If they make the playoffs,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: it would be huge. Even as a play-in, it'd be huge,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: like the 10th team, right? But, you know, again, there's
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: no expectations there. The Packers are not meeting expectations. But
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: all of this, the Badgers had a great win, but
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: we'll see what they do Saturday against Sparty in homecoming
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: because if they lose that game, kind of negates what
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: happened in Happy Valley Saturday. But all this is a
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: way of saying, I think most people around here, I
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: don't think I'm speaking out of school, would trade all
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: of it to have the Brewers win the World Series.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: A lifetime memory. I mean, your children, they're a little young, right? Yeah, yeah.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Not old enough for consciousness, but I'll tell everybody. You'll
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: tell everybody. I will keep every piece of information and
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: make sure to teach the next generation. If the Brewers,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know, you were in the building when the
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Bucs won their championship. In the building. Would you be
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: in the building for the Brewers to win a series
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: at home if it was possible, or would you have
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Lena on your lap watching it?
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Well, if the Brewers went to the World Series, I
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: would try and make it to one of the games.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: I think it'd be hard to not. I mean, it'd
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: be hard to let that opportunity pass, right, if the
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Brewers made it to a World Series. And I went
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: to game four of the Bucs series. I thought that'd
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: be the only one. Turned out we were able to
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: go to six as well. But I don't know if
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: I'd be able to buy more than one ticket for
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: that situation.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. She's passed two, so you have to get
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: the extra ticket. Yeah, yeah.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Ah, yeah.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: No, but I mean, she'd be on your lap on
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: the couch watching you. Oh, on the couch. I thought
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: you meant the stadium.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: No, no. Couch.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, definitely. Are you kidding me? I don't know
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: if she'd pay attention running around. Daddy, I want popcorn. Daddy,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: I want soda. I want my toys. No, but it's
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: one of those things, yeah. She won't remember, but you will.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: You'll tell her about it. Kids knowing. Bruni. Bruni Brewer.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: Bruni. Bruni.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Baseball. She always says it. Baseball. Oh, that's funny. My
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: daughter's first words, I think, were daddy ball. I love that.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Because daddy's at the game. So every sport on TV
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: until she was about three was daddy ball.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: You know, we're running out of time, but the funny
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: thing is the logo helps. Like, she understands what a
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: baseball looks like, and the Brewers have a baseball logo
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: and a glove.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: So she recognizes, like, oh, baseball, you know? Oh, my goodness.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: And when you were a kid with that logo. Meanwhile,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Billy's son is three, and he's about ready to host
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: the show. He was going to fill in today. He
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: knows everything. He knows everything. He knows all the players.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: He knows everything. He's a savant. It's insane. Insane. All right.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: When we come back, Dolph's going to join us, yes,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: at 625. We'll talk to him about his beloved Bears.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: They were impressive last night with a third-string quarterback. And
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: then we'll get after it. Hunter's going to join us
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: at 725 to think about the Brewers and where they
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: lay out as we get ready to watch a buffet
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: of baseball today. You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.